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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 47 SELECTED MEN ARE ENTERTAINED SELECTED MEN ARE ENTERTAINED HEADED BY THE 47TH N. N. BAND DRAFT MEN PARADISE—BIG MEETING AT 5TH STREET The Fifth Street Baptist Church was crowded last Monday night in the interest of the drafted colored men. Roscoe C. Mitchell presided. The opening hymn was lined by Rev. S. C. Burrell, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. The Scripture lesson was read by Rev. Dr. W. T. Hall of Philadelphia, Pa. Prayer was offered by Rev. Jacob Turner. Rev. Dr. T. J. King, pastor of the church, delivered an able, logical, patriotic and impressive address. In response to his appeal, sixteen of the selectmen professed religion on the eve of their departure for the training camp. All were urged to carry their Bibles with them to camp. The next speaker was Editor John Mitchell, Jr. of The Planet. He was followed by Captain Edrop, Chaplain of the Forty-seventh New York regiment. Mr. W. A. Clarke, secretary of the local exemption board No. 5, was the next speaker, followed by Captain John C. Dabney, who was the last speaker. Splendid selections were rendered by the choir of the Fifth Street Baptist Church. Prof. Joseph Matthews sang a solo. At the close of the meeting a reception was given to the selected-drafted men in the lower auditorium of the church by committee of ladies led by Miss T. W. A. Clarke and Mrs. Duey conduced by General Secretary Scott C. Burrell. The colored select men of the various districts of Richmond paraded through the streets of Richmond last Monday night, headed by the crack Forty-seventh New York Regimental Band. Over 200 of the boys who are to answer the first call for Richmond's quota to the National Army, were out under command of Capt John C. Dabney. The Pythian Cadets headed the Hue, under command of Capt. Carlton Johnson. Eureka Company No. 1, U R. K. of P., commanded by George L. Branich led the line of regimentals. Among the aides who had charged of the men, Major James H. Ammons, Jr. Capt W. Jerome Davis, Capt, Leslie L. Green, Capt, Archer Ferris, Lieut. Edward Stuletley and others. The citizens are very grateful to Colonel Jannicky, commanding officer of the Forty seventh for the services of their great regimental band. COL. HUNT RELIEVES BALLOU General Takes Command of Brigado at Camp Dodge. Brig. Gen. Charles C. Ballon, who has been commanding officer at Fort Des Moines, since the Negro officers' training camp was begun there last June, was relieved yesterday by Lieut. Col. Henry J. Hunt, General Ballon immediately assumed his duties at Camp Dodge, where he was assigned by the war department when the comanders at the national army cantonments were a nounced. General Ballon was given leave by the war department to continue his work at Fort Des Moines until the work of the officers' school had been finished and the commissions awarded, but when it was decided to postponed the final examinations of the candidates until Oct. 15, he was ordered to Camp Dodge at once. Lieutenant Colonel Hunt, who will remain in command at Fort Des Moines until the training school is close to recov'v has been instructor to the South Carolina National guard. THE EDUCATIONAL CONGRESS THIRD STREET BETHEL Monday night, October S., at eight o'clock, Bishop J. Albert Johnson, D. D. will deliver one of his famous lectures. Tuesday 3:00 P. M. The Fifth Educational Congress of the Virginia A. M. E. Conference will be opened by Bishop Johnson 8:00 P. M. our local educational program. Addresses on Education, Our Responsibility, and Preparedness by Mr. M. A. Norrell, Mrs. Rosa B. Seldon and Prof. J. R. Mayes. Music by the Glee Club. Session of the Educational Congress will be continued throughout Wednesday. Wednesday night the Congress will close with addresses by Prof. Edwards, President of Kittrell College and Bishop Johnson. Rev. J. S. Hatcher will lecture on Thursday night on the subject, "How to Get Married and Stick." The public is invited to all the services. Rev. M. E. Davlg. pastor. JUDGE HUNDLEY ISSUES RULE FOR CONTEMPT. Orders Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, Editor of Richmond, Va., News Leader, Attorney W. L. Lancaster and Editor John Mitchell, Jr. to come to Charlotte C. H., Va., November 5th, 1917. A Remarkable Proceeding==All Parties to be Represented by Able Counsel. Judge George J. Hundley, presiding over the Circuit Court at Charlotte C. H., Wednesday September 26, 1947 issued a rule against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond Va. News Leader (white) Attorney W. L. Lancaster, (white) who represent d Albert Barrett (colored) charged and convicted of the murder of W. T. Roach, (white) and John Mitchell, Jr., editor and owner of the Richmond Va. Planet, to appear before him, Nov. 5, 1917 to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court in making certain comments on the Barrett's cases. IN ATLANTIC CITY Editor John Mitchell, Jr., was at the time attending the session as a delegate to the American Banker's League City New Jersey out the contempt himself ready to obey the order of the court. Persons charged with contempt are cited to appear for the purpose of purging themselves of contempt or alleged contempt and the court is at liberty to reprimand or fine the person or persons cited to appear. If the case is flagrant the court may resort to extreme measures. The action of the tribunal is however subject to review by the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. A FAR REACHING AUTHORITY: His Honor George J. Hundley is in his 80th year and resides in Farmville Va. He is citing two citizens of Richmond, Va. to appear before him for acts alleged to have been committed in Richmond, Va.. It is different to see just how Editor Freeman can be adjudged in contempt of court when he was in Richmond and His Honor presided in Farmville, Va. The same thing applies to the Editor of the Planet. Albert Barrett colored was alleged by W. T. Roach (white) and a Mr. Collins to have taken from his farm a load of wheat and it is alleged that the wagon wheels were tracked to Barret's premises. SENT FOR A WARRANT When Barrett was charged with taking the wheat he offered to pay for it and to do what he could in order not to he arraigned in court, W. T. Roach would not consent to this and he sent Mr. Collins to get a warrant for Barrett, while he stood watch over Barrett. Argument being useless, Barrett started to run. He fell after going about 150 yards and Roach jumped on him. This took place on Barrett's premise. Roach was choking Barrett when Barrett called to his son Aubrey, a boy about 16 years of age or a few weeks over 17 years for help. THAT CHESNUT STICK Aubrey took a chestnut stick with a knot on it and went to the aid of his father. The blow was so severe that Roach's skull was fractured. The body was hidden and the fatter rod son left the neighborhood. They were tried at Charlotte C. H., Va., in July and having elected to be tried separate ally. Attorney W. L. Lancaster (white) defended Albert Barrett, Mr. Lanus as alleges that the court refused to permit certain instructions in the case, and upon the conviction of Albert Barrett the father, refused to proceed further and withdrew from Aubrey Barrett's case. LEFT WITHOUT COUNSEL This left the boy without counsel. He was heildered. Judge Hundley permitted him to change his plea from "Not guilty" to "guilty" and to throw himself with the mercy of the court, thereby waving a trial by a jury. Judge Hundley declared him guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced him to be electrocuted. August 31, 1917. Attorney W. L. Lancaster, in his statement alleged that. His Honor, Judge Hundley had declined to give to the jury all of the instructions asked for by him. He was unable to have the instructions appear RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1917. NO TIME TO LOSE. OH! DON'T LET MY LIFE BE SOULLED ZERO OUT SHOT NOW. LAW GEORGE D. DOWNSON in the record. He had withdrawn from the boy's case because of his disgust and of a feeling that in the face of existing conditions he could do the boy no good. PRISONERS REMOVED The prisoners were removed from Charlotte county to Richmond, Va., where they were held pending their removal to the deathhouse at the Virginia Penitentiary. It was then that the heartbroken wife and mother, Mrs. Mattie Barrett came to this city and approached Editor John Mitchell, Jr., with a plea for help. She was a stranger to him and no publication of the case had been made in the editorial columns of the Planet. He listened to her story and then informed her that his activities along these lines had ceased. His other duties and responsibilities had caused him to abandon active interest in criminal NO T cases. He would advise her what to do and would place the columna of the Planet at her disposal. WENT FOR ASSISTANCE He sent her to colored leaders here who could give her financial assistance after having made a contribution himself. Later he was visited by Attorney W. L. Lancaster, who acted the facts as they were afterwards published in the Planet. Attorney Lanaster made an application for a writ of error in both cases to four judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia all of which were refused. The facts in the case not having been fully presented, he published several letters in the daily papers. (Continued On Fourth Page.) AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT EDWARDS' ADDRESS Foreigners and Their Deposits—Secretary Harrison's Great Work. Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 26—The afternoon session of the Savings Bank session was held in the other part of the palatial Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel and it was necessary to traverse the whole length of the Hotel to find Park Avenue Hall, which was the place of meeting. It could be easily reached through the TIME TO LIVE MY LIFE WILL ZERO OUT NOW. Park Avenue entrance, which entrance was not known to the members of the Association. The session was called to order at 2:30 P. M., yesterday and President Geo. E. Edwards delivered one of the most interesting and practical addresses ever listened to by the Savings Bank Section. At its conclusion he was applauded. He stated that there was but one source to which the government can go order to carry on the war and that was from the people. THE PEOPLE'S SAVING ABILITY The saving ability of the people of the country was 8000 million dollars and the government needed four sevenths of 1.1s amount to do what it wanted to do. He declared that mon- (Continued on the fourth page.) Home Coming. Home coming will be observed at the First Presbyterian Church, corner Monroe and Catherine streets on Sunday October 28th. All Presbyterians in Richmond and vicinity are in vited to come home. Special services all day. Rev. A. A. Hector, pastor. WASHINGTON—JACKSON Miss Bertha O. Jackson and Mr. Edward Washington, Jr., were married at the home of Mrs. Annie Green, Engle wood, N. J., Saturday afternoon, September 29, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Washington will receive their friends at their home 724 N. 5th street, Richmond, Va., Thursday evening, October 11, from 8:30 to 10:30 P. M. OSE. Gone, But Not Forgotten. In sad, but loving remembrance of my dear mother, Martha Smith, who passed away one year ago today, October 6, 1916: It was so hard to part with you, Oh, so hard to see you die, But I hope some day to meet you, Some sweet day bye and bye. Friends may think I soon forget thee And my wounded heart is healed, But they little know the sorrow That's within my heart concealed. Her daughter. ELLEN WILLIAMS. REV. PERCETTI PREACHES HERE Speaks to Large Audience at the Second Baptist Church. Rev. Ezala M. Percetti is now in this city on his way to the Virginia Theological Seminary and College at Lynchburg, Va. He is a native of Jerusalem, Palestine. He preached at the Second Baptist Church, Rev. Z. Lewis, D. D., pastor His subject: Sunday morning was, "How Important it is to Know God." His subject, Sunday night was, "How To Be Wise of the Thing, of Life." He also lectured at 3:30 tor R v. R. V. Peyton, D. D., who is the pastor of the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church and he had an over whelming audience at which time the silver offering was over seven dollars. He addressed the B. Y. P. U. of First Baptist Church, Rev. W. T. Johnson D. D., pastor. He has been engaged all of this week and who leave today for school. Rev. Percetti speaks nine different languages. He lectured at the 31st. St. Baptist Church, Rev. R. C. Williams pasor Tuesday night, Oct. 2, and our good people gave him $5.00 to help him enter school. REUNION The reunion at the Zionntown Baptist S. S., Rio Vista, Va., took place Sept. 23, 1917 with J. A. Carter as master of ceremonies, Sang hymn 264 Scripture was read by Brother J. M. Norrell; prayer by Brother W. H. Johnson; welcome address by Brother P. E. Norrell; addresses: Brother M. H. Dandridge, Prof. J. M. Botts, Bro. Paul Carrington, Rev. L. Ross, Jr., Bro. F. M. Fountain, which we all enjoyed. A collection of $1.23 was raised. Superintendent. J. A. CARTER, Secretary, M. Finner. A Note of Thanks The Milk Station, 15 W. Clay St. extends thanks to Mrs. Ora B. Stokes and Dr. R. V. Peyton for their efforts and cooperation in raising funds for the Milk Station. The after collection of the Ebenezer Baptist Church was $23.00. Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church $9.35. Collections in other churches for the same purpose will be taken later. Thanks also extended to Mr. W. A. Jordan for his cooperation at the Mass Meeting. DOCTOR WANTED We are in need of a good Doctor A good opening for the right party Not a Doctor in 15 miles of u3. R. F. BUNDAY, Occupacia, Va Colored Girls have a beautiful com- plexion by using our MYREE BRO- FACE POWDER nothing like it satisfaction guaranteed or money re- funded. Send $25 quick for large box as price will vary for 20 days. ALEN WENK Sunday School Union at Zion The Richmond District Sunday School Union of the Va. Baptist State S. Convention will hold a union meeting, Sundya, October 7, at the Zion Baptist Church, South Richmond excellent program has been prepared, Mr. E. J. Cunningham is president and Mr. James H. Walls, secretary. Mrs. Mary Funn, wife of Mr. S. E. Funn, of 1525 Ashland street, has returned home after having visited her three sisters in New Haven, Conn. for two weeks or more, Mrs. Ellen Smith, Mrs. Rosa B. Andrews and Mrs. Carrie Raine. PRICE, FIVE CENTS STARTLING REVELATION IN BAPTIST TANGLE Dr. Moses Turns on More Light from Boyd and Galvin Letters. Dr. Boyd Admits to Dr. Galvin Facts Which He Denies in Court. The Letters Will be Submitted, as Evidence Against Dr. Boyd in the Present Suit to Get The People's Publishing Plant From Boyd and His Nine Associated Usurpers. (Hy W. H. Moses, D. D. Phila, Pa.) (1) For a number of years I have been in the forefront with those who have contended for reforms and efficiency in The National Baptist Convention and Its Boards. (a) Aside from scores of articles in the Press of the country for more than ten years, I published a book on the "Taproot of The Issue" before The National Baptist Convention compris two lengthy articles of the records of Dr. E. C. Morris, and Dr. R. M. Boyd; in which I severely criticised both of them. (b) In one I showed Seven Reasons why The National Baptist Convention should elect a new president at Philadelphia, in 1913 and Seven Reasons why the charters of the Boards should continue. Rev. George W. Wyatt Passes Away --- Died September 29. 1917 at 12:10 o'clock Rev. George W. Wyatt, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, for thirty old years. This sad news came to miss Florence Pervall. 21 W. Jackson St., who had been making her home in Cincinnati, for four years. She was a member of the Antioch Baptist Church. WARIE. Sacred to the memory of our loving mother, Mrs. Lucinda Ware, who departed this life one year ago today, October 3, 1916: She suffered patiently and long. Her light was bright, her faith was strong. The peace of Jesus filled her breast. And in His arms she sank to rest. —Her Devoted Children. Mr. Rickman Passes Away Mr. Joseph Hickman, a well known citizen of South Richmond, died at his residence in east 15th street last Tuesday night about 3:45 o'clock. Mr. Hickman had been a long sufferer, but he bore it all with Christian fortitude and patience. His funeral took place last Friday evening at 3:30 o'clock fr. on the First Baptist Church of which Dr. A. Binga is pastor. Rev. R. B. Hardy Gone. Rev. R. B. Hardy, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charlottesville, Va., died last Wednesday. His remains were brought to this city yesterday and lay in state at the Fourth Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held this morning. --- —Mrs. Nannie C. Johnson, who has been indisposed is much improved. Mrs. Maggie Brown of 5 E. 19th St., southside, returned to the city last Wednesday after spending the summer in Palling, N. Y. She is looking well. Messrs. Robert E. Harris and Madison Jones left the city this week for Schenectady, N. Y. Mr. R. B. Cabell has been indisposed at his home, 914 N. Sixth street. He is better at this writing. Miss Karolyn Carter, of North Fifth street, is much improved over her condition of the past week. —Rev. Wm. Thomas pastor of First Union Baptist Church spent quite an enjoyable time on his vacation, visiting Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. He returned last Sunday. Elder J. T. Mann, of 1233 N. 17th St., pastor of the United Pentecostal Church, Hanover, Co., Va., left Oct. 4, 1917 to attend the United Pentecostal Convention, which convened in Buffalo, N. Y. He was accompanied by his wife. They will also visit Niagara Falls, and perhaps some other points in Canada before returning home. --- That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments, and any citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right.-Bill of Rights of Virginia, Article I, Section 12. That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws by any authority, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.-Bill of Rights of Virginia, Article I, Section 7. Continued from the First Page.) be made to conform to the Constitution of The National Baptist Convention. WANTED A CLEAN BILL (c) I took pains and said these words: "When the Secretary of the Publishing Board sent for me and sat down and told me of the actions of the Commission and asked my advice, as to what was the best thing to do, I told him: "To prepare to give the people a clean bill of health," and if he was not right, he had better get right for I was going to the people with this story, and I would not swerve a hairs breadth for the truth regardless to whom it may hurt until this question is settled and settled rightly to the glory of God and good of the constituents of the National Baptist Convention world without end." I have no personal feeling against a living human being, and I am not looking for a job, either for myself, kinfok, friends or acquaintances. And I here by serve notice that I am going to try to help elect a New President of the National Convention." "I am not going to follow any splitters; it matters not who is elected I am going to remain in the National Baptist Convention and contend for the ruler of the people until the people wake up to the marvulous possibilities of the Great National Baptist Convention." See page 23-24 HAVE KEPT THE PROMISE I have kept that promise to day. (d) Dr. Boyd promised he would change the charter and did attempt to submit a Minority report to that end at Philadelphia, which was voted down, (Dr. Galvin voted against it too) Then Dr. Boyd and I made a common cause against the administration. And I told him, that Dr. Galvin would join us if he would tell him his position as he had told it to me; although he had voted with the commission against Dr. Boyd at Philadelphia 1913. (e) Henry Allen Boyd wrote Dr. Galvin; submitting three questions and Dr. Galvin's reply and Dr. Boyd's reply to Dr. Galvin are here given to gether with extracts from Dr. Boyds fetter to me concerning Dr. Galvin's attitude. (f) I here submit some extracts from those letters (for lack of space)—I will publish the whole of the originals if any one desires it, for the purpose of showing that Dr. Boyd's position was right when I was with him and that Dr. Galvin was against him at that time and with the administration, and that now since Dr. Boyd reversed his position when he went in to the courts, I abandoned him, and Dr. Galvin joined him and is aiding and abetting him now at the peril of dividing the Convention in Virginia, and losing the supports of the Virginia Seminary in the North and I also wish to show that Dr. Boyd admitted in his private letter to Dr. Galvin the very point the Denomination is trying to prove in the courts and that this letter will be placed in evidence against him. QR. BOYD'S LETTER TO DR. MOSES Nashville, Tenn., 4-16-14. Rev. W. H. Moses, D. D. Knoxville, Tenn. Dear Dr. Moses, "I am enclosing you a letter from Rev. A. A Galvin, and a copy of my answer. You see you judged him a little wrong, but the probabilities are that you can bring him around—I know he has been misled, but I think if you get after him you will straighten him out." Yours truly, R. H. BOYD, Secretary. DR. GALVIN'S LETTER TO DR. BOYD. 232 South Main St. Danville, Va., April 8, 14. Rev. Henry Allen Poyd. Nashville, Tenn. Dear Rev. Boyd,—Yours of the third instant received, and replying I wish to say that I am perfectly willing to answer your questions from my view point.—"In answering your first question, I have to say that I do not believe that the Publishing Board and the Home Board should in any way, be run in association one with the other, but that they be absolutely, positively and distinctly separated. And I do not think the other enter prises should be connected with the Publishing Board. SHOULD NOT BE BLOCKED Responding to your second question. I would say I do not believe "the progress of the Board should be bloot-ed and their work retarded by undue interference ill-advised legislation and continued investigations fostered by designing persons." But Is this the case? I do not really think it is. I take the position that if the Publishing Board is owned by Nerco Baptists through the Nation Baptist Convention, it should be regarded as their prerogative to investigate when they think proper and that the question of necessity and propriety is to be decked upon alone by them, and not by men employed by them to manage this concern in keeping with their orders." In answer to your third question, I wish to say, that I do believe the Publishing Board should be subject to... National Baptist Convention at all times. TOO MUCH CONFIDENCE "You said you take me into your confidence, and I fear you have done too many likewise; as I see that you have written other brothren and have taken them into your confidence, just as you have done me. And from what I hear you have written brothren all over the country in the same strain. Now what is all this for? It is simply because the National Convention upon her right to look into the affairs of what you say is her own property? Well it seems too bad." "I am sorry you ask for the return of your letter in case I did not agree with you. What is that for? When you wrote and sent me the letter it was mine upon reception, and I regret that I cannot comply with your strange request, as I want it for reference." "Hoping to hear from you at once, I am yours for the advancement of the National Baptist Publishing Board." Signed, A. A. GALVIN. Dr. Boyd lets the truth slip out in his private letter to Dr. Galvin before the Jones convention was organized or the suit instituted to get the peoples publishing board. 4 15 14. Rev. A. A. Galvin, 223 S. Main St. Danville, Va Dear Dr. Galvin,—"Your vary straight forward, plain and business like letter to H. A. Boyd was handed me to day by him.—"I take this privilege and pleasure of asking some of the straightforward questions, which I feel very sure he would not under take to discuss."—From what I have learned of you and your character by those best acquainted with you, that all you are looking for is the truth, and when that is obtained you will be straight on matters." WOULD CHANGE HIS MIND. "Well, Dr. Galvin, there are several people unacquainted with this affair like yourself, but if you knew the history of the affair, you would possibly have cause to change your mind. I feel that I ought to briefly state to you first, the Publishing Board was and is a nominal creature of the Home Mission Board. In 1896 at St. Louis Mo., at the same time that I was elected Secretary of the Home Mission Board, a resolution was passed by the convention authorizing the Home Mission Board to appoint a Printing Committee of five with R. H. Boyd, as Secretary. This Printing Committee proceeded under this resolution to organize itself under the auspices of the Home Mission Board, and be gan the Publication of Sunday School literature."—R. H. Boyd went from St. Louis, Mo., to Nashville Tenn., started this publication under the name of National Baptist Publishing Board." "Doing this Publication work under the name of the National Baptist Publishing Board, and The Missionary work under the name of the Home Mission Board; he, (Boyd) acting as secretary of both. At the Boston meeting in 1917 he had made such a showing that the Convention asked the Home Mission Board to have this Printing Committee incorporated under the Laws of the State of Tennesse." ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION "In March 1898 these articles of incorporation were drawn up by Lawyer T. C. Ewing whom you heard testify. "He drew up the charter under the laws of Tennessee by the Shannon Code. In September 1898 at Kansas City Missouri, when the Home Mission Board made its report it carried in an exact inventory of every article purchased which; the minutes of that year will show, then read the charter before the convention. The charter was unanimously adopted and this Publishing Board acted as Trustees for the property, while the Home Mission Board had the General oversight." "The Convention or the Home Mission Board elected the five incorporators which was afterwards increased to nine. Each of these have been relected every three years according to the terms of the charter." "Under the constitution, if you will read it, any member of the National Baptist Convention has a right to come to Nashville and look into the books to satisfy themselves at any time." NO FULL ACCESS This does look to me as if the Nat- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA jonal Baptist Convention has certainly had full access to make all the investigations that it desires to make." "The last thought and I must close The National Baptist Convention is appointed to act by its constitution. The Board is compelled by the laws of the state to act under its charter; hence if this Board has violated the constitution any where, it can be proved by the Convention; If it has violated its obligation to the state, it can be foreclosed by the Laws of the state."—I have tried to write as frank as you wrote, and given you the facts in the case, or a few of them. When you read these, you will understand our protest. Yours truly, Signed ——Secretary. DENIED THE FACTS Believing Dr. Boyd was admitting the facts in good faith Dr. Galvin like myself and others, identified him self with Dr. Boyd in the attempt to regulate the convention In Chicago and as soon as Dr. Boyd concluded that he had a following that would stand by him, right or wrong, he went before the courts and denied the very facts which he had admitted to Dr. Galvin in the above letter and to me over and over in the presence of many witnesses. Now look at the Boyd's Board's answer to the Courts printed in his report at Kansas City, Sept. 8, 1916 and reiterated in his report in Atlanta, Gal. Sept. 5, 1917, on page 54 to 73, which says: "These, respondents deny that resolutions were introduced in the convention in 1896 held in St. Louis, Missouri, looking forward to the establishing of a Publishing house This charter was not secured by any particular committee but was procured by individuals whose names are signed to it." Respondents deny that there was any adoption or ratification by the Home Mission Board of any convention of Baptists held in Kansas City further than welcoming this new enterprise." "As far back as 1894, the General Convention of Texas elected R. H. Boyd, Supt. of Missions." A REFERENCE TO THE BEGINNING He then conceived the idea of having Negro Literature Published by Negroes." "It was a part of this vision that has developed." "These respondents deny that the Publishing Board has even been maintained, or received any contribution from the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America or any other Convention." "These respondents deny that they were ever selected to office or that they have deprived any authority as officers, directors or trustees by virtue of any action of any convention at any time whatsoever." In his report at Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 1917 Dr Boyd says: "There have been many rumors and false statements about the organization of the Publishing Board and men have even sworn that the Board was organized by a resolution offered in St. Louis Missouri, in 1896. This is absolutely false and no such record can be found." Well the record has been found al- though Dr. Boyd advertised for it and offered $10.00 a piece for the minutes and thought he had gotten all of them from every person in the coun- try everal years ago. SHALL SUBMIT THE LETTER But aside from that we shall sub mit Dr. Boyd's letter to Dr. Galvin in evidence and condemn him out of his own mouth. Now that Dr. Boyd has reversed him self will Dr. Galvin still support and shield him by becoming apart of the Jones Convention which says in the Record of the Court: (Marked Ehibit C.) "The National Baptist Convention has no records known to us where the National Baptist Convention owns any property interest or invested any money in the said corporation. There fore you will not be expected to enter into litigation for possession of the property or the removal of any of the incorporators." CAN OVERLOOK BLUNDERS We can overlook the blunders of brother Bowling, and Madison, and King and Will Hall, they do not know the facts; brother Bowling has never attended the National Convention in his life. But Dr. Galvin knows better he has had all this inside knowledge of raciality first hand; and in the face of the shameful facts in the case he has pretended to be neutral; which is another name of "slacker." and aid er of the enemy of the people's interest. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Y. M. C. A. Literary was a live wire last Friday night. The program was a good one. Mr. W. M. Rainey, read a special paper. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. The workers hold a meeting at the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. Conna. PORTSMOUTH NEWS. The Planet is attracting the attention of many here on the account of its views on all National questions, State affairs and community occurrences. The Zion Baptist Church, Dr. J. M. Armstead pastor closed its revival services with several additions. The Metropolitan Baptist Church Rev. R. G. Adams pastor will begin its revival on the First Sunday, Oct. 7th Rev. N. B. Brown of Richmond, Va. has been engaged to conduct the meeting. Rev. C. S. Campbell was able to be out on Sunday and preached to the codecarriers. Rev. W. E. Brown of First Church South Portsmouth, is at his post of duty. Dr. C. C. Summerville of Ebenezer Baptist Church and congregation are putting in a heating plant . Rev. Arnold and his people will soon be able to go into their New elfice. The St. Thomas Baptist Church when completed will indeed be a beautiful building. Rev. O. C. Jones of Mt. Hermon is nearing the completion of a beautiful brick residence for his family. The Corey Memorial Academy will open October 1st, with Prof. Manning as principal. The son of Deacon R. H. Perkins, returned from Ashville, N. C. Mrs. M. M. Harriston, and little daughter, Thelma of Farmville, Va. are visiting Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Adams, 1608 Effingham St. Mrs. Faceen, of 35 Green St., has been on the sick list for quite a while. Mr. F. M. Smith of 1017 Palmer St., is quite ill. Mrs. Callie Boone of Franklin, Va., spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Boone of Effingham St. The little daughter, Elizabeth, of Mr. and Mrs. Chambers of Griffin St., is much improved since her stay in the Hospital. Mrs. Mildora Boone is again on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Tucker are delighted to have their son in law and two beautiful grand children from the north to visit them. Miss Adele Adams of 1608 Effingham St., will leave this week for Petersburg School. Miss Josephine Hatchett of Green St., will leave for Hartshorn College. FARMVILLE NEWS Mr. Editor,—It has been some time since you have heard from us in this section. I am sure you would like to know the reason why. The great war is the accepted excuse for all short comings. We know this since the beginning of this war there have been many changes. THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN Rev. W. E. Pettus' Vision of the Holy Bible. We had a warm time in our class Thursday night, Rev. W. E. Pettus, master of ceremonies. Opening hymn No. 127; Scripture lesson, Luke 15:17-20, Mrs. Sadie R. Pettus; prayer, Rev. W. E. Pettus; lesson --- An article used to appear in your paper every week headed Mr. "Rambler." Will you please tell us who he was and where is he? If he is in America we would like to know. This section has suffered much owing to the exodus of our people seeking better wages. Thus we have lost some of our best citizens. Rev. R. G. Adams the exp pastor of the First Baptist Church was in the city a few days ago. His many friends were delighted to see him. The First Baptist Church is still without a pastor. Madam Rumor says that the Church will have a pastor by Dec. 7th. Mrs. M. M. Hairston and little daughter left last week to visit Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Adams of Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Irving Lawrence of Charlotte, S. C., who has been visiting the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Hairston, 624 South Main street, left for his home after spending several days in our town. A reception was given in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hairston on the night of his leave. The invited guest were composed of the several friends of the young ladies of the home. We tried to find out just what date Mr. Lawrence would return to Farmville and accomplish the object of his visit. We know that distance is no barrier against such accomplished objects as Farmville affords. 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It would be mistaken kindness for me to make light of his condition simply to spare your feelings. He has an even chance. I shall stay until morning. Now, I think it would be best to lay him on a bed. You must relax, Mrs. Fyfe. I can see that the strain is telling on you. You mustn't allow yourself to get in that abnormal condition. The baby is not conscious of pain. He is not suffering half so much in his body as you are in your mind, and you mustn't do that. Be hopeful. We'll need your help. We should have a nurse, but there was no time to get one." They laid Jack junior amid down pillows on Stella's bed. The doctor stood looking at him, then drew a chair beside the bed. "Go and walk about a little, Mrs. Fyfe," he advised, "and have your dinner. I'll want to watch the boy awhile." But Stella did not want to walk. She did not want to eat. She was scarcely aware that her limbs were cramped and aching from her long vigil in the chair. She was not conscious of herself and her problems any more. Every shift of her mind turned on her baby, the little mite she had nursed at her breast, the one joy unstructured with bitterness that was left her. The bare chance that those little feet might never patter across the floor again, that little voice never wake her in the morning, crying "Mom-mom," drove her distracted. She went out into the living room, walked to a window, stood there drumming on the pane with nervous fingers. Dusk was falling outside; a dusk was creeping over her. She shuddered. Fyfe came up behind her, put his hands on her shoulders and turned her so that she faced him. "I wish I could help, Stella," he whispered. "I wish I could make you feel less forlorn. Poor little kiddies—both of you." She shook off his hands, not because she rebelled against his touch, against his sympathy, merely because she had come to that nervous state where she scarcely realized what she did. "Oh," she choked. "I can't bear it! My baby, my little baby boy, the one bright spot that's left, and he has to suffer like that! If he dies it's the end of everything for me." Fyfe stared at her. The warm, pitying look on his face eased away, hardened into his old mask-like absence of expression. "No," he said quietly; "it would only be the beginning. Lord, but this has been a day!" He whirled about with a quick gesture of his hands, a harsh, raspy laugh that was very near a sob, and left her. Twenty minutes later, when Stella was irresistibly drawn back to the bedroom, she found him sitting sober and silent, looking at his son. A little past midnight Jack junior died. Stella sat watching the gray lines of rain beat down on the asphalt, the muddy rivulets that streamed along the gutter. A forlorn sighing of wind in the bare boughs of a gaunt elm that stood before her window reminded her achingly of the wind drone among the tall firs. A ghastly two weeks had intervened since Jack junior's little life blinked out. There had been wild moments when she wished she could keep him company on that journey into the unknown, but grief seldom kills. Sometimes it hardens. Always it works a change, a greater or less revamping of the spirit. It was so with Stella Fyfe, although she was not keenly aware of any forthright metamorphosis. She was for the present too actively involved in material changes. The snapping of that last link served to deepen and widen the gulf between her and Fyfe. He went about his business grave and preoccupied. They seldom talked together. She knew that his boy had meant a lot to him, but he had his work. He did not have to sit with folded hands and think until thought drove him into the bogs of melanoly. And so the break came. With desperate abruptness Stella told him that she could not stay; that feeling as she did she despised herself for unwilling acceptance of everything where she could give nothing in return; that the original mistake of their marriage would never be rectified by a perpetuation of that mistake. "What's the use, Jack?" she finished, "You and I are so made that we can't be neutral. We've got to be thoroughly in accord or we have to part. There's no chance for us to get back to the old way of living. I don't want to; I can't. I could never be complaisant and agreeable again. We might as well come to a full stop and each go his own way." She had braced herself for a clash of wills. There was none. Fyfe listened to her, looked at her long and earnestly and in the end made a quick, impatient gesture with his hands. "Your life's your own to make what you please of now that the kid's no longer a factor," he said quietly. "What do you want to do? Have you made any plans?" morris She Found Him Sitting Sober and Silent, Looking at Hia Son. "I have to live, naturally," she replied. "Since I've got my voice back I feel sure I can turn that to account. I should like to go to Seattle first and look around. It can be supposed I have gone visiting until one or the other of us takes a decisive legal step." "That's simple enough," he returned after a minute's reflection. "Well, if it has to be, for God's sake let's get it over with!" And now it was over with. Fyfe remarked once that with them luckily it was not a question of money. But for Stella it was indeed an economic problem. When she left Roaring like her private account contained over $2,000. Her last act in Vancouver was to redeposit that to her husband's credit. Only so did she feel that she could go free of all obligation, clean handed, without stultifying herself in her own eyes. She had treasured as a keepsake the only money she had ever earned in her life, her brother's check for $270, the wages of that sordid period in the cook house. She had it now—$270 capital. She hadn't sold herself for that. She had given honest value, double and treble, in the sweat of her brow. She was here now, in a five dollar a week housekeeping room, foot loose, free as the wind. That was Fyfe's last word to her. He had come with her to Seattle and waited patiently at a hotel until she had found a place to live. Then he had gone away without protest. "Well, Stella," he had said, "I guess this is the end of our experiment. In six months—under the state law—you can be legally free by a technicality. So far as I'm concerned, you're free as the wind right now. Good luck to you." He turned away with a smile on his lips, a smile that his eyes bolted, and she watched him walk to the corner through the same sort of driving rain that now pelted in gray lines against her window. She shook herself impatiently out of that retrospect. It was done. Life, as her brother had prophesied, was no kid glove affair. The future was her chief concern now, not the past. Meantime she had not been idle; neither had she come to Seattle on a blind impulse. She knew of a shinging teacher there whose reputation was more than local, a vocal authority whose carried weight far beyond Puget sound. First she meant to see him, get an impartial estimate of the value of her voice, of the training she would need. Through him she hoped to get in touch with some outlet for the only talent she possessed. And she had received more encouragement than she dared hope. He listened to her slug, then tested the range and flexibility of her voice. "Amazing," he said frankly. "You have a rare natural endowment. If you have the determination and the sense of dramatic values that muscel discipline will give you, you should go far. You should find your place in opera." "That's my ambition," Stella answered. "But that requires time and training. And that means money. I have to earn it." The upshot of that conversation was an appointment to meet the manager of a photoplay house who wanted a singer. Stella looked at her watch now and rose to go. Money, always money, if one wanted to get anywhere, she reflected cyclically. No wonder men struggled desperately for that token of power. She reached the Charteris theater, and a doorman gave her access to the dim interior. There was a light in the operator's cage high at the rear, another shaded glow at the plano, where a young man with hair brushed sleekly back chewed gum incessantly while he practiced picture accompaniments. The place looked desolate, with its empty seats, its bald stage front with the empty picture screen. Stella sat down to wait for the manager. He came in a few minutes. His manner was very curt, businesslike. He wanted her to sing a popular song, a bit from a Verdi opera, Gounod's "Ave Marla," so that he could get a line on what she could do. He appeared to be a pessimist in regard to singers. "Take the stage right there," he instructed, "just as if the spot were on you. Now, then." It wasn't a heartening process to stand there facing the gum chewing pianist, and the manager's cigar glowing really five rows back, and the silent emptinesses beyond—much like singing into the mouth of a gloomy cave. It was more or less a critical moment for Stella, but she was keenly aware that she had to make good in a small way before she could grasp the greater opportunity, so she did her best, and her best was no mediocre performance. She had never sung in a place designed to show off or to show up a singer's quality. She was even a bit astonished herself. She elected to sing the "Ave Marla" first. Her voice went pealing to the doomed ceiling a sweet as a silver bell, resonant as a trumpet. When the last note died away there was a mo- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA mortuary sleen e; then the accompanies looked up at her, frankly admiring. "You're some warbler," he said emphatically, "belle me." ```markdown ``` Behind him the manager's cigar lost its glow. He remained silent. The pianist struck up "Let's Murder Care," a rollicking trifle from a Broadway hit. Lost of all he thumped, more or less successfully, through the accompaniment to an arda that had in it vocal gymnastics as well as melody. IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! "Come up to the office, Mrs. Kyle," Howard said, with a singular change from his first manner. "I can give you an indefinite engagement at thirty a week," he made a blunt offer. "You can shug. You're worth more, but right now I can't pay more. If you pull business—and I rather think you will—I may be able to raise you. Thirty a week, and you'll have to shug twice in the afternoon and twice in the evening." 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. Stella considered briefly. Thirty dollars a week meant a great deal more than mere living as she meant to live. And it was a start, a move in the right direction. She accepted. They discussed certain details. She did not care to court publicity under her legal name, so they agreed that she should be billed as Mine. Benton, the madame being Howard's suggestion, and she took her leave. Upon the Monday following Stella stood for the first time in a fierce white glare that dazzled her and so shut off partially her vision of the rows and rows of faces. She went on with a horrible shackness in her knees, a dry feeling in her throat, and she was not sure whether she would sing or fly. When she had finished her first song and bowed herself into the wings she felt her heart leap and hammer at the hand chipping that grew and grew till it was like the beat of ocean surf. Howard came running to meet her. "You've sure got 'em going," he laughed. "Fine work. Go out and give 'em some more." 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 In time she grew accustomed to these things, to the applause she never failed C. P. W. H. 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 "You've sure got 'em going. Go out and give 'em some more." to get, to the white beam that beat down from the picture cage, to the eager, upturned faces in the first rows. Her confidence grew. Ambition began to glow like a flame within her. She had gone through the primary stages of voice culture, and she was following now a method of practice which produced results. She could see and feel that herself. We Do All Kinds of Job Work WE HAVE TWO LINOTYPES, ONE IS OF THE LATEST PATENT. THE COST PRICE OF THE FIRST ONE WAS $3,375, EXCLUSIVE OF THE EXTRA PARTS. THE COST OF THE LATEST WAS $3,700, EXCLUSIVE OF THE EXTRA PARTS. ADD TO THESE AMOUNTS $1,000 AND YOU HAVE THE EXPENSE OF BRINGING THEM FROM THE MERGENTHALER FACTORY AT BROOKLYN, N. Y. AND SETTING THEM UP IN OUR OFFICE AT RICHMOND. So she gained in those weeks something of her old poise. Inevitably she was very lonely at times, but she fought against that with the most effective weapon she knew—inecessant activity. She was always busy. There was a rented plano now sitting in the opposite corner from the gas stove on which she cooked her meals. Howard kept his word. She "pulled business," and he raised her to forty a week and offered her a contract, which she refused, because other avenues, bigger and better than singing in a motion picture house, were tentatively opening. December was waning when she came to Seattle. In the following weeks her only contact with the past, beyond the mill of her own thoughts, was an item in the Seattle Times touching upon certain litigation in which Fyfe was involved. Briefly, Monohan, under the firm name of the Abbey-Monohan Timber company, was using Fyfe for heavy damages for the loss of certain booms of logs blown up and set drift at the mouth of the Tyce river. There was appended an account of the clash over the closed channel and the killing of Billy Dale. No one had been brought to book for that yet. Any one of sixty men might have fired the shot. 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 It made Stella whence, for it took her back to that dreadful day. She could not bear to thikt that Billy Dale's blood lay on her and Monohan, neither could she stifle an uneasy apprehension that something more grievous yet might happen on Roaring lake. But at least she had done what she could. If she were the flame, she had removed herself from the powder magazine. Fyfe had pulled his cedar crew off the Tyce before she left. If aggression same it must come from one direction. THE RICHMOND PLANET. A Lost Illusion. STELLA had not minced matters with herself when she left Roaring lake. Dazed and shaken by suffering, nevertheless she knew that she would not always suffer; that in time she would get back to that normal state in which the human ego diligently pursues happiness. In time the legal tie between herself and Jack Fyfe would cease to exist. If Monohon cared for her as she thought he cared, a year or two moo or less mattered little. They had all their lives before them. In the long run the errors and mistakes of that upheaval would grow dim, be as nothing. Jack Fyfe would shrug his shoulders and forget, and in due JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia Continued on Page Seven. HEY LUNET Continued from Sixth Pago. time he would find a litter mafe, one as loyal as he deserved. And why might not she, who had never loved him, whose marriage to him had been only a climbing out of the fire into the frying pan? So that with all her determination to make the most of her gift of song, so that she would never again be buffeted by material urgencies in a material world, Stella had nevertheless been listening with the ear of her mind, so to speak, for a word from Monohan to say that he understood and that all was well. Paradoxically, she had not expected to hear that word. Once in Seattle, away from it all, there slowly grew upon her the conviction that in Monohan's fine awaul and renunciation he had only followed the cue she had given. In all else he had played his own hand. She couldn't forget Billy Dale. If the motive behind that bloody culmination were thwarted love it was a thing to shrink from. It seemed to her now, forcing herself to reason with cold blooded logic, that Monohan desired her less than he hated Fyfe's possession of her; that she was merely an added factor in the breaking out of a struggle for mastery between two diverse and dominant men. Every sign and token went to show that the pot of hate had long been shimmering. She had only contributed to its hollow over "Oh, well," she sighed, "it's out of my hands altogether now. I'm sorry, but being sorry doesn't make any difference. I'm the least factor, it seems, in the whole muddle. A woman isn't much more than an incident in a man's life, after all." She dressed to go to the Charteris, for her day's work was about to begin. As so often happens in life's uneasy flow, periods of calms are succeeded by events in close sequence. Howard and his wife insisted that Stella join them at supper after the show. They were decent folk who accorded frank admiration to her voice and her personality. They had been kind to her in many little ways, and she was glad to accept. At 11 a taxi deposited them at the door of Waln's. The Seattle of yesterday needs no introduction to Waln's, and its counterpart can be found in any county, urban seaport city. It is a place of subtle distinction, tucked away on one of the lower hill streets, where after theater parties and nighthawks with an eye for pretty women, an ear for sensuous music and a taste for good food go when they have money to spend. Ensconced behind a potted palm, with a waiter taking Howard's order, Stella let her gaze travel over the diners. She brought up with a repressed start at a table but four removes from her own, her eyes resting upon the unmistakable profile of Walter Monohan. He was dining vis-a-vis with a young woman chiefly remarkable for a profusion of yellow hair and a blazing diamond in the lobe of each ear—a plump, blond, vivacious person of a type that Stella, even with her limited experience, found herself instantly classifying. A bottle of wine rested in an ice dish between them. Monohan was toying with the stem of a half emptied glass, smiling at his companion. The girl leaned toward him, speaking rapidly, pouting. Monohan nodded, drained his glass, signaled a waiter. When she got into an elaborate opera cloak and Monohan into his Inverness they went out, the plump, jeweled hand resting familiarly on Monohan's arm. Stella breathed a sigh of relief as they passed, looking straight ahead. She watched through the upper half of the cafe window and saw a machine draw against the curb, saw the bescarped yellow head enter and Monohan's silk hat follow. Then she relaxed, and had little appetite for her food. A hot wave of shamed disgust kept coming over her. She felt sick, physically revolted. Very likely Monohan had put her in that class in his secret thought. She was glad when the evening ended and the Howards left her at her own doorstep. On the carpet where it had been thrust by the postman under the door, a white square caught her eye, and she picked it up before she switched on the light. And she got a queer little shock when the light fell on the envelope, for it was addressed in Jack Fyte's angular handwriting. She tore it open. It was little enough in the way of a letter, a couple of lines scrawled across a sheet of note paper. Dear Girl-I was in Seattle a few days ago and heard you sing. Here's hoping good luck rides with you. JACK. Stella sat down by the window. Outside the ever present Puget sound rain drove against wall and roof and sidewalk, gathered in wet, glistening pools in the street. Through that same window she had watched Jack Fyfe walk out of her life three months ago without a backward book, sturdy, silently, uncomplaining. He hadn't whined; he wasn't whining now, only flinging a cheerful word out of the blank spaces of his own life into the blank spaces of hers. Stella felt something warm and wet steal down her cheeks. She crumpled the letter with a sudden, spasmodic clinching of her hand. A lump rose chokingly in her throat. She stabbed at the light switch and threw herself on the bed, sobbing her heart's cry in the dusky quiet. And she could not have fold why, except that she had been overcome by a miserably forlorn feeling. All the mental props she relied upon were knocked out from under her. Somehow those few scrawled words had flung swiftly before, like a picture on a screen, a vision of her baby toddling uncertainly across the porch of the white bungalow. And she could not bear to think of that. When the elm before her window broke into leaf and the sodden winter skies were transformed into a warm spring vista of blue Stella was singing a special engagement in a local vaudeville house that boasted a "big tune" bill. She had stepped up. The silvery richness of her voice had carried her name already beyond local boundaries, as the singing master under whom she studied prophesied it would. In proof thereof she received during April a feminine committee of two from Vancouver bearing an offer of $300 for her appearance in a series of three concerts under the auspices of the Woman's Musical club, to be given in the ballroom of Vancouver's new million dollar hostelry, the Granada. The date was mid-July. She took the offer under advisement, promising a decision in ten days. The money tempted her. That was her greatest need now, not for her daily bread, but for an accumulated fund that would enable her to reach New York and ultimately Europe, if that seemed the most direct route to her goal. She had no doubts about reaching it now. Confidence came to abide with her. She throw on work. And with increasing salary her fund grew. Coming from any other source, she would have accepted this further augmentation of it without hesitation, since for a comparative beginner it was a liberal offer. But Vancouver was Fyfe's hometown. It had been hers. Many people knew her. The local papers would feature her. She did not know how Fyfe would take it. She did not even know if there had been any open talk of their separation. Money, she felt, was a small thing beside opening old sores. For herself, she was tolerably indifferent to Vancouver's social estimate of her or her acts. Nevertheless so long as she bore Fyfe's name she did not feel free to make herself a public figure there without his sanction. So she wrote to him in some detail concerning the offer and asked point blank if it mattered to him. His answer came with uncanny promptness, as if every mall connection had been made on the minute. He wrote: If it is to your advantage to sing here by all means accept. Why should it matter to me? I would even be glad to come and hear you sing if I could do so without etiring up vap longings and useless rehearsal monuments. In the meantime, they are of no weight at all. I never wanted to keep you in a glass case. Even if all were well between us I wouldn't have any feeling about your singing in to command public favor with your voice. It's a wonderful voice, too big and fine a thing to remain obscure. JACK. Stella sat thoughtfully gazing at the letter for a long time. "I wonder?" she said aloud, and the sound of her own voice galvanized her into action. She put on a coat and went out into the mellow spring sunshine and walked till the almost straying of her feet carried her to a little park that overlooked the far reach of the sound and gave westward on the snowy Olympics, thrusting hoarse and aloof to a perfect sky, like their brother peaks that ringed Roaring lake. And all the time her mind kept turning on a question whose asking was rooted neither in fact nor necessity, an inquiry born of a sentiment she had never expected to feel. Should she go back to Jack Fyfe? She shook her head impatiently when she faced that squirrel. Why treat the same bitter road again? But she put that self interested phase of it仕ide and asked herself coulddly if she could G. B. B. Stella Sat Thoughtfully Gazing at the Letter For a Long Time. go back and take up the old threads where they had been broken off and make life run smoothly along the old, quiet channels? She was as sure as she was sure of the breath she drew that Fyfe wanted her, that he longed for and would welcome her. But she was equally sure that the old illusions would never serve. She couldn't even make him happy, much less herself. Monohan—well, Monohan was a dead issue. He had come to the Charterls to see her, all smiles and eagerness. She had been able to look at him and through him—and cut him dead—and do it without a single flutter of her heart. That brief and illuminating episode in Wain's had merely confirmed an impression that had slowly grown upon her, and her outburst of feeling that night had only been the overflowing of shamed anger at herself for letting his magnetic personality make so deep an impression on her that she could adapt to him that she cared. She felt THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA that she had belittled herself by that. But he was no longer a problem. She wondered now how he ever could have been. She recalled that once Jack Fyfe had soberly told her she would never sense life's real values while she nursed so many illusions. Monohan had been one of them. "But it wouldn't work," she whispered to herself. "I couldn't do it. He'd know I only did it because I was sorry, because I thought I should, because the old ties, and they seem so many and so strong in spite of everything, were harder to break than the new road is to follow alone. He'd resent anything like pity for his loneliness. And If Monohan has made any real trouble it began over me or at least it focused on me. And he might resent that. He's ten times a better man than I am a woman. He thinks about the other fellow's side of things. I'm just what he said about Charlie—self centered, a profound egotist. If I really and truly loved Jack Fyfe I'd be a jealous little fury if he so much as looked at another woman. But I don't, and I don't see why I don't. I want to be loved; I want to love. I've always wanted that so much that I'll never dare trust my instincts about it again. I wonder why people like me exist to go blundering about in the world playing havoc with themselves and everybody also?" Before she reached home that self sacrificing mood had vanished in the face of sundry twinges of pride. Jack Fyfe hadn't asked her to come back; he never would ask her to come back. Of that she was quite sure. She knew the stony determination of him too well. Neither hope of heaven nor fear of hell would turn him aside when he had made a decision. If he ever had moments of irresolution he had successfully concealed any such weakness from those who knew him best. No one ever felt called upon to pity Jack Fyfe, and in those rocked ribbed qualities Stella had an illuminating flash, perhaps lay the secret of his failure ever to stir in her that yearning tenderness which she knew herself to be capable of lavishing, which her nature impelled her to lavish on some one. "Ah, well," she sighed when she came back to her rooms and put Fyfe's letter away in a drawer. "I wonder what Jack would say if he knew what I've been debating with myself this afternoon? I wonder if we were actually divorced and I'd made myself a reputation as a singer and we happened to meet quite casually some time, somewhere, just how we'd really feel about each other?" She was still musing on that in a detached, impersonal fashion, when she caught a car down to the theater for the matinee. TO BE CONTINUED. Dictator Garfield Tells the Meeting He Counts on the Patriotism of Both Sides. The most important conference between capital and labor since the United States entered the world war opened its sessions in Washington. In it are mine owners from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, and delegates from the United Mine Workers of America representing every basing soft coal field in the United States. A basing field is one that fixes the wage scales for a large or small district round about it and tied up with it through conditions of mining, railroad differentials, etc. The conference therefore represents in a large way all the soft coal production of the United States. It has one purpose, consideration of the mine workers' demands for increased wages. This demand will be presented to the operators. While it will not be made public until then, it is understood that these are the demands: An increase of ten cents a ton upon run of mine coal where men are paid by the ton. An increase of $1.90 per day on the pay of all mine workers who are paid by the day. This means a minimum wage of $5.50 a day. If these demands shall be granted the soft coal prices fixed by the government through Coal Director Harry A. Garfield cannot possibly be maintained. Director Garfield made no reference to these prices when he addressed the conference. "One duty above all others lies before you," he said. "It is that of continuous coal production. No matter how you may differ here or hereafter, your country needs coal above all other products at this time. The fate of the whole allied cause is dependent upon a steadily increasing output of all the war industries that are based upon the coal production of the United States. "I do cook upon all of you, operators and workers alike, as patrols. I see in you a fever eager to do-operate in the winning of this war for world-wide democracy. It is up to you both equally to see to it that nothing shall be said or done which would in any way stop or lessen the output of this fuel necessity for our success." Director Garfield, Chairman Scott, of the war production board, Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels are watching the deliberations of the conference with anxiety. They have been advised of the determination of the mine workers to Perfect Phonographs at Popular Prices THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET No.1.-13x13x6 inches, No.2.-16x16x7 inches, CABINETS MAY BE SPRING MOTOR AND NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED ONE WINDING. THE CHINES. TURN-TA HIGHLY POLISHED THE P 311 N. 4 CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO. 1 HAS A POWERFUL SINGLE SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A MOTOR GUARANTEED TO PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON ONE WINDING. THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE CUPS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN EXPENSIVE MACHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER. ALL METAL PARTS NICKEL PLATED AND HIGHLY POLISHED. THE RICHMOND PLANET 311 N. 4th St., - - Richmond, Va. --- get a substantial increase in wages. They have also been told flatly by the operators that any increase in wages must be passed along to the consumers. The biggest consumer, directly and indirectly today is the United States. If the miners get the increase they demand and the operators follow their plan to pass it along, the coal bill of the government and of the nation generally will be tremendously increased. EMBARGO ON MONEY $5400 Maximum That May Be Taken From Country. Federal reserve board officials under the president's proclamation restrict currency and gold exports, and announced that travelers leaving the United States would be permitted to carry with them a maximum of $500 in currency, $200 in silver and $200 in gold. "It will be the general policy of the board," the announcement read, "not to authorize the exportation of gold unless the shipment applied for is shown to be connected in a direct and definite way with a corresponding importation of consumption of merchandise for consumption in the United States. "Exportations of Canadian silver coin and currency will be approved 'without limitation.'" Small Fortune In Dye A barrel of Gorman red dye hidden away in a stockroom of a Lincoln, N. H., paper company since its purchase three years ago for $89 has been sold to a New York concern for $5000, it became known. The paper plant recently was sold and the new owners found the dye and put it on the market. Increase For Steel Workers. Fifteen thousand steel workers, employees of the Cambria Steel Company and the Lorain Steel company, at Johnstown, Pa., were notified that effective October 1 their wages would be Increased 10 per cent. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADE' PHIA.—FLOUR — Firm. Straight, $10.25@10.50; City Mills, $18@13.25. POULTRY—Live steady; hens, 22% 27c; old roosters, 19@22c; Dressed steady; choice fowls, 31c; old roosters, 22c. CHICAGO--HOGS -- Firm; bulk. $18.15@18.90; light. $17.65@18.90; alixed. $17.25 - 10. hoavy. $17.60@19. HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- C WITH A MOTOR GUARAN THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE BLES 10 INCH DIAMETER RICHMO th St., - Fough. $17.10@17.80; plgs. $14.17@15.80 CATTLE—Slow; native beef cattle $7.15@17.85; western steers. $6.50@15.40 stockers and feeders. $6.30@11.15; cows and heffers. $5.10@12.70; calves. $11@15.75. SHEEP—Woak: wethers, $8.90@ 12.50; lambs, $16@18. Greatest German Avilator Killed. Lieutenant Vosse, leading German avilator, was killed in an aerial fight with his fifteenth adversary, says a re- port received from Berlin. Vosse was considered the greatest German ab- man after Baron von Riehlthofen. He was credited in German official re- ports with having brought down forty two enemy machines up to September 10. The $11,000,000,000 war credits bill authorizinz the second Liberty bond issue, details of which will be anounded by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, was signed by President Wilson. Enemy Trade Bill Passes. The conference report on the trading with the enemy bill adopted by the sonate was adopted by the house without a roll call. It now goes to the president for signature. UP ON WE GUARANTEE FULL AND COMPLETE SATISFACTION Give us a trial order. WE GUARANTEE FULL AND COMPLETE SATISFACTION. Give us a trial order. ```markdown ``` War Credits Bill Signed $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons Woodland Park IS NOW OPEN FOR ENGAGEMENTS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNICS, ETC. PLENTY OF SHADE-FINE SPRING WATER. THE LAKE WILL BE OPEN TO BOATING. THESE GROUNDS ARE ADJACENT TO THE MAGNIFICENT WOODLAND CEMETERY GROUNDS, WHERE WIDE DRIVE-WAYS AND CONCRETE WALK-WAYS ARE A FEATURE. REST ROOMS FOR LADIES. LARGE PORCHES WITH HAMMOCKS, WHERE THE COOL AFTERNOON BREEZES CAN BE ENJOYED. GOOD ORDER GUARANTEED. TWO BLOCKS FROM THE HIGHLAND PARK STREET-CAR LINE. EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM CHURCHHILL John Mitchell, Jr., President D. P. Bragg, Secretary Call up the President at Randolph 2213, or Bragg Brothers & Company, 506 North Second Street. JUDGE HUNDLE DECLINES TO MAKE STATEMENT. Farmville, Va., September 22;— Judge George J. Hundley was seen tonight at his Farmville residence, and was asked for a statement concerning the published report that he had determined to issue rules against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader, and against William Lancaster, a Prince Edward County attorney, each to answer to charges of contempt of court. The Judge aid he did not care to make any statement for publication concerning the case, and that while he had great respect for those papers that had treated him fairly, among which were The Times Dispatch, Evening Journal and the Lynchburg News, he had determined now "to have the question settle, if possible, as to how far the lie sense of a reckless newspaper extends in defaming the courts and their judges." From another and most trustworthy source it was learned that a special term of Charlotte Circuit Court has been called for next Wednesday, September 26, at which time rules will be served upon Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader; William Lancaster, of Farmville, and also upon the colored editor of the Richmond Planet, John Mitchell SEVEN ```markdown ``` These proceedings have grown out of comments made upon the trial of Aubrey Barrett, a Negro youth recently convicted and sentenced to death, and great interest centers upon the probable outcome of the alleged contempt trials. One of the witnesses to be summoned will be Governor Stuart, who will go to Charlotte to testify as to what passed between him and Judge Hundley and between the Governor and the sheriff before the trial of young Barrett. Governor Stuart will be in attendance at the trial next week, unless the Richmond parties will consent to his furnishing affidavits. The prosecution will be represented by United States District Attorney Richard Evelyn Byrd, of Richmond; Judge Asa D. Watkins, of Farmville and Thomas E. Watkins, of Charlotte. Judge Watkins was asked tonight for a statement concerning the charges and the rules which are to be made but declined to have anything to say to the newspapers touching the matter. Everything points to a lively time at old Charlotte Courthouse next Wednesday and those who attend the proceedings may look for an "old fashioned Virginia trial." (Richmond Times Dispatch.) THE PLANET BIG TIMBER time he would find a litter mate, one as loyal as he deserved. And why might not she, who had never loved him, whose marriage to him had been only a climbing out of the fire into the frying pan? So that with all her determination to make the most of her gift of song, so that she would never again be buffeted by material urgencies in a material world, Stella had nevertheless been listening with the ear of her mind, so to speak, for a word from Monohan to say that he understood and that all was well. Paradoxically, she had not expected to hear that word. Once in Seattle, away from it all, there slowly grew upon her the conviction that in Monohan's fine uneval and renunciation he had only followed the one she had given. In all else he had played his own hand. She couldn't forget Lilly Dale. If the motive behind that bloody culmination were thwarted love it was a thing to shrink from. It seemed to her now, forcing herself to reason with cold blooded logic, that Monohan desired her less than he hated Pyfe's possession of her; that she was merely an added factor in the breaking out of a struggle for mastery between two diverse and dominant men. Every sign and token went to show that the pot of hate had long been slimmering. She had only contributed to its hollow over "Oh, well," she sighed. "It's out of my hands altogether now. I'm sorry, but being sorry doesn't make any difference. I'm the least factor, it seems, in the whole muddle. A woman isn't much more than an incident in a man's life, after all." She dressed to go to the Charteris, for her day's work was about to begin. As so often happens in life's uneasy flow, periods of calms are succeeded by events in close sequence. Howard and his wife insisted that Stella join them at supper after the show. They were decent folk who accorded frank admiration to her voice and her personality. They had been kind to her in many little ways, and she was glad to accept. At 11 a taxi deposited them at the door of Wain's. The Seattle of yesterday needs no introduction to Wain's, and its counterpart can be found in any city, main seaport city. It is a place of subtle distinction, tucked away on one of the lower hill streets, where after theater parties and nighthawks with an eye for pretty women, an ear for soothing music and a taste for good food go when they have money to spend. Ensconced behind a potted palm, with a waiter taking Howard's order, Stella let her gaze travel over the diners. She brought up with a repressed start at a table but four removes from her own, her eyes resting upon the unmistakable profile of Walter Monohan. He was dining vis-à-vis with a young woman chiefly remarkable for a profusion of yellow hair and a blazing diamond in the lobe of each ear—a plump, blond, vivacious person of a type that Stella, even with her limited experience, found herself instantly classifying. A bottle of wine rested in an ice dish between them. Monohan was toying with the stem of a half emptied glass, smiling at his companion. The girl leaned toward him, speaking rapidly, pouting. Monohan nodded, drained his glass, signaled a waiter. When she got into an elaborate opera cloak and Monohan into his Inverness they went out, the plump, jeweled hand resting familiarly on Monohan's arm. Stella breathed a sigh of relief as they passed, looking straight ahead. She watched through the upper half of the cafe window and saw a machine draw against the curb, saw the bescarfed yellow head enter and Monohan's silk hat follow. Then she relaxed, but she had little appetite for her food. A hot wave of shamed disgust kept coming over her. She felt sick, physically revolted. Very likely Monohan had put her in that class in his secret thought. She was ghed when the evening ended and the Howards left her at her own doorstep. On the carpet where it had been thrust by the postman under the door, a white square caught her eye, and she picked it up before she switched on the light. And she got a queer little shock when the light fell on the envelope, for it was addressed in Jack Fyfe's angular handwriting. She tore it open. It was little enough in the way of a letter, a couple of lines scrawled across a sheet of note paper. Dear Gift-I was in Seattle a few days ago and heard you sing. You're so happy good luck rides with you. JACK Stella set down by the window. Outside the ever present Puget sound rain drove against wall and roof and sidewalk, gathered in wet, glistening pools in the street. Through that same window she had watched Jack Fyfe walk out of her life three months ago without a backward look, sturdy, silently, uncomplaining. He hadn't whined; he wasn't whining now, only flinging a cheerful word out of the blank spaces of his own life into the blank spaces of hers. Stella felt something warm and wet steal down her cheeks. She crumpled the letter with a sudden, spasmodic clutching of her hand. A lump rose chokingly in her throat. She stabbed at the light switch and threw herself on the bed, sobbing her heart's cry in the dusky quiet. And she could not have told why, except that she had been overcome by a miserably forlorn feeling. All the mental props she relied upon were knocked out from under her. Somehow those few scrawled words had flung swiftly before, like a picture on a screen, a vision of her baby toddling uncertainly across the porch or ice white bunga-low. And she could not bear to think of that. When the elm before her window broke into leaf and the sodden winter skies were transformed into a warm spring vista of blue Stella was singing a special engagement in a local vaudeville house that boasted a "big time" bill. She had stepped up. The slivery richness of her voice had carried her name already beyond local boundaries, as the singing master under whom she studied prophesied it would. In proof thereof she received during April a feminine committee of two from Vancouver bearing an offer of $300 for her appearance in a series of three concerts under the auspices of the Woman's Musical club, to be given in the ballroom of Vancouver's new million dollar hostelry, the Granada. The date was mid-July. She took the offer under advertisement, promising a decision in ten days. The money tempted her. That was her greatest need now, not for her daily bread, but for an accumulated fund that would enable her to reach New York and ultimately Europe, if that seemed the most direct route to her goal. She had no doubts about reaching it now. Confidence came to abide with her. She throw on work. And with increasing salary her fund grew. Coming from any other source, she would have accepted this further augmentation of it without hesitation, since for a comparative beginner it was a liberal offer. But Vancouver was Fyf's hometown. It had been hers. Many people knew her. The local papers would feature her. She did not know how Fyf would take it. She did not even know if there had been any open talk of their separation. Money, she felt, was a small thing beside opening old sores. For herself, she was tolerably indifferent to Vancouver's social estimate of her or her acts. Nevertheless so long as she bore Fyf's name she did not feel free to make herself a public figure there without his sanction. So she wrote to him in some detail concerning the offer and asked point blank if it mattered to him. His answer came with uncanny promptness, as if every mail connection had been made on the minute. He wrote: If it is to your advantage to sing here by all means accept. Why should it matter to me? I would even be glad to come and hear you sing if I could do so without you. I would not be gretta. As for the other consideration you mention, they are of no weight at all. I never wanted to keep you in a glass case. Even if all were well between us I wouldn't have any feeling about your singing in command public favor with your voice. It's a wonderful voice, too big and fine a thing to remain obscure. JACK. Stella sat thoughtfully gazing at the letter for a long time. "I wonder?" she said nloud, and the sound of her own voice galvanized her into action. She put on a coat and went out into the mellow spring sunshine and walked till the almess straying of her feet carried her to a little park that overlooked the far reach of the sound and gave westward on the snowy Olympics, thrusting hoary and aloof to a perfect sky, like their brother peaks that ringed Roaring lake. And all the time her mind kept turning on a question whose asking was rooted neither in fact nor necessity, an inquiry born of a sentiment she had never expected to feel. Should she go back to Jack Fyfe? She shook her head impatiently when she faced that squirrel. Why tread the same bitter road again? But she put that self interested phase of it aside and asked herself couldld if she could G. B. B. Stella Sat Thoughtfully Gazing at the Letter For a Long Time. go back and take up the old threads where they had been broken off and make life run smoothly along the old, quiet channels? She was as sure as she was sure of the breath she drew that Fyfe wanted her, that he longed for and would welcome her. But she was equally sure that the old illusions would never serve. She couldn't even make him happy, much less herself Monohan—well, Monohan was a dead issue. He had come to the Charteris to see her, all smiles and eagerness. She had been able to look at him and through him—and cut him dead—and do it without a single flutter of her heart. That brief and illuminating episode in Walin's had merely confirmed an impression that had slowly grown upon her, and her outburst of feeling that night had only been the overflowing of shamed anger at herself for letting his magnetic personality make so deep an impression on her that she could adapt to him that she cared. She felt THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA That she find belftled herself by that. But he was no longer a problem. She wondered now how he ever could have been. She recalled that once Jack Fyfe had solemly told her she would never sense life's real values while she nursed so many flusions. Monohan had been one of them. "But I wouldn't work," she whispered to herself, "a couldn't do it. He'd know I only did it because I was sorry, because I thought I should, because the old ties, and they seem so many and so strong in spite of everything, were harder to break than the new road is to follow alone. He'd resent anything like pity for his loneliness. And If Monohan has made any real trouble it began over me or at least it focused on me, and he might resent that. He's ten times a better man than I am a woman. He thinks about the other fellow's side of things. I'm just what he said about Charlie self-centered, a profound egoist. If I really and truly loved Jack Fyfe I'd be a jealous little fury if he so much as looked at another woman. But I don't, and I don't see why I don't. I want to be loved; I want to love. I've always wanted that so much that I'll never dare trust my instincts about it again. I wonder why people like me exist to go blundering about in the world playing havoc with themselves and everybody also?" Before she reached home that self sacrifiled mood had vanished in the face of sundry twinges of pride. Jack Fyfe hadn't asked her to come back; he never would ask her to come back. Of that she was quite sure. She knew the stony determination of him too well. Neither hope of heaven nor fear of hell would turn him aside when he had made a decision. If he ever had moments of irresolution he had successfully concealed any such weakness from those who knew him best. No one ever felt called upon to pity Jack Fyfe, and in those rocked rubbed qualities Stela had an illuminating flash, perhaps lay the secret of his failure ever to stfr in her that yearning tenderness which she knew herself to be capable of lavishing, which her nature impelled her to invish on some one. "Ah, well," she sighed when she came back to her rooms and put Fyfe's letter away in a drawer. "I wonder what Jack would say if he knew what I've been debating with myself this afternoon? I wonder if we were actually divorced and I'd made myself a reputation as a singer and we happened to meet quite casually some time, somewhere, just how we'd really feel about each other?" She was still musing on that in a detached, impersonal fashion, when she caught a car down to the theater for the matinee. TO BE CONTINUED. Conference Between Operators and Workers. Dictator Garfield Tells the Meeting He Counts on the Patriotism of Both Sides. The most important conference between capital and labor since the United States entered the world war opened Its sessions in Washington. In it are mine owners from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, and delegates from the United Mine Workers of America representing every basing soft coal field in the United States. A basing field is one that fixes the wage scales for a large or small district round about it and tied up with it through conditions of mining, railroad differentials, etc. The conference therefore represents in a large way all the soft coal production of the United States. It has one purpose, consideration of the mine workers' demands for increased wages. This demand will be presented to the operators. While it will not be made public until then, it is understood that these are the demands: An increase of ten cents a ton upon run of mine coal where men are paid by the ton. An increase of $1.90 per day on the pay of all mine workers who are paid by the day. This means a minimum wage of $5.50 a day. If these demands shall be granted the soft coal prices fixed by the government through Coal Director Harry A. Garfield cannot possibly be maintained. Director Garfield made no reference to these prices when he addressed the conference. "One duty above all others lies before you," he said. "It is that of continuous coal production. No matter how you may differ here or hereafter, your country needs coal above all other products at this time. The fate of the whole allied cause is dependent upon a steadily increasing output of all the war industries that are based upon the coal production of the United States. "I look upon all of you, operators and workers alike, as patrols. I see in you a fever eager to do operate in the winning of this war for world-wide democracy. It is up to you both equally to see to it that nothing shall be said or done which would in any way stop or lessen the output of this fuel necessity for our success." Director Garfield, Chairman Scott of the war production board, Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels are watching the deliberations of the conference with anxiety. They have been advised of the determination of the mine workers to THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO. 1 HAS A POWERFUL SINGLE SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A MOTOR GUARANTEED TO PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON ONE WINDING. THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE CUPS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN EXPENSIVE MACHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER. ALL METAL PARTS NICKEL. PLATED AND HIGHLY POLISHED. THE RICHMOND PLANET 311 N. 4th St., - - Richmond, Va. --- get a substantial increase in wages. They have also been told flatly by the operators that any increase in wages must be passed along to the consumers. The biggest consumer, directly an indirect today is the United States States If the miners get the increase they demand and the operators follow the plan to pass it along, the coal bill of the government and of the nation generally will be tremendously increased. EMBARGO ON MONEY $5100 Maximum That May Be Taken From Country. Federal reserve board officials under the president's proclamation restrict currency and gold exports, and announced that travelers leaving the United States would be permitted to carry with them a maximum of $500 in currency, $200 in silver and $200 in gold. "It will be the general policy of the board," the announcement read, "not to authorize the exportation of gold unless the shipment applied for is shown to be connected in a direct and definite way with a corresponding importation of consumption of merchandise for consumption in the United States. "Exportations of Canadian silver coin and currency will be approved without limitation." Small Fortune in Dye A barrel of German red dye hidden away in a stockroom of a Lincoln, N. H., paper company since its purchase three years ago for $89 has been sold to a New York concern for $5000, it became known The paper plant recently was sold and the new owners found the dye and put it on the market. Increase For Steel Workers. Fifteen thousand steel workers, employees of the Cambria Steel Company and the Lorain Steel company, at Johnstown, Pa., were notified that effective October 1 their wages would be increased 10 per cent. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADE PHIA--FLOUR -- Firm, Straight, $10.25@10.50; City Mills, $18@13.25; BIRY FLOUR-Quiet; per barrel, $9.75@17.55; WHEAT—Steady; No. 2 red, $2.26 CORN—Corn; No. 2 yellow, $2.22 @2.28; QUITS—Firm; No. 2 white, 66@ 66%c. POULTRY—Live steady; hens, 23% 27c; old rosters, 19@22c. Dressed steady; choice fowls, 31c; old roosters, 22c. 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War Credits Bill Signed The $11,000,000,000 war credits bill authorizing the second Liberty bon-fide issue, details of which will be an mounted by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, was signed by President Wilson. Enemy Trade Bill Passes. The conference report on the trading with the enemy bill adopted by the senate was adopted by the house without a roll call. It now goes to the president for signature. A. C. W. WE GUARANTEE FULL AND COMPLETE SATISFACTION Give us a trial order. $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons Woodland Park IS NOW OPEN FOR ENGAGEMENTS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNICS, ETC. PLENTY OF SHADE-FINE SPRING WATER. THE LAKE WILL BE OPEN TO BOATING. THESE GROUNDS ARE ADJACENT TO THE MAGNIFICENT WOODLAND CEMETERY GROUNDS, WHERE WIDE DRIVE-WAYS AND CONCRETE WALK-WAYS ARE A FEATURE. REST ROOMS FOR LADIES. LARGE PORCHES WITH HAMMOCKS, WHERE THE COOL AFTERNOON BREEZES CAN BE ENJOYED. GOOD ORDER GUARANTEED. TWO BLOCKS FROM THE HIGHLAND PARK STREET-CAR LINE. EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM CHURCHHILL John Mitchell, Jr., President D. P. Bragg, Secretary Call up the President at Randolph 2213, or Bragg Brothers & Company, 506 North Second Street. JUDGE HUNDLEY DECLINES TO MAKE STATEMENT. Farmville, Va., Septembr 22;— Judge George J. Hundley was seen tonight at his Farmville residence, and was asked for a statement concerning the published report that he had determined to issue rules against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader, and against William Lancaster, a Prince Edward County attorney, each to answer to charges of contempt of court. The Judge aid he did not care to make any statement for publication concerning the case, and that while he had great respect for those papers that had treated him fairly, among which wore The Times Dispatch, Evening Journal and the Lynchburg News, he had determined now "to have the question settle, if possible, as to how far the lie of a reckless newspaper extends in defaming the courts and their judges." From another and most trustworthy source it was learned that a special term of Charlotte Circuit Court has been called for next Wednesday, September 26, at which time rules will be served upon Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader; William Lancaster, of Farmville, and also upon the colored editor of the Richmond Planet, John Mitchell SEVEN --- GOVERNOR STUART EXPECTED AS WITNESS. These proceedings have grown out of comments made upon the trial of Aubrey Barrett, a Negro youth recently convicted and sentenced to death, and great interest centers upon the probable outcome of the alleged contempt trials. One of the witnesses to be summoned will be Governor Stuart, who will go to Charlotte to testify as to what passed between him and Judge Hundley and between the Governor and the sheriff before the trial of young Barrett. Governor Stuart will be in attendance at the trial next week, unless the Richmond parties will consent to his furnishing affidavits. The prosecution will be represented by United States District Attorney Richard Evelyn Byrd, of Richmond; Judge Asa D. Watkins, of Farmville and Thomas E. Watkins, of Charlotte. Judge Watkins was asked tonight for a statement concerning the charges and the rules which are to be made but declined to have anything to say to the newspapers touching the matter. Everything points to a lively time at old Charlotte Courthouse next Wednesday and those who attend the proceedings may look for an "old fashioned Virginia trial." (Richmond Times Dispatch.) SATURDAY OCT. --6 THE PANEER ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKEK VA., Sept. 30.—Mrs. L. A. Bartee, 225 Fifth avenue, N. W. and Mrs. Cassandra Wright, of Luck avenue, N. W. received a telegram that their aunt, Mrs. Lillie Bullocks, of Durham, N. C. was not expected to live. Mrs. Wright left the city Sunday evening to be at the bedside of her aunt. Mrs. Bartee was not well enough to go and her father, Prof. Traynham was much indisposed. Mrs. Bullock is reported as improving at this writing, which is a source of great pleasure to her many friends. Sunday, September 30, at eight o'clock. Rev. Jacqueline Strange, the senior pastor and ex-P. E. and member of the Virginia Annual Conference of the A. M. E. Church was in the city and accepted an invitation by Rev. George C. Taylor. D. D. to preach for him and his congregation and the friends and followers of the church. A large crowd was in attendance. Rev. Strange took for his text, Malachi, 3:11. "And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Host in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare them as a man spare his own son that serveth him." The aged prelate spoke of the subjects that would be able to abide the coming of our God and His Christ. They that hath clean hands in pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul, who nirr nor sworn deceitfully. The Rev. Strange gave a great impression. He reviewed his sixty years of conflict, stating that he had been kept by Divine influence and is yet able to speak thirty minutes to an audience, when about to turn his fourscore years. This section is delighted to have Rev. J. Strange in Roanoke and they gave him a collection of $12.00 in three minutes. Mrs. Carrie Rivans has been ill at her home on Tenth avenue N. W. for the past two weeks. She is reported much improved. The funeral of Mrs. Phoebe Barksdale, of Tenth avenue, N. W., who died September 28th, took place October 2 at 2:30 o'clock at the First Baptist Church, of which she was a faithful member and highly esteemed by all who knew her, for those high qualities that characterize true womanhood in the highest sense. Rev. R. R. Ricks, D. D. officiated in a most befitting cology of the deceased. Mr. W. F. Hughes, the polite funeral director of Galinsboro avenue had the funeral in charge. The Rev. Jacquelin Strange, superannuate of the A. M. E. Conference was in the South-western section of the mountains of Virginia, visiting Salem, Va., where he pastored in former years. He preached Wednesday night at Bethel A. M. E. Church to a very attentive audience from that memorable text found in St. Luke 19:10. "For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." The aged and honored prelate treated the subject with masterly care and ability to the help and edification of all. Rev. J. L. Jones, pastor, made mention of the wonderful service and labors rendered by the Rev. Jacquelin Strange. Rev. J. D. Walker and Miss Maggle M. Allen, of Brooklyn, N. Y. were married in Lynchburg, Va. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Haydon 405 Pine street, September 25, at two o'clock. They were united in the bond of matrimony by Rev. S. A. Garland D. D. At home, after October 26, 200 Third avenue, N. W., Roanoke. Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D. and many of his members visited Salem A. M. E. Church to assist the Rev. J. L. Jones, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church in a rally, where Rev. George C. Taylor delivered a very fine discourse. A collection of $10 was raised. Over $100 was raised during the day. Mt. Lebanon A. M. E. Church closed its annual rally Sunday, September 30, realizing the neat sum of $265.85. Mr. J. H. Hale, reporter. Mrs. Annie Carter, of Wytheville, Va. passed through the city and stopped over to attend services at Mt. Zlion A. M. E. Church and mother sister and many friends. She made a few new acquaintances. Mrs. Carter left for Baltimore, Md., where she will remain an indefinite portion. Miss Fredreka Davls. of Wytheville passed through the city Sunday night, enroute for Washington. Mr. Gibson, of Wytheville passed through the city Sunday, stopping over to services at Mt. Zlion A. M. E. Church, hearing the pioneer of the A. M. E. Church in Virginia, Rev. Jacquelin Strange, of Alexandria, Va. Miss Maggie Dehaven returned from Norfolk, where she enjoyed two weeks of real pleasure with Mrs. Sophia Powell, of Norfolk and her friends. Mrs. Ernest Mitchell, who has been in falling health for several months died at their home on Gainsboro avenue, Tuesday morning, October 2. Funeral not announced at time of this writing. Mrs. Sallie Perkins died Monday at her home on Sixth street and Fifth avenue, N. W. after several weeks illness. She leaves two daughters, a son and husband to mourn their loss. Mrs. Cooper, of Lynchburg avenue who was stricken with Paralysis some two weeks ago, is not much improved. Expastor, Rev. W. R. Brown, of First Baptist Church preached Sunday morning at eleven o'clock to an overwhelming audience at the First Baptist Church. The hearts of many of his friends were delighted to grasp his hand. The mother of Mr. George Lavender, who had a stroke several months ago remains quite indisposed. She is not much improved. Mrs. Belle Garrett, of New York City is visiting in the city. ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH NOTES. Rev. S. M. Beane, Pastor. Rev. W. W. Lucas, D. D., Secretary of the Epworth League M. E. Church lectured at St. Paul Sunday night, using as his subject, "The Black Man and His Ways." He preached at the evening service. His lecture and sermon were enjoyed by all. The Pastor preached Sunday morning to a large audience from the subject, "The Choice That Moses Made," using as a text, Hebrows 11:24-26. Three persons professed Christ and joined the Church. Sunday was the beginning of the "Chalm Rally," which will close Sunday, October 7. A hundred and fifty dollars were raised Sunday. Wednesday night, October 3, Miss Daisy McLean Bulkley, field agent of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, of the M. E. Church addressed a large and appreciative audience in reference to her work. The address was delivered by the Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, field agent of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension will preach at the eleven and eight o'clock services. Hear him. He will lecture Monday night at St. Paul, October 8, from the subject, "Climbing." Missca Estelle Dillon. Hilda and Josephine Bell, Eunice Cooper, Geneva Henderson, Lettia Moore, Theodosia Means, Daisy Pinkard, Sophronia Pittman and Mr. McKinley Reesby, Richard Henderson and Miss Dorothy Dugger left for Lynchburg where they will enter Virginia Theological Seminary and College. Mr. James Brown, Jr. returned to Virginia Theological Seminary and College to take the College Course. Miss Lillie M. M. Buffer, of Pulaski, was the guest of Mrs. Jones on Wells avenue, N. W., during the fair. Mr. George A. Taylor, of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Elenora Shlpp, of Hartford, Conn. attended the bedside and funeral of their sister, Miss Marquena Taylor, the beloved daughter of Rev. George C. Taylor, pastor of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Kate Carpenter is confined to her home 212 Third avenue, N. W. on account of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gibson, of Hartford, Conn, was in the city Sunday, enroute North. They had paid a visit to their home. Many of the students for Hartshorn College and one for Virginia Union University, left on the midnight train for Richmond, Va. Miss Clara Gill, Miss Lella Gill and Hampton Gill. Rev. J. J. May preached last Sunday at Maple Street Baptist Church. His subject was, "Christian Glory," Galatians 6:14. Mr. Lucian Field and Mr. Robert Wood have gone on a trip to Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Charlie Wright is at home on a visit from Pittsburgh. Miss Mittle Odey, of Norfolk, is visiting parents here. There were eleven candidates baptized at Mt. Morlah Sunday by Rev. W. T. Thompkins. There will be a Feast in the Wilderness at Reed Street Church three nights, beginning Wednesday, September 25. We are glad to announce that Mrs. Sallie Kasoy is out after several weeks illness. Oscar Ferguson had his arm broken by an automobile Friday. Mr. Alexander Robertson, 214 Ninth avenue, N. E., who left for Columbus, O. September 16, to visit his stop-daughter, Mrs. Geneva E. Taylor, returned September 20, having spent a few pleasant days in the Buckeye State. Mr. James Fuller, of Boston, Mass., was in the city last week visiting father, mother and sisters, Mr. and Mrs. Casper Fuller, of Ninth avenue, N. W. Mrs. Katie I. Calloway, of Columbus, O. is in the city visiting, her mother, Mrs. Mary A. Robertson. She is looking well and will spend the Winter. The Helping Hand Home Society had their regular business meeting at the residence of Mrs. Sadie Lash, Tenth avenue, N. E., Tuesday night, September 26, about 35 members being present. We had a lovely and interesting meeting. Six new members joined the club. The President who is to leave us for school October 2, gave an excellent recital and with much regret the club hates to give her up. We also had an earnest covenant meeting, in which each member expressed themselves according as the Spirit dictated to them. We then were served bountifully with ice cream and cake. We adjourned to meet again the second Tuesday in October, 1917 at the residence of Mrs. Minnie Johnson, Ninth avenue, N. E. Georgia A. Hairston, President; Mary Alice Roberts, Secretary. Troy, N. Y. Notes. Mr. Rockefeller Perry of Lawrenceville, Va. 1s visiting his sisters, Mrs Chas, Rivers, and Mrs. Wr. Lawyer of Troy N. Y. Mr. Perry is on his way home from Lake George, N. Y., where he spent the Summer. THE RICHMOND PLANET Circuit Court Judge Brings Contempt Charge Against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman. Circuit Court Judge Will Bring Con-Year Old Negro Without Jury or Counsel. Charges of contempt of court will be brought against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the News Leader; William A. Lancaster, a Farmville attorney, and John Mitchell, Jr., colored, editor and owner of the Richmond Planet, at a special term of the Circuit Court of Charlotte County which will be convened Wednesday morning by Judge George J. Hundley of Farmville. This action is an after math of the recent controversy which arose over the murder trial of Aubrey Barrett, the seventeen year old Negro boy under death sentence for his complicity in the killing of W. T. Roach, of Charlotte County. Wide interest was manifested last night in the trial of the three men, when it became known that among the witnesses who will be called to Charlotte Courthouse to testify in the case is Governor Henry C. Stuart. He is expected to testify as to what passed between him and Judge Hundley and between himself and Sheriff Pridy, of Charlotte County, before the trial of the boy, while there were threats of mob violence. It is probable however that the Governor may be allowed to submit affidavits covering his testimony. WANTS TO SETTLE QUESTION AS TO ATTACKS ON COURTS Judge Hundley who is in his eight leth year, last night declined at his home in Farmville to discuss the matter with a correspondent of The Times Dispatch. He said that while he had a great respect for the press, especially those papers that had treated him fairly, he had "determined now to have the question settled, if possible, as to how far the license of a rockless news paper extends in defaming the courts and their judges." News of Judge Hundley's determination to cite the three men for contempt because of their comments in connection with the trial of the Negro boy over which Judge Hundley presided, became public yesterday when Mr. Lancaster was approached in Farmville by former Judge Asa D. Watkins, acting Commonwealth's attorney, who inquired whether or not he and Dr. Freeman would appear in the court, without the issuance of a formal rule. This inquiry was made by Mr. Watkins, it was said, because it would be necessary for Judge Hundley to return to Charlotte County before he could issue the rule, since the law requires that such an order shall only be entered in the district in which the offense was committed. Had they accepted the informal service, Dr. Freeman and Mr. Lancaster would have been summoned yesterday to appear at Charlotte Courthouse. Their refusal now makes it necessary for Judge Hundley to return to Charlotte County. It is probable that the rules will not be issued until Wednesday at the opening of the special term of the court and the men directed to appear for trial at once. SPECIAL TERM. OF COURT CALLED FOR WEDNESDAY. That Judge Hundley has had the matter under consideration for some time, however, was evident in view of recent developments. Early in the week Governor Stuart designated Judge R. Carter Scott of Richmond to hold the regular term of the Circuit Court of Cumberland County which convenes Tuesday because Judge Hundley was otherwise engaged. The trial of these charges are the only matters so far as could be learned last night, that will be conferred at the special term of the court. The proceedings are said to have resulted from the editorial comment of Dr. Freeman and John Mitchell, in the controversy that followed the trial of the boy and his father, who was executed on August 30 for his part in the murder. Mr. Lancaster, who was counsel for the elder Barrett and who retired from the case of the boy, contributed several communications to the newspapers in the controversy which grew exceedingly warm near its close. It was made clear last night that both Dr. Freeman and Mr. Lancaster would warmly contest the charges, be lieving that their criticism was legal and proper. In event that they are convicted of the charges in the Circuit Court of Charlotte County, it was stated the casca will be appealed to the Supreme Court of Appeals, and, if necessary to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. WILL INSIST ON THE ISSUANCE OF WRIT Immediately after Mr. Lancaster was approached yesterday by the Commonwealth's attorney, he conferred over the long-distance telephone with Attorney Harry M. Smith, Jr., in this city, asking his advice in the matter. He later talked with Dr. Freeman, and they both determined the insis upon the issuance of a formal rule in full observance of the law. Neither will accept the service until the rule for contempt is formally issued. It was explained last night that neither Dr. Freeman nor Mr. Lancaster was aware of the character of the charges brought against them. The controversy continued over a period of about a week, it was said, during which Dr. Freeman wrote several editorials and Mr. Lancaster issued several statements. They have not been advised what were the passages in utterances, or the statements made to which exception is taken by Judge Hundley. The formal rule will state in what way or manner they have acted in contempt of the court, and a proper defense may then be outlined, it was explained. To accept service without the rule would be virtually appearing in court without defense and any number of atters could be brought up at the same hearing, should those first selected prove unsatisfactory to the prosecution. Mr. Smith has been requested to represent Mr. Lancaster. while Dr. Freeman will be accompany ed by counsel. PAPERS INTERESTED IN TRIAL OF BARRETT BOY The newspapers of the State became interested in the case of Aubrey Barrett an ignorant Negro boy not yet seventeen years of age, when State Senator Walter E. Addison, of Lynchburg, editor of the Lynchburg News, appealed to Governor Stuart for executive clemency in behalf of the boy. The case was then given wide publicity, and the Governor granted a thirty-day respite in order that he might look into the merits of the case. Since that time the state Supreme Court of Appeals has refused him on appeal be of an inadequate record of the trial, he will be executed September 30 unless a further respite is granted by the Governor. The Supreme Court, however, held that Judge Hundley was in error in his conclusion that the presiding judge did not have the same discretion given to juries he statute of substituting a prison sentence for execution in cases of this character Briefly, Albert and Aubrey Barrett were arrested, charged with the murder of W. T. Roach, a Charlotte County farmer, under circumstances that had provoked some apprehension of mob violence. Roach was said to have been missing wheat from a field and to have attempted to arrest the older Barrett. This attempt, made without a warrant, resulted in the boy going to the rescue of his father and in the fight that followed Roach was killed. Because of intense feeling a speedy trial was deemed advisable and a special term of the court was called. The elder Barrett was represented by Mr. Lancaster, who was called in the day of the trial. The Negro plead "not guilty," but was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to be executed. The boy was then placed on trial. He had previously plead "not guilty," but later personally changed this to "gulity" after his court sel had withdrawn from the case because of a disagreement over instruction to the jury in the trial of the father. Judge Hundley then dispensed with a jury, heard the evidence and fixed the penalty at death. He said in a published statement that the law was clear, and he had no alternative but to sentence the boy to death. SUPREME COURT SAYS BOY NOTED NO EXCEPTIONS The Supreme Court of Appeals in its opinion however stated that the court had been in error and that the boy could have been sentenced to prison because the boy had no counsel it was contended that his legal rights had not been properly safeguarded, as he noted no exceptions in which to base an appeal. It was around this point that the editorial comments of Dr. Freeman were entered, and to which exception is taken by Judge Hundley. It is not known what parts of Mr. Lancaster's statements the court believed to be in contempt. Mitchell's criticisms are said to have been severe. In the controversy there have been conflicting statements, but there is no doubt of the fact that the boy was tried without a jury, and that he was not represented by counsel. The Supreme Court said: "the record in this case contains none of the evidence and discloses nothing that took place at the trial except that the petitioner and Albert Barrett were jointly inducted, and upon arraignment pleaded not guilty and elected to be tried separately. 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 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 ... tending the entry of the plea of guilty, nor any objection or exception to the action of the trial court. (Ridgmond, Weiss.)" Richmond, Va., Evening Journal, Sept. 24, 1917. MANY ARE INTERESTED IN THE CONTEMPT CASE. Lawyers Point to Matter Which Went to the Supreme Court. Editor Was Sentenced to a Jail Term for Alleged Insulting Language. Lawyers are much interested today in the contempt proceedings pending against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman in connection with comment in the News Leader on the recent cases of the Barretts, of Charlotte County, convicted of the murder of W. T. Roach, a farmer of that county. Albert Barrett, one of the murderers, has all ready gone to the electric chair, and his son, Aubrey Barrett, is now awaiting the same fate in the state penitentiary. Dr. Freeman wrote several articles following the trial in which he expressed the belief that the boy had not been protected in all his rights. He had entered a plea of guilty, had no counsel, had been tried by the judge and the death sentence pronounced There is one case similar to that at bar, in opinion of lawyers of this city, that being the famous case of the Commonwealth against Adon Yoder. Yoder printed a publication in Lynchburg called "The Idea," in which he criticised the judge of the corporation court in connection with the issuance of liquor licenses especially to a man for a saloon on premises in which the judge was held to be interested. For that publication he was cited to appear for contempt. He asked for a trial by jury, which was denied, and the judge imposed a fine of $50 and fifteen days in jail. From this there was an appeal, Montague and Montague and Senator Aubrey I. Strode representing Yoder. The case was argued in June, 1007, is reported in 107 Virginia, page 823. The opinion in that case was written by Judge James Kolth, president of the supreme court. It reversed the decree of Judge Christian, Yoder going free. In the sylvanus of the case XELENTO Quinine Pomade Copyrighted JANNE RAND and MARGARET BERRY wrote us that they had hardly any hair, but after using Xelento you can see the results on their pictures. Kinks Hair cannot be made straight. 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"Nor is the failure to prove by that section for the summary punishment of such offenses so unreasonable nor does it so far abridge, diminish and impair the vigor and efficiency of the courts as to render the section unconstitutional." In other words, according to legal lights of the city, the criticism which appears to have concluded Judge George Hundley, one of the best known and oldest of the judges of the state, to take cognizance was not addressed to the court and was not in the presence of the court. Attorneys incline to the belief that for that reason the case of Dr. Freeman will be on all fours with that of Yoder, who demanded a jury trial, was denied fined and who won his case in the supreme court Dr. Freeman and others, including William A. Lancaster, of Farmville, and John Mitchell, editor of the Planet, a local colored publication, have been cited to appear next Wednesday in Charlotte county to answer to court and they will appear with counsel when they have been summoned by du process of law, attorney Harry Smith will assist in the defense. Richard E. Byrd may take part in the prosecution, it was said here today. (Richmond Evening Journal, South 24, 1917 Master Robert Lee Johnson departed this life Friday September 21, at 8:30 P. M. He had only been ill a short time. Robert was the youngest son of Dr. C]. H. Johnson, pastor of the Lee St. Baptist Church of this city. He was the pride of the home, always kind and good and always in his place at home, at church, sunny school and B. Y. P. U.. To know little Robert was to love him. He always carried a smile on his beautiful face for every one. Robert, thou wast fair and lovely, Thy life was sweet to all But thou hast gone from us We cannot hear you call. The remains were laid to rest Mon day September 24. A large collection of beautiful flowers marked the respect of many friends. Mr. Charles Johnson and brother, Morris came in from Chicago, Ill., for the funeral. Mrs. Branch and grand-daughter from Lynchburg, Va., were also present. Rev. Forest, ex-pastor of the Lee St. M. E. Church was shaking hands in the city yesterday. Rev. Hill is in the city. Mrs. Alma Burwell of Chicago, Ill., is visiting relatives in the city. Mrs. Bell Carter returned home from Washington, D. C. Freedman's Hospital, this week. Mrs. Emma Christian-arrived in the city very ill. An early recovery is hoped for. Dr. R. B. McArthur made a business trip to Washington, D. C., and also visited his home, Greensboro, N. C. He reports a grand time. The famous Negro Business League Glee Club gave one of it shet entertainments at Holston, Institute, Tenn. Friday night, Sept. 17, to a large audience. Every one was delighted to hear the club sing. 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RICHMOND Virginia Mrs. A. V. WHITE, 1609 Bange Ave. Asbury Pa. N. J. SATURDAY OCT. --6 ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKEK VA., Sept. 30.—Mrs. L. A. Bartee. 225 Fifth avenue, N. W. and Mrs. Cassandra Wright, of Luck avenue, N. W. received a telegram that their aunt, Mrs. Lillie Bullocks, of Durham, N. C. was not expected to live. Mrs. Wright left the city Sunday evening to be at the bedside of her aunt. Mrs. Bartee was not well enough to go and her father. Prof. Traynham was much indisposed. Mrs. Bullock is reported as improving at this writing, which is a source of great pleasure to her many friends. Sunday, September 30, at eight o'clock. Rev. Jacqueline Strange, the senior pastor and ex-P. E. and member of the Virginia Annual Conference of the A. M. E. Church was in the city and accepted an invitation by Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D. to preach for him and his congregation and the friends and followers of the church. A large crowd was in attendance. Rev. Strange took for his text, Malachi, 3:11, "And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Host in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare them as a man spare his own son that serveth him." The aged prelate spoke of the subjects that would be able to abide the coming of our God and His Christ. They that hath clean hands and pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul and not sworn deceitfully. The Rev. Strange a great impression. He reviewed his sixty years of conflict, stating that he had been kept by Divine influence and is yet able to speak thirty minutes to an audience, when about to turn his fourscore years. This section is delighted to have Rev. J. Strange in Roanoke and they gave him a collection of $12.00 in three minutes. Mrs. Carrie Rivans has been ill all her home on Tenth avenue, N. W., for the past two weeks. She is reported much improved. The funeral of Mrs. Phoebe Barksdale, of Tenth avenue, N. W., who died September 28th, took place October 2 at 2:30 o'clock at the First Baptist Church, of which she was a faithful member and highly esteemed by all who knew her, for those high qualities that characterize true womanhood in the highest sense. Rev. R. W. Ricks, D. D. affiliated in a most befitting ecology of the deceased, Mr. W. F. Hughes, the polite funeral director of Galnsboro avenue had the funeral in charge. The Rev. Jacquelin Strange, superannuate of the A. M. E. Conference was in the South-western section of the mountains of Virginia, visiting Salem, Va., where he pastored in former years. He preached Wednesday night at Bethel A. M. E. Church to a very attentive audience from that memorable text found in St. Luke 19:10. "For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." The aged and honored prelate treated the subject with masterly care and ability to the help and edification of all. Rev. J. L. Jones, pastor, made mention of the wonderful service and labors rendered by the Rev. Jacquelin Strange Rev. J. D. Walker and Miss Maggie M. Allen, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were married in Lynchburg, Va. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Hayden 405 Pine street, September 25, at two o'clock. They were united in the bond of matrimony by Rev. S. A. Garland D. D. At home, after October 26, 206 Third avenue, N. W., Roanoke. Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D. and many of his members visited Salem A. M. E. Church to assist the Rev. J. L. Jones, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church in a rally, where Rev. George C. Taylor delivered a very fine discourse. A collection of $10 was raised. Over $100 was raised during the day. Mt. Lobanon A. M. E. Church closed its annual rally Sunday, September 30, realizing the neat sum of $265.85. Mr. J. H. Hale, reporter. Mrs. Annie Carter, of Wytheville, Va. passed through the city and stopped over to attend services at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church and met her sister and many friends. She made a few new acquaintances. Mrs. Carter left Baltimore, Ml., where she will remain an Indefinite period. Miss Fredreka Davis, of Wytheville passed through the city Sunday night, enroute for Washington. Mr. Gibson, of Wytheville passed through the city Sunday, stopping over to services at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, hearing the pioneer of the A. M. E. Church in Virginia, Rev. Jacquelin Strange, of Alexandria, Va. Miss Maggie Dehaven returned from Norfolk, where she enjoyed two weeks of real pleasure with Mrs. Sophia Powell, of Norfolk and her friends. Mrs. Ernest Mitchell, who has been in falling health for several months died at their home on Gainsboro avenue, Tuesday morning, October 2. Funeral not announced at time of this writing. Mrs. Sallie Perkins died Monday at her home on Sixth street and Fifth avenue, N. W. after several weeks illness. She leaves two daughters, a son and husband to mourn their loss. Mrs. Cooper, of Lynchburg avenue who was stricken with Paralysis some two weeks ago, is not much improved Expastor, Rev. W. R. Brown, of First Baptist Church preached Sunday morning at eleven o'clock to an overwhelming audience at the First Baptist Church. The hearts of many of his friends were delighted to grasp his hand. The mother of Mr. George Lavender, who had a stroke several months ago remains quite indisposed. She is not much improved. Mrs. Belle Garrett, of New York City is visiting in the city. ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH NOTES. Rev. S. M. Beane, Pastor. Rev. W. W. Lucas, D. D. Secretary of the Epworth League M. E. Church lectured at St. Paul Sunday night, using as his subject, "The Black Man and His Ways." He preached at the evening service. His lecture and sermon were enjoyed by all. The Pasto preached Sunday morning to a large audience from the subject, "The Choice That Moses Made," using as a text, Hebrows 11:24-26. Three persons professed Christ and joined the Church. Sunday was the beginning of the "Chain Rally," which will close Sunday, October 7. A hundred and fifty dollars were raised Sunday. Wednesday night, October 3, Miss Daisy McLean Bulkley, field agent of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, of the M. E. Church addressed a large and appreciative audience in reference to her work. The address was with Dr. H. Sunday, October 7th, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, field agent of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension will preach at the eleven and eight o'clock services. Hear him. He will lecture Monday night at St. Paul, October 8, from the subject, "Climbing." Misses Estelle Dillon, Hilda and Josephine Bell, Eunice Cooper, Geneva Henderson, Lettia Moore, Theodosia Means, Daisy Pinkard, Sophronia Pittman and Mr. McKinley Reesby, Richard Henderson and Miss Derothy Dugger left for Lynchburg where they will enter Virginia Theological Seminary and College. Mr. James Brown, Jr. returned to Virginia Theological Seminary and College to take the College Course. Miss Lillie M. Buffer, of Pulaski, was the guest of Mrs. Jones on Wells avenue, N. W., during the fair. Mr. George A. Taylor, of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Elenora Shipp, of Hartford, Conn. attended the bedside and funeral of their sister, Mary Marquena Taylor, the beloved daughter of Rev. George C. Taylor, pastor of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Kate Carpenter is confined to her home 212 Third avenue, N. W. on account of Illness. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gibson, of Hartford, Conn. was in the city Sunday, enroute North. They had paid a visit to their home. Many of the students for Hartsborn College and one for Virginia Union University, left on the midnight train for Richmond, Va. Miss Clara Gill, Miss Lella Gill and Hampton Gill. Rev. J. J. Mayo preached last Sunday at Maple Street Baptist Church. His subject was, "Christian Glory," Galatians 6:14. Mr. Lucian Field and Mr. Robert Wood have gone on a trip to Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Charlie Wright is at home on a visit from Pittsburgh. Miss Mittle Odey, of Norfolk, is visiting parents here. There were eleven candidates baptized at Mt. Moriah Sunday by Rev. W. T. Thompkins. There will be a Feast in the Wilderness at Reed Street Church three nights, beginning Wednesday, September 25. We are glad to announce that Mrs. Sallie Kassoy is out after several weeks illness. Oscar Ferguson had his arm broken by an automobile Friday. Mr. Alexander Robertson, 214 Nith avenue, N. E., who left for Columbus, O. September 16, to visit his stop-daughter, Mrs. Geneva E. Taylor, returned September 20, having spent a few pleasant days in the Buckeye State. Mr. James Fuller, of Boston, Massa, was in the city last week visiting father, mother and sisters, Mr. and Mrs. Casper Fuller, of Ninth avenue, N. W. Mrs. Katie I. Calloway, of Columbus, O. is in the city visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary A. Robertson. She is looking well and will spend the Winter. The Helping Hand Home Society had their regular business meeting at the residence of Mrs. Sadie Lash, Tenth avenue, N. E., Tuesday night, September 26, about 35 members being present. We had a lovely and interesting meeting. Six new members joined the club. The President who is to leave us for school October 2, gave an excellent recital and with much regret the club hates to give her up. We also had an earnest covenant meeting, in which each member expressed themselves according as the Spirit dictated to them. We then were served bountifully with ice cream and cake. We adjourned to meet again the second Tuesday in October, 1917 at the residence of Mrs. Minnie Johnson, Ninth avenue, N. E. Georgia A. Hairston, President; Mary Alice Roberts, Secretary. Troy, N. Y. Notes. Mr. Rockefeller Perry of Lawrenceville, Va. is visiting his sisters, Mrs Chas, Rivers, and Mrs. Wr. Lawyer of Troy N. Y. Mr. Perry is on his way home from Lake George, N. Y., where he spent the Summer. THE RICHMOND PLANET Circuit Court Judge Brings Contempt Charge Against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman. Circuit Court Judge Will Bring Con Year Old Negro Without Jury or Counsel. Charges of contempt of court will be brought against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the News Leader; William A. Lancaster, a Farmville attorney, and John Mitchell, Jr., colored, editor and owner of the Richmond Planet, at a special term of the Circuit Court of Charlottie County which will be convened Wednesday morning by Judge George J. Hundley of Farmville. This action is an aftermath of the recent controversy which arose over the murder trial of Aubrey Barrett, the seventeen year old Negro boy under death sentence for his complicity in the killing of W. T. Roach, of Charlotte County. Wide interest was manifested last night in the trial of the three men, when it became known that among the witnesses who will be called to Charlotte Courthouse to testify in the case is Governor Henry C. Stuart. He is expected to testify as to what passed between him and Judge Hundley and between himself and Sheriff Pridy, of Charlotte County, before the trial of the boy, while there were threats of mob violence. It is probable however that the Governor may be allowed to submit affidavits covering his testimony. WANTS TO SETTLE QUESTION AS TO ATTACKS ON COURTS Judge Hundley who is in his eight leth year, last night declined at his home in Farmville to discuss the matter with a correspondent of The Times Dispatch.He said that while he had a great respect for the press, especially those papers that had treated him fairly, he had "determined now to have the question settled, if possible, as to how far the license of a reckless news paper extends in defaming the courts and their judgers." News of Judge Hundley's determination to cite the three men for contempt because of their comments in connection with the trial of the Negro boy over which Judge Hundley presided, became public yesterday when Mr. Lancaster was approached in Farmville by former Judge Asa D. Watkins, acting Commonwealth's attorney, who inquired whether or not he and Dr. Freeman would appear in the court, without the issuance of a formal rule. This inquiry was made by Mr. Watkins, it was said, because it would be necessary for Judge Hundley to return to Charlotte County before he could issue the rule, since the law requires that such an order shall only be entered in the district in which the offense was committed. Had they accepted the informal service, Dr. Freeman and Mr. Lancaster would have been summoned yesterday to appear at Charlotte Courthouse. Their refusal now makes it necessary for Judge Hundley to return to Charlotte County. It is probable that the rules will not be issued until Wednesday at the opening of the special term of the court and the men directed to appear for trial at once. SPECIAL TERM OF COURT CALLED FOR WEDNESDAY That Judge Hundley has had the matter under consideration for some time, however, was evident in view of recent developments. Early in the week Governor Stuart designated Judge R. Carter Scott of Richmond to hold the regular term of the Circuit Court of Cumberland County which convenes Tuesday because Judge Hundley was otherwise engaged. The trial of these charges are the only matters so far as could be learned last night, that will be conferred at the special term of the court. The proceedings are said to have resulted from the editorial comment of Dr. Freeman and John Mitchell, in the controversy that followed the trial of the boy and his father, who was executed on August 30 for his part in the murder. Mr. Lancaster, who was counsel for the elder Barrett and who retired from the case of the boy, contributed several communications to the newspapers in the controversy which grew exceedingly warm near its close. It was made clear last night that both Dr. Freeman and Mr. Lancaster would warmly contest the charges, believing that their criticism was legal and proper. In event that they are convicted of the charges in the Circuit Court of Charlotte County, it was stated the cases will be appealed to the Supreme Court of Appeals, and, if necessary to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. WILL INSIST ON THE ISSUANCE OF WRIT Immediately after Mr. Lancaster was approached yesterday by the Corp nonwealth's attorney, he conferred over the long-distance telephone with Attorney Harry M. Smith, Jr., in this city, asking his advice in the matter. He later talked with Dr. Fraeman, and they both determined to insist upon the issuance of a formal rule in full observance of the law. Neither will accept the service until the rule for contempt is formally issued. It was explained last night that neither Dr. Freeman nor Mr. Lancaster was aware of the character of the charges brought against them. The controversy continued over a period of about a week, it was said, during which Dr. Freeman wrote several editorials and Mr. Lancaster issued several statements. They have not been advised what were the passages in utterances, or the statements made to which exception is taken by Judge Hundley. The formal rule will state in what way or manner they have acted in contempt of the court, and a proper defense may then be outlined, it was explained. To accept service without the rule would be virtually appearing in court without defense and any number of atters could be brought up at the same hearing, should those first selected prove unsatisfactory to the prosecution. Mr. Smith has been requested to represent Mr. Lancaster. while Dr. Freeman will be accompanied by counsel. PAPERS INTERESTED IN TRIAL OF BARRETT BOY. The newspapers of the State became interested in the case of Aubrey Barrett an ignorant Negro boy not yet seventeen years of age. when State Senator Walter E. Addison, of Lynchburg, editor of the Lynchburg News, appealed to Governor Stuart for executive clemency in behalf of the boy. The case was then given wide publicity, and the Governor granted a thirty-day respite in order that he might look into the merits of the case. Since that time the state Supreme Court of Appeals has refused him on appeal because of an inadequate record of the trial, which will be executed September 30 unless a further respite is granted by the Governor. The Supreme Court, however, held that Judge Huntley was in error in his contention that the presiding judge did not have the same discretion given to juries by statute of substituting a prison sentence for execution in cases of this character. Briefly, Albert and Aubrey Barrett were arrested, charged with the murder of W. T. Roach, a Charlotte County farmer, under circumstances that had provoked some apprehension of mob violence. Roach was said to have been missing wheat from a field and to have attempted to arrest the elder Barrett. This attempt, made without a warrant, resulted in the boy going to the rescue of his father and in the fight that followed Roach was killed. Because of intense feeling a speedy trial was deemed advisable and a special term of the court was called. The elder Barreit was represented by Mr. Lancaster, who was called in the day of the trial. The Negro pleaded "not guilty," but was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to be executed. The boy was then placed on trial. He had previously pleaded "not guilty," but later personally changed this to "guilty" after his cousin sel had withdrawn from the case because of a disagreement over instruction to the jury in the trial of the father. Judge Hundley then dispensed with a jury, heard the evidence and fixed the penalty at death. He said in a published statement that the law was clear, and he had no alternative but to sentence the boy to die. SUPREME COURT SAYS BOY NOTED NO EXCEPTIONS The Supreme Court of Appeals in its opinion however stated that the court had been in error and that the boy could have been sentenced to prison because the boy had no counsel it was contended that his legal rights had not been properly safeguarded, as he noted no exceptions in which to base an appeal. It was around this point that the editorial comments of Dr. Preeman were entered, and to which exception is taken by Judge Hundley. It is not known what parts of Mr. Lancaster's statements the court believed to be in contempt. Mitchell's criticisms are said to have been severe. In the controversy there have been conflicting statements, but there is no doubt of the fact that the boy was tried without a jury, and that he was not represented by counsel. The Supreme Court said: "the record in this case contains none of the evidence and discloses nothing that took place at the trial except that the petitioner and Albert Barrett were jointly in detected, and upon arraignment pleaded not guilty and elected to be tried separately. 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 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 circumstance s tending the entry of the plea of guilty, nor any objection or exception to the action of the trial court. (Burdock, W. (Richmond, Va., Evening Journal, Sept. 24, 1917. MANY ARE INTERESTED IN THE CONTEMPT CASE. Lawyers Point to Matter Which Went to the Supreme Court. Editor Was Sentenced to a Jail Term for Alleged Insulting Language. Lawyers are much interested today in the contempt proceedings pending against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman in connection with comment in the News Leader on the recent cases of the Barretts, of Charlotte County, convicted of the murder of W. T. Roach, a farmer of that county. Albert Barrett, one of the murderers, has all ready gone to the electric chair, and his son, Aubrey Barrett, is now awaiting the same fate in the state penitentiary. Dr. Freeman wrote several articles following the trial in which he expressed the belief that the boy had not been protected in all his rights. He had entered a plea of guilty, had no counsel, had been tried by the judge and the death sentence present. There is one case similar to that at bar, in opinion of lawyers of this city, that being the famous case of the Commonwealth against Adon Yoder. Yoder printed a publication in Lynchburg called "The Idea," in which he criticised the judge of the corporation court in connection with the issuance of liquor licenses especial to a man for a saloon on premises in which the judge was held to be interested. For that publication he was cited to appear for contempt. He asked for a trial by jury, which was denied, and the judge imposed a fine of $50 and fifteen days in jail. From this there was an appeal, Montague and Montague and Senator Aubrey E. Strode representing Yodar The case was argued in June, 1907, is reported in 107 Virginia, page 823 The opinion in that case was written by Judge James Keith, president of the supreme court. It reversed the decree of Judge Christian, Yoder going free. In the syllabus of the case XELENTO Quinine Pomade Copyrighted JANE RAND and MARGARET BERRY wrote on thank you leaflet by the author, after using Xelento you can see the results on little pictures Kinky Hair cannot be made straight. You have to have hair before it can be straightened. Now this is a Hair Grower which feeds the scalp and roots of the hair and makes kinky, soft hair. It is also used to clamp clients dandruff and stops falling Hair at once. Pricio 25c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Write Per Particulars at One EXELENT MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. prepared by Judge Martin P. Burks, now a member of the court, the following appears: "Publication in a newspaper of insulting language concerning a judge with respect to any proceeding had in his court cannot be held to be insulting language addressed to the judge, and is not with in the classes of contempt enumerated in section 3768 of the code of 1904, for which summary punishment may be administered by a court' or judge. "Nor is the failure to prove by that section for the summary punishment of such offences so unreasonable nor does it so far abridge, diminish and impair the vigor and efficiency of the courts as to render the section unconstitutional." In other words, according to legal lights of the city, the criticism which appears to have concluded Judge George Hundley, one of the best known and oldest of the judges of the state, to take cognizance was not addressed to the court and was not in the presence of the court. Attorneys incline to the belief that for that reason the case of Dr. Freeman will be on all fours with that of Yoder, who demanded a jury trial, was denied fined and who won his case in the supreme court. Dr. Freeman and others, including William A. Lancaster, of Farmville, and John Mitchell, editor of the Planet, a local colored publication, have been cited to appear next Wednesday in Charlotte county to answer to court and they will appear with counsel when they have been summoned by due process of law. Attorney Harry Smith will assist in the defense. Richard E. Byrd may take part in the prosecution, it was said here today. (Richmond Evening Journal, Sept 24, 1917 Master Robert Lee Johnson departed this life Friday September 21, at 8:30 P. M. He had only been ill a short time. Robert was the youngest son of Dr. C]. H. Johnson, pastor of the Lee St. Baptist Church of this city. He was the pride of the home, always kind and good and always in his place at home, at church, Sunday school and B. Y. P. U.. To know little Robert was to love him. He always carried a smile on his beautiful face for every one. Robert, thou wast fair and lovely, Thy life was sweet to all But thou hast gone from us We cannot hear you call. The remains were laid to rest Monday September 24. A large collection of beautiful flowers marked the respect of many friends. Mr. Charles Johnson and brother, Morris came in from Chicago, Ill., for the funeral. Mrs. Branch and grand daughter from Lynchburg, Va., were also present. Rev. Forest, ex-pastor of the Lee St. M. E. Church was shaking hands in the city yesterday. Rev. Hill is in the city. Mrs. Alma Burwell of Chicago, Ill., is visiting relatives in the city. Mrs. Bell Carter returned home from Washington, D. C. Freedman's Hospital, this week. Mrs. Emma Christian arrived in the city very ill. An early recovery is hoped for. Dr. R. B. McArthur made a business trip to Washington, D. C., and also visited his home, Greensboro, N. C. He reports a grand time. The famous Negro Business League Glee Club gave one of it shet entertainments at Holston, Institute, Tenn., Friday night, Sept. 17, to a large audience. Every one was delighted to hear the club sing. Cake and cream was served after the singing. Hon. R. E. Clay the Negro Southland Orator, gave a splendid address which was received with heart applause. He spoke on the Negro's loyalty to His Country Mrs. A. M. Smith was at her best when she read to the party from Dun bar's poems. The fair is one of the great features of this week. C. B. B. FIRST LIEUTENANCY IS HIGHEST FOR COLORED OFFICERS. Reports to officers who will command the Negro regiment that will be trained at Camp Dodge, are that no commissions higher than first leutenants will be given Negroes training at Fort Des Molines. 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BAND DRAFT MEN PARADE—BIG MEETING AT 5TH STREET The Fifth Street Baptist Church was crowded last Monday night in the interest of the drafted colored men. Roscoe C. Mitchell presided. The opening hymn was lined by Rev. S. C. Burrell, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. The Scripture lesson was read by Rev. Dr. W. T. Hall, of Philadelphia, Pa. Prayer was offered by Rev. Jacob Turner. Rev. Dr. T. J. King, pastor of the church, delivered an able, logical, patriotic and impressive address. In response to his appeal, sixteen of the selectmen professed religion on the eye of their departure for the training camp. All were urged to carry their Bibles with them to camp. The next speaker was Editor John Mitchell, Jr., of The Planet. He was followed by Captain Edrop, Chaplain of the Forty-seventh New York regiment. Mr. W. A. Clarke, secretary of the local exemption board No. 5, was the next speaker, followed by Captain John C. Dabney, who was the last speaker. Splendid selections were rendered by the choir of the Fifth Street Baptist Church. Prof. Joseph Matthews sang a solo. At the close of the meeting a reception was given to the selected-drafted men in the lower auditorium of the church by committee of ladies led by Miss Mae P. Matchell and Mrs. Luoy conducted by General Secretary Scott C. Burrell. The colored select men of the various districts of Richmond paraded through the streets of Richmond last Monday night, headed by the crack Forty-seventh New York Regimental Band. Over 200 of the boys who are to answer the first call for Richmond's quota to the National Army, were out under command of Capt. John C. Dabney. The Pythian Cadets headed the line, under command of Capt. Carlton Johnson. Eureka Company No. 1, U. R. K. of P, commanded by Capt. George L. Branch led the line of registered men. Among the alds who had charge of the men were Maleo Ammuso, Capt. W. Jerome Davis, Capt. Loslo L. Green, Capt. Archer Ferris, Llout. Edward Stuetley and others. The citizens are very grateful to Colonel Jannicky, commanding officer of the Forty seventh for the services of their great regimental band. COL. HUNT RELIEVES BALLOU. General Takes Command of Brigade at Camp Dodge. Brig. Gen. Charles C. Ballou, who has been commanding officer at Fort Des Moines, since the Negro officers' training camp was begun there last June, was relieved yesterday by Lieut. Col. Henry J. Hunt, General Ballou immediately assumed his duties at Camp Dodge, where he was assigned by the war department when the comanders at the national army cantonments were a nounced. General Ballou was given leave by the war department to continue his work at Fort Des Moines until the work of the officers' school had been finished and the commissions awarded, but when it was decided to postponed the final examinations of the candidates until Oct. 15, he was ordered to Camp Dodge at once. Lieutenant Colonel Hunt, who will remain in command at Fort Des Moines until the training school is close recent'v has been instructor to the South Carolina National guard. --- THE EDUCATIONAL CONGRESS AT THIRD STREET BETHEL Monday night, October 8, at eight o'clock, Bishop J. Albert Johnson, D. D. will deliver one of his famous lectures. Tuesday 3:00 P. M. The Fifth Educational Congress of the Virginia A. M. E. Conference will be opened by Bishop Johnson. 8:00 P. M., our local educational program. Addresses on Education, Our Responsibility, and Preparedness by Mr. M. A. Norrglass, Mrs. Rosa B. Seldon and Prof. J. R. Mayes. Music by the Glee Club. Session of the Educational Congress will be continued throughout Wednesday. Wednesday night the Congress will close with addresses by Prof. Edwards, President of Kittrell College and Bishop Johnson. Rev. J. S. Hatcher will lecture on Thursday night on the subject, "How to Get Married and Stick." The public is invited to all the services. Rev. M. E. Davis, pastor. JUDGE HUNDLEY ISSUES RULE FOR CONTEMPT. Orders Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, Editor of Richmond, Va., News- Leader, Attorney W. L. Lancaster and Editor John Mitchell, Jr. to come to Charlotte C. H., Va., November 5th, 1917. A Remarkable Proceeding-All Parties to be Represented by Able Counsel. Judge George J, Hundley, presiding over the Circuit Court at Charlotte C. H., Wednesday September 26, 1917 issued a rule against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond Va., News Leader (white) Attorney W. L. Lancaster, (white) who represented Albert Barrett (colored) charged and convicted of the murder of W. T. Roach, (white) and John Mitchell, Jr., editor and owner of the Richmond Va., Planet, to appear before him, Nov. 5, 1917 to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court in making certain comments on the Barretts' cases. IN ATLANTIC CITY Editor John Mitchell, Jr., was at the time attending the session as a delegate to the American Bankers Atlantic City New Jersey ready to obey the order of the courts. Persons charged with contempt are cited to appear for the purpose of purging themselves of contempt or alleged contempt and the court is at liberty to reprimand or fine the person or persons cited to appear. If the case is flagrant the court may resort to extreme measures. The action of the tribunal is however subject to re view by the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. A FAR REACHING AUTHORITY. His Honor George J. Hundley is in his 80th year and resides in Farmville Va. He is citing two citizens of Richmond, Va., to appear before him for acts alleged to have been committed in Richmond, Va. It is different to see just how Editor Freeman can be adjudged in contempt of court when he was in Richmond and His Honor presided in Farmville, Va. The same thing applies to the Editor of the Planet. Albert Barrett colored was alleged by W. T. Roach (white) and a Mr. Collins to have taken from his farm a load of wheat and it is alleged that the wagon wheels were tracked to Barret's premises. SENT. FOR A WARRANT. When Barrett was charged with taking the wheat he offered to pay for it and to do what he could in order not to be arraigned in court. W. T. Roach would not consent to this and he sent Mr. Collins to get a warrant for Barrett, while he stood watch over Barrett. Argument being useless, Barrett started to run. He fall after going about 150 yards and Roach jumped on him. This took place on Barrett's premises. Roach was choking Barrett when Barrett called to his son Aubrey, a boy about 16 years of age or a few weeks over 17 years for help. THAT CHESNUT STICK Aubrey took a chestnut stick with a knot on it and went to the aid of his father. The blow was so severe that Roach's skull was fractured. The body was hidden and the father and son left the neighborhood. They were tried at Charlotte C. H., Va., in July and having elected to be tried separately, Attorney W. L. Lancaster (white) defended Albert Barrett. Mr. Lancaster ter aligae that the court refused to permit certain instructions in the case, and upon the conviction of Albert Barrett the father, refused to proceed further and withdrew from Aubrey Barrett's case. LEFT WITHOUT COUNSEL This left the boy without counsel. He was hewildered. Judge Hundley permitted him to change his plea from "Not guilty" to "gulity" and to throw himself upon the mercy of the court, thereby waving a trial by a jury. Judge Hundley declared him guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced him to be electrocuted. August 31, 1917. Attorney W. L. Lancaster, in his statement alleged that His Honor, Judge Hundley had declined to give to the jury all of the instructions asked for by him. He was un able to have the instructions appear RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1917. NO TIME TO LOSE. ON HIDDEN LET MY LIFE BE SQUEEZED OUT SHOOT NOW. LYNCH LAW GEOFFREY JOHNSON in the record. He had withdrawn from the boy's case because of his disgust and of a feeling that in the face of existing conditions he could do the boy no good. PRISONERS REMOVED. The prisoners were removed from Charlotte county to Richmond, Va., where they were held pending their removal to the deathhouse at the Virginia Penitentiary. It was then that the heart-broken wife and mother, Mrs. Mattie Barrett came to this city and approached Editor John Mitchell, Jr., with a plea for help. She was a stranger to him and no publication of the case had been made in the editorial columns of the Planet. He listened to her story and then informed her that his activities along these lines had ceased. His other duties and responsibilities had caused him to abandon active interest in criminal ONLY DON'T BE 50 SHOT LY-NICH LAW cases. He would advise her what to do and would place the columna of the Planet at her disposal. WENT FOR ASSISTANCE. He sent her to colored leaders here who could give her financial assistance after having made a contribution himself. Later he was visited by Attorney W. L. Lancaster, who sted the facts as they were afterwards published in the Planet. Attorney Lan caster made an application for a writ of error in both cases to four judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia all of which were refused. The facts in the case not having been fully presented, he published several letters in the daily papers. (Continued On Fourth Page.) AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT EDWARDS' ADDRESS Foreigners and Their Deposits—Secretary Harrison's Great Work. Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 26.—The afternoon session of the Savings Bank session was held in the other part of the palatial Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel and it was necessary to traverse the whole length of the Hotel to find Park Avenue Hall, which was the place of meeting. It could be easily reached through the TIME TO L LET MY LIFE SQUEEZED OUT NOW. Park Avenue entrance, which entrance was not known to the members of the Association. The session was called to order at 2:30 P. M., yesterday and President Geo. E. Edwards delivered one of the most interesting and practical addresses ever listened to by the Savings Bank Section. At its conclusion he was applauded. He stated that there was but one source to which the government can go "order to carry on the war and that was from the people. THE PEOPLE'S SAVING ABILITY The saving ability of the people of the country was 8000 million dollars and the government needed four sevenths of t.t.s amount to do what it wanted to do. He declared that mon- (Continued on the fourth page.) Home coming will be observed at the First Presbyterian Church, corner Monroe and Catherine streets on Sunday October 28th. All Presbyterians in Richmond and vicinity are invited to come home. Special services all day. Rev. A. A. Hector, pastor. WASHINGTON-JACKSON Miss Bertha O. Jackson and Mr. Edward Washington, Jr., were married at the home of Mrs. Annie Green, Engle wood, N. J., Saturday afternoon, Sept ember 29, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Washington will receive their friends at their home 724 N. 5th street, Richmond, Va., Thursday evening, October 11, from 8:30 to 10:30 P. M. OSE. CEDDEN DONNISON Gone, But Not Forgotten. In sad, but loving remembrance of my dear mother, Martha Smith, who passed away one year ago today, October 6, 1916: It was so hard to part with you, Oh, so hard to see you die, But I hope some day to meet you, Some sweet day bye and bye. Friends may think I soon forget thee And my wounded heart is healed, But they little know the sorrow That's within my heart concealed. ELLEN WILLIAMS. REV. PERCETTI PREACHES HERE Speaks to Large Audience at the Second Baptist Church. Rev. Ezala M. Percetti is now in this city on his way to the Virginia Theological Seminary and College at Lynchburg, Va. He is a native of Jerusalem, Palestine. He preached at the Second Baptist Church, Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., pastor. His subject: Sunday morning was, "How Important it is to Know God." His subject, Sunday night was, "How To Be Wise of the Things of Life." He also lectured at 3:30 tor r. V. R. V. Peyton, D. D., who is the pastor of the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church and he had an overwhelming audience at which time the silver offering was over twenty seven dollars. He addressed the B. Y. P. U. of First Baptist Church, Rev. W. T. Johnson D. D., pastor. He has been engaged all of this week and will leave today for school. Rev Percetti speaks nine different languages. He lectured at the 31st. St. Baptist Church, Rev. R. C. Williams paster Tuesday night, Oct. 2, and our good people gave him $5.00 to help him enter school. REUNION. The reunion at the Ziontown Baptist S. S., Rio Vista. W., took place Sept. 23, 1017 with J. A. Carter as master of ceramidos. Sang hymn 264 Scripture was read by Brother J. M. Norrell; prayer by Brother W. H. Johnson; welcome address by Brother P. E. Norrell; addresses: Brother M. H. Dandridge, Prof. J. M. Botts, Bro. Paul Carrington, Rev. L. Ross, Jr., Bro. F. M. Fountain, which we all enjoyed. A collection of $1.23 was raised. Superintendent, J. A. CARTER, Secretary, M. Finner. A Note of Thanks The Milk Station, 15 W. Clay St. extends thanks to Mrs. Ora B. Stokes and Dr. R. V. Peyton for their efforts and cooperation in raising funds for the Milk Station. The after collection of the Ebenezer Baptist Church was $23.00. Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church $9.35. Collections in other churches for the same purpose will be taken later. Thanks also extended to Mr. W. A. Jordan for his cooperation at the Mass Meeting. DOCTOR WANTED We are in need of a good Doctor. A good opening for the right party. Not a Doctor in 15 miles of us. R. F. BUNDAY Colored Girls have a beautiful complexion by using our MYREE BRO. FACE POWDER nothing like it, satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Send .$25 quick for large box as price will advance after 30 days. Sunday School Union at Zion. The Richmond District Sunday School Union of the Va. Baptist State S. S. Convention will hold a union meeting, Sundya, October 7, at the Zion Baptist Church, South Richmond. An excellent program has been prepared. Mr. E. J. Cunningham is president and Mr. James H. Walls, secretary. Mrs. Mary Funn, wife of Mr. S. F. Funn, of 1525 Ashland street, has returned home after having visited her three sisters in New Haven, Conn. for two weeks or more, Mrs. Ellen Smith, Mrs. Rosa B. Andrews and Mrs. Carrie Raine. PRICE, FIVE CENTS STARTLING REVELATION IN BAPTIST TANGLE Dr. Moses Turns on More Light from Boyd and Galvin Letters. Dr. Boyd Admits to Dr. Galvin Facts Which He Denies in Court. The Letters Will be Submitted, as Evidence Against Dr. Boyd in The Present Suit to Get The People's Publishing Plant From Boyd and His Nine Associated Usurpers. (By W. H. Moses, D. D. Phila. Pa.) (1) For a number of years I have been in the forefront with those who have contended for reforms and efficiency in The National Baptist Convention and Its Boards. (a) Aside from scores of articles in the Press of the country for more than ten years, I published a book on the "Taproot of The Issue" before The National Baptist Convention compris two lengthy articles of the records of Dr. E. C. Morris and Dr. R. M. Boyd; in which I severely criticised both of them. (b) In one I showed Seven Reasons why The National Baptist Convention should elect a new president at Philadelphia, in 1913 and Seven Reasons why the charters of the Boards should (Continued on Ninth Reason.) Rev. George W. Wyatt Passes Away. Died September 29. 1917 at 12.10 o'clock Rev. George W. Wyatt, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, for thirty old years. This sad news came to *miss Florence Porvall*, 21 W. Jackson St., who had been making her home in Cincinnati, for four years. She was a member of the Antioch Baptist Church WARE—Sacred to the memory of our loving mother, Mrs. Lucinda Ware, who departed this life one year ago today, October 3, 1916: She suffered patiently and long, Her light was bright, her faith was strong, The peace of Jesus filled her breast. And in His arms she sank to rest. —Her Devoted Children Mr. Hickman Passes Away. Mr. Joseph Hickman, a well known citizen of South Richmond, died at his residence in east 15th street last Tuesday night about 10:45 o'clock. Mr. Hickman had been a long sufferer, but he bore it all with Christian fortitude and patience. His funeral took place last Friday evening at 3:30 o'clock from the First Baptist Church of which Dr. A. Binga is pastor. Rov. R. B. Hardy Gone. Rev. R. B. Hardy, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charlottesville, Va., died last Wednesday. His remains were brought to this city yesterday and lay in state at the Fourth Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held this morning. —Mrs. Nannie C. Johnson, who has been indisposed is much improved. Mrs. Maggie Brown of 5 E. 19th St., southside, returned to the city last Wednesday after spending the summer in Palling, N. Y. She is looking well. Messrs. Robert E. Harris and Madison Jones left the city this week for Schenectady, N. Y. Mr. R. B. Cabell has been indisposed at his home, 914 N. Sixth street. He is better at this writing. Miss Karolyn Carter, of North Fifth street, is much improved over her condition of the past week. —Rev. Wm. Thomas pastor of First Union Baptist Church spent quite an enjoyable time on his vacation, visiting Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. He returned last Sunday. Elder J. T. Mann, of 1233 N. 17th St., pastor of the United Pentecostal Church, Hanover, Co., Va., left Oct. 4, 1917 to attend the United Pentecostal Convention, which convened in Buffalo, N. Y. He was accompanied by his wife. They will also visit Niagara Falls, and perhaps some other points in Canada before return ing home. TWO RESCUET SATURDAY.....OCTOBER 6. 1917 GERMANY ABUSED U.S. PROTECTION Secreted Powerful Explosives and Deadly Microbes in Bucharest Legation, Secretary Reveals in New Disclosures. How Germany "shamefully abused and exploited" protection of the United States by secreting in the German legation at Bucharest, after the American government had taken charge of German's affairs at the Rumanian capital quantities of powerful explosives for bomb plots and deadly microbes, with instructions for their use in destroying horses and cattle, was revealed by Secretary Lansing. This story is told in a report to the state department from William Whiting Andrews, secretary of the legation at Bucharest, and a letter from foreign Minister Porumbaru, of Rumania. Parcels and boxes taken into the German consulate at Bucharest with display of great precaution aroused the suspicions of the Rumanian government. On August 27, 1916, the evening prior to the date of Rumania's declaration of war, some of the cases were taken to the German legation, located in a different building from the consulate. Convinced that the boxes were not taken away from the legation by the German diplomatic mission on its departure from Bucharest, the Rumanian authorities later ordered the police to find and examine their contents. The police communicated with American Minister Vopka, then in charge of German interests, who reluctantly assigned Secretary Andrews to observe the search. The boxes were found buried in the garden of the German legation. "Upon my return from the examination which resumed in the discovery of the explosives and of the box of microbes, both of which the legation servants admitted having placed in the garden, the former confidential agent of the German minister, Dr. Bernhardt, who had been left with the legation at the German minister's request to assist in the care of German intorests, admitted his knowledge of the explosives placed in the garden; told me that more were in the garden than had been found; that a still larger quantity had been buried in the house of the legation, and that still worse things than this box of microbes were contained in the legation, and insinuated that they would have been found even in the cabinets of dossiers which I had sealed. "Dr. Bernhardt also stated that all these objects had been brought to the German legation after our legation has accepted the protection of German interests, which agreed with the statement of the servants. A similar confession was made to the minister by this man. "The protection of the United States was in this manner shamefully abused and exploited. In this instance, at least, the German government cannot have recourse to its usual system of denial." Fifty-one boxes were taken from the ground in the garden. Fifty of them contained each a cartridge filled with trinitrotoluene saturated with mononitrotoluene, among the most powerful explosives known, one-fifth of each one being sufficient to tear up a railroad track. In the other box were bottles of liquid found to be cultivations of the microbes of anthrax and glanders. It bore a seal showing it came from the German consulate at Kronstadt, Hungary, and inside was found a typwritten note in German, saying: "Enclosed four phials for horses and four for cattle. To be employed as formerly arranged. Each phial is sufficient for 200 head. To be introduced, if possible, directly into the animals' throats; if not into their fodder. Please make a little report on the success obtained there; in case of good results the presence of Mr. Kostoff for one day here would be desirable." Gets 16 Years For Killing Child, William Shannon, the twenty-one-year-old youth who on June 24, shot and killed Leonore Saylor, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Saylor, at Sandy Ridge, went into court at Bellefonte, Pa., and entered a plea of murder of the second degree and was then sentenced by Judge Henry C. Quigley to sixteen years in the western penitentiary. Shannon had quarreled with Mrs. Terry Meese and drew his revolver to shoot her, but shot the child which she was holding in her arms. Steel Wages Up 10 Per Cent. B. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, has issued the following statement: "It has been decided to increase by about 10 per cent the wage rates of the workmen of our subsidiary companies, to take effect October 1, 2017." The SON of TARZAN Our New Serial Is a Treat In the Realm of Adventure BETTER THAN "Tarzan of the Apes" Jack Clayton, the Ape Man's Son, Feels the Call of the Wild and Flees to Africa With AKUT, THE GRAY APE There the Boy Learns From Akut the Life of the Jungle; There He Meets Meriem, the Captive Girl, and There the Trio Have Many Strange and Thrilling Experiences Among Wild Beasts and Savage Peoples. This Great Story Will Appear Soon Watch For It? THE SON of TARZAN A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. Rumania's army is active on the Moldavian front and has won another success. Petrograd reports the occupation by Rumanian troops of a Teutonic position on a height near Grozechtl. Reports from the British front in Flanders continue to mention only raids and artillery and airplane activities. Notwithstanding this, the British casualty lists disclose there has been fighting. Casualties on all fronts reported during the week totaled more than 27,000. Point is given by this to recent reports of correspondents that despite the laconic official announcements the British activities are by no means as unimportant as they might seem, and that all arms of the British service are being constantly employed in the process of wearing down the German resistance. THURSDAY Early Thursday the British infantry went "over the top" on a wide front east of Ypres, and the Flanders offensive was on again. The rush evidently was successful at the outset. The capture of positions of value were reported by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Halg. The renewal of the offensive came after a pause in which intensive preparatory work had been carried on unceasingly. Early reports did not outline definitively the extent of the front. Berlin reported the drumfire to be pounding the line from Houtholst wood, south of Dixmude, to the river Lys, a distance of about fifteen miles. This would indicate that the main force of the drive was directed toward Roulers and Courtral, with the probable object of driving a wedge further into the German abandonment of the Belgian coast with its valuable submarine and aerial bases. From the French front only artillery activity is reported. FRIDAY. Friday found the British in Flanders holding all the valuable ground they gained in their attack of the day previous. They has surged forward on an eight-mile front on both sides of the Ypres-Menin road, penetrating the German lines more than a mile in places and capturing prisoners in excess of 2000. All reports emphasize the completeness of the success. They hold Veldhoek, Zevenkote and numerous strategically important farms and wooded tracks which had been heavily fortified by the Germans. Later the Germans bogan to counter attack, but every thrust was effectively dealt with by the British. Leond says. SATURDAY In the midst of Russia's internal troubles has come another German stroke on the Russian northern front, resulting in the capture of the bridgehead and town of Jacobstadt, on the Dvina, and the enforced retirement of the Russians in this region to the eastern bank of the river. Loath to give up the valuable ridges the British wrested from them on Thursday, the Germans continue to launch desperate counter attacks from their battered Flanders line and to THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA combat with determination every effort of Field Marshal Halg's forces to improve their positions. This fighting has been very costly to the Germans in casualties, and the London official statement lays stress on the exceedingly severe character of their losses. The German /command seems particularly reluctant to surrender the slight elevation west of Ghelvelt, close to the Ypres-Menlin road. Fierce fighting developed there Saturday, the engagement centering about the position known as Tower Hamlets. SUNDAY. In none of the battle areas of Europe has there been any marked activity in the last twenty-four hours. A momentary hull appears to have settled upon the fighting operations in Flanders, on the Alsine and at Verdun, in the region and along the Isonzo. Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, finding his efforts to dislodge the British from their recent gains in the Ypres salient ineffectual, has ceased his infantry attacks and resorted to artillery. The British are resting after their effort of Thursday, having gained all but a few minor posts of the objectives desired and having taken 3243 prisoners, but their big guns still hammer the German positions. Having captured the Jacobstadt bridgehead, south of Riga, and forced the Russians to retire to the right bank of the Dvina for some distance north and south of the bridgehead, the Germans have halted their advance here. MONDAY. Heavy cannonading was again in progress on the Flanders front northeast of Vpries, but the infantry had relief from the recent hard fighting. The last German reaction was not encouraging enough apparently, to grant a speedy repetition, as Field Marshal Sir Douglas Halg in his despatches reported that when they assaulted the British lines northeast of Langermark they not only were repulsed but lost ground in a counter drive. Signs of possibly important activity impending are appearing in other sections of the British front, notably in the Arras region near the Scarpe, and in the vicinity of Lens which city is still being closely pressed by the Canadians. To Examine All Eligibles To stabilize conditions, all of the 10,000,000 registered men in the United States will proceed for examination for the national army at once. Secretary of War Baker made this announcement. Orders to this effect will be issued in a few days. Drowns Child to Spite Parents. Confessing she drowned little Mary Rose, eight years old, to spite her parents, Mrs. Cattino, the child's nurse bogged the police to let her follow her victim to death in the Passaic river at Paterson, N. J. The nurse was arrested when she was seen wading in the river, waving her arms and crying, she confessed and said she wanted to commit suicide. The child's body was recovered from the water. "I had the baby out for a walk." Mrs. Cattino told detectives. "When we got to the river I told her I was going to kill both of us. She struggled and cried, but I held her head under water until she stopped, then I lot her float away on the current." PETER Major General Tasker H. Bliss was named chief of staff of the army, to succeed Major General Hugh L. Scott, who retires from office. Major General Causer Howard Bliss was born in Lowlsburg, Pa., December 31, 1853, and graduated at West Point in 1875. He entered the service as an artilleryman. He was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers in the Spanish war, and has served in Cuba and the Philippines. He held positions in Cuba during the time the United States had charge of that island, and, in 1912, was appointed major general to succeed Major General Frederick D. Grant. He was made a member of the general staff in 1915. Quebec Bridge Completed. The general span of the Quebec cantilever bridge was successfully bolted into place. It links together the arms of the largest bridge of its kind in the world. The hoisting operation began Monday morning. The span, which weighs 5000 tons, was lifted by hydraulic jacks a distance of 150 feet from pontoons on the St. Lawrence river. The completion of the bridge marks the end of the most stupendous undertaking of its kind in history. In 1907, when the first attempt to build the bridge was under way, girders of one of the cantilever arms buckled, dropping bridge and workmen into the St. Lawrence. More than seventy dives were lost. In September, 1916, another accident occurred. The cannibal arm had been completed, and the central span was floated to the center of the river. Hardly had the work of lifting the gigantic structure begun, when an iron rod beak which plunged the span into 200 feet of water. Eleven men lost their lives. The open raised is the largest in the world. WANTED We want active agents in Lynchburg, Warrenton, Suffolk, Petersburg Williamsburg, Lexington, Hampton and Phoobus. GOOD PROPOSITION—SEND $1.00 for Big $1.75 Package of Saline Pain Cure and become a regular agent. Easy Soller. Saline Mfg. Co., 912 N. 1st, Richmond, Va. THE PLANET Umbrella Coupons ' KINKY HAIR MADE STRAIGHT Fluffy---Long---Silky -By- Using Herolin The new discovery that causes new hair to grow all the way, so you make all your nappy, coarse, kinky hair, soft, silky, long hair, straight so you can do it up any style. Lengths your hair 5 to 15 inches. 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DECARROLL, an old experienced hair dressee and Beauty Culture Brill will teach you the French and American System in her Blue Book. This course for a limited time has been reduced to $2 so each girl can learn the system DIPLOMA WARDED. SEND MONEY ORDER to the IDEAL COMPANY, Box 70, Station G, New York City. Howard University STEPHEN M, NEWMAN, A M., D: D: President COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES A. B. and B. S. Courses TEACHERS COLLEGE A. B. & B. S. Courses in Education SCHOOL, OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES B. S. Courses in Engineering, Home Economics, Manual Arts CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Mus. B. Courses ACADEMY Two Preparatory Courses: Classical Scientific COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Secretarial Course Accounting Course General Course LIBRARY TRAINING CLASS PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL, OF THEOLOGY B. D. Courses Diploma Course SCHOOL OF MEDICINE M. D. Courses in Medicine D. D. S. Courses in Dentistry Phar. D. Courses in Pharmacy SCHOOL, OF LAW LL. B. Courses For catalogue, address HOWARD UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON, D. C. FREE STYLE BOOK --- HAIR To Colored Women We are the largest manufacturer of Colored Women's Hair. Our latest book showing new styles in hair dressing sent free. Every colored wom- man should have one. We will thus sands our hair and toilet articles. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. We make the best solid Brass STRAIGHT- ENING combs, with extra heavy, fully guaranteed. With each combo we FREE. Send money order or stamps. MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFACTORY. 89c. postpaid. POSTPAID 89c Hair nets, brushes, combs and toilet articles manufacturers' prices. Send two-cent stamp. Agent Wanted. Address as follows: HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY. 181-187 Park Hair New York City. THE EXCELSIOR SCALP FOOD Office, Room 405, Mechanics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Residence, 610 N. First St. Shop in Rear. Phone, Randolph 2166 Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Kind of Architecture. Job Work A Specialty. FIRST CLASS LIVERY. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE, RANDOLPH 2073. ALL NIGHT AND SUNDAY, CALL RANDOLPH 2703. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA COLORED PEOPLE'S HAIR ```markdown ``` Natural Front Part-Covers Entire Head Latest styles of Creole Wine, Flat, Transformations, U.S. Wines, Straightening Connections. Send Sez to our new catalogue. This line. Send Sez to our new catalogue. No Old Reliable Mimo, BAUM'S MAIN STREET KOLUMN 498 EIGHT AVE. NEW YORK CITY HIGGINS HAIR VIGOR GREW THIS GIRLS HAIR Colored Girls, don't be fooled any longer, but get our Hair and Scalp Treatment and have as beautiful Hair as this girl. We guarantee our Process or refund your money. Send 75 Cents FOR MONTHLY TREATMENT 25cts, large sample and a valuable treatise on growing the Hair. APEX MFG. CO. RICHMOND, VA. ALPHEUS SCOTT FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Office, 3006 P Street, Phone, Mad. 2337—Residence, 1$16 St. James Street, Phone Madison 6819 Paraphernalla, N. Bast. 1000 MILF. Children and in attendance at Funerals. THE EXCELSIO Mrs. W. H. Callaway, President Excelstor Mfg. Co., Excelstor System of Hair Culture. Mrs. W. H. Callaway, President Excelor Mfg. Co., Excelor System of Hair Culture. D. J. FARRAR, Co. Office, Room 405, Mechanics Residence, 610 N. First St.—Shop Special Attention Paid to the T of Any Kind of Architectu ROBERT C. SCOTT FIRST CLASS LIVERY. TELEPHONE, RANDO AND SUNDAY, CAL RICHMOND IT REALLY MOTHER'S LOVE "IN BAD." The ambitious youngster acquired a nice, up-to-the-minute bicycle just as sudden as if it had dropped off Kris Krinkle's Christmas tree, and he at once became the "king-pin" of the neighborhood. All of the kids in the neighborhood began to honor him and beg for rides. His mother was so proud of him that she forgot to ask him how he managed to secure such a luxury without the use of good old U. S. A. coinage. Nothing but smiles came in the direction of this ambitious youth—rather, smiles came for awhile, but they were soon followed by a police- FEMALE EMBALMER MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alpheus Scott. Madame Scott claims the honor of being the only Negro woman in the State of Virginia—holding a State license to practice Embalming, and is indeed, one of the few women in the United States embalming and conducting funerals. She ranks with the best in her profession. She is prominent in fraternal organizations, namely, Courts of Calanthe, I. O. of St. Luke, I. O. of Good Samaritans, Household of Ruth, Tents, Sons and Daughters of Richmond, Shepherds of Bethlehem and Ideal Benefit Society. Your patronage and influence will be greatly appreciated. Please remember that she is always at your service. Reliable service at Moderate Rates. OFFICE 3006 P Street, Phone, Mad. 2337 RESIDENCE 1015 St. James St., Madison 6619 HAVE YOUR HARNESS REPAIRED Roane and Holmes Harness Company Phono, Mad. 3085. We make and repair anything in Harness line, Suit-cases, Leathor Bags Automobile Cushions, etc. We carry a full line of Harness, Whips, Robos, Bits, Pads, Brushes, Combs, Harness Dressing, Salves, Nets, Oils, Haltons, Saddles, Hardware, etc. We make Specialty of Hand-made Harness. Our motto is to SATISFY YOU. Your patronage will be appreciated. Stop in and let us serve you. All work guaranteed. S. C. Waldron PAPER HANGING WALL PAINTING AND ROOM MOULDING RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Unexcelled for its purity and excellence. It cures dandruff and gives new life to the hair. Price only 50 cents per box. Other Excelior preparations are: Hair Gloss & Temple Food, each 856 per box. Tetter Salve & Medicated Shampoo 500 each per box. Excelior Special Shampoo Food for aggravated cases of baldness of temples, of long standing, per box, 750. Once tried, these preparations are always used. Be Our Agent. Learn the Excelior System of Hair Culture, thus double your earning capacity, and handle our goods more successfully. Terms reasonable. Instruction thorough. Diploma given on completion of Course. 1000 more agents wanted in every city and village. Commission liberal. Write for Agents Price List. Goods to any address in United States on receipt of price. Trial Treatment, $1.60 postpaid. Foreign orders, $2.25. Orders receive prompt attention. EXCELSIOR HAIR PREPARATIONS are made only by—THE EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO 265 S. Blant. 86 NUFACTURING CO Bluefield, W. Va. Contractor & Builder Mics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Shop in Rear. Phone, Randolph 2166 The Taking of Contracts for Building Secture. Job Work A Specialty. OTT, Funeral Director Y. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST. RANDOLPH 2073. ALL NIGHT CALL RANDOLPH 2703. PND. VIRGINIA ALY HAPPENED! man who insisted on taking the boy and the wheel, despite the mother's protestations. She told the officer that the boy had made the bike out of parts she got for him. "Where did you get that frame?" asked the officer. "I found it on the dump," replied the mother. "Where did you get that seat?" "I picked it up in the street," came the reply. "Where did you secure the handle-bars?" Oh, I found them on the dump, too. Well, where on earth did you find those brand new tires?" The mother was "up a tree." She scratched her head, looked up and said, "I EXPECT THAT RASCAL STOLE THAT BICYCLE!" TWO HAPPY LUNET SATURDAY....OCTOBER 6, 1917 GERMANY ABUSED U.S. PROTECTION Secretary Lansing Reveals New Plots. TEUTON MINISTER ADMITS ALU Becreted Powerful Explosives and Deadly Microbes in Bucharest Legation, Secretary Reveals in New Disclosures. How Germany "shamefully abused and exploited" protection of the United States by secreting in the German legation at Bucharest, after the American government had taken charge of German's affairs at the Rumanian capital quantities of powerful explosives for bomb plots and deadly microbes, with instructions for their use in destroying horses and cattle, was revealed by Secretary Lausing. This story is told in a report to the state department from William Whiting Andrews, secretary of the legation at Bucharest, and a letter from foreign Minister Porumbaru, of Rumania. Parcels and boxes taken into the German consulate at Bucharest with display of great precaution aroused the suspicions of the Rumanian government. On August 27, 1916, the evening prior to the date of Rumania's declaration of war, some of the cases were taken to the German legation, located in a different building from the consulate. Convinced that the boxes were not taken away from the legation by the German diplomatic mission on its departure from Bucharest, the Rumanian authorities later ordered the police to find and examine their contents. The police communicated with American Minister Vopika, then in charge of German intercessors, who reluctantly assigned Secretary Andrews to observe the search. The boxes were found buried in the garden of the German legation. "Upon my return from the examination which assisted in the discovery of the explosives and of the box of microbes, both of which the legation servants admitted having placed in the garden, the former confidential agent of the German minister, Dr. Bernhardt, who had been left with the legation at the German minister's request to assist in the care of German interests, admitted his knowledge of the explosives placed in the garden; told me that more were in the garden than had been found; that a still larger quantity had been buried in the house of the legation, and that still worse things than this box of microbes were contained in the legation, and instimated that they would have been found even in the cabinets of dossiers which I had sealed. "Dr. Bernhardt also stated that all these objects had been brought to the German legation after our legation has accepted the protection of German interests, which agreed with the statement of the servants. A similar confession was made to the minister by this man. "The protection of the United States was in this manner shamefully abused and exploited. In this instance, at least, the German government cannot have recourse to its usual system of denial." Fifty-one boxes were taken from the ground in the garden. Fifty of them contained each a cartridge filled with trinitrotoluene saturated with mononitrotoluene, among the most powerful explosives known, one-fifth of each one being sufficient to tear up a railroad track. In the other box were bottles of liquid found to be cultivations of the microbes of anthrax and glanders. It hore a seal showing it came from the German consulate at Kronstadt, Hungary, and inside was found a typewritten note in German, saying: "Enclosed four philas for horses and four for cattle. To be employed as formerly arranged. Each phial is sufficient for 200 head. To be introduced, if possible, directly into the animals' throats; if not into their fodder. Please make a little report on the success obtained there; in case of good results the presence of Mr. Kostoff for one day here would be desirable." Gets 16 Years For Killing Child. William Shannon, the twenty-one-year-old youth who on June 24, shot and killed Leonore Saylor, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Saylor, at Sandy Ridge, went into court at Bellefonte, Pa., and entered a plan of murder of the second degree and was then sentenced by Judge Henry C. Quigley to sixteen years in the western penitentiary.annon had quarreled with Mrs. Mary Meese and drew his revolver to shoot her, but shot the child which she was holding in her arms. Steel Wages Up 10 Per Cent. E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, has issued the following statement: "It has been decided to increase by about 10 per cent the wage rates of the workmen of our subsidiary companies, to take effect October 1, 1917." --- The SON of TARZAN Our New Serial Is a Treat In the Realm of Adventure BETTER THAN "Tarzan of the Apes" Jack Clayton, the Ape Man's Son, Feels the Call of the Wild and Flees to Africa With AKUT, THE GRAY APE There the Boy Learns From Akut the Life of the Jungle; There He Meets Meriem, the Captive Girl, and There the Trio Have Many Strange and Thrilling Experiences Among Wild Beasts and Savage Peoples. This Great Story Will Appear Soon Watch For It? THE SON of TARZAN A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. Rumania's army is continuing active on the Moldavian front and has won another success. Petrograd reports the occupation by Rumanian troops of a Teutonic position on a height near Grozechti. Reports from the British front in Flanders continue to mention only rulds and artillery and airplane activities. Notwithstanding this, the British casualty lists disclose there has been fighting. Casualties on all fronts reported during the week totaled more than 27,000. Point is given by this to recent reports of correspondents that despite the laconic official announcements the British activities are by no means as unimportant as they might seem, and that all arms of the British service are being constantly employed in the process of wearing down the German resistance. THURSDAY Early Thursday the British infantry went "over the top" on a wide front east of Ypres, and the Flanders offensive was on again. The rush evidently was successful at the outset. The capture of positions of value were reported by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. The renewal of the offensive came after a pause in which intensive preparatory work had been carried on unceasingly. Early reports did not outline definitely the extent of the front. Berlin reported the drumfist to be pounding the line from Houtholst wood, south of Dixmude, to the river Lys, a distance of about fifteen miles. This would indicate that the main orde of the drive was directed toward Roulers and Courtral, with the probable object of driving a wedge further into the German abandonment of the Belgian coast with its valuable submarine and aerial bases. From the French front only artillery activity is reported. FRIDAY Friday found the British in Flanders holding all the valuable ground they gained in their attack of the day previous. They has surged forward on an eight-mile front on both sides of the Ypres-Menin road, penetrating the German lines more than a mile in places and capturing prisoners in excess of 2000. All reports emphasize the completeness of the success. They hold Veldhook, Zevenkote and numerous strategically important farms and wooded tracks which had been heavily fortified by the Germans. Later the Germans began to counter attack, but every thrust was effectively dealt with by the British, London says. SATURDAY In the midst of Russia's internal troubles has come another German stroke on the Russian northern front, resulting in the capture of the bridgehead and town of Jacobstadt, on the Dvina, and the enforced retirement of the Russians in this region to the eastern bank of the river. Loath to give up the valuable ridges the British wrested from them on Thursday, the Germans continue to launch desperate counter attacks from their battered Flanders land and to THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA combat with determination every effort of Field Marshal Halg's forces to improve their positions. This fighting has been very costly to the Germans in casualties, and the London official statement lays stress on the exceedingly severe character of their losses. The German command seems particularly reluctant to surrender the slight elevation west of Ghelvelt, close to the Ypres-Menlin road. Fierce fighting developed there Saturday, the engagement centering about the position known as Tower Hamlets. SUNDAY In none of the battle areas of Europe has there been any marked activity in the last twenty-four hours. A momentary lull appears to have settled upon the fighting operations in Flanders, on the Alsne and at Verdun, in the region and along the Isonzo. Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, finding his efforts to dislodge the British from their recent gains in the Ypres salient ineffectual, has ceased his infantry attacks and resorted to artillery. The British are resting after their effort of Thursday, having gained all but a few minor posts of the objectives desired and having taken 3243 prisoners, but their big guns still hammer the German positions. Having captured the Jacobstadt bridgehead, south of Riga, and forced the Russians to retire to the right bank of the Dvina for some distance north and south of the bridgehead, the Germans have halted their advance here. MONDAY Heavy cannonading was again in progress on the Flanders front north-east of Vpres, but the infantry had relief from the recent hard fighting. The last German reaction was not encouraging enough apparently, to treat a speedy repetition, as Field Marshal Sir Douglas Halg in his despatches reported that when they assaulted the British lines northwest of Langermark they not only were repulsed but lost ground in a counter drive. Signs of possibly important activity impending are appearing in other sections of the British front, notably in the Arras region near the Scarpe, and in the vicinity of Lens which city is still being closely pressed by the Canadians. To stabilize conditions, all of the 10,000,000 registered men in the United States will proceed for examination for the national army at once. Secretary of War Baker made this announcement. Orders to this effect will be issued in a few days. Confessing she drowned little Mary Rose, eight years old, to splite her parents, Mrs. Cattino, the child's nurse bogged the police to let her follow her victim to death in the Passatec river at Paterson, N. J. The nurse was arrested when she was soon wading in the river, waving her arms and crying. She confessed and said she wanted to commit suicide. The child's body was recovered from the water. "I had the baby out for a walk," Mrs. Cattino told detectives. "When we got to the river I told her I was going to kill both of us. She struggled and cried, but I hold her head under water until she stopped, then I let her float away on the current." ```markdown ``` Major General Tasker H. Bliss was named chief of staff of the army, to succeed Major General Hugh L. Scott, who retires from office. Major General Casker Howard Bliss was born in Lewlsburg, Pa., December 31, 1873, and graduated at West Point in 1875. He entered the service as an artilleryman. He was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers in the Spanish war, and has served in Cuba and the Philippines. He held positions in Cuba during the time the United States had charge of that island, and, in 1912, was appointed major general to succeed Major General Frederick D. Grant. He was made a member of the general staff in 1915. Quebec Bridge Completed. The general span of the Quebec cantilever bridge was successfully bolted into place. It links together the arms of the largest bridge of its kind in the world. The hoisting operation began Monday morning. The span, which weighs 5000 tons, was lifted by hydraulic jacks a distance of 150 feet from pontoons on the St. Lawrence river. The completion of the bridge marks the end of the most stupendous undertaking of its kind in history. In 1907, when the first attempt to build the bridge was under way, bridges of one of the cantilever arms buckled, dropping bridge and workmen into the St. Lawrence. More than seventy lives were lost. In September, 1916, another gold dent occurred. The canvasser arms had been completed, and the central span was floated to the center of the river. Hardly had the work of lifting the gigantic structure begun, when an iron rod or beak which punged the span into 200 feet of water. Eleven men lost their lives. The open raised is the largest in the world. WANTED We want active agents in Lynchburg, Warrenton, Suffolk, Potorsburg Williamsburg, Lexington, Hampton and Phoobus. GOOD PROPOSITION—SEND $1.00 for Big $1.75 Package of Saline Palm Cure and become a regular agent. Easy Sollor. Saline Mfg. Co., 912 N. 1st, Richmond, Va. THE PLANET GOOD FOR FIVE VOTES KINKY HAIR MADE STRAIGHT Fluffy---Long---Silky -By-Using Herolin The new discovery that causes new hair to spread all over your hair, makes your nappy, coarse, kinky hair, soft, silky, long, fluffy, straight so you can do it up any style. Lengthens your hair 4 inches. STOPS DANDRUFF AND ITCHING SCALP AT ONCE. HORMONAL and lightly perfumed and not sticky or gummy. SEND 28 ENTS (stamp or roll) for a big box HEROLIM MEDICINE SO., Atlanta, Georgia AGENTS WANTED Torms GIRLS—LADIES! Here is the opportunity to learn a high class trade, one that your service will be in demand. You can earn from $3 to $5 and some times more, a day or evening at home. Plenty of work and positions open to those who know how. Learn Artistic Hairdressing, Manicuring, Face Massage, Scalp Treatment, How to Cultivate and Grow Hair, How to Make Toilet Articles, How to Weave and Manufacture Hair, How to Make Switches, Transformations, Puffs, Bange, Pompadours, Cornet Braids, Ete. Straightening, Singing, Dying, Ete. A quick, easy, simply method and perfect up-to-date work. An Illustrated Chart of the latest creations in hair work and how to use the latest appliances that saves half the time and labor. Instructions in these branches are guaranteed. Mme. DeCARROLL, an old experienced hair dresor and Beauty Culture Dr will teach you the French and American System in her Blue Book. This course for a limited time has been reduced to $2 so each girl can learn the system DIPLOMA AWARDED. SEND MONEY ORDER to the IDEAL COMPANY, Box 70, Station G, New York City. Howard University STEPHEN M, NEWMAN, A M., D: D: President COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES A. B. and B. S. Courses TEACHERS COLLEGE A. B. & B. S. Courses in Education SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES B. S. Courses in Engineering, Plome Economics, Manual Arts CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Mus. B. Courses ACADEMY Two Preparatory Courses: Classical Scientific COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Secretarial Course Accounting Course General Course LIBRARY TRAINING CLASS PROFESSIONAL, SCHOOLS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY B. D. Courses Diploma Course SCHOOL OF MEDICINE M. D. Courses in Medicine D. D. S. Courses in Dentistry Phar. D. Courses in Pharmacy SCHOOL, OF LAW LL. B. Courses For catalogue, address HOWARD UNIVERSITY. WASHINGTON, D. C. FREE STYLE BOOK HAIR To Colored Women We are the largest manufacturers of Colored Women's Hair. Our latest book shows new styles in hair dressing suit free. Every colored wom- man should own one. We sell thousands our hair and toilet articles. Sat- isfaction guaranteed or money back. We make the best round-track STRAIGHT- ENING combs, with extra combs guaranteed. 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WRITE FOR TERMS APEX MFG. CO. RICHMOND, VA. ALPHEUS SCOTT FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Office, 3006 P Street, Phone, Mad. 2337—Residence, 1$15 St. James Street Phone Madison 6819 Parethernell, M. Beg. P. P. Milton Children and in attendance at Funeral. THE EXCELSIO Chilies and in attendance at Fowler. RIOHMOND. THE EXCELSIOR SCALP FOOD Mrs. W. H. Callaway, President Excelsior Mfg. Co., Excelsior System of Hair Culture. Mrs. W. H. Callaway, President Excelsior Mfg. Co., Excelsior System of Hair Culture. D. J. FARRAR, Co. Office, Room 405, Mechanics Residence, 610 N. First St.—Shop Special Attention Paid to the T of Any Kind of Architecture ROBERT C. SCOTT FIRST CLASS LIVERY. TELEPHONE, RANDO AND SUNDAY, CAL RICHMOND D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder Office, Room 405, Mechanics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Residence, 610 N. First St.-Shop in Rear. Phone, Randolph 2166 Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Kind of Architecture. Job Work A Specialty. FIRST CLASS LIVERY. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE, RANDOLPH 2073. ALL NIGHT AND SUNDAY, CALL RANDOLPH 2703. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IT REALLY HAPPENED! MOTHER'S LOVE "IN BAD." The ambitious youngster acquired a nice, up-to-the-minute bicycle just as sudden as if it had dropped off Kris Krinkle's Christmas tree, and he at once became the "king-pin" of the neighborhood. All of the kids in the neighborhood began to honor him and beg for rides. His mother was so proud of him that she forgot to ask him how he managed to secure such a luxury without the use of good old U. S. A. colnage. Nothing but smiles came in the direction of this ambitious youth—rather, smiles came for awhile, but they were soon followed by a police- FEMALE EMBALMER MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alpheus Scott. Madame Scott claims the honor of being the only Negro woman in the State of Virginia—holding a State license to practice Embalming, and is indeed, one of the few women in the United States embalming and conducting funerals. She ranks with the best in her profession. She is prominent in fraternal organizations, namely, Courts of Calanthe, I. O. of St. Luke, I. O. of Good Samaritans, Household of Ruth, Tents, Sons and Daughters of Richmond, Shepherds of Bethlehem and Ideal Benefit Society Your patronage and influence will be greatly appreciated. Please remember that she is always at your service. Reliable service at Moderate Rates. 3006 P Street, Phone, Mad. 2337 RESIDENCE 1015 St. James St., Madison 6619 HAVE YOUR HARNESS REPAIRED Roane and Holmes Harness Company 17 12 NORTH 18th St. Phone, Mad. 3035. We make and repair anything in Harness line, Suit-cases, Leather Bags Automobile Cushions, etc. We carry a full line of Harness, Whips, Robos, Bits, Pads, Brushes, Combs, Harness Dressing, Salves, Nets, Oils, Haltors, Saddles, Hardware, etc. We make a Specialty of Hand-made Harness. Our motto is to SATISFY YOU. Your patronage will be appreciated. Stop in and let us srsr you. All work guaranteed. S. C. Waldron PAPER HANGING WALL PAINTING AND RICHMOND. VIRGINIA IOR SCALP FOOD Unexcelled for its purity and excellence. It cures dandruff and gives now life to the hair. Price only 50 cents per box. Other Excelior preparations are: Hair Gloss & Temple Food, each 850 per box. Tetter Salve & Medicated Shampoo 500 each per box. Excelior Special Temple Food for aggravated cases of baldness of temples, of long standing, per box, 750. Once tried, these preparations are always used. Be Our Agent. 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"Where and did you get that frame?" asked the in" officer. "I found it on the dump," the replied the mother. "Where did you get that seat?" "I picked it up in Hfs the street," came the reply. "Where she did you secure the handle-bars?" Oh, ged I found them on the dump, too." the Well, where on earth did you find those brand new tires?" The mother-der was "up a tree." She scratched her head, looked up and said, "I but EXPECT THAT RASCAL STOLE THAT BICYCLE!" OFFICE VIRGINIA | ae G A a a jae eile BY i MR eer inal) the dl NSE. BERTRAND W. Oct N6 SINCLAIR 6 CO? “thse Copyright, 1916, by Little, Brown & Ce. ~ eee SYNOPSIS Estella Benton, loft a penniless orphan, ‘Boos to Join her brother Charlie, who 19 fogging lumber in British Columbia, Charilo tolls Stella of his prospects and “describes his primitive manner of living. Ho Introduces a neighbor, Paul Abboy. Fyfo pays a visit. Stolla a repelled by him, although sho fools the force of hig Personality. Stella wants to quit, but her! brother dinuuades her, Ho takes the back to Fyfo's camp. : Bella volts Iryfo's camp while her broth. @r tn thoro. It I an improvement over Charito's, Fyfe visits the Bentons and Quelle a drunken riot among the lowyora, Charito gete intoxicated and Btella be- comen all the more digguated with hor sure Foundings, Fyfo profoser marringe aa @ way out, but Is rejected, Winter sote In, bringing more drunken Rens and trouble, Stolia ts sorely tried, and when Fyfo proposes again she mar Flea him immiediately. In apring the Fyfos return from a honeys moon, and Btella ty ploased with her now Btelin goes canoeing on the lake, upsote ‘and Iv rescued by Monohan, a partner of Abbey and toward whom Aho ta greatly attracted. Stella, who had lont her singing votce after showing great promiso, suddenly dis- covers that her voles has returned 4n full power. ‘This Increases her popularity. in tho Abboy household, Monohan declares hia love for Stotla. Sho tells him they muat part, Fyfe dis- covers tho situation. Ho expresses con= tempt for Monahan and tells Stella ho would freo her were sho in love with a do- cent man, Stella and Monahan meot In the woods by chance, Hyto discovgra thom’ and thrashes Monahan. Ho turks upon Stella, who explains tho chanco meoting, but do: claros sho wants to leavo him, Ho holda her because of thelr child, Stella learns that Monahan ta plotting to hurt Fyfo's lumber interests by underhand means, Her baby dics by an accident. CHAPTER Xill. The Opening Gun. ere eccen e ie ade water an eee Meet teen AL by aay into the iimbo of the past, ‘The rains washed tho land un- ceasingly. Gray yellings of mist and cloud draped the meom9in slopes, As drab a shade coored/ Stella Fyte's dally outlook, Ske W46 alone a great eul. Even when they wero together, She .and her husban¢,, words aid mot come easily between them, He was away a great deal, seeking, sho knew, the old panacea of work, hard, unro- mitting Work, to abato tho Ills of his spirit, She envied him that outlet. Work for her there was none. Lefty Howe's wife was at the camp now on one of her occasional visite, Howe was going across the lake ono afternoon to see a Siwash whom ho had engaged to catch and smoke a win ter’s supply of salmon for the camps, Mrs. Howe told Stella, and on impulse Stella bundled Jack Junior into warm clothing and went with them for the ride. When sho returned from tho launch trip Fyfo was home and Charlie Ben- ton with him, She crossed the heavy rugs on the Hving room floor notseless- ly In her overshoes, carrying Jack jun- lor asleep in her arms. And so in passing the door of Fyfe's den sho deard her brother say: “But, good Lord, you don't suppose Lie be saphead enough to try such fool stunts as that! He couldn't make it stick, and he brings himself within the law first crack, And the most he could do would be to aunoy you." “You underestimate Monohan,” Fyfe returned, “He'll play safe personally so far as the law goos. Ho's foxy. I advise you to sell {f the offer comes again, “If you make any more breaks at him he'll fgure somo way to get you. It isn't your fight, you know, You unfortunately happen to be in tho rond.” “Hanged if I dol” Benton ejaculated, “r'm all in the clear, ‘Photo's no way ho can get mo, and I'll tell him what I think of him again if he gives mo half chance. I never Mked him, anyhow, Why should I sell when I'm just get ting in real good shape to tako that timber out myself? Why, I can mako a thundred thousand dollars in the next flve years on that block of tim- ber. Bealdes, without boing a sentl- mental sort of beggar, I don’t lose Le - ia A oe {i uti) aa a ius ig a \\ k= —alfe e | I og { gs | =I Me Pr = Pam’ \ y q AL “You underestimate Monohan. He'll play safe personally.” sight of the fact that you helped pull moe out of a hole when I sure needed a pull, And 1 don’t iike this high handed style. No: if tt comes toa Mee ale Sines Te ae eR Ce ae ee jos I can go. Whut the thunder can he do?” “Nothing that I can sce." Iyto (laughed unpleasantly. “But ho'll try. He has dollars to our cents. Ie could throw everything he's got on Roaring |iako into the discard and stil have forty thousand a year fixed income. Sabo? Money does moro than talk in thls country. 1 thik IN pull that camp off the ‘Tyce.” | “Well, maybe," Benton sald. “I'm not sure"— | Stella passed én, She wanted to j teas, but 1€ went against ber grain to eavesdrop. IHer pause had been pure- ly involuntary. When sho became con- selous that she was eagerly drinking tn each word she hurried by. Her mind was one urgent question | mark while she laid the sleeping young- ster in his bed and removed her heavy clothes, What sort of hostilities did Monoban threaten? Had he let a hope- | less love turn to the nett of hate for the man who nominally possessed her? Stella could scarcely credit that. It Was too much at variance with her | idealistic conception of the man. He would never have recourse to. such Uttloness. SUI], the biting contempt In Pyfe’s votce when he sald to Ben- fons” "You underestimate Menohan, Ne'Nl play safe; ** * he's foxy." ‘hat stung her to the quick, ‘That was not sald for her benefit. It was Byte's profound conviction, Based on what? | He did not form Judzments on momen- tary hupulse, She recalled that only In the most direct way bad he ever | passed criticism on Monoban, and then “It lay mostly Inv tone, suexested more j tin spoken. Yet tie knew Monohan, had known him for years, ‘They nd clashed long before she was a factor In thelr lves. Fyfe and Benton eame to ainer moro or less preoccupied, an odd mood for Charlie Benton, Afterward they went Into sexston behind the closed door of Fyfe's den. An hour or so lat- er Benton went home. While she | Ustoned to the soft chuff-n-ebutt-a-chutt of the Chickamin dying away In the distance Ffye came in’ and slumped down in a chair before the fre where a Dig fir stick erackted, He sat there silent; a halt, smokey oats oho conier of hi nourh, the unes of. his squaro Jaw In profile, determined, rigid. Stella eyed him covertly. She leaned forward to speak. Words quivered on her lips, but as she strug- gled to shape them to utterance the dlast of a bout whistle came sercaming up from the water, near and sbrill and Amperative, Fyfe came out of his chair ike a shot. Ho landed polsed on his feet, Ups drawn apart, hands clinched. He held that pose for an Instant, then re- luxed, his breath coming with a quick sigh, Stella stared at him, Nerves! She knew tho symptoms too well, Nerves at terrible tension in that big, splendid body! A slizht quiver seemed to run over him; then he was erect and calm. ly himself agatn, standing in a Usten- ing attitude, “That's the Panther,” he said, “pull ing in to the Waterbug's Innding. Did T startle you when I bounced up Ike a cougar, Stella?" he asked, with a wry’ smile. “I guess I was’ half asleop. That whistle jolted me.” Stella glanced out the shaded wine dow. + “Bomo one's coming up from the float with a lantern,” she sald, “Is there— 4 there likely to be anything wrong, Sack?” “Anything wrong?” Hoe shot a quick glance at her, then casually, “Not that T know of.” | The bobbing lantern camo up the path through’ tho Inwn, Footsteps erunched on the gravel. “TN go seo what ha wants,” Fyte re- marked. “Calked boots won't bo good for tho porch floor.” She followed him. “Stay in. It’s cold." Ho stopped in the doorway. “No; I'm coming," she peratsted, They met the lantern bearor at tho foot of tho steps. "Well, Thorsen?" Fyfo shot at him, Thero was an unusual note of sharp- ness in his volco, an irritnted expecta- tion. | Stella saw that tt was tho skipper of ‘the Panther, a big and burly Dane, Ho ‘raised the lantern a little, The dim ght on his faco showed It bruised and swollen. Fyfe grunted, “Our boom ts hung up,” ho satd platn- tively, "They've blocked the river, I got licked for arguin’ tho point.” “Flow'a it blocked?” Fyfe asked, “Two swifters uh loga strung across | the channel. ‘They're drivin’ piles in front. An’ threo donkeys buntin’ loge in behind.” “Swift work. ‘Thero wasn't n sign of ‘4 move when I left this morning,” Fyto commented dryly, “Well, take tho Pan- ther around to the inner landing, I'll be there.” “What's struck that feller Monohan?” tho Dane sputtered angrily, “Has ho got any Ilcense to close the Tyee? He says ho has—an’ backs his argument strong, belleve me. Maybe you ean han- | THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Tn a minute the thrum of the boat's ex- Uaust arose ay she got under way. “Come on In, You'll get cold standing there,” Byfe sald to Stella, She followed hin baek into the Hying room, He sat on the arm of a big leather chalr, rolling the dead elkar thoughtfully “between his lps, Mttle ereases gathering between his eyes. “Lm going up the inke," he sald at last, etting up abruptly “What's the matter, Jack? sho ask el. Why. has trouble started up there?" “Part of the logging game," he an- swered Indifferently. “Doesn't amount to much,” “Dut ‘Thoesen has been Ayghting. Ts face was terrible, And f've heard you nay he was one of the most peaceable men ullve. Is It—is Monohan"— “We won't discuss Monohan," Fyfe sald curtly, “Anyway, there's no dan ger of Ian zettinye hurt." He went fito his den and came out with hat and cont on, At the door he paused a moment. “Don't worry," he satd kindly, “Noth. Ing's Kolnis to happen.” But she stood looking out the window after he left, unensy with a prescience of trouble, She watched with a feverish Interest the stir that presently arose about the bunk houses. ‘That summer a wide space had been cleared between bungalow and eamp, She could see moving lanterns and eyen now and then hear the volces of men culling to each other, Once the Panther's dazzling eye of a searchlight swung across the landing, and tts beam pleked out a Mle of men carrying their blankets toward tho boat, Shortly after that the tender rounded the point. Close behind her went the Waterbug, and both boats swarmed with men, Stella looked and listened until there was but a faint thram far up the lake. ‘Then she went to bed, but not to sleep. What ugly pnssions were loosed at the Jnke head she did not know, But on the face, of It she could not ayold won- dering If Monohan hnd deliberately set out to cross and harass Jack Fyfe—be. cause of her? ‘That was the question which had hovered on her Hps that evening, one she had not brought her- self to ask. Because of her or because of some enmity that far preceded her? She hud thought hha big enough to do ag she hid done, as Fyfe was tacitly dolng—make the best of a grievous matter, But if he hnd allowed his passions to letate reprisals she trembled for the outcome. Fyfe was not a man to slt quiet under ether affront or Injury, He would fight with double raneor if Mon- ohan were his adversary. “If anything happens up there TN hate myself," she whispered when the ceaseless turniny of her mind had be- come almost unendurable. “I was a silly, weak fool over to let Walter Mon- ohan know T cared. And 1 hate him, too, if he makes me a bone of conten: ton, I cleeted to play the game the only decent way there Is ty play It, SO did he, Why can't ho abide by that?" Y sf Me next day saw the Water- vug cave co a quarter taille abeam of Cougar point to let off a lone figure in her dinghy and then bore on, driving straight and fast for Roaring Springs, Btella few to the landing. Mother Howe came puiling at her heels, “Land's snke, I been worried to death,” the older woman breathed. “When men git to quarrelin’ about tim- ber you never can tell where they'll stop, Mrs, Jack, I'v knowed some wild times In the woods in the past.” ‘The man in the dink was Lefty Howe, Me pulled in beside the float. When ho stepped up on the planks he limped perceptibly. “Land allve, what happened yuh, Lefty?” his wife cried. “Got a rap on the leg with a peevy," ho sald. “Nothin? much." “Why did the Waterbug go down the Inke?” Stella asked breathlessly, ‘Tho man’s face was serious. “What hap- pened up there?" “There was a fuss," he answered quietly, “Three or four of tho boys got beat up so they need patehin', Jack's takin’ ’em down to the hospital. Blast that yeller headed Monohan !” his yoleo lifted suddenty in uncontrollable anger, “Billy Dale was killed this mornin’, mothor.” Stella felt herself grow sick. Death is 1 small matter when It strikes afar, among strangers—when it comes to one’s door! 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CHAPTER XIV. irae as the Wied: ‘TELLA had barely crossed the threshold when back in the rear Jnck Juntor's baby volco rose in a shrill scream of pain. Sho searcely heard her husband and the doctor come in. For a weary ago she had been sitting in a low rocker. a vw agus: hor Inp, and on that the Tilo tortured boy sivaddled with cof ton soaked tn ollve of, the only dress- ing sho and Mrs. Howe could dovise to ease the pain, All those other things which bad so racked her—tho fight on the ‘Tyee, the shooting of Billy Dale—they had vanished somehow into thin alr before the dread fact that her baby was dyin: slowly before her an- gulshed eves, She sit numbed yyith that dead assurance, praying with. out hope for hel» to come, hopeless that any medical sii would avail when It did come, So many hours bad been wasted while a man rowed to Benton's camp, while the Chickumin steamed to Roaring Springs, while the Waterbug came driving back—tive hours! And the skin—yes, even shreds Of flesh—had come away in pats hes WIth Jack Junior's clothing when she took It off. “She bent over him, fearful that every feeble breath wenld be his last. Sho looked up at the doctor, Pyte fas beside her, hts calked boot biting Into the ok floor. “See what you can do, doc," he satd huskily; then to Stella, “How did tt happen.” “Me toddled away from Martha," she whispered. "Sam Foo had set a pan of bolling water on the kitchen floor He fell into st. Oh, my poor Utele daring!" ‘They watched the doctor bare the terribly scalded body, examine, Heten to the boy's breathing, count his pulse. In tho end he redreased tho tiny body with stuff from the case with which a country physician goes armed ngatnst all emorgencies, He was very dellb (Continued on Sixth Page.) AS SST Be OSS (esi een deh Sue es) VO ee Cae El . 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Stella visits Fyfe's camp while her brother is there. It is an improvement over Charlie's. Fyfe visits the Bentons and qualls a drunken riot among the loggers. Charlie gets intoxicated and Stella becomes all the more disgusted with her surroundings. Fyfe proposes marring as a way out, but is rejected. Winter sets in, bringing more drunkenness and trouble. Stella is surely tried, and when Fyfe proposes again she marries him immediately. In spring the Fyfe returns from a honeymoon, and Stella is pleased with her new home. Stella goes cancelling on the lake, upsets and is rescued by Monohan, a partner of Abbey and toward whom she is greatly attracted. Stella, who had lost her singing voice after showing great promise, suddenly discovers that her voice has returned in full. This increases her popularity in the Abbey household. Monohan declares his love for Stella. She tells him they must past. Fyfe discovers the situation. He expresses contempt for Monohan and tells Stella he would free her were she in love with a decent man. Stella and Monohan meet in the woods by chance. Fyfe discovers them and thrushes Monohan. He turns upon Stella, who explains the chance meeting, but does not leave him. He holds her because of their child. Stella learns that Monohan is plating to hurt Fyfe's number interests by underhand means. Her baby dies by an accident. THE month of November slid day by day into the limbo of the past. The rains washed the land unceasingly. Gray vellings of mist and cloud draped the mountain slopes. As drab a shade cooed/ Stella Fyfe's daily outlook. She was alone a great deal. Even when they were together, she and her husband words did not come easily between them. He was away a great deal, seeking, she knew, the old panacea of work, hard, unremitting work, to abate the lils of his spirit. She enveloped him that outlet. Work for her there was none. Lefty Howe's wife was at the camp now on one of her occasional visits. Howe was going across the lake one afternoon to see a Siwash whom he had engaged to catch and smoke a winter's supply of salmon for the camps. Mrs. Howe told Stella, and on Impulse Stella bundled Jack Junior into warm clothing and went with them for the ride. When she returned from the launch trip Fyfe was home and Charlie Benton with him. She crossed the heavy rugs on the living room floor noiselessly in her overheses, carrying Jack junior asleep in her arms. And so in passing the door of Fyfe's den she heard her brother say: "But, good Lord, you don't suppose he'll be saphead enough to try such fool stunts as that! He couldn't make it stick, and he brings himself within the law first crack. And the most he could do would be to mumy you." "You underestimate Monohan," Fyfe returned. "He'll play safe personally so far as the law goes. He's foxy. I advise you to sell if the offer comes again. If you make any more breaks at him he'll figure some way to get you. It isn't your fight, you know. You unfortunately happen to be in the road." "Hunged if I do!" Benton ejaculated. "I'm all in the clear. There's no way he can get me, and I'll tell him what I think of him again if he gives me half a chance. I never liked him, anyhow. Why should I sell when I'm just getting in real good shape to take that timber out myself? Why, I can make a thundred thousand dollars in the next five years on that block of timber. Besides, without being a sentimental sort of beggar, I don't loss "You underestimate Monohan. He'll play safe personally." sight of the fact that you helped pull no out of a hole when I sure needed a pull. And I don't like this high handed style. No; if it comes to a Showdown I'm with you, Jack, as far as I can go. What the thunder can he do? "Nothing that I can see." Fyfe laughed unpleasantly. "But he'll try. He has dollars to our cents. He could throw everything he's got on Roaring like into the discard and still have forty thousand a year fixed income. Sabe? Money does more than talk in this country. I think I'll pull that camp off the Tyce." "Well, maybe," Benton said. "I'm not sure"— Stella passed on. She wanted to hear, but it wont against her grain to eavesdroop. Her pause had been purely involuntary. When she became conscious that she was eager drinking in each word she hurried by. Her mind was one urgent question mark while she held the sleeping youngster in his bed and removed her heavy clothes. What sort of hostilities did Monohan threaten? Had he let a hopeless love turn to the aid of hate for the man who nominally possessed her? Stella could scarcely credit that. It was too much at variance with her idealistic conception of the man. He would never have recourse to such littleness. Still, the biting contempt in Fyfe's voice when he said to Benton: "You underestimate Monohan. He'll play safe; * * * * he's foxy." That stung her to the quick. That was not said for her benefit. It was Fyfe's profound conviction. Based on what? He did not form judgments on momentary impulse. She recalled that only in the most direct way had he ever passed criticism on Monohan, and then it hymnily in a tone, suggested more than spoken. Yet he knew Monohan, had known him for years. They had clashed long before she was a factor in their lives. Fyfe and Benton came to dinner more or less preoccupied, an old mood for Charlie Benton. Afterward they went into session behind the closed door of Fyfe's den. An hour or so later Benton went home. While she listened to the soft cluff-a-chuff-a-chuff of the Chickamauk dying away in the distance Fyfe came in and slumped down in a chair before the fire where a big fir stick cracked. He sat there silent, a half smoked one corner of his mouth, the ones of his square jaw in profile, determined, rigid. Stella eyed him covertly. She leaned forward to speak. Words quivered on her lips, but as she struggled to shape them to utterance the blast of a boat whistle came screening up from the water, near and shrill and imperative. Fyfe came out of his chair like a shot. He landed poised on his feet, lips drawn apart, hands clinched. He held that pose for an instant, then relaxed, his breath coming with a quick sigh. Stella stared at him. Nerves! She knew the symptoms too well. Nerves at terrible tension in that big, splendid body! A slight quiver seemed to run over him; then he was erect and calmly himself again, standing in a listening attitude. "That's the Panther," he said, "pulling in to the Waterburg's landing. Did I startle you when I bounced up like a cougar, Stellin?" he asked, with a wry smile. "I guess I was half asleep. That whistle jolted me." Stella glanced out the shaded window. "Some one's coming up from the float with a lantern," she said. "Is there is there likely to be anything wrong, Jack?" "Anything wrong?" He shot a quick glance at her, then casually, "Not that I know of." The hobbing lantern came up the path through the lawn. Footsteps crunched on the gravel. "I'll go see what he wants," Fyfe remarked. "called boots won't be good for the porch floor." She followed him. "Stay in. It's cold." He stopped in the doorway. "No; I'm coming," she persisted. They met the lantern bearer at the foot of the steps. "Well, Thorsen?" Fyfe shot at him. There was an unusual note of sharpness in his voice, an irritated expectation. Stella saw that it was the skipper of the Panther, a big and burly Dane. He raised the lantern a little. The dim light on his face showed it bruised and swollen. Fyfe grunted. "Our boom is hung up," he said plaintively. "They've blocked the river. I got licked for arguln the point." "How's it blocked?" Fyfe asked. "Two swifters uh logs strung across the channel. They're drivin' plies in front. An' three donkeys buntin' logs in behind." "Swift work. There wasn't a sign of a move when I left this morning." Fyfe commented dryly. "Well, take the Panther around to the inner hauling. I'll be there." "What's struck that feller Monohan?" the Dano sputtered angrily. "Has he got any license to close the Tyce? He says he has—an' backs his argument strong, believe me. Maybe you can handle him. I couldn't. Next time I'll have a cant hook handy. By jingo, you gimme my pick uh Lefty's crew, Jack, an' I'll bring that cedar out." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIBGINIA "Take the Panther round." Fyfe replied. "We'll see." Thorens turned back down the slope. In a minute the thrum of the boat's exhaust arose as she got under way. "Come on in. You'll get cold standing there." Fyfe said to Stella. She followed him back into the living room. He sat on the arm of a big leather chair, rolling the dead cigar thoughtfully between his lips, little creases gathering between his eyes. "I'm going up the lake," he said at last, getting up abruptly. "What's the matter, Jack?" she asked. "Why, has trouble started up there." "Part of the logging game," he answered indifferently. "Doesn't amount to much." "Bat Thoosen has been fighting. His face was terrible. And I've heard you say he was one of the most peaceable men alive. Is it—is Monahan"— "We won't discuss Monohan," Fyfe said curtly. "Anyway, there's no danger of him getting hurt." "Don't worry," he said kindly. "Nothing's going to happen." But she stood looking out the window after he left, unyess with a prescience of trouble. She watched with a feverish interest the stir that presently arose about the bank houses. That summer a wide space had been cleared between bungalow and camp. She could see moving lanterns and even now and then hear the voices of men calling to each other. Once the Panther's dazzling eye of a searchlight swing across the landing, and its beam picked out a file of men carrying their blankets toward the boat. Shortly after that the tender rounded the point. Close behind her went the Waterbug, and both boats swarmed with men. Stella looked and listened until there was but a falut thrum far up the lake. Then she went to bed, but not to sleep. What ugly passions were loomed at the lake head she did not know. But on the face of it she could not avoid wondering if Monohan had deliberately set out to cross and harass Jack Fyfe—because of her? That was the question which had hovered on her lips that evening, one she had not brought herself to ask. Because of her or because of some cumity that far preceded her? She had thought him big enough to do as she had done, as Fyfe was tactfully doing—make the best of a grievous matter. But if he had allowed his passions to dictate reprisals she trembled for the outcome. Fyfe was not a man to sit quiet under either affront or injury. He would tight with double ranceor If Monohan were his adversary. "If anything happens up there I'll hate myself," she whispered when the ceaseless turning of her mind had become almost amenable. "I was a silly, weak feel ever to let Walter Monohan know I cared. And I'll hate bing too, if he makes me a bone of contention. I elected to play the game the only decent way there is to play it. So did he. Why can't he be abide by that?" "If the next day saw the Waterbug arrive to a quarter mile abum of Cougar point to let off a lone figure in her dinghy and then bore on, driving straight and fast for Roaring Springs, Stella flew to the landing. Mother Howe came pulling at her heels. "Land's sake, I been worried to death," the older woman breathed. "When men gilt to quarrelm' about timber you never can tell where they'll stop, Mrs. Jack. I've known some wild times in the woods in the past." The man in the dink was Lefty Howe. He pulled in beside the float. When he stepped up on the planks he limped perceptibly. "Land alive, what happened yuh, Lefty?" his wife cried. "Got a rap on the leg with a peevy," he said. "Nothin' much." "Why did the Waterburg go down the lake?" Stella asked breathlessly. The man's face was serious. "What happened up there?" "There was a fuss," he answered quietly. "Three or four of the boys got beat up so they need patchin', Jack's takin' em down to the hospital. Blast that yeller headed Monohan!" his voice lifted suddenly in uncontrollable anger. "Billy Dale was killed this mornin', mother." Stella felt herself grow slick. Death is a small matter when it strikes afar, among strangers—when it comes to one's door! Billy Dale had plotted the Waterbug for a year, a chubby, rounded boy of twenty, a foster son of Mother Howe's before she had children of her own. Stella had asked Jack to put him on the Waterbug because he was such a loyal, cheery sort of soul, and Billy had been a part of every expedition they had taken around the lake. She could not think of him as a rigid, lifeless lump of clay. Why, only the day before he had been laughing and chattering aboard the cruiser, going up and down the cabin floor on his hands and knees, Jack junior perched triumphantly astride his back. "What happened?" she cried wildly, "Tell me, quick." "It's quick told," Howe said grimly. "We were ready at daylight. Monohan's got a hard crew, and they jumpus as soon as we started to clear the channel. So we cleared them first. It didn't take so long. Three of our men was used bad, and there's plenty of sore heads on both sides, but we did the job. After we got them on the run we blowed up their swifters and plies with giant; then we begun to put the cedar through. Billy was on the bank when somebody shot him from across the river. One mercy, he never knew what hit him. And you'll never come so close bein' a widow again, Mrs. Fyfe, and not be. That bullet was meant for Jack, I figure. He was sittin' down. 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JOHN MITCHELL, JR., EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond Virginia, as second-class matter. SATURDAY.....OCTOBER 6, 1917 Read the Planet when you buy it Pay for it, when you subscribe for it Colored men are rallying to the colors, just as we thought they would do. If the government is violating its own laws, how can the government justly punish the citizen for doing the same thing? Don't worry. It doesn't pay to worry and yet there are some people who glory in worrying themselves and in making other people worry. The most trouble in this world comes from people, who will not do their duty and who sit down and expect one one also to do it for them. Say what you will, but keep silent on the President of the United States unless you are praising him and even too much of that will awaken suspicion that you are not altogether all right. It would be well for us to "shelve" our complaints against the present administration until after the war. Most every body also is doing it. Be polite and obliging to everybody, colored folks. Teach your children to be the same way. This includes white folks and colored ones. Good manners will pay you and those with you. In all of the "ups and downs" of this life, remember that God reigns and is all powerful in the affairs of men. You may be persecuted today, but if you mean right and try and do right, you will be honored tomorrow or the next day or the day thereafter. A QUESTION OF MONEY. The American Bankers Association, recently in session at Atlantic City, New Jersey demonstrated its patriotism and that an understanding of the most positive and satisfactory kind existed between Secretary of Treasury Mac Adoo and the banking interests were plainly apparent. For our part, we felt satisfied of one thing that the banks are on a sounder foundation than ever before, for this reason, that all of the power and influence of the national government are behind them. This applies to state banks as well as national ones. They are all promoting the sale of Liberty Bonds and in this effort will be backed by the combined resources of the country. Money is circulating more freely, wages are higher and the average laborer can find a market for that labor. This then is the time to save. When money is saved for the rainy day, the future is secure. Those people who cannot see that the centre of financial gravity has shifted from England and France to the United States of America are blind indeed. The American star is in the ascendancy whether the allies win or lose for the nations in the combine will pool their commerce and their financial intercests on this side of the Atlantic rather than on the other side. Further more, the southern states have succeeded in having the money stream flow in large volumes through their rivers and their valleys and when the result of this is seen in the improvements, the wisdom of the colored folks who invested in southern farm lands and city lots will be apparent. Save your money colored folks and buy property. Make friends with those white folks, who will let you make friends with them and treat the other kind with distant courtesy realizing that God will bring all things right in his own time. COLORED FOLKS AND IMMIGRATION. Those progressive colored citizens who have been endearing to stem the tide of black immigration now steadily flowing Northward are having the time of their lives in the effort, when they note the tautizing, systematic persecution of leading colored men in the Southland, who are obeying the laws and who have committed no crimes other than to be progressive and to stand in the forefront of material progress in the Southland. What can be said, when people are persecuted for living on one block instead of another, sitting in one part of a street car, in stead of another, their houses searched without warrants, their baggage tampered with and the usual privileges vouchsafed a free citizen away? In addition to this, their leading men are denied the right of free speech, an army of little men seeking notoriously do all in their power to hound and annoy them. These thoughts came to us after a visit to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, New York and Pittsburg, where one meets up with old time friends with about the same regularity as he would do in old Virginia. It may be that the far seeing white men in this commonwealth may find a way to stop this systematic persecution and the condition here be so improved that the letters sent away from here to private mail may read, "come back here to Virginia," rather than, "For God's sake, stay away from Virginia and send me money enough to get away too." At the conclusion of this world's war, the garden spot of the United States will be in the Southland. It is the natural home for the colored people, if they can find a way to live here without a virtual confiscation of property. Those of us, who are fighting the battle for equal rights and equal justice expect to do so to the end of the chapter, but we insist that we be not hampered by a class of people who see no further than their noses and who do not realize the damage they are doing in gratifying private spite or innate race prejudice. Let those of us take courage and if need be send an organized committee to those white men in charge of affairs to the end that this senseless persecution of our people by some of the white people shall cease. The great majority of the betterclass of southern white people are all right. SEVENTEENTH PROVISIONAL REGIMENT. 17th Prov. Training Regiment, Fort Des Moines, Iowa Sept. 18, 1917. Dr. George W. Cabaniss, Washington, D. C. Dear Dr. Cabaniss,—It is with a feeling of genuine regret that I am leaving the Fort Des Moines, Training Camp. I had hoped to remain until the graduation of the class. The espirit de corps and discipline for this training regiment have been in comparable. All were keenly disappointed at not being commissoned at the end of their three months training. Notwithstanding this, they have prov ed their mettle and soldierly worth by their determination to stick it out. The candidates at this camp are as able and efficient leaders as three months training can produce in any people; their character is of the finest and highest type; their reputation in the community most enviable. I want you to know that the only reason for extending the period of training is a desire to use to the best advantage the time intervening before the majority of Colored Conscripts are to be called for service. Very sincerely yours, (Signed.) JAMES L. FRINK, Captain 36th Infantry, Comdg. Co. 7. Instructor WANTED—SIX ALL AROUND TOBACCO TWISTERS. Steady work for steady men. Can earn $25.00 or more per week. Address, STRATER BROS. TOBACCO CO., Louisville, Kentucky. 2t "THE FATE OF THE WAR GOD." The public is all up in arms over the announcement that Mrs. Mary E. Satterfield is to produce an original play, consisting of three acts, full of charm and grace. The action in this play is great and the city has been thoroughly searched for the material to put this play on the stage in great style. The management announces that the caste will be led by such stars as Miss Minnie Coleman as Conscience: Miss Lena Mays, Song; Miss Helen Halle, Fashion and Mr. Anderson Scott, Thief. Other members of the caste will be announced soon. There will be two hundred in the scenes, including a number of college girls and a full battalion of cadets. The public is anxious to know the time and place. Watch announcements next week. The Planet (Richmond, Va.) will be sent to your door for only $1.00 per year in advance. Subscribe now, and get the newsy news. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE! THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA URBANNA NOTES. The Sunday school Literary Union met with the Union Shiloh School last Sunday. Mr J. A. Moody, Supt. A very large crowd attended. Rev F. A. Brown of Richmond has been assisting Rev W. B. Carrington in his camp meetings here. Rev Brown is a forcible preacher, and all that have heard him have been benefited. Rev D. Tucker preached an excel lent sermon at the Waterview Camp last Sunday. Mr J. C. Boyd spent last Sunday and Monday with his cousin Mr. Wash. Boyd. Misses Margrett Ward, Lannetta Braxton and Thelst Brokenborough, left last Friday for the V. N. and I. I. of Petersburg. Miss Irene Burrell leaves today (Monday) for Albany N. Y. Mr. Webster Brown is a constant caller near Waterview. Um says matrimonial business. Mr. Ned Thornton, who made a trip recently to Baltimore, Wilmington, and Philadelphia has returned home. Mr. Joseph Talafero returned to Philadelphia last week. Miss Lavania Delever has resumed studies at the R. I. Academy, Mr. Linwood Shelton was in Baltimore last week on business. Urbana, Va., Oct. 1,—Steven E. Burrell, Jr., age 16 months, was shot to death last week by another boy whom his father, Steven Burrell had hired to cull oysters. A hawk was seen near the house, the boy said that he would shoot the hawk. The gun was given to him, but the hawk flew before he could fire, so he returned with the gun cocked, to where the three children were. He made an attempt to uncook the gun when it went off, the load entering the body of the boy, killing him instantly. AMERICAN BANKERS (Continued From First Page.) ey saving must be taught in the school, factory and in the home, even in the churches. "Savings Bank Bonds in War Time" was the subject of discussion by Lawrence Chamberlain, of Hemphill, White and Chamberlain, author of "The Principles of Bond Investments." Discussion was not engaged in although on the programme. Granting Amortized Loans by Savings Banks" was discussed by Hon. Leonard G. Robinson, President Federal Land Bank, Springfield, Mass. ATTACKED PRIVATE BNKERS An 'America First' Campaign for American Savings Institutions was discussed by Dr. H. H. Wheaton, Specialist in Immigrant Education, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. He attacked the private foreign banker, who kept the money of the immigrants. He explained how those kind of irresponsible bankers wrote letters for the immigrant and did other things for the people, who came to this country and could not speak the English language. His proposal to put them out of business met with some opposition on the part of some of the members of the Section, who belonged to the Italian nationality. The discussion that followed was interesting. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. Committees reported and then the election and installation of officers followed. The ceremony attending this is impressive. Mr. Joseph R. Noel, President Noel State Bank of Chicago, IL., was elected President. He was congratulated by the members at the close. John Mitchell, Jr., President of the Mechanics Savings Bank was among those who extended to him their felicitations. Possibly no one enjoyed greater satisfaction than did Mr. M| W. Harrison, the very abi Secretary of the Savings Bank Section who is really the propelling power in the Section and who has seen the steady growth of the Section under his management. The Pr student having declared the Section ad journed sina die, all quickly retired. Y. M. C. A NOTES 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. the boys met and they were well entertained The address by Mr. George Lomax was of great interest to them. Others made some very timely remarks. Our General Secretary had a heart talk with the drafted men who met at the Pythian Castle 4 P. M. North 3rd St. This was a happy time for every man was right on the wire. 5:30 P. M. Mr. R. H. Fauntleroy gave the men at the Y. M. C. A. an ad dress right from the shoulder. Subject. The Great Race of Life. Every man got a thought for himself. Mr. Woolridge accompanied by Prof. E. T. Pollard sang a special solo. "And The Lord May Depend on Me." Right from Washington, D. C. This was a great meeting. You are invited to come to the Y. M. C. A. Building today 5 P. M. to hear the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson. My friend you cannot afford to miss this great opportunity to be helped. Be on time with another woman or man. All boys are invited to the meeting for boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building, Mothers help us. Women and men are invited to the launching of the work of the Y. M. C. A. 8:30 P. M. at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. A heart to heart meeting. Rev. Edward D. Caffee will deliver a special message from his soul. The choir of the church will sing songs that will reach the soul. Come and help to make this a joyous hour for all. Bring an offering and a friend. The Y. M. C. A. still needs your prayers so we ask every home to remember the work that more may be done. Nothing beats a prayer from the heart (Continued from 1st Page) WHITE NEWSPAPERS SPEAK PLAINLY. Editorials appeared in the Richmond Va., News Leader and Richmond Va., Evening Journal, while Senator Addison of Lynchburg, Va., editor of the News of that city not only wrote editorials in his paper protesting against the electrocution of young Barrett, but came to Richmond and made a personal plea to Governor H. C. Stuart. Criticism was so severe that His Honor, Judge George J. Hundley went so far as to send a letter t) to the Richmond, Va., News Leader taking issue with the editor of that paper and declaring that under the law, while a jury had the discretion of imprisoning the boy for life or electrocuting him, a judge had no such discretion. DR. FREEMAN CITED THE LAW Editor Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond, Va., News Leader, one of the ablest editors in this country and who so seems not only to be well versed in science, literature, art and the law replied with citation from the Code of Virginia, showing that as Aubrey Barrett was under 18 years of age, he was subject to the provision of the law which permitted His Honor, Judge Hundley to send him to a reformatory. Judge Hundley sent another reply, which he declared would be his last publication, and in the meantime stated that he would not oppose the commutation of the boy's sentence to life imprisonment. To this communication Editor Douglas S. Freeman made a reply in the editorial columns of that journal. It was on account of this editorial that Judge Hundley cited him to appear for contempt of court. He also cited Attorney W. L Lancaster to apear before him upon a similar charge. THE PLANET'S COMMENT. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., had published an editorial upon the case and he was also cited to appear. The editorial which appeared in the Planet of September 8, 1917 was as follows: THAT SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY. They electrocuted Albert Barrett at the Virginia Penitentiary, Friday morning, August 31, 1917 and thus rang down the curtain on one of the individuals implicated in the killing of W. T. Roach, the white farmer. This was done as much to appease public sentiment in the county from which he hailed as anything else. Barrett was an industrious citizen. He had purchased a farm, mules, and he had a devoted wife and a sixteen year old boy, who is now behind the bars in the same institution. Barrett had a good reputation and if he had ever be fore taken his neighbor's goods, the courthouse records do not show it. Roach charged him with taking a load of his wheat from his farm and he alleged that he tracked the wagon wheels to Barrett's premises: Barrett returned to Roach the quantity of wheat alleged to have been taken and it is in the testimony that he offered to pay him. Roach insisted upon turning him over to the county authorities and proceeded to arrest Barrett upon his own premises without the authority of law. He sent a Mr. Collins to secure a warrant for Barrett and in the meantime stood guard over this colored man on the colored man's own premises. Barrett ran away from Roach and Roach pursued him, Barrett stumbling over a pile of brush fell and Roach got on him and was choking him, when Barrett called on his sixteen year old son, Aubrey for help. Aubrey came to his father's aid with a stick and he dealt Roach a terrible blow, which fractured the skull. The two hid the body in order to give them time to leave the neighborhood and they made their escape, being arrested near Lynchburg. Attorney W. L. Lancaster of Farmville represented ed the prisoners. He protested against the ruling of the Court and upon seeing that the case was hopeless withdrew from the boy's defense leaving him without counsel. Helpless and alone, Judge Hundley over his own signature admits that he tried this boy, who was without counsel and that he sentenced him to be electrocuted. Attorney Lancaster gave as his reason for not representing the boy, that he felt that he could not secure for him that justice to which he was entitled. It has been shown, despite His Honor, Judge Hundley's statement to the contrary that he was without any discretion in the matter, that he could have sent this boy to a reformatory he being under the age limit, eighteen years being the number of years specified in the Virginia statute. The only redeeming feature about the whole matter is the fact that Virginians came to the rescue of this helpless, sobbing, frightened black ur chin, who had in a time of dire distress rallied to the aid of his father. You may say what you will, but to our mind, he needs no reformation. Let us suppose that the color of the parties in this controversy could be reversed. What if Roach had been a colored man and Barrett a white one? Would not Aubrey Barrett have been hailed as a hero, instead of now being within the shadow of the electric chair, where his unfortunate father has already paid the penalty for his hasty action? It is a sad story. It has aroused the latent feeling of sympathy in the white men of this commonwealth. Numbers of white citizens have signed a petition to the Governor for the commutation of the sentence of death. We would to God that they had gone a step further and released from confinement one of the most remarkable children of paternal fealty ever in the history of any commonwealth. It may be that his Excellency, H. C. Stuart, Governor of Virginia may see it in this light. Certain it is that he has been deeply moved by this tragic happening and in the turmoil of passing events may exercise his powers to the end that life imprisonment shall not be the portion of a devoted son, who want just a little too far in executing the command of a loving father.—The Richmond Planet, Sept. 8, 1917. THE RULE ISSUED. It was decided to require the issuance of a rule against all parties and so on Wednesday, September 26, 1917 Judge Hundley presided over the Circuit Court at Charlotte, C. H., Va., and directed the issuance of the rules against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, (white) Attorney W. L. Lancaster, (white), and Editor John Mitchell, Jr. The process was immediately placed in the hands of the proper officers for service. The outcome of the affair will be the source of much interest. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., of the Planet arrived home from Atlantic City, New Jersey and when informed of the situation remarked, "I have had to fight for right principles all my life. I am used to fighting." DANVILLE NEWS. Last Friday evening Mr. Willie Thomas and sister Mrs. Mary Jordan of Broad St., Ext., gave an entertainment in honor of their sister, Mrs. Leatha Logan of Olanda, Florida. Games of various kinds were played and other attractions to the delight of their many friends present. These were crowned by an elaborate roopast. Mrs. Logan will leave this week for her southern home. Dr. J. Luck, was in the city last week. He was entertained last Wednesday evening by Dr. and Mrs. Geary of Holbrook St. Dr. L. Melendez King of Washington, D. C., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton Williams last week. Dr. King is a classmate of Mr. W. D. Ivy. Last week was the first time they had met in twenty years. Miss Hazel Clalborne Miss Annie Lovelaco, Miss Naomi Clark, Miss Louise Dunston and Miss Odaris Palmer leave Tuesday to resume studies in the Hartshorn Memorial College, Richmond, Va., Miss George Smith leaves for Petersburg State Norma Petersburg, Va. Miss Beatrice Williamson, will teach at Meherrin, Va., Miss Lillian Blackwell at Amelia, Va., and Miss Myrtle Avery at Ammon, Va. Mr. John Fuller is touring in the north. Last week he attended the Bankers Association in Atlantic City N. J. From Atlantic City he motoged to Boston, Mass. He is now on his way home. The Sunday School Union met with the Camp Grove Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon. The meeting was quite interesting and largely attended. High St. Baptist Church, Camp Grove Baptist Church, Beulah Baptist Church and Trinity Baptist Church have launched a Campaign against Satan. We hope and believe that the battlements of sin will be broken down, and that the host of God will march on to pray that righteousness may pre pray that righteousness may prevail. Everybody is going to the Trinity Baptist Church Sunday Oct. 14, The Cross and Crown contest of the Sunday School ends. Those who have been faithful will receive a cross and crown An interesting program will be rendered. Prof. G. W. Woody will deliver an address. Don't forget the time, 3:30 P. M. Mrs. Jennie Brewer, who sometime ago sustained an injury from a fall is improving. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS Florence, S. C., October 2.—Rev. M. Jones, of Pamplico, S. C. passed through here enroute for home. Rev. Jones was returning from the Union at Timmonsville, S. C., where he preached the introductory sermon, using as a text, Matthew 5:28. Rev. Jones has been called to preach at Hommingway, §. C. on the second Sunday in October. He anticipates a successful meeting. Mr. Washington Smith, of the A. C. L. force left for a pleasure trip South recently. A car of young colored men passed through the city recently enroute to Newport News, Va., thence to France as Stevedores. Mrs. E. B. Hines. of Alcoon, Miss. was through here recently enroute to Cheraw, S. C. She was delayed at Dillon, S. C. and complained of her two sons and herself suffering in the cold at the station. —E. B. WEBSTER: DO YOU KNOW HER? Dear Sir,—D you know any one by the name of Perry in Richmond? We have a colored lady here by the name of Alice Perry and she says she has a brother and 2 sisters. Now this lady is losing her mind . She has spine trouble and dropsy and the neighbors are getting up a petition to have her sent to the Insane Asylum. She owns her own home and if they take her there you know they will get her property unless her people get here and look after her interest, and if you can find any of them tell them to come on right away and get here before it is too late. Come right to my house and I will gladly take them up to her and if they are too poor to come for her, write and tell us what is the best thing to do with her. We are all white people and try to keep her in food. She says she was 18 years old in the Civil war times. Kindly let us know what information you can get. Oblige, Mrs. DAVID A. WAHL. 1723 Fahnistock St., Wilkinsburg, Pa. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited John Mitchell, Jr., President 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 supervlon 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. 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 childish recollection of my home place was in Henrico Co., Virginia, thirteen miles from Richmond on the plike 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 marri age, 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 Goffright Please see if you can trace the whereabouts of my sisters or relatives. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 20th day of September, 1917 ANDREW THOMAS...Complainant against LOVEN MAS....Defendant CHANCERY. The above styled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony upon the grounds of abandonment and desertion. And an affidavit having been filed that the defendant, Louise Thomas is a non-resident of the State of Virgin in, it is ordered that she appear here with fifteen days after the due pub lication of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect her interest herein. A Copy, Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. GILES J. JACKSON, p. q. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 19th day of September, 1917. JUNIUS BROADNAX,.... Plaintiff against In Chancory, Manerva BROADNAX,.... 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 grounds of desertion and adultery. And an affidavit hying been made and filed that the defendant, Manerva Broadnax is not a resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to pro- tect her interest herein. A Copy, Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. 6. A Good Skin Bleach copyright applied for Black and White Ointment-For Removing Freckles, Tan, Blackheads, Skin Blemishes-Lightens Up Dark or Sallow Skin-Used by White and Colored Folks. Give Black and White Ointment a trial. 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I am very anxious to find the where abouts, if he be 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 2496 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 R. E. Sturdivant's RELIABLE LODGING HOUSES. 1340-41-42-43 & 49, POPLAR ST. PHILADELHIA, PA. Bell 'Phone 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) For Progressive Teachers SEVENTEENTH Annual Session JUNE 26—JULY 29, 1916 Easy terms, practical course, pleasant surroundings. For terms or catalog, address Dr. S. B. Jones, Director. Send $1 and secure lodging in advance. JAS. B. DUDLEY, President Greensboro, N. C. 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(100 extra for postage) AGENTS OYMPT 1-Hair Grower, 1 Tample Oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Pomade Oil, 1 Face Cream and Directions for Saline 89.80. 28 cents extra for postage --- P. O' CONNELL 2334 E. 85TH St. Cleveland, O. FOUR Published every aturday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 311 N. 4th Street, Richmond, Virginia. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond Virginia, as second-class matter. SATURDAY.....OCTOBER 6, 1917. Read the Planet when you buy it. Pay for it, when you subscribe for it. Colored men are rallying to the colors, just as we thought they would do. If the government is violating its own laws, how can the government justly punish the citizen for doing the same thing? Don't worry. It doesn't pay to worry and yet there are some people who glory in worrying themselves and in making other people worry. The most trouble in this world comes from people, who will not do their duty and who sit down and expect some one else to do it for them. Say what you will, but keep silent on the President of the United States unless you are praising him and even too much of that will awaken suspicion that you are not altogether all right. It would be well for us to "shelve" our complaints against the present administration until after the war. Most every body else is doing it. Be polite and obliging to everybody, colored folks. Teach your children to be the same way. This includes white folks and colored ones. Good markers will pay you and those with you. In all of the "ups and downs" of this life, remember that God reigns and is all powerful in the affairs of men. You may be persecuted today, but if you mean right and try and do right, you will be honored tomorrow or the next day or the day thereafter. A QUESTION OF MONEY. The American Bankers Association, recently in session at Atlantic City, New Jersey demonstrated its patriotism and that an understanding of the most positive and satisfactory kind existed between Secretary of Treasury Mac Adoo and the banking interests were plainly apparent. For our part, we felt satisfied of one thing that the banks are on a sounder foundation than ever before, for this reason, that all of the power and influence of the national government are behind them. This applies to state banks as well as national ones. They are all promoting the sale of Liberty Bonds and in this effort will be backed by the combined resources of the country. Money is circulating more freely, wages are higher and the average laborer can find a market for that labor. This then is the time to save. When money is saved for the rainy day, the future is secure. Those people who cannot see that the centre of financial gravity has shifted from England and France to the United States of America are blind indeed. The American star is in the ascendancy whether the allies win or lose for the nations in the combine will pool their commerce and their financial intreests on this side of the Atlantic rather than on the other side Further more, the southern states have succeeded in having the money stream flow in large volumes through their rivers and their valleys and when the result of this is seen in the improvements, the wisdom of the colored folks who invested in southern farm lands and city lots will be apparent. Save your money colored folks and buy property. Make friends with those white folks, who will let you make friends with them and treat the other kind with distant courtesy realizing that God will bring all things right in his own time. --- COLORED FOLKS AND IMMIGRATION. Those progressive colored citizens who have been endavoring to stem the tide of black immigration now steadily flowing Northward are having the time of their lives in the effort, when they note the tantalizing, systematic persecution of leading colored men in the Southland, who are obeying the laws and who have committed no crimes other than to be progressive and to stand in the forefront of material progress in the Southland. What can be said, when people are persecuted for living on one block instead of another, sitting in one part of a street car in stead of another, their houses searched without warrants, their baggage tampered with and the usual privileges vouchsafed a free citizen away? In addition to this, their leading men are denied the right of free speech, an army of little men seeking notoriety do all in their power to hound and annoy them. These thoughts came to us after a visit to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, New York and Pittsburg, where one meets up with old time friends with about the same regularity as he would do in old Virginia. It may be that the far seeing white men in this commonwealth may find a way to stop this systematic persecution and the condition here be so improved that the letters sent away from here in private mail may read, "come back here to Virginia," rather than, "For God's sake, stay away from Virginia and send me money enough to get away too." At the conclusion of this world's war, the garden spot of the United States will be in the Southland. It is the natural home for the colored people, if they can find a way to live here without a virtual confiscation of property. Those of us, who are fighting the battle for equal rights and equal justice expect to do so to the end of the chapter, but we insist that we be not hampered by a class of people who see no further than their noses and who do not realize the damage they are doing in gratifying private spite or innate race prejudice. Let those of us take courage and if need be send an organized committee to those white men in charge of affairs to the end that this senseless persecution of our people by some of the white people shall cease. The great majority of the betterclass of southern white people are all right. SEVENTEENTH PROVISIONAL REGIMENT. 17th Prov. Training Regiment Fort Des Moines, Iowa Sept. 18, 1917 Dr. George W. Cabaniss, Washington, D. C. Dear Dr. Cabaniss, It is with a feeling of genuine regret that I am leaving the Fort Des Moines, Training Camp. I had hoped to remain until the graduation of the class. The spirit de corps and discipline for this training regiment have been in comparable. All were keenly disappointed at not being commissioned at the end of their three months training. Notwithstanding this, they have proved their mettle and soldierly worth by their determination to stick it out. The candidates at this camp are as able and efficient leaders as three months training can produce in any people; their character is of the finest and highest type; their reputation in the community most enviable. I want you to know that the only reason for extending the period of training is a desire to use to the best advantage the time intervening before the majority of Colored Conscripts are to be called for service. Very sincerely yours, (Signed.) JAMES L. FRINK, Captain 36th Infantry, Comdg. Co. 7. Instructor WANTED—SIX ALL AROUND TOBACCO TWISTERS. Steady work for steady men. Can earn $25.00 or more per week. Address, STRATER BROS. TOBACCO CO., Louisville, Kentucky. 28 "THE FATE OF THE WAR GOD." The public is all up in arms over the announcement that Mrs. Mary E. Satterfield is to produce an original play, consisting of three acts, full of charm and grace. The action in this play is great and the city has been thoroughly searched for the material to put this play on the stage in great style. The management announces that the caste will be led by such stars as Miss Minnie Coleman as Conscience; Miss Lena Mays, Song; Miss Helen Haile, Fashion and Mr. Anderson Scott, Thief. Other members of the caste will be announced soon. There will be two hundred in the scenes, including a number of college girls and a full battalion of cadets. The public is anxious to know the time and place. Watch announcements next week. The Planet (Richmond, Va.) will be sent to your door for only $1.10 per year in advance. Subscribe now, and get the news news. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE! THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA URBANNA NOTES. The Sunday school Literary Union met with the Union Shiloh School last Sunday, Mr. J. A. Moody, Supt. A very large crowd attended. Rev. F. A. Brown of Richmond has been assisting Rev. W. B. Carrington in his camp meetings here. Rev. Brown is a forcible preacher, and all that have heard him have been benefited. Rev. D. Tucker preached an excel lent sermon at the Waterview Camp last Sunday. Mr. J. C. Boyd spent last Sunday and Monday with his cousin Mr. Wash. Boyd. Misses Margrett Ward. Lannetta Braxton and Thelst Brokenborough, left last Friday for the V. N. and I. of Petersburg. Miss Irene Burrell leaves today (Monday) for Albany N. Y. Mr. Webster Brown is a constant caller near Waterview. Um says matrimonial business. Mr. Ned Thornton, who made a trip recently to Baltimore, Wilmington, and Philadelphia has returned home. Mr. Joseph Talaferro returned to Philadelphia last week. Miss Lavania Delever has resumed studies at the R. L. Academy. Mr Linwood Shelton was in Baltimore last week on business. Urbana, Ya., Oct. 1,—Steven B. Burrell, Jr., age 16 months, was shot to death last week by another boy whom his father, Steven Burrell had hired to cull oysters. A hawk was seen near the house, the boy said that he would shoot the hawk. The gun was given to him, but the hawk flew before he could fire, so he returned with the gun cocked, to where the three children were. He made an attempt to uncoach the gun when it went off, the load entering the body of the boy, killing him instantly. AMERICAN BANKERS AMERICAN BANKERS (Continued From First Page.) ey saving must be taught in the school, factory and in the home, even in the churches. "Savings Bank Bonds in War Time" was the subject of discussion by Lawrence Chamberlain, of Hemphill, White and Chamberlain, author of "The Principles of Bond Investments." Discussion was not engaged in although on the programme. Granting Amortized Loans by Savings Banks" was discussed by Hon. Leonard G. Robinson, President Federal Land Bank, Springfield, Mass. ATTACKED PRIVATE BNKERS An 'America First' Campaign for American Savings Institutions was discussed by Dr. H. H. Wheaton, Specialist in Immigrant Education, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. He attacked the private foreign banker, who kept the money of the immigrants, he explained how those kind of irresponsible bankers wrote letters for the immigrant and did other things for the people, who came to this country and could not speak the English language. His proposal to put them out of business met with some opposition on the part of some of the members of the Section, who belonged to the Italian nationality. The discussion that followed was interesting. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. Committees reported and then the election and installation of officers followed. The ceremony attending this is impressive. Mr. Joseph R. Nool, President Nool State Bank of Chicago, Ill., was elected President. He was congratulated by the members at the close. John Mitchell, Jr., President of the Mechanies Savings Bank was among those who extended to him their felicitations. Possibly no one enjoyed greater satisfaction than did Mr. M] W. Harrison, the very able Secretary of the Savings Bank Section who is really the propelling power in the Section and who has seen the steady growth of the Section under his management. The Pr student having declared the Section adjourned sina die, all quickly retired. Y. M. C. A NOTES 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. the boys met and they were well entertained. The address by Mr. George Lomax was of great interest to them. Others made some very timely remarks. Our General Secretary had a heart talk with the drafted men who met at the Pythian Castle 4 P. M. North 3rd St. This was a happy time for every man was right on the wire. 5:30 P. M. Mr. R. H. Fauntleroy gave the men at the Y. M. C. A. an ad dress right from the shoulder. Subject. The Great Race of Life. Every man got a thought for himself. Mr. Woolridge accompanied by Prof. E. T. Pollard sang a special solo. "And The Lord May Depend on Me." Right from Washington, D. C. This was a great meeting. You are invited to come to the Y. M. C. A. Building today 5 P. M. to hear the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson. My friend you cannot afford to miss this great opportunity to be helped. Be on time with another woman or man. All boys are invited to the meeting for boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building, Mothers help us. Women and men are invited to the launching of the work of the Y. M. C. A. 8:30 P. M. at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. A heart to heart meeting, Rev. Edward D. Caffee will deliver a special message from his soul. The choir of the church will sing songs that will reach the soul. Come and help to make this a joyous hour for all. Bring an offering and a friend. The Y. M. C. A. still needs your prayers so we ask every home to remember the work that more may be done. Nothing beats a prayer from the heart JUDGE HUNDLEY (Continued from 1st Page) WHITE NEWSPAPERS SPEAK PLAINLY. Editorials appeared in the Richmond Va., News Leader and Richmond Va., Evening Journal, while Senator Addison of Lynchburg, Va., editor of the News of that city not only wrote editorials in his paper protesting against the electrosecution of young Barrett, but came to Richmond and made a personal plea to Governor H. C. Stuart. Criticism was so severe that His Honor, Judge George J. Hundley went so far as to send a letter to the Richmond, Va., News Leader taking issue with the editor of that paper and declaring that under the law, while a jury had the discretion of imprisoning the boy for life or electrocuting him, a judge had no such discretion. DR. FREEMAN CITED THE LAW Editor Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the Richmond, Va., News Leader, one of the ablest editors in this country and who seems not only to be well versed in science, literature, art and the law replied with citation from the Code of Virginia, showing that an Abrey Barrett was under 18 years of age, he was subject to the provision of the law which permitted His Honor, Judge Hundley to send him to a reformatory, Judge Hundley sent another reply, which he declared would be his last publication, and in the meantime stated that he would not oppose the commutation of the boy's sentence to life imprisonment. To this communication Editor Douglas S. Freeman made a reply in the editorial columns of that journal. It was on account of this editorial that Judge Hundley cited him to appear for contempt of court. He also cited Attorney W. L Lancaster to apear before him upon a similar charge. THE PLANET'S COMMENT Editor John Mitchell, Jr., had published an editorial upon the case and he was also cited to appear. The editorial which appeared in the Planet of September 8, 1917 was as follows: THAT SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY. They electrocuted Albert Barrett at the Virginia Penitentiary, Friday morning, August 31, 1917 and thus rang down the curtain on one of the individuals implicated in the killing of W. T. Roach, the white farmer. This was done as much to appease public sentiment in the county from which he hailed as anything else. Barrett was an industrious citizen. He had purchased a farm, mules, and he had a devoted wife and a sixteen year old boy, who is now behind the bars in the same institution. Barrett had a good reputation and if he had ever be fore taken his neighbor's goods, the courthouse records do not show it. Roach charged him with taking a load of his wheat from his farm and he alleged that he tracked the wagon wheels to Barrett's premises. Barrett returned to Roach the quantity of wheat alleged to have been taken and it is in the testimony that he offered to pay him. Roach insisted upon turning him over to the county authorities and proceeded to arrest Barrett upon his own premises without the authority of law. He sent a Mr. Collins to secure a warrant for Barrett and in the meantime stood guard over this colored man on the colored man's own premises. Barrett ran away from Roach and Roach pursued him, Barrett stumbling over a pile of brush fell and Roach got on him and was choking him, when Barrett called on his sixteen year old son, Aubrey for help. Aubrey came to his father's aid with a stick and he dealt Roach a terrible blow, which fractured the skull. The two hid the body in order to give them time to leave the neighborhood and they made their escape, being arrested near Lynchburg. Attorney W. L. Lancaster of Farmville represented the prisoners. He protested against the ruling of the Court and upon seeing that the case was hopeless withdrew from the boy's defense leaving him without counsel. Helpless and alone, Judge Hundley over his own signature admits that he tried this boy, who was without counsel and that he sentenced him to electrocuted. Attorney Lancaster gave as his reason for not representing the boy, that he felt that he could not secure for him that justice to which he was entitled. It has been shown, despite His Honor, Judge Hundley's statement to the contrary that he was without any discretion in the matter, that he could have sent this boy to a reformatory he being under the age limit, eighteen years being the number of years specified in the Virginia statute. The only redeeming feature about the whole matter is the fact that Virginians came to the rescue of this helpless, sobbing, frightened black ur chin, who had in a time of dire distress rallied to the aid of his father. You may say what you will, but to our mind, he needs no reformation. Let us suppose that the color of the parties in this controversy could be re versed. What if Roach had been a colored man and Barrett a white one? Would not Aubrey Barrett have been hailed as a hero, instead of now being within the shadow of the electric chair, where his unfortunate father has already paid the penalty for his hasty action? It is a sad story. It has aroused the latent feeling of sympathy in the white men of this commonwealth. Numbers of white citizens have signed a petition to the Governor for the commutation of the sentence of death. We would to God that they had gone a step further and released from confinement one of the most remarkable children of paternal fealty ever in the history of any commonwealth. It may be that his Excellency, H. C. Stuart, Governor of Virginia may see it in this light. Certain it is that he has been deeply moved by this tragic happening and in the turmoil of passing events may exercise his powers to the end that life imprisonment shall not be the portion of a devoted son, who want just a little too far in executing the command of a loving father.----The Richmond Planet, Sept. 8, 1917. THE RULE ISSUED It was decided to require the issuance or a rule against all parties and so on Wednesday, September 26, 1917 Judge Hundley presided over the Circuit Court at Charlotte, C. H. Va., and directed the issuance of the rules against Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, (white) Attorney W. L. Lancaster, (white,) and Editor John Mitchell, Jr. The process was immediately placed in the hands of the proper officers for service. The outcome of the affair will be the source of much interest. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., of the Planet arrived home from Atlantic City, New Jersey and when informed of the situation remarked, "I have had to fight for right principles all my life. I am used to fighting." DANVILLE NEWS. Last Friday evening Mr. Willie Thomas and sister Mrs. Mary Jordan of Broad St., Ext., gave an entertainment in honor of their sister, Mrs. Leatha Logan of Olanda, Florida. Games of various kinds were played and other attractions to the delight of their many friends present. These were crowned by an elaborate repast. Mrs. Logan will leave this week for her southern home. Dr. J. Luck, was in the city last week. He was entertained last Wednesday evening by Dr. and Mrs. Geary of Holbrook St. Dr. L. Melendez King of Washington, D. C., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton Williams last week. Dr. King is a classmate of Mr. W. D. Ivy. Last week was the first time they had met in twenty years. Miss Hazel Clathorne Miss Annie Lovelace, Miss Naomi Clark, Miss Louise Dunston and Miss Odari Patmer leave Tuesday to resume studies in the Hartshorn Memorial College, Richmond, Va., Miss George Smith leaves for Petersburg State Norma Petersburg, Va. Miss Beatrice Williamson, will teach at Meherrin, Va., Miss Lillian Blackwell at Amelia, Va., and Miss Myrtle Avery at Ammon, Va. Mr. John Fuller is touring in the north. Last week he attended the Bankers Association in Atlantic City N. J. From Atlantic City he motored to Boston, Mass. He is now on his way home. The Sunday School Union met with the Camp Grove Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon. The meeting was quite interesting and largely attended. High St. Baptist Church, Camp Grove Baptist Church, Beulah Baptist Church and Trinity Baptist Church have launched a Campaign against Satan. We hope and believe that the battlements of sin will be broken down, and that the best of God will march on to pray that righteousness may provail. Everybody is going to the Trinity Baptist Church Sunday Oct. 14, The Cross and Crown contest of the Sunday School ends. Those who have been faithful will receive a cross and crown An interesting program will be rendered. Prof. G. W. Woody will deliver an address. Don't forget the time, 3:30 P. M. Mrs. Jennie Brewer who sometime ago sustained an injury from a fall is improving. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS Florence, S. C., October 2.—Rev. M. Jones, of Pamplico, S. C. passed through here enroute for home. Rev. Jones was returning from the Union at Timmonsville, S. C., where he preached the introductory sermon, using as a text, Matthew 5:28. Rev. Jones has been called to preach at Hummingway, S. C. on the second Sunday in October. He anticipates a successful meeting. Mr. Washington Smith, of the A. C. L. force left for a pleasure trip South recently. A car of young colored men passed through the city recently enroute to Newport News, Va., thence to France as Stevedores. Mrs. E. B. Hines, of Alcoon, Miss. was through here recently enroute to Cheraw, S. C. She was delayed at Dillon, S. C. and complained of her two sons and herself suffering in the cold at the station -E. B. WEBSTER. DO YOU KNOW HER? Dear Sir,—D you know any one by the name of Perry in Richmond? We have a colored lady here by the name of Alice Perry and she says she has a brother and 2 sisters. Now this lady is losing her mind. She has spine trouble and dropsy and the neighbors are getting up a petition to have her sent to the Insane Asylum. She owns her own home and if they take her there you know they will get her property unless her people get her and look after her interest, and if you can find any of them tell them to come on right away and get here before it is too late. Come right to my house and I will gladly take them up to her and if they are too poor to come for her, write and tell us what is the best thing to do with her. We are all white people and try to keep her in food. She says she was 18 years old in the Civil war times. Kindly let us know what information you can get. Oonge. Mrs. DAVID A. WAHL. 1723 Fahnstock St. Wilkinsburg, Pa. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE HOUSES FOR SALE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledle Notary Public. Savings Account SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR MECHANICS SAVINGS NORTHWEST CORNER THIRD AN Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited John Mitchell, Jr., President 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. 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 childish 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 marri age, 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 Goffright Please see if you can trace the whereabouts of my sisters or relatives. 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(100 extra for postage) AORNIS OTTERS - Hair Grower, 1 Temple Oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Hair Grower, 1 Face Cream and Birefion at $3.00. 20 cents extra for postage. --- That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments, and any citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right.-Bill of Rights of Virginia, Article I, Section 12. That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws by any authority, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.—Bill of Rights of Virginia, Article I, Section 7. STARTLING REVELATION Continued from the First Page.) be made to conform to the Constitution of The National Baptist Convention. WANTED A CLEAN BILL (c) I took pains and said these words: "When the Secretary of the Publishing Board sent for me and sat down and told me of the actions of the Commission and asked my advice, as to what was the best thing to do, I told him: "To prepare to give the people a clean bill of health," and if he was not right, he had better get right for I was going to the people with this story, and I would not swerve a hairs breadth for the truth regardless to whom it may hurt until this question is settled and settled rightly to the glory of God and good of the constituents of the National Baptist Convention world without end." I have no personal feeling against a living human being, and I am not looking for a job, either for myself, kinfok, friends or acquaintances. And I here by serve notice that I am going to try to help elect a New President of the National Convention." "I am not going to follow any splitters; it matters not who is elected I am going to remain in the National Baptist Convention and contend for the ruler of the people until the people wake up to the marvulous possibilities of the Great National Baptist Convention." See page 23-24. HAVE KEPT THE PROMISE. I have kept that promise to day. (d) Dr. Boyd promised he would change the charter and did attempt to submit a Minority report to that end at Philadelphia, which was voted down, (Dr. Galvin voted against it too). Thon Dr. Boyd and I made a common cause against the administration. And I told him, that Dr. Galvin would join us if he would tell him his position as he had told it to me; although he had voted with the commission against Dr. Boyd at Philadelphia 1913. (e) Henry Allen Boyd wrote Dr. Galvin; submitting three questions and Dr. Galvin's reply and Dr. Boyd's reply to Dr. Galvin are here given to gather with extracts from Dr. Boyds letter to me concerning Dr. Galvin's attitude. (f) I here submit some extracts from those letters (for lack of space). I will publish the whole of the originals if any one desires it, for the purpose of showing that Dr. Boyd's position was right when I was with him and that Dr. Galvin was against him at that time and with the administration, and that now since Dr. Boyd reversed his position when he went in to the courts, I abandoned him, and Dr. Galvin joined him and is aiding and abetting him now at the peril of dividing the Convention in Virginia, and losing the supports of the Virginia Seminary in the North and I as so wish to show that Dr. Boyd admitted in his private letter to Dr. Galvin the very point the Denomination is trying to prove in the courts and that this letter will be placed in evidence against him. IQR. BOYD'S LETTER TO DR. MOSES Nashville, Tenn., 4-16-14. Rev. W. H. Moses, D. D. Knoxville, Tenn. Dear Dr. Moses, "I am enclosing you a letter from Rev. A. A. Galvin, and a copy of my answer. You see you judged him a little wrong, but the probabilities are that you can bring him around—"I know he has been misled, but I think if you got after him you will straighten him out." Yours truly, R. H. BOYD, Secretary. DR. GALVIN'S LETTER TO DR. BOYD. 232 South Main St. Danville, Va., April 8. 14 Rev. Henry Allen Boyd, Nashville, Tenn. Dear Rev. Boyd,—Yours of the third instant received, and replying I wish to say that I am perfectly willing to answer your questions from my view point.—"In answering your first question. I have to say that I do not believe that the Publishing Board and the Home Board should in any way, be run in association one with the other, but that they be absolutely, positively and distinctly separated. And I do not think the other enter prises should be connected with the Publishing Board. SHOULD NOT BE BLOCKED Responding to your second question, I would say I do not believe "the progress of the Board should be blocked and their work retarded by undue interference ill-advised legislation and continued investigations fostered by designing persons." But Is this the case? I do not really think it is. I take the position that if the Publishing Board is owned by Nerco Baptists through the Nation Baptist Convention, it should be regarded as their prerogative to investigate when they think proper and that the question of necessity and propriety is to be decked upon alone by them, and not by men employed by them to manage this concern in keeping with their orders." In answer to your third question, I wish to say, that I do believe the Publishing Board should be subject to the National Baptist Convention at all times. TOO MUCH CONFIDENCE "You said you take me into your confidence, and I fear you have done too many likewise; as I see that you have written other brethren and have taken them into your confidence, just as you have done me. And from what I hear you have written brethren all over the country in the same strain. Now what is all this for? It is simply because the National Convention upon her right to look into the affairs of what you say is her own property? Well it seems too bad." "I am sorry you ask for the return of your letter in case I did not agree with you. What is that for? When you wrote and sent me the letter it was mine upon reception, and I ro gret that I cannot comply with your strange request, as I want it for ror erence." "Hoping to hear from you at once, I am yours for the advancement of the National Baptist Publishing Board." Signed, A. A. GALVIN Dr. Boyd lets the truth slip out in his private letter to Dr. Galvin before the Jones convention was organized or the suit instituted to get the peoples publishing board. 4 15 14. Rev. A. A. Galvin, 223 S. Main St., Danville, Va. Dear Dr. Galvin,—"Your very straight forward, plain and business like letter to H. A. Boyd was handed me to day by him.—"I take this privilege and pleasure of answer some of the straightforward questions, which I feel very sure he would not under take to discuss."—From what I have learned of you and your character by those best acquainted with you, that all you are looking for is the truth, and when that is obtain ed you will be straight on matters." WOULD CHANGE HIS MIND. "Well, Dr. Galvin, there are several people unacquainted with this affair like yourself, but if you know the history of the affair, you would possibly have cause to change your mind. I feel that I ought to briefly state to you first, the Publishing Board was and is a nominal creature of the Home Mission Board. In 1896 at St. Louis Mo., at the same time that I was elected Secretary of the Home Mission Board, a resolution was passed by the convention authorizing the Home Mission Board to appoint a Printing Committee of five with R. H. Boyd, as Secretary. This Printing Committee proceeded under this resolution to organize itself under the auspices of the Home Mission Board, and be gan the Publication of Sunday School literature."—R. H. Boyd went from St. Louis, Mo., to Nashville Tenn., started this publication under the name of National Baptist Publishing Board." "Doing this Publication work under the name of the National Baptist Publishing Board, and The Missionary work under the name of the Home Mission Board; he, (Boyd) acting as secretary of both. At the Boston meeting in 1917 he had made such a showing that the Convention asked the Home Mission Board to have this Printing Committee incorporated under the Laws of the State of Tennes see." ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION "In March 1898 these articles of incorporation were drawn up by Lawyer T. C. Ewing whom you heard testify. "He drew up the charter under the laws of Tennessee by the Shannon Code. In September 1898 at Kansas City Missouri, when the Home Mission Board made its report it carried in an exact inventory of every article purchased which the minutes of that year will show, then read the charter before the convention. The charter was unanimously adopted and this Publishing Board acted as Trustees for the property, while the Home Mission Board had the General oversight.' "The Convention or the Home Mission Board elected the five incorporators which was afterwards increased to nine. Each of these have been retested every three years according to the terms of the charter." "Under the constitution, if you will read it, any member of the National Baptist Convention has a right to come to Nashville and look into the books to satisfy themselves at any time." NO FULL ACCESS. This does look to me as if the Nat- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ional Baptist Convention has certainly had full access to make all the investigations that it desires to make. "The last thought and I must close The National Baptist Convention is appointed to act by its constitution. The Board is compelled by the laws of the state to act under its charter; hence if this Board has violated the constitution any where, it can be proved by the Convention; If it has violated its obligation to the state, it can be foreclosed by the Laws of the state."—I have tried to write as frank as you wrote, and given you the facts in the case, or a few of them. When you read these, you will understand our protest. DENIED THE FACTS Believing Dr. Boyd was admitting the facts in good faith Dr. Galvin like myself and others, indicted him self with Dr. Boyd in the attempt to regulate the convention in Chicago and as soon as Dr. Boyd concluded that he had a following that would stand by him, right or wrong, he went before the courts and denied the very facts which he had admitted to Dr. Galvin in the above letter and to me over and over in the presence of many witnesses. Now look at the Boyd's Board's answer to the Courts printed in his report at Kansas City, Sept. 8, 1916 and reiterated in his report in Atlanta, G&V Sept. 5, 1917, on page 54 to 73, which says: "These, respondents deny that resolutions were introduced in the convention in 1896 held in St. Louis, Missouri, looking forward to the establishing of a Publishing house.—This charter was not secured by any particular committee but was procured by individuals whose names are signed to it." Respondents deny that there was any adoption or ratification by the Home Mission Board of any convention of Baptists held in Kansas City further than welcoming this new enterprise."—"As far back as 1894, the General Convention of Texas elected R. H. Boyd, Supt. of Missions." A REFERENCE TO THE BEGINNING He then conceived the idea of having Negro Literature Published by Negroes." "It was a part of this vision that has developed," "These re spondents deny that the Publishing Board has even been maintained, or received any contribution from the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America or any other Convention." "These respondents deny that they were ever selected to office or that they have de rived any authority as officers, directors or trustees by virtue of any action of any convention at any time whatsoever." In his report at Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 1917 Dr Boyd says: "There have been many rumors and false statements about the organization of the Publishing Board and men have even sworn that the Board was organized by a resolution offered in St. Louis Miscourt, in 1896. This is absolutely false and no such record can be found." Well the record has been found al though Dr. Boyd advertised for it and offered $10.00 a piece for the minutes and thought he had gotten all of them from every person in the country everal years ago. SHALL SUBMIT THE LETTER But aside from that we shall sub mit Dr. Boyd's letter to Dr. Galvin in evidence and condemn him out of his own mouth. Now that Dr. Boyd has reversed him self will Dr. Galvin still support and shield him by becoming apart of the Jones Convention which says in the Record of the Court: (Marked Ehbilt C.) "The National Baptist Convention has no records known to us where the National Baptist Convention owns any prop rty interest or invested any money in the said corporation. There fore you will not be expected to enter into litigation for possession of the property or the removal of any of the incorporators." CAN OVERLOOK BLUNDERS We can overlook the blunders of brother Bowling, and Madison, and King and Will Hall, they do not know the facts; brother Bowling has never attended the National Convention in his life. But Dr. Galvin knows better he has had all this inside knowledge of raciality first hand; and in the face of the shameful facts in the case he has pretended to be neutral; which is another name of "slacker," and aid er of the enemy of the people's interest. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Y. M. C. A. Literary was a live wire last Friday night. The program was a good one. Mr. W. M. Rainay, read a special paper. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. The workers hold a meeting at the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. Coma. PORTSMOUTH NEWS. The Planet is attracting the attention of many here on the account of its views on all National questions, State affairs and community occurrences. The Zion Baptist Church, Dr. J. M. Armstead pastor closed its revival services with several additions. The Metropolitan Baptist Church Rev. R. G. Adams pastor will begin its revival on the First Sunday, Oct. 7th Rev. N. B. Brown of Richmond, Va. has been engaged to conduct the meeting. Rev. C. S. Campbell was able to be out on Sunday and preached to the podcarriers. Rev. W. E. Brown of First Church South Portsmouth, is at his post of duty. Dr. C. C. Summerville of Ebenezer Baptist Church and congregation are putting in a heating plant . Rev. Arnold and his people will soon be able to go into their New edifice. The St. Thomas Baptist Church when completed will indeed be a beautiful building. Rev. O. C. Jones of Mt. Hermon is nearing the completion of a beautiful brick residence for his family. The Corey Memorial Academy will open October 1st, with Prof. Manning as principal. The son of Deacon R. H. Perkins, returned from Ashville, N. C. Mrs. M. M. Harriston, and little daughter, Thelma of Farmville, Va. are visiting Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Adams, 1608 Effingham St. Mrs. Facen, of 35 Green St., has been on the sick list for quite a while. Mr. F. M. Smith of 1017 Palmer St., is quite ill. Mrs. Callie Boone of Franklin, Va., spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Boone of Effingham St. The little daughter, Elizabeth, of Mr. and Mrs. Chambers of Griffin St., is much improved since her stay in the Hospital. Mrs. Mildora Boone is again on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Tucker are delighted to have their son in law and two beautiful grand children from the north to visit them. Miss Adele Adams of 1608 Effingham St., will leave this week for Petersburg School. Miss Josephine Hatchett of Green St. will leave for Hartshorn College. FARMVILLE NEWS Mr. Editor. It has been some time since you have heard from us in this section. I am sure you would like to know the reason why. The great war is the accepted excuse for all short comings. We know this since the beginning of this war there have been many changes. A Rev. W. E. Pettus' Vision of the Holy Bible. We had a warm time in our class Thursday night, Rev. W. E. Pettus, master of ceremonies. Opening hymn No. 127; Scripture lesson, Luke 15:17-20, Mrs. Sadio R. Pettus; prayer, Rev. W. E. Pettus; lesson An article used to appear in your paper every week headed Mr. "Rambler." Will you please tell us who he was and where is he? If he is in America we would like to know. This section has suffered much owing to the exodus of our people seeking better wages. Thus we have lost some of our best citizens. Rev. R. G. Adams the ex-pastor of the First Baptist Church was in the city a few days ago. His many friends were delighted to see him. The First Baptist Church is still without a pastor. Madam Rumor says that the Church will have a pastor by Dec. 7th. Mrs. M. M. Hairston and little daughter left last week to visit Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Adams of Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Irving Lawrence of Charlotte, S. C., who has been visiting the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Hairston, 624 South Main street, left for his home after spending several days in our town. A reception was given in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hairston on the night of his leave. The invited guest were composed of the several friends of the young ladies of the home. We tried to find out just what date Mr. Lawrence would return to Farmville and accomplish the object of his visit. We know that distance is no barrier against such accomplished objects as Farmville affords. Jeffries No. 1 COUGH MIXTURE No1 TRADE MARK Guaranteed COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS LEAD TO BRONCHITIS PNEUOMonia AND WEAK LUNGS. 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