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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 48 THRIFT COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT REPORT OF SPECIAL THRIEF COMMITTEE FOR WORK AMONG COLORED PEOPLE. The following is the report of John Mitchell, Jr., Chairman, made to the Savings Bank Section of the American Bankers' Association in Atlantic City, N. J., in the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 1947. Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 25.—According to the U. S. Census Reports for 1949, there were (9,827,763) one million, eight hundred and twenty seven thousand, seven hundred and sixty-three colors, people in this country. Of this number, (7,915,332) seven million nine hundred and fifteen thousand, three hundred and thirty two reside in the State of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma Arkansas, Kew city and West Virginia. This leaves (1,932,431) one million nine hundred and twelve thousand, four hundred and thirty-one residing in the northern and western states. Granting that the exodus northward and westward assumed huge proportions, it is safe to say that the difference will not exceed one hundred thousand. The bulk of the population will remain where it is. Far seeing southerners are already diplomatically making changes industrially and consumerally in the Outland, less as to wages and living conditions in order to check this immigration. They have been calling into consultation of the "colored leaders in that section of the country with a view of finding a remedy to cause a cessation of the unrest. The value of the property of the colored people in this country has been estimated to be seven hundred million dollars. Add to it the deposits in the banks of the country and it will be (Continued on the fourth pare) UNION'S INITIAL GAME Under the leadership of Coach al. P. Robinson the Union squad is again rounding into a strong combination. This year's team promises to eclipse the veritable eleven of last year. The daily third of the pigskin may be heard each afternoon on Hovey Field during the Unionites' stiff workouts in preparation for their opening game with St. Paul at Lawrenceville, Va. Much joy is evidenced among the loyal rood and steel supporters by the presence of "Tank" Woods again at full and Hucels at quarter, Hucels educated toe is again doing its destructive work and promises to be an element of fear and terror to all up posing eleven. All of last year's back field men have returned and donned their uniforms with the exception of Bowie, who is in the training camp. His shoes will be filled by Kirby of Last year's squad and Skittner, a recruit from Kittrell College, who has displayed superform at half and has also proven himself to be a giant at tackling. The elusive Gregory will hold down the other job at half, Tay Lor the sensational end of last year, is taking care of left end and is dis playing his same care ability on the receiving end of passions. In Taylor and Smith the end positions are well taken care of. Among the other new recruits are Bragg, who is making a strong bid for quarterback and Smith who has made a wonderful showing at right end. With the arrival of a few of the remaining veterans, Union's roster will be complete. The present aggregation promises to surpass all previous records of former teams and without a doubt will place a stronger team on the field this fall than has ever represented the red and steel. According to the present outlook Howard and Hampton will number among Union's victims this season. The entire squad will be in fine fettle for its initial struggle with St. Paul which will without a doubt prove a walkover for the Unionites. Then she returns to her own bulwark and begins a strenuous preparation for the warm reception of the Seasiders on November 3rd. THE NEW THEATRE The Globe Theatre on Second St. between Clay and Leigh St. has opened under auspicious circumstances. Devoted exclusively to moving pictures of a high order, its patrons are outspoken in praise of what the management has done. Read the announcement in this issue. Ten cents is the admission price. Go there and see for yourself. Senator La Follette Defies Enemies Reiterates His Position. ==Will Not Swerve a Hair=breath.==Stirring Scenes in the United States Senate.==Two Great Speakers Answer Him. Washington, D. C., Oct. 6, 1917 In the midst of a day's thrilling debate on alleged disloyalty of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin the extortionary session of Congress, which he can April 2, and generally regarded as the most momentous in American history, was adjourned since die at 10:30 a.m. Vementiment criticism of the Wisconsin Senator and his own defense ceeping virtually the entire day marked the close of the war session. WILSON AT CAPITOL President Wilson was at the Capitol, and the usual eleventh hour grist of resignation was put through, following six months of important war action. Last night most of the members who had remained for the final days were en route home, to await the call of the next session, December 3. SENATE AND HOUSE SCENES With galleries crowded to their capacity, the Senate Chamber was the scene of five hours' stirring discussion of Senator La Follette's attitude on the war, but in the House there was little to mark the occasion except submission of a committee report mildly censuring Representative Helfin, of Alabama, for criticizing fellow members in connection with Count Von Bernstorff's request for Berlin to furnish funds to influence Congress. The day began with a three hour speech by Senator La Follette, in defense of his criticisms of war questions. LA POLLETTE READS DEFENSE Without everthing his recent ad dress before the Nonpartisan League at St. Paul, for investigation of which arrangements were completed yester day by a Senate subcommittee, or naming any of his critics, Mr. La Follette read a carefully prepared defense of his course and declared his intention to follow it in the future. He was interrupted only once. Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, and Fall, of New Mexico, Republicans and Rodinson, of Arkansas, Democrat, replied with criticism of Mr. La Follette's public statements. They denounced what they termed his unpatriotic stand, Senator Robin con asserting that if he held such opinions he would seek a place in the German Bundesrat. Statements accredited to the Wisconsin member in his St. Paul speech were fairly contradicted, especially that regarding former Secretary of State Bryan's knowledge of annuition being on the Lausitania before that steamship sailed on its fatal voyage. Apparently stung by the criticism Senator La Follette made an unsuccessful effort to get time for a response. He succeeded however he stated that he wished to make known the authority for his declaration regarding the Lausitania and last night announced he would issue a public statement today. To morrow the Senate privileges and elections investigating subcommittee will meet to investigate his St. Paul speech, including the Lausitania incident. ATTACKS ON LA FOLLETTE It met at 10 o'clock under agreement for Mr. La Follette to speak until 1 o'clock, with the rest of the time for replies and miscellaneous final business. Right of free speech and of discussion of public questions was emphasized by Senator La Follette while Senators criticising him declared that he transcended the Constitution's guarantee in that respect. Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, bitterly denounced as a "slander on the intelligence, honor and patriotism of the country" the alleged declaration of Mr. La Follette in St. Paul that the nation went to war to maintain a technical right of Americans to travel on munition laden vessels in behalf of munition makers' interest in the war. Senator Robinson indicated that Senator La Follette has lent himself to the promotion of the kaiser's ideas and desires, and demanded that the Wisconsin senator make known whether he stands with Germany or America. BAN ON DISLOYAL PLATFORMS "Do not any of you deceive yourselves," said Senator Robinson, "with the theory that you can organize the RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1917 discrimuted elements of the United States and run for the presidency on a platform of disloyalty. It can't be done. You can't even start the running much less win. "That flag stands for justice; justice at home and liberty abroad. That flag never was lifted in a nobler cause than in the present conflict with Germany." "It you cannot agree with this state ment, for God's sake, familiarize yourselves with current events as to the attempted charless responsibility of misrepresenting your country and its leadership before the American people." WOULD RESIGN. SAYS ROBINSON Senator Robinson declared that if he entertained the sentiments La Follette had expressed he would not await any action by the Senate, but would resign his seat and seek the companionship of those whose views he voiced. "Senator La Follette's speech was based on the erroneous assertion that the United States declared war or Germany forced war on her," declared Senator Robinson. "To make a statement of that kind is to say a thing not based on facts. He added he could not find words which he would be permitted under the rules to use in characterizing the Wisconsin senator's speech. Senator Robinson said that if he himself were to express such sentiments he would think that he would have no right to retain his seat in the Senate. EXPECTS AFFIFAVITS FROM SPIES Senator Robinson demanded to know why the Wisconsin senator should make his plea for free speech and at the same time denounce those who have demanded his expulsion. He said it was a singular thing that a senator should speak for 2 hours in denounce (Continued On Fourth Page.) KNIGHTS OF PYTHIA A New Lodge at Scottsdale—Grand Chancellor Hall Delivers Address Scottsburg, Va., Oct 5 — Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., accompanied by Dr. A. A. Tennant, the Grand Medical Register, and Col R. C. Mitchell arrived here this morning at about 12 o'clock to set up a lodge of Knights of Pythias at Piney Grove Baptist Church. They were met at the train by Sir George W. Bailey. The party entered a car and in a short time was at the Church. Speaking had been announced to take place at 2 P. M. but it was some time after that hour before the people began to assemble. Grand Chancellor Mitchell gave a history of the Order and then discussed matters affecting the welfare of the race. CONFERRED THREE RANKS Remarks were made by Dr. A. A. Tennant and Col. R. C. Mitchell. The Grand Chancellor surprised all he announced as that as many candidates were present and had been examined by the Grand Medical Register, he would proceed with the initiation forthwith. He then conferred the three ranks upon the candidates. Visiting Knights were present and assisted. It was 1:15 P. M. when he left the hall and he proceeded in company with his nephew to start for the train, which left Scottsburg at 5:30. He left District Deputy J. H. Martin of Houston, Va. and Dr. A. A. Tennant to complete the work on the candidates, who were to come later, expecting the lodge to be instituted that night. OFFICERS INSTALLED The following officers were in stalled: A. W. Sawyer, Master of Works; J. E. Coleman, Chancellor Commander; Wille Lee Carrinton, Vice Chancellor; Archer Coleman, Prelate Willie Jesse Bailey, Keeper of Records and Seat; W. H. Bouldin, Master of Finance; Amos Freeman, Master of Exchequer; Audrey Jones, Master at Arms; John Hicks, Inner Guard; Alfred Pinchon, Outer Guard Trustees, Peter W. Bates, Paul James Williams, Solomon Poindexter. The candidates were delighted. They were especially so as they had the opportunity of assisting in conferring the ranks upon their fellows. THE SHEPHERDS HOLD A GREET MEETING. Much Interest Manifested—Over Twelve Hundred and Sixty-five Members Added In Year The morning of the 25th of September, 1917, found the representatives of the various Folds of the Improved Order Shepherds and Daughters of Bethlehem assembled in the historic city of Fredericksburg ready for business. Promptly at ten o'clock A. M. The Grand Shepherd called the convention to orier. After going through the regular form of opening, the roll of Grand Officers was called. The list of Folds was then read and the delegates presented their credentials and their representation fees. Notwithstanding the fact that the place and the time of meeting had been changed there was a large delegation present. Among the most important features of the first day's business were the annual report of the Grand Shepherd and the Grand Financial Secretary. The general concensus of opinion was that they were the best in the history of the organization. They showed growth both along the financial and numerical lines. Twelve hundred A. sixty five members were reported for the year. The first public meeting was held on Tuesday night. Because of the indisposition of the representative, his son, Mr. George Rose represented him. Key W. L. Ransome visited intimately introduced him. His words of welcome were so generous that every delegate felt as much at ease as if they were in their own homes. The Grand Shepherd then presented Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, who responded in a very creditable and acceptable manner. The second day found the convention hard at work. It is interesting to one who is familiar with the workings of the various fraternal societies and their method of dispatch in their business, to see with what ease and acceleration the Grand Shepherd disposes of the business of this Order. Every moment of time is used profitably. On Wednesday night the annual sermon was preached by Rev. W. L. Kansoune. He chose for his text the twenty third Psalm. From this beautiful passage he preached one of the most intelligent and inspiring Shepherd sermons heard for some time. Every Shepherd and Daughter of Botheham was thrilled with joy and delight after hearing this sermon. One of the most inspiring sights of the session took place on this night, this was the turning out in a body of Eureka Fold of Fredericksburg, which numbers two hundred and ten members. Hon. F. D. Lee, who heads the movement for the erection of a monument in the National Capitol to the memory and honor of the colored soldiers and sailors who fell victims in the wars in which this country has previously engaged, was introduced to the delegation by the Grand Shepherd, J. T. Howin. His address was full of inspiration and wholesome instruction. After his speech the convention pledged its full support to this movement. Last, but not least, was the health conference that was held on Thursday night. This is one of the important features of our organization; that is to look after the health of our members. The address was delivered by the Grand Shepherd, J. T. Hewin. It was a great speech and we feel quite sure that it will be like the bread cast upon the waters to be seen for many days thereafter. Mrs. Ora B. Stokes also made a very interesting and helpful address on the health question. It was on this night that the prizes that had been promised to the successful deputies in the membership contest were awarded. The successful contestants were as follows: Mr. Austin Johnson, bringing in 155 members received $25 in gold; Miss Mary J. Jenkins, bringing in 135 members received $20 in gold; Mrs. Annie C. Coleman, bringing in 113 members received $15 in gold; Mrs. M. W. Garland, bringing in 94 members received $10 in gold; Mrs. Amanda Denson, bringing in 54 members received $5 in gold. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand Presiding Shepherd, J. Thomas Hewin, Richmond; Grand Vice-Presiding Shepherd, N. J. E. Moore, Cullen; Grand Secretary-Treasurer, Amos C. Clark; Richmond; Grand Recording Secretary, George L. Juhans, Richmond; Grand Degree Mistress, Delila Jones, Richmond; Grand Deputy, Miss Mary J. Jenkins, Scottsville. Grand Chapain, Alexander Coleman, Winniage; Grand Senior Staff Supporter, Sadie Talaterro, Fredericksburg; Grand Junior Staff Supporter, M. W. Garland, Mantee; Grand Inside Porter, D. M. Haskins, Prospect; Grand Outside Porter, L. W. Redwood, Arvonia; Grand Keeper of Wardrobe, Lottie P. Jones, Mantee; Grand Master of Signs, J. E. Holding, Appomattox; Grand Regalia Maker, Chara A. Holmes, Richmond. Board of Directors: Harrison Hallway, Saluda; J. E. Clarke, Richmond; Irvin East, Richmond; George L. Johans, Richmond; Austin Johnson, Fredericksburg; Lewis How Charlotteville; Amanda Denson Richmond; N. J. E. Moore, Clarke, Richmond; N. J. E. Moore, C. A. Webber, Andersonville; A. W. Gaworthine, Appomattox; J. Thomas Hewin, Richmond. The next session will be held the first Tuesday in September, 1918, in叭pepper, Virginia, with Ora's Fold No. 28. DRAFTED MAN A SUICIDE WHEN CLASSED AS COLORED the draft bottery one of the early numbers selected was that of Alfred Lord. 27 years of age of Mineral City Ohio. He got the news when the Cleveland papers arrived on the evening train. "I'm ready," said he. Then came the call before the examining board. Lord appeared and the physicians pronounced him physically fit. Together with an investment of 105 other draitted men he went away from home. Monday, starting for the cantonment at Chilicoothe. A cheering crowd was at the station waving flags when the group departed. At Chilicoothe, as is the rule, regular army surgeons were on hand to check up the decisions of the local exhilarating physicians, to decide on the physical qualifications of the men. Lord was examined in turn, but the surgeon did not pass him, instead he called in other surgeons. They, too, examined Lord. There were whispered conferences. "We are sorry to tell you this," one of the surgeons said, finally, "but there is evidence that there is Negro blood in your veins. You will have to go into a Negro reservation." Lord, who, although of dark complexion, always had thought himself with, and who had associated with white men all his life, was heart broken. That night he committed suicide. The affair was yesterday reported to the War Department. Troy News Notes. Troy, N. Y., Oct. 1.—Mrs. Engene A. Taylor, of New York City has returned home after visiting Rev. and Mrs. John A. Taylor, of Troy. Mrs. Taylor and daughter, Esther, had a delightful time and made many friends in Troy Mrs. Annie K. Vaughan and children, Master Howard and Miss Myrtle of Farmville, are in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. J. A. Bowler. Mrs. Ethel V. Jones, little Archibald and Hermione of Powhatan are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Willie Smithite in West Twenty-second St this week. The Union Meeting of the Richmond S. S. Union of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, held last Sunday was a great success. WANTED—SUN ALL, AROUND TO BACCO TWISTERS Steady work for steady men. Can earn $25.00 or more per week. Address. STRATER BROS. TOBACCO CO., Louisville, Kentucky. 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, Occupacia, Va. DR. S. A. MOSES SAYS VIRGINIA IS SAFE. It is time for Virginia to speak. In a crisis so great and so grave, she should no longer hold her peace. A one of the officers of our state convention and deeply interested in every phase of its work you may take it from me that Vera n a Baptists are not going to split, neither are they going to insist in any way our brethren in the portin. We are not going to commit suicide and we are not coming from the National Baptist Convention over which Dr. Morris presides. Brethren take it from me; we are not going to do any such thing. There is nothing for any of us to gain by splitting up and there is every thing to lose by such a . . . PRESIDENT GALVIN IS NOT A SPLITTER President Galvin is not a solitary and the men who stand around him and who have supported him in his administration thus far are sufficiently wise to take care of that part of the business. Most of the men who went to the Atlanta meeting from this state went because of the nearness of Georgia (2) Virginia. In answer to Dr. Graham's question Virginia's answer is: there are no states south of us to which we can book for aid, and we will never drive from us that which is a part of us living in another state does not sever our relations. We are one. Those who say that the brothers in the northern states are not... and not needed do not state the true sentiments of our convention. DR. T. J. KING IS NO LONGER RETARY Dr. T. J. King is no longer secretary of the Jones National Convention, and Rev. C. P. Madis in will not be very long I was once Chairman of the Foreign Mission Board, but when Dr. Boyd told me that the National Convention "I own the Publishing House I left him and his convention board and all, and feel safe in saying that all of the Virginia men who are now singing his songs will do like wise. The country is safe," you shall see the truthful ness of these words both in our next meeting in Newport News and at the National Convention in New Jersey. DR. G. M. P. KING DEAD Well Known Educator Dies While On a Visit to Cambria, Va. Rev. G. M. T. King, D. P., of Virginia Union University died at Cambria, Va., on Monday. He was attending a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the church of one of his former pupils at Christiansburg. He had been in failing health for many months and was suddenly overtaken by fatal illness. Dr. King, had been identified with education, work for Negroes for the past fifty years. He was for many years president of Wayland Seminary, at Washington, and when that school was united with the Richmond Theological Seminary, to form Virginia Union University, he came to Richmond and continued his work to the day of his death. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, of this city, and is survived by one son, Henry P. King, of Portland, Me. The body was taken North from Christiansburg and there will be no funeral services held here. Dr. G. M. P. King, for thirty years President of Wayland Seminary, and since 1899 Professor in Virginia Union University died Oct. 5, 1977, at Cambria, Va., whither he had gone to take part in the fiftieth anniversary exercises of the Memorial Baptist church, pastored by Rev. George S. Reavis, a former student. There will be no services at this time at the University. He had requested that, if he died away from home, his remains be shipped directly north and that there be no stop in Richmond and no public funeral. The University plans to hold a Memorial Service * him, probably at Commencement, when more of his former students may be present. —Mrs. Charlotte Yancey and Dr. Abner Yancey have been visiting Mrs. Rosa B. DeWitt. 213 E. Clay St. HON. CHARLES W. ANDERSON IS HONORED. Mayor Mitchell's Appointment—He is Elected Honorary Member of Italian Loyal Legion. Blushing honors are falling thick and fast upon Hon Charles W. Anderson, these days. After having severed the different committees appointed by May or Mitchell to receive and entertain the British High Commission with the Right Honorable Arthur J. Baftour at its head; the French Commission with Marshall Joffre and Premier Viviani; the Royal Italian Commission of which Ferdinand of Savoy Prince of Udine and Sinner Marceau; the Russian Commission and Belgian Commission, he was accorded fresh distinction by being appointed a member of the Committee to receive and entertain the Imperial Japanese Commission headed by His Excellency Viscount Kikuyu Ishi, Japan's leading statesman. At the official reception tendered to these distinguished visitors in the City Hall on last Thursday, the Ex Collector was placed next to the Baron Isaan Takehita, Ice Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy by Judge Elbert H. Gary, President of the E. S. Steel Corporation and Chairman of the entertainment committee. MANY OFFICIALS PRESENT Eight Hundred of the most distinguished citizens of the City of New York were present at this reception and twenty five of the most prominent of them were grouped immediately around the quest's data. Henry Clews, the great banker, was placed next to the Collector and the Marquis of Aberdoon was stationed next to Mr. Clews. The historic reception room of the City Hai, which has seen so much gorgeous panourny was lavishly decorated with *ebryantheuma* "drawf翼 trees* with the Japanese and American flies gruefully draped around the entire room. It presented a most impressive scene, perhaps that most elaborate that has yet been set for the entertainment of the famous visitors. ATTENDED THE LUNCHEON Mr. Anderson attended the lunchme given by the Chamber of Commerce, the dinner at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, the dinner at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, the monster official banquet at the Waldorf Astoria. Among those presen t at this last function were: Hon. Channey M. Dewey Rear Adm iraut Nathaniel R. Ushier; Baron Amirto Sato, the Ambassador of Japan Mayor John Purray Mitchell; Judge Elbert H. Gary; Hon. Charles E. Hungher; Hon. William H. Taft; Rear Admiral Albert Gleave; U. S. A. Doctor Nicholas Murray Burger, pres ident of Columbia University; Brie dier General James A. Irons, U. S. A. Major General Sugano of the Imperial Japanese Army; Commander Ando of the Imperial Japanese Navy; Hon. Marvin W. Littleton; Lieutenant Coben Mizumachi, E. H. Cutterbridge, President of the Chamber of Com merce of New York City. NO COLOR-LINE THERE It was a very hopeful sign to note a complete elimination of the color line in the seating arrangements of this banquet. At the table with Mr. Anderson were the Marquis of Ito, son of the famous Premier of Japan, Lord of Aberdoon, Lane N. Solligam, the great banker, C. G. La Parge, the Sculptor and Mr. Redman Wanamaker, son of the noted Philadelphia merchant. On last Saturday the Imperial Commission visited West Point and were met at the Government dock by a deachment of the Tenth Cavalry and escorted to the headquarters of the Commandant. Speaking of this visit General Sugano told Mr. Anderson that he had never seen a finer looking body of cavalry men than the deachment of black troopers which acted as the escort at West Point. Vis count Ishil also complimented the colored soldiers and inquired as to the number of regiments of them in the regular army of the United States. He informed the Collector that he was greatly interested in the Colored American citizens and expressed regret that his tour of the country did not permit him to visit the Tuskegee institute. He said that he had long desired to meet the Dr. Booker T. Washington, but missed his only opportunity to do so on the occasion of Mr. Washington's visit to Paris, owing to Illness. The Viscount was at that time the Japanese Ambassador to France. Collector Anderson was the recipient of a further piece of race recognition last week when together with Mayor John Purry Mitchell and Judge Freschi he was elected an Honorary member of The Italian Loyal Legion of which Chevalier Pissaro is President and Mr. Caruso) is the Secretary. ICY CENTER SATURDAY...OCTOBER 13, 1917 BIG TIMBER Continued from Sixth Page. back this mornin', so I thought maybe he'd gone to the Springs. I dunno's there any occasion to worry. He might 'a' gone to the head uh the lake with them constables that went up last night. How's Charlie Benton?" She told him briefly, "That's good," said Lefty. "Now, I'd go around to Congar bay if I was you, Mrs. Jack. He's liable to come in there any time. You could stay at the house tonight. Everything around there, shacks and all, was burned days ago, so the fire can't touch the house. The crew there has grab and a cook. I kinda expect Jack'll be there unless he fell in with them constables." She trudged silently back to the Waterbug. Barlow started the engine, and the boat took up her slow way. As they skirted the shore Stella began to see here and there the fierce havoc of the fire. Black trunks of fir air reared nakedly to the smoky sky, lay crisscross on bank and bench. Nowhere was there a green blade, a living bush—nothing but charred black, a melancholy waste of smoking litter, with here and there a pitch soaked stub still waving its banner of flame or glowing really. Back of those seared skeletons a shifting cloud of smoke obscured everything. Presently they drew in to Cougar bay, Men moved about on the beach; two bulky scows stood nose on to the shore. Upon them rested half a dozen donkey engines, thick bellied, upright machines, down down, dead on their skids. About these in great colls hay piled the gear of logging, miles of steel cable, blocks, the varied tools of the logger's trade. The Panther bay between the scows, with lines from each passed over her towing bits. Stella could see the outline of the white bungalow on its grassy knoll. They had saved only that, of all the camp, by a light that sent three men to the hospital on a day when the wind shifted into the northwest and sent a sheet of flame rolling through the timber and down on Cougar bay like a tidal wave, so Barlow told her. He cupped his hands now and called to his follows on the beach. No, Fyfe had not come back yet. "Go up to the mouth of Tumbling creek." Stella ordered. Darlow swinging the Waterbug about, cleared the point and stood up along the shore. Stella sat on a cushioned seat at the back of the phloothouse, hard eyed, struggling against that dead weight that seemed to grow and grow in her breast. That elemental fury raging in the woods made her shrink. Her own hand had helped to loose it, but her hands were powerless to stay it; she could only sit and watch and wait, eaten up with misery of her own making. She was horribly afraid, with a fear she would not name to her self. Behind that density of atmosphere the sun had gone to rest. The first shadows of dusk were closing in, betokened by a thickening of the smoke fog into which the Waterbug slowly plowed. To port a dimming shore line, to starboard, att and dead ahead, water and air merged in two boat lengths. Barlow leaned through the pilothouse window, one hand on the wheel, straining his eyes on their course. Suddenly he throw out the clutch, shut down his throttle control with one hand and yanked with the other at the cord which loosed the Waterbug's shrill whistle. Dead ahead, almost upon them, came an answering toot. "I thought I heard a gas boat," Barlow exclaimed. "Sufferin' JerusalemHI, there!" He threw his weight on the wheel, sending it hard over. The cruiser still had way on. The momentum of her ten ton weight scarcely had shackened, and she answered the helm. Out of the deceptive thickness ahead loomed the sharp, daring bow of another forty footer, sheering quickly as her pilot sighted them. She was upon them and abreast and gone, with a watery purl of her bow wave, a subdued mutter of exhaust, passing so near that an active man could have leaped the space between. "Sufferin' Jerusalem!" Barlow repeated, turning to Stella. "Did you see that, Mrs. Jack? They got him." Stella nodded. She, too, had seen Monohan seated on the afterdeck, his head sunk on his breast, trons on his wrists. A gimpse, no more. "That'll help some," Barlow grunted. "Quick work. But they come blame near cuttin' us down, bettin' along at ten knots when you can't see forty feet ahead." An empty beach greeted them at Tumbling creek. Reluctantly Stella bade Barlow turn back. It would soon be dark, and Barlow said he would be taking chances of pilling on the shore before he could see it or getting lost in the profound black that would shut down on the water with daylight's end. But by luck Barlow made his way, blundering fairly into the landing at the foot of the path that led to the bungalow as if the cruiser knew the way to her old berth. And as he reached the float the front windows on the hillock broke out yellow, pale blurs in the smoky night. "Well, say,"—Barlow pointed—"I bet a nickel Jack's home. See? Nobody but him would be in the house." "I'll go no!" Stella cold. --- "All right. I guess you know the path better'n I do." Barlow said. "I'll take the Bug around into the bay." Stella ran up the path. She halted halfway up the steps and leaned against the rail to catch her breath; then she went on. Her step was noiseless, for tucked in behind a cushion aboard the Waterbug she had found an old pair of her own shoes, rubber soled, and she had put them on to ease the ache in her feet born of thirty-six hours' incensement in leather. She gahned the door without a sound. It was wilde open, and in the middle of the big room Jack Fyfo stood with hands thrust deep in his pockets, starring absently at the floor. She took a step or two inside. Fyfo did not hear her; he did not look up. "Jack!" He gave ever so slight a start, glanced up, stood with head thrown back a little. But he did not move or answer, and Stella, looking at him, seeing the flame that glowed in his eyes, could not speak. Something seemed to choke her, something that was a strange compound of relief and bewilderment and a slow wonder at herself—at the queer, unsteady pounding of her heart. "How did you get way up hero?" he asked at last. "Linda wired last night that Charlie was hurt. I got a machine to the Springs. Then Barlow came down this afternoon looking for you. Hq said you'd been missing for two days. So I—I"— She broke off. Fyfe was walking toward her with that peculiar light footed step of his, a queer, tense look on his face. "Nero fiddled when Rome was burning," he said harshly. "Did you come to sing while my Rome goes up in smoke?" A little half strangled sob escaped her. She turned to go, but he caught her by the arm. "There, lady," he said, with a swift change of tone, "I didn't mean to shush at you. I suppose you mean all right, but just now, with everything gone to the devil, to look up and see you here—I've really got an ugly temper, Stella, and it's pretty near the surface these days. I don't want to be pitied and sympathized with. I want to fight. I want to hurt somebody." "Hurt me then?" she cried. He shook his head sadly. "I couldn't do that," he said. "No, I can't imagine myself ever doing that." "Why?" she asked, knowing why, but wishful to hear in words what his eyes shouted. "Because I love you," he said. "You know well enough why." She lifted her one free hand to his shoulder. Her face turned up to his. A warm wave of blood dyed the round, white neck, shot up into her cheeks. Her eyes were suddenly aglow, lips tremulous. "Kiss me, then," she whispered. "That's what I came for. Kiss me, Jack." If she had doubted, if she had ever in the last few hours looked with misgiving upon what she felt herself impelled to do, the pressure of Jack Fyfe's lips on hers left no room for anything but an amazing thrill of pure gladness. She was happy in his arms, content to rest there, to feel his heart beating against hers, to be quit of all the uncertainties, all the useless regrets. By a roundabout way she had come to her own, and it thrilled her to her finger tips. She could not quite comprehend it or herself. But she was glad, weeping with gladness, straining her man to her, kissing his face, mur- "Kiss me, then. "That's what I came for. Kiss me, Jack." muring incoherent words against his breast. "And so—and so, after all, you do care." Fyfe held her off a little from him, his silvery fingers gripping gently the soft flesh of her arms. "And you were big enough to come back. Oh, my dear, you don't know what that means to me! I broke, and I'd just about reached the point where I didn't give a d—. This fire has cleaned me out. I've"— "I know, Stella interrupted. "That's why I came back. I wouldn't have come otherwise, at least not for a long time—perhaps never. It seemed as if I ought to, as if it were the least I could do. Of course it looks altogether different now that I know I really want to. But, you see, I didn't know that for sure until I saw you standing here. Oh, Jack, there's such a lot I wish I could wipe out!" "It's wiped out," he said happily. "The slate's clean. Fair weather didn't get us anywhere. It took a storm. Well, the storm's over." She stirred unceasing in his arms. "Haven't you got the least bit of re sentment, Jack, for all this trouble I've helped to bring about?" she faltered. "Why, no," he said thoughtfully. "All you did was to touch the fireworks off. And they might have started over anything. Lord, not! Put that idea out of your head." "I don't understand," she murmured. "I never had quite understood why Monohan should attack you with such savage bitterness—that trouble he started on the Tyce, then this criminal firing of the woods. Ivo had hints, first from your sister, then from Lin- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Da: I can't know you'd clashed before. I'm not very clear on that yet. But you know all the time what he was. Why didn't you toll me, Jack? "Well, maybe I should have," Eyfo admitted. "But I couldn't very well. Don't you see? He wasn't even an incident until he bobbed up and rescued you that day. I couldn't after that start in picking his character to pieces as a matter of precaution. We had a sort of armed truce. He left me strictly alone. I'd trimmed his claws once or twice already. I suppose he was acute enough to see an opportunity to get a whack at me through you. You were just living from day to day, creating a world of illusions for yourself, nourishing yourself with dreams, smarting under a stifled regret for a lot you thought you'd passed up for good. He wasn't a factor at first. When he did finally stir in you an emotion I had failed to stir it was too late for me to do or say anything. If I'd tried at that stage of the game to show your kid's clay feet you'd have desplied me, as well as refused to believe. I couldn't do anything but stand back and trust the real woman of you to find out what a quicksand you were building your castle on. I purposely refused to let you go when you wanted to go away the first time, partly on the kid's account, partly because I could hardly bear to let you go—mostly because I wanted to make him boll over and show his teeth, on the chance that you'd be able to size him up. "You see, I knew him from the ground up. I knew that nothing would afford him a keener pleasure than to take away from me a woman I cared for and that nothing would make him squirm more than for me to checkmate him. That day I cuffed him and choked him on the point really started him properly. After that you, as something to be desired and possessed, ran second to his feeling against me. He was bound to try to play even, regardless of you. When he preceptitated that row on the Tyee I knew it was going to be a fight for my financial life, for my own life if he ever got me foul. And it was not a thing I could talk about to you, in your state of mind, then. You were through with me. Regardless of him, you were getting farther and further away from me. I had a long time to realize that fully. You had a grudge against life, and it was sort of crystallizing on me. You never kissed me once in all those two years as you kissed me just now." She pulled his head down and kissed him again. "So that I wasn't restraining you with any hope for my own advantage," Yfe went on. "There was the kid, and there was you. I wanted to put a brake on you to make you go slow. You're a complex individual, Stella. Along with certain fixed, fundamental principles, you've got a streak of divine madness in you, a capacity for rockless undertakings. You'd never have married me if you didn't. I trusted you absolutely, but I was afraid in spite of my faith. You had draped such an idealistic mantle around Monohan, I wanted to rend that before it came to a final separation between us. It worked out, because he couldn't resist trying to take a crack at me when the notion seized him. "So," he continued after a pause, "you aren't responsible, and I've never considered you responsible, for any of this. It's between him and me, and it's been shaping for years. Whenever our trails crossed there was bound to be a clash. There's always been a natural personal antagonism between us. It began to show when we were kids, you might say. Monohan's nature is such that he can't acknowledge defeat. He can't deny himself a gratification. He's a supreme egotist. He's always had plenty of money, he's always had whatever he wanted, and it never mattered to him how he gratified his desires. "The first time we locked horns was in my last year at high school. Monohan was a star athlete. I beat him in a pole vault. That licked him so that he sulked and sneered and generally made himself so insulting that I slapped him. We fought, and I whipped him. I had a temper that I hadn't learned to keep in hand those days, and I nearly killed him. I had nothing but contempt for him, anyway, because even then, when he wasn't quite twenty, he was a woman hunter, preying on silly girls. I don't know what his mangle with women is, but it works until they find him out. "Well, from that time on he hated me, always laid for a chance to sting me. We went to Princeton the same year. We collided there, so hard that when word of it got to my father's ears he called me home and read the riot act so strong that I flared up and left. Then I came to the coast here and got a job in the woods, got to be a logging boss and went into business on my own hook eventually. I'd just got nicely started when I ran into Monohan again. He'd got into timber himself. I was hand logging up the coast, and I'd hate to tell you the tricks he tried. He kept it up until I got too big to be harrassed in a petty way. Then he left me alone. But he never forgot his grudge. The stage was all set for this act long before you gave him his cue, Stella. You weren't to blame for that, or if you were in part it doesn't matter now. I'm satisfied. Paradoxically I feel rich, even though it's a long shot that I'm broke flat. I've got something money doesn't buy. And he has overreached himself at last. All his money and pull won't help him out of this jack pot. Arson and attempted murder is serious business." "They caught him," Stella said. "The constables took him down the lake tonight. I saw him on their launch as they passed the Waterbug." "Yes?" Pyfe said. "Quick work. I didn't even know about the shooting till I came in here tonight about dark. Well," he snapped his fingers, "oxit Monohan. He's a dead issue so far as 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. 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I'd hold the foundation of a fortune here and tried to make a home and lost it all, everything that was worth having. And then all at once there you were, like a vision in the door. Miracles do happen!" Her arms tightened involuntarily about him. "Oh," she cried breathlessly, "our little white house!" "Without you," he replied softly, "it was just an empty shell of boards and plaster, something to make me ache with loneliness." "But not now," she murmured. "It's home now." "Yes," he agreed, smiling. "Ah, but it isn't quite." She choked down a lump in her throat, "not when I think of those little feet that used to patter on the floor. Oh, Jack, when I think of my baby boy! My dear, my dear, why did all this have to be, I wonder?" Eyfe stroked her glossy coils of hair. "We get nothing of value without a price," he said quietly. "Except by rare accident nothing that's worth having comes cheap and easy. We've paid the price, and we're square with the world and with each other. That's everything." "Are you completely ruined, Jack?" she asked after an interval. "Charlie said you were." "Weil," he answered reflectively, "I haven't had time to balance accounts, but I guess I will be." "Will you take me in as a business partner, Jack?" she asked eagerly. "That's what I had in mind when I came up here. I made up my mind to propose that after I'd heard you were ruined. Oh, it seems silly now, but I wanted to make amends that way—at least, I tried to tell myself that! Listen. When my father died he left some supposedly worthless oil stock. But it proved to have a market value. I got my share of it the other day. I'll help us to make a fresh start—together." She had the envelope and the cheek tucked inside her waist. She took it out now and pressed the green slip into his hand. Fyfe looked at it and at her, a little chuckle deep in his throat. "Nineteen thousand five hundred," he laughed. "Well, that's quite a stake for you. But, if you go partners with me, what about your singing?" "I don't see how I can have my cake and eat it," (oo) she said lightly. "I HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- C WITH A MOTOR GUARAN THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDL BLES 10 INCH DIAMETER RICHMO th St., - Don't feel quite so eager for a career as I did." "Well, we'll see," he said. "That light of yours shouldn't be hidden under a bushel. And still I don't like the idea of your being away from me, which a career implies." He put the check back in the envelope, smiling oddly to himself, and tucked it back in her bosom. She caught and pressed his hand. "Won't you use it, Jack?" she pleaded. "Won't it help? Don't let any silly pride influence you. There mustn't ever be anything like that between us again." "There won't be," he smiled. "Frankly, if I need it I'll use it. But that's a matter there's plenty of time to decide. You see, although technically I may be broke, I'm a long way from the end of my tether. I think I'll have my working outfit clear, and the country's full of timber. I've got a standing in the business that neither fire nor anything else can destroy. No, I have not any false pride about the money, dear, but the money part of our future is a detail. With the incentive I've got now to work and plan it won't take me five years to be a bigger toad in the timber puddle than I ever was. You A "We get nothing of value without a price." don't know what a dynamo I am when I get going." "I don't doubt that," she said proudly. "But the money's yours if you need it." "I need something else a good deal more right now," he laughed. "That's something to eat. Aren't you hungry, Stella? Wouldn't you like a cup of coffee?" "I'm finished," she admitted—the literal truth. She had eaten scarcely anything that day. "We'll go down to the camp," Fyfe suggested. "The cook will have something left. We're camping like pioneers ```markdown ``` $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons down there. The shacks were all burned, and somebody sank the cook house scew." They went down the path to the bay, hand in hand, feeling their way through that fire blackened area, under a black sky. The cook's fire was dead, and that worthy was humped on his bed roll smoking a pipe. But he had cold meat and bread, and he brewed a pot of cof- G. D. D. A. "I want to stay up here with you. I'm not wax. I won't melt." fee on the big fire for them, and Stella ate the plain fare sitting in the circle of tired loggers. "Poor fellows; they look wornout," she said when they were again traversing that blue road to the bungalow. "We've slept standing up for three weeks," Fyfe said simply. "They've done everything they could. And we're not through yet. A north wind might set Charlie's timber afire in a dozen places." "Oh, for a rain!" she sighed. "If wishing for rain brought it," he laughed, "we'd have had a second flood. We've got to keep pegging away till it does rain, that's all. We can't do much, but we have to keep doing it. You'll have to go back to the Springs tomorrow. I'm afraid, Stella. I'll have to stay on the firing line literally." SEVEN ```markdown ``` dried grass of the lawn. Beside her Fyfe was a dim bulk, sleeping the dead slumber of utter weariness. She hesitated a minute, then shook him. "Rain!" he whispered. "Good night, Mr. Fire, Hooray." "I brought it," Stella murmured sleepily. "I wished it on Roaring lake tounght." Then she slipped her arm about his neck and drew his face down to her breast with a tender fierceness and closed her eyes with a contented sigh. THE END. Suspend Sentence Until War is Over Because he was drafted and was ready to leave for camp, Allen J. 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I klinda expect Jack'll be there unless he fell in with them constables." She trudged silently back to the Waterbug. Harlow started the engine, and the boat took up her slow way. As they skirted the shore Stella began to see here and there the fierce havoc of the fire. Black trunks of air reared nakedly to the smoky sky, hay crisscross on bank and beach. Nowhere was there a green blade, a living bush—nothing but charred black, a melancholy waste of smoking litter, with here and there a pitch soaked stub still waving its banner of flame or glowing reak. Back of those scoured skeletons a shifting cloud of smoke obscured everything. Presently they drew in to Cougar bay, Men moved about on the beach; two bulky seows stood nose on to the shore, Upon them rested half a dozen donkey engines, thick bellied, upright machines, alown down, dead on their skids. About these in great coils hay piled the gear of logging, miles of steel cable, blocks, the varled tools of the logger's trade, The Panther lay between the seows, with lines from each passed over her towing bits. Stella could see the outline of the white bungalow on its grassy knoll. They had saved only that, of all the cump, by a night that sent three men to the hospital on a day when the wind shifted into the northwest and sent a sheet of flame rolling through the timber and down on Cougar bay like a tidal wave, so Barlow told her. He cupped his hands now and called to his fellows on the beach. No, Fyfe had not come back yet. "Go up to the mouth of Tumbling creek" Stella ordered. Darlow sitting the Waterbug about, cleared the point and stood up along the shore. Stella sat on a cushioned seat at the back of the plothouse, hard eyed, struggling against that dead weight that seemed to grow and grow in her breast. That elemental fury raging in the woods made her shrink. Her own hand had helped to loose it, but her hands were powerless to stay it; she could only sit and watch and wait, enten up with misery of her own making. She was horribly afraid, with a fear she would not name to herself. Behind that density of atmosphere the sun had gone to rest. The first shadows of dusk were closing in, beckoned by a thickening of the smoke fog into which the Waterbug slowly plowed. To port a dimming shore line; to starboard, aft and dead ahead, water and air merged in two boat lengths. Barlow leaned through the pilothouse window, one hand on the wheel, straining his eyes on their course. Suddenly he threw out the clutch, shut down his throttle control with one hand and yanked with the other at the cord which loosed the Waterbug's shrill whistle. Dead ahead, almost upon them, came an answering toot. "I thought I heard a gas boat," Barlow exclaimed. "Sufferin' Jerusalem! Hi, there!" He threw his weight on the wheel, sending it hard over. The crusier still had way on. The momentum of her ten weight scarcely had shackened, and she answered the helm. Out of the deceptive thickness ahead loomed the sharp, daring bow of another forty footer, sheering quickly as her pilot sighted them. She was upon them and abreast and gone, with a watery purl of her bow wave, a subdued mutter of exhaust, passing so near that an active man could have leaped the space between. "Sufferin' Jerusalem!" Harlow repeated, turning to Stella. "Did you see that, Mrs. Jack? They got him." Stella nodded. She, too, had seen Monohan seated on the afterdeck, his head sunk on his breast, trons on his wrists. A glimpse, no more. "That'll help some," Barlow grunted. "Quick work. But they come blame near cutin' us down, belm' along at ten knots when you can't see forty feet ahead." An empty beach greeted them at Tumbling creek. Reluctantly Stella bude Barlow turn back. It would goo be dark, and Barlow said he would be taking chances of pilling on the shore before he could see it or getting lost in the profound black that would shut down on the water with daylight's end. But by luck Barlow made his way, blundering fairly into the landing at the foot of the path that led to the bungalow as if the cruiser knew the way to her old birth. And as he renched the float the front windows on the hillock broke out yellow, pale blurs in the smoky night. "Well, say,"—Barlow pointed—"I bet a nickel Jack's home. See? Nobody but him would be in the house." "I'll go up," Stella said. "All right. I guess you know the path better'n I do," Barlow said, "I'll take the Bug around into the bay." Stella ran up the path. She halted halfway up the steps and leaned against the rail to catch her breath; then she went on. Her step was noiseless, for tucked in behind a cushion aboard the Waterbug she had found an old pair of her own shoes, rubber soled, and she had put them on to ease the ache in her feet born of thirty-six hours' incasement in leather. She gained the door without a sound. It was wilde open, and in the middle of the big room Jack Fyfo stood with hands thrust deep in his pockets, starling absently at the floor. She took a step or two inside. Fyfo did not hear her; he did not look up. "Jack!" He gave ever so slight a start, glanced up, stood with head thrown back a little. But he did not move or answer, and Stella, looking at him, seeing the flame that glowed in his eyes, could not speak. Something seemed to choke her, something that was a strange compound of relief and bewilderment and a slow wonder at herself—at the queer, unstendy pounding of her heart. "How did you get way up here?" he asked at last. "Linda wired last night that Charlie was hurt. I got a machine to the Springs. Then Barlow came down this afternoon looking for you. He said you'd been missing for two days. So I—" She broke off. Fyfe was walking toward her with that peculiar light footed step of his, a queer, tense look on his face. "Nero fiddled when Rome was burning," he said harshly. "Did you come to sing while my Rome goes up in smoke?" A little half strangled sob escaped her. She tuned to go, but he caught her by the arm. "There, lady," he said, with a swift change of tone, "I didn't mean to slash at you. I suppose you mean all right, but just now, with everything gone to the devil, \nDo up and see you here--I've really got an ugly temper, Stella, and it's pretty near the surface these days. I don't want to be piled and sympathetic with. I want to fight. I want to hurt somebody." "Hurt me then?" she cried. He shook his head sadly. "I couldn't do that," he said. "No, I can't imagine myself ever doing that." "Why?" she asked, knowing why, but wishful to hear in words what his eyes shouted. "Because I love you," he said. "You know well enough why." She lifted her one free hand to his shoulder. Her face turned up to his. A warm wave of blood dyed the round, white neck, shot up into her checks. Her eyes were suddenly aglow, lips tremulous. "Kiss me, then," she whispered. "That's what I camo for. Kiss me, Jack." If she had doubted, if she had ever in the last few hours looked with misgiving upon what she felt herself impelled to do, the pressure of Jack Fyfe's lips on hers left no room for anything but an amazing thrill of pure gladness. She was happy in his arms, content to rest there, to feel his heart beating against hers, to be quit of all the uncertainties, all the useless regrets. By a roundabout way she had come to her own, and it thrilled her to her finger tips. She could not quite comprehend it or herself. But she was glad, weeping with gladness, straining her man to her, kissing his face, mur- "Klas me, then. "That's what I came for. Kiss me, Jack." murting incoherent words against his breast. "And so—and so, after all, you do care." Fyfe held her off a little from him, his snewy fingers gripping gently the soft flesh of her arms. "And you were big enough to come back. Oh, my dear, you don't know what that means to me! I'm broke, and I'd just about reached the point where I didn't give a d—. This fire has cleaned me out. I've"— "I know, Stella interrupted. "That's why I came back. I wouldn't have come otherwise, at least not for a long time—perhaps never. It seemed as if I ought to, as if it were the least I could do. Of course it looks altogether different now that I know I really want to. But, you see, I didn't know that for sure until I saw you standing here. Oh, Jack, there's such a lot I wish I could wipe out!" "It's wiped out," he said happily. "The state's clean. Fair weather didn't get us anywhere. It took a storm. Well, the storm's over." She stirred uneasily in his arms. "Haven't you got the least bit of resentment, Jack, for all this trouble I've helped to bring about?" she faltered. "Why, no," he said thoughtfully. "All you did was to touch the fireworks off. And they might have started over anything. Lord, not! Put that idea out of your head." "I don't understand," she murmured. "I never had quite understood why Monohan should attack you with such savage bitterness—that trouble he started on the Tyce, then this criminal burning of the woods. I've had hints, first from your sister, then from Luu- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA da. I can't know you'd clashed before. I'm not very clear on that yet. But you knew all the time what he was. Why didn't you tell me, Jack?" "Well, maybe I should have," Eyfe admitted, "But I couldn't very well. Don't you see? He wasn't even an incident until he bobbed up and rescued you that day. I couldn't after that start in picking his character to pieces as a matter of precaution. We had a sort of armed truce. He left me strictly alone. I'd trimmed his claws once or twice already. I suppose he was acute enough to see an opportunity to get a whack at me through you. You were just living from day to day, creating a world of flusions for yourself, nourishing yourself with dreams, smarting under a stifled regret for a lot you thought you'd passed up for good. He wasn't a factor at first. When he did finally sit in you an emotion I had failed to stir it was too late for me to do or say anything. If I'd tried at that stage of the game to show your kid's clay feet you'd have despaired me, as well as refused to believe. I couldn't do anything but stand back and trust the real woman of you to find out what a quicksand you were building your castle on. I purposely refused to let you go when you wanted to go away the first time, partly because I could hardly bear to let you go—mostly because I wanted to make him boil over and show his teeth, on the chance that you'd be able to size him up. "You see, I knew him from the ground up. I knew that nothing would afford him a keener pleasure than to take away from me a woman I cared for and that nothing would make him squirm more than for me to checkmate him. That day I cuffed him and choked him on the point really started him properly. After that you, as something to be desired and possessed, ran second to his feeling against me. He was bound to try to play even, regardless of you. When he precipitated that row on the Tyee I knew it was going to be a fight for my financial life, for my own life if he ever got me fool. And it was not a thing I could talk about to you, in your state of mind, then. You were through with me. Regardless of him, you were getting farther and further away from me. I had a long time to realize that fully. You had a grudge against life, and it was sort of crystallizing on me. You never kissed me once in all those two years as you kissed me just now." She pulled his head down and kissed him again. CHAPTER XIX. Home Again. "S O that I wasn't restraining you with any hope for my ad- vantage," Fyfe went on. "There was the kid, and there was you. I wanted to put a brake on you to make you go slow. You're a complex individual, Stella. Along with certain fixed, fundamental principles, you've got a streak of divine madness in you, a capacity for reckless undertakings. You'd never have married me if you hadn't. I trusted you absolutely, but I was afraid in spite of my faith. You had draped such an idealistic mantle around Monohan, I wanted to rend that before it came to a final separation between us. It worked out, because he couldn't resist trying to take a crack at me when the notion seized htm. "So," he continued after a pause, "you aren't responsible, and I've never considered you responsible, for any of this. It's between him and me, and it's been shaping for years. Whenever our trails crossed there was bound to be a clash. There's always been a natural personal antagonism between us. It began to show when we were kids, you might say. Monohan's nature is such that he can't acknowledge defeat. He can't deny himself a gratification. He's a supreme egoist. He's always had plenty of money, he's always had whatever he wanted, and it never mattered to him how he gratified his desires. "The first time we locked horns was in my last year at high school. Monohun was a star athlete. I beat him in a pole vault. That licked him so that he sulked and sneered and generally made himself so insulting that I shapped him. We fought, and I whipped him. I had a temper that I hadn't learned to keep in hand those days, and I nearly killed him. I had nothing but contempt for him, anyway, because even then, when he wasn't quite twenty, he was a woman hunter, preying on silly girls. I don't know what his magic with women is, but it works until they find him out. "Well, from that time on he hated me, always held for a chance to sting me. We went to Princeton the same year. We collided there, so hard that when word of it got to my father's ears he called me home and read the riot act so strong that I shared up and left. Then I came to the coast here and got a job in the woods, got to be a logging boss and went into business on my own hook eventually. I just got nicely started when I ran into Monohan again. He'd got into timber himself. I was hand logging up the coast, and I'd hate to tell you the tricks he tried. He kept it up until I got too big to be harassed in a petty way. Then he left me alone. But he never forgot his grudge. The stage was all set for this act long before you gave him his cue, Stella. You weren't to blame for that, or if you were in part it doesn't matter now. I'm satisfied. Paradoxically I feel rich, even though it's a long shot that I'm broke flat. I've got something money doesn't buy. And he has overcame himself at last. All his money and pull won't help him out of this jack pot. Arson and attempted murder is serious business." "They caught him," Stella said. "The constables took him down the lake tonight. I saw him on their launch as they passed the Waterbug." "Yes?" Lyfe said. "Quick work. I didn't even know about the shooting till I came in near tonight about dark. Well, he snapped his fingers, "oxit Monohan. He's a dead issue so far as THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET No. 1.-13x13x6 inches, - - - No. 2.-16x16x7 inches, - - - CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO. 1 HAS A POWERFUL SINGLE SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A MOTOR GUARANTEED TO PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON ONE WINDING. 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"Oh," she cried breathlessly, "our little white house!" "Without you," he replied softly, "it was just an empty shell of boards and plaster, something to make me ache with loneliness." "But not now," she murmured, "It's home now." "Yes," he agreed, smiling. "Ah, but it isn't quite." She choked down a lump in her throat, "not when I think of those little feet that used to patter on the floor. Oh, Jack, when I think of my baby boy! My dear, my dear, why did all this have to be, I wonder?" Fyfe stroked her glossy coils of hair, "We get nothing of value without a price," he said quietly. "Except by rare accident nothing that's worth having comes cheap and easy. We've paid the price, and we're square with the world and with each other. That's everything." "Are you completely ruined, Jack? she asked after an interval, "Charlie said you were." "Well," he answered reflectively, "I haven't had time to balance accounts, but I guess I will be." "Will you take me in as a business partner, Jack?" she asked eagerly. "That's what I had in mind when I came up here. I made up my mind to propose that after I'd heard you were ruined. Oh, it seems silly now, but I wanted to make amounts that way—at least, I tried to tell myself that! Listen. When my father died he left some supposedly worthless oil stock. But it proved to have a market value. I got my share of it the other day. I'll help us to make a fresh start—together." She had the envelope and the check tucked inside her waist. She took it out now and pressed the green slip into his hand. Fyle looked at it and at her, a little chuckle in his throat. "Nineteen thousand five hundred," he hugged. "Well, that's quite a stake for you. But, if you go partners with me, what about your sling?" "I don't see how I can have my cake and eat it," too, she said lightly. "I ```markdown ``` Don't feel quite so eager for a career as I did. "Well, we'll see," he said. "That light of yours shouldn't be hidden under a bushel. And still I don't like the idea of your being away from me, which a career implies." He put the cheek back in the envelope, smiling oddly to himself, and tucked it back in her bosom. She caught and pressed his hand. "Won't you use it, Jack?" she pleaded. "Won't it help? Don't let any silly pride influence you. There mustn't ever be anything like that between us again." "There won't be," he smiled. "Frankly, if I need it I'll use it. But that's a matter there's plenty of time to decide. You see, although technically I may be broke, I'm a long way from the end of my tether. I think I'll have my working outit clear, and the country's full of timber. I've got a standing in the business that neither fire nor anything else can destroy. No, I have not any false pride about the money, dear, but the money part of our future is a detail. With the incentive I've got now to work and plan it won't take me five years to be a bigger toad in the timber puddle than I ever was. You A "We get nothing of value without a price." don't know what a dynamo I am when I get going." "I don't doubt that," she said proudly. "But the money's yours if you need it." "I need something else a good deal more right now," he laughed. "That's something to eat. Aren't you hungry, Stella? Wouldn't you like a cup of coffee? "I'm finished," she admitted—the literal truth. She had eaten scarcely anything that day. "We'll go down to the camp," Fyfe suggested. "The cook will have something left. We're camping like pioneers $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons down there. The shacks were all burned, and somebody sank the cook house soow." They went down the path to the bay, hand in hand, feeling their way through that fire blackened area, under a black sky. The cook's fire was dead, and that worthy was humped on his bed roll smoking a pipe. But he had cold meat and bread, and he brewed a pot of cof © DOROTHY "I want to stay up here with you. I'm not wax. I won't molt." fee on the big fire for them, and Stella ate the plain fare sitting in the circle of tired loggers. "Poor fellows; they look wormout," she said when they were again traversing that black road to the bungalow. "We've slept standing up for three weeks," Fyfe said simply. "They've done everything they could. And we're not through yet. A north wind might set Charlie's timber afire in a dozen places." "Oh, for a rain!" she sighed. "If wishing for rain brought it," he laughed, "we'd have had a second flood. We've got to keep pegging away till it does rain, that's all. We can't do much, but we have to keep doing it. You'll have to go back to the Springs tomorrow. I'm afraid, Stella. I'll have to stay on the firing line literally." "I don't want to!" she cried rebelously. "I want to stay up here with you. I'm not why. I won't melt." She continued that argument into the house until I laughingly smothered her speech with kisses. An oddly familiar sound murmuring in Stella's car waftened her. At first she thought she must be dreaming. It was still lily dark, but the air that blew in at the open window was sweet and cool, filtered of that choking smoke. She lifted herself warily, looked out, reached a hand through the lifted sash. Wet drops scattered it. The sound she heard was the drip of eaves, the beat of rain on the charred timber, upon the SEVEN --- dried grass of the lawn. Beside her Fyfe was a dim bulk, sleeping the dead slumber of utter weariness. She hesitated a minute, then shook him. "Listen, jack," she said. He lifted his head, "Rain!" he whippered, "Good night, Mr. Fire, Hooray." "I brought it," Stella murmured sleepily, "I wished it on Roaring lake tonight." 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Secretary of Board of Home Missions and Church Extension. The subject was, Climbing. His lecture was great. He is a thinker and equally prepared to deliver it. He recited incidents in the lives of great men and how they climbed the dizzy heights of fame. This entertainment was held under the auspices of the A. M. E. Church, Rev. G. C. Taylor, D. D., pastor and St. Paul's M. E., Rev. S. M. Beano, pastor. Mrs. L. Thornton, 150 High street N, W. left last Sunday morning, October 7, for Petersburg to visit her brother, who is reported quite indisposed. She will return about October 10th. Rev. J. H. Pinkard of Ebenezer A. M. E. preached at Mt. Zion Sunday night, previous to the administering of the Holy Communion. Rev. Pinkard was earnest in his appeal and he is a living epistle of the doctrine he preaches. The community is proud of him. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stultz, who went to Bethlehem, Pa. have returned home, after several months' absence. They are both looking fine. Mr. Stultz will resume his position with Mr. Stone on Ninth avenue, South Ranoke. Mrs. Stultz is home, 546 Chestnut avenue, after visiting Bethlehem, Pa. Montclair, N. J., New York and Atlantic City. Mr. Byrd Stanfield, the only living uncle of the Stanfield brothers of this city, Montclair, N. J., and Wilmington, Del., has been much indisposed but is improving. He is with his son Mr. I. P. Stanfield, 546 Seventh avenue, N. W. Mr. S. W. Howard, of Seventh avenue, N. W. left Sunday for a week's vacation, visiting relatives at Wilmington, Del., Mr. R. R. Stanfield, 508 New Castle avenue, South Wilmington. He will visit Asbury Park and other points. Mrs. Cassandra Wright has returned from a hurried call to the bedside of her aunt, Mrs. Lillie Bullock, who is much improved. Prof. M. Traynham, 225 Fifth avenue, N. W. is somewhat improved at this writing. Rev. William Moore, the Baptist Evangelist, and Rev. Bystalist, of Southwest Virginia has just returned from Pocahontas, Va. and Moray, W. Va. and Parishburg, Va., where he held a very successful revival. Thirty-three conversions, ten by experience have been added to the church at Pocahontas, the First Baptist Church of Pocahontas, of which Rev. W. E. Lee is pastor. Rev. Moore has been called to the First Baptist Church at Vinton, Va. Mrs. G. S. Edmondson received work of the injury of her husband, Mr. G. S. Edmondson, at his work in Homestead, Pa. A beautiful whist party was held at the home of Mrs. Fannie Joplinas, 609 Sixth avenue, N. W., in honor of Mrs. Lana Whitley, of Richmond. Mr. R. H. Hale was awarded the prize among the gentlemen. Mrs. Florence Dent was awarded the ladies' prize. Among those present: Miss Edna Eggleston, Martinsville, Va.; Mr. Hylton, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Lowmax and daughter, Mrs. Avy Clark, Mrs. R. H. Hale, Mrs. Harry Jones, Mr. Edward Allen, Mr. Kyles, Mr. and Mrs. Pittman Mrs. Bell Garrett, of 60 E. 132nd street, New York City, arrived here Sunday morning, to visit her people here. She will remain until the 10t: when she will leave for Pamplin, Va. to visit relatives and friends. Mrs. Garrett will be accompanied by, her husband. They will make their home in Jamaica, L. I. They have sold their home at 225 Third avenue, N. W. for $1,800. Miss Teresa S. White, who has been making her home with Mrs. Carrie Swift Rivens has gone to visit her three sisters in Pittsburgh, Pa., Mrs. Carrie Burks, Mrs. Lillie Forbush, Mrs. Mary Cooper. Mrs. Carrie Swift Rivens has been confined to her bed for two weeks but is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Junius Anderson have just returned from Washington where they had a pleasant stay. Mrs. Jennie Corbett of Roanoke is very ill in Bellaire, Ohio and her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Traynham is expecting to leave anytime. Mr. and Mrs. John Frank leaves Saturday for Cincinnati, O. Mrs. Ada Miller, of Homestead, Pa. has returned, after visiting here. The Old Folks Concert of the High Street Baptist Church was repeated Monday night. It was fine. Miss Rosa Taylor, of Pittsburgh, is here, calling on friends. Mrs. Susan Taylor is going on a trip to West Virginia to visit her grandson, Mr. John Taylor. Sunday, September 30th, ended the great contest rally between men and women, of the Hill Street Baptist Church. At 11 A. M. the pastor preached a special sermon. At 3 P. M., the Rev. C. E. Miller, of East Radford, Va. preached an excellent sermon. This service was to deter mine which would be the greatest in attendance, men or women. There were only about 35 men, at which time there were over 100 women. At 8 P. M. the pastor gave us another wonderful discourse. At this service we were told who had won. The men raised $140.26; the women raised $186.30 (Of course the women always win.) public collection, $14, making a total for the day of $340. 55. Thus the result of a six weeks' effort. The women were given flowers by the mon because of their victory. Sunday, October 7, the pastor preached two excellent sermons. Our National Government HAS RECOGNIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF LIFE Insurance for the National Army to protect dependent widows, children, mothers and fathers, and for the future protection of the living against the heavy toll of Pensions, and will insist on every soldier carrying the protection. NO CIVILIAN WILL BE INSURED BY THE GOVERNMENT under these policies, but The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association is prepared TO ISSUE POLICIES ON ALL CIVILIANS AT ages from 6 Months to 50 Years. 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Of this number, (7,915,322) seven million nine hundred and fifteen thousand, three hundred and thirty-two reside in the State of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky and West Virginia. This leaves (1,912,431) one million nine hundred and twelve thousand, four hundred and thirty-one residing in the northern and western states. Granting that the exodus northward and westward assumed huge proportions, it is safe to say that the difference will not exceed one hundred thousand. The bulk of the population will remain where it is. Far seeing southerners are already diplomatically making changes industrially and consumerily in the U.S. landscape, both as to wages and living conditions in order to check this immigration. They have been calling into consultation some of the most colored leaders in that section of the country with a view of finding a remedy to cause a cessation of the unrest. The value of the property of the colored people in this country has been estimated to be seven hundred million dollars. Add to it the deposits in the banks of the country and it will be (Continued on the fourth page.) UNION'S INITIAL GAME. Under the leadership of Coach M. P. Robinson the Union squad is again rounding into a strong combination, This year's team promises to eclipse the versatile eleven of last year. The daily thud of the pigskin may be heard each afternoon on Hovey Field during the Unionites' stiff workouts in preparation for their opening game with St. Paul at Lawrenceville Va. Much joy is evidenced among the loyal red and steel supporters by the presence of "Tunk" Woods again at full and Hucles at quarter, Hucles' educated too is again doing its destructive work and promises to be an posing eleven. All of last year's back field man have returned and donned their uniforms with the exception of Bowie, who is in the training camp. His shoes will be filled by Kirby of Last year's squad and Skinner, a recruit from Kittrell College, who has displayed super form at half and has also proven himself to be a giant at tackling. The elusive Gregory will hold down the other job at half, Taylor the sensational end of last year, is taking care of left end and is dis playing his same rare ability on the receiving end of passcases. In Taylor and Smith the end positions are well taken care of. Among the other new recruits are Bragg, who is making a strong bid for quarterback and Smith who has made a wonderful showing at right end. With the arrival of a few of the remaining veterans, Union's roster will be complete. The present aggregation promises to surpass all previous records of former teams and without a doubt will place a stronger team on the field this fall than has ever represented the red and steel. According to the present outlook Howard and Hampton will number among Union's victims this season. The entire squad will be in fine fettle for its initial struggle with St. Paul which will without a doubt prove a walkover for the Unionites. Then she returns to her own bulwark and begins a strenuous preparation for the warm reception of the Seasiders on November 3rd. THE NEW THEATRE The Globe Theatre on Second St., between Clay and Leigh St., has open ed under auspicious circumstances. Devoted exclusively to moving pictures of a high order, its patrons are outspoken in praise of what the management has done. Read the announcement in this issue. Ten cents is the admission price. Go there and see for yourself. Senator La Follette Defies Enemies Reiterates His Position. Will Not Swerve a Hair-breath. Stirring Scenes in the United States Senate. Two Great Speakers Answer Him. Washington, D. C., Oct. 6, 1917. In the midst of the day's thrilling debate on alleged disloyalty of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin the extraorinary session of Congress, which began April 2, and generally regarded as the most momentous in American history, was adjourned sine die at 3 P. M. yesterday. Vehement criticism of the Wisconsin Senator and his own defense occupying virtually the entire day, marked the close of the war session. WILSON AT CAPITOL President Wilson was at the Capitol, and the usual eleventh-hour grist of legislation was put through, following six months of important war action. Last night most of the members who had remained for the final days were en route home, to await the call of the next session, December 3. SENATE AND HOUSE SCENES With galleries crowded to their cap city, the Senate Chamber was the scene of five hours' stirring discussion of Senator La Follette's attitude on the war, but in the House there was little to mark the occasion except submission of a committee report mildly consuring Representative Hofflin, of Alabama, for criticizing fellow members in connection with Count Von Bernstorff's request for Berlin to furnish funds to influence Congress. The day began with a three hour speech by Senator La Follette, in defense of his criticisms of war questions. LA FOLLETTE READS DEFENSE Without mentioning his recent address before the Nonpartisan League at St. Paul, for investigation of which arrangements were completed yester day by a Senate subcommittee, or naming any of his critics, Mr. La Follette read a carefully prepared defense of his course and declared his intention to follow it in the future. He was interrupted only once. Senators Kellogg, of Minnesota, and Fall, of New Mexico, Republicans and Robinson, of Arkansas, Democrat, replied with criticism of Mr. La Follette's public statements. They denounced what they termed his unpatriotic stand, Senator Robin son asserting that if he held such opinions he would seek a place in the German Bundesrath. Statements accredited to the Wis consin member in his St. Paul speech were flatly contradicted, especially that regarding former Secretary of State Bryan's knowledge of annuition being on the Lusatiana before that steamship sailed on its fatal voyage. Apparently stung by the criticism Senator La Follette made an unsuccessful effort to get time for a response. He succeeded however in stating that he wished to make known the authority for his declaration regarding the Lusatiana and last night announced he would issue a public statement today. To morrow the Senate privileges and elections investigat ing subcommittee will meet to investigate his St. Paul speech, including the Lusatiana incident. ATTACKS ON LA FOLLETTE It met at 10 o'clock under agreement for Mr. La Follette to speak until 1 o'clock, with the rest of the time for replies and miscellaneous final business. Right of free speech and of discussion of public questions was emphasized by Senator La Follette while Senators criticising him declared that he transcended the Constitution's guarantee in that respect. Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, bitterly denounced as a "slander on the intelligence, honor and patriotism of the country" the alleged declaration of Mr. La Follette in St. Paul that the nation went to war to maintain a technical right of Americans to travel on munition laden vessels in behalf of munition makers' interest in the war. Sonator Robinson indicated that Senator La Follette has lent himself to the promotion of the kaiser's ideas and desires, and demanded that the Wisconsin senator make known which or he stands with Germany or America. BAN ON DISLOYAL PLATFORMS "Do not any of you deceive yourselves," said Senator Robinson, "with the theory that you can organize the RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1917. disgruntled elements of the United States and run for the presidency on a platform of disloyalty. It can't be done. You can't even start the running much jess win. "That flag stands for justice; justice at home and liberty abroad. That flag never was lifted in a nobler cause than in the present conflict with Germany. "If you cannot agree with this state ment, for God's sake, familiarize yourselves with current events as to the attempted cheerless responsibility of misrepresenting your country and its leadership before the American people. WOULD RESIGN, SAYS ROBINSON Senator Robinson declared that if he entertained the sentiments La Follette had expressed he would not await any action by the Senate, but would resign his seat and seek the companionship of those whose views he voiced. "Senator La Follette's speech was based on the erroneous assumption that the United States declared war or Germany forced war on her," declared Senator Robinson. "To make a statement of that kind is to say a thing not based on facts. He added he could not find words which he would be permitted under the rules to use in characterizing the Wisconsin senator's speech. Senator Robinson said that if he himself were to express such sentiments he would think that he would have no right to retain his seat in the Senate. EXPECTS AFFIFAVITS FROM SPIES Senator Robinson demanded to know why the Wisconsin senator should make his plea for free speech and at the same time denounce those who have demanded his expulsion. He said it was a singular thing that a senator should speak for r 2 hours in denounce (Continued On Fourth Page.) KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS A New Lodge at Scotland—Grand Chancellor Mitchell Delivers Address. Scottsburg, Va., Oct. 5.—Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., accompanied by Dr. A. A. Tennant, the Grand Medical Register, and Col. R. C. Mitchell arrived here this morning at about 12 o'clock to set up a lodge of Knights of Pythias at Piney Grove Baptist Church. They were met at the train by Sir George W. Bafley. The party entered a car and in a short time was at the Church. Speaking had been announced to take place at 2 P. M. but it was some time after that hour before the people began to assemble. Grand Chancellor Mitchell gave a history of the Order and then discussed matters affecting the welfare of the race. CONFERRED THREE RANKS Remarks were made by Dr. A. A. Tennant and Col. R. C. Mitchell. The Grand Chancellor surprised all by announcing that as so many candidates were present and had been examined by the Grand Medical Register, he would proceed with the initiation forthwith. He then conferred the three ranks upon the candidates. Visiting Knights were present and assisted. It was 4:45 P. M. when he left the hall and he proceeded in company with his nephew to start for the train, which left Scottsburg at 5:30. He left District Deputy J. H. Martin of Houston, Va. and Dr. A. A. Tennant to complete the work on the candidates, who were to come later, expecting the lodge to be instituted that night. OFFICERS INSTALLED The following officers were in stalled: A. W. Sawyer, Master of Works; J. E. Coleman, Chancellor Commander; Willie Lee Carrington, Vice Chancellor; Archer Coleman, Prelate Willie Jesse Bailey, Keeper of Records and Seal; W. H. Bouldin, Master of Finance; Amos Freeman, Master of Exchequer; Audrey Jones, Master at Arms; John Hicks, Inner Guard; Alfred Pincham, Outer Guard Trustees Peter W. Bates, Paul James Williams, Solomon Polndoxter. The candidates were delighted. They were especially so as they had the opportunity of assisting in conferring the ranks upon their fellows. THE SHEPHERDS HOLD A GREAT MEETING. Much Interest Manifested—Over Twelve Months and Three-Year Members. Added in 2014. The morning of the 25th of September, 1917, found the representatives of the various Folds of the Improved Order Shopphers and Daughters of Bethlehem assembled in the historic city of Fredericksburg ready for business. Promptly at ten o'clock A. M. the Grand Shopherd called the convention to order. After going through the regular form of opening, the roll of Grand Officers was called. The list of Folds was then read and the delegates presented their credentials and their representation fees. Notwithstanding the fact that the place and the time of meeting had been changed there was a large delegation present. Among the most important features of the first day's business were the annual report of the Grand Shopherd and the Grand Financial Secretary. The general concensus of opinion was that they were the best in the history of the organization. They showed growth both along the financial and numerical lines. involve hundred and fifty five members were reported for the year. The first public meeting was held on Tuesday night. Because of the indisposition of the Mayor, his son, Mr. George Rose represented him. Rev. W. L. Ransome very befittingly indisposed him. His words of welcome were so generous that every delegate felt as much at ease as if they were in their own homes. The Grand Shepherd then presented Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, who responded in a very creditable and acceptable manner. The second day found the convention hard at work. It is interesting to one who is familiar with the workings of the various fraternal societies and their method of dispatching their business, to see with what case and acceleration the Grand Shepherd disposes of the business of this Order. Every moment of time is used profitably. On Wednesday night the annual sermon was preached by Rev. W. L. Ransome. He chose for his text the twenty-third Psalm. From this beautiful passage he preached one of the most intelligent and inspiring Shepherd sermons heard for some time. Every Shepherd and Daughter of Bethlehem was thrilled with joy and delight after hearing this sermon. One of the most inspiring sights of the session took place on this night—this was the turning out in a body of Eureka Fold of Fredericksburg, which numbres two hundred and ten members. Hon. F. D. Lee, who heads the movement for the erection of a monument in the National Capitol to the memory and honor of the colored soldiers and sailors who fell victims in the wars in which this country has previously engaged, was introduced to the delegation by the Grand Shepherd, J. T. Howin. His address was full of inspiration and wholesome instruction. After his speech the convention pledged its full support to this movement. Last, but not least, was the health conference that was held on Thursday night. This is one of the important features of our organization; that is to look after the health of our members. The address was delivered by the Grand Shepherd, J. T. Hewin. It was a great speech and we feel quite sure that it will be like the bread cast upon the waters to be seen for many days thereafter. Mrs. Ora B. Stokes also made a very interesting and helpful address on the health question. It was on this night that the prizes that had been promised to the successful deputies in the membership contest were awarded. The successful contestants were as follows: Mr. Austin Johnson, bringing in 155 members received $25 in gold. Miss Mary J. Jenkins, bringing in 138 members received $20 in gold. Mrs. Annie C. Coleman, bringing in 113 members received $15 in gold. Mrs. M. W. Garland, bringing in 94 members received $10 in gold. Mrs. Amanda Denson, bringing in 54 members received $5 in gold. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand Presiding Shepherd, J. Thomas Hewin, Richmond; Grand Vice-Presiding Shepherd, N. J. E. Moore, Cullon; Grand Secretary-Treasurer Amon C. Clark; Richmond; Grand Recording Secretary, George L. Juhans, Richmond; Grand Degree Mistress, Dellah Jones, Richmond; Grand Deputy, Miss Mary J. Jenkins, Scottsville; Grand Chaplain, Alexander Coleman, Winginia; Grand Senior Staff Supporter, Sudio Taliaferro, Fredericksburg; Grand Junior Staff Supporter, M. W. Garland, Manteo; Grand Inside Porter, D. M. Haskins, Prospect; Grand Outside Porter, L. W. Redwood, Arvonia; Grand Keeper of Wardrobe, Lottie P. Jones, Manteo; Grand Master of Signs, J. E. Bolding, Appomattox; Grand Regalia Maker, Clara A. Holmes, Richmond. Board of Directors: Harrison Halloway, Saluda; J. B. Clarke, Richmond; Irvin East, Richmond; George L. Jahans, Richmond; Austin Johnson, Fredericksburg; Lewis Howard, Charlottesville; Amanda Denson Richmond; Amos C. Clark, Richmond; N. J. E. Moore, Cullen; C. A. Webber, Andersonville; A. W. Caworth, Appomattox; J. Thomas Hewin, Richmond. The next session will be held the first Tuesday in September, 1918, in Culpepper, Virginia, with Ora Fold No. 28. DRAFTED MAN A SUICIDE WHEN CLASSED AS COLORED the draft lottery one of the early numbers selected was that of Alfred Lord, 27 years of age of Mineral City Ohio. He got the news when the Cleveland papers arrived on the evening train. "I'm ready," said he. Then came the call before the examining board. Lord appeared and the physicians pronounced him physically fit. Together with an increment of 105 other drafted men he went away from home, Monday, starting for the cantonment at Chilicothe. A cheering crowd was at the station waving flags when the group departed. At Chilicothe, as is the rule, regular army surgeons were on hand to check up the decisions of the local examining physicians, to decide on the physical qualifications of the men. Lord was examined in turn, but the surgeon did not pass him, instead he called in other surgeons. They, too, examined Lord. There were whispered conferences. "We are sorry to tell you this," one of the surgeons said, finally, "but there is evidence that there is Negro blood in your veins. You will have to go into a Negro regiment." Lord, who, although of dark complexion, always had thought himself whit, and who had associated with white men all his life, was heart broken. That night he committed suicide. The affair was yesterday reported to the War Department. Troy News Notes. Troy, N. Y., Oct. 1.—Mrs. Eugene A. Taylor, of New York City has returned home after visiting Rev. and Mrs. John A. Taylor, of Troy. Mrs. Taylor and daughter, Esther, had a delightful time and made many friends in Troy Mrs. Annie K. Vaughan and children, Master Howard and Miss Myrtle, of Farmville, are in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. J. A. Bowler. Mrs. Ethel V. Jones, little Archibald and Hermione, of Powhatan, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Willie Smithie in West Twenty-second St. this week. The Union Meeting of the Richmond S. S. Union of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, held last Sunday was a great success. 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. 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, Occupacia, Va. DR. S. A. MOSES SAYS VIRGINIA IS SAFE. It is time for Virginia to speak. In a crisis so great and so grave she should no longer hold her peace. As one of the officers of our state convention and deeply interested in every phase of its work you may take it from me that Virginia Baptists are not going to split, neither are they going to insult in any way our brethren in the north. We are not going to commit suicide and we are not going to depart from the National Baptist Convention over which Dr. Morris presides. Brethren take it from me, we are not going to do any such thing. There is nothing for any of us to gain by splitting up and there is every thing to lose by such a course. PRESIDENT GALVIN IS NOT A SPLITTER. President Galvin is not a splitter and the men who stand around him and who have supported him in his administration thus far are sufficiently wise to take care of that part of the business. Most of the men who went to the Atlanta meeting from this state went because of the nearness of Georgia to Virginia. In answer to Dr. Graham's question Virginia's answer is; there are no states south of us to which we can look for aid, and we will never drive from us that which is a part of us. Being in another state does not sever our relations. We are one. Those who say that the brethren in the northern states are not wantful and not needed do not state the true sentiments of our convention DR. T. J. KING IS NO LONGER SECRETARY. Dr. T. J. King is no longer secretary of the Jones National Convention, and Rev. C. P. Madison will not be very long. I was once Chairman of the Foreign Mission Board, but when Dr Boyd told me that the National Board Convention did not own the Publishing House I left him and his convention board and all, and feel safe in saying that all of the Virginia men who are now singing his songs will do like wise. The country is safe and you shall see the truthfulness of these words both in our next meeting in Newport News and at the National Convention in New Jersey. DR. G. M. P. KING DEAD. Well Known Educator Dies While On a Visit to Cambria, Va. Rev. G. M. T. King, D. D., of Virginia Union University died at Cambria, Va., on Monday. He was attending a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the church of one of his former pupils at Christiansburg. He had been in failing health for many months and was suddenly overtaken by fatal illness. Dr. King, had been identified with educational work for Negroes for the past fifty years. He was for many years president of Wayland Seminary, at Washington, and when that school was united with the Richmond Theological Seminary, to form Virginia Union University, he came to Richmond and continued his work to the day of his death. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, of this city, and is survived by one son, Henry P. King, of Portland, Me., the body was taken North from Christiansburg, and there will be no funeral ser vice holds here. Dr. G. M. P. King, for thirty years President of Wayland Seminary, and since 1899 Professor in Virginia Union University died Oct. 8, 1917, at Cambria, Va., whither he had gone to take part in the fiftieth anniversary excercises of the Memorial Baptist church, pastored by Rev. George S. Reavis, a former student. There will be no services at this time at the University. He had requested that, if he died away from home, his remains he shipped directly north and that there he no stop in Richmond and no public funeral. The University plans to hold a Memorial Service⁴ him, probably at Commencement, when more of his former students may be present. —Mrs. Charlotte Yancey and Dr Abnor Yancey have been visiting Mrs Rosa B. DeWitt. 213 E. Clay St. PRICE, FIVE CENTS HON. CHARLES W. ANDERSON IS HONORED. Mayor Mitchell's Appointment—He Is Elected Honorary Member of Italian Loyal Legion. Blushing honors are falling thick and fast upon Hon. Charles W. Anderson, these days. After having severed the different committees appointed by May or Mitchell to receive and entertain the British High Commission with the Right Honorable Arthur J. Balfour at its head; the French Commission with Marshall Joffre and Premier Viviani; the Royal Italian Commission of which Perdinand of Savoy Prince of Udine and Signor Marcoul; the Russian Commission and Belgian Commission, he was accorded fresh distinction by being appointed a member of the Committee to receive and entertain the Imperial Japanese Commission headed by His Excellency Viscount Kikujiro Ishi, Japan's leading statesman. At the official reception tendered to these distinguished visitors in the City Hall on last Thursday, the Ex-Collector was placed next to the Baron Isamu Takeshita, ice-Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, by Judge Elbert H. Gary, President of the U. S. Steel Corporation and Chairman of the entertainment committee. MANY OFFICIALS PRESENT Eight Hundred of the most distinguished citizens of the City of New York were present at this reception and twenty-five of the most prominent of them were grouped immediately around the quests' dais. Henry Clows, the great banker, was placed next to the Collector and the Marquis of Aberdoon was stationed next to Mr. Clows. The historic reception room of the City Hall, which has seen so much gorgeous pageentry was lavishly decorated with chrysanthemums and drawf cedar trees with the Japanese and American flags gracefully draped around the entire room. It presented a most impressive scene, perhaps the most elaborate that has yet been set for the entertainment of the famous visitors. ATTENDED THE LUNCHEON Mr. Arderson attended the luncheon given by the Chamber of Commerce, the dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the dinner at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, the monster official banquet at the Waldorf Astoria. Among those present at this last named function were: Hon. Chauneyce M. Depew; Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher; Baron Amiro Sato, the Ambassador of Japan Mayor John Purrey Mitchell; Judge Elbert H. Gary; Hon. Charles E. Hughes; Hon. William H. Tatt; Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves; U. S. A.; Docter Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University; Brigadier General James A. Irons, U. S. A. Major General Sugano of the Imperial Japanese Army; Commander Ando of the Imperial Japanese Navy; Hon. Martin W. Littleton; Lieutenant Colonel Mizamachi, E. H. Cutbridge, President of the Chamber of Commerce of New York City. NO COLOR-LINE THERE It was a very hopeful sign to note a complete elimination of the color line in the seating arrangements of this banquet. At the table with Mr. Anderson were the Marquels of Ito, son of the famous Premier of Japan, Lord of Aberdoon, Isaac N. Soligman, the great banker, C. G. La Farge, the Sculptor and Mr. Rodman Wanamaker, son of the noted Philadelphia merchant. On last Saturday the Imperial Commission visited West Point and were met at the Government dock by a detachment of the Tenth Cavalry and escorted to the headquarters of the Commandant. Speaking of this visit General Sugano told Mr. Anderson that he had never seen a finer looking body of cavalry men than the detachment of black troopers which acted as the escort at West Point. Vis count Ishall also complimented the colored soldiers and inquired as to the number of regiments of them in the regular army of the United States. He informed the Collector that he was greatly interested in the Colored American citizens and expressed regret that his tour of the country did not permit him to visit the Tuskegee Institute. HE WANTED TO MEET He said that he had long desired to meet the Dr. Booker T. Washington, but missed his only opportunity to do so on the occasion of Mr. Washington's visit to Paris, owing to illness. The Viscount was at that time the Japanese Ambassador to France. Collector Anderson was the recipient of a further piece of race recognition last week when together with Mayor John Purry Mitchell and Judge Freschi he was elected an Honorary member of The Italian Loyal Legion of which Chevalier Pissarro is President and Mr. Caruso is the Secretary. Two Tae ER BRITISH REPEL GERMAN ATTACKS Speclally-picked Troops Fall to Move General Halg. | BIG MOVEMENT BY BRITISH Consternation Now In Berlin—Succees Of Enemy In Mesopotamia Blasts Kaiser's Hopes In East, Potrograd.—in the Riga region south of the railway from Krononburg to Spitall and tn the Groundull sector our vanguard advanced a mile, the War Office statement declared. London, — Violent German counter attacks by great forces of specially picked troops against recently-gained British positions along the bloody Ypres sector, were all repulsed by British defenders, Field Marshal Halg reported. No less than five of these blows were struck by the enemy between the Ypres-Monin road and the northoast corner of Polygon wood, the British commander-in-chief stated. All failed in a withering fro from the British rifles, machine guns and the barrage from field pieces, except one dash which swept over to small advanced Posts. Theso were hold tenaciously by the enemy. The same driving desperation in counter-blows was reported from Zou Pebeke to south of the Ypres-Roulers railway. Haig declared the enomy had suffer ed very heavy losses In the fruitless attacks, From the German tactics of almost foverishly - inspired counter - attacks, plus Haig's silence on his own moves during the past fow days, if it is con fidently predicted here that another big British drivo ts imponding. « .«.fritieh.Oriving Turks, is Amsterdam, — Constornatioa — das boon caused in Berlin by tho fresh ad- vance of the British along the Bagdad Railway in Mesopotamia, according to Aispatches from the German capital. About 320 miles of actual railway Mno or ballasted right of way between Basra, on the Persian Gulf, and a point 60 miles northwest of Ragdad are now {n possession of General Maude's forces, and thoy are still moving for: ward, driving the ‘Turks before them ‘Thus, while tho German Hne crumbles on the western front, the Kaiser gees his dream of an ompire from the North Sea to the Persian Gulf tumbling be neath his eyes, French Hurl Back Germans, Parls—Freneh troops throw back, with heavy losses to the enemy, two strong German attacks around Bean mont the official statement. asserted. LIBERTY BONDS AT 100.24, Activity and Rise Attribued To An. { nouncement of New Issue. Now York.—Trading in Liberty 3% per cent. Government bonds at quota tions running from 100.04 to the now Premium of 100.24 was tho striking feature of an othorwise unsottied Moyoment on the Stock Exchango Friday. Sales of tho Liberty issue ag Bregated about $5,350,000, or almost 00 per cent. of the day's total opora. tions in tho open bond market. Among dealers tho greater activity and the enhancement wore attributed to the overnight announcement of the Treasury Department's intention to create n new bond for an unlimited amount at 4 per cont. interest. TO BUILD 40 DESTROYERS, Contract Awarded To Union tron Works, Of San Francisco, San Franeisco—The Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, has been awarded a contract for the construc tion of 40 torpedodoat destroyers, ac cording to an announcement by’ the Chamber of Commerce here, ‘The money consideration was not am nounced, DRAFT CASES BEFORE couRT. Aske the Supreme Tribunal To Ad. ‘vance the Date For Hearlnna Washington, — The Department of Tustico, acting on behalf of the govern. ment, moved to advance to the carllest possible dato hearings on the olght ‘cases now before the United States Su preme Court involving tho constitu. tionality of the selective draft act. GIVES MILLION TO HOSPITAL, Mre. Golesinger Endows Charity she Originated, ~Danyille, Pa,—Mrs. Abigail 1, Gels: Pais Bae : fh rae a Oe ant a. is. ae 4D Bey ey, Ve } PS A Raed i a Sarr Bl bas " "Me ig / jf ae aN 9 ies ua ye aS) (@ Va me Sy Our New Serial Is a Treat j \ la ma gl p> y In the Realm of Adventure TN fi) \BETTER THAN “Tarzan of the Apes” I Cea 7 IN Jack Clayton, the Ape Man’s Son, i) \ ZH) N Feels the Call of the Wild and aa \N ‘ Z)\\ Flees to Africa With ea jy ‘| ies 21) AKUT, THE GRAY APE cl \ he : Ri ‘ War yn There the Boy Learns From SG (uke yy 5 Akut the Life of the Jungle; iS DN EY, yy Ry There He Meets Meriem, (| KA Y Hy t; ie the Captive Girl, and There ‘ ie i ; the Trio Have Many Strange Veer » goa L) fay; ,.and ‘Thrilling Experiences wef x Wy we, {7 Lee a Esaone poe Beasts and BPN, Mi Mca, javage Feoples: BP CA yon = e has aye Nee This Great Story Will Appear Soon of R N Watch For it? eA RNS TIPS Next Week Pade Three. ‘singer, Who bvilt the $600,600 George F. Geissinger sfemorial Hospital here has endowed it for $1,000,000. Last weate Mrs. Golssingor asked the bourd of trustees, all prominuut Danville ‘men, to resign, saying sho had other ‘plans. Mrs. Geissinger is more than se yours old. : —. | Philadelphia Executive and Eight Others Accused | OF ELECTION — | Hearing Attracks Throng To Court, ‘Trial Of Gunmen Waits On Dis posal Of “HigherUps” In Case. Philadelphia. —Mayor Thomas DB. Smith and eight othor men were formally arraignod on tho chargo of conspiracy to murdor as the rosult of the killing of Polfceman Eppley by im- ported gunmon during the recont pri- mary olection riots in the “bloody” Fifth ward. ‘Tho hearing took place in tho Munteipal courtroom of tho City Hall before Judge Brown, ‘Tho othor eight defendants aro: Tsaae Deutsch, Common Councilman from the Fifth ward; Police Lieuten- ant David Bonnott, William B. Finloy, Select Counciiman; John Wirtschattor, special policeman; Michaol Murphy, special policeman; Clarence Hayden, Emmanuel Uram and Louis Feldman, tho lator throe being policemen from the Fitth ward. ‘The trial of the two gunmen charged with the actual murder was put aside in order to proseeuto the nino men, Samuel G. Malonoy, chief of the Val O'Farrell Detective Agency, who was arrested on chargos of conspiracy to murdor, but later released on a writ of habeas corpus, with tho aid of Dis triot Attornoy Rotan, was tho star wit ness against the accused. Hours before the time set for the trial spectators jammod the corridora of tho City Hall in efforts to gain ad: mittanes to the courtroom. —Admis sion was by card only. Many clergy: mon were unablo to gain entry and had to bo satisfied with news that camo from the trial. ‘That Mayor Smith told James A. ‘Caroy, who was olected as Common Counctiman from the “bloody” Fitth ward, that ho (tho Mayor) had started the Vares against Caroy and that the Varos woro told to go the limit during the clty administration, was brought out whon Carey was put on tho stand |, Carey tostified that tho Mayor told ‘him thet the clty administration was against tho witnoss, “4 atarted the Vares against you, _THE RIOHMOND PLANE1, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA I told them to go the Imit, and that my administration would stand behind them,’ Mayor Smith told ine,” Carey testifvedy Corey was one of the men assaulted by Imported gunmen and suffered from a fractured skull, SUGAR TAKES DROP AT LAST. Rotails At Rate Of 8 1-3 Cents a Pound On Pacific Coast, San Franctseo.—The price of boot and cano sugar dropped from .0820 to .0725 cents a pound here, Rotailere wore selling sugar at 12 pounds for $1 ‘The prico recently had been 31 for 11 pounds. Vintually every State west of tho Rocky Mountains ts affected by tha reduction, sugar company offletala hero said. WOMAN DROWNS HER CHILDREN, Insane Mother Drops Youngsters Into Old Welt. Rochester, N. Y.—Mrs, Carl BE. Diohl, residing at ‘Townsend, in a fit of insanity, drowned her two boys, one aged 6 years and the other 18 months, in an old well near the house. Sho later dragged the bodies from the ‘well and Intd thom on the grass, whdre they were found by a neighbor, 23 KILLED IN COLLISON. Passenger On St. Louis and Frisco Runs Into Empty Troop Train. Kellyville, Okla—Bodies of 16 ne grocs and seven whito men have beon taken from the wreckage of the St Louis and San Francisco train No. 7, which collided head-on with an empty troop train, one mile southwost of hero, It Is belleved that soveral more bodies still are in the debris. EX-CONGRESSMAN A SUICIDE. 3. A, Nichols Wrote “Old, Poor and Blind; What's The Use Of Living.” Raleigh, N, C.—John A. Nichols, 84, United States Commistsonor hero ‘and at one time a momber of Cohgross, committed gutcide in the Postofiles Building by shooting himsolf. A note in his office read: “Old, poor and blind; what’s the use of living.” CONNECTICUT TOWNS DRY. War Argument Used With Success By tho Anti-License Forces, Now Haven, Conn.—tklevon more Connecticut towns aro in tho “no Hquot Mcense” column as a result of tho “lit: tlo town" election in this State. ‘The wots were able to bring only threo towns from no license to Heense. There are now 99 towns Jn the dry column, while tho wet towns, including all the Gitlos of the State, total 69. _ Your subseription to the Planet fa due, Have you paid it? If not why por New War Tax Levies as Made by Senate and House Washington.—The war revenue bill, a8 finally agreed on by the house and senate conferees provides for the rals- ing of approximately $2,606,320,000, as follows: Income tax .....+++++++.$ 842,000,000 Excess profits tax....... 1,110,000,000 Distilled spirits ........ 136,000,000 Rectified spirits ........ 6,000,000 Fermented liquors ...... 46,000,000 Wines, etc. .........e44 10,000,000 Soft drinks, sirups, ete... 14,000,000 Cigars ...seeeseseeeeeee 10,000,000 Clgarettes .......s..4.4 20,000,000 Tobacco .... 25,000.000 Snuff veeeesseeeeceeeeee 1,500,000 Cigarette papers .....2., 200,000 Freight transportation... 77,500,000 Express and parcel post. 16,000,000 Passenger transportation 56,000,000 Pipe tines ......sseeeeee 4,600,000 Seats and berths ........ 2,260,000 Telegraph and telephone messages .....4...... 7,000,000 Insurance policies (new) 5,000,000 Automobiles (sale of).. 40,000,000 Musical instrumente (oale of) ...ssseeeseee 4,800,000 Motion ploture fllme..... 3,000,000 Jewelry (sale by manu- facturer) sesseevserees 4,600,000 Sporting goods ........ 1,200,000 Pleasure boats ........ 500,000 Perfumes and cosmetics 1,900,000 Proprietary medicines .. 3,000,000 Cameras s.eeseeseeeeees 750,000 Admlasions ........+-+4+ 50,000,000 Club dues ..........4664 1,200,000 Schedule A, Including Playing cards ........ 30,000,000 War estate tax.......66. 6,000,000 ‘Virgin Istand producta. . 20,000 ‘Firat class mall matter.. 60,000,000 Second class mail matter 14,000,000 | Total ..seeeeeeeeee+$2,606,320,000 $10 FOR BAG OF MAKIN'S, Sammie Got Big Sum For Packages In Crists. 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"man who Insisted on taking the boy und the wheel, dospito the mother’s fred protestations. ‘She told tho officer Just. that tho boy had mado the bike out (off of parts sho got for him. ‘Whore and did you get that frame?” ‘asked tho pin” officer. “T found {t on tho durap,” tho roplied the mothor. “Where did you 1 to Ket that seat?” "LT pleked it up in His tho streot,” camo tho reply. “Whore sho did you socuro tho hanille-bars?” Oh, ‘ged I found them on tho dump, too.” tho Well, whore on earth did you find ago. those brand now tires?” ‘The moth- di- or was “up a treo.” Sho scratched h— hor head, looked up and said, “I but EXPECT’ THAT RASCAL STOLE lice THAT BICYCLE!" E TIN BIG TIMBER BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Copyright, 1916, by Little, Brown & Co. Estella Benton, left a penniless orphan, goes to join her brother Charlie, who is logging lumber in British Columbia. Charlie tells Stella of his prospects and describes his primitive manner of living. He introduces a neighbor, Paul Abbey. Fyfe pays a visit. Stella is repelled by him, although she feels in force of his personality. Stella wants to quit, but her brother dissuades her. He toks the gang back to Fyfe's camp. 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 digusted with her surroundings. Fyfe proposes marriage as a way out, but is rejected. Winter sets in, brimming more drunkenness and trouble. Stella is sorely tried, and when Fyfe proposes again she marries him immediately. In spring the Fyfe return from a honeymoon, and Stella is pleased with her now 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 power. This increases her popularity in the Abbey households. Monohan declares his love for Stella. She tells him they must part. Fyfe covers 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 thrashes Monohan. He turns upon Stella, who explains the chance meeting, but degrades to have him. He holds her because of their child. Stella learns that Monohan is plitting to hurt Fyfe's number interests by underhand means. Her baby dies by an accident. Stella determines to leave Fyfe and support herself by singing. Fyfe agrees and Stella secures a position in a Seattle theater. Stella sees Monahan supplying with a woman in Seattle. Her last illusion vanishes. She debates whether she should not return to Fye, but decides against it. Charlo Benton and Linda Abbey murry, Shiree to Vancouver for a concert engagement. She forest fires Fye's locality. Charlo has been shot by Monahan. The Fire Bohind the Smoke THIS is no intimate chronicle Charlie Bonton and Linda Abbey Charlie Benton and Dina Abel save in so far as they naturally furnish a logical sequence in what transpired. Therefore the details of their courtship and nuptials is of no particular concern. They were wedded, dined as befitted the occasion, and departed upon their hypothetical honeymoon, surreptitiously abbreviated from an extravagant swing over half of North America to seventy miles by rail and twenty by water, and a month of blissful seclusion, which suited those two far better than any amount of Pullman touring, besides leaving them money in pocket. Charlie and Linda were married on an early day in June at the home of the Abbeys in Vancouver. Stella had run over for the wedding and then had caught the next boat back for Seattle so as to interfere as little as possible with her engagements. Time passed quickly and uneventfully enough between the wedding day and the date of her Granada engagement. It seemed a mere breathing space before the middle of July rolled around and she was once more aboard a Vancouver boat. In the interim she had received a letter from the attorney who had wound up her father's estate, intimating that there was now a market demand for some oil stock that had been considered of no value, and asking if he should sell or hold for a rise in price which seemed reasonably sure. Stella telegraphed her answer. If that leftover of a speculative period would bring a few hundred dollars it would never be of greater service to her than now. All the upper reach of Puget sound basked in its normal midsummer haze, the day Stella started for Vancouver. That great region of island dotted sea spread between the rugged Olympics and the foot of the coast range lay bathed in summer sun, untroubled, somnolent. But nearing the international boundary the Charlotte drove her twenty knot way into a thickening atmosphere. Northward from Victoria the rugged shores that lue those inland waterways began to appear blurred. Just north of Active pass, where the steamers take to the open gulf again, a vast bank of smoke flung up blue and gray, a rolling mass. The air was pungent, oppressive. When the Charlotte spanned the thirty mile gap between Vancouver island and the mainland shore she nosed into the Lion's Gate under a slow belt, through a smoke pall thick as Bering fog. Stella's recollection swung back to Charlie's uneasy growl of a month earlier. Fire! Throughout the midsummer season there was always the danger of fire breaking out in the woods. Not all the fire ranger patrols could guard against the carelessness of fishermen and campers. "It's a tough summer over here for the timber owners," she heard a man remark. "I've been twenty years or the coast and never saw the woods so dry." "Dry's no name," his neighbor responded. "It's like tinder. A cigarette stub'll start a blaze forty men couldn't put out. It's no that knows it. I've got four limits on the North Arm, and there's fire on two sides of me. You bet I'm praying for rain." "They say the country between Chohals and Roaring lake is one big blaze," the first man observed. "So?" the other replied. "Pity too. Fine timber is there. I came near buying some timber on the lake this spring. Some stuff that was on the market as a result of that Abbey-Monohan split. Glad I didn't now. I'd just as soon have all my money out of timber this season." They moved away in the press of disembarking, and Stella heard no more of their talk. She took a taxi to the Grannda, and she bought a paper in the foyer before she followed the bellboy to her room. She had scarcely taken off her hat and settled down to read when the telephone rang. Linda's voice greeted her when she answered. "I called on the chance that you took the morning bout," Linda said. "Can I run in? I'm just down for the day. I won't be able to hear you sing, but I'd like to see you, dear." "Can you come right now?" Stella asked. "Come up and we'll have something served up here. I don't feel like running the gantlet of the dining room just now." "I'll be there in a few minutes," Linda answered. Stella went back to her paper. She didn't notice any particular stress laid on forest fires in the Seattle dalles, but she could not say that of this Vancouver sheet. The front page recked of smoke and fire. She glanced through the various items for news of Roaring lake, but found only a brief mention. It was "reported" and "asserted" and "umored" that fire was raging at one or two points there, statements that were overshadowed by positive knowledge of greater areas nearer at hand burning with a fierceness that could be seen and smelled. The local papers had enough feature stuff in fires that threatened the very suburbs of Vancouver without going so far afield as Roaring lake. Linda's entrance put a stop to her reading without, however, changing the direction of her thought, for after an exchange of greetings Linda divulged the source of her worried expression, which Stella had immediately remarked. "Who wouldn't be worried," Linda said, "with the whole country on fire and no telling when it may break out in some unexpected place and wipe one out of house and home." "Is it so bad as that at the lake?" Stella asked unceasingly. "There's not much in the paper. I was looking." "It's so bad," Linda returned, with a touch of bitterness, "that I've been driven to the Springs for safety; that every abledoed man on the lake who can be spared is fighting fire. There has been one man killed and there's half a dozen loggers in the hospital suffering from burns and other hurts. Nobody knows where it will stop. Charlie's limits have barely been scorched, but there's fire all along one side of them. A change of wind—and there Gavrilo "Jack Fyfe's timber is burning in a dozen places." you are. Jack Fyfe's timber is burning in a dozen places. We've been praying for rain and choking in the smoke for a week." Stella looked out the north window. From the ten story height she could see ships lying in the stream, vague hulks in the smoky pall that shrouded the harbor. "I'm sorry,"-she whispered. "It's devilish," Linda went on. "Like groping in the dark and being afraid—for me. I've been married a month and for ten days I've only seen my husband at brief intervals when he comes down in the launch for supplies or to bring an injured man. And he doesn't tell me anything except that we stand a fat chance of losing everything. I sit there at the Springs and look at that smoke wall hanging over the water and wonder what goes on up there. And at night there's the red glow, very faint THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA and far. That's all. I've been doing nursing at the hospital to help out and to keep from brooding. I wouldn't be down here now only for a list of things the doctor needs, which he thought could be obtained quicker if some one attended to it personally. I'm taking the evening train back." "I'm sorry," Stella repeated. In sorry, Stella repeated. She said it rather mechanically. Her mind was spining a thread upon which, strung like beads, slid all the manifold succession of things that had happened since she came first to Roaring lake. Linda's voice, continuing, broke into her thoughts. "I suppose I shouldn't be croaking into your ear like a bird of ill omen when you have to throw yourself heart and soul into that concert tomorrow," she said contritely. "I wonder why that Ancient Mariner way of seeking relief from one's troubles by pouring them into another ear is such a universal trait? You aren't vitally concerned, after all, and I am. Let's have that tea, dear, and talk about less grievous things. I still have one or two trifles to get in the shops too." After they had finished the food that Stella ordered sent up they went out together. Later Stella saw her off on the train. "Goodbye, dear," Linda said from the coach window. "I'm just selfish enough to wish you were going back with me I wish you could sit with me on the bank of the lake, aching and longing for your man up there in the smoke as I ache and long for mine. Misory loves company." Stella's eyes were clouded as the train pulled out. Something in Linda Benton's parting words made her acutely lonely, displitted, out of joint with the world she was deliberately fashioning for herself. Into Linda's life something big and elemental had come. The butterfly of yesterday had become the strong man's mate of today. Linda's heart was unequivocally up there in the smoke and flame with her man, fighting for their mutual possessions, hoping with him, fearing for him, longing for him, secure in the knowledge that if nothing else was left then they had each other. It was a rare and beautiful thing to feel like that. And beyond that sorrowful vision of what she lacked to achieve any real and enduring happiness there loomed also a self-torturing conviction, that she herself had set in motion those forces which now threatened ruin for her brother and Jack Fyfe. There was no logical proof of this. Only intuitive, subtle suggestions gleaned here and there, shadowy finger posts which pointed to Monohan as a deadly hater and with a score chalked up against Fyfe to which she had unconsciously added. He had desired her, and twice Fyfe had treated him like an urchin caught in mishief. She recalled how Monohan sprang at him like a tiger that day on the lake shore. She realized how bitter a humiliation it must have been to suffer that sardonic cuffing at Fyfe's hands. Monohan wasn't the type of man who would ever forget or forgive either that or the terrible grip on his throat. Even at the time she had sensed this and dreaded what, it might ultimately lead to. Even while her being answered eagerly to the physical charm of him she had fought against admitting to herself what desperate intent might have him back of the killing of Billy Dale—a shot that Lefty Howe declared was meant for Fyfe. She had long outgrown Monohan's lure, but if he had come to her or written to make out a case for himself when she first went to Seattle she would have accepted his word against anything. Her heart would have fought for him against the logic of her brain. But—she had had a long time to think, to compare, to digest all that she know of him, much that was subconscious impression rising late to the surface, a little that she heard from various sources. The sum total gave her a man of rank passions, of rare and merciless finesse where his desires figured, a man who got what he wanted by whatever means most fifty served his need. Greater than any craving to possess a woman would be the measure of his rancor against a man who humiliated him, thwarted him. She could understand how a man like Monohan would hate a man like Jack Fyfe, would nurse and feed on the venom of his hate until setting a torch to Fyfe's timber would be a likely enough counterstroke. She shrank from the thought. Yet it lingered until she felt guilty. Though it made no material difference to her that Tyfe might or might not face ruln, she could not, before her own conscience, evade responsibility. The powder might have been laid, but her folly had touched spark to the fuse as she saw it. That seared her like a palm far into the night. For every crime a punishment, for every sin a penance. Her world had taught her that. She had never danced; she had only listened to the piper and longed to dance as nature had fashioned her to do. But the piper was sending his bill. She surveyed it wearily, emotionally bankrupt, wondering in what coin of the soul she would have to pay. STELLA sang in the gift ballroom of the Granada next afternoon, behind the footlights of a miniature stage, with the blinds drawn and a few hundred of Vancouver's social elct critically, expectantly listening. She sang her way straight into the heart of that audience with her opening number. This was on Wednesday. Friday she sang again and Saturday afternoon. When she came back to her room after that last concert, weared with the effort of listening to chattering women and playing the gracious lady to an admiring contingent which insisted upon making her last appearance a social triumph, she found a letter forwarded from Seattle. She silt the envelope. A typewritten sheet infolded a green slip—a check. She look- ed at the figures, scarcely comprehending until she read the letter. "We take pleasure in handing you herewith," Mr. Lander wrote for the firm, "our check for $19,500, proceeds of oil stock sold as per your telegraph instructions, less brokerage charges. We sold same at par and trust this will be satisfactory." She looked at the check again. Nineteen thousand five hundred—payable to her order! Two years ago such a sum would have lifted her to plutoarc heights, filled her with pleasurable excitement, innumerable antiplations. Now it stirred her less than the $300 she had just received from the Granada concert committee. She had earned that, had given for it due measure of herself. This other had come without effort, without expectation. And less than she had ever needed money before did she now require such a sum. She was her own mistress, free as the wind. Fyfe had said that. 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M. sleepers and coaches to Jacksonville; sleepers to Birmingham; 6:35 P. M., through coaches and sleepers to Jacksonville; 11:30 P. M., Winston Limited; 11:45 A. M., sleepers to Atlanta, Merr ington; Jacksonville, Tampa and coaches to Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive Richmond daily; 4:25 A. M., 9:25 A. M., and A. M., local; 9:36 A. M., 9:37 P. M. THREE TIM BIG TIMBER BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Copyright 1916 by Little Brown & Co. Estella Benton, left a penniless orphan, goes to join her brother Charlie, who is logging lumber in British Columbia. Charlie tells Stella of his prospects and describes his primitive manner of living. He introduces a neighbor, Paul Abbey. Fyfe pays a visit. Stella is repelled by him, although she feels the force of his personality. Stella wants to quit, but her brother dissuades her. He takes the gang back to Fyfe's camp. Stella visits Fyfe's camp while her brother is there. It is an improvement over Charleen. Fyfe visits the Bentons and qualls a drunken riot among the loggers. Charleo gets intoxicated and Stella becomes all the more digusted with her surroundings. Fyfe proposes marriage as a way out, but is rejected. Winter sets in, bringing more drunkenness and trouble. Stella is serely tried, and when Fyfe proposes again she marries him immediately. In spring the Fyfe return from a honeymoon, and Stella is pleased with her new home. Stella goes canning 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 discharges his love for Stella. She tells him they must part. Fyo 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. Fyo discovers them and thrashes Monohan. He turns upon Stella, who explains the chance meeting, but declares she wants to leave him. He holds hands with her and gives their child. Stella learns that Monohan is plotting to hurt Fyo's number interests by underhand means. Her baby dies by an accident. Stella determines to leave Fyo and support herself by singing. Fyo agrees and Stella occurs a position in a Seattle theater. Stella sees Monahan supplying with a woman in Seattle. Her last illusion vanishes. She debates whether she should not return to Fyfe, but decides against it. Charlie Benton and Linda Abbey marry, Stella goes to Vancouver for a concert engendering. She hears of forest fires in Fyfe's locality. Charlie has been shot by Monahan. THIS is no intimate chronicle Charlie Beaton and Linda Abbey Charlie Benton and Dina Rose save in so far as they naturally furnish a logical sequence in what transpired. Therefore the details of their courtship and nuptials is of no particular concern. They were wedded, dined as befitted the occasion, and departed upon their hypothetical honeymoon, surreptitiously abbreviated from an extravagant swing over half of North America to seventy miles by rail and twenty by water, and a month of blissful seclusion, which suited those two far better than any amount of Pullman touring, besides leaving them money in pocket. Charlie and Linda were married on an early day in June at the home of the Abbeys in Vancouver. Stella had run over for the wedding and then had caught the next boat back for Seattle so as to interfere as little as possible with her engagements. Time passed quickly and uneventfully enough between the wedding day and the date of her Granada engagement. It seemed a mere breathing space before the middle of July rolled around and she was once more aboard a Vancouver boat. In the interim she had received a letter from the attorney who had wound up her father's estate, intimating that there was now a market demand for some oil stock that had been considered of no value, and asking if he should sell or hold for a rise in price which seemed reasonably sure. Stetlin telegraphed her answer. If that leftover of a speculative period would bring a few hundred dollars it would never be of greater service to her than now. All the upper reach of Puget sound basked in its normal midsummer haze, the day Stella started for Vancouver. That great region of island dotted sea spread between the rugged Olympies and the foot of the coast range lay bathed in summer sun, untroubled, somnolent. But nearing the international boundary the Charlotte drove her twenty knot way into a thickening atmosphere. Northward from Victorin the rugged shores that like those inland waterways began to appear blurred. Just north of Active pass, where the steamers take to the open Gulf again, a vast bank of smoke flung up blue and gray, a rolling mass. The air was pungent, oppressive. When the Charlotte spanned the thirty mile gap between Vancouver island and the mainland shore she nosed into the Lion's Gate under a slow bell, through a smoke pall thick as Bering fog. Stella's recollection swung back to Charlie's uneasy growl of a month earlier. Fire! Throughout the midsummer season there was always the danger of fire breaking out in the woods. Not all the fire ranger patrols could guard against the carelessness of fishermen and campers. "It's a tough summer over here for the timber owners," she heard a man remark. "I've been twenty years or SYNOPSIS the coast and never saw the woods so dry." "Dry's no name," his neighbor responded. "It's like tinder. A cigarette stub 'll start a blaze forty men couldn't put out. It's no that knows it. I've got four Limits on the North Arm, and there's fire on two sides of me. You bet I'm praying for rain." "They say the country between Chehalis and Roaring lake is one big blaze," the first man observed. "So?" the other replied. "Plty too. Fino timber is there. I came near buying some timber on the lake this spring. Some stuff that was on the market as a result of that Abbey-Monahan split. Glad I didn't now. I'd just as soon have all my money out of timber this season." They moved away in the press of disembarking, and Stella heard no more of their talk. She took a taxi to the Granda, and she bought a paper in the foyer before she followed the bellboy to her room. She had scarcely taken off her hat and settled down to read when the telephone rang. Linda's voice greeted her when she answered. "I called on the chance that you took the morning boat," Linda said. "Can I run in? I'm just down for the day. I won't be able to hear you sing, but I'd like to see you, dear." "Can you come right now?" Stella asked. "Come up and we'll have something served up here. I don't feel like running the gantlet of the dining room just now." "I'll be there in a few minutes," Linda answered. Stella went back to her paper. She didn't notice any particular stress held on forest fires in the Seattle dalles, but she could not say that of this Vancouver sheet. The front page reeked of smoke and fire. She glanced through the various items for news of Rourling lake, but found only a brief mention. It was "reported" and "asserted" and "rumored" that fire was raging at one or two points there, statements that were overshadowed by positive knowledge of greater areas nearer at hand burning with a fierceness that could be seen and smelled. The local papers had enough feature stuff in fires that threatened the very suburbs of Vancouver without going so far afflict as Roaring lake. Linda's entrance put a stop to her reading without, however, changing the direction of her thought, for after an exchange of greetings Linda divulged the source of her worried expression, which Stella had immediately remarked. "Who wouldn't be worried," Linda said, "with the whole country on fire and no telling when it may break out in some unexpected place and wipe one out of house and home." "Is it so bad as that at the lake?" Stella asked unclearly. "There's not much in the paper. I was looking." "It's so bad," Linda returned, with a touch of bitterness, "that I've been driven to the Springs for safety; that every albedoled man on the lake who can be spared is fighting fire. There has been one man killed and there's half a dozen loggers in the hospital suffering from burns and other hurts. Nobody knows where it will stop. Charlie's hitters have barely been scorched, but there's fire all along one side of them. A change of wind—and there G. B. BAROLE "Jack Fyfe's timber is burning in a dozen places." you are. Jack Fyfe's timber is burning in a dozen places. We've been praying for rain and choking in the smoke for a week." Stella looked out the north window. From the ten story height she could see ships lying in the stream, vagu bulks in the smoky pull that shrouded the harbor. "Tm sorry," she whispered. "It's devilish," Linda went on. "Like groping in the dark and being afraid—for me. I've been married a month, and for ten days I've only seen my husband at brief intervals when he comes down in the launch for supplies or to bring an injured man. And he doesn't tell me anything except that we stand a fat chance of losing everything. I sit there at the Springs and look at that smoke wall hanging over the water and wonder what goes on up there. And at night there's the red glow, very faint THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA and far. That's all. I've been doing nursing at the hospital to help out and to keep from brooding. I wouldn't be down here now only for a list of things the doctor needs, which he thought could be obtained quicker if some one attended to it personally. I'm taking the evening train back." "I'm sorry," Stella repeated. She said it rather mechanically. Her mind was spinning a thread upon which, strung like beads, slid all the manifold succession of things that had happened since she came first to Roaring lake. Linda's voice, continuing, broke into her thoughts. "I suppose I shouldn't be croaking into your car like a bird of lion when you have to throw yourself heart and soul into that concert tomorrow," she said contritely. "I wonder why that Ancient Mariner way of seeking relief from one's troubles by pouring them into another car is such a universal trait? You aren't vitally concerned, after all, and I am. Let's have that tea, dear, and talk about less grievous things. I still have one or two trifles to get in the shops too." After they had finished the food that Stella ordered sent up they went out together. Later Stella saw her off on the train. "Goodbye, dear!" Linda said from the coach window. "I'm just solitish enough to wish you were going back with me. I wish you could sit with me on the bank of the lake, aching and longing for your man up there in the smoke as I ache and long for mine. Misery loves company." Stella's eyes were clouded on the train pulled out. Something in Linda Benton's parting words made her acutely lonely, disfigured, out of joint with the world she was deliberately fashioning for herself. Into Linda's life something big and elemental had come. The butterfly of yesterday had become the strong man's mate of today. Linda's heart was unequivocally up there in the smoke and flame with her man, fighting for their mutual possessions, hoping with him, fearing for him, longing for him, secure in the knowledge that if nothing else was left them they had each other. It was a rare and beautiful thing to feel like that. And beyond that sorrowful vision of what she lacked to achieve any real and enduring happiness there loomed also a self-torturing conviction that she herself had set in motion those forces which now threatened rain for her brother and Jack Fyfe. There was no logical proof of this. Only intuitive, subtle suggestions gleaned here and there, shadowy finger posts which pointed to Monohan as a deadly hater and with a score chalked up against Fyfe to which she had unconsciously added. He had desired her, and twice Fyfe had treated him like an urchin caught in mishief. She recalled how Monohan agrang at him like a tiger that day on the lake shore. She realized how bitter a humiliation it must have been to suffer that sardonic culling at Fyfe's hands. Monohan wasn't the type of man who would ever forget or forgive either that or the terrible grip on his throat. Even at the time she had sensed this and dreaded what it might ultimately lead to. Even while her being answered eagerly to the physical charm of him she had fought against admitting to herself what desperate intent might have him back of the killing of Billy Dale—a shot that Lefty Howe declared was meant for Lyfe. She had long outgrown Monodhan's lure, but if he had come to her or written to make out a case for himself when she first went to Seattle she would have accepted his word against anything. Her heart would have fought for him against the logic of her brain. But—she had had a long time to think, to compare, to digest all that she know of him, much that was subconscious impression rising late to the surface, a little that she heard from various sources. The sum total gave her a man of rank passions, of rare and merciless finesse where his desires figured, a man who got what he wanted by whatever means most fity served his need. Greater than any craveting to possess a woman would be the measure of his rancor against a man who humiliated him, thwarted him. She could understand how a man like Monohan would hate a man like Jack Fyfe, would nurse and feed on the venom of his hato until setting a torch to Fyfe's timber would be a likely enough counterstroke. She shrank from the thought. Yet it lingered until she felt guilty. Though it made no material difference to her that Fyfe might or might not face ruln, she could not, before her own conscience, evade responsibility. The powder might have been laid, but her folly had touched spark to the fuse as she saw it. That seared her like a pain far into the night. For every crime a punishment, for every sin a penance. Her world had taught her that. She had never danced; she had only listened to the piper and longed to dance as nature had fushioned her to do. But the piper was sending his bill. She surveyed it wearily, emotionally bankrupt, wondering in what coin of the soul she would have to pay. CHAPTER XVII. A Ride by Night. STELLA sang in the gift ballroom of the Grumada next afternoon, behind the footlights of a miniature stage, with the blinds drawn and a few hundred of Vancouver's social object critically, expectantly listening. She sang her way straight into the heart of that audience with her opening number. This was on Wednesday. Friday she sang again and Saturday afternoon. When she came back to her room after that last concert, weared with the effort of listening to chattering women and playing the gracious lady to an admiring contingent which insisted upon making her last appearance a social triumph, she found a letter forwarded from Seattle. She silt the envelope. A typewritten sheet infolded a green slip—a check. She look ed at the figures, scarcely comprehending until she read the letter. "We take pleasure in handing you herewith," Mr. Lander wrote for the firm, "our check for $19,600, proceeds of oil stock sold as per your telegraphed instructions, less brokerage charges. We sold same at pur and trust this will be satisfactory." She looked at the check again. Nineteen thousand five hundred—payable to her order! Two years ago such a sum would have lifted her to plutoocratic heights, filled her with pleasurable excitement, innumerable anticipations. Now it stirred her less than the $300 she had just received from the Granda concert committee. She had earned that, had given for it due measure of herself. This other had come without effort, without expectation. And less than she had ever needed money before did she now require such a sum. She was her own mistress, free as the wind. Fyfe had said that. 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M. 9:17 F. M. THREE e a Dain, ene FSS! Skee Ser 7 Neer ea. (l TeANG [PL ie TRIG a aca EW Nat best i IAN SRR g ie oes Pan Ee ee Pe ae RT Ae Published every atusday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 311 N, 4th Street, Richmond, Virginta, JOHN MITCHELL, JRB., EDITOR All communications intended for pud- lication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Ofice at Richmond Virginia, as second-class matter. SATURDAY... OCTOBER 13, 1917 Persecution has been our portion for so many years, we belteve that we are getting used to it, eee We may not win today, tomorrow or the next day or tho day thereafter, but we will win finally, you may be sure. ee Our friends, who aro sending in money (0 pay thelr subscriptions aro Woing us a fayor and helping us in our contest for great principles. Buy Liberty Bonds. Speak up for the National Government. Enlist in the United States Army. Let your talk be patriotic, We can-win th approval of the Nation this way. People do not seem disposed to do Mght these days. ‘They use the Bible as a cloak for many sins and when its eternal truths are quoted as against their unjust actions, thoy smile at you in derision. But this “world war" will change all of this. You wait and see. Colored folks, do not be uneasy. Look to God and be happy. We have seen gloomier times than the pres: ent. We had nothing when we camo into the world and the way wo are spending money, We shall have noth- ing when we go out of it, Colored folks, be happy. Let the white folks do the worrying. The National Government has not it en T ate oe treated us and dui Tertders vight and we know it, but lot us treat the Na- Uonal Government and its offctals right and let them know. By ft, says the Scriptures, we shall “heap coals of fire on their heals," so to spoak and bring them to a realizing sons¢ of their duty towards us. When Secretary of War Bakor gave Hon. Emmett J. Scott an appointment in Washington, he did about the best thing he could have done. As Spee: fal Assistant, he will prove to bo an almost invaluable aid to this distin- guished Westerner. When Charles Stowart was added, he completed tho work for there is no better newspaper man and worker in the United States of America than Charles Stewart. He is large and bulky, but every inch of his makeup fs built for labor, ee NO PEACE TALK FOR COLORED FOLKS. 7 ‘The entente allies and the Admin- istration at Washington say that thoy do not want to hear any talk about peace at this time. In thls, the colored folks are with them “tooth and toe-nail.” ‘The longer the war and the bloodier, the better it will bo for the colored folks. Whon about a million white soldiers arc fighting in France or somewhere else and the transports begin bringing the wounded to this country, then will the colored folks come unto thelr own, Tho white men at the top wil not be able to distinguish a black soldier from a white one. All they will want will be help and the black tro). vill give that help. When the war is over and the sol- dievs from the trenches and the plain mareh in review triumphantly bofore a grateful nation and a happy Pres: ident of the United States, tho long lino of devoted black troopers wil receive, the encomiums of the nation and be welcomed to recolyo all of the rights and privileges of any other citizens. ‘This ean only como from « long and from a bloody war. From a short, quick war, Good Lord deliver us! A PHYSICIAN'S PREDICAMENT. | Dr, James BE, Henderson, a colored | physician of Springfleld, 11. was| arrested at his home September 19, | 1917 by tho Federal authorities upon the charge of distributing Hteraturo throughout tho counrty to incite race riots and to interfere with the re- cruiting of colored mon in the United States. We have read the circular as pub- Mshed and have failed to find any- thing therein to substantiate the charge. Dr. Henderson seoms to be ready to stand upon his rights and he boldly admitted that ho had sent the clreulars broadeast throughout the United States. lad we have been in his position, we would have done the same thing. With colored men offering them. selves for servico fn Uncle Sam's army and angry because they are not sont with tho first to land in France, ft is absurd to say that anything is being done to hinder the progress of the draft officers. But then these aro war times and the guarantees of the Constitutions, both State and National, do not seem to bo operative at tho present time. We hopo that Dr. Henderson will bo successful in clearing himself of the charges. NO TROUBLE IN VIRGINIA, others, conditions now declared to be existent in Georgia are not duplicated in Virginia, Here any divine ts por: mitted to afftlate with olther of the wings of the National Baptist Con vention, without disturbing his stand: ing or relationship in the Baptist family of tho Old Dominton. ‘The wisdom of this may bo seen by the following statement, which appeared in a recent isstte of the Atlanta, Ga, Baptist of which the brainy B. J. Davis is editor: The four hundred and twenty thousand Baptists in our State are ‘gradually dividing fito two divisions; yes, drifting into Boyd and Morris factions. Dr, 1B. 1. Carter, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church, is the ‘most prominent leader among the Royd people, and there ts a fght to death among the Morrisites as to who shall be the most prominent leader of that faction. Now, these ‘brethren have a_per- fect right to differ among thomselves and choose whom they please (o fol: low on all national questions; but our State work should not be inter- ferred with, nor should our schools, —Morehouse Colloge, Americus In: suUtute, Walker Baptist Institute and Jernel Acadomy—bo made fssttes in the strife. ‘The work of tho General Stato Baptist Convention should not bo burdened with national strife, Every Baplst. preacher, member, associa- tion or organizdtion in the State should be permitted to ehoose which ever national branch, corporated or unincorporated, ft will servo; and our schools should not be mado. to suffer because of personal ambition and strife. It 1s appalling to contemplate, as you walk throitgh the streets and’ see adveriisomonts on the -doors of tha white churches pleading for men and women to como to the church and bo saved, while the ehlet topic among the Baptist preachers of our state 1s strife, charges and countoer-charges —all for personal gain, advertising to the world, strife and dissension in the body politic. Those in charge of tho , schools should remember that the ‘schools have friends on both sides; that the Boydites Tove the schools ‘and sup- port them; that tho Morrisites love the schools and support them; that tho State work {3 all of our work, and let the individual and Genomination- al organizations choose for them- selves and let us loso nolther sleep nor love trying to convince the other of the righteousness or wrongfulness of his cause. This is a free country whore every man is entitled to a free and untram- melled expression of his convictions, and let us not fall out and hate one another because wo do not agree on national issues. Let us leave Boyd, Morris, tho Publishing Board and everything olso ont of it, oxeept the fostering of our State work, the supporting of our schools and the taking caro of our own local institutions. This was tho advice wo gave the brethren in this State at the start, and the leaders, including that prince of Baptist divines, Rev. W. F. Gra- ham, D. D. took up the refrain, with the result that we have a united Baptist brotherhood in this State and no Dickerings as to the success of either the one side or the other, More money was raised at the Lynchburg session of the Virginia Baptist State Convention than appears to have been actually raised by both of the Na- Uional Baptist Conventions combined. In our opinion, tho yaluo of the Boyd plant at Nashville, Tennesseo, operated by the National Baptist Publishing Board has been greatly overestimated. It has value with the Boyds and it has Mttle value without the Boyds. If wo had the choice of purchasing tho plant and purehasing the Boyds, wo would bo willing to pay more monoy for the Boyds than we would for the plant. Yes, double, yea, troble, yea, qua- aruple tho amount. Lot Dr. Morris and his friends pur- chase a plant of their own and save monoy. It will bo better than throw- ing money away fighting the Boyds of Nashville, ‘Tennessee. Benjamin J. Davis, of Atlanta, Georgla and his coterio of friends seem to have outwitted the national organization by securing a Stato charter, behind which they aro de- fying thoir enemies. Money is boing oxpeniled in that Stato and it is un- fortunato that a basis of a compro- mise cannot bo reached with this de- flant loader and his army of devoted followers. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RIOHMOND, VIRGINIA =< mies Se ee et ete : ‘senator declared, but he claimed the pteco, so far as wo a Senator La Folds into sincuss voncst aiteronccs ot factory to tho alll opinion. » fully overburdened fett Defies Ene | sna wo ask tho poopie to onut typ contr tened thelr eyes and take tho entire war prolonged war. for emies. program on faith?" ho asked. “The oponly stated and way to paralyze tho German arm {sj “Pho answer r¢ Continued from the First Page.) declare our obieccts in thie war :''’ mant with the Crs ‘ing hiy government and yet not say a ‘singlo word for his" government, his flor o~ his President. j_ Sahuator Robinson sald ho belleved If Senator La Follette would produco ‘the alfidayits to which ho roferred as coming from elltzens — protesting against imprisonment in alleged de. nial of free speech many of them would be found to be from German spies. f QUOTES KAISER AND SENATOR In dwolling on propaganda against indemnities trom Germany, Senator Robinson sald: “The Kaiser and the Senator from Wisconsin talk about no war for con aquest and no indemmities, That may bo free speech; a Senator can say It fool can say it, but it fan't patriotic Americanism.” " Scnator La Pollette In his St. Paul sneech, Mr, Robinson sald, justified the Lusitania’s sinking “in language a8 near as he dared use.” “What was the purpose the motive Behind it?” he said. “The right — of free speech also carries the responsi. Dility of speaking the truth. If an Impression is left that docs an Injus tice to the flag or his President, or his armies, then In humanity ” he ought to correct it and not In defiance repeat it.” is , ils armies, then in humanity — he ought to correct it and not In defiance Fepeat tt.” 5 KELLOGG'S WORDS BITTER Sonator Kellogg of Minnesota, wh¢ prevented tho first resolutions of Mir nexota, organizations asking La Fol lettos expulsion accused La Fonett of misstating facts in the SL Pant ad dross and. denied that this country went to war to secure Amerteans the right to travel on munition laden ship: of to protect loans made to foreign governments, “I have no right, or wish, to criti clze any man who ‘voted against tht: nation going o war, although I may Aisagree with him; but we are at war and T believe men’ of this body, men of influcnee, should not make’ state ments tending to aid and encourage tho enemy and to cast dishonor and dis credit upon this nation. “Imagine the circulation in the Get man empire of those statements, r¢ fleeting discredit. upon our prosecu: tion of the war, and sustaining — the Justice of the cattse of the German em pire. “Could these people be blamed for believing in a cause however, lacking in justice and right, if these ‘are the Feqsonpowhich lead ‘us Into this great eonflict, and sustain us through {ts trying ordeal? “Whatover may be sald as to the original cause of the war between Ger mene and the allies, this nation rests upon solid ground, backed by interna onal *-- by the dictates of human Sty and the Instincts of self preserva tion.” “DANGEROUS” ASSERTS FALL. ( ‘This country, Senator Kellogg de ‘cured, owes It to the allies and to ls fory.to plneo its disapproval. before {ho work! of tho “slanderous accusa ffon"” made by Senator La Follette in his St. Paul speech. Ho denied the statement attributed to La Folletto, that Prostdent Wilson had been warned py, Seerotary Bryan before the Lusitahia sailed, that six million rounds of ammunition besides explosives were on board und that the passengers were sailing in violation of thg statutes of this country. Senator Fall said that utterances which before the war would bo proper in his opinion now were unjustifiable. He ‘sail ho has always believed the Wisconsin senator to bo sincere authough he has not always agreed with him, but in tho senator's present altitude he believes him to be in er ror, “No moro dangerous doctrine could have been preached and no more in siduous utterance could have — been heard from any source than that by tho senator from Wisconsin: in my Judgment,” he sald. “IT refer to his «Paul speech.” “PULL SPEED" HIS KeYNOTH, La Follette spent Friday and most of the night preparing his speceh, De fending his course in opposing tho declaration of war and subscquent at tacks on war polleies, La Follette de clared: “It is the citizen's duty to obay the Jaw untt it 13 repealed or declared unconstitutional. But he has the in alienablo right to fight what he deems an obnoxious law or a wrongful policy in the courts and at the ballot box. “It Is the suppressed emotion of the masses that breeds revolution. If the American people are to carry on this Rreat war; If pyblic opinion is to be enlightened and intelligent thero must be free discussion, MAY BEAR WAR’S BRUNT. “Congress, as swell aa the people of the United States entered the war in Breat confusion of mind and under feverish excitement. ‘The President's leadership was followed unquestion ingly In the faith that he had some big ‘unrevealed plan by which peaco that would exalt him beforo all the world would soon be achieved. “Gradually reluctantly, — Congress and the country are begnining to per eelve that we are in this terrific werld conflict, not only to right our ‘wrongs, not only to ald tho allies, ‘not only to share its awful death toll and its fearful tax burdens, but per haps to bear the brunt of the war. "And 50 1 say if wo aro to forestall the danger of being drawn into years of war perhaps finaily to attain Impo ritalism and exploitation, the people must unito In a campaign along const! tutional lines for free discussion of the policy of the war and its conclu sion on a just basta, WOULD PREPARE ALL FOR WAR \ “Whilo it 1s true that the war must bo gone through with.” he sald. “ Tt was not trio that ‘wo must go through to the eng to accomplish an undisclos ed purpose to reach an unknown goal" Every proparation for prosecuting the war must be made, the Wisconain rigat So discuss honest differences of opinion. “Shall wo ask the poople to shut their eyes and tako tho entire war program on faith?" ho asked. “The way to paralyze the German arm ts declare our objects in this war +" show that we are not seeking to die ‘tato a form of government to Gor-- many or to render England’s domina tes + ie seas more secure, | “When the objects of this war aro clearly stated and the people approve they will give popular support It will never otherwise receive.” As he proceeded Senator La Fol letto gradually drew toward his cus tomary fire of delivery, gesturing with elonched fist as ho referred to tree © and ralsing his voice at timos with omotional omphasis, Nowhere [id ne veter to the St. Paul speech, | DEMANDS FULL DISCUSSION “Honest dealing with our allies al 0 requires a clear statement of our ‘ objects," he declared. "If we do not expect to support them in the dreams | of conquest that fact should bo stated and our people are entitled to know that vitally important fact before this war proceeds further. “Common honesty and fair dealing requires the fullest and freest discus | ston before the people of every issue involved, and that a plain and apecitic | declaration of our purposes be speed iy made by the Congress,” RECALLS CLAMOR FOR WAR Senator La Folletto assorted that tha “war party” besides carrying on a campaign of “libel and charecter » sassination” against members of Con Breas who voted against the war, was attempting to suppress discussion of war Issues and intimidate the people thomselves by invading thelr homes ana unlawfully throwing them into Jail.” |_ Six members of the Senate and as }T Zecall, about 69 members of | the House voted against the declaration of war,” “0 said. “Immediately thero was let loose upon thase senators and Topresentatives a flood of invective and abuse from newspapers and Indi viduals who had been clamoring for war, unequaled, I beliove, in the his tory’ of civilized society.” “Senator La Follette declared that it he alone had been made the vietim of these attacks he would not take the ‘Senate's valuable timo for their con sideration, PEOPLE INTIMIDATED, HE SAYS “But sir,” he continued, “It 13 not alone the ‘members of Congress that the war party In this country has sought to intimidate, “The mandate has gone forth to the sovercign people of this country that ‘they must be silent while those things are being done by thelr government ‘which most vitally conegrm thelr well being, their happiness dnd thoir lives “or week# past honest and law abiding citizens of this country are boing terrorized and autraged in thoir rights by those sworn to uphold the Jaws and protect (he rights of the people. “I havo in my possession numerous affidavits catablishing the fact that People are being unlawfully arrested, thrown into Jqil, held Incommunteado for days only, to be eventually dis- charged withogt evar having been (ale on into court, beeartse Urey have com mitted no crime. Private residences aro boing invaded. loyal cltizens of undoubted Iufexrity and probity ar- rested, cross bxamined and tho mo.t sacred constitutional rights guaran- teed to every American citizen aro being continually located. | ‘MEPS CAMPAIGNING “ERROR” “It appears: to | the purpose of those cond»~'tg this campaign to throw the country into a safo terror, to coeree public” opinton, to stifle criticigm, and suppress discussion to tho gapal issues involved in this war.” Tn support of hia assertion that Congrosa should speak for tho coun try In declaring the purposes of war, the senator cited precedents at great length, “It wou. be bad enough if the Con stitution clothed the President with any such power,” he salld, “but to ox cratse such power without constitn- ona} authority cannot long be tol- erated if even the forms of free gov- ernment are to remain, ! “We know that the people would re sist, and if necessary, resist with arms in their hands any schemo to clotho the President with power to plunge this country into war and then con tinue the war as he desired.” ALLEGES VIOLATION OF FREEDOM Senator La Folletto said no convie: tion was stronger with the people to day than that there should bo no fu- ture wars exeept in case of actual in vasion unless supported by referendum “The President has asked the Ger- man peopie to speak for themselves on this great world Issue, why should | not the American peoplo voleo their convictions through their chosen rep- resentatives in Congress?” Emphasizing denial of freo speech, Senator La Follette added: ‘There has never been a time for more than a century aiid a half when the right of freo speoih and free press and the right of the people to peaceably assemblo for public diacua CALLS FOR WAR'S AIMS. Contending again thet It Is the duty of Congress to define the pur- poso of the war and determine when it shalt end, he continued: 4, {Tho question is, aro wo to sacri- fica millions of our young men the very promise «* two land—anl spend bi'-- ‘Hons and more billions and pile up the cost of livig until wo starve—not for ‘a peace without victory, but for a aa Peco, so far as wo are yet advised satis factory to tho allies? Shall tho fear- ‘fully overburdened people of this coun try continue to bear the brunt of a prolonged war for any objects not openly stated and defined? } “The answer rests, in my judg: ment with the Congress, whose duty it is to declare our specific purposes in the present war and to state the objects upon the attainment of which ‘wo will make peace.” APPLAUDED BY THE GALLMRIES | Characterizing the attacks upon him as a “general campaign of vilification and attempted intimidation” La Fol lette defiantly shouted: “Neither the clamor of the mob nor the voico of power will ever turn me by the breadth of a hair from the course marked out for myself, guided ‘by such knowledgo as can’ obtain and controlled and directed by a { solemn conviction of right and duty.” When Lo Fallette concluded. after speaking more than ‘two hours, tho galleries vigorously applauded but the chair admonished jtho galleries that any demonstration would not be permitted, eae ee eres 4 SC ESERS BO OPE CCECEE EE bots | (Continued from ist Pago) found to be much more than that. ‘The value of the farm products, such as corn, wheat, ats,-tye, rice, hay, pota | toes, sweet potatoes, ‘cotton, tobacco, cotton seed, etc., will total’ six hunt dred million dollars per annum, 1 Virginia is one of the — southern states which segregates tho value of the property of its white and colored citizens. ‘The former had about two hundred and fifty years’ start on tho latter. The value of the colored peo: ple’s property at the close of the Civil War was an is usually placed at zero, In his annual report for 1916 to lis“ Pxcellency, H.C. Stuart, Gover: nor of Virginit, tion. C. Lee Aloore, Auditor of Public Accounts shows the j Yalue of colored people's: property real Jand personal, to be ($41,081,460) forty ‘eno million and eighty ‘one’ thousand, four hundred and sixty dollars, an in erease of ($3,232,487) three inillion, two hundred and thirty two thuosand, four hundred and eighty seven dollars two hunted and thirty two thousand over the year of 1915, ‘The co'sred population of Virginia is (671,066) six hundred and soventy one toasand and ninety. six. ‘These colored people own (1, 730, 980) one million, seven hundved and thirty Mhousand, nine hunared and eighty acres of land an fucroase in ono, yar of (56,157) fifty six thousand. one hunired and fifty seven acres, The per capita value of the wealth of the colored people of Virginia as shown is ($69.70) fifty nine ollars and soven ty conts. ‘This does not include the amount of money on deposits in the banks of the country. If the present acreage owned by the colored people were divided up, it would give each man, woman’ and child two and onehalf acres. It scoms then that the wisdom of your officers, oxpecially your vory able Secretary, in extending the blessing of this thrift movement directly. to the colored poo plo fs “apparent. AS” 8 preffininary movement I named the following por sons to cooperate with me in this great effort; Major R. R. Moten, Preal dont of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Emmett J. Scott, Secrotary of ‘Tus: kegeo Institute, Alabaina: Robert J Owens, Los Angeles, California; Dr. J. W. B. Bowen, Atlanta, Ga., President James B. Dudley, Greensboro, N. C., Judgo Robert H. ‘Terrell, Washington D. G, W. F Graham, D.'D., Philadel: phia, Pa. Kelly Miller, A. ‘Mf, Dean of Howard Univeraity, Washington, D.C, Joseph L. Jonas, Cineinnatt, Ollo;’ B,J. Warren, Detroit, Mich., William “H. Lowi, Mx Assistant At. torney General, ‘Boston, Mass.; J. Rupert Jefferson, Parkersburg, ” W. Va. Prof. Charles Mitchell. Institute, W. Va. Charles H. Stewart, Chicago, IL, Dr. Ernest Lyon, Baltimore, Md., B. G. Fitzgerald, AUiantle City, N. J Thomas M. Crump, Mrs. Maggie” T. Walker, 8. R. Jefferson, M. D., of Rich: mond, Va., William MeDonald, Fort Worth, ‘Texas; Charles Banks, Mound Bayou, Miss;'M. L, Price Palestine, ‘Texas, | Meotings have been held and an in torest awakened, to the end that mil lions of dollars are being saved through the savings departments of banking institutions, and through the medium of Christmas Savings Clubs, ‘In the Liberty Loan rally” held. in Richmond subseriptiions aggregating twonty five thousand dollars were an nounced after a meeting of about two hours, Addressess were delivered by Mon. Oliver J, Sands President of tho American National Bank of Rich- mond, and Col. William 'T_ Dabney, Business Manager of the Richmond Chamber of Commereo | ‘The interest shown by the colored | people was most gratitying and T was glad to preside over the meeting. | Southern whito people have for many years encouraged the saving habit jamong the colored people in their re spective localities. "They have nolL them homesteads on tong time pay ments and extended the time for set- tlemont, when the pressure of home expenses became too great. Thoy have also encouraged the education of the colored children in progressive communities, realizing that no one | thing, not even the family tio, steadi- ¢8 a colored man so much as the sav. ing habit, ‘Tho wealth of tho colored peopla is inthe Southland. How to make him’ more thrifty eltizen— haw to reach the thousands of ” thriftless “no'er do wells” is the problem, ‘The song, “Hivery day'll be Sunday by and by," Is too popular among a large pro portion of our people. The song, "There'll bo no sorrow there,” is he- ing changed to, “There'll be no work ing there.” Work should evo usa zest for recreation and vice versa, Tho Kreatest handicap to this movement among our peoplo has been the lack of funds to promote the plans as out lined by the promoters of the move | ment, To this ond, I havo deemed tt wiso to secure the’ authority to issue and sell for a nominal sum, say five or ton cents, an authorized thrift campaign button or badge, the proceeds thore from to be turned over to the Savings HOUSES FOR SALE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults, begal ‘apers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. APPLY MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK | NORTHWEST CORNER THIRD AND CLAY STS. i John Mitchell, Jr., President ; q and used in paying the actual expens- es of promoting the movement among the colored people. By this mothod, the campaign could no doubt be made self supporting, inasmuch as the ex- pense would be confined to clerk hire literature and postage. ‘The remarkable progress made by the Section under the present corps of officers can be appreciated by ‘those who,, like myself, have noted tho progressive growth during — the past ten or twelve years, No act on tne part of the financlers of the coun try has done more to stimulate the habit of saving than has this move; mont for the conservation of tho wealth of the nation In general and that of the colored people in particu- lar, T hopo that southern banking Insti- tutions may be induced to secure statistics relative to the amount of the savings of the colored people in their respective localities and for ward the same to the Secretary of the Savings Bank Section, where the undersigned may be permitted to ob- tain the information and by adding the same to those of the forty five banking institutions in the country conducted by colored people practical jy all of which are in the South, be may be able to ascertain the actual cash holdings of the colored people of this country, ‘The time is rapidly approaching, if not actually at hand, when the black Colossus, over friendly and never mili tant toward his friends; always faith ful and never traitorous toward the government be it Democratic or Re- publican, will be valued at his true worth, not only by the South but by the North, not only by the East but by the West. “No man ts born Into the world whose work Is not born with him; there ts al-- ways work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; ’ And blessed are the horny hands of toil.” LOWELL, JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Chairman, Presldent Mechanics’ Savings Bank, Richmond, Va. DO YOU KNOW THEM? ‘Washington, D. C., Sopt. 18, 1917. Mr, Bdltorn—1 am hunting my peo. ple. My namv is Osborne IF, Dennis, I am fifty aight years old, was born ‘nm Henrico Co., Virginia, ran off from my mather when quito’a child, have never seen nor heard from her since. A childish recollection of my homo placo was in Henrico Co., Virginia, thirtéen miles from Richmond on the pike road and four miles from deep bottom, my father died whon I was quite young. My mother whose name was Silvia Dennis marnied again. Thero wero three elldren of the first marri agé, two girls and a boy; Manorva and Josephine Dennis; The youngest a boy was myself, Osborne F. Dennis, My father's name was Fred Dennis, My mother's owner was John Gofright Please seo if you can trace the whore abouts of my sisters or relatives. Yours truly, t oO F. DENNIS ; ef ‘The Planet (Richmond, Va.) will ‘be sont to your door for only $1.0 per year in advance, Subseribe now, ae get the newsy nows, ements ou the Law and Equity _ Court of the City of Richmond, the | 26th day of September, 1917 ANDREW THOMAS....Cdmplainant against LOUISE THOMAS ........Defendant IN CHANCERY. ‘Tho abovo styled suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony upon the grounds of abandonment and deserti -n. And an affidavit having beon filed that the defendant, Louise Thomas is a non-resident of the St.te of Virgin ja, It is ordered that she appear hers within fifteen days after the due pub Mention of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect her interest herein. ‘A Copy, Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. GILES B. JACKSON, p. 4. VIRGINIA—In tho Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, tho 19th day of September, 1917. JUNIUS BROADNAX,.... Plaintiff against, in Chaneory. Mancrva BROAPNAX, .... Dofondant The object of this suit Is to obtain an absoluto divores from tho bond of matrimony by the plaintift from the dafendant on the grounds of desertion and adultery. “And an affidavit h ving boon made and filed that the defendant, Maner vv Rroadnax ts not a resident of the Stato of Virginia; it Is ordored that sho appear here within fifteen days aftor tho due publication of this order and do what may bo nocessary to prc tect her interest horein, A Copy, ‘Testo: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk J. HENRY CRUTCHFIBD, p. a. A CORRESPONDENCH couRSsH FREN OF ALL OHARGR For Sunday School Toachers and Of- | ficors Conducted by Rov, 8. N. Vass, D. D. Box 441, Ralolgh, N. 0. Tho Sunday School that has not trained teachers iy behind tho times, Rey. 8. N. 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Our friends, who are sending in money to pay their subscriptions are dons us a favor and helping: us in our contest for great principles. Buy Liberty Bonds, Speak up for the National Government, Enlist in the United States Army, Let your talk be patriotie, We can win, the approval of the Nation this way. People do not seem disposed to do Hight these days. ‘They use the ible as a cloak for many sins and when its cternal truths are quoted as against their unjust actions, they smile at yon in derision. But this “world war" will change all of this. You wait and see. Colored folks, do not be uneasy. Look to God and be happy. We have seen gloomier times than the pres ent. We had nothing when we eame into the world and the way we arc spending money, We shall have noth: ing when we g¢ out of it, Colored folks, be happy. Let the white folks do the worrying. Mie National Goveramens fas nyt treated us and ont Tetiters right and we know it, but let us treat the Na- Honal Government and its officials right and let them know. By it, says the Scriptures, we shall “heap coals of fire on their heads," so to speak and bring them to a realizing senso of their duty towards us. When Secretary of War Bakor gave Hon. Emmett J. Seott an appointment in Washington, he did about the best thing he could have done. As Spee: jal Assistant, he will prove to be an almost invaluable aid to this distin- guished Westerner. When Charles Stewart was added, he completed tho work for there is no better newspaper man and worker in the United States of America than Charles Stewart, He is large and bulky, but every inch of his makeup is built for labor, — NO PEACE TALK FOR COLORED FOLKS. ‘The entente allies and the Admin- istration at Washington say (hat they do not want to hear any talk about peace at this time, In this, tho colored folks are with them “tooth and too-nail.”” ‘The longer the war and the bloodier, the better it will be for the colored folks. When about a million white soldiers are fighting in France or somewhere else and the transports begin bringing. the wounded to this country, then will the colored folks come unto. their own, ‘The white men at the top will not be able to distinguish a black soldier from a white one. All they will mt will be help and the black frov, vill give that help. When the war is over and the sol- dicrs from the trenches and the plain mareh in review triumphantly before a grateful nation and a happy Pres: fdent of the United States, the long line of devoted black troopers will receive the encomiums of the nation and be Welcomed to receive all of the rights and privileges of any other citizens. ‘Phis can only come from a long and from a bloody war, From a short, quick war, Good Lord deliver us! A PHYSICEAN'S PREDICAMENT. Dr. James , Henderson, a colored physician of Springfield, Tl. was arrested at his home September 19, 1917 by the Federal authorities upon the charge of distributing lileraturo throughout tho counrty to incite race riots and (o interfere with the re- cruiting of colored men in the United States. We have read the cirewlar as pub: lished and have failed to find any- thing therein to substantiate the charge. Dr. Henderson seems to be ready to stand upon his rights and he boldly admitted that he had sent the circulars broadeast throughout the United States, Had we have been in his position, we would have ‘done (he same thing. | With colored men offering them selves for servieo in Unelo sum's aro and angsty beeause they are not sent with (he first fo land in France, it is absurd to say that anything is being done to hinder the prosress of ‘the draft officers. But then these aro war Umes and the guarantees of the Constitutions, both Stite and National, do not seem to be operative at the present time. We hope that Dr. Henderson will be successful in clearing himself of the charges, | NO TROUBLE IN VIRGINIA. A. A. Galvin and the advice of many others, conditions now declared to be oxistent In Georgia are not duplicated in Virginia, Here any divine is per- mitted (o affiliate with efther of the wings of the National Taptist Con: vention, withont disturbing his stand- ing or relationship in the Baptist family of the Old Dominion. ‘The wisdom of this may be seen by the following statement, which appeared in a recent issue of the Adanta, Ga. Raptist of which the brainy Be J. Davis is editor: ‘The four tmdred and twenty thonsand Baptists in our State. aro eradually dividing into (Wo divisions: ves, drifting into Hosd and) Morris factions, Dr, Ke 1. Carter, pastor of Friendship Baptist Chureh, is the most prominent. leader among (ie Hosd people, and there is a fieht to death among the Morrisites as to who shall he the most prominent leader of that faction Now, these brethren have a per- fect risht to differ among themselves and choose whom they please to fol low on all national questions: but our State work should not be inter: ferred with, nor should our schools, Morehouse Collexe, Americus In. stitute, Walker Baptist Institute and Jere) Aeademy-—be made issues fn the strife, "The work of tho General State Raptist Convention should not be burdened with national strife. Every Raptist preacher, member, assocta- tion or ‘organizition in the State should be permitted (0 choose whieh ever national branch, corporated or unincorporated, it Will serve; and our schools should not he made to suffer because of personal ambition and strife. It is appalling to contemplate, as you wit this ih the streots and see advertisements Gn the doors Gf Uk White ehurches pleading for men and women to como to the ehureh and be saved. while the ehiet topie amony tiie Haptist preachers of our state Is strife, charges and countor-charges “all for personal gain, advertising to the world, strife and dissension in the body politic. "rhose in charge of tho , schools should remember” that the “schools have trends on both sides: that the Hoydites love the schools and sup- port them: that the Morrisites love the schools and support them: that the State work is all of our work, and let the individual and denomination- al organizations choose for thom- selves and let us lose neither sleep nor love trying (0 convinee the other of the righteousness or wrongtulness of his cause. ‘This is a free country whore every man is entitled to a free and untram- melled expression of his convictions, and let us not fall out and hate one another heeause we do not agree on national issues. Let us leave Boyd, Morris, the Publishing Board and cverything olso out of it, except the fostering of out State work, the supporting of our schools and the tiking care of our own local institutions. ‘This was the advice we gave the brethren in this State at the start, and the leaders, including that prince of Taptist divines, Rev. W. F. Gra- ham, D. D. took up the refrain, with the result that we have a united Raplist brotherhood in this State and no bickerings as to the success of oither the one side or the other. More money was raised at the Lynehburg session of the Virginia Baptist State Convention than appears to have been actually raised by both of the Na- (ional Baptist Conventions combined. In our opinion, the valuo of the Hoyd plant at Nashville, ‘Tennessee, operated by the National Baptist Publishing Board has been greatly overestimated, It has value with the Boyds and it has little value without the Boyds. If wo had the choice of purchasing the plant anil purchasing the Boyds, we would bo willing to pay more money for the Boyds than we would for the plant Yes, double, yea, treble, yea, qua- aruple the amount. Lot Dr. Morris and his friends pur- chaso a plant of their own and save money. Tt will be better than throw: ing monoy away fighting tho Boyds of Nashville, Tennessee. | Renjamin J. Davis, of Auanta, Georgia and his coterio of friends sscem Lo have ontwitted the national organization by securing a State ‘charter, hehind which they are de- fying their enemies. Money is being ‘expenited in that State and it is un fortunate that a basis of a compro: mise cannot bo reached with this de: fiant leader and his army of devoted followers. THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Senator La Fole lett Defies En- emies. Continued from the First Page.) ing his government and yet not say a ie fine ~ Wht President Senator Robincon sald he believed if Senator La Follette would produce the affidavits to whieh he referred as coming. from. eltlzous protesting Mal of {foe speceh many OF ther Would bo found to be trom Getmat QUOTES KAISER AND SENATOR behind it?" he said. “The right — of free speech also carries the responsi bility of speaking the truth, If an impression is left that docs an injus lice to the flag or his President, or his armies, then in humanity." he ought to correct It and not In deflance repeat it." KELLOGG'S WORDS BITTER Senator Kellogg of Minnesota, who presented the first resolutions of Min hesola, organizations asking La. Fol- lette’s expulsion accused La Follette of misstating facts in the St, Paul ad dress and denied that Uris country Went to war to secure Amerteans the right to Cravel on munition hulen ships for to protect Jeans made to foreign governments, OSL have no right, or wish, to erith cize any man who ‘voted against this mation going to war, although 1 may disagree with him; but we are at war, and 1 betieve men’ of tis body, men oF influence, should not make’ state: ments tending to aid and encourage the enemy and to cast dishonor and dis ‘eredit- upon this nation, imagine the eirculation in the Ger man empire of those statements, | re Hecting discredit upon our proseeu- Gon of the war, and sustaining — the Justice of the cause of the German om pire. Could these people be blamed for believing in a cause however, lacking in justice and right, if these ‘are the reasonp which lead ‘us into this great conflict, and. sustain us through its trying ordeal? "Whatever may be sald as to the original cause uf the war between Ger mere and the allies, this nation rests upon solid ground, backed by interna tional ss by the dictates. of human ity and the instineta of self preserva tion.” “DANGEROUS” ASSERTS FALL, L This country, Senator Kellose de emred, owes Cfo the allies and to ils tary to place Hts disapproved. begore tho world of the “slanderous accnsa fon" made by Senator La Follette in his St. Paul speech He denied the statement. attributed to La Pollette, that President Wilson | had een warned py Secretary Bryan before the Lusitahia sailed, Uhat six million rounds of ammunition besides: explosives were on board and that the pastengers were sailing in vielatien | of the statutes of this country, Senator Fail said Uiat utterances which before the war would he proper in his opinion now were unjustifiable, He said ho has always believed the Wisconsin senator to be sincere authongh he has not always agreed with him, but in the senator's present attitude he believes him to be in er ror. “No more dangerous doctrine could have been preached and no more in siduous utterance could have been heard from any source than that by tho senator from Wisconsin, in my Judgment," he said. “E refer to his “+ Pant speech." “PULL SPEED" HIS KEYNOTE. La Pollette spent Friday and most of the night preparing his speech, De fending his course fn opposing the declaration of war and subsequent at tacks on war policies, La Pollette de clared: “It is the citizen's duty to obey the law until it is repealed or declared unconstitutional. But he has the in alionable right to fight what he deems an obnoxious ku or a wrongful potiey in the courts and at the ballot bas, “It is the suppressed emotion of the masses that breeds revohition. If the American people are to carry on Oils kreat war; if piblie opinion is to be cniightened and intelligent there must be free diseussion, MAY BEAR WAR'S BRUNT. “Congress, as well aa the people of the United Statey entered the war in great confusion of mind and under feverish excitement. ‘The President's leadership was followed unquestion ingly in the faith that he had some tig wnrevealea plan by which pasaca “Congress. as well as the people of the United States entered the war in great confusion of mind and under feverish excitement. The President's leadership was followed unquestion ingly in the faith that he had some big “unrevealed plan by which peace that would exalt him beforo all the world would soon be achieved. “Gradually reluctantly, Congress and the country are hegnining to per ceive that we are in this territic world conflict, not only to right our wrongs, not only to aid the allies, not only to share its awful death toll and its fearful tax burdens, but. per haps to hear the brunt of the war. “And so T say if wo aro to forestall the danger of being drawn into years of war perhaps finally to attain impc rinalism and exploitation, the people must unite in a_eampaign along const tutional lines for free discussion of the policy of the war and its conclu sion on a just basta. WOULD PREPARE ALL. FoR WAR ' “While it is trae that the war must ho gone through with.” he said, “1 was not trio that ‘we must go through to tho eng to accomplish an wndisclos ‘ed purpere t9 reach an unknown sont " | Every preparation for prosecuting the war must be mado, the Wisconaln senator declared, but he claimed the right to discuss honest differences of opinion. “shall we ask the pecplo to shut their eyes and take the entire —war program on faith?" ho asked. “The way to paralyze the German atm is declare our objects in this. war show that we are not seeking to dic tato a form of government to Ger-- Many or to render England's: domina Hee + ye see more secure, “When the objects of this war are clearly srited and the people approve they will give popular support iL wil never otherwise receive.” As he proceeded Senator La Mol lette gradually drew toward his cus tomary fire of delivery, gosturing with clenched fist as he referred to. free sand ralsing his voice at times with motional emphasis. Nowhere ji he “reter to the St Paul speech. | DEMANDS FULL DISCUSSION | “Honest dealing with our allies al }80 requires a clear statement of ont objects," he declared, "If we donot jexpect to support them in the dreams }of conquest that fact should be stated and our people are entitled to know i that vitally important fact before this war proceeds further. “Common honesty and fair dealing requires tho fullest and freest discus [sion before the people of every issue invelved, and that a plain and specific declaration of our purposes be speed ‘ily made by the Congress," RECALLS CLAMOR FOR WAR GP eeatee i Senator La Follette asserted that the war party" besides carrying on a campaign of “libel and character» sassination" against members of Con Rress who voted against the war, was Attempting lo suppress discussion of war isstes and intimidate the people themselves by invading: thelr hontes and unlawfully throwing them into jail." | Six members of the Senate and as [1 recall, about 50 members of the HMouse voted against the declaration of war,""“e said. “Immediately thero | WAS Tel Loose upon thase senators and representatives a flood of invective ant abuse from newspapers and til Viduals who had been elamoring for ivan, mnenuated, 1 believe, in the his [tony of elvitized. wnetety.” “Senator 1a ollette declared that Fit he alone had been made the victim of these attacks he would not take the Senate's valuable time for their eon sideration, PEOPLE INTIMIDATED, 1 SAYS “But sir" he continued, “it ia not done the ‘members. of Congress that the war party inthis country — has sought to intimidate, “The mandate has gone forth to the sovereign people of this country. that they mst bo silent while those things ire being done by their government whieh most vitally concern thei wet! being, their happiness and their lives For weeks past honest and law abiding citizens of this country are being terrorized and outraged in their rights by those sworn to uphold the aws and protect {he rights of the “people, “ET have in my possession numerous affidavits establishing the fact. that People are being unlawfully arrested, thrown into jail, held incommunieade for days oniy to ho eventually a's charred wither’ ever having been cls on Iniy court, beeause they have com mitted nu crime. Private residences are being invaded. loyal citizens of undoubted integrity and probity ar- rested, cross examined and the mo.t saered constitutional rights guaran- teed to overy American’ citizen are being continually located. MEES CAMPAIGNING “ERROR” “TL appears to the purpose of those cond"tng this campaign to throw tho country Into a sate terror, to coerce public opinion, to — stifle eriticigm, and suppress discussion to (he gmpat isses Involved in this war.” In support of his assertion — that Congress should speak for the coun try In declaring the purposes of war, the senator cited precedents at great length. “HL wou.t be bad enough if the Con stitution clothed the President with any such power,” he saiid. “but to ex eratse such power without constitu: ona) authority cannot long he. tol- erated if even the forms of free gov. ernment are to remain, “We Know that the people would re sist, and if necessary, resist with arms in their hands any’ sehemo to clothe the President with power to phinge this country into war and then con tinue the war as he desired.” ALLEGES VIOLATION OF FREEDOM ‘ Senator La Wolletto said no conyie! tion was stronger with the people to day than that there should be no fu- [ture wars exeept in case of actual. in vasion unless supported by referendum the President has asked the Ger- man people to speak for themselves on this reat world” issue, why should ‘not the American people voice their convictions through their chosen rep- rewentatives in Congress?” Emphasizing denial of treo specen, Senator La Follette added: There has never been a time for “more than a century and a half when the right of free specih and free Shaki nid MHA ‘OtoR) AE RHE euake to CALLS FOR WAR'S AIMS. Contending apain thet It is the duty of Congress to define the pur: pose of the war and determine when it shall end, he continued: “The question is, aro we to. sacri fice millions of our young men the vers promise +* tm land—anl spend hi’ Mons and more billions and pile up the cont of liviag wuitl wo atarve ~ot for ‘@ peaco without victory, but for # Peace, xo far as wo aro yet advised satis factory to the allies? Shall the fear- fully overburdened people of Unis coun try continue to bear the brunt of a prolonged war for any objects not openly stated and defined? “rho answer rests, in my. judg: ment with the Congress, whose duty it is to declare our specific purposes in the present war and to state the objects upon the atttinment of whic we will make peace.” APPLAUDED BY ‘THE GALLERIES Characterizing the attacks upon him as a “xeneral campaign of villifleation ant attempted intimidation” La Fol lette defiantly shouted: “Neither the clamor ‘of the mob nor the voice of power will ever turn me by the breadth ef a hair trom the course marked out for myself, guided by such knowledge as Tecan’ obtain and controlled and directed by. a solemn conviction of right and duty.” When Lo Fatlette concluded, after speaking more than Ovo hours, the galleries vigorousty applauded "but the chair admonished ithe galleries that any demonstration would not be permitted, ‘found to be much more than that, ‘The value of the farm products, such as corn, wheat, ats, rye, rice, hay, pota toes, sweet potatoes, ‘cotton, tobacco, cotton seed, ete, will totay six hunt dred million dollars per annum, Virginia is one of the — southern states’ which segregates Ue value of the property of its white and colored citizens. ‘The former had about two hundred wid fifty years’ start on the latter, ‘The value of the colored. peo: ble’s property at the close of the Civil War was an is usually placed — at zero, In his annual report tor 1916. to Mis Exeeliency, 1, C. Stuart, Gover- ner of Virginis, lion, C. Lee Moore, Auditor of Public Accounts shows the | Yitlue of colored people's property real and personal, to be ($41,081.40) forty ene million and cighty ene thousand, Your hundred and sixty dollars, an in crease of ($8,232487) three million, two hundred and thirty Ovo thuosand, four hundred and eighty seven dollars two hunted and thirty two thousand over the year of 1915, ‘The co'sred population of Virginia is (671066) six hundreq and seventy one tadasand ant ninety six ‘These colored people own C1, 730, 980) one million, seven hundred and thirty thousand, nine hunared ind elghty acres of land an increase in one year of (56157) fifty six thousand “one hundred and Titty seven aeres. ‘The per capitt vitloo of the wealth of the colored people of Virginia. as shown is ($59.70) fifty nine ollars and seven ty cents, ‘This’ does not include the amount of money on deposits in the banks of the country, If the present aereaze owned by the colored people were divided up, it would give each man, woman’ and child two and onenalf acres, It seems then that the wisdom of your officers, especially your very able Seeretary,| in extending the blessing of this Mnrift tnoyement directly to the colored jee ple f8 apparent” AS™ 9 prefainars, movement T named the following. per sons to cooperate with me in. this kreat effort; Major R. 1. Moten, Prest dent of Paskegee Institute, Alabama; Emmett J. Scott, Secretary of Tus: Kegeo Institute, Alabama; Robert J Owens, Los Angeles, California; Dr. JW. B, Bowen, Adanta, Ga., President James 1. Dudley, Greenshoro, XN. C., Jndgo Robert 1. ‘Terrell, Washinizton D.C, WP, Graham, D.D.. Philadel phia, Pa. Welly Miller, A.M. Dean of Howard University, Washington, D.C, Joseph 1. Jones, Cincinnati, Ohio; Bd. Warren, Detroit, Mich.! William I. Lewis, Bx Assistant Ate forney General, "Boston, Mass.;_ J. Rupert Jefferson, Parkersburg, | W. Va., Prof. Charles Mitchell. Institute, W.Va. Charles TT. Stowart, Chicago, IL, Dr. Ernest Lyon, Baltimore, Md., BG, Witygerald, Atlantic City, 'N. J Thomas M. Crump, Mrs. Magsie 1, Walker. 8. R, Jefferson, M_ D., of Rich- mond, Va, William MeDonald, Fort Worth, ‘Texas; Charles Banks, Mound Rayon, Miss; "IL 1. Price Palestine, Texas. Meetings have been held and an in forest awakened, to the end that mil lions of dollars are being saved through the savings departments of banking institutions, and through the medium of Christmas Savings Clubs. In the Liberty Loan rally held in Richmond subserijtions aggregating twenty Tive thousand dollars’ were an nounced atter a meeting of about two hours, Addressess were delivered by Hon. Oliver J. Sands President of the American National Bank of Rich- mond, and Col. William ‘T Datney, Business Manager of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce ‘The interest shown by the colored {people was most gratifying and Twas glad to preside over tha meeting. j Southern white people have for many years encouraged the saving habit {among the colored people in their re spective localities. They have Kortl them homesteads on long time — pay ments and extended the time for set- {lement, when the pressure of home expenses became too great. ‘They have also encouraxed the education of the colored children in progressive communities, realizing that no one | thing, not even the family ti, steadi- es a colored man so much as the sav. | ing habit. Tho wealth of tho colored peopla is in the Southland, How to make him a more thrifty citizen how to reach the Uhousands of " thrittless | Snorer do wella” ta tho problem. tthe j song, “Every day'll be Sunday by and by." Is Loo popuiar among a large pro [portion of our’ people The. song, (there'l be no sorrow there," is he ing changed to, “There'll be no work [in there.” Work should ve ws a zest for recreation and view versa. The Kreatest handicap to this movement among our people has heen the lack of funds to promote the plans a3 out Mined by the promoters of the move ment. To this end, T have deemed it wise to secure the authority to issue and sell for a nominal sim, say five or ten cents, an authorized thrift campaign button or badge, the procecds there from to he turned over to the Savings Bank Section through its Secretary HOUSES FOR SALE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults, Eoual Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. APPLY MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK ; NORTHWEST CORNER THIRD AND CLAY STS. s John Mitchell, Jr., President . and used in paying the aetual expens: ¢s of promoting the movement among the colored people, By this method, the campaign could no doubt be made self supporting, inasmuch as the ex- ‘pense would he confined to clerk hire literature and postage. "The remarkable progress made by ‘the Section under the present. corps of officers can be appreciated — by those who,, like myself, have noted the progressive growth during — the ‘past ten or twelve years, No act on tne part of the financiers of the coun try has done more to stimulate the habit of saving than has this move ment for the conservation of — the wealth of the nation In general and that of the colored people in particu. lar. T hope that southern banking inst tutions may be induced to secure statistics relative to the amount of the savings of the colored people in their respective localities ‘and for ward the same to the Secretary of the Savings Bank Section, where the undersigned may be permitted to ob fin the information and by: addins the same to those of the forty tive banking: institutions In the country conducted hy colored people practical ly all of which are in the South, he may be able to asrertain the actnal cash holdings of the colored poopie ofthis country, ‘The time is rapidly approaching, if not actually at hand, when the black Colossus, ever friendly and never mili fant toward his friends; always faith ful and never traiterous toward the kovernment he it Democratic. or Re- publican, will be valted at his tre worth, not only by the South but hy the North, not only by the Kast but by the West. “No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is al- ways work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.” -wLOWRLL. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Chairman, President Mechanics Savings Bank, Richmond, Va. pO YOU KNOW 'THEM” Washington, D. Cy Sept. iS, 1917. Mr. Editor—I am hunting my peo- ple. My name is Oshorns KF, Dennis, Tam fifly oight years old, was born in Henrico Co, Virginia, ran off from my mather when auite’a child, have never seen nor heard from her ‘sinee. A childish recollection of my home place was In Henrico Co., Virginia, thirteen miles from Richniond on. the pike road and four miles from deep hottom, my father diew whon Twas quite young, My mother whose name was Silvia Dennis marnied again. Thero were three children of the first marri age, two girls and a hoy; Manerva and Josephine Dennis; ‘The youngest a boy was myself, Osborne F. Dennis. My father’s name was Fred Dennis, My mother's owner was John Gofright Please seo if you ean trace the where abouts of my sisters or relatives. Yours truly, 0 FP. DENNIS ‘The Planct (Richmond, Va.) wit ve sont to your door for only $1.f0 ber year In advance, Subseribe now, und get the newsy news. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of (he City of Richmond, the 26th day of September, 1917 ANDREW 'THOMAS....Complainant against LOUISE THOMAS ........Defendant IN CHANCERY. ‘The above styled suit ts to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony upon the grounds of abandonment and desertion, And an affidavit having been fed that the defedant, Louise Thomas 1s a non-resident of the St.to of Virgin Ja, It is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the duo pub Heation of this order and do whatever ia necessary to protect her Interest honein. A Copy, ‘Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk, GILES B. JACKSON, p. a. | tho 19th day of September, 1017. JUNIUS BROADNAX,.... Plainuff against In Chancery, Nomorva BROADNAX, .... Defendant | The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divoreo from the bond of matrimony by tho plaintiff from the defendant on the grounds of desertion and adultery. And_an affidavit h ving been made and filed that tio defendant, Maner- “c Rroaduax is not a resident of the ‘Stato of Virginia; it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the duo publication of this order and do what may be necessary to pro tect her interest. herein, ‘A Copy, ‘Testo: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIND, p. a. A CORRESPONDENCE CcouRSE PREE OF ALL CHARGE Por Sunday School ‘Teachers and Of- feers Conducted by Rov, S. N. Vass, D. D. Box 441, Raleigh, N. 0. Tho Sunday School that has not trained teachers ty bohind tho times, Rov. 8. .N. Vass, D, D., is tho only man in tho Nogro raco whoso oxpe- rience fits him to do this toachor training work thoroughly, having had ® quarter of a century oxporienco on the flold, and the American Baptist Publication. 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Agt,, B14 East Second St., Oklahoma City, Okla, (10c oxtra for postage) pie Oil 1 Shampoo, 1 Fremung ul, Puce Breata tad "Biren tor lleg43, 00, 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. MONUMENT TO THE COLORED SOLDIERS. Captain William H. Brady, of the Soldiers Home at Hampton, referring to the bill pending in Congress for the erection of a monument to commemorate the services of colored troops in all the wars in which the United States has been engaged, recalls that on August 24, 1778, General Washington had 775 colored soldiers in his command not including 3,000 such troops furnished by Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. He credits the Black Legion numbering 800 and or ganized at San Domingo under Count d'Estaling, with having saved the American and French armies from defeat at the siege of Savannah on October 9, 1779. During the war of 1812, he says, the colored sailors form one-tenth of the crews of the Ameri can fleet, and that General Jackson had among his soldiers at the battle of New Orleans 500 free colored volun teers. On October 24, 1815, the State of New York enlisted 2,000 colored soldiers for National service. During the Civil War, he estimates, there were 78,975 colored troops, and during the war with Spain there were 10,159. It is a well-known fact that those engaged at the battle of San Juan Hill behaved with great gallantry. (Times Dispatch, Oct. 1, 1917.) THREE WHITES SLAIN IN FIGHT OVER NEGRO. Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 6.—Three men were killed and three wounded in a gun battle fought at La Pino, Ala., 35 miles south of here at 8 o'clock this morning. The dead: Oliver Enzer, aged 60; Hub Cannon, aged 35; W. L. Griffith, aged 35. The injured: Hugh Enzer, 32, will die; Prof. L. M. Hudson, 35 shot in both arms; Justin Enzer, 35, shot in shot. Accompanied by Kirk Brown, Cannon Griffith and Hudson went to the home of Oliver Enzer this morning to look for a Negro, who three days ago had held up a white man and who was said to be on the Enzer place. The request for the Negro, it is stated, was greeted with a half of shot. The casualty list resulted. Reports from La Pine state that the Enzers resented the searching of their promises by the posse of four men and ordered them off the place. The posse which was armed with a search warrant, refused to leave, and a fusillade of shots followed. Hub Cannon was the first man to fall shot, it is said, by Oliver Enzer. The shooting became general and Brown was the only man who escaped injury. Dear Sir,—The Federal Food Administrator has just been established by an act of Congress "To provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel. The President appointed Mr. Herbert C. Hoover as Food Administrator under this act, and Colonel E. B. White of Leesburg has been appointed Food Administrator for Virginia. Colonel White is a member of the Virginia Council of Defense, and has been very active in promoting the patriotic work of the Council since its organization. The National Food Administration emphasizes its desire to rely upon state organizations to act as a link between the state and Washington, and especially the county council to heartily cooperate with Colonel White in his patriotic labor. "The food administration is called into being to stabilize and not disturb conditions and to defend honest enterprises against illegitimate competition. It has been devised to correct the abnormalities and abuses that have erupt into trade by reason of the world disturbance and to re store business, as far as may be to a reasonable basis." Very respectfully, E. W. NICHOLS, Chairman. 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Dr. Hunter of the A. M. E. Church, North street, preached to the Tent lodges of the city at 11 A. M. Mrs. M. M. Hairston and little daughter of Farmville, Va., who have been visiting Rev. R. G. Adams and family, left for home Monday. Mrs. Bessie Hodges, of Green St. has returned from her vacation. Mr. W. G. Tate, of Green St. left for Baltimore last week to recuperate. Mrs. Eliza Bland, of Effingham St. is ill. Mrs. Nancy Thomas Wheeler is still clerk for the Southern Aid Society in Hampton, Va. We were glad to see her and her sister, Miss Susie Thomas with the Metropolitan congregation on Sunday morning. Miss Martha Brown of 813 Green street, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Brown, left for Hartshorn College, Richmond, Va. Mrs. Ada Brown is visiting friends in the mountains. Deacon R. H. Perkins, whose foot was mashed last week, is out. The Young People's Society of Mt. Carmel Church gave a nice entertainment last Tuesday night. The following young ladies served on the program: Misses Rosa, Virginia and Sarah May Harmon, Mary Taper, Ada Brown, Sydney Washington, Blanche Gibson, Elba Washington. Miss Harmon sang a fine solo. The following Mesdames: P. W. Gibson, Aaron Harper, Minnie Harmon, John Jefferson, John Morris, Mary Ellen Derrick, William Washington, S. E. Mae Parks, Miss Rosa Harmon, chairman. Mr. Floyd Taylor of Luray spent the week in town as the guest of Miss S. Emma Parks. Mr. Taylor is a well known tonsorial artist of the Cave City. The following persons motored to Millwood Sunday to assist the Odd Fellows with their rally: Messrs. Charles Lampkin, James Robinson, Cornellus Robinson, Scott Thurston, Perry Brooks, George Dixon, Prof. P. W. Gipson, William Mayberry, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Cooke. They had a grand time and returned in high spirits. The communion set presented to Mt. Carmel Church was used for the first time Sunday night. 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M. the committee found much to be done in the city jail, home and penitentiary and the results were more than paid. The boys manifested much interest in the boys' meeting 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. and the special programme was a great hit. Keep your hand upon the boy and the future man will be sure. Mothers we thank you. S:30 P. M. at the Mt. Carmel Baptist church the work of the Y. M. C. A. for the winter was launched. The pastor of the church, Rev. Edward D. Coffee delivered a direct message and it went to the souls of all who heard the Rev. The workers of the Y. M. C. A. were greatly helped. The choir of the church sang songs from the soul. Remarks were made by Pres. John S. Powell, Messrs. A. C. Clarke, E. J. Gary and Deacon Charles Gray. We are now struggling to do more for the general good of the community. We thank everybody for the help which was given to have this meeting be a success. You and your friend are invited today 5 P. M. to the Y. M. C. 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Germany's intention to hold all territory taken in the war, in order to obtain the greatest possible advantage in the peace conference, is the clear announcement of Chancellor Michaelis. For once he is telling the truth. If it were possible to imagine the voluntary and unconditional (relinquishment of German colonies) by Great Britain and Japan, it would be easy to imagine that Germany might let go of Belgium. On neither side is friendly concession possible. What ever is relinquished must be relinquished under the compulsion of war. Until the enemies of Germany have driven her out of invaded territories it would be the height of folly to begin peace negotiations. Under the law of nations each party is entitled to hold what it possesses, and if it surrenders any captured territory it requires an equivalent concession of some kind. The starting point of peace negotiations must be the war map, not the map as it stood before the war. There was a Belgium once, and a Serbia, but they do not exist now. Unless Germany's enemies drive her from the territory that was once Belgium and Serbia, Germany will not relinquish that territory any more than she will relinquish Brandenburg. The allies would have to pay all and more than Belgium and Serbia were worth to induce Germany to agree in a peace conference to withdraw from those territories, if she should actually hold them at the time of the conference. Germany is willing to make peace. So would the allies be willing, if they had the advantage of holding an immense proportion of enemy territory and could force Germany to pay their price for its recovery. What trading material do the allies possess except the German colonies and some Teuton ships? Germany's trump card is the enemy territory she holds. The 'allies' trump card is their superiority in military resources. If they play this card skillfully they will be able eventually to do with Germany as they please. The game is far from finished. Overconfidence has injured both players, but principally the allies. Germany expected to win early in the game, but when she failed she readjusted her plans with lightning swiftness. The allies expected Belgium to hold the Liege fort; they expected the British handful to hold Antwerp; they expected the British fleet to knock over the Dardanelles forts and take Constantinople; they expected Sorbia to hold Belggrade; they expected Russia to overwhelm Austria and take and hold east Prussia; they expected Bulgaria to join the entente; they expected Sarrajit to cut the Orient railroad; they expected Grand Duke Nicholas to march along the Black Sea coast from Trebizond to Constantinople; they expected Kornilloff to work new wonders in Gallia; they expected many other triumphs which need not be mentioned, all of which failed to materialize. And now many Americans expect Germany to sue for peace rather than fight the United States. This is not the time for Americans to boast. Let them boast after the enemy is beaten and they have laid their armor off. By what logic is it presumed that 500,000 Americans will defeat Germany, when three or four times that many Germans may be withdrawn from the Russian front meet the Americans? Is it wise to underestimate the enemy? By colossal preparation and deadly fixedness of purpose, by thorough cooperation with the allies by absolute devotion to the one cause of victory, America will be able to furnish the strength needed to win. It is pure madness to expect Germany to yield anything except at the cannon's mouth. (Washington, D. C., Post, Oct. 1, 1917) 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. Dr. George W. Cabanisa. My Dear Mr. Cabaniss,—I was very much surprised to learn that anyone should construe the one month's extension of this Training Camp as an indication that the Colored Candidates for Commissions required more time than White Candidates, and that the month's extension was made in order to bring them up to the standard of the white camps. As a matter of fact no one is in a position to institute any comparison between the pro-ficiency of the colored candidates and the whites, as no one has had an opportunity to compare their work. The Inspector General of the Army visited all of the Training Camps, and could therefore institute a comparison as to the little practical work he observed in his brief visits, and also as to their apparent discipline, "setup," and smartness of appearance. I am convinced from his remarks that the Candidates at this camp would not suffer from any such comparison. The fact of the matter is that there is no reason whatsoever for supposing that the extension of this camp to October 15th was caused by any considerations of relative fitness of canidates, and there seems every reason for believing that this had nothing at all to do with the matter. There are, unfortunately, some people whose stock in trade is trouble making, and whose one desire on learning of the extension of this camp was to twist the facts so as to create discontent and ill-feeling. These trouble mongers resemble certain foul birds who enjoy no food except carrion. There was not one word or figure in the report and recommendations of the classification boards :t this camp that could possibly have indicated to the War Department, or any one else, the slightest reason for be fleaving that the Colored Candidates were not as well qualified for their commissions as were the White Canidates. The War Department has not felt it necessary to explain its action and it should not be necessary but the following may explain the matter to those who see something sinister in everything they don't understand. The men conscripted under the first call are to be actually mobilized in several increments. The reason is obvious. To dump thirty or forty thous and men in a camp all at once would be to create confusion if not chaos, and to entail much actual suffering. Most of the officers who are to handle these conscripts are the briefly instructed men of these three months Training Camps. They can't be expected to handle such big matters efficiently till they have had a little experience with smaller ones. Then there is the vast problem of supply. The machinery needs time to get it to running at maximum speed and efficiency. It needs oiling up and to begin at rather low speed. The Colored troops are to be organized in units by themselves and not mixed with whites. Since the Colored Officers' Training Camp did not begin until one month after the white camps, the white officers were graduated and ready one month before the colored ones could be. That the white regiments should therefore be the first ones mobilized is as simply logical as that two and two make four. It will be well along in October be fore the last of the several white increments can be called out and cared for. What is the sensible thing to do meanwhile with the Colored Candidates for Commissions? Any man who knows anything at all of the necessary qualifications for an officer knows that three months are not one tenth of the time really necessary for his training, and that not one of our officers of three months' training has more than a slight beginning in learning his duties. If time were available they would all be kept in training for a much longer time. Now, is it the part of common sense to graduate these Colored Candidates a month or two ahead of the mobilization of the units they are to organize, feed, equip and train, and let them idle away the interim, or is it good business sense to continue their preparation by an extra month of work specially elected with a view to enabling them to avoid the very mistakes now being made by the less fortunate officers who however sadly they may need an extra month's training were not so fortunate as to get it? No one but the above mentioned trouble mongers can have any doubt either as to the wisdom of this extra month's work, under the circumstances, or as to it being absolutely devoid of any reflection whatsoever on the Colored Candidates. You are at liberty to make any use you see fit of this letter. Sincerely, C. C. BALLOU, Brig. Gen'l. Nat. Army. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PLANET Freedom of Speech and of the Press Guaranteed. Freedom of Speech and of the Press Guaranteed. 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"In ten minutes, if you say so." "Say twenty minutes, then." "All right." She dressed herself, took the elevator down to the lobby, instructed the night clerk to have a maid pack her trunk and send it by express to Hopyard, care of St. Allwoods hotel, on the lake. Then she walked out to the broad stopped carriage entrance. A low hung, low hooded yellow canstood there, exhaust purring faintly. She paid the driver, sank into the soft upholstering beside him, and the big six slid out into the street. There was no traffic. In a few minutes they were on the outskirts of the city, the long asphalt ribbon of King's way lying like a silver hand between green, bushy walls. Ninety miles of road, good, bad and indifferent, forest and farm and rolling hill and the swamps of Sunns prairie, lies between Vancouver and Roaring lake. At 4 in the morning, with dawn an hour old, they woke the Rosebud ferryman to cross the river. Twenty minutes after that Stella was stepping stillly out of the machine before Roaring Springs hospital. The doctor's Chinaman was abroad in the garden. She beckoned him. "You sahe Mr. Benton—Charlie Benton?" she asked. "He in doctor's house?" The Chinaman pointed across the road. "Mist Bentle ohah dah," he said. "Velly much sick. Missa Bentle lib dah, all same gleen house." Stella ran across the way. The front door of the green cottage stood wide. An electric drop light burned in the front room, though it was broad day. When she crossed the threshold she saw Linda sitting in a chair, her arms folded on the table edge, her head resting on her hands. She was asleep, and she did not raise her head till Stella shook her shoulder. Linda Abbey had been a pretty girl, very fair, with apple blossom skin and a wonderfully expressive face. It gave Stella a shock to see her now, to gauge her suffering by the havoc it had wrought. Linda looked old, haggard, drawn. There was a weary droop to her mouth. Her eyes were dull, lifeless, just as one might look who is utterly exhausted in mind and body. Oddly enough, she spoke first of something irrelevant, inconsequential. "I tell asleep," she said heavily. "What time is it?" Stella looked at her watch. "Half past 4," she answered. "How is Charlie? What happened to him?" "Monohan shot him." Stella caught her breath. She hadn't been prepared for that. "Is he—is he?" She could not utter the words. "He'll get better. Wait." Linda rose stillly from her seat. A door in one side of the room stood ajar. She opened it, and Stella, looking over her Stella Caught Her Breath. She Hadn't Been Prepared For That. shoulder, saw her brother's tousled head on a pillow. A nurse in uniform sat beside his bed. Linda closed the door slently. "Come into the kitchen, where we won't make a noise," she whispered. A fire burned in the kitchen stove. Linda sank into a willow rocker. "I'm weary as Atlas," she said. "I've been fretting for so long. Then late yesterday afternoon they brought him home to me like that. The doctor was probing for the bulb when I wired you. I was in a panic then, I think. Half past 4! How did you get here so soon? How could you? There's no train." Steella told her. "Why should Monohan shoot him?" she broke out. "For God's sake, talk, Linda!" There was a curious impersonality in Linda's manner, as if she stood aloof from it all, as if the foe of her vitality had burned out. She lay back in her chair with cyclids drooping, speaking in dull, lifeless tones. "Monohan shot him because Charlie canno on him in the woods setting a fresh fire. They've suspected him, or some one in his pay, of that, and they've been watching. There were two other men with Charlie, so there is no mistake. Monohan got away. That's all I know. Oh, but I’m tired! I’ve been hanging on to myself for so long. About daylight, after we knew for sure that Charlie was over the hill, something seemed to let go in me. I’m awful glad you came, Stella. Can you make a cup of tea?" Linda’s head drooped over the teacup. Her eyelids blinked. "Dear," Stella said tenderly, "come and lie down. You’re worn out." "Perhaps I'd better," Linda muttered. "There's another room in there." Stella tucked the weary girl into the bed and went back to the kitchen and sat down in the willow rocker. After another hour the nurse came out and prepared her own breakfast. Benton was in no danger, the nurse told Stella. The bullet had driven cleanly through his chest, missing as by a miracle any vital part, and lodged in the muscles of his back, whence the surgeon had removed it. Though weak from shock, loss of blood, excitement, he had rallied splendidly and fallen into a normal sleep, from which he was just awakening. Benton lifted alert, recognizing eyes when Stella peeped in the bedroom door. "Hello, sis!" he greeted in strangely subdued tones. "When did you blow in? I thought you'd deserted the sinking ship completely. Come on in." She wheeled inwardly at his words, but made no outward sign as she came up to his bedside. The nurse went out. "Perhaps you'd better not talk?" she said. "Oh, nonsense," he retorted feebly. "I'm all right. Sore as the mitschief and weak. But I don't feel as bad as I might. Lhinda still asleep?" "I think so," Stella answered. "Poor kid," he breathed. "It's been tough on her. Well, I guess it's been tough on everybody. He turned out to be some bad actor, this Monohan party. I never did like the beggar. He was a little too high handed in his smooth, kid glove way. But I didn't suppose he'd try to burn up a million dollars' worth of timber to satisfy a grudge. Well, he put his foot in it proper at last. He'll get a good long lout in the pen if the boys don't beat the constables to him and take him to pieces." "He did start the fire, then?" Stella muttered. "I guess so," Benton replied. "At any rate, he kept it going. Did it by his lonesome too. Jack suspected that. We were watching for him as well as fighting fire. He'd come down from the head of the lake in that speed boat of his, and this time daylight caught him before he could get back to where he had her cached, after starting a string of little fires in the edge of my north limit. He had it in for me, too, you know; I batted him over the head with a pike pole here at the wharf one day this spring, so he planked me as soon as I holdered at him. I wish he'd done it earlier in the game. We might have gave a lot of good timber. As it was, we couldn't do much. Every time the wind changed it would break out in a new place—too often to be accidental. Hang him!" "How is it going to end, the fire?" Stella forced herself to ask. "Will you and Jack be able to save any timber?" "If it should rain hard and if in the meantime the boys keep it from jumping the fire trails we've cut I'll get by with most of mine," he said. "But Jack's done for. He won't have anything but his donkeys and gear and part of a cedar limit on the Tyse which isn't paid for. He had practically everything tied up in that big block of timber around the point. Monohon made him spend money like water to hold his own. Jack's broke." Stella's head drooped. Benton reached out an ux calloused hand, all grimy and browned from the stress of fire fighting, and covered her soft fingers that rested on his bed. "It's a pity everything's gone to pot like that, Stell," he said softly. "I've grown a lot wiser in human ways the last two years. You taught me a lot, and Jack a lot, and Linda the rest. It seems a blumed shame you and Jack came to a fork in the road. Oh, he never chipped. I've just guessed it the last few weeks. I owe him a lot that he'll never let me pay back in anything but good will. I hate to see him get the worst of it from every direction. He grus and doesn't say anything. But I know it hurts. There can't be anything much wrong between you two. Why don't you forget your petty larceny troubles and start all over again?" "I can't," she whispered. "It wouldn't "I can't," she whispered. "It wouldn't work. There's too many scars, too much that's hard to forget." "Well, you know about that better than I do." Benton said thoughtfully. "It all depends on how you feel." The polygant truth of that struck miserably home to her. It was not a matter of reason or logic, of her making any sacrifice for her conscience's sake. It depended solely upon the existence of an emotion she could not definitely invoke. She was torn by so many emotions, not one of which she could be sure was the vital, the necessary one. Her heart did not cry out for Jack Fyfe except in a pitying tenderness, as she used to feel for Jack junior when he bumped and brushed himself. She had felt that before and held it too weak a crutch to lean upon. The nurse came in with a cup of broth for Benton and Stella went away with a dumb ache in her breast, a leaden sinking of her spirits, and went out to sit on the porch steps. The minutes plied into hours and noon came when Linda wakened. Stella forced herself to swallow a cup of tea, to eat food; then she left Linda sitting with her husband and went back to the porch steps again. As she sat there a man dressed in the blue shirt and maeknaw trousers and high, claked boots of the logger turned in off the road, a bury woodsman that she recognized as one of Jack Fyfe's crew. "Well," said he, "if it ain't Mrs. Jack. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA A. D. WILLIAMS ```markdown ``` IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! 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. "He did start the fire, thon?" Stella muttered. Say "ah!" He broke off suddenly, a perplexed look on his face, an uneasiness, a hesitation in his manner. "What is it, Barlow?" Stella asked kindly. "How is everything up the lake?" It was common enough in her experience, that temporary embarrassment of a logger before her. She knew them for men with boyish souls, boyish instincts, rude simplicity of heart. Long ago she had revised those first superficial estimates of them as gross, hulking brutes who worked hard and drank harder, coarsened and calloused by their occupation. They had their weaknesses, but their virtues of abiding loyalty, their reckless generosity, their simple directness, were great indeed. They took their lives in their hands on skid road and springboard that such as she might flourish. They did not understand that, but she did. FOR $100 WORTH OF COUPONS. WE WILL SEND YOU A LARGE SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR $75 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A SMALLER SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR 30 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A DETACHABLE UMBRELLA. YOU CAN TAKE IT APART AND PUT IT INTO YOUR TRUNK OR SUIT CASE WHEN TRAVELING. "What is it, Barlow?" she repeated "Have you just come down the lake?" "Yes'm," he answered. "Say, Jack don't happen to be here, does he?" "No; he hasn't been here," she told him. The man's face fell. "What's wrong?" Stella demanded. She had a swift divination that something was wrong. "Oh, I dunne's anything's wrong particular," Barlow replied. "Only—well Lefty he sent me down to see if Jack was at the Springs. We ain't seen him for a couple uh days." 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 "And he has not come down the lake?" "I guess not," the logger said. "Oh. I guess it's all right. Jack's pretty skookum in the woods. Only Lefty got uneasy. It's desperate hot and smoky up there." "How did you come down? Are you going back soon?" she asked abruptly. "I got the Waterbug, Barlow told her. 'I'm goin' right straight back." in him. Right settege back. Stella looked out over the smoky lake and back at the logger again. A sudden resolution born of intolerable uncertainty, of a feeling that she could only characterize as fear, sprang full fledged into her mind. "Walt for me," she said. "I'm going with you." CHAPTER XVIII. "Out of the Night That Covers Mo." THE Watering Imped. Her engine mishaped continuously and Barrow We Do All Kinds of Job Work hands the mechanically, the browl hacked the mechanical knowledge to remedy its alment. He was satisfied to let it pound away so long as it would revolve at all. So the boat moved slowly through that encompassing smoke at less than half speed. Outwardly the once spick and span cruiser bore every mark of hard usage. Her topsides were foul, her decks splintered by the trumping of calked boots, grimy with soot and enders. It seemed to Stella that everything and every one on and about Roaring lake bore some mark of that holocaust rugging in the timber, as if the fire were some malignant disease menacing and marring all that it affected and affecting all that trafficked within its smoky radius. 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. But of the fire itself she could see nothing, even when late in the afternoon they drew in to the bay before her brother's camp. A heavier smoke cloud, more pungent of burning pitch, blanketed the shores, lifted in blue, rolling masses farther back. A greater heat made the air stiffening, causing the eyes to smart and grow watery. That was the only difference. Barlow laid the Waterbug alongside the float. He had already told her that Lefty Howe, with the greater part of Fyfe's crew, was extending and guarding Benton's fire trawl, and he half expected that Fyfe might have turned up there. Away back in the smoke arose spasmodie congling of donkey engines, dull resounding of ax blades. Barlow led the way. They traversed a few hundred yards of path through brush, broken tops and stumps, coming at last into a fairway cut through virgin timber, great fires felled and drawn far aslide, brush piled and burned. A breastwork from which to fight advancing fire, it ran away into the heart of a smoky forest. Here and there blackened, fire scorched patches abutted upon its northern flank, stumps of great trees smoldering, crackling yet. At the first such place half a dozen men were busy with shovels blotting out streaks of fire that crept along in the dry leaf mold. No, they had not seen Fyfe. But they had been blamed busy. He might be up above. Our Press Room is also well equipped. The outlay for machinery alone exceeds $4000 Call and see our plant. We make this statement in order that you may know and understand that we are well prepared to take care of your orders and deliver to you your work on time. Address THE RICHMOND PLANET. Half a mile beyond that, besido the first donkey shuddering on its anchored skids as it tore an eighteen inch cedar out by the roots, they came on Lefty Howe. He shook his head when Stella asked for Fyte. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia "He took twenty men around to the main camp day before yesterday," said Lofty. "There was a piece um timber beyond that he thought he could save, I—well, I took a shoot around there yesterday after your brother got hurt, Jack wasn't there. Most of the boys was at camp loadin' gear on the scows. They said Jack's gone around to Tumblin' Greek with one man. He wasn't "Continued on Page Seven.