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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library, VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 50 AN ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY The following report was adopted by the National Race Congress October 4. 1917 at Washington, D. C. TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEM BERS OF THE NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS At this, the second annual session of our Congress, we, your committee, beg leave to submit the following report on the present state of the country: 1. Together with the whle nation our group is sharing its quota of the burden of the greatest war known to the world, and in proportion to the contribution we make to secure to the world the much sought peace we shall share the benefits of the "New We no more" recently beheaded to be the ultimate objective of the war. 2. Out of the world war have grown economic conditions and problems that affect us directly and indirectly. At present, we are confronted with unusual economic necessity. We are being forced by necessity and circumstance to transplant in unusually large numbers, our accustomed place of abode in the southland to new and untried localities in the northland. We are migrating in numbers heretofore unknown. 3 Our migration has given rise to labor problems, political problems and social problems, calculated to affect every phase of our national life. In the North we are face to face with exposition in the labor world, and no little criticism is being expressed in a large effort to disturb the Negro in its new world of labor. We are the victims of one of three agencies. Either the labor unions of the North are opposed to Negro labor in the various industries of the North; or there is at work a secret agency from the South, seeking to so disturb labor conditions by labor riots as to frighten the Negro back to southern soil and southern employment; or the Negro is encountering extreme difficulty in readily adjusting himself to new employment and the attendant high wage. 4 We note the general necessity for a constant course of instruction to our people who have been affected by this new change of habitation and occupation. We recommend that the press, the pulpit and the platform be dedicated, at least in part, to a continued course of instruction to the thousands who have come North to live under entirely new conditions and new laws; that obedience of the law be taught at every opportunity, efficiency and reliability be held before them as essential; that thrift and economy be urged generally. 5. We call attention to the peculiar situation arising out of the draft of our men for the National Army. There is danger of unwise comment upon the method of procedure adopted by the administration relative to the encampment, training and ultimate employment of Necro soldiers. We urge the exercise of caution in our remarks, the cultivation of loyalty to the country forever, and especially at this time when it is evident that deceptive agencies are at work seeking to arouse us to dislay expression and general disruption. 6. Nor must the abnormal condition of the markets of the world be over looked. Money is plentiful, but prices are abnormal, and there is danger of a period of extravagance due to the unusual flow of money, and corresponding danger of a disturbance of credit due to a lack of appreciation of the extremely high cost of living. 7. Our educational institutions generally and the public schools especially in the South, are suffering because of the unprecedented demands of the world war. We exhort the nation to a visitant practice of economy and good judgment in order that our education at gyst-ms may not be read-less efficient. Expically do we urge a strict watch care over those section of the South where appropriations for public school education are made without due and equal consideration of the Necro children. 8. The extraordinary burden of our National tax is a subject for serious consideration. To meet the increasing demands of our government for money with which to prosecute to successful conclusion the world war, and at the same time be able to appropriate our usual amounts to education, the spread of Christianity and the main tenance of our homes in keeping with the American standard, will tax us for all we have of economy, fortitude and race loyalty. 9. We regret to keep before you the fact that our republic is still cursed with the presence of a spirit of lynch law and rioting of a virulent type. We recommend a renewed ef fort toward a successful abolition of this curse, and we urge that the sub jeet be kept forever before our nat- . ional Congress for legislation calculated to put down forever the lynchers and mob leaders now operating with apparent sanction in the various sections of our republic. 10. We call for a united effort to secure to our group a fair, strict and impartial interpretation of the laws of the land, and especially do we demand that impartial accommodation for travel in the southern states be provided at once; and that the Supreme Court be invoked by proper appeals and proceedings to enforce the laws of the several states as well as the amendments to the Federal Constitution guaranteeing to the Negro his rights as an American citizen. We are being untaintly dealt with by the rail roads and transportation companies of the south, and we urge immediate action looking to a relief of conditions. 11. The ghetto is another menace to our rights to property, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Steps must be taken to prevent summary segregation and the imposition upon us of unlawful and unconstitutional laws and ordinances in the various cities of the south. 12. The question of better housing conditions, the country over, demands immediate attention. We recommend that the various civic bodies of the several cities be approached, and their cooperation secured in making living conditions sanitary and tolerable as much for the Negro as for any other citizen. For the ultimate accomplishment of all of which, we commend our people of whatever creed or belief, the world over, to a stricter and more faithful service of Him who alone can give to the world the New De moracy so deftly desired, and the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, the sole prerequisite to Democracy and peace. Respectfully submitted, Com. On Address to the Country, G. B. Howard, Pa., Chairman, Robt L. Vann, Pa., See'y. H., J. Callis, District of Columbia, W. C. Brown, District of Columbia E. A. P. Cheek, New Jersey, C. C. Summerville, Va., J. J. Nickerson, W. Va., W. H. Jernagin, President, Washington, D. C., Wm. Alexander, Secy. Baltimore, Md. RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION HAS FINE MEETING The rain came down in torrents last Tuesday night and despite this fact a crowd assembled at the Ehenzeen Baptist Church to listen to an address by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the News Leader, Owing to the indecency of the weather, no doubt and other causes, he was unable to be present, but the promoter of the meeting, Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, President of the Richmond Neighborhood Association under whose auspices the meeting was being held was in no wise dumpted and announced that the address of Dr. Freeman had been postponed and the time would be announced later. She then gave a most interesting talk on the purposes of the organization and the actual work that it was doing. She called upon Dr. Roy K. Plannasan, Chief Health Officer of this city and he delivered an address that captivated the audience. His interest in the health and happiness of all the people in this community, regardless of color was emphasized. He was enthusiastically applauded, John Mitchell Jr., President of the Mechanics Savings Bank, who had been invited to introduce Dr. Douglas S. Freeman spoke briefly and then Mr. Bernard Lewis, one of our best known white citizens spoke briefly. A collection was lifted after which the meeting adjourned. An Outspoken Subscriber Greenville, Home I. I. Greenville, Miss., Oct. 15, 1917. Editor Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir, Find enclosed our check for $5.00, subscription to "The Planet." There is not, to day an Honest Nerro in all the World that could ford to defraud the Planet of one cent the paper is of too much value to the Race and is absolutely worth Ten times the price in any Nerro home with even ten year old children." I am Yours, very truly. W. T. BURNSIDE. The Fair Songsters. Madame Lewis and her three daughters captivated the audience by their rare musical gifts last Tuesday night at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. They possess rare musical powers and their superb singing won for them enthusiastic applause. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1917 THE CALL OF TIME! WAKE!! GET THEE ON, THOUS SPIRIX BUILDER. THY BEST IS OVER. REGAIN WHY PUNCH! BELGIAN SOLDIER WANTS USED POSTAGE. Amerisoft, Holland, July 22, 1917, Mr. Editor-in-Chief; Forgive me my daring in writing you these few words I am a Belgian interned soldier and should like very much to receive for collecting used postage stamps for helping me to pass the longevity of my captivity. I dare hope, Mr. Editor-in-Chief, you will be so kind to insert in your esteemed paper an advertisement for which I thank you very much beforehand. With all my kindest regards, I remain, sir. 600 COLORED MEN GET ARMY COMMISSIONS. New Officers Will Lead Negro Troops Drafted in National Army. More than 600 colored men have been commissioned in the national army and assigned to duty with colored drafted troops, it was announced by the War Department. These officer were trained at the Des Moines, Iowa camp. A number were former students at Howard University, this city, while many of the others were from the ranks of the four colored regiments in the regular army. One hundred and four were commissioned as captains and the others as first and second lieutenants. They will be assigned to duty at Camp Meado Mk., Camp Dix, N. J. Camp Upton, L. L. Camp Sherman, Ohio; Camp Dodge, Iowa, Camp Grant II., and Camp Funston, Kan. In Memoriam In sad, but loving remembrance of our devoted son and brother, J. Mercer Goodman, who died one year ago to day, October 25, 1916: Friends meet us day by day. And think our wound is healed. But little do they know the sorrow That is in our hearts concealed. A precious one from us is gone. A voice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant in our home That never can be filled. —By His Parents, Brothers & Sisters PERSONALS AND BRIEF J. Wm. Harris of 1599 Taylor St. is now at 1218 Chaffin St. Mrs. Nannie Thompson, of 1599 Stockton street, Southside, is indisposed. Mr. George Thompson arrived in the city last Tuesday from Braddock, Pa. Rev. Wm. H. Skipwith, the great evangelist arrived in the city last Monday night after an extended trip. Mrs. Nannie Harris of 2415 Lee WAKE!! GET THEE UP, TROU SPRINX BUILDER. THEY BEST IS OVER. REGION WAY PULG! St. is residing in Raleigh and Durham N. C. Mr. John D. Jones of Readyville, Mass. has been the guest of his brother and sister, Mr. W. D. Jones and Mrs. Zemoria Wood, 615 Judah St. Fred Jenkins of Winerpool, Va. is now in the city, He is the father of Mrs. Georgiana Wilson and is 101 years of age. He can handle a hoe even at this age. Mr. F. H. Key, 202 E. Clay street, left the city Friday for an extended Northern trip. He will visit his brother in Philadelphia. From there he goes to New York and other Northern cities. We wish him a pleasant trip. Messrs. Rannie and Wyndham M. Carter were called to the city last week on account of the death of their sister, Miss Karolyn M. Carter. They returned to New York this week. Mrs. Mattie Brice, 416 E. Leigh street has greatly improved after an illness covering a period of several weeks. She was able to be out this week. Miss A. F. Ruffin, the secretary of the colored branch of the Y. W. C. A. has been released for war work in the South Atlantic Field, and left for Atlanta October 19, to make a survey of the conditions. While away Miss Ruffin will visit several schools in interest of the Students $1,000,000 Friendship Fund. Miss H. L. Jackson succeeds Miss Riss Ruffin. Miss Jackson took the course offered in the Y. W. C. A. Training School of New York, this Summer. Rainbow Circles for girls and classes in crocheting, knitting, embroidering and portteno making moot weekly. HOME COMING DAY AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH "Home Coming" will be observed at First Baptist Church, corner fourteenth and Broad streets, Sunday, October 28, at the morning and night services. 11:30 A. M., Sermon by the Rev. George, E. Read, D. D., pastor First Baptist Church, Cherition, Va. 1:15 P. M., Sermon by J. W. Coleman, of Union University. Specially selected music by the choir, Mrs. N. O. Cobb, leader. The members and friends of the TIME! church, both in and out of the city, are expected to be represented either in person or through their offering. B. P. VANDERVALL, Church Cherk NO SCHOOLS THERE Rey Richard Strange tells us that they have no sights at either Piney Grove or at Cascade. This is the second year the patterns there have been without schools. This is a deplorable situation in this section of the country. GIVES GOOD ADVICE. 1234567890 (Omaha, Neb. Monitor.) The Richmond Planet, edited by John Mitchell, Jr whom we have never met, but long admired, has a most happy way of giving excellent advice to its large reading constituency in terse sentences. Here are two good examples from its last issue: "Save some of your money, Colored folks, if it is only one cent per day, save some of your money." "When you are tired, rest. When you are hungry, eat. When you are illiterate, learn. When you are anxious for a good time, look at your pocketbook and consider your actual needs, and pause before you engage in reckless spending." Pretty good advice, isn't it? We are of the opinion that it is because John Mitchell has practiced what he preaches that he has been for a number of years a highly respected member of the American Bankers' Association. What do YOU think about it? IN MEMORY OF DR HOLLIS B. FRISSELL (By William Anthony Aery.) "Let de Heaven light shine on me. Let de Heaven light shine on me. For low is de way to de upper world, Let de Heaven light shine on me." Soul stirring words are these! They are, indeed, a challenge to fresh hope and consecrated service when sung, by the great Hampton Institute chorus of over a thousand voices, over the grave of Holly Burke Frissel, principal of Hampton for nearly quarter of a century, who, though dead, yet speaks from the Eternal Life and summons men and women to help bring in the Kingdom of God. Under a clear, Southern sky there gathered on Sunday afternoon in the Hampton Institute cemetery, where general Armstrong am many other workers who have been faithful to the black and red children of the land a company of influential men and women, representing several races, in important business and social interests, education and religious work. There were also present some nine hundred Hampton students who are in training for race leadership. All had marched in quiet procession to Dr. Frissel's grave to pay in silent devotion, prayer and song their triumph of affection and to pledge them selves anew to loyal and courageous service. George Foster Peabody, of New York, who has served for thirty-three years as a trustee of Hampton, spoke on "The More Abundant Life," a theme which Dr. Prissell preached sad Neck. He said: "I believe as the world needs more abundant life, we can feel that we are privileged to have known this abounding life and have faith and courage that our lives may nereafter be more abundant in the quality of giving, which was the unique quality of Dr. Prissell." The principal memorial service was held in the beautiful school church, from which Dr. Prissell had sent forth thousands of people with a new vision of life and a strong determination to work together for the good of all men. The clergymen who took part in the devotional service were the Rev. Eldr. Eldridge L. M of Farmville, Va. the Rev. Herbert B. Turner and the Rev. Laurence Fenninger, chaplain and associate chaplain of Hampton Institute. A CREAT BUILDER The Rev. Dr. Francis G. Peabody d. of Cambridge, Mass., professor emeritus in Harvard University, comparing Samuel C. Armstrong and Hollis B. Prissell, said: "Armstrong was the Founder, Prissell was the Builder, and the School is the incarnation of these two personalities. Yet never were two personalities with a single aim more distinct in type. "Armstrong was magnetic, volcanic, Prissell was reserved, sagacious, prudent. The gifts of the one were these of action; the strength of the other was in discretion. "Initiative originality, even audacity were essential to begin the work and inspire confidence in it, but when a great institution had been established and must be developed without mishap, then the time had come for a peculiar quality of wisdom, patience, tolerance, and foresight, which could apply to larger tasks the ideals of the Founder." A FRIEND TO ALL MEN William M. Reid, Hampton 77, a well-known lawyer of Portsmouth, Va., and president of the Hampton Alumni Association, said: "In his quiet, sympathetic way, Dr. Frissell found out what each one at Hampton had for his ambition; what work he liked to do; what his plans for life were; and whether or not he was pleased with the work in which he was engaged. "Some time after I left Hampton for other work, I found Dr. Frissell in all parts of Virginia on horseback on country carts, in wagons, in bungees—visiting the Hampton graduates many of whom he had never seen. "He went out to see what these graduates were doing; to understand the difficulties with which they had to deal; to talk with them and encourage them in their work; and also to see the superintendents of the schools and members of school boards so as to help work out or wipe out any difficult ties that might be in the way of Hampon graduates. "I feel that, if we have anything to be proud of more than another, it is the fact that it has been the will of PRICE, FIVE CENTS the Almighty to raise up for us such men as Dr. Frisselt, men who put them selves in a position to interpret one race to the other; men who have their convictions and who are not afraid of expressing them; and men who do not inear any ill will by the work which they do, but rather win the good will of everybody. "I feel that the work that Dr. Frisselt has done is the work upon which the salvation of this nation rests — work which is not applauded — work which attracts no attention in the newspapers — work which is overlooked by the politician; but work which must go on if we are to become a great people, understanding each other and working for the benefit of each other." A SOUTHERNER'S TRIBUTE James Hardy Dillard, who was for some time at the head of the Norfolk Academy and later dean of Tulane University, New Orleans, and who is now president of the James and Slater Boards, outlined the work which Dr. Frissell had helped him and other Southern men do for colored boys and girls throughout the Southern states, especially through the Jeanes Fund. "Dr. Dillard referred to Dr. Frissell's ability to think always about the good of others; his unselfishness and wise, sympathetic counsel; his skillful management of affairs at Hampton; his clear, broad thinking on questions of race relations; his marvelous vision and sympathy. He concluded with these words: "This man, whom we meet today to reverence, I believe had that faith in the real, continuing progress of humanity; he had faith in the coming of the Kingdom of his Master. I believe that it was this faith that illuminated his life and made him the marvelous friend, counselor, helper, statesman, preacher that he was." MANAGER BROOKS LEAVES SUDDENLY Manager Charles H. Brooks, white, manager and principal owner of the new Movie picture theatre on second street, between Clay and Lolich streets is reported missing, having left the city last week, without giving any intimation as to where he was going. It is said that he sold his automobile and secured other money and left for parts unknown. No reason is assigned for his action and his friends are at a loss to account for his strange actions. ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES Thirdthenth Anniversary, Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 187—1917, and fourth anniversary of the pastor, Rev. E. D. Coffee, 1913—1917, beginning Sunday October 28, 1917 ending Friday November 2, 1917. Special program has been arranged with services each night during the week, by prominent divines. The public is cordially invited. Rev. E. D. Coffee, pastor. W. W. Carter, Church, Clerk BIG DAY AT MT.O, 25TH AND STREETS The Mount Olivet Baptist Church will have on the 4th Sunday, Oct. 28, 1877, a day of Special Services. 11:30 A. M.—"You Shall Reap, Just What You Sow," by Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, pastor. 4 P. M.—Address. "Get Ready," by one, whom the public has not heard for a number of years. (Guess who it is?) 8:30 P. M.—Sermon. "The Midnight Prayer," by Rev. Horace Winslow. (The Boy-preacher) of Philadelphia. Some of the best music' talent i. the city have consented to assist in these services. All are welcome. See programmes. Home Coming Home coming will be observed at the First Presbyterian Church, corner Monroe and Catherine streets on Sunday October 29th. All Presbyterians in Richmond and vicinity are invited to come home Special services all day. Rev. A. A. Hector, pastor. GREATEST LECTURER COMING! Rev. C. T. Walker, LL. D., of Augusta, Ga. will lecture at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Wednesday, October 31, eight o'clock P. M. The subject will be, "Important Factors in Race Elevation." The Sabbath Glee Club will render music used on their recent Northern tour. le atta Bae: a oa samronay....o¢romeie 27, 191 URUGUAY JOINS LEAGUE OF HONOR South American RepubllcBreaks With Germany and Dismisses Kaiser's Representatives. PERU COMES INTO LINE ALSO Uruguayan Congress Authorizes Execu- tlve to Adopt Meaoures to Faclll- tate Navigation In Co-operation With Friendly Nations, Montevideo.—Uruguay, like Peru. has broken with the Kalser. The Boverance of diplomatic relations came to pass after an all-night session of the Congress, It was greeted by out: bursts of patriotic fervor from the public and press throughout. The measure adopted by a joint sesston of the Senate and House authorizes President Viera: To break diplomatic and commer. cial relations with the German Em- pire, and ‘To adopt measures to facilitate navi gation, In co-operation with the friend- ly nations, and moasures to assure Smportation and exportation. ‘Tho President acted promptly on the first point and took immediate steps toward action on the second. In a speech to Congress he made it clear that Uruguay enters the side of the United States, not because of any par. tloular grievance but to allgn itself with the cause of Mberty and Justice. Passports wero issued to the Ger. man diplomatic and consular offietals, ‘Uruguay gives guaranteos for their personal safoty until thoy are out’ of the country. At the same time, cables to Berlin ordored all Uruguayan ofl clals in Germany to leave for home Ammodiately, A noto to the German Foreign ‘Office expresses the assumption that the same guarantess given Germar. officials in Uruguay will be given to ‘Uruguay officials in Germany. Peru Takes’ Action. Lima, Peru—Tho Peruvian Govern: mont handed his passports to Dr. Per), the German Minister. ‘The Peruvian Congress decided by @ voto of 105 to 6 to break off diplo- matic relations with Germany as a result of the sinking of the Peruvian bark Lorton by a submarine. Action by the Congress at the con: clusion of a stormy debate, Peru had demanded an indemnity for the sini ing of the Lorton, but this Germany refused to pay, offering tho alterna: tive of a prize court decision San Salvador Sides With U. 8. San Salvador—Tho United States Government has made an Inquiry in regard to the significanco of the dec- laration by the Government of Sal yador of neutrality friendly to the United States. ‘Tho Foroign OMice has replied that Salvador considers herself associated with the United States by reason of her sentiments in favor of pan Americanism in the world struggle. i —— SUBMARINES LESS MENACING, Government Action Reveals Decrease of U-Boat Hazard. Washington.—Oflicial announcement 41s made that in viow of the effective ness of methods omployod in fighting submarines a reduction of nearly 25 per cent has been made in the pre: miums charged by the Government's War Risk Insurance Bureau on all American steamships traversing the ‘war zone. ‘The reduction was made, it was of- ficially announced, “because of the de: crease in the risks.” Unofficially tt ‘was regarded as the government's ox. pression of {ts opinion, in terms of dollars and cents, that tho U-boats have passed the zenith of thoir cam: paign of frightfulness. WORLD'S NEWS IN ! CONDENSED FORM |}! i LOWELL, MASS.—Several cotton mills announced a 10 por cont waga Anerease, which will affect 20,000 op: ‘eratives. ‘Tho increaso goos into of fect Oct. 16. Increases by othor com: pantos aro contemplated, it was sald, WASHINGTON.—The Amerlcan De. fense Society starts a vigorous nation ‘wide campaign for tho expulsion by jthe Senate of Senators La Folletto, Reed, Stone, Gronna, Gore, Hardwick and Vardaman as “public enemies.” ATHENS.—-Greece is nearly ready te ‘throw her full military strength into ‘tho war on tho side of the Allies. Mal contents have boon disposed of. WASHINGTON.—Silent sentinele of ithe Woman's party resumed ‘picketing ‘the Whito House and oloven woro ar. rested, Alico Paul, ono of the loaders, among them. WASHINGTON.--That American de ‘stroyors successfully are using depth boniba In The War Gn U-boats ‘was re. vealod in an official Navy Dopartment roport, which Indicated two subma rines wore sunk and showed the eff clency and skill of Amorlean soamon. WASHINGTON.—Senator La Fob lotto was bitterly denounced on the floor of tho Senato and advised to foin tho Bundesrath in a hot debate Rrnerrrrrrrrrrrrrrnrnrrnn Noted Evangelist. Who Will Speak for Second Liberty Loan. re ee i ‘eq tetae ‘ ee oy or . : Y < Soe “Rush Liberty Loan dope,” wired Billy Sunday when asked if ho would doliver some speeches boosting tt. Ho will wake up several California cities this week. ' BOLO PASHA’S SPY FUNDS MONEY TO BUY UP FRENCH PRESS PLACED IN NEW YORK BANK. Hint That the Entire Web of Ger man Plottings In America May Be Uncovered. Now York.—Attornoy General Mor ton 1. Lewis, of New York, with the approval of Secretary of State Lansing and Jules J. Jusserand, tho French Ambassador, disclosed the sccret of the traitorous activitios in this coun- try of Paul Bolo Pacha, the Levantino fnanclor of Paris, now under arrest in Franco as a German apy, Byidenco in the. possession of the Attorney General shows that the man who was behind the scheme by which Bolo proposed to betray Franco by corrupting its public press in favor of Germany was Count von Bernstorft, thon the German Ambassador at Washington, who cagery fell in with the plans of tho traitor and advancod him nearly $1,700,000 with which to finance the plot in France, ‘Tho ovidence also shows that it was through Hugo Schmidt, prominent bo- fore the war in Now York banking cirolos, as the agent of the Doutsches Bank of Berlin, that Bernstorff nd- vanced the money to the Levantino plotter. Adolph Pavenstedt, another former New York bankor of German origin, appears as a go-between for the plotting Ambassador and the spy. ‘Tho Attorney General has disclosed a number of prominent persons with German secret servico work, and this information is now in the hands of the Department of Justice for fur- ther investigation for such action as doveloped facts may warrant. POSTAL RATES GO UP NOV. 2. Letters Three Cents—Postcards Two Cents. Washington—The Post Office De- partment Issued these instructions: “Postmasters shall on and after Nov. 2 see that postage is pnid at tho rato of 3 cents an ounce or fraction thero- of on lotters and other frat class mat- ter, except drop letters and foreign mail. “Postal cards are required to be pro- paid 2 cents, and, thereforo, the 1 cent postal cards must have a 1 cent post- Age stamp affixed to them in addition to the 1 cent stamp impressed on such cards, “Postal cards (private mailing cards) bearing written mossages must have 2 cents postage prepaid on them.” NO COAL FOR NIEUW AMSTERDAM Duteh Government Would Not Prom. lee Ship Would Return. Washington.—The government has refused Heenso for bunker coal to tho Nicuw Amsterdam because Holland would not give assurances that the ship would return to the United States after discharging hor Belgian rollot cargo. This action forecasts the com- plote embargo of the largo fleet of Dutch ships now in Now York harbor, unless Holland permits them to carry cargoes for the United States, SEES SPANISH FACTORIES! RUIN. Genator Sedo Informe Government of Cotton Needs, Madrld.—Senator Sodo informs the government that there aro only 70,000 alos of cotton in roservo, while the annual consumption in tho cotton in- dustry is 400,000 balos. If importation 4s interrupted within two months tho Catalonian factories will be closed and tho industry ruined. Coal from tho ‘United States is neoded greatly, since all that Spain requires cannot bo pro- vided by England whilo the war lasts. _THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA WORLD'S NEWS IN MIDGET FORM Long Stories ‘ot Bly Events Told In Brief Paragraphs For Quick Reading ABOUT BoYs IN TRENCHES Progross of seas on All Land Fronts, In the Submarine Zones and In the Up In the Alr Battle Field. ("wan BULLETiNe” German forces, after silencing Rus- sian batteries, anded men on Oosel and Dago islands, at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga, and Petrograd ro- ported that the garrison of Oesel put up a stil fight against tho invaders For the first time since he opened his series of attacks on the Germana in Flanders, Field Marshal Haig wag compelled to cease his operations be: fore all his objectives had been gained beewuse of the impossibility of the British troops moving forward in the deep mud on the battle line, How Gormany has been receiving from thts country a supply of tung: sten was revealed by federal officers in tho arrest of three men charged with violating the esplonago act in smuggling the white metal, Italy is said to bo preparing for a great drive on Laibach, key to tha Austrian communications, If the Alley supply coal, steel and guns. Gabriele @Annunzio took part ina big air rald on the Austrian naval base at Cattaro, Germany’s military chiofs, for the first timo In the war, aro beginning to talk about economizing the nation's “human material.” Gorman army or. ders signed by Quartermaster General Ludendorf have recently been taken from prisoners, emphasizing the need for this economy. WASHINGTON ] Announcement of the general meth: od by which the American merchant marine 1s requisitioned by the govern: ment was mado by Bainbridge Colby, of the Shipping Roard, in a notice sent to shipowners. The Navy Department announced the return of Admiral Mayo from Bu rope, whore ho held conferences with the British and French admiralties and inspected the British and Amert ean flects. It was believed that as a result of theso conferences a naval movement on a large sealo soon would be undertaken, 4 President Wilson apptoved the max: imum prices for steol products, a cut of one-third, arranged by agreement between the War Industries Board and the manufacturers. Famino in coal is attributed by the Geological Survey to the cnormous and unprecedented war demands. American mines are producing 1,823, 000 tons daily, moro than ever before in her history, Tho American navy's war construc tion program consists of 787 vexsels, including all types from super-dread: noughts to submarine chasers, as an- nounced by Sceretary Daniels, ‘The total cost is estimated at $4,150,400, 000, with a supplemental $350,000,000 destroyer program, New regulations for the enforcement of tho ‘Trading With tho Enemy Act virtually were completed. Mr. Burle son announced that the press would not be permitted to impugn America’s motives in the war, Gormany’s U-boat bases along the Belgian coast will bo throttled if good weather holds out on the Flanders front. ‘This is Socretary of War Baker's official prediction on confiden- Wal reports, Gormany virtually is an outlaw among the countries of the two west- ern continents. Wifteen nations, in- eluding the United States and Can- ada, either aro at war or have broken off relations. Of the six neutrals, three favor the United States policy and the other three hesitate to act because of local conditions. Vene- guela alono is pro-German, Champ Clark recoived an urgent call from Seerctary McAdoo asking him to speak in the Middle West. Mr. Clark will do so, I GENERAL ‘Turning @ valvo wheel that sent wa tor from tho Catskill Mountains spout: ing from a fountain of three tubes in the upper reservoir in Central Park, New York, Mayor Mitohel formally Announced that the great Catskill aqueduct was open. Bainbridge Colby in explaining the operation of the government's requist- tion of vessols of 2,500 tons and above declared that tho owners would oper. ato tholr vessels on government ac- count and would bo allowed commis: sions on private freight, tho chief ob- Ject boing to tako caro of war dopart- ment needs first and othor tntorests ator. Preparations for the draft for the national army of Porto Rico are being pushed. ‘The war risk insurance bureau an- mounced the terms of the polletes for sAmorica’s fighting forces, Provost Marshal Gonoral Crowder announced that all dontal studonte above tho first year aro exempt from the draft, ‘Tho $460,000 baso hospital at Camp ‘Wadsworth causod much complaint be: cause of tho lack of ceilings, hot water and heating facilities, _ Orders issued by tho War Depart. Perfect Phonographs at Popular Prices THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $20.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET ee a No. 1-13x13x6 inches, - - - $75 Worth.of Umbrella Coupons No. 2.-16x16x7 inches, - - - $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons ‘Gina MAY BE HAD IN OAK. MISSION OR MAHOGANY. No. 1 is Adiomenmu.erons SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A MOTOR GUARAN TEED TO PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON ONE WINDING. THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE. CUPS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN EXPENSIVE MA- CHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER. ALL METAL PARTS NICKEL, PLATED AND HIGHLY POLISHED. THE iC: MOND PLaNET S11 N. 4th St., - - Richmond, Va. seateatrsteeteateate-ctecteateateateateateateateateatedtesterdectectpateateatesteifostriteatecte cto stectoctoctestestosteatoateatostostectectecte tect. Reginald $. Worthington defeated Alec Coles in final of golf tournament at Shawnee on Delaware, Although Ferdinand Schupp was ap: parently unable to locate the position of the rubber at the batsman's apex of the diamond, in the fourth game, he pitching 122 balls in nine innings, 40 of which Umpire Rigler declared were not over the plate, the southpaw's un steadiness was more apparent than real. Sailor socker football players at: tached to H. M. S. Roxburgh were beaten by the Overseas Wanderers at the C. C.N. Y. stadium, 2 to 1. ‘The St. Louis Cardinals lived up to expectations whon they took the meas: ure of the Browns in the fall sores. Fow figured that the seventh place Browns would be able to defeat the third place Cardinals. Irish Patsy Cline defeated Johnny Dundee in a ten round bout on points at the Manhattan Sporting Club, ‘The $5,000 Dinner Stakes for three: year-old trotters at the Lexington (Ky.) Grand Circuit meeting went to Miss Bertha Dillon in two. straight heats. Mathias Erzberger declared that tho events of the last week had not chang: ed tho peace attitude of the majority parties of the Reichstag and rather would hasten the parliamentarization of Germany. Kaiser William visited Sofia, Bulga. ria. Pence is in the air, Sweden denied the existence of a seeret treaty with Germany regarding exports of iron ore. At their own request Ex-Czar Nich. olas and his family have been remov. ed to @ place far from the maddening crowds. From 'Tobolsk, Siberia, thy have been transferred (0 the Abolak Monastery, 14 mniles away. Blias Howayek, aged patriarch of the Syrian Christian tribe of Maro: nites, was oxiled from Turkey. Gorman troops wero disarmed be. fore parade in front of the kaiser for fear of an attompt at viotonce. ‘Yom Longboat, a noted American In- dian runner, was killed in action with @ Canadian rogimant in which ho was @ lanco corporal. ~ Tavosffgatfon” of te activities of Bolo Pacha in Now York rovoaled tho fact that sevoral great banking houses woro duped in the German propaganda work, directed personally by Count von Bornstorff, to bribe newspapers, | ‘Alarmed ‘by growing labor unront throughout the country, tho govern. mont sent a commission headed by Secretary Wilson to the West to seo @ solution of the problem, ment permit polftical campafgiing, under certain restrictions, In the army camps and cantonments, Advisability of expediting the call for the second inerement of the draft army is being seriously discussed al the War Department, the date to bé fixed for some time in December o1 January. Women will be employed as car crews in Cleveland to replaco 389 street car mon drafted. Pittsburgh National Guard regi ments, ordered broken up by the War Department, will be kept intact. Woman Suffrage was indorsed by the National Council of Congregation al Churches, in session at Columbus, oO. Howard W. Selby, of Providenco, R I, was re-elected president of the Veg: etable Growors’ Association of Amer: fea. Officers of the Pennsylvania Game Commission preatct good bear hunting when the new season opens Oct. 16. Occoquan worknouse will not be in: Yostigated by the State of Virginia, despite the petition of suffragists. Colonel Roosevelt goes to a “health farm" in Connecticut to undergo train. ing to reduce his weight. A readjustment of the National Army organization was announced by the War Départment, and seventeen divisions will be formed, sixteen white and one negro. Bridgeport, Conn., factory workmen are being paid as high as $70 a week. Officials of the United States Treas: ury now expect It to have a balance on June 30, 1918, despite the huge war expenditures already authorized by the last Congress. | GERMAN-AMERICAN WAR | President Wilson issued a sweep- ing order for the absolute control of “trade with the enemy,” imports, ex- ports, cables and mails coming with- in the scope of Its provisions, also an alicn property custodian, Government ownership and opera: tion of the railroads to meet the war programme of the nation and to put an end to the growing discontent of trainmen, is predicted by Washington President. Wilson's distinction be. tween the German government and the German people 1s slowly but sure ly having its effect in Germany. KILLS HER SLEEPING HUSBAND. Wite Says She Learned He Har Poisoned Her Mother. Denyer, Col.—Knecling at the bed side of her sleeping husband, Mre Patrick Henry Riley shot him throug the head at their home here. Riley died three hours later. Mrs. Riley sur rendered to the police, declaring Riley who eame here from Parts, ‘Tenn., har Killed her mother by poisoning an: had threatened her. ) ee te: SPORTING FOREIGN U.S. BOARD TAKES AMERICAN SHIPS Covernment Requisitions Both Freight and Passenger Ves- sels Above 2,500 Tons. TO CONTROL OCEAN RATES Soaring pisighitohargae Prompt Con certed Action by United States and Allies—Control to Be Vested In the Shipping Board. Washington.—As a war emergency measure the United States Shipping Board has requisitioned all American ocean cargo and passenger carrying vessels of over 2,500 tons. ‘This ae: tion, which is taken as a means of ef- feetively controlling and regulating ocean freight rates and to enable the government to obtain prompt com: mand of the sea tonnage it needs for war uses, was forecasted on Sept. 27 last when the Shipping Board issued a statement giving the charter rateg at which the vessels would be taken over. The limit probably will be low: ered soon to include vessels of more than 1,500 tons. ‘The Shipping Board made public the toxt of the official notification to tho owners of all ships affected by tho requisition order. American merchant vessels available for ocean traffic to: tal slightly more than 2,000,000 tons, but some of them have been taken over already for use by the army and aavy. In most instances, except where they are required for actual govorn- ment service, the ships will be turned back to their owners for operation on government account, subject at all times to any disposition that the Ship- ping Board may direct, Nation May Take Rallroade. Washington.—The prediction that the exigencies of the war may forco government ownership of American rallroads in “the surprisingly near fu- ture” was made in a statement issued by the Conference Committee on Na- Uonal Preparedness. * “Not only is ship tonnage inadequate to the war's demand,” says the state: ment, “but the whole transportation system of America is bending and may break under the strain of our first year at war.” BERLIN BACKED SABOTAGE HERE Secretary Produces Messages Naming Americans In Plots. ‘Washington.—Threo more telegrams, which passed betwoen Borlin and {ts SEVEN Einbassy m ‘ths country, were mado public by Secretary Lansing. ‘They fare noteworthy for the evident pur- pose to do all possible injury to Ger- many’s European nomics through cut Ung off their resources in America, while at the same time avoiding as far as possible incurring the wrath of the American people by actual de- struction of life in this country and Canada, ‘The threo telegrams are a comple: ment to the correspondence already disclosed by the State Department, giving convincing evidence of a well: calculated and systematic violation of American neutrality by Germany dur- ing a period more than a year proced: ing the beginning of ruthless subma- rine warfare and the breach of rela- tions between Germany and the Unit+ ed States, * FIXED OIL PRICES NEXT. War Needs Nine Times U. 8. Exports Last Year: Washington. — Price fixing on oil and oil products looms nearer than ever. With the prices of stecl, cop: per and coal fixed by Governmental decree, big oll producers are awaiting their turn. ‘Two factors stand out as giving them cause for worry. A greater demand for ofl than tho world nas known and a price of $2 a barrel, reached since 1912, when 40 cents bought a barrel of crude ofl. eb “Pebbles From An | cb bies From An ; so : : ” African Beach. ; falican beach. : amare } A Mission Study Toxt Book. giving , tho history. progress aud prosent con- | didonsoriie Norte Repsie he | Wost Coast Africa, ‘The book Vividly . Dorbrays conditions and character of | its peoples, Showing the great possi- | Gittees ie tue sone eens | UAIE WAY" tere: cana dite Fatsceauing Boek Weg es | BY L. G. JORDAN, D.D., | Seerotary of tho Foroign Mission | Rosetta Netlonsl Repose vontion, after he had mado Threg : ‘Trips to Africa, and ts written In eee mnie note ee Me gtamante ors, form. Ty faith In ‘the Negro, ingpiro any. Fb ietoe him eng pee eaeey isn wis for STE ‘tho, “Now World Democracy.” PRICE 27 CENTS POST PAID 701 South 19th Street | Philadelphia, - - Penna. SATURDAY OCT. --27 THE PLANET Resolutions Commending Him Are Adopted at Memphis. We our committee on resolutions, expressing our appreciation of the character of work, and exalted services rendered during the past twelve days, by the Rev. W. H. Skipwith, D. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., at the First Baptist church (St. Paul Ave.) Memphis, Tenn., beg to submit the following as our report. This is a. age of pestilence, an age of skepticism, an age of destruction and sudden death an age compared with which there never was a time when to become a christian was a wiser step than it is today. Being eminently conversant with, and thoroughly alive to these facts, Dr. Skipwith featured no secret subterfuge designed to secure by deception, a false confession from the sinners and altho he surrendered nothing which was his right in justice to his cause, he resorted to no question able and doubtful practices. He met the devil in the open, and, preaching a clean and high class gospel; singing the wonderful songs of Zion—fought his battles on a principle. For in the purest doctrine of christian sentiment, delivered in the most masterful arguments, he administered the balm of hope; and every sinner who heard him is no longer ignorant of his predicament and condemnation as an insolvent debtor. This being true, also the spirituality of the whole church (including visitors) having been inmeasurably benefited and increased: Therefore, Resolved, That we tender the Rev. Dr. Skipwith with a rising vote of sincere thanks and deep appreciation for the plain and simple yet exalted manner in which he pointed out to the christian the paths of duty; and, to the sinner, the plan of salvation. Wherever you go Dr. Skipwith, to carry this message of hope, and preach this doctrine of faith, the prayers of the members and friends of the First Baptist Church shall go up in your behalf during the remaining years of your natural life. Resolved, further that a copy of these resolutions' be presented to Dr. Skipwith. Committee—Miss Georgia Mac Lundy. Superintendent Jackson Appeals. To The Editor Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir,—Unusual such as President Wilson has designated next Sunday October 28th as a day of prayer, asking God to grant success to American Arms, permit me to ask through the Planet that every Negro Church on that day take advantage of this official prayer movement to make an especial and additional appeal to God for the needs of our race. THE RACE NEEDS MORE. We need more than the success of American Arms. God in Heaven knows we need and want Democracy more than any one else in America, a Democracy not of the rhetorical type but one bearing the stamp of practical application, genuine in all its phases. Let our churches pray for it at the same time when all America prays for fear that our specific needs may perchance be possibly neglected. If therefore we want a prayer well said as touching our condition in America, I feel quite certain we must say it for ourselves. A TOLERANT SPIRIT Let us pray on that day and every day for more tolerant spirit of Justice in America toward our people. Let us pray that the spirit of God may get into the heart of our Great President and open his lips in an expression, the meat of which we can take to ourselves, regarding America's fight for Democracy as touching and effecting the status of the Negro throughout this land. Surely this Nation cannot face God next Sunday with any objection to our added appeal to a specific prayer, even though we are praying to carry the ultimate end of a victory a step further. GOD'S CHOSEN Often I see it stated that the hand of God is in this horrible and hideous war. This I do not doubt. But when I see it stated that America is God's chosen vehicle for carrying right and justice to the world, I begin to wonder if America is not presuming with God and assuming to herself an all too righteous men. Why America, with her bloody records of burning, lynching, murder, oppression and wanton persecution of her own black citizens? Has God been blind? Has God forced? SHOULD HAVE CLEAN HANDS If we must approach God—and we must—let us approach Him with clean hands and clean hearts. If we must be God's mercy—and we must let us come with mercy in our hearts, being prepared to grant mercy to those who are appealing for it here below. Otherwise the prayers of a people, an individual and a nation become a mockery and an insult to the God of all men! Fellow Negroes, Fellow Citizens. 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. IF LIFE INSURANCE IS RECOGNIZED BY OUR government as necessary for America's future financial protection, now much more important is it that you protect yourself and your own household under a policy issued by The North Carolina Mutual & Provident Ass'n. The Largest and Strongest Negro Life Insurance Company in the World. INSURANCE IN FORCE... OVER $10,000,000 HOME OFFICE, DURHAM, N. C. DISTRICT OFFICE, 2nd Leigh Streets., C. A. WRIGHT, Superintendent let us together pray on that day for the institution of a world Democracy which shall bring Justice and Peace to all men. Yours very truly, A. B. JACKSON. rector A. A. Tennant, Cashier, Walter T. Davis, Assistant Cashier, A. V. Norrell, Jr., Teller, Leroy E. Ragland. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank was represented by Vice-President, J. Thomas Hewin, and Director P. H. Sunday. It is rally day. There will be a Chrysanthemum Social Thursday and Friday nights. The Harvest Home ended Friday. OLDEST BANK MESSENGER IN OHIO. DIES... Has Record of More Than Half Century of Faithful Service. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 25.—In the passing away of John H. Troy, the career of a family long identified with the financial institutions of this city is closed. He served three banks of this city for a period of more than fifty years as a trusted messenger, the National Lafayette Bank, the Merchants National Bank, and finally the First National Bank with which he was connected at the time of his death. He was the oldest bank messenger of the State, not only in years, but in point of service. He was the last member of the best known family of men in our banking districts. Two of his brothers, Isaac M. Troy and Theodore A. Troy, who preceded him to the great beyond, hold the same record before him. At one time seven membrs of the family were with our financial institutions in positions of trust, Isaac M. Troy with the Fourth National Bank; Theo A. Troy and John H. Troy with the Merchants National Bank; Ernest M. Troy with S. Kuhn & Sons; Isaac C. Troy with Hiram De Camp & Co, Robert V. Troy and Robert D. G. Troy with the Ohio Valley National Bank All were messengers except Isaac C. Troy, who was a clerk, and Robert D. G. Troy, who filled every position in the bank where he was employed, from messenger boy to general hookkeeper. The family in their positions of trust handled millions of dollars and had the envailable record of never losing one cent. They were familiar figures in the banking districts and enjoyed the confidence and respect of more financiers and business men than any family, black or white, in Ohio. Removal from the city and death takes the last member of the family from the banking district, after being represented there for more than sixty years. John H. Troy leaves a widow one brother, R. V. Troy now residing in Philadelphia and a large family of relatives all over the United States. THE LIBERTY LOAN PARADE The Liberty Loan Parade, Sunday afternoon October 14th was the most imposing in the history of this city. Men, women and children participated. Colored school children and white school children were there. The line was composed of drafted colored men ministers, lawyers, Doctors and bankers. The Mechanics Savings Bank was represented by President John Mitchell Jr., Vice-President, Thomas M. Crump, Director R. W. Whiting Dl THE RICHMOND PLANET rector A. A. Tennant, Cashier, Walter T. Davis, Assistant Cashier, A. V. Norrell, Jr., Teller, Leroy E. Ragland. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank was represented by Vice-President, J. Thomas Hewin, and Director P. H. Ford, Senator Claude E. Swanson de livered the principal address at the City Auditorium. President Mitchell hurried from the line and delivered an address at the Fourth Baptist Church, Rev. Evans Payne, pastor to a large and enthusiastic audience. The meeting was under the auspices of the Pew Rally Club, of which Mrs. Evans Payne is President. It was 6 P. M., when the meeting adjourned. Mr. Mitchell urged the colored people to purchase Liberty Bonds. [ ] WINCHESTER NOTES: Winchester, Va., October 22.—A sacred concert was held at St. Paul A. M. E. Church Sunday evening. Rev. J. W. Stephenson, chairman. Miss Frances Lewis, of Fredericksburg, Va. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis, on E. Kearn street. The Shiloh Baptist Church held all-day services on Sunday. Revs. Allen Williams, Walker Carter, Boston Banks were the ministers who officiated. Miss Rosa Harmon is spending a few days in Washington. Mrs. John Jefferson spent last week in Baltimore with her brother, Mr. Alexander Washington. Mr. Charles Finley paid a brief visit to town last week. Mr. Finley is engaged in business in Washington D. C. The Ladies' Aid Society met at Mrs. George McGruder's on N. Market street on Friday. Everyone was greatly pleased. Next meeting is with Mrs. Nora Bell. 639 N. Market. The Junior Class of John Mann S. S. had a delightful time at their indoor picnic Wednesday last. Mrs. Powell Gibson Mrs. Robert Jennings and Mrs. Nancy Briscoe spent Sunday in Martinsburg, W. Va. The Junior Sewing Club met at Miss Rachel Jackson's, N. Main street last week. Miss Tilera Boyd, of S. Braddock street tendered a reception to Mrs. M. L. Brown, Wednesday evening. Mrs. Brown will leave soon for Hampton to live. Mr. R. D. Cooley is feeling better than he was last week. Mr. James Harding, who underwent a surgical operation is much improved. Mrs. Page Hall, of Johnstown addressed the Epworth League last Sunday at John Mann Church. The Trustees of John Mann Church are looking forward to a great day UNION Virtual & Provid Best Negro Life I in the World. OVER DURHAM ets., C. A. WRIGHT, Sunday. It is rally day. There will be a Chrysanthemum Social Thursday and Friday nights. The Harvest Hom ended Friday last at Mt. Carmel F. B. Church with much success. The Brotherhood will meet at Mr. C. W. Hall's, Friday, November 2. 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B., Dinwiddie, Va. A. E. Mme. Johnson, President JOHNSON LE, KY. RICHMOND Virginia SATURDAY OCT. --27 Resolutions Commending Him Are Adopted at Memphis. We our committee on resolutions, expressing our appreciation of the character of work, and exited services rendered during the past twelve days, by the Rev. W. H. Skipwith, D. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., at the First Baptist church (St. Paul Ave.) Memphis, Tenn., beg to submit the following as our report. This is a. age of pestilence, an age of skepticism, an age of destruction and sudden death an age compared with which there never was a time when to become a Christian was a wiser step than it is today. Being eminently conversant with, and thoroughly alive to these facts, Dr. Skipwith featured no secret subterfuge designed to secure by deception, a false confession from the sinners and atheo he surrendered nothing which was his right in justice to his cause, he resorted to no question able and doubtful practices. He met the devil in the open, and, preaching a clean and high class gospel; singing the wonderful songs of Zion—fought his battles on a principle. For in the purest doctrine of christian sentiment, delivered in the most masterful arguments, he administered the balm of hope; and every sinner who heard him is no longer ignorant of his predicament and condemnation as an insolvent debtor. This being true, also the spirituality of the whole church (including visitors) having been inmeasurably benefited and increased: Therefore, Resolved, That we tender the Rev. Dr. Skipwith with a rising vote of sincere thanks and deep appreciation for the plain and simple yet exalted manner in which he pointed out to the christian the paths of duty; and, to the sinner, the plan of salvation. Wherever you go Dr. Skipwith, to carry this message of hope, and preach this doctrine of faith, the prayers of the members and friends of the First Baptist Church shall go up in your behalf during the remaining years of your natural life. Resolved, further that a copy of these resolutions' he presented to Dr. Skipwith. Committee—Miss Georgia Mac Superintendent: Jackson Appeals. To The Editor Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir,—Inasmuch as President Wilson has designated next Sunday October 28th as a day of prayer, asking God to grant success to American Arms, permit me to ask through the Planet that every Negro Church on that day take advantage of this official prayer movement to make an special and additional appeal to God for the needs of our race. THE RACE NEEDS MORE. We need more than the success of American Arms, God in Heaven knows we need and want Democracy more than any one else in America, a Democracy not of the rhetorical type but one bearing the stamp of practical application, genuine in all its phases. Let our churches pray for it at the same time when all America prays for fear that our specific needs may perchance be possibly neglected. If therefore we want a prayer well said as touching our condition in America, I feel quite certain we must say it for ourselves. A TOLERANT SPIRIT. Let us pray on that day and every day for more tolerant spirit of Justice in America toward our people. Let us pray that the spirit of God may get into the heart of our Great President and open his lips in an expression, the meat of which we can take to ourselves, regarding America's fight for Democracy as touching and effecting the status of the Negro throughout this land. Surely this Nation cannot face God next Sunday with any objection to our added appeal to a specific prayer, even though we are praying to carry the ultimate end of a victory a step further. GOD'S CHOSEN Often I see it stated that the hand of God is in this horrible and hideous war. This I do not doubt. But when I see it stated that America is God's chosen vehicle for carrying right and justice to the world, I begin to wonder if America is not presuming with God and assuming to herself an all too righteous mien. Why America, with her bloody records of burning, lynching, murder, oppression and wanton persecution of her own black citizens? Has God been blind? Has God forgot? SHOULD HAVE CLEAN HANDS If we must approach God—and we must—let us approach Him with clean hands and clean hearts. If we must beg God's mercy—and we must let us come with mercy in our hearts, being prepared to grant mercy to those who are appealing for it here below. Otherwise the prayers of a people, an individual and a nation become a mockery and an insult to the God of all men! Fellow Negroom, Fellow Citizeng. 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. IF LIFE INSURANCE IS RECOGNIZED BY OUR government as necessary for America's future financial protection, now much more important is it that you protect yourself and your own household under a policy issued by The North Carolina Mutual & Provident Ass'n. The Largest and Strongest Negro Life Insurance Company in the World. INSURANCE IN FORCE . . . OVER $10,000,000 HOME OFFICE, DURHAM, N. C. DISTRICT OFFICE, 2nd Leigh Streets., C. A. WRIGHT, Superintendent let us together pray on that day for the institution of a world Democracy which shall bring Justice and Peace to all men. Yours very truly, A. B. JACKSON. OLDEST BANK MESSENGER IN OHIO. DIES. Has Record of More Than Half Century of Faithful Service. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 25.—In the passing away of John H. Troy, the career of a family long identified with the financial institutions of this city is closed. He served three banks of this city for a period of more than fifty years as a trusted messenger, the National Lafayette Bank, the Merchants National Bank, and finally the First National Bank with which he was connected at the time of his death. He was the oldest bank messenger of the State, not only in years, but in point of service. He was the last member of the best known family of men in our banking districts, of his brothers, Isaac M. Troy and Theodore A. Troy, who preceded him to the great beyond, hold the same record before him. At one time seven members of the family were with our financial institutions in positions of trust, Isaac M. Troy with the Fourth National Bank; Theo A. Troy and John H. Troy with the Merchants National Bank; Ernest M. Troy with S. Kuhn & Sons; Isaac C. Troy with Hiram D. Camp & Co., Robert V. Troy and Robert D. G. Troy with the Ohio Valley National Bank All were messengers except Isaac C. Troy, who was a clerk, and Robert D. G. Troy, who filled every position in the bank where he was employed, from messenger boy to general hookkeeper. The family in their positions of trust handled millions of dollars and had the enviable record of never losing one cent. They were familiar figures in the banking districts and enjoyed the confidence and respect of more financiers and business men than any family, black or white, in Ohio. Removal al from the city and death takes the last member of the family from the banking district, after being represented there for more than sixty years. John H. Troy leaves a widow one brother, B. V. Troy now residing in Philadelphia and a large family of relatives all over the United States. THE LIBERTY LOAN PARADE. The Liberty Loan Parade, Sunday afternoon October 14th was the most imposing in the history of this city, Men, women and children participated. Colored school children and white school children were there. The line was composed of drafted colored men ministers, lawyers. Doctors and bankers. The Mechanics Savings Bank was represented by President John Mitchell Jr., Vice-President, Thomas M. Crump, Director R. W. Whitting Dl THE RICHMOND PLANET rector. A. A. Tennant. Cashier, Walter T. Davis, Assistant Cashier, A. V. Norrell, Jr., Teller, Leroy E. Ragland. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank was represented by Vice-President, J. Thomas Hewin, and Director P. H. Ford, Senator Claude E. Swanson de livered the principal address at the City Auditorium. President Mitchell hurried from the line and delivered an address at the Fourth Baptist Church, Rev. Evans Payne, pastor to a large and enthusiastic audience. The meeting was under the auspices of the Pew Rally Club, of which Mrs. Evans Payne is President. It was 6 P. M. when the meeting adjourned. Mr. Mitchell urged the colored people to purchase Liberty Bonds. WINCHESTER NOTES. Winchester, Va., October 22. — A sacred concert was held at St. Paul A. M. E. Church Sunday evening. Rev. J. W. Stephenson, chairman. Miss Frances Lewis, of Fredericksburg, Va. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis, on E. Kearn street. The Shiloh Baptist Church held all-day services on Sunday, Revs. Allen Williams, Walker Carter, Boston Banks were the ministers who officiated. Miss Rosa Harmon is spending a few days in Washington. Mrs. John Jefferson spent last week in Baltimore with her brother, Mr. Alexander Washington. Mr. Charles Finley paid a brief visit to town last week. Mr. Finley is engaged in business in Washington D. C. The Ladies' Aid Society met at Mrs. George McGruder's on N. Market street on Friday. Everyone was greatly pleased. Next meeting is with Mrs. Nora Bell, 639 N. Market. The Junior Class of John Mann S. S. had a delightful time at their indoor picnic Wednesday last. Mrs. Powell Gibson Mrs. Robert Jennings and Mrs. Nancy Briscoe spent Sunday in Martinsburg, W. Va. The Junior Sewing Club met at Miss Rachel Jackson's, N. Main street last week. Miss Eliza Boyd, of S. Braddock street tendered a reception to Mrs. M. L. Brown, Wednesday evening. Mrs. Brown will leave soon for Hampton to live. Mr. R. D. Cooley is feeling better than he was last week. Mr. James Harding, who underwent a surgical operation is much improved. Mrs. Page Hall, of Johnstown addressed the Epworth League last Sunday at John Mann Church. The Trustees of John Mann Church are looking forward to a great day 7 Virtual & Provides Best Negro Life I in the World. OVER DURHAM ets., C. A. WRIGHT, There will be a Chrysanthemum Social Thursday and Friday nights. The Harvest Home ended Friday last at Mt. Carmel F. B. Church with much success. The Brotherhood will meet at Mr. C. W. Hall's, Friday, November 2. "FOR SALE—Lot in Washington Park, suburb of Richmond, Va., Address; Owner, 1951 Third St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Mrs. Annie K. Vaughan and children, Myrtle and Howard, of Farmville, Va. returned to their home last week, after a very pleasant stay in this city. Mrs. Vaughan was extend ed many courtecies while here. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE! Are You Thinking of Getting Married? Mr. and Mrs. William Long, expand the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Minute Long. to Mr. Joseph J. Wood. 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MADAM JOHNSON'S SYSTEM Send Two-cent Stamp for Full Part- iculars to MADAM M. E. BOX 453, LOUISVILLE AM M. E. JOHN BOX 453, LOUISVILLE, KY. Mme. Johnson, President M. M. E. JOHNSON X 453, LOUISVILLE, KY. Mine. Johnson, President MADAM M. E. JOHNSON BOX 453, LOUISVILLE, KY. ```markdown ``` A. E. RICHMOND Virginia THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library RECEIVED OCT 261917 VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 50 AN ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY The following report was adopted by the National Race Congress October 4, 1917 at Washington, D. C. TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS At this, the second annual session of our Congress, we, your committee beg leave to submit the following re report on the present state of the country: 1. Together with the whle nation our group is sharing its quota of the burden of the greatest war known to the world, and in proportion to the contribution we make to secure to the world the much sought peace we shall share the benefits of the "New Democracy" recently declared to be the ultimate objective of the war. 2. Out of the world war have grown economic conditions and problems that affect us directly and indirectly. At present, we are confronted with unusual economic necessity. We are being forced by necessity and circumstance to transplant in unusually large numbers, our accustomed place of abode in the southland to new and untried localities in the northland. We are migrating in numbers heretofore unknown. 3. Our migration has given rise to labor problems, political problems and social problems, calculated to affect every phase of our national life. In the North, we are face to face with opposition in the labor world, and no little criticism is being expressed in a hope and effort to disturb the Negro in his new kind of labor. We are the victims of one of three agencies. Either the labor unions of the North are opposed to Negro labor in the various industries of the North; or there is at work a secret agency from the South, seeking to so disturb labor conditions by labor riots as to frighten the Negro back to southern soli and southern employment; or the Negro is encountering extreme difficulty in readily adjusting himself to new employment and the attendant high wage. 4 We note the general necessity for a constant course of instruction to our people who have been affected by this new change of habitation and occupation. We recommend that the press, the pulpit and the platform be dedicated, at least in part, to a continued course of instruction to the thousands who have come North to live under entirely new conditions and new laws; that obedience of the law be taught at every opportunity, efficiency and reliability be held be fore them as essentials; that thrift and economy be urged generally. 5. We call attention to the peculiar situation arising out of the draft of our men for the National Army. There is danger of unwise comment upon the method of procedure adopted by the administration relative to the encampment, training and ultimate employment of Negro soldiers. We urge the exercise of caution in our remarks, the cultivation of loyalty to the country forever, and especially at this time when it is evident that deceptive agencies are at work seeking to arouse us to disloyal expression and general disruption. 6. Nor must the abnormal condition of the markets of the world be over looked. Money is plentiful, but prices are abnormal, and there is danger of a period of extravagance, due to the unusual flow of money, and corresponding danger of a disturbance of credit due to a lack of appreciation of the extremely high cost of living. 7. Our educational institutions generally and the public schools especially in the South, are suffering because of the unprecedented demands of the world war. We exhort the nation to a vigilant practice of economy and good judgment in order that our educational systems may not be rendered less efficient. Especially do we urge a strict watch care over those section of the South where appropriations for public school education are made without due and equal consideration of the Negro children. 8. The extraordinary burden of our National tax is a subject for serious consideration. To meet the increasing demands of our government for money with which to prosecute to successful conclusion the world war, and at the same time be able to appropriate our usual amounts to education, the spread of Christianity and the main tenance of our homes in keeping with the American standard, will tax us for all we have of economy, fortitude and race loyalty. 9. We regret to keep before you the fact that our republic is still cured ed with the presence of a spirit of lynch law and rioting of a virulent type. We recommend a renewed of fort toward a successful abolition of this curse, and we urge that the subject he kept forever before our nat- ional Congress for legislation calculated to put down forever the lynchers and mob leaders now operating with apparent sanction in the various sections of our republic. 10. We call for a united effort to secure to our group a fair, strict and impartial interpretation of the laws of the land, and especially do we deand that impartial accommodation for travel in the southern states be provided at once; and that the Supreme Court be invoked by proper appeals and proceedings to enforce the laws of the several states as well as the amendments to the Federal Constitution guaranteeing to the Ngrobe his rights as an American citizen. We are being unfairly dealt with by the rail roads and transportation companies of the south, and we urge mmediate action looking to a relief of conditions 11. The ghetto is another menace to our rights to property, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Steps must be taken to prevent summary segregation and the imposition upon us of unlawful and unconstitutional laws and ordinances in the various cities of the south. 12. The question of better housing conditions, the country over, demands immediate attention. We recommend that the various civic bodies of the several cities be approached, and their co-operation secured in making living conditions sanitary and tolerable as much for the Negro as for any other citizen. For the ultimate accomplishment of all of which, we commend our people of whatever creed or belief, the world over, to a stricter and more faithful service of Him who alone can give to the world the New De moracy so devoutly desired, and the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, the sole prerequisite to Democracy and peace. Respectfully submitted Com. On Address to the Country. G. B. Howard, Pa., Chairman, Robt. L. Vann, Pa., See'y, H. J. Callis, District of Columbia, W. C. Brown, District of Columbia, E. A. P. Cheek, New Jersey, C. C. Summerville, Va., J. J. Nickerson, W. Va., W. H. Jernagin, President, Washington, D. C., Wm. Alexander, See'y, Baltimore, Md. RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD AS SOCIATION HAS FINE MEETING The rain came down in torrents last Tuesday night and despite this fact a crowd assembled at the Ebenezer Baptist Church to listen to an address by Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, editor of the News Leader. Owing to the inclementity of the weather, no doubt and other causes, he was unable to be present, but the promoter of the meeting, Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, President of the Richmond Neighborhood Association under whose auspices the meeting was being held was in no wise daunted and announced that the address of Dr. Freeman had been postponed and the time would be announced later. She then gave a most interesting talk on the purposes of the organization and the actual work that it was doing. She called upon Dr. Roy K. Flannagan, Chief Health Officer of this city and he delivered an address that captivated the audience. His interest in the health and happiness of all the people in this community, re gardless of color was emphasized. He was enthusiastically applauded. John Mitchell, Jr., President of the Mechanics Savings Bank, who had been invited to introduce Dr. Douglas S. Freeman spoke briefly and then Mr. Bernard Lewis, one of our best known white citizens spoke briefly. A collection was lifted after which the meeting adjourned. An Outspoken Subscriber. Greenville, Home I. I. Greenville, Miss., Oct. 15, 1917. Editor Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va., Dear Sir,—Find enclosed our check for $5.00, subscription to "The Planet." There is not, to day an Honest Negro in all the World that could af ford to defraud the Planet of one cent the paper is of too much value to the Race and is absolutely worth Ten times the price in any Negro home with even ten year old children." I am Yours, very truly, W. T. BURNSIDE. The Fair Songsters. Madame Lewis and her three daughters captivated the audience by their rare musical gifts last Tuesday night at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. They possess rare musical powers and their superb singing won for them enthusiastic applause. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1917. THE CALL OF TIME! WAKE!! GET THEE UP, THOU SPHINX BUILDER, THY REST IS OVER. REGAIN THY PLACE. ED HEN JOHNSON BELGIAN SOLDIER WANTS USED POSTAGE. Amersfoort, Holland, July 22, 1917, Mr. Editor-in-Chief: Forgive me my daring in writing you these few words I am a Belgian interned soldier and should like very much to receive, for collecting used postage stamps for helping me to pass the longness of my captivity. I dare hope, Mr. Editor-in-Chief, you will be so kind to insert in your esteemed paper an advertisement for which I thank you very much beforehand. With all my kindest rogards, I remain, sir, Yours respectfully, JEAN CORTHALS. THE 600 COLORED MEN GET ARMY COMMISSIONS. New Officers Will Lead Negro Troops Drafted in National Army. More than 600 colored men have been commissioned in the national army and assigned to duty with colo- red drafted troops, it was announced by the War Department. These officer were trained at the Des Molnes, Iowa camp. A number were former students at Howard University, this city, while many of the others were from the ranks of the four colored regiments in the regular army. One hundred and four were commissioned as captains and the others as first and second lieu- tenants. They will be assigned to duty at Camp Meade Md., Camp Dix, N. J. Camp Upton, L. I., Camp Sherman, Ohio; Camp Dodge, Iowa, Camp Grant Ill., and Camp Funston, Kans. In Memoriam. In sad, but loving remembrance of our devoted son and brother, J. Mercer Goodman, who died one year ago to-day, October 25, 1916: Friends meet us day by day, And think our wound is healed, But little do they know the sorrow That is in our hearts concealed. A precious one from us is gone, A voice we loved is stillled, A place is vacant in our home That never can be filled. —By His Parents, Brothers & Sisters PERSONALS AND BRIEFS. —J. Wm. Harris of 1509 Taylor St. is now at 1218 Chaffin St. Mrs. Nannie Thompson, of 1509 Stockton street, Southside, is indisposed. Mr. George Thompson arrived in the city last Tuesday from Braddock, Pa. —Rev. Wm. H. Skipwith, the great evangelist arrived in the city last Monday night after an extended trip. —Mrs. Nannie Harris of 2415 Lee WAKE!! GET THEE UP, THOU SPRINX BUILDER, THY REST IS OVER. REGAIN THY PLACE. St., is residing in Raleigh and Durham N. C. Mr. John D. Jones of Readville, Mass., has been the guest of his brother and sister, Mr. W. D. Jones and Mrs. Zemoria Wood, 615 Judah St. Fred Jenkins of Winterpock, Va., is now in the city. He is the father of Mrs. Georgianna Wilson and is 101 years of age. He can handle a hoe even at this age. Mr. F. H. Key, 202 E. Clay street, left the city Friday for an extended Northern trip. He will visit his brother in Philadelphia. From there he goes to New York and other Northern cities. We wish him a pleasant trip. Messrs. Rannie and Wyndham M. Carter were called to the city last week on account of the death of their sister, Miss Karolyn M. Carter. They returned to New York this week. Mrs. Mattie Price, 416 E. Leigh street has greatly improved after an illness covering a period of several weeks. She was able to be out this week. —Miss A. F. Ruffin, the secretary of the colored branch of the Y. W. C. A., has been released for war work in the South Atlantic Field, and left for Atlanta, October 19, to make a survey of the conditions. While away Miss Ruffin will visit several schools in interest of the Students $1,000,000 Friendship Fund. Miss H. L. Jackson succeeds Miss Riss Ruffin. Miss Jackson took the course offered in the Y. W. C. A., Training School of New York, this summer. Rainbow Circles for girls and classes in crocheting, knitting, embroidoring and portlene making meet weekly. HOME COMING DAY AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. "Home Coming" will be observed at First Baptist Church, corner fourteenth and Broad streets, Sunday, October 28, at the morning and night services. 11:30 A. M., Sermon by the Rev. George E. Road, D. D., pastor First Baptist Church, Cherition, Va. 8:15 P. M., Sermon by Rev. J. W. Coleman, of Union University. Specially selected music by the choir, Mrs. N. O. Cobb, leader. The members and friends of the TIME! BREAK-PANE -GILBEN JOHNSON- church, both in and out of the city, are expected to be represented either in person or through their offering. REV. W. T. JOHNSON, D. P. Pastor B. P. VANDERVALL, Church Clerk. NO SCHOOLS THERE. Rey Richard Strange tells us that they have no schools at either Piney Grove or at Cascade. This is the second year the patrons there have been without schools. This is a deplorable situation in this section of the country. GIVES GOOD ADVICE The Richmond Planet, edited by John Mitchell, Jr whom we have never met, but long admired, has a most happy way of giving excellent advice to its large reading constituency in tense sentences. Here are two good examples from its last issue: "Save some of your money, Colored folks. If it is only one cent per day, save some of your money." "When you are tired, rest. When you are hungry, eat. When you are illiterate, learn. When you are anxious for a good time, look at your pocketbook and consider your actual needs, and pause before you engage in reckless spending." Pretty good advice, isn't it? We are of the opinion that it is because John Mitchell has practiced what he preaches that he has been for a number of years a highly respected member of the American Bankers' Association. What do YOU think about it? IN MEMORY OF DR HOLLIS B. FRISSELL (By William Anthony Aery.) "Let de Heaven light shine on me, Let de Heaven light shine on me. For low is de way to de upper world, Let de Heaven light shine on me." Soul-stirring words are these! They are, indeed, a challenge to fresh hope and consecrated service when sung, by the great Hampton Institute chorus of over a thousand voices, over the grave of Holli Burke Frissell, principal of Hampton for nearly quarter of a century, who, though dead, gets speaks from the Eternal Life and summons men and women to help bring in the Kingdom of God. Under a clear, Southern sky there gathered on Sunday afternoon in the Hampton Institute cemetery, where the General Armstrong an many other workers who have been faithful to the black and red children of the land, a company of influential men and women, representing several races, important business and social interests, education and religious work. There were also present some nine hundred Hampton students who are in training for race leadership. All had marched in quiet procession to Dr. Frissell's grave to pay in silent devotion, prayer and song their tri-tribute of affection and to pledge them selves anew to loyal and courageous service. George Foster Peabody, of New York, who has served for thirty-three years as a trustee of Hampton, spoke on "The More Abundant Life," a theme which Dr. Frissoll proclaimed on July 1. He said: "I believe as the world needs more abundant life, we can feel that we are privileged to have known this abounding life and have faith and courage that our lives may hereafter be more abundant in the quality of giving, which was the unique quality of Dr. Frissell." The principal memorial service was held in the beautiful school church, from which Dr. Frissell had sent forth thousands of people with a new vision of life and a strong determination to work together for the good of all men. The clergymen who took part in the devotional service were the Rev. Dr. Eldridge L. Mix of Farmville, Va., the Rev. Herbert B. Turner and the Rev. Laurence Fenninger, chaplain and associate chaplain or Hampton Institute. A GREAT BUILDER The Rev. Dr. Francis G. Peabody, of Cambridge, Mass., professor emeritus in Harvard University, comparing Samuel C. Armstrong and Hollis B. Frissel, said: "Armstrong was the Founder, Frissel was the Builder, and the School is the incarnation of those two personalities. Yet never were two person alities with a single aim more distinct in type. "Armstrong was magnetic, volcanic; Frissel was reserved, sagacious, prudent. The gifts of the one were those of action; the strength of the other was in discretion. "Initiative, originality, even audacity were essential to begin the work and inspire confidence in it, but when a great institution had been established and must be developed without mishap, then the time had come for a peculiar quality of wisdom patience, tolerance, and foresight, which could apply to larger tasks the ideals of the Founder." A FRIEND TO ALL MEN William M. Reid, Hampton '77, a well-known lawyer of Portsmouth, Va., and president of the Hampton Alumni Association, said: "In his quiet, sympathetic way, Dr. Frissell found out what each one at Hampton had for his ambition; what work he liked to do; what his plans for life were; and whether or not he was pleased with the work in which he was engaged. "Some time after I left Hampton for other work, I found Dr. Frissell in all parts of Virginia—on horseback, on country carts, in wagons, in buggies—visiting the Hampton graduates many of whom he had." "He went out to see what these graduates were doing; to understand the difficulties with which they had to deal; to talk with them and encourage them in their work; and also to see the superintendents of the schools and members of school boards so as to help work out or wipe out any difficulties that might be in the way of Hamp ton graduates. "I feel that, if we have anything to be proud of more than another, it is the fact that it has been the will of PRICE, FIVE CENTS the Almighty to raise up for us such men as Dr. Frissell, men who put them selves in a position to interpret one race to the other; men who have their convictions and who are not afraid of expressing them; and men who do not incur any ill will by the work which they do, but rather win the good will of everybody. "I feel that the work that Dr. Frissell has done is the work upon which the salvation of this nation rests — work which is not applauded — work which attracts no attention in the newspapers — work which is overlooked by the politician; but work which must go on if we are to become a great people, understanding each other and working for the benefit of each other." A SOUTHERNER'S TRIBUTE James Hardy Dillard, who was for some time at the head of the Norfolk Academy and later dean of Tulane University, New Orleans, and who is now president of the Jeanes and Slater Boards, outlined the work which Dr. Frissell had helped him and other Southern men do for colored boys and girls throughout the Southern states, especially through the Jeanes Fund. "Dr. Dillard referred to Dr. Frissell's ability to think always about the good of others; his unselfishness and wise, sympathetic counsel; his skillful management of affairs at Hampton; his clear, broad thinking on questions of race relations; his marvelous vision and sympathy. He concluded with these words: "This man, whom we meet today to reverence, I believe had that faith in the real, continuing progress of humanity; he had faith in the coming of the Kingdom of his Master. I believe that it was this faith that illuminated his life and made him the marvelous friend, counselor, helper, statesman, preacher that he was." MANAGER BROOKS LEAVES SUDDENIX. Manager Charles H. Brooks, white, manager and principal owner of the new Movie picture theatre on second street, between Clay and Lolling streets is reported missing, having left the city last week, without giving any intimation as to where he was going. It is said that he sold his automobile and secured other money and left for parts unknown. No reason is assigned for his action and his friends are at a loss to account for his strange actions. ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES Thirthieth Anniversary, Mt. Carl mel Baptist Church, 1887—1917, and fourth anniversary of the pastor, Rev. E. D. Caffee, 1913—1917, begin- ning Sunday October 28. 1917 ending Friday November 2, 1917. Special program has been arran- ged with services each night during the week, by prominent divines The public is cordially invited. Rev. E. D. Caffee, pastor, W. W. Carter, Church, Clerk, BIG DAY AT MT. O, 25TH AND S STREETS. The Mount Olive The Mount Olivet Baptist Church will have on the 4th Sunday, Oct.28, 1917; a day of Special Services. 11. 30 A. M.—"You Shall Reap, Just Wh. t You Sow," by Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, pastor. 4 P. M.,—Address. "Get Ready," by one, whom the public has not heard for a number of years. (Guess who it is?) 8: 30 P. M.—Sermon. "The Mid night Prayer," by Rev. Horace Winslow, (The Boy-preacher) of Philadelphia. Some of the best music' talent f., the city have consented to assist in these services. All are welcome. See programmes. Home Coming. Home coming will be observed at the First Presbyterian Church, corner Monroe and Catherine streets on Sunday October 28th. All Presbyterians in Richmond and vicinity are invited to come home. Special services all day. Rev. A. A Hector, pastor. GREATEST LECTURER COMING! Rev. C. T. Walter, LL. D., of Augusta, Ga. will lecture at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Wednesday, October 31, eight o'clock P. M. The subject will be, "Important Factors in Race Elevation." The Sabbath Glee Club will render music used on their recent Northern tour. Two rr ea ees | eee os (Ore p TRY ait a ce tlee ai woes \ Rhee ‘ s Ne SANURDAY....0CTOBER 27, 1917. WHITE SPARROWS OPEN NEW SEASON, Men From Des Moines Render Splendid Musteal Program. for Big Audience, (Sy Gladys Denny, ) Tho chorus of Negro officers from Fort Des Moines, appearing probably for the last time before Des Moines people, sang yesterday afternoon in a way that will never be forgotten by the great audience which had thronged the University Place Chureh fof the White Sparrow concert. Once before the mamoth chorus had been heard, at the While Sparrow patriotic demonstration on the Stadium last summer, but the great auditorium yesterday lent the singing depth and resonance, making possible an effect that has perhaps never been equated here, ‘hey sang the old plantation melo: dies with a sweetness and a plaintive note that is possible only to the _Ne- gro. They sang, too, recitatives from great oratorios in a way that would do credit to the most famous artists, Des Moines yesterday afternoon heard the heart-searching ery of an enslav- ed race, interpreted by men_ possess- ed of all the finish and grace that the finest training ean secure today, And the enormous audience of 2,800 peo- ple which had packed the building tin Hindreds were forced to stand in its eagerness to hear the singers, forgot its discomfort and remained till the last note was sting. Encore after on core was demanded, and many stayed to thank the soldiers personally for the pleasure they had given, Sie cnormous audience of 3,800 peo- ple which had packed the building tin Hindreds were forced to stand in its cagerness to hear the singers, forgot is discomfort and remained til the Inst note was sting, Encore after en core was demanded, and many stayed to thank the soldiers personally for the pleasure they had given, ( NEGRO SINGERS STAR. “The Old Flag ‘That Never ‘Touched the Ground,” with its patriotic appeal was sung with a vigor and dash by the military octet which drew enthus jastic applause and a hearty encore. Another song with an intoxicating Mit and rhythm was “I Want to Be Ready,” one of the old camp meeting songs. But the wetrd, quality of the slavery song “I Couldn't’ Hear No body Pray,” was one which touched the audience quite as deeply, and the encore o the first group of ‘songs by the chorus, “Go Down, Moses, to Bgypt Land,” was popular. ‘Mhe threo soloists gave the andl ‘nee a surprise In the excellency of their work, us-very “iiiie opportunt ty has been given for. hearing the Men outside of the group singing. Mr. RW. Small, who sang “The Young Warrior,” has a beautiful ten or voice, of unusual sweetness and Power. An interesting feature of this umber was the fact that the song itself was composed by a Negro, and that, intensely patriotic In its nature, it has been translated into Halian, and is sung now by the soldiers in the trenches, Mr, Godman sang “Open the Gates,” A recitative, with excellent effect, and Mr. Lomack gave “Ye Who Sin and Ye Who Sorrow,” trom “Mount Olivet,” with striking feeling and emotion. ‘The splendid artistry of all the solo- ists was a matter of comment, “THE SOLDIER'S FAREWELL.” ‘The second group of songs by tnd chorus was opened with " “Tis Me, Oh, Lord,” a lively song which the audi ence liked immensely. “Swing Low, Sweet Chartot,” which followed, is one of the most popular of the plan. tation melodies, and was sung yester day with a sweetness and fecling Which will make it remembered al: ways. One of the most effective num bers of the whole program, however, and ‘a fitting farewell from the men of the fort to the people who have followed them with much interost during their stay here, was “The Soldier's Farewell.” One of the of ficers took his place at the pips organ the verses were sung with rare beat. ty by a soloists, and the grect chorus thrilled the audience with the volume and melody of the refrain, To Mr. P.S. Lancaster, leader of tho chorus and himself tie possesser Of a “miondid voice, is due much praise for his handling and training of the men. The finish and verve of the per formance wero in large measure the result of his work. Doctor Medbury, in introducing Doctor Cabaniss, announced that the collection from the audience would £0 to the Nationa) Association for the “Advancement of the Colored Race “A Tine reach.” he said, “for this band oF cultivated men to the people who have no. enjoyed their advant-- ages.” ‘Tho collection, it was found, totaled $280.80, In a further tribute to the officers who have given so freely of their time and energy in singing at count less programs uring their stay hare, the Rev. Dr. Medbury said: “It is not enough to say that by thelr do Meanor “while " among us their con uct on the streets, in the theatres and business houses, they have brought honor to their race. They are rather an honor to the race of men.” DR. CABANISS SPRAKS. Dr. G. W. Cabaniss, the “grand old man” of tno camp, a'member of the committes of one hundred which so cured the consent of Washington to skavery. “And now the descendants of tho samé men are prepaning — to Light for democracy and the cause of Uberty 1or the world.” He mentioned the high standard of physical fitness which had — been found almost universal among — the applicants for the camp, and the high mental development which ae: companied it, “This Is proved by the fact that on Oct. 15 nearly all of thein will receive commissions, But a great part of this record of success is due to the attention and energy which Brigadier General Ballou de- voted to their training.” SONG BOOKS PLENTIFUL, Tho community singing again prov- ed immensley popular. Under Dean Cowper's leadership the audience en tered inf the hymns with zest and enthusiasm. Especially ocective was “Onward Christian Soltiiers.” It is thought that the new arrangement of leading the White Sparrow songbooks ‘In all the pews, so that everyone was able to take part had much to do with the success of this part of the programme, ‘Tho same plan will be followed in the regular concert series, although all who wish to have their own copies may buy them at The Register office for 10 ‘cents, the proceeds going to the White Sparrow charities fund. The management of the White Sparrow concerts wishes it under stood that yesterday's program was not a regular number of the services, but was arranged in order that Des Moines people might have one more opportunity of hearing the Negro singers before they receive thelr com missions on October 15, and leave the city, ThO regukar community sings will begin Sunday afternoon, Novem- ber 4, and continue throughout the winter. THOUSANDS OF COLORED MEN TO BE TRAINED AT CAMP DODGE. Washington Oct. 9.—The War De. partment oday announced anew grouping of men in the National Arny to form 16 white divisions and one colored division besides bringing National guard forees to full strength from the drafted men. ‘The Negro di- vision will be made up from every let of the nabion, « @y Cart stuart. > | Camp Dodge, Oct. 9.—Several thous and Negroes from the cotton flalds of Alabama will learn to be soldiers at Camp Dodge. Orders received from the war de. partment by Major General Plum. mer today indicate that two full res! ments of Negro troops will be train- ed here. In these regiments will be included every Negro drafted in Ain. ama, Camp Dodge loses white men and gains Negroes by this Intest war de- partment transaetton, ‘he order {n- structs that all surplus) white wen over a fytindivision dxitted in “ihe 18th district be sont to Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark., for training, DEFICIT OF MEN. | Just what this order may mean 4s unclear, even to division officers, I the depot brigade of the Bighty: cishth Division, im which organiza tion strategic reserves are trained is to be filled to full strength ther will be a deficit of men, rather that a surplus, ‘The el strength of the division exclusive of the depot brigade whieh is omitted in divistonal tables of or. ganization, is abont 26,000 avattec men. The 1th district “will furnisl about 45,600 drafted soldiers 8,009 0! whom will be sent to Camp Cody ti Till the 'Thirty-fourth Division. there This wil’ leave 27,600 men for the Kighty-cighth Division. Atter all res lar divisional organizations have beer filled 11,600 soldiers will he Jett for the depot brigade and the Camp. Pik: “surplus.” ABANDON BRIGADE. While it is not the Policy of the war department to pubtish informa- tion about the strength of these bri gades of reserves, it may be said that this surplus over the full division is not sufficient to fill the brigade to full strength, let alone give any men to Camp Pike. If the order means that the re- serve bNgade here is to be abandon- ed, about 11,000 Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and central Iinois men will ¢o to Arkansas for training, Jeaving a strength at thig camp of about 32,000 soldiers, including Ne- groes, 48 MORE DOCTORS. “ If, on the other hand, the reserve brigade is to be maintained, the to- tal here will be around 47,000 men. Besides Alabama Negroes, all those drafted in the district furnishes white men to Camp Dodge will come here. The estimated total is 6,600. LABOR INNOVATION WITH THE COLORED WOMEN. In Emporia, Kansas, Negro womten aro to replace men in the Santa Fe railroad roundhouse. ‘Nhe women will do the cleaning work and bo trained as engine wipers, receiving the same wages as men. If this innovation stops with one town the effect will be too trivial to be taken into consideration. Shonid the departure be satisfactory ana generally adopted all over tho Santa Me gystem and over other road systems, South as well as North, the result will work hardship in. certain Portions of the country. Southern planters have observed with alarm the exodus of the Negro laborer to ‘northern ffolds, Wherever cotton is grown Negro help—men and wo- men—is sgmost indispensablioy angi wherever white labor has beon sub: stituted, or it has beon attempted to TRE RICHMOND PLANE, RICHMOND. \ . substitute whito labor for colored, the venture has not been satisfactory In tho cotton fields. Even now there 1s 8 scarelty of holp to gather this year's crop, and sf Negro women are lured from tho plantations to find employ ment in tho railroad yards, tho caso o1 the cotton planter will be moro dif Hfeult than over Unlike wheat, corn, oats, and rye, contton must bo hand picked, and for several reasons, es: pecially climatic, Negroes make’ the best cotton pickers. If the women leave, tho family fotdows—children and all. It is certainly a disturbing thought—the cabins deserted and the pfantations drained .ot tho harvest hands, ‘True, the time may como when men jaborers will become as searco In Ue United States as they are in Europe and women will of necessity HNL strange positions and perform ‘curlous duties, But at the present we have no such widespread scarcity, and it seems as if the wisdom of the San- ta Fe's action may be questioned, tor every Negto woman employed ag an engine wiper displaces a man work er, and In the South, it might bo sald every woman so employed robs the cotton field of a potential operator. Whether the Santa Fe railroad's ven- turo will be successful, and its new help will #espond readily to the exac- ons of rallroad service discipline, Femalns to be seen. ‘The result may not justify the experiment. On the other hand, should Southern roads follow suit, it is not improbable st would be found that mighty good cot- ton pickers were sacrificed to make Indifferent’ roundhouse workers. (Richmond Va,, Evening Journal, Oct. 12, 1917. COLORED MEDICS ‘TO MOBILIZE INTHE SOUTH, ort Des Moines Preparing for Con- valeseent: Hospital Equipment. Movement of the entire medical of- ficers training camp and school for enlisted colored men from Fort Des Moines to California or to some point in the south is reported to be sched ‘uled for some time before real cold weather hits Iowa. ‘This will leave at Mort Des Moines only tho base, hospital for convales- cents to be brought here from Eurono and from all parts of the United States, as was reported exclusively by the Evening Tribune last week. The ..spital will haye a personnel of nurses surgeons and other assts tants of approximately 1,600 men and will have about the same number at patients PREPARING FQR PATI- ENTS AT Por? Dr. Morton of Baltimore, United States medical reserve, arrived at the fort yesterday to (ake up his du- ties in preparation for the arrival of patients. He will be followed here next week by General Gorgas, sur geon general of the United States army, and Colonel Munsen, chief f the medica, training school. Dr. Mor ton is reported to havo given up a $16,000 practice at Baltimore to take up his work in the service. ‘There are now atatlgned at Fort Dts Moines 1,006 enlisted’ Nogtoos, 125 Negro officers and seven white officers who are acting as in:truc tors. These men comprise the entire coiored medical personnel for the en tire army and inclade litter section, a pack train and a gas mask section. Maj. H.C. Maddux, U. S, A. medical corps is in command RECORD MARCH WEDNESDAY. | He is preud of Ue record being set by the men under his command and fof the march they made on Wednes day from the fort to the fair grounds. ‘The distance ef approximately nine miles was covered in two hours and fifly minutes witho ta single man or officer dropping ont of Tine, Most it the men have been in the service nly a week and none more than six ‘eoks. During their three days" stay at the fair grounds there has not heen a single man placed wider at rest nor the slightest disturbance or trouble of any kind, Tomorrow morning at § o'clock the ‘mon will pass through the elty again, Feturning to Fort Des Moines. ‘Thoy present a picturesque appearance with {weir pe on their backs, and near ly every man in. the entire column whistling or singing In time to the marching. AT FORT DES MOINES. | Dr. Medbury was not paying the colored soldiers at Fort Des Moines an {dle complinrent when he said to them yesterday at the White Sparrow concert that they had not only brought honor to their race “they have brought honor to the race [of men.” The tremendous gatherings at the Drake Stadium earlier in the sum- mer and. this enormous audience a the University ahigfreh auditoriung could not have been if curiosity — te hear and see the colored troops had not been reinforced by a feeling of respect for men who had gone ows and made good under disadvantageou: cireumstances. It is purely incidental, and yet the test Is a real test. Mr. Schmidt assur: es The Evening Tribune that he has had less trouble on tho Fort Des Moines strect car Ine sineo this ¢o ored troop has been stationed there than ever. He has needed no Baurds for the cars, and there has bean ne complaint, tte eclovedl ied havo gaied aide. mously by this encampment for they havo been brought into constant. and ‘Personal association from all over the United States. They have gained ‘also in that they have shown — tha! they can stand the severe discipline and training of the army officor ‘Thoy have gained also in that nont but Kood reports have gone out from ‘Des Moines, and in that in Des Moir es they have won the good will o! the community. | Nobody doubts, who has seen them that they will make good in position: of command, or fears that the color- ed soldier under his own officors wit ‘be second on the battle fields ot ‘Europe. (Tho vening ‘Tribune, Monday, Oct 8.1917.) OLD WAYLAND, After the lapse of many a day, In Washington I made my way ‘To Meridian Hit and pensive viewed ‘The hallowed spot where Wayland | stood, ‘Two stair plers which lead from the stroot Through paths of knowledge the fal tering feet, Small bits of debris hero and there scattered ‘round Is all of the building now to bo found. ‘The thistle and mullein now wave on the breeze, Yea wavo triumphant o'er fast crumb Ung frieze; ‘The swallow and bat now peacefully soar O'er spot where students once strug: gled for lore, ‘Ah! Chronos has ruthlessly altered the sceno With swift onward step and sure sickle keen Has reaped from the lst which once flourished there Fall many a radiant blossom rare. ‘Thon what of St all? Is her mission dead As tho plaster and splints o'er which we now tread? Are no stars shedding their luminous rays Reflecting the brilliance of Wayland’s Past days? Go ask of her sons—Diggs, Simpson and Haynes Nash, Griffith and others who've spared no pains ‘To lift high the light for groping man kind— To ald life's perilous pathway to find, Yes, ask of ‘Tuskegee whose leader renowned Once sought here King’s counsel un speakably sound, Tho brief his sojourn yet deep in his soul Were planted rare precepts more precious than gold. Now changed in location and changed too in name ‘The school presses onward and up- ward the same In Richmond she's shining more radiant today A relighted beacon still pointing the way, POWELL W. GIRSON Winchester, Va. COLORED LAWYERS PLEDGE LOYALTY, Resolutions of loyalty to the United States were passed by the Iowa State Negro Bar association in special ses- ‘sion at 607 Mulberry street. The reso lutions commend highly General ©. ©. Ballou who has been commandant at the officers’ training school at Wort Ne ste and ask that he be placed in supre > command of a col ‘ored division. Tue resviutions are as follows: Resolved. That the Towa Stace Ne sro Bar association hereby pledges its support to the president of the United States in everything that may be done by our government thru the admin istration and the war department in the conduct of the great war which we were compelled to enter to pro serve the principles of true democracy for our own country and the world: ‘That we heartily approve the deter mination of the presidens. as chief exe cutive officer of the nation and as cons mander-in-chief of the army and navy, to prosecute the war with vigor to a complete vietory im order that the armed menace,and treacherous de signs against free institutions may be forever removed by the completa over throw of the imperial German miti- tary autocratic alliance and a lasting and holy peace secured; ‘That we pledge the rowwsed citizens of the country, about twelve million strong, to the patriotic support of the government and only asic and urge that a fair equal chance be given them at all times to sacrifice for and serve our country; What we regord ‘as tlangerous, unpa friotie and untimely, if not treason-- able, any and al une ithorized moves measures and pretences for a prema ture peace and for peace terma’ and urge all loyal citizens and well wish-- ers of our righteous cause to leave all such matters to the judgment of the government and those charged with the conduct of the war, Resolved, ‘That as one special pa- triotic measure we urge that Briga- dier General C. C, tallou be so placed that our colored soldiers may contin- ue to have the offictent, sympathetic, soldierly, unprejudiced aid which he has so well given and shown during his years of brilliant service in tho regular army and further proven in the training of colored men at Fort Les Moines, Iowa, to fit them for com | missions as officers of the national army, and that he be raised to the rank’ of major general at ones it that be necessary to place him in. su preme command of a colored division, Resolved. That a copy of theze reso lutions be sent to the public Press, the Hon, Seeretary of War, the adjutant general of tho army, Brigadier Gon eral C. C. Ballou, and the president of the United States. Respectfully offered by Beorge HH. Woodson and on motion of J. 1. Rush the same was unanimously carried, Towa State Negro Bar Association, By Geo. Tf. Woodson, President, Herbert R. Wright, Acting See'y. (In the place of J.B. Morris, tho Yegular secretary who is now serving our country at Fort Des Moines to be como an officer in the national army along with Attorney §, Joo Brown, former president of this association, and Chas P. Howard, who fa ono of our promising law students of Drake University and a temporary member of this organization.) Wo ilo all kinds of Job Work, Let ua do it for you, U.S.VICTORY UST PRECEDE PEACE President Wilson Says German Success Might Mean Do- mocracy’s Suppression. LEAGUE FOR NATIONAL UNITY League Outlines Purposes—Premature Peace Seditious and Attack on Our Allies Ie Attack on America —Decries Early Peace Talk. Weshington.—Agitation for a “pro mature poace was characterized as seditious, and those who attacked thc allies of America in the prosent crisi wore declared to be onomles of thelr sountry by members of the newly organized League for National Unity who wore rocolyed at tho Whit House by President Wilson. Tho President gave his indorao ment to the purposes of the league én an addross emphasizing the nocd of team play by the forces of Amor can thought and opinion. Hoe ex prossed tho bolief that American pub Ae opinion, although understanding tho war's causes and principlos, nocd. ed guidance to remember that the war should end only when Germany was beaten and Germany's rule of autocracy and might superceded by tho ideals of democracy, This is the fssue which the Amort ean people should always keep in mind, the President said, in order to avold being misled into byways of thought and the resultant scattoring of the force of public opinion, ‘Talk of oarly peace before Germany is de- feated Is one of the etydences of mis- rooted thought, he suggested, and should not cloud the vision of ‘thoso who understand that the United States fs fighting now for the same {deals of democracy and freedom that have always actuated the nation, ‘Tho Prosident gave warning that tt should not be forgotten that German success would mean not only preven: tion of the spread of democracy, Dut possibly the supprossion of that already. oxisting. Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, senior prelate of tho Roman Catholic Church in the United States, and Frank Mason North of tho Federal Connell of the Churches of Christ in America, are Honorary Chairmen of tho organization, and ite Ust of off cers includes mon of prominence in organized labor, industry, and finance. ‘Tho league will have ‘headquarters in Now York, and will organize at ‘oneo for service. On its Bxecutive Committee aro William R. Willeox, ‘Chairman of the Republican National Committes, and Vance McCormick, Chairman of the Democratic National Committ, IA) wnrderstogd that tho machinory of The Spoakers’ Buroaua of these groat organizations may be used in a nation-wide movement to unite tho coumtry behind the Govern: ment and spread bofore the people tho many acts by Germany which brought about tho war. BUILDING 20,000 AEROPLANES, Baker Announces Great Aerial Flee\ Will Be Ready Soon. Washington.—Seeretary Bakor aw thorizod the statemont that work has bogun on more than 20,000 aeroplanes, which aro to’be the vanguard of Amer. ica’s acrial campaign against Germany. Practically tho entire number of aoro- planes and motors for which provision was mado in the $640,000,000 appro: priations bill already have been con ‘tracted for. ‘Twenty-four flying schools have been authorized, the statement revonls, and besides the thousands training ‘here studonts from tho United States aro training in all tho allied countries, while many of them are undergoing in. tensive schooling behind soveral of tho battle fronts. ‘The mon naw in Europo will bo turned over as finished aviators to the American troops in Franco. Howard University STEPHEN M, NEWMAN, A M,, D: D: President Contec or Arts ann Screncrs A, B. and B. S. Courses ‘Tracuiers Con.ecr A,B, & B. S. Courses in Education Sciioor of Manuat Arts AND Appiiep Sciences B. S. 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She became ‘enraged and SHOOK ‘THE BLINDS VIOLENTLY! The SON of TARZAN by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co. SYNOPSIS A scientific expedition off the African coast rescues a human derelict, Alexis Paulitchy. He brings aboard an ap, intelligent and friendly, and reaches London, Jack, son of Lord Greystoke, the original Tarzan, has inherited a love of wild life and is ready to see the ap, now a drawing card in a mini hull. The ap makes friends with him. CHAPTER III. Exit Paulvitch. As the trainer, with raised lash, hesitated an instant at the entrance to the box where the boy and the ape confronted him, a tall, broad shoulder man pushed past him and entered. As his eyes fell upon the newcomer a slight flush mounted the boy's checks. "Father!" he exclaimed. The ape gave one look at the English lord and then leaped toward him, calling out in excited jabbering. The J. H. H. The Man Stopped as Though Turned to Stone. "Akut!" he cried. The Man Stopped as Though Turned to Stone. "Akut!" he cried. man, his eyes going wide with astonishment, stopped as though turned to stone. "Akut!" he cried. The boy looked, bewildered, from the ape to his father, and from his father to the ape. The trainer's jaw dropped as he listened to what followed, for from the lips of the Englishman flowed the gutturals of an ape that were answered in kind by the huge anthropoid that now clung to him. And from the wings a hideously bent and disfigured old man watched the tableau in the box, his pockmarked features working spasmodically in varying expressions that might have marked every sensation in the gamut from pleasure to terror. "Long have I looked for you, Tarzan," said Akut. "Now that I have found you I shall come to your jungle and live there always." The man stroked the beast's head, Through his mind was running rapidly a train of recollections that carried him far into the depths of the primeval African forest, where this huge, manlike beast had fought shoulder to shoulder with him in years before. He saw the black Mugambi welding the deadly knob stick and beside them, with bared fangs and bristling whiskers, Sheeta the Terrible and pressing close behind, savage as the savage panther, the hidous apes of Akut. The man sighed. Strong within him surged the jungle lust that he had thought dead. Ah, if he could go back even for a brief month of it; to feel Then Briefly Tarzan of the Apes Told His Son of His Early Life. again the brush of leafy branches against his naked hide; to smell the musty rot of dead vegetation—frankincense and myrth to the jungle born—to sense the noiseless coming of the great carnivore upon his trail; to hunt and to be hunted; to kill The picture was alluring. And then came another picture—a sweet faced woman, still young and beautiful; friends; a home; a son. He shrugged his giant shoulders. "It cannot be. Akut," he said. "But If you would return I shall see that it is done. You could not be happy here; I may not be happy there." The trainer stepped forward. The ape bared his fangs, growling. "Go with him, Akut," said Tarzan of the Apes. "I will come and see you tomorrow." The beast moved sullenly to the trainer's side. The latter, at John Clayton's request, told where they might be found. Tarzan turned toward his son. "Come!" he said, and the two left the theater. Neither spoke for several minutes after they had entered the limousine. It was the boy who broke the silence. "The ape knew you," he said, "and you spoke together in the ape's tongue. How did the ape know you, and how did you learn his language?" And then, briefly and for the first time, Tarzan of the Apes told his son of his early life—of his birth in the jungle, of the death of his parents and of how Kala, the great she ape, had suckled and raised him from infancy almost to manhood. He told him, too, of the dangers and the horrors of the jungle—of the great beasts that stalked one by day and by night; of the periods of drought and of the cataclysmic rains; of hunger, of cold, of intense heat, of nakedness and fear and suffering. He told him of all those things that seem most horrible to the creature of civilization in the hope that the knowledge of them might expunge from the lad's mind any inherent desire for the jungle. Yet they were the very things that made the memory of the jungle what it was to Tarzan—that made up the composite jungle life he loved. And in the telling he forget one thing—the principal thing—that the boy at his side, listening so eagerly, was the son of Tarzan of the Apes. After the boy had been tucked away in bed John Clayton told his wife of the events of the evening and that he had at last acquainted the boy with the facts of his jungle life. The mother, who had long forseen that her son must some time know of those frightful years during which his father had roamed the jungle, a naked, savage beast of prey, shook her head, hoping against hope that the lure she knew was still strong in the father's breast had not been transmitted to his son. Tarzan visited Akut the following day, but though Jack begged to be allowed to accompany him, he was refused. This time Tarzan saw the pockmarked old owner of the ape, whom he did not recognize as the wily Paulvitch of former days. Tarzan, influenced by Akut's pleadings, bronched the question of the ape's purchase, but Paulvitch would not name any price, saying that he would consider the matter. When Tarzan returned home Jack was all excitement to hear the details of his visit, and finally suggested that his father buy the ape and bring it home. Lady Greystoke was horrified at the suggestion. The boy was insistent. Tarzan explained that he had wished to purchase Akut and return him to his jungle home, and to this the mother assented. Jack asked to be allowed to visit the ape, but again he was met with flat refusal. He had the address, however, which the trainer had given his father, and two days later he found the opportunity to elude his new tutor—who had replaced the terrified Mr. Moore—and after a considerable search through a section of London which he had never before visited he found the smelly little quarters of the pockmarked old man. The old fellow himself replied to his knocking, and when Jack stated that he had come to see Ajax, opened the door and admitted him to the little room which he and the great ape occupied. At sight of the youth the ape leaped to the floor and shuffled forward. The man, not recognizing his visitor and fearing that the ape meant mischief, stepped between them, ordering the ape back to the bed. "He will not hurt me," cried the boy, "We are friends, and before, he was my father's friend. They knew one another in the jungle. My father is Lord Greystoke. He does not know that I have come here. My mother forbade my coming, but I wished to see Ajax, and I will pay you if you will let me come here often to see him." Paulvitch encouraged the boy to come and see Ajax often, and always he played upon the lad's craving for tales of the savage world, with which Paulvitch was all too familiar. He left him alone with Akut much, and it was not long until he was surprised to learn that the boy could make the great beast understand him—that he had actually learned much of the primitive language of the anthroponoids. During this period Tarzan came several times to visit Paulvitch. He seemed anxious to purchase Ajax, and at last he told the man frankly that he was prompted not only by a desire upon his part to return the beast to the liberty of his native jungle, but also because his wife feared that in some way her son might learn the whereabouts of the ape and through his attachment for the beast become imbued with the roving instinct which, as Tarzan explained to Paulivitch, had so influenced his own life. The Russian could scare repress a smile as he listened to Lord Greystoke's words, for scarce a half hour had passed since the future Lord Greystoke had been sitting upon theordered bed, jabbering away to Ajax with all the fluency of a born me. It was during this interview that a plan occurred t. Paulvitch, and as a result of it he agreed to accept a fabulous sum for the ape and upon receipt of the money to deliver the beast to a vessel that was sailing south from Dover for Africa two days later. Everything played into Paulvitch's hands. As chance would have it, Tarzau's son overheard his father relating to the boy's mother the steps he was taking to return Akut safely to his jungle home, and, having overheard, he begged them to bring the ape home that he might have him for a playfellow. Tarzau would not have been averse to this plan, but Lady Greystoke was horrified at the very thought of it. Jack pleaded with his mother, but all unavailingly. She was obdurate, and at last the lad appeared to acquiesce in his mother's decision that the ape must be returned to Africa and the boy to school, from which he had been absent upon a vacation. He did not attempt to visit Paulvitch's room again that day, but instead busied himself in other ways. He had always been well supplied with money, so that when necessity demanded he had no difficulty in collecting several hundred pounds. Some of this money he invested in various strange purchases, which he managed to smuggle into the house undetected when he returned late in the afternoon. The next morning, after giving his father time to precede him and conclude his business with Paulvitch, the lad hastened to the Russian's room. Knowing nothing of the man's true character, the boy dared not take him fully into his confidence for fear that the old fellow would not only refuse him aid, but would report the whole affair to his father. Instead, he simply asked permission to take Ajax to Dover. He explained that it would relieve the old man of a tiresome journey, as well as placing a number of pounds in his pocket, for the lat purposed paying the Russian well. "You see," he went on, "there will be no danger of detection, since I am supposed to be leaving on an afternoon train for school. Instead I will come here after they've left me on the train. Then I can take Ajax to Dover, you see, and arrive at school only a day late. No one will be the wiser, no harm will be done, and I shall have had an extra day with Ajax before I lose him forever." That afternoon Lord and Lady Grey-stoke bade their son goodbye and saw him safely settled in a first class compartment of the railway carriage that would set him down at school in a few hours. No sooner had they left him, however, than he gathered his bags together, descended frogs, the compartment and sought a cabby stand outside the station. Here he engaged a cabby to take him to the Russian's address. It was dusk when he arrived. He found Paulvitch awaiting him. The man was pacing the floor nervously. The ape was tied with a stout cord to the bed. It was the first time that Jack had ever seen Ajax thus secured. He looked questioningly at Paulvitch. The man numblingly explained that he believed the animal had guessed that he was to be sent away and that he feared he would attempt to escape. Paulvitch carried another piece of cord in his hand. There was a noose in one end of it, which he was continually playing with. He walked back and forth, up and down the room. His pockmarked features were working horribly as he talked silently to himself. The boy had never seen him thus. It made him uneasy. At last Paulvitch stopped on the opposite side of the room far from the ape. "Come here," he said to the lad. "I will show you how to secure the ape should he show signs of rebellion during the trip." The lad laughed. "It will not be necessary," he replied. "Ajax will do whatever I tell him to do." The old man stamped his foot angrily. "Come here, I tell you," he repeated. "If you do not do as I say you shall not accompany the ape to Dover. I will take no chances upon his escaping." Still smiling, the lad crossed the room and stood before the Russ. "Turn around, with your back toward me," directed the latter, "so I can show you how to blind him quickly." The boy did not cry out—a trait inherited from his savage sire, who during years in the jungle following the death of his foster mother, Kala, the great ape, had learned that there was none to come to the succor of the fallen. Paulvitch's fingers sought the lad's throat. He grinned down horribly into the face of his victim. "Your father ruined me," he mumbled. "This will pay him. He will think that the ape did it. I will tell him that the ape did it; that I left him alone for a few minutes and that you sneaked in and the ape killed you. I will throw your body upon the bed after I have choked the life out of you, and when I bring your father he will see the ape squatting over it." and the twisted flend cackled in gloating laughter. PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA His fingers closed upon the boy's throat. 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VISIT US AT CORNER. DAVIS. The SON of TARZAN by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co. SYNOPSIS A scientific expedition off the African coast rescues a human derelict, Alexis Paulitchy. He brings aboard an apo, intelligent and friendly, and reaches London. Jack, son of Lord Greystoke, the original Tarzan, has inherited a love of wild life and is from home to see the apo, now a drawing from a museum hall. The apo makes friends with him. CHAPTER III. Exit Paulvitch. A As the trainer, with raised lash, hesitated an instant at the entrance to the box where the boy and the ape confronted him, a tail, broad shouldered man pushed past him and entered. As his eyes fell upon the newcomer a slight fush mounted the boy's cheeks. "Father!" he exclaimed. The ape gave one look at the English lord and then leaped toward him, calling out in excited jabbering. The A The Man Stopped as Though Turned to Stone. "Akut!" he cried. The Man Stopped as Though Turned to Stone. "Akut!" he cried. man, his eyes going wide with astonishment, stopped as though turned to stone. "Akut!" he cried. The boy looked, bewildered, from the ape to his father, and from his father to the ape. The trainer's jaw dropped as he listened to what followed, for from the lips of the Englishman flowed the gutturals of an ape that were answered in kind by the huge anthropoid that now clung to him. And from the wings a hideously bent and disfigured old man watched the tableau in the box, his pockmarked features working spasmodically in varying expressions that might have marked every sensation in the gamut from pleasure to terror. "Long have I looked for you, Tarzan," said Akut. "Now that I have found you I shall come to your jungle and live there always." The man stroked the beast's head. Through his mind was running rapidly a train of recollections that carried him far into the depths of the primeval African forest, where this huge, manlike beast had fought shoulder to shoulder with him in years before. He saw the black Mugambi welding the deadly knob stick and beside them, with bared fangs and bristling whiskers, Sheeta the Terrible and pressing close behind, savage as the savage panther, the hidous apes of Akut. The man sighed. Strong within him surged the jungle lust that he had thought dead. Ah, if he could go back even for a brief month of it: to feel Thon Briefly Tarzan of the Apes Told His Son of His Early Life. again the brush of leafy branches against his naked hide; to smell the musty rot of dead vegetation—frank incense and myrth to the jungle born—to sense the noiseless coming of the great carnivore upon his trail; to hunt and to be hunted; to kill! The picture was alluring. And then came another picture—a sweet faced woman, still young and beautiful; friends; a home; a son. He shrugged his giant shoulders. "It cannot be, Akut," he said. "But If you would return I shall see that it is done. You could not be happy here; I may not be happy there." The trainer stepped forward. The ape bared his fangs, growling. "Go with him. Akut," said Tarzan of the Apes. "I will come and see you tomorrow." The beast moved sullenly to the trainer's side. The latter, at John Clayton's request, told where they might be found. Tarzan turned toward his son. "Come!" he said, and the two left the theater. Neither spoke, for several minutes after they had entered the limousine. It was the boy who broke the silence. "The ape knew you." he said, "and you spoke together in the ape's tongue. How did the ape know you, and how did you learn his language?" And then, briefly and for the first time, Tarzan of the Apes told his son of his early life—of his birth in the jungle, of the death of his parents and of how Kala, the great she ape, had suckled and raised him from infancy almost to manhood. He told him, too, of the dangers and the horrors of the jungle—of the great beasts that stalked one by day and by night; of the periods of drought and of the cataclysmic rains; of hunger, of cold, of intense heat, of nakedness and fear and suffering. He told him of all those things that seem most horrible to the creature of civilization in the hope that the knowledge of them might expunge from the bad's mind any inherent desire for the jungle. Yet they were the very things that made the memory of the jungle what it was to Tarzan—that made up the composite jungle life he loved. And in the telling he forget one thing—the principal thing—that the boy at his side, listening so eagerly, was the son of Tarzan of the Apes. After the boy had been tucked away in bed John Clayton told his wife of the events of the evening and that he had at last acquainted the boy with the facts of his jungle life. The mother, who had long foreseen that her son must some time know of those frightful years during which his father had roamed the jungle, a naked, savage beast of prey, shook her head, hopping against hope that the lure she knew was still strong in the father's breast had not been transmitted to his son. Tarzan visited Akut the following day, but though Jack begged to be allowed to accompany him, he was refused. This time Tarzan saw the pock-marked old owner of the ape, whom he did not recognize as the wily Paulvitch of former days. Tarzan, influenced by Akut's pleadings, bronched the question of the ape's purchase, but Paulvitch would not name any price, saying that he would consider the matter. When Tarzan returned home Jack was all excitement to hear the details of his visit, and finally suggested that his father buy the ape and bring it home. Lady Greystoke was horrified at the suggestion. The boy was insistent. Tarzan explained that he had wished to purchase Akut and return him to his jungle home, and to this the mother assented. Jack asked to be allowed to visit the ape, but again he was met with flat refusal. He had the address, however, which the trainer had given his father, and two days later he found the opportunity to elude his new tutor—who had replaced the terrified Mr. Moore—and after a considerable search through a section of London which he had never before visited he found the smelly little quarters of the pockmarked old man. The old fellow himself replied to his knocking, and when Jack stated that he had come to see Ajax, opened the door and admitted him to the little room which he and the great ape occupied. At sight of the youth the ape leaped to the floor and shuffled forward. The man, not recognizing his visitor and fearing that the ape meant mischief, stepped between them, ordering the ape back to the bed. "He will not hurt me," cried the boy, "We are friends, and before, he was my father's friend. They knew one another in the jungle. My father is Lord Greystoke. He does not know that I have come here. My mother forbade my coming, but I wished to see Ajax, and I will pay you if you will let me come here often to see him." Paulvitch encouraged the boy to come and see Ajax often, and always he played upon the lad's craving for tales of the savage world, with which Paulvitch was all too familiar. He left him alone with Akut much, and it was not long until he was surprised to learn that the boy could make the great beast understand him—that he had actually learned much of the primitive language of the anthropoids. During this period Tarzan came several times to visit Paulvitch. He seemed anxious to purchase Ajax, and at last he told the man frankly that he was prompted not only by a desire upon his part to return the beast to the liberty of his native jungle, but also because his wife feared that in some way her son might learn the whereabouts of the ape and through his attachment for the beast become imbued with the roving instinct which, as Tarzan explained to Paulvitch, had so influenced his own life. The Russun could scare repress a smile as he listened to Lord Greystoke's words, for scarce a half hour had passed since the future Lord Greystoke had been sitting upon the disordered bed, jabbering away to Ajax with all the fury of a borne ape. It was during this interview that a plan occurred t. Paulvitch, and as a result of it he agreed to accept a fabulous sum for the ape and upon receipt of the money to deliver the beast to a vessel that was sailing south from Dover for Africa two days later. Everything played into Paulvitch's hands. As chance would have it, Tarzan's son overheard his father relating to the boy's mother the steps he was taking to return Akut safely to his jungle home, and, having overheard, he begged them to bring the ape home that he might have him for a playfellow. Tarzan would not have been averse to this plan, but Lady Greystoke was horrified at the very thought of it. Jack pleaded with his mother, but all unavailingly. She was obdurate, and at last the last appeared to acquiesce in his mother's decision that the ape must be returned to Africa and the boy to school, from which he had been absent upon a vacation. He did not attempt to visit Paulvitch's room again that day, but instead bused himself in other ways. He had always been well supplied with money, so that when necessity demanded he had no difficulty in collecting several hundred pounds. Some of this money he invested in various strange purchases, which he managed to snuggle into the house undetected when he returned late in the afternoon. The next morning, after giving his father time to precede him and conclude his business with Paulvitch, the lad hastened to the Russian's room. Knowing nothing of the man's true character, the boy dared not take him fully into his confidence for fear that the old fellow would not only refuse him aid, but would report the whole affair to his father. Instead, he simply asked permission to take Ajax to Dover. He explained that it would relieve the old man of a tiresome journey, as well as placing a number of pounds in his pocket, for the lad purposed paying the Russian well. "You see," he went on, "there will be no danger of detection, since I am supposed to be leaving on an afternoon train for school. Instead I will come here after they've left me on the train. Then I can take Ajax to Dover, you see, and arrive at school only a day late. No one will be the wiser, no harm will be done, and I shall have had an extra day with Ajax before I lose him forever." That afternoon Lord and Lady Grey stoke their son goodly and saw him safely settled in a first class compartment of the railway carriage that would set him down at school in a few hours. No sooner had they left him, however, than he gathered his bags together desecrated for the compartment and sought a car to stand outside the station. Here he engaged a cabby to take him to the Russian's address. It was dusk when he arrived. He found Paulvitch awaiting him. The man was pacing the door nervously. The ape was tied with a stout cord to the bed. It was the first time that Jack had ever seen Ajax thus secured. He looked questioningly at Paulvitch. The man mumblingly explained that he believed the animal had guessed that he was to be sent away and that he feared he would attempt to escape. Paulvitch carried another piece of cord in his hand. There was a noose in one end of it, which he was continually playing with. He walked back and up, up and down the room. His pockmarked features were working horribly as he talked silently to himself. The boy had never seen him thus. It made him uneasy. At last Paulvitch stopped on the opposite side of the room far from the ape. "Come here," he said to the lad. "I will show you how to secure the ape should be show signs of rebellion during the trip." The lad laughed. "It will not be necessary," he replied. "Ajax will do whatever I tell him to do." The old man stamped his foot angrily. "Come here, I tell you," he repeated. "If you do not do as I say you shall not accompany the ape to Dover. I will take no chances upon his escaping." Still smiling, the lad crossed the room and stood before the Russ. "Turn around, with your back toward me," directed the latter, "so I can show you how to bind him quickly." The boy did as he was bld, placing his hands behind him when Paulvitch told him to do so. Instantly the old man slipped the running noose over one of the lad's wrists, took a couple of half hitches about his other wrist and knotted the cord. The moment that the boy was secured the attitude of the man changed. He had known and bitterly hated Tarzan in Africa years before, for Tarzan had broken up his business as a slave dealer. Now, with an angry oath, he wheeled Tarzan's son about, tripped him and hurled him violently to the floor, leaping upon his breast as he fell. From the bed the ape growled and struggled with his bonds. The boy did not cry out—a trait inherited from his savage sire, who during years in the jungle following the death of his foster mother, Kala, the great ape, had learned that there was none to come to the succer of the fallen. Paulvileh's fingers sought the lad's throat. He grinned down horribly into the face of his victim. "Your father ruined me," he mumbled. "Tits will pay him. He will think that the ape did it. I will tell him that the ape did it; that I left him alone for a few minutes and that you sneaked in and the ape killed you. I will throw your body upon the bed after I have choked the life out of you, and when I bring your father he will see the ape squatting over it." and the twisted flend cackled in gloating laughter. His fingers closed upon the boy's throat. Behind them the growling of the maddened beast neverberated against the walls of the little room. The boy paled, but no other sign of fear or panic showed upon his countenance. He was the son of Tarzan. The fingers tightened their grip upon his throat. It was with difficulty that he breathed—gaspingly. The ape hung against the stout cord that held him. Turning, he wrapped 6.3.2014 His Hickoe Face Went White In Ter ron--The Ape Was Free! His Hideous Face Went White In Ter ror—The Ape Was Free! L. J. 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His hideous face wore white in terror—the ape was free! With a single bound the creature was upon him. The man shrieked. The brute wrenched him from the body of the boy. Great fingers sank into his flesh. Yellow fangs gaped close to his throat—he struggled futilely—and then they closed, and the soul of Alexis Paulitch passed into the keeping of the demons who had long been awaiting it. The boy struggled to his feet, assisted by Akut. For two hours, under his instructions, the ape worked upon the knots that secured his friend's wrists. Finally they gave up their secret, and the boy was free. He cut the cord that still dangled from the ape's body. Then he opened one of his bugs and drew forth some garments. His plans had been well made. He did not consult the beast, which did all that he directed. Together they slunk from the house, but no casual observer might have noted that one of them was an ape. CHAPTER IV. 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Cincinnati, Louville & West, *2 p.*, *7 p.*, *11 p.* Main Line Local, *7:25 a.m.*, *15:15 p.* Newport News, Norfolk and Old Point, *8:38 a.*, *12 m.*, *4 p.* Newport News local, *7 a.*, *5 p.* Treasure Island, Norfolk, *11:25 a.m.*, *8:05 p.* *8:30 p.* Newport News, *8:55 a.*, *8:06 p.* From West, *8:10 a.*, *5 p.*, *8:55 a.* *11:15 p.*, *7:10 p.* daily from Charlestonville, except Indianapolis from thurson. Jake River, *8:35 a.*, *4:40 p.* *Daily* Except Sunday SEABOARD AIR LINE. THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY ON THE SOUTH Boundhound trains scheduled to leave Richmond daily: 9:25 A. M. local to Norwich; 1:28 P. M. local to Jacksonville; 1:28 P. M. local to Birmingham; 8:55 P. M. local to Richmond; 1:28 P. M. sleeps to Jacksonville; 1:12 P. M. sleeps to Birmingham; Limited; 1:24 A. M. sleeps to Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Tampa and cocoon to Jacksonville. Boundhound trains scheduled to arrive Richmond daily: 4:28 A. M. 7:28 A. M. and A. M. local, 1:08 A. M. 14:27 P. M. 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. ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE, VA., October 23.—Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D., of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church preached at eleven o'clock to an attentive audience. He spoke from the subject, "Water, Material and Spiritual." The Spirit seemed to take hold of the audience and all present seemed to have felt the fire of the Holy Ghost kindling in their hearts. It was a grand service. At eight-thirty the Reverend preached another soul stirring sermon, which reached again the hearts of those who heard him, declaring the truths of the Gospel of God and His Christ. Saturday night, October 20, a young man named Willie Bates was shot at the drug store of Dr. I. D. Burrell. The murdered man was raised by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Berkley, of Sixth avenue and Eighth street. Two men are in prison awaiting the outcome of the happening. Messrs. Robert Hale and Burrell Woods, Mr. and Mrs. Jennie Anderson left on the 18th enroute to Washington, D. C. and other points. They will spend one week in Washington visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Mitchell, of the Capital City. It is sad to think of the tragic destruction committed by our race, one against the other in this our Christian land. The remains of Mr. John Morgan, who was shot here last week by an unknown party were shipped to his home in Christiansburg, Va. Saturday for interment. The funeral took place Sunday. Mr. Morgan was a prosperous young man and seemed to have been getting along nicely in the line of business in which he was engaged. He handled soft drinks, cigars etc. I never heard of any offense committed against the city by him. Mrs. Melvena Deshager, of North Carolina spent the week end in the city visiting her father and brother 54. Saventh avenue, N. W. Her father has been in declining health for several months, but much improved at present. Mrs. Deshager is the daughter of Mr. Byrd Stanfield and sister to Mr. I. P. Stanfield. She is also first cousin to the Stanfield brothers of Roanoke. She spent the week with her father and left Sunday for her home, accompanied by her little son. Tuesday evening, about 7:30, a very heavy electric storm raged over this section of the country, which lasted for an hour and terminated in a heavy snow storm. Mrs. M. L. Thomas, originally of this city but now Mrs. M. L. Snowden of Bellview, Pa. has been visiting Roanoke for the past three months. She reports having enjoyed her visit with her old friends. She will leave the city for home, on October 20, to join her husband, Mr. Thomas J. Snowden. Mr. and Mrs. Lowney Polk, 544 Seventh avenue, N. W. left Friday morning, October 19, for Hagerstown Md. and Salisbury, N. C., visiting the mother and mother-in-law, after which they will return home. The parents of Roanoke City who have small children will do well to place the little ones under the care of Mrs. Nora B. Taylor, who has taught a kindergarten class during the past three years of her sojourn in the city, proving to those parents who have patronized the school that she is a real instructor, especially to young minds. It has been a source of gratitude to all who in past years have sent their little ones to Mrs. Taylor. The school is in the Young Men's Christian Association room in the basement of the A. M. E. Church parsonage. Miss B. M. Baker, of Martinsville, Henry county, Va. was married to Mr. Samuel H. Woodyard, of Maryland, Thursday evening, October 18, 1917 at eight o'clock. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. S. M. Benean, in the parsonage of St. Paul's Memorial M. E. Church. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Mack Baker, of Martinsville, Va. The bride was accompanied by her brother-in-law and sister, James R. Mitchell and Lucy Baker. The couple left on the 20th for various points in North Carolina. Returning they will make their future home in Hagerstown, Md. Her friends wish her a long and happy life. Mrs. Mary Bell Howerton, of Hampton, Va. arrived in the city, October 13th, visiting her father and mother, Mr. Richard Faulkner and Mrs. Alice Faulkner, of Fifth avenue, N. W. She also visited her cousins, Mrs. L. A. Bartee, 226 Fifth avenue N. W. and Mrs. Cassandra Wright, of Luck avenue, Saturday, and Mrs. Bertha Howard, of Seventh avenue. The many relatives and friends of former years were delighted to see her. She is the wife of Rev. W. R. Howerton, pastor of the A. M. B. Church at Hampton, Va. Mrs. Howerton left for home Sunday night. Sir Frank Broady, of Seventh avenue, N. W. has been confined to his room since Monday, October 16. He is a member of Roanoke Lodge, No. 51. Little Copenhaven Law was taken to Burrell's Memorial Hospital Saturday morning, October 20 and operated on for Tonsilitis and Adenoids. He had a successful operation and returned home in the afternoon of the following day. The mother is Mrs. Mary Law, 628 Eighth avenue, N. W. Mr. S. H. Nowell, 329 Tenth avenue, N. W. was taken very sick Tuesday night, but at this writing is much improved under the care of Dr. E. H. Muse. Revival Services commenced at First Baptist Church, E. E. Ricks, Minister, Sunday, October 21. Short and interesting Gospel Sermons are preached every night. Mr. John H. Smiley, the Gospel Soloist with his voice of unusual power and sweetness, will assist in the services. A special chorus will sing. In memory of our loving mother, Mrs. Emily Dehaven, who departed this life October 20, 1915: Mother, we often sit and think of you When we are all alone: For memory is the only friend For memory is the only friend That grief can call its own. Oh! The memory of that morning. As I stood with breaking heart. Seeing the one I loved so dearly Pierced by Death's most cruel dart. Far into the night I wondered. You are not forgotten, mother, Nor will you ever be; For as long as life and memory last We will always think of thee. Gone, but not forgotten. —Maggie Dehaven, Minnie Dehaven, Mettie Dehaven, Cassie Dehaven Rosa Dehaven Crocker, Daughters Grand-daughter, Son and Grand-son Mrs. Sophia Powell, of Norfolk. PORTSMOUTH NEWS Editor of The Planet: Our people are beginning to find if they get real news concerning the race it comes in the columns of our papers edited by the race leaders. We would not have known the colored soldiers were located at Newport News Va., had we not seen it in The Planet. For some reason, many of the papers of the State treat with silent contempt the good deeds performed by us and the several positions to which we have been honored, they never even mention them. The sooner we learn how to get the real news concerning our people, we will read more of the papers edited by them. Last week a man stopped overboard of one of the ferry-boats. A white sailor jumped overboard to save him. A colored sailor also jumped overboard and rendered assistance and the man was saved. The newspapers the next day spoke in complimentary terms of the white sailor but said not a word concerning the heroism of the colored sailor. This tells us if the world and the unborn generations get the true history of the Negro, it must be done through us and retained by us. Rev. R. G. Adams, of the Metropolitan Baptist Church preached recently from the subject, "The Lost Found." The congregation has not been moved by the Holy Spirit, since his pastorate as they were at this service. The Lord is sending his blessings among that people under the leadership of this servant. Revival services are being conducted by Rev. N. B. Brown, of Richmond, Va. Rev. Adams was called to Phoebus to preach the funeral of an old friend Mrs. Missouri Smith, who lived for years in Danville, Va., where the Rev. first met her. Rev. N. B. Brown and Mrs. M. C. Adams accompanied him. They were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Walnwright, of Phoebus. Mrs. Eliza Bland, of Efringham St. is still confined to her room. Mrs. Facen, of 35 Green St. is not able to be out. Mr. W. G. Tate, of Edfingham St. has returned from vacation. While away he contracted a cold, otherwise he is looking fine. We were glad to see Mrs. Nancy Thomas Wheeler, of Hampton, Va., worshipping with members of Metropolitan congregation a few Sun days past. Also Mrs. Mary Gay and son and Mrs. Archer, of Norfolk, Va. Deacon R. H. Porkins was able to be out Sunday after being confined at home with a lame foot. Mrs. Mildora Boone is convalescent Mr. J. N. Boone visited his mother and brother, in Franklin, Va. Mr. Richard Edwards, of Philadelphia, Pa. and Mrs. Lucinda Phillips, of Suffolk, Va. visited Mr. James and Mrs. Eliza Bland, of Edgham WANTED—Colored Girls to act as Agents for our Hair and Scalp Treatment, a guaranteed hair grower. A full month's treatment for 25 cents stamps; six months, 75 cents, postoffice order. Write for a free reatise on how to grow beautiful hair and terms to agents. APEX MFG. CO., Richmond, Va. We want active agents in Lynchburg, Warrenton, Suffolk, Petersburg Williamsburg, Lexington, Hampton and Phoebus. 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The last amount paid when you start with Five CENTS is $2.50 and if you wish to tackle the big end first and feel the burden grow lighter instead of heavier, you can pay $2.50 the first week, $2.45 the second week, $2.40 the third week and so on until the last week in November, when your last payment will be Five CENTS, just as by the other method your first payment was Five CENTS. We have a flat 10c-a-week Club. You will receive a check next December for $5.00, plus the interest on that amount. Should you fail to keep up the payments you are no worse off, so to speak, for you will receive a check for just the amount that you may have paid in, even if that amount is only TEN CENTS. TWENTY-FIVE CENT CLUB You can join the flat Twenty-five Cent Club. You pay Twenty-five Cents each week and if you keep it up, you will receive a check for $12.50. If you find that you cannot keep up the payments, you will receive a check for all that you paid in. 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Costs nothing and no extra charge. Write today, this minute. Address KNICKERBOCKER TAILORING CO. Dept. 718 Chicago, IL 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. ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE, VA., October 23.—Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D., of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church preached at eleven o'clock to an attentive audience. He spoke from the subject, "Water, Material and Spiritual." The Spirit seemed to take hold of the audience and all present seemed to have felt the fire of the Holy Ghost kindling in their hearts. It was a grand service. At eight-thirty the Reverend preached another soul stirring sermon, which reached again the hearts of those who heard him, declaring the truths of the Gospel of God and His Christ. Saturday night, October 20, a young man named Willie Bates was shot at the drug store of Dr. L. D. Burrell. The murdered man was raised by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Berkley, of Sixth avenue and Eighth street. Two men are in prison awaiting the outcome of the happening. Messrs. Robert Hale and Burrell Woods. Mr. and Mrs. Jennie Anderson left on the 18th enroute to Washington, D. C. and other points. They will spend one week in Washington visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Mitchell, of the Capital City. It is sad to think of the tragic destruction committed by our race, one against the other in this our Christian land. The remains of Mr. John Morgan, who was shot here last week by an unknown party were shipped to his home in Christiansburg, Va. Saturday for interment. The funeral took place Sunday. Mr. Morgan was a prosperous young man and seemed to have been getting along nicely in the line of business in which he was engaged. He handled soft drinks, cigars etc. I never heard of any offense committed against the city by blm. Mrs. Melvena Deshager, of North Carolina spent the week end in the city visiting her father and brother 544 Seventh avenue, N. W. Her father has been in declining health for several months, but much improved at present. Mrs. Deshager is the daughter of Mr. Byrd Stanford and sister to Mr. L. P. Stanford. She is also first cousin to the Stanford brothers of Roanoke. She spent the week with her father and left Sunday for her home, accompanied by her little son. Tuesday evening, about 7:30, a very heavy electric storm raged over this section of the country, which lasted for an hour and terminated in a heavy snow storm. Mrs. M. L. Thomas, originally of this city but now Mrs. M. L. Snowden of Belflow, Pa. has been visiting Roanoke for the past three months. She reports having enjoyed her visit with her old friends. She will leave the city for home, on October 20, to join her husband, Mr. Thomas J. Snowden. Mr. and Mrs. Lownay Polk, 544 Seventh avenue, N. W. left Friday morning, October 19, for Hagerstown Md. and Salisbury, N. C., visiting the mother and mother-in-law, after which they will return home. The parents of Roanoke City who have small children will do well to place the little ones under the care of Mrs. Nora B. Taylor, who has taught a kindergarten class during the past three years of her sojourn in the city, proving to those parents who have patronized the school that she is a real instructor, especially to young minds. It has been a source of gratitude to all who in past years have sent their little ones to Mrs. Taylor. The school is in the Young Men's Christian Association room in the basement of the A. M. E. Church parsonage. Miss B. M. Baker, of Martinsville, Henry county, Va. was married to Mr. Samuel H. Woodyard, of Maryland, Thursday evening, October 18, 1917 at eight o'clock. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. S. M. Beane, in the parsonage of St. Paul's Memorial M. E. Church. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Mack Baker, of Martinsville, Va. The bride was accompanied by her brother-in-law and sister, James R. Mitchell and Lucy Baker. The couple left on the 20th for various points in North Carolina. Returning they will make their future home in Hagerstown, Md. Her friends wish her a long and happy life. Mrs. Mary Bell Howerton, of Hampton, Va. arrived in the city, October 13th, visiting her father and mother, Mr. Richard Faulkner and Mrs. Alice Faulkner, of Fifth avenue, N. W. She also visited her cousins, Mrs. L. A. Bartoe, 226 Fifth avenue N. W. and Mrs. Cassandra Wright, of Luck avenue, Saturday, and Mrs. Bertha Howard, of Seventh avenue. The many relatives and friends of former years were delighted to see her. She is the wife of Rev. W. R. Howerton, pastor of the A. M. E. Church at Hampton, Va. Mrs. Howerton left for home Sunday night. Sir Frank Broady, of Seventh avenue, N. W. has been confined to his room since Monday, October 16. He is a member of Roanoke Lodge, No. 51. Little Copenhaven Law was taken to Burrell's Memorial Hospital Saturday morning, October 20 and operated on for Tonsilitis and Adenoids. He had a successful operation and returned home in the afternoon of the following day. The mother is Mrs. Mary Law, 628 Eighth avenue, N. W. Mr. S. H. Nowell, 329 Tenth avenue, N. W. was taken very sick Tuesday night, but at this writing is much improved under the care of Dr. E. H. Muse. Revival Services commenced at First Baptist Church, E. E. Ricks. Minister, Sunday, October 21. Short and interesting Gospel Sermons are preached every night. Mr. John H. Smiley, the Gospel Soloist with his voice of unusual power and sweetness, will assist in the services. A special chorus will sing. In memory of our loving mother, Mrs. Emily Dehaven, who departed this life October 20, 1915: Mother, we often sit and think of you When we are all alone: For memory is the only friend That grief can call its own Far into the night I wondered, Dreaming of the by-gone years; How you used to shield my sorrow, Away would vanish all my fears You are not forgotten, mother, Nor will you ever be; For as long as life and memory last We will always think of thee. Gone, but not forgotten. —Maggie Dehaven, Minnie Dehaven en, Mettie Dehaven, Cassie Dehaven Rosa Dehaven Crocker, Daughters Grand-daughter, Son and Grand-son Mrs. Sophia Powell, of Norfolk. PORTSMOUTH NEWS Editor of The Planet: Our people are beginning to find if they get real news concerning the race it covers in the columns of our papers edited by the race leaders. We would not have known the colored soldiers were located at Newport News Va., had we not seen it in The Planet. For some reason, many of the papers of the State treat with silent contempt the good deeds performed by us and the several positions to which we have been honored, they never even mention them. The sooner we learn how to get the real news concerning our people, we will read more of the papers edited by them. Last week a man stepped overboard of one of the ferry-boats. A white sailor jumped overboard to save him. A colored sailor also jumped overboard and rendered assistance and the man was saved. The newspapers the next day spoke in complimentary terms of the white sailor but said not a word concerning the heroism of the colored sailor. This tells us if the world and the unborn generations get the true history of the Negro, it must be done through us and retained by us. Rev. R. G. Adams, of the Metropolitan Baptist Church preached recently from the subject, "The Lost Found." The congregation has not been moved by the Holy Spirit, since his pastorate as they were at this service. 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Address KNICKERBOCKER TAILORING CO. Dept. 718 Chicago, Ill. SAVE THE PLANET COUPONS 81X THE PLANET SATURDAY....OCTOBER 27, 1917. SON OF TARZAN (Continued from Page Three.) come connected with the affair, kept himself well posted as to the police search for the anthropoid. As was true of the general public, his chief interest in the matter centered about the mysterious disappearance of the slayer, or at least this was true until he learned several days subsequent to the tragedy that his son Jack had not reported at the boarding school, en route for which they had seen him safely ensnured in a railway carriage. Even then the father did not connect the disappearance of his son with the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the ape, nor was it until a month later that careful investigation recent ed the fact that the boy had left the train before it pulled out of the station at London and the cab driver had been found who had driven him to the address of the old Russian that Tarzan of the Apes realized that Akut had in some way been connected with the disappearance of the boy. Beyond the moment that the cab driver had deposited his fare beside the curb in front of the house in which the Russian had been quartered there was no clew. No one had seen either the boy or the ape from that instant, at least no one who still lived. The proprietor of the house identified the picture of the lad as that of one who had been a frequent visitor in the room of the old man. Aside from this he knew nothing. And there at the door of a grimy old building in the slums of London the searchers came to a blank wall—bafled. The day following the death of Alexis Paultvich a youth accompanying his invalid grandmother boarded a steamer at Dover. The old lady was heavily veiled and so weakened by age and sickness that she had to be wheeled aboard the vessel in an invalid chair. The boy would permit no one but himself to wheel her and with his own hands assisted her from the chair to the interior of their stateroom—and that was the last that was seen of the old lady by the ship's company until the pair disembarked. The boy even insisted upon doing the work of their cabin steward, since, as he explained, his grandmother was suffering from a nervous indisposition that made the presence of strangers extremely distasteful to her. Among the passengers there was an American named Conlon, a blackleg and a crook, who was "wanted" in half a dozen of the larger cities of the United States. He had paid little attention to the boy until on one occasion he had seen him accidentally display a roll of banknotes. From then on Conlon cultivated the youthful Britton. He learned easily enough that the boy was traveling alone with his invalid grandmother and that their destination was a small port on the west coast of Africa, a little below the equator; that their name was Billings and that they had no friends in the little settlement for which they were bound. Upon the point of their purpose in visiting the place, Conlon found the boy reticent, and so he did not push the matter—he had learned all that he cared to know as it was. At last came the day that the steamer dropped anchor in the lee of a wooded promontory, where a score or more of sheet iron shacks, making an unsightly blot upon the fair face of nature, proclaimed the fact that civilization had set its heel. Struggling upon the outskirts were the thatched huts of natives, picturesque in their primal savagery, harmonizing with the background of tropical jungle and accentuating the squallid hideousness of the white man's pioneer architecture. The boy, leaning over the rail, was looking far beyond the man made town, deep into the God made jungle. A little shiver of anticipation tinged his spine, and then, quite without volition, he found himself mentally gazing into the loving eyes of his mother and the strong face of the father which mirrored beneath its masculine strength a love no less than the mother's eyes proclaimed. He felt himself weakened in his resolve. The task of lowering the boy's grandmother over the side to a waiting canoe was rather difficult. The lad insisted on being always at her side, and when at last she was safely ensconced in the bottom of the craft that was to bear them shoreward her grandson dropped catlike after her. So interested was he in seeing her comfortably disposed that he failed to observe the little package that had worked from his pocket as he assisted in lowering the sling that contained the old woman over the steamer's side, nor did he notice it even as it slipped out entirely and dropped into the sea. Scarcely had the boat containing the boy and the old woman started for the shore than Conlon hailed a canoe on the other side of the ship and after bargaining with its owner finally lowered his baggage and himself aboard. Once ashore he kept out of sight of the two story atrocity that bore the legend "Hotel" to lure unsuspecting wayfarers to its many discomforts. It was quite dark before he ventured to enter and arrange for accommodations. In a back room upon the second floor the lad was explaining not without considerable difficulty to his grandmother that he had decided to return to England upon the next steamer. He was endeavoring to make it plain to the old lady that she might remain in Africa if she wished, but that for his part his conscience demanded that he return to his father and mother, who doubtless were even now suffering untold sorrow because of his absence, from which it may be assumed that his parents had not been acquainted with the plans that he and the old lady had made for their adventure into African wilds. Having come to a decision, the lad felt a sense of relief from the worry that had haunted him for many sleepless nights. When he closed his eyes in sleep it was to dream of a happy reunion with those at home, and as he dreamed Fate, cruel and inexorable, crept stealthily upon him through the dark corridor of the squallid building in which he slept—Fate in the form of the American crook Conlon. Cautiously the man approached the door of the lad's room. There he crouched, listening, until assured by the regular breathing of those within that both slept. Quitely he inserted a slim skeleton in the lock of the door. With defenders, long accustomed to the silent manipulation of the bars and bolts that guarded other men's property, Conlon turned the key and the knob simultaneously. Gentle pressure upon the door swung it slowly inward upon its hinges. The man entered the room, closing the door behind him. The moon was temporarily overcast by heavy clouds. The interior of the apartment was shrouded in gloom. Conlon groped his way toward the bed. In the far corner of the room something moved—moved with a silent stenthiness which transcended even the trained silence of the burglar. Conlon heard nothing. His attention was riveted upon the bed, in which he thought to find a young boy and his helpless, invulnid grandmother. The American sought only the bankroll. If he could possess himself of this without detection, well and good, but were he to meet resistance he was prepared for that too. The lad's clothes lay across a chair beside the bed. The American's fingers felt swiftly through them—the pockets contained no roll of crisp, new notes. Doubtless they were beneath the pillows of the bed. He stepped closer toward the sleeper; his hand was already halfway beneath the pillow when the thick cloud that had obscured the moon rolled aside and the room was flooded with light. At the same instant the boy opened his eyes and looked straight into those of Conlon. The man was suddenly conscious that the boy was alone in the bed. Then he clutched for his veltim's throat. As the lad rose to meet him Conlon heard a low growl at his back, then he felt his wrists seized by the boy and realized that beneath those taperling white fingers played muscles of steel. He felt other hands at his throat, rough, hairy hands that reached over his shoulders from behind. He cast a terrified glance backward, and the hirs of his head stiffened at the sight his eyes revealed, for grasping him from the rear was a huge, manlike lance. The bared fighting fangs of the anthropoid were close to his throat. The lad plonloned his wrists. Neither uttered a sound. Where was the grandmother? Conlon's eyes swept the room in a single, all inclusive glance. His eyes bulged in horror at the realization of the truth which glance revealed. In the power of what creatures of hideous mystery had he placed himself? Frantically he fought to beat off the boy so he could turn upon the fearsome thing at his back. Freeing one hand, he struck a savage blow at the lad's face. His act seemed to undoose a thousand devils in the hairy creature clinging to his throat. Conlon heard a low and savage snarl. It was the last thing that the American ever heard in this life. Then he was dragged backward upon the floor, a heavy body fell upon him, powerful teeth fastened themselves in his jugular, his head whirled in the sudden blackness which rims eternity. A moment later the ape rose from his prostrate form. But Conlon did not know—he was quite dead. The had, horrified, spring from the bed to lean low over the body of the man. He knew Akut had killed him in his defense, as he had killed Paul-vitch. But here in savage Africa, far from home and friends, what would they do to him and his faithful ape? The had knew that the penalty of murder was death. He even knew that an accomplice might suffer the death penalty with the principal. Who was there here who would plead for them? All would be against them. It was little more than a half civilized community, and the chances were that they would drag Akut and him forth in the morning and hang them both to the nearest tree. He had read of such things being done in America, and Africa was worse even and wilder than the great west of his mother's native land. Yes, they would both be hanged in the morning. Last evening he had been determined to start for home at the first opportunity to beg the forgiveness of his parents for this mad adventure. Now he knew that he might never return to them. The blood of a fellow man was upon his hands. In his morbid reflections he had long since ceased to attribute the death of Conlon to the ape. The hysteria of panic had fastened the guilt upon himself. Now he turned toward Akut. "Come!" he said in the language of the great apes. Forgetful of the fact that he wore only a thin pajama suit, he led the way to the open window, Thrusting his head out, he listened attentively. A single tree grew a few feet from the window. Nimbly the lad sprang to its bole, clinging catlike for an instant before he clambered quietly to the ground below. Close behind him came the great ape. Two hundred yards away a spur of the jungle ran close to the straggling town. Toward this the lad led the way. No one saw them, and a moment later the jungle swallowed them, and THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA John Clayton, futuro Lord Greystoke, passed from the eyes and the knowledge of men. It was late the following morning that a native house man knocked upon the door of the room that had been assigned to Mrs. Billings and her grandson. Receiving no response, he inserted his pass key in the lock, only to discover that another key was already there, but from the inside. He reported the fact to Herr Skopf, the proprietor, who at once made his way to the second floor, where he, too, pounded vigorously upon the door. Receiving no reply, he bent to the key-hole in an attempt to look through into the room beyond. In so doing, being portly, he lost his balance, which necessitated putting a palm to the floor to maintain his equilibrium. As he did so he felt something soft and thick and wet beneath his fingers. He raised his open palm before his eyes in the dim light of the corridor and peered at it. Then he shuddered, for even in the semidarkness he saw a dark red stain upon his hand. Leaping to his feet, he hurled his shoulder against the door. Herr Skopf was a heavy man. The frall door collapsed beneath his weight, and Herr Skopf stumbled precipitately into the room. Before him lay the greatest mystery of his life. Upon the floor at his feet was the dead body of a strange man. The neck was broken and the jugular severed as by the fangs of a wild beast. The old lady and her grand- 310 Before Him Lay the Greatest Mytery of His Life. son were gone. The window was open. They must have disappeared through the window, for the door had been locked from the inside. But how could the boy have carried his invalid grandmother from a second story window to the ground? It was preposterous. Again Herr Skopf searched the small room. He noticed that the bed was pulled well away from the wall. Why? He looked beneath it again for the third or fourth time. The two were gone, and yet his judgment told him that the old lady could not have gone without porters to carry her down as they had carried her up the previous day. Further search but deepened the mystery. All the clothing of the two was still in the room. If they had gone then they must have gone naked or in their night clothes. No boat had left the harbor in the meantime. There was not a railroad within hundreds of miles. There was no other white settlement that the two could reach under several days of arduous marching, accompanied by a well equipped safari. They had simply vanished into thin air, for the native he had sent to inspect the ground beneath the open window had just returned to report that there was no sign of a footstep there, and what sort of creatures were they who could have dropped that distance to the soft turf without leaving spoor? Herr Skopf shuddered. Yes, it was a great mystery. There was something uncanny about the whole thing. He hated to think about it, and he dreaded the coming of night. It was a great mystery to Herr Skopf and doubtless still is. 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