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THE RICHMOND PLANET CHRIS. JACKSON KILLS HIS WIFE. JEALOUSY THE CAUSE. VOLUME XXXV NO 1 CHRIS KILL JEALOU Claims to Have uation==Now in Gruesome Chris, Jackson shot and killed his wife, Florence, Tuesday night, November 13, 1917 at about 8 o'clock at a house 541 Brook Ave., which house is alleged to be of questionable character. He was later arrested and appeared in the Police Court last Wednesday morning. The case was continued until he 22nd and he was remanded to jail. His wife died at about 2 A. M. Wednesday. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., interviewed him while he stood in the barred enclosure in the Police Court. It seems that he had suspected his wife of wrong doing. As some put it, he was insincere jalousy of her. He gave as the reason for his suspicions that she wanted to go out at times and did not want him to go with her. HAD WATCHED HER He reasoned that no woman, who was no willing to have her husband right, he was so, or her at a house on West Jackson St., on last Sunday night, but she found it out and his efforts were fruitless. He is a chauffeur for Dr. E. S. Bowie, 201 E. Grace St. His wife was made there, he claimed that she had thrown a hot iron at him last Tuesday. While out driving, he stopped at First and Broad streets to get a paper for the boss. He saw his wife's boy coming up First St. He had a letter for Jackson's wife. He told Jackson to give it to her and not to open it. GAVE HER THE NOTE. Jackson gave it to his wife, Florence but not before he had opened it, read its contents and then reseciled it. In this note was a request for Florence to come that night to meet the party that she was to have met. Sunday night, it was signed, "Ellen." He took this to mean Ellen, Gahman who lived at 541 Brook Ave. In the mean time, his wife had torn up the note and instead of burning it, she had thrown it in the waste basket. Chris Jackson picked out the pieces of paper passed them together and he claims to now have them in his possession. WENT THERE TOO He went to 541 Brook Ave., and waited in the hallway. His wife is alleged to have entered from the front of the house and the raim with whom he alibects he had an appointment entered from, the rear. He suspected a former admirer of his wife one who went with her before he went with her. The rooms are in the basement* of the house but this base men* is practically on the street floor, there being an entrance under the porch. He waited. When the time was opportune, he looked through the key hole and then through a crack in the splintered door. He claimed to have been able to see on the bed, where what he saw made him frantic. FIRED THROUGH THE DOOR. He fired through the closed door and the light in the room went out; or was put out. The man, who was ap parently five feet nine or ten inches made his escape through the other door. Finally his wife came out. He claims that she was not fully dressed. They got into the street where they struggled. Then she went back in the house. She told him he could sheet, but she could get him. She raised her hand and he fired. The wounded woman was removed to the hospital where at 2 A. M., Wednes day she died. A visit to the nouse, 541 Brook Ave., showed a decapitated structure. Here was found Ellen Grah a washer woman. HUMBLE SURROUNDINGS The surroundings were humble. She lived in the basement. A tub of clothes, with others to wash emphasize the fact that she washed clothes for a living. "Come in, Mr. Mitchell" she said. "Have a seat in the other room." Editor Mitchell entered the front room. He was sitting now in the room in which Chris, Jackson all alleged that he had caught his wife in an improper relationship with an amateur man. Ellen Graham said, "You see Mr. Mitchell, I partly raised Florence from a little thing. She came here to see me. She was in this room combing her hair. We were about to have something to eat. A man was sitting in the other room there. He had come here to get me to do some washing for him. I told him I couldn't as I had all of the work I could do. SEVERAL CHOTS FIRED While Florence was in this room I heard some one cry out, "I've got you," Then there was a succession of chors fired one after another, I begged Florence not to go cut, as Chris, would kill her. She said he would kill her babe and she was going out to his. She went out and on they were "waggling out in the street, as we are, and in 24-hour he's asked if she was in the dress," She had her waist open," was the reply. Chris, pulled her cloak off of her and also her shirt waist, Here is the shirt waist now. She picked up the discarded garment of the dead woman," and here is her cloak." These were mute witnesses of the A SISTER IN PARKERSBURG Several parties came to the door. Ellen Graham went to talk with them and then returned to continue her recital. The dead woman has a sister in Parkersburg, West Va. She has been notified of her death. Ellen Graham knew her only as Ida. The address given was 418 Bush St. "She runs a boarding house here" she said. Chris. Jackson had said that he feared some one would shoot him. He did not know, but what the man wielded shoot him. The case brought vividly to mind the case of Charles Sanders, who had shot and attempted to kill Chris Jackson about a female. THE SCENE SHIFTED Editor Mitchell had seen this same Chris, wan and poke on a conch at the Memorial Hospital, where for many weeks his life was despaired if while Charles Sanders occupied a cell in prison, Now, the scene had shifted, Chris Jackson was behind the bars in the city jail, charged with the murder of his wife, whom he had married four months ago. She be loured in a measure to the under world. It is stated by Chris Jackson's attorney that she has served a term in the penitentiary for dealing in cocaine. All of this is now brought to light with other side lights upon the secret life going on in this community. ATTORNEY POLLARD ACTIVE Attorney J. R. Pokah was representing Chris Jackson although his grandmother, Mrs. Vaughan declared that she had not decided just what she would do. Attorney Edgar B. English had been also consulted, Just who would represent him was not known. There is a child too that is alleged to have lost his mother in the death of Florence Jackson. He was the innocent cause of his mother's death. He came into the world before her marriage to the unfortunate young man, who must now face a jury in the Hustings Court of this city. THE CRACKED DOOR Ellen Graham pointed out to the editor upon the occasion of his visit the bullet hole over the bureau, where one of the bulle's had entered the plastering. Upon examining the door others were found. Chris Jackson had said that he looked under the door to the room leading from the down stairs hallway and that he had also joked through the key hole and through a crack in the door. Upon (Continued On Fourth Page.) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1917 SIR, IN THIS DEMOCRACY FIGHT, THE GIRLS, SECREGILLION, HAS BEEN KILLED AND KILLED 12,000,000. BLACKS MAY BUY HENS AND LIVE, THEY WILL IN AMERICA COURT ON US TO ROUTE THEM BACK IN THIS STATE. Information Wanted If anyone can give me the whereabouts of Emma Thompson and Ida Thompson, colored, please furnish same at my office, 613-A N. Second Street. J. THOMAS HEWIN, Att'y-at-Law SIR, THE GUNS MET THE BLACKS WHERE N. BACK U.S. SQUADRIL CIVIL DR. BROOKS AT EBENEZER. Special Thanksgiving Services Will Be Held at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D., will preach special sermons at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Judah and Leigh streets, Thursday, November 29, at Noon and at eight-thirty P. M. (Thanksgiving Day.) There will be special music on this occasion. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. We have many things for which to give thanks this year and we should put forth every effort to make this a real day of thanksgiving unto God for the blessings which He has vowed to us as a country, nation and Race. The offering of the day will be given to charity as formerly. Dr. Brooks needs no introduction to a Richmond audience and while the service is to be held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church it is to be the Community thanksgiving services. Let the people come out in large numbers and hear this distinguished divine. WILLIAM H. STOKES, Minister, Ebenezer Baptist Church. Mr. George W. Rison, District Deputy Grand Chancellor at Danville Va., was in the city this week. ATTORNEY ALFRED E. COHEN. Who Presented the Virginia Brief to the Supreme Court of the U. S. ANNOUNCEMENT THIS DEMOCRACY FIGHT, STRENGTHEN, HAS BEEN HITTLED 12,000 OCC. BY BOY RENT, AND LIVES, AND VILLA IN AMERICA BOUT ON US TO ROUTE THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD. THE COLORED ORPHAN ASYLUM NEEDS FUNDS. From the gifts from some of the citizens of Richmond, Va. donations from several Churches and Sunday Schools and a small appropriation from the city of Richmond, the management of the Friends Orphan Asylum has managed to bring it thus far. For a few years past our friends have been helping us considerably by sending us donations on Thanksgiving Day. The Board of Directors and Matron will be very grateful to you for any amount you may see proper to give to the home. Yours truly, W. T. JOHNSON, Pres. A Young Funeral Directory Douglas, Price son of Funeral Director A. D. Price officiates regularly at funerals now and is the youngest funeral director in this country being a few months more than sixteen years of age. Having been trained in the business since his earliest childhood he performs his duties with the suave diplomatic bearing of a veteran and will unquestionably increase his popularity among the firm's patrons. THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION A Full Statement of the Reasons for the Opinion. Justice Day Delivers the Mandate==A Unanimous Conclusion==A Great Victory for Human Rights and Property. The Segregation Cases pending be fore the Supreme Court of the United States were brought by the authority and support of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In cooperation with his movement, Editor John Mitchell Jr., Error. vs. William Warley. In Error to the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 12, 1917 "Richmond Planot." - The Executive Committee of the Sunday School and B. Y. P. F. Congress will meet with the First Trust. MENT. was consulted and upon his recommendation, the brilliant young attorney, Mr. Alfred'Cohen was formally employed. Mr. Cohen had been for most in other cases in this state. He held that the ordinance was unconsti tutional. THE SUPPLEMENTARY DATA Counsel for the Association then decided to have him file the supplementary data from this state. This was made essentially necessary as City Attorney H. R. Pollard had filed an illustrated brief, showing his prosperity of the colored people of Richmond under the Jim Crow Car Laws. Mr. William A. Jordan and his committee were especially active and photographer George W. Brown's services were secured to show the other side of the controversy. The result is shown by the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States. We have been able to present it to our readers at this time through the courtesy of the that able legal luminary City Attorney H. R. Pollard, Sr. Here it is in its entirety: [SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED] STATES. No. 33.—October Term, 1917. Charles H. Buchanan, Plaintiff in VG. William Warley. In Error to the Court of Appeals of the State of Kentucky ( November 5, 1917.) Mr. Justice Day delivered the opinion of the Court. Buchanan, plaintiff in error brought an action in the Chancery Branch of Jefferson Circuit Court of Kentucky for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of certain real estate situated in the City of Louisville at the corner of 25th Street and Philzang Avenue. The offer in writing to purchase the property contained a proviso: THE BASIS OF THE CONTRACT "It is understood that I am par (Continued on fifth page.) A Card of Thanks. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Chiles, wish most heartily to thank the neighbors and friends generally for the many valuable gifts presented them on their marriage reception, October 25th, 1917. NOTICE! NOTICE! The regular Union Meeting of the various Tabernacles of the G. G. A. O. Brothers and Sisters of Love and Charity will be held at Price's Hall, Monday night, November 19, 1917. All members are requested to be present. By order of Dr. Albert A. Tennant, District Grand Deputy; Thomas Minor, Assistant. At the last meeting held September 17, the following named officers were served: Thomas Minor, W. S.; Sister Mary Durphy, W. Vivod Brother B. L.; Constains, W. Ree Secretary; Brother W. J. Garrant, W. Chaplain; Sisters Eliza Ross and Sarah Worde, W. Conductors; Thomas Minor and Mary Durphy, Associate Dentists. A Band of Calanthe Organized Lynchburg, Va., November 3. A band of thirty-three children was organized here, by Mrs. Anna Taylor of Richmond, Va., G. W. Mother of the Bands of Calanthe of the State of Virginia. The band was organized through the efforts of Mrs. Emma Garland, assisted by Mrs. J. B. Evans and Mrs. Lizzie Jackson. The band was left in charge of the Matrons, Mrs. Emma Garland, senior and Mrs. Lizzie Jackson, junior. Seven more children will be added soon. The name of the new organization is Palm Band. While here Mrs. Taylor was entertained at the residence of Mrs. Garland. Organ Recital at Ebenezer. A grand organ recital at the Ebenozer Baptist Church, Monday night, November 19, 1917, by Prof. Leonard Haz, Liggins. He is one of our youngest and greatest professors of music in the State, showing a masterful display of execution and registration. Come, and hear this wonderful player supported by some of our best local talent. Mme. Sivilla Ellen Briggs, Miss Lelia Lewis, Mrs. Louisie, Tilton Dean and Mr. Benjamin F. Dean, Admission 25 cents RANDOLPH—CASKIE Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Caske announce the marriage of their daughter, Effie Louise Mr. James W. Randolph, Thursday morning November 29, 1917, at 10:30 o'clock, at their residence 1417 Brown Street. At home December 7.—13 1-2 W. Leigh St., Friends are invited. No cards. PRICE, FIVE CENTS DECISION the Reasons on. e==A Unanimous y for Human ity. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 12, 1917 "Richmond Planor." The Executive Committee of the Sunday School and B. Y. P. U., Congress will meet with the First Baptist Church, Memphis, Tenn., Rev. T. O., Fuller, pastor, December 5. 9, 1917. The object of this meeting is to ar range a program for the next session of the Congress to be held in Galveston, Texas, next June, and to transact other imp grant business that pertains to the welfare of the congress. Each member of the Committee is urgently requested to attend this meeting. If you find it impossible to attend, kindly let us have a letter from you containing whatever surges you feel disposed to make to the Committee. D. W. Cannon U. H. T. Sip THREE FUNERALS AT WOODLAND CEMETERY. There were three funeral at the new Woodland Cemetery last Sunday afternoon. The sight was inspiring. The first to arrive was that of the wife of Mr. John Hanlin Smith of 21 W. Baker St. Funeral Director A. D. Price in charge with Master Douglas Price officiating and the next was that of a young girl from South Richmond with Funeral Director Robert C. Scott in charge. Then came the funeral of Carrie Wilson with the Valley Burial Company in charge. The latter was a most gorgous affair. The remains were in a drop couch state casket covered with light pearl gray plush with raisin trimmings. The body was sarcened in blue silk white lace trimmings. The white enamelled extension bar handles completed the effect. Since he opened May 30 1917 there have been 101 inverments in this popular cemetery. Rev. T. H. White, D. D., of Clifton, Force, Va., and Rev. R. G. Adams of Portsmouth, Va., called on us. Mr. William H. Thorogood of Norfolk, V., was in the city this week. Mrs. Carrie Burns and Mrs. A. H. Ransom have left White Sulphur for Philadelphia, Pa., where they expt to spend the winter. Miss Eva Smith, Mrs. Hoplin Cole Mrs. Maggie Turner and Mrs. Mattie Netherland visited Sunday School institute of Staunton, Va. in August Street M. E. Church, Rev. E. M. Mitchell, pastor. After the institute was over they were entertained at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Mitchell. They were enthusiastic over the reception tendered them. Dr. Mitchell is doing a grand work in Staunton Excellent Flat Excellent Play in good Leigh St. block, 5 rooms, bath, pantry, 2 back porches. Rental reasonable. See Brown and Robinson at once, St. Luke Bank Building. ARMSTRONG SCHOOL LEAGUE The Parent's and Parent's League of the Armstrong High School meets Friday evening, November 23, 1917 in the school building at 7:00 o'clock sharp, important business. Please attend. A Girl's Patrotism. The above subject will beably discussed Sunday, November 18th. 3:20 P. M., at the Sharon Baptist Church by Mise Katherine H. Hawes. All girls and parents are urged to be present. This meeting is held under the auspices of The National Protective League for Negro Girls Inc. Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, National Supt. . SIX THE PLANET SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1917 SON OF TARZAN (Continued from Page Three.) pused near the outer fence, her head upon one side, listening to the pad of naked human feet just beyond the garden. The sound was not repeated. Then she resumed her restless walking. Down to the opposite end of the garden she passed, turned and retraced her steps toward the upper end. Upon the sword near the bushes that bid the fence, full in the glare of the moon light, lay a white envelope that had not been there when she had turned almost upon the very spot a moment before. Merlem stopped short in her tracks, listening again and sniffing more than ever the tigress-alert, ready. Beyond the bushes a naked black runner squatted, peering through the foliage. He saw her take a step closer to the letter. She had seen it. He rose quietly and following the shadows of the bushes that ran down to the corral, was soon gone from sight. Merlem's trained ears heard her every move. She made no attempt to seek closer knowledge of his identity. Already she had guessed that he was a messenger from the Hon. Morison. She stooped and picked up the envelope. Tearing it open, she read the contents easily by the moon's brilliant light. It was, as she had guessed, from Baynes: I cannot go without seeing you again. Come to the clearing early tomorrow morning and say goodbye to me. Come alone. There was a little more—words that made her heart beat faster and a happy flush mount her cheek. It was still dark when the Hon. Morison Baynes set forth for the trysting place. He insisted upon having a guide, saying that he was not sure that he could find his way back to the little clearing. As a matter of fact, the thought of that lonely ride through the darkness before the sun rose had been too much for his courage, and he craved company. A black, therefore, preceded him on foot. Behind and above him came Korak, whom it noise in the camp had awakened. It was so close before Baynes drew rein in the clearing. Merlum had not yet arrived. The black lay down to rest. Baynes lolled in his saddle. Korak stretched himself comfortably upon a lofty limb, where he could watch those beneath him without being seen. An hour passed. Baynes gave evidence of nervousness. Korak had already guessed that the young Englishman had come here to meet another. Presently the sound of an approaching horse came to Korak's cars. Meriem was coming. She had almost reached the clearing before Baynes became aware of her presence, and then as he looked up the foliage parted to the head and shoulders of her mount, and Meriem rode into view Baynes spurred to meet her. Korak looked searchingly down upon her, mentally anathematizing the broad brimmed hat that hid her features from his eyes. She was abreast the Englishman now. Korak saw the man take both her hands and draw her close to his breast. He saw the man's face concealed for a moment beneath the same broad brim that hid the girl's. When he looked again they had drawn apart and were conversing earnestly. Korak could see the man urging something. It was equally evident that the girl was holding back. There were many of her gestures, and the way in which she tossed her head up and to the right, tiptitling her chin, that reminded Korak strongly of Meriem. And then the conversation was over, and the man took the girl in his arms again to kiss her goodbye. She turned and rode toward the point from which she had come. The man sat his horse watching her. At the edge of the jungle she turned to wave him a final farewell. "Tonight!" she cried, throwing back her head as she called the words to him across the little distance which separated them--throwing back her head and revealing her face for the first time to the eyes of the Killer in the tree above. Korak started as though pierced through the heart with an arrow. He trembled and shook like a leaf. He closed his eyes, pressing his palms across them, and then he opened them again and looked. But the girl was gone. Only the waving foliage of the jungle's rim marked where she had disappeared. It was impossible! It could not be true! And yet with his own eyes he had seen his Meriem—older a little, with figure more rounded by nearer maturity, and subtly changed in other ways; more beautiful than ever, yet still his little Meriem. Yes, he had seen the dead olive again; he had seen his Meriem in the flesh. She lived! She had not died! He had seen her—he had seen his Meriem—in the arms of another man! And that man sat below him now with in easy reach. Korak the Killer fondled his heavy spear. He played with the grass rope dangling from his gee string. He stroked the hunting knife at his hip. And the man beneath him called to his drowsy guide, bent the rein to his pony's neck and moved off toward the north. Still sat Korak the Killer alone among the trees Now his hands hung dily at his sides. His weapons and what he had intended were forgotten for the moment. Korak was thinking. He had noted that subtle change in Merlem When last he had seen her she had been his little, half naked Mangan—wild, savage and uncouth She had not seemed uncouth to him then. But now in the change that had come over her, he knew that such she had been, yet no more uncouth than he, and he was still uncouth. In her had taken place the change in her he had just seen a sweet and lovely flower of refinement and civilization, and he shuddered as he recalled the fate that he blimself had planned her—to be the mate of an ape man his mate, in the savage jungle. His Merlem loved another! For a long time he let that awful truth sink deep, and from it he tried to reason out his future plan of action. In his heart was a great desire to follow the man and slay him, out there rose in his consciousness the thought "she loves him." Could he slay the creature Merlem loved? Sadly he shook his head. No he could not. Then came a partial decision to follow Merlem and speak with her. He half started and then was ashamed He, the son of a British peer, had thus thrown away his life, had thus degraded himself to the level of a beast so that he was ashamed to go to the wo man he loved and lay his love at her feet. He was ashamed to go to the little Arab mall who had been his jungle playmate. For what had he to of her? For years circumstances had prevented a return to his father and mother and at last pride had stepped in and expunged from his mind the last vestige of any intention to return. In a spirit of boyish adventure he had cast his lot with the jungle ape. The killing of the crook in the coast inn had filled his childish mind with terror of the law and driven him deeper into the wilds. The rebuffs that he had met with at the hands of men, both black and white, had had their effect upon his mind while it was yet in a formative state and easily influenced. Merlem was not for him—not for the savage ape. No, she was not for him, but he still was hers. If he could no There He Lay Until Late Afternoon. have her and happiness, he would at least do all that lay in his power to assure happiness to her. He would follow the young Englishman. In the first once, he would know that he many Merlem no harm, and after that, though jealousy wrenched his heart, he would watch over the man Merlem loved for Merlem's sake. And so it came that a few minutes after the Hon. Morlison Baynes entered the camp to be greeted by Hanson, Korak slipped noiselessly into a nearby tree. There he lay until late afternoon, and still the young Englishman made no move to leave camp. Korak wondered if Merlem were coming there. A little later Hanson and one of his black boys rode out of camp. Korak merely noted the fact. He was not particularly interested in the doings of any other member of the company than the young Englishman. HANSON and his boy had ridden directly to the clearing. It was already dark when they arrived. Leaving the boy there, Hanson rode to the edge of the plain, leading the boy's horse. There he waited. It was 0 o'clock before he saw a solitary figure galloping toward him from the direction of the bungalow. A few moments later Merlion drew in her mount beside him. She was nervous and flushed. When she recognized Hanson she drew back, startled. "Mr. Baynes' horse fell on him and sprained his ankle," Hanson hastened to explain. "He couldn't very well come, so he sent me to meet you and bring you to camp." The girl could not see in the darkness the gl浮动, triumphant expression on the speaker's face. "We had better hurry." continued Hanson, "for we'll have to move along pretty fast if we don't want to be overtaken." "Is he hurt badly?" asked Merlion. "Is he hurt badly?" asked Merlem. "Only a little sprain," replied Hanson. "He can ride all right, but we both thought he'd better lie up tonight and rest, for he'll have plenty hard riding in the next few weeks." "Yes," agreed the girl. Hanson swung his pony about, and Merlem followed him. They rode north along the edge of the jungle for a mile and then turned straight into it toward the west. Merlem, following, paid little attention to directions. She did not know exactly where Hanson's camp lay, and so she did not guess that he was not leading her toward it. All night they rode straight toward the west. When morning came Hanson permitted a short halt for breakfast, which he had provided in well filled saddlebags before leaving his camp. Then they pushed on again, nor did they halt a second time until, in the heat of the day, he stopped and motioned the girl to dismount. "We will sleep here for a time and let the pouies graze," he said. "I had no idea the camp was so far away," said Merlen. "I left orders that they were to move on at daybreak," explained the trader, "so that we could get a good start. I knew that you and I could easily overtake a laden safari. It may not be until tomorrow that we'll catch up with them." But, though they traveled part of the THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA night and all the following day, no sign of the safari appeared ahead of them. Merlem, an adept in jungle craft, know that none had passed ahead of them for many days. Occasionally she saw indications of an old spoor—a very old spoor—of many men. For the most part they followed this well marked trail along elephant paths and through parklike groves. It was an ideal trail for rapid traveling. ```markdown ``` IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! Merlem at last became suspicuous. Gradually the attitude of the man at her side had begun to change. Often she surprised him devouring her with his eyes. Steadily the former sensation of previous acquaintanceship urged itself upon her. Somewhere, some time before she had known this man. It was evident that he had not shaved for several days. A blond stubble had commenced to cover his neck and checks and chin, and with it the as surmance that he was no stranger continued to grow upon the girl. WE ARE GIVING AWAY COUPONS FOR EVERY CENT PAID IN MONEY IN THE PLANET OFFICE, ON EITHER JOB WORK OR ON SUBSCRIPTIONS. THESE COUPONS WILL BRING A TALKING MACHINE, AN UMBRELLA OR A COPY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR'S WORKS, JUST AS YOU SELECT. It was not until the second day, however, that Meriel rebelled. She drew in her pony at last and voiced her doubts. Hanson assured her that the camp was but a few miles farther on. It was midafternoon when they suddenly broke out of the Jungle upon the banks of a broad and paddle river. Behind, upon the opposite shore. Meriel descried a camp surrounded by a high thorn boma. "Here we are at last," said Hanson he drew his revolver and fired in the trr. Instantly the camp across the rivr was astir. Black men ran down to the river's bank. Hanson balled them. But there was no sign of the Hon. Morlson Baynes. In accordance with their master's instructions the blacks manned a canoe and rowed across. Hanson placed Meriem in the little craft and entered it himself, leaving two boys to watch the horses, which the canoe was to return for and swim across to the camp side of the river. FOR $100 WORTH OF COUPONS. WE WILL SEND YOU A LARGE SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR $75 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A SMALLER SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR 30 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A DETACHABLE UMBRELLA. YOU CAN TAKE IT Once in the camp Meriem asked for Baynes. For the moment her fears had been allayed by the sight of the camp, which she had come to look upon as more or less of a myth. Hanson pointed toward the single tent that stood in the center of the enclosure. "There," he said, and preceded her toward it. At the entrance he held the flap aside and motioned her within. Meriem entered and looked about. The tent was empty. She turned toward Hanson. There was a broad grin on his face. "Where Is Mr. Baynes?" she demanded. FOR $30 WORTH, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR'S WORKS WE WILL ALLOW YOU A CASH DISCOUNT ON ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS THAT YOU MAY SEND US. THE PLANET SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME. IT IS NEWSY AND READABLE. AN EXPERIENCE OF MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ENABLES US TO CATER TO THE READING PUBLIC. YOU WILL LIKE THE PLANET IF YOU WILL READ IT "He ain't here," replied Hanson. "Leastwise I don't see him, do you? But I'm here, and I'm a better man than that thing ever was. You don't need him no more--you got me," and he laughed uprightly and reached for her. Meriem was looking full into his face as she fought for freedom when there came over her a sudden recollection of a similar scene in which she had been a participant and with it full recognition of her assault. He was the Swede Malibhun, who had attacked her once before, who had shot his companion, who would have saved her and from whom she had been rescued by Bwana. His smooth face had deceived her, but now, with the growing beard and the similarity of conditions, recognition came swift and sure. But today there would be no Bwana to save her! We Do All Kinds of Job Work As Merlem struggled with Malbihn hope died within her. She did not utter a sound, for she knew that there was none to come to her assistance, and, besides, the jungle training of her earlier life had taught her the futility of appeals for succor in the savage world of her unbringing. WE HAVE TWO LINOTYPES, ONE IS OF THE LATEST PATENT. THE COST PRICE OF THE FIRST ONE WAS $3,375, EXCLUSIVE OF THE EXTRA PARTS. THE COST OF THE LATEST WAS $3,700, EXCLUSIVE OF THE EXTRA PARTS. ADD TO THESE AMOUNTS $1,000 AND YOU HAVE THE EXPENSE OF BRINGING THEM FROM THE MERGENTHALER FACTORY AT BROOKLYN, N. Y. AND SETTING THEM UP IN OUR OFFICE AT RICHMOND. But as she fought to free herself one hand came in contact with the butt of Malibhu's revolver where it rested in the holster at his hip. Slowly her Crashed It Down Full In Malibhn's Face Our Press Room is also well equipped. The outlay for machinery alone exceeds $4000 Call and see our plant. We make this statement in order that you may know and understand that we are well prepared to take care of your orders and deliver to you your work on time. Address fingers encircled the covered prize and drew it from its resting place. She leveled it at his breast, but the hammer fell futilely upon an empty chamber. For a moment she eluded Malbiln and ran toward the entrance to the tent, but at the very doorway his heavy hand fell upon her shoulder and dragged her back. Wheeling upon him with the fury of a wounded lioness, Meriem grasped the long revolver by the barrel, swung it high above her head and crashed it down full in Malbiln's face. With an oath of pain and rage the man staggered backward, releasing his hold upon her, and then sank unconscious to the ground. Without a backward look Meriem turned and fled into the open THE RICHMOND PLANET. Several of the blacks saw her and tried to intercept her flight, but the menace of the barbarless weapon kept them at a distance. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia And so she won beyond the enclircing boma and disappeared into the Jungle to the south. Straight into the branches of a tree she went, true to the arboreal habitats of the little Mangani she had been, and here she stripped off her riding skirt, her shoes and her stockings, for she knew that she had before her a journey and a flight which would not brook --- (Continued on Seventh Page.) HE PLANET SON OF TARZAN SON OF TARZAN (Continued From Sixth Page.) the burden of these garments. She had not gone far before she commenced to realize how slight were her chances for survival without means of defense or a weapon to bring down meat. Why had she not thought to strip the cartridge belt from Mabiblu's waist before she had left his tent? With cartridges for the revolver she might hope to bag small game and to protect herself from all but the most ferocious of the enemies that would beset her way back to the beloved heartstone of Bwana and My Dear. With the thought came determination to return and obtain the coveted ammunition. She realized that she was taking great chances of recapture. But without means of defense and of obtaining meat she felt that she could never hope to reach safety. And so she turned her face back toward the camp from which she had but just escaped. She thought Malibhn dead, so terrific a blow he had dealt him, and she hoped to find an opportunity after dark to enter the camp and search his tent for the cartridge belt. But searcely had she found a hiding place in a great tree at the edge of the boma, where she could watch without danger of being discovered, than she saw the Swede emerge from his tent, whiping blood from his face and hurling a volley of oaths and questions at his terrified followers. Shortly after the entire camp set forth in search of her, and when Meriem was positive that all were gone she descended from her hiding place and ran quickly across the clearing to Malibhn's tent. A hasty survey of the interior revealed no ammunition, but in one corner was a box in which were packed the Swede's personal belongings that he had sent along by his head man to this westerly camp. Meriem seized upon the receptacle as the possible container of extra ammunition. Quickly she loosed the cords that held the canvas covering about the box and a moment later had raised the lid and was rummaging through the heterogeneous accumulation of odds and ends within. There were letters and papers and cuttings from old newspapers, and among other things the photograph of a little girl in the back of which was pasted a clipping from a Paris daily, a clipping that she had no time to read, yellowed and dimmed by age and handling. But something about the photograph of the little girl which was also reproduced in the newspaper clipping held her attention. Where had she seen that picture before? And then, quite suddenly, it came to her that this was a picture of herself, taken years and years before! Where had it been taken? How had it come into the possession of this man? Why had it been reproduced in a newspaper? What was the story that the faded type told of it? Meriem was bailed by the puzzle that her search for ammunition had revealed. She stood gazing at the faded photograph for a time and then be thought herself of the ammunition for which she had come. Turning again to the box, she rummaged to the bottom, and there in a corner she came upon a little box of cartridges. A single glance assured her that they were intended for the weapon she had thrust inside the band of her riding breeches, and, slipping them into her pocket, she turned once more for an examination of the baffling likeness of herself that she held in her hand. As she stood thus in vain endeavor to fathom this inexplicable mystery the sound of voices broke upon her ears. Instantly she was all alert. They were coming closer. A second later she recognized the murid profanity of the Swede. Malibim was returning! She thrust the photograph into her waist. Quickly she slipped a cartridge into each of the chambers of the revolver. Then she backed toward the end of the tent, keeping the entrance covered by her weapon. The men stopped outside, and Merlem could hear Malibim profanely issuing instructions. He was a long time about it, and while he talked in his bellowing, brutish voice the girl sought some avenue of escape. Stooping, she raised the bottom of the canvas and looked beneath and beyond. There was no one in sight upon that side. Throwing herself upon her stomach, she wormed beneath the tent wall just as Malibluin, with a final word to his men, entered the tent. Merium heard him cross the floor, and then she rose and, stooping low, ran to a native but directly behind. Once inside this she turned and glanced back. There was no one in sight She had not been seen. And now from Malibluin's tent she heard a great cursing. The Swede had discovered the riffling of his box. He was shouting to his men, and as she heard them reply Merium darted from the hut and ran toward the edge of the boma farthest from Malibluin's tent. Two minutes' start of any pursurers was all Merium cared for. Once in the trees she knew that she could outdistance and elude them. Her hopes were high. They could not notate her now; she had had too good a start of them! There was a smile on her lips as she dropped to the ground to cross a little clearing where once had stood a na tive Village surrounded by its fields The huts still stood in ruins. The deserted huts were to her all the better because they were deserted. She did not see the keen eyes watching her from a dozen points, from tum- bling doorways, from behind tottering granaries. In utter unconsciousness of impending danger she started up the village street because it offered the clearest pathway to the jungle. (TO BE CONTINUED) SPECIAL WAR DUTY FOR HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS Home economics teachers in the schools are told in a recent circular of the Bureau of Education that, a special obligation posts upon them to take an active part in the national food and clothing problems arising from the war. They are in a strategic position, according to the Bureau's circular, which says. "Teachers of home economies can reach into the homes of the patrons of the public schools and aid in extending a knowledge of food conditions. They can explain the reasons why American families are asked to modify some of their food habits. They can raise food economy to the plane of patriotic service. They can assist families in matters of economy so that better living conditions can be main tained. Of course, all home economics teachers will alter laboratory practices so as to conform to present food conditions, but they may do much more; they may carefully make plain the reasons why America with her abundance of food material asks her people to select carefully, use wisely and waste not one particle." The Bureau's circular points out that home economics teachers have already assisted materially in the work of food preservation. They can, help further, it is asserted by taking pupils on "fruit picking" plenies to gather fruit for canning that would otherwise go to waste. T" will be possible until very late in the fall in some sections. The products of food preservation may be donated to the red cross sent to the soldiers in France used for public school lunches, or sold for some community project. Home economics teachers can emphasize the cooking of perishable foods and reduce the use of Ols needed staples. Sewing courses in the schools may also be modified to meet war needs. "It should be required that half of all class work be done upon old material, says the Bureau." The value in teaching lessons in thrift can not be overestimated. "Whenever possible articles useful to others rather than to the pupil should be made. This is valuable in establishing among the pupils interest in the great national and patriotic movement of the present time and in suppressing selfishness and vanity. SIGN THE PLEDGE CARDS Our great National Food Pledge Week begins October 28 and ends November 4. In this time the twenty two million families of the United States are going to be asked to sign bledge cards—that is, a card promising the cooperation of every family throughout the length and breadth of our land—with the government in the conservation of food and the elimination of waste from our households. There is no reasonable excuse that anyone of us, who is a good American, can give for not signing this card. It does not bind you to anything beyond your circumstances. It does not mean that you should give away anything. It simply means that you promise your government—what you might naturally promise yourself—to be careful in buying and wasting. Don't let any enemy persuade you not to sign this card. They may tell you that you have already signed one card and it is not necessary to sign another. Your government says it is necessary—as necessary as it was to buy a bond in the second Liberty Loan campaign. Sign the Food Pledge card and volunteer in the vast army of men and women who are willing to stand be hind the government, as the government stands behind our army and the armies of our allies Our allies are making every effort to conserve food and eliminate waste. If we are not willing to help them we are shackers, and our sins of omission will surely be visited on our own heads. How can we help? By eating poultry, instead of beef and mutton and pork, which will stand pecking and shipping across the water. By doing with a few ounces of flour less a day than we have been accustomed to use and using more corn meal instead. By making the weekly cake a month ly cake instead. By leaving off desserts and sweets whenever it is possible and by cutting down on the refreshments when we give a party. By substituting vegetable oils for butter in cooking. Be a food administrator in your own home and help win this war. He also serves who stays at home and saves. TO CONSERVE TIN SUPPLY. Returning of Dairy Cans Urged by Food Administration. Washington—Facing a shortage of tin plate in the country, the food administration urges that dairy cans be straightened and retinned. Railroads are asked to be careful with dairy cans. Investigation has demonstrated that the cans can be repaired at one-fourth to one-third their original cost. If this step is not taken the food administration fears trouble in milk distribution. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA DO YOU KNOW THEM? Washington, D. C., Sept. 18, 1917. Mr. Editor--I am hunting my people. My name is Osborne F. Dennis, I am fifty eight years old, was born in Henrico Co., Virginia, ran off from my mother when quite a child, have never seen nor heard from her since. A child's recollection of my home place was in Henrico Co., Virginia, thirteen miles from Richmond on the pike road and four miles from deep bottom, my father died, when I was quite young. My mother whose name was Silvia Dennis married again. There were three children of the first marri age, two girls and a boy; Manerwa and Josephine Dennis; the youngest a boy was myself, Osborne F. Dennis. My father's name was Fred Dennis. My mother's owner was John Goffrigt Please see if you can trace the whereabouts of my sisters or relatives. Years truly, O F. DENN13 DO YOU KNOW HER? Dear Sir,—D you know any one by the name of Perry in Richmond? We have a colored lady here by the name of Alice Perry and she says she has a brother and 2 sisters. Now this lady is losing her mind. She has spine trouble and dropsy and the neighbors are getting up a petition to have her sent to the Insane Asylum. She owns her own home and if they take her there you know they will get her property unless her people get here and look after her interest, and if you can find any of them tell them to come on right away and get here before it is too late. Come right to my house and I will gladly take them up to her and if they are too poor to come for her, write and tell us what is the best thing to do with her. We are all white people and try to keep her in food. She says she was 18 years old in the Civil war times. Kindly let us know what information you can get. Oblige. Mrs. DAVID A. WAHL. 1723 Fahnstock. St. Wilkinsburg, Pa. Stenographers and Typewriters Are Wanted in the Civil Service. The Editor, -Sir: The Commission requests, in behalf of the American people, that you publish in your journal as frequently as you can, as an item of news, a notice of the war need of the Government for stenographers and typewriters as set forth in the enclosed announcement. The difficulty in securing a sufficient number of stenographers and typewriters for the unusual demands of the Government is giving the Commission great concern. The Commission takes this opportunity to thank you for the assistance you have already given it in meeting the war demands of the civil service. By direction of the Commission: Very respectfully, JOHN A. MCUILIHENNY. President. The Negro Agricultural & Technical College of North Carolina (Formerly the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race) GREENSBORO, N. CAROLINA SUMMER SCHOOL For Progressive Teachers SEVENTEENTH Annual Session JUNE 20—JULY 20, 1916 Easy terms, practical courses, pleasant surroundings. For terms or catalog, address Dr. S. B. Jones, Director. Send #1 and secure lodging in advance. JAS. B. DUDLEY, President Greensboro, N. C. The East India Hair Grower Will Promote a full Growth of Hair. Will also restore the Strength, Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. 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The American transport Antilles, the former Morgan liner, homeward bound, was torpeded on Wednesday and sank in five minutes. Out of 237 men aboard 70 are missing and beloved to be lost. Three of them are officers of the ship, 16 are enlisted men in the army, and the remainder members of the transport's crew. All of the army and navy officers returning aboard the ship have been saved. When struck the Antilles was under convoy of American naval vessels. But so craftily did the U-boat do her deadly work that neither the submarine nor the torpedo was seen at all. Apparently the first warning came when the torpedo struck just abreast of the engine room, but escaped the most vital part of the ship. Secretary of the Navy Daniels authorized the following statement: "The department is in receipt of a dispatch from Vice Admiral Sims, which states that the S. S. Antilles, an army transport, was torpedoed on October 17 while returning to this country from foreign service. This vessel was under convoy of American patrol vessels at the time. "The torpedo which struck the Antilles was not seen nor was the submarine which fired it. The torpedo hit abreast of the engine room bulkhead, and the ship sank within five minutes. One hundred and sixt-seven persons out of about 237 on board the Antilles were saved. About 70 men are missing. "All the naval officers and officers of the army who were on board the ship at the time were saved, as were the officers of the ship, with the ex- ```markdown ``` ception of the following: Walker, third engineer officer; Boyle, junior engineer officer, and O'Rourke, junior engineer officer. "The following enlisted naval personnel were lost: "E. L. Kinzey, scaman second class, next of kin, Thomas M. Kinzey, father, Water Valley, Miss. "J. W. Hunt, scaman second class, next of kin, Isaac Hunt, father, Mountain Grove, Mo., R. F. D. No. 2, Box 44. "C. L. Ausburn, radio electrician first class, next of kin, R. Ausburn, brother, 2800 Louisiana avenue, New Orleans. "C. L. Ausburn, radio electrician third class, next of kin, Mrs. W. L. Seger, mother, Rutland, Mass." "There were about 33 of the army enlisted personnel on board, of whom 17 were saved. The names of the missing army enlisted personnel and of the merchant crew of the ship cannot be given until the muster roll in France of those on board has been consulted. As soon as the department is in receipt of further details concerning the casualties they will be made public immediately." The steamship Antilles, a vessel of 6,878 tons, was built at Cramp yards, Philadelphia, in 1907. Until taken over by the government for transport work she was used in the gulf service of the Southern Pacific Railroad company WORLD'S NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM MILWAUKEE.—The tragic death of Senator Husting will make Mr. La Follette's war attitude a vital political issue in Wisconsin politics at once. A successor to the dead senator must be elected. STOCKHOLM.—Norwegian newspapers have bitterly resented the fleet murders committed by the German cruisers, which, with characteristic brutality, fired on the passengers and crews of the sinking merchantmen in the North sea battle. TRENTON, N. J.—Frederick Kraft, a Socialist, was fined $1,000 and sentenced to five years in the Atlanta CHICAGO.—Gustave H. Jacobsen and three co-defendants, were found guilty of conspiring to foment a revolution in India. They also were found guilty of violating the neutrality of the United States. PETROGRAD. — The government has definitely determined to move to Moscow in the very near future. An announcement of the government's decision was made by M. Kishkin. NEW YORK. — Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the government food administrator, with 200 other women, partook of war broad at the food campaign luncheon here. $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons Noted Surgeon Is Attending Clinical College in Chicago. Copyright Impervious & Industrial American surgery went to school to the most skillful men of the profession, so that wounded Sammies may benefit from three years of research and experimental work, developed through the casualties of the world war. The school is the eighth clinical congress of surgeons of North America. More than 2,500 medical men from all parts of the country are attending the congress, which will continue through Saturday. Dr. Alexis Carrel, who has had much experience on French battlefields, will give a clinic. PEANUT CROP A RECORD. Agricultural Department Urges Yield Be Carefully Harvested. Washington.—The largest peanut crop ever grown in this country will be harvested within the next few weeks. Housewives will take pleasure in reading this announcement, for peanut oil is now used to a large extent in cooking. The Department of agriculture is most anxious that even with the plentifulness of peanuts, the crop should be carefully harvested. SEVEN --- WORLD'S NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM NEW YORK.—A country wide campaign to eliminate unnecessary office details so that more men may be spared for military service has been launched by the War Committee on Office and Credit Economics of the National Association of Credit men. WASHINGTON.—An inventory of foodstuffs by all dealers licensed on November 1 by the food administration is urged by the food administration in preparation for the official report the dealers must make to the government by December 1. TORONTO.—Fire in the Clig ammunition plant caused $200,000 damage. nation plant caused $200,000 damage. BOSTON—Dr. Karl Muck, director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, resigned and the national anthem was played at the close of the concert in Boston. It was announced that "The Star Spangled Banner" would be played at all concerts. NEW YORK—The directors of the Metropolitan Opera company announced that no German operas would be produced during the season. NEW YORK—Roland B. 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Taylor, D. D. spoke $o_1$ to his congregation from I Timothy, 3:7. He preached a wonderful sermon showing plainly that with the advantages of the anteceduvian world, with all of our learning we were drifting apparently away from the truth as did the people of by-gone days and that the only way back was to accept Christ, who says, "I am the way, the truth and the light. Twelve conversions were had in the Sunday School service. Rev. Brother Burrell of Kittrell College, North Carolina, preached to a 'very attentive audience Sunday night at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. Mr. Everett Reesby, of New York City arrived here this morning to spend some time with his father, Mr. J. W. Reesby. The revival services of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church continued this week. Rev. S. W. Mettus, D. D. is with Rev. Tayor in the meeting. He preached a wonderful sermon last Monday night from the text, "As I live, saith the Lord, I have no please in the death of the wicked." It was a great effort and three came forward to the mercy seat, one of whom accented Christ. Mr. George Lavender wishes to use this method in thanking the many friends who assisted and sympathized and helped them during the sickness and death of his loving mother, Mrs. Leanna Lavender. Mrs. N. J. Gravely of Soventh avenue, N. W. subjoins her thanks to the ladies who presented a floral design. She is the granddaughter of Mother Lavender. It is a source of gratitude after the sadness of death to have so faithfully served your em ployer that in the hours of your sad mourning they will present you a check for an hundred dollars, as was presented Mr. George Lavender by Mr. D. W. Fleckner, as a token of his regard for the beloved mother and son. Mrs. Bessie J. Curtis, 218 Seventh avenue, N. W. has returned from a three weeks visit to Baltimore, where she visited her brother, Prof. Lonney Branch. Mr. J. A. Colston is now teaching the Stewartville Public School. Mrs. Maggie Marrows left the city Saturday, eve for an indofinite visit to her and nephew in Camden, New Ma the Planet Agent, at 153 Weis Alfey, N. W. will supply you with The Richmond Planet. His old friend, Joe, will furnish you with the same at 205 Fifth avenue, N. W. Mrs. Mary C. Claiborne was in the city a few days ago and spent Saturday and Sunday with her husband Mr. C. C. Claiborne, of Martinsville, Va., who is employed in the blacksmith department at Roanoke Machine Works. Mrs. Claiborne took breakfast with Mr. and Mrs. M. Stanfield, 153 Wells Alley, N. W. and returned home the following Monday morning. She was looking fine. Mrs. J. T. Thompson, of 515 M. Dowell avenue, N. W., who has been indisposed for two weeks is greatly improved under the care of Dr. J. B. Claytor. Miss Anna Boss, of Savannah, Ga. is at the home of Mrs. J. T. Thompson and expects to spend the Winter in the mountains of Virginia. Mrs. Dessie Hutcherson, of 514 McDowell avenue, N. W. who has been critically ill for three weeks is very much improved and hopes for her speedy recovery are entertained, through the efficient care of Dr. George E. Moore. Mrs. C. J. Dickerson of Madison avenue, N. W., the Grand Worthy District Deputy of St. Lukes, left the Magic City last Thursday evening onroute to Paluski and North Carolina. She will spend two weeks out of the city. Her many friends wish her much joy and success on her trip. She will be missing at the Helping Hand Home Society meeting, which will meet at the residence of Mrs. Nancy Scott, Tuesday night, November 13. She is the vice-president. Mr. C. W. Fuller, of 330 Ninta avenue, N. E. is very sick at this writing. Dr. George A. Moore is attending physician. We hope for his speedy recovery. Mrs. Martha Preston, has returned from Gretna, Altavista, Va, where she spent a month. The Board of Directors of the Cosmopolitan Company was entertained by Dr. L. C. Downing at his residence Monday night. Those present were Dr. J. B. Claytor, Dr. J. H. Roberts, Dr. L. C. Downing, Dr. E. R. Dudley, Messrs. Hunter Terry, John L. Stockton and John C. Tate. The colored people are going to remember the Roanoke boys at Camp Lee, so let every Negro help to make the soldiers comfortable and happy. Write them and send them something worth while. Mr. Simon H. Harris, of 313 Seventh avenue, N. W. met with a very painful accident while at work at the N. and W. shops last Wednesday when his finger was mashed. Mr. Alva L. Douglass, who has made his home in Atlantic City, N. J. the past nine months, was called here to attend the bed-side and funeral of his mother, Mrs. M. H. Douglass. Rev. E. E. Ricks, pastor of First Baptist Church is in New York this week. The members, friends and well-wishers of the Hill Street Baptist Church certainly enjoyed two very excellent sermons on Sunday, November 11. At eleven A. M. the Rev. D. W. 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B., Church Reporter We are glad to welcome home again, Miss Julla Hunt, who has been in Fortress Monroe, Va. for the past three and a half months. She reports as having had an excellent time LITTLE WILLIE'S LETTER. So says Willard, and I expect he is right. Poor Little Willie has not been married because no one loves a fat man, but he is feeling better now that he sees others being left alone in this cold, cruel world, with no one to love them and Winter coming, too. What will Willard do with all the candy he wins on the punch board? But he will find some one to eat him up—I mean his candy. Let him call, girls, you will have plenty candy for the winter and then you sure to get a husband in the Spring. There is a time in every man's life when he meets some one who gets the best of him from the start. We had the pleasure of meeting a lady last week with "eyes divine." We wont tell who, but believe me, she has some eyes, and we have in our short life, see some eyes, but never before any like these. Any man should be proud to have such eyes look with favor upon him. I had one good look into those eyes that haunt me still. Of course, I never forget that no on₀ loves a fat man, so what's the use! Oh! What's the use? Mr. C. F. Brooks, Prof. W. A. Gilliam, Dr. E. D. Downing, Mr. C. Tiffany Toliver and Little Willie the guest of Judge Penn last Sunday afternoon and Judge took the party to Fincastle in his big seven passenger Chandler, where Rev. Dr. Downing delivered an address at the Red Cross Rally. The party enjoyed the trip and returning to the city Mr. Brooks told the Judge he might ask his guest in for supper. The Judge replied not while beofsteak is forty cents a look. Going some, Judge. At the Hampton Theatre this week Anita Bush Company, one of the very best companies on the road, is drawing crowds nightly. This is strictly a high class company in every way. Each member a star in his or her own line. This truly is a great company. Don't forget. Help the Red Cross that's helping our boys. We must help protect them while they are preparing to protect us, our country and our homes. Then buy a life insurance policy on yourself and family. Get it from the N. C. Mutual and Provident Association, of Durham, N. C. See Crowell or Reed. They represent the strongest old line, legal reserve Negro insurance company in the world. See them. Together let us sweetly live, together let us sweetly live. Who wants to die? But, "Be yo also ready." LITTLE WILLIE. Madison Stanfield the Agent for THE RICHMOND PLANET the Dr. D. P. Ordway Plaster Company and the Planet Agent will politely serve you with the papers or the plasters or pills which cure your ills, fevers and chills, at any time, in his home or on the street. It is hard to heat the Planet Hustler. MIDDLESEX COUNTY NOTES Middlesex, Va., Nov. 13.—Zion Branch Baptist Church had a rally last Sunday. Rev. Levl Thomas, a student of the Virginia Union University preached an excellent sermon in the morning. Subject, "Let Your Light Shine." In the afternoon, Rev. E. C. Johnson, pastor of the Lebanon Baptist Church preached from the text, *Rhomans* 1:16, "I am not ashamed of the gospel." He preached a stirring sermon. Amount raised was about fifty dollars. Rev. H. T. Harris is pastor. The ordination of Deacon Thomas Wormley and Junius Cook took place last Sunday at the First Baptist Church, Harmony Village, Rev. W. B. Carrington, D. D., pastor. A rally was also held at the St. Paul Baptist Church, Rev. H. E. Green, pastor. Next sunday there will be $_{0}$ a grand rally at the Shiloh Baptist Church, Rev. J. R. Henderson, R. D., pastor. Mr. Benjamin Ellis, B. D., pastor wricken with paralysis some time ago died last Friday near Saluda. Funeral services and burial took place at the Antioch Baptist Church, of which he was a member. Rev. J. W. Tynes, B. D. officiated. Mr. Ellis will be greatly missed in the community. Attorney J. Thomas Hewin, head of the Shopperh and Daughters, of Richmond, Va. will be at the Immanuel Baptist Church on the fourth Sunday in this month. Mr. W. E. Green has named his gasoline boat, "Olga Lee." Wedding bells are again ringing. Somebody near Streets is interested, but who? To keep up with the news subscribe for The Planet. Boyde sells 'em. Mr. T. V. Williams, who has been on the sick list is out again. Rev. J. W. Tynes, B. D., Mr. J. F. Jones, Mr. Junius Cook and Miss Lella South are recent subscribers to The Planet. With the "less" days we are now facing the sweetness or sugarless days owing to the scarcity of sugar here about, we are not grumbling. Any sacrifice to win the war. Bachelors are having their second chance. Some are making good, so far. Mr. Roye Holmes has recently purchased a new buggy. Now he has no opposition at the big house on the road to Warners ANOTHER PROPHET ADDED. We hear preachers as they warn us to flee from sin and tell us that God will deal with sinners, but if something don't turn up at once we let it go. Long before the United States entered the war the Rev. J. A. Martin, B. D., who was then pastor of the Lebanon Baptist Church prophesied that God would bring a punishment to this people on account of sin. Little thought was given to his plea to get right with God, but now they are remembling his say- UNION ings. We have been taught that the preachers are God's messengers. "And when this cometh to pass, (to it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them," Ezekiel 33:33. BACHELOR. FARMVILLE NEWS: Farpville, Va., Nov. 10.—Friday morning in the public school No. 2 every one who went through it saw a scene of marvelous beauty and bounty. This was the second fair for the farms and schools of Prince Edward and it was indeed a grand one. The farmers from every section of the county came Thursday with the best that their farms had produced. They brought a wealth of products peerless and perhaps without parallel at a county fair. The teachers and housewives brought their work and decorated the walls of every room so beautifully. Friday morning the building was packed with people from every part of the county to see the exhibits. Everybody expected an unprecedented exhibit and nobody was disappointed. Corn, the king of the season, crop seeds, hay of great variety, tobacco, pumpkins, turnips, potatoes of all sizes, peppers, peanuts and all that the farms can yield were to be seen in great numbers. The housewives did their best in canns, jars and bottles of jellies, pro serves, pickles and canned goods. The school children showed much skill with the use of the needle and their fingers had cut and fashioned into shape many artistic designs. We congratulate Mr. J. W. Lancaster for his great work and success has crowned his efforts. Among the friends from other parts of the State who made interesting remarks were Prof. George E. Owens, of Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg, Mr. Pearson, of Hampton and Miss Lizzie A. Jenkins, of Hampton. Miss Mundy, who is teaching at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute was here Friday and Saturday. We were very glad to see her. Rev. Jacob Randolph had a large crowd out Sunday to the Grace Street Baptist Church to witness baptizing. Accomac News. Miss Gracie Ayers, of Machlpongo, and her sister, Miss Abbie Ayers, of New York were the guest of Mrs. Emma Heath and Mrs. Mary Pitts, near Belle Haven, Va. FOR RBNT—Large, beautiful houses on Leigh and Clay streets, with modern improvements. 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TWO THE YUANET SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1917 WORLD'S NEWS IN MIDGET FORM Long Stories of Big Events Told In Brief Paragraphs For Quick Reading ABOUT BOYS IN TRENCHES Progress of Hostilities on All Land Fronts, In the Submarine Zones and in the Up in the Air Battle Field. War Bulletins Galns were made in a combined advance by British and French troops northeast of Ypres in the region of Mouthulst wood and Poolecapelle. It is expected that 4,000 national army recruits from Camp Upton, N. Y., will be sent to Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C., about November 1. British airmen bombed a German aerodrome in Bruges. A captured German officer professes ignorance of America's entrance into the war. British troops have captured Nyangao, in German West Africa, and heavy fighting is in progress. Owing to the near approach of the Germans and in order to carry out a long decided project it was officially announced that the government of Russia would be moved from Petrograd to Moscow. A sorious mutiny occurred in the Austrian fleet at Pola owing to disagreements between Austrian sailors and the crews of German submarines. The men slew their officers. Petrograd tells of the defeat of a Russian squadron in the Riga gulf by a German fleet. Russian troops were being impaired to dead Islamists in uor attack, but the war office had less touch with the Russians there. Washington Doctor Garfield, fuel administrator, reported that the coal situation was improving and that there was a downward tendency in prices. Encouraging reports were received from the president of the miners' union. A weeding out policy is to be applied to surplus staff officers, the number of which has caused criticism, and many may be retired temporarily. The new War Trade board has is sued a drastic order of conservation of needed supplies and prohibits a large list of exports. Provost Marshal General Crowder announced that a new system for the drafted men was being arranged so as to have the right men in the right place without confusion. The American transport Antilles was sunk by a German submarine Wednesday, causing a loss of 70 men, including 16 officers. All the army, navy and steamship's officers were among the 167 survivors. The transport, which was homeward bound, sunk in five minutes, the torpedo having crashed into the engine room. Neither the submarine nor the torpedo was seen by the convoying war vessels, the navy official report says. Herbert C. Hoover, food administrator, in a statement to the public predicted lower food prices between now and January 1 if there was proper cooperation of growers and retailers. He said, however, that he lacked authority to force this co-operation and that hoarding by farmers and extortionate prices by retailers could not be prevented. Secretary McAdoo started a campaign to stamp out sinister influence working to block the second Liberty loan. Leading men of the National Retail Grocers' association, independent retail grocers and chain stores of the country, representing 360,000 retailers, in conference with the food administration, pledged their co-operation to the president. Secretary Daniels, in a bold and frank appeal, called on the medical profession to crush out the social evil, which, he declared, was a menace to the military effectiveness of the United States. Senator Husting of Wisconsin, one of the most ardent supporters of the administration's war programme, was killed accidentally by his brother while on a shooting trip. Dealing a body blow to conscientious objectors and other unpatriotic Americans, the federal circuit court of appeals handed down a unanimous decision declaring the selective draft law constitutional and beyond court jurisdiction. New classifications are promul- gated showing the exact order for calling men in the draft. The Western Wisconsin Teachers' association passed resolutions denouncing Senator La Follette. President W. son is in favor of the recently created aircraft board visiting Europe. Nine and one-quarter cents a pound for sugar is the limit New York retail dealers are justified in charging, declared an expert of the food administration, who said it was unfair for them to charge more when refiners, jobbers and wholesalers were holding prices down when they could make big profits. Secretary Baker will name Boston as one of the five ports where army depots are to be established. Hoover, food administrator, said the 5-cent loaf for a standard would be wasteful. The strike of the Borden milk drivers in New York was settled. A weekly wage of $25 with one day off a month was granted. Because of inability to obtain raw sugar the Savannah Sugar Refining corporation, at Fort Wentworth, Ga., shut down. The Chicago butter and egg board announced that there are 2,114,528,040 eggs now held in cold storage. Capt. Howard E. Sullivan, Second Now York field artillery, is placed under arrest at Camp Wadsworth, Spartansburg, S. C., under charges following an assault on a soldier of his command. New York city is verging toward a coal famine. Dealers have little or no coal on hand, and none will sell for immediate delivery. Gas, electric and public utility companies are drawing upon rapidly disappearing reserves, and mild weather alone defers immediate suffering. The Rev. J. Ross Stevenson caused a sensation at the session of the Presbyterian Synod of New Jersey by declaring that moral conditions in and about Princeton, N. J., require the immediate consideration of the church. Scrutiny by the navy of the life record of a German agent who applied for work led to the arrest of the two German bankers Fritz Kuhn and George von Seeck. ORVILLE WRIGHT Inventor of Airplane Honored; Lord Northcliffe Presents Medal. X Orville Wright, Dayton's foremost citizen, who, with his brother, invented the airplane, has been honored by Lord Northcliffe, head of the British war mission to the United States, who decorated him with the Albert medal. GERMANS TRAP RUSSIAN FLEET FIFTY HEAVY GUNS AND MUCH WAR MATERIAL SEIZED. Slav Warships Outranged by Foe's Dreadnaughts—10,000 Russians Captured. London.—The Russian fleet, or a considerable part of it, has been bottled up by the Germans in Moon sound, on the northern side of the Gulf of Riga, after a naval battle in that vicinity, in which the Russian battleship Slava was sunk off Osel island by German dreadnaughts, which, on account of their superior guns, were able to remain outside of the range of Russian fire. Moon island, one of the strongest fortified posts in the Battle, was captured by the Germans, thereby laying the coast of the mainland open to them and opening the way by sea to Kronstadt and Petrograd. About 10,000 Russian prisoners were taken on Osset island. Apparently there are about 20 Russian warships in the fleet in Moon sound, with superior German fleets not only to the south, where the battle was fought, but also to the north of Moon island, in the eastern part of Kassar bay, where they were hurried as soon as it was seen that Moon island was about to be taken. MORE PICKETS TO WORKHOUSE. Four Guarding the White House Sent to Occupan for Varying Tours Washington. — Four more White House pickets, among them Alice Paul, leader of the picketing movement, were sent to the District workhouse at Oceoquan. Miss Paul and Dr. Caroline Spencer of Colorado Springs were sentenced to six months plus thirty days on two convictions for obstructing traffic in front of the White House gates, Gladys Greiner of Baltimore, and Gertrude Crocker of Kinsel, ill., arrested with Miss Paul, were sentenced to 30 days as first offenders. Additional 30-day terms were also imposed on four suffragists already serving a six months' sentence. THE RICHMOND PLANE1, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SAY GERMANS SLAY PRISONERS. Claimed Captives Are Put Into Boats and Then Fired Upon. Petrograd.—A cable to the semiofficial news agency says that Esthomians who have escaped from Oesel and Moon islands, recently captured by the Germans, report that Russian prisoners are being loaded into boats by the Germans, who tell them, "We have nothing with which to feed you." As soon as the boats leave they are fired upon with machine guns and sunk without a trace. PERFECTO QUININE FOMADE makes the hair grow long straight and beautiful. 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Address Plough Chemical Co., Dept. 5, Memphis, Tennessee. WRITE NOW—TO-DAY — WHILE YOU THINK ABOUT IT—Adv. $ 100 PANTS MADE TO MEASURE Not $1,00, not even too, not one cent conditions No extra charge for fancy, swell styles no extra charge for extra big, extreme pog-tops, peg buttons, tunnel or fancy belt loops, no extra charge for any pants, no extra charge for any other order, before you buy a suit or pants, get our samples and new offer. Agents of other tailoring houses will help you find a photo that will will open your eyes. We ask every man to answer this, every boy in long pants, every man, everywhere. No matter where you live or what you do, write me a message. No photo that No Your New Free Offer" the big, new different tailoring deal. Cost nothing and no extra charges. Write today, this minute. Address KNICKERBOCKER TAILORING CO. Dept. 718 Ohioicago, Ill. VIRGINIA GILDERSLEEVE Dean of Barnard College Who Calls on Girls to Save Nickels. SOPHIA BALDWIN & TODORO Miss Virginia Cinderace, co-founder of Barnard college and one of the central committee of the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, has started an unusual Liberty loan campaign among the girls of Barnard. She calls it a "five cent campaign" and expects by centering the attention of the girls on the fact that 5 cents really counts, that it will buy a cartridge for a soldier or half a soldier's breakfast, to induce economies enough to create a real Liberty loan fund at Barnard. SEIZE TEUTONS' $200,000,000 U. S. CONFISCATES HUGE QUANTITIES OF ENEMY SUPPLIES. Amounts of This German Property Here, Including Cotton, Will Reach a Vast Total. Washington,—Property and money amounting to $200,000,000 or more belonging to German subjects or owed to them by corporations and individuals in the United States will be seized and used to buy Liberty bonds with which to finance the war against Germany. Already preparations are under way by A. Mitchell Palmer, custodian of enemy property, to employ this money against Germany. Mr. Palmer, who qualified as custodian, opened offices at 920 F street, will be the largest individual purchaser of Liberty bonds. All the money he obtains in his official capacity will go toward the purchase of the bonds. Upon coming to Washington to take up his important duties Mr. Palmer found hundreds of letters from corporations and others offering to turn over to him large amounts of money in the shape of dividends from German owned corporations in the United States as well as amounts due in settlements of estates and bills owed German business houses by American houses. Inasmuch as the moneys can be easily received and their status does not require any great amount of investigation by the custodian they will be received without delay. Mr. Palmer completely qualified when he filed a bond as large as that required by the government of the secretary of the treasury, $150,000. 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Tarzan appears and is joyfully recognized by the ape, for Tarzan had been king of his tribe. Tarzan agrees to buy Akut, the ape, and send him back to Africa. Jack resolves to go along. Jack learns the ape language. Paulitch, hating the father, tries to kill Jack, but in killed by Akut. Jack and Akut escape to Africa and enter the jungle. Malibhn and Jensen, two Swede renegades and traders, try vain, for mercenary and to pay the possession of a little girl, Merlion, held by an ape, shook. Jack learns jungle lore from Akut. Jack comes across the Swede's safari, but is repulsed. Dishearened, he takes all the more to jungle life. From a tree he spies Merlion. The shell beats Merlion. Jack rescues her and takes her to the jungle. Attacked by Kovudou, a black chief, Jack is wounded, and Merlion is torn from him. The Swedes buy Merlion from Kovudou. In a row over her Malibhn kills Jensen. A man known as Bwana rescues Merlion. Bwana takes Merlion home to his wife, who adopts her, Jack, with Akut's ape, storms Kovudou's village. Not finding Merlion, she has been killed. The Hon. Visits bwana and falls in love with Merlion. Disgusted and under the name of Hanson, Malibhn arrives at Bwana's plantation. Baynes persuades Meriem, who believes that she is the best teacher in Bwana, Bwana, learning this, she says, she will win. MERIEM and Bwana were sitting on the veranda together the following day when a horseman appeared in the distance riding across the plain toward the bungalow. Bwana shaded his eyes with his hand and gazed out toward the oncoming rider. He was puzzled. Strangers were few in central Africa. Even the blacks for a distance of many miles in every direction were well known to him. No white man came within a hundred miles that word of his coming did not reach Bwana long before the strange every move was reported to the big Bwana—just what animals he killed and how many of each species, how he killed them, too, for Bwana would not permit the use of prussic acid or strychnine and how he treated his "boys." But here was evidently one who had slipped into the country unheralded. Bwana could not imagine who the approaching horseman might be. After the manner of frontier hospitality the globe round, he met the newcomer at the gate, welcoming him even before he had dismounted. He saw a tall, well knit man of thirty or more, blond of hair and smooth shaven. There was a tantalizing familiarity about him that convinced Bwana that he should be able to call the visitor by name, yet he was unable to do so. Bwana was wondering how a tone white man could have made his way through the savage, unhospitable miles that lay toward the south. As though guessing what must be passing through the other's mind, the stranger vouche-safed an explanation. "I came down from the north to do a little trading and hunting," he said, "and got way off the beaten track. My head man, who was the only member of the safari who had ever before been in the country, took sick and died. We could find no natives to guide us, and so I simply swung back straight north. We have been living on the fruits of our guns for over a month. "Didn't have an idea there was a white man within a thousand miles of us when we camped last night by a water hole at the edge of the plain. This morning I started out to hunt and saw the smoke from your chimney, so I sent my gun bearer back to camp with the good news and rode straight over here myself. Of course I've heard of you—everybody who comes into central Africa does—and I'd be mighty glad of permission to rest up and hunt around here for a couple of weeks." "Certainly," replied Bwana. "Make yourself at home." "This is Mr. Hanson," he said, using the name the man had given him. "He is a trader who has lost his way in the jungle to the south." My Dear and Merlem bowed their acknowledgments of the introduction. The man seemed rather ill at ease in their presence. His host attributed this to the fact that his guest was unacustomed to the society of cultured women, and so found a pretext to extricate him quickly from his seemingly unpleasant position and lead him away to his study and the brandy and soda, which were evidently much less embarrassing to Mr. Hanson. When the two had left them Merlem turned toward My Dear. "It is odd," she said, "but I could almost swear that I had known Mr. Hanson in the past. It is odd, but quite impossible," and she gave the matter no further thought. For three weeks Hanson had remained. During this time he said that his boys were resting and gaining strength after their terrible ordeals in the untracked jungles to the south, but He had not been as idle as he appeared to have been. He divided his small following into two parts, intrusting the leadership of each to men whom he believed he could trust. To them he explained his plans and the rich reward that they would win from him if they carried his designs to a successful conclusion. One party he moved very slowly northward along the trail that connects with the great caravan routes entering the Sahara from the south. The other he ordered straight westward with orders to halt and go into permanent camp just beyond the great river which marks the natural boundary of the country that the big Bwana rightfully considers almost his own. To his host he explained that he was moving his safari slowly toward the north—he said nothing of the party moving westward. Then one day he announced that half his boys had deserted, for a hunting party from the bungalow had come across his northerly camp, and he feared that they might have noticed the reduced numbers of his following. And thus matters stood when one hot night Merlem, unable to sleep, rose and wandered out into the garden. The Hon. Morison had been urging his suit once more that evening, and the girl's mind was in such a turmoil that she had been unable to sleep. The wide heavens above her seemed to promise a greater freedom from doubt and questioning. Haynes had urged her to tell him that she loved him. A dozen times she thought that she might honestly give him the answer that he demanded. Korak was fast becoming but a memory. That he was dead she had come to believe since otherwise he would have sought her out. She did not know that he had even better reason to believe her dead and that it was because of that belief he had made no effort to find her after his raid upon the village of Kowudoo. Behind a great flowering shrub Hanson lay gazing at the stars and waiting. He had lain thus and there many nights before. For what was he waiting or for whom? He heard the girl approaching and half raised himself to his elbow. A dozen paces away, the reins looped over a fencepost, stood his pony. Merlem, walking slowly, approached the bush behind which the waiter lay. Hanson drew a large bandanna handkerchief from his pocket and rose stealthily to his knees. A pony neighed down at the corrals. Far out across the plain a lion roared. Hanson changed his position until he squatted upon both feet. Again the pony neighed, this time closer. There was the sound of his body brushing against shrubbery. Hanson heard and wondered how the animal had got from the corral, for it was evident that he was already in the garden. The man turned his head in the direction of the beast. What he saw sent him to the ground, huddled close, beneath the shrubbery—a man was coming, leading two ponies. Merlom heard now and stopped to look and listen. A moment later the Hon. Morlson Baynes drew near, the two saddled mounts at his heels. Merlom looked up at him in surprise. The Hon. Morlson grinned sheepishly. "I couldn't sleep," he explained, "and was going for a bit of a ride when I chanced to see you out here. and I thought you'd like to join me. Ripping good sport, you know, night riding. Come on." Merlom laughed. The adventure appealed to her. "All right," she said. Hanson swore beneath his breath. The two led their horses from the garden to the gate and through it. There they discovered Hanson's mount. "Why, here's the trader's pony," remarked Baynes. "He's probably down visiting with the foreman," said Merlem. "Pretty late for him, isn't it?" remarked the Hon. Morison. "I'd hate to have to ride back through that jungle at night to his camp." A moment later the two had mounted and were moving slowly across the moon bathed plain. Their horses were pressed side by side. Baynes was pressing Merlem's hand as he poured words of love into her ear, and Merlem was listening. "Come to London with me," urged the Hon. Morison. "I can gather a safari, and we can be a whole day upon the way to the coast before they guess that we have gone." "Why must we go that way?" asked the girl. "Bwana and My Dear would not object to our marriage." "I cannot marry you just yet," explained the Hon. Morison. "I must inform my people, and there are other formalities to be attended to first. You do not understand. It will be all right. We will go to London. I cannot wait. If you love me you will come." "You love me?" she asked. "You will marry me when we have reached London?" "I swear it!" he cried. "I will go with you," she whispered, "though I do not understand why delay is necessary." She leaned toward him, and he took her in his arms and bent to press his lips to hers. At the bungalow Bwana had met the returning adventurers on the veranda. Returning from the foreman's quarters, Bwana had noticed that the corral gate was open, and further investigation revealed the fact that Merlem's pony was gone and also the one most often used by Baynes. Explanations on the part of the Englishman met a rather chilly reception from his host. Merlem was silent. She saw that Bwana was angry with her. It was the first time, and she was heartbroken. "Go to your room, Merlem," he said, "And, Baynes, if you will step into my study I'd like to have a word with you in a moment." Bwana saw Hanson in the garden and called him to the veranda. Hanson paused. Both men were silent for a time. Presently the trader bed in an embarrassed manner, as THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA "I will go with you," she whispered, though there was something on his mind he felt in duty bound to say, but hated to. "What is it, Hanson?" asked Bwana, "You were about to say something, weren't you?" "Well, you see it's like this," ventured Hanson. "Beln' around here evenings a good deal I've seen them two together a lot, and, beggin' your pardon, sir, but I don't think Mr. Baynes means the gil' may good I've overheard enough to make me think he's tryin' to get her to run off with him." Hanson, to fit his own ends, hit nearer the truth than he knew. He was afraid that Baynes would interfere with his own plans, and he had hit upon a scheme both to utilize the young Englishman and get rid of him at the same time. "And I thought," continued the trader, "that, hasmuch as I'm about due to move, you might like to suggest to Mr. Baynes that he go with me. I'd be willin' to take him north to the caravan trails as a favor to you, sir." Bwana stood in deep thought for a moment. Presently he looked up. "Of course, Hanson, Mr. Baynes is my guest." he said, a grim twinkle in his eye. "Really I cannot accuse him of planning to run away with Meriem on the evidence that we have, and as he is my guest I should hate to be so discourteous as to ask him to leave. But if I recall his words correctly it seems to me that he has spoken of returning home, and I am sure that nothing would delight him more than going north with you. You say you start to morrow? I think Mr. Baynes will act company you. "Drop over in the morning, if you please, and now good night, and thank you for keeping a watchful eye on Merlem." Hanson hid a grin as he turned and sought his saddle. Bwana stepped from the veranda to his study, where he found the Hon. Morlson pacing back and forth, evidently very ill at ease. "Baynes," said Bwana, coming directly to the point, "Hanson is leaving for the north tomorrow." He asked me to say to you that he'd be glad to have you accompany him. Good night, Baynes! At Bwana's suggestion Meriem kept to her room the following morning until after the Hon. Morlson Baynes had departed. Hanson had come for him early—in fact, he had remained all night with the foreman, Jervis, that they might get an early start. The farewell exchanges between the Hon. Morlson and his host were of the most formal type, and when at last the guest rope away Bwana breathed a sigh of relief. It had been an unpleasant duty, and he was glad that it was over, but he did not regret his action. He did not mention the subject again to Meriem, and in this he made a mistake, for the young girl, while realizing the debt of gratitude she owed Bwana and My Dear, was both proud and sensitive, so that Bwana's action in sending Baynes away and giving her no opportunity to explain or defend hurt and mortified her. Also it did much toward making a martyr of Baynes in her eyes and arousing in her breast a keen feeling of loyalty toward him. CHAPTER XIII. As Hanson and Baynes rode toward the former's camp the English man maintained a morose silence. The other was attempting to formulate an opening that would lead naturally to the proposition he had in mind. He rode a neck behind his companion, grinning as he noted the sullen scowl upon the other's patrician face. "Rather rough on you, wasn't he? he ventured at last, jerking his head back in the direction of the bungalow as Baynes turned his eyes upon him at the remark. "He thinks a lot of the girl," continued Hanson, "and don't want nobody to marry her and take her away. But it looks to me as though he was deaf her more harm than good in sending you away. She ought to marry some time, and she couldn't do better than a fine young gentleman like you." Baynes, who had at first felt inclined to take offense at the mention of his private affairs by this common fellow, was modified by Hanson's final remarks and immediately commenced to see in him a man of discrimination. "He's a darned bounder," grumbled the Hon. Morison, "but I'll get even with him. He may be the whole thing in central Africa, but I'm as big as he is in London, and he'll find it out when he comes home." "If I was you," said Hanson, "I wouldn't let any man keep me from gettin' the girl I want. Between you and me I ain't got no use for him either, and if I can help you any, why, just call on me." "It's mighty good of you, Hanson," replied Baynes, warming up a bit, "but what can a fellow do here in this God forsaken hole?" "I know what I'd do," said Hanson. "I'd take the girl along with me. If she loves you she'll go, all right." "It can't be done," said Baynes. "He bosses this whole blooming country for miles around. He'd be sure to catch us." "No, he wouldn't; not with me running things," said Hannon. "I've been trading and hunting here for ten years, and I know as much about the country as he does. If you want to take the girl along I'll help you, and I will guarantee that there won't nobody catch up with us before we reach the coast. "I'll tell you what--you write her a note, and I'll get it to her by my head man. Ask her to meet you to say goodbye. She won't refuse that. In the meantime we can be movin' camp a little farther north all the time, and you can make arrangements with her to be all ready on a certain night. Tell her I'll meet her then, while you wait for us in camp. That'll be better, for I know the country well and can cover it quicker than you. You can take charge of the safari and be movin' along slow toward the north, and the girl and I'll catch up to you." The balance of the long ride to Hanson's northerly camp was made in silence, for both men were occupied with their thoughts, most of which were far from being either complimentary or loyal to the other. As they rode through the wood the sounds of their careless passage came to the ears of another jungle wayfarer. It was no other than Korak himself, who was perched in a tree. He moved stenthily through the branches until he came within sight of the riders. He fell in behind the pair, following them to Hanson's camp Here the Don Morison penned a brief note, which Hanson gave into the keeping of one of his boys, who started off forthwith with it toward the south. Out of curiosity Korak remained in the vicinity of the camp. 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To and from Washington and beyond - Dally Leave Richmond ▲ 6.15 PM 8.14 AM † 7.50 AM § 8.50 PM * 7.50 AM 12.00 PM † 2.00 PM § 10.50 PM * 7.50 AM 2.50 PM † 2.50 PM § 10.50 PM * 7.52 PM 6.40 PM † 6.25 PM § 12.53 NL * 8.30 AM 8.50 PM † 6.30 PM § 12.40 NL Richmond-Washington Local, Lv. §1.50 PM wkly, Fredericksburg Sundays, Ar. §1.25 NL §1.15 PM, Ar. §1.10 PM, Ashland Accoun, week days, Lv. §1.25 PM, 6.30 PM, Ar. §6.30 PM, 6.42 PM elect and baggage offices not open for this trip, Byrd St. (stopping at Elba) © Elba St. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL-RAIL LIN.. TO NORFOLK Leaved Byrd Street Station, Richmond FOB NORFOLK, "6:15 A. M.," *0:00 A. M.," *2:00 P. M.," *4:00 P. M. FOR LYNCHURB AND THE WEST—$1^-$ LONG, M. *: 26.5 P. M. FOR LYNCHURB, *: 15.3 P. M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk—11:40 A. M. ; "0:35 P. M.; "0:00 P. M.; "1:80 P. M. M. From West; "0:35 A. M.; "8:87 A. M.; "2:10 P. M.; "1:40 A. M.; "1:00 P. M.; "1:00 P. M.; "1:00 *daily* *daily* except Sunday *daily* only W. B. BEVILL, W. B. 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B.—Following schedule figures published as information and not guaranteed). 6:80 A. M.—Daily—Local for Danville. 6:80 B. M.—Daily—Local for potsaf. South, Fullman buffet parlor car. 8:00 P. M. —Except Sunday—Local for Grace City, Buffalo Junct. and intermediate stations. 8:00 P. M. —Daily—For Dantile, Atlanta and Immingham with Pullman observation sleeps. 11:15 P. M. —Daily—Limited—For all points South. Pullman read 9:00 P. M. YORK RIVER LINE 4:15 P. M. —Daily—Local to West Point. 5:100 M. —Steam Train—daily except Sunday to stop. 7:35 A. M. —Daily—Local to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHDIMON From the South 7:00 A. M. 8:10 A. M. 8:50 P. M. and 8:30 P. M. daily; 8:40 A. M. except Sunday. From West Point: r140 A. M., 0:15 P. M. Date: December 11. Overseas train from Baltimore, daily except Monday. MAGRUDRER DENT, D. P. A. 007 East Market, Madison Madison 87G 28 North Sewentown CHESAPEAKE & OHIO. Cincinnati, Louville & West, *2 p.*, *7 p.*, *11 p.* Main Line Local, *7:26 a.*, **16:15 b.* James River Line, *10:00 a.*, **18:18 b.* Newport News, Norfolk and Old Point, tier level, 8:20 a.m., 4:00 p. *Dally* **Except Sunday** SEABOARD AIR LINE THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY ON THE SOUTH Bouthoud trainals scheduled to leave Richmond: daily 0:35 A. M. local to Norfolk; 1:30 P. M., sleepers and coaches to Jacksonville; 1:30 Birmingham; 6:55 P. M. through coaches and sleepers to Jacksonville; 11:30 P. M., Florida; Minneapolis; 1:45 A. M. a sleeper to Atlanta; miltonh, Jacksonville, Tampa and coahau to Jacksonville. Northbound trainals scheduled to arrive Richmond daily: 4:25 A. M. 7:23 A. M. and A. M. local. 0:35 A. M. 5:27 P. M. THREE VISTIT US A CORNER. DAVIS. CA THE PLANET SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1917 VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND COLLEGE IS IN A PROSPEROUS CONDITION. --- The Virginia Theological Seminary and College has had a most auspicious opening and as in the midst of a very prosperous and hopeful year. The Jubilee, held on the grounds in July, did much to put the school for ward in every particular. The finan cesses of the Jubilee enabled the institution to pay off all mortgaged indebtness and add much to the equipment. With increased faculty and large student body, the work has attained now proportion. More than three hundred students are enrolled in the courses. In one week after the opening, the three hundred mark was about reached which brought the in situation within about thirty of its capacity. The constant incoming of young men has necessitated the leasing of new houses to cope with the congested situation. The dormitories for young women being filled, the in situation is practically closed to receiving more. Expansion is now the urgent demand. More than one hundred and thirty applicants have been placed upon the writing list to advise entrance elsewhere. The capacity should be increased to five hundred boarding students to meet what is now an urgent demand. These students represent more than twenty stakes and two foreign countries. Every department in the institution has a large number of students enrolled. FACULTY. The faculty is one of high attainment and special fitness. Many with considerable experience in the educational work and representing the nation's best institutions; Three new members have come to the faculty this year. Prof. L. Emmett Drewry, A. B. of Oberlin takes up the work as physical Director as successor to Prof. J. R. Hunt who has been commissioned First Lieutenant; Miss Amy L. Pendleton, A. B., of Oberlin and Prof. A. P. Lesner, A. B., of Howard, are additions to the faculty. This phase of the work is in excellent shape. DINING HALL A new Dining hall is now in the course of erection and nearing completion. This building with imposing Colonial front makes a splendid addition in the general appearance of bulldings and grounds. This Hall will be completed about January last, and dedicated. SCIENCE HALL When the new lining hall is occupied the former one will be converted into a Science Hall and equipped well as a Laboratory for physical sciences. These improvements will enhance the institution to approximate in a very large degree its ambition respecting the work and its general advancement. WOMEN'S EXECUTIVE BOARD APPEALS. Mrs. L. W. Tyrrell, chairman and Mrs. M. R. H. Allen, secretary, with the other members of the Executive Board of the Women's Convention, have made an appeal to the churches of Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York to recognize Friday, November 23rd, as "Pam try Supply Day" and on that day give some edibles for the institution. Each county in Virginia has been allowed some one article of food to supply some meat, some apples, some soya sauce, some potatoes flour and the clink. Also each State is requested to give some the article. All kinds of food stuffs are called for meal, meat, beans, potatoes, cabbage, turnips, fish, etc. This is a worthy appeal made in a strenuous time for a worthy institution. In this effort Mrs. Tyrrell and her workers have the full support and cooperation of the President of the institution. It is his earnest and urgent desire that these worthy work will be a hearty response to their appeal. By so doing the work will be greatly helped and they will be encouraged. ABINGDON NEWS Mr. P. L. Porter editor of the East Tennessee News was in our town last Sunday and smoke in the morning at the Valley St. Baptist church. He brought to our people a very instructive and inspiring message. At night our pastor Rev. W. H. Gray preached a fine sermon. Outside a large number of drafted men from Washington, Co., gathered in our town the county seat to leave for Camp Lee. On Friday night they were given a banquet by the colored citizens. On their departure Satur day morning they were presented with boxes of lunch by the white ladies of the Red Cross chapter. Mrs. M. G. Eversole of Seattle Washington has returned home after visiting Mrs. Catherine Lawles, Mrs. Henrietta Lovley, Mrs. Mary Baker, Mrs. Polly Clark is quite ill at the home of her daughter Mrs. Jenny Cook. Mr. Wm. H Brown and wife of Bristol, Va., were visiting here last week. REPOCTER THE COLORED PUBLIC SCHOOL ATHLETIC LEAGUE. Ad a recent meeting at the Navy Hill School an athletic league was formed by representatives from Moore, Navy Hill, Baker, Buchanan, George Mason, and Dunbar schools. The purpose of the league is to develop athletics in the colored schools by means of monthly contests. The officers elected for the year are: A. L. Morton, president; B. L. Allen, vice president and publicity agent; B. F. Vaughan, secretary and treasurer; W. T. White, assistant secretary; G. H. Rold and A. T. Scott, statistical committee; L. T. statistical of physical Training in the Richmond Public Schools in athletic advisor, Prof. J. H. Black well, W. H. Harris and V. A. Lowle were appointed to draft a constitution. A plan of athletics for the whole year was outlined. It consist of regular events and certain feats of skill. The events for November are the standing broad jump and the forward roll. All patrons and friends are asked to foster the work of athletics among our boys in the public schools as a means of serious training and development for citizenship. Specially Colored Public School Athletic League: A. L. Morton, president; B. F. Vaughan, secretary; B. L. Allon, Publicity Agent. DANVILLE NEWS Mrs. Lizzie Bennett Terry of Pittsburg, Pa., is home visiting. Mrs. Ethel Alexander of Jersey City spent a few days in the city enroute to Boydton, Va., James McAden a cripple was arrested and sent to jail for 30 days on the charge of vagrancy. He had only been out of employment three days. Hq was discharged because his employer had no further work for him to do. He was fortunate enough to secure a job but was locked up before he could report for duty. But one good thing this young man had been attending the Baraca Class of the Calvary Baptist Sunday School to whom he applied for help. The president Mr. W. B. Muse and the Assistant teacher, Mr. W. O. Ferguson, investigated the case and presented the facts to the Mayor and secured his release. It ways to be connected with the Sunday School and Church. We are glad to have a colored paper in our city, "The Headlight," Mr. Theo Harrison editor and proprietor. Office in the Southern Aid Building. We wish for him much success. Mrs. Annie Wheeler of Oaksville is very sleek. Rev. W. F. Grasty pastor of the First Baptist Church closed his seventh anniversary Monday evening. An excellent program was rond ored. (Refreshments were served. Mr. John L. Johnson has returned home after touring Baltimore. Mr. Hirie Richardson is spending the week end in Washington and Baltimore. Mr. Charlie Pritchett of Liberty Hill died Friday morning in his 22nd year. His funeral was conducted from the house by Rev. Terry. Undertaker L. H. Brooks officiated. The floral designs were beautiful. We note with sadness the death of Mrs. Cordela M. Flemming, mother of Mr. Herbert Flemming, Richmond Va., Mrs. Flemming had many friends in this city who will learn with much sorrow of her death. Mr. L. M. Green, of this city attended her funeray in Richmond, Va. Sunday November 4th. Mr. Sidney Parker of Richmond Va., is in the city again. Mrs. Romaine Adams of Holbrook street is on the sick list. An excellent musicale was rendered last Monday evening at the West morland High School by Miss Minnie Hayes and Mrs. Forbes of Lynchburg Va., REPORTER RONCEVERTE NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Greene gave a dinner in honor of their sister Mrs. L. B. Johnson, who leaves for Charleston, Thursday morning to stay all winter. Those present were: Rev. and Mrs. I. H. Carpenter of Ronceverce, Rev. E. Tyser of Lewisburg, Prof. and Mrs. J. C. Justice and Miss M. E. Parfairx. The table was decorated beautifully and all had a delightful time. They all wish her good luck and success with her stay. On Wednesday evening November 14, 1917 Mrs. L. B. Johnson was deftfully intertwined with a surprise party by her Sunday School pupils, Miss Alice Greene, Thelma Sweeney, Dolly Carlin Mrs. James Ligons, Bernie Lee, Ella Ellis, Dovar Dove, Watches Mrs. Augustine Petersen and Arlean Sweeney. We all had a delightful time. Lunson was served at seven, and they reported to their homes. The meeting is nicely attended and several are asking prayers. The visiting ministers are Rev. E. J. Tyler of Lewisburg, and Rev. Williams of Folk of Union. Mr. A. B. Sweeney was called to Charleston on the sad death of his tree. Addle Flagg who died of nightly disease. She leave a loving husband a mother and four children and other relatives and a host of friends. Mr. Walter Ree spent Saturday and Sunday with his sisters, Mrs. Wm. Green and Mrs. C. Brinkley. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA whom he had not seen for eight years. The District Superintendent, Rev. S. H. Brown filled the pulpit at the Methodist Church, Sunday, and preached an able sermon. Rev. I. H. Carpenter filled his pulpit at White Sulphur Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Scott and daughter Dolla spent the day at Greer's hotel while on their way to Richmond, Va. where they will spend *.* winter. The Baptizing was held at the First Baptist Church Sunday. There were eight who were baptized and Rev. G. H. Carter preached an able sermon. Rev. William Polk has returned home after spending three days at the meeting held at Rosecover. FLORENCE, S. C. NOTES. Florence, S. C., November 13.—Miss Leona Mae Webster, of the faculty of the city graded school served tea on Sunday evening to her coworker, Prof. W. S. Singleton and Mrs. Sue Mae Watson. A Mrs. Singleton of the faculty and patrons of the city graded school was held at the A. M. E. Church, East Florence on Sunday evening. Dr. T. Gallant, the dentist is still to be found at his office on Evans street, where satisfactory work may be had. Mr. L. J. Hartsville, of Hartsville street, where satisfactory work may be had. Mr. L. J. Hartsville, of Hartsville street, where satisfactory work may be had. Mr. L. J. Hartsville, of Hartsville street, where satisfactory work may be had. Mr. James Jenkins, of Bannockburn, S. C. has gone to Mullins, S. C. Mrs. Christina Williams after visiting her mother, Mrs. Malia McLeese left for Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Christina Williams after visiting her mother, Mrs. Malia McLeese left for Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Christina Williams conduct the A. Williams, boarding and lodging house at 1315 N. Tenth street, Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Nannie Sumter has returned to her home at Mayesville, S. C. from New York, where her father, Rev. Sumter is pastor of the A. M. E. Church. The Young People's League. The Young People's League of the Ebenezer Baptist Church not Sunday and a live and active meeting was conducted. The subject was introduced by P. Henry. Further discussion by Misses M. J. M. Sheppard, Messrs. J. J. Wood, J. Smith and Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, Miss Marion Thompson rendered an instrumental solo, and Miss E. Coles sang, Misses Zemoria Woolly, Altony White Estelle McGee, Pearl Lowis and Altony acted a paetomine. Several friends were induced to the league by Miss Edwin Come and bring your friends. The Supreme court Decision (Continued from First Page.) chasing the above property for the purpose of having erected thereon a house which I propose to make my residence, and it is a distinct part of this agreement that I shall not be required to accept a deed to the above property or to pay for said property unless I have the right, under the laws of the State of Kentucky, and of Louisville, to occupy said property as a residence." This offer was accepted by the plaintiff. COULD NOT OCCUPY IT To the action for specific performance the defendant by way of answer set up the condition above set forth, that he is a colored person, and that on the block of which the lot in controversy is a part, there are ten residences, eight of which at the time of the making of the contract, were occupied by white occupants and only two (those nearest the lot in position) were occupied by colored people, and that under and by virtue of the ordinance of the City of Louisville, approved May 11, 1914, he would not be allowed to occupy the lot as a place of residence. IN VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTION In reply to this answer the plaintiff set up, among other things, that the ordinance was in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment, to the Constitution of the United States, and hence no defense to the action for specific performance of the contract. In the court of original jurisdiction in Kentucky, and in the Court of Appeals of the State, the case was made to turn the constitutional validity of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 165 Kg. 559, held the ordinance valid and of itself a complete defense to the action. LIKE RICHMOND ORDINANCE The title of the ordinance is: "An ordinance to prevent conflict and� feeling between the white and colored races in the City of Louisville, and to preserve the public peace and promote the general welfare by making reasonable provisions requiring as far as practicable, the use of separate blocks for residences, places of abode, and places of assembly by white and colored people, respectively." By the first section of the ordinance it is made unlawful for any colored person to move into and occupy as a residence, place of abode, or to establish and maintain a place of public assembly any house upon any block upon which a greater number of houses are occupied as residences, places of abode, or places of public assembly by white people than are occupied as residences, places of abode, or places of public assembly by colored people. A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE. Section 2 provides that it shall be unlawful for any white person to move into and occupy a residence, place of abode, or to establish and maintain as a place of public assembly or residence, block upon which a greater number of houses are occupied as residences, places of abode or places of public assembly by colored people than are occupied as residences, places of abode or places of public assembly by white people. VIOLATION A PUNISHABLE OFFENSE. The ordinance contains other sections and a violation of its provisions is made an offense. The assignments of error in this case are the violation upon the ground that the violation of the eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, in that it abridges the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States to acquire and enjoy property, takes property without the process of law, and dominies equal protection of the laws. The objection is made that this writ or error should be dismissed because the alleged denial of constitutional rights involves only the rights of colored persons, and the rights of colored persons, and the rights of error is a white person. The court's decision is that while an unconstitutional act, law, attacks upon the validity of laws can only be entertained when made by those whose rights are directly affected by the law or ordinance in question. Only such persons, it has been settled, can be heard to attack the constitutionality of the law or ordinance. But this case does not run counter to that principle. SOLD BY A WHITE MAN The property here involved was sold by the plaintiff in error, a white man, on the terms stated, to a colored man; the action for specific performance was entertained in the court below, and in both courts the plaintiff's right to have the contract enforced was denied solely because making it illegal for the ordinance making it illogical for the colored person to occupy the lot so colored the ordinance the State courts would have enforced the contract, and the defendant would have been compelled to pay the purchase price and take a conveyance of the premises. The right of the plaintiff in error to sell his property was directly involved and necessarily impaired because it would not effect that he could not sell his lot to color who was willing and ready to acquire the property, and had obligated himself to take it. This case does not come within the class wherein this court has held that where one seeks to avoid the enforcement of a law or ordinance, he must present a grievance of his own to test the attack upon the alleged violation of the rights. In this case the property rights the plaintiff in error are directly and necessarily involved. See Trux v. Raich, 239 U. S. 33, 38. THE CASE UPON ITS MERITS We pass then to a consideration of the case upon its merits. This ordinance prevents the occupancy of a lot in the City of Louisville by a person of color in a block where the greater number of residences are owned by persons; where such a majority exists, the sons are excluded. This interdiction is based wholly upon color; simply that and nothing more. In effect, premises situated as are those in question in the so-called white block are effectively debarred from use of color, because if sold, they cannot be occupied by the purchaser nor by him sold to another of the same color. A DRASTIC MEASURE This drastic measure is sought to be justified under the authority of the State in the exercise of the police power. It is said such legislation peace by preventing racial conflicts; that it tends to maintain racial purity; that it prevents the deterioration of property owned and occupied by white people, which deterioration, is contended, is sure to follow the occasion of recent promises by persons of color. The authority of the State to pass ment, sald: "It (the Fourteenth Amendment) was designed to assure to the colored race the enjoyment of all the civil rights that under the law are enjoyed by white persons, and to give to that race the protection of the rights that under the law are enjoyed, whenever it should be denied by the States. It not only gave citizenship and privileges of citizenship to persons of color, but it denied to any State the power to withhold from them the equal protection of the law. It authorized Congress to enforce its prohibition on private legislation. * * * It ordains that no State shall make or enforce any laws which may abridge the privilege or immunities of citizens of the United States. * * * It ordains that no State shall deprive any person of the right to sue out due process of law, or deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ALL EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW "What is this but declaring that the laws in the States shall be the same for the black as for the white, that all persons, whether colored or white, shall stand equal before the laws of the States, and, in regard to the Amendment, that the protection the Amendment was primarily designed) that no discrimination shall be made against them because of their color? "The Fourteenth Amendment makes no attempt to enumerate the rights it designs to protect. It does not them, it does as comprehensive as possible. Its language is prohibitory; but every prohibition implies the existence of rights and immunities, prominent among which is an immunity from inequality of legal protection either for Life, liberty or property. States to a colored man is an immunity to a colored man is in conflict with the Constitution." Again this Court in Ex parte Virginia, 100 U. S. 339, 414, speaking of the Fourteenth Amendment, said: "Whoever by virtue of public position under a State Government, deprives another of property, life or liberty, without the process of law, or denies or takes away the equal protection of the laws, violates the constitutional inhibition; and as he acts in the name and for the State and is clothed with the State's power, his act is that of the State." In giving legislative aid to these constitutional provisions, Congress enacted in 1866, Chap. 31, Sec. 1, 14th Stat. 27, that: "All citizens of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property." And in 1870, by Chap. 114, Sec. 16, 16th Stat. 144, that: "All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States, small have the same right in every State and the same right in every force contract, to sue be part of evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses and exactions of every kind, and no other." In the face of these constitutional and statutory provisions, can a white man be denied, consistently with due process of law, the right to dispose of his property to a purchaser by prohibiting the occupation of it for the sole reason that the purchaser is of color intending to occupy the promises as a place of residence? The statute of 1866, originally passed under the sanction of the Thirteenth Amendment, 14 Stat. 27, and practically re-enacted after the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, 16 Stat. 144, expressly provided that all citizens of the United States in any State shall have the same right to purchase property as is enjoyed by white citizens. Colored persons are citizens of the United States and are the only one to purify property and enjoy the same without laws discriminating against them solely on account of color. Hall v. De Cuir, 95 U. S. 485, 508. These enactments did not deal with the social rights of men, but with those fundamental rights in property which it was intended to secure upon the same terms to citizens of every race and color. Civil Rights Cases, 109 U. S. 3, 22. The Fourteenth Amendment furthered its purpose to operate to qualify and entitle a colored man to acquire property without State legislation discriminating against him solely because of color. The defendant in error insists that Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. S. 537, is controlling in principle in favor of the judgment of the Court below. In that case this Court held that a provision of a statute of Louisiana requiring Railway Companies carrying passengers to provide, in their coaches, equal, but separate accommodations, for the white and colored races, did not run counter to the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment. It is to be observed that in that case there was no attempt to deprive persons of color from the public carrier, and the express requirements were for equal though separate accommodations for the white and colored races. In Plessy v. Ferguson, classification of accommodations was permitted upon the basis of equality of both races. In 'the Berca College Case, 211 U. S. 45, a State statute was sustained in the Courts of Kentucky, in the Court of the State, in the formation of white persons and negroes in laws in the exercise of the police power, having for their object the promotion of the public health, safety and welfare is very broad, as has been affirmed in numerous and recent decisions of this court. Furthermore, the exercise of this power, embracing nearly all legislation of a country, is not to be interfered with by the courts which are within the scope of legislative authority and the means adopted reasonably tend to accomplish a lawful purpose. But it is equally well established that the police power, broad as it is, cannot justify the passage of a law or ordinance which the Federal Constitution limits the Federal Constitution's people has been so frequently affirmed in this court that we need not stop to cite the cases. THE SUPREME LAW The Federal Constitution and laws passed within its authority are by the express terms of that instrument made the supreme law of the land. The Fourteenth Amendment protects life, liberty and property owned by the states without due process of the law more than the mere thing which a person owns. It is elementary that it includes the right to acquire, use and dispose of it. The Constitution protects these essential attributes of property. Holden v. Hardy, 169 U. L. 118, requires the free use, enjoyment and possession of a person's acquisitions without control or diminution save by the law of the land. 1 Blackstone's Commentaries, (Cooley's) E. 127. OUTSIDE OF THE LIMITATIONS True it is that dominion over property springing from ownership is not absolute and unqualified. The disposition and use of property may be controlled in the exercise of the police power in the interest of the public health, convenience or welfare, and occupations may be controlled. Legislature business may also be required the interest of the public. Certain pieces of property may be confined to portions of the municipality other than the resident districts, such as vivery stables, brick-yards and the like, because of the impairment of the health and comfort of the occupants,elligibility property. Many illustrations which illustrate the decisions of this Court, and other courts, of this principle, but these cases do not touch the one at kar. THE CONCRETE QUESTION The concrete question here is: May the occupancy, and necessarily, the purchase and sale of property of which occupancy is an incident, of its municipality the States, or by one of its municipalities the cause of the color of the proposed pant of the premises? That one may dispose of his property, subject only to the control of lawful enactments entailing that right in the lowest, must be conceded. The question makes it pertinent to enquire into the situational right of the white man to sell his property to a colored man, having in view the legal status of the purchaser and occupant. THE WAR AMENDMENTS Following the Civil War, certain amendments to the Federal Constitution were adopted, which have become an integral part of that instrument, equally binding upon all the States and fixing certain fundamental rights which all are bound to amend the slavery in the United States and in all other places to their jurisdiction, and gave Congress power to enforce the Amendment by appropriate legislation. The Fourteenth Amendment made all persons born or naturalized in the United States, citizens of the United States and of the States in which they reside, and provided that no State shall make or enforce any law shall abridge the privileges or immurities of the citizens of the United States, and that shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person the equal protection of the laws. THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE CASES The effect of these amendments was first dealt with by this Court in the Slaughter House Cases, 16 Wallace 36. The reasons for the adoption of the amendments were elaborately considered by a court familiar with the times in which the amendments arose, and with the instances, which unpledged the adoption. In case, Mr. Justice Miller, who spoke for the majority, pointed out that the colored race, having been freed from slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment, was raised to the dignity of citizenship and equality of civil rights by the Fourteenth Amendment. The States were prohibited from abolishing the privileges and immunities of such citizens, or depriving any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. While a principle purpose of the latter Amendment was to protect persons of color, the broad language used was deemed sufficient to protect all persons, against discriminatory legislation. This is now the settled law. In many of the cases since arising the question of color has not been involved, and the cases have been decided upon alleged violations of civil or property rights, irrespective of the race or color of the complainant. In the Slaughter House cases it was recognized that the chief enforcement was the desire to extend Federal protections to the recently emancipated race from unfriendly and discriminating legislation by the States. ANOTHER CASE CITED. In Strander v. West Virginia, 100 U. S. 303, this court held that a colored person charged with an offense was denied the process of law by a statute which prevented colored persons which tried him. Mr. Justice Strong, speaking for the Court, again reviewed the history of the Amendments, and among other things, in speaking of the Fourteenth Amend- A VIRGINIA CASE. SPECIFIC CITATIONS. THE RIGHT TO PURCHASE. NOT A CASE IN POINT. THE BEREA CASE FIVE different localities by the same incorporated institution, prohibited their attendance, said the judge and in this court, the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky was affirmed solely upon the reserved authority of the Legislature of Kentucky to alter, amend, or repeal charters of its own corporal and the question here involved was neither discussed nor decided. In Cary v. City of Atlanta, 143 Georgia, 192, the Supreme Court of Georgia, holding an ordinance, similar in principle to the one herein inculpation to be invalid, dealt with Plessy v. Ferguson in the College Case, in language so apposite that we quote a portion of it: EQUAL SEPARATE PRIVILEGES "In each instance the complaining person was afforded the opportunity to ride, or to attend institutions of learning, or afforded the thing of whatever nature to which, in the particular case, he was entitled. The matter that he was entitled to require him, as a member of a class, form with reasonable rules in regard to the separation of the races. In none of them was he denied the right to use, control, or dispose of his property, as in this case. Property of a person, whether as a memoir, a class, or as an individual, cannot be taken as a success of law. In the recent case of McCabe v. Achison, ets., Ry. Co. 235 U. S. 151, where the Court had under consideration a statute which allowed railroad companies to furnish railroad-cars for white people and to receive ding-ding-cars altogether for colored language was used in reference to the contentions of the attorney general; "This argument with respect to volume of traffic, seems to us to be without merit. It seems to the constitutional right depend upon the number of people who may be discriminated against, and the essence of the constitutional right is that it is a personal one." * * * DESTROYED THE RIGHT "The effect of the ordinance under consideration was not merely to regulate a business or the like, but was to destroy the right of the individual to acquire, enjoy and dispose of his property. Being of this character, it was void as being opposed to the due process clause of the Constitution." That there exists a serious and difficult problem arising from a feeling of race hostility which the law is powerless to control, and to which it must give a nuance of consideration, may be freely admitted. But its solution cannot be promoted. But depriving citizens of their constitutional rights and privileges. NOT SEGREGATION As we have seen, this Court has held laws valid which separated the races on the basis of equal accommodations in public conveyances, and courts of high authority have held enactments laws which provide for separation in public schools, of white people, where equal privileges are given. But in view of the rights secured in Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, such legislation must be where its limitations, and cannot be sustained where the exercise of authority exceeds the straints of the Constitution. We think these limitations are exceeded in laws and ordinances of the character now before us. It is the purpose of such enactments, and, it is frankly avowed it will be their ultimate effect, to restrain the law at least in residential districts the compulsory separation of the races on the basis of color. Such action is said to be necessary to the maintenance of the purity of the races, although it is to be noted in the ordinance under consideration that the employment of colored servants in white families is permitted, while any residences of colored persons, not coming within the block as defined in the ordinance, are not prohibited. NOT AMALGAMATION ISSUE The case presented does not deal with an attempt to prohibit the amalgamation of the races. The right which the ordinance annulled was he civil right of a white man fit to do so to the poor, the poor, and of a colored person to make a disposition to a white person. It is urged that this proposed segregation will promote the public peace by preventing race conflict. Desirable as this is, and important for the protection of the public peace, this aim is published by laws or ordinances which deny rights created, or protected by the Federal Constitution. It is said that such acquisition by colored persons depreciate property owned in the neighborhood of white people. But property may be acquired by the neighbors or put to disagreeable, though lawful uses, with like results. NOT IN POWER OF THE STATE. We think this attempt to prevent the alienation of the property in question to a person of color was not a legitimate exercise of the police power of the State, and is in direct violation of the fundamental law entitlement of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment of the Constitution to interference with property rights except by due process of law. That being the case the ordinance cannot stand. Booth v. Illinois, 184 U. S. 425, 429; Otis v. Parker, 187 U. S. 606, 609. Following this conclusion it follows that the judgment of the Kentucky Court of Appeals must be reversed, and the cause remanded to that Court for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. Clerk Supreme Court, U. S. 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