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This may be our last battle. We believe that it is the beginning of our final triumph. MAY 17, 1923 JOHN MITCHELL, IR THE RICHMOND PLANET MARRIED WOMAN KILLS MARRIED MAN. Disregard of Human Life and Liberty on Increase. MORE ABOUT GRAND LODGE AT STAUNTON, VA. Two Remarkable Letters--Citations From the Records JUDGE KIRK MATTHEWS RELIEVES SUSIE BOYD. From 30 to 6 Years--Actual Loss by Forgery $29--Ending of Strange Case VOLUME XLIII, NO. 35 MARR Disrega MORE Two Re JUDGE From 30 t A SATURDAY NIGHT TRAGEDY. Married Woman Kills Married Man Two Stab Wounds. George Whitfield, who works for the American Tobacco Company, was fatally stabbed Saturday night, 3rd inst., by Mrs. Martha Carter, at 924 Short Nineteenth Street. The remains were seen by Editor John Mitchell, Jr., at Funeral Director W. A. Price's morgue on Seventeenth Street, Monday morning. There were two stab wounds near the nipple of the left breast, each one of which had punctured the left lung. He bleed to death quickly. Going up Jay Street it was not long before the one story tenement structure was reached. On the porch was Mrs. Anna Dickerson, mother of the woman, who did the stabbing. Could Tell About It. In reply to queries, she said she did not know anything about it, but Mrs. Carter's son, a small boy, there could tell all about it. After some urging, he said that Whitfield had his mother down on the floor beating her, when she cut him. Mrs. Dickerson said that she was in the bed sleep and did not know anything about it. It was a case of self-defense. Whitfield had come in all doped up. He was a quiet man, when sober. "He fell down there," she said and died there. She did not know just what time of night it was. Her daughter had two children. She was separated from her husband, Moses Carter. Her former white employer, Mr. McGhee, was looking after her interests. Not Then Arrested. She had not been arrested and she did not tell where she was. The youngster, Joseph Carter, repeated that George Whitfield had knocked her down and was beating her, when she cut him. The time of the tragedy was finally placed around 11 o'clock. Editor Mitchell met James Gordon as he was coming away. He spoke highly of the dead man and said that he was quiet and peaceable. The employers at the American Tobacco Company thought much of him. He had just left him at the corner and he had been joking with some girls. He told him he would see him tomorrow. Shortly after that he heard of his death. Both Married Whitfield was separated from his wife and Martha Carter was separated from her husband. Whitfield gave all of his money, Gordon stated, to this woman and lived as man and wife. Mr. Gordon lives at 1406 St. James Street. He also said that Martha Carter had cut her own husband in about the same place many years ago and this was one of the reasons he left her. Rev. Evans Payne, D. D. is able to be about after another severe attack of illness. Miss Matilda Cephas has returned to the city after successfully completing her junior year at the Boston Conservatory of Music. She is with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Cephas, 912 N. First street, where she will be pleased to greet her friends. Mr. A. S. Morgan, Brigadier General, 3rd District, Uniform Rank. American Woodmen and who is located in St. Louis caled on us last week. He was enroute home, via Pittsburgh. K. OF P. IN STAUNTON STAUNTON, VA., June 26—In discussing here the situation concerning the affairs of the Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond, Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. said that his only interest was to secure every penny possible for the depositors of the bank. With the aid of his white friends and the support of the colored ones, he hoped and expected to be able to pay in full ultimately the amount on deposit in that institution. He had willingly assigned enough of his property to protect the interest of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythia and the Grand Court, Order of Calanthe. DID NOT RECEIVE BENEFIT. While he did not benefit himself in any way from the money, it having been taken away from him by clerical errors or worse, he did not stink responsibility. It was for this reason that he took active interest in the affairs of the bank and the Order. When persons, who had no fraternal interest in the Order were profiting by these misfortunes, he was forced to protest The startling disclosure that W. H. C. Brown, of Newport News, Va., J. R. Pollard of Richmond and Levi C. Brown were on record as being the promoters of the scheme to purchase the $170,000 worth of the assets for $25,000, and had actually entered into competition with the depositors themselves, bidding as high as $31,250 for the same, made it necessary for him to protest against this action. GRAND CHANCELLOR INVOLVED It was something more than a surprise, when Attorney W. H. C. Brown announced to the Grand Lodge, as reported, that Grand Chance'lor W. B. F. Crowell was also interested in the effort. Mr. Mitchell stated that some white speculators at Richmond had willingly gotten out of the way when they found that the colored denizens wanted the assets. Here is a copy of the letter sent to Grand Cancellos Crowell. THE BROWN-BYRD LETTER "Richmond, Va., April 7, 1926 "W. B. F. Crowell, Grand Chancellor, Grand Lodge. K. of P. of Virginia. 14 N. Henry Street. Roanoke, Va. Dear Brother:—As members of the Grand Lodge we are bringing to your attention matters that seem serious to us. "We are informed that the Mechanics Savings Bank owed the Grand Lodge about $70,000 and the Grand Lodge of course, like the balance of the depositors wants and should get back the most they can out of the assets so as to reduce its loss. We are informed that the attorneys of the Grand Lodge are, W. H. C. Brown, of Newport News and J. R. Pollard, attorney of this city, and as attorneys for the Grand Lodge it should be their sole duty to get all they can out of these assets for the Grand Lodge, but we are informed that W. H. C. Brown and Levi C. Brown and J. R. Pollard have organized a corporation among themselves for the purpose of buying about $170,000,00 of assets of the Mechanics Savings Bank for the low dollar mark, to pay as little as they can for them. The least they buy them for the more they will individually make and the more the assets RICHMOND VIRGINIA. SATURDAY. JULY 10. 1926 bring the more the Grand Lodge will receive, and we are writing to ask you if you know of this action on the part of your attorneys and if you don't know of it we are writing to let you know of it, and as members of the Lodge ask you to take immediate steps to get other attorneys. Please let us know what, if any, action you propose to take in this matter. Yours very truly. "W. E. BROWN. "W. H. BYRD. April 10th, 1926. Sir W. E. Brown, 804 Denny Street, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir and Brother: On my return to the city this morning I found your favor of April 7th with reference to the action of Grand Attorney W| H. C. Brown and of J. R. Pollard, G. M. of Ex., and in reply wish to say that you are in as much error about this as you were in the letter you wrote Col. Button some short time ago regarding my action in seeking to buy the assets outstanding of the Mechanics Bank. I happen to know everything that is going on, and I also know it was the direct action of the Grand Lodge officers that brought about the dividend just declared, although some others desire to take the credit. I note that there are some Grand Lodge members of the city of Richmond who are very desirous to get these same assets in their possession; but made no effort to do so until they found some one else was trying to bring it about. I thank you for your activities, even though they are directed, but one way. I feel it better to take what we can get, and get it now, than to allow it all to be eaten up by people who have no desire and intention to see the cause of Pythian Knighthood carried on to success. I have had no advice coming from you royal Pythians in the capital city nor help except it happens to be something that we are trying to do for the good of the Order, and an attempt is made to block our every step. it seems that it is not the Order that you want to save as much as it is one man; and I do not believe any one man living is greater than the Order of ours. And with the help of God, regardless of opposition, we are going to put the old Order over. With my very kindest regards and best wishes, I am, Yours in F., C. and B., W. B. F. CROWELL, Grand Chancellor. CROWELL VERSUS ATTORNEY FULTON. Grand Chancellor Crowell's statement that this was an error may be compared with the statement of Attorney M. J. Fulton, who is associated with the Assistant Attorney General of Virginia, in an effort to help the depositors. The charter for the Investment Finance Corporation as shown by the records of the State Corporation Commission was secured in March, 1926. Grand Chancellor Crowell is quoted here as denying in April that this was true. Mr. Mitchell stated that he did not dictate this Brown-Byrd letter and that it was not written in his office as was intimated by the Grand Chancellor. THE PULLEN REPORT Mr. Mitchell's oposition to Attorney J. R. Pollard was primarily based upon the report of the A. M. Pul'en Company, auditors for the (Continued on page 4.) GENERAL LEE AND LYNCH LAW. By R. B. Eleazer. It is not commonly known that General Robert E. Lee, while president of Washington and Lee University, twice prevented threatened lynchings in Lexington, Va., the seat of the University. The stories are told in Riley's volume, "Genera Robert E. Lee After Appomattox," the one being a reminiscence by Prof. C. A. Graves, of the University faculty, and the other by Judge D. Gardiner Tyler, of Holdcroft, Va., an alumnus of the institution. In brief, Prof. Grave's story is as follows: "In the spring of 1866, while I was a student at Washington College, a report reached the campus that an attempt was being made to force the jail in order to lynch a horse thief named Jonathan Hughes, who, in the troubled times after the war, had been plying his vocation in the neighborhood of Lexington. * * * When I reached the courthouse yard, within which stood the jail where Hughes was confined, it was filled with a crowd of men who had ridden in from the country to take the law into their own hands. At the top of the jail steps, in front of the locked door, stood the old jailer, Thomas L. Ferry, holding the jail keys high above his head, and facing, with grim and resolute aspect, the would-be lynchers who surrounded him. "I was not at first aware of the presence of General Lee. But there he was (having evidently preceded me), moving quietly about among the crowd, addressing a few words to each group as he passed, begging them to let the law take its course. This scene continued for some time and is indelibly impressed on my memory. The end was there. Those stern Scotch-Irishmen, whose tenacity of purpose is proverbial, abandoned their enterprise, remounted their horses and rode out of town. They could not do a deed of lawless violence in the presence of Marse Robert', whose standard they had followed on many a battlefield. It may be of interest to record that Hughes was duly brought to trial for horse-stealing, and on April 20, 1866, was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen years." Judge Tyler tells as follows of a similar incident which took place during his first year at Washington and Lee: "A very popular young student, a son of Judge Brockenbrough, professor of law, got into a difficulty with a Negro and was badly shot. His life was despaired of. As soon as the news of the assault reached the college, four hundred students, with a brother of the wounded boy at their head, searched for and captured the trembling wretch, and with a rope round his neck, marched through the streets of the town to the courthouse square, with intent to wreak their vengeance on the man. "It was in vain that the college and town authorities sought to calm the frenzied mob and induce them to turn over the negro to the officers of the law. Just then General Lee appeared. Immediately the tumult was hushed, and the General, standing in the midst of the excited throng, simply said: "Young gentlemen, let the law take its course.' The quiet words had the effect of a military order, and the Negro's life was saved." FOR SALE! Large canvas tent for sale, suitable for holding religious and public meetings. Call Boulevard 3738. POLICE ACCUSE FATHER OF MURDERING SON. (Preston News Service.) Washington, D. C., July 2 — A father is held by police of the Fifth precinct, charged with the murder of his own son and serious assault upon another son, Raymond Freeman, 25 years old, one of the sons died early Thursday in Freedman's hospital, as the result of stab wounds inflicted Sunday, police say by his father, Daniel Freeman, 49 years old. According to police, the father alleged his sons spoke uncomplimentary of their mother, and a fight ensued in which, police say, he cut both his sons. The other son, Clifton Freeman, 27 years old, is in a critical condition in Freedman's hospital. THIRTY YEARS FOR WOMAN'S SLAYER. (Preston News Service) [PRESIDENT (Senior Service)] Henderson, N. C. July 1 — John Brooks, Harvard University Wednesday was sentenced by Judge E. H. Cramer in Vance County Superior Court, to serve 30 years at hard labor in State Prison at Raleigh for the murder of Miss Melie Alston, near Thomasville, several weeks ago. COLORED AMERICAN SESQUI CENTENNIAL OPEN STATE MEN Washington, D. C., July 4.—At a public observance of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in the Asbury M. E. Church, Eleventh and K Sts., N. W., where a report was made by the National Equal Rights League of its White House audience on Friday when a big petition was presented against the segregation of colored clerks, the following open statement was adopted: "Colored America, through its National Equal Rights League and United Committee assembled in the National Capital on the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence issues this Sesqui-Centennial query to the U. S.; Are not 150 years long enough to deny to this one racial element the equality, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness enunciated by this birth document of the Nation?" Colored America makes this Sesqui-Centennial request that government and people now begin fulfillment of life, liberty and civil equality as a fair return for 150 years of fighting and dying for country. Colored America, finally, issues this Sesqui-Centennial call to President and fellow Americans to make this anniversary the beginning of a new American epoch for abolishment of color caste, proscription, segregation and public ostracism in just appreciation of 150 years of unbroken loyalty, with never a traitor, for the race which gave the first martyr for America's Independence. The speakers were: Maurice W. Spencer, presiding; Prof. Kelly Miller, Attorney James L. Neill, Wm Monroe Trotter, Rev. J. U. King, Rev. R. B. Taylor delivered the prayer. The soloists were: Miss Virginia Williams and Mr. Edward M. Broadnax, with Prof. William Braxton at the piano. All the speakers were members of the White House delegation and reported favorably the petition effort and its presentation by Spencer and Trotter. Mr Joseph Mitchell, of Ronnoke, Va. called on us last week enroute to Goochland County to visit his son. FULTON NOTES. The services at the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church were very inspiring last Sunday. The pastor delivered a very helpful discourse, using for his basis, "The Times of the Season." The following analysis from Matt. 16th chapter, the political, economic, social and spiritual outlook. The Rev. Langhorne, his madam, and Mrs. George Brent worshipped with us last Sunday. As usual the communion services were grand. Tomorrow morning our pastor expects to preach on the "Atonement." He delivered this same sermon, at the General Association, which met in Danville, Va. last week. Come early and get a good seat. 3:30 P. M., the Rescue Beneficial Club will hold its anniversary services at Calvary. Sermon by Rev. C. A. Cobbs. 8 P. M., preaching and live music by the choir, under the leadership of Deacon Nathaniel Yates. Miss Laura Nelson, one of the members of our church and Sunday school, has been appointed to teach during the summer at the Armstrong High School. Calvary and the Community fee] proud of our young folks to be appointed to such position, that carries with it great responsibilities. The Rev. C. A. Cobbs, who is also the pastor of the Seven Pines Baptist Church, along with his good folks, will break the ground on the 12th inst., 2 P. M., to begin their new building. A great program has been arranged for the occasion. The anniversary services of the New Vine Baptist Church, Charles City County, Va., and its pastor, the Rev. W. L. Tuck, of a great benefit and well attended. Rev. G. W. Coleman preached in the morning. The funeral services of Mrs. Florence Sims were held at the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church, June 30th. Sermon by Rev. J. H. Binford, assisted by the corresponding secretary of the Richmond Baptist S. S. Union, the Rev. C. B. Jefferson. Prayer by Rev. G. W. Coleman. Resolutions were read from the Fulton Lily Beneficial Society, No. 1, Inc., and the Woman's Auxiliary of the Ever True Beneficial Society. Solos rendered by Mrs. Georgia Yates and Mrs. Ethel Lewis. The Randolph brothers officiated. CHURCH WILL BUILD MEMORIAL HALL, IN HONOR OF DEAD HERO The Second Baptist Church, South Richmond is engaged in a financial campaign to erect a modern Sunday School annex to the present Church in memory of the late Dr. D. Webster Davis, during whose pastorate the present church building was erected. The entire church force, under the leadership of Rev. E. C. Smith, A. B., B. D., the present pastor is rallying enthusiastically to accomplish this end. On Sunday, July 11th, 3:30 P. M. the son of it is saluted hero, Dr. D. Webster Davis, Jr. will speak in the interest of this financial campaign from the subject, "The New Negro." An elaborate program has been arranged. The public is cordially invited to hear this young orator. No admission fee. A silver offering desired. AGENTS WANTED QUICK SELLING GOODS ON TRUST Big Profits. Pay when sold. Write Quick. JARO CHEMICAL. CO. 123 1-2 Jefferson St., Memphis, Tenn PRICE, FIVE CENTS MAN. crease. ON, VA. Records BOYD, range Case JUDGE MATHEWS CUTS SEN- TENC OF NEGRO WOMAN. Originally Given 30 Years For Forgery, Will Serve About Four The sentence of Susie Boyd, colored, who pleaded guilty to three indictments of forgery in Hustings Court last month, was reduced from thirty to six years by Judge W. Kirk Mathews Tuesday. The decision came after a conference between Judge Mathews and Charles W. Moss, attorney for the woman. Under the revised sentence it is probable that the woman will not have to serve more than four years, as good behavior at the penitentiary can reduce this by at least two years, it was said today. In reducing the sentence, Judge Mathews made two of the three indictments into three-year sentences. The third indictment carried a ten-year suspended sentence, or the sentence originally applied for that indictment, but suspended. The case has excited wide interest here on account of the small amount of money which the woman is alleged to have procured on the three checks for the forging of which she was indicted. The three amounted to only $29, though initial charges against her were for the forging of twenty-two checks, which totaled $186. Mr. Moss said today that in his conference with Judge Mathews he did not broach the matter of a new trial. A national negro organization had interested itself in trying to have the sentence lightened, Mr. Moss said. Funeral Director Robert C. Scott. who was badly burned with carbolic acid about three weeks ago and who has been confined to his residence on account of the same is able to be out again, under the skillful treatment of Dr. Blaney. FIFTH ST. CHURCH OPENS IN SPLENDOR Two thousand people pack the new edifice of the Fifth Street Baptist Church last Sunday morning to witness the opening of the dedication services. More than five hundred failed to gain entrance to the main auditorium and began an impromptu inspection of the church plan. The Church and Sunday school assembled at True Refoamers Hall and marched to the new edifice, where impressive ceremonies were held in front of the church. Pastor T. J. King offered the dedication prayer, after which Mr. J. Lee Davis president of Davis Bros. Inc., contractors, in well chosen words presented the keys of the building to Mr. R. W. Moss, representing the Building Committee and the Trustees, who in turn presented the keys to Chairman James B. Page, of the Deacon Board. Chairman Page unlocked the doors. The mighty Wurtitzer unit organ, under the touch of Mrs. Mary E. Satterfield peeled forth "Fling Wide the Gates" and the great throng led by the pastor and choir surged into the beautiful auditorium. Pastor King preached a sermonic masterpiece on "The Church An Open Door." Rev. M. C. Allen delivered a wonderful sermon at the afternoon service. At night Dr. J. W. Barco stroke on "The Church and Religious Education" and Dr. R. C. Woods delivered a sermon on Education. The services will continue through next week, with services every night HELPFUL HINTS FOR HIKING By A. B. CHAPIN WHEN YOU'RE HITTING THE HIGHWAY—ALWAYS WALK ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD AND FACE THE TRAFFIC DON'T AMBLE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CONCRETE WITH YOUR BACK TO THE TRAFFIC — IT'S HARD ON THE FENDERS! THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME. SO THAT'S THE BIG IDEA, IS IT? TRYING TO BURN UP THE LAWN WITH YOUR CIGARETTE BUTTS SO YOU WON'T HAVE TO MOW IT, EH? 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RICHMOND' VIRGINIA Missouri's Oldest Man, 111, Works to Lay Up Income for His Old Age "I'm going to live to be 130." declares Missouri's old man. clares Missouri's oldest man, Ben F. Hodge, who was 111 years old recently. Tall, straight as a string, working from early dawn until late at night, he looks as if he might carry out out wish. He lives in a little log out near Hendrickson, Mo., which he built on a 40-acre farm that he purchased a few years ago. "When I bought the farm," he said, "it was in the woods. I have cleared 17 acres and put it under cultivation. I want to get the most of it cleared so that when I get older I can live off the rent." He plans to retire within a few years and live with one of his sons or daughters, the youngest of whom is 58. "He beats me," he said, "how some people think they are old when they are about 75. My father was 107 when he died and then he was killed accidentally." Rejected for Civil War "Uncle Ben" is a Civil War vet. He was old when the war broke out and was rejected because of an injured leg. But he served the same, being actively engaged in battles of Pea Ridge and Wilson Gap. Hodge has been married three times. He was first married when 45 years of age. His third wife died 35 years ago. "How many children did you have?" he was asked. "Well, sir," he said. "I just can't remember. I know I have four living but I can't recall for the life of me how many died. "I have dismissed all my troubles. I am making of the present and future and mind go back to things that have puzzled them they are of a pleasant nature." The only experience "Uncle Ben ever had with a doctor was one day THE WOODWORKER "Uncle Ben" Hodge about 50 years ago when he got his fingers tangled up in a circular saw. His creed is that "medicine is to give, not to take." "Sometimes," he says, "I think I have served my time, and I think I and the world would be better off to me. No one can say a bad thing about me except that I used to like my liquor. "I get to thinking that I ought to die and give my place to some one younger than I am. Then again, I think that I am getting along fine—that I could go to the homes of some of my children and spend the remainder of my life, and I am happy." grew to be so old, Hodge says: "Well, I believe that a fellow who works hard, has plenty of open air, drinks milk, and minds his own business, has as good a chance to live to be 100, as I have had. Take care of yourself by all means." Even with that recipe Hodge admits that he chews tobacco, smokes, drinks coffee occasionally and would take a nip if he could get it. He even grows his own tobacco in order to have something to keep him company through the winter. "I am healthy, contented, and even happy. 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Albon Lewis Holsey devotes much space to The Negro Veterans' Hospital at Tuskegee, Alabama. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Ward, of Indianapolis, who is in charge of the hospital is a "man of destiny." He has proven his efficiency and has been able to convince his superiors of his ability and qualification for this difficult and embarrassing position. He has had to meet criticisms on the inside and on the outside, but it is admitted that what R. R. Moton is doing for Tuskegee, he is accomplishing for this recently established branch of the Medical Department of the United States Government. THE STRANGE CASE OF SUISE BOYD, "Mercy is the forgiveness of an injury; mercy is the pardon of a sinner. Smiling when justice frowns, and extending her favours out and beyond those who are merely without merit, she bestows them on those who are full of demerit. On her wings man rises to his loftiest elevation, and makes his nearest approach and similitude to God."—Dr. Guthrie. We noted with interest the final decision in the case of Susie Boyd, who was condemned to serve thirty years in the Virginia Penitentiary for the appropriating to her own use the proceeds of three checks, amounting to about twenty-nine dollars. The fine hairline distinction between stealing fifteen thousand dollars by the shop-lifting route and obtaining a small amount by the use of a pen or pencil applied to the back of a bank check will not penetrate the cranium of the average thief, be the punishment thirty years in the penitentiary or for life in that same institution. It will tend to sink deep into the heart of the average 'neer do well' a feeling of resistance to organized society and cause all of the people to be subjected to a tax to maintain penal institutions for these kind of people. It is a well recognized principle of law that intelligent people are entitled to a heavier penalty in the commission of crime than the ignorant. Education and moral training are the methods to bring about a reduction of crime and not the average penal institution. The English, who are the pioneers in criminal procedure, realized this fact many years ago. The maxim, 'It is not the severity of punishment that checks crime, but the certainty of it' has been recognized and practiced in all highly civilized countries. As a result, the reformation of criminals has been accompanied by the education and training of the young. Rushing men and women to jails and penitentiaries is not a deterrent of crime, but tends to increase it. The wives, mothers, daughters, husbands and other relatives are branded indirectly by this disgrace. So many people have been subjected to this treatment during these days of so-called prohibition that one prominent citizen of the underworld said to us with a smile, "You are not recognized down here unless you've been to jail," and he meant just what he said. But we did not know just what comment to make upon this last phase of the Susia Boyd case. She has been given 16 years in the penitentiary for defrauding her employer out of twenty-nine dollars, and ten years of this sentence has been suspended. Upon any indiscretion on her part, she can be incarcerated and made to serve this ten year sentence. There is such a thing as being thankful for small favors. Some of our leading white citizens here expressed the opinion that this favor would not be accorded her and that it would be necessary for her to appeal to the "throne of mercy," provided by the Constitution and upon which sits Hon. Harry Flood Byrd. Chief Executive of Virginia. Just how much sympathetic feeling he may have for a wrong-doing mother with a six months old babe suckling at her breast, remains to be seen. Susie Boyd threw herself upon the mercy of the Court, without counsel and without being versed in the intricacies and technicalities of the law. She admitted the crime, when she could have remained silent and challenged the commonwealth to prove her guilty. She pursued the proper course and asked for mercy. Did she get it? Has she gotten it? This is a time when each and every individual should examine himself or herself and, answer the question within. Dr. Raleigh says: "The door of mercy has hinges, and it may be shut and locked with the adamantine key of justice." Certainly this is the procedure in this case. "The day of mercy has an evening, when the light of it begins to vanish away, and a night beyond—after which—when cometh morning?'—Dr. Raleigh. K. OF P. IN STAUNTON (Continued from page 1) Receivers. On page 16 of that report, it was shown to read as follows: During our examination, we learned that the city of Richmond had in April, 1922, paid to Jos. R. Pollard, attorney, the sum of $640.97, which amount covered rebates with interest by the city to the Mechanics Savings Bank on account of excess taxes on the shares of stock of said bank for the years 1915 and 1920. Pollard receipted for the voucher checks, $177.64, dated April 4, 1922, and $463.33, dated April 20, 1922, as attorney for the Mechanics Savings Bank. The checks were payable to Jos. R. Pollard, attorney, and so endorsed. The item for $463.33 was also endorsed by Pollard personally, while both items were cashed by him at the First National Bank, Richmond, Va. He stated to us that he did not turn this money over to the bank because he had applied 50 per cent of it to a debt, which he claims the bank owes him and that Mitchell had agreed to give him the remaining 50 per cent for collecting the same. No Itemized Statement. He was requested by us and by the receivers to present an itemized statement of his claims, but he failed to do so. He informed us, however, that he did not owe the bank anything, but that on the other hand, the bank had been indebted to him for several years in an amount in excess of $2,000 and still was so indebted. The total amount due the bank by Pollard is $3,580.97. Mr. Mitchell denied that he had made any such agreement with Pollard or that Pollard had ever presented or charged either to him on the Board of Directors any bill for legal services. He named D. P. Bragg, real estate dealer, J. Mercer G. Ramsey, dentist; A. A. Tennant, physician; R. W. Whiting, brick contractor; John T. Taylor, president of the Second Street Savings Bank, and secretary of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Co., members of the Board of Directors as authorities for his statement. Appointed Treasurer. Still W. H. C. Brown, grand attorney had associated Pollard with him in the bank matter and later Grand Chancellor Crowell had ap- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, CHICAGO, ILL. JUNE 23-29 By The Associated Negro Press. The ADMINISTRATION'S FARM RELIEF POLICY PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN SLUSH FUND SCANPAL PROHIBITION WORLD COURT CAMPAIGN ISSUE DESERT DEMOCRATIC PARTY pointed him treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, despite the fact that he had never been seen inside the Grand Lodge in twenty-five years and if ever a member had been recently reinstated. He had overlooked the "lifetime" workers in the Order like Dr. E. R. Jefferson, John T. Taylor, John Bland, John R. Chiles, James H. Binford and others. This action would necessarily injure the Order. Members of the Order knowing the facts would not be willing to send money to him, either directly or indirectly. The only bill for services, Mr. Mitchell stated, would have come as a result of his defense of Cashier A. V. Norrell, Jr., whose counsel he was. The absence of any receipts in the bank for the money he had charged on his attorney's account would seem to indicate that he had not deducted the amount for the alleged services, explained Mr. Mitchell. The Payment of Money. Mr. Mitchell called attention to the fact that the receivers of the Mechanics Savings Bank had paid ($20,799.46) twenty thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty-six cents by check to Jos. R. Pollard, attorney. Instead of depositing this sum of money in bank to the credit of Jos. R. Pollard, Grand Master of Exchequer (treasurer) of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, where it could be drawn from the bank only on order signed by the Grand Cancellor, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal and the G. M. of Exchequer, he had paid over only two thousand dollars of this amount into the treasury of the Grand Lodge as shown by the report at the recently adjourned session. Mr. Talyor's Querries. The remainder of the money was in bank in the name of Jos. R. Pollard, attorney, and was subject to the check of Jos. R. Pollard, attorney, just as was the money he had collected for the Mechanics Savings Bank, all of which he had taken for his own use as a fee for alleged legal services. It was on John T. Taylor's questioning about this money that this fact was brought out. If Pollard was attorney for the Order, what became of W. H. C Brown, who had been elected to that office at a salary of $1,000 per year. Certainly if Pollard did Brown's legal work, then Pollard should look to Brown for the compensation and not make additional charges to the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia. 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M.—MUSICAL HOUR: Musicale.....The Shriners Chanters (White) This is one of the foremost musical groups of our city. Friendly Offering. 8:00 P. M.—Sermon.....Rev. G. W. King Music.....Junior Choir Church Furniture Offering. MONDAY, JULY 12. COLLEGE HILL CHURCH First Union, Moore Street, Wet Mood Address Rev. J. E. F. Dr. Gord Hines, Master of Ceremonies, Churches. 8:00 P. M.—COLLEGE HILL CHURCHES: St. Paul, First Union, Moore Street, West Wood, Music.....Moore Street Choir Short Address.....Rev. J. E. Fountain, B. Th. Sermon.....Dr. Gordon B. Hancock Rev. I. H. Hines, Master of Ceremonies. Offering by Churches. SIXTH MT. ZION and TH Sixth Dr. D. Turner, Master of Ceremonial Offering by Churches. 8:00 P. M.—SIXTH MT. ZION and TRINITY: Music.....Sixth Mt. Zion Choir Sermon.....Dr. A. W. Brown Rev. K. D. Turner, Master of Ceremonies. Good Will Offering by Churches. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14. 8:00 P. M.—FIRST B Music..... Short Address..... Sermon..... Mr. A. W. Holmes. Fellowship Offering FIRST BAPTIST and SEVEN First address Rev. Dr. V. Holmes, Master of Ceremon Offering by Churches. 8:00 P. M.—FIRST BAPTIST and SEVENTH ST.: Music.....First Baptist Choir Short Address.....Rev. W. H. Branch Sermon.....Dr. W. T. Johnson Mr. A. W. Holmes, Master of Ceremonies. Fellowship Offering by Churches. THURSDAY, JULY 15. 8:00 P. M.—CHURCH Music..... Short Addresses: R liams, Rev. J. An Revs, S. L. Bush Rev. S. P. Robinson Offering by Churches FRIDAY 8:00 P. M.—OTHER Music..... Short Addresses: D liams, B. D., Rev. Sermon..... Dr. J. L. Taylor, M. Good Will Offering SUNDAY 11:30 A. M.—Sermon President Virginia Music..... 3:30 P. M.—BUSINES Music..... Mr. Joseph Addresses: Mme. M. Mr. M. A. Norrell, I. Mr. B. L. Jordan, M. Good Will Offering. 8:00 P. M.—HOME DEDICATION RA Short Addresses from Dedication Prayer... (The congregation w Dedication Offering w and Departments. Committee—Rev. T. J. K thews, S. A. King -CHURCH HILL and FULL ...Thirty-fir Dresses: Rev. C. 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Grant, C. A. 8:00 P. M.—OTHER DENOMINATIONS: Music.....St. Philips Choir Short Addresses: Dr. G. W. Gaines, Rev. R. M. Williams, B. D., Rev. J. S. Hatcher, B. D. Sermon.....Rev. A. A. Hector, B. D. Dr. J. L. Taylor, Master of Ceremonies. Good Will Offering by Churches. SUNDAY, JULY 18. 11:30 A. M.—Sermon on Missions.....Dr. A. L. James, President Virginia Baptist State Convention. Music.....Senior Choir 3:30 P. M.—BUSINESS and PROFESSIONALS: Music.....Sabbath Glee Club Mr. Joseph Matthews, Director. Addresses: Mme. M. L. Walker, Mr. John T. Taylor, Mr. M. A. Norrell, Drs. W. H. Hughes, M. M. Lewis. Mr. B. L. Jordan, Master of Ceremonies. Good Will Offering. 8:00 P. M.—HOME-COMING, REUNION AND DEDICATION RALLY: Music, Gospel Chorus. Short Addresses from all Departments. Dedication Prayer.....Pastor T. J. King (The congregation will kneel while this prayer is offered) Dedication Offering with reports from all Group Leaders and Departments. Committee—Rev. T. J. King, R. H. Fauntleroy, Joseph Matthews, S. A. King, S. E. Grant, C. A. Ward. TOBEY AND TYKE HEY POP YOU SAID YOU COULD SWIM BETTER THAN A FISH=CAN YOU SWIM UNDER WATER? YOU SAID YOU A BETTER H = CAN YOU OR WATER? CAN I? HA=HA!! IT IS TO SNICKER= WATCH ME GRAB YOUR MAW WHILE SHE'S TALKING TO THE FAT LADY= SHE'LL THINK A WHALE BIT HER = THEN I SAID THAT SHE SAID THAT= SUNDAY, JULY 11. TUESDAY, JULY 13. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA CHURCH DIRECTORY CHURCH DIRECTORY FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. (Broad and College Streets) Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. Pastor, Residence, 621 N. 8th St. Services: Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School; 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. (Byrd St., between 1st and 2nd St.) Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., Pastor, Residence, 202 E. Leigh St. Services: Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School; 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. (Leigh and Judah Streets.) Rev. W. H. Stokes. Ph. D., Pastor, Residence, 1607 Brook Road. Services: Sundays. 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9 A. M. The public is invited. FOURTH BAPISTIST CHURCH. (28th and P Streets.) Rev. Evans Payne, D. D., Pastor, Residence, 1209 N. 24th St. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. FIFTH ST. BAPISTIST CHURCH. (Temporary location pending rebuilding, True Reformers Hall, 2nd St.) Rev. T, J. King, D. D., Pastor, Residence, 1005 N. 4th St. Services: Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. B. Y. P. U. 6 P. M. Public invited. ST. MARK BAPTIST CHURCH, (Glen Allen, Va.) MT, SALEM BAPSTIST CHURCH, (Fenola, Va.) Rev. M. C. Ruffin, Pastor, Residence, 611 St. Peter St. Services at Glen Allen, 2nd and 4th Sundays at 1 P. M. At Penola, services on the 3rd Sunday at 12:30 P. M. Sunday School every Sunday at both places at 11-20 A. M. MT. GILEAD BAPTIST CHURCH. (Chesterfield County) Rev. W. H. Liggins. Pastor, Residence, 1835 Taylor St. Services, 1st and 3rd Sundays at 12:30 P. M. Sunday School every Sunday at 10:30 A. M. (1408 West Leigh Street) Rev. Gordon B. Hancock, A. M. Pastor, Residence, Virginia Union University. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. SHARON BAPIST CHURCH. (Corner First and Leigh Sts.) Rev. R. H. Johnson, B.D. M.A. pastor. Residence, 11 E. Clay St. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8:15 P. M. Sunday School, 10 A. M. All are invited. RISING MT. ZION BAPT. CHURCH. (800 Depuy Street, Fulton) Rev. O. B. Simms, B. Th., Pastor, Residence, 728 Danny St. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. MT. OLIVET BAPIST CHURCH, (25th and S Streets) Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, Pastor Residence: 112 E. Leigh Street. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and P. M. Sunday School 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. MT. CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH. (1300 North First Street) (1300 North First Street) Rev. Berryman H. Johnson, Pastor. Sunday 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome CLAY STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. (Formerly New Baptist Church, Clay Street, opposite st. Stames St.) Rev. J. A. Brinkley, A. B., B. D.. Pastor. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH (South Richmond) Rev. E. C. Smith, A. B., Pastor, residence, 1704 Stockton St. Services Sundays, 11:30 A. M. and 8:00 P. M.; Sunday School, 9:30 A. M.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 P. M. All are welcome. RIVERVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH. (Jacqueln and Lombardy Streets) Rev. E. D. Lewis, Pastor, Resi- sence, 316 S. Lombardy Street. Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. MT. VERNON BAPTIST CHURCH (1902 Wallace Street) Rev. M. H. Payne, Pastor, Res- dence, 1900 Wallace Street. Services: Sunday, 11:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School, 9:30 A. M. All are welcome. 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Rockefeller his place as pioneer in America’s big business, which has had so much to do with the prosperity and growth of our nation. Keen students claim that his vision has been just as great in educational and medical charities—and that time too will prove these out. This is a most recent photo of the world’s “Old King.” David Wilson, 15 years old, of Lincoln H. S. Portlem, Ore., is the winner of the League of Nations essay contest, in which 5594 contestants were entered. He gets a free trip to Europe. First picture of Mrs. Almee Sample McPherson, the noted Evangelist, taken in a Los Angeles hospital after her kidnapping. Mrs. McPherson was found wandering in a dazed condition near Douglas, Arizona. This Week By Arthur Brisbane OUR SUN A CANNON APATHETIC CITIZENS ROCKEFELLER BUILDS ) WE ARE VERY RICH OUR SUN A CANNON APATHETIC CITIZENS ROCKEFELLER BUILDS ) WE ARE VERY RICH Professor Snyder of the Philadelphia Observatory says the earth was shot into space by our sun, a sort of cosmic cannon. All "rotating suns," says he, thus shoot out planets and build up solar systems. It seems frightfully gigantic to us, but a hen laying an egg would seem just as impressive to a microbe. It seems reasonable that suns, like hens, should lay eggs, thus creating new organisms. Nature works along the same paths in big and little things. John Hays Hammond says "the citizens are apathetic," indifferent to public questions—and they are. He wants a civic campaign to do away with public apathy. That won't work. If you want the public interested, you must make politics and public questions INTERESTING. The other day in an American community above the average in intelligence, many citizens went to the polls to vote on a dog ordinance and returned without taking the trouble to vote, at the same primaries, for members of Congress. Ninety per cent of Americans, unless you arouse them with religious or racial antipathy, or with the high price of coal, feel that government is somebody else's business. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., invests in decent homes for working people at reasonable rents. Mr. Rockefeller's intention is to avoid charity, demonstrating that dwellings can be constructed on a big scale, with every comfort, including playgrounds for children and private parks attached to the buildings, bathrooms, resident doctor, etc., within moderate prices, about $9 per room per month. The thing will be done on a small scale at first, sufficient for a few hundred families. Success might lead to the investment of hundreds of millions in such enterprises and enable families of small means to live in comfortable, healthful apartments at a rent no greater than has been charged by landlords in the slums. The plan won't please slum landlords. The President, in a thoughtful speech on the budget, says: "Your Uncle Sam is rich, that's true. We have actually $390,000,000 more than we need for 1926. But that is no excuse for squandering. We must be MORE economical, cut down expenses every year." Another cut of $836,193,888 reduces the public debt to nineteen billion six hundred and eight millions of dollars. If necessary, Uncle Sam could pay all that debt by using one-third of the national income for ONE year. We are rich, but, as the President says, that is no excuse for waste. A magnificent new electric locomotive, the world's largest and most powerful, weighs 283,850 pounds, is sixty-five feet long, driven by six motors, with 4,500 total horsepower. One man can handle this locomotive that will pull an express train with ease at more than 100 miles an hour. Will it run between the Atlantic and the Pacific cutting the time to two-days? No, unfortunately, it will run in Switzerland, where government owns railroads and seems to do well, in spite of our theory that government ownership cannot succeed. Perhaps the Swiss are abler than we are, perhaps more honest, perhaps both. Dr. Butler says, "The world outgrew Communism 2,500 years ago, and Socialism in the Sixteenth century." The world has never really TRIED Socialism or Communism, and never will. When socialistic and communistic ideas are tried out we give them other names. A great public park, or magnificent public school, paid for by taxes, and free to all and poor, represents both socialism and socialism. But a socialism "intelligent" THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND' VIRGINIA Magazine Page About Your Health Things You Should Know by John Joseph Gaines M.D. ABSORPTION & DIGESTION The human body is nourished by the two processes, digestion and absorption; in the former, the food is saturated with digestive fluids in the stomach, and its particles macerated and rendered fit for use in the tissues that require nourishment. The digestive process completed, the substances are passed on into the intestine, where absorption deposits them in the blood-vessels through suitable channels; absorption is automatic and undiscriminative; if poisons reach the absorbents, they are taken up with quite as much avidity, as if they were harmless, and here is where mischief starts. Most all of the fluid portion of food is absorbed, whether it has been digested or not. If not properly prepared in the stomach, it is unloaded into the circulation in form that cannot be taken up by tissues requiring nutrition, and the patient fails to understand how he eats so much, yet feels bad all the time, and loses weight. The problem is with the digestive process which goes, or should go on in the stomach. When the body is tired at the end of the day, the digestive processes are slowed down as well. A heavy meal is thrown into the stomach, at an hour when its efficiency is lowest. Only a fraction of the meal is digested—yet it is all absorbed! Is it any wonder that the patient awakens with "that tired feeling" and experiences loss of vitality with no desire for breakfast, and with an un-fitness that is no less than a warning of danger. Breakfast should be a good, substantial meal; noon-dinner the same; and at evening, take the minimum requirement. This is the plan of the oldest and most vigorous people who whom I have come in contact. Next Week— "DEATH DISEASE." The One who Forgot BY RUBY M. AYRES BEGIN HERE TODAY PETER LYSTER has lost his memory from shell shock in France. Upon returning to London he falls into a NAN MARRABY, the girl to whom he became engaged before he went on to takeoken-hearted, returns to her home, where he three motherless stepbrothers. She has seen Peter often since he came to John ARNOTT at the home of Arnott's widowed sister, near the Marraby estate, but Peter has failed to marry him. Driven to desperation by Peter's parent indifference and her father's financial difficulties, Nan agrees to marry HARLEY SEFTON, mason-mender, who has told her that Peter is also in his debt. Through chance Peter leans on the estate of affairs and compares with JOAN ENDICOT, who is visiting Nan and out why she is marrying Sefton. In note a note from Joan to Peter, when he is intercepted by Sefton. He is thrilled to shake him and discovers the note. Nan rushes to the boy's aid and gives him a kiss. Also heard the cries and joins the group. Sefton's tongue brings a thrashing at the hands of Peter, who has his heel and walks away. Nan and the boy return to the house, where Joan wants to know what has happened. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY NAN answered mechanically: "Mr. Sefton tried to thrash Claudie and I hit him." She laughed mirthlessly; then added, with sudden passion: "I wish I had killed him. I should like to have killed him." "And Mr. Lyster came," Claudie piped in, "and he fought him, and, on—it was lovely!" he added with enthusiasm. Joan looked at Nan guiltily. She was longing to know what had become of her note, but she was afraid to ask. Nan went on into the house, and Joan grabbed Claudie. "My note—did he have it? The note I gave you." She was in despair when she heard that Sefton had got it. She rushed after Nan into the house. "I wish you would tell me what it's all about," she said urgently. "I can't make head or tail of it all. Why did Mr. Sefton hit Claudie? I thought you were engaged to him." "So I was. I must have been mad. I never want to see him again." "And—and—Peter Lyster?" Joan asked besitatingly. Nan did not answer. That night, when the boys were safely in bed, and Joan was in her own room writing her daily letter to the adored Tim, Nan sat down and looked the future square in the face. "Play-actor. The man who forgot—conveniently forgot." What a bitter sneer there had been in the words. Supposing it were true! She sat there with her elbows on the table, starting into the darkness behind the yellow lamplight, fear in her eyes. She had pot drawn the blinds in the schoolroom. It was not quite dark outside, and she had left one of the windows open to let in the cool night air. The consciousness came to her suddenly that someone was out there in the garden, watching her, that she was not alone. Panko seized her-supposing it was Softon. She started to her feet and went to the window. She flung it back to its furthest extent and leaned out into the sleeping garden. Who it it? Who is there? she it currently. Francis K. Knight, 90, is the only surviving companion of the famous John Brown. In Charleston, Mass., Knight may be seen any day strolling in the streets, as he believes walking the best exercise anyone could take. He began using tobacco when he was 10 years old. Francis K. Knight, 90 is the only surviving companion of the famous John Brown. In Charleston, Mass., Knight may be seen any day strolling in the streets, as he believes walking the best exercise anyone could take. He began using toceen when he was 10 years old. Oil May Bring Boy Scouts Riches —NEA Los Angeles Bureau A large recreation area was decided recently to the Boy Scouts of the Santa Monica (Calif.) council. Now the Standard Oil Co. is preparing to drill on the land for oil and if the courts allow the lease these youngsters are on the way to becoming platformers. Peter Lyster's voice: "It is I. Nan—Peter—let me come in. . ." For some moments she could not find voice with which to answer him; the blood was hammering in her temples; a throbbing pulse seemed to be choking her. Peter came closer to the window; she could hear his quick breathing; and suddenly he put up his hand and caught her's in a hard grip. "Let me come in," she said again, and there was a sort of anguish in his voice. "Oh, for God's sake, Nan." He bent his head and kissed her hand before she could stop him; she could feel how hot his lips were; it was as if some magic wand had waved them both back—he and she "Who is it? Who is there?" —to the days which she thought had gone for ever. The room seemed close and suffocating; she longed to get out of it into the night air where she could breathe; she answered him in an agitated whisper. "I'll come out . . . wait a moment, I'll come out . . ." But he did not release her hand. "You promise?" he asked, and then again: "You promise me that you will?" "Yes. yes." She hardly knew what she was saying. She stood for a moment in the hall listening. There was no sound from upstairs, but from the kitchen Mary was dringing the chorus of a popular song to herself as she banged away on the wooden table ironing her aprons. Nan found herself listening unconsciously to the sentimental words: "There's a long, long night of waiting—till my dreams all come true— Till the day when I'll be going down the long, long trail to you." Mary's voice was shrill and unlovely and she sang in too high a key, but there was a sort of pathos in the sound, as if in some corner of the little maid's heart there lurked romance with a capital letter. Nan gave a half-laugh that seemed to break and die in her throat. She was so nervous she hardly knew what she was doing, but the little bit about the dreams all coming true seemed to strike home to her. "This is a dream," she thought as she crowded the hall and opened the front door. "This is a dream, but one which will never come true." And she went out and down the dark pathway to meet Peter. "Nan. . . ." She felt rather than saw that his arms went out to her, and she shiv-ered away with a little movement of fear— "Oh, no. . . . no," she said in a whisper. She turned away from him towards the gate. "Let us go out—I can't breathe," she said with a sort of wildness. He walked beside her silently till they were put in the road. Everything was very still here—there was a faintly iridescent light as if somewhere behind the clouds a moon was shining, and when Nan looked at him Peter's face looked gray in the earlie light of it. "I've so much to say to you," he began incoherently. "I don't know where to begin . . . I feel—I feel as if I've walked through the world blindfolded for the past weeks and that today—only today someone has touched the bandage from my eyes. . ." He stopped suddenly—he stood before him. "It was not play-acting, Nan," he said heartily. "I swear if I never speak again that it was not." He was shaking all over; his voice was wrung with agitation. Nan could not speak—unconsciously she put out her hand and caught at Peter to steady herself, and the next moment she was in his arms. He hek her to his heart as if he could never let her go. He spoke foolish, incoherent words of love, to which she listened like one in a dream. And all the time she kept telling herself that that was all it was—a dream—a dream; that she must keep her head, or she would die when the bitter awakening came. Presently, with an effort, she wrenched herself free. "Oh, don't, please—please." They were close to the stile that led into the wood now. Nan leaned her arms on the top bar and laid her head down on them with a dreadful feeling of faintness, and for a long moment neither of them spoke. "If I raise my head, or look up, I shall find that he isn't there at all," she was telling herself despairingly. "I know that it's only what I've been imagining. Oh, how shall I bear it!" And then she felt his hand on hers —felt the close pressure of his finger. gers and heard him speaking to her. "You don't believe me, Nan, I know—and you've got to! I've got to make you. I don't know how to begin—I don't know what to say—it's as if I've been through a long illness. I'm so ashamed, but it hasn't my fault. Oh, I beg of you to believe me. "I know—I know." She spoke breathlessly. She hated that note of pain in his voice, but as yet she could do but little to help him. "It takes some forgetting," she said in a stifled voice. "I will try—oh, I will—but you don't know how hard it been. . . . I thought I should have died." "I could kill myself with shame—with remorse. Nan, you know how I loved you . . . . We were to have been married when I came home." He let her hand go suddenly and forced her to turn to him. The pale moonlight shone full on her face with its tortured eyes, and with a little stifled exclamation Peter put his hand over them, as if he could not bear to see their pain. He remembered her as so brave and plucky—why even at the very last moment when they said goodbye to her dance" she had smiled at him with her little crooked smile though her eyes had been drowned in tears. Then all at once the tears came to Nan with overwhelming relief, washing the last trace of bitterness and hardness from her heart. Peter kept his arms round her tightly; he did not speak, but from time to time he kissed her hair and the little bit of face which was all he could see and the slim trembling hand that clutched the lapel of his coat as if even now she was afraid to let him go. He had never known Nan to break down like this before, and it cut him to the heart. She was always so sweet and brave—it told him only too surely what she had suffered. 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(Editor's Note: "Within Prison Walls' in this issue was written by a young colored man, of good family and training, who for obvious reasons is withholding his real identity and who due to his ability, served (during a course of ten years) in his positions (as an inmate) one of which has never been filled by any other inmate of any race. During this series he will dwell intimately on certain phases of prison life that are rarely, if ever, disclosed to the public.) (Continued from last week.) At the end of that period, however my big cell was returned to me. My one day's stand in solitary however disclosed to me what the other poor fellows had to go through, some of whom had to remain for days, weeks and in some instances months before they were released. In some serious cases the victim was put "over the barrel" after first having his hands and feet tied while he is bind-folded and one or more officers administer medicine in his bare backpack, only when the prison physician commends same. During later years this method was more or less abandoned and only in extreme cases of an assault on an officer was it resorted to. SOME EXCITING ESCAPES Diverting from the personal equation a few experiences of others during this period might be interesting to the reader and no more exciting thrills could be related than some of the escapes and attempted escapes of some of the men who take death chances to evade their captors. 'Blackie' was a high-class con man who know the world. (To Be Continued) ROANOKE LETTER Miss Alice Cooper, who has been in Memphis, Tenn., for four years, returned home, visiting her mother, Mrs. Louise Cooper, and sister, Mrs. Nannie King, of 519 Fairfax Avenue, N. W. Mrs. Ellen Holland, 319 Tenth Avenue, N. E., Roanoke, left Saturday night for a ten days' trip to New York, visiting her sister and daughter, Amanda Kidd, and son. Mrs. Rosa Jones, of 226 Third Avenue, N. W., left last week with her husband for the hospital for treatment. Mr. Thos. Jones has been in poor health for nearly twelve months. Mrs. Ambush, of Staunton, and Miss Mary Washington, both of Staunton, were the guests of Mrs. R. Bailley, of 9 Fifth Avenue, N. E., Roanoke, during the convention here last week for Wavward Girls The Fourth being on Sunday, the American nation celebrated its Independence on Monday, July 5th. It was well observed here. A large excursion left Roanoke for Yellow Sulphur Springs over the Virginian Railroad, carrying fourteen coaches, where the excursionist spent a pleasant outing at their beautiful summer resort. The colored convention at the First Baptist Church brought together some of the best talent of the State of both races, where they discussed the conditions and means of improving the conditions. It was learned here by wire that Mr. Junius Lawson, of Halifax County, died Friday night after a few hours illness. Rev. P. G. Gravely, of Roanoke, Va., received the honor of prelate to the Grand Lodge K. of P. of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. A young boy whose mangled body was picked up by the police of the city on July 5th and taken to the hospital, died a short while after arriving. The body were found in the city's stone quarry, a very steep embankment. It could not be determined how this sad accident occurred. The victim is the elder son of Squire Marshall, who preceded him to the grave several years ago. His mother died last year. Mrs. Fannie Joplin, who spent winter and spring in Florida, returned home last week, looking the picture of health. Miss Maggie Bell, of Chestnut Avenue, is much improved at this writing. Rev. D. R. Powell is home again, after spending several days out of the city. Mrs. M. B. Taylor, ex-Pastor Geo. C. Taylor's wife, worshipped at Mt. Zion last Sunday at 11 A. M. Rev. W. W. Hicks, of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, delivered a strong gospel message to his people on Sunday last. He is a forceful minister of the word, full of the spirit of Christ wherever and whenever you see him. Mr. McClain, of 414 Tenth Avenue, N. E., Roanoke, is quite sick at this writing. Mr. Junius Colvins is improving. The remains of Mr. Steward Crockett, who died at his home on Eighth Avenue N. W. Roanoke were shipped to Tazewell. WANTED—COLORED BARBER ON WHITE TRADE. Good Guarantee. O. G. CONN, 111 2nd St. S E Charlottetown, Va. Very often I have thought How much good there might be Not by favorites of fate, Chosen for their high estate, But the humblest of us all, Be we great or be we small. Could draw heaven very nigb If we'd try. As we travel day by day On life's steep and rugged way We could lighten up the load Of some traveler on the road, Chase the shadow from his face, Let the sunshine take its place; We could still his weary sigh If we'd try. When we meet a man that's downed We could lift him from the ground Place him once more on his feet, Help him to retrieve defeat, Aid him to wipe out the stain Of disgrace and start again With resolve to do or die. Most of us are sure to know Some man bowed by weight of woe We could take him by the hand. Some way make him understand. By our words of hope and cheer, God is always very near. There are those who make their creed One of selfishness and greed; We could raise their minds above Thoughts of self by deeds of love. We could teach them charity Reaching all humanity. We could do this, you and I, If we'd try. As a ripple from an oar Rolls until it strikes the shore, Deeds of good, though smallest mite Reach into the infinite. Blessings here, we may not see Wait us in eternity. We could have God always nigh, DEATHS REPORTED ```markdown ``` The following is a list of deaths reported to the Richmond City Bureau of Health from June 27, 1926 to July 7, 1926, inclusive with date of death: June 28, Rosa Lee Johnson, 811 S. Lombardy Street, 9 months. June 27, Florence Sims, 1029 Denny St., 52 years. June 28, Susan Jones, 718 W. Leigh St., 45 years. June 29, Gladys Chamble, 1209 N. 33rd St., 3 years. June 29, Robert Jeffries, 1808 Fairfield St., 45 years. June 29, Lillie Crump, 623 N. 17th St. 47 years. St., 47 years. June 29, Nicie Cox, 1806 Rose- wood Ave., years. June 29, Janet T. Branch, 312 E. 11th St., 59 years. June 30, Infant Minor, 794 W. Moore St., 1 day. June 29, Eliza Braxton, 22 W. Jackson St., 50 years. July 2, Odaris Louise Brocking ton, 500 N. 6th St. 16 days. July 1, John Prue, 225 Ballard St., 39 years. July 2, Minnie Henderson, 413 Orlean St., 41 years. June 30, Wm. Walton Gaines, 817 N. Lst. St., 32 years. July 1, Joseph Moss, 515 Goddin St. 47 years. July 1, William Bowman, 1510 Buchanan St., 34 years. July 1, Wm. L. Cosby, 604 Creek St., 50 years. July 5, Rosa Kenny, 19 W. Canal St, 24 years. July 3, Peter Covington, 3207 Williamsburg Ave., 27 years. July 3, Alex. Charley, 205 E. Byrd St., 36 years. July 4, John Booker, 3019 E. Franklin St., 15 years. July 5, Arthur Bullock, 504 N. 17th St., 4 months. July 6, Baby Strong, 314 W. 19th St., 1 day. July 4, Vivian Williams, 219 E. Clay St., 1 year. July 6, Douglas Ward Dickerson, 505 Tazewell St., 1 month. July 6, John Willis Dickerson, 505 Tazewell St., 1 month. July 5. Mahala Otey, 2827 Q St., 48 years. 48 years. July 4. Junior Johnson, 1703 Hick- July 4, Junior Johnson, 1703 Hickory St., 5 months. July 3, Jennie Jones, 322 N. 19th St., 66 years. July 3. George Whitfield, 924 Short P St., 40 years. July 6. Willie Randolph, 1302 James St., 6 months. July 4. Mary Allen, 919 N. 30th St., 45 years. July 5. Sarah E. 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Mrs. Eliza Jackson, State grand queen of Illinois and jurisdiction of A. U. K. and O. of A, has been busy during the week at Bailey's Hall, where she held the election and installation of Bethlehem and MarshaK Councils and Herbert Officers Council No. I. A. U. K. & D. of A. Many of the State and subordinate officers were in attendance at each meeting looking forward to the coming of the national grand council session in August. Mrs. Lou Lua Young, over whose body the last tributes and rites were paid on Thursday, June 24th, by Drs. W. D. Cooke, John R. Harvey, Rev. H. W. Knight, and by many fraternal organizations and clubs of which she was a member, at the close of said exercises, the body was borne to beautiful Mt. Glenwood Cemetery to rest in the same section with her collaborer and companion, the Evangelist Nora F. Taylor. Attorneys W. S. Henry and Henderson, of Indianapolis, Ind., who came to the city in attendance of the N. A. A. C. 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