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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
KNIGHTS OF PYTmAS.
A New Court in Prince George Co.

Gee F. o., Va. Jan 2l. 1907
Queen Victoria Court. No. 1l5
was organized here last Saturday
night with the following officers:
Worthy Counsellor. Jennie James:
Worthy Inspector. RoXanna Taylor;
Worthy Inspectrix Lucy Harris: Sen
ior Directress. Fife Grammar: jun
ior Directress, Ellen Graves. Orator.
Martha Cook; Register Of Deeds,
Mary Carpenter; Receiver of Demos
its. Louisa Robinson; Escort, Sallie
Luster: COnductress, Julia Cook; AS
slstant COnductress, Sylvia wilkins;
Herald. Ann Taylor; Prelate. Ed.
Grammar; Trustees; Ellen Jackson
Susan Allen. Alice Claiborne.
Those present were DR.. +. r. JEFF
fersOn OF Richmond Sir Edward W.
Wood, ID. ID. G. c. Mrs. Louisa Has
tings and Mrs. Mary a. Morton OF
Petersburg. A supper was served
and all heartily enjoyed themselves
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
SOUTH WILL NOT SUBMIT.

"The Southern white men and wo-
men who have for forty years re-
sisted in every possible way this
doctrine OF the equality of the races
are just as resolved now as they
have ALWAYS been not TO submit to
il or it's results. They are resolved
to maintain control OF their state
government. and TO prevent in every
way possible social and political e.
quality with the inevitable destruc-
tion OF their civilization whicl
would follow II thew yielded. The
conditions are growing more and
more aggravated every day. Race
antagonism increases in intensity.
Are things to drift until direful
tragedies multiply on every hand
and blood shall flow like water2 Is
the statesmanship Of our time mad
equate to cope with this question,
inst as the ~statesmanship of 1860
failed to prevent the dire catastro-
phe Of civil war? That war was
fought to settle the race question,
but forty years after it's termination
we find conditions more threaten
ing, in some of their aspects, than
they were in 1861.
1T is not possible for me to be-
lieve that the theorists and senti-
mentalists OF the North who are re-
sponsible for the conditions existing
will be allowed to pursue their pol
icy OF absolute recognition OF race
equality much further. The ques-
ton is not a local one, or a section
al one. except so far as the Negroes
are nearly all at the South. while at
the North there are comparatively
few OF them. It is high time some
thing was being done to have this
great and vital question brought be-
fore the country in some practicable
and sensible way.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
A Grand Time at the Fifth Baptist
Church.

Last Sunday was Communion Day
at the Fifth Baptist Church and the
Church was crowded during the day.
The collection amounted to $56.OO
Or. Graham Will preach tomorrow
morning and night on special topics.
The 1st Sunday in February the
Church will celebrate the pastors
30th Anniversary in the Ministry
klIIVl SBp leql no slnqIIluo0 ol pS
4ss SIB spu9IIJ pue sIsqmsm 9ql IIV
IolsBd SO kIBsIsAIuuy ISL STU pus
cents each in support OF the Caurch.
Rev. z. ID. Lewis will preach at $3.50
O'Clock; Rev. Evans Payne will
preach at $50.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
SENATOR TlLLMAN AND
The RACE QUESTION.
HE AROUSED THE SENATE AND PLEASED THE
RIES-REMARKABLE ASSERTIONS OF
AN NUNRECONSTRUCTED SOUTHERNER.
Murder Recognized as Necessity-Crime
Made Virtue.
Ccontinced From Last Week.

CContinced From Last Week.
THE whole issue involved is one
OF race. and the President is primar
lily more responsible than any other
man for the position OF the Negroes
in the South have taken on the
question of Negro riohts.
He gave recognition TO Booker
Washington in n social way. He dil
it knowing he was flying in the face
OF caste feeling among 1900. 900
OF Southern white men and against
the same feeling OF two thirds or
three fourths OF the Northern peo
pie. He does not understand the
Negro or the deep and vital charac
ter of the issue involved He made
a mess of IL in the first instance and
has made a worse mess of tde last
He speaks by suggestion In his
recent message as a motive for
crime. What. would calculate 20
provoke the Negroes TO crime more
than those words2
The well known attitude OF the
administration on the social ques
tion has been the cause OF great
and noticeable change in the de-
meanor and action OF the Negroes
throughout the South. and the great
er question Of relationship between
the races cannot be much longer
kept down." Mr. Tnlman said.
After predicting in the near fu-
ture race conflict to determine
whether the Negro Is equal TO the
Caucasian, Mr.. Tillman continued:
Broadly stated. the white people
OF the United States are face 20 face
with the vital issue as 20 whether
the Caucasian race shall share its
inheritance with the other races Of
the earth. In Cuba the question
presses for solution and immediate
action. Shall that island be gov
erned by Negroes or white men?
Shall Il be doomed 20 the fate OF
Santo Domingo or shall IL be saved
for the white man? The question
OF protectorate or annexation and
OF the future status of the people
there must be determined in the
near future. That Is only one phase
of the question.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
Mechanics Savings RanI, Stock Scars

There was a surprising furry in
the stock of the Mechanics SAVINGS
Bank last week. IL was bought in
blocks ranging from $1,000 up 20
$1,000. AT the conclusion all OF IL
had gone and there were many dis
appointed investors clamOring for
more AS a result eight thousand
dollars of it vas sold and the price
went up from ten dollars per share
20 fifteen dollars per share where it
now remains.
The fine photograph OF the Amer
lean Bankers Association at st. Louis
No. NAV now be seen at the Mechan-
les Savings Bank and at the PLAN
EFT Office. IL is about 10 inches
long and % inches wide.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
RACE QUESTION ON COAST.

con the Pacific Coast the relation.
ship between the Mongolians ana
the Caucasians is involved. The
President announces himself as ia
voring the policy OF absolute oblit-
Grafton of the race line. the grant
Ing of fun citizenship to the Japa-
nese. The Americans of the Pacif-
&c Coast. as / understand il. are bit
terly opposed TO this policy, and
without regard to party lines. These
Americans ought to know what is
for their best interest. and they
ought TO and undoubtedly will have
the sympathy and aid of their fell
low-citizens North and South, in
protecting their interests. But
these two phases OF the race problem
sink into insignificance alongside Of
the greater and more vital question
of the relationship Of the races in
the Southern States of the Union.
"In six Southern States (South
Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama
Mississippi and Louisiana) in the
aggregate the Negroes outnumber
the whites, and in two of them
tSouth Carolina and Mississippi)
the Negro preponderance is very
heavy.
Under the law these people pos
sess every right that white men
have as far as the Federal Consti-
tuition confers rights, and the fif-
teenth amendment expressly forbids
the enactment of any law which
shall discriminate in voting on ac-
count of race or color Large mum
bers OF these Negroes are disfran-
cnised at this time. but these laws
are only temporary and work no
cure. and in the near future enough
Negroes will be able TO vote to make
inevitable the struggle for mastery
between thu races.
'In Cuba the color line has been
obliterated and miscegenation is In
full blast. AT the North the same
conditions exist. and the large num-
her of mulattoes and quadroons WITH
white blood in their veins who have
migrated there are the leaders of
the doctrine OF absolute social e.
quality. encouraged as they havel
been and are now by the President
of the United States. Take this
from his message on the Brownsville
affair 1T Is OF the utmost impor-
tance 10 all our people that we shall
deal with each man on mis- merits as
man and not deal with aim
merely as a member of a given race;
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
WANTED

WANTED-All able bodied men
who go North in need of work to
call and consult me. I can at most
any time and esp cially in the warm
weather secure employment for sew
eral hundred. Address,
]. l.. WALLACE, Agent,
International Union OF Paw
ers and Rammersmen.
456 w. 57th ST.
New York. n. Y.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
THE HAND=WRIT=
ING ON THE WALL.

INC drank wine treHe ehord
gains ndesH 1.-THE til
pd tina THete
eandhs
TuE. ThJuat weighed found
h. nc dgvenh h Neds Per1rs
the due
r~~nrq@n~m~pr
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
WHITE MANS COUNTRY.

"The deep interest shown in the
Brownsville tragedy is ample evil
dence that the people OF the country
are beginning to feel a deep concern
in the various phases OF this ques-
tion. and IL Is absolutely useless for
doctrinaires and politicians tn M
dertake TO pooh pooh the question
and dismiss it with a wave of the
hand. and for one. ! am ready to go
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26

that we shall Judge each man by
his condcct and not his color
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
DUTY OF WHITE MAN.

DUTY OF WHITE MAN.
And again: Every far-sighted
fr end q the Colored race in it's ef-
forts 10 strive onward and upward
should teach first as the most i'm
portant lesson. alike 10 the white
man and the black. the duty OF
treating the individual man strictly
on his worth as he shows IL.
Consider the full import and
meaning OF these words and then
consider whether or not they arc
sincere and honest. or whether in
the fcrvOr of a fight 10 Justify an
unwarrantcd usurpation OF mower
and exercise of executive authority.
the President forgot himself and
said more than he intended or
means. To illustrate. is Il possible
or desirable that all consideration
OF race and color shall be dismissed
from our minds and not govern our
action: that racial instincts implant-
ed i'm us by nature are 20 be ignored
and all men Of all races TO be judged
and treated on the basis OF individ-
ual merit?
Are men 20 be made over and
the caste feeling and race antago-
nisms OF centuries 20 disappear in
the universal brotherhood OF man2
Are there any Senators I'm this aud
fence who subscribe 90 this doctrine
who would have the Caucasian.
highest and noblest OF the FIVE races.
as is attested by history. descend 10
the level OF the others and share his
birthright with them. with the inev-
liable result that pure white blood
will disappear from the face OF the
earth and after the mixing Of cen
turtles. shall have completed the n
malgamation. have all men OF one
skin and one type?
'Is President Roosevelt ready TO
oct up TO his own theory and have
his children marry men and women
OF the other races2 Would he ac-
cent as a daughter-in-law a Chinese.
a Malay, an Indian. or n Negro. In
accord with the doctrine laid down
in his messa ge, which I have quot
ed? We all know he would not.
and while "hne words butter no
parsnips words like these are
source of incalculable evils coming
from such nigh source
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26

["wITH APoLocIns To M,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26

Every colored man should secure
copy of Judge" of Jan. 10Th, 'O7
and keep IL for future references.
Price 10 cents. If you cannot Sc
cure it at the news stands write to
Judge. 225 Fourth Ave, New York,
n. Y.
Rev. T. p. Harris and Henr :
Ware of Michaux, Va. called on us
Miss Pocahontas Anderson of
Germantown, Pa passed through
this city enroute home. Miss An
derson was called to Amelia 10 visit
her sick mother. Her mother has
recovered sufficiently for her to re-
turn.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26

has people on this earth and these
are some of them.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-01-26
THE WARNING.

blunders in dealing with this sui
ject"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
PROBABLY NOT ON PAY ROLL
Fathers Occupation Would Likely BE
News to Lord Clare.

The late Frederick Mentally had oc-
casion," said a Chicago lawyer, ito
consult me about an infringed copy
right. Mr.. McNally said he thought
there would be no trouble about cor
recting this infringement The thing.
he believed, had been innocently done.
The man who had done it was an anna
teur in publishing-unsophi
like girl his father used to tell about
in Ireland. This girl was the daughter
OF poor man, and every week or so
she used to come to the village rec
tory with pheasant or a hare to sell.
The price she asked was low, and
for a time the pastor bought of her.
Then somehow. his suspicious were
aroused. The next time the girl call
ed, he said to her sternly: 1t is good
fresh game you bring, my dear, and
your price is always reasonable; but
do you come by all these pheasants
and hares honestly?' oh, shure, yes,
yer reverence said the young girl
My father is poacher to Lord Glare.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
ICE HAD PRESERVED MAMMOTH.
Remarkable Discovery Made In Frozen
Siberian Bog.

Sixty-one years ago a young Russian
engineer. Benkendorf, saw the River
Lena In Siberia release a dead man.
moth frozen ages ago in the bog.
There had been exceptionally warm
weather In the north OF Siberia, and
the river. swollen by melting snow
and ice and torrential warm rains,
swept out of its old channel and cary
ed new one, carrying to the sea vast
quantities OF its former banks and fur
rowing up the thawing boys over
which 1t raced. AS he made his way In
steam cutter against the current
Benkendorf saw the head of q NAM
moth appear above the flood. Rush
upon rush of water more and more
released the body. Its hind legs were
still imbedded when he saw it, but
"a hours liberated these. The NAM
moth had sunk, feet first, into a bog.
The ooze had frozen over It; success
sive tides had heaped soil and vege-
tation upon it. Bone and flesh and hair
were perfect. They secured it; they
cut of its tusks; they dissected it and
found in its stomach the last meal 1t
had eaten, young shoots of the FIR and
pine and masticated fir cones They
were still at work when the river,
spreading farther. engulfed them. The
men escaped, but the waters surged
over the mammoth and carried 1t for
carrion to the sea.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
WHEN THE OTHER MAN is HIT.
Misfortunes Of Others Frequently
Cause Of seIf-conaratuIatIon.
After Christn

L wonder why it is" said the mel
ancholy man, that, when we hear Of
misfortunes that don't come very close
to US, there is usually a feeling-well,
l won't call it one of superiority of
fate, but certainly one of recognition
Of the fitness Of things by which we
are not picked out for such evil case.
And we are careful to give ourselves
all possible credit for exemption.
Jones, you hear. has failed. Poor
Jones. You know him, and you know
that II you had been in his place you
would have seen the signs of disaster
and taken warning. Browns son has
made a runaway match. Well, well!
That is tough on the Browns, but It is
clear that they didn't understand
bringing up a boy. And so it goes.
There's preening Of the feathers, an
assumption Of an air of conscious rec
dtude. Does it come from innate
selfishnessG Or is it because there
has been no personal experience Of
sorrow along the lines indicatedP"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
Wore Out the Snow.

My old friend Crabtree of the real
early Oklahoma days tells this tale
about an early day snowstorm: zone
day after many days of dry weather
a big snow came and visited our
drought-stricken land. The faces of
the farmers were all smiles, because
it meant wheat crop. But alasi an
old-time wind came up from the south
that blew about 40 miles an hour and
drifted the snow northward for a day.
Then came an S0-mile-an-hour wind
from the north that drifted it back
south again. This condition of wind
continued daily until the snow storm
was blown and worn out and not a
snowflake could be found anywhere in
the county. Herald.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
FEARED FOR NIEcE's FUTURE.
Peculiar Bent of ChlId's Mind Dis
mayed Uncle.

Il hate to think it." grimly said
Uncle Timrod Totten, but / am
nightly afraid my little 10-year-old
niece, Luella, is going to cause a great
deal Of worry and unhappiness in the
world when she gorws up" What
makes ye think so?" asked old SQUIRE
Belcher, who had come over to borrow
a whi1ietree. She seems to be a real
nice. thoughtful. good-tempered child
now" Well" was the explanation.
tother day, our gray gander got
tangled up in a discussion with the
shepherd pup. and when the fracus
was over there was skurcely a feather
left on the fowl. And little Luella
took and dyked him out in a pair of
draw-pantaloons-and a chim-slip.
l mean-of white cloth sewed by her
own fair hands. And, somehow, can't
help fearing that when she attains
an appropriate age she will wear nose
glasses and several double-chins. and
go crusading against all the common
and unimportant indelicacies that hui
man flesh is heir to."-Exchange.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
Queer Breed Of Chickens.

TT does me good" said the girl who
has Just returned, ito get back to a
country where they serve a whole
chicken" You know then where you
are at. At my pension in Paris they
had chicken for Sunday dinner. That
Is, they called it chicken, but a lot
OF US were of the opinion that it was a
giant centipede. Every Sunday while
l was there they put a leg in each
plate when the chicken course came
around. There were 10 of US. Did
you ever see chicken with 10 legs?"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
Valuable Dwarf Palm Fiber.

The fiber of the dwarf palma tree
until lately regarded as worthless or
harmful-is developing an important
industry in Algeria. Factories are
multiplying, and to these the natives
bring the palm leaves. which are
transformed into vegetable fiber by
steam carding machine, and then
spun and braided. The material has
the advantage over horsehair of being
proof against moths and insects. 1t
is being used for mattresses. woven
products, harness and carriage work.
military bedding, various tissues, and
even hats.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
AIR IN THE BEDROOM.
Sleeping Chamber Should Always Be
Well Ventilated,

1t goes without saying that the bed
room, according to DR.. Woods Hutch
lnson in the American Magazine.
should be well ventilated, especially
in view of the heavy storing up Of
oxygen in the tissues which goes on
during sleep. All windows should be
open from the top, at least one, and
better two to three feet, so that a
gentle current of air can be felt blow
ing across the face. 1t is just as pure
and as wholesome as day air. Night
fogs and rain are only injurious in so
far as they brighten you into shutting
your windows. No air that ever blew
out doors is so dangerous or poison
Gus as that inside a bedroom with
closed windows. The clothing should
be as light as is consistent with
warmth, the mattress elastic but firm.
the pillow as high as the breadth of
the shoulder, so as to keep the neck
and head horizontal or slightly above
when lying on the side. The good.
hard, common-sense of humanity has
solved all these problems, and the
modern hair-mattress, or it's equiva-
lent, single pillow, and blankets, o.
"cheese cloth covered comfort"
which can be cleaned and aerated by
turning the hose on it, can hardly be
much improved on. Beyond these
there is no virtue whatever in hard
beds, fiat or no pillows, and cold bed
rooms. The Doggy feather bed, col
lector of the perspiration and diseases
of cmrnnecfN-1
the eider-down quilt, the hard sail
cloth-like Counterpart, both alright,
and the latter heavy as a board, have
gone to the attic or the ash-heap,
where they belong, along with the
four-poster and its curtains, the night
cap and the warming pan.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
Streets With Queer Namsa.

Edinburgh has some queerly named
streets, among which are Jacobs Lad.
der, Gabriel's Ladder. Coffin land and
Cuddy lane. 1t is, however, in the
close" that this ancient city figures
best. There are. for instance, Hole
in the Wall close. Little Jack and Big
Jack close, Lady Stairs. Heave-Away
and Long closes. The last is one Of
the shortest of these, and in that re-
sembles Crooked and Turnagain lanes
In London, the former being as
straight as a die and the latter so
narrow that vehicle In it cannot pos
sibly turn again.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
The Earth Does Move.

Yes, noble Calico. thou art right.
1T does move" Bigots may make
thee recant it; but it moves. neverthe-
less. Yes, the earth moves, and the
planets move, and the mighty waters
move, and the great sweeping tides
OF air move. and the empires of men
move, and the world of thought moves,
ever onward and upward to higher
Facts and holder theories. The Inqui-
sition may seal thy lips, but they can
no more stop the progress Of the great
truth propounded by Corpernicus, and
demonstrated by thee. than they can
stop the revolving earth.-Edward
Everett.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
No Offense Intended.

Robert Browning once found him.
self at a dinner at great English
house. sitting next to lady who was
connected with the highest aris-
tocracy. She was very graciously
inclined and did her utmost to make
conversation. Are you not a poet?"
she finally asked. WELL" said Brown.
ing. people are sometimes kind
enough to say that / am" "Oh,
please don't mind my having mention
ed It," the duchess fastened to say.
with the hndest Of smiles. You
know Byron and Tennyson and others
were poets"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
Who Kills a Good Book Kills Reason.

Unless wariness be used, as good
almost kill a man as kill a good book.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable
creature-God's image. but he who
kills a good book kills reason it.
self-kills the image of God. as it
were, in the eye. Many a man lives
a burden. to the earth, but a good
book is the precious life blood of a
master spirit, embalmed and treasur
ed up on purpose to a life beyond
life.-John Milton.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
Quarter-Quartz Cake

Weigh four eggs and mix with them
their equal weight of sugar, the same
weight of flour. as much of butter. and
a teaspoonful of vanilla. Butter a
mold, put the mixture in, and bake il
in the oven for 20 minutes.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
The Measure Of His Low.

Miss Homely-Rich-'T heard some
thing today that would indicate that
Mr.. Hunter simply cannot love me az
ne said he did" Miss Cutting
Good gracious! bad news from your
banker, en-?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
His Present State

What state does the young fellow
belong to who wants to marry old
Billyuns' daughter?" Judging from
his appearance when I saw him come
out of the old mans office 1 should say
q state of collapse"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
He Kn.w.

Lady customer wish to tell Won
how these shoes Of mine are 10 he
made" Shoemaker-"Ohl know
that well enough; large inside and
small Observation-Disclosures Bits.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-12-05
The Appraiser.

Owner - MY house is burning
down" Incendisry-"I know II nv
friend; but II 1t awakens the approved
brand of civic manhood / shall count
the cost small.