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THE RICHMOND PLANET ACROSS THE WATERS. More News From the Philippines. A Stirring Trip on the Mountains--Holidays Among the Soldiers. COLORED BOYS TRY CONCLUSIONS WITH THEIR WHITE COMRADES—AMERICAN COMPANY AMBUSHED—SIX KILLED. VOL. XVII. NO 9. ACROSS More News From A Stirring Trip tains--Holiday the So COLORED BOYS TRY COM WHITE COMRADE AMBUSHED—SIX KILI SAN PEDO, MAGALANG, JAN. 1, 1900. A HAPPY NEW YEAR. New Year dawned this morning clear and a typical ideal Filippino morning and Mt. Arrayat seemed to wish us a happy New Year, as it arose majestically out of the tropical pastures. This great mountain has never been penetrated by foreigners. So Lieutenants Scheenk and Sharon volunteered to take a detachment of 60 men and go to the top. Acting accordingly, they started out at 7 a.m. on December 30th. I was one of the party. It was a difficult undertaking because we had to find our own trail. We marched along the wagon road, leading from here and through a trail that led through a cane field, and the dense underbrush of the foothills. We marched along this trail for an hour or more and didn't reach the mountains. ADVANCE ORDERED So Lieut Schenek ordered the advance to strike out eastward through the woods. We followed in silence, keeping close together, because it was a fine place for ambush and no one had ever been there before. We expected to hear a fire-cracker most any moment. But the dense underbush, formed by an everlasting tangle of roots, vines and other impediments to progress that caused quite an ex change of oaths. It would have been a fine trip for a botanist, provided he had plenty patience. The roots of gigantic trees had grown along the ground and interlocked. A fellow had to be bewed down all the time. I would slip through to catch up. When a root and vine combination would rap around my leg and throw me in one direction and my rifle another; I would regain my feet to have the bolt of my rifle caught and the rifle again torn from my hand. At first I thought an insurgent or a gigantic ape had reached out of a tree and smashed my rifle and I was quite uneasy I assure you. SLOW PROGRESS. So slow and tiresome was our progress that my seven pound rife became dead weight and I could hardly carry it. We finally got out of this tangled mass and the Lieutenant ordered some one to climb a tree and locate ourselves. One of the boys climbed the tree and said the mountain was apparently 200 yards to the eastward. We pulled on, but it was the longest 200 yards in existence. We finally reached the mountain and had a rest of fifteen minutes. Time up, we pulled up the rugged mountain for half an hour and naked on a ridge above a swift flowing stream. We took off our caneens and a dozen of the strongest took them down and filled them with the most refreshing water on earth, even better then the well with the old oaken bucket. While they were gone Lien, Sharon divided his sack of American smoking tobacco with us. We all enjoyed a hearty smoke from our pipes, took a nourishing and refreshing pull at the canteen and onward up the mountains. As we advanced up, we could see a great gorge on either side. We finally reached a point where it was 1200 feet to the gorge, also to our discomfort. We noted that the time was getting smaller. We finally reached the worst. The path was six inches wide and slanting to the gorge. It was on a hill to a little hill and we had to catch hold of grass, which, had it given away, we sent one to the death, 1200 feet down on the dashing stream below. We finally passed this and went down a steep, narrow path to a level where we rested. NO DINNER FOR THE MEN. We had no din cheerfully divi Lieut. Schenek where some me and couldn't for 25 volu joined the pas the trail led up those ahead stones, which We had no dinner and the officers cheerfully divided theirs with us. Lieut. Scheneke said we had gotten where some men had been played out and couldn't further. So he called for 25 volunteers to go to the top. I joined the parade onward we went. The trail led us to bridges. Often those ahead had to dislocate large stones, which fell downward, greatly endangering those below But fortunately, no one was hurt. We had lots of fun. We finally reached the top, and there a grand panorama unewing itself to view. Beautiful rice fields, corn, potatoes, cocoanut and banana groves, along which the swift flowing rivers wounded their way like a long snake, presenting a view that if the Congress now in session could see, they would put aside everything else to fix these islands. We put up a sign and after a little rest started on the homeward journey, which we reached without mishap. Everybody voted the trip a success, but said they have enough for the time being. The only mishap was Serg't McGurdy had a bad cramp in the leg, but he managed to make it all right. Ladrones there are desperate in this vicinity and yesterday they snatched money from a table and got away before the astonished Americans knew what happened. Pvt. Weathers, Co. L, 25th Infantry, died of spinal miningitis at Mabalacast last week. RIENZI B. LEMUS, Co. K. 25th Int't. SAN PEDRO MAGALONG, Dec. 28, 99. The Xmas holidays have come and gone, and we have again settled down to camp life as of old. The 12th Infantry entertained the boys royally who went up to see the game, and said they wish it was so they could be to- together oftener. Everybody enjoyed themselves and all hands voted the trio perfect. They were the 12th fairly outdid themselves and the Xmas dinner was one that would make the old folks envy. One would only think now and then of Xmas at home, 10,000 miles away. The 12th's cooks are adepts in the culinary art as the following will show: Consomme vermicellii, Baked Wheat Fish, Stewed Luzon Shad, Boiled Ham in frinrettees Chicken Pot Pie, Roast Turkey, Roast Lamb, English Peas, Cream Potatoes, Potato Salad, Craneberry sauce, Boiled Sugar Corn, Sweet Pickles, Canned Peaches, Fruit, Raisins and Nut Cake, Plum Pudding, Peach, Apple and Cranberry Pies, Coffee, Tea, Milk, American and Roquefort Cheese. The 12th enjoyed the dinner as well as we did, notwithstanding they had been beaten at a game of ball and that the championship of the army had been wrestled from them. The game which resulted in a victory for the 25th was well centered despite the large score. The features were the snappy in field work of Fullhight and Daniels. Crawford had his finger broken and was relieved by Ford, who filled his place admirably. Score, 26th, 15 12th, 3 Batteries, 26th, Thompson, Crawford, and Ford. Batteries, 12th, Grimes, Linduinan and Du Borge. The Imperial 25th Quartette was along and rendered some choice music assisted by Mr. William Alexander. After two days of pleasure we return ed home and found everything packed up to move here. at which place arrived yesterday. This is a valley town at the foot of Mt. Arrayat and fairly healthy good water being in abundance. The place is very large and accessible to direct communication, being 8 miles from the railroad. The garrison is very small, only two companies B and K being here. Go. E went to Sunila Buz, one of the outlying districts of Manila, and Capt. O'Neil is expected here with his Batailion which will greatly relieve us. The train carrying the 35th ball team to Panique left the track above Faracle cautiously delay of ten hours. No one was hurt. Mr. Wm. Alexander, our comic entertainer, jumped off the train while it was in motion returning from Panique and fell, painfully bruising his nose and forhead, but not seriously. MANILA, Feb. 7—Noon—The insurgents Monday captured a supply train of nin e bull carts between Orani and RICHMOND, VIRGNIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1900 Dinalupujian, killing a corporal and five privatees of Company G, Thirty-second Infantry. The escort consisted of a sergeant and eleven mounted men. The insurgents weakened the supports of a bridge over a creek, and the first cart went into the stream. While the escort was bunched trying to haul the cart out the water, the insurgens fired a volley from the bushes, killing the six Americans and also two native drivers. The insurgent Filipinos have attacked the first battalion of the Forty-fifth Infantry near Viac. A major ands captain were wounded and one sergeant killed, but details of the engagement are lacking. Ships arriving from Legaspi report that the insurgent Gen. Pan concentrated a large force about the lip of the town and made a sharp night attack on Maj. Shipton's battalion of the Forty-second Infantry, which occupied a large convent as a fort. One battalion and a battery have sailed as reinforcements for Shipton. The casualties are unknown: A corporal and four men, while patrolling the railroad near Mabasalat recently disappeared and are supposed to have been captured. A searching party looking for them was ambushed and a corporal killed. OAUGHT IN MACHINERY A Colored Man's Horrible Death. PETERSBURG. VA., February 5.—A terrible accident, resulting in the instant death of one man and serious injury to another, occurred this morning about 10:80 o'clock at the Cockade City mill, at the basin, near the head of High street. George Simms, a colored youth about 18 years old, employed in the mill, was attempting to put a belt on the shafting on the fourth floor of the building, when Thomas Prichard, another colored employee, told him to stop and let him put the belt on. This was done, but at the same time Prichard's clothing was caught by the screw, and he was hurled upward. Prichard says he was carried out the shafting several times, and his clothes were torn from his body. He heavy weight badly saved him from death. He was badly jured, however, internally, and had to lie helpless upon his back until sent to the Home for the Sick. George Simma, who saw Prichard's danger, ran to his help. His clothing was caught, and his body was hurled rapidly around the shafting, until a message could be sent down-stairs to have the machinery stopped. When this was done Simm's body was found hanging limp and lifeless on the shafting, and men had $\textcircled{1}$ stand on chairs to lift it off. Death must have been almost instantaneous. Upon examination it was found that the clothes had been almost entirely torn from his body, his skull was crushed, his neck broken, his left arm torn off, and almost every bone in his body broken. Corener Leigh and a jury held an inquest, when the facts as above stated, were elicited. Prishard had to lie down while giving his testimony. It was in evidence that Simms had put on many times before, and that it him had made the machinery is running. The jury verdicated a verdict of death by accident. Y. M. O. A. NOTES. The boys enjoyed the Mook Court by the last Tuesday. The Commonwealth was successful in invicting the prisoner. The explanation on the Sunday School Lesson last Saturday by Prof. G. R. Hovey held the attention of all and was a great benefit. Lawyer Thomas Hewin of Boston. Mass., had quite a gathering of men to hear him last Sunday regardless of the storm. The address showed that he had carefully prepared himself for the occasion. It was a treat. Do not fail to attend the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson to-day at 5 P. M., by Prof. G. R. Hovey, Dean of Wayland College. Meetings in the Alms House at 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Upon the corners of the streets 8 P. M. Dr. D. A. Ferguson will address the boy during the P. M. Subject, "Little Things." All boys are invited. Open meeting for men Sunday, 5:30 P. M. Subject, "The Only Path to Purity." Good singing. Singing books are convenient so all can take a part. Come and enjoy yourself. The work of the Y. M. C. A., is now being encouraged on all sides. Everybody knows it is easier to form than to reform. Our Reading Room has been remodeled through the kindness of Messrs. Paul C. Easley, J. J. Woodson and Charles Russell. We have now on file about twenty-two weekly papers and three daily papers. Five minutes spent in our reading room is worth more than five years with the evil. Colored Man Shot. SPOTTELVANIA COURTHOUSE, VA. February 5. Albert Herdon, a colored man of this place, was painfully shot Saturday night by George Brown (also colored). The shooting took place at a colored festival, and the bullet that wounded Herdon was in tended for another. It struck Herdon on the right hand, taking off the third finger, entered the palm of the hand, and continuing its course, lodged in the wrist. FROM BOSTON. Widow of the Murdered Post master of Lake City, S. C., Assisted. A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA NOMINATED FOR IMPORTANT OFFICE. Hon. Isaac B. Allen Meets with Opposition. Our Rising Statesmen—Other Interesting News from the Hub. The family of the late Postmaster Frazier B. Baker, who was the victim of mob violence at Lake City, South Carolina, were visited at their home, at 91 Highlands St., Chelsea, Mass., on Thursday afternoon and evening of last week by a number of friends who brought contributions of food and money. The visitors came on invitation of Rev. Benjamin W. Farris, the pastor of the St. Paul Baptist Church of Boston, who has taken quite an interest in them since they have come here and who has acted as their spiritual adviser. At the afternoon's gathering an entertainment was given and in the evening, Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett, the white woman who brought the family from Charleston, S.C., to the city of Boston, and the Reva. W. H. Thomas of the A. M. E Church at Chelsea, and B. W. Farris made short addresses. Miss Jewett related her experience with the family, North and South. Miss Rosa Baker, who is the only support of the family, is ill and the generous public is respectfully asked to contribute to the immediate wants of the family. This is a case where the government should come to the rescue of this family instead of allowing them to suffer for the actual necessities of life. We believe as the Hon. Albion Perry does that our leading citizens should prepare a bill to pension this widow, who has been left penniless through no fault of her own, but through the negligence of the government to protect life and public property. Let Editor Mitchell take a head in this matter and never cease till it is brought to a successful climax. Councilman Edward A. Armstead of Ward 11 has been appointed a member of the Committee on Joint Rules of the City Council of this city and is making his influence felt. It is a very important committee and to get a place on it is considered a high honor. Mr. Armstead has already made an important move in asking for recognition of colored voters who supported Mayor Thomas N. Hart in the late municipal campaign. At the meeting of the Council last Thursday he nominated a former Virginian for the office of Ulerk of Committees, which is a very important city office. Mr. A. B. Littimore, the mayor of Hampton, Va., and was a student at Hampton University. He has been in the Council and Legislature from Ward 9 and is connected with many secret orders in this city. There are several aspirants of the Anglo-Saxon persuasion, but we trust Mr. Littimore will succeed in obtaining this office. A number of colored men met in this city last week to discuss the chances of the colored aspirants who are looking for office from Mayor Hart. Councilman E. A. Armstead, who is a strong Hart advocate and others spoke. It was conceded that Hart was allright. The fight for City Clerk is still unsettled. The City Council has twice elected Hon. E. J. Donavan to the office, but in order to assume the duties, his election must be concurred in by the Board of Aldermen. Ex-Alderman O. Toole is the choice of this body and it looks as if it will take a number of ballots before the question is decided. In the meanwhile there is a talk of nominating a dark horse. Pres. Kiley, who rules the Council says he will have Donovan or nothing. Neither side wants to concede the other any favor. Bill Lokins and Charley Harris, two well known west-end politicians got into a scrap on last Friday evening ever the doings of the latter gentlemen during his political career, while as a member of the Ward Committee, Common Councilman and Representative of the legislature. Lukins intimated that Harris was not the proper man to represent the colored voters, as he did not understand the first rudiments of politics and did not carry himself while in office with dignity. At this Mr. Harris got very indignant and attempted to do Lukins up pugilistically. Mr. Lukins, out of respect for the premises he was in, where the affair occurred, refrained from doing Harris bodily harm. The tongue lashing that he gave Mr. Harris was in the opinion of all present more humiliating to that gentleman than a good, sound thrashing would have been. A number of colored men waited on Mayor Thomas N. Hart on last Friday afternoon and represented themselves as a delegation from the Union Veterans Union (Civil War Vets). Odd Fellow. Knights of Honor and other societies, headed by George Washington of Ward 12 and asked the Mayor not to appoint Hon. Isaac B. Allen to the position of janitor of the Historical building, alleging that he did not represent the colored voters. The funeral of Catherine A. Grant, an aged and esteemed lady, 71 years of age, who died at East Bridgewater Thursday, February 1st, was held at the undertaking rooms of Walden Banks, 288 Cambridge St., on last Saturday afternoon, Rev. S M Duckery of Cambridge officiating A large number of sympathizing friends testified to her excellent qualities by floral offerings and followed the remains to their last resting place. Interment, Cedar Grove. In the last issue of this paper you compositor made it read that the Captains of Camps of Sons of White Comrades were appointed by Gov. John A. should have been read that the following ones were Veterans were elected to the positions Commanders of Camps, having an exclusive white membership: G. H. Powel, Esq., Justice of the Peace and Boston Daily Globe representative at Canton, Mass. 1st Lieutenant George W. Braxton of Co. L, 6th Massachusetts Regiment, of Wakefield Camp. 2nd Lieutenant Gould of Co. L, 8th Massachusetts Regiment of Dedham Camp. James M. Trotter, Jr., son of the late Decorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, of Hyde Park Camp. James H. Wolff, Jr., son of Judge Advocate of the Department of Massachusetts G. A. R. and the only colored lawyer in the University to hold such an appointment, holds a prominent office in the Brighton Camp. H. was Adjunct of the Brighton High School Battalion composed almost entirely of white scholars and is a prize winner in the contests that take place yearly by the School Brigade. Captains Braxton, Gould and Troter are Spanish-American war veterans and hold prominent positions in the community in which they reside. Oapt. Braxton was Adultant of the Battalion in which the colored compa- nies, and the white residen- dents of Wakau, held their ap preciation of a fellow citizen presen- ed him with a fine horse and full military equipments. Mrs. Clarrisa Roberts of Norfolk, Va., who has been a resident of this city for many years departed this life Tuesday, January 30th at the residence of her son in-law, Mr. John R. McClanney, the well-known chorister of the 12th Baptist Church. At the time of her demise she was 71 years, 1 month, and 4 days, of age. She was born Dec. 26th, 1829. Her funeral, which was largely attended and under the supervision of Undertaker Walden Banks, occurred at the above name church last Sunday at 12 m. Rev. Shaw paid a fitting tribute to the character of the friend. A large number of sorrowing friends were present to pay their tribute of respect. The remains were interred at Pigrims Rest, Woodlawn Cemetery. ADINA WHITE'S WORK AND AMBITION. Remarkable talent displayed by a young colored woman in the art of wood carving. Adina White is a young colored girl from Ohio, who is now working in Cambridge with a view of studying art in the Boston schools. She tells a pathetic story of hardship borne for the sake of this work, of remitting toil and effort, and of an indomitable courage—a story told quite unconceivably, and for that reason all the more impressive. The pieces of earring which were from her original designs showed such skill and ability that it was quite surprising to learn how little of real instruction the girl had had. Upon asking her when the artistic instinct came to her she answered quite simply: "O, I don't know. I used to cut figures on everything that came in my way. I was a very small child. It always seemed good for me to do this since I used to make toy tea cups and miniature baskets out of peach stones." "And could you draw, too, when you were a child?" asked the interested hostess. "Yes, that was how I came to take lessons. Miss Christine Sullivan, who was the supervisor of drawing in the public schools of Cincinnati, where I was educated, noticed my drawing one day and insisted upon my studying at the Cineinnati Art Academy. "The wood carving department was then under Mr. Benjamin Pitman, and I worked there for some time. Miss Sullivan died some few weeks ago" and the grateful tears sprang to the eyes as the young girl spoke of her friend and benefactress. Miss White's work must have been of far more than ordinary value and quality, for she very soon found employment in factories where hand carving had an important place, and was intrusted by the firm to execute a piece of work for the Columbian Exposition. This must have been a proud moment for the faithful artist, for although the firm had all the credit, her name not appearing, the work was so exquisitely finished and the design so charming that she gained a considerable amount of local fame. This carving was a table top, which represented all the wild flowers found in the State of Tennessee and a large bouquet in its center. Miss White carved the wooden pedals and stamens and stems from living flowers, and as the table was to be presented in the Tennessee exposition building, the design was particularly pretty and aprop late. Among the illustrations of some of the work in the West, the most striking one perhaps was that in the pulpit of the Bethel Church, Indianapolis, Indiana. The central figure or panel represents a cross, about which a passion flower vine is entwined. At the base cross lies a weary looking little lamb, and the gothic motif this design, while the gothic treatment of the side panels and borders show skillful handling of the abjal. The little wood carver then unwrapped a box of highly polished wood, the lid of which was a mass of oxy-eyed daisies, each leaf and each mosquito center standing cleverly and distinctly from the satiny surface of the wood. "This box has been sold," she exclaims, ed, but I asked the lady who purchased it to loan it to me for a picture." Besides this box there were mirror frames, picture frames, wall, panels and other bit of carving, all showing the same skiff in both design and finish. An interest in the young girl's for tunes from the point of view of hereditary talent prompted the question, "Did any of your family, say your parents or grand-parents before you, ever draw or carve?" "No," was the answer, "I don't know how I came to do it. My father is a stamboat cook, and I never heard of my relatives caring for this sort of thing." The questioner pondered upon the statement. Here was a sporadic case of Negro talent. 100% FOR 5 MONTHS The pupils of 5th Grammar Grade, Baker School, were given cream and cake Friday, Feb. 2, 1900, by their teacher, Miss M. L. Chiles, in honor of having had 100% for the entire half session-5 months. This is the best at tendance ever made in the Richmond Public Schools. The Death of Mrs. Virginia B. Fields Wife of Lieut. W. W. Fields, a Letter-Garrier in the Post office. The shadows of sadness have fallen upon the home of Letter Carrier W. W. Fields, who has lost his wife by death. For some time Mrs. Fields has been in bad health but none thought death so near. She has been confined to her bed for three weeks, and Monday night, Feb. 5th, at 11:40 o'clock, while Mr. Fields went out for some medicine, she breathed her last. She was a devoted wife, and a faithful Christian. Her generous disposition won for her a host of friends, who with her husband and two sisters deeply mourn their loss. The funeral took place from the 5th St. Baptist Church, Thursday, Feb. 8th at 3 p.m. BLACK—The funeral of Mr. Edward Black, who died January 25, 1900, in the 22d year of his age, was conducted from his mother's residence. 816 Buchanan St., Sunday, January 28th, at 8 o'clock, Rev J. Edward Gunby officiating, assisted by Rev R. C. Kemm. Mr. Black was held in high esteem by all who knew him. Being sick only a few days, his death was a shock to his family and friends. The floral tributes were beautiful, beyond description. Pall-bearers, Messrs. Chas. Jackson, Lorenzo Wyatt, Willie Jordan, Samuel Carrington, Ollie Smith and Joseph Andrews. W. I. Johnson, funeral director. LOGAN—Alfred A. Logan departed this life Friday, Feb. 2, 1900, at his residence, 308 West Leigh Street, after a brief illness of a few days, in the 21st year of his age. He leaves a brother, sister, two aunts, one uncle, and a host of friends to mourn their loss. He was loved by all who knew him. A precious one from us has gone, A voice we love is still. A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled. CARTER—Died at his residence, Zion Town, Henrico County, Friday, Feb. 2nd, at 9 o'clock P. M., Albert Carter, in the 45th year of his age. He was a good and kind husband also a loving father. He leaves a wife, four- teen children, and a host of friends to mourn their loss. He was a member of Quiricoon Baptist Church, also a faithful member of U. O. T. R. His funeral took place from the above named church Sunday, Feb. 4th at 2 o'clock. Sleep on beloved, sleep and take thy rest. Lay down thy head upon thy Saviour's breast. We love thee well, but Jesus loved thee best. Queen Esther. The beautiful Cantata of Queen Esther will be given at Third St. A. M. E. Church, Monday, February 19, 1900. PRICE 5 CENTS Mr. W. P. Epps is out again. Dr. R. E Jones purchased the brick dwelling at 110 W. Leigh St., at a cost of $3000. Dr. A. W. G. Farrar lectured very creditably before the nurses on the subtest. "The Anatomy of the Thoracic Viscere," last Monday evening. Rev. Dr. Bryant delivered a very interesting lecture last Monday night at the 5th Street Baptist Church on "Negrology." A large number of people were present and listened to one of the greatest lectures that ever came from the lips of a Negro orator. Last Sunday the Sunday School Union took place at the 5th St. Baptist Church. The attendance was small owing to the severe weather. The Citizens Lycaon will meet at the Leigh Street W. E. Church. Church Thursday at 8 P. M. Feb. 15th. interesting and important topics will be presented. Admission free. F. — Sir Chas. G. Thompson left for "Hotel Ormond," Florida, last Monday evening. — Mrs. Nannie Booker left for New York City on the 2nd instant, to be at the bedside of her daughter, Miss Florence Banning, who is too ill to travel. — A troupe is now rehearsing Shakpear's Historical Tragedy of RICHARD III with the intention of staging it in the near futur re. — Mr. F. E. Brown, one of the leading agents for the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company, who received a very painful, if not serious wound in a runaway accident last week, is resting quietly and is doing as well as can be expected under the skillful treatment of Dr. Meriweather. His residence is 815 St. James St. We pray for his speedy recovery. Gift to the Churoh. NEW YORK. Mrs. Francis Miles' Club presented the Mercy Seat Baptist Church with a grand communion set on the 3rd Sunday in January. She said she couldn't be present on account of her illness. She is also the president of the same club. Many thanks to the sister for her great work. Horses Found. The two horses of Dr. Sarah G. Jones were found about a mile from Soldiers Home last week. They had been taken in by a white gentleman, who says they followed his vehicle Wednesday night. Except for a slight scratch upon the leg of one of them, they were uninjured. They had been gone since Monday night, Jan. 29th. Inquiry Notice. I would like to know the where- abouts of my people. My mother be- longed to Mr. John Jones who lived on 12th Street, just below Jeff Davis' Mansion, next door to Gannaway Houses. Her name was Sarah Cole- man. I had two brothers, James (I think) and Edward Coleman. Uleft Rishmond just after the war and was quite a small boy. Any information concerning them will be thankfully received by CHARLES COLEMAN, in care Mr. Willie Smith, 404 Webster St., City. Church Notices First Presbyterian Church corner Monroe and Catherine streets, Rev. W. P. Partee, D. D., pastor; Mrs. Olivia G. Bolden, organist. Preshonah, t 11 A. M., and Sn P. M. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday evening at 8 P. M. Sabbath school at 9:30 A. M., Dr. P. B. Ramsey, superintendent. A cordial invitation is extended to all persons to attend any and all of theses services. Oct-21-1v1r B. Y. P. U The meeting of the Baptist, Young People's Union of the 5th Street Baptist Church was well attended on last Tuesday night. The programme was very interesting and well rendered. Hymn, "I hear the Saviour say." Scripture reading, Matt. vii-21-27. Prayer by Brother Ayers. Subject, "Things that endure." This beautiful subject was opened by Rev. James H. Chiles. He read a very interesting and well prepared paper on the subject. It showed that he had given deep thought and he handled his subject well. The members and friends present found no trouble in discussing the subject. Prayer was offered by Brother Wise Ellis. Hymn, "Here am I, send me," also "Tell it to Jesus, alone." Collection. Benediction by Rev. D. H. Chamberlayne. Come out members and friends on next Tuesday night, the meeting will be equally interesting. Subject, "Sea first the kingdom of God." Matt. xiii. 44 46. This is a subject that all of us should hear and discuss. Come. Oua watchword is "Welcome." Miss A. B. HASKINS, Pres. Mrs. Lucy BEVERLY, Sec'k THE MOUNTAIN PASS MYSTERY THE AUTHOR OF MY SECRET CHAPTER V A Terrible Suspicion. The next few days passed delightfully at Deepdale. Everyone who has spent a Christmas in a pleasant country house, knows what a succession of fun and galley there is for those who are inclined to take a part in it. There were to be private theatricals on New Year's Day, and the rehearsals kept us all busy, as well as provided us with endless merriment. Vera and I had become fast friends. Her grace and lovelliness had charmed me from the first; and when I found, as I quickly did, that she had intellectual gifts of a high order, and a sweet transexual disposition, I attached herself whenever I could, with hearty good will. I'm sure I don't know why for I was twice her age, a great strapping fellow more than six feet high, a mighty hunter rather than a drawing room gallant; and I fear she must have found me a little unpolished, if not absolutely rough. I had spent much of my life in traveling, and had few opportunities of acquiring that particular species of renement which ladies' society is supposed to confer. However, Vera took it into her pretty head to like me, and we were never so happy, in those cold December days, as when we were together. I telling her some wild tale of adventure, or she making up the part of entertainer by singing songs or reading poetry to me. Let it be clearly understood that there was no question of love-making between us. If such a thought ever crossed my mind, I always told myself that I was a great deal too old, and plain, and rough for that lovely girl; besides, she was so thoroughly a child in her simple white frocks, and with hair unbound hair, that the very motion seemed preposterous. I won't deny that I used to get an odd little pain at my heart when I thought what a lovely woman she would make in a few years' time, and how much she would be given. Nevertheless, I treated her exactly as I would have treated a dear young sister, and we simply remained fast friends. I was so interested in the daughter as to have no thought for the mother. Indeed, the more I knew of Vera, the more keenly interested I felt in Lady Gramont. Harold monopolized her very much, of course; but she found time to spend a few minutes by my side very frequently, and I am sure I ought to have been flattered by the winning sweetness of her look whenever she addressed me. She seemed bent on ingratiating herself with the man who was her future husband's nearest friend. But, strange though it sound, I could not cordially like Lady Gramont. On that first evening, I had been dazzled by her beauty-dazzled, also, by her intellectual charm but, as day succeeded day, and I saw her again, I was conscious that there was a latent something in my nature, which stubbornly refused to harmonize with hers. I took myself severely to task for this unreasonable caprice, as I called it; but I could not overcome it—I could not divest myself of a suspicion that Lady Gramant was not altogether what she seemed. When I had been at Dependene but a few days, this suspicion with a thicker shape. I was passing the library, when I heard her reading about Sir Harold. It was poetry she was reading—something intensely melancholy. I think it was that mournful thing of Keats', called Isabella'; at any rate, I heard her repeat these words—"And still they say, 'Oh, cruelty!' To take my basil pot from me!" Her voice, of course, took on a melancholy cadence, and, as I heard it, I could scarcely keep back an exclamation of horror and amaze; for it sounded the woman who had been attacked by Nero hast Christmas Eve—the woman, whom, in my secret heart, I firmly believed to be a murderer. It is impossible to describe my sensations at that moment. The library door was slightly ajar, and I stood outside it, like one turned to stone— fascinated by those rich, full, mournful tones. The masked woman had scarcely addressed more than half-a-dozen sentences to me, and her voice, for the most part, had been hoarse with pain and fear; but once it had sounded clear enough. It was when we had stood at the cottage door together, at midnight; and she had said she was a most unhappy woman. The tone of her voice was she said that, had haunted me for months after; and it seemed to me as though I were hearing it over again in listening to those rich, full tones of Lady Gramont. Of course I told myself it was a wild, mad fancy; of course I said it was utterly impossible that this beautiful and highly-connected Lady Gramont, who had the entree of the best circles in England, and who adorned them all, could have anything in common with that guilty woman who had fed down the pass last Christmas Eve, with murder. But, try as I might, I could not shake off my suspicions. They clung to me, and haunted me, and made me, I confess, most thoroughly uncomfortable. While I was standing in the corridor outside the library, Vera came running down from one of the upstairs rooms, dressed for walking out. "Where are you going, Vera? I asked. "Only for a walk in the grounds. Will you come, too, Sir Douglas?" She had fallen into a pretty, playful way of calling me Sir Douglas. It had been jest; but I liked it, and enraged me to continue it. I fear I had been looking somewhat grave and gloomy; but I cleared at sight of her, and returned her smile. The child looked so pretty in her dark blue merge frock, short enough to display her graceful ankles, and her smart little sealskin coat and cowl. The moodiest old bachelor that ever lived might have cleared his bones at sight of her. "Of course I'll come," I answered; and, getting my hat as I passed through the hall, we were 'soon out in the clear bright sunshine. It was a glorious day. The ground was covered with snow, a decided frostiness was in the air, and yet all was bright and sunny. I should have enjoyed my walk intensely but for those uncomfortable suspicions which would cling to my mind. Presently I resolved to question Vera a little. "And your mother? I think it is a long time since she spent a Christmas in England isn't it?" "Oh, yes. Mamma hasn't been to England, for years. We are both of our look forward to Christmas Day, you know." "Your mamma has spent a good deal of her life in India, hasn't she, Vera?" "Yes, with papa. I lived there, too, till I had the fever, and seemed not likely to get strong again. Then they sent me back to Europe—to France. I was at school there, and it was very lonely. I did so long to see mamma; but she couldn't leave papa, you know." "And, when your father died, she came to you? How long ago is that, Vera?" "It is two years. We have lived in Switzerland since then. I left school and had a governess, instead." "And how did you spend last Christmas?" I asked; and so terribly anxious ("Oh, Douglas, I am so glad you are better.") ("Oh, Douglas, I am so glad you are better.") was I, that my voice sounded not quite natural as I put the question. "Last Christmas! Oh, it was very wretched! Mamma had to go away on business, and I was quite alone." "Where did she go, Vera?" "To Germany. There was some tiresome matter that had to be attended to in a hurry. She was away more than a fortnight. Oh, how glad I was to see her back again!" "You are very fond of my mother, Vera." She turned her eyes on me with a look of surprise, almost reproach, in their soft hazel depths. "Why, Sir Douglas, of course I am. Aren't all girls fond of their mothers? And no girl has quite so dear and sweet a one as mine!" "And not many mothers have so sweet a daughter as you, eh Vera?!" I answered, lightly, though, in truth, my thoughts were heavy and dark enough. That absence of Lady Gramont's from her daughter last Christmas—did it not seem to confirm my suspicions? Heavenly! if they should be true! If Vera's mother—if Gwynne's promised wife—should be a murderer? Suddenly there flashed across my mind a recollection of the wound I had cauerized. The woman must needs bear the scar of that to her dying day, Here, then was proof, and of the simi- cound. All I had to do was, to discover what her Lady Gramont had any such scar upon her arm. But how to discover this? I remembered with a deepening of my suspicions, that, although Lady Gramont had beautiful dresses always came to well below the elbows. Asme- edly, if she had such a scar, she would be careful not to show it—especially before me. I might have questioned Vera on this point; but, somehow, I shrank from it unaccountably. The Israelites of old were forbidden to see the kid in its mother's milk, and it seemed to me it would have been equally unnatural to attempt to fix the guilt of murder on the mother by means of her child. We returned to the house as the helmet well was ringing. At a turn in the path we went, we joined by Gwynne and Lady Gramont. She was looking even more than usually beautiful in her walking out costume. It was rich, dark violet, and the costly fur which trimmed it enhanced the lustre of her eyes, and the clearness of her skin. I felt horribly guilty as I remembered I had dared to suspect this beautiful high-bred woman of being a murderess. The idea seemed so very monstrous now I was in her presence, that I could feel myself flushing all over my face. My embarrassment was increased by the cordiality with which she greeted me; indeed, I am bound to confess that her manners, full of a sweet, winning grace towards everyone, were ever most sweet and gracious when addressed to me. I had noticed this, and had attributed it to a natural and laudable wish to please one whom her betrothed husband held in such high esteem; but now there came into my mind the sinister thought that she might be animated by a very different motive. If she were in truth, that masked woman—thus ran my reflections—she would, of course, recognize me, although I could not recognize her; and it would clearly be to her interest to secure me as her friend. Again I flushed hot and red. I felt as though such thoughts constituted unreasonable openness and treachery towards Gwyneth. I am sure I would gladly have given ten thousand pounds at that moment to have my unimaginable disproved; but, without disproof, could not banish them. They had taken too firm a hold upon my mind. CHAPTER VI. Poor Nero. The very next morning, I got a letter from my uncle—the chief item of news in which was that poor Nero was decidedly "off her feed," and appeared to be taking my absence sadly to heart. For three years he had not been parted from me a single day. I mentioned this to my host, Sir Thomas Mallory, and he immediately said—Send for the poor brute, Douglas, Dixon can take charge of him, and he'll not be the least in the way." "Thanks!" I said, "I will," and in less than half an hour I had sent off a wire, instructing my uncle's groom to despatch Nero to Deepdene by the next train. He arrived that same night. I met him at the station, and took him down to Dixon, Sir Thomas's head THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA I had taken care not to mention before the ladies that the dog was coming; for I had a fancy to try an experiment with him. It had occurred to me it was just possible that Nero, with his wonderful instinct, might know Lady Gramont again; that is, supposing she were the woman he had so furiously attacked. If he did recognize her, he would certainly show some sign of displeasure; and also, I thought she would not be able to conceal her discomfiture at sight of him, if he were introduced to her notice suddenly. Accordingly I kept my own counsel; and the next afternoon, at the hour when I knew Lady Mallory would be giving her the best tea in the hall I took Nero with me then. Vera caught sight of him first, and sprang up to caress him. Oh, what a splendid dog! Is it yours, Sir Douglas?" she cried, stroking his great head, while he wagged his tail, much gratified. I looked round the hall, and saw, near the brightly-burning fire, a vacant chair. Lady Gramont had not yet come downstairs. In breathless suspense I awaited her appearance. Would Nero know her? and, if he knew her, would he testify that he remembered last Christmas Eve? He had not seen her face any more than I knew his faith in his instincts. He would not have to rely on features for his recognition. In a minute or two she came. Harold got up to lead her to her seat; and I, noticing the look of deep, adoring love on his face, felt a passionate hope that Nero would show no signs of recognition. I realized then, all it would mean to my friend. Lady Gramont wore a tea-gown of pale pamisme-colored silk, and she walked that stately grace of step which I have never seen quite equalled by any other woman. Her beautiful, lustrous eyes hold the sweetest look as she returned Sir Harold's smile. I glanced at her, and said to myself, with indignant scorn: "That woman a murderess! John Douglas, you must be mad to have harbored such a thought for one single moment in your brain." He even while I said this, Nero sprang from Vera's caressing hand, and, with a low but infectious growl, leaped upon Lady Gramon. The attack was so sudden, so unexpected, that everybody started up in alarm. Sir Harold selzed the dog by the collar, and hurled him back, or I verily believe his fierce teeth would have met upon my lady's soft, white hand. Even as it was, it needed all the authority I could throw into my voice to restrain him. Him. I could have flung himself upon her, and plained her to the ground. I needed no further proofs. I was certain then, that Beatrice Gramon was the woman whose arm Nero had bitten last Christmas Eve. "Good Heavens, Douglas! Why do you keep such a brute as this?" cried Gwynne. And, for the first time in his life, there was anger in his voice as he addressed me. "He isn't safe. Upon my word, I really think you ought to have him shot!" I turned the dog out, without replying; then I came back, and walked straight up to Lady Gramont. "I must apologize to you for Nero's strange behavior." I said. "I have never known him to act like this before experience." She was white to the lips. Everyone else thought, of course, it was the fear of being bitten that had caused her to turn so deathly pale; but I knew well it was a deeper fear. She forced herself to give me a gracious answer, and even to smile faintly. "Poor fellow! You must not scold him; it was, probably only fun," she said. "But I am such a coward." "I should not have thought you were a coward, Lady Gramont, I answered, in a slow, distinct voice, and looking full into her face as I spoke. "On the contrary, I should have expected to find you exceptionally brave." Oh no, indeed! I am not brave at all! she murmured, sinking into a chair, and shading her face with a feather firestick. I felt sure she was afraid of betraying agitation and discomposure. Vera came up to me, and touched me lightly on the arm. "When was the other time that your dog attacked anyone, Sir Thomas? You said you had never known him to act like this but once." I replied to Vera; but my eyes were on her mother all the time. "It is nearly a year ago." I said, slowly, "Last Christmas Eve, Nero flew at a woman as suddenly, and seemingly as unaccountably, as he flew at Lady Gramont just now." "And did he hurt her?" questioned Vera. "I am bound to say he did," I answered gravely. "He bit her so severely that I had to cauterize the wound. She will carry the mark of it to her grave." "And you can keep such a dog as that?" exclaimed Sir Harold. "Really, Douglas. I am surprised at you!" Lady Gramont said nothing; only sat with her beautiful eyes cast down; her fingers toying restlessly with the feather screen; her face ashy pale. That night Gwynne and I sat up to smoke a pipe together. He sat opposite me; and I, looking on his fine, noble face, wondered how he would bear it if he had to be told that Beatrice Gramont was unworthy of his love. In my heart I half-believed it would be his death blow; at any rate, it would kill all that was best in him. He would never hold up his head again with that frank, proud movement, and look at me with eyes that spoke of measureless content, as he was looking at me now. When a man loves for the first time in his life at forty-three, his love is apt to enter into the very deepest recesses of his being—especially if he be a man of a strong, deep nature, and the woman whom he loves is passing fair. Sir Harold so loved Beatrice Gramont, that I was sure he would far rather have died than have had to believe in her dishonor. Should I tell him my suspicions? I asked myself that as he sat opposite me, tranquilly smoking a cigar; and I answered the question with an unhesitating "No!" In the first place, it would be of no use. He simply would not believe me. That fancied similarity of voice, with nothing to support it except Nero's strange antagonism would not have had a feather's weight with him. He would be furious to think that anyone should dare to breathe a word against his worshipped Beatrice. No; it was quite useless to speak at present. I decided. I must have further proofs; I must watch and wait and, perhaps, I should be able to discover whether Laury does not not the scan of a centrifuged wound upon "Well, old fellow?" I queried, not feeling at all in a laughing mood myself. "I was thinking about how odd it would be if I ever should be your papa-in-law. I should be, you know, in a way, if you were to marry Vera." "I-marry Vera!" I exclaimed, in amazement. "Whatever has made you think of such a thing as that?" "I beg your pardon, if I've made a mistress but, upon my honor, I really thought you were getting attached to the child." "That's just it. I am attached—to the child. But then, one doesn't think of marrying children." "Oh, nonsense, Hall!" I exclaimed, sharply, so sharply that he looked at me in surprise. I could not have defined my feelings at that moment, but I know they were extremely unpleasant, if not absolutely painful ones. I could all the world, as though the meshes of a web were tightening round me—as though I were being drawn to a place from which there would be no retreat, save with definite misery or infinite dishonor. The suggestion that I might marry Vera had done this. In the first place, I was certain it had never emanated from Gwynne's own unassisted mind. Whether he knew it or not, he was simply the mouthpiece of Lady Gramont. It was she who had induced him to speak like this to me. And her motive? Of course I saw that in a moment. If I were married to her daughter, or even engaged to marry her, her own secret must needs be safe with me. Let my suspicules be what they might, I could never betray them, to her peril, if I loved her child. The very deepness of the scene hardened me against the woman who I conceived, had planned it; and hence it was that I spoke so sharply. "Pray say no more about my marrying Vera; it is quite out of the question. Come, aren't you about ready for bed? I am." And, I left the room abruptly. "It is quite out of the question." I repeated this to myself as I went up the stairs, and was surprised to find how keen a pang it cost me. Quite out of the question that I should marry Vera. I had never thought of it before, but now I was forced to think of it, and to decide it could never be; I realized that my heart had passed out of my keeping, that Vera, child though she was, had won it. But I could never marry her; no, not even though I could win from her an answering love; her mother's sin must forever stand between us. I might be willing to make her my wife, even though I knew she was the daughter of a murderess but she—could she marry the man who had been the means of betraying her mother's crime. Assuredly she could not and yet, in my heart, I felt certain that that painful duty would be mine. Sooner or later should have to betray Beatrice Grammar and Harold. If she were what I suspected of being, I could not stand by and hold my peace while my friend gave her the shelter of his high and spotless name. I had drawn up the blind in my bedroom, and was standing beside the window while I thus mused. It was a bitterly cold night and a light snow was falling. I was about to turn away, when I saw a dark figure approaching the house. I opened the window very quietly and leaned out; I had a fancy I should see Gwypne. I thought he might have stepped out to finish his smoke, and returned when it came on to snow. But it was not a man, it was a woman who was coming swiftly towards the house. A moment of breathless uncertainty, and then I saw it was Lady Gramont. She entered the house by one of the side windows, and closed it after her, noiselessly. She came straight upstairs, and passed on to her own room, for I could here the soft swish-swish of her skirts as she went by my door. Where had she been? and upon what errand? There was some inscrutable mystery about this woman. I could not even dimly guess that her past had been. With thoughts all confused and chaotic, I undressed and got back into but I had not lain there more than five minutes when a fear darted into my mind which made me spring up as though I had been shot. I remembered that Lady Gramont had come from the direction of the stables, and the house of Sir Thomas's head groom was a little beyond there, Nero was there. Had Lady Gramont's ramble had anything to do with him? I turned hot all over as I debated the question. In less than five minutes I had got my clothes on, and was out of the house. Come on might. I felt I must know whether my dear old dog was safe. The stables were not more than a hnudred yards away, and Dixon's house was about as far again. I tore along in the darkness at a rapid pace, feeling wildly excited, and with a curious sinking at my heart. The snow as falling fast now—so fast that the prints of Lady Gramont's feet were quite covered up; but, indeed, even if they had remained, they would not have been discernible in the darkness. I passed the stables. All was quiet. I not a sound to disturb the stillness. I hurried swiftly on, to Dixon's house hoping a moment to hear my faithful old Nero's bark. But no; all continued silent—as I did. At length Dixon's house came in sight. Surely, there was something—a dark mass—bying just outside the gate. I strained my eyes to see the gate, and that horrible sinking at my heart increased. I fancied it was Nero, and I knew that, if he was alive, I could scarcely have approached him thus nearly, without springing up to meet me. 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Teach them to respect themselves as much so as other people. Gen. Otis declared the insurrection in the Philippine islands ended. From the reports coming in this week, it seems that it has begun again. There have been troubles times in Kentucky'. Wm. Gorbel, the Democratic leader is dead and W. S. TAYLOR, the Republican Chief Executive is still governor of Kentucky. THE daily Democratic journals of the city gravely assured the colored people that the "Jim Crow" Car Bill was not a "Jim Crow" Car Bill. They could equally as well have stated that a buzzard was not a buzard and that the demagogue, JOHN E. EPPS was not John E. EPPS, the demagogue. The Democratic leaders of Virginia announce their determination to hold a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of nullifying the 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States by the disfranchisement of the Negro. This is expected to ensure Democratic success in Virginia, where they already have success and to imperil Democratic success in the doubtful states where the Negro holds the balance of power. Wise men, indeed, are Democratic leaders of Virginia! THE DECADENOE OF STATESMANSHIP. The Petersburg, Va., INDEX-APPEAL, one of the leading Democratic daily journals in this state expressed its opinion of the present legislature in its issue of the 28th ult. Here is its language: "The legislatures of Virginia are getting no better very fast in these fin de siècle days. It was generally acknowledged that the body which passed the Landgrabbers' bill two years ago surpassed all prosecators in weakness and freakishness, and it was confidently expected and hoped that it would maintain this unenviable distinction against all future comers." It continued: "That hope, however, fails us, for the present legislature is fault princeps in all that made its predecessor a disappointment and failure. The old legislature was intellectually weak, but it had good intentions, and ered only in the head, not in the heart. We believe that it was sincerely earnest in its efforts to increase the revenues of the State and to promote retrenchment and reform. The present Legislature is so weak that it cannot so good at the heart. It has no respect proved its it a friend to retrenchment and reform, and it has produced no legislation to public interest, except the Jim Crow Car measure. and that were far better left undone for the future welfare of the State." The situation could hardly be stated more clearly or with a finer sense of humor. It said further: "Truly mediocritic, not to say inferiority, is in the ascendency over the mother of States and of statesmen, and the indications are that it will be a long time, if ever, before we look again upon men in our legislative halls like those who gave Virginia her proud pre-eminence among her sister states in ante-bellum days." "This is indeed a sad commentary upon our so-called democratic institutions. The demagogue is elevated at the expense of the citizen who has the true interests of the commonweath at heart. It is the logical result of a corrupted ballot, the rule of a political oligarch and the elimination of the voice of the people. The INDEX-APPEAL evidently agrees with this view of the situation for it said: "What is the cause of this decadence? Has the old Commonwealth lost her propensity in the bread of brainy men? That should not be, for surely the self-same mould will bring forth the self-same men. Why is it that they no longer appear upon the theatre of public affairs, but devote their time and talents of professional pursuits and the service of corporations, often against the interest of the people? It may be in part that public employments are not sufficiently remunerative, or it may be that the honors of public station are not so attractive as formerly, and are not sought by men of means. The principal cause, in our opinion, is the vicious election system in our State, foisted upon the people under the pretense of "preserving their civilization," but really for the object of securing offices for men who have no qualification for the public service, but who are adepts in art of ballot-box manipulation." Our contemporary states the entire case "in a nut-shell." It then proceeds to argue against the secret ballot and concluded as follows: "Anything is preferable to the present demoralizing and debauching system of voting under which we live and are ruled by men lacking in capacity and often in character." We shall await developments, satisfied that time will demonstrate the wisdom of following the right path, and practicing the principles as laid down by our fore-fathers. THAT BURIAL IN HOLLYWOOD. In the face of all of the agitation againstthe Negro, the talk of the separation of the black from the white, the declination to have a Negro at a white person's elbow, the declaration of the inferiority of the citizen of color and the feeling of abhorrence which seems to have driven a portion of the people of Virginia to the point of temporary insanity and resulted in the disgracing of our statute books with a "Jim Crow Car" law, "Aunt" CRITTY WILLIAMS, an old Negro family servant of the BRANCH's passed away. Now all "quality talks" in Richmond know of the family of Mr. JOHN P. BRANCH, who resides at No. 1. West Franklin St. He is a Virginian of the old school and the "latter-day" prejudices or the old-time animostics occupy no place in the minds of the members of those proud descendants of the Virginia aristocracy of other days. They are wealthy; their servants know all of the rules of polite etiquette and white men of the John E. EPPs' stripe can enter the white car as specified in that "Jim Crow" Car$bill, but the doors of that aristocratic mansion never swing either inward or outward for persons of the EPPs' calibre. We doubt if the Negro-hating legislator could get into the parlor either, if he were to do the white jacket and "snow colored" apron of a servant. His prejudices are too marked and his lack of consideration for the feelings of others would make him unsuitable even for the position of butler in the John P. BRANCH household. But to the point,—"Aunt" Orrizz Williams died on Saturday, February 3, 1900 and her remains were placed in the parlor of the BRANCH mansion. A white funeral director officiated and the genuine grief manifested by the male and female members of Mr. BRANCH's family would have caused a look of wonderment upon the features of John E EPPs and his Negro-hating followers. It would have been a sight which they could not understand. Why? Because they have never owned a Negro, never had a faithful black servant, and accordingly have never known the value of the affection of a member of that humble race with which we are identified. "Aunt" CIRTTY WILLIAMS would have given her life for a member of the BRANCH family. The members of the BRANCH family were willing to do all in their power for this faithful, but humble servant. No race question here; no separation here; no shrinking from contact here. Oh, colored people of Virginia, let us remember that there are white people in the commonwealth, not in the legislative halls who believe in us as we do in them, and will do all in their power to soften the effect of oppressive legislation. But let us turn again to that household, where Mr. John E. ERPS cannot enter. The funeral services over the remains were brought down the front steps of the BRANOM mansion, placed in one of the finest hearths and conveyed to the family section at Hollywood, one of the most existoratic cemeteries in all of the Southland. He sleep the Confederate dead, the remains of JEFFERSON DAVIS and his idolized daughter, WINNIE. Here rest the statues of the common- THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA bes sighing quiem o'er is gates to a last Month thin the fly, Carrry the sounding the testi- the world is any other purpose but to liberate them and make them free. And they reply 'Here is a nugget of gold which came from a river's bank in Luzon.' We tell them that they have schools, churches, a free constitution, laws, order, civilization; that they are Christians, and that it is a crime to crush a Christian people. And they tell you, in reply, that the trade of China is illimitable and if we but set our foot upon Luzon we are in a posi- tion where we can get our share of it." He states the whole co- trouble in the following te- phatic language: The President issued a p- pose in which he declared a pur- force our sovereignty over and to substantiate the legislative and judicial an- tribunals established in oer at the island of Luzon jacent islands by the Luzon peace and freedom are He takes issue with ex-Secretary DAY and says: "Mr. Day, lately Secretary of State, in a speech in Ohio, in which he does not commit himself to a purpose of permanent dominion over these people against their will, says the war was begun by Aguinaldo, and we could only meet force with force. To both of these statements it seems to me the facts of the case impose their emphatic denial. The conflict began by a shot from a United States soldier. The first persons slain were Filipinos. Aguinaldo earnestly deprecated the event and sent a messenger at once to the American commander expressing his regret and his desire for peace, and offering to withdraw his soldiers to the American authority should acquaint the American authority with the statement that an hostilities against gun they must go on. General Ois himself expresses his belief—what all the facts abundantly show—that Aguinaldo did not desire to begin to fight at that time. He adds, what is the merest conjecture, that he thinks Aguinaldo meant to fight later, and if it is true that there was a purpose on the part of the United States to deprive this people of the independence they have achieved, it is not unlikely. But the purpose to subjugate them, and a determination to carry it into effect by force, is the true and only cause of the war." He continues to pay his respects to the Ex Secretary when he declares: "Mr. Day is equally mistaken, in my judgment, when he states that we can only meet force with force. That is a doctrine to my mind, replete with barbarism. I am not now invoking any rule prescribed by Christianity for the government of man. But I affirm that it is an outrageous doctrine when by accident, by the fault of private soldiers on one side, or on the other, a conflict has grown up between two great nations, or one great nation and one small one, that they are bound ever afterward to make it a fight to the death. And Mr. Day would not for a moment think of prescribing such a rule for the government of the United States in dealing with England or Germany. The law of righteousness is the same in the Eastern as in the Western Hemisphere. If the United States be bound to deal in honor with the thief whom we are equally bound to deal in honor with the swarthy people of Luxembourg. The rules of honor and justice are not feected by the lines of latitude or of longitude, or by the points of the compass. When we say this, there seems to be a singular difficulty in getting our imperialistic friends either to admit or deny it. They unsee uneasy from any consideration of right and wrong, and appeal not so much even to the desire for empire as to the covetousness and greed of the American people." Senator Hoar is at his best when he comments as follows upon the points at issue: "The man who would deal with Luzon as we are piedged to deal with Ouba, says, as Seward said, as the Supreme Court say, that we have no right under the Constitution to acquire, hold or govern colonies. The man who would subjugate Luzon says we have such right. The man who would deal with Luzon as we mean to deal with Ouba says we have no right to Luzon under the law of the nations. The law of nations declares that no country can sell a sovereignty that it does not actually enjoy and possess; that when a sovereignty is disliseed he cannot rightfully dispose of to another a people or territory, but that it has not the practical control, and that he undertook neither right nor power over the island of Luzon when she undertook to sell." He says also that the law of nations further declares that a strong nation has no right to conquer and subjugate a weak nation by mere force of arms. The man who would subjugate Luzon replies to all of this: "that may or may be true. I will not debate it with you, but I propose to do it." The man who would deal with Luzon as we mean to deal with Cuea says that people had achieved their independence, established their government in freedom and in order, and that it is a base thing to crush this infant republic, the first republic, in the Orient, by our superior power. The man who would subjugate them says, in substance, that he does not care whether this be a base thing or no. The man who would deal with Luzon as we are pledged to deal with Oubia says that we brought Aguinaldo home from exile, put him at the head of the people of his islands, gave them arms, accepted their aid knowing all the time that they expected independence, that we never undeserved them or disclosed to them a purpose to conquer them, until Spain had surrendered, and that we are estopped by the plainest dictates of good faith from now holding them in subjection. I would advocate of subjugation will be driven the end to deny this proposition. He has manifested great unwillingness to talk about it. The man who would deal with Luzon as we are pledged to deal with Oubia says we can gain no advantage to our trade, and we ought not to do it if we could, by conquering this people and holding them in subjection." And again: "Finally, the man who would deal with Luzon as we are pledged to deal with Oubua says that Declaration of Independence, as the great interpreter of the Coatification of the United States, stating the reasons for our own right to be a nation, affirming the moral law for the government of nations both in dealing with each other and in dealing with individual right, forbids our undertaking to govern the people of Luzon without their consent, or undertaking to do what is called 'giving them a government.' To which the man who desires to subjugate that people answers: 'The Declaration of Independence is not true. It is a collection of glittering generalities, of vague, high-sounding phrases, long outgrown. It was intended at best for a weak people declaring their own rights, and not for a people strong enough to trample on the rights of others.' These are the issues with which the American people have to deal. This is what the war in the Philippine Islands is about." wealth and the gentle breezes sighing through the trees sing a requiem o'er their graves. Hollywood never opens its gates to a Negro. It did so however on last Monday morning, and within the section of the BRANOH family, CRITTY WILLIAMS will sleep until the sounding of the last trump'. This is the testimonial of affection which the world is called upon to witness. Did we forget to say it? A white minister of the gospel preached the funeral discourse, and the genuine emotions evinced by the children and relatives of Mr. JOHN P. BRANOH would have led you to believe that he had started on his long journey. Let us take hope, colored men. Let us cultivate a friendly feeling with the individual white men and avoid contact with them in crowds. The low, mean, begrudgeful Negro-hating white men are to be shunned, if not despised, while we improve our condition; practice good manners, save money, buy property, and trust the future to the God who made us. Sleep on, Aunt Carrx1 On the other side of the river, there will be no more separation; but, gathered together about his throne, His only Son has promised to wipe all of the tears from our eyes. "SHALL WE RETAIN THE PHILIP PINES?" Senator GEORGE F. HOAR of Massachusetts in COLLINS'S WEEKLY of February 3rd, discusses, "Shall We Retain the Philippines?" It is unquestionably one of the ablest documents which has yet appeared upon that subject and cannot fail to make a most favorable impression upon the people of the United States regardless of party, race, color or religion. He commences as follows: "Whether as some people believe, the war in the Philippine Islands is near its end and we are to deal with the grave question of duty when their entire submission has been brought about; or whether as others think, we are at the beginning of a long and costly period of strife with a stubborn foe fighting and ready to die for Liberty, is a matter of which I do not deem myself a good judge. Military experts, who combine with that accomplishment a knowledge of the quality and temper of this Oriental people, are alone competent to tell us. In either case it is worth while to sum up the debate as far as it has gone, and to state briefly and clearly the position of the two parties that divide the people of the United States." In referring to the War with Spain he says: "There are persons, doubtless, who think that the war with Spain was wrong, they believe we should have left Cuba to her fate, or that diplomacy would have accomplished what we accomplished by arms. I do not agree with them. And I do not think them more concerned either in numbers or in weight of arguments to be spoken of further here, especially as that matter is irreversibly settled. But the living issue can best be made clear by saying that it is between those who have wished, and who now wish, that the United States should deal with the people of the Philippine Islands as we dealt with Cuba, and those who wish that we should subdue them, impose on them such government as we think fit, and use their land as a stepping-stone to the trade of China. We liberated Cuba from Spain. We declared that it would be ungrateful and criminal to undertake to get any selfish advantage thereby. The President said: 'Forcible annexation would be criminal aggression.' He further said: 'Government must rest upon the free consent of the governed and all of the governed. We have no right in law or morals to usurp that which belongs to another whether it be property or power.' Congress said: 'That the United States hereby disclaim any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said island and the possession thereof, and assers its determination to accomplish to leave the government and control of the island to its people.' The distinguished statesman declares: "Both these declarations had the almost unanimous approval of the people. Accordingly we have from the beginning disclaimed any purpose of empire over the island of Cuba. We purpose to protest Cuba from the ambitions or greed of any other people. We purpose equally to protect them from our own. Having overthrown the existing government there, such as it was, we purpose to maintain order and to carry on government until a new one can be established there—of the people; by the people; and for the people. That done, we mean to withdraw a we have been brought under understood, however, that our withdrawal will let in no other power on earth to take the place of Spain." Senator Hoar states the issues between the Imperialists and the Anti-Imperialists plainly when he remarks: "Now one party to this discussion says that if there were any reason growing out of our Constitution, our principles, the doctrines of righteousness and freedom and human rights to which this country is pledged, which demanded such a course in Cuba, these things equally demand a like course in the Eastern Hemisphere, and that the facts and the situation require it much more clearly in Luzon than they require them in Cuba. When we say ths., there seem to be a singular difficulty in getting our imperialist friends to join issue with us. We tell them that there is a people in Luzon and that this people have achieved their independence. They reply to you, 'But there are mountains of iron there.' We tell them that our Declaration of Independence and our honored leaders and statesmen from President Washington to President McKinley tell us that it is a crime to subdue such a people by force of arms. We tell them that if there are great stores of coal in those areas, We tell them that we brought over Alguinaldo ourselves, armed him and placed him at the head of his people, well knowing that he and they were striving for independence; that they told us again and again that independence was their desire, and that we never told them in reply that we had He states the whole cause of the trouble in the following tense, but emphatic language: The President issued a proclamation in which he declared a purpose to enforce our sovereignty over that people and to substitute, for the executive, legislative and judicial and municipal tribunals established in order and quiet over the island of Luzon and the adjacent islands by the people thereof in peace and freedom, such a government as the United States should give them having regard to its own interest as well as theirs. He declared an intention, and no man who knows him will doubt that he was sincere in that declaration, to make that government benign and gentle. But it was our government and not theirs which he proposed to compel their submission! That proclamation was dated December 24, 1898. General Otis thought, as he tells us in his report, that it would at once bring on war. So he undertook to suppress it; and instead thereof he issued on the fourth day of January, 1899, less than eight weeks before the outbreak of hostilities, a proclamation in which, suppressing all these utterances of the President, he assured them that it is the purpose of the people of the United States to give them, "in every possible way, the full measure of individual rights and liberty which is the heritage of a free people." And he adds: I am convinced that it is the intention of the United States Government to seek the establishment of a most liberal government for the islands, in which the people themselves shall have as full representation as the maintenance of law and order will permit, and which shall be susceptible of development, on the lines of increased representation and the bestowal of increased powers, into a government as free and independent as is enjoyed by the most favored provinces of the world. But, happily, General Otis had sent the President's proclamation to General Miller, who was then lying in arms opposite Iloilo, the capital of Aguinaldo's government, eager, as his repeated and urgent requests to the commander-in-chief snow, to be allowed to attack Iloilo at once. He published it, and it excited, as General Otis informs us, conspiration and indignation throughout those islands. Aguinaldo met it by a counter-proclamation, dated January 5, 1899, which was posted up in the streets and on the walls of the houses of Manila on the 8th and 9th of January, before any debate had taken place in the Senate except a constitutional discussion as to the powers of our government to hold territories in subjugation. In this proclamation Aguinaldo says, among other things: 'My government cannot remain in different, in view of a violent and aggressive usurpation of a portion of our territory, by a nation which calls itself 'champion of oppressed nations'. So my government is prepared to commence hostilities if the American forces attempt to carry out by force the occupation of the Visayas. I proclaim these facts before the whole world, in order that the universal conscience may point out inflexibly who are the real oppressors of nations and the executioners of humanity. On their heads be all the blood that will be spilt. 'EMILIO AGUINALDO. 'Malolos, January 5, 1899. In speaking of the occupation of the Visayas above, he refers, I suppose, to the expectation of an early attack by the forces of General Miller on Iloilo his capital, where his forces were assembled in considerable numbers. Here was a pristine declaration of war, what would be accepted as a declaration of war by any free people on earth, by our demand of submission to our claim of sovereignty on one side, and Aguinaldo's brave challenge on the other. So the issue to be submitted to the people of the United States in the Western Hemisphere was submitted to the arbitrament of war in the Far East." He remarks: "The people of the United States have not, as yet, fully understood it. They have thought, some of them, that we were dealing with a barbarous and savage race, incapable of governing themselves. They thought that an unprovoked attack had been made upon our flag. They have been excited, as every tree and brave people would be excited, by the fast that their country was engaged in war. But the truth of the fact and the righteousness of the law which has been defiled, are alike becoming known. The questions above stated between the republic and the empire; between liberty and slavery; between the Declaration of Independence and imperialism; between the doctrines of Washington and Lincoln and the doctrines of George III. and Napoleon Bonaparte, will be settled. They will be settled, sooner or later, by the American people, and they will in the end be settled right. By Presidents, through Presidents or over Presidents; by Congress, through Congress or over Congress; by political parties; through political parties or over political parties, the irresistible current will find its way." Could there be a more sublime exhibition of truly eloquent inspiration than may be found in the following lines? Some of our friends, who justify this subjugation, are fond of taking on their lips the name of Deity, although. I think most of them like better to speak of destiny. This invocation of the name of God seems to me to be impious. Did God decree the partition of Poland? Did God keep the fair isles of Greece under the feet of Turkey? Did God keep Italy under the armed heel of Austria, and Naples and Sicily under King Bomba? Did God thrust the Italian patricios into their hopeless prisons? Was it God that murdered Touissaint L'Ouverture by starving him in a dungeon when Napoleon despoiled him on board a French ship and carried him to France? Did God oinder our missionaries in Armenia? Did God torture the Christians in Turkey? Did God enact the Fugitive Slave Law? I have read the Scripture otherwise. It must needs be that offences come. But woe unto that man, and woe unto that nation by whom the offense cometh." This greatest statesman of his time concludes as follows: "The doctrine for which I stand and for which I speak has triumphed so far in every conflict in war and in peace throughout our history, from the landing at Plymouth of the Pilgrims, who brought it across the sea, down to the resolutions when we declared war with the United States, houses of Congress and signed by President McKinley. It kept in its grasp the man and court and prelate the characters of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Is stood in arms at Lexington. and Concord in the morning of the Revolution. It extracted victory from defeat at Bunker Hill. It cheered Marion and Sumter and Greens in the Southern swamps. It was written in blazing words in the great Declaration. It cheered Washington and his army in the gloomy days of Valley Forge. It was victorious in the supreme hour at Yorktown. It has built the eternal foundations of the nation in the Constitution and is the 'sternal foundation on which State rests. It stood for sailors' rights in 1812. It saved the Union in the day of its supreme peril. By it Washington lived, and for it Lincoln died. It was that which justified us in liberating Cuba, and which justified us in sinking the fleet of Spain at Manila. Under it we had become the strongest, freest, richest nation on the face of the earth. It is written, invisible to the bodily eye, yet visible to the spiritual discernment on every fold, over every stripe, and over every star of the American flag. That man little understands, in my judgment, the temper of the American people who know their own history, who thinks we are either to forget it or to desert it." Senator HOAR is the compass of the nation, pointing out to it the way to prosperity and warning it of the dangers. His utterances embrace the essence of ethics and the foundation principles of true religion. The decay of Greece and Rome began at the point where the American nation is about to be led astray. Whether or not the inherent principles of truth and justice, are sufficiently rooted in the people of this country to cause them to put away the tempting offers of the imperialists, which is akin to the promise of Satan upon the Mount is an open question. Certain it is, that whatever disaster follows the government of the United States, it will be directly traceable to this one false step which led it from the paths of restitude to the practices of the monarchies of the Old World. Partly Correct. Most of the stores in the remote business sections of the city are constantly annoyed by children of the neighborhood coming to the door and asking for cards, empty boxes and similar articles. The clerks are, of course, down on the youngsters, and the warfare never ends. The other day a small boy poked his head in the door of a West side store and called out: "Say, mister, got any empty boxes?" "No," said the clerk, not very politely. "No-yes—no-yes—you miserable little wretch," and the clerk flew at his tormentor, but the latter had fled. Ohio State Journal. River Is Forever Singing "There is something peculiar about the Yukon river that I have never heard of in connection with any other stream," said Capt. Gray, who has recently been running boats on the big Alaska artery. "From the mouth of the Yukon up as far as there is any navigable water the stream is constantly singing. No matter where you are, there is a sound like that made by esplanade steam. At first I used to think that maybe it came from the boiler or engines. But when we were tied up as night, with everything cold, the sound was the same. I have puzzled my brain to find an explanation of the phenomenon, but without avail. The singing goes on day and night. When you get upstream some distance you can also hear the rocks rolling over the bed of the river, and this produces a most peculiar sound."—Portland (Ore.) Telegram. His Pa Was Right All the seats in the car were taken. He stood up near the middle and read a paper, paying no heed to what was going on around him. He was the only passenger for whom there was no place to sit. He started to turn the pages of his paper. Suddenly the motorman saw an obstruction on the track ahead and reversed the current. After the passenger who had been standing succeeded in getting upon his feet again an old man who seemed to know him said: "Well, John, your pa was right." John looked dazed, and the old man continued: "He always said you was a-goin' to the front in a hurry some day if you only kept your health." — Chicago Times-Herald. Valuable Pebbles Between the northern point of Long Island and Watch Hill lies a row of little islands, two of which, Plum Island and Goose island, possess a peculiar form of mineral wealth. It consists in heaps of richly-colored quartz pebbles, showing red, yellow, purple and other lines which are locally called agates. They are used in making stained-glass windows, and there is a sufficient demand for them in New York to keep the owners of one or two shops employed in gathering them from the beaches, where the waves continually roll and polish them, bringing out the beauty of their colors. -Youth's Companion. He Stayed Out Nights. A young wife went to her mother-in-law with a heart-broken expression and threw herself on the floor in the abandonment of grief. "Oh, mother! He's taken to staying out nights!" wailed the unhappy young woman. "How long has this been going on, my dear? It doesn't seem possible! How late does he stay away?" "You know he usually leaves the office at five o'clock, mother. The night before last he never got home until six, and last night he didn't set foot in the house until 20 minutes after six. Oh! What shall I do?"—N. Y. World. A Change in Circumstances. He—Don't you think that girl over there is beautiful? He—Mrs. Nuter. Just been married. She—Yes. I think she is—quite beautiful. Detroit Free Press. M. Gives the names of dead and living Friends tell who and when you will marry, also of health or anything you know, no matter what it is. He can call up your spirit and tell you. He can make them rap all around the room, and questions don't ask you to write names for him. Don't try to pump you in any way, because by leading spiritualists everywhere, received from them a gold medal and speeches or by leading credentials, you powers credentials from one else can show, thousands of references to both white and colored patrons. Twenty-five years practice how to be successful, can do all that he can tell of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to be successful, can do all that he can tell of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to be successful, can do all that he can tell of. How to be successful in all your doings in short what is best to do. He succeeds when you ask for satisfaction or no pay. Call and see. You can consult this Christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness, can be health or anything you know. Thousands through him are now. - RICH, HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL. fections of the opposite sex. It is the sense of spiritualism that in all large church areas a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have. They have. Surely the colored people are not references. In sense as to throw their time and money away on such. Dr. Shea refers to the Bom. Cleveland Ave. and Arthur Sewell, shipbuilder, south Brooklyn. All have known him for the past seven years. He gives a lecture on the subject, spells or influences practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis. Memphis and Louisville; understands the rite as subject, spells or influences the rite as subject, spells or influences had a l arge patronage from them. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Brooklyn. Aug. 15, 1831—This is to certify that a came to New York from Albany. I was a man of a certain age and out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A man of a certain age and out of money I did. He told me the cause of my troubles he took me in and treated me as a brother, a friend, a sister, a friend, a week. I had been to others; they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day that I came to Brooklyn and could advise all in bad luck, slok or in trouble to go him at once. $ ALBERT AYERS, 2367 Atlantic Ave Splainfield, Ang. 15, 1811.—This is to certify that my husband had gone away and been absent two years. I mourned for him night and day. I gave him up as dead. Hearing of the wonderful things Dr. shea was doing, I resolved to consult him. He was doing the same thing where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He was back like one from the dead and also wish to see me. I lost the sum of $500. I am a poor woman and I was most insane I went to Dr. shea and I was most insane I went to Dr. shea to my intense joy I did find it as he told me. I thank God there is a man so gifted in our that can help people and tell them what to do. A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN - A MINIS TERE'S STATEMENT. I wish to state that one of my parishioners wished and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. Brown, a woman of great wisdom, and standerand her case. She had several doctors, but none of them seemed to know what was wrong in her. Some could not be harmed. Good was my duty at the hospital for her. Hearing of the wonderful work being done last few years, I thought I would call and see her. He gave me a kind sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers; told me that he a kind sympathetic patient's hat, which I did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter and what he found. He found and well. Her family had seemingly been changed. Now all is changed. All are well and auspicious. can truly and heartily recommend her. She was the treasurer of any kind. Rev. William Johnson, Pastor Lebanon Church, Brooklyn. ® DR. SHEA e ee eS ater TEs ONG oe Us 4 eG SATUR DAY, FEB. 10, 1900 CSQA aD SSH HER ey WS PSA OSS. A MULE TRAIN CHARGE. fois Lina ee “The charge took place at Gettysburg thefirst day. I was ordnance sergeant. ‘he ordance officer let me look after the ammunition for one of Gen. Reynolds’ Givisions while he joined the general in the advance against the enemy. The same thing had been done by other ord- nance officers in time of battle, and I had learned to depend upon my own resources. At the sound of Bu- ford’s batteries I had the train, consist- ing of 34 wagons, loaded with fixed am- munition, pull out of the meadow and started for Gettysburg on the Em- mettsburg pike. “When we had gone about half » mile the division quartermaster came tear- ing up the road after us. In astate of intense excitement he demanded that the train be halted, and when that was done addressed me in these words “Sergeant, where is Lieut. Rogers, the ordnance officer? “ He is with Gen. Wadsworth, on the field” “*Did he tell you to put the train in motion?” “"No, sir’ “Who did?” “ Nobody.’ “‘Why did you move? Don’t you know that I am responsible for these teams and wagons?" “The general has always approved of moving up with the ammunition when 6 battle begins. I am held re- ‘sponsible to have it there when needed.’ “You wait here for orders.’ ‘ “I ought not to, sir. They will need ® new supply soon, and it is my duty to be nearer than this.” “If you attempt to move the train] will place you under arrest.’ “At that moment a member of the geveral’s staff rode up and said: ‘Ser. 4 j iy ' Yes ., AW Wy wh Dette ten Se wo. i Nb RO | a, pe bys Whe C Pie SF? on, Wee goer | Sg yh Bil Z OP Pee ee ere en ee ee ee ee geant, Gen. Wadsworth directs that you move the train up to the village.” “I didn’t ask for the quartermaster’s permission, but gave the command for- ‘ward, on a trot. “When within-half a mile of the vil- lage another staff officer dushed up with ‘an order to hurry to the field with tm- munition. “Halting, I spurged my horse down the line and selected ten drivers I knew would go where they were told to go, and had them drive to the head of the Line. Then, directing the balance of the trais to remain until a proper order ‘was given to move, I told the ten picked sm to reach their limit of speed and keep it up until halted. My horse start- ed on a gallop, but Bert O'Connor, who had the head team, yelled: ‘Get out of the road orI'llrun over you.’ The spurs were applied, and I sang out: ‘Come en, old Huckleberry.” (O'Connor's command was called the Huckleberry regiment.) “Away we went on a keen run, every river pushing his team by yells and fourish of whip. Down through the village, then to the left through a fleld to the Lutheran seminary, then to the Fight, tearing down a fence, and onto the line of battle. | “'Get back with those wagons, roared a strange officer. “ Not until the men get ammunition. “The moment the wagons stopped a confederate battery at close range ‘opened on them, but the work of throw- ing out the boxes of ball cartridges, 1,000 in a box, and breaking the covers with axes, kept up until the line was supplied. “That done, no time was lost in reaching the pike, both for the safety of the ammunition supply and because the ‘wagons had drawn an extra fire upon the troops. “The commander of that confederate battery had a picnic with those mules and white canvas-covered wagons. He let the line of battle go to devote his six Pieces to mules and wagons as we struck the pike. The hind wheels of a ‘wagon were knocked off. The balance of that load was thrown to the men and ‘the driver passed to the rear with « twe-wheeled vehicle. Another shot struck a mule in the head. Its harness was cut and a five-male team, panee leisurely along the ; 4p to have the can- vas cover ripped an shell. - Another the hind legs of the m rid. tng. How ‘Indi out when] je ten wagons Were hit and three of the mulée killed before the train reached town, where it was ordered to halt, but not a box of ammunition was lost. Qorakihe wagons was so slivered that It was om the pike a short distance from the seminary, Where that night Gen. Lee made his headquarters. “The mule train, the only one in the war on either side, so far as I can learn, that ever charged the enemy—infantry, cavalry and artillery—rested on its laurels in a side street of Gettysburg that hot afternoon until the First and Eleventh corps reached town on the way to Cemetery Heights. ‘Then, with the enemy within close musket range, and rapidly advancing and firing, the train moved—moved with the last line of infantry, cavalry and artillery, amid the roar of battle, the loud commands of officers and a mix-up that was well- night inextricable. Brave Bert 0’Con- nor was at therear. I rode by his side. ‘The victorious enemy came so close that we emptied our revolvers into their faces several times on the way out. “Reaching the seminary, I saw com- manders of troops getting orders from Gen, Hancock. ‘The instant he was aloneI rode up, saluted and asked where I should place my command, “Where is it? “I pointed to the mule train, “‘Where have you been with these teams? “To the front, with ammunition, sir’ “This Is the front; go to the rear.” “As I left him I heard Hancock say: ‘Wadsworth had better give that ser geant @ regiment of cavalry.’ "—J. A. Watreus, in Chicago Times-Herald. ARE MARKED DESERTERS. Many Veterans of the Olvil War Whe Did Their Duty But Have No . Discharges. According to Judge Advocate Gen- eral Lemly, of the navy, one of the most striking examples of inequitable legis- lation to be found upon the statute books exists in the case of a eertain class of soldiers and sailors, veterans of the civil war, against whom the technical charge of desertion appears on record. The circumstances which have brought about these inequitable conditions he stated as follows: In the spring of 1865 a considerable period of time elapsed during which the army and navy were not in active serv- ice, the exigencies of the war being over, while at the same time the steps necessary to a formal disbandment of the forces had not been taken. Men who had left their homies willingly to enter the army or navy, and who had remained in the service faithfully dur- ing the activities of the war, under standing that the period of public peril had passed, and that the purposes of ‘their enlistment had been substantially served, quietly returned to their homes ang resumed their places in civil lite, in very many cases without awaiting the formality of a discharge. ‘The manner in which the individual members of these great well-trained and efficient organizations, immediate- ly and without confusion or disorder of any kind, reentered the civil body politic from which they had come and took up again the pursuits of private business, has elicited the admiration of students of American national polity. But however admirable and desirable from the point of view of the political economist the speedy reentry into pro- duotive industry of soldiers and sailors no longer needed for active duty may have been, in all cases where such re- entry was made without awaiting the arrival of formal papers of discharge, it was, from a military point of view, irregular; and the soldiers and sailors who, when the war was over, thus re- turned to their homes were teebnically guilty of the offense of desertion. In later years, when seeking official em- ployment, applying for admission to military or naval organizations, or de- siring to obtain a pension, such men, conscious of their patriotic and honor- able service, have been astonished to find that upon the records they are rated as deserters. By an act of congress approved Au- gust 14, 1883, it was provided that where men in such situation had served faith- fully in the navy for a period of at least six months during the war of the re- dellion and until May 1, 1865, the mark of desertion might, in certain described meritorious cases, be removed. The operation of this act was Iimited to five years, doubtless because {t was sup- Posed at the time of its enactment that such period would be sufficient to afford all applicants thereunder an oppor tunity to present their requests for re- Bet. It happened, however, that many of the men entitled to the benefits of ‘this remedial provision did not ascer- tain their true status until after the act itself had expired by limitation, as they did not seek to obtain pensions until reduced to the necessity of so do- ing through advancing years or misfor- tune. But whatever the cause, the records of this department show that a very large number of meritorious claimants who could have obtained relief under this act, as falling within the class for whose benefit it was obviously intend ed, falled to make application in season; and the technical charge of desertion in their cases still debars them from rights and privileges fairly earned by honorable service in time of war. The inequity of these conditions is em- phasized by the fact that an act passed for the beneiit of the army, and similar in terms to the act of August 14, 1838, has been made operative without lim- itation as to the time when applicm- tions thereunder must be filed. It is earnestly recommended that congress be asked to take such action 4s will revive and render operative without limitation the beneficial pro- visions of the act of Angust 14, 1888,— Washtastem ites Such Is Fame. Aftable Stranger—I can’t help think- ing [have seen your picture somewhere 1m the newspaper. Hen. Mrs. Greatman—Oh, no doubt, no doubt. It's often been published. “Then I was not mistakes. What ‘were you cured of ”—Tit-Bits. ‘Antithesis, “How did you come out with your Uttle flyer in the stock market?” _ “That wasn’t a flyer,” answered the morose friend. “That was « sinker.” Ss dieiaates win. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA. a < teThe,tmportance of our nervous sys: em to our entirety causes a great deal STO) SURGICAL TRIUMPHS, |‘".icar sca meserctes fetsen| CUSTOM = ee structure of our nerve-]| It Isat the B cells, which have special forms in each Day—st Alfred E. Taylor Deprived of a Big | organ. Not only are these minute ele- whe Share of His Body. ments polygonal masses with prolonga- tions at the angles, as was knowp a| — Several yea _ few years ago, but they are complicat-| *¢quaintance Yot We Lives, amd Is Growing Strong- | ¢1 in many ways. In each cell are dis-| intoxicants | er Every Day—Structure of Hu= tributed bundles of fibers forming | 4ay without ‘me Macon ieee tae network between the meshes of which | eDness. He infecting Methods. ebromatin is packed. From each | bis family in cell in all directions extend prolonga-| cation. Und (eiselst ClewmipecBenen2 tions resembling slender rootlets. The | Contented to, GREAT hue and ‘cry is so fre- | *¥Fface of these is roughened by thorny | nd after a ‘quently raised over what is | Protuberances, Scientists now believe| be came bac called the increasing propen- | t®&t the prolongations approach each | formed. Suns viot ox is to experiment upon | other, but are not continuous; that they | that had lor their patients that to many of the un- | Possess contiguity, but not continuity, | shame and so initiated, whose nerves have been | #¥0% one to another the nervous fluid | for several m wrongnt by tales of doings in| Passes ax an electric current flowa| fri¢nd met } the pected the word hos. | £m one conductor to another. ‘him cordially pital means only a collection of apart-| This theory explains many phyai-| ® downtown ments each of which, in itself, conati- | Slgical facts and many phenomena of} cial glass wi tutes an individual chamber of hor | D¢F¥ous diseases. In a feeble, neuras-| !mpulse he y rora. This {cea gives rise to an im-|*thenle individual, deficient in force] aroused the ae (i) a Wa | mn ee , a ee ee ee pression much more prevalent than It ought to bo that doctors will use the knife whenever they can find an ex- case for doing so. While this may be true of a few who are a disgrace to their profession (and there are knaves in every calling), no right-minded practitioner will cut while thers fs hope of curing his patient in any other manuer, But the wonderful ad- vance in surgical knowledge during the last half century has placed 18 in the power of the medieal fraternity cn numberless occasions to offer pro- longed life at the cost of a limb or crgan to many a man who, had be found himself in the same condition @ halt century earlier, would have died from the effect of his injuries. ‘When a man dies as the result of an operation it fs usually from its nery- ous shock, and not from the loss of the part removed. Hence, a robust man can be deprived of much more of his bedy and still retain life than a neurasthenic. Where portions of the brain are taken away, the general health is scl- dom injured, although it is impossible to remove any great amount of gray matter without impairing the mental vigor. As arms and legs aro a matter of convenience only, end not a vital necessity, @ person often survives the loss of all these useful members. In many cases the removal of one limb causes a patient to fatten, as there is less for the vital organs to nourish, People have lived after being deprived of tongue, nose, ears, spleen, ribs, one kidney, one lung or a portion of the liver.” Just how much of his body a man could’ lose and stiil exist has not been proved. It would depend largely on his vitality. But the aim of sur- geons is not to see how much they cen dissect away, but how much they can preserve. One of the most bril Nant triumphs of modern surgery was an operation recently performed on Alfred E. Taylor, at the Pennsylvania hospital. Although no vital organs were involved, « large section of the | CR eg ae eo ares eee Aen RT SRE , Son pgs 5 Base ee. huager atta Nag sacar pe Ng teeta peat tograph Enlarged 460 Centimeters.) body was cut away and the recovery has been so rapid that the man is now performing the duties of orderly at the hospital. He is 50 years old. After serving 17 years in the British navy and in merchant service he be- gan driving wagons and had often to earry heavy weights on his shoulders Thre and a half years ago a heavy box resting on his left shoulder caused severe pain, An examination showed ‘a bluish lump en the upper edge of the scapula. In six months this had gained the size of a hen’s egg. The tumor was cut away, but immediately returned, when it was again excised, only to grow once more. He contin- ued his work, though in constant pain, rntil at last he determined upon an operation which the surgeons as- sured him only offered about one chance in one hundred for recovery. His arm, shoulder and a portion of bi tide were taken away. An incision was made, beginning on the end of the shoulder blade, carried along to ite center end curved down- ward. The covering of the scapula was removed. The bone between shoul: der aud ribs was taken out and ite at- tachment to the first rib divided and the muscles stripped off. ‘The arm wat raised to return as much as possible of the blood to the heart and the vein ligated. The knife was then insertec at the outer edge of the scapulae wo the remainder of the operation wa: comparatively easy. ‘The following morning the patient ate his breakfas with relish and in a week was found i the yard smoking his pipe. The shoul der of his coat has been padded and ex cept for an empty sleeve he present the outward appearance of » man in: normal condition. __ The importance of our nervous sys- tem to our entirety causes a great deal of study and investigation to be ex- pended on the structure of our nerve- ‘cells, which have special forms in each organ. Not only are these minute ele- ments polygonal masses with prolonga- tions at the angles, as was knowp a few years ago, but they are compligat- ed in many ways. In each cell are dis- ‘tributed bundles of fibers forming a network between the meshes of which ‘ebromatin is packed. From each cell im all directions extend prolonga- tions resembling slender rootlets. The “surface of these is roughened by thorny protuberances, Scientists now believe ‘that the prolongations approach each “other, but are not continuous; that they ‘Possess contiguity, but not continuity, From one to another the nervous fluid Passes as an clectric current flows from one conductor to another. ‘This theory explains many physl- ological facts and many phenomena of nervous diseases. In a feeble, neuras- thenic individual, defielent in force and courage, the cellular prolongetions lack proper ramifications or are with- outthe thorny excrescences which give Fequisite contact, The cells do their work slowly, the nervous fluid passes with difficulty or there is an excess of chromatin, which explains = morbid condition. ‘There te no contact between the cells in ® paralytic and if it cs be renewed cure is effected. In the case of nervous, excitable, irritable peo- ple, the ramifications are too much elongated, the nervous fluid flowa too rapidly. When an active animal is killed, mi: croscopie examination shows the most intimate contact between the cellular prolongations, But if the animal is killed during sleep the prolongations are withdrawn and the thorny ex- erescences bave disappeared. In the first instance the nerve-current could pass wit} ease from one cell to another, in the second only with greflt dif. culty, The retroaction of the nerve A os oe eS a Ei DISINFPLOTING TANT. oF gs SKE go het ete Aa eg Sere cells is even more noticeable when the animal is greatly fatigued. One result of the study of the nature and causes of infectious diseases and the discovery of new and effective dis- infecting agents has set at rest the minds of many who have been fear ing an epidemic of yellow fever, plague and their kindred. Philadelphia will soon Iniinch’ a new disinfecting steam- er equipped with a hospital of 18 beds and a corps of physicians and nurses, s0 that sick people taken from infected vessels may be treated on board when necessary. In New York an old steam- er, the James W. Wadsworth, is used, It carries a complete sterilizing plant, All ships arriving in port are boarded by a health officer. If one has sailed from an infected port, or if her pas- sengers or crew have any contagious disease, she is at once isolated in quar- antine. ‘The Wadsworth steams alongside and receives all on board the newly- prrived vessel. In the disrobing room each person's clothing is made into a ‘separate bundle for which a eheck is given. These bundles are soon steril- ized by action of superheated steam in steel chambers in a central compart- ment of the boat, Bedding fs thrown own here through a hatehway. An iron cradle is drawn out of one of the heated chumbers, loaded with clothing aud moved back into place. Steam is turned on at 240 degrees Fabrenheit, All articles liable to damage by steam are disinfected by formaldehyde gas which, while dealing death to germs, does not injure fabrics. The passengers have, meantime, passed into antiseptic bathrooms enameled in porcelain, each in complete exclusion. Passing thence, they receive their clothing and are sent to Hoffman Island, where they remain several days. All the loose arti- cles of the infected ship are sterilized on board the Wadsworth. A formal- dehyde gas generator is then carried on board and the saloons, staterooms and hold, with the hatchways battered down, are forced full of this most pow- erful disinfectant. After six or eight hours the ship is opened to allow the fumes to escape. The decks and wood- work are then washed with a solution ‘of bichlorate of mercury. All this work is done by trained experts, A bacteri- ‘ological examination is next made and if @ trace of disease germ life is found the process is repeated. EDWARD JULIAN. Possible Explanation. “I believe,” said the fond mother, “that George is in love.” “It may be so,” returned the prac- tleal father, “and then again {t may be nothing but case of indigestion. A man looks just about es doleful in one ease ae in the other."—Chiengo Post. sa A Jolly Good Fellow, Each man ts apt to deem, we're told, ‘That, fellowman, hw friend, Who dever asks to borrow gold, But has some he will lend, Billot's Magazine. ‘To Fit the Day. Mother—For mercy's sake, what are you children doing? Bertha—We are playing that Dora ina fashionable beauty, and we are only Just admiring her. Mother—But you shouldn't play ‘plays on Sunday. / Bertha—Not if we regard Dora ax a church belle?—Boston Transeript. Reason for His Weakness, Mra. Church—Do you know my buy band’s afraid to ge into a dark room even now. Mrs Gotham—You don't mean it! “Yes, I do; he fell over a rocking ebair in the dark once."—Yoakers Statesman, CUSTOM OF “TREATING” It In at the Root of the Drink Evil Te, Day—Strong Words by Dr. Wheedore L. Curler. ‘Theodore L. Cuyler, Sereral years ago @ gentleman of my acquaintance fell into the habit of using intexicants until he seldom passed s day without some symptoms of drunlc enness. He sometimes came home te bis family in a state of beastly intoxt cation. Under their piteous appeals he consented to go to an inebriate asylum, and after a few months of treatment he came back apparently entirely re formed. Sunshine again filled the house that had long been shadowed with shame and sorrow. He continued sober for several months, but one day an old friend met him in New York, greeted himcordially and invited him to go into a downtown restaurant and take @ so clal glass with him. Under o sudden impulse he yielded, and that one glass aroused the latent appetite; the chained tiger was loosed again, and my poor friend went home that night pitia- bly and disgracefully drunk! During the brief remainder of his life he was a wreck! ‘That whole wretched tragedy of a ruined Life was the result of a single act which goes under the deceitful name of “treating.” That friend who offered the ensnaring glass proved to be a dead: ly enemy! Grant that he had no inten tion to work a fatal mischief; grant that be had no thought of doing a se- rious harm. He did it, however, as if he had been actuated by a flendish malice “For evil ts wrought by want of thought, ‘As well as by want of heart.” ‘The pernicious and abominable cus. tom of “treating” a friend to a glass of intoxicating liquor is one of the most Prolific causes of intemperance. It often engenders the habit of drinking; {t often confirms the awful propensity; and sometimes, as in the case of that gentleman mentioned in the beginning of this article, it sends a reformed in- ebriate back into the mire. The dan- ger of this treating custom is thet ft wears the guise of friendship and ap peals to the weak side of human nature “Come and take drink with me,” says the politician who hopes to win a rote. “Won't you take a social glass with me?" is the subtle invitation of a falsp friendship that is too often yielded to. It fs not everyone that has the nerve of « Brooklyn neighbor of mine who, having once been an inebriate, used to say to anyone who invited him to take 8 drink: “If you ask me to do that again I'll knock you down!" -This perilous custom of treating has spread very widely. When a customer has made & good purchase he {s often invited by the merchant to go off toa restaurant or a barroom for a bottle of wine to “close up the bargain." ‘The drummers for commercial houses seek very often to win customers by polite invitations to a drink ing resort, or to a theater, ot sometimes to haunts too vile to be men- tioned. I know of a very affable sales. man in a wholesale dry goods establish- ment who became a dissipated man from having to invite customers to lunch with him over a bottle of winel His employers set that bright young man to tempt other people, and he did {tat the cost of hisown character. The various athletic contests and Intercol- legiate ball games are attended with an enormous amount of hard drinking; much of it takes the form of “treating” by those who hare won their games or thelr beta, It is not too much to say that a vast amount of intemperance, with {ts terrible results to purse, char- acter and immortal souls, can be traced directly to that curning device of the devil which puts pofson into a man's brain, under the pretense of putting « kindness into his heart. In these days a very large amount of moral artillery is very properly aimed at the traffic in intoxicants. Righteous denunciations are hurled at the saloozs, But the destructive drink traffic really is fed by and depends upon the drink custom. Intemperance is bred in the club, in the home and in the social clr cle as well asin the barroom. The pur chaser of liquor is a partner with the liquor seller. Everyone who buys an fntoxicant or offera an fntoricant to another does his or her part toward maintaining the drink customs which underlie the waste and the woe and wretchedness of intemperance, The question of wages and of justice to the laboring man absorbs a wide attention; but who will dispute that if all the money that is spent by the working classes in “treating” each other to al- coholic beverages were saved there would be thousands of better furnished homes, better clad wives and better fed children? i ‘There {s another very weighty thought to be faced by every: man’s con- science. It is this. The person who offers an intoxicating glass to another —from whatever motive—is responsible tor the results of that glass! The false friend who in obedience to a foolish and abominable custom “treated” the re- formed inebriate of whom I spoke toa treacherous drink of liquor was respon- aible, to a certain extent, for that man’s relapse and rnin. Certainly, if he had not asked and urged that gentleman to drink with him he would not have touched the fatal drop. “Woe unto him A Hero. | Bramble—What makes all the chap ples rave over that miserable yellow cur? Thorne—Don’t you know? That dog was once kicked by the prince of Walea, —N. Y. Journal. “A Bare Recipe. To lower your reputation, raise « Aisturbance.—Chicago Dispatch, - Jagelers, . Jugglers must not make sleight mis takes.—Chicago Dispatch. 10000 books Given away with- in the Next 80 Days. [ always give the bottom prices on every thing T sell. Just nowl am doing better than ever. I have knocked the Bottom out ! 25 Cent Books. sal poor ame 50,Cent Books. ‘Those sicts. and Sicts, Books er| Book-keoping ata glance comin. Serr Bee a mnoea, Rradder Gardner's stump speeches. Se Gasey’s recitation and humorousstories. | Hom eames ce uette. 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OLD MORMON PRINT—BRINGING HOME A NEW WIFE 6 Mormons Will Engage in a Titanic Struggle for Existence. Memoir of Their Faith Not Fully Understood by Eastern People —Polygamy the Keystone of the Church. [Special Salt Lake City Letter.] TO EASTERN people it no doubt seems very strange that the Mormon church has such a strong hold upon its members, especially the women. Therein lies its greatest power. There are fewer female than male apostates, and not many of either. The secret of the power of the church over women is found in the "Book of Mormon," which teaches that a woman's chances for eternal glory depend upon the number of wives her husband has. If her husband has only two or three wives he does not stand so well as he who has seven or eight. In taking these wives the husband is, according to these beneful teachings, obeying the Divine command, and, through him, his wives receive salvation. An unmarried person, especially a woman, is held to be of little consequence in this world, and the creed teaches, by implication, that an unmarried woman cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. That people should believe such odious doctrine in this age of civilization is indeed strange. And those who do believe it are as fanatical as were the persecuting fanatics of the dark ages who murdered those who differed from them. In addition, the wives of a numerously married man become queens and rulers in the next world, while those of a man not so numerously married become only servants. Of course all women want to be queens and rulers. It is necessary to make this plain in order that "gentle" readers may understand why women can sink all feelings of OLD MORMON PRINT—BRIT sealousy, love and humanity and consent that another woman, or women, should share her husband's affections. They are more zealous than the men. They not only consent to the husband taking an additional wife, but urge him to do so. There are exceptions, but they are few. The power the husband holds over his wives is equally strong. According to the false teachings of the Mormon church, a wife cannot enter the kingdom of heaven except through her husband's mediation. In the marriage ceremony a veil is placed over her face, and also upon her death. And on the morning of the resurrection he raises that veil, otherwise she cannot be raised from the grave. This not only compels obedience, but inspires fear, and, if her husband so wills it, she is doomed to eternal death and damnation. Such teachings as the foregoing would be amusing, were they not so sacrile- ALONZO SNOW. (President of the Church of Latter Day Saints.) gloss. Can it be any wonder that people so stifed with ignorance as to believe such teachings are so defiant and fanatical? People here who understand the Mormon people also understand that the trouble with these undemocratic and un-American institutions has just commenced. In the first place, the Mormon church teaches that the "saints" are the "chosen people of the Lord," that the church is destined to rule over the United States, and, eventually, over the entire world; that this is the "true" church, and that, in order to carry out its destined work, the church should rule the state. That is why the Mormon church interferes in politics. Of course, the leaders deny this, but their teachings prove the contrary. In short, they claim that the church is vested with both temporal and spiritual power, with the church-head as the supreme ruler. It is well to understand this subtle teaching, for behind it lie the frequent "agitations" and political troubles of which easterners do not get a very clear idea. This is why Utah made so many efforts to get statehood, and why a polygamist is wanted in congress. Perhaps Utah furnishes a solitary instance where statehood was promised in consideration that the people would cease violating a moral law. About three-fourths of the population of the state are Mormons, and while many of the Mormons do not live in polygamy, and have not, they believe it, nevertheless. If they did not they could not be Mormons, for that in the tenet of their creed. Since the recent agitation began those who were lukewarm in the faith have rallied to the support of the church. It has solidified the church, and those who think that Mormonism is dead, or even dying, are greatly mistaken. It is believed, and on good grounds, that polygamy is as much practiced now as ever. There is no way to prove the marriages, which are celebrated in secret in the temple, but common report and circumstantial evidence support this supposition. It should also be recollected that the Mormon church officials never promised the government to permanently renounce polygamy. Had they done so they would have renounced their church. Furthermore, the officials claim that they have not the power to do so, as it is a "Divine command." Consequently they only "suspended" its practice. As no definite time was stated, the "manifesto" suspending it can be repealed whenever the "prophet" has a "vision" to that effect. Of course, the gentle world will not know of this; such orders are issued secretly. During the past year about 60,000 converts were added to the Mormon church—a greater increase than during any previous year. The total number in the United States, according to official church reckoning, is 300,000. In addition to controlling Utah, the Mormons now hold the balance of political power in Idaho and Arizona. In an interview a leading church official stated to me that the church was pushing its "colonies" into every state and territory and that fewer immigrants are being brought to Utah than heretofore. The reason, he stated, is that Utah is "pretty well filled up and other fields must be prepared." In other words, the Mormons have political control of Utah and are colonizing other states and territories with the view of controlling them. Considering these facts, it is not likely that the Mormons will give up the political fight, no matter what con- GING HOME A NEW WIFE. gressional legislation may be bad. Believing that their "divine mission" is to rule spiritually and temporally, they may continue even to the point of resisting the government, as they have done before. Just before our civil war, when they numbered only 60,000 in Utah, they assassinated United States officials, drove others from the country, defied the courts and with an army of 5,000 met the United States army, which had been sent out to quell the celebrated "Mormon rebellion." The same defiant spirit prevails now. They do not believe that any human government has a right to interfere with them—that theirs is a "divine government." It is with this view that the Mormons emigrated to the then far west, where they could establish a government, and, though their scheme for an "independent" government failed, they furnish the only instance in this country where in a state grew out of the colonization of a religious sect. The Mormons have no politics, as a principle—their first duty is to the church, and they vote for the "church candidate," irrespective of politics. In this union lies their strength. This unit system always has prevailed, and no doubt will so continue. It was thought by many that Mormonism would soon "die out under the influences of civilization." But it is not affected by surrounding civilization. On the contrary, Mormonism grows in spite of it. They claim that no "commission, no law or earthly power, can destroy plural marriages." It has been tried and failed. In spite of the anti-polygamy laws of congress, polygamy still exists. It was thought that statehood was the remedy, but that has also failed. An amendment to the constitution is proposed. But in order to disfranchise a polygamist the crime must be first proven. Under the Edmunds law many polygists swore that they were not living in polygamy, and, consequently, voted. It will be as difficult now to prove a secret plural marriage as it was then. Furthermore, there is a sufficient number of Mormons not living in polygamy to control all elections. In an issue between Mormon and gentile they are a unit, and this, with their communistic principles, gives them a power possessed by no other sect of equal numbers. Very few "gentile" women vote, but the Mormon women never miss a chance, and it is invariably a vote for the church theocracy. It doesn't pay to be captured. It will doubtless surprise most people to learn that any soldier of the British army who is captured by the enemy gets his pay stopped at once. Therefore the 1,000 English warriors who are now playing football inside the race track at Pretoria are in no sense of the word wage-carners. A further provision of the army regulations allows an investigation to be made after a soldier has recovered his liberty, and the authorities may, if they see fit, turn over the back pay to the released prisoner. There is no obligation on their part to do this, however.—N. Y. Sun. All About the Curtain. Mrs. Stubb—I declare, John, these spring curtains are not worth a row of plus. Just wait until I get hold of that clerk that sold them to me! Mr. Stubbs—Going to give him a curtain lecture, Marisa?—Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA A DANGEROUS DAY. Reception of the Old Sixth Massachusetts in Baltimore During the Civil War. Thomas H. Harrington was a private in company A of the old Sixth Massachusetts. He was speaking the other day of the reception of bricks and stones that was given his regiment in Baltimore in '61, and of the reception of flowers and cheers that was given their successors in the same city during the Spanish war. "Yes," he said, "our reception was certainly not of the kind to make a man fall in love with Baltimore. "The experience that we went through there is one that none of the men can ever forget. It is bad enough to face an enemy in battle, but to face a howling mob of demented hoodlums is even worse. "We went to Baltimore by way of old Havre de Gras ferry. I was outside of the car on the front platform on guard, and the colonel had a seat just back of the door. "I was standing there waiting for the men to get orders to move, when a man in citizens' clothes came rushing up to me in great agitation. "I want to see the colonel, he cried, I must see him immediately." "I stopped him from rushing into the car and asked him who he was. "I am the mayor of Baltimore," he answered, 'and there is a mob in the city waiting for you. I must see the colonel or there is apt to be blood-shed.' "I went in and spoke to the colonel about it, and by his orders admitted the mayor. We had intended marching through the city to the old President street depot, but we finally concluded to have our cars drawn through by horses, so that the mob would not be incensed at the sight of marching enemies. "Four cars with four horses on each got through to the depot with company A, from Lowell; company B, from Gratton; company F, from Lawrence, and company L, from Stoneham. "We stayed in the car, waiting for orders to move, and four of us in a group—our first lieutenant, Bob Harrick, Johnson and myself—were watching the sea of faces that surged about us in the mob, when I suddenly caught sight of the tall figure of Bob Clark over in the depot. "Why,' said I, 'there's Bob Clark. What's he doing there?" "I turned around to see if he really was missing, and to my surprise found that with the exception of us four men the car was empty. The company had marched out without us. "We looked at that turbulent mob, and, though it seemed almost certain death to attempt to force our way through them, we fixed our bayonets and started out. Harrick and I were each struck with bricks—I on the right temple and Harrick on the left. It stunned me for awhile, but I soon recovered and assisted in carrying Harrick's insensible form to the depot. "By this time the mob saw that if the cars were allowed to be pulled through all of the Yankees would escape their vengeance, and with one accord they made a rush toward the ferry, and, seizing all the anchors, pieces of iron and logs of wood that they could lay their hands on, they blockaded the track so that the cars could not pass." "Capt. Follansbee, of company C, who, as senior captain, had been left in charge of the remaining company, decided that, even at the risk of bloodshed, he would march his men through to join the four companies who were in "LET DRIVE STRAIGHT INTO THE CROWD." "LET DRIVE STRAIGHT INTO THE CROWD." the President street depot. They had orders not to fire until fired upon, and they marched through that storm of bricks and stones in grim silence. "I remember well that there was a young swell of the town named Davis who followed the men in his stylish carriage and heaped all kinds of curses and abuse upon them. "The men were brought up in close order, and as they were marching under one of the high buildings some one threw a heavy 20-foot beam from the top directly down into the mass of marching men, sending six or seven of them insensible to the ground. "Just then a shot was fired at them from around the corner, and as they were now allowed to retaliate Capt. Follansbee turned to companies C and D and ordered them to fire. "With a mighty cheer they raised their guns and let drive straight into the crowd. "Davis, the young swell who had been so offensive to them, was the first man to fall, and a later examination showed 17 bullets in his body. "It was not long after that before the mob dispersed, and Baltimore people tell us now that we can have no idea of the number of that mob that we killed. "I am glad that during this last war the Sixth Massachusetts were bombarded with flowers. We may have had flowers thrown at us, too, but the trouble was most of them were loaded."—Philadelphia Press. A Czar's Novel Visiting Card. The Russians tells a story of the late Czar Alexander III, that upon the rare occasions when it was incumbent upon him to pay a call he would take a gold coin bearing his "image and superscription" and twisting it between thumb and finger leave it in ileu of a card—the only man in Russia who had strength for the feat—Ladies' Home Journal. Settled for Some Years. Visiting Curate—Ah, my friend, you should reflect on the fact that we are here to-day and gone to-morrow. Convict—You may be—I ain't.—Tit-Bits. Spring Chickens. "Did that farmer guarantee this to be a spring chicken?" "Yes, he did. He said he could hardly catch it to kill—it was springy."—Philadelphia Bulletin. Judging by Appearances. Tommy—Say, Jimmie, wot is classical music? Jimmie—It's the kind you can't understand unless you wear long hair.—N. Y. Journal. "One who thinks his employer's business would be run a good deal better if he could have more to say about it himself."—Chicago Times-Herald. 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She can be consulted upon all affairs of Life, Love, Courtship, Marriage, Friends, etc., with description of future companion. She is very accurate in describing missing friends, enemies etc. Her advice upon sickness, change of business, law suits, journeys, contested wills, divorce and speculation is valuable and reliable. She reads your destiny—good or bad; she withholds nothing. MRS. MARTH tells your entire life past, present and future in a DEAD TRANSE, has the power of any two Mediums you ever met. 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It is being issued by the government of the United States, and at a cost up to date of about $2,000,000. It will consist of 112 volumes, including an index, and an atlas, which contains 178 plates and maps illustrating the important battles of the war, campaign, routes of march, plans of forts, and photographs of interesting scenes, places and persons. The most voluminous encyclopedia work in the world is in the Berlin Anthropological museum. It is in 1,000 volumes and is in Chinese. It embraces literature, philosophy, astronomy, natural science and industries. Each volume has from 100 to 150 pages. Originally only 100 copies were printed, and those were not put on sale. But recently a new edition was put forth which sells at $300 for the set. It is splendidly illustrated with maps and pictures. The largest private library in this country was owned by the historian H. H. Bancroft. It consists of 50,000 volumes, valued at $200,000. A fine collection of manuscripts in dialect, and manuscripts relating to the early settlement of the Pacific coast, of the Spanish colonies and of the early ecclesiastical missions is included in the Eancroft library. The highest price ever paid for a single volume was $50,000. It was for a vellum missal, which was presented to King Henry VIII, by Pope Leo X. The missal was accompanied by a document making King Henry the defender of the faith. It is now in the possession of the German government. Charles II. gave it to an ancestor of the duke of Hamilton, and it was sold a few years ago at the sale of the duke of Hamilton's library. It was supposed that only two copies of Washington's first essay in authorship existed, but in 1897 a third copy came to light and was purchased by a gentleman who makes a hobby of collecting Washingtonia; he quite willing paid $1,000. "The Journal of MaJ. George Washington" appears upon the title page, and it was printed in 1754. In Russia miniature Bibles are often worn as watch charms. One of these Bibles is owned by a Bostonian, who received it from a friend living in Russia. It is about one inch long, three-fourths of an inch wide and three-eighths of an inch thick, and contains the first five books of the Old Testament. The text of the Book is in Hebrew and the titles in Latin. It can only be read with the help of a powerful magnifying glass. Not only in numbers, but also in point of territory, the circulation of the Bible exceeds all other books. The American Bible society has printed it in 300 tongues. Thousands of copies even now are traveling through the frozen polar regions to people who have not only never heard of the book, but to whom books are unknown. N. Y. Sun. Cordovan Leather Boot Cordova Leather Boots. At the court of Elizabeth the wide-topped Spanish boot—handsome, and to our eyes, the theatrical—became popular among the rival courtiers, each endeavoring to outvie the other in the queen's eyes. The most handsome and admired of all were made of white Cordova leather edged with costly lace and having gold spurs. Sometimes buff and red and much more rarely the now prevalent black leather was the material. Shoes for men seem to have gone out of fashion during the Stuart era, so far as the upper elses went. Your plain citizen always adhered to a more or less substantial shoe when at home, and seldom drew on boots save when on a journey—a terrible expedition, however short the distance, up to the middle of the last century. Thus, in Charles II's day Cowley, writing to Dr. Thomas Sprat from so near a place to London as Chertsey, says that he might very conveniently come thither "the way of Mampton town—lying there one night."—Gentleman's Magazine. Where Hope Lingered. Negroes are unconsciously humorous. The other day two roustabouts were overheard talking. They met on the levee, after one had been absent from the city for several weeks. "Hello, Bill; he is yer?" said the first. "Well," was imply, "de doctors is give me up, but police isn't."—Minneapolis Scimil apply, "de doctors is police ain't."—Min 47 Square Tip to Billiard Cues. A billiard cue with a square tip instead of a round one is an innovation that may shortly be put to a practical test. Of course, the experts will smile in derision at this statement and say a square tip would be impracticable, but that is because they have never tried it. A well-known amateur of this city, who is of an experimental and inventive turn of mind, conceived the idea and had a special cue made with a square tip. He says it answers every purpose to which the ordinary cue is put, in addition to which it has a number of advantages over the round tip. For one thing, it is impossible to make a miscue. The full force of the cue strikes the ball and gives it more purchase. The point of contact between the rounded tip and the ball is, perhaps, one-tenth less than that of the square tip and the ball, and where "English" is used the latter tip assures a much greater control. The inventor of the square tip has applied for a patent and hopes to introduce it through the medium of several well-known professional players.—Philadelphia Record. Corduroy Roads. What a pleasant ride together through Alpena county! — pleasant save for the corduroy roads, which set us both aquiver, as with the old-time ague, recalling the days when they rang the church bells every half hour in Alpena to remind the settlers to take their quinine, and when sawmills (so runs the tale) were operated solely by fever and ague power. Curious sights met our unaccustomed eastern eyes as we rode—log homesteads chinked with plaster, root houses half buried in the earth, sheds thatched with straw, "stump-pullers" (immense portable derricks) at work "clearing up," frequent "dreens," huge mounds of cobblestones newly plucked out of the fields, wagons loaded with cedar ties moving cityward, splendid crops on every hand; so, bless you! who minded the corduroy?—R. L. Hartt, in Atlantic. Where Time Begins Its Flight. Where Time Begins Its Flight. If one could have truly rapid transit, and be able to pass along the meridian of 180 degrees from the north pole to the equator in a moment, he would have a strange experience if the time selected for the journey were a few moments after midnight on the morning of Tuesday, January 1, 1901, the first day of the twentieth century. Near the pole it would be the twentieth century, Tuesday morning, at 60 degrees north latitude it would be Monday morning that was beginning, the last day of the nineteenth century, for here it is that the western sweep of the date line includes the Aleutian islands in the American day. At 35 degrees north latitude it would be again Tuesday in the new century. —John Ritchie, Jr., in Ladies' Home Journal. Obeyed Orders. Several members of the Scottish reserve, before leaving for the Cape, were entertained at a farewell supper by their fellow workers in Dundee. "Now boys," said the chairman after an ap propriate speech, "treat what is on the table as you would the Boers." As the feast ended one of the reservists was observed stowing away a bottle of whisky in his pocket. "What's that ye're daein', Tam?" shouted the chairman, good-humoredly. "Oh," replied Tam, "I'm only obeyin' orders. Ye tell us to treat the supper as we would the Boers and, ye ken, what we dinaa kill we tak prisoners." -Tit-Bits. What He Went For A dyspeptic suburbanite reached his home a couple of evenings ago with an ample bandage around his jaw, and his wife, meeting him at the door, was shocked by his appearance. "Where have you been, Harry?" she exclaimed. "Dentist's," was the laconic reply, accompanied by a groan. "Did you get your tooth pulled?" Do you get your tooth polished? The suffering husband gazed at his better half with murder in his eye, and at last replied: "Oh, no! I went to get my shoes polished." - Memphis Schmitar. Teahouse Named "America." The queen, says a gossip, intends to add one more to the list of teahouses on the Balmoral estate. Each of these retreats is decorated to represent some particular country. For instance, there is "India," which is furnished with bamboo and Indian matting; while "China" is decorated with the Celestial emblems in beautiful colorings. The new teahouse is to be "America," and will be put up in readiness for next year.—Chicago Times-Herald. He Got It. Bronco Bill—Ya-as; it was funny that Hurricane Dan die that way! He got shot by a tenderfoot while hunting! Grizzly Pete—Gosh! What was he hunting for? "Why, that was the funny part of it! He was hunting fight, and the tenderfoot thought he meant it!"—Puck. An Indication. "Is that young woman quick at repartee?" "I guess she must be," answered Miss Cayenne, "She doesn't seem to have a friend in the world."—Washington Star. "I got ten per cent. The concern got $0."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Will Hatch Mischief. Set a bad example and it will hatch out mischief.—Chicago Daily News. His Amendment. She—Do you agree with the sentiment that a woman is as old as she looks? The Crusty Bachelor—I should insert "at least" before "as old."—Puck. Alice—I suppose it's because love is blind.—Judge. "Yes, dear; you look like a laundress carrying home her day's work on her head." -Chicago Record. THE RICHMOND PLANET, CHMOND, VIRGINIA How a Proud Father Was Taken Aback by an Usyampethetic Companion. A man with a characterless mouth and a sappy expression boarded a downtown Fourteenth street car with a man with an iron jaw and a lucid eye. "Well, sir," said the man with the uncertain face, as soon as they were seated, "that little girl of mine is the greatest—" "Certainly, I think we ought to hang onto 'em,' interrupted the firm-jawed man. "What did we cough up $20,000,-000 for 'em for?" The man with the indeterminate countenance looked puzzled. "I guess you didn't catch me right," he said, after a pause. "I was going to tell you a funny thing that little girl of mine said this—" "Well, I don't think it'll make much difference whether congress passes another financial bill or not," said the strong-faced man, calmly. "Country's getting along all right as things are right now. The more they tinker with the money question the more of a muddle there'll be." "Er—yes; that's so," replied the man with the receding chin. "But this little six-year-old girl o' mine is the brightest—" "Yes, I think the prospect for a continuance of good times looks pretty bright," was the reply. "We won't read of half so many cases of distress during this winter as we did last winter and a couple of winters before." "Well, when she came down to the breakfast table this morning," pursued the father of the phenomenal young one, "she looked at the buckwheat cakes on the table and—" "Now you hit me where I live," said the square-jawed man. "Don't think I could put in the cold season without buckwheat cakes for breakfast. What kind do you use at home—the old-fashioned buckwheat or this new-fangled self-raising kind?" "Er—I don't know what kind my wife prefers. Anyhow, as soon as my little girl saw the buckwheats she—" "Well, for my part I prefer the old-fashioned things. I like any old thing. Friend of mine brought me a bottle of 20-year-old Bourbon from Kentueky the other day. Finest tang to it I ever tasted." "That so?" weakly inquired the parent of the extraordinary little girl. "Well, she looked at those buckwheat cakes solemnly for a minute, and—" "I think Jeffries'll knock the nose off of him—that's my honest opinion," said the man with the countenance denoting strength. "Fact is, I believe that California boiler-maker could have put up a pretty stiff argument with John L. when John was in his prime." "—and then she looked first at her mother and then at me, and then she pointed at the cakes, and—" "Talking about pointing, my friend Jim Pothunter's got the finest pointer dog that I've seen in a month of Sundays. It's a foxy bird that gets away from that dog." "Look a-here," said the man with the vapid physiognomy. "I wasn't talking about any—" "Well, here's where I fall off," complacently remarked the square-jawed man, stepping onto the running board. "Slong. Be good." "Any man," growled the firm-jawed man, in his mustache, as he swung along toward his office, "who thinks he's a-going to shoot yarns concerning the corrucating brilliance of his kids into me while I'm trying to get some comfort out o' my after-breakfast cigar has got to heave me into a subterranean donjon, keep and buck and gag me, and that's no piannissimo pipe-fantasy!" —Washington Post. DECORATING FOR RECEPTIONS Some Mints Upon the Arrangement of Flowers, Ferns and Hangings. Whether the decorations be few or many, let the position of every spray of flowers or greens, every ribbon streamer, every strip of bunting, be considered not only individually, but in connection with the entire scheme of decoration. Generally speaking, if but little material for decoration is to be used it is better to concentrate in it one effective mass than to make it extend over so large a space that no part of it can be made effective. Thus the flowers may all be given to the large table, the smaller ones simply having the fronds of hardy ferns scattered over the cloths. This will give a much better effect than a meager bunch of flowers on each table. These hardy ferns can usually be procured at the florist's for about five cents a bunch of 100 fronds. If no flowers at all are used, there are great decorative possibilities in these ferns alone. Carrying out the same idea in other decorations, it would seem better to mass the ribbons and bunting or flags in one handsome grouping over a window at the end of the room, or about the rostrum, than to so scatter them that the meagerness of the quantity would of itself attract attention. One of the most attractive of decorations was seen in a church vestry, over whose window ivy was trained. The nearest approach to this could be made with trailing greens.—Inez Redding, in Woman's Home Companion. A Fine Appetizer Oyster cocktails are sometimes served in grapefruit. The fruit is cut into halves and the pulp nearly all removed, the juice being kept to use in the dressing. Skin raw oysters are put in each cup, and to the usual cocktail dressing is added the juice of the fruit. If it is found not to be quite sour enough, a tablespoonful of pure vinegar may be added. The fruit and the oysters should be thoroughly chilled before serving.—N. Y. Post. Quite Emphatic Collector—Er—would you mind asking the lady typewriter to leave the room while I tell you?—Tit-Bits. Even the Landlady Smiled. “What is a sausage?” inquired the sweet singer. “A sausage,” grinned the comedian boarder, “is a ground hog”—Chicago Daily News. "Pardon me, madam," said a polite man hanging on to a strap to a lady standing beside him with an armful of paper parcels, "you are standing on my foot." "I'm so sorry," said she. "I thought it belonged to the man sitting down." And then the little man's eyes were lifted from his paper, and she got the seat—Pearson's. His Reglments. At an entertainment in Edinburgh, just as the Boer war broke out, the audience stopped the performance to sing the national anthem. So far this was all right, but more followed. A few hothebeded spirits caught sight of a uniform, and the wearer, despite his protests, was carried, shoulder high, around the building. When he regained terra firma some one asked him for the name of his regiment, his uniform not being familiar. "Regiment!" was the surprised reply. "Man, I'm the doorkeeper. What's gaun wrang wi' ye a'?"—Spare Moments. A New Arabic Notation. There is a city magistrate living uptown who is possibly raising a mathematical prodigy in the person of his three or four-year-old daughter. She has only recently begun to attend the kindergarten, and yet meditates changes in the system of enumeration now in vogue, which, while startling, are certainly suggestive. When asked the other day to count, she hesitated some, and then lisped: "None, some, one, two, free, fore."—N. Y. Times. Where Hope Lingered Negroes are unconsciously humorous. The other day two roustabouts were overheard talking. They met on the levee, after one had been absent from the city for several weeks. "Hello, Bill; how is yer?" said the first. "Well," was the reply, "de doctors is give me up, but de police ain't."—Minneapolis Selmitar. Every Little Helps. Dramatic Critic—Jack, I've an article to write on "The Elevation of the Decadent Stage of To-day." Can't you give me some points? 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The banker is no less eager for it, or his operations in finance will not him loss instead of profit. The carpenter makes his careful measurements because he knows well that unless his angles be true his building will injure his reputation. The farmer plows and sows and breeds cattle with careful recognition of what experience has taught to be true in regard to his occupation. Each and all of us tries continually to make wise use of such truth as we possess and to add to our knowledge of it. Even imposters and charlatans seek to clothe falsehood in the garb of truth, or nobody could be victimized. Thus, willingly or not, consciously or not, all men daily concede the power of the truth. In the realm of the spiritual it is most important of all that this power be recognized, partly because the life of the soul is the chief life, to which all else is secondary, and partly because it is here that mistakes are most easily made. It is very important that our relations with our fellowmen be natural, advantageous and promising. As each new year opens, we try to readjust them, if necessary, so as to improve them. It is vastly more important that our relations with our Father in heaven should be improved. In order to accomplish this we must take greater pains to appreciate the power of this truth, revealed in the gospel, over our hearts and lives. His truth is made known to us in order to enlighten us about spiritual duty and privilege; to convince us of sin and lead us to penitence, faith and righteousness; to fortify us against evil in every form; and to qualify us for consecrated usefulness. Do we thus understand and accept it? Do we comprehend that, ignorant and weak although we may be of ourselves, we can become wise and strong by possessing God's truth? It is His divine gift to everyone who is willing to receive it. It is offered freely and abundantly. It will do its blessed work for the humblest and poorest as successfully as for the most eminent or the most rich in earthly possessions. By the power of the truth about sin, about redemption, about holiness, about consecrated service thousands of empty, useless, wasted, forlorn and hopeless lives have become beautiful, honorable, fruitful and sweet with the very fragrance of Heaven. Let it be our determined purpose, in spite of every discouragement, to test what this power of God's truth can do for us.—Congregationalist. A FRIEND IN NEED Beautiful Service Done at the Risk of the Friendship—Won from a Gaming Table. To risk a friendship in order to do a friend a service is to be a friend indeed. Such an set calls for courage of a high order. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, says his biographer, used to tell this story of his friend, Col. John McCarthy: "It was at the entrance of a faro bank. The colonel was about to go in, and urged me to accompany him. I defined shortly. "You have no right,' said I, 'to set each an example.' "He said he should go alone, and went on. I followed him to the head of the stairs and stopped him. Looking him full in the face, I said: "You are rich in everything. You have a mother and sisters. Are they provided for by you?" "He turned black in the face. The veins in his temples curled. I expected he would strike me with his cane. It was the only moment of our acquaintance when I had reason to suppose that we should no longer be friends. "Do you take me for a dog?" said he. "Yes," said I, "for baser than a dog, if you have the heart to give of your abundance to the keepers of faro bank hells instead of giving it to a mother! "He dropped tears, took me by the arm, went in, bet a few moments and then came out, completely subdued. Ever after that he would permit me to hide him like a little child."—Youth's Companion. SHOT AND SHELL God is a hiding place, but not from duty. When God is in the heart, it cannot be small. True learning is intensive rather than extensive. God is better to us than our best thoughts for others. The pains of age are the pleasures of youth grown perfect. Mountains of difficulty always appear steeper at a distance. Our drifting dreams furnish no fitting for the reality of the rapids. God approves those who seek Christ's life, but not as Herod did. The plan without God is to design a vessel without thought of the ocean. The rich and the poor most together only at the feet of the young Child. Churches. Last Saturday morning, the 3rd inst. about 8:15 the sad intelligence reached us that Mr. Albert Carter, Jr., had died Friday night about 9 o'clock. So far we have been unable to find any one who knew the real cause of the accident which brought about the untimely and sad end of Mr. Carter. At 4 o'clock Friday he was driving his hitched to a wagon heavily loaded with ice. It seems for some cause the team made to sudden dash to run away, and in order to hold them Mr. Carter wrapped the reins around his hands, and his foot slipped or lost his balance in some way and fell to the ground. Three theorists have been advanced, that he was either dragged or kicked by the horses or the wagon ran over him. No one knows for certain for the report says the attention of the men at work some distance away was attracted by seeing the team standing in the road after they had made their dash and caused the life's blood of their owner to be ebbing away. Mr. Carter was taken to his home, near Zion Town, Henrice County, by his friends, where he died at 9 o'clock that night in the 46th year of his age. He leaves a wife, fourteen children, four brothers and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss The funeral took place at the Quicoasin Baptist Church on last Sunday at 8:30 o'clock. The sermon was preached by pastor, Rev. Royal Smith. He was very sympathetic at times and counsellled all to be on the "Watch Tower." The interment was in the family section at the Moss Burying Ground, near Reed's Church, where his father, Albert Carter, Sr., was laid to res two months ago to the very day. Mr. Carter was a member of Quicoasin Baptist Church, and a deacon for about 15 years, and chairman of the Executive Board of the Tuckahoe Baptist District Sunday School Convention and a member of U. O. of T. R. He was also prominent in politics, having attended several county congressional and state conventions. He was at the time of his death a member of his County and Congressional Committees. It was one among the largest funeral processions that have been seen that county. There were about 75 carriages, buggies and other vehicles, on horse-back and a host of people on foot from both our city and the counties turned out to honor him. Many white and colored friends reviewed the remains. Four brothers remain, viz: Capt. Wm. H. Rev. Willis J., John H. and James H. Carter. God bless his wife and fourteen children. Here we stop to dren a tear. IN OUR CHURCHES. At 5th Church last Sunday there were good services. The pastor is still unwell but improving. The River View Baptist Church will soon have her new pews in and all things in complete order so far as the house is to make a good neat place of worship. At the Second Baptist Church the morning exercises were good, sermon by the pastor. The E.Mission continues their good work at their new place of worship near the old site. Last Sunday morning beamed forth pleasant and inviting, but about mid day the clouds began to gather thick and by 4 o'clock a heavy gloom over the elements told of what would soon follow, and our churches were slimly attended the remainder of the day. Excelsior Lodge, 29 met last Tuesday evening with an extraordinary attendance. D. G. Chancellor T. W. Mitchell, accompanied by P. C. S., J. S. Baker installed the officers for the ensuing term as follows: C. O., J. W. Terrell; V. O., C. J. Cooke, P. Joseph Adams; M. of W., J. W. Kirby, K. of R. and S., Andrew J. Smith, M. of F. D. R. D. Cross; M. of Ex., Isaac Crump. M at A., Richard Thompkins; I. G. Jos. Taylor; O G., Watt Jefferson. The Chancellor Commander cordially invites the the Knights of the sister Lodge to attend their meetings which are very interesting. Virginiainia Court met Monday evening at the League Hall, on Third St. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. and Sister Anna Taylor were present made the officers. Sister Anna Taylor made a short instructive address. MAGNO'S MESSAGE. A Word About the Churchhes—Brief Notes From the Ward. For several weeks we have allowed the things of the Ward to go seemingly unnoticed. Notwithstanding our bows have been severe at times, the people of this section have been making anxious inquiries as to when we would appear again. Here we are. Our churches have been well attended so far this year. Each pastor and congregation is trying to settle with their creditors before spring. Rev. Dr. G. W. Bryant, the renowned pulpit orator, has captivated audiences at our churches during the past month. He is a powerful speaker and crowds flock to hear him when an announcement is made of his presaching. On Sunday, the Dr. will presach at the First Baptist Church at 11:30 A. M., and at 3 o'clock, he will presach at the Moore St. Baptist Church. Mrs. Virginia Fields, the wife of letter carrier W. W. Fields, died at her residence on St. Paul St., last Monday night after a long illness. Funeral took place from the Fifth St. Church Thursday evening. There has been but few marriages so far this year, but the future is bright. Examination has been going on our schools this week. The "Jim Crow" Car Bill has done many things for us. While it may humiliated us, it will cause us to let excursions alone, thereby saving hundreds of dollars which are spent yearly on excursions. Lawyer J. Thomas Hewin has return ed to Boston. He delivered several very fine addresses while in this city. Mrs. Nancy Vaughn left for New York on last Monday evening, after an extended visit to her daughter. Our people are looking for the results of Ground-hog Day. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIKGINIA There will be a Grand Neckie Entertainment at the residence of Deacon W. P. Burrell, 1113 St. John St., Monday night for the benefit of the Moore St. Baptist Church. An excellent programme will be rendered on this occasion. MAGNO UNO. MICHAUX P. O., POWHATAN CO., VA. Rev. T. P. Harris is getting much better, after several weeks' suffering from a rising arm, under the treatment of Dr. William H. Hennig. He was taken sick on the 11th of December, 1899, and had the best attention from all of the people of the neighborhood, both white and colored not only his members, but others, all remembered him kindly. Deacon Phil. Brown and Deacon Al. Howell from Mt. Zion came down with many nice presents from the church as they always do every year. They also brought money as well as groceries, their action for the 18 years. In that is created a love for the church which shall never die out, also Officer J. Brown visited him often. From Hartford The revival which was held at the Union Baptist Church the past three weeks was very successful. It was the means of many souls turning to Christ and many who are now seeking His love to know. February 4, 1906, the B. Y. P. U. held their meeting previous to the baptizing. The topic was very interestingly discussed. The topic being, "Things that endure." Leaders for the evening were Miss Margaret H. Brown and Mr. John Lee. Miss Alice M. Wood of New Haven has returned home after a pleasant stay, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Fish. Mr. William H. Harris has left Hartford and will for a time reside in Springfield, Mass. Miss Frances Jackson of Savannah, Ga., is improving under the treatment of Dr. P. H. C. Arms. Mrs. Sanford Harrison of Gxand St., is convalescing. Mr. Fred Fletcher had an operation performed by Dr. Arms, at which time a finger was removed. Mrs. Charles Taylor of 43 Liberty St., has presented her husband with a fine baby girl. The concert given by Mrs. C. Robertson and Mr. A. Curtis at the A. M. E. Zion Church was among the best of the season. FROM NEWPORT NEWPORT, R. I. Feb. 5, 1900. The following officers of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church have been elected: Clerk, Wm. H. Jackson; assistant clerk, E. Brown; treasurer, Walter C. Weeden; organist, Ruth G. Chase; usher, Marlene Trent, A. D. Johnson, John Lewen; superintendent of Sunday School, A. D. Johnson; assistant superintendent, Alice Jackson; trustees, W. P. Nightingale, Tobias Edwards, A. J. Tabb, Walter C. Weeden, Gideon Spence, Wm. H. Jackson, Andrew Jackson, A. D. Johnson, Samuel Bailey, Charles Trent. At a regular meeting of the Union Congregational Church and Society, the following board of trustees was elected for the following year: President, P. W. Townsend; secretary, C. F. D. Fayerweather; treasurer, D. J. Tiler; trustees, W. T. Berry, J. Marrow, H. C. Buchanan, Wm. Dobson, D. A. Smith, J. Harris. The Midwinter Club has an interesting meeting at the residence of Mrs. C. F. D. Fayerweather, Jr., and an enjoyable evening was spent. Rev. Byron Gunner was in Bristol Sunday last. Mrs. Gunner has left for Huntsville, Ala., to be gone for the rest of the winter. Mrs. Gunner accompanied her as far as New York. Mrs. Elizabeth Coates of Jamestown, who spent the fall and the best part of the winter in visiting Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fredericksburg, Va., with her mother, Mrs. Smith, has returned. Leonard Jeter was in Providence Wednesday. Miss Battie Jozef, who was visiting in Cambridge, Mass., has returned after a pleasant stay. Herbert Eylers of Portsmouth is visiting his cousin, Louis Eylers. Louis West has accepted a position at the Ferry House. James W. Willis, one of Newport's 83d degree Masons, who has been confined to his room is convalescent. Arthur Smith is home for a few days from Boston. Mr. George P. Barelay's mother is ill in Bridgeport, Conn. We hope for her speedy recovery. Sickness still prevails. There are many of our mothers and sisters, also children under the Doctor's care. The weather to day looks like snow. It is 4 above zero. Miss Edith Buchanan has returned from her visit to her brothers in Boston. Also Miss Louisa Jackson and Alies Sousa have resumed home from their visit to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and New York. Thomas G. Williams, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Newport has been suffering with intense pain with his eyes. He has been one of the leading tonsorial artists for years. Mr. Andrew Carter, of No. 100 Levin Sh., is improving, under the skillful treatment of Dr. Wheatland, our only colored physician. Misz Sadie W. Mitchell, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Mitchell is quite ill, and under consultation of Newport's skillful Dr. Wheatland, who called in Dr. Henry Eroyd, a white doctor. Every thing is being done for the young woman, who is her brother's favorite, Mr. Ollie M. Mitchell, in the midst of this trouble. Mr. Mitchell's bright little boy is just on the verge of mending from the grip and mumps of three weeks in bed. Four different changes of weather to-day. It snowed, rained, hailed and sunshone. One can see how our people are the fair Masonic Hall, under the management of the Red Monk. Monk was more than a success. Dancing every night, the boys and girls, white and black mingled in on the floor and enjoyed themselves under Howard's orchestra of 18 pieces. At Mount Olivet. Services at Mount Olivet Baptist Church, 25th and 5 Sts., will be as follows, on Sunday, Feb. 11th: At 11:30 o'clock a. m., a special sermon by Rev. A. E. Cheeke, of the Union University; at 8 p. m., a sermon by Rev. J. Andrew Bowler; at 8 o'clock p. m., a sermon by Rev. Wm. Thomas. Do not fail to hear these able divines. On Monday night, Jan. 29, 1600, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Gray were agreeably surprised by a party of ladies and gentlemen, led by Mrs. Thomas Smith and Mrs. Richard Evans Mr. and Mrs. Gray were presented with a beautiful pair of Portiers; after which refreshments were served in honor of Mrs. Sue Bacehus of Atlantic City, N. J., sister of Mrs. Nannie Gray, who, with her little son. Leon, has been spending the part of four weeks in our city. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Mosby, Mr. and Mrs. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. William Ferguson, Misses Lucy Peters, Nannie B. Jones, Belle Fitzhugh, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Orawley, Mr. Thomas Jones, Madameres Rose Bryant. Agnes Reese, Madam Cooper, Bachel Franklin, Annie Adams, Adams, Bachel Howard, Nannie Danee, Polly Wilson, Flores Eddleton, Susan Jones, Emmia Starr, Emma, Jimmerson, Harriet Grimes, Zemoria J. Wood, Matilda Mimmis, Mattie Perry, Messrs. George Glover, Edward Shelis, Thos. Trice, Thomas Jones. A Special Sermon. A special sermon will be delivered to-morrow, Feb. 11th, 3 p.m., at the Sharon Baptist Church, by the pastor. Subject, "Heretics and impostors on the increase in the city of Richmond and the reason why." A. S. THOMAS. The Van Helmstry Sewing Circle will meet Wednesday 14th at the residence of Miss Mabel Clolmes, 1000 N. 4th St. Business of importance. All members are urged to be present. Rosa E. Wood, President, MOBEL HOLMES, Secretary. JAMES—Eliza James, better known as Eliza Price, died February 1, 1900 at her residence, 107 53d Street, New York. She was well known in this city, being the mother of Mrs. Benjamin Scott. Her funeral took place Sunday, Feb. 4th. Colored Stock Company There has been organized in this city a colored Stock Company for the purpose of singing heavy operas. The company is composed mostly of members of the Richmond Dramatic and Musical and Richmond Colored Choral Associations. The Besthoven Musical Association held its first public Recital Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Rosa K. Jones. The program was of a high order and rendered to a large and fashionable audience. There will be a Birthday and Valentine Reception given at the First Baptist church on the 14th inst. All are invited. Don't forget your age. FOR SALE—A Chase Bros Piano, Upright Brand, and in perfect condition. Terms—$175 cash or $200.00 on installment—$80 cash and $10.00 per month. This instrument is in first class condition. It can be examined and special arrangements can be made by calling on MRS. LUOINDA WATKINS, 118 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. FOR RENT—2nd floor, 3 rooms. No 907% N. 7th St, and 4 rooms in house, No. 1102 Moore, opposite Moore St. school. Apply to E. BUTTIGHIERIM, 115 E. Broad St. SINNER'S DREAM -OR THE- SEVEN SEALS MARDI GRAS. NEW ORLEANS, LA., Feb. 21-27. MOBILE, ALA., Feb. 21-27, 1900. For the above occasion, the Southern Railway will sell tickets from all coupon stations on its line to New Orleans, LA., and Mobile, Ala., and return at one fare for the round-trip. Tickets will be on sale February 20th to 25th inclusive, with return limit March 15, 1900. This offers a rare opportunity to those wishing to visit these popular southern cities at a most desirable season. The Southern offers double daily limited service between this section and the above named points, viz.; the United States Fast Mail and the Washington and South-western Limited, in addition to through Puliman and Thorough-fare cars, both of these famous trains carry elegant hotel dining cars and requiring only one night on the road between Richmond and New Orleans. C. W. WESTBURY, T. P. A. feb-3-2 RICHMOND, VA., Feb. 7th, 1900. To the public: This is to certify that on Sunday evening at 5 6'clock at the residence of Mrs. Eliza Dudley, 1217 N. 32nd S.E., The Motherhood Department of the Rising Sons and Daughters of Star of Bethlehem was organized and set apart. The address was delivered by Rev. Jacob Turner, Pastor of M. T. Tabar Baptist Church of Woodville. His discourse was taken from the '1st Psalm, 9th verse, "Cast me not off in the time of old age. Forsake me not when my strength faileth. The Reverend was at his best and delivered a wonderful discourse, which held the audience spell bound. All who heard it had their hearts lifted up and their minds carried to a paradise of heavenly things. The builders of this organization are Mrs. Eliza Dudley, Ed. Fitzgerald, Thomas Coleman and others. The above named people having been touched with a divine sympathy, their hearts and eyes were made to consider the old mothers and fathers that insurance and many other societies had cast aside. They labored faithfully and have succeeded in their noble undertaking. The lodge has prospered wonderfully during the past twelve months and the membership is still increasing. During the day Mr. Edw. Fitzgerald was the master of ceremonies. This is also a branch of No. 1 Lodge of the Rising Sons and Daughters of Star of Bethlehem, which makes the 4th subordinate lodge that they have set apart since they were chartered August 31, 1897. This lodge meets every second Sunday at 3 o'clock, at the residence of Ms. Margaret Coleman, No. 908 31st St. All old and respectful persons are invited to join. Serve as President, Margaret Coleman; preside over the first staff. John Harold; second staff, Kitt Carter; chaplain, William Watkins; moderator, Mary Nelson; chairman, Ellen Evison; second, chairman, Charlotte Goode; secretary, Mildred Dudley; male chairman, Benjamin Allen; male chairman, C. J. Holloway. $100 PA1D. RUICHMOND, VA., Feb. 7th, 1900. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Courts of Virginia, the sum of ($100) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the endowment claim of Finkie Finney, who was a member of Manchester Court, No. 177 independent Order of Calanthe, N. A., S. A., E. A., A. and A. Signed: A. BINGA, JR, Witnesses: Administrator Mrs. E. J. Barbour, who has been under the care of Dr. John Merriweather for the past three weeks is out again. Capt. Edw. W. Cowan has been quite sick at his residence. 920 St. Paul st. Midnight Philosophy. Mrs. Squillis-Quick! Quick! Wake up! I believe there are burglar's downstairs. Go down and see. Mr. Squillis (sleepily) - Nonsense! Nothing but a cat. Mrs. S.-Hark! There! I know there are burglar's downstairs. Mr. S. (nervously) -Well-er-if you know they are there it's no use going down to find out. -N. Y. Weekly. None of H1a Business. "Sir," began young Timkins, as he entered the presence of the dear girl's father, "I want to marry your daughter—" "Oh, don't bother me with your troubles," interrupted the old gentleman. "She told me some time ago that she intended to marry you, so you'll have to settle it between yourselves."—Tis Bits. But the grocer said "Nit, no trust—not a bit, I'm an anti-trust advocate—see?" -Baltimore American. OF COURSE IT'S MEAN. A woman bending down to open a door. "Why, how mean! Here I notice through the keyhole that my lady is prying into the writing desk of my master—how can she be so inquisitive?"—Jugend. Both Modest. Why cry for the moon, my wee laddle? In there, of toys such a dearth? Why think you want more than your daddy. For he only asks for the earth. --Detroit Free Press. Knew the Sex. "She says she will never, never marry." "Is that all she said?" "Certainly." "Didn't complete the sentence?" "Why, it's complete as it stands, isn't it?" "Hardly. She should have added; 'Unless I get chance,'"—Chicago Post. Of Some Use. "Yes," admitted Uncle Reuben Throstedyke, with some reluctance, "I did buy a gold brick wunst for $700, but the money wunzn't altogether thrown away. My wife uses the brick fur keeping her feet warm these cold winter nights." -Chicago Tribune A Sort of Combination Briggs—Stubbs says he has been working so hard at his business that he hasn't seen his wife for weeks. Briggs — I should say that that was combining business with pleasure.— Town Topics. The Real Thing. Ferdinald — And do you really love me? Penelope — Love you, Ferdinald! Why, only yesterday papa asked me if I wouldn't sooner have a cooker sparcel, and I refused!—Puck. She Knew: At a recent examination in chemistry in a high school not far from Boston, the teacher asked a young lady to give an example of a vegetable fat. "Leaf lard," was the prompt reply—Boston Transcript. His Line of Criticism. "I understand," said the neighbor, "that your husband is a dramatic critic." "No," replied the little woman, bitterly; "he is even worse than that. He is a household critic."—Chicago Post. His Own Fault. Heulhan—Clancy is forever tackling a bigger mon than himself and getting licked! Cahill—Yial Clancy is his own worst inmyl—Puck. Hard to Kill. "It is some consolation to know," gasped the dying man with his last breath, "that it took three doctors to kill me." N. Y. Journal. The Butterfly's Pocket. The male butterflies have the proud privilege of a pocket, but the pocket of a butterfly is wonderfully made. It is really an extension of the under wing folded back on the upper side, but it is exquisitely colored and marked like the upper side so that it is very hard to detect, and no one has yet discovered just how it is opened, although undoubtedly the butterfly can throw it open while he is flying. At first glance there seems to be only white oramber-colored silk floss within, but examine this with a microscope and you will find twisted ribbons, slender rods shaped like a shepherd's crook, others jointed bamboo-like, and flexible rods and tiny scales of various sorts and patterns. It is known that insects have a marvelously keen scent, and it is believed that all these odd little objects are perfume boxes, and that the fragrance so thrown abroad is a signal call to the female butterfly which may be wandering about in the air. It is, to say the least, a very interesting guess, and there is evidence to prove that butterflies and moths are summoned from distances by cdors that we would hardly notice.—Philadelphia Times. Mrs. Grimes—How in the world do you get rid of your stale bread? I have to throw lots of mine away. Mrs. Smarte—There's no need for you to do that. Why not do as I do? I just hide it away from the children. Mrs. Grimes—Hide it away from the children? What then? Mrs. Smarte—Then the children find it, and eat up every morsel of it.—Tit-Eits. Be Not D Be Not Deceived!! BEFORE. AFTER. To the Colored People RECOGNIZING the Fact that the straighteners now being offered on the that most of these are frauds pure and forward statement to the colored people Planet. To the Colored People.of America: RECOGNIZING the Fact that there are many so called hair growers and straighteners now being offered on the market, and knowing to a certainty that most of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight forward statement to the colored people of America through its best paper, the Planet. In the year 1871, our present Secretary through a fortunate circumstance acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or pushed to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the leading colored people of that time, it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy. True to all we claimed for it and worthy in every respect of the confidence and attention of every member of the colored race. Because they found it to cause the hair to GROW LONG AND STRAIGHT, soft and fine and as beautiful as an April morning. It also cures all forms of itching, humiliating scalp diseases, stops the hair from falling out, and causes a new growth to grow on the baldest head. Now, whenever a genuine article appears on the market, there are always a lot of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success numerous so-called hair growers and hair straighteners were put on the market. Of course the colored people had no way to tell that they were being fooled and bought most of them to their sorrow. Now we ask you a plain question. Would we absolutely agree to refund you your money provided you not satisfied with the preparations we manufacture if our goods were not true to all we claim for them? We assert right here that we are advertised for nearly 24 years, offering to return the money for every case we give satisfaction and we have never yet had to refund the money. Ozono will make the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Curly, Refractory Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying, running scalp diseases, Eczema, Pimples, Dandruff, Itch, &c. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair Long and Soft, Fine and Silky and as beautiful as an April morning. 10,000 people are to-day using Ozono and not one complaint. We have thousands of testimonials. We have not space to publish. Rev. B. Hertz an eminent Colored Divine of the Church writes: I have found your Ozono to prove satisfactory in every particular. Kate W. Page, Blacksburg, V.A., writes:—Your preparation has proven true to all you claim for it. The price of Ozone is 50s. a box. It takes from 3 to 4 boxes to accomplish the treatment. We make this liberal offer for a limited time only. Cut out this Coupon and send to us with $1.00, and we will forward to you 4 boxes of Ozone and one bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner which makes black skin bright rough skin soft and pliant and cures all skin diseases. We will also include one fany jar of our Electrical Skin Food—nature's great beautifier, removes wrinkles, Moth patches, freckles and all facial blemishes, and to prove our librarian we will add to this one Package of Anti-Odor. A positive cure for Sore Throat, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet, also Remove all smells and Odors arising from the human body such as Feet, Arm Pits, &c. Remember we will refund the money if you are not pleased with the goods and positively this offer is not good but for a limited time only. Cut out and mail this Coupon to us with One Dollar and get this Grand Combination Offer; as this opportunity will not occur again. Boston Chemical Company. 411 N. 23d Street, Richmond, Va I enclose you $1.00 (One Dollar) for which please send me the following goods at once: (fo ur) LARGE BOXES "OZONO" HAIR GROWER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER, (o ne) LARGE BOTTLE ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINER, (one) LARGE JAR ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, (one) LARGE PACKAGE ANTI-Odor. J. A. & C. J. COOKE SUCCESSORS TO Henry Cooke, Cures Weak Men Free Insures Love and Happiness. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual illness, lost vitality, varicocle etc., and enlarged small weak organs to full size and vigor. Simply send your name and address to Detroit, Michigan, Detroit, Mich., and he will gladly send the fax receipt with full directions so that any man may easily cure himself at home. This is ceramic extracts taken from his daily mail show how men write him. "Dear Sir--Please accept my sincere thanks for a recent date. I have given your treatment in a thorough and the benefit has been extraordinary. It is has completely braced me up. I am just as vigorous as what joy and you cannot realize how happy I am. "Dear Sir--Your method worked beautifully. You are exactly what I needed. Strength and vigor have come and enlarged and enlargement is entirely satisfactory." "Dear Sir--Yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the receipt as directed, and after a few days use can easily say it is a boon to weak men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and vigor. All correspondence is strictly confidential, mailed in plain enclosed envelope. The receipt is free for the asking and he wants every man to have it. We Puy Old Mahogany Furniture AND... PAYS THE... BEST PRICE! Call at the PLANET OFFICE. eceived!! people. of America: are many so called hair growers and market. and knowing to a certainty simple. we wish to make a straight of America through its best paper, the