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THE RICHMOND PLANET KILLING COL- ORED SOLDIERS. Many Slaughtered in the Philippines. A WHITE LIEUTENANT'S DEATH. The War Not Ended--A Graphic Account--Shot a Woman. VOL XVII. NO 14. KILLING CO ORED Many Slaughter ippi A WHITE LI DEA The War Not Ex Account---Sho SVERIG LUZON, P. I., Jan. 28, 1900. The week has been uneventful excepting a skirmish occasionally. There is a good deal of reconnoitering and Schenk's scouts have been busy all the week. They have made their trip as far as San Antonio, twenty miles north on the bay, and at present are on an extended trip. Sergt Henry, with 27 men, is out for seven days with the signal corps building a telegraph line from here to Ibra. They are progressing rapidly and will be through in a short time. if the Filipinos don't cut the wire. The companies of the 46th and 32d, that were here left to join their regiments. They made quite a good record and we are sorry to lose them. TEMPOBARILY INSARE. Pvt. Enia Quarles. Co. L. 25th, was taken to Manila suffering from temporary insanity as the result of a mule kick received at Fort Logan, while he was attending to the same. Operations on the south line are at a standstill, the bombardment and heavy fire getting in good work the previous week. The volunteers have conducted themselves well and behaved like veterans under fire. We have only eight companies of our regiment here and as a result we have quite a lot of work. We wish they would work a battalion of the 48th in with us, which has just arrived. It would be a great help indeed. Sickness which has been abundant is on the decrease. A sad incident happened as we were leaving Malangal. KILLED A WOMAN. A native woman and Musician Arnold of company M were the participants. Arnold was preparing to leave with his company when the woman ap proached and attempted to engage him in conversation. He tried to avoid her when she became enraged, drawing a bole, she attempted to cut Arnold, who drew his revolver and fired to frightened her away. She seemed determined and continued to advance, whereupon Arnold fired again, the bullet passing through her head, killing her instantly. The occurrence is regretted by all, as Arnold is a quite unassuming fellow, and it brings in the regiment. Whatever interest they had in each other previous to the fortunate occurrence is only a matter of conjecture. SUBIG. LUZON, P. I., Jan. 80, 1900. The spell of good fortune which has followed us so long is broken and four of our brave boys fell with their face to the enemy to rise no more. In my last letter I told of Lieut. Scheneke's scouts, of the trip they had made and were out at present for an indefinite period. Such was the case. They left early Sunday morning and marched to Custelao, where they joined Serg't Henry's detachment, who was guarding the signal corps. On Monday K company set out at noon to join them. When near San Marcos they, [K Co.] saw several armed Filipino men, was given and when the column entered the town, expecting to find the object of their pursuit, they were surprised to find the scouts and signal corps detachments there. THE PLAN OF ATTACK. All spent the night there and next morning (Tuesday) a plan of action was formed for the return trin. The scouts moved out, and K company was to follow in an hour or two. The scouts had reached a narrow road that leads down to the edge of a stream, over which rose a high bank directly in front of the scouts. Lieut. Schenek was in front with Serg't Lightfoot, 1st sergeant of that body, when they reached the edge of the stream. A command in clear English yelled F——i——e——, a tremendous crash and Pvt. Brenton, of K company, fell dead, shot through the head. The scouts immediately crawled to cover, but the Mansers continued to pop and for 45 minutest it was a continual hail of steel. Pvt. Spuvey, of Co. K, was shot through both feet. It looked as if Schenck's little band would be massacred. They were in a position where they couldn't shoot,—to raise and shoot would only expose themselves to instant death. LIBUTENANT KILLED. Lieut. Schenek was armed with a rifle and raising to his knees said, "Boys, they are too much for us, to the rear!" He laid down. Again he roars, "Boys, they are too much for us, to the rear!" He took off his hat and turned to go when a Mauser bullet struck him in the forehead and he fell over mortally wounded. The fire of the enemy was growing hotter every minute. The little band realizing their position began to retreat and fire. Serg't Lighfoot is wounded in the arm, but clings on with bull-dog tenacity until he is struck by a Mauser in the breast and is compelled to retire. Serg't Singleton is shot in the hip and bravely snuggles on, but the hip bone is shattered and the fragments sticks in his flesh every movement, causing excruciating Poor fellow! He falls unable to go further. Pvt. Stukland drags Singleton into the cane patch and narrowly escapes capture. so close was the first three of bruising party it was impossible for his shots to miss them. He kills six and retreats after doing all in his power for Singleton, leaving him only when it became necessary for his own personal safety. Pvt. Mitchell was equally attentive to Singleton and used his ride to good advantage. Pvt. Shannon, of Lecompany, was shot in the leg, but clung on until another bullet cut short his existence and he fell bravely fighting by the side of his gallant chief, Schenek. Pvt. Boone, L company, falls dead, shot through the head. The scouts now run for it. NO OFFICER TO LEAD THEM. Corporal Rufus Scott meets the Doctor and his detail of ten men coming from for the sick. Sir, there is no officer to lead us, but you, if you are too buoy with the sick, give me command and I will do the best I can which is to deploy and keep them from flanking us. Take command corporal was the reply. Corporal Scott takes command and deploys his little force. Meantime a courier is dispatched after reinforcements and meets K company on the run. But, the scouts are hard pressed and fall back. The insurgents charge, but the doctor's detail fires a volley which breaks their charge. Another volley and they falter; another and they stop. K company was laughing jolly and resting. Sergt. Henry walked over and reported volley firing. Good many said it was bamboo where joints pop when set on fire, but it sounds like rapid fire, (which is irregular fast firing from a will). Volley firing is firing by command. Sergt's Henry said, you here first? K company falls in and away they went at double quick time From the scene of K company's position to the scene of action was nearly five miles. When K company burst on the scene, it was here that they stopped and then broke and fled. THE DEAD STRIPPED. When they reached one dead or wounded they had been stripped of their clothes and everything of value. Lieut. Schenek was robbed of all but his underclothes. He breathed his last as 1st sergeant George Greenwood of company K, reached him. Serg't Singleton, from his place of concern, saw them rob our dead. He said there were several young boys around with bolos. They fled on the approach of K company. Casualties: Killed, 1st Lieut. W. T. Schenek, Adj. 2d Bat. chief scout, Pvt. Tevis Bronston, company K; Private Shannon, company L; Pvt. Boone, company L. Wounded: Serg't James K. Lightfoot, company K; 1st Serg't scouts, Serg't Singleton, company L; Pvt. Sexton, company B; Pvt. Spivey, company K, and Pvt. Faulkin, company L. All of them scouts. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SATURDAY MARCH 17 1900 ranks, being appointed from a sergeant in the 1st cavalry. His experience as enlisted man caused him to know a soldier's wants and his soul ambition was to satisfy his men. CF A MILITARY FAMILY. He was under 80 years of age, and comes of a military family. His father is a captain in the 2nd Artillery in Hoimae. His father-in-law is a colonel of the 6th Infantry and is at present with his daughter at Fort Logan. His sister is the wife of Lieut. Williams of the 4th Artillery is at F. Warren, Mass., with her mother. The entire family has the sympathy of the regiment, who feels as if the loss was as great as theirs. He was certainly a friend to the colored soldier and when he died they lost their all in all. His usual reckless bravery and enthusiasm was responsible for his death. Pvt. Bronaton was a good soldier, an excellent shooter and a regimental favorite. His parents have the heartfelt sympathy of all who knew him and the regiment. He was 25 years of age. Pvt. Shannon was one of the most industrious men in the army, a quiet and unassuming man, always strict to duty. Pvt. Boone was a jolly fellow, of pleasant countenance, faithful to duty and true to all who confided in him. Serg't Lightfoot is Lieut. Schenek over again. He is a Virginia boy and showed his stock by his vim and cool headedness. We wish him and all the others wounded a speedy recovery. RIENZI B. LEMUS, Co. K, 25th Inpt. Another Colored Man Lynched. VALDOSTA, GA., March 11th — Word was received here to night-of a double murder and lynching near Jennings, Fla., close to the Georgia line. It appears that two white men of the name of Carver were killed by a coiled those name could not be learned. The man was taken to the police. A mob quickly gathered, took the murderer away from the officers and swung him up to a neighboring tree. Inquiry Notice. I would like to know the whereabouts of my son, Johnny Jefferson, Jr. He left home about three weeks ago, ostensibly to go to work, and has not been seen since. He is about 6 feet in height, stout build, and 21 years of age. When last seen he wore a brown coat (sack) and vest, light striped pants, sharp-toe shoes. Any information will be thankfully received by JOHN JEFFERSON, 211 E. 9th St., Manchester, Va. TROUBLE IN JACKSON WARD. The Democrats Solit.—The Indignation Meeting Held. The Democratic Party of Jackson Ward seems to be split. The cause was the nomination or endoration of Alderman James Bahren for the Board of Alderman and the shelving of Alderman James J. smith who seems to have been anxious for a renomination, and may have spent a "little something" to keep the boys in good humor. As it was, at the 17th Street meeting held to nominate a ticket, the machine decided upon the course referred to and carried it out to a letter. WOULDN'T SEE HIM. The chairman wouldn't even see the Democrat who had primed himself to deliver the speech of his life in nominating Mr. Smith. On the contrary, he recognized another citizen to move to close the nominations. This was done and the Smith followers angry and disgusted saw Alderman Bahen, who has been a Republican all of his life, nominated over their favorite. The daily papers report that the meeting held by the Democrats who annoyed an attended by about 200, last May was joined by Market hall. Alderman Smith stated his grief over and a committee, consisting of J. H. Bradley, John Haley, Claude Hoy and Jake Poe was appointed to wait on the City Central Democratic Committee and protest against the action of the Democratic. THE CLUB ENDORSES. It is announced too that the Workingmen's Democratic Club of Jackson Ward endorsed the action of the meeting and incidentally Henry P. Beck and James Bahen for the Board of Aldermen. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. There will be a grand time all day to-morrow (Sunday) at Mount Olivet Baptist Church. Services as follows: 11:30 a.m., Rev. R. Beecher Taylor, subject, "Weds but no garment," 8:30 p. m., Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, of the First Baptist Church, 8 p. m., Rev. R. J. Bass, pastor of Salem Baptist Church, West Point, Va. On last Sunday at 3 o'clock Rev. G. C. Coleman, pastor of Zion Baptist Church, Manchester, prescheduled an excellent sermon and by special request it will be repeated soon. Robert, the four-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Johnson on north First street is very ill. MR. BOWDEN'S REPLY- CAUSTIC ORITIOISMS. Quite a sensation was produced in the House of Representatives on Saturday last in the discussion of the Contested Election Case of Dr. Richard A. Wise (Republican) of Williamsburg, Va., and Congressman Young of Norfolk, Va. During the course of the discussion the report is given as follows: Mr. Hull replied to a statement by Mr. Burke, that Mr. Hanna, chairman of the Republican National Committee had held that Mr. Holland was the regular candidate of the Republicans in the Second Congressional District of Virginia. Mr. Hull said that Mr. Hanna had made no such decision. The Congressional Committee had charge of that matter, and had decided that Mr. Wise was the regular candidate. JUST LARGE ENOUGH FOR OPFICES. The fact was, Mr. Hull said, that the Republican State organization in Virginia was anxious to keep the Republican party large enough only to fill the Federal offices in the State. To this end he was satisfied the organization had interfered against regular R-publican candidates for Congress, notably in Mr. Wise's district, and also in that of Mr. Walker's. He concluded with the statement that Mr. Wise was as regularly a candidate of the Republican party as any man in the House. Mr. Linney, of North Carolina, spoke in support of Mr. Wise. After analyzing the case thoroughly, Mr. Linney concluded with an appeal to the House to support the ciasims of the contestant. This seemed to have aroused the ire of Hon. George E. Bowden an office-holder who is quoted as follows: Norfolk, Va., March II.—Virginia Republicans are wrought up ever the strictures upon the State organization made by Representative Hull, of Iowa, in his speech on the Wise-Young contest. In an interview, here, Hon. George E. Bowden, member of the National Committee for Virginia, referring to the report of Mr. Hull's sneech, said: A LIBEL UPON REPUBLICAN. "The speech of Mr. Hull, of Iowa, in the House of Representatives, as given in Sunday's Post. is a libel upon the Republicans of Virginia, their organization, and upon me personally. It is utterly false that the organization within the State in 1898, or at any other time, has sought to keep the party smaller, or to do aught than promote its best interests. In 1898 through harmony prevailed in every part of the State, except in one district, and the organizations, State and national, were in accord with regard to the party policy, and but for the unwarranted and unprecedented interference with our local affairs by this same Mr. Hull little or no friction would have occurred in the State, and the same would be the ease to-day. CHARGES AGAINST MR. HULL. "It was then, as now, confined to one district, where he saw fit, a few days before the regularly called Republican convention met, to order another call for a Congressional convention, and he is now carrying out his work then commenced. We have the satisfaction, however, of knowing that the Hull party is confined to a set of bottlers in a single Congressional district. His party has no following elsewhere in the State, is practically without organization within this one district, and is not a part of the Republican organization. It is the confident belief of all familiar with the facts that but for Mr. Hull thus interfering with us] in 1888 this district would now be represented by Republi can own choice, and one who would not have found it necessary to contest for his seat and ask Congress to resort to extreme measures. THAT STATE COMMITTEE. "The Republican committee which Mr. Hull maligns is composed of our leading and representative citizens, three from each Congressional district. Loss than a half dozen of them are colored, and these are good and trustworthy citizens. The general personnel of the committee will compare favorably with any similar body in the United States. Many of its members are the peers of Mr. Hull in everything that constitutes true and genuine manhood. I am perfectly sure that not one of them would be found so wanting in decency as to cowardly assail even an enemy at a time or in a place when he could not be heard. This behaviour for Virginians consider 'Hullism,' as distinguished from Republicanism. MR. HOLLAND AS CANDIDATE. "There is about as much truth in the reference made by Mr. Hull to Mr. Holland as 'the Negro candidate, claimed to be the regular nominee,' as there is in the rest of his attack. Mr. Holland is a highly connected and prominent white citizen—one of the leading lawyers in Eastern Virginia, and recognized as such by all, regardless of party. He was nominated by a large, enthusiastic, and representative convention, in which all the republicans in the district would have participated but for Mr. Hull. 'So far as I am personally concerned, I have spent too many of the best years of my life, together with a considerable fortune, in battling for the rights of Virginia Republicans, to care for the barking of one who has assailed me in my absence.' The Washington Post of March 18th contains the following statement: Representative Hull, of Iowa, who was chairman of the executive committee of the Republican Congressional committee in 1888, said yesterday that his statements in the House Saturday about the attitude of the Virginia Republican State committee toward the Republican campaign and about Mr. George E Bowden, of Norfolk, a member of the committee, were all borne out by the knowledge of those familiar with that campaign. Mr. Hull did not state that Mr. Holland, one of the Republican candidates in the Second District, was a colored man. Mr. Holland is a white man and a lawyer of established reputation in Virginia. The Virginia Republican State committee did come to Washington for a colored man, Thomas L. Jones, as candidate against the regular Republican nominee in the Fourth District, Mr. Thorp," asserted Mr. Hull. "Later, after these Republicans had secured Jones' consent to run against Mr. Thorp, Jones came to the members of the committee and promised to withdraw if he was not for his wife in the Agricultural Department. Mr. Bowden was one of the Republican State committee that engaged in that sort of proceedings." A Memorable Event. TOANO, VA., March 7, 1900 The most successful event that has ever occurred in Chickahominy Baptist Church was the annual exercises or of Chickahominy Public School, of Chickahominy E. Banks, of Richmond, Va., is the highly cultured and capable teacher. Promptly at 8:15 Miss Banks, with her usual dignity and eloquence presented her pupils to the large and crowded audience. Special invitations had been sent to the various members of the School Board and to her white friends in and near Toona, who responded in copious numbers and I can only say that the honor that has always been given Miss Banks during her five winters here and the perfect execution by her pupils of the excellent programs she prepares; her own high moral standard, intelligence, ability and refinement, proves that Richmond has a jewel of which it need be proud. The anon J. Smallwood, the distinguished educator and president of the T. I and C. Marmont, Va., delivered the annual address, have never heard such "excellence" before. He is undeniably one whose efforts are far transcending the brightest exploits of a public, religious and educational life—a superior of commanding human intellect. We bid him God's speed. We hope that upon Miss Banks return in the early fall, that she may enter a new and larger building and that her advantages may be best. On last Thursday night, Feb. 8th W. S. O. made her first appearance. It was one of the most brilliant affairs of the season and one long to be remembered by all. Beautiful ladies attired in costly costumes and handsome gentlemen moved to the strains of sweet music. The supper was a magnificent affair and all heartily enjoyed the evening's entertainment. The table was beautifully decorated with green, yellow and white ribbons, and bells forming an arch with all the emblems of the club. Dancing continued from 8:30 p. m. to 1 a. m., when the grand march was played and they were ushered into the spacious dining room where a table heavily ladened with choice delicacies was spread before them. The Westmoreland Club deserves much credit for this their first annual soiree. They are the coming society ladies and gentlemen of this city. Among those present were Misses Emerline Edwards, Dollie Waddy, Mary Willis, Salle Bradley, Jane Key, Salile Jasper, Mrs. Dollie Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. James, Mrs. Midred Jones, Misses Silvia Carter, Ellen Morris, Eliza Goode, Bettie Shalton, Annie Mann, Ellen Mayo, Julia Brown, Carrie R. Robinson, Alice G. Fitzgerald, Mrs. John Pierce, Mrs. Fannie Archer, Mrs. Nannie Smith, Mrs. Eliza J. Barbars, Mrs. Winfields, Mrs. Laura Barns, Misses Fannie Dean, Fannie Henderson; Messrs. David Robinson, John Jones, David Anderson, Charles G. Page, Willie Davis, George Davis, Dr. Retd, Charles Willis, Henry B. Carter, John Fountteal, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mosby and many others. Miss Rosa E. Banks who has been teaching in Toane, Va., returned home last week. THE GILFIELD BAPTIST SABBATH SCHOOL SPEAKS. Resolutions Adopted By The Gilfield Baptist Sabbath School in Memory Is Deceased Superintendent-nt, Rev. Henry Williams, D. D. Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in His just and divine Providence, to send the messenger death in our midst, and has taken from us our beloved and honored Superintendent, Rev. Henry Williams, D. D., and Whereas, He, the Rev. Henry Williams, has labored so untrifely, so valuously, so unfinishingly among us for thirty-four years in endeavoring to train and indoctrinate us into those doctrines and principles which insure to one a life of usefulness and happiness on earth, and a never ending life of eternal bliss, and Whereas, He has, for the same length of time, striven as much as was in the power of man to do, by precept and example, to create and cause to thrive in our city a healthy Christian sentiment, therefore, Resolved 1st, That we bow in humble submission to the All wise Searcher of Hearts, who doeth all things well, committing our selves to Him, believing that his promises shall stand forever. Resolved 2nd, That in the death of Rev. Henry Williams, we lose a Superintendent, a Shepherd, a Disciplinarian, a Protector, whose place it will be a hard matter to fill. Resolved 3rd, That we deplore his death, and that while we in our love for him would have him back in perfect health and strength, yet we will but rejoice in the knowledge that he is where the weary are at rest, and where the wicked shall trouble him no more. Resolved 4th, That we will ever, to our dying day, cherish the memory of the saintly, manly life he led, and by our strict devotion to our God and our Sabbath School, exemplify his teachings to the extent that it may be seen and known of us that we had a teacher ordained by God himself. Resolved 5th, That we will imitate his record of honest dealing, strict integrity, Christian fortitude, success to the poor, defense of the down-trodden and fearless denunciation of all things wrong, and that we will determine by the grace of God to meet our beloved Superintendent on the banks of eternal deliverance, where there'll be no more parting, but a continuous eternity of happiness and tranquility. Resolved 6th, That one copy of these resolutions be printed, framed, and suspended from the walls of our chapel, one be sent to the family, one be sent to the press and that one be spread upon the minutes of the Sabbath School. Committee, Wm. H. JOHNSON, Chair. THOS. M. GRIFFIN, ROBt. J. JONES. MISS BESSIE AVERY, MISS LETITIA CAMPBELL. MRS. MARGARET KENNARD. The Death of Mr. Thomas C. Jones. The Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company has lost, in the death of Mr. Thomas C. Jones, one of its most faithful, active and successful representatives. Honest in all of his dealings, exact in his business transactions, patient and kind to the large number of policy holders from whom he collected. He had won the esteem and unshaken confidence of the entire company. In all his dealings with the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Co., he demeaned himself as a Christian gentleman of the highest integrity; and during no time of the five years in which he was engaged in the services of the company, handling thousands of dollars, could any fault be found with his accurate and honest manner of dealing with the company and the people. Even to the last, he was faithful to the sick on his route, and with the money in his hand, on his way to pay a sick claim, he staggered into the home of the sick and fell dead in the discharge of his duty. His funeral was largely attended as the Fourth Baptist Church. His pastor, Bishop Evans Payne, preached a remarkable, soul stirring, instructive, funeral discourse. He dealt with our brother historically, socially, religiously and as a business man of no mean repute. He was assisted in the services by Rev. Jackson and Rev. Braxton. The choir rendered excellent and pathetic funeral dirges. The beautiful floral designs were presented by the officers and agents of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company, who attended in hacks. The Garfield Beneficial Club of which Brother Jones was a prominent member, was largely represented. His family has the prayerful condolence of the company. W. F. GRAHAM, President, J. J. CARTER, Cashier, B. H. PYTON, Gen'l Insp't'r JNO. T. TAYLOR, Sec. & Man. 2t-8-17. The bondmen of T. F. Taylor, defaulting deputy clerk of Henrico County are as yet trying to locate their man. The case was continued in the Henrico County Court on Monday last in order to give them further opportunity to bring him. Special Services at the Fifth St."Baptist Church. SUNDAYS. 18TH AND 25TH MARCH. The Fifth Street Baptist Church desires to raise $500 during these two Sundays All the members and friends are called upon to make a special effort in helping us. Each member is requested to give a dollar. SERVICES TO-MORROW 11:80 A. M., preaching, Rev. R. B. Graham; 8:30 P. M., preaching, Pastor W. F. Graham; 8:30 P. M., preaching, Rev. A. A. Graham. SUNDAY, 25TH. 11:30 A. M., preaching, Rev. Prof. Digge; 8:30 P. M., communion services; 8:30 P. M., Rev. D. W. Davis, A. M. Let us make this a successful effort. The Fifth Street choir is preparing to render some choice music under the management of Prof. A. McOcay. W. F. GRAMAM, Pastor; JAS H. CHILES, Olerk. On last Tuesday evening, March 6th, a very pleasant surprise party was on Mr. and Mrs. John L. Mines of 721 Brooke Avenue, by some of their friends. At a late hour the guests was invited into the dining room, where a table laden with all the delicacies of the season greeted them and all partook of the dainties there on. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Geo, Lipschomb, Mr. and Mrs. John Bolling, Mrs. George W. Cephas, Mr. and Mrs. George Richardson, Mrs. Naïriel Ayeses, Mrs. Nannie Johnson, Mrs. Lemus, Mrs. James W. Cary, Miss Lillie M. Hobson, formerly of Manchester, Mrs. Morton Deane, Mrs. Thomas Smith, Miss Laura Minor, Mr. Wesley Ayeses, Mrs. Mary A. Granton, Mrs. Roberta Edwards and Mrs. Simon Johnson. After spending the evening in social chats, music and parlor games, the guests wended their way home in the wee saem hours of morn. The party was led by Mrs. Simon Johnson and Mrs. Thomas Smith. The Rachel Hartshorn Missionary Society will hold a public meeting in the college chapel Sunday night, March 25th, at S o'clock. An address will be made by Rev. Mr. Paxton, a missionary who has recently returned to America after eight years work in China. There will be other attractive features in the exercises. The public is cordially invited to attend. 2t-3-15. Grand Worthy Counsellor. To the Subordinate Courts of Richmond and Manchester: The Courts of Galanthe, having been invited to participate in the anniversary exercises of the Knights of Pythias, Sunday afternoon, March 25th, 1900, at the First Baptist Church, the members are requested to meet in the lecture room of the church at 2 p. m. The Worthy Counsellors are also requested to see that their courts are duly represented. Given under my hand and the seal of the Grand Court of Virginia this 15th day of March, 1900. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Grand Worthy Counsellor. MARIETTA L. CHILES, Grand Worthy Register of Death. Grand Worthy Register of Deeds. Office of the Grand Chancellor, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A. E., A., A., & A. Pythian Period, XXXVI. RICHMOND, V.A., March 14th, 1800. To the Subordinate Lodges of Richmond and Manchester. The anniversary of the Knights of Pythias will be duly observed Sunday afternoon, March 25th. All lodges will meet at Price's Hall, 212 E. Leigh St., at 2 o'clock from which place they will proceed to the 1st Baptist Church where the anniversary exercises will be held. Chancellor Commanders will please see that these requirements are strictly enforced. Given under my hand and seal of the Grand Lodge of Virginia this 15th day of March, 1800. THOMAS M. CRUMP, Grand Keeper of Records & Seal. Lynched Him. HERANDO, MISS., March 10. —Thomas Clayton, colored, was shot to death last night by members of his own race, because of a criminal assault on a 10-year-old girl. He was called to his cabin door and bullets from a dozen Winchester were fired into his body. The Negroes refuse to bury the corpse. —The Seaboard Air Line treasurer is now across Main St., below 15th St. CARSON WILDRED'S CRIME A DETECTIVE STORY OF TWO CONTINENTS BY HARRY WOOD REYNOLDS CHAPTER VI. As I was on my way down to break- fast a little after 10. I met one of the bell boys with a telegram which he had been on the way to bring to my door. "Oh, it is really not so dreadful." She blushed brightly, but when the level rose tint faded it left her pale even t the lips. "Let us talk," she went o more sedately, "about the way I which you are to get me out of my di- ficulty—for I think you have promise "So sorry not to have seen you yesterday," the words ran "Wildred has come to town, bringing my luggage, on receipt of a wire from me, saying I have just heard important financial business, calling me to America at once. Has told me of your visit, Very vexed can't keep engagement with you to night, and that this must after all be farewell, as I am leaving immediately for Southampton by boat train. Good-by and good luck to you. Will write you soon from other side, addressing Savoy Hotel. Yours, Harvey Farnham." I cannot say that I felt any very deep disappointment at the thought that I would not see my friend from the States again. But I had a serious sense of uneasiness, and an inexplicable impression that in some undefined way I had done him an injustice or been careless of his interests, though, in reality, I was very sure I had done nothing of the kind. Still, I could not shake off the feeling, and with an odd restlessness upon me I started almost immediately after breakfast for a long walk. As I pursued my way slowly, idly looking at those who passed, there was a flash of red-gold hair as a slender figure in dark gray cloth shot by, and I knew, with a quickening of my heartthrobs, that I had seen Miss Cunningham. She was going very well, and I was admiring her pretty back with its girlish shoulders and slim tapering waist, when suddenly a woman, riding in the opposite direction, swerved across the road on her wheel, before Miss Cunningham had been given time either to slacken her speed or turn out of the way. A collision was inevitable, and without waiting for it to happen, as I knew it must in another instant, I ran forward with great springing strides. It was all over before I could reach the place. Both had fallen, and several passers-by on wheels had stopped and collected in so close a group that I could not see whether one or both had been seriously injured. In less time than it takes in telling, however, the had elbowed my way thru the well-meaning crowd to find Miss Cummings nursing on the edge of the grass nursing a twisted ankle, her lovely face looking white and troubled. A SHE COVERED HER FACE AND BROKE INTO A STORM OF TEARS. The cause of the accident was already on her feet, and in the midst of such voluble apologies and explanations that I could only conclude she, at least, had suffered slightly. "Miss Cunningham," I said, warning the girl of my presence; and she looked up with a tremulous little cry of surprise and, perhaps, relief. "Oh, I am so thankful!" she exclaimed. "I was just wondering what I should do. But—but you will help me I know." "If you will let me," I responded, rather too eagerly. "I saw the accident from a distance. I hope you are not much hurt." "I don't quite know," she said ruefully. "I'm afraid I can't walk!" she warmed me, laughing nervously. "Of course not. A cab's the thing, with the invalided bike on top. But may I be with you? I don't see how it is possible to let you go by yourself." "It will be very unconventional, wont it?" she smiled. "But there are times when conventionalities must be thrown aside, and I shall be grateful! if you'll take care of me and do all the planning, please." Then, woman-like, contradicting her own last sentence, she went on: "But I don't see how we can manage about a cab. Of course, there wont be any here, and—I don't very much want to be left sitting here all alone." "And you shall not be, for a moment, I said, joyfully even at this small sign that my presence was not actually disagreeable to her. "There are plenty of people who will call a cab for us." The proceeded to put my statement to the proof. Within five minutes an unusually presentable four-wheeler had appeared upon the scene, the unfortunate bicycle had been handed up on top, and the young lady had been tenderly helped inside. "Tell him just to go on slowly for a few minutes while we talk things over," she commanded, more cheerfully. "Do you know, Mr. Stanton, after all, I begin to hope my ankle is not so badly hurt; and though, as I told you, I shall be in a sad scrape when I get home, and have to confess, still, there's a spice of adventure in all of this that appeals to me, rather. It's a very long time since I have had an adventure of any kind." Poor child; she little guessed how many awaited her behind the lowered curtain of the future! "Never have I had one which would be so wholly delightful." I boldly said. "If I had not to think that you were in pain." "Oh, it is really not so dreadful." She blushed brightly, but when the lovely rose tint faded it left her pale even to the lips. "Let us talk," she went on more sedately, "about the way in which you are to get me out of my difficulty—for I think you have promised to do that." "Suppose, then," I suggested, "that you allow me to take you at once to a doctor, who will examine you and perhaps be able to anoint it with a healing lotion which may prevent the limitation to dread. There used to be a man in this neighborhood whom I knew by reputation when I was in England last. I remember street and number, and it's not very likely that he has moved away." "A good idea," she exclaimed; but, though she tried to speak brightly, even merrily, it was plain to see that she was suffering a good deal, whether more physically or mentally I could not tell. I put out my head and gave directions to the cabman, and when I drew it in again to glance anxiously at the face which already I so passionately loved, I saw that it was even whiter than before. "Miss Cunningham," I exclaimed "you have made nothing of your pain but I know that you are ill—that you are suffering " "I am very foolish," she answered, in a low, unsteady voice. "It isn't my ankle, though of course that hurts a little, but I think it must be the shock, which I didn't realize at first. I felt quite bright until a moment ago, but suddenly I am all weak and trembling. The truth is. Mr. Stanton, I wasn't fit to be out this moring, especially alone and I didn't come simply from sheer bravado, as you might think, and for the sake of doing what I'd been told not to do. I—I felt as though I must be out in the air and in motion. I didn't sleep last night, and I didn't eat any breakfast this morning which may partly account for this silliness of mine, perhaps. I thought I should feel better out of doors, but it seems that nothing in the world can do me any good. Everything I attempt must always end in disaster, —oh, Mr. Stanton, I am so very, very unhappy and miserable!" To my amazement and distress she covered her face with her little gloved hands and broke into a storm of sobbing. CHAPTER VII "What can I say—what can I do?" I stammered. "If there was only some way in which it might be possible for me to help you." "Ah, if—if!" she echoed desolately. "Don't you think it strange that, though we scarcely know each other—though this is only our second meeting, and quite by chance, I turn to you with such a confession? I am ashamed now—and she impetuously dashed her cars away with a toy of a handkerchief. "But the words spoke themselves before I could stop them. You see. I have no one to talk to—no one to advise me. I think I must be the loneliest girl in all this big pre-occupied world." "I should have, thought you would have more friends than you could keep within bounds," I said hotly. "Friends? Has any one many friends? I have plenty of acquaintances, but I think no friends. Let us not talk of this any more, though, Mr. Stanton. I have forgotten myself." "Forgive me—I can't obey you," I protested. "Just one word. As you said, this is only our second meeting, and I have no right to ask a favor of you, yet I am going to do it. I beg of you, as I never begged anything before that you will forget how short a time we have known each other, and that you will take me for a friend—a friend in the trustest and best sense of that good, much-abused word. I swear to you that you would find me loyal." "I believe that I should find you so," she answered falteringly. "And, oh, how I do need a friend—though you may think me disloyal to say that, when I have a home with those Who—have meant to be kind to me." Her eyes had dropped, but now she raised them again and met mine earnestly. "Yes," she exclaimed—"yes, I will have you for a friend." "Then wont you begin making use of me at once?" I pleaded with an eagerness I could no longer disguise. "I—am I not making use of you now? Ah, I know what you mean! You mean I am to tell you the things which I have let you see are troubling me? But much as I need help and advice, could I do that now, so soon? You must already think me a very strange girl—half mad, perhaps. Well, I have had almost enough of late to drive me mad. Some time, in a few days maybe, when we know each other a little better, I—. But the man is stopping. We have come to the doctor's you spoke of, I suppose?" Dr. Byrnes was to be seen. I introduced Miss Cunningham to him, described the accident, and left him with her to do what he could for the injured ankle. Afterward I had still the joy of driving to Park lane with her in anticipation. I was only called when Dr. Byrnes was ready to send his patient away. "Do you know what was the first thing that this young lady did before I had time to begin my ministrations?" he jocularly inquired, and though the girl looked up at him with imploring eyes, he persisted. "Why, she fainted away, and if she had to do it she couldn't have chosen a more proper occasion. There I was, with all the known remedies at hand, and I proceeded to use them, with the most satisfactory results, as you may see. I don't think you will have any further trouble in going home: and now that she has been well dosed and well bandaged, the best thing she can do is to eat a hearty luncheon." Once again settled in the cab, we were but a few moments' drive from Sir Walter Tressidy's house in Park lane, as I knew to my intense regret. With wily forethought, however, I suggested going somewhat out of our way to the establishment of a certain bicycle manufacturer and mender who would send for Miss Cunningham's machine and repair it before the accident it had met with would be conjectured by those not supposed to know. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Try as I would I could not induce her to continue the conversation that had been broken short. The brief interval that had passed since then had severed the threads of intense emotion that had for the moment united is, and she evidently repeting her frankness, was visibly ill at ease. It was only at the door that her manner warned a little toward me again. "Yes, I believe I am quite all right," she said, in answer to a question. "I shall not even have a suspicion of a limp." She held out her hand to me, and did not try to draw it away, though I held it rather longer and more tightly than conventionally might have approved. "You will come—soon—to see Lady Tressley and me?" she asked softly. "I thought of calling to-morrow afternoon. May I?" "I shall be glad—very glad. Never shall I forget your kindness to me today. Don't think me any more—old—than you can help. Good-by." Before I could begin to tell her how impossible it would be to think any of the most reverent thoughts of her she wrote, she seemed suddenly to darken my sky. CHAPTER VIII. At Lady Tressldy's at home the next day I had scarcely more than a glance and a smile from Miss Cunningham, and then I found myself obliged to converse with simulated amiability to a semi-young woman, who was anxious I should know how often she had neared of me and my "travels," and that she had read the two or three books I had been idiot enough to write. Half an hour passed. I had been passed on to the other ladies, who seemed in my prejudiced eyes to bear an astonishing likeness both in mind and face, to the first of the series. Three or four people had gone. One or two new ones had come in, but at last I had had the good fortune to escape from the latest on my list of acquaintances. I could still see Karine. She had got rid of one of her adorers, but had a couple yet in hand, and it appeared to me that she would not be sorry to bid them adieu. At length, however, as I said, I had contrived an escape, and was finding my way toward Karline, when, before I had reached her, I saw her start, staring past me with a white frozen look on her face that for the moment blotted out much of its innocent youthfulness and beauty. She was gazing in the direction of the door with dark, dilated eyes and lips tightly closed in a line of scarlet that faded to the palest pink. It was as though into the midst of the gossip and laughter and brilliant light had crept a spectre which she alone could see. Some such look I had seen in the eyes of a dove which had been offered up as food for a constrictor. Involuntarily I turned and glanced behind me. No name had been announced though I had heard the opening and closing of the door, and now, as I faced round in that direction, I saw that Sir Walter Tressidy and Carson Wildred had come in together. Evidently this was not Wildred's first entrance, for, like Sir Walter, he had neither hat nor stick. He moved forward by his companion's side with the unmistakably assured air of the friend of the house, and I instinctively understood that he had lunched with the Tressidys, and since that time been closedet on some business of importance with his host. I was determined that the former should not approach her (as he seemed inclined to do) if I could prevent it. I hurried to Karine accordingly and shut her away from the room, with a pair of broad shoulders, with an air of monopolizing her which I should not have dared at any other time to assume. But was I not her friend? Had I not the right to protect her, If I could, from all that I believed to be distasteful to her? Presently the callow youths whose claims I had hardly considered, seemed to melt away, and I was left alone with her. People were going and it was getting late, no doubt, but I did not yet mean to follow their example. After all—despite my dismal presages—it did appear that I was to have her for at least a moment or two to myself. I had kept my word, I had outstayed them all—all but Carson Wildred. "Have you quite recovered from yesterday's accident?" I asked, glad to share even so insignificant a secret with her. "Yes; oh, yes!" She spoke hurriedly, and her eyes had moved, under a veil of lashes, to the distant group near the fireside—Lady Tressidy, Carson and Sir Walter. A SHE GAZED AT THE DOOR. You haven't considered your promise that I should be your friend?" She turned to n. quickly, and her eyes brimmed wilt. mushed tears. "So many things in n. life, though it is not so very long a yet, have come to me too late. Even—my friends—sometimes." Before I could beg her to tell me what she meant Lady Tressidy had called her name, and she sprang up obediently. I followed suit of course. "Come here, my dear girl. Mr. Stanton, this is quite a momentous day for us, and I can't resist the temptation to take you in to our circle and our confidence." said the elder woman graciously. "It is just settled that this sweet adopted child of ours is to leave us—and at short notice, too. She and Mr. Wildred are going to be married." CHAPTER IX "Too late!" the words that Karine had just spoken echoed in my ears like a knell of doom. For a few tremendous seconds, that seemed endless, I tood paralyzed by Lady Tressody's are encement, unable to speak. Then I trained and looked at Karine. Her eyes seemed to have been waiting for mine, and for an instant I held them with my gaze, until they fell and velled the answer mine had asked with long shadowy lashes. It was perhaps the hardest task I had ever been forced to perform when after that omnious pause which doubtless seemed far more prolonged to me than to the others. I held out my hand as I was expected to do, taking Miss Cunningham's ice-cold fingers in mine and wishing her happiness. Then I was obliged to turn to Wildred, in whose eyes I saw, or fancied I saw, a mallecious light of comprehension and triumphant defiance. But his hand I would not take. "It is hardly necessary to congratulate you." I said haltingly. "You are one of the most fortunate men in the world." "And the most undeserving?" It was he who added the words, as though he had read them in my own mind. I have a dim recollection of saying something more or less conventional to Sir Walter and Lady Tressidy, and then, at last, I got away. I had fancied that not to have her face before my eyes, that not to endure the pang of seeing them together, and to escape into the open air, would relieve the tension of my feelings. But it was not so. The moment the door had closed behind me the agony of the thought that I had seen her perhaps for the last time, and the poignancy of my regret that I had not been able to put to her one question which rang in my brain, became well-nigh unendurable. I walked aimlessly in the darkness, knowing not and caring not where I went. I heard a clock strike eight, realizing suddenly that I was far from my hotel, and that I had weared myself uselessly. I hailed a cab and drove back to the Savoy, from a distant and more or less (to me) unknown region of London. As I entered the hotel, my eyes dazled by the sudden brilliant light, I could hardly for an instant believe that it was not an optical illusion when I saw in the flesh the face that had been haunting me. There had been a dreary drizzle of rain outside, and I was conscious that my long wanderings through muddy streets had rendered me unpresentable. Still my wish had been granted me. There stood Karine Cunningham, in white from head to foot; a long soft evening cloak, with shining silver threads straying over its snowy surface, hung loosely 'about her, for she had fastened it at the throat, and I could see a gleam of a bare neck, hung with a rope of pearls, and the delicate folds of chiffon belted in with jewels at her girlish waist. Her head was turned aside and slightly bent, a light from above streaming down on her uncovered hair, and transforming the copper into gold. Sir Walter and Lady Tressidy were close by—not six feet away—and all were evidently waiting for one one—Carson Wildred, no doubt, I bitterly told myself. None of the party had as yet seen me. Sir Walter and his wife were talking very earnestly together, and had perhaps moved a few steps from the young girl that their words might not be overheard by her. I knew that, If I were wise. I would as once take myself off without announcement of presence, but a sudden impulse selzed me, cermastered me. It was a desperate one, doubled, but none the less alluring and powerful because of that. CHAPTER X Without giving myself a second for further reflection, and with the blood surging to my temples, I found myself, with a few strides, beside her. Mud-stained boots and trousers were forgotten. I would waste no time in apologizing for my appearance. What she must have thought of my pale and eager face, suddenly bent over I do not know. She uttered no exclamation, however. Without one spoken word I made her see that she must come with me, and the quick realization of my power over her, as she laid her hand upon my arm unhesitatingly, thrilled me to the very core of my being. I led her down the hall to a small public drawing room, and not once did she hesitate or look back, unconventional as was the adventure in which she was engaged. Luckily the place was empty, save for two elderly Frenchmen, who gossiped and gabbled with their heads close together on a sofa in a corner. "What is it—oh' what is it?" questioned Karine. "Quick! there will only be a moment, I know, for they will see that I have gone, and will soon find me here." Without any preface I came straight to the asking of the bald, crude question which was in my mind to ask. "For the sake of our friendship, Miss Cunningham forgive me, and tell me whether you love Carson Wildred?" She started and quivered almost as though I had struck her a blow, and her large, frightened eyes studied mine for a long second without answering. Then she said, simply: "No my friend, I do not—love him." "Yet you have promised to marry him?" "Yes." "And you mean to carry out that promise?" "Yes unless"— "Unless what?" "Something—happens to prevent me." "If you do not love him something shall prevent. Let me help you. For Heaven's sake, let me! Only give me an idea how it can best be done—I ask no more. I will teach you what a friendship as mine can have the power to do." "You are very kind," she said, gently and easily. "I am not looking forward to any great degree of happiness in my life, but I daresay, after all, I shall get on as well as most women. I don't think anything will happen to prevent—what we were speaking of,..." "Why, is it to come so soon, then?" I questioned impetuously. "In six weeks. It was all arranged to-day"—with a soft little sigh at the end of her sentence. "Tell me this: Are you in any way being forced into the marriage?" "Not by people-exactly. Only by circumstances. I—I can't tell you any more, though believe me, I am grateful for all you mean, and all you would do for friendship's sake." "Tell me what could prevent it?" I persisted imploringly. "If you found that he was unworthy would that?" She half smiled, though without any murtherfulness. "There are so many degrees of unworthiness, aren't there? And I am not near enough to perfection to believe myself a judge." "If he had committed a crime?" I went desperately on. "Ah, then! But it is wrong to wish that he should have been guilty of any wickedness. I thing Mr. Stanton, that as I have promised to be his wife, we must talk no more of this—you and I. I have always had a horror of dislayery. "I know." I said, "that I have done an unheard of thing in thus stealing you away from your friends to ask you questions which only the most intimate friends could claim the right to ask, but"— "Oh, she cried impulsively. "Somehow you and I have bridged over years. You are good to me—don't think I will misunderstand. I shall always remember you and—what you would have done for me. "What I shall try yet to do, in spite of all. I amended. "I meant to leave England soon, but now—I shall stay." "Yes—say." She faulty; echoed: "though you must leave me now. I—would rather anything than that you were with me when they come to me. I will make some excuse for having separated myself from them. Only to now—please go!" As she spoke outside in the hall we heard voices and footsteps coming nearer. [To be continued.] Somali Life. The camel yields them milk—frequently the only food of the natives—gives them meat and hides, facilitates transport from one place to another, and forms the means of exchange, which at any moment it is possible to barter for other articles, thus taking the place of money. The Somali also accommodate their existence to the wants of the camels; they go with the kerd wherever pasture is best, or where rain has recently fallen; and on this account one may frequently not find the trace of a village where yesterday a place was full of life and people. The camels, in fact, carry away the village on their backs miles distant. * * * Such are the chief events in the life of a Somali. Everything is governed according to some ancient unwritten law, not contained in any codex, not dictated by any tribunal, but still sacredly observed and carried out for centuries throughout the whole region inhabited by the Somali. "Sport in Somalia land." Pathetic Incident of Boer War. A bit of pathos in the stern circumstances of war is described in a letter from an English nurse serving in the military hospital at Ladysmith. She writes: "A touching scene happened yesterday. One of the Gordons had his arm amputated. A Boer in the next bed had his arm taken off in exactly the same place. I took charge of the latter as he was brought from the theater, and on his becoming conscious the two poor fellows eyed each other very much, till our good-natured Tommy could bear it no longer. 'Sister,' he called, 'give him two cigarettes out of my box, and tell him I sent them. Here is a match; light one for him.' I took the cigarettes and the message to the Boer, and he turned and looked at Tommy in amazement, and then, quite overcome, he burst into tears. Tommy did the same, and I am afraid I was on the point of joining in the chorus, but time would not permit."—Cincinnati Enquirer. When a man speaks first. "I suppose we ought to have the house painted this spring," said Mr. Greenough. "Have you enough money put by to have it done?" his wife asked. "Yes," he said, pleased at the interest she took in the matter. "I've been laying away a little every month for it, and when I counted up, the other night, I found that the fund amounted to something like $250." "Oh, George," she exclaimed, "that will be just enough to buy a lovely diamond I was looking at yesterday. Diamonds are going up on account of the war in Africa. Paint isn't!" Then he began wondering why man was ever blessed with the gift of speech anyway.—Chicago Times-Herald. Divorced Thirty-Five Times. The case is mentioned in a Chinese paper of a native, aged 40, who has married and divorced 35 wives, and is now married to the thirty-sixth. He was first married at 18, and the reason assigned for this extraordinary example of inconstancy is that he has a younger sister of extremely jealous and rancorous disposition, who, from the moment that a bride enters the house, institutes a system of persecution, which soon drives the unhappy woman to ask her husband for a divorce. — N. Y. World. Austrian Court Customs In the Austrian court it is contrary to custom for perishable articles to appear twice on the imperial table. The result is large perquisites for the attendants. To one man fall all uncorked bottles, to another the wine left in the glasses, to another the joints, and to another still the game or the sweets. Every morning a sort of market is held in the basement of the palace, where the Viennese come to purchase the remains.—N. Y. Post. A Salamander Tree In the savannahs of South America there grows a tree called by the natives chaparro, which not only is not injured but actually benefited by prairie fires. The thick bark resists the action of the flames, and the hard seeds are supplied with a kind of wings, owing to which they are scattered broadcast by the strong wind which accompanies a fire.—Cleveland Leader. Feudal System in Sweden There is a special class of farm laborers in Sweden who are given so many acres of land for their own use, in consideration for so many days' labor during the period for the owner of the farm. They are a sort of fixture to an estate, and their like exists in no other country.—N. Y. Sun. Sudden. Amateur Photographer (touring in the western states)—Pardon me, sir, but would you object to my taking your daughter just as she is? Farmer Greene—Wa-al, this is sudden; but take her and be happy. Keep your eyes on him, Sal, till I scoot round for th' parson—Tit-Bits. At the Wrong Shop Customer—I want a watch that will withstand the usage of a healthy 12-year-old boy. Jeweler—Sorry; but the armor mills are now all busy with government contracts—Baltimore Sun. "Mister," said the small boy to the druggist, "give me another box of them pills you sold father the day before yesterday." "Are they doing him good?" asked the chemist, looking pleased. "I'd no whether they're doing father any good or not, but they're good for me. They just fit my new air gun."—Cincinnati Enquirer. No Cause to Worry. "I suppose," he said, as they undulated around the hall, "that my mother would be awfully worried if she knew I was here. She's very religious and thinks it is a terrible sin to dance." "Oh, never mind," the girl said. "She wouldn't know you were dancing, even if she saw you."—Chicago Times-Herald. Lotus Eaters. Youth dreams of the future. Age dreams of the past. This weekdays far off thus adorning: But the life of t- day wears no glamour, and they Both hate to get up in the morning. --Puck. A TWENTIETH CENTURY CEREMONY. She (hypochondriac)—You'll remember all my instructions, dear, about my "uneral, won't you?" "Yes." "Have I left out anything?" "Have I left out anything?" "Yes. You haven't requested to be buried alive, so that you can enjoy the funeral."—Harlem Life. Same Old Lesson. He pinched, and scraped, and shaved, And found, when his soul had left its clay, That the cent or two he'd given away Was all that he had saved. -Chicago Tribune. The Sad Fenture of It. "The salary of the czar of Russia amounts to about $1,000 an hour." "Well, I'd hate to have a job of that kind." "Why?" "It would break my heart to have to lay off an hour or two some day, and perhaps get docked."—Chicago Times- Herald. He—Yes, and it’s very appropriate, too. She—How so? He—Her husband’s a quack.—Chicago Daily News. A Solution. 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WHITE, the colored ember from North Carolina delivered February 5th and 23rd, 1900. The speech was able and dealt with the lynching question. This distinguished statesman presented his anti-lynching bill and occupied the attention of the House for quite a while closing his remarks amidst prolonged applause. Mr. WHITE is all right upon all questions affecting our people. There is none of the "time-server" or "eringer" in his make-up. It is fortunate indeed that we have such a representative to plead our cause at the capital of the nation. THE CONDITIONS IN GEORGIA. A brutal murder is announced in the following simple telegraphic report: "VALDOSTA, GA., March 11, Deputy Sheriff Roland Griffin shot and instantly killed J. L. Murray, a Negro, at Naylor last night, after a desperate duel in which ten shots were fired, Griffin was attempting to arrest Murray for luring hands away from that section." It seems that Murray was endeavoring to secure laborers and for this alone he was killed. A glimpse of existing conditions may be further obtained by carefully reading the following announcement: "ATENZN, GA., March 11.—A crowd of about 500 Negroes assembled about the Seaboard Air Line depot here today for the purpose of emigrating to the Mississippi Valley. It had been reported that they were to be given free transportation, but that the railroad officials here were to allow none on the trains who had not paid the regular fare to Atlanta. When the 3:40 train came along this morning there was a scene of wild concussion. The Negroes made a rush for the door, and the police had a hard time keeping them off. In melee Policeman Alexauder Sage was badly bruised. The same scene was repeated on the arrival and departure of other trains. "Mr. James M. Smith, who operates the largest farm in Georgia, was here, and had sixteen of the Negroes arrested. They were under contract with him. Other farmers took similar action with hands under contract with them. Many of these Negroes have sold or given away all their possessions in order to get away, and are confident that they will be taken off. To-night the Negroes are still at the depot, and the authorities are at a loss to know what to do with them." What more evidence would one need of the slavish conditions existing? Here is a white man who had sixteen colored people arrested for breaking a contract with him. Where is the law for it? Is the face of the constitutional provision which prevents arrest or imprisonment for civil contracts, and which cannot constitute criminal offenses. Truly is the condition of our people deplorable How can they leave the Southland? It may be after all that the world will yet realize their deplorable condition and finally understand their cries for deliverance. MR. PATTESON AND THE SUFFRAGE QUESTION. Hon. S. S. P. PATTESON is a resident of this city and a member of the lower branch of the legislature of VIRGINIA. Before he entered upon his duties, he took the following iron-clad oath: "I, S. S. P. PATTESON do declare myself a citizen of the commonwealth of Virginia, and do solemnly swear that I will support and maintain the constitution and laws of the state of Virginia; that I recognize and accept the civil and political equality of all men before the law; and that I will faithfully perform the duty of a member of the House of Delegates to the best of my ability. So help me God." Now what was one of the amendments which is embraced in "the constitution and laws of the United States" which Mr. PATTESON with his his hand uplifted to God swore to support? The Fifteenth Amendment is as follows: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. This then is the specific provision by which Mr. PATTESON is bound. How does it conform with the following declaration made by him Sunday, March 11th, 1900 in the Richmond. Va. TIMES? He said: "The regular session of the General Assembly, which closed on Wednesday, has been the most important in many respects in the history of the State. First, it has provided for taking a vote at the election to be held in May, to ascertain whether or not there shall be a convention to revise the Constitution. No patriotic citizen who knows the needs of the State can fail to give his unqualified support to the call for the Constitutional Convention. That body alone will be able to deal with the question of limiting ignorant Negro suffrage. The question of this suffrage is most important, because the present constitution perpetuates a great evil and it cannot [be] amended practically in any other way. Party government was never under such an unhealthy strain as it is in Virginia today. It was not intended to be a government without criticism, but of criticism. It cannot and does not give satisfaction where there is practically only one party in control of the destiny of the State. No man can have any influence on legislation who chooses a abandon his party and play the part of his muckup, because of the race question. The necessity for the Convention is greater than any other it has heretofore been at any point of the State's history. Experience has shown that no Republican, party can get into power or even have a respectable following as long as an overwhelming majority of its members is composed of ignorant Negroes who are utterly unfit for the right of suffrage. This gives the Democrat an immense majority. There is at present one Republican in the State Senate, composed of forty members, and four in the House, having one hundred delegates." We do not know whether Mr. PATTESON is a member of any church. We do not know whether he claims to be a Christian, but we do know that he declares his purpose to work to nullify by state enactment, the very constitutional provisions which he stands sworn to maintain and support. Mr. PATTESON says that the purpose is to disfranchise the Negroes. In this he makes both race and color the basis of his disfranchisement. He does not either say or imply that he wishes to disfranchise ignorant whites, but specifically announces that he is after the Negroes, who according to his statement are unfit to exercise the right of franchise and should never have been vested with the ballot. How can Mr. PATTESON make these declarations conform to his oath of office? We can see how he might consistently advocate the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment by Congress, but how can he conscientiously do it by state enactment when he is sworn not to do this very thing? We must confess that the flippancy with which an oath is regarded by some people has always been a source of surprise and wonder to us. It must not be forgotten that Mr. PATTESON voted for the Commissioner of Valuation Bill, now admitted to be one of the most pernicious measures upon the statute books of Virginia and in this, he was supported by Hon. John E. EPPs and his colleagues. The patron of the bill, Mr. PARKs says that Hon. E. O. FOWLKES was the only Richmond delegate who opposed the measure. There has been criticism of the Negroes and a declaration that they vote like a flock of sheep. We ask in all fairness if there has ever been a stern indictment against our people than are to be found in the following few lines of Mr. PATTESON's statement? "Good measures, and others, perhaps, having objects injurious to the public get on the calendar and go through in the hurried rush of business, without being understood by one-fifth of the members." Mark you, these are all white members. The colored citizen has been wiped out and solely on account of race, color and previous condition of servitude. Mr. PATTESON does not include himself in the one-fifth. He then argues in favor of the opposition of a Republican Party in Virginia and the building up of the same by the elimination of the Negro and remarks: "With two political parties in existence constantly arousing the hostility which springs from a healthy rivalry, objectionable measures would have THE RICHMOND fewer chances of getting through." Has this result been obtained in any state where the unconstitutional "Constitutional" Convention has been held? Did it accomplish this result in South Carolina and Louisiana and Mississippi? Did it not result in the crushing out of all opposition and the establishment of absolute ring-rule which imposed grievous burdens? Has not the Negro vote been eliminated in Virginia by the WALTON Law which is virtually disfranchisement of the Negro? Does the Republican Party in the state rally for any purpose in the world save to secure offices by the sending of delegates to the National Republican Convention to nominate a president? In fact, the very policy for which Mr. PATTESON contends produces the very result which he speaks against. He cites an act passed which will raise a howl among the office holders Brother John E. EPPs included: "A statute was enacted providing that any officer of the State Government from the Governor deputy to the smallest clerk, may have his his secretary garnished for debt either heretofore or have after contracted. This includes all of the judges of the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia." Thus it will be seen that no article has as yet been published which reflects more unfavorably upon the legislature of Virginia than that which appeared over the signature of S. S. P. PATTESON, the member of the House of Delegates from Richmond city. If we are to be guided by the reports now being circulated it seems that the legislature of Virginia in ordering a vote upon an unconstitutional "Constitutional" Convention blundered as usual and struck the white Democratic office-holders squarely in the face. The colored brother is smiling at their predicament. The TIMES says: "Several days ago the Democratic Executive Committee of Norfolk County met in the city of Portsmouth, and we learn from the Norfolk Landmark that while the committee was in session the following paper was circulated: 'IMPORTANT TO VIRGINIANS! 'If a Constitutional Convention is called, IT WILL ENDANGER THE POSITION OF EVERY COUNTY AND CITY OFFICIAL IN THE STATE, besides occasioning a state of great uncertainty to every interest involved. You may start this convention, but no man can tell where it will stop. See to it that delegates are elected to the Democratic State Convention, which assembles in Norfolk May 2d, 1900, who will VOTE AGAINST MAKING THE CONVENTION A PARTY ISSUE.' This is indeed, 'important to Virginians.' It is important to Virginians that the Constitutional Convention shall be held, and important to them to know that some of the office-holders are opposing it. It is important to Virginians to make the issue right now, and decide as to whether Virginia is run by the people or by the office-holders." This is strong language, inasmuch as the Times is a bourbon Democratic Journal and was an ardent supporter of the "Jim Crow" Car Law. Go it, ye cripples, and may the best man win. THE OASE OF BENJAMIN. The conviction of FRANK BENJAMIN (colored) at NEWPORT NEWS, VA. Tuesday, March 13th 1000 was unquestionably one of the most outrageous crimes we have ever seen perpetrated in this state. We call it a crime, because it is nothing more nor less than judicial murder and judicial murder is worse than lynching. It has been stated that BENJAMIN is insane, but we are presuming that he has all of the faculties with which God has endowed the average man. If the howling mob which demanded his life, was not insane, then truly has justice departed from the confines of the commonwealth. There are some sad features about this case. The saddest of them all was the attitude of some of the white members of that jury who were triving the case, striving to do justice to their fellow-man and at the same time please the populace. BENJAMIN was guilty, if at all of simple assault. It might have been barely possible that his alleged action in biting a person could be construed to be a felony, and for this only the penitentiary doors could swing open for him. Certain it is that there is no law, either human or divine which could mete to him death for the charge laid at his door. But what was the evidence against him? What did his enemies,—those who were crying for his blood say? Here it is: "NEWPORT NEWS, VA., March 7.—Special.—Frank Benjamin, a Negro, is under arrest in Hampton, charged with attempted criminal assault on Miss Alice K. Caine, a pretty Norfolk professional nurse, who has been engaged at the home of Mr. George A. Schmelz, the banker. Shortly after 9 o'clock last night the Negro knocked at Mr. Schmelz's door. Miss Caine and Miss Hickman, a sister of Mrs. Schmelz, went to the door. The Negro immediately caught Miss Caine and threw her down. There was a struggle between the two ladies and the brute. Some citizens, attracted by the screams of the ladies, came to their assistance and caught the Negro before he could escape, binding him hand and root. Benjamin was very much afraid he would be lynched, and begged to be protected. He played off crazy, saying TROUBLE ABOUT IT The Times says: heidid not know, what he was doing and had no knowledge of his own movements after crossing the bridge just above the Schmels residence. He was landed in jail without trouble, and the grass jury Friday will dispose of his case. Miss Caine and Miss Hickman were too ill to appear at the preliminary hearing of the Negro set for to-day, and it is probable that there will be no preliminary hearing in the case, the authorities having practically decided to let the grand jury take the matter up in an indictment without further parley. Judge Lee has ordered a special grand jury for to-morrow. If indicted Benjamin will be tried Friday. In the struggle Miss Caine's hand was bitten by Benjamin and several handfuls of hair were torn from her head. Miss Hickman's hair also suffered at the hands of the brute, and she received a blow in the face which left a large black bruise." Read the statements again and again and it will be readily understood why the jury disagreed. Where is there a man, white or black who would be fool enough to attempt to rape a white female in the front door of a white citizen's home with another female yelling and in the midst of a populous city? The very idea is preposterous, and yet this is what the accusers of BENJAMIN would have us believe. But this is not all. Then followed the usual procedure and the correspondent stated that it had been announced that "if the jury doesn't hang him, the people will." On, yes, if the jury didn't murder him, the citizens would undertake the job. What more evidence do we desire than the following? NEWPORT News, VA., March 9.—Special.—The trial of the Negro Frank Benjamin, charged with attempted criminal assault on Miss Alice Caine in Hampton, is in progress in the Elizabeth City County Court and will be completed to-morrow. The morning was spent getting a lawyer for the accused. In the afternoon a jury was quickly empaired and the State's evidence all gotten in. The defence will put on its witnesses in the morning. When court convened at 10 o'clock the room was crowded with interested spectators. It was an orderly crowd, ominously orderly; a crowd that was plainly awaiting developments; a crowd grimly certain that Frank Benjamin was as good as dead. His ultimate fate was not in question. It was like an ante-mortem examination. Some suggested that the prisoner had a strong case of insanity or irresponsibility, but qualified the suggestion with the remark that mad-dogs ought to be shot." Mark you, this is virtually the declaration that crazy people should be shot. Then followed one of the most tragic scenes ever witnessed in a Virginia court-room. Here is how it is described: "Commonwealth's Attorney E. E. Montague was promptly on hand, Presson, also, to assist the Commonwealth, was Maryus Jones, a friend of the lady upon whom the attempted assault was made, and of Mr. George Schmelz at whose home the orime was committed. He explained to the courts that he was in the case because of this assault for the purpose of seeing justice done. Associated with the Commonwealth the attorney, too, was Captain J. A. Field, a respected colored lawyer, who volunteered his services. The prisoner was not represented, though it was stated that his aged parents had mortgaged their home and raised $300 with which to employ counsel. Eminent lawyers in Newport News and flampton were approached and asked to take the case, but refused. Judge Lee successively requested a number of attorneys to act. One after another they earnestly asked to be excused, and were excused. Finally his Honor, saying he never liked to try a man not represented by counsel, asked George W. Field, a brother of Captain Field, on the other side, if he would take the case. After stating that he would rather not, Field at last consented out of respect to the court, but stipulated that he must be assisted by some one. A messenger was sent after A. W. E. Bassett, a colored lawyer and school teacher, who came in and agreed to take the case, after addressing the court to the effect that he condemned the crime and was acting only because the court requested him to and out of a sense of justice to his fellow-man." To even read this farce of a trial is sickening. It seems that Lawyer A. W. E. BASSETTE (colored) virtually single-handed and alone was thers to defend this unfortunate citizen of color. What defense could he make? What plea could he enter with those surroundings? With the commonwealth's attorney, was a white lawyer, and then a colored one. There for what purpose?—to assist in hanging a man who was without counsel and whose poor old Christian mother had mortgaged her humble home for $500 in order to defend her boy. Oh, white men of Virginia, it is enough to make you blush for shame. Oh, colored men of Virginia, it is enough to make you thrill with indignation. Three lawyers there,—to break the law, not to enforce it. Three lawyers there,—to hang a luratic not to try him. Three lawyers there,—to disgrace Virginia, by asking for the life of a man who was guilty at worst of a felony for which the statutes of Virginia provide confinement in the penitentiary and not capital punishment. If BENJAMIN was guilty of attempted rape as charged and under such conditions, then he was a luratic upon the face of the evidence against him. But the following statement, if true, is of itself sufficient to ensure a reversal of the court's decision: "In conclusion, he [Bassett] demanded that the court protect him, especially during the progress of the trial. He did not specify what it was he desired to be protected against, but his demand was understood." How is this for law? How is this for justice? What greater evidence was needed to justify a demand for a change of venue, a trial at some other place in the state? But a pitiful AT RICHMOND VIKGINIA It he was doing age of his own using the bridge residence. He out trouble, and will dispose of a Hickman were the preliminary set for 10-day, there will be no in the case, the actually decided take the matter scene is here depicted. Read for yourself: "By this time it was 11:30 o'clock, and upon representation of the defence that it was impossible to get at their witnesses sooner, his Honor adjourned cours until 2 o'clock, being assured the trial would proceed after that without interruption. "While all this was going on the prisoner was sitting by under the eye of the Sheriff and an officer. His face was stolid and listless. "Even when his old mother was brought in and given a chair near him he did not notice her, other than to shift his chair so he might not see her face. A wave of pity for the old woman swept over the court-room as she sat there wringing her hands constantly and meaning. The prisoner alone was untouched by his mother's distress." Then followed the reference to the insanity expert: "Next to Miss Caine, the central figure in the case, among the witnesses is Dr. Styll, the insanity expert, who passed upon the mental and psychic condition of Louis August, the human monster, who recently condemned to death for an awful murder, hanged himself in his cell. There is little question about the man's weak-mindedness; he is like other brutes in this respect." The above is a virtual admission that BENJAMIN is insane. But the reports get even more sensational: "This morning at 10 o'clock, upon the convening of court, the argument began, Maryus Jones making, the first address to the jury for the commonwealth. He was followed by G. W. Fields, for the defense. Commonwealth's Attorney Montague then made a strong argument for the extreme penalty for the brute. Attorney Bassett made a strong plea for the guilty guilty solely that his irresponsibility required him. Capt. Fields, brother of G. W. Fields, counsel for the defense, closed the argument." And again: "The most important testimony given in the case, outside of the testimony of the crime itself, was that of Dr. Style, the well-known expert, who declared that the prisoner exhibited not one of the five symptoms of insanity, nor was he an idiot. Against this expert testimony was a mass of inexperience evidence, given by the boy's friends, tending to show that he was weak-minded also to the point of idiocy." And this was the conclusion for the day: "NEWPORT NEWS, VA., March 12.—Special.—The jury in the case of Frank Benjamin, the Negro charged with criminal assault - on Miss Oaine, in Hampton, after being out an hour and five minutes, this evening reported that they could not agree. Judge Lee adjourned them over until in the morning." "The announcement was received with unceased wrath by the people, and threats of lynching is heard. "It is hardly thought possible that there will be violence, however, until the jury has finally reported; but should they fail to hang the Negro, there are people in Hampton who will probably try to." Was there a more flagrant disregard of the inherent principles guaranteed every citizen by the Bill of Rights of Virginia? Here is the pen-picture of this "court of inquisition." "HAMPTON, VA., March 13.—Special. —The jury in the case of Frank Benjamin, charged with attempted criminal assault on Miss Alice Caine, brought in a verdict of guilt as charged in the indictment, at 10:05 o'clock this morning. A motion for a new trial was ruled by Judge Lee, and he will be sentenced to death Saturday morning. "The scene in the court-room this morning was dramatic in the extreme. When the prisoner was called upon by the clerk to stand up to hear the verdict of the jury, he managed to get half way up, then sank back into his chair, to be aroused again by the stern voice of the clerk commanding him to get up. He finally dragged himself to his feet, his face ashy with fear as he read the verdict of death in the faces of the jury and the crowd that thronged the court-room. "When the verdict was read, he threw up his hands and fell back in his chair, his head sinking between his legs. His old mother, seated, just behind him, slid from her chair to the floor and lay their sobbing until lifted up by some of her friends and led from the room." And here is the comment of the correspondent: "The verdict, of course, gives general satisfaction. Had it been any other verdict, or had it been a mistrial, there is little doubt that an attempt would have been made to lynch the Negro. Last night the jury stood nine for hanging and three for a penitentiary sentence. The people did not know how the jury stood, but believed that they would not agree. There was free talk of lynching, but the good sense of even the bitterest against the brute urged them to wait until the jury made a final report before resorting to extreme measures." And here the attitude of the sheriff and the jury: "Sheriff Curtis, however, did not propose to run any risk, and had almost the entire county constabulary with him in jail last night, armed to the teeth, and prepared to resist to the death any effort that might be made to take the prisoner from the jail. It is also stated that most of the jury were armed." Tell us that a Supreme Court in this state would sustain such a verdict or give its approval to such a decision? We do not believe it. And then follows further comment which in some respects is as ridiculous as it is outrageous: "To one knowing the circumstances in the case, and realizing the strength of the fight that was being made to save the Negro's neck by the plea of insufficiency, the forbearance of the people of Hampton was little less than sublime. But, with it all, there was a grim determination to see just justice done, and any failure on the part of the jury to do their duty would have inevitably provoked serious results. As it was, it is probable that the prompt action of Judge Lee of the Elizabeth City County Court, prevented violence." Colored people everywhere sondemn crime and abhor rape, but they are equally as forward in detesting the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of the law. Two white men who were guilty of being criminally intimate with their own daughters in this same community where BENJAMIN is charged with crime have been shielded and acquitted. One of them was superintendent in a Sunday School. It is a sad commentary upon our institutions and would indicate that our government is a failure. But may God comfort that heartbroken mother of BENJAMIN. They may take her idiotic boy and hang him to satisfy race prejudice, but, a reckoning day is coming by and by. It wont be always thus. We shall not always continue to advocate the cause of the lowly and oppressed. Some white people have hearts not made of stone and that feeling of pity which manifested itself at the trial may yet become strong enough to prevent this violation of fundamental law. God knows, we shudder at times to think of the sufferings we are undergoing, the privations to which we are subjected, the outrages to which we must submit; but we know that the Good Book promises a surcease at last from sorrow, and a happiness beyond forevermore. Lynch-law is anarchy, but judicial murder is worse than either. *** I call it murder. There you have it plain and flat, I don't have to go no furder than my Testament for that." [Augusta, Ga., Baptist.] The Richmond PLANET brings to us the intelligence that Rev. Henry Williams, D. D., of Petersburg, Vs., one of the oldest and best pastors of Virginia passed away on the 5th of February. The Georgia Baptist unites with hungarian in mourning the departure of this great man, who has for years been a power for good in the Baptist ranks of Virginia and the whole country. A HOLOCAUST IN NEWARK Sixteen Lives Lost in a Supposed Incendiary Fire. Newark, N. J., March 13—Sixteen persons lost their lives, two persons were seriously injured and many others slightly burned in a fire here yesterday morning. The firemen, after the flames had been subdued, took 15 bodies from the ruins, and while they were thus engaged another victim of the fire died in the City hospital. One family was wiped out completely, and of another only the father lives, and he is in the City hospital, where it is believed he will die. He is Uggennio Casillo. The building in which the fire broke out was a veritable fire trap. It was old, of frame construction and extended two stories above the ground floor. Until three or four years ago the structure had been used as a church, but it was converted into a tenement. There are said to have been 40 or 50 persons of both sexes and all ages in the building when the fire started. The police are confident that the fire was of incendiary origin and they have arrested Vito Credanza on suspicion. There was a disorderly card game in one of the rooms that lasted well into the morning. Credanza was a participant, and is said to have made violent threats against the players. CARNEGIE ANSWERS FRICK The Latter's Holdings in the Great Company a Practical Gift. Pittsburgh, March 13.—Late yesterday afternoon the answer of the Carnegie Steel company, limited, defendant in the equity suit of H. C. Frick, to determine the value of his holdings in said company, was filed in common pleas court No. 1. The answers filed are for the Carnegie Steel company, limited, and 30 individual defendants. The answer meets every one of Mr. Frick's allegations, declaring that Mr. Frick himself led in the reorganization of the company, and was foremost in upholding the so-called "ironclad agreement," under which his holdings have been transferred. The answer declares that Frick's holdings came to him without the expenditure of a dollar of capital, that he has already received from them nearly $1,000,000, and has nearly $5,000,000 coming to him, which will be promptly paid. Mr. Carnegie's estimate of the probable profits in 1900 was made in jest, and the profits in 1899 were substantially as avered by Frick. Carnegie denies any attempt to control his partners. Republican Senators Dispose Republican Senators Disagree. Washington, March 14—The Republican senators were in caucus for two and one-half hours on the Puerto Rican bill yesterday afternoon, and at 2 o'clock adjourned until 2 o'clock this afternoon, when the discussion will be resumed. As a result of the caucus talk the impression prevailed that there was a great deal of opposition to the bill, which opposition was not placed, might enanger its message. It was also apparent that a number of other senators thought the legislation was ill advised, but while opposed to the bill nevertheless would vote for it as a party measure. Many of the senators favor absolute free trade for Puerto Rico, but others believe this would jeopardize Republican success at the polls. Kalamazoo Suppressed "Sapho." Kalamazoo, Mich., March 14.—A performance of "Sapho" was attempted here last night, despite the action of the city council Monday night ordering it suppressed. When the performance had been on only 15 minutes the chief of police appeared and ordered the curtain run down. On the advice of an attorney the management thrice resumed the performance, and each time the police lowered the curtain. The audience finally dispersed amidst stormy scenes. The managers of the theater threaten to bring damage suits. Most Demands. San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 14.—Another strike began Monday among the workmen on the military road, in the Areca division. Hitherto the men have been paid 40 cents a day, and they want 50. Six hundred left work, but thus far they have been orderly, and they are not organized. The contractors declare that they will make no concessions, as there are plenty of workmen available to fill the places of the strikers. NO KENTUCKY WARFARE Taylor Retains the Governorship Pending a Court Decision. WILL ABIDE BY THAT DECISION. Republicans Will Make an Effort, However, to Carry the Case to the Federal Courts Should the State Court Decide Against Them. Frankfort, Ky., March 14.—The legislature of Kentucky adjourned sine die late yesterday afternoon after one of the most remarkable sessions in the history of the state. A conference between the rival adjutant generals, Collier and Castleman, resulted in a perfect understanding being reached. Republican Governor Taylor will continue to act as governor. Democratic Governor Beckham will make no move toward securing possession of the state buildings until after the court of appeals has decided the disputed governorship. The legislature appropriated $100,000 for the use of Beckham in reorganizing the state militia. This in brief is the situation in Kentucky politics. Among the more conservative element in each party the opinion prevails that the worst is over and that when the court of appeals renders his decision the danger of civil war in the commonwealth, which has been terribly imminent, will entirely have passed away. To the Democratic leaders, with a full understanding of the situation, only one cloud appears on the present horizon, that is Taylor's future course. Taylor himself will not outline his plan of action beyond the statement that he would continue to act as governor. Republicans in Taylor's confidence, however, say that he will remain at Frankfort in the discharge of his duties until the court of last resort passes upon the question at issue. Then, if the decision be against him, he will step out at once, and turn over the state buildings to Beckham. The Republicans will make every effort to carry the dispute into the federal courts in case the decision of the court of appeals, the supreme court of Kentucky, is against them, but falling in this they will consider the question settled, though still believing a great wrong has been done them. The Democratic leaders assert that they will cheerfully abide by the decision of the court of appeals. But should the decision be in their favor they will insist on the occupancy of the state buildings, "peaceably if possible, but forcibly if necessary," as it was expressed today. Not until that decision is rendered will further action be taken. By this the Republicans understand that no further arrests will be attempted and no prosecutions made of the state officers or of the state militia serving under Taylor. The Alleged Goebel Conspirators. Louisville, March 14.—The four prisoners, Secretary of State Powers, Captain Davis, Harlan Whittaker and W. H. Cutton, accused of being accessors in the assassination of William Goebel, are still confined in jail here. It is expected habeas corpus proceedings in their behalf will be begun in a few days. M. L. Hazellipp, who was arrested Monday, was taken to Frankfort yesterday. Another Arrest in Goebel Case Frankfort, Ky., March 14—Gabriel A. Taul, of Hardinsburg, was brought to Frankfort last night in the custody of the sheriff of Breckenridge county. He was arrested for supposed complicity in the assassination of Governor Goebel. Taul was not in Frankfort at the time of the shooting, and it is said that his connection with the crime is only indirect. RAIDING NEW YORK DIVES Only the Managers Arrested and the Women Driven Out. New York, March 14.—At 9 o'clock last night orders went over the wire from police headquarters to the Thirtieth street police station, and a few minutes later Captain Thomas, of that precinct, ordered out all his available detectives on a secret mission. They returned in pairs, and each pair had a prisoner. In all eight arrests were made of proprietors of the various dives where dissolute women congregate. All furnished ball. The arrests caused much excitement. As fast as the detectives went to one of the places they searched the man out they wanted and drove every woman found in the resorts into the rooms; the men in the resorts were not disturbed. There were hundreds of women in these concert halls, and they made a considerable commotion after they had all appealed to Sixth avenue and Broadway. Big husks gathered when it became known that the police were raiding the Tenderloin and upper Broadway was in a state of excitement until long after midnight. At midnight the police raided a gambling place at 1487 Broadway. They arrested 16 men and marched them prisoners down Broadway, followed by hundreds of people from the theafers. Oriented states San Francisco, March 14.—Three steamers which arrived from the Orient yesterday have been placed in quarantine—the Gaelle, the Duke of Fyfe and the Charles Nelson. On the Gaelle one of the Chinese crew was sick, some of the symptoms resembling those of plague. Some of his blood will be irrigated into a guinea pig. Should no evil results follow the steamer will be released in a day or two. The other vessels are held as a precaution. Bank Defends State at Law. Omaha, March 14.—The Omaha National bank won its case yesterday in the action brought by the state to recover $201,000, the amount of a warrant sold through the bank by Treasurer Bartley, which was held not to have been negotiable, the proceeds of which he embezzled. The case was tried before in the district court and a verdict rendered in favor of the bank. Allen and Butler Still Silverites. Washington, March 14.—Personal explanations were made yesterday in the senate by Mr. Allen (Neb.) and Mr. Butler (N. C.) of their positions on the branch question. Both announced the free and unlimited coinage of silver the ratio of 15 to 1. The statements were called out by reports to the contrary which had gained some circulation. + : 4 Aa hays HiRes aie, cE 4 Ans \y . A a V5 SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1900 WASHINGTON LETTER THB POR TO RICAN BILL Senator indees Move. ment, THE ATTITUDE OF THE PARTY. Great Britain and American Investors. SENATOR ELKIN DOES NOT WANT IT. From Out Regular Correspondent.) Wasnixerox, March 12, 1900, Republiean Senators are showing a isposition to get together on the Por- to Riean bill. While it eannot yet be stated to a certainty what changes will De made, it seems likely that tho bill will be amended #0 a8 to provide for the free entry of all American goods in Porto Rico. . The action of the Senate Committee onforeign relations in amending the ‘Nicarsgua Canal tteaty eo a3 to reserve to the U. 8. authority to defend the Canal in any way it may see fit seems to meet with general approval. There is ‘no reason to suppose that the amend- goons will be chested so, by Bagland. In tact, it eannot very well be objected toeinoe the amendment isin almost she exact language of aclause in the treaty under which the Suez Canal was constructed. A SENGIDLE MOVE. In view of its effect upon our reve- Bon resenting tas Tegiprocity treaty with France tothe Senate Finance Committee for consideration and re- Port before voting upon it, seems a fensible move. There is much guess- ing going on as to when the treaty. will be vored upon, but these who ought to know. believe that it will be acted up- on at the present session. Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, has introduced « short bill that would, ifenscted into alaw, putan end to prize fighting in this country. It pro- . “vides that no picture or description of any prize fight or pugiliatie encounter, ‘or.any proposal for betting on a fight, hall be transmitted through tho mail or by any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, whether in @ Bewapaper or periodiéal, oF in any oth. er form. Without publicity, prizs fighting could not be made to pay, and the money made out of it is the only reason for its existence. YOR THE RELIRF OF GEN, MILES, Senator Lodge thinks the officer com- manding our army should have s high er rank than sny other officer, and has amirogucea # joint resolution giving to the senior Mejor General, while com- manding the army, the rank, pay and emoluments of Lieut. General. Rep. resentative Moody, of Mase., offered the resolution in the House. Representative Brosius, of Pa., whe has'earhed a reputation for level-head.- edness, voiced the opinions of many Fepublicavs when he said: “There is s Gilference between « philosopher and a Statesman, A statesman must keep bia fect on the ground while a philoso: pher may be permitted to do more of lest theorizing. Therefore I regret this tendeney to yell out against the republican party at this time, particu larly on the part of some very promi- Dent republicans. I firmly believe that the republican party is able tc meet successfully any problem that codfronts is, and we ought to be will- ing to wait with pstience for the sola- tion of the great problems atteading the possession of our new islands.” PREDIOTS REFUBLICAN aUCCLEa. ol Bohon, of Ky.. who is credited with knowing the, politics o his state, said to a group of friends, in & Washington hotel: “Unless the Goebel Iaw is repealed, Kentucky wil! g0 republican as sure as candidates for the office ot President are nominat- 04, end the state will go republican so hard that it will never get back into the democratic ranks.” An object lesson on the credit of na- jons_ was furnished by the action of ie British Government in offering Hoglish Consols, bearing 23(9; inter- ‘it. to American investors—tne firat time auch an offer was made—at 983% Of their face value, and by the floance bill, devised by republicans, which will -this week became a law. ' This bill Provides for refunding the entire bond: €d indebtedness of the United States into 2% bonas, lower than any nation ‘hag over floated bonds. and assurances have already been received that. the Rew bonds will be gladly taken at par by the holders of the old ones. That is the sort of statesmanship the repub- licane give this nation. They were NOt satisfied that our eredit should be 98 good aa that of any other nation, bat have made it better than that oi best. AGAINST AMERICAN aemar, ‘The passage by the German Reich- stag of the bill simed at Ameriean mest products has not produced a pleasant feeling in Washington. bot Beither {n Congress nor in administra. tion circles is there any disposition to |publicly criticise the matter in its pres. jent stage. It is easy to infer, however, m what is said by those who are in tion to make good their words it Germany deliberately invites a ercial conflict with us, she will made to deeply regret having done Elkins has put a stop to the it eee caying ‘that’ ke ooss' say! "t the -ofioe and thay he Goss wish toremain in the Senate. He also ex- pretes the opinion that President Me ley should be allowed to choose the eandidate for Viee President. Representative Ray is to be. chair- man of the special committee of seven, authorized by Representative Over: street’s resolution to consider bills and tesolutions relating to trusts, ‘The Senate declined to accept Sena- tor Hoar’s proposal to pension the ex- Queen of Hawaii. —_——-=+__ GEWERAL SOUTHERN NEWS. Shien cath pinta bet ee a eee eae ek eee im @ quarry near Gate City, Va. The force of the blast lifted him 15 feet in the air, and he fell over a 40 foot Peusacola, Fia., Match 10.—Wyman King, a negro, was executed here yes- terday for the murder of his sweet- heart, Victoria Wattkins. King helped erect the gallows, and when the work ‘Was finished jokingly suggested that another negro be put on first as a test. Jackson, Miss., March 10.—Governor Longino yesterday appointed Hon. 8. S, Caiboun, of this city, chief justice of the Mississippi supreme court, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- tion of Judge Thomas H. Woods. The aia was confirmed by the sen- Knoxville, Tenn., March 14—The Knox Iron company has announced an Increase of 10 per cent in wages of all Gay men and of 50 cents per ton for all puddlers. This increase affects about 560 men employed in rolling mills im this city and in Harriman, and was unsolicited by the men. Montgomery, Ala., March 9.—Very Ror. J. Slattery, of Baltimore, acting for the Fathers of St. Joseph's society, has bought 210 acres of land five miles trom Montgomery, on which will be erected a college for negro Catholics. ‘This will be the first school of the kind attempted in this section. Beaumont, Tex., March 10.—Anthony Hopkins was hanged here yesterday in the presence of 5,000 people, who took ‘up a collection of $100 for bis mother and sent {t with his remains to her in Waco. In 1896 Hopkins killed Paul Hurst, for which crime he was tried and acquitted. Soon after that Hop- kins killed his wife, and yesterday suf- fered the penalty. ‘Valdosta, Ga., March 12.—Word was received here last night of a double murder and lynching near Jennings, Fla, near the Georgia line. Two white men named Carver were killed by a negro whose name could not be learn- ed. The negro was captured by the sheriit. A mob quickly gathered, took the murderer away from the officers and swung him up on a neighboring tree. Columbia, 8. C., March 14.—Yester- day five convicts on a_ penitentiary farm near this city attacked Abe Har- lng, a guard. They got his Winches- ter, but did not know how to operate it, and fought him with hoes. He suc- ceeded tn drawing his pistol after a desperate fight, and killed Tom Hough- ton, a negro desperado, and wounded another. Two surrendered and the fifth escaped. Richmond, March 12—News has reached here of the shooting and prob- ably fatal wounding at White Plains, Brunswick county, Sunday morning of Dr, W. H, Temple by Rev. J. B. R. Reddick. ‘The latter is a well known Methodist minister, and claims that | Dr. Temple, who was attending his wife as her physician, had insulted | her. Reddick was arrested and lodged in Brunswick jail. Temple was shot in four places. Lexington, Ky., March 8.—George W. Drake, the famous mountain detective and ex-deputy United States marshal, and a man named Ford were shot to death Tuesday night near Torrent, Ky., by William St. John. It is re- ported to be the result of bad feeling of long standing between Drake and St. John. Drake is said to have run || down more moonshiners and criminals }} in the mountains of eastern Kentucky | than any other officer in the service | Somerset, Ky., Mareh 10.—Engineer | O’Brien and the fireman of train No. 5 of the Queen and Crescent were || overcome yesterday by smoke while passing through the long tunnel at }| Kings Mountain, Tenn, Several mem- bers of the Gentry Dog and Pony show | Were also overcome, but no one was '| Killed and there was no wreck. Of- '] ficials say the tmin was only delayed | an hour. John Sanders, of Blooming- | ton, Ind., died from suffocation after he was taken out. The tunnel is a ‘| mile tong. Norfoik, Va., March 13.—Last night | & mass meeting of reputable colored | mon was hel. for the purpose of con- | sidering measures to prevent a repet{- | tion of the crimes committed here re- | cently by irresponsible and vicious ne- Eroos. The epidemic of crime is attrib- | Mted to negroes who have recently come to Norfolk from Wilmington, N. C., at least 2,000 of them having come here and remained. They are of a | dangerous class, and being strangers | the police have been unable to keep | track of them. i Heathsville, Va., March 12.—Charles | R. Lewis, the one time wealthy steam- | boat owner and oyster dealer of North- umberland county, was arraigned be- | fore the county court here today and | convicted of two cases of arson and an attempt to poiron a horse, Lewis at the last term of court was convicted | and sentenced to eight years for arson, | and today a compromise verdict was reached in the remaining charges, the prisoner found guilty and the punish- ment fixed at seven years in-the pen- | itentiary, making a total of 15 years. Columbia, 8. C., March 9.—Mrs Bolle Graddick, a handsome young wo- man, is in jail here charged with pol- '| soning her husband, J. W. Graddick, a baker, who died Feb. 10. The widow | and Eldridge Dawkins, who had been paying attention to her were arrested, ‘Dut subsequently released. An analy- | ais of Graddick’s stomach showed that it contained enough arsenfe to causa death, Mra. Graddick was thereupon rearrested. Negro cooks and servants testified that while Graddick was sick || bis wife administered some drug in his coffee, avowedly to break him of the Hquor and cigarette habit, Culloden, W. Va., March 12—RBen THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA: noes eee THE CHRISTIAN DAILY, |4 wazars sews ooxpewsio |_¢000 208 . Thursday, March 8. and sities war A Providence (R. 1) dispatch an-|Durees and ge Rev. Charles M. Sheldon's First povunces ths toss of thw ae wir ene encens | Istue of the Topeka Capital, James and Amos Plerce were indiet-| 00 S14 East —— ed at Media, Pa. for the murder of | ¥** NOVELTIES IN NEWS EDITENG.| George B. Eyre. They will be tried in| ———___ ‘The First Item Is = Prayer by Bishop Vincent, While Articles on India’s Famine, Militarism and Prohibition Lead the News Columns. Topeka, March 18.—“The main pur- ‘pose of this paper will be to influence Its readers to seek first the kingdom of God.” * The Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, who Yesterday assumed editorial and’ busi- Ress control of The Daily Capital, which he will retain for one week, makes this announcement in his edi- torial leader outlining his policy this morning. The Capital during this time will be a “newspaper,” the word “news” being defined by Mr, Sheldon as anything in the way of current events that the public ought to know for its moral and spiritual develop- ment. The paper will be absolutely non-partisan, and partisan political news will be given scant notice, All editorial and important local matter will be signed by the writers. ‘There will be: no Sunday paper, but instead a Saturday eventhg paper suit- able for Sunday reading. “May God bless the use of this pa- per to the glory of his kingdom on | Na ) i Re ie ee) ete earth," says Rev. Mr. Sheldon in con- cluding his leader. The first item on the first page today is @ prayer written by Bishop John A. ‘Vincent, of the Methodist Episcopal ebureh. Editor Sheldon went to the office at 8:30 o'clock yesterday morning and ‘was on duty until the paper went to Dress at 3 o'clock this morning. At 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon he met the local force of the paper and gave out the assignments for the day. A page is devoted to local news, and the leading features for today are re- Ports of a temperance revival and an anti-cigarette meeting, Mr. Sheldon Instructed the poiice reporter that in case of a murder or other crime to write a bare statement of the facts. The, sporting editor was given space for a bowling contest at the Y. M. C. A., but the dramatic editor was ex- cused from duty. One page is resérved for telegraph news, which ordinarily occupied about three times the space. The war news 4s the feature of the page, Mr. Sheldon considering the prospects of peace the Dest possible news. A five hundred word story on the religious outlook in Kansas City, scheduled by a Kansas City corre- spondent, was promptly accepted by telegraph. ‘The market reports are cut from four columns to one. All quotations on stocks and bonds, giving options and other matter involving the trans- actions in futures were consigned to the waste basket, and only the actual cash prices of grain, produce, ete., are quoted. A notable feature of the paper is the Method of handling advertisements. ‘They are banished from the news and editorial pages and bunched in places reserved for them. The censorship here is even more rigorous than in the news columns, and a large quantity of this class of matter has already been cut out, including all relating to pat- ent medicines. The familiar corset ad- ‘ent medicines. The first page, usually occupted by telegraphic news, is devoted principal- ly to articles on the famine In India, anti-militarism and Kansas’ prohtb- ftory law. Imports and Exports. _, Washington, March 14.—The month- ly reports of the imports and exports of the United States for February last shows as follows: Merchandisa._ {m- Ports, $68,774,150, of which nearly $31,- 000,000 was free of duty. The increase for ‘the month, as compared with Feb- ruary, 1899, was $8,500,000. Exports, $19,765,762, Increase about $26,000,000. Gold imports, $1,899,378; decrease, $3, 300,000. Gold exports, ‘$1,403,658; in- crease, $833,000, | Silver imports, $2, 786,095; increase, $1,400,000. Silver ex- Ports, $4,952,644; Increase, $633,000. Tilinots Flood Victims. Ottawa, Ills, March 14,—Many fac- tories In towns and cities of the Up- Der Illinots valley are idle on account of the almost unprecedented floods. Much damage was done in that sec- tion, by ice, to industrial plants and private property, The water is 21 feet above the normal stage. Forty fam- flies have been driven from their homes here. .Great apprehension {s felt at Marsellies for its dam, Hun- dreds of men are idle as the result of the floods. Last Peravinn Rebel Leader Killed. Lima, Peru, March 14—In a sharp fight between the government troops and the revolutionists near Moyo- bamba on Feb. 26 Colonel Viscarra, the last of the insurgent leaders to hold out, was killed. The whole of Peru is now tranquil, Declines Guberantorial Nomination. Indianapolis, March — 14.—Mayor Thomas Taggart, in a letter addressed to the Democracy of the state, pos!- tively declines to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for gov- ernor. His nomination has been con- ceded by all. Mayor Taggart’s name has been mentioned in connection with the national chairmanship, but he has not announced his candidacy for the place. The only reason given for the declination is his intention to serve ‘his term out as mayor. He was re- elected for two years last fall, A WEER’S NEWS CONDENSED ‘Thersday, March 8. A Providence (R. I.) dispatch an- nounces the loss of the schooner Wilk fam P. Hood and her crew of eight. James and Amos Pierce were indiet. ed at Media, Pa., for the murder o ae B. Byre. They will be tried in me. ‘The ceremontes attending the mar. riage of the Japanese prince imperial ‘will entail an expenditure of nearly 500,000 yen. Fire destroyed Shoneman's big de- partment store in Philadgiphia and spread to adjoining buildings. The loss is nearly $1,000,000. Friday, March 9. David W. Reeves, the well known Dandmaster, died in Providence yes- terday, aged 62. General Lawton’s factune at the time of his death was accumulated army pay due amounting to about $1,000. ‘The will of Charles L. Davis (Alvin Joslin), the actor-manager, filed for Probate in Pitteburg, dlsposée of #160, ‘The famous Theater Francais, in Paris, was destroyed by fire. Mille poets a beautiful young actress, per- Fire yesterday at Lead, S. Di, de stroyed 40 wooden buildings and cause: $500,000 loss. Stone and brick will re- Place the burned buildings. Saturday, March 10. Stxteen miners were killed by » mine explosion at Besseges, France, Hon. EB. J. Phelps, ex-minister te England, died in New Haven yesterday Puddiers at Youngstown, O., are tc get an advance to $6 a ton, the highest ‘wages paid since 1880. The Social Democrats’ convention at Indianapolis nominated Eugene V Debs for president and Job Harriman for vice president. Ottver Payson Hubbard, LAL. D. tate Professor of chemistry and geology at Dartmouth college, died at his home im New York yesterday. ‘The journeymen plumbers of New: port News, Va, have won the strike inaugurated Wednesday, the employer: eonceding them a nine hour workday at $3 a day. Monday, March 12. Captain Joseph W. Golway, U. 5. A. retired, died in New York yesterday aged 63 years. Tn a speech tn New York Governor Roosevelt declared he would never be & presidential candidate. For aiding a Pekin syndicate to re! ‘a Chinese railway concession, Wu- Shih-Chiu goes to prison for life. An explosion tn the Red Ash min at Fire Creek, W. Va, Tuesday of last ‘week, resulted in the death of 60 men Senator Allen calls attention to th fact that there are now 300 employes o the senate, drawing aggregate salarie: of $510,000. Bx-Congressman John Davis, of th Fifth Kansas district, one of the found ers of the Populist party, has becom totally blind. It is proposed to impose a heavy dis. eriminating tax upon the shipping o! any country that unjustly discrim. inates against American products. ‘Tuesday, Mareh 13, ‘The will of the late Archbishop Hen. pene of Dubuque, In, disposes of $1, (000,000. ‘A Maryland legislative committee Will investigate charges of bribery by ‘Mayor Hayes, of Baltimore, In Scott county, Ark., Jealous 60 year-old Zeb Leonard killed his 27. year-old wife and their 4-year-old sox and then killed himself. ‘The national house unseated S. A ‘Young (Dem.) from the Second Vir ginia district, and seated the Republi. can contestant, R. A. Wise. Miss Edith Morton, eldest daughter of ex-Vice President Levi P. Morton is to marry William ©. Eustis, son of the late chief justice of Louisiana, ‘Mrs. Samuel Hunsberger, aged 60 and Mrs. Frank Savage, 27, were run over and killed while driving across the railroad track at Pottstown, Pa. We inesday, March 14. ‘The national senate confirmed Adan C. Peinoebl as postmaster at Lancas ter, Pa, Secretary Root visited Matanzas or Monday, returning to Havana in the evening. A meeting of trainmens’ delegates a! Phillipsburg, N. J., threatens a strike on the Jersey Central railroad. An order has been received by s Cincinnati concern by cable from ar English firm for nearly 500,900 flags. General Otis has appointed Genera‘ Kobbe military governor of Albay Luzon, Cataduanes, Samar and Leyte In a fight at a schoolhouse entertain: ment at Forest Hill, Ky., Hurby Morar was killed outright, his brother Harv; beaten nearly to death, and two Ham. fiton brothers shot, one fatally. At Saginaw, Mich. Alma Spicker. man, 4 years old, was burned to death. Minnie, aged 10, received fatal burns and Freda, aged 17, was seriously burned in a fire which consumed thelt home. GENERAL MARKETS, Philadelphia, March 13.—Flour firm; Winter superfine, §2.3@2.50; Pennsylva- nia roller, clear, $.100%.25; elty mills, extra, $25002.70. Rye flour quiet and steady at $3.15G3.40 per barrel. Wheat firm; No. 2 red, spot, in elevator, 72@78e, Corn steady; No, 2 mixed, spot, in ele- vator, 4%@4ic.; No. 2 yellow, for local trade, 44420." Oats quiet; No. 2 white, clipped, S@ii%ie.; lower grades, eRe. Hay steady; choice timothy, $17 for large bales. Beet quiet; city extra India mess, S18G2%; beet hams, $21G21.50, Pork firm: family, $4@11.50. “Lard steady; western steamed, $8.90. Butter roi: ' western ereamery, 202%5c.; do. factory, 11020e.; June creamery, 18@23'40.; ‘Imitation ereamery, 18G23.; New York dairy, 209 e.; do. creamery, 2G%5c.; fancy Penn- ayivanta prints jobbing at 28@ilc.; do. wholesale, Zc. Chesso strong; fancy, large, white and colored, 13¢13%4e.; fancy, small, colored, 184@ig%e.; fancy, smail, white, 19G17%¢.; choice grades, 12g12%c. Eggs firm; New York and Pennsylvania, WGN; “southern, 1616%c.; weatern, IWXe. Potatoes firm; Jerseys, #1.26G1.16; New York, $1.8002; Long Island, $1.00; Jersey sweets, $2.9592.7. 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Is'a rowistered’ phyuicians "A sew Temogy for itheiatam just discovered, not « linge ment. Hopeless cases and those that ochers Gannot cure solicited to call. Fat folkn fhe chicas made parents. All letters gontain 14 ee, lovk of dee For. I~ cards. medicaltreatmentoniy. Mem won paper © B81 FULTON, ba , wap” ss DOKLYN, N. Xe | WAR REMINISCENCES A GENERAL'S PREMONITION. Forebodings of a Maine Officer Betore the Battle of Chancellorsville Came True. Having been greatly interested in the allusion to Gen. Hiram G. Berry in Gen. J. F. Rusling's exceedingly valuable book, "Men and Things I Saw in Civil War Days," we wrote to Gen. Rusling that Gen. Berry was the original colonel of our own regiment, the Fourth Maine. In a personal letter in reply he gives the particular concern the death of Gen. Berry on the morning of the third day of the battle of Chancellorsville. The letter is of so interesting a nature that we take the liberty to publish a portion of it. Gen. Berry was born at East Thomaston (now Rockland), Me., August 27, 1824. In May, 1861, he was made colonel of the Fourth Maine regiment. The regiment started for Washington on the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1861. Col. Berry was engaged in the first battle of Bull Run and the peninsula campaign. On April 4, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general, his commission dating in March. He succeeded Gen. Howard in the command of the Third brigade of the Third division of Heintzleman's Third army corps. He participated in the battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks, was actively engaged in the seven days'ight, was at Chantilly, and in the second Bull Run campaign. In January, 1863, he was appointed major general, his promotion dating from the previous November. He was placed in command of the Second division of the Third army corps. When the Eleventh corps was stamped at Chanceiilorville on May 2, 1863, Gen. Berry's division had a prominent part in successfully opposing the advance of the confederates. It was in the forest in front of Berry's position that Stonewall Jackson fell mortally wounded, probably by a mistaken volley from a confederate command, on the evening of the same day. It was on the following morning that Gen. Berry was killed. We now quote from Gen. Rusling's letter: "I am glad to know you were an old soldier under Gen. Berry. It may interest you to know that I was Berry's division quartermaster in May, 1863, and further, that when we moved on Chancellorsville Gen. Berry had a distinct premonition of his impending doom. The day before we marched he was summoned to army headquarters, and when he returned just in the evening he seemed to me anxious and foreboding, and after supper sent for me to come to his quarters. After some general conversation he told me we were to move next morning, and would cross the Rappahannock and attack Lee, and likely have a great battle, and that he felt he would not survive it. I joked him about the matter, and told him all officers and soldiers kind of felt that way before going into action, but that most of us survived after all. He said, yes, he knew that, but had never felt this way before, though he had passed through all our battles so far from Bull Run to Fredericksburg, including the peninsula campaign, etc., but that now it was borne in upon him that he would not survive the coming battle, and that if anything happened to him, he wished me to recover his body and send it home to Maine, "because he did not want to be buried in recession soil." He gave me some of SENT A MINIE BALL THROUGH HIM his effects, keepsakes, money, etc., and directed me how to send them to his family if anything happened to him, and I promised I would attend sacredly to his wishes. "I sat with him until after midnight, and did my best to rally him, but failed to do so. The next morning after breakfast I found him still in the same mood, and when we parted he was still of the same feeling, though resolute to do his duty. He went on to Chancellorsville at the head of his division, and I remained at Falmouth with my train, as ordered, but after two or three days I became anxious about the matters at Chancellorsville, and leaving the train in charge of my next senior officer, I rode to Chancellorsville myself, and there found him sitting on a stump by the sideside not far in advance of the Chancellorsville house, superintending the planting of a battery. "I greeted him heartily, and said to him that though we had fierce fighting the evening before, and his division had been hotly engaged, yet he was still all right, and I hoped he would dismiss his fears. He answered: 'Yes, that is so, but the battle is not yet ever.' I rode on down to his headquarters, and lunched with the staff, and going in the afternoon took them all good-by and returned to Falmouth. "The next morning about seven o'clock near the same spot where I found him, he crossed the Plank road to communicate with Gen. Mott, who was commanding the New Jersey brigade of his division, and started to return, and had nearly reached his old place, when a confederate sharpshooter, located in a tree not far in advance, sent a minie ball through him, and the expired within less than half an hour afterward. His body was brought back to Falmouth, where I made a rude collin for him, and wrapped him in a large garrison flag that we always flew at division headquarters, and sent him tenderly home to Maine. He was a good man, and a great soldier, and Maine may always be proud of such a heroic son!"—Syracuse Christian Advocate. THE INTRENCHING HABIT. Resourcefulness of the Union Soldiers in Fortifying Their Firing Lines. "I have some ugly scars on my body," said the sergeant, "which would lead a careless observer to believe I was shot in the back; but I wasn't. In one of the battles of the civil war I was one of several thousand men thrown to the front rank of our own batteries, which were firing at an advancing confederate line. We of the union division were ordered to hug the ground as close as possible, keep our heads down, and ten full batteries, or 60 guns, blazed away, sending shot and shell over us into the confederate ranks. "We were so close to our own guns that burning fragments of wadding or powder, or sparks from the guns, would FORTIFYING THEIR LINE. fall on our backs and burn through blouse and shirt before we had any warning. Every one of those burns left a scar as lasting as that left by a bullet, and those who carry them fret even now over the discomfort, but whenever there is pain from one of those old scars there comes back vivid pictures of that trying time in front of our own artillery. "This throwing to the front of his own batteries of men whose safety depended on their strict obedience to orders illustrated the resourcefulness of one of the best strategists and fighters among the generals of the civil war. When the batteries ceased firing the division was in position to charge at once on the advancing column that had been demoralized by the effective artillery fire. But that night the men of this same division showed their own resourcefulness in fortifying their line along what they realized was the key to the position of the union army. They had no intrenchment tools, but they availed themselves of rails and stones and earth to make a shelter. The next morning they secured picks and showels, and on their own motion constructed intrenchments covering their whole front. "It so happened that no attack was made by the enemy that day, and visitors from the other divisions laughed a little at our boys for spending so much time on intrenchments that they would probably have to leave. But at two o'clock on the second day the confederates advanced in force against the position held by this division, and without any preliminary skirmishing opened a furious fire. Our men dropped behind their intrenchments and waited until the advancing line came in close range; then opened a murderous fire. Again and again the confederates charged, and every time they were driven back. The point covered by the intrenchments became the center of a furious battle, and while there was wavering on the right and on the left, the line at that point, farther advanced than any other, stood firm, and the men did not leave their breastworks until they were ordered forward in a furious charge."—Chicago Inter Ocean. Value of Small Change. "It isn't safe to start out without a pocketful of pennies any more," remarked a member of the house the other day. "Yet I can remember that when I came down into this section of the country, in army blue about 38 years ago, a five-cent piece was very small potatoes. We were camped awhile out in here in Virginia, and my headquarters were in the big plantation home. A son of the house and myself became good friends, although he was five and I nearly 35. One day, in lieu of the candy which I had forgotten to bring him from the near-by town, I gave him a silver halde dime. I had forgotten all about the incident, when some two weeks later he came into my room, and, opening his hand, held out to me on his little pink palm the silver piece I had given him. 'Heah, Mr. Captain, you can have it back,' he said plaintively. 'It won't buy nuffin'. Washington Star. Time and Money Time-may be money, but it is a difficult matter to convince a man who is serving time that such is the case.—Chicago Daily News. Hardly Worth Mentioning. A clergyman says that he was one day called down into his study to perform the marriage ceremony for a couple in middle life. "Have you ever been married before?" asked the clergyman of the bridegroom. "No, sir." "Have you?" to the bride. "Well, yes, I have," replied the brif laconically; "but it was 20 years and he fell off a barn and killed h' when we'd been married only a so it really ain't worth mentor TitsBits. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIKGINIA THE TIN-CLAD SKUNK Victim of an Accident Caused Sensation in a Maine Town. Entire Population Turned Out to See the Strange Sight - Woman at Last Restored Confidence in the Community. "Of the funny things that come up now and then in the rural towns on my route, I think the funniest in my experience was the way a skunk made the people of Lake View, in Maine, hustle themselves a year or two ago," said a commercial traveler to a New York Sun reporter. "Lake View is a little settlement in the woods on the main line of the Bangor & Aroostook railroad, and I was waiting over a train there on the chance of selling a bill of goods. I was in the biggest store and had the storekeeper pretty well in hand; five minutes more and he would have been hypnotized to the point of a $500 order, at least, when a fellow loafing on the platform outside the door sung out: "Jerusalem crickets! What's that that's come ter town?" Then he stuck his frowsy head inside the door and called: "Jess look here, fellers. Everybody come! I want ter show you a sight ter beat a circus!" "Every longer in the store and the clerks started for the door, and the owner was not long behind them. The spell that I had been weaving about him went to pieces like a soap bubble, and there was nothing better for me to do than accompany him to see what the excitement was. It was a skunk that had raised the commotion. Now, it is nothing unusual for a skunk, or even larger animals from the woods, to stray into a Maine village; but this one, before he showed himself, had been nosing around the houses and had got his head fast in an empty condensed milk can. His head was completely extinguished to a point back of his ears, but he had found his way into the street and now was wandering about, mad all through, and wholly unable to get his bearings. All hands kept out of his way, and every man shut his WOMAN SOLVED PROBLEM. doors and tied up his dog, for they know all about skunks in Lake View. "It was the tin can over the skunk's head that made the trouble. But for that over his eyes he could have been 'shooed' out of the town and thus have been got rid of on the easiest terms. To kill him within the village limits was not to be thought of, for, like blind Samson among the Phillistines, he would in his dying have worked a revenge that would be remembered in Lake View for many a day. As it was, he stopped all business in the town for half an hour or more, while he meandered around, with everybody making way for him. His steps took him at last to the schoolhouse, and, the door being open, he walked in. The school was in session and the fact of his arrival was announced by the appearance of the teacher, a comely young woman, who ran screaming out of the door, followed by several of her pupils, while the others left the building by way of the windows. The skunk bumped round among the decks for awhile, and at last found his way back into the street. "All this performance was interesting, and to an outsider, with nothing at risk, was very funny in its episodes. But the next train was due within the hour, and it was plain that so long as that skunk was at large a man could not have bought a jackknife or a pound of tea in the town with the cash in his hand, to say nothing of getting an order for goods; so I prayed with the rest for deliverance. There was advice enough on tap of ways and means for dealing with the skunk; I think everybody present, myself included, proposed some plan, but the trouble was that proposer would volunteer to pro idea into execution. It was his who at last solved the pro woman stored confidence in the item and re- She appeared upon the community, empty flour barrure, scene with an the ground in front, laying it upon walked in the skunk, being to the open end. Then, tilting barrel upr ward, she held her, the open end less prisoner. To no young men took the barrel down to the lake and saved. I missenk and Lake View was ject'less lesson I g my order, but the ob- and resource in woman's courage worth the in emergency was well the affair." commission I lost through Sr A nov 's Milk for Babies. omitted pel petition has just been subties b to the French chamber of depu-tere a woman resident in the Finis-ste department. She proposes that sc be taken to test the quality of 's milk as a form of nourishment or babies. Donkeys' milk, as is well known, is superior to cows' for the purpose, but the employment of the domestic pig has the merit of novelty. Several doctors have already prognounced in favor of the innovation, self, however. "George says he loves me, papa." "Well, I don't wonder at it. I said the same thing when I wanted to get into a rich man's family."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. They Are Exceptions. "There seems to be a general impression that fat men are always contented." "It can't be true. Some fat men are married."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The chlmneys that loom up so high Are like the men we know; Ofttimes there's lots of smoke above. And little fire below. —Chicago Times-Herald. DESPICABLE INSINUATION. Walker Dyes (telling of his success) —During the second act the audience arose in a body. Friend—see! Didn't any of 'em come back for the next act, old man?—Chicago Inter Ocean. A Nice Distinction. Mrs. Washout—So de Johnsons claim to come ob better stock dan de Jacksons? Mrs. Wringer—Yais; ole man Johnson was hung for murder, while ole man Jackson was simply lynched.—Judge. Universal Rule. "Be quiet!" said Uncle Allen Sparks, who was patiently endeavoring to remove a woodtick from the hide of his dog. "Don't you know, you ungrateful beast, that nothing worth having in this world can be got without digging for it?"—Chicago Tribune. Immunes. Jail occupants don't care, they say, If measles come about; They're preparing sure that they Aren't likely to break out. —Elliot's Magazine. 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Remember she will not for any price flatter you; you may rest assured you will gain facts without nonsense. 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. In tests she tells your mother's full name before marriage, the names of all your family their ages and description, the name and business of your present husband the name of your next if you are to have one, the name of the young man who new calls on you, the name of your future husband, and the day, month and year of your marriage, how many hi idren you have or will have; whether your present sweetheart will be true to you and if he will marry you; if you have no sweetheart she will tell you how much business and date of acquaintance will your future will be told in an honest clear and plain manner and in a dead sense. Mothers should know the success of their husbands and children young ladies should know everything about the. sweethearts or intended husband. Do not keep company, marry or go into business until you knew all, do not let silly religious scruples prevent your consulting. Madame is the only one in the world who can tell you the FULL NAME of your future husband, with age and date of marriage, and tells whether the one you love is true or false. There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consulting a Medium, but such beliefs are contrary to the truth. It is only from the lack of discrimination that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not every one who placards himself or herself as a medium that can stand a test of what he or she claims. And a person of an enquiring mind may ask the reason why. It is simply it these advisers do not take the uble to study hun an nature. They do not spend their thoughts for a moment with acquiring the art of phaseology and kindred branches that will have a tendency to make the pathway to the road of the business clear and devoid of all obstacles. It is an undeniable fact that persons will come for advice in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a Medium they try their utmost endeavor to dispel from their minds what they know so as to hear if it will be rehearsed by the Medium. To get the secret out or a petition is the art used by many unprinciped mediums, but to take hold of the head and in control of the mind thereby is a matter or impossibility to most of them. And yet this can be done and by consulting Mrs. Marsh the seeming reality becomes a realization. This subject has received no Irritation by eminent men and even college professors. So it proves conclusively that although there are infringers in our midst with oily tongues perhaps the gates of wisdom have not been closed to the entire profession. It takes a great deal of study to become an accomplished medium and by a continuous and untiring effort, the key to the well of apparently unfathomable mysteries has been secured by MRS. 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CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Baring Charges made by Negro Soldiers as San Juan, B knocked over the block house and saved the Rough Elder—Sergeant Berry, the colored soldier who was first to raise the American flag on San Juan Hill—The plowing troops of Kinley, Miles, Roosevelt and officers of the Negro officers—Antonio and Jose Maceo, 'Gomes, Miss Glassero, and the Gaucho Women Gavaily—The Negro Paymasters in the Army—The Negro Post, Paul Laurence Dunbar—'Eddie' savoy, the colored man who was killed in the Uncle Sam's money—The colored Bonsor of the Treasury, who has to sign Uncle Sam's money—make it good. With about fifty full half tone and line engraving of soldiers, officers, and some of the late Spanish-American War, with a picture of Mount Vesuvius, the neady Lady of Volunteers and their civilization. Full sketch of the Volunteers and their treatment under threats of Gatling Guanz. HANDSOME PICTURE OF GEN. NELSON MILES, the Major sketch in command of all the American Army who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around Santiago was Fill for $1.00 "Much in Little." Mailed Free, AGENTS WANTED—Big Percentage—Send for copy of book and agents' serma A 'Phone, 577. WAYLAND SEMINARY and COLLEGE LARGE LIBRARY. NEW EQUIPMENT V. P. & F. K. of W. New Phone, 133 THE PLANET SATURDAY, MARCH, 17 1900 A LITTLE OF ALL SORTS. The lighter all chocolate is in color the more free it is from impurities. An evening newspaper in Philadelphia refuses to sell papers to news-girls. The assessed valuation of property in Los Angeles city, Cal., is over $65,000,-000. The rose was an emblem of immortality among the Syrians, and the Chinese planted it over graves. All gum-bearing trees, or conifers, are especially healthful, since they give out great quantities of ozone. Instead of an engagement ring, the Japanese lover gives his sweetheart a piece of beautiful silk for her sash. A single wild tribe of western Indians is using 41 kinds of vegetables which are absolutely unknown to the majority of cooks. There are between 700 and 800 breeders of Guernsey cattle in this country, and the cattle number about 12,000 head. One of the books of etiquette in France during the fourteenth century advised the man of fashion to wash his hands every day and his face "almost as often." As many as 2,000 rag pickers find employment about the streets of New York. They are mostly Italians, who have displaced the Irish and Germans, who used to do the work. Paper shingles, lacquered and stiffened, are very tough and durable, and can be made in any desired shape or color. For novel cottages with slanting roofs they are coming into great favor in England. After five years of strenuous effort to establish the lyeum system in the southern states, gratifying success has been attained. The larger, and many of the smaller, cities of the south now have their lyeums. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. In 1850 there were 71,000 tons of steel made in the whole world. In 1898 the United States alone made 9,075,000 tons. During the past year the seven counties of southern California shipped 875 car loads of dried fruits and raisins, worth $1,640,000. A bill has been introduced in the New York legislature to require the date of the canning to be placed on all canned goods. More than 13,000 Michigan farmers raised sugar beets for the first time last summer, the result being a crop large enough to keep ten factories busy, and it is expected that the state will soon be able to produce all the sugar it needs. Japan's new gold fields are beginning to attract considerable attention. They were only recently discovered, so far as at present defined, and embrace a territory of about 650 square miles. The gold is found in the small streams and rivers rising in the mountains, and it is obtained in the most primitive manner by washing the sand. George F. Becker, of the geological survey, who has just returned from a year's visit to the Philippines, reports the outlook for gold and other valuable metal in those islands is meager. He says there is a better chance of getting rich on gold in the southern states than in the Philippines. He found, however, the islands were rich in coal deposits. ON THE CONTINENT. France receives £242,500 a year from taxes on bicycles. About 1,850 tons of flowers are annually raised on 15,000 acres of land in southern France for the perfumers. At Harlem, Holland, there are 125 acres devoted to the growth of hyacinths, which bring in a revenue of $150,000. Liege, Belgium, is to have an exposition in 1903. To meet the expenses a capital of 2,000,000 francs has been subscribed. France intends to improve French syntax by legislation. M. Gaston Paris, of the Academic Francise, has been made president of a commission to prepare a reform in syntax. Luecheni, the murderer of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, having spent a year in solitary confinement, is now, according to the Swiss law, treated like all other prisoners. The population of Hungary has increased from 8,000,000 to 18,000,000 this century. The capital of the country counts 670,000 inhabitants, against 26,000 in the year 1800. The director of the Royal Vesuvian observatory announces that Mount Vesuvius is now perfectly quiet, and that the eruptive period of 1895-99 is definitely closed. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE Illinois expended $18,209,803 on its public schools in 1899. Hindoo young men are turning to Japan for instruction in science. Harvard university has established a four years' course in forestry and landscape gardening. Two grandsons of Li Hung Chang have arrived in this country to pursue studies at Vanderbilt university. Courses of free lectures on scientific subjects of special interest to artisans and craftsmen are now being given in New York city under the auspices of the board of education. The Roumanian minister of public instruction has sent a circular to the head mistresses of all girls' schools in Roumania to the following effect: "Experiments based on science and practice having shown that stays are hurtful to health and interfere with the ac- 67 tion of the organs of respiration, I decree that you strictly forbid the use of stays to the pupils of your establishment." A similar edict was not long ago issued by the Russian government. WIGS AND FALSE HAIR. The first wig mentioned in history was made out of a goat's skin and was worn by the daughter of Saul, king of Israel. Wigs were in vogue in Rome toward the end of the republic, and so well made that Ovid says: "Nobody could tell if anyone else's hair was real or not." In the south of Italy the first artistic wigs were made for the Gapiniens, who lived in Apulia, and were known for the luxuries of their toilet. These people were, they say, the first who painted their faces; this they did with the juice of strawberries. Xenophon relates that little Cyrus, when he visited Astyages, his grandfather, whose eyes were framed in blue paint, and who wore an enormous wig, threw himself on his knees and cried: "Oh, mother, what a beautiful grandfather I have!" Phoenician women, who were proud of their hair, having been ordered by their priests to offer it up on the altars dedicated to Venus after the death of Adonis, obeyed, but with murmuring. Soon they were consoled by a Greek merchant who told them that he would give them the means of hiding their bald patens under luxuriant curls. In his chariot he had hundreds of wigs of all colors. Teutonic peasants were the providers of blond hair for rich Roman princesses, who loved the contrast of its flaxen hue with their black eyes. They even had morning wigs, small and tightly curled, of any color, and kept the beautiful fair ones to wear when receiving their admirers in the evening. Messalina had 150 wigs to disguise herself. LIBRARY NOTES The library of law books in all languages, founded in Paris in 1876 at the investigation of M. Dufaure and the ministry of justice, comprises at present 32,000 volumes. The Kansas state historical library contains 22,171 bound volumes of newspaper files, 87,555 books and pamphlets, 22,555 manuscripts and 14,500 maps, atlases, pictures and museum subjects. There are no accurate statistics of the total number of persons engaged in library work in the United States today. As there are over 8,000 libraries, an average of two employees to each library would indicate at least 16,000 such persons. Probably three-fifths of these are women. The finding of a long-lost will between the pages of a neglected Bible was a favorite incident in old-fashioned novels. Nor are books yet antiquated as repositories. At a Chicago library bookmarks found in returned volumes included an insurance policy, letters containing business secrets, signed love letters, grocers' bills, photographs, postal orders, matches, spectacles and false teeth. The total accessions to the John Creser library during last year were 12,360 (3,103 of which were gifts), bringing the total number of books up to 55,223 and the total number of books and periodicals up to 80,000. According to the annual report of the library directors, 34,827 persons visited the library during the year, slips were presented for 18,890 books and 8,013 periodicals, which for a library of purely scientific character is considered a large attendance. AS SEEN BY A PHILOSOPHER. Some people use apologies, instead of money, in paying debts. Don't work a friend in the interest of a stranger. Lots of people do it. While lying is not commendable, some judgment should be displayed in telling the truth. If you must quarrel, make it so hot for the opposition that he will suggest a compromise, and peace. There is a young man in Atchison who is generally admired; he quit society and went to work. When a man who boards meets one who keeps house, each is reminded of causes for envying the other. An Atchison woman is such a big gossip that her neighbors dread to see her come in, and beg her not to go. The average man is told of his meanness so often that it will come in the nature of a shock to him when Saint Peter lets him into Heaven.—Atchison Globe. AT THE JEWELER'S A very pretty cloak clasp of gold contains two large sapphires surrounded by pearls. A handsome frame for a miniature is of gold, set with brilliants, alternated with sapphires. A novel penholder of gun metal is ornamented with tiny veins of gold in the forms of scrolls. It is also set with small semiprecious stones. A novelty in watch fobs is shown. Instead of the usual buckle an antistic design containing the initials of the owner is employed. A handsome charm containing a large catseye is suspended from the fob—Jeweler's Weekly. SOME OF LAST YEAR'S FIRES (From the Insurance Press, N. Y.) Tramps caused 755 fires and a loss of nearly $1,000,000. Defective flues caused 10,530 fires, involving a loss of $7,500,000. Careless use of matches caused 3,900 fires that involved a loss of $1,500,000. Cigars, cigarettes and tobacco pipes caused more than 900 fires, involving a loss of more than $500,000. Explosions of gasoline stoves caused 1,300 fires and a loss of $235,000; the explosions of lamps, lanterns, etc., caused 2,400 fires and a loss of more than $1,000,000, and lamp and lantern accidents caused 2,000 fires and a loss of nearly $1,000,000. Possessions of Another. Wife—The plumber came and looked at the drain pipes this morning. Husband—What's the use? I've got one mortgage on the house already.—N. Y. Journal. THE RICHMOND PLANETRICHMOND VIRGINIA THOUGHTS OF THE GREAT. All concord's born of contraries.—Ben Jonson. He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.—Dante. Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.—Plutarch. It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude—Ouida. Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.—Benjamin Franklin. When I tell him he hates flatteries, he says he does, being then most flattered.—Shakespeare. Souls must be expanded by the contemplation of nature's grandeur before they can comprehend the greatness of man.—Heine. Some men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend.—St. Evermond. Well hast thou fought the better fight, who, single, hast maintained against rebelled multitudes the cause of Truth, in word mightier than they in arms.—Milton. Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field—Burke. With regard to the choice of friends there is little to say; for a friend is never chosen. A secret sympathy, the attraction of a thousand nameless qualities, a charm in the expression of the countenance, even in the voice or manner, a similarity of circumstances—these are the things that begin attachment—Mrs. Barbauld. HOME SUGGESTIONS. A "cupful" in all cases is half a pint. To remove stains from wood a mixture of one-third of sweet oil and two-thirds alcohol will be found effective. Green figs are excellent food. Dried figs contain nerve and muscle food, heat and waste, but are bad for the liver. To keep tortoise shell bright the best polish is rouge powder, used for brightening silver. If thus treated regularly no tortoise shell, however old, need look dull, as is often the case. Marble washstands and mantelpieces can be cleansed by simply washing the surface with warm water, to which a little borax has been added, polishing afterward with a dry cloth. Bathe the face and hands of a feverish person with warm water that has a bit of common soda dissolved in it. A few drops of alcohol or cologne is often pleasant to use to bathe the sick. Children can hardly have too much fresh air in fine weather, and should be wheeled briskly but not carelessly along as straight a road as possible. Wheeling a cart or baby carriage down a steep hill is bad for a baby's brain. Any preserved citron which is left over at springtime may be drained from the sirup, dried a little in the oven and packed away in glass to be used in cakes and puddings at any time; thus prepared it will keep for years. Pork tenderloins may be cut in three-quarter inch slices (across instead of lengthwise), breaded with cracker crumbs, and fried the same as directed for veal cutlets. Serve with lemon marmalade or apple jelly and pickled tomatoes, or they may be broiled.—Boston Budget. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS Berlin has 63 public monuments. Indiana has not a living ex-governor. Russia's Asiatic possessions are three times the size of Great Britain's; but hold only 83,000,000 inhabitants, a compared with England's 297,000,000 subjects. Scientific agriculture is making greater progress in Chill, perhaps, than in any other country except the United States, especially in rural economy, arboriculture and viticulture. Ladies of the high class in China use the dainiest thimbles imaginable, some of them being carved from enormous pearls, ornamented with bands of fine gold, on which all manner of quaint and fantastic designs are engraved. The British soldier is the best fed individual of his class in Europe. He receives for his daily rations 16 ounces of bread, 12 ounces of meat, 2 ounces of rice, 8 ounces of dried vegetables, 16 ounces of potatoes, and once a week he receives 2 ounces of salt, 4 ounces of coffee and 9 ounces of sugar. The claim of the Manila railway for the payment of interest guaranteed by the Spanish government has been disallowed by the United States. Promoters of railways in foreign countries, says the Railway and Engineering Review, should bear in mind that any change of government is very likely to vitiate whatever claims may be granted them under the concession by the then controlling power, and take measures to protect themselves accordingly. LIVES LOST IN WAR. At Austerlitz the French lost 28,850 men. At Plevna, 18,000 to 20,000 Russians were killed and wounded. At the Moscow, on the retreat from Moscow, the French lost 30,000 men. At Gravelotte, the German loss was over 20,000, and the French loss 19,000. At the battle of Leipzig in 1813, the French losses were 65,000 in three days. At Gettysburg, a large number were killed and 14,497 wounded on the federal side, while the confederates lost 2,592 dead and 12,760 wounded. The aggregate of the losses at the battle of Stone River in the American civil war was 13,249 on the federal side, and 10,266 on the confederate side. A Personal Attack Bramble—That fellow seeme! to take it as a personal insult when I denounced vivisection. Thorne—No wonder. He's a barber. -N. Y. Journal. Sensations Entirely Different. The bill board makes the actor glad, but the board bill makes him tired.—Chicago Daily News. Philanthropist—What is your name, my good man? Tramp—B'iled Cider, sor. "My, my, how peculiar. How did you ever get such a name? Your parents didn't give it to you, I hope." "No, sor; the man I had my first job with give it to me. He said I was that because I wouldn't work."—St. Louis Republic. Chinese Cooks Next to the French. Second only to the French are the Chinese when it comes to culinary skill, and with simple materials they will contrive to put together a meal which would shame an ordinary American cook. In peasant families the wife or daughter does the cooking, but in the larger establishments the cooks are in variably men.—Chicago Chronicle. A Reflection. The Farmer—Yes; I had a talk with the new congressman. Acquaintance—What do you think of him? "Well, I reckon some fellers that couldn't make bunco-steerin' pay must have gone into politics."—Puck. WHAT HE WOULD DO. Professor of Anatomy—This subject, in addition to having his jugular vein severed, was shot twice through the heart, in consequence of which he died. Now, what would you do in a case like this? Student—I'd die too.—Chicago Chronicle. Human Nature. Some folks take things as they come, But 'tis a fact, you know, That pickpockets and shoplifters Take things as they go. —Chicago Daily News. A Touching Death. First Boer—Poor Schmidt! 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Jacks-onville. Port St. Louis, Miami, Augusta and Moor. THE PLANET SATURDAY, MARCH 17 1900 FROM PORTSMOUTH Sunday, March 11th, Kev. W. R. Gulline, pastor of the A. M. E. Church at Smithfield, Va., preach'd an able sermon at North St. A. M. E. Church of this city. Rev. A. L. Gaines, pastor of the North St. Church, together with the choir visited the First Baptist Church of Berkley where he conducted service at 3 o'clock supported by the choir. Rev. Beedles (white), pastor of the Central M. E. Church of this city will preach at the North St. A. M. E. Church, Sunday, March 18th. The Friday Night Club held its regular meeting at the residence of Mr. Scott White on Glasgow St., Friday night. Misses Fannie Peige and Mary Hines and Mrs. J. G. France; Messr. Wm. M. Reid and W. H. Jennings participated in the discussion. Mr. E. S. Holmes paid a flying visit to Berkley Saturday, March 10th. Mr. Wm A. Bond visited Suffolk, March 11th. Miss Fannie Conway of Effingham St., was taken suddenly ill at the courthouse Saturday morning, March 10th. Dr. Wm. Troy of Glasgow St. has been indisposed for several days. Mr. W. H. Jennings of London St. left for Dumfries, Va., Tuesday evening March 18th to visit his parents. The church located at the corner of Green and Griffin St., of which Rev. Miller is the pastor was connected with the Union Sunday. March 11th, and is now known as the First Baptist Church of Portsmouth, Va. The covenant was read by Dr. Chisholm and was received by the congregation. Mr. Wm. Teasley of Glasgow St., returned to the city Saturday, March 10th, after spending a most pleasant visit to his parents in Frankinton, N. C. Mr. J. B. Ruffin of Glasgow St. left for Washington, D. C., on the 10th. Mr. G. V. Molvin has been indisposed for several days. Mrs. Margaret J. Wren of Pinner's Point is confined to the house by sickness. Mrs. S. B. Wright, the popular clerk of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company, left for Sweet Hall, Va., to pay a visit to her former home. The Pride of the East Lodge. 83, K. of P., attended the funeral of Reuben Russell held at the Calvary Baptist Church of Norfolk at 2 o'clock. Samuel Hodges, C. C., F. Proc.or, K. of R. and S. The Planet can be found at the office of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company. 518 Green St., E. S. Holmes. Manager J. L. Collins, Planet Agent. Mrs. Mary Freeman and Miss Luey Bell of King St., has been indisposed for several years. Armander Robinson of Green St. has been confined to the house for several days. The Sora of Rest gave a banquet at Webster's Hall, Monday night, March 12th. The welcome speech was made by D. Cuffy, after which they had supper which was followed by speechs made by the following g. ntemen: Messrs George A. Melvin, Jefrey Wilson, Rvs. A. L. Gaines, E. Bolling Messrs. John Winslow, Calvin Hill Wm. Gallops. Everybody seemed to have had a pleasant time. FROM NEWPORT NEWPORT, R. I. March 12, 1900. The Mid Winter Pincie gave a concert at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, corner of Bellevue Ave and Kay St, with Miss Manie E Williams of Providence, K I., assisted by some of Newport's best known talent. Miss Williams was the star of the entertainment, and much praise must be given to the Zonolia Female Quartette. Miss Luis Brown sang tenor, Mrs. Ruth Holmes, soprano; Mrs. Emma Taylor, baritone; Miss Margaret Johnson, bass. They were fine. The entertainment was given under the auspices of the stewardesses assisted by the church auxiliaries for the stewards' department. The committee in charge was Mrs. Levi Jackson, cochairman, Mrs. Elizz Toney, treasurer; Mrs. James Holmes secretary; Jackson Carter, preacher's steward; Rev. D. P. Brown, D. D. pastor, Admission, 150. Season tickets for two nights. 25c. Rev. H. N. Jeter has been indisposed Mrs James W. Johnson's funeral occurred on Friday afternoon at the Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. Miss Sadie W. Mitchell, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Mitchell of Levin St., is dangerously ill at her brother's residence, Mr. Ollie M. Mitchell. Mrs. Slas Dickerson of Levin St., is visiting Mrs. Mitchell of New Bedford, Mass. Mr. T. G. Williams is still confined to his home and his place of business is advertised for sale. Miss Mary Snead has returned from Lynchburg, Va. Mrs. Gibson's son of Prospect, Hill St., is quite ill. Owing to Lent the series of the assembly is at present a standard still. scolloys is present a standard still. He is Howard Douglass of New Bedford, a visitor of here on Wednesday, the guest of Mr. George W. Hamilton. Mrs. James Palmer of Freebody St. is new convalescent. Mrs Wm. H. Hilton of DeBlois St., is still quite sick. Miss Bessie Gunner, sister of Rev. Byron Gunner is ill at her brother's residence on Elm St. Mr. Anthony T. Pier's little son, Lemuel and daughter, Sarah are quite sick. The funeral of Mrs. Agnes Nightingale took place Thursday, March 9th from the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Rev. Elijah Richardson officiated. FROM CHARLOTTESVILLE CHARLOTTESVILLE, V.A., Mar. 14, 1900. Rev. Perkins of Hinton, W. Va., is conducting a revival at the 1st Colored Baptist Church, and many have professed Christ. Rev. R. E. Hardy of the Mount Zion Baptist Church is being inured in a revival meeting by Rev. Nathan O. Mentor Lodge, G. U. O. F., is professing nicely, the meetings are being held in New Hall on Main St., and new members are being taken in each month. The Y. M. O. A. have devoted exercises at their rooms every Sunday afternoon from 4:30 to 5:30. All men are invited to come. The subject discussed last Sunday was "Sowing the Seed." It was very interesting. Miss Caroline Bland of Knoxville, Tenn., was in our city last week on a visit to her sister-in-law, Mrs. Caroline Angel. A goodly number of candidates were baptized at Ebenezer Church yesterday. Rev. C. N. Harris, the pastor, is a very earnest and enthusiastic worker. He is also a member of the Y. M. O. A., for which organization he has worked faithfully. There are also others whose names I shall mention later. Mr. Tom Sellers' child died yesterday and was buried to-day. Mrs. Julia Carter, mother of Mrs. Lewis Heiskell, has been quite indoored for the past two weeks. We hope for her a speedy recovery. Mr. Noah Jackson who has been quite ill with pneumonia is still improving. Mr. Chas. Goodloe, who has been quite sick with the grippie, is able to be out again. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson and Miss Lottie Lewis, some of our county-school teachers, were in the city last week. Miss Minnie White of Philadelphia is in town. We had a snow-storm yesterday evening. One of our Y. M. C. A. officers was absent yesterday afternoon. "Love is stronger than words." One of our oldest citizens, Mrs. Phoebe Johnson, aged 105 years, was burned to death at her home on Jeff-ron St., last Friday morning. The fire was subdued before much damage was done to the house. DR-LA INTERVIEW WITH GOV. TAYLOR. Governor Explains Why He Issued Pardons to Goebel Suspects. LOUISVILLE, KY., March 11. According to a statement made by Gov. W. S. Taylor to night to a representative of the Commercial, he has granted a pardon to each of the persons for whom warrants have been issued charging them with being accessories to the assassination of Gov. Goebel, including Secretary of State Caleb Powers and ex-Secretary of State Charles Finley. In his statement Gov. Taylor recites the conditions under which he claims to have been elected, and charges the Democratic contestants for State offices with conspiracy to secure control of the government. He continues: Notwithstanding these conspirators were defragrant, the officials also the State offices, they succeeded in securing a majority in each of the two houses of the general assembly and in retaining in power the State canvassing and counting machine. While many Democratic members were honestly elected, yet others were elected by the manipulation of dishonest prescript officers and county canvassing boards before and during the election and then after the election by a system of counting in and counting out until the majority aforesaid was obtained. As thus constituted the general assembly and canvassing board have declared that the will of the people should be appeased at the odds shall be set aside. It is needless to say that such conspiracies as this almost inevitably produce revolution, because a free people will not willingly be deprived of their right of suffrage or consent that the minority instead of the majority shall rule. "Pending this unfortunate struggle the Hon. William Goebel, the contestant for the office of governor, was assassinated by some person whose identity is unknown. Thereupon a conspiracy was formed to fasten this heinous crime upon all or some of the State officers elected by the people, the purpose being to obscure and cover the political robbery and to terrorize and destroy all opposition. In order to carry out this foul conspiracy they procured an act appropriating $100,000 ostensibly to the purpose of detecting the criminals, and have employed a lawyer whose course in the criminal practice in Cineinnati was so odious as to cause a riot resulting in the destruction of "the courthouse and the loss of over forty lives." "Following this an employee of the Cincinnati Enquirer has made affidavits charging that Hon. Galele Powers, secretary of state; his brother, John Powers, a captain of a company of State militia; W. H. Culton, a clerk in the auditor's office; Hon. Charles Finley, ex-secretary of state, and Capt. John W. Davis, policeman of the State House grounds, conspired, added, and assisted in said assassination. Warrants were issued, and said W. H. Culton was, during the night of March 8th, taken from his home, where his wife and child were sick, and incarcerated in the county jail without bail or given an opportunity to secure bail. On the day of said assassination, Harlan Whitaker, whose residence is in Burlington County, Ky., was arrested and charged with said crime and assassination, and was placed in jail and kept confined without trial for over one month in defiance of the provisions of the law requiring a speedy examining trial, that the person charged with should be brought out every two days. Upon the trial he was held over without bail, notwithstanding there was absolutely no evidence introduced showing his guilt. For some cause, or without cause, our courts, composed almost entirely of Democratic judges have become so partisan that it is practically, if not absolutely, impossible for any man not of their persuasion to obtain a fair trial. As organized the courts are courts of conviction instead of courts of trial. "Under this state of affairs, believing that each one of said persons is innocent of any complicity in said crime, and further believing that the enormous reward will secure the conviction of these men, however innocent, I deemed it my solemn duty to issue pardons to them in order that those political conspirators might not be enabled to deprive them of their liberty or their life. The guilty men should be punished, but designing men controlling the courts should not be enabled to shed the blood of innocent men, and if it is in my power to prevent it, I pledge myself in the name of God and humanity that it shall not be dene." Mrs. T. Walker has returned to the city. She has been visiting friends and relatives in Amelia Co. She has removed from 610 N. 1st street to 24½ W. Jackson St. Mr. Albert Burgess Hughes, foreman of the St. Paul Printing Office, at Lawrenceville, Va., called on us. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. FROM HARTFORD. HARTFORD, CONN., March 18, 1900. Mr. James Williams visited Essex Co. Va., to attend the funeral of his father. The concert given by the Children's Tent at the A. M. E. Zion Church on Thursday evening, Mar. 8th, was a success. Rev. John O Taylor preached a rousing sermon in the Union Baptist Church last Sunday evening. The concert and ball which was to have been given by the S. A. B. Society on March 1st at the Horse Guard Army, to be given on March 21st at the above name place. Mrs. Bayne who has been confined to her bed, is improving. Mrs. A. D. Chandler, wife of Rev. A. D. Chandler pastor of the Union Baptist Church, who has been confined to her home, 43 Wooster St., with the laggripe, is improving. Mrs. M. E. Oully has moved her store from 56 Grand St., to No. 8 Hunt Ave. Mr. Isa Watermon is also confined his home. GONE BEFORE. RICHMOND, VA., March 10, 1900. The death of Brother Madison Minor, the husband of Mrs. Agnes S. Minor, occurred on the 10th day of March, after a long and painful illness, at his old homestead in Goochland County, Va. Mis remains were brought to Richmond and laid in state at the establishment of funeral director, Wm. I. Johnson, until Tuesday. They were borne from there to the Second Baptist Church where the funeral took place. Dr. Z. D. Lewis officiated, assisted by other divines. Hymn, "Servant of God well done," was read by Rev. Dr. Z. D. Lewis, and lined by Rev. W. H. White; reading of the Scripture by Rev. A. S. Thomas, from a part of the 8th chapter of Romans; prayer by Rev. A. H. Mayo; after which the choir shanted in mournful strain a beautiful anthem. Rev. Dr. Z. D. Lewis then took his text from John 8:25, "Jesus said unto her, thy brother shall rise again." He preached a most excellent sermon, filled with wholesome advice to the sorrowing widow, sisters, brothers and son of the deceased. The following gentlemen served as active and honorary pall-bearers: Messrs. Royal Threat, Henley Henderson, Thomas E. Edmonds, Albert West, Omarham, Patrick Smith, John Bly, Wm. Bly. The doral designs were many, very handsome and costly. After the services the remains were borne to the Mechanics cemetery where the services were closed by Rev. W. H. White. Noticebe among the mourners was the venerable Rev. Evans Payne, cousin of the deceased. Go to thy rest in peace, And soft be thy repose. Thy toils are o'er, thy troubles cease, From earthly cares, in sweet release, Thine eyelids gently close. Go to thy peaceful rest, For we thee we do need not weep, Since thou art now among the blest- No more by sin and sorrow pressed, But hushed in silent sleep. His devoted sisters and wife, AGES S. MINOR. There will be services at the Leigh St. M. E. Church Sunday, March 18th, 1900, as follows: Preaching at 11 a. m. and 3 p. m., by the pastor, at the Rev. J. Edward Gunby, A. M. E. D. Sunday being the last in this Conference year, the pastor has made special preparations for each service. All are cordially invited. On Monday, March 19th, a Pastoral Anniversary will be given in honor of the pastor, the Rev. J. Edward Gunby Church at which Leigh Church will be rendered. Refreshments will be served by the committee. Admission 10.cts. PERSONAL AND BRIEFS. Mr. J. J. Duvall of Fire Creek, W. Va., sent us a ringing letter. He paid his subscription and advised others to do likewise. We were greatly pleased to receive a visit from Rev. Alexander Gordon, pastor of the Monumental Baptist Church and Rev. W. A. Creditt pastor of Cherry St. bapist Church, both of Phila, who called on us in company with Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham. The latter has just returned from an extended trip through South-western Virginia. Unity Lodge, No. 24, meets Friday night, March 23rd, at eight o'clock. Much business to transact. Miss Patience Scott and her sister gave a delightful entertainment at the Orphan Asylum last week. Virginia Court met March 5th. The attendance was quite large. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., and Miss Marietta L. Chiles, together with members of the Executive Board of the Past Worthy Counsellors Assembly were present. —Mrs. Peyton F. Johnson of 1000% St. Peter street left the city last Wednesday to visit friends and relatives in Baltimore and Washington. We wish her a pleasant stay. —Mrs. Joanna Thompson has been assigned to the position of the trained nurse in Mr. Fred Scott's family and will be so engaged for two weeks. —Rev. D. W. Davis, A. M. will give his popular lecture on "White-wash." Monday evening, the 19th inst. at the First Presbyterian Church. Admission, 10 ots. —William Morton, colored, fell dead at 7th and Clay Sts. Monday night. He resided on Sixth Street between Clay and Leigh. The Knights of Pythias will hold their anniversary exercises Sunday afternoon, 25th inst., at the First Baptist Church. It was a very sad affair, but they say Mr. A. D. Prices had charge of the arrangements and entire satisfaction was given. He is the funeral director, you knew. William Boyd, colored, while at work near a lime-kiln, near Louisiana St., had a fit and fell in it, burning his legs and body. His condition is serious. For fine wines, liquors, etc., call on Mr. S. W. Robinson. See advertisement. To Avert Lake Labor Troubles. March, 14. The conference between the 'longshoremen and the dock managers and vessel owners which has been going on here for seven days is expected to end tonight, and it is now thought that an agreement will be reached which will prevent labor troubles absolutely on the lakes during the coming season. Mudder Over Cards in Jury Room. Columbus, Ga., March 14. News was received here from Andalusia. As the killing of Thomas Sharp by Will Craddock in the jury room of the court house at that place. The men quarreled over a game of cards. It is said the jury room has been used for gambling constantly, a game going on there almost every night. Cost of Our Indian Wards. Washington, March 14.—The senate committee on Indian affairs yesterday completed consideration of the Indian appropriation bill, and Senator Thurston reported it to the senate. The bill was passed on January 4, an increase of $1,148,903. The principle increased appropriations are for the support of Indian schools. Cures WeakMen Free Insures Love and Happiness. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, and large small weak organs to full shape and vigor. Simply send your name and address to Dr. L. W. Knapp, 1822 Hull Bldg., Detroit. 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Washington, March 14.—The last legislative step in the enactment of the financial bill was taken by the house of representatives yesterday when the conference report on the bill was adopted by a vote of 166 yeas to 120 nays; present and not voting, 10. The senate had already adopted the conference report, so it remains only for President McKinley to affix his signature to the measure to make it a law. Representatives overstreet, the author of the bill, will present the White House today, and the signature is likely to be affixed soon thereafter. Already arrangements have been made for securing the pen with which the president will sign the bill. Twenty-three Sailors Probably Lost Philadelphia, March 14.—The first news of the total loss of the Norwegian steamship Framnes, while bound from Philadelphia for Havana and Santiago de Cuba, was brought here last night by the steamship Admiral Schley, from Port Antonio. The Framnes struck Hogsty Reef, Bahama Islands, on March 2, and became a total loss. On March 3 a small boat was sighted by Captain Butman, of the showing sign among the Bahamas and showing sign of distress. The tiny craft proved to be frightening, Framnes, and was in charge of her chief officer in search of assistance. He had with him four of the crew. They were picked up and landed at Fortune Island. The lost vessel was commanded by Captain Thorbyarman and manned by a crew of 28 men. It is probable that 23 lives are lost. Uncle Sam's Postal Receipts. Washington, March 13.—A statement prepared by the postoffice department shows that the receipts at 50 of the largest postoffices during the month of February were $3,562,547, an increase of $279,409, or 8½ per cent over the corresponding month of the previous year. The receipts at some of the principal postoffices were as follows: New York, $735,837; Chicago, $820,810; Philadelphia, $70,890; Boston, $239,258; St. Louis, $147,857; Cincinnati, $101,513; Brooklyn, $115,443; Baltimore, $90,641; San Francisco, $85,300; Pittsburg, $69,855. Mrs. Booth-Tucker Stricken Racine, Wis., March 14—Mrs. Booth Tucker, of the Salvation Army, who was to deliver a lecture in Racine last night, was prostrated on her arrival and unable to fulfill her engagement. She was taken to a private residence and medical aid summoned. It is said that her voice has fallen completely. ASLEEP. HANOVER COUNTY. VA., Jan. 26, 190 John Williams departed this li. Jan. 28th, 1900; he was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church for ten years, and died in full triumph of faith. He sung the hymn, "We are passing away like a short winter's day" His age was 28 years, 8 months and 5 days. He was a graduate of Hampton School. Class of '98. He was a teacher at Pleasant Grove School. He leaves a father, two sisters, three brothers and many friends to mourn their loss. Church Notice First Presbyterian Church corner Monroe and Catherine streets, Rev. W E. Partee, D. D., pastor; Mrs. Olivia C. Bolden, organist. Preachin, t 11 A. M., and 8u P. M. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday evening at 8 P. M. Sabbath school at 9:30 A. M., Dr. P. B. Ramsey, super- intendent. A cordial invitation is extended to all persons to attend any and all of these services Oct-21-1yr lr WANTED WEEKLY 100 GOOKS Housemaids and Wattresses for New York and other Northern Cities, wages from $3.00 to $50 per week. Transportation furnished, also 50 farm hands for Maryland. R. W Elsom tf 417 E. Broad St 27 N. Juniper St., Philadelphia, Pa. I can place any number of young house work girls. Good wages. Write for particulars. 2 24-6w. SINNER'S DREAM SEVEN SEALS is sold at 15cts each, and any one desiring to be an agent for them, can d so by paying 10c. each and this will allow them 5cts on each book. One dollar will buy ten. Give this a trial. All amounts must be paid in advance. Books sent free of postage. Address, LUCINDA SMITH YOUNG. The 'Economy.' W. O. TURNER, Prop. PRACTICAL CUTTER AND FITTER. Gent's Fine Garments. The public is invited to call and inspect our line of new Imported Spring and Summer Goods. OLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Goods called for and delivered promptly. Old Phone 1188. Hot and Cold Drinks always on hand. Fine Stationery, School Supplies, &e. THE GAMBLER'S BIBLE. A SILVER OFFERING. Fifth Street Baptist Church. MONDAY NIGHT, NEXT, BY REV. G. W. BRYANT. The citizens of Richmond are respectfuls invited to attend a special sermon to be delivered by REV. G. W. BRYANT on next Monday night. March 19th at FIFTH ST BAP TISI OHURCH Subject "THE GAMBLER'S BIBLE." This is said to be one of the most eloquent and powerful of this great orator's efforts, and all, both saint and sinner, will miss a great treat by not attending this special service. It has been said through the press and by multiplied thousands who have heard this sermon, that the effect is most marvelous upon the audience hearing it. The Silver offering is for the benefit of Rallying Club, No. 1, to assist in augmenting the following general rallies that will take place on the following Sundays. Let Richmond turn out in all her strength to hear this eminent divine and help the good work along. Don't forget the date—NEXT MONDAY NIGHT. Be Not Deceived!! BEFORE. AFTER. 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 curses all forms of itching, humiliating scalp diseases, stops the hair from falling out, and causes a new growth to grow on the baldest heal. 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. Soiling 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 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 have advertised for nearly 24 years, offering to return the money for Ozono did not give satisfaction and we have never yet had to refund the money. Ozono did not really take 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, etc. BEFORE: AFTER 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 probe satisfactory in every particular. Kate W. Page, Blacksburg, Va., writes:—Your preparation has proven true to all you claim for it. The price of Ozono is 50s. a box. It takes from 8 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 Ozono 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 fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—nature's great beautifier, removes Wrinkles, Moth-patches, freckles and all facial blemishes, and to prove our liberality we will add to this one Package of Anti-Odor. A positive cure for Thrush, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet, also Removes all amnells and Odors arising from the human body such as Feet, Arm Pits, &c. Rem-mber 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, I enclose you $1.00 (One Dollar) for which please send me the following goods at once; the following goods at once: 4 (four) LARGE BOXES "GZONO" HAIR GROWER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER, one) LARGE BOTTLE ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINEER, one) LARGE JAR ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, 2 (two) J. A. & C. J. COOKE SUCCESSORS TO Henry Cooke, 528N.AdamsSt. Near Leigh St Night Calls and Orders by phone Promptly Executed. Residence U1. Stairs - MY NAME IS W. F. GRAHAM, Pastor