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THE RICHMOND PLANET. REV. DR. HARVEY JOHNSON SPEAKS. The Removal of Dea. Taylor. HE QUESTIONS DR. JONES Jesus Christ and the Sabbath. AUTHORITIES CITED—NO FALSE DOCTRINE VOL XVII, NO15 REV. DR. HARV JOE The Removal of HE QUESTION Jesus Christ an AUTHORITIES CITED- BALTIMORE, M.D., March, 1900. EDITOR JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Dear Sir:—I see in your most widely read paper of a week ago, a statement to the effect that a deacon of a Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., had been excluded both from his office and church membership, for believing that Saturday is still God's Sabbath; and that it had not been abenged to the 1st day of the week or to what is known as Sunday and the Lord's Day. I also see that Prof. Jones was a member of the committee or council that examined the brother on his doctrinal fitness for the ministry, and that they refused to recommend him for license, but made a case against him, and sent him on to the church-meeting to be tried for holding false doctrines. CANNOT FIND IT. New I want to say to Dr. Jones that I do not find one single passage in the Old Testament that says either by prophet, priest or king that it was the purpose of God to ever change His Sabbath to the first day of the week; neither do I find a single passage in the New Testament that says, or even implies that the change was ever made; and if there is such a passage in either the Old or New Testaments, I call on Dr. Jones to name it for me. On the other hand, however, I do find that it says the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord; and I want to say, that in every passage in either Testament, where the Sabbath is mentioned, it refers to Saturday and not to Sunday, for the word "Sunday" is not in the Bible, because it is a heathen term, and does not refer to the worship of Christ, but to the Sun. Just notice the spelling of the word; it is not "Son," but "Sun," which shows that it refers to our solar Sun, and not to God's Son; and also shows that the day has been dedicated to the heathen worship of the sun. ENTERS HIS PROTEST. Now, I want to enter my most solemn protest, as a Baptist, against turning a member out of the church for holding to the teaching of God's word as against the teaching of man; for the teaching that the Sabbath has been changed to Sunday, is the teaching of men, and men only. But let me here give some proof of this. First: Jesus nowhere and at no time speaks of any change of the day from from the seventh to the first. Another proof is, that the whole church kept the Law of Moses for many years after the death of Christ, because the church was composed of none but Jews until about the year 41, when Peter brought in Cornelius and his household. Now, if the resurrection of Jesus meant the changing of the day, why did the church go right on keeping the seventh day, during the whole lifetime of the apostles,—for they all continued the Synagogue worship until the day of their death and only worshiped elsewhere when they were either driven or turned out of them or that there was none in the place; and in the Synagogue on the Seventh or Sabbath day. This shows that the church kept the Seventh day. HOW THE DAY WAS CHANGED Now, I will attempt to show how the day was changed from Saturday to Sunday as a day of worship. It was not by God Himself, nor Jesus, nor his apostles; but as I said before, by man. Turn to Encyclopædia Britannica page 654, and here is what it says: "The first writer who mentions Sunday as applicable to the Lord's Day, is Justin Martyr. This designation of the first day of the week is of heathen origin." Again from the same work and volume, the writer says: "But the whole matter was placed on an entirely new book when the civil law by the constitution of Constantines began legislate as to the Sunday rest." Now see Brown's Cyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge, article, "Sunday," and this is what it says in speaking of how the change was brought about: "To call it Sunday is to set our wisdom before the wisdom of God—to give that glory to a pagan idol which is due to Him alone. The Saxons called it by this name because they worshipped the Sun on that day." We will next notice some of the passages quoted as proof of the change from Sabbath to Sunday,—that is from the seventh day to the first. John 20:19 is the first meeting after the resurrection. FOR FEAR OF THE JEWS. But that does not say they were gathered to institute nor to keep a new Sabbath, but that they gathered and shut themselves in for fear of the Jews. Now, I will make this general statement; that I do not find that any of those first day meetings mentioned in Acts have reference whatever to the change of Sabbath to Sunday, but show that the first day of the week took a new name,—that of the Lord's day,—and that the apostles and brethren and worshipped on that day. But the Book of Acts shows that the same apostles brethren always met first on the Sabbath or Seventh day, and went into the Synagogue and worshipped, and the next day of the week, on certain occasions only, met and worshipped, but left the Old Testament Sabbath stand first, as God and Moses had instituted it; for, as I have shown, they always went into the Synagogue on Saturday and kept it before keeping the First day. WHERE IS THE PROOF? Where then is the proof of the change of days? And until there is such Scriptural proof furnished, I ask Rev. Dr. J. E. Jones what right has a Baptist Church to turn a member out believing that the change has not been make by God or the Apostes? So for enlightment, I patiently wait. Respectfully, HARVEY JOHNSON. WHAT THE NEGRO HAS DONE (Leslie's Weekly.) A recent writer gives the following summary of what the Negro has accomplished to demonstrate his fitness for civilization. He has reduced his illiteracy forty-five per cent. in thirty-five years; Negro children in the common schools number 1,500,000; Negro students in higher institutions, 40,000; Negro teachers, 30,000; Negro students learning trades, 20,000; Negro students pursuing classical courses, 1,200; Negro students pursuing scientific courses, 1,200; Negro students pursuing business courses, 1,000; and Negro students 17,000. There are 255,000 volumes in Negro libraries, 156 institutions for the higher education of Negroes, 500 Negro physicians, 300 books written by Negroes, 250 Negro lawyers, three banks conducted by Negroes, three magazines edited by Negroes, and 400 newspapers under Negro management. The value of their libraries is $500, 000, their school property is worth $12,000,000, their church property is valued at $37,000,000, their farms, numbering about 130,000, are worth $400,000,000 (this does not include their homes. valued at $825,000,000), their property, worth $165,000,000. Since the war the Negro has raised $10,000,00 for his own education. SUFFOLK, VA., March 14, 1900. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.) in payment of death claim of my husband, John Booker, who was a member of Sufolk Lodge, No. 5, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. & A. Signed: ALICE BOOKER. Witnesses: Leroy Morris, Carter Goodman, Abraham Osker, Isham Powell, John M. Boothes, K. of R. and S. of Sufolk Lodge, No. 5. WANTED—A Good Cook and House Servant to go a few miles out of town for one month. Apply, $10 E. Main St. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SATURDAY MARCH 24 1900 ABE TEBBS. He is just a soldier boy— Is Abe Tebbs. But he's gold without alloy, Is Abe Tebbs! He wears the army blue, And his thoughts are brave and true: He is loyal through and through, Is Abe Tebbs! Abra'm Lincoln is his name— Yes, Abe Tebbs! He is on the roll of fame, Is Abe Tebbs. His skin is dark as night, But his soul and heart are white; And his life is just and right, Aint it, Tebbs? He is with his country's band, Is Abe Tebbs. In a far and foreign land, Is Abe Tebbs! He will never fail or lag, He will never talk or brag: But he'll battle for the flag, Will Abe Tebbs! He is on the firing line, Is Abe Tebbs! Where shots fall all the time, Is Abe Tebbs. But no native ball or knife, Will close his active life; He'll come safely thro' the strife, Will Abe Tebbs! He'll come home again some day, Yes, Abe Tebbs! And he'll ever see fair play, Will Abe Tebbs. He's a credit to his race, In any glime or place; He's a man with God's own grace, Is Abe Tebbs. We have received the following in teresting letter which will explain it self: Sr. Louis, March 14, 1900. My Dear Sir:—Your valuable paper is read every week with much interest and zest. I may well add affection and admiration. I see it at the GLOBE-DEMOCRAT office among the exchanges. I am a white woman connected with the St. Louis press, and am known as a staunch friend and advocate of the Negro race. I notice with pleasure that you believe there are Caucasian people who regard the Black brother as one with them in the same eternal Father, who wish the Negro long life and happiness, and sorrow that he is the object of so much oppression and malice. I will not write much about the intensity of my veneration and loyalty just now, only say that I aspire to be the greatest friend in the world. I am anxious to have my name first on the list of white writers, who favor the African. The title of the PLANET is remarkable and prophetic—that powerful arm, grasping the ligneting. Very truly yours, —Rev. Mark G. Hayford of the Gold Coast English Colony of West Africa is in the city on a lecturing tour. He comes highly recommended and seems to be thoroughly posted upon question which he has seen fit to discuss. Did Not Use Caution. [Canton, Miss., Baptist.] The First Baptist Church, of Richmond, Va., has excluded Deacon Wallace Taylor for holding the belief that Saturday is the Sabbath, so says the Richmond PLANET. The Mississippi Baptist now rises to ask, wherein consisted the heresy? We have only one Scriptural commandment regarding the holy day, which says, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," etc., and whether the first or the seventh day is taken, is, now, a matter of choice; whether the day that saw the finishing of the salvation of man through the resurrection of Christ, or the finishing of the creation of the world, shall be regarded as the holy day. Nor is there any thing in any Baptist Directory that arbitrarily decides the matter. The Virginia church has not used due Baptist caution in this case. Surprise Party. A surprise was led on Lieut. Adolphus Jackson Jr., and wife at their residence, 714 Bates street, on Thursday evening, March 15th. A pleasant time was spent by all, who remained until the wee ama hours of morning. Among those present were Misses Ellen Hill, Madeline Seay, Virginia Seay, Sophia Graves, Marie Graves, Eliza Walker, Frances Harris, Messrs, Pennett Mitchell, Richard V. Turner, Samuel W. Jackson, William A. Shields, Henry Burruss, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Seay and Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Jackson, Jr. Dr. Hunter McGuire, president of the University College of Medicine was stricken with paralysis last Tuesday afternoon, while out driving. He was carried to his residence at 6th and Franklin Sts., and his condition is said to be much improved. ANNIVERSARY. K. OF P. NOTES. The Annual Sermon to the Knights of Pythias will be preached at the First Baptist Church, by Rev. G. O. Coleman, pastor of Zion Baptist Church, Manchester, Va., and member of Manchester Lodge, No. 11. The Brigadier General and Staff, the commander of First Regiment and Staff, the city Companies of the Uniform Kank and the Knights of the various lodges will meet at Prince's Hall, at 2 P.M. The lodges will form according to date of institution (Richmond, No. 1; Virginia, No. 6; Old Dominion, No. 8; Manchester, No. 11; Birmingham, Lily, No 15; Samson, No. 16; Myrtle, No. 17; Planet, No. 23; Unity, No. 24; Royal, No. 28; Excelsior, No. 29; Museo, No. 35) and march to the First Baptist Church. The Courts of Calanthe will meet in the basement of the church at 2:30. The Past Chancellors Assembly held an interesting meeting Friday evening, 16th inst. Four P. C's were en- rolled. Four of this body is something phleomonal. 一 The following were the officers installed by Deputy Anna Taylor for Anna's Eureka Court: W. C., R. Elenora Wesley; W. Inspectrix, Rosetta Pryor; W. Inspector, Nannie Cole; J. D., Henrietta Jones; S. D., Millie Johnson; W. O., Leanna Jones; W. R. of W. Luce E Miles; W. R of D, Rosa Smith; W. R. of A, Mildred C. Jones; W. Escors, Mary E.Taylor; W. Con, Louisa Davenport; W. A. Con, Mary Moore; W. Herald, Kate Jeter; W. Protector, Susan Jackson. Unity Court, 182, met in its Court chamber with a very good attendance and had a splendid, lovely meeting, and transacted much business for the good of the court and order in general. The Grand Worthy Counsellor, John Mitchell, Jr., was present and made a beautiful talk to the court; also Deputy Anna Taylor of Pure Gold Court, 50, Mrs. Graham, Grand Rec. of Deposite of the Grand Court and a member of Old Dominion Court made splendid talks and gave good advice. We hope they will call again. Golden Harp Band, No. 2, had its monthly meeting on the 19th instant, and much business was attended, Policies were issued and officers were installed as follows: President, Naule Carter; vice-president, Rosa B. Giles; chaplain, Leila Richardson; financial secretary, Alice Epps; assistant secretary, Robert H. Robinson; treasurer, Maria Kent; messenger, Adele Davis; junior conductor, Clarence Moss; senior conductor, Rosa B. Lewis; sentimental, Bundy C. West. We are very glad to say that the band is on the road to prosperity under the new officers. Planet Lodge, 28, held a wide-awake convention in its castle hall last Monday evening. An excellent paper was read on Pythianism by P. C. W. A. Kyles, and was ably discussed by members and visitors. Sir Knights of sister lodges are tendered a hearty welcome to these literary treats. Sir Jno, G. Smith, 907 3rd street and Sir W. H. Harvey, 524 Brooke avenue are still confined. Col. John R. Chiles is the recipient of a bouncing baby boy. Excelsior Lodge, 29, met last Tuesday evening, Sir J. W. Terrell in the chair. The rank of Page was conferred on John Funn. Sir Joel Tucker is out again. Sir J. T. Harper of Unity Lodge, 24, who has been sick for the past two weeks is out again. Sir Norman Wesley of Richmond Lodge, 1, is now convalescent. Sir Burrell Jackson of Unity Lodge is spending the spring in New York and New Jersey. Quite an amount of favorable comment has been heard relative to the Amplified Bank, which was conferred on Rev. S. C. Burrell, by the Old Dominion Tigers, Thursday, 22d ult. He is attached to Royal Lodge. Rev. W. H. Stokes is now a member of Royal Lodge. It must be distinctly understood that no Lodge or Court will be represented in this column unless the information is furnished by some member of said Lodge or Court. All communications should be addressed to NOMAD, Care Planet. —Rev. James H. Holmes, D. D., will be master of ceremonies at the Pythian anniversary to-morrow afternoon at the First Church. PERSONALS AND BRIEFSS. The Independent Club enjoyed a smoker Thursday night, at the residence of Mr. H. C. Bolden. Mr. Winston D. Payne, chairman of committee. Mr. J. Milton Dabney, president. The Theban Social Club had a public installation of officers at Foushee Hall, Mr. C. Bernard Gilpin, president. Mr. Clifton G. Cabell delivered the installation address. The following are sick, Mrs. Yancey of 1811 Boyd Street, Mrs. Agnes Lunce, 1803 Boyd Street, Miss Lizzie Willis, Mr. George White, Miss Lena Richardson. Miss Price, of Park Ave., Mrs. R. J. Foster, Mrs. Eliza Randolph. Misses Lillian Moore, Nellie Sears, Carrie Smith and Mary Rowe have returned to the city. They have been teaching school in the country. Mr. Joseph L. Burrell, who has been visiting New York has returned to the city. Rev Dr. W. F. Graham left for Baltimore last Wednesday. Mr. J. C. Farley, the accomplished photographer has been awarded the contract for the taking of photographs for the Negro Exhibit at the Paris Exposition. He was there on time, and gave satisfaction. Funeral Director Wm. Isaae Johnson is ever ready to serve you. See notice. Rev. Dr. G. W. Bryant now has an office at 708 N. 2nd St. The Christian Crusaders have been very successful at the Third St. A. M. E. Church. Many have professed religion. Miss Sallie Baker, formerly of Williamburg, Va., is an active worker with the Christian Crusaders and may be seen marching in the streets as a member of the band. She plays the tambourine. WANTED—A young girl between 18 and 22 years of age to do general-house work. No washing or ironing. Bring reference. Apply to Mrs. Gath-wright, 411 N. 23rd St. —Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Price's daughter is three weeks old to-day. —A conference of Republicans was held at Ford's Law Building Wednesday night. It is reported that only one colored brother was present. —The kicking Democrats of Jackson Ward have refused to submit their claims to the Democratic City Committee and pledge themselves to abide by its decision. —We received an invitation to attend the Cotillion Club entertainment, March 27th at 9:30 p. m. Miss Luzy Reid, President; Miss Madeline west, secretary. Little Omne Berthel King, of No. 1017 Hull St., Manchester, Va., celebrated her birthday day on last Wednesday night. It was a nice affair. She is the younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. King. Mr. P. H. Robinson, who has been quite sick for the past four weeks is out again. Mrs. Ida Charity, who has been sick for the last six weeks is out again. FINNEY—Died in Amelia County, Va., Dec. 27, '99. Mr. Passal Finney, in the 71st year of his age. He was dearly beloved by every one who knew. He was born in Cumberland Co., Va., but had lived in Amelia most all of his life. He leaves a beloved wife, one son, Mr. C. P. Finney; three daughters, Mrs. Nannie Smith, Mrs. Georgie A. F. Mack, Mrs. Charlotte Bragg, and a host of friends to mourn their loss. ROPER-On Monday, March 19th, 1900, Mary Etta Roper, daughter of Peter and Maria S. Roper, departed this life in her 90th year. Funeral from Ebenezer Church, Wednesday, March 22nd, 8 o'clock. Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep HENRICO C3., VA., March 11, 1800. HAMMER C. V., MAR 11, 1900. The Varina and Fairfield S. S. Union met with the Rising Mount Zion S. S. on the above date. The exercises were very small. There was an essay read by Miss Arena Rone; subject, "The family worship" RICHARD COLEMAN, Pres., M. A. FAGGEN, See y. Mr. A. P. Quarles of 1002 N. 3rd St., is out after a brief illness. Feast at St. Joseph'Ohuroh. Last Monday morning St. Joseph Catholic Church was packed to its doors with a patient audience who wore an expression of anxiety. At 10:07 Sister Cassia played the prelude, then entered the altar attendants from the left taking up their position on the right. Next came Rev. Father Duffy, followed by seven other priests attired in their gorgeous gowns of all saints. After solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament the choir sang, "Die Nobis" and the mass which had lasted for something over an hour was brought to a close. Doors Battered Down and 500 Shots Fired into John Bailey's Cell. ATLANTA, GA., March 18.—A special from Marietta, Ga., says that a mob of 125 men battered down the doors of the jail at that place at 1 o'clock this morning and went to the cell where John Bailey, colored, was confined and fled about 500 shots at him Bailey dropped to the flor at the first fire, and only three or four balls struck him. He will die. On Thursday afternoon, a mile and a half from Marietta, Bailey met Miss Amanda Shellgrove, a young white woman, and in an attempt to outrage her, beat her very severely. She screamed for help the Negro fled. He was arrested and taken before the young woman. She identified him as her assailant, and he was placed in jail to be tried in a few days. Columbus, Ga., March 18.—Charles Humphries, who entered the room of Miss McCoy, daughter of a white farmer, living just outside of Phoenix City, Ala., was lynched to day by a party of white men. The young woman recognised Humphries last night, and a mob immediately started in pursuit. This morning they came upon the man, about ten miles from Phoenix City. He confessed the attempt and was shot to death. The Payne-Tancil Suit. It will be remembered that the jury of the Law and Equity Court in the suit of Dr. R. F. Tancil against Rev. Evans Payne for slander brought in a judgement of $1500. Rev Payne took an appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals. The case was argued last week by Hon. George Dwis on behalf of Rev. Payne and曼恩 Charles O'Brien and H. M. Smith, for Dr. Tancil. If the Supreme Court reverse the Law and Equity Court, the judgement will be set aside and the case will come up for re-trial. SECOND ANNUAL MEETING The Second Annual Meeting of the B., I. and Relief Association of Va., was held at the office of the Association, No 34 W. Leigh St., on last Wednesday evening. At 8:30 o'clock, the president, Rev. G. C. Coleman, called the meeting to order. Prayer was offered by Attorney C. Mimma. Minutes of previous session were read and approved, after which the reports of the officers heard. Rev. G. C. Coleman reviewed the work and gave a grand account of his southern trip in the interest of the work. He showed that the people were eager and anxious to take hold of any enterprise that offered them financial aid in these days of the "order" for the race, and that wherever he had gone there were willing hands and minds. He showed that the best efforts of all be put to make the association all that the race desired it to be—a stepping stone to great achievements in the financial world. Next came the report of the Secretary and Manager, Prof J. H. Blackwell. It took over an hour to read his report, in which he reviewed the work in every detail. He showed what the different fields were doing, of the branch officers' work, and the great help the association had been to the members in giving financial aid to them. Hundreds of our people for years have been in the hands of the "Broker Sharpa" of this and other cities of the state, and, that by joining this association a great number of them had thrown off the yoke and were free. Over eight thousand dollars have been distributed in loans to them for the past year. Three hundred and eighty-five dollars were paid out in death benefits. One thousand and fifteen dollars were paid out in sick benefits. An increased membership of four thousand and eighteen. Thirty-five members of the race employed as managers, book-keepers, clerks and solicitors, and seventy as agents. While the stock of the association had not run a sufficient length of time to mature, yet the earnings up to the present time have fully met our expectations and as far as known, foresee cogudge, the stock will be nearly doubled in cash to the certificate holder. Other reports were equally as encouraging. After the reading of the reports the Stockholders expressed themselves as being highly profitted and congratulated themselves at the showing made at the end of the second year. The Stockholders then re-elected the same Board of Directors after which the Stockholders' meeting adjourned and the Directors met and re-elected the following officers: Rev. G. C. Coleman, President; A. Q. Powell, Vice President; Pref. J. H. Blackwell, Secretary and Manager; W. H. Hatcher, assistant Secretary; G. W. Cunningham, Treasurer; C. Mimms, Attorney. Mr. Alexander Jonathan has been very sick at his home for about three weeks. PRICE 5 CENTS People crowded to the Second Baptist Church from all parts of the city throughout the entire day to take part in the auspicious celebration of the eleventh anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. Dr. Z. D. Lewis. Deacon M. Deane, Church Clerk rendered a very interesting report and we gleaned the following on the financial success of the church in the eleven years. In the five years before Rev. Lewis took charge there was $9125.48 an average of $1825.09 a year. For the eleven years of Rev. Lewis' pastorate coll. eted $6054.88; or an average of $3277.72 a year. On Monday night 19:h, the following brethren were ordained to the office of deacon: John T. Taylor, Moses Poythews, C. M. Griffith and George W. Edwards, Rev, George E. Johnson, master of ceremony, Sermon by Rev. Dr. A. Bings, Jr., prayer by Deacon Anderson Knox, hand of fellowship by Deacon Harrison Smith, charge by Deacon J. W. Williams, after which all the council and invited guest were ordered to the basement of the church where a bountieous supper was prepared by the committee of arrangements. The communion at the 5th Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon was full of spiritual interest. The services at River View Church was by the prayers of the ever faithful and the good sermons incidented the occasion. We heard that one of our divines met with quite a warm reception furnished by some of the dear widow. It seems or is claimed that all want him, and the dear girls cry for him. Now, be careful as false friendship is one among the worst enemies man has. Man know thyself. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Carter, Jr., after spending a few days on a flying visit to their parents returned to their home in Washington on the 8:38 A. M. R. F. and P., on the 12th, having enjoyed the social visits of many friends and an eloquent reception tendered them by their parents. Dr. Lewis and madam was presented with a handsome silver service of G pieces. We have two business companies in this section but nothing doing. Office of the Grand Worthy Counsellor, Independent Order of Calanthe, N. A., S. A. E., A., A. & A. RICHMOND, VA., March 15, 1900. To the Subordinate Courts of Rich- mond and Manchester: The Courts of Calanthe, having been invited to participate in the anniv- sary exercises of the Knights of Pythias. Sunday afternoon, March 25th, 1900, at the First Baptist Church, the mem- bers are requested to meet in the lec- ture room of the church at 2 p. m. The Worthy Counsellors are also re- quested to see that their courts are duly represented. Given under my hand and the seal of the Grand Court of Vir- ginia this 15th day of March 1900. JOHN MITCHELL, JE., Grand Worthy Counsellor MARIETTA L. CHILES. MARIETTA L. CHILES, Grand Worthy Register of Deeds 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, VA., March 14th, 1900. To the Subordinate Lodges of Richmond and Manchester. The anniversary of the Knights of Pythis will be duly observed Sunday afternoon, March 25th. All lodges will meet at Prices's hall, 212 E. Leigh St. at 2 o'clock from which place they will proceed to the 1st Baptist Church where the anniversary exercies 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, 1900. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Grand Chancellor THOMAS M. CRUMP, Grand Keeper of Records, & Seal. WHITE-WASH. Rev. D. W. Davis, A. M., after a remarkably successful Lecture Tour in Ohio where he lectured to large and enthusiastic audiences, has consented to lecture on White-wash at the First Presbyterian Church, colored, corner of Monroe and Catherine Sts., Monday evening, March 29th, 1900, for the benefit of the chereh. The following well known singers will furnish an excellent musical program: Mrs. S. Alise Kemp Burrell, Mrs. Mildred A. Cross, Miss Ella Juliet Williams, Miss Delia Lewis, Mrs. Carrie Hawkins, Miss H. Belle Fitzhugh. Let us show our appreciation for our own Poet and Orator, and our Popular Singers. Admission, 10 cents., Rev. W. E. Partee, D. D. Pastor; Mrs. Artena J. Miller, Manager. —Miss Lucy Forcey is seriously ill at her residence, 212 North Madison St. She will be very glad to see her many friends. CARSON WILDRED'S CRIME A DETECTIVE STORY OF TWO CONTINENTS BY HARRY WOOD REYNOLDS 2 CHAPTER XI. Karine's face grew paler than before. Throwing up her head with a proud, spirited little gesture, she walked quickly to the door, and passed out into the hall. It had, indeed, been Sir Walter and Lady Tressidley and Carson Wildred whose voices we had heard. "Why did you run away? We have been looking for you everywhere, and wasting so much time!" I heard Lady Tressidley say fretfully. "I was very tired of standing," the girl promptly returned, "and of waiting, too"—with a certain imperiousness in her tone. "I wandered away to fill up the time till Mr. Wildred should have straightened matters in the dining room." She had contrived to satisfy their curiosity without telling an actual falsehood, of which I knew instinctively she would greatly dislike making herself guilty. It did not seem to occur to them to enter the drawing room where she had left me, and when I was sure that they had passed out of sight and hearing I came forth from the ignominious hiding place to which her command had condemned me. In the exalted mood which had possession of me the thought of dinner would have been abhorrent. For the rest of the evening I kept my room, meditating many things and becoming more and more desirous of learning Carson Wildred's secret, if secret indeed he had. At all events, I still had six weeks in which to work, with the hope ever before me of saving Karine Cunningham from the man whom, by her own confession, she did not love. On the following day, Monday, I went to my old club, the Wayfarers, which I had not yet troubled with my presence, and picked out a man named Driscoll, who made a business of knowing everybody and everything. Beginning with some conventional talk about the changes in England in general, and London in particular, since I had seen it last, I managed to mention Carson Wildred without appearing to have dragged his name into the conversation for any particular purpose of my own. It sprang from some talk about a British Christmas, and I made as humorous a story as I could about my having gone down to the house by the lock, only to miss my friend and my dinner after all. "It is a queer place indeed," I said, "I wonder how he came by it?" "Oh, if the stories are true, in a way as peculiar as the place itself, there fore appropriate. It was owned, I know for a matter of fact, by an Italian whose father was exiled, and came over here to live after 48; a chap by the name of Di Tortorell, belonging to a good family and all that—had the entree everywhere. The son, a nice fellow except that he was weak, loved somehow and Wildred accarcat. Somehow he and Wildred were acquainted, when Wildred was little known all, in society, and the two played cards on rather a big scale at the house of a mutual friend. Di Tortorell had bad luck one night, lost a pot of money, and finally, having nothing else left that was worth having, staked the house by the lock—very dilapidated and in a shocking state of repair. "Well, that's the way Wildred got it, and there are those that do say that after having won almost everything Tortorrell had Wildred financed him till his marriage with a rich American, on the proviso that Tortorrell should get him into the smart set. Those are only Wildred's enemies, of course, for, like men of strong character, he has a few men, on the whole, his generosity has made him extremely popular." "Then he knew no one when he first appeared over the social horizon?" I went on questioning. Driscoll laughed. "I never heard of anyone who knew him before the day when he first blazed forth as a social luminary, about three or four years ago. He took a house in town for the season, I remember—it was the Duke of Torquay's—one of the finest in town, and let for a fabulous sum. Then he and Tortorelli gave a ball together, somehow securing several royalties, to say nothing of Paderewski and La Belle Otero and one or two other celebrities, who must each have cost him somewhere from a thousand to two thousand pounds for the one night "After that Wildred was made, of course, for the ball was a brilliant success. By the way, that was the first time he ever met the beautiful Miss Cunningham, who had just made a triumphant debut as the beauty of her season—in fact, most people think, the most beautiful girl who has been seen since the day when Mrs. Langtry created her first sensation in London, Miss Cunningham was at the ball with the Tressidy's, and, blase chap as he was even then, Wildred went down at the first shot from a pair of dark eyes, no one ever yet was sure of their color of course, she's a great heilress, but the man must be blind and paralyzed who couldn't fall in love with Karine Cunningham for herself, and, however he gets it, Carson Wildred has no lack of money of his own." "How does gossip say he gets it?" I went on to inquire with eagerness which I concealed as best as I could. double itself much in that way" Driscoll laughed "It only concerns itself to eat his dinners, for, as a matter of fact, though can't exactly vouch for it myself there isn't much secret about the way the money pours in. It's the man's ex-traordinary luck! He seems to have a lot of relations who are always good-natured going off the books and being Wildred fortunes just when he needs them most. Old fellows in the antipodes, don't you know, who mightally quite as well be dead as not. It's all straight enough, of course, but the funny thing is that if one hears one day that Wildred has come rather a cropper at Newmarket, or the Derby, or somewhere else, the news within the month is pretty sure to be the another Johnny in Australia or elswhere has conveniently shipped his ble and leaf Wildred a cool fifty thousand or so at the very least." Hardly had the laughter prompted by his own words died on Driscoll's lips when, to my astonishment, the man of whom we spoke sauntered into the room. He was looking at peace with all the world, and as nearly handsome as it was possible for him to look, the contrast between him and the podgy elderly gentleman by whom he was accompanied being much to his advantage. Talking of angels" elucidated Driscoll beneath his breath, "what do you think of that for coincidence?" Half an hour dragged along, and I was thinking of moving on, when, as I passed Wildred with a slight inclination in return for his, somewhat to my surprise he followed me. "How do you do?" he said, with an attempt at an ingratiating smile. "Now, if you wont think me rude for the suggestion, I'd be willing to bet you a hundred pounds to a fiver that I will bribcoll were doing me the honor of dressing some of my affairs, if not myself when I happened to look in just now." A THERE STOOD KARINE CUNNINGHAM. Here was a good opening for a conversation unweighted by polite fictions, and I unhesitatingly accepted it. "Yes." I replied quietly, turning more fully toward him, "we were talking of you and your affairs." "I readily divined that from the look on Driscoll's innocent old mug as I entered. I am remarkably quick at reading other people's faces." "I have flattered myself that I am the same—when the faces have not been altered (if not quite) beyond recognition." "I have already frankly assured you, Mr. Stanton," he went on, "that I am not aware of having met you before the other night—Christmas Eve. I think it was—at the theatre with my very good friend Farnham. But you evidently wish me to see that you still firmly believe I am—er—mistaken. Am I not stating the case correctly? But it is certainly far from flattering to me that you should have almost completely forgotten me, to say the least." "I wonder—very slowly and lazily—"whether it be possible that I can in any way, quite inadvertently, have interfered with your plans?" "Rather say," I broke out imprudently. "that it is possible I may interfere with yours!" "As you will. I see you don't intend to take my overtures of peace in the spirit in which they were offered. Well, you seem fond of proverbs, so here is Oliver—Forewarned is forewarned.' You will not have me for a friend: you are indiscreet enough to advise me that you intend to make mischief for me if you can—if you can, mind! My conscience is clear as to my past, and here and now I dare you to do your worst!" Leaning his elbow on the table, his head upon his hand, he faced me, looking up sideways with a mocking brillancy in his pale eyes. "It is my turn to give you a warning, and it is this: I make a bad enemy. Even had I some black secret, jealously guarded for years—which I haven't—you would never drag it from me. I believe myself to be a clever man than you, and if I had chosen the role of villain I should have been a successful one, there is no doubt. You would not, Mr. Stanton. Had I something which it was vital to my interests to conceal, I should have gone about it in such a way that not the devil himself pitted against me should worm my secret from me. Had I elected to commit a crime, it would not have been until after I was ready with an absolutely infallible alibi. "Now, if you are sensible, the very fact that I have made these admissions will prove my innocence to you. It will be a waste of your valuable time if you attempt to stand in my way, in any quarter whatever." He rose lazily. "Good-evening Mr. Stanton," he said, in a louder tone, which he made both cordial and impressive for the benefit of any listening ears. "This has been a most interesting chat you, one I am not likely soon to forget. Hope it may not be long before I have the pleasure of meeting you again." He had certainly scored. I was obliged hot with indignation and self-scorn, mentally to confess as much. He had kept his temper, and he had got the better of me. If my time would only come! CHAPTER XII I had persuaded myself that the oftener I could see Karine and impress upon her the strength and disinterest,ness of my friendship, silently as during her of my unforgotten resolve to help, the better it would be for her, she had said once that she had "many acquaintances, but no friends," and she had seemed glad to welcome my friendship; so that now I wanted her to see I did not mean to fall her--that, after all, it might not be as she had thought, too late. At least, I succeeded in convincing myself that these were my only motives in calling again within the week on Lady Tressidy. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA It was Thursday, and the family was to flit away to the country on the following afternoon. I was informed of this by the footman, whose duty it was to tell me that his mistress was superintending her packing at the moment, but would be down almost immediately. Meanwhile, Miss Cunningham was in Lady Tressidy's boudolr, and would see me. I could scarcely believe in my good luck and in her courage—or good nature. She had been writing at a little davernport by the window, but rose to receive me, and extended her hand. In the other—the left—she held a pen, with ink still wet, and so it was that as she greeted me my eyes fell upon a ring which had not before adorned her finger. It was the third of the left hand, and to my amazement I recognized the magnificent diamond—still in the old setting—worn for so many years by Harvey Farnham. CHAPTER XII Had I paused for an instants reflection I must have felt that it would be impossible for me to take any open notice of the ring, but so great was my surprise at seeing Harvey Farnham's treasured possession on Miss Cunningham's finger that, involuntarily, I uttered a slight exclamation. "Why do you look so astonished," she cried, a certain bitterness in her voice, "at seeing me wear the sign of my bondage?" "It was not wholly that, Miss Cunningham," I returned. Say, rather, I was surprised at seeing you wear this particular ring. "It is a remarkable one, isn't it? It'f too gorgeous and conspicuous to please me, for myself; but Mr. Wildred was anxious for me to have it. I believe it has been in the family a long time, and has been handed down from generation to generation of betrothed brides-happier than myself." "Did Mr. Wildred tell you that the ring was a heirloom in his family?" "Yes. There is a romance attached to it." She sighed faintly, as though at the death of romance in her own young life. "How more quickly: "Why. Mr. Stanton? Why do you ask me that?" "Forgive my curiosity," I said, evasively. "I am interested in all that concerns you. Would it be asking too much?" I said, "to have the wonderful heirloom in my hand to examine for a moment?" Without a word she slipped the ring off and gave it to me, almost as though it was a relief to feel its absence. In a flash a certain recollection had leaped into my mind. There was an inscription inside, Harvey Farnham had told me. If the ring had been cut doubtless the words written within would show some trace of the violent treatment to which the band of gold had been subjected, and I wished, for a reason I hardly dared admit, to myself, to ascertain if this were the case. I moved toward the window and, ostensibly catching the light upon the facets of the matchless stone, peeled the words inscribed to my surprise, the words inscribed to the gold were "Kismet and Miss Cunningham." They were absolutely unbroken, not a letter blurred, and the surface of the ring gave the appearance of having been untouched since first it was fashioned. I was certain that it had not been cut. I could have explained the "mystery." I had been told by Farnham that the stone had come from the first diamond mine in which he had been interested. It had been fanciful dubbed "Kismet," and the gold mine, which he had lately sold to Carson Wildred had (as he had informed me that night of our meeting at the theatre) rejoiced in the name "Cunningham." Doubtless the inscription, was to commemorate the fact that the forming the ring had been taken from one mine the diamond from the other. But, knowing all this, I was none the less anxious to hear what Karine might have to say. "What an odd coincidence!!!" I remarked. "Will you tell me the story?" "You may hear the little rance if you like," the girl said, a faint wistfulness in her sweet voice. Sixty or seventy years ago, Mr. Wildred tells me, a very dashing ancestor of his fell in love with a Miss Cunningham. That is not a very uncommon name, you know. He was penniless, and she an heiress. Her father would have nothing to do with him, and told him he need not hope to win his daughter unless within a year he could afford to buy her the finest diamond betrothed ring ever seen in the country. "The lover vowed it was 'Kismet' that would marry Miss Cunningham, and sword him in return and claim her, by slipping she a ring on her finger, exactly twelve months from the day he was sent away. "He had the most extraordinary adventures in search of a fortune, always ending in failure until the last month of the appointed time. He was in India, working in the diamond mines when one day he found this very stone. "He sailed at once for England, had the ring made, and the words you see engraved inside. As he had said, he arrived on the day appointed, but only to find the girl coming out from church after her marriage with another man. He threw the ring at her feet, and flung away; but at her death it was sent back to him again, and though he never married he gave it to his brother's bride on her wedding day. Since then it has remained in the Wildred family." Something of what was in my mind must have been visible on my face, for Karine, as she finished her story, looked at me searchingly. "What are you hiding from me, Mr. Stanton?" she anxiously questioned. "It's about the ring—and if you are my friend, as you say, you will not keep it a secret from me." "It is about the ring Miss Cunningham," I replied impulsively. "I can't tell you all, for the facts have hardly grouped themselves in my own brain. But if they have such bearing upon your happiness as I have some reasons to think you shall know them soon as I can make them clear to you. Will you trust me meanwhile—will you try to remember that I am striving to collect facts which may help to release you from the necessity of a marriage unworthy of you? Never for one moment since I saw you last have I let slip the hope of saving you from what you confessed must be a blighted future. Now, I may be mistaken, but I believe that I begin to see my way." "There are only six weeks—less than six weeks to do it in!" she murmured, but a faint color had sprung to her cheeks, a light of hope to her eyes. "Is it not possible," I begged, "If I find myself near success, yet stopped temporarily midway by some unforeseen obstacle, that you can delay your marriage? Let me have that to hope for. It will help me to win." She shook her head sadly, and the roseflush died. "It is useless to think of it." she said. "You may imagine, since I have confessed so much to you, that it was not my plan to name such an early date. It was Mr. Wildred who suggested it—indeed, he insisted, and unfortunately he is in a position to insist." "Nothing changed since we met at the Savoy?" I hurriedly asked. Can't you explain to me the power which you admitted then that this man holds over you? "No, nothing is changed. Mr. Stanton! The reason that I cannot explain is—a part of his power, if you like to call it that." "Heaven knows, I do not like it!" I exclaimed, almost savagely. And as the words fell from my lips Lady Tressidy entered the room. CHAPTER XIV. Lady Tressidy is so full of plans for the future—Karine's future with Carson Wildred—that my soul sickened of her chatter and I took myself away as soon as decently possible to do. With no further chance of private talk with Karine much of my incentive for remaining was gone, at all events, I was anxious to think out the puzzle regarding the transfer of the ring. Strange fancies fitted luridly through my brain. In a few days more Harvey Farnham would have landed in New York, and I could reach him there at the hotel he had mentioned as his favorite: or in Denver, Col., if he had chosen to pursue his homeward journey without a night's delay. I counted the hours which must pass before I could attempt any such seemed to rise like a high wall between me and my homes and my suspicions. As I walked homeward, involuntarily hastening my footsteps, I heard the newsboys crying out some item of intelligence from the evening papers. Extrity-speshul! Extrity-speshul!" "Mysterious discovery in the Thames!" Suddenly, however, a grimy infant of tender arms and infant precocious asses carried a pink sheet smoking of the printer's ink, directly under my eyes. I flung the child a copper and found the halfpenny Journal thrust into my hand. I would have tossed it from me carelessly, but the head lines relating to the latest sensation caught my eye. Then forgetful of the crowds who stared at the motion on the rode nearer to the white ball of electric light which had shone down upon the page. CHAPTER XV It was the name, Purley Lock, which which had fastened my attention, "Horrible Discovery near Purley Lock" the headline announced. I read on, rapidly but thoughtfully. Two boys from Great Marlow had, it seemed been wandering beside the river bank, between that village and Purley Lock, Straying, along a small backwater leading out from a larger one, they had noticed a peculiar object caught among a number of reeds. One of the boys A "I DARE YOU TO DO YOUR WORST." had curiously poked at it with his stick, bringing it nearer to the shore, when it appeared to be a heavy, almost formless mass, sewn up in a rough sack. The boys, being frightened had run home with the story, and a member of the local police force, going to the spot, had found the children's suspicions confirmed. The unclothed body of a man, partially consumed by fire and lacking the head, as well as otherwise mutilated in a seemingly almess way, had been doubled up and sewn in the sack. Weights had evidently been attached to the horrible bundle, but had in some manner become detached. So far no clew whatever, either as to the identity of the murdered man or that of the murderer, had been brought to light. The body had been in the water for some days, but might still have been recognizable had the head not been removed. The horror of my dream on Christmas Eve came to me as I read. I could even picture the very spot where the boys must have seen the sack caught among the dry and rattling reeds. "A small backwater leading out of a larger one, between Great Marlow and Purley Lock." The larger one was doubtless that on which Carson Wildred's house was situated; the smaller one—a mere alley of water, leading away under a drooping tangle of willow and chestnut branches—one had to pass in walking from Purley to the house by the lock. I was sure, as I recalled the place in memory, that the scene of the discovered mystery could have been no other than this. Suddenly came the recollection of the awful cry I had heard as I waited in the curious octagonal room, looking at the covered portrait of Karine. The sound had been explained, but there had been a certain flurry and clumsiness in the explanation, I had thought even then. I remembered the smoke and sparks which had so mysteriously risen from the tower, and the heat of the octagon al room adjoining it. All this, too, had been accounted for. I had not cared at the time to invent romances to fit into the strange appearances, which I had assured myself were doubtless strange only in appearance, but now I could not help dwelling upon them with an almost morbid persistence that would not be set aside. I bought of the woman's face which had an instance gazed at me through the marrow window beside the door. I reminded myself of the surprise on the features of the decorous male factorum when he had learned that I was not the man expected by the master, and I went over word for word, as nearly as I could, each sentence whispered by Wildred and his servant in the hall. What if there were some glamorous connection between the apparent mystery in the house by the lock and the half-charred, headless body found to-day in the Thames! But I could not banish them even if I would. Continually throughout the remainder of the evening and night I would have to look for more or less defective, and the next morning the desire was strong within me to go and see the headless corpse. Permission to view the body at the mortuary was easily obtained at the local police station, when I had given my name and mentioned that I had one or two proposes of identification. I had a threat which as yet I had scaredly dared dwell upon my mind, so wild, so improbable did it appear at and other time than dead of night, when all strange things seem possible. But now, as I judged what the height and size of the body must have been, and let my glance travel almost fearfully to the left hand, I saw that which lended in a ghastly manner to confirm it. All the four fingers were missing, having been cut off between the second joint and knuckles. Harvey Farnham had worn the ring given to Karine Cunningham by Wilfred on the little finger of the left band; and in the light of this discovery my dream of Christmas Eve came back to me as a prophetic vision. ['To be continued.] Regularity in the Order of Injuries A queer fact, well known by medical men connected with hospitals, is that the doctors can tell with almost absolute certainty which classes of fatalities and accidents fit in with given days and even hours. One of the doctors connected with a leading hospital in the center of the city said the other day: "We will begin with Monday. That day furnishes by far the highest proportion of mishaps to work people, but I must say that this proportion is rapidly diminishing. Nearly all the attempted suicides come in during the very early part of each day, and the first accident batches early in the day have a large number of men who work on scaffolds among them. Hardly a morning goes by without a scaffold casual case. After 11 o'clock in the morning most of the cases arise from street accidents, and when evening comes cases arising from drunken rows and deliberate assaults begin to come in. Nearly the 'domestic' cases—where wives have been assaulted and so on—are late night and Saturday ones. I would take me a long time to group the regular order of accidents as they come in day after day."—Philadelphia Record. The Cave of Dionysius. One of the most remarkable caves in existence is that in Sicily, not far from Syracuse, which is known as the Ear of Dionysius. It is said that it was constructed by Dionysius the Elder in the fourth century, B. C. It was shaped in the form of a human ear, 250 feet long and 80 feet high, and so arranged that the slightest noise made at any one part was transmitted to the central part corresponding with the drum of an ear. Here the tyrant was accustomed to imprison all those of whom he was suspicious and he would sit in the central room and listen to the talk of the prisoners to ascertain if his suspicions were well-founded. The workmen who constructed the place were said to have been put to death to conceal the designs of the cave. Even to-day the acoustic properties of the cave are remarkable.—Detroit Free Press. The Wonderful Hydra. Those are the pleasant ways of the freshwater hydra: If you cut him in two, each half promptly lengthens into a complete hydra. Turn him inside out and in a few hours his skin is his stomach and his stomach is his skin, and he is roady to do business as before. The hydra is scarcely more than a bag with feelers about the mouth of it. It can replace a feeler in 20 hours. It makes a somewhat longer job when its body is cut in two, but is equally successful. If cut in two lengthwise the cut sides of each half sack close up, forming a complete one. If cut in two crosswise each end matches itself more slowly, with a new head or tail as may be needed.—N. Y. World. Docking Horses. Docking horses took its rise in the dark days when bull and bear baiting were honored by c. place in the category of sport, rightly now relegated by law to the catalogue of outrage. This custom of docking was once applied to English roadsters, hunters and harness-horses. The only useful purpose it even served was in the Peninsular war, when British dracoons could be most easily distinguished from French by their cock-tails. It fell into disuse with the decline of road-coaches, and we owe its unwelcome revival to their partial restoration.—Blackwood. A Correction. "I simply had to do it," said Mr Erastus Pinkey in an apologetic tone. "I had to draw my razzer, so's to holf up my character." "Did he slander you behind your back?" "No. suh. 'Twere to my face. He axed me what business I was in, an' I says: 'Raisin' chickens.' Den he looked at me solemn, an' says you doesn't' mean 'raisin', you means 'liftin'."—Washington Star. Jugs as Floats. There are various things used as floats in fishing, from the pretty little painted floats of cork up to good sized jugs, these last being used in jugging for catfish in western rivers. The jug used as a float is tightly corked, and the rope or line that serves as a fishline is tied to the handle, the hook at the other end on the bottom, being baited with a frog or other attractive morsel. The jug may be used as a float for a single line, or two jugs may be placed as floats, one at either end of a trot line, from which a number of baited lines depend. A big catfish of the kind not uncommon in western rivers, weighing 50 or 100 or more pounds, would even make a jug bounce lively in the water, and a comparatively small fish would give it motion; whereupon the fisherman, who might be on the bank waiting developments, would put off in his skiff and take up the line.-N. Y. Sun. About Right. Office Boy—He's out, but I guess he's n. "What do you mean?" "He's left. Did he owe you money?" "Yes." "Well, you're left, too."—Philadelphia Press. W. I. Johnson, Office and Warerooms: 207 N. Foushee St., near Broad. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph promptly filled. Wed ngs suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Old 'Phone 686 Residence in Building New 'Phone 480 Table Mountain Ropeway. The ropeway located at Table mountain is an important example of a line 1,280 feet long. It consists of a single fixed rope on which one carriage is drawn to and fro with an endless hauling rope, the driving gear having reversing motion, so that the direction of travel of the carrier can be controlled. Commencing at sea level, and following the ground on posts spaced about 300 feet apart, the cable takes a span of 1,500 feet, rising to a projecting rock some 1,480 feet above the starting point. Resting on a support at this point, the cable again takes a span of 1,400 feet to an upper terminal 2,200 feet above the lower one. This ropeway has worked so satisfactorily that it is not only used for the carriage of materials employed in the construction of a reservoir, but is at times used for passengers.—Engineering Magazine. An Extraordinary Island. In the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, is one of the most extraordinary islands in the world. It is called White island, and consists mainly of sulphur mixed with gypsum and a few other minerals. Over the island, which is about three miles in circumference, and which rises between 800 and 900 feet above the sea, floats continually an immense cloud of vapor, attaining an elevation of 10,000 feet. In the center is a boiling lake of acid-charged water, covering 50 acres, and surrounded with blow holes, from which steam and sulphurous fumes are emitted with great force and noise. With care a boat can be navigated on the lake. The sulphur from White island is very pure, but little effort has yet been made to procure it systematically.-N. Y. World. The Tomb of Egolino. Excavations in the Church of Santa Francesca, at Pisa, have brought to light what appears to be the tomb of Ugolino della Gherardesca, more familiar to readers of Dante's "Inferno" as Count Ogolino. He was a Neapolitan who in the thirteenth century endeavored to usurp the government of Pisa, and for a time succeeded, exercising his power with great severity. In 1288 conspiracy was set on foot for his overthrow. The count was taken prisoners and with three of his sons and one of his grandsons was left to die of hunger. The present discovery of a rectangular tomb with five skulls and some bones in the place of burial assigned to the count by tradition seems to confirm the impression that these are the remains of the victims.—Baltimore News Not So Bad. In Scotland they have no green corn on the cob. Therefore, when this Scotchman came across the water he was amused to see the people devouring those great hunks of corn. A friend of his recommended the dish to him as tasty and delicious, and when the sturdy son of Scotland lunched at a restaurant he ordered a plate of "boiled sweet corn on the cob." When his friend met him next he asked him if he had tried the corn yet. "Aye, have I, and it's no anything to make sike a fuss aboot, I'm thinkin'." "What, didn't you like it?" "It wusna sna bead l' the ouside, but it wus maist avfy teuch l' the inside."—Detroit Free Press. Color in Medical Practice The use of colors as a part of medical treatment is not a new one. Red light, for example, has been recently advocated in the treatment of measles and smallpox. Jean Gaddesden cured the son of Henry I., king of England, of smallpox by surrounding the prince in scarlet, clothing him in scarlet as well as all his attendants, and having red carpets and hangings in the room. 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Humphreys Med. Co. Cor. William & John St. New York. Johnson, TOR & EMBLAMER N. Foushes St., near Broad. FOR HIRE-- telegraph promptly filled. Web ments promptly attended. in Building New 'Phone 480 THE FOLKS WE USED TO KNOW. Did you ever notice somehow, As the years go slidin' past, That you git to lookin' back ard Sorter wishful to'rs the last? As how that neighbor Don't stand a ghost o' show When you go comparin' of 'em To the folks you used to know? I 'pears we just can't recollect The fracases we've had, Nur forty-leven other things That made us fightin' mad. But we've sailed down the good 'uns, An', no matter whur we go. There's none can "hold a candle" To the folks we used to konw. I mind when we was livin' Out there on Cedar Crick— There we won't no better neighborhood— If anyone tuck sick They'd come from all d'rections, Weeds through rain ur snow, To see how you come on— The folks we used to know. An' the vittles that they'd fetch you! Why, 'twould fairly make you laf. You'd bin deader nur a mackerel! If you'd only at the half. Put me in mhd of fair-time. I plum show To see 'em packin' in the truck— The folks we used to know. My stare! but they was soshable, Out there on the old State road. An' used to go a visitin' Jist by the wagon load. They'd grin, shake hands, 'How'dy', An', as plain as preachin', show They was dickled most to pieces— The folks we used to know. They'd feed you on fried chicken, The best it was in the shop; An' they'd pile your plate with vittels, An' I vum! they wouldn't stop They'd made you most feel sneakin' To see the folks we used to know. Then say: 'Take holl an' help yourself'— The folks we used to know. "We ain't no quality," they'd say, "We're only common folks;" An' then all hands would snicker, An' we'd fall to crackin' jokes, An' a stone wold hardly go, It wied, it was time to go. An' we'd say, "Good-by; come over," To the folks we used to know. Where air they all, I wonder— All these happy, old-time folks, That made this life worth livin' With their friendship an' their jokes? Well, I ask for nothin' better, When it comes my time to go, Than a ticket that will take me To the folks we used to know. —Alice D. O. Greenwood, in Leslie's Weekly. A Philippine Courting Cross Dog Wins a Heart Where the World is Topside Down. HE WAS the ugliest man in the 'Seventh infantry. And he looked it. So the men called him Cross Dog, and save on the payrolls he knew no other name. Cross Dog was in the prime of life, but looked older. He had put in about 12 years in the army and was at that point in a private soldier's career where he realizes that he has lost the knack of earning a livelihood in civil life, but still years for its freedom. For it is only after about 15 years of service and numerous failures at civil vocations that the average enlisted man ceases to vow that he will never take on again and settles down to soldiering for life. Cross Dog's temper was peppered dynamite. He had thrashed or been thrashed by nine-tenths of the regiment, and was ready at a second's notice to begin again. His tongue matched his temper, and his face was seamed with surinness. There was only one thing in the world of which Cross Dog was afraid, and that was woman. "Share," said Private Sevenspot, "av Cross Dog liver loved a woman he'd be seared so he'd cuss her to death and thin elope with a recruiting sergeant." Back in the states it it had been a fortunate thing for Cross Dog that he was not susceptible to the charms of the fair sex, for his personality was not an attractive one and his conversation was a jumble of cuswords and growls. But in the Philippines the world is topside down, as a Chinaman calls it, and curious things happen. And it was in the Philippines, set the Hacienda de Sevilla, near Isabela, Negros, that Cross Dog won a woman's heart. A company of the 'Steenth infantry was stationed at Isabella and a detachment of five men, in charge of Private Sevenspot, was sent to the hacienda to protect property in that region from the raids of Papircio bandits who swarmed in the near-by mountains. Cross Dog was one of the detachment. The Hacienda de Sevilla consisted of a big sugar mill, the blackened ruins of the plantation house burned to the ground by the Papircios, and six native nipa-shacks scattered along the western bank of the river Balibagnain. But this little hamlet supported a population of 300 native amigos, most of whom, burned out of their homes by the Papircios, camped in the big sugar mill under the protection of Private Sevenspot's little detachment. During the day they worked in the cane fields and at night huddled together in the mill around which the six Americans stood guard. Luisa, the woman in the case, for girls of 14 are women where the world is topside down, lived in a six-by-six nipap-shack built in the box of a two-wheeled cart that stood beneath the shelter of the sugar mill roof. On the evening that Sevenspot's detachment arrived at the hacienda old Pedro was absent. Old Pedro was Luisa's father. His erony, old Jose, in the next village up the river, had received a month's pay from Senor Hollos that day and Pedro had gone to pass the evening with him and help drink a bucket of tuba. At 11 o'clock he came saantering homeward with unsteady but catlike steps, in bise-full ignorance of the fact that the Americanos were in possession of the sugar mill. Pedro's brown hide was chock of tuba and his soul was filled with great joy. In fact, he was so happy that he yearned to butcher something—an old woman or a baby or a lame dog. As he came through the trail in the canebrake he slashed at the young stalks and grimaced blissfully as in imagination he neatly clipped the leaders of unarmed foes with his bolo-sword. Cross Dog was on post, too, at the upper entrance to the sugar mill. The first night on guard at a strange post with a small detachment and in a country swarming with treacherous foes is a great trial to men's nerves. Especially so when it is next to impossible to distinguish friend from foe. Moreover, Cross Dog had been unfortunate in his details for a week back, and had been 91 marched on an average of 15 miles each day through muddy rice fields, which is equivalent to 40 miles a day on an American highway. Consequently, Cross Dog's temper, usually peppered dynamite, was now saw-edged lightning. Stevenspot had posted him with the information that native amigos were not supposed to be abroad after nine o'clock, and left the rest to his discretion. Cross Dog hacked with his bayonet at the dried mud on his leggings and stared across the narrow clearing between the mill and the cane field. There came just the semblance of a rustle from the cane-brake and Cross Dog stopped hacking and dropped suddenly on one knee. For at night a man can see better squatting than standing. The nearer his eyes to the ground the higher and plainer objects are thrown up against the horizon. The rustle in the cane field grew louder and Cross Dog unlocked the safety on his krag. Then oblivious of his danger, old Pedro stepped noiselessly into the clearing and the shadow of death. Cross Dog waited for the second native to come out of the brake. If he came in the footsteps of his fileleader, one bullet would do duty for two. And it is a pity to waste ammunition, and a dirty rifle barrel makes work. If old Jose had accompanied old Pedro home that night, there would have been two funeral drums to beat the next day. But as old Pedro came alone, Cross Dog hesitated a second and decided to give the intruder a chance for his life. "Halt!" he cried. Old Pedro started and then in his fright came on all the faster, his wicked looking bolo in hand. That was too much for Cross Dog's temper and nerves, but he was an American and instinctively hated to kill a half-armed creature whose life he could take as he would snuff a candle. Moreover, he had an American contempt for the fighting qualities of these brown pygmies and the disposition to play cat and mouse with them until they came right up to the bayonet's point. So Cross Dog's first shot made a kite of old Pedro's straw hat, his second spattered the mud in front of him and three more made shallow grooves in his bare brown legs. There was one cartridge left in Cross Dog's rife when Pedro halted panting at the bayonet's point. An inch more and that cartridge would have been the final period in old Pedro's book of life. For Cross Dog was not only rattlesnake mad, but also grossly insulted. A bare-legged Kakiuck in his shirttail and a straw hat and armed with a four-span bolo had dared to charge right up to his rife's mouth! Cross Dog felt that he ought to kill this fool creature. It was according to orders. But somehow he couldn't quite do it. So he jabbed with his bayonet through Pedro's hide and gave him a choice selection of profanity and advice. "When Melicana say 'Hat!' you (jab) halt! (jab) Savey. You caramba fool, if you (jab) keep vamosos when Melicana say (jab) halt, Melicana boom boom you. When Melicana say halt you stop quick till Melicana malayoh (see) you with his mala (eyes) and talkke akee (come here). You (jab) save?" Then old Pedro, after explanations, was permitted to go to his nipa-shack, and the four Americans off guard returned to their blankets. After crawling into his shack Pedro ordered his daughter Luisa to make a light and to emphasize the order he beat her with his fist in the face. And Luisa being only a woman made a great outey. Then she got a big bundle of split bamboo and laid it upon the bed of coals in the center of the mill and fanned the bamboo into a great flaming torch. Then old Pedro ordered her to dress his scratches, and beat her in the face to insure obedience. The blaze of the torch fell upon Cross Dog's back so that he was a fine mark for a Papirclos Remington and blinded his eyes so he could not see five paces into the clearing. And Luisa's outeries deafened his ears to the secrets of the canfield. For these reasons and not because he cared to interfere with Pedro's methods of parental discipline, Cross Dog deliberately violated regulations and deserted his post. He picked up a bundle of dry, split bamboo and marched through the sugar mill to Pedro's nipa-shack. He reached in and caught that disciple of Solomon by one ankle and dragged him forth after the fashion of a plantation negro who knows where the chickens roost. Then he applied the split bamboo where it is supposed to do the most good. And Pedro howled and Cross Dog swore and 50 brown babies woke up and squallied and a hundred mongrel dogs barked. "Shure," said Sevenspot, reporting the occurrence to his lieutenant, who visited the hacienda the following day, "when I woke up I thought I were in purgatory the day after th' holocaust av an insane asylum, a dog pound an' an orphan asylum. An' Luisa there, th' ould Pedro's daughter sat by while Cross Dog larruped her dad an' wept tears av joy an' gratitude. I thinkin' twerd th' first tome she iver knew the ould bandit to get his deserts. The other amigos say he has a brother an' two sons with the Papireios in th' mountains." "If that's the ease," said the lieutenant, mounting his carabao, "you need pot bother to halt him the next time he tries to come in after taps. I don't want this detachment to get cut up out of leniency to any native of doubtful antecedents." When the detachment turned out for their chicory the morning after old Pedro's chastisement, Luisa was waiting for them with a baking powder can half full of carabao milk for Cross Dog's coffee. The men squatted on the edge of a sugar vat and gnawed their hard-tack and drank their bitter chicory. Cross Dog's scraggly beard bristled with bad temper and he choked in the effort to eat, drink and swear in the same breath. With eyes that beamed with gratitude and admiration little Luisa timidly presented her offering of carabao milk. Cross Dog glared at her "Darn you," he growled, "what do you want?" "Sl, senor," said Luisa, ducking obsequiously and holding the can so that Cross Dog could see the contents, "mucha good!" And Luisa pointed first at the milk and then to Cross Dog's cep. Then Cross Dog comprehended and grabbed the can and emptied it into his coffee. "I'll be darned," he growled, "if the rag didn't bring me some milk!" Luisa listened like an attentive pupil. Then, with a knowing air, she nodded her little head and, pointing into the empty can, she said: "Si, senor. I savey. Filipino loob-kat. Melicana cuss milk. Si, I savey mucha Melicana poco tiempo." Cross Dog stopped in the middle of a gulp of coffee and stared at the little brown woman. "Well!" he exclaimed, "if the nigger ain't swearing at me in English!" "Si, al, senor," she chirped, coquettily lifting the yard of red calico that served herasa petticoat and dress skirt, "I savey. Senorita—that me in Español. Nigger—that me in Melicana. Si. I savey mucha Melicana poco tiempo." Cross Dog choked with irritation. For a week thereafter Luisa followed at Cross Dog's heels like a faithful dog, much to that individual's outspoken disgust. And, meanwhile, Luisa's vocabulary of English became a thing of beauty and a joy forever to the soldiers. Then there came another Saturday night. This time old Pedro and Jose went to a village down the river to visit Juan, who had received much money from Senor Holijos. And they tarried late and drank a great deal of tuba and also beno. And the more they drank the braver they grew until in the dark hour just before the dawn they laughed scornfully as they spoke of the white-faced Americanos and snapped their fingers at "Haltas!" Then Juan and Jose sailed forth to see Pedro home and help him bid defiance to the American "Halt!" And to insure success they carried their sharpest bolos. Number of Persons Lynched from January 5th. It was the early morning relief on guard. Cross Dog was on post 2 at the down river end of the mill, and it always stirred his bile to have his sleep broken just before daybreak. The air was chill and damp and Cross Dog shivered and cursed all creation by catalogue. Then he stopped and listened. The light breeze from the east never caused that rustle in the cane field. Again Cross Dog crouched on one knee and threw the safety lock of his krag. A half-naked native stepped out into the clearing. Again Cross Dog waited to see if he came alone. Another and another stepped out beside the first, and the three advanced crouching with bolos in hand. They mockingly echoed Cross Dog's challenge, and came on, and then the hacienda awoke to the music of "Wow-rprp! Tick-tuck-tuck-tick! Wow-rprp! Tick-tuck-tuck-tick! Wow-rprp!" And this time Cross Dog's rife had done its deadly work as three silent Kakitaks lying there in the gray morning testified. Six men in blue stood and looked down at the slain. And then there was a great uproar, and native men chattered and native women shrieked and native dogs barked and native babies howled. Only the soldiers were silent and grave as they looked upon the dead, until a gray-haired little brown woman came and knelt beside old Pedro and sought to close his eyes and compose his limbs. Then Cross Dog's eyes looked down to the ground, and he was ashamed of his handiwork, for the gray old woman was old Pedro's wife and Luisa's mother. It was while his eyelids were weighted down with shame and pity that little Luisa, pretty and coquettish, nestled up to his side and caressed his hairy, freekled fist and looked up at him with smiling lips and eyes moist with love-light. "Darn you," said she, pressing his hand over her heart with both of hers, "me love you mucha. You boom-boom madre (pointing to her mother) and we matrimony. Esta?" For in the outlying islands of the Philippines, where the world is topside down, the old folk pound out no rice and are the better for being killed. It was thus that Cross Dog won one woman's heart. But Sevenspot's prophecy came true, for he cursed her until his throat was sore, and then exchanged with a soldier at Isabella to get out of her sight. And now, when some young soldier boasts of his success with the fair sex, Cross Dog blurs scornfully: "Darn it! I can take my krag and 200 cartridges and go out and get enough women to start a harem. All you have to do to make 'em love you is to kill their mothers and fathers!"—N. Y. Sun. Tea Drinking Causes Cold Feet. People who suffer from cold feet may ask themselves if this is due to tea drinking, says the Glasgow Mail. Prof. Hutchinson says it often is such. Coldness, we are told, is probably due to contraction of the arteries. In one lady tea drinker the feet were not only cold, but were observed to be wet with perspiration. We are of opinion that there must be some predisposing cause, unless the drinker be a tea inebriate. Railway in Africa. There are 10,000 miles of railway now in operation or under construction in Africa. Cordovan Leather Boots. Cordovan Leather Boots. At the court of Elizabeth the wide-sopped Spanish boot—handsome, and, on our eyes, the theatrical—became popular among the rival courtiers, each endeavoring to outlive the other in the queen's eyes. The most handsome and admired of all were made of white Lordova leather edged with costly face and having gold spurs. Sometimes buff and red and much more rarely the now prevalent black leather was the material. Shoes for men seem to have gone out of fashion during the Stuart era, so far as the upper classes went. Your plain citizen always adhered to a more or less substantial shoe when at home, and seldom drew on boots save when on a journey—a terrible expedition, however short the distance, up to the middle of the last century. Thus, in Charles II's day Cowley, writing to Dr. Thomas Sprat from so near a place to London as Chertsey, says that he might very conveniently come thither "the way of Mampton town—lying there one night."—Gentleman's Magazine. A Shrewd Photographer Photographer (toyoung lady)—There is no need of telling you to look pleasant, miss. Such a face cannot be otherwise than pleasant. Young Lady (graciously)—I will take two dozen, sir, instead of one dozen—Ohio State Journal. Eda " Put hand onwhite woman, Jasper ug. 11, Bill Wilson, Attempted Assault, Port Gibson, M's Will Chambers, Criminal Assault, Bell Buckley, Tennessee Will McClure, Attempted Assault, Cle 16, Charlie Hart, Brantley, Ala. 20, Peter Loin and 15 year old Son, white, Shooting a man, Wetumpka, Ala. Aug. 16, Charlie Hart, colored criminal assault Brantley, Ala. Aug. 16, Tom Keith, colored, entered lady's room drunk, Near Greenville, S.C. Aug. 20, Rev. T. J. Floyd, colored, wanted to work, Cartersville, Ill. Wm. 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M., Day Express except Sunday for Clifton Forge Connects at Gordonsville for Orange, Columbia, Manassas, Belfast, dria, and Washington, at Union Station, Charlesteeville for Lynch burg; basic for Hagerstown. 1:15 P. M., Welcome to Lynch stown, Louisville and St. Louis. Top only at important stations Connects Gordonsville for Orange and at Orlando Belfast northbound; at Covington for Va Hot Springs. 6:20 P. M. Accommodation except Sunday following above train from Gordonsville to Stunton 10:30 P. m., Daily, for Cincinnati, with Pull man to Hinton W. Va., and Gordonsville stville. Meals served on Dining Cars. Connects at Stunton (except sunday) for Winchester, Va. and at Cincinnati, daily for Virginia Hot Springs. TRAINS LEAVE EIGHTH-STREET STATION. 10:30 A. M., Daily, for Lexington Lynchburg, and Clifton Forge. Connects except Sunday with Buckingham and Ackman St. Station. Clifton Forge with No. 14 for Columbia. 6:00 P. M. Except Sunday for Columbia. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND, BROAD-STREET STATION 8:00 A. M., Except Sunday from Doswell. 8:30 A. M., Daily from Cincinnati. 11:30 A. M., Daily from Norfolk and Old Point. 8:20 P. M., Daily from Cincinnati and Louisville. 2:50 P. M., Daily from Norfolk, and Old 7:45 P. M., Except Sunday from Clifton Forge. TRAINS ARRIVE EIGHTH STREET STATION 4:40 A. M., Except Sunday from Columbia 6:30 P. M., Daily from Lynchburg, Lexington and Except Sunday from New Gates, Kenney. JOHN D POTTS. Aus't General Passenger Agents. Southern Railway SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MOVEMBER, 14, 1899. Trains Leaves Richmond, Va. 11.00 P.M. No 12 SOUTHERN EXPRESS dailly to Atlanta Augusta Jacksonville, and points South sleeper for Danville, Greenboro, Salisbury, and Charlotte. Steps for passengers at local stations. Connects at Danville and Charlotte, with New York and Florida Express (No 38) carrying New York and Tampa, with connections for all Florida points, also connects Charlotte with the Washington and southeastern United (No 37) carrying through sleeper bet in New York and Nashville, New York and Washington, New York and New Orleans, also, Pullman sleeper Mon ams, Wednesdays and Fridays, Washington to San Francisco with changes with connections for all points in Texas, Mexico and California. 12:01 P.M. No 7. solid train daily for Cali. Charlotte, Farmville and Powhatan railroad at Keysville for Clarksville, Oxford, Henderson and Durham and at Greenboro for Seattle, Salem, at Danville with No. 85 United States Fast Mall, solid train, daily for new Seattle and points South, which carries passengers from New York to Jacksonville and Miami for Nassau and Habana. Through sleeper Salsbury, to Mem p.m. 6:00 P.M. No 17. LOCAL, daily except Sunday for Keysville and intermediate point TRAINS ARRIVE at RICHMOND. 6:00 A.M. 6:25 P.M. from Atlanta Augusta, Ascendville 8:50 P.M. from Keysville and local stations. LOCAL PRIEST TRAIN. Nos. 61 and 62, between Manchester and Neapolis, Va. YORK RIVER LINE, WEST POINT The Favorite Route North. BALMINEER Train No. 16, 4:20 P M. BALMINEER Training Sunday for West point, and intermediate stations making close connection Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays with steamer for Bali-mores. Train No. 10, 2:30 P. M. Train No. 74, 5:00 A. M. LOCAL MIXED, leaves daily, except Sunday from Virginia Street Station for West Point and intermediate stations, connecting with images of instructor manor for Walkerton and Tap pahannock. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND 9:20 a. m. Daily, from West Point, with connection from Baltimore, Tuesdays, Thursdays at 10:45 a. m. Mondays and Fridays. 6:40 p. m. Daily, except Sunday from West Point and intermediate stations. Steamers leave West Point Mondays, Wed mornings, Fridays 6:50 p. m. arriving Baltimore. Steamers at 5:30 p. m. tuesdays, Baltimore at 5 p. m. tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays arriving West Point 7:30 and Riot mond 9:20 to lowing morning. Steamers call at all landings of York River. C. W. WESTBUY, Traveling Passenger Agent, 920 E. Rain St. Richmond, Va. J. M. GULP, traffic manager. gen. Pass. Agt. FRANK S. GANNON. Third Vice-president and General Manager Washington, D. C. MRS P C EASLEY, ICE-CREAM PARLOR 609 N. 2d St., — Richmond, Va OLD 'PHONE', 1704. Steam Ice-Cream Manufactory Ice-Cream made daily both Winter and Summer, and we can supply you with any quantity at all times Satisfaction guaranteed. Special attention is given to all orders. 56-8m. DAILY LINE FOR NEW YORK, EXCEPT SUNDAY Passengers can leave Richmond daily except Sunday. Chesapeake and Ohi'r, railway, 6 P. M., or Richmond railroad. 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The discriminating tariff against the Porto Ricans is very much akin to the stamp-tax of England upon the American colonies. Mr. JOHN E. EPPS has not as yet explained why in urging his "Jim Crow" Car Bill, he forgot all about the Commissioners of Valuation Bill until he voted for it. THE Negro-haters are in favor of the colored brother dying for the government, but is very much opposed to his living for it. THE enemies of the colored people are proposing all kinds of expedients to hamper and annoy this humble and self-sacrificing people. Hon. Wm. J. BRYAN talks all right upon some questions, but if he could get his supporters to act as he talks, the matter of his election would be a foregone conclusion. THE Negro-haters lose much time scheming for our downfall. We are too busy to look at them, but at dinner hour find some satisfaction in throwing a brick in their direction. MR. S. P. MITCHELL, chairman, has called a National Industrial Evangelic Conference to meet at Midway, Ky., August, 1900. It is hoped by this method to benefit the citizen of color. W. C. PATTON, M. D., is secretary. THREATS do not deter us. We have some faith left in the white man's religion, and are unwilling to believe that all of them are hypocrites. There are thousands of them who will yet advocate our cause because it is right, and hold up our arms because we are making a legitimate effort to rise above our disspiriting surroundings. RICHMOND, which is injured more by the Parks' Commissioner of Valuation Bill had the humiliation of having every one of its members in the House of Delegates vote for this pernicious measure; but one. Had they all been colored men, they would hardly have done such a thing as that. If you wish to know what the better class of white people think of the "Jim Crow" Legislature, consult the Cham- ber of Commerce and the other business interests of Richmond. This was a legislature run by the ring and from which colored men had been eliminated. If you want to see a colored man frown say "Jim Crow" Car Bill. If you want to hear a white man "cuss," say Commissioners of Valuation Bill. If you want to hear them "cuss" together, name both measures at the same time. Both were the work of the all white Democratic legislature of VIRGINIA. The National Anti-Mob and Lynch-law Association of Springfield, O., Mr. H. C. JENKINS, president; Mr. SAMUEL E. HUPFMAN, secretary reports much success in its efforts against the crowning infamy of the Nineteenth Century. It has been tireless in its efforts to arouse public sentiment against this crying evil. THE APPEAL FOR HELP. Rev. W. F. GRAMAM, D. D., president of the Virginia Seminary Board has called for five thousand dollars to carry on the educational work at that institution. We see no reason why this request should not be at once compiled with. On the other hand, every consideration urges us to send this money up to the Convention in order that this school may be above the embarrassments which now be set it. The money is needed now, and we feel that if the brethren will read again the ringing appeal, the dollars from the cross-roads and the help from the cities will swell the treasury to relieve the pressure now so signally felt at Lynchburg. If you wish to feel enthusiastic, visit this grand institution, converse with President Hayes and feel the inspiration which permeates every student in the building and radiates through every brick in the edifice. Send the money to Virginia Seminary, and let not the distinguished divine appeal in vain. "ANOTHER TRICK." It seems that the recent legislature of Virginia aside from its "Jim Crow" Car attitude upset values, paralyzed business and disgraced itself, if we are to believe one half of the mean things which the Democratic white men who elected its members are saying about it. It resorted to tricks to rob the colored citizen, and with him out of the way proceeded to play similar "alleged of hand methods" upon the white people of Virginia. The Richmond, Va., EVENING LEADER in its issue of March 19th, under the caption of "Another Trick" says: "The following special has been sent out from Norfolk: 'An innocent-looking charter, which was granted by the last session of the Virginia Legislature, was put through without exciting the suspicion of the friends of the Virginia Pilot State Association, but nevertheless, the bill will prove a menace to the organization. It is believed to be aimed solely at the abolition of the pilotage fees now assessed against foreign vessels entering this port for cargees, and that to accomplish this it will be necessary to form a nominal wharf trust. The bill incorporates the Piedmont Warehouse and Lumber Company. One clause exempts all vessels intending to load or having loaded at the company's wharves from all pilotage fees while entering, leaving or navigating the waters of Virginia. One of the pilots said to-night, 'That bill will wipe us out.' It is believed the Piedmont Mo. will under the provisions of its charter, secure by nominal lease or otherwise all the wharves at which foreign ships are now loaded.'" "We shall not enter into any discussion concerning the merits of the Pilots' Association. We reproduce this item by way of calling attention to the fact that here is another bill that slipped through the last Legislature in such a quiet way that nobody seems to have known anything about its real purport. Grassious only knows how many more there are of the same character. This sort of thing is a disgrace to the State." Oh, yes, your enemies outwitted you. While you were watching the Negro scare-crow at one end of the platform, their confederates were going through your pockets and taking from you the very rights of which you expected us to be denied. You now have "Jim Crow" Steam boats in Tidewater and free pilotage to accompany the same. You can't hit the Negro without crippling the white man, and thirty years experience in this direction should have taught you sense enough to know it. STILL GRIMBLING WHILE colored men are at the front, fighting and dying for their country, white men at home are planning to rob them of the right of franchise. The Richmond, Va., DISPATCH now seems to never tire in its belittling of the brother in black, and in its efforts to secure the repeal of those bulwarks of law, which have at least served as barriers against all efforts to destroy the legal rights of the freedman. In its issue of the 18th inst., it says: "The proposed conference in Montgomery, Ala., May 8th, 9th and 10th, to consider the race problem and issues connected therewith, is attracting attention. Some distinguished men will be there, and probably their addresses will be worth the careful consideration of people of all sections of the country. "The Hon. Hilary A. Herbert is to preside, and will make the opening address. Other prominent southern men are to make speeches. Rev. Mr. Murphy, who has taken much interest in THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. the movement, has wired from New York that Bourke Cockran will be there, and would make an address before the conference. Mr. Walter H. Page, who is a native of North Carolina, but for years engaged in the literary work in New York and Boston, will also be one of the speakers. Dr. Curry, the Hon. Alex. King, and the Hon. A. M. Waddell have also accepted places upon the programme.'' The 'Hon. A. M. WADDELL' is good. This is the usurping "mayor" of Wilmington, N. O. He led the red-shirted murderers and now holds office, not only in defiance of the constitution and laws of the state of North Carolina, but of those of the United States. No where do we see that the subject of discussion has been invited to participate in arguing his own case. Is it the play of HAMLET, with HAMLET left out. The DISPATCH remarks: "The discussion of all public questions should be encouraged. Only in that way can we learn from one another. Though we cannot figure out that much good will come of this conference, the object sought to be accomplished, perhaps, justifies the experiment." And again: "The enfranchisement of the freedman under the circumstances in which that so-called "boon" was conferred was the monumental blunder, not to say crime, of the age." That is a matter of opinion, and you will pardon us if we note that it is a very poor opinion. And again: "The first reform aimed at ought to be the undoing of the mischief. The Federal Constitution ought to be amended so as to relegate to each State entire right to prescribe suffrage qualifications; but we are not visionary enough to imagine that such amendment as that could be carried now. The negro vote is too important to Republicanism. New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to justify the expectation that the party would support a proposition to repeal the fifteenth amendment." It saves further: "We know that among the conservative classes of the North there are many persons who now realize the magnitude of the blunder in question, but generally speaking, those persons are not active in politics. So far as we have seen, not a single movement has been made by a political body in the North which encourages us to hope that they would vote for a constitutional amendment such as we have indicated. Many scholarly and philosophical men of the North are with us, but we should be foolish to reckon upon them unaided by political support." It continues: "Our recollection is that Bourke Cookran himself gave utterance to some sentiments on the race question during the last presidential campaign which were very offensive to the southern people. Perhaps he has received new light upon the subject. At any rate, such is his reputation as an orator that whatever he says at Montgomery will receive close attention." It saves: "That the southern whites and blacks are farther apart than they were ten or fifteen years ago is unquestionably true." You pass laws putting them further apart and then ascribe it to natural conditions. But here is the picture that this Negro-hater draws: "The attachments formed between master and slave are nearly all brok an; broken in multitudes of cases by death. The new generation of whites and the new generation of blacks scarcely know each other. Their lives are apart—separated by conditions which widen the distance year by year. Negro servants and farm hands nowadays too often refuse so much as to live upon their employers' premises. Alarmed by monstrous crimes done by Negroes, vexed at the untrustworthiness of the Negro laborer, disguised with him as a voter, what wonder is it that the predominant desire of the southern people should be to restrict his suffrage, so far as they may, and be more economical than heretofore in expending public money upon colored schools?" What an advertisement this is for Virginia! What an inducement to the immigrant! If this picture do not drive away capital, what will? On one hand, it is charged that we desire to mix with and force ourselves upon the white people and on the other that we desire to get away from them. For inconsistency, the Negro hater is the greatest acrobat of the century. It concludes: "It looks very much as though the southern people were done triding with socalled "race questions," and were prepared to deal with them heroically. We shall not soon get help from the North, but we believe they are more ready than ever before to acquiesce in; measures we of the South may take to deal with the problems which disturb us." The above language is akin to that used by TILLMAN of South Carolina. It is not only inseventy, but revolutionary. With all of the offices, in the Southland, with all the courts, with all the rights of franchise, with all of the "blind in one-eye" decisions of the United States Supreme Court, it now appeals to the North, the section to which the Negro has been looking and asks for aid in settling its own questions. It has been said that "no question is ever settled until it is settled right." This is true of the case of the citizen of color and threats of heroic treatment do not disturb the equilibrium of the Negro, and cause him to pause even a moment in his marrow to the table land of material prosperity. THEY are now trying to prove that a colored man killed Gonzal of Kentucky. They will be next trying prove that a Negro grusified the Saxon. DR. WALKER'S PLEA. Rev. O. T. WALKER, D. D., pastor of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church of New York delivered an able address before the Baptist Ministers' Conference (white) of New York. His subject was "Truth From Another Angle on the Negro Question." Among other things Dr. WALKER said: "The Negro Question or Negro Problem is one of the most important topics of the age. It is the subject of public discussion for the plattform, pulpit, press, national halls or legislature, and in all political circles. The question is, whether a race of people once enslaved, now emancipated, has been moved to a position of political and social quality with other races in the land which was the theatre of his servitude and degradation. Some say that this question will be settled by patience; some say by the Negro acquiring money, property and intelligence; others have said industrial education will settle it; and still others have said if the Negro will let others come under his citizenship, say away from the polls, that will settle it. The Negro was stolen and brought to this country against his most positive protest. For more than 250 years he was a slave, ignorant, wretched and depraved; morality debased, ambition numiliated, family ties sundered and disrespected, sold from the auction block as chattel; then emanicipated; penniless, ignorant and friendless, he is still hated, rejected and despised. He is the subject of criticism, ridicule and censure. His chains have been broken but he is not yet a free man; his privileges are limited and restrictive; his libery and justice. Yet he is patient, long suffering and uncomplaining. He sees the rights and liberties taken and is not proclaimed by the flag he has honored and to which he has been loyal and true. He sees his race lynched, murdered, and burnt, and only asks the Almighty God, how long! He quoted statistics as follows: "By reference to preceding reports of the United States Bureau of Education in which this subject has been treated we find that for 1487 and 1898, 916 883 Negro children in the 18 former slave state and the District of Columbia attending school, making 80 percent of the colored enrollment. There are about 180 schools in the United States for the secondary and higher education of colored youth exclusively. In 161 of these institutions there were employed 1808 teachers. The total enrollment being 42,828 students. In the collegiate grades there were 2492 students. In the secondary grades there were 12,669 students. In the elementary grades there were 26,167 pupils. There were 1711 students in classical courses, 1200 in scientific courses, 6724 in English courses, 244 in business courses, and 4449 in normal courses. There were 167 graduates from college courses, 859 from normal courses, and 858 from high school courses. There were 580 students and 63 graduates in theology, 116 students and 39 graduates in law, 342 students and 78 graduates in medicine, 43 students and 9 graduates in dentistry, 44 students and 11 graduates in pharmacy, and 180 graduates in nurse training. Of the 42,328 students in the 161 schools for the second race, 14,400 were receiving industrial training. It is shown that 1280 of these were being trained in farm or garden work, 1804 in carpentry, 107 in prick lawing, 94 in plastering, 180 in painting, 47 in sheet metal work, 274 in forging, 222 in machine shop work, 219 in shoe making, 685 in printing, 624 in sewing, 1,922 in cooking, and 2,414 in other industrial branches. These schools had in their libraries 237,145 volumes valued at $215 908. 260,000 Negroes are engaged in teaching school. More than 15,000 young men and women are attending our colleges, more than 50 normal schools, more than 40 schools for secondary instruction; 18 colleges and universities, 45 schools of theology 6 schools for the deat, dumb and blind, and several schools of law. We have a multiplicity of preachers and a surplus of school teachers. He pursued the discussion further: "The Negro has made progress in science, literature and art. A Negro was the chosen graduating orator for Harvard. They have stood the equal of others at Yale, Brown, Colgate, Chicago University and other great schools. The equatorial telescope in Lawrence University of Wisconsin was made by Negro students. Paul Laurence Dunbar is one of the leading literary characters of the present century. Tanner's "Hailing of Lazarus" is a proof of Negro's ability as a painter. Williams, Brown, DuBois and Johason have proven their ability as historians. T. Thomas Fortune of the New York Age; Cooper of The Colored American; Knox of The Freeman; Mitchell of The PLANET; White of The Georgia Baptist have settled their status as journalists. Booker T. Washington, W. H. Counell, Jones and Vassar of the University of Virginia; Wright, president of the State College of Georgia; Gilbert of Brown University and the American College at Athens, Greece; Scarborough, author of a Greek Text Book; Hope and Page from Brown University; and W. E. Holmes of Atlanta Baptist College and Chicago University, have proven their ability to educate their own race. He paid a graceful tribute to our benefactors in the following language: "The Negro is grateful to his northern and southern friends for assistance rendered him in the enlightenment of his race, and in removing illiteracy among the colored people. He is placed under renewed obligations to northern philanthropists such as Mussers, John F. Slater, John D. Rockefeller, Dr. Nathan Bishop, Mr. C. P. Huntington, Colonel Clinton B. Fisk, Mrs. Benedict and hundreds of others who by their princely munificence have given largely to assist the Negro in becoming an intelligent, respected citizen." He sums up the Negro's accomplishments and pleads his cause in the following language: "With a little more than thirty years to labor for himself he should not be expected. to measure up with his more fortunate white brother after giving him a start of two hundred and forty-six years; that would argue that our white friends have not done much for themselves or, that they expect the Negro under adverse circumstances to accomplish much more than they have done in a much longer time, and to concede that would be admitting Negro superiority, which our white friends cannot afford to do. They charge that the Negro is ignor- upon our more fortunate friends in the our more fortunate friends in the his enlightenment. They say he is weak and helpless; then ye that are strong should bear the infirmities of the weak. Many Negroes own farms; have their own property; conducting banks, factories, building and loan association, joint stock companies, co-operative stores, coal mines, and some few of them have succeeded in purchasing the plantation of their former masters. His religious progress has been commensurate with his numerical growth. The colored people are religiously inclined; they do not have skeptics, infidels, atheists, nor agnostics. They have very little trouble about the higher or criticism, and need no ecclesiastical courts to try men for heresy. The majority of them believes firmly in the triple declaration of one Lord, one Faith, and one Baptism; and they are no loose Baptists, they believe in the landmark doctrine, all the doctrines, and although they admit that there are many things in the grand old book they cannot understand they believe it as the inspired word of God, and hence they swallowed the whole book. We have 1,700,000 Negro Baptists, formed into a National Baptist Convention, conducting missionary work on the West Coast of Africa, South Africa, and in Cuba; with a national publishing house at Nashville, Tenn., publishing Negro literature and giving employment to more than fifty men and women." The entire address so electrified and impressed his hearers that they ordered it printed at the expense of the conference. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Philadelphia last year paved 66 miles of streets. A bill providing for ward and city local option was defeated in the Ohio senate. J. S. Peffer, son of Kansas' ex-senator, committed suicide by poison at Kansas City. M. J. Cassidy, for years warden of Pennsylvania's Eastern penitentiary, died in Philadelphia, aged 71. Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, last surviving brother of Henry Ward Beecher, died at Elmira, N. Y., aged 81. In a speech at Havana Secretary Root declared that American officials will vacate the island in due time. It is asserted in Washington diplomatic circles that The Hague peace conference has resulted in complete failure. George N. Cooper, of Elgin, Scotland, has arrived to secure $22,500,000 left him by his friend, the late George Smith, Chicago's pioneer banker. Rabbi Samuel Lavine dropped dead while officiating in his synagogue at Trenton. Mrs. Emmons Blaine, of Chicago, requires her household servants to work only eight hours a day. Banker Edward Dreyer, of Chicago, was refused a new trial and sentenced to the penitentiary for embezzling $216,000. Commander Richard Wainwright yesterday assumed command as superintendent of the Annapolis naval academy. Musicians arrested at fashionable New York hotels Wednesday night were released yesterday, Magistrate Cornell declaring the arrests an outrage. Saturday, March 17. A movement in Chicago will organize grave diggers and place the union label on coffins. Persia is to send a minister to Washington, after being without a representative for ten years. The bill appropriating $2,095,000 for the relief of Puerto Rico passed the national senate yesterday. 36 to 17. It transpires that last year's football team of Columbia college was composed mainly of professionals. General Otis has been authorized to permit Filipinos to enlist as members of the regimental band in the Philippines. Explosion of a gasoline stove in Columbus, O., killed Mrs. James Weaver and her four children and Joseph White. Monday, March 19. H. E. Taubenack, former chairman of the Populist national committee, died in Seattle, Wash. General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart, commander-in-chief of the British forces in India, died in Calcutta yesterday. Worthy students at Williams college, Williamstown, Mass., have had $2,500 left to them by the will of Mrs. Orilla J. Flint, of Cambridge, Mass. The Grand canal, part of the Valley of Mexico drainage system, was inaugurated Saturday with much ceremony by President Diaz and his cabin. The transport Sumner, which will sail from New York for Manila in about a week, will carry 1,100 recruits for regular regiments in the Philippines. Tuesday, March 20. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon appeals to Kansas to send 1,000,000 bushels of corn to India's starving. The Inseed oil mill of the American Linseed Oil company at Piqua, O., was completely destroyed by fire last night. Loss, $165,000 to $175,000. The Kansas City and Southern Railroad company, with a capital of $51,000,000, has been chartered. The object is to build a railroad from Kansas City to Mena, Ark. Elizabeth T. Strible, editress of a Christian science paper, went to jail in Sloux Falls, S. D., she refusing to pay $200 for sending obscene literature through the malls. Judge John A. Bingham died in Cadiz, O., aged 85. He served eight terms in congress, was ex-minister to Japan and was on the house committee which tried to impeach President Johnson. Wednesday, March 21. Wilmington, Del., is to have a team in the Atlantic baseball league this season. A decision of the United States supreme court sustains the anti-trust law of Texas. Nearly 5,000 people are being employed on public works in India's famine stricken districts. Sir Edmund Douglas Veitch Fane, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Copenhagen, is dead, aged 63. Secretary Root has authorized General Davis, at San Juan, to give employment upon public works to surplus labor in Puerto Rico. Maggie Riley, aged 12, died in a Philadelphia hospital from burns received by the explosion of coal oil which she used in kindling the fire. Twenty-four peasants were drowned yesterday by the capizing of a boat in which they were crossing the Danube river from Kaloosa to Pays, Hungary, during a gale. 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. The account of the conditions existing at the Colon jail published in another column merits prompt action on the part of the military authorities. Our informant is a business man of Havana, whose name can be obtained at this office by any properly authorized government official. The harrowing stories of brutal treatment of the insane in England so graphically written by Charles Dickens are paralleled in Cuba today under the protection of the American flag. We hope that a prompt cauterization of this sore on the body politic of our military administration will be made, and the modern methods of caring for the insane will be applied in the case of that poor, demented Negress, who is kept in a kennel that would make the average dog turn up his nose to look 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 at the Fourth Baptist Church. His pastor, Bisha Evans Payne, preached a remarkable, remarkable, constructive, funeral discourse. He dealt with his 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. Special Services at the Fifth St. Baptist Church. SUNDAYS, 18TH AND 25TH MARCH. The Fifth Street Baptists 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. The beautiful floral designs were presented by the officers and agents of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company, who attended in backs. 11:30 A. M., preaching, Rev. R. W. Graham; 3:30 P. M., preaching, Pastor W. F. Graham; 8:30 P. M., preaching, Rev. A. A. Graham. The Garfield Beneficial Club of which Brother Jones was a prominent member, was largely represented. His prayerful condolence of the company. 11:30 A. M., preaching, Rev. Prof. Digga; 3:30 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. McCov. The school taught by Miss Florence E Isham has had perfect attendance for 21 weeks in succession. W. F. GRAHAM, Pastor; JAS. H. CHILES, Clerk. 2t. NELSON' STRAIGHT [TRADE MARK.] The Latest Discovery for KNOTTY, KINKY, CURLY HAIR BEFORE NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE [TRADE MARK.] The Latest Discovery for Making KINKY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGH BEFORE AFTER SON'S RIGHTINE. THE MARK.] covery for Making STRAIGHT. AFTER NOTICE AND THE PUBLIC! The wonderful success of NELSON'S and many imitators to put worthless preparation on the market, and by now utter disregard for the truth, are our worthless preparations. Imitation will be paid STRAIGHT—people article. No one who has ever tried to buy these imitations, but some who do so by their wild claims. 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To get a large number who have it, we will make the following offer: allow, with your name and address on all send to you the following—price. . . . 25s. box. Cleaner, price. . . . 25s. Cake. . . . 25s. Bottle. . . . 50s. face bleach—as we have no confidence the best preparation that skill can fixing the skin, removing pimples and skin, sunburn, freckles, etc. will be sent you for $1.00, provided this out now, send money P. O. money address to NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE. [TRADE MARK.] The Latest Discovery for Making KNOTTY, KINKY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT. BEFORE AFTER Important Notice TO OUR FRIENDS AND AS HAS BEEN EXPECTED, the wonderful STRAIGHTINE has induced many in imitations of this reliable preparation of LOUD ADVERTISING, in which they show utter dis- trying so induce people to buy their worthless is the highest compliment that could be paid do not try to imitate a worthless article. No NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE will buy these have never used it might be led to do so by the we wish to sound a warning. NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is a thorough preparation; the formula was gotten up by a B experience, one who has made the hair a caref the Company is a graduate in chemistry; and is thoroughly reliable, chartered by the State capital to easy out all its obligations; the offi prominent business man who would not allow ciated with anything that was not thoroughly Read what the RICHMOND PLANET, under da say: "The Nelson Manufacturing Company has putting upon the market an article which will it. The price is reasonable—in fact, cheap—an business upon a first-class, honorable basis." STRAIGHTINE has the largest sale of any in the market. It is sold and used in every many foreign countries. Those who have used of its merits. Read what a few have to say. others: Rosa Waller, Pikeville, Ky., writes:—Stra- I take pleasure in recommending it. Mary F. Mayhoe, Altoona, Pa., writes Straightine with wonderful results. Mary T. Johnson, Harrisonburg, Va., writes has done my head more good than anything I Rosa Pope, Henderson, Va., writes:—Send eans of Straightine at ones. Goes like wild fire, like magic. STRAIGHTINE is a highly perfumed straightens the hair, but removes dandruff, ke out, aures itching, irritating scalp diseases, and luxurious head of hair. We guarantee it to be PRICE, 25 cts. A CAN. IF SENT. AS A SPECIAL INDUGEMENT to get a never used STRAIGHTINE to try it, we will if you will cut out the "Coupon" below, with y it, and mail to us with $1.00, we will send to y 4 Boxes Nelson's Straightine, price. 1 Box Nelson's Scalp and Hair Cleaner, price. 1 Cake Skin Soap, price. 1 Bottle Skin Lotion, price. This Skin Lotion is not a face bleach ence in such preparations—but it is the best pre- pare for softening and clearifying the skin blackheads, curing chapped or rough skin, sa- The ENTIRE LOT (worth $2.00) will be sent to you send this "Coupon." Cut this out now, order or registered letter only. Address to OUR FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC EXPECTED, the wonderful success of NELLIE STRAIGHTINE has induced many imitators to put work on of this reliable preparation on the market, and, in which they show utter disregard for the truth, the people to buy their worthless preparations. Imite compliment that could be paid STRAIGHTINE—initiate a worthless article. No one who has ever STRAIGHTINE will buy these imitations, but some and it might be led to do so by their wild claims. To and a warning. STRAIGHTINE is a thoroughly reliable and sellable formula was gotten up by a Richmond chemist of who has made the hair a careful study; the manuscript is a graduate in chemistry; and the Company makes reliable, chartered by the State of Virginia, with a out all its obligations; the officers of the Company men who would not allow their names to be anything that was not thoroughly reliable. THE RICHMOND PLANET, under date of June 16th, has an Manufacturing Company has done a fine business; the market an article which will do all that is claimable is reasonable—in fact, cheap—and the Company does a first-class, honorable basis." STRAIGHTINE has the largest sale of any preparation of its kind. It is sold and used in every State in the unique countries. Those who have used it are best able to Read what a few have to say. We have hundred perier, Pikeville, Ky., writes:—Straightine gives satisfaction in recommending it. Mayhoe, Altoona, Pa., writes:—I have used a fifth wonderful results. Johnson, Harrisonburg, Va., writes:—I am glad to read more good than anything I have ever used. Henderson, Va., writes:—Send me two dozen at once. Goes like wild fire, and it works on the STRAIGHTINE is a highly perfumed dressing. It not hair, but removes dandruff, keeps the hair from fringing, irritating scalp diseases, and gives a rich, long of hair. We guarantee it to be perfectly harmless. ACTS. A CAN, IF SENT BY MAIL, 30 MAL INDUGEMENT to get a large number who STRAIGHTINE to try it, we will make the following out the "Coupon" below, with your name and address us with $1.00, we will send to you the following—Lison's Straightine, price. 25c. box Lison's Scalp and Hair Cleaner, price. 25c. In Soap, price. 25c. In Lotion, price. 60c. bottle Skin Lotion is not a face bleach—as we have no no preparations—but it is the best preparation that skin softening and clearifying the skin, removing pimple ring chapped or rough skin, sunburn, freckles, etc. (lot worth $2.00) will be sent for $1.00, "Coupon." Out this out now, send money P. O. mered letter only. Address to AS HAS BEEN EXPECTED, the wonderful success of NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE has induced many imitators to put worthless imitations of this reliable preparation on the market, and by LOUD ADVERTISING, in which they show utter disregard for the truth, are trying to induce people to buy their worthless preparations. Imitation is the highest compliment that could be paid STRAIGHTINE—people do not try to imitate a worthless article. No one who has ever tried NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE will buy these imitations, but some who have never used it might be led to do so by their wild claims. To such we wish to sound a warning. NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is a thoroughly reliable and scientific experience, one who has made the hair a careful study; the manager of the Company is a graduate in chemistry; and the Company making it is thoroughly reliable, chartered by the State of Virginia, with ample capital to carry out all its obligations; the officers of the Company are prominent business men who would not allow their names to be associated with anything that was not thoroughly reliable. Read what the RICHMOND PLANET, under date of June 16th, has to say: "The Nelson Manufacturing Company has done a fine business by putting upon the market an article which will do all that is claimed for it. The price is reasonable—in fact, cheap—and the Company does its business upon a first-class, honorable basis." STRAIGHTINE has the largest sale of any preparation of its kind in the market. It is sold and used in every State in the union, and many foreign countries. Those who have used it are best able to judge of its merits. Read what a few have to say. We have hundreds of others: Rosa Waller, Pikeville, Ky., writes:—Straightine's gives satisfaction. I take pleasure in recommending it. Mary F. Mayhoe, Altoona, Pa., writes:—I have used your Straightine with wonderful results. Mary T. Johnson, Harrisonburg, Va., writes:—I am glad to say it has done my head more good than anything I have ever used. Rosa Pope, Henderson, Va., writes:—Send me two dozen cans of Straightine at once. Goes like wild fire, and it works on the head like magic. STRAIGHTINE is a highly perfumed dressing. It not only straightens the hair, but removes dandruff, keeps the hair from falling out, aures itching, irritating scalp diseases, and gives a rich, long and luxurious head of hair. We guarantee it to be perfectly harmless. PRICE, 25cts. A CAN. IF SENT BY MAIL. 30cts. I333 E. Franklin S SPECIAL OFFER CO Cut this out and enclose it with $1.00 manufacturing Co., 1333 E. Franklin St., R we will send you the following outfit go 4 Boxes Nelson's Straightin 1 Packet Nelson's Scalp and 1 Bottle Skin Lotion. 1 Cake Skin Soap. Name No.....Street..... Oity.....County..... Name Express Office SPECIAL OFFER COUPON. This out and enclose it with $1.00 to the Nelson Man- ing Co., 1333 E. Franklin St., Richmond, Va., and send you the following outfit complete: 4 Boxes Nelson's Straightine. 1 Packet Nelson's Scalp and Hair Cleaner. 1 Bottle Skin Lotion. 1 Cake Skin Soap. FER COUPON. paid with $1.00 to the Nelson Man- klin St., Richmond, Va., and ing outfit complete: His Straightine. His Scalp and Hair Cleaner. ation. p. SPECIAL OFFER COUPON. Cut this out and enclose it with $1.00 to the Nelson Manufacturing Co., 1838 E. Franklin St., Richmond, Va., and we will send you the outfit complete: 4 Boxes Nelson's Steightine. 1 Packet Nelson's Scalp and Hair Cleaner. 1 Bottle Skin Lotion. 1 Cake Soap. Prompt Investigation. SERVICES TO-MORROW. SUNDAY, 25TH. The Death of Mr. Thomas G. Jones. W. F. GRAHAM, President, J. J. CARTAR, Oasher, B. H. PYTON, Gen'l Insp't' JNO. T. TAYLOR, Sec. & Man 8-17. RE PLANET SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1900 TO THE NEGRO CAPITALIST. Say, what are you doing For your own folks at large Whose welfare you have To an extent in your charge? For each must guard well And must succor each other, For God hath required That we must keep our brother. You've bought many houses And acres of land, And a store, too, you keep At an old well-known stand, And bank-stock and bands Of the Government strong Some mortgages, too, Which you bought for a song. Yes, yes, now I see That you are quite well fixed, As pertains to yourself That your cup is well mixed; But again I would ask In all kindness, no pun; For your people at large— What good have you done? Gen. McCain Reports the Shooting of Three Private Colored Soldiers. News of further trouble in the Coeur d'Alene mining district reached the War Department yesterday in the following telegram: VANGOUVER BARRACKS, WASH. March 19. Adjutant General, Washington: Commanding officer Fort Sherman reports: Private West, Haynes and David F. Hayden, company M, Twenty-fourth Infantry, were badly shot in Coeur d'Alene City; suspected parties in arrest; recovery of men doubtful. All quiet there. M'CAIN, Acting Assistant Adjutant General, in absence of Department Commander. RATHDRUM, IDAHO, March 19.—A row occurred Sunday in a saloon in Coeur d'Alene, in which two colored soldiers named Hayes and Hayden, were fatally shot. Hayes was shot through the lungs and Hayden in the breast, the ball entering near the heart and ranging upward. The man who fired the shots has not been located. SPOKANE, WASH., March 19.—The statement that there had been a renewal of the trouble in the Coeur d'Alene mining district is erroneous and arce from confusion of geographical names. Coeur d'Alene City, where the shooting occurred, is seventy-five miles from the mining district. It is at the foot of Coeur d'Alene Lake, while the mining camps are on the headwaters of the river of that name. Adjacent to the town is Fort Sherman, a United States military post garrisoned by a few soldiers. The trouble there was an ordinary drunken row. WEST END NOTES. Excellent Church Services—Birthday Social Event. Our churches held most excellent services last Sunday. The Second Baptist Church was in high spirits, not only from the splendid sermon by her pastor, Dr. Lewis, but in happy anticipation of the pastor's 11th anniversary, which will take place after the 8rd Sunday. Friends are looking forward to a pleasant and royal occasion. At the Fifth Baptist Church, Rev Bryant at 11:30; preached an able sermon and Prof. Diggs prayed a carefully worded prayer. At 8:30, Rev J. R. West preached a good, spirited sermon. the members and friends of the River Baptist Church enjoyed very rich services. The pastor led the way. An impremptu reception took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Carter, Sr., at 12125 Taylor street, on the 11th inst., in honor of the visit of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Carter, Jr., from wasn Washington, D. O.; it being the birthday of Mr. Carter, Jr., also the birthday of two other children occurring within a month and five days, those of Mrs. Sarah L. and James T. Carter, Esq. The repast was very appetizing, being of some of the choice luxuries of the season, and was most pleasantly enjoyed by the many friends. Among those present, we noticed on the register Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jones, Misses Susie M. Johnson, Annie A. Johnson, Sarah L. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. A. Meade, Rev. and Mrs. J. R. West, Messrs. James T. Carter, Christer P. Carter, R. L. Turpin, Mrs. Miller, Mr. Roberts and lady friend, and others. Quite an urgent call was made for a very important meeting to take place at the River View Baptist Church last Monday night, and we learn that about thirty persons were present. A committee plans etc., had been appointed, but it seems for some cause unknown to many, some of the prime movers failed to show up. —Mrs. James Goode, 1212 Beverly St. has been quite sick for a week or more; also Mrs. R. H. Freeman on Lindon, near Main St. John Jefferson, Jr., the missing colored man of Manchester, has at last been found. He died at the City Hospital of Richmond, and was buried under the name of Jefferson Davis. Jefferson was taken with a fit on Broad street on the night of February 25th. The ambulance was called, and he was taken to the City Hospital, where he died. His name was thought to be Jefferson Davis, and as such he was buried in the pauper's section in Oakwood Cemetery. NATIONALISTS DENOUNCE ENGLAND Anti-War Banquet Develops Into a Free Fight. London, March 21.—At a Nationalist banquet at the Hotel Cecil last evening John Redmond, leader of the Nationalist party in the house of commons, who presided, said he regarded the last nine years of public life in Ireland as a hideous nightmare. "Our reunion is sincere," he continued, "and there is nothing, humanely speaking, which the 86 Irish members of parliament cannot obtain from the exigencies of the British parties. It is incredible that English statesmen can be so blind to the teaching of history as to imagine that serious practical grievances can be mitigated by a royal visit to Ireland or by a British celebration of St. Patrick's day." Mr. Redmond denounced the war as the "most damning of which there is any record in history." Edward Blake, member of parliament for South Longford, who proposed the toast "Ireland, a Nation," was greeted with hostile cries. In consequence of the uproar the stewards were sent for to secure quiet. A scrimmage followed and blows were exchanged. After a sharp tussle quiet was obtained. Later while Edward McHugh, member of parliament for South Armagh, was speaking a small coterie renewed the interruptions, which developed into a free fight. Many ladies were present and became greatly alarmed. Ultimately the police overpowered the disturbers and ejected them. Andaculous Robbery in Paris: Paris, March 21—An audacious robbery of 400,000 francs was committed yesterday from the Northwestern railroad. The company, which three times weekly deposits large sums with the Bank of France, sent 630,000 francs yesterday. This was placed in a satchel the money conveyed from the station to the bank in a cart, which was in charge of two clerks. Before they started one of the clerks placed the satchel beside the coachman. Two men then approached and engaged the attention of the clerk and coachman while a third man picked up the satchel and bolted with it. The loss was not noticed until it was too late to apprehend the robbers. Sweeping Corner Practice Stepping Corrupt Practices Bill. Columbus, O., March 20.—Senator Lawrence yesterday introduced a substitute for the Garfield corrupt practices act, which the legislature has refused to repeal. It provides that any candidate who shall use any money or promise to aid in his own nomination or election, or in defeating the nomination or election of any other person, shall be guilty of a felony. The penalty proposed is one to three years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. The Garfield law does not prohibit the use of money by candidates, but attempts to limit the amount that may be used. Valuable Dogs Poisoned. New York, March 21.—Two of the most valuable dogs on exhibition at the bulldog show in Madison Square Garden were found dead yesterday and it is believed they were polished. The dogs were Delaware and Highland Mary, owned by F. E. Austin. Delaware on Monday took first prize for limit dogs under 45 pounds, and was valued at $1,600. She also won first prize in the lightweight class, was a winner at the recent dog show and had won a first prize in London. A Bounty For Dead Bats Astoria, Ore., March 21.—The city council last night passed an ordinance providing a bounty of five cents a head for all dead rats delivered to the Chief of Police. The ordinance will remain in force 30 days. This action is taken as a precautionary measure against the possible appearance of plague in this city arising from ships coming here from infected ports. New York's Indebtedness New York, March 21.—Comptroller Coler made public yesterday a statement of the city debt on Feb. 3. The total gross fundal debt was $364,196,-859, the net $255,312,484 and the net bonded debt $258,340,084. There were then, besides, outstanding bonds of various corporations, now wholly or partly included in the city of New York, amounting to $4,385,391. Swindling Broker Horrible Fails Chicago, March 21.—Richard Oliver, a broker, yesterday pleaded guilty in the United States district court to the charge of having used the mails to defraud country people by means of so-called "get rich" scheme. Judge Kohlsaet imposed a fine of $1,000 and ordered the defendant to refund money amounting to nearly $5,000 which he has received from his victims. Puerto Rico Conference Agree Washington, March 21.—The conference on the Puerto Rican appropriation bill have agreed upon a compromise measure. The senate conferences receded from the senate amendment limiting the appropriation to the revenues collected on Puerto Rico importations until the first of last January, and restored the clause in the house bill applying to future revenues. India's Famine Expenditures. London, March 21.—The India office has issued its annual financial statement. This shows a surplus for 1899-1900 of £2,553,000 and an estimated surplus for 1900-1901 of £160-000. The famine expenditure for 1899-1900 worked out at £2,055,000. It is estimated that the famine expenditure for 1900-1901 will be £3,355,000. Absconding Michigan Official Located Grand Rapids, Mich., March 21.—A letter has been received from Cape Town, South Africa, written by General William L. White, the absconding quartermaster general of the Michigan National Guard. General White lost no time in getting out of the country after he left this city last December. Sultan Exiles & Few Wixer Constantinople, March 21.—Eight ladies of the palace have been sent into exile for machinations in connection with the sultan's fugitive brother-in-law, Mahmed Pasha. The palace secretary, Kiamil Bey, was suddenly exiled to Kodjaz last Saturday. The reason has not been made public. Do You Know Them? Information is desired concerning the relatives of Samuel Burton, who died at Saginaw, Mich., leaving some money. He worked at Montgomery, Va., and was said to have a sister. Angela Garner, who lived at Ford's Mill, Rockaway County, Va. He is said to be a business at Edgewater, Fayette County, W. Va. Any information will be gladly received by F. H. Porterfield. In care of Saginaw Coal Co., Saginaw, Michigan THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA GOEBEL ASSASSINATION Alleged Confession of Sergeant Golden in the Kentucky Case. A MULATTO FIRED THE SHOTS, It Is Said, and It Is Further Asserted That Golden Has Revealed the Name of the Murderer, Who Is Supposed to Be in the Mountains. Louisville, March 20.—The stories growing out of the conference between Sergent F. Wharton Golden, of the Barkerville company of the military, the attorneys who are managing the investigation of the assassination of the police have caused a sensation throughout the Golden will be placed on the stand by the prosecution in the trial of the persons already arrested for alleged complicity in the assassination, but information as to the exact nature of the testimony he is expected to give is lacking. Attorneys Campbell and Polsgrove naturally decline to discuss the matter, and Golden himself will say nothing. Specials from Winchester say Golden is still at that place in company with his attorney. The two spend most of the time about the hotel. They see all callers, however, and talk freely on all subjects except that of Golden's reported confession. "I will do all I can for my friends all the time," Golden is reported as saying. "but I must first be true to myself. When the time comes I will tell all I know whether else may be said about me, I think I can be accused of being a liar, or accused or a Democrat, and I want it distinctly understood that I am not here under guard." The story is published that Golden has divulged to the attorneys the name of the man who fired the shots that killed Goebel. The person mentioned is a mulatto who formerly lived at Winchester, was prominent in the French-Eversole feud, and is known as a dead shot. This man is now supposed to be in the wilds of one of the mountain counties. Evidence that he was in Frankfort at the time of the assassination was found among papers taken from W. H. Culton, a clerk in the auditor's office, when the latter was arrested a week or so ago, on a warrant charging him with being an accessory to the murder. Among these papers were receipts for board bills amounting to about $300, incurred by 18 men who were in Frankfort for some time before and at the time Goebel was shot. In one of these receipts the name of the mulatto mentioned is given. The receipt in this case is for money received from John Perkins by Bettina Pittman for the board of three men. Perkins is a porter about the state house. CHRISTIAN DAILY NOT A SUCCESS A Witty Local Advertiser Fooled the Preacher-Editor. Topeka, Kan., March 19.—Although the net profits of the Topeka Capital for Sheldon week were about $50,000, the "Christian daily" was not a success from a business standpoint, and the suggestion that it be continued as a religious daily will not be considered. Sheldon's Sunday edition was issued at 5 o'clock Saturday evening. Every article except a brief editorial is about the Bible. One advertisement slipped in which annoyed Mr. Sheldon. It was a display advertisement of a local plow factory, and read: "Stir the subsoll deep, to let in the rain that refreshes the earth. Otherwise a large portion of moisture graciously sent by Our Heavenly Father is wasted by the running off from the surface. Perine's Subsoil Plow accomplishes the stirring, as we believe would please Jesus, who said, 'Let nothing be lost.' Also Perine's improved potato digger, designed to work well even in unfavorable conditions of soil, which induces good words, by which We Desire to Honor Jesus." Mr. Sheldon rejected the advertisement, but his blue pencil was not working well, and the advertising man mistook "no" for "yes." Steamer Wrecked. Coastal Steamer Wrecked, Crow Rescued. San Francisco, March 21. The British ship City of Florence, bound from Iquique for San Francisco with a cargo or nitre, is ashore at Half Moon Bay, with yards of the scene of the wreck of the steamer City of Columbia, which will ashore near Half Moon Bay two years ago. The vessel is a total wreck and is breaking fast the tug Alert picked up the entire crew of 26, who had taken to the small boats, about 30 miles from the scene of the wreck and brought them to this city. . Woes of German Inventors Berlin, March 21—Inventors in German factories have a hard time to profit by their brain work. A foreman at Frankfurt, who invented a substance used in finishing velvet, was tried and convicted of revealing trade secrets because he imparted his invention to outsiders, although this secret was his own. The German court took the 'ground' that it was a duty of the foreman to make experiments, that his inventions belonged to his employers and that he had no right to expose them. Defended His Mother by Defended His Mother by Parricide. Chicago, March 21—George Finch a day laborer, living in Austin, a suburb of Chicago, was last night shot and instantly killed by his 16-year-old son Albert. The elder Finch was intoxicated and was making a murderous attack upon his wife. Département Rural de Sainte-Élisabeth Defaulter Bundy's Shortage Grows. Elimira, N. Y., March 21.—The examination yesterday of the books of Frank E. Bundy, the defaulting city chamberlain, showed a deficit of $33.600 in one tax roll. It is now expected that the total shortage will reach at least $60,000. Sultan Yields to Revenues Sultan Yields to Russian Demands. London, March 21—The Constantinople correspondent of The Times announces that the sultan has yelled "in all essential particulars" to the Russian demands respecting railway concessions in Asia-Minor. Greek Warship to Visit Us. Baltimore, March 21.—The first Greek warship to visit an American port will be seen here shortly when the Pirens, a second class cruiser of that classic little nation, with a number of Grecian naval officials aboard, steams into port on a friendly visit. The object of the visit is to afford the officials a chance to visit the shipyards at Sparrow's Point and the Columbian Iron works. They will also visit New York, Newport News and Philadelphia shipyards. GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS Raleigh, N. C., March 19.—The unveiling of the Vance statue has been postponed from May 20 to July 4, the work not being far enough advanced to be unveiled on the date first set. Raleigh, March 16.—Wives of prominent Democrats here today formed an association to raise funds to pay for the circulation of Democratic literature during the coming campaign this year. Chattanooga, March 17.—It is announced here that representatives of the Southern League and Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, and Illinois Central railroads have adopted a closed rule that no passes will be issued this year to delegates to the Republicans and Democratic conventions, both of which will be held in Nashville. Columbus, Ga., March 19.—Charles Humphries, who late Saturday night entered the room of Miss McCoy, daughter of a white farmer living just outside of Phoenix City, Ala., was lynched yesterday by a party of white men. The mob came upon the negro about ten miles from Phoenix City. He confessed the attempt and was shot to death. Houston, Tex., March 17.—Reports from different sections of the state show much damage to the fruit crop from the frost which followed the snow of Thursday. Berries in the coast country are not damaged materially, but the crop will be lata. As a rule correspondents state the snow will benefit all field crops, and especially grain. Norfolk, Va., March 16.—In the Princess Anne county court yesterday Oscar I. Flemming, the magistrate who shot and killed Clarence I. Snyder, of this city, last November, was convicted of murder in the second degree and given 14 years in the penitentiary. He will ask for a new trial and if refused will carry the case to the circuit court and possibly to the supreme court of appeals. Wheeling, W. Va., March 20.—The little town of Saint Marys, on the Ohio river, below Wheeling, was the scene yesterday of the killing of James G. Hite, an oil man, by Joseph C. Noland. The act was committed in self defense. Hite being in the act of advancing on Noland with murderous intent. The shooting is the outcome of an alleged attempt at blackmail by Mrs. Hite against Noland. Montgomery, Ala., March 20.—A fast mall on the Plant system was wrecked near Ozark, resulting in the injury of a number of passengers. William Kellar, a commercial traveler, from Savannah, and Conductor Reed are dying as a result of their injuries. The rear trucks of the tender jumped the track and the entire train excepting the last sleeper left the rails. Two coaches and two sleepers rolled down an embankment, throwing the passengers in all directions. Marletta, Ga., March 19.—A mob of 128 men battered down the doors of the jail at this place at 1 o'clock yesterday morning and went to the cell where John Bailey, a negro, was confined, and fired about 500 shots at him. Bailey dropped to the flood at the first fire and only three or four balls struck him. He will die. On Thursday afternoon Bailey met Miss Amanda Shellgrove, a young white woman, on a lonely road, and in an attempt to outrage her beat her severely. Charleston, W. Va., March 15.—The coroner's jury, which has been hearing evidence as to the cause of the recent disaster at Red Ash mine, yesterday returned a verdict that the explosion was caused by lack of proper ventilation on that date. Evidence showed that the men entered the mine before the fire boss had examined and reported on its condition. Up to date a total of 47 dead have been removed from Red Ash mine. Only two more known to have been in the mine are not yet accounted for. Norfolk, March 21.—The negro who has broken into several residences, assaulted and robbed helpless women recently and well nigh terrorized the town, was shot and killed yesterday morning by Policeman Salyer. He is Brooks Ramsey, a deck hand on the Chesapeake and Ohio steamer Louse, who about 5 o'clock yesterday morning entered the home of Mrs. Virginia Prult, an aged dressmaker, and attacked her with a piece of iron grate. Shortly after fleeing from the house he was arrested by Officer Coffee, from whom he escaped, to run into the arms of Salyer, who after a struggle shot Ramsey to avoid being killed by him. Atlanta, Ga., March 21—Governor Candler appeared yesterday before the sub-committee of the industrial commission which is taking testimony here. Governor Candler said that trusts raised prices and made millionaires and paupers. "They build up the two extremes of society at the expense of the great middle class, so necessary to the prosperity of the country," said the governor. He continued: "The evils that arise from them can be lessened by national legislation. The condition of the agricultural classes in this state is much better than it has been in some years, but there is still room for improvement." Savannah, Ga., March 21—The program for the entertainment of Admiral and Mrs. Dewey was broken last evening by the illness of the admiral. A public reception had been arranged for the hours between 9 and 11, and 5,000 persons gathered at the De Soto hotel to greet the distinguished visitors. But the admiral was too ill to appear, and the function was abandoned. The admiral suffered an attack of indigestion on board the revenue cutter Hamilton while the party was on a trip down the river and harbor. The admiral is resting easily, and his physicians say he will no doubt be able to go on with the program of arrangements. No Objection to Wheeler Washington, March 19.—General Joseph Wheeler may present himself at the bar of the house to be sworn in sometime during the week. So far as can be learned there is no objection on either side to his admission if his resignation as a brigadier general in the army shall have been accepted before he presents himself. The case, however, may be referred to a committee. 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"I don't think I really care for any wine, but this is what we drink at home. You did not pour any for yourself," she added, a moment after. He smiled. "It would be for the first time in my life if I had." "How strange!" She looked at him pointblank with a pair of clear and very kind blue eyes. "Have you scruples? Do you think it wrong?" "Well"—he drew a long breath—hardly. Yet, for me, it would be wrong." The color deepened on her cheek a little. He saw her check back a word from her lips, and the shadow that swept over her face was sweeter than any brightness. But he could not appropriate her unmerited sympathy. "No—no," he declared, laughing slightly. "It is not at all a temptation to me. I have never known the taste of any sort of liquor. I think I have a great advantage against fate in this, and—I mean to keep it." "Then you are afraid, after all?" "Sometimes we recognize danger though we may not fear it." "If it be danger, you must fear it. You do, or you would not take precautions." He looked down and met her earnest glance. She was forgetting her dinner. "If you were not afraid," she went on, impulsively, "wine would seem to HE RAISED HIS CRYSTAL GOBLET. you as harmless as water. It is because you have a fear that you will not touch it." He was at a loss just here. It was difficult to match her candor without a touch of seeming discourtesy. "Suppose I drink to your better courage?" she said. A roguish dimple showed itself. "The deadly cup has no terror for me." He raised his crystal goblet and drank to her in sparkling water, saying, gently: "but of my cup no one need be afraid." There was a pause. She had not lifted the wine to her lips. A servant came to remove the course, and some one spoke to her across the table. When he could claim her attention again he was ready with a bright remark about the beauty of some roses in a vase near them. "Yes—so pretty—pretty," she said, vaguely, and then, with purpose in her tone: "We had not exhausted our topic, I think. May I ask—is it your conviction that liquor should not be used in any form?" "You are unmerciful," he deprecated. "Think how ungrateful it would seem to object to anything amid such surroundings." "Never mind about being complimentary," she replied, gravely. "I am trying to reflect—to decide. I have never before given one serious thought to this question of temperance. The people I live among—and they are all upright, intelligent and refined—regard a moderate use of liquor as almost indispensable. Surely you must admit that there are thousands and thousands who are not in any way injured by its use." "I know," he said, quickly, "but there are millions and millions—the jails will tell you—the hospitals—" He stopped abruptly. "Yes," she said, thoughtfully. "Yes. But why not take the good and avoid the evil? We need not become drunk-kards because we use liquor?" He met the appeal of her earnest eyes with a look as earnest. "Since you desire it," he answered, steadily, "let me say one word, and then, I think, I will say no more. If you never touch liquor you not only need not, you cannot, become a drunkard. But if once it cross your lips the first step is made." There was a long silence between them. The rest of the guests went on talking gayly. Presently she spoke, but so low that he had to bend his ear to listen. "You have given me a wonderful message," she said. She laid aside her glass of wine, and in the simple act he knew there was consecration.—Madeline S. Bridges, in Ladies' Home Journal. WHAT ARE THE MAJOR ONES? A Medical Man Writes Under the Caption: "Minor Immoralities of the Tobacco Habit." Dr. Matthew Wood, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, writes on this subject. If these are the minor immoralities, we should like to inquire what the major ones could be. He says: "The vulgarity and illicitousness of the press, with its mer- ceeury pandering to vice, corrupting as it does that very fountain of national strength, the home; the lubricity, the demoralizing baseness, of the degraded drama, disfigurement of boardings by the cigarette-soaked indecencies of the variety stage, making it difficult for our children to walk the streets without contamination; the growing fondness for certain social functions with their films vaudelle adorments; the mockery of and attempted obliteration of personal puritanism; the crass things done by tobacco-based young people; degradation of seats of learning by the introduction of smoking-rooms, those hotbeds of vice and egnosticism, of ballet dancing and brainless burlesque—imbecility and irreverence under the auspices of fashion; defilement of public buildings by foul receptacles provided for a people so base that it is necessary to ask them please not to spit on the floor; the negro-minstrel methods of some of our churches; the effemacy of religious periodicals with their venal advocacy of successful quackery and fraud; the prevalence of the gambling allama among women, leveling all ranks, wasting energy, dissipating time so much needed in more cannobling ways; medieval grotesqueries, eucher and wine parties for the spiritual and physical benefit of the outcast and sick, made so by gambling and drink—what, unless completely engrossed in other things, could induce thoughtful men silently to submit to these but that indiscriminating drowsiness of conscience—denying nothing, doubting everything—so frequently induced by tobacco?"—Health. TEMPERANCE TIDINGS In the English counties of Lancashire, Durham and Northumberland one man in every hundred, according to the report of the national drink commission, is a drunkard. Temperance people will watch with interest the doings of the Royal Welsh fusileers during the present Transvaal campaign, for 500 men of the battalion are stance teetotalers. Dr. S. G. Howe traced the parentage of 300 idiots, and reported to the legislature of Massachusetts that of the 300, 147 were found to be the children of drunkards. In one instance seven idiotic children were the offspring of a drunken father and mother. T. D. Grothers, M. D., from careful investigations, estimates that there are in this country from 100,000 to 150,000 regular users of opium, including from six to ten per cent. of all medical men, and that from 30 to 60 per cent. of insanity is due to the habit. When the saloon burned at Ridgefield Park, N. J., the Christian Endeavors began a fight against replacing it. Although ground was broken for a new one, they succeeded, after a discouraging beginning, in getting such an array of signatures to a petition that the judge refused the license. Centralia, Mo., has a flourishing organization known as the Backbone club. Every member must sign a pledge that he will not use tobacco during 1900. The rules provide that if any member shall break his pledge, he must wear on the lapel of his coat a badge bearing in large letters the words: "I Have No Backbone." A Beautiful Creed. "The most beautiful creed of the heart is love of home." "In the purity of the home is the hope of the nation." So says the Champion of Fair Play. "a journal devoted to the interests of the retail liquor trade." It was this same beautiful creed which drove the early crusaders out into the streets and into the saloons to do battle against home's greatest foe. It is this same creed which urges the home-keepers of the W. C. T. U. to "do everything" that organized mother love can do to aid in destroying the destroyer. Does the retail liquor trade conduce to the purity of the home? With a saloon on every corner and the liquor power controlling our laws, where is safety for our homes, what the hope of the nation?-Union Signal, A Poor Business Policy. Chief of Police Kipley's estimate of the expenses of the Chicago police department for 1900 is $3,708,193, an increase of $327,649 over last year's appropriation. The principal item of increase is for 500 additional patrolmen at $1,000 a year salary. This will bring the number of patrolmen on the force up to 3,000. The amount of revenue derived from saloon licenses in Chicago, or any other city, is not sufficient to pay the cost of taking care of the consequences of the saloon. Indeed, Caroll D. Wright, the eminent statistical authority, says that for every dollar that the saloon brings in, it causes an outgo direct, and indirect, of $21—Union Signal. A Significant Fact: It is a significant fact that one of the first steps taken by Gen. Wood on his return to Santiago, toward stamping out yellow fever, was to order the closing of all American bars and saloons in the city, and prohibiting the sale of strong drink to Americans. Keep Out the Saloons. There is no poverty, no suffering, very little crime, and no strife between labor and capital at the little town of Bolivar, 58 miles from Pittsburgh. The 250 men who are employed in brick-making have not allowed any saloons there for 20 years. The Safest Way. Askim — How do you pronounce U-i-t-l-a-d-e-r? Tellum — The same as you do. I spell it—N. Y. Journal. Not Equal to the Situation. Professor (feelingly)—When I first began teaching music the wolf was often at my door. Listener (unfeelingly)—Gracious! Why didn't you pound the piano then as you do now?—Indiansapolis Journal. Peking's Unenviable Distinction. The three chief characteristics of Peking, the Chinese capital, which most impress the newly arrived visitor are dust, stench and dogs.—N. Y. Times. Will Keep Anywhere. A miser is one of the things that will keep in any climate.—Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. It Will Always Linger in the Memory of the Surgeon Who Had Charge of It. "What was the strangest case I ever had?" said one of the surgeons in attendance at the late convention, repeating the question of a New Orleans Times-Democrat reporter with whom he was chatting. "Well, let me see. I believe the oddest incident of my career occurred in—but hold on; see and thought I don't care to give any names or dates. The facts, if you like were these: I was called by messenger to a cheap boarding house one evening to attend a man who was said to have been hurt in a fight. I found a young fellow of 25 or thereabouts, half DRESSING THE WOUND. dazed, with a bloody contusion on one of his cheeks and a badly smashed nose. The bridge was smashed almost flat with the face, and I saw at once that the case would need very careful handling to prevent great disfigurement. Not to bother you with technical details, I confined myself that night to a superficial dressing, and deferred further proceedings until next day. When I called the following morning the young man had quite recovered his senses, and although his clothes were shabby and all his surroundings poor and mean, it was evident from his hands, talk and hearing, that he had never done any hard work, and was a person of education and refinement. I took him for the black sheep of some good family, but made no comments and explained briefly that I would try to restore his nose as far as possible by performing a slight operation and inserting an artificial support. To my astonishment, he objected flatly, and insisted on letting it heal exactly as it was. But you will be frightfully disfigured,' I protested; 'I doubt if your best friends would recognize you. Strange to say, that assurance seemed to render him only the firmer, and I was compelled to let him have his way. It was nearly three weeks before he was well, and, as I anticipated, he looked exactly like some battered bruiser of the prize ring. I never saw the man again, but six months later I was shown the photograph of a handsome young chap who was badly wanted for a big embezzlement. I put my finger over the nose and recognized my late patient. He had walked aboard ship right under the eyes of the detectives and sailed for the Argentine Republic. They had his photo, but never dreamed of connecting it with the caved-in countenance of that particular passenger." "Did he get somebody to break his nose on purpose?" asked the reporter. "I never ascertained," said the surgeon. VICTIM OF A JOKE Why the Englishman Didn't Sas Good-By to His American Fellow Passenger. Two passengers on the New England on her last trip, one an American and the other an Englishman, did not exchange the farewell courtesies, when the steamer reached her pier, usual between voyagers who have occupied ad- SLAPPING H'M ON THE BACK. joining staterooms and hobnobbed during an ocean voyage, says the Boston Post. A plausible explanation was vouchsafed by the American. During the voyage the Englishman persisted in fraternizing with the American in a most obtrusive and annoying manner. Within two days of Boston the Englishman one morning hunted up the American and found him in apparent despondency, gazing seaward from the hurricane deck. "Confounded blue this morning, old chap. What's the matter?" And the Britisher slapped his companion on the back. "Matter enough," growled the American. "Ship's lost; captain don't know which way to steer. Forgot to wind the compass last night." The Englishman listened with mouth agape, then rushed off to tell his friends of the consequential mishap. Evidently gullible Britisher was "pushed along" for some time until he found everybody guying him. Domination of Latin Races. One leading result of the struggle for supremacy among the western nations has been the gradual ascendency of the Anglican, Teutonic and Scandinavian over the Latin races.—Chicago Chronicle. Not a High Ambition. The height of some men's ambition is to be able to say "I told you so."—Chicago Daily News. How Far Noises Travel. When the alkali works at St. Helens, England were blown up by the explosion of 80 tons of chlorate of potash, the noise was heard at Marple, 28 miles away. At the battle of Corunna 1,500 barrels of gunpowder blew up, causing the ground to rock for miles. The blast at Hell Gate, New York, 130 tons of dynamite, was perceived 183 miles away by the vibrations of mercury. The shock of the dynamite explosion, 50 tons, at Johannesburg, was felt at Pretoria, 33 miles distant. The naval magazine of Lagoubon, Toulon, which blew up March 5 last, was heard at Nice, 84 miles distant, and even at Ventimiglia, in Italy, 100 miles distant. The country for a radius of nearly two miles was blown bare, houses knocked to pieces and trees uprooted or bent into fantastic shapes.—N. Y. Herald. Picked Too Soon. A devoted Cleveland uncle took his very small nephew out in the country one bright day not long ago, and his friend, the farmer, suggested he should go out and hunt for eggs. Of course, the small nephew went along. The uncle knew where to go, and though he is fat and scant of breath, managed to gather a number from all sorts of hiding places. Presently he stooped and picked up a bantam's egg. The small nephew saw it. "Put it back, unk," he shrieked, "don't oo see zat one isn't ripe yet!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. An Almanac in Cards: Did you ever stop to think that an ordinary deck of playing cards is a perfect calendar? There are 52 cards, representing the number of weeks in the year; 365 spots, corresponding to the 365 days in the year; 12 faced cards, representing the 12 months; four suits, clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds, representing the four seasons; 13 cards in each suit, representing the 13 moons in each year, and the joker makes up the extra day in the year.—Chicago Chronicle. Good News for the Unemployed I live right here in the north. I am in touch with those who need help can find out who is unreasonable and unjust. I have a steady demand for good women as cooks, chambersmails and general servants, and often for good indoor and outdoor men servants. I pay your fare to which is added a reasonable amount for expenses and fees. 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MARTH, the world renowned and highly celebrated business and test Medium reveals everything. No imposition. Can be consulted upon all affairs of life, business, love and marriage a speciality. Every mystery revealed, of absent, deceased and living friends. Removes all troubles and estrangements, challenges any Medium who can exceed her in startling revelations of the past, present and future events of one's life. 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 hildren you have or will have; whether your present sweetheart will be true to and if he will marry you; if you have a sweetheart she will tell you when you will be acquainted with business and date of acquaintance all your future will be told in an honest clear and plain manner and in a dead chance. Mother's 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 know 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 t these advisers do not take the able 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 person it is the art used by many unprincipled mediums, but to take hold of the head and gain control of the mind thereby is impossibility to most of them. And this can be done and by consulting Medium they seeming mystery becomes a realization This subject has received no little attention 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 materials has been secured by MRS. 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School or College studies im-ented young man can find preparation for a life of wide For further info VIRGINIA UNION Knight TO WHO This o situated New Yo eceptable social and Fraternal and to promote Its two distinct military and tion a place in the front ranks grand opportunity for active men- try to organize ledges. 884 W.58rd Street. New York City WE AT YOU EARN IT MAKES YOU RICH SAVINGS BANK , Richmond, Va. R. J. Bass, Vice-President on, Cashier. Planet Building, Earth Street. Money and remember "A dollar per cent interest allowed on de- the National Bank of Virginia. ACTORS. Brian, Anderson Evans, Henry James West, Benjamin Smith. New Phone, 9133 HE YONET SATURDAY, MARCH, 24 1900 WRAPPED IN THE FLAG. American Woman, Now a Prisoner in Mexico, Sleeps Under Stars and Strips Every Night. There is an American woman in jail at Juarez, Mexico. She is charged with murder, but amid the surroundings of the Mexican prison, it is feared that she will lose her mind. She is Mrs. Mattie Rich, who, on May 18 last, stabbed her husband, John D. Rich, at their home there and then took him to El Paso, Tex., to die. John D. Rich was a wealthy old gentleman from the United States who had lived for some time in Mexico and amassed a large fortune. His wife, who WRAPPED IN THE STARS AND STRIPES. is young, beautiful—a fine type of the shapely western American girl—decided to get rid of him, it is alleged. It is asserted by some that affection for a younger man was the motive for the murder. According to the story told here, Mrs. Rich stabbed her husband while he was asleep. He did not die immediately. The wife decided to take him out of the country, hoping that she might escape in the United States the punishment for the crime with which she was charged. Juarez is only a few miles from the border line. It did not take Mrs. Rich long to get her husband into El Paso de Tojas, on the United States side. He died the day after arriving there. The Mexican consul in the town immediately demanded her extradition to Mexico, but Mrs. Rich set up a claim that she was an American citizen. The government of Mexico sent papers to Washington with instructions to its minister there that extradition be granted. On July 15 President McKinley signed the papers. Wrapped in the stars and stripes Mrs. Rich left the prison in El Paso on July 23, and on the same day entered the prison at Juarez with the same flag around her. She appeared to be brave then, but her eyes were dimmed with tears. She was allowed to take the flag to her cell, and every night she covers herself with it while asleep. Five months awaiting trial has played sad havoc with the young woman's mind. A Mexican prisoner has none of the comforts of an 'American prison, and women are treated no better than men. Those who have seen Mrs. Rich lately say that her hair is slowly turning gray, that her eyes are sunken, her cheeks hollow, and from a beautiful woman she has become haggard and downcast. No reason can be learned for the delay in Mrs. Rich's trial. It is believed that if she is not given some change in her surroundings she will have to be removed to an asylum. On July 30 Secretary of State Hay instructed Ambassador Clayton, stationed in the City of Mexico, to watch carefully the trial to see that no injustice was shown Mrs. Rich. ACCOMPLISHED THIEF. Philadelphia Dog Stole a Fur Cape from a Clothesline and Escaped with the Spoils. "Hang your wash up high, or that thieving dog will steal it," is the warning housewives in Torresdale are passing to each other, says a Philadelphia paper. The "thieving dog" is a newcomer to Torresdale, and the folk out there DOG THIEF AT WORK. believe he is the agent of a wily old Fagin, who has trained him to steal from clothes lines. Mrs. Peacock is his latest victim, and for several days she bewailed the loss of a fur cap. The cape needed a little sponging and airing, so she hung it out on a clothesline in the yard. That was several days ago. It disappeared as mysteriously as a prestidigitator's silk handkerchief. But she got it back yesterday. An advertised reward did it. A railroad trackwalker took the garment to her and explained that he had retrieved it from a woolly dog last Friday. He saw the dog trotting along with the cape in his mouth, and opened that, as it wasn't a coonskin, and the dog wasn't a coon dog, he had no business with a fur cape, even if the weather was cold. No one knows to whom the dog belongs. "Cordially Years." Interesting conclusions are drawn from a study of the different ways writers subscribe themselves. The curt "Yours" and "Yours truly" are found not only in business letters, but in personal notes as well, for there are plenty of correspondents who don't believe in gushing, and who think that "Yours truly" or "sincerely" means about all they wish to convey. Opposed to these sensible and essentially practical persons is that class of writers, made up of young and enthusiastic individuals, usually of the gentler sex, who throw words about as careless on paper as they do in conversation, and those who sign themselves "affectionately yours" even when writing to casual acquaintances. "Cordially yours," by the way, is seen more and more frequently now in notes between acquaintances who are on distinctly friendly or cordial terms. After all, "sincerely yours," when it can be used truthfully, is a simple and satisfactory way of ending friendly letters. Some people have the habit of not prefacing their names with any set form of words at the end of letters. They stop when they get through and simply write their signatures, this being an easy way out of the difficulty. —McCall's Magazine. Natural Soda Water Fountain. A short time ago a number of workmen engaged in boring for water near Niederman, in Wurtemberg, suddenly came upon a powerful carbonic acid spring. The hole was being out through blue clay, in a width of 24 feet, and lower down of 12 inches. The stream did not come out in full power all at once, but it suddenly increased so much that the men thought best to retire as quickly as they could, leaving their tools to take care of themselves. The fountain rose to a height of 80 feet with a roar. Even the next day nobody could approach close, as the atmosphere was fully charged with carbonic acid. A few men who ventured too near had to be rescued by their companions, being overpowered by the suffocating gas. For several days the power of the well did not diminish. The machinery and appliances for catching the acid cannot be fixed in a hurry, when the eruption is at its best, and often the first experiments do not repay, because the fountain becomes exhausted or the gases find another outlet. N. Y. World. She Heard It. The surplied choir had done its duty for the evening service. But all during the church hours there had been a peculiar sound outside as if a child were crying. In reality it was something the matter with the organ. It could be heard distinctly in the auditorium of the church. When the choir sang the recessional and marched slowly out of the church into the dressing-rooms one of the young ladies among the soprano asked the woman who takes care of the robes: "Did you hear that awful squeaking out here?" "Yes, indeed, mum; I could almost understand the words." And nothing more was said on the subject—Detroit Free Press. A Street of Cairo The spacious public square of Cairo, Egypt, is called the Esbakeeeyah. It contains nearly half a million square feet and is surrounded by the principal hotels and prominent buildings of the city. In order to prevent its inundation by the rise of the Nile, a canal was built around it, but this has become filled in. A portion of the square is now used as a public garden, and there are theaters, cafes and other places of amusement on it that make it easily the center of life of the city—Detroit Free Press. The Fata Morgana The Fata Morgana, properly speaking, is a sort of mirage that is seen most frequently between Calabria and Sicily. The atmosphere must be in the proper condition to produce the phenomena. Then, the rising of heated air and the flowing in of cooler layers of the atmospheres make a most astonishing display. Towns, buildings, fields, ships, hills, trees, people, are seen moving along in the air, but all of them upside down.—Detroit Free Press. He Craved a Favor "Say," called the victim from beneath the bed coverings. "Well?" asked one of the burglars, gruffly. "Would you fellows mind carrying off that ornamental watch dog of mine in the front yard along with the rest of your swag?"—Philadelphia North American. The laws of Mexico provide that a Mormon who wishes to take a second wife must present his signed by his first helpmeet to the office that she is willing; and he must also give the express consent of the second wife and her parents.—Chicago Times-Herald. Very Proud. Indeed. Mrs. Hiland—Did you ever see anybody so proud of her conservatory as Mrs. Shadyside? Mrs. Halket—No, she is a regular haughty culturist. —Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. **In the Klondike.** Mrs. Nugget—What a fine piece of cloth! How much did you pay for that? Mrs. Mines—Only $98.99 a yard. I call that a bargain, don't you?—Puck. **One Man's Idea.** The Maid—What, in your estimation, is the first step toward universal peace? The Bachelor—The abolishment of matrimony.—Chicago Evening News. **Not for Third Parties.** When two souls have but a single thought the thought seldom interests outsiders.—Chicago Daily News. Stage Struck. Lots of amateur actors are stage struck, and probably a lot of professionals would be if the audience had the necessary missiles at hand.—Chicago Daily News. THE RCHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA KNEW HIM TOO WELL Why the Efforts of a Belated Husband to Square Himself Fell to the Ground. The little hours had crawled up to the comb of the roof of night and fallen over until three of them were rolling down the far side toward the eaves of morning, when a solitary footman might have been seen slipping into his own house with his shoes in his hand. How needless, oh, how needless, are oftentimes the devices of man. How nagulatory and void, reflects the Wash- WIFEY WAS WAITING FOR HIM. ington Star, are oftentimes his most painstaking efforts. His wife was wide awake and waiting for him when he entered the sanctified seclusion of their apartment. "I was so afraid of waking you, dear," he stammered, as he let the shoes fall from his nerveless grasp to the floor with a couple of dull thuds so close together they seemed as one. She asked him in a stone cold voice where he had been to be getting in at that time of night. He thanked heaven for an opportunity to explain, and he told her a harrowing tale of business and delayed trains and telephones out of order and telegraph wires down and no messengers that would have moved a heart of marble. She never said a word as she looked straight at him. "Do you doubt me?" he said, as if indignant at the implied suspicion of her silence; and then pleadingly: "Do you doubt me? Oh, Mary, how can you?" Her face softened and the fixity of her eyes relaxed. "No, William," she responded, almost gently. "No, I do not doubt you. At first there might have been some doubt in my mind, but now, thank heaven, there is none. Not a shadow, William, and I'm as sure that you are lying as that you are standing before me." Then William bowed his head in shame and turned up the gas—at her request—so she could get a better look at him. THE WORM TURNED. Mrs Gary's Divorced Husband Wouldn't Split Wood and Then She Had Him Arrested. Mrs. Martin Gary, who was divorced from her husband a year ago, caused his arrest because he would not go home and split wood for her, says the Chicago Evening Post. "The nerve of the man!" she said to Justice Kersten. "Because we are divorced is no reason he shouldn't split wood for me when it's cold. It was cold Tuesday and I sent for Martin. He used to be a good woodchopper. Well, when that husband who once was mine came to the house and looked at the woodpile waiting for "NOT FOR ME, AGNES, NOT FOR ME!" him, he said: 'Not for me, Agnes, not for me.' Judge, that conduct is enough to break my heart." "When she got her divorce from me last year," said the defendant, "she lost the right to boss me, and I did perfectly legal when I refused to split wood for her." "It might have been 'perfectly legal,' but it was not gallant." Justice Kersten told him. Detective Jackson told of arresting Gary and of Gary's willingness to leave the house in which his former wife and three children lived. "Willing? I should say I was. A woodpile is no magnet to me," said Gary. "We were happy for seven years," said the wife. "Before you got your divorce, and had to hire a man to split the wood. Now if you had not gone into a divorce court I would still be out in the backyard cutting the wood for you like a loving husband. But now, woman, no more." Justice Kersten fined Gary for some of the rude language he used in telling his wife she had no claim on him, and then the man who wouldn't split the wood, and the woman who wanted him to, left the courtroom together for their house at 172 North Paulina street, where their three children waited for somebody to get breakfast. Incurable. Wife—John, you have a very annoying habit of saying "What's that?" whenever you are spoken to. Can't you break yourself of it? Husband (reading) — Eh—what's that? —Tit-Bits. Long Heads. Men with long heads very seldom have long faces.-Chicago Daily News. An Advised Wife. Married Daughter—Oh, dear, such a time as I do have with that husband of mine! I don't have a minute's peace when he's in the house. He is always calling me to help do something or other. Mother—What does he want now? Daughter—He wants me to traipse way upstairs just to thread a needle for him, so he can mend his clothes.—N. Y. Weekly. Rubbing It In "Hiram," said his wife, "I wish you would go out to the shed and get a bucket of coals." "Coals!" muttered Hiram to himself, as he went grumblingly to comply with the demand. "Coals! That's her way of reminding me that she could afford to spend six months in England every year before she married me!"—Chicago Tribune. The Token. "You will forget—so on your hand," he said, "Till tie this string." She murmured, with a coy, averted head: "Make it a ring." —Detroit Free Press. DISCUSSING THE RACES. She—Do you know you remind me of a Kentucky thoroughbred. He—How, pray? She—You have such good staying qualities.—Harlem Life. Corner Grocery Carriage. Most war, when all is said and done, Comes not from men behind a gun; "Tis waged by heroes in a drove Behind the grocer's cannon stove. -Chicago Record. A Sarcasm. "How long will it take your hand- writing expert to prove that this was written by that person?" asked one lawyer. 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M., Daily, except Sunday from, Ferensburg. 6:55 P. M., Daily, from Norfolk, Suffolk. 7:36 P. M., Daily, from Miami, Port Tampa. Jacobsville, Savannah, Miami, Jacksonton, cinder- bore and all points north. 8:66 P. M., Daily, from Petersburg, Lynch burg, and West. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. J. M. KENLY, General Manager. M. EMERSON --- THE PLANET SATURDAY, MARCH. 24 1900 FROM HARTFORD. HARTFORD, CONN. March 20, 1900. Now, that registration of voters in our city has opened, let it escape no colored man's opportunity, but go up and apply to be made a voter. For this is the only impressive result we have to oppose our narrow thinking Causanian brothers of the north. The white man in this immediate vicinity is under no particular obligation to us. As educational propositions, we are diminutives; as tradesmen, we are not wanted. Common labor is ours and that only where the Sons of Erin and Italy have been placed. So let us see to it that our names are on the voting list, and assert our rights at the polls on election day. Remember the declaration of two years ago, when one of the nominees was so deservedly out for a degraded remark about Negroes. Mr. and Mrs. C. E Taylor entertained a number of friends at their residence on Liberty St. Thursday evening, March 15th. It being their first annual anniversary), an elaborate celebration was served afterwhich a few remarks were indulged in by Mr. Davidson. Mr. Alaston and others. Mr. F. R. Quite will give their closing reception April 12th at Horse Guard Armory. Quite a delegation is expected from neighboring towns. The club, although a young one, has jumped into the front rank of social promoters. After years of hard work on the part of the congregation of Pearl Street Church, they have decided to dedicate the Auditorium on Easter Sunday. They have erected a structure of which they can well feel proud. Too much time will be given to its upkeep for his great work in engineering its completion, also Mr. Jackson Ross. Mr Ross Hill and other officers of the church. The debating society held its weekly session in the vestry of Talcott Street Church Tuesday evening, Mr. Fred. Cross presiding. The meeting was called to order at 8 o'clock. Mr. A. W. Fish read a very interesting paper, entitled, "the Pilgrims' Fathers" which was a rare treat. The question under debate was taken up. "Resolved that Goebel's death was justifiable." Washington in the face of the resolution brought out many a brilliant point. The negative won, after an interesting debate on both sides. A grand concert will be given by the Baptist Young Peoples' Union, March 20th. There will be a general mass meeting of all the G. S. and D. of S., next Tuesday night, March 27, at Burrell's Ball, 8th St., Manchester, Va. Business of great importance Deputies and members of Richmond are corollily invited to attend. W. H HATCHER, FRANCES GOODE, Deputies. FROM NEWPORT. NEWPORT, R. I., March 19th, 1900. Our churches were well attended yesterday although the weather was very inclement. Rev D. P. Brown of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, has been suffering with a nervous prostration but at this writing is convalescing. We have just received a dispatch from Mr. Thos. L. Benjamin who is now in Havana, Cuba, and he is doing well. The Winter Club was entertained last week by Mr. Benj. Robinson at the residence of Dr. Alonzo M. Van Harvie. Mr. L. Brown of Fall River, Mass. was a visitor here last Monday evening. He returned Tuesday morning, Dr. M. F. Wheatland is doing a thrifty business. He is well deserving of the name. Mr. E. W. Simmons is well, after a short duration of sickness during last week. Miss Mamie E. Williams of Providence was the guest of Miss Fannie Carter during her visit in the city. Mrs. George Williams of Spruce St. entertained the members of her church and a beautiful evening was spent in singing, games and other amusements, also a bountiful collation being served. Miss Sadie Wray of New York is at the Beacon on West Broadway, praying for those who wish to be saved. She is worth hearing and you can not spend a better evening than going to hear her during her stay. Mrs. Emma Braithwate, who after spending the winter in New York, has returned to Levin St. Mrs. John Tuckenbein is writing her Mrs. John Tuckeen is visiting her niece. Mrs. Miller is in Boston. She will return the lat of April. FROM PORTSMOUTH The 1900 Club gave its gentleman friends a smoker at 522 Green Street, on March 19th, 1900. Among some of its guests were Wm. M. Reid, Esq., Dr. J. J. France, Dr. William Troy, Messrs. Isaiah Wright, John Winslow, William Teasley and others. After spending most of the evening in pleasant conversation and doing what the name of the entertainment suggests. Among other things speeches were made by Messrs. Wm. M. Reid, I. T. Wright, John Winslow, E. S. Holmes and others. Near the conclusion a few remarks were made by the secretary and ended with a favorable motion which was unanimously carried. In conclusion the president made a brief speech after which he declared the meeting adjourned, when all repaired to their homes delighted with the pleasant evening spent by them. Rev. Beedles delivered a very fine speech at the North St. Church Sunday March 18th. His subject was "Missions," which suited the occasion of the Missionary rally that was held that day. Rev. W. R. Wright who has recently returned to the city, preached a very nice sermon at the North St. Church Sunday evening, March 18th. A temperance play known as "The Little Brown Jog" was very successfully presented by Norfolk talent under the direction of Mr. Samuel Tuck- er at the North St. Church Wednesday evening, March 14. Messar. Southtall Bass, Allen Wilson and Frank Elliott returned from Shaw University Thursday, March 15. Mr. Samuel Smith of Newport. R. L., paid a flying visit to our city Thursday at Tech. The Richmond Planet can be found at the office of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Co., 518 Green St., Portsmouth, Va., E. S. Holmes, manager; J. S. Colling, Planet agent. COL. WIOKHAM SHOOTS HIMSELF. POWHATAN COURTHOUSE, VA., March 19.—This community was shocked and saddened this morning by the news of the shooting of Col. William F. Wickham yesterday at home, at Paxton, about seven miles from here. At 2 o'clock Mrs Wickham called her husband to dinner, and almost simultaneously she heard the report of a pistol-shot in the Colonel's room. She hastened there and found him with the pistol in his hand. The ball had entered just above the cheek and had gone downward. Dr. Bailey, of Clayville, was summoned, and afterwards Dr. Taylor, of Amelia. The wound bleed profusely and caused some alarm. George Ben John Bickmond, who was engaged for came on the midnight train, and spent the night at Paxton. He thought Colonel Wickham was in no serious danger, and advised that the probing for the ball be coaxed for a few days. At 6 o'clock to-night your correspondent called and found the Colonel getting on as well as might be expected, after such a copious flow of blood. He is conscious as to persons of his acquaintance, but is not conscious of the act of shooting. He seems to think some one has struck him, and occasionally asks concerning his assailant. His family see no reason for his attempting to take his life, and assert that he was as well and in as good spirits as he ever was. The cause for this act is shrouded in mystery. His recovery is hoped for, although the wound is serious. Separation in a Graveyard. ' (Vicksburg, Miss, Light.) The legislature has passed a bill to remove the remains of Hon. James Lynch, colored, ex-secretary of the state from the white cemetery of Jackson. Miss. Lynch's remains are resting in that part of Jackson cemetery owned by the aristocratic whites. The monument erected by the state to his memory, is one of the most magnificent in the cemetery. Although, the remains of over one thousand Negroes are resting in various parts of this cemetery, those of Lynch alone, are singled out to be removed. The poorer whites, must be content to bury their dead near the remains of Negroes but the legislature comes to the relief of the rich, aristocratic whites and orders the removal of the remains of one prominent colored man from the cemetery. The remains of poor whites and Negroes in Jackson's white cemetery can mould in the dust side by side together. WOMAN PRISONER KEPT IN A CU BAN KENNEL. Insane and Harmless Woman in Colon Jail.-Half Naked and Neglected. Sleeping on a board laid on the dire floor, with no covering, half naked and surrounded by bones from which the meat has been gnawed, a poor, insane Negress, named "Gloria" is confined in the jail at Colon. Gloria was sentenced to jail three years ago for some pesty offense. Since her incarceration she has lost her reason. There are no other females about the place, and her physical necessities are neglected. There are no sanitary arrangements in the jail, and she has no privacy whatsoever. No bath, no bed, no change of clothing, no care from her own sex, make her condition harmful. She is allowed out of her cell, and the sun light never reaches her. She is exposed to the changes of temperature and no provision is made to protect her person from the cold and dampness of the night. An American gentleman who saw this unfortunate creature was horror-striken at her condition, but was powerless to help her as she is in the hands of the local authorities. It is hard to find a non-horror thorius hear of this case something may be done to relieve the woman. Havana Morning Journal, Mar. 7th. CAUSE OF DEATH UNKNOWN. [ Washington Post.] James Lewis, a colored man, sixty years old, believed to be a resident of Hampton or Norfolk, died at the Emergency Hospital last evening, and his body lies unclaimed in the deadroom of that institution. The cause of death is unknown, and a postmortem examination will be necessary this morning. Lewis arrived from Norfolk on a river steamer Saturday morning, an was under the influence of liquor, on the police took him into custody, and immoned the Emergence and, andance. T was stupor, and did not rise up to the hour of his death, usually little is known about him. He carried a hand satchel and in his pocket were an awl and a hammer, similar to the kind used by shoemakers. The police were notified of the death immediately after it occurred. Through the police of the Eighth and Fourth precincts the family of James Lewis, the colored man who disd suddenly at the Emergency Hospital last Monday, was located in this city. His wife is in the District almshouse, and a son, Henry Lewis, lives at Bellevue court north-west. The latter called at the Emergency Hospital and identified the remains as his father, who had been at the Soldiers' Home at Hampton, Va. WANTED—Names and address of 5000 respectable colored girls for high class domestic service in the North, as cooks, chambermaids, child nurses, laundresses and general house-work. Address, DAVID GIBSON, Burlington Emp'y Agency, 8-24-1mo. Burlington N, J. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA To EVERY COLORED NEWSPAPER IN AMERICA: We are on the market for space in good, paying Afro-American Journals. We pay cash. Can use from 4 to 40 inches. Price depends. We are not spammed, but on the other hand, continuous advertisers. Papers replying to this advertisement must state actual circulation and mail copy of their publication. Also state price for advertisement verbatim, appearing in this paper to-day. We advertise no fake catch-penny or dishonest goods. No attention paid to letters unless actual circulation is stated. The career of "The Smart Set," the new standard monthly magazine that has just been published in New York, will be watched with keen interest by reason of the fact that it sets out to be the literary organ of society—that element of civilization that is usually supposed to be without brains. As a matter of fact, the first number of "The Smart Set" is a startling refutation of this conventional theory, in that it is brilliantly written from start to finish, and the contributors of social renown hold their own with those whose fame is distinctly literary. "The Idle Born," the leading feature of the number, is by H. C. 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Help us to have a good attendance to the explanation on the Sunday school lesson to-day at 5:30 p. m. Meetings in the almshouse and jail Sunday at 11 a. m. Boys' meeting Sunday at 4 p. m.; speaker, Pres. Clifton Cabel. Mass-meeting for men. 500 men wanted Sunday, 4 p. m., at Price's Hall to hear Rev. D. W. Davis, A. M., delivered a special address to men. Subject, "Man Wanted." Special music; solo by Mr. Thomas Williams. Instrumental quintette from the Universal Bnd. Free to all men; Price's Hall, 4 p. m., Sunday. Help us to pack the hall. Tell the next man. Gov. Tyler refused to interfere in the case of Robert Carter, alias, Griggs, the 17 year old colored boy, sentenced to be hanged March 23rd at Cumberland C. H., for criminal assault upon a colored girl. The mother of the girl, the trial judge and a number of the jurors signed the petition to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. The case against Funeral Director W. Isaac Johnson by the Barton Heights officials was dismissed. Superintendent Benj. Harris, who was fined $25 to an appeal. The Rachel Hartshorn Missionary Society will hold a public meeting in the college chapel Sunday night, Mar. 25th, at 8 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. A Colored Man For Ongress KNOXVILLE, TENN., Marche 19. —The colored voters of Claiborne County will indorse O. C. Jackson, a prominent colored man in politics, for Congress. He came within one vote of deference to the governor. Claiborne two years ago. He will make the race for Congress against Hon. W. P. Brownlow. Colored Soldiers Killed The following colored men have been reported dead in the Philippines: John Austin, Co. K. 24th Infantry; Romeo Jackson, Co. K. 24th Infantry-March, 11th, Daniel Lyons, Co. H. 24th Infantry; March 18th, Frank B, Neen. Co. H. 25th Infantry; Marsh 6th, William N. Brown, Co. E. 25th Infantry. ST. LUKE3, ATTENTION !! The St. Lukes of the East End, will hold Easter celebration under the auspices of Olive Branch Council, 56, at Fountain Baptist Church on Sunday Eve., April 15th at 8 o'clock. The female members of the several councils will assemble at Lily of the Valley Hall and the male members at St. Luke fiall, 26th and E Sts. Plague Increasing. March 21.-The bubonile it increasing. In Bengal occurred last week. These in Calcutta and 2,044 in GENERAL MARKETS. UNSUBDUED FILIPINOS. Securing Arms and Ammunition From Secret Sources. MANILA A TROUBLESOME CENTER Insurgent Janita Becoming Active and Leaders Have Been Placed Under Arrest—Brigands Committing Atrocities—Pervidy of Officials. Manila, March 19.—General Otis considers Manila the most troublesome center in the situation today. The insurgent junta here, in conjunction with that in Hong Kong, is growing active. The military authorities have been forced to put a stop to Mabiní's intercourse with the public. The local and foreign press considers his recent utterances calculated to incite the Filipinos to a continued revolt and prejudicial to American control. Flores, he has just arrived here, says he comes trusting to American leniency, and that he would not have dared come to Manila if Spain were yet in control. He cherishes the hopes and aspirations which actuated him when in the field, and desires to watch congressional action upon the question of the Philippines. The insurgents, he says, do not expect to vanquish the Americans, but are maintaining a resistance with the idea of forcing congress to accord them the best possible terms. A number of representative insurgent leaders from different parts of Luzon have recently been in conference in Manila. Some have been placed under arrest, but the others thus far have not been interfered with. Louis Spitzel, head of the firm of Louis Spitzel & Co., contractors to the Chinese government, and himself a suspected filibuster, came from Hong Kong to Manila last week and was temporarily detained in custody on suspicion. It is asserted upon good authority that three loads of arms and ammunition have recently been landed on the east coast of Luzon. Captain Taylor, of the Thirty-ninth regiment, recently captured 12 new Mausers near Calamba. Reports are current here of active rebel reorganization in the provice of Morong, where the insurgent leaders are said to be assisted by prominent Spanish residents. Inhabitants of this province who are now in Manila have been advised not to return to their homes, but to remain under the protection of the Americans. It is also reported that the rebels are reorganizing in the province of Zambales, under Mascardo. Brigands are committing atrocities in the province of Nueva Eciga, where they have murdered 20 natives and Chinamen. Eight other murders have been committed near Tarlac. The Nueva Eciga insurgents are heavily taxing local traders and farmers, with the result that business is paralyzed and there is a general scarcity of food. The funds for maintaining this guerrilla warfare are collected from the various towns of the island, whether occupied by the Americans or not, even including Manila. In the province of Albay the insurgents have ceased harrassing the Americans, owing, it is reported, to a lack of ammunition, but they continue ravaging the country side, burning and looting. The natives are tiring of this sort of thing, and threaten to turn against the maududers. Already the townspeople of Legaspi, Albay and Donzol are slowly returning to their homes. General Kobbe has opened 20 ports in the southern part of Luzon and in the Islands of Samar and Leyte, the result of which is to stimulate trade there, although only temporarily, as the country opened is non-productive and apparently non-consuming. Evidence accumulates of the treason and perfidy of the municipal presidents in the provinces of General MacArthur's district. The presidents of several towns in Lepanto and Union provinces have declined to continue in their positions, saying that they do not desire any further identification with the Americans. Travel between the towns garrisoned by the Americans is becoming more dangerous. All wagon trains must be escorted by heavy guards to insure their safety. Death of General Z. B. Tower Boston, March 21.—General Zealous B. Tower, U. S. A. (retired), died at Cohasset last night, aged 81 years. He was graduated from the military academy in 1847, and saw active service in the Mexican and civil wars, serving with distinction in both and being retired in 1883. He was superintendent of the military academy from July 1, 1864, till the following September. "Not Dead, But in a Trance." 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MADAME ZANTILLE, Permanent Home and Office, 318 N. 2nd Street. How to obtain a standard $4.00 CAMERA for 25c. Address, THE PEOPLE'S SUPPLY CO., 1t Clearfield, Pa. National Employment Agency. 27 N. Juniper St., Philadelphia, Pa. I can place any number of young ho use work girls. Good wages. Write for particulars. 2 24-6w SINNER'S DREAM is sold at 150s each, and any one de- siring to be an agent for them, can d so by paying 10s, each and this will allow them 5ets 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, Lambertville P. O., N. J. 2-24-8m The 'Economy. W. O. TURNER, Prop. PRACTICAL CUTTER AND FITTER. Gents' Fine Garments. The public is invited to call and inspect our line of new Imported Spring and Summer Goods. CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Goods called for and delivered promptly. Old 'Phone 1188. N. WINSTON CONFECTIONER, Choice Tobacco and Cigars of the latest brands SODA AND MINERAL WATERS, Hot and Cold Drinks always on hand. NOTIONS, Fine Stationery, School Supplies, &c. Nelson Winston, 537 Brook Ave Fronting First Presbyt'n Church. C & O Wreck! SILAS FIELDS. Formerly of the Up-to-date Tailor of 560 Brook Ave.,has now removed to 812 West Broad St. where he will be ready to accommodate all of his customers in the line of turning Old Clothes NEW. His reputation for CLEANING, DYEING, PRESSING SPONGEING, proves that he has always given the satisfaction he guaranteed. Remember the number 812 W. BROAD ST 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 causes all forms of itching, humiliating scalp diseases, stops the hair from falling out, and creates 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. Seeing our marked success numerous so-called hair growers and hair straighteners were put on the market. Of course the colored people had no way to tell that they were being fooled and bought most of them to their sorrow. Now we ask you a plain question. Would we absolutely agree to refund you your money provided you not satisfied with the preparations we manufacture if our goods were not true to all we claim for them? We assert right here that we have advertised for nearly 24 years, offering to return the money for your money. Ozrom did not give satisfaction and we have never yet had to refund the money. Ozrom will only 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, &c. 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 Ozone 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 Ozone to prove satisfactory in every particular. Kate W. Page, Blacksburg, Va., writes:—Your preparation has proven true to all you claim for it. The price of Ozone 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 Ozone on our scale of Electrical Skin Refiner which makes black skin bright rough skin soft and pliant and adds all skin diseases. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Refiner's great beautifier, removes Wrinkles, Moth-patches, freckles and all false blushes, and to prove our liberality we will add to this one Package of Anti-Odor. A positive cure for Sore Throat, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet, also Removes all unnells and Odors arising from the human body such as Feet, Arm Pits, &c. Remember we will refund the money if you are not pleased with the goods and positively this offer is not good but for a limited time only. Cut out and mail this Coupon to us with One Dollar and get this Grand Combination Offer; as this opportunity will not occur again. Boston Chemical Company. 411, 23d Street — — Richmond, Va I enclose you $1.00 (One Dollar) for which please send me the following goods at once: the following goods at once: (four) LARGE POXER "ZONO" HAIR GROWER AND LARGE STRAIGHTENER, one) LARGE BOTTLE ELECTRICAL SKIN REFINEER, one) LARGE JAR ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, one) LARGE PACKAGE ANTI-OXIDE. J. A. & C. J. COOKE SUCCESSORS TO Henry Cooke, Funeral Directors Embalmers and Liverymen OFFICE, WAREROOMS & STABLES; 528N.AdamsSt. Near Leigh St Night Calls and Orders by phone Promptly Executed. Residence Ut. Stairs