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THE RICHMOND PLANET REPUBLICANS IN SESSION. A Fine Gathering. PREPARING FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. The Disagreements in Virginia. GEN. WALKEK'S CANDIDACY—TROUBLE AT NORFOLK-A COLORED DELEGATE'S PROTEST. VOL XVII. NO 17 REPUBLIC IN S A Fine G PREPARING IDENTICAL The Disagreeme GEN. WALKEK'S CANDID FOLK--A COLORED D The political situation in this city and district has been exegeting. Since the coalition between the two wings of the Republican party, nothing has transpired to emphasise the union. The precinct meetings were held Friday night throughout the city. The delegates elected from Jackson Ward were as follows: 1st Prescinct, W. W. Onley; 2d, Bernard Brown, Joseph Adams and J. H. Hayes; 3d, John Mitehell, Jr., Peter B. Shores; 4th, John G. Smith, B. P. Warnell. The city convention met in Ford's Law Building Saturday night, City Chairman, N. J. Smith called the meeting to order. He was selected as temporary chairman and M. Williams, (white) temporary secretary. Assistant Postmaster John L. Grubbs moved that the temporary organization be made permanent, but upon the objection of J. W. McLaughlin (white) he withdrew his motion. John Mitchell, Jr., however renewed the motion and it was carried unanimously. Chairman Smith then appointed the following committee on delegates to the state and district conventions: Postmaster Wray T. Knight, (chairman) the Jersey Jr., Edge Allen, (white) B. P. Vandervall, and James R. Hayes. DELEGATES TO DISTRICT CONVENTION. The committee made the following report: Colored: B. P. Vandervall, John Mitchell, Jr., John B. Smith, James H. Hayes. George Stephens, Wilson Nash Anderson Evans, Lewis H. Herbert, Lewis Loney, Colin T. Valentine, R. E. Jones Oscar Brown, Fletcher Johnson. White: Samuel Bendit, F. C. Murphy. N. J. Smith, A. C. Roccioli, R. H. Alley, Wray T. Knight, John L. Grubbs, John M. Byall, Edgar Allan, Jr., Miles M. Williams, Joseph P. Brady, R. W. Carey, M. B. Mland. Alternates: Wm. M. Kim Marriott, James J. Mann, R. W. Cary, James Washington, J. A. McLaughlin, James Bell, John T. Anderson. Robert Royal, A. D. Lawton, Joseph Adams, Peter B. Shorts, Bernard Brown, William Talafro. DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION Colored: B. P. Vandervall, John Mitchell, Jr, John G. Smith, James H. Hayes, George Stephens, Peter B. Schrte, Bernard Brown, S. S. Baker, R. E. Jones, Wm, Custalo, Colin T. Valentine. White: Sam. Bendit, F. C. Murphy, E. S. Sydnor, A. C. Roccecioli, Wray T. Knight, John L. Grubris, J. A. McLaughlin, John M. Ryall, Edgar Alan, J. William McKim Marriott, Joseph B. Brady, U. M. Bland, William Gay Smith, R. W. Gary. Alternates: A. C. Worsham, Miles M. Williams, Wilson Nash, Lewis Loney, John T. Anderson' James Coleman, Clarence Smith, William Talisferro, A. D. Lawton, James Washington, James Bell, W. C. Jones, Joseph Adams. The report was adopted and the meeting adjourned. The Republican District Convention met at Gibbs Hall, Manchester, Monday, April 9th at 12 o'clock. It was called to order by Assistant Postmaster John L. Grubbs. He was made temporary chairman and J. H. Hayes, temporary secretary. A motion was made that a recess be taken and the delegates decide upon the persons for membership on the several committees. The conference of the Richmond delegation resulted as follows: Committee on Permanent organization, John Mitchell, Jr.; Resolutions, J. P. Brady (white), Credentials, B. P. Vandervall. The committee on Permanent Organization recommended John L. Grubbs (white), permanent chairman; B. P. Vandervall, permanent secretary; J. D. Pearman, permanent assistant secretary. It was adopted. The next business being to go into the election of delegates to the Nation- 119 al Republican Convention: R. F. Robinson of Hanover was on his feet at once and nominated Lawyer J. R. Pollard. It was then that J. H. Hayes declared that this procedure was in violation of the agreement which was that the colored delegates would be permitted to assemble in caucus and decide upon a colored man as delegate. This was asserted to by N. J. Smith. Cornelius McLennan declared this this understanding. J. R. Pollard made an impassioned speech opposing such an arrangement. He declared that delegates had been promised tickets to the state convention at Norfolk by a candidate. SORRY TO SEE IT. Editor Mitchell declared that he was sorry to see the disposition to cause a scene, he hoped that the colored delegates would agree. Either method would suit him. He desired harmony. As there was no contest, relative to the white delegate, he moved as a substitute that Morgan Treat be elected delegate to the National Republican convention. It was carried. Then the convention took a recess of twenty minutes to permit the colored delegates to hold a caucus: As soon as the convention vacated S. C. Scott took the chair and George Stephens, Jr., acted as secretary. Delegates from all parts of the hall wanted to speak. In vain, the chairman called for order. It was useless. Delegate after delegate waited on Editor Mitchell, asking if he was a candidate. He told them again and again that he was not a candidate. The fight waxed warm and Dr. R. E. Jones was nominated. He was bitterly opposed by J. R. Pollard and R. F. Robinson. B. P. Vandervall nominated John Mitchell, Jr. TIME EXPIRED. The time expired and the chairman assumed the gavel. The commotion continued. A motion was made to extend the time, which resulted in the defeat of the preposition. Mitchell opposed this, declaring that it was useless to delay longer as the colored delegates would not agree, and one of the candidates had declined to abide by the decision of the caucus. The convention decided to proceed with the election. J. W. Southward (white), on his cruethes, insisted upon naming John Mitchell, Jr., whom he declared had been fairly elected and King William County delegation stood solidly by him, despite his declination to be a candidate. R. F. Robinson nominated J. R. Pollard, and J. H. Hayes named R. E. Jones. The result was, Pollard, 23 1 8; Jones, 18, and Mitehell, 10. The lowest was dropped and the vote resulted, Pollard, 29, and Jones, 22. There was great rejoicing among Pollard's supporters. Dr. Jones decided to accept the position of alternate and he was elected together with E. P. Murphy. Jonas Mauseus was elected elector for the district. The Republican State Convention met in the Academy of Music, Norfolk, Va., Tuesday, April 10th at 2 P.M., Hon. Park Agnew presiding. There were nearly 800 delegates present. Mr. Carter M. Louthan of Madison was elected temporary chairman. The following Third District men were appointed Committeeman: On Credentials—Hansford Anderson, of King William county. On Resolutions—J. A. McLaughlin, of Richmond. On Permanent Organization—S. H. Nugent of Chesterfield. On Plan of Organization—Joseph P. Brady of Richmond. The chair appointed as chairmen of committees: Credentials--J, Hampton Hoge, of Roanoke. Permanent Organization.-C. M. Givens of Winchester. Resolutions-S. Brown Allen, of Staunton. Plan of Organisation.-C. M. Givens. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY APRIL 14. 1900. COMMITTEES APPOINTED. It was decided that all resolutions should be referred without debate to the committee on resolutions. Committees on plan of organization, permanent organization and resolutions were then appointed, the presiding officer naming the chairmen as follows: Committee on credentials, J. Hampson Hoge of Roanoke; committee on permanent organization, O. M. Givens of Winchester; committee on resolutions, S. Brown Allen, of Staunton; committee on plan of organization, O. M. Givens of Winchester. The order of business for the session was then decided upon, and after a session of less than one hour the convention adjourned, to reconvene at 8 o'clock. That the fight between the present State organization and the faction adhering to Congressman Wise would be a feature of the convention was early manifested. It commenced before the committee on credentials. Contesting delegations from Norfolk County and Alexandria were first disposed of. Mr. Alvah Martin headed the Wise contestants, and Mr. J. E. West, in Bowden faction. The case was to constitute a precedent, and was fought to a flush. It resulted in the seating of the Bowdenites. The Alexandria delegation had prepared an elaborate brief to be presented to the convention. It was termed "The voice of the republican majority of Alexandria hushed by the arbitrary and tyrannical reign of City Ochairman Joseph L. Crupper." The memorial was not presented, the delegation abandoning the contest and returning home to-night. Mr. Crupper, whom they were here to oppose, was made a member of the committee on credentials, which, they declared, sealed the fate of their contest. One member of the delegation said, after leaving the hall, that the sole test being applied to contestants was that of unswerving fealty to State Chairman Agnew and the organization. STRONG ADHERENTS. While the Bowden and Agnew forces strongly dominated the convention, many Wise adherents made themselves heard. When the name of Dr. Wise, delegate from James City County, was reached in the roll call, there was applause from the spectators' gallery. Gen. James A. Walker was called upon before the convention was called to order in the evening. It was 9:30 o'clock and the committees had not come in. The convention was eager for a diversion. The general said that he was tired of fights within the party. "I'm tired of quarrelling inside the ranks. Put on your arms in the face of the enemy, but lay them down inside our own camp," he said. He severely arraigned the Virginia election laws. LITTLE LESS THAN SLAVES. "We are little less than slaves under the present regime in Virginia," he said. "We are taxed without representation, and 150,000 of us are disfranchised, but if we were not, Virginia would be 80,000 Republican. I am opposed to the constitutional convention. (great cheering) Every man elected to it would be pledged to disfranchise every man not voting the Democratic ticket." He said he was against a property or educational clause which shall disfranchise a voter, saying that a man who is good enough to take a gun in hand and fight for the fugis is good enough to vote. Great applause followed, and the Marine Band played Dixie. The convention was called to order at 9:47, and the report of the committee on credentials was read by the chairman. In every case, save Prince Edward County, the contestants were unsecured. Mr. Alvah H. Martin, of Norfolk County, tried to protest, but his opening sentence was drowned in hoots. CONTESTANTS LEFT HALL. The report was adopted, and in the confusion the contesting delegations left the hall. The committee on permanent organization recommended Hon. R. T. Thorpe, of Mecklenburg, for permanent chairman, and Asa Rogers for secretary. Congressman Thorpe made a short speech in assuming the chair. He declared that the fraudulent election laws of the State had at last disgusted the honest Democrats, and for this he thanked these same questionable method. He referred to the nation's record of overseeing reference to McKinley brought forth chiefs. He made brief reference to foreign affaise, and charged that a powerful lobby behind the Porto Rican free trade movement was causing the outcry with reference to the island. The committee on resolutions then submitted its report, indorsing the administration, its foreign and financial policies, and the ship subsidy bill; expressing opposition to the civil service laws, and urging their repeal or modification; denouncing the recent legislature for adding to the present iniquitous election laws; for increasing the number of office-holders, and for the provision for holding the constitutional convention, believing it would result in the formation of an office-holding oligarchy, which could owe its success to the committee. A resolution denouncing the "landlesser attack made by Congressman Hull, of Iowa, upon the State organization, and the members of the national committee from Virginia," was also reported and adopted. The convention endorsed President McKinley, Obitrarian Hanne, and Gen. James A. Walker in his context for his seat in congress. Oapk J. H. Rives spoke. The chairman was authorized to certify the names of the electors. A COLOREND DELEGATE PROTECTS Park Agnew of Alexandria was nominated by Col. J. Hampton Hoge as state chairman. This was seconded by Mr. James H. Hayes of Richmond. He expected to be elected a delegate at large and he made an earnest plea for recognition of the colored brother pledging unawerving support to the organization. His hopes were short-lived, for although he was assured of support, Mr. Agnew was elected by acclamation and when the delegates at large which had been slated were announced no colored man was name appeared. They were: Hon. Park Agnew (white) of Alexandria. General James A. Walker (white) of Wyberville, Col. James D. Brady (white) of Petersburg, and Col. S. Brown Allen (white) of Staunton. Then the following alternates were selected: Col. J. Hampton Hoge, (white) W. H. C. Brown, (colored) A. P. Funkhouser (white) and James H. Hayes, Esq. (colored). It was then that a commotion took place. Mr. Hayes was livid with anger. He said: "Are we to be kicked out? I want nothing. I ask the erasure of my name from the list of alternates and the substitution of W. H. Stetson, of Orange." A scene of great confusion ensued. The chairman decided the four delegates, an first named, elected. The delegates were instructed to vote for Hon. Geo. E. Howden for re-election to the national committee. Hayes again requested the erasure of his name from the list of alternates. It was done and John J. Allen was substituted. ANOTHER DESCRIPTION. The Daily Times correspondent describes the scene as follows: 'Hayes, the Kitchond colored man who was nominated for alternate at large her arose and made an impassioned appeal to the Chair. He fairly shrieked in his age, asking, 'What in the name of God, gentlemen, are you trying to do? Are you trying to drive us from the party?' 'He led the name of W. H. Nelson of Orange, to be inserted instead of his (Hayes) own; that he would not act as alternate. Hayes believed that his race has been badly treated Hoge, Hayes, Fukuhouser, and Brown were elected alternates. Hayes then asked that his name be stricken from the list of alternates, and raging, left the hall. John J. Alley, of Scott, was substituted in Hayes' stead. That all has not been lovely in committee was made clear when Hayes liked his sores in public. National Committeeeman Bowden was then endorsed for re-election. THE ELECTORS AT LARGE. Candidates for Presidential electors for Virginia were nominated, as follows: George W. Butler of Newport News, and J. Lucien Gleaves. The name of W. S. Lurty, of Harrisonburg was substituted for Mr. Gleaves and the two nominations were then made. The committee on plan of organization recommended the increase of the membership of the State executive committee from five to ten. Opposition developed, but it was overcome and a motion to table was lost. It was decided that each district elect its own member of the executive committee. The convention then, at 1:10 a.m., adjourned sine die. BI. LUKES ATTENTION. The St. Lukes of the East End will hold Easter Celebration under the suspices of Olive Branch Council, No. 56, at Fountain Baptist Church on Sunday evening evening, April 15th at three o'clock. The female members of the several councils will assemble at Lily of Valley Club and the male members at St. Luke Hall, 26th and E streets. Special program for next meeting, Thursday 19th inst. at the Leigh St. Methodist Church: "The Xrays," by Mr. A. C. Brown; Bess Adornments for the 'Soul,' by Mary Rosenthal Paper, the Negro Lawyer," by G. W. Lewin Esq.; Musie under the direction of Madame M. A. Cross. Union Entertainment. There will be a Union Entertainment given by the Board of Control for the benefit of the Juvenile Department of the Bands of Galanthe at the League Hall, better known as Richmond Hall, on 8rd S.8, between Clay and Marshall Sts., on Monday, April 15, 1900. Hunt commences, at 4 o'clock sharp and ends at 5:30 shap-p. Entertainment exercises from 5:30 to 10 o'clock p. m. Admission, 5 ets. We hope the friends of the order will help us. Come one, come all. Mr. John M. Lewis, the PLANET Agent in Newport, K. I., was in the city this week, and was the recipient of many courtesies from his friends. This is his first trip to Richmond in eight years. He left the city for Goochland to visit his sister, Mrs. Edmonia Hartman, from thence he will return to Newport. DEATHS. SIMM6—The funeral of Mrs. Mary Simms, who died at her residence, 509 N. Adams street April 8rd, took place from the First Baptist Church, Thursday, April 5th at 8:30 o'clock p. m. Rev J. H. Holmes officiating. J. A. & C. J. Cooke, Funeral Directors. HACKETT—The funeral of Martha Hackett, who died in Newport, R I., April 8rd, 1960, was preached by Rev J. H. Holmes at the Undertaking Rooms J. A. & C. J. Cooke on Friday, April 6th, at 4 o'clock p. m., and was quite largely attended. JONES—Died at her residence, 1129 Buchanan street, Thursday morning, April 5th, Mrs. Lucy Jones. The funeral took place on Sunday morning, April 8th, at the First Baptist Church, Rev J. H. Holmes officiated. J. A. & C. J. Cooke, Funeral Directors. HACKETT—Mrs. Martha Hackett, for merely of this city, died in Newport, R. I., at her residence, No. 10 Smith Court, after a few days sickness; age 58 years. Her remains were brought to Richmond last Thursday accounted by Mr. John M. Lewis of Newport. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. James H. Holmes, D. D. Messrs. J. A. and C. J. Cooke, Funeral Directors. BANDOLPH—Edward Randolph de parted this life March 31st. 1900 at 9:30 o'clock, the son-in-law of W. S. Selden, funeral director of this city. He leaves a wife and two children. He was a member of Rescue Council, No. 150. I. O. of St. Luke. His funeral took place at the First Baptist Church, April 8th. Rev. James H. Holmes officiated assisted by Rev. Albert Mayo of Baltimore. Arthur Hayes, funeral director officiated. HASKINS—Mr. Wm. Haskins died March 26th in his 70th year. He leaves one daughter, one grandson, one son-in-law, a niece and a host of friends to mourn their loss. He was a member of the church for over 30 years. He died in full triumph of faith. His funeral took place from Fountain Baptist Church, March 28th, 1900. Rev. Williams prescheduled a feeling and stirring sermon. His daughter, VIRGINIA WILLIAMS. Suried in a Hall. Funeral Director A. D. Price was under the necessity of converting his fine new hall into a grave yard or a receiving vault. This was due to the Barton Heights people who have adopted such restrictive rules that it is well-night impossible to bury any considerable number of colored persons in the colored people's cemeteries. It seems that the body of Willie Eggleston reached the city Wednesday night, 8th inst., and was conveyed to Mr. Price's establishment. It was to be interred the next day. The funeral took place and with the mourners the party wended their way to the burial ground. There they waited. The necessary permission could not be obtained and the body was brought back to Price's Undertaking establishment. Strenuous and continuous efforts were made to secure a place in one of the cemeteries, but it was unsuccessful. The body had remained unburied from Wednesday until Saturday and had been on the road several days in transit from the South. Finally on Saturday afternoon the remains were conveyed to Evergreen Mount at the other end of this city and outside of the jurisdiction of Barton Heights. There will be a mass-meeting by the Republican voters of Jackson Ward Ternum, at Hayes' Hall, to consider ward matters. All Republican voters are invited. Take Notice. Prof. P. T. Scarborough will lecture Tuesday evening at Woman's League Hall, explaining the ancient charge. All persons are invited. You may not hear it again. Admission. 10 cts children, 5 cts. 414 North 3d St., 8:18, o'clock, April 17th, 1900. Come one, come all and hear this grand lecture! WANTED AGENTS—1000 colored men and women Easy Way to Buy Clothes. Any lady or gentlemen can open an account with me for 50s and pay 50s. weekly on a suit made to order. Fit guaranteed. R. Ross Burr, Tailor, 324 W. 37th St., New York City. Write for samples. CLAREMONT, VA., April 7th. -The home of James Williams (colored) of Claremont, was destroyed by fire Thursday night about 12 o'clock. The cause of the fire is unknown. Five out of the seven children of the family porished in the flames. FILIPINOS ARE ACTIVE They Harass Uncle Sam's Soldiers. Colored Men on the Firing Line. A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF A HAND-TO-HAND CONFLICT—TROUBLE ON THE INCREASE. CAMP CALOOGAN, MANILA, P I, February 14th, 1900. Editor Richmond Planet: The 48th Infantry U. S. V. arrived here safe on Feb. 4 h, 1900, after a thirty-seven days' trip across the great Pacific Ocean and China Sea, with only six men in the hospital. We dismebarked the next morning and marched directly to La Loma church, where the Spanish held their head jacketers and were shelled by Dewey), and separat- ed the company, each independently upon the firing line, where the 10th Pennsylvania and the 20th Kansas regi- ments had such a fierce battle with the insurgents, and where Brigade General Funstan won such a noble reputation for himself and the 20th Kansas Regiment. Since we have been stationed here, we have made only a very few captures. But still we are very proud of them. Well. I must say that our regiment (the 48th) is now bearing the name of being the finest disciplised regiment on the island and our Commander (Col. W. P. Duvall) has the honor of bearing the regiment. We are the carrier that is stationed here and when we go out any where, we are looked upon as members of the Regulars. LANDED IN JAPAN. And another record that the 48th has broken, (and thank God that a Negro regiment under Negro officers have that honor applied to them) is that it is the first regiment of a foreign country, that has ever paraded the streets of Yokohama, Japan, under arms and the first chorus of Negro singers which has ever appeared in that city. We have a chorus of 500 voices, composed of members of the said regiment that has made for themselves a reputation that will live in the minds of the people of Yokohama and Nagasaki, Japan and Manila, P. I. Here is a copy of a clipping from the Manila Times, concerning the chorus: "THE COLORED CHORUS." "Large crowds attended the concert at the Oriental Hotel. A magnificent entertainment by the singers of the 48th last Saturday night was a scene of pleasure that will be long remembered in Manila. A vocal concert by the monster chorus of the 48th Infantry at Oriental was an unprecedented entertainment and a large success. A large crowd was in attendance, including many ladies and the musical treat was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Five hundred singers, The Original Chorus, were billed to appear but only 400 of them appeared, and presented themselves to the audience. "After an Overture by the band which ranks as the best on the Island. 'In the evening by the Moonlight,' was sung by Corpil. Wilson and with chorus came a powerful burst of song from the hundreds of well trained voices till the house seemed to shake. The audience was delighted and the finish of the piece was interrupted by an enthusiastic applause. 'The Young British Soldier, (Kipling) was sung by Sergt. W. H. Cox, Jr., of Co.I, and the full chorus, nor did the words seem in appropriate. 'If your officer's dead and the Sergeant look white, remembers its ruin to run from a fight; so take open order, lie down and sit tight, and wait for support like a soldier,' are words that fit the soldiers of Uncle Sam, as well as the soldiers of the Queen. 'Tenting on the old camp ground,' was splendidly rendered by Private Wilson as indeed every piece on the program. Sergeant Author, Corporals Poulutte and Toales and Musician Finley displayed equal talents between the numbers. Many popular vigorous melodies were sung, such as 'Why don't you get a lady of your own?' 'Old black Joe,' and 'The Georgia camp meeting.' as well as most of the patriotic songs of America. "Prof. Walter H. Lovings of Washington, D. C., the Bandmaster of the regiment who conducted the singing is due the credit of training this enormous chorus of male voices. He commenced the stupendous task last November during the seven weeks stay of the regiment in Detention Camp at Angel Island, California and has labored hard and unremittingly to bring them to the required conclusion. The night was drawing up to twelve when the concert came to a close, and the public felt that they owed this gratitude to Col. Duvall for granting the permission that made it possible for his men to give Manila an entertainment that she has never witnessed in the history of the past."—The Manila Times. PRICE5 CENTS ARE ACTIVE le Sam's Soldiers. the Firing Line. OF A HAND-TO-HAND CON ON THE INCREASE. After the entertainment we were served with supper and drink and then the chorus was driven home (to their quarters) in the Government wagons, which conveyed them to that grand notel. COLORED MEN PROMOTED. Now, I will write you some more concerning our camp and regimental promotions. Sergt. Maj. Herbert L. Lee was promoted to 2nd Lieut. Co. L. and Corporal Abernathy was appointed R-gimental Sergeants Major by order of Col. Duvall. Capt. W. A. Hankins has won for himself many friends in this regiment by his gentlemanly conduct and military conception. The capture of the Bole-knife that is used by the Filipino is a very curious looking weapon. It is a knife about 14 inches long with an ivory handle attached to a stick and the Insurgents are about the same looking objects as the weapons that he uses. We have only a few sick in the hospital and the hospital is in the church yard over many graves. Privates Jas. Poindexter, Lincoln Wright and John Coleman and Corpil. Edward Jackson and J. B. Norris are sick in quarters and privates in the hospital suffering with the rheumatism. I will write you more in my next letter concerning the battles and capture of prisoner and other regiments. I remain, dear sir, very friendly yours. THE ZAM3ALES VALLEY CAMPAIGN. Pro ("Pas-tel-la-hos.)" CASTELLANOS, P. I., Feb. 21, 1900. We have just arrived here from San Antonio in Ilocano province where we stayed a few days, making it the temporary base of our general movement throughout this the Zambales Valley, of which I will give you an idea. The determination of General Ois to clean out thoroughly and establish civil government in the cities situated in the Zambales Valley, caused a double movement. General Grant moved from Angeles on December 1, and Captain Onil's Battalion, 25th Infantry from Bamban, December 3rd. After marching for three weeks and taking several barrios and towas, General Grant reached Subig on the west coast of Luzon situated at the head of the right curve of Subig Bay, and established temporary Headqs. Subig is a very hard place to defend, being surrounded on all sides. In front is the Bay, on the right flank a river 30 feet wide from which rises abruptly a verdure covered hill about 700 feet, on the left is a marsh and a range of high mountains, in the rear is a high mountain. The town in itself is of no value as there are only about six wooden buildings but for military purposes is invaluable which conclusion the authorities same to at once. SCOUTING PARTIES OUT. Frequent scouting parties were sent out. General Grant finally set out to form a junction with Captain Qneil who had after engagements at Batoolin, San Fernando del Norte and other places had taken Iba with a brisk engagement four days ahead of scheduled time, and had started South to hunt Grant. Both columns met at San Marcelena 15 miles from Subig and 25 from Iba. The junction having been formed all hands proceeded to Subig. After a few days' rest, Captain Qneil returned to Iba by boat and there took up station with his command. Company H, went to Santa Cruz, Co. M. to Batoolin and F. and I to remain at headquarters at Iba. The fatigue, strain and hard work through which this meagre command garrisoned can never be told. Of times they had to fall out and remain in the pit all night. On one occasion they were forced to retire to the stone church in the plaza and fight from post holes. In this condition things remained until on December 27th, Company E, 25 Infantry was ordered to Santa Cruz to reinforce H, and dwindled down to 65 men for duty. Relief was finally coming to these hardy warriors on whose montal and nervous system the strain must have been something terrible. On January 15th, CONTINUED ON THE 5TH RAGE CARSON WILDRED'S CRIME A DETECTIVE STORY OF TWO CONTINENTS BY HARRY WOOD REYNOLDS 1 CHAPTER XXIII. I tried as I walked out of the dining room to put myself in the place of the schemers, and thus hew out; through an intricate mental process, some idea as to how the loose ends of the mystery were to be disposed of. "If I were that fellow," I said to my, self at last, "I should think it was about time to disappear. I should feel sure I come to the end of my tether and that somehow or other Harvey Farnham, as represented by me, had got to be unostentatiously wiped out. Farnham, however, was too rich and important in the Western States of his own country to disappear conveniently and with impunity. There would be a hue and cry, and suspicious facts might somehow be brought to light. The only way, I decided, would be for the alleged Harvey Farnham to kill himself; but this it did not appear very likely that the most dazzling bride could induce him to do. He meant to find some more comfortable way out of the hole into which he had so delliberately crept than the way of suicide, and it began to seem that the only method by which I could prove my case would be by finding out what that way was to be. At present, unless I could have the fellow arrested, and such disguise as he might wear dragged off, I should have great difficulty in obtaining credence of my story. The incidents were all so terrible that they must be certified withable that evidence, and such evidence as I wanted could only be forthcoming from Bennett, or some one else in Denver who knew Farnham equally well. What I must do, I thought, would be to keep on the man's track and never for an hour lose sight of him. I must do this without arousing any suspicion on his part as to my motives until the last moment, when I should be prepared to accuse him. This conclusion naturally reminded me that at the very moment it was reached I had virtually lost sight of my quarry, and that already I might have missed my chance. Accordingly I hurried back to the Santa Anna Hotel, and though it was then too late to wire Bennett, I determined to do so early the next morning. I would request him to come on to San Francisco at once on a matter of extreme importance, and—his mind being already disturbed concerning his employer—he would lose no time in obeying. In Bennett, if I could fairly corner the begun Farnham, I should have the most valuable witness in the world. My first question was as to whether Mr. Farnham were in the hotel. He had not yet returned from a call he had gone to make after dinner, and I sat down, therefore, in the corridor inside the front doors, through which he would have to pass on entering. I pretended to be absorbed in a local paper, but in reality my thoughts were a maelstrom. Suppose he had already escaped me. At last, past seven, however, he came in. I did not seem to lift my eyes from the pages before them. He would have to go directly by me on his way upstairs; time enough to appear to observe him then. "Cablegram for you, Mr. Farnham," said the clerk of the hotel. "Ah!" The exclamation was one of surprise. He had not, then, been expecting the message. I could not resist looking up, after all, to watch him in the act of reading it, and as I did so my eyes caught a gleam from his, under the green shade, as the turned to my face with an ex- pression that was like a hunted animal's. In the instant I was as positive as though he had told me in so many words that the cablegram he had received was from Carson Wildred, and intimately concerned me. Very probably it said: "If a man named Noel Stanton turns up, he is an enemy-beware of him." I regretted immediately that I had given him my real name when we met at dinner, for warned now by Wildred he would be ever on his guard. He was seized with a very creditable tid of coughing as he passed me, and, having growled out something about being deuced tired, and sleeping like a log," I thought. "I must be sent him in time to see him enter his own room, which was only half a dozen doors from mine, and to hear him noisily lock the door. It occurred to me that he was desirous to have me know that he had jocked it, and I wondered if already he had begun to suspect my motive. CHAPTER XXIV. I went to bed determined not to sleep, but to keep my eyes open for any sound in the passage outside. Luckily there was a creaky board, on which he had stepped a few minutes ago. If he attempted to go away during the night he would very possibly step on it again. But I was very tired after my long journey. Before I had been in bed an hour I was dreaming so vividly of pursuit of my quarry through the streets of San Francisco that I fully believed I had awed, got up and gone after him. In the end the dream seemed to change. The pretender had boarded a railway train and I was with the engine driver of another following at a dare-devil speed. In my dream I choked in the smoke, which flew into my face, and was dazzled with the glare of the fire, on which the engine driver was piling great pieces of fat bacon. As we flew along the rails the locomotive swayed from side to side, and I could hear a loud rattling of wheels and of window glass. Suddenly a puff of smoke seemed on the point of stifling me, and I awoke to find myself sitting up in bed and gasping for breath. I had not dreamt the rattling of glass nor the jarring sensation, nor yet the smoke and heat and light. The walls seemed to shake with a dull vibration, and the window panes were like castanets. Through the glass transom over the door I could see a shimmering ruddy glow that rose and fell, and was brightened by bursting sparks and little darting tongues of yellow flame. Apart from this one to spec. it was nearly curtained in darkness by a heavy fall of smoke. Clothes were my boots. I drew them on, and then fumbled about for one or two articles of clothing. The wild light that rushed past the transom told me that escape by the way of the passage was already cut off, and as I looked a small curling tress of flame blew in through the crack between the door and the window sill. The window was less easy to find. As I felt for it through the vell of smoke strange conjectures stole into my brain. What if this was the plan of Carson Wildred's wily accomplice for getting safely rid of me? I had no intention of being got rid of this easily, however. I found the window opened the lower sash. With the muscled lungs got relief for a second or two, but the draught drew in the flames that rioted through the hall-the glass in the transom, already cracked, burst with a loud explosive sound, and torrent of fire and smoke poured in through the aperture. Had I not leaped on to the window sill, and without an instant's hesitation let myself swing over, I could not have kept my senses in that raging furnace. My room was on the second floor high enough to give me a severe fall perhaps a fatal one, and I felt that my life was of value now. Cautiously but hurriedly I reached out with one hand to the side of the window, banging with all my weight from the other which clutched the sill. My groping fingers came in contact with a twister room, creepers bare of leaves for Winter, and serviceable for the use wished to put it to me. I grasped the thick stems for dear life, and went down hand over hand, dimly hearing voices from below cheering me in my descent. Where was Mr. Farunh? That was the question asked by the excited land, lord, who, half-dressed, had come on to give what help he could. I said nothing. I thought now that I understood the reason why my friend had taken the room in the frame addlom to the Santa Anna Hotel. The plan commenced with a quiet mind, and I believed that the cablegram had only precipitated its execution. CHAPTER XXV I tried to put myself in place of the man who had stolen his identity from the dead. Were I he, I thought, and had I done that of which I believed he he had been guilty. I would lose no time in putting myself beyond the reach of possible pursuit. I would have laid my plans with some exactitude, and would have been prepared for the necessity of flight. I would have thrown aside as many details of my likeness to Harvey Farnham as nature had not provided me with, and having set fire to the room I had occupied, I would have got out of the hotel as quietly and quickly as practicable. If it had been a comparatively easy task for me to escape by means of the fireman that clothed the side of the house, then the means might well have been employed by the man whose movements I was mentally trying to follow. Success having attended my movements so far, I should have gone straight to a railway station, and would never have breathed freely until I had left San Francisco well behind me. My hands were burnt. I was practically without clothes, and had suffered a considerable nervous shock, which at another time I might have had leisure to feel and analyze. But I did neither at the present juncture. I simply procured a stir portion of brandy neat, and drank it at a gulp, purchased a few articles of clothing from an accommodating waiter, dressed myself with all speed, and set off to the principal railway station or "depot" of San Francisco. As I got inside the station there was a certain bustle and stir of departure or arrival in the air. "Train going out or coming in?" I asked shortly of a sleepy porter. "Going out—Salt Lake City," grumbled the man in reply. I don't know why I instantly felt the conviction that the bogus Farnham was in that train, but I did feel it, and so intensely that when I saw the long line of cars beginning to move it seemed to me that not to reach it and jump on board would mean the ruin of my life. I have a dim collection of persons shouting at me, of feeling a detaining hand trying to drag me back. I remember, too, thrashing out with consider able force, ridding myself of my would be preserver, I caught on by the rear platform, and after flying hoplessly for an instant like a ribbon in the wind as the train increased its speed I got foothold, and climbed up the steps At the top was a negro night porter ash colored with fright. He helped to pull me on board, and I tipped him generously, (when I began to regain my breath and scattered wits) for agreeing not to make any excitement by reporting the affair to the conductor. I told him that I wanted a berth, found there would be a vacant one on board the "sleeper" at my disposal, and sat down in the smoking room, ostensibly to wait while the bed was made up for me. A man came into the smoking room I had been alone before. We looked at each other. He was a tall, slim youngfellow, with a smooth face. At the sight of me he stopped short, flushed to the roots of his close cropped hair, and would have preciptately retired had I not taken one quick step forward and grasped him by the shoulder. Gone was the padding from the ches and abdomen; gone was the curly wig the beard, the lump on the nose, which had been modelled after Faraham's gone was the green shade, the sling and the limp; but much of the odd resemblance, which had been heightened in so artistic a manner, still remained CHAPTER XXVI. "No, you don't!" I remarked cheerfully, and with the force of superiot muscles I pulled him toward me "Come, sit down here by me," I said "I want to talk to you." And somehow it came about that we subsided on the cushioned seat together. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "Confound you!" he exclaimed. "What are you about? You must be mad to attack a stranger without this slightest provocation. Let me alone, sir, or I'll rouse the car!" "I wouldn't, you know, if I were you." I said, coolly, for the more excited he grew the more did my calmness come back to me. "You've been playing a dangerous game ever since you took passage in the American liner St Paul (or, rather, since Carson Wildred took it for you) but you've never, per se, steered so close to the wind at topline, when you resorted to incendiarism as a flaming stroke." The fellow stared at me in simulated nonchalance and defiance, but my hind was on his shoulder still, and I could feel the shudder that ran through his body. "I say you must be mad," he reiterated. "I've been just three days behind you everywhere since you left New York. I've got every link in the evidence now, and what with Bennett, of Denver, and the propietor of the Santa Anna Hotel, and a few others I can burst your wretched little soapbubble plot in four-and-twenty hours. There's just one way in whiche you can stay my hand." "What's that?" He had spoken out impulsively, before he had stopped to think. The instant the words were uttered he saw all that they admitted and bit his lip. But it was too late; he was completely trapped. A "I GENTLY RAPPED ON THE WINDOW." "I tell you I," I said, keeping my hand on his shoulder, almost caressing ly. "Fd listen attentively, if I were in your place. What you can do is to make a clean breast of your story from beginning to end. I'm willing to pay you more for confessing than Wildred did for plotting. Then you must go back to England with me, and stand by while the thing is made public." When I had finished he sighed and dropped his head. His own hair which was very closely cut, was of a beautiful reddish color, much the shade of Karine Cunningham's, as the light fell on it from above. I thought of her with a great wave of passionate love, and more of him than I had dared to feel for many a long day. Perhaps it was the recollection of her lovely face and the wonderful halo of her hair which caused me for an instant to relax my grasp. I only became conscious of having done so when the fellow twisted himself from under my hand, and springly lightly to his feet, would have darted through the swing door had I not sprung after him like a tiger. We fought together as the car swayed and bounded along its track. Once he dived under my arm and was almost out of my clutches, but I caught him by the collar with so fierce a grip that the linen of his shirt tore, and the garment ripped open to the waistcoat. Something which he wore beneath snapped as he still struggled to escape me and a bright object flashed under my eyes as it fell and dropped with a slight metallic noise to the floor. Evidently it was to him an article of value. Impulsively he stooped, forgetful for a second of the object which had animated him, and thus the advantage became all mine again. I had him pinioned fast. At our feet I now had time to observe, lay a gold broken chain and socket. Twisting my hand firmly in his collar, I bent over and picked up the ornaments. Allow me, I said snalling. And as I was about to put the bocket in his hand I could not avoid seeing the portrait that it framed. It was an open-faced, old-fashioned thing, set round with a rim of pearls. The crystal had been cracked across in the fall, but the delicately painted ivory miniature within was intact, and I gave a slight exclamation as I saw that it represented Karine Cunningham. "Give it back to me!" he ejaculated, forging his evident fear of me for the time, time, and speech that we certain must maintain, that allowed the chill of my contempt for him. "If I've got a right for nothing else on earth, I've got a right to that. It's a portrait of my sister." "Here is theocket." I said. "I came from England to California to serve Miss Cunningham's interests, and I will not lay my hand upon her brother." "I don't know what you mean," he said sullenly. "I'll tell you," I returned, "if you'll sidown here and listen to me for a few minutes longer. After that, as far as I am concerned, you are free to do as you choose. You look surprised—but whatever may have been your faults and your offences. I would stake my life you love your sister." "She is the only thing on earth I love," he replied, still half dazed. Then he sat down, his eyes furtively on me, and I seated myself beside him. "She is sacrificing herself! for some one." I remarked. "I think I begin dimly to understand now who that some one may be, I think, too, that circumstances have given me the right to be inquisitive, as I can still further explain to you later on. Is Miss Cunningham going to marry Carson Wildred to save you from any unpleasant consequences of the past, for instance?" He started almost as though he had been struck. "She is not going to marry Carson Wildred!" he exclaimed. "Oh, yes, she is, unless it can be prevented. I see I have even more to tell you than I thought. Is it long may I ask since you have seen your sister?" "Last November," he said, dropping his head, and bringing under my eyes again the hair that was like hers. "Ah, that explains your ignorance. The man had not shown his hand at that time. Now, I am going to trust to your affection for Miss Cunningham. to your presimable wish to save def from unhappiness, and talk to you as though we had been allies instead of enemies. Perhaps I may be a fool for my pains; but something seems to say to me"— "Something says right. Go on!" he jaculated graffly. I told him the strange story of the past few weeks from beginng to end. He is doubly a murde rec'! I said. "Are yet, unless you and I together can keep him from it, he will be your sisters husband." "I'll kill him first!" e: claimed my companion. "I think the trick can be done without resorting to such or treme measures as that." I returned l. "especially if you are willing to cor ae over from his camp to mine." oly for a mo- the he said; I've noticed telling me, at gether. Well, Santa Anna der was com- mew knew there p in it. You m; would you He loosed at me sharp ment without answering. "You seem, pretty quick in what you've just been putting two and two to you, say you were at the Hotel the night the murmited ten years ago. You were two men mixed in remembered one of the remember the other?" "He was a mere boy. it's a long time ago. I changed almost beyond." "He's just twenty-nine. I've good reasons to kno "I said, "and I must have recognition" Woe, "I'll be" Woe, "I'll be" A It was my turn to it was not policy to I merely said: "Oh,l It was my turn to be astonished, but it was not policy to show it. Therefore I merely said: "Oh! I indeed!" "You're not so quick as usual," he went on. "Td be an accused of the murder at the Santa Anna Hotel, I hooked it, and got over to Mexico, so to Spain and France. Fd always been a black sheep, you I know, but that was the first really serious trouble I'd got into. However, s s I said, five years later, when Wildred and I met in Canada I turned acor (Fd always little talent that I was doing and was doing pretty well. He pointed out to me, and I was not very long in seeing his point that I was not so much changed by what I should easily be recognized by those who had known me during these wild days when I'd be seen under his thumb in San Francisco, and the authorities there would still be very glad to hear of me. He did not happen to want anything of me just then, but he allowed me to understand that it was to my interest to keep his sweet with him. And from that ds y to this he's had his eye on me." "But it was he who was accused of that murder, not you," I said. "What." "He has told this same story to your sister, I would swear!" I exclaimed bodily. "It is for this reason that she has been persuaded into promising to marry him. Believing that he knows your whereabouts, and holds it in his power at any moment to have you punished, as a murderer—believing, too no doubt that you did commit the murder—she has been ready to save your life by the sacrifice of all that has made her dear." "Curse him! I'd take my oath you're right!" he asseverated. "He's sly, enough and vile enough for anything." "Did you ever see Harvey Farnham?" I questioned. "Yes, years ago I knew well and liked him immensely—as he did me. I think. It was in Tuolumne County, California, where he had a goldmine—the Miss Cunningham. It was I who named that, oddly enough it may seem to 170n, after my sister, of course. He was aware of that, but thought it was aware of mine, that probably I admired she and Miss Cunningham, and wanted to her a compliment. You see, no one knew me by my right name even then. "It was before that hateful time before I got in with Collins, or Wildred, whichever you like to call him, and not long after I'd run away from home and England under the assumed name of Hartly—it was my mothers malden name. I was only seventeen or eighteen, but I was pretty sharp for years. I'm afraid, I'd been among a queen lot already, and one night I should have got into a row with some older man over cards, a row that might have one badly, if it hadn't been for Mr. Paraham, who had dropped into the place to look on, and who stood by me for all he was worth. "It seemed he noticed me the moment he entered the room, thinking that I looked enough like him to be his own son. Afterward he took me up, making a lot of me, wanting to find out where I'd come from, and all that. He thought my resemblance to him (which everyone who saw me together invariably remarked) a wonderful joke, and used to call me his 'boy', and 'sonny', getting it into his head that I was a sort of 'Mastoot', who brought luck to him in whatever he undertook. That he was so keen on having me name his name for him. I think, if I had sown all my wild oats and been willing to set the down a bit into a respectable member of society, there was a time when he didn't have minded adopting me, for so much unhappy love affair or other had kept him out of the marriage market, eligible as he was and he swore that he never meant to marry, even for the hope of having an heir to all his money. Yes, I ought have been that heir if I hadn't been a fool, for Farnham certainly thought the world and all of me in those days. As it was he did me many a kindness." "And now, by the way of repaying that affection and those kindnesses" I could not help exclaiming, with a returning touch of the bitter old contempt, "you've undertaken to help his murderer to get off scot free. You've been masqueraded in the very clothes the poor fellow wore, you've been using his luggage, trading on the likeness to him, which once won for you his re- gard, heightened it for every way by artificial means, so that not only shall Carson Wildred, or Willis T. Bolling; escape suspicion, but that he ca, enrich himself on the dead man's millions. You even set a hotel on fire to finish the whole fiendish plot with a fine dramatic effect" Chicago Boy Must Renounce Sweet-hearts or Go to Jail. His Mother Has Him Arrested and Wants Him Sent to Reform School. But the Justice Gives Him One More Chance. This story isn't a tale of wine, women, and song. But it is of kisses, girls, and perfumery. And, of course, it is a boy who is 'the hero. According to the Chicago Chronicle Joseph Froneck, 17 years old, informedJustice Dooley, of that city, that he was not responsible because a bevy of girls had fallen in love with him. He, in fact, awarded he didn't relish the prospect of being sent to a reform school because the fair maidens of the West side cast longing eyes at him and kissed him. Naturally he bought all of them bottles of perfumery. If the same maidens found delight in addressing tender lines of love to him he could not prevent it. Froneck's mother, however, declared emphatically that the sweet smiles of pretty girls had turned the head of her son completely and she wanted him sent to a reform school for least five years. Young Fronke lives at 53 Luther street, and according to his mother he has had his hands so full keeping appointments with his numerous sweet-hearts he has found little or no time to help provide for the family. She said he was a model boy until the numerous girls of the West side began to admire his handsome features. The loving words they whispered into his ears and the tender lines of love which arrived on each mail proved too much for the idol of all the girls. Trouble followed when Mrs. Fronke became inquisitive and opened a number of sweet-scented letters. When it developed in her mind that just about every girl on the West side was in love with her son she understood what asked him and demanded that he forget he ever had seen a girl. But the son refused to give up his girls and then his mother caused his arrest. "What is the trouble with you, my young friend?" asked Justice Dooley. ALL THE GIRLS LIKE HIM. "Is it true that you already are a great lady's man, although only 17 years old?" "I don't know much about it," he answered, "except that the girls like me and I can't help it. In fact, I rather like it. The trouble is my mother talks too much." Mrs. Fronck drew a bundle of letters from beneath her shawl. "Here are some of the notes he gets, judge. They come in every mail," she said. Justice Dooley took the letters, and, as he unwrapped the bundle, an odor like new-mown hay pervaded the room. "Well, this seems to be a desperate case," the magistrate said, as he glanced over one of the letters. "This young woman calls your son her 'own love-dovey,' and says that she knows of a good place to buy furniture on the installment plan. What have you to say, young man?" the justice asked, gazing at the handsome features of the prisoner. "Well, don't blame me, judge; those girls get interested in me, and I can't do anything with them," he replied. "They come to the house and wait for me on the street. If, they miss me they mail me letters. The letter you have just read is from a Swede girl who has a good job." "I take it that this reference to buying furniture is equivalent to a proposal of marriage, is it not?" Justice Dooley asked, as he opened a second latter. "They are all alike, judge, every one of them," the youth replied. "Those girls won't let me alone. Lots of them have proposed us gettin' hitched up, but I kicked on that, because I've got to look after ma." "He don't care anything about me," Mrs. Fronek interrupted. "I want him sent to the reform school, where he will learn a trade, and where there are no girls to run around with." "Young man, this charge against you is not to be lightly passed over," Justice Dooley said, while the prisoner twisted uncomfortably in a four-inch collar. "I give you 30 days in which to free yourself of your sweethearts. If at the end of that' time you are not ready to report good progress I will be of mind to start you toward the reform school. You are discharged with orders to report a month hence." Fronek promised to do his best, and hastened from the courtroom. "Josiar," said Mrs. Corntossel, "I'm sure you can't find no fault with Josh since we've been to town." "I can't! He didn't get home till four o'clock this mornin'." "I noticed it. You know, you told him you wanted him to be sure an' be out o' bed every morning before five o'clock." "Yes." "Well, the poor boy's so skered of you that he's been stayin' up all night, so's to be able to keep his word."—Washington Star Orders by Telephone or Telegraph promptly filled. Wed ing suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Old 'Phone, 686 Residence in Building New Wing 2 HAD MUNEY TO BANX A. Squaw Surprised a South Dakota Cashier by Depositing Big Wads of Currency. A bank in Rapid Cit, S. D. has an Indian depositor. A few days ago the old Indian buck, his squaw and little daughter started from one of the Indian reservations for a visit to the Indian school at Rapid City. Before starting the old squaw carefully dug up all of the family wealth and packed it carefully in two small hand sachets. Upon arriving at Rapid City, the trio sought out the first bank they came to, and entering, made known to the cashier that they wished to place in OPENING THE TREASURE BAG. the white man's vaults some of their surplus cash. The cashier soon grasped the situation and made known to the squaw that he was ready to take anything she had. The old woman of the plains, with a satisfied grant, reached for satchel No. 1 and opening it she pulled out a roll of bills. These she handed to the cashier. He counted out $500. The second time the old squaw reached for the bills and again she pulled out $500. The third time she brought to light a big handful of gold coins of different denominations. She hesitated a moment and then placed them carefully back in the grip. The glitter of the yellow metal was too much for her Indian nature. Again she dove to the bottom of the handbag and cut out another roll of greenbacks. The cashier was completely astounded. He counted out another $500. The old squaw closed the grip with a snap, and grunting with satisfaction reached for satchel No. 2, which was being held by the little daughter. Opening the grip the woman disclosed a large number of gold and silver coins of all denominations. There was a hurried family consultation, the coins were passed by and there was another dive for more bills. Out came several small rolls and all were landed on the cashier's window. Another count and another $300. Grip No. 2 was closed and the woman of the tepee signified by signs that she was through her part of the transaction. The cashier-counted all of the rolls, prepared a certificate of deposit, the unpronounceable name was affixed and the business was closed up. SIGNS BRING FREEDOM. Patrick Joyce McGinnis Thinks Chicago Police Judge Is a Conne-mara Cuckoo. 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In Building New 'Phone 480 HE PLANET HOW OLD AM I. I think, when tiny things go by How old am I! Five times the hedges in the lane Have waked and gone to sleep again; And this, I think, must make it plain How old am I! When love is strong and hope is high How old am I! I am a man to do and dare, A man to to do and bear, (Seeing one loved face everywhere), How old am I! Yet, as the stealthy seasons fly How young am I, The mountain stooping to the sea, Whose somber shades envelop me Look backward on Eternity! How young, am I! Men call me old, and I comply, Yes, old am I; And yet how young when every sense Yields to its first experience, Walking in faith and confidence A by and by! Allice Chandler, in Pall Mall Magazine Joshua Baker's Downfall By Charles J. Adams. JOSHUA BAKER'S downfall, began with the election of women to the school board. In the little Massachusetts hill, town where he lived he had ruled, within rod, of iron, since the unlucky day, when he was sent, to represent this district in the legislature. That was his introduction into public life, and it created within him an insatiable appetite for office. He had been first selectman and chairman of the school board for more years than we younger people could remember, and, in both capacities rode roughhoad over his companions in office. There was a magnetic power about the man, or he would not have been selected year after year. He was an efficient and faithful public servant, but association with him in the administration of town affairs was an unpleasant task, which few craved. The novelty of placing women on the school board strongly appealed to the people of the town—we will call it Ridgertail. The first year the plan was adopted, Mrs. Abel Ayres and Miss Samantha Dock became Joshua Baker's partners in office. The former possessed a fine education and great culture, but was totally lacking in fighting ability. This deficiency was more than made up, however, by Miss Samantha, who had a very determined mind of her own, and enjoyed nothing better than a tilt with her neighbors. When the result of the election was known, everybody realized that war was inevitable, and its beginning was awaited with keen expectancy. It came even sooner than was apprehended. Joshua Baker frewned, and hemmed and hawed when he read, one morning a week later, a note he had just taken from the post office. "Dear Sir," it began. "We, the undersigned, beg leave to inform you that there will be a meeting of the school board to-morrow evening, in the selectmen's room, for organization, and the transaction of routine business." And it was signed by Mrs. Abel Ayres and Miss Samantha Dock. It was written in Misa Samantha's nervous hand, and every letter breathed defiance. The post office was filled with idles. Joshua's face betrayed his vexation, and in response to a query as to the cause of it, he read the note aloud, in a clear, deliberate voice which, nevertheless, attempted no concealment of his disgust. That was his first mistake. "Wal, I'll be oblived!" ejaculated Silas Wiggins, the village blacksmith. "Pretty headstrong, ain't they? Takein' the reins rigid into their own hands." "Indeed they are, Mr. Wiggins," replied Joshua. "Indeed they are, sir. But they will find they can gain no advantage over me by such a course. I shall not attend the meeting." "Ye'd best not stay away," ventured Mr. Wiggins, after a short pause. "They'd be electing one of themselves chairman, and nobody knows what other nonsense. 'Pears to me ye'd ought to be there, for the safety of the public, if for no other reason.'" This was a new thought to Joshua. He hemmed and frowned more violently than before. "I believe you are right, Mr. Wiggins," he said, at last. "Yes, you are certainly right. My obligations to the public cannot be laid aside. I will attend the meeting and," raising his voice, "my good friends, I invite you all to be present." That was Joshua's second blunder. It was customary in those days for the meetings of the school board to be open to the public, but the privilege was seldom taken advantage of. On this occasion, however, the selectmen's room was crowded. Mrs. Abel and Miss Samantha were at first surprised, then vexed, when they understood that Joshua had especially invited the crowd to witness their defeat. Samantha's black eyes snapped dangerously, "We may as well begin at once," she said, as Joshua, the last of the three, entered the room. "We'll ballot for chairman first." The committeewomen and the lone committeeman seated themselves at the long table and prepared their ballots. Samantha counted them, calmly taking this responsibility upon herself. There was one vote for each of the three members. Joshua's face was a study. He had never seriously doubted that he would be elected at once, as he had been for so many years. The two women exchanged significant glances. The result was not changed by the second ballot nor by the third. Finally, when, after the ninth ballot, Miss Samantha announced that still there was no election, she held up her hand to stay Joshua who was already preparing his next vote. "One moment, Mr. Baker," she said, grimly. "I guess this has gone about far enough. We may as well understand each other right now. Neither Mrs. Ayres nor I was so the chairman. We've been voting each for the other right along, and we can keep it up a spell longer, if need be. That shows that you must have been voting for yourself." "Yes, madam!" exclaimed the now furious Joshua. "I have been voting for myself, and I shall continue to do so, because I believe that I am the only member of the board capable of performing the duties of chairman as they should be perfored." "That's all right," interrupted Samantha. "We don't bake you a mite; and as we don't want the office we are willing to elect you on the next ballot, only you must agree to something first. We knew how you have carried on, how you have refused to put vote motions you didn't like and bulldozed generally the other members of the committee. It's time to call a halt. If you will promise, faithfully, in the presence of these people, that you have invited here, to deal with us fairly, and to conduct the meetings of this committee in a parliamentary manner, we'll elect you. If you won't promise, we can keep up the deadlock forever. What do you say?" A ditter had begun in the audience, which grew into a hearty laugh, and similarly broke into open applauds as Samantha ceased speaking. For a moment Joshua looked about him at the people and at the women before him, like some enraged animal who would toss them all on his hears. But seeing that his official companions held the upper hand, and that the sympathy of the people was clearly against him, the restrained himself, with an effort and forced a smile to his lips. "I gladly promise," he said, "to do whatever is right. More than that I would not promise for the highest office in the land. Let us close the discussion and prepare our tenth ballot." Mr. Basker was unanimously elected, but the women had won a victory, and Joshua was not only defeated, but humiliated openly before the people. Humiliated he certainly was, and sought savagely for an opportunity to take revenge. The meetings of the school board that winter were stormy ones, and it was largely to the crowds that gathered to witness the frays that Mrs. Abel and Miss Samantha owed their escape from much the same browbeating to which their predecessors had submitted. As the year ended on and Joshua was thwarted at every point, the ridicule at his discomfiture became more open. Ridicule is a powerful factor in politics, and Joshua viewed with alarm his waning prestige. It was not until spring, however, that the saw his chance to strike a decisive blow and assert his mastership. There had been constant difficulty that year in keeping a teacher at the Center school. One had resigned to accept a more lucrative position elsewhere, another had been taken suddenly ill, while a third had proved incapable and been dismissed. As each vacancy occurred, Mrs. Abel and Miss Samantha urged the election of a Miss Clay, of Ridgeville, a young woman admirably fitted for the position, but whose election had been strenuously opposed by Joshua. The last time he had won his point only by promising that Miss Clay should be given a trial, should another vacancy occur during the year. Now on the opening day of the spring term, Joshua received word that the young man they had engaged was unable to appear. As he walked up-street in a quandary how to avoid keeping his former promise, he saw Mrs. Abel and Samantha ride past in the stage, apparently bound to the city. A sudden light broke in upon him. He posted messengers to the houses of his absent fellow-committee to call a special meeting of the board that noon, to elect a new teacher. Then, feeling sure there could be no meeting that day and that he was technically justified in acting on his own account, he himself hastened to the city, to secure a young man he had long had in mind for the position. But Mrs. Abel and Miss Samartha had not gone to the city. They had each received a notice, like that sent to Joshua, that the teacher they had engaged had failed them, and having in mind Joshua's promise, had decided to act on their own responsibility, without farther consultation. Accordingly they had merely gone down the road a mile or two, by stage, to the home of Miss Clay, where they offered her the position. In short, Miss Clay opened school that very morning, less than two hours after the regular opening hour. Finding Joshua's message, on their return home, the two women met again, shortly afterward, at the selectmen's room, at the specified hour, but no Joshua appeared. Partly surmising the truth, and hugely enjoying their advantage, they elected Miss Clay permanent teacher, and fixed her salary with due formality. Joshua's emotions, when he drove into town that evening with his imported teacher, defy expression. The story was soon noised about, and his new defeat redoubled the former riddle. The upshot of the matter was that he resigned from the board in great indignation. But that was not the end. At the next town meeting, although still a candidate for selectman, he was ignominiously defeated. Since that day he has run for several other offices, but his downfall is complete, and he has never been successful. Miss Samantha, having enjoyed her victory to the full, declined a reelection, but Mrs. Abel is still a member of the school board, and will be continued there so long as she will consent to serve. Youth's Companion. THE RICHMO PLANET RICHMONC VIRGINIA New Method of Teaching the Multiplication Table Invented by a Polish Pedagogue. The boys and girls in the schools of Poland are taught a method of multiplication by the use of the fingers. It is said that the little people find it much more interesting than studying so many multiplication tables. This method is used in multiplying numbers above 5; below that the children commit to memory the few short tables necessary. That they may learn the finger process readily, in the beginning the numbers are written with pencil on the fingernails. The method is as follows: The thumb represents 6, the first finger 7, the middle finger 8, the next 9, and the little finger 10. To multiply any of these numbers the fingers that represent the multiplier and multiplicand, or the numbers to be multiplied, are placed together as illustrated. For example, to multiply 8 by 9, the fourth finger of the left hand (count- ing always the thumb as the first finger), and the third finger of the right hand are placed tip to tip, Counting these two fingers thus joined with those above, on both hands, there are 7; add a cipher, and you have 70. Below these 7 fingers there are 2 on the right hand and 1 on the left, multiplying one by the other: 2x1 equals 2. Adding this 2 to FIG. 1-8x2. FIG. 2-729. 70, the first obtained, you have 72, the product of 9 and 8. The second illustration, showing the multiplying of 7 and 9, may be clearly seen. Joining the second finger of the right hand to the fourth of the left, and counting these two with those above—there are 6; adding a cipher-60. Below there are 3 on one hand and 1 on the other, 3x1 equals 3, which, added to 60, equals 63, or 7x9. Multiplying 6 by 6 with the joining of the thumbs works out as follows: Adding the thumbs, being no fingers above—2; with cipher, 20. Multiplying the fingers below, 4x4 equals 16, added to 20, equals 36, or 6x6. Any of these numbers represented on the fingers can be multiplied in this way with almost perfect results. A somewhat similar process can be used with the higher numbers, the thumb representing 11, and so on. In this case there is a change in the latter part of the operation, and 100 is always added to the final result. To multiply 13 by 14 place the fingers representing those numbers together (the third on the right hand and the fourth on the left). As before, add the upper fingers, including the two that touch, there are 7; with cipher, 70. Now multiply the same fingers that were just added, that is the 4 and 3 upper fingers that were added to make 7 and now used again and multiplied—4x3 equals 12. This 12, with the 70 makes 82, and adding the 100, the final result is 182, or 13 times 14. Any number from 11 to 15 multiplied in this way will give correct results, as in the case of the smaller numbers. This finger multiplication was invented by Procopovitch, a Polish mathematician, who carries his method into many and much more difficult combinations. — Jean Ely, in N. Y. Tribune. Portland's Old Fire Horse. In Portland, Ore., there is a big bay horse named Jerry, which is 23 years old, and for 17 years has faithfully served the city in the fire department. Anyone who has seen a fireman's horse in active service will know that Jerry has certainly earned his board. Now Jerry has become old and is inclined to be stiff in the joints. Under such circumstances a private owner generally takes out his faithful servant and knocks him on the head, under pretense that it is a "merely" to him, but the city of Portland thinks otherwise. So the fire commissioners have decided that they will not sell the old fellow to be starved and abused, nor will they "mercifully" kill him, but that he is to have free hay and outs at the expense of the city as long as he lives. In honor of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Brazil in May, 1900, there will shortly be a special issue of stamps, as follows: Discovery of Brazil, 100 reis; independence, 200 reis; abelition, 500 reis; republic, 700 reis. Ela ug. 11, Bill Wilson, Attempted Assault, Part tibon, M s Will Chambers, Criminal Assault, all Buckley, Teen Will McClure, Attempted Assault B Cle 16 Charlie Hart, Brantley, Ala. 20, Peter Lon and 15 year old Son, white, Shooting a man, Wetumpka, Ala. Aug. 16, Charlie Hart, colo d criminal assault Brantley, Ala. Aug. 16, Tom K-ith, colored ente lady's room drunk, Near Greenvile, S.C. Aug. 20, Rev. T. J. Floyd, colored, wanted to work, Cattersville, Ill. Wm. Prentis, Hughes Bradley, Henry Branum, Jim Hayes, John Black, Sim Cremmings. Aug. 28, white, stroke against lynching, Georgetown, Ga. Sept. 12 Rev. H. B. Battle, colo d spoke against lynching, Near Thompson, Ga. Sept. 27 Senior Sanchez, Cuban, nothing Havana, Cuba October 11 Judge Barit La Place white, Assaulting Near New Orleans 18, Joe Leftior Colored Arson and Assault, burned, St Ann Miss 18 Robert Smith, Col. Innocent, Partly Roasted not dead 20, George Wells, Colored, Murder. Wier City Kan 3 C.&O. Chasepeake and Ohio Railway. EFFECTIVE MARCH 1, 1900 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. BROAD-STREET STATION. 9:00 A. M., Daily, with Parloror, for prin- ple stations, Newport News Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth. 8:45 P. M., Daily with Pullman, for local Newport News Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth. Connects at Old Point with Washington, daily with Baltimore steamers, daily with Baltimore steamers, daily with Baltimore museum at Norfolk with Old Dominion Seam Ship except Sunday for New ford. 10:00 A. M., For Express, except Sunday for Clifton Forge, Connecticut, Gordonsville or Orange, Calverton, Manassas, Alexandria, Washington, at Union Station, Charleston, for Lynchburg; at Basto for Hagerstown. 1:15 P. M., Daily, with Pullman to Cincinnati, in Hinton, Louis, hope only at important towns. Connects nests at Gordonsville for Orange and at Orange with Southern Ry- thburn; at Covington for Va. Hot Springs. Meals served o. Dairy, care No. 7 Local Treats exceeds Sunday, follower from Gordonsville to Stuart. 6:20 P. M., Accomodation, except Sunday for Dowell. 10:20 p. M., Daily for Cincinnati, with Pull- man to Hinton W. Va., and Gordonsville to Cincinnati and Leu- ville. Meals served on Dining Gordonsville at Hinton (except bunday) for Winchester, Va. and at Covington, Va. daily for Virginia Hot Springs. TRAINS LEAVE EIGHTH-STREET STATION. 10:80 A. M., Daily for Lexington Lynchburg, and Clifton Forge. Connects ex- change with Jacksonville, Alberene, Branches. Clifton Forge with No. 14 for Cincinnati. 6:00 p. M., Excepts Sunday, for Columbia. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND, BROAD-STREET STATION. 8:00 A. M., Except Sunday from Dowell. 8:30 A. M., Daily from Cincinnati. 1:15 A. M., Daily from Norfolk and Old Point. 2:00 P. M., Daily, from Cincinnati and Louis- ville. 6:50 P. M., Daily, from Norfolk, and Old Point. 7:45 P. M., Excepts Sunday, from Clifton Forge. TRAINS ARRIVE EIGHTH STREET STATION. 9:40 A. M., Except Sunday from Columbia 6:30 P. M., Daily from Lynchburg, Lexington and Clifton Forge. Except Sunday day from New Castle, and Boesey. JOHN D POTTS. Ass't. General Passenger Agents. Southern Railway SCHEDULE IN EFFECT APRIL 2ND, 1900 Trains Leaves Richmond, Va. 11.50 P.M. NO. 10 SOUTHERN EXPRESS CAL. 10. Atlanta Augusta Jacksonville, wa points son's sleeper for Danville Sleeper open at Richmond 9:20 p. b. Steps for passengers at local stations Connects at Danville and Charlotte with New York and Florida Exposes at New York and Tampa with connections New York and Tampa with connections for all Florida points, also connects at Danville, Charlotte with connections (No Ski carrying through sleeper bet'n New York and Nassauville New York and Memphis and New York and Memphis sleeper Mon ays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Washington to San Francisco without change, with conventions for all points in Texas, Mexico and California. 19:01 P.M. No. 7, solid train daily or Chan lotte, N. C. Connects at Moseley with Birmingham for Neasley and Hobart. Keysville for Clarksville, Oxford, Hen derson and Durham and at Greenboro for Durham, Raleigh, and Winston Salem at Dauville with no. 85 Unite States Postal Mail daily for New Oklahoma and points South, which carries sleepers New York to New Or leans and New York to Jacksonville and Jacksonville, Cuba. Through main sleeper station, Mem his vla of Asheville and Chatt- nooga. 6:00 P.M. 7, LOGAL, daily except Sunda for Keysville and intermediate point TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND 1:00 A.M. 5:28 P.M., from Atlanta Augusta, Asheville and all points South. 4:40 P.M., from Keysville and local stations. LOCAL PRESENT TRAINING. Nos. 81 and 85. between Manchester and Ne- polis. Va. YORK RIVER LINE, WEST POINT The Favorite Route North. Train No. 16, 4:30 P M* BALKINYHILL BALKINYHILL sunday for West, west and intermediate stations making close connectio Monday's Wednesdays and Fridays with steamer for Haiu Train No. 10, 2:30 P. M. Train No. 500 M. LOCAL EXECUTIVE, West Point & Fridays, West Point and intermediate stations, connects with stage at Lester Manor 1. Walkerton and Tappahannock: also at West Point with steamers for Baltimore. Stops at all stations. Train No. 74, 590 M. LOCAL MIXED, leaves daily except Sunda from Virginia Street Station for West Point and intermediate stations connecting with stage at Lester manor for Walkerton and Tappahannock. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND. 9:15 a.m. Daily, from West Point, with connection from Baltimore except Mondays. 10:15 a.m. Sundays and Mondays from West Point, and intermediate stations. Steamers leave West Point daily except Sundays 8:50 P. M. arriving Baltimore 8:00 a.m., returning leave Baltimore 8:00 p.m., daily except Sundays, arriving Richmond Travelling Passenger Agent, 290 E. Main St, Richmond, Va. J. M. GUIR, W. A. Park, traffic manager. een. pass. Age FRANK S. GANNON. Third Vice-president and General Manage Washington, D.C. FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 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ALLEN, general phone 983. New 'Phone 983. R. F. P. RICHMOND, FREEDRICKSBURG & POTOMAC. Schedule in Effect January 18, 1900. LEAVE SYRD ST. STATION. 1823 A. M. Daily, for "Washington and police North stops only at Milford and Frederickburg. Palman Sleeper to New York. 1823 A. M. Sunday only, for Washington and Police North, stops at Bla. Glen North, Par- lorville, Boswell, author Glen Pearson, Milford, Woodland, Gunne, Summit, Frederick- burg, Brooks, and Wincater, Palman car. 700 A. M. Leaves Elba for Quintico. 400 P. M. Leoque Bryd or for Frescicks burg. 520 P. M. Leoque Elba for Ashland. 640 A. M., arrives Elba from Ashland. 820 A. M., arrives Bryd street Station from Fredericksburg. 650 P. M. Elba from Ashland. W. P. T. YLOL Manager E. T. D. Myers, President. 033 N. 2d St., — Richmond, Va OLD 'PHONE, 1704. Steam Ice-Cream Manufactory Ise-Cream made daily both Winter and Summer, and we can supply you with any quantity at all times. Satisfaction guaranteed. 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Some white people are great enemies to us, but some of us are even greater enemies to ourselves. Gov. Roosevelt does not seem to have made any denial of his caustic criticism of President McKinley. The race must engage in business and continue to make an effort to control finance in large quantities. The activity in political circles indicates that the struggle between the two political parties will be a battle royal. The Declaration of Independence is a platform of principles, upon which we all should stand regardless of race, politics, or religion. Colored men, do not fail to impress upon your children the need of good manners. This will do much towards bettering our condition. A penniless race of people cannot command respect, and an insulting class will invite contempt. Do not let us forget that. If white men think it proper and expedient to violate their oaths of office, what must be said of the colored men? The candidacy of Admiral Dewey for the presidency seems to have evoked a grin from one section of the country to the other. Gov. TYLER seems to have overlooked the fact that he has the authority to offer a reward for the lynchers of COTTON and O'GRADY. CLASS legislation is caste legislation and the latter is a twin relic of the 15th Century civilization and belongs to a kingdom and not a free republic. No, we do not know that we are Negroes. When we are claiming our rights under the American constitution, we forget all of our racial conditions and affiliations. The uneouth, ill-mannered element amongst us should be checked in their career. We must take radical steps to improve them or they will cause us a world of trouble in our struggle for material recognition. GEN. OTIS is coming home. He announced the war in the Philippines ended, but his generals are calling loudly for more troops. There is hardly any one who can fail to see that we have swapped places with Spain and have gotten the worst end of the bargain. SHERIFF S. W. LEE of Emporia seemed to have sobered up enough to be able to announce how he thinks it all happened. The intelligent, honest God-fearing colored people must use their best efforts to lift up the low, degraded elements to our level or they will drag them down to theirs. This can be done through the medium of the church, the school-house and the rostrum. The grand jury of Greensville Co. was of the opinion that the safest way for themselves was the best way. A man walking around with a rope in the neighborhood of a tree from which two human beings had been hanged a few days before seemed to have sufficient to cause them to go stone blind. The colored brother was deliberately ignored by both of the Second District Republican Conventions. This is a heavy black district to, and it is to be neglected that neither side saw fit to do that which would have been right, and in accordance with the principles of justice. The actions of both the Bowden and the Wise factions were indetensible in this respect. The Republican State Convention selected four white Republicans as delegates at large to the National Republican Convention, naming two colored men as alternates. The proper course to have been pursued was plain,—all of the colored men should have declined to serve. There is nothing more humiliating to a self-respecting colored man than to be upon the floor of the convention with no voice and no vote. He is better off at home, or even dead perhaps, so far as the proceeding of the convention are concerned. The action of the white Republicans of the Third Congressional District of Virginia in according recognition, to their colleagues to the extent of naming a colored Republican as delegate to the National Republican Convention to be held at Philadelphia will tend to draw closer the bond of union and do much towards removing the cause for friction in this portion of our commonwealth. It was a long step in the direction of harmony and has done more than anything we know to produce a friendly feeling among the colored people of the district. "The Emporia lynching has done one good thing, at least. It has effectively shut the Negro's mouth against reproaching the whites for lynching Negroes on account of their color. O'Grady was lynched in compliance with a demand by Negroes on account of his color, and for no other reason. There is no doubt whatever of his innocence, and if he had been a Negro under the circumstances he would not have been lynched."—Petersburg Index-Appeal. Yes, it has shut lots of Negro mouths for it was about as fair a lynching as could have been had undor the circumstances. The trouble about the matter is that we are "agin" even fair lynchings, believing that lynch-law must go and with it the lynchers, whether they be white or black. WHITE FIENDS ON TRIAL. We have often wondered how men like Dr. P. B. BARRINGER of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Va., could have the audacity to criticize the weaknesses of any people or belittle their efforts to succeed along all lines of legitimate endeavor in the face of the scandalous record of their own people. Four white men are now on trial at Chesterfield, near Columbia, South Carolina. They are known as JOHN and HARVEY JACKSON and another brother, also Tom SKEN. Their crime is one of the most fledgish in the criminal history of this country. Their victim was Miss Cassin Boon, a beautiful young girl who had Indian blood in her veins. She was partial to Sam Woodward and this aroused the anger of the Jacksons, who shot at him while he in company with Tom Munn was walking with Miss Boon. The crime was committed about four weeks ago, and was of too horrible a nature to relate. Suffice it to say that they kept her a prisoner in the woods for a day and a night, and then slashed her with knives set her clothes on fire, she ran for half a mile a veritable living torch. She ran until she was exhausted and only lived a short time after being found. This was the set of four white men, Dr. BARRINGER. Search your history, pull down from the archives of the University the record of the savage tribes of the world and show us a case which for devilish ingenuity and malignant atrocity will surpass the hellish crime in the southern part of Christian America. This occurs too, Dr. BARRINGER in the state where you have just delivered your phillipie against the barbarism of the Negro. Is there anything, sir, to equal the flendishness of these white men? Our greatest misfortune is the disposition of some of our people to practices the vices of the white man, rather than emulate his virtues. If this crime had been committed by citizens of color, it would have been the subject for comment from Maine to Texas. What will be done with these men? What has become of that florid indignation which causes every white man THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA to grasp his rifle and cast his eye towards the rope. There is no call for a sheriff's posse to protect the prisoners. The Governor is not asked for troops. The story is soon told. The beautiful girl had Indian blood in her veins. This spirit of injustice and lack of fair-play cannot last forever, and the time will yet come when the blind will not only see, but the prejudiced will be made to obey the laws as laid down by our forefathers. DR. P. B. BARRINGER, the "wise man of the East" and the investigator of the origin of the Negro will now have another opportunity to return to South Carolina and discuss the savagery of the white man. He will need to explain the cause of the following horrible crime: "COLUMBIA, S. C. April 11.—A fledgling crime was committed in the Cane Savannah section of Sumter county last night. The dwelling-house, barn, and stable of Matt Geddis, an industrious Negro, were fired by an incendiary, and when he awakened the entire premises were ablaze. The dwelling-house was falling in, and in the panic that followed one member of the famed man left in the house and was burned to the others barely escaping with their lives. Every house on the premises was burned, and all of their contents were destroyed. The stable were four horses, and in the barn all of Geddis's corn crop for the year, and farming implements; in fact, everything that he possessed were burned. The different buildings were undoubtedly fired separately." This was not one of the worthless, shiftless, improvident Negroes. It was a colored man who was adding to the material prosperity of the section in which he lived. His child was burned to death and attempt made to treat his family in a similar fashion. This was done in South Carolina by white men, Dr. BARRINGER. Are they relapsing into barbarism, Dr. BARRINGER? If not, what is the cause of this exhibition of flied disness? Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Last Saturday all who attended the explanation on the Sunday School lesson were helped by the instruction which Prof. G. R. Hovey gave them. Meetings by the committee were held at the Alms House and Jail last Sunday and they were very good. One convert was reported by the Alms House Committee. Mr. John Baker of Manchester gave the boys last Sunday an address which was very timely and helpful to the boys. The boys gave their very best attention and enjoyed the address. The open meeting for men last Sunday was led by Rev. C. O. Boone, subject: "A pure conscience." Rev. Boone introduced the subject. Explanation on the Sunday School lesson to day 5 p. m., by Prof. G. R. Hovey. My friend come and hear for yourself. Meetings in the Alms House Sunday 11 s. m. and 3 p. m. Mr. Albert A. Tennant will address the boys Sunday at 4 p. m. Every man is invited to spend a part of his Easter with the Y. M. C. A. Sunday at 5:30 p. m. at Pries's hall. Prof. J. R. L. Diggs, of the Va. Union University will deliver a special address, subject, "Man's attitude towards woman." For men only. Special music by the Va. Union University Quartette. Solo, by Mr. A. C. Johnson, accompanied by Mr. R. A. H. White. FROM HARTFORD. HARTFORD, CONN., April 10, 1800. The colored voters of this city who were pledged to support Mr. Alexander Harbison, the republican candidate for Mayor worked hard and faithfully showing great strength at the polls. Mr. Harbison received the largest majority of any Mayor in the history of this city. Now, let us wait patiently and see what our portion will be. Mr. and Mrs. Woodson tendered a surprise party to Miss Sally Coles on Tuesday evening, April 3d, at their residence, 1074 Broad St. Many presents were received from friends, many of whom called on her. Miss Coles left Wednesday evening for South Carolina where she is to be married next week. Deductive services at Pearl Street Church Easter Sunday at 8:30 Bishop Hood, Presiding Elder Birehmore, and other distinguished theologians have been invited to participate. Mrs. M. Mitchell of Wolcott St., is out again. Mr. R. Bowen of Grand St., is steadily improving. The Union Literary Society closes next month, after an enjoyable winter of debate. Many good subjects have been discussed. Company Organized. HAMPTON, VA., April 10th. Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr. of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, arrived here last evening. He repaired to the handsome new residence of Dr. Wm. E. Atkins, Hampton's popular physician and was his guest during his brief stay here. Mrs. Atkins was most considerate in her care for the visitor and he was loud in his praises of his host and hostess. Gen. Mitchell organized Joseph T. Wilson Company, with S. E. Blue, operator. R. E. Miller, 1st lieutenant; R. M. S. Brown, 2nd lieutenant; John H. William, Sir Knight Guard; L. M. Mann, Sir Knight Sentinel; J. P. Whitney, Sir Knight Recorder; John M. Phillip, Sir Knight Treasurer. The members are S. M. Matthew Augustine, David Robinson, P. L. Gosin, Junius A. Jones, Edward Mitchell, Isham Moseley, W E. Atkins, J. H. Cooper, A. A. Whitney, John Davis, Joseph Mitchell, Wm. Jefferson, John James, Henry Armatee, J. H. Yancey, Albert Mitchell, Columbus Winn, J. L. Jarvis Gen Mitchell left for Richmond this morning. 25th St., near O St., the Rev. J. Edward Gunby, pastor. There will be special Easter programs rendered by the Sunday School at 8 P.M., and also by the choir and young people at 7:30 P.M. Special music for the occasion, also an address by the pastor at the 7:30 P.M. service, to be followed by the administration of the Holy Communion. Services at 11 A. M., preaching by Rev. Chas. Blunt. BALLOT BOX STUFFER Captured by a Philadelphia Magistrate in a Lodging House. THE ACCOUSED MAN GONFESSES. Fled From the Quaker City After the Election, and Has Until Recently Received Five Dollars a Week to Pay His Expenses. Philadelphia, April 11.—John Scully, the election clerk of the Thirteenth division of the Seventh ward, who, with former Deputy Coroner Samuel Salter and several others, were indicted for ballot box stuffing, who all fled this jurisdiction to avoid trial, was arrested by Magistrate Elsie brown personally late last night in lodging house. Scully was registered at the lodging house as John Davis. Scully admitted his identity and also confessed that he knew that 200 bogus ballots for Barnett, the Republican candidate for state treasurer, had been put in the ballot box on that election day. Scully said he had been in Camden ever since he fled from this city. He was told to go there by Salter soon after the election, and as long as Salter was in this city he received $5 a week to pay his expenses. After Salter fled the remittance was kept up by one one else until a few weeks ago, when it was discontinued. He came to this city from New Jersey as soon as the remittance ceased, and kept under cover for fear of arrest. He declared that he did not know who sent the money to him after Salter left. The money was sent each week, but there was no writing with it. TO OUST SENATOR CLARK Senate Committee Will Urge That His Seat Be Declared Vacant his seat he Declared Vacant. Washington, April 11.—The senate committee on privileges and elections has decided unanimously in favor of the unseating of Senator Clark, of Montana. The report is to declare the seat of Senator Clark vacant, and not to expel. There were many expressions in the committee favorable to Senator Clark from a personal point of view, and more than one senator gave utterance to doubts as to whether he had actual personal part in knowledge of the expenditures. Others expressed the opinion that the senator was in a certain sense the victim of environment and of habit. The outlay of money in past elections in Montana was dwelt upon as one of the explanations of the liberal expenditures in this case. Senator Turley was among the senators who dissented from the view that Mr. Clark could have been uninformed of the fact that money was being used to promote his election. A Convention Hall Guarantee Kansas City, April 11.—A $50,000 bond was yesterday given by the Gillette-Hersoz Manufacturing company, of Minneapolis, to insure the erection of the new convention hall in time for occupancy by the democratic national convention in July. The company agrees to have the ten immense steel trusses, that will support the stand, in place by June 15, under a penalty $100 a day for each day it might be delayed beyond the time limit. If it should appear to the architect and the hall directors that all the trusses will not be up by June 15 they will have the privilege of ordering the work stopped and of calling upon the men and machinery of the steel company to aid in putting the building in temporary shape. Proposed Presbyterian Reform. Little Falls, N. Y., April 11.—The Utica Presbytery, now in session in this city, was thrown into a turmoil yesterday by an address from the Rev. Dr. Taylor, of Clinton, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church at Rome, who advocated the elimination from the confession of faith of paragraphs 1 to 7 of chapter 3. These paragraphs cover the doctrine of election and probation, in repudiation of which Dr. Hills, of Brooklyn, resigned from the Chicago Presbytery. Rev. B. W. Brokaw, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Utica, endorsed Dr. Taylor's views. The resolution was referred. Wealthy Merchant's Suicide Kingston, N. Y., April 11.—J. Albert Merritt, aged 46, one of the most successful dry goods merchants in this city, in a fit of temporary insanity, yesterday shot his mother through the head and then shot himself, dying instantly. It is thought Mrs. Merritt will die. Mr. Merritt was owner of the dry goods house of James O. Merritt & Co., and was very wealthy. His father died while insane, two uncles and a niece on his father's side committed suicide, and two uncles on his mother's side also killed themselves. Gomes Sails For Santo Domingo. Havana, April 11.—General Maximo Gomez sailed yesterday for Santo Domingo. Before leaving he addressed a letter to the president of the National party saying that he was very grateful for the recent demonstration in his honor, and that he would soon Cuba. In the course of an interview he denied that he had any intention of attempting to become the president of Santo Domingo, as had been intimated in a Havana paper. Caldwell Not a Candidate Washington, April 11.—Judge Henry C. Caldwell, of Arkansas, who has extensively spoken of as a Democrat candidate for vice president, and who has received a great number of letters urging him to agree to accept that position in case it should be tendered him, has written a letter to Senator Jones, of Arkansas, in which he says that he cannot consent to such use of his name and that his resolution is absolutely irrevocable. Dr. Talmage Of For Europe New York, April 10.—Rev. T. De Witt Talmage and wife sailed on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse today for Europe. Dr. Talmage will preach in the principal cities of Great Britain and continental Europe, including Berlin, St. Petersburg and Stockholm. Our Imports From China Berlin, April 10.—The Frankfort consulate general reports $9,245,473 exports to the United States during the months of January, February and March, being an increase of over $1,000,000. For the whole of Germany, except Dresden, the figures are $27,-$82,397 for the first quarter of 1900, being an increase of $6,265,855 as compared with the figures for the corresponding quarter last year. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Tamps, Fla., is to have a $1,000,000 sugar refinery. Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, is to practice law in New York. A national biblical congress will be held in Washington April 17, 18 and 19. Ex-Congressman E. H. Moore, of the Fifteenth Ohio district, died at Athens, O., yesterday, aged 88. Gen. John Bidwell, Prohibition candidate for president in 1892, died yesterday near Chico, Cal., aged 80. The Ohio senate passed the Toledo centennial bill, after cutting the appropriation from $1,000,000 to $750,000. Arthur F. Marsh, ex-inspector general of Michigan, was convicted of complicity in the swindle by which the state lost $30,000. Olga Nethersole was acquitted in New York on the charge of producing an obscene play ("Sapho") and the play will be continued. Friday, April G. An avalanche in Japan hurled 74 men to death. In March 31 persons were sentenced for less majeste in Berlin. Pupils in Cuban schools have increased in a year from 4,000 to 127,000. Gen. Otis will transfer the command of the Philippine forces to Gen. MacArthur May 1 and return home. Miss Hannah Sampson, daughter of the admiral, was married in Boston last night to Ensign Wat Tyler, who was on the Maleine when she blew up. Julius Moyse, who married a girl while impersonating Capt. Clark, of the battleship Texas, was sentenced in New Orleans to three years' imprisonment. During the last three months the exports to the United States from Frankfort, Germany, amounted to $1,611,856, an increase of $287,495 over the corresponding period of last year. Saturday, April 7. Five murderers were executed by the garrote at Ponce, Puerto Rico. General Joseph Wheeler announces that he has no ambition to become a candidate for vice president. The United Irishman, Dublin's radical newspaper, was seized for publishing an article by Maud Gonne on "The Famine Queen." The Kentucky court of appeals decided Beckham the legal governor of Kentucky. Republicans will appeal to the United States supreme court. The Atlantic Baseball League this year includes Jersey City, Newark, Athletics of Philadelphia, Reading, Alentown, Wilkesbarre, Scranton and Elmra. Monday, April 9. The $2d birthday of King Christian of Denmark was splendidly celebrated yesterday in Copenhagen. The fund which is being raised by subscription for the widow of the late Gen. Guy V. Henry has reached $9,663. Webster Davis, ex-assistant secretary of the interior, vigorously denounced the British at a Washington pro-Boer meeting. Albert Davis and Samuel G. Brookes, convicted at Cleveland of robbing the city, have been sentenced to four years each in the penitentiary. Mrs. Dewey, who joined the Catholic church on her marriage to Gen. Hazen, has now joined the Episcopalian church, the admiral's choice. C. W. Mussey, former cashier of the Merchants' National bank, at Rutland, Vt., has been held in $50,000 bail for court, on a charge of embezzlement, having waived a preliminary hearing. Tuesday, April 10. In a stable fire at Peru, Ind., Reilly Gregory, a hostler, was burned to death, with 42 horses. Gen. Bates has captured 11 towns in the department of Minandao, Philippines, without firing a shot. Rev. Dr. Arthur C. McGiffert, of New York, yesterday formally withdrew from the Presbyterian church. Rev. Dr. Talmage left New York for Europe today. He will preach in Berlin, St. Petersburg, Stockholm and other cities. It has been discovered that the bullet fired at the Prince of Wales by young Sipido, in Brussels, passed a foot above the prince's head. Ex-Congressman Charles A. Towne, of Minnesota, and ex-Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, are named as Democratic candidates for vice president. Wednesday, April 11. Central and western Kansas had a heavy fall of snow yesterday. Commodore William K. Mayo, retired, died here late Monday night. The amount of bonds so far exchanged for the new 2 per cents is $228,920,800. Members of the Philadelphia baseball club are on strike for higher salaries and allowances. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst has decided to establish a museum of art and archaeology at the University of California. The British government has placed a contract in New York for 30,000 to 35,000 cavalry horses, to cost several millions. Sir Andrew Armstrong has secured a divorce in Texas from Melba, the songstress, and custody of their only child, a boy of 16. James F. Smith, 16-year-old New York messenger boy, is en route to Pretoria with a sympathetic message from Philadelphia schoolboys to President Kruger. GENERAL MARKETS. Philadelphia, April 10. -Flour weak; winter super fine, $2.50; $2.40; Pennsylvania roller, clear, $2.30; $2.30; city mills, extra, $2.50; $2.70. Rye flour dull at $1.50; $1.40 per barrel. Wheat steady; No. 2 red, spot, no. 2 mixed, spot, 10 cups; yellow, for local trade, 48 cups. Gats quite no. 2 white, clipped, 32 cups; lower grades, $29; $31. Hay firm; choice timothy, $18.50; 17 for large bales. Beef steady; beef hams, $21; $22. Pork strong; mess, $12.55; western family, $14.75; Lard strong; western family, $14.75; Butter steady; western cremery, $17; $20; $16; $17; $16; imitation cremery, $16; $18; New York dairy, $17; $19; do, cremery, $17; $20; fancy Pennsylvania prints jobbing at $29; $26; do, wholesale, $22. Live poultry quoted at $17; for choice west- $20; for chickens and $12; $12; for ducks, $20; old roosters, $20; nearby roasting chicken, $12; $14; western do. do. $11; $18 Richmond, March 30.—News reaches here of the drowning Wednesday night of Captain Lewis E. Evans, of Northumberland, and two of his sons. Their boat was caught in a blow while in the Little Wicomico river and upset. Charleston, W. Va., April 2.—The body of Ed Hembrick, the trapper boy, was recovered Saturday from the Red Ash mine, where there was a disastrous explosion on March 6. This is the last body of the 50 victims. Established 1868. Old 'Phone 143 J. A. & C. J. COOKE SUCCESSORS TO Henry Cooke, SLAUGHTER OF BRITONS According to Unconfirmed Reports From Boer Sources. BATTLE OF MEERKETSFONTEIN. In This Engagement, According to the Boers, Six Hundred British Were Killed and Wounded and Eight or Nine Hundred Captured. London, April 11.—But that the war office has issued no news from Lord Roberts during the last three days, there would be little disposition to place any credence in the Boer reports of another British disaster. The unexpected rallying of the Free State commandos, however, leaves the public in a nervous condition, fearing everything. Dispatches from Pretoria as late as Monday did not mention any further Boer victory. On the contrary they said all the commandos were quiet, and, as Lord Roberts has hitherto never failed promptly to report mischances, as well as successes, or to allow the newspaper correspondents to report them, until some confirmation is received there is justification for regarding the Meerketsfontein rumor as only an exaggerated account of the Reddersburg affair. At the same time Boer reports have so often proved correct that the greatest anxiety will be felt. The dispatch that has caused the greatest alarm among Britons comes on the Daily News from Pretoria, dated Monday. It says: "It is officially announced that a battle has been fought south of Brandfort, in which 600 British troops were killed and wounded and 800 taken prisoners. Lord Roberts is declared to be finding great difficulty owing to scarcity of water." A dispatch to The Daily News from Brandfort, dated Sunday, says: "Yesterday Gen. De Wet inflicted the third GENERAL BRABANT. defeat of the British within a week at Meerkettsfontein, killing and wounding 600. He captured 900, with 12 wargons, losing five Boers killed and nine wounded." Another Pretoria dispatch of Monday says: "The British casualties in the fight at De Wets Dorp were 100 killed and wounded and 459 captured." Still another dispatch which lacks confirmation is as follows: "A terrific battle is in progress at Wepener, 62 miles from Bloemfontein, on the Basutoland frontier. Gen. Brabant and his 2,500 colonial troops are surrounded by three Boer commandos, who are pouring a leaden hale into the town. The Boers were repulsed at first, but returned to the attack with reinforcements." No further news has been received or fighting either at Wepener or in Natal, but reports seem to indicate that Lord Muthuen is advancing from Boshof toward the appstad. It is a bold and apparently dangerous move, since, although it turns the right flank of the Boer position at Brandford it puts Lord Muthuen's force between whatever garrison there may be at Bloemhof, in the Transvaal, and the Brandfort force. It is evident that Lord Roberts is now preparing for a winter campaign, and the most sanguine Britons predict several months more of warfare. Lord Roberts is waiting for remounts and winter clothing for the troops, whose thin cotton khaki uniforms and boots are worn out. The latest official report of disaster to British arms was described by Lord Roberts last Friday as "an fortunate occurrence." A force of 591 Britons who were guarding the railway within 35 miles of the main British army were surrounded by Boers and after fighting 20 hours were compelled to surrender. Another dispatch from Lord Roberts tells of the death of Gen. De Villebois Mareul, the Frenchman who was chief of staff of the Boer army. He went through a number of campaigns in the French army, and entered Boer army simply because war was his trade. He was killed at Boshof, in the Orange Free State, in a fight with Gen. Methuen's forces. A dispatch from St. Helena announces the arrival there of Boer prisoners, including Gen. Cronie. Their health is good, with the exception of four cases of measles, necessitating the Milwaukee being quarantined. The prisoners are quiet and well behaved. The governor has been notified of the desire of the authorities that the prisoners be treated with every courtesy and consideration. Miss Annie M. Jackson and Mrs A. V. Norrell have been indisposed. A MURDER FOR SIX CENTS A Bruce Boy Killed White Defending Mis Grandmother Wheeling, W. Va., April 9.—A murder that has fired the country side in the vicinity of Summerton, a town in Belmont county, G., 30 miles from Wheeling, occurred about 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Two masked burglaries entered the home of Mrs. Ellen Warrick, an aged woman, and demanded her money. She handed over six cents, which was all she had. The burglaries were about to institute a close search when Mrs. Warrick's grandson, Clarence Warrick, aged 16 years, came out of another room and ordered the two men out of the house. They responded by opening fire on him, the first bullet taking effect in the left lung. The boy staggered into his grandmother's room and expired in a few minutes. Then the burglaries bound and gagged the woman, made an unsuccessful search for a supposed hoard of money and then departed. The woman worked loose from her bonds, but was afraid to leave the house and give the alarm until daylight. Then she hastened to Summerton and spread the alarm. Bloodhounds were brought from Quaker City, but would not take the scent, and it is thought the murders have made good their escape. GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS. Greensboro, N.C., April 7.—A treatie on the Durham and Charlotte railroad, near-Gulf, fell in yesterday, wroking an accommodation freight and passenger train. Several passengers were injured. Miss Knight, of Sanford, may die. Howard B. Sterrett, who travels for a Lynchburg, Va., shoe house, is delirious and in a precarious condition. Richmond, April 7.—Joseph Fletcher, a re-enlisted negro soldier of Troop F. Ninth cavalry, while drunk on a Chesapeake and Ohio train, became dangerously unruly and had to be tied. On the arrival of the train at Staunton he was put in jail and assaulted Deputy Sheriff Dawson, who shot and killed him. Fletcher was from Washington. Dawson was acquitted by the coroner's jury. Way Cross, Ga., April 7.—An old and respectable negro, John Smith, living near Hasty, in this county, was called to his door by unknown parties. Thursday night and shot to death. Two loads of buckshot were fired into his body. The murderers drove away in a buggy and no clew to their identity has been found. No cause is known for the killing. Atlanta, April 7.—The Georgia state convention of the People's party will be held in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 10. The announcement comes in a surprise, as the executive committee of the state Democratic party invited Georgia to return to the ranks of the Democrats and told them they would be admitted and allowed to vote at the primaries without question. Baxley Ga., April 7.—King and Lewis Goosby, negroes, aged respectively 14 and 17, paid the death penalty here yesterday for the murder of Dan Mimma, a farmer near Hazlehurst, on the night of March 5 last. Mr. Mimma was knocked senseless with an ax handle. Mrs. Mimma was also struck down, and then Mimma was beaten to death. Mimma had one arm broken and seve- cled cuts on her head. Their child was also badly bruised. Atlanta, Ga., April 7.—It is reported here that the relat ns between the various labo- erga izations whose members are employed on the Southern railway and the railways of the road are so strained that a breacher may occur in a few days. The telegraph on the system are now voting "strike" or "no strike" for a settlement of their grievances, and the result will be known probably by tonight. Engineers, firemen and trainmen also threaten to strike. Savannah, Ga., April 6. -Southbound train No. 35 of the Southern railway, from New York to Jacksonville bearing the mails, lost baggage and mail cars near Ridgeland, S. C., yesterday. A wood rack took fire and the flames were communicated to the ties. The engineer ran slowly over the burning ties and the engine crossed safely, but the rails spread and left the baggage and mail cars over the burning ties. They were quickly consumed, but their contents were saved. All traffic was delayed. Grafton, W. Va., April 5—A party of Pennsylvania capitalists yesterday closed for the purchase of valuable coal lands in West Virginia, including 1,000 acres of coal and coke lands, the mining town of Triconnell, near Grafton, and 10 coke ovens in Harrison, Tyler and Barrour counties. The company has a capital stock of $120,000 and offices will be located at Connellsville. The company will erect an additional hundred coke ovens at once and begin operations on a large scale. The purchase also includes the surface of the lands. Quay Vote on April 24. Washington, April 11.—Without objection from any source, the senate yesterday agreed to take a final vote on the right of the Hon. M. S. Quay to a seat as a senator from Pennsylvania on Tuesday, April 24, at 4 p. m. during its session the senate paid its tribute to the late Richard Parks Bland, long a representative from Missouri. Wanted to Remarry His First Wife, Chicago, April 11.—John Tomarek, an expressman, last night shot and fatally wounded his second wife, and then shot and killed himself. Tomarek had been endeavoring to induce his second wife to leave him, so he could remarry No. 1, and when she refused to do so he shot her. THE PLANET SATURDAY APRIL 14 1900. WASHINGTON LETTER DEWEY'S AMBITION The Porto Rican Question. THE RETURN OF GENERAL OTIS. The Canal Bill—Republican Leaders Not Alarmed. (From Our Regular Correspondent.) Washington, April 9, 1900. The Dewey cat is now outof the bag and in full sights of everybody. The Admiral has simply allowed himself to be used by those democrats who still have hopes of keeping Mr. Bryan out of the democratic nomination. It is the the democratic nomination that the Admiral expects to get. He has declared himself to be a democrat, although he has never cast a vote, and says the only time he ever desired to vote when Mr. Clever land was a candidate for President. The only effect of his candidacy will be humiliation for himself. It is now known that his announcement has fallen everywhere else as it did in Washington, the democrats in Congress, who ought to know the treatment of their constituents, say that Dewey has no more chance of being nominated by the Kansas city convention than Grover Cleveland has. REGRET HIS ACTION. Among Admiral Dewey's real friends muco regret is expressed that he should have listened to advice that must end in bringing him great humiliation. The Bryanites are already adding gall to that humiliation by suggesting that Dewey may possibly be given the nomination for Vice President on the Bryan ticket. Just think of that, will you! The hero of Manila Bay, the man who did more than any other one man to give the U. S. the Philippines, and who has been referred to as the father of expansion, used as the tail of the Bryan ticket, on a platform opposing expansion and everything else that George Dewey was supposed to stand for. Surely that would be enough to make Dewey wish he had never been born. HE OUTWITTED THEM Secretary Gage does not pose as a humorist, but the manner in which he outwitted the New York newspaper, which sought cheap advertising by bringing a Porto Rican laborer under contract to that city, was a bit of official humor that was relished in Washington. Knowing the only object in bringing the man from Porto Rico was advertising for the paper, Secretary Gage exercised his authority and ordered that the man be permitted to land in New York, and to work under his contract until further notice, instead of refusing to allow him to land and giving the paper the opportunity to take the case into the courts. There is already a case before the U. S. Supreme Court involving the question of whether the Constitution extends to Porto Rico, and if the decision in that case is not conclusive, others can easily be made without advertising any private business. Secretary Gage deserves credit for heading off that advertising scheme. The courts are not maintained for advertising purposes, even though the theatrical stars do sometimes succeed in utilizing them for self-advertisement. GEN. OTIS RELIEVED. President McKinley's order relieving Gen. Otis of the command of the Philippines, whenever Gen. Otis pleases to start home, and designating Major General MacArthur to succeed him was issued solely in compliance with the wishes of Gen. Otis, and was accompanied by a statement of the President's regrets that Gen. Otis had asked, on account of his health, to be allowed to come home. As a mark of his appreciation of the good work done by Gen. Otis, the President has authorized him to select the route by which he will return, just as he did for Dewey when he came home. NO FORMAL AGREEMENT While nothing like a formal agreement has been entered into or even proposed, there seems to be a sort of tacit understanding among Senators that no attempt will be made to get a vote on the Nicaragua Canal Treaty at the present session, and that the Nicaragua Canal bill will also be allowed to go over until the next session. several things have contributed to this understanding, not the least of which is the desire of republicans to bring the present session of Congress to a close before the meeting of the National Convention. The bill providing a government for the territory of Hawaii is now in Conference, the House having passed an amended substitute for the Senate bill. THE BILL WILL PASS. The House will this week pass the Porto Rico Bill, just as it was passed by the Senate. The large number of republican absentees prevented this being done last week, right after the caucus with only one dissenting vote decided that it was better to pass the bill as it came from the Senate than to further amend it. Since then every unpaired republican has been notified to return to Washington. The democrats have also ordered all of their absentees to be on hand with the hope that enough republicans will vote against the bill, or purposely absent themselves when the vote is taken to enable them to defeat the bill. The republican leaders are not at all alarmed, only they do not intend to take any chances. As soon as they are certain that they have the votes at hand to pass the bill, it will be reported from the Ways and Means Committee and a special rule will be reported from the Committee on Rules to vote on it the same day. Newport R. I., April 9th, 1900. Mrs. Mitshell, the guest of Mrs. Sia Dickerson on Lovin St., has returned to her home in New Bedford. Mr. Fred. Dickerson of Boston is visiting his mother. Eugene Sutter, age 21 years, died of consumption at his father residence and his body was shipped to Baltimore for burial. Miss Dora Henderson is home after spending the winter in Boston. Mrs. Holt is quite ill with the La gripe. Mrs. Williams of De Elois St., is quite sick. The wedding of Mrs. Georgia Edmunds of Boston, to Mr. C. Talbot of Virginia, will take place on Thursday, April 12th, at the Union Congregational Church at 12 o'eleck. Mr. Daniel Cooper has opened a fine restaurant on Levin St., near Bellovue Ave. The concert that was given at Union Congregational Church last Wednesday by the ladies of the Church was a success in every particular. The quartette was at its best. Mr. George W. Hamilton sang very nicely the song, "In an old New England home by the Sea." Miss Marian Rice sang the solo, "Asleep in the deep." Mr. Turner and Miss Sarah Rice sang a beautiful duet. The proceeds were for the benefit of the said church. The Woman's League had an entertainment at Mrs. Dickerson's on Levin St., last week. They were enjoyed with different kinds of games. The Assembly is making rapid arrangements towards their second season, chances which will take place shortly in Southwicks Hall on Thames street. The Grand Easter Bazaar given by Chanaucha Lodge, No. 2439, G. U. O. of F., at their hall, Caleb Earl St., and West Broadway four nights beginning April 16 to 20th. and literary program each evening consisting of some of Newport's best known talent. There will be three prizes awarded. Grand Star Concert and Entertainment at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church on Monday evening, April 28rd. The star Miss Sadie Bryant Smith, New England's leading soprano and without a peer in rendering descriptive songs, will be neared, with Miss Ostavia Jeter accompanist. Refreshments will be served by the ladies of the church aid society. Rev. D. P. Brown, D. D. pastor; D. B. Allen, manager; Julia Landrick, treasurer; Mrs. D. B. Allen, secretary. Admission. 15 ets. Benjamin Gardner, Commandery K. T., No. 6, will have an Easter sermon preached to them by the Rev. H. N. Jeter on School St. Sunday night. FROM MAYFIELD Wedlock—City Notes—Personals. MAYFIELD, KY., April 11, 1800. The marriage of Miss Eva E. Featherson to Dr. S. H. Broone, of Jackson, Tom, will take place in that city this week. Miss Featherson is the cultured daughter of Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Featherson. Rev. Featherson is the Presiding Elder of the Brownsville District of the C. M. E. Church. Miss Featherson is one of Jackson's most charming and highly esteemed young ladies. Dr. Broone is one of Jackson's most popular and skilled physicians. They both have quite a number of friends, who will win them much success in their matrimonial venture. All of our churches were well attended last Sunday, and excellent services were conducted. At Fairview Baptist Church, Rev. J. J. McCuthens, the pastor, filled his pulpit and led his flock into rich spiritual pastures. His subject was "Put on the whole armor," which was a masterpiece. Rev. McCuthens is an eloquent speaker, a race leader and a successful pastor. To prove this, his church recalled him for their pastor, which will make the fourth term. This speaks well for him and we hope he will continue to lead his people as heretofore. The St. James A. M. E. Church was 'in high spirits on last Sunday. Rev. L. Hamilton, the pastor graced the rostrum and fed his congregation with rich, spiritual food. His text was from the 1st John, 1st chapter, 7th verse theme: "Let us walk with God!" He handled his subject in a masterly manner. His elusions were clear and touching, and those present could easily feel the Holy Spirit working with much force. At 11 o'clock Rev. H. Halbut, pastor of the Presbyterian Church delivered a soul inspiring sermon to his audience. Mr. I. h. Halsey, the general agent and special correspondent for the PLANET enjoyed supper Sunday evening at Mr. and Mrs. Simms. The Christian Eadeavor held a very interesting meeting at the Presbyterian Church on last Sunday evening. Our young ladies and gents are making big preparations for Easter. Therefore, the milliners and tailors are着 a land office business. We provide our subscribers in the next wear a issue. Les your name be written there. no correspondent has offered us love so some Mayfield girl. Who will be the first to accept i.？ Richard Phillips (colored) charged with the murder of Artillaryman New (white) at Phocus, Va., was convicted mainly upon the testimony of John Brooks (colored). It is reported that counsel for Phillips stated that he did not believe God would permit a man to live, who had told as many lies as Brooks upon the witness stand. Brooks was found dead by the roadside on last Sunday night, and he died so suddenly that it was thought he had been poisoned. A post mortem examination was held over him, but no evidence of poison was found. The people in that section are of the opinion that another Ananias case is here. Counsel for Phillips have applied for a new trial. If they succeed in obtaining it, Phillips cannot be convicted without testimony of Brooks. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMONE VIRGINIA WEST-END NOTES. The most of our churches are having revival meetings with some success and a few converts. The Galilee Baptist congregation in Newtown are now rebuilding a neat, small house of worship. In the absence of Rev. George E. Johnson at River View last Sunday, Rev. Kenny preached a very instructive sermon. Rev. Z. D. Lewis preached last Sunday morning and administered the Lord's Supper in the afternoon. Misses Sarah L. and Mary B. Carter, two children of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Moss, on Taylor street, have been indisposed. Mrs. Moss is yet sick. Mrs. Louise Meade, 1102 W. Leigh street, is indisposed. Two very old persons dropped dead near 2nd and Canal streets last Tuesday afternoon, one about 80 years of age. PERSONAL BRINFS. Mr. Thos. Lee of West-view, Goochland Go., was in the city last Tuesday and left last Wednesday. What's the matter at Fifth Church? Many of her most faithful workers, both male and female, seem to have ceased working so earnestly as formerly. Mr. Samuel Walker was taken to his residence, on Washington street, last Friday afternoon very sick. He is much improved now. Much of a sensation was created one day recently by a note dropped on the street by a white man intended for a certain married woman of color. No we do not believe in lynch-law, but our gun is loaded and we believe in dispatching all such racks out of the community. We heard that he is a hoffin maker. Better make one and cold it in reserve. She has called him back again, what do you think of that? While the other one says she regrets she has failed so long to draw him nearer to her. Now, that is a rose between two thorns. Keep cool, dear ones. If you will read the PLANET, you will always find news of importance. We received a letter a few days ago from a friend in New Jersey, asking after friends and relatives who have long since been jailed to rest in the city of the dead, and full notes of the same was made in the PLANET. So take this paper and learn the news. We had the pleasure of a call on our old friend and brother, Rev. Albert H. Mayo, formerly of this city, but now of Kansas. He is looking well and feels the Lord has propped him. Mr. George A. Melvin, accompanied by Mr. J. S. Collin attended the District Convention at Hampton April 4th, which unanimously nominated Dr. R. A. Wise for Congress and elected Mr. Alvah H. Martin and Hon. Harry Liby as delegates to the National Convention; Messra. Jordon Thomas and John H. Robinson as alternates and Mr. H. P. Books as Presidential elector. The convention was called to order by District chairman, S. B. Carney at 1:45 p. m., after which they proceeded to their regular business. The Excelsior Brass Band of Hampton afforded a pleasant entertainment during recess. This band had been called into service earlier in the day, for when the delegates of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Norfolk county arrived on the chartered steamer, Aurora, they were met at the wharf and escorted to Armory Hall where the convention was held. Mr. George L. Prior of Norfolk was secretary of the convention. Messrs. Jas. Mitchell and W. H. O. Brown, who are now residents of Newport News are in the city this week for the purpose of attending the State Convention at Norfolk, which convened at 12 o'clock, Tuesday, April 10th. Mr. James Hayes of Richmond was in the city this week on political business. The choir of the North St. Church has prepared excellent music for Easter Sunday and it is expected to be a treat to those that hear it, together with the preaching by ministers from the conference. But for the Lord's sake bring your pocket-books. Mr. V. Va., departed this life Thursday, April 5th at 1:20 p.m., and was buried Saturday at 2 o'clock. He leaves a devoted mother, sister and two brothers to mourn their loss. "Sleep on and take thy rest." Mr. E. S. Holmes anticipates a pleasant trip to Richmond to spend Easter with his family. Miss Kate Elliott, of Green street, was somewhat indisposed, but is con- valescent. Miss Ida Brown, who had just re- turned from New York was a victim of the small-pox and died very suddenly Monday, April 2d. She resided on London street, near Cook. William T. Young, the 4-year-old son of Mary and Virginius Young, departed this life Saturday, March 31st. They reside on 1st avenue. Mr. Edward Spratley, Jr., of Bart street, is confined to his house by la gripe. The PLANET can be found at the office of The Richmond Beneficial Insur- ance Company, Mr. E. S. Holmes manager; J. S. Collins, Planet agent. New Norman S. Epps, pastor of Mercy Ses. Baptist Church, of New York, called on us this week. Revival meetings are being conducted in all of the churches of this section. Several souls have professed religion. The services at the R. Mt. Z. Baptist Church were glorious all day last Sunday. Special Easter services next Sunday at 11:30 a. m. Grand rally is to be had on the 4:18 Sunday. The Mt. Calvary Baptist Church S. s. was interesting last Sunday and the services were excellent. Mesdames Fannie Jackson, Nancy Jefferson, Lizzie Brown, Uraffred Harris and Thomas Jefferson are at present quite sick. The funeral of the S. S. teacher, the deacon and the licentiate, Mr. Isaiah Randolph, took place at the K. M. Z. Baptist Church on the 10th inst. A large number were out to pay the last tribute of respect to the deceased. Rev. F. W. Williams preached a most sympathetic funeral sermon. A wife, three children, a father, a mother, five brothers and many relatives and friends survive him. He was a member of the K. M. Z. Baptist Church for 15 years. He was a member of Saint Joseph's Council, L. O. of St. Luke. THE FLOODS IN TEXAS Waters Receding After Doing Great Damage to Property. SEVEN OF ONE FAMILY DROWNED. Father, Mother and Five Children Swept Away to Death-Death List Will Reach Flity-Many Saved by Timely Warnings. Austin, Tex., April 11.—The waters are receding in the swollen rivers and streams of Texas, and it is believed that the worst is over. The property damage by reason of the sudden rush of water will be very large, while many lives have been lost. It is learned that eight people out of a traveling party of 15 composed of two families were drowned at the junction of the Middle Concho river and the Kiowa creek, in iron county. The names of the families are Queen and Wilson, and they were from McCullough county, Tex. Of the 11 members of the Queen family seven were drowned, the father, mother and five children, among the latter being an 8-months-old baby. A boy of the Wilson family was also swept away. The bodies of the unfortunate victims of the flood were found after a search of 38 hours. Altogether it is believed the floods have claimed 50 human victims, while hundreds of cattle were drowned. The waters of the Colorado river are rapidly receding at this point, and while additional rises are reported from the north, it is not believed that they will be of sufficient volume to do further damage. Advices from every section of the flooded district indicate that the property loss has been great. One or two negroes are reported drowned in Fayette county. Every section tributary to the river was warned of the coming of the flood, and this is why the loss of life was not greater. The waters, having swept the counties of Louis, Bastrop, Fayette and Guadalupe, points north of here, are now washing farms in Wharton county as they near the gulf. That section of the lowlands is underwater, the river being some six or eight miles wide in places. The inhabitants were warned in time to remove their live stock and their valuables to higher grounds. A dispatch from Houston says: The flood in the Brazos river is now the main point of interest. There was a heavy rain yesterday in the country which the crest of the flood is approaching, and this will add materially to the volume of water which will strike the section between Richmond and the mouth of the river. Every precaution has been taken to prevent loss of life and stock, but the loss in crops will be heavy, as the newly planted ground will be swept away in the bottoms. The farmers, however, will have time to repair the damage provided they can secure help. Reports are that many tenants have become dissatisfied and are preparing to leave that portion of the prairies. The Gundeloupe is still booming its way toward the gulf, devastating the crops and destroying bridges. No loss of life is reported from this section. Boys Cause Serious Brush Fire Mt. Holly, N. J., April 11- Two days ago boys set fire to some brush in the vicinity of Hanover and Brown's Mills, and the flames spread with incredible rapidity. They got beyond control and for two days they have threatened the whole surrounding country. Hundreds of men have been fighting the fire, which has destroyed a great deal of the forests, and numerous sheds and outhouses. Several small buildings have been burned, but the loss is not great. Persons living in the pine lands have moved out, as the fire has spread so rapidly. It is feared the fire will burn until either everything within its reach is destroyed or until there is a heavy rain. Fugitive Poisoner Captured. Baltimore, April 11.—Charles O. Winold was arrested yesterday and is held for the Cincinnati authorities on the charge of attempting to poison his wife and children in the latter city on March 80. Winold said that his wife had obtained a divorce from him in Minneapolis; that under disguise he had kidnapped his four children and took them to Marion. After a legal battle last year the children were returned to the custody of their mother, and understand my former wife is going to be married again, and I would rather kill my children than that they should be placed under the care of a stepfather," he said. Cleveland's Princeton J Cleveland's Princeton Lectures. Princeton, N. J., April 11—Ex- President Grover Cleveland delivered his second lecture in Alexander Hall night before a large number of students, members of the faculty, their families, and many others. He was greeted with praised applause. Dr. Patton surprised the audience by an- nouncement that Mr. Cleveland would deliver the Stafford Little lectures next year, and, he hoped, for as many more years as the ex-president would have strength enough to deliver them. Mrs. Cleveland sat beside the vener- able Stafford Little, who was escorted to the hall by Prof. West. Chicago Labor Battler Chicago, April 11.—After two weeks of comparative freedom from strife there was a renewal of rioting yesterday in the local labor war. At the new Marshall Field building, Adams and Clark streets, as well as at the scene of the excavations for the Western Electric building, at Jefferson and West Harrison streets, serious affrays took place, the combatants being union mechanics against non-union men. Five workmen, all said to be non-union artisans, were injured. A Maryland Miners' Strike Frostburg, Md., April 11.—A general strike of all the miners in the George's Creek region has been ordered for midnight tonight. Nearly 5,000 men are involved. The miners insist on an increase of from 55 to 60 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds. They claim that they requested the miners to meet their representatives to discuss this increase, but have been ignored. Republicans Lead in Chicago. Chicago, April 4.—A very light vote was cast at the city election yesterday. The chief interest centered in the aldermanic vote. Thirty-five of these officials were chosen, the Republicans securing 19 and the Democrats 16. The old city council contained 32 Democrats, 35 Republicans and one independent. The new council will contain 40 Republicans and 29 Democrats. In the townships outside of the city limits the Republicans, as usual, made a clean sweep. RELIEF FOR INDIA'S STARVING A Cargo of Corn Will Leave New York This Month. New York, April 11—Dr. Kliopsch, of the Christian Herald, has notified the navy department that he has succeeded in collecting a large supply of foodstuffs, mainly corn, for the famine sufferers, and has appealed to the department to transport this supply to India. Advocate Lemly yesterday telegraphed Pay Director Deniston, in charge of the naval pay office here, to proceed with dispatch to ascertain the terms upon which he could charter a vessel to carry the foodstuffs to India. The cargo will consist entirely of corn, thoroughly dried, so as to withstand the five violent changes of climate which it will undergo en route. The quantity will be about 5,000 tons, or about 200,000 bushels, representing a cost of nearly $92,000. This amount of corn, distributed in the famine stricken area, will save approximately 500,000 lives, according to the calculation of the promoters of the plan. The life saving ship, the first of the relief fleet now planned, will sail before May 1, reaching Bombay by the middle of June, just at the critical time when food will be most needed, and do the most good. The cargo will be distributed by American mission-aries. Chicago's Power Rescue Chicago, April 11—Details of the decorations of the Auditorium, in which the ball will be given the night of April 30, in honor of Admiral Dewey, who is honored on yesterday. The scheme has been adopted covering the entire Auditorium with a covering of white, blue and gold, entirely concealing the outlines of the big theater, and these delicate colors will be relieved by the brilliant hues of Turkish rugs swung from the second tier of boxes. It is proposed to enlist the services of the regular naval crews stationed at Chicago at that time to man the ships represented in a series of prows stationed every few feet along the ballroom floor. From each prow will rise a venetian mast, from which festons of electric lights will swing. Murder to Relieve Misery. Frankfort, Ky., April 11.—Bub Lecompe, a young farmer living in this county, killed his brother-in-law, Hiram Stafford, yesterday afternoon. Stafford had been sick in bed for a month past. Lecompe walked into the room where the sick man lay and told him: "You are going to die anyway; I will just put you out of your misery." With this he fired three bullets from a Winchester rifle into Stafford's head. The murderer maintains that Stafford was hopelessly ill and that he killed him only on this account. Stafford married Lecompe's sister. He is believed to be insane. He is in jail. The Increase of Immigration New York, April 11.—The increase in the immigration to this country has been particularly noticeable in the past month, when the number of immigrants ticketed through to western points has assumed large proportions. The business at this period in 1890, 1891 and 1892 was larger than it has been so far this year. On one day last week, when several steamers arrived, the total number of immigrant arrivals was 3,700. Of this number, however, only 1,700 went to western points. Of these 900 went no further than Buffalo and Pittsburg points, and about 450 had tickets for points beyond those places and Chicago. The Coal Famine Abroad. Washington, April 11.—Additional information has been furnished the state department relative to the existence of serious coal famines in Russia and Germany. Consul General Guenther, at Frankfort, writes that never before in the history of Germany has there been such a demand upon the coal production of the country as at present, and the amount on hand is entirely inadequate. In Russia about the same conditions exist as to the scarcity of coal, the supply being enormously large, but still not large enough. A Query For Commissioner Peck. Washington, April 10.—Representative Levy, of New York, introduced in the house yesterday a resolution requesting the president to direct the commissioner general of the Paris exposition to render a detailed account of his expenditures, amounting to $201,585, accounted for by him under the head of "miscellaneous expenditures," and also to direct the commissioner general not to interfere with American exhibitors who desire to exhibit on Sunday. — Prof. J. Hugo Johnston, president of the Va. Normal and Collegiate Institute was in the city. He will visit Hampton N. and A. Institute and Tuskegee Institute to investigate the industrial features with a view to making a report to the Board of Trustees and to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. — Mr. J. O. Smith, nicknamed "Junk" Smith, defeated City Sergeant H. Caiborne Epps in the Democratic Primary in this city last Tuesday by a majority of 154. — Rev. J. E. Jones, D. D., has been indisposed during the past week. — The Courts of Calanthe will celebrate their anniversary sunday afternoon, May 6th. Rv. Dr. W. F. Graham will proach the sermon. — The bridge of the Seaboard Air Line is being passed across Broad S., just above the O. & O. Depot. —— The shirt factory at 727 N 8rd St, is putting in steam winn which to run the machine. The gas-engine does not seem to be of sufficient size to do the work. The force of colored girls will be increased. —— Rev. R. Wells has almost entirely recovered his usual health. The choir has prepared Easter Exercises at the First Baptist Churons tomorrow (Sunday). Dr. King, of the Va. University will preach at 11:30 a.m. and, Roy, McWilliams at 3:30 p.m. Revival exercises at night. The publie is invited. Sons of Veterans. All Sons of Veterans who are desirous of taking part in Memorial Day exercises are requested to meet at the residence of Mr. James M. Crane, 703 N. 6th street, next Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock. Holy Thursday Mass, 8 A. M.—Procession to the Sepulchre—Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament All Day.—Service 8 o'clock P. Good Friday Mass and adoration of the Cross, 8 A.M. Evening Service 8 P.M. Stations of the Cross and sermon by Rev. O. N. Jackson. Holy Saturday. Ceremonies and Holy Mass, 6 A.M. Confessions 4:30 and 7:30. Easter Sunday. Mass, 7 o'clock A.M. Solemn High Mass, 10, sung by the Children's choir Sermon by the Rev. Father Clark, an eloquent preach of the Congregation. Evening service at 8 P.M. The Rev. Pastor tender a most cordial invitation to all who desire take part in the impressive ceremonies of Holy Week and Easter. Rev. Tule Speaks—He Compliments the Editor. IDUTYWA, So. AFRICA, March 7, 1800. Dear Sir:—Having been a careful observer of your editorial, I have come to the conclusion that the PLANar alone is fighting for justice and equity. Most of our leaders in the U.S. are running papers which wont touch the sins of their comrades. But the PLANar favours nobody but Mr. Justice. We may hail you down by this hand, but you will be resurrected by the next generation and they will call you blessed. The world hates cowards. It pays to be a straight-forward man. There is great evil in that far west continent; and will soon sicken the host of heaven. Murder and robbery are the two factors of the republic. Does pure Christianity, the world over, ever carry those deeds and etc., live in happiness long time? I fear men, or mene, founder of the first Dynasty will say no. Righteousness exalteth a nation, so you must "Cry aloud and spare not, tell the house of Jacob their sins." Believing that God alone will read you safe, observe me, to be sincerely yours. JOHN TULE. LEIGH ST. M. E. CHURCH. Leigh St., above 1st. JOHN TULE. On Sunday morning, April 15th, the pastor, the Rev. J. Edward Gunby, will deliver an Easter sermon. Subject: "The Resurrection a Type." Services at 11 o'clock. In the afternoon at 3 o'clock, the celebration of the "Last Supper." Reception of members and probationers BASE-BALL. On Thursday, March 29th, the Union University team played the Richmond Bates on the college grounds. Score: 9 to 9 on the University. Milton Dabney, umpies. A White Lady's Mis ortune Mrs. ida Tucker, wife of Mr. Charles F. Tucker, foreman of the Dispaster Job Printing Office, was severely, and perhaps fatally, burned at her home. No. 1213 north Twenty-seventh street, Saturday night, 7th inst., and her husband, in attempting to save her, was painfully burned about the hands and arms. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker were seated at their home in conversation, when Mrs. Tucker, having her attention called to a smoking lamp, arose to extinguish it. She blew on the light and instantly there was an explosion, and she was covered from head to foot with the burning oil. In a few seconds she was wrapped in flames from her head to her feet. Mr. Tucker rushed to his wife's assistance, but so rapidly did the flames envelope her that he was almost powerless. Her clothes were nearly burned from her ere he could quench the flames and when he finally succeeded both were painfully burned, and Mrs. Tucker so seriously that there is faint hope that she will survive. CHARLOTTE, N. O., April 7th — Redmond Springs, the colored valet, of the late Russel Robbins, of New York, who died in Charlotte several months ago, to-day received a check for $1,000 as a token of appreciation on the part of the family. Russel Robbins was a brother of Mrs. Sloane, wife of the New York millionaire. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Us., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Casarrn that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1888. Hall's Oatsarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and moused surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, fees. F. J. CHENRY & Co., Foledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 753. Hall's Family Pills are the best. United Aid & Insurance Company, SHALL BE HEREAFTER ...KNOWN AS UNITED AID INSURANCE COMPANY MAIN OFFICE: 506 E. Broad Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 5 W. O. TURNER, Prop. PRACTICAL OUTTER 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. National Employment Agency. M. B. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Brooklyn, Aug. 15, 1891—This is to certify that came to New York from Albany. I was out of money. I had no luck in anything out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend of mine I did. He told me the cause of my trouble he took me in and treated me as a brother. Through him I got a good position that very much. He gave me money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea. I would advise all in bad luck, sick or in trouble to go to him at once. © ALBERT AYERS, 2967 Atlantic Ave South Plainfield, Aug. 15, 1891—This is to certify that my husband had gone away and had lost his wife. He night and day, I gave him no dead. Hearing of the wonderful things Dr. Shea doing, resolved to consult him. He told me his name was true. He where he; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He dead. I also wish to say that this month I lost the sum of $50. I am a poor woman told me I was insane. I went to Dr. Shea and he told me I did it to my intense joy I did it as he told me. I thank God there is a man so gifted in our midst that can help people and tell them what to do. © MRS. MARY MILLER, South Plainfield, N. J. A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN-A MINISTER'S STATEMENT. I wish to state that one of my parishoners was sick and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. Brown, of Gay Street. No one seemed to unknowingly but none of them seemed to know what was the matter. None could do her any good. It was my duty as her pastor to call and see her husband, the teacher, work being done by Dr. Shea the last year in school. I would call and see him myself. I found him a kind sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers; told me how to care for his patient's hair, which I did by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter and in a short time cured her sound and well. Then he told me that Now all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recompense in sickness or distress of any kind. Rev. Joseph Pastor Lebanon Church, Brooklyn. (b) DR. SHEA has been carefully educated in the Homopathic and Eclectic Schools of Medicine, Rheumatism, Asthma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspepsia, Tape Worms, Liver Compaints, Deafness, and all strange mysterious diseases which other doctors understand, but no diseases, no better what they are. Nothing better treatment. He can and will bonh慈 tell you if you can be cured. Has all new experience in public hospitals and private clinics. No trifling with human life. Call at once. No迟 delay. Diplomas hang in parlor. Is a registered physician. A new remedy for Rheumatism just discovered, not a ilament. Hopeless cases and those that others in the childless made parents. All letters must contain $1.00, two stamps, age, lock of hair. For consultation, advice and diagnosis. No postal cards. No medical treatment only. Merge this paper. RE PANET SATURDAY APRIL 14 1900. UNCLE BILLY AHEAD. Double-Shuffle Horse Trade with Amusing Trimmings. He Made Twenty Dollars Out of a Neighbor, Noted for His Mennness, and Spent It at the Tavern at Deennville. According to a New York Sun correspondent a pleasant entertainment took place recently in the old tavern at Deennville, N. Y. A number of the boys had gathered in the barroom and several important local and national questions were under discussion when Uncle Billy Stebbins came in. Uncle Billy walked directly over to the bar and, taking a $10 bill from his pocket, waved it in the air. Boys, I've been a-tradin' bosses with Old Sock and I took $20 out of him as clean and slick as Out Boot can take whisky aout of a bottle. "You know Old Sock. Although he's a fust rate Presbyterian and pretty considerable at financierin', he is not as good a jedge of hoss-flesh as he is of shillin'. Naw they ain't many men more keerful of their money than Socrates P. Hastings, but if you can get the old man mad or excited, he don't care ase for dimes, dollars, doughnuts, and that is how I fixed him. The old man had a hoss-trade a few weeks back over to Clinton with Old Jack Scott, and Jack knifed him rather bad; took a good hoss from Old Sock and give him a nice lookin' bay, but the laziest critter that ever drawn wheels, too lazy to switch his tail in fly-time. Well, Old Sock took this trade pretty hard and core and he has been lookin' around ever since to get even. "Naw, I heard that Sock was lookin' and to-day, knowin' abaout what time Old Sock usually drove to tawn, I pitched up my old black and thought that if Old Sock happened to be lookin' real hard, he might find me; for I knew that besides a splint and an enlarged ankle, Sock's hoss was saound, and as for lazy, I can cure that without much putterin'. "Well, I see Old Sock a drivin' along ahead and the boy was a draggin' as if his feet weighed a ton and every once in awhile Old Sock would take his, whip "IS THE CRITTER BLIND?" and stand up and larrup that hoss. Jeast as long as Socrates would pound the boss would trot, but jest the minnit Sock quit a-whippin' of him the boss would quit a-trottin' and it was provokat'. Well, when Old Sock quit a-whippin' of him and set dawn all out of breath and as mad as sack and Sam Hill, I drove a-clatterin' up behind and turned out and went by like an express, a-hanging onto the lines and a-covering space so fast that the waggin hardly staid long enough between the sun and any one spot of ground to cast a shadder on it. "Golly', says Old Sock. 'Whoa!' says he. 'Whoa!' and I pulled up. Old Sock he was mad, his whole face was as red as Bill Deegel's nose, and if he had done just what he felt like he would have chawed up that hoss like a box of fine cut and chawed him small. "Well, Mr. Hastings', says I, 'what can I do for you?' says I. "Hawl'll you trade hosses? he says. "Ten dollars," says I. "Onhitch," says he. "And we got right out and Old Sock handed me the ten and we changed harnesses and hosses and hitched again and got in our rigs. I see Old Sock a-lookin' kinder dubious whist we was a changin' of 'em raound and when he got his old harness on the old black and I got my new harness on his bay, golly, he looked still dubisser. Well, he took the lines and got on his seat to start up and the old black started right for the ditch. "Whoa!' says Old Sock. "The devil!" says he—is the critter blind? "Mr. Hastings," says I. "I am afraid he is a trifle near-sighted." "The devil," says Old Sock. "That will never do. I can't see anything myself and a blind hoss and a blind man—the devil—that is a poor team for business." Says he: "Hawl'll you trade back?" "Ten dollars," says I. "Keep the new harness," says L. I "don't want to steal your money for mothin'." No, "says he. I cheated myself. I was mad and would have traded off for a yaller dog; but blind, I don't dare risk that. I don't want to leave my money to nobody before I have to," says he. But darn this lazy critter, he's, and darn old Jack Scott, says he. You wait until Jack Scott is runnin' for office, says he, and he will see if it pays to run the knife inter old Socrates P. Mestings. He handed me the other ten and drore moundin' away without an- other word. "I have traded hosses a thousand times and come out ahead and behind and on top and on the bottom, but I never cleaned up twenty as easy as I did on Old Sock. Come easy, go easy; so boys, keep the pot a-bilin." An Easy Mark. Bill—I've been to see a palm reader, Jill—And did you believe what he told you? "Yes, I did. He told me I was too easy, and then charged me two dollars."—Yonkers Statesman. Vice Veran. "I hear Kate Green has married Jack Toper. I always considered—her a girl of grit, but I never thought she'd marry a man to reform him." "She didn't. She reformed Jack to marry him."—Brooklyn Life. In Case of Anger. "Niver say a word whin ye found yer gittin' angry," said Mr. Dolan. "Remember, silence is golden." "It's the good rule," answered Mr. Rafferty. "Wast' no words; smash 'im."—Washington Star. **Got What He Asked For.** The Prisoner—Your honor, I trust you will allow me a little more time— The Judge (interrupting him)—All right—six months. Officer, call the next case—Chicago Daily News. **The Uncertain Glory.** "Well, Percy Dibbs has leaped into fame, hasn't he?" "I don't know. I think it would be safer to say that notoriety has fallen on him."—Brooklyn Life. **A Gentle Hint.** He—It's reported that we're engaged. She—Well, I'm not to blame for the fact that it is only a report.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Lying in Weight. Askit (waxing political)—Do you know what is lying in wait for this country? Tellit—The coal man.—Baltimore American. The One Exception. She—That boy of Tubbs' will never stick at anything. He—Oh, I don't know about that. I've known him to stick to a lie pretty well.—Yonkers Statesman. Helting Service In the "Reminiscences" of Miss M. Betham Edwards is the retort of a boy hired to do the dirtier work about the kitchen. Evidently he was not destined to rise. At least, he had no idea of making his toil his religion. One day the farmer's wife, seeing him dawdling over his work, took up a knife and showed him how to clean it well and quickly. "Ah, but, ma'am," said he. "you do it so because they're your own!" - Youth's Companion. One Cure. Mrs. Hix—I don't take any stock in these faith cures brought about by the laying on of hands. Mrs. Dix—Well, I do. I cured my little boy of the cigarette habit in that way.—Chicago Evening News. Reassuring. Monsieur Callino, the simple-hearted and ingenious Frenchman, happened to be riding in a train in the same compartment with a lady who was in a constant fear of a smash-up. At every sudden stop, every jar, every sound of the bell or whistle, she cried out: "Oh, oh! Have we run off the track? Is it a collision? Are we going to be killed?" Callino paid no attention, but remained wrap in solemn silence. Presently the lady said to him: "And you, sir, aren't you afraid of railroad accidents?" "Not I, madame," answered Calino, reassuringly. "It has been foretold that I am to die on the guillotine!" The nervous woman went into hysterics and had to be removed from the train at the next station.—Youth's Companion. 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, chambersmids 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. I take no orders under any circumstances from disreputable houses and hells of that kind, and the best protection is afforded the respectable girl who respects herself. In care of the "Spectator." 12.2 8mo N & W Norfolk AND Western Schedule in Effect Nov. 19, 1869. LEAVE RICHMOND. BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 A.M. M., Daily - Richmond and Norfolk Vestibule limited. Arrives Norfolk 1A Kirkland on station. Waverley and Suffolk second class nets not accepted on this train 9:05 A.M. M., Daily - "The Chicago Express" for Waverley and Chicago. Pullman Sleeper Roan oke to Columbus: also for Bratton Knoxville, and Chattanooga Pull oke to Knoxville. Pullman Sleeper to termediate stations; arrives at Norfolk at 10:40 P.M. 9:00 P.M. M., Lafayette to Lynchburg and Roanoke Connecticut and Chattanooga Limited. Pullman Sleeper Lynchburg to Memphis and New Orleans. Cafe Park and Station. Pullman Sleeper ford to Attalus, Ala. Pullman Sleeper between Richmond and Lynchburg, and berths ready for occurence. Pullman Sleeper to Roanoke. Pullman Sleeper Petersburg to Roanoke. Frain arrive at Richmond from Lynchburg and the West daily, 8:15 a.m., and at 8:56 p.m from Norfolk. 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Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first class carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine Funeral Supplies. [RESIDENCE NEXT DOOR.] OPEN DAY AND NIGHT—MAN ON DUTY ALL NIGHT HEADQUARTERS for House Furnishing Goods. We deal with every one alike. All prices marked in plain figures. We have a nice line of CHAMBER AND PARLOR SUITS, HALL RACKS, WARDROBES, IRON BEDS, COOK STOVES, RANGES of the Best Make. All we ask is give us a call. We guarantee satisfaction in prices and quality. CASH OR ON CREDIT. 4.7-6m. ED WARD A. JOHNSON, Author of the Famina "School History of the Negro Race." CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Juan, "B Caney and around Santiago—Corporal Perry post while hiring a cannon whick knocked over the block house and saved the Rough R. Dern, an army general of Meka Milton Mills, and others on the bravery of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers—Aston Mills, and Osmoser, and the Ouigan Women Cavalry—The Negro Paymasters in the Army—The Negro Post—The Negro Navy—The colored men who outwited the diplomacy of the Spanish Minister at Washington, the Navy the seals Uncle Sam's money—The colored Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle Sam's money—make it good. OVER 200 PAGES Every Page brimful of New and Interesting Reading With about fifty full half tone and the engravings of soldiers, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish-American War, with a fine picture of AGUINALDO, his headquarters, a Pilgrim's journey, the Philippine and their civilization. Full sketch of the stucco. Volunteers and their treatment. Guns. HANDOM PICTURE OF GEN. NELSON MILLS, the Majesty's Command in command of all the American Army who said the fighting of the colored soldiers around Santiago was without a parallel in the history of the world. Hill for $1.00 "Much in Little." Matted Free, AGENTS WANTED—Big Percentage—Sand for copy of book and secret A WAYLAND SEMINARY and COLLEGE V. P. & F. K. of W. New Phone, 1133 a) al ce OA: i ES Aiea cANGd 3; > SS “SATURDAY, APRIL 14 1900 Filipinos Are Activa, the Regimental Headquarters and 2nd Battalion were ordered to Iba and su- dig st which place we arrived on Janu- ary 17th where we found s detachment of the 82nd and Cempany E of the 46tb Infantry who informed us they too, had been continually kept ine strain, ‘onthe 18th. ‘Those going to Iba start: fed out inelading the beadquarters. So we settled down to regular duty in Bobig. Everything went well. The Scouts were, organized with, Lisuten- ant Schenck. Battalion Adjatant in command and Ssrgeant Lightfoot, 1st ——. They made a veral tripe as ‘well as the 82nd and 46h, FIRED UPON FILIPINOS, The scouts were fired on on their rst trip aod escaped unhurt, be 48:b, Captain Baker went out scouting ‘and encountered a few killing Dine and eeptoring s cannon and nine Mauser rifise, on Januery 27th. ‘The Signal Corps started out to con struct = telegraph lins to Iba. The seouts were out abead January 27th ‘end K Company followed on the 28th to bring rations, Through misunder tending K Company failed to carry ‘the ration. Soon January 20th about SA. M., the scouts started to return for rations when in cat facing a riv- eon the eppotite bank of which was ‘high wall lived Qwith the enemy. « Yolley rang out and Private Banston, XK Co., fell to rise ro more, All hunt- ed ecver immediately but there wasn’: moch cover in that hornet’s nest. Fri- ‘vate Spuvey of K Gomapany was shot in both feet. but rans beck until relief sean b> had. Lieut. Schenck is killed ; he rises to gives command, two more men fall by his side, K_Compa- ny is running tothe rescue, Sergeant Lightfoot wounded in ths arm receives ‘nother in the left tide and is forced to retire unable to go foriherhe lays down under cover, Sergeant Singleton isshot in the hip and like Lightfoot is Yorerd to ley down under cover and t « gether they wateh the enemy rob our @ead. Imagine the straio. Imegire ‘what a constitution it takes to be s sol- dier, and among barbarians who know. eth not “prisoners of wa.r’ K Company has arrived and driven away the ene wy. The column forms aud securing the bullearts carry in the wounded with the exception of Lieut. Schenck who is tied to a horse. Ourdead are piled under a tree where Inter B & L., Com- panies secure them. All’s well until February 7th, when the President ef Castellanos reports insurgents essing for attack on Su- big The gunboat Gundcqui throws a few shells into the mountains with good results on Feb. 9, while the moon was ander cloud. The enemy gaived the bill and opened @ eontinuous and harassing fire, making it almost impov- mble to reach the trencher. They were gained and together with the gunboat drove them off. Meantime General Bell, the “Burricane,” had Deen continually wiping out the coun- try from Santa Crus, South. RuexatB. Lexus, Oastiixsos, P. 1., March 8, 1900. While Grant had long since returned to Angeles distributing the betier par of hiscommand, the 2od Regimen in the country between, Subig Bay and the Zambales Mountains Belt, like Lawton, is feared wherever ho goes and whén it became generally known that he was comings grin beam- eon every body's countenance. He savanced steadily, but met with, very little resistance, burning a few towns that were only » menace to peace and Prosperity. Ho arrived in Onsteliejos and made it his headquarters and from. there he sent out scouting parties, scouring the mountains. The Mscabebe scouts, six compaties in number, had come over Grant’s trail avd captured a few gune. ‘The valley baving been opened up i Decame necessary to have quick modes of transportation and communiestion. x onan nie aoc Lient. Stanford of the Signal Corps, after repeated attempts started out and now has s line from Subig to San Antonio, whieh will be in working or- Serine short time. The regiment is now scattered from Santa Cruz to Su- big, a distance of 90 miles. Co. H be- ipg in Santa Oruz,¥ in Iba, M in Ba- tonlin, I in San Isidro. E in’ San Mar. eslena, L in San Antonio, K in Onstil- lejos and B in Subig the territory real- lycovered should be cecupied by a brigade, but some of the companies are mounted and all have or will have ® Colt’s Automatic Gun, which will en- able them to hold their own. Some of the strains through which we have been will be hard to describe, PLANSING AN ATTACK. In Iba it had been known that the insurgents were planning an attack up- on the town in foree under Gen’! San Miguel. All information was brought by « faithful Ohino, who, one evening brought the information that the ene- my, 1800 strong, would rush on the town. All outposts were drawn in and all retired to the stone quarters, form- ally used by Spaniards, and there pre- pared for defense. There ware only 187 men in Iba. ‘Everybody was on the slert. About4a. m. the enemy fired a signal gun and the fire opened up. Despite its fury the little band ‘waited until they had come within 200 yards and opened up. The effect was ‘awfal, The enemy retirea in hasty disorder, leaving 90 of thelr dead en the fleld, « complece vietory for our four meagre little band, 4 CRUSHING DEFEAT, Ban Miguel accepted this a defeat with quick action and retreat to the mountains to be their scattered to the four winds and kept continually on the go by the “hurricane.” ‘M company was stationed in Baton- lin, surrounded by natural fortifica- tions. Often a would shoot st them only to be driven off a? the ter- rible rein of steel. Seeing sase hopelessly defeated the 3 began ao pit down their arms and come in oul their flelds and to wow. their best thee erope fering only @ Well organized band of robbers to be dealt with One san imagine the present, situs: tion. Ty reminds us of the stories told of how U. 8, troops used to hunt the James Boys and other noted bandits. The hurricane is at present on his re- turn trip north and all nations who see him coming bow in obrdience, for they know, ss he hastold them that if 8 wire is out or a company fired on, he will baro every town and set fire to the whole Zambales valley. All is quiet at present in the valley amd all companies are making the best outer the situation. Bubig ie th priteipal shipping poimt as far as San Isidro, We are having 8 good 1ime, but we can’t tell what minuie a shot will come Serg’t Henry basa repid-fre gun in his care which bas as good » moral et- feet as destructive. The sick report is fairly full, owing to mriarisl troubles, busthey are on a decrease. Rrexam B. Lexvs. San-Qutax, Maina, P. I. Mr. Editor — Sir:—Private John D, Booker, Co. K, 24th; let Private Thomas M. Harris, from Pittsberg, Va., were slightly wounded in the head by a bul- let on the 24th of February, 1900, two miles from Fayug, P. .., by the aaa rectors passing from one part of his detachment to the other. Five Filipi- ‘nos overpowered Thomas on his horse and s six-shooter was taken from him, and « tine watch and ten dollars io gold, and hishataud horse. Thomas was thrown from his horse and_ bis re- volver was snatehed before Thomas could steady himself en the horse, a —— shot struck him in the head. for a while Thomas was senseless and Thomas came to his right mind in « short time. ihey bad him on the ground and fill his face and eyes fall of dost from the earth. Thomas scvffling for his life, eame to his feet, pieked up some rocks and fought them off him until s private and Trumpeteer from Company F, heard the report of ‘the revolver and came running to as- iaiy, ive Svanipseses of Ok elley, the Tram, of Company B, the brave boy who was in the mows. tains, over eight hundred miles from Manila, at Magilzn, in a strong bait, a insurrector at Kelley with » Remington gon and the cfficer said, “Do not shoot.” A strong and brave | See. Peg anatched his revolver from ‘is side and shet the insurrestor through the heart. Ifhe had obeyed the officer Kelley would have been dead man to-day. 2het ef November, 1899, Companies H,F.K.the three companies, were led by pe Beonlor, oo our journey through mountains. yoop seance. We all were out of something to eat We poor soldiers fsr ome month lived op nothing bat ae and sometimes once aday. Some of our men would fall out sick with fever and be no more seen. Our company was the last of 11 men and wiil never be found in this wide world. The word would be pase- ed from the reer end by the Doetor to Csptain Bachlor,s poor man sick and cannot make out to travel. The word from Osptain Bachlor, let him go, and ‘the poor man Bo more to be seen. Through bad treatment Willie Dance, from Richmond, Va., met up with death with fever. No credit is given to Negro soldiers. though, if it were not for Negro tol- diers. especially the 24,25 9,10 and 49h. Uncle Sam would not gaim much on these Islands. Here are the names of different towns and eities in which We passed through. On the 25th day of November, we marched at day- break and halted at darkon a moun- tain top, high and lofty, without water, rige and no wood. We were told « short distance from where we halted a station, named Gayapa,in the moun- oo i) established a the ‘Spaniards, before war, was strongly garrisoned. There we captured oe surrectors, who said fos were order- ed to join ae at siomibone- ce Sa Bi oa at 6 point th bas ing. He wave true and fauhful soldier aa loved by all kis soldier brothers. | EASTER SUNDAY AT 8T. JOSEPH’S OHUROE, North First Street. The beautiful feast of Easter will be eclebrated this year in this chureh by Solemn High Mass at 10 o'clock a. m., sung by the Rector Rev. 0. N. Jack- gon, assisted by Rev. T. J. Duffy as deacon and Rev. W. R, Yates as aub- deacon. «The sermon for the oecasion will be Preached by Rev, A.C. Clark, a priest of the Paulist order, ‘The music shall be executed by the sweet voices of our school eniliren who have prepared a special Mass for this occasion. The musical program will be found in another place in this Paper, n the evening at 8, » special service will be held, at which the Rector of the ebureh will preach and benedic- tion given by Rev. Father Clark. All are welcome to the services at St. Joseph’s, especially those for whom the shurch is intended. Public solemn services will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday in honor of thé passion and death of our ‘The Fathers of St. Joseph’s Society, who have charge of this church, are especially devoted to the evangelizs- tion of the colored people of the south. Most of the Josephite Fathers will meet in Richmond and hold a public convention of three days on June 22. Sineerely yours, 0. N. Jackson, Rector. — Anniversary Exercises. Sunday, the 15th, baing the 25th An- niversary of the Moore St. Baptist Ohareh, its members and friends are cordially invited to attend its services which promise a rare treat. 9:30 A,M., Easter Exercises by the Sunday School. 11:30, Sermon by Dr. J. E. Jones, 8:80, P. M., Sermon by Dr, W. F. Graham, pastor of Fifth 8, Baptist Obureh. 8:80 P.M. Sermon by Rey. F. W. mentneal pastor of Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Ohureh, Fulton. At the 3:30 services, the following body: Golden feat Lite ens doc : Golden ¢, Gar field and Starlight. Come and s mipiteal feast with A jon. ‘bring an Rey, B, 0. Jonnsex, B, D., Pastor, A. G, Boss, Chursh Clerk, + Here 18 a legend of a drowning sailor whose life was saved by the luxuriant hair of a beautiful maiden. This story is hardly true, but one FAcT is true now always and forever, OZONO saves your hair from falling out, kee: your scalp clean and free from dandruff and all scalp a seases and causes. the hair to grow long and straight. OZONO is the only guaranteed hair remedy on the market. fam ORS be lee Wi Ly SOQ PAE. 4 | DO AA tee, SiS } pean Ye, Uys G “ f ear Rees Lipo, ee eal. /} ON BA, Wie O74 y il iS —— Lon see ee — ER TETTER el CRS = ES See eS YFP CEA) A? 7a Ce Be im | SCH. (Ba — —— —_S Je <i kb bey DA x Ce’ Ca ETF R_ECZEMA QP a) ee ‘ G AEST —. ; j B FSD eS, Rate f * ‘ =, \ E _ oe te 225 RP a Soe MS ce I i acl et FA aN rat = itl age LSat3 Ea “sire PSS Fans <A Les PASS ~ i ES BE = SSS i iS oh ae Gar BSN) } een WARN on eet YE Re Ss SW) to FS OK ee ee HUES 5 eS ESSN df pz S\N (4 V) PFs WS : Z oe “ yy Were J FORE. 7 AFTER, To the Colore 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 « certainty that most of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make s straight y opto statemont to the colored people of America threugh its best paper,the ane In the ie 1871, our wresent Secretary through a fortunate circumstance sequired 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 wet with marked sue- cess, After a thorough test by the leading colored people of that time, it was a an honest, pret aaie pa Po to au Cece for S —_ Worthy tne tof the vonidenes and “attention of every member Tiscclored rece. "eonuve they found if ee erase eee 0S ROW POR AND STRAIGHT, soft and fine and as beactifal san April morning. Tr also ures ali forms of itching, humilisting ses!p diseases, stops the hair from fall- ing out,fand causes a new growth to grow on the baldest heal, Now, when- ever s genuine article appears on the market, there are aiveye ‘a lot ef people who imitate and make espital out of the merits of other People’s goods. BSee- ing our marked success numerous to-called bair growers and hair straighten- ‘@r8 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 at po question. Would we absolutely agree to refand you your money provided you not satisfied with the prepsrations we manufac. ture if our goods were not true to all we claim for them? We assert right here that we have advertised fur nearly 24 years, offering to reture the money for every case in which Oxono did not give eatisfaction and we have never yet had to refund the money. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Curly, Refractory Hair. It will make short, harsh hair. long and Straight. It will eure your bead of all itehing, worrying, running scalp dis- eases, Eczema. Pimcles Dandraf Tinh Aa CRRA CULTURE CRC VUBRRVUUZNVWL/WDWLVLVCVVWVVWAVVVW@MWAVEVMVWVLZV*WUAM V2 EASTER SERVICES. NOTIOE. The Fifth Street Baptist Ohurch is] MUSIOAL PROGRAMME TO BE REN — Sas in the midst of a glorious revival.| | DERED EASTER SUNDAY WANTED-—Laborers Bev. W. H. Brooks, D.D., Will Presob. One week’s progress has recorded tters, cooks, waiters, " . reach. | Special arrangement has been made| large and enthusiastic gatherings, m men, gardeners, kite — tor ll delegates in the ‘state of ‘Vir-| many anzious seekers, two happy coa-|At St. Joseph's Churob, North let St. girls forall work at se ginis an ington, who will attend | Versions and still the meeting goes on. — '. H. Cows tiat Chaschy Beeh on of, Puenerer Bap-|the “Grand Bession of G.G, 4.0. of B, | Kev. Dr. Perkine of Wort Virginia is} Vidi Aquam, by Kemters; Mase in 22 Banc Special services April'ld: 1900 Hewes | 80d 8. Love and Oharity, which will Cotdueting the meetings. He i sim-|C, by Butler; Regina Ooelt (offertory)| 4t~414 Be Sunday, Rev. W. H, Brooke’ Deis: | Co8Vens in Staunton, Va.,on the 2nd| Ply wonderful as an evangelist. His| by Sehwangers; Veni Sancte Spiritus, See of Washington, D: G.. wilt recs | 85 of May, 1900. Sermons are eloquent, practical and | by Kempters. f = 11 o'clock a. 'm., and 8 o'clock p. mt Pavt Eevin, D. G. W. 8, |foreible. Thechurch is ablaze with| Members of the only children’s choir a * Pe my 212! Leigh St. | praise for this abledivine. Dr, Gra-| in the city. John P. E earn tations wii us cases Gy es Tig e ham is leading his forees on to success} Angeline Smith, Hattie Riddick, Vie- . the 3:20 services. — 218T ANNIVERSARY. for the Baptist State Convention and ;toria Rae, Martha Coleman, Mamie |————————— Stas cnpeemichi eae . Virginia Seminary. Harvey, Peachy Taylor, Oliver Soot 13 W. Broa tum fullelent fo pay od wdebe dusty) —- —=-—___[ Annabelle, Brooks. Basie Selby, Carrie ; the church, hence the he 2ist anni atten, i ide of she stogregeian'as a | oC’ ANS tarmener tt dl] ——S0. 6. Thompon ot Manes Piet Lacy Wylame, Wine toi | RESTA LL quested to give liberally On sho ‘date | Love ana Charity will be delivered by !1odge, No. 28. left Ormond, Florida, |taure Smith, Eetelle Rae, Bertha above mentioned. Rev. 4.8, Thomas at the Biret Baptist, Wednesday, 10th inst,, for Atlantic | Hooper, Dore Burrell, Delia Dixon, ae Special music by the eholr will be|Ohurch, Sunday evening, April 223 | “ity, N. J. mea Eee Tacnns Sernes. rendered. Special exercises will be| st 8:80 p.m. ‘The brothers will meet Se eee i: Coasle. WAM Yeowide) «an ints of mixed sondusted by the Sunday School at 9| st Navy Hili Haliat 1p. m. in full re-|_——Grand Ohief, J. W. Thompson, | * the organ. he table. Li om galia and the sisters will meet at tho| "ill visit Drakes Branch in the interest eer re eo sanches 9 Rav. B, Wats, Pastor. chureh, all in fullrank and color. | 9f the Samaritan organisation on the ON UAcks0m, Restor, | Specie! secommodation Bay. W. H. Sroxas, B. D.,Asst |_ Grand officers for the day: Brother |12th inst, KNOW YOUR FATE, — ese n: rps, Olerk. =, ee rer W. = oe ne eed ovis ae Churet : 807 N. Ist St.,—Srzou W. Bec: ; brother Henry Branch, W: |e Be Taylor wilt proach, Subject, The distinguished steolo.git reeds | << Se ——— | Trome.; George Clay, W. Mar- | shell the Harvest bet” " | your life from the Oradle to the Grave, NOTICE!!! shal; brother Green Robineea, Avsiey | Vest shell the i be 1 Naviad lem aneistaae, Ween. teobenee | WHITE-W Having been notified by the Town Council of Barton Heights, through its attorney that an effort would be made to get possession of Union Mechanics Burial Ground by the removal of its trustees and the appointment of a citi- a ‘Heights in ‘his place to 6 charge, I hereby notify all section owners to call to see me at once or to communi- Gate with me in order that the neces- sary funds may be raised to save the rere igned: BENJAMIN HAR3IS, Superintendent and Trustee, 8,31-4t, a OZONO SAVES YOUR HAIR : NOTICE. Special arrangement has been made for all delegates inthe state of Vir- ginis and Washington, who will attend the Grand Session of G.G. A. O. of B. and 8. Love and Oharity, which will convene in Staunton, Va.,on the 2nd day of May, 1900. Pavu Exvm, D. G. W. 8. 212 B. Leigh St. 218T ANNIVERSARY, The 2ist anniversary sermon of the G. @. A. O. of Brothers and Sisters of Love and Charity will be delivered by Rev. 2. 8. Thomas at the First Baptist Church, ceaeee evening, April 224 at 8:30 p.m. ‘he brothers will meet at Navy Hill Hali ati p. m. in fall re- Galia and the sisters will meet at the ehareh, all in full rank and color. Grand officers for the dey: | Brother John H. Oarter, W. 8.; sister Nellie Clay, W. Vico; brother Thomas Minor, W. Bec.; brother Henry Branch, W. Treas. ; brother George Clay, W. Mar- ahal; brother Green Robinson, Assist- ant;' Grand Oonduetors, sisters Ellen Harris, Mary Wilson ; Grand Chaplain, Paul Garr; Grand Sentinels, "Radis Hemmons, J. T. Dabney. District and G. G. officers: Paul Epica sone & I. G.; Thomas Migor, GG. Aunt.) In- spestor General; Augustus Clay. PG. }. D. D. Master; A. ‘Allen, Diatriot Deputy of Rishmond. ——The wife of Rey. G@. W. Bryant arrived in the city last week. ——Mr, Oddie Bradley, the head- malieg ofthe Lexington Hotal has re- turned to the sity having a pless- ant time away. The Fifth Street Baptist Church is in the midst of a glorious revival. One week’s progress has reeorded large and enthusiastic matherings, ‘many anxious seekers, two nappy con- Fersione and still the meeting. goes on. How. Dr. Perkins of Weat Virginta is conducting the meetings. He is sim. ply wonderful as an evangelist. His sermons sre eloquent, practical and forcible. The church is ablaze with praise for this abledivine. Dr, Gra- ‘ham is leading his forees on to success for the Baptist State Convention and ‘Virginia Seminary, . —<-+__. —Sir 0. O, Thompson of Planet Lodge, No. 28. left Ormond, Florids, Wednesday, 10th inst, for Atlantic City, N. J. ——Grand Ohief, J. W. Thompson, will visit Drakes Branch in the interest of the Samaritan organisation on the 12th inst, ~——At the First Presbyterian Church to-morrow (Sunday) at 1 a. m. Kev. RB. B. Ts will preach, Subject, “What shell the Harvest be 2” —The Starlight Beneficial Club No. 1, will be in attendance at the Moore St. Baptist Chureh on Easter Sanday evening. They will be accompani by several ether clubs of the city. —_-s—__ BUSINESS CARD! Taereis being got "2 a Col. ored Men's Business | Card for the purpose of increasing bsteas of our Race, ony a de ing @space can getitby ap plying at the PLANET OFFICE. ¢ <eahaieonnat— ‘ Beront! a ae Asteg. > fe x oy , > pdniiesehe ° 7 Nef , ie: “| a e a arate f ee ae K “BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY BURKS “ caemmmen RIGHMOND,VA, AFTER ‘S Ne X: Cy > Nd 2 a "7 . YY \ VAY \YQZ oer C/N Coe UERRORE Skin ee: AE io Po wT stop vous. hate troce falling out. It will restore gray hair to its nat- Eerateion,making the bair Long and Soft Fine and Silky and es beautital as an April morning. 10,000 people are to-day using Ozono and not one com- plaint, We have thousands of testimonials. We have not space to ablish, cv. B. Herts an eminent Colored Divine of the Shareh writes: I have fo ur 0 ve satis! in every particular, = Kate W. Bags. Blacksburg, ‘Ve., writes:—Your preparation has proven true to all you elaim for it, The price of Ozono is GOs. a box. It takes from 8 to 4 boxes to sccomplish the treatment. We make this liberal offer fora limited time only. Cut ous this Coupon and send to us with $1.00, and we will forward to you 4 boxes of Ozono and one bottle of Elestrical Skin Refiner which makes black akia bright rough skin soft and pliant and cures all skin diseases, We will also ineiuds ‘one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—nature’s great b©autifier, removes Wrinkles, Moth-patobes, freckles and all fasial blemishes, and to prove our liberality we will add to this one Package of Anti-Odor. A positive cure for Sore Throat, ali forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblsins, Sore and Frosted Feet, site Removes all smells and Odors arising from the human body such as Feet, Arm Pits, &o. 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 Ooupon to us with One Dollar and get this Grand Combination Offer; as this opportunity will not occur again, Boston Chemical Company, All, a3d Street _ _ Richmond, Va. I enclose you $1.00 (One Dollar) for which please send my the following p focus at once: $ pane eee Sea eras Sa ines 1 (ona) Laer Jan Exscrnicar Sxix Foon, 1 (one) Lanox Packson Anzi-Opon. MY NAME 13 eR estan sharable gsi FHODSO MO covronenessenelD 20 oreerneesnerensenrnnnemeneesennennsnbnesneenes MUSICAL PROGRAMME TO BE REN DERED EASTER SUNDAY At St. Joseph’s Church, North Ist 8t. Vidi Aquam, by Kemters; Mass in ©, by Buhler; Regina Ooelt (offertory) by Sehwangers; Veni Sancte Spiritue, by Kempters. ‘Members of the only children’s choir in the city. Angeline Smith, Hattie Riddick, Vie- toris Rae, Martha Coleman, Mamie ‘Harvey, Peachy. Taylor, Oliver Soot Annabelle Brooks. Susie Selby, Carri Sutton, Martha “Pleasant, Maurice Piokest. Lucy Williams, Willie Taylor, Laura Smith, Estelle Rae, Bertha Hooper, Dora’ Burrell, Delia Dixon, Ernest Lomax, Thomas Turner, Rev. Mother M. Cassie will ‘preside a ae eee ttalt 60 ars, mpesthO.N. Jackson, Rector a KNOW YOUR FATE, The distinguished Astrologist reads Your lite from the Oradle to the Grave vice on marriage, love, business enemies, health, spells and iuek. (Send stamps ‘for eireular or one dollar, Lock of hair and date of birth for life ‘reading. MRS. 0. OARY, 670 Fulton 8t., Brooklyn, N. Y. At Mount Olivet. Mrs, Ella Walker, the great mis sion. ary preacher will lead the Young Peo. ee meeting st Mount Olivet Ba ptist jurch next Sunday (te-morrow) eve- ning. ‘Ak tee Secsnctn teielies the pulpit will be Billed by Rev. James Singleton of Asbury M. . Chapel. At night, Rey. J. H. Binford will preach « spec- val sermon. = cae ata Scns men, gardeners, kitchen-men, also girle for all work at seashore and city ‘T. H. Cowsn, 22 Hanover 8t.. at-4l4 Boston, Mase. s John P. Polke, yond = =F Olke, | 13 W. Broad St., Restaurant. All hinds of mixed drinks served at the table. Lunches served to order, Speciai accommodation for Ladies, 807 N. Ist St..—Srmcraz Restavrase poe ee | WHITE-WASH. Peet MAX SONMEMBERG 114 B. Broad Bt. The largest and quick- eat Shoe Repairer in the city, Half soles and heels, 50 Cents. § Cents deducted off each JOB when you present this edupon, Lsua