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CARSON WILDRED'S CRIME A DETECTIVE STORY OF TWO CONTINENTS BY HARRY WOOD REYNOLDS CHAPTER XXVI! The poor wretch, who had trade such a wreck of his young life, was white as death and shaking like an aspen. I could see the beads of sweat oozing out on his pale forehead. "For God's sake," he implored, "dont say that to me; I can't bear it! Until you told me just now I swear to you by all I hold sacred—by my sister's love, which I so little deserve—that I never dream of Harvey Farnham being dead. A cablegram came from Wildred commanding me rather than asking me to go to England, saying that it would be much to my advantage to do so, and that my fare and all expenses would at once be sent me in advance. I didn't mean to let my sister know of my presence—I would have spared her that—but I fancied myself standing among the crowd in the park, watching her drive by, or something of the sort. Even a glimpse of her face would have been sweet. "But when I arrived one of the first things Wildred did was to tell me that he had heard my sister often speak of me, and that he would secretly arrange a meeting between us. I could not resist the temptation of having a few words with her when it was offered for the asking, and I saw her at the house by the lock. An excuse was made to bring her and Lady Tressidy there—something about a portrait. Karine that was in a queer room he called the 'studio'—and while Wildred was showing Lady Tressidy over the house I saw my sister and had a talk with her. When I had been in England about three or four weeks, keeping out of the way of any one who might possibly remember me, Wildred suggested the scheme of my traveling back to America, impersonating Farnham, and finally finishing the plot as I did finish it to-night. He admitted that it was for this that he had sent for me, but swore Farnham himself was in the thing as deep as he; that it meant that he them both, which they were to share, could be had in no other way. He explained that Farnham had had bad luck investigations, was bankrupt, hadn't the plum to begin over again on the lowest rounds of the ladder, nor to undertake carrying out this plan himself. He would funk the fire business, Wildred said, and might, instead of escaping, actually be burnt to death. The object to be gained, of course, I was made to believe, was getting the life assurance. Farnham was supposed to each one for an enormous sum; he had everything of which he should die possessing assurance and all the rest, to Wildred, who would actually go halves with Farnham when the money should be secured. "Of course, I had sense enough to know that it was a villainous fraud, but I've never been very scrupulous and it was easy to persuade myself that I owed Harvey Farnham a good turn for what he did for me in the past. Besides, I wanted the money and there was five thousand in notes (Wildred was too sly to give a check) on the table for me to take or leave. I didn't see that I was going to do much harm to anybody except the insurance companies, who are rich enough to lose, as Farnham hadn't a relative in the world; but before Heaven, if I dreamed of the truth I have let Wildred do his worst before I have gone in with him! "As for the Santa Anna, I knew that every board of the hotel was assured—the landlord would lose nothing—and after I'd kindled the fire I knocked like mad on your door. I fancy, though you didn't know it, it must have been that which first began to rouse you. I didn't give myself much time to get out, after taking off the disguise (which I flatter myself I did pretty well), but I just managed it. I tell you I was desperate when I walked in here and found you; but now I was never so thankful for anything in the course of my life." "The present question is, then," I M. "THERE STANDS THE MURDERER, GENTLEMEN," HE HAD SAID. said, "whether you will go straight to England with me and tell all you know about Carson Wildred? If we stop on this side to prove things step up as we went, we would labor under two disadvantages. It would mean indefinite delay, and you would get into trouble about that business at the hotel to-night. To sail at once or England and let matters here take care of themselves for the present is our only plan, I think. What do you say? "You are sure that Wildred can swear my life away?" "As sure as I am that we are both alive at this moment." "Then I'm in your hands. I'll save my sister and get even with Wildred for making a tool and a dude of me." for making a tool and a dune of me." "By the time we have landed on the other side," I answered, "there'll be a clear nighttight to do the first, and I think we may accomplish the latter transaction simultaneously." We had a stormy passage, and arrived at Southampton four-and-twenty hours later than we should have done. It was Cunningham who bought a paper as we got into the train. I was too completely preoccupied to have ab- sorbed a line of news, even had my eyes mechanically perused the printed matter. Cunningham, who was also restless, and who could not bear to be left to the mercy of his own thoughts, read incessantly, however, and at the end of a half an hour or so handed over his paper to me. "Look at this," he said with some eagerness, pointing out a paragraph. I glanced at it carelessly at first, but in an instant 1 was as keen as Cunningham had been. "Another Fortune for a Millionaire," the paragraph was headed, and beneath was set forth the interesting fact that Mr. Wildred Carson, who is likely to marry Miss Cunningham, the celebrated beauty and heiress, had just healed a legacy of half a million pounds left him by an American friend, Mr. Harvey Farnham, later burned to death in a San Francisco hotel. "So you see, it wasn't only the mine, and the money he would have paid for the mine, he wanted," said Cunningham. "Oh, he's a marvelous chap, this Wildred." I acquiesced in this opinion, and recalled a remark made in the club by a mutual acquaintance. "Carson Wildfried is always inheriting fortunes from some chaps that die in the four corners of the globe," he had curiously remarked. "I wondered grimly, as I remembered the speech, whether all these benefactors had met their death after the manner of poor Harvey Farnham. Time was pressing now, and our idea was to go straight to Karine, I to appear on as the supporter of her brother for the punishment of Wildred might have held a prominent place both in Cunningham's mind and mine, but our first thought was to save Karine from becoming the murderer's wife. So we started at once for Haslemere. The door was opened by a smiling footman. He was not the man I had previously seen, and evidently, judging from the genial flush on his face and the twinkle in his eye, something agreeable or amusing had taken place. He tried to draw his countenance into the conventional lines of footman, and his eyes lightening upon Cunningham, his eyes pressing changed to one of surprise. Very obviously he noted the similarity of coloring between the brother and sister, and a certain vague haunting likeness that would show itself at times. "If Miss Cunningham is at home, tell her that her brother has come and wishes to see her immediately upon a matter of importance," said my companion, vallantly taking the bull by the horns. Miss Cunningham is not at home, sir," filled the seawater. "She-that is—in fact, sir, she just 'tits us for good and all. She—she was buried, sir, at half-past ten o'clock this morning and the wedding breakfast's only been over since an hour ago." CHAPTER XXVII. "Do you know where the—the bride and groom have gone?" questioned Cunningham grudgingly. "No sir. I heard Lady Tressldy say only this morning that even she hadn't been told. Mr. Wildred had some idea of a surprise, I believe, sir." At Haslmeire station they could only inform us that the party of which we were in search had had tickets for London, and had left about three-quarters of an hour before our arrival. Even if we could have told our story with sufficient succinctness to have Wildred met at Waterloo by the police there would have been no time to do. We must simply follow as we could. Likely there was a slow train due to few moments, therefore I think we (I at least) must have gone mad with the strain of waiting. At Waterloo we heard of them. A porter had taken their luggage and put it on a cab. The gentleman and lady had driven away in a private carriage. What direction had been given to the coachman or the cabman he had not happened to hear. I now proposed that Cunningham should proceed immediately to Scotland Yard, while I busied myself elsewhere. He was the one who could tell of the plot by which he had personated Farnham in America, by Wilfreds desire and in the hope of obtaining a substantial bribe. The authorizing already in possession of such separate information as I could give, and now that I would learn from Cunningham how Farnham had never gone to America at all, a very different and more lurid light would be shed upon the past. Meanwhile I would drive to Charing Cross and might yet be in time to intercept the couple if they were intending to depart for France. At Charing Cross they had not appeared, and hastening to a telegraph office, I sent messages containing Wildred's description and Karine's to every one of the principal railway stations in London. Replies were paid, were to be received for me at Charing Cross Hotel. Having done so much I bowed the pliers from which the Holland boats the pair have discovered nothing, back to Charing Cross again. The train which would catch the night boat at Dover was just about going out, but Wildred and Karine were not visible. Meanwhile I would drive to Charing and gone I betook myself to the hotel, where my telegrams were to await me. I also looked for Cunningham, who was to have met me there, after Scotland card, and decided upon forthcoming an appointment. Dispatches were awaiting me from the patrons of the various stations—Victoria, Euston, Paddington and so on—but no Cunningham had as yet appeared. I opened the message from Paddington last; the others had no news for me, but it seemed that at Paddington a lady and gentleman, apparently answering the description given, had taken tickets for Maidenhead. All the blood in my body seemed to mount to my head. Unless there had been a mistake in the identity, Wildred must have carried Karine off to the House by the Lock! It was horrible to me that she should be there. The thought of the house and what I believed had happened to Harvey Farnham under its roof, was abhorrent. Why had he chosen to take his young bride, on the day of their marriage to that THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. gloomy and accursed spot? A strange thrill of apprehension, vague, yet none the less dreadful, shook my nerves. I consulted the latest A. B. C. timetable, which lay in the reading room of the hotel. In exactly an hour another train would leave Paddington for Marmara and Marlow (the nearest stations to Newbury Lock), and after that there would not be another until 10 o'clock. I should not have much more time to catch the former. If I intended to go by it—and I did intend to go. Exactly what I was to do, how I was to get Karline away from her husband. I did not dare stop to think, but somehow I would do it. So great was my dread of Wildred as a criminal, and my respect for him as a schemer, that I even feared dimly for Karlin's safety with him. It was madness to entertain such a doubt, I assured myself, for, great heleness that she was. Karlin was lovely enough and sweet enough to inspire genuine love even in so cold-hearted a villian as Widred. He might tire of her in the end, but for the present her life at least, would be safe with him. So I repeated mentality, over and over again, but still I was pricked with a boding fear for more than her peace of mind. Why had he taken her to that grim, hateful house by the river? I would have wished to wait for Cunningham, both because I wanted him with me, and because I was anxious to hear what he had done at Scotland Yard. However, he did not come, so I wired him to the latter place, left a short note for him also at Marlow, he be kept till called for, and started off in time (when I dared delay no longer) at breakneck pace for Paddington station. I just caught the train I wanted changed at Maldenhead, and arrived at Marlow by half past eight o'clock. This time I had neither leisure nor inclination to walk, as upon my first visit to the place on Christmas Day, but took a fly, and offered the man an extra fare if he would make haste. I went up the path, knocked and rang the bell, which sent back jangling echoes, such as belongs in ones arm, to an uninhabited house. From a distance I began to bay, otherwise I was not answered. I rang and thundered on the knocker again, the animal's voice at length subsided into a protesting whine. I ought by this time to have been sure that Wildred and Karine were not in the house, but, on the contrary, I was by no means certain of the fact. Mentally I argued that, if the master was absent, a caretaker would certainly have been left, and unless a stonedeaf person had been selected for the post my violent alarms would have brought him to me. If any reason existed, however, why the door should not be opened, it would be easy to understand how and why the caretaker might be suddenly afflicted with an inability to hear. Instead of being plunged into discouragement, an ever-kindling fire of rage mounted within me. Rather than me anyway important whether Karine was hidden in this wistful house or not, I would force an entrance. I sprang down the steps and went to one of the bow windows nearest the door. Not an instant's hesitations had I in kicking in one of the panes of glass, but, as it happened, I had only my trouble for my pans. There were solidly barred shutters inside, so heavy, that even I, strong man as I was could not break them open. Furious now, I ran up to the door again, and drove my gloved fist through the glass in one of the curious six-inch window panes that ran the length of the door on either side. The shivered glass jingled sharply on the polished wood of the floor inside, and I thrust in my arm up to the elbow, hoping to get at the lock on the door within. As I did so footsteps came running in the distance. "Here! here! What's the matter with you," cried an imperative voice. I had heard it before I remembered. It was that of the eminently respectable looking servant, who had so cleverly defended his master's reputation on the occasion of my former visit to the House by the Lock. "If you're a burglar," remarked the voice, "you'd better go away while you can. I have a revolver and my hand is on the trigger now." "I am no burglar." I returned. "This is not exactly the time of night to expect such gentry, is it? But you've kept me waiting out here long enough. I wish to see your master and mistress, who I happen to know are here this evening, and I don't mean to go away without doing it." The man inside chuckled. "Nice way of amusing yourself, ain't it, sir? But as it happens you'll have to go elsewhere to see my master and the new mistress. I don't know where they are—it ain't likely I should—but I do know they aren't in this house, where there isn't a solitary soul but me. As for the time of night, that's neither here nor there so long as I'd chosen to go to bed; and I can't dress all of a minute to please anybody that likes to come banging at the door. You deserve to be had up for damaging the house, that you do, whoever you may be." There was a ring of indignation in the voice, and for a few seconds' length I hesitated. Perhaps after all the fellow was telling the truth. I was very certain of his capacity for lying, but it might well be that Wilfred and Karine had not really come here. Still— Far away a door slammed sharply, and just in time to decide me. My heart seemed to leap in my throat. I could feel the blood throbbing almost to bursting at my temples, "You liar!" I roughly exclaimed, "They are here and I will see them, if I have to break the door down!" "Try it, then!" the man cried tauntingly, "Just try it—and you may try all night, Ta, ta! Good by, and good luck to you!" I heard his feet flapping along the uncovered floor as he ran away. Another door was opened and closed, and he was out of earshot. Desperately I again endeavored to find the lock. It was no use. Thrust in my arm as far as I could, I could not touch it, and though I broke the narrow pane on the other side as well, the fastenings of the door were beyond my reach. With all my strength I flung myself against the panels of the door, but the heavy wood stood firm as though it had been a sheet of iron. There was evidently no hope in that direction, and, dizzy with my own rage and desperation, I began attempting some of the windows. But all were secured bars inside, and it would have seemed that the inmates of the House of the Lock were prepared to stand a siege. Loquacious Visitor (who has been describing at some length her bridal trousseau)—You ought to see me in my going-away gown. Hostess—I wish I could—Tit-Bits. A Country Where They Make People Hop a Wing Dance. Thrilling Stories of Bloodshed and Intimidation Told by a Stranger Who Is No Slouch of a Previcator Himself. "Yes, since," said the talkative man in the lunch room to a Washington Star reporter, "the men down that way are a heap on the shoot, and no mistake. They had me hopping a wing dance all the time I was there, keeping out of range of their artillery, and 40 times the balls whizzed so close to my ears that I could just shut my eyes and hear the hum of the celestial harps. They just like to shoot down that way, and that's all there is about it. It's part of the game, shooting, and you're not in the wade at all if you don't make some sort of a bluff at shooting, anyhow. Was walking down the street the last time I was down there, when a couple of fellows coming from opposite directions met. "Pretty raw day, huh, Zeb?" says one to the other. "Raw, nothin'," says the other. "It's just the kind of a day, and it suits me down to the ground." "Bing, bang! went the guns at the same instant, and they were so close to me at the time that I thought I heard the wind moaning through the reeds on the banks of the River Jordan. When I dived into a doorway and turned to look around an express cart was takin' 'em both to the undertaker's. That's what you'd call quick action, hey? "Another time I was walking with a good-natured man I met down there, when one of his friends came along. "Howdy, Jim," says he to the man I was walking with. "Hear you've got a new 12-pound hod-carrier up at your house. You've got none o' the best of "BINGETY-BANG! WENT THE GUNS." me—had a new arrival myself this morning and he weighs just 14 pounds." "Bingey-bangey-bang! went the 44 guns of those two men, and when it was all over I saw the man I'd been walking with sitting down on the pavement and feeling of a hole in the back of his head. The other man was being taken away for burial. "What's the matter?" I asked the man I was walking with, when I saw him in the hospital a couple of days later, after the doctor'd plugged up the holes in him. "I don't let no man brag over me," said he. "Went out driving one afternoon with a man in a buckboard. We got out in the country a ways and came up to a man standing in the road. "Howdy, Hi," said the man I was driving with to the man standing in the road. "What do you think of this hoss that you—" "Bim-bim-bang! went their barkers, and I crawled over the back of the seat, went on all fours to the shrubbery alongside the road and waited for the last trumpet to sound. "The man I'd been driving with was feeling where his left ear ought to have been when I finally looked up. Otherwise he he wasn't damaged. The other man had both of his arms shattered at the elbows, and he was walking down the road. "I didn't notice that you two had anything to shoot about," I said to the man I'd been driving with. "What happened?" "Well, y'see," he said, "Hi, he sold me that hoss for a few dollars, the hoss being a cripple at the time, and I took a-hold of the animal and doctored him up, and made a good 'un and a sound 'un of him. Hi, he didn't like me a-cacklin' over him, I reckon, when I asked him what he thought of the hoss, and when I seen he was a-going to draw, I was right in line myself, and so we had it." "Yes, siree," continued the talkative man, "it doesn't take anything at all to get them to blazing away at each other down that way, and I wouldn't care to—" "How long did you say you were down in Arizona?" asked one of the men the talkative man was addressing. "Huh? Arizona?" said the talkative man, in a mystified kind of way. "Who said anything about Arizona? I was never in Arizona in my life. It's Kentucky I'm talking about!" Dog Trained by Thieves. A mastiff was trained to assist thieves in Paris. It was in the habit of bounding against old gentlemen and knocking them over in the street. A "lady" and "gentleman"—owners of the dog—would then step forward to assist the unfortunate pedestrian to arise, and while doing so would ease him of his watch and purse. The Penalty of Theft. A London postman has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for stealing letters. He loses a pension for 18 years' service and £200 contributed to the Post Office Benefit society. The Old Fallback "If wae hod th' same wither always," said the janitor philosopher, "thor'd be a lot av people who wudn't know phwat to talk about."—Chicago Daily News. The Cat Did the Rest. Mother—Stop pulling the cat's tail, Reggie. Reggie—I ain't pullin' it; I'm jez' holdin' it. Syrause Herald. STONE OF GRATITUDE Pretty Legend Told by Roman Chronicleers of the Topas and the Emperor's Snake. The topaz is called the stone of gratitude, and the old Roman books record the following legend from, which the stone derives this attribute: The blind Emperor Theodosius used to hang a brazen gong before his palace gates and sit beside it on certain days hearing and putting to right the grievances of any of his subjects. Those who wished for his advice and help had but to sound the gong, and immediately admission into the presence of Caesar was obtained. One day a great snake crept up to the gate and struck the brazen gong with her coils, and Theodosius gave orders that no one should molest the creature and bade her tell him her wish. The snake bent her crest slowly in homage and straightway told the following tale: Her nest was at the base of the gateway tower, and while she had gone to find food for her young brood a strange beast covered with sharp needles had invaded her home, killed the nestlings and now held possession of the little dwelling. Would Caesar grant her justice? The emperor gave orders for the porcupine to be slain and the mother to be restored to her desolate nest. Night fell, and the sleeping world had forgotten the emperor's kindly deed, but with the early dawn a great serpent gilled into the palace, up the steps into the royal chamber and laid upon each of the emperor's closed eyelids a gleaming topaz. When Emperor Theodosius awoke he found he was no longer blind, for the mother snake had paid her debt of gratitude. DEVOTION OF A DOG. Runs After a Railroad Train so as to Be Reunited with the Children He Loved. On incident occurred at Perry, Okla., a few days ago which illustrates the devotion of a dog to children. Mrs. E. Butler, the wife of a groceryman, who mysteriously disappeared from Perry some weeks ago and who came from Atchison, Kan., last year, was leaving Perry for Ohio, a former home. The family dog was given to a neighbor. When the train arrived on which the Butler family was to leave the dog had broken a big rope with which he was tied at the home of his new master, and had appeared at the train. His new master and another man held the dog by a leather collar, but when the train started the dog bit both men and got away. He took after the train, barking at every jump, and for more than a mile he could be seen running after the car with all his might. The next morning when the next northbound passenger train rolled into Red Rock, a station 20 miles north of Perry, the dog was there, and made a spirited attempt to get aboard. He had to be fought off by the train crew. When the train started he ran after it, and as far as the train could be seen the dog was close behind it, barking as he ran. The dog had not been away from the Butler children for any length of time for two years. He had followed the children by day and kept watch over the little beds by night.—St. Louis Republic. INSEPARABLE FRIENDS Whatever This Dog Goes the Goose Which He Once Befriended Is Sure to Follow Him. Animal friendships are curious at times. For example, look at the illustration, which represents a Canadian goose that is devoted to a dog. The goose lives at Vancouver, British Columbia, where it was being worried by several Indian dogs, when the large dog shown in the picture interfered and saved its life. Since then the goose THEY ARE INSEPARABLE cherished a warm attachment to the dog, who returned it. They did not separate, but slept in the same kennel and wherever the dog went the goose followed, and they were rarely, if ever, more than a few feet apart. The sequel of the story is rather sad. The owner of the dog had to leave and the goose was left to pine without its companion. The incident is described by a writer in the Field. A Mammoth Apple Pie Probably the biggest apple pie ever baked was the big feature at a reception of Artie Phillips, a member of the Twentieth Kansas regiment, on his return to his home in Muvane. This soldier boy, in one of his letters from Manila, said he would give four years of his life for one of those apple ples such as his mother used to make. At the reception tendered him by the people of Mulvane he was presented with a pie, square in form, measuring five feet one way by two feet the other. In the pie were two and one-half bushels of apples, ten pounds of flour, ten pounds of sugar, six pounds of lard, two pounds of butter and a commensurate amount of other articles which go in this kind of pastry. The pie was properly baked and eaten with relish. Cable Car Came Into Collision with It, and Threw the Coffin Out Into the Street. A hense bearing the body of a woman was wrecked by a cable car at Thirty-fourth street and Broadway, New York, and the coffin was hurled into the street. The funeral was that W. I. Johnson. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph promptly filled. Wed ing suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Old 'Phone, 686 Residence in Building New 'Phone 480 of Mrs. Jasper Dowd, of 721 Malone street, Hoboken. The hearse and 18 carriages had crossed by the Forty-second street ferry, and were bound for the Long Island ferry at Thirty-fourth street. When the procession reached Thirty-fourth street the driver of the WRECK OF THE HEARSE. hearse, turning to the left, attempted to cross the Broadway cable car tracks. Columbus avenue car No. 66, going at full speed south bound, was not seen by the driver. The gripman threw off his grip and set the brake, but it was too late. The car, crashing into the side of the hearse, overturned it. The glass sides of the hearse were shattered and the coffin was tossed into the air and fell into the street, rolling over twice and resting upon its side. The crowd shivered, some women shrieked and three of them fainted. The coffin lay across the tracks and traffic ceased while the coffin was carried to the sidewalk, where it remained until, half an hour later, another hearse was secured and the funeral procession went on to the cemetery. The driver of the wrecked hearse, John Leiber, of Hackensack road, Hoboken, and the gripman, Thomas Reeves, of 302 East Eightyninth street, were arrested and taken to Jefferson Market court. Both men were discharged when the circumstances were explained. A Good Place to Live In. Baldwin City, Kan., is the seat of a Methodist college. Cards cannot be bought in the town; there is no place in which billiards may be played, and two attempts to hold a dance have failed. FUNNY YOUNG BULLDOG. Be Wearrs Spectacles, Smokes a Pipe and Is Very Properly Named "Artful Stockbroker." A writer in London Sketch says: I was looking round the charming grounds of the Dayton Court hotel a little time ago, when a strange object appeared before my astonished vision—a handsome young bulldog wearing a most unmistakable pair of spectacles and holding a short pipe between his teeth. I had heard of such aids to the sight of aged dogs, and at different ARTFUL STOCKBROKER shows had seen one with a set of false teeth and another with an artificial knee joint and lower portion of left foreleg. I soon discovered that this was no aged dog, and inquired of his mistress, Mrs. J. Leggatt, of Church house, Southhall, the reason of these unusual decorations for a show dog and not a performing one. She told me that "Artful Stockbroker"—for that is this most excitable young bulldog's name—is one who is always spoiling for a fight whenever he sees another canine, no matter of what breed or size, but that when he has his spectacles on his nose and his pipe in his mouth he is too much interested in them to risk an encounter which might cause the loss of his cherished possessions. Certainly, when bereft of them in the show ring, he was breathing out slaughterings on all sides, and Mrs. Leggatt had no easy task to prevent a deadly battle with some brother bulldog. "Artful Stockbroker" is a brindle, who was two years old on November 27. He is by Stockton ex Merit Only, and was bred by Mrs. Benham. He fully lives up to his name, and his mistress says of him: "He is so artful that he knows everything we are talking about." This Boy Was Impartial. A Baptist and a Methodist minister were by accident dining at the same house. The hostess was embarrassed, not knowing how to ask one minister to say grace without offending the other. The small son quickly grasped the situation, and, half rising in his chair, moved his finger rapidly around the table, reciting: "Eny mene miny mo, Catch a nigger by the toe." He ended by pointing his finger at the Baptist minister and shouting: "You're it!" The reverend gentleman accepted the decision. Cures WeakMen Free All correspondence is strictly confidential, mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt is free for the asking and he wants every man to have it. SECOND TO NONE Woman's Corner Stone Beneficial Assn. Incorporated March, 1897 OFFICE - 502 W. LEIGH Authorized Capital, $5,000. Claims promptly paid as soon as satisfactory notice of sickness or death is placed in home office. OFFICERS: Louisa E. Williams, - President Kate Holmes, - Vice-President Bettie Brown, - Treasurer Mildred Cooke Jones, Sec. & Bus. Man. Louisa E. Williams, Kate Holmes Mattie F. Johnson, Ann M. 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Wed ents promptly attended. in Building New 'Phone 480 HEY PLANET THE GOLDEN CITY. From the days of St. John's revelation The marvelous story is told. To the innocent hearts of the children, the toilers who faint 'neath earth's sun. To the old who have fought out its problems, To the dying whose journey is done, Comes the dream of the mystical city, With colors and loveliness rife, Iridescent its jewelled foundations, Flower-bordered its River of Life; And the streets of the city are golden, And the sea as of crystal appears, And the sound of the harpers is in it, And it knows not of sorrow or tears. Like a mirage out in the desert, Like the fabric that fashioned our dreams, Like some many-hued mirrored reflection The heavenly Jerusalem seems. We grope 'mid the types and the shadows, We fret at its velling disguise; But our hearts cannot grasp or conceive it- Its glory is hid from our eyes. We catch but a note of the music, A gimpse swiftly passing and faint, A hint of its wondrous perfection, Low whispered to seer and to saint. Tet the glow of it shortens the journey, And our feet tread more bravely the road Which leads to the sorrowless city Who Builds the Maker is God. The marvous story flows on, And the heart-man reigns on the vision That illumined the eyes of St. John. Christian Burke, in the Argosy. Uncle Eric's Presents By LUCT RANDOLPH COMFORT. T WAS a radiant March morning, the ground all mantled with new- fallen snow, the sparrows clamoring at the window ledge for crumbs, like bold little beggars as they were, and the sky bluer then the bluest ribbons on little Phillis' winter bonnet. And the children all looked at each other as they scrambled out of bed. One thought was in all their minds. This was the day upon which Uncle Eric sailed, with his vessel, for the Bermuda islands. "I wish to goodness I was going with him," said Nathan. "I'd like to be a sailor, and pipe all hands on deck, and climb up the rigging when the sea was mountains high." "Pooch!" said Sam, contemptuously, "you'd take to your heels if anyone threw a washboiler full of water on the deck." But he had to jump pretty nimbly to get out of the way of the wash basin full of Castile soapsuds, which Nathan flung at him, in reply to this taunting speech. "He's going to the -summer land," alged little Phillis, "where there is no snow nor ice, and where dear little birdies not starve to death. I wish I could go." "That's where the new potatoes and the asparagus come from," said Patty. "And the nice strawberries, before ours in the garden have even begun to blossom." "Patty thinks of nothing but things to eat and drink," said Sam, ironically. "I do, too!" said Patty, wrathfully. "I can say my French verbs a deal better than you can! And Uncle Eric is going to bring me home a talking parrot from the Bermudas, when he comes back!" "Humph!" said Sam. "I should think you were parrot enough for the whole family." Sam was certainly a very disagreeable boy. He was always teasing and tormenting the other children. Just then a voice called up the stairway to them. "Come, children, are you never coming downstairs? Breakfast is smoking hot on the table. And here are four little farewell gifts which Uncle Eric sent over for you last night, after you had gone to bed." This piece of news had the effect of hastening the toileta of the four little people in a truly astonishing degree. And presently they tumbled downstairs, one after the other, like four unruly kittens, into the breakfast-room. "What is it, mother?" cried Phyllis. "Let me see it!" said Patty. "I'm the oldest!" "I'm the oldest!" bawled Sam. But Nathan tripped him deftly up, and leaping over his prostrate form got to his mother's side first, leaving the champion sprawling like an immense beetle on the carpet. "Give us a look at it, mother," said Nathan, hugging his mother around the neck. "Not a look for one of you," the mother firmly answered, "until you have eaten your breakfasts." From this decision there was no appeal; so the children sat down, reluctantly enough, to their milk and water, oatmeal porridge and broiled ham and eggs. And when even little Phillis, the slowest of the family, had finished her meal, and folded up her mapkin and put it into its ring, Mrs. Buddington opened a mysterious-looking package, and gave Nathan a little paper-box which happened to lie on the ton. "For N. Buddington,'" she read, reading the label before she handed it to him. "With Uncle Eric's love.'" "Ho, ho!" cried the little lad, joyfully; "it's Uncle Eric's silver fruit knife, with 'E. B.' engraved on the blade in jolly Old English letters, and a little sharp spike for a nutpick." "For Phillis Buddington,'" said the mother. And Phillis' eyes sparkled at the sight of a pretty little clock about the size of a silver dollar, which she had many a time admired on Uncle Erie's study table. "And I think this must have been given to you to teach you to be a more punctual little girl." "Oh, oh—how, beautiful!" cried Phillis, trembling all over with delight. "Is it really mine? And can I wind it with this lovely little brass key?" "And be very sure you don't lose the key," said her mother. "For carelessness is one of your faults, as well as unpunctuality." "I'll be very careful," promised Phillis, retreating with her little clock in one hand and its key in the other. For Patty, the scholar of the family, there was a fine new diary-book, with gilt edges and a tiny socket to keep its accompanying pencil from straying away. "Oh, how nice!" said Patty. "I'll write down in the pages at night everything that has happened during the day, and when Uncle Eric comes back, I'll read it all aloud to him." "Poor Uncle Eric!" said Nathan. "Perhaps he'll think he had better have been shipwrecked first, or eaten up by the eannibals." For Sam, last of all, there was a little brown-leather pocketbook, some what worn, lined with cherry silk, with an especial space for postage stamps. He looked at it with rather a disappointed expression of countenance. "Only this!" said he. "Goodness me! Uncle Eric must surely have meant to play a joke upon me, because I never have any money to put into a pocketbook!" He turned away on his heel. "If Uncle Eric had meant to remember me, he grilled, "why couldn't he have given me that pretty little ship of his that the old French sailor made for him? or the magnet or the music-box inside the paperweight? I don't think much of an old leather pocketbook." The more he thought about it, the less he was pleased with Uncle Eric's remembrance of him; and at last he wrought himself up to such a condition of mind that he pulled the pocketbook out of his pocket and flung it out into the row of leafless cumin-bushes that skirted the garden fence. And then he went about his business and studies, feeling relieved. This was in the morning. When the long afternoon shadows began to lie on the snowy ground, Sam drove to the railway depot with the horse and euter, to meet his father, who went daily to the city. "Father," said he, "I wish you would give me a dollar." Mr. Buddington looked grave. "A dollar," said he. "What do you want of a dollar? Don't you know that dollars are not picked up, like butternuts, under the trees?" "I want a new sled awful bad," said Sam. "I've tinkered mine up, and tinkered it up, until it won't hold together another day. And Lew Peek is going to have a new one, and he'll sell me his old 'Eagle' for a dollar and a half, and take out the half-dollar in my pocketknife with the corkscrew blade." "That is the arrangement, is it?" said his father, half smiling. "Yes, sir," Sam answered. "And the Eagle's an out-and-out beauty. All she needs is a set of new steel runners." "Well," said Mr. Buddington, "I'll think of it, and if there's a dollar to be spared, I'll try to help you through with this bargain." "Father," said Sam, "I wish we were rich. I wish I had all the money that I wanted to spend." "And how much would that be?" naked Mr. Buddington, amused at the lad's earnestness. "Oh, I don't know," replied Sam. "Five dollars, I think—or perhaps ten. Ten, I guess, father. Oh, I could get whatever I wanted for ten dollars!" "Well, you are about as likely to get ten as five for all I can see," observed his father. "There's Jake. You had better go around to the barn with him, and see that Sorrel is quickly unhitched and well blanketed." Jake, the little colored boy who helped around the barn and poultry-yard, was in great excitement. "I done found your's pocketbook, Mr. Sam," he whispered, mysteriously, as they were unbuckling the traces, "outen in de curran' bushes. Here it is! Wid a bright, new cent into it!" "A cent, Jake?" "Clar in de inside," said Jake. "I found out enten in de curran' bushes." "Let me see," said Sam, dropping his part of the harness. Sorrel, who was by this time sufficiently detached from the sleigh, shook himself, and walked deliberately into the stable, and Jake grinningly handed the pocketbook to his young master. He was right. In the very innermost pocket—one which, in his haste and displeasure, Sam had neglected to investigate—was, not a bright, new penny, but a gold eagle—a shining treasure. This, then, was what Uncle Eric had meant by the gift of the worn pocketbook, which had so sadly wounded Sam's spirits and mortified his pride. "I always knew I was Uncle Eric's favorite," he cried, joyfully, as he set off on a full run up to the house, to disclose his good luck to the rest of the family. "Aha, Sam!" said his father, when he had learned the story, "let this be a lesson to you, never hereafter to judge by appearances." But no one ever knew whether it was or not, for Sam belonged to the numerous class of boys who never read the morals to their fables, and who never learn any lessons by experience. And how do they expect to gain wisdom?—Golden Days. He Realized It. Wife—A man is a fool to have anything to do with a lottery. living to do What I love to, Husband—You hit it, then. I'm still kicking myself for marrying you.— Harlem Life. "The parlors weren't half full, but the dining-room was packed."—Chicago Record. THE RICHMONI PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA CAT WITH MANY LIVES Nassy Rode Sixty Miles on a Cup Truck, Says W. H. Conover, Be- ing Duly Sworn. Mr. William H. Conover was thought- ful enough to furnish the New York Sun with an affidavit along with this story: Mr. Conover is an Erie railroad baggage master. He lives at Suffern. A tramp cat took up her residence at the hotel in Suffern and kept Mr. Conover's friend, Mr. Norris, awake at night by meowing. Mr. Norris asked Mr. Conover to deport the cat. Mr. Conover con- sented, put the cat in a bag and took SHOOK OUT THE CAT. her along on the 12:25 p. m. train on a recent Tuesday. At Mahwah Mr. Conover opened the bag and shook out the cat. The cat disappeared. The train went on. At Alendale Mr. Conover heard the meow of a cat and supposed the commuters were having fun with him. The train reached Jersey City, and after the passengers had left, the cars were taken to a switch where they remained for four hours. At 4:52 p. m. the train was taken to the passenger shed for its return trip to Suffern. On the arrival of the train at Suffern at 6:04 p. m. Mr. Conover, in assisting the brakeman to disconnect the air brake from the passenger car, was greeted with a meow. He looked up at the truck of the car and there sat kitty as comfortable as if she had a seat in a Pullman car. To say that Mr. Conover was surprised to see there the identical cat he had put off the train at Mahwah at about 12:30 p. m. would be stating the case mildly. Many of the residents doubted Mr. Conover's story, and to convince the doubters he produced the cat and also made an affidavit. Therefore it seems highly probable that the cat did ride from Mahwah to Jersey City and returned to Suffern on the car trucks, a distance of 60 miles, and was none the worse for her excursion with the exception of being covered with dirt and grease. She is now an honored guest at the hotel and Mr. Norris has resigned himself to staying awake at night. Mr. Conover's affidavit was sworn to before Alfred S. Bush, notary public of Suffern, and duly signed, sealed and certified by him. HANGS FROM ICICLES Long Tailed Monkey Rescued from a Peritons Position by a Chicago Street Crowd. If the Chicago Chronicle tells the truth, pedestrians in Clark street, in that city, recently witnessed an impromptu museum attraction on a different side of the thoroughfare from the one which usually furnishes such entertainment. Pizzario, a tame monkey that has sat with contentment every afternoon for weeks on the ledge of his mistress' window, mistook a series of huge icicles hanging from the roof for a part of his own stage PIZZARIO ENJOYED HIMSELF. fixings. He bounded from his station to the biggest of the group, and was soon uttering cries of joy over the sport. For a minute or so the exhibition amused the animal more than the few people who gazed upward at the dangling figure. Soon the ice, warmed by the monkey's body, began to melt, and the long-tailed creature found it much more difficult to cling on. He endeavored to reach his window, but the distance was too great. Pizzario attracted his mistress by strange cries, but she, gazing over the ledge, became too terrified to think of getting a rope. A crowd of men and boys on the other side of the street waited for the animal to drop to his death. He was slipping surely to a tragic ending when he managed to wind his tail around an icicle that had been least affected. Then some one in the crowd thought of rescue and hurried for a fire ladder. Within ten minutes the monkey was returned to his mistress. Whipping by Electricity. An electrical device for whipping convicts has been introduced in some of the French penitentiaries. Prepared for a Change. Elderly Friend—Well, have patience, You may not always be a grocer's boy. The Boy—Maybe not. The crank I work for may take a notion to fire me at any time.—Puck. "I know," replied his heiress wife "but I said nothing about my pocket book."-Philadelphia North American Ed u ug. 11. Bill Wilson, Will Chambers, Will McClure, Charlie Hart, Peter Lon and 15 year old Son, white, Shooting a man, Wetumpk, Ala. Aug. 16. Charlie Bart, color d, criminal assault Brantley, Ala. Aug. 16. Tom Keith, colored, ente ed lady's room drunk, Near Greenville, S.C. Aug. 20. Rev. T. J. Floyd, colored, wanted to work, Cartersville, Ill. Wm. Prestise. Hughes Bradley, Henry Branum, Jim Hayes, John Black, Sim Cremmings. Aug. 28. whites, smoke against lynching, Georgetown, Ga. Sept. 12. Rev. H. B. Battle, col., spoke against lynching, Near, Thompson, Ga. Sept. 27. Senior Sanches, Cuban, nothing Havana, Cuba October 11 Judge Barit La Place white, Assanitting Near New Orleans 18. Joe Lettoite 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 Total The Reign of Lawlessnes 3 C. & O. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. EFFECTIVE MARCH 1, 1900 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, BROAD-STREET STATION 9:00 A. M., Daily, with Parloror, for prince- ple stations. Newport News Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth 8:15 P. M., Daily, with Portsmouth stations, Newport news, Old Point Norfolk and Portsmouth. Connects at Old Point with Washington stations, with Baltimore and steamers except Sunday. Con- nects at Norfolk with Old Dominion Soam Ship except Sunday for New York. 10:00 A. M., Day Express except Sunday for Clifton Forge Connects at Gordonsville for Orange, Calverton, Manasquan, Alexan- zand, and Lynchburg. Station, Charlotteville for Lynch- burg; at Basic for Hagerstown. 11:15 P. M., Daily, with Pullman to Cincinnati, following from Gordonsville from Gordonsville to Sanction. 12:00 P. M., Accommodation, except Sunday for Dowell. 13:00 P. M., for Cincinnati, with Pull- man to Hinton W. Va., and Gordon- ville to Cincinnati and Lou- ville. Reals served on Dining Cars. Cars served except Sunday/or Winchester, Va., and at Covington, Va. daily for Virginia Hot Springs. TRAINS LEAVE EIGHTH-STREET STATION. 10:00 A. M., Daily, for Lexington Lynchburg, and with Pullman to Cincinnati except Sunday with Knoxville and Alcorns. Branches, and at Clifton Forge with No. 10 for Cincinnati. 12:00 P. M., Except Sunday for Columbia. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND, BROAD-STREET STATION. 8:00 A. M., Except Sunday from Dowell. 8:20 A. M., Daily from Cincinnati. 11:25 A. M., Daily from Norfolk and Old Point. 8:20 P. M., Daily, from Cincinnati and Louis- ville. 6:20 P. M., Daily, from Norfolk, and Old Point. 7:45 P. M., Except Sunday, from Clifton Forge. TRAINS ARRIVE EIGHTH STREET STATION. 8:40 A. M., Except Sunday from Columbia. 8:20 P. M., Daily, from Cincinnati and Clifton Forge, and except sun- day from New Castle, and Rosney. JOHN D. POTTS, Ass't. General Passenger Agent. Southern Railway IN EFFECT APRIL 2ND, 1900 Trains Leaves Richmond, Va. 11. 10 p.M. No. 11 SOUTHERN EXPRESS daily to. Atlanta Augusta Jacksonville, and points South Augusta Danyville, and points South Augusta Sleepers open at Richmond 9: 20 p. M. Steps for passengers at local stations. Connects at Danyville and Charlotte, with the New York and South stations. (No 7) carrying through sleepers be tween New York and Tampa, with con- nections for all Florida, points, also connects with Charlotte with the lift stations and South stations. (No 7) carrying through sleepers bet'n New York and Nashville, New York and Memphis and New York and Memphis, with sleepers Monays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Washington to San Francisco without change, with connections for all points in Texas, Mexico and Cali- fornia. 12:01 P M No. 7, solid train daily or Christ lotte, N. C. Connects at Moseley with Kentucky. N. C. Connects at Kentucky with Kyville for Clarksville, Oxford, Henderson and Durham and at Greenbush on Salem at Danville with No. 38 United States Fast Mail, solid train, daily for New York and New Haven. Carries sleeper New York to New Geans and New York to Jacksonville and Miami for Nassau and Habana, Cuba. Memphis via of Anshweil and Chattah F. no. 6:10 P M LOCAL, daily except Sunday for Kyville and intermediate point TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND. 6:10 A M. 6:35 P. M., from Atlanta Augusta, Asheville and all points South. 8:30 P. M., from Keysville and local stations. LOCAL PRIORITY TRAINS. YORK RIVER LINE, WEST POINT The Favorite Route North. BALTIMORE LIMITED, Daily, except Sunday, for West Point, and intermediate stations making close connection. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays with steamers for Haiti-men. Train No. 10.2:80 P.M. LOCAL EXPENSE, Mon Wednes & Fridays, for West Point and intermediate stations. continue on Tappahannock; also at West Point with steamer for Baltimore. Stops at all sta- Train No. 74.5:89 A. M. LOCAL MIXED, leaves daily, except Sunday from Virginia Street Station for West Point and intermediate stations, connecting with stage at Jersey manor for Walkerton and Tappanhook. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND. 8:35 a.m. Daily, from West Point, with connection from Baltimore except Mondays. 10:45 a.m. Sundays and Mondays. 6:40 p.m. Daily, except Sunday from West Point and intermediate stations. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND. 8:35 a.m. Daily, from West Point, daily except Sundays 8:50 p.m. M. arriving Saltmore 8:00 a.m., returning leave Baltimore 5:00 p.m. daily, except Sundays arriving Richmond beamers call at Gloucester Point and Almonds Whart, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; Yorktown and Clay Bank, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. G. WESTBURY, Travelling Passenger Agent, 920 E. Main St, Richmond, Va. J. M. CULP, traffic manager. Gen. Pass. Agt. FRANK S. GANNON. Faird Vioe-president and General Manager, Washington, D. C. FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Easy way to get a SUIT for 'Easter. Come and open an account with me for 50 cents and pay 50 cents weekly. Everything made to order. Fit guaranteed. Bring this ad. Will allow you $1.00. R. ROSS BURT, 324 W. 71th St., New York. DAILY LINE FOR NEW YORK, RECEPT SUNDAY Passengers can leave Richmond daily except Sunday, Cheapeake and Ohio, railway, 6 P.M. M, or Richmond, Norfolk and Western route; 9:00 A.M. conductus at Norfolk with Old Domini- cal steamers selling same evening at 10:00 A.M. Tickets on sale at Richmond Transfer Company's, 908 east Main Street; Cheapeake and railway and Richmond and Petersburg railway on company's office, 1232 east Main Street, Richmond. Baggage check through. FRIGRANCE. for New York and its beyond can be shipped by steamers, selling from Rink- every, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, n. FRI DA at 5:00 P.M. This steam or carriage stee- pace may be opened one hour before sailing time. Freight received and forwarded and through bills of loading issued for all northern, eastern and foreign ports. FROM NEW YORK* Passengers can leave daily except Sunda- t at 2 P.M. (Saturday 2 P.M. to Norfolk k or old Comfort, connecting with Norfolk and Western railroad or Cheapeake and Ohio railway. Freight for Richmond by steamer via Nor- folk and Wednesdays at 3:00 P.M. Satur- days, 4 P.M. Sailings from company's pler. No 2. Mor- hawk foot of Beach Street. Freight received and forwarded daily except Sunday. VIRGINIA NAVIGATION COMPANY'S JAMES-RIVER LINE To Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point, Newport- News, Charleston, and James River landings, connecting at Old Point and Norfolk for Washington, and the North. STRAMER POCONANTS LAKE, WED- NEDAY AND FRIDAY AT T.A.M. Heleicircans direct to wharf. Fare only 125. To Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point, Newport News. Music by a grand Orchestra. Freight received daily from above-named and all points in Eastern Virginia and North Carolina. S.A.L. M. SEABOARD AIR LINE. SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY 8, 1901 LEAVES BYRD-STREET STATION. 9:05 A M} Dall for Henderson (arbor) Arthur daily, except Sunday). 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CHANGE OF ADDRESS :- In order to change the address of a subscriber we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered in the Post-Office at Rlohmond, Va. as second class matter. SATURDAY APRIL 21 1900. Colored men, do not become discouraged amidst these discouraging times. Social frivolities are all right in their places, but too much of it will sap the vital energies of the race. We return thanks for an invitation to the 82d anniversary of the Hampton Institute, April 28th, Prof. H. B. Frisell, principal. We return thanks for an invitation to the 18th annual commencement of Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C., April 18th to 25th. The cry of disfranchisement of the Negro is being made to cover up some sinister attack upon the rights of the white people. Ok, will our young men ever realize that they must engage in business, create enterprises and build up a competency for themselves? With the white men absolutely in control in this state, an effort is now being made to nullify the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. We must invent, manufacture, employ and gather together the finances. One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one failure cause a lasting disaster. We return thanks to Hon. CHARLES DICK for a copy of the speech of Hon. JONATHAN ROSS, of Vermont, delivered in the United States Senate. Jan. 23, 1900, upon "The Nation's Relations to its Island Possessions. We must do all in our power to improve the condition of our people. The disreputable, boorish, disgusting elements among us must be taught that their conduct hinders our progress and nullifies our efforts to succeed. THE TIMES AND THE NEGRO never to tire in its efforts against the Negro. Awake or sleeping, the nightmare of Negro supremacy seems to haunt its thoughts and dreams. In its issue of the 17th inst. it says: "One of the arguments which the politicians are using against the holding of a constitutional convention is that with the Negro vote eliminated the Democratic party will 'split.' As to whether or not that would be the result no man knows, but we have no doubt whatever that unless there be reform in the present system of elections in Virginia the Democratic party will split all to flinders, and the politicians who do not see that are certainly blind to glaring facts." And again: "If there is to be a split in the party, if there are to be two evenly matched parties in the State of Virginia, every sensible man knows that it wore better for that condition to come without the Negro vote to reckon with. The Negroes in Virginia have always voted in a mass, and may be expected to do so in the future. If the whites should split, one side or the other, perhaps both, would bid for the Negro vote, and no trous Virginian wants to see that condition in this old Commonwealth. The Negroes in Virginia politics is necessarily and in fact a disturbing factor. Under what conditions he should hold the balance of power, he would make a great disturbance among the whites. There would be discord and strife and bloodshed." It continues: "We believe that in the interest of peace, pure government and honest politics, it is necessary that the great body of Negro voters shall be disfranchised, and to that end we are heartily in favor of a constitutional convention." The above is about as hypothetical a declaration as we have seen published any where. By a dishonest method it would disfranchise the Negro in order to secure pure government. It is an effort to secure purity from impurity, to expect honesty from dishonesty. It would expect a bitter fountain to send forth sweetness, but why argue against such absurdities? It gives its case away when it says: "It does not, however, by any means follow that with the Negro vote eliminated the Democratic party in Virginia would split. Several of the Southern States have riddled themselves of the Negro vote, and yet the Democratic party is as solid as ever." The TIMES is thoroughly inconsistent and its ridiculous assertions are not amusing now, but disgusting to every citizen and a surprise to every follower of the Lamb. The best way is to do right and to steer closely to the great principles which have directed nations and the disregard of its advice has wrecked empires and destroyed governments. Our republic will prove no exception to the rule. MR. HOAR AND THE PHILIPPINES THE speech of Senator Hoar delivered in the United States Senate Tuesday, April 17.h, was one of the ablest philipics ever delivered in that chamber. His action in calling the attention of the American people to the compass of independence and the guiding star of the republic was sublime. It must have a far reaching effect upon the campaign now pending before the people of this country. It is plainly evident that we are wrong in our dealings with the Filipinos, and it is to be hoped that steps will be taken to change our policy and make it conform to the cardinal principles of the republic. The daily press says: "The speech was brilliantly written, was illuminated with spler d rhetorical figures, and was rich with citations from history. One of the notable parts of the address was the eulogy of Aguinaldc. Mr. Hoar did not liken the insurgent leader to Washington, as has been done heretofore, but to Koseuth, Oom Paul Jo bert, Nathan Hale, and other builders of the church of liberty. In statecraft, he likened Aguinaldo to a successor to the leadership of the Filipino to the end, ever produced in the Aniatic race, which handed down to us "the Scripsures of the Old and New Testaments, the poetry of David, the eloquence of Isaiah, the wisdom of Solomon, and the profound philosophy of Paul." One of the most effective parts of the address was his fancied roll-call of some of the distinguished statesmen of the Unite States on the que tion of the retention of the Philippines. He began with George Washington and closed with William McKinley, each in a sentence giving the reason for hi vote. Every vote was in the negative, except that of Aaron Burr, wh voted 'yes,' and explained: "You are repeating my busineering expedition down the Mississippi. I am to be vindicated at last." When the name of William McKinley was killed, he replied: "There was a cloud before my vision for a moment, but I see clearly now; I go back to what I did two years ago: Forcible annotation; governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, not of some of th m, but of all of them. I will stand with the fathers of the republican party. No." The effect was dramatic. As Mr. Hoar pronounced his peroration the stillness in the shamber was intense. Applause swept over the galleries, but it was hushed quickly by the President pro tempore. And again: "Senator Hoar began his speech with an elequent reference to the glory which had attended the war with Spain, a glory which was coupled with the hope that the liberated people could establish their own ependence in freedom and honor. He applaused to the Republican party not to depart from its old principles, not to commit itself to despotism. 'If when we made the treaty of peace,' said Mr. Hoar, 'we had adhered to the purpose we declared when we declared war; if we had deals with the Philippine islands as we p omise to deal, have dealt, and expect to deal with Cuba, the country would have escaped the loss of 6 000 kidnappers, other thousands of wrecked many mourned lives, the sickness of many mourned penditure of hundreds of millions, and the worse than all, the trampling under foot of its cherished ideals. There would have been to day a noble republic in the East, sitting docile at our feet, receiving from us civilization, laws, manners, and giving in turn everything the gratitude of a free people could give—love, obedience, trade.' If these things had been done, 'nothing at home,' ascordi go to Mr. Hoar, 'could have withstood the great party and the great President who had done them. We should have c me from the next election with a solid North and have carried half the South. You would at least have been spared the spectacle of great Republican States rising in revolt against Republican policies.' Senator Hoar asserted, however. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA that there was no hope for liberty in the Philippine, a exegete through the Republican party. He, it identified Bryan for having aided in the infiltration of the treaty. th Spain, a rat fission which involved the continuance of the war. Incidentally he condemned the attitude of the Southern Democrats toward the Negro, the Democratic administration of New York and Chicago, and the Democratic policy of free coinage of silver. I cannot see in Mr. Bryan in the Presidential chair and the Senate and Congress so controlled,' said Mr. Hoar, 'either hope that this policy of imperialism will be which will compensate us for the great evil such a rule will bring with it. I am not ready to take the administration of this country from the party which for fifty years has been wrong but once, and commit it to the party which for fifty yrs has never once been right." "If Senators had not been talking about holding on to all they could get, about making money out of their great act of liberation, about keeping from the people of these islands their liberty and their independence, for purposes of gain and trade, there would have been no war." Senator Hoar stands practically alone in his great effort, battling in eternal principles and championing the rights of the dark-skinned inhabitants in the Philippines. May God raise up others, to take his place, when this great tribune of the people has been laid away forever. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Osborn Deignan, of the Merrimac's crew, is now a midshipman in the navy. Charles H. Allen, assistant secretary of the navy, has been appointed civil governor of Puerto Rico. Freda Pergnee, 11 years old, skipped the rope 230 times in a schoolgirl's contest at Belleville, Ills., and died. Five thousand miners in the Cumberland (Md.) region are on strike for increased wages and recognition of their union. The Puerto Rican tariff bill, as amended by the senate, passed the house 161 to 153, and was promptly signed by the president. Porch climbers robbed the Chicago residence of O. W. Potter, ex-president of the Illinois Steel company, securing $20,000 worth of valuables. Friday, April 13. Our army in the Philippines numbers numbers 63,585 officers and men. George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts, is proposed as Democratic and Populist nominee for vice president. The Berlin Lokal Anzeigler says Emperor William and Czar Nicholas will meet at Dantzic toward the end of May. The internal revenue receipts for March were $24,328,677, an increase as compared with March, 1899, of $1,588-228. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, of New York, announce the engagement of their daughter Alta to E. Parmalee Prentice, of Chicago. "Straightout" Populist conventions thus far held Indicate the nomination of Wharton Barker and Ignatius Donnelly for president and vice president. Saturday, April 14. The Colorado Springs Gazette nominates Senator Wolcott as Republican candidate for vice president. The situation in the strike of telegraphers on the Southern railroad shows an improvement for the road. While the family was at dinner thieves stole $2,000 worth of jewelry from the residence of Abram M. Rothschild, at Chicago. The national house, by a vote of 240 to 15, passed a resolution favoring a constitutional amendment to elect senators by popular vote. At the international agricultural conference in Paris in July a plan will be proposed to limit wheat production and sell for not less than $1 a bushel. Miss Nellie Lewis, who sued President Sam Strong, of the Free Coinage and other Cripple Creek (Colo.) mining companies, for $200,000 for breach of promise, was awarded $50,000. Monday, April 16. A London syndicate, for $4,000,000, has secured four rich gold mines in Mexico. Ex-Secretary Alger says Admiral Dewey's head is turned by the praise showered upon him. The first day of the Incomplete Paris exposition was attended by 250,000 persons, mainly provincials and foreigners. Former President Charles H. Cole, of the Globe National bank, pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling the bank's funds at Boston. Republicans and Populists of North Carolina failed to agree on a plan of fusion, and there will be two tickets, assuring Democratic success. Hazel Wright and Nellie Black, imates of the Lakeside House, at Cellina, O., testify that wealthy John R. Dilley was murdered in the place and thrown into a reservoir. Tuesday, April 17. Queen Victoria has decided to prolong her stay in Ireland until April 27. A papal decision prohibits religious congregations from taking part in politics. William F. Miller, of Franklin syndicate fame, was convicted of grand larceny at Brooklyn. Mrs. Sarah Pollard, the oldest army nurse in the country, died yesterday in Indianapolis, aged 93. August Brogus, 77 years old, killed his 31-year-old son in a dispute over a dog at their home in Brooklyn. The secretary of the treasury yesterday received from an unknown person a conscience contribution of $623. Misses M. E. Burrell and Fannie E. Harper have returned home [after a successful School term. GOEBEL ASSASSINATION. Ten Persons Indicted For Complicity in the Crime. FIVE NAMED AS PRINCIPALS. Among Those Indicted as Accessories Are State Secretary Powers and Ex-State Secretary Finley-H. E. Youtsey Named as First Principal Frankfort, Ky. April18.—The Franklin county grand jury yesterday afternoon returned indictments against ten persons, charging them with complicity in the murder of William Goebel. The principal indicted are Henry E. Youtsey, James Hewald, Berry Howard, Harland Whitaker and "Tallow Dick" Combs (colored). Those indicted as accessories before the fact are Secretary of State Caleb Powers, Captain John T. Powers, ex-Secretary of State Charles Finley, H. H. Coulton and F. Wharton Golden. In the indictment relating to the alleged accessories three other men are indirectly referred to as accessories, though no indictments were reported against them. They are Governor W. S. Taylor, Green Golden' and Captain John Davis. Henry E. Youtsey, who is mentioned as the first principal, was a clerk in the office of State Auditor Sweeney. He formerly lived at Newport. Youtsey was first named in the case by Wharton Golden, the star witness for the prosecution at the examining trial of Caleb Powers. Jim and Berry Howard are cousins and mountainers of note in connection with the old Howard feud. They were with the men alleged to have been brought here by the Powers brothers, Finley and others on the "excursion of mountainers." Harlan Whittaker lived in Butler, Governor Taylor's home county, and is alleged to have been in the room in the executive building from which the shot was fired. Dick Combs, the negro, lived at Beattyville, and also came here with the mountain men. Caleb Powers is the Republican conteste for secretary of state, and John I. Powers, another of the defendants named as an accessory, is his brother. Charles Finley was secretary of state under Republican Governor W. O. Bradley. He is now in Indianapolis, having gone there just before the warrant charging him with complicity was sworn out six weeks ago. W. H. Culton was a clerk in the office of Auditor Sweeney. Wharton Golden was a member of the Taylor State Guard, and claimed to turn state's evidence on the stand in the examining trial of Caleb Powers, when he recited what he claimed to be the inside facts relating to the alleged conspiracy to murder Goebel and enough Democratic members of the legislature to give the Republicans a majority. It is stated that the commonweal it will at once nolle the indictment against Golden in consideration of his testimony. A MILITIAMAN MURDERED Shot From Ambush While Guarding Against Italian Strikers. Croton Landing, N. Y., April 17.—The first bloodshed as the outcome of the strike at the Cornell dam was the life's blood of Sergeant Robert Douglass, of the Eleventh separate company, of Mount Vernon, who was shot dead by an unknown assassin while he was relieving guard last night. The point where the sergeant fell is known as Post 10, which was in charge of Corporal McDowell. It is situated on the top of the hill near Little Italy, where armed strikers were seen drilling or marching about early in the morning, brandishing rifles and shot-guns. Douglass was talking to Corporal McDowell and the other members of the guard, when he suddenly clapped his hands to his stomach and said, "Lord boys, I am shot," and fell to the ground. It was pitch dark at the time, but McDowell and the others fired a volley into a clump of bushes near by without hitting any one. No one saw the flash or heard the sound of the shot which killed Douglass, and it was a most mysterious affair. Meanwhile the men picked up the fallen sergeant and carried him down the hill on a stretcher, but as soon as they reached Douglass' tent the poor fellow died without saying a word. Lieutenant Glover, with a squad of men, went up to the top of the hill, went to take a thorough search, but failed to find any there. The contractors declare they were surname work at once, with or without the strikers. The extra sheriff's deputies have been relieved from duty. A Chicago Hotel Tragedy Chicago, April 16.—Rufus Wright, the millionaire inventor and manufacturer of rubber tires, who was shot on Saturday during a scuffle for possession of a revolver in the apartments of Mrs. Louisa Lottridge, at the Leland hotel, died yesterday from the effects of the wound. In his dying statement Mr. Wright declared he alone was to blame. The woman is in jail on a charge of murder, however, and police officials declare she killed Wright because he refused to give her a large sum of money. An Apology to Spain Madrid, April 18.—The United States minister, Bellamy Storer, visited Premier Silvela yesterday and apologized for the action of the mayor of Chicago, Carter H. Harrison, in sending an invitation to the Duke of Arcos, the Spanish minister at Washington, to attend Dewey day celebration there. Mr. Storer, the United States government regretted the action which he explained was the result of an agreement committed by a municipal clerk, and promised it should not be rented. Inspecting German Navy Yards Berlin, April, 18—Lieutenant Commander William H. Behler, United States naval attaché there, yesterday accompanied to Stettin, mr. Horatio G. Gillmore, assistant naval constructor, United States navy, inspect the navy yards there. The inspection was made by Emperor William H. special permission. Lieutenant Commander Beehler will go with Mr. G. more to Kiel for the same purpose. This privilege is an unusual sign of imperial favor. Chancellor McGill to Resign. Jersey City, April 18.—It was announced yesterday that the condition of Chancellor Alexander T. McGill had greatly improved within two or three days. But with this came the further announcement that Mr. McGill had decided to send his resignation to Governor Voorhees. The chancellor could not be seen, but his brother, Dr. John D. McGill, practically confirmed the report. GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS Fredericksburg, Va., April 15.—Three hundred thousand fish were caught at one haul early Saturday morning at Wisewater fishing shore, on the Potomac. This is the greatest haul on record there. Charleston, April 13.—John and Harvey Jackson, two brothers, accused of killing and burning Cassie Boon, in Chesterfield county, this state, were found guilty of murder, with a recommendation to mercy. Judge Klugh sentenced the two prisoners to life imprisonment. Charleston, W. Va., April 16.—Samuel Payre, colored, was burned to death at his home yesterday morning. He lived alone, and about 4 o'clock the building was discovered on fire, and, as it was a small house, it was destroyed before aid could arrive. After the house was destroyed the man's body, or that part which remained, was found. Lake City, S. C., April 17.—The post-office here has been re-established, and Mrs. Della D. Carter (white) appointed postmistress. This was done upon petitions filed practically by all the white and colored citizens requesting re-establishment of the office and this lady's appointment. There has been no post-office at Lake City since the colored postmaster was killed by a mob two years ago. Chattanooga, April 16.—A through freight train on the Southern railway struck a mule and was wrecked while running at full speed, near Huntsville, Ala. The engineer, Percy Armstrong, and the fireman, Sandy Osborne, were killed, and five of the train's crew seriously injured. The engine plunged down a steep embankment and immediately caught fire. The freight cars crowded upon the overturned engine. Norfolk, Va., April 14.—Bishop Handy, the venerable presiding officer of the Virginia conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church, created somewhat of a sensation yesterday by announcing that he had received letters making charges of drinking, dishonesty and immorality against some of the preachers then on the conference floor. He said that he would place the entire matter in the hands of an investigating committee, and that guilty preachers need expect no quarter. Birmingham, April 16.—Latest returns from the primaries held throughout the state Saturday only serve to confirm the overwhelming victory of Senator Morgan over Governor Johnston for the United States senatorship. Senator Morgan will have 116 of the 120 Democratic votes in the general assembly. W. J. Samford, for governor, may go to the state convention with a majority of the delegates, as the returns indicate that he carried the state with the exception of a few countries. Pledmont, W. Va., April 16.—Seven hundred miners employed by the Davis Coal and Coke company In this section of the Elk Garden mining region yesterday voted unanimously to strike, and did not re-enter the mines today. Like their brothers of the George's Creek region, the miners demand 60 cents per ton. Officials of the company urged the men to arbitrate their differences and offered to pay the men whatever the operators of the George's Creek rion decided upon. According to a mining expert here, the strikes will not materially affect the general output of coal, and there should be no fear of a coal famine. Winchester, Va., April 13.—A most distressing accident, which may result in the death of an estimable lady of Winchester, occurred in the suburbs of town late yesterday afternoon. The victim was Mrs. Emma Gosherh, widow of Jacob F. Gosherh, she was visiting her sister, Mrs. C. M. Latham, and was standing in the center of the parlor when a large rock crashed through the window and struck her on the left side of the head, crushing it in. One eye was completely torn out, the cheekbone and nose broken and crushed and her skull fractured. The rock was hurled from a blast in a stone quarry about 75 yards distant from the house. The workman had carelessly placed a few tinbars over the blast, and the rockks were hurled in every direction. Her husband met a trails death here several years ago by having his neck broken by falling from a haymow. A HUSAND'S SACRIFICE. Connally Fields Became Outlawed For Hunger. Connally For Murder Committed by Wife. Bristol, Va., April 15.—Through ex-Commonwealth's Attorney Hoge, of Gate City, Va., Connally Fields has just been relieved by the governor of Virginia of a charge of murder and outlawry which has stood against him since 1884, and which caused him to be an exile from home. All these years Fields has resided in the far west and without the privilege of returning to his native home in Scott county, Virginia, as a free man. He was charged with the murder of his brother-in-law, William A. Scott. Back of this is an interesting story of a husband's self sacrifice for his wife. The killing of Scott was due to bad blood that had existed between him and the Fields family for some time. Scott had been trespassing upon Fields' lands, a matter which had incensed Mrs. Fields, Scott's sister, more than her husband. The woman urged her husband to settle the matter with Scott. The two men met near Fields' home and a desperate struggle between them followed. Mrs. Fields joined with her husband in the fight, and before it was over Scott fell mortally wounded, his body having been pierced by a sharp instrument. Fields ded the community and located in the west, where he has been successful. Fields' wife, in Scott county, Virginia, sued for and obtained a divorce upon the ground of desertion. Afterwards in a fit of temper she shot and seriously wounded a respectable lady in the community. For the crime she was tried and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Before she served her time she became ill with consumption and was pardoned by the governor. She died a few days after her return home. With her death the secret which her husband had so long retained became known. It was Mrs. Fields who had murdered her brother. Some time after the tragedy a sharp pointed pair of scissors, stained with blood, was found on the scene of the murder. King Orlando High School King Oscar to Visit Paris Exposition Paris, April 18—It is officially announced that King Oscar will visit the exposition before the end of the month. The crown prince and the Crown Princess of Denmark have postponed their visit for some days. Twenty-five Fishermen Drowned. Crook Haven, Ireland, April 18—The French fishing boat Hoche has "bounded off Crook Haven in a storm, 24 persons being drowned. Established 1868. Old 'Phone 143 J. A. & C. J. COOKE SUCCESSORS TO Henry Cooke, SNARL WITH TURKEY. Sultan's Bad Faith Has Strained Diplomatic Relations. MINISTER MAY BE SENT HOME The Ruler of the Turkish Empire, Despite Repeated Promises, Neglects to Pay the Indemnity Claims of American Missionaries. Washington, April 18.—There is no longer any question that the diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkey are in a critical state, growing out of the sultan's bad faith. He promised to pay the indemnity claims of the American missionaries for the destruction of eight buildings of the Euphrates college at Harpoot and several buildings belonging to the American missionaries at Marash during the Armenian massacres of 1895. Mr. Straus, the United States minister to Turkey, is at present here on leave absence. As has already been announced, the presented resignation, but the president, regarding the services of Mr. Straus as indispensable, indefinitely extended his leave, subject to the call of the secretary of state, whenever circumstances may necessitate his return. Diplomacy appears to have exhausted itself at Constantinople, the sultan having promised to pay the indemnity claims, amounting to some $90,000, which promise was again renewed prior to Mr. Straus' departure, and although 1$ months have elapsed since the promise was first made, that promise still remains unfulfilled. What action the government will now take to enforce the sale of definitely known, but as the situation is critical it may result in Secretary Hay sending the Turkish minister at Washington his passports. When Dr. Angell resigned in 1888 the relations between the two countries were critical by reason of the inaction of the Turkish government and its refusal to entertain the indemnity claims. Mr. Straus, by reason of his successful previous mission and his past experience, was summoned by the president to take up the mission, as best qualified to adjust the posting questions in a manner satisfactory to both countries. Shortly after his arrival at Constantinople in September, 1888, several matters yielded to negotiation. He then affirmed himself to the main questions, the compensation for missionary buildings and the permit for property looted, and the permit for their rebuilding. The "Turkish government" shortly before the departure of Dr. Angell sent a reply denying all liability for the buildings and property destroyed. A similar reply was sent to the ambassadors of England, France and Italy, having like claims. Mr. Straus took up the question anew, basing his argument upon the well recognized principles of international law, with the result that at an audience with the sultan on Dec. 8, 1898, the sultan promised to pay the claims. He also stated that he had given permission for the reconstruction of the destroyed buildings. Neither of these promises has been Kent. SENATOR HOAR'S ROLL CALL. Statesmen Past and Present Voted Against Regulating the Publications Against Retaining the Philippines. Washington, April 18.—For more than three hours yesterday Mr. Hoar, the senator senator from Massachusetts, occupied the attention of the senate with a speech in opposition to the policy of "imperialism" upon which he maintained, this government has embarked. The speech was brilliantly written, was illuminated with splendid rhetorical figures and was rich with citations from history. One of the notable parts of the address was the eulogy of Augustinaldo. Mr. Hoar did not liken the laureant leader to Washington, as has been suggested to Kossuth, Oom Paul, Joubert, Nathan K. and other builders of the church of liberty. In statecraft he likened Aguinaldo and his associates to the best minds ever produced in the Asiatic race. One of the most effective parts of the address was his fancied roll call of some of the distinguished statesmen of the United States on the question of the retention of the Philippines. He began with Washington and closed with McKinley, each giving the reason for his vote. Every vote was in the negation of the question.aron Curr, who voted "Yes" and explained: "I was repeating my buccaneering expedition down the Mississippi. I am to be vindicated at last." When the name of William McKinley was called he repiled: "There has been a cloud before my vision for a moment, but I see clearly now. I go back to what I said two years ago: 'Forcible annexation is criminal aggression; governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.' I will stand with the fathers of the people. I will stand with the Republican party. No. The effect was dramatic. Applause swept over the galleries, but it was quickly hushed by the president pro tem. Governor Allen Confirmed. Washington, April 18.—The senate yesterday confirmed the following nominations: Charles H. Allen, of Massachusetts, to be governor of Puerto Rico; I. J. McCottrie, to be collector of customs for the district of Georgetown, S.; C. John B. Robinson, to be marshal for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. The president will probably name Frank W. Hackett, of Portsmouth, N. H., as assistant secretary of the nav —Rev. R. C. Brown and Mr. R. P. Williams of Nottaway Co., called on Washington, April 14.—Owing to continued ill health, John Addison Porter, secretary to the president, has ten A. GEORGE B. CORTELYOU. dered his resignation and the president has accepted it, to take effect May 1. George B. Cortelyou, of New York, the present assistant secretary to the president, has been appointed to the office. COWARDLY FRENCH SEA CAPTAIN. New York, April 14.—At the bottom of the sea outside of Santo Domingo harbor the wreck of the French steamer Georges Croise has in for more than two weeks. Enveloped in the mass of her wreckage are the bodies of four men, two passengers and two sailors. Her captain, Francisco Cathrien, is alive, but no one knows his whereabouts. He deserted his doomed ship and nearly three score people that were aboard of her. He and the pilot were seen putting off in a small boat as the rescuers hove in sight. The survivors, including many women and children, were brought here by the Clyde line steamer New York, they having been rescued just before the Georges Croise went down. The dead are Dom Pepe Vale, a wealthy Cuban, who owned the cargo of cattle; the second cook, a fireman and an unknown passenger. The cattle numbered 240, together with eight horses and 17 calves. PHILIPPINES SUCCESSES Our Garrison at Batoc Kills a Hundred and Six Rebels. Manila, April 17.-Gen. Young reports that 300 insurgent riflemen and bolzen attacked the American garrison at Batoc, province of North Ilocos Sunday, but were repulsed, losing 106 men. The Americans had no casualties. Captain Dodd, with a squadron of the Third cavalry, recently surrounded a village in Benguet province, and surprised 200 insurgents, living in barracks, which was apparently a recruiting center for the province. The enemy lost 53 men killed. Our troops also captured 44 men, and burned the village. One American was wounded. Jokting Ends in Murder Johnstown, Pa., April 18.—William M. Bannon, a young man of this city, was shot and instantly killed, last evening by John McKinzie. The two men, with others, were in a room in the rear of the bar of Eichensehr's hotel, when a joking remark regarding singing was made by Bannon, which angered McKinzie. A quarrel followed, during which Bannon struck McKinzie on the head with brass knuckles. The party was ejected from the hotel, and it was endeavored to establish peace again, but McKinzie refused to listen and followed Bannon, overtaking him two blocks from the hotel, where he fired two shots, both bullets passing through Bannon's heart. The murderer was arrested. New York's Republican Delegate. New York's Republican Delegates. New York, April 18.—The Republican convention for the election of delegates-at-large to the national convention at Philadelphia named two United States senators, a governor and the second in command of the Republican state organization as the choice for delegates-at-large. The men signally honored are Senators Platt and Depew, Governor Roosevelt and State Committee Chairman B. B. Odell as delegates-at-large and Edward H. Butler of Buffalo and F. A. Mitchell of Rochester, both newspaper proprietors, as electors-at-large. Our Expensive Commissions Washington, April 17.—Complying with a resolution of inquiry the president sent to the senate yesterday an itemized statement of the expenses of the Philippines commission. The statement includes the following items: Compensation of $10,000 each to Commissioners Schurman, Worcester and Denby; per diem allowance to commissioners after their return to the United States, $5,285; secretary to commission, $12,220; transportation, $13,687; household expenses in Manila, $9,252; clerical services, $31,701; miscellaneous, $14,998. Total, $117,185. An American Countess Lost at Sea Berlin, April 18.—A special dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger, which gives meager details regarding the loss near Mineocroft of the yacht of Count Rudolph Festetics with all on board save the owner and two servants, says that among the victims was the countess, who prior to her marriage was Miss Haggin, of New York city. HEY PLANET SATURDAY, APRIL 21 1900 REV. DR. GRAHAM BLAZES THE WAY. (Continued from First Page) an answer to every slanderous assertion against the flusness of the race to fight hardy and the unacceptably great institutions: President J. Hugo Robertson, one of the greatest men of our Baptist denomination, with the efficient and noble faculty associated with him in the conduct of the Virginia Normal & Collegiate-Institute is a rebuke to every slanderer who would say Negro leadership is untrustworthy. Our state government has the highest confidence in him in his management of that great school. Many thousands of dollars are entrusted to the management of this school every year and not a soul is sent to watch it with a suspicion if not possible for the Negro Baptists of this state and of the Southland to so conduct their affairs as to gain similar confidence from those in high places? I think so. Best assured so long as we are not in position to control anything, just so long will we be justly criticised as being unworthy of the highest recognition; for who wants to see ten millions of people begging all the time and never getting into shape to keep themselves from begging? But to get in shape to keep from begging that which we should be able to conduct must be 'ours. It is therefore in the third place very necessary for us to prove our worthiness by owning that which we seek to conduct. There must be a noble and praiseworthy thy method of coming in possession of what we own. We feel that we should not wait for benefactors to use every possible means in preparing us to help ourselves and then in turn demand their machinery, their lands, their institutions. THE NOBLER WAY. The sobber way is to create, formulate and perpetuate something of our own—even if it is on a small scale. In Roanoke, Va., there is a foundry of some considerable importance owned by a company of gentlemen who themselves were once day-laborers in another larger concern, but feeling that they should be their own proprietors, they rented an old building, began in a small way before giving up their positions, working between times and at night until they had made a name for themselves. Honesty, plusk and push opened the markets to their skillful productions and to-day they have a large establishment managing and directing their own affairs, employing many workers. So the Negro Baptists, though weak and inexperienced must grow strong and wise in the conduct of their own affairs by making a beginning which must absolutely be theirs and under their direction. NO ANTAGONISM TO FRIENDS. This does not mean, nor does it imply, or even hint, at antagonism to existing institutions owned by our friends, carried on for our benefit; but since the most of us who are leading in this manly, noble and Christlike effort to help ourselves are educational products of the benevolent institutions run by our friends, it seems to us that the best way to demonstrate the wisdom of the establishment of such benevolent institutions is for the beneficiaries to prove themselves men and women able to step out in life's battle, make a way for themselves, help their people to independency, and hand down a glorious record to unborn generations. But some one may say independent institutions are not needed. Such an assertion is all bosh. You had just as well say that Negroes living in rented houses, on rented farms, in landlords' back yards, ought not to endeavor to get homes for themselves; for certainty citizenship that carries not with its ownership in all the avenues of civilized life cannot be respected without regard. An a man who has nothing demand of recognition with the man that has all the rises fitting him for the highest walks of life? Or can a race of people having but charitable consideration, missionary respect, and ward relations to others ever hope to be equally respected with she races that have in their grasp all the facilities of respectable self-government? These questions answer themselves. ROOM ENOUGH FOR ALL. Now there is room for every institution of learning brought into existence among our people. What proof is there of this? Is not Hampton crowded to overflow? Is not our great Virginia Normal and College Institute at Petersburg crowded? Are not all the Pedo Baptist denominational schools and non sectarian christian schools crowded? Is not Virginia Union University lacking for room already to accommodate ate applicants? And is it not a fact that our own Virginia Seminary finds herself to-day unable to accommodate one-fifth of the students who desire to go there? Is it not a fact that thousand students they would find the way to Virginia Seminary. Is it a fact, the harvest is great, the fields whitening, the laborers few; who dares to stand up and ignorantly, heathen-like, klu kuxel, throttle, straught and murder the fire of ambition that burns in the black man's heart to lift himself to an eminence commanding and demanding the respect of the world? THAT BURNING REFERENCE. Can any one be guilty of such save an Aaron Burr, a Benedict Arnold, a midnight assasin, "a Barn Burner" that would betray to his foes, a martyr Maceo? God forbid. As for my parte, I am determined that history shall not record my feeble efforts to do something in life, as efforts against my race in enterprises set all sat, plumped amidst the storms and raging seas for itself. With gratitude in our hearts we bid all the institutions for the elevation of humanity, God speed; and to ours, we assiduously head. Fourthly, our worthiness to our manner of thinking, must be seen not only in organizing, conducting and owning something but by making success. It has been said that Negro success is spasmodic, whimical and fluctuating. It is ours to prove these assertions false. Perpetual success must come to us. Success not built on tide waves of emotional aspirations but founded, layed, and fastened upon the eternal principles of orderly christian civilization. 13 FAILURE AHEAD? But some say, failure is ahead. Dark and difficult problems confront us. Our answer is, that it is the common course of life. The greatest nations of earth have met and contended with all of these failures and obstacles. Where in lies their glory? is it not that where there seemed to be no way of success they made a way? And so today the most successful races, as a cloud of witnesses, watch down from their lofty heights to see what progress is being made by those of us out-stripped in the race. Many of the successful applaud and encourage us. Many have judged us unworthy, incapable; but the worst of all, many of our own race have stopped by the way, surrendered their title to true greatness, folded their arms, and are crying "Japheth, shem, Ham can't make it We are unequalled to the task. Feed us with the crumbs that come on our tables; build us homes and we will live in them. What some are saying; there are others of us that have declared by the eternal gods, that Japheth and Shem shall see true greatness in Ham. THAT BIBLICAL QUOTATION. The same Bible which promised true greatness and glory to them, has likewise said, "Ethiopia shall have her princes and streton forth her hands to God. Let it ever be remembered that success is the fruit of that experience which comes through years of mistakes, bunders and failures. The shipmasters learn safe seas after many trials; afterwards buoys and lights houses mark the danger points. As the independent Negro sails the turbulent seas of experience, he is marking and singing out danger points, whether they come from his own or other races. In conclusion, reader, these are the questions that affect and actuate the followers of the Virginia Baptist State Convention. We have made up our minds, we are trying to do something for ourselves, by ourselves and of ourselves. Whose soul is so small to rise up and oppose us? Who stands ready to pull down the walls of Virginia Seminary? Who stands ready to neap calumny and slander upon the heads of its projectors? And can any one even dare to throw an impaled across the way of our noble presidents? Let our enemies cease their threatenings, quell their ambitions and malicious enyings, turn to their idols, worm ship and serve them. We cannot, must not, will not turn back to the flesh pots of Egypt. Yours for the rase, W. F. GRAHAM. MAYFIELD, Ky., April 20, 1900. Our many thanks to those who pay us promptly and do all they can towards securing us new subscribers among their friends and neighbors, which increases the paper's circulation and makes it grow in popularity. The people here are taking a great interest in the best and largest Afro-American journal published in America, especially the Mayfield department. We hope every cooled person's name in the paper will do all they can to make the PLANET the banner paper in this part of the state. The following people have shown how they appreciate the PLANET and the noble work it is doing for the race by subscribing for it: Rev. J. J. Me Mutchens, Rev. H. Hamilton, Rev. W. M. Holden, Rev. H. J. Dawson, Rev. E. P. Williams, Dr. A. G. Taylor, Messrs. Avery Dawdy, F. D. Wilson, S. A. Mayes, Al. Owens, W. T. Blythe, Major Leggins, George Fleming, R. C. Finqu, Thomas Galbriest, Walter wilkerson, A. B. Aurd, George Loth, J. F. Maning, Londro Harris, Mesquames Jennie Thomas, m. J. S. Schofield, O. R. L. Carman, Ludora Hale, Mollie Anderson, Rachel Oudt, Victoria Mosley, Margaret Hole, Lou Wingo, Margaret Oates, Mary Skinner, Luzy shurdon, Bob Babbins, Norsissie Jordon, Ollie Hendon, Mollie Mill, Elli Milam, Annie Thompson, Fannie Harris, Matilda Brown, Manerva Jones, Jennie Clark, Pollie Anderson, J. L. Jones, Ada Schofield, Emma Watson, Dora Fleming, Cora Shearer, Bell Miller, Ada Williams, Francis Lewis, Louisa Wilson, Mary Jones, Musses Lillie Mercer, Cora Oara Pearl, Pearl Galbriest, Mary Beatties, Emily Henderson, Aggie Emerson, Aggie Pierce, Suzie Dowdy, Malisa Overoy, Stella Oarey and Della Pate. PERSONALS. Rev. L. Hamilton has returned from Metropolis, Ill. Rev. O. T. Judge, of Water Valley, has been in the city assisting Rev. Hoiden in his revival at the O. M. E. Church. Miss Willie Morehead and Mrs. Louisa Henec, of Paducah, visited Mrs. Emma Dickerson last week. Mr. I. H. Haisey, the hustling general manager for the Haisey Manufacturing Co., has been doing a splendid business. He has delivered a large quantity of goods this week and has quite a number of orders to fill yet, try his wonderful spot eraser, only 100s a box. We haven't space enough to give the Easter exercises at the churches in this issue, but watch the next. All the churches have splendid exercises and beautiful programs, and songs were rendered. Look out for important news and comments in the next issue. Don't fail to get a copy. The truth hurts some people worse than the weight of a hog-skin whip. A true lady will be modest, temperate, honest, genial, clean, industrious and race enterpriseing. Their beautiful spring costumes last Sunday and some looked sweet enough to eat. Quite a number make masges with the bags. FULTON NOTES The services at the Mt. Calvary Baptist Sunday School were excellent last Sunday. A. inspiring address was delivered by Rev. McNorton of the Va. Union University. At 11:45 a.m., the pastor, Rev. A. Ferguson preached from John 20:1. At 4 p. m., Rev. J. H. Hughes of the Va. Union University preached a eloquent and sublime sermon from from Isa. 60:1. At 7:20 p. m., Rev. Walter Burg as preached. The recitation of Miss Robesba Braxton, the select reading by Miss Annie Whiting, on Easter, the pointed and meaningful remarks of Rev. E. T. Martin of the Va. U.., on Easter and the duet sung by Misses R. Braxton and Whiting added much to the interest of the exercises of the Rising Mt. Zion Bapt. S. S. Rev. F. W. Williams, though physi- ically weak, preached a glorious sermon on the Resurrection at 11:30 a. m. last Sunday. Rev. A. H. Mayo left for his home in Wichita, Kansas, where he has pastor- ate charge of a large church. Pro- tracted meetings are still being car- ried on at the several churches. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson are convalescing. MANCHESTER NEWS Much Sickness—Interesting Items From Across the "Jeems." "Big 2" has uncovered his head from a four months' "sleep" and has awakened with new life and news to let Not for many years has the city been visited with so much sickness as now. Measels, la gripe and pneumonia seems to be universal. Mrs. Alberta Moon improves slowly. Mr. C. W. Allen is out again from a severe attack of the grip. Mrs. Lucy Armatead is very sick in Newtown. A band of Christian Crusaders has been conducting services at the Zion Baptist Church, Rev. G. C. Coleman, pastor. BRITISH Buller and Command BOTH MUST Lord Roberts Blanders While Law Bravery R London, man has chased to publish a erts pronoun Mrs. Hester Scott has been quite indi-posed. Mrs. Julia Carter and Mrs. Fannie Jackson are quite sick. Mr. Ludian and Miss Sarah Hunter of Hanover Co., visited Mrs. Lizzie Johnson on the 16th inst. Grand rally at the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church next Sunday. Good preaching and good singing all day. Come and help. Memorial services of Mr. Isaac Randolph will be held at the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist S. S. next Sunday. Rev. Watkins of the Va. U. U. will speak on his Christian life and work. WEST END NOTES. Mrs. E. R. Moss after spending some time visiting friends in Washington and taking a much needed rest, is home again looking the picture of health. We heard that things were rather dull at the 5th Baptist Church last Sunday. At 11:30, no decorations and a small audience. Communion at 4 o'clock p.m. Some little interest was manifested. A few stray shots were thrown out. A good sister said they were intended for us because we said in our last notes that most of the faithful workers had ceased to labor. We stand to our guns, for we did so much as feel the wind from the little pebble. We are indeed glad to see that the G. O. P. has started out in a new era in harmony. Here is our hand and heart. Where the Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., leads, we follow. Well, we heard that he will take one unto himself from another city. What do those hard worked sisters think of that? Jehoshapat! Mrs. L. A. C. seems to have on her war paint and fairly, shelling the woods to find that Reverend brother who was insulted her. He had the blues, and called a love feast at his house that he might be inspired with new life. FROM PORTSMOUTH. PORTMOUTH. VA., April 17, 1800 Rev. Garner of Newport news presch ed at the North St. A. M. E. Church in the morning at 11 o'clock, after which Rev. A. L. Gaines preached the funeral of Miss Lucy Armstead at 1 o'clock. She died quite a while ago with the contagious disease. Mrs. Magnolia Johnson of Columbia St. is improving slowly. Mr. Ezekiel Turner of County St. is improving. Dr. Wm Troy and Mr. E. S. Holmes spent their Easter Sunday in Richmond. The funeral of Mrs. Emily McOuy, one of the oldest members of the North St A. M. E. Church took place at the above named church Friday, April 18, at 8 p. m. She was in her 88th year of age. Mr. James W. Elliott who has been visiting his family in this city for several weeks, lets for Washington April 11th. The oratory of Shiloh was presented at the Zion Baptist Church Easter Monday night under the direction of Prof. G. E. Jackson. The singing was grand; as every body that took a part seemed to have been well prepared for the event. The music which was furnished by Prof. Jackson's orchestra was excellent, including the trombone solo, "The Holy City. Every body went home rejoicing with glad hearts of the treat. Mrs. Elisa Hardy of Queen St., who has been indoors as a congregant Mr. C—is been very often wending his way to the ferry. No questions have been asked. The PLANET can be found at the office of "The Richmond Beneficial Insurance Co., 518 Green Street, E. S. HOMES, manager, J. S. Collins, Planet Agent. A BRUPAL MURDER HOPKINSVILLE, KY., April 16.—A dozen enraged white men shot Morgan Boone, colored, to death on an excursion train, near Slaughterville, last night. Boone's body was then thrown from the rapidly moving train. Boone and his companions in the second-class car had been drinking heavily. As the train approached Slaughterville, Boone started back through the coaches, brandishing a revolver and threatening instant death to any one attempting to intercept him. A panic ensued among the women and children. Of the male excursionists was about to come from his seat when he was foiled with a coupling pin which Boone carried. As the wounded man's cry rang through the train a dozen white men rushed after the colored man who took refuge in the smoker. He was given no quarter and fell mortally wounded at the first volley. His body was dragged to the platform and thrown off into the bush beside the track. —Mr. J. E. McGirt of Greensboro, N. C. called on us. There has recently surged into existence Dining Rooms through Broad and Main St., for the white race no colored people were admitted. It entered the brain of two of our young Afro-Americans that the citizens of color would patronize such a place. They put their means together and we have as the result Thompson's Dining Room, 702 E Broad St., who serves any one that comes. They have been opened nearly a year and have served thousands of meals and lunches to the public. They employ only experienced help and try to please all. Our colored friends who expect to visit Richmond to witness the great Street Fair can secure their meals there. They are open all night. Within easy reach from all the depot. Terms are liberal. Meals 25, lunches 5 cents and upwards. Much Sickness-Interesting Items From Agress the "Jeems." "Big 2?" he uncovered his head from a four months' "sleep" and has awakened with new life and news to let Not for many years has the city been visited with so much sickness as now. Measles, la grippe and pneumonia seems to be universal Mrs. Alberta Moon improves slowly. Mr. C. W. Allen is out again from a severe attack of the grip. Mrs. Luoy Armatead is very sick in Newtown. A band of Christian Crusaders has been conducting services at the Zion Baptist Church, Rev. G. C. Coleman, pastor. The recent improvements on the 2nd Church adds another chapter towards the progress made by their pastor, Rev. D. W. Davis, A. M. The Reverend and his congregation are meeting their obligations in a quiet way. It seems that success with them is an assured fact. Rev. Dr. G. W. Bryant preached a most excellent sermon to the congregation of the Zion Baptist Church on last Sunday morning. Rev. Coleman appealed to his congregation, admonishing them, also that if they wanted to hear the best preaching, attend the morning services. The Reverend raised quite a handsome sum, Sunday being his rally day. The revival services continue at the First Church. Dr. Binga has had the support of some of the best help in the state, namely: Revs. T. Banka, Thurston, T. H. Johnson, R. R. Graham, M. McWilliams, Reed, Licentiate Dandridge. Revs. P. Wallace, R. J. Bass and others. These meetings have been conducted where success in the conversion of souls for Grace Prof. Diggs of the Union University preached an able sermon on last Sunday for the congregation of the First Church. The First Sunday in May promises to be one long to be remembered by the members of the First Church. Dr. Binga will have been with his congregation for 28 years, and we are desirous of making it an occasion of rejoicing. The members are striving to pay Dr. Binga his money due on the back salary. Dr. Binga has chimed in also to both assist in payment of his salary and to raise a handsome sum to meet the payment on the building. Every member of the church is expected to give something on that day. Those out of the city and state will please read and comply. The Odd Fellows, of Manchester, have secured the services of Dr. G. W. Bryant to preach their Thanksgiving sermon the first Sunday in May at 8:30 o'clock p. m., at the First Church. A treat is in store for all. Mr. Marshall Ross is somewhat indisposed. The funeral of Charlotte Parson was prescheduled on last Sunday at the First Baptist Church by Rev. R. R. Graham. Mr. Charles H. Brown has returned home, only for a short stay. Prof. James H. Blackwell has a club of more than four hundred people who say they expect to assist in raising an enormous sum of money Sunday, May 6th. Some have pledged $2, $2.50, $3, and $5. Mrs. Sarah A. Edwards is confined to her home by sickness. Mr. Charles Jefferson arrived in our city last week from New York. Y. M. G. A. NOTES. The Bible class last Saturday, taught by Prof. G. R. Hovey, was well attended. Mr. Albert A. Tennant delivered a fortable and instructive address to the boys last Sunday at 4 p. m., subject, 'Growth' The committees held very favorable meetings last Sunday at 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. In the almshouse 11 a. m. and in the city jail, and 3 p. m. upon the corners of the streets. The almshouse reported one convert. Prof. J. R. L. Digga, of the Virginia Union University, delivered an excellent and far reaching address to the men last Sunday at 5:30 p. m., at Price's Hall. Subject, "Man's Attitude Towards Woman." The music was good and well rendered by Mr. A. C. Johnson. All are invited to the explanation on the Sunday School lesson to-day at 5 p. m. at our rooms, by Prof. G. R. Hovey. Free to all, come. Miss Fannie E. Dixon will address the boys Sunday 4 p. m. All boys are invited to some, free. Lawyer George Lewis will address the men Sunday 5:30 p. m., at Price's Hall. Subject, "Pontius Pilate," Free to all men. Special music by a male quartette from the Eoenzer Baptist church, Mr. W. H. Trent, leader. Come and bring your friend. The men were kindly remembered Easter by Mrs. Royal, the mother of Dr. R. E. Jones, and Miss Bessie Murray, who sent to our room some beautiful flowers. Col. William J. Samford, Lee county's candidate for governor of Alabama, may secure the nomination on the first ballot. The Alabama supreme court sustained a street railroad in enforcing a rule that whites and negroes should occupy separate portions of the cars. Wednesday, April 18. John W. Hunter, ex-congressman and ex-mayor of Brooklyn, N. Y., died in that city, aged 92. A special from New Westminster, B.C., says the body of Chief of Police May was found yesterday cut to pieces. No clew. From Chicago to Boston, 1,039 miles, in 26 hours is the new time schedule which the Lake Shore will put in effect April 23. Senator Horace Chilton has withdrawn from the United States senatorial race in Texas, leaving Congressman Joseph Bailey a clear field. Governor Luis Torres has settled the Yaqui trouble in Sonora, Mexico. The Yaqui force has been broken up and the Indians are returning to their homes. In the presence of a large number of spectators at the Dewey theater in New York last night Frank Nicholl, one of a trio of athletes, fell and broke his neck. Louisiana's Democratic Landslide. New Orleans, April 18.—The election yesterday in Louisiana for members of the legislature and full state ticket resulted in a Democratic landslide. The ticket headed by Auditor Hearwet the state from one end to the other and the legislature is overwhelmingly Democratic. Announcements extraordinary: Billheads, Letter Heads, Wedding Invitations, etc., call at this office. BRITISH BLUNDERERS. Buller and Warren-Criticized by Commanding General Roberts. BOTH MUST NOW RETURN HOME. Lord Roberts Sharply Criticises the Blunders About Splon Kop, and While Lauding Col. Thornycroft's Bravery Rebukes His Presumption. London, April 18.—The government has chosen this as the moment to publish a dispatch from Lord Roberts pronouncing concur on Sir Redvers Buller and Sir Chad Wren, two of his most important subordinate commanders. This dispatch, written Feb. 13, has been in the hands of the war office for five weeks. Just why it is published now, in the middle of the campaign, is not understood, unless it is expected that Gen. Buller and Gen. Warren will ask to be relieved of their commands. The revelation of their incapacity must tend to undermine the confidence of the troops in their leadership. Lord Roberts' dispatch was published last night in the Official Gazette. In submitting Gen. Buller's dispatches describing the Splon Kop and other operations from Jan. 17 to Jan. 24 Lord Roberts complains that the plan of operations is not clearly described in the dispatches. After sketching Gen. Buller's intentions, as communicated to Sir Charles Warren, who commanded the whole force, Lord Roberts points out that Gen. Warren seems to have concluded, after consultation with his officers, that the flanking movement ordered by Gen. Buller was impracticable, and, therefore, so changed the plan of advance as to necessitate the capture and retention of Splon Kop. Lord Roberts continues: "As Warren considered it impossible to make the wide flanking movement which was recommended, if not actually prescribed in the secret instructions, he should forthwith have acquainted Buller with the course he proposed to adopt. There is nothing to show whether he did so or not. But it is only fair to Warren to point out that Buller appears throughout to have been aware of what was happening." Regarding the withdrawal from Splon Kop, the retention of which had become essential to the relief of Ladysmith, Lord Roberts says: "I regret to be unable to concur with Buller in thinking Thorneycroft exercised wise discretion in ordering the MAJOR GENERAL CHERMSIDE troops to retire. I am of the opinion that Thorneycroft's assumption of responsibility and authority was wholly inexcusable. "On the other hand, it is only right to state that Thorneycroft appears to have behaved in a very gallant manner throughout the day. It is to be regretted that Warren did not himself visit Spion Kop in the afternoon or evening, knowing as he did that the state of affairs was very critical and that the loss of the position would involve the failure of the operations. I belleve Buller was justified in remarking: "There was a want of organization and system which acted most unfavorably on the defense." The attempt to relieve Lodge Smith was well devised, and I agree with Buller in thinking it ought to have succeeded. "Whatever faults Warren may have committed the failure must also be attributed to the disinclination of the officer in supreme command to assert his authority." Lord Roberts' dispatch, with the enclosures, is the great feature of the London press this morning. In a long editorial The Daily News speaks of the "somewhat appalling language" of the dispatch, and then goes on to say: "Upon the whole these dispatches are disquieting and disheartening in no ordinary degree." The Standard, which is supposed to be in the confidence of the government, says: "It is scarcely likely that the publication of Lord Roberts' dispatch is without a purpose. It irresistably suggests whether it is not to be followed by further important changes in the African commands. Painful as such measures may be, there must be no hesitation in carrying them out if they are required in the public interest." Whether the government has any special purpose or not in publishing the dispatch, the way in which it has been received will make it most difficult to retain the censured commanders in active service. Lord Roberts' long wait and the Boer activity have seriously disturbed public equanimity. He is still 300 miles from Pretoria. No one doubts the ultimate success of British arms, but, behind the British army that crushes the Boer armies, an army of occupation will have to be installed. From various sources come hints that more men than are already provided for will have to be sent out. Lord Roberts indicates that at least 10,000 men are in attacking to cut off the Boers who are invading the opener. As there are reports from the Boer border that firing has been heard in the direction of the hills toward DeWet's Dorp, it is possible Gen. Chermside's advanced troops are fighting. Annual Meeting. The stock-holders of the Nickel Savings Bank will hold their annual meeting on Tuesday, May 1, 1800. We wish the Richmond public to know that they will have the most elaborate and complete Musical Festivals at the True Kefersform's Hall on Monday night. April 30th, that they have ever been invited to enjoy. She plays with her hands the plane. And some say sweet melody flows: I prefer, though, the noiseless music my baby plays with her toes -Judra Jessie—Mamma, can't Roy stop praying so loud? He's shouting so I can't hear myself say "amen," and I don't know whether I'm through or not!—N. Y. World. The coal man was a schoolboy once, he he wanted his time having fun; Which he wanted for the fact that he Thinks seventeen hundred makes a toa —Chicago Daily News The Finishing Touch. "Now, look at me," howled the bald-headed orator, "and behold what pluck and perseverance will do. 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Insignificant as he seems, this animal is respected and feared by nearly every patrolman in the Elmwood avenue station, and is known as an indestructible and faithful "pusher" (the name employed by patrolmen for those officers whose unpleasant duty it is to KING KEEPING TAB ON THE COPPER. follow them around their beats and report them for breaches of duty). Grover Cleveland Newton does his duty without orders, but he plays no favorites, simply choosing his men at random. Ever since the day three years ago, when he wandered into the station house and was cared for by the police-men, he has never missed a roll call, always responding to his name with a short bark. Some of the men, wanting companionship during their lonesome night rounds, formed the habit of taking Grover Cleveland Newton with them, and many a midnight lunch has he shared with the "jiggers." The habit thus formed grew upon Grover, and he seemed to increase in sagacity as his acquaintance and freedom with police affairs spread. Several policemen of unquestioned veracity have asseverated that Grover's companionship with policemen has been the basis of more than one complaint of neglect of duty, and the expression: "Beware of the dog" has become a standard one among the men of Elmwood. the sergeants (or "pushers") and the station men soon came to recognize the poodle's worth as a shadow, and many a thoughtless "copper" has been caught evading duty through him. If the policeman entered a saloon, Grover sat him down at the door; if he should happen to lose the trail of the officer he would remain relentlessly on the beat until the police guardian again appeared. He has been known to haunt the signal boxes when he had temporarily lost trace of his policeman and whine a dismal alarm to the "pusher," and often his sudden appearance at the station has announced the fact that some officer was in trouble or in mischief. It is related of an officer that is bibulously inclined that as he was about to down a glass of beer, handed to him from a rear door by a friendly saloon keeper, the dog barked in disapproval and indulged in such frantic cappers that the officer decided to postpone his drink until after he had gone off duty. STUCK TO A TIN CAN. Small Boy's Tongue Fastened by Frost to His Lunch Box for Fully Fifteen Minutes. During one of the recent cold spells small Chicago newsboy rushed frantically down Sheffield avenue with a t饺 lunch box dangling from the end of his tongue, while a horde of urchins fol- STUCK TO HIS LUNCH BOX. bowed him, yelling and cheering with as much avidity as though they had tiled a tin can to a dog's tail. Policeman McMahon intercepted the crowd at Lincoln avenue. He heard a funny story after he had separated the lunch box from the youngster's tongue. The boy was Terence Nolan. He went to work early in the morning while there was frost and cold in the air, and to show his companions he was not afraid of either he put his tongue in the round hole in the top of his lunch-carrier. To his astonishment, and to the joy of his friends, his tongue stuck. He twisted and squirmed, but the frosty edges of the box refused to release him. A crowd soon gathered round him, and he was given all sorts of advice. None of it was good advice, however, so Terence went rapidly in search of a physician. After the boy had been close to the cold tin for 15 minutes McMahon released him. WIRES WERE TWISTED. That's Why the Theater Tickets Went Astray and Louis Found His Fiancee Chilly. "She," the heroine of the following incident, reported by the Chicago Trib ane, is a stenographer in the Woman's Temple, but the supreme majesty and dignity of her environment have failed to permeate her soul. She wears her hair in a deliciously negligent "pomp," and flirts with the elevator boys, and tells them what a dear the person was who first put mirrors in elevators, while she ties on her veil and smiles. She is alone several hours of the day, and time drags heavily, but there is a telephone in the office, and when she is tired of looking at the clerks in the Rookery with her opera glasses she "OH, NOW LOVELY!" calls up everyone she knows over the while she ties her veil on and smiles. She had called up Harrison — — — and got Drexel instead. This is how it went: "Hello! Hello! That you, Lou? What? Louis? O!" Silence an instant, while she hesitated, then as the question was repeated from the other end she said, hastily: "O, yes, I'm Helen. How on earth did you know my voice? What? Hello! No, I'm not laughing either. What did you say?" Drexel he was sorry. He was called away from the city on business, but he had left the theater tickets for her at the box office. "O, how lovely," she gasped. "Underer my name, or yours?" "For Miss Archer, of course. You can take some of the girls with you. I was just going to call you up and tell you, dear. Good-by. I leave on the 4:35." "Good-by. Louis. Thanks so much." Then she sat down and laughed, and then called up Lou at Harrison — — and told her she had tickets for them both, and then she spent an hour looking through the telephone book to find out who Drexel — — was. And that is why two young persons who play Sousa's march on the festive typewriters all day sat in the best seats in the theater and smiled. And for the same reason a certain young man widely known in social circles is wondering why his fiancée gave him a zero welcome on his return from New York. Had Been There Before. Mrs. Gillian—Now, Mrs. Wyckoff, we really must say good-by. Dear, while you put your overcoat on, I want to tell Mrs. Wyckoff a secret. Mr. Gillian—All right. I just go and get my hair cut and meet you at the corner. N. Y. Press. Doting Mamma—Rodney, dear, tomorrow is your birthday. What would you like best? Rodney Dear (after a brief season of cogitation)—I think I'd like to see the schoolhouse burn down—Melbourne Times. 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, chambermaids and general servants, and often for good indoor and outdoor men servants. I pay your fere 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. Send one stamp for information to F. Z. S. 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It is an undeniable fact that persons will come for advice in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a Medium they try their utmost endeavor to dispel from their minds what they know so as to hear if it will be rehearsed by the Medium. To get the secret out or a pattern to commit it is the art used by many unprincipled mediums, but to take hold of the head and gain control of the mind thereby is a matter of impossibility to most of them. And yet this can be done and by consulting Mrs. Marth the seeming mystery becomes a realization. This subject has received no little attention by eminent men and even college professors. So it proves conclusively that although there are infringers in our midst with oily tongues perhaps the gates of wisdom have not been closed to the entire profession. 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IT'S WHAT YOU NEED NOT THE NICKEL 601 North 32 R. F. Tancil, M. D. President E. A. W. Branch Bank 311 No. Its never too late to save you saved is a dollar earned." posits. Checks cleared thru Loans negotiated. Rev. A. Ferguson Rev. W. S. Iones, Lewis L. Banks 1 'Phone, 577, A.D. Funeral Director All orders promptly f Halls rented for meetings and all necessary conveniences. La ble rates and nothing more. WAYLAND SEMINARY and COLLEGE V. P. & F. K. of W. DIRECTORS. New Phone, 1133 es 4 oe a iG: F ANS. q NAS hes SATURDAY APRIL 21 , 1900 Pl. z Ene tam INVITED THE SALOON KEEPER, “I'm so glad to see you, Mrs. Sloan. I'm in trouble and you are just the one to help me out with your advice.” - “Why,” responded Mrs, Sloan, as she settled herself in an easy chair, “I sup- posed now that you were in your new house you would be free from trouble. Certainly we who are still studying how to make two pieces of furniture occupy the same space, think you ought to be wholly contented in such a roomy and beautiful home.” “I do enjoy my home,” answered Mrs, Keen. “I'snjoy itimmensely, and yet I find that with the new pleasures come also new perplexities in the way of entertaining. I had quite set my heart upon christening my new home in the way of inviting the members of our Aid society, with their husbands, to spend the evening with me, but I find it isn’t so easy a matter as I thought. There are diffiuclties.” Mrs. Sloan looked her surprise, and Mrs. Keen, after a moment’s pause, added: “There is a certain husband whom I do not feel that I ean invite to my house.” “Ah, I see,” said Mrs. Sloan, musing- ‘ay. “Mr. Gates is the stumbling block ?” “Yes. Think of entertaining a sa- Joon keeper! Yet his wife has always ‘been one of my good friends. How she can live with a man in such business puzzles me. Yet she gives no sign of disapproval, cither. I see her driving and walking with him apparently as devoted as when he was in the store. I am out of patience with her. There is nothing whatever in her conduct to (SN ~ aay 5 lita F aes Ca e oY fe es TT Zo WR tg ap a \ ca HZ \ aes hy v3 Pee Se EASE! ~ “: AM OUT OF THE DETESTARLE Business” indicate that she doesn't expect the same social recognition she has always had, yet she must know that as a sa- loon keeper's wife she is not weleome in all circles. Really, it would be as rea- sonable to invite Mrs. Jack Brady, and even Mrs. Gates would resent that.” “I think there is a decided difference between the two,” suggested Mrs. Sloan, “for though they are both sa- loon keepers’ wives, they are not both voluntarily so. Jack Brady was in the saloon business when he married, and his wife knew all about it. Mr. Gates was a respectable clerk at the time of his marriage, and though there is now & rumor that he was once connected ‘with the saloon business in the east, I hhave no idea that his wife suspected anything wrong with his past career. We all liked Mr. Gates. He was wel- come to our social circle both before and after marriage, and we were pleased when his wife joined our aid society. “I can't think that she was in any way to blame for the change in his course. You know she was visiting in the east when he bought the saloon. ‘It is said that the deal was deliberately Planned by that schemer, John Raw- on, who was anxious to turn all of his property into cash before leaving. I don’t know how true it is, but [have been told that knowing Gates had some money, he induced him to drink until his judgment was beclouded, and then tricked him into signing the papers. “The news nearly killed his wife, and I know she bitterly regrets having taken the trip east. She feels that if she had remained at home it could not have happened. I think Mr. Gates is weak rather than wicked, and I under- stand that he is not very much addict- ed to drink himself. She is decidedly the stronger of the two, and I know she hopes to get him out of this business into something else soon. Mrs. Keen was visibly impressed. “It does seem, as you put it,” she said, “that we ought to exercise some char- ity for his wife's sake, if not for his ‘own. But I fear that all of our mem- ders will not look at the matter as you do, and if he comes I want him well treated. May I depend upon you to give him special attention? And may I place him next to you during refresh- ments? You see I am inclined to put your theory to avery practical test.” “Well, I certainly want to make my practice correspond to my teaching,” ‘answered Mrs. Sloan. “I shall not be hurt by the contact, and he may be helped, at all events it will please his ‘wife, and that alone will be worth the ‘effort. But, there! I didn't mean to Preach, and I am going at once lest I say more than I ought. I probably have done that already; however,, I have given you my honest conviction.” “No, you haven't said too much and wn have certainly given me sor to think oie Mra. Keen, as she followed her the door, “and I shall act upon your advice, so you may hold yourself in readiness to play the agreeable to Mr. Gates. Thope you can do some mission work during the even- ing.” Two weeks later Mrs. Keen's home ‘was the scene of the most charming so- cial gathering which the little town of N— hud seen in some months, and among those who filled her parlors were no brighter faces than those of Mr, and Mrs. Gates, ‘True to her promise Mrs. Sloan tact- fully did her best to entertain Mr. Gates. It was an easy task, for she found him, like most easily bent na- tures, ready to catch whatever conver- -sational ewe she might throw out. When she made some reference to his baby boy a sudden seriousness covered his face. He looked at her earnestly and then said in the tone of one who is sure of a sympathetic hearing: “I want to tell you something, Mrs. Sloan. I am ont of the detestable business in which I have been engaged for the past few months. I can’t tell you how bap- py I am over it, though in throwing it up [have practically lost allI had. But I found that I must do it for the sake of my wife and my bey. I have intend- ed all along to get out of it as soon as an opening came—it was ashame tome that I ever went into it—but yester- Gay I decided that I dare not wait for an opening, and it is strange that this very social affair should have hastened the matter. You see, Mary said she wouldn't come without me, and I knew very well that I was invited only for her sake, and that only on her account would my presence be tolerated, That thought cut me to the quick. It was the first social test coming in away to make me feel it very keenly, and I couldn't stand it. I found that I must either rise to her level or drag her down to mine. That thought, together with Mary's desire to help me through any financial sacrifice, decided me, and only to-day I closed out.” When he ceased, Mrs. Sloan in a voice tremulous with emotion, an- swered: “I am so glad for you, and for Mary—and for our village! You may be sure that your action of to-day has laid the foundation of the best possible inheritance you could give your boy.” Tater, she told the good news to Mrs. Keen; that lady, after a thoughtful si- lence, said: “And to think that I was inclined to leave them out! I’m ‘so glad I followed your advice. Surely you were inspired when you gave it.”— Adelia Cobb, in Union Signal. CIGARETTE WRECKS. Ratlread Superintendent Tells Hew a Sertous Accident Was Cansed eae Superintendent W. A. Vaughn, of the Georgia Central railway, states that cigarettes caused the wreck of a train on their road. In an interview regard- ing the wreck and the order issued that no cigarette smokers would be ‘employed on the road, he said: “was impressed’ with the im- portance of a rule of this kind some ‘time ago, when a collision occurred on our road. The flagman who was to blame was one of the most careful men on the line. The accident was not a very serious one, as no one was hurt, but he took the blame on himself, and reported that he was asleep at the time when he should have been at the rear end of his train. I thought it very queer that a young man who had been 80 reliable as this fellow should go to sleep while on duty, but taking bis word for it I discharged him without further explanation. A few days after- ward this young fellow happened in my office. I questioned him about the wreck, and asked how he could have gone to sleep. He rather evaded my question, but as I asked it Tnoticed his cigarette-stained fingers on the table, I then said to him. ‘I'll tell you what was the matter; you're a cigarette fiend” At this he jerked his hand un- er the table and looked confused. ‘Oh, you needn’t hide your hand. Your face tells the story." “Then he admitted that he was a confirmed cigarette snloker, and, while he had reported that he was asleep at the time of the wreck, still that was not the real cause. While on the way back to flag the approaching train, he said, he felt sick and stepped Into the caboose to get a drink of water. He suddenly became uncon- scious and sank to the floor. ‘The roar of the approaching train brought him to his senses, but {t was too late to avoid the accident.”—The Boy. NOTES OF REFORM. “The liquor devil is the same old devil.”"—Horace Greeley. ‘Temperance advocates will be pleased to learn that one man in six in the British navy is a teetotaler. The new legal code in Germany or- dains that habitual drunkards are put in the same category as minors. Of 7,100 men who entered one of the state prisons in a given time 6,000 ad- mitted that they were drunkards. Switzerland has three institutions for the cure of drunkards, which re- cord permanent cures in one-half the cases treated. Under government control of the sale of intoxicating liquors in Russia there has been a noticeable diminution in drunkenness and in those crimes and misdemeanors which are caused by intoxication. In 1886 Nebraska drank 85,000 bar- rels of beer; Missouri, 1,117,000; Wis- consin, 1,451,000; Kansas, 17,500, In 1896 Nebraska drank 161,000 bar- rels of beer; Missouri, 2,250,000; Wis- consin, 2,846,000, or ench about double, while Kansas drank 6,030, or only one- third as much. A prominent Rhode Island lawyer said @ short time ago that there could ‘be no wholesale conviction of those rumsellers who are breaking the state liquor laws, because the state institu- tions are so crowded with criminals, insane, and paupers whom the rumsel- lers have sent there that there is no room for them to follow. No Need to Listen. Mr, De Loud—I ha?’—or—called, sir about—er—about your daughter, sir Will you—er—listen to my suit? “Old Gentleman—Huh! I could hea: that suit block off!—N. Y. Weekly ¢ { THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMONE VIRGINIA DIDN'T WORK TWICE. Sailor Man Invades Washington with Smuggled Cigars. akaslensireentange aciecon mace Puce cud oacmecomee after Confime His Opera- ey. toms te Large Cities. There was a dazed expression on the face of the F street real estate man, says the Washington Star, when & friend dropped in.on him at his of- fice the other afternoon. Beside him, on his desk, was a just-opened, ornate box of exceedingly dark cigars. When the real estate man’s friend entered he looked around the room anxiously. “Say, is there anything burning around here? Haven't got your rub- bers accidentally under the stove, have you?” he asked. “Nope, I guess not,” replied the real estate man, “I guess it must be this cigar I'm smoking. Have one?” “No, thanks.” “Pretty vicious, isn't it? Tastes like @ mixture of hemp and dogweed, and I'm afraid it smells like Kansas City. Say, that’s what I was dazed about when you came in here—this box o” cigars.” “Your regular brand, are they?” “No, I just bought ‘em from a man who spends his life on the ocean wave and who makes his home on the roll: ing deep. That is to say, he told me he did. He came in here about 15 minutes ago, with a heavy, rolling gait, a list to starboard and smelling most violently of whisky, to be sure, and he immediately began to soften me up and tell me what a sport I looked to be. Then he pulled a couple ©’ cigars out of his pocket and offered me one. Said he had got ’em in Cubs. “This ix a great smoke,’ said I to my heavy-weather visitor. “*Think so? he asked. ‘I got a box of em here with me—a hundred, blast me eyes and shovel me out 0” the maintop! I smuggled ‘em on me ship when I came from Cubey the last time. The tobacco that’s in ’em is from @ patch 0’ ground in Abajo'—I By i A ee i] Yi rm, | alg N We i ms -. QUAYS SSS think that's what he called it—‘where the prince o' Wales’ cigars is growed. One o' them Cubans stole me a thou: sand an’ sold 'em to me fr little 'r nothin’, Jes’ happened to have a hun- dred of ‘em along wit’ me to-day, sizzle me mizzen ridge rope an’ chuck me through th’ engine room hatch! Now, T'm down here broke, wit’ not th’ price of a ride to Brooklyn, w’ere I want to ship over.’ | _“‘What'll you take for that box of cigars? I asked him, | “Well, I finally got ‘em for $15, but he looked awful sad over it, did that deep-water man, and I almost fancied he wiped away a tear when he took my $15 and had to hand me the box of cigars. However, he went right away then. Say, smoke one of ‘em for me, won't you, old man?” “Well, I guess nay,” was the reply. “Say, do they taste as bad as they smell?” | “This is their first trip out of Con- necticut, I fear. ‘They taste like a Scotch dish T once took « mouthful of ata St. Andrew's banquet—haggis. | Only the cigars are worse. Say, take ‘em along when you go, and gives’em to your janitor?” | “No, sirree; I want to preserve that janitor’s good opinion,” was the reply. ‘Then the friend of ‘the real estate aman moved off, When he got to his ‘own office, about five doors down, a hairy-pawed proposition who reeked of the barrel house product was sit- ting on the edge of his desk. | “Well, my man, what Ia 1?” axked the proprietor of the office. “Why, curl me bloomin' sky-s'Is,” began the weather-beaten proposition, “I just happened by t’ see if me an’ you couldn't fix up some kind o' a deal Wit’ a box o” smuggled seegars, that I ‘brought along with me from’ Cubey w'en I come up in me last ship?” “Oh, yes,” said the proprietor of the office. “Got any samples of your cigars?” ‘The weather-beaten citizen pulled a couple from his pocket, which the pro- [prictor of the office immediately saw were the real thing, and took them and put them on his desk. Then he took the smuggler from Cubey by the scruff of the neck and threw him downstairs. “I have only just come from the office of a friend of mine you swin- dled!” he explained, as he firmly pushed the weather-beaten Cuban ‘smuggler down the front steps. “Dat's de worst o” graftin’ in a small burg,” the heavy-weather-not man was heard to mutter to himself as he picked up his hat and his box of fierce cigars, thrown after him, “de whole bunch knows each other, an’ it on’y takes ‘em a couple o’ minutes ¢? git aaaet? Duration of Marriages. The average duration of marriages in England is 23 years, in France and Germany, 26; Norway, 24; Russia, 30. DUMPED INTO THE SEA. Mixchievous English Midshipmes Play « Practical Joke on a Pom- pous Sentor OMicer. A stout and elderly officer on boaré 8 British ironclad lying in the Bay of Naples very much objected to the practice of sitting long at wine op guest nights or any other nights. He therefore made a point of escaping di- Toner the queen's health had Been honored. The ship was an old-fash- foned one, with large gun ports on the main deck. When the guns are run in, as is the custom at evening quarters, the ports make nice, large, airy seats. Knowing that While the 4M Shoes = oti a. | — FA) - Be Viaballd p) i a AY z \ TT |\, > eM ov y Sia g et) —( Qs \ v7 U/ | 4 \ x ( Wy AY \ | gkvuit ToNe ‘A? ms Back officers were at dinner no one would be likely to disturb him, the stout and elderly one, wishing to enjoy the fresh evening air, as well as the love ly scenery of the Bay of. Naples, climbed into a gun port, and with pipe in mouth and legs dangling over the side did enjoy ‘himself for some time. Of course, this proceeding was @ breach of discipline. Now, though the wardroom officers were at dinner, the midshipmen were not. It was not long before the youngsters saw theit chance for some fun. A council was held. Two boys got into a skiff and dropped under the stern to await events; two others seized the gun levers and hid behind the breech of the seven-inch gun—the muzzle was only a foot from the smoker's back. Another boy wriggled slong the deck until he could reach the tripper; then, at a signal given by the ringleader, the levers were slipped, the gun ran down the slide, and before the smok- could look around seven tons weight in motion caught him in the back and overboard he went. The skiff dashed alongside and picked him up. | After this involuntary bath the ‘smoker confined his smokes to the usual smoking place. Being in the main a kind-hearted man, the story did not reach the captain's ears—at all events, in an official manner. ‘The midshipmen never mentioned it—oh, ‘no, they never did! LIKE DARK MEAT BEST. Remarkable Statement of aReformed Cannibal Who Has Tried Whites and Blacks. Cannibalism is not so prevalent to- ay as it was a quarter of a century ago, says an exchange. It is necessary to penetrate to very remote parts of the world, where the explorer and the missionary have not carried civilizing influences. ‘There are many tribes of savages, hovever, now ina semicivilized state who, not so many years ago, were the worst kind of cannibals. A mis. sionary the other day, who has just re- turned from a sojourn of many years ‘mong the cannibals, gave some inter- cee i Ur ary Ca ¢ YP - Me) A es y. f LAE OZ) KEP gee Se WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG MAN, esting information about this. All the present generation, he said, are con- Yerted to civilized ‘practices, in large part, and only the old folks retain memories of the barbarous orgies the tribe used to indulge in. “Once,” said the missionary, “when a young man came to join ‘me, one of the first things he confided to me was that he was anxious to see and talk to a real live cannibal. Accordingly 1 sent for one of the old, gray-headed ‘men of the tribe, who had been a fieres warrior in days gone by. He was « tall and stately fellow, and he saluted ‘us profoundly as he entered. As he ‘could speak only his native language I had to interpret for the curious young ‘man. “Have you really eaten human ‘flesh? he asked, “I interpreted this, and the tame old savage grinned and nodded his head. | “*¥es, frequently, when I. was’ a young man,’ was the reply, with a grin, |) ““Did you ever eat white men?” “‘Yes, whenever they could be jeanght.’ “‘And people of your own color?” “ ‘Always, when we made war, we ate our captives, if we were victorious; if not, they ate us.’ | “Which tasted the best—white man or black?” “Black man best; nice and juicy. White men tough and too salty." | ‘ened te i> | “You remind me of my first hus- band,” she said. __“L have felt recently,” he replied, “that I was gradually becoming a very meek man.”—Chicago Post. Embarrassing. Lobbyist—What did you mean by refusing to vote on this measure? Congressman—I had forgotten which ‘way you paid me to vote—N. Y. Jour- nal. 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"fn Kina, Fort tame sa Re Burg, and West. -M. EMBRSOX, Fopmemey ee rade ammo a cee tat ast Re Anbaa deme Mth .G W. LEWIS, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, Abstract of Title Oftes. fuse te property carefully examined. Speciat attention given to suite and other Dat ters in relavion to property. Si1 BH, 4th St, , (8-24-Om THE PLANET SATURDAY. APRIL 21, 1900 Senator Chandler's Measure. WASHINGTON, April 18th—Senator Chandler to-day introduced a bill "For the prevention of the denial or the abridgement of the right of citizens of the United States to vote on account of color." In presenting the bill, Mr. Chandler said that he did so by request, and was not yet prepared to press its consideration. He said, however, that he had drawn the bill himself. It provides that "Any reform of any qualification for a suffrage prescribed by any State on its constitution or laws, which directly or indirectly by express words or by any device or subterfuge is made to apply in its terms or in its operation to the great body of the colored citizens of the State, while it is not made to apply to the great body of the whites citizens, is hereby declared to be unconstitutional, null and inoperative. Other sections of the bill authorize colored citizens to vote regardless of State restrictions. Colored citizens are also given the right of action for damages against registration boards refusing them the right to register. SURPRISE PARTY. On last Monday night, April 16th, at the residence of Mr. John Holmes, 1518 west Leigh St., was a pleasant surprise party led by Mies Edmondia Anderson and Miss Carter. At 10 P. M. all standers could see the ladies and gentlemen wending their way to the rooms where they were entertained by parlor games. At about 12 o'clock they were unhered to the dining room table which was heavily laden with all the delicacies of the season which were heartily enjoyed by all. Among those present were Misses Mary and Sarah Willis, L. Davis, Ellen Morris, Minnie Roper, Dolly Waddy, C. Holman, Sylvia Carter, Emeline Edwards, Jammie Key, Belle Davis, Carrie B. Robinson, Edmonia Andersen, Kate A. James; Mesdames Laura Stowes, — Taylor, John R. (Cooke, Agnes Holmes; Mr. and Mrs. David Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. James. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Garnett, Messrs. Henry R. Carter, Jno. Jones, John Johnson, David Robinson, Benj. H. Peyton, Willie Austin, James Gray, — Muse, Robert Taylor, Wm. Harvia, — Rogers and many others. ENJOYABLETIME The Union Easter Hunt of the Bands of Calanthe took place Monday, April 16th, at the League Hall. It was a great surprise to see the crowd that had assembled at 4 o'clock p. m., and the children were as merry as merry could be in the presence of their parents and several other visitors from different courts, who seemed delighted at their enjoyment. After the hunt was over, the house being called to order, the music began and the children engaged in their exercises of singing and speaking, which were quite interesting. We thank the friends for their patronage, feeling that God was with us in this our first effort. Committee of arrangements: Mrs. F. Loving, Mrs. L. Jones, Miss M. E. Taylor, Mrs. E. Robinson, chairman, Mrs. A. E. Taylor, general manager. THE WILSON MASKING COMPANY The Greatest Success of the Season. The Wilson Masking Company will positively make their first appearance Monday evening, April 28, 1900, at the True Reformer's Hall. Undoubtedly this is the greatest colored company of the South, having the best comedians, singers and actors before the public, headed by the king of all comedians, Mr. S. G. Woolridge, well-known to most of the theatrical world as Billy Woodridge, the great Afro-American Monologue Star. He will be supported by the well-known character comedian, Mr. Jake Johnson and the bright little sunbeam, Miss Sallie Brook in an nrt comedy sketch, "The masterpiece," assisted by some of Richmond's most charming stars. Mr. George Doddin, America's greatest male soprano, will sing. To hear him is a rare treat. The producer this occasion would be the. Last but least is Miss Fiona Harris, the rising star, will render some of her choice selections on this occasion. MR. BILLY WOOLDRIDGE MARRAGE Easter shown up bright and the weather was all that any one could desire. While the white part of our population was enjoying themselves at the Egg Rolling and band concert at the Capitol square, his colored brother was having street parades, annual sermons of societies and missionary missions. But from the last business done at Thompson's Dining Room, 702 E. Broad St., all the hungry people seemed to have come their way, Manchester, Petersburg, Farmville, Fulton, Church Hill, Bird-in-Hand, Down town, Sydney and the regulars from the Ward were fully represented. Miss Clara M. Carter who sword out a warrants against Mr. B. F. Turner her guardian, charging him with embezzling $1587.61 upon which charge he was tried in the Hustings Court and acquitted upon the ground that he invested the money and lost it, has asked the Law and Equity Court for judgement for that amount against Mr. Turner and his bondman, Mr. Christopher Wilkerson. A delivery wagon driven by Mr. Giles Cronahaw was smashed by an electric street-car near Lester and Poplar St., on last Wednesday morning. PORTMOUTH, VA., April 9, 1900. This is certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sir P. C. Corrigan, who was a member of Damon Lodge, No 12, Knights of Pythias, N. A. A., E., A. A. and A. Signed: WM. Troy, Guardian for H. E. Cerrigan. Witnesses: W. H. C. Brown, George A. Melvin, Miles Conner, Wm. M. Reid, This is to certify that I have received from John Mitshell Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sir Reuben Russell, who was a member of Pride of the East Lodge, No. 88, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A. A. and A. Signed: MAGGIE BURSELL, Administratrix. Witnesses: W. H Land, John Patterson, H. B. Brown, Wm. M. Reid. RICHMOND, VA., April 11, 1900. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150 00) in payment of the death claim of my son, Cyrus Gaines, who was a member of Manchester Lodge No. 11, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A., A. and A. Signed: Her NANCY x GAINES Witnesses: mark. Cyrus Jones, N. Beransenia Norrell, G. W. Lewis. Rev. W. R. Gullins has been appointed pastor of the Third St. A. M. E. Church and will conduct services there to-morrow (Sunday). The public is invited. The Excelsior Court will have a "Silver Reception" at the residence of Miss Dressilla Marks, Friday, April 27 An interesting programme will be presented. Admission, 10 eats. —Dr. Wm. Tray of Portsmouth, Va., was in the city this week. —The Sixth Grammar Grade at Moore School had perfect attendance for 22 successive weeks. This is the best record as yet made in attendance. Miss Florence E. Isham is the teacher. —Mrs. Rosa K. Jones, musical instructor at Hartshaw Memorial College left for Washington last Thursday where she will spend several days of recreation. —Mrs. Dolly Turner Gaskins of this city spent Sunday in Petersburg, Va., her former home. —One of the greatest socials of the season was given at Price's Hall April 11, 1900, by the Twentieth Century Club. A great many speeches were heard, and it was long after midnight before the guests departed. —One of the finest orations ever delivered was that by Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, at the Fountain Baptist Church on last Sunday. —Rev. J. Edw. Gunby, pastor of Leigh St. A. M. E. Church, is quite indisposed. We sincerely hope for his speedy recovery. —Rev D. J. Beckett, former pastor of the 8rd St. A. M. E. Church, is now presiding elder of this district. —Mr. James W. Taylor and wife of New York, N. Y., are in the city visiting the former's parent on north 2nd St. —Mr. Gus Davis, who lives at 2 W. Jackson St., died suddenly last Monday afternoon. He was apparently well that morning. —The franchise of the R. R. & E. Co., has passed into the hands of the Passenger and Power Co. The last named concern began business by borrowing three million dollars. Alberta Leay (colored) was badly out Monday night. An artery was severed and she narrowly escaped bleeding to death. Emma Jane Edwards and Rebecca Coleman are charged with the crime. Thomas Brookenborough, who was shot while attempting to rob the contretionary of the Italian, Marchetti brothers, on Broad St., between 6th and 7th St., was tried in the Hustings Court, last Monday and given three years in the colored reformatory. KEYVILLE, VA. April 18—Considerable excitement was occasioned in our town Saturday night by an attempt to lynch a colored man named Harry Hayes. About 10 o'clock Hayes had an alteration with a white man named Jones, of Boydton, Va., who is a brick-layer. The white man, it is said, used strong language to Hayes, who struck him a blow on the mouth, bringing blood Hayes was at once arrested and taken to the "lock-up." About midnight a mob of armed masked men went to the Town Sergeant and demanded the key to the "lock-up," which he refused to surrender, but eventually had to yield at the muzzle of a pistol. The mob then proceeded to the "lock up," and after securing Hayes carried him to a piece of woods near by, when they made preparations to swing him up to the limb of a tree. But after the rope had been placed around his neck he was allowed to escape. It is supposed that influence was brought to bear on the mob by Hayes's white friends, by whom he has been employed. Hayes was a jockey when a boy, and has been employed in the Keyville livery stable for several years. NOTICE. Special arrangement has been made for all delegates in the state of Virginia and Washington, who will attend the Grand Session of G. G. A. O. of B. and S. Love and Charity, which will convene in Staunton, Va., on the 2nd day of May, 1900. PAUL KERVIN, D. G. W. S. 212 E. Leigh St. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA OZONO SAVES YOUR HAIR! --- There is 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, keeps your scalp clean and free from dandruff and all scalp diseases and causes the hair to grow long and straight. OZONO is the only guaranteed hair remedy on the market. BALDNESS ECZEMA TETTER DANDRUFF DANDRUFF TETTER ECZEMA Be Not Deceived!! To the Colored People of America RECOGNIZING the Fact that there are many so called hair growers and straighteners now being offered on the market, and knowing to a certainty that most of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight forward statement to the colored people of America through its best paper, the Planet. In the year 1871, our present Secretary through a fortunate circumstance acquired the receipt for OZGNO. It was not offered for sale or pushed to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the leading colored people of that time, it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy. True to all we claimed for it and worthy in every respect of the confidence and attention of every member of the colored race. Because they found it to cause the hair to GROW LONG AND STRAIGHT, soft and fine and as beautiful as an April morning. It also cures all forms of itching, humiliating scalp diseases, stops the hair from falling out, and causes a new growth to grow on the baldest heal. Now, whenever a genuine article appears on the market, there are always a lot of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success numerous so-called hair growers and hair straighteners were put on the market. Of course the colored people had no way to tell that they were being fooled and bought most of them to their sorrow. Now we ask you a plain question. Would we absolutely agree to refund you your money provided you not satisfied with the preparations we manufacture if our goods were not true to all we claim for them? We assert right here OZONO SAVES YOUR HAIR! --- White Gentleman Speaks. Continued From First Page. or, and our party left the government in the hands of a different colo. and of an opposite party; and as his one party has undisputed control and no fear of defeat the rank and file of this parfee, under no necessity of taking care in public affairs and naturally control and management thereof falls into the hands of a few men either a boss or a machine—hence each Southern State is a close oligarchy. Until each Southern State repeals its disfranchising and discriminating laws it has no right to rep esentation in Congress, and the Negro in demanding of his party that its disfranchise federally all such oligarchies is not only acting in his own rest but in the interest of the whole country, but especially of the South, which is really the greatest sufferer by its breach of contract. Altho' th- Negro' demands upon 'is party rests upon so solid ground, name' breast, of contract and ol garchy, yet the strength of his position will avail him nothing unless he makes r-solute use of his position. Of course to put a h demand into effect or even threaten it will arouse the titterest opposition and emmity and it is only naural that the R publican party should shrink fr m arousing a lion, and, they certainly must aid them, see that th' Negro is satisfied with his present disfranisement; learn the necessity of bringing heavy pressure upon their party. Only through their fears can the Negro move them to justice. These can be no better time to press this demand than now, for the R-publican is by no means certain of electing the next president and they egro sainl will not if they lose the Negro vote of New York, Ohio and Indiana. The prize the Negro seeks is the greatest that humanity can aspire to, namely, "Liberty," but the greater the prize OZONO SAVES YOUR HAIR. the greater effort necessary to secure it. Who would be, for himself must strike the blow, so if the Negro would be free he must himself strike the blow necessary to secure his liberty and that blow is to be struck through the ballot box in New York, Ohio and Indiana. Send us your Job Work, we can execute as well, and as cheap as you can get it elsewhere. A Good Opportunity. Having decided to retire from business i offer for sale my entire stock of groceries, produce, etc., with fixtures and lease for sale at a reasonable price. The location is strictly first-class and the trade will be entirely satisfactory to the right party. O.B. GREEN, 619 N. 8rd St., Richmond, Va. Gundy Set Free. The trial of Albert Gundy, alias Albert Coleman resulted in a complete collapse of the case. The prisoner was charged with the murder of Policeman Robert D. Austin. He proved an alibi, that is that he was in Danville at the time of the murder. This caused the prosecution to throw up the sponge and ask for the acquittal of Gundy. Thompson's Dining Room, 702 East Broad street, is where the colored politician take their meal. There can be a lot of Colonel Cornelius Mimms of Chesterfield, R. F. Robinson of Hanover, Messra. Hall and Richardson of Manchester, Roland Jones of King William, Pleasant of Goosland, Lawyer J. R. Pollard, delegate-elect to the National Convention, Lawyer Sterling Scott from Henrico, while the local ones are too numerous to mention. ONOZO AVES Y 21ST ANNIVERSARY. The 21st anniversary sermon of the G. G. A. O. of Brothers and Sisters of Love and Charity will be delivered by Rev. A. S. Thomas at the First Baptist Church, Sunday evening, April 22 at 8:30 p.m. The brothers will meet at Navy Hill Hall at 1 p.m. in full regalia and the sisters will meet at the church, all in full rank and color. Grand officers for the day: Brother John H. Carter, W. S.; sister Nellie Clay, W. Vice; brother Thomas Minor, W. Sec.; brother Henry Branch, W. Treas.; brother George Clay, W. Marshal; brother Green Robinson, Assistant; Grand Conductors, sisters Ellen Harris, Mary Wilson; Grand Chaplain, Paul Carr; Grand Sentinel, Eddie Hemmons, J. T. Dabney. District and G. G. officers: Paul Ervin, D. G. W. S.; Willis Wyatt, G. G. D. Master; J. O. Vaugn, G. G. I. G.; Thomas Minor, G. G. Asst. Inspector General; Augustus Clay, P. G. G. D. D. Master; F. H. Allen, District Deputy of Richmond. Save your money so that you can witness and be refreshed in mind and body from the scenes and beautiful music of the very highest order from the operas of the Misaido and the music of the more unpleasant and ludicrous dramatic cantata, "Trial by Jury" with its catchy and sparkling gems of sweet music. Mr. Farley Complimented. Mr. J. C. Faaley, the colored photographer, has received a letter from the management of the Negro Department of the Paris Exposition, stating that the photographs made by him are very fine and reflect great credit upon him. They were shipped to Paris, France, on the 17th inst. BEFORE. AFTER. that we have advertised for nearly 24 years, offering to return the money for every case in which Ozono did not give satisfaction 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 traight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying, running scalp diseases, Eczema, Pimples, Dandruff, Itch, &c. BEFORE. AFTER. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair Long and Soft. Fine and Silky and as beautiful as an April morning. 10,000 people are to-day using Ozono and not one complaint. We have thousands of testimonials. We have not space to publish. Rev. B. Herts an eminent Colored Divine of the Church writes: I have found your Ozono to prove satisfactory in every particular. Kate W. Page, Blacksburg, Va., writes:—Your preparation has proven true to all you claim for it. The price of Ozono is 50c. a box. It takes from 8 to 4 boxes to secomplish the treatment. We make this liberal offer for a limited time only. Cut out this Coupon and send to us with $1.00, and we will forward to you 4 boxes of Ozono and one bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner which makes black skin bright rough skin soft and plant and cures all skin diseases. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—nature's great b autifier, removes Wrinkles, Moth-patches, freckles and all fialal blemishes, and to prove our liberality we will add to this one Package of Anti-Odor. A positive cure for Sore Throat, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet, also Removes all smells and Odors arising from the human body such as Feet, Arm Pits, &c. Remember we will refund the money if you are not pleased with the goods and positively this offer is not good but for a limited time only. Cut out and mail this Coupon to us with One Dollar and get this Grand Combination Offer; as this opportunity will not occur again. Boston Chemical Company, 411, 23d Street Richmond, Va. NOTICE!!! 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 trustee and the appointment of a citizen of Barton Heights in his place to take charge. I hereby notify all section owners to call to see me at once or to communicate with me in order that the necessary funds may be raised to save the property. Signed: BENJAMIN HARRIS, Superintendent and Trustee. 8.31-4t. Wanted! Colored Girls, to learn to make Cheroots Only steady and industrious Girls need apply—nice, light, easy and clean work and good pay—Paid while learning. apply at once at 507 N. Brooke Avenue. HELP WANTED. We have added another floor to our Factory, which consists of new Machines and we want operators to make shirts. Ladies only. THE OLD DOMINION SHIRT CO., 727 N. 8rd Street. KNOW YOUR FATE. The distinguished Astrologist reads your life from the Oracle to the Grave. Advice on marriage, love, business, enemies, health, spells and luck. Send stamps for circular or one dollar. Lock of hair and date of birth for life reading. MRS. C. CARY, 670 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. BEST MAX SONMEMBERG 114 E. Broad 56. The largest and quickest Shoe Repairer in the city. Half soles and heels, 5 Cents. 5 Cents deducted off each JOB when you present this coupon. ADVICE. BRST BUSINESS CARD There is being got up a Colored Men's Business Card for the purpose of increasing the business of our Race, any one desiring a space can get it by applying at the PLANET OFFICE