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THE RICHMOND PLANET SENATOR HOAR'S GREAT SPEECH. The Situation in the Philip= pines. AGUINALDO AS A PATRIOT One of the Ablest Philippics of the Century, THE NATION AND ITS DUTY--A POWERFUL PLEA FOR JUSTICE. On the Side of the Oppressed. VOL XVII NO 19 SENATOR The Situation AGUINAI One of the THE NATION FUL On the We begin the publication of the speech of Senator George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, delivered in the U.S. Senate April 17th, 1900. It has attracted world-wide attention and is pronounced the greatest effort of his life: MR. HOAR. Mr. President, I am in rather an uncomfortable condition as to health, and I desire to ask that I may say what I have to say without interruption unless I shall mistake any Senator. If I should do so, I would expect, of course, to yield to him for any correction he might wish to make. I ask the Secretary to read Senate joint resolution No. 83. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Secretary will read the joint resolution. The Secretary read the joint resolution (8. R. 53) defining the policy of the United States relative to the Philippine Islands, introduced by Mr. Beveridge January 4, 1900, as follows: "Resolved, etc., That the Philippine Islands are territory belonging to the United States; that it is the intention of the United States to retain them as such and to establish and maintain such governmental control throughout the archipelago as the situation may demand." Mr. HoAR. Mr. President, when on the 8th of July, 1898, less than two years ago, the lamented Vice-President declared the session of the Senate at an end, the people of the United States were at the high water mark of prosperity and glory. No other country on earth, in all history, ever saw the United States as just American prosperity and an American glory. We were approaching the end of a great century. From thirteen States we had become forty-five States. From 3,000,000 people we had become rear 80,000,000. An enormous foreign commerce, promoting to grow to still vaster preparations in the near future, was thrown into insignificance by an internal commerce almost passing the capacity of numbers to calculate. Our manufactures, making their way past hostile tariffs and fiscal regulations, were displacing the products of the greatest manufacturing nations in their own markets. South of us, from the Rio Grande to Cauce Horn, our Monroe doctrine had banished from the American continent the powers of Europe; Spain and France had retired; monarchy had taken its leave; and the whole territory was occupied by republics owing their freedom to us, forming their institutions on our example. Our flag, known, and honored throughout the earth, was welcomed everywhere in friendly ports, and visited everywhere on friendly ties. We were the sweet, rie, est, strong, strong on the elements of material strength, stronger still in the justice and liberty on which the foundations of our empire were laid. We had abolished slavery within our own borders by our constitutional mandate, and had abolished slavery through out the world by the influence of our example. AN ERA OF PROSPERITY. Our national debt had been reduced with unexampled rapidity. We had increased it somewhat for the necessary expenses of the war. But if it had been due, we could have paid it all in a single year by a tax solely upon the luxuries of the rich, which the rich would scarcely have felt, and which would have vexed no manufacture and 129 no branch of commerce. Rich in all material wealth, we were richer still in a noble history and in those priceless ideals by which a Republic must live or bear no life. From all over the country came the voice of well-paid labor, dwelling in happy homes, full of contentment with the present and of hopes for the future. Capital was seeking new investments, rescued from foreign invasion, was owned. Foreign ma keys were opening. The balance of trade was on our side. The product of American industry was carried abroad on an overwhelming and increasing tide. We had won the glory of a great librarian in both hemispheres. The flag of Spain—emblem of tyranny and cruelty—had been driven from the Western Hemisphere, and was soon to go down from her eastern possessions. The war had been conducted without the loss of a gun or the capture of an American soldier in battle. The glory of this great achievement was unlike any other which history has recorded. It was not that we had beaten Spain. It was not that 75,000,000 people had conquered 15,000,000. Not that the spirit of the nineteenth century had been too much for the spirit of the fifteenth century. Not that the young athlete had felled to the ground a deceptive old man of ninety. It was not that the American mechanic and engineer in t e machine shop could make better ships or better guns; or that the American soldier or sailor had displayed the same quality in battle that he had shown on every field—at Bunker Hill, at Yorktown, at Lundys Lane, at New Orleans, at Buena Vista, at Gettsburg; in every sea fight on Lake Erie or on the Atlantic. Nobody doubted the skill of the American general, the gallantry of the American admiral, the courage of the American soldier on sea voyages, the glory of the victory was that it was war and a victory in the interest of liberty. The American flag had appeared as a l berator in both hemispheres; when it floated over Havana or Santiago or Manila, there was written on its folds, where all nations could read it, the pledge of the resolution of Congress and the declaration of the President. A TRIBUTE TO MCKINLEY. Every true American thanked God that he had lived to behold that day. The rarest good fortune of all was the good fortune of President McKinley. He was, in my judgment, the best beloved President who ever sat in the chair of Washington. His name was inseparably connected with two periods of unexamined prosperity, made more impressive by the period of calamity which came between them. The people believe that to the great measure called by his name was due a time of happiness and comfort never equaled in this country, and never approached by any other. It was the high-water mark on this planet of everything that could bring happiness to a people. But high as the tide reached then, it went higher under the operation of the police which came in with his Administrators. He had won golden honors by his patriotic hesitation in bringing on the war, and by his interpretation of the purpose with which the people at last entered upon it. When I say that President McKinley was the best beloved President that ever sat in the chair of Washington, I do not mean, of course, to compare the reverence in which any living man is RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY APRIL 28.1900. held with that which attends the memory of Washington and Lincoln. But Washington and Lincoln encountered while they were alive a storm of political hostility, which President McKinley has fortunately been spared. I repeat that it seems to me that President McKinley holds a place in the affection of the people at large which so on of his predecessors ever attained in his life-time. THE REDEMPTION OF A PROMISE. The promise which the President and the Senate made as to Cuba we have, so far, done our best to redeem When the Spanish fleet was sunk and the Spanish flag went down from over Havana, peace and order and contentment and reviving industry and liberty followed the American flag. Some of us had hoped for the same thing in the East. We had hoped that a like policy would have brought a like result in the Philippine Islands. No man contemplated for a moment the return of those islands to Spain. One of the apostles would as soon have thought of giving back a redeemed soul to the domination of Satan. The American people, so far as I know, were all agreed that their victory brought with it the responsibility of protecting the liberals, peoples from the cupidity of any other power until they could establish their own independence in freedom and in honor. I stand here to day to plead with you not to abandon the principles that have brought these things to pass. I implore you to keep to the policy that has made the country great, that has made the Republican party great, that has made the President great. I have nothing new to say. But I ask you to keep in the old channels, and to keep off the old roos' laid down in the old charts, and to follow the old sailing orders that all the old captains of other days have obeyed, to take your bearings, as of old, from the north star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament, and not from this meteoric light of empire. E specially, if I could, would I persuade the great Republican party to come back again to its old faith, to its old religion, before it is too late. There is yet time. The President has said again and again that his is only an ad interim policy until Congress shall act. It is not yet too late. Congress has rejected, unwisely, as I think, some declarations for freedom. But the two Hou-es have not as yet committed themselves to despotism. The old, safe path, the path alike of justice and of freedom, is still easy. It is a path familiar of old, to the Republician party. If we have diverged from it for the first time, everything in our history everything in our own nature calls us back. The great preacher of the English church tells you how easy is the return of a great and noble nature from the first departure from rectitude: "For so a taper, when its crown of flame is newly blown off, retains a nature so symbolical to light, that it will with greediness reenkindle and snatch a ray from the neighbor fire." THE PATHWAY TO PROSPERITY. I, for one, believed, and still believe that the pathway to prosperity and glory for the country was also the pathway to success and glory for the Republican party. I thought the two [CONTINUED ON THE FIRST PAGE ] TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH. The Return of Rev. W. R. Gullins. The annual A. M. E. conference at Suffolk was the subject of much favorable comment. As a result, Rev. W. R. Gullins, one of the most brilliant orators in the connection, was sent to the Third St. A. M. E. Church, vice Rev. D. J. Beckett promoted to the position of Presiding Elder. The announcement was a veritable electric shock to those who had opposed Rev. Gullins when he was pastor before and steps at once taken to prevent his retaining the position. A meeting was held at the Third St. A. M. E. Church Friday night, April 20th, and a prayer was formulated asking Bishop Handy not to permit Rev. Gullins to take charge, Steward Wm. Johnson was sent to deliver it to the Bishop in person. It is reported that Presiding Elder Beckett was authorized to hold up the appointment of Rev. Gullius and to send Rev. J.C. Franklin to take his place in the event that matters could not be satisfactorily adjusted. THE LETTER IN QUESTION. It was alleged that a letter was sent to the conference at Suffolk alleging that the church desired the return of Rev. Gullins, and that he was the only man, who could pull the church out of its difficulties. Upon this, Bishop Handy is alleged to have appointed him. The oppersons of Rev. Gullins declare that the letter was a forgery and that the church has never taken any such action. They urge that they expected Rev. Beaskett to be returned, and therefore had no thought of Rev. Gullins. In the meantime, the storm centre shifted the court, and he was besieged by both parties. He deserved his intention to call a meeting of the members of the church and abide by their decision. This did not suit the anti-Gullins. They did not desire him to preach on Sunday as had been announced in the PLANET. Dr. R. E. Jones, one of the leading members of the church and the pillars—the Messrs. Forrester were outspoken in their opposition. But R. v Guilins preached in a way as though his life depended upon it. All conceded that it was an able effort and money to pay his travelling expenses flowed in. Mr. R. G. Forrester however arose during the morning exercises and stated his opposition to the pastor. THE EFFECT OF A SERMON. The sermon had its effect however. The meeting to settle the question was to have been held Tuesday night, but a telegram is said to have been received from Bishop Handy instructing Presiding Elder Beckett to hold his hands off and that he would settle it. Thereupon, the anti-Gullinites passed the word around for their followers to stay away from the meeting as none would be held. The Gullinites, however, were on hand and with Rev. Gullin presiding passed strong resolutions edging their pastor and urging his retention. Armed with these Rev. Gullins left Wednesday morning for Baltimore where he will state his side of the controversy to Bishop Handy in person. Mr. William Johnson has not as yet stated the result of his visit. The supporters of Rev. Gullins are happy, but the other element seem to be certain that they will secure material consessions as a result of the contest. It is hoped that both sides may reach a common basis of agreement. CONVENTION DAY AT THE FIFTH ST. BAPTIST CHURCH. To-morrow is the day set apart by the Fifth Street Baptist Church to raise money for home mission, foreign mission and educational purposes. The pastor of the church, Dr. W. F. Graham is leading a general rally for the Baptist State Convention which meets in Lynchburg on the 9th of May. They are calling for $5,000. The churches are requested to raise $4,000, the ministers and individuals, $1,000. Already the latter have subscribed about $1400 to be paid on the second day of the convention. High Street Baptist Church of Roanoke led off first among the churches the third Sunday in last month and raised $300. Others are following suit. To-morrow, the Fifth Street Baptist Church will rally to the call. There was a standing vote of deacons and members last Sunday at communion to stand by the Baptist State Convention and their pastor in his efforts to help in raising $5000. The good people of Richmond and all lovers of the progress of the race are especially invited to come out and help us. At 11:30 a.m., the pastor will preach on the subject, "A Baptist Preacher in Jail." 8:30 p. m., the pastor will preach on the subject, "supper Time, Who is Invited?" The Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. will make special contributions. The choir is preparing excellent music, so we expect a glorious day. Mrs. Robt. A. Jaskson, who has been sick for the past six weeks, is much improved. She left the city this week to spend some time with mother and family at her former home, Washington. D. C. Her little daughter Lydia Beatrice, accompanied her. MARRIAGES. FISHER--JACKSON--The marriage of Miss Minnie D. Jackson to Mr. T. Reid Fisher took place Thursday evening. April 26, 1908, at the new A. M. E. Zion Church, Pearl street Harvard, Conn., Rev. J. Sula Cooke officiating. MR. MOSBY WEDS. Mr. Pleasant Mosby, head-waiter at the New Ford's Hotel was married in Washington last Tuesday, the 16th, to Miss Faunie Wittfield. Mr. Mosby will leave here next month for the Royal Palace Hotel in Atlantic City as 3rd waiter, after which he and his bride will reside in Washington. On account of the recent death of the groom's mother, the ceremony was quite informal. The bride is the accomplished daughter of Mr. Wittfield, a well-to-do farmer in Leathville, Va. DEATHS. DAVIS—Rosa B. Davis, nee James died April 11th at 2 p. m., at Norfolk Va. She was buried from the First Baptist Church of this city, Rev. Dr. J. H. Holmes officiating. She leaves a mother, sister and father in law to mourn their loss. ANDERSON—Died at her residence, 110 E. Leigh St., Saturday, April 21, 1900 at 4:30 A. M., Ella Anderson, wife of R. W. Anderson. Funeral was held at the First Baptist Church, College St.. April 23, 1900 at 3:30 P. M. BANK3—Died Thursday, March 22, 1900, Mrs. Pereilla Banks in the 96th year of her age at the resi ence of Mrs. Kate Holmes, 1022 St. John St., in the full triumph of faith. She was born in 1804 and was married to Mr. Richard Anderson January 15th, 1825, being separated later by their owners. She was married to Mr Henry Banks in 1849 living with him until 1874, when death separated them. She leaves three sons, one devoted daughter, one sister and eight grandchild freen to mourn their loss. "Mother, rest in peace." ANDERSON--Died at his residence, No. 804 N. Third St., April 3, 1903, after a brief illness, Silas Andersen. His funeral took place Friday, April 6th, at the Fifth St. Baptist Church of which he was a member, Dr. W. F. Graham officiating. He was a member of Friendship Lodge, — A. F. M., and Mt. Olivet Commandery. He leaves a wife, brother and son to mourn their loss. "One precious to our heart has gone, The voice we loved is stilled. The place made vacant in our home, Can never more be filled. "Our Father in His wisdom called, The boon his love had given. And though on earth the body lies, The soul is safe in heaven." HIS WIFE. Mrs. Martha Jasper died Saturday, 21st in, in the presence of Sister M. Staunton Jasper. She had served God for about 50 years. "She sleeped, but is not dead." Sister Jasper was the beloved wife of Elder Staunton Jasper. She died in the full assurance of the blessed hope that "she died as she had lived"—faithful Christian, a loving and tender wife and an affectionate, kind, protecting mother. She was a faithful member of the 1st Antioch and Fine Creed Baptist Churches of Powhatan County, where she was borne many years ago. She was so tender in her home life that all of her children claimed to be her prototype. Once she said to her husband that she would die preaching the same glorious gospel of Christ, her Redeemer, that she had lived for and served 50 years and asked that all her children and grand-children and friends meet her in heaven. Sister Jasper leaves a faithful husband, 4 children, 17 grandchildren and a host of friends and relatives to mourn their loss; but their loss is her eternal gain. She requested to be sung, "Am I a soldier of the Cross?" and "A better day is coming." Her four children are Mrs. Irene Williams, Rev. Frank Jasper, Sidney H. Jasper and Miss Mary L. Jasper, a teacher in the public schools of this city. Her funeral took place at 8:30 from the 5th Baptist Church. The active pall-bearers were Messra Thos. Booker, Binford Anderson, Peter H. Jones, Louis Hiekman, Richard Logan, Lawson Richardson; honorary Wm. H. Carter, Sr., Edward Mosby, Sr. They carried a pillow of flowers on which were the words "Our mother." Miss Emily C. Price sang a beautiful solo. Rev. H. Powell assisted Rev. Dr. Z D. Lewis who preached a pathetic funeral sermon from Rev. 14:18 subject, "Bless'd are they which dieth in the Lord." His words had a powerful effect on the congregation. She was interred, in Evergreen Cemetery, funeral director A. D. Price officiating. Sweet be her rest in the heaven beyond Where husband, children and friends all can meet. And clasp her glad hand in joyous relief Where all shall be to part no more. — Miss Lucinda E Jones is quite sick as is also Mrs. Mary Beale. MR. BRAXTON'S EXPLANATION. RICHMOND, VA., April 25, 1900. To the Editor of the PLANET: Please allow me space in your widely read journal to correct a statement which appeared in your issue of March 31st, last, signed "J. P. E. ans." The article in question referred to the sickness, death and burial of my brother, the Rev. P. H. A. Braxon of Baltimore. From letters which I received from my brother during his last illness, and as I had, since his residence in Baltimore, visited him quite often and always found him comfortably situated, I had no reason to think him in indigene circumstances. March 7th, last, I received a telegram from Mr. J. P. Evans and ap calls from several of my brother's friends appraising me of his death, which was quite unexpected to me. These messages also stated when the funeral would take place. I went to Baltimore in time to arrange for the funeral but on reaching there found that all arrangements had been made by Mr. Evans. FACTS CITED. Knowing that my brother's personal effects, including besides $21.00, which was in the house at his death, a library of several hundred volumes which he told me during my visit to him las: year, was worth fully $2500.00, were more than sufficient to pay his funeral expenses. I concluded that Mr. Evans who had entire charge of the arrangement had provided for the defraying of the expenses through a disposition of these effects. In consideration for Mr. Evans' services I paid him four dollars which he had to meet the day after the burial, when he arrived over my brother's papers which he had in his possession and this he refused to do. As to not any relatives contributing any money to help defray the expenses of the funeral, not one was asked, on the contrary Mr. Evans said both in his telegram and on my arrival in Baltimore that he had made all necessary arrangements for the funeral. Mr. Evans said on that day that he had solicited $78.50 in money for the expenses and my first knowledge of it was through his card in the PLANET. WOULD HAVE TAKEN CHARGE. Had he told me the circumstances as he has the public through your paper, I would have taken charge of my brother's effects while in Baltimore, disposed of them and paid all expenses (as I thought Mr. Evans would do) and would not have begged or solicited from the charitable public and friend one penny. In justification to myself I make this statement and add that Mr. Evans took possession of every article of furniture, books and the personal effects of my brother. Hoping that by this medium I may give to the public the true facts in connection with this most unpleasant affair. I am yours truly, Lewis Braxton. RESOLUTIONS OF RE3PEQI To Deacon James D. Smith of Ebane ser Baptist Church Who Entered Into Rest March 24, 1800. Whereas in His Wisdom it has pleased God our Heavenly Father to remove from our midst by the hand of Death our beloved senior deacon, Jas. D. Smith and Whereas from his long and faithful service and attendance to the duties of his office whilst his strength lasted; and unewriving devotion to the church in all of its services during his declining days, he will be greatly missed by us; and Whereas, his heaven beaming countenance and aged feebled frame can never again be seen in our midst; and Whereas, his voice in songs of praise supplication and good advice cannot be more in our midst; therefore be it Resolved lst. That we will bow in humble submission to God's will which death all things aright, and which permitted the body of our brother, like the stately oak, to live and grow and spread its influence around and only to fall when the weight of years brought it down to mother Earth. Resolved 2nd. That we extend our sympathy to the family of our deceased brother, which has lost its main support and commend them to God who marks even a sparrow's fall. Resolved 8rd. That we will endeavor to emulate the example of our beloved brother and deacon, whose whole heart seemed to have been fixed on heavenly things and who, by devotion to the cause of God, died only when his tenement of clay had been worn out in the service of his Master. Resolved 4th. That in his death the Ebenenezer Baptist Church has lost almost its last link, which bound it to the founding of its church-house; has lost a faithful member, one for whom the weather was never too severe to prevent his filling his niche in its services; one whose efforts were untiring in endeavoring to help save the lost and erring on. Resolved 5th. That the community has lost one of its most veritable and aged citizens whose length of years binds the latter year. of the 18th century to the dying year of the 19th cen- PRICE 5 CENTS tury; and who through his length of years lived beyond r-pronoun. Resolved 6th. That as a token of re- spet to the memory of our deceased brother and deacon, the church be properly draped for the space of 30 days. Resolved 7th. That a copy of these resolution be placed upon the records of the church, a copy be sent to the family of the deceased and be printed in the Richmond PLANET and Virginia Baptist. Done by order of the church, Rev. R. WELLS, Pastor, W. P. EPPs, Clerk, Dr. Graham Congratulated. RICHMOND, VA., April 25, 1900. Editor of the Richmond PLANet. So numerous have been letters and cards of congratulation from without and within the state upon the articles in last Saturday's Planet, defiling the position of the followers of the Baptist State Convention, I am compelled to take this method of thanking the friends for kind words. One brother in Richmond, a strong and noble young man, having read the article came to me and gave $10, for the Convention. Others will follow suit. We are now certain of having over two hundred churches represented this year at the Convention. Never before in its history has there been more than a hundred and twenty-five churches represented at one time and that many years ago. Let the watchword be "On to Lynchburg." Yours respectfully, W. F. GRAMAM. Good Samaritaus Anniversary. The Good Sam rites will celebrate their thirty fifth anniversary the 4th Sunday in May, 1900, at the Fifth Baptist Church Church Sydney. They will also have a grand reunion the Monday night following at their hall on Navy Hill. The following committee has been appointed d to arrange for the same: Charles Mills, Westley Fountain, H. H. Allen, Arthur Hayes, Thornton Randolph, Philip Willis, J. H. Mies, J B Taylor, John Baker, W. H. Robinson, R H. Taylor, P. H. Ross, John Jackson, Elizabeth Harris, Mary B. Graham, Lucy Gray, Clarice Barker, L. Johnson, Sarah Jackson, Elvira Burray, Sarah Dismond, Letitia Taylor, S. J. Washington, Mary White, Maud James, Frances Goode and Sarah Dandige. Committee on program: Prof. J. H. Blackwell, Maud James, F. R. Dunkins, L. G. King, Elizabeth Harris, K. L. Johns and J. B. Taylor The brethren are requested the fourth sunday in May at tans' Hall at 1 p m., and the church at 2 o'clock p. m. to meet Samari ladies at An Easter Hunt. An Easter hunt was given the children of the Friends' Orphan Asylum Easter Monday by Mrs. Lucy J. Howard and Mrs Henry Moore assisted by a number of ladies and children. The children of the asylum enjoyed themselves very much and through the matron return many thanks. MATRON. CITIZENS' LYCEUM. The Lyeum will hold its next regular meeting at the Leigh St. Methodist Church Thursday, May 3rd, at 8:30 P.M. "M. The Xrays" will be edited and read by Dr. D. A. Ferguson. Resultation by Miss Luey V. Bolling. Paper. "The question of the hour," by Dr. R. F. Tancil, President of Nickel Saving Bank. Music under the direction of Madame M. A. Cross. Free. All are welcome. Free. MYRTLE LODGE K. OF P. HONORS HER BICK. On last Wednesday night, several of the faithful workers of Myrtle Lodge, No. 17, K. of P., met at the residence of Past Chancellor William Branch, and made up a neat little purse of money which together with some other things they carried to the residence of their K of R & S., Sir Edward W. Cowans who has been sick for the past ten weeks. After all who composed the surprise party had been seated around their beloved Sir Knight and brother, Sir R. A. Jackson in a few brief remarks stated to him their object for assembling there. Sir Samuel Edwards then offered a fervent prayer for the blessings of God upon the occasion. Several soul-stirring hymns were sung and an encouraging talk was made by Rev. Wm H. Branch. After prayers had made for complete restoration to health for Sir Cowan by Sirs S. M. Wilson and L. T. Crawford, the members retired to their homes leaving Sir Cowan feeling much better and highly lifted up spiritually. 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, Third St. CARSON WILDRED'S CRIME A DETECTIVE STORY OF TWO CONTINENTS BY HARRY WOOD REYNOLDS CHAPTER XXIX Whether it was Karine whom I believed I had heard weeping or not, I could not be sure. I could not have taken my oath that there had been a sound at all, but I was morally certain of it. I ran all round the house trying in vain to batter in a side door, and was met everywhere by silence and darkness. At the side, however, I came at last upon the extension from the tower from which I had seen the suspicious smoke and flame pouring on that memorable Christmas afternoon. Over the roof of the low "studio" which possessed no windows, I could see a faint glow, like a luminous halo or crown, and suddenly, as I stood regarding it in some bewilderment, I recollected the skylight which I had observed from within. If I could in some way climb to the top, break through the glass and let myself down, the problem as to how I should get into the house would be effectually solved. I dragged a rustic seat across the grass and set it in an angle between the tower and the low building of the studio. I gave it a certain slanting inclination, that it might not fall when burdened with my weight, and then I scrambled up, not venturing to pause for an instant at the top, for I could feel that the thing was slowly beginning to slide from under me. With a leap I caught the ledge of stone that ran around the roof and setting my knee against the wall, helped myself up. It may read simple enough when written down in black and white, but it was rather a difficult task in the accomplishment, and I felt that I had reason to congratulate myself on my own success when it was done. Framed in a margin of dark roof eight to ten feet in width was the skylight, through which penetrated a subdued radiance. Cautiously, noiselessly, I crawled to the round bubble of glass and looked down. A curtain of embroidered Indian silk was drawn half across, but through the open space that was left I could see something of the interior. As I looked a figure passed into my line of vision. It was Wildred walking restlessly up and down with his hands behind him. I could hear the murmur of his voice, though through the glass of the skylight the words were not distinguishable. Suddenly there came a sharp exclamation in a woman's voice, and my heart gave a responsive bound. Wildred was talking to Karine, and it was she who had answered him with a cry. I had not expected, when I decided open trying to enter like a burglar through the skylight, that Karine would be in the studio. It would, doubtless frighten her very much if I should suddenly make my appearance beside her amid a shower of broken glass, and I hesitated so to alarm her, unless the man down there was already commencing to use his power to torment her. If she would only go out and leave me to give Wildred a surprise I should have been thankful; but as I could not hope for her to do that, I determined to know what her companion was saying to her, which had caused her to exclaim in astonishment, or perhaps in fear. I took out my pocket knife, and, with great care to avoid all noise I began to loosen one of the small panes from its leiden setting. As soon as it was released at one end I slipped the point of the knife underneath and so raised it that there might be no danger of its falling downward and startling those within the room. I bent my ear over the tiny aperture. It made all the difference in the world. I could now hear every word that Wilfred was saying. "I have always, and with some reason, I think," was the first sentence that I caught, "considered myself a man of more than average mental ability. I am usually prepared for any traps which can possibly be sprung for me, but in this instance I find I have made my one mistake. I believed in a woman's devotion. Probably it serves me right to have been deceived. Since you have found it all out through her, I may as well admit to you that it is true. She was here. Nobody suspected her presence, or even her existence. She was very useful to me in many ways. If she had proved troublesome I could have rid of her at any time, and she knew it, instead of doing what I ought to have done, I believed that she was willing to go away without betraying me, and I would go free, with a present of a thousand pounds. She could even have asked for when that was gone, and I would not have refused her. I was a fool ever to marry her, but she was the handiest woman I had seen at that time, and, as you know, I was some years younger, some degrees more impulsive, than I am now. I was still more of a fool not to have put her out of the way, knowing what she did, but, as I remarked, that was the mistake of a lifetime. She has told you my secrets, she has shown you certain things in this house which have very naturally displeased and shocked you. She timed her return to this house very well—jealous idiot!—but she will pay for what she has done." I could not see Karine, but I could hear her voice, vibrant with the fear and horror that she felt. "Better not ask; the question doesn't concern you. She will simply become familiarized with the secrets of the House by the Lock in a manner upon which she didn't count—that's all." "I had never pictured Satan himself so cruel, so horrible as you," cried Karine. "I thank Heaven, now that I know, through this wretched woman, what you really are, that not I, but she, is your wife." "Yet you must remain with me, as though you knew nothing, but what I would have had you know, for your own sake and your brother's." "Had it not been for that foolish woman, who has ruined herself in trying to ruin you and me, we might have been happy together, Karine, I admire you more than any woman on earth, for you are certainly the most beautiful," and your coldness to a man of my only added to your marriage woman it would have been different, I meant to make you love me; and even now, Karine, what has happened that need change anything between us? You are not a conventional little fool, as are some women I could name, and the love of a man like me must create some impression on your nature. The obstacle which you think stands between us shall be removed, the marriage ceremony can again be performed over us—secretly if you choose. No one will be the wiser, and as in any event you must stay here in my house"— "I will not. Somehow God will help me to escape, and then, when I am free from you, I shall let such friends as I may have left deal with you as you deserve." “It’s difficult to see how you will get away. It’s true I did not dream that Marion would be here to greet us, or I would not have brought you to this house. But now that you are in it you will stay. No one knows that we are here—no one in your world, at least—and I intend that we shall have a protracted honeymoon. You heard how some vagabond, some tramp, who well get in, failed just now! Well it is! It is! Our strangers to escape from the house by Lock as it is for them to effect an entrance. For instance, you and I are now cut off by means of a sliding iron door from the old portion of the house. From this, there is absolutely no way out, unless I allow it, save one. "HELLO, FARNHAM, I SAID." and that way two or three people have already found by going through a certain little door hidden behind the hangings. I'll show it to you if you like, or perhaps the lady who told you so much has told you that as well?" "She has. She told me all about that poor Mr. Farnham, how you made him believe you a friend to be trusted, how you induced him to smoke opium—here in this very room—this awful room—till he was dazed and unconscious, and how he only roused from his stupor just as you were going to burn him alive in your horrible crematory. She told me how the furnace went wrong at the last moment, and you had to kill him in a different way from what you had planned—less easy for you, more dangerous of discovery. Oh, the horror of listening to the dee dee dee, for she spared me nothing—nothing!" he heard from her how Mr. Stanton came to the aid of the dreadful happening on Christmas Day, how she saw him through, the door, and afterward, when he had spoken to the police, how you bribed her with jewels and money to pretend that she was your cook, that she had screamed with the pain of burning her foot, and how she painted her ankle to look like a red scar when she had to show some proof of her story. She would have been true to you through everything, she said—poor, misguided woman—if she had not been taken ill and stopped in London instead of going to France, as she had promised, and so seen in the papers about our coming marriage. What mockery to call it that; and yet I thank Heaven that it need only be a mockery—that it is not real. "I wonder that the shock of finding that woman concealed in my room—waiting for me to come—did not drive me mad. But I am not mad," such wit as I have I warn you I shall devote to thwarting you, Carson Wildred. Do you think I would go on the same roof with you even if in real life you were? No, you can kill me if you like; it is the only way in which you can keep me here." He ddl not answer for an instant, then he said slowly: "Do you remember just putting your name on a paper I asked you to sign for me with my stylographic pen in the train this afternoon? Well, you thought it was merely an order for letters to be sent on to your new address, but it was something rather more important than that. You put your name to a document which leaves all the money of which you die possessed in your possession. You had it witnessed by my servant and another. You understand to what this points, perhaps? If you show yourself amenable to reason I shall consid- AS HE STOOPED FORWARD TO PICK IT UP, I HAD HIM-FAST. er you a wife to be proud of, and there is no ambition which we need cherish in vain if we are to live our lives together. But, on the other hand, unless you will go heart and soul with me, likening the past, you have to-day been told too much for my safety, or—your own. What if you should catch a serious cold here at the House by the Lock? Unfortunately the place is rather damp though so charming in many ways. You might have an attack of pneumonia. Only fancy how the world would sympathize with the husband of so beautiful a girl as yourself if he were bereaved of you THE BICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA during the honeymoon" "Oh, you are horrible—horrible! It is the moon even to listen to you!" eried Karlina. "If only there was a soul on earth to help me—but there's none—none!" His answer, if he made one, was drowned in the crushing of glass. Better that she should be startled, even to the point of swooning, rather than endure for another second the torture that that flend was inflicting upon her. I broke in the skylight with a heavy stick, which I had brought up to the roof between my teeth. Then, with my hands cut and bleeding, despite the protection of my gloves. I swung myself down and dropped on to the floor. One was a cry from Karline, and a sharp exclamation displayed astonishment from Wildred, forwitted. I had never been a match for him in diplomacy, but when it came to a physical encounter I had every advantage over him and knew it. He had no time to pull out the knife or revolver for which his hand flew to his pocket, for I was on him, taking him by the throat and shaking him as a terrier shakes a rat. I had not stopped even to look at Karine and yet the vision of her pale face and hands clasped over her bosom had flashed lightening-like upon my consciousness. "Thank Heaven! thank Heaven!" I could hear her sob. I hoped that she did not look—that she closed her eyes or covered them with her hands—but Wildred did not give me time to make these suggestions. He was more nimble, if he was less strong than I. I could feel through all his writhings that he was trying to force me along with him to certain corner of the room and, realizing it, resolved to thwart him, whatever his dye might be. I had come to the knowledge actually one second too late, however. He had managed to place his foot on a bell concealed under one of the rugs on the floor, and I heard its summons go pealing shrilly out through the house. A LOOK AT THIS, HE SAID, POINTING OUT A PARAGRAPH. He was slippery, as a serpent in my grasp, and it was taking all I knew to manage him, when a cry from Kara gave me the first warning that I was attacked from behind. The confidential man had stolen in as noiselessly as I had crept upon the roof and to the sky light. "Take that, then!" I heard him snarl savagely, and a low exclamation from my darling told me that in some way he had revenged himself upon her. For an instant I lost my presence of mind and my hold upon Wildred involuntarily I turned to go to Karine's rescue, and the movement was a fatal one. Wildred was up like a rod of steel that had been forcibly bent backwards. I felt a sharp, hot pain run fiercely through my side, and knew that I had been stabbed. My one thought was for the girl. If they worked their will upon me and killed me before her eyes what was to become of her? "Run—Karine 'escape!' I panted. I could not see her but I was assured that she had not obeyed by the loud screams for help which she was desperately uttering. Again I got Wildred down, but the other man was on top of me, and for the second time I felt the burning pain this time in my shoulder. I fought like a mad creature now, with the intent to kill, which I had not had before; but the conviction grew within me that, battle as I might, the efforts would be all in vain. Sparks advanced before my eyes, and then everything grew dim. Out of chaos came a shriek from Karine. Could it be a cry of joy? What reason was there for rejoicing? But there followed a renewed crashing of glass, the muffled thud of feet descending from a height upon the soft surface of rugs and the sound of men's voices. It seemed to me that Cunningham's was among them, but a strange cold pull of darkness enveloped me, and I knew no more. Afterward I learned how it was that Cunningham, with two detectives from Scotland Yard had arrived in the very "nick of time." His statement to the police authorities had been necessarily so elaborate and had been deemed so extraordinary that it had taken some time to create the desired impression at headquarters. He had been still at "The Yard" when my wire had arrived. When at last he had induced the "powers that be" to grant a warrant for Wildred's arrest on suspicion of having murdered Harvey Farnham and to send a couple of men to the house by the lock, where my telegram had announced that he was probably to be found, it was too late to catch anything save the 10 o'clock train. I having reached the door of the gym old mansion. Karine's cries for help ringing out upon the night through the broken skylight, had to be in which direction to proceed, and then had used the same method for surmounting the obstacles which I had adduced and left for them. The servant was secured, but Willdred, seeing with his usual quickness that all hope of escape was over, had shot himself through the heart before the officers could reach him. So died a man who had accomplished the death of many another, and through his humble accomplice (who now breaks stones at Portland), and the wretched wife, found poisoned in a room upstairs, the secrets of his numerous crimes, and the dark house by the lock, were revealed. It was not for many a day after that night's terrible experience that I heard all the truth. What with the two wounds I had received and the strain of the past few weeks, which had begun to tell upon me at last, for a time I lay in rather a precarious condition. But one morning I awoke to consciousness and found that the beautiful face which had been near HE HAD NO TIME TO DRAW HIS KNIFE FOR I WAS ON HIM. HE HAD NO TIME TO DRAW HIS KNIFE FOR I WAS ON HIM. me in my dreams was present in reality. Karine and her brother had nursed me through more than a fortnight's illness. Had I been quite myself I should have felt that then was not the time to speak of love to the girl who had endured so much. But the words were spoken before my judgment would let me restrain them, as it so often had done in the first sweet sad days of our acquaintance. "Forgive me," I said weakly. "I'm a brute. You've been such an angel to me—and I oughtn't to have told you now." "Onghtn't you," she answered softly. Do you remember me saying one evening at the Savoy Hotel that there was only one thing in the world which might even then keep me from making a marriage that was horrible to me? "I remember well," I returned. "I remember everything you ever said to me. Will you tell me what the one thing was?" "I meant if you had loved me. Sometimes I-thought you did, but you would never say so. You only asked to be 'my friend.'" "Oh, if I had but known-if I had but dared," I exclaimed. "I was perishing of love for you from the first encounter with face. Is it too late now? I don't ask to be your friend. I ask to be everything-your lover and your husband." "And I give you everything," she said. So it came about that the sunshine of happiness drove forth the black shadows which would fain have lingered to haunt me like ghosts from the house by the lock. Given By Trees. Trees yield many things besides timber. Turpentine, for example, is the raw sap of the pitch pine. "The turpentine merchant," says a writer on forestry, "in whose wake miles of dead trees, presenting a pitilable sight, are to be found." It is the turpentine orchards of the Mississippi that he describes. The forest suffers in life as well as in death in the service of men. An Educational Programme. "Is your boy's education nearly complete?" asked the friend. "Yes," answered the man who is nothing if not sarcastic. "He knows the classics and the higher mathematics and logic and philosophy pretty thoroughly. I'm going to see if I can't put the finishing touches on his culture and get him so he can calculate the interest on a 30-day note without getting brain-fog and read the daily news without yawning."—Washington Star. Ready for Finishing at Miss Teachem's private academy? Fair Graduate—Yes. I am now going to a finishing school to study drawing, music, language, sculpture, repoussee work, embroidery, etiquette, ete. "To what finishing school will you go?" "Oh, any of the public schools."—N. Y. Weekly. The Only Way Out. Chemist's Assistant—Good gracious! I have kept that woman waiting three-quarters of an hour. I forgot all about her prescription. Chemist—You will have to charge her a good price in order to make her think you had a lot of trouble in mixing it up—Tit-Bits. And They Never Forget It. Shank—And, so, Skooper has organized a class in mnemonics. He claims to be able to teach an unfailing method of never-forgetting. O'Shawne—What is his scheme? Shank—Why, he induces each member of his class to loan him five dollars. That's all!—Puck. Circumstantial Evidence "Isn't your neighbor, Blinkinoff, a drinking man?" "I wouldn't like to give an expert opinion on the subject. I admit, however, that I saw him the other night trying to drive a spiggot into an ash barrel, thinking that it was cider."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Lesalean Age "It's a 'lessless' age," remarked Simpers. "What do you mean?" inquired Gales. "Here's a couple who entered upon a loveless marriage, drove away in a horseless carriage and received all their congratulations by wireless telegraphy."—Baltimore American. Stolen Again. "The moonbeams were stealing in the henhouse door," read the rustic child with the new story book. "What were they stealing?" teased the youth in the blue jeans. "Chickens!" grinned the rustic child. —Chicago Daily News. The Rival Belles Mr. Richfellow—I am told that Miss Finescason took all the prizes at Vassar college. What a wonderful memory she must have. Miss Twoseason—Indeed she has. And it goes so far back—N. Y. Weekly. How He Won Her. One sent her verses; in that way his pen was somewhat handy. The other wooner won the day—He sent a box of candy. -Chicago Record. Sometimes a Known Quantity. "Always let X equal the thing you want to find," softly uttered the wife, as she went through her sleeping husband's pockets and abstracted the needed $10 bill—Chicago Tribune. Catskill Milch Cattle Have Learned to Jump Fences from the Free Deer of the Forest. Sad, indeed, is the tale of bovine deprivity that comes to the New York World from the Catskill mountains. Demoralized by intimate association with the giddy and irresponsible deer that were released from the state park several years ago, the farmers' cows have taken to jumping fences and indulging in other reprehensible practices. Up to the time when those deer were let loose to kick their heels at large all PRACTICING HANDSPRINGS. over the mountains the cattle of the region were untouched by scandal. They were renowned for their modesty of demeanor, their sobriety and attention to business. They would make a detour rather than trample on growing crops, and nothing could tempt one of them to pull up so much as a carrot without permission. But when the mountains became infested with lightsome four-legged things, adept at the running high jump, strange to the tyranny of the milking shed, amenable to no authority and greedy for the daintiest produce of the agriculturist, the fatal germ of dissipation was introduced among the herds. They went into hard training for acrobatic feats. When they thought the farmers were not looking that way they practiced handsprings and high kicking. They worked hard to reduce flesh and acquire lightness of foot. The deer good-naturedly gave them the benefit of encouragement, advice and example. The worst of it was that the deer, being protected by the state, the farmers dared not shoot them. In course of time it came about that the Catskill cow that couldn't jump a fence to devastate a cornfield or a cabbage patch was looked upon by its contemporaries as an old fogy, a survival of the stone age, unworthy to associate with the superior "new" cows of today. APPEARANCES DECEIVE How an Estimable Abstainer Came to Be Suspected of Being a Saloon Frequenter. It is so difficult to judge by appearances—and frequently so uncharitable. On an East end cross street lives an estimable young man, the head of a small household, and in all respects a model citizen. He is not a crank, but personally he has no use for strong liquors. He even goes so far as to dispense with them entirely at his home, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Well, early one morning not long ago his wife became very ill. Her husband. MET TWO WOMEN HE KNEW. who had delayed his departure for business, decided that she must have some brandy at once. The nearest place where liquor could be obtained was a saloon a block away. He didn't hesitate a moment over petty scruples, but hustled into the place. When he came out, a few moments later, it chanced that two women who knew him happened along. "Did you see him coming out of that saloon?" said one woman. "And in broad daylight, too!" cried the other. "And did you notice how flushed his face was?" queried the first speaker. "Yes, I did. And there was a dazed look in his eyes. Perhaps he has been in there all night." "Think of his poor wife! I had heard some reports, but I didn't believe them. It's too bad to see a bright young man make such a deliberate wreck of himself." "Isn't it?" And then the two charitable souls passed along out of the hearing of the man behind. 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A Candid Publisher. In the recent death of J. Schabelitz, the famous Zurich publisher and author, the world of art and letters has lost one of its extraordinary characters. He was a shroud business man, an excellent linguist, a skillful writer, and probably the most savage publisher who ever lived. When he accepted the famous memoirs of Count von Arnim, he wrote on the postal card, with the acceptance, the proviso: "I reserve the right to correct your inernally bad grammar." To an aspiring poet who had submitted manuscript he answered by postal card: "I refuse to be disgraced by printing your doggerel. I don't return the copy because you didn't inelose enough postage. If you will send it, with the price of this card, I will send it to you, but I don't think the stuff is worth the expense on your part." One of his postal cards to a novelist read about as follows: "For Heaven's sake, come and take away the unnamable mass of paper you left here for me to look at." 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From the pleasures of the present I would gladly turn away Just to ride to school with father in the old pung sleigh. -Florence Josephine Boyce, in Youth's Companion. LIBERTY---OR WHAT THE day was drawing to its close. Already the sun had begun to tint the western sky with a soft crimson glow. The windows in the weather-beaten barracks caught and held the rosy light as though loath to let the brightness go, and even the little thatched cottage under the hill was bathed in the glory. Within the little cottage under the hill preparations for the evening meal were being made. Back and forth across the room a tall, straight figure moved, full of that supple grace of the southern woman, says the Chicago Herald. "Zorites, have you heard what decision has been made?" "No, mother," answered the girl. "Capt. Newcombe told me to-day that they were all on the tiptoe of expectation, but determined to fight it out and win, no matter what happens." "The captain is very gallant. If all the men were as brave as he there would be no doubt about an American victory." "I am afraid your criticism is unjust, mother. You are letting ten come under the ban of your displeasure because you chance to know the merits of one. Capt. Newcombe thinks all his men brave." "Well, we need not complain of Lieut. Hope's courage, for he certainly displayed perseverance, at least, before he won, after many rebuffs." "Oh, yes. Lieut. Hope is exceedingly brave, if you call persistence in a love "DID YOU THEN LOVE HIM SO MUCH?" affair bravery. I wonder if in war a besieged army is ever worried into being captured. Really, I feel like a prisoner of war since—" "Hush, Zorita," came softly from the corner. "You are hasty. It is no less than treachery to—" "Treachery!" interrupted the girl, impetuously. "I think your definition and mine differ; but forgive me, dear," suddenly softening and laying her flushed cheek against her mother's soft hair. "I am tired to-night. And—mother—do not ask me why—I have graved my liberty as no one ever did before—and to-night I'm free, mother—freel. Do you understand what that means to me, dear? I have broken my engagement with Lieut. Hope." "It may be at the risk of your happiness, dear." "I have gladly taken that risk, and rejoice in my liberty. Ah! mother, liberty! I wonder not that men's lives are lost for liberty!" The Widow Juaníquez and her daughter were in the little cottage making bandages and otherwise busying themselves with work for the army. "It is strange, mother, that Capt. Newcombe did not come in as usual this evening." "Yes; he said yesterday he would come up as soon as his duties were performed. I do not understand his absence." Zorita glanced quickly at the still girlish figure bending over her work. Was that a flush softly creeping over the fair, youthful face? She caught her breath. Did her mother care? She had not thought of that—but then—why not? Was not the "seporita" the betle of the village? And yet the thought had never come to her that it was still possible for a man like the captain to win her mother's love. Why, even the idea was absurd. Did she really care for Capt. Newcombe? Surely his interest, at least was no more than friendship. When he hears that she is not bound to Lieut. Hope will he not show her it is she whom he loves? Great excitement seemed to prevail in the village next morning. At every other door groups of people were standing, the men angrily gesticulating, the women crying. In front of the cottage were two or three villagers talking to "Irish," as he was familiarly known in camp. "Yis," he was saying, "thim sphalpeens up there," jerking his thumb toward the barracks, "were too busy enjoyin' wid thimselfs to be bothered wid the drubbles av a handful av poor divils. But ye'll niver be after catching Capt. Newcombe a-nappin', and ez soon ez he heard the fuss offered himself and his men to go and help thim." "Yis, we wint, but how many hev come back agin? The dirty sphalpeens made a ragged edge of our company—the finest, ye'll see anywhere—and the captain himself has been killed entoirly. Ah! 'twas a sorry day that brought Paddy Malone to this God-forsaken countryst!" The two women within, so dear to each other, and yet each seeming to stand in the other's happiness, strained their ears to listen. Almost unconscious of the other's presence, they both van out at the man's words and stood there with drawn faces, deathlike in their awful pallor, while he repeated the news that made desolate many a happy fireside and veiled with tears the light in loving eyes. The widow's lithe form swayed and trembled, and she would have fallen had not Zoritsa suddenly seemed to realize that her mother was there. With a quick catching of the breath and a dry, choking sob in her throat, she reached out her arm and caught her. Each read with anguish the truth in the other's eyes, and in each heart was a momentary struggle for the victory. The painful quietness of despair seemed to envelop the young girl, and, with eyes heavy with unshred tears, she half-blindly led her mother into the house. This, then, was why Zoritsa had claimed her freedom. Oh, why had she not told Zoritsa before that the captain had already confessed his love for her? And it was only last night they were to have told her of their happiness. To-day he is dead—dead! Unable to control herself, she broke into passionate weeping. "Dearest," the girl said, drawing the golden head to her breast, "did you, then, love him so much?" "There may be—there must be some dreadful mistake." She did not know her mother had seen the love light in her eyes and had rightly interpreted it. Though there was not a quiver of an eyelid, her heart was breaking. Already her light had gone out. Her world was a world of darkness. Night came on. One by one the stars appeared. A solemn hush lay over all. Even the camp seemed deserted, and naught save the occasional screech of a whip-poor-will broke the dread silence. Yearning for the sympathetic stillness of the night and the companionship of the broad, calm sky, dotted with its myriads of stars, Zoritsa drew her shawl about her, and with a heavy heart went out into the darkness. What was that? Sounds of rejoicing? How they grated upon her now! But what were they saying? Hush! "Captain — alive — prisoner — escaped—" Could it be true? Her heart gave a great leap. Yes! there was a loud "Hurrah!" It was true! He was not killed after all, then, and perhaps not even wounded! Ah—but she was not to think of herself. Yet why should she give up the hope hidden in her heart so long and make the little mother unhappy? With a moan more heartrending than sobs she threw herself upon the ground. "God! God! Thou who didst teach us to love! Why, oh, why didst thou give me this chalice, only to withdraw it as I stooped to drink?" In an agony of soul she wrestled with her own desires—her own love—and it seemed to her very life—and conquered. Quiet, resigned and calm, she found her way home, softly unlatched the door, and went in. The bright moonlight streamed in a silver bar through the long, low window, and there in its brightness, with upraised face, almost transfigured with happiness, was the "senorita" clasped in the captain's arms. Without having been seen, and stifling a sigh, the noble girl turned away. "And this is liberty? Aye, liberty to follow Thee, O Christ, to be bound to Thee with the chains of Thy love —liberty to serve Thee in serving others— to spend and be spent in Thy service." * * * On the field, in the hospitals and in the filthy prisons her presence seems to radiate a peace that the world cannot give. In her face can be traced the story of a battle fought and a victory won in the almost forgotten past, but her quiet services tell of the outpouring of a heart of love to the sufferers of the present. What She Always Says. It makes no difference how little a boy is, when his mother scolds him she always says: "You ought to be ashamed of yourself—a big boy like you." Willing to Lose Herself. "There is one thing can be truly said of Miss Ogler; she is self-possessed." "True, but I'll bet you she wishes she wasn't in Boston Courier. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIKGINIA HUSBAND PAID BILL Uses Counterfeit Notes to Stop Wife's Nocturnal Thieving. She Spends Them, and He In Called by 'Phone Just in Time to Save Her from Arrest—Joke Cost The Chicago Tribune reports this story of a married man in that city whose wife had acquired the habit of going at night when he slept to where his trousers hung and taking money from their pockets, and in this instance the consequences are interesting. He is the proprietor of a business that brings him a large income. There are rush hours in his business, and at such times bad money finds its way to his coffers. In the course of a year, usually, he gathers a large bundle of counterfeit notes of large and small denominations. He was thinking one day of some plan to break his wife of her habit of nocturnal borrowing. While he was studying out the plan he thought also of the bundle of bad bills then in his safe. He never knew just why he was keeping the bad money until that moment. "That's a brighter idea than I have had for years," he said, and he smiled with satisfaction that evening as he filled three of his pockets with the counterfeits. He took no other sort of money, except ten cents for car fare. He couldn't go to sleep that night, and could hardly keep from chuckling with mirth. He managed, however, to simulate sleep, and out of a corner of his eye saw his loving helpmeet help herself to the bills. She took some from each of the three rolls, thinking he wouldn't miss them. The next morning he hurried off to his office, so his wife wouldn't get time to repent and tell him what she had done. Several times that day he went to a window and looked out, just to be alone HE SIMULATED SLEEP. with his thoughts and be happy. A telephone message came for him in the afternoon. It was from a big store in State street. "Hello! Are you married?" came the question over the telephone. "Yes, is it any of your business?" "It may be. There's a woman over here who says she's your wife." "Well, what of it?" "You'd better come over and see." He hurried to the store, doubting and agitated. His wife had been shopping. She bought things so liberally that the salesman who served her was delighted. The bill of goods amounted to $18, and it was for trinkets only, such as women buy who have lots of money. She handed over four five-dollar bills. She waited for her change. The salesman returned, but he was not smiling suavely. "I'm sorry, madam, but these bills are bad." "Bad?" And with a long, cold, withering look she gathered up the bills and handed over two ten-dollar bills. After another wait the salesman came back, and he was not smiling then either. He was laboring to be calm and dignified. "I'm sorry to inform you, madam that these bills are bad also." She started to say something to him, but just at that moment the right words were too hard to find. But she could still look chilling glances at him. She slowly picked up the two returned bills and stuffed them into the off side of her purse. Her fingers were not moving deftly, but she managed to draw out a $20 bill. With ice delibration she passed it over the counter. "See if that is bad, too," she said, with fine irony. She was breathing hard, but otherwise she was perfectly calm while she waited. Soon the salesman came back His face was in hard, set lines. "It is," he said, with an effort. "Give me that money, you—you—wretch!" "I'm sorry, madam, but—" The overworked salesman was saved the labor of finishing such a difficult sentence. A house detective stepped up beside her and finished it for him by telling her she would have to come to the office of the superintendent. He was a police officer, with a star on his vest, and she avoided a scene by going with him. Her husband settled the matter by telling the superintendent the whole story and paying the bill with good money. Kalser Sent a Bibye The German emperor recently sent a Bible to Rev. Huba Stubenvail, pastor of the First Lutheran church of Elkhorn, Wis., who had written a poem in his honor. The Bible when used in the church for the first time was dedicated with special services. A Nickel Buys a Lot. A St. Louis man has made the discovery that a cigar contains acetic, formic, vityric, valericiam, propionic and prussic acids, creosote, phenol, ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen, nicotine, picolene and some other things he does not know the name of. An Every-Day Occurrence. Smith-Chicago has a robber who drives about in a cab. Brown-That's nothing! I've been robbed by a cab driver many a time. -Town Topics. Setting Himself Right. "You don't dare put your arm around Miss Passsee's waist." "I'm not afraid of her--but I'm no lemon squeezer."-Harlom Life. Eds ug 11, Bill Wilson, Will Chambers, W/McClure, 16 Charlie Hart, 20, Peter Lon and 15 year old Son, white, Shooting a man, Weturnpks, Ala. Aug. 16, Charlie Hart, colo d criminal assault Brantley, Ala. Aug. 16, Tom K-th, colored, ented lady's room drunk, Near Green'nie, S.C. Aug. 20, Rev. J. Floyd, colored, wanted to work, Cartersville, Ill. Wm. Prentice. Hughes Bradley, Henry Branum, Jim Hayes, John Black, Sim Cremings, Aug. 28, white, stroke against lynehing, Georgetown, Ga. Sept. 12, Rev. H. B. Battle, colo, spoke against lynehing, Near'thompson, Ga. Sept. 27, Senor Sanchez, Cuban, nothing October 11 Judge Bartis La Place, white, Assantling Near New Orleans 18, Joe Letto, Colored Arson and Assault, burned. St. Ann Miss 18, Robert Smith, Col. Innocen, Partly Roasted not dead 20, George Wells, Colored, Murder, Wier Oity Kao The Reign of Lawlessnses 3 C.&O. Chesapeake and Obto Railway. EFFECTIVE MAR H 1, 1900 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND; BROAD-STREET STATION 9:00 A.M., Daily, with Parlorcar, tor principle stations. Newport News Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth 8:46 P.M., Daily with Fullman, for 1000 stations, Newport news, Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth. Connects at Old Point with Washington steamers, daily with Baltimore steames except Sunday. Connects at Norfolk with Old Dominion Seam Ship except Sunday K 10:30 A.M., Day Express except Sunday for Clifton Forge Connects at Gordonsville for Orange, Calverton, Manassas, Alexandria, and Washington, at Union Station, Charlotteville for Lynchburg at Basic for Hagerstown 2:15 P. M. Daily, with Pullmans to Cincinnati, Lontville and St. Louis. Toppe on Cornwall station. Connec needs at Cincinnati, Orange and at Orange with the Southern Ry. northbound; at Coxington for Va. Hot Springs. Meals served on Daint, cars No. 7 Local Trains except Sunday, following above train from Cincinnati to Staunton. 8:30 P. M. Accommodation, except Sunday for Doswell. 10:30 p. m., Daily, for Cincinnati, with Pullmans, following above train from Cincinnati and Lontville. Meals served on Dining Cars. Connects at Staunton (except Sunday) for Winchester, Va. and at Cincinnati. Daily for Virginia Hot Springs. TRAINS LEAVE EIGHTH-STREET STATION. 10:30 A. M., Daily, for Loxington Lynchburg, and Clifton Forge, Connects except Sunday with Buckingham and Alberone, Branches, and at Clifton Forge, with Norfolk and Columbia. 5:00 P. M., Except Sunday, for Columbia. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND, BROAD-STREET STATION. 8:00 A. M., Except Sunday from Doswell. 8:30 A. M., Daily from Glencastle. 1:35 A. M., Daily from Norfolk and Old Point. 3:00 P. M., Daily from Cinnamatt and Louis- Point. 6:00 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 6:20 P. M., Daily from Lynchburg, Lynchburg and Clifton Forge, except Sunday from New Castle, and Rosney. JOHN D POTTS. Ass't. General Passenger Agent. Southern Railway 11. 50 p.m. No. 11 SUTHERN EXPRESS daily 10. Atlanta Augusta Jacksonville, and Greeks boro, Salisbury, and Charlotte Sleeper open at Richmond 10. 3 p.m. Joints South Sleeper for Danville. Greensboro, Salisbury, and Charlotte. Sleeper open at Richmond 9:30 b. m. Steps for passengers at local stations. Connects at Danville and Charlotte with New York and Florida Express (No 87) carrying through sleepers between New York and Tampa, with connections for all Florida points, also connects at Danville, Charlotte with the Washington and Southwestern Limited (No 87; carrying through sleepers between New York and Nashville). New York and Memphis and New York and New Orleans. also. Pullman Tourist sleeper Monays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Washington to San Francisco without change, with connections for all points in Texas, Mexico and California. 15:01 P.M. No. 7, solid train duty or Jor lotte, N. C. Connects at Moseley with Fairfield, N. C. Connects at Fairfield, Keysville for Clarksville, Oxford, Henderson and Durham and at Greenwich and Salt Lake City. Connects at Daville with no. 85 U.S. States Fast Mail, solid train, daily for New Orleans and points South, which brings you to New York. Connects leans and New York to Jacksonville, and Miami for Nassau & Habana, Cuba through main "leisure" Sainsbury, to Mohawk via of Ashville and Chattanooga. 5:00 P. M., 10 N. LUG, daily, except Sunday to Keysville and intermediate point TRAINS ARRIVE AT NICHMOND. Nos. 61 and 52, between Manchester and Neapolis. Va YORK RIVER LINE, WEST POINT The Favorite Route North. BALKMORE LIMITED, Bally, except Sunday for West point, and intermediate stations making close connection. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays with steamer for Haltimors. Train No. 10.2:30 P.M. LOCAL EXPRES. Mon Wednes & Fridays, for West Point and intermediate stations. con. on Tappanhauck, con. on Tappanhauck also. at West Point with steamers for Baltimore. Stops at all sta- Train No. 74.5:00 A. M. LOCAL MIXED, leaves daily, except Sunday from Virginia Street Station for West Point and intermediate stations, connecting with the manor for Walker and Tappahannock. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND, 8:15 a.m. Bally, 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. Steamers leave West Point daily except sunday, taking baths at Bathhouse 450 m. sunday, securing it into Harlem 6:00 p.m. daily except Sundays arriving Richmond 9:15 a.m. Sailors call at Gloucester Point and Almonds Hours, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; Yorktown and Clay Bank, Mon- days, Wednesdays and fridays. O. W. WESTBURY, Traveling Passenger Agent, E 0.0 E Main St, Richmond, Va. J. M. GULP, Traffic Manager, sen. Pass. Agent. FRANK S. GANNON. Third Vice-president and General Manager Washington, D. C. BUSINESS CARDI 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 3 LD DOMINION STEAMSP H100 DAILY LINE FOR NEW YORK, EXCEPT SUNDAY Passengers can leave Richmond on sunday via Chesapeake and Obt, railway, a north of Richmond and Peterburg rail road, (Norfolk) or Richmond and connectus at Norfolk with Old Domin Line steamer sailing same evening at 7 o'clock. Tickets on sale at Richmond Transfer Company's, 900 east Main Street; Chesapeake and railway and Richmond and Petersburg railway; and Richmond and office east Main Street. Richmond. Baggage checked through. PRIMARY. for New York and all points beyond can shipped by steamers, sailing from Richmond DAY at 5:00 P.M. EDNESDAY at FRI DAY at 5:00 P.M. The steamer or steam passengers only. Passenger can leave daily except Sundays and weekdays. 4 P M.) to Norfolk or Old Point Comfort, 4 P M.) to Western railroad or Chesapeake and Ohio Freshf to Eichmond or by steamer via Nor- folk Mondays and Wednesdays 8:30 P M. Saturdays, 4 P M. from company's airline. No 2 North silver river on Beach Street. Freight receives and forwarded daily except Sundays. VIRGINIA NAVIGATION COMPANY'S JAMES-RIVER LINE To Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point, Newport- News, Claremont, and James River landings, and Old Point and Norfolk for Washing- ton, including the North. STREAMER POCHAONTAH LAVERY, Winn- NEDAY and FRIDAY AT 7 A.M. Electric cars direct to wharf. Fare only $1.50 to Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point and Newport News. Music by a grand Orchestrion. Freight received daily from above-named places and all points in Eastern Virginia and North Carolina. IRVIN WEISIGER, Superintendent EDWARD E. BARNEY President General Office: Planters' Bank Building. S.A.L. SEABOARD AIR LINE. SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY 8, 1922 LEAVES BYRD, STATION for Henderson (arrive Durham daily, except Sunday). Raleigh, Sanford, Southern Pines, Hiltonhead, Slover, Monroe, Charlotte, Lincolnton, Shelby, Killettford, Chester, Clinton, Greenwood, Abbeville, Rhode Athens ATLANTA Augusta, Macon, Mont gomery, New Orleans, ensacola, Jackson ville, Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis, Texas, Mexico, California and the west via Memphis or New Orleans. Trains leaving at 8:00 P M runs through so- ld in Atlanta without change of cars. Sleepe- er ready for occupancy at 8:40 P M TEAKS ARRIVE RICHMOND 8:15 a.m Daily, except sunday (Sunday 8:15 a.m a.m. 7:00 p.m Daily. For tickets, baggage checks, sleeping on reservation, etc., apply to H. M. BOYKIN, General Agent, 838 East Main St B. S. JONN, Vice-President and sen't manage V. E. MCHENE, General Superintendent H. W. B. GLOVER, Traffic Manager L. S. ALLEN, general rafters New 'Phone 983. R. F. P. RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC. Schedule in Effect January 18, 1900. LEAVE BYRD ST. STATION. 8:28 A. M., Daily, for Washington and portland Stops only at Milford and Pulman Sleeper to New York. 8:30 A. M., Sunday only, for Wheliuglton and points North. Stops at Earl Glen, Glenville, Taylorville, Doswell, another Glen, Penola, Milford, Woodslane, Curtis, Ummit, Fredericks burg, Pulman, and Widewater. Pulman car. 8:45 A. M., Daily, except Sunday, for washington and points North Stops in Allen, Ashland, Taylorville, Pulman, Ruther Glen, Peola, Milford, Woodslane, Guinea, Summit, Pulman, Fredericksburg, and Widewater. Pulman. 12:00 M.. Dally, point in car. Dally, point in car. for Washington and points North. Stops at Eba, Glen Ala, Aisla, Island, Dowell, Milford, and Fredericksburg, Parlor car. Connects Congressional Limited at Washington. 7:45 P. M., Daily for Washington and points North. Stops at Albany, Asheville, Dwell, Milford Fredericksbury, Wood and Widewater. Stops at other stations Sundays. Sleeper Richmond to New York. Sleeper Washington to Philadelphia. ARRIVE BYRD-STREET STATION. 8:40 A. M., Daily. Stops at Widewater Fredericksbury, Milford, Doswell, Ashland, Glen Allen and Els. Stops at other stations Sundays. Sleeper New York to Richmond. 8:40 P. M., Daily. Excursion Sunday. Stops at Fredericksbury, Milford, Ashland, Glen Allen and Els. carlor ear from Washington. 8:28 P. M., Daily. Stops only at Fredsburg Dwell, Ashland and Els. Pullman cars from New York. 8:40 P. M., Daily. Stops at Widewater Brooke, Fredericksbury, Wood, Mitte, Gutnea, Woodsane, Milford, Penna, Ruther Glen, Dwell, Taylorsville, Ashland, Glen Allen, and Els. sleeps ACCOMMODATION TRAINS. (Daily except Sunday) 7:00 A. M. Leaves Elba for Quintito. 7:00 A. M., Loaques Bd. st. for Fredericksburg. 7:32 P. M. Leaves Elba for Ashland. 6:40 A. M., Arrives Elba from aslaut. 6:22 A. 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The courts have made it possible for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATION :- When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your payment you should give your name and address to L.Rall, otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. 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 K仁博mond, Va. a second class matter. SATURDAY APRIL 28 1900 There is no crime ever committed by a colored man, but what some white man has gone him one worse. Good behaviour will do much towards enabling us to win the respect and support of the better class of white people of the South. We have thousands of white people in the South who are our friends. They are in the minority, but they are our friends nevertheless. It makes a self respecting colored man sick at heart when he witnesses the conduct of some of the lower elements among our people; but he swells with pride when he notes the progress of the God-fearing, progressive classes who are imitating the best qualities of the white man and fowning upon the worst ones. THE SITUATION IN NORTH GARO LINA. The situation in North Carolina is anomalous and the discussion now taking place within its confines necessarily attracts attention. To an impartial observer, it would seem that the white Democratic politicians had discarded the teachings of the Bible and Christianity sent to dwell in a strange land. The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is as plain, positive and unequivocal as it is possible for language to be. Every citizen in the "North State" is sworn to maintain and support it. Here is the language of the statute: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude." Despise all this at the meeting of the Democratic Convention held at Raleigh April 11, 1900. State Chairman SIMMONS is quoted as follows: "He (Simmons) added that the object of the amendment could be stated in twelve words—To disfranchise the ignorant Negroes and not disfranchise an uneducated god man—and said, 'By the Eternal God any white man shall vote.'" Is he guilty of perjury? If he is, what must be said of the thousands of others who expect to follow his example? E. W. Pou said: "White rule must follow our flag wherever it goes, whether the Constitution gets there or not." This is a message to the Filipinos as to what they are to expect under the leadership of BRYAN. Then followed a scene, remarkable in a monarchy and startling in a republic: "Ayoook was nominated by acclamation and the Chairman said: 'I declare Charles B. Ayoook the next Governor of North Carolina.'" That was notice to the people of the north that an oligarchy rules North Carolina, that the power has been plucked from the hands of the people and that the Republican form of government guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States is no more. I mean that CHARLES B. AYCOOK will have the governorship, whether he is elested or no. It means that intimidation will stalk in the towns and cities and that assassination will rap at the doors of all who oppose. In the face of this condition of affairs the Executive Department of the government is silent, and the Legislative Department apparently paralyzed. The speech of Candidate AYCOOK sounds like irony and looks like falsehood. The correspondent quotes him as follows: "For thirty years our political battles have been fought from time to time along race lines, while we have sought in vain to make the theory of universal suffrage work out good government and private virtue. We have found by actual trial that it cannot be done." Here is a man who gravely declares one hundred and twenty-four years after the Declaration of Independence that the cardinal principles—that of universal suffrage is a failure, and that King George III of England was right in his contention. He is quoted further: "Our experience has taught us that the Negro has not, by inheritance or education, such knowledge and appreciation of the responsibility of the free suffrage and of a full participation in the sovereignty of the country as to be able to maintain a republican form of government." If this is true of the Negro, it is even more so relative to the white man, for it is confessedly true that oligarchies and not local republics exist in Mississippi. Louisiana and South Carolina, where the Negro has been eliminated by unconstitutional constitutional enactment, as a political factor. The inequality of the proposed constitutional provisions is admitted in the following language: "It requires of the Negro the qualification by education, because he has it not by inheritance, and demands of the white man only that he be by inheritance. It boldly recognizes the claims of the hereditary fitness of the whites." This is the situation of affairs in North Carolina. Murder is openly practiced, fraud encouraged, rascality aided and the solemn oaths cast aside. How long can government thus constituted continue? The plea against the Negro is used to rob the white man. It is a race for plunder. The result is not far distant. Red-handed revolution will be the end and thousands of the best sons of the nation will yet offer their lives as a sacrifice upon the altar of blind ambition which stalks in public places and is unappeased in its appetite for power. THE TIMES AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. The more the question of a constitutional convention is argued, the more it brings to mind the soliloquy of Hamlet in saying. "And makes us rather bear those ills we have. Than fly to others that we know not of?" In discussing this phase of the question, the Richmond, Va., Times in its issue of the 22d inst., says: "One of the first things that the Virginia convention of 1829 did was to take up the Bill of Rights, our Magna Charts, and the committee to which it was referred naively reported to the convention subsequently that it saw no reason to make any changes in that old document, and so it was by resolution incorporated into the new constitution. But it is apparent that, had it chosen to do so, the convention could have torn the Bill of Rights to tatters from the fragment's to the winds. The people may instruct their delegates to the convention that the people the constitution which they shall frame, but we know not how the delegates can be compelled to obey instructions." It continues: "It is for these reasons that the Times has been very slow to give its approval to the convention movement. We thought, and we still think, that the best way to revise the constitution is by the amendment process, or, as the Populists call it, by the initiative and referendum. All necessary amendments to the constitution could thus have been made, and in fact, people would have had the privilege of voting on each amendment separately." It says further: "But this plan, however good in the story, was proven to be impracticable. That is to say, the Legislature would not employ it as a means of radically revising the constitution, and so it was agreed that the only way to qualify the suffrage and remove the cause of fraudulent election practices in Virginia, was to call a constitutional convention. Therefore, The Times hasallen into line and is an advocate of the convention." So it admits that the phantom of Negro supremacy,—a nightmare of the century scared it in line. This is the admission of an educated gentleman in charge of a journal conducted by a syndicate of wealthy men. If white men of this calibre are thus influenced and controlled, what must be said of the illiterate whites, who see a Negro in every wood-pile and rags prejudice upon every sand-bank? The Democratis wart-heaslers and whiskey bumbers, who expect to be delegates will grin when they read the following: "We would impress the fast, however, and that is the purpose of this article, that it is a most serious thing to call a convention to revise the constitution. It is, therefore, a matter of the gravest concern and of visual interest to the State of Virginia that the delegates to such a convention shall be honest, pathetic, intelligent, discreet THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA who will have no political axes to grind and who, with the fear of God, before them, will go about their work with an eye single to the peace, honor and welfare of the Commenwealth." Oh, the deplorable condition of our commonwealth! One looks in vain for a journal with the manhood and the honesty to condemn fraud and to plead for great principles—as great as those handed down from Sinali's Mount. Thus Times started upon the right course but it has long since switched off into the labyrinth of desolation and the by ways of race-prejudice. THAT NEGRO SOARE-OBOW. It is now plainly evident that the scare-crow of Negro domination is being used to divert attention from an entirely different purpose. The Negro-haters, all oblivious of the real intention of the master hand behind the scene is swelling the chorus in his call for the distranchisement of the Negro by the means of the constitutional convention. The Richmond, Va., DISPATCH is leading the fight for a constitutional convention and some of the utterances quoted were rabidly anti-Negro. State Senator CARTER GLASS is quoted as follows: "Constitutional revision is needed primarily to abridge suffrage, and, to that extent, simplify the race problem and end politics' racialism." That any man could believe that political rascality can be ended by the exercise of constitutional rascality is a surprising thing to us. It is only polluting the source of all law and in this makes the situation worse instead of better. It does not end political rascality, it tends to perpetuate it by engrafting it upon the pages of the law of laws. A man might get authority from the legislature to kill other men. He becomes tired of killing others only by the authority of the legislature. He comes to the conclusion that he can case his conscience and shirk the responsibility, by getting permission from the people themselves to commit the crime. Is it no less a crime to rob men of their votes by constitutional enactment than it is by the WALTON law. Where then is Mr. GLASS's justification for his plea either in morals or ethics? State Senator ASA D. WATKINS took high ground when he said : "Our elections will always be conducted as at present, unless the intelligent property ownership controls. Matters may get much worse unless anything is done to prevent the ignorant and earnest voter from exercising rights which none but the true citizen should exercise." He regarded his oath to the extent of basing action upon the condition of the voter rather than his color. He would bar the ignorant white voter from the exercise of the right of franchise as much so as the colored ones. Attorney-General A. J. Montague was equally disresect in his utterances. Mr. S. S. P. PATTESON, however, ignored his oath of offis to the extent of virtually declaring that he did not propose to represent all of the people, but only a class of them. What else does this language mean? "The chief reason why a convention should be held is the Negro suffrage question. **** It is of the utmost importance to the State that Negro suffrage should be limited so that intelligent voters can divide on both State and national economic measures whenever they think proper to do so." Let Mr. PATTESON name a state which has divided upon either state or national economic measures since the adoption of a new unconstitutional constitution. The only result has been a further plea for the right to order the colored people off the face of the earth. Mr. PATTESON continues: "It should be so dealt with as to put white supremacy in every precinct in the State beyond the possibility of any danger." Could a lower and more sordid appeal be made to race prejudice? He would accord to the deprived, the vicious and the ignorant white elements rights which he would deny the Negro. Every nationality on the face of the globe is invited to participate in our government while the people who have made the South what it is by 250 years of unrequited war are told to stand back and submit to previous humiliations. All right, Mr. PATTESON, all right! We will meet you on the hustings, and in other public places; but the last great rally will be before the bar of God, where race prejudice and petty hatred will be cast aside and the iniquity of your position fully exposed. Mr. JOHN E. EPPs, a laboring white man, whose share in this world's goods is as limited as it is possible for a man in his position to be, indulged in this fling at other laboring men: "Laying aside all other considerations, the question of the judiciary and county officers and restitution of the suffrage, and all that, there are two reasons for a convention that should make every man in Virginia an advocate of it. The first is a constitutional provision that the amount of money paid for the support of public schools shall be divided between the two cases in proportion to the amount of taxes paid by each Just think of it, the N-groups of this State pay 2 per cent. of the taxes; they get 39 per cent. of the amount spent for schools." Is it possible that Mr. Erps was too big a simplleton not to know that he was playing with a two-edged sword and dealing a blow at the public school system of Virginia? Did he not know that he is advocating the doctrine of the rich against the poor, the strong against the weak? Let us see. What proportion of taxes does Mr. Erps pay as compared to that assessed against Mr. BRANCH? What proportion is paid by the poor white people as compared with that paid by the rich white people? What proportion of taxes is paid by the poor wards of this city in comparison to those paid by the wealthy wards? What proportion of the taxes is paid by the poor counties as compared with that paid by the wealthy counties? What proportion of taxes is paid by the poor states of the Union as compared with that paid by the wealthy states? Would Mr. EPPS argue that only the taxes paid by the poor white people should be expend ed upon their schools? Would he argue that only the taxes paid by the wards should be expended only upon the wards which pay them? Would he argue the same way about the counties and the states? If he would, what would become of the doctrine of equality in the United States Senate and the representation in Congress? New York and a few more stat s would control the Union and the VANDERBILTS and the Goulds and the ASTRORS would control the states which controlled the union. We take it then that assertions emanating from a man of Mr. EPPS calibre indicate that he is himself lacking not only in education, but information. No well-informed man would go before an intelligent people with such argument which entails the destruction of vital principles which would bring about the down-fall of the republic. If Mr. Erps has presumed that he is a statesman, he has made the mistake of his life. It is the same old story over again,—the spoiling of a good machinist in an effort to make a good legislator. He is drawing all of the money out of the government, instead of putting any into it for he is an office holder and if we mistake not, has been drawing two salaries,—one from the city and the other from the state government. Mr. H. M. Smith, JR., dealt plainly with the propositions, ignoring the oath-breaking race question and declaring that the reduction of criminal expenses was the main question. He trod upon dangerous ground too when he said: "I am especially destruous of seeing the Constitution amended so as to make each county bear its criminal expenses. These are at present paid out of the State Treasury. Many counties actually get more money out of the Treasury for criminal expenses than they pay in in taxes." It is no dless to discuss this phase of the question further. It is evident that the avowed attempt to injure the Negro will result in the discomfiture of the white man. On with the effort to check progress and drive away prosperity! On with the trifling with great principles and the enthronement of corrupt ones. The attempt has brought confusion and suffering to the promoters and their offspring before. It will do so again. The ringing declaration of the scriptures that "righteousness exalteth a nation and sin is a reproach to any people" is as true today as it was two thousand years ago. The pulse-beats of eternity are as regular as ever and the hand of God in history may as yet be seen in the looking glass of fate. FROM HARTFORD Rev A. C. Powell of New Haven delivered a very interesting address to the Lillian Clayton Jewett, league of Hartford at Woooster St. Bapt. Church, last Tuesday evening. The subject being "How the Negro can defend himself." It was a grand effort. The fair held last Monday and Tuesday evenings of the auspices of the Ladies Anxiliary of the Summer League was a decided failure, both in attendance and financially. Everybody mostly attended Ole and Johnson's who played at the Opera House on those nights. Rev A. D. Chandler of the Union Baptist Church, has been called to a charge a Los Angeles, Cal., which he received to accept. He leaves the first of the month Mr. Chandler has only been in the present church about eighteen months, but he has endured himself with every one who has met. We regret his sudden departure but wish him all his success possible. The hair dressing establishments formerly conducted at 28 Mulb rgy St. by Mr. J. L. wheeldin, has removed to 53 Alburny Ave., where copies of the PLANET and New York Age can be purchased. Mr. George T. Johnson, formerly of the Allyn House, left Sunday nights for Atlan is City. Quite a few friends gathered at the depot to see the popular little fellow take his departure. Mr. Cha Ies D. Booker is back in the cit after a successful season in Ormond, Fla. Mrs. J. C. Allat s of Liberty St., is quite ill with the grip. Mrs. N. A. Williams, who is visiting friend Rochestar is expected home this week. Mayor Harbison has consented to deliver the welcome address to the New England Demonstration which convenes in Hartford on Labor Day, under the auspice of Celestial Lodge, No. 2093 G U. of O. F. GRANITE, CHESTERFIELD CO., VA. The com-menagement exercises of Mrs. Blackwell's school was held at the Samaritan's Hait on Monday afternoon, April 23. The programme consisted of dialogues, receptions etc. which were credibly rendered by her well-trained scholars. Quite a number of visitors were present, who, the rest of the audience were highly seated. The patrons to show their appreciation for the earnest efforts of Mrs. Blackwell and her assistant, Mrs. Holmes gave a dinner in their honor which was greatly enjoyed. THE ISLANDS OF THE SEA AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION. The Spanish and the Natives. A Word about Uncle Sam's Troubles. CASTILLEJOS, P. I., March 11, 1900. After having gone over considerable portions of the islands and studied the people and its characteristics I think I can give our readers a very fair idea of the same. The Philippines belong to the Malay Peninsula, forming the northern portion. They are composed of fourteen hundred islands, large and small. Luzon is the largest, the principal, the most northern and the home of the insurrection. It is divided into several provinces, Manila being the most popular, in which the city of Manila, the capital and principal city is located. The population of the group is 9,000,000. Luzon, 1,229,000 and Manila city 280,000. Each province, or nearly each, has its own tribe and tongue. Manila and Cavite provinces are the homes of the Tagalo, and the two in which the insurrection was strongest: and hardest to break. But it gradually spread until nearly all provinces, except the most no-thern, the home of the Iggorote or mountain tribe. THE OTHER ISLANDS. The other large islands are Pomaye, Negros, Lomar, Leyte and others. The Filipinos trace their ancestry back to Negroes, who were originally found here by Spanish explorers 400 years ago, but they were continually knocked around and slaughtered by Chinese until now they are almost extinct. A few years later the Chinese, who had flocked in great numbers uprose and slaughtered hundreds of Filipinos, in being sometime before the Spaniards succeeding in corraling the ring-leaders. Peace was finally restored, but sometime later, the Filipinos in a state of resentment and revenge, killed several Chinese, which was the last trouble prior to the first insurrection. The Spaniards continued to oppress the people and to cap the climax, on December 8d, 1897, Du Rosal, a prominent young Filipino, educated at Studeburg, was hung for his denunciation of the conduct of the church affairs by the Friars, who it is said, forgot their holy calling long enough to jubile as the trap was sprung. This so enraged the natives that the people immediately began to prepare for an uprising under the leadership of Amado and Matine. Things went on until '98 in the Spanish-American War broke out in Cuba. The insurrection broke on anew and the Spaniards lost several important interior towns. The co-operation with the Americans of the Insurgents from July to September, '98, is already well known to our readers. WELL EDUCATED NATIVES. Surely, the islanders on the average are far more advanced than our masses think. In addition to their own tongue most of the natives speak Spanish and have a good Spanish education. They are experts in etiquettes, have fine social organizations and are always very civil entertaining to visitors. The Roman Catholic is the only religion and the natives are very attentive to their religious duties. Every town, eiy or village has its plaza and chureh. Owing to the fact that the soldiers are continually thrown in contact with the natives during their religious worship the chances for close observation are extraordinary. In newly occupied towns where troops are quartered they occupy the church and every Sunday it is turned over to the natives for religious worship. The Friars control the church and some of the schools. The natives support the church with all their earthly horde, if they deem it necessary, which I understand is quite the case. The churches are generally quite美术ific with benches or sears whatever everybody kneels and rises according to a bell which regulates the movement of the services. BANDS IN CHURCHES Instrumental bands discourse music throughout the ceremony. Education is progressing more under American rule than formerly, according to those most interested and have had experience with both. Schools have been established all over the city and the course of instruction is very broad, containing all that makes up an ideal English education. Under the Spanish regime the schools were controlled by the Friars as stated above, and a few institutions of higher learning among which is the Manila Nautical School, still continued by Americans. There are several prominent natives who were educated at leading European institutions of learning and who devote their time to educating their people. The Filipinos as above stated are composed of several provinces, each being its separate tribe. AN INDUSTRIOUS PEOPLE. As a rule they are industrious, but in great many respects they resemble our Indians. For instance, the men are inclined to look at the women while they perform the manual labor, but one good thing, he will assist in the care of the pickaninny (baby) and help to bring in the rice. Another, his greatest fault is that he will listen to any talk you may tell him, that is the poor classes. Their present sympathy with the insurrection is the result of confidence placed in the wealthy class, their superiors. As a business man he is very shrewd and sedom comes out at the small end of the horn. The commence of the island, although very large, has room for much development which will normally come. The principal articles of exports are hemp, sugar, indigo, cocos and fruit and a huge of others too numerous to mention. Rice cultivated in large quantities, but the crop does not xased the home consumption sufficient for export purposes. vanilla is the principal port on the island. Other ports in Luzon are bubig, Iba, Oruz, San Fernando de la Union, Lingayen, Dagupan, Vigan, Apin on the west coast; all of which are open and doing great business. There are several valuable woods in the forest which when converted into woodenware will make a great addition to the commercial interests. and the next in importance to Manila. Legaspi is also an important port. According to the indications the in-urection is practically over. In our province Zambales, one of the hotbeds, all is quiet at present and the residents are moving back to their homes. The telegraph line is through the Zambales valley from Subig to Ibs. The wealthy natives have withdrawn their support and the poor have realized their mistake and are now cultivating the fields, getting ready for the next rice crop. The mountains may contain a few ladroes (hieves) who have infested them for years and may dessert on a town and fire a night. But nevertheless the turtle will soon be over and those who have them will shortly begin to bring in their arm. The leniency bestowed upon the natives and the fighting at the same time has had its effect and are long the insurrection will be a thing of the past. RIERZI B. LEMUS, Co. K 25th Inft, Castilleja, P. I. CASTELLEJO3. P. I. Mar 8 1900 All is quiet in the valley now and telegraphic communication is on between Subig and San Antonio, fourteen miles. Lieut. Shamard has landed Signal supplies on the boat to San Antonio and will push the line through to Iba. A detail is working south from Iba and a junction of the two forces is expected in a short time. Monday some ladrenes (thieves) in a barrio a short distance in the mountains, sent in a demand for rices to the natives saying a refusal meant death. On Tuesday Capt. Leonhaeuser took out details from his Battalion, numbering 150 men, but found no one. The natives appear friendly and I believe the insurrection is all over and that only the Ladrones are now out as they attack natives and all. Last night the Presidents (major) of San Maresala, the next town above here, sent in word last night that a few armed men and bolo men were in the town this morning. Lieut. Sharon took out 50 m from Co. K, to San Maresala five miles distant in answer to the president's message, but for out upon arrival that the enemy had departed last night. The work continues to be quite hard and need not be ailing with malaria in their system, and the command is, physically, bad but; continues to drag on. Chaplain Steward was with us and landed in the surf, undergoing the same hardships as ourselves. He left San Antonio one night before us, going roughly with the pack-mules of Gen. Belt's command. I suppose there are 4 or 5 bundles of Planets at Iba the regimental headquarters for me as all our (K Go.'s) mail is going there, much to our annoyance. I expect to get them shortly as E and H companies all daily expected at their new stations San Narcuico and San Marcalena. Neway Items from Across the "Jeems" The churches were well attended on last Sunday. At the First Church at 11 a.m., covenant meeting; 3:30, administration of the Lord's Supper. Binga was assisted by Rev. D. W. Davis of the 2nd Church, and Rev R. Graham, also Licentiates A. Starkes and — Dandridge The revival meetings are yet in progress at the First Church. The effort in saving souls thus far for the Lord is successful. Sinners are being converted most invariably at every meeting. At the Zion Baptist Church: They are striving to eat the main auditorium by the first Sunday in June. Mr. S. Cooke has resigned from the deacon board of the Zion Baptist Church. Mr Samuel Harris was elected to fill the vacancy. The Second Church has regaled herself and the soul-stirring spiritual songs can be heard to echo and re-echo far and near. The congregation and pastor are working together and there is not a jar between them. Swansboro Baptist Church and their pastor, Rev. T. J. J. Mosby are succeeding well taking in consideration its membership. There are not two dozen aged members in this church, but they have made marvelous success. Mr. Samuel H. Johnson left the city on last Saturday for Chieqie. Mr. Johnson goes with the best wishes of his friends. Mrs. Celia Bolling and Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming are yet indisposed. Sarah Baker, the daughter of Mr. John Baker is improving slowly. Mrs. Sarah A. Elwards is very much improved. Deason A. Q. Powell has been appointed as one of the Eumerators for the Census of 1900. A good selection. Mr. Powell is qualified in every particular for the position. Mrs N. G. Robinson and her daughter. Miss Pearl Robinson have arrived in the city, after having closed a most successful school term in the the country. Big TWO. RICHMOND, VA, April 25, 1901. This is to certify that Z. W. Landis is no longer an agent for the Fidelity Relief Association and the Company is not responsible for any of his acts. Done by order of the Board of Directors, A. B. CHURCH HILL NOTES At 11 a. m. J. R. A. Bowler preached an eloquent sermon at the Mount Olivet Baptist Church. At 8:30 p. m. young people's meeting, Sister Pinky delivered an address to the young people. At 8 p. m. Rev. M. R. Meadows of West Wax, preached an inspiring sermon to a large audience. The Chrysanthemum Social Club gave one of the flaast socials of the season at the Lily of the Valley Hall on Monday night, April 18th. A pleasant evening was spent. The table was set with every thing that taste could call for. It was late before the happy guests left. Josephine Marin, president. Mr. Samuel Walker, the president of the Thessalonians Social Club left the city last Thursday for Middleton, Conn. Mr. John Booker of Philadelphia was in the city last week on the account of the sickness of his son, Howard Booker. He left for Philadelphia Monday, April 23rd. The series of meetings are yet going on at the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Mrs. Catherine Robinson has much improved. Yesterday (Monday) while a vicious animal was making way into the body of little Clarence Robinson with his teeth, his sister Martha trying to defend her brother, was also bitten terribly by the dog. Mr. J. Giles Lomax lost his little son last week. The funeral took place from the house. Rev. Williams officiating. Robert Williams, Funeral Director. We are glad to know that Mrs. Katie Lomax is improving very rapidly. The J. M. Langston Lysium is in progress, meetings every Friday night at 8 o'clock p. m. Rev. Ely Saunders is quite sick at his residence on N. 28th St. We hope him a speedy recovery. Mrs. Bettie Fowlkes is also confined to her sick room at her residence, 604 N. 30th St. ADDITIONAL SLEEPING CAR SERVICE. Effective April 23rd the Southern Railway will extend their present Pullman Sleeper now being operated between Charlotte, N. O., and Atlanta, Ga., on United States Fast Mail train 35 and 88 to Birmingham, Ala., and on and after April 23rd, this sleeper will be operated between Charlotte, Atlanta and Birmingham on some trains. Leaving Richmond at 12:00 noon, daily, this sleeper is attached at Charlotte going through to Birmingham without change, arriving there 11:35 following morning, requiring only one change of cars between Richmond and Birmingham and affording the traveler a quick comfortable trip. At Birmingham connection is made for all points South and Southwest. C. W. WESTBURY, T. P. A. VIRGINIA:—IN THE LAW AND ECUIT COUNT OF THE CITY OF RIGHMOND, the 14th day of April, 1900. ALEX. HINES, Plaintiff, vs SARAH HINES, Def't The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of marriag by the plaintiff from the defendant and stillaffit having been made and filed that the defendant, Sarah Hines is resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here in fifteen days after th. due pu lion- ation of th. order and do what is neces- sary to protest her interest in this suit. To SARAH HINES: You will take notice that I shall on the 7th day of June in the year 1900 at the office of N. J. Lewis, 689 E. Marshall street n the city of Richmond, Virginia between the hours of 9 j'clock a. m. and 6 o'clock p. m., proofed to take the depositions of William G. Harris and others to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in equity pending in the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond, Va., wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff, and, if, from any cause the taking of said depositions be not commenced on that day cr if commenced be not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the taking of the said depositions shall have been concluded. J. HENRY CRUTCHPIELD, p. q. Mrs. Anna Taylor desires her club to meet promptly Sunday afternoon to prepare for the institution of the court. 606 W. Leigh Street. CONFECTIONARIES, ICE CREAM, CIGARS AND At the lowest city prices. Large and small orders promptly attended to. Remember, 808 W. Leigh St., JAMES H. BAKER. tf & C. J. OKE TO r Cooke, Cornellus J. Cooke balmers and Liverymen. ROMS & STABLES; Near Leigh St. THE PLANET SATURDAY APRIL 28, 1900 SENATOR HOAR'S GREAT SPEECH, {CONTINUED FROM THE FIRST PAGE.) things inseparable. It, when we made the treaty of peace, we had adhered to the purpose, we declared what we declared war; if we had dealt with the Philippine Islands as we promised to deal have dealt, and expect to deal with Cuba, the country would have escaped the loss of 6 000 brave soldiers, other thousands of wretched and shattered lives, the sickness of many more, the expenditure of hundreds of millions, and what is far worse than all, the trampling under foot of its cherished ideals. There would have been to-day a noble republic in the East, sitting doilea 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. The Philippine youth would throng our universities; our Constitution, our Declaration, the lives of Washington and Lincoln, the sayings of Jefferson and Franklin would have been the text-books of their schools. Flow our orators and poets would have delighted to contrast America liberating and raising up the republic of Asia, with England subduing and trampling under foot the republic of Africa. Nothing at home could have withstood the great party and the great President who had done these things. We should have come 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 Republian States rising in revolt against Republi policies. I do not expect to accomplish anything for liberty in the Philippine Islands but through the Republican party. Upon it the fate of these islands for years to come is to depend. If that party cannot be persuaded, the case in my judgment for the present hopeless. That party will be in. power for the next twelve months. It will be continued in power for the next twelve months. If it were otherwise, what we do with in the next twelve months could not be undone without the consent of a Republican Senate. Our majority in the Senate for at least four years is assured: and if that were doubtful there are democrats enough committed to this expansion policy to make it sure if the bulk of the R-publican party determine to continue it. NO HOPE FROM BRYAN. I cannot look with any favor upon Mr. Bryan as an alternative. I cannot believe that there is anything to hope for from his election. Upon all other questions than imperialism he announces no single doctrine, principle or purpose which has in it anything either of prosperity or safety to the Republic. And I cannot forget that when it was attempted to defeat the Paris treaty, or at least to compel an amendment which, if it had been done, would have put the Philippines Islands upon the same footing with Cuba, would have prevented the war, and would have preserved our national doctrines of liberty and our ancient policy, it was due to Mr. Bryan, more than to any other man after the treaty left the hands of the President, that that attempts was frustrated. Unless he is much misrepresented he used all his power and influence with those of his friends who were ready to listen to the realization of the treaty. That ratification involved the continuance of the war, which had then proceeded no further than an unauthorized outbreak of hostilities and an assumption of sovereignty over an unwilling people—to be purchased by the United States—the cause of a year's war and all the disasters and melancholy history of the last twelve months. I do not underrate the importance of this issue. It is greater than parties, greater than administrations, greater than the happiness or prosperity of a single generation. But in pleading for justices to these dusky millions of distant Asiatics, I can not forget 10,000,000 American citizens here at home, to whom neither citizenship nor manhood is hereafter to be worth having unless the Republican party stand by them. Who can fail to read the signs of the times? The Senator from Alabama, finding himself hard beset, made his bid for the favor of the Democrats of Alabama by proclaiming in his speech made in his place here, but meant for his campaign at home, the unfitness of the Negro for self-government, and demanding the repeal of the Constitutional amendments. And Alabama even if she dislikes his imperialism, will take him on those terms. Three States have adopted constitutions contrived with masterly ingenuity to exclude Negroes from the right to vote. Others are getting ready to follow $n$ in their footsteps. TILLMAN'S ADMISSION OF MURDER. The Senator from South Carolina, in an utterance whose terrible meaning is almost forgotten in our admiration for the manly frankness of the aweful, said the other day, in the Senate: "We took the government away. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it. The Senator from Wisconsin would have done the same thing. I see it in his eye right now. He would have done it, with that guy forced to force, tissue ballots ete we got forced ourselves. So we called a constitutional one, and we eliminated, as I said, all of the ored people whom we could under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. I want to call your attention to the remarkable change: that has come over the spicie of the dream of the Republicans; to remind you gentleman from the Ninth that your slogans of the past—brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God—have gone glimmering down the ages. The brotherhood of man exists no longer, because you shoot Negroes in Illinois, when they come in competition with your lab as we shoot them in South Carolina when they come in competition with us in the matter of elections. You no not love them any better than we do You used to pretend that you did, but you no longer pretend it except to get their votes. You deal with the Filipinos just as we deal with the Negroes, only you treat them a heap worse.--"Congressional Record, Fift. six-h. Congress, first session, pages 2347. 2 849. In England an issue can be made up on one question. Men go from party to party in Parliament; if the Government be defeated, the ministry resign, the question is settled, and the new ministry is displaced again when it is beaten on some other important issue. A SYSTEM OF PERIODOCITY. With us, we have a system of periodicity. The President is put in power for four years, the majority in the Hous for two years, and the majority in the Senate can never be changed in less than two years, and ordinarily the process takes at least six. So you have to determine not whether the President, or the Senators, or the Representative be right on a single question; you must show between the forces arrayed on sides of the floor to determine which you will trust with government on all questions for an indefinite or at least a long future. Now, I do not wish to speak unkindly of our Democratic antagonists. Tolerance comes with age and experience. I am glad to recognize cheerfully the patriotic purpose and the manly qualities of so many of the leaders the Democratic States of the South have contributed of late to the public service. But I can not forget that the main power in the Democratic party still abides with the combinations of men who govern the cities of New York and of Chicago; with the men who are believers in what seems to me a dishonest currency, and in a policy that would bring distress and poverty into the homes of millions of American workmen; the men who would undermine the Supreme Court, and the men who could destroy the safeguards of property. WRONG BUT ONCE. I can not see in Mr. tryan in the Presidential chair and the Senate and Congress so controlled, either hope that this policy of imperialism will be abandoned or that any good can come 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 years has never once been right. MR. TILLMAN. Not even on the Flat Opinions? MR. HOAR. So far. I believe that, if not to-day or tomorrow, yet, in an early day, better knowledge of the facts, the light of experience, the love of liberty and justice which still burns in the heart of the Republican masses in this country will bring that party back to the principles and policy upon when it planted itself in the beginning. No. Mr. President. If we subjugate the Filipinos we are, if you have your way, to govern 10 000 000, people in the East and nearly another million in the West Indies without any constitutional restraint. There will be under the flag 20,000 000 of other races, black men at home and brown men abroad, for whom it bears no star of hops. I do not see my way clear to hand them over to Mr. Bryan, in the Executive chair, and the Senators from Alabama and South Carolina, in the Senate, or to the party of whom, eyond all question, they are to b: most powerful and esteemed leaders. Mr. TILLMAN. Mr. President — THE PRESIDENT pro tempore. Does the senator from Massachusetts yield to the Senator from South Carolina? Mr. TILLMAN. I am informed that the Senator requested in the opening of his speech that he be not interrupted. If he does not: wish to be interrupted now, I shall not intrude upon him. Mr. HOAR. No. I am suffering with the disorder that is now so prevalent, and I very much doubt whether I shall be able to conclude my speech. If I have misrepresented the Senator in an way, I will yield for an interruption, otherwise I shall proceed. Mr. TILLMAN. Under the circumstances, Mr. President, I shall not interrupt the Senator Mr. HOAR. I believe I have said nothing of the Senator except to read his language. Mr. TILLMAN. The Senator, however, continued to allude to the Senator from South Carolina in a manner that wuld warrant an interruption and controversy, but I will not interrupt the Senator further. A REBUKE TO THE 38TH CAROLINIAN. Mr. HOAR, Mr. President, I have alluded to the Senator from South Carolina only to say, in addition to quoting his language, that he was be-ball all question hereafter to be one of the most powerful and conspicuous leaders of the Democratic party. I take it the Senator does not deem that an asperation. I believe, Mr. President, not only that perseverance in this policy will be the abandonment of the principles upon which our government is founded, that it will change our Republic into an empire, that our methods of legislation, of diplomacy, of administration must hereafter be those which belong to empires, and not in which belong to epubies; but I believe perseverance in this attempt will result in the defeat and overthrow of the Republican party. That defeat may not one time year, or next year. I pray God it may never come. I well remember when the old Whig party, in the flash of delirium and anticip tid triumph, gave up the great doctrines which it had so often avowed, and undertook to abandon the great territory between the Mississippi and the Pacific to its fate. It held its convention at Philadelphia. It selected as its candidate a great man, chieftain. Amid the temp and delirium a quiet delegate from my own State arose and declared to the convention that the Whig party was dead. It seemed that a more audacious, a more foolish, a more astounding utterance never fell upon human ears. And what was the result? The party caried the country and elected its President. But within less than four years thereafter Daniel Webster as he lay dying at Marshfield, said, "The Whig party a political organization is gone; and it is well." Let no such fate attend the Republican party. In my judgement, it not now, it will retrace its steps in time. (TO BE CONTINUED.) This is to certify that the rumors all sit concerning myself, the same one being circulated by some unsuspectulous person to injure my reputation, are not very particular. A reward of $10 hryvnia is offered for the apprehension of the guilty. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA DEFEAT OF M. S. QUAY. National Senate, by a Vote of 33 to 32, Refused to Seat Him. THE FEELING IN HARRISBURG. Followers of Colonel Quay Had Arranged For a Big Celebration, But Are Now Doleful-Governor Stone Talked for For Senator. Washington, April 25.—Hon. Matthew S. Quay yesterday was refused a seat in the United States senate on the appointment of the governor of Pennsylvania by a vote of 33 to 32. The day was devoted entirely to debate upon the question, many of the greatest lawyers and orators in the body delivering apeaches. As the day's session wore on and the hour for the final vote approached the galleries gradually were filled until they were thronged with multitudes, while other multitudes were unable to gain admission. On the floor of the senate every member of the body now in the city and scores of members of the house of representatives were present. The great throng listened with deep attention to the brilliant argument of Mr. Spooner in favor of the seating of the former Pennsylvania senator and to the dramatic and eloquence of Mr. Daniel (Va.), who appealed to his colleagues to do what, in his cath as a senator, he deemed right, and vote to do justice to him who was knocking at the senate doors. As the big clock opposite the president pro tempore indicated 4 o'clock Mr. Frye announced that the hour for the final vote had arrived, and that the question was the pending motion of Mr. Chandler to strike out of the resolution declaring Mr. Quay not to be entitled to a seat the word "not." The first sensation was caused by the failure of Mr. Pettigrew, of South Dakota, to answer to his name, although he was in his seat. When Mr. Vest's name was called he voted "no" in a clear and distinct voice, thus dashing the last hope of the friends of Mr. Quay, who had expected confidently that the distinguished Missouri would vote for his long time personal friend. In perfect silence it was announced that the senate had denied to Mr. Quay the seat which he had sought for some months past. The vote on Mr. Chandler's motion was as follows: Yeas—Allison, Baker, Carter, Chandler, Clark (Wyo.), Cullom, Daniel, Davis, Debo, Foraker, Frye, Gear, Hansbrough, Jones (Nev.), McComas, McLaurin, Mason, Morgan, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Morgan, Nelson, Scott, Sewell, Shoup, Sponer, Stewart, Sullivan, Talferro, Warren, Wetmore, Wolcott--32. Nails—Aleen, Bacon, Bard, Bate, Berry, Burrows, Butler, Clay, Cockrell, Culberson, Hale, Harris, Heltfeld, Hawley, Jones (Ark.), Lindsay, McBride, McCumber, McEnery, McMillan, Martin, Money, Platt (Conn.), Proctor, Quaries, Ross, Simon, Timmann, Turley, Turley, Vest, Wellington--33. Palrs were announced as follows, the first named in each instance being favorable to Mr. Quay and the second opposing him: Pritchard with Gallinger, Depew with Hanna, Foster with Kean, Lodge with Thurston, Kenney with Caffery, Elkins with Chilton, Farbanks with Mallory, Hoar with Pettus, Kyle with Rawlins. The following senators were unpaired: Aldrich, Beveridge, Clark (Mont.) and Pettigrew. THE QUAY FORCES GLOOMY. Governor Stone Now Mentioned as a Candidate For the Senate. Harrisburg, April 25.—Matthew S. Quay's defeat in the senate at Washington fell like a bombshell in the camp of his followers gathered in this city for today's state convention. It was entirely unexpected, as in anticipation of his triumphant vindication the regular organization leaders had come together from all over the state and extensive preparations had been made to celebrate what they expected would be a joyous occasion. Instead, however, of parades, fireworks and lively times by the bands, all is gloom, and the adherents of Col. Quay are gathered in groups in the hotel corridors and on the streets quietly discussing the action of the genate. Not all is sorrow in Harrisburg, however. In the headquarters of the anti-Quyites or "insurgents," presided over by State Senator Martin, of Philadelphia, and State Senator Finn, of Pittsburg, there was gathered last night a party of men who took an active part in the opposition to Col. Quay during the last session of the legislature, and they were not slow to express their satisfaction at the turn affairs have taken. The general opinion among the Quay lieutenants is that the result at Washington takes their leader out of the race for the senatorship. The positive declaration is made that Col. Quay will no longer be a candidate. Naturally Governor Stone is spoken of as the party candidate in the event of Col. Quay's withdrawal from the race. The anti-Quayites declare that the governor would be equally as objectional as Col. Quay, and say he would not command any more support than was accorded to Quay during the deadlocked session of the legislature. Governor Stone was asked whether he would call an extra session of the legislature, but he declined positively to have anything to say on the subject. Governor Stone declared last night his belief that the predominant sentiment in the state sustains the appointment and that the action of the national senate will help Senator Quay's re-election to the senate. Minister Drowned in the Flood. Mobile, Ala., April 25.—Advices from the flooded district on the Mobile and Ohio railroad are to the effect that trains will not run until possibly Thursday next. Two thousand men are at work between here and Meridian. The water has been slowly subsiding, but the rains of the past 24 hours were felt considerably. Rev. W. F. Russell, a Baptist preacher, was drowned in the flood near Waynesboro, Miss. A thousand men are at work repairing the bridge, which was swept away at Pascagoula. The 3,000,000 logs in the booms are still held intact, with excellent prospects of holding them together until the danger is past. LORD ROBERTS SPREADS A NET. Forty Thousand Britons Form a Soul-Circle About Woman London, April 25. The reports that the siege of Wepener had been practically raised were apparently premature. The Boer attack upon Col. Dalgety's northern position was probably a final attempt to rush the garrison before securing a safe retreat, and as Col. Dalgety successfully repulsed the attack, little further anxiety is felt on Lord Roberts has now spread a net with some 40,000 or more men and 150 guns, covering the whole western semi-circle around Wepener, while Gen. Hamilton has occupied the water works, practically without opposition. The Seventh division, under Gen. Tucker, assisted by naval guns, has made a demonstration from Karee Siding, the Boers showing some opposition. At the same time a brigade moved out from Glen to take up a position on a range of hills at Gennaenale, north of the Modder. The water works were found undamaged, with the exception of the removal of the sliding valves of the pumping engines. The Boers now can only escape, without risking an encounter, northward to Ladybrand, and the chance of a successful outcome of the plans of Lord Roberts depends on whether the British troops can reach Thaba N'Chu and Ladybrand before the retreating commandees from De Wet's Dorp and Wepener. The Pennsylvania Endeavorers. Philadelphia, April 25—The Pennsylvania State Christian Endeavor convention will be held in this city on Nov. 20, 21 and 22 next. The day sessions will be held in Grace Temple, Broad and Berks streets, and such adjoining churches as may be necessary to accommodate the Endeavorers. The place for holding the evening sessions has not been decided, and will not be until the changes being made in the exposition building are completed. It is the expectation of the state officers that the Pennsylvania convention will be more of the character of an international convention. It will without doubt be the largest Endeavor convention held in this country this year. Rockefeller Charged With Dishonor Rockefeller Charged With Dishonesty Cleveland, April 25—The famous suit of James Corrigan, a prominent vessel owner, against John D. Rockefeller was reopened in common pleas court yesterday. Corrigan got $145,000 from Rockefeller, giving the latter, it is alleged, 2,300 shares of Standard Oil trust certificate as security. Rockefeller was made special trustee of Corrigan's stock. It is claimed that Rockefeller misrepresented the value of the stock and refused to permit Corrigan's attorneys to examine the Standard's books. Corrigan says he finally sold his stock to Rockefeller for $420,000, and that afterward he found it was worth not less than $1,250,000. McGill's Probable Successor. Princeton, N. J., April 25—It leaked out here yesterday through conversation with some of the prominent people at Chancellor McGill's funeral that Governor Voorhees will appoint Chief Justice Magie, of the supreme court, chancellor of the state, to fill the vacancy made by the death of Chancellor McGill. Should Chief Justice Magie accept the appointment it is very probable that Associate Justice Gilbert Collins, of Newark, will be appointed chief justice, and that Allan Strong, of Elizabeth, an attorney of the Pennsylvania railroad, will be offered the associate chief justiceship. New York Electricians to Strike New York Electricians to Strike. New York, April 25.—At a meeting of Electrical Workers' Union No. 3 last night it was decided that the workers would go on strike at once. Between 1,300 and 1,500 men will be affected. The decision to strike is the result of a demand made on contractors five months ago for an increase of wages from $3.50 to $4 per day on account of the Saturday half holiday. The contractors were given until Monday night: to make a reply and, none being forthcoming the meeting was called for last night, with the result as above mentioned. Power and Bryan Will Set Next Dewey and Bryan Will Not Meet. Chicago, April 25.—Admiral Dewey will not break bread in Chicago with William J. Bryan, as the Seven O'Clock club, which had arranged for the pleasant ceremonial to take place next Tuesday evening, has changed the date of the dinner to May 5. Admiral Dewey will leave town on the evening of the 4th and Col. Bryan can reign supreme at the banquet. Mr. Bryan cannot arrange to be in town May 1. Chinese Oppose the "Open Door." Pekin, April 24.—Chinese opposition to the "open door" policy is growing and endangering foreign capital and the lives of foreigners. Russia is most feared, and America is least disliked, because least aggressive. The Manchus are losing military power. They are now only 3,000,000 out of 550,000-000 and they only retain their ascendancy by keeping the people in ignorance. A Marvelous Oil Strike Elmira, N. Y., April 25.—One of the greatest oil strikes in 40 years' history of Pennsylvania oil fields has been made at Gaines. Well No. 3, of the Blossburg Oil company, was completed Monday afternoon and flowed 100 barrels per hour the first 12 hours. The second well, owned by the same company, produced 900 barrels the first 24 hours when oil was struck a few weeks ago. West Virginia Strikers Weakening. Pledmont, W. Va., April 24.—One of the Davis Coal company's mines was reopened yesterday with 100 of the strikers at work. It is expected that another mine will resume in a day or two. The labor agitators held a well attended public meeting last night and endeavored to prevail upon the men to remain firm. Rivera a Mayoralty Candidate Candidate. Havana, April 25.—General Ruis Ri- vera has resigned the post of secretary of agriculture, industry and commerce in the governor general's cabinet. He has also announced to the citizens of Havana that he is a candidate for the mayoralty. The Sultan Comes to Terms. Washington, April 24.—A press dispatch received last night from Constantinople says: An imperial trade has been promulgated authorizing the rebuilding of the property of the American missionaries at Kharput, and the construction of an annex to the Roberts college at Constantinople. A Novel Boycott Prepared Indianapolis, April 25—President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers of America, says the Dewey day celebration in Chicago next Monday promises to develop interesting results to the labor world. The platform from which the distinguished invited guests are to review the Dewey parade was built by non-union laborers, he says, and acquires the new government building. Trades Council leaders have arranged to photograph the group on the platform, and business men who are found in the group will be boycotted. MANY FILIPINOS DEAD As a Result of Last Week's Fight ing in the Philippines. PERHAPS A THOUSAND FINISHED. General Plo del Pilar, Who Was Reported Killed, Is Believed to Be in Command of a Band Operating About San Miguel. Manila, April 23.—Last week was one of the bloodiest of the war since the first day's fighting around Manila. Authentic reports, mostly official, show a total of 378 Filipinos killed, 12 officers and 244 men captured and many more wounded. The number wounded is hardly guessable. Considering that the Filipinos entirely lack hospital facilities, a great majority of the wounded will die. Probably the week's work finished 1,000 insurgents. The American total loss was nine killed and 16 wounded. Two sergeants and one private were killed in ambushes while escorting provision trains. The insurgents have been aggressive in almost every province of Luzon. Gen. Pio del Pilar's band, numbering 300, which was out of sight for three months, the leader being reported killed, has reappeared in its old field about San Miguel. Pilar is supposed to be again in command. He gave the American garrison at San Miguel, consisting of three companies of the Thirty-fifth infantry, with a Gatling, a three hours' flight, during a night attack. The loss of the insurgents in this engagement is not included in the ongoing total, as they removed their dead and wounded, but presumably it was considerable. Twenty Filipinos in the province of Batangas attacked Lieut. Wonde, who, with eight men, was scouting near San Jose. The lieutenant and five men were wounded and one private was killed. Sergeant Ledolus, of the Thirty-fifth infantry, was badly wounded in an ambush near Baliuagu. Lieut Balch, of the Thirty-seventh infantry, with 70 men, had a five hours' fight with 400 insurgents in the Nueva Caceras district. Twenty of the insurgents were killed. Col. Smith, of the Seventeenth infantry, who captured Gen. Montenegro and brought him to Manila, is in the isolation hospital suffering from smallpox, presumably caught from the Filipinos. Col. Smith's command captured 180 officers and men with Montenegro. The officers were sent to Manila. Montenegro, who was formerly one of the most dapper officers in the Filipino army, looks worn and haggard. He says he had led a terrible life for months, and he has offered to return to the north with Colonel Smith to endeavor to persuade his former comrades of the uselessness of opposing the Americans. One hundred escaped Spanish prisoners from the province of Tayabas, South of Luzon, have arrived at Manila. The insurgents have 400 more San Juan in that district. Recently the Philippines destroyed several rods of the railway line near Piniquo in an unsuccessful attempt to wreck a train. KILLED ON A RACE TRACK Jockey Frank O'Leary Had His Skull Crushed by a Fallen Horse. Crushed by a Fallen Horse. New York, April 25. — A frightful accident happened in the fifth race at the Acqueduct race track yesterday. The horses got away in good order, and when they had gone about a sixteenth of a mile G. E. Wightman, McJoynt up, stumbled and fell, the jockey rolling under the fence out of harm's way and escaping with slight brushes and a shaking up. Pettifogger bumped into Wightman as the latter was falling and went up in the air, turning a somersault and landing on his back. Hewitt was thrown some distance, but he, too, was out of the way of the other horses, and was even less hurt than McJoynt. Randy stumbled into the pair of horses on the ground and threw Jockey Frank O'Leary among them. He was kicked in the head by one of them and his head crushed in. He was taken to a hospital, where he died. Vallant Constable Storm Villiant Constable Stops a Lynching. Richmond, Va., April 25—Mecklenburg county narrowly escaped having a lynching yesterday. A negro narsed Stapist was arrested by Constable Stapist and with the murder on Sunday of Petit Jones, and Tailley was ordered by the county judge to take him to Petersburg, safe keeping. On the way to the prison mob demanded the prisoner, but Tailley held the crowd at bay at the point of a pistol, declaring that he would defend Baptist to the last extremity. His determination aided the mob. Escaping Convict Shot Dead CAPING Convict Shot Dead. Green Bay, Wis., April 25.—William Douglass, an inmate of the state reformatory, his white city, was shot and killed last night while trying to escape. Douglass, who was about 22 years ago, was sentenced from WestSuperior for burglary. Superior Hogg, of the reformatory, says Douglass was not the right name of the man shot, and that Le belonged to a good family in Chicago, but had fallen into evil ways. Assistant Secretary Campbell Washington, April 24.—The president yesterday sent the following nominations to the senate: Frank L. Campbell, of the District of Columbia, to be assistant secretary of the interior; J. H. Hollander, of Maryland, to be treasurer of Puerto Rico; John R. Garrison, of the District of Columbia, to be auditor of Puerto Rico; Charles O. Huff, of Maine, to be collector of customs for the district of Kennebunk, Me. Judge Dellenbaugh's Disbursement Judge Dellenbaugh's Disbarment Columbus, O., April 25.—In the supreme court yesterday an opinion was issued down affirming the decision of the lower courts in the case of Judge Frank Dellenbaugh, Cleveland, and he stands disbarred from acting in the courts of Ohio. The ground of disbarment was that Judge Dellenbaugh shared a fee with an attorney in a case which came before him. Eighteen Years For Playing "Here" Eighteen Years For Playing "Hero." Atchison, Kan., April 23.—In the district court Thomas C. Woerman pleaded guilty to the charge of burning the costly residence of J. C. 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Charges for medical treatment only. Mention this paper. THE PLANET SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1900 RUDE TELEGRAPHY. The Odd But Effective Means South Africans Have of Sending News and Messages. Much surprise has been expressed at the quickness with which the natives of South Africa have learned the results of the recent battles between the Boers and British. These natives know nothing of our method of telegraphing, and yet, when victory has been declared for either of the contending parties, the news has been flashed with amazing celerity to remote parts of the country. The manner in which the news is carried is novel and most interesting. Throughout Africa the natives are expert in the use of what is known as the drum language, and they use it as we use the telegraph and the telephone, namely, for the purpose of sending a message from one place to another. The most important events, as well as the daily occurrences in every village, are transmitted in this way. In the Congo region, near Stanley Falls, some of the natives are so skilled in the use of the drums that they can carry on a conversation with one another at a great distance, just as easily as though they were standing side by side. The chiefs or head men of the various tribes converse daily in this fashion, and thus each quickly learns what has occurred in the surrounding districts during the past 2 hours. The drum used for this purpose is fashioned, as a rule, out of a hollow tree trunk, which is covered with the skin of an antelope. In regard to the quickness with which news is transmitted in Africa, Peter de Deken, the famous traveler, tells two good stories. While Inspector Five was in control of the station at Bassoko, he visited one day a distant outpost and found that it would be impossible for him to reach home until A MAN WITH A MARACO AND A DRUM GIVING DRUM SIGNALS. late at night. As he looked forward to a hearty dinner, he requested a head man, who was with him and who was an expert drummer, to send word to the station, several miles away, that dinner was not to be served until he returned. The head man drummed, straightway another drummer repeated his message, and so the news was dashed from point to point until it reached the distant station. When five reached home at night he found the table laid and the dinner ready to be served. This was the message his servants had received: "The Bula matori (governor or inspector) will be home late in the evening. Don't eat everything up." Mistakes are sometimes made in telegraphing and telephoning, and Peter de Deken's second story shows that one may blunder also in using the drum language. Inspector Five took several photographs during his stay in Basoko, and on the day of his departure the thought struck him that it would be well to take a photograph of all those natives who, from time to time, had acted as his domestic servants. Accordingly, he ordered a drummer to notify them that they were to appear before him at a certain hour, in their holiday clothes. The drummer at once sent a message, but what was Five's surprise to find at the appointed hour, not his servants, but all the police of the station, drawn up in front of his residence. The drummer, it seems, had either misunderstood live or had blundered in sending the message. Instead of summoning domestic servants, he had summoned state servants—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Bennette Allen, of Nebraska, is a famous stamp speaker, but he tells of one occasion when his eloquence was utterly wasted. He was campaigning in Nebraska and was to speak at the fair grounds. "The grandstand," he says, "was full to overflow, and the opportunity seemed to be ripe for a great speech. But just as I began a man brought out an ostrich hitched to a sulky. I don't know whether you ever saw a trotting ostrich in the east, but out west he was a great attraction. Well, as soon as that bird began to run around the track I wasn't in it. The ostrich monopolized the attention of every man, woman and child. When the bird stopped the people listened to me, and when he threw out his long legs again there was a roar of laughter and applause that drowned every word I uttered. Finally I gave it up and retired in favor of the ostrich." THE MEADOW MOUSE By Using Its Dainty Little Forepaws in a Skillful Way It Secured a Meal. One day a naturalist lay motionless on a fallen log in the forest, and silently watched an animal at play on the grass near by. This was a large, brown-backed mouse, a meadow mouse, that had come out from his home under the log and when tired of play had sat up to make his toilet. Using his forepaws as hands, the mouse combed the white fur on his breast and licked himself smooth and sleek. Satisfied at length with his appearance, he began to search for food. He did not have far to go, for a few stalks of wheat grew among the thick weeds near at hand. The mouse was so large that he could probably have bent the stalk down and brought the grains within reach. If not, he could certainly have climbed the stalk. He did not try either of these plans, however, for these were not his suits. Sitting up very straight, he bit through the stalk as high as he could reach. The weeds were so thick that the straw could not fall its full length, and the freshly eat end settled down upon the ground with the straw still erect and the grain out of reach. The mouse again oit the straw in two, and again the upper portion settled down. In this way he bit off five lengths of straw before he could bring the grain within reach of his paws. These forepaws were very skillful little hands, and he deftly husked a grain and ate it, sitting erect and holding it to his mouth as naturally as a boy would hold an apple.—Our Animal Friends. Where the Swallows Go. The swallows all spend the winter in Central America and the south part of Mexico. They appear in the southern states as early as the middle of February, but seldom get as far north as New England until the month of May. The robins winter in the southern states and in northern Mexico. They are to be seen in flocks the winter through in the gulf states, and are often killed in great numbers there, as they are in very good condition in the winter season. The migratory instinct is not so strong in this bird as in some others, and as far north as Ohio it often remains in sheltered places all winter. Its attachment to familiar spots is very strong. Her Impression. "Did you hear me sing 'Because I Love You?'" asked the young man with the voice like a lathe. "I must have misunderstood," murmured Miss Cayenne. "I thought you were singing because you hated us."—Washington Star. His Discovery. Growells (angrily)—You know that a fool can ask questions that a wise man can't answer, don't you? Howells—I've heard so, but I never knew it until now. — Chicago Daily News. Extravagant. Uncle William - I read that Gladstone used to go out and cut down a big tree each mornin' before breakfast. Aunt Mary - Well, I declare! How reckless in usin' stove-wood his family must have been - Brooklyn Life. Timely Tip. "Did they give you a tip?" asked a restaurant proprietor of a new waiter, who had just served his first customers. 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BY ELIZABETH PHIPPS TRAIN COPYRIGHT 1898 BY THE AUTHOR "Wanted.—A young woman to perform the customary duties of companion to an elderly lady. To a person of the requisite qualifications, willing to live in strict retirement, a liberal salary and comfortable home are offered. References required.—Apply to M. H. E., The Ivies, Eldon." I read the above advertisement aloud to my mother in a voice that trembled somewhat, notwithstanding all my efforts to render it calm and even. "Here it is, mother dear." I said, with a foolish little laugh that meant nothing, and yet concealed much. "I have searched long enough for it, in all conscience." "For what, my dear?" my mother asked, with innocent surprise in her pretty, faded blue eyes. "For a response to the various appeals I have made to the future," I replied. She looked bewilderment itself. "You mean—?" she began, and paused in helpless perplexity. "I mean that those few lines that I have just read to you represent the only attention that Fate has ever vouchsafed to accord to my incessant applications for assistance in unraveling the tangled thread of my destiny." I wore a tone of solemn significance. "But I don't see, Dorothy—" "No, of course you don't, you unsuperstitious little soul!" I cried, with a laugh that was really now the proper thing, the precious little woman's utter lack of comprehension was so genuine and amusing. "You were born a generation too early for endowment with all the marvelous physical gifts which are the birthright of my era. We of this age can look into the future as well as divine the thoughts of our fellows, and in this bit of typographical matter I can see what life holds in store for me as if I were at the end instead of the beginning of existence. I see Kismet written all over this advertisement, where you see but the expressed needs of a fellow mortal." She still looked dubious and uncertain. "What is it you mean?" she asked, a little impatient for her. Her want of sympathy with my mood somewhat sobered and steadied it. Mother and daughter as we were, loving each other fondly though we did, we were of such absolutely contrasting natures and temperaments that we rarely understood each other intuition; we never fully entered into each other's joys and sorrows. I went over to the low chair where she sat with her sewing idle idle in her lap, and knelt down beside her. I took her small hands, worn with much labor and ceaseless industry, into mine and raised an earnest and serious face to hers. --- "Dearest," I said, "you are going to be annoyed with me again; you are going to feel again that you have just cause to consider me deafish an inconsequent. Forgive me first, and then I will explain what cause there is for your pardon." She smiled indiscretely at me, for indeed, she was not very fierce even in her most intolerant moods, and leathing forward she kissed me lightly on his brow. The touch of her lips almost undid me, there seemed such a sort of finale in the caress. It was as if she were giving sanction to my own thought, that I would put pressure over from close and intimate contact with herself, the familiar, if uncomprehending, companion of this first swistery of my life, which I felt was swistery in its conclusion. I drew in my breath sharply to restrain threereading question, and obeyed her injunction to proceed with my explanation. "Mother," I began, "you will say that it is only one of my ridiculous fancies when I tell you that I have an impression which amounts to conviction that some strange tie is already forming itself between me and this lady of the initials who needs a companion. It is no chance that has brought her necessity to my knowledge; it is the natural drift of that subtle agency which gorers our lives. I can almost hear this woman calling me to her side; I feel that she has long been waiting for me; I long to share her 'strict retirement'; I feel the mysterious bond that exists between us tightening itself and abridging the distance that parts us. I shall reply at once to her cry for companionship, which I know to be a summons directed at me alone of all the world, and when the doors of the Ilyces open to me, as open they surely will, they will receive within them not a temporary guest, but a lifelong inmate, who shall finally leave them only to enter upon a new sphere of existence which baffles even the most advanced psychiles." I tried to round out my period with another laugh, but the attempt was a wretched failure. My voice broke, I slid quite down upon the floor at my mother's side, and burst into a really hysterical fit of weeping, which, better than any verbal appeal, deprecated the material resentment, for the thin worn, loving hand quickly stole forward and rested soothingly upon my head. "Why, Dorothy, Dorothy love, what is it? There—there! What ails my child to-night?" and n.y downcast head was raised from its position and tenderly pillowed on the loving breast which had been its earliest resting place. For a while I let it remain there, for it was borne in upon me, in that strange prophecy of spirit which had come upon me, that not often in the days to come would it recover that dear place of repose. Yet, inexplicable as it may seem, the attitude vaguely constrained me, and I was glad after a brief assumption of it to withdraw from it, for, even then, scarcely five minutes since I had learnt of the existence of such a person as this lady of The Ivies, I felt myself rather of her world than of my accustomed one, and was conscious of a dawning but forceful aloofness from an environment to which I had become habituated by necessity rather than through accord of sympathy. There would be little use in my marking comment upon, or attempting explanation of, the singular and, to my mother and matter-of-fact, married sister Marion, provoking vein of subtle influence which ran through my nature, frequently and irresistibly determining me in a choice of ways incompatible with what they considered the dictates of good judgment and sober common-sense. It is an element of character or temperament too metaphysical in its nature for my analysis, but it has done my mental balance much injury in the estimation of those who are nearest me in blood, and has placed me without the bar in the matter of family councils. That my intuitions have generally proved correct weighs little against the fact that they are wholly spontaneous and formed without logical sequence, for my kindred are as rational in drawing their conclusions as I am unreasonable. As I sprang to my feet, determined to regain my self-poise, my mother sank back upon her seat with a little sigh, which I knew indicated a silent protest against this weakness that threatened my mentality. "Have you already seen this lady, Dorothy?" she asked, hoping, perhaps, to find me not so much at fault as she anticipated. "Never," I replied uncompromisingly. "She is personally as unknown to me as to you; and yet," I concluded dreamily. "I fancy she is no stranger to me." "You have heard of her by report, then?" "Not even in the vagueest fashion." "Dorothy, Dorothy!" shaking her head in expostulation and foreboding, "you will end in a madhouse if you encourage yourself in your dangerous proclivities." I laughed. "Not I, I returned, with provoking serenity; "I have just told you that I and so end my days at The Ivles." "Do you really mean to apply for the position?" "I really mean to assume the position." "Dorothy, do stop jesting, child, and explain to me what your intentions regarding this advertisement actually are." "MOTHER" I SAID, STANDING STRAIGHT BEFORE HER. I saw that she was becoming annoyed by the tone of slippancy beneath which I was trying to shield a cowardly purpose that did not quite dare declare itself, and so came boldly forth from behind my cover. "Mother," I said, standing straight before her, with resolution which she must have seen it would be useless to seek to vanish writen all over my face, "I have not been talking so idly and wildly as you imagine. You know, although you wholly disapprove of the habit, that I am apt to form my determinations while you and Marion are listening to the exposition of a subject. You know also, though you will not admit it, that my instincts are rarely at fault. Now, here is a matter which will allow me to prove beyond peradventure the validity of my intuitions. I have never heard of this lady whose advertisement, I have just read in my life; I do not now whether she is old or young, rich or poor, amiable or the reverse; I do not know anything about Eldon or where it may be situated; but, so sure am I that from the beginning of my life it was ordained that I was to spend the major part of my existence within its boundaries, introduced to its neighborhood by the requirements of this mysterious M. H. E., that to-morrow morning I shall pack up all your wealth of worldly possessions and settle them and you at Marion's, as we have arranged to do in event of my obtaining a position, and in the afternoon I shall gather together my own goods and chattles and depart for Eldon, wherever it may be, intending to be settled before nightfall as companion for life to the lady who has expressed her need of me." My poor mother regarded me in helpless amazement. Once she opened her lips as if to speak, doubtless in remonstrance, but thinking better of it, she closed them again, contenting herself with a silent shake of the head, which suggested all sorts of dire consequences to the course of action I was bent on pursuing. This tacit admission on her part of the futility of argument or expostulation struck me so irresistibly that I could not but laugh as I stooped over her and sought to win her compliance by caresses. "Don't think so badly of me, dear," said. "It will all come out right, never fear. I will prove my right to be governed by impulse." My mother was of a yielding nature, accustomed to submit to the stronger forces to which she had given birth. She shunned responsibility of every sort, and it was characteristic of her to act in matters of moment as she did now; that is, to avoid committing herself to any direct line of action by allowing others to decide for her, contenting herself with the assertion that she washed her hands of the whole business, and that whatever befell she could not be held accountable for bringing it about. Twenty-four hours later I had accomplished my resolve, and had written, with trembling but determined fingers, "Finis" to the prologue of my life's drama. Urged by that potent but inexplicable influence which was no want to direct me, I had resentfully shapped the link that bound me to my dependent girlhood by establishing my mother in her married daughter. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA comfortable home, and, having thus burnt my ships behind me, I found myself confronted with the prospect of a journey into a strange hand of promise, with no compass to direct my future steps save the few printed characters on the bit of paper slipped under the palm of my glove for ready reference; with no guide-book to inform me of what, nature and habits were the people with whom I purposed dwelling; with no surety of attaining the goal for which I was striving except a moral certainty bred within my own breast, at whose authenticity I was aware all save myself would soff and sneer. My efforts in my mother's behalf ooccur the greater part of the next day, and I found that the first train to Eldon that I could be free to take was one that left New York ... 4.15 in the afternoon. It may seem puzzling in what my family were wont to call my superstitions to say that, so sure was I that I should not require one, I did not even concern myself to look up a return train. But, as I was being whirled through a barren and desolate landscape in the chill dreariness of a February twilight, my inner ally, that unrecognisable "encourager of hesitancy," somewhat deserted me, and let me a prey to a sudden despondency, and to miserable doubts and reflections as to whether I had indeed done altogether wisely to permit myself to be so uncompromisingly directed by mere impulse. For a brief while I abandoned myself to actual self-torture, inflicting upon my quailing heart all manner of wretched forebodings and balteal predictions, and reproaching myself bitterly for the precipitancy of my conduct. Then, recognizing the danger of losing hope and courage when self-control and asseance fail, I drew forth the tiny stock-in-trade, and fortified my sinking soul with its personal. Truly throb was some witchery about the crumpled thing, for no sooner had my eyes fallen upon it than the subtle essence of hope, and cheer again crept through my veins, bringing renewed boldness and conviction to my spirit. I was still under the sway of this brighter mood when there came a perceptible slackening in the speed of the train, the brakesman's voice rang out in accents which only an expectant ear could have discovered to conceal the announcement of "Eldon, Eldon!" and almost before I was conscious of movement I found myself standing on the station platform, companioned by but one other passenger, a tall man wrapped in a heavy ulster which gave a burly outline to his figure, watching with longing eyes the swift retreat of what I felt to be my last friend, the onward-speeding train, that seemed abandoning me in noisy defection to a lonely and unknown fate. I think I might have been standing there now, wrapped in the homescik misery that seemed to envelop me, had it not been for the consideration of my fellow-passenger. Later I learnt why he had been induced to cast aside conventional restraint and address me. It was because I appeared to stand so alone and unprotected in that dismal wintry dusk, he said; a man with any spark of chivalry in him would have risked long odds in the way of resentment of his conduct rather than miss an opportunity of being of service to a A man in a suit and hat salutes a woman in a dress and hat. "CAN I BE OF SERVICE, MADAM?" damsel so obviously "all forlorn." I laughed, with a warm reserve of appreciation deep down in my heart, nevertheless, when, some months after, David Spencer told me this; but at the moment mirth had no place in my emotions. "Can I be of service, madam?" That was the welcome question that formed my greeting to Eldon, and so gravely and solitously was it uttered that no thought of impertinence could possibly be associated with it. I turned gratefully. "You are very kind," I said. "If I could find a carriage of any sort—" and I looked at the deserted place with doubtful glance. "Of course," he assented. "There is one here; it stands behind the station. May I secure it for you?" "Thank you, but I will not trouble you. If it is here I can doubtless find it, and"—with a smile at the emptiness of the place—"I should not think there was danger of its being engaged." At that moment the station-master made his appearance, and as I gave him the check for my trunk—for I had even gone the length of bringing it with me—he touched his hat to my companion with a “Good evening, doctor,” while the latter, with a courteous salutation, moved away and disappeared round the corner of the station. “I wish to go to The Ivies; is there a conveyance here that can also carry my trunk?” I asked. My companion looked at me with visible interest, not to say curiosity. “The Ivies!” he exclaimed. “Is Madam expecting you?” I was annoyed at what I considered unwarrantable curiosity. “That is neither here nor there,” I replied haughtily. “What I wish to know is whether or no the carriage in waiting here can also accommodate my trunk.” The fellow had decent manners. He again raised his hat, and remarked with an apologete air: "I only asked, miss, because I thought Madam would be sending for you if she knew you was comin'." "She does not know," I answered, mollified by his excuse. "Then I don't know just what you'll do," he said. "It's a long pull to walk, and there ain't no other ways of getting' there as I knows of." "What do you mean?" I asked, in some dismay, for my new friend might after all have been mistaken as to the carriage behind the station. "That gentleman whom you called doctor as- sured me that there was a conveyance here." The man nodded. "So there was," he assented; "but it was one he had ordered for himself." "Are you sure?" I asked. "Certain," he replied. "He lives five mile or so from here, does Dr. Spencer and he always has a carriage from the Banks House to meet him when he comes back from a trip to New York." "Nevertheless," I said, with faith in the chivalry of the man who had offered to assist a friendess stranger. "I think I shall find that carriage still waiting. I will look." And I suited the action to the word. As I turned the corner of the building I contess my heart beat rather quickly, for it would mean much to me if my hopes were disappointed. Besides, I fear I had a girl's natural curiosity as to the extent of the impression I had made upon this casual acquaintance. My vanity was in arms to cover whether it had been of sufficient degree to prevail over that regard for his own creature comforts which weighs heavily against the inherent instincts of courtesy in man. It was with a sigh of relief and a thrill of gratified self-consciousness that I perceived the vehicle still standing at its post. Still, its rightful claimant might have enconced himself within it, thinking that we could both share its capacious bosom, for it was a veritable ark, cumbersome and antiquated, but a welcome place of refuge all the same. Of course, if such should prove the fact, I should be in as bad case as ever, for it was not likely that I would consent to make a journey in the dark, shut up in a carriage with an unknown, however chivalrous man. The driver was standing patiently, or rather doctely, by his horse, and him I accosted. "Are you waiting for anyone in particular?" I asked. He moved forward and regarded me inquiringly. "Doctor said there was a lady," he began. "Yes; I am she. But the doctor had already engaged you, had he not?" "Yes. But doctor said that warnn't no matter; he'd walk." "I am sorry to have Incommoded him," I said mendaciously, for I should have felt far more regret to have been obliged to accommodate him. "Can you take me to The Ivies?" An expression of surprise, similar to that I had seen upon the stationmaster's face, enlivened the driver's stolid countenance. "The Ivies!" he ejaculated. "Is Madam expecting you?" This repetition of the other's question was so significant of the fact that visitors were rarely entertained in the house which I had already come to look upon as my future home that I began to feel that I purposed invading a place of isolation and exile. I took refuge from a cold reaction that was beginning to settle about the region of my heart in sharp rebuke. "That is not what I asked you!" I said; "nor can I see that in any way concerns you. All I require of you is to take me and my trunk thither. Can you do so?" The man nodded, a trifle surly. "Guess I can," he answered. "Where's the trunk? I'll fetch it if you get in." A few moments later he returned, bearing the trunk upon his shoulder and accompanied by the station-master. While the trunk was being strapped upon the rack behind me, I could hear the two men conversing in low tones. I could catch occasional words which they uttered, but the full dialogue was indistinguishable. I gleaned enough, however, to satisfy me that my appearance and destination formed the tople under discussion, and the tone of both voices was one of wonder and surprise. Before we started the station-master presented himself at the door, peering with unmistakable curiosity into the carriage. "Hope you won't think I meant any offence, miss, just now," he said. "I have too high a respect for Madam to be disrespectful to any of her friends." "Very well." I returned, and drew to him. "Moments later we had started on our way." CHAPTER II. I had ample time for reflection as we jogged along. It seemed to me that we traversed a huge section of country, though I have since learnt that no more than six miles intertwined between the Eldon station and The Ivies. But my excited and nervous condition doubtless made me impatient, and for Said Mrs. G,—who had come to spend the day, to little Edith: "Are you glad to see me again, Edith?" "Yes, m'm, and mamma's glad, too," replied the child. "Is she?" 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There is no truth, according to advice from St. Petersburg, in the report that Emperor Nichols will meet Emperor William at Dantzle. J. C. Sibble, who was elected to congress as a Democrat from the Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania district, has been nominated by the Republicans for another term. Col. Pettit, in command at Zamboanga, Philippine Islands, has been court martialed for handing over aoner of war over to Presidente Medell, of Zamboanga, who killed the prisoner at once without trial. Friday. April 20. Miss Marle Dine, aged 32, jumped from Brooklyn bridge in a vain effort to commit suicide. Of the Cuban population of 1,572,977, 443,426 can read and write and 19,158 have a superior education. Cock fighting will be prohibited throughout Cuba after June 1 next, under a penalty of $500. A seat in New York's Stock Exchange was sold yesterday for $40,500. This is a new record price. The postmaster general has signed a parcels post treaty with New Zealand, to go into effect July 1. Admiral Dewey declares he never said Democrats were "traitors in war and damned fools in time of peace." Francis T. Lassiter, Democrat, of Petersburg, was elected to congress from the Fourth Virginia district to fill the unexpired term of the late Sidney P. Epes. Saturday, April 21. Eight thousand Spanish miners have gone on strike at Santa Pauline, near Santander. Eighty Russian and Galician laborers have been expelled from Northern Schleswig, Prussia. There is talk of stampeding the Republican national convention for Governor Roosevelt, of New York, for president. C. E. Moreledge, an actor, who "held up" two restaurants and a saloon in Kansas City, got 25 years' imprisonment. Col. David Colson, ex-congressman, was acquitted at Frankfurt, Ky., of killing Lieut. Scott and Luther W. Demaree. Sailors on the lighthouse steamer Madrone, at San Francisco, have struck against a reduction of from $40 to $35 a month in wages. The bubonic plague shows no signs of abating at Sydney, N. S. W., although the precautions taken by the authorities appear to keep it somewhat in check. Monday, April 23. New York had 5,333 fires last year, with $7,155,191 loss. Catharine Bannon, 33 years old, an invalid, was burned to death during a fire in her Philadelphia home. The late Samuel Howard, of Milwaukee, left his fortune of $200,000 for the maintenance of orphans. The total receipts of the Cuban treasury for the month of March, 1900, were $1,678,669; including $1,472,990 for customs. Because workmen from other towns were employed 150 men and women struck at the Russell County company's shoe factory, at Woburn, Mass. Lieut. Herbert Whipple, Seventh cavalry, while dining at New York, found a pearl in an oyster patty which, before cooking, had been worth $20,000. Tuesday, April 24. George Douglas Campbell, Duke of Argyle, died yesterday at Argyllshire, Scotland, aged 77. President and Mrs. McKinley arrived at their Canton (O.) home today for a short visit. Rev. B. S. Small, 60 years old, of Lakewood, was killed by a train While walking, Count Otto Bissengen-Rippenburg, major of the Thirteenth Austrian Hussars, was shot and killed by Leutl Bokacsy, of his regiment, in a duel at Kesekem. C. S. Rosenbaum, a Philadelphia married man, and 18-year-old Florence Hunold, of Delonco, N. J., committed suicide by gas asphyxiation in Rosenbaum's pawn shop. Wednesday, April 25. Representative Cooney, of Missouri, has introduced a bill to abrogate and repeal the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Immigration Commissioner North, at San Francisco, refused permit to land 21 Japanese, on the ground that they are contract laborers. At Chicago potamine poisoning resulting from eating canned meat cause the death of Albert Kork and Frank Kork, aged 4 and 2 years. Scate committee on military affairs decided to report adversely the bill to provide for the employment of women nurses in military hospitals. J. A. Smith is under arrest at Chicago charged with obtaining money under false pretense at Berlin, Ont. He will return without requisition. Jealous Husband's Double Crime. Philadelphia, April 25. While in a jealous rage William Kuhn, of No. 719 North Sixteenth street, yesterday threw himself and wife from a second story window to a paved yard. This desperate act followed an attempt to end his own and his wife's life with a razor. Mrs. Kuhn had run to the window, the lower sash of which she had thrown up. Kuhn threw his arms about her waist, intending to draw her back. In the struggle which ensued the pair dove head first out of the window. The woman's spine was fractured, and she will probably die. Kuhn, with a broken leg, is under arrest. FROM PORTSMOUTH. Dr. D. P. Seaton preached a fine introductory sermon at the North Street A. M. E. Church Sunday, April 22d. Mrs. Mary E. Coles of South street, extended, who has been somewhat indisposed, is convalescent. Miss — of Washington street seems very much pleased since Mr. — of Chicago has been in the city. Rev. W. L. Tayler, G W. M., of True Reformers, arrived in our city Monday April 23d. He lectured at Zion Baptist Church Tuesday night, April 24th. Mrs. Lucinda Sawyer of Columbia street and Mrs. Magnolia Johnson are undisposed. Mr. C—is seen quite often here of late going to Norfolk since Miss — of Suffolk has been visiting Norfolk. Mr. Suffolk Shields of Green street is confined to the house with the contagious disease. Mr. William Harris of Pearl street died Thursday, April 19th, after a lingering illness. His funeral took place Tuesday, April 22d, from Zion Baptist Church Rev Armisteed officiating. Mr S—of Norfolk has not discontinued his visits on Green S. The PLANET can be found at the offices of The Riehmond Beneficial Insurance Co., 518 Green 8t., E. S. Holmes manager, J. S. Collin, Planet agent. FROM NEWPORT. NEWPORT, a. I., April 28, 1900. Mrs. Frederick Williams is quite ill at home, on Thames St. Miss Mary Backwith is improving. Mrs. Leanora Walker is convalescent. Mr. Russel Phillips is improving stowly. Mrs Wm. Spence after a severe operation in New York City has returned to her home, St Poplar St. Mr. Ernest Pollitt has moved into his new home, which he recently purchased. The Bazaar given by the Odd Fellows of last week was a fine entertainment in every particular and a success, both financially and socially, with the exception of awarding the prizes, which some think was a long ways from doing justice. Be more careful brethren and remember your oaths and obligations. Mrs. Sylvia Barker is able to be out again. Our worthy friend and correspondent of the Planet, Mr. John M. Lewis has returned home from a visit to Richmond, Va., where he was entertained by the Editor John Mitchell, Jr., who gave him much praise for the progressiveness of the paper which is a leader in New England. Mrs. L. Boardley is visiting in New York. Mr. Herbert Townsend of Franklin street is visiting his parents after more than a year's absence. Mrs. Henry Reid of Levin street has recovered from the la gripe. Mrs. Dr. Wheatian and baby are visiting in Boston, the guest of her mother Mrs. Dr. Mortie. The marriage of Miss Georgie Edmunds to Mr. H. J. Talbert of Atlanta, Ga., occurred at the Union Congregational Church on Division street last Thursday evening, Rev. Byron Gunner officiating. Miss Sarah Rice predeced at the organ. James T. Allen acted as bastant. Miss Georgie King of Pittsburgh was bridesmaid. Usheres were Messrs. Henry Allen, Wm. Thompson, M. A. Van Horn. After the reception the bridal party left by the Fall River Line for New York and Jersey City; they will reside in Boston, their future home. We regret to announce the death of Mrs. John Tuckerson, which was more than a shock to her many friends throughout New England. She left her home, on Levin street, a few weeks ago to pay a visit to her niece, Mrs. Green, in Boston, and was taken suddenly sick. She died shortly after the arrival of her husband. Rsv. H. N. Jeter preached her funeral at the Union Congregational Church of which she a devoted member. Mrs. Edward O. Nelson of Charles is much recovered and is able to attend the church duties. Hon. George L. Danning is slowly improving at his residence on Bellevue Ave. PERSONALS AND BRIEFS —Miss Mary Rowe left the city last Tuesday to visit friends at Trenton, N. J., and New York. —Mr. Joseph G. James of this city who is a student at Lincoln University won a gold medal in a recent oratoric contest between the students of that school. —Miss Annie Johnson who has been teaching in the country has returned home. —The Union University base-ball team is now ready for challenges from other teams who desire to meet them is a clean and gentlemanly game, so says Mr. Joseph T. Hill, the manager. —Mrs. Frances Wyatt of Unity Court, No. 182, is sick and under the care of the doctor at No. 803 West Catherine St. —Miss Kate M. Robinson has returned, home from Dobb's Ferry, N. Y., and will be glad to see her many friends at 809 North 1st St. Mrs. Mary Winston of 708 Catherine St., is quite sick at her residence. We hope her a speedy recovery. Mrs. Edward Ellis, Jr., 1010 N. 8th street, who has been dangerously ill for the last month is now convalescing and is doing well under the treatment of Dr. A. W. G. Farrar. We hope she will soon be able to be out. Dr. P. B. Ramsey, dentist of 102 W. Leigh St., left for Hampton. Thursday, April 26th to visit Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute he has also a good deal of dentist work to perform and expects to return in a few days. His reputation is well-known throughout the state. Mrs. Mary E Brown, the wife of Mr. F. J. Brown, the PLANET agent of Tremont, N Y., was ill during the past week with bronchitis and her life had at times been despaired of. She has been under the care of two physicians and is much improved. Michigan Road Must Reduce Rates Lansing, Mich., April 25—The state supreme court, in a suit brought against the Wabash railway by State Railroad Commissioner Osborn, decided that carrying of baggage, express and mail is legally a part of the earning power of passenger trains, and that on the company's reports of earnings, made to the commissioner for the year 1989, it must reduce its passenger fares from three cents to two and a half cents per mile in Michigan. While the passenger earnings of the road were only $141,922, the earnings from other sources brought the total up to $164,072. THE BICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA OZONO SAVES YOUR HAIR! --- BALDNESS EGZEMA 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 OZONO. It was not offered for sale or pushed to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the leading colored people of that time, it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy. True to all we claimed for it and worthy in every respect of the confidence and attention of every member of the colored race. Because they found it to cause the hair to GROW LONG AND STRAIGHT, soft and fine and as beautiful as an April morning. It also cures all forms of itching, humiliating scalp diseases, stops the hair from falling out, and causes a new growth to grow on the baldest 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 re-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 WEST END NOTES. Last Sunday the funerals of Deacons Andrew Gibson of Good Hopewell and Trueheart Franklin of Pilgrim Journey Baptist Churches of west Henrico County took place. Each was largely attended. A beautiful April marriage took place last Tuesday afternoon at 8:30 at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brown in honor of their daughter, Miss Lillian B. Brown to Mr. Joseph B. Wooldridge at 1612 Glaalstone St. The affair was a most brilliant one. Miss Matilda Thompson was maid of honor and Mr. and Mr. B. D. Groover man, the most pleasant woman, the left left at 5:30 over the western division of the O. & O. for Pemberton on a pleasure trip. The couple were the recipients of many costly presents. They will return and be at home, 1906 Walasse St., Sunday, April 29th from 5 to 9 P. M. The bride is a most excellent young lady, industrious and a much respected lady. The groom is one of the most respected young men of our community. His family is among the best. We tender our most hearty corgratulations for the best future, success and happiness. The next will be Miss B. and Mr. D. Same to you. Say Mrs. — we think you had better change that nickname from "old poor mule" to the Reverend Merchant Pressher and Pastor. Some of our notes were left out last week and we especially regret the omission of our distinguished friends. Miss L. B. Brown and Mrs. Joseph S. Wooldridge. The Excalsior Co. For the benefit of the Woman's Central League this company of artists will appear on Monday night, April 30th, 1900, at True Reformers' Hall. The Woman's Central League is designed to place labor on the most intelligent scale and wishes to elevate our people to a fitness second to none. In helping this cause you certainly help the poor girls to a betterment of condition that keeps them from being sensitive to the Yerkes condition in a strictly first-class and high order in witnessing the Excelior Opera Co. rendering its excellent bill. So we cordially invite and request your patronage. Usual prices. 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. LEIGH STREET M. E. CHURCH. Sunday, April 29th, being the First Quarterly Conference of the new year, special services will be held all day. In the morning at 10 o'clock Love-feast and Experience Meeting conducted by the pastor At 11 a.m. Mrs. Annie E. Brown, the noted Evangelist will address the church and introduce her work. In the afternoon at 3 o'clock the society known as "The Tents" will have their first anniversary sermon delivered to them by the pastor, the Rev. J. Edw. Gunby, at which time an especial contribution will be asked for the church and pastor. Also at 8 p.m. the initiatory evangelistic and revival services will be held. This service will be exclusively under the direction of the Evangelist Annie E. Brown of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Brown is a fluent and graceful speaker, whose mission of soul-saving has been wonderfully blessed by the unction of the Holy Spirit All are invited. The meetings will continue for at least two weeks. You cannot afford to miss hearing this gifted servant of God, who has led thousands of souls to higher life and better health. This service is open to the public and it is hoped that great numbers may hear this blessed servant. Our Thinking Sabres in the Philippines The American Army Officer in Action is the subject of a paper which Senator Albert J. Beveridge contributes to a forthcoming number of The Saturday Evening Post. During his visit to the Archipelago, Mr. Beveridge was the guest and comrade of Geneais Lawton and King, and he tells some stirring stories of the undaunted courage of the tried Indian fighter and the nonchalant coolness of the army novelist. "If our soldiers are 'thinking bayonets,'" says he, "our officers are 'thinking sabres.'" The American Army Officer in Action will appear in The Saturday Evening Post on May 5th. —Excelsior Lodge, No. 29, will meet at their castle hall May 1st. All members are requested to be present. Business of great importance. Don't fall, 8 p. m. sharp. ONOZO ANOTHER COURT ORGANIZED. The organizing of Elizabeth Court, I. O. of Calanthe, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. & A., was completed on last Wednesday evening at Price's Hall by the Grand Worthy Counselor, John Mitchell, Jr., assisted by Miss M. L. Chiles, Grand Worthy Register of Deeds, Mrs. Anna Taylor, Deputy G. W. Counselor, Mrs R. Elnora Wesley, P. W. Counselor, Mrs R. Clark, Miss Eva Davis, Mrs S. Mrs Clark, Mitchell, Grand Worthy Lecturer, Mrs Harriet Thompson and Mrs Mary Hoyer who has so faithfully labored to organize this court. The following are the officers: -W. C., Annie Price; S. D. Elvira Carter; J D. Lillie Johnson; W. Q. Maria Vaughan; W Inspectrix, lizzie Shell; Escort, Emma Cooper; W. Con., Rebecca Meales; Asst. Con. Susan Jones; W. Inspector, Frances Waddy; R. of Deeds, Minnie Coleman; R. of A. Hattie T. Fortune; Rec. of Deposits, Annie H. Mose; W. H. Frances Roane; Sarah M. Macon Devan; Trustees, Sarah Murray, 18 months, Annie Price; 12 onths, Emma Cooper, 6 months, Refreshments were served and all were much pleased with the arrangements. Do You Know Them? A young colored man, named John White and who claims to be the son of John and Mary White of this city is in a bad condition at White Sulphur Springs, West Va. He was struck on the head with a club and since that time has been practice, y insane. Any information concerning him can be obtained by addressing. W. C. WILRY, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. NOTICE111 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 HABRIS, Superintendent and Trustee. 8,31-44. hat 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 straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying, running scalp diseases, Eczema, Pimples, Dandruff, Itch, &c. BEFORE. AFTER It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair Long and Soft. Fine and Silky and as beautiful as an April morning, 10,000 people are to-day using Ozono and not one complaint. We have thousands of testimonials. We have not space to publish, Rev. B. Hertz an eminent Colored Divine of the Church writes: I have found your Ozono to prove satisfactory in every particular. Kate W. Page, Blacksburg, Va., writes:—Your preparation has proven rue to all you claim for it. The price of Ozono is 50c. a box. It takes from 3 to 4 boxes to accomplish the treatment. We make this liberal offer for a limited time only. Cut out this Coupon and send to us with $1.00, and we will forward to you 4 boxes of Ozono and one bottle of Electrical Skin Refiller which makes black skin bright rough skin soft and pliant and cures all skin diseases. We will also include one fany jar of our Electrical Skin Food—nature's great b*antifier, removes Wrinkles, Moth patches, freckles and all fialic blemishes, and prove our liberality we will add to this one Package of Anti-Odor. A positive cure for Sore Throat, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chiblains, 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, I enclose you $1.00 (One Dollar) for which please send my Normal Notes. The following are the persons who will graduate from the Normal Department this year: —Misses Belle B. Allen, Mobile, Ala.; Eiff. E. Andrews, Mason, Ga.; Lauretta R. O'Collins, Mobile, "Ala.; Sarah H. Clark, Birmingham, Ala.; Josephine G. Flipper, Atlanta, Ga.; Ida J. Herbert, Livingston, Ala.; Gussie F. McOall, Montgomery, Ala.; Katie Myers, Livingston, Ala.; Pearl L. Smith, Florence, Ala.; Sarah E. Sawyer, Mobile, Ala.; Einda A. Savage, Snow Hill, Ala.; Rosa E. Savage, Snow Hill, Ala.; Alice S. Shelton, Hot Springs, Ala.; Hattie O. Williams, Oalera, Ala.; Mears Robert L. Savage, Snow Hill, Ala.; James Y. Wood, Increase, Tenn.; Ocea Taylor, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Wesley S. Pittman, Liberia, Arietis, John D. Oldham, Tulahoma, Tenn.; Lenn. J. Moore, Pratt City, Ala.; Wm. Jehovah, Hot Springs, Ark.; John O. Judkins, Birmingham, Ala.; H. W. Handy, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Thee E. Higgins, Mobile, Ala.; Wm. J. Griffin, Friar Point, Miss.; Wm. Derrick, Hunville, Ala.; Loyd H. Hox, Camden, Ark.; Henry C. Bryant, Birmingham, Ala. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. services to-morrow (Sunday) as follows: 11 a. m., Prof. J. E. Jones, D. D. 3 p. m. Young People's Union. Meeting led by Sister Pinkney. 8 p. m., sermon by Rev. J. W. Pryor The protracted meetings are very successful. Many are bowed at the anxious seat. There are already two converts and many more to bow. 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 —Mra. H. H. Hopkins, the lady doctor, has moved to No 5 West M-shall St., after three months rest from practice and keeping-house. Easy way to get CLOTHES. Persons desiring to open an account may do so by paying 50s. down and 50s. weekly. Every thing made to order; fit guaranteed. Out of town customers send 10c. for samples and particulars. R. ROSS BURT, LADIES AND GENTS Custom Tailor, 824 W. 87th St. - New York City. M. L. Campbell, 318 E. Broad St. Millinery. LADIES HATS DRESSED IN THE LATEST STYLES. PATTERNS RECEIVED WEEKLY. Satisfaction guaranteed. 318 E. Broad Street. Between 8rd and 4th. apl28-8m. BEST MAX SONMEMBERG BEST 114 E. Broad St. 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