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THE RICHMOND PLANET IN MEMORIAM Colonel T. W. Mitchell. A shaft in its unconscious grandeur Reared heavenward its aspiring head, The dream of some sculptor's ambition, Realized in the years which are fled— Is shattered, and prone as it lieth, Appeals unto each manly heart, For the past and the present now blended, Reveal what was hid at the start. A rose which did bloom in the garden, And cast forth delicious perfume, Brought joy to all who came near it.— Its brightness dispelling all gloom— Now lies on the ground and is withered, For it By some fell worm was cut in the midst of its usefulness severed, To seeming base uses is put. And thus it has been in all ages, With the sons and the daughters of men, For the best and the brightest are taken From mountain, from plain and from gln; Ay, just when their talents seem brightest And when their best qualities shine, The grave claims its own and will have it, Though loved ones be left to repine. But God in His infinite mercy Provides us in Christ a sure balm, And after the tempest is over, There cometh the soul-craven calm. 'Tis then that we see through the darkness Hope's rainbow which glimmers beyond, 'Tis then with new faith we take courage, And bid our hearts no more despond! For indeed there is a hereafter, A time when the several shall meet, And those who have mourned friends departed Shall find them again at His feet— The feet of the blessed Redeemer— The Resurrection and the Life! The reward of every believer Who, fighting hath died in the strike. O. M. STEWARD. GRAND TIME FOR THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION. It is now a settled fact that Richmond will give the National Baptist Convention a most hearty reception. Everybody is looking forward to the time when from every direction the noble Baptist women and men, composing this great body, will pour into our city. What is the National Baptist Convention? It is the only national body of colored Baptists in the country. It was organized some twenty years ago by delegates from Richmond and cities and states from all over this country. It is the same body under whose auppices Revs. Colley, Presley, Coles and many others went as missionaries to Africa. It represents every state in the Union where there are Negro Baptists. The Virginia Baptist State Convention, the Woman's Baptist Educational Convention of Virginia and nearly all the Baptist Associations of this state are members of the National Baptist Convention. The treasurer of the National Baptist Convention is Rev. D. Hayes, the vice-president is Rev. Dr. Bowling. Other officers and members of the board are Rev. Bernard Terrell, A.M.; B. F. Fox, D. D. and Prof. G. W. Hayes. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. is a member of the Foreign Mission Board and Associate Editor of the Sunday School Literature. FOURTEEN MISSIONARIES. The National Baptist Convention now has fourteen missionaries in Africa doing most effective work. They also have a Publication House in Nashville, Tenn, owned and controlled by themselves. The property is valued at over $20,000. Last year this Publication House did a business that amounted to $81,000. Already the figures of this year's work show that over $50,000 worth of work will be done. The Publication House employs nearly one hundred young ladies and young men and other members of the race as book-binders, type-setters, clarka, book-keepers, etc. The Sunday School department now furnishes nearly 9000 Sunday Schools with literature written and printed by men and women of the race. This will give our readers a bird's eye view of the National Baptist Convention and its work. Men and women who are doing these great things for the race are joining to Richmond, not upon territory belonging to some other convention, but upon territory which every American citizen has a perfect right to place his feet and speak of matters that tend to better the condition of our people. And as Christian citizens our great and noble hearted Governor J. Hoge Tyler and the popular mayor of our city on the day of the opening of the Convention will speak and make them welcome to this state and city. White ministers of different denom- inations will likewise stand upon the platform with our great governor and give Christian greetings along with such men as Rev. D. W. Davis, A. M., Drs. Holland Powell, McGuire, Partee, Gunby, Gullins and Graham. It is expected also, not by way of force or coercion, that the National Baptist and Christian greeting, that all that帕特里克 city will be willing to meet the brethren of this great convention. Who invited the National Baptist Convention to Richmond? THE ANSWER GIVEN. This can be easily answered: The Fifth St. Baptist Church in the regular approved order followed by all Baptist churches, through its pastor, in regular church meeting, extended an invitation to the National Baptist Convention to hold this year's session with them. The convention accepted the invitation. At the proper time the Fifth Street Baptist Church addressed invitations to all the colored churches, asking their assistance in entertaining the convention. In the meantime Dr. W. F. Graham visited the Ministers Conference of which he is a member and asked the pastors to give the invitation of his church Christian and courteous consideration. This shows that proper and legal steps have been taken in inviting the convention to Richmond. There need be no fear on the part of any one as to Rishmond caring for this great body. Her citizens are too noble hearted to allow any one man either by writing or over the communion to persuade them to disgrace themselves. GENERAL COMMITTEE MET. Last Monday night the general committee met at the Fifth Baptist Church (Nydney). A grand time was had. Rev. Dr. Gullins preached a most powerful sarmon from the subject, "Power with God." He swayed the audience at will. This is the second meeting held by the general committee and so early as this over one hundred homes for delegates were reported that means homes have been found in two meetings for 800 delegates. At the next meeting, it is pretty certain that a sufficient number of homes will be reported to care for the whole convention. The Fifth Baptist Church with their honored and noble pastor, Rev. Holland Powell, D. D., has thrown wide their doors and are giving most hearty support in looking out for the convention. Let no little fellow spur and kick himself to death because the brethren of other denominations are helping the Fifth Street Baptist Church. There is no fuss between the different denominations in Richmond. Peace and harmony reign and the brilliant castors of our Peso Baptist churches celebrate with bread and noble hearts. $33.00 collection was taken uplast Monday night. The next meeting will be held the fourth Monday night in this month with the Mount Olivet Baptist Church (Church Hill). Rev. Eli Tartt will preach the sermon. We are going to have a big time. DEACON SMITH'S ENTHUSIASM. Deacon Harrison Smith of the First Baptist Church was with us last meeting; by a most remarkable speech, he perfectly eleiftrated the whole house. The good deeds and members of the First Church, Second Church, Ebenezer Church, Fourth Church, in fast all the churches are throwing their doors open to us. The people declare that they will not allow one or two quarrelsome preachers make them do what is wrong, that while those preachers have control as pastors over their flocks, they certainly do not own and control the beds, dining rooms, and meat and bread of their homes. They say that such preachers are going "too pudder." I would like to know the where- abouts of Robert Scott. If any one know anything about him will please let me hear from them. His father's name was Henry Scott, mother's, Sara- h Scott. He is the only child. His father has been lead for 12 months. Any information will be thankfully received by his mother, SARAH SCOTT, 918-32d St., Richmond, Va. GRAND EXCURSION. A grand Excursion to Lynsburgh on July 16, 1900. Train leaves N. & W, depot 8:30 p. m., Norfolk; arrive in Petersburg 12 o'clock sharp. Come and go with us. Fare, from Petersburg, $2.00. THE GRAND LODGE WILL MEEP. The Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A., and A., will meet Tuesday, July 17th, in True Reformers' Hall at Lynchburg, Ya., 10 a.m. The Grand Court of Virginia will meet Tuesday, July 17th, at True Reformers' Hall at 4 p. m. The Advisory Endowment Board of the Grand Lodge will meet Monday evening, July 16th at 7 p. m., at True Reformers' Hall and the Advisory Endowment Board of the Grand Court will meet at the same place July 16th at 6 p. m. RICHMOND VIRGINIA, SATUEDAY JULY 14, 1900. WASHINGTON LETTER SECRETARY ROOT'S CONFERENCE. The Democratic Convention. MR. STEVENSON'S PREDICAMENT. The Sultan of Turkey. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9, 1800. Secretary Root, after conferring with General Miles and his fellow-members of the Cabinet has issued the necessary orders to start more than six thousand regular troops, to the Philippines, the idea being to stop them in China if they are needed there when they get that far on their way. There is still much doubt about the fate of the foreigners in Pekin, one story following and contradicting another several times every day. Owing to the time that would necessarily elapse before the other powers could assemble an army on the coast of China large enough to forsibly take possession of and hold Pekin and other interior points, an agreement has been reached by the powers under which Japan will furnish as large an army as may be necessary and go ahead and perform the task of punishing the outlaw Chinese element and restoring law and order, the other powers agreeing to pay Japan a cash indemnity, which China will be made to repay later. NO CHANGE IN THE OUTLOOK. The work of the Democratic National Convention has made no appreciable change in the political outlook, and will not cause any material change in the programme of work mapped out by the republicans. The election of McKinley and Roosevelt will be the logical outcome of existing conditions, but republicans everywhere are to be urged to work as though the result depended upon each man's individual effort, because democratic tickets and platform must be necessary to the evil result that would follow a democratic victory be pointed out to every voter. That is the republican programme. There is quite a little rumpus among those who managed the recent reception to the Boer envoys in Washington, and the collection at the reception, which was announced to be for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the Boer soldiers. $1,184 was collected supposedly for the widows and orphans, but after paying for carriages, fireworks, wine, etc., it seems if only $18 was left for the widows and orphans, and the contributors are, some of them, saying ugly things about those who collected and disbursed the money. MEMORY SHORT The memory of man is proverbially short, but democratic memory is the shortest of the whole bunch. Only a little more than three years ago, Hon. Adai I. Stevenson was Vice President, and as such presiding officer of the Senate, and was being blackguarded and abused by the silver Senators and the silver press for having sold out the interest of silver, which he professed to believe in, because he would not do as the silverites desired him to do, Whether Mr. Stevenson deserved that abuse is neither here nor there. What attention is called to is that the same men who abused him then have again nominated him for Vice President. Mr. Stevenson is personally liked in Washington, but nobody believes, regardless of political opinion, that he has strengthened the ticket by a single vote. BRYAN THE WHOLE THING. Mr. Bryan is the whole thing and no votes will be cast for Bryan and Stevenson by anyone except those who are willing to endorse and swallow Bryanism and all that the term implies just as Mr. Bryan forced the Kansas City Convention to swallow the 16 to 1 silver pill. General prosperity is reflected in the business of the U. S. Patent Office, which was larger during the fiscal year just closed than ever before, the cash receipts having been $1,358,288.35 and the number of patents issued 28,540. Postmaster General Smith has received a unique invitation to attend the second State Postmaster's Convention of Texas, to be held at Dallas, July 19, 20. The invitation is a mammoth affair in pamphlet form, and came to Washington in a big tin box. It was presented to the Postmaster General by Mr. William Terrell, of the Sixth Auditor's office, whose home is in San Antonio. Mr. Smith has the invitation under consideration, although it is doubtful whether he can attend. The Sultan of Turkey has made an other specific promise to pay those American Missionary claims, this time within ninety days. Secretary Hay has decided that Minister Straus shall not return to Constantinople until those claims are paid, and has instructed Mr. Griteon, who is in charge of the American legation in that city, to impress it upon the Sultan's mind that the money must be paid within the specified time. The Sultan wished his premise kept secret, owing to numerous European claims of a similar nature, and the information was not obtained from the Department of State, but from these more directly interested in the payment of the claims. The Richmond PLANET comes to us this week at half-masst, mourning the deceased of her congenial and noteworthy manager, Mr. Thomas W. Mitchell, age 31 years. His short stay among us is marked with brilliant achievements. We offer condolence to the bereaved staff of the PLANET, hoping many years of prosperity may be yours. [Washington, D. C., National Leader.] We extend to Editor John Mitchell, Jr., of the PLANET, our heartfelt sympathy in his sad bereavement, the death of his only brother, Col. Thomas W. Mitchell. The late Col. Mitchell was sick only two weeks. He was the manager of the PLANET. He was a member of the leading societies of his city and a multitude gathered to pay the last sad rites. His last words were: "that he had his ticket signed and was going take the train." Ool. Mitchell was a Mason and he now beholds the beauties of the Grand Lodge above. He has been called from labor to rest. [ Pensacola, Fla., Sentinel ] Editor John Mitchell of the Richmond Planet has our sincere sympathy in the loss of his brother, Mr. Thomas W. Mitchell. The deceased was an exceptional newspaper man in the office of the Planet and his demise will for a time prove a source of embarrassment in the mechanical department of one of the best race journals in the country, the Richmond Planet. The deceased leaves a wife and two children, his mother, brother and one brother. He was a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Masons and other organizations. The horses attached to Mr. A. D. Price's fine funeral director wagon became frightened and ran away last Sunday morning. When they reached 12th and Broad Sts., they ran into a tree, badly injuring the driver, Mr. Abraham Lewis and the colored boy, Artaur Eggleston. The wagon was smashed to pieces. Mr. Lewis' leg was broken, the sinews and muscles cut and he was otherwise injured. The boy received bad gashes in the head and had his arm broken. All are doing well. Eggleston is out again. The loss will be about $200. The horses were uninjured. On Wednesday, July 4th, 1900, the G. W. C. John Mitechell, J., installed the following officers of Cordelia's Court: W. C. W., Georgia R. Robinson; W. Inspectrix, Miss Mary E. Allen; W. O., Miss Mary Robinson; R. of D., Mrs. Berridle Washington; R. of A., Mrs. Maggie B. Johnson; S. D., Miss Catherine Carter; J. D., Mrs. Emma J. Lucas; Con., Mrs. Mary Roane; Ass's Con, Mrs. Nora Scott; Herald, Mrs. Susan Taylor; Protector, Alphens Scott; W Inspector, Mrs. Emma G. Owens. At the meeting of Virginia Lodge, No. 6 Monday night, July 9, 1900, the following officers were installed up Grand Chancellor John Mitechell, Jr., assisted by D. G. Chancellor, Foster Lucas and acting Grand Master at Arms, S. B. Baker. P. C., E. R. Jefferson; C. G., O. M. Kemp, V. O. Thomas Trent; P., W. M., Hill; K. of R. and S., Joseph S. Anderson; M. F., M. H. Moss; M. of Ex., Henry Hodges; M. at A; J. H. Bowler; I. G., Wm. Robinson; O. G. Johann Wren. Services at Mount Olivet Baptist Church, 25th and 8 streets Sunday, July 15th as follows: At 11:30 a.m., sermon by Rev. W. A. Mitchell; at 8:30, special services conducted by Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D.; at 8:30 p.m., a special sermon by Rev. Lewis Herbert. First Baptist Church Sunday Night Services. The efforts to increase the attendance to the Sunday night services are meeting with mush success. The services are both instructive and full of interest. Sunday night, July 15th, special singing by the choir. Rev. E. J. Bass, the well-known Christian advocate will preach. A LIVELY TIME. Rev. Z. D. Lewis' Resolution not a Popular Measure. DISSATISFACTION MANIFESTED. The Fourth Baptist Church was the scene of a lively contest on last Tuesday evening, the occasion being a council meeting to hear the charge against the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church for retaining members in her church who were excluded from the Fourth Baptist Church. The meeting was very stormy from beginning to end and was opened without devotional exercises, and seemed more like a political than a church meeting, where everything except peace, harmony and satisfaction prevailed; with the exception of a few. The ministers were stripped of their holy garb and had left their dignity at home, and the standard of christianity of which they are representatives was trailing in the dust raised by themselves. We speak from no standpoint of prejudice on this matter, but simply give plain facts as they happened in the meeting, only omitting some which to our judgement is not worthy of publication, either from non-interest to the reader or its unbecoming language to our misleisters. COUNCIL CAELED TO ORDER. The council was called to order by Rev. Z. D. Lewis, who nominated Rev. Dr. Binge of Manchester as permanent chairman and Rev. Stokes of Richmond as secretary. Being the only nominee, they were both elected. This being accomplished, Rev. Lewis took his seat with the body of the council and was prepared for war. After the reading of the charge against Mt. Olivet Baptist Church and the informal invitation extended to them by the Fourth Baptist Church to be present at this council, the meeting was then opened for each delegate to express himself on the subject. After many questions being asked by the visiting brethren, who received from the moderator no satisfactory answer, owing to his not being acquainted with but one side of the subject before reaching the church, the delegates were left only to guess what they had to do, and a few random speeches were made of which we will spare our readers. IN NAME IT WAS AN ADVOCY COUNCIL IN SENSE, A POLITICAL ORG. Rev. Z. D. Lewis' face beamed with satisfaction as did also the faces of those who were aware of what was about to happen. Thinking he had a club from which one blow would kill the enemy, Rev. Lewis drew forth a premature resolution destined to crush those against whom there was a charge without even giving them a hearing, but not so as we shall see; for when that resolution was read and offered to the council as a means to settle the charge against the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, the bolting done in that council would have made a political meeting blush for shame. Croker, the boss of Tammany Hall, in all of his sheehan and political tricks could not have equalled this bold attempt to relieve others of the same rights that the author of the resolution would himself like to enjoy. THE RESOLUTION. The resolution was a display of high sounding words, which was intended to show the author's familiarity with the English language as well as to crush without a trial the members of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church, and should have been plainer so that some of the ministers and many of the delegates could understand the entire resolution. The substance of the resolution was the denouncing of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, to drive out all members new in her church who were excluded from the Fourth Baptist Church when neither the church in question nor the members had a representative in the council, not having received their notice in of the council in due form nor time. Failing to comply with this unfair request, in 80 days theright-hand of fellowship should be with drawn from the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. This came as a thunder-clap from a clear sky and naturally created quite a commotion which led to heated arguments, pro and con. The one pleasant look on the author's face now turned to a determined one and he spoke for it as if his life depended on it. Here his seal got the better of his discretion and judgement. Never did a lawyer defend his client with more energy, nor a Senator fight with more zeal to have his pet bill passed in Congress than did Kev. Lewis defend his measure. At first there was a suspicion of the revolution being out of the meeting. and the attitude of Rev. Lewis towards that measure only confirmed the suspicion as being true. REPLACED ON THE REPOLUTION. When the motion was put that the resolution be adopt'd, and unreadiness called for, nearly the entire delivery was made quite a time before order was restored. Rev Dr Graham was the first to speak against the resolution, and he rose in a cool and calm way, which is so characteristic of him and made such a logical and pointed argument that those present thought they saw the resolution's finish. In part, he said: "The council is an advisory one, and if we accept that resolution, we are not acting in that capacity which is the sole object of the council. Again, the Mt Olivet Baptist Church has no representative among us and to adopt such a resolution is unfair to them and to ourselves. Why! in that resolution you have tred the church, condemned and sentenced her without even hearing from her. Is that acting on Baptists doctrine? Is that Christianity? I, for one am not in favor of it." Others spoke equally against it but it was determined when that resolution was brought to church to have it adopted at no hazards was it to be thwarted. Rev. Lewis then arose to defend his pet scheme, as was the case after every one who spoke against it and at times as aided his opponents in untimely takable terms, and one following his argument could see the hand of pr judge unified against one of the distinguished ministers. Those present need to hear no names called to know who that was. Shot after shot was hurled from both sides, and the sisters of the Fourth Baptist Church made themselves a conspicuous by interrupting all who spoke aid and did not voice their ingentiments So annoying did this boisterousness become until their own pastor pleaded for order. But that was only a mild sample of their actions whenever there is anything to happen in which they are interested. It is the same at Church, Courthouse, at home and on the streets. Inaling people as they pass the street or even come to church attend religious services. After questioning wrangling, the previous question was for and for the vote taken. The first vote was unsatisfactory as it was known by the standing that the resolution was sure to be lost, the negative was called for then. After insulting those not to vote who were not delegates, which was unnecessary, a second count was called for and the motion put again, the vote being 19 to 17 in favor of the affirmative. Some tried to put a restriction on the minisers from preaching at the Mr. Olivet, but this also failed. The Old Ship of Zion has encountered some severe storms in her existence, but the climax was reached last Tuesday evening at the above mentioned meeting, and many storms like that one will wreck any church. The meeting lasted four hours and a half and in all that time, no advice was given and no business transacted except the passing of the resolution which plainly showed the opposition with which it met, and that was passed much to the dissatisfaction of one half of the delegation present, some not voting. Speeches were then made to try to heal the wounds caused by previous remarks but the effort was fruitless and we were no nearer to the adjusting of the difficulty than when we began, for it has never been proven that the members in question were excluded legally, no bad they any voice in the meeting, which condemned them. The meeting adjourned by singing "Blest be the tie that binds" in a sarcastic manner as it was outlined, and not during the entire meeting was there a christian feeling shown by those who made the charge against the members of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. COTTEN—COUSINS—The marriage of Miss Amy M. Cousins of Richmond, Va., to Mr. Charles H. Cotten of New York took place on July 1st in New York at the residence of Rev. Walker, 130 W. 53rd St. The happy couple will return to Richmond in September. [Atlanta, Ga., Voice of Missions.] There must be the most worthless set of presachers in Virginia, found in the connection, on the subject of Missions. Think of it, the great empire state, the mother of Presidents, raises one dollar and fifty cents, and one man raises all of hat. Yet they sent a delegation to the General Conference and one of the delegates had the audacity to be a candidate for an office. If these were the men that had to build up our Missionary department and bring the heathen to God, we would require a million years to save one man. Let the reader turn to the list furnished us by Dr. Parks and see what Virginia has done. We are no longer president of the Missionary department and intend to watch the Missionary war-ers with an eagle's eye, and when men do nothing, the Christian world must be informed, for our eleven thousand papers which we issue go to the ends of the world. PRICE 5 CENTS Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Meetings in the city jail last Sunday were very impressive. Those at the Almshouse were indeed helpful. P. resident Clifton G. Cabel addressed the boys last Sunday. They were deeply in pressed. Bo. W. H. Bolden gave the men last Sunday a very helpful address. All felt that they were paid for coming. The Y. M. C. A. held special services at the 5th Baptist Church last Sunday 8:30 p. m., for the purpose of helping to extend the kingdom of God. An impressive address was made by Rav. W. H. Stokan, B. D., also a very impressive address was made by the president of the boy's department, Clifton Cabel. Special music was rendered by the choir. We hope that this meeting will prove to be a blessing. Meetings in the jail and almshouse Sunday 11 a. m. Pres. Cliton Cabel will address the boys Sunday 4 p. m. Free. The men will be addressed Sunday 5:30 p. m. at our rooms by Brother R. E. Edwards; subject, "Wor-" Free to all men. Good singing. We congratulate two of our members, who have been successful in passing a special board of Virginia, in the persons of Dr. D. A. Ferguson, the dentist, and Lawyer J. Thomas Hewin. Mr. Hewin's Success. J. Thomas Hewin, who was admitted to practise law by the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals last week was one of the first colored men to obtain a license from that court since they have had the power to grant license to persons practising law. In former years, the corporation judges is used licenses to all applicants, but the legislature passed a law about five years ago, giving that power to the Supreme Court of Appeals. Since that time no colored man has passed. Mr. Hewin came to this city in 1839, and secured a position carrying drills to the stone-cutters at Lie Monument. He took a motion to go to school and entered the public schools in the fall of the same year. He graduated from the Richmond Normal School, valedictorian of his class in 1898. In the fall of that year, he entered Boston University Law School, working his w by waiting at banquets and reception, and in hotels at night. In the vacation of 1899, he was night watchman on a steamer between Boston and Portland, Me. He expects to begin the practice of law in this city soon. Mr. E. M. Canada of Norfolk was in the city and called on us. Mr. R. H. Coles of Axtell, Va., called on us. Mr. Isaac Jefferson of Jefferson P. O., Va., called on us. Mr. W. Cary Trueheart left Monday for Old Sweet Springs, W. Va., where he will spend the summer. Mr. Percy Mitchell, formerly of the hospital division of U. S. V army, and the only member of the Sixth Virginia regiment, who enlisted for Cuba is well. Miss Mary E. Smith was given a turning out party last Friday, the 6th, by her mother, Mrs. Margaret Smith, 605 N. 1st St. Mr. Richard Smith. 17 W. Jackson street. gave a card party to his friends Monday, July 9th. Mr. John Adams, of Danville, Va., who is well-known in this city called on us in company with his two year and a half old son, Clarence Barnard Adams. He was looking well, He left last Thursday night. The exercises of Miss Nannie Jones's music class last Tuesday night at the w. Olivet Baptist Church were a success. The students showed careful training and deserved much credit. Those who assisted Jones were Miss Margaret Tinaley, Mrs. Wood, Messrs. Ellis, Trent and others, Miss Kate Elliott recited. Mr. James Nelson is very ill at his home, north 1st street. Miss Fannie M. Robinson of N. 1st St., left on the 3rd inst., to visit friends in New York city, Newark, N. J., and Washington, D.C. Mme. F. P. Walker is on a concert tour with Mr. Woodward. Mrs. R. K. Jones will travel all summer in interest of the H. M. C. Institute. Mrs. Julia Ann Branton announces the marriage of her daughter, Julia A., to Rev. W. H. Willis, Tuesday evening July 17th, 1900 at 7 o'clock at the First Bapt. Church. All friends are invited. GRAND OUTING AND LAWN PAR- You are respectfully invited to attend the Grand Outing and Lawn Party, given at Windale Park Monday, July 23rd, 1900, from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Refreshments a plenty. Tickets, allowing transfers all around as well as admission in the Park-20sts. Otherwise, single person, 15s, couple 25s. Committee: J. R. Griffin, Jr., J. Alex, Lewis, Chas R. Garton LET DANCE SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1900 MISSOURY HELENY By Juliette M. Babbitt. From the Home School New York. Reprinted by Special Perlism. "MISSOURY HELENY, put that book right down an' run an' pick up some chips to hurry up this plagney fire—an' put on some taters to cook whist' I sets t'h table. Theya man an' woman—mighty stylish-looking' folks—what's lo' her way an' wants sumpin' 'teat jes' as quick as ever they kin git it. Lucky I baked yiste'day, an' had that hen on a-cookin'. Jump, now, an' take yore min' off n' yore readin' long 'nuff to he'p me git 'dinner', and a talk, thin woman, with scanty gray hair drawn tightly back from a sallow face, returned to the front room of a small weather-stained, story-and-a-half frame house where she had left one of her guests—a lady in a plain gray traveling dress—standing in the doorway looking out across the broad, level expanse of "bottom" land stretching away from the hills nearby to the Missouri river. "Take t'岩' rockin' cheer, ma'am, an' rest yores f." said the hostess, pulling a table to the center of the room, covering it with a coarse but snowy cloth and bringing the dishes from the kitchen as she talked. "Yu mus' be pow'l honry if you got yore brekus to White's. They do say they hain's never notin' fit to eat there. Strange how yu missed th' road to Jim Banion's—leastways th' place what he runs for some eastern man; hits 'bous five mile from here, up t'other side th' Maple. Hope t'gentleman hain't havin' no trouble findin' th' feed. They a-plenty out there. Jerry—that's my son—went over to town this mornin' an' hain' got back, an' my ol' man's out a-huntin'. They hain't nothin' Dan Holten loves beater snoopin' roun' with his gun, luna' hits a-playin' on his fiddle, or readin' a story book. Missouri Helen'—going into the kitchen—"is them taters a-bilin'? That gurl"—coming back to place a dish of sliced cucumbers on the table—"is jest like her pa fur readin' evry scrap o' print she kin lay her han's on, an' she's crazy to git a edication an' learn music. I lets her go to school when they is any, an' she knows 'bout as much now, as th' las' teacher, though she hain't but 16 las' May. Her pa named her fur h' state we come from an' ailan' wher Bony-part wuz she up to keep out'n mischief. Well, I reckon dinner's ready if yu air,' and she brought in a platter of stewed chicken which sent up an appetizing odor. Passing shyly in and out, assisting the talkative woman, was a slender, hair-haired young girl in a faded blue calico dress. She scarcely lifted the long dark lashes veiling a pair of deep blue eyes, and slipped away to her interrupted reading the moment the meal was ready. Hugh Ramsey, a young New York lawyer, and his sister, Mrs. Zadah Morrison, were on their way to Omaha, where Mrs. Morrison purposed spending some time with a former schoolmate before joining her brother in Colorado, where he was going to look after some mining property. At a small town, between Sioux City and Council Bluffs, they left the train, that bright August morning, to visit a farm a dozen miles or so distant, which had been left to Mrs. Morrison by an uncle. After an unsatisfactory breakfast, they hired a pair of horses and an open buggy and, mistaking the direction, wandered about until noon found them very hungry, at the Holten place. They had not expected much from the appearance of the house and its mistress, and enjoyed all the more the excellent meal so soon ready for them, after which they proceeded on their way, taking the right road this time. "Hugh, do you remember Missouri Heleny, the pretty girl where we got such a good dinner the day we were lost on our way to my Iowa farm?" asked Mrs. Morrison, the evening after her arrival at Colorado Springs. "I remember the ridiculous name," answered Hugh Ramsey, lying at ease on a lounge in his sister's room, "and the woman, and, best of all, the dinner; but I can't say that I remember much about the girl. A thin, colorless little thing, wasn't she?" Mrs. Morrison laughed and, drawing her low chair nearer, ran her fingers through his early locks. "You were hungry, not to notice such a pretty girl. She is rather thin and colorless new, but she will be a beauty one of these days, I promise you. I was hungry, too, but there was something so sweet about her, and what her mother said about her desire to learn haunted me so that I went up there one day and arranged for Lena — I won't call her by that dreadful name— to enter St. Mary's, at Omaha, for two years. Her mother, who is an old-fashioned Methodist, objected at first. She was afraid "them Catholics would 'proxerile' the child; but Mr. Holten, a gentle, really refined sort of man, was very, grateful for the opportunity offered his daughter, and spoke up with, judging by his wife's look of astonishment, unusual firmness, and she gave in. Jerry—a blond giant, a combination of her energetic mother and easy-going father—was on our side, and there Lena is, at St. Mary's, studying like everything, and happy as the day is long. I am only afraid of her working too hard; she is so anxious to improve every moment." "Dear old Zadah, you are always doing good to someone," murmured her brother, pressing her white hand to his Hps. Hugh Ramsey was a tall, exceedingly good-looking young fellow—about 25—with dark hair and mustache and dark eyes, which, oftimes, did more execution than their possessor realized or intended. His sister, some eight or ten years older, had the same dark eyes and curly dark hair, but was much shorter and inclined to be rather stout. A childless widow with ample means, she was devoted to Hugh, and very fond of doing nice things for others. Hugh was also comfortably well off, and not at all dependent upon the profession he had chosen. Two years after this conversation, Hugh, on another visit to the west, had stopped to look after his sister's property, and to see how her protege was getting along. Six months before this, Mrs. Holten had been stricken with paralysis, and Lena had returned home to care for her and the little household, so helpless with the chief worker laid low. The family resources were small, and, when Lena had the chance of teaching the neighborhood school for the summer months, she gladly took it. She wrote brightly and hopefully to her friend, but Mrs. Morrison feared that the girl was overdoing, and was greatly worried about her. She had looked forward to taking Lena abroad, another year, to cultivate her voice, and was loath to give up her plans, even for a time. Hugh Ramsey came, saw, and—was conquered, that little busybody. Cupid, winging an entirely unlooked-for shaft straight at his heart at his first meeting with the girl. She was, as Mrs. Morrison had predicted, a beauty indeed, with her soulful deep-blue eyes, long, dark lashes, finely penciled dark brows, roseleaf complexion, and hair—of that rare golden shade rarely seen beyond early childhood—coiled on the top of her shapely little head and falling, in soft, feathery rings, on her white forehead. She was as charming in mind and manner as she was in person, and the young man's subjugation was complete. Hugh had made many visits, to the little schoolhouse, and had ridden over one afternoon from his sister's place to plead his cause once more. The little frame schoolhouse stood by the roadside, at the foot of a thinly wooded hillside. From the doorway a charming view was had over a broad, farm-dotted valley, bordered with a fringe of trees and vivified by a winding river. School was out, and the children had gone their several ways. The day had been very sultry, with sudden dashes of rain and frequent gusts of wind, and Lena—looking a picture in her simple blue muslin gown—said, as she began to put the things in order on hen desk: "You should not have come out in this heat, Mr. Ramsey, and you must go back before it storms." "Never mind about the storm, Leena," he said, earnestly, leaning over the desk, trying to capture one of the busy little hands. "Listen to me. I must go away very soon, and I cannot bear to go until you have promised to be my wife. Can't you care for me a little, when I love you so much? Your school closes to-morrow, and I cannot endure the thought of your taking another and drudging so. If you will marry me you need not worry about your parents. I will be glad to make them comfortable. Jerry told me the other day that he was thinking of marrying Mary Jones, and that she was willing to come home with him and care for the old people. Your mother would approve, if she could speak, and your father has already given his consent, Do say yes, my darling, and let me take you right away. I know that I can make you happy, and Zadah will welcome you with open arms." "I am afraid, Mr. Ramsey, that you do not fully understand your sister's wishes. I know that she hopes to see you marry your cousin, Miss Powers, and unite your two fortunes. She told me so last summer, and do you think anything would make me go against the wishes of one who has been so good to me? Your cousin is beautiful, accomplished, a woman of the world, able to take her place beside you in society. I am only a poor girl with no knowledge of the great world, and just enough education to realize my short-comings. I know that Mrs. Morrison is fond of me, but she is not fond enough to welcome me as a sister. Go home, dear friend; marry your cousin and forget your fancy—it can be no more—for me. Say good-by now, and do not come again." "If you really do not care for me, Lena, I would be a brute to urge you further; but I shall not marry my cousin. We do not care for each other in that way, and you are all wrong about Zadah's objecting to you. I did not tell you what she said in her last letter. I wanted—great Heavens! What is that?" It had grown very dark, and a terrible roaring sound burst upon their startled ears. Running to the door, they beheld a fearful sight. Coming swiftly, up the valley, a huge, funnel-shaped, black cloud, rising and falling, was mowing a wide path, leaving death and destruction in its wake. The air was thick with flying objects; parts of buildings and their contents; fence boards, farming implements, even large animals, all tumbling over and over, torn to shreds, now and then cast off to one side or the other. Only a moment did they stand gazing helplessly at the monster; then it passed, brushing, with its outer edge, the little building, lifting it up and tossing it aside like a feather. Hugh lay seemingly dead. Lena, uninjured, bent over him, covering his white face with kisses, crying: "My dearest, my dearest! He is dead, and will never know how I worship him! Why did not I die, too?" "Because, my darling," said Hugh, opening his eyes suddenly, and putting his arms around her, "you are going to live for me!" Better Not. "Do you live happily with your husband?" "Of course! I'd like to see him try to live unhappily with me."—Das Kliene Witzhlatt. The Biggest City. London is 12 miles broad one way and 17 the other, and every year sees about 20 miles of new streets added to it. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. GIRLS CLIMB STEEPLE. College Mediens Undertake a Perilous Task to Tear Down the Emblem of a Rival Class. From Geneva, N. Y., a correspondent writes that ever since last fall the senior class at the high school had been annoyed and humiliated by the junior class sign "A," which was hung in large figures between the two high towers on the top of the building. The location of the sign was inaccessible, or the seniors would have had it down long ago. The junior society had placed it there with the aid of professional steeple climbers. The other night the girls of the senior HANGING TO THE SHINGLES class held a secret meeting, at which they declared indignantly that the eyesore of the junior class sign was no longer to be endured, and that if the boys of the senior class were afraid to go up and haul down the thing the girls would show them that it could be done. Miss Ida Hancock and Miss Clara Wells volunteered to make the first attempt. They donned their gymnasium suits, kissed their chums goodby, and started up. The others kept watch below. The girls entered the building by a window, climbed to the tower loft, and emerged upon the roof. Hanging on to shingles by their toes and shutting their eyes to their perilous positions, the two girls managed to get within reach of the wires from which the emblem was suspended. They gave the word and simultaneously snipped the wires with a pair of pruning shears, letting the obnoxious sign drop to the ground at the feet of their companions, who set up a mighty cheer. The girls who did the climbing eventually reached the ground with torn clothes and bruised bodies, but exultant and happy. Then they had a class parade and serenaded the president of the junior class. HER FORETHOUGHT. The Way a Bright Mald Wished to Make Sure of an Income After They Had Wedded. The New York Sun calls her a fair young thing, no matter whether she lives in Brooklyn or Kalamazoo, and she knows a young man who is all the world to her, albeit the world might not hold her choice in such esteem as she herself holds it. When a fair young thing is in that condition it matters little to her where she lives. The only shadow on her sweet young life is cast by her respected father, who is, or was, not favorably inclined to the object of her cochise. Just what he thinks now is not yet definitely ascertained. The fair young thing had an interview with her father the other evening. "So," he said, severely, "you have accepted that young smug, have you?" "To all intents and purposes, papa," she admitted, freely. "You ought to know better than that," he grumbled. "Don't you know INTERVIEWING RER PAPA. he is a very improper young man—that he plays cards for money and bets on horse races?" "And he has only $12 a week salary?" "I know it, papa." "And how do you suppose he is ever going to support you on that sum?" "He isn't, papa." "Well, he isn't looking to me to support him, is he?" She smiled softly. "No," she hesitated; "not exactly, papa, but he says if you'll only keep on playing poker with him three nights in the week, there won't by any trouble about our getting along beautifully." The Weight of a Bee. Careful weighing shows that an ordinary bee, not loaded, weighs the five thousandth part of a pound, so that it takes 5,000 bees to make a pound. But the loaded bee, when he comes in fresh from the fields and flowers, freighted with honey or bee bread, weighs nearly three times more. Why They Quit. Mr. Billus—I am glad to see, Matilda, that you and your woman friends have quit taking flowers, novels and fruit to that wife-murderer in the jail! It was about time you got over being such sentimental idiots. Mrs. Billus—Yes, and besides, it is now generally believed that the man is nothing but an impostor, and didn't kill her, after all—N. Y. World. SNAILS OVERRUN A CITY. Inhabitants of Indiana Town Organize Night Hunt and Kill the Pests with Salt. A plague of snails, or slugs, as the afflicted people call them, lately struck Jeffersonville, Ind., in full force, and instances are cited where persons have been compelled to move. Their first appearance was after the flood of February, 1884, but they have never been so bad as at present. The pests are not exactly like a snail, but resemble them in some respects. They have no shells and are night raiders, says the New York World. At no place in the city where the flood water failed to reach has one of the slugs been seen, but in the most fashionable quarters the pests are numerous. In size they range from one to six inches in length, being from a quarter to an inch in diameter. It is not until ten o'clock at night that the snails come out of their hiding places, under houses, and slug hunting parties have become fashionable. Armed with a lamp and a cup of salt, the people hunt for the pest, and when a slug is found its days are numbered, for the smallest particle of salt means death. The more salt the quicker the work. They leave behind a slimy track, that furnishes a clew to their movements. In some places fine carpets have been ruined, the slimy tall eating like acid. One of the most peculiar characteristics of the sluga is their ability to get their large bodies through a small space. They flatten out almost as thin as a knife blade, allowing them to crawl through a good-sized door crack. TWO POPULAR PASTIMES. Bicycle Riding and Golf Have Gained the Greatest Hold in America. The two forms of recreation which have taken the greatest hold upon the American public are bicycle riding and golf. Why these pastimes have attained so great a popularity in this country is not difficult to understand; and an analysis of the elements of their great success involves an enumeration of those elements which must be found in every sport which approaches the ideal, says the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. Wheeling and golfing are equally adapted to the pleasure of both men and women, and naturally bring them together for their outings. This insures the wheel and the golf club a place in thousands of homes from which they would otherwise be excluded, for many husbands will not allow themselves regular indulgence in a recreation which may not be shared by their wives, and when to the intrinsic interest of any recreation is added the zest of social intercourse between the two sexes its pleasures and attractions are multiplied. That pastime which calls its participants into places of scenic beauty, and at the same time furnishes them with the exhilaration of interesting exercise, possesses a sure and a potent charm. No recreation possesses this characteristic in a greater degree than does golf. DEMAND FOR BELGIAN HARES. Numerous Shipments Are Now Being Made to Eastern Cities from the West. Belgian hares are being shipped to the Chicago and New York markets in enormous numbers from the west. There are large numbers of rabbit farms in Nebraska, and Omaha commission men are beginning to reap a rich harvest from this traffic. A ready sale is found for the animals for shipment to all eastern cities, says a Chicago paper. The income from some of these rabbit farms, started by children, has been large. At Columbus a boy started with a pair of rabbits and in one year cleared $300 and had left more than 200 rabbits. They breed six times a year and begin to propagate at the age of four months. Many of these little animals have escaped in Nebraska and Kansas and have already occasioned alarm among farmers for fear that they will increase so rapidly that they will become a menace to crops. Belgian hares are offered for sale in all the markets around Omaha, and several of the big packers are arranging to pack the animals for foreign shipment. The flesh does not resemble that of the wild rabbit, but is very white and sweet. CRAB FROM INDIAN OCEAN. An enormous phosphorecent crab, the like of which has never heretofore been found, was recently captured in the Indian ocean and is now in the aquarium of the Zoological society of Calcutta, says the New York Herald. This huge crustacean, which was caught a mile away from shore, is 62 centimetres in diameter and its claws are more than a yard long. Its voracity is incredible, and its great eyes protrude in such a manner as to give it a peculiarly ferocious appearance. After it was caught it was placed in a large vessel, which was filled with sea water and which also contained about 50 crustaceans and other fishes. Two hours later the crab had devoured all these, and when evening arrived the zoologists, who were watching the strange creature, saw to their surprise that it emitted curious phosphorescent rays of a milky whiteness, which illumined the entire vessel. This inexplicable phenomenon is repeated every evening, and naturalists have traveled from many parts to witness it. Envy. "I found a four-leaf clover yesterday while out walking with a young woman," said the breezy young person. "Do you consider that a sign of luck?" "Emphatically," answered the man who had his coat off and was tolling. "If being able to wander around hunting four-leaf clovers with a pretty girl isn't luck, I don't know what is."—Washington Star. Oak shutters in Nice Times. "I reckon there are more police-men in New York to squelch any old riot that you might have," said a western man who, according to the New York Sun, had been studying Broadway, "for I don't see any old-time shutters on the windows of the stores. In my town, as well as many others in the west, during the civil war, where we had no police, the old-fashioned shutters were all the protection the business men had against jayhawkers and bushwhackers. The shutters were made of oak and were screwed in front of the windows at night and taken down in the morning. When the jayhawkers and bushwhackers came yelling down the street, our merchants rushed out and put up the shutters, if they had time. The enemy knew better than to try to batter the shutters or shoot through them, for they couldn't do it. When the merchants put up the shutters in such an attack, they locked the door and fled to the cellars and stayed there until the disturbance was over. Cellars were as safe from jayhawkers and bushwhackers as they are from cyclones. Cellars and oak shutters are great protection. But I haven't seen any oak shutters in New York." Letters in London. The traveler is interested in getting his letters promptly. At his London hotel there are 15 deliveries a day. He may drop a card in a post box at eight in the morning, get an answer at noon and mail a reply which will get to his friend before evening. Within the last three years, says the Forum, whenever the post office bill has come up in the house of representatives, there has been discussion as to the practicability of the pneumatic dispatch. One might as well discuss the practicability of the telephone. They would smile at such suggestions in London or Paris, where a slight addition to the postage will secure a rapid delivery by pneumatic dispatch. Another great convenience in the postal system abroad is the method of paying money orders. One is not obliged to go half a mile to a branch, or three miles to the central post office, to get his money. The postman who brings the order brings the money with him. You receipt for it, and that is the end of it. Alarm Among the Puny Japa. The Japanese are getting anxious about their physique, which is deteriorating so much that the land of flowers may in course of time become a land of babies. The military authorities have discovered that their men cannot use the ordinary rifle because it is too long for them and have been compelled in consequence to arm them with special short firearms. Recent investigations have shown that the students are among the worst developed specimens of humanity on the face of the earth, the finished product of the Japanese university generally presenting the appearance of a puny, sickly, undeveloped youth.—Chicago Chronicle. . Trouble Over Wells in India. The question of wells in India is complicated by the coexistence in each community of two castes—the purer Hindoo and Gonds on the one hand, the weavers on the other, says Cornhill. No weaver may draw from the well of the Hindoo lest it be defiled; nor will the Hindoo drink from the hands or the well of a weaver. Thus it becomes necessary either to dig two wells or to depute a certain number of the Hindoo element to give water to their less exalted fellow-villagers. Handwriting Expert. "No," declared the defendant, "I couldn't have signed that note, because I can't write." "Not even your name?" asked the prosecuting attorney. "No. I just make my mark." "Well, let's see you do that on this piece of paper." The defendant took the pen and made a crude X. Then above it he wrote "his" and below it "mark."—Philadelphia Press. A Little Mixed. "There goes that Jerry Bilson. I wonder if he is going to school or going fishing?" "Take a peep in his basket. If he has jam spread over his geography, he is going to school; if he has a painted cork projecting from a rhubarb pie, he is going fishing."—Chicago Evening News. Compantions in Minery. A Parisian Bohemian out of luck, says to another of the same class: "Where do you dine to-day?" "Nowhere." "What are you going to dine on?" "Nothing." "Then let us go and not dine together!"—Youth's Companion. Yachting Note for 1900 Miss Mental Pabulum, of Boston, who is an enthusiastic yachtswoman, has given orders that during the ensuing yachting season, the crew of her yacht, the Trignometry, should refer to "a spanking breeze" as "a maternal zephyr."—The Smart Set. Entombed for Twelve Days. Four miners were entombed for 12 days in the Matsuyasu colliery in Japan lately. They did without food all the time and for most of the time without light, and were none the worse when dug out.—N. Y. Journal. Part of the Programme. Dix—I never tell my wife anything. Hix—I tell mine everything. "Never tell her lies, do you?" "Well, you heard what I said."—Chicago Evening News. The Early Arrival. And still Mr. Staye remained in the parlor. "Edith!" called a gruff voice from upstairs, "tell Mr. Staye if he meets the milkman as he goes out to order two quarts for me." This had the desired effect.—Chicago Daily News. Knew Something About It. "You have this word wrong," said the man who had been dictating. "I said 'marital,' and you have written it 'martial.'" "Oh, I guess that's all right," answered the stenographer, with conviction. "I've been married myself."—Chicago Post. WHISTLING SAVED HIM. Strange Story of Howa Musical Connecticut Farmer Escaped Being Stung to Death. From Danbury, Conn., comes this strange story: Henry Fitch is a young and prosperous farmer, and his home is at Mountain End. To his more intimate friends young Fitch is known as "Whistler"; a nickname he has earned by his unusual gift of whistling. When he was a mere lard he acquired an ability to warble in imitation of the birds. To the people of the countryside the whistling was marvelous, and staid old farmers stopped their horses as they passed the Fitch farm just to listen for HEARD A LOUD BUZZING. the music of the boy's whistle. Beethoven, Mendelssohn or Brahms are unknown to young Fitch, but the simple melodies and popular songs loved by the country people roll from his lips in rippling melody, and no corn husking bee, donation party or barn dance is complete unless he is there to entertain. But his whistling found a new use one day recently and was the means of saving him and a pair of oxen he was driving from probable death from the stings of a swarm of thousands of bees. He heard a loud buzzing overhead and was almost instantly covered with bees, which, attracted by his whistling, settled on man and oxen. With great presence of mind he seized the tails of the oxen to prevent them switching and angering the bees. He continued whistling as shrilly as possible to keep the bees pacified and started the oxen slowly home. His mother heard the sound of her son's whistle, and, shading her eyes with her hand, looked down the road. Fitch and the oxen appeared as if they were covered with soft brown fur. Knowing that her son was in imminent danger of being stung to death, she ran into the house and quickly emerged with a large tin pan. Then, opening the sliding door of an empty hive in the farmyard, she began to beat the pan lustily. In a minute the bees rose in a cloud, and, after hovering in the air a moment, lit about the hive, which had been sweetened with sugar and water for the reception of another swarm the day before. Gradually the bees disappeared within the hive, and after the last one had entered the sliding door was shut. Young Fitch was nearly prostrated by his terrible experience. SHE NEEDED A MIRROR. But in the Absence of That Useful Accessory She Was Not a Bit Dismayed. She wore a sailor hat and a blue skirt and a red and white shirt waist, with the stripes running horizontally, which made her look like a stick of candy from the belt upward. With her girl friend she drifted down Washington street, says the Chicago Chronicle, and paused uncertainly in front of a cigar store. The two young men in the office window opposite watched and wondered what she would do next. She started toward CIGARS DEFTLY ADJUSTED HER TIE. the cigar store once and then hesitated and stood. She wants to buy cigarettes and she hasn't got the nerve, guessed one of the observers. "No, I'll bet she's got a fellow that clerks in there and she wants to go in, but the mob around the cigar case just jolts her off," said the other. While they were wondering and betting, the young lady herself settled the dispute. She walked directly up to the window, which was filled to the top with open boxes of cigars, and while apparently studying the labels on the boxes she deftly adjusted her tie, the glass giving back a good reflection of her figure and noting as a temporary mirror. She patted the scarf and straightened it, and when she was done rejoined her friend and strolled on. The two young men were silent a moment. Then one of them looked at the other and said: "Wouldn't that jar you?" A Bustling Southern Town Ensley, Ala., 18 months ago had 500 people. Now there are 5,000. They were brought there by the establishment of a new steel mill, rod mill and other industries. Stickler for Proprietry Slickler for Propriety. Tess - She is the most precise and circumspect girl I ever met. Jess - In what way, for instance? Tess - She had been lounging about in a loose wrapper to-day, when she suddenly remembered that she must write to her fiance. So she went and got dressed, up before she did at Philadelphia Press. A Bloody Feud Now Raging in the Osage Nation Over the Question of Chiefship. A civil war is raging in the Osage Indian nation, south of Wichita, Kan. It is caused, says a local exchange, by the fact that Peter Bigheart, and Eagle Chief, two rich and influential Indians, want to be chief of the tribe. As only one can be elected, the feud that has been started threatens to outdo the Kentucky struggle so far as bloodshed goes. Already 20 Indiana have been assassinated on account of the bitterness between these two factions, and the fight has just commenced. The fight commenced four years ago. Eagle Chief and Bigheart were then candidates for chief, and Bigheart won. Eagle Chief accused his rival of fraud, and in the contest that followed four or five Indians were killed. The defeated candidate represents the progressive element, and the present chief is in favor of running all the white men out of the country and going back to the first days of savagery. Notwithstanding his backward ways, he is the richest man in the tribe, and is said to be worth over $3,000,000. He has made it all since he has been chief. By securing the passage of bills favorable to his oil wells and the extensive mines he owns, he has amassed a big fortune from his office. These facts are being made good use of in the campaign against him, and they are telling on the influence of the big chieftain. On the other hand, Eagle Chief is accused of trying to play into the hands of the whites by favoring allotment. Many campaign stories have been spread, in which there is not a grain of truth, and this has only served to add fuel to the flames. Each man has a large following. SAN JUAN AND EL CANEY. The Battlefields Are Overgrown with Weeds and the Blockhouses Going Into Decay. "I thought you would probably like to hear about the old battle grounds—how they look now," writes a correspondent of the Boston Transcript. "I went to Caney and went over the whole field of July 1. You would scarcely recognize the places. The wire fence where Col. Haskell and Dickinson were shot has been repaired, and it is difficult to locate the spot. The bodies buried in the pineapple field—some 40 or more—have all been removed and the trench filled up. Parts of leggings, shoes, and other clothing of the dead can be seen lying about. The old stone fort is full of weeds and is crumbling down. The roof is entirely gone. The Spanish trenches near it are almost filled up. Down nearer the city the Spanish positions are difficult to determine. All of the wood blockhouses have either been burned or carried away by the Cubans for the lumber. The sunken road is the only natural-looking place. There is a company of the Fifth infantry doing garrison duty at Caney. Their quarters are clean and cool, and it is considered a good station. The town is very free from filth. The streets are being repaired, waterworks being put in, a new plaza under construction, etc. "San Juan hill is overgrown with rank vegetation. A Cuban peasant has a hut where once stood the famous blockhouse. Vandals have injured the Surrender tree some, but a strong double-barbed wire fence protects it, together with a penalty of punishment for any violation." RECOVERED HER TEETH. Chase of a Philadelphia Woman After a Pug That Had Taken Her Molars. Philadelphians on Diamond street were very much interested the other day in watching the chase of a young woman stylishly dressed after a pug dog, reports an exchange of that city. The wind was high and during a gust that came around a corner the young woman an sneezed, gently at first, and then with some degree of violence. A cry of alarm escaped her lips as something resembling a string of pearls fell from her mouth to the pavement. For an instant the object glittered on the sidewalk, when the frisky dog bounded to the spot, picked up the glistening thing and bounded off again. Blushing, the girl, in her perplexity, cast a wistful glance at the dog in the distance. Quickly she placed her trembling hand over her mouth and kept it there, while she started in pursuit of the dog. The chase was exiting-Pedestrians paused to watch. After many turns, rushes, dodges and halts the pretty malden caught the dog at Tenth street. The animal fell prostrate at her commands. "Drop it, Fido; drop it!" she cried. The dog obeyed, opened its mouth and dropped upon the pavement with great reluctance the proud malden's set of false teeth. Lumbermen's Libraries Among the sawmill towns and logging camps of northern Wisconsin 28 small libraries are circulating under the care of Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop, of Ashland. Often this is almost the only good literature, that reaches these places, where most of the people are too poor to buy books. Many more libraries could be used to advantage; also illustrated newspapers and back numbers of magazines. A Hound's Long Trip. A hound was bought in Missouri and shipped in a closed express car to a ranch in Kansas. In a day or two it was missing. Investigation proved that it had gone back to its Missouri home, over a distance of 500 miles, on a road entirely unknown to the dog. Soldiers and Clergymen Soldiers and Clergymen. Under favorable conditions of peace, the mortality among soldiers is practically the least known, with a death rate of only five in every 1,000. Compared with a soldier's life the plight days even of a clergyman are full of danger, for his death rate is 11 in 1,000, or more than twice as great as that of his militant brother.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. THE PLANET SATURDAY JULY. 14 1 THE DREAMER AND THE DRE. M. A dreamer, spurred by thought, yet not asleep. Scanned unspanned future space with eagle sweep, Pierced murk and mist with vision clear and keen. Saw what the uninspired eye hath not seen, And concentrating millions of sunbeams Into a white light rich with glory-gleams Saw visions wove of Heaven-illuminated dreams. He saw the day when needless strife shall cease And man love man in realms of perfect treason. When none hurl hate nor hurt a fellow-man, But all on earth live on the lovelit plan Of doing all a kindly mortal could To curb all evil and promote all good- Avoiding sham and shame as all men should. All castes and class distinctions dead and dead The millionaire and mendicant as one, Employer and employed a kindly whole Swayed not by selfishness but heart and soul; No churl to covet what might poor ones need. But swift to minister and serve at need, And crush to earth false pride or groveling greed. Then far from warm heart of a happy home No anxious toller seeking work shall roam. But honest toll shall there find nor honestly Nor lengthen needlessly its dole nor day; No moneycrat will flaunt his unearned wealth— By devious ways acquired or stony stealth— By coining human blood, lost hopes or health. No more shall base assassins haunt the dark, No more incendiarism speed its spark. Nor more care less a hundred thousand-dold For human sorrow than for sordid gold; But all men hopeful, honest, truly wise, Shall read of present lilies with pained surprise. As equals worsniping *neath happy skies* I. EDGAR JONES. Ruined by Good Luck PREMATURELY-OLD, broken down telegrapher was in town lately, visiting around among such of his fellow craftsmen as knew him in his better days and soliciting assistance from them to carry him on his way to Pittsburgh, where he said he had a chance to go to work. The men who knew him chipped in to make up a bit of a purse for him, but they only smiled covertly at each other when he mentioned going to work. "He's been a bum too long now ever to go to work again, even if he could get work, which he couldn't," said one of the key punchers who contributed to giving the old-timer a little push along. "There's a man that a horse put on the bum—not the horses, understand, but a horse—just one single, solitary old cripple of a horse, of thoroughbred blood, instinct and gameness, but an old cripple of a horse, for all that. The horse's name was Dr. Rice. If there had never been a thoroughbred horse by the name of Dr. Rice, that broken-down wreck of a telegraph operator would probably be punching a key and making a good living to day, with his wife and children around him, instead of wandering around the country and involuntarily posing as a horrible example. I used to work with him in the big New York office, and my plant was right alongside of him. He came down to the office one winter night—we were "BETTER PUT ON A "SICK SLIP, PAL"" on the night shift—with a preoccupied look in his eye. I noticed it, and I asked him what was up. "Say, he asked me, 'what horse d'ye suppose is going to win the Suburban handicap next year?" "Notwithstanding the fact that I thought he was either crazy or drunk, or both, I couldn't help but laugh in his face. Here the snow was about a foot deep on the ground, and the temperature hovering around the zero mark, and this key puncher who worked alongside of me was asking me what horse I thought would win a big race that wasn't due until the middle of the coming summer. "After I got through laughing I looked him over carefully and I said to him: "Better put in a "slick" slip, pal, and take a night off. You're seedy from overwork or something, and the rest'll bring you around all right." "He only puckered his 'lips up and smiled at me grimly." "I'm all right," he said. 'That's a straight question I asked you: What horse do you think'll collar next year's Suburban? For if you don't know I want to put you next now, so's you'll have a chance to play him now in the winter books on the Suburban and get rich suddenly, like I'm going to do." "Oh, give us a rest," I said to him. What do you know about horses, anyhow? "Not much," he admitted, 'but I do know this much, and that is that old Dr. Rice will capture next year's Suburban in a walk." "Then I laughed again. I knew a few about the horses myself, having been pretty badly bitten at the game at sundry and divers times for several years before that, and I remembered a good deal about old Dr. Rice. "It's plain that you've got something in your head that doesn't belong there," I said to him. 'Dr. Rice win the Suburban, bey? Say, don't you know that Dr. Rice is a three-legged cripple and that he broke down so badly last fall that there's not one chance in a thousand of his ever starting at all again, much less starting in the great Suburban, even if his name does appear among the entries and the winter bookmakers are laying a price against him?" "That's all right about this not starting," said my deskmate. "He'll start and he'll win. Better take my hint and play him for all you're worth in the winter books, and when he rompa in you won't have to do any more key hammering for a livelihood. He's at 60 to 1 in the betting now, but he won't be anything like that when he goes to the post." "Then he went ahead and told me, in the most serious manner in the world, how the trainer of old Dr. Rice was a relative of his wife," and how this trainer, on a recent visit at his flat, had convinced him that there would be only one horse in the Suburban, and that one Dr. Rice. He said the trainer had told him that the old horse's bad leg was being carefully patched up, and that by the time the day arrived for the race he would be able to make the run of his life, even if he broke down and was never able to run again after winning the Suburban. "One night he told me that he was going to mortgage a little house he owned over in Bayonne, N. J., where he lived during the summer months, for $1,500, and put the whole bunch down in the winter books on Dr. Rice to win the Suburban at sixty to one, thereby 'standing to win $90,000,' as he put it to me. "You are, hey?" said I, and I got up, put in a two-hour time slip and rode right uptown to his flat to see his wife, whom I'd known for a good many years. She was at the flat with her mother, who was visiting her, when I got there, and I waded right in and told her what her husband had told me about mortgaging that bit of New Jersey property. "Don't you ever put your name to anything like that," I warned her. "Take an old friend's advice, and don't you do it. You'll be sorry if you do. To play a horse with velvet money on the very day of the race is bad enough and dangerous enough; but for a man to mortgage the only little piece of property he owns for the sake of putting all the proceeds on a horse race that isn't going to be run for seven months is sheer imbecility, and I wish you'd promise me that you won't let your husband do anything like that." "Say, do you know she just laughed at me? She had the Dr. Rice microbes just as bad as her husband did—probably because it was her horse-racing relative who told them about it—and she said that she thoroughly approved of what her husband intended doing—that it was the chance of their lives to get rich, etc., etc. I went away thoroughly disgusted. "Two nights later, when my deskmate got down to the office, he leaned over and sald: "Well, I've been and gone and done it. Got $1,500 on the little tepee over in Jersey, and every stiver of it's down with the winter bookies at sixty to one against. Ninety thousand'll be a neat little bunch to pull down, won't it? "You're an ass," was all I was able to say to him, for my disgust was great. "Well, you remember what happened, don't you? The word was passed around in the late spring, that old Dr. Rice had been pretty well patched up, and that he had shown some great trials for a cripple. The odds against him were cut to thirty to one. A week before the race the odds were again cut to fifteen to one, and when old Dr. Rice went to the post he looked so perky and he seemed to possess so much of his old, magnificent speed that there was a heavy post-time play on him, and his price at the close was about six to one. The old cripple got away flying. He was well up in the bunch when his troublesome leg went back on him and he faltered, but with an exhibition of gameness such as was never seen on an American race course, before or since, the old vagabond took the bit in his teeth and mowed down the leaders and flashed first under the wire, literally on three legs! And he never raced again, at that. "You don't see how it ruins a man to hand him $80,000, you say? Well, you say that because you don't know about this case. My deskmate collected all of his money the next day, resigned his job and he's never been worth a hurrah in Hohosus from that day to this. He was flat broke and a rum wreck in less than two years afterward. His wife had left him, taking their children along with her. When he came out of a hospital, broke, and got a job, he only held it for a week, when he was fired and on his uppers again, and he was blacklisted, and he been that way ever since, just living on the good nature of such of his friends who knew him before a crippled race horse jugged him first into opulence and then into the ditch." —Washington Star. Pope's Sharp Reply to Cardinal. It is recorded that Pope Gregory XVI offered his snuffbox to a cardinal, who declined it, saying: "No, your holiness, I have not that vice," to which the pope replied in a thoroughly human way: "If it had been a vice you would have had it."—Chicago Chronicle. But They Don't. If people nursed their virtues as tenderly as their whims the millennium would soon arrive—Chicago Democrat. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA. The Reign of Lawlessness Cried both: "Tis home! Then home I would go. — A. H. Allen in Primary Education Ferns in the City. Where traffic pours along the pave With such unclolstered din. How strange to see your frondage wave, A close-walled plot within! You, of that wilding sisterhood, Whose feet are wont to stray Down the dim alleways of the wood, Far from the garish day. How you must miss the homelike hush Again and yet again— The twilight vespers of the thrush, The matins of the wren! How you must yearn above to peer And see a leafy sky! How you must lean and long to hear A forest wind steal by! How you must sorrow not to thrill At every old refrain— The gurgling rapture of the rill, The hill-song of the rain! Your heart, an exile, ranges far Down wood-ways drenched with dew; An puff of dust! Am such an exile, too! -Clinton Scholl, in Youth's Companion. Ups and Downs. Here's to the feller that's down on his luck, The luck that's doin' his best An' strivin' an' waitin' an' keepin' his pluck, An' puttn' his wits to the test. The person who basks in prosperity's glow Has handshakes and cheers without end. But the feller that's down on his luck— well, you know. He's the chap that's in need of a friend. Our fortunes are subject to change, day by day— At least so philosophers vow; An' judgin' a man doesn't really pay By his fame or prosperity now. So, if you are wise, you will make it a plan. Your courtesy never to drop; Fur the feller that's down on his luck Is the man Who is due to be some day on top. -Washington Star. An Old-Fashioned Recipe. Take: Just one part of thought for self. Two parts of thought for friend; An equal part of common sense With broadest culture blend. One part of rare propriety Mix with a gracious share Of living above gossip's tongue, And free from sordid care. Next, with a share of piety Mix well a cheerful heart, Of love of beauty and good taste, And labor-each a part. With a pure conscience stir these things, Blending them well together; Warm them with love and they will rise, In any kind of weather. If you but try it fairly, now. You'll find this auspicious plan Will make a free and joyful soul— A perfect, all-round man! -E. A. Matthews, in Churchman. Sunset. Behind the bastions of the darkened hills Slinks down, in shining rifts, the glow- sure pearl. Within whose reddened shrine our fancies run, And wake in saga-songs and passion thrills. Low in the brakes, the softness which insilite. Dewy silence: a breeze that rocks the woodland bowers. To dewy rest; and quivers of perfumes Break on the air till heart and memory fills! But lo' a gazing on the wondrous scenes Of shifting change, from gold to purple rare. The stately night, inexorable, fair, With gloomier grandeur hushes "might-have-beens"; And like Death, slays life, to wake up in being. A Presence that has Life beyond our seeing! -William J. Gallagher, in Chambers' Journal. The Might-Have-Been. We tied our barques, in the misty past, Together and sailed away To the tide of happy day. And we tarried there till the sea god lured us over the sea to him. And we sailed through shoals till our barques were moored In the Sea of the Social Swim. We tossed and fretted, and, ne'er content, Again our sailors were set. And we skimmed along through the fog, and went A ground in the Straits of Debt. On the shore of the Land Regret we stand As the stately ships go by, But no one answers the beckoning hand, and Valin is our helpless cry. In the light of the sun that is setting fast On the wreck of our social sin. As a dream we see, through the misty past, The Land of the Might-Have-Been. -Tom Masson, in the Smart World. The Bright Country. The country's just as smiling from the mountains to the sea. As the Lord, whose love is over it, would ever have it be! The gardens rich with roses, and the meadows and the plains And all the greening pastures just a-tinkle with the rains! It's great to be just living in a world so near the blue. You can feel the benediction of the rainbows over you! The country—she's just glorious by any night or day. And Love o'er life's victorious, and we're singing on the way! -W. G. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. Practical Economy. Young Wife—Paul, we must live very economically now. Telephone for a cab; I'm going out to order some sausage for supper.—Meggendorfer Blatter. Words and Thoughts Some men can't find words for their thoughts, and some women can't find thoughts for their words.—Chicago Daily News. ug 11. B. Wilson, " Put hand on white woman, Jaspet W. Chambers, " Attempted Assault, Port Gib son W. McClure, " Criminal Assault, Bell Buck " Attempted Assault 18. Charle art, " ran y Tenn. 20. Peter Lon and 18 year old Son, white, Shooting a man, Wetumpka, Ala Aug 16. Charlie Hart, colored criminal assault Brantley, Ala. Aug 18. Com K.ih, colored enteled lady's room drunk, Near Greenville, S.C. Aug 20. Rev. P. J. Floyd, colored wanted to work, Carteraville, Ill. Jim Prentiss, Hughes Bradley, Henry Branum, Jim Hayes, John Black, Sim Cremmings. Aug 28. " white smoke against lynching, Georgetown, Ga. Sept. 12. Rev. H. B. Battle, spoke against lynching, Near Thompson, Ga. Sept. 27. Senor Sanchez, Ouban, nothing Havana, Ouba. October 11. Judge Barit La Place white, Assaniting Near New Orleans 18. Joe Lefteri Colored Arson and Assault, burned. St. Ann Miss 18. Robert Smith Col. Innocent, Partly Roasted not dead 20. George Wells, Colored, Murder. Wier City Kan A man is hanging from a tree by a rope. Another man is standing below him, looking up at the tree. The background is a blurred landscape with mountains and trees. C. & O. Chesapeake a.o. Ohio Railwa. 10:30 a.m. *Daily for Lyschburg, Lexington, and Clifton Forge*. Connexe's except Sunday. *Sunday, Clifton am and Clifton branches and for New Castle daily*. 6:00 p.m. *except Saturday and Sunday*. G. and stone *except modation*. On Saturday, will leave P. M. **TRAINS ARRIVE BROAD STREET STATION.** 8:30 a.m. *except Sunday, from Gordonsville*. 6:30 a.m. *and 5:30 p.a., daily, from Clinic-** *and Clinic-* branches. 11.45 a.m. *m, 6:50 p.m. except Sunday and 10:15** *p.m., from Norfolk and O.D point.* 14.5 P.m. *except Sasack from Hinton*. 18.15 a.m. *except Sunday, from Clifton Forge*. **TRAINS ARRIVE EIGHTH STREET STATION.** Day from New Castle, and Rosney. For detailed information, connection, e.o. to the main office, e.g. Main Street, Ohio Passenger Office No. 989 east Main st ect; Station Ticket Office No. 989 west Main st. JOHN D POTTIS, Aas't. General Passenger Agent. Southern Railway Southern Railway IN EFFECT APRIL 2ND, 1900 Trains Leaves Richmond, Va. 11.00 p. no 11 SOUTHERN EXPRESS daily. At Atlanta Augusta Jacksonville, and points South Sleeper for Danville. Greenbore, Salisbury and Charlotte. Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Steps for passengers at local stations. Connects at Danville and Charlotte, with connections at Tampa, with connections at Danville. (No $7) carrying through sleepers be tween New York and Tampa, with connections at Danville, Charlotte with the Washington and Southwestern Limited (No $7) carrying through sleepers be tween New York and Memphis and New York and New Orleans, also. Pullman Tourist and Travel days, Washington to San Francisco without change, with connections for all points in Texas, Mexico and California. 15:00 P M No. 7, solid train daily or Char lotte, N.C. Connects at Moseley with New York and New Haven and Keysville for Clarksville, Oxford, Hen- derson and Durham and at Greensboro for Durham, Raleigh, and Winston Salem. Salem Post Mail, solid train, daily for New Orleans and point to South, whale carries sleepers New York to New Or- land and Miami for Nassau and Hapens, Cuba Through main sleeper Sanbury, to Memphis via of Asheville and Chatt- anooga. 6:00 P M. LOCAL, daily except Sunday for Keysville and intermediate points TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND. 6:00 A. M. 6:25 P. M. from Atlanta Augusta, Asheville and all points South. 8:40 P. M. from Keysville and local stations. LOCAL FRIENDS TRAINS. Nos. 61 and 68, in Manchester and Ne- spolina, Va. YORK RIVER LINE, WEST POINT The Favorite Route North. BALKINES LIMITED, Daily, except Sunday, for West point, and intermediate stations making close connection Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with steamer for Balti- Train No. 16. 5:80 P. M. Train No. 16, 2:300 P. LOCAL EXPRESS, Mon, Tues & Fridays, for Wakefield & Baltimore stations, connect with stage at Lester manor to Walker and Tappahannock; also at West Point with steamers for Baltimore. Stops at all stations. Train No. 75, 6:00 A.M. LOCAL MIXED, leaves daily, except Sunday from Virginia Station for West Point and intermediate stations, connecting with stage at Lester manor for Walker and Tappahannock. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND 9:15 a.m. M. Daily, from West Point, with connection from Baltimore except Mondays. 10:45 a.m. M. Daily, except Sunday from West Point, with intermediate stations. Steamers leave West Point daily except Sundays 5:50 P. M. arriving Baltimore 8:00 a.m. M. returning leave Baltimore 6:50 p. M. except Sundays arriving Richmond 9:15 a.m. Steamers call at Gloucester Point and Almonds Wharf, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Gloucester Bank, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. C. W. WESTBRYU. Travelling Passenger Agent, 200 E. Kata St, Richmond, Va. J. M. GULF. traffic manager. W. A. Turk, traffic manager. con. Paz, Agt. FRANK S. GANNON. Third Vice-president and General Manager Washington, D.C. VIRGINIA NAVIGATION VIRGINIA NAVIGATION COMPANY'S JAMES-RIVER LINE To Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point, Newport News, Clarmont, and James River landings and connexing at Old Point and Norfolk to Washington, Baltimore and St. Louis. St. Louis WEDNESDAY, WED NESDAY AND FRIDAY AT 9 A. M. Mercantile-corner direct to wharf. Fare only $1.50 and $1.00 to Norfolk. Newport News. Music by a grand Orchestra. Freight received daily from above-names in the eastern Virginia and South Carolina. LEVIN WENGER Superintendent EDWARD K. MAY President Gail Olsen: Finsley Bank Building LD DOMINION STEAMSP HIGO LINE DINE FOR NEW YORK, EXCEPT SUNDAY Passage to Richmond, richmond day excels Sunday via Chessington, chessington 6 P. M., or Richmond and Peterburg rail- road. (Norfolk and West route) 9:00 A. M. Norfolk with Old Domini Line steamer sailin' same evening at 7 o'clock for New York Tickets on sale at Richmond Transfer Company, Street: Ghesapeake and Ohio railroad and Railway, and at company office, Railroad debots, and at company office, East Main Street, Richmond. Baggage checked through. FREIGHT. FOR New York and all points beyond can be packed as passengers, sailing from Richmond even on MONDAY. YES. FRI DAY at 5:00 P.M. This steam car carries steer age passengers only before sailing time. Freight received and forwarded, and through bills of lading issued for all northern, eastern and foreign ports. NEW YORK. Passengers can leave daily except Sun day at 11 P.M. (Sat-day 4 P.M.) to Nortok or Old Central comfort, connecting with Nortok and Western railroad or Cheesapeake and Ohio railway. kight for Richmond by steamer vla. Nor sight for the city and Wednesdays. 3:00 F. M. saturdays. 4 F. M W. L. Gullaunden, President New York S.A.L. SEABOARD AIR LINE. SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY 8, 1921 LEAVES BYRD-STREET STATION: 9:05 A M} Dail 9:00 P M} Dail for Menderson (arrive Durham daily, except Sunday), Raleigh, Sanders, Southern Pines Wilmington, Waynesboro, Monroe, Charleston, Shelby, Rutherfordton, Chester, Clinton, Bentonwood, Ibebville, Elberton-Athens ATLANTA, Augusta M. McMahonsy, New Orleans, Pensasola, Jackson Texas, Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis, Texas, Mexico, California and the west via Memphis or New Orleans. Trains leaving at 9:00 P M runs through solid in atlanta without change of cars. Sleeper ready for occupancy at 8:40 P M TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND 8:15 a.m. Daily, except Sunday (Sunday 2:00 a.m. a.m. 7:00 p.m. Daily. For tickets, baggage checks, sleeping or reservation, etc., apply to H. M. BOYKIN, General Agent, 838 East Main St S. ST. JOHN, Vice-President and gen'l manage T. R. MOGHER, General Superintendent, W. W. B. GLOVER, vice manager. General repair act New 'Phone 933. RF & P RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC. Schedule in Effect June 8, 1900. LEAVE BYRD ST. STATION. ARRIVE BYRD-STREET STATION. 8:0 A.M., Daily, Stops at Wide-water, Brooke, Fredericksburg, Milford, Doswell, Ashland, and Elba, Stops at other stations Sundays, Sleeper New York to Richmond 8:05 P.M., Daily, except Sunday, Stops at Doswell, Ashland, Glen Allen and Elba, Buffet Parlor car. 8:30 P.M., Daily, Stops only at Fredericksburg, Dowell, Ashland and Elba, Pullman cars from New York and Washington 8:40 P.M., Daily, Stops at Widewater, Brooke, Fredericksburg, mit, Guinea, Woodsland, Mi-ord, Penola, Ruther Glen, Doswell, Fremontville, Ashland, Glen Allen, and Elba, Buffet parlor car. ACCOMMODATION TRAINS. (Daily except Sunday 8:18 A.M. Leaves Elba for Quantico. 4:00 P.M. Leaves Byrd st. for Fredericks 6:00 P.M. Leaves Elba for Ashland. 4:00 A.M. Arrives Elba from Ashland. 2:06 A.M. Arrives West Station from Fredericksburg. 6:06 P.M. Leaves Elba from Ashland S. A. L. Through Trains. Over O. & O. and R. & F. P. Railroad Via Doswell. LEAVE BROAD STREET STATION. (O. & O.) 5:15 A.M., Dally, for Washington and points north. Stops at Doswell, Fredericksburg and Quantico. Pullman Sleeper to New York. 6:00 P.M., Dally, for Washington and points North. Stops at Doswell, Fredericksburg and Quantico. Pullman Sleeper to New York. ARRIVE BROAD STREET STATION. (O. & O.) 2:30 P.M., Dally, Stops at Fredericksburg and Doswell. Sleeper from New York. 10:30 P.M., Dally, Stops at Fredericksburg, and Doswell. Sleeper from New York. W. P. T. YLOR. Traffic Manager E. T. D. Myers, Frederick s. BIG PLANET SATURDAY JULY 14, 1900. BRYAN AND STEVENSON Named by the Democrats For President and Vice President. BRYAN'S NOMINATION UNANIMOUS Efforts to Stampede the Convention For Hill For Vice President Prevented by the Ex-Senator's Positive Declination. Kansas City, July 6.—For president, William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska. For vice president, Adalie A. Stevenson, of Illinois. This is the ticket named by the Democratic national convention. Bryan was nominated last night with a rush and a grand hurry; Stevenson was nominated this afternoon with an enthusiasm which gave evidence that his selection was in every way satisfactory to the head of the ticket—the master hand in the convention. The effort to stampede the convention for Hill, of New York, would have been successful had not Hill positively declined to accept a nomination. Webster Davis, who gave up his smug berth at Washington to espouse the Boer cause, was invited to address the M. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. convention, and he fairly electrified the audience with a brilliant speech, in which he told why he gave up the first assistant secretaryship of the interior, withdrew his allegiance from the Republican party and plunged headlong into the open arms of the Democracy. After Davis' speech came the nominating speeches for president. The first speech for Bryan was made by W. D. Oldham, deputy attorney general of Nebraska, which was followed by 27 minutes of wildest enthusiasm for Bryan. Chief among the second speeches was that of ex-Senator Hill, of New York, who touched a sympathetic chord in the hearts of the audience. Other seconding speeches were made by Governor Benton McMillin of Tennessee, Mr. Perkins of Texas, Senator Daniel of Virginia, Judge Thompson of Illinois, ex-Senator White of California, W. B. Moore of North Carolina, H. L. Fuqua of Louisiana, T. E. Barkworth and T. Gargon of Michigan, Mrs. Cohen of Utah, T. W. Maloney of Vermont, L. G. Bohrmich of Wisconsin, Charles Slater of the District of Columbia, Blair Lee of Maryland, ex-Governor Robert E. Pattison of Pennsylvania and John H. Wise of Hawaii. No other name than that of Bryan was presented, and as state after state recorded its vote the excitement increased in intensity until Chairman Richardson announced William J. Bryan the unanimous choice of the convention, and then there was another season of hilarity. The balloting for vice president began at 2:15 and was ended at 2:36. Before the balloting James Hamilton ADLAE. STEVENSON. Lewis, of Washington state, withdrew his name. The ballot resulted: Stevenson, $59\%$; Hill, 200; Towne, $89\%$; A. W. Patrick of Ohio, 46; Governor J. Walter Smith of Maryland, 16; Julian Carr of North Carolina, 23; Elliott Danforth of New York, 1; ex-Governor Hogg of Texas, 1. Ohio's full vote went to Patrick, Maryland's full vote to Smith and North Carolina's full vote to Carr, while Hill secured the full vote of New York, New Jersey, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Dakota and Hawaii, together with 13 of Massachusetts' 20 votes. Stevenson's nomination was made unanimous. The Democratic national committee met after the adjournment of the convention and re-elected Senator Jones, of Arkansas, as chairman. The silver Republican convention today unanimously nominated William J. Bryan for president, and then Charles A. Towne made a speech in which he said he believed it his duty to support the ticket nominated by the Democratic convention. The convention then delegated the vice presidential nomination to the national committee. The committee met tonight and declared Adalian E. Stevenson the nominee of the party for vice president. Mr. Towne will probably decline the Populist nomination for vice president, and an effort will be made to have the Popu- lists endorse Stevenson. It is said that Mr. Towne himself will urge this action. He promises to make a statement when he is formally notified. The first day of the convention was devoted mainly to patriotic speeches and demonstrations. From the time that National Chairman Jones introduced Governor Thomas, of Colorado, as temporary chairman, until the end of the second session, held in the evening, there was continued jubilation. Governor Thomas of Colorado was temporary chairman, Congressman Richardson of Tennessee permanent chairman and Senator Jones of Arkansas chairman of the resolutions committee. THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. Anti-Imperialism the Principal Issue of the Campaign. We, the representatives of the Democratic party of the United States, assume the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, do reaffirm our faith in that immortal proclamation of the inalienable right to self-government, constitution framed in harmony therewith by the fathers of the republic. We hold with the United States supreme authority the spirit of our government, of which the constitution is the form and letter. We declare again that all government is the spirit of our government, just powers from the consent of the governed; that any government not based upon the consent of the governed is a piece a government of force is to substitute the methods of imperialism for those of a republic. We hold that the constitution can exercise lawful authority that an executive or congress, deriving their existence and their power from the constitution, can exercise lawful authority that no nation can long endure half republic and half empire, and we warn the American people that imperialism is the adoption of despotism at home. Believing in these fundamental principles, we denounce the Porto Rico law, the protest and opposition of the Democratic minority, as a bold and open violence and flagrant breach of the national good faith. It imposes upon the people of Porto Rico a government without their consent. It dishonors the American people by repudiating a solemn pledge made to the commanding general of our army, who welcomed to a peaceful and unresisted occupation of their land. It doomed to a loss of freedom and lessness appeals with peculiar force to our justice and magnanimity. In this, the first act of its imperialistic program, the United States to a colonial policy, inconsistent with republican institutions condemned by the supreme court in numerous decisions. We demand the prompt and honest fulfilment of our pledge to the Cuban people, and we have no disposition nor intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control pacification. The war ended nearly two years ago, profound peace reigns over all its people, and since the administration keeps the government its people, while Republican carpet bag officials plunder its revenues and exploit its people, to the disgrace of the American people. Philippines Policy Denounced We condemn and denounce the Philippine policy of the present administration. It is a policy that has been a sarcary war, sacrificed the lives of many of our noblest sons and placed the United States throughout the world as the champion of freedom, in the false and unamerican policies of the United States, and efforts of our former allies to achieve liberty and self government. The Filipinos cannot be citizens without enduring the subjects without imperiling our form of government, and as we are not willing to accept the republic into an empire we favor an immediate declaration of the nation's policies. In the Philippines first a state form of government, and pendence, and third, protection from outside interference, such as has been given central and South America. The greedy commercialism which dictated the Philippine policy of the Republic's administrative administration it with the plea that it will pay, but even this sordid and unworthy plea fails when the Philippine government imposes criminal aggression against the Filipinos, entailing an annual expense of many million dollars, a possible profit that could accrue from the entire Philippine trade for years to come. Furthermore, when trade is extended at the expense of liberty the price is always high. We are not opposed to territorial expansion when it takes in desirable territories, and we are not opposed to the Union and whose people are willing and fit to become American citizens. We favor expansion by every peaceful and just means, and we are not opposed to seizing or purchasing distant islands to be governed outside the constitution and whose people can never be governed outside the constitution. We are in favor of extending the republic's influence among the nations, but we are not by force and violence, but through the pursuasive power of a high and honorable example. Because of other questions now pending before the American people is in nowse diminished, and the Democratic party takes no obvious step from its current position to step into the step of imperialism growing out of the Spanish war involves the very existence of our free institutions. We regard it as the paramount issue of the campaign. Republican Instructor. We oppose militarism. It means conquest abroad and intimidation and oppression of the arm which has ever been fatal to free institutions. It is what millions of our people will impose upon our peace loving people a large standing army and unnecessary menace to their liberties. A small standing army and a well disciplined state militia. This republic has no place for vast military service and censure. When the nation is in danger the volunteer fender. The national guard of the United States should ever be cherished in the patriotic hearts of a free people. Such strength and safety. For the first time in our history and co-evil with the Philippines we are departing from our time honored and approved system of volunteer organization. We denounce it as unamerican and as a subversion of the ancient and fixed principles of a free people. Private Monopolies Intolerable. Private monopolies are indefensible and in control the price of all material, and of the finished products, thus robbing both employment and consumption. And arbitrarily fix the terms and conditions thereof and deprive individual energy and small capital of the many and unless their institute greed is checked all wealth will be aggregated in a few hands and the rest will be withdrawn with the trust evil by the Republican party in state and national platforms is charged that trusts are the legitimate pro duct of Republican policies, that they are fostered by Republican laws and that they ministration in return for campaign subscriptions and political support, to an uncessing warfare in nation, state and city against private monopoly in every form. Existing laws against trust must be enacted providing for publicity as to THE BICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Cures Weak Men Free Insures Love and Happiness. How any man may quickly cure himself any weakness of such an affliction, loss vitality, varicocle, etc., and in large small weak organs to full size and vigor, simply send your name and address to the statute books prove the insincerity of the high sounding phrases of the Republican official. The amara or corporations engaged in interstate commerce and requiring all corporations to show, before doing business outside of the state of Virginia, that they have no water in their stock and that they have not attempted and are not attempting to monopolise any branch of business on the public market, and the whole constitutional power of congress over interstate commerce, the mails and all offices of interstate communication shall be exercised by the enactment of comprehensive laws upon the subject of trusts. Tariff laws should be amended by putting an product of trust upon a free list to prevent monopoly under the plea of protection. The failure of the present Republican administration with an absolute control over all the branches of the national government to enact any legislation designed to prevent or even curtail the absorbing power of trusts and trust-related matters, or to enforce the anti-trust laws already on the statute books prove the insincerity of the high sounding phrases of the Republican official. We denounce the failure of the Republican party to carry out its pledges to protect Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and we promise the people of those terrified to maintain statehood and home rule during the war, to protect the state and we favor home rule and a territorial form of government for Alaska and Porto Rico. We favor an intelligent system of improving the arid lands of the west, storing the waters for purposes of irrigation, holding of such lands for actual settlers. We favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the Chinese exclusion law to the same classes of all Asiatic races. Jefferson said: "Peace, commerce and business are the main entangling alliances with none." We approve this wholesome doctrine and earnestly protest against the republicanism so-called politics, including the diplomacy of Europe and the intrigue and land warfare that demi-named the ill concealed Republican alliance with England, which must mean an end to the national institutions, and which has already stiffened the nation's voice while liberty is being strangled in Africa. Sympathy for the Boers. Sympathy for the principles of self government and rejecting as did our forefathers the claim of monarchy, we view the nation as a nation to overwhelm with force the South African republics. Speaking as we do for the entire American nation, except its allies, we believe that men everywhere, we extend our sympathies to the heroic bergers in their united strength to maintain their liberty and independence. We denounce the large appropriations of recent Republican congresses, which have been used to perpetuate the perpetuation of oppression of war levies. We oppose the accumulation of a surplus of government funds upon the taxpayers as the shipping subsidy bill, which under the false pretence of prospering American shipbuilding into the pockets of favorite contributors to the Republican campaign fund. We demand that the war taxes and a return to the time honored Democratic policy of strict economy in governmental expenditures. We demand that institutions are in great peril, that the very existence of our constitutional republic is threatened, and that the rendered will determine whether or not our children are to enjoy those blessed privileges of free government which are pervasive and honored, we earnestly ask for the foregoing declaration of princeps and honored, we earnestly ask for the loving American people, regardless of previous child affiliations. "Divine Healer" Paid Heavy Fines. "Divine Healer and Holy Finder, Boston, July 11.—Francis Truth, who advertised himself as a divine healer, appeared in the book 'The Divine Healer' withdrew his previous plea of not guilty, pleaded guilty and was fined $2,500, which he paid. He pledged guilty to seven indictments accusing him of using the mails to further a scheme to defraud, which involved his divine healing methods, and on five charges he was fined the maximum penalty, $500 each. ROBT. FORRESTER FLORIST, 215 E. Leigh Street, Richmond, Virginia I am prepared to furnish the outbie wish plants of all kinds. Cut flowers, funeral designs, etc. will be pleased to have the patronage of the public. WANTED WEEKLY 100 OOOKS. Housemaids, and Wrestresses for New York and other Northern Cities, wages from $8.00 to $5.00 per week. Transportation furnished, also 50 farm hands for Maryland. Cures WeakMen Free St. Luke's EXCURSION TO HAMPTON AND BUCKROE BEACH. By St Luke's Association of Richmond. 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BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Louisa E. Williams, Kate Holmes, Mattie F. Johnson, Ann M Johnson, Bettie Brown, Mildred C. Jones. 27 N. Juniper St., Philadelphia, Pa. I can place any number of young house work girls. Good wages. Write or preside. 6]34 KNOXVILLE COLLEGE, :0: TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY JUBILEE, June 11 and 12: :0: Addresses by prominent Educators South and North, including President W. H. Council of Huntsville, Dr. E. L. Parks of Gammon Theological Seminary, Rev. G. W. Mood of Fisk University, Dr. W. H. McWillan, of Alleghany, P.A., Governor Benton McMilan and others. Reduced rates on the certificate plan of one and a third from all points in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama. Total expense for the year of board, fuel, light, furnished room, etc. $58. HUMPHREYS' WETERINARY SPECIFICS A.A. FREVERS, Congestions, Infma- tions, Lung Fever, Milk Fever, B.B. SPAINRS, Lameness, Injuries, C.C. SORE THROAT, Quinsy, Epizootic, Distemper, B.D. WORMS, Bots, Grubs, C.E. 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His aid and advice has often been curing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never tails. He has the secret of winning the actions of he peppes sex. It is the curve of spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim neither gifts, credentials nor references. Surely the colored people are noto wahting in sense as to throw their time and money William Denmore, Aesthetist and builder, Cleveland Ave., and Arther Sewell, Ship- builder, South Brooklyn. All have known free test of his power to all. The doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis Memphis and Louisville, understand these facts and the race is subject to. He is now and always had a large patronage from them. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN - A MINIB TEB'S STATEMENT. I wish to state that one of my parishioner was sick and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. Hearn was her assistant and she understand her case. She had several doctors but none of them seemed to know what war was going on. She was my duty as her pastor to call and see her. Hearing of the wonderful work being done by her, I would call and see him myself. I found him a kind sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers; told me what was his patient's hair, did he by her daughter. He told at once what was the matter and what was wrong. Her family had seemingly been u.d.der a cloud. Now all is changed. All are well and healthy. I went to her mend Dr. Shea to all those in sickness or distress of any kind. Rev. William Johnson said Dr. Shea can show thousands such DR. SHEA has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Eclectic Schools of Medicine His success is wonderful in curing paralysis Cancer, Constipation, Ague, Dyspnoia Tape Worms, Liver Complaints, Dearness Oatrarch, Drops, Piles, Nervous Debility Women and children, Fits, Kidney Disease and all strange mysterious diseases which others don't understand. All diseases, not only cancer, will be treated by a treatment. He can and will honestly tell you if you can be cured. Has all new remedies and new success. Has had ample experience in public hospitals and private hospitals. No triting with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomas hang in parloris is a registered physician. A new remedy for Rheumatism just discovered, not a lima- ment. Hopeless cases and those that others have suffered from follow the childmade made parents. All letters must contain $1.00, two stamps, age, lock of hair. For consultation, advice and diagnosis. No postal cards. Charges for medical treatment only. 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A young man from a wholesale house down on the river front, says the Boston Herald, presented a check at one of the banks the other day, and while the money was being counted out amused himself by balancing coins on the narrow edge of the paying teller's window. Finally he performed an astonishing feat. He first balanced a silver dollar so it stood up on edge, then placed a half dollar edge to edge on top of it, and completed the pyramid with a bright new quarter. His manipulation PAYING TELLER "IT TAKES NERVE TO DO IT." as he deposited the coins one on the other was beautifully delicate, and the spectacle of all three standing without support made the teller's eyes protrude from their sockets. "Why, that's perfectly amazing!" he exclaimed. "I wouldn't have believed it could be done!" The other attacks looked and marveled. "It takes a steady nerve to do it," said the young man, carelessly, and sweeping the coins with a dexterous grab he dropped them into his pocket, picked up his money and strolled out. It was not a busy hour, and after he was gone all hands began balancing alver, or rather trying to. The thing was as fascinating as the old "pigs in clover" puzzle, because one could come so near without doing it. Nearly everybody succeeded in balancing the first dollar, and a few managed to poise the fifty-cent piece for an infinitesimal, breathless instant, but it always fell down again, and that was as far along as anyone could get. For an hour or so there was silver all over the floor, and the bookkeeper had to make good a dollar that rolled into a crack. Next day the dexterous young man sauntered in with another check. "We were all trying that balancing trick of yours yesterday," remarked the teller as he handed over the bills, "but none of us could do it. You're right when you say it takes steady nerves." "Y-e-s," replied the young man, grinning, "and it's also facilitated by a little shoemaker's wax on the edge of the coins." DONKEY DRINKS BEER. Rocky Mountain Mocking Bird Empires Two Schookers with the Grace of a Toper. "The Devil's Auction" company have with them a mule with a depraved appetite. When the company played in Burlington, Ia., some time ago, the stage manager called at one of the well-known cafes and told the barkeeper he would call for refreshments after the performance, and asked that he might bring a friend with him. At the time appointed he entered, and, looking back into the darkness, said: "All right, Jack, come in." The bartender and a few late customers who had stepped in to get a UNLOADING A SCHOONER. "night cap" were astonished to see a sober-faced donkey walk in and take a position in front of the bar while his friend called for two beers. The friend of the Rocky mountain mocking bird entered into conversation with the spectators, while the donkey stuck his nose over the glass, and, with the grace of an old-time "boozer," unloaded the schooner with evident enjoyment. His glass was twice refilled, and he repeated the feat without losing a drop, and concluded by clearing the bread plate on the lunch table with as much unconcern as the nerviest customer of the place. Knocked from His Wheel. The queer freaks of lightning are traditional. A resident of Montclair, N. J., tells a new one. He was riding on a bicycle the other evening, when stroke of lightning knocked him off his wheel and hurled him 15 feet into a clump of bushes. He picked himself up and rode on, rather surprised to find himself still alive and, with more respect for natural electricity than ever he had before. HELPS FOR THE COOK. Have a wood box that is divided into two parts, one for wood, the other for kindling. When both are put in one box the kindling soon finds its way to the bottom of the box, and it is not convenient to get it. Have a cupboard in the corner of the kitchen for keeping the kettles and other cooking utensils in. It need not take up much room and is much better than to have them scattered about or hung up on nails about the walls. Cover the raisins with hot water and let them stand two or three minutes before seeding and your work will be much easier. Dried fruit should be soaked two or three hours in warm water, then simmered slowly until done to get the best result. Add the sugar a few minutes before it is taken from the fire. To cleanse jars that have any odor about them, wash them, fill with boiling water, then stir into it a teaspoonful or more of pearline. Let it stand until cool, empty the jars, and if any odor remains nil with hot suds again. Rinse with clear, hot water, let them air a day or two and they will be ready for use. Rancid hard and butter jars, when treated in this way, will become fresh and sweet again. A steam cooker is a great help in the summer. They save fuel, for the various articles needed for a meal can be put in its compartments, and all cooked over one burner of a gasoline stove. The food is much better than if cooked in the ordinary way, for those who have eaten steamed vegetables have no wish to return to boiled or baked ones. Then they do not require constant watching, and after the dinner is put on the housewife is free to attend to other duties until the cooking is done—Boston Budget. SHOWN IN THE SHOPS. Damascus taborettes richly inlaid with pearl. Plenty of foliage of various types in millipery. Washable foulard sateens in silk designs of all colors. Denim portieres for summer furnishings in cool art colors. Natty designs in straw, crash and cloth headwear for small boys. Graduated accordion-plaited floundings with narrow ruchings above. White and eern revers of lawn and lace to be worn with Eton jackets. Many neatly patterned cream and white wash veils with floral borders. Renaissance and linen scarfs, table-covers, dolls and centerpeices. Spangled aigrettes, together with pearl steel and jet ornaments for the coiffure. White canvas shoes with rubber or leather soles for yachting, golf and all out-door sports. Allover taffetta yokings showing hemsitching, rich lace appliques, or elaborate silk braided designs. Infants' long and short coats of Bedford cords, cashmere, fancy light woolen materials and pique tastefully trimmed. Jacket suits with Eton, tight-fitting, double-breasted and fly-front coats, trimmed with folds, braiding or silk stitching—Dry Goods Economist. GLOBE SIGHTS. We are forced to respect some people who have been in jail more than a lot of people who have never been there. It is all right for girls under 25 to say: "When I marry," but after that age it is more proper to say: "If I marry." Our idea of a bright man is one who remembers in an hour of leisure the things he has been putting off to do when he had time. A man finds no one as he jogs along as indignant over his wrongs as his mother was years ago when the school teacher licked him. It is a pity that everyone hasn't the privilege enjoyed by a lawyer of sending in a bill to those who insist upon telling him their troubles.—Atchison Globe. ENGLISH COLLEGES FOR WOMEN As yet women are not given the Cambridge degree. Lady Margaret hall and Summerville college are the two institutions for women at Oxford. Newnham, founded in 1875, is widely known through the personality of Miss Clough, sister of Arthur Hugh Clough. Its fees are smaller than those of Girton—$125 covers most of the year's expenses. Girton is the oldest woman's college in England. It was started in 1869 by five students who determined to try the Cambridge university examinations. At Girton the girls have two rooms each. The fee for the college year, including tuition, board and rent, is $523. SAGE OF SAWHAW SAYS. There is nothing so glorious as the glow of health. Young people shouldn't get their philosophy of life from defeated gamblers. Divorce should precede marriage—divorce from all bad habits and the club. Too many people imagine they can get up in the world without getting up in the morning. Some people are so anxious to cram children that they would put the letter of the law into the alphabet. Remember that most prodigal sons find the old man gathered home and the fatted calves sold by the time they get back. He Needs the Earth. Unless the farmer is given the earth, he can do nothing.—Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. I live right her in the north. I am in touch with those who need help, can find out who is unreasonable and unjust. I have a steady demand for good women as cooks, chambermaids and general ervants, and often for good indoor and outdoor men servants. I pay your fare to which is added a reasonable amount for expenses and fees. I take no orders under any circumstances from disreputable houses and hells of that kind, and the best protection is afforded the respectable girl who respects herself. Send one stamp for information to F. Z. S. PRESCHRINO, Albany, N. Y. In care of the "Spectator" permanently straightens Knotty, Knappy pricocity is life. This comb in connection Hair Restorative," the great hair grower now long and straight. This great elec- tus marvelous magnetic powers gives new effect is seen at once. The hair com- bight as soon as the use of the comb is AT THE BUG! This is a Hair germ unvisible to the naked eye, but under the microscope the above picture is what they can burrows at the roots of the hair, hun- f them, destroying the life of the hair and also causes all forms of scalp diseases. aff or any Scalp disease, if your hair brittle, bald or thin on the top or on the falling out, it is caused by this germ, and Electrical Hair Restorative kills enabling the hair to become long, straight, beautiful. Two boxes of the hair grower Restorative" are sent with this comb, Price securely sealed to any address on receipt. NOTICE!! produce this great invention, we have de- header of the PLANET this grand op- tion this advertisement and mail to us with we will mail you at once prepaid the Two Boxes of Electrical Hair Restora- tion money and express orders payable to ident. Register your letters; it protects orders to MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, INCLU- ING MEDICAL, DENTAL AND PHARMACRUTIC COLLEGES. Thirty-third Session (1900-1901) will begin October L. 1900, and continue seven (7) months. Tuition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $80. Pharmacetic College, $70 All students must register before October 12 1900. For catalogue or fur- her information apply to— F. J. SHADD M. D., SECRETARY. 901 R Street. N. W. 6 9-8m City of Washington Found at Last Positively and permanently straightens Knotty, Knappy Kinky Hair. Electricity is life. This comb in connection with "Electrical Hair Restorative," the great hair grower causes the hair to grow long and straight. This great electrical invention by its marvelous magnetic powers gives new life to the hair. The effect is seen at once. The hair commences to grow straight as soon as the use of the comb is commenced. LOOK AT THE BUG! This is a Hair germ parasite. They are invisible to the naked eye, but under the rays of a powerful microscope the above picture is what they look like, this germ burrows at the roots of the hair, hundreds & thousands of them, destroying the life of the hair and causing it to drop out also causes all forms of scalp diseases. If you have dandruff or any Scalp disease, if your hair is short, harsh and brittle, bald or thin on the top or on the temples or if it is falling out, it is caused by this germ. The Magnetic Comb and Electrical Hair Restorative kills hese germs, thus enabling the hair to become long, straight, silky, soft and beautiful. Two boxes of the hair grower, Electrical Hair Restorative" are sent with this comb, Price: "5.00 and mailed securely sealed to any address on receipt of price, $5.00. To quickly introduce this great invention, we have decided to give every reader of the PLANET this grand opportunity. Cut out this advertisement and mail to us with ONE DOLLAR and we will mail you at once prepaid the Magnet Comb and 'Two Boxes of Electrical Hair Restoration. Make all money and express orders payable to R. Gathright, President. Register your letters; it protects you. Address all orders to MAGNETIC COMB CO.: here being so many skeptical people who article a humbug, we take this method to evil minded slanderers, by absolutely we will REFUND the money for every case. This is a reputable paper and would take from a dishonest firm. Take Notice. There being so many skeptical people who decry every honest article a humbug, we take this method to repudiate all such evil minded slanderers, by absolutely guaranteeing that we will REFUND the money for every case of dissatisfaction. This is a reputable paper and would take no advertisement from a dishonest firm. A man and a woman sit in a room with a large window. The woman is reading a book, while the man is reading a newspaper. 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MARTH, the world renowned and highly celebrated business and test Medium reveals everything. No impession. Can be consulted upon all affairs of life, business, love and marriage a specialty. Every mystery revealed, also of absent, deceased and living friends. Removes all troubles and estrangements, challenges any Medium who can exceed her in startling revelations of the past, present and future events of one's life. Remember she will not for any price faster you; you may rest assured you will gain facts without nonsense. She can be consulted upon all affairs of Life, Love, Courtship, Marriage, Friends, ete, with description of future companion. She is very accurate in describing missing friends, enemies etc. Her advice upon sickness, change of business, law suits, journeys, contested wills, divorce and speculation is valuable and reliable. She reads your deity—good or bad; she withholds nothing. MRS. MARTH tells your entire life past, and future in a DEAD TRANSE, has the power of any two Mediums you ever met. In tests she tells your mother's full name before marriage, the names of all your family their ages and description. the name and business of your present husband the name of your next if you are to have one, the name of the young man who now calls on you, the name of your future husband, and the day, month and year of your marriage, how many children you have or will have; whether your present sweetheart will be true to you and if he will marry you; if you have no sweetheart she will tell you when you will have and his name, business and acquaintance. All your future will be clear and plain manner and in a dead chance. Mother's should know the success of their husbands and children young ladies should know everything about their sweethearts or intended husband. Do not keep company, marry or go into business until you know all, do not let silly religious scruples prevent your consulting. Madame is the only one in the world who can tell you the FULL NAME of your future husband, with age and date of marriage, and tells whether the one you love is true or false. There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consulting a Medium, but such beliefs are contrary to the truth. It is only from the lack of discrimination that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not every one who placards himself or herself as a medium that can stand a test of what he or she claims. And a person of an enquiring mind may ask the reason why. It is simply t these advisers do not take the able to study hun an nature. They do not spend their thoughts for a moment with acquiring the art of phaseology and kindred branches that will have a tendency to make the pathway to the road of the business clear and devoid of all obstacles. It is an undeniable fact that persons will come for advice in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a Medium they try their unmost endeavor to dispel from their minds what they know so as to hear if it will be rehearsed by the Medium. To get the secret out or a paternity is the art used by many unprincipled mediums, but to take hold or the head and gain control of the mind thereby is a matter of impossibility to most of them, and yet this can be done and be convincing. Maxine the seeming mystery becomes the realization. This subject has received no little attention by eminent men and even college professors. So it proves conclusively that although there are infringers in our midst with oily tongues perhaps the gates of wisdom have not been closed to the entire profession. 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Ph, of mine in the gentle art, ‘hoog denver prise ina Weill cret, whe ‘hrill of the angier’s heart "When the lithe rod whips to the whirring {otras song Tsing and a rhyme I bring: fxee of the pools where the salmon hatch, pot memory fond of the village ponds “And the common teh we used te catch, The fish we caught tn the golden haze ‘Of the boyhood suramers fong ago, {When our bare feet tripped through the } gtassy ways | Te the nook where tho Itites used to grow: Whore the sunbeams played through the eee err a | ‘And danced as the soft breege shook the tree, {Ana the sound we heard was the song o ma | Or the drowsy hum of the bumble bee. {fhe sh we caught ~with the homemade Doles | Ovpidacieamtves cut trom the slende nd, obi the glory that Aled our souls ‘With each New shiner of res red'pereh land when our fun, ike the Gay, was doe ‘And! we Beard the chorus the” cricket ‘sine, We'd 1dfy roam through the twilight home, Where smother waited to "prnise ows cing. ‘Oh, brother anglers, we've fought tt out, [By ocean's urges oF mountaln wien, With ordty’ tarpon oe gamay trout Full many @ fimw-and oft siace then: (But the days ot old were the deve of gaia dod ever nen int ror wet match care-tree Joy ‘appr bor PanG"the Souimon fait t'we ned t ‘catch. [oe Lincotn, in Recreation. —— lecatbeeedencebeeed césccece 3 SOME NEWSPAPER FARES ¢ ince the /amentabie era of truth- ful newspaper reporting began,” said me of the Chicago correspondents Fithe work doesn't seem like the samme old thing. It's a miserable feeling to kao that you're tied down by facts. [It bas positively got so nowadays that fellow's paper absolutely requires bow to write nothing but facts; thus, {all of the charm that comes from the ‘ability to Ne wierdly and enthusiastic- aly is removed, and this makes one’s }ays dismal and monotonous. I can mber the time in Chicago when [ike bottecs fakir, the most diverting Qar with the pencil and pad, was the fought-after man, and that wasn't more han a dozen yeara or no ago, at that. fre did't make any difference whether | local story was true or not, so long as At was dished up in good shape, with lenty of apparentlycorrect names and Baesoes lots of ‘scenes and incidents,’ jas the city editors put ft, and a general fatmosphere of versimilitude, as it ere. Tam a modest man, but I would fain throw this small noregay at my- jnelf: I wo= the Champion Fakirs’ stakes Hor three years in succession in Chica- fo, and no less aman than Eugene [Field once. bestowed the laurels upon jmy blushing brow in the presence of {the Whitechapel elub for having re- ppeatediy proved myself the most fuss jtastic newspaper liar that ever blew linto the city of wind. That was right latter I'd sprung my famous airship fake. ‘There was a chap exhibiting & funny-looking model of an airship down on the lake front, and, it being midsummer and consequentiy dull, ‘I went after him, and wrote several col- ums, with pictures, dgscribing his con- raption, and relating how T'd flown frith ‘im 50 miles across Lake Michigan to Benton Harbor, Mich. ‘The story (went with a bang, despite the fact that {the envious esteemed contemporaries of my paper had the effrontery to come out the next day and declare it a fake, jand the airship man organieed acom- [Pany on the strength of it, achieved some $30,000 from small {vestors, and ‘then went into such close seclusion that he's never been seen since. The might he decided to disappear with the lwad he called at my office and took me jut and bought me a schooner and a Ave-cent cigar, and that’s all I ever got for putting him on the road toprosper- ity. | “But I started out to relate howl got dumped on @ fake of my own de- Msing. It was during another dull Period, when local news was shy and uninteresting, and it looked tobe about the right time to springa large one. So [I went down to the Leland hotel and put the name of ‘E. H. Gettemout’ on the hotel register and had a word or two with big: ‘Red’ Kennedy, the chiet clerk, Then I seizeda large bunch of hotel paper, bought enough stogies to see me through and sat down ia the hotel writing-room and wrote four and « half columns about E. H.Gettemout's [Wonderful experiments at the Leland with his life-saving fire-escape appara- tus. ‘I succeeded in making E. H. Gette- ‘mout a pretty remarkable genius by the time I got through describing his invention in great detall. It consisted —that {s, in my story it consisted—ot ia collapsible elevator frame, that is, an [elevator frame that could be shot up into the air from a truck by the opera- ‘Mon of some simple machinery, and lowered into small space into the truck in the street when it wasn’t in use. In ease of fire in a tall building the ele- ator frame would be raised, and then |the elevator, operated by hydraulie force, would begin its regular tripa to |the various floors of the burning bufla- ling, hanling the people that preferred {not to be incinerated to the ground an easy and comfortably as if. there jasn't any fire within a radius of 17 miles. I made a lot of sketches ax sug- jgestions for cuts to, be used in eonnec- jon with the story. I described at great length the that had heen made at the with the apparatus; told how ‘several hundred of the house, [het Sal angthes obitke eaten of ithe experiments about trbemade, had facets (Purpose of dem: ing. useful: ‘ness of the invention. Among’ the ‘guests whom I named as making the escent in the thing were all the mem: bers of a grand opera company, mer and women, who happened to be stop- ping at the house at the time. I also had a large and varied assortment of other distinguished persona of both pexes who were stopping at the Leland just thé to figure in the smooth and orderly descent of the Mesaving ele vator. I described at some length the hardships and sufferings E. M. Gette- mont, the inventor, had experienced before perfecting his machine and be- fore he was able to secure enough cap- ital to make a working oth oak I welt very pathetically upon the-fact that E. H. Gettemont hed lost several near relatives in a hotel holocaust be- fore deciding to devote his life to the invention of a contraption that would make it a cinch that no lives would ever again be lost by reason of the burning of a hotel. “Oh, it was a good story, all right. 1 turned it in to the night city editor— the elty editor had gone home for his day off—with a few appropriate re- marks, together with my sketches to be used as suggestions for cuts. The night city editor gave me the grin from be neath the eye shade he was wearing when he'd looked the story over. I was such a skeptical grin that Thad tc say, seeing that he was a clubmate of mine and a good fellow: “‘T cannot, will not Iie to you. ‘The story's true.” “He said that it wouldn't be possible to have any cuts made for the story. as two of the artists were having thelr day off, oné was sick and the other: were exceedingly busy, I was sorry about that, but, feeling that I had 5 clean secop on the town anyhow, I wen! away from the office with a swelled chest and a feeling of great approva of myself. “My paper was delivered at my find &s usual the next morning, and the joy 1 experienced when I spread it out anc saw that my story occupied the frsi five columns, double-teaded through out, of the first page, isn't to be de scribed in languagings. I showed it t my wife with vast enthusiaam and self indorsement, and was rewarded by having her tell me that she. always knew I was the most stupendous Na: that ever declined to get up and light the kitchen fire. “I read the story over several times on my way down to the office in thi ear, and I had it all figured out how me a So (Nia uy ey aa je aX c \* ‘Ve ] a Mh my city editor would pat me on the back and tell me to go down and hit the cashier for a eduple of weeks’ pay in advance and Fun away for a little vacation. “I walked into the city editor's room with as modest a bearing as possible under the circumstances, and waited for him to see mé and jump up and em- brace me and tell me that I was the making of the paper. Well, the em- brace didn’t come. He just looked me over out of the slants of his eyés, and said he:, “Got scooped, didn't you? “Who? Me? I managed to splatter. ‘Tlow—where—what— “*You got-scooped right out of your boots on that lifesaving elevator story,’ said my city editor, in a hard, craggy tote. ‘The Journichle's got a Page and a half about it, with a lot more details than you give, and, most important-thing of all, a cut of EB. H. Gettemout,rthe inventor. Why . the dickens-couldn't you have got a picture of Gettemout, hey? “Igrabbed his copy of the Journichle. and there was the story, jammed with double-column cuts, and, sure enough, & swell cut of Gettemout, who never existed, much less posed in front of a camera, Then I fell right over into the waste-paper basket and was out for some moments. When I came to I sat up and told my city editor that the whole thing was a fake of my own de- vising, and that the Journichle gang had got hold of it in somé unaccount- able manner—probably through the hotel clerk, to whom I had confided the nature of the story I was going to spring. “T don't care whether it's a fake or not,’ said my city editor, frigidly. ‘If {t was your own fake you had no right to be lifted out of it by the opposition. A reporter's got no more right to be beaten out of his own fake than a short card player has to be bluffed out of a Jack pot of bis ewn opening. You're fired.’ “Nice way to get treated, wasn't it? I went and hunted up Charlie Dilling- ham—now the right-hand man of the Frohman theatrical people—and got him up against the alley eaves of the ‘Auditorium, where I met him, with a grin on him from ear to ear, and I said & whole lot of real rude things to Char- ley, for a fact, He'd dub my fake out of the hotel clerk, inch by inch, pulled & photograph of one of bis. .country uncles out of his trunk and turned it in as the picture of Gettemout, and, in general, chiseled me out of ont of the Beatest fakesd’d cooked up in fully four days.”—Washington Star. Karth Makes Beat Fortifation. Military engineers are agreed that no material for forti@eations is su- perior to earth. y ‘The Use ae4 Downe Many « man Jays down his Lite’ fw tering tolay up money.—Chleago Daily READY FOR A TRADE Two Horsemen Meet and Discuss Their Favorite Subject. Ogtceme of @ Controversy as te the Ame of @ Maine Steed—A Story ‘That Would Have Delighted Ola David Harem. The Lewiston Evening Journal says that Maine's David Harum came into the village the other day. He was look- ing for a'trade. ‘He sat in his muddy old wagon with his. back bent and his elbows on his knees. ‘The horse that he drove had hip-bones that looked like broken springs in a hair-cloth sofa, The good housewife could have done her week's washing on the cor- rugations on his sides. His eyes had the blase look of one who has- gone through everything that can by any possibility be coming that way, and xo has nothing more to fear. The 61d man was driving with a knotted rope ‘tied to the end of aistick. “Clek! lek! Gid-dap; Ebenezer,” he kept saying, and Ebenezer may have heard him and hemay have felt the slap of the knotted rope, but if he did there was no symptom to indicate it either in the cant of his ears or the accelera- tion of his gait. ‘The old man suddenly pulled ap. No, he didn't pulf up. Heisaid: “Whoa.” ‘The old horse always carries one ear back to hear a whoa. He stopped so suddenly that the old man was pre cipitated forward. But he caught the dasher with both hands’and was able to save himself from falling onto his nose on the road. Ashe hung there, he said to the man standing on the sidewalk: | “Most willing hoss I ever had, Isaac. A woman can drive him anywhere. Case there's any trouble with the rig- ‘gin’ any time, all anyone has got to do is to say ‘Whoa’ and there yeare. No ‘danger of bein” all smashed up with him. What ye got in the hoss kind now, Isaac?” “Wal, I've got two—there'a that gray hoss that Bill Aaderson used te own A bir (ei i‘ we hy Yair (C4 ‘s a Pp" renee that I got in the way of a trade, ‘Then I've got a black mare, but I don't believe the wimmen folks will want to part with the black one, for they've made kind of a pet out of it.” ‘The old man took a chew of tobacco and settled himself on the seat with his legs crossed, Said he: “I don't s'pose ye're ‘specially back- ward about changing the gray one, so be't ye git the right price for her, Isaac.” “Wal I s'pose I might listen awhile if anyone talked trade.” “Seems 's if this hoss here might mate up pretty well with the black wae,” “I'm afraid he's a bit gant, Hiram, You know that black one is a chunky little buneh.”” “Yus, yas, I know that, but ye'd find that the hoss here would take on flesh like time when he got started. Ye see he's so darn high life and I drive him 0 much that I keep hima-dingin’ most of the time, For what you'd want to drive and the wimmen folks ntub- bin’ him round, he'd be rounder’n a barrel in few weeks, I don't know what I'm sellin him for, myself, but after I have hoss about so long— don’t make any difference how good a hoss he is, I sort of git fiddlin’ round to git rid of-him and make a change. It’s lueky for a man when he don’t have that” dissatisfed way and can hang on toa good thing when he gits it. If L only knew enough todo it, I would not let this hoss of mine go for lowe nor money.” ‘While he was talking Isaac had come slong and had rolled up the old horse’s upper lip. After a careful scrutiny of his teeth, Isaac shook his head and said: “How old do you call this hoss, Hiram?” “Jes’ “zactly nine years old—jes* tenekly nine.” “Bho, now git out, he's older'n that.” “No, sir, jes’ "zackly nine.” “I don't say ye are lyin’ about the thing, Hiram, but Ido reckon ye are mistaken. The hoss is older'nnine.” “Now Tounderstand hoss age clear into the ground,” said the old man, “I know that hoss of mine is jes’ ‘zactly nine years old. Yas, sir, jes’ ‘zackly nine—not over ten, “leven at the outside and twelve to the EX-tent, toa \_ _ A Missouri Snake Story. T. 0. Rose, living four miles east of Co- lumbia, tells a queer snake story. While chopping firewood on the ferm of Abe Bublette he split a log of wood and found in the hollow. eight large black- snakes, each measuring, as near as he could guess, from six to eight feet in length. He thinks the largest one was. as thick awhis arm. Placing them in a coll after kitting them: they made acoit nearly two feet in diameter. coor Corn oil is now rivaling cotton seed ‘of as a substitute for olive oil. sa The great force exerted by the grewing of the stem and roots of plants fe shown th cities, where they often raise and crack pavements, | In’ S.cemetery to Hanover, Germany, the of a strongly built tomb, One of the stone ring 23 by 56 inchem. and Srinchetin tein, bun bees ag ‘RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, ADE ey Wea oo Onally » man, if me- ‘ eeege see ee finger into his eye when he is washing| the wandering mot iscuss || nis face, but one has to goa long way| pole, yet it is ashen |to find a man who, having lost one eye| tng interest to ast: ‘by such clumsiness, pushes in the other, | January 1a new pla says the New York Press. A grocer’s| it went into effect, to eno | |seaiatant in London, 41 yeurs old, while| pasion. ‘The motion tory” | Washing. is face put his finger into] tive of the wabbiin - his right eye. The eyeball because in-| tremely slight whe flamed and was taken out. This was in| the earth is taken-4t |3896. Four years later he ran a finger: 1890 the north pole vail into the other eye in the same] more than 35 feet ar sl says | manner, causing an even more serioua| it should occupy i ne into\) wound.” ‘The'surgeon, who scemed to}-ot:rerolution never: slook-| have no hesitation gbout taking out! But the motion is er muddy | ‘the other eye, wanted to'save this one| Is obscure. ‘The net and his [if possible, and so they postponed the} tion was formed by se that | operation to see if sight even in aamall| Geodetic association looked |' degree couldn't be retained. There was| observing. stationa, rcloth |.an element of luck in the matter for| thirty-ninth degrea ‘have | the grocer, for he was insured in an| and ail within 800 he coF- |‘ accident company, and the corporation| parallel. ‘These ar ‘es had | ' agreed to pay the claim at once without | Japan; Carloforte, § gone | waiting to see if the eye eventually| burg, Md., and Ui by any} could be saved. similar observations and x0 ————_——_ same kind of zenith he 61d ink dais ‘Aca main < wanda aS each. anni | She is an original girl, one from whom her particular “clique” expect anything. S0-her chum was not sur prised upon running in to see her fot ® moment to. find Marion's room. ir ‘possession of two of the dirtiest little Italian children that ever trudged slong with “hurdy-gurdy.” They ‘were types that would have thrilled ‘the heart of the most biaeg slum mis sionary. One was sitting {n a dainty ‘white chair, filling ber little india ‘xubber stomach with chocolates. The other was in the merciless hands o Marion, who was erasing the grimg ‘from the sunburned face. After they had been fed and entertained Marior put a quarter into the greasy hand o} each and sent them away. Sinking wearily into a ohair, she exclaimed: “Mercy! How the’ picturesquenens washed off!"—Detroit Free Press, eee rea te Later Recent observations tending ts show that ants possess a sense o} hearing have been described in thi column. Prof. Metcalf, of the Wom ‘an’s college, Baltimore, adds some in teresting testimony on the subject fr & letter to Science. One of his stu dents discovered that © colony 0} dlack ants was thrown into a state o! great excitement by sounds of one Particular pitch. Other sounds did not affect them, but when the pe cullar note was struck, either on a vio Un or with a whistle, the ants would Decome excited, and if the sounds were continued would grow frantic some of them falling into a water moat surrounding their nest. Ants o! other species paid no attention to the sounds. : Sctentifte Indifference. Sir William MacCormac, the presi dent of the Royal College of Surgeons is an indefatigable worker. Often, t save time when studying in his labor atory, he used to have a light lun sheon served there. Once his assist (ants heard him sigh heavily, and look ing up saw the doctor glaring at tw glaas receptacles on his table. “What is the matter, doctor?" asked ‘one of the youngsters. _ “Nothing in particular,” was the re ply, “only I am uncertain whether 3 drank the beet tea or that compound I have been. working on.”—Chicage ‘Times-Herald, kta * See the sweet girl graduate! Is the aweet girl graduate patrictic! She fs very patriotic. “I shall devote my commencement jeasay,” she is saying, “to confronting ‘the dangers that menace our national lexistence.” And all the while, as we well know ‘the question nearest her heart ia this namely: “Can freckles be permanently re moved without loss of life?”—Detroit Journal, Weiohian Sestines: Gadgrind—I shouldn't think you could afford to loat 20 much. Your pay is not very liberal when you do work. ), Philosopher—That's the reason why I can afford to lay off so frequently. When I lose « day I don't lose much money. It would be different it I was working for big pay.—Boston Tran. script. Bes ‘Teo Particular. Dinklebaum—Ven a man gids such a dude to be ssh dot veller vash, he don't gil nodinks mit mein blace! Bond—Why, what's the matter ot him? “Madder? Mein kracious, vy he vant: ea his pler mid a mousdache gup!"— Harlem Life Novel Railway, In the western part of British Co: lumbia is a novel railway, two miles in Nength. The rails are made of trees from which the bark has been stripped, and these are bolted together. Upon them runs a car With grooved wheels ten Inches wide. At the Afro-American Ola. “I say we oughter protes’ ag'in' dis hyah movement in de states of de souf to disfranchise de culled maa!” “Dat's right! Et de culled man ts Aiafranchised he won't git @ cent fo’ he's votel”—Puck. ee weetereee In Germany and Holland girls are ‘chosen in preference to Young men in all employments fn which they can _be advantageously. employed. In the Naraery. Edith—I have named my dolly “Dotty Dimples.” Ethel—But what 9 name tor her to earry through life when she grows up and has six or eight children! Par- ents should think of these things!— Puck. Hateping. The fact that there are 10,000,000,000 hairpins manufactured in this\country annually doesn't prevent a hair from ting into the butter occasionally — Sica, Daily News. « Me Sa Ne Corn Famine te Sight. (There is no danger of a corn famine as long as it is possible to raise several sehere to the foot. — Chiengo Daily iw, . a North Pele. } ‘ bitants of the tibly affected by the wan Mmetion of the north pole, yet it is aphenomenon of unceas- tng intereat to astronomers, and on January 1a new plan for investigating it went into effect, says Youth's Com- panion. The motion, which is sugges. tive of the wabbling of atop, ix ex tremely slight when the vagtuaize of the earth is taken into account.’ Since 1890. the north pole has never beer more than 35 feet away from the place it ‘should occupy if. the-earth’s axis ot revolution never varied in direction. But the motion is erratic, and its cause is obscure. The new plan of observa- tion was formed by the International Geodetic association. It provides four observing stations, all close to the thirty-ninth degree of north latitude, and all within 500 feet of the same parallel. ‘These are. at Midzusawa Japan; Cerloforte, Sardinia; Gaithérs- burg, Md., and Ukiah, Cal. Precisely similar observations with exactly the same kind of zenith telescopes will be made at each station on carefully se lected stars. Any change in the diree- tion of the pole revenis itself by a shift of the stars, ae Ws BPH Respect for one’s elders is a vir- tue which hasbeen pushed somewhat ‘out of sight in the rush and excitement of American life. A pretty survival of stately old customs is that of curt- sying when a little girl or young lady §s introduced to.an older woman, ‘This habit, says the Troy Times, haa ul- ways been cherished in some Virginian families since the days of Lady Wash- ington, and it is now being revived. A tiny Philadelphian walking in the streets with an older girl or school friend is met by a matron, who stops to speak to the older girl: “And who is your little friend?” asks the Indy. As 300n as the school girl pronounces the child's name the little one drops an old. fashioned curtsy,-thus saluting the old- er Indy. There is a quaint grace in this habit, very pleasing to older women. Teach your little maids habits of po- liteness early, and you begin to fit them for society. “The “curtsying child” is a welcome figure in social in- tercourse. Sicahetinn ia ei ae ‘The lazy man can find consolation in the conclusion arrived at by French scientist after investigating the phenomenon of laziness. This scientist declares that laziness is ee sentially @ mild, chronic neurastheni state, which, like most neurosey o: this charactet, is largely hereditary It ts consolingly stated that lazy per sons are almost always neuropaths: hence they are not responsible for thelr unfortunate condition, Thi places laziness and inactivity, along with inebriety, kleptomanta and vari ous other perversions, aa real disease: of the nervous system, and. not alm ‘ply infrmities of will. “The next stey along the line will be the invention o! ® serum for the cure of this condition Stray Stories. Bewar. of Ointments ‘or Ontarrh that Cootain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell aod completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on preseriptions from reputab'e physi- cians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly deriva from them. Hall’s Ostarrh Sure, manufactured by F. J. 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Association ee eee Ohartered by Legisisture of Virginia. Mam Orrice: 84 W. Lutax Sr. RICHMOND, VA. Sick and Death Benefits Paid. Those who do not keep aregular Bank Ac- count, the plan of this Association takes ite place. MONEY LOANED to members on PERIONAL AND REAL ESTATE 8E- CURITIES on small weekly paymente Interest Paid on all Deposits, For farther information apply atthe main office, MF aounes warren, - Bev. G. 0. Coleman, President ProtJ, H, Blackwell, See’y & Manager IN THE FRONT RANK. Sxcurrry, Inpustriat Mou- TuAL Arp SocmTy °. ‘Has been a great beueu ito their tick members, also their death bene. tehave helped many. Hustling and polite egents wanted Masonio Hial, 511 Kast Glay St. Wa taiaes rt ceest, BLE. Vasmnhyaus, Beorstary, EP egsah, Tesedtree 7 PLANET DEP OT -a MET 900 D0 (9 191 ot taet pe | Unt jnees every Saturday: Was akibe, Hm, Va. ere v he _'Nario Hiddiek amie er cece, 8, Biwad Sots, Bavemeonm, Mp, P.D. Risekwell, 308 Rishmond, 8. Oransévnn, Taxa. W. L. 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"5.83 ee eS “ x A Bn tastenetana see Fa, aE tans PM Be ESTO AE Appts: AA Pe Senos a : es EE ae ta nines BIT BE Nene ‘Trains Arrive Richmond. TER de ate ia z asa x. BEETS ated Re ait wad uarieston ana. a Bear omy ae ay X Athens, Raleigh. Neader at eee, iste Hes SBT A. M., Oaiiy, except Sunday.” Potere swan, TELS iy, tom Aten, Syaakinirg® safe wen neh ie oa inputs dou at : ia eee ance on 1a a. BET RTNay trae re. oss a Sule haeNertot, patete tae, Baty we Tidat, ott mame Benet, timing ea S0P x, Baty om Petra iran Tie aang <4 1. 2 RENLY, Traiie womeate ged ERM ora .G W. LEWIS, kwattane ede Oa Tinea okenl rene orth nak AE PLANET SATURDAY, JULY 14 190G AS WE GO TRUDGING ON. TURN:—Ma ching Through Georgia. When shall the Negroes fall in line That freedom for to fight? And rebels with their prejudice, Victoriously put to flight. When shall we cast aside the things that to us look sublime? Chorus:—As we go trudging on. Glory, glory, hallelujah, Glory, glory hallelujah, Gloryv, glory hallelujah, As we go trudging on. When shall we rail upon the church with their deceitful smile. Their rivalry, hypocariy, their preachers full of giles. The devil with his pite fork then will stack into a pile. As we go trudging on—Ocho. When shall the North, the South, compel us justice for to givs; And us repay for valiancy that the stars and stripes could live. Repay us for the way that we attended to the bir, As we went trudging on—Ocho. Then we'll cry about the fourth boys, Until our mouth does froth, boys, Then we'll overflow with joy, boys As we never did before, boys, And the days won't be to us when, As the days in times of yore As we go trudging on.—Cho. WAKE UP COLORED PEOPLE! All colors citizens, women and men are urged to attend a mass-meeting at True Helmets' Hall, 2nd 2nd St. Tuesday Night. July 17, 1900 at 8 o'clock to take under consideration a most vital question affecting our rights and privileges as citizens of this state. If you want liberty, peace, happiness and protection come to this meeting. The following speakers will address the meeting: Rev. W. T. Graham, Rev. W. Hon. John Mitchell and all the ministers of Richmond. This meeting is under the auspices of the National Constitutional Rights Association. J. E. Jones, President, A. L. Toliver, Vice-Pres., Giles B. Jackson, Secy., Thomas A. Liggins, Treas. Committee of Arrangements: Dr. W. F. Graham, Richard Carter, Benj Scott, A. L. Toliver. AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. To our Friends and Public general y: Those young men, Messrs. J. A. and C. J. Cooke, Funeral Directors. 528 N. Adams St., having met with the misfortune to lose one of their fine black Hearse Horses and being very young in business and having expended a large sum of money on improvements recently and as their business is a little quiet at present, the loss of a horse is a very severe blow to them. And the horse is therefore the generous public to come to our aid and help us to raise a purse for these young men and also render whatever assistance we can. Respectfully yours. Mesdames Martha Johnson, Maggie Walker, Bettie Brooks, Louisa Williams, Emma Booker, Margaret Scott, Nancy West, Patty K. Anderson, Ross Williams, Lavinia Lewis, Jane Brown, Louisa Allen, Annie Hopson, France- B. Jones, Sallie Smith, Mildred C. Jones. AT LAST ONE HAS PASSED. BICHMOND, VA., July 11, 1900. In 1885 the legislature passed a law, creating a Board of Examiners, and constituted the five judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals as the board before whom all applicants for a license to practice law shall be examined. Year after year, since the passage of of this a large numbers of applicants have been examined and quite a number have successfully passed. Among the applicants, quite a number being colored, who have applied from time to time, all of whom have failed to pass, until the examination at Wytheville, Vd., held on the 6th of this month. Mr. A. L. Toliver, who has been under the instructions of Giles B. Jackson for 6 months, passed a successful examination and has secured a license to practice law and will occupy a desk in the office of Giles B. Jackson, No. 812 E Broad Street. this city, at which place he will be engaged in the practice of law. Mr. Toliver has a bright future before him and is deserving of success, since he is the first colored man to pass this board. —Rev. D. Webster Davis, A. M. will leave this city this evening for Northampton, Mass., where he delivers a series of lectures before the Connecticut Valley Chautauqua at Laurel Park. He will visit Boston, New York Philadelphia. Atlantic City and Baltimore before he returns. He will be at home August 4th for the remainder of the summer. MY OWN VINDICATION To the Public: There are times in a man's life that it becomes necessary he should speak for himself. To do so, may seem to be a near approach to self-laudation and praise. All things are not what they seem. Every true manhood has that essential element of courage which marks the limit of patience and endurance. This is a God given essential which distinguishes the cowards and the sluggard from the real man. Having joined the Ebenezer Baptist Church some years ago by letter and having walked before them as a Christian gentleman, it pleased the church some years ago to elect me as a deacon in company with five others. We were put forth after the usual custom and when the question of ordination was called, certain complaints were raised against me by a certain brother of the church. A committee of five competent brethren was appointed, who made a general investigation of the matter; ever when they reported to the church that they found me a Christian and a gentleman, and since it has pleased the church to drop my name from the deaconry, it will be remembered that it was not on the account of anything found against me. The Ebenezer Church knows me as a gentleman and a Christian and that only. Signed: 2) E. J. SIMMS. ALLEGED ASSASSINATION PLOT. Spantards and Cubans Compiled to Kill President McKinley. New York, July 11.—The World says: A plot to assassinate President McKinley has been frustrated. It was concocted by a group of Spanish and Cuban conspirators, with headquarters in New York. One of the plotters weakened and sent a warning letter to a member of the Republican national committee. That letter was placed in the hands of Secretary Charles Dick, who referred it to Chairman B. B. Odell, of the New York state committee, for investigation. Chairman Odell engaged a detective, who speedily verified certain important allegations made in the warning letter. Thereupon Mr. Odell reported to Secretary Dick, who laid all the facts before Chairman Mark Hanna. Messrs. Dick and Hanna laid the whole matter before the president shortly before he departed for Canton. They instructed Mr. Odell to continue his investigation and cautioned him to work with the utmost secret. To a World reporter last evening Mr. Odell admitted that he and certain members of the national committee had discovered a plot to assassinate the president. "Yes, it is true," he said, "but I regret exceedingly that the matter has become public." Special detectives are guarding the president at Canton. CAMPAIGN INFORMALLY OPENED Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans Speak Ken Hurry Lincoln, Neb., July 11—The informal opening of the Democratic presidential campaign took place in Lincoln yesterday. In two ratification meetings, one in the afternoon conducted by the Populists and Silver Republicans of Nebraska and the evening conducted by the Democrats, William J. Bryan, Charles A. Towns, George James B. Weaver and other leaders of parties outlined the work of the campaign in the interest of Bryan and Stevenson. Probably 13,000 people, a good proportion from distant points in the state, listened to the speeches. Nearly 3,000 people packed the Auditorium in the afternoon, while 10,000 gathered in the capitol grounds in the evening. Mr. Bryan and Mr. Towne spoke at both meetings. Mr. Stevenson, who is Mr. Bryan's guest, was somewhat indisposed and did not appear at the afternoon meeting. He was present at the evening meeting, however, and received an ovation. At the afternoon meeting the speakers were Mr. Bryan, Congressman Shafroth of Colorado, "Cyclone" Davis of Texas, Former Assistant Secretary of the Interior Webster Davis, Charles A. Towne and Gen. James B. Weaver, Mr. Bryan spoke last, and only in response to repeated calls. Victims of the Yacht Idler. Cleveland, July 11.—Three bodies of victims of the ill-fated yacht Idler, which foundered ten miles from this port during a terrific squall last Saturday, were recovered yesterday. They were those of Mrs. Corrigan, wife of Captain James Corrigan, owner of the yacht; Mrs. Charles Riley, wife of Charles Riley, of New Brunswick, A.J., and daughter of Captain James Corrigan; Miss Etta Corrigan, daughter of Captain John Corrigan. The bodies of the three remaining victims of the disaster, Miss Ida Corrigan, Miss Jane Corrigan and May Riley, have not been recovered. Philippines Imports Must Pay Duty. Chicago, July 11.—Judge Kohlsaft made a ruling in the United States district court yesterday declaring that a duty must be paid on goods brought to this country from our new possessions. The ruling was made in the case of Emil J. Pepke, a member of the First South Dakota volunteers, who was arrested last May, and 14 diamonds found in his possession, which he had brought from the Philippines without paying duty, were seized and turned over to the collector of the port. An appeal will be taken to the United States supreme court. Germans Eat Dog Meat Washington, July 11.—"On account of the high price of other meat, not only horse meat, but also dog meat is used by people as an article of food in Germany," says Consul General Guenther, at Frankfort, in a report to the state department. The new meat inspection bill, says the consul general, does not adequately protect the consumer against bad meat, but excludes many first class products from the country. The consumption of horse meat, he says, is on the increase. Philadelphia's Fourth of July Horror Philadelphia's Fourth of July Horror Philadelphia, July 9.—A ninth victim was on Saturday added to the list of those who perished as a result of the deadly explosion of fireworks on South Eighth street, on the morning of the Fourth of July. This terrible fatality caused by a 13-year-old colored boy, Harris, who fired his revolver into a pile of Italian torpedoes, Harris, who himself severely injured, is in the hospital. The dead include three children of Mrs. Dl lenna, the eldest 13, who were in charge of the stand where the explosives were on sale. The eldest of the killed was 15 years old and the youngest 8. Mrs. Dl lenna and three others are unarrest. Realprocity With Germany Washington, July 11.—The long expected reciprocity arrangement between the United States and Germany has been effected. Secretary Hay and the German ambassador have subscribed to the convention, and the president will issue his proclamation putting the new duties in force in the course of a few days. The arrangement is generally similar in terms to the first arrangement made with France, and abates duties on still wines, argols, paintings and statuary from Germany entering the United States. It does not require the approval of the senate, being drawn under section four of the Dingley act. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA OZONO SAVES YOUR HAIR. BALDNESS ECZEMA TETTER DANDRUFF DANDRUFF TETTER ECZEMA Be Not Deceived !! To the Colored People of America. RECOGNIZING the Fact that there are many so called hair growers and straighteners now being offered on the market, and knowing to a certainty that most of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight forward statement to the colored people of America through its best paper, the Planet. In the year 1871, our present Secretary through a fortunate circumstance acquired the receipt for 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 head. 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. The Thomas W. Mitchell Monument Association Organized. The Thos. W. Mitehell Monument Association met at the Y. M. O. A. on last Wednesday evening. After the transaction of mqh routine work the following officers were elected: Johanna Kenney, Old Dominion, No. 8, First Vice-President. The other Vice-Presidents are as follows: S. S. Baker, Maceo, 35; B. P. Vandervall, Planet, 28; Rosebury Moshy, Samson, 16; John R. Holmes, Royal 26; Faster Lucas, Blooming Lily 15; E. R. Jefferson, Virginia 6; J. H. Brice, Unity 24; W. R. Green, Richmond 1; A. J. Smith, Exesor 29; Ovus Jones, Manager II; E. A. Washington, Staff Co. Robt. S. Nelson, Euraha Co. No. 1, No. Tucker, Planet Company, No. 8; W. E. Noble, Blooming Lily Co. No. 10; Jas. L. Thompson, O. D. Tigers. The Executive Committee elected are as follows: W. H Walton, Jas. W. Thompson, Willis Wyatt, Benj. A. Graves, Jas. L. Thompson, Louis T. Crawford, Isham Mann, and the President, Secretary and Treasurer. It was decided to meet every Tuesday eve., at 8 o'clock. The following amounts have been subscribed. Rev. J. H. Brice, 1 00 The amounts subscribed and the names of the donors will be published each week in the columns of this paper J. Henry Taylor, $2 00 Capt. W. Henry Stokes, 2 00 D. W. Davis, A. M., 1 00 John T. Taylor, 1 00 B. H. Peyton, 2 00 A. D. Prise, 5 00 J. K. Griffin, Jr., 1 00 Ulysses Briggs, 1 00 Winston D. Payne, 2 00 Thomas M. Crump, 2 00 W. A. Kyles, 1 00 James W. Thompson, 1 00 Isham Mann, 1 00 Rev. W. F. Graham, 2 00 W. Henry Walton, 2 00 J. A. Smith, 2 00 Charles A. Hall, 1 00 James A. Dixon, 1 00 John R. Cogbill, 1 00 Rosberry Mosby, 2 00 Col. E. F. Robinson, 2 00 Subscriptions can be left with Captain Thomas M. Oramp, Treasurer, 504 N. 2nd Bd. until further notice. Every one wishing to subscribe can leave subscriptions at his office and it will be published in the following week's issue. The ladies have begun the organization of an auxiliary association to work in harmony with this Association. Mrs. Edward Robinson, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Fannie F. Robinson left the city for White Sulphur Springs on Saturday last. OZONO SAVESYOUR HAR 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. --- but that there are many treated on the market, we is pure and simple. treated people of America. Agent Secretary through NO. It was not offers put upon the market by the leading colored climate remedy. True of the confidence and at they found it to cause time and as beautiful and emiliating scalp disease wish to grow on the cars on the market, then al out of the merits of serious so-called hair g. Of course the colors and bought most of the question. Would we not satisfied with the due to all we claim for at there are many so called hair growers on the market, and knowing to a certain are and simple, we wish to make a strain people of America through its best paper. Secretary through a fortunate circumstance. It was not offered for sale or pushed to a upon the market and met with marked by the leading colored people of that time, it is remedy. True to all we claimed for its confidence and attention of every member found it to cause the hair to GROW LOC and as beautiful as an April morning. It is getting scalp diseases, stops the hair from to grow on the baldest heal. Now, when the market, there are always a lot of people of the merits of other people's goods. So is re-called hair growers and hair straight course the colored people had no way to brought most of them to their sorrow. Would we absolutely agree to refit satisfied with the preparations we manuall we claim for them? We assert right REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Nickel Savings Bank. r the k the No. other S. S. rvall, mson, mson Hunter Loans and discounts . . . $4803 00 Real estate, furniture and fi- tures . . . 1595 00 A. J. Jones, ington, En. lanest oom-comp ested s. W. J. A. s. T. At Richmond, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, at the close of business, June 29th, 1900, made to the Audito of Public Accounts of the Common- wealth of Virginia. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts . . . $4803 00 Real estate, furniture and fi- tures . . . 1595 00 Current expenses and taxes paid . . . 801 40 Checks and other cash items. . . 261 00 Exchanges for clearing house. . . 273 00 Fractional currency, nick els and pennies . . . 128 00 Specie . . . 1200 00 Legal tender notes . . . 2685 00 Total . . . $10805 40 LIABILITIES. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts..... $4308 00 Real estate, furniture and fi- tures..... 1595 00 Current expenses and taxes paid..... 801 40 Checks and other cash items..... 261 00 Exchanges for clearing house..... 273 00 Fractional paper currency, nick els and pennies..... 287 00 Specie..... 1200 00 Legal tender notes..... 2585 00 Total..... $10805 40 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in..... $5670 00 Surplus fund..... 1000 00 Individual deposits subject to check..... 3294 40 Demand certificates of deposits 841 00 Total..... $10805 40 State of Virginia:—County of Henrico, city of Richmond: I. E. A. Washington, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, to the best of m knowledge and belief. E. A. WASHINGTON, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 11th day of July, 1900. ALLEN G. COLLINS, Notary Public. Correct—Attest: R. F. TANCIL, R. J. BASS, J. HENRY JONES, ALLEN G. COLLINS, Notary Public. Correct—Attest: R. F. TANCIL, R. J. BASS, J. HENRY JONES, Directors. WANTED—Agents to sell the best Hair Stalightener and Face Bleach on the market. Big profits and easy work No money required. Ladies or gentle- men. Call or write to HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 East Main St., 2t. highmond, Va. AGOOD TIME IN THE COUNTRY Dedication of the Union Baptist Church at Beaver Dam, Va. Come and go and be happy. Train leaves C. & O. Depot at 8:30 A. M., Sunday, July 29. Returning leaves Beaver Dam at 6:30 P. M. Rev. Evans Payne will preach in the new edifice and Rev. J. T. Turner in the cold edifice. Dinner served at 2 P. M. Rev. C. H. Phillips, Pastor, Fare, only $1.00. --- Have You Got a JOB? ARE YOU EARNING BIG MONEY? IF NOT, THEN YOU SHOULD WRITE AT ONCE TO— HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. We want lady or gentlemen Agents in every town in the United States. You can earn big money if you will work for us even in your spare time. Write to us to-day. This may be the chance of your life. This offer is open to ladies or gentlemen—white or colored. ONOZO Have You ARE YOU EARNING BIG HARTONA K 909 E. Main Street We want lady or gentlemen Agents. You can earn big mency if you will Write to us to-day. This may be open to ladies or gentlemen—white VIRGINIA:--IN THE LAW AND EQUITY Court OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, THE 9TH DAY OF JULY, 1800, Oteriah C. Bland,.....Plaintiff vs. IN CHANCERY. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant. And an affidavit having been made and filed, the defendant John Henry Bland is a non-resident of the state of Virginia, it is ordered that he do appear here within fifteen days after due publication hereof and do what is necessary to protect his interest herein. A copy, Teste: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. To John Henry Bland: You are hereby notified that on the 3rd day of September, 1900, at the office of Wise & Watkins, room 50, 2nd floor Chamber of Commerce Building, corner of 8th and Main street, Richmond, Va. between the hours of 9 a.m., and 6 p.m., of that day, I shall proceed to take the depositions of Lucy Jane Holmes and others to be read as evidence in my behalf, in a certain suit in equity, pending in the Law and Equity Court of Richmond, wherein I am plaintiff and you are defendant; if from any cause the taking thereof be not commenced, or if commenced be not concluded on that day, the taking thereof will be continued from day to day or from time to time between the same hours and at the same place, until the same shall be completed. OTHERIAM C. BLAND, Wise & Watkins, p. q. By Counsel. VIRGINIA:— IN THE LAW AND EQUITY COURT OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, THE 11TH DAY OF JULY, 1900. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant. And an BEFORE. AFTER. 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 Ozone and not one complaint. We have thousands of testimonials. We have not space to publish. Rev. B. Herts an eminent Colored Divine of the Church writes: I have found your Ozone to prove satisfactory in every particular. Kate W. Page. Blacksburg, Va., writes:—Your preparation has proven true to all you claim for it. The price of Ozone is 50c. a box. It takes from 3 to 4 boxes to seem plus the treatment. We make this liberal offer for a limited time only. Cut out this Coupon and send to us with $1.00, and we will forward to you 4 boxes of Ozone and one bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner which makes black skin bright rough skin soft and plant and cures all skin diseases. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—nature's great bautifier, removes wrinkles, Moth-patches, freckles and all facial blemishes, and to prove our library we will add to this one Package of Anti-Odor. A positive cure for Sore Throat, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet, also Remove all smells and Odors arising from the human body such as Feet, 4m 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. I enclose you $1.00 (One Dollar) for which please send my Co.State (ONE) LARGE JAR ELECTRICAL SKIN FOOD, (ONE) LARGE PACKAGE ANTI-ODOR. MY NAME IS Name..... House No..... Street..... Co..... Got a JOB? ING MONEY? IF NOT, THEN YOU SHOULD WRITE AT ONCE TO— REMEDY CO., Street, RICHMOND, VA. Is in every town in the United States. Will work for us even in your spare time. In the chance of your life. This offer is free or colored. affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant Martha Nelson is an resident of the State of Virginia. it is ordered that she do appear here within fifteen days after the due publication here of and do what is necessary to protect her interest herein. *a copy* Teste: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. J. Henry Crutchfield, p. q. To Martha Nelson: You will take notice that I shall, on the 28 th day of August in the year 1900 at the office of J. Henry Cruttenfield No. 1211½ E. Broad St. in the city of Richmond, Va. between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on that day proceed to take the depositions of Hester Jones and others, to be read in evidence my behalf, in a certain suit in chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond wherein we are defendants and I am plaintiff; and if from any cause, the taking of the said depositions be not commended on the day if commenced, be not 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 same shall be co-plied. JACKSON—Died at the residence of her mother, No 521 Graham St., on Tuesday, June 28th, Mattie Jackson in her 20th year. She leaves a mother, sister, two aunts and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. She had been sick about 7 months and bore her sickness well. Her funeral took place at the Sixth Mt. Zion Church on Wednesday, June 27th at 8:30 P. M. Rev. A. S. Thomas of the Sharon Church rescinded the funeral sermon. She had been a member of Orange Blossom Circle, L. O. of St. Luke from its organization. "Daughter, thou art gone to rest, Thy toils and cares are o'er; And sorrow, pain and suffering, now Shall ne'er distress thee more." HES AUNT. "A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER." Do you know that Mr. O. M. Steward, 307 Monroe Street, the celebrated grainer and sign painter, will grain your door or number your transoms artistically and beautifully so that it will always be a joy thereafter to look at them, and charge you no more and in some instances, not as much as those who spoil them and render them objects of displeasure to you ever afterwards? You have only to see his work to be convinced. Call on or drop him a postal. 6-15-1m Are You Coming to the National Bapt. Convention? All delegates expecting without fail to attend the National Baptist Con- vention 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th, of September will please send in their names at once with proper addresses to Rev. W. F. Graham, 728 N. 2nd St., Riehmond, Va. Failure to comply with this request may give delegates some trouble in- being appointed to their homes. BLACK SKIN REMOVER REDUCED TO $1.00 COPYRIGHTED BEFORE AFTER HAIR STRAIGHTENER. #2 ONE LARGE JAR thrown in, enough to make any one person's hair grow long and straight. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH UNFOLDED FACE BLEACH. A PEACH-FACED complex obsession if used as directed. Will turn skin to a brown person four or five shades lighter, and a white. In forty-eight hours a shade or two lighten. It does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches. One box of this preparation is all that is required if you want the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. It will bleach, dark spots, plumps and black-heads, freckles, dark spots, plumps and black-heads, and liver spots without harm to the skin. When you wish you will stop using the preparation. The dressing will be sent to any person for $1.00 or send one to Order, Express Money Order, Registered Letter, or O.D. D. Packed so that no one will know contents receive. THOS. B. CHANE. ATLANTA BATTLEFIELD REUNION Atlanta, Ga., July 18-20, 1900. On account of the above, the Southern Railway will sell tickets from all ticket stations on its line in Virginia and North Carolina to Atlanta and return at a rate of one first-class fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale July 18th and 17th with final limit July 29rd.