Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL XVII NO 44 RESCIND The Street THE PL Councilman Mi States the THE VOTE WAS UNANIM At a meeting of the Sire ed upon motion of Coun who employed colored claimed to represent the Centre The PLANET saw at on appeared setting forth this fac Each Councilman recei following explains itself: DISCINDED IT the Street Committee THE PLANET' Steilman Mills Makes States the Law. We THE WAS UNANIMOUS. BROTHER meeting of the Street Committee of the upon motion of Councilman Morgan R. to employed colored men as laborers. We represent the Central Labor Union (wh PLANET saw at once that this was in settling forth this fact, under the caption which Councilman received a copy and the explains itself: RESCINDED ITS ACTION QUICKLY. The Street Committee Sees Its Error THE PLANET'S POINTS SUSTAINED. Councilman Mills Makes an Explanation. Councilman Glenn States the Law. Would Make the Contracts Illegal. THE VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS. BROTHER MULLEN IS SILENT. HE DOES NOT RUN RICHMOND NOW. At a meeting of the Street Committee of the City Council of Richmond, held September 28th, a resolution was passed upon motion of Councilman Morgan R. Mills, declaring that no city work would be given to any Contractor who employed colored men as laborers. This was done at the request and demand of Mr. William H. Mullen, who claimed to represent the Central Labor Union (white) of this city. The PLANET saw at once that this was in violation of the law and in its issue of October 6th, 1900, an editorial appeared setting forth this fact, under the caption of "The Right to Labor." Each Councilman received a copy and the demand for them among our white citizens was quite general. But the following explains itself: [Extract From The Planet of October 16th, 1900] THE RIGHT TO LABOR. It has always been understood that we was waged against the shiftless, lazy. "Our race and every other race is inflicted honest colored men who scorn to steal, to earn bread. It seems that this view of the man denied the right to vote, we are to be be strange enough of itself; but it is more that the Steet Committee of Richmond at its meeting on Friday last, passed a MILLS, declaring this no Negro should work. In other words, no contractor we were to be employed by him in the exec. The resolution was adopted. It is was unconstitutional, was illegal, there is the City Attorney of the point was raised once before, and MORGAN R. MURK and his kind defend hands upited to recognize the civil and the law and to maintain and support the nation of the United States, which forbids what is it? He could refuse to employ plainly designates by resolution why he upon race and color, he violates his oath both in the eye or the community and t always been understood that the opposition of certain stresses the shiftless, lazy. "good for nothing" element every other race is afflicted and not against the sol- men who scorn to steal, but determine by the sw is that this view of the matter is to be dissipated, the right to vote, we are to be denied the right to labor through of itself; but it is more remarkable still when a Committee of Richmond, representing the whis- king on Friday last, passed a resolution on motion of B ing that no Negro should be employed by contract words, no contractor would be awarded work in employed by him in the execution of the same. solution was adopted. It is needless to remark that national, was illegal, was in violation of the oath of the City Attorney of Richmond, ask him. If we raised once before, and an opinion given. But nuns and his kind defend his position? He took to recognize the civil and political equality of a maintain and support the XIVth Amendment to United States, which forbids such legislation. If this he could refuse to employ this contractor or that states by resolution why he discriminates against it color, he violates his oath and becomes a disre- cee of the community and the law. It has always been understood that the opposition of certain white men was waged against the shiftless, leazy, "good for nothing" elements with which our race and every other race is afflicted and not against the sober, industrious honest colored men who scorn to steal, but determine by the sweat of the face to earn bread. It seems that this view of the matter is to be dissipated, that after being denied the right to vote, we are to be denied the right to labor. This would be strange enough of itself; but it is more remarkable still when it is announced that the Street Committee of Richmond, representing the white and colored, at its meeting on Friday last, passed a resolution on motion of Mr. Morgan R. Mills declaring that no Negro should be employed by contractors for city work. In other words, no contractor would be awarded work if colored men were to be employed by him in the execution of the same. The resolution was adopted. It is needless to remark that the resolution was unconstitutional, was illegal, was in violation of the oath of office. There is the City Attorney of Richmond, ask him. If we mistake not, the print was raised once before and an opinion given. But how can Mr. Morgan R. Mills and his kind defend his position? He took an oath, with hands uplifted to recognize the civil and political equality of all men before the law and to maintain and support the XIVth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which forbids such legislation. If this is not purjury, what is it? He could refuse to employ this contractor or that; but when he plainly designates by resolution why he discriminates against him and bases it upon race and color, he violates his oath and becomes a discredited individual both in the eye or the community and the law. THE NEW ERA INSTITUTE IN THE MOUNTAINS. An Education for the People—Forty-one Dollars and Seventy Cents Raised for State Missions. Rev. H. H. Palmer Ably Leads His People—Seven Deacons Ordained—The Future Teeming with Hope. The New Era Institute was held with the Bathol Baptist Church, Luray, Va., Oct. 8, 9, 10th. Twelve lectures were delivered. The writer was assisted by the following divines: Revs. J. H. Reed, George S. Kennard, (white) R. C. Carr and J. H. Roberts, (lientiate) also by Mrs. Fanny Wrington. This was one of the very best institutes ever held in Virginia. The speakers got right down to their work and lifted the floodgates, while the people drank from the fountain of knowledge. The daily attendance was ninety. The following expressions were made: "This institute is good for both soul and body," "I know better how to raise my children," "We wish all the people here could hear the lectures." "Bother Lewis, bring the institute to my church, it is the very thing my people need." The pastor, Rev. Palmer, wore a smile on his face, while the lecturers discoursed eloquently, and his liberal hearted members rallied to the call of missions. The right man is leading the Baptist forces in Luray. He leaves no stone unturned. This one church of less than 200 members gave forty-one dollars and seventy cents for state missions. The vision behind them were highly enlightened by the following ladies: Meudames Julia Butler, Mary S. Carter, Blanche Pollard, Victoria Dearing, Dora Carter, Ada Jackson, Belle Taylor, Bertie Mundy, Sarah Thornton, Dora Balis and Lizzie J. Carter. A most interesting service was held on the previous Sunday in which seven deacons were ordained to serve Bethel church; viz: Brethren J. M. Bals, Frank Deering, Immanuel Pol- At the opposition of certain white men good for nothing" elements with which I and not against the sober, industrious but determine by the sweat of the face letter is to be dissipated, that after being denied the right to labor. This would be remarkable still when it is announced I, representing the white and colored, resolution on motion of Mr. MORGAN E. be employed by contractors for city would be awarded work if colored men mention of the same, needless to remark that the resolution on violation of the oath of office. Schmidt, ask him. If we mistake not, an opinion given. But how can Mr. his position? He took an oath, with all political equality of all men before the XIVth Amendment to the Constitution such legislation. If this is not perjury, by this contractor or that; but when he discriminates against him and bases it and becomes a discredited individual the law. lard, Thomas Clay, Howard Tutt, Chas. Beasley and Aaron Fields. The writer prescheed the ordination sermon and delivered the charge, Rev. J. H. Reed offered prayer. William Carey said: "Attempt great things for God; expect great things from God." Six months ago, we rose to the eminence of God's promise and caught its vision of the future, and told the brethren success was ahead; that in less than six months the missionry work would lie in a more prosperous condition than ever. For forbid that anything shall come in the way to destroy the effect which this work has upon the people. Brethren, if you want something before your people which will help educate them along all lines and impart to them a lasting benefit, as well as rentheen your ministry, have the institutes with your churehes. P. S. Lewis, General Missionary. 1015 St. Peter St., Richmond, Va. ONLY $75 NEEDED The Monument to Col. T. W. Mitchel The Association is in need of Seventy-five Dollars more to complete their arrangements. It is hoped that all persons that have subscribed and all organizations having an idea of contributing will send in their contributions as early as possible. All members of the Association and Executive Board are requested to meet at the Philadelphia Board, Inc. (St. C., on next Tuesday evening at 8 p. m. By order of Executive Board, W. HENRY WALTON, Chair. B. H. PEYTON, Pres. J. A. SMITH, Sec. GET MONEY11 Get money. **Sobolie** mysteries. Book on a glass of w. tar for lucky numbers. $1.00. **N. Contes** . 40. 140 W. Irving St., Philadelphia. Fs. Cascades curved. 8:25 8pm. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1900. [From Richmond, Va. Evening News, October 16th, 1900.] ANY GRANITE CUTTERS-CITY CANNOT DIS CRIMINATE ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR. The Street committee yesterday afternoon reconsidered and then reconsidered their recommendation of the ordinance placed before it at the last meeting of the committee and which asked that in the contracts made by the city for curbing and recurbing the contractors be required to employ Richmond white labor. Morgan R. Mills made the motion to have the action rescinded as such an ordinance would make all contracts made by the city under it illegal in that discrimination on the side of white labor would be class legislation and unconstitutional. The motion was voted on promptly and the vote was unanimous in favor of rescoring the recommendation. Councilman Harry Gienn, a member of the committee, said this afternoon: "We were compelled to follow this course in the matter for the simple reason that investigation by us showed that we would be putting the city where it would have to make contracts that would not be legal. When the matter first came before us we recommended it as we desired that white men should be employed in this work, but we afterward found out that we made a mistake and the best thing for us to do then was to rectify it as promptly as possible. All contracts under such an ordinance would be illegal. Mr. Eddie Claiborne of New York called on us Mrs. Alice Judah of Philadelphia has been visiting here. Mr. J. Patrick Smith has returned to the city. Hon. Cesar Perkins of Buckingham Do., called on us this week. Rev. J. H. Arigal and wife are now in London, England, and are much pleased with conditions existing there. Mrs. Louisa C. Jankins is home again after spending a quiet summer at the seahore of Asbury Park, N. J. The officers and members of the Church Extension Club returns many thanks to all who assisted them in their Grand Rally, Monday night, Oct. 15th, 1900. Mrs. Rosa Wood is dangerously ill at the Virginia Hospital. The operation performed on her is thought to have been a success. —Rev. D. J. Beckett, former presiding elder of the A. M. E. Church for this district is now located at Morganton, N. C., and is doing well. —Miss Gertrude M. Baker of Cambridge, Mass., called on us in company with Mrs. Rosa K. Jones. She is one of the instructors of Hatschorn Memorial College, and this is the third teacher of color who has been added to the faculty. —Mrs. John A. Langhorne of Washington, D. C., is making an extensive trip north, visiting friends and relatives in Philadelphia, Jersey City, New York, Providence and Boston. —Mrs. Newman Wesley and daughter have returned to the city much improved in health after a visit of two months at Mammoth Springs. Mrs. W. B. F. Thompson has returned to the city after an extended trip to Washington, Hartford, Springfield and Holyoke, Mass. Mr. Booker Jones sent us his subscription fee. SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. The Sunday School Union of the city will meet with the Moore St. Sunday School, Rev. R. O. Johnson B. D., Pastor, on the First Sunday in November, 8ro. Samuel T. Turner, the popular Supt. will prepare a fine programme, $150 00 ENDOWMENT PAID. RICHMOND, VA., Oct. 12th, 1900. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Great Lodge of Virginia, One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of death claim of my husband, Grant Davis, who was a member of Maceo Lodge, No. 35, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. & A. her Signed: Rose x Davis. Witnesses: mark O. M. Steward, Benj. A. Graves, J. C. Farley. The Only Colored Delegate. Mr. C. E. Conick, Jr., of New York, called on us. He was in attendance at the Brotherhood of St. Andrews of Protestant Episcopal Church. There are 1000 delegates and they are in session at Jefferson Hotel. Mr. Conick was sent as a delegate by the Church of the Holy Communion, New York city. He was surprised to find that he was the only colored delegate. No discrimination was made against him however and he has enjoyed all of the rights and privileges of the other delegates. Mr. Willie P. Mason, of No. 12 W. Baker St., this city, head cook for the engineers and bridge force of the O. and O. Greenbrier Valley R. E., Greenbrier, W. Va. will arrive on the 28th of October, and he will be glad to meet all of his old friends again before he returns. The Planet, only $1.50 per year. G. U. 0.0F O. F. MEETS The Tenth B. M. C. Held at Louisville, Ky. Several Important Propositions Passed. SPLENDID RECEPTION. Grand Parade and Banquet. Eloquent Oration by Prof. J. McHenry Jones. The following Biehmond OJd Fellows boarded the O. & O. train Sunday Sept. 80th, enroute for Louisville, Ky. to attend the tenth B. M. C. of the G U. O. of O. F., M. V. Ps., W. M. T. Forrester, ex Grand Master; Wm. Custalo, Morton, Deane, Alfred Coots and R. Beecher Taylor; P. G. M. Archie Hawkins and P. N. F., James Barrett. At Gordonville the Washington delegation was met. Louisville was reached Monday, October 1st. The delegation was comfortably quartered. Tuesday, Oct. 2d at 10 a.m. Grand Master called the assembly to order. "Blest be tie that binds." was sung after which Rev. Wm. H. Ward invoked, divine blessing. Master of Ceremonies W. H. Ross delivered the opening Rev. Ghas S. Morris, then introduced and made the welcome address which was followed as it was hospitable. Grand Master Morris accepted the hearty welcome for the order. Hon. Albert S. White, LL.B., then presented the keys of the hall. The Grand Master received the keys and Grand Director T. R. W. Jackson responded. Miss Georgia Frasier presented the Grand Master with a handsome gavel from the Juvenile Society, to which Deputy Grand Master A B. Lattimore responded. The Grand Master then declared the Tenth B. M. C. in session and ready for business. I. Thos. Turner of Tenn., Charles B Wilkinson of Va., J. R. F. Brown of D. C., Ford Evans of Ohio, were nominated for Assistant Secretaries. Brothers Wilson and Turner were elected After the report of the committee on credentials, the Grand Master, E. H. Morris then delivered his biennial address, which was presented in beautiful language filled with rich thoughts reviewing the work of the order in its past success and offering valuable advice for continued prosperity. The Galveston disaster was referred to in a touching manner, and, at the same time recommending that the B. M. C. take some action. He also referred to the death of Grand Director Benjamin T. Thornton, paying a beautiful triumph to his career at a true Odd Fellow. He also commented that the Editor and Manager of the Odd Fellow's Journal, which showed wonderful success and excellent management. Total balance in 1888 and total receipts to Sept. 17, $1681.03 The Grand Secretary Charles H. Brooks then read his report which was full of facts and figures which caused every one to be filled with joy. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Amount balances in 1898, $25150.18 Collections to Sept. 1, 1900, 87471.38 Total, $62821.46 Expenses, 28722.53 Balance in hand Sept. 1, 1900, $3898 93 In the election of officers a good deal of interest was manifested. Grand Master E. H. Morris of Chicago, Grand Secretry C. H. Brooks of Kentucky and Grand Treasurer J. E. Reed were elected unanimously, which was a magnificent tribute of appreciation for the official career by the Tenth B. M. O. L. L. Lee of Georgia was elected Deputy Grand Master. The following Grand Directors were elected: George E. Temple, Missouri; T. R. W. Jackson, Alabama; E. E. Fluker, Arkansas; N. A. Anderson, Mississippi. T. C. Asbury was elected editor and manager of Odd Fellows Journal. The parade was grand and attracted much attention. The different Patriarchies and a large number of the subordinate lodges, followed by the Grand Officers in hacks, formed the procession. The banquet was a splendid affair, where the gallant youth and lovely women fairly captured the delegation in their happy associations. Grand Master E. H. Morris, as a presiding officer, has no equal. Fair, firm, impartial, he prevented surplus talk and augmented legislation. She 10th B. M. C. goes down into history as one of the greatest meetings of the 19th century for the good of the order. That able pulpit orator and theologian, Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D., of Washington delivered and excellent lecture at the Second Baptist Church last Monday night. Asbury M. E. Church. At Asbury Church, 25th St. near O St., on Sunday, Oct., 21st, will be the Quarterly Meeting Services. 10:80 A.M. Love Feast, conducted by the Rev. L. J. Valentine of Baltimore, Md. 11:30 A.M. m. preaching by the Rev. Mr. Valentine, the presiding elder. At 8 P.M. preaching by the pastor, subject, 10:30 A.M. stewards desire to raise at least $20 on that day. Come and help in the Lord's work. J. Edw. GUNBY, Pastor. Sunday, October 21st, is the Third Quarterly Meeting. In the morning at 10:30 there will be the Quarterly Love Feast, conducted by the pastor, the Rev J. Edw. Gunby. At 11 A. M. sermon by the pastor. At 8:30 P. M. the presiding elder of the Alexandria District, the Rev L. J. Valentine will preach and at 8 P. M. preaching by Brother Charles Blount. All the members are requested to give largely on Sunday that the Stewards may be enabled to partially meet their demand. J. Edw. Gunny. Pastor. LYNCHED HIM. MACON, GA., Ost. 18 — Frank Hardenmann, a tramp colored man was lynched at Wellston, early this morning, for assaulting Mra B. M. Pierson, the wife of a Baptist preacher. The woman and three small children were in the room at the time, and raised an alarm. The colored man buried himself in a cotton patch, but was found and lynched. His body was hung by the side of the railway, in view of passengers on the cars. EGGLESTON—Died. Ost. 8th, 1900, Absolom Eggleston, at his home on St. Paul St. His funeral took place Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock p. m. from the 2nd Baptist Church of which he was a consistent member for a number of years. Rev Z. D. Lewis preached a pathetic sermon, assisted by Rev. S. C. Burrell. Impressive songs were sung by the choir. The deceased was a peaceful, affectionate Christian and a loving father and brother. His death was quite a shock to the community. ADAMS—Died at his late residence, 108 W. Duval St., Sept. 29th at 3:30 p.m., Lewis K. Adams, the beloved son of Harrison and Sallie Adams, after an illness of six months. He was perfectly resigned to death. The funeral took place from the residence, Rev. W. H. Stokes offolating. He was assisted by Rev. S. C. Burrell. The pall-bearers were: Messrs Philip Clarke, John Stanford, Luke Hughes, Alfred Harris Hirn Robinson and William Acres. Honorary, pall-bearers; Charles Russell and John Browne. Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep. From which none e'er wakes to weep. His Devoted Parents. There will be a meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of the T. W. Mitchell Association, Tuesday evening Oct. 28, 1000 at the rooms of the T. M. C. A. The officers and members are hereby notified to attend promptly at 6 oclock p.m. and all others wishing to join. MRS. R. ELEANORA WESLEY. Pres. MRS. LILLIAN PAYNE. Secretary. FROM NEWPORT, R. I. A glorious day at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church commering at 5:30 e.m. m. with praise prayer all day and preaching in the evening by Rev. E. Richardson, the pastor. A glorious time was spent the services will be held three days. The city hospital is crowded with people sick with typhoid fever so much so until they were compelled to secure a larger house on Broadway to take care of the sick. They have in the neighborhood of 75 or 100 cases of the fever. It is reported to come from city water as a woman was found in the pond drowned and had been in the pond 6 weeks more or less. It has been quite cold here and lots of rain. Hope Lodge No. 3 K. of P. held their first meeting in their new castle hall Tuesday evening last, they also took in two new members. Mr. and Mrs W. M. Spence of Poplar St. have returned home from their trip to Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Dobson have gone South. Mr. Dobson had to give up his business here on account of his poor health. We wish him much luck. WIFE WANTED. Mr. "B." colored, a prosperous professional man, wishes to open correspondence with some young lady with a view to marriage. Mr. "B." has a fine practice and desires to wed a lady of some means who is able and willing to aid him financially in his business, and he will thus insure an independent living for himself and wife. The advertiser is thirty, but ladies of any reasonable age may apply, and from any section of the country. Mr. "B" is not of Richmond, but all communications must be addressed to Mr. "B." in care of Richmond PLANER, Richmond, Va., and will be forwarded directly to him without being opened. Correspondence will be conducted on strictly secret basis and the names of no parties applying will be made publie. [BY R. BERCHER TAYLOR ] FINANCIAL STATEMENT $62821.46 28722.53 SAN MARCILLO, P. I., Aug. 11, 1900. These are moving on as usual and is yet considerable sickness, principally stomach troubles. Pvt Milton Bates Go I. 25th died at the hospital in Castillejos last Wednesday of chronic disentery. He had been lingering tour or five days. The remains were interred alongside of the late musician, Thomas G. Stilburn at Castillejos. He was a Christain and a member of one of the churches in his home, deceased was a native of Kentucky. 1st Sergt. Henry who has been indisposed for sometime is back to duty again. Bri Gen. J. F. Bell, our late Brig. Commander is now Provost Marshal General of Mala, and Brig. Gen. Smith, Col. 17th F.I. is now commanding the Brigade. It is rumored that we will shortly close in thereby causing the detachments to break up. Lieut. Enochis is now in command of Company K, having relieved Lieut. Bates, who has been with us nearly a year and who leaves for a new field. We wish him success and God speed wherever his duty may call him. Pvt. Proffess of Company I, was shot and instantly killed by Private Smith of Company H, 25th Infantry on July 22d at San Felipe, the Battalion headquarters. Both were members of tank troops and noted for their reckless bravery and note for his reckless bravery to toil and for Proffit recommended for a medal of honor. The men were gambling and got in to a dispute when Smith pulled a six shooter and shot him through the head with the above result. Smith is from West Philadelphia, Pa., and Proffit from X.-nia. O. STAFF JORRESPONDENCE L. SAN MARCOILINA, P. I., Aug. 14, 1800. Whereas, our Supreme Being has seen fit in His all we providee to remove from midst our beloved comrades and soldiers. Sergt James R. Lightfoot, Corsp. Mrw Crawford. Mus. Thomas G. Wilburn. Pvt. Tevis Brouston, and Whereas, we, the Y. M. O. A. of Co. K, 29th U. S. Infantry deeply feel the loss of our comrades, who were ever ready to march to the front to defend the flag and die for their country. They were bave and conscient soldiers and beloved by all who knew them, therefore be it Resolved, That while we bow in humble submission to Him who knoweth all things and doeth all things well, we deeply feel that it is our binding soldierly and brotherly duty to pay this tribute of respect to our brave and honored soldiers. Resolved, That we, the Y. M. C. A. of Company K. 25th Infantry stationed at Oastilly's Zambales, Pt. Irvine (Luzon) P. I. have lost brave and faithful non-commissioned officers and private. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be read to the company and that a copy of said resolutions be sent to each of the families of our deceased comrades and publish the same in the RICHMOND (Ve.) PLANET, the Indianapolis (Ind) Freeman, and the (Augusta) Georgia Baptist of the United States of America. By the Committee, TURNER H. WISEMAN, ALEXANDER JONES, NORMAN HENDERSON, HENRY E JOHNSON, Chair. SAN MARGARILINO, P. I., Aug. 17, 1900. The week has been quite lively. A seouting party from San Felipe and San Mareisco under Sergeant Thompson of the band,encountered the enemy between the above mentioned places and had a spirited engagement, lasting an hour or two. The Americans withdrew from superior force into San Mareisco and the enemy hurriedly took to the mountains. A detachment of the mounted seouts enroute from Castillijos to San Felipe and who intended to barrack here for the night was ordered to San Mareisco to reinforce that point. I went down to Castillijos and while there attended the debate of the Y. M. C. A., "Resolved, that whiskey is more destructive than war." The affirmative was able handled by Messr. Turner H. Wiseman of the "Freeman" and Corp. Thomas Jones. Their eloquence stood out in bold relief again: the stubbornly contesting arguments of their opponents. The negative, Messrs. Alexander Jones and Lorenzo McCabe. Despite the talk of attack, the debaters argued until 8:30 when the judges retired. While that honorable body were debilitating the critic, Mr. Rienli B. Lemus made his report. At the conclusion the judges reappeared and announced that the affirmative won. Sergent Greenwood and Private Clarence Thompson spoke well in behalf of whiskey. The entertainment was a success. Thanks to the efforts of president Henry E. Johnson and his assistants. The Y. M. O. C. is now a permanent organization, known as the Y. M. O. C. of Company K 25 h Infantry with the following officers: Privatez Henry E. Johnson, president; Turner H. THE PLANET SATURDAY OCT 20, 1900 England's War Office Theories. Theories by the hundred are hatched within the walls of the war office—the theories based upon the lessons taught during the mutiny and the Crimean war, theories that would have been useful in the days of the Snider or even the converted Snider, but which in the main are of little value when Mausers and Mannilichers and shells filled with melinite and having the velocity almost of sound itself are used. In that building they arrange drill books and preface them with the warning that by command of her majesty the rules for movements and formations laid down therein are to be rigidly adhered to, and that any departure therefrom will be viewed as something like a crime. According to the lines of these books our men are drilled and our officers are trained; and what was the result during the war that is now closing? Battaiations and brigades stumbled their way along on the war office lines until they learned by experience that they were wrong, and the imperial officer and the imperial battalion were the laughing stock of the colonial in the field.—Pall Mall Gazette. Lemon Market in China I know a rancher who is engaged all these days in shipping lemons to China, says a writer in the Los Angeles Times. The market is at Canton and the fruit is sent out from San Francisco by the regular steamers. It was a new experience to me to talk with a man who is selling his fruit regularly and profitably after its having half-girdled the globe on its way to the consumer. The grower told me he received an average of three dollars a box since the initial shipment was made the first of last March. Advices from the receiver of these lemons at Canton state that they are smoother, juicier and thinner-skinned than the Italian fruit received at Canton. They further state that there was only one competitor in the market—an Italian dealer. This indicates the undeveloped condition of the oriental trade and the ignorance of the market demands of the Chinese ports. This Busy World. There are times when progress moves so rapidly that it taxes a man's strength to keep abreast of civilization. Many of us can sympathize with an unhappy-looking English farmer who always shook his head when the word "progress" was mentioned. "What are you so low about, my friend?" some one asked him. "Why," said he, "what wi' faith and gas and balloons and steam ingines a-booming and a-fizzling through the warld, and what wi' th' arth a-going round once in 24 hours, I'm fairly muzzled and stagnated."-Youth's Companion. Plague of Dogs. The City of Mexico is afflicted with a perennial plague of canines. The concessionaire for the killing of vagrant dogs has informed the city council that during the months of May, June and July last he poisoned 1,527 dogs and gave them to be incinerated in the San Antonio Tomatlan cremator. The concessionaire recently asked for the renewal of his concession for a period of ten years, and after consultation with the board of health the city council acceded to the request.-Chicago Journal. Estimating Purity of Gold The purity of gold is estimated by an Abyssinian weight called a carat (from the Arabian word qurrat, a bean, the fruit of the carab tree) which is subdivided into four parts called grains. The term carat when applied to gold is not a weight unit, but the mode of expressing the purity or fineness of the metal in twenty-fourths. Thus 18 carat gold is metal in which 18 parts out of 24, or three-fourths, are pure gold. United States gold coins are 21.19 carats.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Chicago's Proposal Jinx—Do you know what Chicago proposes to do in case we settle amicably with China? Blixn—No, I haven't heard; but I suppose it is something generous. "Of course it is. She is going to send over a shipload of pigtails to be used for repairs."—Detroit Free Press. An Example "Electricity in the atmosphere affects your system," said the scientific physician. "Yes," said the patient, who had paid two guineas for two visits. "I agree with you. There are times when one feels overcharged."—Stray Stories. Illustrated. "Men of my profession are very good story tellers," remarked the barber. "Yes," assented the smarting sufferer in the chair, "and they usually illustrate their stories with cuts."—Stray Stories. The Voice of Nature Policeman—Was it your own, ma'am? "My own! Oh, if it were, I shouldn't mind so much."—Brooklyn Life. Taken Into Consideration Prospective Guest—Can't you give me another room? That one isn't fit for a human being to live in. Summer Hotel Proprietor—That's why I only get two dollars a day for it.—Puck. Cheap Meat in Australia. All kinds of meat are inexpensive in Australia, especially mutton, which cells as low as one penny a pound. Fish costs even less.—N. Y. Sun. Known la America. To Americans the lord chief justice of England is usually but a name. The late Baron Russell of Killowen, however, was almost as well known and quite as sincerely respected in the United States as in Great Britain. He had visited this country twice, the last time to deliver a most thoughtful and suggestive address on international law. Even before his elevation to the highest judicial office in Great Britain, he had won universal recognition by the masterly skill with which he had exposed the Piggott forgeries in the London Times, and vindicated Parnell, the Irish home rule leader. He represented Great Britain in the Behring sea arbitration, was a member of the Venezuela tribunal, and on the death of Lord Herschell was chosen to succeed him as president of the joint high commission. These duties kept him in close touch with American statesmen and lawyers, whose confidence he won and kept by his courtesy, fairmindedness and profound legal knowledge. His death is a loss to international comity, and to the whole body of English-speaking people.-Youth's Companion. Limit to His Confidence "You are sure you have that confidence in me that is so essential in choosing a life partner?" she said, inquiringly. "You trust me fully?" "Oh, implicitly," he replied. "I would trust you with my life. Only show me how I can prove it." "I will," she said with a happy sigh. "Promise me—" "Anything you ask," he interrupted. "The promise is given beforehand. For you I would go through Nigaraga whirlpool in a barrel, I would cross the ocean in an open boat." "Promise me," she repeated slowly and deliberately, "that when we are married you will put your bank account in my name." However, of course there are limitations to even the most devoted love, and so he left her weeping over the hollowness and mockery of masculine protestations—Chicago Post. Spreading Consumption. The following curious origin of an epidemic of tuberculosis is reported from Karkow, a city of Russia. An unusual number of cases of consumption were noticed among the municipal officers and clerks. Some accidental suggestion finally led to a bacteriological examination of the library where the city records were kept. It was found that the departmental archives were literally covered with tubercle bacilli. Further investigation traced them to a consumptive employee, whose work had led him to consult the archives very frequently, and who had the common habit of wetting his fingers with saliva to facilitate the turning of the pages, on each one of which he thus deposited a colony of bacilli.—La Nature. Modern Superstition. In the West country lately a field of standing barley was "overlooked" by a crone who had long been supposed to desire to add the field to her own adjoining acres. When the owner of the barley sent his men to cut it down the cutter would not cut; then the horse would not move. So he borrowed a neighbor's cutter. It fell to pieces. It was repaired. The neighbor's horses and men were put on and the barley was cut down. These horses and men had not been included in the "overlooking." And this is seriously believed, even by educated farmers of to-day, to be due to occult influence.—London News. Quite a Tumble. "I d-d-didn't know that mercury and alcohol w-would mix," said young De Shivers, as he rode to the city from Wilkinsburg in an open car. "Well, will it?" asked Mr. Homewood. "The thermometer has t-t-taken a drop too m-m-much."—Pittsburgh Chronicle. A Best Center. "Wiggins, I called at your office while you were away and it was so quiet that I could hear a pin drop." "Good; I'm glad to hear the men were so industrious and faithful during my absence" "Industrious! There wasn't a clerk on the place."-Indianapolis Journal. He Knows Without Learning. Little Johnny—Mrs. Talkendown paid a big compliment to day. Mother—Did she, really? Well, there's no denying that woman has sense. What did she say? Little Johnny—She said she didn't see how you came to have such a nice little boy as I was.-Brooklyn Eagle. More Than He Could Stand "What's the matter with Griggs? I don't see him smoking any more." "The last cigar he smoked did it." "Why, I didn't think such a thing was possible." "Well, you see, his wife bought it."—Yonkers Herald. Cherry Water Ice Strain the juice from a quart of cherries through a linen bag and the juice from two lemons over a pound of sugar; add a pint of water and wineglassful of brandy and freeze.—Brooklyn Eagle. Pat—Tired—is it ye say? B' jabers, Moike, th' bes/thing th' thg Lord liver done fur us wuz t' fix us so wees Lord sit down!—Puck. Helping Him Out "When was Louisiana ceded, dad?" "Eh? Seeded? Why, I s'pose it all depends on what they expect to grow. Don't ask me no more such fool questions."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A lawyer riding his bicycle on a foot-path was caught by a policeman. The cyclist at once came off the path and tried to reason with the policeman. "You aren't really going to run me in for this?" he asked. "Yes, sir; I can't help it." "Well, come in here and we will talk about it over a glass of something." THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The policeman followed the gentleman, who ordered two glasses of beer, one fow himself, the other for the policeman, both of which were finished before he again remarked: "Surely, you are not really going to make a fuss about this?" "I must, sir; it's my business." "Ah! then at the same time it will be my business to report you for drinking beer while on duty." The policeman's expression changed. "You're a lawyer, I take it?" "Yes." "And a sharp one, too," said the cop as he went out and slammed the door behind him—Collier's Weekly. Just to Go Somewhere. It would be interesting to know to what extent the summer resorts profit by a simple desire to get away from home, without regard to the destination. The following conversation, overheard in one of the inland lake towns of Wisconsin, certainly demonstrates that no place is a summer resort to the residents therein. "This town has considerable of a reputation as a summer resort, hasn't it?" asked the stranger. "Yes, indeed," answered the native. "We have rowing, fishing, sailing, bathing, camping, the very best of accommodations, and all the sports to be found anywhere, including golf and tennis." "And yet I see many of your finest houses are shut up." "Oh, yes. Most of the people who can afford it go away for the summer."—Chicago Post. Kangaroo Valuable in Surgery. It seems not unlikely that the kangaroo, instead of being killed, will be cultivated in the future. M. Brisson, a French surgeon, says that there is likely soon to be an exceptional demand for the animals in consequence of the success attending the use of kangaroo tendon in the hospitals. It has been employed in scores or instances to tie up the fractured bones of a man's leg, in order that he may use his knees while the bones are knitting together. Kangaroo tendon, he says, is as strong as silver wire. It is taken from the tail, and, being animal in nature, it is absorbed, and the leg does not have to be cut open, as is necessary when silver wire is used.—N. Y. Times. Unique Engineering. An extension of the Mexican National railway 50 miles, from Potzcuaro to Uruapan, was completed a year or two ago and is a unique piece of engineering. Probably a more crooked railroad is not to be found anywhere in the world. After winding along the shore of Lake Patzcuaro, then past beautiful Lake Zirahuen, it crosses a mountain range by the devious course of four long adjacent loops. In an air line covering the four adjacent loops the distance is 2,673 feet—just about half a mile—and the fall 426 feet, but the train travels $2\frac{1}{2}$ miles in the descent—Chicago Chronicle. Records of Oldest Rome. Three thousand bronze tablets, containing the records of Rome from the foundation of the city to the time of Vespasian, are buried in the marshes near Ostia, according to Signor Constantino Maes, an Italian archaeologist. They were saved from the fire which destroyed the capitol in the year A. D. 69 and taken to Ostia. Signor Maes wants the Italian government to drain the marshes and hunt for the tablets.—N. Y. Sun. An Adirondack Volcano. Mount Marcy, the highest mountain in the Adirondacks, is very uneasy, with volcanic tendency. This mountain is one of the curiosities of the Adirondack section and it is said to be the first mountain in the world to have received the cooling breezes after the chaos period, and to this fact is attributed the continued salubility of the air and general healthfulness of the Adirondack mountains.—N. Y. Sun. A. Natural Sequence Mrs. Witts (to sick husband)—The doctor has arrived. Mr. Witts—Then you had better telephone for the undertaker, my dear. "Why, John, what do you mean?" "Well, you know coming events cast their shadows before them."—Chicago Evening News. An Extreme Case. Returned Traveler—Here and there in Europe I found intense anti-American feeling. Friend—Did you? "Yes. I ran across one man who went so far as to sneer at our cocktails."—Brooklyn Life. Rachel—I think he is a very bright young man. Mamma—Of gourse you do! Ven a girl is in love she tinks deller feller will some day own half-a-dozen trusds! —Puck. Thermometers in Germany Germany has given up the Reaumur thermometer, and after January 1, 1901, will use only the Centigrade. In the Reaumur the division between the freezing and the boiling point is into 80 degrees; in the Centigrade it is into 100 degrees.-Chicago Ocean. A Misanthrope. Bowery Staggers—When a feller's down everybody tries to shove him down furder! Pell Mell-Huh! You talk like somebody d'be offering you device presidency!—Puck. A Stay of Proceedings. "Harry, what made you forget to mail my letter?" "Oh, Marie, do wait till I've had my dinner and get cooled off; by that time, I promise you, I'll be able to think up some perfectly satisfactory reason."—Indianaapolis Journal. His Abrupt Demise. Mrs. McLubberby—Poor Duffy's death was moistly sudden, wasn't ut? McLubberby—Ut was thot! He wint to bed well, an' got up in the mar-r-rnin' stone dead.—Judge. Always Promising. A fashionable tailor says that many of his customers dwell in the land of promise.—Chicago Daily News. OZONO IS KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS BE WARNED. By honest methods and is to-day the only gen- ence, and possessing the confidence of the colored excited the uplidity of the unprincipled who, to get injurious to the hair and skin, and dangerous to health and life. Be warned; don't send your money to get only in return a mass of hard and tallow and animal fats, that injure your hair and cause it to fall out, destroy its growth, and cause you to become bald. 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This grand combination, worth $3.50, we will send you on receipt of One Dollar, to introduce honest goods. Parties sending us $3.00 will receive four lots. Register your letters. AGENTS WANTED. BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 E. BROAD ST., RICHMOND, VA. Antiquity of Chewing Gum Habit. A correspondent calls attention to a passage in a letter written by Columbus after the discovery of America. It is as follows: "Finally that I may compress in few words the brief account of our departure and quick return and the gain. I promise this, that if I am supported by our most invincible sovereign with a little of their help, as much gold can be supplied as they will need; indeed, as muc of spices, or cotton, of chewing gum (which is only found in Chilos), also as much of aloeswood and as many slaves for the navy as their majesties will wish to demand." The date of this letter is March 14, 1493, over 400 years ago, and it is evident from the inclusion of chewing gum in his list of products obtainable in the new country that Columbus considered it an item of considerable importance; so we may fairly assume that the chewing gum habit was prevalent in Spain in 1492.—Popular Science Monthly. No Government in Chinn. There is no such thing in China as a government as we understand that term. There is the outward form, but it is entirely devoid of substance. There are officials, but they lack power, and even the imperious will of the empress dowager cannot be impressed on the people at large. The present disturbance, if it is at least a popular uprising, indicates the helplessness of the central government to govern; or if it is at the most actually supported by the authorities, then we see the curious spectacle of a government carrying on a war against the civilized world in concert with the greater part of its people and the whole of its navy standing by apparently unmoved. What other country but China can present such an anomaly?-William Barclay Parsons, in Harper's Weekly. Pulling Strength of Elephants It is difficult to estimate the pulling strength of an elephant, for the simple reason that the strongest animals in captivity are not the possessors of the sweetest tempers, and accordingly their keepers are chary of allowing them to be attached to dynamometers, not caring to speculate as to what the end would be were the mammoth to "lose his hair." Tests which have been made with average-sized animals, however, prove that a healthy young Jumbo of 18 summers or thereabouts can make a dynamometer register $5\%$ tons dead weight. In order to get an idea of what this represents it may be stated that a pair of powerful horses could only register a ton and a fifth by their united efforts.—Chicago Chronicle. Poor Lo's Religious System So benign was the religious system of the Indian that each department of the animal kingdom was provided with a little divinity to look after its affairs. Thus the Spirit of the Great Swan looked after all swans, the Spirit of the Great Turtle controlled all turtledom, and so on through the list, every kind of an animal having its own protecting spirit to guard its interests and punish its enemies. These divinities—who were under the control of the Great Spirit—felt a great interest in the human race, and any one of them might become the protecting genius of any particular man—Detroit Free Press. 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When the night breeze kisses the fevered earth and the gems of the star-world gleam With their twinkling sparkles of silvery till till the heavens with beauty teeth The heart beats soft with a soothing sense of freedom and calm delight we lie and gaze at the whip-poor-will where the grassen are a lullaby to the grassen. the breath of the night wind stirred, and the dog-wolf howls in the sandy hills and the cowboy sings to his herd. Off there on the breast of a rising slope the cattle in uglot lie. Nor raise their heads when the shadowy form of the rider passes them by. But close their eyes when the soothing song of the tireless watcher they hear— The song that tells them to lie in peace; no danger is lurking near. The weary man from the city's noise on the grass in his blanket lies And reads a story of peaceful rest on the hillsides. And dreamly watches the faithful flight of the restless nocturnal bird. Where the dog-wolf howls in the sandy hills and the cowboy sings to his herd. How near to the presence of God we feel? How sacred the stillness seems. How the weared soul in its new-found rest with the joy of existence teems! with the joy of existence teems! the face of the Father of All up there! In a twinkling frame of the silent stars that jewel the midnight air! What the light-fitted brain as we float on a dreamy sea. To the mystic shadows of Slumberland from the cares of the earth set free—Float on till the last dim vision of earth by the finger of anger of sleep is blurred. Where the day is dark the sandy hills and the cowboy sings to his herd.—James Barton Adams, in Denver Post. Lifting the Shadows Lifting the Shadows THE fourth-story lodge was always busy. Great boxes of flowers and chiffons came to her room, to be sent out again in bewildering creations, tied up in dainty white boxes, marked "E. Downing, milliner." But no one ever came to her rooms, except her customers, to the great surprise of the curious old lady who dwelt in the rear and kept close watch for a year over the slender, pretty, black-gowned little milliner. No one—that is, with one exception, One day a tall woman, clad in deep mourning, had climbed the steep stairs and remained closeted in the fourth-story front room for hours. Voices rose high, but the curious ears in the rear could catch no word until the door opened and a soft voice, which she recognized as the little milliner's, exclaimed: "Leave him? Never—never!" "Elizabeth, may you never regret your determination. Your parents, at least, have fulfilled their duty," replied the lady in mourning, as she slowly descended the stairs. Elizabeth Downing closed her door and sank down among the chiffons and flowers, sobbing—sobbing so bitterly that her tears fell upon the soft masses, crushing their freshness. "How cruel they are! It is their pride, not their love, which is killing me. My God, how I have suffered, and must for four long years." She dragged herself to the window and stared up at the sky, gradually clouding in the soft haze of spring twilight. At last her eyes rested upon the evening star—his favorite star. Her thoughts flew back to that night beside the lake, so peaceful in its quiet beauty, that she had turned to him and whispered: "How I love to live! If this moment could only last forever!" But a telegram had broken in upon her delight, recalling Jack to town on business. Fatal word that had broken so many women's hearts! They must return at once, Jack explained, and she had quieted her regrets, stifled by the anxious lines that furrowed his face. Suddenly, as she moved about the room, gathering up their belongings, he had clasped her in his arms, saying: "Elizabeth, if you ever learned—" He paused an instant, then resumed, slowly: "If anyone should speak ill of me to you, would you still love me?" "Nothing could make me doubt you." "But if I deserved it?" "You?" She trembled at his discomposed features, but answered, firmly: "Even if you deserve it." She remembered every detail of that cheerless journey to town, and the rough men who had met them in the station. She still felt Jack's trembling lips pressed to hers in a farewell kiss. "Go home to your parents, love; I must be away so long." The anguish of those first days swept over her again. But she would wait for him, would help him explate his sin, and then together they would go forth into the world and live down the dark stain of their past. And so she continued in her life of abnegation, until one spring day she moved from the little room into a dainty apartment near by and busied herself preparing a gown of soft white material. The lines faded from her face, a faint rose tint flushed her cheeks and a glad light shone in her eyes. Then one evening she appeared in the white gown, a great cluster of red roses at her breast, and stood looking around in the soft glow that the shaded lamp ahed over the little parlor with its cluster of roses like those she wore. "Jack's favorite flowers" she mured. "I wonder will he notice them? He said he would be here promptly at eight." The clock pointed to a quarter of eight. Low slowly the minutes dragged along; eight o'clock at last. Then five minutes past, then ten. "Oh, if he does not come," she moaned. A rustle at the door attracted her attention; she flew to it, throwing it wide open. Was that her husband, that shrunken, haggard man, with furtive, hunted eyes, and the ghastly pallor, she wondered, as he stepped past her without a glance of recognition at her. She followed him into the parlor, longing to throw her arms around him, but not during to do so. He spoke: "You are frightened; you don't recognize your husband," and he smiled grimly, "an old man at 35." Lifting his hat, he showed her his gray hair. Then he continued almost forever. "An ill-assorted couple, indeed! You so young and fair, for I have never seen you so beautiful before." "Does that annoy you, dear?" she asked, holding out her arms to him. "Do not touch me!" he cried, shrinking from her. "Do you think I have fallen so low that I have so little honor or delicacy left that I would let you in your purity touch such a polluted thing as it? No, I was weak to come, but henceforth we will live as strangers. I am unworthy of you." "I implore you, Jack—" "Elizabeth, you are free," he cried, with brutal energy. "I release you now. Get your divorce. Anything, if you will only forget me." He turned to the door, but she barred the way with her arms. "Never! You shall not desert me! I have suffered and endured for five long years. I have forsaken my father and mother; have slaved to repay the debt, to clear your name. All for love of you! And now, when in the eyes of the world you are cleared, and mine—mine, you would forsake me. You are exonerated before the world; to me you were never guilty. Why do you wish to leave me?" "Nothing can rehabilitate me in my own eyes. The man I robbed is dead, his family executes me—" "No, no," she interrupted, eagerly. "His wife has written me that she believed in you. Would take you back again to-morrow. She never wished to prosecute you. And now we've reimbursed her—" "Reimbursed her!" he repeated, wonderingly. A ray of joy flashed in her eyes. "I have worked," she said, simply. "My saint," he said, bending over the hand she held out to him. But he recoiled from her. "No, that would be cowardice; you shall not burden yourself with a man cut off from the world." "Jack," she whispered, reproachfully, "I have waited five long years. I took you for better or worse. You are my happiness; stay with me!" "I cannot." She started. "Jack, you don't love me any more!" "I venerate you as a saint. I have forgotten how to love as an equal." "DO NOT TOUCH ME." The taint of the prison is on me. I went in there resigned, determined to expiate. God knows I meant to pay him back; that I only thought of the pleasure I meant to give you. But I cannot stand the pity you would give me for love. No, don't interrupt. I had time to think it all out during those long years of infamy." "Expiation! I have washed the taint away." "In infamy, I say," he answered, savagely tearing her hands from his neck. "Let me go out into the shadow where I belong. I will not cloud your life." "Then I will go with you," she sobbed, desperately; "if you can only come to me in the shadow, I will join you. I will steal." "You steal, Elizabeth?" "Yes. I love you the more for what you did, because I know I was more to you than anything else in the world—more even than conscience—and I will steal to go with you." She paused, overcome by her grief. The young man breathed convulsively. "No," he cried, "it cannot be! I am a convict." "You are my love, my husband. I belong where you belong—in the darkness or in the light." The man's implacable face relaxed. A spasm of anguish contracted his features; then a mental vision, swift as the flashing star, showed him the pride that disguised his cruel egotism with a false mask of delicacy in his refusal to accept the salvation that lay in her love. He fathomed the depth of her suffering, the intensity of that soul-love that had wrought its work of explation in greater anguish than his own, and for the first time in his life he loved. Bending over her, his trembling fingers touched her cheeks, her shoulders; then, with a convulsive sob, he clasped her in his arms. Her love had lifted the shadow from his soul.—Philadelphia Item. Largest-Eyed Animals. Horses, giraffes and ostriches have larger eyes than any other creatures. Some Men. Were it not for the extra expense some men would acquire more bad habits.—Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The balloon was tugging at its rope and bouncing about elumys in the puffs of wind. A widow stood regarding it with streaming eyes. She was alone, but a crowd gathered about her, attracted by her untimely tears. She sobbed for ten minutes, but at last an old gentleman, whose long, white hair and saintly face declared his belief that he was privileged to thrust himself into anybody's business, stepped forward and said: The Reign of Lawlessness "Madam, why do you weep? Why these tears?" The woman snuffed loudly and then replied: "It's the balloon." "But," queried the old gentleman, "why does the spectacle of a balloon cause you to weep? Did a loved son once perish as an aeronaut?" "No," replied the weeper, "it wasn't a son, it was my husband." "Ah, your husband was killed while ballooning?" "No, he wasn't; my husband died in his bed, but he weighed 21 stone, and that jumping balloon reminds me of just how Henry looked the last time I saw him dancing. His figure was just like that!" And the widow again burst into tears—Pearson's Weekly. Short List of Elderly Brides King Alexander of Servia's marriage to Mme. Draga Maschin is by no means a sporadic case of young men marrying elderly ladies. If we remember right, Miss Anna Hathaway, who married William Shakespeare, was by many years his senior, and Mme. George Eliot was 60 years of age when she married a young man of 30. Napoleon was deeply in love with Josephine Beauharnais, who was six years older than he, and it is known how he regretted that for political reasons he had to get a legal divorce. George Sand and Alfred de Musetet, Torquato Tasso and Marie d'Este, Goethe and Mme. Stein, are all instances of happy couples of unenge, with the balance in favor of the strong sex. Vienna Extraballt Novelty in Millinery A new adornment is finding favor among milliners. This consists of skeleton leaves preserved exactly as they fall from the tree and retaining their natural color. The leaves of the walnut, chestnut and platane trees are preferred for the purpose; large ivy leaves and oak leaves are also used. The longest leaves are formed into a large paillette, one side being composed of a stiff painted feather, the other of the skeleton leaf, thus forming a broad garniture. A fine invisible wire fixed to the edge of the leaf prevents its crumpling. The smaller leaves are made into garlands mounted on an artificial or natural branch. The leaves have to be perfectly preserved, as their beauty naturally lies in the delicacy and transparency of the fiber.—St. Louis Republic. Gulf Stream on Greenland's Coast Gulf Stream on Greenland's Coast. Although the eastern coast of Greenland is much nearer to Europe than the western, it is really much more inaccessible to explorers and far less is known about it. The eastern side is colder than the other. A small branch of the gulf stream flows up the western coast and mitigates the severity of the temperature. That route to the pole, therefore, has proved the most popular with explorers. Brainerd and Lockwood were thus enabled to carry the American flag to above the eighty-third parallel of latitude. Peary chose this path as the most promising. And the Norwegian Sverdrup, who followed him up to the arctic regions two summers ago, did likewise—N. Y. Post. Secret Kept for Centuries. Chinese porcelain was common in Europe for 400 years before a German potter succeeded in finding out the process of making it. This Chinese pottery is scattered all over the world, and everywhere valued, but nowhere was the distribution more curious in western Canada. Early in the century a Chinese junk was cast away on the Pacific coast or America just south of Vancouver island, and its cargo of willow pattern plates fell into the hands of the Hudson Bay company's officers. Still in the remotest trading posts of the fur traders a few specimens remain.—N Y. Herald. "The shah was remarkably cool when the French assassin tried to shoot him." "That's easily explained. He's a fatalist. He knows he won't die until his time comes." \* "Yes, but he didn't know that his time hadn't come?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ingenious Mother "Won't you come and sit on my knee, darling?" "I would like to, but mother said I must sit here, because there's a hole in this end of the sofa."—London King. Woman and the Man He—Another ambiguous cablegram from Shanghai. She—Shanghai? Oh, yes; that's where all those funny-looking, long-legged chickens come from. Indianapolis Journal. How They Get Even with Him If a man in China doesn't pay his debts at the usual time, the New Year, his creditors carry away the doors of his shop, thus permitting all the demons and evil spirits to enter.—N. Y. Sun. Not Important If True Muriel—Your brother proposed to me during the service in church last Sunday. Zoe—You mustn't mind him. He often talks in his sleep—The Smart Set. Time To. Clara—I sometimes wonder if I will ever be an old maid. Maud—Good gracious! Haven't you stopped wondering that yet?—Detroit Free Press. A Selfish Omission "Don't your father ask a blessing over the food at your house, Robbie?" "Nop. You see he can't eat nothin'' cause he's got such a sore tooth."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE TREE Southern Railway SCHEDULE IN EFFECT APRIL 2ND, 1900 Trains Leaves B昌mont, Va 11.00 P.M. NO 11 SOUTHERN EXP. 10. Atlanta Augusta Jacobs College and Federal College, Greensboro, Salisbury, and Charlotte Sleeper open at Richmond, n. m. Steps for passengers are at stations, with New York and Florida Express (NO 37) carrying through sleepers be needed for all Florida stations, nections for all Florida stations, also connects at Danville. Charlotte with the Western Lincoln University, western Lincoln (No 27) being through sleepers betn New York and Nashville. New York and Memphis, and New York and Memphis, sleeper Mon ast, Wednesdays and Fridays, Washington to San Francisco to Chicago, with connections for all points in Texas, Mexico and California 19:01 PM NO. 7, solid train daily or char M. Connects at Moseley with Kentville and Powhatan railroad at Kentville or Charleston and desert and Durham and at Greensboro or Durham, Raleigh, and Winston- Salem, at Danville with no. 35 United States Mall, solid train, daily for Orlando or Okeechobee and for carries sleepers New York to New Orleans and New York to Jacksonville d Miami for Nassau & Habana, Cuba through main sleeper saturdays, to Momens via of Asheville and Chattanooga. 6:00 P. M., 10:07, LOCAL, daily, except Sunday for Kevvale and intermediate points TRANS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND. 6:00 A. K. 6:25 P. M., from Atlanta Angela, Asheville and all points South. 8:40 P. M., from Kevvale and local stations. Nos. 61 and 62, between Manchester and Neapolls, Va C. & O. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Schedule in Effect Oct 1, 1900, From Richmond. LEAVE BROAD-STREET STATION 9:10 a.m. daily for principal stations Newport New Orleans, Fort Lauderdale and Portsmouth Farmland carar. 8:40 p. m., daily local for Newport News, Old Point and Norfolk. Pullman to St. Louis. 10:00 a.m. except Sunday. Local Trains for Ciftontor Forge. Coaches at Gordonville for Orange. Culpeper, Calverton, Messasas and Washington. Connects at Charlotte, North Carolina, at St. Hagerton and at St. Louis for Hagerton and at St. Louis. 2:45 p. m., Daily Limited, to Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis. Pullman to Charlotte, North Carolina, at St. Hagerton and at St. Louis for Hagerton and at St. Louis. 6:30 a.m. accommodation, except Sunday to Dowell. 10:45 p. m., Daily, F. F. V., to Cincinnati and Louisville. Pullman sleeping car. Connects for Virginia Hot Springs. LEAVE EIGHTH ST. STATION. 10:30 a. m. for Lynchbill, Lexington, and Old Point. Forge, Carlin, carco, connect, except Sunday, with Buckingham and Alberene branches. 5:15 p. m. except Sunday, to Columbia TRAINS ARRIVE BROAD STREET STATION. 8:30 a m exepps unday from Dowell, 8:50 a m exepps m., daily, Cincinnati and Louisville 11:35 a m exepps 8:30 p. m., from Norfolk and Old Paint 8 13 p. Exepps Sunday, from Clifton 8:40 a.m., Except Sunday from Columbia 6:20 p.m., Daily from Lynchburg, and Dilton Forge, and except Sunday from New Castle, Lexington and Fordetailed information, connections, e.g. apply at Richmond Transfer office, No 983 Passenger Office, No. 899 east Main Street; Station Ticket Office, or address JOHN D. POTTS, Aa'st. General Passenger Agent. YORK RIVER LINE, WEST POINT The Favorite Route North. LIMONE LIMITED. Daily, except Sunday for West point, and intermediate stations making close connection Mondays. Wednesdays and F-14 days with steamer for Bali- No. 16. 2:80 P. M. 10C4 Wes Fo and intermediate stations, con- trols Watts and Tappahannah also at West Point with steamers for Baltimore. Stops at all sta- tions. Train No. 74. 5:00 A. M. LOCAL MIXED, leaves daily, except Sunday from Virginia Street Station for West Point and intermediate stations, connecting with Baltimore manor for Walkington and Tappanhack. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND 9:15 a.m. Bally, from West Point, with Connection from Baltimore except Mondays. 10:45 a.m. Sundays and Mondays 10:45 a.m. Sundays and Mondays from West Point and intermediate stations. Steamers leave West Point daily except Sundays 5:50 P. M. arriving Saltimore 8:00 a.m. Returning leave Baltimore 5:00 p. m. except Sundays arriving Richmond 9:15 a.m. Steamers call at Gloucester Point and Alamanda. Returning days Sundays and Saturday; Yorktown and Clay ank. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. NATIONAL Third Vice-President and General Manager Washington, D.C. VIRGINIA NAVIGATION COMPANY'S JAMES-BRIVER LINE To Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point, Newport- News, Clarencemouth and James River landings, and connecting a 1000 point and Norfolk for- ward. To New York, New York, 1000 point, SYRAMNE POCONTANAS, LAYERNE WORLD. NEDBAY AND FRIDAY AT 7 A. M. Electric-cars direct to wharf. Fare only £1.50. Electric car news from mouth. Old Point and Newport News. Music by a grand Orchestra. Freight received daily from above-named companies in Eastern Virginia and Burkhorn Carolina. WANTED--A number of men and women for first class places in Richmond and elsewhere. If you want work, come to see us. If J. H. Renz & Co. LD DOMINION SEAMSHIP CO. Daily LINE FOR NEW YORK, EXCEPT SUNDAY Passenger can leave on Sunday except sunday via Cheapeake and Ohio Rail. P. M. or Richmond and Peterburg rail. malfunction and Western route. A. M. connects to Cheapeake and Ohio Rail. Line steamer sailing same evening at 7 o'clock for New York Richmond to Richmond Rail Company's, 900 east Main Street; Cheapeake to Ohio railway and Richmond and Petersburg depts, and at company's office, Iffl. East Main Street, Richmond. Baggage checks through. FREIGHT. for New York and all points beyond can be shipped by steamboat and Petersburg every MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. FRI every MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. FRI every MONDAY. P.M. This steamer carries age stage passengers. Manifest one hour before sailing time preft received and forwarded and through baggage, lading issued for all northern, eastern and foreign ports. FROM NEW YORK. Passengers can leave daily except Sun day 15 (except P. M.) to Nortok or Old Point Comfort, Nortok or Norfolk and Western railroad or Cheapeake and Ohio freight for Richmond by steamer via Nor- folk Mondays and Wednesdays 3:00 P.M. saturdays, 4 P.M R F & P RICHMOND. FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMA R. P. 8:38 A. M. Dally, for Washington and pointes North. Stops at Willford, Fredericksburg and Quantico. Bullman, for Washington ton and New York. 8:20 A. M., Sunday only, for Washington and points North. Stops at Eba, Glen Allen, Ashland Taylor, Birmingham, nother Glen, Penola, Milford, Guinea, Summit, Frederickburg, Brooke, Widewater and Quintao. 9:01 A. M., Daily, except unfair, for Washington and points North Stops at Eba, Glen Allen, Ashland, Doswell, Woodsburg, Frederickburg and Quintao. 12:00 M., Daily, except Sunday, for Washington and points North Stops at Eba, Glen Allen, Ashland, Doswell, Milford, Fred ericksburg and Quantico utfet Parise. Connects with Congressional Limited at Washington. 7:55 P. M., ally for Washington and points North Stops at Eba, Glen Allen, Ashland, Doswell, Milford, Fred ericksburg, Brooke, Widewater and Quantico. tope other stations. Connects deeper Richmond to New York. Washington to Philadelphia. ARRIVE BYRD-STREET STATION. 8:40 A. M., Daily, Stops at Wide-water, Brooke, Frederickburg, Milford, Doswell, Ashland, and Eba, Stops at other stations Sundays. Sleeper New York to Richmond. 8:05 P.M., Daily, except Sunday. Staggs Fredericksburg, Milford, Doss well, Ashl nd, Glenn Allen and Klus. et offer Car or 6:30 P M., Dally. Stops only on Fred'ksburg Doswell, Ashland and Elba. Pullman cars from New York and Washington. 8:40 P. M., Dally, Stops at Widestater, Cedersickburg, Summit, Gaitan, Gaitan, Lord, Penola, Ruther Glen, Dos well, Florentine, Anhils, Glen Allen. (Daily except Sunday 8 18 A. M. Leaves Elba for Quintuo. 4 00 P. M., L. Byrd s.t. for Freejiek burg. Via S. A. L. Junction and R. F, & P. Railroad. LEAVE BROAD STREET STATION. (O. & O.) 6:00 P.M., Daily, for Washington and points North. Stops at Fredericksburg and Quantico. Pullman Sleeper to New York. ARRIVE BROAD STREET STATION. (C, & O.) 2:00 P.M. Daily. Stops only Fredericksburg and Dooswell. Sleeper from New York. 10:30 P.M. Daily. Stops only Fredericksburg. Sleeper from New York. Dining car. W.P. T. YLOR, Traffic Manager E.T. D. Myers, President. S. A, L. The Favorite Route South. Schedule in Effect June 3rd, 1900. Leaves Chesapeake and Ohio Broad Street Station. 7-90 A. M. Daily, except Sunday, for Petersburg, Henderson, Durham, Raleigh, Iantas, and all points South and Southwest. 9-85 P. M. "Florida Mall and Express," daily for Petersburg,Henderson, Raleigh, Chew, Camden, Columbia, Savannah Jacksonville Tamps, Fernandina, and all Florida points. 0-40 P. M. "FLORIDA LIMITED," daily for Petersburg, Henderson, Raleigh, Wilmington, Charlotte, Chester, Athens, Atlanta, Montgomery, Mobile, Mew Orleans, points Tamps, and Southwest Cheraw, Camden, Columbus, Savannah Jacksonville Tamps, Fernandina, and all Florida polls. Trans arrive from South at 615 Cheesapeake and St. Station 51 A M and 6-00 P M, daily, also, 2 P M daily except Sunday. 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The courts have insisted that you newspapers who order their subscription be paid for time of which it has been paid are liable for the payment of the subscription date when they order the paper discount. COMMUNICATION — When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and an email address; otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. CHANGE OF ADDRESS — In order to change the address of a subscriber we must be sent to us as well as the present address. Inserted in the Post-Office at Richmond, Va. Second class matter. SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1906 A CHANGE OF FRONT. THE action of the Street Committee of the Richmond City Council en promptly rescinding the resolution which declared that no contractor would be awarded city work who employed Negro labor was in keeping with common-sense and the law. We read with satisfaction the explanation of Mr. MORGAN R. MILLIS, the patron of the iniquitous resolution. We had known enough about him to lead us to believe that he was not to be classed with the "flannel mouthed" politicians of the MULLEN stripe. Mr. HARRY GLENN's statement was plain, straight-forward and in keeping with the law. There is not a man of ability in the state with an ounce of legal acumen, but what could tell any one that such a resolution was unconstitutional. CHARLES V. MEREDITH, Escq., rendered an opinion during his term of office as City Attorney which involved the same point. It is unfortunate indeed that men of the Brother "Mullet" stripe should be allowed to stir up ill-feeling between the races and embarrass those persons to whom have been assigned the duty of representing all of the people. There are some as good natured and kindly disposed white people in this city as affecting the colored people as can be found any where in the world, and yet every "now and then" men of the "Mullet" stripe come to the front with some mischievous proposition to arouse race-hatred and perpetuate color-strife. God knows we as a people have done the best we could. We have cultivated a friendly feeling among the white people. We have taught our children politeness. We have condemned the unseouth, lawless, disreputable members of our race. We have studied the Bible, prayed long and often that we might heed its teachings. We have upon the demand of the Negro-haters withdrawn to ourselves, and upon the suggestion of our white friends, saved our money, engaged in business; and when we were permitted so to do voted for southern white men for office, and now we are hounded by men of the Wm. H. MULLEN ["Mullet"] stripe. Is it fair, gentlemen? Is it just? To be honest, we must be permitted to make an honest living. Rob us of employment, and you, sir, under similar conditions would be forced to steal. Is it cheaper to maintain us in the jails and penitentiaries where we are a source of expense to the tax payers of the community and a menace to honest white labor, or is it better to permit us to labor to support our families, adding to the wealth of the community in which we live and thereby increasing the prosperity of the section of which we form a part? The question, we think answer itself. Let us raise a subscription and send Brother "Mullet" and hand to the Klondyke, where they will permit- ted to freeze out their erroneous and persicious notions and then, at least, one community will live in peace. GNAWING A FILE: The Richmond, Va., TIMES never tires of discussing the so-called "Negro question." Whether awakening or asleeping the vision of the time when even according to the Federal Constitution, it will have us under its feet is ever before it. No journal in the Southland is now suffering from a more severe attack of Negro-phobia. During its lued intervals, it says some kind things concerning us. While whetting its axe, preparatory to cutting off our political heads and injuring forever our legal future, it protests that it would not harm a hair of our heads if it could, but only asks the national government to permit it to move up the chopping block to a reasonable distance from the ex-culonner, and to take away the 15th Amendment clothes line which has hung its weapon whenever it was ready to strike the blow. Its friendship for us partakes of the nature of the friendship of the hunter for the bear,—it seems anxious to feed upon our careless. One reading the articles of the Times would presume that all power in the Southland had been delegated to it, and that its opinion was an advance agreement of what every state south of the Mason and Dixon line would agree to. What else can be the meaning of its self-assertiveness of what the South wants and what it will and will not accept? In discussing with the New York Sun it remarks: "We do not ask that the Negro be disfranchised, because the Negro has never been enfranchised in the sense of having the right to vote, conferred upon him. The Fifteenth Amendment confers the right to vote upon no one. All that it does is to forbid that any person shall be deprived of the right to vote upon account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. This is no grant to the Negro of a right to vote. It is only a prohibition to the States to prevent him from voting because he is a Negro." And you ask the Negro to vote with you to remove this prohibition upon the states to prevent him from voting, because he is a Negro? Mr. Bryan may have this to confront him in the doubtful states The TIMES vouches for information which we thought every intelligent man understood; namely,—that the Constitution of the United States and even the Bill of Rights of Virginia conferred upon all male citizens of the proper age the right to vote and this carried with it the right to hold offse. The Fifteenth Amendment provides that no state shall deny to any person (citizen) the right to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. The TIMES with its one-eyed logic would permit an illiterate white man to vote and deny an illiterate colored man the same privilege. It would permit a non-tax-paying white man to vote, and deny a non-tax-paying colored man the same privilege. In other words, it desires to establish a system of caste, based upon race and color, and not upon condition. The law says no state shall do this. If you wian to provide your restrictions; do so, but give the colored citizen the same rights and privileges that you accord to the white citizen. No fair minded man can see any reasonable basis for disagreement upon such a proposition. It is evident that the TIMES is anxious to wipe out our services to the government. It would forget all about our 250 years of unrequited labor, the proceeds of which are now wrapped up in the South's prosperity and from which we draw no visible interest. It would forget our life's blood which was given during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the War of the Rebellion and the Spanish-American War. It would give to foreigners rights which it would deny to American citizens of color. Surely, it does not find excuse for such action in the Holy Bible, by which chart it professes to be guided, or in the declaration of Independence. Where then can it find an excuse for its humiliating argument, save in the recesses of a venal and corrupt mind? To argue such, is to overturn every principle of ethics and to make jest of justice. It says: "If the State should forbid all illiterate persons to vote, this amendment would not interfere with the act, because there would be no discrimination against the Negro. The Negro's right to vote must come, therefore, from some other quarter. It does not come from the Fifteenth Amendment." As it seems to be lost on this proposition and in need of light as well as information we will tell it from whence comes the colored citizen's right to vote. Article I Section 2 says: "The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states." This includes white as well as black and the provise for holding the office of Senator is that he shall have been a citizen nine years and have attained the age of 35 years. This does not exclude the colored man, and under its provisions he is eligible. Article II, Section 5 reads, "No person except a natural born citizen or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the office of President." This too includes the colored broth- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA er. But the Constitution of Virginia is even more emphatic, for Article I. Section 8 reads: "That all elections ought to be free, and that all men, having sufficient evidence of common interests with an attachment to the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their consent or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not in like manner assented for the public good." This is Virginia law, Mr. TIMES, and this may account for your evident desire to change it. There is another section in the same article, it is Section 17 and reads: "That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." And there is another section—20 from the same Article of your own Virginia Constitution. It reads: "That all citizens of the state [Negroes included, air] are hereby declared to possess equal civil and political rights and public privileges." But why quote more to discomfit the Times? Its only cry now seems to be "Change that Constitution!" The Times continues: "Now what we ask of the Sun is not that it should join us in depriving the Negro of his right to vote, because he has no such right except as we give him. What we ask of the Sun is that it will join with us in repealing the Fifteenth Amendment so that in granting the right of suffrage we may discriminate and confer the right upon those who should have it and deny it to those who should not have it." To what 'we' does the Times refer? For this "we" includes the very Negrees whom this journal is discussing. In order that this journal may fully appreciate the ridiculous attitude in which it has placed itself, we ask it to imagine the citizens of color discussing the same questions and making similar remarks concerning white citizens. The Times would set us down as a class ofools or lunatics, or both. It may discuss the Filipino who has not as yet taken the oath of allegiance to this government in such a light, but it must shatter the American Constitution before it can discuss us in the manner as set forth in that remarkable article. As the matter now stands, we are confident that the situation in the Phiippines will give the Negro-haters enough to do without interfering with one of the humblest and kindest bodies of our citizens to be found in this or any other country. Colored men, take courage. Obey the laws, respect yourselves, cultivate a friendly relationship with those white people who show themselves friendly. Be respectful, obliging, industrious, God-fearing, moral and trust the rest to eternity, where the settlement of all questions must eventually take place. We have come a long distance through a dark night of oppression; our feet are sore with travelling, but our spirit is unsubdued. We have progressed and we have succeeded and the dawn is just beyond. All races have had similar experiences, and it is crystallized in the utterances of the Scriptures— "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward!" A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED The first solid carload of Florida oranges for the season was shipped from Jacksonville yesterday. Ex-President Cleveland, his wife and four children have returned to Princeton from Buzzard's Bay, Mass. The Republican convention of the Seventh New Jersey district nominated Marshall Van Winkle for congress. Prince Herbert Bismarck has decided to publish a complete collection of his father's letters to his wife between the years 1847 and 1892. Two thieves entered a Cleveland jewelry store, and while one engaged the attention of the clerk his pal stole $2,000 worth of diamond rings. Friday, Oct. 12. The population of Connecticut is 908,355; in 1890, 746,258. It is asserted in Rome that Archbishop Martinelli will be raised to the cardinalate. The coroner's jury in Philadelphia decided that Pugilist Flanagan's death was not caused by his bout with Devine. Harry Payne Whitney, it is said, will join the syndicate to build a cup defender to race next year with Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock II. The United States naval recruiting station in Chicago has received orders rescinding a recent order making tae age requirements for landsmen from 21 to 25 years instead of 18 to 25. Saturday, Oct. 13. The Galveston relief fund in Cuba now amounts to $1,500. The city of Havana has given $500. Hon. Frank S. Monnett, formerly Republican attorney general of Ohio, is on the stump for Bryan. Ex-President Harrison declares he will make no more campaigned though he strongly supports President McKinley. At New York Miss G. G. R. Wendel was adjudged incompetent, by a jury, to manage her $411,000 estate. A guardian will be appointed. The Peruvian government has appointed the Peruvian consul general in the United States, Senhor Pazet, to be secretary of the Peruvian legation at Washington. Monday, Oct. 15. There has been a heavy fall of snow in the Rio Grande valley in Texas. The Galveston relief fund contributions to Oct. 12 amount to $979,595. Fire in a Holyoke (Mass.) tenement burned to death the four motherless children of Ovid Berniche. Governor Pingree, of Michigan, has announced that he will retire from politics at the end of his term. Edwin Fletcher, one of a family of steeple climbers, fell 72 feet from a chimney at Attlebro, Mass., and was killed. Prevented by Troops From Approaching Panther Creek Mines. Communications From the Workers' Officials Lie Unopened on the Desks of the Operators—No Sign Yet of Ending the Strike. Hazleton, Pa., Oct. 17.—The report that Frank Pardee, manager of the Calvin Pardee & Co. colliery at Cranberry, had requested the governor to send troops into Luzerne county is not exactly correct. Mr. Pardee denied that he had done so, but said he and Governor Stone had talked on the advisability of having soldiers in this region. It is Mr. Pardee's belief that if troops were stationed here it would have considerable effect in the way of keeping the peace and preventing marches. Mr. Pardee added that the governor told him he would rather refer the matter to Brig. Gen. Goblin, who is now on duty in Schuylkill county. It was long after nightfall when the last of the strikers who marched to the Panther Creek valley Monday night returned. They were, for the most part, footstore and weary. The distance of 18 miles from Hazleton to Coaldale is principally down grade, and the walk there was scarcely noticed by the enthusiastic strikers. The uphill march back home, however, with the added facts of a sleepless night and a failure to accomplish their purpose tended to dampen their ardor somewhat. The marchers, numbering about 2,000 men and 60 women, expected to close all of the ten collieries of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company, but just as they were nearing their destination yesterday morning they were met on a mountain road by three companies of infantry and at the point on the tunnel were driven back four miles to Tammack and dispersed. For a moment just after the two forces met on the road in the darkness it looked as if a clash would come, but the good sense of those who had charge of the strikers prevented a serious conflict. Another crowd of 800 strikers from the north side of Hazleton also marched here and succeeded in closing the company's No.1 colliery at Neasquehoning, near Manch Chunk, before it was scattered. The presence of the soldiers was entirely unexpected and the strikers were much crestfallen that they failed in accomplishing the object of their long march. **SNUBBED MINERS' ORGANIZATION.** Operators Refuse to Read a Communication Error. Mitsu Nishida Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 17.—The representatives of the coal carrying companies here were in communication with headquarters in New York yesterday regarding the settlement of the miners' strike. The resolutions adopted by the Scranton convention were mailed to all the coal companies and individual operators. They all bore the seal of the United Mine Workers' organization, and there was a request that a prompt reply to the communication would be thankfully received. The communication still remains on the desks of some of the coal companies, unopened. The reason for this is that some of the operators do not want to commit themselves in any way as recognizing the miners' union. To enter into any negotiations with the officers of the organization would, in the opinion of the operators, be an admission that the operators recognized the union. One operator said: "Once we enter into correspondence with the United Mine Workers we are going to have the same trouble the operators in the bituminous region have. There will be nothing but correspondence all the time, and the owners of a mine will not know whether they are running it or United Mine Workers are running it for them. The strikers here profess not to be discouraged with the outlook. They say eventually the companies will give in and the men will be ordered back to work. KILLED BY FALLING WALLS Three Dead and Two Fatally Injured by Building Collapse. Newark, N. J., Oct. 17.—The storm which passed over this section late yesterday afternoon struck this city with frightful force and caused the death of three men, fatal injuries to at least two others and seriously injured three more. The dead, who all lived in Newark, are: William Ruble, mason; Robert Ward, hod carrier; Joseph Baumgartner, mason. Fatally injured: Jefferson Scales (colored) and Frederick Brause. When the storm came up these men were at work on the new building of the Mairn lineolum works. The building was to have been a brick structure. The brick work had been carried to a height of 50 feet and the iron and steel girders for the floors and roof had been put in. The men were engaged in taking down the scaffolding inside and outside of the building. When the wind hit the building it rushed through the openings and formed a whirlwind inside the walls, and in a moment the whole collapse like an eggshell, and very few of the bricks remain in the position they were. 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Chicago's city council adopted an ordinance that will result in municipal ownership of gas and electric plants. Lord Alverstone, formerly Sir Richard Webster, will succeed Baron Russell as lord chief justice of England. The wine harvest throughout Germany is more abundant and of more excellent quality than for several years previous. The trial of Henry E. Youtsey for complicity in the Goebel murder goes on at Frankfort, Ky., with Youtsey brought to court on his sick bed. The sultan of Turkey has leased to Germany, for 30 years, the island of Urean, in the Red sea, 40 miles north of Kamaran, for a coaling station. Among the passengers who arrived at New York last night from Europe on the steamer Minnehaha were Mr. S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain), Mrs. Clemens and the Misses Clemens. Wednesday, Oct. 17. London papers demand the suppression of Dowle, the Christian scientist, W. P. Dillingham leads thus far in the Vermont senatorial contest, with Congressman Grout second. The London Times announces that Sir Alfred Milne will be appointed governor of the conquered South African republics. The bazaar being held at the Waldorf Astoria, in New York, for the benefit of Galveston sufferers, has thus far netted $20,000 to $30,000. Davis Richards, butler for Charles Pfiser, near Bernardsville, N. J., has disappeared with $20,000 worth of Mrs. Pfiser's diamonds. Miss Alice Hammell died last night at Van Wert, O., of injuries caused by vitrol thrown in her face on Sept. 15 by Mrs. John Van Liew. Jealousy. SCRANTON'S ALLEGED BOOOLERS. Detective Declares Councilman Grier Handled the Pothole Friend Handled the Debtors Fund. Scranton, Pa., Oct. 17.—In the trial of the 11 councilmen charged by the Municipal League with accepting bribes the principal witness yesterday was Detective J. S. Harris, of New York, who came here last March, representing himself as a trolley company lobbyist sent on from Philadelphia to secure an amendment to the license that he received, proceeded to ingrigate himself into the confidence of the councilmen and offer them money for their votes. Harris told only of his dealings with Grier. He said Grier represented himself as the official handler of all money intended for the common council, and that $1,400 was the least on which he could guarantee the legislation Harris wanted. Harris says he paid Grier $1,400, and that the transaction was witnessed by two assistant detectives secreted in a room adjoining the one in Hotel Rudolph where the deal occurred. Incidentally, the amendment which Harris pretended he was working for was passed. 909 East Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. ```markdown ``` Oh, Ladies! Stop and consider. Do you know that my celebrated Imperial Mintkiss will be a gift to my brother Mintkiss, making it almost white! 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Something new, purely mutual and takes the place of a bank account to persons of small means. Terms reasonable. Address or call on THE U. S. MUTUAL BANKING CO. Room 7, Ebel Building, For want of use I will sell at a great sacrifice a Mahogany Grand Upright Piano. Will sell on instalment plan to a good party. AC YUNG SATURDAY, OCT 20, 1900 BRYAN OVATION. Democratic Candidate Enthusiastically Greeted in New York. CROWD WAITED FOR HOURS To Gain Admission to the Madison Square Garden Meeting. MANY LEFT AFTER BRYAN SPOKE. At the Outdoor Meeting, at Tammany Hall and at Cooper Union the Scenes of Wild Enthusiasm Were Repeated When the Democratic Leader Appened—Governor Roosevelt in 'Ohio and Senator Hanna in the Northwest Are Also Arousing Enthusiasm For Their Party Principles. New York, Oct. 17.—William J. Bryan arrived in this city at 2:55 o'clock yesterday. His reception was an emphatic ovation. As the train steamed into the annex of the Grand Court depot that part of the immense building was packed with a waiting multitude. At 2:35 o'clock a loud cheer went up as the open carriage containing the Tammany Hall reception committee rode to the annex. William R. Hearst led the way, followed by Richard Croker, O. H. P. Belmont, President of the Borough James J. Coogan, James Shevlin, Lewis Nixon, Lawrence Delmour and about a dozen others. As the time approached for the arrival of the train the reception committee started in to move further and further alongside the track. At this point the police lines were made ineffectual by a regular football rush. It was with great difficulty that the police forced a passageway for Mr. Bryan and his escort to the waiting carriages, the distinguished visitor being roughly jostled. Along the line of march to the Hoffman House he was wildly beaten by the masses that lined the sidewalks. As early as 2 o'clock the doors of Madison Square Garden were besieged by the crowds anxious for admission, and when the doors were opened at 6:30 there was a grand rush. The big building was filled to overflowing in ten minutes. The arrival of promisent Tammany men before the opening of the meeting brought out the first strong applause of the evening. Col. Bryan entered the garden at 7:15 o'clock. As the face of Mr. Croker, behind which Col. Bryan's was seen, the crowd burst forth in one great prolonged yell. Every one stood tiptoe on his seat and the garden was a sea of waving flags. Just behind the two as they mounted the platform Mayor Wynck escorted Edward M. Shepard, who acted as chairman of the meeting. The cheering continued for five minutes, not abating when Col. Bryan rose to his feet and raised his hand. Mr. Croker pulled him back into his seat. The cheering went on. Then Mr. Croker rose, hesitated a moment, then raised his hand for silence. Instead of ceasing the crowd broke forth louder than ever. Do what he could, Mr. Croker could not silence the crowd. After nearly 15 minutes of cheering the applause began to decrease. Mingled cheers and hisses, the latter for silence, lasted a minute longer. The enthusiasm nearly carried the crowd away. The throng at the Madison avenue end of the garden jammed down the aisles and the sixty odd policemen at that point had to do sincere battle with the crowd to keep it under control. When quiet was restored Mr. Croker rose, took Mr. Shepard by the hand and introduced him to the audience as chairman of the meeting. Before Mr. Shepard could get into the subject of "imperialism," to which most of his address was devoted, the crowd got so impatient to hear Col. Bryan that Mr. Shepard could not proceed. He suddenly stopped and introduced President Guggenheimer, of the council, who offered the formal resolutions of the evening. The resolutions were cheered, though they could not be heard for the shouts for Bryan, and Mr. Shepard at once introduced the latter in a few short sentences. Col. Bryan stepped to the railing about the stand, as the throng broke afresh into cheers. He raised his hand for silence, but the cheers did not subside. The crowd was about to become quiet when a flashlight bomb went off the center of the room. Women shrieked at the crowd yelled, not knowing what it was. A dozen policemen rushed to the pop where the man sat who fired the bomb, grabbed him and hustled him and his camera out of the garden. Col. Bryan had stood quietly at the rail on the platform. There was another attempt to renew the cheering, but hisses greeted it, and Col. Bryan commenced speaking. He began quietly, his voice being scarcely audible a hundred feet away from the stand, but he gradually spoke louder and in a moment his voice could be heard in the gallery. The crowd was quiet for a time, but when the speaker declared that the Democratic party recognized the right of ability of mind and muscle to the fruits of its toil the crowd broke forth into cheering, which lasted for two or three minutes. Col. Bryan concluded his speech at 9 o'clock precisely, having spoken one hour and 51 minutes. The crowd rose and cheered as he left the platform in company with Mr. Croker, shaking hands as he left. The applause for Col. Bryan as he went away blended with that for Adalian E. Stevenson as he rose to speak. The cheers*died out and the noise of the crowd going out prevented Mr. Stevenson from speaking. Three' minutes after Col. Bryan left there were vacant seats all over the building. Mr. Stevenson's voice could not be heard 60 feet away, and more than half the people left. Frequent attempts were made by Chairman Shepard and Mr. Stevenson to stop the exit and quiet the audience, but they were unavailable. A few crowded close to the stand to hear above the nois, and he was cheered faintly. Webster Davis was the next speaker. Mr. Davis in discussing the South African war said that the United States government was not even neutral. At the conclusion of Webster Davis' speech Mayor Jones, of Toledo, was introduced. He was heartily received and his speech liberally applauded. To the 4,000 or 5,000 who had remained from Mr. Taucher and Mr. Jones cheered Mr. Stechlitz when he was introduced. A number started to go out as he began speaking, and he was interrupted as Mr. Stevenson had At the close of Mr. Stanchfield's address Chairman Shepard introduced William F. Mackey, candidate for lieutenant governor, as the last speaker. Mr. Mackey spoke briefly, stating that he would not longer prolong the meeting, and keep the crowds waiting. When he concluded the band struck up "Dixie," and the small remaining portion of the throng that had gathered in the garden early in the evening filed out. The crowd that surged about the open air stand at Madison avenue and Twenty-fourth street, crushing the weak and smothering those who were so tightly packed that the air, which reeked with the fumes of Greek fire, could not reach them, may have numbered 20,000 and there was not one in that crowd who cared to hear anyone else but Bryan. Half a dozen speakers attempted to keep them quiet until the presidential candidate came from the garden, but the most successful speaker had a hard job of it. The scenes of Madison Square Garden were repeated when the candidate finally arrived. The same scenes of wild enthusiasm greeted the presidential candidate at Tammany Hall and at Cooper Union. HANNA IN THE NORTHWEST Says Bryan Scafirides Self Respect in Insane Desire For Office. IN HAUNTED DESTINY FOR ONCE. Watertown, S. D., Oct. 17.—Senator Hanna's train stopped at 14 towns in Minnesota and South Dakota yesterday, with Watertown for the principal stopping place. At nearly every town of any importance through the valley of the Minnesota river and across the prairies of western Minnesota and eastern South Dakota Senators Hanna and Frye and Victor Dolliver, of Iowa, made speeches varying in length from two to twenty minutes. Large crowds were present at nearly every stopping place. At Mankato Senator Hanna said: "If a change from the present policy and the present administration is made and Mr. Bryan is put at the head of the government of the United States, not only will a financial panic follow immediately, but our industries will be prostrated and will not recover in ten years. How ridiculous it is to talk about yielding to the ambitions of any man simply because he has an insane desire to be president, to talk of tearing down all that we have built up in these 40 years, to talk of withdrawing the United States from the place where Mr. McKinley has put it, in the very firing line of nations. In 1896 there were some people in this country who believed Mr. Bryan was at least honest in his opinions. Every day adds to the number of men who voted for him in 1896 and who now say they do not believe he was ever honest in his intentions, that he has been playing the part of a hypocrite, and that for this same insane desire for office he will sacrifice even his own self-respect." Columbus, O., Oct. 17.—Not once since the great Blaine demonstration in 1886 has this city been so crowded with visitors as it was last night, the occasion of the appearance here of Governor Roosevelt. Ten speeches made to large audiences since leaving Clinton's office of Clock in the morning had not impatient the governor's vocal organs, nor did he suffer of fatigue when he was introduced at the auditorium at 9:30 p. m. An impatient throng had been awaiting him nearly two hours. The Roosevelt arrived here at 7:30, and for two hours the governor rode in a brilliant illuminated electric car in a great parade through the principal streets of the city. This parade was more than two hours passing a given point, and its course was marked by a blaze of colored fire, rockets, firing of cannon and bursting of bombs. When he strode across the platform the governor was greeted with a roar of applause, yet he looked upon a far smaller number of persons than composed the crowd that had been unable to find standing room in the building. When Governor Roosevelt rose to speak he was given such an enthusiastic greeting that for five minutes he could not make his voice be heard in his endeavor to restore order. His speech was enthusiastically received, but the applause was so frequent that those in the rear of the hall could hear only a small portion of it. QUEEN WILHELMINA'S BETROTHAL To Marry Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the Spring. The Hague, Oct. 17.—The formal announcement of the betrothed of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland to Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was officially promulgated last night. The duke arrived here last night, and to is visit the royal castle at Loo. The marriage will take place next spring. Duke Henry is tall, bright looking and German in appearance. He is a lieutenant in the Prussian life guards, and is also attached to the Mecklenburg Fusilliers. The duke is scarcely known in Amsterdam and not particularly well here. It was generally supposed that the queen had selected his elder brother, Duke Adolf. New York, Oct. 13.—Another discovery was made today at the Elkebab-port bank, which increases the stealings of defaulter Schreiber to $109,716. Several months ago an envelope containing $3,000 in United States bonds was placed for safe keeping in the bank by a resident of Elizabeth. When he called at the bank yesterday for the deposit it was found the envelope had been carefully slit open and the bonds abstracted. Judge Gilhooly, the bank's attorney, said the institution was responsible and the loss would be made. Schreiber is still a fugitive. OLD PAPERS FOR SALE HERE only 25 cents per Hundred. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS Macon, Ga., Oct. 17.—Frank Hardemann, a tramp negro, was lynched at Wellston early yesterday morning for assaulting Mrs. B. H. Pierson, the wife of a Baptist preacher. The woman's three small children were in the room at the time, and raised an alarm. The negro buried himself in a cotton patch, but was found and lynched. His body was hung by the side of the railroad in view of passengers on the cars. Jackson, Miss., Oct. 15.—Bishop Charles B. Galloway, president of the general board of education of the Methodist Episcopal church south, today issued a call to the 1,500,000 Methodists in the south to assemble in their places of worship on the night of the last day of the year to hold an old fashioned watch meeting as a fitting climax to the Twentieth century fund movement. The fund now amounts to $1,100,000. Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 17.—A conservative estimate of Florida's orange crop this year places the yield at 1,000,000 boxes. An extra large yield will be had in Manatee, Hillborough and Desoto counties. The groves are in healthy condition, and within two weeks the fruit will begin to be marketed. Before the freeze in 1895, when the yield was 5,000,000 boxes, they sold at 50 cents, but this year the average price per box is $2. Bainbridge, Ga., Oct. 13.—Charles Patrick Kilkary committed suicide here Thursday night by taking 40 grains of morphine. He was an actor, and was here with the Robson Theatre company. The cause of the suicide is supposed to have been jealousy of a member of the company. He was despondent, and before the performance took the morphine and succumbed to its influence in the second act. He died about 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Richmond, Va., Oct. 14.—The indications are that the vote polled in this state at the coming election will be small; much smaller than it was in the presidential contest four years ago. This falling off will be attributable entirely to the fact that there has been little or no contest except in one or two of the congressional districts. It will not surprise the Democratic managers if the vote falls off this year more than 25,000. The Republican managers express similar views. Ashburn, Ga., Oct. 13.—Thomas Barnes, 18 years old, a student at the Collegiate Institute, died on Wednesday from stage fright. He had been assigned as a speaker at a public meeting. He went on the stage and started to deliver his speech, but after saying a few words threw his hand to his breast and fell, expiring immediately. Physicians who examined the body believe extreme nervous fright stopped the action of the heart. They could find no trace of organic disease. Blacksburg, Va., Oct. 14.—While he was working in the woodshop of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Cadet Sergeant W. W. Davidson, of Middletown, Frederick county, had his left arm drawn into the rapidly revolving knives of a joiner and it was cut off just below the elbow. Though the arm was badly damaged, it is possible that the elbow joint may be saved. Cadet Davidson showed a great deal of nerve after the accident. He went to the institute hospital, a distance of nearly 400 yards, without assistance. Pledmont, W. Va., Oct. 15—James F. Stanton, of Preston county, this state, met a horrible death from hydrophobia He served in the Second Virginia regiment during the war with Spain. He was ill only a few days, but was so violent that three men could not restrain him. He escaped from them and fell dead on the porch. He was bitten last July. The dog died and Stanton's wound healed. Nothing more was thought about it until his eyes became bloodshot and inflamed and he could swallow neither food nor water. He was about 30 years old, and leaves a widow and one child. Petersburg, Va., Oct. 14.—William Westmoreland, aged 35 years, was assassinated this morning between 1 and 2 o'clock at the Pocahontas cotton mills, at the foot of Wyoming street, in Battersea, a suburb of Petersburg, where he was employed as private night watchman. Westmoreland was required to make rounds of the mills every hour, and his watchman's time detector showed that he had made a round of the mills at 1 o'clock. At the time he was shot he was in the act of going into the office, which is only a few yards from the mills. Three white men hailing from North Carolina are being held by the police on suspicion of being implicated in the murder. Key West, Fla., Oct. 13.—Ex-Fire Chief B. F. H. Bowers, deputy sheriff, jailor and a prominent politician, is in jail for killing Mrs. Charlotte Knowles. The tragedy occurred at the house of the Knowles woman on Fort street, and is a mystery. Bowers was defeated in the recent city election for fire chief, a position he held since 1880, and since has shown marked evidences of melancholia. He went to Mrs. Knowles' home, accompanied by two male friends. Suddenly he drew a pistol and pointing it toward one of his male friends exclaimed: "Move your head." He then suddenly changed the direction of his pistol toward Mrs. Knowles and fired, the bullet passing through her head, killing her instantly. Bowers claims that the pistol was discharged by accident. Berkeley Springs, W. Va., Oct. 14.—"Jimmy" Adams has returned from the Klondike. When he left here three years ago he went with nothing and on a freight train. He returned yesterday in a private car, hauled by a leased locomotive, and brought with him nearly $200,000 in gold and papers representing mining possessions worth $5,000,000 and prospectively worth ten times as much. At Detroit he tired of traveling in ordinary trains and took the best and biggest car he could get at $500 a day, coming along leisurely and stopping at Niagara falls and New York. When he got to Brunswick, Md., he leased an engine to come over the branch line to Berkley Springs, arriving at the station without a soul in town expecting him. He had his ten big trunks hauled to his father's house and deposited $150,000 in the bank. A year ago he bought the old folks a farm and yesterday gave them $20,000 to put a house on it. He will not go back till spring, and says he will devote the winter to realizing how it feels to be a real live millionaire. Paying Off Census Takers. Washington, Oct. 17.—Up to yesterday $3,419.373 have been paid to census enumerators who made the enumeration for the twelfth census. These men numbered nearly 53,000, and all but a couple of hundred of them have been paid off. Those who have been settled with averaged an earnings of $64.94 each, which is about $10 each more than was paid for the similar work in the taking of the eleventh census. Ex-Empress Frederick's Remarriage Berlin, Oct. 17.—The report that Dowager Empress Frederick was married last April to Baron Seckendorf, who was hofmister under Emperor Frederick, although widely circulated abroad, had always been strenuously denied here until the present crisis in her disease. Now, however, it is being circulated and accepted, together with a number of fresh details, such as that the marriage occurred in England. It is said that the principal malady of the dowager empress is cancer of the kidneys. 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He at once began a hot search for the artists who had separated him from his cash, but, of course, their apprehension, to say nothing of the recovery of any of the money, is well-nigh hopeless. by Warden Downe, of the Utah state penitentiary. The convict who tried the plan is Clarence L. Maxwell, bank robber, horse thief, author and inventor, who is serving an 18-year sentence for the robbery of the Springfield bank in 1898. Maxwell took a piece of pipe an inch in diameter and eight inches long from the foot railing of his iron bed, bent the end to form a handle, filled this with lead. Then he immeditated out the barrel of the improvised pistol until it was smooth and drilled a touch-hole in the top. This is as far as he got when the weapon was discovered. He had planned a spring which would serve as a hammer and strike the head of a match, thus exploding the weapon. How he accomplished all this is a mystery. His powder was the heads of parlor matches ground fine and his bullets pieces of lead and iron. The guards tested some of the powder in a rifle and found it effective. It is supposed he intended to escape when he was being taken into court next month to testify in a case. Working in an unfrequented part of Washington, or out in the country in Maryland, or at the various experiment stations which are usually connected with agricultural colleges are about 3,000 people. Of the 2,000 in Washington about one-half are scientific men. There are two large bureaus, 22 divisions, offices or surveys. Of these seven are administrative, eight technical and seven are purely scientific. To these must be added the offices of the weather bureau, which include 154 observer stations and 52 stations along the coast and on the great lakes. The bureau of animal industry has 152 technical stations engaged in meat inspection and quarantine work, and three laboratories where the diseases of animals and their causes are investigated. John Vogel, a saloon-keeper of New Albany, Ind., had the reputation of being vastly methodical in all his actions. He was taken sick a few days ago and was informed that he had only a few hours to live. Mr. Vogel got out of bed quickly, went to the telephone and called up a friend, to whom he gave most minute instructions as to the coming funeral. Then he called up his bartender and gave similar complete directions regarding his business affairs. All this having been attended to, he went to bed again and was dead in 40 minutes. This is one of the periods of the year which bills assume a reality which in the eyes of most people they do not Lawyers' Bills. possess at other times. Perhaps that is the reason which has prompted a correspondent to write on the subject of doctors' bills. He complains that medical men are looked upon as well-nigh infallible, and that no doubt is why we accept in their case that which we would strongly criticise in the case of others. A doctor's bills runs something like this: "January to June, attending Mr. Jones and family, £15 10s." There are no items and no means of checking the doctor's visits, and the recipient, after grumbling a little to himself or more often to his family, pays in the dark. But for some reason or other it is quite different with the lawyers. From them is demanded a very full and detailed account of the work done, and no client has yet complained of a want of clarity on a lawyer's part in complying with this demand. There is reason in our correspondent's complaint. Many doctors do send their accounts with every visit set out in full, but they are in a minority. The majority constant themselves with the formula gives our correspondent. There seems no reason why a full statement should not be made. If one profession can do it, surely the other can without loss of dignity. After all, most of us like to know what we are paying for, and though we have no doubt that all is right, and that it is our want of memory which makes us fancy that we could never have been as ill as all that, yet detailed accounts would add to the confidence existing between the medical man and his patient. Supervisor Tom B. Smith, of Ursa, Ill., according to the Quincy Herald, has something to report that may prove of interest to farmers and perhaps everybody else. He had 40 acres of his farm in wheat, and when it looked as if the Hessian fly had ruined it he turned the tract over to his sheep for pasture. They nibbled it down until it looked as if no wheat was left. When the sheep were taken out the grain took fresh hold and duly came to a head. 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It is an undeniable fact that persons will come for advice in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a Medium they try their utmost endeavor to dispense from their minds what they know so to hear if it will be rehearsed by the Medium. To get the secret out of person it is the art used by many unprincipate mediums, but to take hold on the hese and gain control of the mind thereby is a matter of impossibility to most of them. And yet this can be done and by consulting Ms. Marth the seeming mystery becomes a realization. This subject has received no little attention by eminent men and ever 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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Unequalled advantages for pursuing literary along with theological studies. Training in manners, habits and character receive special attention. Entrance examination and classification of new students Tuesday, Oct. 2, 8:45 a.m. Term begins Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 8:45 a.m. Catalogue and further information on application to THE PRESIDENT, Knights of Columbus of the World Knights of Columbus of the World TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally instituted under the laws and statute of the State of New York, for the purposes of uniting together all capable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneath and to promote the Social and Moral condition of humanity, military and uniform ranks will sequester for this organization front ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events for active men. Deputies wanted in all section of the courts. Kindly address. 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H BUSBY Co Foushee and Broad THE OLD RELIABLE FURNITURE = HOUSE; ers for House Furnishing Goods. We deal alike. All prices marked in plain figures. nice line of CHAMBER AND PARLOR SUITES, WARDROBES, IRON BEDS, COOK STOVES the Best Make. All we ask is give us a call. We action in prices and quality. CASH OR OR 4,-6m. J H BUSBY Co or Foushee and Broad THE OLD RELIABLE FURNITURE = HOUSE; HEADQARTERS for House Furnishing Goods. We deal with every one alike. All prices marked in plain figures. We have a nice line of CHAMBER AND PARLOR SUITS, HALL RACKS, WARDROBES, IRON BEDS, COOK STOVES, RANGES of the Best Make. All we ask is give us a call. W guarantee satisfaction in prices and quality. CASH OR ON CREDIT. 4..6m. NELSONS STRAIGHTINE THE LATEST DISCOVERY FOR MARKING KNOITY, KINKY, CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT BEFORE AFTER STRAIGHTINE is the faster price is lower. It is well advertised in the newspaper that is unknown. We keep our agents in matter, and guarantee the sale of our is chartered under the laws of the city out all its promises. Its officers should not be confounded with the maniness on the reputation we have made in the largest sale of any preparation on State in the Union, and in many foreign users: We Want 10,000 Write to-day for terms and full infancy in your place. A trial can ( NE is the fastest selling article ever offered to agents. The price is low (25c.), and it pays the agent a good price in the newspapers, and is not like trying to sell a preparation. We keep our agents supplied with circulars and other advertise the sale of our goods. The company making STRAIGHT under the laws of the State of Virginia, with ample capital to cover its officers are among the leading citizens of this city, and accorded with the many rules concerns that are trying to do business we have made for STRAIGHT. Straighttime to-day I may preparation on the market. It is sold and used in every and in many foreign countries, and is highly endorsed by Vant 10,000 More Agents At Once. terms and full information before someone else gets the agent. A trial can (about one month's treatment) of NELFOX. price is low (25c.), and it pays the agent a good profit. It is well advertised in the newspapers, and is not like trying to sell preparation that is unknown. We keep our agents supplied with circulars and other artisitising matter, and guarantee the sale of our goods. The company making STRAIKINE is chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia, with ample capital to carry out all its promises. Its officers are among the leading citizens of this city, and should not be confounded with the many "fake" concerns that are trying to do bus mess out the reputation we have made for STRAIK HTINE. Straightline to-day has the largest sale of any preparation on the market. It is sold and used in every State in the Union, and in many foreign countries, and is highly endorsed by all users: We Want 10,000 More Agents At Once. Write to-day for terms and full information before someone else gets the agency in your place. A trial can (about one months treatment) of NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE will be mailed to any address on receipt of 30c. in stamps or silver. Address all orders and letters to NELSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, RICHMOND, VA. STEAM DYEING AND CLEANING WORKS No.1719 East Cary Street. Dealers in all kinds of COKE,COAL AND WOOD Kept dry under shelter THE MARRIAGE OF THE MARRIED WOMAN Richmond, Va. V. P. & F. K. of W. WE WANT AGENTS in every City,'Town land Village in the United States to sell THE GRANDEST HAIR PREPARATION EVER DISCOVERED. Agents can make from $2.50 to $5.00 a day working for us, or they can devote their spare time to the work and make from $1.00 to $3.00. HE PLANET SATURDAY, OCT. 20 1900 DOULTRY & BEES FATTENING POULTRY. An Account of the Scientific Methods Practiced at the New Stations in Canada. At the new chicken fattening stations in Canada the methods practiced are those by which the best grade of poultry is prepared for the English market, the object being to fit Canadian poultry to bring highest prices when exported. The chickens are bought from farmers at the weight of three to $3\frac{1}{2}$ pounds live weight, choosing the breeds likely to fatten well, and with white or light yellow legs, paying for these 53 cents per pair on the average. The chickens were put in small open lattice coops and fed on ground grain, chiefly oats mixed with FATTENING COOP skimmed milk. During the last part of the process they received an allowance of tallow. Four chickens were kept in each coop. The corn was ground fine and mixed with skimmed milk, sweet or sour, sour being preferred. The mixture resembled thin porridge. At first, food was given three times a day for the first ten days, then twice a day. At the end of the second ten days the cramming machine was used. Tallow fed during the last ten days was melted, thickened with meal, and then mixed with the porridge. It was the rule not to feed at all until the crop was 12 FOWLS WEIGHING ... JD. lb. GROSS ... lb. TARE ... lb. NETT ... lb. CANADIAN DOMINION DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Ottawa CANADA. SHIPPING COOP. empty from the last meal. The cost of food was 6.43 cents per pound live weight gained. For 24 hours before killing the birds were kept without food and killed by wringing their necks. They were plucked, but not drawn. A ring of feathers about two inches long was left at the head of each bird. They were shaped on a shaping board, cooled, wrapped in a piece of clean brown paper, leaving the neck and head projecting at one end and the legs at the other. Shipping cases, as illustrated, were for 12 fowls, and were 33 by 19 by $6\frac{1}{2}$. The financial side of the experiment foots up as follows: Cost of chickens, 54 cents; food, 33 cents; shipping cases, 3 cents; freight, commission, etc., 18 cents; total cost, $1.08 per pair. They sold for $1.76 per pair.—Orange Judd Farmer. Prepare for Cold Weather. Do not wait till right-down cold weather before grain rations are increased. Begin earlier to get fowls ready for resisting old Boreas. Now is the time to take six inches off the soil where henhouses have earthen bottoms. Replace with clean, dry sand. A filthy floor is hard on fowls when cold weather confines them to their house, and this removal of old top not only cleanses but its stirring up dries out the earth. Get the winter's supply of dry dust barreled and in a safe place. If you depend on home gravel, get that dug and also barreled. Golden-rod seed, gathered by the wayside and sown this fall, is commended for poultry shade where there are treeless yards.—Rural World. Bees Feed on Golden-Bod Among the fall plants which produce good honey are the numerous varieties of golden-rod. Honey made from these flowers has a beautiful golden color, similar to the color of the plant. It is as pretty honey as one will find. The flavor is excellent also. You sometimes find honey that is tasteless and more like sirup than anything else. Some people call it artificial, but it is made in the way that all honey is. The difference is that the bees are fed on sugar, and the product lacks the peculiar honey taste that belongs to that made from nectar.—Farmers' Voice. Value of Insect Powder A good application of insect powder to the hens will make it plain to a good many people about this time of year why their hens don't lay. But few of the hens are far enough advanced in the moult to cause them to cease laying. If they are not laying it is due to something else, and that something in all probability is lice. A dose of insect powder will tell the tale. The eggs will begin to appear a few days later and the owner will know that the insect powder was put just where it was needed.—Farmers' Voice. GOOD HONEY PLANTS. A. H. Duff Considers Bokhara Clover Excellent for Bees, for Feed and for Seed. You can greatly improve your honey flow in your locality by putting out honey plants, those that also are useful or ornamental, besides the honey they produce. Perhaps the best honey bearing plants and trees are those that are good for other purposes as well. The most abused and misrepresented, and the best honey-plant that grows, is bokhara clover. What I know about bokhara clover is from my own experience, having thoroughly tested its usefulness not only for honey, but for food and seed. Bokhara is an immense seeder, and will produce ten bushels of seed per acre under ordinary conditions. This seed has a ready market at wholesale seed houses at from six to ten cents per pound, and usually is retailled to growers at from 15 to 20 cents per pound. That bokhara is a good feed for stock I can testify, having used it myself. This clover, like alfalfa, stock do not naturally take to, as they do to some grasses, especially such grasses as grow in the middle and eastern states, where timothy, blue grass and red clover abound. Stock there will usually go around it just as they will alfalfa, if alfalfa grew there as it does here. This being true, and from the fact that bokhara spreads and grows spontaneously on road sides, has given the impression to some people that it is only a worthless weed, and for the want of proper investigation and thorough testing it is thus misrepresented. If I were planting trees for both honey and other uses, I would plant linden or "basswood," as it usually is called, and also catalpa. The linden is very valuable for its white, fine-grained wood, and, as a shade tree, scarecely has an equal. The catalpa is noted for its everlasting posts, and in this regard it is said to have no equal. It also is a beautiful shade tree and both the foliage and the blossoms are very ornamental. — A. H. Duff, in Farmers' Voice. FOR A DOZEN FOWLS. Handy Coop Designed Along Modern Lines and Suitable for All Parts of the Country. When the farm poultry consists of only a hundred or so fowls, it will pay to keep breeding pen of some dozen fowls of the best stock from which to get eggs for hatching. A fine lot of chickens can thus be secured. Where this is done it will be necessary to keep the breeding fowls from the rest of the flock. Our coop is 6x5 feet, $5\frac{1}{2}$ feet high in front, and $4\frac{1}{2}$ behind. In the front side is a door two feet wide, and a window. This window is hinged at the top to provide for ventilation in summer. A screen placed over the window opening on the inside will prevent the fowls from breaking the glass and will keep out night prowlers when the window is raised. There is an opening a foot wide extending across the back of the coop. This opening is closed by a one-foot board hinged at the top. This opening, too, is covered with screen wire. Beneath the window or beside the large door we have a small opening large enough to let a fowl pass in and out. This is closed with a slide COOP FOR A DOZEN FOWLS. door. This is to be used in winter, and stormy weather, as by leaving the door open rain and snow would blow in. A board floor we find most satisfactory as it is easier cleaned and keeps out all animals. We find that a lean-to shed at one end of the door of the coop facing the south will furnish a warm, sunny place for the fowls to scratch and exercise in on the coldest days of winter. In this shed we keep sand, gravel and straw. In this straw we throw grain in order to keep the chickens active. Our scratching shed is made of poles and old straw or hay. In the winter we set posts, and put up a frame to hold straw packing and make a wall of the straw around the two sides and back of the coop. This will make the coop warm. Over the front we tack building paper, as a window protection, instead of putting in straw.-J. L. Irwin, in Ohio Farmer. Building Up His Business. We recently saw the statement that one big buyer of poultry in the west follows the practice of sorting out the thoroughbred males among his purchased lots and selling them back to the farmers at cost price to improve the flocks. The course is a wise one. The trader knows there is more money in dealing in good stock than in poor and takes the opportunity to insure himself a good quality of stock in the future. He evidently expects to remain in the business for a number of years and to reap the fruit of his work. In fact, there is no kind of live stock that responds quicker to good breeding than poultry. A good full-blooded male will give a flock of laying half-breeds in eight months improvement, and it is so easy that there is no reason why it should not be general.—Farmers' Review. The Lazy Man. If a lazy man is comfortable, he is happy.—Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND VIRGINIA. Story of the National Debt Uncle Sam Tells of the Trials and Pleasures of Financiering a Nation for a Century "B" GOSH, that's a pretty big load to start on a new century with," commented Uncle Sam, as he looked at the bag of debt, $83,038,050, he had to carry. "Tain't every young feller as has to shoulder sich a load as that is. Tain't many years since old John Bull himself wouldn't a liked 'tih looks o' that load, though I guess his is his feis'n mine is jist now. "Tween Gen. Washington and Napoleon he's got about all he wants to handle, an' Napoleon's still a pilin' it up for him. A leetle hard work, with Mother Columbia to keep down the household expenses, an' no more pesky wars a comin' along, an' I'll git through with it some time, I reckon." Ten years later Uncle Sam stopped in his onward march to review the situation. "This here load o' debt's a gittin' smaller all right. Chopped most $30-000,000 off the thing in ten years, an' still a choppin'." Feel a right smart chirper 'an I did ten years ago." But there was trouble ahead for the struggling household, and two years later John Bull forced a war upon the country. It was not until the war was over and the English whipped that Uncle Sam had another opportunity to view the load of debt that the war had left, $127,334,933. "Dad blast the English!" exclaimed Uncle Sam, as he looked at the great bag of debt and the smoldering ruins of his capital. "Dad blast 'em! I say. Me an' Columbia was a gittin' along real nice, and old John Bull wasn't satisfied to let us alone. Tried takin' my sailors, an' stopin' my ships on the seas. Guess a few such lessons as Perry and Jackson gave 'em will teach 'em a lesson. To burn up my buildings and make it cost me a lot o' money fries. Don't know as I'll ever git this debt paid now." But Uncle Samuel was willing to try, and he went to work with a will. Nine years later he was surprised to find how rapidly it had decreased. "Well, now, she's a comin' down," he said. "Only $83,788,432 already. Jist where I started at 25 year ago, an' J had the fun o' lickin' them English, too." Gradually the load slipped away at the rate of nearly $10,000,000 a year, and one day in 1835 Uncle Sam awoke to the fact that it was practically all paid. "B' gosh, an' who'd a thought it" said he. "Down to $7,733. Ain't worth carryin' on my back now, an' old John Bull's pilin' his up 'stead o' payin' it off. Beats all how Columbia can manage when she's a mind to. Never could a done it if Columbia hadn't a been sich a helpful creature." But Uncle Sam's hilarious mood did not last long. He took a glance over his shoulder four years later and was surprised to find a tidy little sum of debt fastened to his back. "Now, I do wonder how that come there?" he remarked. "Pears to me that Columbia's been a gittin' wasteful ideas. Must a been spendin' money on fol de rols an' sich. 'Tain't a very big load, an' I guess I'd better git to work and pay it off 'fore it grows any." He did, and by the end of another year the $10,434,221 of 1839 had been reduced to $3,573,343. "That's more like it now," said he. "Pretty hard work for a little while, but it didn't last long." Nine years later that little load had grown to $3,601,651, but your Uncle Samuel did not care in the least. "Ha! ha! ha!" he laughed. "Wasn't it funny the way them Mexicans did run. Guess old' Gen. Scott surprised 'em a leetle when he walked right into their home town. Nice little load o' debt I got now, but I got Texas' long with it, an' that more'n makes up." $2.773.236.173 1866 had been reduced—more than a billion dollars of it paid. "Who'd a thought it possible?" he asked. "Nothin' but a harmonious, hard-working' family could a done that." Eight years later came another war and when it was over Uncle Sam footed up his indebtedness. "Don't care much about the debt now," he said. "A great big happy family will take care o' that, an' jist think o' the fun o' seein' them Spaniards run. Better'n the fun I had with the Mexicans back in the '40s. This financeer'in of a big family Like mine through a century has its pleasures as well as difficulties. Also Accommodations For Excursioniaries and Visitors to the City. MRS JAOK3ON 910 St James St. 83038D5 1801 1816 8127391933 1839 18390648837 TEXAS 1849 1890 81321M0204 1835. By the end of another eight years the load had been reduced to $28,699,831, and Uncle Sam was feeling quite easy over it. "Beats all how Columbia can save when she's a mind to" he said. "Got more'n half o' that last big load off a'ready." Not until 1866 did Uncle Sam have time to again take account of his indebtedness. It was with a heavy heart that he footed up the great total of $2,773,236,173. "Too bad! Too bad!" he said. "I'm gittin' long in years now, an' this great pack to carry. 'Tain't possible that I'll ever git through with it. Everything gone to wreck and ruin. Nothin' left but a united family, an' all because of a quarrel 'mong my boys. Can't never pay it off, I know, but the honest ways' to try, an' then they can't nobody say as Uncle Sam didn't make an honest effort." For 24 years the old man worked and saved without again taking account of his load of debt, and when he did so in 1890 he was surprised at the way it BERNHARD BRISTOL Hair Cutting, Shaving and Shampooing in First Class Style. Tonsorial Apartments now open to receive you. Call and see me. tt. 53078217 1810 983 788 432 1825 1840 1857 4199A927306 1899 "What do you think of this portrait of me, my dear?" asked Witherup. "It is very smiling and pleasant," said Mrs. Witherup. Then she added, wistfully: "I wish you'd look like it once in awhile, John."—N. Y. World. Expense Not Considered Wife—Now, if you intend to give me a birthday present, you needn't go to one of those cheap John 99-cent stores for it. Husband—No, indeed, my love. Hang the expense! I'll go to a dollar store—N. Y. Weekly. His Idea of Wealth "You say that you have a wealthy uncle," said the judge to the colored culprit before him, "where does he live?" "In Georgia, sah, an' he's powerful rich—he's a melonaire." — Chicago Times-Herald. In the Nursery. Dorothy-Yes, Percy, I suppose we might become engaged; and I am too young to marry, you know. Percy-Foolish girl! Who ever thought of marriage at one's first engagement?-N. Y. World. Spain's Great Pathologist The reward of 5,000 francs offered in 1897 by the city of Moscow to the author who should by his works most contribute to the progress of medical science has just been unanimously awarded by the Paris congress to the learned professor of histology and pathological anatomy, Senor Ramon y Cagal of Madrid—Lisbon Jornal de Commercio. Unprofessional Suddenness. Miss Bunker—And was his proposal so very sudden, then? Miss Brassey—Sudden! Why, he didn't tee up at all. Simply plumped down on his knees and said: "Let me caddle for you through the links of life!"—Puck. The married and unmarried women of the United States of Colombia, South America, are designated by the manner in which they wear flowers in their hair, the senoras wearing them on the right side and the senoritas on the left.—N. Y. Sun. British Engine-Drivers The average distance traveled by British engine-drivers is from 30,000 to 50,000 miles every year. 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Moore, 8 Mulberry 8s. WACO, TEXAS. Southern Herald WINSTON, N. O. Samuel Toliver WARHINGTON, D E ECOUPER 301 4½ oz Atlantic Coast Line # hodule in Effect January 14, 1900 TRIN LEAVE RICHMOND-BYRD TREF STATION 9:00 A. M., J daily. Arrives Petersburg 9:33 A. M.; Norfolk 11:27 M. stops only at Petersburg, Waverly and Juilok Va. 9:06 A. M. Darius M. M. Drives Petersburg 9:30 M. M. M. A. M. A. M.; Fayetteville 4:18 P. M. A. M.; Fayetteville 4:18 P. M. A. M.; Jacksonville 11:20 P. M. avannah 12:50 P. M. Jacksonville 7:30 A. M. Port Travis 9:18 P. M. Connects at Wilson with P. M.; arriving Goldsboro 8:10 P. M.; Elimington 6:45. Pilman to Jeeper Jacksonville. 8:38 P. M., Daily, Local. - arrives Peters- 6:30 P. M., Daily, except Tuesday. - arrives Petersburg 6:15 P. M. 8:30 P. M., and Rocky Mount, 9:00 P. M., makes all intermediate stops. 6:48 P. M., Daily, arrives Petersburg 7:14 P. M., Connects with Norfolk and W. Terns for Norfolk and inter- mediate ports. - Emporia, 9:16 P. 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Sb cial patention given to signs opher masters relation praq intor THE PLANET SCIENCE IN FARMING Has Helped to Make Vast Tracts of Worthless Soil Veritable Garden Spots. Science is the best ally of agriculture, as has been frequently demonstrated. A case in point is an examination into the cause of unproductiveness in some of the so-called "black soils" of Indiana. In central and northern Indiana there are black humus soils known as "bogus." In a good many cases these were found in places that had formerly been the beds of ponds or else were once marshes nearly always covered with water. The water disappeared long ago, leaving the land in a condition that made it possible to work it. It was asserted by the unskilled and popularly believed that these lands contained alkali to a degree that made it impossible to grow upon them any kind of crop. Scientists went to work to ascertain the real facts. A chemical analysis was made and showed that the soil had none of the characteristics of alkali soil. Some of the land was plowed and mixed with kalmit and cut straw. This certainly improved the drainage, and crops began to grow. In short, it was found that drainage was the key to the situation. Further investigation and experiment demonstrated that if a system of drainage were put in to tap the water-bearing gravel underlying the humus soil and to lower the water level to at least 40 inches the cause of the unproductiveness would be removed and a permanent improvement would result. Thus the real difficulty was found to be the high permanent water level. In some of the soils examined tile had been laid at the usual depth in the humus layer of soil without any improvement resulting, due to the fact that the pores and joints of the tile had been closed by the muck. Underlying the humus layer at a depth of five feet or more was a bed of sand or gravel immediately overlaid by a thin bed of clay mud and carrying a strong flow of water. When holes were dug down to this layer the water usually rose to within at least 30 inches of the surface. It is very easy then to see that if the permanent water level was so high the level during wet periods must be so high as to render the growth of most plants very difficult. When we remember that most plants root deeply we can easily see how important is the question of water level. Farmers' Review. CHEAP CORN HARVESTER In the Sled Pattern and Can B Made at Home at Merely Nominal Expense. The little illustration shows the very cheapest harvester possible. It is simply a sled with wide platform and sharp cut edges at a. The sled is drawn between two rows of corn. The stalks are cut off by the cutters at a and SIMPLE CORN HARVESTER caught by two men who stand or sit on the sled. When an armful is gathered the horse is stopped and the corn taken to the shock and placed in position. By placing wheels at the rear and front of the sled the draft is greatly reduced. These sleds can be made for almost nothing and answer fairly well. There are a number of more expensive ones on the market which in some ways are more satisfactory.—Orange Judd Farmer. The Colt's First Winter The Colt's First Winter. After colts are weaned they should be given very good care through the first winter. If neglected, and their growth allowed to become stunted, it will be very difficult to make up for it afterward, even with the best of care. Colts should always be kept in box stalls, as they will become weak jointed if they have to stand much tied up in a stall while growing, without getting necessary amount of exercise. Keep stall well lighted in winter. Feed good fresh hay, free from dust. For grain, feed oats three times a day. Oats are the best grain for horses. But let the morning feed consist of equal parts of oats and bran, made into a mash by scalding with hot water and let it stand until cool before feeding. If two pounds of roots can be given daily, sliced very thin to prevent choking, they will aid digestion and prevent constipation by keeping bowels in good order. Carrots and mangels are best.—Lewis Olsen, in Farm and Home. Science Is What Counts. "I appreciate the fact," said an old and experienced ante-bellum farmer to the writer, "that scientific farming would have made me vastly more money than my crude but careful methods have given, after years of persistent toil, and I join in the chorus for scientific agricultural education for the young farmers of our country. We old fellows can do little better than make this request of our sons, for most of us are too old to take up the subject and master it in time to see its frutage." Another good old son of toll said, jokingly, that if he should attempt to feed a "balance ration" he feared he would kill every animal that got a portion of it. Not understanding his eversion to balance rations 'he says the coming farmer must feed them.'—Farmers' Voice. Always select a mill that will admit of the largest amount of power being applied directly to the grinding. Carrying Out the Rule. "Some editor who has been giving advice to people on how to live to be old says that one of the main rules to follow is to go away from the table at each meal feeling as if you could eat more." "Well, say, if that's right every fellow at our boarding house ought to live to be a hundred!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retained All His Family Tired of his parsimony and general meanness the neighbors turned out one night and tarred and feathered old Skinnphlint. "Save the tar," he said to the good Samaritan who was scraping him off several hours afterward. "I can get five cents a pound for it."—Chicago Tribune. Speaking of Warmth "They are warmer than ever since they quarreled," added Tenterhook. "How's that?" "Some-hot words have passed between them."—Town Tonics The Other View Caller—In how many families the Bible is a sealed book. Miss Wellon—Yes, but sometimes it has to be, you know. There are so many impertinent people who are always looking up the family register. -Chicago 'ribune. Gentle Little Hint "My dear," said Crimsonbeak to his wife the other morning, "I wish you would look over my wardrobe. I was up in my room a little while ago, and the only things I could find which had any buttons on were my kodaks!"—Yonkers Statesman. The Only Dance Bella- Gran'ma, don't you think the two-steer"ever so much nicer than the old-fashioned waltz? Gran'ma- There's only one kind, my dear, that is worth dancing—the one when you're 20—Brooklyn Life. Nothing Doing: Biggs—Hello, Boggs! Just the man I wanted to seeel I'm just back from the Paris exposition, and— Boggs—Sorry, old man, but I haven't got a cent!—N. Y. Journal. "True; but that was before he asked me to marry him."—Chicago Post. Hlu Grudge. Mrs. Jones—I don't see what you should have against my first husband. The poor fellow is dead. Mr. Jones—Yes; that's the only thing I've got against him—Judge. True Greatness Sillieus—When would you say that a man has acquired greatness? Cynicus—When he deserves his own opinion of himself—Tit-Bits. Resented. Friend—He says you are in your prime. Mrs. Brown—The ideal! I'm not as old as that!—Puck. Fate of the Homeless. The Pug—That big dog says he has lost his master. Says he is in a pickle. The Foodie—Well, he'll be in a sausage next—Chicago Daily News. Mr. J. Patrik Smith who has been spending the summer at Watch Hill, R I., has returned to city looking the very picture of health. He expresses himself at having spent a most delightful time in New York City Harlem, Brooklyn, Jersey City, and was the recipient of special entertainments by Mrs. Francis Miles, Mr. and Mrs. Burton, Mr. Mack Johnson and many other friends. Mr. Smith is indeed one of Richmond's popular gentlemen and is at all times greatly missed by his wide circle of friends and acquaintances when absent from the city. FROM THE PHILIPPINES (CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.) Wiseman, Secretary; Calvin Mason, treasurer. The older soldiers parti- cularly Sergt. Greenwood, are giving the proper encouragement. STAFF CORRESPONDENCE L. SAN MARCILINA, P. I., Aug. 25, 1960. The bright side of the week was shattered to learn of the death of Mr. Tom Mitchell, the genial and unassuming manager of the PLANET. The news was a shock to all as every one was watching with interest the result of the proceeding in the (Richmond) Hustings Court of which he was the leading petitioner. The PLANET has lost one whose place it will be hard to fill. The bereaved family has the sympathy of a host of newly made friends in the regiment. A bracerhip to the Y. M. C. A. was organized on the basis with Corpil. A. R. D. Smith of Co. Provident and P. Rienzi B. Smith, Co. K. Secretary the movement has the indorsement of the Department and Battalion Commanders and it is welcomely received by the men. Last night we had our first Lyceum meeting with the following program: Vocal solo by Mr. Thomas Ellis, Co. I.; Comic recitation by Sergt. G. W. Smith; Debate. "Resolved, That the pen is mighter than the sword." Affirmative, Messrs. Ryans and Casey; Negative, Messrs. Pates and Williams. After a spirited contest in which the speakers quoted history from 1775 to 1898. So close was the contest that the judges had difficulty in desiding. They finally came to the conclusion that the Negative scored the meet points and rendered their decision accordingly. While they were still deliberating, Mr. Montgomery, the crieff, rendered his report which created lot of enthusiasm by his combination of enthusiasm. The meeting adjourned to meet next Tuesday night when another program more elaborate will be carried out. Bible class, Surd morning at 9 o'clock. As the meeting was about to adjourn the commanding officer, Lt. Sharon came out and endured the THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA meeting with a short speech. Capt. O'Neil gave his approval and promised to do all in his power to encourage the organization. There has been a fierce ice wind and rain storm for the past two weeks and the streams are terribly swollen. The weather beyond San Felipe, the Battalion headquarters. It has abated considerable and the roads are in fair condition. SAN MARCILINA, I.. Aug. 31 1900 The week has furnished quite a lot of divers news. Our Y. M. O. A. took possession of the building assigned us. It is a cazy little cottage with a small library, reading room, recreation room and office. We have no standard works but considerable magazines and Manila papers. The work is progressing rapidly and our reading rooms are always occupied. On Tuesday we held quite an interesting programme, Corp'l Searse explained parliamentary practice. Pvt. Lemus explained the organization and accomplishments of the Y. M. C. A. The affirmative which was taken by the President was "Resolved, That Wird is more distractive than Water." The Vice President ably defended the negative. After a selection by the quartette the meeting adjourned. On Wednesday Corp. Robert Foster Co. L. 25 Infantry, was drowned while on a mounted xpedition under Lieut. J. DeCamp Hail to the mountains. How he was drowned cannot be accurately ascertained. The lieutenant nearly lost his life and only escaped through his rare presence of mind and athletic prowess. Corp. Foster was a Richmond boy and resided on Malory St. He served in Co. C, (Capt. Benj. A. Graver) of the 6th Virginia Regiment and reinsisted in Co. G, 25 Infantry and transferred to Co. L, in order to come to the Philippines. He was a good soldier and very popular, and had just been appointed corporal a few days ago. His body was recovered this morning by the natives. On Friday night the programme was very interesting. Mr. Ellis gave us a solo and Mr. Ryan's burlesqued the natives by one of his own compositions. The debate was warm and spirited. Subject, "Resolved. That love is more beneficial to mankind than money." Affirmative. Messrs. Wyatt and Irwin; Negative. Messrs. Jones and Casey. The honorable judges decided that the negative had the most points and rendered their decision accordingly. The report of the critic was received with continuous rounds of applause and reflects great credit on that worthy. It is reported that Pvt. William Weekly of Co I, was killed at Ibs; but nothing beyond a rumor is in circulation. The wind and rain storm has passed and we now have abundance of good weather. STAFF CORRESPONDENCE Sub. Pest La Trinidad, Luzon, P. I. Co. I, R. 8th Inty. U. S. V. September 8rd, 1900. HON. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. My Dear Sir: Allow me a small space in one of your columns of your most valuable paper (THE RIOMON PLANET) to publish the following concerning the 48 Regiment from the 26th day of January 1800, until this present time. Her work and victory. Since this regiment has been out upon the firing, he has for itself made a very fine reputation of which I must say that the men as well as the officers will long remember in the future. It has lost less men out of the regiment in action than any other company of any other regiment (regular volunteer) that are on these islands. I very much regret that I have to make known to the public a number of men who are among the deceased of which have caused many at the homes of a goodly number to mourn their loss until their remains are sent to their respective homes. Company H lost 13 enlisted men, who died from small-pox and 6 died from yphoid fever. Company K lost 11 enlisted men - 2 sergeants, 1 corporal, 8 privates and 2 enlisted men drowned. Company E lost 1 corporal who was shot through the abdomen in an engagement at Arrington. Company D lost 1 enlisted man who died in Santo Mesa Hospital. Many deaths were caused by being overcome by heat. Company I lost 2 enlisted men. One died in Santa Mesa Hospital and the other, Private Wen. Smith, died August 31, 1900 from Broncho Pneumonia. Smith was a man who lived a life of rottenness and dissipation. He died in the Post Hospital. Acting Hospital Steward, George Matthews, while undressing him after the Doctor (W. W. Purnell, M.D.) pronounced him dead, removed from his pocketas a set of dice and a deck of cards of which were his idol until he died. Two days before his death he was excused from the hospital and given permission to visit the barracks, which is only about 50 yards from the hospital. His ideas were to gamble and win some more money before pay-day which will be sometime very soon. His remains were deposited to the earth in a rough used wooden box made by the Filipine enquirer, without any covering or lining. The ceremony was performed under strict military order, after which taps were blown by Musician Joseph H. Wilson and three volleys were fired by the firing party under Corpl. Chas. Jones. By request of Capt. Rudd, the Va. Chorus Boys rendered music, in which ten participated. The Army and Navy Foot Ball Contest is the chief topic of the day with the soldiers. So far there have been a great many donations towards it, each man contributing $1,00 for the occasion, which is to take place in Franklin Field, Philadelphia, Dec. 1st, 1900. Monday, Sept. 4th, we will commence target practice for sharp shooters' badges and every man is very much interested in it, as each man's earnest desire is to wear a sharpshooter's badge home from the Philippines. Ourrations are getting very short and we don't know what time the pack man will be able to get here again with any more information for the rainy season has set in and as so was told) 90 days before it stops. It has been raining now 20 days and there is a little prognosis of it clearing away. I must stop now for I have to mount the guard every morning, that is to go on, and I am kept quite busy every night until 11 and 12 o'clock. I will try and write you more in a few days. Hoping this may find a space in your pocket, I remain very respectfully yours, sir. SENOR, WM. H, COX, JR. Co. I, 48th Intyf, U. S. V. Manila, Philippine Islands. FROM PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA Mrs. Francenia Thompson the daughter of Rev. Dr Seaton left the city on Wednesday to spread the winter in New York city. Mr. James Manning has reshipped in the Navy. Mrs. Fannie Respass left the city Wednesday for a short trip to N. Y. Misses Mamie E. Manning and Elia Oriage accompanied by Mrs. Josephine Manning left Friday for Baltimore where they will make their future home. Mr. W. M. Reid, and Mrs. Lottis A. Johnson, formerly of Berkley, but late of Brooklyn were married in the latter city Wednesday evening. Mr. Reid is a well known attorney of this city, and Mr. Johnson was for several years a public school teacher in Berkley. The said couple arrived in this city Monday morning. Emanuel A. M. E. Church, 7 a. m. class meeting, 9 a. m. Sunday School, Jeffrey T. Wilson, Superintendent, 9 p. m. Christian Endeavor Society, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. preaching by the pastor, Reverend Daniel P. Seaton. Mr. John A. Rooks, who has been Chief of Portsmouth Division of True Reformers has been tranferred to Newport News where he will fill a similar position for that city. Mr. Richard Wells of Washington D.C. the father of Mrs. Giles Cuffee who has been visiting said daughter, left Saturday for his home. Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. A. Chisholm, D. D. pastor, 9 a. m. Sunday School, W. A. Conway, Superintendent. Mr. David Purdee, an employee of Hicki's saw mill was very badly crippled, W. Wednesday morning. As a result of its injuries received part of his leg had to be amputated. Miss Mamie Bailey, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bailey, died at the Freedmen's Hospital, Washington D.C. Monday morning. The remains arrived in the city Tuesday morning. The funeral took place on Wednesday at Emanuel A. M. E. Chureh, Revend Daniel P. Seston officiated. Mr. Alia C. Watts and Miss Georgia Colding attended a tacky party in Berkley Monday night at Re v. Randolph's residence, Chestnut st. 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