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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL XVIII NO 6 INAUGURATION THE R Many Brilliant Reforme UNITED STATES CABINET The Ladies of the Disp INAUGURATION OF THE PRESIDENT. Many Brilliant Scenes at True Reformers' Hall. UNITED STATES SENATORS CABINET MEMBERS. The Ladies of the Land.—A Realistic No event in the history of the colored people has elicited so much praise and occasioned so much comment as has the inauguration exercises of President William McKinley at the True Reformers' Hall, Friday night, Jan. 18, 1801. The U. S. Senate was first called to order and Vice-President Theodore Roccevelt sworn in. Mr. E. A. Washington discharged his duty in a most dignified manner and his address was well worthy of the occasion. Mr. Jacob Wright as Senator Quay was a success and his speech especially timely. Mr. W. P. Epsa as Senator Tillman assures all of the swagmen as braggadocia of this leader of the stateORK reputation. Mr. W. P. Burrell as Senator Mason understood all of the characteristics of the Illinoisan and caused much amusement. Dr. D. A. Ferguson had all of the dignity and peculiarities of Senator Free. Mr. Thomas Wyatt as Senator Blackburn; Mr. Wm. A. Johnson as Senator Platt; Mr. Ed. Ellis Jr., as Senator Hanna; Mr. E. W. Brown as Senator Culberson; Mr. J. H. Blackwell as Senator Proctor; Mr. R. W. Williams as Senator Turley; Mr. A. B. Hawkins as Senator Daniel; Mr. J. J. Carter as Senator Clayer; Mr. T. W. Taylor as Senator Gallinger; and Mr. R. J. Kyles as Clerk and Mr. A. A. Jackson as sergeant-at arms were successes and added much to the liveliness of the occasion. Each Senator wore the evening dress coat and silk hat. Dr. Sarah G. Jones as Mrs. McKenley was as queen in attire and dressed as it was possible for the "first lay of the land to be" Miss Florence Iasam as Mrs. Roosevelt was a decided success and her attire was in keeping with the character which she assumed. She was dignified and graceful. Miss Bessie Whittle as niece of Mrs McKinley did not fail to comply with all of the requirements of strict etiquette as did Miss Lula Forrester and Miss Ida B. Crump. Miss Bessie Taylor as the wife of the Chinese Minister, was coy and agreeable, while Miss Bertha Thompson and Miss Dracula Marks were silent attendants. Miss Lena Isaham as Mr. John Hay did not fail to comply with the requirements of her position, and Miss Rosa Brooks as Mrs. Eilhu Root was careful in her attention to her distinguished husband. Miss Susie Jefferson as Mrs. Lyman J. Gage understood her duties and performed them. Miss Susie Crump as Mrs. John D. Long, by her ease and grace added to the happiness of her husband. Miss Lizzie Burrell was attired in keeping with the amenities of polite society and was a source of pride to Attorney General Griggs, her husband. Miss Lizzie, Yancey as Mrs. E. A Hitchock was all life and demonstrated her ability as the leader in social functions. Miss Mary Scott represented to perfection Mrs. Charles Emory Smith and Miss Maggie Murray successfully displayed the traits of Mrs. James Wilson. Then followed the inauguration exercises. The foreign ministers, headed by the U.S. Marshall, Q. W. Moor, and first. Then followed President McKinley in the person of John Mitchell, Jr., accompanied by Secretary John Hay, represented by George W. Lewis Eag. Then followed the members of the cabinet. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Fuller, as represented by Mr. W. W. Fields. He performed the duty without a hitch. Then followed the inaugural address by the President. It was a comprehensive deliverance and was listened to with marked attention by those who had packed the hall to witness the exercises. Secretary Hay [Mr. Geo. W. Lewis] told of the duties of his office and gave valuable historical information in connection therewith. Secretary Gage (Dr. R. E. Jones) discussed the money question and told of his experience along this line in France and Germany. Secretary Root (Mr. John T. Taylor) was 'short and sweet.' Secretary Long (Mr. A. W. Holmes) told all about the Navy and did not hurry himself in interesting the nation on its importance. Attorney General Griggs (Mr. J. Thomas Howin) was exhaustive and deep in his account of the origin of his portfolio. He handled facts of law with skill and familiarity. Postmaster General Smith (Mr. W. E. Hope) had all kinds of plans for the improvement of the services and the impression produced was that most of the money of his department would be expended at Richmond. Secretary Hitehook (Mr. W. H. Anderson) had all of the characteristics, except color of the distinguished Missourian and promised to favor the Mitchell Anti-Lynching Bill. Secretary Wilson (Mr. Maurice Barrett) understood all about Agriculture. Chaplain Milburn (Rev. J. E. Jones) while not blind did the honors for the occasion in strict accordance with the requirements of the occasion. Admiral Dewey (Mr. E. C. Burke) was a laughable success and General Miles (Mr. W. I. Johnson) drew forth a whirlwind of applain over his cruisade against embalmed beef. They were voted a success. Sir Julian Paunceforte (Mr. John O. Lewis) was cautious and diplomatic. Ambassador M. Cambon (Prof. J. R. L. Diggs) spoke real French with the skill of a Fr nechman. He was the subject of many complimentr. Mr. W. P Burrell, who knows nothing about the language kindly interpressed his remarks for the benefit of the public. Lord Ostellow (Mr. D. J. Farrar) was too overcome to speak. Wu Jing Fang (Mr. Cornelius Robinson) a typical Chinaman was all right. Mr. Edward S. Blyden (Mr. R. H. Thurston) understood the program and spoke well. Mr. George C. Preston of Haiti (Prof. D. W. Davis) was careful and diplomatic as well as timely and enlightening in his remarks. Basa, Micaido of Japan (Mr. J. H. Logan) was silent, paying all of his attention to his wife. Mr. Q. W. Moon was voted a success, having apparently presided on many similar inauguration occasions. Then followed the introduction of the ladies to the President, and then the grand march to the banquet hall where the presidential ball was presumed to be in progress. The room was a scene of loveliness. The President's table was in the forward part of the dining hall. It was decorated with palms, ferns and flowers. The hall above was magnificently decorated with flags and bunting. Back of the stage was a life-sized picture of Mr. John Mitrhell, Jr., the acting president. The Committee deserves much credit for the magnificent success of the affair. Mrs. R. T. Hill, president; Mrs. Joanna Thompson, treasurer; Miss Q. P. A. Meaedh, secretary; Miss Sallie Boisseau, assistant; R. T. Hill, manager. —Mr. Joseph J. McIntosh has been confined to his room, 209 E. Leigh St., with the gripe for the past two weeks. He is improving under the skillful treatment of Dr. E. R. Jefferson and expects to be out at an early date. Display. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1901. THE QUESTION. "THE N "THE NEW YORK TRIBUN NEW YORK, N. MANAGING EDITOR, "THE PLANET," RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, Student writes to us from Birmingham, A part of the Negroes will eliminate the race rapidly be followed by a breaking up of the husiastic and emphatic in declaring that other Southern States, will soon be suddenly give the TRIBUNE your views on this Yours very truly, JAMES MAY A correspondent writes to us the disfranchisement of the Negroes tics and that it will rapidly be follow He is both enthusiastic and en quently a number of other Southern column. Will you kindly give the TR A correspondent writes to us from Birmingham, Ala., predicting that the disfranchisement of the Negroes will eliminate the race question from politics and that it will rapidly be followed by a breaking up of the "Solid South." He is both enthusiastic and emphatic in declaring that Alabama, and subse quently a number of other Southern States, will soon be in the Republican column. Will you kindly give the TRIBUNE your views on this matter? this constitutes the cause of the solidarity of the South to-day. They want their Negroes again. This being impossible as they now well-know; they want the value of what they considered and even now regard as their legitimate property. THE CURE FOR THE AILMENT In other words, if he northerners led by President McKinley will recommend, and Congress will enact a measure, putting a fair valuation upon every Negro man, woman and child owned by the Southerners at the close of the war, and a commission appointed for the distribution of the fund the foundation of all of the trouble will have been removed and hardly a sound will be heard, except, in isolated quarters concerning the Negro and the vote which he exercises. To show you to what extent the South believes it has been wronged and robbed. I have only to refer you to the statistics bearing upon the productions of corn, wheat and oats in eleven southern states. The Department of Agriculture shows in its rep. rt for 1899 that the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee and Arkansas produced 408, 827, 278 bushels of corn, the value of which was $171, 834, 721, 825, 857, 954 bushels of wheat, the value of which was $24, 411, 418, 50, 888 765 bushels of oats, the value of which was $18, 355, 373, the aggregate value for one year being $214, 131, 476. The Negroes of the South h in 1899 produced 11, 235, 838 bales of cotton, which was about 99% of the entire cotton consumption or the world. On a basis of 487 pounds to the bale and 8 cents per pound in the world's market, the value of the product for one year only was $487, 730, 621 68. Add this, if you please, to the value of the product of corn, wheat and oats, for one year and you have the mammoth revenue of $851, 831, 997, 68 more of which is being produced by these much maligned Negroes, and which value is added not only to the wealth of the south, but to the country at large. This estimate does not include the sugar and molasses and tobacco produced by the Negroes of the Southland. I think then, sir, I violate no confidence when I say that the Negro is a producer, and as such is no impediment to the progress of the South. This accounts too for the attitude of southern planters, who when an exodus of this people was threatened stood in the roads with their shot guns forbidding them to leave and notifying labor agents that convenient sapplings awaited their bodies should they persist in inducing this wealth producing people to leave their old time plantations of the Southland. And these Negroes were not using the words of Naomi, "Intrat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodges, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God: where thou diest, I will die and there will I be buried." You will note that this annual wealth was produced by these Negroes whom tens of thousands of Southerners regard as their legitimate property, wrongly wrested from their possession by the mighty power of the North. This then, sir constitutes the true cause of the solidity of the South. When these same misguided people look upon their estates, gone to destruction in many 'portions' of which DEAR SIR:— THE ANSWER { Office of the PLANET, { 311 N. Fourth Street, RICHMOND, V.A., Jan. 21, 1901. Editor of the New York TRIBUNE: Will the elimination of the Negroes from politics cause a breaking up of the "Solid South" and subsequently result in soon placing Alabama and other southern states in the Republi- an column? This is, I believe subsanti- tially the question propounded to me and the one upon which I shall endeavor to express an opinion. It would be well after diagnosing a disease, to ascertain the cause which produced it. I think doctors, both in political economy and medicine, agree that no permanent cure of a disease of either individuals or nations can be produced until the effect is discovered and the cause removed. To adopt a treatment contrary to these well-known principles is to engage in vagaries, and resort to quiescence. WHEN THE SOUTH BECAME SOLID. The solidity of the south antedates the bestowal of the right of suffrage upon the citizen of color. It therefore was not the cause of the very condition which its removal is expected to eradicate. Indeed, the solidity of the South even antedates the Missouri Compromise.—a measure which it was hoped would form a common basis of agreement between the North and the South, alley friction and permit the two sections to dwell in peace and harmony within the broad confines of the national domain. Like all compromises with wrong, it failed of its purpose. And right here her proposition to demit this very proposition for the elimination the Negroas as a political factor is skin to Mr. Olag's famous compromise proposition, which ultimately tended to aggravate both parties and resulted in an outbreak more threatening and dangerous than the one which it sought to avoid. How then can the elimination of the Negroes from politics cause a breaking up of the "Solid South?" But what is the real cause of the South's solidity? Is it really the Negroes' politics or is it based upon the old-time hatred of the Northerner? Let us see: A REVIEW OF THE PAST. Fifty years ago, the Southernner was wealthy. He rolled in opulence, and disdained to toil. When the Westerner spoke of cattle, he bragged of slaves. No where in the world were the individual owners of property so skin in their deportment and possessions to the kingly aristocracy of the Old World." Then began the anti-slavery agitation and the Paritanic lectures on the evils of slavery,—all of which was an attack upon the wealth of the Southland. Then came the Missouri Compromise, the John Brown Raid, the Emancipation Proclamation and the South's dream of conquest and vision of glory had passed away forever. Kingly men and queenly women to whom poverty was unknown and labor a thing to be abhorred found themselves penniless, and their wealth destroyed. The solidity of the past was intensified and the Yankees were blamed for all their misfortunes. To be brief, "THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, NEW YORK, N. Y., JAN. 18, 1901. THE CURE FOR THE AILMENT AN APPEAL TO STATISTICS. DID NOT WANT THEM TO LEAVE. CLAIMED AS THEIR PROPERTY. NEWS EDITOR. grass-hoppers are said to be sitting up on the stumps with tears in their eyes, bewailing the poverty of the land, and see installed in some of the most arid plantation manions, in the Southland, the moors as masters and overseers, it is hard to guess you have the subsidiary cause of the solidity of the South. ANOTHER FACTOR IN THE DISCUSSION. And again, the "poor whites" constitute another factor in the discussion of this question. When they see Negroes in possession of comfortable residences with their sons and daughters educated, driving their own teams and engaging in all of the branches of business, it tends to increase the race prejudice. When they notice Negro editors, lawyers, surgeons, physicians, dentists, bank presidents and cashiers, authors, inventors, theologians, insurance managers and presidents college professors and presidents, electricians, machinists and skilled mechanics, it tends to increase race prejudice and make the south solid. VALUE OF PROPERTY IN VIRGINIA. When they note the statistics and find that the value of the Negroes' property in Virginia alone for the fiscal year ending September 30th, 1900, according to the report of Hon. Morton Marrye, Auditor of Public Accounts is now $15,588 570 as against $12,000 the year previous and that these same Negroes new own 998 541 acres of land, it tends to increase race prejudice and incidentally the solidity of the South. Couple with this the fact that the Negroes of the United States own over $500 000,000 worth of property and you will see another subsidiary cause for the increase of race prejudice and the solidity of the South. WAS NOT A MISTAKE Possibly, it will be needless for me to state that I am one of the many Negroes who do not believe that the enfranchisement of the Negroes was a mistake. It was a right earned upon the plantation and won upon the battle field. A man who will not question the right to vote of a foreigner, who has just left Castle Garden should hardly be permitted to pass upon the qualification of a citizen who has for more than 280 years added to the material wealth of the Republic. REPUBLICAN PARTY HELD RESPONSIBLE. I need hardly add that the North is symbolized in the Republican Party of the nation. It is held by the South, responsible, notably Alabama, for the abolition of slavery, the launching of a Civil War, and virtually all of the evils to that section which has followed in its wake. And again, the South is not opposed to the enfranchisement of the Negro, so long as the result of the Negro's enfranchisement is to its interest. As paradoxical as this statement may seem to be the great mass of Southerners would join with the Negroes to prevent the taking from them by national enactment, their rights at the polls. This is because they are now enjoying the rights by virtue of this very enfranchisement. The personal attachment of certain white men for certain Negroes is very much like that existing between a man and his wife. They will abuse each other at times, but rarely will they permit other people to do it. MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA AS EXAMPLES. In further proof of the fact that the (Continued on Eighth Page.) EAST-END SCHOOL. Sixth Grammar—Mr. J. Andrew Bowler teacher: Estelle Barrett, Ella Cross, Daisy Gilliam, Carrie Graves Madeline Harris, Rosa Taylor, Carter Jones. Third Grammar—Miss Rosa' B. Yancey, teacher: Virginia Lee, Rosa Moss Rosa Toast. First Grammar—Miss Lucy V. Bolling, teacher: O.way Steward. Eighth Primary—Miss Annie M. Jackson, teacher: Jenora Jackson. Willie Williams. Seventh Primary—Miss Nannie O. Wyatt, teacher: Ehel Gwathmey Edna Browne, Sarah Braxton, Lillie Flippin, Annie Gray, Isabel Johnson, Charles Starke, Hezekiah Randolph Arthur Holmes, Herbert Fleming A.nie Johnson. Sixth Primary—Miss L. A. Willis, teacher: Earle Hairis, Hester Braxton Bertha Holcomb, Annie Atkinson, Mary Christie, Mattie Barnes, Lily Brown Ruby Claiborne, India Crawley, Marie Robinson Fifth Primary—Miss Mary E. Willis, teacher: Earle Hill, Mary E. Tancil, Judetta Temple, Horace Lewis, Wm. Waddell, Ethel Brown, Beatrice Christian. 4th Primary—Miss Mand E. Mundin, teacher: Martha Thomas, Ida Thompson, Henry James. George Tompkins Percy Jones, Robert Peterson, Adele Johnson, Ophelia Scott. Third Primary—Miss Annie S. Keene, teacher: William Preston, Lizzie Bland, Rosa White, Aurelia Hunter, Olivia Scott, William Langley, Pearl Morton, Frank Morton, Lucile Brooks, Robert Jackson, Cleopatra Scott, Lonn Burton, Bertha Anderson, Thomas Brandon, Carrie Peterson Gabriel Brooks, Blanche Robinson Bannie Bland, Carrie Smith, Elijah Gordon, Mamie Smith. Second Primary—Miss Lula G. Haskins, teacher: Hz slal Blass, Maggie Coleman, Hattie Hunter, Melinda Harris, Bessie Kirby, Bessie Mortier, Ruby Macklin, Bessie Scott, Katie Shelton, Fanny Wright, Nannie Valentine, Felix Gwathney Joseph Harris, Willie Morton, John Taylor. First Primary—Miss Lula G. Haskins, teacher: Bessie Allen, Bertha Johnson, Mary Ivison, Della Turner, Florence Wingfield, Rosa Howard, Ernest Warwick, Floyd Spriggs, John Wingfield, Judson Clark, Frank Norman, Virginia Williams, Isabel Hood Clarabel Anderson, Esther Coyle, Alma Thompson, Luberta Ashton, Ruth Storrs. The Thos. W. Mitchell Monument Association: We, the committee beg leaves to state that our usual report of the progress of the monumental fund has for the past few weeks been crowded out for the lack of space. We further state that the committee has not in the meantime been idle, and that our report will appear weekly as before. We take this method to notify all of the officers and members of the Executive Committee to meet Tuesday evening, Jan. 28:h, at 8 p.m., at the Pythian Castle Hall 511 N. 3rd St. A fall attendance will be expected. Signed: B. H. PEYTON, Pres. J. A. SMITH, Sec'y. W. HENRY WALTON, Chair. Ex Com. A. J. SMITH, JR. —Rev. T. P. Harris of Michaux, Va., called on us. —Miss Maggie Taylor of Baltimore. Md. in company with Miss Fernella Archer called on us. —The many friends of Mr. George H. Washington, formerly of this city, but now of New York, will be pained to learn of his critical illness from an attack of grip. —Rev. W. T. Johnson, B. D., of Lexington, Va. will preach a special sermon at the First Baptist Church; Sunday, January 27th. at 8 p. m. under the auspices of Circle No. 9. Subject. "Clay in the Potter's Hands." H. G Carter, Captain; Mrs. A. W. Holmes, Vice-Captain. Mrs. Luce Coles, ex-minister to Africa, who recently organized a B. Y. P. U. at Mount Olivet Baptist Church was greeted with a large attendance of young people at that Church on last Sunday. Mrs. Georgie A. Thurston, who has been living in New York for several years, has returned to the city and will be pleased to see her many friends at the residence of her daughter, 618 Harrison St. Rev. W. E. Partee, pastor of 1st Presbyterian Church will presach at the Leigh St. M. E. Church Sunday at 8:30 p. m. PRICE 5 CENTS SCANDALOUS TREATMENT. Our Best Citizens Ridiculed. PUT ON A LEVEL WITH THE DIVES OF RICHMOND. Colored Citizens Protest.] Much indignation was caused among the colored population by an article which appeared in the Richmond, Va., Times of Sunday, Jan. 20th, on the in auguration entertainment given at True Reformers' Hall, Friday night Jan. 18th for the benefit of the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Irene Hill, the accomplished wife of Mr. R. T. Hill, was the moving spirit in the affair and he had the management of the arrangements for the inauguration of President McKinney. To give an idea of the scandalous manner in which the abest, most refined, as well as the most responsible colored situs were treated, we have but to refer to certain statements made by the reporter. MR. EPPS DISIGNATED. Mr. W. P. Epps, teacher in Henrico Public Schools, clerk of the Eusegenee Baptist Church and the owner of property valed at $1500 was referred to as "a noon of good standing." E. W. Brown, editor of the Reformers was called "a slander Negro with a big boot." Mr W. P. Burrell was announced "a bad-bag of the occasion" and made that "the celebrates of the Upper House were present in the person of the owner, Jackson Ward person, exclusive to Pete Austin and Buck Spottswood." Mr. Jake Wright, a letter carrier, pays taxes on about $2500 worth of work represented as "a Negro in Africa" which is a good reputation in police circles. MAJOR WASHINGTON'S GREETING Cashier E. A. Washington of the Nickel Savings Bank was spoken of as "a tail stately Negro in a Prince Albert coat and light trousers and that his mouth was quite large enough to fit the case, being suggestive of expansion." Mr. W. W. Fields, a letter-carrier, was referred to as "a Negro named Fields." Capt. Benj A. Graves and Lieut. Abram L. Morton, teachers, were referred to as "dusky-hued local military coons." Mr. Q. William Moon, teacher, was called "a big tall Negro named Q. W. Moon." OUR LADY PHYSICIAN INSULTED. Dr. Sarah G. Jones, the only colored female physician in the state, and who owns one of the finest brick houses in Richmond as far as colored people are concerned and with the exception of Dr. R. E. Jones drives the finest teams, was referred to as "Sarah." Mr. John O. Lewis, who has just erected several houses valued at about $8 000, was spoken of as "as small yellow Negro, named John Lewis." Prof. D. Webser Davis, instructor, author, poet, lecturer and pastor, was announced to be "the blackest Negro in Richmond, with few exceptions" and "east a shadow before him, even in the darkn s1. He was a chunky eoon, but pulled off his little speech just as though he really represented something worthy of a place on the map" Mr. R. H. Thurston, teacher, was called, "the Negro named Thurston." THE MEETING OF THE CASTLE The caste held a meeting Monday night at the residence of Miss Pattie A. Meredith and a committee appointed to wait on the Times and other daily journals to protest against the ungenerous treatment. The committee appointed consisted of Mr. R. T. Hill, Dr. R. E. Jones, Prof. D. W. Davis, Rev. Dr. J. E. Jones and Mr. Jacob T. Wright. The sequel will show that the mission was a success and a great deal of good accomplished. B. Y. P. U. The Baptist Young People's Union of Fifth Street Baptist Church held its regular Tuesday night meeting Jan. 18th, at 8:30 and owing to the fact that the president was still unable to be out, Mr. York Harris presided. The lesson was read from Ecet. 12:11, Prayer was offered by Mr. Singleton. "Youthful Conservation" being the subject for the evening, was opened by Miss Emma Williams, who read beautifully prepared paper, which showed that she had given the subject much study. Nearly every one present had something to say on the subject. During the meeting many were the beautiful and soul inspiring hymns sung and all went away feeling benefted and glad of having turned out to the house of the Lord. y Sed > a CS | ) JeREN Ce APES Tem R Die Riemer ASAP PE) ie (ees Wit noe Ne * ve CHAPTER Ilr. It was nine o'clock when Goddard reached the city. Immediately on leaving his train he engaged « hansom and was driven over to Fifth avenue and up that thoroughfare to the Pal- ace hotel. Hy temperament he was given to in- trospection and an almost morbid habit of analyzing his feclings, es- Pecially when his feelings were hurt. To-night his emotions had crowded him into an attitude of deep self-pity. He told himself that no man had ever suffered as keenly as he was suffer- ing. * The cab took him past the building of which the second floor had been occupied by Jeanne’s fashionable es- stablishment when he had met! her, fallen under her inexplicable charm and married hér hurriedly. It was now with a feeling bordering on sus- picion that he saw the brown stone Walls of thé unlighted structure flit by. He remembered how she had made him faithfully promise that he was never to ask her about her past connections. She bad wept copiously at this juncture and he had somehow gathered that her relatives had be- Tonged to such humble walks in life that she dreaded the loss of his love if he were to come in contact with them. He had laughed at such an idea, but in the years of Jeanne's rigid silenca on the subject this very mys- tery had heightened her charm in his fen. ‘He alighted from the hansom under the arched portico ih the flare of lights about the entrance of the Pal- ace hotel and went into the commo- dious office, which was at the juncture of two long corridors filled with well- dressed men and women seated in big chairs or strolling about. Strains of music from a Hungarian orchestra filled the air and there was afloat ‘an odor which emanated from a Turkish smoking-room, where dim, sensuous lights burned under massive shades of crimson silk. Aw he threaded his way to the counter behind which stood the clerks of the house he had a queer feeling in his knees as if he had been sitting too long in a cramped position in the train, How strange for him to ask to be conducted to the room of his own wife! At that moment she seemed quite separated from him. “My wife {s here, I believe," he said to one of the clerks. “What is the name, please?” asked the man, . “Mrs. Goddard,” replied the major. ‘The clerk consulted a big book of entries with penciled remarks oppo- site the names. “You were to come right up, Maj. Goddard," he said. “But your wife sa 2 i . BA BETTER FOR YOU TO SEND UP YOUR CARD.” said that perhaps it would be better for you to send up your card.” Goddard fumbled in his pockets; he had forgotten bis cardcase. “I have no card,” he said, “but I will write one.” The clerk gave him @ blank card and @ pen. The major's hands were cold and mumb, and the pen slipped from his fingers and fell, The clerk gave it to him again. “TI shall go up without that formal- ity,” the major said, drawing himeelf up as if on parade. “What is the num- ber of her apartment?” “Fifty-six, at the top of the first flight—second door to the left.” The major decided to walk rather than to take the elevator, and he has- tened to the stairway indicated by the clerk. He found that his wife had se- cured one of the best suites of rooms the hotel afforded. She met him at the door and received him in a most splendidly appointed private parlor. ‘It was cozy, too; a lamp with porce- Jain green-lined shade stood on a cen- ter table surrounded by books, late papers aud magazines not far from a cheerful grate fire. “Come in, Rowland, and don't scold me,” she said, throwing her shapely arms round his neck. “I know you must have been frightqned when you missed me.” ‘He found himself all of « tremble, and his voice refused to come to him readily. He could only press her te him convulsively as he moved towards the sofa and drew her down by his wide, Despite her warmth of greet ing he was unable to conquer the fears which had laid ae enet hol on hisn during his lonely ride. | _ “Why did you do’ this, Jeanne?” h cgglmmmalll tk ceeetag ccc “Don't scold me” tone which made him feel that her words had only a perfunctory signifi- cance. Something seemed to whisper that he was on the eve of battle, but the war spirit was dead within him; he had the feeling of being con- quered. “Why did you have me meet you here?” he demanded. “To prove your love for me, Row- land,"she replied, and the smile which accompanied her words was the cold- est he had ever seen on her face, and yet if but for its remote kinship to former smiles of hers he adored it. ace my love, Jeanne; that is a certainty.” “Then I have had you come that we may agree on a plan of action.” she said. She nestled nearer to hitm and took one of bis caid hands and pressed it... “I missed the money, too, Jeanne?” “Ob, did you? Well, I may as well confess that this meeting is an after- thought, and I'do think, if youscare for-me, that you ought to appreciate that.” “You intended, then, to desert me?” “Yes, that was the intention forced on me.” | “Forced on you?” “Yes, I carmot go on at Lyndhurst as it is. You knew when I became /your wife that I could not remain Stationary—not progress. When I | married you it was cléarly understood that I was to be able to gratify cer- tain desires that I'frankly confessed had always had a firm hold on me. Well, your recent speculations have reduced us to Lyndhurst and a trivial sincome.” ~ ' “But it will be secure,” he rejoined, desperately. “Oh, I don't doubt its security, Row- land, dear, but it is hardly more than these two hands and my brain used ‘to earn. Oh, you can see what I mean! IT am simply an ambitious woman. [ want things, I want power, and I am going to get my desires through you, dear husband, or we must part com: ‘pany. I loye you as much as any wom- an could love a man, but my ambition Js at least half of me, and it will drag me away from you if you don’t come to my assistance.” “Jeanne, you know I would do any: thing in my power to gratify you. I know I have violated’ part of our matrimonial contract, but I cous not help things taking such an unetgect- ed turn.” She stroked his hand caressingly and raised it to her warm, red lips. |, {Misten to me," she began, laying her head on his broad shoulder. “E want to tell you something you do not know, then I shall propose a plan, You remember that Dr. Fleming, the ‘famous English expert on /ieart troubles, came to see Blanche a ronth ago—the day before he return:4 to London.” “Yes, I remember that," said ihe major, wonderingly. “Well, perhaps it was because he thought I looked as if I could keep a secret—and.some one ought to know the truth—that he made an important disclosure to me. He was deeply con- cerned after he had examined Blanche and sent for me to meet him in the li- brary. He then told me, and hie faco was actually pale, for he seemed to like her, that she had the most fatal case of ‘aortic aneurism’ he called it —an acute disease of the heart—thut he had ever met with in all his ex- perience.” “My God, you can’t be serious!” ex. claimed the major. “She looks 50 well—and yet, I remember, she is take ing his medicines.” “Dr. Fleming explained that to all outward appearances she would be, even to the end, us healthy looking as a perfectly sound person. He says she cannot possibly live longer than. two years, and that it is most likely that she will drop off sooner—at any moment. The least excitement or un- usual exertion may kill her instantly.” “Does Blanche know of her. condi« tion?” asked the major, almost for- getting his own troubles in his vast sympathy for his ward. “No; oh, no! Dr. Fleming said that the knowledge of {t would only prey on her mind and hasten the end. He was afraid to tell you; he said men ‘were apt to show so much concern over matters of that kind that patients would suspect the truth. I promised him faithfully not to hint it to a soul, 0 you must never mention it or let her suspect’ you are anxious about her.” “Can nothing be done?” “Absolutely nothing; the medicine she is taking is just what the needs, and he even advised me not to have her consult any other doctor. I pre- sume, considering the fact that he is soth a great authority, his wishes, even on that score, ought to be re- spected.” “I presume so,” responded the ma- jor; “but isn't it awful?” Then ho came back te his own affairs alos’ with « start. He-frowned and sat silently looking at the fire. It was as ‘ithe were wondering what connection this disclosure could have with his THE RICHMOND PLANET RICaafOND, VIRGINIA, “Please do sot interrupt me, dear," Pursued his wife, and she began stroke: ing his hand again. “You told me that since you had taken charge of her af: fairs Blanche's money has more than doubled.” “Yes, I happened to invest it better than I'did my own capital.” There was silence in the room for a moment. The muftied strains of the “orchestra below stole up to their ears. |The handsome woman had never thrown so much power of enchant- “ment into her beautiful, long-lashed eyes as at this moment. ‘She held his gaze as a reptile might that of its wondering, bewildered victim, “Dear husband,” she said, sweetly. “John Briscoe loved you as few men Jove their friends. Do you know that he would rather have you enjoy that money after his daughter's death than those people?” “I don’t know: I never thought about it, Jeanne.” “Well, I know he would want you to have it, and have {t you must.” “I declare you mystify me.” “I have something else to. say. Blanche was in love with you when I first met you. I knew it from the ac- counts you gave me.of your visits. to her. I used to think you were a fvol not to have seen it. She loved you so much that—" “0, how absurd!” “That when you brought me home as your wife she swooned away. One of the maids told me about it. She pretended to be confined to her room with headache, but in reality she spent the two days in tears. She keeps a diary; it has a lock and key, Dut one day I found it open and read her heart. She not only loves you, bat she has worshiped yon since she was 15 years old. You have thought she was happy at Lyndhurst. The trath i che has not had one content- ed moment there. She dislikes me and imagines me unworthy of you, and that has only irritated her pas- sion.” “Jeanne,” said the major, “I can hardly believe all this, but even if it were true, what has it to do with this awful breach betweed you and me?” _ “You must ‘have her money or i shall never be content as long as I live." The apeaker paused ax if to let her statement settle into hia dis- turbed consciousness, then she ended: “You must have it, or I cannot live with you any longer.” “You mean—" he was unable to pro- ceed. |_“T mean that you and 1, Rowland, ‘without harming the girl in the slight- ‘est, can, after her death, live the rest ‘of our lives on that money, over half of which you have fairly earned by Your business eare and judgment.” “ “I don't see how we can. do it,” Goddard said, after he had endeavored to fathom her meaning. : “She has only two years to live at the very longest, dear. It would mean © temporary separation between you and me, but fn the end we could make up for it. My plan is this: She loves you and would marry you within a Week after my death if you asked her. I shall go abroad at once, and while Zam away absolute proof of my death shall be brought to you and the au- thorities in America. Soon after this you must marry Blanche and get pos- Session of her fortune. Then when she dies I shall manage to show that my death was a mistake and shall come back to you.” “My God, Jeanne! don't—don't ask this of me!” Goddard covered his face with his hands. His wie removed them gently and put her left arm around his neck. “Darling, it would be the easiest thing in the world to accomplish, and then just think of all the after years of happiness which we shall spend to- gether." “I can't do it, Jeanne—I «imply am not made that way!” “Have'you considered that you and I part, then, to-night?” i “You can't mean that?” he cried. “Absolutely. I shall not go back to Iyndhurst unless you fully agree to my proposal, Even then it will only be for a week while Iam allaying sus- picion and preparing for my voyage.” “Jeanne, I simply cannot do this,” groaned Goddard; “I simply cannot do itt” ‘The woman rose and stood before him at her full height. She had never looked so queenly—her influence over him had never been so great. She strode back and forth across the room with all the grace and beauty which had enthralled his senses a year before. Suddenly she stepped up to him and laid a hand upon his shoulder which commanded him like the touch of a hypnotist upon a good subject. “You know, Rowland, that another rich man wanted to make me his wife when I consented to marry you?” He remembered that she had told him something of the kind just before the wedding, and how that fact had hastened lis marriage, He nodded. “I remember.” Cee eee Beem SE %+BE NOT DECEIVED«- ! ® TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. § 2 Wing of all Hair Tonics, 4 f 66 99 4 n OZONO. a 4 ® Eso if “SS oa Sh Wee Woes ND = a2 Z KG a f Ge . « AS Sp. | aS BIA 341 EE IV) \ My \\ Gap) yh 1 : RCC EE ONG i Wn) @® BéroRE. ° “AFTER. ’ BEFORE. i. E AFTER é oo FP fn RE. AFTER. Fe ee ES ES * Resognizing the fact that there are many 80-CALLED hair-growers and Ac, beit-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to acertainty that man. AN of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, houest. statement. to. the colored race through this great’ paper. In Ap the yenr 1871 onr late secretary, Mrs. 8. M. Moore, through © fortanate cireumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase towny extent antil 1875, when it was put upon the snarket and fy, ct With marked success. After a thorough test by the colored people of AY vat time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, true tell thet was claimed for it, and worthy in, every respect of- the confidence of every AA member of the colored race, because they found it to cause the hair to erow AN long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful.as-an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are slwaya a Ay “uaber of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of oher AN people’s goods. Seeing our marked success, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair-straightaners, many of which are Gr Worthless, causing the bair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair AN ond scalp, and the colored people are buying. these sputions ‘compounds, which are filled with animal fats, and do the hair more harm than good. ‘To Ax these let us sound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. Do no! AN be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics, i A OZONG, which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, o1 wo will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you.a plain question—would we abso. lutely agree to forfeit $60.00 if you aro dissatisfied with our preparations, AN if, thes were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised fo! several years under this guarantee, and wo are glad to say that every one 7a “be bas used Ozono has been satislied in every respect. A 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonics,” Ozone will positively A take the Kicks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Trouble @N some Hair. It will make sbort, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff Gn bad Scerf can net live alter Ozono has been applied. It will stop yous iat AN frova falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, snaking the hairlongandeoft. Now, right here, let ts make astatement. Many firms are®advertising AR remedies to straighten hair, but when they send the preparation they tel ou to awe bot irons. | Friends, do not use hot irons; they. will burn up the D iite of the hair, and cause it ¢ drop out. Ozono straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stay: straight forever, You can stop the use at any time.’ The good effects on the bair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozono is 50c. a bottle—4 boxes do the work, We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time :' Cut out this couion and sen¢ AA ‘8S enclosing with it the sum of One Dolihr, and we will forward to you @N four large boxes of Ozono and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner Nhich makes black skin bright, rough skin goft and. pliant, and) cures al f skin diseases, Algo removes all facial imperfections, and actually remove: BR ainox.pite, We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skis Food—Nature’s great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles A\ oa all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young lool N younger. We win also inctude one package of oar celebrated Scalp Soap, which i absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap bata pure soap ehould eva Perea, “and then you may kiss me.” He made no answer other than to push her head back passionately, and then gazing into her eyes an instant he kissed her on the mouth and drew her to bim. Vo by continued ‘The Valuable Member. He resigned, aid they talssed Bim, Aan the een te Whe Goce most of the kicking Tee ite ots clube | Chicago Heese. A FAIn PROPOSITION, fad 4 a hse CS A Ee SK, Wl . ¥ 5 iy ae ih i PY, A) TTA ts 14) i ( i Wh rr ey V7)" wasp 4// | oe b Hipworth—I'd like to make a bar- gain with you. Sykee (of the next flat)—What? Hipworth—It you won't give your boy a drum on Christmas I won't give mine a horn.—Philadelphia North American. Withse:Reena@asn: “Hf you can’t menage the boy, Maria, ‘Just turn him over to me.” She turned him over at once, and papa ‘Then turned him over his knee. Chicago Tribune An Interesting Diary. ‘The empress of Germany ts said to be ‘one of the most conscientious of royal diary keepers, and the daily record nu fone ever sees, not even the emperor bimself. Each year a new diary is be- gun and the old one, with its locked, ‘clasp, is put away with the preceding bea in an iron safe, which is kept locked.—N. ¥. Sun, Value of Horses in England, ‘The average price of good railway fray horse in England is about $300, and each'anima] costs about $2.25 per week for fodder alone. Under faircon- ditions railway companies work their horses about ten hours a day—N. Y, ‘Times. | * Rather Encouraging, ‘He—What do you think is the miost ‘appropriate name for a girl? ‘She—That all depends upon the girl, Your name would snit me all right— ‘Fit-Bits, JOHN ff. HIGGINS Cholce Groceries Wines Liquors & Cigars, PURE Goons, FULL VALUE FOR l6r0 E. Franklin, St., | Siete are se eas | The Custale House, 702 E. BROAD ST. Having remodeled my ber. and hay- tetoeranee aiemineed san eens the same old stand. Chotce Wines, Liquors and Ctaars. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT. Meals At All Hours, New "Phone, 1261. Wm. Oustalo, Prop cosbese se oe reer H. ¥F. Jonathan, Fish Oysters & Produce 120 N. 17th St., Richmond, Va Genes yo reeeive prompt sttantion A. Hayes, Otnce and Were-Reome 727 North Second St, Residences: 725 N. 2nd St, First-Olass Hacks and Uaskets of all descriptions. I have a spars coom for bodies whenthe family have not « euit- able place, All Country orders are xiven Special Attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets Onil and see me ead you shell be waited on kindly New ’Phone 1198. be used onthe scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Sere Throat cr Mouth” all form of! Vor Chilblains, Sore and Frosted. Feats removes all f ppelis andl odors arising from the baman body, as fopt, arm pits, etc. © Tae Walue of this Grand Agersgatian is $400, bat we let! you have it for $1.00, simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the | public in general from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon. our Trede-Mark, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U. 8. Government has granted us| this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; 80 if the coupon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use only the éoupon having the two heads on Yi." Aa to ous reeponsibility, we feler you to the Editor ofthis paper or to the Metropolitan Bank a Bich fagues Va. We have thousands of testimonials we have not space to pub- ish. ' Here is a sample df one: A Boston Chemical Company : : Dear Sivs,—You are at liberty to state in sny newspaper that I have | used OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. Ihave been, fooled so often, it doas me good to retommend honest goods. MAGGIE B. PROCTOR, | Here is another: Box 114, Fairfield, Texas. | Gentlemen,—After using OZONO-a short while only, I am glad to say that my hair is'already straight and growing finely. we 2 MISS BESSIE POWERS, ~ ‘ 888 Missouri street, Toledo, 0.” A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beantifal and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, ' TOUT ue AE to secures glossy long growiki Bay only the genuine * OZONO.”" Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 810 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. | ee, eee ee ey ee ie | Boston Chemical Co., 4 | ~ 810 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. Or ae Tenclose you $1.00, for which please send at once the following goods: 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth 50c. 1 Botile Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package (1 pint), Anti-Odor, worth 50c. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth BUe. Total, $4.00. f Mates vias tea ois. stot Ree ome Me ooo AMR NSS MAR ay NCTA See oey IV arcing ob eaeacai ede eee omniy. .Uemcops acer ce stiri og at re If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has 4 no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. a i RAR Ratner naan nn aie ne CAPTAIN HANKINS where do you buy you meats? ——FROM——— ti James H. Gibbs, Dealer in All Kirds of Meats stall No 12 First Market The best Butcher you can find to buy Fresh, First-Class Meats at a Reasonable Price mami THANKS, I JUST wANT TO KNOW _ A.D. PRICE, Funeral Director Embalmer and Liveryman Wash coasted Tor" wstnng Sau wie cotaceaitenetn’ Flacbe or eaten 211 East Leigh Street (Reswwenck Next Door.] YPEN DAY AND NIGHT—Man on Dory Arr, Nicxt Foneral Directors, Embalmes: ¢y° !ivarymen OFFICE, WAREROOMS _ 2... ¥S 528 N. Adams St. Near Leigh St, Nigbt Calls and Orders by Phone Promptly Execated. sesidence U p-stai- ~ Established 1868. xs : Fass acon | J A&C. SI. Cooke SUCCESSORS To <= Henry Cooke Old ’Phone 1431 ms cas 5 Gi men? Ve = 4 : orneltns J. Cooke THE PLANET SATURDAY, JAN. 19, 1900. THE FIRST HONOR PUPILS HIGH AND NORMAL SCHOOL. Week Ending January 11, 1901. Senior A Grade—Clementine Davis Ardella Jackson, Willie Nelson, Eula Ils Whittle. Senior B—Marion Jones. Intermediate A I—Carrie Adams. Junior A I—Lillie Brock. Senior B—Josephine Davis. MOORE SCHOOL Week Ending January 18, 1801. 5th Grammar—Pearl Bland. 4th Grammar—Josephine Cox, Frank Carter, Robert Preston, Clarine Poindexter, Estelle Wooldridge. 8rd Grammar—Lilla Mines, Netta Wooldridge, Ora Johnson, Virginia Wilson. 1st Grammar—Bessie Anderson, Julia Brown, Eisie Carter, Ollie Frasier, Bessie Robinson. 8th Primary—Milton Sampson, Pearl Jackson, Martha Montague, Ollie Riethardson, Marv Bassette, Maude Hayes, Benjamin Deane. 7th Primary—Tbomas Branch, Minnie booker, Lizzie Cross, Leon Holmes Virginia Jackson, Alberta Jones, Ollie Guerrant, Maggie Mayo, Roa Patterson, Arthur Goode, Leonard Johnson, Arnell Frasier, Sarah Hilton, Celia Minor, Clara Morris. 6th Primary (a)—Lula Gray, Martha Hill, Hunter Goode, Henry Johnson, William Johnson. 6th Primary (b)—Beverly Morton, Delta Booker, Katie Cox, Emma Grosse, Gracie Myers, Sallie Reader, Eva Sledd. 5th Primary—Katie Booker, Ruth Davis, Amanda Sayler. 4th Primary—Pearl Anderson, Florence Booker, Katie Horkins, Virginia Sydney, Clara Johnson, Esther Young Lottie Woody, Walter Harris, Thomas Foster, Mary Edwards Martha Thomas. 3rd Primary (a)—Marie Cousins, Sam Lee, John Robinson, Cora Bordy, Mary Graige, Willie Harris, Nora Jackson, Lillie Jackson, Lottie Mickens, Marie Vaughan. 3rd Primary (b)—Pinky Funn, Daisy Hill, Louise Minor, Mary Morton, Daisy O'Neil, Minnie Mickens. 2nd Primary—Lee Frezier, Ashton Parsons, Irvin Willis, Alice Babe, Lillie Coleman, Ada Mitchell, Rebecca Winston, Beatice Pryor. 1st Primary (a)—Lloyd Glover, Philip Hendley, Henry Johnson, Edward Fond, Ida Booker, Nannie Jackson, Gertrude Johnson, Virgie Smith, Millie Norrell, Laura Reynolds, Amanda Barcroft. 1st Primary (b)—S. Bolling, Ferris Carter, William Kenny, Leroy Johnson, William Logan, James Randolph, Melissa Byrd, Edbach Carter, Mary Carter, Eizabeth Cheatman, Eiza Culavaly, Mary Gray, Marie Haskins, Rosa Kenny, Ida Kenny, Bettie May, Eva Randolph, Margaret Richardson. BAKER SCHOOL Week ending January 18, 1901 6th Grammar—Mrs. R. D. Bowser, teacher—Louise Brown. 5th Grammar—Miss M. L. Chiles, teacher—Willie Jackson, Lindsay Taylor. 8rd Grammar—Mr. D. Webster Davis teacher—Willie Scott, Charles Tinaley, Eva Graham, Alberta Hughes, Lillie Lipscash, Sarah Minor, Belle Morris, Mary Quarles. 1st Grammar—Miss M. H. Smith, teacher—Elizabeth Howard, Maggie Baker. 8th Primary—Miss L. J. Corbin, teacher—Mary Daggett, Tamar Carter. Georgie Grey. 6th Primary—Miss M. C. Tinsley teacher—Pearl Brown, Perzelia Brown, Ada Greene, Azalia Storrs. 5th Primary—Miss M. E. Allen teacher—Wyndham Carter, Louis Fountain, Samuel Gardener, Lelia Caloway, Frances Giles, Emily Green, Lenora Mason, Cornelius Gaston. 4th Primary—Miss Martha R. Crump teacher—Florence Augustus, Laura Augustus, Bertha Campbell, Naomi Hill, Annie Lee, Jeannette West, Walter Royster, Dabney Morton. 3rd Primary—Miss E. V. Trent teacher—John Pearson, Bruce Fountain, Charles Gray, Wm. Young, Mary Pearson, Lily Weaver, Addie Long, Goldie Long, Ada Carter, Pauline Morris, Willie Lipscomb, Bettie Eitzhugh, Robert Cabinese, Earnest Morton, Paul Quarles, Eddie Yancey, Hermion Jackson, Cassie Nelson, Adalina Carter, Mildred Taylor, Mamia Green marke. Baroness—Clara, bring me dozen pocket handkerchiefs on whi I told you to mark my monogram. Lady's Maid—Here they are, my lady. "But how is this? You haven't marked all of them with my mon gram." "Indeed I have, my lady. I marked one with your monogram, and I have marked all the others with the word 'Ditto.'"—N. Y. World. TROUBLE FOR A WOMAN. Gets Into a Jam by Trying to Polish a Silk Waist with Gasoline and Kerosene. Down in Auburn Park lives a pretty housewife who has added one more to her list of "don't's." It is this, says the Chicago Chronicle: "Don't clean a silk waist with gasoline until the stuff has been chemically analyzed." A week ago while overhauling her wardrobe, she found two silk waists—dainty affairs with lace and things all over them—and a number of pretty ribbons, which she decided would look much better after being treated with gasoline. That treacherous stuff, by the way, is nearly every woman's HER LITTLE MISTAKE panacea for everything that requires cleaning, except teeth. The girl was dispatched for the gasoline to a neighboring grocery—not the one at which the family trades—and it proved to be a hole-in-the-wall sort of place, more given to the sale of mackerel and debilitated eggs than anything else. Blithesome the girl returned with a bottle of gasoline, and the woman who had determined to clean things up a bit dumped the stuff into a big pan and asked her husband to stand by in case of an explosion. If she left the house she evidently wanted him to go with her. Into the pan of gasoline she soured the delicate waist, and after they were lifted out the ribbons went in, while an awful aroma permeated everything. The husband was too busy to see the finish, but when he returned that night he heard the story. "I thought that stuff smelled sort of funny," said the indignant light of the household; "what do you think? It's about half kerosene, and every thing I put into it is ruined." It was not the husband's turn to say anything, but what he thought about that grocer was sufficient. "I don't suppose there's any use suing the fellow," said the wife, suggestively. "No; if we won the case he would have to turn over his grocery to us," said her husband, "and that would be worse luck than we've had." And then they let the matter drop. EARLY MORNING THIEF. Driven Into an Ice Box by a Plucky Saloon Porter and Locked Up Securely. Forced by a hail of bullets to seek refuge in an ice box, Fred Thornton was captured while attempting to loot the saloon of M. Mandelson, 258 Ogden avenue, Chicago. Frank Fisher, a porter employed in the place, was awakened by suspicious noises in the front of the saloon, and upon arising discovered the intruder in the act of robbing the cash drawer. Without waiting for the thief to take further action, Fisher opened fire. The robber dodged and ducked, seeking to avoid the leaden missiles. The open door of the ice box offered the only opportunity of escape, and HOLD-UP MAN IS TRAPPED Thornton dashed inside, closing the door behind him. The plucky porter then snapped the lock and notified the police. Policeman Michael Finn, attracted by the firing, entered the saloon and called upon the prisoner to surrender, but received no response. After repeated threats, the burglar was informed that a few quarts of bullets would be sent through the door of the lee chest unless he came out. He was given five minutes to consider the situation. At the expiration of the last minute Thornton came forth, and was made a prisoner. He declares that he was saved from Fisher's shots by the merest chance, and seemed thankful that he was safely behind the bars of the Lake Street station. He Counted All Right. "You've been in a fight," said the mother, reprovingly. "Oh, not much of a one," answered the boy. "Did you count, 100 as I told you when you felt your angry passions rising?" "Oh, sure," returned the boy. "I counted 100 all right, but I knocked the other boy down first. It's the only care way." -Chicago Post. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA Cures WeakMen Free INSURES LOVE AND A HAPPY HOME FOR ALL How any man may quietly cure himself af- tor years of suffering from sexual weakness lost vitality, night losses, varicocele & and enlarge small weak organs to full size and L W KNAPP M D gor, simply send your name and address to Knapp, 1822 Hull Hldg, Detroit, Mich. and his family. He ceilpt with full ceilpt with full himself so that any man may easily cure himself at home. This is our generous offer and the following extracts taken from his small mail what man think of his generosity. "Dear sir--Please accept my sincere thanks for years of recent date. I have given my treatment a thorough test and the benefit a extraordinary. It has completely braced me up, I am just as vigorous as when a boy and you cannot realize how happy I am." Dear sir-- Your method worked beautifully, and your help needed. strength and vigor have completely turned and enlargement is entirely satisfied. "Dear sir-- W yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the recept aid definitely. I am confident that truthfully say it is a boon to weak men, greatly improved in size, strength and vigor. All correspondence is strictly confidential, mailed in plain sealed envelope. The receipt is sent by mail, asking and he wants every man to have it. A. J. Chewning Company. 6TH NORTH 10TH ST. REAL ESTATE AGENTS. We can sell you bargains on easy terms and lend you money at lowest rate. Business Confidential. Give us a call and get the benefit of their experience. 9-22 8m DENTISTRY PAINLESS EXTRACTION Fine Denistry is possible, only with fine material fashioned into coral reef form with infinite care and skill. Masks are nested in fine Denistry pay a high rate of interest often for a life-time. The interior is beautiful Teeth, Comfort, Pleasure and Health. OFFICE HOUR: From 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. Old Phone: 916 102 W Leigh St. Richmond The Economy' 808 N. 3RD STREET. W. O. TURNER, Prop. FINE TAILORING CLEANING DYEING and REPAIRING. GET MONEY. Get money. Symbolic mysteries A book on a glass of water for lucky number, 50 e and $1.00. J. H Coates, Bt. Dr., 1940 Winton St., Philadelphia, Pa. Caucers cured. 8-25 8m A REAL GRAPHOPHONE FOR $5.00 Slam! Jockers! Motor, Jockers! Wheel, rubber cushion structure. NO BOTHER, MUCH FUR When accompanied by a Recordist Ozonophone can be used to make records. Fidelity Records can be used to record the standard Records. Good order and timing to our nearest office. COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH CO. Depot, 111 W. 10th St. NEW YORK, 19204 Broadway ST. LOUIS, 200-000 Office 35. ANNEMONOR, 19204 Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA, 19204 Baltimore BOWTOWN, 19204 BALTIMORE BAY FRANCISCO, 19204 CARY, 19204 BROADWAY BELTIN, 19204 KENNEDYVILLE. DON'T SPOIL Ozonized O. Harrow FEEL SAFE. Theervation that has stood the best of time and never fails to give per satisfaction. It renders the hair soft, plush and glossy and makes it great. Sold over 10 years and used by thousands. Virtuous harmless. Testimonial. in request. Only 50 cents. Sold by deal or send us $1. 40 Postal or Express Money Order for three bottles, express paid Write your name and address plainly to ZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Il. THE TREE Southern Railway SCHEDULE IN EFFECT OCT. 21, 1900. Trains Leaves Richmond, Va. 11.00 P.R. NO.12 SULCHEEN EXEC. sleeper in jeep and potats south sleeper in jersey. Greenboro, salisbury, sarco Charlotte sleeper open at Richmond, b. m. passenger at local stations. Connects with New York and Florida Express with New York and Florida Express (No 7) carrying through sleeper be- connections with connections for all Plains police connects at Danville. Charlotte with the Washington and Southwestern Limits to sleeper not in New York, and sleeper not in New York, and Nashville. New York and Memphis and New York and American Tourist sleeper Moyes, Wednesdays. Washington to Sax. Francisco without change, with connections for points in Texas, Mexico and California. 15:01 F M No. 7, solid train daily, or Chai lotte, N. C. Connects at Moseley with Brunswick and Powhatan railroad at Kewville to Clarksburg, and deserts doon and Durham and at Greenbord for Durham, Raleigh, and Winston Salem, at Daville with no. 88 United States and train, daily for new Orleans and polite carriers carries sleeper New York to New Or leans and New York to Jacksonville and Miami for Nassau auburn, Cuba and buffe-sleeper Richmond to Birmingham through Atlanta. Through train sleeper Salisbury, to Missonia via of *Shweilville* and Chattanooga. 6:00 P. M. NOIT, LOCAL, daily except Sunday for Kewsville and intermediate point TRAINS ARRIVE AT RIGHMOND. 6:00 A. M. 6:25 P. M. from Atlanta Augusta, Apswelli 8:46 P. M. from Keysville and local stations. 8:46 P. M. from Keysville and local stations. LOCAL PRESTIGE TRAIN. Nox. 61 and 62 between Manchester and New Va. C. & O. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Schedule in Effect January 5, 1900, From Richmond. LEAVE BROAD-STREET STATION, 9:30 a.m. daily for principal stations Newp News, Old Peet, Corolla and Ports mouth. Pair car. 8:40 p.m. daily local for Newport News Old Peet and Portsmouth ullman to Old Peet. 10:00 a.m except Sunday. Local Trains for Cifton Fleton. Camembees at Gardov- ville for orange Warreston. Manasses Branch and Washington only. Concerts at Char oteville for Lorenbub g: at Baskin Hargeston and at Staunton for Lexington. 2:45 p.m. Daily limited, to Chettnall, south sleeping cars Cousset, to Palmanu fo.Orange and at Orge with Southern fo.Orange and at Orange at 6:40 p.m. Daily for tatiana in range at 6:40 p.m. Washington. Connects for Virginia Hot Spring. Local Tatia No. 7, full薪永 Sunday, from Gordonville to Iaunton. 6:30 p.m. accommodation, except Sunday to Downtown. 10:45 p. m. Dathy, F F V, to Cinetemani and Louisville vallman sleeping car. Connects for Virginia Hot springs. Connects with Greenbrier River R I K except Sunday LEAVE EIGHT ST. STATION. 10:30 p. m. Dathy for Louisville's art. 5:15 p.m. except Sunday, to Columbia ON p. m. except Sunday, to Columbia TRAINS ARRIVE BROAD STREET STATION. 8:00 a.m. except Sunday from Doswell. 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 p. m., daily, Cincinnati a. m., daily 8:30 p. m., from Norfolk and Old Point. 8:15 a. m. except Sunday, from Clifton Forge. For detailed information, connections, etc. apply at Richmond Transfer office, No 003 Passenger Office; Chesspake and Ohio Pass- enger Office; Stainte street; Sta- tior Ticket Offices, or address JOHN D. POTTS, Ass't. General Passenger Agent The Favorite Route North. LEVA ZICHMOND M. M. 15120 ORRE LIMITED, Daily, except Sunday for West Point, and intermediate stations minging on connection Mondays, Wednesdays and for Balti more. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Train No. 16, 12:30 P.M. LOU L. Express Mon Wednes & Fridays, for West Point and intermediate stations. concludes on Wednesday. Tappanauck: also at West Point with steamers for Baltimore. stops at all sta Train No. 74, 5:00 A. M. LOCAL MIXED leaves daily, except Sunday, from Virginia's Street Station for West Point and intermediate stations, connecting with the hostor manor for Walkerton and Tay pahannah. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND. 9:15 a.m. M. daily, from West Point, with connection from Baltimore Wednesday Fridays and Satu days. 10:35 a.m. sundays and Mondays. Daily, except Sunday from West Point and Saturday. steamers leave West Point ounday Wednesday and Friday 5:50 P. M. arriving Baltic more,8.00 p.m. steaming leave more,6.00 p.m. Friday, Thursday and Saturday steamers call at all landings on York River. C. W. WESTBURY Travelling Passenger Agent, 920 E. Main St Richmond, Va. J. M. GULF tranfo manager gen. App. agm. FRANK S. GANNON Third Vice-president and General Manager Washington, D.C. 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Of time for which it has been paid, a said liable for the payment of the subscription date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATION :-When writing to us rely on your subscription or to discontinue your subscription you should give your name and address L. full, otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. ORANGE OF ADDRESS :-In order to change the address of a subscriber we must be sent themer as well as the present address Entered in the Post-Office at Richmond, Va. a second class matter. SATURDAY, JAN. 26, 1901 "AGGRIEVED COLORED OITIZENS." THE excellent article in the RICH MOND News of Jan. 23rd under the caption of "Aggrieved Colored Citizens" is a harbinger of better things and emphasizes the fact that we have some staunch friends among people of white persuasion. GOD grant that our conduct may continue to be such as to cause them to multiply. What better expressions made in the open hearted, candid Virginia way can be found than the following: "Nevertheless we believe it should be the duty and the pleasure of white people of all kinds to encourage in every possible way every effort of the colored people's to better themselves. On general principles it is bad manners to wantonly offend anybody Guided by that principle, The Richmond News has always discountened every attempt to being into its columns burlesques of Negroes as a race, in pictures or dialect or anything of the kind. There is no need however, for the intelligent and progressive class of Negroes to feel discouraged or embattered because this rule is not always observed by white people." It may be that this wrong will be the source of much good. It will teach some of the prejudiced white people not to interfere with the better class of colored people who are being encouraged by white people in their efforts to rise in a field of legitimate endeavor. God grant that this liberal tendency will increase and its advocates cover the earth. THE TIMES STATEMENT THE editorial management of the "TIMES" made a most fitting excuse and explanation for the most uncalled for blunder of its reportorial department relative to the inauguration entertainment. It makes all colored people feel as though we are living in a community where correct dealings and upright living counts for something with the better class of white citizens. In its issue of the 24th int it says: The Times that the article would appear the committee saw fit to make their grievances known through another channel. As our colored friends have printed their communication in another paper we suppose that they do not care to have it reproduces in The Times but, we can still add that we sincerely regret that our colored friends have taken so seriously the article to which they refer, which was idie- written only in a spirit of humor. We see, however upon reviewing the article that it contained objectionable expressions, although the omission of a few and unimportant words would have removed the cause of offense, and we with they had been omitted. We would not on any account put a stumbling block in the way, o'd courage those who are struggling upward. We would rather smooth their course and shed light, not cast shadow on their path. We must say, however, that our rest for the pain the article has given spirit in which they made their feelings known While the spirit of sensitive self respect exists and grows among the colored race we have strong assurance that our colored people in Virginia are what we have often claimed for them—the best of their race in the world. Well, said, sir well said. The white Virginian has always been noted for his chivalry, and justice. A wrong done whether to white or black, rich or humble merited his condemnation and enlisted his sympathy. We have insisted that if colored people of character and worth would appeal directly to the better class of white people they will secure their influence and enlist their support in all matters which off at their material welfare. This explanation will tend to increase the kindly feeling between the better classes and serve as a warning to the visions of both races that the better classes know when o come together in an effort to build up this community and to advance the interests of the grand old commonwealth. Masters of Men: The SATURDAY EVENING Post announces for early publication a twelve part serial story of love and adventure of the characters of Mec is a powerful tale, of the The central figures in the story a c rich orphan, who has entered the navy as an apprentice, and a young enqn refresh from the Naval Academy. The author leads his two heroes through a maze of adventures by land and sea. This romance may fairly be called the best work of the best writer of sea stories in the country. Miss Courtney Booker of 102 East Grace St. gave a delightful entertainment Tuesday evening, January 15th, 1001, at No. 11 East Duval St. It was a grand affair, and was attended by about sixty persons and among the guests Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith Mc. Foum ais Coles, and Clopton. Misses Clopton, Ocia Logon, Mrs. Rus- sel Nicholas, Misses Alice, Randall, Friend, Messrs Wilfie Harris, Boane, Porter, Patterson, John Coles, Foe- son, Robert Burrell, Richmond, Fox. Tucker, Misses Florence Coles Hill Fountain, Jordans Parrish, Luzy Reed Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes and others The following are the names of the District Deputies G. M. appointed by the M. W. G. M., Dr. P. B. Ramsey, R. M. Sears, 1st District; J. A. C. Stevens, 2nd District; Humphrey O. Stevens, 8th District; S. J. Brown 8th District; Rev, Phillip F. Morris, 10th District; G. L. A. Cabell, 6th District; Dr. R. Wilson, M. D. 7th District; James R. Wilson, 8th District; A. J. Sutherland, 9th District; R. Page Hall, 10th District; W. T. Anderson, 11th District; T. B. Warren, 12th District; Rev. J. H. Thomas, 18th Y. M. C. A. NOTES General information Several of our active member are sick. We are hoping and praying for their early recovery. The explanation on the Sunday School lesson last Saturday was well attended. The Alms House committee reported good work for last Sunday. Mr. A. Severley of the Sharon Baptist Church gave the boys a very instructive address last Sunday. Subject, "Save the boys." The death of a near relative of Rev. Chamberlayne prevented the Reverend from addressing the men last Sunday. Our brother has our sympathy. Our vice president of the Sunday School Union very kindly substituted, Mr. York Harris, who gave a very timely thoughtful subject: "Do your best." The solos rendered by Miss Belle Fitzhugh, accompanied by Miss Emma Jones were enjoyed by all. You are invited to our rooms Saturday at 5 p. m. to hear Prof. G. R. Hevey. Meetings in the jail and almshouse Sunday 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. Mr. Peter Coleman of the Fourth will address the boys Sunday 4 p. m. Here we are men. This is your opportunity Sunday 5:30 p.m. at our rooms Rav. D. Webster Davis, A. M., will deliver a special address to men. Do not miss this treat. Special music from the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, accompanied by Mr. Joseph Williams. Be a committee on time. WANTED - A Cock and House Girl Apply at 108 East Oary St. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Thursday, Jan. 17. The river and harbor appropriation bill was passed yesterday by the house. B. R. Tillman was yesterday elected United States senator from South Carolina, to succeed himself. W. A. Clark was yesterday elected United States senator from Montana to succeed Senator Carter. The Tennessey legislature elected E. W. Carzmark United States senator for the term beginning March 4. C. A. Alvord, who stole $19,000 from the First National bank, of New York, was sentenced to 13 years in Sing Sing. On his return to the national senate today M. S. Quay was greeted with an ovation and a remarkable floral spectacle. Fred Alexander, a negro, was burned at the stake by a mob at Leavenworth, Kan. He was suspected of assaulting and killing a white girl. Friday, Jan. 18. All opposition to Senator Cullom, of Illinois, has disappeared, and his reelection is assured. Marvin Kuhn, escaped life convict from the Ohio penitentiary, was recaptured at Green Hill, Ind. John W. Griggs, United States attorney general, was elected a director of the Trust Company of America yester day. Miss Alta Rockefeller, daughter of the Standard Oil magnate, was married in New York to E. r. Prentice, a young Chicago lawyer. The president yesterday signed the bill making an apportionment of representatives in congress from the several states under the twelfth census. The owners of the Lucas oil geyser at Beaumont, Tex., which has been shooting oil 50 feet high since last Thursday, have succeeded in controlling the water. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA termination to push the ship subsidy bill to a speedy vote. An operator's error caused a wreck on the Grand Trunk road near Norway, Me., which resulted in five deaths. Adelina Patti (Baroness Cederstrom) denies the report that she is negotiating for a concert tour in the United States. The national senate disposed of the army reorganization bill by agreeing to the senate amendments. The measure now goes to conference. Three men, two women and a boy are held by the coroner's jury at Philadelphia for the murder of Father Riegel by knockout drops. Four suspects are at large. Monday, Jan. 21. There are over a hundred cases of grip in the New Jersey state prison Indications are that there will be no change in Nebraska's senatorial deadlock for several days. Ex-Congressman John Leisenring, well known mine owner, died at Philadelphia, of pneumonia, aged 47. Louis E. Atkinson, of Miffintown, succeeds Judge Jeremiah Lyons, deceased, as judge of Pennsylvania's Forty-first judicial district. John Sheridan, in charge of the money order department of the Havana postoffice, was arrested yesterday and confessed stealing $1,300. George W. McGinnes, a wealthy retired merchant of Princeton, N. J., was found frozen to death in the garden of his home yesterday morning. Albert Miller, a waiter, and George Rose, a visiting friend from his old home in Indiana, were accidentally asphyxiated by gas in the former's room at Washington. Tuesday, Jan. 22. Pardee collieries at Lattimer Pa., have been closed down on account of a strike. At Kawenckee, Ills., fire yesterday destroyed the Commercial House and caused the death of three men. Cleveland has been decided upon as the place to hold the next annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. It will be held Sept. 9. Signor Verdi, the composer, was taken ill at Milan shortly after his return from a drive, and was found in his room unconscious. His condition is critical. C. L. Bridenstein, former paymaster of Baltimore's city engineer's office, pleaded guilty yesterday of stealing $2,781, and was sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Wednesday, Jan. 23. The torrential rains continue to do great damage to the banana fields of Jamaica. The Utah legislature today elected Thomas L. Kearns, Republican, United States senator. Mamie Kelley and Florence Fry wrecked two saloons at Bradford, Ill., where their brothers, minors, had purchased liquor. At Baltimore John Young, 71 years old, was convicted of murder in the second degree yesterday. He shot and killed his wife, 68 years old. Mrs. William Towns, of Hartford City, Ind., yesterday horsewhipped her husband on the street and tried to wreck a saloon. He sold her chickens and squandered the money. James P. Sterrett, former chief justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, died at his home in Philadelphia last night from the effects of a carhole arrest. BIG THEATER AFLAME NOT THE LEAST EXCITEMENT. The Crowded Audience Dispersed as Quietly as Though the Performance Had Been Safely Ended, and All Escaped Without Injury. Clincinnati, Jan. 23.—The Grand Opera House is a total ruin except for its staunch outer walls. A display of coolness, perhaps never witnessed before under such trying conditions, prevented its loss from being attended by a fearful catastrophe. The play set for last night was "Hamlet," by the E. H. Sothern company. The house was packed by a brilliant audience, many ladies without escorts being present. The first act had been finished, and in the second Mr. Sothern, acting the part of Hamlet, had spoken but a few lines when a slight disturbance was observed in the fourth row of seats from the orchestra, near the center aisle. It was caused by a slight issue of smoke at that point. An usher went down the aisle and quietly asked the people to be seated, saying there was nothing wrong. Mr. Sothern at this point stepped to the front of the stage and also assured the audience that everything was right. To further remove apprehension Mr. Sothern resumed his part, but before he had spoken two lines the smoke issued in such volumes that there was a spontaneous movement of the people in its vicinity. Without further order or suggestion or advice one of the most remarkable scenes ever witnessed in a crowded audience took place. It was as though the whole situation had been revealed to every person in the house, and without a single shout or anything else indicating a leade, the dispersal of the audience began and was carried out with the utmost order and composure. In the lower part of the house the abundant passage to Vine street gave an easy egress to the greater part of the audience. A large number of persons seated near the orchestra were assisted by the actors and actresses to mount the stage and to make their exit by the stage door on Longworth street. This assistance by the company was rendered at the cost of an entire neglect of their own personal property. A gentleman who was seated in the fourth row from the orchestra in describing the exit of the audience said there were many women near him without escorts, who exhibited the utmost composure and took the best and safest way to reach a place of safety. Nothing to indicate the possibility of a panic occurred. Fortunately, the gallery, which has the least commodious means of exit, was not crowded, and those who were in that part of the theater escaped with no severe accidents. Here and there some one stumbled on a steep stairway, but ready help was rendered and there was no one trampled or hurt by any mad careering of panic stricken men. The same calmness marked the behavior of the people in the balconies, which were emptied as quietly as if the play had been ended. VICTORIA DEAD. Sad Scenes at the Deathbed of England's Monarch. He Will Assume the Title of King Edward VII. QUEEN TO REST AT PROGMORE. Her Majesty Will Be Interred by the Side of the Prince Consort, the Loved Husband and Father—The Body to Be Removed to Windsor Castle on Saturday—All Places of Amusement in London Closed and Business Generally Suspended. President McKinley's Message of Sympathy. Cowes, Isle of Wight, Jan. 23.—Queen Victoria is dead and Edward VII reigns. The greatest event in the memory of this generation, in the memory of this generation, in the memory of this generation, in the memory of this generation, that could possibly imagined, has taken place quietly, almost gently, upon the anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent. The end of this career, never equalled by any woman in the world's history, came in a simply furnished room in Osborne house. This most respected of all women, living or dead, lay in a great four-posted bed, and made a shrunken atom, whose aged face and figure were a cruel mockery of the fair girl who in 1837 began to rule over England. Around her were gathered almost every descendant of her line. Well within view of the dying eyes there hung a portrait of the dying consort. It was he who designed the room, every part of the castle. In scarcely any words the white hatred bishop of Winchester prayed beside her, as he had often prayed with his sovereign for THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA he was her chaplain at Windsor. With bowed heads the imperious ruler of the German empire and the man who is now king of England, the woman who has succeeded to the title of queen, the princes and princesses, and those of less than royal designation listened to the bishop's ceaseless prayer. Six o'clock passed. The bishop continued his intercession. One of the younger children asked a question in skrill, childish treble and was immediately silenced. The women of this royal family sobbed faintly and the men shuffled uneasily. At exactly 6:30 Sir James Reid held up his hand, and the people in the room knew that England had lost her queen. The bishop pronounced the benediction. So the bishop passed away quite peacefully. She suffered no pain. Those who were now mourning went to their rooms. A few minutes later the inevitable element of materialism stepped into this pathetic chapter of international history, for the court indies went busily to work ordering their mourning from London. The wheels of the world were jarred when the announcement came, but in this palace at Osborne everything pursued the usual course. Down in the KING EDWARD VII kitchen they were cooking a huge dinner for an assemblage the like of which has seldom been known in England, and the dinner preparations proceeded just as if nothing had happened. The body of Queen Victoria was embalmed and will probable be taken to Windsor Castle on Saturday. The coffin arrived last evening from London. It was feared that the queen was dying about 9 o'clock yesterday morning, and carriages were sent to Osborne cottage and the rectory to bring all the princes and princesses and the bishop of Wincester to her bedside. She came then very near the end, but, when things looked the worst, the queen had one of the rulers due to her wonderful constitution, opened her eyes and recognized the Prince of Wales, the princess and Emperor William. She asked to see one of her faithful servants, a member of the household. He hastened to the room, but before he got there the queen had passed into a fitful sleep. Four o'clock marked the beginning of the end. Again the family were summoned, and this time the relapse was not followed by recovery. The Prince of Wales was very much affected when the doctors at last informed him that his mother had breathed her last. Emperor William, himself deeply affected, did his best to minister comfort to his sorrow stricken uncle, whose new dignity he was the first to acknowledge. From all parts of the world there are still pouring into Cowes messages of condolence. They come from crowned heads, millionaires, tradesmen and paupers, and are variously addressed to the Prince of Wales. The record of the last days of the reign of Victoria is not easy to tell, there being but one newspaper correspondent admitted to Osborne house. A. GREAT BRITAIN'S NEW QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN'S NEW QUEEN. and his interview with Sir Arthur John Rigge, private secretary to the late queen, was the only official statement that had been given out. For several weeks the queen had been failing. On Monday of last week she summoned Lord Roberts and asked him some very searching questions regarding the war in South Africa. On Tuesday she went for a drive, but was visibly af- fraid. On Wednesday she suffered a paralytic stroke, accompanied by intense physical weakness. It was her first illness in all her life, and she would not admit it. Then her co- uld grew so serious that, against her wishes, the family were summoned. When they arrived her reason had practically succumbed to paralysis and weakness. The events of the last few days, described in the bulletins, are too fresh to need repetition. BODY TO REST AT FROGMORE. Dead Monarch Will Be Interred by the Prince Consort's Side. London, Jan. 23.—Absolute silence reigned last night in the vicinity of Buckingham Palace and Marlborough House. A small bill, signed "Balfour" was posted outside, announcing the demise of the monarch. All places of amusement were closed, and those who were turned away from theaters or music halls wandered along the streets of the West End without a real object. No large crowds gathered. Not until Queen Victoria has been laid to rest beside the prince consort at Frogmore will the theaters and THE NEW PRINCE OF WALES THE NEW PRINCE OF WALES music hall reopen. Moreover, business has come to a practical standstill. The music in all the hotels and public places has ceased. Fashionable resorts are empty, and very few of the regular habitues are in evidence. The St. James, Prince's and other prominent restaurants yesterday afternoon discarded alluring colors for comebreak. The shops closed as soon as the back began to toll, and the blinds of Mansion House were drawn down as soon as the message from the Prince of Wales was received by the lord mayor. The bell tolled at St. Paul's cathedral was the gift of William III, and is used only on occasions of the death of royal personages, archbishops of Canterbury, lord mayors of London and bishops of London. The tolling continued for two hours yesterday at intervals of a minute and could be heard for miles in the direction of the wind. Her mother's death was tenderly broken to Dowager Empress Frederick late last evening," says a dispatch from Frankfurt. "I was terrible shock, but the shock is bearing up bravely. The trials of the last few days, however, have exercised a most painful effect upon her health, which causes serious anxiety." Shortly before midnight an official announcement was issued calling parliament to assemble at 4 o'clock this afternoon to enable members of the house of lords and house of commons to take the oath of allegiance to King Edward VII. We meet in London today and the proclamation of the king will occur thereafter at all places required by custom. The king will come to London to preside over the council. OUR NATION'S SYMPATHY. President McKinley's Message of Condolence to King Edward VII. Washington, Jan. 23. Four days of anxiety had in a large measure prepared official Washington for the news of the death of the queen of England. So it happened that all things that could be decently done in anticipation of the sad end had been disposed of and all was in readiness for the execution of the formalities which are indispensable to such events. When the sad came it found appropriate messages of condolence framed and even orders ready for execution looking to the half masting of the flags over the executive departments and the carrying out of the usual formalities. The half masting of the national ensign was an unusual tribute to the memory of the deceased sovereign. It is said this has been done rarely on the occasion of the funeral of some great world's ruler, but never before in the case of the death of a monarch. President McKinley's message of condolence, addressed to King Edward VII, was as follows: "I have received with profound sorrow the lamentable tidings of the death of her majesty the queen. Allow me, sir, to offer my sincere sympathy and that of the American people in your personal bereavement and in the loss Great Britain has suffered in the death of its venerable and illustrious sovereign, whose noble life and beneficent influence have prevailed the peace and LIFE OF QUEEN VICTORIA. Womanly Simplify Combined With Queenly Dignity. Although it is impossible to say that Queen Victoria outlived her usefulness, yet she may be said to have outlived her happiness. During her long and eventful reign—the longest on record, and extending considerably over half a century—she had seen all her oldest friends and acquaintances as well as numerous members of her immediate family disappear into the grave until as last she felt herself quite alone in the last. Not a single one of her former associates to whom she could unburden her mind discuss the earlier events of her reign, or with whom she could enjoy congenial intercourse was left. "Mamma is so entirely alone," exclaimed her daughter, the Princess Christian, one day. "You can't imagine how sad I am for her. We all belong to a younger generation and have different thoughts and sentiments, many of which she can neither understimate, appreciate. Every one of her contemporary friends has passed away, and with them he has remembered her old time associations. There is no one remaining to whom she can really talk about matters." This remark of Princess Christian goes far toward explaining the unhappy and even morose expression that pervaded the queen's features during WINDSOR CASTLE. the last 40 years of her reign, save when something extraordinary occurred to excite her keen sense of the ludicrous. On such occasions as these she would laugh with a degree of heartiness and even violence that would have completely staggered those who had never seen her without that half sad, half sour droop of the corners of her mouth. The Queen's Merry Disposition. Even in her childhood and girlhood previous to her accession to the throne, in 1837, Queen Victoria seems to have given evidence of this under- lying current of merriment and fun in the constitution of her character. True, being was done that could be done to check it, her mother, the Duchess Kent, whose severity and even harshness toward the young princess called forth on her occasion, at a state banquet at Windsor, a violent and public rebuke from King William IV. It was on his death, on June 20, 1837, that the scene occurred which has furnished the theme of so many a brush and pen, namely, the notification to the young girl in the middle of the night of the fact that she had become queen of Great Britain and sovereign of an empire so vast that on it the sun never sets. The messengers who conveyed to her the news of her accession to the throne were the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chamberlain and Sir Henry Halford. The youthful queen was aroused from her sleep, and on being informed of her new dignity burst into tears and asked the archbishop to pray for her. The whole party then knelt in prayer. Queens enjoy a privilege which is withheld, save in leap year, from women occupying a less august position in the socialscale, namely, thatof themselves making the offer of marriage instead of waiting to receive the proposal from their suitors. And it was therefore Queen Victoria who, a year after her coronation at Westminster abey on June 28, 1838, invited her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to share his life with her. The nuptials took place on the 10th of February, 1840, at the Chapel Royal, St James' palace. The wedding breakfast was given at Buckingham palace and the honeymoon, which only lasted three days, was spent at Windsor castle. Her Majesty's Happy Marriage. The marriage proved an exceptionally happy one. Prince Albert turned out to be an ideal husband, being a man of singularly stainless and irreproachable character. Queen Victoria's domestic bliss was absolutely unclouded as long as her husband lived, and she was guilty of no exaggeration when she declared that the only sorrow which he had ever caused her was when he died. His death occurred Dec. 14, 1861. On June 20, 1887, the queen made a state progress through her great capital to attend a special service at Westminster abbey in honor of the semicentennial anniversary of her accession to the throne. Every reigning house in the world sent either members of their families or great dignitaries to represent them at the ceremony, and while kings and queens chatted gaily together in the chancel of the abbey in the coming of Queen Victoria, her mother the bonnie, fresh and healthy cheeked English girl of 1837, but a venerable looking, white haired old lady—was driving up Piccadilly, her carriage escorted by the most brilliant troops of princes, archdukes and grand dukes that have ever been gathered together for such a purpose. Seven times during her reign has Queen Victoria's life been attempted. But only one occasion, in May, 1850, did her majesty receive any actual injury, and that of a mere transitory character. Her assailant on that occasion was a dismissed officer of Hussars, and he was selzed before he had time to accomplish more than strike her a sharp blow in the face with a stick. The man was sentenced to seven years' transportation. The first attempt to assassinate her was made in 1850 by a man named Oxford, who fired two platoon shots at her she was driving up Constitution hill with her husband. The would be murderer was selzed, detained several years in prison and is now earning his livelihood by house painting out in Australia. Remarkable Grace and Majesty Queen Victoria was small in stature and during the latter part of her life very stout. However, did not prevent her from retaining a most remarkable grace and manners. It was impossible to conceive anything more captivating and winning than her smile. Always plainly and even shabbly dressed in black gowns that were often rusty, it was impossible not to feel when in her presence that that little old woman had ruled for more than half a century over the greatest and most extensive empire of the civilized globe, and with all that a true, warm hearted woman. unaffected piety, and of sincere sympathy for all that are in trouble or distressed a thoroughly human empire, fact, whose affections, thoughts and experiences were understood and appreciated at their true value by her subjects. Coming to a throne tarnished by the immoralities of her predecessors, Queen Victoria completely reformed the moral atmosphere of the court, and to a certain extent also of the entire British people. For notwithstanding all the epithets that are hurled against it, British society is today infinitely superior in morals as well as in honor to what it was previous to 1837. Vice there is and always will be in a metropolis large as London, in a society so elastic as possible as that of England. But vice is no longer so rampant, so unblushing and so public as in days of yore. Her reign has been essentially one of peace, and with the exception of the Crimean campaign in 1854-5 England remained aloof from all the great wars that brought havoc and desolation all over the great continent of Europe during her long reign. The latest months of her life, however, were saddened by the conflict in the Transvaal. Another popular trait of Queen Victoria, and one that has been especially appreciated by the English, was her scrupulous exactitude and conscientiousness in money matters. All her predecessors on the throne had both lived and died overwhelmed with debts, which parliament was called upon to defray and settle. No appeal of this kind was ever made by Queen Victoria to the national treasury, and not only does she own to the grave free of debts and leave independent fortune to her children, but she has taken the trouble to pay off all the private liabilities incurred by her father, the late Duke of Kent. The latter was perpetually in financial difficulties, which contributed greatly to embitter his life. So small were his resources, indeed, that had it not been for Sir Benjamin Wood advancing him a large sum of money Queen Victoria's birth, on May 24, 1819, would have taken place, not in the London palace at Kensington, but in some obscure Continental town or village. Had this occurred the Duke of Kent's daughter would probably have been prevented from exercising her rights of succession to the British crown. For it is part and parcel of the unwritten constitutional law of England that the heir to the throne should be born on British soil, and the Tory party, at the time of King William IV's death, was strongly in favor of proclaiming George III's fourth son, Ernest, duke of Cumberland, as sovereign in lieu of Princess Victoria. CREEK INDIANS THREATENING Their Leader Sends a Message of Defiance to the President. Muskogee, I. T., Jan. 23.—Washington authorities have been requested to send federal troops into the Creek country to quell the uprising of fullbloods known as the Snake bands, who are creating apprehensions west of Eufala and threatening the lives of both the whites and the neutral Indians. The Indians threaten to enter the towns and burn and kill, and Chief Mekke has sent a message of deference to President McKinley, as follows: "Sir: I have already informed you of the matter concerning the execution of the Creek laws. I am now executing my own laws, as I told you I would." The whites are arming, and serious bloodshed is feared. United States Marshal Bennett sent 20 deputies and ten Indian police to the scene, but they were met by so fierce a fusilade that they were compelled to retire. One of the posse, named McNac, was captured by the Indians, and it is feared that they will take his life. The Irrepressible Mrs. Nation. Wititha, Kan., Jan., 22—Mrs. Carrie Nation and four other W. T. H. women wrecked two saloons last night, doing $1,500 to $2,000 damage. Mrs Nation afterward made a vicious assault on Sheriff Simmons, who finally landed her and her companions in jail. Today they were released on bail. Tonight Mrs. Nation started on another smashing crusade, but the saloonsists closed their places until after she had left for Newton. James S. Harlan Confarmed Washington, Jan. 22.—The senate in executive session yesterday confirmed the nomination of James S. Harlan, son of the supreme court justice, to be attorney general of Porto Rico. The final vote was reached after a discussion of more than two hours' duration, and when announced stood 43 to 21 in favor of confirmation. All the Republicans cast their votes in the affirmative and two or three Democrats voted with them. Princeton Students Will Not Parade Princeton, N. J., Jan. 23—The university will not send a body of students to Washington to represent it at the inaugural exercises on March 4. At a meeting of the faculty it was unanimously decided to send a letter to the committee in part as follows: "We feel obliged to decline the invitation, not on any political grounds nor from lack of patriotism, but solely because, in our opinion, it lies outside the functions of the university to send its students away at a very busy time of the year to participate in public parades and social festivities." Minnesota's Two Senators: St. Paul, Jan. 23.—United States Senator Knute Nelson was re-elected yesterday for a term of six years. Moses E. Clapp was chosen to succeed the late Cushman K. Davis, for a short term. The two houses of the legislature balloted separately and later ratified their selections in joint session. Marion Butler's Senatorial Successor West Point Hazing Abolished. West Point, Jan. 21.—The congressional committee left here yesterday for Washington, after having concluded the mission of investigation at the United States Military academy. Before their departure, however, through a voluntary agreement of the cadets, hazing was abolished. This voluntary agreement was the result of a meeting of the entire corps of cadets held OHIO GHOST STORY. Farmer Solves the Mystery of the Tell Gwynn Mansion. Dneanny Noises Made His Lite Miser- able for « Few Nights, Then am Inspiration Brought Light pari ismasulg ‘The Cincinnati Enquirer says that a few miles north of the village of Mont- Gomery, 0., there stands at the foot of » hill « tumble-down structure long since uninhabited, which has for years been known as the Tell Gwynn man- sion. The old place might have been made comfortable enough and been in- habited all these years but fer the fact that it bore a bad nage. It was a vic- tim of the ghost habit, nd this was the cause of its being shunned as a place of residence. Not long ago a farmer named George ‘Thomas desired to settle in the heigh- Dorhood, but the only place vacant was the Tell Gwynn mansion, sometimes called the “White House.” Knowing the reputation of the place he had some misgivings as to the wisdom of trying to live in a “spook” hatchery, but his thrift got the better of his fears, and, being promised rent free for a year should he succeed in ridding the place of supernatural visitors, ‘Thomas took possession. Before in- stalling his family and household ef- fects in his new home, however, he 4eemed it prudent to try and pass a few nights there alone, and if possible solve the much vexed question as to whether unearthly spirits were in the habit of holding high carnival within its walls, After carefully and critically exam- fining every nook and corner of the “mansion,” and finding nothing sus- Picious, the new tenant settled down to pase his first night beneath the ‘roof of the “haunted ‘house.” Noth ing disturbed his virgils. The second night was not so uneventful. Toward midnight he heard a noise on the big, broad staircase. Cautiously opening. the door on the Janding the noise of retreating footsteps greetec his ears, ‘finally ceasing as the intruders passed the threshold and lost themselves out {nto the darkness. It became painfully evident to ‘Thomas that the house was indeed the refuge of the supernatural, and the rest of the night was passed in fear and sleeplessness. With it all the ri ei , Tih BPI ‘“™ \ ( {| Jeet AY, | OPA TY fa “ELS fill: Y= ‘man was plucky. He kept to himself the incidents of the nights he had passed in the lonely house, and when questioned by the neighbors as to his experience refrained from satisfying them by a recital of what had taken place. Finally, an inspiration came to him! He sprinkled a thick layer of sand on the steps used by these spooks. By this means he was sure that the prob- Ter: would be solved. The third night the same programme was presented, more clattering, queer sounds, un- earthly manifestations, With every fc- ulty alert and armed with a revolver and a lantern the patient watcher dashed to the door and down the steps, preceded by the cause of the noises, bit failing to see what or who they were. ‘Then it occurred to him to examine the sand on the steps. He was re- warded by discovering several hun- red cloven tracks. They were much too large for those of rats. What could it be? This question he re- volved over and over in his mind, with the conclusion that steel traps would furnish a solution. Acting upon this Idea six traps were secured and placed upon the steps. At 12 o'clock of the fourth night of his vigils the “imps” or “demons,” or what not, were on hand as usual with the usual queer noise and clattering feet. ‘The re- volver and lamp were again brought {nto play just as a sharp click and an unearthly scream announced a cap- ture, and the enigma of the Tell Gwynn mansion was solved. The traps contained three fat rab- bits, The entire Thomas family are now domiciled there, and the head ef the household is the local here. Sultan Ie the Lucky Player. ‘The sultan of Turkey imagines him- self sport. Lately he has developed & passion for playing carde for money, and the man who is unfortunate enough to win the sultan's money in- curs his enduring dislike. Public of- ficlals permit him to win, and thus wave their places. Tee Cream im the Arctica, A favorite dish with the Eskimo is an ice cream made of seal oil, into which snow is stirred until the desired eonsistency has been obtained; then frozen berries of different kinds are added. This decoction ts about as tempting to the civilized palate as frozen | cod-liver oil, RELIGIOUS. McCabe, of the afethodist ee church, will sail for South America carly in January. He wil) hold several conferences in the south- rn continent before he returns, Seventeen per cent. of the popule- tion of Michigan is enrolled in the Sunday schools, The average for the ates. and territories of the union in Grace church, Mannatran, nas re- celved the gift of a sun dial whose ‘dase ie made of two stone pinnacles of the church as it was built 59 years ago and removed in the course of al- terations. New York city has two fire chap- lnins—clergymen who are attached to the fire department and attend all fires so as to minister when necessary to the wants of the dying or the in- fared. The Church of the Holy Commnun- fon, @ historic building of Philadel- phia, has been sold te a syndicate for $350,000. It is not known what dispo- sition will be made of the property or what improvements will be made ‘upon it. Rev. David Edwards Blaine, whose death occurred in Geattle a few days ago, was the founder of Methodism on Puget Sound. He was a native of New York state and a graduate of Hamilton college. He was one of the earliest pioneers of Seattle. Efforts are to be made by Philedel- Phia people to preserve the old mon- astery near Wissahickon. The mon- astery was constructed by the Seventh Day Baptiste when they were an or der, and dates back a century and a half. It is of great historic interest, but hae fallen into decay since the decline of the orders by which it was ‘once inhabited. RAILROADING. In « mile of railway there are over 2,000 sleepere. ‘The Russian ministry of communica- tion has decided to adopt petroleum for generating motive power on the lo- comotives of all the railways, A new way to coal locomotives is be- ing introduced by a prominent reil- way. All the engineer has to do fa to run his engine on a trestle, toueh a but- ton, and s tenderful of coal drops inte his teuder, and is weighed as {t drops in. In the new switch tower In the Grand Central yard, New York eity, the win: dows are of green glass. It is a great Protection to tke eyes of the employes, and enables them to keep their vision at ite normal strength at all times. In 1609 the German railways con- sumed 8,000 tons of carbide for the il lumination of cars, The consumption of carbide in Germany for 1900 Is esti. mated at 1,000 tons, equal to 7,000,000 gallons of petreleum. It is the intention of the new Central London Railway company to erect over its stations handsome mansions, which will be let out in residence fiats, while tu some cases, where space permits, at- tractive business premises will also be added, EDUCATIONAL. ‘The game of chess is taught in all the Australian public schools, ‘The Japanese, it is said, have ac- cepted the kindergarten "principles with enthusiasm. ‘The sum of 150,000 marks, hereto- fore annually voted in Germany for the support of German schools abroad, has been doubled. ‘There are 1,100 Chinese pupila in Queens college, Hong-Kong, varying in age from nine up te 23, and many of them have family cares in the shape of a wife and children at home. There are about 16,000,000 pupils in the schools of the United States—as many as Germany, France and Italy combined, and three times the enroli- ment of Great Britain and Ireland, and five times as many as Russla, with Its population ef 100,000,000. A former member of her majesty's civil service (Hong-Kong, 25 years’ ex- perience) advertises that he has “made plans for the establishment in New York city of a school of prac- tical Chinese, and is ready to receive pupils and instruct them in speaking, reading and writing the Chinese lan- wager BEES. Eggs of choice bee queens are an article of commerce in Switzerland, Tinted glass is used in England to measure the eolor of extracted honey. While a great deal of Florida honey is fit for table use, much of it is used for manufacturing. ‘Bees will not ordinarily fly more than & mile and a half in quest of stores; and the great bulk of them will keep within the mile limit. Bees have flown seven miles, but very rarely. Five thousand honey bees, as they leave the hive, weigh about one pound, but when the insects return from the visits to the flowers, freighted with honey, they weigh nearly twice es much. SCIENTIFIC. ‘The jelly fish wraps himself around his food and thus absorbs it. Photographing objects solely by the light from the planet Venus has been successfully accomplished. It te remarkable, says F. 8. Scales, that weevils never injure the germ of the grain, which therefore grows as well when it has served as a nest for thia little pest as previousty. ‘The Pollak-Virag system has been improved so that instead of signals being received in the form of a wary line, similar to that traced by the siphon recorder, messages can now be actually printed on the paper in ordinary round hand Latin characters at the mate of 1,000 words a minute. It Made Her Indignant. “How much to take me to the depot?” “Fifty cent” answered the cab- man. “And how much for myself and my wife?” “Seventy-five cents.” At this point s large and indignant ‘woman broke into the conversation. “Why, you insulting fellow!” she exclaimed. “Don't you suppose I’m worth as much as he is every day in the week? Do you think I'm a trunk or a baby to be bundled in for half price? Well, I guess not."—Chieago Post. "asda Tea “My dear,” he sald, with an ill-con- cealed ring of relief in his voice, “dia monds have gone up nearly 50 per cent. So I find the earrings I prom- ised you will cost more than I can af- ford.” _ “Ol” she cried’. “lent that too kud!" THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA. “Yes, I'm téFv sérry.> “So am I, dear. It's a shame that You'll have to pay more than you can afford."—Philadelphia Press. A Matter of Confidence. “How @id he acquire the reputation of being such a briltiant man?” in- quired one voter. “By means of his convincing man- ner,” answered the other. “He got people to believing that he thorough- ly understood his own arguments and they regarded him as a genius.”— Washington Star. Hasty Explanation. “What are you doing in my house?” demanded the owner of the premises, suddenly appearing on the scene in his nightshirt and carrying a huge re- volver. “I'm taking active steps to get out of it!" replied the burglar, vanishing through a window without taking the trouble to open {t.—Chicago Tribune. Hope. Mrs. Hennipeck—A few Indies and I have formed a Universal Peace so ciety. Mr. Hennipeck (timorously but hopefully)—Does it only concern the different natiois, my dear, or—or will it also extend to your individual households?—Puck, ‘The Cook's Ultimatum, Mr. Bacon—I sheuldn’t think you'd allew any of our neighbors te abuse you in the manner 1 overheard some one speaking to you in the back yard, a little while ago, dear. ‘Mrs. Bacon—That wasn’t any of the neighbors, John; tnat was the cookl— Yonkers Statesman, . Cold Comfort. | “Ouch!” exclaimed Smithett, as he limped across the bedroom floor, where } & new carpet had been laid; “euch! I've ruined my foot! Ouch! Ouch!” uthere you go,” sald his wite, eeldly, “always on the wrong tack!"—Chicago ‘Times-Herald. Why He Gazed, | Mra. Binks—Of all things! That ‘gentleman looked at Your hat as we parsed, just as a woman looks at an- ether woman's bonnet, Mr. Binks—Yee, he's the man I Pought it of, and I haven't paid him, —N. Y. Weekly. ae nena ‘Tess—Yes, I've accepted Jack. It was the second time he had proposed, you iknow, and— Jese—Ob, he told you that, did he? He made me promise not to say a word about it—Philadelphia Press. gg “Who was it said that charity begins at home?” “I suppose it was some one who didn’t want to contribute.”"—Puck. Set = GRLnAae Nach, “My son, I'm very sad tesay,” ‘The aged father sald. 7" “You're not reflecting credit, str, ‘Upon my hoary hend.= “Alas, it's true!” the son replieds “But what can you expect, Since I have worn my credit out, ‘And have mone to renect?™ Town ‘Topics, VAMILY SKELETON, si oa = ees os ™ es 2 Pas TA 9? ii he m \\oP py “i KY) | om: Dif 4) 2 A h—AY} LG DN | =F i Wea i} V1! ges | if \ - is i | i PTs eee Sle N Ti Ib “I suppose you'll be telling people that I'ma fool.” “No, dear, There are some things we must keep to ourselves."—Chieago Daily News. At Lane, ‘There's trouble at the boarding house, ‘There's blood upon the moon ‘The bold, bad, base monopoliats, Have cornered the festive praae! FES States ain og A Timely Innovation, Jack (at club window)—There goes Jenkins with his auto, and I'll be blowed if he hasn’t a tiger up behind. George—Tiger nothing! That's the repair man.—Brooklyn Life. teeta Sent we... Jaggles—Do you really think he committed suicide? Waggles—Well, he ate mushrooms he gathered himself. —Judge. Inconstetent, Mrs. Wabash—Lobsters never dla agree with me. ‘Mrs. Dearborn—And yet you married vne.—Yonkers Statesman. The Peminine Code. Daisy—Oh, yes, she wrote him that they must part forever and ever, but she did not mean it. Dolly—How do you know? Daisy—Because she did not under- score it, you silly—Baltimore Ameri- can, | Nen> Ghats: @unaeteam.. Guest—Roast veal or roast chicken, =? Which costs the most. The chick- ens, I suppose. Walter—It’s all the same, air. This ina table d’hote dinner, you know. Guest—I know, but I want to get my money's worth.— Philadelphia Press. Dead, Indeed. “Good morning, Mr. Cassidy,” said the undertaker’s humorous friend, “I suppose business is dead with you?” “Paith, it is so,” replied Cassidy, with great seriousness. “I haven't buried 2 livin’ soul for nearly s month.”— Philadelphia Press. No Material Difference, ‘Yeast—You say you've tried homeo- pathic and allopathic doctors? Crimsonbeak—Yes, both. “Did you find any difference?” “No; the bills seemed to be just about the same.” —Yonkers Statesman, Cheap. Prof. Thumper—Ah, Mr. Skinflint, your daughter is so clever that it is ™ pleasure to tench her music, CHIMES AND RHYMES, ‘The Christmas Children. The little folks at our house — they tsk Uke anything "Bout Santa Claus’ comin’, an’ what he's goin’ to bring: An’ mother never has te scold, or tell ‘em “bout the nolse— They're just the sweetest little girls—the dest o° little boys! ‘Cause why? They know that Santa Claus knows eyer'thing they do, An’ while he's loadin’ up his sleigh he's watchin’ of 'em too! An’ them that minds their mother, they gets the moat o' toys They're just the sweetest little giris—the dest eo” iitle boys! They've just been writin’ letters to Sants Claus each day, An’ tellin’ him just what they want, an showin’ him the way Te where our house ts, so's he'll know Just where to leave the toys, They're just the sweetest littie girls—the beet o° Little boys! They're longin’, tongin’, longin’ fer the days an’ nights to go, An’ all o' them are happy, an’ they make thelr mother so! She never has to scolé ‘em, oF tell "em ‘bout the noise— "Cause they're the sweetest little girie—the Dest o° little boyal —F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. ‘The Other Tree. © trim tt up with candles, And hang costly baubles there; Make it sparkle with the splendor Of all that ts rich and rare: But no matter how you plan tt, Or how zealous you may be, SUI the choicent treasure always Hangs upon anothers tree. It may please him fer an hour, Fer a day his joy may last; But the shouting soon in ever, ‘And the wonder soon is past! Brighter baubles will be gleaming Out ef reach, where he may see ‘That the choicest treasure always ‘Hangs upon another's tree. Men and women are but children: Each sets up & tree to view: Fragile baubles deck the mary, ere Are gems upon a few: I may long fer your pesacecions, ou, perhaps, may envy me, ‘For the chelcsst treasure always Flange upon another's tree. —S. H. Kiser, in Chicage Times-Herelé a Meee? Yrhe callars all my scanty pay, And with my Httle plans makes hay? ‘Who says mamma has come te stay? Who takes away my easy chair Because “it has no business there,” And only says she doeen't care? Who says she hasn't et a gown, And wants to out the horses down, ‘And thinks we'd better live in’ town? Who commundeers my only hack, Returns him with a bed sore back, And say the little beast is slack? Who thinks that T must ride « bike, And makes me do what I aan't lke, Re Rares a ase And when I'm feeling sad and lew ‘Who sympathizes with my woe And sertiy breathe: “dd you so mo ONE ‘Sal seamen ee. ‘1 wish no wealth or proud estate— No world-acclaim I prise: For simple Love bath made me great In a dear woman's even, There are no worldly gifts abeve ‘The beauty ef a weman'a love. From Fame the glory and the gleam— Friends, and the scorn of feos, Dearer to me the humble dream, ‘And from Love's hand one Toss. And where my lowller lot shall ba, ‘Only Love's arms to necklace ime, "ibs teeay Neos tae ° ‘world along. For Love the thorn in swest to kiss, ‘And tell Is but a sons. Wherefore, I seek ‘no preud estate, For simple Love hath made mo great. —¥. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution ‘Thelr Wishes. ‘We pulled the wishbone, she and I— She, blushing, looked aways I wished for her and heard her sigh, ‘We pulled the wishbone, she andi She won the wish and that was why T mourned my luck that day! ‘We pulled the wishbone, ahe and She, blushing, locked away! ‘Yet, though she won the wish she mada T aid not lone; you see 3 was a double game we played, And s0 she won the wish che made! Last night she told me—ah, the Jade!— ‘That she had wished for met So, while she won the wish she made, T did not lose, you see, ~S.E, Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald. ‘eiiesieee Sweetest day of ai the year, Birth of Christ, our Saviour dear; Blessed gitt to Christians given, Pathwaystraight from earth to Heaven Happy home when life is done, Starry crown I will have won? In Christ’s fold I mean to be, ‘Through time and all eternity. In the springtime of my life, I shall conquer sin and strife; In prayer and work, night and day, ‘My feet shall tread the blessed way. To Thee, dear Christ, my heart I give, Through Thy birth my soul shall live: ‘Through each day the path I see Proves to ali, I follow Thee, =N. ¥. Observer, Seat "Fore Christmas, For Christmas, with its lots of candles, cakes and toys, Was made, they say, for proper kids, an not for naughty boys; So wash your face, an’ brush your hatr, and mind your p's and q's, And don't bust out yer pantaloons, and don't wear out your shoes; Bay ‘Xessum” to the ladies, an’ “Yessur” to the men, An’ when they’s company, don’t pass your plate for ple again; But thinkin’ of the things yer'd like to see upon that tree, out ‘fore Christmas be as good as yer kin y —Bugene Fiel4, in Youth's Companion. ‘ice Saiaset ie Suppose I had to run this earth Just haifa minute? Ta'probably get rattled then, ‘And backward spin it. 14 Ukely mix wp sun and afr In darkness 0° her! I'm glad the Lord atiil holds the Job; He'll de tt better. -8.'S. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald. My Silent Love. My love Is lying still, My love has gone to rest: Her hands are lightly croseed ‘Upon her gentle breast, ; ‘Tread softly! Whisper low, ‘While I my vigil keep— My leve is nine months ol@t How sweet she e-asleep! Chicago Times-Herald. wacky. Young Burgla:—These spoons ain't silver. They are the cheapest kind o' imitation, Old Burglar—That's lucky. “Lucky?” “Yes. ‘Teke 'em along.” “What for?” “The lady of the house will be afraid to sot the detectives arter us, lest they should find them spoons an’ de : ALITTLE OF ALL SORTS. ‘There are to-day in all countries tore than 3,000,000 Italian emigrants. Smoking ts forbidden on the plat forms of street cars in Springfield, Mass. A toy heop fell into » conduit at Washington recently and caused temporary suspension of traffic. The police have prohibited the rolling of hoops in the city on this account, Through the annexation of the towns of Lake, Lake View, Hyde Park and Jefferson, the original city of Chicago has lost in the last 11 years nearly $600,000 in rebates paid from the special assessment fund, A model of the cathedral of &t. John the Divine haa been under con- traction for the past two years. It will be a miniatyre building, 90 by 25 feet, with a height of 35 feet. It is ‘on a scale of an inch to the foot. Although the sum of $12,000,000 has been expended during the past eight Years in reducing the number of Chi- tago’s grade crossings, that city lost $3 citizens in September in grade- rrossing accidents. Until the middle of the last century tavalry deployments were by two tight angle turns, and when the diag- onal march was adopted instead of making the diagonal by a half turn of each horse the movement was by the whole troop or unit, POPULAR SCIENCE. Thete are 798 different species of roses known. After a protracted series of experi- ments it haa been decided to establish telephonic communication between England and Belgium, to be opened to the public about February 1, 1901, Surgeon General Van Reypen does Net consider that Guam is a good saval station. He says that typhoid tever is practically endemic in the wsland, owing to the pollution of the frinking water. By the new Polak and Virag rapid telegraphic system the message is written by a point of light reflected trom @ swinging mirror at the end of B sensitized paper, and is put on the wire by means of 's perforated paper ranning over ® wheel and controlling the electric currents, Mount St. Elias has been badly thaken by an earthquake. It fe said Mhat the mountain was considerably Jorn up. The shock was so severe that ® mass of fee acres in extent broke loose from the top of the mountsin ‘md went crashing down the sides, sarrying everything with it, WOMAN. In New Mexico a woman fs tralnmas- ter om the Southern Pacific. ‘There were 574 Indy patentees out of 26,000 applicants at the British patent offices during the last year. The ribbons this season are charm- Ingly varied in flowered, striped and spotted designs, the pannette ribbos being especially soft and rich. Various designs in gold effects are made for the hair, and tied prettily at one side with narrow black velvet rib- bon. The tendency is toward more rather than less decorations, and for flat, broad effects. Every well regulated family should have a soup kettle. Into this go all bones, trimmings and bits both of meat and vegetables, and out of it comes a nutritious and easily digested food, suitable alike for invalids and children, Mark Twain's daughter has become, in a limited degree, a professional aing- er. Her name is Miss Clara Clemens. She has studied in London and Berlin, end her mezzo-soprano is said to be rich and striking. Among the black hunters of kanga- Foos in western Australia are 27 wom- en. It is a professional business and there are about 125 persona who make {t their regular business to hunt and capture the animals, ‘To test the heat of an oven putin = sheet of thin white paper. If too hot ‘the paper will blacken and blaze; if it turns yellow quickly the degree for puff and pastry and thet with butter and yeast is attained. Cakes will do better when the paper colors more slowly. AUTOMOBILES. Columbia university is the first col lege to have an automobile club. The automobile drivers of Chicage are forming a union for those whe handle vehicles for electric motors. ‘The reports of the French trials of heavy vehicles show that British mat- eve are ahead of French manufactur. era as regards this particular type of car, It Is stated that a movement fs on foot to do away with automobile shows. The reason for the step ia to be found in the experience of the bicyele man- ufacturers. An automobile service will be estab. Ushed between Sea Cliff, L. L, and ite railway station, a mile and a half die- tant, as the attempt to establish a trolley Mne has ended In failure. Ferry employes of the ferries around New York have to inspect each automo- bile to eee how it is propelled, and if gasoline is the motor the operator is told that he cannot cross the ferry un- Hl he hae emptied the gascline tank. ‘This is in accordance with 4472 of the United States Revised Statutes, SUPERLATIVES. ‘The shortest mile is the Chinese, only 609 yards. Norway has the longest, 12,182 yards. ‘The most costly parliament in Eu- rope is that of France. The senate and chamber of deputies cost annual- ly £300,000. ‘The oldest marked grave In Amer- ica is supposed to be that in the Dor- chester (Mass.) cemetery of Bernard Capen, whe died November 8, 1698. On November 8 there was consigned from Boston to Liverpool the largest single shipment of apples ever made from the United States, It consisted of 28,285 barrels. ‘The biggest match factory in the world is the Vulcan match factory, at Tidahalm, Sweden. It employs over 1,200 men, and manufactures daily 900,000 boxes of matches, __. EB. Matley, @ civil engineer In the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad, has found that the Big Bald Knob, in the Alleghenies, on the boundary between Somerset and Bedford coun- ties, is the highest peak in Pennsyl- vania, It being 3,007 feet above the ses level. MISCELLANEOUS. Bootbiacks may not do business in Boston om Sunday. Health authorities estimate that ten per cent. of the men who go to ‘Cape Nome never come back alive. Winston-Salem, N. C., is to have « negro hospital to cost $10,000, R. J. Reynolds giving half this sum and the negroes having raised the other half. It will be operated in connec- tion with the Slater industrial school. In New Zealand there exists a brass band whose members are wholly mounted on bicycles. This band con- sists of ten players, and these not merely ride their bicycles to practice, ‘but full their engagements on the wheel. ‘The highest price pald at the re- cent sale of the Sprague collection of art objects, at the American Art Gal- leries in New York, was $800, which was given for a set of bronze stat- uettes, the work of Sano Takachika. They represent the “Seven Gods of Tuck.” CURIOUS FACTS. ‘With the exception of birds, men’s legs are longer in proportion to their body than those of any other animal. One thousand pounds of dough for biscuits is rolled, eut and prepared for baking in three houra and fifty-four minutes by machinery, as against fifty- four heurs by hand. | ‘The production of natural vegetable indigo, obtained by fermenting the leaves of the plant, is aai@ to equal to- day the entire world’s production of other dyestuffs. ‘The father of all trees, so far as age gees, to eid t0 be found’on the island of Cos, belonging to Asia Minor. A German savant, whose knowledge runs along that line, declares the tree iy not Tess than 2,900 years old. Peetvundly Imprearea. \_ “There's no use o” talkin’,” sald Bronco Bob, “this castern education is eplendid.” “Have you visited any ef our pub- Be schools?” “Yes, and they are fine. ‘That scheme of havin’ all the children hold up their hands every time the teacher speaks to 'em ie great. It gives 'em Practical trainin’ fur the reat battle of life, in which knowin’ when to throw up both hands an’ doin’ it In 9 hurry may mean so much."—Washing- ton Star. Satie te eae taietaae “This,” said the freight handler, “ts @ box of feathers.” “What kind of feathers?” inquired the agent. “Tail feathers of roosters. Shipped from New York millinery concern out here.” “Well, just put down one box of Manhattan cocktails."—Chicago Daily News, Whaather a theettation ‘He wouldn't run in debt, And 20 the people sald {t ‘Was for the reason that Ne man would give him creat Chicago Times-Herald. ONS ON HIS PAPA. ! gx| (Se oS ie 7 4% ZN | si |/ ie EY Les SAN Bie NK ee OSS IS eA SY eal Tk : : : y >) 0 5 LEGA} <a, al PFT \ ‘Teacher—You will have to bring me an excuse for your absence yesterday from your father. Willie—Aw! he ain’t no good on ex- cuses; ma catches him every time.— Washington Star. ncaa “They say the barber looks like me," Bald Sty ecneenaes" “Tos only mnsaee Tet ee Is tat were bot vebiheeea Pues Ra ———— Gentleman—See here! I’m not going to pay any such rates as you charge, ‘Do you think I’m a fool? Cabman (apologetically)—What else eould I think, sir, when you took a cab instead of a atreet car?—N. Y. Weekly. ‘The Impossible, “He is awfully nice,” she sobbed, “but I can't—I can’t.” “Can't what?” queries her mother. “Give up my name of Willoughby for his of Snobkins,” was the tearful anewer—Tit-Bits, Able Financiering. Grocer—Well, little one, what can I de tor you? Jenny—Please, sir, mamma says will you change a dollar for her and she'll give you the dollar to-morrow.—N. ¥., World. The Fiokle Pair. Cobwigger—Howell says the women ‘read books while the men read the Papers. P Merritt—That accounte for the tact that the popular novel changes as often as the fashions.—Judge. Too Talkative, Willie—Just one more question, pa. Our Sunday school teacher says I'm made of dust. Am I? Pa—I guess not. If you were | you'd dry up once in awhile—Phila- delphia Press. __ then, Isipose I don't have to pay you for it,—N. Y. Journal. | Lacked an Attribute, “That politician is aa stubborn as « 4 mule.” “Yea,” answered Senator Sorghum “the trouble about him is that he hasn't es much pull as a mule”"— Washington Star. Handlonpped. “Tibbs, I never hear you make any fun of your wife's cooking.” “Well, no; you see, she belongs te *o many cooking clubs that I do = good deal of the home cooking mp self."—Indianapoliz Journal. EUROPEAN ROYALTY. ‘The princess of Monaco is the only Jewish consort of a reigning sovereign. ‘The czar of Russia is said to have Personally a great admiration for Tok stoi and his works, Favored ones who have seen pictures painted by Empress Frederick ree ognize in this royal lady an admirable artist. ‘The German emperor wears twe bracelets on his left wrist. One com taina a useful little watch and the other is in the form of a gold cable. ‘The queen of England rarely sende any telegrams to any member of the royal family, or to her intimate friends, otherwise than in cipher, a system of figure ciphers having been carefully arranged for her and their use. The Danish shipyards which tumne@ out the yacht Standard for the czarare Row engaged in the constrnetion of an~ other yacht for the Muscovite emperor, which, while smaller, is to far surpass. everything as yet known in comfort and luxury. King George of Greece refuses to part with a bullet which imbedded itself im the wood of his carriage when he wae. waylaid and shot at several times at the conclusion of the war in Turkey. ‘He considered his escape so miraculous, that he had the bullet extrected and set in his watch charm, firmly believing that it is mercifully designed to insure, him fmmunity from assassination. ‘The czar when a youth showed a tems ency to lassitude, which pointed tow want of physical stamina. This disin- clination to physical exertion showed itealf when he was visiting the queen of Balmoral, and the royal keepers Were a little chagrined at the lack of enthusiasm which he displayed with regard to the deer atalking arranged for his diversion. TRADE. An Interesting textile exposition fe ‘to be held in Atlanta, Ga., in 1902. ‘The German penoil trade {s suffering severely from the competition of Amer foan lead pencil makers. ., For cotton seed in its natural state ‘the export demand, theugh sutaper: tant, has shown a steady decrease dur ing the past six years, { ‘We have surpassed France in ¢he Production of articles needed by the outside world as well as those required by our own peopde, ? During the last century the balance of trade has been on the side of the United States with greater frequency than in any other country. ‘The principal countries which show an excess of exports over imports are Canada, Mexico, Argentine, Chill, Aus tralasis, India, Bgypt, Spain, Austria Hungary and Russia, ‘The imports of this republic in 1808 were nearly two-thirds as much as thone of Great Britain, while at the end of the century they are less than one third, At the same time our exporte have increased three times as rapidly 4s those of Great Britain, ‘There is a popular impression that the French surpass all others in sup- plying their own necessities and fur nishing thelr own luxuries, but figures show that their dependence upon for~ eign nations has been increasing with the years, and that the balance of trade is now largely against them. | THE AGES OF SAGES, Hobbes wrote his “Human Intellect™ at 62, La Rochefoucald, at 52, published bie “Reflections.” Seneca, between 50 and 60, wrote his “Consolations.” Malthus published his great work on “Population” at 32, Aristotle, after long thought, begaw his great series at 50. Diderot began the “Encyclopedia” at 38 and finished it at 56, Hegel, before 30, had laid out the outlines of his system of philosophy. Jacobi, the “German Plato,” wrote his best works between 40 and 50. At 42 Kant began and at 52 he com pleted his great work, “Critique of Pure Reason.” ‘Hume began “Human Nature” at.23, and, after seven years of labor, com- pleted it at 30, Plato, between 20 and 40, was with Socrates, and taught philosophy be- tween 40 and 88 or 89, Shaftesbury at 22 entered the house f commons and exhibited great ea- ergy; at 38, published his work on “Tribute and Merit,” and at 38 the “Monarchist.” Condillae at 12 years, on account of his feeble health, could not read; at 81, published his “Origin of Human Knowledge;" st 39 his “Sensation.” His later works were of less account. FIGURES, There are now 68,403 post offices in the United States. Of these 2,621 were added last year. The steamboat inspection service of this country has 9,263 steamers and 15,000 boilers under its charge. Estimates of the largest wine make ers in California indicate that the wine production of the state this year ‘will reach between 13,500,000 and 15,- 000,000 gallons of dry wine and 7,000,- 000 gallons of sweet wine. |__ ‘The flags to be hoisted at one time in signaling at sea never exceed four. Tt te an interesting arithmetical fact ‘that, with 18 various colored flaga, and never more than four at a time, no fewer than 78,642 signals can be given. The income of the emperor of Rus sia for one day is £5,000; sultan of Turkey, £3,600; emperer of Austria, £2,000; German emperor, 21,600; king of Italy, £1,300; Queen Victoria, £1,300; king of Belgtum, £1,300; 6 THE PLANET SATURDAY JAN. 19 1901 CAMPFIRE STORIES NORTHERNMOST BATTLES. Incidents of Two Civil War Conflicts That Took Place in Mi- souri. During the last term of the Schuyler county (Mo.) court a discussion arose among the attorneys one evening as to the location of the most northern battle of the civil war, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Several of the United States histories reer back to Lee's attack on Meade at Gettysburg as the scene of the most northern battle. There was a skirmish at Lancaster, Mo., in November, 1861, and a regular pitched battle at Athens, in Clarke county, Mo., in which several were killed on both sides. The latter fight occurred the first Monday in August of that year. Both of these points are 60 or 70 miles north of Gettysburg, and very close to the Iowa line. In all three of these northern battles of the war the fedeals were victorious. N. T. Roberts, of Lancaster, was a private on the left wing of Col. Martin Green's confederate army at Athens, and he tells the story of the battle as follows: "The day the fight occurred was election day in Missouri. We belonged to what was called the Missouri state guards. Our regiment was raised almost entirely from the First congressional district. By previous arrangement we met near Edina, in Knox county, where we were under the command of Col. Green. There were about 2,000 federalers near Edina, who evacuated without any resistance and THE HOPE AND HOPE went to Macon City. We ran the confederate flag up on the courthouse and began to think we were able to settle the war ourselves. Our boys were about 1,700 strong at that time, but there was no attempt at discipline, and they came and went pretty much as they pleased. They were armed with single and double-barreled shotguns, corn knives, old powder pistols, pitchforks and anything that could be used in a scrimmage. We must have looked something like the mob that stormed the Bastile, only we weren't near as dangerous. "While we were in Edina we learned that Col. David Moore, in command of a good-sized federal force, was at Athens. Our boys were keen for a fight, and they vociferously demanded to be led against the enemy. So we started out on the march, and when the center and right wings charged into the town we supposed our banner would soon be floating from the church spire. I was on the left wing, which was under command of Capts. Buford and Shacklett. We were held in reserve and were to reinforce the center and right in case we were needed. We could hear the firing, which seemed to grow hotter and hotter all the time, though we were not in it. By and by there was a great cheer from the town, and we heard the federals had been reinforced by several companies from Keokuk. John and Will Moore, sons of the federal commander, were fighting with the confederates. When the reinforcements arrived Col. Moore ordered them up to the support of the firing line and yelled out: 'Come on, boys; let's give em h-—l!' "John Moore, who was fighting like a hero, and had his face covered with dust and his hands begrimed with powder, when he heard his father's vigorous command turned to the rest and said: 'The jig's up, fellows; the old man's mad, and there's no use bucking against him any longer. I know him! You all do as you want to, but I'm going away!' "And he did. The worst of it was, the rest of the confederates did the same thing. The retreat became a rout in short order. The left wing saw how the center and right were behaving, and it prepared to follow the example. Lieut. Tom Russell, of our company—as brave a man as ever drew a sword—saw us wavering, and eried out: "For God's sake, boys, you are not going to run without firing your guns, are you? Let's give 'em one for luck, anyhow! Let 'em have it square in the face!" But there were few kindred spirits there, and most of the raw soldiers burned about and skedaddled without waiting to empty their rifles. We had with us a couple of cannon and managed to save them, although the papers next day in giving an account of the battles gold they were captured by Col. Moore's forces. I knew that was not right, because some of our men returned a few days afterward along the route taken by the panic-striken soldiers and found the cannon where they had been hidden among some hazel bushes. "About 700 confederates went into the fight, a large number having dropped out of the command when we started for Athens owing to their inability to get guns. The federals were better equipped and were better disciplined. Our boys were holding their own pretty well, but when they heard of the reenforcements coming to the support of the enemy they were overcome with stage fright, and nothing could stop them. One poor fellow didn't stop running until he reached Lancaster. Yes, I ran like the rest of them, but I didn't go far--at that time I didn't know where Lancaster was. It was my first and only battle, and, as Bob Burdette says, I guess I killed as many federals as they did of me." Some of the men who were foremost in the retreat on that eventful day joined the regular army under Gen. Price and made first-class soldiers. There were four or five men killed on each side and many confederates wounded. After the battle of Athens the union forces had it pretty much their own way in northern Missouri in November, Col. David Moore started westward with his command. He met no opposition until near Lancaster, where he encountered a small force of confederates under Capt. John McCully. The confederates, although considerably outnumbered, stood their ground valiantly for a short time, then retreated, leaving four of their dead behind them. The fight took place on the 24th. McCully and his two sons were killed, and one on the federal side. In August, 1868, Capt. William Searcy, with a company of about 80 men, entered Lancaster and attempted to take the town. It is said that Searcy belonged to Price's army, and was out recruiting. Capt. Robert Mays, who had charge of the militia at Lancaster, was out of town, and it is supposed that Searcy invaded the town on learning of his absence. The greater part of the militia ran away, but 14 dawntless spirits barricaded the courthouse and prepared to stand a siege. Searcy's men killed a guard as they entered the town, and a negro who was trying to escape. Searcy himself was shot in the breast by the men in the courthouse, and his companions retreated with their wounded leader. Three balls entered his breast inside of a space that could have been covered with one hand. His men took him to the home of William C. Taylor, a mile and a half out of town, and there left him. When the militia returned to Lancaster they learned of Searcy's whereabouts, and went out and captured him. Although badly wounded, he recovered rapidly, and was soon taken to Macon as a prisoner of war. On the 25th of September, 1862, Searcy and nine other prisoners were executed at Macon, the charges against them being violating their oath of allegiance on at least two occasions, and having been guilty of capital offenses. Gen. Lewis Merrill was in command of the post at Macon then. The executions occurred on the grounds south of the Hanibal & St. Joseph railroad, and were witnessed by a large crowd from the town. Rev. R. W. Landis, chaplain of Merrill's army offered a touching invocation for the souls of the condemned, who knelt facing the firing party. The nine others who shared Searcy's fate were James H. Hall, J. A. Wysong, J. H. Fox, Edward Riggs, David Bell, John H. Oldham, Elbert Hamilton, Dr. A. C. Rowe and Frank E. Drake. TOO DOGGONED BRAVE. They couldn't Pull a Trigger on a Man Who Showed Such Magnificent Courage. "There were a good many extraordinary scenes at Stone river," said the major, in the Chicago Inter Ocean, "but the one that stands out like a picture in memory has for its central figure a confederate artillery-man. Our regiment was charging a confederate battery. We were not more than 100 yards from the guns, when all but one were whirled away. As we were climbing a stone fence, and getting ready for a rush, there came sweeping up from the confederate rear a full team of artillery horses, the postilion having them under perfect control. "He swept in a circle to where the one gun of the battery had been left, two or three men crept out from the low breastworks near, in two minutes the horses were hitched to the gun carriage, and the driver turned them toward us, and came down upon us at a sweeping gallop. Then he made a magnificent turn to the left, veered around toward the confederate rear, and went at a gallop away from us. As he turned he raised his hat, and waved it at us in defiance. The queer thing about it was that not a man in our own company fired at him. I asked an old deer hunter, one of the best shots in the company, who stood at my side: 'Why didn't you shoot?' Looking up in a dazed sort of way, he said: 'He—he was too dogged brave. I couldn't pull a trigger on a man like him.' How It Happened? "How did that volunteer happen to get captured by the enemy?" asked the captain. "Why, the fact is," explained the lieutenant, "that he used to play on a college football team, and when the order to charge was given he tried to make a dash around the end to score a touchdown. I guess he made it all right, but in some ways the game of war is played differently and he couldn't get back."—Chicago Post. An Adult. Say, po, this is an adjective. "An adult, Jimmy, is a fellow who doesn't pick out a good pair of shoes every week or so." — Collier's Weekly. Born Lucky. 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Of every description; also the latest designs in ROOKERS and special UHAIRS. Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. C. G. Jurgen's Son 421 EAST BROAD ST., between 4th and 5th Street P. MRS. MARTH, the world renowned and highly celebrated business and test Medium reveals everything. No imposition. Can be consulted upon all affairs of life, business, love and marriage a specialty. Every mystery revealed, also of absent, deceased and living friends. Removes all troubles and estrangements, challenges any Medium who can exceed her in startling revelations of the past, present and future events of one's life. Remember she will not for any price flatter you; you may rest assured you will gain facts without nonsense. She can be consulted upon all affairs of Life, love, Courtship Marraige Friends, love with description of future com companion. She is very accurate in describing missing friend and other business, law suits journeys, content ed wills, divorce and speculation is valuable and reliable. She reads your destiny--good or bad; she withhold nothing. MRS. MARTH tells your entire life past, present and future in a DEAD TRANCE, has the power of any two Mediums you ever met. In tests she tells your mother's full name before marriage, the names of all your family their ages and description, the name and business of your present husband the name of your next if you are to have one, the name of the young man who now calls on you, the name of your future husband, and the day, month and year of your marriage, how many children you have or will have; whether your present sweetheart will be true to you and if he will marry you; if you when you will sweetheart she will tell you when you will love and this name, business and date of an occasion, your future will be told in an honest clear and plain manner and in a dead trance. Mother's should know the success of their husbands and children young ladies should know everything about the sweethearts or intended husband. Do not keep; company, marry or go into business until you knew all, do not let silly religious scruples prevent your consulting. Madame is the only one in the world who can tell you the FULL NA*E of your future husband, with age and date of marriage, and tells whether the one you love is true or false. There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consulting a Medium, but such beliefs are contrary to the truth. It is only from the lack of discrimination that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not every one who placards himself or herself as a medium that can stand a test of what he has elicited. And a person of an acquiring mind may ask the reason why. It is simply t these advisers do not take the able to study hun an nature. They do not spend their thoughts for a moment with acquiring the art of phaseology and kindred branches that will have a tendency to make the pathway to the road of the business clear and devoid of all obstacles. It is an undeniable fact that persons will come for advice in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a Medium they try their utmost endeavor to dispel from their mind what they know so as to hear if it will be rehearsed by the Medium. To get the secret out of a Medium is the art used by many unprincipled mediums, to take hold on the head and gain control of the mind thereby is a matter of impossibility to most of them, and yet this can be done and by consulting Mrs. Marth the seeming mystery becomes realization. This subject has received to little attention by eminent women and even college professors. So it proves conclusively that although there are infringers in our midst with oily tongues perhaps the gates of wisdom have not been closed to the entire profession. It takes a great deal of study to become an accomplished medium and by a continuous and untiring effort, the key to the well of apparently unfathomable mysteries has been secured by MRS. MARTH for the benefit of humanity. ADVICE BY LETTER, $1.00 HOURS FROM 10 A. M., TO 8 P. W. MRS. M. B. MARITH. 246 W. 31st St., (near 8th Ave.) New York City. Enclose stamp for reply. Please mention the PLANET N & W Norfolk AND Western Schedule in Effect Nov. 19, 1899. LEAVE RICHMOND, BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 A.M. Dally-Richmond and Norfolk Vestibule limited. Arrives Norfolk lighthouse A.M. Station. Waverly and Suffolk Second class tickets not accepted on this train 9:00 A.M. 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Hustling and polite agents wanted, Masonic Hall, 511 East Glay St. WM. ISAAG JOHNSON, President, J. E. JONES, Vice-President, B. P. VANDENVALL, Secretary, E. T. JENKINS, Treasurer, Oscar N. BROWN Manager THE CONFESSION OF THE KING OF THE UNION Richmond, Va. V. P. & F. K. of W 215 E. LEIGH STREET, Richmond, V3. I am prepared to furnish the public with plants of all kinds, out flowers funeral designs, etc. I will be pleased to have the patronage of the publs. THE PLANET SATURDAY, JAN. 26, 1901 REHGIOUS MATTERS CHRISTMASTIDE All hall the Christmastide, to us this day The Christ was born, who in the manger A babe was He, and yet the "new-born King," To whom all peoples joyous tribute bring. The world abounds in gladness and good cheer Since Christ of heaven now to earth draws near, While angel choirs their anthems chant afar, And glory light beams bright from Bethlehem's star. He comes a child, yet Master in of all, To mansions great, and to the cottage small. Where children gather for their sports and play, And saintly men devoutly kneel to pray. Where sorrow site and sings its plaintive song, Where weakness strives against aggression, Where men are fighting manfully for right, And bravest falter in the thick of fight. Where those bereft in sadness nurse their grief, And tired and weary souls find no relief, He comes with light and hope, with joy and peace, In His good cheer affording sweet release. Receive Him then on this glad Christmas morn, That in your hearts the Christ may be newborn. May He in you, and you in Him abide, Then yours shall be a happy Christmasmastide. -J. Byington Smith, in Chicago Standard. CHRISTMAS CHEER. The Season Pre-Eminently One o Brotherly Love—Pace and Good Will on Earth. By common consent, Christmas is the cheeriest season of the year. There are other festive occasions, such as Thanksgiving, which bring joy to many homes, and there are other feasts, such as Easter and Whitsuntide, which have conspicuous places on the calendars of the liturgy-loving sects. But by a process of evolution, which is partly religious and partly social, Christmas emerged as the most prominent feast of the church year in the estimation of the majority. Christmas, despite the excessive enthusiasm of some and the ascetic indifference of others, is properly a season of cheer. It is well to have, at least, one season of the year when the cares of life cease for a little their hard grinding, and all try to look happy, even if they do not feel so. Christmas cheer should be emphatically, in the deeper sense of the term, good cheer. There is no birthday so deserving of celebration as that of the Lord Christ, which makes possible any Christmas at all, and Christmas can be in no wise truly observed where the spiritual significance of the advent joy is forgotten. The real meaning of Christmas resides primarily not in the passing of gifts from man to man, but in the giving of the one unspeakable gift from God to man. Its joy is emphatically a Gospel joy. The mirth may be hearty and varied, but it must be a godly mirth. If it rollicks it should not riot; if it infects hearts with a contagious glee the gladness should be an outpouring from heart to heart of the great joy of salvation which God, in sending a Jesus who "shall save His people from their sins," has poured into all humble souls. Christmas cheer! Let it be full, rich, free! Let it serve as the recognition and expression first of all of the abounding grace of a redeeming God, and secondly of that good-will among men which is the proper and logical result of the Gospel of His dear Son. For he only can be really cheerful who shuts his heart to all malice, hatred and jealousy, and who opens his heart wide to the graces of good-will, mercy and generosity. The spirit of Christmas is that of brotherly love. Its outward festivities are the natural and inevitable expression of a joyous sense of the nerness both of God to man and of man to man. Observed in this spirit, and marked not only by thoughtful exchanges of tokens of esteem between attached friends, but also by generous gifts to the poor and unfortunate, Christmas will prove a day of rare delight and spiritual profit. For he will have most of Christmas cheer in his own soul who, in imitation of the great gift of God's dear Son, gives himself with his gifts in ministry to hi. fellows, and who most seeks to make Christian cheer to abound in the now shadowed hearts of his fellow men.—N. Y. Observer. CHOICE EXTRACTS Falth frames fate.—Ram's Horn. Praise is as natural to the soul that prays as prayer is natural to the soul that praises.—F. D. Booth Tucker. Beware of the spirit and temper which would turn all the days into tenter-hooks on which to hang complaints.—Robert Collyer. Certainly love is the force by which and home the place in which God chiefly fashions souls to their fine issues.—Rev. W. C. Gannett. The character of Christ is the foundation of Christianity. What he was and is in His distinct personality is the vital principle underlying all He did and taught.—Rev. Dr. Wilson. If He has given us all things, have we any business to live as spiritual paupers? Half the reason why we don't praise Him as we ought is because we don't really believe what great things He has given us.-F. R. Havergal. FORGIVE AND FORGET. A Little Incident Showing How the Fires of Petty Discoord Sometimes Unexpectedly Burst Forth. The late Dr. A. H. Quint used to relate an instance of neighborhood strife which came under his observation. A little New England village church, through an unhappy family difference between members, became divided, and the minister, after trying in vain to reconcile the two factions, resigned his pastorate in the interest of peace. But the trouble continued, and the hostile parties were so implacable that for years it was impossible to settle another minister. One summer, when the congregation had dwindled and the church had become too weak to support a resident, a young theological student came out to preach during his vacation. In some way he won all hearts, and continued to supply the pulpit during his remaining year of study, after which he accepted a united call as pastor. There he lived and labored, made peace, and grew into the life of the people. It was his only pastorate, and it lasted half a century. He buried the leaders in the old quarrel, married their children and their grandchildren, and died at a good old age after 50 years of a blessed ministry. Then happened a strange thing. When the church came to consider the calling of another pastor, Mr. Smith made a joking allusion to the historic quarrel. "How foolish those old fellow were!" said he. "Tye heard my father tell how old Deacon Brown wouldn't pray in the meeting where he had taken part." Deacon Brown's son laughed, too, but resented the allusion, and mentioned something which his father had told of the elder Mr. Smith. "That's all very true, no doubt," said Mr. Smith, "but my sainted father was a man of convictions, sir, and I honor his memory!" "No more than I honor the memory and convictions of my father," said Mr. Brown. Incredible as it may seem, this little dispute at once called back a hateful memory and started in full career all the unbrotherly clamor and reproach of the old quarrel. Dead for half a century, the contention began again. It had sprung out of a trifle in the first instance, and the merest trifle now brought it out of its grave. Only after the greatest effort on the part of those who had no ancestors in the original strife, and the wise counsel of men outside, was the difficulty settled and peace restored. Those who say: "I can forgive, but I can't forget," have never more than half forgiven. Unless one can so far forget that he ceases to think evil and resentful thoughts about a wrong he has excused, there still is a root of bitterness out of which new hatred may grow. Dig out the root and let it die. "Be the children of your Father which is in Heaven," is the precept of Jesus; and the Father's feeling toward the pardoned offender is something for His children to imitate as nearly as they can. "I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."—Youth's Companion. THE GOSPEL BY JAMES. Epistle of Homely Directness, and Close P恳ence to Common People and Everyday Life. This epistle is full of gospel of a very distinctive character. No more practical really than that uttered by Matthew, Luke or Paul, it has a certain homely directness, a close pertinence to common people and everyday life, which no other Testament writer illustrates in the same degree. We realize the author's wide knowledge of human life and character; his shrewd, keen, penetrating vision; his plain-spokenness, at once blunt and kindly; and his disposition, without losing sight of the theoretical and spiritual aspects of religion, to emphasize its active, practical side. There is nothing new or striking in the teachings of James. Make your religion evident in your life, he says. Exhibit your faith in service. Overcome sin by persistence and humility. Keep up heart to the very end. Do not be beguiled by appearances. Cherish a calm, supreme faith in God. But by plain precept and vivid illustration he makes clear, lasting impressions. Perhaps no other book of the Bible has supplied more quotations to the common speech of Christians than this epistle. Its terse, unadorned, business like manner arrests and holds attention. Its blending of brusqueness and tenderness interests and touches. 1st positiveness tends to convince. It is severe yet friendly and even affectionate. It teaches us how to use our common human nature and experiences in the spirit of consecration for the Master's sake. We know little about the writer, but he is immortal in literature, because of this one short letter. How little he doubtless supposed, as he wrote it, that it would mean to the succeeding ages what it has meant. The history of the epistle teaches afresh the familiar truth that he who does his best day by day may prove at any time to have done a work of eternal significance.—Boston Congregationalist A Soft Answer. The very superior saleslady had studiously ignored the efforts of the shopping person to attract her attention. Finally, however, she condescended to ask: "Is anyone waiting on you?" "I'm afraid not," replied the shopping person, sweetly; "my husband was—I left him outside—but I'm afraid he's become disgusted and gone home." —Philadelphia Press. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. SHL LOVED HIM WELL. Indiana Girl Marries Harry Young Although He Was Crushed, Maimed and at Death's Door. With physicians at his bedside in a darkened hospital ward nursing the threads of life which had all but been snapped under a crushing railroad train. Harry Young was married to Edith Schultz at Fort Wayne, Ind., the other day. Both legs had been amputated, he was weak to faintiness from loss of blood, and his promises to be faithful to the woman who loved him came only in desperate, smothered whispers from his white lips. Then Death again took up its fight for his shattered life, and every breath may bring victory to the dark messenger. But the concluding chapter of a story of lovers' devotion, even in MARRIED AT HIS DEATHBED the face of accident and threatened death, have been written. Harry Young had known Edith Schultz from childhood. They had played "keeping house" when they learned the alphabet. They had made the promises of children that they would marry each other when they should be "grown up." Their parents had laughed at them, and jokingly accused them of being sweethearts as they made mud pies. Then both entered school, and graduation day came with the promises of childhood still unbroken, but more deeply understood. Harry Young began his career in the field of business, and Edith Schultz took her place in the little city's social world. But their families always pointed to them as the two "young people who had been afflianced since childhood." Later he asked that the childish vow be kept, and the wedding day was set for October 24. One week before the wedding day Harry Young was struck by a Wabash train, the rushing cars passing over him. Those who sought to care for the mangled body thought that life had been crushed out. He was removed to St. Joseph's hospital. Physicians despaired of saving his life. It was decided that amputation alone could save him. Edith Schultz was at his bedside. She declared she would marry him in spite of his accident, and the approach of death. With the groom's parents beside the doctors in the darkened ward Justice France made them man and wife. RIDES ON HORSE'S BACK. Black Terrier's peculiar Accomplishment Saved Her Master a Heavy Loss Recently. Nixie is only a black terrier, but she is known all over the North side, says the Chicago Chronicle, for her daily practiced accomplishment of riding on the back of her owner's horse as he drives through the streets in search of loads for his express wagon. The horse is broad-backed, and the little dog finds secure footing. When the cart is stopped to permit takings on a trunk or package, Nixie curls up and takes a nap, with one eye open for intruders. This habit saved her A CHICAGO SIGHT. master a heavy loss two or three nights ago. The driver had gone into a house to bring down a trunk, and to bridge the wait the terrier lay down on the horse's back. Darkness was coming down, and as Nixie's coat is about the color of the equine a chance passer would overlook her. Consequently two thieves, who thought they had clear sailing, were much surprised when, on grasping a satchel from beneath the seat, they were assailed by the shrill barking of Nixie, who had jumped to an erect position on the horse's back and was loudly declaring her opinion of the thieves. Her call was heard by her master, who ran from the house and routed the would-be pilferers. Satisfied, Nixie immediately cooled down and renewed her nap. Burdens Carried by Beasts. An ox can carry 200 pounds weight on a day's journey, a camel 400 pounds. "I know it is said," averred Uncle Allen Sparks, "that every family has a black sheep, but sometimes it isn't a black sheep at all—it's an old goat." --Chicago Tribune. Approprintately Named. Jones—Why do you call Mr. and Mrs. Would-Be-Swell "the breezes?" Jaggs—You know what breezes do, don't you? —Town Tales? 1,000 REWARD, Dr. Shea, Marvelous Medium Brooklyn, Aug. 15, 1891—This is to certify that came to New York from Albany. I was a student of the University of New York out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend of mine told me that Dr. Shea I did. He told me the cause of my trouble he took me in and treated me as a brother through him I got a good position that very warm and friendly. I went to money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea. I would advise all it had luck, slok on a mobile to go to him at once. ©敏睿 ALBERT ACE, 2957 Atlantic Ave South Plainfield, Aug. 15, 1891—This is to certify that my husband had gone away and been aboard a ship. I went to night and day. I gave him up as dead. Hearing of the wonderful things Dr. Shera was doing, he wanted to consult He told my husband he was in a place where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He told me he was dead. I also wish to say that this month, lost the sum of $500. I am a poor woman and I wanted to went to Dr. Shera and he told me I would find it to my intense joy I did find it as he told me I thank God there is a man so gifted in our midst that can help people and tell them what to do. MRS. MARY MILLER, South Plainfield, N.J. A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN - A MINIB TERS' STATEMENT DR. SHEA has been carefully educated in the Homopathic and Eclectic Schools of Medicine Rheumatism, Asthma, Sore Rye, Tumor Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspsychia Liver, Liver Complaints, Dearness Carapar, Droplets, All Diseases, Heart Disease, Consumption, Diseases of women and children, Fits, Kidney Diseases and strange mysterious diseases which other doctors cannot diagnose. All diseases matter what they be. Nothing but humor be treatment. He can and will honestly explain the symptoms and remedies and new success. 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LEWIS, p. q. To IDA NOEL: Take notice that on the 18th day of January, 1900 at the office of N. J. Law is, No. 609 E. Marshall St. in the city of Richmond, Va., I shall proceed to take depositions of William Brown and others, to be read as evidence on my behalf in a certain suit in Chancery proceedings in the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond; wherein I am the plaintiff and you are the defendant. If from any cause the taking of said depositiones be not commenced, or concluded on the day named, or if commenced he not concluded the taking of the same shall be continued as the same place and between the same hours from day to day until the same shall have been completed Respectfully. WILLIAM NOEL By Counsel, N. J. LOWIE, p. q. RIPA.N.S TABULES Doctors find A Good Prescription For mankind WANTED a one of bad health that RIPA.N.S will not benefit. They benefit pain and probing life. One gives relief. 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S STORED FOR XMAS DE VER & PETT FURNITURE AND C WEST BROAD McKen ING AND CLEANING east Marshall st S. S McKENNE You Ever T "GIFT GIVING SEA and that a Piece FURN Sensible and Useful Pre If Good, it Lasts For Year of the giver. Odd Parlor Pieces, M. Morris Chair, Rockers Much, Curio Case, Pedes ions, from our lovely line and Highly Perfumed Dressing. It softens Makes the Hair grow. Prevents it from fall, Cures all kinds of itching, irritating Scalp and luxurious head of Hair. As a Dressing, it cosmetic, as it does not make the Hair gum. AT THEY SAY, Rosa Hore, Henderson, Va., writes: Send me two dozen more cans of Straightine a once. Goes like wild fire, and it works on the hair like magic. Mary F. Mayhoe, Altoona, Pa., writes: used your Straightine with wonderful results drug stores, or sent by mail to any address on silver. NELSON M'F'G CO., Richmond, Va. CASH OR CREDIT CAT PROVIDERS. A MONTH GREAT OPPORTUNITIES month of the year. The time for reducing stock. Profits will not calculations at all. We will sim- many goods as possible so as with a clean sheet. Many an away below cost, and the thrif- up some choice bargains. ED FOR XMAS DELIVERY. R & PETTIT MATURE AND CARPET CO. ST BROADST McKenney AND CLEANING WORKS Marshall st Richmond S. S McKENNEY, Manager Ever Think GIVING SEASON" There at a Piece FURNITURE and Useful Presents you could it Lists For Years, and a com- ver. CHARLOR PIECES, MANTLE, S CHAIR, ROCKERS, PICTURES, CURIO CASE, PEDESTALS OR LAMPS from our lovely line of goods. STRAIGHTTINE is an Elegant and Highly Perfumed Dressing. It softens and invigorates the Hair. Makes the Hair grow. Prevents it from falling out. Removes Dandruff. Cures all kinds of itching, irritating Scalp Diseases, giving a rich, long and luxurious head of Hair. As a Dressing, it is superior to any kind of oil or cosmetic, as it does not make the Hair gummy or sticky. Price, 25 Cents at all drug stores, or sent by mail to any address on receipt of 30 cents in stamps or silver. NELSON M*F*G CO., Richmond, Va. THE cleaning-up month of the year. The time for weeding out and reducing stock. Profits will not figure into the calculations at all. We will simply try to because of as many goods as possible so as to start the New Year with a clean sheet. Many an article we have marked away below cost, and the thrifty housekeeper can pick up some choice bargains. ALL GOODS STORED FOR XMAS DELIVERY. Did You Ever Think? Now That the "GIFT GIVING SEASON" Near at hand that a Piece FURNITURE There! Is one of the most Sensible and Useful Presents you could Send a Friend. If Good, it Lasts For Years, and a con' stant reminder of the giver. A PRETTY DESK, ODD PARLOR PIECES, MANTLE, MIRRORS, MORRIS CHAIR, ROCKERS, PICTURES, COUCH, CURIO CASE, PEDESTALS OR LAMPS, Are a few suggestions, from our lovely line of goods. THE FURN. LEADER. SYDNOR & HUNDLEY r80 I Phones: New, 373 Old, 369. We want good agents everywhere to sell Strightline for us. We allow our agents big profits and make very liberal terms. Be the first to take hold of it. Write to-day for full information. Dressing. It softens. Prevents it from fall, irritating, irritating Scalp. As a Dressing, it make the Hair gums. Anderson, Va., writes: Send me cans of Straightline and fire, and it works on Altoona, Pa., writes: Send me with wonderful results. Enquiry to any address on CO., Richmond, Va. HAR CREDIT ATUNITIES The time for profits will not We will sim-possible so as it. Many an and the thrif- bargains. DELIVERY. BETTIT CARPET CO. POST Inney, ING WORKS Richmond Y, Manager Think in SON" there ATURE ents you could, and a con- NTLE, PICTURES, TALS OR LAMPS of goods. ones: New, 373 Old, 369. JUSTICE S W Robinson, 23 N. 18TH ST. Dealer In Fine Wines, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION. Your Patronage is, Respectfully Soil cited. Atlantic Coast Line Schudule in Effect January 14, 1900 TRIN LEAVE RICHMOND-BYRD TREE STATION 9:00 A. M., Daily Arrives Petersburg 9:00 A. M.; Norfolk 11:27 M. Steps only at Petersburg, Waverly and Norfolk Vs. LINE TO MIDDLE GEORGIA Augusta 8:10 M. Mason II A. M., Atlanta 12:15 P. M. Sleepers New York to Wilmington, Charleston, Jacksonville, Port Tampa, Miami, Augusta and Macon. 8:00 P. M. Daily Arrives Petersburg suns 8:00 P. M. Bedford, 11:20 P. M. Make local loca between Petersburg and Lynchburg and Welson. 8:00 burg 2:15 A. M. Masonoko 8:30 A. M. Brislol, Va. 19:40 A. Commissar at Emporia for janville, Va. Arriving 2:55 A. M. Palmiar nleeper Richmond to Lynchburg. 10:00 P, M., Daily, exept Sunday, NEW WEST CK AND FLORIDA - PROCLAM Arrives Garleston 7:45 A M. Savannah 9:30 A, Jacksonville 1 P, M., St. Augustine 2:00 P M. Tampa 9:00 P M. 1:45 P, M., Daily, Arrives Petersburg 11:30 8:35 A. 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EMERON, Traffic Managers. J. R. KENLY, General Manager H. M. EMERON, General Passenger Agent .G.W LEWIS. Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public Abstract of Title Office. Titles we property carefully examined. Spial attention gives to suit and other masters PATENTS Curets, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Patent business conducted for MODERATE FEED. OUR OFFICE conducts the PATENT OFFICE and we can secure patent in less time than those remote from Washington. Send model, drawing or proof, with description. We advise it to assemble a charge. Our fee not due till subject is secured. A PAMPHLEY How to Obtain Patents. With business in the U.S. and foreign countries free. Address To Repair Broken A cles u. u Major's Cement Remember MAJOR'S RUBBER CEMENT. MAJOR'S LEATHER CEMENT. Benevolent Investment And Relief Association. OF VIRGINIA. Chartered by Legislature of Virginia. MAIN OFFICE: 84 W. LEIGH ST. RICHMOND, VA. Sick and Death Benefits Paid. Those who do not keep a regular Bank Account, the plan of this Association taxes its place. MONEY LOANED to members on PERSONAL AND REAL ESTATE SECURITIES on small weekly payments. Interest Paid on all Deposits. For further information apply to the main office. AGENTS WANTED. Rav. G. O. Coleman, Pressman, said ProJ. H. Blackwell, Sa'r&k HE PLANET SATURDAY, JAN. 26, 1900. CITIZENS' PROTEST. RICHMOND, Vv., Jan. 22, 1901, To the Editor of the Times, Dear Sir— An entertainment was given at the True Reformers' Hall last Friday evening by a large number of the most respectable colored people of our city, for the benefit of the First Bap- tist Church, (Colore.) These were the very people of whom the Times editorially is proud; the kind they want to help; the kind that according to the advice of the Times, have formed a respectable society, and undeavored to exclude the unworthy, a company of our leading business, professional and honest laboring men, lawyers, doctors, teachers, and even ministers of the go pet. They thought to instruct our people, and to help our church. In the Sunday Times, these people hundreds of whom subscribe and pay for your paper, find a three column article, sneering at them, and referring to them as "the elite of Africa," and "yellow Negroes" and "black soona." We are human, and, as a race are especially sensitive to ridicule and of sensitive references. Are you surprised and to know that this exceedingly unkird and ungenerous article caused many a heart ache on an intensive and defenseless class of loyal citizens. We are the very people who believe in the friendship and generosity of the white people of the South, and are doing what we can to endeavor to persuade our people to believe and for the first time in our lives we felt discouraged, and began to feel that after all it may be true that the thrifty, intelligent and law abiding Negro citizen is the object of class legislation and opposition of our white friends. We write to you as owner of the Times to inquire if it is can be true; or was the article a poor attempt of some irresponsible reporter to be funny at the sacrifice of the feelings of the class of citizens who had never done him harm. In the books of ethics that your race have written we find it said that a man's helplessness should be his great defense. This should certainly obtain in our case. Your reporter would not have written up a dog fight among his own people in the ridiculous way in which this article speaks of the very best class of our colored citizens. What can we do ? If we should attempt to come down in a body, as white men would do and ask an explanation and it was refused, we would simply have to walk out, or be arrested and fined or imprisoned. Should wenter a suit you have thousands of dollars we have pennies. A few hundred of our people will no doubt stop your paper but since we must have the daily news we must subscribe to another paper whose reporter we trust will not presume to enter our private and social d main to ridicule us. We have striven hard to do something and be something. Dr. Sarah G. Jones, so alightingly and insultingly referred to is a regular practicing physician who has made a wonderful service profession. Mr Jacob Wright is a letter carrier and a tax payer, a man of unsullied reputation. Mr. D. Webster Davis who is spoken of as "the blackest Negro in town with a few exceptions," and as "stating a shadow before him," on account of his blackness has just returned from a lecture tour in the North by the consent of the Richmond School Board under one of the largest Lycum Bureaus in this country. He had nothing but kind words to say for the South, and is the same man that your paper gave three columns to last June in describing sensible speech Sefora the grading class of the Rielmond Normal School. His book of poems has been favorably reviewed by the greatest papers and magazines in the country. The Times, strange to say, included. All of the "little black soons," and "big black Negroes" were men women who stand for something in the community, law abiding, respectful tax-paying citizens. Do you not feel that you have done them a great wrong? Would you like to be treated thus? You know John. Mitchell. Jr., the editor of the Richmond Planet; W. P. Burrell, "the windbag of the occasion," is the Secy of the True Reformers' Organization; E. W. Brown, "a slender Negro with a big foot," is Editor of the paper of that organization; Mr. Edward Ellis, Jr. of whom you spoke as being as black as the bottom of a well, is the Accountant of the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain. While our blackness might have cast a shadow before, we pray God that they may never cast one behind on the pathway of a struggling brother. If civilization culture make a man treat his helpless and defenseless fellowman thus, their ignorance and super-titulation are not the worse thing in this world if one has not lost the milk of human kindness. We must, according to your splendid Sunday homilies, "Do good to them that despitefully use us" but God is not dead. 'Whatsoever a man soweth that must he reaer.' It is worse than the police reports and your reports on cakewalars are specimens of literature compared to it. We are shocked, discouraged and dumfounded. Every colored citizen of any pride is grieved. Surely there must be some terrible mistake. Perhaps it was meant in fun, but what is fun to you is death to us. At a meeting of a large number of our best citizens who participated in the entertainment this respectful letter was ordered to be written to see if something might not be done to show that there is in the bosom of the best white people of our city, some respect and sympathy for its best colored citizens who should not in common justice be imposed upon in this way because they are helpless. R. T. HILL, Cashier True Reform's Bank. JACOE T. WRIGHT, Letter-carrier R. E. JONES, M. D. D. WEBSTER DAVIS, A. M. Ommittee The Answer. (Continued from the First Page.) elimination of the Negroes from politics will not cause a breaking up of the Solid South. I have but to call attention to Mississippi and Louisiana, two states which have led in the movement. They have practically blotted out the Negro franchise so far as voting in these states is concerned. Who charges that the Republican Party has gained a foot-hold in those states? No one. To emphasize this point, I have but to call your attention to the protest of a New Orleans' Post of Confederate Veers protesting against the action of the local committee in inviting President Kinley to the Confederate Reunion in Tennessee. In this state the Negroes have been practically eliminated as a political factor. Notice also the following report. NORTHERN INSTRUCTORS TO BE DRIVEN OUT. ' NASHVILLE, TENN., Jan. 19. The legislature is wrestling with the educational phase of the Negro problem, and a bill has passed the Senate to prohibit the co-education of the races. A bill has also been introduced in the upper house to prohibit the employment of white teachers in Negro schools, colleges and universities. A large majority of the Negro institutions of learning are controlled and directed by white officers and teachers and the passage of this bill will compel a reorganization of the faculty of nearly every Negro school in the state. In Tennessee, the Negroes by legislative enactment have been practically eliminated as a political factor. With the disposition of the Negro comms the elimination of the Northern white teachers who instruct them. After getting millions of dollars expended in the state for Negro eduaction some legislators have the effervescence to propose to kick the white ladies and gentlemen out of the state, who were sent to look after it and see that the race is educated within the scope set down by those who gave the money. Does this not then settle beyond all question the fact that enfranchisement of the Negro is not the fundamental cause of the South's complaint? THOSE WHO PROPHESEY The only ones who prophecy such a political millennium are those white men who aspire to Federal office and see in "throwing saw dust" into the eyes of the administration, the securing of some humble Federal office which a Negro holds. These people began their work with Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes. It was announced that the giving to the South the right to control their own affairs would break up the solid-South and place some of the states in the Republican column. This was done—and the South was still solid. Then they said if the state constitutions were changed so as to eliminate the Negro as a voting factor that this would break up the solid South and place some of the states in the Republican column. This was done and—the South was still solid. OTHER EXPEDIENTS SUGGESTED. Then they said, if in certain states notably in Va., if the administration would appoint only white men to government offices, both the principals and the deputies, that this would break up the solid South and place some of the states in the Republican colunn. This was done and—the South w. still solid. Then, without giving any excuse why the other expedients had failed they said if the administration would appoint Democrates to office, General Fitzhugh Lee and Gen. Joseph Wheeler to the positions of Brigadier Generals in the regular army and bestow upon the white men, the flower of the South, lieutenancies, captainies, majorships, and Colonies, in the same military department ignoring the Negroes and curling their ambitions, then this would break up the solid South and place some of the states in the Republican column. This was done and the South is still solid. GEN. WHEELEER'S DENIAL. To emphasize this fact, I call your attention to the report that Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, who, by the way is from Alabama, intended to vote for President McKinley last November. When he was asked about it, he indignantly denied the charge and like the rest of the Southerners he continued to throw bouquets at the President, pin Confederate badges on the lapel of his coat at reunions, and then vote for the other fellow. Can the administration afford to extrange its old time friends, and gain no old time enemies? Will the administration, and incidentally the American people listen to the siren voice of the templer? Will they forget and ignore the lessons of history, the statements of the Declaration of Independence and the mandates of the Federal Constitution in a vain effort to chase this ignite fatune of Southern promises? CAN THEY AFFORD TO DO IT. Can they afford to take a step backward and assassin like stab in the back the American soldier of color now fighting in the field. Can they forget the courage of Negro American soldier in every war and his valor upon a hundred battle fields? We shall see, knowing as we do that no question is ever settled until it is settled right. No, no, the solidity of the South will not disappear by any such doubtful expedition as those proposed; but it will disappear as the years roll on and the heart of the nation turns itself to the contemplation of the grand ideals of the true religion, which is contained in the Golden Rule of the Saviour, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." HELP&D MORE THAN IT HURT. The Republican Party has just achieved a signal triumph in the face of a solid Southern combination which injured the Democratic Party more than it helped. Let it take care lest in forsaking its landmarks and abandoning its principles in order to pander to the prejudiced or the evil inlined: it cause a diversion behind it and find that the great justice-loving North, or that portion of it, which listened to Phillips and heeded Summer, turn upon it and take from its electoral votes which will more than counterbalance the gain in the southern states made by the abandonment of great humacitarian principles. "For Truth will conquer at the last, As round and round we run. And ever the Right comes uppermost and ever is Justice done." Rest in Peace. TRJB3EY -Departed this life, age 20 years, 8 months and 6 days, after a brief, but severe illness; Lucy C. Tribey, daughter of Richard and Luuy Tribey. She bore her illness with patience and was perfectly resigned to her death. Her funeral took place from the 2nd Baptist Church of which she had been a member for about nine years. Monday, Jan 14th, Rev. Z. D. Lewis, pastor officiating assisted by Reva Scott, C. Burrell, and A. S. Thomas. The R. verand's remarks were very appropriate and touching she leaves two brothers, two sisters, a large number of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Honorary pall bearers were as follows, Messrs Wm H. Tharpe, Carey H. Wheaton; active: Messrs John Eggleston, Tiny C. Funn, Frank Augustus Percy Sears James A. Taylor and Richard Turner. There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended But has one vacant chair! Lucy is not dead; the child of our affection But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great eloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, Lucy lives, whom we call dead. Some day Lucy, in your father's mansion, Olothed with selestial grace; And beautiful with all the souls expansion, Each one of us shall behold your face." Her parents, RICHARD and LUCKY TRIBBERY. 1022 St. James St. GONE BEFORE. Short Sketch of the Life of Rev. Ned Brown. Beulahville, King Will'am Co., Va. January 5th, 1801. He was born January 8th, 1880, professed religion in 1878 and has been a faithful member of Providence Baptist Church for 22 years. He was a faithful worker of said church, lived a consistent Christian life, a good neighbor and was beloved by both white and colored. Rev. Brown was married in December 1888. They lived lovingly together as man and wife; also a kind father to his children. He was called to the ministry and licensed to preach in 1880, was a faithful worker for Christ and beloved by all ministers with whom he met. He was a member of rising Sons and Daughters of Hope, a chaplainman of Sick Committee. Rev. Brown was confined to his bed December 15th, and after an ill-ss of three weeks departed this life January 5, 1901. He bore his sickness with Christian fortitude and gratification and was sensible even unto his death. He told his wife a few days prior to his death, that she must hear him, and let him get up and look around, as he had only a few days to stay with her. Just before his end came, he told his relatives and friends that he was sure and standing on "the Rock, Christ Jesus," also many other wonderful statements. In his dying hour, he had faith enough in the Lord to offer prayer and closed by saying, amen. He leaves a mother, brother, sister, a loving wife, four children and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Our loss is his eternal gain. "God in His wisdom hath recalled, The boon his life has given. Although the body slumbers here, The soul is safe in heaven." FUNERAL NOTICE. The funeral was preached by Revs. S. M. Miles, Horace Roane, assisted by A. B. Pollard and A. Corbin. The following text was preached, Job 16:19-22d verses. The funeral was witnessed by the largest congregation that has ever met in this county. THOMPKINS—Elise Thompson, the beloved mother of Moses Thompson, Sr., departed this life, Jan. 23, 1901, at quarter past one o'clock p. m. at her son's residence, Miller's Field, Henrico County, Va. She died in full triumph of faith. Aged 71 years. Funeral took place from her son's residence, Friday, Jan. 25th at 2:30 p. m. Sleep on Mother, and take thy rest Lay down thy head upon the Saviour's breast. Notes From Dunnellon, Fla. Editor of the PLANET: The South bound train No. 39 on Sunday, 18th inst was thrown from the track, 3 miles south of this place in Citrus County on the F. 8 and W. R. R., in consequence of spikes having been removed which held the rails to the track. This catastrophe resulted in the killing of the engineer, all other officials, but the passengers escaped without injury. The supposition is that the removal of the spikes was the act of train robbers, however nothing was done in this direction. On the 14th a stranger, colored, who was assisting freely to clear away the wreck was seized under suspicion and suffered the usual and customary penalty of being lynched. His fingers and ears were cut off and kept as souveniers, as was also the branches of the tree from which he swung. Others are supposed to be implicated, and whenever suspicion rests upon a gullity one the same penalty will be administered without hesitation. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA $1.50 for All. THE OUTFIT CONSISTS OF : 1 Genuine Rubber Patent Vacuum Syringe. 1 Elegant Hand Mirror. 1 Imitation Diamond Ring—cannot be told from the Genuine. 1 Beautiful Fancy Comb, Tortoise Shell Effect. 1 Magnificent Bottle of Genuine Cologne—usually sells as high as $1.00. 1 Extra Superb Hair Brush—Superior Bristles. 1 Ivory Handle S Powder Puff. 1 Fancy Back A No. Brush. 1 Large Bottle Medi eline. 1 Mammoth Size Bott ported Bay Rum. 1 Imperial Importe Brush. 1 Genuine Horn Ex Dressing Comb. 1 Bar Fancy Complex. 1 Ebonized Celebrat Tooth Comb. 1 Fancy Jar Sweet Tooth Paste. 1 Box Very Best Tal der. 1 Exquisite Box of der. Now Friends, let Hand Mirror is worth one's money. At the r is a bargain—a real one article would be nice, l Then look on the finan country, but all over th no less. However, you decided interest to or master and purchase a (OVER.) AN APPEAL FOR THE STORM- WRECKED CHURCHE OF TEXAS. 1 Ivory Handle Swansdown Powder Puff. 1 Fancy Back A No. 1 Clothes Brush. 1 Large Bottle Medicated Vaseline. 1 Mammoth Size Bottle of Imported Bay Rum. 1 Imperial Imported Tooth Brush. 1 Genuine Horn Extra Heavy Dressing Comb. 1 Bar Fancy Complexion Soap. 1 Ebonized Celebrated Fine-Tooth Comb. 1 Fancy Jar Sweet-Scented Tooth Paste. 1 Box Very Best Talcum Powder. 1 Exquisite Box of Face Powder. Now Friends, let's reason: Hand Mirror is worth more than one's money. At the rate we charge is a bargain—a real one. It's an in article would be nice, but the who Then look on the financial side. We country, but all over the world. We no less. However, your intelligent decided interest to order a set at a master and purchase a Money Order. (OVER.) Now Friends, let's reason: What would such a Syringe alone cost you? Could you buy it for $1.50? No, you could not. The Hand Mirror is worth more than we ask you for all. The Powder Puff alone would cost $1.00. The Brush is worth a $1.00 of every one's money. At the rate we charge you for all, no one article averages even as much as 10c. The Ring alone will sell for $1.50. This is a bargain—a real one. It's an investment you must make. What a beautiful present this great combination would make. Any one article would be nice, but the whole outfit would be a God-send to the lucky one who would be the recipient of so handsome a present. Then look on the financial side. You can sell these outfits for from $5.00 to $7.50 on sight. We are selling thousands, not only in this country, but all over the world. We won't have them always, so you had better order now. Remember, all of it for $1.50—no more, no less. However, your intelligence will tell you at a glance that this is an opportunity that seldom occurs, and that it is to your decided interest to order a set at once. Of course we will take stamps, but the best way to send money by mail is to go to your Postmaster and purchase a Money Order. This only costs you a few cents, and is absolutely safe. Send all orders to— To the Friends of Suffaring Humanity and the Cause of Christianity Throughout these United States: In the name of Christ Jesus and on behalf of the devastated colored churches covering a territory of ten counties, I, as state superintendent of missions, for the people in this state, ask every philanthropical and missionary church of every shade of doctrine to take up one collection before or after preaching to aid these poor church members who lost their houses of worship on that memorable 8th day of September, 1900. 1. Help because more than one hundred and fifty churches were totally wrecked with scarcely a plank or brick upon one another. 2. Help because many of the churches lost scores of their members by death in the storm. 3. Help because many were crippled and made helpless for life. 4. Help because many of the members not killed or hurt lost their houses and all their personal property. 5. Help because the crops in that section were damaged in one way or the other quite 75%. Help because many of the members left alive have gone from home seeking labor. Lestly. Help just because it is a laudable cause that God himself will bless the giver for helping. Put yourself in their stead and think that matter over. Let each individual who reads this article in the RICHMOND PLANET send me a donation and the name of the paper and I will not only receipt you in the columns of the same but also personally. Any pastor sending me collection I will receipt him in the same way. Let every lodge, society, and young people's club send a donation. For personal reference in regards to my handling money for Christian and benevolent work in Texas, write me and I will furnish any number wanted. I have been in Texas forty years and held nearly every position in the gift of the denomination from president of the National Baptist Convention to the most humble position. Have lived in Dallas. Texas twenty-five years, and moderator of one association twenty years. Will you please help me as state missionary to help rebuild these church houses. I am yours in Jesus name, A. R. Griggs, 328 Hall St., Dallas, Tex. (Papers everywhere, white and color- ed, please copy.) Mrs. M. D. Chamlee is sell ing goods very cheap—especially trimmed hats. You will miss a Great Bargain if you fail to call to be suited. Children's hats as cheap as 25 cts. M. D. Chamlee, 318 East Broad St. Chamlee, 8 East Broad St. (OVER.) FINALLY. --- Mr. G Price and Mrs. Eva Randall were quietly married at their residence. Mrs. Lyndsay of 1709 Dearborn St. would like to know the whereabouts of Mr. George Street. Oblige by answering through this paper. Miss Nellie Coleman of Little Rock Ark. was the guest of Miss Ada Patterson of 386 Warren A ve. She returned home last week. BLACK SKIN REMOVER REGISTERED PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A Wonderful Face Bleach AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $4. Guarantee bleach is weasy and to be the "best in the world." Our box is all that is required if used as directed. A PEACH-Like complexion obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a multicolor bleach or two lighter will be for eight hours a shade or two lighters will be acceptable. Is does not turn the skin in spots but bleaches it, white the skin remaining beautiful without a continuous use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, plumps and or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Can pix poxes, tan, liver spots removed without irritation. When you get the color you wish, stop using the. that goes in every one dollar box is enough to give anyone her hair grow long and straight, and keep it in her hair. It highly perfumed and makes the hair soft and shiny. Many of our customers say one of our dollars is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money or registered letter, we will send it through the mail. We want it sent C.O.D. it will come by express, 25c. In any case where it fails to do what we want, we give the money or send a box free of charge. That no one will know contents except receivers. Fure and Fresh Mediomes only will eure you then purchase your Drugs and Mediisine from; Leonard's SUPERIOR BAYRUM TOOTH PASTE COLOGNE TALCUM POWDER TOILET SOAP FACE POWDER THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER CBANE AND CO., 122 West Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. C & O WRECK WANTED 100 Colored Girls to make Che-roots. Will be paid $2.00 per week while learning. They can soon make from $3.00 to $4.50 a week according to their capacity—and willingness to work. STEADY AND REGULARLY. The work is healthy, light, clean and easy. Only girls of good character and behavior wanted. Apply at once to CHAS. MILLHISER, 25th St., between Main and Franklin Sts. 1-19-4t ATTENTION LADIES. Come to Mrs. M. D. Chamlee, 318 E. Broad St. Goods almost given away to make room for a change. Over 300 trimmed hats that sold for $2.50 to $3.50 now down to $1 Children's trimmed hats as low as 25c, 50c, 75c, and $1. A look at the cheap price in the windows will cenvince you of what is going on inside. Don't forget the place, next door to art gallery. 318 East Broad St. Money We will lend you any amount from 5 to $1000 to be paid back in small weekly payments. Something new, purely mutual and takes the place of a bank account to persons of small means. Terms reasonable. 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WANTED WEEKLY-100 COOKS Housemaids and Waitresses for New York and other Northern Cities, wages from $3.00 to $5.00 per week. Transportation furnished, also 50 farm hands for Maryland. R. W. Elsor, 117 H. Broad St