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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL XVIII NO 7 THE PATERSON MURDER Full Penalty Inflicted on the Slayers of Jennie Bosschieter. THIRTY YEARS FOR THREE MEN, While Kerr, the Fourth Member of the Gang, Gets Off With Fifteen Years—Son's Disgrace Is Killing Kerr's Father. Paterson, J. N., Jan. 30, 1902 McAllister, William A. Death and Andrew Campbell, who were found guilty of murder in the second degree for the killing of Jennie Bosschier on Oct. 18, 1900, by the administration of choral and subsequent rape, together with George J. Kerr, who pleaded non vult contendre to a charge of rape, were sentenced yesterday by Judge Dixon. McAllister, Campbell and Death were each sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment at hard labor and Kerr to 15 years' imprisonment at hard labor. The sentences of all the men are the full terms of imprisonment which the case but in the case of Kerr a fine of $1,000 might have been added. The 30 year sentences will be reduced by good behavior to 20 years and Kerr's sentence will be reduced to 11 years. The time off for good behavior is arranged on a sliding scale and increases each year. The prisoners made a statement to the public yesterday in which they announce their intention to earn the commutation for good behavior. They say further: "We feel that we have been victims, to a great extent, of the unreasoning outside opinion, which was based upon the wild and inflammatory reports printed in the metropolitan papers to satisfy a morbid taste." While Judge Dixon was sentencing the prisoner,ugh Kerr, the father of George, lay dying with his wife's throw at the court house. Me Kerr is dying because of the disgrace of his son. George did not know until last night that his father was so ill. Equally ignorant of the son's sentence will the father remain. He does not want to hear of the case at all. THE SITUATION DISASTROUS. Americans Menaced by the Insurgents in Venezuela. Port of Spain, Trinidad, Jan. 30.—According to advices received yesterday from Caracas a trustworthy engineer, who has arrived there from Pitch Lake, reports that the situation is disastrous. He says that 150 English negroes who were employed to do police duty fled, when the insurgents began firing, into the jungles, only 25 Americans being left to protect the property and lives of American families. The messenger from the Lake implored the United States legation at Caracas to afford protection, saying that the lives and property of Americans were exposed to guerilla attacks, firing around the lake given on nightly, and the Americans being forced to hold out long. United States Minister Loomis, according to the same advices, replied that these reports were posing aggreated, but that they could not be ignored and that he would wire the facts to Washington. The revolution in eastern Venezuela, near the asphalt deposits, is increasing, but the disturbances are re-emerging from Caracas, which remains tranquil. To Prohibit Use of Gasoline. Toledo, Jan. 30.—State Oil Inspectors Frank I. Baird, of Toledo, and John R. Mallow, of Columbus, yesterday issued a positive mandate that all manufacturers of gasoline lamps in the state must discontinue such manufacture and use at once. There are several large factories in Ohio, and many thousand users. It is intended to serve notice on all at first and if the order is not obeyed in reasonable time radical measures will be inaugurated. It is anticipated that the manufacturers will fight the matter through the courts. The statutes of Ohio are very positive on the subject, but have never been made effective by former state oil inspectors. A Mammoth Coal Order Pittsburgh, Jan. 28. -Probably the largest order for coal ever taken for shipment through a single purchaser has just been consummated by the Monongahola River Consolidated Coal and Coke company selling to a New Orleans agent and shipper 200 coal boats, averaging 25,000 bushels of coal each, which is for export trade. The total amount of 5,000,000 bushels was taken at a price one cent a bushel higher than the average prevailing price of last year in the New Orleans market. England's Commercial Decadence. London, Jan. 30. The Times, in an editorial dealing with an "important and perplexing question of true significance"—the excess in value regularly exhibited by England's imports over her exports, especially looking to the fact that during the last three and a half years the United States have exported over £400,000,000 more merchandise, gold and silver than they imported—says: "It is not easy, yet it is a matter of the utmost moment, to ascertain whether as a nation we are still saving and living within our income, or whether we are beginning to live on the accumulated savings of former times." RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1901. West End News I ems-Lady Choak- On the St.-The Soundrel Escap ed-Instantly Killed. Thursday evening, Jan. 24th about 7:30 Moss Edmonson Brown, age about 19 was returning to her home 1218 Chaffa St. from her service place. In order to enter the front door, she had to ascend long steps from the street. Just as she attempted to go up tall, stout man with a big he pilled down over his face sprang upon her from behind, grasped her by the throat and shoked her almost insensible. Her screams aroused her mother and older sister who pushed to her relief In the mean time the neighbors next door and across the street came cut and the soundrel disappeared in the darkness making his escape towards Randolph St. Miss Brown was much frightened and qui e seriously hurt. Owing to the excitement and darkness the assailant could not be fully identifi-d. Mr. Brown, her brother came home shortly after the occurrence and made every effort to capture the man but without success. This family has recently moved into that neighborhood and are among our best and most respected citizens, and much sympathy and regret are entertained and expressed for the young lady and her family. The same one made an attempt to break into a house across the street but was unsuccessful frightened away by a young man in the house who fired several shots. About Christmas robbers entered the home of Mrs. Brock and stole nearly all her provisions. The party or parties entered by cutting the slats of the windows. Besides taking away half a barrel of flour, preserves, cooked bread and meats, they also took wood and coal. Mrs Brock is a widow lady with several children, all girls. She has struggled hard to educate and properly care for her children and feels very keenly her loss, but presses on and bears up like the Christian lady which she is known in the community to be. It is quite dark along that St. And all persia should be on their guard when passing, or around their homes. Mr Richard Winston was instantly killed at Saturday about 7:30 p. m. neat the new reservoir. Winston was driving a horse to the pony wagon beaten by Ed Willis. Ed Willis horse became suddenly frightened at the approach of an electric car. In running after the horse Winston was caught between the vehicle and a tree. His forehead in striking the tree was crushed in. He is a brother of Rev. Philip Winston of Westwood, Henrico Co., and Rev. Morton Winston of Germantown, Pa. It seems that one of the "Sanctified" brethren had too much "holy fire" at the 58th church last communion. The down durning the cover they fell but falling in their attempt they tried to sing him down, but not until he had noured hot shot into a leader at whom he was said to have been aiming. takes your big B. D. so handle me. Prof. Simpson of the Union University administered the Lord's Supper at Riverview Baptist Church last Sunday. The house was crowded and the services were charming. This church is moving on nicely in paying for their new house. It was announced that Mrs. L. A. Coles would superintend the organization of the B. Y. P. U at Riview River Baptist Church last Wednesday night. Sister Coles is very active in church work. That reporter who wrote up the inauguration was a sort of 'rough rider' but we are pleased to note that that committee went over dry shod. The expansion of the Times was appropriate and graceful. So let it be. We were writing, but we wrote for our editor for the able, logical, replete and dignified answer to the question asked by the correspondent of the New York Tribune. That answer was gilt edge. Let the discussion go on, our editor is at home, give us a fair show is all we ask. AZAX Fulton Notes. Things are going on fairly well in this section despite the wintry blasts. Churches and Sunday Schools seem to be in a prosperous condition. Rev. F. W. Williams feeds his flock continually with food divine. He preached a most glorious sermon last Sunday a. m. At 8 o'clock p. m, Rev. J0. C. Boone who is to sail in a few months as missionary to Africa, preached a most profound and touching missionary sermon. Services at the Mount Calvary and Union Level Baptist Churches were very good last Sunday. Rev. A. Ferguson will administer the Lord's Supper at 3:30 p. m. next Sunday. Rev. F. W. Williams will preach the annual sermon of the Blooming Lily Club No. 1 Knights of Pythias next Sunday at 3 p. m. at the Rising Mount Zion Baptist Church. Deacon Thos. Spreadley, Susan A. Jones, Olivia Daniel, John Hunley are on the sick list this week. A Knights of Pythias Association was organized at Mr. W. H. Scott's residence, No. 839 Nicholson St., Rev. F. W. Williams, chairman, W. H. Scott Treasurer; Jas. O. Dawson and R. W. Whiting, Secretaries. Meeting next Sunday at same place at 5 p. m. Good many Knights were down and attended the meeting. Names will be given in the next issue. FIRST HONOR PUPILS. EAST END SCHOOL. 6 h Grammar—J. Andrew Bowler, teacher—Estelle Stearnt, Ella Oross, Daisy Gilliam, Rosa Taylor, Carter Jones. Junius Lius, Robert Wilder. 8rd Grammar, Miss Rosa B Yancey, teacher—Rosa Moss. 2nd Grammar, Miss Rosa B Moody, teacher—Amanda Gains, Mattie Jones Estelle Kelley, Lizzie Robinson, Wilson Tinsley. Lee White. 1st Grammar, Miss Lucy V. Bolling teacher—Otway Steward, Melissa Brown and Ethel Christian. 8th Primary, Miss Annie M Jackson teacher—Margaret Barrett, Mary Graves. 7th Primary, Miss Nannie O. Wyatt teacher—Ethel Gwathmoy, Annie Catey, Sarah Braxton, Lillie Flippin Isabel Johnson, Joanna Williams Annie Johnson. 6 h Primary, Miss L A. Willis teacher—Earle Harris, Hester Brax c. Bertha Holcomb Mattie Barnes, Mary Christie, Ruby Glainborne, Lily Brown. Mabel Harris Richard Braxton, Mary Atkinson, Lily Woodson. 5 h Primary, Miss Mary E. Willis teacher—Emma Hill, Mary E. Tancell, Judetta Temple, Beatrice Christian, Wm. Anderson, Cornelia Austin, Viola Cheatham, Lelia McAlister 4th Primary, Miss Maud E. Mundin, teacher—Martha Thomas. Ida Thompson, Henry James. Adele Johnson, Ophelia Scott, Ethel Gordon, Estelle Smith. 3 d Primary, Miss Annie S. Keene teacher—Lizzie Bland, Rosa White. Aurelia Hunter, Olivia Scott, William Langley, P-arl Morton, Frank Morton Lucius Brooks, Robert Jackson, Oleopatra Scott, Lonnie Burger, Bertra Robison, Thomas Brandon, Mamie Smith, Bennie Bland, Willie Saunders, Thomas Stark, Fanny Manning, Henry Smith 2nd Primary, Miss Lula G. Haskins, teacher - Melinda Harris, Julia Atkinson, Bersie Kirby, Ruby Macklin, Bessie Scott, Fannie Wright, Rebecca Hood Lawrence Page, Felix Gwathmey, Samuel Hubelton, Samuel Johnson, George Motley, Willie Morton Clarere Robinson, Robert Thompson, David Walker, John Taylor, Eidie Washington. First Primary, Miss Lula G. Haskins, teacher - Perry Seyles, James Coleman, Percy Brown, Claribel Anderson, Bertha Jones, Bertha Johnson, Eva Steward, Esther Coyle, Rose Howard, Luberta Somerville, Bessie Allen, Liberta Ashton, Della Turner, Percy Evans, Alma Thompson, Bettie Anderson, Marv Ivison, Virginia Williams, Floyd Spriggs, Ernest Wawwick, Allec Brooks, Frank Norman, Sturry Storrs FULTON SCHOOL Nelson-Williams, Jr., teacher-1st Primary-Willie Atkins, Richard James, Charlie Hill, Harry Slaughter, Lucy Jones, Jannie Kimbreth, Ruth Miller, Michael Johnson, 2nd Primary-Olara Berkley, Adee R binson, Selester Jimms. 4th Primary-Julia Hill, Rosa Hill, Colota White. MOORE SCHGOL. Week Ending January 25th, 1901. 6th Grammar—Mattie Reid, Alberta Smith, Lillie Stewart, Estelle Tinsley, Elsie Wyatt, Mary Morris. 5th Grammar—Pearl Bland, Mattie Greene. 4 h Grammar—Frank Carter. Harry Gray, Caroline Jones, Robert Preston, Estella Wooldridge. 3rd Grammar—Willie Booker, Samuel Carter, Nelson Washington, Willie Brock, Bessie Hancock, Bertha Hudson, Virginia Wilson, Nesta Wooldridge, Lila Mins. Lena Booker. 2nd Grammar—Irene Williams, Janie Williams, Walter Johnson, Martha Milan, Alice Johnson, Marie Allen, Lewis Wingfield, Mary Jasper. 1st Grammar—Bessie Anderson, Robert Cole, Willie James, Ellie Carter, Pauline Funn, Ollie Frazier, Lea Henley, Bessie Robinson, Laura Steward. 8th Primary—Milton Sampson, Benjamin Deane, Emma Craig, Maude Hayes, Susie Jones, Sarah Tinsley, Alma Washington, Mary Bassette, Sallie Johnson, Martha Montague, Ellen Brown, Kate Mills. 7th Primary—Thomas Branch, Alfred Mason, Minnie Booker, Arnell Frasier, Ollie Geurant, Leon Holmes, Sarah Hilson, Virginia Jackson, Alberta Jones, Maggie Mayo, Cella Minor Elinora Johnson, Alberta King, Rosa Patterson. 6th Primary—Henry Johnson, Wortham Puryear, Eilee Mitchell, Martha Hill, Lula Gray, Florence Lockley, Daisy Mason. 6th Primary B—Della Booker, Adele Cousins, John Goodman, Stewart Hobson, Katie Cox, Emma Gross, Rosa Lewis, Sallie Reader, Eva Steedd. 5th Primary—Ashby Lusas, Ruth Davis, N-illie Fox, Amanda Sayles Katie Booker. 4th Primary—Walter Harris, Pearl Anderson, Florence Booker, Clara Johnn, n. Martha Thomas. Eater Young John Jackson, John Djer, Mary Ed- wards. 3rd Primary A—Lillie Jackson, Annie Jasper, Lottie Mickens, Nora Jack- son, Marie Craige, Marie Cousins Cora Byrd, John Robinson, Sam Lee, Thos. Harris, Earnest Branch. 2nd Primary B—Pinkey Funn, Daisy Hill, Helen Johnson Mary Morton, Daily O'Neal, Virginia Richardson, Minnie Mickens. 2nd Primary—Lee Frazier, Irvin Willis, Beatrice Pryor, Rebecca Wins- son, Helen Scott, Mary Smith. 3rd Primary A—Freeman Harris, Arth- ur Glover, Glover, Henry John ston, Ida Barker, Nana Jackson, Gertrude Johnson, Virgie Smith, Lizie Huebas. 1st Primary B—James Barrett. S. Bolling. Robert Carter. Willie Ellis. Richard Jasper Leroy Johnson Willie Kenny. Willie Logan. James Randolph Hallle Branoh. Melissa Byrd Mary Carter. Ellis Curralny. Mary Gray. Ida Kenny. Margaret Richardson. Ross Kenny. Bettie Mayo. MONROE S JHOOL 1st Grammar--Peter Hudson, Rosa Brooks, Eva Dandridge, Gertrude Taylor. 8th Primary--Mary Austin, Elva Ford, Lottie Lawrence, Irene Woodson, Miss Florence A. Yates, teacher. 7th Primary--Lillian Foster, Ales Mosly, Lucy Winston 6th Primary, Mamie Bagney, Fannie Braxon. 5th Primary--Frank Epps, Percy Holmes Monroe Johnson, Marion Partee, Oliver Tomlin, Bassie Allen Estelle Branch, Bettie Clarke, Juliet Carter, Mabel Di kerson, Robert Johnson, Emily Lewis, Irene McNeas, Susie Monroe, Fannie Partee, Fannie Taylor, Ethel Thompson, Miss Minnie M. Branach, teacher. 4th Primary--Walter Liggons, John Morris, Robert Pindexter, Columbia Samantha Edward Thompson, Lillie Barrett, Irma Fields Florence Hatchton, Mary Hatcher, Estelle Johnson, Nellie Jones, Martha Ligons, Emma Poundexter, Lottie Walker, Annie Tinker. 3rd Primary—Arthur Goodman, Jas. Harris. Morelle Johnson, Willie Moss, Lillie Bates, Mavv Clarke, Bessie Cary, Cora Douglas, Florence Douglas, Sarah Floyd, Mary Palmer, Liddy Robertson, Edna Stewart, Rosa B. Sparker. 2nd Primary—Floyd Goode, Wilson Poindexter, Bennie Thomas. Leslie Wood, Johnnie Epps. America Ammons Helen Clarke, Lillie Green, Fannie Jackson, Martha Langhorn, Annie Mosby, Annie Phillips, Carry Towns. 1st Primary—John Barlow Leslie Eldridge, George Green. Thos. Jefferson, Ernest Johnson, William Morrison, Queen Esther Branch, Lula Bransch Lillie Brooks, Amy Franklin, Susie Matthews, Josephine Shelton, Laura Williams. HIGH AND NORMAL SCHOOL Senior A Grade - Eulalia Whittle A Visit to New York City Editor of the PLANER, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir:- Please allow me space in your valuable paper for the following: v valuable paper of the following: I visited New York during the Xmas holidays upon arrival in extension of Mr. Rev B. H. W. karch of the Mr. Gileas Baptist Church of the city. It was very enjoyable trip and a pleasant visit. My stay in New York is one of pleasure and of profit. I was highly and royally entertained by Rev Walker and his good people. I was not in want for anything, money, comfort and friends. I preached of en to his congregation in the beginning of his revival and the prospects for a good harvest were very good and encouraging. I must say positively, honestly, and conscientiously that Rev B. H. Walker is a kind hearted, open-hearted and Christian hearted brother minister. He knows how to treat company and he also knows how to handle his congregation. God bless Rev. Walker and his people. One of the sad or deplorable condition about New York is that they can never own much church property in that city. Real estate is too dear. Three of my churches are very largely represented in New York city. I was the recipient of many presents, (nice presents.) The last night I preached in the Mt. Gilesd Church it was packed. I preached that night in my humble way on the "Day of Wonders" which sermon seemed to have been enjoyed by all present. After the sermon a colleague was lifted by the writer from Virginia. The sum collected amounted to $33.00 was given the writer so I was promised a suit of clothes by the pastor of Mt. Gilesd, but unfortunately the suit was not finished when I left the city. I hope to get it just the same. Gifts in money amounted to about $50.00 and in presents to about $20. I bid Rev. Walker and his people God-speed. "God be with you 'sil we meet again." B. J. FLETCHER. We return thanks for an invitation to attend a social given by Free Will Counsel, 176, I. O. of St. Lukes, Jan. 31, at $ p. m. LAVINIA GODWIN, W. O. SESSE B. JOHNSON, Recording Secretary. Y. M. O. A. Notes. Everybody enjoyed the explanation on the Sunday School lesson last Saturday. I was extremely interesting and helpful. The meetings in the almshouse last Sunday were very impressive. A large crowd of boys gathered at our rooms last Sunday to hear a special address by Mr. Peter Coleman. Subject. "The Boy that Succeeded." The boys were helped in every way by this address and were encouraged to stick to that which is right. The men were happy over the most instructive address which was delivered by Rev. D. W. Davis, A. M., Subject "The Promise of the North." Some very practical lessons were received which will be of great help if put into practice. The middle of the quartette from Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church accompanied by Mr. Joseph Williams, was suited to the occasion. Explanation on the Sunday School lesson Saturday. 5 o. m. at our rooms. Bible Study for boys Sunday 4 p. m. Special papers will be read. Dr W F. Graham, pastor of the 5th St. Baptist Church will address the men in our rooms. Subjest, "Diligent man," los and Quartestes will be pandered. For men only. Every mother and sister will teach fathers and brothers to this meeting. OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER. A Noted Man. PHILADRIPHIA, PA., Jan. 29, 1901. There is not a time that some of our people are not thinking. Behind all the great movements of our times, which startle the nations, are the sage leaders of thought. The poet says, "A small drop of ink liking like dew upon the paper, produces that which causes thousands, yes, millions, to think." Perhaps the incident I am about to relate will cause some of our people to think more than ever. It is the thinking people that makes the world revolve. It was Galileo, who by constant thinking, invented the pendulum; Watts, the steam-engine; Morse, the telegraph; Whitney, the cotinin gin; Howe, the sewing machine; Edison, the phonograph. These inventions have almost revolutionized the world of thinking people. In all races we have lawyers, doctors, preachers, etc., and we also have inventors. These are some of most profound thinkers. Not long since your correspondent had the pleasure of visiting a man of our race who will shortly be introduced to the world. He is unassuming in manners and bears the demeanor of one who has spent many quiet hours in thoughtful seclusion. His name is Mr Ashby Wise. He has very nearly completed an invention that will revolutionize the world. It is the nearest machine to perpetual motion we have noted. It is a machine that runs by weight alone and will run as long as the weights are in a certain position. It will run up grade as well as on a level. In the near future our readers will know more of this promising inventor. Miss Emma Ouainus has been visiting friends in Richmond, Va. Dr. Alexander Gordon, in connection with Elder Roberson, is conducting a great spiritual meeting. Many converts are reported. Bishop I. J. Coppin, D. D., left last week for South Africa where he has been sent by the Bishopry to establish a college for the natives. Mrs. F. E. Harper, our post and author, gave a banquet to our first college school mistress at her home on Binhai St. Quite a number were present. If we ever expect to amount to any thing as a race we get together. The only solution of the socialized race problem depends upon union. We must support our own enterprises, our own business and professional men. The following appropriate little poem is taken in part from the Ternum. Stick Together. Stick together, Negro men, Do that which you think is right; If you're called upon to fight, then Just fight with all your might. In our business enterprises, In our objects and aim, In our endeavors and advice Let each Negro's be the same. When a man is trying hard To do business for the race Just you help him and regard To assist him in the pace. Colored men, let me tell you You can never rise above Your conditions, unless you be true To yourself, and have race love. In the fair or rainy weather, Stick together just the same; Stick together, stick together, Let this motto be our aim. Alex. C. Davis. The main points of the poem suggest united eJort. "In union there is strength." Let us continue from this on "Stisk together." WANTED-A Cook and House Girl Apply at 108 East Gary St. PHILADELPHIA, PA., Jan 23 1901. ENNIS—Mra. Jennie L. Ennis departed this life at Women's Hospital January 21st in full triumph of faith. She was a member of Zion Baptist Church R-V, E. W Moore, pastor. She leaves to mourn their loss, a daughter and five sisters. She was formerly of Hanover Co. Va. I would not live always, no welcome the tomb. arise, To hail him in triumph descending the skies. "Gone but not forgotten." Her daughter, FLORENCE ENNIS. ROBINSON—Died at the home of her parents, 1022 N. 2nd St., January 28th 1901, at 9 o'clock a. m., Fannie Ugerther, the infant daughter of Peter Robinson and Marian Symms, age 14 months and 25 days. Fannie, thou to God hss' gone, Look for me, I will surely come. Her Mother. Mrs. Baylor of Ashland, Va. Dead. Mrs. Jane Baylor departed this life Friday morning, January, 4th, 1801, 8 o'clock a. m., she leaves a husband, three sons three grand-children and a host of friends to mourn their loss. "May she rest in peace." FULCHER-Departed this life Wednesday morning, Jan. 30th 1901. R. H. Fulcher, after a brief but severe illness. He bore his illness with patience and was resigned to his death which he met calmly. He was a member of St Joseph Council, I O. of St. Luke. He was a devoted husband, beloved father, peaceable neighbor, beloved by all who knew him. He leaves a wife, two sons, one daughter, sister, adepted daughter and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. He can all our sorrows heal. Sleep on dear father, sleep and take your rest. Lay down your head upon thy Sav- iour's breast. Done by order of his wife, MARTIA A. FULCHER. Would Not Be Without It. KEARNRYVILLE, W. VA., Jan. 25, '01 Mr. Editor; Dear Sir:—Enclosed find $1 50 for subscription to your able and wor- thy paper, the PLANET as it seems an impossibility for me to without it. Hoping you success in your efforts to stomp out lynching. I require REV. MOGUIRE TO LEAVE. REV. ALEXANDER McGuire, the able rector of St. Philip's P. E. Church has accepted a call to St. Thomas P. E. Church of Pailadelphia. It is one of the largest churches among colored Ecclesiapalians. Rev. McGuire has succeeded in building up the work here to a remarkable extent and his change of field will be generally regretted. Disowned His Daughters--Remember ed His White Friend. SUPPLEK, VA., Jan. 30th—The remains of Dumpsey Hare, Nansomseud's richest colored man, were this afternoon borne to the grave by white pall-bearers. There was no preacher, but a white layman read the burial service. A handsome coffin, vault and monument had been prepared by Hare before his death. There has been no public reading of the will, but it is understood that Hare's vast real estate goes to Nansomseud Edward E. Holland, of Suffolk, E. John G. Holland, of Nansomseud O. Laura An White, Hare's only daughter, whom he had reared for a white man's wife, and who incurred his displeasure by marrying a colored man, is cut off with ten dollars. Fulton C.h) No. 1, K. of P. Sunday evening, Jan. 27th, 1901, 25 of Fulton's best men assembled at the residence of Mr. W. H. Scott, Fulton's popular tonorial artist and formed themselves into a club to be known as Fulton Club, No 1. object of which is found a lodge of K. of P. They were instructed by D. G. C. F. L. Lucas Sir Knights S. S. Baker and Dr. E. R. Jefferson. The following officers were elected and members enrolled: Rev. F. W. Williams, Chairman; John O. Dawson, Secretary; W. H. Scott, Treasurer; R H. Whiting, R. G. Porter, Thomas Page, James C. Ox- s, Harris, Roland Yaney, Wm. Sewall, Hill, Harold, Joseph Brown, Willie Hill, Wm. Robinsou, Howard Smith, St. Paul Henley, Leroy Morris, Thomas Nelson, Meeting next Sunday afternoon, Feb 8, 1901, 5:30 p. m. --- WOMAN MUT DERSHER HUSBAND :- She Is Assisted by Another Man—They [ Take the Brdy a Mile in a Boat and Place it on the Railroad Track TCANO, VA., Jan. 80—One of the most daring murders ever committed in Virginia took place last Monday night near Diascue Station, James City county, when James Beach (colored) was killed in his own house by his wife and a colored man who had taken up with her. After they had killed Beach they put the body in a boat, the house being on a creek, and went up the creek a distance of or mile, to the Oheapeake and Ohio railroad where they landed their victim's body. Here they placed the body on the railroad track, feeling satisfied they had done their work and that they would never be suspected of the murder of James Beach. Early Tuesday morning when Mr. Rawley, section master at Diascue, went to his work, he found pieces of the dead man's body scattered along the railroad track and stained of thirty yards. An eastbound train had struck it. Mr. Rawley notified Mr. E. T. Gate wood, a magistrate of found a dead man on his track. Mr. Gatewood summoned six men to act as jurors— Wessar P. T. Coyles, G. W. Ytrees, R. V. Timberlake, W. T. Haynes, R. L. Hicks and M. L. Cottrell, with O. P. Marston as special constable. Upon their investigation they found without a doubt that Bosch was murdered as above stated, and his wife Sarah Beasch and her accomplice, Roland Holmes were sent on to the grand jury. Blood in the bottom of the boat and blood leading to the dead man's house along with confusing stories told by the woman led to the discovery of the murder. MODERN CULTURE MAGAZINE. Contents For February, 1901. Sculpture at the Pan-American Expo Glimpses of Life in the Philippines The Circus in Winter Quarters by W. Henry Sheak. Aaron Burr by Alice B. Morrison. Beyond the Pale—I by Leo Warren. American Architecture by G. Merzer Adam. Diving on the Mediterranean—III by Bella Hickl. Hassett. A Royal Bride by Robert C. Auld. Washington's Ablest Ally by William Barrett Millard. The House Behind the Cedars—VII* Chas. W. Chesnutt. The Domestie Life of Shakspare Time~Vl., by Sidney Lanier. Current Events, by The Editor. Ken Quiet Corner by Alice E. Harsgom. The Literary World by Ellen A Vinton & A E H. The Reading Club by Thomas Walton. DEPARTMENTS. Music and Drama--Folk Music, by Francis L. Robinson. Woman and the Home--The Mission of theoudv Club by Ella Garoline Lapham. Around the Table--Ah! by Edwin L. Sabin. A Book-Worm's Dream by H. W. B. in the "Interlude." The Boston Baby by James Buck- ham. Title Page and Index. Stole The Bridle. CAPF. THOS. M. CRUMP, Manager of the Southern Aid Society attended a meeting of the Exselisor Court, No. 117, at the Pythian Castle Hall, N. 511 St. and while he was inside some on the ground, he head of the horse, tied the weight strap around its neck and left the animal. The blanket and a suit of clothes. In the buggy were not disturbed. the buggy were not disturbed. Mr. Crump had to borrow a bridle from Mr. Price before he could reach the stable. --- —Mrs. M. J. Reid of 809 E. Grass St. has been confiied to her bed for the last two weeks with L. Grippie but is now a little better. Her many friends will be glad to hear that she is slowly improving. —Ex-Councilman Benjamin Jack son is quite ill. —Mr. O. M. Steward is quite sick Mr. O. C. Steward is quite slick Prot. J. Hugo Johnston, President of the Va. N., & C. I., called on us. He reports his work as an engineer. A Tragic Disappearance BY WILLIAM HARBEN. Copyright, 1900, by A. N. Kallegg Newsaper Company. a tall, anguished woman about 30 years of age advanced into the room with quick, angry strides. She had crushed the visitor's card in the hand with which she was endeavoring to adjust a meager coil of iron gray hair. She did not allow him to learn certain things connected with past life. CHAPTER IV. The Goddards breakfasted together the next morning in a private room downstairs. The meal passed in silence, which was broken only now and then by a cheerful remark on the part of Mrs. Goddard. He was sallow and depressed, as if he had passed a wretched night; she was flushed with triumph and the prospect of winning in a great game. Now that his word had been tacitly given he had the cowed air of most men of refined instincts who have sold themselves to the devil. His handsome face was stamped, too, with the lines of regret for his downward plunge, and keener regrets that he was in such a short time to be separated from her. He was unable to look her plot squarely in the face, else he might have had the courage to introduce certain white-winged objections which had flocked around him in the dead hours of the night when all the city seemed asleep. Mrs. Goddard ate heartily; he bolted his food. She said the coffee and rolls—those dainty crisp things no larger than a giant's thumb—were alone worth the inconvenience of spending a night in the city. When they had finished she told him she desired that he should go at once to Lyndhurst and inform Blanche that she would remain that morning in town to attend to some shopping, and that she would be kamed in time for luncheon. "I hope," she added, "that you have no business to attend to at the office." He had none, and it gave his heart a wrench to think that her shopping had to do with her preparations for her voyage. "There is something else," she went on. "Did anyone at Lyndhurst know that I took so much money when I left?" The major looked confused as he confessed: "Blanche happened to be with me when—when I went to the safe, and, naturally, I suppose I showed astonishment when I missed the—" "Oh, it makes no difference," broke in Mrs. Goddard. "I can easily explain it, and my going abroad. I shall say it is only for a short run over and back. From the other side I can easily make excuses for a prolonged stay." He left her in one of the drawing-rooms and hastened to get a cab to convey him to the station in time for a train to Lyndhurst. Good intentions and a clear moral outlook must naturally tend towards lightness of spirits, for Maj. Goddard, possessing just the reverse, felt as if his bones had turned to lead as he journeyed homeward. It is a wonder that his fiercely contending emotions did not tear his reason from its seat. As to his wife, she was, as she had always been, diametrically his opposite. She took one or two turns in the corridors, where a considerable number of people were seated or promenading, and drew in deep breaths of something like thorough satisfaction. She seemed unconscious and yet keenly aware of the glances of loitering men of fashion who nudged one another and made admiring comments as she passed. She went through the revolving glass doors into the court, and as she smoothed on her dainty gloves she looked for a cab. When she had chosen the best looking four-wheeler a porter in uniform called it for her. "No. 30 West Twentieth street," she said carelessly to the porter, who repeated it to the cabman as he closed the door. The house before which the conveyance presently halted was a rather old-time, four-storied brown stone front, the steps of which were crumbling and broken, and before which stood those badges of an uncleanly neighborhood, an ash can and a garbage barrel. Mrs. Goddard alighted, dismissed he cab and went up to the unswept stoop and stood on the worn india-rubber mat. She rang. An Irish maid answered the summons. "Is Mrs. Nolan in?" asked the caller. "Yes, madam; will you walk into the parlor?" Mrs. Goddard gave the girl a card and followed her into a stuffy drawing-room on the left. Between the windows of this room there was a tall pierglass belonging to the style of half a century ago and a concomitant high and crudely decorated ceiling. There was a folding bed in the room and a washstand hidden behind a Japanese screen, which indicated that the apartment, in emergencies, was used as a bedroom. The place had the air and the odor of a second-class boarding house, but the sign in the window told the street that it was only an apartment house furnishing drawing-room privileges. a tall, angular woman about 30 years of age advanced into the room with quick, aggy strides. She had crushed the visitor's card in the hand with which she was endeavoring to adjust a meager coil of iron gray hair. She did not speak till she had peered into the hall and carefully closed the door, then she said, frowning into the complacent face of the half-amused caller: "It certainly is a good thing for "It certainly is a good thing for you, Jeanne, that you came to-day." "Ah, you think so?" Mrs. Goddard's smile was tantalizing in the extreme. "Yes, I had written my last note to you. I say it now plainly, so that you will not keep me waiting so long again." "I assure you, Le came only by the merest accident." "Oh, I don't care why you came, just so you came with the money. I have my room-rent to pay and several other bills. If you had not come this morning, I was going to Maj. Goddard with my whole story. It makes me furious to know that you are rolling in luxury while I am living like this. I haven't had a new dress for—" "It is as well as you lived when you were my forewoman," said the visitor, with a sneer; "and when you had to work from morning till night. You can't frighten me, Lucy; you had as well realize that. Now, what will you say when I tell you that I have not brought you any money—not one cent?" "What!," gasped the angular woman, "you mean to tell me—" "I mean to tell you that the hen (begging my husband's pardon) which has been laying golden eggs for you, can't do it any longer. Goddard has lost everything he has except Lyndhurst and an income barely enough for a parsimonious man to keep it up on." Mrs. Nolan sank on to a rickety sofa, and sat stiffly erect. "You are not in earnest, Jeanne?" "Yes, I am. I left him yesterday." "Left him?" "I was obliged to. I can't live on his present income; besides, when you told me Dugdale was here looking for me, I knew that he'd hunt me down sooner or later. Lucy, I must make "IT WILL WORK LIKE A CHARM." for Europe. I couldn't live here with that fellow on my track. He is as sharp as can be." "How are you going to Europe without money?" asked Mrs. Nolan, suspiciously. "I have a plan; a desperate one, too, but I had to conjure up something. What I have in view includes you." "Includes me?" "Yes, it happens that I may really be able to put you to some use at last." "I will do nothing without being paid, I tell you that." "We will have a good bank to draw on, if everything works well." Mrs. Goddard lowered her voice, hitched her chair nearer to her confederate and explained salient features of her scheme. Before she had finished Mrs. Nolan was trembling all over, and her eyes were batting rapidly from sheer excitement. "I-is is the girl so dangerously ill?" she asked. "In a most critical condition." "Why did you smile when you said that, Jeanne?" "I don't know; did I smile? Because our success depends on the state of her health, you know." "I never heard of such a—such a bold idea." "It will work like a charm." "But what part shall I play?" "I shall need you as a companion of my travels; and you know I sha'n't be able to make a creditable exit from this life without somebody to testify to my demise." "O! you want me to shoulder the risk." "Puh! don't be silly; the whole thing will rest on me." "I should love to go abroad, Jeanne." "Well, there is nothing to hinder you. Goddard, after his marriage, will be involved as deeply in the matter as you or I, and with all that fortune to draw on, we sha'n't want for money, and we shall have the world before us. Lucy, I am simply enchanted with the thought of freedom—glorious freedom! I have not closed my eyes in really sound sleep since you wrote you had seen Henry Dugdale. I shall kill two birds with one stone—get out of his way and get plenty of money into the bargain. I wish you were less cowardly. I haven't the slightest fear." "Well, you may count on me," said Mrs. Nolan, forced in spite of herself to enter into the buoyant spirit of her friend. "When once I get started I'm a regular war-horse." THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA CHAPTER V When Mrs. Goddard returned to Lyndhurst at last night, Blanche and her guardian and Mr. Talley received her in the drawing-room. The exchange of greetings might have been mere awkward platitudes but for her wonderful conversational skill. "I am so sorry I was detained in town last night," she laughed. "The major was actually frightened when he reached me. I did a very foolish thing in taking so much money. Imagine my surprise to find that I had actually $5,000 in my purse when I took it out to pay the cabman. When I went off the major was not here, and being accustomed to taking money from the safe, I thrust my hand into the box and folded up some bills. I intended to pay a few bills of pretty good size in town, but goodness knows I didn't intend to carry off a small fortune." Talley laughed unsuspiciously. "Some pickpocket would have been in clover," he remarked. "The fright I gave this dear man," and Mrs. Goddard laid her gloved hand on the arm of her statuelike husband, "was a good thing in one way, for when I told him that Dr. Sloan, who was at the Palace yesterday, had advised me to take a sea voyage he was so relieved over finding that I had not been abducted that he really consented to my running over to London for a week or so." "We are sorry you are going," said Blanche, with a start of surprise. "But surely not alone?" remarked Talley. "No; I have applied to a bureau for a companion. They know exactly the kind of woman I want, and I shall have no one else, I assure you." "I have been looking over my affairs, and I think I can get away," usid Goddard. "You will at least allow me to go over with you." "And be obliged to nurse you through your seasickness," laughed his wife. "No, this voyage is for my own health, thank you. From the moment the gangplanks are up till they are down he is too ill to eat a bite." she said to Blanche and Talley. "I shall be provided with a good companionable maid. New York is full of gentlewomen who are dying for such opportunities." "After all, it may do her a lot of good," Blanche said, consolingly, to her guardian, when Mrs. Goddard had left the room. "She seems to anticipate so much pleasure from it. She seems to treat me so much more genially than she has been doing." The major frowned. There was a trustful glance in the girl's eyes which recalled her school days to him. She looked almost as childlike as she had the day she had come into her father's sickroom, her long golden hair plaited and hanging down her back. How vividly he recalled John Briscoe's words: "My darling child, this is the best and trust friend I ever had; he has shown me his friendship in a thousand ways; if anything should happen to take me from you he will care for you as tenderly as your own father could." Goddard shuddered over this memory, and the thought that, although she was marked as such an early prey of death, he had been induced to plot against such frailty, but he felt the futility of struggle. Ever since he had fallen under the spell of Jeanne's eyes he had looked upon her as the ruler of his destiny, be it for good or evil. "You ought not to suffer so because she is going, dear guardian," said Blanche, with tender concern. "You ought to look forward to her return, and not give yourself up to morbid brooding over it." "She doesn't want me to go with her, you see," answered the major, coming back to a closer view of his own woes. His lip was quivering, and his tone was almost petulant. "Sometimes I am afraid I am in the way," said Blanche. "Perhaps I ought to go away myself." "No, you must stay," said the major; "but you must invite some one to be with you." "Lottie Dean will come," said Blanche; "I shall write to her," and suspecting that Goddard wanted to be alone with his trouble, she left him. One morning three days later they were all seated in the library. Mrs. Goddard sat in the bow window, her eyes on the road which led past Lyndhurst to the station. Blanche was looking over some music at the piano, and Talley was taking down in shorthand from Goddard's halting dictation some business correspondence. Now and then Mrs. Goddard would furtively scan the faces in the room and then peer toward the road again. Suddenly she saw a cab containing a single occupant driving in at one of the gates at the bottom of the lawn, and she at once rose and went to the fire and sat down. When the door bell rang a few minutes later, she was the only one in the room who did not appear to notice it. She seemed so much absorbed in thought as not to see James when he entered with a card on a tray. "A lady to see you, madam," he announced. Mrs. Goddard had four pairs of eyes on her as she scanned the card. "Mrs. Lucy Nolan," she read, "from the Metropolitan employment bureau. Ah, it is the woman they were to send me! Tell her, James—tell her I shall be in at once. Where is she? "In the little pastor, madam." "What is she like?—but never mind. I shall see for myself. If they have sent me anybody without the best of references she shall go back without an engagement." Goddard's voice wandered into inaccurate dictation. "Get that off and I shall finish the rest some other time," he said, wearily, to his secretary. The gaze of his ward seemed to melt on his face. She well knew that the realization of his wife's coming departure had fallen upon him with new force. In a few minutes Mrs. Goddard returned. She was smiling with amused satisfaction. "She is just the woman I want," she declared, looking at the major, "but perhaps you will feel better if you have seen her and n to her. I asked BE NOT DECEIVED TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. King of all Hair Tonics, "OZONO." BEFORE. AFTER. TRADE-MARK. Recognizing the fact that there are many SO-CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale because,extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the every member of the colored race, because they found it to cause the hair, long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are always a number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success, numerous firms have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair-straighteners, many of which are withoutless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and the colored people are buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with colorants, and the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—be careful when you use on your hair. Do not be deserved by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics. OZONO. which is sold with an iron-clad gue we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we as sultely agree to forfeit $50.00 if you if they were not true to all we clu several years under this guarantee who has used Ozone has been satisfied 20,000 people are to-day using recommends Ozone as the King of take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kin some Hair. It will make short, hair your head of all itching, worrying, and Scurf can not live after Ozone from falling out. It will restore gre hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a remedies to straighten hair, but wh you use hot irons. Friends, do life of the hair, and cause it to drow outside assistance. Nothing but the straight forever. You can wrap the hair are seen in a day or two a The price of Ozone is 50c. a b this liberal offer, which is good at to us, enclosing with it the sum of four large boxes of Ozone and one which makes black skin bright, ro skin diseases. Also removes all fa small-pox pits. We will also incl Food—Nature's great beautifier—r and all facial blemishes; makes youer. We will also include one packs absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE. which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $50.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for several years under this guarantee, and we are glad to say that every one who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively take Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesome Hair, make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, sorrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Scurf can not live longer. Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to straighten hair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons. Friends, do not use hot irons; they will burn, life of the hair, and cause it to drop out. Ozono straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozone is 50c. a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send to us, enclosing with it the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to you four large boxes of Ozono and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and pliant, and cures all skin diseases. Also removes all facial imperfections, and actually removes small-pox pits. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—Nature's great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look younger. "Have you really engaged her?" asked Goddard, dejectedly. "Oh, yes; we came to terms at once. She has a son in London and is anxious to see him. She will not want much more than her passage money, but of course I shall try to be generous with the poor thing. Don't expect to find her beautiful. She is anything but good-looking, but that is not what I am after. Good-looking women are rarely useful." As the major left the room his wife resumed her seat at the window. Her color was high; her eyes were as full of life as a fine diamond, and Blanche could hardly keep her eyes from her face. She was beginning, now that Mrs. Goddard was exerting herself to be attractive, to comprehend the hold she had on the major. To-day Mrs. Goddard looked as she had when Blanche had first seen her and realized that the place her guardian had filled in her girlish heart must be deprived of its tenant, that she must never even in dreams remember those days when he used to sit beside her in the little reception room at Mine. Bell's select school. She had been sure during those visits that his eyes, the pressure of his hand, his parting kiss had meant the same as her delicious yielding to them had implied. But the awakening shock had come and she had borne in silence her secret and gone through the daily torture of witnessing both her guardian's adoration for another and, what was almost as painful, that other's indifference to it all. When Goddard reentered the room there was a droop of utter despondency on him that added years to his appearance. "Well, how do you like her?" his wife naked. "Oh, she is all right," he said. "She seems good enough; but somehow I simply can't reconcile myself to—" "Oh, puh!" Mrs. Goddard rose with a graceful sweep of her lithe body and stood with her beautiful hands linked behind her head; her yawn, showing her perfect teeth, was as pretty and insincere as a coquette's kiss. "Blanche," she said, "if you ever marry, make just as many voyages as you can. The more a wife is away the more she is appreciated. But I must go and give that woman some final directions. What is her name?" Mrs. Goddard picked up the visitor's card. "Nolan, ugh what a frightful mouthful. I'll have to call her Lucy, as much as I hate to address a maid by her Christian name." When she had gone out Blanche went to the sofa on which the major was seated and sat down by him. "Dear guardian," she said, "I wish I could do something to help you." When he answered there was a distinet touch of faultfinding in his tone. "You would not go away on a pleasure trip and leave a husband you loved behind, would you, Blanche?" She had hesitation to answer, but her to wait to see you." grantee to do all that is claimed for it, or you a plain question—would we also be disheartened with our preparations, aim for them? We have advertised for and we are glad to say that every one led in every respect, our preparations, and every purchaser all hair Tonica. Ozono will positively hair, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesh hair long and straight. It will cure scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, has been applied. It will stop your hair my hair to its natural color, making the statement. Many firms are advertising then they send the preparation they tell not use hot irons; they will burn up the out. Ozono straightens without any ozono is necessary, and the hair stays use at any time. The good effects on the first application bottles do the work. We make any time: Cuts out this tapon and send One Dollar, and we will forward to you large bottle of Electrical Skin Refine, high skin soft and pliant, and cures all imperfections, and actually removes one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin moves wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, the old look young and the young look age of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is and no soap but a pure soap should ever when she did it it was without a twinge of conscience, and her firmness surprised herself. "I could not do so guardian." "I know it, my dear girl," he said, sighing; "but she is not like you. However, she wants the trip and she shall have it." Just then he saw Jeanne and Mrs. Noan passing through the hall to the cab waiting at the door. He rose and went out on the veranda, but was just in time to see the cab driving away with its occupant. He put his arm around the statuesque figure of his wife. "For God's sake, drop it, Jeanne," he muttered. "I don't feel as if I can go on with it." "It's too late now, dear," she said, giving him a glance from her wonderful eyes. "Think of all the fun we shall have when the girl finally succumbs. No, you have given me your promise. I shall hold you to it." "Jeanne," he said, gazing into her eyes, "you are a beautiful mystery to me. I don't understand you." Don't try, then." She smiled be- wittingly and turned back into the house. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Benev lent Investment Charted by Legislature of Virginia MAIN OFFICE: 38 W. LEIGH ST RICHMOND, VA Sick and Death Benefits Paid. Those who do not keep a regular Bank A ccount, the plan of this Association takes its place MONEY LOANED to members of PERSONAL AND REAL ESTATE SE CURRITIES on small weekly payments Interest Paid on all Deposits. For further information apply at the main office. AGENT WANTED To Repair Broken A d cles t Majo. J Cement Remember MAJOR'S EARTHER CEMENT, MAJOR'S LEATHER CEMENT Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public Abstract of *Pilele Office*. Titles to property carefully examined. *Pileal* assignment gives to saints and other masters. be used on the scalp. And, lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; also removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, ear, nite, etc. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but 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 Trade-Mark, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U.S. Government has granted us this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washin'gten; so if the coupon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use only the coupon having the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va. We have thousands of testimonials we have not publish. Here is a sample of one: **Boston Chemical Company:** Dear Sirs, You are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have used OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. Gentlemen. After using OZONO a short while only, I am glad to say that my hair is already straight and growing finely. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and luxurious growth. If your hair is already to secure a glossy long growth Buy only the and us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the your order. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO. 310 E. 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If you have a friend who has piece of paper and pin to coupon y you meats? , Gibbs, meats First Market d to buy Fresh, First-Class JUST WANT TO KNOW New Phone, 1133 RICE, Palmer and Liveryman short notice by telegraph or telepho. no entertainments. Plenty of room with or band wagons for carriages. bus. etc. Keeps sor High Street NEXT DOOR.] MAN ON DUTY ALL NIGHT C. J. Old 'Phone 1431 AN : —— = Ti Ae EON ETP ASANO. , Na ay) ey XDAY, FEB 2, 1900. ee are eeeaoniee wy) VS 4 NCE Pm IO Feat a RR 7 oS -E&y aK GREEN TERROR OF FRANCE Siinthin dna DUSK Nt i Bnet ing ihe waa aie Mata iae ae When the French house of deputies Passed a bill recently which forbids the manufacture or sale in France of absinthe and other alcoholic liquors which are pronounced “dangerous” by the Academy of Medicine, it recognized the terrible spread of the “green ter- ror,” which is said to be responsible for the great increase in insanity and other similar afllictions among the French people. Since 1894, as was pointed out in the chamber of deputies, the amount of absinthe consumed in France has doubled, itnow reaching the amount of 10,000,000 litres, ornearly 10,- 060,000 quarts annually. This amounts to one quart of absinthe to each three inhabitants, including men, women and children. In Paris the reports of the ministry of finance show that Yhere is an absinthe seller to every three build- ings in the metropolis. Already the green terror has killed many of the brilliant men of the country. Guy de Maupassant, Alfred de Musset, Baude- laire, who translated Poe's works into French; Theodore Barriere, Andre Cill, the artist, and a host of other men of letters and of genius burned theit brains away with the green flame and died miserable deaths. Even four years ago, before the habit had reached halt its present strength, Henri Rochefort started a crusade against its use. In his ‘@ppeal to the people he said: “Ab. shy NEP r Gy wf Rigs i NC al dae [ aa \ | eA ae eg = ae sinthe is the bane of the nation and is killing France.” But absinthe is not the only drink of fashionable and cultivated Paris, 1 has come to be the national drink of all classes of the French people. Wom- en drink it as well as men, and the chil dren of absinthe drinkers are often de- formed and partially paralyzed. Absinthe is a liquor made by pound. ing the leaves and flowering tops of ¥a- rious varieties of wormwood which grow from two to four feet high in great profusion under cultivation, and various other aromatic plants and cov ering the mass with alcohol. After ‘soaking for cight days the compound is distilled, yielding a green liquor, ta avhich a certain percentage of anise aced oil is usually added. It was first made by a couple of old Swiss women, who found it a good remedy and pre- Wentive for fevers. It is suid to be stil possible to get the pure absinthe in the better class of French cafes, but in this country and in England, as in the greater number of French drinking Places, the stuff served as absinthe is said to be adulterated with all sorts of Nile drugs, including even vitriol, to ‘give it an extra “bite.” ‘The best ab- sinthe is still made in Switzerland, im- amense quantities of it being turned out at Neufchatel, from which canton more (than 1,000,000 gallons is annually ex. Ported, a considerable portion eventu- ‘ally coming to the United States. ‘The effects of absinthe on _people ‘who drink it habitually are admitted by medical men to be worse than those which follow the use of brandy or other strong spirits, It soon becomes to its devotees the first necessity of life. To getit they will sacrifice anything. Tak. en by a novice and in small doses, it has for a time pleasant effects, In Paris and in the south of France its devotees are almost numberless. A ‘Frenchman who goes to his cafe for Juncheon or dinner sits at a table in iront, and, while his order is being prepared, sips his glass of absinthe as he looks over the papers. From five to seven o'clock in the evening is the ree- ognized “absinthe hour.” The absinthe 4s usually prepared by being poured into a glass with some sirup or lump sogar, into which water is allowed to fall drop by drop. The fashionable Frenchman is not likely to drink more than one glass before a meal, and that diluted, though French women are said to drink it pure, and in the poorer sec- tions of the city it is drunk before ‘@uring and after meals. In the better eafes itis sold at ten cents a drink, and in the slums it may he had for a penny Sgiass, The allowance of an absinthe drinker must be regularly increased in order to produce the desired and accus- tomed effect, and po sooner or later the boulevard absinthe sippers are almost eertain to become slaves of the liquor. ' On men who are far gone with its poison the “green terror” sometimes has eee eis Seat Iaire, for poet who trans- lated Poe into French, wrote poems to “The Green Spirit” and Poche itas his_mistress, He lit for Cte eo ‘and once in a fit of crazy enthusiasm actually painted his hair a vivid green So that it might correspond with the color of the poison to which he was a devotee, ‘Tortoni’s famous cafe was in the old Gaye the resort of a coterie of writers and artists who came there before the dinner hour to drink their absinthe. For many years the green liquor was drawn from the same old barrel, which was periodically filled with absinthe brought from Neufchatel. Among the Young men who were present every evening in the crowd was Theodore Barriere. He became a victim to the absinthe demon in its worst phases, and his disordered brain was filled for months with the weirdest and most ter- vifying dreams and visions. | Alfred de Musset, the poet, became such a devotee to the green terror that ‘he made no effort in his later years to stop its use. Regularly night after night he went to his cafe and sat there consuming glass after glass, until he was in such a condition that he was often picked up unconscious on the streets. During the Paris exposition, just over, there was an example of the mad freaks of an absinthe fiend, which for a moment startled thousands of people. President Loubet was driven in bis carriage to the exposition grounds, surrounded by cuirassiers, when a wild-eyed man broke from the crowd on the sidewalk, tore his way through the line of soldiers and threw himsel at the door of the president's carriage, All who looked on thought him an an. archist and were certain that he wa about to assassinate the president. In- stead, however, of making any hostile demonstration he simply tossed an en- velope into the carriage. It contained the photograph of his niece. He was Jaques Mara, a waiter, in one of the many phases of an absinthe drunkard Tt would be unpleasant reading te Getail the manner in which most of the devotees of the green terror come te their death. One of the early effects of absinthe is to practically destroy the power of the digestive organs. A little later it paralyzes the nerves and up sets tife mind. In the end it leaves nothing that can be said to resemble t man.—Chicago Tribune. DRINK QUESTION IN INDIA. Becoming ® Serious One According to Sundar Singh Bantia, et Phat Country. At the world’s temperance con- gress a paper on the sabove topic was read by Sundar Singh Bhatia, chair- man of the Zafarwal Temperance so- ciety. “The consumption of drink in India,” says the author, “is fearfully on the increase among all classes, and signs of general deterioration’ are becoming apparent every day.” He then takes a brief survey of the teaching of the various religions of that land, from which we cull the following: The intoxicants are prohibited bj the Koran, and dre therein described as “sins” and “acts of the devil.” A few words now as to custom ané tradition, which so long enforced the above precepts. Tradition has pre served a saying which shows the hor ror in which intoxicants used to be held, We are told: “The man whe even touches by his feet the broken pieces of an earthern wine-can throws seven of his paternal ancestors down the depths of hell.” To a Mohammedan—“Prohibited is the flesh of a goat which has par taken of grass grown where even 4 drop of liquor fell.” His prayer: would not be heard when drunk, Prompt exclusion from caste used to be the penalty for drinking. ‘The teachings did not confine them Selves to mere personal abstinence, ‘but the liquor traffic also came in for its share of evil repute and odium The Kalals, or the publican class, came to be regarded as a low and disreputable class in the community with whom eating and mixing were absolutely interdicted, It now remains only to add a few words as to the duty of religion. We must all appeal to the Almighty to open the eyes of our brethren whe are falling from their former posi tion, and especially the class which acted as the counsellor, guide and friend of the people in this land. But the people of England must also share the blame. As Dean Far. rar said: “The bottle has everywhere accompanied the Bible,” and has in India, at any rate, made this curse of mankind a popular and respectable companion, that which the Indian civ- ilization thought to be low and dis reputable. We acknowledge that they ‘are doing us good now and are grate: ful, but I appeal with confidence te the representatives of the cause in this congress assembled, to help us in stemming the tide ere it is too late. Will they not heed this appeal from a distant land, peopled with fel- low-subjects of the same crown—the poorest in the whole civilized world, yet with the millstone of drink round thelr neck? Famine is attracting at. tention, pestilence is evoking sym. pathy, and I trust this prayer for help against the common foe will not ‘wo ta vain. Is Alcohol a Muscle Fooat Prof. Bunge, of Switzerland, cite: Baer on Der Alkoholismus, Berlin 1878 (page 103): “Better than through all the laboratory experiments and de ductions is the demonstration of th: complete uselessness, indeed harmful ness, of even the most moderate doses ot alcohol, which demonstration has been made through ‘the thousandfold experiments by the commissarlat of the army and which have already estab- Ushed conclusively that soldiers in times of peace and in times of war, in all climates, in heat, cold and rain, endure best of all the fatiguing exer. tions of the most exhausting marches and maneuvers when they are deprived absolutely of all alcoholic drinks."— Union Signal, ‘@iliae. Sentien i Scott! Here comes Dibbs!” mind; keep right on talking. get the floor he won't stay.” iesed. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND VIRGINIA. 4 Th Reign of Lawlessness INSUBES LOVE AND A HAPPY HOME FOR ALL Bow any man may qulck’y cure nimsott a er oatn ot satiny Som nonean Isec'rfeahty ateat Boescr nant na neet tetargeumal' weak Sreeas ts 20h nse $2 ESS ‘2 ES Y= iF S low PR A ed. ied ot | gd \\ SS wn wes AE GN Sm {yece GTA eee ec a oo. — ads OF Gr oak oy re atet 3 Reece yi = retin: Se eee ie Loe pessoa Sa Si eee DBA sy Magee cx ce ae ik aaa bbe » Wigan sca =i Number of Persons Lyncked from January sth 1897, to January sth, 1898, : e we bao? aon Obarge. Place ‘ ——~ F. J. Baker, colored Possmaster. a0 charyr Lake Oity su Jan_ 7, Lincoln MeGeleey, colored Morder, Meude PO 0 — Devore, golored. essaule Pearken, Art _ = = a qarder {| Mershall Chadwick,“ suspected of murder, _ Colfax, Wass . Th, TT colored, suspected of stesiing a $2 ‘hog, Cleveland Co. Ar. Mareh 8, Will Jones, colored sriminal assault | Comorant, Mise Mareh 6, —— — poe ae Mississipp March 6. L. J Johnson, wnite murder, took Springs Wyormin | ty ee rm April2, Wm. Bell, colorea no crime Amive Oity, Ls. May 25 Elbert Harris, suspested of house burning Anderson, 8.0 “C33 Gasflela King’ ing + white officer Salisbury, Ma. “4.22 Joe Kiser and Gilmore Johnson, solored, assault Qharlotts, NO Jupe 2, Sam snd Curtis Young, solored, shooting officer. Clarkeville, Me “ 10 George Washington, eolered shooting Conatable Weimar, Tors. “18 John Becker. white. murder Great Bend, Kansar 17 Bol. Jackson, , colored “ ‘Wetumpke Aly Lewis Speir, ° colored murder Jesse Thompson, colored murder " ‘Camp Reese, colored murder * June 22 Charlie Washington, colored rape and robbery Dagton, ais Wim. Street, colored, attempted assault (burned at stake) Deriine Le june 22 —- Howlett, white murder Hilisville, Va June 14, brs. Jake Cebrose, eolored, nothing, Plano, Texas June 22, — Parks, 8 yrs old. colored, nothing, Batesville, 8. 6 July 11, Jobn Henry James, Oolored, Orizainal Assault, Wood's Or vasing, daly 12.—. ——_ Colored, Assault Gosling, al» July 14, JamesRedd volored. = Murder Monsioollo. “irk. sew li deat deesema tio’ = os a July 20, W.T. Patterson white murder Weatville. Mies. july 22, Jos: Williams, colored, Impadent to whive man, Sootland Nack, 3. August’7 Dan Oxg, ‘colored’ In white families room,” Paleatincs, Tex August 8 John Meaaows, colored Criminal Avsault, Oarimel.Ge August 9 Will Sanders, colored murder. O'arendoa, Ark. “9 Dennis Ricard, 2 - i “9 Manse Castle . “9 Rilla Weaver . “ & Susie Jacobs, 5 : “ L1Mullock Walker, Qolored, __Sand-bagging, _Uoanitn, Mies { 18, Alex Walker, Colored, “Trozblesome, Pleasant Hill, Ala “* pif Jamer Nealey, Colored, Wanted Drink Sode Water, Hampton, Ge Aug.20, —-——_ —_- Cotored, murder an" assault, Friendship Ge Aug. 21, Tom Miller, Colored, attempt assault." Quitman Ge Sept. 8" —————_olored Nothing North Texas. Sept. 11 Beny Jones, Whise — Laberty Mo, PNT gibert Andervon, Celored Stealing Sulligent Ala * og George Burden,’ "| Suspeated Criminal Aseauls, Grifiia Ga Sept. 12 Lee Pickett, White Criminal Assault, Patrick Uo, Va, Sept. 26. John Williams, colored, murder and assault, Mountain vity, Toon Get. §, Wright Binith. "Colored Attempted asssalt, ‘Annapolis, Md. Oct Kev. Jesse Shelton, Oolored, Nothing, Tstequena, Oouaty Muss Oot. 28, Fish Burke, Colored Detended Themselves Harperaville. Mine “ @" J.E. Gatewood, . fe a « ne wee gntomens ee “ . « “ 4 John Gatewood, |“ < - * “ 4 “ Hugh Anderson, = . = a S “ “WGartanion 4 “ “ . * is oe Boe Heeniocs “ “ “ « a i eee, ag “ . “ ‘ | Areh Baur, Attempted Murder, ” “ Oct. 23, John Anderson, Colored innocent Latayette, Als. Nov. 9, —— —— colored, Defended Themselves Phonix, §. 0. 1 Nov.1C, —-————__ eelored = No rime Wilmington, NO, 2 Nov, 22, Ed. Merriweather” Murder Monticello, Ga, December —— —— colored, injured a whiteman, Meridian, dies, December 6th, Jake Glover, eolored, fanosent, Bfonticallo, Ga, pcb ——— Colored ler CoB Dee. 24, Jef Bolton, ‘Bam Buraing New Haraony Grove Ga Jan. 8, ,Mermall MeGregos, Qolored Bas burning | Bank, Ale maton Colored Nothing ~~ Fort Gaines Ga Feb 12 Capid Redding Colored = Murcer Leesbarg Ga i. eee ot March 1+ Morris Christopher, evlored, Criminal Agsu.lt, Hope, Ark, March 18, William Cotton, Jr., colored, Arson, Palmetta, Ga”, « “" ‘Harrison Hudson, 4 = * “4 Ea’ Broen, “ “ +. ane ees “ “ “ ‘Jno, Jameson, (wounded )* . = George Tatum, tt x 22 General Duckett, eolored, Troublesome, Little Root Uo.. Ark +“ Edwin Goodwin, * . * “Adam King, = . * Joseph Joues, . 3 ae “ Benjamin Jones pes bd i) “Moses Jones, e c tf Joe King, 2 ‘ - «John Johnson, = : «4 Namesunknown, Be 1 S18 Kinor Wilson. eolored, Fired on white men, Sliver Uity, Miss., % * ©. 0. Reed, m a c “< _ «Willis Boyd, - x . April 6, Forest Samerson, Colored. = Murder Brookville Miss “+ «" Moge Anderson, * ” * “ Agsil 11, Rev Gilbert Ellison, — Nothin Waynesboro Ga April 18, A. H. Larue white ‘mardes Henderson Tenn April 38, Will White, white murder Clinton Ark April 23,Ssm Hose,’ Colored © Murderand Assauls © Newnsa, Ge, Cl 28 Rey. Lige Strickland * Innocent Palmetto, Ga, “ 24, albert Sewell“ Talked too much co April 8, Forest Jobnson, —_eolored Murder, Brookville, Mixa “* "Moses Anderson, 3 « April 28, Charles Williams alias Jones, Colored Murder, Galena, Kan, April 27'M’tehell Daniel = ‘talked too much, Leesburg, Ga., April {si Bees, . Baro-burning, Oseeols, Ark, May, > | ibbies, . ‘Trespass, Lebanon, Tenn, May 24,\ amphrice, white, shelter’g a murderer, Aley, Henderson Uo., Tex eee i“ . " a Beet te April 27, itchell Daniel Oolored Talked,too Mach, Leesburg, Ga. Jane 14, .sw. Patrick, i aurder, Beaufort, N.0. Tune,327, dik is ,” Detended a colored man, —Oardiff, Ala. “ "J m Dill, 5 = = Adsm Samuels i My *; i ill Bill, Brother tos murderer, MeCulley’s Mil Jane 6, Will Bil,” Brother tos marderer, MoCulley’s Mill, L. W KNAPP.M D gor. |Hmply send your name and address Se, oh. WRuapp, 1a Hull Bigg, Deeroie ‘mich * and ihe will lady sund the’ free re? selpt with full “ireetion® s0 that any man may easily cure himself at home. This is cet Fainly @ most gencrous omferand the follow: ing extracts taken from iis dally tall show What men think of his generosity. bear sit—Piease accept iy sincere thanks for yeurs of recent date. 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Train No, 16, 9:0 P. x. } oc 1 Exp eas Mon Wednes & Fridays, to nice Sp ae Men tine Arar Saat Reema err wan't Siemens eee ft alee ues | nia te 1.4% a of aerpnerea p scam ares au, tape tena Sep cies he hae fee re Rage at Lestor mancr for Walkerton and Tap. eee TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND. a ayo Ve ue ee Bsr balla peat, Tom Bene ain snaaeatare ESE S, ee MES oom won Ht Bear fear nent ane dy Cay eaeanaer Net Bape rag aunt as tate natin aaa barat Grates, ote? O. W. WESTBURY, ‘Travelling Passenger gens, sme mui) Mace va Exgret Sn BIsETEhhseen each, FRANK 8. GANNON. pugiviee user rps 020 nora manage VIRGINIA NAVIGATION couraN's Jase u1Vm axa Zo Nal, Petenont, 1 et py Sieaeeath ag a Rozen Weoiiree su caeieesnng ig STRAMER Pooauontas Laaves MoxDAY, Wap vena ate file haat pe faa $udNowsor News. iaioty's pring rcbee "Etienne tay tom ater peace on eras . IRVIN WE:SIGER ‘EDWARD EK. BARNET -—— Put onwhite, gil, Bi Wit.on, “| Attempted Assault -ibsor wom * W Gaambers, ‘* Qrimins) Assault, Bell sa-k P ‘ W MeClare, “Attempted Assault, “ 16 Charie.ssrt, is - or “20, Preer Jon and «“ Ab year old Soa. white, Shooting aman, Wetumpka Aug 16, Charlie Hart, colod criminal ssrault” Brantley, A Aug 18, ‘Tom Keivh, colored. enteed lady's svom drunk, Neur drecae Aug. 20, Rev 1. J. Floyd, colored, wanted to -ark, Jat revit. Ill Sw Pete et ae s “ Boghes Bradley “tt i - a Branom 3 $ x e a << lgleeleven. ese a) * Joho Bleck, es ee « re a pe Samet, oe, 3 e 74 = ug. 28, —- —— white. evoke against lynohin ~ jetown. Ga, Sept 12 Rev HB. Batile coli, spoke sganet (76SMeon Nesr Phompaon, Ga Sept. 27, SerorSanches, Cubsn, — novhin: Havana, Cubs. Ocigher 11 Judge Parit Le Place ' white. | az-wotting Nest’ New Orleans “18, Joe Lettiore C:lored. Arson aod It, Burned, St Ann Mise “ 18 Robert -mith. Col. Innocent, Pann Roasted not dead * 20, George Welle Colcred, urder. “Wier City Kan Tore Be eee neces cae <r 64 Evan ae PAR ee ee + ee N& Bah. ae ia . Se Be Fy “ PR AR. eased Peri, esse CEO SS po Se? oi Ba = ae Bae ep ee Southern Railway SCHEDULr (NEFFECT Ocr. 21, 1900. Trains Leaves Richmond, Va. 11.00 Fm. roa? gt ETT 224. 1 "Atlante wvptrte choos ue ere potaia aiath, Sperhem 3- daceilies Greensboro. ‘sxliabury. site-Char Otte. Slceesr oven az nich om Stops ir passeagers 5° Neal stations. ‘Congecte at Dany me ave, Coarionte with New York and'r'orida texsrees (Rosh chereitig Grp” aienpere ‘be Gwen New York an@'Vampa. wth oe eetions for ail Fhe! ta. pointe, also Connects St Dapvine, Charlotte wits the Washington aa Southwestern Tiss Mtea (Ko Ts oxn-ving through sleepers getn New. Yorn and Neanviite "Rew York aid vrmatiis aud new Yor) and New Orinans” alto. Pullman Tourm Aleeper Mon” avs, Wodnesdayaand Fet Gaye, Wastsanion 20 Sa ramcasco wiiboat changes eith conacetions: tor Ai'peints in Texas, Mexio® and Celt fornia iL Fae No. 7 goltd rath datiy wor Chas Totte, N-G: Connects at Moseley with Earniviile and Cowhmtan railroad at Keyaville for Clarkeville, Oxfords ten gereon and Duras nnd at Grecnsbore for’ Durham, Raleigh. sna Winston Stem at Daavitie wish so 83 Catiee ‘States Wast all, solid train, “dat y tor Hew Orleans and potuts South” water Siiiesalespers New York to ew Gr fensana New York to Jacksonviite ‘And Miamt for Nainso a Habsan, Cuba Beaute Eom uugee-sleeper Bick mons miogliain shFough At iEnrotgh tain sleeper Sansoury. tc Tough tain sleeper Sansvury, Mem yhia via of ashevineand Chatte: Reowe tan PME LOCAL» dally except Sunday ior Kovavilie aud tovermediate poet TRAINS ARRIVE AT RIGHMOND. 6:00 a. x. : S307. M., from Atlanta Auguste, Ashevitie ‘sid all points Saath. Aor, di, frow 'Keynvilie smd local stations. Vocay taktewt rate, os, G1 and Gu: betwrou Mauchoter aad Ne apolis. Va. RIGH MOND, Fueoericx muro & Poromac RB, Schedule jir Ffeet Nov 25, 1800 LEAVE 8YRO QT. 4raTION. #104. Mn Pally, for Washiagion an: Fess Novia, iopa urged Peat tng 28a ques rotate tage kent a0 A ats pi gE, Monday, for Shecia composed ane ios" erate” somone ent rey 2 hag hou | a0 a ae “AS oly, tar Wangs je Glen seu, Ashisha Tay Sedie pian, Arians cig ass Rata sain gee ne seat, rome Sees ee hacer es ety, aera uadas 2 bes ne ca Bei sent thn fe Sostlestas, tat cite re floes ah en Olan allen: Aa ieee coe rn ee Mdina tna ote vot Hoge eg ibe Shae alla ES, joiner! Sess, OR foo =—= 9 Poa ates renin es 18 Pe Mos Sites horte rope iat, Riba satin Sele ince Bee outa, Dene aiuess eres sea Stuer apace oud to wee’ Yors? wisese: nae ae Sehsrs Hcaste Ansive Brup-Steeet Station, or Bal gpa! Oh ibe vite Fe we Pcie, Wredetial ea aa Rebarctn eer = SES SS eG ae Ba ena Sunday. stops a Oe Ee elatababere MitGrd Boe ‘Well, Ashisnd, G en Allen as sone eee Dag age ty onc sede lee rl eee ae 8.0 P. a. Dally. Stops er 0 F. aD SERS wiawwases Brook. Brederickayeiae™ster: so Pt ate ate wal: easier Slee, Go Blew aliea, tnd'Sina hors nob e, Sae ee : Soret Sanday tha kon HOt stop at Eibas Ps SB4 does AvoomMoDaTIoN Trams, (Daily except Sunday dia terpstene ke Gace: EAE Pe dant, LSE nine ts satin, SBE Be tee stor asmtans. BREE oie ie tomatoe Fie ta si tee Rac, TTS Leciaas Sal. Chrough Trains, Via 8. A.L. Junetion and &. Fé Railroad, LEAVE BROAD STREET STATION (.&0) $00 (ag Debs, tats meee Dalle et, Wemtineron, sue Senubae lied ope ares gto to. New York . ast at ib By AES PE sttag he eg > Fredersoasinte ana S2tauSs PUISEERIOE AS Seeettee ARRIVE BROADSCREET STATION (0. &0.) TAM Bias ute sein Bla oa py Ereroe Sie saa, Beers soa Psa DEE Sea NO EE Teed npeasi preg outs Besrch Suptiatt res mace wien dioe ena gine oor ELT D. Myers, Preatdca, nee JANTED WEEKLY—100 cooks YY Housomaids and Waitresses for New York and other Northern Cities, yates from $8.00 to, $5.00 per ‘week. Transportation faraished, also ‘60 farm hands for Maryland, B. W, Evsom, tt 417 B. Broad St, | 206 N. 2ad Street. Hair Cutting, Shaving and Shampoo. ae First Clase Birfe. Tonsorall jartments now open to receive Gate ae: te 8 , LD DOMINION STEAMSHIP CO Datus tue yon any fous, axcart roxas PARSE Ton em gee saearyrornas Minny in Gaesapenks snd Caen greene ORM. “or Richmond and: Beteri Gay i teva. Gril ned Wess, fone" A Soresstine et Morel enya tA Eas eater egg same aise eh saiece ter Notas Bataan soles Rienmood Syanith! Om. paps unt nun Sb” Gases Sy Oh55 ratiway ahd Richmond and areterg far sfond Uesean aaaeteome coe, ane Stet Main Sheet, Wieumena Sazsaa ieee jonas for Rew York and all peltte veyond can be StipneTog sehen spaces, pazont, cna b Sepoaaee's gn Coe eat aVan tao ehe Teese iia ae Ngptereesalt nites Clotel the hour before saling te cranes ice eia sat ae Saeed ate ated tor Siveosaes, ate sedis ae page at ete tS PW ieaandase Paty te Rote ae Oa Fetal Comfort aancone ‘idk Meat Ook Waors® naiibel or eatctoen rs a gee Freigh. tor Richmond by steamer via" Nee toby Monaigs Sed Wenaeeasoe Bas £0, BSE _aslites, Gsm compiay’s saar.tte 3 mectn iver toot of Beach Sires, Freight ‘ceive SaBlorwanied Sully ensete TEMES. ‘Wor further information apply to TOWN Ma ER agente, ashe ttiag kod, ve oi, Conaeamaletes —_—_—_—_—_— Ss “ A a bees SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY): ‘The Favorite Route South, Schedule in Effect June 3rd, 1900, Teaves Chesapeake and Ohio Broad Street Station, 7.90.4 M. Pauly, except tor Peters. ” Aas, Heed Woa barnar eg at inal. andall points South and Soate wont, 238 P.M “Florida Mall and Bxpreas” for Petersburg. Hen terest, Laelgh vew, Camden, Columbis, Savanna. Jacks nvileTamps, Fercandina, and all Fiona polawe M. “PLOBIDA LIMITED.” aatt OM Poleraburge Hemderion aoe i mingioa. piariowe. Chetan Athen, ANSI Montgomery, Mobiie: stow Ore feats. points “Sourm aan Soatmwece Gheraws Gamay: Columvia, Saves eee Jacksonville Tampa, reraaadias,jeae ai Fonda ponds, ‘Trains arrive fry.9 oath at Qaraa-a Oaty toe te as ea $40 PM “da \aiso, 9 PM asity Sthaar or Mekots, cheating bage agi Sreapiaz 0 recervation, sta; appiy tsa wagoued Line Sitwaj iss SM Baa Mun ote ke mond ‘Treuster Gompeny, db East Nixie Fetlerou Hotel, aa ae apy tists tra HM. BOYKIN Gaoeeal Age. ‘38 RactMain Se —___ =e t Chesapeake and ® # Ohio Railway. ROUTE. Schedule in Effect January 5, 1900, From. Richmond. LEAVE BROAD-STREET STATION, #008, m., day forprinclpal stations & “Wee Ors Raia Role tae BoP mouth. Parlor ear. B40 pm datiy’ local for Newoort News, Bit "point Mortoiee” ana Porteous Fullman t> Old Pett. 1000/0 my eaeept Saaday.” Lecat Tratus tor Giitton Forge. Cen sece'y at Gondose: JUS Rroraage Warrenton: Masavtes Branch ant Wamntogion ty) Uoatects at Charottesvitie for Lracnbarg: et Baste for Hugerstom andiat Stauaea for Texingtonst 246 pms Dail} Limited, to Cincianats, Eotteville, and St Losia. Baan sleeping cara. Connect at r-dousvitis for Oratge andat Ora ago with Soumens Hy, train, leaving’ Orangoat Ga Eat Ging or inatdontbe weed Oronge ant Washinton. Grnnceds for Virgie ot Springas Local Praia Not, follows No sguoepesuaday, fem Gordousrilie te $20 B Sane commodation, except Sunday to mi. Dally, FB. 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DPOD. ee test of time ana mover tails 10 give t satisfaction. It renders tho hair soft, Dina and glossy and maxes 1 grow Soi! over 40 years and used & *hnusands “Wane ranted harniless, ¢ fos: ‘on request. Orly 50 cents. Soid by deat ersor send us $1-40 Postal or Express Money Order for thre bottles. express paid. Write your name ~ address plainiy te OZONIZED »® MARROW CO., 76 Webash Ave., Chicago, Tit epee Home Made Bread, Cakes and Pies For Sale, {Also Accommodations For’ Exeur ‘sioniats aud Visitors to the City. MES JACKSON 910 BtJantoaS}, THE Richmond, Va., Times, thanks to its editorial articles of January 29th and 30th, 1901, has set the pace or rather provided the rule by which we may determine when a Negro is a gentleman and when he is only a sensible Negro. According to its reasoning, when a Democratic Negro is dead, he becomes a Virginia gentleman and when he is alive, he is a sensible Negro. In speaking of Mr. WALKER HOWARD (colored) it says: "The death of Walker Howard (colored), for many years junior of the state Capitol, is a public loss. He knew the history of every article of interest in the histori old building, and it was his pride as well as his pleasure to describe them in his own inimitable way to visitors, and generally to exploit the glories of the commonwealth. He was romancee as well as historian and sometimes he made statements which could not be found in the records. But whether in his narratives he drew from the pages of history or from his own imagination, it was all for the glory of old Virginia. A wakening ard was a good citizen, a true patriot, Democrat, an old fashioned Virginia gentleman. In life he enjoyed the respect and good will of his yellow citizens, and in death he is genuinely lamented." So much for that. We can testify to the worth of this colored man of the old school. He was a type of the ante-bellum Negro, who even now excises so much influence upon the ex-slave owners and are virtually the pets of the aristocracy of other days. But Mr.JOhn E.Eppeid did not except Mr. Howard from the operations of the "Jim Crow" Car Bill. He classed him with all of the other Negroes, and placed the same restrictions upon the offspring of WALKER Howard that he did upon the sorrist Negro jail-bird who appears from time to time in Justice CRUTCHHIRD's Court. Moreover, the TIMES has been advoicing the disfranchisement of this "old Virginia gentleness." It has urged the charging of the Constitution of Virginia, the obliteration of the Bill of Rights, and the relegating of this man and his children to a condition of slavery as galling to a free man as slavery itself. But, WALKER HOWARD is dead, and like "the only good Indian is a dead Indian," so is he when silent forever—an "old Virginia gentleman." The compliment denied him when he lived is tendered him wher he is dead. But, enough about Mr. Howard. Now as to the sensible Negro: He is a live citizen of color and I has not, according to the rule laid down by the Times, reached that stage of greatness, namely: death, where he, too, can be called an old Massachusetts gentleman. But what does the Times say? It announces that this sensible Negro, WILLIAM H. THOMAS, with whom it agrees then disagrees has written a book on, "The American Negro." It says: "He is said to be a man of intelligence and culture, and his book is referred b those who have read it in complimentary term." Mark you, WALKER HOWARD, the uneducated Negro is a gentlemen and WILLIAM H. THOMAS, the educated Negro is a man. "He does not care for the political rights of his race as long as they are unable to make any intelligent use of them. 'We may easily admit' he writes, 'that it was a caricature on manhood suffrage to invest with civic functions ignorant beings clothed in patches, sleeping in hovels and scarce by one remove in intelligence from their inseparable animal companions of plantation life.'" This is argument against our form of government as much so as it is against the Negro. WASHINGTON and the signers of the Declaration of Independence contended against England for the very rights and privileges which Mr. THOMAS and the TIMES denounce. There were thousand of ignorant, illiterate white people in the Continental Army, who were clothed in patches and who slept in hovels and scarcely one remove in intelligence from their inseparable animal companions of plantation life. The British Generals and the members of Parliament did not fail to say so either. But who could have dared to declare that it was a caricature on manhood suffrage to have invested them with civil rights. Moreover, no intelligent Negro has demanded other than that racial discriminations shall not be exercised. If the ignorant white man is to be barred from the exercise of manhood suffrage, along with the ignorant black man, there will be no protest from this quarter. But show us a southern state that will do this. They disfranchise the intelligent Negro and admit the ignorant white man to all of the rights of suffrage, and the Times backs them up in this policy. If Mr. THOMAS wants his suffrage taken from him, what is he doing in Massachusetts? Why is he not in God forsaken in Louisiana and Mississippi and South Carolina where the Negro gets patches on his dues by supplicating God so often for the amelioration of his condition? No, our position is that any man who is good enough to fight for a government is good enough to enjoy all of the rights and privileges that its constitution can confer. When the national and state government exempts the Negro from taxation and the liability to military seri- 4 THE PLANET Published every Saturday by John Mitch ell, Jr., at 311 North 4th Street. JOHN MITOHEIL JR. EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be so as to reach us by email. TERMS IN ADVANCE ADVERTISING RATES for one inch, one insertion . . . 9 for one inch each subsequent insertion . . . 12 for two inches on the months . . . 4 0 for two inches, six months . . . 10 0 for two inches, nine months . . . 14 0 for two inches, nineteen months . . . 20 0 (arrangement a 7 funeral months . . . 20 (arrangement a 7 transient notices per line . . . 1 POSTAGE STAMPS OF A I NOMINATION HIGHER THAN TWO CENTS NOT RECEIVED IN SUBSCRIPT . NS. THE TEMPORARY is issued weekly. The subscrip- tion price $1.50 a year, in advance. COMMUNICATION — When writing to to renew your subscription or to discontinu your subscription you should give your name an address to. If otherwise we cannot find you on our books. GRANER OF ADDRESS — In order to change the address of a subscriber we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered in the Post-Office at Richmond, Va. a second class matter. SATURDAY, FEB. 2, 1901 JUDGE W. B. COUNCIL of Wautauga County, North Carolina, ordered the sheriff to buy a new set of Bibles, one for the white and the other for the colored people. He announced that he would not permit white people to kiss the same book the colored people used. Thank God judges of his stripe are rapidly disappearing and white men more liberal are coming to the front. When he takes an oath to recognize the civil and political equality of all men before the law, which necessarily implies a duty to ignore the color of a man's skin and then he proceeds to violate that oath, it is of little moment whether he swears by a new Bible or an old one. It's perjury just the same. HOW THEY AGTED. The Democratic caucus of the legislature of Virginia which was in session on Monday night last for the purpose of electing a Judge of the Supreme Court of Virginia is thus described: "Chaos and confusion. Howls and yells. Protests and hurrahs. Exegetation, clamorings, and exultation. Parliamentary tactics and masculine determination; seven fruitless ballots and a grand break-up, with nothing done. That was the finale of the judge-ship caucus last night, and no man knoweth the end of the chapter. "The much discussed meeting of Friday is as naught to the dramatic scenes of yesterday. The former pales into monotonous insignificance when brought into contrast with the hurricane of excitement which swept over the great gathering that convened at 8 p.m. m. last night. To describe the final moments of the remarkable contest would be to straighten out a tangled skein which was bewildering in the extreme. "Soilice it to say that there was a deadlock a deadly deadlock—a deadlock with the direst, dreadful sort, which left me puzzling and perspiring, yet persistent in the. It was beautiful-reportorially speaking—but it was not business. It was delightful—if loyal friendship counts for aught—but it was not the thing for which the people sent the legislators to Richmond. In short, it was time thrown away. Not until Thursday night will the tension be relieved, and even then there may be further complications." These gentlemen represent as they say the intelligence of Virginia, and they are here, it is said, for the purpose of setting a time, and arranging the manner and method for the holding of a constitutional convention for the purpose of disfranchising the colored citizen. We ask in all reason whether or not their actions comport with the dignity of the occasion, and whether or not some steps should not be taken to enquire whether or not they are qualified to elect a Judge of a Supreme Court and to pass upon the right of any citizen to exercise the elective franchise. Sud times have come to the commonwealth, if these gentlemen constitute the cream of the yeomanry of Virginia. TWO KINDS OF NEGROES It says: This is discrimination in favor of illiteracy with a vengeance. It remarks: THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA vice, then it will be time enough for it to exempt him from the right to vote at the polls. The Times says: "To bring this about he [Thomas] would have Republican Administration in Washington distribute the offices among the leading whites of the different localities, selecting those who are naturally in sympathy with Republican sentiments, but debarred from expressing them by reason of their fear of Negro domination. With these for leaders and a steady propaganda for the extension of knowledge and pure religion among his fellow blacks, the author believes that the most serious problem in American government may be slowly and peacefully solved." The above should fix Mr. Thomas' status as a political economist or a student of ethics. He left the domain of principle to tread in the valley of petty politics. Hod. GROVER CLEVELAND adopted this policy of appointments in the south and the so-called race question was as prominent a factor in public affairs as ever before. This policy is in vogue now in every state south of the Mason and Dixon line, with the possible exception of WEST VIRGINIA. But the TIMES shows that Mr. THOMAS argues not only in favor of his own slavery, but that of his people when it says: "We have never seen a stronger argument from any source for the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment. It was this stupid blunder that got the Negro into trouble and caused the "outrages and miseries of reconstitution," and as the author of this book says, the Negro was not directly responsible." It then unloads this sensible Negro by virtually saying he is wrong. It concludes: "But the remedy which he suggests would not be effective. The only way to build up a respectable Republican party in the south is to eliminate, for a time at least, the Negro vote. This, in our opinion, would be the greatest possible boon to the black man. His right to vote has done him no good, he only harm, and he would have been far better off all these years without it." The argument of Mr. Thomas and these white southerners against the Negro is the same logic used by G. E. Britain towards its American colonists. Nay more, it is the same advance against the Boers and by the American authorities against the inhabitants of the Philippines. When we get to that point that we argue in favor of depriving ourselves of rights and privileges and the debasement of the American citizenship which has been conferred, we shall expeet some kind friend to cage us and put us in some zoological park where we shall hope to keep company with the Times' editor and the sensible Negro, Thomas, who had gone on before. INTERESTING FACTS The corner stone of the white house was laid on October 13, 1792. Medieval knights often took a voluntary oath that they would never spare the life of an enemy. North Carolinians are "Tuckoes," from an Indian word meaning bread; and "Tarheels," from a leading industry. The pension office, "where the inauguration balls are held," was completed in 1888. It is entirely of brick and terra cotta and is the only department building so constructed. With a population of 75,000 in 1860 Washington was still a sprawling, unkempt, unpaved and dirty city. A canal ran past the foot of the capitol building, but it has been covered. It was not until 1871, under Gov. Alexander R. Shepherd, that Washington began to be a beautiful city. Experiments are being made to discover if aluminium may not be used in the manufacture of high-class wind instruments. If this could be done it is thought it would be very desirable, on account of its light weight and its freedom from verdigris deposits, and as it is not easily affected by changes of temperature the instruments would be less likely to get out of tune. It has long been a matter of note that American race horses do not show such speed in England as they have already shown themselves capable of in this country. The theory is now advanced that the trouble lies with the diet rather than with the climate. Accordingly a California horseman who is shipping a string of horses to England will also ship 100 tons of American hay and put the theory to the test FOOD NOTES. Russia drinks about $88,000,000 worth of tea every year. California sends $1,000,000 worth of canned fruits to Germany a year. Rice has a finer flavor if washed in hot water, instead of cold, before cooking. Green bananas sliced very thin and fried like Saratoga chips are a favorite Cuban dish. It takes 172 pounds of the first streams of milk to make a pound of butter, and only 12 of the last streams. Ireland sends annually 44,000 tons of eggs—some 640,000,000 in round numbers—to England alone. Michigan now leads the world in the production of beans. New York state long held first place. If stored seed potatoes begin to sprout smoke them with sulphur. They will not only keep better, but will sprout quicker when planted. If rice is not disturbed during the process of boiling the berries will be whole, dry and easily digested. A few drops of lemon juice added to the water will make it whiter and finer flavored. A. Tactful Milliner "I wish to see a bonnet," said Miss Passee, aged 40. "For yourself, miss?" inquired the French milliner. "Yes." "Marie, run downstairs and get me hats for ladies between 18 and 25." Bonnet sold.—London Tit-Bits. OPPOSING BIG SALARIES. Mine Leader Mitchell Satisfied With His Compensation. VICE PRESIDENT LEWIS, TOO. The Leading Officers of the United Mine Workers. By Their Arguments. Defended an Amendment Increasing Their Incomes. Indianapolis, Jan. 30.—The constitutional amendment presented to the convention of the United Mine Workers of America at the afternoon session yesterday providing an increase in the salaries of the national officers provoked a long argument and resulted in the salaries remaining as they were last year. Members of the committee on constitution recommend the adoption of the amendment, and after a long debate President: Mitchell said: "Gentlemen, I am not here for the purpose of making any grand stand plays. I work for the miners because you pay me, and because I like to work for you, but I am free to say that if you did not pay me I would not work. The salary paid me is very fair, and if I thought the organization did not pay me as much as I deserved I would quit. I would strike. By all means do not let the advancement of any individual rise above the interests of the United Mine Workers. If you think the raising of my salary will deprive any man, woman or child of what is due them, then for God's sake do not raise it." Vice President Lewis, who would have received a liberal increase under the proposed amendment, said: "If I did not think I was getting a fair salary I would strike, too. Personally I think an increase in the salaries of the national officers at this time would work an injury to the organization. There are people in the unorganized districts who are always looking for an opportunity to injure the mine workers' union, and the argument is advanced that the officers are getting bigger salaries than the man can make in the mines. There are people working in the mines of the country today who, unfortunately, we cannot drive out when we want to enforce a demand. For the reason that the order might be injured by a salary raise at this time I am opposed to the measure." The power to order a general strike or suspension of labor in the mines was yesterday taken out of the hands of the national officers, who have heretofore had absolute control in this particular. An amendment to the constitution make it necessary to call together the district presidents to take action upon general strikes. A Chinese Administrator New York, Jan. 30.—Lee Gong Yee was yesterday appointed the administrator of the estate of Ling Shee Foo by Surrogate Fitzgerald. He was the first Chinaman who has held such an appointment under the laws of this state. Ling Shee Foo had been in business in this city as a laundryman. Early in 1899 he left here for a visit to China, and died at Hong Kong on July 15, 1899. His business in this city had been conducted by friends, among them being one Ling Poy, a cousin. This cousin wanted to take charge of the estate, but Lee Gong Yee intervened, asserting that he was a creditor of the deceased. Meanwhile William M. Hoes, the public administrator, had been in charge of the estate of the dead laundryman. Mrs. Snell's Will Stands Chicago, Jan. 30.—Mrs. Henrietta Snell's will stands. The jury last night agreed upon a verdict rejecting the claim of Mrs. Mary Snell Stone to a share in the estate. By its verdict the jury holds that Mrs. Snell was sane when she made the instrument leaving $800,000 to her grandchildren, and that Mrs. Stone's claim to be her child was not proved. In his life Amos J. Snell, the murdered millionaire, recognized Mary Snell Stone, the wife of A. J. Stone, as his daughter, and he left to her a proportional share of his estate. The first knowledge that the public had that his favorite child was not the daughter of Henrietta Snell came with the filing of the will of the widow a year ago. Increased Wages For Railroaders. Wilkesbarre, Jan. 30. - In answer to the demands of the Federated Board of Central Railroad of New Jersey employees the company has granted some of the train hands an increase in wages. Freight and coal conductors will work ten hours for a day, and will be paid 28 cents an hour. The passenger conductors will be paid $2.55 a day, 12 hours to constitute a day's work. The average daily increase in wages is about 20 cents a day. It is expected that a new wage scale for the engineers, firemen, brakemen and telegraphers will be agreed upon by Feb. 1. They will receive about the same increase as the conductors. The Gold Standard Measure. Washington, Jan. 30.—The report of Representative Overstreet, of Indiana, upon the bill which he was authorized by the banking committee to report to the house "to maintain the parity of the money of the United Stat.," was presented to the house yesterday. The report declares that the bill "reaffirms the declaration of the United States government to maintain the parity of all form of money with the gold standard of value, and makes provision whereby the parity of the silver dollars may be maintained by exchange for gold at the treasury upon the demand of the holder." Threatened Strike Averted Youngstown, O., Jan. 30.—The threatened strike of the furnace men in the Mahoning valley probably will be averted. The employees of the Struthers Furnace company yesterday accepted a reduction of ten cents a day to fillers and helpers, making the wages $1.80 per day. The wages of laborers will not be reduced. Notices have pointed the operators announcing a reduction from $1.65, taking effect Feb. 1. It is believed the employees at the other furnaces will compromise on the terms accepted by the Struthers employees. GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS Lexington, Va., Jan. 25.—A dealer in skins of wild animals here has had a fair season since the winter set in, in spite of the mild weather. He has shipped north 336 skunk skins, 257 rabbit, 209 coon, 148 oppusum, 54 muskrat, 35 gray fox, 13 red fox, 12 mink, 4 bear, 4 wild cat, 4 civit cat, 1 deer, all killed or trapped in surrounding country. Jackson, Miss., Jan. 30.—In the cir- cur court here yesterday Contractor Gibson, of Indiana, on trial for an alleged attempt to bribe Governor Longino in the awarding of capitol contracts, withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty. By agreement with the osecution he accepted a fine of $1,000 and costs, and the court set aside the forfeiture of the $5,000 bond. Minden, La., Jan. 25.—At Doylins, a station on the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific railroad, about ten miles from here, a young negro named Larkin attempted assault on the wife of a young farmer named Eldon Walker. He became frightened and ran away before accomplishing his purpose and while being brought to the Minden jail was overtaken and shot 10 pieces by a crowd of men. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 26.—A headend collision between two freight trains on the Midland railway yesterday caused the death of Engineer E. O. Adams, on the west bound train, Philip Morris, negro fireman, and a brakeman, name unknown. The scene of the accident was Dimick Junction. Both engines and 28 cars went through the bridge and several spans of the bridge, with a few cars, were burned. Dade City, Fla., Jan. 29.—News reaches here that a riot broke out at a negro dance at Rice and Phelps turpentine camp, near here, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, and that Dan Childers, a white man, was killed, and another white man, named McNell, fatally wounded. Three negroes, two men and one man, were also shot and seriously wounded. The white men, it is stated, were only looking on and did no shooting. McNell cannot recover. The two negroes, Will Roberts and Will Wright, who it is alleged did most of the shooting, have escaped. Richmond, Va., an. 26.—After an interesting discussion the house today refused to agree to the Glass senate resolution practically prohibiting general legislation at this session. As a compromise measure the house by an overwhelming majority adopted a resolution which simply provides that precedence in legislation shall be given all matters having reference to the constitutional convention. The vote by which this proposition was carried shows plainly that the house is opposed to any ironclad rules prohibiting general legislation. Jackson, Ky., Jan. 28.—In a bloody battle with moonshiners on Elkhorn creek, on the Letcher and Pike county line, United States Marshal Tom Holifield and Posseman Simon Combs were killed and Blaire Combs was captured by the moonshiners. Rufus Wootan and Ambroly Amburgy, other members of the posse, who also and wounded. Full details of the battle were not obtained. Holifield had been a terror to moonshiners and was one of the bravest men in the service. In a battle with moonshiners several years ago three of his posse were killed, he being the only one to escape. Winchester, Va., Jan. 26.—The Morgan Memorial Association, which was organized in this city some months ago and which has for its object the erection of a suitable a.d fitting monument over the grave of Gen. Daniel Morgan, the "Hero of Cowpens," in Mount Hebron Cemetery, is actively at work. From the assurances of various congressmen and others of influence the project will be successful, and the association will leave nothing undone to secure the early erection of the proposed monument. The present neglected condition of the grave of the revolutionary hero is a standing disgrace to congress. Fayetteville, W. Va., Jan. 25—Neely Harris, mayor of Vallupon, was found guilty of robbery, the minimum penalty for which is five years in the penitentiary. He is charged with forgetting to turn over fines to the mayor. Solomon Irish, a peddler, was taken before the mayor on a charge of selling without a license. The mayor held his court in a saloon. Irish charged that the mayor and marshal bound him hand and foot and left him face up in the broiling hot sun till his fine was paid. Later his brother, Jacob Irish, was similarly treated, except that molasses was placed on his face to make the files and ants bite him. He says he suffered terribly till he paid his fine. Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 25. —The startling discovery was made today that grave robbers have been at work in this vicinity. On Christmas day Mrs. Nettie Tracy, a young woman, was buried in the Tracewell cemetery, on the south side. On her clothing was fastened to jeweled brooch and on her fingers were two rings—one plain and an opal setting. This morning it was found that the grave had been opened, the glass in the coffin smashed, the grave hooks torn and the jewelry taken from the dead body. The grave had been left open, the snow had drifted in on the face of the body in the grave. The police have been notified of the discovery, but there is no clew on which to work to discover the robbers. Bristol, Va., Jan. 25—News of a sensational shooting comes from Moab, Washington county, Va. A band of thieves that has been a terror of that community attacked the home of W. J. Kendrick, a well to do farmer, whom they had previously sought to entice from his home. Two of them for the purpose of robbery. Two members of the family faced the band with Winchester and a lively battle ensued in the dark, the maudraiders finally dishearing. Search revealed that one of the band had been shot through the head. His hat, a piece of skull bone and a blood spot marked the scene, but the victim's companions had carried him away. They were traced by the blood to the Holston river, and the supposition is that the body was buried beneath the water. A man from the nearby knobs is missing. The Galveston Relief Fund Austin, Tex., Jan. 30.—Governor Sayers sent a message to the Texas legislature yesterday making a report of the fund subscribed to the relief of the Galveston and gulf coast flood sufferers last September. The report states that $978,414 was received by the governor and funds received at Galveston, Houston and other places increased the amount to $1,988,414. Every nation in the world contributed in some manner to the funds. Canadian Kidnappers Sentenced. Berlin, Ont., Jan. 30.—The men who kidnapped the daughter of Mrs. Abel on Jan. 11 were before Judge Chisholm yesterday for sentence. William A. Kidnapp was principal in the transaction, was sentenced to seven years in Kingston penitentiary; Nonscher, who took the child to Elgin, Ill., six months in the Central prison, and Klinberger, who drove the latter to Galt, three months in Berlin toll. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Thursday, Jan. 24. It is reported that Gen. Ludlow will soon be sent to the Philippines. The war revenue reduction bill, agreed upon by the senate committee, cuts off $40,000,000 taxes. Judge James P. Sterrett, former chief justice of Pennsylvania'ssupreme court, died in Philadelphia, aged 78. Gen. John P. Shanks, who served in congress from Indiana for two terms, died at Portland, Ind., aged 74. Col. Morris R. Hamilton, state librarian of New Jersey from 1884 to 1899, died yesterday in Trenton, aged 80. Friday, Jan. 25 A resolution was introduced in congress to investigate hazing at the Annapolis naval academy. Chairman Cannon, of the house appropriations committee, says the new navy will cost $30,000,000. Julian T. B. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold, was sentenced in London to ten years' penal servitude for misappropriating trust funds. Governor Dockery, of Missouri, sent a message to the legislature advocating a law inflicting the death penalty in cases of kidnapping for ransom. A Trondhjem, Norway, dispatch says that 35 persons perished in a hurricane at Herro, Jan. 22. Six boats were wank in the harbor and eight houses blown away. The bondsmen of City Clerk Miller, of Sandusky, O., who has been found many thousands short in his accounts, have agreed to settle with the city for 50 cents on the dollar. Saturday, Jan. 26. Simon Hassler, the well known musical director, died in Philadelphia, aged 68. Chief Justice Depue, of the New Jersey supreme court, will retire in November next. The pineapple growers of Florida have organized the Florida Fancy Pineapple Growers' association. The Indiana senate passed a bill making electrocution the mode of inflicting the death penalty in that state. Lieut.Richmond Pearson Hobson has recovered from his attack of typhoid fever, and is resting at the home of New York friends. Six of the crew of the whaling schooner Charles H. Hodgdon, of New Bedford, Mass., were drowned while chasing a school of whales. Monday, Jan. 28. Our trade with foreign countries increased from less than $250,000,000 in 1800 to $2,250,000,000 in 1900. Sixty men, women and children skaters broke through the ice on a Brooklyn pond, and two 11-year-old boys were drowned. The battleship Wisconsin will be put in commission Monday, Feb. 4, in deference to superstition against Friday, the day first set. California's congressional delegation has presented to the president the gold trimmed ballot box used by the presidential electors of the state. The Kewanee Light and Power company, of Illinois, will pay employes the same per cent on their salaries as is given to shareholders as dividends. Tuesday, Jan. 29. Ll Hung Chang, says a Pekin dispatch, is critically ill with fever. Viscomte Henri de Bornier, the French poet and dramatist, is dead in Paris, aged 75. The Russian minister of railways, Prince Khiloff, has ordered that women shall be eligible for station masters in minor towns. The illuminations in honor of the marriage of Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, have been postponed to Feb. 4 on account of Queen Victoria's funeral. Miss Lotta Crabtree, the actress, is seriously ill at a New York hotel. Her illness is due to ptomaine poisoning, caused by something she ate last Saturday. All children in the Chicago schools must be vaccinated immediately, and all unvaccinated pupils will be kept out of school until they comply with the order. Wednesday, Jan. 30. The health of Col. Marchand, of Fashoda fame, is causing much anxiety to his friends in Paris. A misplaced switch caused the death of Brakeman Henry J. Beaf in a wreck at Scranton, Pa. A bill in the Delaware legislature provides for adjournment March 1. The senatorial deadlock continues. All the saloons at Harper, Kan., are closed as a result of a report that a visit from Mrs. Nation is expected soon. Count Tolstol, the eminent Russian novelist and social reformer, is again seriously ill, says a St. Petersburg dispatch. Probate Judge Millard, at Toledo, held that all prisoners committed to the Toledo workhouse from the police courts were detained unlawfully, and immediately released several of them. GENERAL MARKETS NEGLECT COST FIVE LIVES Engineer Fell Asleep and a Terrible Wreck Resulted. Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 29—Five persons dead and one severely wounded, two engines and ten loaded cars wrecked is the result of the mistake of a train crew yesterday afternoon between Petroleum and Volcano Junction, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. It was the old story of the engineer being asleep at his post and mistaking the first section of a passing train for the second. Thinking both had passed he pulled his train into the main track and sped onward to what would seem to have necessarily been his death. The dead are: J. B. Watkins, engineer train No. 96, from Grafton; W. W. Cunningham, fireman on No. 98; M. Courtney, of Parkersburg, brakeman on No. 96; J. T. Bailley, of Parkersburg, fireman on No. 87; J. G. Batley, Kanawha, brakeman on 87. Ike Davidson, of Grafton, engineer on 87, whose neglect caused the disaster, was burned, cut and bruised, but will recover. Fighting Against Prize Fight Cincinnati, Jan. 30.—Suit was begun yesterday before Judge Howard Hollister, of the common pleas court, to enjoin the proposed Jeffries-Ruhlin contest here Feb. 15. This proceeding is in the name of the state, by Attorney General Sheets, at the direction of Governor Nash. It is understood, however, that the real instigators are the ministers and other elements of this city who are opposed to having the fight take place here. Both sides have engaged eminent counsel, among those retained by those seeking to prevent the fight being Judson Harmon, attorney general in Cleveland's cabinet. A Flurry in Cotton: New York, Jan. 29.—There was great activity in the January options on the Cotton Exchange yesterday. The opening price was 10.30, and the quotation steadily advanced until 12.75 was reached, at 11 a. m., an advance of 245 points from the opening. Later there was an advance to 255 points. The market were more violent than ever before known. At the close the market was quiet and unday, with January net 85 points higher than month 1 point higher to 3 points lower. The phenomenal advance was due to a squeeze of shorts. To Push the Shipping BILL Washington, Jan. 30—Senator Frya gave notice in the senate yesterday that he intended to keep the shipping bill to the front, even as against the appropriation bills, not yielding to them without the vote of the senate. It indicates a disposition on the part of senate leaders to forge an early issue the question whether the shipping bill is going to pass at this session. Paris Railroaders on Strike. Paris, Jan. 30.—A strike on the underground railroad yesterday followed the company's refusal to accede to the demands of the employees for higher wages and missed men. The strikers are quite orderly, but traffic is entirely stopped. ADMIRAL KAUTZ RETIRED His Last Signal Service Was in the Samoan Controversy. Washington, Jan. 30.—Rear Admiral Albert Kautz, who has just been relived from command of the Pacific station, was placed on the retired list yes- REAR ADMIRAL ALBERT KAUTZ. terday on account of age. He has had a long and distinguished career, of which nearly 18 years was spent at sea. During the Samoan troubles, about two years ago, Admiral Kautz was in command of the American forces in that quartar, and it was mainly through his firmness and conservatism that serious international complications were averted. TOWN TALK More than half the area of Washington is now devoted to the public use. Alexandria, Va., where Washington attended church, was founded in 1748 and was once a prosperous port. In Washington the numbered streets run north and south, the lettered streets east and west, and the system of house numbering is the simplest and most complete of any in the country. In New York the board of aldermen has passed an ordinance declaring it a misdemeanor for anyone to throw paper or rubbish on the streets. Violation of this law will be punished by a fine of not less than one dollar and imprisonment for not more than five days. A fresh impression of the immensity of London—the little world by itself—is gained from the statement that in 1899 the killed and wounded in the London streets numbered 9,891, of whom 207 were killed outright. No battle in the South African war can show so large a total of losses as this list of casualties in the streets of peaceful London. CONCERNING ZING. Galvanized iron is iron coated with zinc to prevent its rusting. It is computed that over 250,000 tons of zinc have been produced in Poland since the industry first commenced. During the year ending June 30 last, Jasper county, Missouri, produced zinc and lead worth $5,339,629. The production of zinc constitutes one of the oldest and staple industries of Poland, having been followed since 1816. In that year only 410 tons were produced, which had increased to 5,509 tons in 1898. Noble Lineage "Count, your family is of noble lineage?" "Of course. I tell you, in our family archives we have many unpaid debt certificates which have been superannuated for centuries."—Fliegende Blaetter. One of Two Things "What a cunning lawyer Epaminondas Miggs is." "Yes; he is either a great credit or a great discredit to his profession."—Detroit Journal. THE PLANET QUEER FIRE STORY. When the Water Gave Out a Resourceful Winery Owner Attached the Hose to Great Vats of Rare Zinfandel. A great fire was put out with wine in southern California recently. It happened that the water had given out, but there was plenty of the fluid usually held in higher esteem. Strange to say, the wine proved a very effective fire extinguisher. This incident is described in an interesting article in the Scientific American. The fire recently occurred near the town of Wrights, in the Santa Cruz mountains, south of San Francisco. Here the fire was started, as in many instances, by an irresponsible rancher who was burning brush. The wind sprang up suddenly and swept the flames into the forest, and in a very short time a fierce wall of flame was rushing up the west slopes of the coast range, carrying destruction before it. The mountains were covered with a fine growth of old oaks, mazanits and mandrones—landmarks in the country—which fell like straw before the destroyer. The walls of flame swept to the summit and descended into the canyons, following these rivers of verdure in and out, rushing on in an ever-increasing volume. In the pathway of the fire were the ranch and Mare Vista winery of E. E. Meyer, one of the largest winemaking establishments and vineyards in Santa Clara county. To protect it and the homes in the vicinity the people of the surrounding country assembled en masse, organized themselves into an efficient body of fire fighters and began a campaign in which striking acts of valor were performed. It was impossible to stay the flames, and as they went rushing down the canyon toward the winery destruction of the valuable property seemed inevitable. Trees in advance were cut down, ditches of earth dug, and every ex- THROWING WINE ON THE FLAMES pedient known to fire fighting of today was tried; but so fierce were the flames that they seemed to leap hundreds of feet into the air, bounding in lurid sheets over the breaks, and in an incredibly short time swept down to the winery, as shown in the accompanying illustration, and surrounded it. Under ordinary circumstances it would have seemed impossible to save the building, but the band of workers rallied under the intelligent lead of the Meyers, and men were posted on the roof who poured streams of water upon every portion. Young Mr. Meyer was held by ropes from a window while he used the hose upon the flames which were licking up the timbers at the base of the building, the heat being so intense that a stream had to be played upon his body. It was believed that the winery could be saved, when, without warning, the water gave out. Some large trees, which were dropping in every direction, had fallen upon the supply pipes, crushing them in and clogging the reservoir. This was an unexpected catastrophe, but the resources of the fire fighters were by no means exhausted, though a desperate expedient was resorted to. The owner of the winery gave the order to attach the hose to the great vats of Zinfandel wine which were stored in the cellar, and man the wine pumps. This was promptly done. Four thousand gallons of this wine was thrown upon the flames in this way before the building was safe, probably one of the most remarkable and successful methods of fighting fire known. The method was somewhat expensive, as the wine retailed at 50 cents per quart when bottled, and $8,000 in wine was used, yet it saved buildings and machinery worth many thousand dollars and demonstrated that a winery has a protective against fire in its vats if the owner has the courage to use it. It is believed by many that the dry climate of southern Oklahoma and the southern district of the Indian Territory is going to make that section the home for the finest grades of cotton. An item from Dennison, Tex., says: "During the season it has developed that the cotton grown in the Chootaw nation was of an extra good fiber, grading above the average and in great demand for export. A great deal has been shipped to Germany and England. Indian cotton hereafter will command the top price." Pneumonia in South America. One-fifth of the deaths in Valparaiso are caused by pneumonia. Prison Breaking The gift of prison breaking is among the rarest of human gifts. Jack Sheppard, for instance, was born with the genius of escape, and it is unlikely that the best instruction would have improved his genius. The handcuffs which could inclose his wrists were never forged; no wall was ever built that he, stripling as he was, could not batter down, and the barest cell his guardians could prepare always contained whatever materials were needed for his escape. Latude, whose supposed persecution was a support to the French revolution, possessed Jack Sheppard's talent in a less degree. It was rather coolness than ingenuity which enabled him to escape the restraints imposed by a severe government, and the famous rope ladder was not all of his own making. The worst is that, pretty as the gift is, few men of distinction have the opportunity to excercise it. The prison breaker to often blushes unseen because there are no walls for him to scale. But for once talent and occasion met in Capt. Aylmer Haldane, whose escape from Pretoria is among the most brilliant exploits of the Boer war—London Spectator. Inevitable. Bobby came home one day covered with dirt and bruises, and trundling a broken bicycle. "What on earth have you been doing, my child?" exclaimed his terrified mother. "I ran over a big dog and took a fall," explained Bobby. "Couldn't you see him and give him the road?" "Yes, I saw him and was turning out, but when I got within about ten feet of him I shut my eyes, and before I got 'em open again I'd run into him." "For the land's sake, what did you shut your eyes for?" "Couldn't help it. Had to sneeze. If you think you can hold your eyes open when the sneeze comes, you just try it some day." If the reader thinks Bobby's excuse was not a valid one let him try it some day "when the sneeze comes." —Youth's Companion. English Beekeepers and the English Beekeepers and the Dahlias. The dahlia is deservedly a favorite flower in most country districts nowadays. A row of brilliant red dahlias on either side of the garden walk are charming and effective. The flower, too, deserves our esteem in that it blooms when most of the good things of summer are hasting to decay. We do not hear beekeepers telling stories against the dahlia nowadays, but it was decidedly a suspect in former days. Authorities held that the cultivation of the dahlia was quite incompatible with successful beekeeping. The bees, it used to be said, were rendered drunk and incapable by feeding on the honey of those flowers; some would die from the effects, while those that recovered made little or no honey when they arrived home at the hive.—London Express. The Miracle-Making Me The Mischief-Making Mosquito. Representatives of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine who went to Nigeria recently to study the causes of malaria have sent home word that a new indictment must be framed against the disease-breeding mosquito. According to this information, not only malaria but the terrible disease called elephantiasis, which is characterized by enormous swelling of the glands, is conveyed to human beings by their gray-winged tormentors from the swamps. This disease not only affects millions of inhabitants of tropical countries, but also frequently attacks European residents in those lands.-Youth's Companion. Remarkable Misprints. In Huxley's "Life and Letters" two amusing example of misprints in the proofs of an article he had written for the Nineteenth Century are given. "You have a reader in your printer's office," Huxley wrote to Mr. Knowles, "who provides me with mikes. Last time he corrected, when my manuscript spoke of the pigs as unwilling 'porters' of the devil, into 'porkers.' And this time, when I, writing about the Lord's prayer, say 'current formula,' he has it 'canting formula.'"—Academy. Household Etiquette Mr. Kawdle—I wish you wouldn't interrupt me every time I try to say something. Do I ever break in when you are talking? Mrs. Kawdle—No, you wretch! You go to sleep!—Tit-Bits. Perplexing. "Strange—strange—strangeef Before my wife went to the country I never could find the latchkey before I went out. Now that she's away I can ever find it after I've been out." —Mergendoerfer's Blaetter. The Why and Wherefore. Peter—Why should the anchor be the symbol of hope? Patrice—Well, I suppose it is because when a girl tells a man there is hope she expects to anchor him. — Yonkers Statesman. One Thing Needful Nell—Now that you have a new engagement ring, of course you are perfectly happy. Bess—No, not quite; I haven't found out what it cost yet.—Chicago Daily News. Had It. Silicus—I was awfully downhearted before I got engaged. I married for sympathy. Cynicus—Well, you've got mine. Philadelphia Record. Qualified for the Work. Qualified for the Work. "Nature," said the sad-eyed man, "cut me cut for a burglar." "How do you know?" "Because she provided me with a bad case of insomnia."—Chicago Post. "What is it! You know as well as I do that mighty few women can make good pumpkin pies."—Chicago Record. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA SUES FOR SKELETON. Chicago Woman Wants Back the Bones Her Hubby Sold. Traded It for a Ton of Coal-Purchaser Declines to Restore It and Fam- ily Pence Without Stiff Compen- sation. The Chicago Daily News says that while his wife was away one day he traded a skeleton, which she had had since her college days at a West side medical school, for a ton of coal. Now she is going to sue the coal dealer because he will not return the memento of her former days. The coal man, turning a deaf ear to the pleadings of the husband that family peace be restored, puts a good price on the skeleton. And the neighbors about the Bowden home in Rhodes avenue, near Thirty-seventh street, have an interesting topic of gossip. During the honeymoon several years ago, they relate, Mr. Bowden came home early one afternoon, and the scene that greeted his vision has never left his memory. The parlor was covered with bones from two incomplete skeletons, and down on her knees, engrossed in completing one, was his bride of two months. He quietly left the house and went to the nearest restaurant. It was a bit dark when, returning, he stood at the front door flirting with the keyhole. Once inside the house he glanced furtively around from room to room in search of the hideous combination of bones. Mrs. Bowden had retired. With halting steps he descended to the basement, where he was to fix the furnace before retiring. In a corner of the stone foundation a gas jet burned dimly. Tremblingly he hastened to turn it up, and just as he passed the furnace he bumped into the skeleton suspended from the timbers above. With a shudder and a groan his arms involuntarily tightened about it, the fastening gave way, and BUMPED INTO THE SKELETON with a crash the two fell to the cement floor. Desperately he clung tighter and tighter until above his groans and the cracking of bones he heard his wife at the head of the stairs. Meekly he begged of her to come to his assistance. He remained at home just one week to "square" himself and to repair the skeleton. Since that time it is said he had bravely tolerated its presence in the house, although with every spell of indigestion he had sworn to get rid of it. At times his wife would painfully amuse him with discourses on the human frame, which he endured as well as he could. When she began to drag the bony frame out before his company the pressure became too great, but remonstrances with her were of no avail. Whether in a fit of anger, or because the temptation was too great, he made the proposition to the coal man and the deal was made. The ton of black diamonds was delivered, duly installed in the bin and the wise merchant carried away the skeleton hidden in a horse blanket. The following day his wife was frantic when she missed it. He braced up his courage and told her the circumstances. She decided that so long as it remained away from the house he was to be served with cold breakfasts. He is willing to undergo that to keep it away. Mrs. Bowden is determined to have it again and has given the coal dealer a few days to return it in as good shape as he got it. She has consulted a lawyer and says she means business. Golden Sparcets at Auction According to a Lisbon correspondent two magnificent carpets, presented by the Infanta Donna Sanche to the royal convent of St. Antonio in 1500, have just been sold by auction at the municipal chamber to pay for repairs at the convent and church. The sale of the carpets, which were Persian, about 18 feet square, embroidered with real gold, caused much excitement. The most eager bidders were two groups, Frenah and German. Bidding began at $4,440, and the Frenchmen secured the prize for $8,540, which is regarded as nearly $5,000 below the real value. Two other equally splendid carpets from the Estrella convent were also announced for sale, but public feeling has become so strong that the sale has been countermanded.—N. Y. Sum. Hard on Tobacco Chewem Spitting on the sidewalk is prohibited in St. Paul, Mina. The penalty is a fine of from one dollar to $50, or imprisonment from one to 60 days. In that city it is also illegal to throw cigar stub or fruit peeling on the sidewalk. Evolution of the Pocket. The ancient were a single pouch at his belt; the modern has—how many pockets in an ordinary costume for outdoors? Let us count them: In the trousers, five; in the waistcoat, six; in the jacket, five; in the overcoat, four, making 20 in all—a full score of little pokes or bags, and arranged so conveniently that they are scarce noticed. Truly, this is an evolution! How long may it be before we have pockets in our hats in where the Irishman carries his piz- ple the American soldier his toothbrush, and, internally, the pettifogger his legal papers, the papers that his predecessors in England thrust into his typical "green bag?" How long be- fore there may be pockets in our gloves--for there are, I believe, pat- ents covering this invention—and in our shoes? The cane also, with its screw top, negins to be a useful receptacle. Two centuries from now, so the man with a long forsight can clearly see, the main idea underlying the wearing of clothing will have entirely changed. The chief purpose of garments will not longer be con- sidered to protect the body. They will be regarded, first of all, as textile foundations for innumerable pockets. —Tudor Jenks, in Woman's Home Companion. Pigeon Service in the French Army. Special attention has recently been paid in France to the use of carries pigeons by the cavalry. The pigeons are carried in a basket attached to the rider's shoulders in the same way as a knapsack, says a foreign correspondent. Each bird is placed in a tube made of wicker and lined with hair, the elasticity of which deadens the effect of the jolting. One, two or three such tubes can be carried in the basket. The birds are in a numbed condition when first taken out of the tubes, but they speedily recover unless they are left several days in the tubes, when the numbness ends in death. To prevent this, a light form of folding cage is carried, in which the birds can rest and recover themselves during a halt, and partake of nourishment. Twelve men belonging to the cavalry are sent every year to attend a course of instruction in the handling and treatment of pigeons at the military pigeon station at Vau-gard.-Detroit Free Press. Ocean Winds and the Long Swell. That winds have been blowing across the North Atlantic is proved by the long swell that lifted the propeller screw of the St. Paul out of the water and wrecked the machinery. The "long swell" is caused by the piling up of waves by the winds blowing continuously for days from one direction. A long swell is often formed in the North Atlantic by the different temperatures of the gulf stream and the arctic waters to the north. This is one of the dangers of crossing the ocean in steamers which captains are always on the lookout for. Fogs often accompany these ocean-wide winds and add the danger of collisions to the danger of the long swell—Little Chronicle. Rare Business Ability. Old hardcash—Ive decided to take young Sharpleigh into business with me as soon as he and my daughter get back from their honeymoon. Bullion Bonds—But I thought you saw no good in the fellow. Old Hardcash—I didn't at first, but I've changed my mind. I told him he couldn't have my daughter till he had at least £1,000 in the bank. He got me to put it in writing, and then went out and borrowed the £1,000 on the strength of becoming my son-in-law. Such business ability as that mustn't be allowed to go to waste—Tit-Bits. The Self-Proclaimed Novice. "No," said Bronco-Bob, "we jes' let that young feller from the east alone." "He seems harmless enough." "Yes. But he goes around askin' people to teach him to play poker. We've been caught once or twice by that same low-down hypocrisy an' we don't intend to git keerless any more." —Washington Star. Penalty of Delny. I thought the enterprise too great And so I ne'er-begin it. A fool rushed in who saw me wait And he it was who won it. -Chicago Times-Herald. A man and a woman in a park. The woman is holding a stick and looking at the man. The man is standing on a hill and looking at the woman. Rev. Mr. Wrangley—0, I grant you, Miss Cobb, that women are men's equals in intellect; but where we of the male sex have the pull is in our physical superiority, don't you think? —The King. And There Are Others He slept beneath the shadow moon, He loafed beneath the glowing sun? He lived a life of going to do— But he died with nothing done. An Extreme Case His Wife—Well, I never thought Bill Green was fool enough to get buncoed like that! The Farmer—But that isn't the worst of it. He's fool enough to think that maybe the police'll git his money back—an' that they'll give it to him if they do!—Puck. Somewhat Qualified Praise "Do you consider her a woman of in- elligence?" "Well, she certainly is a woman of good understanding." "What do you mean by that?" "She has shapely feet." — Chicago Post. The Beginning of It. Wife—Do you mean to insinuate that your judgment is superior to mine? Husband—Certainly not, my dear. Our choice of life partners proves it isn't. — Chicago Daily News. Undoubtedly "Great Scott!" exclaimed the man who had been reading, "how barbarous our ancestors were!" "That's right," said his friend. "They must have been even more barbarous than we are."—Brooklyn Life. SUSAN CAUGHT JIN. How a Mountain Girl Brought an Old Lover to Time. By a Pretty Little Feminine Scheme the Big But Bashful Fellow Was Nerved to Do What He Most Wanted To. The best looking girl in the Pine mountain country was Susan Natter, and Susan was extremely, too to say foolishly, fond of Jim Davis, a young man who was my chief timberman in the season, and who owned and conducted a good farm in the river bottom as a side issue, says the New York Telegram. Jim was the catch of the mountains, and, like other men in that happy class, he was careless and stood a fair chance of losing what ought to be his because he was too sure of it. Susan was just the girl for him, but he had almost worn out her patience by his dillydallying policy, and one day I thought the end had surely come, and it was all up with Jim, who was a favorite of mine, as the winner of the Susan stakes. "I want to see the best dress pattern you've got in the store, colonel," she said to me as I sat out in front of the commissary one day, "and bein' mighty pertickler, I want you to wait on me," she added, with a smirk not usual to Susan. "Oh, indeed," I said, chaffingly, going around behind the counter, "something must be going to happen." "I reckon that is," she admitted, frankly. "Good for you," I flaughed, "and Jim glad that Jim has got to his senses at last." "Jim," she sniffed, disdainfully, "Talm't Jim ez fer ez I know." "Not Jim! I almost shouted, for Jim was my choice for her. "Not Jim? Well, who is it? "Oh, that's for me to know and you to find out, colonel," she laughed, provoking, and gave me no further satisfaction. She bought the goods and "THAT'S FOR ME TO KNOW." went away, and two hours later Jim came in from work and said he was going over the mountains that night with one of the Martin girls to a dance. "By the way, Jim," I said, "did you know Susan Natter was going to get married? "Thunderation, colonel, mo!" he blurted out. "Ner she ain't, is she?" baited out. Not her, it is she! "I guess she is. I sold her a wedding dress this afternoon, and she told me she was." "Who's she goin' ter marry, colonial?" he asked, anxiously. "I don't know. She wouldn't tell me." "Well, she'll tell me, colonal," he said, with the lines getting hard across his face and little wrinkles of doubt and fear showing between. Jim was facing a possibility that had never presented itself to him in its full strength. He went out of the store and up the road leading to old man Natter's place. The next morning he stopped at the store on his way to work. "Did you find out who it was?" I asked him at once, for I was interested more than he had been. "Course I did," he answered, with confidence. "Who is it?" "Me," and he laughed the short laugh of the man who had been made to do, what he knew he should have done and what he most wanted to do. "Oh," I exclaimed, "is that it?" And later I discovered that Susan had devised a pretty little feminine scheme to bring Jim to the point, and by my unwitting, but by no means unwilling, assistance, she had succeeded fully. Liquid Reciprocity: America drinks to Germany, and Germany drinks to America, each in the beverage of the other. The Fatherland sent us beer, which we soon learned to like, and after awhile became exceedingly fond of, as the brewery interests of the bear bear witness. And now we hear strange things. The commissioner of internal revenue tells us that Germany is rapidly becoming a nation of whisky drinkers. More distilled spirits are exported from here to Germany than to any other foreign country, and the Germans prefer bourbon whisky to rye. During the last fiscal year 411-489 gallons of bourbon and 137,578 gallons of rye whisky went from our distilleries to Germany—N. Y. Herald. Peace in Servants' Wall. No servant of the marquis of Salisbury complains to him twice of a fellow-servant. When a complaint is made the marquis dismisses the complainant. He keeps about 70 servants, and if he interfered in their squabbles he would have little time for affairs of state. Oregon State of Alaska The Danes export the best and highest priced butter in the world, and for their own use buy cheap butter from the United States. Uncle Allen: "Everything is run by combinations now," said Uncle Allen Sparks, "except the churches. They don't seem to get together any better than they used to."—Chicago Tribune. His Most Exciting Time. She—Were you ever chased by a mad bull? He—N-no, not exactly, but once I sat on a large, rough man's new derby hat, by mistake.—Chicago Times-Herald. Was All Fixed. One of the churches in a little western town is so fortunate as to have a young woman as its pastor. She was called to the door of the parson-abe one day, and saw there a much-embarrassed young farmer of the German type. "Dey said der minister lifed in dis house," he said. "Yow," said the fair pastor. "Vell—m—I—I—vant to kit merriti" "To get married? Very well, I can marry you," said the ministress, encouragingly. "Oh, but I got a girl already," was the disconcerting reply.—Brooklyn Life. A. Victim of Bad Grace. "What are you doing?" said the clerk in the hotel. "Do you wish to stile yourself and die on our hands?" "What's the matter with you?" "You've gone and blown out the gas." "Nothing of the kind. I'm entailed to the use of this gas, isn't I?" "Yes." "Well, I can't get any satisfaction by lighting it. The only way I can get my money's worth is + here and smelt it."—N. Y. Worl. The Qualifying Criteria "I heard some very complimentary things about you," said the man who likes to be disagreeable. "Indeed!" returned Senator Sorghum, with complacent glee. "Yes. But the man who said them wound up with the remark that he believed in giving 'the devil his due.'" —Washington Star. Horrid Fear. The timid suitor had finally stated his case. "H-m-mt" began the girl's father, looking at him, sternly. "Young man, can you support a family?" "Great heaven!" cried the young man, "have you lost your job?"—Catholic Standard and Times. A Society Item Mrs. Bigbug—Did the reporter write up our adventure with the burglar as three o'clock this morning correctly, Reginald? Mr. Bigbug (with the evening paper) —Yes. He states that "both Mr. and Mrs. Bigbug were faultlessly night-gowned."—Puek. Sugar in job lots Wabash--Did you hear that fellow? He called his wife Sugar. Dearborn--Yes; that's a favorite pet name of his. He's called every wife he's had Sugar. "For gracious sake! How many lumps has he had?"--Yonkers States- man. More Dangerous "And was it etiquette that kept you from taking the second piece of pie?" asked the host. "No," replied the candid youngster, "it was papa. He had his hand all ready to pinch the minute I reached for the pie."—Chicago Daily News. A Cheap Prescription Mrs. Crabshaw—You seem pleased that my doctor recommended a five-mile walk. Crabshaw—Yes, my dear. I was afraid he would recommend an automobile.—Puck. Making Sure. First Lady (off for a journey)—I hope we've got the right train. Second Lady—I asked 17 trainmen and 93 passengers if this train went to Blankville, and they all said yes, so I guess we're all right.—N. Y. Weekly. Willie—Very. She can talk for hours and never say a word worth listening to—Judge. That Cecilia sits full in my view; Her picture hat and lovely face Adorn my day with generous grace. —Detroit Free Press. GENEROUS OFFER. The Ten-Year-Old—Paps promises me 50 cents if I get on the roll of merit. Put me there, sir, and I will give you 25 cents—Le Rire. A Pocket He Often Used. Benham—I'm afraid I'll forget to mail your letters. Mrs. Benham—I don't believe you will; I put it in the pocket where you carry your cigar case—Brooklyn Life. The Hat Was Removed. "Madam," complained the man behind the hat, "I can't see the stage; if you'd kindly remove—" "Oh," snapped the lady, "I guess you're seeing your money's worth." "You're right," he replied. "I only paid $1.50, but here I can see the price tag of your hat, and it's marked $3.98." —Philadelphia Press. He Was Sadly Overrated "That city man that was visiting me is an overrated cuss," remarked the farmer. "How so?" "Oh, the papers all said he was a great hand at watering stock, but I found he couldn't work the pump five minutes without laming his arm."—Chicago Post. Eggs and Eggs. First Actor-It was a case of Greek meeting Greek last night. "Well, he was struck by another jus as bsd." -Brooklyn Life. 5 THE SCIENTIST'S NOTEBOOK The strength of wood increases with its density. To cool water when ice cannot be oktained wrap the pitcher in cheesecloth previously impregnated with ammonium nitrate and dried. Moisten slightly at time of use, dry and use again. To preserve rubber articles keep them in a one per cent. solution of formol or zinc chloride, or a concentrated solution of boric acid. They should never be left exposed to the air or to the action of cold. After nearly 30 years of constant effort and the expenditure of nearly £100,000 scientists have succeeded in accurately measuring the earth. They have learned that its diameters through the equator is 7,926 miles; its height from pole to pole 7,899 miles. Humus is a term applied to the organic partially decayed matter in the soil. Leaf mold, wood dirt or a green crop plowed under forms humus Humus is the principal source of nitrogen in earth. Its action is beneficial not only in enriching but mechanically improving both heavy and light soils. A scientific expedition is to start from St. Petersburg to examine the immense number of manuscripts discovered at Mukden by Russian troops. In the collection are a large number of Greek and Roman documents, which are supposed to have been taken by the Mongolians on the retreat from the coast. An Esquimau baby is born fair, except for a dark round spot on the small of the back, varying in size from a three-penny-bit to a shilling. From this center-head of color the dark thin gradually spreads till the toddling Esquimau is as beautifully, and as completely, and as highly colored as a well-smoked meerschaum pipe. The same thing happens among the Japanese. LITTER-ARY. Mrs. Clark required 16 years to prepare the "Concordance to Shakespeare." W. E. Norris, the English novelist, is talking of visiting this country for the purpose of giving public readings from his books. Of George Ebert's last novel, "In the Desert," there is but one edition, the American, as the book has not thus been issued either in German on French. Secretary of State John Hay acknowledges the authorship of "The Breadwinners," an American novel of industrial life, published in 1884. Edmond Rostand, the famous French novelist, owes his poor health largely to his hard work. He has time for his tle else, and is writing or revising nearly all the day and far into the night. Thackeray's daughter is writing again—a series of essays this time dealing with charming but forgotten books. She calls them "Blackstick Papers," after the good fairy in her father's inimitable little tale, "The Rose and the Ring." F. T. Bullen, the author of sea tales, ran away from home and went to sea as a cabin boy at 13, and remained as sea until Kipling saw a tale which he had written to amuse himself, and advised him to go at once into literature HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Hand-painted designs decorate the toes of some of the new slippers. The Duse coll arranged low at the nape of the neck is revived among other novel evening coifures. Half the benefit from a liniment is from the rubbing. Therefore rub long and gently. Do not injure the skin. To polish plate glass and also to prevent its becoming frosty in winter wipe with a soft cloth wet in alcohol. Iodoform odor may be removed from the hands by thorough washing in vinegar after the use of soap and water. Linen is entirely unsuited for the proper application of ointments to the skin, and still it is popularly thought essential. "Vinegar and brown paper" is still a good remedy for a bruise. Keep the paper or the cloth wet and both swelling and discoloration will be less. A hot fomentation that will not require to be changed frequently can be made by dipping a flat section of sponge in hot water. Apply to the part, and upon the sponge place a hot water bag. If desired the water in which the sponge is dipped may be medicated. USEFUL THINGS TO KNOW Good light means good health. There are eight submarine eables of over 2,000 miles in length. Ten million dollars represents approximately the cost of the Pan-American exposition, exclusive of exhilda. The area of the exposition site is 350 acres. This includes 133 acres of park lands and lakes in Delaware park, one of the most beautiful parks in the world. The plot is a mile and a quarter from north to south and half a mile from east to west. ILLUMINATING GAS Coal gas was first used as an illuminant in 1792. The first gas applied to artificial lighting was obtained from coal. Nearly $50,000,000 is invested in the gas companies of the city of London. Bituminous coal yields from 8,000 to 12,000 cubic feet of gas to the ton. Immense amounts of water gas are made in this country from coal, water and naphtha. It is a curious fact that one large lamp or gas jet gives more light than three or four burning the same quantity in the same time. Time to Stop. Dorothy (for the first time coming her grandmother's hair, astonished at its coming out so freely)—I—I guess I'd better stop, grandma; your head is all unraveling—Judge. Hewitt—is your watch right? Jewett—I don't know. One can never tell what care these pawnbrokers take of them.—Town Topics. 6 THE PLANET WINTER BELLS. When Winter wraps the world in white, And silent lie the snowy dells, In the winter's silence. They tinkle 'neath the watchful stars. They shine like a thousand stars. And as they near the meadow bars O Winter bells that tell of mithril Thy music fills the heart with joy And makes a paradise of earth— A lovers' year without alloy; Access the fields there seems to come And the nature thereure tells, And every hearth and every home Rejoices at the winter bells. I hear them echo where the snow Lies softly the frozen ground, And where December comes low I list to catch their merry walk; A malden at the lattice walls. For swiftly through the moonlit dells, Toward her heart's wide-open gates, A lover rides behind the bells. -T. C. Harbaugh, in Ledger Monthly. Result of an Investigation By Alice Louise Lee. (Copyright, 1900, by the Authors' Syndicate.) "If this isn't a case! Congratulations on my engagement! Now, shall I go or shall I not? This hardly reads like Chris. It's too gushing. She is more reserved. Perhaps her own engagement has changed her. I've heard of such things. I'll go. "Wish I knew the man she is engaged so. Wouldn't I meet him cordially! I'd grip his hand until it would be useless for a month." Worth Bruce set his hat savagely on his head, toore a small note into a dozen pieces, threw them into an open grate and went out, looking his door with such force that the key was bent. Ten minutes later Christabel Love was extending her hand to him in rather a constrained manner. There was an additional warmth in Worth's greetings because he had determined to carry the matter off without flinching. "I've answered your congratulations in person, Chris," he began, in a jovial way, sinking into his favorite arm chair. "Your note broke in upon the most doleful reverie a confirmed old bachelor ever indulged in." "There I sat," Worth went on, "my elbows on my knees and my head in my hands, grooming over the prospect of dull evenings soon to come, when you would be so deeply engaged in dress-making and letter writing and what not, that you wouldn't have time to see a fellow—" "Dressmaking and letter writing—" Chris, interrupted, in a wondering tone. Her eyes had become large and round and a pucker appeared between her brows. Worth laughed rather loudly, and slapped his knee, a thing Chris had never seen him do before. "I'd just give up lamenting alone and decided to come and condole with myself in your presence when your note came—" Worth indulged in another mirthless laugh. Chris leaned forward and looked at him intently. The pucker had extended half way up her forehead. "Now, Chris, it's bad enough for you to go and get engaged, without putting up such a big blush on me in that way." "Putting—up a — a bluff!" puzzled Chris, but the pucker began to smooth itself out. "So far you are an enigma to me." Worth sighed. "Well, Chris, I suppose the Christian way to do would be to offer you both hands and wish you all the happiness you'll be sure not only to get, but to give, that lucky fellow, whoever he is." Worth's voice was perilously near being shaky. "Happiness I'll get and give." Chris was still following helplessly. "When we meet," Worth went on, in his gayest tone, a trifle forced, "don't be surprised if I give him the flat of my hand for depriving me of my best chum." Chris leaned back and spoke resolutely. "Worth, if you will be kind enough to explain yourself, I'll be convinced, perhaps, of your sanity. Whom are you talking about, or don't you know yourself." Worth became suddenly sober, as sober as he really felt. "No, Chris, I don't know whom I'm discussing—that's the trouble—but it's that mysterious some one that you're engaged to." "I engaged? That's news to me. Worth, your own engagement has affected your head as well as your heart—" But Worth did not wait for her to finish. He broke in eagerly, bringing himself forward in his chair with an impetuous jerk. "Say, now, aren't you, really, honor bright? I'm not, of course. How'd you hear? It's all a fake with me—" "A fake with you? Why, it came straight from Miss Maltby, this morning. She said she knew it." "Miss Maltby go to—that is, I mean she knows too much. I'd like to know where she got her precious information. I'm sure I should know of my own engagement as soon as anyone." Chris' laugh would have fallen on unprejudiced ears as a hysterical giggle. "What a mix up this is. Who ever fold you that 3—how did you get it into your head?" "Why, through that man Truxus, I'll interview him later on. But I have a curiosity to know the name of the individual Miss Maltby has bestowed my heart upon." Worth was talking fast merely to conceal his delighted agitation over the discovery of Chris's freedom. He did not notice that she was so agitated herself as to preclude notice of any agitation on his part. "And who," chimed in Chris, "does Mr. Truxus expect will pay my millinery bills? If hats continue to be loaded with plumes, the man will be glad of an escape." Chris was conscious that this was an inane joke. Worth knew it, too. But they laughed excitedly in chorus. "All Truxus knew of your fliance was that he is not a native of this town. Name was not familiar to him." "And all that Miss Maltyb was prepared to say, beyond the fact that you were soon to be married, was that the lady of your choice is red-headed," unconsciously raising her hand to adjust a stray lock of her own soft brown hair. "Let's ferret this gossip out," exclaimed Worth, in sudden inspiration. "Let's confound the gossipers and get to the root of matters." "It's a bargain," agreed Chris. "We'll follow the trail and report to-morrow night." The next evening the two met with unabated zeal although they had no additional information to offer. "It's more difficult than I thought," reported Worth. "Truax sent me chasing after two or three men who are utter strangers to me, and who gave me more information than I was after—for troubling them. But at last I've the right clew. Think I can clear it up by to-morrow night." "I'm sure I can," proclaimed Chris confidently. "I've followed the clew right back. Her name is Sever. She lives in this town somewhere. First name as yet unknown, but she continues to wear red hair. Now, all I have got to do is to locate her. Will you take cream or lemon in your tea?" "Yes, thank you," abstractedly. Then, being recalled to his sense by Chris' dancing eyes, he blushed and changed to— "Both, if you please," and the evening began and closed with laughter. It was late the next evening before Worth came. Chris had risen from her seat before the open grate ready to go upstairs when the bell rang. There was a singular absence of the buoyancy of the two previous evenings. "What's the matter with Worth?" Chris was saying to herself as she poked the sticks in the open fireplace. "If he was in such a pickle as I am, he might act blue." "The deuce take the business," Worth was thinking as he sat down. "I'm as shaky as a man in his second AREN'T YOU, HONOR BRIGHT! childhood. What's changed Chris so? Maybe she's got an inkling of this fool thing and wants to give me a hint—well, a man can cut his throat but once." Chris sat down. "I believe it's snowing," she said, quite suddenly, in as surprised a tone as though the snow had not been falling steadily for four and twenty hours. "Yes, it is drizzling just a little," replied Worth, thoughtfully. He remembered that it had rained the day before. At the same time he carefully removed a bit of snow from his trousers. Chris smiled and began boldly: "Well, have you found out to whom I'm engaged?" "Yes," said Worth, looking hard at her, "and have you discovered the unhappy girl who is to share my future?" "Yes," returned Chris. Two dimples began to play in her cheeks and her eyes sparkled. Worth looked at her and groaned, changing the groan hastily into a cough. He thrust his hands into his pockets and said solemnly: "Chris, I've followed this thing up until I find the man is no other than Worth Brice. The report has gone over this town that you are engaged to my unhappy self. Unhappy, only because it is not true. If it were," Worth went on, desperately, "I should feel like a godfather to the whole town." The dimples began to deepen in Chris' cheeks. Mischief lurked in her eyes. "As the result of my search," she began, "red hair resolved itself into a golden brown and the name 'Sever' has successively become Lever, Lever, and lastly just plain Love, with the first name Chris." 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Prompt Delivery of Good IN THE FRONT RANK. SECURITY, INDUSTRIAL MUTUAL AID SOCIETY Has been a great beneu to their sick members, also their death bene- tshave helped many. Hustling and polite agents wanted Masonic Hall, 511 East Glay St. Wm. Isaac Johnson, President, J. E. JONES, Vice-President, E. P. VARDEVNALL, Secretary, E. T. JANKINS, Treasurer, Oscar N. Brown Manager THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BERLIN Richmond, Va. V. P. & F. K. of W. ROBT S. FORRETER Florist 215 E. LEIGH STREET, Richmond, Va. I am prepared to furnish the public with plants of all kinds, cut flowers funeral designs, etc. I will be pleased to have the patron- age of the public. PLANET SATURDAY, FEB. 2, 1901 CINCH WAS NO FOOL. His Imitation of a Crazy Man Was a Work of Art. When the Proper Time Came He Told the Regiment All About His Deep-Laid Scheme and As-tonished the Entire Camp. Some young men who enlisted during the war with Spain but never saw any active service were talking over their days in uniform one night last week, says the New York Sun, and told interesting stories of camp life The young man who had been a hospital steward told this story: "A month in our camp in Georgia was enough to drive a man to despair, for not only was it hot, but every day increased our belief that the government had no intention of giving us a chance to get into action or to let us go back to our homes. It was a mighty tough predicament for a lot of young men who had left business and everything else in a burst of patriotic enthusiasm, and expected to get into a scrap in short order. The men worked every wire they could to get their discharges, but it was at a time when the man with a pull couldn't get any more than the man without a friend. "As a hospital steward I used to hear a good deal about the health of the regiment from the surgeons, and one day I was very much surprised to hear one of them say that he was afraid Cinch, of company C, was going to lose his mind. I knew Ginch as a big, good-natured fellow, who tried to get a discharge as soon as he learned that we were not going to have a fight. When he failed he became sullen and moody. The more we watched him the more convinced we became that something was wrong with him. Every time we came round we found him mumbling to himself, and one day a crowd of us found him seated on a stump in the middle of a big clover field, holding in front of him a long pole, attached to which was a piece of cord on the end of which was a pin bent to resemble a fishhook. He would drop the hook into the long grass and let it stay there for a time. Then he would make a cast and when the hook fell would sit and watch the end of his line intently. Every once in awhile he would jerk the line out of the SEATED ON A STUMP grass as though he had a nibble. Once one of the boys stepped up and said: "What are you fishing for?" "He got no answer. All Cinch did was to turn a pair of hollow eyes on him and then resume his fishing. After that a gang used to go out and watch Cinch every afternoon. Every once in awhile one of the boys would saunter out and say: "What are you fishing for, Cinch? "It got to be the regimental saying, and I suppose that the question: What are you fishing for, Cinch? was thrown at the man from company C a hundred times a day. By and by the news got to the officers that Cinch was going fast. They heard about his fishing in the fields and one day the surgeon-major went out and witnessed the performance. He went back and reported to the colonel that unless Cinch was discharged at once he would be hopelessly insane. The result was that his condition was ekegraphed on to Washington, and discharge panels were returned at once. "The colonel, in the goodness of his heart, went to look up Cinch and give him the news. He found him sitting on a stump in the field fishing away, while around him sat about 50 of the regiment, one of whom would yell: "What are you fishing for, Cinch? every few minutes. The colonel stepped up and, touching Cinch on the shoulder, said: "Cinch, we think your health demands that you leave the service, and so we have procured an honorable discharge for you. Lere it is," and he handed Cinch the papers. "Cinch dropped his fishing pole and grabbed the papers. He gave one look at them, and when he saw they were all right, waved them triumphantly over his head and shouted at the top of his voice: "This is what I was fishing for, dang ye all; this is what I was fishing for, and I got it, too,' and with that he went dancing over the field, leaving us standing there, the first gleam of the truth creeping into our brains. "The colonel looked foolish, and by and by we began to sneak away, one by one. There was no doubt but what the regimental question: 'What are you fishing for, Cinch?' had been an- swered, and in a most emphatic and surprising fashion. Cinch was as sane as anybody, but when he found he couldn't get an honorable discharge in one way he tried for it another." PURELY PERSONAL The first Corean medical woman to be educated in the United States is a Mrs. Pak, who was graduated from Baltimore medical college in June last. In the early days the president received a salary of $5,000. Now the president gets $50,000 and the vice president $8,000. Sometimes there are queer combinations. For example, Senator Chandler married a daughter of ex-Senator Hale, and Senator Hale married a daughter of ex-Senator Chandler. The members of President McKinley's cabinet have very short names, only 40 letters being required to spell them all-Hay, Gage, Root, Long, Griggs, Smith, Wilson and Hitchcock. The total number of libraries founded by Mr. Carnegie in this country is 67, 17 in Scotland and several in England and Ireland. He has 24 libraries in Pennsylvania alone. Chancellor Magie, of New Jersey, was asked to give a private hearing in a divorce suit. He answered: "Rest assured that the last thing this court will do is to keep such cases secret. The more publicity in such matters the better." BIRD AND BEAST. Birds are blessed with large appetites. The robin can easily devour two-thirds of its weight in earthworms in a day. The polar fox changes the color of its coat. In summer it is almost black; in winter it is so white that the animal can scarcely be seen as it scampers over the snow. The whale's food capacity is startling. In his new work on whales, Mr. F. E. Beddard states that the stomach of a "bottle-nose" contained 10,000 beaks of squid, and a grampus had 13 porpoises and 14 seals, all whole and intact. The American ornithologist—Alexander Wilson—who undertook many journeys in several parts of the state to collect knowledge for his great work on the feathered creation, stated that near Shelbyville, Ky., he came upon a roosting-place of the carrier-pigeons upwards of 40 miles in extent. He found the branches of almost every tree in the country, which was thickly wooded, filled with nests. THE ALASKA GOLD FIELDS. The gold yield for Nome since discovery has been $5,000,000. The total gold yield for the Klondike district alone since 1886 has been $21,000,000. The Cape Nome gold fields were discovered in September, 1898. The first gold was found in the Klondike district in 1886 by Miner Franklin. The total output of gold for Alaska proper since 1880 has reached the sum of $23,061,450. Gold was first found at Sitka as early as 1798, but the discovery was kept a secret. Ketcham and Lebarge, Western Union company employees, found gold at Fort Yukon in 1867. ARMY AND NAVY. Russia has spent £335,000,000 on war in the last 60 years, and 664,000 men. Barrow, in Furness, is rapidly rising in importance as a private naval dockyard. France has decided that all the troops in the colonies shall henceforth be armed with weapons similar to those of the home army. When the civil war began Washington was without defenses. Two years later it was surrounded by a chain of 12 forts. One of the things that appear to have been settled by the Boer war is the disappearance from the British army of the organization known as the army corps. It is stated authoritatively that the division is the largest tactical unit that can be conveniently employed in the field. Georgia Honesty. A peculiar bill for services recently came before the Georgia legislature for allowance. A criminal in imprisonment had been pardoned by the governor of the state. By some confusion in the official papers the pardon did not reach him for several months after it was issued. Upon this he petitioned the legislature to be remunerated for the work he had done for the state in the time that he had continued in confinement through the mistake that had been made. The legislature passed the act awarding the man the money. Whether it did this because of the value of his labor to the state or contributed it as a compensation for unnecessarily depriving him of liberty is not stated. It was liberal action in either point of view.—Chicago Chronicle. Planting of the White Planting at the White House. The work of peopling the half a hundred flower beds with their richly arrayed inhabitants is of itself a gigantic task. All of the plants come from the great white house conservatories, and at planting time a dozen men are busy for a month or more setting them out. There are placed in the ground each year more than 6,000 tulips, embracing not less than half a hundred separate species; 2,500 pansy plants, 2,000 field daisies, from 6,000 to 8,000 geraniums and other flowers in proportion. As an example of intricate planting introduced stated that there are on two fancy flower beds, neither or them very large, in each of which there are more than 5,000 small plants.—Waldon Fawcett, in Woman's Home Companion. Character in Handwriting. It is as easy for us to recognize our friends by their handwriting as by their faces. Everybody imparts to his handwriting a certain individuality, a certain mannerism, which serves to identify the writer. His style of penmanship is as much a part of his personality as is his tone of voice or his manner of walking. It is very clearly evident that there is a direct relationship between the writing and the writer; and a study of this interesting subject reveals the fact that every peculiarity of a handwriting has a particularly significance and indicates a corresponding trait or peculiarity in the writer. In other words, a person's character is revealed in his handwriting.—Clifford Howard, in Woman's Home Companion. How Eggs Are Condensed The eggs are broken and churned in a machine thousands at a time. The liquid is dropped slowly onto stone cylinders, over which currents of warm dry air are passed. This evaporates the moisture. When thoroughly dry the crystals are scraped off the cylinders and are packed in air-tight packages. They are used on board ship, and to some extent by bakers. To prepare them for use the crystals are simply soaked in water of the same bulk as the original eggs. You cannot have boiled eggs from crystallized eggs, obviously but you can have puddings and pies and cakes, and that would be a great thing to a man in the Klondike, for example, who happened to be several thousand miles from a hen.—Little Chronicle. Potash Soap for Eye Glasses Constant wearers of eye-glasses, spectacles, etc., are much annoyed by the dimming of the glasses upon entering a warm room from a cooler place. It will greatly interest them to know that this evil can be oblated by rubbing the glasses with soft soap. All that is necessary is to rub every morning or before going out a little so-called green soap (washing soap, potash soap) over the whole surface of the glass, polishing it until it is bright again. The preparations, "Gasolin" and "Oculustra," offered for the same purpose at high prices, are nothing else than pure potash soap. Die Werkstatt. Chance of a Lifetime. "You bust excuse be this evading Biss Billigad," said Mr. Addiellwatters. "If by speech is a liddle thick, for I have a terrible cold id by head." "I see you have," Miss Milligan replied. "and that reminds me that you ought by all means to call on Sue Dallington while you are in your present condition." "Why so. Biss Billigad?" "She told me, the other day, that she was sure you had nothing in your head. Now you can prove that she made a mistake."-Tit-Bits. Getting Local Color "Scribblum, the novelist, is writing a story of life in India for an eastern house, so a few days ago he went down there to mingle with the people in their rural simplicity and get local color." "Oh." "Well, he got it all right. They suspected when they found out he was from Chicago that he wanted to dispose of a gold brick, so they tarred and feathered him."—Chicago Times-Herald. Paradox Explained Pilkins—Hullo, Bifkins—how are you coming on? Bifkins—Living from hand to mouth. Pilkins—What—how's Mrs. Bifkins? Bifkins—O, she's living in luxury. Pilkins—Bifkins, what do you mean, anyhow? Bifkins—I, sir, am paying Mrs. Bifkins alimony. Ohio State Journal. A Fearful Discovery "What's de matter?" asked Plodding Pete, in alarm. "Here's a piece in de paper. It says we've got muscles inside of us dat keeps up an involuntary action. Dey goes on workin', whether we wants 'em to or not."—Washington Star. What They All Being Back. "Did he bring anything back from abroad?" "Well, I should say he did." "What?" "One of the largest assortments of wearisome stories and descriptions of places that I ever heard."—Chicago Post. Every Rose Has Its Thorn. Jones—Hallo, old man! lost your wife? Smith—Yes; it's an awful nuisance. What with the children and the lawyers, and having to wear black—and—and one thing and another, I almost wish she hadn't died."—Ally Sloner. Congenial Couple. Penelope—And you say they are engaged? Patrice—Yes. "Have they any tastes in common?" "Well, yes; they chew the same kind of gum."—Yonkers Statesman. Conductive to Loneliness. "There's nothing I enjoy so much as a quiet smoke all by myself." "Well, you ought to have little trouble in keeping away from crowds as long as there are any in the box from which that one came."—Chicago Times-Herald. Wasted Opportunities. The man who kicks the livelong day May be best, perchance, of duty done; But finds the friehed quite away The hours when other folk have fun. —Washington Star. Little Boy—What do you want? Tramp-I dunno. What yer got? Little Boy — Mumps. — Chicago Chronicle. M. RICH, HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL with all their undertakings, while those who naglect his advice are still laboring against him, his chemistry, he can impart to your secret that will overcome your enemies and win your friends. His aid and advice has often been used to cure his sickness, curing of speedy and happy marriages and all your wishes. In love affairs he never tails. He has the secret of winning the act of passion. It is the curse of spiritualism that in later years he is a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have been called the "colored people." Surely the colored people are n so whining in sense as to throw their tim and money on such Deer. Deer rule to the Hon William Deer. Deer rule to the Hon Cleveland Deer. Deer rule to the Hon builder.outh rookie. Al are known free test of his power for years. He gives aractic five years in New O ans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louise he understand influence the race is subject to. He is now and always had a large patronage from them. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Brooklyn, Aug. 15, 1891 — This is to certify that came to New York from Albany. I was out of work and out of money. I had to work for a company I undertook. What to do I did not know. I had advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. He took me in and treated me as a brother. Through him I got a good position that very much money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea. I would advise all in bad luck, sick or in trouble to go to him at once. ALBERT ATKES, 1957 Atlantic Ave South Plainfield, Aug. 15, 1911 — This is to certify that my husband had gone away and had two years, mourned for him might and dead. I knew where he was; told he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He took me back one from the dead, also wish to see him. I lost the sum of $50. I am a poor woman she was most insane I went to Dr. Shea and he was very happy to meet 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 their what to do. MRS. MARY MILLER. South Plainfield, N.J. A SENSATION IN BROOKLYN - A MINIS TERS' STATEMENT I wish to state that one of my parishioner was sick and in trouble for a long time. Mrs. Hearn was a doctor and I understand her case. She had several doctors but none of them seemed to know what was wrong. She was told to her any good. I was my duty as her pastor to her her. Hearing of the wonderful work being done by the last few years, I thought I would call her and ask her to him a kind sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers told me that he was a patient. which I did by her daughter. He told on what we were and her family had seening. He dera cloud Now all is changed. are well and her family had seening. are heartily recom mend Dr. Shea all those tress of any kind, Rev. William Johnson Pastor Lebanon Church, Brooklyn. DR. SHEA Oklahoma City of Memphis Dec. 5th, 1900. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce invincule matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant. An affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here within 15 days after due publication hereof and do whatever may be necessary to protect her interest here. A copy, Tester: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. N. J. 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. 800 E, Marshall Ht, 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 depositions be not commenced, or concluded on the day named, or if commenced be 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. Law WANTED two quail of bad health that BTF-AYS will pet bunnies. Their health can and presiding life. One plague tells. Hate the worst BTF-AYS on the premises or be held on your property. The number and date of the plague will be held on your property. 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HIGGINS DEALER IN Choice Groceries Wines Liquors & Cigars. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 E. Franklin, St.; (Near Old Market.) Richmond, Virginia. The Custalo House. 702 E. BROAD ST. Having remodeled my bar, and having an up-to-date place, I am prepared to serve my friends and the public at the same old stand. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT. Meals At All Hours, New'Phone. 1261. Wm. Oustale. Prog H. F. Jonathan, Fish Oysters & Produce 120 N. 17th St., Richmond, Va Orders will receive prompt attention Phone 157. A. Hayes, Office and Ware-Reams 727 North Second St. Residence: 725 N. 2nd St. First-Class Hacks and Hacks of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All Country orders are given Special Attention. Your special attention is called to this newstyle Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on kindly New 'Phone 1198. THE PLANET Naval Procession the Feature of Funeral Pageants. EIGHT MILES OF BATTLESHIPS. The Coffin Will Be Borne From Osborne House by the Queen's Highlanders—Precautions to Protect the Royal Visitors to London. London, Jan. 30.—For the first time since his accession the king's train yesterday was preceded by a pilot en route. His majesty was vociferously sheered on his way to Marlborough Mouse. The war office has invited colonial officers and soldiers in England to take part in the funeral procession. Minute guns will be fired from all ships in the Solent and at Cowes, commencing when the Alberta leaves Trinity pier. Each ship will cease fire immediately the end of the procession passes here. After the procession has passed the battleship Majestic the forts and ships in Portsmouth harbor will commenceiring minute guns and will continue to do so until the Alberta is alongside. No standards will be displayed. Ensigns and Union Jacks will be half masted. Admirals' flags will be fully hoisted. As the procession passes each ship its crew will present arms and then rest on reversed arms until the procession has gone, the band meanwhile playing funeral marches. Of all the ceremonies no doubt the naval will be the finest pageant. The Alberta, with the body, will slowly steam along a line of battleships extending eight miles. Facing these giants of the British navy will be smaller vessels and numerous foreign battleships. Whatever the weather may be, the spectacle of the remains of Victoria traversing a lane of warships—the guns all booming—will be unique. The coffin will be borne from Osborne by the Queen's Highlanders Friday at 1:45 p. m. to a gun carriage. The household of the late queen, the royal servants and the tenantry will be drawn up on the carriage drive. The queen's pipers will lead the procession through the king's gate to Trinity pier. There will be an imposing military display along the route, massed bands and drummers playing funeral marches. Behind the coffin will walk Admiral Sir Michael Culmey-Seymour, first and principal aide-de-camp to the queen since 1899; the king, Emperor William, the Duke of Connaught, Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany, the Duke of York, Prince Henry of Russia, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and other princes. Then will Queen Alexandria, the Duchess of York other princesses. Bluejackets will bear the coffin from the pier to the royal raftt Alberta, where Admiral Culmey-Seymour four naval aides-de-camp and two ladies in waiting will accompany the remains. The king, the queen, Emperor William and other members of the royal family, will embark on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. About 3,500 troops will be engaged in the procession from Osborne to Cowes. Ten thousand volunteers will be employed along the line of route in London, in addition to 20,000 regulars. Some disappointment is likely to be caused by the statement that no photo could be allowed to be taken of the procession from Osborne to Cowes. The compulsory absence of the Duke of Cornwall and York from the ceremonies is the occasion of extreme regret and of many expressions of regular sympathy, although no anxiety is felt regarding him, as the malady is not dangerous. He is suffering from German measles. The entire detective machinery of the United Kingdom and the continent has been set in motion to protect the royal personages and other notable people now gathering in London. Nothing definite is feared, but the government desires that the utmost diligence should be exercised, especially with a view of keeping Emperor William from harm. Malatesta and other anarchists residing in London assert that there is not the slightest probability of violence, because England is an "asylum for the persecuted of the continent." continent. On Sunday last, at Cowes, Emperor William received at the hands of the Duke of Connaught his sword on his appointment as a field marshal of the British army. He has expressed great delight at the appointment. On Monday King Edward conferred on Prince Frederick William, the German crown prince, the Order of the Garter. ROYALTY'S FINAL FAREWELL: Form of the Dead Queen Shut Forever From Mortal View. Cowes, Isle of Wight, Jan. 26. The royal family yesterday took their last loving look at the features of the doe queen. About 10 o'clock in the morning the shell was brought into the bedroom, where were waiting King Edward, Emperor William, the Duke of Connaught, Sir James Reid and the royal ladies. The latter having retired, Sir James Reid, with reverent hands, assisted by three trusted house-servants and, in the presence of the king, the emperor and the duke, removed the beehive and the bed to the coffin. In death it was lovingly than in the closing days of life. Not once of the ravages of disease was visible. The servants having retired, Queen Alexandra, the princesses and the children were recalled, and, with lingering, steps and stifed soils, they passed slowly before this whites robed and peaceful figure. At the feet, never king, stood the king, and when the mountain and passed there remained only the son's grandson of the dead. Emperor William, the more bitterly than the royal ladies. Finally he also retired, and the king was left alone. Sir James Reid, beck- oning to the servants who were holding the coffin lid, asked the king's in instructions. For a few seconds the king stood speechless, stricken with emotion and the last farewell. Then he was quickly, finally. It must not be opened again." Denth of Giuseppe Verdt. Milan, Jan. 28.—Giuseppe Verdi, the celebrated composer, died yesterday morning, aged 87. Verdi had been ill for several days and his death was expected. At midnight he began to sink, and did not rally. His friends were gathered about his bedside, and the great composer's last moments were peaceful. During his illness he expressed the desire to repose beside his second wife, with whom he enjoyed full 50 years of happy married life. Indians Under Complete Control. Henrietta, I. T., Jan. 30.—United States Marshal Bennett is believed to have the Indian situation completely under control, and it practically has decided to not be necessary to send Troop A. Eighth cavalry, into the interior. The soldiers may remain here for several days, however, as a precautionary measure. T. A. Sanson, United States commissioner, yesterday rented a large room here and opened court to try the arrested Indians immediately. Columbus, O., Jan. 30—Mrs. John Sharp poured some gasoline into a washing machine here yesterday and an explosion followed. The door of the room was blown out and the woman and four children badly burned. A little girl was rolled in the snow by the mother, who then rushed back to attend her three little boys. All were terribly burned, and one will probably lose his eyes. SCISSORS AND PASTE. Industrious wisdom often doth prevent what lazy folly thinks inevitable.—Massinger. Opportunities are often captured by hustlers while lazy men are sitting on the fence waiting for them to come along.—Chicago Daily News. If Russia brewed this trouble in China she should have shut down the brewery considerably earlier, thereby avoiding an embarrassing overproduction.—Puck. "He was in the legislature two years," reads a notice of a deceased citizen; "came within an ace of going to congress, held a government office five years, and finally died a Christian."—Atlanta Constitution. In every home one of the daughters is called "The Queen," "The Duchess," "The Boss" or some other title indicating that she is so disagreeable and overbearing that there is no peace in living with her. Are you the "boss" of your family? Then quit it, for you are generally disliked by your brothers and sisters.—Machison Globe. FREDDIE'S MARTYRDOM. While the Other Little Boys Sang Songs He Filled Himself with Christmas Candy. Freddie's mother was much displeased with little Freddie. All the little boys and girls were going to be in the beautiful cantata, "A Visit from Santa Claus," at the church on Christmas eve. All but little Freddie, Little Freddie had actually stated his preference for pumping the organ upon that joyous occasion. Think of it! Actually back in that greasy box of a place pumping the organ! Freddie's mother was almost in tears. "Why, Freddie," she said, "Tommy Allen is going to be Jack Frost and THE MARTYR AT WORK. be all dressed up in furs, and Sammy Green is going to be the Ice Sprite and his mother has made him an awfully cute suit, and Joey Brown is going to be all covered with spangles and be an attendant on Santa Claus, and all the little girls are going to be dressed so pretty and sweet, and here you are going to go back and pump that horrid organ. Why, you could have been the Ice Sprite, or Jack Frost, or anything you wanted; and instead of that you went and asked Mr. James if you could pump the organ as your part in the performance. Why, Freddie, I am ashaed of you." Freddie wriggled and looked uncomfortable, but finally said that somebody had to pump the organ, and as none of the other boys would do it he felt called upon to give up being Jack Frost or the Ice Sprite, much as he wanted to be, and go back and pump the organ instead. "Why, they can hire some one," said Freddie's mother, indignantly. "It's a shame to make the Sunday school boys pump that organ. I'll hire some one myself for that night." Freddie said that he guessed now he had promised he'd better keep his word, and his father said: "Let the boy alone. He is self-recruiting and is quite a hero. I'm proud of him." So on Christmas night, says the Chicago Tribune, the other little boys arose and shone, and sang songs and made speeches, and strutted like peacocks, while little Freddie set back in the room behind the organ where all the candy that was to be distributed to the audience was stored. And while the cantata proceeded little Freddie ate and ate and ate, and planted away a half bushel of candy for future use. Scientific Truths "Do you know that colors affect one's spirits?" "Of course; when I buy a blue necktie at night and it turns out to be green I get hopping mad."-Chicago Record. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE THREE GRACES. Apt Turning of a Scriptural Text Upon a Pompous Prelate by One of His Sufragans. A London newspaper tells a good story about the bishop at London and his sufragans. At a public dinner the three leaders of the church in the diocese happened to be guests. The bishop of London arrived first and the "WE ARE ALL THREE HERE." suffragans followed on. As soon as the latter were announced the bishop stepped forward and warmly greeted them, adding: "So we are all three here, eh? Faith, hope and charity!" "Yes, we are all here," was the answer, "and I suppose we may designate your lordship, faith?" "Of course," replied the bishop, "I am faith, Earle is hope, and we shall call you charity, Stepney, because you are always begging." "Well," was the witty reply of Dr. Browne, "it is not for me to object, for the greatest of the three is charity." Winter Navigation. A writer on lake navigation says it is useless to talk of keeping a winter channel open with strongly built ice-crushing boats because the gales are too severe, and the cost of maintaining the boats in motion would be too great. The lake car ferries that make short trips are often delayed for days in reaching port in winter. Three-fourths of the serious losses on the lakes occur in November.—Detroit Free Press. Profound Logic. Mose—Ain't it funny dat a man's brains am in his head, but his sense am in his neck? Pete—How yo' make dat out? Mose—Why, ef yo' want to knock a man senseless yo' have to hit him in de neck.—Judge. Almost an Angel. "Most ingratiating man I ever knew," said the former acquaintance of the deceased. "Why, that fellow could wheel a baby buggy along the sidewalk during a street parade and get nothing but smiles."—Indianapolis Press. Live and Let Live. Customer (in barber's chair)—So you haven't heard Herr Vern Thumper, the world-famed pianist? German Barber—Nein. Dose blanists neffer batronize me, an' so I neffer batronize dem. Tit-Bits. As a Reminder: Rivers—I wish I could remember what I tied that knot in this handkerchief for. Brooks—Perhaps to conceal the initials in the corner. I lost one like it the other day.—Chicago. Tribune. Such a Poor Neighborhood. Mrs. A—Are you troubled much in your neighborhood with borrowing? Mrs. B (innocently)—Yes, a good deal. My neighbors don't seem to have anything I want.—Stray Stories. Somewhat Divided Mrs. Gibbs—Well, did you succeed in finding out the new neighbors by their wash? Mrs. Tibbs—No, I am stumped. The wife wears a good deal of silkwear, but the old man wears red dannels.—Chicago Daily News. He Ought to Succeed. "Have you heard that Turnabout has changed his business again?" "No. What is it this time?" "Livery." "Well, he can't complain of not being on a stable basis this time."—Chicago Times-Herald. Decorative Difficulties. "This newspaper says it isn't possible for a well-dressed woman to wear too many rings." "Of course not; the impossibility is for a well-dressed woman to get as many rings as she wants."—Chicago Record. Why Willie Fought Wille's Mamma—I hear you have been fighting with one of those boys next door, and given him a black eye, Willie—Yesem. You see, they's twins, an I wanted some way to tell 'em apart.—Cincinnati Enquirer When You Are Sick Pure and Fresh Medicines only will cure you then purchase your Drugs and Medicine from; Leonard's Reliable Prescription Drug Store 724 North Second Street. Wm. Tennant, 9 E. Duval St. Richmond, Va. —Dealer in— FINE GROCERIES, MEATS VEGETABLES, CIGARS TOBACCO AND FEED. WOOD AND COAL; PRICES LOW. Goods Strictly First-class and livered free. $1.50 for All. 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