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THE RICHMOND PLANET XVIII NO 13 FIRST HONOR PUPILS BAKER SCHOOL. BOLL OF HONOR. 6th Grammar—Mrs. R. D. Bowser, teacher—Julia Lawson, Cera Jackson, Ruth Holmes. 5th Grammar—Miss M. L. Chiles, teacher—Maggie L. Brooks, Blanche Harris, Hazel D. Jackson, Eleanora Smith. 4th Grammar—Miss Lizzie B. Wills, teacher—Belle Morris. 3rd Grammar—Mr. D. Webster Davis, teacher—Willie Scott, Claybourne Story, Chas. B. White, Viola Grey, Alma Farrar, Arsena Lemus, Susie Monroe, Alice Price, Lillian Jones, Mattie Underwood. 2nd Grammar—Miss Vera A. Holmes teacher—Addie West, Lily Harris. 1st Grammar—Miss M. H. Smith, Daggett, Gwanda Trown, Mabel Smith 7th Primary—Miss C. F. Brown teacher—Perelia Brown, Cora Smith, John Brown, Haddesa Wood. 6th Primary—Miss M. C. Tinsley, teacher—Wyndham Carter, Cornelius Gaston, George Johnson, Lorenzon John son, Terry Stowe, Marie Bacchus, Thes- thesia Belford, Lille Calway, Mattis Fernick, Francis Gilbert, Lille Price, Loonora Mason, Lille Price, Leora Smith, Sarah Toombs, Lelia White. 5th Primary—Miss M. E. Allen, teacher—Carroll Boady, Edward Carter, George Thomas, Laura Augustus, Lucy Combs, Bertha Campbell, Ger- trude Goode, Ethel Jackson, Nellie Jones, Annie Lee, Lizzie Parker, Alice Price, Florence Storrs and Jeannette West. 6th Primary—Miss Martha R. Grump teacher—Buce Fountain, Charles Gray, Ernest Morton, John Pearson, Junius Smith, Spott Robinson, Mamie Green, Hermion Jackson, Addie Long, Julianne Cassie, Elsie Lily Mary, Peaceful Mabel Wiley, Mary Marie Washington, Burnett Young teacher- Sidie Lewis, Arnette Stokes, Victoria Farley, Katie Gilpin, Esther James, Louise Johnson, Bassie Ware, Ollie Smith, Lucy Williams, Bennie Bass, Willie Dabney, Henry Dawson, Wert Ellis, Willie Gray, Lorena Jones Joseph Lovings, Ellis Mayo, Allison Miles, James Royall, James Robinson, Henry Yancey, James Walker. EAST-END SCHOOL Week Ending March 8, 1901. 5th Grammar—Mr J. Andrew Bowler, teacher: Lelia Barrett, Mary Barrett, John Carter, Claudia Dandridge, John Carter, Claudia Dandridge, Moss, Tirgia Rowlett, Rosa Toast and Virginia Thornton 1st Grammar—Miss Luoy V. Billing, teacher: Junius Glover, Percy Christian, Willie Williams, Senora Jackson, Virgine Simms and Sarah Williams. 8th Primary—Miss Annie M. Jackson, teacher: Samuel Garden, Herbert Fleming, Arthur Holmes, Thomas Stewart, Sarah B.axton, Ethel Gwathmey. 7th Primary—Miss Nannie O. Wyatt, teacher: Earl Harris, Mastie Brown, Lillie Lillow, Mary Christie, Lillie Lawrence, Ethel Woodridge, Ruby Claiborne, Willie Toast, Richard Braxton, Joseph Brooks, Mamie Akstinson, Gertrude Smith. 6th Primary—Miss Lula A. Willis, teacher: Mary Tansley, Lelia McAllister, Emma Hill, Jieudetta Temple, Viola Cheatham, James Roberts, Beatrice Christian, Bertha Brown, Ethel Brown, Theresa Taylor, Daisy Tyler, Edgar Allen, Wyatt Ocheatham, George Hatchett, Robert Johnson, Eugene Jones, George Lewis, William Weddell, Bertha Dennis, Indiana Howard, Carrie Johnson, Nettie Waddell. 5th Primary—Miss Mary E. Willis, teacher: Ida Thompson, Maudel Lee, Mattie Fife, Edward Dennis, Leroy Graham, Lily Christian, Etta Collins, Mildred James, Susie Logan, Virginia Mitchell, Julia Neison, Ophelia Scott, Lester Brown. 4th Primary—Miss Maude E. Mund, teacher: Bennie Bland, Thomas Brandon, Lonnie Burton, Elijah Gordon, Willie Langley, John Lawrence, Frank Morton, Arthur Ransom, Willie Saunders, Thomas Starke, Tiller Wood son, Bertha Anderson, Lizzie Bland, Luselie Brooks, Aurelia Hunter, Pearl Morton, Olivia Scott, Rosa White, Inell Rosaux. 3rd Primary—Miss Annie S. Keene, teacher: Hattie Hunter, Bessie Kirby, Ruby Macklin, Willie Morton, Bessie Scott, Felix Gwathmey, Eddie Washington, Mary Woodson, Robert Eatman, Joseph Harris, Nannie Valentine, Samuel Johnson, Mary Steward, Lawrence Page, Edgar Anderson. 2nd Primary—Miss Lula G. Haskins, teacher: Percy Brown, Robert Boisean, James Coleman, Issiah Christian, Judson Clarke, James Easley, Leonard Jones, Arthur Scott, Howard Thompson, Augustus Turner, John Wingfield, Bessie Allen, Clara Anderson, Liberta Ashton, Virginia Brown, Willie Caldwell, Howard, Bertha Johnson, Eva Steward, Della Turner, Florence Wingfield. 1st Primary—Miss Lula G. Haskins, teacher: John Clarke, James Christian, Robert Johnson, Eddie Nool, Nathaniel Smith, Lizzie Bradley, Rosana Blackwell, Eula Collins, Amelia Clark, Anna Coles, Mary Gentry, Lottie Harris, Martha Robinson, Ruth Biley, Al- ma Scott, Emma Smith, Edith Williams, Lottie Williams. MONROE SCHOOL 14th Grammar—Miss Kate G. Watkins, teacher, Elvira Forc, Lottie Lawrence, Mattie Mosby, Irene Woodson, Maria Miles. 8th Primary—Miss Florence Aytes, teacher—Morris Burton, Percy Hall, Alberta Allen, Lillian Foster, Alice Hwin, Georgia Gibbs, Martha Jaspar, Mary Maade, Octavia Robinson, Muriel Underwood, Luzy Winston. 7th Primary—Clarence Crawley, John Holmer, Alexander Jonathan Luzy Johnson, Gracie Lively, Virginia Laws, Nannie Pryor, Louise Smith. 6th Primary—Miss S. B. Grump, teacher—Oliver Tomlin, Gosa Brown, Susie Monroe, Fannie Teyler, Hattie Norrell. 5th Primary—George Hatcher, Lillie Brette, Irena Fields, Leki Hounum, Florence Hampton, Mary Hatcher, Sarah Taylor, John Price, Robbie Poindexter, Josephine Henley, Julia Lewis, Emma Poindexter, Annie Lewis, Sara Taylor, Martha Watkins. 3rd Primary—Wilson Poindexter, Bannie Thomas, Virgine Baptist, Luzy Freeman, Lillie Green, Sage Goode, Alma Hunley, Annie Mosby, Annie Phillips, Floy Goode, Leslie Wood, Estelle Ammons, Bessie Gatewood, Lillie Johnson, Martha Langhorn, Ophilei Markz. 2nd Primary—Emmett Dean, Lillie Eldridge, George Green, Ernest Johnson, Lillie Brooks, Hazel Dickerson, Amy Franklin. 1st Primary—Fannie Bowman, Hallie Martin, Lottie Bolling, Elijah Crane, Charlie Terrrell, Freddie Moss, Bruce Smith, Fred Smith, Phillip Moore, Willie Moore, James Booker. Auniversary of Heliotrope Council, Number 180. Heliotrope Council No. 160, I. O. of St. Luke celebrated its fourth anniversary at St. Luke Hall, Friday, March 8th, 1901 with 87 benefited members on the roll. This is indeed one of the most progressive Councils in the Order. It was organized in March, 1687 by Mr. Maggie L. Walker with Miss Mariette L. Chiles as Degree Chief and Mr. Armstead Walker, Jr. Worthy Father and from that time peace, harmony and love have reigned supreme within her Council, and wonderful success has attended every step. Miss M. I. Chiles presided. The members were out in full force. The leading representatives of the Grand Council and R. E. National Grand Council were present and extended their congratulations and best wishes for the continued prosperity of Heliotropa. Among them were Dr. H. G. Harris, Rev. J. R. Griffin, Rev. J. A. Bowler, Rev. M. Hudles, M. Cunningham, Mrs. P. K. Anderson, Mrs. Martha S. Morgan and the Degree Chiefs of the various Councils. Prayer was offered by Mrs. Lillie Winston. The Annual report was read by Past Worthy Chief, Miss Fannie B. Bixon. It showed $583.58 collected during the year. The cash in bank and treasury, $209.10 (5 shares) or $80 worth of stock in the S. Luke Hall. No deaths during the year and 87 benefited members. Afterwards the Council and visitors partook of the refreshments served by the committee. The leading officers are: Worthy Father, Mr. Armstead Walker, Jr.; Degree Chief, Miss Marietta L. Chiles; W. Chief, Mrs. Flora Jackson; Council Advocate, Mrs. Harriet Johnson; W. Chief, Mrs. Harriet Johnson; Record Secretary, Mrs. Rush S. Charity; Financial Secretary, Mrs. Lillian H. Payne. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The explanation on the Sunday School lesson was well attended last Saturday. All were benefited. The committee from the jail and almshouse made a very good report. The boys were delighted with the most interesting address last Sunday which was delivered to them by M. T. Bailey. Subject; "Be Kind." Come again my brother. Special solo was rendered by Pres. Clifton Cabell. The open meeting for men last Sunday will not be forgotten very soon. The subject was very timely, "A Wrong Conception of Life." The men took an active part. Luke 12:15. And He said unto them, take heed, and beware of covetousness; for the man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. The Sunday School lesson will be explained Saturday. 5 p. m., by Prof. G. R. Lovey, Dean of Wayland College. Free for all. Sunday 11 a. m. and 3 p. m the committee will hold meetings in the jail and the almshouse. Mr. R. H. Hatcher of Manchester will address the boys Sunday 4 p. m. Mr. W. S. Morgan will address the men Sunday 5:30 p. m. at our rooms, subject, "Lost opportunities." Special sole by Mr. Edward Ellis, Jr., accompanied by Mr. R. H. White. You are requested to be a committee for this meeting. See every man you can and invite him to attend this meeting. Tell him we will not weary him. A Go and hear Prof. Davis, Monday, March 18th, 1801. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1901. News From The Philippines. The times continue quite interesting. A great on a psalm is being waged and numberless captures being made. General Grant with detachments from the 41st and 22d regiments sur- rounded Mt. Arrayat and caused Alex- andrino's command to split up, capturing them in squads at different times. General Funston has also been very active. Lieutenant Kinnison with a detach- ment from K Oc., 25th Infantry captured one riffle in the mountains back of settlements. The Mt. Moth Cavalry and the marines from Sobie engaged the enemy Jan 11th driving them from and burning their quarters, Capetining and Bombie. Lieutenant Kinninen, assisted by Lieutenant Emocilis Comer and Lauber thoroughly scouted the mountains parallel to Castelly's and San Marcelino Jan. 11-18 inclusive, with 150 men from Companies K, L, and M. 25th the big camp where driel and Alba were said to have been, was found and destroyed, as well as several smaller ones. All camps showed evidence of late occupation and flight. Lt. Kinninen with 50 men of K Co., 25th scouted the mountains in connection with the 8rd Battallion scouts, Comer and marines on Jan. 14th and 15th located barrio of Feyug but did not destroy, hoping the Insurgents would swallow bait and return. While traveling over the trail Lieut. Kinninen walked up on an Insurgent messenger who told interpreter Flowers about 37 tales and was on the 38 h at the expiration of 14 minutes and 7 seconds. He was brought in and that night Lieut. D.iss with 20 men went over the trail and burned the barrio. The 6th Cavalry is doing great work in the Southern Islands. Resentably an expedition lasting seven days had eight fights with but two casualties. Company B who did such good work around Subie during the straining period is making it hot for the Insurgents around Oabangaan. Reports from General Hughes are favorable to the ending of the insurrection in Panay. A leading Insurgent General aurrendered with 14 rifles. With the news of the passage of the reorganization bill comes the news of the overthrow of the Erzhangue (Canteen) which is received with gusto effect. Every true soldier hates to see this monument of soldier beneficies turn down. The homeward movement has about begun. The 37th is gene, the 11th Cavil in Manila and the 34th under orders. About 38,000 regulars will be charged owing to the passage of the Army Reorganization Bill. Between Marach and July according to well posted authority of this 38,000 depends the first steps in the making of this great island domain. Some will continue in the services of the government in various capacities, some in civil pursuits, and some will return home. It's a golden opportunity. The Metropolitan police are being organized from the volunteer and regularly discharged and will relieve the 20th United States Infantry, who will go on the line after nearly two years of hard police duty in Manila. The Insurgents fired on Subic on the morning of the 10th but were soon driven off. There were supposed to be only about twenty in the firing party. The Marines are very social, they brought up their ball team New Year and were defeated by a score of 23 to 28. When one asks the question, will the Philippines ever be tranquil? Say yes, why? Because family ties will bring peace. In ten years, yes five, these will be more Americano Filipinos than anything else and in 50 years at the present rate the Filipino will be well nigh extinct. The officers and men slike are jubilant ever the 'Army Reorganization. The officers will be promoted much higher, a good many having already been ordered before the Board for examination. The men because a good many will be discharged. Every transport brings additional recruits and are long the companies which will be until the discharging period arrives. Some of the boys are already engaged in business. Mr. P. J. Ocker of E. Company owns a launch (sailing vessel) plying between Manila, and Santa Cruz and does a thriving business both native and American. The Federal party has organized with General Maco Bulon at its head. RIENZE B. LEMUS. General Missionary Conference, M. E. Church South, New Orleans, La. April 24-80, 1901, One Fare For The Round Trip. For the above occasion the Southern Railway will sell tickets from all ticket stations on its lines to New Orleans and return at one fare for the round trip, tickets to be on sale April 22, 28, 24, with return limit May 2nd, 1901. The Southern operates double daily limited service in both directions between this section and New Orleans. Through Pullman; through coaches and complete dining car services: U. S. Fast Mail and South Western limited. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A. 2-16-28 WHITE MAN LYNCHED First Occurrence of the Kind in North Carolina In Fifty Years. GARTHAGE, N. C., March 11,—L. J. Jones, Dr. M. E. Street, David Andrews, William S. Harding, among the most prominent citizens of eastern North Carolina were arrested Saturday night and lodged in jail, charged with being responsible for the horrible death of Silas Martindale. The jail of Moore county at Carthage was broken into Saturday by a mob of fifty men, who secured Martindale, who was confined on a charge of assault, and hanged him to a tree. Martindale was hanged just outside the corporate limits. He was choked to death, and from indications about the scene it is supposed the lynchera waived and lowered him many times, in order to extort a concession from him. Martindale is said to have attacked him. Brewer, a school teacher living on charge of the crime, Bower informed her husband of the concession on gathered the mob. This is the first time in fifty years that a white man has met death at the hands of a mob in North Carolina. She is All Right Now. Mrs. W. M. Tulsham of 809 N. 50th St. has entirely recovered from a must distressing accident. During the early hours of morning she reached for a bottle of camphor lintment and by mistake grasped a bottle of carbolic acid and bathed her neck and shoulders with the corrosive fluid. It was not long before the household was auspired medical service summoned. The skin came off where the liquid touched and the agony was exacerbating. Prompt action saved her from more serious injury. Senator Barlow's anti-lynching bill was passed in the Indiana Legislature Wednesday. It provides that the office of sheriff shall be vacated whenever a prisoner in his charge is lynched, and the sheriff must show to the satisfaction of the Governor that he faithfully did his duty, before he is restored to office. The bill passed by a vote of 51 to 37. They are all going to the lecture of Prof. Davis, Monday night, March 18, only 10ets. Another Court Organized at Norfolk. NORWOLF, W.A., Feb. 26th, 1901. Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchell, Jr., arrived here last night and organized Mary's Court. Independent Order of Calanthe at Odd Fellows Hall. The following are its officers: W. O., Caroline Young; W. Inspector Roena Taylor; W. Inspectus, Susie V. Mackley; S. D., Isabella Spencer; J.D., Pricilla Cotton; W. O., Mary Woodson; R of B! Katie Stewart; R of A, Addie Gay; Receiver of Deposits, Susie Hayes; W. Essort, Maggie Scott; W, Annie Mitchell; W, P., Ross Reed; Conductress, Roberts Gay; Assistant Conductress, Grizzle Hill; Trustees, Pricilla Cotton, Carolina Young, Susie Hayes. This court was organized through the efforts of Deput Grand Worthy Counselor, Mary Gay and she deserves much credit for her persistence. Dr. Wm. Troy and his Madame and Mrs. Camille Riddick of Portsmouth were present, also Ms. Elizabeth Whidby, Miss Sarah Gordon and others whose names we failed to secure. Sir Mitchell visited Friendship Lodge No.3 and delivered a stirring address, being accompanied by Deputy Grand Chancellor. J. W. Randolph. He left this morning for Richmond via C. & O. R. R. RESOLUT.ONS OF CONDOLENCE. Whereas, it has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from our midst our beloved brother, Chas. P. Robinson, and Whereas, we desire to express our love and esteem in some form therefore Be it resolved by the members of Golden Rule Council, No. 62, I. O. of St. Luke, that though we deeply mourn the loss of our brother, we bow in humble submission to the will of the Most High, who dooth all things well. Resolved, that in the death of our brother our Council has lost a valuable member and an efficient officer, and the community a good and peaceable citizen. Resolved, that as a mark of respect our Council charter shall be draped for 80 days. Resolved, that we extend our sympathy to the family and relatives in their affliction. Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon our minutes, one be sent to the family, and that they be published in the PLANET. PAGE BEVERLEY, WILLIAM SMITHMA, W. G. SINGLETON, J. V. GRIPPIN, Committee MARRIAGES PRICE—TARTT. The handsome parlor of Miss Emme E. Jones, 1105 Tyler street, which was so beautifully decorated with shaded lamps and holly, was the scene of a quiet, but pretty wedding on Thursday evening, February 21, when Miss Emily E. the attractive daughter of Mr and Mrs Napoleon Price became the bride of Rev E. Tartt, formely of Washington, but now the distinguished pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church of this city. To the strains of Lohengen, played by Miss Hattie Wallace, the bridal party entered in the following manner: First came deacon A. Hobus with license and on his return brought Miss Mary Davia, who looked charming in a baby blue henrietta with point lace and carried carnations. After which came the groom in a dark blue broadcloth, dove-gloves, with deacon Ed. White; then came the bride leaning on the arm of her brother, Napoleon Price, Jr. Never did she look more beautiful than in her wedding gown of pearl grey cloth, trimmings of white satin and sprangled gause, hat and gloves to match and carried an elaborate bouquet of carnations. After which the happy couple was driven to their sooty home, No 917 St. James where they will be pleased to see their many friends. SMITH-BROWN. Ida B. Smith, widow of Harvey G. Smith was married to Robert S. Brown Thursday evening, March 17th, at 7:30 p.m. at the residence of her sister, 1838 Graceet St., Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. J L Burkadale, D. D., was to have performed the ceremony, but be inquiries. Rev Gibson officiated. Ongoing to the recent —— of the *Owing to the recent _____ of the bride's mother so friends were invited.* and will be in their lives. The hide and groom were formerly of Rishmond, Va. MORGAN—GWENS The marriage of Miss Alberta Morgan to Mr. Stanley Owens will take place on Wednesday, March 27th, 1901 at the residence of her aunt, Mrs. P. H. Smith, 121st St. James street, at 1: 80 o'clock. DEATHS DIXON—The funeral of Mrs. Fannie Dixon who departed this life on Sunday 10th inst at 10 $ p. m., sook place at the First Baptist church. The same was well filled with her many friends and acquaintances who had previously vied with one another in extending to the immediate family their heartfelt sympathy and condolences. Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., conducted the services and having known the deceased for many years was in a position to tell of her many virtues and Christian life. Her daughter, Mrs. Charles Bruce, now of Harrisburg, Pa. and two sons from New York arrived on Saturday and with her daughter, Mrs. P. H. Ford and husband of this city surrounded the bed when she breathed her last. Mrs. E. Tartt rendered the solo, "Some Swee: day, bye and bye," which dimmed the eyes of many of the attendants with tears. The flowers were both numerous and beautiful, and silently expressed the high esteem in which the deceased was held. PLEASANTS—Died at her residence St. Peter street, Sunday, Feb. 24th, after a lingering illness, Harriet Hickman Pleasants. She bore her sickness with patience and Christian fortitude. Her funeral took place from the First Baptist Church of which she was a consistent member for many years, Wednesday evening, February 27th at 3 p.m. Rev. S. C. Burrell officiated and spoke of her kindness to the poor, of her meekness, her faith in the Lord, her love for her children and her church. She leaves a devoted husband, Wm. H. Pleasants, and five loving children, Mrs. Agnes Williams of P.ainfield, N. J; Mrs. Mella Meredith, Mrs. Lizzie Lewis of Philadelphia, Penn.; Mr. William H. Hiskman of New Haven, Conn., and Mr. Daniel R. Hickman of this city to meurn their great loss. Usgell thy bosom, faithful tomb. Take this new treasure to the trust CONWAY--Died at his residence, 718 West Leigh street, James Conway, Tuesday, March 6th, 1901, at 12:20 p.m., after a brief illness. He was 62 years old and was a well known citizen of Richmond. He left a wife 9 children, one sister, two brothers and a host of friends and relatives to mourn their loss. "Asleep in Jesus, Blessed sleep. From which none ever wakes to ween." KENDALL—George A. Kendall departed this life Feb. 28, 1901, at 4 p.m. at the residence of his parents, 1822 Moore street, after a brief illness of seven weeks. Funeral took place from Moore St. Baptist Church Maruh 8, 1901. A. D. Price, Funeral Director. Sent a Committee to See Them. The Ministers' Conference held a meeting at the Second Baptist Church on Friday, March 8th, and it is said recommended the calling of a council to adjust matter between the Fourth Baptist Church, Rev. Evans Payne, pastor, and the Mount Olivet Baptist Church, Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, pastor. The Fourth Baptist Church sent three deacons and three of its lay members with a letter last Sunday to the Mt. Olivet Baptist church asking the Mt. Olivet church to call for a council to meet at Fourth Baptist church or at the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Rev. B Wier and his deacons were of the opinion that nothing could be done until the regular church meeting and the matter will go over until that time. Will Call a Pastor At the regular meeting of the First Baptist Church held Monday, March 4th a committee consisting of all the deacons and fifteen lay members was appointed to take under consideration the calling of a pastor, and to submit a name or names to the church by July 1st, 1901 for its acceptance or rejection. If more time is needed it will be granted. It will be seen that the committee will only act in an advisory capacity, the church reserving to itself the right to choose the shepherd to lead the flock. 一 The anniversary sermon to the Knights of Pythias and Courts of the Independent Order of Calanthe will be delivered 5th Sunday afternoon March 1. 8 p.m. at the First Baptist Church. PERSONALS AND BRIEFES. —Mr. D. W. Green, of Baltimore, called on us. —Mr. Goedrich Giles, of Columbus, O., brother of Mr. James Johnson called on us. —Miss Oelia Johnson is teaching in King William Co., Va. —Mr. John R. Vaughan of Pittsburg, Pa., called on us. He is the guest of his sister, Mrs. S. P. Norrell, 709 Preston St. For shoes of good quality and substantial wear, at low prices, call on Mr. S. J. Gilpin. See advertisement. Mules never grin, but they say they do when they hear the funny things said at Prof. Davis' lecture. Go Monday March, 18th. Mr. William M. Porter, undertaker and embalmer of Chicago, and Cincinnati called on us in company with Mr. W. M. Forrester and his son, Clarence. He will visit Baltimore, Md. Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Peyton of 1011½ W. Catherine St. return many thanks to friends for their kind consideration. Funeral Director A. D. Price has purchased a handsome couch stretcher. He now has as fine an equipment as any funeral director in the city. Mr. G. H. Bagland and Mrs. Rcsa Walker of this city have purchased a lot in the rear of former lot at Charlottesville, Va., and paid cash for it, Jan. 8, 1901. The following persons visited the office last week: W. P. Hamilton, Columbia, S. C.; G. W. Herndon, Union, S. C.; E. D. White, Roek Hill, S. C.; C. F. Holmes, Columbia, S. C.; C. P. T. White, Editor "The Messenger," Roek Hill, S. C.; E. W. Sherman, R. B. Brooks, Savannah, Ga., Wm. M. Porter, Cincinnati, Ohio. We are of the opinion that the publication of the proceedings of the Ebenezer Baptist Church meeting last Monday night would do that body more harm than good so we withhold the same. —Mr. J. Patrick Smith of this city attended the inauguration of President McKinley on March 4, 1901, and was the guest of Mrs. Oarrie Campbell and was entertained by many other friends. He was also tendered a reception by Mr. and Mrs. John Goodrich, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dabney and brother, also Mr. Addison Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins and others. After a most pleasant stay, enjoying the hospitality of his many friends, he reached home on Thursday evening. The musical recital at the Hartshorn Memorial College Friday night. under the management of the deacomplished Mrs. Rosa K. Jones was a grand success. The vocal and instrumental selections were fine and reflected credit upon the students, Mrs. Jones fully demonstrated her ability as an instructor in music. For fine drags, medicines, etc. remember T. M. W. Leonard. His reputation as a reliable pharmacist is too well established to need further comment. Call and see him. The meeting of Excelsior Court No. 117 was held on Monday evening at 4:30 o'clock. The attendance was fair and the amount of interest was manifested by those present. Those who did not attend missed the event. It is earnestly hoped that every member will be present at the next meeting there is business of importance to be transacted. Fri. 11's Asylum for Colored Orphans from Jan 1, 1900 to Jan. 1, 1901. INMATES. Jan. 1, 1900 Total number of inmates, 19 Entered during the year, 4 Total, 28 Loss by death, 2 Jan. 1, 1901 Total number of inmates, 21 FINANCE. Jan. 1, 1900, balance, 67 88 Collected during the Yr., 801 87 Total collection with Bal. 869 75 Total disbursements for Yr., 918 69 Jan. 1, 1901, deficit, 43 94 Besides the above money collected, donations which would easily approximate three hundred dollars (800) have been given by many friends. Donations consisted of articles of clothing, food, etc., for which the board of directors extends thanks; also to Dr. R. E. Jones, who has gratuitously rendered his service as physician to the Army. By order of Board of Directors, Rev. R. W. Wells, Prec., W. P. Epps, Scd. Dr. Humpbreye, Vetirinary Stable Chart, mounted to hang on table wall, mailed free. Address Humpbreye* Medicine Co., Cor. William and John Sts., New York. Answers Inquiry Notices. In response to inquiry notice, Bettie Sinclair states that she lives at 18th and Boad Sts. Her husband died in 1893. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. will preach at Macedonia Baptist Church, 21s and Grace Sts., Sunday, March 17. 8 p. m. His choir will accompany him. All are invited. Rev. A. B. SMITH, Pastor. WANTED. Agents wanted. Can make $3.00 per day selling the great practical work of our colored post, and while you are making this amount per day, you are making your way to any college in the United States that you may desire, contesting for two scholarships worth $60.00 and $80.00. Write at once that you may be the first in the field. Send 50 sents in stamps or money order and receive a full size book for a sample. A book worth $1.00. Write J. E. MCGIRT, 1084 Ache St, Greensboro, N. O. Shot Down Without Provocation. BRANFORD, FLA., March 11th - A mot of unknown men fired several loads into a camp of colored people at the turpentine works of H. F. Sears & Co. at Call, Lafayette county, and killed one and seriously wounded three others. Feeling against the colored people on account of the recent murder of Sheriff Matthis is supposed to have been the cause. Sends His Best Wishes, Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. March 4th, 1901. Mr. John Mitehill Jr. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Dear S.r.; I hope you are well and im good spirit in your hard trials and tribulations. I truly think that you are worthy of the greatest honor. I want my paper continued. Please find enclosed one dollar. I will be here until about that time to finish my con- tract per agreements to paint $300.00 worth of buildings for this school. Respectfully yours, P. A. CRUMP. NOTICE. To all who owe the Pittsburg agent, Mr. Joseph Evans: Please settle up with him at once. The Planet can be obtained at Mr. Nelson Coleman's resta- turant, 1214 Wylie Ave., Pittsburg. Pa. NO PUNISHMENT FOR WATKINS. Will Not Be Iadied for Sitting Eire to William Wilson's House. NOTTOWAY, VA., March 7. —Today was County Court day, but there was no grand jury, and no effort was made to pre-fer charges against W. T. Watkins on account of his having fire to the dwelling-house of William Wilson, the negro who was sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen years for attempting to assault Watkin's wife. The house was set fire to in the night time, when Wilson and wife and children were in the house. The offences setting fire to a dwelling-house in the late-time, when any one is in the house, is likely to punish punishment is death. The people think that Wilson's sentence was a property and there is no desire to punish Watkins. Tragic DISAPPEARANCE By WILL H. HARBER. Copyright, 1900, by A. N. Kallogg Newspaper Company. Twelve days had elapsed since he received that trans-Atlantic warning, and yet nothing had occurred to suggest that Jeanne had arrived. It was on the morning of the thirteenth day. He was alone in his study when the postman left a letter for Blanche. He took it, and as he placed it on the table where it would meet her eye when she came in, he noticed that the superscription was written in a very poor hand, as if it were executed by an illiterate person. It was a small circumstance, but Goddard's mind was inflamed with morbid fears of impending evil. He sat down at the fire and took up the morning paper, but the letter on the table held his attention as if it contained a warning from the Infinite. He heard Blanche coming, and, raising the paper, he pretended to be absorbed in reading, though he was really watching her face as she advanced to the table and took up her letter. Goddard saw a look of wonderment pass over her face as she opened the envelope. A moment he heard her cry out softly: "Oh!" He rose and went to her. "What is it, darling?" he asked, his heart sinking. "Oh, nothing of importance!" She put the letter into its envelope and held it down by her side. "It really doesn't amount to anything." But despite this assurance there was still a shocked expression in her face. He was actually afraid to pursue his questions further, being sure that it was some artifact of Jeanne's. Perhaps some proposal from some confederate of hers leading to a clandestine meeting. Goddard went back to his chair at the fire. His body felt as heavy and lifeless as he sat at down. She put her letter in her pocket and moved towards the door. "Will you not let me see your letter, Blanche?" he found courage to ask. "Not now, dear," she answered, and it seemed to him that her mind was far away. "Will you not tell me its contents?" "I'd really rather not, dear," she said, and without another word she turned from the room. Unable to bear the suspense longer he followed to the door. He overheard Blanche giving an order to James in a low, guarded tone and stopped at the door just out of sight and just within earshot of the two. "I want to go to the city," she was saying. "I shall walk down and catch the trolley car for the station. If my husband asks for me say I shall not be home for luncheon." Desperately concerned, Maj. Goddard began to walk back and forth across the room. A moment later, hearing steps in the hall, he went to a window and looked out towards the HEARD HER CRY OUT SOFTLY wond. He saw Blanche descend the steps, cloaked and gloved for her mysterious journey. He waited till she had turned the corner below the gates and then went out of the house and followed her, taking care to keep out of her view. He saw her get on the trolley car, and seeing that he had ample time to catch the train he waited for the next car and boarded it. When he reached the station the train was almost dus. He saw nothing of Blanche and supposed she was in the ladies' waiting-room. He went into the men's waiting-room, and when the train came he stood at a shadow and watched her pass out and get into one of the coaches. Watching his opportunity he glided through the crowd of bystanders and took a seat in the smoking-car in the front part of the train. He had half an hour to reflect over Blanche's unusual conduct, but he was no nearer to understanding it when his train arrived at the New York station than when he had left Lyndhurst. From a good position, hidden by a truck loaded with luggage, he saw Blanche alight from the train and signal to a hansom. Then, while her back was turned towards him, he called another, and after he had taken his seat he pointed to Blanche's hansom which was turning into the street. "I want to keep that lady in sight," he told the cabman; "do you understand?" "Perfectly, sir," with a broad, pleased grin. "Detective, sir?" The two cabs preserved a mean distance of half a block between each other. It was a cloudy day, as warm as spring. The asphalt pavements were wet and slick and the horses often slipped to the ground. Blanche's anomaly turned into Fourth avenue and headed down town. Below Cooper Union it ran into the Bowery. And along this thoroughfare, with the double tracks of the operated railway overhead, the two vehicles forged ahead as rapidly as the perpetual stream of cars, wagons and cabs would permit. They passed the City Hall park and then ran into Beekman street. Goddard saw Blanche's cabman scanning the doors in search of a number, and knew she was near her destination. The major rapped on the top of the cab, and the driver looked in at him through the hole in the roof. "Well, sir?" he said. "If the lady should get out keep your eye on the house and put me down near there."ordered the major. "Right you are, sir." In the most disreputable part of the lower end of Beekman street the foremost hansom came to a halt before a red brick five-story building. the major saw the face of his ward for a single moment as she stood on the ground and held up her fare to the cabman, his own driver having reined in behind a wagon loaded with bales of hay. Goddard felt like a spy, but he told himself he had the right to follow her, fearing that she was being led into danger. "I shall get down here," he said, hurriedly, when Blanche had gone into the house. The cabman took his double fee reluctantly. "Had I better wait about here, sir?" he asked, evidently the prey of curiosity. "No, I shall not need you," and the major was off. When he reached the building Blanche had entered he saw nothing of her. The entrance was very unclean. A barrel of rags stood at the foot of the stairway and three tattered boys were toasting pennies in the doorway. "A lady came in here just now," he said to the first smutty visage that turned towards him. "Went upstairs," said the owner of the face. "Do you know which floor?" asked Goddard. The boy did not, and shook his head. "She asked for the Simpsons," said another urchin. "They are top floor back." "Who are the Simpsons?" asked the major. "I don't know, air," said the first boy who had spoken. "You can't miss it; it's as high as you can go." It then occurred to Goddard that he was unarmed, and as he did not doubt that Blanche had been beguiled into some sort of trap he felt his inability to defend her in an emergency, and yet he almost ran up the five flights of narrow, unswept stairs. Reaching the top, and seeing a door at the side of which stood a bedstead which had been taken apart and a mattress and ragged bed coverings, he bent his ear to listen. For a moment he heard nothing, and then suddenly from the room came the sound of weeping and the wailing of a woman's voice. This startled him, and he tried the door latch. It turned. The door opened into a cheerless room. Around the walls sat a dozen old men and women as still and silent as Quakers at a meeting. A door in this room opened into another chamber, and there he saw a throng of women and children, and thence issued the sounds of sobs and ordes of grief. Bewildered, he went to the door and looked for Blanche. His eyes fell on the corpse of a woman covered to her wrinkled face with a white sheet. Looking over the heads of this group Goddard saw Blanche seated on a low couch between two sobbing young girls. She had an arm round the waist of each, and the major heard her trembling voice try to speak words of consolation. "Oh, Mrs. Goddard," the elder girl said, "I cannot bear it—I simply cannot give her up. She was all we had—all—all!" So much was Blanche concerned in the duty before her that she did not look up. A light broke upon the major, but he did not have the presence of mind to retreat unnoticed, as he might easily have done. His relief at finding his fears ungrounded was so great that he felt weak all over. Suddenly the younger of the two girls with Blanche looked up. She pointed at him, and touched her sister across Blanche's lap. "It must be the new doctor," she said. Blanche stared at him in bewilderment for an instant. A slight flush mantled her brow. "No, it is my husband," she said; "excuse me a moment." She came to him at once. "Why did you come?" she asked, a look of embarrassment on her face. "I-I am so surprised. I really do not understand how—" He drew her to the side of the room away from several persons who were listening curiously. "I have no excuse for spying on you," he said, lamely: "none, except that I was afraid you were in danger, and I came to—to protect you." "I don't understand," she said. "I really do not." For a moment he was reduced to saying: "Pardon my foolishness, dear; do pardon me!" "Oh, don't think I am finding fault," she said, quickly. "I am glad you are here now, but—" "I may as well tell you that I have enemies, darling little girl, enemies who would entrap you—take your life, anything to take, revenge on me. When first I saw that letter, I did not like its appearance, and when you would not tell me about it my fears got the best of me." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "It was from Mary, there—the older of the two girls," replied Blanche. "I knew her and her mother when—" Blanche flushed a little—"when I used to visit this quarter when I was in school. Ever since then she and I have been friends, and I have tried to help her family. They are so poor. I ought to have told you that I was engaged in this sort of work, at least after we were married; but, kowing that your other wife was opposed to such things, I thought you might think I was parading my deeds, so I could not tell you about it." "Oh, darling, you are an angel, and I am not worthy to touch the hem of your garmental God have mercy on me—you don't really know the man you have married. If you did you would turn from me as you would from a leper." Her face shrank sensitively before the force of his strong sentences. "You are the noblest, most abused man in the world, and I love you too dearly to believe anything against you," she exclaimed, with startled tenderness. "But you'd better leave me now. I am perfectly safe. I have been here often before. I know almost every family in the building. I shall be very busy all day. This death is awfully hard on these poor girls. You and I, who have so much to be thankful for, ought not to stand talking of imaginary troubles in the presence of such reality as this." "When shall you come home?" he asked. "On the five o'clock train, I think. Good-by, till then." That afternoon while making some purchases in one of the big shops on Sixth avenue Blanche met Lottie Dean. "Oh, you dear thing!" cried the latter, giving Blanche a little impulsive hug. "I am so glad to see you, but I haven't a moment to spare. Papa is in the carriage at the door, and is as ornate and impatient as a bear. You have been saying nice things about me." "I always do that, dear," answered Blanche. "You have been talking to Mr. Talley about me; he has told me of a number of nice things that only you could have said." "Have you seen him lately?" Blanche inquired. "Have I seen him? Well, I like that!" cried Miss Dean, with a pretty affectation of resentment. "He has been to see you, Lottie?" "Twice—three times in one week," announced Miss Dean. "Oh, he is so good and charming." "Ah, I begin to see," answered Blanche. "He is a good man, Lottie. My guardian—I mean my husband—trusts him implicitly. He and a number of other business men are about to start a bank and they are going to ask Mr. Talley to be cashier." "Oh, I am so glad," cried Miss Dean, excitedly. "I introduced him to papa the other night. I was awfully afraid papa would not want him to continue his visits, but he seemed to like him very much. Blanche, I shan't forget that I met him at your house—that is, if—if—" "Don't say 'if' when it is already three times a week," broke in Blanche, with a laugh, and the two girls parted. TO BE CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT A Lamentable Failure McLester (sadly)—The new figure I invented for the German failed last night. Friend—What was it? McLester — I arranged a set of beautifully decorated flowerpots in one end of the room, each with the name of a gentleman, and then the ladies were to get partners by throwing a golden heart into the flowerpots. Friend—Why didn't it work? McLester—They smashed all the windows and didn't hit a flowerpot. -N. Y. Weekly. As It Is in Gotham "You have three daughters to take care of, I believe." "Yes, my family consists of three girls now, but unfortunately they are developing tastes that are likely to just double the number of people who will look to me for support." "Indeed?" "Yes. They seem to be acquiring a fondness for titled foreigners."—Chicago Post. Punishment to Fit. "I think," says Mrs. Starvem—On this subject she's a crank—"That the man who jumps his board bill Should be made to walk the plank."—Philadelphia Press. HE GOT BACK ALL RIGHT. Wife (angrily)—Seems to me that we have been married so long that I can't even remember when or where we first met. Husband (quietly)—I can. It was at a dinner party, and there were 13 at the table—Washington Star. Plans Gone Away We muse on all those better things To-morrow we will do and say, But when to-morrow comes it brings immutable to-day. -Chicago Too Truthful. Caller--You look like a good and truthful girl. Tell me--is your mistress really out? Domestic--She is, ma'am. BE NOT DECEIVED TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. King of all Hair Tonics, "OZONO." 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 1971 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, received the request for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thoughtful test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the body of 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 worthy of admiring the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and scalp, and the people are buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fashions and the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—he careful what you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by firing advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics, OZONO. which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $0.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $0.00 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 Ozone has been satisfied in every respect. 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozone as the king of all Hair Tonics. Ozone will positively take the knick of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesome Hair. It will be short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, currying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Scurf can not live after Ozone 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 up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop out. Ozone straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozone 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 Ozone 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 fainy 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. We will also include one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. had a hard tome av itk. He ought to be glad he’s dead. He niver had none av the blessings av the rich. The only tome he iver rode in a carriage in his loife was phwin he wint to his funeral."—Washington Star. Regular Preliminaries. First Reformer—Isn’t it about time for your committee to begin its campaign against vice? Second Reformer—Oh, my, my, not Why, they haven’t had all our pictures in the paper yet.—Baltimore American. A Case in Point. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—You know they say the way to reach a man’s heart is through his stomach. Mr. Crimsonbeak—That accounts for a wife’s first biscuit giving her husband the heartburn, I suppose.—Yonkers Statesman. Locking the First Requisite "If I ask you once to marry me and you say no I'll never ask you again." "You won't? Well, I see now why you didn't succeed as a book agent." —Chicago Record. Insulted. Officer—Here! What are you two hoboes fighting about? Grimy Grimes—He called me "Rain In De Face." Do my face look like it had ever been rained on? —Indianapolis Press. Not a Simple Problem. Mother—Suppose there is a dollar to be divided between you and your sister, how much will each of you have? Willie—Well, that depends on who divides it—Stray Stories. Somewhat Similar. Turkey—Yes, I feel a little friendship for the ballot box. Duck—Who? Turkey—Well, you see, we both get stuffed in November.—Chicago Daily News. Otherwise Occupied. "Easiest way to break in a new pair of tight boots," said Oklahoma Jake, "is to wear 'em while you're breakin' a two-year-old pony to the saddle. You don't notice the boots."—Chicago Tribune. His Stock in Trade. "A writer of historical novels has to know a lot of history, doesn't he?" "Not at all; but he can't get along without a lively imagination."—Chicago Record. Bad Manager. Mrs. Black—I'm sure you have a good husband. Mrs. Green--Yes; but then he is such a wretched manager. If you'll believe it he went and paid our butcher's and grocer's billa last week when he knew well enough the children and I were just longing for bicycles.—N. Y. World. Regular Preliminaries. Inaulted Otherwise Occupied warranted to do all that is claimed for it, or you ask a plain question—would we abso- cure a dissatisfied with our preparations, aim for them? We have advertised for and we are glad to say that every one died in their respect. our preparations, and every purchaser all Hair Tonicis. Ozono will positively sky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Trouble- shair hair long and straight. It will cure calp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, has been applied. It will stop your hair ay 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 bottle. Ozono straightens without any Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays use at any time. The good effects on the first application. bottle—a boxes do the work. We make any time: Cut out this coupon and send One Dollar, and we will forward to you large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, high skin soft and pliant, and cures all cial imperfections, and actually removes made one fany jar of our Electrical Skin removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, the old look young and the young look age of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is send no soap but a pure soap should ever Women as Bird Doctors. One of the latest schemes of a clever woman forced to earn her own living is establishing herself as a bird doctor. Canaries are her speciality, and she has established a hospital where she attends to the ills of these pets. Broken limbs, disordered digestive apparatus, catarrhs and fevers are treated by the woman with benefit to the birds and profit to herself. Other song birds and house pets, and even the repulsive parrot, are treated for their ailments by this bird doctor, who is said to be the only woman in the world making a speciality of this business. So well established is her fame in this direction that she makes visits to Philadelphia, Boston and other cities, when called, and has established a regular clientele there, as well as here, among dealers who make the handling of birds an incident to their other business, as is the case at some of the department stores.—N. Y. Times. In Ocean Depths The sea is a vast laboratory in which all things are dissolved. It is a significantly curious fact that of all of the thousands of dredgings made in the deep sea bottom nothing man-made ever has been brought up, except some worm-riddled portions of a ship's plank, dredged by Sir Murray from a depth of three-quarters of a mile, to the north of Scotland, during the Triton expedition, although many dredgings have been taken in main routes of vessels across the Aalntic. The ocean receives what fortune brings, and not only swallows it silently, but utterly wipes it out of existence, in its original form, until its substance is a part of its own transparent blue.-Science. New Portmantean Words "Brupper" is the joyous meal you have after a very late dance, for instance, and consists of supper, which might almost be breakfast. "Brea" is early morning tea. "Tunch" is rather a common meal in the country, and would be partaken of on coming back late in the afternoon, after a morning's hunting or bicycling. "Brimner," on the contrary, can only be eaten by those people whose custom it is to dine heavily in the middle of the day. But, of course, "brunch" is undoubtedly for the best of them all, and is, indeed, the "resource of the indolent."—Academy. Residually Enclosed Hewitt—I don't like to be inter- rupted when I'm thinking. Jewett—No, it isn't pleasant to have anybody flag your train of thought.—Town Topics. Small But Tough. Diner—Isn't that a rather small steak? Waiter—Yes, sir; but you'll find it will take you a good while to eat it. Tie Bits. 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, arm pits, 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 space to publish. Here is a sample of one: Boston Chemical Company: Dear Siss,—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. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine "OZONO." Send it at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth 50c. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. Total, $4.00. Boston Chemical Company ; Dear Sirs,—You are at liberty to s used OZONO, and give it my most he fooled so often, it does me good to reco Here is another: Gentlemen;—After using OZONO a that my hair is already straight and grow A last word. OZONO is absolutely cause a beautiful and luxurious growth you can use it to secure a glossy loo "OZONO." Send us $1.00 at once, and day we receive your order. BOST 310 East Boston C the following goods: 4 Boxes of Ozone, worth $2.00. worth 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth 50c. Total, $4.00. Name..... Street..... County..... If you want 4 lots like above, send no coupon, let her write her name on a when you send your order. Melodrama in the Future The American Millionaire (last act) —At last you are in my power! Yesterday I purchased all the mortgages on your dismantled castle, together with all your overdue notes and judgments against you. You cannot escape me now. If you do not comply with my demands I shall order foreclosure proceedings at once and crush you like a worm in the dust. But do as I demand, and I will not only forget your ragged past, but will make you one of the richest and swellest "dools" now before the public! The Duke (trembling)—And what would you have me do? The American Millionaire—Marry my only daughter! The Duke (desperately)—For the honor of my family name I'll do it!—Town Topics. The Methodical Man "I don't know whether I want to be a methodical man or not," said Willie Washington. "I am surprised to hear that." "No doubt. But many cases have come under my observation in which a methodical man is simply one who takes up so much time making memoranda and keeping tab that he hasn't enough to devote to actual work."—Washington Star. Where It Will Not Count. "Do you think people in the next world will follow the same occupations they do here?" "No. Why should anybody want to hold public office over there when there would be no money in it, no patronage to dispense and no necessity to work for a living without it, anyway?"—Chicago Times-Herald. He Was One Mr. Krank—No, I won't take that horrible stuff. Mrs. Krank—But the doctor has ordered it. Mr. Krank—I don't care. Why, that stuff would kill a mule. Mrs. Krank—If you really think so, John, don't take it—Philadelphia Press. He Furnished the Proc "Wise men hesitate; only fools are certain," observed the callow youth. "I don't know about that," replied the fair maid. "Well, I'm certain of it, anyway," he exclaimed. And then he wondered why she indulged in an audible smile—Chicago Daily News. Landlord and Renter. Bingham—Yes, this is a fine establishment and one might suppose you are very happy in it. But don't you sometimes worry about the heavy rent? Stilson—Oh, dear, no. I suspect, however, the landlord has qualities in regard to that matter—Boston Transcript. MAGGIE B. PROCTOR, Box 114, Fairfield, Texas. SONO a short while only, I am glad to say and growing finely. MISS BESSIE POWERS, 383 Missouri street, Toledo, O. solutely guaranteed to straighten hair and growth. If your hair is already straight, ossy long growth Buy only the genuine nce, and the goods will be sent the same BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. Baton Chemical Co., 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. Please you $1.00, for which please send at once $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package worth 50c. 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. House, No. City. State. send $8.00. If you have a friend who has me on a piece of paper and pin to coupon Life in Japan. In Japan the higher-class ladies never go to market; the market comes to them. That is, the dealers call and offer wares for sale at their customers' doors. The fish merchant brings his stock, and if any is sold prepares is for cooking. The green grocer, the sake-dealer, and nowadays the meat man, all go to their patrons' houses. In the morning the ladies are frequently engaged in the characteristic occupation of doing harimaion; that is, in starching old clothes and spreading them on large boards to dry in the sunshine. This is the first step to making over old garments, and is done in the open air. Nearly all Japanese women make their own clothes, at all events, even the very richest embroider their garments themselves. They are very economical little dressmakers. -Onoto Watanna, in Woman's Home Companion. A Lost Customer The grocer thought the old man had come to make a kick about some purchase, but he hadn't, although he looked like a kicker. What he had come to say was: "I see washboards outdoors marked at 'leven cents.'" "Yes, air." "I'll give you 10½." "Couldn't do it." "Then you go to grass, and I'll go across the street and buy ten dozen shirt buttons for a quarter."—Chicago Daily News. Massachusetts Frog Farm Frog farming is a new industry in Massachusetts. Adjoining the town of Ware a company has leased ten acres, with a running stream. A series of artificial pools will be constructed where the eggs will be hatched and the young frogs cared for during the two years necessary to fit them for market. The demand for frogs comes from colleges and medical schools, as well as from restaurants. An annual production of 80,000 frogs is expected by the Ware concern as soon as the plant is in full operation.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Serenity of His Savings A most amusing case of hero worship plus theft is reported from Madgeburg. The kaiser, who was shooting in that district, had just hit a very fine hare. Before the keeper could bag it a man was seen to dash from behind a tree, pick up the hare and make off as fast as his leg could carry him. The offer of a reward of five pounds sterling led later to the discovery of the hare-lifter, who is a respectable inhabit of Berlin. He was filled with an ardent desire to possess some genuine treasure as a keepake of his much-adored emperor—N. K. Nixon. THE PLANET SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1901 WAR REMINISCENCES AN EXPENSIVE FURLOUGH. What It Costs a Confederate Officer to Make a Short Visit to His People. "Infantry raids," said the major, in the Chicago Inter Ocean, "were as common in our part of the army as picket skirmishes. Most of the boys remember the several raids we made toward Red Clay early in 1864. Our regiment was there one day, and the next a confederate cavalry regiment occupied the place. The day after that we drove them out, remained a few hours, and our rear guard was scarcely out of the place when the confederates occupied it again. Three days later we found the place unoccupied, swept around it and were returning when we were attacked halfway to camp. Raiding is not occupation of a country. A raio has a definite object, and its success depends upon the mobility of the moving column. "In the western army infantry came to have almost as much mobility SHOUTING FOR HIM TOSURRENDER as cavalry. Our regiment was often out a week at a time covering almost as much ground as a cavalry command would cover in the same time, and we had all sorts of adventures. I remember on one occasion, as we approached a rather pretentious house, we saw a man in gray walking from the stable to the house. We had come up quietly, moving quickly, and our arrival was wholly unexpected. "When we reached the house an old lady who came to the door said there were no men about the place; that all her sons were in the southern army, and that the men servants were away. The orders were to search the house. We went through every room without finding any signs of a man. At last, before giving up the search, I told to the boys: 'I will look under the bed.' I did so, and was surprised beyond measure to find a man in a confederate officer's uniform looking me in the eyes. I covered him with my revolver and demanded that he surrender. He replied promptly: 'I will see you in hell first.' "I knew we had a fight on our hands, and we disposed ourselves to capture the officer, who had the advantage of position. He was a plucky fellow, however, and proposed to make his fight in the open, but as he crept from under the bed one of the boys who was on the bed caught him by the hair and chucked his face down on the floor, shouting for him to surrender. At this the old lady sprang forward, threw her arms around the man on the bed, and pleaded with him not to murder her only son. The reply was: "The best way to save your son is to tell him to surrender," and she ordered that officer to surrender just as if he had been a boy six years old. "The officer obeyed and came out from under the bed crestfallen and indignant. When he looked out of the window and saw the full regiment awaiting the outcome of the scrap, he said: "All right; but it's hard; it's devilish hard. I paid $200 for my furlough, and I haven't been at home an hour. Now, what are you going to do with me? He was taken away with the regiment, walking along with our captain, and talking easily about the war and the country. We captured several other officers and at home on furlougha and caused a commotion throughout the whole district through which we raided." First Volunteer Is Living The first volunteer for the civil war is still living. He is Dr. Charles F. Rand, of Washington, retired from active practice by reason of troublesome wounds received nearly 40 years ago. A certificate in the capitol at Albany attests the priority of Dr. Rand's tender of his services. The certificate is signed by the mayor and two prominent citizens of Batavia, N. Y.; also by the county clerk and sheriff of the county of Genesee, stating that within less than ten minutes after the call of President Lincoln, April 15, 1861, for 75,000 men, was taken from the wire the name of Charles F. Rand was enrolled as a soldier. Two governors of the state of New York and three presidents of the United States have recognized his patriotism and gallantry. He was twice personally honored by President Lincoln. New York remembered him with a gold medal, appropriately inscribed. The United States government has presented him a platin in the most beautiful part of Arlington, where, at the proper time, the state of New York will erect a monument worthy of her first volunteer.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat POETIC GEMS. "I wish my composition was done! What shall I write about Washington? The Composition. First there the jelly old chimp-sweep, Washington Wesley Lincoln Keep; He is black, but one of the nicest men! I wish our chimney'd get foul again! Then there's Washington, up in the north of the state. When I went last summer with Lou and Kate. To visit an uncle I never had seen, And 'most got hurt in the mowing-machine. Then there's Washington avenue, right in this town; A boy in our school lives there—Tom Brown. And a railroad train that you've seen, I guess. They call it the Washington fast express. The president lives in Washington, too-- Not the one where I went with Kate and Lou; It's bigger, I think, though I'm not very sure. But it's where folks go on their wedding then, let me see, there's a western state Called Washington—and it must be great! bear their summer comes early in spring. I'd just like to see that sort of thing! And oh, there's another I'm forgot! George Washington, who fought a lot. In some ago, in a war they had Whinning. When my great-great-grandpa was only 8 and "that my composition is done, And that's all I know about W. Washington" —Emma C. Dawd, in Youth's Companion George Washington. Crush the tyrant, help the helpless, right the wrong. Patient in disaster he, misery and want around him Who a ragged band of heroes led; Blackened specters of the night ever vigilant they wound him. True and faithful to a cause so nearly dead. Out of depths like these he came, and the dawning of a nation Was the guerdon that he wrested from the foe. For himself the wreath of laurel, steadfast love and adoration Of a hundred million freemen here below. Gone the day of Valley Forge, gone the misery and sorrow. Like the clouds before the sun all melt away; And memory immortal will hall his name And memory immortal will-hall his name to-morrow As his countrymen remember it to day. -Chicago Times-Herald. Presumption. He wondered oft if God had not indeed Set him apart, somehow, from all the rest. And chosen to put sorrow in his breast, To scourge him and to cause his heart to kill. By keeping from him all he deemed the best Of joys or blessings men may seek to claim, wondered or if he was not oppress And sadden men may feel the flame And smart of God's displeasure day by day- He was just a moving mite among Some billions more—whose praise no man had sung. Who had but idled by the busy way— Who had, in truth, done naught but claim To let God know that he was here on -S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times, Herald Uncle John, he says he's an Art impureusult. Sister Sue'sagner crank, Brother Bill plays golf, Gran pa tells us what he takes Fer to cure his cough. Cousin Jen writes poetry— Tells us what she's write— Aunt Lavinia always claims Wimmen ought to vote. I go out in the back yard Soon as they commence. Me'n my dog's th' only ones What's got any sense. -Baltimore American. His Hustling Way. "She started to say something about a kiss, and—" Young Huggins grinned in well- warranted appreciation of his own acuteness. "I took the words right out of her mouth."—Puck. It Spoiled Him. Blinks—That fellow Sharpleigh is the most insufferably conceived man I ever saw. What has he ever done to gain such a high opinion of himself? Winks—I believe he once found a m.stake in a newspaper.—N. Y. Weekly. The Importance of Action. It isn't alone the deed you do. There's much in the way you do it. 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The club which invited them was no doubt astounded to observe that the fiery Virginian seems to have experienced a change in his views concerning the Negro, or to have so expressed them as to almost agree with the distinguished Negro from ALBAMA. During the last two campaigns in Maryland, many colored men joined the Democratic party and did all in their power to defeat the candidates of the Republican Party. Now, the Democratic Party, which is in power has called together the legislature of that state for the purpose of disfranchising the colored people. It looks very much as though the Democratic Party can never be trusted when the citizen of color is called into question. BURNED AT THE STAKE. J. HENDERSON (colored) was burned at the stake Wednesday, March 13, 1801 at CORCICANA, TEXAS. He was charged with having assaulted and murdered a Mrs. Younger (white). No allegation seems to be made that he raped her. The authorities evidently knew of his impending fate for an excursion train was run to she scene of the flandish torture, which is now peculiarly American. There is something radically wrong with this government. No civilized country on the globe seems to be so helpless. The Constitution of the United States seems to be operative nowhere, not even in our colonies. Burning at the stake is now the rule rather than the exception. So far as colored people are concerned, they are apparently outside of the pale of the law and must take measures for their own protection. There is no excuse for the burning of JOHN HENDERSON. If guilty, his punishment was already assured. His murderers were worse than barbarians and his untimely taking of by such horrible methods a reproach to the republic. Lyneb-law must go! THE NEW CONSTITUTION. WELL-NIGH all of the candidates for the constitutional convention from this city have declared their position in favor of distranchising the Negroes, and not disfranchising any white man. Of course these citizens have gone blind on the Constitution of the United States which they have sworn to maintain and support. Any man who draws the color line in matters per- taining to the legal status of a citizen violates his oath as a citizen. We have our doubts as to the ability of the class of men, whom we see offering and no doubt, be counted in, to frame a constitution for Virginia. The man who revised the code for this state made such a sorry job of it that no lawyer of ability recognized it as anything better than a botch. When men who desire to be elected to the constitutional convention are forced to stand on the street-corners and yell, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger!" it becomes at once a foregone conclusion that gentlemen of learning and respectability will be found sadly waning when the votes are counted after the ballots are cast. For our part, we are not taking enough interest in the affair to care what the Negro-haters do. They are now engaged in the task of ripping up and nullifying their own laws, thinking that they are injuring us. It's all right, though, for these sporadic outbursts only serve to confound and embarrass the people who indulge in them. "The flow of reason and feast of the soul" will come again. A SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS will yet sit at Washington with an eye to the law and a ear for justice. When that time shall come all of this constitutional rubbish will be brushed aside and the era of great principles will be announced to the world in opinions both learned and dignified. So long as the reconstruction amendments remain, the Negro-haters may snort, howl and change their state laws. The Negro is securely intrenched behind the bulwarks of liberty and armed with the power of a new emancipation will defy his enemies and battle alongside of his friends for all of doctrines which PHILLIPS enunciated and SUMMER had enacted into laws. THE TRUTH IS TOLD. The truth is told at last. The world knows both officially and unofficially that slavery exists and has existed for years in Anderson County, South Carolina. It adds but another chapter to the horrors of the Southland and shows to what extent the Constitution of the United States is defied. It is admitted that planters to whom convicts were leased, supplemented their number by securing free labor by the means of illegal contracts. Illiterate colored men were induced to sign contracts without knowing what they were signing. The civilized world was astounded at the audacity of the slave-owners. The contract contained the following specifications: "I agree at all times to be subject to the orders and commands of said landlord or his agents. He shall have a right to use such force as he or his agents may deem necessary to require me to remain on his farm and perform good and satisfactory services. "He shall have the right to lock me up for safe keeping. "He shall have the right to work me under the rules and regulations of his farm. "And if I should leave his farm or run away he shall have the right to offer and pay a reward of not exceeding $25 for my capture and return, together with the expenses of same, which amount so advanced, together with any indebtedness I may owe at the expiration of above time, I agree to work out under all the rules and regulations of this contract at same wages as above. "The said landlord shall have the right to transfer his interest in this contrast to any other party, and I agree to continue work for said assigne, same as for the original party of the first part." Every line of this instrument is illegal and cannot be enforced in a court of law. One of these poor creatures escaped from the stockade and was unmercifully shot down. He had never been convicted of any crime. His murderer has not been punished, but the result has been to secure the release of the other unfortunate people who are held in durance vile. This is not the only county in which this system has been permitted to exist and South Carolina is not the only state where contracts are enforced at the muzzle of a rifle or at the end of a bull-whip. It will be remembered that when an exodus of Negro labor was threatened in Mississippi and Louisiana a few years ago, that white planters stood in the road-ways with rifles and shotguns and forade the free Negroes to leave. No attention was paid to it then by the national government, no notice of it will be taken now. There are thousands of colored people in the Southland to-day in bondage as absolute as that from which these unfortunates have been rescued in Anderson County, South Carolina. We have known all along that there was a concerted effort not only to nullify the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, but to abrogate 18th Amendment as well. When the citizen of color yields up his right to vote, he will next yield up his right to hold property. When he yields up his right to hold property, he will next yield up his right to liberty, because no people can be truly free who have been dispossessed of the other two prerequisites to freedom. The convict-lease system is not touched by this exposure, and this evil is as great as the one which has just been exposed. Thousands of innocent men, women and children are corralled in the stockades of the Southland, subjected to all of the indignities of the Middle Ages and made to work for cruel masters without THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND: VIRGINIA promise of recompense or hope of reward. Prayers are good. They serve to lighten burdens and tend to prepare us for the other world, but work—substantial effort is needed right along through here. The sluggish North has been aroused and it has gone to sleep again. The liberal South is wide-awake, but powerless and frightened. It fears the oligarchy which has usurped control. It either speaks in whispers, or yells in elarion tones, while assuring the powers that be that noise is all that it intends to make, and sondemnation all the satisfaction it hopes to give. It is the victim who must act. It is the sufferer who must agitate. It may be that he will get no relief. Still the effort is worth the trouble, and with the present disclosures his last condition cannot be worse than the first. Can the American people afford to tolerate such conditions upon American soil? The solemn announcement of the abolition of slavery in South Carolina is a sham. It still exists and will continue to exist until the centralized government takes a hand and forces a respect for the Constitution and the laws. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED An agreement between Chicago contractors and carpenters will prevent carpenters' strikes for two years at least. The total population of Alaska in 1900, as shown by the returns of the twelfth census, is 63,592, as against 32,052 for 1890. A bill passed the lower house of Indiana's legislature which provides for the dismissal of any sheriff whose prisoner may be lynched. Robert S. McCormick, of Chicago, who was secretary of legation under Minister Lincoln at London, has been appointed minister to Austria. Friday, March 8. Signor Pansa, now Italian ambassador at Constantinople, is to be transferred to London. The house of the Texas legislature voted down a resolution inviting Mrs. Carrie Nation to visit Texas. Lehigh university, at Bethelehem, Pa., has 445 students, representing 27 states and 12 foreign countries. State Senator C. L. Magee, leader of the "insurgent" Pennsylvania Republicans, died in Harrisburg, aged 53. President McKinley issued an executive order abolishing export duty on tobacco from Cuba from April 1 next. The long deadlock in Montana's legislature ended by the election of Paris Gibson, Democrat, as United States senator. Prominent sporting men of Boston have selected Bermuda as the mecca of boxes, and a club house will be opened there, to be managed by John L. Sullivan. thousand employees of the Berwind-White Mining company in central Pennsylvania have been notified that the 20 per cent. increase granted in 1900 will be continued. A furious storm of wind and rain did serious damage Saturday and Sunday in Arkansas, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and Michigan. In Arkansas 16 were killed and in Texas eight. Tuesday, March 12. President McKinley and cabinet will start on April 30 on a trip to California. Jeutenant Commander Leonard Chuckley, U. S. N., retired, died in New York yesterday. The Benevolent Order of White Mice has been incorporated by the theatrical women in New York. Boller explosion in a Chicago laundry demolished the building, killed nine people and injured 42. Rev. Elijah Kellogg, known in the world of books as a writer for boys, is living at his home in Harwell, Me. Secretary and Mrs. Gage left Washington yesterday for Chicago. The secretary expects to return in about a week. Mrs. J. A. Jenkins, widow of the first private secretary of President Abraham Lincoln, was given lodging at Elmira (N. Y.) police headquarters Saturday night. Wednesday, March 13. Enlistments in the regular army have increased over 100 per cent, since Feb. 8. Andrew Carnegie sailed from New York for Europe today on the steamer St. Louis. Special despatches report a bad blizzard raging throughout a portion of the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. On her builders' trial from Newport News, Va., yesterday, the battleship Illinois more than measured up to expectations. Joseph Currier, 16 years old, shot and killed 18-year-old Harry Franka, in Philadelphia. He says it was accidental. George Abbott, Jr., 17 years old, is under arrest in Brooklyn charged with drugging and assaulting 16-year-old Mary Palge. GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia, March 12 - Flour well maintained; winter super fine, $2.25@5.00; mennonite extra, $2.00@2.80; Rye flour quiet and steady at $2.90@9.50 per barrel for choice Pennsylvania. Wheat quiet; No. 2 mennonite extra, $2.00@2.80; mixed, spot, $44%@4%c; No. 2 yellow, for local trade, $40%@4%c; Oats quiet; No. 2 white, clipped, $3.c; lower grades, $2.50; for large bales. Beef steady; beef heals, $18.00@1.00; Pork quiet; family, $18.50@1.00; Pork quiet; family, $18.50@1.00; Live poultry quoted at 10%@1.00 for hens, 7%@7.c; for old roosters, 9%@1.00 for young chickens, 12.c; for young turkeys, 12.c; for large western fowls, 7%c; for old roosters, 9%@1.00 for western fowls, 7%c; for old roosters, 9%@1.00 for western gesees. Butter firm and irregular; fresh cremery, 18%@2.c; do. faclimate, 14%@1.c; June cremery, 15%@2.c; imitation cremery, 14%@1.c; fancy Pennsylvania prints jobbing at 22%@2.c; do. wholesale, 22.c; dairy, 18%@2.c; fancy Pennsylvania prints jobbing at 22%@2.c; do. wholesale, 22.c; white, 11%@11.c; fancy small colored, 12%c; fancy small white, 12%@12.c; Eggs firm. New York and Pennsylvania at 14%@14.c; southern, at mark, 12%@12.c; Potatoes steady; Jersey, $1.25@1.50; New York, $1.25@1.50; Jersey sweets, $1.25@1.75; Cabbage steady; New York, $1.45@1.90 per ten. DYING LEADER. Ex-President Harrison's Physicians Have Abandoned Hope. HIS RELATIVES SUMMONED. The Patient Began to Sink on Tuesday Morning. THE OXYGEN TREATMENT TRIED. It Was This Treatment Which Saved the Life of Rudyard Kipling During His Illness in New York-Messages of Inquiry Pouring in From All Parts of the Country-Career of the Poor Young Lawyer Who Become General and President. Indianapolis, March 13.—Gen. Benjamin Harrison can live but a few hours. His condition up to an early hour yesterday morning was encouraging to his physicians, but at that time he became restless, and an hour or so later Dr. Jameson, who had left the ex-president's bedside at midnight for his own home, was hastily summoned by Dr. Dorsey, who has remained constantly in the sick room for several days past. None but the physicians and a few intimate friends are admitted to the house, although there has been a constant stream of carriages with callers. Those at the Harrison residence are Mrs. Harrison and little daughter Ellizabeth, Private Secretary Elizabeth, Dr. Jameson, Dorsey and Hadrian, and a corps of trained nurses. Col. Russell B. Harrison and Mrs. McKee have been advised by wire of the serious turn in their father's condition, and the former has left Washington for Indianapolis. Mrs. McKee, however, is detained at her home in Saratoga, N. Y., through the illness of her children. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Dr. Jameson declared in his bulletin that Gen. Harrison's condition was critical. At 3 and 4 o'clock additional bulletins were issued which simply stated that BENJAMIN HARRISON no change in the condition of the general had occurred from earlier in the afternoon. Drs. Jameson, Hadley and Dorsey watched by the bedside, not leaving it for a moment except to retire for a short consultation in a corner or in an adjoining room. At 5 o'clock last evening it became apparent that Gen. Harrison was dying, and the physicians now make no effort to conceal the real gravity of the situation. They say it is a matter of hours only, and all hope of his recovery is abandoned. Gen. Harrison continued to sink from early yesterday morning. He was for the greater part of the time in a semicomtose condition, and at times there were indications of approaching delirium. During yesterday afternoon thephysicians resisted to "oxygen" treatment in an endeavor to mitigate the constant pain and labor of breathing with which Gen. Harrison contended. By this means the ability of the paris of the lungs not congested and inflamed to purify the blood was greatly increased. It was this treatment which saved the life of Rudyard Kipling during his illness in New York. Early last night there was increased respiration, which indicated creeping congestion, and the strength of Gen. Harrison began to diminish rapidly. After 10 o'clock last night, with his plainly betraying his agitation, Dr. James lee left the Harrison residence for his office to procure additional medicines which the gravity of the care demanded. When he returned he said that the condition of Gen. Harrison was extremely critical, and it is impossible to say how long in his weakened condition the patient might be able to resist the deepening of the congestion. The widespread interest in the condition of the former president is shown by the hundreds of messages from every part of the country which pour into the newspaper offices and to the Harrison home. Messages came from every state and territory expressing the hope that there might be a change for the better. Among the many telegrams of inquiry received yesterday by Private Secretary Tibbettis was the following from the White House: "Why you be good enough to advise me of Gen. Harrison's condition. The president is very much pained to learn by the later reports of the serious character of 'general' illness. George Cortelyou, secretary." Numerous similar messages have been received. Among the former members of Gen. Harrison's cabinet who telegraphed were Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy of New York, Gen. John W. Noble of St. Louis, Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia and John Wanamaker of Philadelphia. The people of Indianapolis who have known the general so long were not less eager for news from the bedside than the citizens of other cities and states, and the telephones in the newspaper offices were in constant use during the day in answer to inquiries. The news that there seemed to be little, if any, hope for recovery came as a shock to neighbors and friends of the ex-president. The sudden illness of th' general retalled to many persons that he had been seen in public more this winter than for many years, and it was remembered, too, that he never before appeared so willing to discuss suburbs of New Year's day he made a notable address at the dedication of the Columbia club building, and since that time has been conspicuously in the public mind by reason of a series of articles in the North American Review. Gen. Harrison was in perfect health last Wednesday, and contrary to common report was not suffering from a cold or from fitness of any scr. He was in full possession of the vitality and vigor which has characterized these later years of his life to a remarkable extent. Thursday morning he awakened with a pain in his chest, which at first was hardly noticeable, but later gradually grew worse until Mrs. Harrison became alarmed, and the family physician, Dr. Henry James, summoned him. He pronounced it simply at the time feared no alarming results. Shortly after 11 o'clock last night William H. H. Miller, who was United States attorney general in President Harrison's cabinet, telephoned from the Harrison home to his law partner, John B. Elam, asking him to come to Gen. Harrison's bedside, as death was liable to occur at any moment. Sketch of a Distinguished Career. Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States, came of a historic line. Major General Harrison, an English ancestor, bore arms with Oliver Cromwell, and rose with him to prominence in the revolution. It fell to his lot to sign the death warrant of Charles I, and after the restoration he paid the penalty for this act, being hanged on Oct. 13, 1660. Benjamin Harrison, the first descendant of Cromwell's general who appears in America's history, was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses, later a delegate to the congressional会议, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, three times governor of Virginia, and a member of the convention that ratified the constitution. His son was Gen. William Henry Harrison, whose honorable career as a goldsmith and statesman culminated in his election to the presidency in 1840, to be allowed by his death in the White House one month after his inauguration. John Scott Harrison, the son of President Harrison, was the father of the subject of this sketch. Benjamin Harrison was born at North Bend. O., Aug. 20, 1833. He was educated at the Miami University, from which he was graduated at the age of 18. After leaving college he studied law in the office of Judge Stover, in Cincinnati, and was admitted to the bar in 1854, before he had attained his majority. The next year he took up his residence in Indianapolis, where he began the practice of his profession. Young as he was he was already married, and poor, but he boldly took his young wife, the daughter of Prof. Scott, of Miami University, with him to his new home. Clients were not long in finding him out, and from the outset he took an active part in politics. In the campaign of 1860 he was one of the leading Republican orators in his state. He had been nominated for reporter of the supreme court of Indiana and was elected. He served in this position for more than a year, but the war fever became too strong for him, and in July, 1862, he raised a regiment and was commissioned colonel of the Seventeenth Indiana by Governor Morton. Col. Harrison with his regiment began service in Kentucky and Tennessee. He was breveted brigadier general for gallant conduct at Reseca, and earned a full brigadiership at Peach Tree Creek. Gen. Harrison served with credit until the end of the war, and was with his command at the final grand review at Washington in 1865. Gen. Harrison was again elected reporter of the supreme court of Indiana in 1864. He served out his term, but declined a re-election in 1868 and devoted himself entirely to his practice in the courts. In 1876 he was the Republican candidate for governor of Indiana, but was beaten. His candidature at that time was a forlorn hope, Godlove S. Orth, who had been nominated, having withdrawn from the ticket. Four years later, or in 1880, the Republicans succeeded in obtaining a majority in the Indiana legislature and then Harrison was elected to the United States senate. Upon the explanation of his term he resumed the practice of his profession. Gen. Harrison was a delegate at large from his state to the national Republican convention held in Chicago in 1884. Four years later, when his name had been at an early stage brought into prominence as an aspirant for the Republican nomination to the presidency, he remained at his home in Indianapolis, carefully refraining from taking too active a part in current political mission. The republican leaders in Indiana, and almost the entire Republican state, had pronounced in favor of his nomination, and his name was presented to the delegation to the convention at Chicago. On the first ballot Gen. Harrison, received only 83 votes, but on the eighth ballot he received 544 votes, 100 more than necessary. In the electoral college he received 233 votes, against 168 for Grover Cleveland, and was inaugurated president March 4, 1889. Three days before the assembling of the Republican national convention at Minneapolis, in June, 1892, James G. Blaine resigned the post of secretary of state, in order to compete with his chief for the presidential nomination. The contest in the convention was mainly between the supporters of these two aspirants, and on the first ballot Harrison was renominated. His plurality over Blaine, who received 182 votes, was 353. McKinley also received 182 votes and 5 were scattering. White- law Reid, of New York, was made the candidate for vice president. Grover Cleveland, who became the Democratic candidate for the third time, received 277 votes in the electoral college, to 145 for Harrison, and 22 for James B. Weaver, the Populist candidate. Gen. Harrison, whose first wife died a few days before the presidential election of 1892, married Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmock, a niece of his first wife. Since retiring from the presidency Gen. Harrison has studiously avoided taking an active part in political affairs, and has devoted himself to his law practice. His fee as counsel for Venezuela in the boundary dispute with Great Britain was said to be $200,000. Emperor William Assaulted. Berlin, March 8.—Emperor William, who was assaulted by Dietrich Welland, is obliged to remain in bed for a time. The assault took place Wednesday night at Bremen as the emperor was driving from the Rathskeller to take the train for Berlin. Welland, evidently without premeditation, threw a heavy fishplate, which caused quite a severe wound on the emperor's cheek and will compel him to remain in his room for several days. The assailant is an irresponsible epileptic, and the assault has no political significance. No Senators From Delaware Dover, Del., March 9.—The legislature adjourned yesterday without selecting a United States senator. The final vote for the full term was: Kenney (Dem.), 23; Addicks (Union Rep.), 16; Dupont (Reg. Rep.), 7; Higgins (Reg. Rep.), 6. Necessary to a choice, 27. For the short term: Saulsbury, 23; Addicks, 23; Richards (Reg. Rep.), 7. TO MAKE LEGAL CONTEST Democrats of Camden Ignore New Jersey's New Election Law. WILL CARRY IT TO THE COURTS. Democrats Declare the New Law Abolishing Spring Elections in Cities Is Unconstitutional-Results of Elections in the Smaller Towns Camden, N. J., March 13.—Despite the passage by the state legislature of the anti-spring election bill, the Democrats of this city yesterday voted for their candidates for mayor, recorder, receiver of taxes, city treasurer and councilman. Two thousand votes were cast. The supreme court had refused to issue a mandamus on City Clerk Kramer to furnish ballots, but the Democratic city committee, anticipating this action, had provided for the emergency by causing tickets to be printed. As the city had not provided ballot boxes the returns were sealed and will today be placed in the hands of the city committee. Counsel for the city committee said that under ordinary circumstances it would be necessary to comply with the law and vote in booths, with a secret ballot prepared by the city clerk, but when the voter was deprived of his rights by an act of the legislature he had the constitutional right to proceed and vote for his choice in any way, so that he cast his vote, and the result is recorded in the office of the city clerk. The election was held to furnish a basis for testing the constitutionality of the anti-spring election law. The refusal of the supreme court to mandamus the city clerk will furnish the ground for a bill of objection which will be filed in the court of errors and appeals. Similar elections were held in other cities. Regular elections were held in all the townships, villages and boroughs of the state. In most of the places the contests were confined to local issues. In Park Ridge the citizens' ticket won, Andrew P. Perry being elected mayor to succeed himself. At GlenRidge Mayor Robert S. Rudd was re-elected. The citizens' ticket was elected at Valisburg. The officials who will hold office for the next year are in favor of having Sunday bicycle races at the track, and this was the issue which was presented to the voters. Thomas Connolly was elected mayor and three aldermen on the same ticket won. The citizens' ticket headed by Daniel S. Wickle was victorious at Mattawan. The elections were closely contested at Princeton. E. M. Updike was elected mayor. The Democratic ticket was successful in South Orange. P. Hall Packer was for the ninth time elected mayor of Seabright. In Westwood the independent ticket headed by Isaac Bogart for mayor was elected by a majority of two. At Somerville the Democrats carried Somerville and Raritan boroughs. The result of the election for freeholders makes the county board a tie politically. The borough election at Fanwood resulted in a tie vote for mayor. R. J. Swatckhammer, a Democrat, was elected mayor of Dunellen. At Plainfield N. D. Smalley, Republican, was elected mayor. THE REPLY OF GREAT BRITAIN Cannot Accept Senate Amendments of the House Resolution the Hay-Pauncefoote Treaty. Washington, March 12. The long expected death from the British government to the state department of munication reciting the action of the state upon the Hay-Pauncefoote treaty was returned yesterday. Lord Pauncefoote, the British amassador, came to the state department at noon by appointment. He brought the answer with him, and read it to Secretary Hay. It was, in form, an instruction from the state department, the British minister of foreign affairs, Lord Pauncefoote, and of this instruction he left a copy with Secretary Hay. The secretary and the ambassador were closed for half an hour. At the conclusion of the conference it was stated that the instruction to Lord Paunceforte was to notify the government of the United States that the British government did not see its way clear to the acceptance of the senate amendments. These amendments were at some length, in argumentative fashion, a purpose of the British government behind that it had sound reason for declining to accept them. After disposing of the details, the note concluded with an expression of regret that such a course was forced upon the British government. There was nothing in the nature of a counter proposition, nor was any opening left for further action by the British government. It was stated that if there is to be a further attempt to amend the Union-lower treaty, so as to authorize the Union to enter waterway across the isthmus, then it is for the United States to make the oceatures, the British government simply drops the matter at this point. Mr. Bryan Visits Philadelphia Philadelphia, March 13.—Col. William Jennings Bryan paid a visit to this city yesterday and was entertained by publishers and editors of the leading newspapers. He visited the big newspaper offices and several publishing houses. Mr. Bryan stated that his visit was one of business alone. He stated that he is preparing to enlarge The Commoner and that he wants advertising. He have found, he said, "that advertise may be overlooked by a progressive newspaper man. I started small, but I am ready to expand." Everywhere Mr. Bryan was followed by cheering crowds. Last night Mr. Bryan left for Nebraska. Amnesty For Boers London, March 13.—The Daily News this morning makes the following important statement: "We understand that the government has greatly modified the unconditional surrender policy. We believe Lord Kitchener has been authorized to offer amnesty to both the Boers and the Boer leaders except where treachery is clearly proven. Cape rebels only are to be punished by disfranchisement." GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS. Richmond, Va., March 9—The differences between the tobacco workers and the manufacturers of Richmond have been settled, the manufacturers employing union labor agreeing to a 5 per cent increase in wages. The women and girls, who have been receiving six cents per hour, have had their wages advanced to seven and one-half cents per hour. The advance will affect 1,000 workers. Birmingham, Ala., March 17.—M. W. Howard, who, while a member of con- gress from the S venth district of this state whate a book entitled, "If Christ Came to Congress," has sled a petition in bankruptcy he. He places his liabilities at $10,827 and assets at $796. Mr. Howard now resides at Fort Payne, where he has been identified with some industrial projects since his retirement from congress. McRae, Gae, March 13.—The headless trunk of a man was found in the Ocmulgee river, on the lower point of Oaky Bluff, near here, where it had drifted during the recent high water. There is little doubt that the man had been murdered, as the head was apparently severed from the body with an axe. Friends of Edward Almy, an electrical engineer, who disappeared from Macon about Jan. 1, are of the opinion that the headless trunk found is that of Almy. Dallas, Tex., March 11.—Further reports of Saturday's tornado at Wills Point have made no additions to the death list. Eight persons were killed and five received probably fatal injuries. The property loss at Wills Point is $50,000. East of Wills Point the country is dotted with evidences of the storm's fury and by the little mounds of wreckage its course can be followed to the Arkansas line. At New Boston and Texarkana it seems to have left the state. At both these places houses were considerably damaged. Opelousas, La., March 9.—Nathan Simpson, Willie Payne and Stanley Gordon, two mulattoes and one negro, were legally executed by the sheriff in the jailyard here yesterday in the presence of the legal number of witnesses. The rope on Willie Payne's neck in the fall broke. The neck of the other two were broken. Payne was picked up and placed in a chair until another rope was prepared. When he was brought to the gallows for the second time he was so weak he could not stand, and had to be held up to the trap. At the second drop his neck was broken. Fulton, Ky., March 11.—In the terrific storm that swept this section on Saturday night the damage was greatest at Clinton and Hickman. At Clinton 20 negro cabins were demolished, two negroes being mortally hurt and many others badly bruised. Part of Marvin college was unroofed and the water works plant was destroyed. The freight cars on the Illinois Central awaived at the depot at Clinton were blown from the back. The Baptist church at Hickman was detached by wind. A large number of tenant houses and barns were blown down in Fulton and Hickman counties and the loss of property is large. Charleston, S. C., March 11.—Bessie Pinckney, the companion of the wild man captured in the swamp above Charleston two weeks ago, was captured yesterday. The man, Isaac Glover, disappeared with the Pinckney woman and both were raving mad. They terrorized the strip of country above Charleston. Glover was caught with lassesses swong by phosphate hands, but the woman got back to the swamps. Negroes fled from the section, and when the woman came to the edge of the swamp yesterday a crowd armed with ropes and clubs managed to catch her. She fought with great strength and the fierceness of a wild animal. She was locked in a cage. Charlotte, N. C., March 11.—Present session of the North Carolina legislature has decided not to enact any legislation regulating work in the cotton mills of the state. The operatives, as well as the mill owners, were anxious to avoid any legislation. An agreement signed by nearly all the mill owners of the state was submitted to the legislature, and this agreement was accepted. By this agreement one week's work shall not exceed 66 hours; no child less than 12 years old shall work in a cotton mill during the school term, except children of widows or physically debilitated parents, when 10 years shall be the lowest limit. Mill owners agree to co-operate with any feasible plan to promote the education of the working people. SOUTH CAROLINA SLAVERY It Is Abolished by the Grand Jury of Anderson County. Columbia, S. C., March 8.—The grand jury of Anderson county yesterday made its report to Judge W. C. Benet, and declared that a practical enslavement of negroes has been conducted in that county. The presentment was prepared by a special committee which held stockade camps in Anderson county, and connged therein negroes guiltless of any crime but under a term of servitude under voluntary contracts which they had signed in partial ignorance. The charge of false imprisonment was made against J. S. Fowler, P. B. Allen and W. Q. Hammond, three of the largest planters and most influential men in Anderson county. The grand jury declared that these men, who employ convicts from the state, were likely to be responsible for stackades negroes who for some petty cause had been sent there for breach of contract, although convicted before no officer of the law. The presentment of the grand jury will put an end to this practice, which is conducted in no other county in the state. It has been known in Anderson county that such a system was being carried on, and the people of that county are glad that it has been done away with. Judge Benet declared that the presentment brought out pitiful tales. It told of illegal arrests and imprisonment, of cruel whipping, of prolonged imprisonment without even the farce of a trial, of kidnapping negroes from other counties and even from Georgia, of fear to give testimony, refusal to testify, and of poor negroes professing to be satisfied and contented. In concluding he said that Anderson county would thank the grand jury for having relieved her of this shameful burden and saved her good name from the stigma that a few of her misguided citizens had placed upon it. Saturday, March 9. The extraordinary session of the national senate adjourned today until the first Monday in December. The health of Count Tolstol, the novelist and social reformer, is occasioning uneasiness in Russia. A jubilee convention of Young Men's Christian Associations of North America will open in Boston June 11. The strike in Havana has been settled, the stevedores, lightermen and cartmen returning to work at a compromise. Owing to German press opposition, Lord Roberts has "returned with thanks" the insignia of the Order of the Black Eagle conferred by Emperor William. Monday, March 11. The physicians of Li Hung Chang declare that his life hangs by a thread. United States Consul Hay, of Pretoria, left London for New York Saturday. Gon. John Palmer, ex-commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., may be appointed pension commissioner. AC PLANET SATURDAY MARCH 16.1901 TEMPERANCE A WASTED LIFE. Bad Story of Lizzie Finley—Spends Nearly Nine Years in Jail for Drunkness. Pitiful Indeed is the story told of Lizzie Finley, of New Haven, Conn. Once pretty and beloved, 16 years ago she took to drink, and since she started downward she has passed eight and three-quarter years in jail for drunk- ness. Think of it! Convicted 117 times of intoxication she will have passed 3,200 days in jail for her offenses when the penalty inflicted for her last offense shall have been rounded out. There is no denying the fact that this woman, whom she the police call the "star drunkard" of the city, has been attractive. Traces of refinement and beauty still linger in the dissipated face, and there is that in her rancorous voice which reminds one that sometime in the past she might have been listened to with love by husband and little ones. Sixteen years since she began to Drink, and here she was up again for the 117th time! The record was enough to make one shudder and to awaken the pity of the most hardened for this poor besotted creature. In the majority of cases the sentences had been for from 30 to 60 days, but often and often judgment had been suspended to give her a chance to reform, but, like "Jane Cakebread," she never reformed and her case seems hopeless. On being liberated from jail scarcely 48 hours would go by before she was drunk again, and the recorder of the police department show scarcely a month in many years when this woman was LIZZIE FINLEY, THE "STAR DRUNK-ARD." out of jail that did not find her again under arrest. "Yes, it's 16 years now since I began my life of dissipation," said Lizzie Finley, musingly. "And yet I was not always a bad woman. Once I was happy. Once I had friends who were respected, a mother who loved me, a husband who made for me a home. Once I had children who played about my knees, the same as many another mother is rejoicing over to-day. But, my, my, that seems so long ago—so long ago!" And the great tear-drops welled up in the eyes of the unfortunate woman, showing that somewhere, down deep in that abandoned nature of hers, there were yet well-springs of feeling which were stirred as memory's chords were swept by reminiscences of other days. "I was raised in old England. My parents were working people, and my home life was happy. My grandfather was a brewer by occupation and drank moderately. So did my father; but I do not think I inherited my present appetite from them. It is rather a product of artificial growth; but of that I will tell you later. "Whena young girl I married an Englishman. We set up a home and lived happily together. He was a cabinetmaker by trade and a clever workman, and our home was all that we could desire. I never drank in all those days. "By-and-by baby came to us. My heart went out to the little boy with all a mother's love. I watched over his infancy with jealous care, and year by year I saw him grow up into a sturdy lad. He is living now, somewhere, God only knows where. It has been long years since I have seen him. "But there came a change in my life. My husband was seized with consumption and died. I then decided to come to America. I did so about 18 years ago, bringing my boy with me. I was not bad-looking, and I had good health and was able to work, and in this new world I set about establishing a new home. I was then 32 years old. "Up to that age I had never known what it was to go on off a spree. I did not even drink in moderation. At my father's house when a girl the beer mug was common upon our family table, but we girls were never allowed to drink. I was one of a family of 15 children. "But troubles came to me, deep and plenteous. I lost my husband. From a home of my own I was forced by circumstances to go out to service. For awhile I maintained my womanly integrity, but, fond of sociability, I fell in with a crowd of women who led me astray. These women knew I usually had money by me, and they cultivated my acquaintance and I like their lively and social ways, was also easy dupe. "I spent my money on them and under their guidance began to drink. Not whisky, mind you, for at first I couldn't stand that. A little sip of it would fly to my head and drive me wild. I began on beer. Tell me that beer won't make a person drunk! "I want to tell you—and I know what I am talking about — it's one of the worst promoters of drunkenness. It brought me where I am to-day, a pauper, a vagrant, a woman without a home, thrust into the street to live or to starve; a mother without her children, a wife without a husband, a woman without a character! "Early in my career my fines and costs were paid by the people for whom I worked, but when I became so far gone that people had no use for me I began to realize the truth of a text I had once heard that the wages of sin is death. "I am to-day a wreck of what I once was. I am beyond all hope of reform I shall get another long sentence in jail to-morrow. I shall serve it. I shall be released, get drunk again and probably again, and at last die a drunkard with no one to care for me; another poor unfortunate; and those who know me will simply say: 'It's only Liz Finley gone to her death.' " I'm nearly $5 now, but I feel as though I had lived a century. But there I have told you my story." The police records covering Lizzie Finley's criminal career cover long entries in at least five big volumes on file at the central office, and from them an Evening World man was permitted to make the following entries. In an ordinary case of drunkenness the costs in the city court are from $ to $7—a fair average is $6. Prisoners in working out costs at the county jail are allowed $1 per day to apply on their fine, so that in each case of drunk against this unfortunate woman a fine of not less than $6 on an average and sometimes more would be included in her sentence, which would add at least six days to each case, or about 500 days in all—N. Y. World. WOMEN AND LIQUOR. Strong Presentation of the Second Situation by Mrs. Lake of Catholic Total Abstinence Society. [At the National Catholic Total Abstinence convention Mrs. Lake, the able and eloquent vice president of that organization, called attention to the increase of the drinking habit among women. Her statements have been severely criticised and she felt called upon to issue the following declaration, with worthy of a careful reading. We give the substance of her paper.—Union Signal.] Judging from the criticism that I have seen concerning the matter, the chief offense lies in that statement of Dr. Cyrus Edson, who claimed the drink habit was prevalent among society women—"its treatmentalmost as common as that for coughs and colds among the Four Hundred." There is a trite saying that " "Tis only the wounded bird that flutters," therefore I take it that that portion of society which seems most indignant is most culpable. There are society women who are leaders in everything that is pure, lofty, refined, intellectual, against whom no such charge could lie. But there are others, and what was said concerning them and the drink habit—whisky tea, punch bowl receptions, afternoon poker games with strong drink, refreshments, etc.—is true Every word is true. And as we go down the scale of the social ladder we find similar customs duplicated in quantity if not in quality. I am asked: "Are the above conditions prevalent among a majority of women?" I should say emphatically, No! Thank God! But they are sufficiently prevalent to be alarming. As we are now reaping the harvest of past habits, so as the habit increases will we in the days to come see more of the evil results, unless the cause is checked. Another course of life-destroying practice was laid bare when one of the greatest specialists on neurotics of the century said: "If you would stop drunkenness, begin at the cradle, in your nurseries." I would go a step further and say, begin before the conception of a new life. Though a child may not inherit the direct appetite for alcohol, yet it is true that a weak, characterless moral pervert will be the child of any mother who poisons her body and debases her character by drinking egg-nog, cocktailia, brandy or beer while she is forming the character and building up the structure of the child God has given her the privilege of bearing. Then in almost every walk of life our young women are surrounded by such conditions that the wonder is that more of them have not the curse of alcoholic appetite fastened upon them. In that part of the social world where hand-painted china or cut-glass punch bowl is ever present at social functions, who is chosen to serve its wine or brandied contents? Why, the prettiest, brightest, most winsome girl the hostess can find. Then when the young girl entertains her own friends the practice tangt by her elders is carried out, resulting oftimes in a maudlin condition of hostess and guests. After-theater suppers, with champagne as a beverage, have sent many a young woman home in an intoxicated condition. Beer gardens are thronged with people of both sexes. Go to some of these, my critics, and see our future mothers, now in their teens, filling and drinking glass after glass of beer in company with those of the opposite sex. Then ask yourself, first, is it any wonder that men's respect and reverence for womankind is lessening daily; and secondly, how or where will this end? And why wonder at woman's yielding to the subtle, insidious influence of alcohol? Has she not brain tissues, nerve centers and flesh fiber as well as her brother? And if practice becomes a habit, and habit vice with him, why not with her? She is different only in so far as her depth of plethy and glorious womanhood keeps her where God places her, on a higher pedestal than her brother man. Perhaps That Is Not Much. Some men's only virtue is that they will do as they agree to.—Washington (Ia.) Democrat. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. FINE SALTING WORK How They Got Ten Thousand Dollars Out of Two Young Bostonians by Loading Dynamite Sticks with Gold Dust. "Every now and then I see an article in the papers or magazines about salting gold mines," said the ex-California miner to a St. Louis Globe-Democrat man. "They are mostly the regulation old stories about loading shotguns with gold dust and blazing away into the face of the drift; or squirting a gold solution into the expert's sample sacks by means of a hypodermic syringe. Occasionally the story is varied by doctoring the fuxing in the assay office, or having the villain spit tobacco juice casually carrying a solution of gold into the crucible while the expert is looking for a button, just as if in a moment of forgetfulness he mistook it for a spittoon. Those stories may amuse the tenderfoot, but they are chestnuts to the mining fraternity. "The cleverest piece of salting work I ever knew of and which I've ever seen in print occurred out in Tuelnmme (which, by the way, is pronounced as if you said 'to woller me'). Some years ago two old miners worked a couple of young fellows from Boston and their expert to the tune of $10,000 and moved promptly to other diggings. "It was the first and only time I ever heard of this particular scheme being applied, and I think they deserve the credit of originality. "They had sunk on a ledge that showed up about 12 feet from hanging to foot wall. It was pretty quartz, but as barren as a brickbat, except a color here and there. They were just on the eve of abandoning it when luck turned their way. Two young fellows from Boston were out looking for a good free milling proposition and willing to pay well for something that suited them. The old miners got wind of the news and looked 'em up. it was ar- LOADING THE STICKS. ranged that they visit the camp next day, and were to bring their expert and keeper with them. That night the miners opened the last box of dynamite they had in camp, and with a sharp instrument punched a hole in the end of every stick of powder and poured in a bit of gold dust they had got for the purpose. Sealing the sticks carefully again, they put them back in the box and replaced the top as if it had never been opened. "Inspecting the ledge, he was favorably impressed by its size and appearance and the formation. Not wanting to sample any ore that might have been tampered with, either on the dump or in the exposed surface of the ledge, he decided to drift in here and there, and get the virgin stuff that couldn't possibly have been salted. To do this he needed powder. The miners had a fresh box to offer. Unsuspecting, the expert accepted it, as the box had apparently never been opened. Then the miners turned over the camp to their visitors for two days and went to town, as an evidence of their perfect good faith. The expert and keeper drilled and shot until they got in where they knew the ore was free from outside influences. Then they sampled and made assays. The buttons showed $22 a ton on an average. "A 12-foot ledge of that value was a bonanza, and no mistake. The formation indicated permanence, it was a pay proposition from grass sod—a big purchase. "After a day of negotiations in town it was arranged that $10,000 be paid down in cash, the balance of $15,000 to be paid in 12 months. Both sides were satisfied and all hands had dinner at the hotel. The early stage next morning carried the two miners to Sonora. In much less than 12 months the expert found out that with each shot of that dynamite he had salted his ore, and the second payment of $15,000 was never demanded." Novel Use for X Boys A dispatch has been received from Berlin to the effect that the authenticity of a painting has just been revealed with the aid of X-rays. The work, which is at Ratisbonne, was supposed to be a Durer, dating back to 1521. The X-rays revealed Durer's monogram and the date 1524. The painting is on silk, stretched over an oak board two centimeters (.79 inch) thick. Hard on Female Prisoners Convicts in British prisons are not permitted to see a mirror during the entire period of their incarceration. To a female this is keener punishment than solitary confinement. Faithful to Their Duty Last October a cold spell in Montana killed a sheep herder in the Great Falls district, two feet of snow covering the range in places, and the thermometer indicated 40 degrees below zero. The herder was frozen to death on the prairies while caring for the sheep, and it was three days before his fate was known to his employer. Two shepherd dogs were with him when he died, and one of these stayed with his body while the other attended to the sheep, just as though the herder had been with him. The dog drove them out on the range in the morning and back again at night, guarding them from wolves and preventing them from straying off. Neither dog had anything to eat during the three days' vigil, so far as could be ascertained, but the 2,500 sheep thrived as well, apparently, as though directed by human agency. The singular fact about the matter is that these faithful animals would have starved to death rather than harm one of the sheep left in their charge.—Chicago Chronicle. Salt Lake of Larrake. In the island of Cyprus is a basin cut off from the sea, although sunk slightly below sea level, which contains a salt lake from which a considerable harvest of salt is annually obtained in August, when the fierce summer heat dries up the water. C. W. Bellamy, who recently visited the lake called Larnara, thinks sea water percolates through the rocks into the basin, thus supplying the salt. A single heavy rain in midsummer has sometimes suffice to ruin the salt crop, and the Cyprians, in order to protect the valuable lake as much as possible, have constructed channels to carry off the flood water of rains from the slopes of the basin into the sea.-N. Y. Times. An Animal That Secretes Camouflage An Animal That Secrets Camphor. Prof. O. F. Cook, of Washington, reports the surprising discovery of camphor as an animal secretion. The animal concerned is a myriapod, resembling a worm, or small slug, and scientifically known as Polyzonium rosalbum. It lives in the humus of moist, undisturbed forests. When handled it gives off a very distinct odor of camphor, and ejects a milky fluid which possesses the smell, flavor and taste of ordinary camphor. Prof. Cook thinks the camphor is secreted instead of the prussic or hydrocyanic acid found in other myriapods as a means of defense.-Science. A Man's Four-Mile Jump. A workman who was repairing the roof of a railway station near Interlaken, Switzerland, slipped, and, finding himself falling, jumped in order to escape being impaled on the railing below. At this moment, however, an express train happened to be passing, and the man landed on the roof of a carriage, to which he desperately elum. He was carried in this position to the next station, four miles away, before the train stopped, and the unfortunate man, who, though severely shaken, but not hurt, was enabled to descend from the roof.-London Mail. We May Talk with Martians. Prof. Camille Flammarion thinks we can get to talking with the Martians after awhile, and he indorses Prof. Schmoll's idea of reproducing an outline of the luminous points of the Great Bear at Bordeaux, Marscelle, Strasburg, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Stockholm. If the Martians respond by tracing an outline of some of the heavenly constellations in points of light on their planet, then intercommunication between the planets will have begun—Chicago Chronicle. Old Style. "Jennie," said Mr. Younghusband, "each of these clothes-bags has a hole in the bottom of it." "What clothes-bags? We haven't any clothes-bags?" "Why, what's this I've been putting my collars and cuffs in all this week?" "Why, George! That's the sleeves of my dress."—N. Y. World. In Days of Old. Obediah—And what sentence did our worthy magistrate pass upon that terrible scold, Dame Wagginton? Hesekiah—He ordered her to be immersed ten times in the ducking pond. "Good saints! I didn't think he'd soak her that hard."—Puck. Willing. "The idea of getting a monument over your pet dog!" exclaimed Mr. Graybeard. "I'll warrant you wouldn't do as much for me." "Indeed," replied his young wife, "I'd be glad to." -Philadelphia Record. What Purpose Will Do: Money will buy many articles, but there are other things money can never purchase. Wealth will cover only a small portion of the earth's area. Purpose covers all of it.—Success. Taking His Measure "What kind of a man is this John Smith?" "Oh, he's the kind that thinks he can hold on to his umbrella by having his name engraved on the handle."—N. Y. World. Garlic Eaten in the United States. There are between 250,000 and 800,000 pounds of garlic annually consumed by Italian, French and other foreign residents of the United States.—N. Y. Sun. Was a Large City. The largest city in the country in Washington's time was Philadelphia. It had 69,000 inhabitants.-N. Y. World. Beyond the Pale. "Of course, you quite understand that I shall call upon Mrs. Whifler for your character," remarked Mrs. Taggetly to the girl she had just engaged. "Certainly, m'm," replied the girl, "althought I would rather you didn't, for Mrs. Whifler is so eccentric that she is not always to be relied upon." "In what way is she eccentric?" "She insists that her husband is quite a model father and husband, and that her children have never caused her a moment's anxiety." "H'm, not so much in that." "Then she says she is perfectly content with one new dress and one new hat each season." "H'm, she is eccentric, then!" "And, finally, she has never attended a bargain sale, and says that the only things sold at them are the women who buy!" "O, the woman's mad! Isha'n't trouble her for your character; you can come in when you Hike!"—Cassell's Magazine. SENTIMENT IN COURT. Very Often It Helps Hardened Criminals to Escape the Punishment They Kickish Deserve. "There is nothing more successful in swaying a jury and especially a jury of farmer's, than the proper application of sentiment," said the old lawyer to a Kansas City Star reporter. "I remember when Ralph B. Turner, who was sent up from Kansas City for larceny, was tried in Topeka. Turner defended himself. He did the same in the trial of which I was thinking, and after all the testimony was in, and it was damaging evidence, too, Turner made his plea. "Gentlemen," he said, "it is impossible that I could have committed that IMAGINARY DEATHBED SCENE crime. Gentlemen, my old father lies buried on the hills of New Hampshire, and many years ago, when that godly old man was on his deathbed, he put his hand on my head and said: "My boy, you have always been my stay and my comfort, never do anything to disgrace your old father's name." And the prisoner's voice was shoking, but he continued: "And it was not many years ago that my saintly old mother laid her head down to rest. I was called in sorrow to her bedside, and there in the presence of the Awful and Unknown mymother took my hand in hers, which already was growing cold, and whispered: "My boy, as you pass through this life, with all its failures and temptations, remember that your old mother is watching you." Gentlemen of the jury, I could not commit a crime." "Turner was quite overcome with his emotions. But back in the courtroom was his brother-in-law, and he turned to me and said with a smile: "Did you hear that fellow? Why, his father and mother are both living." "But the jury turned him loose." The old lawyer told another story in which the sentiment game was made a little too strong. "A young man," he said, "was on trial for murder in the first degree. He was charged with killing his father and mother, and the proof was conclusive against him. The jury returned with a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was called before the court to be sentenced, and, as is the custom, the judge asked: "If you have any reason why sentence should not be passed upon you, you may give it now." "I haven't any, judge," said the prisoner, 'excepting that I think you ought to have pity on a poor orphan." BOY SHOT BY RABBIT. Fecuilar Hunting Incident Which Has Caused Wonder and Excitation in West Virginia. "Br'er Rabbit" has been outdone in real life. Near Parkersburg, W. Va., the other day a rabbit of the cotton-tail variety fired a load of No. 8 shotgun HOW LOUIS WAS SHOT. the leg of a 14-year-old boy and cut for tall timber before any other member of the hunting party could take aim. Peter Frees and his son Louis, together with Chris Reilch, had gone out rabbit shooting. The dog chased one of the little creatures into a brush pile and the excited boy rushed up, laying his gun on the ground and taking up a stick with which to punch the rabbit out. The weapon was cocked, and when bunny ran out in an unexpected place his hind foot struck the trigger of the gun, sending the charge of shot into Louis' leg. In the excitement both the father and Reilch forgot to fire and the rabbit family in that section of country has a real hero. England's Queen Libel Law. There are some remarkable peculiarities about the libel laws of England. If you call a man a thief and cannot prove your assertion, you are responsible for damages. But if you ornament the objectionable noun with an illustrative adjective, such as a "durned" thief, or a "blooming" thief, or a "grasping" rogue, the addition of the descriptive word shows that you have lost your temper, and you are not legally actionable. Novel birthday Celebration. A birthday celebration of an unusual character took place not long ago in a Brooklyn house. The celebration was planned by a well-known woman in memory of her mother, an unusually gifted and religious woman, who died about 15 years ago. Invitations were sent to a large circle of relatives to assemble at the sender's residence on the eighteenth anniversary of her mother's birth. The portrait of the deceased parent was placed in a prominent place in the drawing-room and wreathed with flowers. A sketch of her life was read by one of her descendants, another repeated her favorite prayer, all joined in singing her favorite hymn and anecdotes illustrative of her goodness and cheerfulness were related by some of the older members of the family. The idea of the celebration was to acquaint the younger representatives of the family with the character and life of their esteemed ancestor and to keep her memory fresh in the minds of the older ones. The celebration concluded with a birthday tea.—N. Y. Sun. Mexican Haciendas. The life of the hacienda is one of the characteristics in Mexico; it is r and to be in old plantation days, every ring is grown or made on the farm. there is a fine specimen of one not car from Chapala belonging to a rich Mexican. The house rambles round three courtyards or patios, and the stairway is on the first inner court, outside the house. All the rooms are on different levels, with a step or two from one to another. Long galleries run around each patio. Close to the house, almost in the garden, is a lovely old church 128 years old. It is small and picturesque. Great pink eleandera like large bouquets on the low gray adobe wall make a bit of color for an artist. On this hacienda they have a mill run by machinery, so that the flour leaves in the sacks and is taken down to the cars by a light tram drawn by mules.—Harper's Bazaar Platory's Verdict A distinguished British veteran says in a service paper: "I cannot join in therous of approval raised by the London press for the liberal arson of Dutch property in anticipation of the final settlement of differences between Briton and Boer. I can remember how severely Lord Clyde reprimanded Sir Hope Grant for burning an Oudh village whence some of his men had been shot. 'It's monstrous folly, sir,' cried Lord Clyde. 'Don't you see you drive every man in the place to join the budmashes when you burn down his cabin?' Lecky, in his volume in 1798, attributes much of the rebellion in some countries to the destruction of houses by the soldiery—militia and fencibles, the very sort of lads Kitchener will have under him."—St. Louis Republic. A Mountain Accident A serious-seeming accident with a fortunate termination is reported by a western exchange. A man and his wife, while driving along a mountain road in Oregon, met with a curious mishap. The wagon was overturned and the occupants fell out. The woman dropped into the branches of a tree 50 feet below, and the man went, sliding and bumping, fully 300 feet to the bottom of a ravine. When he recovered his senses he was comparatively unhurt, and went to his wife's rescue, but it was an hour before he could extricate her from where she hung by her skirts. Strong Recommendation of Tobacco. The war in South Africa has taught many things of greater and of less importance. Perhaps nothing that it has demonstrated has been more marked than the important part which tobacco plays in the soldier's existence. Whether this is to be reckoned as a great fact or a small one, there can be no doubt about the truth of it. We are inclined to believe that, used with du moderation, tobacco is of value second only to food itself when long privations and exertions are to be endured—London Lancet. What Hurt Her. Mrs. Heartless—Just to think, my husband fell and broke—and broke—Mrs. Simpythetik—There, dear, I heard all about it; the poor man broke his leg; it's a great affliction, I know, but— "Oh, I didn't mean that; you haven't heard the worst—he was carrying my new Venetian vase when he fell, and broke it, too." Ohio State Journal. A. Business Transaction "No," said the Impecunious Nobleman to the Astute Interviewer, "I am not in America on a pleasure trip. I am here on business." "Count de Smallchange," wrote the Astute Interviewer, "arrived yesterday with the intention of capturing an heiless for his bride." — Baltimore American. Precious Borns Full-grown, many-petaled gold roses are easier to obtain by the multitude who affect smart millinery than the gold roses which the pope bestows on the most exalted lady in Europe from time to time. —Philadelphia Press. An Inventive Genius Cook—How'm I goin' to make mince pie when we haven't any mince meat in the house? Mrs. Feedem—Put some sugar in that cold hash.—Baltimore American. Insinuation. Softleigh—They—aw—say there's a fool in evahwy爹, doncher know. Miss Cutting—Yes, and you are an only son, I believe.—Chicago Daily News. Companions-in-Arms. Twin babies are true companions-in-arms.—Chicago Daily News. The Sexes. Mrs. Henpeck—I wonder why they insist on calling women "the weaker vessel?" Mr. Henpeck—I can't imagine. She generally carries the most sail—Philadelphia Press. Quite the Contrary Kindilman—What's the matter, my little man? You seem to be in great pain. Little Boy (groaning dismally)—No, I ain't, but there seems ter be a great pain in me, but—Troy Times. A Preference Rev. Dr. Fourthly—I honestly believes you think my sermons are too gloomy, Miss Park Park—Well, frankly, I do like the more cheerful, he-married-the-girl-and-they-live - happy - ever - after kind of sermons best — Brooklyn Eagle Leap Years in This Century Leap Years in This Century. Some curiosities concerning the new century have been collated by Rev. Perebendary W. A. Whitworth, the well-known vicar of All Sainter Margaret street, London. It will have, for instance, 38,525 days, which is one day more than the departing century could show, a difference due to the fact that 1900 is not a leap year, but 2000 will be so regarded. With regard to leap years it will be remembered that every year of only 365 days is too short by nearly six hours, but by having a leap year with its extra day every four years we should make every four years more than 11 minutes too long. Some years, therefore, have to be left out, and the present calendar provides for only 97 leap years to occur in four centuries, which reduces the average length of the year to 365 days five hours and 45 minutes 12 seconds, which, being only 22½ seconds too long, may be considered, for all ordinary purposes, as correct. This explains why in the seven years 1897-1903 there is no leap year. As to the error of about 22½ seconds in the average year, Mr. Whitworth remarks that it would take 700,000 years to bring midsummer to December—London Globe. Fairy in Disguise The waiter girl was undeniably pretty, and she did not seem to know it. Modest, ladylike in demeanor, mindful only of her duties, she moved swiftly to and fro through the crowded restaurant, heedless of the admiring glances darted at her by susceptible young men, filling the orders of enacting guests with exemplary patience and good nature, and tactfully repelling all attempts to engage her fairy bandage or in any conversation not pertaining to the business of feeding hungry men. "What is your order?" she asked the grave, silent man who had just taken a seat at one of the tables. "Bring me," he said, "a Swiss cheese sandwich with rye bread, a couple of doughnuts and some coffee." "Slab e' Swissierian" on ryel" also piped, shrill. "Shkeral Draw one in Javal!"—Chicago Tribune. Swedish Games. A very original idea in Sweden is to gather from near and far at the commencement of the new century all Swedes, Norwegians and foreigners interested in sport and folklore, and to offer them an opportunity of studying the Scandinavian names and exercises which, like those of the ancient Greeks, largely contribute to the strength, hardiness and agility of the people. They can at the same time take cognizance of the national music and dances which help to keep the Swedes and Norwegians cheerful and contented during their long winters. The first gathering will take place in Stockholm from the 9th to the 17th of February—Sir Louis Republic. Only the Wings. A group of little children found a wounded bird with its tail feathers shot away or plucked out in some mannion, and disputed among themselves as to what should be done with the poor little thing. Some of them wanted to take it home and put it in a cage. Others were for releasing it and letting it fly away. "It can't fly," said one; "it has no nail." "You don't have to have a tail to fly." "Yes, you do." "No, you don't. Angels have no tails, and they can fly." A little girl who had taken ne part in the controversy looked up in surprise and said: "Johnny, aren't you ashamed to talk about God's servants in that way?"—Troy Times. Destruction by Trains A signalman with a turn for natural history has shown once again the extent of the destruction wrought by trains. He has kept a list, which, though necessarily not exhaustive, is immensely long, of the victims along a stretch of line about three miles. The list includes cats, foxes, dogs, hundreds of rats, rabbits, a cow, a sheep, an adder, a long-eared bat, a hedgehog and thousands of frogs. Among the birds are a kingfisher, a kestral hawk, rooks and nightjays, to say nothing of the more familiar species.—Chicago Chronicle. Few Big Cities in Germany. With a population not far from 60,000,000 crowded within an area smaller than that of the single American state of Texas, Germany yet has only 33 cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants, while the United States, with its 76,000,000 scattered over a vastly larger area, has 33 such cities.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The Terrible Infant "I suppose," said the visitor, "like pulling teeth to get any money one of your husband these days." "Oh!" chipped in little Tommy before his mother could speak, "man don't have any trouble pullin' teeth. She just takes 'em out and puts 'em in a glass."-Philadelphia Record. Loss of Royal Purchases Many of the purchases made by the shah of Persia last summer in Europe as well as some of the presents made to him, went to the bottom of the Caspian sea by the sinking of the steamship Vera in a storm. Among them were its carriages bought in Paris.-N. Y. Sun Beginning Professional Life Carrie—I suppose, now that Mr. Ende has his diploma, we will begin practicing. Harry—Yes; economy—Smart Set. Made Luminous by a "Dark Lamp. In France a so-called lamp has been invented for the production of dark radiations which, although themselves invisible, are capable of imparting a phosphorescent glow to certain objects brought within their influence. A statuette coated with lime sulphide for instance, when placed in total darkness near a "dark lamp" soon begins to shine, emerging into sight as if it had been created out of nothing—Youth's Companion. Percentage of World's Population The population of the whole world is about 1,500,000,000. Of this Great Britain and her colonies has 25.9 per cent; Russia, 3.09 per cent; France, 6.3 per cent; United States, 5.7 per cent; Germany, 4.6 per cent; Austria, Hungary, 3.1 per cent; Italy, 2.2 per 6 2 . Peg VE Hien SUACa ir: BBB AKA o aS YY Wp AY ce SATURPAY, MARCH 16, 1900 THE ETERNAL CALENDAR, ‘Be that far center of the wheeling spheres, Pevhere suns une nyatema take their tinss ana lant, (Slane high tne calendar of eterna} yenra: fwviich Reep the days but knews 28 pase: ing alge Weys not of hours, but of the centuries made: A thousand years complete thelr daily fun Br (EeEe tne comet's wandering course i ‘Earough aystems vast from sun to sun; {S24 ponderous orbe whove measured track Sietie'throuh space veyond out sight of ma rir on and on and ever aafe come back; "And then en time ancther course beets: ‘Wea of the Universe! Forever One: For whom the pant and Tuture are the ase Wuard ot ihe changing centuries past and Fone, Whtue “stately march Thy power might predialee. ‘Whou art our Sponsor for the coming days, Be smuit or targeet ‘mensuree Bs. they eaees wre Taping century shall extend the pealoe ‘Our hearts frat learned from Thee in that ow pases ‘Ang when earth's Journey, and our Neeting yours, “Are cloned for aye, and time Itself ta er, seeing ‘Oar fail bar. pont storm ane sure Sar To harvor. site, by that Bernal shore. scien Mok. Semnta aoe Ooo Saved by Road Runners By Clarence Pullen. ‘T WAS in New Mexico, on the river trail between Socorro and Mesilla, With Jim Haskell driving the buck. ‘board team, that I first saw a road run- wer. The bird had started from the woadside into the trail and was running with surprising speed in advance of our feam—a sucy-looking fellow, some- hat larger than a snipe, with a straight bill, long tail feathers, ahort wings, of which he made no apparent fase, and long, muscular legs. “There's a bird that ought to be en- wouraged by al! right-minded men, for fe Kills rattlesnakes,” Haskell" re- marked after telling me what it was. “If it were not for this trait and the @act that a pair of these birds came to ay help once when I was in a bad way fy bones would be whitening in Saud anyon today. “Iv vegan with my being driven into fhe brush one night by Indians in the Magdalena mountains, where I was prospecting for silver, in ‘81," Haskell Bontinued. “I got away from them with only the Slothes I atood in, and I was pretty well Beat out before I came at moon next Bay to where I could see the Rio Grande walley head. I was then in one of Ghose steep-walled little canyons that find in sandstone formations—a Soecsarcew petsage: wih fue cant mader foot that I shuffied and slipped Qe as T walked, “I could see the canyon's mouth when @ came to « piace where the bottom Bropped down sheer for about ten feet, mand in trying to make the jump I slipped, landing any way that hap- d on the sund below, and when I Hie pst come breath back inte my body and I tried to rise to my feet I found hat my right ankle had been throws out of joint. “This was piling worse luck on bad, but I did not lose heart, for through fhe rift ahead I could see, aeron the wands, green ficlde and trees, adobe Mouser and the blue sparkle of the wiver, I needed all my courage just then, being faint through pain and hun- Ber, and parched with thirst, “Seareely had I started, on hands and knees, to craw! out of the canyon when ‘© saw something that caused me to ESE 28S Took about me as if T were venting fora lost diamond. Along the Bottom of the canyon, In the leone sand, was a mark such as might be made by © dragging rope, and it led from the Place where I had fallen toward the pening ahead. It was the trail of « snake, « big one, and in New Mexicoa gmake that could make « track like this Bras almost sure to be a rattler. “Iwo immense rock columns, their acer cut and hollowed into queer Shapes by the treake of blowing sand, sade © natural gateway to the canyon, and against their bases the sand was Grifted, leaving a narrow opening along he center. I had worked along this Spring wat 1 was midway between solumas, when a snake somewhere ear me sprung his rettle sharply. “For full ton minutes I listened, with fhe whole air about me alive with the Auming, before I could locate the sound PL LeRiee trom diveatly adend of mo, jen I crept on slowly, holding myself wendy te crawiish backward on short Botlos. “With all my carefulness I was 06 love to the snake when I discovered im chat I was startled all over. He ras & yellow rattlesnake, the biggest Sad mont vicious poison onake of the wouthwent, and his color was so nearly Ghat of the sand he lay on that if bis Gatto had not warned me I might net here coon him {ign He Kad dined not ‘Your deters, as the im hie body ‘Shewed, and now, comfortably collet ia ‘The eand, he was in no mind to be die- barbed. “TE wee too far away from the anake for him te strike me, and I stayed, sroadecing how I was te get past kim, A queer feeling came over me, every- ‘ing elas faded trom my view, and I saw only his shiaing eyea, which seemed So spread as they filed wil the apace wound. “Tt-was the pata of a sberp wrench of eyes, turned and went beck Nom Tie aight of the reptile as fast an T could. “But I was far trom being out of troubles from the emake, ‘The treck ix the eand showed that he had come from under the “jump-off im the eaayon bot- tom where I had failen, and if he took itinto his head to return {t was certain that he would make objection to my Presence. Being gorged and sleepy, he was not likely to move soon unless he was disturbed, but it might be another thing when the night came on and the air and ground got cool outside. “There was no Way out for me except slong the narrow rift between the sand heaps at the canyon entrance, and it was at the widening of this rift, beyond the standstone columns, that the snake was lying. To try to creep round him, against the face of the sand heap, was too risky to be undertaken with my erippled leg, and it was plain that so long as the snake stood guard at the passage there was nothing for me todo but stay where I was. “The chance that any human being would come to Sind eanyon was toore- mote to be considered, and there was nothing at hand that I could use as 0 weapon against the snake—not a rock, not @ stick, was to be found, only the sandstone walls above and the fine sand beneath me. “Wort out with fatigue I fell asleep, and when I woke the sun was shining straight into the canyon, by which I knew that it was im the weet, an hour ‘or so high above the mountains. “From where I lay I could look through the canyon entrance, and my eyes rested upon the valley beyond, and my ugly jailer, faithful to his post, coiled asieep in the sun. But some. thing elae that I saw, it struck me as strange that [had not observed before; five or six long pieces of dry cactus on the sand near the snake that seemed to have been carelessly flung down in such @ way asalmont to surround him, “I was too miserable and listless to wonder much at anything, but my mind struggled ferbly over the problem of how the cactus came to be there, uatil, with a patter of quick feet and the rustle of something dragged softly over the sand, a bird came into my view, beyond the canyon gateway—a road- runner, dragging along a cactus limb as long as my arm. “He cast a sharp glance into the canyon as he approached, but seeing nothing to alarm bim tn the motionless figure lying half buried in eand, went op and laid the cactus down near the ON i q Xe oS a ie Soe ee iy S Wee a Re ; aoe AU Maree PY ot - ae Se eo ‘THEY HAD MADE A RING OF CacTUS AROUND THE RATTLER sleeping snake. A minute more and s second bird appeared carrying a cactus limb, and the two then set to work pulling all the pieces of cactus about until they had made a eomplete ring around thesnake. This Gone, they both set off again to fetch more cactus and they came and went until they Nad made a ring of cactus limbs three deep around the rattler without arousing him from his aleep. “The birds at last seemed ito think that they had cactus enough for thelr Purpose, and instead of fetching more they began to roll the outside pieces forming the ring over upon the inside. The circle narrowed fast, and the cac- tus fence grew higher aa it drew closer about the snake. “The barricade was half a foot bigh around him, when the snake suddenly lifted his head and sounded his rattle, At this the birds backed away and be. fan to run around the barricade, flap. ping their wings, screaming and mak- ing feints of attacking the snake, but taking good care to keep well out of his reach. “He would have gone through fire rather than try to crawl over dry eac- tus, but several times he struck at the birds, his neck avd head bringing up every time against the thorny barri- cade. Angered by his failure to reach ‘them and pricked and torn by thorns, the suake with every stroke beeame more enraged, until, eager to strike at something which he could reach, he turned back his head after a particu- larly vitious Junge, and struck Bis fangs into his own body. “His head dropped upon his coil, and in a few minutes he lay motionless, while the birde hopped around the bar- rieade sereaming aad trying to. pro- voke him to strike. For awhile the spake would lift bis head and sound hig rattle when they eame very near, but he did not offer to strike at them again, Head and rattle ceased at last to move, and then, as {f satieled that thelr work had been thoroughly dene, the birds started off together and Ieaw them 26 more. “The fun had gone behind the moua- taine and might was falling. I crawled down past the dead saake in his prison, gad taping ‘ay seures for the nearest light in the valley I kept on, resting and srecptng by turns, until atier ubeet three hours I came to a traveled trail. “Tomas Garcia, coming late from the mountains with his ox team, bringing }s load of wood, found me, and took me to his house by the river. Here he and ‘his famfly made me as comfortable as ‘they sould for the night, and the next day de cauried me to Socorro, where I got proper surgical oare for my ankle and the means of new outdt when I was rwady to take the trail.—Boston Glebe. Be Daesactatate Sac ‘There is never any uncertainty as te the ox <= thiet Whe robe ee offies, says the Chicago Tribune, 1s mall rebber. 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I had half forgett the fact myself until there came a better coolly announcing that she was tired of boarding schools and was 'coming up to keep house' for me. She sails on the Queen. Deming 'tells me you take the same boat. Look after the kid a bit, won't you? Keep her from flirting or falling overboard. Yours. "TOM BRIERLY." JACK HAMILTON swore softly to himself. The idea of being "ehaperone, and probably father confessor to a bread-and-butter schoolgirl," filled him with horror. What on earth could he talk to her about, he asked himself, and why hadn't he enough common sense to open his letters before coming on board? Then he could have missed the boat. The truth of the matter was that genial, whole-souled Jack was in love—had been for three days—and worst of all, he did not know her name. He only knew that "her face, it was the fairest that eer the sun shone on," and that mornings she rode in Golden Gate park. He had haunted the park and exercised all his ingenuity, but had not managed an acquaintance. And now he was off for six months of bridge building in the White pass. He realised he had not even a fighting chance with Fate, and felt correspondingly disagreeable, as he stood looking back over the fast widening waters. Already the distance was blotting out the Golden Gate; the Cliff house was a blur against Sutro Heights, and only the faint, green sweep of trees above the sand dunes marked the Golden Gate park. In fancy he could see a certain dainty little figure riding there in and out among the winding paths. Jack drew himself up with a start. his "mooning" would never do. He resolved to hunt up the little schoolgirl and amuse her. He turned, only to stand transfixed, for there, almost at his elbow, was his "Lady of the Park." Her habit was replaced by the jauntiest of yachting costumes, and her face was radiant with health and happiness. Jack felt the spirit of the Conqueror upon him. The Queen was a very different matter from San Francisco. As the day wore on, however, he felt his courage wane. He bribed the mate to introduce him, but she said gently to him that she did not care to make any acquaintances. And, indeed, conversation would have seemed sacrilegious to her. There was the glorious ocean and the wonderful wind out of the west, and she had eyes and soul for nothing else. She thought of life in far-away lands, of the little brown people in their island of flowers, of the fighting line in the Philippines, until, at last, the sea grew grim under a leaden sky, and the fog came down and shut out the world. Everyone fled to stateroom or cabin. The great fog horns were shrieking, the sea was running high, but its voices called her, and she struggled back to the rolling, only to discover that the boat was rocking so that she dared not leave. She laughed a little to herself, and wondered if she must stay there all night. No, some one was coming. "Will you help me, please?" she called. Would he help her! Jack managed to restrain his joy enough to offer his arm with some degree of calmness. "I believe I prefer the dark and the fog to the cabin," she continued, "I am not in the mood for laughter. All this is too wonderful." "Let me stay with you, I want so much to know you," blurted out poor Jack. The girl look frightened. Then an inspiration came to him. He would appeal to her sympathy. "You see, I have a little charge some place on board," and Jack, who had promptly and completely forgotten his protege until the present moment, went on: "She'll be an awful bore, but Brierly, that's her brother, wrote me to look after her, and I really haven't an idea what to do, and—and I thought perhaps you would help me—for her sake, you know." "What did you say her name is?" asked the girl. "May I see the letter?" And they paused by the cabin door, while she read the letter, a smile lightening up her piquant face. "So you are to keep her from flirting or falling overboard," she said "I think I may be able to help you. Perhaps Miss Brierly need not bother you at all." "Oh, if you will help me, I shall not mind in the least," returned Jack eagerly. "And may I not know your name?" "Certainly," she was giving him her I PREFER THE DARK AND THE FOG TO THE CABIN." hand at parting, and looked up with a queer little smile. "It is Jocelyn Brierly," she said. "But I am such an awful bore." "Are you never going to forgive me? I carried out half of Tom's instructions when I rescued you that night, and—and," but she was off leaning over the side of the boat, watching an Indian canoe as it skimmed the waters. It was Jack's last day. He had been merciless in his wooing, but he was desperately in earnest, and fighting against time. To Jocelyn, who knew nothing beyond a trip to Oakland or around the bay, under the guidance of Sister Celestine, the days had seemed like a fairy tale. There had been the long, long trampa while the fog hung over the Pacific, and later, the magical days when the ship floated among the piney islands of the Canadian coast. And now there was a queer little ache in her heart which she could not understand. "Do you know, Jocelyn, it's our last afternoon?" Tom's voice had a hopeless ring. Jocelyn was quite absorbed in the Indian canoe, but she nodded in reply. Indian canoe, but she nodded in reply, "I shall not have an opportunity to write, but—I shall think of you, very, very often. May I keep a diary, pre- tending I am talking with you? Perhaps you will let me show it to you some day." Her face was turned away, but a more emphatic nod told she heard. "Jocelyn, little girl, unless it may mean coming to you, it will mean little whether I return or—" At last she looked up at him, and his hand covered the little one on the rail. "You darling," he whispered. NAPOLEON'S EVIL EYE. A Feature of the Emperor That Revealed His Intense Love of Warfare. Lord Russell, when the present writer questioned him about Napoleon, said, and emphatically repeated, that there was something very evil in his eye, says Goldwin Smith, in Atlantic. He added that the eye flashed at an allusion to the excitement of war as contrasted with the dullness of Elba. A feature in the character which, perhaps, has hardly been enough noticed, was a sheer lust of war, and especially of battles, the emotions of which, Napoleon seems to have owned, were agreeable to him. It appears not improbable that this had a share, together with his insatiable ambition and his political need of glory, in launching him on his mad invasion of Russia, for which it is difficult to assign any political purpose, as he refused to restore the kingdom of Poland. Another feature not much noticed in Napoleon's character is his classicism. In his early days he had employed his garrison leisure partly in reading Roman history; and instead of being repelled he had been fascinated by the presentation of the Roman empire in Tacitus. We see the result in his Eagles, his Legion of Honor, his political nomenclature, and the general cast of his political institutions. Perhaps the image of the Roman empire as a model for reproduction floated vaguely before his mind as it does before those of our imperialists at the present day. A grosser anachronism, it is needless to say, there could not be than an attempt to impose on the European family of living nations anything like the yoke imposed by Rome on a set of conquered provinces in which national spirit was extinct. Old Bachelor's Comment. An old bachelor says a marriage certificate is a noose-paper.—Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Mr. Twoyear Kiddlett was saying "I have always been very much interested in the sayings of children. Now, my little boy—" The general exodus was checked by his next words: "—'s the only child I ever saw whose remarks were not worth repeating." Of the 14 men who fought for opportunities to take Mr. Kiddlett's hand, one was hurt seriously.—Town Topics. Pardomable Curiosity. Little Willie—How tall are you, Mr. Flushing? Mr. Flushing—About 5 feet 9 inches, Willie. Little Willie—And how tall were you last summer? Mr. Flushing—Why, just about the same height. Why do you ask, Willie? Little Willie (puzzled)—Why, because I heard papa say, you were a great deal shorter this winter than you were last summer.—Brooklyn Eagle. Alack! Alas! ARRIVING AIRS: He could tell without a stagger. In a manner that was swagger. How to finance a nation, while speaking on the stump; But when it came to giving His wife and child a living. It became a local issue, and you bet he had to jump. -Chicago Daily News. SHE WAS TOO YOUNG THEN. Miss Belle—Why is it, count, that you never married? Count-The trouble was that when I was of a marriageable age you were a wee, tiny baby—Heitere Welt. The Foolish Shepherdess. Little Bo-Peep, she lost her sheep And called to advertise; The result, of course, was much remorse And terribly reddened eyes. -Puck No Venture About It. "In this your first venture in matri- mony?" the preacher asked, while the groom was out in the vestibule giving certain instructions to the best man, who was, also, his head clerk. "My dear Mr. Goodleigh," she replied, almost blushing, "this isn't a venture at all. He has given me deeds to more than $60,000 worth of property already." —Chicago Times-Herald. Looking for Trouble. "They say that riches do not bring happiness." "Yes. And the reason is quite evi- dent. As soon as a man gets a few mili- tons saved up he begins to think about going into politics." — Washington Star. Art and Economy Edmonia—Edgar, I'm going to burn these new photographs of mine; they look ten years older than I do. Edgar—Nonsense; put them away until you catch up with them—Indianapolis Journal. No Excuse for It. Wixem—One-half the world doesn't know how the other half lives. Mixem (a patent-medicine manufacturer)—Well, why doesn't it read my book testimonials and find out?—Chicago Daily News. Landlord Would Have His Joke. Landlord—May I ask what your profession is, Mr. Robin? Mr. Robin—Certainly. I cure people of the blues by hypnotic power. Landlord—Oh, I see; you're what you might call a cheerupist—Judge. Sign. Briggs—Women don't seem to be any nearer governing this country than they ever did. Griggs—Oh, I don't know. More of them are getting married than ever.—Detroit Free Press. Matter of Necessity. Giles—It seems dreadfully extravagant to go to such an expensive tailor. De Jinks—What could I do? He was the only one who would trust me.—Tit-Bits. Tragedy. She—If you had no idea when we could get married why did you propose to me? "To tell the truth, darling, I had no idea you would accept me."—Life. A Long List. Penelope—Did she have many wedding presents? Perdita—Enormous! Why, she says it will take her nearly a year to exchange them all—Puck. A Good Deal Allike. Trying to conduct a large business without capital is a good deal like trying to sharpen a lead pencil with a pair of scissors—Chicago Daily News. It's Quite Common, Too. "What is 'youthful enthusiasm,' pa?" "Thinking that you know more than your father, my son."—Brooklyn Lifes. A Deadly Weapon: In Guatemala the favorite weapon of the native bandits and desperadoes is a sawed-off muzzle-loading shotgun of the blunderbuss pattern, and when they run short of buckshot they sally out to the railroad and steal a few dozen seals, which are simply disks of soft lead about the size of quarters. Pounded into rough balls, they make projectiles by the side of which a dumdum is an angel of mercy, and when one of their blunderbuses goes off it generally kills everything in sight except the man directly behind it. N. Y. Herald. M. M. FOEIRE Dr. Shea, Marvelous Medium Gives the names of dead and living friends, business journeys, lawsuits, also of business journeys, health or anything you know, no matter what it is. He can call up your spiritual friend, then they can them rap all around the room. He asks no questions don't ask you to write names for them, but asks you to walk but tells you right off. He is thoroughly dressed by leading spiritualists everywhere received from them a gold medal and speeches. He can give credentials no one else can show, can give thousands of references to both white and black business, and seven in Brooklyn—will show you can do all that he can tell of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to do it. 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Dr. Humphreys' HE PLANET ANTHRACITE MINERS. Operators May Take Part in the Wage Conference. MITCHELL DEOLINES A HOME President of the Mine Workers Recommends That Money Collected For That Purpose Be Used to Erase a Monument to Lattimer Victims. Hazleton, Pa., March 13. "The presence here of several operators from the Schuylkill district who are watching the work of the miners' convention is responsible for the spread of the rumor that some of them will enter into joint conference with the miners, but as yet nothing definite in that direction has developed. Equalization of the wages in the Hazleton region was discussed at a meeting of the Seventh district delegates last evening. A meeting of the executive board of the three districts was also held. In opening the convention President Mitchell declared that the plea of the operators that the organization did not represent the miners is no longer valid. Mr. Mitchell said he had hoped all of the operators in this region would follow the example set by the bituminous operators and meet their men in joint conference. "The operators must recognize Mitchell," shouted a delegate. "My friend," replied Mitchell, "it is far less important that Mitchell be recognized than that you be." In closing the president said: "I wish to ask that each man here should feel his full responsibility. I wish you to feel that you must legislate for yourselves. Don't leave here feeling that others have acted for you. I shall try to give every man a chance to speak as far as is consistent with parliamentary rules." After the committees on credentials and organization had been appointed and reported there was a long and heated discussion on the indorsement of the Garner mine inspectors bill, now before the legislature. Some of the delegates were opposed to the proposed reduction in salaries, while others favored the election of the inspectors only by the miners, all other voters to be excluded. The bill was finally endorsed. Just before the afternoon adjournment President Mitchell declined the offer of the miners of the anthracite field regarding the collection of funds by them for the purpose of a home loan. He suggested that the money be used for the collection of a monument in memory of the men who fell four years ago at Lattimer. MARYLAND ILLITERATES Bill to Disfranchise Them Has Passed the Lower House. Annapolis, Md., March 13.—The bill to amend the election law so as to prevent illiterates from voting passed the house yesterday. Speeches for and against it were made by Messrs. Wilkinson, the Democratic leader on the floor, and Walbach, who leads the Republican forces. Mr. Wilkinson unexpectedly moved the previous question, which was carried by a vote of 33 to 32, twelve Democrats voting with the Republicans against shutting off debate. The bill was then passed by a vote of 66 to 28, Messrs. Buckey of Frederick, Garner of St. Mary's, Patlissin of Dorchester and Keys of Cecil, Democrats, voting with the Republicans against the bill. It is now in the hands of the senate, and if the plans of the Democrats do not miscarry it will become a law within the next 24 hours. Britons and Russians Clash London, March 13.—Fletion has arisen at Tien Tsin between the British and the Russians over a piece of land alleged to belong to the railway company and to have been in possession of the company for some years. The Russians assert that this land is part of their new concession. Mr. Kinder, manager of the railway, had begun to make a siding, but was stopped by the Russians. He appealed to Col. McDonald, who referred the matter to Gen. Barrow, British chief of staff in Pekin, who replied: "Carry on the siding with armed force, if necessary." Guards were put on the line by the British and the work continued. Gen. Wagasak, Russian commander, said the thing would not have been done if the Russians had had as many troops as the British. Silk Weavers' Strike Settled. Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 13—Indications now point strongly to a settlement of the silk weavers' strike in this section of the state. For over a month past employees of mills located in this city, Pittaton, Scranton and Carbonade have been on strike for more wages. All attempts to bring about a settlement failed until yesterday afternoon, when a conference between the striking employees of Bamford Brothers' mill, in this city, and representatives of the firm was held. An amicable agreement was finally reached, both sides making concessions. The strike was declared off to-day, and the employees will return to work on Monday. An increase of wages averaging 20 per cent. all round is granted. Going into a New Business. Every fellow who goes into a new business expects to hustle a little harder than the other fellow—Washington (Ia.) Democrat. Diarrhoeas. A song with the title "There's a Sigh in the Heart" was sent by a young man to his sweetheart, but the paper fell into the hands of the girl's father, a very unsentimental physician, who claimed "What wretched, unscientific publish is this? Who ever heard of such a case?" He wrote on the outset "Mistaken diagnosis; no sigh in the heart possible. Sighs relate almost entirely to the lungs and diaphragm!" N. Y. Weekly. Variety in Profusion. "I can find no fault with the location of your house, Mrs. Spoonere," said the departing boarder, "and the neatness of your table is something that I shall long remember with joy; but I can stand no longer the sameness of your bill of fare; a man must have some variety." "Well, sir, it is your own fault that you have refused to partake of the variety," she snapped. "I am sure that no one could do more than I have done to make attractive hash."—Brooklyn Life. Only Word He Could Safety Use. "You're wrong in calling her a new woman," asserted the man's wife. "She doesn't belong to a lot of clubs she isn't crying for suffrage, and she doesn't want to invade man's field of labor." "True," answered the man, "but it's the only adjective I can well use I dare not call her an old woman, and she certainly isn't a young woman, so I use new in the comparative sense. She's not so old as some others."—Chicago Post. Friends No More "No. sir. I told my wife I had been with him the other night, when she waited up for me. The next day she happened to meet him, and of course referred to what I had said. The blamed fool didn't have presence of mind enough to go on and pretend that he knew what she was talking about." —Chicago Times-Herald. Very Comforting Widow (recently bereaved)—Rev. Mr. Sparkins has just been here; bless us! What comforting things ministers can say, to be sure. Friend—What did he say? Widow—We were talking of the dear departed, and he said I would never look upon his like again—Richmond Dispatch. Immune from Kidnaping. "Oh, my," giggled the lady of uncontain age, "I am so afraid to go on the streets alone, now that the kidnapers are so bold." "You needn't worry. They only steal people in their first childhood," was the reassuring statement of the bald party with the ingrowing sneer on his face.—Baltimore American. His Patience "What got me into trouble," said Meandering Mike, "was my patient disposition." "Thought you said somethin' about kleptomania," rejoined Plodding Pete. A Reminder She—I do believe you forgot that this was our wedding day's third anniversary. He—Indeed I didn't. I just met the second of the notes I negotiated to buy the furniture when we were married. —Indianaapolis Press. Not There. "My stars!" ejaculated the leader of the choir, happening in when the quarrel was at its height. "There seems to be trouble in the air." "Not at all, sir," said the soprano, her eyes snapping. "The trouble is in the bass!"—Chicago Tribune. Completing the Quotation. Seldom Fedd (musingly)—Lemme see! What's dat old sayin' about half a loaf? 'Half a loaf is better—better dan what? Soiled Spooner—Better dan a steady job, o' course!—Judge. brother, And tell them to bear their own reams. -Chicago Daily News. A "Does history say anything about the personal appearance of Mr. Euclid, uncle?" "I believe not. Why?" "Oh, because I imagine he must have been a very angular sort of gentleman!"—Ally Sloper. Humman Nature. "He was far too fat and an awful bore! She often thought. While round he carried Conviction of her lack of brains. Before Long they were happily married.—Puck. As She Is Spoke. Jims—Did you see the college begin in their Latin play? Jamps—Yes; but I couldn't understand it. It was all Greek to me—Town Topics. A Cheerful View. First Lawyer—I'm afraid our position is untenable. Second Lawyer—Well, perhaps we can hold it long enough to get our fees.—Puck. An Answer Short and Rude. Mrs. Tif.—I know we quarrel sometimes, but just tell me what your Life would be worth without me? Knives and Fools Many people try to get what they think they want; these are the knaves. The rest try to think they want what they get; and these are the fools—N. Y. Harald. If You Mean Well. If you mean well, as an evidence of good faith you should occasionally do something well—Atkinson Globe. He—Of course, you took in the dog show. How did you like it? She—I was disappointed. I was particularly anxious to see one of those ocean greyhounds, but there wasn't a single one there—Philadelphia Press. Uncle Grimm—Mrs. Soggy is the queerest old lady of my acquaintance. Nephew—How so? "Why, although she weighs 210 pounds and has a wart on her chin, she never boasts about what a terrible firt she was when a girl!" — Harper's Bazar. The Distinction Friend—You really believe there are good dreams and bad dreams? Fortune-Teller—Oh, yes! The good dreams are those which people pay to have interpreted; the others are no good.—Puck. Professional Criticism. First Arctic Explorer—Don't you think Polehunter is getting a big head? Second Arctic Explorer—Decidedly! You'd think he was the only man who didn't reach the pole!—Puck. Notice. There will be a Grand Bissarat at Smaritan's Hall. March 18, 19, 20. Admission 10 ets. Good music and Refreshments. Miss Lula B. Nelson has returned home after closing her school for the session. She is the guest of Mrs. C. H. Lewis, 811 1-2 N. 7th street. COL JACKSON'S VISIT. Col. Giles B. Jackson has returned from Washington and he solemnly announces that he will never inaugurate another President. The colored contingent, he says, stood until 8:50 p.m. waiting to march. The inauguration took place and it was, still waiting. When finally the colored folks did march, a few blocks past the President, they found that they had been placed at the end of the procession, even behind the Indians, and it was so dark that the President could not tell whether they were white ocelored, from Virginia or Arkansas. Col. Jackson's expense account trouble noil him no little. He bought a $13 silk and was disguised to have to lay it aside for regulation rough-rider hat. He paid $40 for the hire of a horse and that animal fed by falling over on top of him, making a bed of Col. Jackson's left side, which is lamed accordingly. He is sore in addition to his other troubles and was unable to make a business trip to New York. The rain soaked him and he fears an attack of the gripe or pneumonia, and his expense accouna like the thermometer in the summer-time has reached the $100 mark and is still rising. Col. Jackson can tell of his troubles and it is enough to make the city laugh. He has not as yet received the Colonel's commission, but it is safe. [Five Shots Fired.] TAZWELL, VA., March 6th—Luther Cohorn, colored was shot and instantly killed Wednesday night, at Posehontas, Va., by another colored man by the name of Hoskins. Cohorn was in a fight with Hoskins' wife, and tried to stab her with a knife, and received five shots from Hoskins. Hoskins then fled across the State line into West Virginia. The price is small and the satisfaction great. Go and hear Prof. Davis at the Fifth St. Baptist Church, Monday night, March 18th. Only 10 cents admission. Grand Rally will take place at Gravel Hill Baptist church, Chasterfield county, Va. the 4th Sunday, March 24th, 1601. 11:30 a.m. Rev. D. Webster Davis will preach; 3:00 p. m. Rev. Evans Payne; 8:38 p. m. Rev. Joshua Moore. Westwood choir, will be with us all day. Shot Him. "Geary Burton, a white boy, living at 810 east Marshall street, shot Isaiah Jones, alias "Boozy," a colored boy, at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon, in the neighborhood of Ninth and Clay Sts. The boy was wounded in the calf of the left leg, and the bullet, taking a sharp aim, struck his right eye. downward course, lodged in the ankle. The affair was admittedly an accident, both boys being emphatic in this view. Burton was arrested by officer Wittshire and carried to the Second Station, where the wounded boy was given every attention by Dr. Fisher, in charge of the ambulance, and Dr. Gray. The revolver used was a 32 calibre. There will be a grand mass-meeting Sunday March 17th, at 5th St. Baptist church, 8:30 o'clock. The Rev. Dr. Graham pastor of the church will presach a special sermon. The object is to raise funds to assist in opening the home for the aged and inimical colored people on W. Jackson St. Roberts Church Prof. D. Webster Davis, J. Thomas H. Esg. and Mrs. Rosa D. Bows, r. President of the Union. The public is cordially invited to attend. Few Items From Chicago Mrs. Bertha L. Robinson of No. 1618 Lake St. gave a five e'clock dinner in honor of her daughter, Miss Pearl Robinson who recently returned from Grand Rapids, Mich. Miss Hattie Fench of Louisville, Ky. is the guest of Mrs. C. H. Champlin of 2441 Dearborn St. Mr. Herbert Rendalls of Kansas City sends regards to Mr. C. Hamison of this city. A fight occurred at 28th and Lasall Sts. the other day which almost resulted in the death of one of the parielied by a tramp insulting a lady and tearing her clothes. The lady ran to her house 2808 Armour Ace. and secured a hatch et and accompanied by her mother, father and brother, who had clubs she came back and all three attacked the tramp and a free-for-all fight lasted about half an hour which resulted in the tramp being badly beaten. J. E. Lewis. --- THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA. I desire to find my mother. The last time I saw her was five years ago. She was then in Greenbsoro. N. C. Her first husband's name was Ned Gosseby, last husband's name, Green Gosseby. She goes by the name of Moile Gravely. She had four children, viz. Mattie, Johnnie, Mary and Rosa Gosseby, two of which are in Danville, Va., one at Winton, N. C. and the other at Martinsville. Any information will be thankfully received by Miss Mattie Goesby, 122 Craghead S., Danville Vs. 8-8t Excellent Ledge No. 29, K. of P. will hold their regular meeting Tuesday March 19th, at their Castle Hall 511 N. 3-d St. any member failing to attend will be subject to a heavy fine. C J. Cooke. O. O; Andrew J Smith Jr. K. of R. and S. S. J. GILPIN. 506 E. BROAD STREET, RICHMOND, VA. Polite Attention. Repairing a Specialty and all work S rictly First class. Give us a call and be convinced. 8-16-8m WANTED-A first-class pressman. Send samples of work and recommendations to NOTICE K or Ps. We have prepared an Official Service or Pro- gram, to be used on An- niversary or Thanksgiv- ing days. The same can be had for $2 for 100, or $1.25 for 50. All lodges should have them. Money must be sent with your order to S. W. STARKS, Supreme Chancellor, Charleston, W.Va. 8-2 01-4t Atlantic Coast Line. Schedule in Effect January 14, 1901, TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND—BYRD STREET SQUARE 9:00 A. M. NORFOLK LIMITED Daily Arrives Petersburg 8:45 p.m. Folk 11:27 a.m. Stops only at Petersburg, Waverly, and Suffolk, Va. 9:05 A. M. Daily, Arrives Petersburg 9:50 a.m. Weldon 11:50 a.m., Fayetteville 4:25 p.m. Charleston m. p., Savannah 2:55 a.m., Jacksonville 8:30 a.m. Port Tampa 7:10 p.m. Connects at Wilson with No 47 arriving Goldsboro 8: 25 p.m. Wilmington 6 p.m. Pull- man Sleeper New York to Jackson- ville. 11:55 A. M. Daily, except Sunday. Arrives Petersburg 12:30 p.m. Stops Manchester, Drewry's Bluff, Centralia, and Chester on signal. 1:16 P. M. OCEAN, SHORE LIMITED Daily, Arrives Petersburg 8:45 p.m. Norfolk 5:55 p.m. Stops only at Petersburg, Waverly and Folk. 4:30 P. M. Daily, except Sunday. Arrives Petersburg, 5:20 p.m., Weldon 7:42 p.m. and Rocky Mount 8:56 p.m. Makes all intermediate stops. 6:00 P. M. Daily Arrives Petersburg 6:50 p. M. Makes all stools. 6:57 P. M. FLORIDA AND WEST IN DIAN LIMITED. Daily, Arrives at Peterburg 7:87 p. m. Connects with Norfolk and Western for Norfolk and intermediate points, Emporia 8:40 p. m. (connects with Atlantis and Danville for stations between Emporia and Lawrenceville, Weldon 9:10 p. m. Fayetteville 12:32 a. m. Charleston 5:23 a. m. Savannah 7:50 a. m. Jacksonville 12:15 p. m. Port Tampa 11:30 p. m. NEW LINE to Middle Georgia Point—Arriving August 15 a. m. Massachusetts August 12; 85 p. m. Thomasville 2:25 p. m. Pullman Sleepers New York to Wilmington, Charleston, Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Augusta and Mason, New York to Thomasville every Tuesday. 9:10 P. M., Daily, Arriving Petersburg 9:55 p. m., Connects at Petersburg with Norfolk and Western railway, arriving Lynchburg 2:30 a. m., Roomite 5 a. m., Bristol 10:40 a. m. Billian Sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg 11:80 P. M. Daily, Arrives_Petersburg 12:10 a. m. 11:50 P. M. Daily, Except Sunday THE NEW YORK AND FLORIDA SPECIAL Arrives Charleston 9:38 a. m. Savannah 10:50 p. m., a. m. Jacksonville 2:50 p. m., St. Augustine 4:50 p. m. TRAINS ARRIVE IN RICHMOND 4:00 A. M. Daily, From Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Atlanta, Mason, Augusta and all points South. 6:40 A. M. Daily, except Monday From Garden City, N.J., Savannah, Savan- nah and Charleston. 7:35 a. m. Dally From Petersburg, Lynchburg, and the West. 8:45 a. m. Daily, except Sunday. Petersburg local. 11:10 a. m daily, except Sunday From Goldsboro and intermediate stations, Norfolk and Suffolk. 7:22 p.m. Daily From Miami, Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Goldsboro and all points South. WARRANIS FOR "SLAVEHOLDERS." Judge Benet Orders Arrest of the Ia diated South Carolina Planters. Columbia, S. C., March 8.—Megistrates throughout Anderson County today received an order from Judge Benet requiring them to issue warrants against those planters within their jurisdiction who were presented by the grand jury yesterday. The "slaveholders," as they are facetiously termed locally, are charged by the judge with the crimes of false imprisonment and assault and battery of a high and agile person. They will be required to give底底 a term. There is considerable unrest among the laborers in Anderson, and hundreds who are working under legal contract are leaving the planters. Winston Salem, N. C., March 8 - The taking of evidence before the coroner's jury in the case of Rand Hart, a young white convict, who died at one of the county camps Tuesday night, was not concluded until this afternoon. The testimony given by all of the witnesses showed that Hart was brutally beaten on Tuesday with switches and a raw hide by Pink Fulton, one of the guards. The county physician, who made the postmortem after the body was taken up yesterday, testified that Rand's body was terribly lacerated and bruised; that the wounds were sufficient to produce death. The jury returned a verdict charging Fulton with being responsible for the death of Hart. The guard was discharged Wednesday night. Papars were issued to-day for his arrest, but officers have not found him. His father is Rev. Henry Fulton, who attended the hearing here to-day. The Thos. W. Mitchell Monument Association invites bids also plans and specifications for a monument to be not less than 12 feet high or more than 18 feet. To be submitted at a meeting of the Executive Board to be held on the 2nd day of April, 1901, at Castle Hall, 511 North 3rd street, at 8 p.m. Sunday Services at Third [6t. A. M. E. church, March 17th, 1901. Preaching at 11 o'clock a. m. by the pastor, text, 8. Matthew 26:7. This is the 5th a series of sermons on the parable of the ten virgins. Preaching at 8:0 o'clock p. m. by Rev. A. S. Thomas, pastor of Sharon Baptist church. His congregation has been invited and his choir will furnish the music for this service. Preaching at 8 p. m. by the pastor. As this is the last rally for this church it is conference year every body is invited to worship with us at these hours. Strangers are welcome. Rev. W. E. GULLINS, Pastor. Mr. J. C. Farley and his daughter Miss Clara visited Washington, D. C. and were the guests of Mrs. George Jenkins. THOS. W. MITCHELL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. The committee beg to state that for the past few weeks our report has been crowded out but with this issue we again present our subscription list, which is opened to all friends of the late Col "Tom Mitchell." Subscription can be left at the office of the Treasurer Thos. M. Crump, 504 N. 2nd St. or with the committee. The same will be published the following week in these columns. It is also hoped that the subscriptions will be sent in as early as possible, thus avoiding all unnecessary delay; OF FOOTWEAR. NOTICE K or Ps We have prepared an Official Service or Program, to be used on Anniversary or Thanksgiv- STREET STATION. Will the People of Richmond Stop, Give Ear and Listen? Have you heard the news of the Great Lecture!! That will be given at the Fifth Street Baptist Church Monday Night, M'ch Have you heard that the Lecture will be auspices of the Willing Workers Church C ham, president and Miss Marie J. Williams, Lecturer is PROF. D. W. DAVIS Considered by all to be one of the most p of the south, his services being in demand and south. Come and hear him. Subject:--"What shall I Do to H It is not a sermon, but a lecture on the Salvat Miss H. Belle Fitzhugh will render one selections and the Misses Andersons will session with a sweet duet. Come early if you w ADMISSION, 10 CEN C & O WRI M C WALER Fancy Groceries, Wood No. 1310 Moore Street Baptist Church, st, M'ch 18th? lecture will be given under the ers Church Club, Mrs. Gra- e J. Williams, secretary? The DAVIS, A. M. If the most popular lecturers ing in demand in both north him. I Do to Be Saved?" on the Salvation of the Negro. I render one of her choicest persons will enliven the occa- early if you want to get a seat. 10 CENTS. WRECK ALER s, Wood & Coal are Street KNOW YOUR FATE and PORTUNE Fifth Street Baptist Church, Monday Night, M'ch 18th? Have you heard that the Lecture will be given under the auspices of the Willing Workers Church Club, Mrs. Graham, president and Miss Marie J. Williams, secretary? The Lecturer is PROF. D. W. DAVIS, A. M. Considered by all to be one of the most popular lecturers of the south, his services being in demand in both north and south. Come and hear him. Subject:--"What shall I Do to Be Sayed?" It is not a sermon, but a lecture on the Salvation of the Negro. Miss H. Belle Fitzhugh will render one of her choice selections and the Misses Andersons will enliven the occasion with a sweet duet. Come early if you want to get a seat. ADMISSION: 10 CENTS Fancy Groceries, Wood & Coal No.1310 Moore Street M. Madam Alviah. Wonderfully Gifted Clairvoyant and Business Medium If your lost or absent friends interest you; if you desire to be more successful; if you desire to have your domestic trouble removed; your, lost love returned; your enemies converted into staunch friends—in a word, whatever may be your trouble, suspicions or desires, call on this wonderfully gifted Lady. If secret enemies have hurt you the Madman can remove their evil influences and cure you. Madam Alvish advises you with a more than human foresight and power. She can diagnose disease through her Clairvoyant sight. 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BROOKLYN, V. ```markdown ``` KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAKS C.B. F.C.B. ATTENTION KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS ! March 31, 1901. At First Baptist Church. Office of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A. B. A., E. A., A. & A., Pythian Period, XXXVII, 811 N. 3rd St., Richmond, Va., March 14:th, 1901. In accordance with our law, and by the direction of the Supreme Chancellor, the Knights of Pythias throughout the grand jurisdiction of Virginia will attend at some suitable hall on church Sunday, March 31, 1901, and observe the anniversary of the order by returning thanks to Almighty G. d for His goodness and kindness to us by the bestowal of manifold blessings upon our Order, and the visitation of prosperity throughout this grand domain. Given under my hand and Seal this 14th day of March. 1901. [SEAL] TFOS. M. CRUMP, Grand Keeper of Records & Seal. 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