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THE RICHMOND PLANET XVIII NO 22 LARGE DELEGATION. The Virginia Baptist State Convention a Grand Success. HARMONIOUS SESSION. A Great Increase of New Churches-Over $14,000 Raised. Great was the 64th annual session of the Virginia Baptist State Convention which met in Bedford City last week. There were over 200 delegates from every part of the state, Washington, D.C., Maryland and members from Pennsylvania. The delegates from Norfolk went up in first class style having chartered the beautiful Pullman car, Mentor, of the Norfolk and Western line. They had their own conductor and porter. The delegates of Norfolk, Williamsburg, Newport News, Suffolk, Petersburg and Richmond accompanied one another in this first-class car. Rev. R. H. Bowling, D. D., made arrangements. There were many distinguished visitors in attendance upon the session: Dr. Alexander Gordon, Philadelphia; Harvey Johnson, Baltimore; J. Anderson Taylor, Washington, D. C.; Robert Johnson, Washington, Washington; W. D. G.; E. W. D. Iuse, Nashville, Teen, and L. G. Jordan, Louisville, Ky. WELCOMED BY THE MAYOR The convention was made welcome to the city by the mayor, the pastor of the white Baptist church, the pastor of the white Methodist church and Rev. W. D. Wood, pastor of the Washington Street Baptist Church in which the convention assembled. The white churches of the city were thrown open to the preachers of the convention and several of them, such as Drs. E. W. D. Isaac, D. A. Reid, W. B. Johnson and W. F. uraham made a lasting impression upon the white friends of Bedford City. Dr. Graham preached to the white Baptist church Sunday in the afternoon to a great crowd of the leading white citizens; among whom were lawyers, doctors, educators and citizens of high rank. He took occasion to explain the position of the Virginia Bapt. State Convention and it meet the hearty approval of the white friends present. Some of them acknowledged their appreciation of the sermon by making contributions and giving checks to the support of the Va. Bapt. State Convention. Those who preached the annual sermon acquitted themselves well. THE OPENING SERMON Rev. J. H. Burks of Manchester preached the opening sermon on "Christian Unity." The sermon met the approval of all, and showed that Rev. Burks is a power in the pulpit. Dr. Robert Johnson of Washington, D. O. Rev. W. S. Dixon of Newport News and Rev. G. C. Coleman preached able sermons. On Sunday morning President R. H. Bowling, D. D., preached a sermon that captivated the enire city. Dr. Harvey Johnson showed by his sermon and a paper upon the "Fallacies of History" that he is one of the ablest and most independent scholars in the American pulit. The convention delights to look up to him as she "Old Man Eloquent." Drs. R. H. Bowling, G. B. Howard and W. F. Graham were appointed as a committee to convey a set of resolutions as an expression of the convention to the Constitution Convention in behalf of our public school system. There were some of the ablest addresses and debates conducted ever given in a session of the convention. ABLE THEOLOGIANS. Just think what a feast there was when such men as Dr. G. B Howard, Robert Johnson, Harvey Johnson, Alexander Gordon, J. B Smith, B. F Fox, W. F. Graham, J. Anderson Taylor, G. W. Lee and Revs. B. P. Wakins, R. R. Jones, W. W. Brown, Henry Madison, G. P. Greene, W. H. Dixon, T. H. Shorts, W. W. Gaines, Holland Powell, J. H. Burks, A. Galvin, W. H. Moses, G. C. Coleman, W. L. Taylor and too many others to name—what a feast, we say of eloquence, reason and exhortation came from such men! Next year the great convention will meet with the Giffield Baptist Church of Petersburg, Dr. G B. Howrd, pastor. The different churches vied with each other in activation to care for the convention next. Rokoe wanted it, Washington wanted it, Norfolk wanted it, but they settled it upon grand old Giffeld. The convention was taken care of by Rev. W. D Woods and his people in a handsome style. The white friends of the city contributed generously to make the entertainment of the delegation, a happy one. During this session two other bodies were brought into existence—a State B, Y, P, U and the Baptist Sunday School Convention of the state of Virginia. In its very beginning, the new Sunday-school Convention started out with a large number of Sunday schools from all parts of the state. Prof. U S G. Patterson was elected president and Mr B, H, P.ton was elected first vice-president. Your reporter in his subsequent article will give a fuller statement touching the two new bodies. Suffice it to say that they will work in harmony with the views of our National Baptist work and the work of the Virginia Baptist State Convention. General Missionary G. G. Coleman, B D., rendered a splendid report, likewise did Diatrist Missionary Casy Think how grandly the work has proceeded since 99. OVER FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS PAID HIM. In that year we paid Mr. Humbles $1,000 on the debt of the Virginia Seminary, in 1800 we paid him $2800 in including the $800 paid by the Woman's Convention. This year we paid Mr. Humbles $2,568, making a total of $5,888.00 paid him since the battle of Lexington, which shows conclusively that the colored Baptists can do great things if they will stand together in the fear of God. The work at the Virginia Seminary is in first class condition. President Hayes has covered The Va. Theological Seminary & College has a fi el faculty and a determined set of trustees. This year Rev. Dr. Holland Powell was made a member of the trustee board. TITLES CONFERRED. Revs. Robert Johnson, J. M. Dawson and G. B. Smith, three of the grandest old war horses of our convention were honored by the Board of Directors upon the recommendation of the faculty with the degree of Doctor of Divinity. The friends of Rev. D. A. Reid of Clifton Forge will likewise rejoice to hear that Gaudalupe of Texas has conferred upon him the title of Doctor of Divinity. Rev. Cesar Perkins had a great surprise for the convention, when in his quiet and unassuming way, he arose and announced the fast that he had in his hands $50 00 or more for the convention. There were some other surprises: Brother Pompey Bland, a leading member of the First Baptist Church of Farmville, where preaches Rev. Dr. Kirby came up with $24.00 from members of the church. The Educational Circle of the First Baptist Church of Berkley, where preaches Rev. Bro. Randolph sent up $11.00 through Rev. J. M. Powell, and when the names of Hoy. John Mitchell, Jr., deacens, J. C. Farley and Harrison Smith were mentioned along with their contributions, the convention was loud in applause. This year's work settles the whole matter. The Virginia Baptist state Convention will not down, she is here to stay. More than twenty new churches came in at this session. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. State Missions..... $ 1091.49 Va. Seminary..... 4268.06 Foreign missions..... 828.04 National Baptist Pub. Board..... 86.80 Hartshorn College..... 20.50 National B. Y. P. U. Board..... 11.97 Hemmingway School..... 20.00 Va. Union University..... 6.00 Ministerial Fund..... 6.35 Church Edifice Fund..... 4.35 Bible and Pub. Board..... 3.60 Spiller Academy..... 1.00 Church..... 5.38 Jacksonville Fire S. F. herers..... 6.64 Rev T. M. Bowman..... 8.00 Special Undesignated..... 247.00 Total Cash..... $ 6057.77 From Va. Seminary..... 7490.78 From Missionaries..... 712.22 Grand Total to Date.....$14,258.75 Yours, BAPIST. Notice. We are requested to ask all members of the Attuck's Guard Association to meet at W. S. Salden's Undertaker's Establishment Monday, May 20th for business. Signed: W. S. SELDEN, Sergt. J. A. TURNER, O. S. COOKE—Mrs. Lavinia Cooke, widow of the late Henry Cooke, the veteran Funeral Director of Richmond, Va., died at her residence, 528 N. Adams St. Wednesday, May 8th, at 6:0 p. m. Nine children survive her: Mrs. Mildred C. Jones, Misses Mattie E., Carrie I., and Lavinia; Messrs Jno. O, C. J. andJ Chris C of Richmond, Va., and Messrs J. A. and W. S. Cooke of Newport News, Va. The funeral took place from the First Baptist Church, Friday, May 10th, at 8:30 p. m. Rev. Scott O. Burrell and Rev. R. J. Bass offissated. Interment at Evergreen cemetary. Mrs. Ellen N. Jones, of No. 1023 W. Leigh street has been quite ill for the last five weeks, is now rapidly improving, under the skillful treatment of Dr. S. G. Jones. I wish to thank the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company for their prompt payments. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1901. MOB RULE IN ALBANY. MOB RULE IN ALBANY. Strikers and Their Sympathizers Prevent the Running of Cars. ONE MAN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. Police Acknowledge Their Inability to Protect the Cars Against Mob Violence and Gen. Oliver Orders Ont Troops-Eight Arrests First Day. Albany, N. Y., May 15.—When darkness fell last evening several thousand weary street car strikers and sympathizers went to their houses, but they were replaced by as many more who took up the vigil to prevent the United Traction men from running their electric cars with non-union men. Two attempts made yesterday to run cars brought bloodshed and riot on such a scale that the local police, added by scores of deputies and Pinkerton men, were unable to quell the disturbance One man lies in a hospital seriously wounded, one of the two cars the company attempted to run is in the gutter of a street not two blocks from the car house, wrecked, and the trolley wires are cut in several places, practically crippling the road. Near the car houses are thousands of men and women and children wrought up to a pitch of frenzy that bodies ill if the doors of the car house open to let out another car. Inside the car house, afraid even to look out of the grated windows, are about 75 non-union men whom the company expects to use in running the cars. Early yesterday morning there were about 150 of them, but by nightfall 65 had deserted and joined the ranks of the strikers. The men claim that they were brought here under a misapprehension. When the police practically admitted that they were powerless to take care of the large crowds on the street if cars were run General Manager McNamara immediately called upon Gen. Oliver, in command of the Third brigade, for protection. He said: "We intend to run cars out if it takes the entire National Guard of New York state to protect us." Gen. Oliver issued an order assembling at their armory the Tenth battalion of Albany, comprising four companies of the National Guard of infantry, and the Third signal corps, mounted. Gen. Oliver said that he would warn the remainder of the Third brigade to be in readiness for a call. Later the Twenty-third regiment was ordered out. The riot yesterday was full of exciting features. At 10 o'clock two of the big car doors swung open and out darted a closed car, with all the windows opened. Immediately there was a roar of hisses and shouts. Several men made an effort to board the car, but they were kept from doing so by the police. The second car did not escape. When the doors were opened the mob surged towards it, despite the efforts of the police. The crew consisted of four men dressed in plain clothes. As the car swung around the curve there was a rush for it, but the crowd was driven back. The committee from the strikers was allowed to approach the men. "Do you want to come with us, boys? You won't regret it." There was no response from any of the men. The motorman waved them aside and the car was off again. All restraint in the great crowd broke. Through the middle of the street men ran, with women and children, mingling with the officers of the law, whose clubs were swinging and arms moving, in vain almost, to keep people from danger. Men stooped to pick up stones and were overturned, to be pushed and kicked by the others. There was a perfect fusillade of stones. They came from all directions and crashed through the car. The men aboard dodged and jumped from side to side to escape them and were successful, with the exception of the motorman. A great rock struck him full in the forehead, and he dropped to the floor of the platform into a pool of his own blood that covered the entire platform. The assistant, as soon as the man dropped, grasped the brakes and controlling handle and faced the mob. A few feet more and the car was upon an insurmountable barricade. With a sudden jerk it came to a stop, and all aboard it were thrown forward, one of the conductors falling among a pile of broken glass, to receive some ugly flesh wounds and cuts. The conductor and one motorman joined the strikers and the wounded man went to the hospital. He said his name was Marshall, and he lived at Greenpoint, L. I. Several thousand strikers and sym- pathizers charged at dusk on a wagon-load of non-union men who had been sent out from the Quail street barns by the company to repair the trolley wires which had been cut during the riots of the morning. The police were powerless to stop the storm of stones and bricks showered upon the non-union men from vacant lots, cross streets and housetops. The men lay upon their faces on the floor of the wagon, and surrounded by the mounted men, who used their clubs on the more aggressive of the riots, were hurried back to the barns. Two of the non-union men were injured, and several of the mob severely clubbed. Three arrests were made. Eight arrests have been made, and thus ended the first day's attempt to run cars. CHINA'S APPEAL FOR MERGY Asks For Thirty Years to Pay the Indemnity Demanded Washington, May 15.—A cablegram from Mr. Rockhill, our special commissioner at Pekin, received at the state department yesterday, mentions the receipt by the ministers of the response of the Chinese envoys to the ministers' demands for indemnity. The dispatch indicates briefly that the Chinese represent that an annual payment of $10,000,000 is the full extent of their power to pay on indemnity accounts. It will take 30 years to discharge the debt at that rate, without interest. Mr. Rockhill make no mention of the subject of interest. According to a press dispatch the answer of China commences with an appeal to mercy, saying that the country is impoverished. The answer explains that the utmost China can offer is 15,000,000 taels annually for the next 30 years. The ministers refuse to discuss this answer until it has been considered by them in meeting. Our Exports and Imports. Washington, May 15. The monthly statement of imports and exports of the United States shows that during April, 1901, the imports of merchandise amounted to $76,750,828, of which $6,461,728 was free of duty. The whole amount is $1,000,000 in excess of the imports of April, 1901. The exports of domestic merchandise during April aggregated $120,780,590, an increase of $2,000,000. For the last ten months the total imports of merchandise were $41,049,350 less than for the corresponding period last year. During the same months the exports of domestic merchandise exceeded those for the corresponding period in 1900 by $85,566,258. It's a good time to see the love of man exemplified. It's a sin to that of God. See Damon and Pythias, at the True Reformers' Hell, Monday night, May 20th. Cantata Notice The Cantata of Jephthah and His Daughter, under the directorship of Prof Q. Wm. Moon will be presented at the True Reformers' Hall, Monday night. May 27.h, by the University Club, No. 2, of First Baptist Church. General admission, 15 cents. Reserved seats, 25 cents. Wishing to do something for the comrades that fell in the late war, before the Spanish war, calls upon all males and females to unite with a hearty spirit, and place some flowers on the graves of those who fought for us. Mr. E. D. Nelson, of Surray Co., Va., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Jones 200 W. 21 St. Manchester Va. last week. Mr. David Stepte of Sharpsburg, Pa. sends us a most encouraging letter expressive of his appreciation of the Planet. He backs it up with $2.50 for subscription to the same. We are gratified and thankful. Miss Molly C. Stewart of Philadelphia, Pa., in company with Mrs. Lucy E. Miles, called on us. The man fell down, but he had paid for an admission to True Reformers' Hall next Monday night, and it was all right. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnson of Baynesville, Va. called on us, The revival at the Fifth St. Baptist Church is still in progress. There are over 200 converts and 150 mourners. The Beethoven Musical Association met Wednesday evening with Mrs Rosa Jones presiding and Miss Merrideth acting secretary. It was decided to hold the Fourth Commencement June 5th. A programme and reception committee were appointed and arrangements are now in progress for the recital. Damon and Pythias, True Reformers Hall, May 20th. Editor Richmond PLANET: A twilence for some co s'erable time, I desire that you will put in the following: Dirty years ago I was stationed here by the lamented Bishop Wayman at the rise of the Virginia Annual Conference of this year at Roanoke I was appointed by Bishop Lee, D. D. I never met with a warm reception in all the years of my ministry. THIRD 8T. A. M. E. CHURCH. The church is a respectable one, and a credit to African Methodism. There is an immense amount of hard work to be accomplished this conference year, to bring the church where I think it should be. Rev. W. R. Gullins my predecessor had a number of friends and did all in his power to make my entrance a pleasant one. In looking over the congregation, I only see ten or twelve faces that I recognized thirty years ago. They reminded me of seamen who have been tossed this and that way on the tempestuous ocean. The billows have beat against them, the skies have almost blown them from the desk and through hold upon the ropes and still they stood for Christ and African M theodistism. The S. bhath School is small, but good. I shall do all in my power to increase its number. We have all of the departments organized, and have given on the orders. Forward march! MISCELLANEOUS. When I entered the charge on the 24 h of April I was taken to the Reformers' Hotel on 6th and Baker St., not far from where I lived thirty years ago. This is a splendid location and a beautiful house well manned in the person of M. A. W. Holmes and wife. On entering the building one would think he was in a hotel run by white men. I visited the printing office of the Reform and Banking Department as well their everything looks well, indeed the Reformers are quoting a large business in this city. I was in the PLANET office run by Prof. John Mitchell, Jr., a few days ago, everything seems to be busy as well as himself. As time rolls on you shall hear from me again if life lasts. A Grand Surprise. O last Tuesday evening a large crowd of ladies and gentlemen were seen wending their way to N. 207 W. Leigh St, the occasion being a surprise on Mrs. Matilda Mimms led by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pryor, Mr. and Mrs. Jesu-Maria Pryor, Mr. and Mrs. 285 was presented to the Madam. After which refl shments in abundance were served. The following persons were present: Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Burwell, Mr. and Mrs. John Winston, Mrs. Indie Coleman, Mrs. Janet Jimmerson of Philadelphia, Mrs. Mary Wigfield, Miss L luse Dickerson, Mrs. Mary L. Smith, Misses Louise Rienhardson Lucy Rose, Mesames Harriet Pryan, Hanan Dandridge, Miss Dollie Leagins, Mr. W. B Cunningham, Mesames Sallie Bullock, Laura Roundtree, Miss Mary Jones, Mrs Amanda West, Miss Luzy Jordan. Mr. Thomas Jones. Messrs Wm. Winton, Charlie Harris, E. W. Mort. n, Rev. Sidney Stanton, Messrs Jahm Jimmerson J. D Love, Willie Pryer, M. n, and Mrs. W. S. Howard Mr. and Mrs. Ben Anderson, Mrs. Baker Rev. Stokes Re elected In the last regular meeting of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. W. H. Stokes, B D, was resecured for the term of six months. A committee was appointed to recommend names to the church for the purpose of selecting a pastor when the term of Rev. Stokes expires. It seems as if the sentiment of the church is in favor of Rev. Stokes, who has proven his ability to fill the vacancy while he has been a substitute. WIGTOR, KAN, May 11- J. L. Chandler, an old resident and farmer of Iceland, Day county, Oklahoma, was taken from hishoma, Friday night, presumably by cattlemen, and lynched. There being no telegraph in that section of Oklahoma, the news of the lynching did not reach woodward until to-night. For some time there has been trouble between the farmers and the cattlemen during the past few weeks a great many of them died from poisoned water. Chandler was aspected, and lynched as a warning, to others. The identity of the lynchers is not known. Colored Man Killed By a Mob. LITTLE ROCK, ARK., May, 18—A mob of masked men went to a house occupied by Lee Key, Colored, near Knoxville. Johnson county, and called him out. Key was found dead in the yard and had been terrorized other Negroes. Coroner Thinks The Wrong Man Has Been Lynebed. ATLANTA GA., May 11 — special to the Journal from Birmingham Ala., says: 'An unknown colored man, thought to be Jam a Brown, who is charred with assaulting Miss Della Garret, of Springville, was shot and killed by a number of white men near Leeds, twelve miles from Birmingham his morning. The colored man got off a Southern railway train, and the men at the depot noticing his resemblance to Brown, called on him to halt where upon the man ran, and was riddled with bullets. The coroner called in the case is of the opinion that the wrong man has been killed. Boys, make your engagements for True Reformers' Hall, Monday night, May 20th. The G U O of O d Fellows of this I observed their Thanksgiving services. The lin formed at Price's Hall and headed by Richmond Patiarchitech, Captain Chas. W. Young, in command the lodges repaired to Ebenezer Baptist Church where an excellent sermon was delivered by that brilliant young divine, Rev. W. H. Stokes. Ex Grand Master, W. M. T. Forrester gave a detailed account of the strength of the Order in Virginia and it was most favorably received. The Households were also present. ANOTHER COURT INSTITUTED. It is needless to say that Richmond is still aroused by the principles of Pythianism and Calantheism and the citizens are still jirging their ranks, for week after week the news goes forth of another Lodge or Court added to the list. The people of Fulton have caught the echo and are rushing into the Order. A few weeks ago 42 strong, able-bodied men were initiated into the mysteries of knighthood and Tuesday, May 18, 1901, the hall was again live with ladies and gentlemen to aid in setting aside a fine Court of 48 members reflect credit upon sister Anna Taylor, our faithful "Court Organiser" Richmond, this being the ninth court gotten up by her energetic efforts. She seemed happy at receiving the hearty congruations of her many friends, who wished her continu d success and accord her the honor due her. The following filled the Grand Officers stations and aided in the initiation: Grand Worthy Counselor, Mr. John Mitchell, Jr.; Grand Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Georgie Bolling; Grand Worthy Inspectrix, Miss Era Davis; Grand Worthy Orator, Miss M. L. Chiles; Grand Worthy Register of Deeds, Mrs. Catherine Goods; Grand Worthy Escorts, Mrs. Anna Taylor, Mrs. Nannie C. Johnson; Grand Worthy Senior Director, Mrs. Nannie Cole; Grand Worthy Junior Director, Mrs. H. Rishardson; Grand Worthy Conduitress, Mrs. Lucy E Miles; Grand Worthy Assistant Conduitress, Mrs. Fanny Loving; Grand Worthy Herald, Dr. E. R. Jefferson. Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, Mrs. M. E. Brown, Mrs. M. V. Henderson, Mrs. Emma Cousine, Mr. J. W. Robinson, Jesse Randall, S. S. Baker, J. W Blackwell. This Court will be known as Fulton Court and will meet the 4h Mondays in each month at 4 p. m In following are the ombers: Worily Ounseiller, Mrs. Rhoda Daw worily inquestress, Mrs. Fannie Booker; worthy inquestress, Mrs. Hester Scott; worthy senior directress, Miss Carrie Davis; worthy junior directress, Miss Maggie Williams; worthy orator, Mrs Maria Sewall; worthy register of deeds, Miss Hattie B Wood worthy register of accounts, Mrs. Irene Whiting; worthy register of deposits, Minetta Jones; worthy escort. Mrs. Virginia Bossieux; worthy conductress, Mrs. Mary Prentiss; worthy assistant conductress, Mrs. Cora Harris; worthy herald, Mrs. Polly Poole; worthy protector, Mrs. Ellen Yancey. Trustees: Mrs. Louisiana Banks, Mary L. Porter, Mrs. Josephine Taylor. It's an opportunity of a life time. The cate is fine and no expense has been spared. See Damon and Pythias at True Reformers' Hall next Monday night. MANCHESTER, VA. The trial of Solomon Taylor, colored charged with assaulting Mrs. Bertha Costly at her home, near Manchester, was not concluded in the Chesterfield Court last Monday, but was continued Tuesday in order to secure a witness wanted by the defense. The special grand jury found a true bill in short order, and the trial was at once gone into. Judge Clopton presiding, Mr. E. E. H. Wells, Commonwealth's Attorney conducting the prosecution, and Mr. Robert S. Rives being appointed by the court, represent- PRICE 5 COUNTS ing the accusant s. Several witnesses we e put on the stand, their testimony be convincing of Taylor's guilt. He is later and brother-in-law testified that the accused was at home after-10 o'clock on the night the crime was committed. Taylor was put on the stand but told conflicting stories concerning his movements, and was considerably tangled on cross-examination. He was terribly frightened, and trembled during the whole time he was being questioned. Mr. Rivere made a most able defense, and the case was thoroughly gone into. The verdict was 20 years in the penitentiary. The play is pathetic, the story fines. We refer to Damon and Pythias on Monday night at the True Reformers' Hall. Paid The Death Claims of Two Lives People—How Two Frauds Were Discovered. The Endowment D department of the I.O. of St. Luke published a list of death claims in the columns of the PLANET of April 20th, 1901. Among the number was Kitty Smith of Bantolph Council, N. 110 of Hanover Co. Va. As she had been in the Order less than twelve months upon the presentation of her death certificate and polity the benefiliary was paid ($500.00) fifty dollars. Maria Mundy's death certificate and polity brought to the beneficiary ($100.00) one hundred dollars, and she was a member of sankolph Council, No 110. All the until Kitty Smith and Maria Mundy were informed that so far as the St. Lukes concerned and according to the publication in the PLANET, they were dead and buried. Great was the surprise at the St. Luke's Hall when the two sisters walked into the office last week and explained the situation. It seems that a resin man held their policies, stating that he would have them changed and bring them new ones. He had their death certificates made out and with the policies in his possession drew the money. The matter will be laid before the Endowment Board for its action. A Grand Entertainment. Mrs. M. J. Reid of 809 E. Grace St. gave a social for the pleasure of Mrs. Martha Harris and Mr. Harvey Christian, both of New York City. Among the guest were Misses Louisa Dennis, Mattie Coleman, Mary J. Brown, and her friends, Mrs. Harris and Miss R. Rary, Messrs Randolph Marks, W. H. Armstead, Joe McGhee, Joe Woodfolk, Willie Robertson, Frank Nelson, M. J. White, also Miss Lealia B. Jones of 809 E. Grace street. Mrs. Martha Harris returned home last Tuesday from Miss Brown's, 815 E. Broad St. Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge To Meet Next Tuesday at Portsmouth! The Grand Lodge of Virginia, K. of P., N. A. S. A. E., A., A. & A will convene at Portsmouth, Va., Tuesday, May 21st, 1901, at 9:30 a.m. and continue in session two days. The Grand Court, Independent Order of Calanhe will meet the same day at 4 p. m. The parade will take place Tuesday, and all the uniform rank members will report to Col. M. D. Meekins, 9 Burress St., Norfolk, immediately upon arrival at Norfolk. The Richmond delegation will leave Monday, May 20, at 8:40 p. m. via C. O. R. B. R. The Endowment Board of the Grand Lodge, will meet Tuesday at 8 a. m. --- You are respectfully requested and invited to report at the headquarters of 2nd Regiment, U. R. K. of P. on May 21st, to be the guest of Colonel and officers of 2nd Regiment on said date. M. D. MERRINS, Col. Com., E. LANGLEY, Adj. Mr. B. B. Elliott of Suffolk, Va. in company with Rev. M. B. Hucles, called on us. Mr. Gary Hayden has been quite ill at his residence, 514 W. Baker St., but is now convulsing. —Rev. R. Beecher, Taylor, will preach at the First Baptist Church, Sunday 11 a.m., subject, "Shall I Let Him In," and at 8:30 p. m. at Sharon Baptist Church, subject, "Divine Love and its Benefit." NOTICE Office of 2nd Regiment U. R. K. 10f. F. N. A. S. A. E. A. A. & A. Order 11. NORFOLK, VA., April 25, 1901. Brigadier General and Staff of 1st Brigade, and officers and companies of 1st Regiment:— It's a play that is enlightening and enobbling. Go and see Damon and Pythias, next Monday night. at True-Performers' Hall. AN HUMBLE HERO BY THOMAS B. MONTEFORT After supper Melvin and old man Turner sat out in the yard and talked—that is, Turner asked questions, and Melvin answered them. Melvin was in a better humor since he was slightly rested and his hunger had been appeased, and to the hundred questions Turner asked he returned ready and good natured answers, although he did not always return true ones. Finally Melvin found an opportunity to lead the conversation, and then he told about the old man back in the woods and of his queer experience with him. For the first time that evening Turner burst into a roar of hearty laughter. "Lord a-massy," he cried, "don't you know who that old hoss was?" "Certainly not," Melvin replied. "How should I know when I am a total stranger here?" "To be shore. I forgot 'bout that." Still, it seems like everbody most orb to know old Hi Jenkins. Lord, he's been a-livin forever, 'pears lack, as the feller says." "Is he crazy?" "Old Hl crazy! Why, snakes an cat-carpillars, stranger, what you mean by skin slch a question as that?" "I thought from the way he acted that he certainly must be crazy." "Great possums an persimmons! Talk about old Hl bein blen! You don't know nothin 'bout that old boss or you wouldn't never ask no skch a fool thing as that. Why, old Hl's the smartest man in all these parts. He sot on to a jury oncect down at the county seat." "That so?" "You bet it are! Yes, sir-ee!" "Wonder why he behaved so strangely with me, then?" "Why, that's plain enough when you come to finger it out. You jest happened to run acrost him on one of his off days." "Off days?" "Yes, one of his off days." his on days. "What do you mean by that?" "Don't you know?" "I certainly do not." "Waal, by shucks, you shorely don't know nothin 'bout the ways an doin's of folks yere'bouts! What I mean by His off day is that this is his day for chillin." "I don't know, I'm sure." "Course, he has the chills, an he shakes ever other day. He was setting out that on that log a-waitin for his chill to come on when you seed him." "And that was why he behaved the way he did?" "Of course. Thar hain't many people, I can tell you, wants to be bothered with questions when a chill is comin on, an if a feller was to shoot you under them kind of provocations you wouldn't never git no court to hang him." "The court would consider the shooting justifiable, you think?" "I bet it would. Lord a-massy, I wouldn't nigh kill nobody for nothin else on earth, I guess, but I jest most know I'd shoot a feller if he come a-plickin an a-naggin at me with fool questions when my ager was a-workin on me." "You say Mr. Jenkins shakes with a chill every other day?" "To be shore, I said that. Why wouldn't he shake ever 'other day?' "It's a regular part of his life, is it?" "Just as much a part of his life as an ankle sleepin is. Yes, sir-eel! Why, say, if anything was to happen to old Hi so that he missed havin his chill on his reg'lar day I reckon he'd feel more host than if his old woman was to die. In these parts ager is a part of a felter's rights an privileges, same as votin an holdin office is." "Indeed?" "You bet your hide." "Does Mr. Jenkins live near this?" "No, not as you might say right near. He lives over t'other side of Coon Run river. Hain't been over in that settlement, I reckon?" "No." "Waal, you won't lose notbin, I guess, if you never do go over thar." "Oh, them folks over thar aln't jest the sort a body keers to have much to do with. Leastwise I find 'em that a-way." "Are they bad characters?" "No, I don't know as you can put it that a-way exactly, 'cause they're peaceable enough an honest all that. They're jest so different from we uns over here." "In what way are they different?" "Waal, for one thing they're so doggone ign'unt. Why, say, them folks over thar hain't got no more education than a gang of possums, not a blame bit more. Sich ign'unce is plumb pitiable shore. I allus feel sorry for them that hain't got learnin, don't you?" Melvin looked at the old man in open eyed astonishment and muttered an assent. It occurred to him, however, that if the people on the other side of Coon Run were any more lacking in learning than Turner was their condition, as far as education goes, was pitable indeed. But he was very far from giving utterance to any such thought, for already he had learned that the average Poseum Ridger was a sorely sensitive individual, who was liable to take offense on the smallest provocation. There was a silence of two or three minutes, and Melvin's thoughts had drifted back to Beckett's Mill and to the little scene there that day in which he had been a participant. And in the center of that scene there was one figure that stood out boldly and distinctly from all the rest. What the others said or what the others did he did not know or care, but every word uttered by Louisa Banks and her every movement and every look was as vividly before him now as it had been at that time. Nor was it a strange, for to him she was the only living reality there. The rest were only so many figures whose trivial deeds and existence were unworthy of a thought. He recalled the expression on her face at the moment when her eyes met his, and now it was a wonder to him how he had ever managed to hold himself so well in check as not to betray even a hint of the great, consuming passion that filled his heart. Suddenly his wandering thoughts were recalled by Turner, who renewed the conversation by opening up a new subject. "Mr. Melvin," he said, "I reckon you ain't one of them dogged overly nice an funny sort of chaps who are so dad blamed hard to please that they jest put ever-body all up on edge?" "Why, I don't think I'm particularly hard to please." Melvin replied. "I try not to be, at least." "That's kind of the way I figgered you out, but you know a body can't always tell about folks. Sometimes a feller's figginer don't turn out nothin like right. One time I got pow'ful fooled on one of them dogged pill peddlers, an I been a little mite shy of folks ever since." "How was that about the pill peddler?" "Why, it was this a-way. He rode up to the fence that one night an wanted to know if he could stop, jest for all the world like you done while ago. He was in sich a fizz an a stew that he wouldn't tell me nothin sea'oely an 'peared like he didn't want to answer nary a question I asked him, though the Lord knows I ain't no hand to inquire into other folks' business an ask fool questions 'bout things that don't consarn me. You know that's so, I jedge, from what you've seed of me?" Melvin smiled, but with reckless hardhood replied: "Oh, certainly!" "Waal," Turner went on, "that thar pill peddler 'lower he was jest bound to stop yere, an stop he did. But, oh, my land, what a bother an a pester he was! Staid a month, I guess, an that whole endurin time he was forever an eternally-a-grumblin an indin fault. Wan't never satisfied with nothin. The very fust thing he done was to raise a furse 'cause he had to sleep in the bed with the hired man, an"— "You are not keeping a hired man now, are you?" Melyln asked, a little anxiously. "No, not now, I ain't. But, as I was goin to say, when we tried to humor "Know Sim Banks!" that feller by puttin him to sleep the next night with three of the children he kicked up a wuss furse than ever. Reckon the blame fool wanted a whole bed to himself." "And if he was here now," Melvin said eagerly, "you could give it to him, couldn't you?" "Yes, we could now, since the hired man's gone," Turner answered, and Melvin drew a long breath of relief. "Like enough, though," Turner added, "if we'd give him a whole bed the next thing he'd been askin for a room all to himself. I wouldn't 'a' put it a bit a-past him to act jest that miserable unreasonable." "You—could you give him a room all to himself now?" "Waal, practically. Wouldn't be nobody in that with him 'ceptin a couple of the boys.'" Melvin's face lengthened. "Then he didn't like it." Turner continued, "'cause he had to go out to the pump ever' mornin to wash his face. 'Lowed he ort to have it fixed so's he could wash right in the room whar he slept. Ever hear of sich a crank? But that wa'n't all. No, sir-ee! Next he figgered that he didn't like to use the same towel we all used, but wanted one all to hisself. But on top of all that foolishness he was so blamed particular about his things. Got mad 'cause an the hired man wore some of his clothes an 'cause my old woman got out his watch for the children to play with. Yes, sir-ee! That's jest the sort of a unreasonable, finicky blame cuss that feller was, an I'm doggoned glad you ain't nothin like him shore." When Turner had finished, there was silence. Melvin had no observation to offer, and he felt that there was no necessity for him to say anything. He had his own opinion, however, of Turner's ideas of hospitality, but he was under the impression that it would be just as well if he kept that opinion to himself. He was sure Turner would not feel any kindler or more friendly RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. toward him if he should give utterance to his thoughts. So when after a long pause Melvin finally spoke it was on another and an entirely different subject. A little diffidently, as if he knew he was approaching dangerous ground, he said: "I presume, Mr. Turner, you are acquainted with a man named Banks, who lives over at Beckett's Mill?" "Who-Slim, Banks?" Turner, says. "Who—Sim Banks?" Turner questioned. "I think so—a tall man with red hair and" "Oh, it's Sim!" Turner interrupted. "It'll bound to be him, 'cause thar ain't no other Banks thar." "You know him, then?" "Lord, me know Sim Banks! Why, what a dern fool question! Do you reckon I know myself? Know Sim Banks! Why, Lord a-massy, man, I've known that chap ever since he was knee high to a grasshopper. Yes, slr-ee!" "He's married, I believe?" "To be shore. Yes, Sim's married." "And happy, I presume?" "Happy as some, I reckon." There was a short pause. Then Melvin said: "I saw Banks and his wife today over at Beckett's Mill. I don't know, of course, that it is so, but it appeared to me that they are a mismated pair. What do you think about it?" Turner looked at Melvin, squinted his eyes and grinned. "Young feller," he said, "them two may be mismated for all I know, an they may not, an if they are mismated it ain't norce of my doin's, an I ain't nowise responsible for it." "Certainly not," Melvin admitted, "but I thought perhaps you had noticed that the wife is so different from the husband. She appears to be educated and refined, while he does not. Haven't you observed that?" "I hain't blind," Turner replied quietly, "an what I see I see." "Do you think it possible for two people so entirely different to live together happily?" "I hain't been doin no thinkin along that line, Mr. Melvin. I don't finger that I got any call to." "But you certainly have an idea along that line?" Turner eyed Melvin very narrowly for a moment, then slowly replied: "Young feller, I can't make out that you got any call to worry 'bout Sim Banks an his wife, an I 'low it'd be jest as well for all parties concerned if you didn't do it. I'm a-gittin along up in years myself, an I can't lived all my life in this world without learnin one or two things. One of the things I've done learnin is never to mix up in nobody else's business when I ain't got no interest in it, an another thing is never to bother myself 'bout what goes on between a man an his wife. I ain't so blamed smart as some, mebby, nor I ain't no derned idiot asylum, an I know enough to know that 'bout the most dangerous place a feller kin stick his nose is in between a man an his woman. He'd a dad burned sight better stick it in a steel trap. Yes, sir-ee! You bet he had." Turner paused, but Melvin offered no reply. Presently the former went on, speaking in all seriousness: "You are a young feller, Mr. Melvin," he said, "an I guess you ain't had no great experience with the world, so I'll jest risk given you a little piece of advice. Whatever else you do in this life an however many other mistakes you may make, be shore of one thing, an that is don't you ever go an grit mixed up in no mess with no other man's wife. No matter what comes nor what goes, don't you ever do no sich a thing as that, for as shore as you do you'll live to see the day when you'll bitterly rue it. You mark my words for that." Melvin laughed at the old man's seriousness and turned the matter off lightly. He had no intention of going to any dangerous extremes, and he felt that there was no occasion for all this sermonizing. However, there came a time in after days when those words came home to him with stunning force, and he wished with all his heart that he had heeded them. [TO BE CONTINUED.] A BRIGHT IDEA. "Say, sis, gimme some o' them biscuits you're makin', will you?" "What! Are you hungry again?" "Now! I want to make a pair o' dumbbells."—N. Y. Journal. Not Up to Expectations. "Women seldom marry their ideals," he read, and then he added: "Well, I suppose there is some truth in that." "Oh, unquestionably," she replied. "We usually think we are marrying our ideals, but it doesn't take us long to discover our error." "I wonder," he said to himself shortly afterward, "whether or not that 'we' was used in its broad general sense?" But he deemed it the part of wisdom not to ask—Chicago Post Bought It. "I can't afford to pay that much," said the young man who was looking at engagement rings. "Well, here's one," said the jeweler, "for $15; special service, five dollars extra." "Er—what do you mean by 'special service?'" "When the young lady comes in to learn the value of it we'll tell her $75 or $100."—Catholic Standard and Times. BE NOT DECEIVED TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. King of all Hair Tonics, "OZONO." BEFORE. AFTER. 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 franks pure and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the meantime, our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, announced the request for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchase to any extent, when it was put out on the market and met with marked success. After a thousand best by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate fact to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race, because they found it to cause the hair to 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 afas, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and skin of people who are buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal hair to the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—be careful that you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring 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 $50.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if you are dissatisfied with our preparations, if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for several years under this guarantee, and we are glad to say that every one who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. 20,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono as the King of all Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively take Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Curly, Refractory, Troublesome hair, make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases. Itch, Eczema, Dandruff, and Scurf can not live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and. 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. Ozono straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You can stop the use at any time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozone is 50c. a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time: Cut out this coupon and send to us, enclosing with it the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to you four large boxes of 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 fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—Nature's great beautifier—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look younger. 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 THE COST OF PARLIAMENTS. In the United States the 90 senators and 360 congressmen are paid $2,500,000 in salaries. The German reichstag, with its two branches, costs the voters on an average $100,000 a year. The legislators in the Italian parliament receive no salaries, but have free transportation on railroads. The cost of the Italian parliament last year nevertheless was $420,000. The parliament of Holland comprises 150 members, in two houses. Members of the upper house receive four dollars a day and of the second body $800 a year and mileage. The parliament of Holland costs $300,000 a year. The most expensive parliament in Europe is that of France, which costs $1,500,000 a year. The French people are very well represented. There are 300 senators and 584 deputies, a total in excess of 800. Each receives a salary of $1,800 a year. The members of the British parliament serve without salary. There are 150 members in the upper and 250 in the lower branch. The former get no pay at all and the latter but $300 a year. If any session lasts longer than four months they are paid at the rate of $2.60 a day additional. The incidental expenses of this body last year were but $260,000. The most scantily paid of any of the regular salaried lawmakers are those of Austria. There are two legislative bodies for Austria, one meeting in Vienna and one in Buda-Pesth. The total cost is $800,000 a year. An Austrian law provides that the members receive ten florins, or two dollars a day. The lawmakers of Austria receive therefore the minimum wages of a day laborer employed in any public work in New York. For every 110 civilians 380 soldiers commit suicide. One hundred and fifty-four out of every 10,000 convicts are usually in hospital. It is proposed to illuminate the Yosemite falls, 2,000 feet in height, by use of 20 are lights in connection with means for producing color effects. Some of the roads are also to be lighted with electricity. In order to preserve the colors of plants, it is necessary to kill the specimens quickly; and this can be effected by plunging them for a few seconds in boiling water. If a plant is allowed to die slowly, the colors of the leaves and flowers will gradually fade. The duke of Devonhire owns the biggest emerald in the world. It is known as the Devonshire emerald, and was bought by the present duke's father from Dom Pedro. The emerald ON DIVERS TOPICS. grantee to do all that is claimed for it, or you a plain question—would we also oare dissatisfied with our preparations, aim for them? We have advertised for and we are glad to say that every one need in every respect. our preparations, and every purchaser call Hair Tonics. Ozono will positively sky, Harsha, Curly, Refractory, Troubleshair hair long and straight. It will cure scalp diseases. Ioch, Eczema, Dandruff, has been applied. It will stop your hair any hair to its natural color, making the statement. Many firms are advertising when they send the preparation they tell not use hot irons; they will burn up the out. Ozono straightens without any Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays we use at any time. The good effects on the first application. bottle-4 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 facial imperfections, and actually removes one fancy 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 and no soap but a pure soap should ever measuring two inches in diameter, and of the finest color is of fabulous ruler. of the finest color, is of fabulous value. Of the pure Hawaiians 83 per cent. and of the part Hawaiians 91 per cent. can read and write. Out of a population of 190,030 the Hawaiians form 36 per cent., a little more than one-third. But of the children in the schools the Hawaiian and part Hawaiian number one-half. Of the 6,327 landowners in the islands, 4,717 are Hawaiians, more than two-thirds. THE GREATEST SHIP AFLOAT. She is 700 feet long and 75 feet beam. Her plates are $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches thick, and some weigh four tons apiece. There were put into her 1,704,000 rivets by hydraulic machinery. She will carry 62,900 pounds of meat and 39,200 pounds of flour. She will carry 2,742 passengers and crew and 12,000 tons of cargo. She has 13 decks and the portside Oceanic, hitherto the biggest ship. She will draw too much water to come into New York harbor when loaded to the mark. She measures 700 feet long, only nine feet longer than the Great Eastern, but will draw 11 feet more water. The Celtic, the greatest ship in the world, has been launched. The event took place at Belfast on April 4. She is almost a fourth larger than the Oceanic, previously the largest. Both these ships completely surpass the Great Eastern, which was regarded for nearly 50 years as beyond all practical size. ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES. The walls of Avignon are threatened, and the council has voted to destroy a part of them. A special organ devoted to the papyri has been started. It is the Archiv fur Papyrusforschung, and Prof. Wilcken, of Wurzburg, is the editor. A Roman chariot has been found near Philippopolis, Bulgaria, in a tumulus. All the metal parts of the chariot and the harness were found, as well as arms and human remains. Archaeological circles in Rome are disturbed at the report that the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Forum is crumbling. To a certain extent this is true, and instructions have been given to strengthen the foundations. Materials from the excavations at Copan, in Honduras, is steadily accumulating in the Peabody museum, Cambridge, Mass. The museum has 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 snails and odors arising from the 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 Shoe 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 gton; 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 Sirs,--You are at liberty to state in any newspaper that I have used OZONO, and give it my most hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often, it does me good to recommend honest goods. Gentlemen.—After using OZONO a short while only, I am glad to say that my hair is already straight and growing finely. 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 use it to secure a glossy long growth. Buy only the genuine OZONO. If you want it at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. 4 Boxes of Ozone, 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. If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. Boston Chemical Company: Dear Sirs,--You are at liberty to s used OZONO, and give it my most ha 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 Ozono, 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. been able to complete in this pre- historic city its investigations of the great hieroglyphic stairway on the face of the pyramid. Molds have been made of all the steps, with their carvings and inscriptions. His Small Falling. The man who thinks he knows it all Disturbs not your repose Unless he thinks his duty 'tis To tell you all he knows. -Washington Star. The Lover—Oh, Miss Smith—Matilda —can you not find a place in your heart for me? The Loved—I'm afraid, Mr. Brown, my heart is hardly large enough—London Pick-Me-Up. Volumes of Them. How many volumes they would fill, What tomes of pondrous water, The smart things that we do not think To say until too late. —Pleasant words. His Reason. "What makes you put so much of your writing in dialect?" "Well," answered the novelist, "it is a sure way of pleasing a great many people who are so proud of being able to guess the pronunciation that they don't bother about the sense of it all." —Washington Star. Making Himself Popular. Friend (to saloon keeper)—Why do you treat your friends so often, Hans? Hans—Vell, yer see, I want ash many of dem ash possible to surround mine pierven I'm det und gone, und I tought maype dey might pe more apt to do it if I ox dem to surmount some of it ven I'm still alife. See?—Judge. In the Children's Playground. Muriel Mulligan—Rupert Rafferty wanted me ter elope wit' him yestiddy afternoon. Fifi Flannigan—Why didn't yer? Muriel Mulligan—I wuz afraid I wouldn't git back in time for supper—Town Topics. MISS BESSIE POWERS, 383 Missouri street, Toledo, O. guaranteed to straighten hair and If your hair is already straight, growth Buy only the genuine the goods will be sent the same TON CHEMICAL CO., 100 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. Chemical Co., St Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. $1.00, for which please send at once 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, skin Food, worth 50c. 1 Package 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. House, No. City. State. $3.00. If you have a friend who has piece of paper and pin to coupon Not His Business to Inquire. "Uncle," said the dusty pilgrim. "how far is it to Sagetown?" "Bout a mile and a half," replied the farmer. "Can I ride with you?" "Sartin, Climb in." At the end of three-quarters of an hour the dusty pilgrim began to be unasy. "Uncle," he asked, "how far are we from Sagetown now?" "Bout four mile and a half." "Great grief! Why didn't you tell me we were going away from Sage-town?" "Why didn't you tell me you wanted to go thar?"—Chicago Tribune. "Pa," said Little Oscar, "what is meant by flying in the face of Providence?" "Asking a widow to marry you when you don't mean it, my son," replied the sire.—Town Topics. By the Old Arch. Ethel—There is nothing easy about popping corn. It is very hard. Dick (who has been trying to say something)—Not half as hard as popping the question. —Chicago Daily News. As Far as She Could Go. He—What do you think of this talk about a family able to live on $2.50 a week? She—No, Arthur, I don't believe it can be done. But I will gladly be a sister to you.—Chicago Times-Herald. A Blow for Nude Art "How do you like my statue of Meditation?" "I don't like it; the girl is standing there looking silly when she ought to be getting on her clothes."—Chicago Record. **Right Up to Date.** Elmhurst—What time is it by your watch? Corona—I can't really rely upon my watch. It has been keeping rag-time lately.—Brooklyn Eagle. **Quite Sociable.** "Did you ever notice how polite the echo is?" "No. How?" "It always returns your call."—Philadelphia Press. **A Superfluous Convenience.** "Why has a man 20 pockets and a woman none at all?" "Because if she had 40 pockets she would still carry her purse in her hand."—Chicago Record. "Why did you hit the complainant with a fence picket?" the judge asked. "Because, sorry, Oi didn't have time to pull up a post," answered the accused. "Indianapolis Press." THE PLANET SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1901 RELIGIOUS MATTERS THE SECRET CHAMBER. Into the secret chamber of my heart Wherein no mortal enters, Lord, come Thou. And make Thy dwelling place ere day depart. Even now the clouds are golden in the west. The long, slant shadows creep across the way; The glory fades on yonder mountain crest. It will be nightfall soon, for faint and far The pallid moon, a silver crescent, hangs. Above the low reach of the horizon bar. The night is lonely and beset with fears! Come Thou, O Lord, come in and dwell with me. Through the long darkness till the dawn appears! O Thou who didst create the human heart, Didst Thou not make one sure place for Thyself? It is high sanctuary where Thou art! Thou knowest, ah, Thou knowest! Words are weak; When the tongue falters and the lips balm. Thou knowest all the yearning heart would speak! The unuttered prayer Thou hearest. Lo! The shrine Walts for Thy presence. E the day be done. Take Thou possession, O Thou Guest Divine! -Julia C. R. Dorr, in Congregationist. SILENT FORCES. Teachers, Parents and Others May Learn a Lesson from Example of the Quarryman. Workmen in the stone quarries often find a very hard kind of rock. They pick little grooves for the iron wedges, and then with great sledgehammers drive the wedges into the flinty rock. And yet, once in awhile, they fail to divide the solid mass. The iron wedges and the sledges prove useless, and the workmen wonder at the stubborn rock. But there is yet another way. The iron wedges are removed from the narrow grooves. Then little wooden ones, of a very hard fiber, are selected. The sharp, well-made wooden wedges are first put into water. They are then inserted in the grooves tightly, while wet, water being kept in the grooves, and no sledge is needful to drive them. They would break under the severe blows of the ponderous hammer. But the workmen just let the wet wedges alone. They will do what the driven iron failed to do. How so? The damp wood swells. The particles must have room to enlarge, and the granite heart of the rocks cannot withstand the silent influence. In a little while the solid rock parts from top to bottom, and the workmen's will is accomplished. It is often so in other things. What noise and visible efforts fail to do, some quiet power, when properly applied, will surely accomplish. Teachers may remember this fact in mechanics, and manage some day very stubborn natures by the application of silent forces. The iron and the sledge-hammer often fall, but tears and prayers will not.—World Christian. SEED THOUGHTS There is nothing makes us better sympathizers with poor humanity than a failing or two of our own.—R. Le Gallienne. There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. Composure is often the highest result of power.—Channing. Don't be selfish anywhere. Don't be selfish most of all in your religion. Let yourself be free in your religion, and be utterly unselfish. Claim your freedom in services.—Phillips Brooks. All the wounds of Christ send out sweetness—all the sorrows of Christians do the same. Commend me to a bruised brother, a broken reed, one like the Son of Man. The Man of Sorrows is never far from him.—Robert M. McCheyne. Our besetting sin is the sin oftenest committed, and with the greatest facility, and the one we forget with the greatest speed—the one from which we turn away our eyes, and for which we try to make excuse before God, and give ourselves absolution. Be peaceful and joyous, consecrate the simplest duties of every day, fill your life with earnest endeavor and perfect trust; and no matter how narrow and painful it may seem to you, when it is ended, you will look back with wonder at the influence for good your quiet example and cheerful spirit have been.—Light on the Hidden Valley. Holding in the Bad Bacillus A sure cure for gossip and slander is to breathe through your nose. A certain amount of your dying body (for you die daily, momentarily) floats off on your breath into the air. And God has filled the world with plant life to absorb such products, such effete and poisonous material. But gossip and slander on your outgoing breath have only people to absorb them. The flowers, happily for their fragrance, have no way of taking them in. Be good enough to the air; good enough to the people, to let all wickedness and malice remain in. side you. Germs of love, bacillus of brotherliness, will eat them up, and you will be strong and beautiful and beloved.—S. S. Times. Wrong Is Never Right. What is morally wrong can never be politically right.—Ram's Horn. BE OF GOOD CHEER. Courage and Hope Will Crown Our Lives with the Best and Trust Success. For what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that do I—Romans 7:15. Bythatconfession St.Paul unwittingly endeared himself to all the generations of men. There is not only satisfaction but encouragement in the fact that a person as large as he had occasion to reproach himself for his short-comings, just as we of smaller stature do. When the teacher who has enjoyed the privilege of special communion with the Most High admits that it is extremely difficult to always live on the level of his ideal we can take heart, because, though we lapse every now and again, there is no reason why we should not succeed in the end. The master of the violin may once in awhile strike a false note, and still be master; so the pupil may only once in awhile strike the true note and yet make good progress toward perfection. The best is our rightful possession, but we must earn it. The religious life is one of the few things in this world which cannot be bought. The good father cannot leave it as an inheritance to his son. Lands and other riches can be left by will to whomsoever the testator chooses, but a noble character goes with the soul when it leaves the body, and if the heirs desire the same distinction they must work for it and deserve it. Nobility, honesty, self-control, kindness, charity are strictly personal possessions, and those who have them have fashioned them out of the raw material of human experience. Our 70 years are simply a workshop supplied with whatever is necessary for the construction of a perfect character. God furnishes the model in the Christ, and Christ has left us the rules by which the ideal is to be attained. We make a thousand failures before it is possible to achieve success, but each failure is a milestone showing how far we have advanced. The sculptor does not make a statue which gave him fame at the first trial. He wastes time and clay and marble, and frequently feels like surrendering in despair. But if ambition or genius keeps afame he forgets the things that are behind, presses forward with renewed endeavor, and at last, after struggles which test his endurance, cuts his dream out of the block of stone and writes his name "in tracings of eternal light." There is no doubt that life is hard. This is true of us all; not of the poor alone, but of the most gifted as well. For reasons of His own God has made the way to Heaven very rough. It is not a steady upward climb. We may be helped and cheered by those who love us, but the higher level is never reached without personal effort. There are moments when we are ready to give up, with the dread feeling that life is not worth living. Human nature has its moods, its discouragements, and at such times we are hopeless. God only can sympathize with us, and He pities us, even as an earthly father pities his children, and only God has hope of our final achievement. There is no human being who has not passed through this experience. It is the way the crude ore feels when it is being smelted or when it is placed under the trip hammer and the very life is with seeming cruelty crushed out of it. But the crude ore is purified by every stroke, though it knows it not, and when the hammer ceases to smite the metal is worth a thousand times more than when it slumbered on the mountain side in its natural state. So God's providence places us in hard straits, forces the tears to our eyes, furrows our brows with many a care, robs us of the presence of dear ones and darkens the sky with clouds. You do what you would not, and what you hoped to do seems impossible. And yet, if you are broad enough and clear sighted enough to see into the center of things, these evils are all good; behind these tears you will find a smile, and beyond the vale of separation rises the sunny land of immortality which will reunite the broken ties and give you rest after honest toll. The religion of the New Testament reveals the possibilities which can only be realized by just such experiences as those through which you are now passing. God expects that we shall be discouraged, that we shall sometimes be at cross purposes with life, that we shall stumble and fall. But above all this lies the fact that Heaven beckons us, that out of every sorrow we can wring a higher hope, and that the view from the mountain top is worth more than the effort we make to reach it. Give us the divine optimism which insists that all is well whether it seems so or not, give us the unfaltering faith that at eventide there shall be light, and then we shall find ourselves close to the Throne. With courage comes hope, and with hope comes success. George H. Hepworth, in N. Y. Herald. Fear and Fatigue. The oppressive power of sin is chiefly realized in the fear and fatigue that result from it. The consequences are dreaded and the spirit is dulled into weariness and melancholy. Could retribution be avoided and could the forbidden morsel taste always fresh to the palate, sin would lose its horror but take on a tenfold tyranny. Fear and fatigue are indeed the outcome of sin, but they are also index-fingers to point us to God, whose "perfect love casteth out fear" and who promises to give rest to as many heavy-laden ones as will come unto Him.—Baptist Union. The Ideal Vehicle Jagger-What do you consider to be the greatest need of the present day? Waggler-It seems to be an automobile with horse sense.-Judge. Farewell. "We may never meet again this side at eternity." "Well, so long!"—Puck THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA Cures Weak Men Free INSURES LOVE AND A HAPPY HOME FOR ALL How any man may quickly one himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost vitality, night losses, varicocele &c and enlarge small weak organs to full size and L.W KNAFP.M.D gor .simply send your name and address oor L.W. Knapp, 1822 Hull Bldg., Detroit. or L.W. 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A book on a glass of water for lucky number. 50 e and $1,00. J. H. Coates, St. Dr., 940 Winton St., Philadelphia, Pa. Cancers cured. 8-25-8m YORK RIVER LINE, WEST POINT The Favorite Route North. LE VR RICHMOND Town Square, M. 1712 CRE LIMITED, Daily, except Sunday, for West point, and intermediate stations Wednesday and Friday. Mondays Wednesdays and Friday. Mondays WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAY. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Train No. 16, 230 P.M. Loc L Express Mon Wednesdays & Fridays, for West Point, and Baltimore stations. stations, with stage at Lean Munster. stations and Tappahannock: also at West Point steamers for Baltimore. stops at all stations. Train No. 74. 5:00 A. M. LOCAL MIXED, leaves daily, except Sunday from Virginia Street Station for West Point and intermediate stations, connecting with stage and motor manor for Walkerton and Tappanhock. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RIGHMOND. 9:15 a.m. Daily, from West Point, with connection from Baltimore Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays. 10:30 a.m. Daily and Mondays. 6:03 p.m. Daily, except from West Point and intermediate stations. steamers leave West Point Monday Wednesdays and Saturdays. 10:30 a.m., Returning leaves Baltimore 500 p. m. Friday, Thursday and Saturday steamers call at all landings on York River. C. W. WESTBURY, Travelling Passenger Agent, 920 E. Main Street Richmond, Va. J. M. GULA, Traffic Manager, sen. Pass. Agt. FRANK S. GANNON. Third Vice-president and General Manager Washington, D. C. VIRGINIA NAVIGATION To Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point, Newport- Newport, Claremont and James River Island, connecting a (OldPoint and Norfolk) Kwant- land and the North. NEDREDA AND FRIDAY AY 7. M Electricity is needed to whark. Fare only 1.20 and $1.00 to Norwalk. Music by a grand Grosse- and Newport News. Music by a grand Grosse- Freight received daily from above-named places and all points in Eastern Virginia and North Carolina. DRVIN WESKISGIRL Superintendent RDWARDE, BARNYR FENP@n Th Reign of Lawlessness ANNOUNCEMENT Southern Railway SCHEDULE 10. Atlanta Après Jackie Jackson, points south sleepers *Daville,* Sleeps open at Richmond and Charlotte *Sleeps open at Richmond and Charlotte* *Steps for passengers at local stations.* Connects at Daville and Charlotte, with *Daville and Florida Express* (No $0.75 carrying between New York and Tampa, with connections for all Florida points, also connects at Daville. Charlotte with the New York and Memphis, with connections (No $0.75 carrying through pet's New York and Nashville. New York and Memphis, and New York and Manuscript Tourist sleep or Mobsays, Wednesdays days, Washington to San Francisco without change, with connections for all stops in Texas, Mexico and California.* 12:01 P.M. No. 7, solid train daily or Chai lotte, N. C. Connects at Moseley with Fairfield, N. C. Connects at Keeville, Keysville for Clarksville, Oxford, Hen derson and Durham and at Greensboro for Durham, Daleville, and Winston Salem and Daleville, States Fast Mail, solid train, day for New Orleans and points South whist catches trains from New York to Jacksville and New York to Jacksville, and Miami for Nassau and Habana, Cuba Drafting from bouncer-sleeper Bichm to Birmingham through Atlanta. Through train sleeper Sainbury, to Moseley via of sheville and Chattau nooga. 6:00 P.M. K. NO. 17, local, daily except Sunday Keysville and intermediate point TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND. 6:00 A.M. LOCAL FREIGHT TRAIN. mes. 61 and 62, between Manchester and Naperville. Va. Atlantic Coast Line Atlantic Coast Line Schedule in Effect January 14, 1901 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND—BYRD 13283 T TATION. 9:00 A. M. NORFOLK LIMITED Daily Arrives Petersburg 9:25 a.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 10:55 p.m. Savannah 2:55 a.m. Jacksonville 8:80 a.m. Port Tampa 7:10 p.m. Connects at Wilson with No 47. arriving Goldabor 8: 25 p.m., Wilmington 6 p. Pull- man Sleeper New York to Jackson- ville. 11:55 A. M. Daily, except Sunday. Arrives Petersburg 12:30 p.m. Stops Miss Shester, Drewry's Bluff, Centralia, and Chicago. 13:15 P. M. OCEAN SHORE LIMITED. Daily. Arrives Petersburg 8:45 p. .norfolk 8:55 p.m. Stops only at Petersburg, Waverly and Suffolk. 4:30 P. M. Daily, except Sunday. Arrives Petersburg 5:20 p. m., W. Welden 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 stops. 6:57 P. M. FLORIDA AND WEST INDIAN LIMITED, Daily, Arrives at Petersburg 7:87 p. m., Connects with Norfolk and Western for Norfolk and intermediate points, Emporia 8:40 p. m. (connects with Atlantic and Danville for station between Emporia and Lawrenceville, Weldon 8:10 p. m., Fayetteville, 12:52 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 Points—Arriving Augusta 7:50 a. m., Mason 11:15 a. m., Atlanta 12:35 p. m., Thomasville 2:26 p. m., Pullman leeps 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 2:80 a. m. Roanoke 5 a. m., Bristol 10:40 a. m. Pullman keeper, Richmond to Lynchburg. 11:30 P. M. Daily, Arrives_Petersburg 12:16 a. m. 11:50 P. M. Daily, Except Sunday THE NEW YORK AND FLORIDA PECIAL Arrives Charleston 9:98 a. m. Savannah 10:50 a. m., Jacksonville 2:50 p. m. St. Augustine 4:20 p. m. Port Tampa 11:30 p. m. TRAINS ARRIVE IN RICHMOND, 4:00 A. M. Daily, From Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and all points South. 6:40 A. M. Daily, except Monday.From St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Savannah and Charleston. 7:30 A. M. Daily, except Petersburg, Lynchburg, and the West. 8:45 A. m. Daily, except unday. Petersburg local. 11:10 a.m. m daily, except Sunday From state stations. Norfolk and Suffolk. LD DOMINION STEAMSHIP GO DAILY LINE FOR NEW YORK. EXCEPT SUNDAY Passenger line to have Richmond daily excursion duya via Chessie and Oakhill; railway, P. M., or Richmond and Norfolk and Western route; 9:00 A. M. morning; Norfolk with Old Dominal Line steamer at same evening at 7 clock for New York. Dickets on sale at Richmond Transfer Company, on sale at Richmond Street; Cheapeake and Ohio railway, and at company's Bittersburg railway, and at company's Richmond Railway, Richmond Bargage checking through. FREIGHT. for New York and all points beyond can be shipped by sailings from Richmond every MONDAY YEAR. In FREAK OAY at 5:00 P.M. This steamer carries steersenger's only. Manufactured before and forwarded, and through bills of lading issued for all northern, eastern and foreign ports. FROM NEW YORK. Passengers can leave daily except Sun day at 4:00 P.M.) to Norfolk or Old Point Station connecting with Norfolk and Western railroad to Cheapeake and Ohio railway. For richmond, for Richmond by steamer via Norfolk Mondays and Wednesdays 8:00 P.M. Saturdays, 4:00 P.M. company's pier. 1 No 1 North River foot of Bettys. Freight received and forwarded daily except Sunday. For further information apply to O'HNJ F MAYER. Agents. 1912 east Main street Richmond, W. W. L. Guillainen. Pres S.A.L. Schedule in Effect June 3rd, 1900. 7-80 A. M. Daily, except Sunday, for Peterson, buz, Henderson, Durah, Raleigh, Albany, and all points South, and North. 2-55 P. M. Florida Mall and Express," daily for Petersburg, Henderson, Raleigh, Grew, Camden, Columbia, Savannah Jacks-nville Tampa, Ferrandins, and all Florida points 0-40 P. M. "FLORIDA LIMITED," daily for Petersburg, Henderson, Raleigh, Wilmington, Morgantown, Greenville, Athens, Albany, points Soula and South Orlando, points Soula and South Orlando, Camden, Columbia, Savannah Jacksonville Tampa, bernandins, and all Florida points a Trains arrive from cush at Chessapeau Ohio r 4th, state at 15-18 A 5-40 P. M. dail, also, 2 P M daily Sunday. For tickets, checking baggy Sleeping Carervation, etc., apply to the Seaboard mond Transfer Company 5-18 A 5-40 P. M. dail, also, 2 P M daily Jefferson Hotel, and 5-18 a ticket H. M. BOYKIN, Georgetal Act. 5-18 East Main S C. & O. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. ROUTE Schedule in Effect January 5, 1901 From Richmond. LEAVE BROAD-STREET STATION 8:00 a.m. daily; for principal stations Newpac News, Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth. Parlor car. 8:40 a.m. local for Newport News. Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth. ullman to Old Point. 10:00 a.m. except Sunday. Local Trains for Clifton Flege. Connects at Gorton- ville for orange Warrenton. Manage- branch and Washington only. Connects at Hagerston for lynchburg; a Basic for Hagerston and at Staunton for Lexington. 2:45 p. m., Daily, limited, to Cinquefort, Isleville, and St. Louis. Pullman, located at G. O. Dewdville for Orange and at Orlando. Ry train, leaving O. G. 640 P. M. stations between Orange and Washington. Local Train No. 74. No except Sunday, from Gordonville station. 5:30 p. m., accommodation, except Sunday and Dowsel 10:45 p. m., Dally, F. F. V., to Cinquefort, Isleville, sleeping car. Connects for Virgina Springs. Connects at Booneville with Greenbrier River R R except Sunday. LEAVE EIGHTH ST. STATION. 10:30 a. m. Daily for Lynchb, Lexington, and Clifton Ford. Connects, except sunday, with Buckingham and Alberane branches. 5:15 except Sunday, to Columbia STATION. 8:00 m except Sunday from Dowell. 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. daily, Clucknell and Louisville. 11:35 m daily. 6:50 p.m. from Norfolk am Old Park. 8:15 p. M., Except Sunday, from Clifton Forge. TRAINS ARRIVE EIGHTH STREET STATION. 8:40 a.m. Except Sunday from Columbia 8:50 p.m., Daffy Lynch, Lynchburg, and Clifton. Forge, except Sunday from New Castle Lexington and Rosney. For detailed information, connections, etc. apply at Richmond Transfer, office. No. 808 east Main street; Stuart Ticket Office, or address JOHN D. POTTS, Ass't. General Passenger Agents. THE U. S. MUTUAL BANKING CO. Room 7, Ebei Building, 832 East MainSt. WANTED WEEKLY—100 COOKS Housemaids and Waitresses for New York and other Northern Olties, wages from $8.00 to $5.00 per week. Transportation furnished, also 50 farm hands for Maryland. R. W. ELSON, 48 p. 417 E. Bro OR ANY KIND OF UNIFORMS ON EASY TERMS. 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O'FERNALL in the issue of the Richmond, Va., DAILY TIMES of April 2nd, 1901, discussed "Should the Ballot be Taken from Those Who Cannot Read?" He said: "Sir, - It must be admitted that general intelligence at the ballot box is much to be desired; and the educated voter is certainly not always a worthy citizen, nor is the illiterate voter by any means always an unworthy citizen. We all know college graduates who, are worthless and venal, vicious and dangerous, and we all know illiterate men who are thrifty, honorable, orderly and law-abiding." The above is laying down a strong premise, and again: Virginia contains within her borders thousands of men who cannot read, who are public spirit- t, lead upright lives, perform their duties faithfully and by dint of their hard, common-sense, industry and economy have raised themselves from the position of day-laborers to that of well-to-do free- laborers. "We can recall a number of men without learning who have been successful contractors on railroads and other public works. "During our war between the States I knew Confederate soldiers, some of them still living, who had to make cross-marks to their names on the pay-roll when they drew their service pittance, who were just as brave, just as true as any of their educated comrades. I know men whose fathers dying on bat children leaving helpless families, were compelled devote their young days and boyhood energies to the support of mothers, brothers and sisters, with no opportunity to attend school, who are to-day in their illiteracy, most respected citizens. "Shall all these men be told by their native state that when 'the people' are assembling 'to execute a freeman's will' that the polling places shall be barred against them; that they shall have no more voice in the affairs of government than dumb brutes; that only the king shall say who shall be rulers and lawgivers, what statutes shall be enacted and what taxes shall be levied? He continued : "It has been argued that as Virginia for the past thirty years has fostered and maintained a public free-school system, voters not able to read have themselves to blame. This may prove true to a limited extent; in the main it is not true. It is not true as to the adults in 1870, when the free-school system went into effect, for free schooling was not offered to them. Many a dissolute father has kept his children from school to support him in idleness. Should the sins of these fathers be visited upon these children? In other instances the services of the children of households were required to maintain impoverished families, depriving them of the advantages the State offered. Should these unfortunate, who are now voters, be held responsible for their lack of learning? In some sparsely settled sections schools could not be maintained. Should men raised under such circumstances, to whom the Sats could offer no opportunity in their youth, be condemned for not acquiring something that was not within their reach? I am just as much opposed to an educational qualification as I am to a property qualification. "This is strong language. He clinched it however when he said: "As I have already intimated, Vir- ginia did not, in 1881, define her call for defenders of her soil and honor to her educated sons and she would not now, if she needed soldiers to stand between her and danger. Cruel and ungrateful indeed would it be for her to say to one of her sons returning from some sanguinary plain with his badge of honor on his manly breast: 'You responded loyally to my call; you did your duty well and bore your self bravely; but as you cannot read I cannot trust you with the ballot; you must be content to let your educated brotherdo the voting and run the government.' What an outrage that would be upon common justice and right! I repeat, a State has the general constitutional power to restrict suffrage. She could have an aristocracy of ages and wise men, or a plutonace, of landlords and millionaires as her ruling power without violating the letters of the Constitution of the United States. I am not arguing against the naked right of a State to draw the line between the rich and the poor, the cultured and illiterate at the ballot box; to enfranchise the one and disfrank the other. It is not necessary to tell me that a can be done without being bound to keep within the organic law. I know it. I am arguing the injustice and wrong of a policy that would stamp inferiority upon a class whose minds may be untutored, but among whom are multitudes whose common sense is strong, whose hearts are loyal to their country's welfare and who are ever ready to bear their breasts in their country's defense." But why comment further? Ex-Gov. O'FERRALL has gone to the root of the matter. He is able. He is fearless. He is brave. God bless him. He considers Virginia's interest paramount to that of any individual citizen. It is not his love for the Negro, but his devotion to great principles which has caused him to lead the way and demand a hearing in the forum of the commonwealth. The end is not yet. A Record of Coal Consumption A Record of Coal Consumption. The machinery of two steamers, the Inchdune and Inchmario, has proved remarkably economical. The engines are a modification of the quadruple-expansion five-crank type, advocated by the late Mr. Mudd. The working pressure has been increased 267 pounds per square inch, and the steam is superheated to a temperature approaching 500 degrees Fahrenheit. The general result is that on an extended trial from Hartlepool to Dover the coal consumption was at the unprecedentedly small rate of .97 pound per indicated horse power. If we increase this to one pound, it works out to $15\%$ tons per day for a ship carrying 6,120 tons at $9\%$ knots, or to $13\%$ tons at 9 knots. In other words, one ton is carried one nautical mile on an expenditure of about one-third of an ounce of coal. Taking coal at 15 shillings a ton, one ton of cargo is carried over 550 miles for an expenditure of one penny for fuel.—London Engineering. A Stunner. One of those drummers who does a good deal of driving about the country delights in telling about an old-time bonfire who runs a country hotel within a day's drive of Detroit. "Sharp as a tack," declares the drummer. "Always as smooth as oll until some one tries to make a run on him, and then he can get back harder, faster and in fewer words than any man I ever heard talk. "I saw a man come in there one day from the city. He is all right at home, but was feeling his oats that day and opened up on the old landlord by saying: 'Hello, granddad, get your frame into circulation. Don't set around like a bump on a log. I want accommodation for man and beast.' "Where's the man?" asked the old chap, in a flash."-Detroit Free Press. Rough on the Bride. At a small country church a newly married couple were just receiving some advice from the elderly vicar as to how they were to conduct themselves and so always live happily. "You must never both get cross at once; it is the husband's duty to protect his wife whenever an occasion arises, and a wife must love, honor and obey her husband, and follow him wherever he goes." "But, sir—" pleaded the young bride. "I haven't yet finished," remarked the clergyman, annoyed at the interruption. "She must—" "But, please, sir" (in desperation), "can't you alter that last part? My husband is going to be a postman." —The King. His Customary State. "Your friend Tackey is 'way off in Honolulu now.' Doesn't that surprise you?" "It does and it doesn't." "Heard he was going there, eh?" "No, I didn't know he was in Hono-Iulu, but I knew he was 'way off' when he was here."—Philadelphia Record. Swedish Land Arrangement In Sweden they have a land arrangement of this kind. The farmer will give a tenant so many acres of ground, provided the tenant will give him so many days' labor 'or so many years, the labor to be paid as wanted.—N. Y. Sun. Warned in Time. Tired Treadwell—Hold on; don't go to dat house fer grub. Sauntering Sim—Why not? "I seen a delivery boy takin' a snow shovel in dera yistady."—Chicago Times-Herald. An Indication. He—How innocent Miss Priscilla is! She blushes at everything I say to her. She—That isn't innocence; that's refinement.—Life. Resenting a Reflection. The Soprano's Maid—My mistress had five bouquets thrown at her during the first act. The Contralto's Maid (disdainfully) —Indeed? How nice! I'll bet, she paid for them herself. The Soprano's Maid—Of course, she did! She doesn't have to have things charged like some people I know do. —Brooklyn Life. THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR Chief Magistrate's Official Entry Into San Francisco. NECESSARY CHANGE IN PROGRAM Mrs. McKinley's Illness Prevented the President From Visiting Stanford University—A Parade Heded by General Shafter and Admiral Casey. San Francisco, May 15.—President McKinley made his official entry into this city, the objective point of his tour, late yesterday afternoon. After being formally welcomed by Mayor J. D. Phelan he was escorted through the principal streets, attended by a military and naval turnout. He attended a public reception last night in the large nave of the Market street ferry depot. President McKinley decided early yesterday morning that, owing to Mrs. McKinley's illness, he would not visit Stanford university, as had been planned, but would limit himself to the day's exercises in this city. At 2:40 o'clock in the afternoon he left the Scott residence for the Valencia street station. Here he met the train bringing the members of the cabinet and remainder of his party, who had fulfilled the program between San Jose and this city. President McKinley was also met here by Mayor Phelan and formally received. The president, the members of his cabinet, Mayor Phelan and the reception committee were then taken by special train to the Third and Townsend street station where the military and naval escort was waiting. In the rear of the platoon of mounted police and a battalion of patrolmen came Grand Marshal Warfield and his aides. Behind them were swung into line Troop A, the special escort of the president, closely followed by the veteran guard of the Grand Army of the Republic, who acted as a guard of honor for the battle flags of President McKinley's regiment. A second later President McKinley, sitting comfortably in his carriage, was in full view of the throng that had waited so long to greet him. Accompanying him were Mayor Phelan and Irving M. Scott, chairman of the citizens' executive committee. Cheer after cheer rose from the multitude, which were re-echoed along the thoroughfares. With his face wreathed in smiles President McKinley gracefully raised his hat and bowed his acknowledgment of the ovation. After the president's carriage camose of his cabin, Governor Nash of Ohio and his staff and the Ohio congressional delegation. The long line of carriages was followed by 4,000 troops, infantry, artillery and cavalry from the Presidio, led by Gen. Shafter, and 1,000 marines and sailors from the battleships Iowa, Philadelphia and Wisconsin, under the command of Admiral Casey. At Van Ness avenue President McKinley reviewed the procession, after which he repaired to the Scott residence for dinner. The president was driven to the ferry depot at 8 o'clock last evening. In the large and handsomely illuminated nave of the large building the president received a vast crowd of people. Mayor Phelan delivered a brief address of welcome, to which President McKinley responded. The president did not indulge in handshaking, but graciously bowed as the people passed, each one saluting him with a small flag. Thousands of people between Del Monte and San Jose were disappointed on Monday on account of the president's non-appearance, he leaving Mrs. McKinley only long enough to run to San Jose for an hour, where he made a brief speech. A feature of the San Jose reception was a monster bouquet, 90 feet in circumference, with a telegraph pole for a stem. EXCITING DAY ON WALL STREET A Panic Averted After One Day of the Wildest Trading New York, May 10.—The threatening condition of affairs which developed in the stock market Wednesday culminated yesterday in one of the severest twists ever experienced in Wall street. The corner in Northern Pacific was the impelling cause of the crisis, owing to the threat contained in the rulous terms forced upon the shorts in the stock that disastrous liquidation would be forced at other points. Strenuous efforts were made by the most powerful financial interests in the country to avert the threatened trouble and almost unlimited supporting orders were placed in the market for the opening, in anticipation of the heavy selling which was to come. The excitement began when Northern Pacific began selling at 200, and rushed up rapidly to 700 on regular transactions and 1,000 for cash. Then there was a sudden weakening of the whole market, and other stocks fell from 5 to 30 points. Banks came to the rescue and loaned $16,000,000 at 6 per cent, and towards the close the market recovered to almost normal conditions. Today there was a complete recovery, the agreement to allow Northern Pacific shorts to cover at 150 wiping out the impelling cause of Thursday's panic. No Gambling in Montana Helena, Mont., May 15. Every gambling house in Montana closed yesterday, Attorney General Donovan having instructed every county attorney to see that they were closed or else he would proceed against them for neglect of duty. It is the most radical step at reformation ever taken in Montana and the first time since the discovery of gold that faro has not been dealt in the state. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Thursday, May 9. Because of the high price of corn, starch factories throughout the country will close temporarily. At Baltimore yesterday Cardinal Martinelli received the red beretta at the hands of Cardinal Gibbons. Manager Silliman, of the Scranton Railway company, was arrested on a THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA OUR. Entry GRAM. ted the anford ed by Casey. resident into charge of bribing councilmen at Old Forge, Pa. A consolidation of natural gas companies is being perfected in Pittsburg to raise prices from 7 and 12 to 25 cents per thousand feet. At Iola, Kan., a mob captured Italians who took the places of striking cement workers, placed them on a train and sent them out of town. Friday, May 10. The population of England and Wales is 32,525,716. Hawaia's legislature passed a resolution urging President McKinley to remove Governor Dole. KEYSTONE REPUBLIC Gather in Philadelphia to Senator Quay. HORTICULTURAL HALL BAY Was the Second Largest Dinner Given in Pennsylvania's McMahon-The Senator's Enthusiasm ception at the Academy of M Former Police Commissioner John McClave, of New York, died suddenly at his residence in that city yesterday. The bill authorizing the construction of a bridge from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to the American side passed Canadian parliament. The house of John Welsh, at Menl Park, N. J., was destroyed by fire. Mrs Welsh was rescued in her night clothes and will die from her burns. On account of the strike in the tub works of the Reading Iron company a Reading, the plant has been closed the further notice, throwing out 2,500. Saturday, May 11. The strike of union plasterers in Cleveland has practically ended in a victory for the men. In a street car collision near Pittsburgh last night Conductor Cunningham was killed and two others injured. The average condition of white wheat May 1 was 94.1. The total are under cultivation, 28,267,000 acres. Steamer Bon Voyage burned and was beached near Red Ridge, Mich. Five women passengers, all of one family were drowned. Prof. Charles R. Eastman, of Harvard university, was acquitted at Camp bridge, Mass., of a charge of murdering Richard H. Grogan, his brother-in-law Monday, May 13. In a race off Weymouth, England Shamrock I defeated Shamrock II by over five minutes in 20 miles. Edwin Uhl, formerly ambassador in Great Britain, is reported dying at his home in Grand Rapids, Mich. An amicable settlement was reached with the Illinois Central machinery who had threatened to strike. The new bridge from Hoboken, N. J., to New York city, to cost $80,000,000, is practically assured within five years. William Winter Jefferson, son of Joseph Jefferson, the actor, was married yesterday at Buzzard's Bay, Mass., to Miss Christine McDonald, also of theatrical fame. Tuesday, May 14. Jacksonville issues an appeal for more funds, to prevent an outbreak of epidemic. Over 130 machinists are on strike at Springfield, Ill., because 30 were discharged, as alleged, for organizing the men. William Andrews and William Daly, serving terms in the jail at Wellsboro, Pa., escaped by making a rope of bed clothing. Admiral Schley is hurrying home from Europe on account of the illness of his son, Dr. Schley, who is in a New York hospital suffering from blood polioking, received while performing an operation. Wednesday, May 15. Another effort is being made to close the Buffalo exposition on Sundays. Free delivery postal service will be re-established at Nanticoke, Pa., on July 1. The war between the Latonia and Newport race tracks is now on in earnest. The University of California has conferred on President McKinley the degree of LL.D. "Billy" Rice, the old time minstrel, delirious from eyepinsel and practically blind, is in the New York county hospital. A combination of the outside steel concerns, with a capital of $200,000,000, is said to be in process of promotion by John W. Gates and others. The Presbyterian Assembly Philadelphia, May 15.—Arrangements have been completed for the meeting of the 113th Presbyterian general assembly, which begins here tomorrow morning. The 500 commissioners represent 224 presbyteries and 21 synods, in all parts of the world. The church will this year report over 7,000 ministers, 26,000 elders, 7,500 churches and over 1,000,000 members. The contributions to foreign missions are close to $900,000 and $1,000,000 to home missions, and both boards are out of debt, which has not been the case for many years. The church has given to all causes of benevolence during this year over $15,000,000. The New York Builders' Lockout. New York, May 15.--While the bricklayers did not return an answer to the ultimatum delivered by the builders last Saturday, they did not report for work today. The bricklayers say they cannot take this action until the representatives of the various unions reach a decision in the matter at a meeting to be held tonight. With the cessation of work on building operations from 6,000 to 8,000 bricklayers are thrown out of employment, and also all other mechanics employed on the buildings. The suspension of work thus immediately affects from 40,000 to 50,000 workmen, and indirectly may affect 150,000 to 200,000 men. Grafton, W. Va., May 13.—Mrs. J. Wesley Beatty, of near Terre Alta. W. Va., whose husband killed her brother, David A. Nine, last November, has not receded from her position in demanding that her husband be executed for the crime, and has issued a signed statement why she signed a counter petition to the petition asking that the sentence be commuted. She asked that the law be allowed to take its course. Her husband, she says, is of violent temper, that he frequently struck her and that only threats of murder kept her from leaving him 20 years ago. She says he had a murderous feeling toward any one offending him, and death is his just desert. Her murdered brother, she said, had done much for Beauty and had kept him out of trouble. KEYSTONE REPUBLICS Gather in Philadelphia to Honor Senator Quay. HORTICULTURAL HALL BANQUET Was the Second Largest Dinner Ever Given in Pennsylvania's Metropolis-The Senator's Enthusiastic Reception at the Academy of Music. Philadelphia, May 15.—Republicans of the dominant faction from every section of the Keystone state paid homage last night to United States Senator Matthew S. Quay in honor of his reelection to the upper chamber of congress. Barring a state convention last night's gathering was probably the greatest outpouring of Republicans to do honor to one man that has ever been seen in this state. Governor Stone was there, as were all the members of his cabinet, members of the legislature the municipal heads of several Pennsylvania cities and all the prominent Quay Republicans of this city. The occasion took the form of a banquet, followed by a reception, and was under the auspices of the Pennsylvania State League of Republican clubs. Senator Quay, accompanied by J. Hampton Moore, president of the league, and Joseph N. Huston, who acted as the senator's escort, arrived here from Washington at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The party was met at the station by a reception committee of 300 clubmen, who escorted Colonel Quay to the Hotel Walton. Broad street from the station to the hotel was filled with people. At 6 o'clock the senator was escorted to Horticultural Hall, where an elaborate banquet was served, covers being laid for 500 persons, and was the second largest dinner ever given in the city. There was no speechmaking at the dinner, this feature of the occasion being reserved for the reception at the Academy of Music, which adjoins Horticultural Hall. There was not a vacant seat in the big auditorium when the diners, headed by Senator Quay, marched into the Academy, and the doors were closed to all late comers except those who participated in the banquet, and who occupied seats on the stage. Senator Quay's reception was a particularly enthusiastic and noisy one. Cheer after cheer was given in his honor as he took his seat at the front of the stage. President Moore presided and made a short address before introducing the guest of the evening. There was another burst of enthusiasm as Senator Quay arose to speak. He spoke in part as follows: "At three score years and ten the world grows lonely. Through wilderness almost desolate the stream of life glides darkly towards the eternal gulf. The associations of early existence are gone. Its objects are gained or lost or faded in importance. Occasions like the present stand in pleasant relief—green patches on the sandy delta—and are especially attractive and welcome. Fully recognizing that your tribute is not personal, but attaches to the high office with which the Republicans of Pennsylvania have honored me. I thank you. "My political race is run. It is not to be understood that God's sword is drawn immediately against my life, nor that my seat in the senate is to be prematurely vacated, but that with the subscription of my official oath on the 18th of January my connection with the serious labors and responsibilities of active politics ceased except in so far as I may be committed to certain measures pending in the present legislature. "I will never again be a candidate for nor accept any official position. I have many friends to remember; I have no enemies to punish. In this regard I put aside the past." Continuing Senator Quay said the Republican clubs of Pennsylvania have reason to be proud of their party and its work in the state. Ever since the Republican party came into power in the state, he said, its government has been wisely and economically administered. In conclusion he discussed the nation's foreign policy. Senator Quay was followed by Mayor Ashbridge, who welcomed the distinguished senator to the city. Governor Stone spoke on behalf of the state, and Senator Penrose on "The Republican Party from a National View Point." Once Valuable Bonds Cremated. Once Valuable Bonds Cremated. Pittsburg, May 15.—After supplying fuel for a close furnace for a week securities representing over $150,000,000 of Pittsburgh wealth lie smouldering in the great armor plate vault of the Union Trust company, of Pittsburgh. They were the gilt-edged securities of the Carnegie company, the launchin of which signalized the practical close of the famous business quarrel of Andrew Carnegie and Henry C. Frick. The bonds were of such bulk that they would completely fill to the ceiling room 6 by 12. For a round week there was kept busy a force of men to feed the furnace fire. Four Killed by a Cavein. Ranoke, Va., May 15.—News reached here last night of an accident near Shawsville, on the line of the Norfolk and Western railroad, about 20 miles west of Roanoke, about 6 o'clock last evening. As a result of it four colored laborers are dead, one cannot live and two more are said to be burled under a mass of stone and dirt. The accident occurred in the tunnel one mile east of Shawsville, in which a large force of men was at work. Just how it occurred is not known, it simply being stated that a cavein took place. DEATE OF MITKIEWICZ. Bogus Count Who Inveigled Many Prominent Men in His Schemes. Prominent Men in His Schemes. Asbury Park, May 15—"Count" Eugene Stanislaus De Mitkiewicz, the "financier and promoter," died at his summer home here Monday night of heart disease. For years he had been a sufferer from heart trouble, but the end came suddenly. Mitkiewicz came into prominence some years ago, when Ride THE RICHMOND STAR Bicycle. Manufactured for us Exclusively. TIRES, BON SADDLES, CEMENT. INNER TUBES BASE BALLS, BATS, BICYCLES, STOVES & PISTOLS. ON INSTALLMENT. Our prices are lower than any house in the city. Call on us. Harris Hardware Company, 409 East Broad St., Richmond, Va. This week we shall do some unparalleled pricecutting in Parlor Suites—also Bed-Room, Dining-Room Furniture and fine Carpets. Carload of new spring goods are arriving—and room must be made for them—no matter what the sacrifice. Special prices will also prevail this week in Crockery, Draperies and Framed Pictures. Come in to-morrow and get acquainted; you will enjoy a look through this magnificent stock of Furniture, Carpets and Housefurnishings—and, remember—you can have anything in this big store for a promise to pay. Your—for home comfort. Southern Furniture and Carpet Company. 7 & 9 WEST BROAD STREET. N. THE LATE "COUNT" MITKIEWICZ, he gained, with Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia, immense concessions in China. The concessions stirred up financial men the world over. The Chinese government apparently became frightened and eventually cancelled the privileges extended to the count. Mitkiewicz was a native of Poland, the son of poor parents, with no claim to nobility, but posing as a count in this country he succeeded in inveigling many prominent men in his various schemes. He was several times arrested on swindling charges, but always escaped conviction in this country. In England, however, he served a five year term for swindling. GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS Richmond, May 13.—Miss Edna V. Moffatt, of Chase City, Va., was today awarded the medal for history by the Cornell university of New York. This prize, which is worth $500, is the most valuable ever won by a Virginia girl. Chattancoga, Tenn., May 11.—The local police have unearthed a systematic robbery of the government warehouses here, where are stored uniforms and equipment for the army recruits from east Tennessee and north Georgia. Last night a Bohemian character named Parnell, who has been stationed at the recruiting station for several months, was arrested charged with being an active agent in smuggling these goods and selling them to second hand stores. Norfolk, Va., May 9.—Work is still in progress here to organize the independent cottonseed oil factories of North Carolina in concert with similar movements in other southern states. The organization is not yet perfected. The object is to regulate the purchase of seed in districts tributary to the various mills and save unnecessary freight charges and otherwise conserve the interests of the independent oil producers who are outside of the American Cotton Oil company. Clarkesburg, W. Va., May 10.—Sheriff Barnes was wakened early this morning by a man posing as W. W. Smallwood, sheriff of Clarke county, Virginia, bearing what seemed to be a requisition for J. W. Murphy, a prisoner just finishing a jail sentence for swindling. Barnes had been notified of Smallwood's coming and turned Murphy over to him. At noon Sheriff Smallwood appeared for his prisoner but he had flown handcuffed to the bogus sheriff. Murphy broke jail in Clarke county, where he is wanted Wheeling, W. Va., May 10.—At Glendale today Mrs. Cora Lucas and her sister, Mrs. Whittington, demolished an alleged speak easy, leaving not a sign of the building. Every board and bit of it was thrown into the river. The proprietor, Joseph Beck, is in jail. Mrs. Lucas lives near the place and yesterday she took an ax and destroyed the windows, doors and stock. Today the place having been refurbished, she and her sister went with their axes again and tore the building piece from piece and threw the debris in the river. Wheeling, W. Va., May 10.—Chief of Police Ritz has served notice that he will act under the ordinance passed at a recent meeting of the council and will pull all public dances not conducted under the provisions of the ordinance. The ordinance provides that all halls where dances are conducted and where beer is sold shall pay an annual fee of $300, and that all dances where admission is charged shall pay a license of $10. This means the breaking up of the numerous Saturday and Monday night dances which have been a feature of Wheeling low life for years. Wheeling, W. Va., May 10.—Mrs. Virginia Washington Powell, of this city, has petitioned through Senator Scott for the return of relics of Washington, placed in the keeping of Samuel T. Washington through Congressman George W. Summers, of Kanawha county, this state. The relics are the service sword carried by George Washington through all the wars in which he took part and a walking stick which was given to Gen. George Washington by Benjamin Franklin. Mrs. Powell is a lineal descendant of the nephew to whom Gen. Washington bequeathed these relics. Newport News, Va., May 10.—The Elizabeth City county court was occupied today with the case of Mrs. Jennie Wood, of Hampton, charged with attempted arson. Most of the day was taken up in efforts to secure a jury, many of the talesmen summoned being incompetent to serve, having expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. The defense claimed that the affair is a case of persecution on the part of the insurance men. The defense offered no evidence and submitted the case without argument. A verdict of acquittal was returned in a few moments. Frederickssburg, Va., May 13.—The monument to be placed on the Harris farm, in Spotsylvania county, ten miles from this city, by the surviving members of the First Massachusetts regiment, heavy artillery, in honor of those of the members of the command who fell in battle during the civil war, has arrived here and will be taken tomorrow to the spot where it will be put in position. The monument is in four pieces and weighs 15 tons. The monument will be in readiness by Saturday and the dedication ceremonies will take place next Monday at the Harris farm in the presence of members of the regiment, many visitors and others from this city and county. WINDDALE PARK All Conveniences and Reasonable Terms. Special cars can be chartered and controlled. S. B. STE WARD. 2818 P Street. HE PLANET A Valuable Find. Information received at Covelo, in Mendocino county, Cal., from Caspar, a seacoast town and post, 35 miles away, gives the particulars of a valuable find of ambergris affoat, discovered by a lumber steamer on her return from Skagway, Alaska. The name of the vessel is not given. A small lump of dirty, gray, greasy stuff was picked up by the crew six weeks ago after discharging a cargo of lumber at an Alaskan port. The lump weighed about 75 pounds, and when taken on board was found to be pure ambergris, more valuable than gold and worth $27,755. Ambergris is supposed to be a substance formed by a disease of the stomach or the gall ducts of the sperm whale. It is ejected by the animal and floats upon the water or is cast upon the shore and buried in the sand. It is used to fix valuable perfumes, and for that reason as well as for its rarity and the difficulty of encountering it its price ordinarily ranges from $370 to $400 a pound. Gold is worth about ten dollars an ounce and $256 a pound avoidpois.—Kansas City Call. The Pastor Bird The most entertaining resident of the zoo's birdhouse is a "pastor" bird from New Zealand. This bird has a dark-green plumage, relieved by a white feather growth at the throat greatly resembling a cravat, and with its sedate appearance very naturally suggests its name. But appearances are deceitful, for the bird has a song that seems to combine the musical features of a minstrel troupe. It whitishes a couple of flute-like bars, gives utterance to a metallic speech that sounds very much like a tambourine, and winds up by manipulating its beak in a manner suggestive of a bones solo. After each musical performance the bird will do a couple of jig steps on the perch to further belle its sanctimonious appearance. The pastor likes to be noticed, and will go through its little as long as an audience is on hand.—Philadelphia Record. A Pair of Runaway Kites A Pair of Runaway Kites. Two kites which were the leading members of a flight of five sent up last summer from the royal aeronautical observatory near Berlin broke away from their companions, and, dragging a long wire which touched the ground and extended two miles behind them, fled before the wind almost 100 miles before they were brought down to the earth. The resistance of the wire trailing over the land sufficed to keep the kites properly presented to the wind, and their lonely journey lasted through an entire night. When the kites started on their remarkable break for liberty they were at a height of more than $2\frac{1}{2}$ miles. -Youth's Companion. Hence Tommy Atkins. Let it not be forgotten, however, that the "exquisite humor" displayed in the name Tommy Atkins belongs rather to the war office than to the public. That institution used to issue little pocket manuals, in which each soldier's name, age, date of enlistment, length of service, etc., were entered, and the method of filling in the form was explained by the use of a hypothetical name, not John Doe of the legal profession, but—Thomas Atkins. The books were first so called, and then the soldiers—Academy. Great Little Men. The instances are certainly numerous in which the most successful leaders in the field have been far below the averages both in height and weight. Why, the "Little Corporal" himself would never have become a soldier maybe if his fate had depended on one of these war office boards, and it is a question whether the nation would now have been honoring "Little Bobs." It all seems so funny, the craze for bigness. — Army and Navy Gazette. His Salary Inadequate "I should like a slight increase in my salary," remarked the sad-looking young bookkeeper. "I have a large family to support." "Why, you've only been married two years," said his employer. "I know that," was the reply, "but none of my wife's people have done anything since."—Philadelphia Record. industry. "That young man is one of the most industrious people in the establishment," remarked the proprietor. "I never see him when he is not working hard." "Yes," answered the manager. "He is always in a hurry to get through so that he can play golf."—Washington Star. Taking No Chances Practical Father—Has that young man who wants to marry you any money? Romantic Miss—Money! He gave me a cluster diamond ring studded with pearls. "Yes, I know. Has he any money left?"—St. Louis Republic. Canada's Wild Bugle Canada still has a herd of wild buffalo. Traces of the existence of the animals were found in the woods at the west of Slave river. It was ascertained that the buffalo was being mercilessly hunted and destroyed by the Indians.-Indianapolis News. Féculier Tendonier "Do you feel nervous after you have had your dinner?" "No; but I'm sometimes nervous until I know where my dinner is to come from."—Chicago Record-Herald THE ROMAN PONTIFF Looks Forward to Living to the Close of 1903. Wants to Round Out a Quarter of a Century of His Pontificate and Half a Century of His Cardinalate. [Special Correspondence.] POPE LEO XIII, according to a cable message, recently, received P able message recently received from Rome, has expressed to his intimates the conviction that he would live until late in the year 1903, when, on December 19, he proposes to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his elevation to the cardinalate in a manner befitting so rare and distinguished an event. From time to time the newspapers spread the report that the venerable pontiff is at death's door, but from a church dignitary who has seen him several times within the past decade it is learned that he seems to be about as robust now as he was ten years ago. Pope Leo is one of the most remarkable—if not the most remarkable—men of our age. His character is a rare combination of firmness and gentleness, and with these virtues is combined a brilliant mind, whose grand thoughts have challenged the admiration of thinking men of every creed. Contemporary critics have dealt gently with the aged ruler of the church. They have, almost without exception, given him praise for honesty of purpose and sincerity of intent; the most notable exception being Marie Corelli, who, in "The Master Christian," draws a picture of his holiness which depicts him as an old, old man governed by senile prejudice and the advice of self-seeking sycophants. Miss Corelli's delineation of Leo's character is ridiculed by churchmen, who assert that the pope is ruler of church in fact as well as name, and that personal con- D [Picture of a man with a mustache and a white shirt, framed in an ornate frame with decorative borders]. HIS HOLINESS, POPE LEO XIII, siderations never enter into his decisions; and until the talented woman novelist furnishes more proof than mere assertion the world will be inclined to accept the estimate of the pope's associates rather than hers. The biography of the head of the Roman Catholic church demonstrates that genuine merit, combined with an understanding of the value and power of organization, is the keystone of success in the ecclesiastical as well as the business world. Vincenzo Giocachino Peceli, the son of Count Ludovico Peceli and his wife, Anna Prosperi, manteau of red der of gold emb for private cere pelerine, of cle satin in summer he first puts wide seamless around which sash of gold, rose is a beautiful jewels, and has gold-embroider the pope always in Addis THE POPE'S SEDAN CHAIR was born March 2, 1810, at Carpineto, in the Papal States. At the age of eight he was placed in the Jesuit college of Vitebo, where he remained six years and distinguished himself for ability and propriety of conduct. His mother dying at the end of this time, in 1824, his father took him to Rome, and in November of that year placed him in the celebrated Roman college. Here his great talents and earnest application were strongly impressed upon his instructors, who were delighted when, at the age of 18, he took the first prize in physico-chemistry. Following this, he took a complete course in philosophy, receiving the laurea in 1831. He then entered the college of Noble Ecclesiastics and learned canon and civil law in the schools of the Roman university. After becoming a doctor of laws, he was appointed by Pope Gregory XVI. a domestic prelate and referendum of the signature, March 16, 1837, his priesthood being confirmed in the chapel of the vicariate December 23, 1837. At this time, although but 27 years of age, he was admitted to be one of the first scholars of Rome. Pope Gregory speedily recognized the young priest's executive ability by making him apostolic delegate at Benevento, Perugia and Spoleto, in each of which places his administration was marked by great energy and strong common sense. In the first place he suppressed brigandage, which had been the cause of endless disorder, and thereby won the everlasting gratitude of the law-abiding portion of the community. Designing him for the diplomatic service, for which his great talents and aristocratic bearing preeminently fitted him, Gregory made him, on January 17, 1843, titular archbishop of Damiette, in order that he might be qualified for the office of nuncio to Belgium. He remained three years at Brussels, discharging the duties pertaining to his delicate post with great tact and to the highest satisfaction of his master who then, in 1846, just a few months before his own death, bestowed on him the see of Perugia. Pecci's talents made a strong impression upon the success of Gregory, Plus IX, and at the consistory held December 19, 1833, he was, at the age of 43, created a cardinal. Twenty-four years later, in which interval he had rendered the most faithful services to the church, he was selected to fill the most responsible position of cardinal camerlego of the Roman hierarchy. He was then a man of 67, yet he did not heatitate when thus summoned to assume the weighty obligations resting upon the pope's chief executive officer. Five months later Plus IX. was gathered to his fathers, and the new camerlego was compelled to assume all the temporal duties of the papal office. Plus died February 7, 1878, and 21 days later Pecci succeeded him under the name of Leo XIII. Sixty-two cardinals were in attendance upon this notable conclave, yet so universally were the merits of Pecci recognized, and so general was the demand that he become head of the church, that not a single vote was cast against him. In the matter of dress, the venerable pontiff is punctilious, his wardrobe being one of great magnificence. For ordinary wear he has a white robe, made in winter of fine cloth, in summer of moire silk. When he goes into the garden he throws over this a long ] manile of red cloth, which has a border of gold embroidery. When dressed for private ceremonies he wears a surpice made of costly lace, and a red pelerine, of cloth in winter and of satin in summer. For great festivals he first puts on the "falda," a wide seamless coat of white satin, around which is tied a broad striped sash of gold, red and white. Above this is a beautiful garment covered with jewels, and last comes a mantle of gold-embroidered velvet. On his feet the pope always wears red velvet shoes. In addition to his episcopal ring the pope is fond of wearing other costly rings, often composed of single stones of great beauty. He seldom dons the pontifical tiara, which is a threefold golden crown, lined with red, green and blue velvet, and covered with priceless jewels. For great ceremonies his costume is so heavy that it is impossible for him, at his great age, to stand or walk, and he is carried in a chair. When he visits the Vatican garden he is carried thither in a sedan chair of an old-fashioned pattern. Like almost every other human being the pope has a hobby—the writing of poetry. Most of his verses are written in Latin, and eminent critics have pronounced them among the finest specimens of modern poetry. Few of his productions are given to the public, however; and only one volume of his poems has been printed since his accession to the papacy. The large picture which graces this article is taken directly from the latest photograph of his holiness, and comes from the studio of Cane Conyugi at Rome. G. W. WEIPIERT When small Bobby had worn his first pair of trousers for half an hour he went to his mother and begged to have on his kilt again. "What for?" she asked. "Because," replied Bobby, "I feel so lonesome in pants."—Lewiston Journal. The Usual Source. Assistant Editor on London Comic Paper—Isn't this joke rather far-fetched? Editor in Chief—Well, rather. The postal service brought it clear across the ocean in a Yankee paper—Somerville Journal. Naturally. Hicks—See that woman there? She is a clairvoyant; travels all over the country giving scences. Ricks—A circulating medium, I suppose.—Judge. RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Lonesome. The Usual Source Naturally. Popoca-Tenetl For many years our school geographies have given the supposed pronunciation of the name Popocatepetl as the name of the famous volcano of Mexico has been spelled. Children have been taught that the last syllable was pronounced as though it were spelled "pel," and they have pronounced the whole name with the accent on the "cat." According to F.P. Hoeck & Co., of the City of Mexico, who have written to the board on geographic names, Washington, in reference to the pronunciation of the name, the old usage encouraged by the geographies is incorrect. The name consists of two words. The first word, Popoca, is accented on the second syllable, po. The second word, tepetl, is accented on the first syllable and is pronounced as though it were spelled "taypel." The name of the volcano is thus pronounced very differently from the common usage in this country. In the last report of the board on geographic names the spelling Popocatepetl has been authorized.—N.Y. Sun Robber Crept in with Wolves. For sheer melodrama the English jewel robber Houghton's arrest would be hard to beat. After his last big diamond theft, which occurred a few days ago, he was traced to West Bromwich, and thence led the detectives a dance over the country. At last, when the pursurers were hard on his heels, he dashed into a traveling menagerie, which was exhibiting just outside Birmingham. There he found one of the attendants fastening up a van cage containing a pair of large gray wolves. He flung the man on one side and opened the cage, shutting himself in with the beasts, and daring anyone to fetch him out. The strange thing was that the wolves, which the proprietor had always considered the most dangerous animals in the show, took no notice of the fugitive, but showed great ill temper toward the keeper and a constable, who had great difficulty in dragging Houghton out—London News. Milk as a Weapon. There are no points in Europe where the cold records of America are eclipsed, but in Asia our lowest records are thrown completely in the shade. Tomsk, in Siberia, isn't the coldest place in the world, but it must be frigid enough, for the records of the police court there show that last winter a woman was summoned before the magistrate to answer the charge of having knocked down a neighbor with a block of frozen milk which she was bringing home from market. There are many months in the year during which milk has to be handled as a solid rather than a liquid, and it is the custom to deliver it in blocks.—Golden Days. Natural Politeness "Of course I is in favor of suffrage for women, Henrietta," said Mr. Meekton. "But I do not think they ought to go to the polls themselves." "What do you mean?" "They ought to be able to send their husbands to vote for both. If they go to the polls themselves it will confuse matters. A perfect gentleman who saw a lady at the polls looking a little worried would feel compelled to lift his hat politely and say: 'Madam, take my vote.'"—The King. Life-Saving Pigs The Australian coasting steamer Kameruka, while going from Eden to Sydney, traveling at full speed, struck on a reef at Moruya Head. There being no rockets on the ship, the captain tied a life line to some pigs which formed part of the cargo and had the animals put overboard. The pigs swam to the shore, taking the line with them, and by establishing communication every soul on board was rescued.—N. Y. Sun. Making an Effort. "What makes you say 'hal hal!' in that ghastly and idiotic manner every now and then?" "I am trying to do my duty," answered the misanthropo. "Everybody says that spring time is a joyous season, and I'm trying to live up to the traditions in spite of the fact that when I left home my wife was shaking the moth balls out of my clothes and making preparations to move on the first of May."—Washington Star A Change. "The name of the sultan of Morocco is Abdul Azziz," remarked the Snake Editor. "Thanks for the information," replied the Horse Editor. "Don't mention it, my dear sir. I only wish to add that after he dies he will be Abdul as was."—Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. A. Trouble Maker Roax—You're a nine lobster! Joax—What the matter? "You've given your wife a $25 bonnet." "Well, you don't have to pay for it." "No; but I have to pay for another one just like it for my wife."—Philadelphia Record. Bear's His Name Worthy Bears His Name Worthily. Jack (during their quarrel)—Now, let me explain. May—I want to say something first. "All right. I'm all ears." "I know it. No doubt that's why your parents called you 'Jack.'"— Philadelphia Press. Not an Expert Miriam—Didn't I see Mr. Brassie kiss you on the links to-day? Millicent—No; he tried to, but he only fooled.—Puck. Papa's Job. "I haven't seen your father for a long time. What is he doing now?" "Eighteen months."—Scraps. Chain of Collars. A wholesale city house making collars has adopted a novel plan to increase sales on its goods. These manufacturers have retail agencies in first and second-class cities throughout the United States, through which their brands are marketed. The consumer pays $1.50 for one dozen collars in a box, and 35 cents additional for an "exchange ticket." The cur tomer returns the dozen collars soiled with the ticket to any dealer who acts as agent for the producers, and gets a dozen new collars of any style desired, in exchange, by the payment of 35 cents on every dozen. If the original box is not returned five cents extra is charged the purchaser. The firm relaunders the collars and puts them in regular stock again and again, until wear shows.—N. Y. Herald. Crecy Soup. Scrape some nice red carrots and boil them in well flavored broth till tender enough to press through a sieve. Mix enough broth with this purce to make it rather thinner than the soup should be when finished. In a small saucepan dissolve an ounce of butter, stir into it an ounce of flour, when blended add half a pint to the soup; stir till it is well boiled; then use it for thickening the soup, which also should be hot. Stir together till it boils up; add pepper and salt if required. Should any fat be on the surface draw the pan to the side of the fire, let it cool a little, tilt the pan toward you and skim it off. Serve with bread that has been dried in the oven till light brown and cut into small dice.-Washington Star. Indian Hospitality How to stop the Indians of the South Dakota reservations from eating each other's food is an amusing but perplexing problem with which the Indian bureau is now dealing. It is an unwritten law of Indian hospitality that a guest may stay as long as he likes, and that as long as the guest remains the host must provide the food. It has become the custom among the Sioux, who have a feast with their two-weeks' ration as soon as they receive it from the government, to go to the more provident Indians and live on them until all their food is gone.—Indianapolis News. Punished for Cause Church — I understand the jury stood eleven to one in favor of acquittal at first? Gotham—That's right; we did. Gotham—that's right; we did. "Well, how in the world did the 11 ever come around to think as the one man?" "Well, you see, the fellow who was alone for conviction knew the prisoner pretty well, and he told us that the fellow had a lot of interesting children, and he was forever telling stories about their marvelous sayings, so we thought it wouldn't hurt to lock him up for a few weeks."—Yonkers Statesman. Story of a Coffin A poor widow in Koetheen has been put in a quandary by a generous donor. He used to be a coffin manufacturer, and when he broke up his business he made her a present of a beautiful coffin. It was delivered, but the neighbors of the widow in the tenement house object to its presence. Now she will have to move, and she is short of funds. Nobody wants to buy the coffin, as the coffin manufacturer spoiled the market when he sold his goods at auction. The donor refuses to take his gift back.—Wiener Tageblatt. Very Unlike a Groom "I guess I'm losing my sizing-up faculty," remarked the hotel clerk. "Why, I would have sworn that that chap, who just registered J. P. Tracy and wife," was on his wedding trip. "And he wasn't, eh?" asked a bystander. "I should say he wasn't" replied the clerk. "Why, when I asked him confidentially if he'd like the bridal-chamber, he said: 'Sure!' and seemed tickled to death."—Puck. Looked Up To The Missionary (in surprise)—And you once visited the United States? What did you think of it? The Cannibal King—It impressed me as a nation of rubbernecks. The Missionary (coldly)—Indeed! What led you to think that? The Cannibal King—During my sojourn there I was the star feature of a side show.—Puck. Cooking by Electricity Although cooking by electricity is generally conceded to be the ideal method, it has not been adopted to any great extent, chiefly because the appliances have been expensive, and not because the current costs too much to compete with coal, oil or gas. —Scientific American. Standing Him Off Edith—Papa says when you ask him for my hand he is going to stand you off. Harry—Ha, ha! He does. eb? "Yes! Says he is going to stand you off about four feet so he can get a good stiff punt at you." -Judge. An Original Reason "What reason did Spiffins present for wishing to obtain a divorce?" we asked. "Well, was the reply, "he said he was born a bachelor, and wished to revert to the single type."—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. The Brave Conductor None but the brave street car can cover the waves the fare.—Chicago Daily News. Assets of Character The assets of character are in what you are and not what you have.—Ram's Hon. Ideals "The money all passed through your hands!" they insisted. "Ah, yes," rejoined he. "But don't you see that I should have been false to my professional ideals had I permitted any of it to stick to my fingers?" Hereupon, with these high assurances, they were content; all except the Circassian Princess, who had been reared upon a New England farm and had accordingly but an inadequate conception of genuine devotedness to art.—Detroit Journal. Judging by the Others. The Wife—The new cook is very tall, isn't she? The Husband—Yes; but it isn't likely she'll stay long.—Town Topics. England's Elderly King. With one exception, never since Egert—the first king of England—came to the throne has a successor ascended it who exceeded, or even approached, the present king in years. The Saxon and Danish sovereigns had short reigns, and for the most part died young. Even Alfred the Great, who made England and ruled for 30 years, was only 52 at his death. The very first of our monarchs to attain the age of three-score and ten was our first great queen, Elizabeth, and she was 26 when she came to the throne. All the house of Hanover, of whom the present king is the seventh, have been long-lived, George I., who died at 67, being the youngest. William IV. did not succeed his brother until he was 65, and he was older than the king by six years. George IV. was a trifle younger when he came to the throne. —London Chronicle. What Prehistoric Men Ate: Our modern microscope has been looking back some 5,000 years and examining the food of our savage ancestors when they were but little above the beasts whose bones we find mixed with theirs. Charters White, of the Royal Odontological Society of Great Britain, has recently placed under his microscope teeth taken from human skulls dating back to the stone age, and carefully examined the tartar on them after it had been dissolved in a weak acid, hoping to find traces of the food that they had masticated. He was entirely successful, and found corn husk particles, hairs from the outside of husks, spiral vessels from vegetables, particles of starch, point of a fish tooth, oval cells from fruits, barbelets of down, portions of wool, and pieces of quartz and flint.—Science. Every Man His Own Foot Rule Your hands and arms will make good substitutes for a foot-rule or a tape measure. The first finger is usually four inches long, two inches from the knuckle to the next joint, and two inches more to the tip. From the tip of the middle finger to the elbow is about 16 inches on an average, and the distance from finger tip to finger tip of the outstretched hands is about six feet. Individuals vary in these respects. But if once for all you measure the exact length of your finger, your arm, your outstretched hands, and your foot or boot, you will have permanent measures always with you. —N. Y. Herald. The King and His Dog Tax A recent Greek law is to the effect that every owner of a dog shall pay a yearly tax of 12 drachmas. Those who do not pay in time are condemned by the new law to pay double the tax. King George sent recently to the police in order to register his four dogs and pay their taxes. But the official found that his majesty owed for the taxes a sum of 48 drachmas, and had been fined another 48 drachmas for having delayed payment. His majesty has paid 96 drachmas for his dogs.—St. James' Gazette. Parliamentary Records Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman holds one of the proudest records of the commons. He has held his seat without a break for almost a generation. Patrick O'Brien holds a distinction of another sort. He is the Tom Thumb of the house, standing four feet three inches in his shoes. It is one of his namesakes—J. F. X. O'Brien—who has distinguished himself by being sentenced to hanged, drawn and quartered.—St. James Gazette. A Remarkable Invalid A St. Petersburg correspondent says an invalid who has reached the remarkable age of 140 years is now lying in the hospital of Tomsk. He still remembers Catherine II., and talks of having buried his wife 100 years ago and his son 90 years back. His record was nearly approached by a Georgian, who died a few days ago in Tiflis at the age of 128 years.—Tit-Bits. Chance for a Vacation "I fear," said the physician to Enpeck, as he came from the sick room, "that your wife's mind is entirely gone." "Well," replied the other half, with a sigh of seeming relief, "I'm not at all surprised. She has been giving me a piece of it daily ever since we were married."—Chicago Daily News. The Amish Wife He had a fearful head the next morning, and his conscience smots him likewise. "John," remarked his wife, meekly, "I want to apologize for a lie I told last night when you left. I said: 'You'll be home soon, John,' and you weren't."—Philadelphia Times. Demestic Jones "weeks—My wife prefers coffee for breakfast and I prefer tea. Weeks—Then I suppose you have both? "Oh, no; we compromise." "In what way?" "We compromise on coffee."—Chicago Daily News. Very Streaky. "Say, Pebbles, dis is fortune, sure. I leaned up agin a house an' got a streak of paint on an' old coat. Den de lady come out an' gimme one of her husband's good coats." "Dat must have been a streak of luck, Cinders."—Chicago Daily News. Heavy Branches of Manufacture # Branches of Manufacture. We have more than 40 branches of manufacture in the United States which each turn out significantly more than $50,000,000 worth of factories, and of the 50 live turn out over $500,000,000 each.—Industrial Journal. 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In fact the SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY will ticket passengers for any points, affording the quickest schedules, finest trains, and most comfortable service. Its 1000 mile books sold at $2.90, are good from Washington, D.C. over the entire system of 2,400 miles including Florida. THE PLANET NOT TO HAVE BEEN. People call me a pessimist, and if it is pessimism to think, with Sophocles, that "not to have been borr, is best," then I do not reject the designation.—Thomas Hardy. To ne'er have heard a lover's song— Oh, would it have been best? The lark is singing on the bough In honest ecstasy; The world were poorer even now But for his tuneful glee. A rose is fastened in the hair Of one whose heart is gay. And by its fragrant gleaming there Lends gladness to the day. O am I less than rose or bird That I should sit in doubt? And have I ne'er by act or word Spread his business about? Ah, mean his aim and base his lot Who harbors in his breast The feeling that if he had not Been born it had been best! —S. E. Kiser, in Record-Herald. An Irish Gentleman By Frank H. Sweet. (Copyright, 1801, by Authors Syndicate.) DENIS MACMURRAGH, newly arrived, was standing in front of the post office, near the corner of Nassau and Liberty streets, gazing about with bewildered indecision. Two weeks before he had left his quiet home in the north of Ireland, and since then his life had been an uninterrupted succession of wonderful surprises. But neither Belfast nor Liverpool, nor his long journey across the water had thrilled him as did this hurrying, intense, absorbed mass of humanity that was surging about him. It fascinated even while it caused him to draw back toward the building, as though he feared to be caught in its relentless grasp and borne away. In his own home he had been acustomed to take off his hat to every woman he met on the country roads, and to wish them the "top of a morning," or the "luck of the day," or the kind protection of some especially benign saint or fairy, but here women seemed to be only an unrecognized part of the confusing whole. They hurried past the men, and the men hurried past them, and they crossed and recrossed with absolute unconcern and apparent unconsciousness of each other's existence. But even in this place of busy, heterogeneous humanity the crowd found time for more than one admir- "HOW'D YE LIKE TO BE ON THE FORCE?" "HOWD YE LIKE TO BE ON THE FORCET" ing glance toward the colossal, strangely appareled figure near the post office. Denis towered head and shoulders above most of them, and his strong, beardless face was enclosed by a shock of curling, yellow-brown hair which had seen little of brush and comb, save his fingers and the thorn of his native Fermangh thickets. It was almost as if some wild god of the ancients were standing there, appalled and fascinated by the seething modern life around him. Presently there was a slight ripple in the stream, and some of the eddies wavered under the momentary impulse of curiosity. A hungry woman had filched an apple from a stand, and a policeman was dragging her along the sidewalk. But only a few steps, then a massive figure hurled itself through the crowd like a catapult, and a strong grasp fell upon the policeman's shoulder and sent him whirling out toward the middle of the street, twisting and turning and trying in vain to grasp something for support, until at last he fell prone upon the pavement. And after him roared an angry: "Ye graceless omadhoun! Let that tachez yez to keep your sacrilegious hands off a woman!" Back on the sidewalk Dennis was bending over the crouching, sobbing woman. "Did the spalpeen hurt yes, ma'am?" he asked, gently. The crowd snickered a little at the gentleness applied to the wretched, barefoot creature on the sidewalk, but their mirth was quickly checked by the blazing face which was turned toward them. "No, sir; I—I was hungry, and—" "Hungry!" the voice quivered with astonishment and indignation "Hungry! wid all these people near yez wearin' kid gloves an' silks!" He rose to his full height and glared around, as though he would annihilate the entire crowd, then the blaze left his face and he laughed cornfully. "Out upon yes for a pack of bloodless spalpeens! Here, ma'am," gesting his hand into his pocket drawing out a handful of small coins, "it's all I have, acushla, but ye're welcome to it. An' mebbe this'll be afather keepin' yez a bit warm," removing his coat and throwing it about her shoulders. "Now shall I be helpin' yez home?" "No, no; thank you, sir. I—I have no home." She rose quickly and slipped into the crowd. He made a movement as though he would follow, but at that moment a vicious hand clutched his arm, and the red, angry face of the policeman srowled into his. "Now ye'll be comin' wid me! An' mind yez! I'll shoot that rid head off, if ye resist," and the incensed officer's words were emphasized by the sharp click of a revolver. Denis shook the grasp from his arm and loked down curiously. "So ye've come ag'in, have ye?" he said, the color beginning to flame back to his face. "I'thо' mebbe ye'd be havin' enough. Now, I've a good notion to thy an' bate a little dacency into ye. No man wid an Irish tongue ought liver to abuse a woman." The policeman was a plucky fellow, but he drew back involuntarily from the storm he saw gathering on the face before him. "It's an officer I am," he expostulated, "an' I must protict the law. I niver use the revolver barrin' it' s nadeful, but ye must come wid me. The woman was stalin', and ye interfered wid me duty." Denis had listened impatiently, but the first wonder and incredulity had gradually given place to whimsical resignation. "An officer to protect the law," he repeated, and for the first time he seemed to notice that the man was dressed differently from the others around him. "Well, it's mesilf has no call to fight the law, bein' newly arrived. I go along wid ye, but mind, your hands must be kept off me." "Ye're jist over, I take it?" the policeman said, as they moved down the sidewalk. "From the ould countrhy, yes." "I knew it from your tongue. An' ye're from the north of Ireland, too, county Fermanagh. Why, mon! whin ye sent me whirlin' and twistin' out into the street, grabbin' the air for somethin' to clutch me tiu fingers into, I was that mad I could have clubbed ye. But whin I heard' the howl ye sint afther me, I thot' of the Enniskillen Fair an' the rule ould shindies the b'y used to have there." Denis stopped on the sidewalk, and oblivious of the pushing and elbowing of irate pedestrians, was regarding his companion with new interest. "So it's a Fermanagh mon ye are," he said, more graciously. "From what part?" "Ballygad. Michael Flynn's nie name, an' it's cousin I am to the Bradys o' Kintal, an' they're cousins to the Cogans o' O'ren, an' they're cousins to the MacMurraghs themselves. A fine ould family the MacMurraghs, barrin' they've lost iverything an' have to work like common folks. But what part are you from?" "Cloughshannon. I'm Denis MacMurragh." He would have moved on, but Flynn caught his hand. "MacMurragh! Tare an' 'ounds! An' I would have clubbed ye! Shurse, it's meself should have known ye wid thim shoulders an' that head. But how come ye in the States?" "Work," answered Denis, grimly. "We've sold the last cow an' bit of land. An' there's me ould father an' mother, an' a round dozen of brothers an' sisters to look afther. I'n wantin' to bring them up well, an' maybe to give thim a bit of learnin' an' a sthart out." They were walking along the sidewalk now, and Michael Flynn was scratching his chin in deep thought. Suddenly he looked up. "How'd ye like to be on the foorece?" "The what?" "The foorece—be an officer like me. It's a fine job, good pay an' alsy work, barrin' a bit of shindy now an' thin. It's money ye could soon be savin' up for the ould folks an' the childer." Denis shook his head. "It's mesilf couldn't be takin' up hungry women." "Thin lave thim alone. There'd be plinty other work for ye. Why, mon, ye'd be alquat to a dozen common officers down on Water street. The sight o' thim big shoulders would sind ivory law breaker skurryin'. An' there'd be no trouble about gettin' yze the job. The inspector married me own cousin, an' the captain himself is an Ulster mon. An' besides, they're always lookin' out for big, strong recruits. They'd snap ye up on sight. An' there's another thing, "lowering his voice, the 'bys round here vote for the mon they like, an' there's plinty o' thim have heard o' the MacMurraghs. The foorell'c be a good place for ye to starth from, but wild the bys behind there's o' tellin' where ye'll bring up. A MacMurragh, wid the MacMurragh shoulders an' head an' strong ways an' thinder heart, could do anything wid the folks that knew him." He hesitated a moment, and then went on with some constraint: "We'll say no more about arrestin' ye. It's me own person recaved the offinse, an' I've the right to settle it widout callin' in the law. But about the foorce. Shall I recommend ye?" Denis looked down at him thoughtfully. "Yes," he answered; "but it's executin' the law in a dacent way I'll be doin'." In a Bohemian mise 4,600 feet deep the temperature stands at 130 degrees. Reversionary. Agnes—He is what might be called a reversionary type of man. Edith—Reversionary! Agnes—Yes; it's so easy to make a monkey of him!—Fugk. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. HAD A SWEET TOOTH. Murderer Under Sentence Sells His Body for Ten Dollars to Buy a Supply of Ice Cream. Some weeks ago Thomas Jones, a negro of Raleigh, N. C., sold his body to Dr. A. L. Goodwin for ten dollars. With the money Jones procured fruit, ice cream and other delicacies and lived high until the day he was hanged. Shaw university, a college in Raleigh for negro boys and girls, has a medical department and several white physicians deliver lectures to the students of medicine. Dr. Goodwin purchased the body for the purpose of dissecting before JONES MURDERED A WOMAN the students. At the time of the execution the university had not opened for the fall session, and in order to preserve body Undertaker Brown embalmed it. It is now many weeks since Jones was put to death and his body has been on exhibition in the undertaker's shop since. As soon as it was known that the body could be seen the colored people commenced to swarm around the shop and the undertaker was compelled to fix a way so that they could view it and then pass out. Thousands of colored people have passed the body and the greatest curiosity has been exhibited concerning it. Jones murdered a colored woman, set fire to the house and burned four children. The negroes were greatly incensed at this wholesale murder and wanted to lynch Jones, but were prevented by the white people. Demands have been made by negroes on the sheriff for pieces of the rope used in the execution. They say it will keep away the witches and is a never-failing badge of good luck. COW MEANT BUSINESS. Red Dress Excited Her to Madness and Caused Her to Make Richmond Lively for a Time. A Holstein cow, which was driven 25 miles to Richmond, Va., for the market, created a panic in the eastern part of that city, and did battle with the inhabitants for several hours. Five persons were injured. They are Logan Mann, ankle sprained and cut and bruised; Willard Carson, six years old, gored in back, badly cut and bruised; Thomas Fernandez, 55 years old, face and body bruised and neck cut; Alexander McCabe, hand cut and internally cut; Vernal Fernandez, aged seven, cut face. The cow wilt wild over a blood red dress worn by Vernol Fernandez, and made a dash at the child, whose brother was seated on a velocipede. The boy was hurled to the ground and the cow ran around the streets with the velocipede hanging on her horns. As soon as the conveyance fell from her horns she gored the child badly, and tossed him high in the air. Mrs. Fernandez appeared and was violently attacked, but a boiler maker. Alexander A BICYCLE VELOCIPEDE ON HER HORNS. McCabe, rushed out of his shop and broke one of the cow's horns with a six-pound hammer, which was also broken. McCabe's brother ran to his aid and was also attacked. Both men used heavy hammers, and several strong men joined in the fight for five minutes. The cow put them all to flight. The animal then took to the streets, and a policeman appeared, only to be attacked. A red electric car came along and the cow made a dash for it, but the car got away. A passenger named Logan jumped off the car, and the cow made a rush for him. He escaped by jumping, but badly sprained his ankle. The animal then made a hard run of five miles toward her home. Entered to a gold medal. Juvenile shoes are in demand in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Sharman McKinnis, of Farmington, Ill. They have been married nine years, and a few weeks ago Mrs. McKinnis gave birth to her fourth pair of twin soys. All of them are alive, the oldest couple not yet eight years old. Causes of Comfort Petted Wife — This old-fashioned chair is delightfully antique, but very uncomfortable. I don't see how your mother could like it. Husband (mildly)—I presume she was usually tired when she sat down—N. Y. Weekly. By Her Own Hand. Mamma—What did you learn at cooking school to-day? May—There wasn't any session today; teacher was sick. Mamma—The grip I suppose? May—No, ma'am. Indigestion.—Catholic Standard and Times. A Voice of Power. She sang. Her voice quite filled the parlor; she was strong and raised with that intent. It also the outside garden. For that's where everybody went. -Judge. IN THE MAINE WOODS. Guide—What Juck to-day? Other Guide—Good luck. My man shot at six different marks and no bullet come closter ter me than four inches, by hookey!—Chicago Chronicle. **Reform in the Household.** "Why so depressed?" the caller asked. "What makes you both so gum?" "Why, I've sworn off from smoking, and My wife from chewing gum." —Chicago Tribune. **Circumstances Alter Cases.** Freddie—Say, dad, would you call it a sensational story if the hero killed 20 men? Cobwigger—That depends, my boy, on whether it is a historical romance or a dime novel—Town Topics. Pure Romance. Mrs. Henpeck—I saw a book to-day I thought of getting you. It was entitled: "How to Be Happy Though Married." Henpeck—Why, my dear, you know I never read fiction—Judge. A Merciful Dispensation. Daughter—Oh, but men are so hideously lacking in self-control! Mother—Don't get feverish about it, dear. If they weren't, most girls would die old mails.—Brooklyn Life. A Ruse "What's them?" inquired Mrs. Cornesel as the farmer opened his carpet bag and let the contents drop on the floor. "The them is two gold bricks." "Swindled!" "No, sirree. I paid 25 cents apiece fur 'em. I'm goin' to leave 'em around the house so that when folks come along with cash to pay fur country board they'll say we're sech simple, unwordy people it's a pity to take advantage of us." - Washington Star. Copper Makes a Discovery. 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Crump, teacher: Florence Cunningham, Ethel Thompson, Sarah Thompson. 5th Primary—Henry Dandridge, Walter Liggons, John Morris, Lillie Barrett, Irma Fields, Florence Hampton, Josephine Henley, Julia Lewis, Emma Poindexter, Sarah Taylor. 4th Primary—Early Baptist, James Harris, Willie Mosby, Washington Miles, Lillie Bates, Hattie Burt, Bessie Cary, Eishal Crawley, Sarah Floyd Mary Palmer. Beatrice Robertson, Edna Steward. Virginia Tomlin. 3rd Primary—Johnnie Epps, Estelle Ammons, Susie Gode, Aime Hundley, Annie Phillips, Margaret Harris. 2nd Primary—Amy Franklin Lillie Brooks, James Anderson, Jessie Orrell, Leslie Eldridge, Anderson, Harris, Geo, Green. 1st Primary—Bruce Smith, Willie Allen, Freddie Moss, Fred Smith, Jes, Booker, Pearl Morton, Rebecca Thompson, Maud Haskett, Sarah Hew in, Alice Thompson. EAST END SCHOOL 6th Grammar—Mr. J. Andrew Bowler, teacher; John Carter, Claudia Dan dridge. Rosa Gordon, Virginia Lee and Virginia Rowlett. 2nd Grammar—Miss Rosa B. Yancey, teacher: Joseph Hill. 2nd Grammar—Miss Rosa B. Moody, teacher: Mildred Lawson, Pickie Scott. 1st Grammar—Miss Lucy V. Bolling, teacher: Lucy Brooks, Junius Glover, Senora Jackson, Sarah Williams, William Williams. 6th Primary—Miss Annie M. Jackson, teacher: Samuel Carden, Annie Gary, Ethel Gwathmey. 7th Primary—Miss Nannie O. Wyatt, teacher: Earl Harris, Mary Christie, Ruby Glalorne, Gertrude Smith, Matteie Barnes, Lucille Lawrenze, Maggie Jones, Lily Woodson, Ethel Woolridge, Willie Toast, Mabel Harris, Reecea Robinson. 6th Primary—Miss Lula A. Willis, teacher; Mary E. Tansil, Beatrice Christian, Emma Hill, James T. Rob erts, Viola Cheatham, Jiendieta Temple, Indiana Howard, Ophalia Johnson, Louise Franklin, Lilia McAllister. 5th Primary—Miss Mary E. Willis, teacher; Edward McAllister, Eibel Gordon Adele Johnson, Pearl Coles, Mildred James Maudel Lee, Wilbert Lawson, Ida Thompson, Pinkie Williams, Mary Burke, Mabel Orange. 4th Primary—Miss Maude E. Mundin, teacher; Frank Morton, Willie Saunders, Olivia Scott, Lizzie Bland, Willie Preston, Arthur Ransom, Irene Christian, John Lawrence, Pearl Morton. 3rd Primary—Miss Annie S. Konea, teacher: Hattie Hunter, Bessie Kirby, Ruby Macklin, Willie Morton, Felix Gwathmey, Hesel B.and, Bessie Scott, Joseph Harris, Mary Stewart, Fanny Wright, Mary Woodson, Marie Harr a, Julia Atkinson, Maggie Coleman, Madeline Lewis, Henry Davis, Robert Thompson, Samuel Johnson. 2nd Primary—Miss Lula G. Haskins, teacher: Bessie Ellen, Luberta Ashton Virginia Brown, Willie Caldwell, Ea- ter Coyle, Anna Ford, Isabel Hood, Mary Ivison, Bertha Johnson, Bastice Johnson, Gertrude Moss, Sarah Riley, Eva Steward Florence Wieldi, Zip- porah Yearman, Perey Brown, James Coleman, Isaiah Christian, Leonard Jones, Maurice Price, Floyd Spriggs, Arthur Scott, Persey Sayles, Howard Thompson, Ernest Warwick, John Wingfield. 1st Primary -Miss Lula G. Haskins, teacher; John Clark, James Christian, Samuel Eatman, Joseph Fox, Henry Jackson, Robert Johnson, Allan Lewis, Luther Minor, Eddie Noel, Hes ekiah Sayles, Roger Williams, Nathaniel Smith, Estelle Bentley, Claudine Baylor, Amelia Clark, Anna Cole, Holmes, Dora Jackson, Harris, Mary Hubbard, Dora Jackson, Mary Johnson, Virginia Montague, Martha cobinson, Alma Scott, Edith Williams, Claudine Williams. MOORE SCHOOL For Week Ending May 10th 6th Grammar—Miss F. E. Ioham, teacher: Pearl Bland, Ophe in Washington. 8th Grammar—Mr. A. L. Morton, teacher: Florence Bolling, Daisy Carter, Eva Conway, Martha Ellett, Mary Jasper, Alice Johnson, Irene Williams. 2nd Grammar—Miss A. G. Fester, teacher: Elise Carter, Florence Jasper, Lelia Richardson, Robert Cole, Julia Brown, Virginia Martin, Alice Meyers, Peter Hudson. 8th Primary—Miss O. L. Patterson, teacher: Calia Minor, Minnie Booker, Elizabeth Oross, Ollie Guerrant, Rosa Patterson. 7th Primary—Miss A. Peters, teacher: Willie Spain, Florence Lockley, Willie Johnson, Joseph Cole, Hunter Goode, Percy Sledd, Beauford Stokes, Mary Heck. 7th Primary B—Miss S. J. Turpin teacher: Edward Booker, John Goodman, Adèle Cousins, Katie Cox, Willi- lson Booker, Booker, Lailie Reader, Era Sledd 5th Primary—Miss A. D. Patterson, teacher; Henry Littlepage, Sam Reynolds, Sallie Cowan, Nettie Fox, Daisy Meade, Isaac Scott, Geneva Trent, Cleveland Jones, Rhoda Neal. 5th Primary—Miss B. L. Murray, teacher; Heater Glasgow, Olara Johnson, Esher Young, Johanna Sydnor, Sam Stokes. 4th Primary—Miss E. Christian, teacher; Sallie Booker Daisy O'Neill, Lillie Jackson, Nora Jackson, Gracie Minor, Lizzie Mosby, Martha Johnson. 4th Primary B—Miss H. E. Wallace, teacher; Ernest Branch: John Smith, Cora Byrd, Mary Craig, Clara Reynolds, Nettie Trent, Mattie Walters, Marie Cousins. 8th Primary—Miss H. E. Wallace, teacher; Lillian Coleman, Mary Davenport, Helen Garnett, Mary Hurt, Beatrice Pryor, Rebecca Winston, Mary Smith, Leslie Anderson, Lee Frasier, Irwin Willis. 2nd Primary, Miss K. G. Robinson, teacher: Simon O'Neil, Henry Johnson, William Jackson, Thomas Jasper, Philip Hendley, Lloyd Glover, Edmund Ford, Ida Booker, Martha Butler, Amanda Barcroft, Lissie Hughes, Nannie Jackson, Lsanna Reynolds, Virgile Smith 2nd Primary, B-Miss E. S. Powell, teacher: S. Bolling, Will Kenny, Mary Carter, Eliza Cuivaly, Will Ellis, Mary Grey, Will Johnson, Westly Pierce, Marie Haskins. Ida Kenney, Harrie Page, James Randolph, Will Logan, Bettie Mayo, Margaret Richardson, Vernor Holme, Leroy Johnson, Robert Carter, Rosa Kenny. 1st Primary-Miss K. G. Robinson, teacher: George Brown, James Booker, Henry Booker-Burrell Smithers, Joseph Shelton, George Wood, Sarah Robinson, Minnie Williams, Sallie Will Williams, Eulalia White, Moselle Lawson. 1st Primary, B—Miss E. S. Powell, teacher: Philip Howard, Benetta Sio- vall, Will Smith, Sam Mayo, Laura Scott, Maggie West, Sarah Wyatt, Louise Johnson, Sarah Wyatt, Ginger Chatman, Rosa Thomas, Eva Lively. NAVY HILL SCHOOL Week Ending May 10, 1901. 6th Grammar—Mr. A. V. Norrell teacher: Alise Giles, Lillian Harris, Amanda Nelson, Mamis Thomas. 5th Grammar—Miss Rosa B. Brooks teacher: Emma Bailen, Rosa James. 4th Grammar—Miss Lena V. Isham, teacher: Fannie Cowan, Elivia Anderson, Victoria Borkler, Joanneette Forrester, Berthea Harris, Maggie Miles. 3rd Grammar—Miss B. L. Whittle, teacher: Coralace Norrell, Lillie Porter, Kate Moran. 2nd Grammar—Miss C. L. Brown, teacher: Midred Bolling, Lillie Fox, Blanche Watson, Lucy Williams. 1st Grammar—Miss Molly E. Turner, teacher: Robert Washington, Zudia Ayers, Alma Duke. 8th Primary—Miss Mary L. Jaspar, teacher: Annie Burrows. 7th Primary, No. 50—Miss E. B. Lucas, teacher: James Ware, Jessie Burrows, Mary Brown. 6th Primary, No. 1—Miss Virginia B. Harper, teacher: Lee Davenport. 6th Primary—Miss Earlie A. Lee, teacher: Joseph Baer, Alfred Kemp. 5th Primary, No. 1—Miss M. L. Tinsley, teacher: Willie Frayser, Willie Kersey, Robert Woodson, Oarrie Anderson. 5th Primary, No. 11—Miss E. Madelline White, teacher: Eva Payne, Munford Gatewood, Bettie Tyler. 4th Primary, No. 1—Miss E. M. Morris, teacher: John Dunn, Eva Ocony, Ellen Griffis, Arie Gray, Mary Jackson. 4th Primary, No. 2—Miss Sarah E. Brown, teacher: Willie Brown, George Burrell, Bennie Barkley, Albert Norrell, Edloe Ward, Oscar Watkins, Pearle Banks, Marie Baker, Irreane Curr Lille Fountain, Ada Lewis, Ross Page, Mary Richardson, Ada Ross, Bertha Wallace, Dora Watson. 3rd Primary, No. 1—Miss S. E. Brown, teacher r: Aron Robinson, Maggie Fitzgerald, Marion Jones, Mary Jennings. 8rd Primary—Miss M. E. Tricie, teacher: Joseph Brooks, Helen Anderson, Marshall Daniel, Mary Brown, Robert Ford, James Pride, Irma Robinson, Heine Hope, Serena Dunn, Jacob Pride, Sarah Sparks. 2nd Primary—Miss M. E. Tricie, teacher: Albs t. Casasar, Leroy Ragland, Emma Randolph, Eugene George Rosa Reese, Rebecca Stith, Wallace Holmes, Bessie Booker, Maggie Mayo, Lettie Pride, Emma Trent, Susie Thompson, Sarah Tompkins. 2nd Primary—Miss Julia L. Stephens, teacher: Willie Arvie, Shexner Brown Willis Grandison, Robert Grandison, Charley Miles, Emma Banks, Eliza Gaitor, Irene Gregory, Susie Harris, Maria Hope, Manuela Mosby, Nellie Owens, A dell Richard, Alma Smith, Zenobia Tinsley, Carrie Turner, Bertha Watkins. BAKER SCHOOL Week Ending May 10, 1901. 5th Grammar—Miss M. L. Chiles, teacher: Bettie Anderson, Maggie Brooks, Flora Carter, Queen King, E. Nora Smith, Lella Scott, Endanis Scott, Frank Riley, Thomas Smith. 4th Grammar—Miss Lizzie B. Wills, teacher: Balle Morris, Hattie Fisher. 1st Grammar—Miss M. H. Smith, teacher: Mary Daggett, Famar Carter, George Gray. 8th Primary—Miss L. J. Corbin, teacher: Lou Conlev, Henryene Taylor 7th Primary—Miss C. F. Brown, teacher: Perselia Brown, Pearl Browne. 6th Primary—Miss M. C. Tinsley, teacher: Cornelius Gaston, Perey Stone, Mattie Dawson, Leora Smith, Sarah Toombs. 5th Primary—Miss M. E. Allen, teacher: Louis Grump, Walter Royer- ster, Alberta Anthony, Laura Augustius Luzy Combs, Gertrude Goode, Naomi Hill, Esthel Jackson, Nellie Jones, Liz- ze Parker, Florence Stovers, Jeannene Weist. 4th Primary—Miss Martha E. Grunn teacher: Bruce Fountain, Charles Gray, John Pearson, Edward Yancey, Adelina Carter, Maggio Farrar, Goldie Fearson, Pearl Bates, Akram Johnson, Pearson, Mabel West, Akram Johnson, 3rd Primary—Miss E. V. Trent, teacher: Sadie Lewis, Mary Miller, Carlotta Kereyse Carrie Harris, Arsley Stokes, Benjamin Sarah, Armor Lewis, Orca Dawson, Bennie Bass, Willie Dabney, Willie Gray, Grattan Graves. PLAY IDOL AT HOME How a Beautiful Dream of Stage land Was Shattered Forever. Matinee Girl Who Lived in the Opposite Flat Know All About the Hero and Disillusioned Her Enthusiastic Companion. The fashionable Broadway theater in question was filled to the doors with an expectant, daintily perfumed, and femininely enthusiastic Saturday matinee audience, says the New York Times. It was a very modern play. The heroine, gowned in a modish importation from Rue de la Paix, reclined languidly on a Louis Quinze settee. She had just come out fairly victorious in an animated psychological discussion with the rather attractive "villain" on the subject of Platonic love. Then the hero entered, and, deftly throwing his cape, opera hat and cane to a bespangled footman, started slightly but gracefully and bit his lips as he beheld the heroine. There was a rustle caused by the unlimbering and focusing of a great battery of opera glasses. Then there was a silence undisturbed by even the crackle of a bonbon box as the matinee audience worshipped at the shrine of one of its idols. "Ah, but isn't he just divine?" sighed the girl in seat No. 34 M. "Oh, yes, I suppose so," replied she in seat No. 36 M., in a tone of irreverence that caused her companion to regard her with horror. On their way home after the performance this singular young woman explained her unheard-of apathy at the shrine of the matinee idol. "He lives," she said, sadly, "with his family, in the flat across the hall from us." "With his family?" exclaimed the other in tones of horror. "Oh, no. Anything but that." "Yes," continued the disillusioned one, "he's a very nice and pleasant sort of man, and they have a very pleasant, peaceful home life, except that their youngest child—they have four—is about the nolistic brat I ever heard. It seems to have the colloq or something almost every night, and it must be awful tiresome for that poor man after THE IDOL WIPING DISHES he comes home from the theater at night to have to walk the floor with it the way he does. Why, he takes half the household cares off the hands of his wife. Papa declares he's henpecked, but mamma and I think it's just his domestic tastes. "His wife, you see, gives singing lessons in the forenooms, and while the students are shrieking in the front parlor the husband gets up in the middle of the forenoon and cooks his own breakfast. You can see him any morning across the airshaft from our kitchen window working around in the kitchen in his shirt sleeves baking and boiling and frying things, and can almost hear him swearing down the dumbwaiter shaft at the tradesmen below. There isn't a thing romantic about him then. "Yes, and then his tastes seem to run to such plebeian dishes. Why, our cook often has to close the kitchen windows to keep out the aroma of onions, cabbages, kale and turnips that comes across the airshaft from where the 'leading man' is at work in his kitchen. "If he ever promenades on the Rialto, I don't know when it is, for nearly afternoon he has to go off to the theater for rehearsals and things, and when he doesn't do that he and his wife generally take the children out for a stroll, baby carriage and all, if the day is fine. If the weather is bad they just stay at home, and the 'leading man' plays on a little organ that he has and songs songs or studies up new parts. Sometimes on Sundays he comes across to our apartments and he and papa play dominoes together for hours. He is an expert domino player. "He wears a wig in the theater. I know, for his head is quite bald at the very top, and he has little wisps of gray about the temples. I never saw him look tragic off the stage, except once, and that was when he and his wife and children were visiting us one Sunday afternoon and his eldest son maliciously stuck a pin into the baby. "When I saw him on the stage today I tried very hard to regard him as the gay and debonair member of the jeunesse doree of stage land, but, to save my life, I could not help remembering his wife having sent over and borrowed our chafing dish this morning." Thus was another beautiful dream of stageland shattered forever. The After-Dinner Snore A medical paper states that a nap of half an hour or so in the afternoon after a meal is helpful, and favors rather than hinders good sleep at night. CHARLES ANCEY, GOLIA Mary HUSSON, TRENT, MILLER, ARMER, HAYL, BAN, GRAY Modern Methods. First Burglar—How ye gittin' on? Second Burglar—Bully! Doin' fire' rate. Robbin' doctors now. I jus'ring th' bell late at night, an' tell 'em Mrs. Astorbilt is fallin' in a faint, an' they mus' run fer her life. "Bah! You're way behind the times. Quick as a pliceman sees a man runin' at night he arrests 'im as a suspicious character. I wait till they grab th' doctor, an' then I go in an' rob th' house."—N. Y. Weekly. Interchange of Confidence "And now, my boy, don't have any secrets from your father. What are your college debts? Don't be afraid to tell me the sum total, to the last cent." "I won't, father. The whole amount is $5,327.9." "I thank you for your confidence, my boy, and I will be equally frank. You may pay those debts the best way you can."—Chicago Tribune. A Cameo. The carpet is bobbing And flapping on high. The strawberry's throbbing In dumpling and pie. -N. Y. Herald. HEIGHT OF CARELESSNESS. "Heavens! Where did your parrot learn to swear so horribly, Mrs. Jones?" "Oh, I forgot to take him from the room while Mr. Jones was looking for his collar button."—Chicago American. Grappling-Irons of Success. Life is uphill all the way— If you climb, and wish to stay Where you are, you'll have to use. Like all linenem, well-spiked shoes. —Detroit Free Press. End Not Yet in Sight. Yeast—I just saw your wife in the ether room. Crimsonbeak—Talking? "Yes; I heard her say, as I passed, that she had arrived at a conclusion." "Well, she hasn't done anything of the sort. She's talking yet."—Yonker's Statesman. A. Brute. "Well," she asked her old bachelor brother, as she took the baby away from him, "what do you think of the dear little darling, anyway?" "Oh, I dunno," he said, "I guess mebby it'll do to raise." — Chicago Times Herald. Silent Criticism. "She is very nice and all that; but she is altogether too critical." "I assure you she never speaks of you but in the kindest way." "Praps so; but every time I see her she gives me the impression that my frock doesn't fit!"—Brooklyn Life. Antigravity of the Saving "Black yer boots?" grinned the young anthropoid ape. "Go on!" growled the cave man. "Don't try any of your monkey shines on me!" The phrase then began to thunder down the ages.—Chicago Tribune In Kentucky. The Colonel—It's amazin' how the children grow! It seems like yesterday when that boy of yours was a baby. The Major—That's so! I can hardly realize that he's carryin' his own corkscrew!—Puck. Brotherly Advice Miss Fuzzie—I want to break my engagement but don't know how to do it without driving the poor fellow to suicide. Little Brother—Why don't you let him see you in curl papers just once?—Tit-Bits. As They Fight Now. Spartan—Did I understand you to admit that your rival is the champion puglist? Fitz-Corbett—No, sir, I said "plagiarist." He's been using a lot of my old newspaper interviews as his own.—Philadelphia Press. Well Described. Mrs. Pierpont (ecstatically)—Isn't it just a poem of a spring bonnet! Mr. Pierpont (dubiously)—Yes, a magazine spring poem—I can't make head or tail to it; or tell which is the front or back.—Brooklyn Eagle. A Likely Yarn Lady—I suppose you got that red nose from drinking rum? Sandy Pikes—No, mum. I stuck me head out of de car door an' me nose rubbed agin de bricks on de side ob de tunnel—Chicago Daily News. What Was Required Mr. Holesayle—I want an office boy that don't chew, smoke or curse, and is always neat, clean, brave, manly and courteous. Applicant—Hully Gee! Wot you want is a matinee idol!—Puck. A Sure Sign. "I am certain that Minnie intends to marry Frank." "What makes you so certain?" "I heard her scolding him for sending her such valuable presents."—Harlem Life. Not Quite the Same. "Yes, the tribes elected him king, and as soon as they elected him they said: 'Hall, king.'" "And then?" "The reign began."—The King. Rather Wild at Figures. "Statistics show that Chicago people lose 6,500 umbrellas a year." "Six thousand five hundred? Pooh—'ve lost half that many every year myself." —Chicago Record-Herald. 1,000 REWARD. Dr. Shea, Marvelous Medium Gives the names of dead and living friends tell who and when you will marry, also of friends, health or anything you know. What is it. He can call up your spirit and rap all around you. Can make them rap all around you. Can ask questions don't ask you to write names for him. Don't try to pump you in any way. Be minded by leading spiritualists everywhere received from them a gold medal and speeched by a wonderful powers credentials no one else has. Thousands of speeches to both white and colored patrons. Twenty-five years practice can do all that he can tell of. Can tell what business is best for you and where, how to be successful in your job. How to be successful in all your doing. short what is best do. He succeeds when consult this Christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness, cad be known by. Thousands through him are now • RICH, HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL • with all their undertakings, while those who have their own still laboring against poverty. Through his chemistry, he can impart to you a secret that chemistry, he can impart to you a secret that your enemies and win your friends. He also solicited; the result has always been the solicited; the result has always been the happy and happy marriages and all your wishes. All your wishes. He has the secret of winning the ar- tails. sections of the opposite sex. It is in the course of spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim neither gifts, nor posseses. They have neither gifts, nor posseses. Surely the color of people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their tims and moeys on such. Dr. Shua refers to the Hon. William Cleveland, Ave. and Arthur sewil, ship builder, South Brooklyn, all I have known him for the past seven years. He gives a view of the lives of the sewil. He has wanted five years in New Orleans, Memphis and Louville; understands thoroughly the disease, spell or influences the body to the extent that onward always had a large part in it. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Brooklyn. Aug. 15, 1801 — This is to certify that came to New York from Albany. I was out of money. I had no money out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know. A man came to me to go and see Dr. Shea I did. He told me what to do. He took me in and treated me as a brother. Through him I get a good position that very much money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea. I would advise all of him bad luck, sick or in trouble to go to him as once. ALBERT AVE. 2027 ALBERT AVE. SOUTH PLAINMED, Aug. 15, 1801 — This is to certify that my husband had gone away and I was mourned for him right and day. I was away. Hearing of the wonderful things Dr. Shes was doing, I resolved to consult him. He told me my husband was alive and well and when and when to my joy all of its came true. He is home now, come back like one from the house lost the sum of $50. I am a poor woman and I was most insane I went to Dr. Shes and I was to my intense joy I did film it as he told me. I thank God there is a man so gifted in our ability an can help and tell their what to do. Shopify & SENSATION IN BROOKLYN - A MINIB TERS' STATEMENT. I wish to state that one of my parishioner was sick and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. J. B. H. understand her case. She had several doctors but none of them seemed to know what was the matter. None could do her any good. He asked her to come to her. Hearing of the wonderful work being done by Dr. Shea the last few years, I thought he might be a kind sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers — told me a wonderful test of his powers — which I did by her daughter. He told at what we were and short time cured b — and well. 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THE PLANET Prov nt Plants. Desert plants are commonly obliged to store up water in one way or another, so as not to perish during the long periods when there is no rainfall. Various species of cacti do this, and the tired and thirsty traveler occasionally comes across a spiky thing about the size of a beer keg, which is to him a godsend—perhaps even a rescue from death in hideous shape. It is the so-called "water barrel of the desert," a species of cactus which is a living spring, containing within itself a considerable supply of the purest water. One has only to chop off the top with a machete, when a mass of pulp is disclosed somewhat resembling in consistency the pulp of a watermelon. If a bowl-shaped cavity be cut in the top of the pulp mass it will quickly fill with water, which may then be drunk. Or, if preferred, the pulp may be chewed—Nature. Bathing Day in Mexico. From Siberia to Mexico is a long jump, and from wifty climes we reach the sunny south. If you were to visit Mexico on the 14th day of June you would find a most unusual holiday in vogue. This festival occasion is known as the national bathing day, and in the 24 hours comprising June 14 everyone in the republic, from President Diaz down to the commonest servant is expected to take a good wash. Mexico is the only country in the civilized world which has such a national holiday, but from all accounts the institution is needed, for unnumbered thousands allow no water to touch their persons except on the occasion of this official washing time, known as St. John's day.-Golden Days. Not Meant Seriously A little girl of my acquaintance some eight or nine years old had to undergo a very hard school examination, for which she feared that she was not prepared, and, being a child of much faith, began to pray that she would be taken with diphtheria (mild cases of which were prevalent in the neighborhood) before that day, so that she might avoid the ordeal. The night before she woke up toward morning to find her throat very nore, and, becoming alarmed, turned over suddenly, which awakened her older sister just in time for the latter to hear her say, in a most beeching tone: "Oh, Lord, can't you take a joke?"—H. S. F., in Harper's magazine. Finland's Stamp of Monarch Islands' stamp of Mourning. When the measure abolishing Finnish postage stamps was promulgated, the Finnns issued a black stamp with the words "Suomi-Finland" and the national coat of arms on it. This stamp they affix to the top right corner of the envelope simply as a sign of mourning and protest, while affixing the Russian stamp on the center of the other side of the envelope. The imperial government gotalarmed, as it always does, at such purely sentimental manifestation of national feeling, and in a few days interdicted the practice.—The Anglo-Russian. Loud Reports. An interesting matter, from a scientific point of view, in connection with the death of the queen is the distance at which the sound of firing was heard when the fleet saluted as the body was conveyed from Cowes to Portsmouth. Letters in the English journals of science show that the sounds of the guns were heard in several places at a distance of 84 miles, and that at a distance of 60 miles the concussions were sufficiently intense to shake windows.—Chicago Chronicle. Pure Milk in China A notice board has been erected on shore near to the naval anchorage at Woo-Sung, China, with the following information: "We open at Woo-Sung on the south of the telegraph company, for sale of foreign milk, the taste are sweet, the milk are pure, the price are just. We have not put any water in it. If examine out won't pay single cash. If you want to buy it you will know the foreign cow chop. No. 1 milk. Yih Pingshan dairy."—London News. Dog and Cat Shows Cat shows do not date from more than a decade and a half; dog shows have at least an existence of three quarters of a century. The foremost European galleries contain hundreds of pictures of dogs; there are not a score of great artists who have devoted their talents to the pictorial representations of the cat.—N. Y. Sun. Over the Bridge. Mrs. Galloupe - Be sure and come, Mr. Gibble. I promise you you shall meet, oh, quite a number of pretty women. Gibble - How can I refuse you, my dear madam? It will not be for the pretty women, however, but for you, that I shall come - Boston Transcript. Heavy Weight. Fried—So you made a lump sum off your cooking? Hingso—Yep. "Bakery?" "Nope. Took her loaves of bread, painted 'em black and sold 'em for old iron."—Syracuse Herald. Very Medicinal Mistress—Nora, you have made a terrible mistake. You have mistaken the quinine for baking powder and filled our flannel cakes with medicine. Nora. Faith, mum, awn they must be medicated flannils.—Chicago Daily News. NOTE.—The Kab-pee-kog club is an interstate organization of good fellows and good fishermen, so they may, when we come to a far-rehearsal and training expedition of from two weeks ago, a month in length. The members are but ordinary citizens of the State's territory who once a year invade the Queen's domains for a good time. They come from all portions of the Union and congregate at a little lake in the Canadian wilds where the gamy bass strike hard and often. Who they are in interest to the reader, but they do many things and tell them to them, and are interesting and entertaining to those who love a vacation time in the woods and on the water.—EDIRON. No ONE would ever have thought it of Zuckmaier. Charley was considered the one truthful man in camp, and then for him to be caught in the worst lie of the season, and caught so that there was no possibility of twisting out of it, or explaining it away to the satisfaction of the remainder of the club, was inexplainable. Zuckmaier has been able to prove the truthfulness of every fish tale he had ever told, and it had become the rule never to question anything he told. So impleit was our confidence in him that we would probably have believed him had he told of landing a hundred-pound musky and then throwing it back into the lake again. There are no muskies in Kah-pee-kog. There is an endless procession of bass, in fact, I have always thought Kah-pee-kog must have been the Eden of the bass family, and have persistently fished for the bass Adam, but never in the memory of the oldest inhabitant had a musky been seen in the lake waters. But bass fishing had become monotonous. Not for lack of bass, but more because of the quantity, for there is no other body of water in all that beautiful Muskoka and Georgian bay country to which the Grand Trunk railway carries so many tourists and fishermen in which the fighting bass are more numerous. So it was that we proposed to go for muskies. Just as Kah-pee-kog is the Eden of the bass family, so is Crane lake the Eden of the muskies, and it was A FISHING THE STRIKE WAS A HARD ONE to Crane lake we went. In the party were Smith and Yorker, Zuckmaier, Fraser and myself, and we headed straight for that picturesque bit of water known as Deep Cut in Crane, where Fraser assured us the muskies were so thick as to crowd each other for room to swim, and where historic legend has it the old Adam musky himself resides. We were not the only visitors to Crane lake that day. Two gentlemen from the Ingersoll camp on Healy came in a few minutes after us with ambitions similar to our own, and followed us into Deep Cut. When we were ready for the day's fishing Zuckmaier and Fraser had been paired off to the same canoe; Smith was by himself in another, and Yorker and I occupied a third. It was not until two o'clock in the afternoon that we were again together, and ready for a recounting of our adventures during an hour's rest. "No, I didn't get anything better than the old man's grandson," said Smith in answer to a query as to his luck. "A 12-pounder that I brought back with me, but I guess that he will match anything else that was caught. Got several smaller ones, seven, eight and nine pounders, but threw them back again. About you, Charley?" he added, turning to Zuckmaier. "Nothing worth speaking of," replied Zuckmaier. "Got several small ones, like yourself, but the big one got away." "Do you think he struck you?" asked Yorker. "Sure of it," replied Zuckmaier. "The fish I lost didn't weigh an ounce less than 50 pounds, and he might have gone more than that." The tone, the manner of springing such a sensation, both carried conviction with them if he had never said another word, and not one of us ever thought of questioning his story—until later. "Fraser and I paddled back down the bay until we had rounded the point of the narrows that connects this portion with the main lake," began Zuckmaier again. "I had sized the location up as we came through this morning, and made up my mind it was a good place for fish. We Potato Biscuit. Boll, peel and mash fine one quart of potatoes; rub them into one quart of sifted flour and one teaspoonful of salt; work in one teacupful of lard, then add enough sweet milk to make a moderately stiff dough; roll out to a quarter of an inch thick, cut into cakes and bake in a quick oven. Sprinkling sugar over the top is to many palates an improvement—People's Home Journal. --- Potato Biscuit hadn't been there three minutes before I had a strike. He took the bait just as though he was starved, and I hooked him nicely. Like all muskies, he went out of the water the first thing, and I saw he was only a small one, probably one of the great-grandchildren. I landed him, dropped him overboard again, and during the next hour landed several of about the same size. The big one didn't show up until nearly noon, but I wasn't discouraged, for I had gotten it into my head that they were holding a family reunion, and that the old man must be around somewhere. "I had waited longer than usual for a new strike, and when it finally came it was peculiar. The strike was a hard one, all right, but after I had hooked him he failed to show himself, which was unusual. I played that fish for ten minutes or more, and was having the best kind of sport; then he shot around the stern of the canoe, and I passed my rod over my head to accommodate him to his new location. I had been pulling him in a little all the time, and as he got to the other side of the canoe I had him within a dozen feet of us, and his nose was right up to the top of the water. That was the first glimpse I had had of him, and when I saw him I nearly jumped out of the canoe. He was the biggest thing I ever saw in the way of a fish, but, as bad luck would have it, I had but an insecure hold on him. He was hooked just through the tip of the nose, and I knew that I could never land him. My revolver was laying at my feet between Fraser and myself, and I asked him to shoot the monster so that we would not lose him. He did so, but it was useless, for just as he fired the fish broke away and we saw him no more. I had hooked the Adam of the muskies, but didn't land him." We swallowed every word of the cleverly told tale, bait, hook and all, and would probably have believed it to this day had it not been for an incident that happened later in the afternoon. Smith proposed that he, Yorker and myself paddle over and see what luck the men from the Ingersoll camp had been having, and 4 we did so. They had had much the same luck we had, with nothing larger than ten pounds to show for their day's fishing. Smith related to them the incidents of our day, and told them the story of the big one Zuckmaier had lost just as he had told it to us. "He thought it was a big one, did he?" said one of the two gentlemen. Would you like to see it? I have got it down here on a line." He took us down to the edge of the water, and there on a line with some others he had a musky with a bullet hole clear through him, and it didn't weigh an ounce over eight pounds. "It may be the old Adam musky," said the gentleman, but if he is old age has shriveled him up considerably. We were not more than 200 yards away when your guilde shot, and your party paddled on farther into the narrows as soon as they had lost the fish. We followed them closely, and when we had got to just about the spot where they had been when he fired this fish struck my line. Of course there wasn't much fight in him; he was about two-thirds dead, and I landed him without difficulty." We paddled back to Kah-pee-kog, and two days later broke camp, without having said a word to Zuckmaler about our discovery. It was not until we were flying back towards Toronto on the Muskoka special that Smith spoke of it; then he told Zuckmaler how pained he had been to find that even he was not proof against telling fish lies. It was then that Zuckmaier explained that he had seen nothing of the fish but his nose, and of that he only got a glance. That it was Fraser who had seen the fish, and who had pronounced it a big one, and set its weight, and that he had but repeated Fraser's words in relating the story, though he had innocently told it as his own. But Fraser was back in the Muskoka wilds, where he could offer no defense, and after that we took the trouble to prove the truthfulness of Zuckmaier's fish stories. An ordinary locomotive of 300 horse power burns one ton of coal for pulling a freight train 40 miles, or a passenger train 80 miles. Honest Labor. "Look at those, these, them!" said Weary Watkins, proudly showing two dollars. "I hope you sin't been working!" exclaimed his friend and partner, Hungry Higgins. "No, not 'xackly; been posin' as a horrible example." "Temperance speteler?" "Naw. Soap fakir."—Indianapolis Press. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Honeat Labor. "A Friend in Need In." Ete. Mrs. Philanthropist—Why do you cry, little boy? Little Boy—Me mudder is sick, an' me fader is out uv work, an' we ain't had nuttin' ter eat fer tree days. Mrs. Philanthropist—Poor dear child, how my heart aches for you. Here's a tract on the evils of drink among the masses that you may take home and read—Judge. Circumstances Alter Cases. Suitor—I have come to ask you for your daughter's hand. Sutior—Oh, I intend to take her away from home if I marry her. "I'll do it," she said—but you did give me an awful start, my box—Boston Transarut. No Room for Doubt "You speak with great positiveness about the sincerity of our friend's religion." "There can be no doubt whatever of his sincerity." was the answer. "Why, sir, that man would rather go to church on Sunday than play golf."—Washington Star. Better Fun Than Dancing "Well, what little girls did you dance with?" "Oh, I didn't dance. I had three fights downstairs with Willie Richardson, and I licked him every time."—Philadelphia Inquirer. Springfield Fchool Closing. Mr. S. B Steward closed on Friday, May 10th, one of the most successful sessions ever held at Springfield, Hendrico, Co. Va. Exercises were begun with the Lord, a Prayer chanted by the school and consisted of reading contests, select and humorous readings, choruses, solos, dialogues etc. Closing Day, a song and "Playing School", a dialogue, and practically a recitation in Physiology, both composed by Mr. Steward1, were especially good. "Kissing Thro' the Bars" by Mrs. Salile Green and "Lead me Savior" by Mrs. O. B. Hall were well rendered. The Sinner and the Song" by Miss A. M. Ice Johnson with Miss R. W. Steward and Mr. T H Wyst completing the choruses were feature of the occasion. The pole plat by Hamah Robinson, Mamie Philie, Fannie Robinson Mary Record, Maggie Anderson, Pattie Jones, Iasie Robinson, and Bertha Philips would have do ie credit to any children. Ten prizis given by Mr. Steward were won as follaws Reading; 5th won as Robbison Glass; 4th dell Woodward; 3rd Glass; 2nd Glass; Charles last Glass Mrastle Rhidia Don't forget Damon and Pythias. Y. M. C. A. NOTES The interest in the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson is still alive. Last Saturday the attendance was good. You are welcome. The work in the jail and Alms House was very encouraging last Sunday, the committee reported one convert. The boys meeting last Sunday was very large in numbers. They were addressed by the General Secretary S. C Burrell. There were five converts. Mothers pray for your boys. The men came out last Sunday with one accord thus the meeting was a good one. About 120 special cases were offered for special praise. All took an active part. 5:30 p.m. You are invited to attend the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson Saturday 5 p. m. Tell your friend. Free. 11 a.m. Sunday, work in the jail and Alms House. Now for the mass meeting for men and women Sunday 8: 80 p. m. at the True Reformers' Hall. You are invited to help us to invite every man and woman that we may see to this meeting. Special address by International Seetey, Mr. J. E. Mooreland, New York, damam Morrison, Morrison Jones Wood, Mies MacArthur, Trent and Trent's Quartette accompanied by Miss Nannie B. Jones. This meeting is free for everybody. Brig your friend. Help us to crowd the hall. Woman's Union. The following death claims have been recently paid: Jno. Ross, W. Baker street, Richmond Vs. $35.00 Mat Anthony, Dun Barton, Henrico. Vs. 35.00 Gormelius Johnson, N. 6th St., Richmond. Va. University, 1886. Hannah McAllister, N. S. Paul, 8t. Richmond, Va. 85 00 ROSA K. JONES, Prec.; PATRICH K. ANDERSON, Sec'y. TO ODID BLAKEY: Takes notice that I shall on the 10th day of June, 1901, at the office of Giles B, Jackson, No. 812 E. Broad St., in the city of Richmond, Va., between the hours of 9 s. m. and 6 p. m. on that day, proceed to take the depositions of FRED GRAY and others, to be read in the evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Equity depending in the Law & Equity Court for the city of Richmond, whom year, and the defence and am, the plaintiff, and if from any case, the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day or if commenced be not concluded on that day, the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall be completed. In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 27th day of April, 1801* Ishman MANN, Plaintiff against Odine MANN, Defendant in Chancery The object of the suit is to obtain a divorce, a Vinsulo Matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Odine MANN is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she do appear here within fifteen days after the due publication hereof and do what is necessary to protect her interest here-in A copy. Teste, P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. GILKE B. JACKSON, p. q. VIRGINIA:—In the Chancery Court of the County of Henrico on the 3rd day of May, 1901 Bettie Loving vs. michael Loving { In Chancery The object of this suit is to obtain for the plaintiff against the defendant, a divorce, a vinculo matrimoni and a filiit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non resident of the state of Virginia, it is ordered that he do appear her within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interest herein. G. W. LEWIS, Attorney. J. E. BROADDUS, Clerk. To RICHARD LOVING: Take notice: That I will proceed to take the depositions of J. S. Booker and other witnesses at the office of G. W. Lewis, No 311 N. 5 h st. Richmond Va., on the 19 h day of June, 1901, at 10 o'clock a.m. to be read evidence in my behalf in the above styled cause, and that the taking of said depositions will be continued from day to day at the same time and place until completed. By Counsel WANTED AT ONGE-An exper- tered colored shoesmaker Apply to L N. BAROFF, Cor. 28 h and P sts. Damon and Pythias benoft Old Folks' Home. WOMANS' UNION. (INCORPORATED, JULY, 1898.) HOME OFFICE: ST. LUKE'S HALL, 900 ST. JAMES RICHMOND, VA. We pay sick Benefits Promptly. Death Benefits in 24 hours after sat. isfactory proof has been filed in the Office. OFFICERS & BOARD: PRES., - - - ROSA K. JONES, VICE-PRES., - - MAGGIE L. WALKER TREAS., - - FANNIE C. THOMPSON SCY' & MAN'GR, PATSIE K. ANDERSON, LIZZIE M. DAMMALLS, M. LOU HARRIS, VICTORIA MOON, LILIAN H. PAYNE, JULIA H, HAYES, ROSA E. WATTS ON, DELIA LEWIS. J. T. TEMPLE. Gives away a Bicycle every month. 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