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THE RICHMOND PLANET STORMIEST OF ALL THE MEETINGS. TURBULENT SCENES AT FIRST CHURCH. A Vested Right Declared to be a Public Offense WANTED THE EDITOR EXCLUDED FOR DOING BUSINESS—DEACON HARRIS' PLEA.—DEACONS WILDER'S WARNING. Outrageous Ruling.—Brute Force.—Triumphant by Eight Votes.—Wholesale Disgust. A Split Threatened. VOL. XVIII NO. 34 STORMIE TURBULE FIRST A Vested Right D WANTED THE EDITOR HARRIS' PLEA. Outrageous Ruling.—Brute Fore The regular meeting of the First Baptist Church Monday night, 5th instant, was the stormiest as yet held and at times could be heard a block away on the outside. Several times the members were admonished that the officers of the law might presume that a free fight was imminent and thereby be induced to enter. CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. The main trouble was caused by the revolutionary action of the chairman, who is a licentiate without a charge and is known as Rev. Thomas H. Briggs. He was supported by an organized ring, led by Brother Nelson Williams, Jr., who forged the names to the application for a meeting. Rev. Briggs rendered decisions absolutely absurd and ridiculous. He interrupted speakers, recognized those who sided with him ruled at one time that he would entertain no motion and then when his partisans offered a motion, he proceeded to recognize and put the same. OUTRAGEOUS RULING. He declined to recognize a motion by Brother Wilkerson to table the charge, although it was made and duly seconded and the brother who made it had been recognized and had the floor. He refused to recognize a motion by Deacon John S. Powell to dismiss the case, although the motion was seconded and Brother Powell had the floor. He declined to recognize a motion of Deacon Harrison Smith to adjourn although it was duly seconded. He, on the other hand recognized and put the motion made by his partisans, although other brethren had the floor. UNPRECEDENTED ACTION. The motion that Brother Mitchell be required to ask the church parson was made and carried, while brother Mitchell was on the floor in his own defense. Because he refused to recognize such a motion, and declined to do otherwise than proceed-with his defense he recognized the motion of Brother Nelson Williams, Jr., who forged the names to the application for a meeting to exclude Brother John Mitchell. Jr. may avoid the names of those declaring that he not ready, put the call for the question; declared it carried and then proceeded to put the motion to exclude declaring that it had been carried by a vote of 56 to 64. THE MEETING COMMENCES It was well-nigh 8:30 p. m. when Deacon J. C. Farley moved that Deacon James Wilder take the chair. Brother William Henry Davis moved that Brother Thomas H. Briggs take the chair. Other True Reformers backed it up and the result was that Brother Briggs was elected, the vote standing 28 to 48. The routine business of the church was transacted. It was decided to send one delegate to the Shiloh Baptist Association. Deacon J. C. Farley nominated Deacon James Wilder. A True Reformer nominated Brother Thos. H. Briggs and another named Brother Robert Watkins who was guard at the penitentiary during the Readjuster rule. The vote was taken with the following result: Wilder, 123; Briggs, 3; Watkins, 3. DEACON WILDER WINS OUT. Brother Wilder was declared elected and $5 was appropriated together with $2 for expenses. Much time was afterwards expended in discussing whether or not Brother A. J. Smith, Jr., of the PLANET should be permitted to remain. He finally retire, but was afterwards seen several times at the open window and caused consternation among the opposing forces. Clerk Vandervall read a letter from Rev. Johnson which had been in his possession for nearly a month, stating that he had accepted the call and would be ready to take active charge September 1st, 1901. PECULIAR HASTE. At the church at its last meeting, on Bs July 1st a letter was read from Rev. W. and T. Johnson which contained the following: "I will have to give my people here three months notice should I come. So you see how important it is for me to hear from you." At the meeting July 1st, it was illegally decided that he be notified that his salary would be $1000 and that he would be expected October 1st, 1901. Instead of this he gave his church less than two months notice of his intentions, for if the church meeting was held July 1st and he was notified the next day, he could not have notified his church until that time. From July 1st to September 1st, '01 is but two months instead of three months. LROTHER MITCHELL'S CASE Then the case of Brother John Mitchell, Jr. was called. Brother William Henry Davis, who had previously made a most disgraced exhibition of himself moved as a substitute to the ten minutes resolution that each member be limited to five minutes. There was a protracted discussion of this. Brother H. F. Jonathan opposed this, declaring it to be an outrageous limitation of free speech. The case could not be properly discussed in time, namely the explanation was made that this rule did not apply to Brother John Mitchell, Jr. The five minute rule was adopted. WANTED TO LIMIT THE DEFENSE Then a motion was made by Bro. R. J. Bass that Bro. Mitchell be allowed half an hour in which to conduct his defense. It was then 11 o'clock. This was bitterly opposed by Brother H. F. Jonathan, Deacon J. C. Farley and Deacon Harrison Smith. Deacon Farley declared it to be a most outrageous proceeding to talk of limiting Brother Mitchell. It was contrary to every principle of right and justice. The courts of the land granted to the humblest greater latitude than that how much more necessary was it for the church to do even more courts. Finally the petition was defeated no limit being set and Deacon Wilder was sent to request Bro. Mitchell to come forward. He did so, bringing under his arm the Code of Va., the Baptist Church Directory, Hiscock's New Directory for Baptist Churches and the Holy Bible He politely expressed regret that he should have been the cause of any trouble and if what he had heard was true, he did not see why he had been called for at all. The church might as well go ahead and do what it had decided to do. He was unwilling to proceed unless the priest and assume him that he would not be interrupted. A POINT ON THE CHAIR. At this point Moderator Tom H. Briggs stated that the church desired to know whether or not he was guilty. This led to a discussion in which Brother William Henry Davis, H. F. Jonathan and J. C. Farley engaged. Brother Mitchell stated that he was ready to retire, that the chair had not stated the matter properly. the meantime, Brother H. F. Jonathan arose as counsel for Brother Mitchell, but Brother Briggs would not recognize him as such. THE LAW CITED. However, Brother Jonathan had succeeded in reading the following from the church polity, page 188: "Note 4—Anyone tried by a church should be allowed every opportunity, both as to time, place and circumstance to vindicate himself. The very justice of Christ's house should incline to mercy. It should be made manifest that the object is not to punish, but to reclaim. Note 5.—"Every person so tried has a right to demand and receive copies for all charges against him, the names of the accusers and witnesses, both of whom he should take the privilege of manhood to face, bearing their statements, bringing witnesses in his side, and answering for himself before the Church itself, as the ultimate and authoritative tribunal." Under these sections of the church law, Brother Jonathan claimed that Brother Mitchell had a right to know and face his accusers. Moderator Tom RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST. 10, 1901 Briggs ruled that Brother Mitchell could not argue his case. He must say whether he was guilty and produce witnesses and then take his seat. Brother Mitchell produced the following notice to prove that he had a right to question and argue his case, showing why the question of fellowship should not be withdrawn: NOTICE TO APPEAR You are hereby summoned to our next church-meeting, the first Monday night in August, 1901, to show cause why the hand of fellowship should not be withdrawn from you, upon the following charges: Bronwyn Mitchell, Jr. is hereby charged with publishing the private letter of Rev. Johnson to the author of the business of the church in disclosure of the church polity and the authority of the Baptist Church, same appearing in the PLANET of July 6th, 1901. NELSON WILLIAMS. JR." Done by order of the church July 15, 1901 Rev. T. H. BRIGGS, Chairman; B. P. VANDERVALL, Church Clerk. APPEAL FOR ORDER. Brother Mitchell thereupon appealed to the chair not to interrupt him. He called for his accusers. Brother Nelson Williams, Jr., who forged the names to the application for the meeting and who had published the proceedings of the same church meeting in his paper of July 1st, 1901, stated that he was not the accuser, the church was the accuser. Brother Mitchell had been adjudged guilty at the last meeting. This created excitement. Brother H. F. Bathurst demanded to know whether Brother Williams, who forged the names to the application for the meeting, had taken the first steps as set forth in the 18th chapter of Mathew and the church polity (Hiscock's New Directory for Baptist Churches) DIDN'T WANT LAW READ. He sent the book up to the clerk and asked him to read Page 185, Section 1 and 2. Moderator Thomas H. Briggs declined to permit the clerk to read this Brother Nelson Williams, Jr., who forged the names to the application for a meeting would not answer. He was also asked as to what evidence he had that Brother Mitchell had written the article. He had none except that it was in the PLANET. Brother Mitchell should state whether he did it or not. He would not answer questions so the chair called for the other accusers. No one responded. Brother Jonathan,] 'Brother chairman, here is Brother William Henry Davis, who said he was going to exclude Brother Mitchell to-night. Let him tell all he knows. KNEW NOTHING Brother Davis stated he knew nothing but that Brother Mitchell had published the church proceedings in the PLANET. He was asked to produce the paper, but he did not have a copy, neither did Brother Nelson Williams, Jr., who forged the names to the application. THE PLANET READ. Finally, a brother in the back part of church brought forward a copy of the PLANET and it was decided to read a report of the proceedings. It was read, taking much time, it being after 12 o'clock when the clerk completed the task. BROTHER CARTER MAKES A DISCOVERY. Bro. Henry G.Carter, who wore a pair of big leg white breeches and a shad-belly coat called attention to the fact that a reporter was at the window. Brother Russell was detailed by the Moderator to go out and order the reporter from premises. Chairman Briggs]. Brother Mitchell will now come forward and say whether he published that article. Brother Mitchell stated that it was the first time that he had ever known that it was the business of the accused to prove his innocence. MUST PROVE GUILT. It was required of his accusers to prove his guilt. He wanted to know whether he was called to the church as John Mitchell, Jr., the member, or as John Mitchell, Jr., the publisher. The chair responded that he was called there as a member. "Then," responded Brother Mitchell, "I enter a general denial to the charge." BROTHER MITCHELL AND THE FIRST STEP. He arose and stated that he would read the law called for by Brother H. F. Jonathan and which the Moderator Tom Briggs would not permit the clerk to read. It could be found on page 185, section 1st and 2d and was as follows: THE FIRST STEP. 1. "The first member who has in wedge of the offense should, the same as in private cases, seek the offender and, if possible, remove the difficulty." True, he is under no special obligation to do this simply because he chanced to be the first to learn the facts. But if he can win a brother from his evil way, and remove a reproach from the Church, such would be a work of faith and a labor of love, with which any Christian might feel greatly satis- THE REASONS GIVEN. This personal labor should be undertaken because each member of the body suffers in any wrong inflicted on the body, and because such personal efforts are often the most effectual should there be many individual efforts, by many members at the same time, aiming at the same end; so much the more effectual would it be. But if no one can or will pursue this course of personal private labor, or if such a course should prove successful then should the one who has knowledge to consult the pastor and deconsecrs or if a person should themselves beidential committee for such purposes, refer it to them, and leave it to their judge ment as to what further course should be taken. THE LAST RESORT. If they will not notice the barrier this brother could bring it up at the next business Church meeting. But even then it would be well not to give names and facts, but say a case deserved attention, and ask that a committee be appointed to which facts would be referred. All such cases should be kept out of the church and managed privately so long as there seems hope of an effectual settlement by that means." Brother Mitchell stated that this course had not been pursued. No one had visited him. He had only received the written communication referred to. DEACON POWELL'S PLEA. Deacon John S. Powell, one of the most conservative members in the church arose and asked Brother Mitchell to yield for a motion. He consented to do this. He then announced that it was plain to him that the church had erred. The whole proceedings was out of order. He moved to dismiss the case. It was seconded. Moderator Tom H. Briggs refused to put the motion, declaring it out of order. He would not hear any motion. Then pandemonium reigned Brother H. F. Jonathan denounced the action of the chair while Deacon J. C. Farley was equally emphatic. Brother W. S. Solden declared the chair to be bissed and its actions a disgrace to the church. BROTHER BRIGGS ANGRY This angered Moderator Thomas H. Briggs, who looking over his spectacles declared he would call on the church to discipline Brother Selden. Brother William Henry Davis, whose conduct disgraced the meeting moved that Brother Selden be silenced. This was declared carried although the chair had but a moment before announced to Deacon J. S. Powell that he would recognize no motion. On the meantime Brother John Mitch, el. Dr., created for order. He offered to retire. Up to this time he had not spoken five minutes. TRYING TO DISCUSS THE QUESTION. Othe remembers attempted to get the floor, including Bro. Edmund Warner. Sister Young in a lond voice declared the meeting to be shameful. She insisted that Brother Mitchell be allowed to proceed. Bro. William Henry Davis,] "Brother Moderator, I move that she be silenced." He wanted to silence Brother Harrison Smith and Brother Jonathan. The latter replied that he was already silenced when his rights were taken from him. Brother W. H. Anderson protested against actions of the church. At this point the meeting was a veritable mob. Then quiet was in a measure obtained and Brother Mitchell read from Church polity, page 168, section 2. UPON WHAT IT DEPENDS The justification and the effectiveness of discipline depend not a little on the spirit with which it is exercised. It must not be exercised in a spirit of arrogance, nor of distention, nor of assured superiority, much less of vindictiveness, but of fraternal solicitude of the body. In love, impression be given the offender that there is a disposition to condemn and punish, the whole purpose is frustrated. THE MODERATOR CORNERED. He asked Moderator Tom H. Briggs whether the letter of Rev. W. T. Johnson was an official document to the church. He replied that it was official. He remarked Brother Mitchell, it was private one. We invited private one. Even had it been private, we received on motion by the church it became a public document and as a part of the church as much my property as any other member's property. Brother Mitchell read from Church polity Page 178. Note 7. If a member attempts to bring before the church, or rather way make public, any matter of prison or offense, before he has fully pursued the course, according to the Gospel rule, he makes himself an offender thereby—subject to labor and d'cipline. DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR ANY LAW Brother Mitchell was here interrupted by the moderator. Tom H. Briggs, who said— Brother Mitchell, this church doesn't want to hear any more of that church polity. That aint the part they want to hear. You read this. I rule that you can't read any more of it here. Then followed the greatest confusion. Deacon Harrison Smith declared the course of the chair to be scandalous. WAITED FOR ORDER Brother Mitchell waited for order, Brother Robert Watkins, who was guard at the penitentiary during the Adjuster rule was recognized, over all of the others and in a sing-song voice said: "Brother Mitchell had published the proceedings of this church in his paper from Maine to Mexico and I move that he be made to come forward and ask pardon of this church." Brother John Mitchell, Jr., called the attention of Brother Tom H. Briggs that by a vote of the church he had the floor in his own defense, he had not been able to take up his case, in fact, had not spoken fifteen minutes, all told, being interrupted either by the chair or the brethren on the floor. RESTED IT ON THE BIBLE He rested his case on the Holy Bible. Every parliamentarian knew, according to Hisock's guide, a motion could not be made while he held the floor. Brother Mitchell never lost his temper, but was quiet and respectful throughout. Sister Mildred A. Cross, who had been an interested spectator, denounced the proceedings as the most disgraceful she had ever seen. "It was," she declared, "worse than a ministrel show. Brother Mitchell had not been treated properly and all knew it." BROTHER CROSS ANGRY. She was int rrupted by Brother William Henry Davis, who moved that she be silenced. He acted in a measure like a madman, until Brother David R. Cross, her husband moved in that direction with an evident intention of protecting his wife. Then she was permitted to proceed. Her ringing utterances produced a profound sensation. The chair refused to recognized a motion to adjourn and put the question declaring it carried. WANTED HIM TO ASK PARDON. Moderator Briggs,] "Nothing is in order but for Brother Mitchell to come forward and ask pardon." Brother Briggs waited, finally looking in the direction of Brother Mitchell urged him to come forward. Brother H. F. Jonathan hastened to the side of Brother Mitchell. Then Brother Mitchell stated that he would come forward if the chair desired. Then would come forward if the chair desired. There was silence at once and Brother Mitchell announced that he came forward to continue his defense. He had not committed any crime and was not guilty of any public offense. The church had voted to hear him and had not done so. He did not recognize the motion to ask pardon. It was out of order. A CALL TO EXCLUDE. Brother Briggs,] Brethren, he will not ask pardon and the church must exercise its authority. Brother Nelson Williams, Jr., who forged the names to the application for the meeting said, "I move that the right hand of fellowship be withdrawn from Brother Mitchell." It was seconded. "The question was put. Then followed a scene long to be remembered, Deacon J. C. Farley, Brother H. F. Jonathan, Deacon Harrison Smith, Deacon R. J. Bass, Brother Edmund Warner Deacon Jas. Wilder arose and in impassioned language warned the church against such a step. NEVER SAW SUCH A PROTEST The oldest member had never seen such an emphatic protest. Finally Deacon James Wilder was recognized and with a voice choked with emotion he declared that the church would not in five years recover from such abuse. This young man has not committed murder. He is guilty of no heinous crime and to exclude him would be wrong. A REMARKABLE SCENE Then came cries of sit down. Vote! Question! Question! And still Deacon Wilder pleaded. He had been on the other side, but he claimed that such a step would injure the church. "Oh yes," he said sadly, "like the Jews, you cry, 'Crucify him.'" Then followed Deacon Benjamin Harris, one of the oldest Deacons in the church. "Don't do that, brethren! Stop and consider, the church is in error. You have not heard Brother Mitchell. I warn you against such action. In vain he pleaded. Brother Richard Carter pleaded with uplifted hands. Then followed Brother W. H. Anderson, who declared that Brother Mitchell had committed 'no crime against the church. TRIED IN VAIN Others tried to speak. It was useless. The clamor was deafening. Above the din, the chair declared the call for the previous question ordered and announces the vote 56 to 64 in favor of the exclusion of Brother John Mitchell, Jr. There was wide spread condemnation of the proceedings. Sister Mildred Cross was outspoken as were others who hastened to sadly grasp Brother Mitchell by the hand. He however was least concerned of all and came out with the books of law with which he had hoped to enlighten the memb r of the congregation. S e d u l one of the most remarkable and disgraceful meetings ever held in the First Baptist Church. --- Brother, William Henry Davis stated to Brother H. F. Jona h n that there was some more work to do, as they intended to get rid of the Deacon Board. Rev. W. T. Johnson was the guest of True Reformer R. T. Hill, last Thursday. Mrs. H. L. Johnson left this week for Baltimore. Mrs. A. R. Carr is now at Bayoune, N. J. Miss Florence Coleman after an illness of several weeks is convalescent. Carrier Thomas Byrd enjoyed his birthday Monday, August 5th, having been born in 1847; in Stafford Co., Va. He is now 64 years of age and as sprightly as a three year old. Miss Lucy J. Morton of Washington, D. C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Holland Powell, No. 1513 Taylor Street. She will be glad to see her many friends. Mrs. Geo. W. Richardson left the city Aug. 7th to visit mother and sister in Tennessee. She will be gone several months. We hope her a pleasant stay. Mrs. John T. Allen and daughter, Peachye, of 521 N. 12th street, have left the city to spend the rest of the summer with friends and relatives in Baltimore and Washington. Miss Ella L. Scott is now in the Catskill Mountains, N. Y. recuperating. Mrs. Abbye Webley left the city Thursday, Aug. 8th, for Plainfield, N. J., to spend some time visiting her children. Don't forget the Old Boys Sunday night, Aug. 11th to Washington. Grand Chief J. W. Thompson left for Atlantic, N. J. Wednesday for 15 days vacation. Mr. J. M. Busner of Alexandraia who has been recuperating at Farmville, Va., was in the city last week en-route home. His daughter, Miss Amanda is now the guest of Miss Mary H. Johnson, 516 N. Harrison St., where she will be pleased to see her friends. The price to Bothwell Park is only 50 cents; children, 25 cents, Tuesday, Aug. 20th, to the t. Olivet Baptist Church S. S. pic-nic. All preachers, teachers, collectors, clerks, coachmen, teamsters, washwomen, housemaids, cooks, shoemakers, carpenters, barbers, painters, printers, musicians, dressmakers, blacksmiths, general laborers, and in fact every class of laborers are cordially invited to attend as it will benefit you. Monday night, Aug. 19th, 1901; League Hall, 412 N. 3rd St. JAMES-CARTER The marriage of Mrs. Sarah Nicholas Carter to Mr. Wm. H. James will take place on August 20th 8 p. m. at the home of her mother, Mrs. Nicholas, No. 1212 Christian St. Phila. Reception at No. 703 Gilmer St., Richmond, No. 37 from 8 p. m. to 11 p. m. Friends and acquaintances are invited. No cards. --- SMITH—Sister Martha Scott Smith, of Powhatan Co., died on July 26th, 1901, at the age of 60 years, two months and twenty-six day. She was a faithful member of Hollywood Church for 23 years. She leaves a husband, two daughters and four sons, the latter residing in Pittsburg. She died in the full triumph of faith. She was a loving mother and a faithful wife. Jesus loved her and we love her still. A vacant place is in our home, which never can be filled. HER CHILDREN. BROOKS—Died July 23, 1901 at his residence, N. 3rd St., Squire Brooks, husband of Mrs. Jane Brooks, in the 85th year of his age. He was a patient sufferer and the faith. He told his wife she had done all she could for him and that he would leave him. He leaves a wife, one son, and a sister to mourn their loss. He was born in 1816. He was the brother of Christopher Grant and nephew of Collin T. Payne of this city. Explaining the objects and aims of organizing every class of labor in order to benefit the employer and employee. Every class of labor, trade and profession are cordially invited to attend. If we are to hold the work by which we have lived for years, we must organize every class of labor and try to excel. $150. Endowment Paid. NEWPORT NEWS, VA., July 19, 191. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150) in payment of the death claim of Sir Anthony Black, who was a member of Damon Lodge, No. 12, K. of P., N. A., S. A. E., A., A. and A. Signed: MILLIE BLACK. Witnesses: J. E. Byrd, W. T. Bell, J. J. Booker, D. D. G. C. REV. DR.GRAHAM'S CALL TO DUTY RICHMOND, VA., AUG. 5, 1901. To the Baptists of Virginia. Dear Brethren;— The call from the officers of the Baptist S. S. Convention of Virginia, which meets in Lynchburg Aug. 21st, must be heard, must be answered with strong delegations. This Convention means as much to the young Negroes of this state as does the Constitutional Convention. The old S. S. Convention which meets this year at Charlottesville is bitterly opposed to all denominational enterprises, fostered by the great Negro Baptist Family of this country. They have openly condemned our great National Baptist Convention, our Publishing House at Nashville, Tenn., the Va. Baptist State Convention and the Theological Seminary and College fact they have condemned every thing they look like Negro Baptists Proprietorships Management. W who are going up to Lynchburg have pledged ourselves to the causeof our denomination and race. Therefore, Brethren, let us go up to Lynchburg with a strong determination to do battle for the right. Yours for the cause, W. F. GRAHAM aug 10 97 A Pleasant Surprise. Mrs. Mildred Johnson of 1000s St. Peter St., was very much surprised last Tuesday night, July 30th, about eleven o'clock, when, in answer to a ring of the bell, she found herself being pressed and surrounded on all sides by a number of dear friends and familiar faces. It was indeed a surprise and an occasion of much merriment. Mrs. Johnson was presented by the members of Mildred Court, No. 242 with a handsome rocker, with head and feet stets. The presentation speech was masterly and entertainingly made by Sir Knight S. P. Robinson, of Royal Lodge, after which refreshments were served. Mrs. Johnson expressed thanks to her young Court for their appreciation in her mild and sincere way, being very much affected by the honor shown her. All expressed themselves as having spent a very pleasant and enjoyable time in being well into the early hour of morning when the last of the guests departed. Woman's Central League Training School and Hospital. Classes in Cooking, Dressmaking, the (Taylor and White System), Domestic Service, Trained Nursing and Care and Feeding of Children, etc. School opens Sept 16th, 1901. Class lists are now open at the Building, 412 and 414 N. 3rd St. Richmond, Va. Hospital open all the year. BETTIE BROOKS, Pres.; LENA V. JACKSON, Sec'y; Dr. R. E. JONES, Gen. Director & Fin. Agt. Address all communications to Dr. Jones, 412 N. 3rd St. 1—mo WANTED—50 men to learn Cooking, and 20 men to learn Trained Nursing. A great demand for both. Y. M. C. A. Notes. Chairman Stephen Braxton conducted two meetings in the city jail last Sunday. Committee conducted two meetings in the almshouse and visited 25 sick persons. The boys meeting was very interesting last Sunday. All took part. Brother F. W. Quarles addressed the men last Sunday. Subject: "The Drag Net." Everybody was pleased. Our brother has been asked to repeat. General Secretary S. C. Burrell was invited to Suffolk last Sunday to preach for Rev. M. B. Hucless. He was pleased to find Revs. Hucless, J. J. Woodson, Rev. Gaines and Rev. Thomas doing so well in the cause of Christ. Revs. Hucless and Woodson are young men who deserve much credit. They still have the spirit of the Y. M. C. A. work. Young men, do not compromise with the world and you will succeed. You have our prayers. Meetings in the jail and almshouse Sunday 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. Boys' meeting Sunday at 4 p. m. Brother A. D. Deilly will address men at 5:30 p. m. All men are invi Do not forget to tell your friend a the Y. M. C. A. night school. Always reliable, first-class seer the Old Boys excursion to Was- Aug. 11th. Go with them! NOT LIKE OTHER MEN By Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, Author of "The Brotherhood of Silence," "The Quality of a Sin," Etc. Copyright, 1901, by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey. RAIG THOMPSON did wish to go. The fact was unprecedented in the experience that others had known of him, but it was true, and when at the close of the second day they arrived at the ranch Lisle remembered with surprise that he had never known his father to be so companionable with a stranger before, but in this case he had appeared to find much that was congenial in their tastes. It is possible that his own intense love for Lisle permitted him more readily to appreciate the good qualities of another who also loved him. It may be that he intuitively foresaw the time when Lisle would need a friend and that be discovered in Thompson the man whom he would select for that position. Thompson's ranch adjoined Maxwell's, although 30 miles separated the buildings which the respective owners called home. In that land of magnificent distances such an interval of space was trivial, but Richard Maxwell had always isolated himself from his neighbors in a way that utterly repulsed friendly advances, so that he was known more as a ranch owner than as a man, but now he volunteered every outward demonstration that he desired to create more friendly relations with his nearest neighbor. During the journey to the ranch Lisle's father permitted it to be understood that he preferred that no reference should be made to the lasso duel. He seemed to have blotted it out of his memory as utterly as though it had not occurred. At home the old life was taken up where it had been left off, and with the exception of the presence of a guest—and within the memory of Lise an invited guest had never been a part of the household—it was the same as it had always been. Studies were resumed at the point where they had been abandoned, occupations recommenced where they had broken off, and everything resumed its accustomed routine, for the master of Crescent and Cross never permitted anything to interfere with the rules of his daily life. But the week of Thompson's stay came to an end, and Lisle was surprised when he remembered that during the entire time he had rarely been alone with their guest—never, in fact, except at such times as they passed upon the broad veranda, where the old frontiersman loved to sit and smoke and chat with the "kid," interspersing his stories and anecdotes with wholesome advice that was always given in his inimitable blunt and forcible manner. Lisle was often astonished by the deep learning of the strange man, whose customary disregard of correct English was at once a mixture of assumption and carelessness. The youth's intuition revealed to him behind and beneath the rough exterior of his new friend there existed a fund of tenderness and sympathy most profound. He was like a lump of rich quartz—the intrinsic value was all there incased within the roughest and hardest of substances. On the other hand Craig also met with surprises which puzzled him greatly, although he made no comment unless to Lisle in person. One of them came during an evening when Richard Maxwell was not present. Craig was smoking his pipe on the veranda, lolling back in one of the comfortable chairs, when he heard the piano. "That's right, boy," he called out. "I'm in just the mood for some music. Couldn't you sing something for a change?" There was no reply in words, but the melody changed, and presently a super voice in tender contralto, flonded out to him. With increasing power it swelled into the pathetic air of Asher's "Alice" until the clear high notes swept out across the starlit plain so sweetly, so purely, so longingly that Craig forgot his pipe, forgot Lisle, forgot where he was, forgot everything except a memory that the song conjured up. His head sank lower and lower upon his breast, tears stood in his eyes and splashed unheeded upon his tightly clasped hands, and when the melody ceased he did not move. Lisle left the piano and went out to him, but Craig Thompson was not aware of his approach until he felt a touch upon his shoulder. Then he started up with a cry as one who has been rudely awakened from a dream. "Come here, boy," he said in a tone that shook with emotion. "I want to look at you. Who taught you that song? Who gave you that voice? What strange mixture are you?" "Craig," said Lise in surprise, not heeding the questions, "what is the matter? Are those tears in your eyes—tears because I sang to you?" "Yes, they're tears. Do you think that I am ashamed of them? Men shed tears only when they are necessary to keep the heart from bursting. Mine burst long ago, but somehow I got it together again, and maybe the cement I used wears a little with time. Anyhow, that song of yours opened a seam or two in the old wound. That song things back memories, and memories are pliz things to have around if they don't just the sort that a feller wants. Who taught you that song?" Nobody. I learned it myself. I lie with some music that father ord years ago. He does not like it. He sing it to him. I have not sung more in a long time. I do not know thought of it tonight." It was just my heart speaking Lisle. Will you be offended, tell you that you have got a woman's- just like the voice of a woman whom I used to know, the sweetest and best woman who ever lived? She was my sister, Lisle, and she used to sing that song to me. I liked it because her name was Alice, like the song. It's a good many years since I saw her, Lisle, and I don't know whether she is alive or dead. Don't you see, kid, why my calons old heart filled up with tears so that it would have burst if I hadn't shed a few? "I am sorry, Craig, very sorry, that I selected that song." "Don't you be sorry; be glad. It saved me from one of my fits, for one of 'em has been coming on ever since I have been here." "Shall I sing something else for you?" "No; don't sing; don't play. I don't want to get the taste of that one out of my mouth. Sit here and talk with me. We won't have another evening together for a long time—maybe never." "Why do you say that?" "I'm going to light out in the morning before that fit comes on. You think I am older than your father, don't you?" "I should say that you are, by several years." "Well, I reckon I am in some ways. It comes of having fits, I suppose, but Dick Maxwell is five years older than I am. He's 48 or thereabout, according to his say. I look about 58, but I'm only 43. Do you know what I am getting at?" "This: I'm preaching, lad. Every one of those years that rest on my head without having come into my life was put there by a piece of scoundrelism that I committed when I was just the age that you are now, and I hadn't any more excuse for getting into it than you have now either. I don't say that you'll ever get into a place where you may be likely to do anything that ain't right, but if you do there will be time to think—there always is, for thinking is mighty quick work—and if that time ever does come you remember what I have said just now and stop long enough to hum that song over to yourself before you cut loose from the outfit and go it alone. Life ain't going to be all roses for you, Lisle Maxwell, and don't you forget it! Your father hasn't brought you up right, to my way of thinking. You needn't get huffy. I ain't criticising him. I'm analyzing you. You don't know any more about the world outside of this ranch than a hog knows about skating, and that ain't much to speak of. I've been watching you while I've been here, and there are a whole lot of things that you have got to learn between now and the time when you will have to go it alone, and nobody ever knows when that time is coming. It's just like a blamed Injun and draws a bead on your vitals from behind a bush or a rock when you can't looking, and it's a dead shot every time. You can't throw a loop over circumstance and drag it along a willing captive, like we did that steer. It's got a way of slipping out and roping you instead, and you've got to post yourself about things so that you will be ready to keep one hand out in just about the same way that you poked yours through the loop of Jim Cummings' riata over in the Smoky. I don't wonder that some of the boys have said that you look like a woman. You do, and you do not. You do because you have got a tender heart, like a woman's, and it sticks out through your masculine garb just as plain as daylight when you ain't thinking. Dick Maxwell has trained you right enough as far as he has gone, for all I know, but he's a good ways from going far enough. I want you to make me a promise, Lisle." "What sort of a promise, Craig?" What sort of a promise, Craig? "You'll be 21 some day, and when the day comes that sees you that old I want you to promise that you will ride over to my ranch and see me. Will you? "Certainly. I will ride over a great many times in the meanwhile, too, if you care to have me." "That's all right. Of course I care to have you, but I want you to remember that promise anyhow." "I'll remember it." "And now, while we've got a chance to talk, I want to say one thing more to you about women. This idea that you've got that they are abominations on the face of the earth is all wrong, if your dad did teach it to you, and some day I'll prove it to you. I've been looking through your library, and there ain't a book there that will tell you a blamed thing about them—not cue. To my way of thinking you ought to have a few, even if you read 'em against the wishes of the old man. They won't hurt you any, and in my opinion they will do you a lot of good. Do you know where that old corral is, down in the southwest corner of my ranch? "Yes." "Well, next Sunday you ride over there. It ain't much more than a dozen miles. I'll leave some books there for you to read. Maybe I'll meet you there if you come about sundown. They will be books that will teach you something that you ought to know, and don't, and—here comes Dick. Lord! I never delivered such a long lecture before in my life. It all comes of your singing that song." When on the following morning Lisle would have accompanied his father and Craig—for the latter was going to his own home, and the former, having an errand in that direction, rode out with him—he discovered that he was not wanted. Later, when the two men were on the point of parting, Craig Thompson swallowed his reluctance to peak upon the thoughts that were uppermost in his mind and said: THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA BE To the COLOR KING OF Maxwell's eyes were fixed upon the summit of the ridge as Thompson appeared. "Maybe you won't like what I say, Maxwell, but I'm going to say it whether you do or not. You ain't doing right by that kid. He's too much like a woman in some things, and he's too blanked ignorant about a lot of other things that every man and every woman on the top of God's green earth ought to know. While you're riding home just turn over in your mind what would become of your boy if you should be killed before you get there. Good day." "Good day," responded Maxwell, and be sat there in his saddle for an hour, with his eyes fixed upon the summit of the ridge over which Craig Thompson had disappeared. CHAPTER VI "I AM NOT LIKE OTHER MEN. WHY AM I NOT?" ISLE rode to the old corral at the time that Craig had fixed. He found the books, but not his friend, and after waiting until hope of his arrival was past he turned his horse's head homeward, and after that he spent much of his time while in the house perusing his new treasures. They were simply good, wholesome stories and biographies which dealt with the noblest types of women, and to the youth they opened up a new and unexplored field which possessed a strange and unaccountable fascination for him. Craig Thompson had selected them with great care, and had he known the character of the mission work they were to perform he could not have exercised better judgment. They contained nothing that was calculated to shock the awakening faculties of Lisle Maxwell's emotional nature, but to his immature perceptions they were filled with unthinkable revelations as beautiful and profound as they were mysterious. They did what nothing else had ever done—they set him thinking—and he began to dream and wonder and surmise upon subjects and theories which never before had been permitted access to his mind. Richard Maxwell could guard against outward and visible assaults upon the fortress that he had built up around his son, but he could not contend with this subtle foe to his theories, and the battle went on under his eyes without once revealing its existence. There was one conversation between them which rather startled the father, and possibly it had something to do with a serious incident which immediately followed it. It is true, however, that he believed that the invisible fortress that he had erected about his son was too nearly impregnable for successful assault. "Father," said Lisle on that occasion, "I will be 19 in June." "Yes, Lisle," was the reply. "You are almost a man grown—and still a child." Richard Maxwell sighed deeply, and his mind leaped backward over the flight of years. "And still a child," echoed Lisle. "Will you tell me why I am still a child?" "I mean, my son, that you are still a child to your father. You will always be that. Sons who are loved for ever remain as children to their parents. It is one of the elements in the economy of creation." Lise was silent for several moments; then, raising his head, he said slowly: "I have in mind several things that are puzzling me. I wish that you would discuss them with me now." "Tell me what they are. You know that I am always anxious to reason upon perplexities with you." "I think of three, sir, each one suggested by the replies that you have already made. I will approach them one by one." "Very well. The first, then?" "I am still a child; not in the sense to which you refer—that is, not solely in that respect—but in every way. Why have I not matured more nearly to manhood? While I was with you in the Smoky valley I saw several young men who were younger than I am. There was something about them that is different from anything I have ever known or experienced. It was intangible, if you please, but it was nevertheless real, because I could not discover that it existed between them individually, only between them, or any one of them, and me. They were rougher, brawnier, heavier in voice, in manner, in figure, than I am. Their features were coarser—everything about them was different. Hair grows upon their faces, as it does on yours. Will you explain this difference to me? "Your training has been different from thelrs. Lisle." "Pardon me, sir, but I cannot understand why that should make all the difference. There were subtle differences which I have not words to explain because I do not know how to define them, but I could feel them. One day, while we were sorting our cattle, two of them sat upon their horses close beside you. I studied them, and I studied you. Afterward I rode up and took a place beside you myself, and then I studied over them again. The same difference did not manifest itself between them and you as it did between them and me or between you and me. Do I make myself understood? I mean that in some ways those strangers were more like you than I, who am your son, am like you. The same subtle something which distinguishes those young men from me does not separate them from you, and the same inexplicable difference that exists between them and me I could discover also between you and ```markdown ``` BE NOT DECEIVED To the COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS, "OZONO." BEFORE. 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"Yes, you are in the sense to which I refer—in that subtle sense which I cannot define. It is in the air you breathe, in the way you breathe it, in the unspoken understanding between you and other men, or, since you have mentioned a name, between you and Craig Thompson—an understanding in which I have no part or place. "These subtleties, Lisle, are freaks of the imagination which result from your habits of study. Your life has been different from the lives of any other young man I ever knew. It is my love for you that has made it so. I have kept you near me and away from the world which I have repudiated. I have taught you differently, trained you differently, led you to think differently. Your manner of living, your methods of study, your isolation from strangers, have, combined, created the differences that you discover. Your imagination has emphasized and magnified them. That is all." Lisle sighed and shook his head negatively. "You do not or you will not understand," he said. "Your reply does not comprehend the question. It is like building a house without windows. I am your son. You are my father. Should not father and son be alike?" "Sometimes they are very much alike; sometimes they are very different. There is no rule which governs such a condition. Step with me to the mirror. Have you forgotten how greatly we resemble each other, eliminating the difference in age?" "No; it is true that our features are alike. Our forms are different. Frequently I see you at work without your coat. You never permit me to remove mine except here in the house. The men remove theirs and place them across their saddles. Their figures, thus disclosed, are not the same as mine. Yours is not the same as mine. I have studied myself before my own mirror. I know that I am cast in a different mold from other men. I know that you are cast in the same mold as other men. I am as different from you as the day is different from the night. Tell me truly, am I like a woman?" 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OZONO is also known for its long growth. Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive it. 310 E. BROAD ST., RICHMOND, VA. I enclose you $1.00, for which please send 4 Boxes of Ozone, worth $2.00; 1 B 50c. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, Odor, worth 50c.; 1 Package Scalp S Name..... Street..... County..... If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00, let her write her name on a piece of paper. I enclose you $1.00, for which please send at once the following goods: 4 Boxes of Orgo, worth $2.00; 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth $0.0c; 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth $0.0c; 1 Package (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth $0.0c; 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth $0.0c. Total, $4.00. If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has no coin, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coin when you send your order. response to my question," sighed Lisle. "We will pass it for the present. You mentioned my parents. Who are or were they? You are one; who was the other?" "Your mother." "You have always refused to speak of her to me. Will you not do so now?" "No." "Was not my mother—a being whom you have taught me to despise—a woman?" "We will not discuss your mother." "I will not urge you, father. I have learned to know that the subject is painful to you, although you will not tell me why it is so. May a child during its growth change from woman to man or from man to woman." "Human beings come into the world by the will of God. They live out the period of existence allotted to each of them and pass away in order to make room for others. God appoints that they shall be men or women. Humanity has no power in the selection—a newcomer is not permitted to choose between the two entities. They grow up like the sagebush, some of them; others like the trees which I planted around this house when you were very small. You have been in our orchard with me when you have seen me prune and graft among the trees. You have seen me take a tender shoot from one—that is the child—and affix it to another or of a different species; you have seen that shoot grow to maturity. Just as you are growing; you have seen it bear fruit different in quality and texture, in size and in shape from the other fruit produced by that same tree." "Yes, but what is that tree to which you attach the shoot? Is it the father or is it the mother?" "It is both: it is the father and the mother." "You are replying now to the third question I would have asked, for it concerned creation. Children are not grafted upon their fathers and mothers as you graft the shoots upon the trees in our orchard." "The principle is the same, Lisle, throughout all nature. The law of creation is the same in all things, from the alfalfa growing on the river bottoms to the sagebrush on the hills, from the trees in our orchard through the animal kingdom to humanity. You know what evolution is. I have taught you that. The younger and weaker plants, whether they are vegetable or animal, are the result of laws which ```markdown ``` "Your mother." "Yes." "Does my mother live?" are controlled by the Supreme Father of all and which are and forever will remain a mystery to all mankind. They evolve into the older and stronger product. Let us end this discussion now. On the day when you are 21 we will resume these subjects. Come to me then." "Is 21 the crucial age of man? Are all things revealed to him then? Will I experience a change when I arrive at that age? Will all things be made clear to me then?" "All things which puzzle you now will be made clear to you then, my son. I dread the day." "Why?" "It can bring no joy to you—nothing but misery to me." "Father!" "Go, Lisle! Leave me now. Remain as you have been until that time. After that"— "What, father?" Richard Maxwell did not reply, and after waiting a moment Lisle silently left the room and the house, mounted his horse and galloped away through the starlight alone. He was not unhappy, far from it, but he was possessed by the spirit of investigation, and without his knowledge he was borne as rapidly as his horse could run straight toward the immediate solution of all his vexing problems. T.N.V. English by Creoles The intelligent struggles of the Cuban teachers with English have furnished us with a good many pretty stories. One day not long ago the teachers were invited to some sort of an evening function at the Longfellow house on Brattle street. It happened that shortly before the hour for the assembly some ladies who were in front of that house were politely approached by a group of male Cuban teachers, who, with their hats in their sands, stood bowing. "If you please, dear madans," said their spokesman, "we are invited at this house to night. We wish to attend. We were been on an excursion to the distance, and have not the time to go to our house. So that we wear, as you see, our day dress. Perhaps you can tell us if it would be permitted us to go to the reception in our day dress? If it would not, then certainly shall we take the time to go to our home and put on our night dress." The ladies assured them that ```markdown ``` Miss Annie A. Wise, Onancock, Va. writes: I and my sister have both used Ozono and we recommend it to everyone. It is the finest hair grower and straightener on earth. Mr. W. C. Diggs, Swarthmore, Pa. says: I have used your preparations. They have done more than you claimed for them. I heartily recommend them. OCTOBER AYER Miss Ciraa M. Beutley, Topeka, Kan. says: My hair was short and knotty and kinky. Now it is long and fine. Ozom did! Miss Clara M. Beutley, Topeka, Kan. says: My hair was short and knotty and kinky. Now it is long and fine. Ozono did it. MR. 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While there a pair of more than ordinarily aggressive robins built their nest in the shot-hole which went completely through the mast, and reared a brood of young ones, to which his majesty and Queen Adelide were greatly attached. Subsequently the relic was removed to the dining-room, where it supported the famous bust by Chantrey; and upon the death of George IV. it was placed in the guard chamber at Windsor castle, with the inscription: "Auspice Guelielmo IV."—London News. Did China Have a Noah? A London paper has discovered a Chinese picture that represents—or is supposed to represent—Noah's ark resting on the top of Mount Ararat. The picture is of great antiquity. As is well known, the religious literature of almost every nation and race contains an account of a deluge, but a Chinese manuscript recently unearthed follows very closely the story as recorded in the Bible. It is particularly interesting in that the roof of the Chinese ark is of the gable variety associated with the Noah's arks which prove such entertaining toys for our youngsters. The Chinese picture, however, shows a double-stored vessel, and, so far from there being only one window in the roof, there are windows in every possible space.—Chicago Record-Herald. Test of Sobriety Agent—Allow me to impress upon you the good qualities of our flooring. In the whole width of the room there will not be a single crack. Mrs. Bender—Oh, dear, then I wouldn't care for it. You see, I always like a long, straight crack for Henry to walk when he comes home.—Chicago Daily News. THE PLANET SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1901 WAR REMINISCENCES FIRST UNION FLAG CAPTURED The Soldier Who Was Captured with It Still Has the Treasured Belie The first union flag to be captured and the first union officer to be taken prisoner in a fight during the civil war are in New York city. The officer is R. M. Shurtleff, who was a volunteer. He has the flag, says the St. Louis Republic. It is blood stained and torn. He cecarried it while on picket duty near Hampton, Va., on the morning of July 19, 1861, when a small confederate party lying in ambush, wounded him and another officer, and took them prisoners. Mr. Shurtleff was the first prisoner; his brother officer, who was taken captive a few minutes later, died about a year afterward; Maj. Rowlin, a third member of the union party and a war correspondent, was killed. The flag returned to the possession of Mr. Shurtleff in September, 1885. It was handed over to him by Col. J. M. Sandidge, leader of the confederates who had made the attack from ambush. Mr. Shurtleff was a lieutenant and adjutant of the Ninety-ninth New York volunteers, who were encamped in Hampton, Va. Gen. Max Weber had sent Capt. Jenkins, Lieuus Shurtleff and three other members of the Ninety-ninth volunteers to reconnoiter for confederate pickets on the night of July 18, 1861. The scouting party was accompanied by Maj. Johnhus. Owing to several union scouting parties having fired upon union soldiers, orders had issued from headquarters that some member or members of every scouting party should carry one or THE FIRST UNION FLAG more union flags, to wave in order to prevent further mistakes. Lieut. Shurtleff carried a flag in one hand for his party. They journeyed past the New Market bridge and saw in the distance the confederate pickets. Near the bridge John M. Sandidge, a member of the Charles City (Va.) troop, with his son George, another trooper named Burdette Terrett and a guide, saw the union party and hid in the woods. Sandidge was the leader of the confederate party. He afterward rose to the rank of colonel in the confederate army. He decided that he would wait until the union party had returned from their scouting and attack it from ambush. Sandidge believed that the federals might capture some confederates, and that his party would be able to rescue them. The union party returned in the morning by the New Market Bridge road and came to the point where the confederates lay in ambush. Col. Sandidge gave this description of the affair: "We were each to pick out a man and thus make the best use of our ammunition. At about seven o'clock they appeared, the three officers abreast, whose names, as afterward ascertained, were Maj. Rowlins, Capt. Jenkins and Lieut. Shurtleff. When they were some 20 spaces distant we fired, Rowlins fell, shot through the head. "Shurtleff was wounded in the arm and side by Terrett. Capt. Jenkins, who was third in the rank, was untouched, as my son George had not fired." Col. Sandidge then related how Capt. Jenkins had continued fighting until he was badly wounded in the breast. Capt. Jenkins was not captured, however, until after Lieut. Shurtleff. "Having reloaded my gun," continued Col. Sandidge, "I returned to Shurtleff. Aliming the weapon at him, I demanded the number of his party and their whereabouts. He said they had taken to the woods. I ordered him to get up and call on his companions to surrender. This he did, but they did not appear. "Shurtleff was badly shot. At the time he was wounded he was carrying a small-sized union flag. This was used to stanch the blood that flowed from his wound. "The union flag captured on this occasion was the first taken in the war and was carefully preserved. After having been displayed in Richmond it was restored to me. "The sight of it naturally recalled recollections of the union soldier who had borne it so bravely, and I often wondered whether he had survived the events of the war. It was my desire to ascertain his fate, and if he were still living to send back the bloody stophy of civil strife." "This description of the ambush was given by Col. Sandidge in 1885 in New Orleans. He had been trying to locate Mr. Shurtleff for several years, and finally did succeed in learning in the summer of 1885 that the man he wished to reach was a New York artist, who had a camp in the Adirondacks. After an interchange of letters, Mr. Shurtleff received the flag in September of that year. Col. Sandidge said in a letter accompanying the flag: "As a mite from the past to the future please accept the flag—no longer of war, but of perpetual peace, alliance and friendship." Col. Sandidge died during the Spanish-American war. He had been a member of the Louisiana legislature from 1846 to 1855, and had been a representative in congress from 1855 to 1859. During the terrible flood on the Gulf coast in 1874 Col. Sandigdhe's heart was touched at the generous aid which the northerners gave to the southern sufferers, and he decided then that he would do what he could for the rest of his life to cement the bond of friendship between the north and the south. After his capture on the morning of July 19, 1861, Lieut. Shurtleff was several weeks in prison in Yorktown, Vt., and was then removed to the county prison in Richmond, where he spent about seven months, until he was paroled. Mr. Shurtleff did not reenter the union service. He has never fully recovered from his wounds. ERRORS IN WAR HISTORIES. Prominent Educator Says School Children Are Being Taught Things That Are False. Gen. H. V. Boynton, president of the school board of the District of Columbia, and notably well-informed in the history of the civil war, offered a resolution in the board not long ago, which was unanimously adopted, suspending four histories from use in the public schools of the district until certain inaccuracies found in them are corrected. These mistakes, due to carelessness or misapprehension, are set forth by Gen. Boynton in a pamphlet of seven pages containing a series of terse paragraphs. The number and seriousness of the errors are surprising, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and suggests that a general overhauling of histories relating to the civil war would be timely. From this detailed showing it would seem that the authors of such books make a hasty synopsis of campaigns from a course of desultory reading without going to the official records for verification. The official reports of the war have been published at great expense by the government, but as they form a large library in themselves the school historians evidently have not mastered their contents. In the course of his specifications Gen. Boynton points out that McClellan was not relieved during McPellan's campaign; that Hooker did not and could not carry the vertical walls of the crest of Lookout mountain; that Sherman was 550 miles, not 200 miles, from Rosecrans when the battle of Chickamauga was fought; that Grant did not order any charge on Missionary Ridge; that Bragg did not resign after the battle; that most of the union army at Chickamauga did not flee in confusion to Chattanooga, for the number driven back was less than 5,000 in 56,000; that instead of all positions being marked at Gettysburg, only one confederate organization in 258 has placed a monument there, and that one division, not Sherman's whole army, stormed Fort McAllister. Though the official figures of losses in the battles of the civil war are 0 file, these histories are often thou sands out of the way. Some important campaigns are not even mentioned. One book dismisses the battle' of Franklin, Tenn., in a line or two, though the confederate loss there was 6,252, including 12 generals killed, wounded and captured. The authors of the foregoing school histories are Barnes, Montgomery, Johnston and McMaster. Gen. Boynton submitted to his board a special paper on Fiske's history, and that is now under examination. Mr. Fiske states that only the left wing under Thomas remained to contest the battle of Chickamauga. Gen. Boynton says that no less than seven divisions belonging to the center and right remained with Thomas to the end. There are in the book errors amounting to 23,000 men in stating the losses of both armies at Gettysburg. One statement is that after Bragg's defeat in 1863 "the confederacy was practically cut down to the four states of Georgia, the two Carolinas and Virginia." But the union army in 1864 was larger than ever before and there was severe fighting in every southern state. It seems clear that a careful school history of the civil war is yet to be written. How Fortress Monroe Was Built. The manner of constructing the fort is interesting, and throws some light on customs and practices then in vogue. The work was almost wholly done by slaves, who were brought to the place by their masters and leased to the engineers in charge. The slave owner received 50 cents a day for each slave, and the government furnished each "labourer," as the slave was called, with two suits of working clothes, a pair or two of shoes, rations, quarters and occasionally a little tobacco. The "labourers" worked with very little clothes and generally without shoes. They lived in barracks and were subject to a kind of military discipline. The owners were regular in coming in to collect the hire for their slaves, from which we may infer that the "constituents" of those days knew how to appreciate a good thing to a degree worthy of the present generation—Leslie's Monthly. Compliments Pay. Pay a woman a compliment, and the next time anything annoying happens she doesn't fly all to pieces.—Atchison Globe. Incomplete "What did you send back, that book to the library for?" "Why, you told me you weren't going to finish it." "True. But I wanted to read enough in it to talk about."—Judre. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. TOLD OF ROYALTY. The king of England, has decided that his eldest daughter will not bear the title of princess royal during the life of Empress Frederick, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter. The monument to the father of Emperor William of Germany will not be the only memorial to that monarch, as there is to be built a museum named for him on an island in the Spree. Prince Nikita of Montenegro, who has already written a drama, "The Empress of the Balkans," has now given way to the historical romance fever, and is preparing a tale about Duke Stephen of Herzegovina, the founder of his dynasty. Emperor William has blossomed out as a builder of electric railways, according to two American engineers who have just returned from Berlin. The kaiser is a joint partner with the well-known electrical engineering firm of Siemens & Halske for the construction of a great fast express line between Berlin and Hamburg. The dowager empress of Russia is the possessor of the finest collection of Russian sables in the world. One of her mantles, which she wears in winter sledge drives and in traveling, has a lining worth £10,000. It was made of skins gathered for her by the governor of a polar province, where taxes are paid in kind with furs. The emperor of Japan has an allowance of something like $20,000,000 a year to keep up the imperial establishment. He has also a large private fortune, having invested in stocks and a great deal of wealth in land. At the close of the Chinese-Japanese war parliament voted his majesty 20,000,000 yen, an amount equal to 10,000,000 gold dollars, out of the indemnity paid by the Chinese as a mark of gratitude for his directing the naval and military operations. FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. A late innovation in carpet sweepers is one that has a plate-glass top, through which the machine at work is easily watched for clogging of the brushes or an overful dustpan. A delicious sandwich filling is made from one part chopped almonds and two parts shredded or grated celery, with a dust of salt. Moisten the mixture with mayonnaise and spread between thin crustless slices of brown bread. One good thing to know is to put a bowl of fresh water, at night, in a room where men have been smoking. In the morning you will find it has completely absorbed all odor, providing you either burn or throw out all cigar ends and ashes. The lips are apt to indicate character. Thick lips that hang forward and display their inner lining show indolence and a love of ease and luxury. When the outline of the lips is narrow and united with a sinister mouth there is a great deficiency of natural kindness, a want of warmth and but little capacity to love in the individual's nature. Hominy croquettes with maple stirp are a very agreeable addition to the breakfast menu, although they are good for any meal. They require one cupful of boiled hominy, one beaten egg, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one teaspoonful of sugar and a saltspoonful of salt. Salt this mixture until smooth, form into conical or ball shapes, roll in flour and after they have stood for several hours in a cool place fry in the usual way. SOME HORTICULTURAL BRIEFS Put soapsuds around the peach trees. Set out young fruit trees and plants every year. In transplanting no manure should be placed in direct contact with the roots. The value of an orchard depends very much on the proper selection of the varieties. Raspberry plants should be set out at the very first favorable opportunity in the spring. The pear tree is more liable to disease than any other fruit tree, unless we except the peach. In manuring the orchard remember that the roots of the trees extend as far out as the branches. All the fruit trees should be carefully labeled, so that the owner may know what he possesses. If the fruit trees need pruning, it is easier to prune as soon as the necessity shows than after years of neglect. Unless needed for the purpose of propagation it is best to keep the suckers from around the raspberry and blackberry bushes. The commercial orchardist who plants too many varieties makes a mistake; better select a few of the best that do well in your locality. OVER COPPER WIRES. There are 10,000 miles of overhead telegraph wires in London. The projected electric railway between Hamburg and Berlin will cost $33,000,000. Chamounix can now be reached from Geneva in less than four hours by the new electric tramline. It is estimated that an electric pneumatic tube for transmitting packages eight inches in diameter would cost $8,000 a mile. The largest lightning conductor in the world is in Bavaria. The top of it is some yards above the meteorological station on the Zugspitze, the highest point of land in the German empire. It runs down the side of the mountain to a body of running water. The length of the rod is three and a half miles. A Proft in Sight "Yes," said the man who prides himself on being exceedingly astute, "I lent him an umbrella." "I am surprised at you! When his unreliability about umbrellas is one of his chief characteristics!" "Yes. But I lent it with the understanding that he is to bring me back the one he gets in its place."—Washington Star. In the Mountains Yet all the summer through she's kissed, But only by the sun. Alice—But he doubtless knows you are worth two millions. Helen—Yes; but he says he would love me just as much if I wasn't worth but a million and a half.—Judge. A Delicate Mint "My dear, I was just reading a very interesting article on 'How to Enjoy an Outing Without Impedimenta.'" "Well?" "Well, I was wondering, my love, if it wouldn't be a good idea for me to take my outing alone this time?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. That Always Goes City Editor (to new reporter)—You omitted something very important in your account of the bank failure. Reporter—What was that, sir? City Editor—You neglected to say that the depositors would receive dollar for dollar—Harlem Life. Mistaken In His Calling. "Who is that whistling in the other room?" asked the proprietor. "That's the clerk who's addressing the letters, sir," said the typwriter. "Well, just tell him he's not engade as a musical director."—Yonkers Statesman. Description. "Did you hear what Judy Gibbs said?" "No—What was it?" "She said the new bride next door to them has the most elegant repertoire of shirt waists she ever saw."—Chicago Record-Herald. A Safe Conrac Jimmy Plate—Say, Billy, yer lack prudence in gettin' so drunk before yer goes up to that house. Billy Burglar—I know me business. I want to get in an awful condition so do dog will think it's his master comin' home—Cincinnati Daily News. Coptous Revenge Clarence—Billy, if you were disappointed in some great love or high ambition would you get even with the world by becoming a hermit? Billy—No, sir-ee; I'd buy a cheap cornet and move into a thickly populated flat.—Chicago Record-Herald. Refinement of Torture De Wiggs—Old fellow, I am truly sorry for you. You seem to have married a tartar. De Biggs—It is true. But, then, she is beautiful and wealthy. De Wiggs—Ah, a sort of cream of tartar.—Harlem Life. True Devotion. "Your husband loved you very much, did he not?" "Yes indeed! He even insisted upon remaining in the house when I practiced my vocal exercises!"—Brooklyn Life. Cures WeakMen Free INSURES LOVE AND 'A HAPPY HOME FOR ALL How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness lost vitality, night losses, veriocele kc and enlarges small weak organs to full size and L. W. KNAPP. M. D. Gor J. W. Knapp, 1882 Hull Bldg., Detroit, Mich. and he will gladly send the free receipt with full directions so that any man may easily cure himself at home. 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Small Cash Payments and remainder in small installments WILLIAMS & MANN, Box 288. - Hampton, Va 2-9-01-19 Southern Railway SCHEDULE 11.30 P.M. No.10 SOUTHERN EXPRESS daily southern express points south sleeper for Lawrence greenboro, salabury, and Charlotte. sleeper for passengers at local stations. augusta Sr vaanah. Jacks-nville Tampa Nashville, and M-ymphs, and Atlanta Tampa, and M-ymphs, and Atlanta sleeper Moncay, Wednesday, June 15, days, Washington to Sa Francisco without change, with connections for at stations in Texas, Mexico and Cali- ifornia. 12 0 P M No. 7, solid train daily or Chri- lotte, M. C, Connecus at Moseley with Pittsburgh, M. C, Connecus at Moseley with Keysville for Clarksville, Oxford, Hen- derson and Darham and at Gronborns Salem, at Davenport, and Winston States Fast Mall, solid train, daily for new Orleans and points South, whi- lever on trains to New Orleans and Jacksonville connecting for Nassau and Habana. tuffet drawing from sleeper Rich- man, Richman, Richman and Atlanta, through train sleeper, Sanisury, to Memphis. 6:00 P. M., NO. 17, LOCAL, daily except Sunday for Keysville and intermediate port to TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHM OND. 6:00 A. M. 4 0 P. M., from Atlanta Augusta, Asheville and all points South. 8 40 A. M., from Atlanta local stations. LOCAL PRIETRY TRAIN. mes. 61 and 62, between Manchester and Ne- apolis, Va. The Favorite Route North. Train No. 15, 4:20 P M. BALKINHAM connects Sunday, connecting at West Point with steam er for altimore and York River Landings, stops on y at stations between North Point. Train No. 16, 2:20 P M. LOC L Express daily except Sunday for West Point and intermediate stations, con- tains Manor to Walker-ton and Tannahockan. Train No. 74. 5:00 A.M. LOCAL MIXED, leaves daily, except Sunday, from Virginia Steel Station for West Point and intermediate stations, connecting with the Missouri Maker, for Walkerton and Tappanhock. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND 9:15 a.m. daily, from West Point, with ConNECTION from Baltimore except Mondays. 16:45 a.m. daily, except Sundays and Mondays 5:15 p.m. daily, except Sunday from West Point and intermediate stations. steamers leave West Point daily except Sunday 6:50 P.M. arriving Baltimore 8:30 a.m. m. Steamers call at airways and Yorkton, Tennessee, Vaughns and Clouseceter, Clay Bank and Gloucester, Point Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. O. W. WESTBURY, District Passenger Agent, 800 E. Main 88 Richmond, Va. J. M. Crawford Manager, S H. HARDWICK Gen. Pas. Agt. FRANK S. GANNON. Third Vice-Pres. and General Manager, Washington, D. C. WANTED—A first-class pressman Send samples of work and recommendations to. RF&P RICHMOND FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC R. R. Schedule in Effect May. 26, 1901. LEAVE BYRD ST. STATION. 3:30 A. M., Daily, for Washington and Boston, North and Stops, Fredericksburg and Quantico, Pallman Sleepers to Washington and New York. 8:20 A. M] Sunday only, for Washington and Boston, North and local station, Ashland to Quantico inclusive. Buffet Parlor car. 8:50 A. M.] Daily, for Washington and points North Stops at Eiba, Glen Allen, and local stations, Ashland to Quantico inclusive. Buffet Parlor car. 12:00 M. Daily, except Sunday, for Washington and points North, stops at Eiba, Glen Allen, and local stations, Ashland to Quantico inclusive. Buffet Parlor car. Connects with Congressional Limited at Washington. 7:42 P. M., Daily for Washington and points North Stops at Eiba Ashland, Glen Allen, and local stations, Doswell, Milford, Fredericksburg and Quantico, Brooke, Widewater, and Quantico. stops other stations Sundays. Sleepers Richmond to Washington to Philadelphia. ARRIVE BYRD-STREET STATION. 8:40 A. M., Daily, stops at Wide water Brooke, Fredericksburg, Dowell, Doswell, Ashland, and Eiba. stops at other stations Sunday. Sleeper New York to Richmond. 12:54 P. M., Daily, except Sunday, stops at local stations Quantico to Ashland and Eiba. Buffet Parlor car. 2:42 P. M., Daily stops at Fredericksburg, milford Doswell, Ashland and Eiba. 6:37 P. M. daily stops at Fredericksburg, Doswell, Ashland and Eiba Pallman cars from New York and Eiba. Buffet Parlor car. 8:40 P. [M., Daily, stops at local stations Quantico to Ashland inclusive. Glen Allen and Eiba. Buffet Parlor car. (Daily except Sunday) 7 15 A. M. Leaves Ella for Ashland 4 00 P. M. Leaves Byrd st. for Fredericks burg. 6 30 P. M. Leaves Ella for Ashland 6 40 A. M. arrives Ella from Ashland. 8 23 a. M. arrives Byrd Street station from Fredericksburg 5 52 P. M. arrives Ella from Ashland S. A. L. through Trout. Via S. A. L. Junction and K. F. & P. Railroad LEAVE S A L BROAD STREET STA 110 6 40 a. M., Daily, for Washington and points north, stops at Fredericksburg and Quincy Sleep ers to New York. 8 35 P. M., Daily, for Washington and points North, stops at doswell Fredericksburg and Quantico Pullman Sleeper to New York ARRIVE S A L BROAD STREET STA TION 2 35 P. M. Daily, Stops at Fredericks burg, Dowell and Ashland Sleeper from New York. 10 30 P. M. Daily, stops at freedsburg Doswell and Ashland, Sleepers from New York. W. P. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager. E. T. D. MYERS, President. VIRGINIA NAVIGATION To Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point, Newport, News, Clarmont and James River landings and connecting a Old Point and Norfolk for Washington, Baltimore and New York. STREAMS PECANTONAY LEAVES MONDAY, WED NEDEN AND FRIDAY AT 7 . M. Electronic mail: M. are only 15 and 4.50 to Norfolk, Portsmouth, Point and Newport News. Music by a grand Orchestra. Fewth received daily from above-named places and all points in Eastern Virginia and Carolina. IRVIN WESLIER Associates EDWARDE. BARNYreaPtonds Atlantic Coast Line. Schedule in Effect January 14, 1801 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND—BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 A. M. NORFOLK LIMITED Daily Arrives Petersburg 9:34 a. m. N. rfolk 11:59 a. m. Stops only at Petersburg and principal stations east of Petersburg. 9:05 A. M. Daiy. Arrives Petersburg 9:50 a. m. Weldon 11:50 a. m. m., Fayetteville 4:25 p. m. harsleton 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 Goldsboro 8: 25 p. m'. Wilmington 6 p. m. Pulman Sleeper New York to Jacksonville. 11:55 A. M. Daily, except Sunday. Arrives Petersburg 12:30 p. m. Stops Manchester, Drewry's Bluff, Centralia, and Chest r on signal. 18:15 P. M. OCEAN SHORE LIMITED. Daily. Arrives Petersburg; 8:45 p. m., Norfolk 5:55 p. m. Stops only at Petersburg, Waverly and Suffolk. 4:20 P. M. Daily, except Sunday. Arrives Petersburg. 5:20 p. m., Welden 7:42 p. m., and Rocky Mount 8:56 p. m. Makes all intermediate stops. 6:00 P. M. Daily Arrives Petersburg 6:45 p. m. Makes all stops 6:57 P. M. FLORIDA AND WEST INDIAN LIMITED. Daily, Arrives at Petersburg 7:27 p. m. Connects with Norfolk and Western for Norfolk and intermediate points, Emporia 8:40 p. m. (connects with Atlantic and Danville for stations between Emporia and Lawrenceville, Weldon 9:18 p. m., Fayetteville 12:22 a. m., Charleston 5:23 a. m., Savannah 7:50 a. m., Jacksonville 12:15 p. m. Port Tampa 11:68 a. NEW LINE to Middle Georgia Points—Arriving Augusta 7:55 a.m. m., Macon 11:15 a.m., Atlanta 12: 85 p.m., Thomasville 2:28 p.m. Pullman Sleepers New York to Wilmington, harleston, Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Augusta and Macon. 9:10 a.m., Daily, Arriving Petersburg 9:55 a.m., connects at Petersburg with North and Western railway arriving Lynchburg 9 a.m., m. Roanoke 5 a.m., Bristol 10:40 a.m. Pullman Sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg. 11:20 P. M. Daily, Arrives_Petersburg 12:10 a.m. TRAINS ARRIVE IN RICHMOND, 8:20 A.M. M.Daily, From Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Atlanta. Macon, Augusta and all point's South. 7:35 a. m. Daily From Petersburg, Lynchburg, and the West. 8:45 a. m. Daily, except Sunday, Petersburg local. 11:10 a. m. daily, except Sunday From Goldsboro and intermediate stations, Norfolk and Suffolk. 11:42 a. m. daily, From Norfolk, Suffolk and Petersburg. 11:06 a. m. 'Sunday only from Norfolk Suffolk and Petersburg. 2:10 a. m. Daily, except Sunday, From Petersburg. 7:22 p. m. Daily From Miami', Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Goldsboro and all points South. 7:30 p. m. Daily From Norfolk, Pete rs burg and intermediate stations. 8:56 p. m. Daily, From Petersburg, Lynchburg and West. T. M. EMERSON Traffic Manager. J. R. KENLY General Manager. H. M. EMERSON, General Passenger Agent O. S. CAMPBELL, Division Passenger. Ag 824 East Main St. W. P. TAYLOR. OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP CO. DAILY FOREST FOR NEW YORK, EXCEPT SUNDAY RICHMOND for Richmond Richmond high school excep sunday via Cheapeake P. M., or Richmond and Petersburg rail line (Norfolk and Western route) 9:00 A.M. A. m. coach with Old Domini Line steamer sailing same evening at 7 o'clock for New York. The train sale at Richmond Transfer Co. company's railroad and Richmond and Petersburg ohi railway and Richmond and Petersburg raod depots, and at company's office, IHF and Main Street. Richmond. Baggage cheque strong. FREIGHT. for New York and all points beyond can be shipped by train to Richmond Richmond every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY BY V DAY at 6:00 P.M. This steamer carries size age passengers only. The train before sailing time Freight received and forwarded and through bills of lading issued for all northern, eastern and foreign ports. BROWN NEW YORK* Passengers can leave daily except Sua da at 3 P.M (Saturday 4 P.M.) to Norfolk or North Fort, connecting with Norfolk and Western railroad or Cheapeake and Ohio railway. weight for Richmond by steamer vis. Nex: Selk Mundays and Wednesdays 8:00 F M Sat sundays, 4 F M Sailings from company's pier. No 2 North Richmond, Nex: Receives and forwarded daily except unday. For further information apply to JOHN F MAYER, Agents. 1132 east Main Street Richmond, ¶ W. L. Gilladunen, Pres N & R Y W Norfolk AND Western DAVE BROOKMAN, EVERY STREET STATION. 9:00 A.M. Daily—Richmond and Norfolk Vestibule limited. Arrives Norfolk Lake Waverley and Petersburg. Waverley and Suffolk. Tickets not accepted on this train 9:00 A.M. Daily—The Chicago Express" for Wyndham, Columbus, Columbus, and Chicago. Pullman Sleep oak to Columbus: also for Bristol. Knoxville, and Chattanooga Pull oak to Columbus: also for Bristol. Daily for Norfolk, Suffolk and intermediate stations; arrives at Nor- folk at 9:00 A.M. 9:00 P.M. Daily, for Lochbush and Roanoke Connects at Roanoke with Wash- ington and Chattanooga Limited. Roanoke and New Orleansburg to Memphis and New Orleansburg. Parlor and Observation Cars Radd fer to Attala, Ala. Pullman Sleep buffet and Lynok burg, and berths ready, for paney at 9:00 P.M. Also Pullman Sleeper Petersburg to Roanoke. Train arrives Petersburg and the West daily, 8:15 a.m. and al 8:56 p.m. from Norfolk and the East 11:36 a.m and Vesti sued Limited 7:00 p.m. DINO 88 Main St. City Passenger and Ticket Agent CH BOSLLE District Passenger Agent General Passenger Agent ten e Oceans Roanoke Va. The Economy 808 N. 3RD STREET. W. O. TURNER,|| Prop. FINE TAILORING CLEANING 'DYEING and REPAIRING. RAILWAY. "CAPITAL CITY ROUTE." Short Line to Principal Cities of the South and Southwest, Florida, Cuba, Texas, California and Mexico, reaching the Capitals of six States. Schedule in Street May 26, 1801. Leave No. 27 No. 31 Richmond 2:40 p m 10:40 p m Petersburg 3:27 p m 11:80 p m Raleigh 7:40 p m 4:10 a. m Arrive Hamlet 10:85 p m 7.00 a.m Atlanta 9:00 a.m 4:45 p m Leave Hamlet 10:50 p m 7:20 a.m Arrive Columbia, east'n time 2:00am 10:35 a.m Leave Columbia sent'l time 1:05 a.m 9:40 a.m Arrive Savannah 4:52 a.m 1:47 p.m Fernandina 9:80 a.m 6:00 p.m Jacksonville 9:15 a.m 6:10 p.m Tallahassee 8:15 p.m 6:30 a.m Ocala 1:48 p.m 1:00 a.m Orlando 5:10 p.m 7:20 a.m Tampa 5:40 p.m 6:15 a.m Port Tampa 10:80 p.m 8:80 a.m Miami 9:48 p.m Train No. 41, leaves Richmond 8:30 m., daily for Peterburg, Nerlins, N.O., and all intermediate points. Connects at Nerlins with train arriving from Heederson 2:10 p. m. and Raleigh 8:50 p. m. daily, and Durham 4:15 p. m. daily, except Sunday. Trains leave Richmond for Washington, New Y. rk and the East daily, N. 44 at 6:40 n. m. and No. 68 at 8:58 p. m. Connections at Jacksonville and Tampa for all Florida, East Coast points and Cuba and Porto R. so. At New Orleans for all points in Texas Mexico and California. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND DAILY 6:32 a. m. No. 84} From all points south 6:21 p. m. No. 66} and southwest. 6:46 p. m. No. 38—From Nurlina, N. G. Petersburg and local points. SLEEPING-CAR SERVICE Nos. 81 and 84-Florida and Metropolitan Limited. Drawing-room and Sleeping-cars and Through Day Coaches between New York and Tampa. Through Drawing-room Buffet Sleeping cars between New York and Atlanta. Nos. 27 and 66-Florida and Atlanta Fast Mail. Through Drawing-room Buffet Sleeping-cars between New York and Jacksonville, connecting at Hamlet with Sleeping-car to and from Atlanta, in connection with which Through Pullman Tickets are sold Finesm Day coaches. Z P. Smith, Dist. Pass. Agent, 826 R. E. L. Bunch, Gen'l Pass. Agent. C. & O. Chesapeake and Ohio Railways ROUTE Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. LEAVE BROAD-STREET STATION For Newport News, Old Point, Norfolk and Portsmouth. 8:00 a. m. (except Sunday) Local. 9:00 a. m. Daily. Fast train. Stops only at Williamsburg, connects at Norfolk for Newport News, Va. Beach Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with Boston steamers. 3:45 p. m. (daily) Local. Connects at Old Point daily with Washington and Cape Charles steamers, and except Sunday with New York (Old Dominion and Balti- more steamers. WESTBOUND. 10;00 a. m. (except Sunday) for liften Forge, connects for Orange Warrenton, Manassas Branch Hagerstown and Lexington No. 1 2:45 p. m. daily St Louis limited, with Pullman for Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago No 7, local train follows No 1, except Sunday, from Gordonville to Staunton. 5:80 p. m. accommodation, except Sunday to Doswell. 10.45 A m. daily, with Pullman for Cincinnati, hiesgo, Louisville, St. Louis, etc. connects at Ronceverte, except Sunday with Greenbrier River Riverway. LEAVE EIGHTH ST. STATION. 10.30 a. m. daily for Lynchburg; Lexington, and Clifton Forge, connects except Sunday with Bankingham and Alberene branches, parler ear. 5:15 p. m. accommodation, except Sunday to Columbia. TRAINS ARRIVE BROAD STREET STATION. x 8:00 a. m. From Dowell. * 8:30 a. m. and * 8:50 p. m. from Cincinnati. 12:50 b m x7:05 u.m. * 10 p.m. from N. rolk. and Old Paint x 8:15 p. m. from Clifton Forge, and Staunton. TRAIN ARRIVE EIGHTH STREET STATION. x 8:40 a. m. from Columbia. *8:20 p. m. from Clifton Forge and Lynchburg. SACRIFICIO The National! ANTI-MOB and LYNCH-LAW ASSOCIATION [Incorporated.] Headquarters. Springfield, O. H. O. Jenkins Pres. Jas. Harriet Vinson Pres. E. T. Butler, Organizer S.E. Huffman, Sect. Will organize in every state of this Union. State and never locality. Apply. Huffman, Seeg., pring field. O Liberty, Justice and Proteus. Apply the Secretaryamuiel Huffman for circular giving full particulars WANTED AT ONCE—An ex- plained colored shirt. App L. N. BAROFF, Cor. 28th and THE PLANET Published every Saturday by JOHN MITCHELL, JR., at 811 North 4th Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., - EDITOR. All communications intended for publication should be sent sons to reach us by Wednesday. TERMS IN ADVANCE. 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The county has decided that subscribers to newspapers who do not order their paper discontinued at the expiration of time for which it has been paid are required to pay the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us for our paper, you should give your name and address in full, otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered in the Post Office at Richmond, Va., second class matter. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 1901 The Amalgamated Association of steel-workers has, through its president, Mr. SHAFFER, declared a strike against United States Steel Corporation represented by President SCHWAB. It goes into effect to-day. There is some talk of the importation of colored steel-workers to take the places of the strikers. We are of the opinion that this is an ill advised movement on the part of the colored men. It would result in only temporary relief and would be followed by an era of bitter feeling on the part of the labor elements of the United States which would require years to eradicate. The discrimination against us by the white labor organizations is exasperating and causes our people to feel that they should accept any opportunity to administer a blow to its interests. But to attempt to enter into such a combination will last only for a brief period. One side or the other is bound to win, and with the success of either the colored brother must yield up the position which he was called upon to fill. MR. MCLAURIN'S OPINION. UNITED STATES SENATOR McLAURIN OF SOUTH CAROLINA knows Senator B. R. Tillman of the same State. In responding to the request of the State Democratic Executive Committee's demand for his resignation, he says of the aforesaid TILLMAN: “I shall ask the people to decide between the man who has tried to help build cotton factories, open highways of commerce, and so commend the Democratic party as to command for it the confidence and respect of the business and laboring elements North and South, and the man whose conduct and record has been to sink the party into disrepute and impotence. I shall ask them to say whether they prefer the Senator who tried to retain for South Carolina the honor and dignity won by a long line of illustrious sons and glorious deeds, or the Senator who has postured as buffoon and bully, and who is proclaimed of the Senate that he represent on the floor of the Senate that he represented a constituency of ballot-box stuffers and murderers, who wanted their share of the He continues; "I desire to proclaim to the world that you do not represent the intelligence, the Democracy, of the people of South Carolina, and to you and Senator Tillman that he has never been my master and shall never be; that he shall not escape the vengeance that must surely fall upon him when the people have been made to understand his motives, his methods, his debased character, and his shameful record. To that grand conservator of free government, the reserved patriotism and common-sense of the peo people, I make this appeal, against partisan intolerance and tyranny." Further comment is unnecessary more than to remark that Senator McCain knows Senator Tillman, and portrayal of his character will pass where as a correct description of the monumental humbug now parade before the public. THE SECRET OUT AT LAST. The Constitutional Convention has taken a recess, but gave permission to the Suffrage Committee to keep at work. The report of the Committee of which Mr. Witthers is chairman, reducing the number of judicial circuits, abolishing the county court, etc., was the first definite information which the people of the State received as to the purposes of the Convention. The report was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and when it comes from that 'ody', it is presumed that it will be so disfigured that its most intimate friend will not recognize it. Nevertheless, the colored people of the State will now understand that the suffrage question was sprung to divert attention from the main issue, that of cutting off alleged useless office-holders, and the reduction of alleged unnecessary expenses. We have never seen the need of any particular uneasiness on the part of our people relative to the cutting off our right to vote. That right is already flagrantly denied us, and we are as unceremoniously disfranchised in VIRGINIA, as though we were a blanket Indian upon a suspension in Indian Territory. It is the whi te man who will be most injured when the campaign is ended, and the list of casualties reported at the headquarters of the people. So long as the 14th & 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States remain upon the statute books, we care little for the proscriptive provisions engrafted upon the constitution of the several states. The time will come when God will raise up expounders of the law in our Supreme Courts who will have the manliness to speak the truth and render decisions in a cordance with justice. The temporary expedients to disfranchise us will be brushed aside as are cob webs by a housemaid wielding with skillfulness the handle of a new broom. We must and shall wait for that time, believing that, "Justice may sleep, but never dies." Wrong flourishes for a little while; but right, like God is eternal. TILLMAN AND LYNCHING SENATOR B. R. TELLMAN of SOUTH CAROLINA delived an address to a large audience at Marinette, Wisconsin, on the 4th inst., and after attempting to justify lynching said: "In Wisconsin you have 5,000 black men." "Why don't you try the bleaching process and exterminate them by intermarrying? The idea is repugnant to you. In South Carolina we have 750,000 blacks and 550,000 whites. The carpet-baggers, the nigger, and the Southernicans are unremarkably rude to the war until they had stolen everything that there was in the State. Then we went with our shotguns to the polls and took it away from them. All men are not created equal, and the 'niggers' are not fit to vote. Come what may, the white people of the South will govern their own country." The above is strong defiant language and yet Senator Tillman swore to maintain and support the 14th and 15th Amenments to the Constitution of the United States which pledge him to the recognition of the very equality which he condemns. His reference to the stealing by the carpet-baggers of every thing in the State is on a par with the action of the southern office-holders, who took whatever the carpet-baggers left and that which accumulated since their departure. The record of the absonding treasurer constitutes an interesting chapter and tell the story of the dishonesty of some white men, who stop not at thousands but name hundreds of thousands in their reckless peculiations. Senator Tillman speaks of the murder of innocent black men with a hilarity that is disgusting. He is quoted further: He condemned Booker Washington's scheme of educating the Negro along industrial lines as an attempt to place him on an equality with the white artisan, something that would intensify race hatred in the South. He said that among the 4,000,000 slaves during the civil war there were more Christians than there are to-day among the 9,000,000 blacks in the South. "I do not want to uphold slavery," he continued. "I thank God there are no slaves to-day under the Stars and Stripes." Such talk should awaken the North to a sense of its duty: The condemnation of Prof. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON's scheme will do more to show the true inwardness of Senator TILLMAN's vaporing than anything else that could be conceived or thought of. He may not want to uphold slavery, but the inhabitants of Anderson County South Carolina have been doing it. Mr. TILLMAN made an eloquent plea in justification of lynching, saying that Southern women could not be brought into court to testify to their shame and degradation before a jury for the purpose of convicting a beast. His reference to the sanctity of the Southern household and the Southern women and his remarks on lynching were heartily applauded. He closed with an impassioned statement to the effect that the white people of the South would remain on top "in spite of the devil," and declared that if necessary he and his brethren were ready to take down their shot guns again. This was an appeal to the worst passions and was a base ignoring of the fact that more than sixty per cent of all the lynchings are for other crimes than that of criminal assault upon white females. WOMEN THE VICTIMS The lynching of BETSIE, her son BELFORD and daughter DA McCRAY on the night of August 1901 at Carrolton RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Miss. was one of the most horrible atrocities as yet chronicled. These people were confessedly not guilty of any crime whatever. It is only alleged that they knew something about it. Proof was submitted and uncontroverted that they were not present when Mr. and Mrs. TALIAFERRO were murdered, but the mob would hear no reason. Their blood was demanded and they were conducted under the hill a quarter of a mile from town and the two women and man hanged and their body riddled with bullets. Yes, we say two women were hanged. Hanged without evidence, hanged without being guilty, hanged in the face of their protestation of innocence, hanged against the pleadings of the best white citizens of that county, hanged although the son of the murdered people protested against the hanging, yes, hanged while the Governor was enroute to beg the mob to respect the law. These murderers did this and the only remark that Gov Longino makes is that Mississippi is again disgraced—and why? He had the armed forces of the State at his disposal. He had the United States troops at his command. He had citizens of color who would have accepted arms and organized posses either to hunt down the murderers or to protect the innocent, but he used none of these resources. He permitted two innocent women and a man to be lynched. Oh, it was pitiful! We believed that BETSY prayed for herself and asked God's blessings on her children. She had no doubt led an upright life. All of the white people who knew her seemed to be friendly to her cause. But the "low-ground" whites would hear no reason. It was the work of the mob, and between the heavens and the earth, their bodies were swung up while the crack of rifles and whirr of the muskets released their spirits for flight to the other world. What shall we do in the premises? This is the question. What would white men do under similar circumstances? Answer that question, and you have the answer. As for our part, we know what we would do. Had we lived in the neighborhood, we would have asked no greater favor than to have been permitted to die in the defense of those two innocent women and man whose souls have gone on before. The law must be upheld at all hazards. Brutal cowards, whether white or black must be taught a lesson and brave chivalric white and black men should stand ready to do it. Were a mob of colored men to attempt to lynch two white women and a white man, we should stand out against it and be as forward in their defense as in the cases cited. It is the principle for which we are contending. Every colored man should own a repeating rifle and shot gun with nerve enough to use it. Every mob should be made to carry one or more of their number back home as a silent testimonial of the unerring aim of some Negro, whom they went out to lynch. When this is done, the popularity of the "rope route" by lawless parties will begin to wane and colored men will find pretection in the lonely sections of the Southland. Mississippi has her constitution perpetrating a white man's government. It was declared to be a great panacea for race prejudice. What good has it accomplished? What rights for us attaine? It is a sham and a deception enacted by designing parties and meant to deceive the country at large. We are disgusted and emphasize the fact that the exercise of back-bone and the presence of manhood will cause lynch-law to go and the lynchers with it. Electric Railways For Sweden. Vienna, Aug. 7.—The Swedish government is said to be considering plans for the installation of electricity throughout the whole railway system of Sweden. "Sweep China and Destroy Aliens." Victoria, B. C., Aug. 7.—The steamer Queen Adelaide brings news to the effect that a large number of defeated soldiers of Tung Fuh Siang have combined with Lian Chwang Hul and unfurled in the government premises of Shen Chow many banners with the motto "Sweep China and destroy aliens." These Men Have a Grievance. Chicago, Aug. 7.—While union molders were walking the streets because their employers, local members of the National Founders' Association, refused to pay them $2 a day, these same employers voted yesterday to replace them with non-union men, who are to receive $4.50 and $4.75 a day. Train Jumped the Track. Wilmington, Del, Aug. 7.—Two Italianans were killed and three others were seriously hurt last night by a train jumping a track near Believev, a short distance from this city. The men were employed in a quarry and were on their way home when the locomotive of the train left the track. L. A. W. Day At Buffalo Buffalo, Aug. 7.-Hon. Horatio S. Earle, of Detroit, president of the League of American Wheelmen, has issued a general and urgent invitation to all members of the league to meet him in Buffalo on August 14 and 15, on the occasion of the 22d annual meet of that organization. Declared 233 1-3 Per Cent. Dividend. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 7.-The Indiana National Bank yesterday declared a dividend of $700,000 or 233 1-3 per cent. Of this $450,000 was declared out of surplus and $250,000 out of undivided profits. The capital stock was increased from $300,000 to $1,000,000. STRIKE ORDER ISSUED Steel Men Told to Stop Work After August 10. NEW CASTLE MEN HAVE QUIT President Shaffer Forestalled Clever Trick of National Steel Company. Strike Benefits From Now On—Ald From the White Rats. Pittsburg, Aug. 7.—The die is cast. President Shaffer issued the long- looked-for general strike order last evening, to take effect after the last turn of the mills on August 10. It includes practically all Amalgamated men of the steel corporation not now on strike, and will be mailed to vice presidents of the districts in which there are mills operated by the National Steel, National Tube and Federal Steel companies. Brothron—The officials of the United States Steel Trust have refused to recognize as union men that who striving for the right to organize. The executive board has authorized me to issue a call upon all Amalgamated and other union men in name and heart to the movement to fight for labor's rights. You will be told that you have signed contracts, but you never agreed to surrender these contracts to the United States Steel Corporation. Its officers think just as the mills were, contracts and all. Remember, before you agreed to any contract you took an obligation to the Amalgamated Association. It now calls you to help in this hour of need. You must do so before Saturday, August 10, 1901, the mills will close when the last turn is made on that day. The call to the men of the three companies in the mills of which the association is strongest is expected to be promptly responded to on Saturday, which will swell the number of idle men to 100,000. It will practically suspend operations of the Federal Steel company and cut off half the production of the other two companies. At the plant of the National Tube company at McKeessport the organization is new, and the effect of the strike order is uncertain. President Shiller declined to say whether the order was meant to go to the union men in the Carnegie Steel company, but it is probable that they will be expected to join in the strike. An effort will also be made to hamper the operations of the American Steel Wire and the American Bridge companies, although there is no organization among the plants of the latter concern. At noon yesterday President Shaffer called out all the men employed in the New Castle mills of the National Steel company. They stopped work at 12 o'clock last night. He stated that his purpose in doing this was that he had learned that the trust has been piling up union-made bars in the old housings of the dismantled Jennings sheet mill for the purpose of supplying the trade to the non-union mills when the plants were shut down. About 1,500 men are affected by this, the initial strike since the failure of the conference. In an address to the striking employees of the Painter Steel and Hoop Mills last night, President Shaffer said: "Men of Painter's mill, the final test between organized capital and organized labor is now on. It is a fact that last Saturday in the office of J. Pierpont Morgan in New York we could have settled the strike had we agreed to desert you. We would not desert you, and we now ask you not to desert us (cries of "No, no"). This is a contest in which millions of dollars are concentrated to crush out organized labor. I have gone over every inch of the ground, and assure you men that the general strike order will be obeyed to the letter. Our financial resources are in good shape, and we will pay strike benefits from now on. If you remain steadfast, victory and garlands will be yours." Secretary John Williams followed Mr. Shaffer. He told of the support that has been offered the association by union men from all over the country. Yesterday, he said, he had received a telegram from the White Rats of New York, in which that organization offered to donate a percentage of their earnings for the sike fund and also to give performance for the benefit of the sirkers in all parts of the country. Members of the Bricklayers' Union had voluntarily donated a generous sum for the sirkers and also announced that they would assess their members 20 per cent of their earnings for aiding the sike This, it was estimated, would bring in $1,000 a month. By Monday of next week the Amalgamated Association expected to show its hand in an unexpected quarter. The officials of the organization decline to even intimate what this means, but promise that there will be developments of an interesting character by that time. In this connection, it is said, that upwards of 90 per cent. of the men employed in the Carnegie mills are union at heart. Gompera Declinea To Speak: Atlantic City, Aug. 7.—President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, who is sojourning here, said last night that he would not deny or affirm anything in regard to the Federation's attitude towards the steel strike. Steel Strike Has Effect Niles, Mich., Aug. 7.—Effects of the steel strike are being felt here. The Merrill-Stevens company, manufacturers of railroad cattle guards, were yesterday compelled to shut down their local plant, being unable to secure raw material. DOWAGER EMPRESS DEAD. Gronberg, August 6.—The Dowaget Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor William, died at 6.15 p. m. yesterday. The death was unexpectedly sudden, as at 4 p. m. her physicians had reported no change in her condition. She was fully conscious during the last hours, and all her children, with the M. EMPRESS FREDERICK. exception of Prince Henry, who is at Cadiz, were assembled in the sick room. Of her death the Norddentsche Allegemeine Zeitung in a splendid eulogy says: "The most brilliant earthy fortune and the most profound human suffering were alike not known to her. In the greatness of soul with which she bore an incurable malady she showed herself a true companion of the German hero who, by his sufferings and his deeds, will ever remain dear to the hearts of our people. By his side she now sleeps, and her name will endure among the names of the great princesses who have adorned the throne of the Hohenzollers." SENATOR McLAURIN'S REPLY. quest For His Resignation. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 7.—The state Democratic executive committee yesterday received Senator McLaurin's reply to their action of July 25 condemning his course in the Senate and demanding his resignation. It is of considerable length. In the course of the letter Senator McLaurin writes: "I hold my commission from the Democratic voters of South Carolina. I recognize no authority but theirs, take no orders from any source but them, and shall in due course appeal to them for judgment on my course as a senator and my character as a man and a Democrat. Personally, I am indifferent to your action, because nobody has made you my master or censor, and I regard what you have done as merely expressing the malice and the fears of one individual, Senator B. R. Tillman." ANOTHER JOHNSON RAILWAY. In Which 3-Cent Fares and Free Transfers Are Mentioned. Cleveland, Aug. 7.—The United Traction company, of Cleveland, a concern in which Mayor Tom L. Johnson is believed to be a prominent factor, will within the next few weeks, it is said, ask the city council for a street car franchise in this city for a system that will embrace half a dozen lines, east and west and cross town. Three-cent fares and universal transfers will be two of the concessions the new company will offer as reasons for its request for franchises. Mayor Taggart Declined Fourth Term. Taggart, Declined Fourth Term. Indianapolis, Aug. 7—Mayer Thomas Taggart, three times mayor of Indianapolis, in a letter to the Democratic city committee, positively declines to accept a fourth nomination. The committee has accepted the letter as final. Mayor Taggart's renomination was assured. He is Democratic national committeeman from Indiana. GENERAL MARKETS. Philadelphia, Aug. 6.—Flour steady; winter super fine, 21.5%; Pennsylvania roller, clear, $2.90;31.5%; city mills, extra, Rye flour slow, at $2.65;80% per barrel, Rye flour slow, at $2.65;80% respot, 73/34;73%. Corn dull; No. 2 yellow, local, 62%; Oats firm; No. 2 white clipped, 45@45%; lower grades, 41@45%. Hay in good demand; No. 1 timothy, $1.50; 73/34;73%. Pork steady; family, 11/30. Live poultry quoted at 10c, for hens, 7c for old roosters, 12@1c, for spring dresses. Dressed poultry at 10@1c, for choice broilers, 12@1c, for nearby broilers, 12@1c, for frozen broilers. Butter steady; creamy, 21/3c; factory, 19@21c. Cheese unsettled; fancy large colored, $9@9c. Egg firm;烹 served at Pennsylvania, 17c; western storage at毫克, 12@1c. Potatoes off; Jersey, 56@56c. Baltimore, Aug. 6. -Flour quiet and unchanged, wheat strong; spot and the month, 73% @ 73%; September, 76% @ 73%; October, 74% @ 74%; December, 76%; October, 62% @ 74%; southern by sample, 62% @ 74%; southern by sample, 62% @ 74%; corn dull; spot, 71% @ 68%; the month, 57%; September, 58%; summer mixed, 58%; southern wheat corn, 62 @ 63%; southern yellow corn, 6 @ 10. Oats firm for old; new more active; No. 2 butter firm for old; new new, 4 @ 44; No. 1 mixe, old, 429 @ 429; No. 1 higher, No. 2 nearby, 55; No. 2 western, 56. Hay firm; No. 1 timothy, $16 @ 15.0 Butter firm and unchanged; dancy infusion, 17 @ 18%; fancy creamy, 21 @ 12%; fancy ladle, 15 @ 16%; store packed, 12 @ 14. Eggs firm and unchanged; fresh 14%; eggs unchanged; large; medium, 10% cereal and sugar firm and unchanged; fine and coarse granulated, $5.5 From Elmira To Towanda By Rail. Elmira, N. Y., Aug. 7.—New York and Pennsylvania capitalists, it is announced, will construct a railroad, utilizing both steam and electricity, from this city to Towanda. Pa., passing through many intermediate towns. The incorporation papers are expected to be filed within a few days. Richmond, Va., Aug. 1.—At the constitutional convention yesterday Mr. Witthers offered a resolution creating a corporation commission to be elected by the people, and providing against discrimination in freight and passenger rates. 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Correspondence solicited, Address. BAY SHORE HOTEL COMPANY, P. O. Box 364, Hampton, Va. John W. Murray, [Formerly with John Podesta] No.126 and 128 N.18th St. Prompt Delivery of Goods. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally instituted under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial and to promote the Social and Moral condition of humanity. Direct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization a constant ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand oppor- men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organize Kindly address. This organization has been chartered and legally instituted under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial and Fraternal and to promote the Social and Moral condition of humanity. Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization a place on the front ranks of the institutions of modern events, a grand opportunity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organize lodges. Kindly address. G. W. ALLEN Supreme Voyages, 346 W. 37th Street, New York City. Old hunters say The MARLIN has so many things to commend it. The top of the school is always closed, the mechanism the most simple, the finish elegant, the form attractive. It seems to throw its bullets a little more accurately, a plant them with a little more force than any other rifle. For deer take a 38-55 or 30-30. MARLIN FIRE ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN, CONN. SUMMER BOARDERS WANTED Mrs. J. T. Allens, Cumberland county TVa. 15 minute's walk from Farm ville station. Plenty of vegetable and fruit. Good mineral water of all kind and a very quiet place. For other it formation please. J. J. T. ALLEN, Farmville, Va. Box 71 A V. P. & F. K. of W. HOME OFFICE: ST. LUKE'S HALL, 900 ST. JAMES RICHMOND, VA. We pay sick Benefits Promptly. Death Benefits in 24 hours after satisfactory proof has been filed in the Office. OFFICERS & BOARD: THE PLANET SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1901 GOLD BULLION ROBBERY Smelting Works at Vallejo, Cal. Tunnelled By Bold Thieves. QUARTER OF A MILLION TAKEN Robbers Worked in the Dead of Night and Gained Entrance to the Vault Detectives Thus Far Have Discovered Ne Trace of the Thieves. San Francisco, Aug. 7.—About $280, 000 worth of gold bullion was stolen from the Selby Smelting Works at Vallejo on Monday night. The robbery was not discovered until yesterday morning. Access to the strong room, where the bullion was stored, was secured through a tunnel, which the thieves had bored from the edge of San Francisco bay to the building, some distance from the water's edge. It is supposed that the thieves took their plunder away in a boat. The Selby Smeltter is the largest on the Pacific coast. Ores are sent there from all parts of the western slope for reduction. The works are located near the bay shore, about 30 miles from San Francisco. The gold is kept in a steel-lined room. The robbers tunneled until they got directly under the room, and then cut through the floor. The tunnel was skillfully constructed work, which it must have taken many days to complete. An official of the Selby works made the following statement this morning: "The robbers must have succeeded in entering the vault some time between midnight and l o'clock yesterday morning. They entered the vault through a hole about the size of a manhole in a boiler, and indications point to the fact that the robbers have been working on the scheme for some time. Over 150 holes were bored in the bottom of the vault, and the workmanship indicates that mechanics of more than usual ability superintended the job. The holes were bored to within a hair's breadth of the surface, and when the proper time came the plate was forced up, thus giving the robbers access to the vault. The plotters first excavated a hole alongside the building, directly in line with the vault. The work of excavating must have taken some time, and at the end of each night's work (for the work must have been done at night), a covering of laths, rubber sheeting and sacks was made, the whole being covered over with a layer of dirt, thus hiding any sign of what was going on. "What became of the excavated dirt we have been unable to find out. It must have been removed in sacks. The covering we have ascertained was not strong enough to hold the weight of a man, but the excavation was made so close to the building that the man never walked over it. We find that the plotters were aided by some one thoroughly familiar with the system employed at the works and one fully informed as to the construction of the vault. "Monday night one of the watchmen employed about the premises heard noises inside the vault and informed his fellows that the devil or ghosts were inside the vault. They laughed at him and made no investigation, and thus the robbers were left unmolested at their work. "The weight of the gold carried out of the vault aggregates 1,200 pounds, and it must have taken several trips for one man. And several men must have been employed in carrying the metal to the boat. We are assured a boat was in waiting for them. "Inside the vault were several sacks containing $110,000, but this was not touched. It may have been that the men became alarmed. That they were alarmed is also indicated by the fact that two bars of gold of great value were left on the beach in their haste to escape." HOWISON ON SCHLEY COURT. Berry On Famous Board. Washington. H. Washington, has been appointed Henry I. Howison, has been appointed REAR ADMIRAL HOWISON. to fill the vacancy on the Schley court of inquiry, caused by the inability of Rear Admiral Kimberley to serve. Admiral Howison is one of several officers who, Rear Admiral Schley notified the department, were satisfactory to him. The navy department has received from Admiral Schley a list of officers whom he desires to have summoned as witnesses before the court. Among these are Lieutenant Commander Seaton Schroeder, governor of Guam: Ensign William B. Wells, who served with Schley on the Brooklyn during the Spanish war, and Lieutenant B. W. Wells, Jr., who was Rear Admiral Schley's private secretary. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Rev. Daniel E. Mahar, of Altoona, is now president of the Brighton Seminary at Boston. Cresceus, the champion trotter, will start against his record of 2.02% on Friday at Cleveland. The board of directors of the Seaboard Air Lines has been increased from eight to twelve members. The tea growers of Japan are about to take steps to control the market for Japanese teas by limiting the supply. Charles W. Morgan, a stock broker, of New York, Philadelphia and Washington, has been adjudged a bankrupt. Friday, August 2. Harry C. Mason, former speaker of the Ohio house of representatives, is dead at Prescott, Arz. The Virginia constitutional convention by a tie vote of 39 to 29 yesterday again refused to take a recess. Theodore C. Search called on President McKinley at Canton yesterday in the interests of Philadelphia manufacturers. Mr. and Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Clark-decker started from New York yesterday on a 2,900-mile ride to Beaumont, Tex., on their automobile. Israel M. Parr, senior member of the grain firm of I. M. Parr & Son, and one of the most prominent of the old line of Baltimore merchants, died last night at Fernwood, his country home, near Baltimore. Saturday, August 3. The Illinois, Indiana and Iowa railway will extend its lines into Detroit. John Welde, a well known Philadelphia brewer, died yesterday from diabetes. Boers to the number of 500 have invaded Portuguese territory in South Africa. Judge Gillette, of Valparaiso, Ind., is a candidate for the United States district bench to succeed the late Judge W. A. Woods. In a speech in the house of commons yesterday, that was attended by much excitement, Mr. Chamberlain said the war policy of the government in the future would be a most severe one. Monday, August 5. Ninety per cent. of the horses in Chicago, Ill., have influenza. Corn in Kentucky has fallen off 55 per cent. and tobacco 26 per cent. from the drouth. Foshall Keene, the noted polo player, has returned to this country from England. The torpedo boat Biddle, built at Bath, Me. has been accepted by the government. Benjamin S. Banks, a Philadelphia lawyer, died yesterday at the Salem, Mass., hospital, of typhoid fever. For conducting a raffle of a building at Omaha, Neb., several prominent officeholders are to be prosecuted. Charles H. Hayden, a noted landscape and animal painter, died in Boston yesterday on his 45th birthday anniversary. Tuesday, August 6. David E. Hill, a prominent sewer pipe manufacturer died at Akron, O pipe manufacturer, died at Akron, O. Leonard G. Sefing's jewelry store at Allentown, Pa., was robbed of between $4,000 and $5,000. The new state reformatory at Rahway, N. J., was formally opened yesterday. Jesse Haney, owner at one time of the New York Picayune, died at his home in New York yesterday. Governor McMillan, of Tennessee, and Governor Tyler, of Virginia, determined upon the share of expense to be borne by their respective states in settling the boundary line. The Gottleib Baurern-Schmid-Strauss Brewing company, a combination of Baltimore brewers, was incorporated at Camden, with a capital of $5,000,000. Wednesday. August 7. At Raleigh, N. C., the most destructive rain in 40 years fell. The United States training ship Saratoga has arrived at Cherbourg. Valuable mineral treasures have recently been discovered in Palestine. council has been discovered in Palestine. Preparatory work was begun in Cleveland yesterday for the encampment of the G. A. R. Norfolk was visited by a tornado at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon which blew off the roofs of twenty houses. The United Mine Workers of district No. 1, endorsed the stand taken by the Amalgamated Association. Daniel Maher, the jockey, will probably never enter another race. He has hemorrhage of the lungs. In retaliation for the German tariff bill, Russia will forbid its farm laborers crossing the frontier to work in Prussia. Samuel Shinn, convicted of the murder of Thomas Applegate, of Extonville, N. J., was yesterday sentenced to 18 years at hard labor. PRISONER'S NOVEL OFFER. Will Give $100,000 To See G. A. R. En- campment At Cleveland. Columbus, O., Aug. 7.—Ben De Lamos, a United States prisoner from Alabama, in the Ohio penitentiary here, offers to give bond in $100,000 if permitted to attend the G. A. R. encampment at Cleveland. He says he has never missed one. De Lamos was sentenced for a technical violation of the pension laws. He is the man who slept in the speaker's chair in the Alabama house as a tramp, and within two years was elected as a member and afterward filled the chair as speaker. Carrollton, Miss., Aug. 2.—The murder of Mr. and Mrs. Tallafero culminated last night in the lynching of Betsie McCray, her son, Beffield McCray, and daughter, Ida McCray, all colored. The mob was composed of about 600 white citizens of Carroll county, who marched to the jail in order, demanded the keys from Jailer Duke, proceeded to the cells of the unfortunate negroes, bound them by the necks and hands and carried them to the corporate limits of the town, where they hung them to a tree by the publicside and riddled their bodies with bullets. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. GENERAL SOUTHERN N Macon, Ga., Aug. 5.—A special frost Gainesville, Ga., says: "Mrs. Dic Chatham died at her home in this city yesterday morning of hydrophobis She was bitten by a mad dog severs days ago. Jackson, Miss., Aug. 6.—W. J. Lygon, sanitary inspector of Jackson, last night shot and killed David L. Shelton. The men had quarreled earl in the day. Shelton, it is said, returned to the attack with a stick, whe Ligon pulled a revolver and shot him through the heart. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 6.—Miss Carrie Jones, 20 years of age, daughter of ex-Governor Thomas G. Jones, was run over and killed by a street ca yesterday in front of her father's residence. The accident was witnessed by the ex-governor. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 5.—A special fro Leesburg, Ga., says: Ten persons were poisoned with ice cream last Thursday at the home of Mrs. W. R. Bunkley W. R. Bunkley died yesterday from the effects, and Mrs. Bunkley and daughter are critically ill. The guest and others of the family are recor ering. Smithville, Tenn., Aug. 3.—The first lynching in the history of DeKal county was recorded yesterday, when Charley Davis, the man who was charged with assaulting Miss Kai Huse last Sunday evening, was tak from the court house by a mob o about 25 people and hanged about quarter of a mile from town. Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 5.—The Knoxville Traction company made an effort to run cars yesterday. This cut down the church congregations and made Knoxville a city of stay-at-home. Chilhowie Park, owned by the Traction company, which usually is crowded on Sunday, was deserted there being no way to reach it. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 6.—Adjutant General Robertson last night ordered Major Barker to put himself in command of three companies and report with them this morning to the sheriff of Cherokee county at the Fultor county jail in Atlanta, to accompany Raymond Ross, a negro, to Canton Ga., where he will be tried to day-for an alleged assault on a white woman New Orleans, Aug. 5.—The Picay unee Carrollton, Miss., special says: "Your correspondent has just learned that the armed mob which has been in the Tallafero neighborhood for two days, looking for Sallie Laytor and others, some time last night killed Will Pice, the negro who worked for Mr. Tallafero and lived within 200 yards of his residence. Carrollton, Miss., Aug. 3.—The alm has been rife with rumors of additional lynchings all day but these reports are without foundation. A posse of men is scouring the country in an effort to apprehend several negroes suspected of complicity in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Tallafero. The only persons lynched in connection with the murder were the three McGray negroes. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 3.—Dr. Henry B. Horlbeck, at the time of his death and for many years health officer of this port, died yesterday. His body, according to his direction, will be cremated, the third instance of the kind in the history of South Carolina, the first having been Henry Laurens, the president of the continental congress, who died in 1792, the first cremation in this country. Jackson, Miss., Aug. 2.—After an exciting chase and escape from a mob bent on lynching the prisoners, Sheriff Magee, of Simpson county, arrived in Jackson yesterday, having in custody Sterling Johnson and Reuben Tezelle, negroes who murdered a young white man named Mangum, near Magee, Miss. Tuesday night. A mob surrounded the jail Wednesday night and endeavored to break down the gate. Charlotte, N. C., Aug. 5. — A special from Shelby, N. C., says that Chief of Police Jones of that place was shot and instantly killed by Jim Lowery, a negro employed at the South Carolina and Georgia depot, yesterday morning. Jones, with a warrant charging Lowery with selling whiskey without a license, went to serve it and was shot through the heart. Four bloodhounds and over a thousand people are on the nogroe's trail. Sensible Course of Action. A pedantic pedagogue had taken a few of his pupils to the zoo. While the lions were being fed he asked the keeper: "If one of these gigantic and ferocious carnivora should contrive to emancipate itself, and should hurl its prodigious strength into our midst, what steps would you take?" "Long uns, sir," answered the boy—Tit-Bits. Began to Economize She—As we are to be married next month, don't you think you ought to begin to economize? He—Oh, I've begun already. That very thought occurred to me this evening as I was coming here. She—What did you do? He—Passed the candy store without stopping.—N. Y. Weekly. Hygienic Enough. Lady (seriously, to policeman in Central park)—Officer, did this walking through the wet grass according to Father Kueipp ever really cure anything? Officer (with enthusiastic heartiness)—Shure, ma'am! Dirty feet.—Judge. Only Natural. Schermerhorn—How amusingly most girls write. I receive letters from three different girls, each of which is one long sentence without punctuation from beginning to end. Stuyvesant—That is not peculiar. That is simply the way girls talk.—Brooklyn Eagle. It Made a Difference Dr. Bigfee—Have the Joneses paid their bill yet? Secretary—They have. Dr. Bigfee—Ah, Mrs. Jones is in the office—I didn't know whether to order her to the mountains or order her out—Judge. A Match and a Mystery. Her name was Short—his name was Long—They married; now, you see. She's always Long—he's always short—How's always Long—he's always be? -Chicago Record-Herald. FOR SUNDAY READING THE SETTING SUN. In stately grandeur goes the setting sun With still increasing glories down the west. His measured course across the heavens is run. And his-born glories mark his place of rest; Like a great spreading sea of flame and fire Broken in waves of color and rich hue. The center is green, the blue of the sapphire Orange and pearl and purple woven through. Like a great chart of some Hesperian sees, Where lie the tabled islands of the blest, Beyond in all their splendid imagery, What tongue or artist's penil can express. Great arm of light, that in columns rise, And break in minarets and flashing domes. That fill with new-born hope and glad surprise, As doth some dream that in the night time comes. And as my eyes dwell on the wondrous beauty, My thoughts reach out beyond the changing show. Beyond the fleeting, unubstantial sheen That soon shall into ashen shadows grow, Where lies, 'mid splendors fadeless that endure. The city of our God and His redeemed; Where is no change but such as shall insure A greater glory than erstwhile was dreamed. So, too, the goal now reached, and closed the race, The Christian goes in triumph to his rest; The smile of God transfigures his pale face, The heart of God abounds within his breast, The setting sun becomes a rising sun, Before which shadows flee, the new day's dawn, A day which shall in endless cycles run, With glory crowned, forever on and on. -William G. Hasesebarth, in Christian Work. THE LITTLE CHILD. Why He Was Selected by Christ to Exemplify to the World the True Life. It has been said that "Jesus Christ discovered the child." And this is true in its best sense. He left it for boastful "psychologists" of a later age to ascertain by means of "child study" how many babies in 100 put their right thumbs in their mouths and how many prefer their left, great toes; but Jesus Christ saw in the child those primal requisites of the spiritual nature upon which the happiness and the moral life of the world alike rest. The one great question of all religions had been: What kind of life on earth is most approved by the heavenly powers? It was significantly when His disciples had been striving about questions of precedence that He "took a little child and set him in the midst of them" and said: "The greatest in the kingdom of Heaven is the one most like this." It was a reversal of the popular conception in a sentence. Man's conception of God has been of one impassive, stern, self-conscious of His infinite perfections. The exposition of Jesus taught that God was sympathetic, forgiving, self-forgetful in His aims. Each age has certain virtues that are in a measure native to it. Those native to childhood, said the Master, are supreme. By Heaven's measurements he is not "greatest" who can best prove, but he who most readily believes; not he who can systematize a moral theory, but he who is most responsive to moral intuitions; not he who can surmount obstacles, but he who is most sweetly conscious of and glad in his dependence. No age ever needed that lesson more than this; no people more than we. Our popular heroes are all of the "strenuous" kind. In finance they are multi-milliomires; in state, imperial counsellors, men of blood and iron. Even in religion we have not only abandoned the cloister; we have forsaken the closet. We worship only the big, the powerful, the triumphant. We must have "great" revivals, or give up. That Kingdom of Heaven which cometh not by observation is "too slow" for our day. We must count our members every year; and our faith rises or falls with the figures of the census. But, after all, our own experience only goes to show that Jesus was right, as He always is. The noblest manhood always carries a heart of childhood in its breast. The most Christlike church has still something of the early simplicity in its faith and ways; while the divinet soul, the one most fitted for the kingdom of God on earth or in Heaven, believes because it must; obeys, as a matter of gracious instinct, and loves because it is life to love. It is of such souls the Kingdom of Heaven is built up; and the best thing we can do for the kingdom ourselves is to cherish such a spirit in our hearts.—Chicago Interior. SUNBEAMS. Peace with God gives power with men.—Ram Horn. After all, more souls are won for Jesus Christ by saintly conduct than by any argument.—Alexander Maclaren. For that is the essence of true religion—to be redeemed from the bondage of sin as well as its punishment.—James Hinton. If Heaven doth not enter into us by way of holiness, we shall never enter into Heaven by way of happiness.—John Mason. To the bright-spirited friend we always turn when we need human help. In affliction we have no use for the one who looks on the dark side of life. He is as useless as dark, lowering skies are to the already storm-beaten land.—Christian Intelligencer. A SERENE SOUL In Christ the Only Thing That Can Give Any Real Peace of Mind. And that ye study to be quiet.—I. Thessalonians, 4:11. Peace of mind is worth more than many things which we work harder to require. It has no relation to that stolical indifference which driftwood feels when it tries to stem the current and then resigns itself to fate, but is the result of faith in the purpose and power of God to adapt every possible experience to our higher welfare. A man can be calm only when he knows that a stronger hand than his is guiding events, and that behind the hand is a warm heart. Our spiritual difficulty is that we cannot consent to allow God to rule His own universe. If we were traveling through a strange country we should accept the word of our guide as final. His familiarity with the environment would render him an authority, and though many things might not be to our liking, we should hardly take the responsibility of dismissing him and trusting to our ignorance rather than his wadmom. The profitableness of the journey would depend on implicit obedience, for without the guide we should be helpless. We know nothing of the new language, nothing of the customs of the people, and if left alone, therefore, we should be like a blind man among pitfalls. The guide is the autocrat of the occasion, and unless he is the autocrat the whole journey will end in grief. He does not advise, he commands. He even insists when you rebel, and will make no compromise whatever. There is but one safe way to proceed in order to insure the end you seek, and he is master of that way. Your sole business is to obey him, and to prove his ability to lead by the results which come to you. If, therefore, you are convinced that your guide is competent, you can be quiet under the most perplexing circumstances. When he assures you that you need have no fear, that though danger threatens he is in perfect control of the exigency, you learn to suffer discomfort with something approaching cheerfulness, and the fact that you have confidence in him affords a serenity and even a contentment which you could not enjoy but for his presence. He tells you frankly that there are hardships to be borne, but no real harm can come to you; that there are sufferings to be endured, but because of them you will find yourself a stronger and healthier man in the end. I take it that life is just such a journey as that. It is through a new and strange country we are traveling. It is not an easy road that leads through earth to Heaven. Neither can it be denied that our experiences are frequently inexplicable. Problems present themselves which we cannot solve, and we wonder with a rebellious kind of wonder why we must suffer while others seem to enjoy. Only one grim fact stares us in the face, namely, that the unwelcome experience cannot be evaded, must be met, and, if possible, used to our advantage. I am ready to admit that there is apparent injustice in human life, and ready to confess that I do not understand it. But this I know: there are just two ways, and no more, in which to meet whatever fate befalls. If I have no faith that wisdom and love are in control, I am the most desperate and unhappy being on the planet. My doubt is a source of weakness which disables me. My mental attitude affects even my physical health, and I am like a warrior who goes into battle without his weapons. Life is not profitable if you must go through it on your own personal judgment and responsibility. Outside of yourself there must be someone to call on for help, for comfort, for consolation. The universe is a dreary place without a God to worship and to pray to. God is the soul's prime necessity, and until you find Him and effect some kindly relation to Him, you can accomplish nothing better than failure. But with God always in the background of your experience nothing can happen that cannot be mastered. Peace of mind is the result of faith. Philosophy cannot furnish it, wealth cannot buy it, fame cannot give it to you. It is the product of religion alone. The religion which makes you bear with patience, suffer with resignation and seek in sorrow and be reevaluation the good they hide—that is worth having. It is practicable, and proves itself Divine by bringing God and the angels close to the soul when it needs them most. It is like bread to the hungry, water to the thirst. Christ was calm. His heart was an untroubled sea. Calvary did not dismay, Gethsemane did not disturb. The secret of His serenity was the presence of God, which, like sunlight, made darkness impossible. Even so with us. With Heaven in sight, with angels near at hand, the dull experiences of earth are transfigured by the radiance of eternity. We canbe cheerful, quiet, serene when the hand of man grasps the hand of the Father—George H. Hepworth, in N. Y. Herald. Spirit of True Contentment. Does it rain to-day? Is it dark and gloomy? That is all right; there must be some stormy days. To-morrow the clouds will have a silver lining, or disappear entirely. Does the sun shine? Enjoy the sunshine. To-morrow may be bright, also. Are you well? Enjoy your health and use it to the best advantage. Are you ill? Then it is a day in which to be patient and endure cheerfully. Are you free from trouble? Then it is a thanksgiving day. Are you carrying heavy burdens for yourself or others? Then it is a day for the rolling of your burdens at the foot of the Cross.—Louise Heywood. His Alleged Views First City Man—How does Subbubs like that place of his? Second City Man—Well, he has only one objection to malaria now — it isn't necessarily and quickly fatal.— Puek. Avoiding the Rush Politician—Tell me the best way to get out of politics. Friend—Turn prohibitionist. "Oh, that's too sudden; I want to get out gradually."—Smart Set. People Who Are Trifling People WHO ARE Triming. Wl-en you see people who are trifling, they do not keep their engagements.-Washington (Ia.) Democrat. A Girl's Shoe Shoes that exude in a girl are a curiosity—Chicago Blow News. The Scheme That Failed. "I say, Gaddesby," said Mr. Smith, as he entered a Peebles fishermonger's with a lot of tackle in his hand, "I want you to give me some fish to take home with me. Put them up to look as if they've been caught today, will you?" "Certainly, sir. How many?" "Oh, you'd better give me three or four-barbell! Make it look decent in quantity without appearing to exaggerate, you know." "Yes, sir. You'd better take salmon, eh?" "Why? What makes you think so?" "Oh, nothing, except that your wife was down early this morning, and said if you dropped in with your fishing tackle and a generally woebegone look, I was to persuade you to take salmon if possible, as she liked that kind better than any other."—London Answers. Things That Might Be Bettered. This may be the age of steel, steal, progress and reform, but we are not improving in some lines with commendable speed. The eyelets in our shoes are round, but we still wear flat strings. The loops on our summer trousers are placed so low that the waistband protrudes above the belt. The strap on the neckband of our shirt is long enough to let our tie slip over the top of the collar. Our hats are made for bullet-headed men; those with long heads must have a new purchase stretched out of shape to obtain a fit. The only kind of bachelor's buttons that are not utterly worthless grow wild in the fields of the United States. The country youths used to carry them in their pockets to divine their success with their sweethearts.—N. Y. Press. Painters Mixed in Their Flags. The cleaning of the frescoes at Westminster abbey has called attention to the fact that in the picture of the pilgrim fathers there the good ship Mayflower is flying the union flag that first came into existence in 1800, says a London newspaper. This anachronism is not uncommon in naval pictures. In the collection of all paintings of sea fights at the British Royal United Service institution there are many pictures of battles fought before 1800 in which the British ships飞 the union flag of to-day. The explanation of this anticipation of history is that some years ago, when the older pictures were cleaned and restored, the restorer "corrected" the flags by painting in St. Patrick's red cross over the white St. Andrew's cross of Scotland.—London Mail. Lion Versus Buffalo. When Purvis and Clark were exploring in Africa, north of the Zambesi, they saw a large lion stalking a buffalo bull and a calf. In his native wilds the lion is no particular hero, while the African buffalo is one of the most dangerous of the wild things. So Purvis and Clark watched. Suddenly the bull charged, but the lion sprang to one side for an instant, then leaped for the calf. Before the beast could strike, however, the buffalo bull had turned again and charged. The lion, on the defensive, struck at his assailant, but the blow had no effect on the enraged creature. One of the long, cruel horns caught the lion in the side and the creature, weighing more than 400 pounds, was thrown ten feet into the air—Chicago Tribune. Too Reallistic Altogether The drama has sometimes a curious effect on the mind of the people, and an incident proving this occurred here recently. The drama "Inez de Castro" was being played by a Lisbon tournee company at Evora. In the fifth and last act Inez is cruelly murdered by three men, who stab her and her children to death in a most harrowing manner. This aroused such indignation in the hearts of the occupants of the gallery that a party of them waited at the stage door for the murderers to come up, and attacked them with sticks and bludgeons, to the great dismay of the actors.—Lisbon Vanguarda. In a lecture before the University of Aberdeen, Dr. A. Keith expressed the opinion that both the gorilla and the chimpanzee are codecendants of an anthropoid animal which lived in the early miocene time, and he suggested for this creature the name of protroglodytes. He estimated that more than 5,000,000 years have elapsed since the separation of the human stock as a distinct animal form. -Science. Making a Strong Impression "Now, ma, you know I'm anxious to make an impression on those New York people. Bring me the coal oil can. I want to perfume my clothes." "With coal oil! Mercy, child, what do you mean?" "Why I want 'em to think we own an automobile." — Cleveland Plain Dealer Can Animals Cry! Lady Burton says she has seen horses in the Syrian desert cry from thirst, a mule cry from the pain of an injured foot, and camels shed tears in streams. A cow, sold by its mistress who had tended it from birth, wept bitterly. A young soko ape used to cry from vexation if Livingstone didn't nurse it in his arms when it asked him to. Wounded apes have died crying, and apes have wept over their young ones slain by hunters. A chimpanzee trained to carry water jugs broke one, and fell a crying, which proved sorrow, though it wouldn't mend the jug. Rats, discovering a young one drowned, have been moved to tears of grief. A giraffe which a huntsman's rifle had injured began to cry. Sea lions weep for the loss of their young. Gordon Cumming observed tears trickling from the eyes of a dying elephant. And even an orang-outang, when deprived of its mango, was so vexed that it took to crying. There can be little doubt, therefore that animals do weep from grief, or pain, or annoyance.—Cassell's Little Folks. A Historic Punch-Howl Quite possibly the most revered piece of silver plate in the United States navy is the massive 18-pound silver pumpe bowl of the battleship Indiana, which bears the honorable MOVING IN EXTREMES. Friend—How is your wife, old chap? Friend—How is your wife, old chap? Mr. Hanpeck—Last week she was dangerously ill and just now she is dangerously healthy—Heiltere Welt. The Stald Young Man. Her bean, he is a stald young man; Ah, yes, the wee sax hours. Have often proved anew to her His staying powers. —Philadelphia Bulletin. An Overpowering Argument. "Joe, how on earth did that man work you with a gold brick?" "Well, he took a mean advantage of me, you see; it was a hot day, and he first worked me with an ice cream brick."—Chicago Record-Herald. An Abstract Topic "Do you think that young Mr. Cady-takes after his ancestors?" "Really," answered Miss Cayenne, "I haven't time to discuss the Dar- winian theory." - Washington Star. Just So. "She winked at you, eh? Well what followed?" Folly of an English Girl. Devonshire, England, is to lose an interesting monument of the folly of a wealthy man. The earl of Egremont, who pursued so picturesque a career in the '50's of the last century, resolved to erect a mansion at Silverton, near Exeter, which should be an example to the world of what his genius and riches could produce in the way of beauty and luxury. He was his own architect, and so profuse were his ideas that he put up about 200 marble mantelpieces, had the doorknobs of the principal rooms fashioned of amber and the bath cut out of a solid piece of marble. He spent a quarter of a million on the place, and even then it was incomplete. It is, in fact, incomplete to this day, and now it is to be sold as building material. Two Exor Two Jones, like a fool, had poked his nose Twixt man and wife—and got the blows! Quoth Jones: "It has been truly said, Angels fear tread. —Chicago, Daily News." A man is kneeling on a table, preparing a bowl of food. A woman stands behind him, holding a spoon and a fork. A cat sits on a shelf above the table. 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With flashing of mary a signal light, And matter of mortal dim. He brought the conquering hosts of Night, And the sun was overcome. From hill and valley along his way Were stricken the bonds of Heat And not a leaf or a twig or spray But blessed his hurrying feet. Till the work was done; and adown the sky He passed to the distance dim. He drew his pennants, fluttering high. AM a newspaper man—that is, I am employed on a morning newspaper to write news, not love stories. In my "assignments" I meet many men and hear many strange tales, some true, but the majority not. But surely the strangest of all is that I am about to relate. It is customary for newspaper men to buy almost every afternoon paper in order to familiarize themselves with events that have taken place in the time intervening between the previous issue of the morning paper on which they are employed and the following one. Not that this has anything to do with the story—except that it nerves to introduce one of the characters. I always bought my paper from one boy—"Jim" Taylor by name—and thus formed a liking for him, for he was always courteous—and dirty. "Jim," I had learned from him, was an orphan and lived at the Newsboys' lodging house. He had no care beyond earning enough to feed and clothes himself, and, of course, a sufficient amount left over for a ticket for "de gallery in the teayter," accompanied by the traditional pint of peanuts. In the two or three years I had known "Jim" he had never been absent from his post of duty at the corner. But about two months ago he was missing from his accustomed place or business, and although made inquiries, I could get no information concerning him beyond the fact that his companions "hadn't heard marthin of him." So, after pondering as to whether the little fellow had committed a criminal act and had been sent to some institution or had been run over by some vehicle and was perhaps lying in a hospital without relatives or friends to care as to the result of his injuries, and further inquiries proving fruitless, the name of "Jim" passed temporarily from my mind. A week ago, upon going to the office to get my "assignment" for the day, I found that opposite my name on the book were these instructions: "See Senator H— in regard to the rumor that he had been offered the presidency of the — national bank." Going to the senator's house, my summons at the door was answered by a rather bright-looking boy dressed in the conventional blue suit with white metal buttons, of whom I inquired: "Is Senator H—at ho—well, I blessed if this isn't little 'Jim'. How in the world did you get here?" At which "Jim" smiled a very broad smile and replied: "Yes, sir, the senator is at home. How did I get here? Oh, the senator will tell you that if he isn't too busy. Your card, please." This was said in a tone plainly indicating that he was to be treated in a manner becoming his station as door boy, and not with the familiarity he had been accustomed to as news-boy. My card was handed him, and he returned with the announcement that the senator would receive me in his study, and would I "please to walk in." The senator proved to be a man of small stature, with clean shaven face, and had altogether a boyish appearance. After such formal introduction customary to newspaper men making themselves known to enfire strangers, I boldly started in with: "Senator, I called to see you in reference to the rumor that you were offered the—oh, by the way, excuse me, but how do you happen to have 'Jim' Taylor in your employ? He and I are old acquaintances." I could not resist the temptation to satisfy my curiosity on that score before attending to my duty. "Indeed," replied the senator, "I am very glad to hear it, for my wife and I think a great deal of James, and are happy to do a favor for any of his friends. As to how I came to employ 'Jim,' as you call him, it is a story well worth the telling, in confidence, of course, although the joke was on me. "As I had only an hour to spare before starting off again—this time for Albany—I thought it would be a good idea to get some bright newsboy to carry a note I had written on the train over to Judge Brown's office. I had learned that a quarter of a dollar invested in a newsboy will bring quicker results than double the amount paid to an incorporated institution for the service of a slow-going messenger. "Well, Jim Taylor happened to be standing near the hotel steps selling papers, so I called him and instructed him as to delivering the message. As Jim had a great many papers, I said I would take them into the hotel and leave them with the clerk until he came back. Just as I was about to go into the office who should sing out a cheery 'Why, senator, how are you?' but Judge Brown himself, Glad to see him? Well, rather. I forgot that I was standing there on the steps of a public house with a mudgy face and a bundle of papers under my arm. "The judge and I stood there for some minutes discussing some business matters, when our conversation was interrupted by a handsome woman, accompanied by an equally attractive young girl, who asked me for an evening paper and tendered a ten-cent piece in payment. "The situation dawned upon me as quick as a flash and although my face assumed all the colors of the rainbow, I calmly (at least I think I did) handed over the paper and gave the young lady her change. Just imagine! She thought I was selling papers, and that in the presence of the judge, too! However, I smiled serenely. But when I overheard the conversation that ensured between the two ladies you can picture that smile changing into chagrin. It ran this way: "Poor fellow!' said the young lady to her companion, 'he looks as if he had seen better days.' "Yes,' responded the younger, 'but he seems old enough to keep his face washed.' "This was too much. Abruptly leaving the judge, who was convulsed with MY CARD WAS HANDED HIM laughter, I threw the papers away, rushed into the hotel office, registered, took a bath, was shaved, and left just in time to catch my train. "As James was writing at the judge's office for him, of course I had departed before he came back, and so he did not get either his quarter or his newspapers, for I did not give him a thought in my chagrin and haste to get away. "Well, I met the pretty young lady several times afterward at receptions, and those at the judge's house too, mind you. And although the judge had not known her at the time of the ridiculous mistake, he immediately recalled the incident and came very near making the facts known to her. I managed to draw him aside in time to enforce a compact not to breathe a word about the matter. "Two weeks ago, as you know, I was married to that same charming young lady, of course, and when I furnished this house, what better could I do than make a place for James, who was primarily the occasion of my happiness? Now, I want you to promise not to say a word about the matter, for if my wife was to know it—ah, er—Lucy, this is Mr. Blank; Mr. Blank, my wife." Ah, well, I am only a newspaper reporter, sent about among scenes that both cheer and sadden, skilled by years of training to display no emotion, but somehow when I left the couple I felt that I would have willingly played newsboy for a year in order to have reaped the "profit" that the senator did.—N. Y. Times. Last of the Fighters The last English king who fought on a battlefield was George II. At the battle of Dettingen, in Bavaria, 158 years ago, between the British, Hanoverian and Hessian troops (52,000 men) under George II. and the French (60,000 men) under Marshal Noailles, which resulted in a victory for the allies, his Britannic majesty continued the whole time in all the heat of the action. The conflict is said to have been fierce. George appeared in the same red coat he had worn at Oudenarde 35 years before. At one time he was nearly taken by the enemy, but was rescued by the Twenty-second regiment, the members of which, in remembrance of that day, wore a sprig of oak in their caps upon the anniversary of the battle for many years afterward.—N. Y. Press. Teaching the Mosquito. It is possible to accomplish not only more than one expects, but much more than one desires. "I understand Brown went to New Jersey last summer to study the mosquito," said one man to another, referring to a well-known entomologist. 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A Hobbema landscape has been sold in London for $11,250 that brought $1,380 in 1837, $1,420 in 1817 and $1,925 in 1813. No British ship may carry a deckload of timber into a British port between the last day of October and April 16. The United Kingdom produces only 40,000 tons of cheese out of the 120,000 eaten every year by the people of that country. Jury trials are going out of favor in England. Out of 494 cases in the king's bench at the present Trinity session, 162 are to be tried without a jury. The Forth bridge is constantly being repainted. So vast is the structure that it takes 50 tons of paint to give it one coat, and the area dealt with is something like 120 acres. A British pickle maker has his pint bottles made to hold just over a pint, so as to be on the safe side of the English law. His caution met with poor reward when some of these bottles arrived in Canada, where the law provides that any measure holding more than a pint must pay duty as a quart. THE VERY LATEST. 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Ever above the city's din, Above the clink of yellow gold, I hear a wild bird's ringing call, I catch the scent of fear-strewn mold. Your grasses kiss my fevered cheek. Your hawthorn drops her saturated rain, I am a child again, and dream The heavens blides here, O flower-starred lane— - Florence A. Jones, in Criterion. ELLIOTT and Edwards are already back from their vacation. They did not stay as long as they expected and they had one adventure which they have sworn to keep a secret. It happened the first night after they reached the lake. Though Elliott and Edwards have lived on the shores of Lake Michigan all their lives, they had never until this spring been out on the water. When they decided to go to the Wisconsin lake for their vacation trip they decided that they must at least learn how to row a boat. So they went up to Lincoln park after office hours and practiced until they felt that they were finished carmen. When they reached the summer resort at which they had engaged a cottage they wore blue yachting suits and white yachting caps, and were "made up" in every way like a couple of sad sea dogs. Outside of vacation days they were bookkeepers in an insurance office on La Salle street. They were only a few years over 20, however, and it was natural they should want to cut a dash. Elliottdown a downy red mustache, and both youths wore gold-rimmed pinch nose everglasses. After dinner in the big dining-room they decided it was "up to them" to give an exhibition of their seamanship. Old "Tom," the man in charge of the boats, snailled when he saw them bare two pairs of arms which it would take a wholesale poetic license to call brawny. He tried to give them a broad-beamed, flat-bottomed old skiff which could hardly be tipped over, but they were too knowing for him. They insisted on having a crankly little thing, pointed at both ends, and too narrow for either comfort or safety. As the lake was perfectly calm "Tom" let them have it, and they started out. Some one had told them of a log-cabin resort across the lake where the beer was good and there was a "nice little poker game" in operation. The boys went across in fine style and made a dashing landing on the sandy beach of the log-cabin resort. The beer, they found, was cool and good, and, after three steins apiece, they "sat in" the poker game. Before they knew it both boys had made dangerous holes in their vacation money. That was bad enough. When they started to go home they found that a heavy sea was running. It was also true that the beer they had drank had the effect of making the sea look even more tempestuous and terrifying than it really was. But the sad sea dogs from the Lincoln park lagoon were not to be easily daunted. They got into their cranky little skiff and pushed boldly off, encouraged by the cheers of the THEY DESIRED A LITTLE THING POINTED AT BOTH ENDS. men who had won their money. When they got beyond the end of the point the big waves sweeping across the lake struck them and set the "Water Lily" to bubbling like a cork. Shortly it got into the trough and commenced to ship water. Presently Edward and Elliott found their new white tennis shoes entirely submerged, while the probability constantly increased that if something we did not done the rest of them would soon find a watery grave. They looked back at the log cabin resort. It was wrapped in darkness. If they ran ashore they would not be jeered at by their late companions. Then they turned the half water logged boat and let it drive before the wind. Fortunately the shore where they struck was low and sandy, and they landed without difficulty. "We'll leave the boat here," said Elliott, "and walk around the shore to the hotel. In the morning early we'll row over for the boat. Nobody need ever know." Now, as some people know, and as Edwards and Elliott discovered that night, there are few things more deceptive than the difference between point and point on a lake by water and by land. A journey which may be made in half an hour by boat may take three or four hours when one must follow the ins and outs of a tortuous shore line. But the Lincoln park sailors had no suspicion of this interesting fact in physical geography when they started on their trip. It was 10:30 o'clock and the moon was full when they started. For the first mile the walking was along a high grassy shore, with nothing to impede their progress. Then suddenly everything seemed to happen at once. The moon went under a black cloud, and presently it began to rain. The open shore gave way to a tangle of underbrush, and presently the boys pitched down into a swamp which ingulfed them half way up to their knees. In the darkness they waded around for a few minutes until suddenly Elliott plunged at full speed into a barbed wire fence. The rebound sent him down backwards into the slime, while his gold nose-glasses went into the darkness as if they had been shot from a gun. Presently Edwards had the same experience. His glasses flew off his nose as he tripped over a root, and the next half hour was spent by both young men in looking for the treasure they had lost. After groping around in vain for 15 minutes Elliott became desperate, for without his glasses he was next to a blind man. He went down on his knees in the swamp and clutched fiercely at the tall clumps of swamp grass. Meanwhile it was pouring rain, and the new yitching suits of both were soaked. By the light of a flash of lightning Elliott finally miraculously found his glasses hanging on the tall leaf of a flag. Edwards was a little less dependent on his glasses, and he agreed to give up the search when Elliott was once more ready to start. Soaked and dirty, dripping with rain, and covered with shine up to A THE BIG WAVES SET THE "WATER LILY" TO BOBBING THE BIG WAVES SET THE "WATER LILY" TO BOBING. their knees the two young men took hold of hands and proceeded to slowly grope their way through the inky darkness. Wet leaves slipped them in the face and sharp branches cut them as they blundered through the underbrush, but anything was a relief after the swamp. Presently the big bulk of a building loomed up before them. "Thank Heaven," gasped Elliott, "here's a farmhouse. Now we'll get a lantern." Their approach to the house was greeted by terrific growls, and the sound of a running dog. Fortunately a tall board fence was convenient and they clambered to its top. Then they proceeded to call for help. After yelling for several minutes an upper window was raised and a man leaned out. "If you drunken wretches don't clear out I'll shoot," he yelled. "I've been bothered enough by people from the lake." "O mister," called the despairing Elliott, "we only want to borrow a lantern. We're lost and can't find our way. We'll pay you for it." After a talk of several minutes, during which the dog made several vicious charges on the fence, the farmer finally came down and plodded across to the fence with a farm lantern in his hand. Even then he was doubtful. He called the dog and kept it close at his heels until he had carefully inspected the young men on the fence. Then he laughed. "Pretty wet looking kids," he said, "Lie down, Rover. Ain't you ashamed of yourself? What you been doin'? Tryin' to ketch frogs? If I give you the lantern will you run straight home?" Wet and wobegone Edwards and Elliott were beyond the reach of an insult. They borrowed the lantern at the farmer's own terms and started again on their trip to the hotel. It was five o'clock in the morning when they got there. Old "Tom" had got worried at their absence and had rowed across the lake to the log cabin shortly after midnight. There he was told that they had started to row home. Close by he had found the empty skiff where they had beached it. Naturally he had come to the conclusion that they had been tipped over in midlake. He had rowed back and arroused the hotel. Steam was up in the little steam launch when they got back to the hotel, and several parties were already out searching. Fortunately there was an early train for the city that morning. Edwards and Ellott took it. They did not even wait for breakfast. Fortunately they had enough money left to pay their bill and bus fare. Return tickets they were wise enough to bring with them.-Chicago Tribune Peek-a-Boo! "Now," said the teacher, "we come to transparent subjects. Give us an instance, Miss Sophie." "A pane of glass." "Very good. Now another?" "A-a-keyhole, sir." — Philadelphia Times. At the Summer Hotel Proprietor—We have only one empty room—in the attic. The Haughty Applicant—Think I'd be satisfied with a room in the attic? "Well, it is often taken by folks who don't expect to be satisfied with it."—Puck. CALLS HER A WITCH. Farmer Accuses Old Woman of Practicing Black Art. Failing to Obtain Services of Law- yes Me Takes Law in His Own Hands and Shoots Animals Owned by Mrs. Collins. A hardworking and active young farmer who lives a few miles out of the village of Limestone, in Aroto- took county, Me., is a firm believer in witches—a statement that reads strangely in these modern days. A short time ago, says the Chicago Tribune, the man came into the village of Fort Fairfield and consulted a lawyer in regard to a certain old woman in Limestone. The farmer declared that she had bewitched his cows. He said that the old woman was also doing other things to bother him. He told how a few days before he was driving a yoke of oxen, which drew a two-wheeled cart. He said that when they were passing along a piece of road that skirted a lake the witch, making herself invisible, pulled the linchpin out of one of the axles, and away went the wheel. It rolled down through a pasture, so the farmer declared, the witch steering it and keeping it upright, until splash! into the lake it went. The lawyer explained that in all probability that witchcraft wasn't recognized in law these days. The farmer went home declaring that he would take the law in his own hands. Out of his determination has come a rather singular case in court. It seems that this "Aunt" Collins, whom the farmer accused of witchcraft, owns some troublesome live stock. One day "Goody" Collins' row and family of little pigs slid under the division fence and began rooting in a potato field owned by the farmer. The farmer was ready. He had molded some bullets, into the center of each of which he had put a little HE FLED INCONTINENTLY square of sumach wood. For years this wood has been known as "witch wood," and it is said by those who believe in such things that it is a sure charm to overcome "black art." The farmer took down his gun, put in one of the sumach bullets, and drew a bead on the sow. He dropped her at the first shot, and the motherless litter fled home, squealing. A few days after the tragedy of the potato field another of "Goody" Collins' barnyard families, a bustling, clucking hen with a brood of fluffy chicks, made her way through a hole in the old fence and got into a newly sown wheat field. Once more the farmer loaded his gun and he stalked the old hen. Bang! and the hen was a dragged bunch of feathers, and tae brood was motherless. When "Goody" Collins heard the sound of the gun she guessed what was going cn, and, despite her 80 years, she rushed out of her little house and climbed the fence, carrying a broom. The farmer saw her coming and fled inointenitly. He had no mind to face that octogenerian wrath, and, moreover, he had heard of "witch bridles" and "witch brooms." "Aunt" Collins, however, did not pursue him. She collected in her calico apron the chickens that were scuttling about in the grass. Now this was too much for the old woman to bear, and she brought suit against the farmer. "I want to estimate the damage," said the judge. "Did any of those little pigs die?" he asked Mrs. Collins. "No, sir." she replied. "I'll tell you how it was, judge," broke in the farmer. "Sh: jest burned medicine in the pen and said: 'Wally-bahoo' the right number of times, and everyone of them little pigs had teeth grow and went to eatin' corn right on." "Aunt' Collins, did any of the chickens die as a result of losing the old hen?" "No. sir," said "Aunt' Collins." "No wonder they didn't die," cried the irrepressible farmer. "Her old cat had a nest in the ash hole and a litter of young kittens. I tell you, that old woman is a witch. She just dumped them chickens right in with the kittens, and she made a cluck and put it on the old cat, and them chickens never noticed the difference." This original explanation provoked such a howl in the courtroom that the justice fined the farmer for contempt of court, and made him pay Mrs. Collins the value of the property he had killed. Now the farmer more than ever believes that the old woman is a witch. He even insists that she bewitched the judge. Why He Declined "Have a care, sir!" shrieked the Leading Lady to the Heavy Villain, while she tried to pull her train where the calcium light would strike it. "No, thanks," he laughed the Heavy Villain, "I've just had one." True, he had just secured his divorce the day before, but it was so unliked him to draw the family affairs to the front in this manner—Baltimore American. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA. CH. man of I Law- Own Is One to Admire. "Somehow," she said, "I never can see you without thinking of truth." "Is that so?" he asked, being a fellow who was always doing something original. "Yes. Truth crushed to earth will rise again, you know." "But what has that to do with me?" "Well, you've been thrown down by nearly every girl in this town, but I see that you continue to come up smiling."—Chicago Record-Herald. man? inquired the prison visit. "Well, lady," replied the prince. "I guess my trouble started from tending too many weddin's." "Ah! You learned to drink or steal, perhaps?" "No, lady: I was always the groom."—Tit-Bite. Clinging to a Good Thing. "My daughter," said the fat beautiful girl, "young M will very likely propose to Bound to Make a Salad Book Agent—Here, sir, is a brand new edition of a dictionary which is being— Victim—I don't want any dictionary. Book Agent—But your children, sir, they surely should have one. Victim—Have no children—only a cat. Book Agent—Well, you may need it to throw at the cat. It's very effective that way—N. Y. Times. Then and Now. "This is indeed a lonely world," said the widow, with a sigh: But now she has caught on again, And she winks her other eye. -Chicago Daily News. FILIAL DEVOTION "Coward nuffin! Yer don't tink I'd lift me hand agin me mudder, do yer?"—Chicago American. **Horse Sense.** There's a small grain of wisdom Which runneth this way: Men who have horse-sense Know how to say "reigh." —Philadelphia Record. **Savors of the Truth.** Little Willie—Say, pa, what's the difference between a genius and a lunatic? Pa—If there is any difference at all, my son, the odds are in favor of the lunatic. He, at least, is sure of his board and clothes—Chicago Daily News. **Chip of the Old Block.** "What a fine head your boy has," said an admiring friend. "Yes," replied the fond father, "he's a chip of the old block—ain't you, my boy?" "Yes, father; teacher said yesterday that I was a young blockhead."—Tib Bits. Town Improvement "We have had three cases of appendicitis in the last three days," says a rural exchange. "That shows how the town is improving. All we could boast a few years ago was ordinary measles."—Atlanta Constitution. Merely an Incident "I clutched that child and saved her from falling off the street car going at frightful speed." "That was fortunate." "Not for me; the child's mother berated me for tearing its frook."—Chicago Record-Herald. **Something Worth Knowing.** Book Agent—If you'll buy this book, sir, I'll guarantee that you'll learn one thing that will save you lots of money. Man of the House—I'll take it. What will it teach me? "Never to buy another book from a book agent."—Harmlife The Canny Folk Sport—Did you see the Derby when you were abroad? Travels—No, I did see a close race in Great Britain, though. Sport—That so? What was it? Travels—The Scotch. — Philadelphia Press. It Made Business First Suburbanite—What was the strawberry and ice cream social at the chapel given as a benefit for, last night? Second Suburbanite—I am not sure; but I guess it was to make business for the new doctor.—Puck. Good Words Scarce "If we can't speak well of people," said the gentle young woman, "it is better not to talk of them at all." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne; "that is why the weather is such a prevalent topic of conversation."—Washington Star. Coolness Mistress (to the new servant, who has overslept herself)—How about breakfast, Bridget? Bridget—Ye nadenn't trouble to bring me up anything, ma'ar', I ain't feein' very hungry this mornin', N. Y. World. Proof Positive Singleton—Do you believe it is possible for one person to hypnotize another? Wedlerly—Never met my wife, did you? Singleton—Why, no. I nev— Wedlerly (interrupting) — So I thought. Otherwise you wouldn't have asked me such a fool question. -Chicago Daily News. Loved a Bat Prison Missionary—Ah, you have a pet, I see. Convict—Yea—this rat. I feeds him every day. I think more o' that 'eve rat than any other lion' creature. Missionary—Ah, in every man there's something of the angel left, if one can only find it. How came you to take such a fancy to that rat? Convict—He bit th' keeper.—N. Y. Weekly. He Wes a Biggist. "What brought you here, my poor man?" inquired the prison visitor. "Well, lady," replied the prisoner "I guess my trouble started from at tending too many weddin's." "Ah! You learned to drink there or steal, perhaps?" "No, lady: I was always the bridegroom."-Tit-Bite. Climbing to a Good Thing "My daughter," said the father of the beautiful girl, "young Milyuns will very likely propose to-night, and—" "Father," she cried, "I cannot marry him." "No? Welk put him off for a week. I want to borrow another thousand from him."—Philadelphia Record. Encouraging Him. "If I thought that any girl would accept me," casually remarked the bashful Mr. Dolyers, "I'd propose toorrow." "Why not this evening?" asked Miss Poedick, coyly. The affair will take place in about a month.—Detroit Free Press. A Talented Man Junior Partner—I see you have engaged a new clerk. Is he a good salesman? Senior Partner—Good salesman? Great snakes! I had to send for the police to prevent him from talking me into taking him into the firm.—N. Y. Weekly. Little Pitchers! Mrs. Halsey—You mustn't cry when you cut yourself a little, Harold. Be a man, like your papa! Little Harold—B-B-But—boo-hoo—I bet you'd lick me if I said the bad things pa says when he cuts himself just a teeny bit, when he's shaving!—Brooklyn Eagle. Pessimist Reproved "I suppose," he ventured, "that you would never speak to me again if I were to kiss you?" "Oh, John!" she exclaimed, "why don't you get over the habit of always looking at the dark side of things?"—Tit-Bits. Benefits Forgot. Man is an ingrate. When it's hot His soul to wrath is stirred; But when it is like as not, His neer says a star. —Washington Star. Wright Smooth—Suppose you were in danger of being kissed, sweet maid, how would you meet such an emergency? Polly Wogg (the milk maid)—Face to face. Cincinnati Enquirer. Arrived. On the ocean the sunlight dances; The glad waves rush to the shore To welcome their queen, who advances— Theummer girl's here once more! -Puck A Valuable Man The City Editor—Spacer is forever dead broke from playing the races. The Managing Editor—I know it. But the paper simply can't get along without him; he writes such good "Tips on the Turf!"—Brooklyn Eagle. As to a Mutual Friend. "Nice fellow, but he never did know his own mind." "Well, now that he's married, he won't have to."—Puck. Always Open. "What a firm and resolute jaw Mrs. Henpecque has." "And yet Henpecque says she can't hold it to save her life."—Town Topics. You Know Him. He so eagerly tells all he knows. We scarcely need stop to ask. This season for it is because It is such an easy task. -Harlem Life. WILLING TO SUFFER. Girl—Are you a lover of music, professor? Professor—Yes, I am; but it does not make any difference. Just go on and play away.—Heitere Welt. At No Disadvantage "We have a deaf and dumb member of our Woman's club," said Miss Gabbeigh to young Mr. Duggesby. "Indeed," gurgled the youth. "I should think she would be at a disadvantage." "Oh, my, no. Why, we let her make all the motions."—Baltimore American. Wrong Dinghosis. "What's the matter, pet?" "That life, ugly man you sent to look at poor Fido says he has dis temper, and I told him it wasn't true. and I wanted him to go away. There's nothing at all the matter with Fido's temper. It's his poor little stomach!—Chicago Tribune. The New Baby Happy Father—We've got a new baby up at our house. Friend—So? What do you call him? H. P.—We don't call him; he does all the calling himself.—Detroit Free Press. An Apology for Heaven. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—It seems strange to me, if matches are made in heaven, that there should be so many unhappy marriages. Mr. Crimsonbeak—Oh, you forget; it is the matches that are made there—not the misfits—Yonkers Statesman. A Jewel. Ethel—Papa says he likes your book of poems immensely! Cholly—Aw—really? Ethel—Yes—he says it's the only thing he can throw at cats nights and not care whether he finds it again or not in the morning—Judge. Just Like a Strawberry Mr. Crimsonbeak—Please remember, dear, that a woman is a good deal like a strawberry. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—Howso, John? "Why, she is all the sweeter from having plenty of sunshine in her life." —Yonkers Statesman. 0f on the Name "I don't like your heart action," the doctor said, applying the stethoscope again. "You have had some trouble with angina pectoris." "You're partly right, doctor," sheepishly answered the young man, "only that sin't her name."—Tit-Bits. Emergency Ability. "Women have no originality—no inventive genius." "Nonsense; I've seen my stenographer make a memorandum with a hatpin on a cake of soap when she had no paper handy."—Chicago Record-Herald. Accounted For Grierson (winding up the discussion)—Yes, I daresay. But you must admit you didn't know much when you married me. Mrs. Grierson—Yes; no doubt that accounts for it!—Tit-Bits. A. Definition Little Elmer—Papa, what is spring fever? Prof. Broadhead—Spring fever, my son, is an air-borbing desire to sit back and see other people work.—Puck Coughed Up All He Had Yeast—The doctor's not attending you any longer for your cough? Crimsonbeak—No; what's the use? He made me cough up the last dollar I had—Yonkers Statesman. Commendable Generosity "If a bashful man were to court you, Clara, would you meet him nineteenth of the way?" "Of course, Dorothy! If I felt him to be the right man I'd meet him eleven-tenth!"—Puck. BECOMING AMERICANIZED. First Chinese Laundryman—Hi, yal Me goin' to stike—likee Mexican man! Second Chinese Laundryman—What for stike? First Chinese Laundryman—More yen, and 19 Hours a day, 'stlead of 50!—Brooklyn Life. The Custale House Having remodeled my bar, and having an up-to-date place, am prepared to serve my friends and the pubs the same old stand. Choice Wines, Liquors and Clqars. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT? Meals At All Hours, New 'Phone. 1261. Wm. Oustalc. Pro H. F. Jonathan Fish Oysters & Produce Orders will receive prompt attentive Phone 157. S. W. ROBINSON, NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. DEALER IN DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited P. MR.S. MARTH, the world renowned and highly celebrated business and test Medium reveals everything. No imposition. Can be consulted upon all affairs of life, business, love and marriage a specialty. Every mystery revealed, also of absent, deceased and living friends. Removes all troubles and estrangements, challenges any Medium who can exceed her in startling revelations of the past, present and future events of one's life. Remember she will not for any price deserve you; you may not assume you will be consulted upon all affairs of Life, Love, Courtable arrise Friends, etc. with description of future companion. She is very accurate in describing missing friends, enimies etc., business, law suits journeys, contact wills, divorce and speculation is valuable and reliable he reads your destiny--good or bad; she withhold nothing. MFS MARTH tells your entire life past, present and future in a DEAD TRANCE, has the power of any two Mediums you ever met. In tests she tells your mother's full name before marriage, the names of all your family their ages and description, the names and business of your present husband, the name of your next if you are to have one, the name of the young man who now calls on you, the name of your future husband, and the day, month and year of your marriage, how many children you have or will have; whether your present sweetheart will be true to you and if he will marry you; if you will not be the sweetheart and his name, business and date of accession. All your future will be told in a clear and plain manner and in a deadrance. Mothers should know the success of their husbands and children young ladies should know everything about the sweethearts or intended husband. Do not keep company, marry or go into business until you know all, do not let silly religious scruples prevent your consulting. Madame is the only one in the world who can tell you the truth. I am your future husband, will you late of marriage, and tenis whether the one you love is true or false. There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consulting a Medium, but such beliefs are contrary to the truth. It is only from the lack of discrimination that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not every one who places himself or herself as a medium that can stand a test of what he or she claims. And a person of an enquiring mind may ask the reason way. It is simply these advisers do not take the able to study hun an nature. They do not spend their thoughts for a moment with acquiring the art of phaseology and kindred branches that will have a tendency to make the nathaway to the road of the business clear and devoid of all obstacles. It is an undeniable fact that persons will come for advice in full knowledge of what they want to know, and get as soon as they confront a Medium try their utmost endeavor to dispel from their minds what they know so as to hear if it will be rehearsed by a Medium. To get the secret out of a person by communicating it is the art used by many unprincipled mediums, but to take hold on the head and gain control of the mind there is a matter of impossibility to most of them. And this can be done and by consulting M. Martin the seering mystery becomes a deliberation. This subject has reported to it in attention by eminent men and women college professors. So it provesclusively that although there are infringers in our midst with oily tongues perhaps the gates of wisdom have not been closed to the entire profession. It takes a great deal of study to become an accomplished medium and by a continuous and uniring effort, the key to the well of apparently unfathomable mysteries has been secured by MRS. MARTH for the benefit of humanity. ADVICE BY LETTER. $1.00 AURS FROM 10 A. M., TO 8 P. MRS. M. B MARTH 246 W. 51st St. (near 8th Ave.) New York City. Knowledge stamp for reply Please mention the PLANET JOHN M. HIGGINS. 1610 East Franklin Street, [Near Old Market.] RICHMOND, - - - VIRGINIA First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on kindly. NEW PHONE, 1198. PATENTS Carcars and Trade Marks obtained and all patented constructs contained in the MOVEMENT BOOK. Our Orders are received and we can secure parcel in time and are remote from Washington. and models, drawing of jousts, was donated to the museum on an annual donation. Our collection is on loan. A MARVELLE: How to tie... Festivals and celebrations. Our collection is on loan. A MARVELLE: How to tie... Festivals and celebrations. Our collection is on loan. C.A.SNOW& THE PLANET SATURDAY, AUG. 10. 1901 LOOKING FOR THE DEAD Hundreds Searching Ruins for Victims of Philadelphia Explosion. AT LEAST SEVEN ARE DEAD Four or Five Others May Die In the Hospitals, and Police Expect to Find a Dozen More Bodies Under the Debris When All Is Gone Over. Philadelphia. Aug. 7.—Seven dead, three or four probably fatally injured and more than 60 other persons hurt more or less seriously is the latest revised record of Monday night's explosion in the block of buildings on Locust street, above Tenth, in this city. How many more victims, if any, are still in the ruins will not be known until all the debris has been cleared away, which will require many more hours of hard work. The latest find was made at 8 o'clock last night, when the badly burned remains of a colored man was found in the wreckage on the sidewalk. The list of dead is as follows: Elizabeth Mountain, aged 38 years. Frederick Lee, aged 40 years, colored Unknown colored child, aged about 3 years. Unknown colored woman, aged about 28 years, and three unknown colored men. The most seriously injured, who are likely to die, are: Mrs. Patrick Quigley, Samuel Gales (colored), Lizzie Watkins (colored) and Morris Rosenthal. The escape from death of Lizzie Watkins is considered remarkable. She was buried almost a dozen feet under the debris, with fire all around her. She was taken from the ruins four and a half hours after the explosion occurred. She was badly burned and bruised and her sight was destroyed. Undeterred by the incessant rain, the work of searching for the dead has been kept up continuously since the explosion took place. The only person who was positively known to be in the ruins was Elizabeth Mountain, and a large force of men was kept constantly at work in the debris where her mother's house had stood. The efforts of the searchers were rewarded at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when, in a corner of the cellar, covered partly by broken bricks, the remains of the unfortunate woman were found. Her mother and brother had stood by during the entire night and day watching the searchers. One colored man was found in the ruins of the restaurant, which was patronized by negroes. He was supposed to be a helper in the place, but no one could be found to identify him. The man found last night was about 35 years of age, and had on the uniform of a bootblack. Today 200 men, under the direction of the department of public safety, are vigorously pursuing the search. Many of the residents of the neighborhood believe there are more bodies in the wreckage. There are several persons still missing, but as some of these had no known permanent place of residence it cannot be stated to a certainty that they are buried in the ruins. The police and fire officials can give no opinion except what they gather from those who live in the virginity of the disaster. The police and fire officials are also making a search for the cause of the explosion, but up to this morning they have found no positive proof as to its cause. They hold to the theory that gasoline did the damage, and that it had been stored in one of the three grocery stores. The officials are indicted to believe that the explosion occurred in the McClemmy store, which was in the middle of the block. McClemmy, who is badly injured, claimed that he had only a gallon of the oil in his place and that he kept it in the rear of the building. Do You Know Them? The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children of New York has in its charge a boy who gives his name as James Davis, claims he lives at No. 66 John street, Richmond, Va., and that his mother remarried, her present name being Annie Van Netten. She has two other children, Fannie and Stephen. They first lived at Farmville, Va., where his uncles, Brants and Tucker have lived. Any information concerning them will be thankfully received. Good order on that pic-nic—the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church S. S. at Bothwell Park, Aug. 20th, 1901. George McGowan, a colored man em- moved in a sand-pit on the R. F. and P. broad several miles above the city, a seriously injured last Saturday by a amite explosion. The dynamite was in blasting the sand. McGowan and a colored man had of the blasting, when, in some the dynamite exploded before old the pit, McGowan was to the city and was treated by most of the ambulance corps. He burned about his face, head The other man was not in the city. In China liquids are sold by weight and grain by measure. John buys soup by the pound and cloth by the foot. A Chinaman never puts his name outside of his shop, but paints instead a motto, or a list of his goods, on his vertical sign board. Some reassuring remark is frequently added, such as "One word hall." "A chic two feet high would not be cheated." Every single article has to be bargained for, and it is usual for the customer to take his own measure and scales with him—Albany Argus. Sabbath in the Suburbs. Mrs. Parke—Henry, we are in a terrible dilemma. Mr. Parke—What now? Mrs. Parke—Why, there is no gasoline in the house, and unless some is procured we will have no breakfast. If we take it from the incubator the little chicks will die from exposure. If we take it from the automobile we must stay at home all day. What is to be done?—Chicago Daily News. In the Smoking Car "Here's a good one," said the man from Denver. "What's the difference between a pen and a pencil? Give it up. A pen has to be driven, but a pencil has to be lead. see?" "The automatic bell buoy beats'em both," murmured a quiet little chap who had gone on at Cleveland. "It rights itself." -Philadelphia Press. A Reasonable Conductor Pickey—And just because you had lost your nickel the conductor made you get off the car and walk all the way home. Bilkey—Oh, no. He only put me off. I could have sat by the roadside all night if I had wanted to.—Baltimore World. Hoax—Funny! Did you ever notice it? Joax—Notice what! "Why, in the beginning of the world a rib became a woman, and now it's ribbons that become a woman."—Philadelphia Record. Hardly Suitable. First Tramp—Bill won't get much if he goes 'round askin' fer help wit' a high hat an' a cane. Second Tramp—Well, I don't suppose he'll dress dat way durin' business hours.' Puck. Absentminded. Blithers—Poor Bingley is so absente minded. Blathers—Is he? "Yes, sometimes he pays his rent in advance."—Ohio State Journal. News From Worcester: Mass. Worcester Mass., Aug. 1901. Mrs. Bryant the Governess of Aug. 1901 is striving hard to bring us with the other Governess on the final day, which will begin about September 16th, and run the entire week. There is First and Second Prize. First Prize to the Governess of Governor who have the largest amount of money. The Second Prize is to any one who brings the largest amount on their card. Virginia will give a concert Thursday, Aug. 8th, September 2nd, Labor Day and one September 20th. Everybody come and own your own church. Mr. R. T. Coleman finds his business rushing now in Worcester, he has his hands full. He was so busy last week that he could not deliver the PLANET to his customers. Mrs. Coleman has returned home from a very pleasant trip. Mr. Joseph smith and Miss Maude Briggs were married on Friday evening, July 26th by Rev. Conway. Mr. Smith seems to be perfectly satisfied with his fortune. We wish them much success. T.J.SPELLMAN. West Virginia Baptist [State Conven- This convention will hold its next annual meeting at Alderson, August 20-24. For this occasion, agents on the N. and W. sides be instructed to sell round-trip tickets to Kenova at the usual conventional rates. August 19-23, good, returning, until 27th. The hack-line will give rates from Lurich to Lowell. The C. & O. and other roads will give rates on the card order plan. Cards will be sent on application. J. J. TURNER, Cor. Sec'y, Mt. Carbon, W. Va. FROM NEWPORT NEWS VA. NEWPORT NEWS, VA., JULY 20, 1901. At the regular meeting of Eureka Lodge No. 30, K of P, of N. A. S. A. E. A. A & A. held Monday night July 15, D. D. G. C. Maj. J. J. Booker installed the following officers for the ensuing term. R. A. Hawkins, P. C.; E. T. Veals, C. C. Robt. T. Price, V. C.; James Carrington, M. of C. Chas. H. Robinson, K. of R. & S.; Joe Branch M. of F.; Sum McPhail, Prelate; J. H. Epps, M at. A.; Chamland Alexander, Inner guard, W. D. Gee. Outer guard. Tyler's Hair Improver establishment has removed to 1218 N. 2d. St. Go with Mt. Olivet Baptist Church S. S. on their pic-nic to Bothwell Park, Tuesday, August 20th, 1901. The train will carry you. We mean the Old Boys go to Washington tomorrow night Aug. 11th. Ladies are safe on the Old Boys Excursion to Washington Sunday night, Aug. 11th. Russell's Nerve And Bloop Cure. Cures Nervous Exhaustion and General Debility. It quits the nerves, revitalizes the Blood, restores the appetite and infuses new health and strength in- to all the tissues of the body. MAKES ONE FEEL BRIGHT AND BUOYANT. INCREASES THE FLESH. For Sale by Druggists or sent by mail, postage paid for 50 cents per box. RUSSELL MEDICINE CO., P. O. Box 50, Richmond, Va. Agents wanted in every county. Write for particulars. Druggists on Commission. Agents. 8-10-tt ANOTHER INNOCENT MAN LYNCHED New Orleans, La., Aug. 4.—The Picayune's Carrollton, Miss., special says: "It has just been learned that the armed mob which has been in the Taliaferro neighborhood for two days looking for Sallie Layton and others, some time last night killed Will Price, the colored man who worked for Mr. Taliaferro and lived within 200 yards of his residence. He was found dead in the road on Mr. Duke's place this morning some distance from a tree with a rope around his neck and mutilated by gunshots. "Squirre John Irving held an inquest over the body. The verdict was, "Came to his death by the hands of unknown persons." LOOK OUT FOR THE WORKING SONS OF HOPE 28TH ANNUAL EXCURSION! FROM RICHMOND TO BEAVER DAM, BY THE WORKING SONS OF HOPE, "It is said that he went to the Taliaferro residence yesterday and told Jack Taliaferro all about the murder, and said that the plan was to kill both the old people and Jack, the youngest boy, while Lynn was away, and to shoot Lynn when he returned. It is understood the mob has quit work now and gone to their homes. No arrests have been made." Urging Prosecution of Lynchers. Cumberland Md., Aug. 1.—The father and brother of William Brooks, colored, who was lynched at Elkins, W. Va., for the murder of Chief of Police Robert Lilly, have arrived at Elkins from Indianapolis, Ind., to claim the body, and also to urge the prosecution of the lynchers. Their advent has occasioned much excitement, as has also a letter written by Gov. Albert B. White to prosecuting Attorney Harding urging that the lynchers be punished. He points out the disgrace to the state, and offers to assist in the prosecution. It is not thought anything will come out of this as sentiment is entirely against such a move. To organize and, train all classes of labor. Monday night, Aug. 19th, 1900, at 8 o'clock, there will be a public meeting in the interest of all of the citizens of Richmond. Dr. R. E. Jones, under the auspices of the Woman's Central League will hold a public meeting at League Hall, 412 N. 3rd St. FULTON NEWS. Religious Items,—Personal Notes. Last Sunday being fair in the forenoon the Sunday School and morning services of the three Churches were well attended. Rev. F. W. Williams preached two most excellent and impressive sermons to his congregation and especially to the younger part of the congregation. Rev. Archer Ferguson and Rev. K. Jeffries were at their respective posts and fed their flock well. Rev. A. Ferguson administered the Lord's Supper. Rev. W. Williams administered the Lord's Supper at Little Bethel in Heinrico Co. on Sunday, at 3:30 p. m. He will administer the Lord's Supper at his own Church next Sunday. Covenant meeting 11:30 a. m. Mrs. Hattie Brown is convalescing. Miss Virginia Bossieux and little Minnie Yancy are still sick. News come that Mrs. Calotta Calloway and son and Miss Cassie B. Harris reached Phoebe alright last Wdnesday and that Mr. L. R. Morris had a pleasant trip to Trenton, N. J., where he was most pleasantly greeted by his sister. Don't forget the Friday evening meetings at the R, Mt. Z. Baptist Church. Wait and take a trip to De Witte on the 19th with the Mt. Cavalry Bapt. Church. Miss Watkins of New York City visited her sister Mrs. Clara Tyler and Miss Mary E. Gordon this week. The committee on this excursion assure you a good time. —Rev. W. S. Holland, pastor of the Concord Church Church Providence R. I. called on 1st. He will return home about Sept. 1st. His Madame is at Newport News, Va. Both will visit Franklin, Va. Well! Well!!! Well!!! On the Right Track at Last. THE REFORMER. Too often do we hear the complaint that Negro journals contain little or no news. Yet some of these very complaints an never subscribe nor pay for a negro paper. Many of these when they have job work of any kind, they run the white printers, and then come to the Negro press to herald the news gratis, contained in the very job that has been printed elsewhere at big pay. To all such, we here serve notice that when you give us your job printing for piemics, etc. we will also advertise same in the columns of our paper, but when you have your work done elsewhere, be generous enough at least to pay for advertising. We are not in the news-paper business for health. THE COLORED FAIR —AT— The managers are sparing no pains in setting the grounds in a tasty order. The circle is being prepared for speedy flights and several jockeys are availing themselves of the opportunity of educating their horses how to come down the home stretch. One of our drivers gave his horse her head some days ago and the "test was equal to the task." The gait she pulled the bike is only a secret to be made known at the Fair if necessary. We hope no one will be unnerved but be pre pared vigorously to meet competition. The grand stand and ladies' hall are being beautified with a coat of paint. The grand hall has special facilities for display and safe keeping of articles. Nothing is overlooked or undervalued by the managers. We hope the friends and patrons will show their appreciation and manifest their interest by producing something to put on exhibition. We ask the ladies especially to show their skill in needle work, bakery, cannery, and culinary line, while the gentlemen will make full the agricultural, mechanical and stock departments. The railroad authorities have given special trains and excursion rates to visit our Fair at Tasley, Va., August 13, 14, 15, 16th. We send a cordial invitation to the public to visit our Fair this season and be courteously conducted through the thoroughfares of same. The merry go-round and other amusements will be there. Read our weekly articles through these columns and follow them up to the Fair. For any information, write to J. D. UZZLE, Sec'y, Accomac C. H.; or LOOK OUT FOR THE WORKING SONS OF HOPE 28TH ANNUAL FROM RICHMOND TO BEAVER DAM. August 18, 1901 Parties going on this excursion will have the opportunity of spending a pleasant day at Beaver Dam, where the Protracted Meeting will be going on at the Union Baptist Church, Rev. C. H. Phillips, pastor, assisted by other able divines from both the city and country. There will be two services held, at 11:30 a. m. and 3 p. m. in the old and new churches. This will be a protracted meeting of the old kind, where the mingled voices of a thousand souls all singing praises our Maker. Those who have gone with the old, reliable Working Sons of Hope on the third Sundays for a number of years can testify to the good maintained on the train and pleasant time spent at Beaver Dam. Tickets will be sold by the committee. Fare from Richmond, Round-trip, $1.00 East of Peaks to Beaver Dam, 75c. Hanover & Wickham to Beaver Dam. 50 Dowell & Howlett to Beaver Dam. Train will leave O. & O. depot Sunday morning, August 18th, at 9 o'clock promptly. Returning, will leave Beaver Dam at 6 o'clock p. m. Committee of arrangements:—J. Harper, James H. Shelton, Wickham, R. J. Robinson, Dewell; James H. Harris, Hewlett; E. F. Lightfoot, Hanover; J. W. Jackson, Robert Johnson. J. H. COLEMAN, Manager; ARCHIE HAWKINS, Secretary. Republican State Convention, Roanoke Va., August 21st, 1901. For the above occasion the Southern Railway will sell tickets from all points in Virginia to Roanoke and return at four (4) cent per mile one-way for the round trip, tickets to be on sale August 19th, 20th, and 21st, with return limit August 27th. aug 10, 3t. Meeting Bluestone Baptist Association, Drakes Branch, Va., August 21st 23rd,1901. For the above occasion the Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets South Hill, Averett, Clarksville, Randolph and Richmond and all intermediate points to Drakes Branch and return at specially reduced rates in accordance with tarriff two, tickets on sale August 20th and 21st, with return limit August 25th. Montreat Bible Conference, Montreat N. C., August 11th-25th, 1901. For the above occasion, the Southern Railway will sell tickets from points within the state of North Carolina at one fare for the round trip, and from points in other states fare and one-third for the round trip, tickets to be on sale from North Carolina points August 10th, 11th, & 12th, and from points in other states August 9th, 10th and 11th. This affords an opportunity for those wishing to visit Black Mountains and Land of the Sky at a most seasonable time. The rate from Richmond to Black Mountains and return for summer tourist tickets good returning October 31st is $14.75. Black Mountain is located only a few miles east of Asheville. aug 10, 3t. TO THE LADIES OUR MONTHLY REGULATOR has made hundreds of women happy. There is no remedy known that will so surely and quickly bring relief. It is perfectly safe and never fails. All packages sent securely sealed by Mail or express. Price, $2.00. OXFORD MEDICAL CO, Rumford Falls, Maine, Box 1147 8-2-Im VIRGINIA BAPTIST STATE SUN DAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION. Danville, Va., July 5th, 1901 To the Sunday-Schools, Associations Unions, and all connected with the VIRGINIA BAPTIST STATE SABRATH- WE take this means of calling your attention the fact that the annual meeting of your Convention will convene with the First Baptist Church Sunday-School [of Charlottesville, Va., on Thursday before the fourth Lord's Day in August, 1901. The state B. Y. P. U. will hold its annual meeting also on Wednesday preceding, so that all delegates who desire to do so may have an opportunity to attend the sessions of both bodies. It may be useless to remind you that it is your duty to be represented at this gathering, as you have been so very dutiful in the past. But we are living in an active, earnest, and progressive present. Conditions have changed. New issues are to be met, and if you are convinced that the position taken by the Convention up on the questions that are now being titated in our State is the best calculated to advance our interests as a denomination and as a people, then show your faith by your works by being represented at Charlottesville. It is the earnest desire of the Board that our representation shall be larger and our contributions greater than at any previous session. See to it, brethren, that you send up more money for Home Missions. The Board cannot successfully do the work we have undertaken unless you contribute more liberally. Do not forget our Educational work. We have obligations that are pressing. They must be met. Our last University, Hartshorn College and Spiller Academy all expect help at your hands. Let all be remembered. At our last mission we decided to do our Foreign Mission work through the Lot Carey Foreign Mission Convention. Send up, there, something with which to carry out this obigation. Come to Charlottesville. Come with a renewed zeal. Come with a determined and fixed purpose to support and advance all the objects for which our Convention stands. The Convenion will meet on the original date Aug. 21, 1901. Reduced rates will be secured over all railroad lines leading into Charlottesville! Let every School, Association and Union join in the cry: On to Charlottes ville. Votes for God and humanity. R. T. HILL, W. F. GRASTY. President, Corresponding Secretary. iv 204k The Greatest Offer Yet! JUST WHAT THE LADIES WANT. WE WILL SEND YOU A HANDSOME GOLD-PLATED BREAST-PIN WITH YOUR PICTURE HANDSOMELY COLORED AND REPRODUCED THEREON FREE OF CHARGE. They can be worn by either male or female, being called either Button or Medallions. We have made special arrangements with one of the largest concerns in the country to furnish all new subscribers, who pay $1.50 cash in advance for the PLANET one of these handsome Medallion free of charge. Fill out the Coupon and send it with $1.50 together with a good Photograph of the person whose features you desire reproduced in colors and we will send the button or medallion. All photographs will be returned. Enclose 5 cents extra to pay postage on the same. If you are not satisfied, your money will be refunded. Send us one yearly subscriber and we will send one Medallion. Two yearly subscribers, two Medallions. Now is the time to take advantage of the offer. The Medallion alone is worth the price of the subscription. Please find enclosed $1.50 for the Planet for one year, which you will send to the following address: Find enclosed photograph which I desire inserted in medallion or button. 1780 Send Me WE WILL SEND YOUR YOUR PICTURE THEREON FREE OF CHARGE They can be worn by eitl lions. We have made special to furnish all new subscriber these handsome Medallion fro together with a good Photog colors and we will send the Enclose 5 cents extra to pay will be refunded. Send us on yearly subscribers, two Medall Now is the time to take price of the subscription. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Publisher, THE PL Please find enclo to the following address: NAME, STREET, CITY OR TOWN, COUNTY, STA Find enclosed photograp IMPORTANT NOTICE The Virginia Baptist State Sunday School Convention. Dear Co-Workers: After considering the various interests of our Convention, the Board, after consultation with Rev. R. C. Quarles, G. P. Inge, Esq., Rev. R. B. Hardy, Rev. Toliver and other friends of Charlottesville, with whom the Virginia Baptist State Sunday School Convention will meet, has decided to have the Convention convene on the original date, AUGUST 21st, 1901, at the First Baptist Church of which Rev. R. C. Quarles is pastor. All Schools, Unions, Conventions, Associations, etc., are urged to take notice of the above statement. Send names of delegates and representatives to Rev. R. C. Quarles as soon as elected, so that ample provisions may be made for entertaining them. R. T. HILL, President; W. P. EPPS, Chairman; NELSON WILLIAMS, JR., Sec'y. jy-13-4t Virginia State Democratic Convention Norfolk, Va., August 14, 1901. For the above occasion the Southern Railway will sell tickets for all points in Virginia to Norfolk and return at one and one third fares for the round trip, tickets to be on sale August 12, 13, and 14, with return limit August 19th. aug 10, 3t. 82:50—RICHMOND TO BALTIMORE. 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