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THE RICHMOND PLANET Editor Mitchell's Statement. A Review of the First Baptist Church Trouble. THE PRESS AND ITS MISSION.—A VESTED RIGHT CANNOT BE MADE A PUBLIC OFFENSE. The Gospel Rule.—Rights of the Deacon Board.—Both God's and Man's Law Disregarded.—The Issue Joined. Will Contend to the End. VOL. XVIII NO. 35 Editor Mitte Sta A Review of the Church Tr THE PRESS AND ITS MISSION (CANNOT BE MADE A P The Gospel Rule.—Rights of the God's and Man's Law Disreg Will Contend to the End. RICHMOND, V.A., Aug. 12, 1901. To the Members of the First Baptist Church: For twenty-three years, I have been a consistent contributing member of the First Baptist Church and during that time, I have never attempted to speak or participate in the affairs of that body. I would also remind you that during that time I have never been called on to appear before it upon any charge. When the time came for the election of pastor, I broke the long silence, and protested against one of the most outrageous desecrations of God's house ever seen in this or any other community. You are familiar no doubt with the disgraceful proceedings of Monday night, June 3, 1901, when I with others was jeered, hooted and threatened with bodily injury on account of not being favorable to the candidacy of Rev. W. T. Johnson. THE CHARGE AS PRESENTED. Enough for that! Suffice it to say that injury was added to insult when upon a trumped up charge of having been guilty of a public offense, I was again denied the right of defense and in the face of the most outrageous partisan ruling by Rev. Tom H. Briggs, by a vote of 56 to 64 was declared excluded from the church. Thus by 8 votes was this outrage illegally persecuted. This was in a church with a membership of 2600. The charge was that I published in the columns of the PLANET the private letter of Rev. W. T. Johnson addressed to the church and also the precedings of the church meeting of July 1, 1902. THE RIGHT TO PUBLISH. I presume you know that as editor of the PLANET, it is my right and duty to publish anything I see fit, being responsible only in the courts of the commonwealth for the abuse of the privilege. This right is engrafted in the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights of Virginia. It is absurd to say that a right—a vested right in the recognized law of this country is a crime in the recognized law of each state. It is a fact that there is not one line in the constitution of the First Baptist Church which says that the proceedings of a church shall not be published in the columns of a newspaper. Neither is there any punishment provided for so doing. THE WORLD SHOULD KNOW On the other hand, it is a well-known principle that the church in its meetings should do nothing which it is ashamed for the world to know. The church is not a secret organization. It concedes the right to publish its proceedings in a favorable light and thereby acknowledges the right to publish the proceedings in an unfavorable light. The statement that an official letter addressed to $200 people is a private document is too ridiculous to admit of a moment's consideration. An official letter cannot be a private letter. I had a right to publish it THE EDITOR'S POSITION I stated in the PLANET at the time and assert now that if there is anything in the report of the proceedings which is either incorrect or untrue, I stand ready to make such a correction. I need hardly to state that the editorial department of the PLANET, for which I am personally responsible is on the 4th page and my name appears at the top of the page. In these columns, up to this writing, nothing has appeared concerning the First Baptist Church. The article of which complaint is made appeared in the reportorial columns and was a report of the proceedings of the church meeting. If the church or any member interested in the controversy desires to make a statement, the columns of the Planet are open. WILL CONTEND TO THE END. But, on the other hand, if any attempt is made to question my right to publish or to punish me for so doing, I shall continue the contest to the end of the chapter. I claim the right guaranteed under the law, and deny the right of any in- dividual or organization to linkt me in that right. I shall publish anything! I see fit which is concocted in decent language and is a source of information to our readers. I shall expose all inappropriate and unlawful rings, cliques or combinations, regardless of the consequences either to myself or the journal which I represent. HAVE When in the right, I have no fear. I have never yet trailed my banner in the dust in the defense of the down-trodden colored people, even when I faced combinations more powerful and dangerous than the one with which I am now contending. I have trusted in God and He has never yet deceived or forsaken me. I have been in the courts three times in defense of my right to publish and three times have white juries decided in favor of my right to publish. IRONY OF FEATURES It seems to be the imony of fate that I have been but once before a body of colored people and that time have been condemned for exercising a privilege, which is known and recognized to be a right by all men, who have the intelligence and ability to understand the fundamental principles underlying our form of government. Having then overridden the laws of man, this same ring proceeded to override the laws of God. SOLAW VIOLATED No where in the Bible which is the fountain-head of all law and is in fact the guide to an extent even in the course of the land can there be found one word, line or syllable to cover the case or to condemn a member, who as editor made public the proceedings of the church. It is plainly evident that this action was illegal and wad. I reiterate then that I have violated no law of the church. How then could a demand be made upon me to ask parchment when no offense had been committed. How then could I be legally excluded when no rule of the church had been violated. I do not presume that it is necessary for me to call attention to the 18th chapter of Matthew, which sets forth the proper conduct in dealing with all cases of discipline. Instead of complying with the provisions, a paper containing forged names was presented to the Deacon Board July 7th, calling for a meeting Monday night, July 15th, and an effort was made to exclude me without even a hearing or even a notice to appear. THE GOSPEL RULE, DISREGARDED. No one had been to see me, but on motion, a written communication was sent to me to appear at the church-meeting August 5th to show cause why I should not be excluded. Did you ever hear of a church sending a written communication to a brother, citing him to appear? Do you not know that it was proper for the member, who made the charge to go to the brother against whom the charge was made, and thereby comply with the mandatory provisions of the 18th Chapter of Matthew? THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH Certainly, a committee should have waited upon him. Eut this was not done. When I appeared before the church, I was brow-beaten and insulted. Although called to show cause why I should not be excluded, when I obeyed the church and appeared, I was denied the right to do what the church had directed me to do and was excluded while on the floor in my own defense. I presume you know that no case of discipline can come properly before the First Baptist Church until it has first been brought before the Deacon Board. Should that body fail to refuse to consider it, then it can be brought before the church; but, not until this is done can a brother be brought before the church. THE CHURCH, THE LAST RESORT So true is this that "Hiscock's New Directory for Baptist Church," the recognized Baptist authority, declares that should a brother be brought before the church first, before an effort has been made to correct the offense complained of, the member, who brings the man up should be himself punished. This is a review of the case which has attracted attention throughout this country, and which is being watched with interest by all, regardless of religion or denomination. NEVER HEARD OF SUCH BEFORE. I am frank to confess that I have nev- or before heard of such an attempted insurrection of power on the part of any body of people, striking as it does at a vital basic principle of the republic and interfering with the seized powers of the courts. The question before us is, Can sings and representatives of secret organizations name the pastors for clerches, thus depressing the bone-fide members of the church of their rights in this matter? Can they stifle and muzzle the public press, which, as the bulwark of liberty was ordained and sent forth to expose such nefarious practices? VOICE OF THE WHITE PRESS JOHN MITCHELL, JR. NAMED FROM CHURCH. First African Baptist Church Offended at Publication in the Planet. petitions addressed to the Board of Census, for a meeting to be held past 19th to take the matter up to which the matter should be referred before the congregation to pass upon it, because of its favorable so Mitchell. JOHN MITCHELL'S POSITIONS Contends That He Did Not Cause His Removal from Ch QUESTIONS WHICH DEMAND ANSWERS Can they, upon their own motion, place unprincipled men in the chair by questionable practices and attempt to punish a tribune of the colored people, one who has labored for their interests, worked night and day in pleading their cause in the formum of the nation? Can they attempt to cripple his influence and beast of their prowess in the streets of the city? This is the question which demands an answer. A meeting has been called to consider this case Monday night, August 19th, 1901, and these questions will no doubt be discussed there. THE CRUISE AND NOT THE MAN As for me, it matters but little. It is the cause, rather than the man which will be presured to you. I have nothing more to say in the purposes. The people made me what I am. During my eighteen years of public life, I have been their servant, listening to the complaints of the lowly and doing all in my power to secure for them the rights which have been so long denied. The charge that I have in any way re- treated upon sister: factory people or the many classes in any walk of life is absurd to require adenal and yet I do not it. STILL LEAVE FRIENDS. My friends have never deserted me when my enemies sought to encompass my brain or resists at my defeat. I leave the matter in the hands of a good God, knowing that despite all of the sterny scenes through which I am passing, I shall "after life's fitful fever, sleep well," and the Maker of all good and perfect gifts will, in His own time, wipe all tears from our eyes. Respectfully submitted, JOHN MITCHELL, JR. What Are We Here For? The representative of one of our white Democratic daily journals called on us and after expressing surprise at the action of the First Baptist Church remarked, "Mitchell, why don't you ask them, what are we here for?" WANTED—A man with horse and tools, to work on shares a small farm very near city. Suitable for trucking and grazing. Good chance for industri- ous man and wife. Apply to P this office. From Worcester, Mass. To pay church debt, Rev. W. B. Pearson, pastor of Bethel. A. M. E. Church is planning a grand rally of this congregation. It will be in the church, Sunday, Sept. 1. An effort will be made to crown the church auditorium at all three services. Special sermons will be preached at 10 o'clock in the morning, 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 7:30 at night. The main object of the rally is to raise funds to carry on the church work and reduce all debts. It is expected that every member will give a sum of money. There is a debt of $1000 on the church property. The Festival which has been in progress for several weeks will continue until September 1st. Some money is being realized each night, but the pastor says an effort has to be made in addition. He hopes some citizen will come forward and assist the church in its struggle for maintenance. Warcester's young men are beginning to open their eyes since Sergt. Jas, Bell of 99 West St. returned home from across the deep blue. Mr. Bell is a very bright young man and is working very hard just now trying to form a militia company. He held a meeting at his home Sunday, Aug. 11th to talk matters over, and there were 29 in attendance. One very prominent young man that was there was Mr. Geo, Griffin, formerly a private in L.Co. 6th Regiment. They made a good showing but there will have to be many more to form a Company, but we hope they will come forward. Officers Elected. MANCHESTER, VA., Aug. 18, '01. Following officers elected for installation: R. J. Jackson, C. C.; Payton Carter, V. C.; Umphrey Seaborn, Prelate; Edward Barbitt, M. of Ex.; Cyrus Jones, K. of R. & S.; Robert Holmes, M. at A.; Fletcher Powell, I. G.; Elijah Murray, O. G.; Jas. T. Thompson, M. of Works. Geo. E. Scott, M. of Finance. The officers were installed by Deputy J. T. Thompson of Manchester Lodge, No. 11, K. of P., assisted by Sir S. S. Baker, P. C. of Maceo Lodge; VOICE OF THE WHITE PRESS JOSHN MICHELLE, JE, EXECUTED FROM CHURCH. [Richmond Dispatch, Aug. 8, 04] John Mitchell, Jr., editor of the PLAN vert, and one of the most known color rown in the State, has been excluded from the First African Baptist Church this city. This action was taken last Monday night, after a very staring meeting, which lasted from shortly after 8 o'clock until 2 the next morning. The church alleged that Editor Mitchell permitted a publication in his paper of the proceedings of a former meeting of the church which, as a loyal member of the church, should not have done. He was asked to apologize. He declined to do so and was excluded. This is the church's side briefly stated. Editor Mitchell concedes that he and the representatives of his paper did nothing that was wrong in waiting and printing a report of the proceedings of the meeting referred to. He holds, according to a statement made by a minister and a friend of his last night, that the meeting was not a secret one, and that it could not have been, since members of other churches were present and were known to be present, and were not asked to retire. He contends that for this reason the proceedings were placed in the hands of the public and became public property. He then had a night, in a newspaper gobbling in print in his paper, at what occurred in a practically open meeting. He holds that he has done nothing wrong, and hence has no apology to make. The meeting of last Monday night was particularly interesting. The attendance at the opening was large, but as the night wore on the crowd lessened, until when the vote was taken, less than 300 persons were in the room. The note for exclusion stood sixty-four no fifty-six. The facts given above were obtained with much care. The efforts to see Editor Mitchell in person failed. A number of other persons were seen and their narratives were all practically as given above. But several of those seen declared that factionalight was behind the action taken by the church in withdrawing fellowship from Editor Mitchell. The meeting, the report of which gase offence to so many of the members of the church, was that one at which Rev. W. T. Johnson, of Lexington was called to the pastone of the church. One faction wanted this minister, so it is said. The other faction, of which it is said, Editor Mitchell has belonged, wanted the Rev. Walter Brooks, of Washington. It is claimed by some that the report in the PLANET offended only the faction favoring the Rev. Johnson, and as they were in the majority, they were able to take the action of last Monday night. It is said that Mitchell will be unable to join any other Baptist church in the city, unless that church is willing to declare that he has been wrongly treated by the First Church. JOHN MITCHELL NOT DISMAYED. Friends Will Ask for a Reconsideration. [Evening Leader, Aug. 8, 1901.] John Mitchell, editor of the PLANET, is not disturbed at the action of the First Baptist Church (colored) in excluding him from its membership. The action was taken on the part of the church at a meeting held last Monday night, which ran until 2 o'clock in the morning. The cause of the action was the publication of a letter in the PLANET, which certain members of the church allege was a secret matter. When seen this afternoon Mitchell said that the action of the church was entirely contrary to the rules of the church, and that, while he was excluded at the meeting, he did not consider the action legal. His friends have called a meeting for the 19th instant, at which time the question of reconsideration will be considered. Appeal to Board of Deacons to Rein state Him. (The News.—Aug. 8, '01.) John Mitchell, Jr., editor of the PLANET, has been expelled from fellowship in the First African Baptist Church of this city. The groundwork of his expulsion is that he published in his paper the proceedings of a meeting called in connection with the selection of a pastor, which certain individuals believed should have been kept secret. This majority by which Mitchell was expelled was very narrow, and the result was reached only after a very stormy meeting and a defiance of parliamentary procedure. Friends of the editor are circulating petitions addressed to the Board of Deacons, for a meeting to be held on August 19th to take the matter up in due dawn. The enemies of Mitchell, it is alleged, disregarded the Board of Deacons, to which the matter should have been referred before the congregation was call ad to pass upon it, because of board was favorable to Mitchell. JOHN MITCHELL'S POSITION > Contends That He Did Nothing to > Cause His Removal from Church. (Richmond Times, Aug. 9, 1961) The friends of John Mitchell, editor of The PLANET, have called a meeting of the First Baptist Church (colonies) con- gregation for the 19th instant to act on this question of reconsidering the action of the church last Monday night in ex- celling him from its membership. Mitchell said yesterday that he was in no way dismaved at the notices taken last Monday night, for he felt that he had not been legally expelled from the membership of that church. He con- tains that the reasons given for such action were not sufficient, and he maintains that what he did in the premises was not a breach of faith. The cause of the trouble was the publication of a letter by Mitchell from Rev. W. T. Johnson, in reference to the past rate of the church. The congregation, or a portion of then, considered the letter a matter of secrety. Mitchell and its friends considered it a matter of public importance, and state as their reasons that it was an official document and addressed to a congregation of 2,500 people. Mitchell it said it was a piece of news to the readers of this paper, and as a publisher it was his duty to print the news when it did not conflict with personal obligations. Mitchell said yesterday that the action of the church on Monday night, when there were less than 280 people of a congregation of 2,500 present, would test to disrupt the church. The Museum Erected--Silver Leaf Court of Newport News Nets 82. The Theos. W. Mitchell monument has been erected and veiled and everything is being put in shape for the 26th of august—unveiling day. The Association desires all those who have promised sums of money to turn it in as early as possible so that they may be able to meet their obligations promptly. All persons having books are requested to have them in the headquarters of the Association, 305 N. 2nd St., by aug. 19th, 1901. In the list given in the last issue, the name of Richmond Lodge, No. 1, K. of P. was unintentionally omitted. We wish to acknowledge the following contributions: Richmond Lodge, No. 1, K. of P. $5.00 W. R. Patterson, Bluefield, W. Va. 1.00 Silver Leaf Court, 241, I. O. C. Newport News, Va. 2.00 Invincible Lodge, Odd Fellows. 5.00 Some time previous to unveiling day a speaker's stand will be erected facing the monument. A very meat cottage has been erected at the entrance to the cemetery and the superintendent places the disposal of those persons attending the unveiling, and other comforts made as far as possible by the owners of the cemetery. THE DEACONS IN SESSION. They Hold Special Meeting—The Church Meeting Ordered—Bro. Briggs Wrathy. The Deacon Board of the First Baptist Church held a special meeting last Sunday morning after services for the purpose of granting the committee certain privileges in renovating the pubit furniture. Deacon A. W. Holmes, Manager of the True Reformer Hotel presided. Brother H. F. Jonathan presented a petition signed by a long list of members of the church asking for a church meeting to be held Monday night, Aug. 19th. 1901 to consider the case of John Mitchell, Jr. Rev. Tom H. Briggs, the sailor contractor was on hand to oppose the granting of the church. He declared that the Deacon Board would be held accountable, if it acted and intimated that they would be dealt with by the church. THE RULING OF THE CHAIR Chairman Holmes ruled that as Rev. Briggs was not a member of the Deacon Board, he had no right to speak without its permission. He insultingly responded that he was a member of the church. He continued to speak despite the mild protests of the other members. The Deacon Board voted unanimously to grant the request. It is always customary to do this when the petition is signed by 15 or more bona-fide members of the church. Brother Henry G. Carter who did not, wear those big-leg white breeches and shad-belly coat last Sunday morning was very indignant and openly declared that the present Deacon Board would be put out. Rev. Robert Watkins, who was guard at the penitentiary during the Readjuster rule was equally emphatic, but Bro. Nelson Williams, Jr., who forged the names to the application for the meeting was not in evidence on last Sunday morning. Deacon Harrison Smith was appointed to give out the notice at every service of the church. That Letter Unsigned. The True Reformers And The Secret Circular. A REPLY TO A DENIAL-INSISTS THAT THE CHARGES MADE ARE TRUE. An Appeal to the Constitution.—A Word About Salaries. A Law Unto Themselves. RICHMOND That Lett U The True Reform Secret C A REPLY TO A DENI CHARGES MAR An Appeal to the Constitut A Law Unto Themselv No reply has as yet been received from Grand Worthy Secretary W. P. Burrell and Cashier R. T. Till in answer to the queries of Editor John Mitchell, Jr., relative to the secret circular. ANOTHER SECRET CIRCULAR. On August 8th, 1901, Editor Mitchell received an envelope addressed to "Editor, Richmond 17.ANET, Richmond, Va." The post mark showed that it had been mailed in this city, and had reached the post-office at half past two o'clock that morning. It contained a copy of the snow famous secret circular, on which was written these words: "We send copy for your perusal." A LETTER TO THE EDITOR It also contained a letter type-written, well punctated, being the work of a person thoroughly trained in the type- writing business. It is a model of neat- ness and correct spelling. [1] THE DENIALS AND OTHER QUESTIONS "RICHMOND, VA., August, 1901. Editor, Richmond PLANET: Knowing you have always labored to keep our people posted on such things as affect their interest, we beg you to please ask the following relations relative to the secret circular, the Reformer has so often mentioned through it columns recently: (1). If its contents false, why were the Chiefs of the Divisions ordered to summon their messengers in secret meetings and instruct them not to let it be read in their subordinate Fountains? WANTS THE REFORMER TO PUBLISH (2). If the circular is false, why does the Reformer not publish its contents and advise its readers to read the Guide Book, issued by the Board of Directors prior to the last Grand Sitting, read section 2, page 59, of the Constitution, and then read the reports of the Minutes of the 19th and 20th Annual Sessions of the Grand Fountain? THE PRESIDENT'S SALARY. (3). If the President's salary and the salary of other certain officers were increased before the last Grand Sitting, why were they not reported to the Grand Fountain for confirmation last September? Read the President's report of the 20th Annual Session and if he mentions it. (4). How many of the delegates to the last Grand Sitting knew of these important changes? THE SAFETY OF THE ORDER (5). How can an order be safe as long as certain officers can come together and have their salaries raised when ever they feel like it and not report such to the Grand Body when in annual session for confirmation? Yours for the race, SUBSCRIBERS." It may be that Messrs. Burrell and Hill are too busy getting ready to install the True Reformer pastor of the First Baptist Church to prepare their answers. THE FIRST TIME This is the first time that any communication has been opened up between the local secret circular committee and the general public. The failure of President Taylor to "run them to earth" is rather an omnisign sign, since it must be conceded that the headquarters are in this city. The organization is an incorporated institution such as directly subject to the order of the court. Does Mr. W. P. Burns receive as Grand Worthy Secretary $150.00 per month? Does Mr. R. T. Hill as Cashier receive $150.00 per month? A COMPARISON OF WAGES What is their pay for extra work? If this is the amount of their salaries, what do the clerks, assistant clerks, etc., receive? A comparison of wages would tend to enlighten the public from whom the organization draws its support and what it tends to swell the coffers of the institute in question. If the officials have misrepresented, the columns of the BOEET are open to them and through this channel, they can make any statement which will enlighten the public. --- —Dr. D. A. Ferguson, the Deutist of 110 East Leigh St., has removed his office to 609 North 2nd St., opposite the True Reformers' Bank. His new office is much nicer than his old one, which will be more convenient for his patients. PRICE, FIVE CENTS Better Unsigned. Formers And The Circular. NIAL — INSISTS THAT THE MADE ARE TRUE. stitution.—A Word About Salaries. selves. THEIR DOORS OPEN WIDE. A Remarkable Letter—Speaks Plainly To the Editor.—The Action of the First Baptist Church—A Cordial Invitation. Editor John Mitchell, Jr. has been the recipient of of invitations to join the Bishopal and the A. M. E. Churches. The following letter from a well- known white Catholic Priest is a mode 1 letter of its kind, and not having obtain- ed his consent we with-hold his name: THE REVEREND'S LETTER, WILMINGTON, DELL, Aug. 9, 1901 My Dear Mr. Mitchell.— In to-day's Baltimore Sun, I read an account of your expulsion from the Baptist Church. Now, will you permit me as an old friend of yours to give expression to a thought that suggests itself to me? I cannot express no opinion as to the facts connect in case, since I have neither heard nor read anything beyond the few lines in the Siry. INTENDED AS PUNISHMENT. The action on the part of the officers of the First Baptist Church is, no doubt, intended as a punishment, and will reflect on you in the eyes of some few people. But, after all, what does it amount to? I have often wondered how a man of your intelligence and education could connect himself with a man-made church. THE LORD'S INTENTION The Lord intended his church to be an organized society to which all must belong in order to save their souls. That heroes would come; that different leaders would spring up, asserting each for itself, be the Church of Christ was divinely founded and should cause no wonder to one who has read as much as you. THE ONLY TROUBLE The trouble with you, it seems to me is this; you want to be successful, you want to be popular and since the major people in your state is made up of Baptists, you think that you must be one of them. Did you ever read those words: "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, let alone me?" TEE LORD'S WELCOME May pour case resemble the one of the man in the Gospel, who was turned out of the synagogue, but lovingly received by our Lord. The church of that same Lord bids you welcome into her bosom, if otherwise you have the right disposition. I trust you will accept these expressions in the friendly spirit in which they are given. With best wishes for your welfare, I remain, GRANDERSON-JONES The marriage of Mrs. Frances B. Jones to Mr. Robert D. Granderson has been announced to take place Aug. 27th, at six o'clock p. m., at the Hotel Reformer. The bride is the young and attractive widow of the late Cornelius Jones and is very popular. The groom is a valued employee of the True Reformers, being the manager of Branch Store, No. 2, Manchester, Va. Miss White Is to Teach At Hartshorn College. Miss Viola M. White, (colored) a graduate of Oberlin College has been engaged as a teacher at Hartshorn the coming year. Miss White comes very highly recommended. Geo. S. Burronghs, the Professor of O. T. Language and Literature writes: "Permit me to endorse her without any reservation, as a young woman of true and broad culture, sound commonsense, and consecrated Christian spirit." C. H. A. Mayer, the Professor of English writes; Miss V. M. White is a student of very unusual ability, intelligent, well-read, accurate and possesses excellent taste. Personally, she is dignified, refined, attractive. I should expect her to be a stimulating teacher and a successful disciplinarian. Pee Pre et aes ee a ee == NOT=——— aS ‘LIKE OTHER MEN = E By Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, a : Author of “The Brotherhood of Silence,” “The “Zi: , Quality of a Sin,” Eta £33 Copyright, 1901, by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey. zs ee ee) 2 CHAPTER VIL A WOMAX IN TRE oURETION. Le m frout of him loomed a fig- ure, «ilso on horseback. At the same Instant the stranger accosted him by uttering a shout which might, ja that clear, still alr, have been beanl at the ranch. “Can you tell me if there ts a bu- man babitation near here?" he asked 48 soon as Lisle, pistol In hand—for strangers were not always friendly in that wild country—rode up to bim. “There i¢ one, sir.” replied Lisle. “Are you in trouble?” “I shontd say 80,” was the petulant response. “Do you know a ranchman in this reslon by the name of Craig ‘Thompeon?” “Yes, sir: very well indeed.” “Is Ht ‘iis house that is near here? “Na He lives 30 wiles away, but my father’s bouse is about a mily dis- tant. Will you go there with me? In he morning I will guide pou to Thomp- Son's ranch.” “Thank you, young man. I accept your hospitality most gladly. My daughter will be especially pleased, for she Is frightened to doath at the pros. pect of spending the night on the Plains, with nothing but the stars for 8 counterpane” “Your daughter?” exclaimed Lisk. ) “Yes, my daughter, 1 don't wonder what you expreas surprise at finding two strangers alone at night In such a -place as this and one of them a woman. At is all because of ber obstinacy. It's ‘Woman's mission to cet men Inte trou- ble. She would come out here today. I could not prevail apon ber to wait ‘until we could get a guide. Sho never rode a horse In ber life, so I found and dought.an ok! wagon, which has done ‘nothing but break down ever since we started, and vow it has gone beyoud Fepair.” » How mucb more of an explanation he would bave volunteered fs not known, for at that Instant they were both interrupted by a clear voice call- ing to them out of the darkness, and Presently Lisle saw approaching them 2 figure such as be had never seen be- Tore, not even in bis most vivid hours ~of imagining—the slender, witowy, sPerfectly clad figure of a woman fresh ufrom the bands of her modiste. weal coukl not remain alone In that horrid place, with all sorts of eyes stax ing at me out of the darkness,” she said as she approached. “Who have You got with you, papa? | hope it is Rot one of those dirty Indiana.” “A gentleman, Erna, who has offered to assist us. This le my daughter, sir— Mise Ernestiva Thomas. I am Thomas ©. Thomas of Kanmus Cit May I nak what your name Is?” Lisle raised his broad brimmed hat Trom bis bead with a courtesy that was instinctive while he replied: “IT am the sen of Richard Maxwell, who owns this ranch. I am quite sure that my father will welcome you, al- though it will be the first tlme that a Woman has ever entered our bouse.” “If the night were darker, so that | gould not see you, | should say that you were a woman yourself,” retorted Miss Thomas. “Is your fatber a wou- an bater, My, Maxwell?” “I believe so,” replied Lisle calmly “Have you pot another bore Mer. Thomas?" “No; I stripped the barnesa off the only one we had to search for asatst- ance. We left Belmont this morning ‘with the only conveyance that aoukl be procured, and we've been hopelessly lost ever since we started. It comes of permitting a woman to run things for you.” i “You were nearer Thompson's ranch ‘when you started than you are now. You have come past It,” said Lisk, Meaping from his horse. “If your dangh- Ras willMet me assist her to mount my horse, I will lead the way to my fa- ‘her's house. It ts not far.” « “What! Ride on that saddle? ‘Sit astride, like a man? I guess not! I'l walk,” exclaimed the young lady In dismay. “How far is it?” }_ “More than a mile.” < “Well, that won't hurt me. I walk farther than that in one afternoon's shopping at home. But how are we going to take all my things?” «+ “We will leave them where they are {tH morning,” said Lisle. “They will {mot be disturbed. If you are ready, we ‘will start on.” i “But I can’t go a step without some of my things. Can't you put my small _ est trunk on your horse?” ' “Tam afraid not. We can wait while You open It, however, and take out , Whatever you think is necessary,” {. “We will not do anything of the kind,” interposed Mr. Thomas. “The trunks can stay where they are till jmorning, and Erna can stay here or ‘come with us, just as she pleases Start along, Mz. Maxwell, and we'll follow.” Lisle was accustomed to absoiute authority on the part of fathers, and he | obeyed. “Come, then,” he said, leaping lightly , into the saddle. “When we have risen jthe next ridge, the house will be in $¥iew. ‘There {sa light in the library, aad we will be able to see it I will a ride on, then, and prepare my father das ote hee prospect of receiving a woman Into the house, and furthermore be wished an opportunity to consider what bis ‘Own conduct should be toward her in juxtaposition with all the prejudice that had been instilled Into his mind against her sex. Ge knew already that he did not like her. She was very dif- ferent from anything that he had ever seen before, but he remombered that the light In which he had viewed her was very linperfeet. He paid no at- tention to her calls for him to return. The lgbt of the house was fo wew. That was enough [fe had never been taught that it is customary to show Women more cousileration than men. He supposed that they should be as self reliant as men, and this one, he mentally decided, was a baby, afraid of the dark and doubtless of her own shadow. fe hai the same contempt for fear of eny kind that any man of his training would bave had. and he did not consider that a woman was prt marily excusable for entertaining it Richard Maxwell was standing oo the veranda when he rode up. Te knew that Lisle had ridden away to the darkness, and be was watching for bis return, but he was not prepared for the announcement that his son bad to make. It astonished perplexed and angered him all at once, but no trace of these emotions expressed themselves as he said calmly “We will make them as welcome as Possible” It did not occur to Liske to return te the unbidden guests and complete the obligation of an escort, and, having Le eae EN a Rigy 5 Lo Ia aged ite S dui ie a BNE atk yee = i FPO ee e cs 3 ea cans eres turned his horse Into the corral, he took a seat beside bis father and awalt- ed their coming “Had you not better retire, LiskeY" murmured Richard Maxwell presently when the dark forms of the approach Ing guests could be discerned in the distance. “No, sir. I much prefer to remain until these people artiva I wish to see what 8 wowan of oor own kind looks Ike. Le It the manner of dress that makes the difference? “Dress and training. Let me beg of you, Lisl, not to permit your curiosity to express Itwelt to olther of one guests. Sech conduct would not be gentloman- ye “You do not like to have this woman here, sir? questioned Lisie. “No. Emphatically 1 do pot.” “I could not do otherwise than to ‘ask them to coma” “Certainly not. Tele being here, however, need not necesemrity bring you in contact with them or with the Woman. I will send Jack over to ‘Thompson's with them In the oe tng.” “I have already promised to go, fo- ther.” "I haye other duties for you to per- form. It will make no difference who acts as thelr guide.” The strangers arrived soon after ward. Mr. Thomas came up with out- stretched hand. for be had dismounted and was walking beside bis daughter. “Your son has been our savior.” be fald cordially. “We should have been obliged to pass the night tn the open if he had not found us. and God knows what would have become of my daugh: ter before morning. I have heen en- “deavoring ever since your son mention- ed your name to me to recall it. T have succeeded. I think we have had some correspondence in the past, Mr. Max- well. [am the Thomas of Thomas & “Armstrong, Kansas City, Mo.; hides, hoofs and pelts. This is my daughter, Ernestina. I hope that we may not [put you to any inconvenience, but 1 ead assure you that your house ie a godsend to us now.” | “You are welcome, Mr, Thomas. Pleased to meet you, Miss Thomas, I Tegret that there is not a woman in my establishment; so, if you will permit “me, I will show you to your room my- self.” | “T* you would show me to the dining Toor, it would be more to the point. 1 am simply famishing. As for going to a sleeping room, I much prefer to re- main here for a little while. The night 1s heavenly now that I am not dying with fright,” said Miss Thomas rapid- Jy. She disposed herself in one of the | big easy chairs and continued, almost without pause: “It ts strange that you haven't a woman about you. How do you do your cooking. and mending? Who makes the beds and—and does | other things that a woman ought to do | for you? Your son says that you are a | Woman hater. I don’t think there is | any sense In that. Ob, dear! I’m com- | pletely done up by the terrible expe Hences we have had today.” | “We are provided with efficient sery- ants, Miss Thomas," said Maxwell | calmly. “Lisle, will you find Ah Sin | and tell bim to prepare supper for our guests?” “A Chinese cook!" crted Miss Thom: ns. “How lovely! Is he chambermal: too? I have heard that they are ex THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINiA. ee ae Va ee ee ee eee ly preferred to women in lots of places. Papa never took me with him on one of his trips before, but { just wouldn't Jet him co without we this time, An hour azo t would have given the world to be back acain in Kansas City, and now Pwouidn't be anywhere elae than here tf T could. What a pleasant room ‘this one ts!” risicx and passing un- 'eeremontously throu! the open wine ‘dow. “This Is the library? Your son | mentioned It to us, hin I did not sup- Powe that angtosly had such a thing as a real brary in this roxton.”* | She begat an inspection of the book shelves, which sle continned with ver- bal approveniest of the bindings until her eyes rested uyou the piano. J Weil, 1 never?” wie declared vehe- mently. Then, sailsiug her volee. sbe | Fealled out, “Whe plays upon this—the Chinese cook ¥" 3 I “No.” rexponded a quiet voice direct ly Behind her. “My father and 1 play upon it” | “Why, Mr. Maxwell! How you star tled me! 1 did not hear you come In, Whoever would have expected to find !a plano here? Why, you are really, | quite civilized, are you not?” ' | She raisid her cyes to Liske’s when she asked the question, and her eyes and face were much more perfect than her manners, for they were exquisite, but when they encountered the wide eyed stare with which Lisle was re- | garding her her glance sank in confu- sion, and the red blood suffused her throat and cheeks and brow. Then, Decause he continued silent and because sho knew that he was stilt watching her, she became angry. “One would think that you never saw a woman before!” she exclalmed, “I never did,” was the quiet reply. “What?” Miss Thomas forgot her confusion and her anger at the same instant. | “What did you say? Soy Ht again, please,” she exclaimed after a short pause. | “You are the first woman that I ever saw, Miss Thomag” sald Liste In the same quiet tone. He was perfectly self contained. He regarded the beau- | tifal creature before hilm with exactly | the same emotions that he would have felt if be had been standing before a cage In a menagerie, viewing some rare specimen of capture from equatorial Africa. He was studying ber physique without approval, mentally rejoiced that his own In no way resembled It. That slender waist, which be might have spanned with bie fingers, found bo likeness In his own. That swelling Dust, prominent beneath the tight it~ ting tailor made waist, appeared to Bim lke a deformity. The tightly drawn skirt of brown cashmere seem- ed to him as though tt would be a de cided impediment to walking, and he realized at once why Its wearer bad Geclived to mount his horse. Her halr Giled him with wonder. She had thrown aside ber bat, and he saw upon her head the most remarkable specta- cle be bad ever witnessed. Mins Thom- as was justly proud of her hatr. She had often been accused of bleaching It, Dut she had the satisfaction of know- ing that it was not only natural, but that Its tint could not be counterfelted by all the chemicals In the world, and Lisle studied It In amazement. He be- Ueved that if it were permitted to fall to Its full length it would have reached to the ground, as indeed it would, or very nearly so. He thought It must be very heavy to carry around, and he ‘wondered if she slept with it that way. While he studied her the anger In her face died out altogether and gave place to an expression of genuine Amusement. | “This 1s the first time” she said presently, “the very first time, in all, may life that L ever posed as a curiosity. Teather Uke it. Go on. 1am sorry that 1 did not think to provide myself with @ catalogue. Perhaps, though, | can as- sist you vertally. What are you look- ing at now—my boots? They're twos, manufacture! by Smith & Brown, Main street, Kansas City: quality, of the fin est; shape, the Intest: style. unexcep- onal: finish, superb; handsome and warranted: price, $7.50. What now? Look at them closely: 1 wear fives. My, how cold your hunds are! They're Uke tee. See how warm mine are. Oh, the rings! Did you think they were corns? They slip off and on—sa One of them—this one—Is an engagement ring, but I shan't marry the man who put It there. How old are you, Mr. ‘Maxwell—more than 7?" “I am 18" Lisle still kept his eyes fixed upon her, changing his gaze from point to point in search of new sur- prises and further marvels. He was mentally comparing her to himself, and he thought that there were many points of similarity which he had not at first discovered; also that they were decid- edly unlike. To him she was a human paradox. “Are you really?” she exclaimed. “I should have said that you were much | } 2 _t | = F/ ZO? Rr 3 reese yey Yee =F 2 PY ‘ co k dl y \ ny he gone U1 ee ops Ey tay neato renee Wehat any man would have younger. I am 18, too; but, then, you are only a boy, That accounts for the difference Boys don’t amount to xpuch.” “I have been taught that women do not,” replied Lisle gravely. “That comes of having a woman hat- er for a father. It's awfully stupid of him. It will be all the worse for you when you find out what women really are. They'll lead you a dance. 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She burst ovt laughing then—just a low, rippling laugh that was full of melody and so replete with amusement that Lisle smiled back at her. “Upon my word, you are original!” she said at last. “No; the Jacket, as you call tt—and it Isn't at all a bad name for It—that 1 wear underneath this one Is not made of wood. 1 don't wonder that you ask. though. Did you never hear of corsets?” “Never, What are they?" “They are instruments of torture which every woman {s condemned to wear. I don't know why unless it ts because our Mother Eve once stole an apple and ate It. You've beard about that, haven't you?" “Instruments of torture.” murmured Lisle seriously. “You do not seem to suffer.” “Oh, we get used to them If you had been nice to me out there in the dark and had brought my trank bere on your horse, | could have shown you pair. They are mostly made of steel.” “Steel! They must be bullet proof, then.” “Well, I am not $0 sure about that. and I haven't any curiosity on the point. Have you quite finished study- ing me, do you think? Are you satls- fied?” | “1 ought to be, but Iam not. Have ( I offended you? If so, 1 beg your par. | “Orrended te? Not a Wt. You're too original to give offense. Ul make | papa stay over tomorrow, and you can , Study me to your heart's content. Will | that plense you?” | “¥en T wish that 1 might see you without"— He paused Irresolutely. “Well, go on. Without what?” “Without your Instruments of tor ture.” | “My Lorar* she garped. Her face became crimson and thea white with anger. She turned haughtlly away, and the next instant disappeared through the window. {To BE continvED.) f The Bey Art Critic. ‘Wise men say there is nothing really pew in this world, and perhaps the boy who passed the following crit- foism upon the drawing abilities of his big sister was an unconscious plagiar- ists but, anyway, his verdict amused the sister so much that she tells it oc- casionally, though the joke is on her self. The young woman has a fond- ness for executing those works of art which consist in the representation of dead game birds hanging by their heels from @ nail on a board. fish ona platter ready for the cook, and fruit grouped on a table around a wine Glass. Thase gems she turned off at the rate of about four a year, aud pre- sented them to her friends for their @ining-room walls. She had just com- pleted a twin pair for a bride. One represented a mess of lobsters in a nest of salad; the other a basket of Peaches, with down on them like Blush. She was so pleased with both that she asked her brother if he did not think they were just splendid. It was evident that the youthful critic Uked one gnd not the other. After looking at them a minute or two he said: “Sis, you're a peach on lobsters, but you're a lobster on peaches."—Chi- cago Tribune. pic aii aaa a eae It has been suggested that the markings on eyeballs are a good means of identification. Some of them sre prominent, especially on the up- por half. of the eye—that ia, behind the top lid. Their course is generally zigzag, branching off at sharp angles similar to the lines seen in pictures of lightning. No two eyes are to be found in which the markings are iden: tical; hence the means of distinguish. ing one person from another. Atte: carefully registering the markings on certain eyes, some of whieh are illus trated, it ié found that such :ark. ings are not, as might bave been sup. Posed, subject to any radical change Now it Is obvious that, by the aid o! photography and various other Means, we may make such copies ot & person's eyes as would prove a cer tain and reliable guide to identifica sion at any later date.—Chicago Trib une. Didn't Want to Be Forgiven, “TU admit that I opposed your marriage, my children,” said Silas Fodder, “but now that you're hitehed up I'll forgive you. ‘The groom straightened up and put a Na, 9 boot down hart on the floor. “I don't see where you come im in this forgivin’ biznes,” he answered. “As you say, you done your level beat to keep ua from gettin’ spliced, an’ it seems that I ort to be the one to do the forgivin’, which I ain't a-goin’ to do. Me an’ Mandy’s goin’ te move over in Jasper township, an’ if I ever ketch you aroun’ the place I'll fll you full o° buckshot.” And taking Mandy's Hly white hand in his own lasge brown one, ha strode across the threshold.—Balt+ more World. An Island of Cranes, Away off in Minnesota, at that pop- ular summer. resort, Lake Minnetonka, there is a picturesque island which takes its came from the fect that it is uninhabited by man and given over to the cranes. Generations back these birds decided upon this spot for a sum- mer resort. As time went on and the surrounding islands populated, no man had the beart to disturb them, until now Crane island fs pointed out from Passing boats as one of the curlositica of the northwest.—Albany Argus. eee hi ai O! Edith, of Boston, came home from kindergarten in a slate of excitement. “Oh, mamma,” she exclaimed, “we Aon’t have to go to school to-morrow!” “Why not?” asked mamma, smiling. “Recnuse teacher says it's Vaccina- tion day, when Bridget left Boston.” Mamma thought a moment, and then remembered that the next day was the anniversary of Eyncuation day, when the British left Boston — Cinoinnat! Enquirer. ‘Chis eeksatan Penayt tn Cuaac When you engage a servant or make a bargain in China it is not considered binding until the “fasten- ing penny” hae been paid. Although his bad faith is notorious in some matters, yet to do him justice, when ‘once this coin bas been paid hy you the Chinaman, coolie or shopman, will generaily stick to his bargain, even if the result to him be loss.— Pittsburgh Dispaten, A Welcome Visitor, Mrs. Wilaon—Mrs. Chatterton called on me yesterday afternoon. I wis very glad to see here re: Gilson Bat ian’? ahe an owfal scandal-monger? “Yeo, that’s just it Ht was a stupid, rainy day, and you don't know what # lot of interesting tales she told ma."—Somerville (Mass) Journal. Sensational Preacher, Potience—ds your preacher sensa- ‘onal? Patrice-d should say so! Why, he preached a sermon last Sunday, and he took for his subjects “It's Hard to Recp « Good Maa Devo.” Well?” “Oh, it was all about Jonah and the whale.”—Yonkers Statesman, A Familiar [lastration, . “Papa, what is a king?” “A king, my ebild, is a person whose authority i practically unlimited, whose word Is law and whom every body must obey.” “Papa, is mamma a king?"—Pitter burgh Bulletin. Cash Better Than Credit. It is all well enough to give credit where credit is due but It is beter still to pay cash.—Chicego Daily News, ee cas | Tt isa cold day when the firt has no use for « fan.—Chicago Daily Newa, " ‘This question was asked of a large Sumber of persons: What punish ments or sewards have you ever had that did you good or harm? The ma fority claimed to be benefited by pun: ishment. The boys thought the ef fects of w good plain talk were salue tary, and none had compleint to make egainst a good “dressing down.” Many were grateful for having had a punishment in due season. There is a time in many a boy's life when he thinks he is lord of overything, and it would seem that a good whipping is often the best way to care this de fect. Tenderness ix excellent for most children, but there are certain natures on whom it ix wasted, be cause they simply abuse it. ‘Com science does not seem to be very pow erful in children before the age of nine, Preaching or advice unsought for does not seem to do much good, while suggestion does. As to the In fluence of companions, it was great. est between the ages of ten and ff. teen, This influence is next to that ef home.—Everybody’s Magazine. REY PLANET SATURDAY, AUG. 17, 1901 REMINISCENCES THE KEARSARGE PENNANT. Civil War Relie That Served to Inspire Americans at the Battle of Mantin. On the evening of the battle of Manila, writes Lieut. J. M. Elliott in St. Nicholas, I sat at my desk in my stateroom on the "Baltimore," sipping a cup of after-dinner coffee, and putting my personal affairs in such shape that if I fell a victim to battle they could be properly handled by others. While destroying a large accumulation of unimportant letters, I came upon a fragment of red-and-white bunting enclosed in an envelope and labeled: "A piece of the pennant which flew at the masthead of the United States steamship Kearsarge, when she fought her great duel with the confederate cruiser Alabama." It had been given to me as a token of regard by the daughter of Admiral Winslow, because I was engaged upon a biography of her father. As I gazed upon the bit of bunting my soul was stirred at the thought that it was once again going into battle; I remembered that sailors are inspired by a good omen, so I placed it in the inside pocket of the blouse which I expected to wear in action. As the shroud of that long night lifted, and the gray, vaporous down of the tro, cs overspread Manila bay, the quartermaster on the Baltimore's bridge cried out: "There they are!" and I thought again of my piece of victorious bunting, recalling how, 34 years before, a quartermaster on another American warship's bridge had exclaimed exultingly under that flag: "She's coming!" We sprang to our guns on the Baltimore's forecastle. A signal of three flags sped quickly to the yard-arm of the Olympia ahead of us, a signal which had not been displayed from an American warship for a third of a century. "Prepare for general action!" Instinctively we looked aloft, for from every masthead in that long columns of warships burst the stars and stripes. Then our captain cried out from the bridge: "Men, we must fight on empty stomachs, but we have full hearts. Let us see once more what can be done under those flags!" Then I held my bit of bunting toward my gun's crew, and said: "Here, men, is our mascot—a piece of the battle-pennant of the Kearsarge. Let it look once more upon brave deeds in battle!" When we drew off for breakfast the tropic heat was becoming intense, so I exchanged my blue blouse for a white one. As we steamed in again to complete our victory, I noticed that my "HERE, MEN, IS OUR MASCOT." gun captain was eying me in a troubled way, so I asked him what was the matter. Coming very close to me he whispered: "Have you still the Kearsarge flag, sir?" "Why, no," I replied. "I left ft in the pocket of my other blouse; but that's all right; it's still on board, you know." The sailor shook his head dubiously. "I don't know, sir," he said. "I think you had better not let 'em know you haven't it." I doubt if the knowledge of its absence would have been apparent under the circumstances. It certainly was not in the steady bearing of my guncaptain. But if ever again I take a crew into battle under the inspiration of a mascot, I shall take care to keep the talisman with me to the end. Told on a Street Car A good evidence of how completely sectional lines have been obliterated in New York business life and how completely have faded bitter memories of the civil war was given a few days since in a street car incident. When he boarded a car going downtown, a well-known man about town met a lawyer whom he had known for years. In the course of their conversation it developed that the lawyer had been captured by Mosby's guarrillas during one of their raids, and that it was only by a lucky accident that he escaped death by hanging. A few hours later the same man boarded a car going up-town, and on it found a second lawyer, with whom his acquaintance was of a more recent date. Impressed by the story of Lawyer No. 1, he recounted it to Lawyer No. 2, who laughed heartily and then remarked: "I was one of the squad detailed from Mosby's guarrillas to hang that very man. I haven't seen him since his escape, but I frequently hear of him in the practice of my pro fession."—N. Y. Times. You Can't Always Tell. Mean souls, like mean pictures, are often found in fine-looking frames.—Chicago Daily News. A STUBBORN COMPANY COOK. Moved at Last When a Shell Came Along and Carried Off the Dinner. "Where we were camped one spell in front of Petersburg," said a civil war veteran, "there was one gun on the other side that seemed to have a line on our company street. "As a general thing the shells would go over us to the rear; but once in awhile one would burst over the street, and now and then we'd get one touching the ground. And with the conditions as they were, when a shell actually stirred up the dust in the street like that it almost always struck very close to one particular spot, that being at the inner end of the street and on the cook tent's side. "That used to disturb us considerable, because we didn't know but what some day a shell might come along through there and carry off our dinner, and we tried to get the cook to shift the fire a little, ten feet or so, so we wouldn't be in so much danger; but she was a stubborn cuss, and he wouldn't. "He said a cook fire wouldn't look very well out in the middle of the corn "ALONG CAME A SHELL." pany street, and there wasn't any danger, anyhow. What we wanted, I guess, was to keep it where it would be most convenient, right alongside of his tent; but there's where he did keep it, anyway. We couldn't move him till something happened. "Our fire arrangement was just the usual thing, a couple of crotched sticks driven in the ground, five or six feet apart, with a pole laid across between them, and the camp kettles hanging from that pole, with the fire built under them. We got a shell from that gun one day that took away one of those crotched sticks and scattered earth around pretty freely, but it didn't do any other damage; it was just after breakfast, when there was nothing on the pole; but we got a shot later that same morning, when there was something there, our dinner. "We were going to have boiled pork, boiled beans and coffee for dinner that day, and all three kettles were hanging side by side and close together on the pole, and b'liin' away merrily, when along came a shell, there close to the ground, and how it ever did it I don't know, because it didn't have the kettles in line; but it managed somehow, all the same, to smash all three of them into 17 different kinds of cocked hats, and it scattered our dinner pretty much all over creation. "For about a minute it just rained beans and coffee and chunks of pork all round that neighborhood. Some of the pork came down four streets away; and it seemed as though in our street there wasn't a tent but what got more or less of the beans or coffee or both. You wouldn't have thought they could have been so widely distributed, so that there was enough of 'em to go round so far, and the shell didn't explode, you understand, either, just smashed the kettle, and passed on. "Well, we lost our dinner that day, but the loss served one good purpose; we were able after that to get the cook to move the fire a little, anyway, out of the range of that gun." THE RAIDERS BAFFLED A War Incident Which Proves That Things Are Not Always What They Seem. "I saw by the paper the other day," said the old veteran, according to the New York Mail and Express, "that one of the English colonels in the Boer war had captured a wagon filled with women's wearing apparel. The incident reminded me of something that happened in the rebellion when I was serving with Kilpatrick. It was shortly after Lincoln had issued his emancipation proclamation and refugees were coming into the camp in drowses. "One day we learned from a spy that the confederates were preparing to send a wagon train along a highway some 15 miles north of the town where we were quartered, and we received orders to intercept it. There's nothing in war so absolutely pleasant and peaceable as capturing a wagon train, and, as we had been lying in camp for several days, we were ready for anything. "Off wegaloped, and about sundown we saw in the distance a vehicle of some kind slowly climbing a long hill. We spurred after it, and in a few minutes drew near to what we supposed was the confederate wagon train. As we clattered up the hill the canvas flap on the back of the wagon was lifted and a woolly head appeared in the aperture. "What ye' all fussin' about? inquired the owner of the head. 'Ain't Masa Lincoln said I see free?" "What did we do? Why, we turned tail and rode back to camp with the sergeant swearing softly to himself. We didn't say much about our exploit next day. We didn't need to. We didn't hear of anything else for six months." A True Hero. The small boy who politely refuses a piece of pie at dinner when he sees the supply is running short is a true here. —Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Genius of Ireland. The genius of Ireland is a curiously paradoxical subject, and requires a study to itself. Though so many great men have been associated with Ireland, when we analyze them according to race we find that a remarkably large proportion of them are of English or Scotch descent. Bishop Berkeley, for instance, is often called an Irishman, though his father was English (his mother's origin is unknown), and though be always considered himself an Englishman. The great Irish patriots have usually had English blood in their veins, and have sometimes even been proud of the fact. And yet, while this is so, Ireland has somehow had the art of imparting some of her subtest qualities to those happy Englishmen who had the good fortune to possess some slight strain of her blood, or to be born in her land, or even to have lived there in youth. The greatest English humorists and wits—Swift and Sterne and Congreve—had this good fortune. In the same way, while Ireland has scattered her saints over England and the continent, her own patron saint is a Scotchman, who was never canonized. The contribution of Ireland to our national genius cannot well be stated in numerical values.—Monthly Review. Why She Quit the 'Phone The young woman employed as a stenographer had a beau named Will, to whom she talked some 25 times a day. The lawyer who labored under the impression that he was paying for the stenographer's time was not pleased that Maggie should drop her work and rush frantically to the telephone every time the bell rang and stand there for 15 or 20 minutes debating whether or not Will ought to have told Clara that secret which he knew well enough was none of Clara's business. One day the lawyer left his office, and going to another telephone in the building, called up his own office. Of course Maggie rushed frantically to the 'phone and answered. "Hello," said the lawyer in a muffled voice. "This is a lineman testing the wire. Kindly stand one foot in front of the receiver and say hello." Maggie complied. "Thank you. Now stand two feet on the other side and say hello." It was done. "Thank you. Now stand on your head and say hello." Maggie seems to be somewhat backward in answering the telephone now —Chicago Tribune. Qualifications of Sea Turtles On some of the foreign steamship lines the captains are naval officers, and, in case of war, would retain their commands. On the German steamers the officers must first serve a year or so in the naval reserve. On the French line each member of the crew must serve for a time on a vessel of war. On the majority of ships, however, the officers are men of the sea, who have fought their way up, step by step, entirely by merit, and not at all by favor. On the American line, even after a man has reached the rank of captain, he must pass a rigid examination every five years.—Collier's Weekly. Hunt and Crime Prof. Dexter, of the University of Illinois, who has studied the effect of weather on morals, finds that the desire to fight rises with the thermometer, but stops at 55; wilts after that as the mercury rises. Assault cases are therefore commoner in summer than in winter. Drunkenness, however, lessens with summer and increases with the coming of cold. Suicides are at a maximum on bright days with a high barometer, and increase as the wind rises. -Scientific American Novel Mosquito Fender A railroad man who works in one of the switch towers on the line to Atlantic City, surrounded by a mosquito-infested swamp, has a plan of his own for keeping them out of the tower. He makes a ball out of newspapers and socks it in coal oil just enough so that it will not drip. He hanges this midway between two windows and keeps it swirling all the time. He says that no matter how thick the mosquitoes may be outside they never care to pass it. Philadelphia Times. Courtplaster by the Bottle The best court plaster is bought by the bottle. It is not plaster at all, but a liquid which forms a coating over the broken skin, is not removed by water and remains until the injury is healed. It is one of the most convenient of household remedies. In the case of a tiny hangnail or cut on a joint where it is impossible to use plaster the liquid preparation saves much inconvenience. -N. Y. Times. Good Preliminary Practice. Patience—Isn't basketball a very rough game? Patricio—Very. "Well, why do girls learn to play it, then?" "Why, it fits a girl for society functions, when she has to fight her way to the refreshment table."—Yonkers Statesman. No Use for It Barber—Can't I sell you a bottle of this tonic, sir? It will positively prevent the hair from coming out. Customer—No, thank you. You see, I'm a married man, and the easier my hair comes out the less it hurts.—Chicago Daily News. Money Hides Age Biffles—What of it? Hasn't she a million for every year of her life?— N. Y. Herald. Strange Legacy Count Ouen, a French millionaire, has left a large sum of money to the city of Rouen to be devoted to a curious use. The money will produces $20,000 annually, and the count directs that this sum is to be given to the best built and healthiest couple married in Rouen every year. The count was impressed at the increasing degeneracy of the French race, and hopes by means of this legacy to bring about a more healthy state of affairs—N. X. Sun. floe entering upon a campaign for another one!" exclaimed the politician. "It's outrageous. He can't help using his official position to advance his own interests." "But the man in question has just resigned." "What! Resigned! Well, that's a despicable trick to gain public favor. I didn't think he would do such a thing."—Chicago Post. The Ruling Passion "We had a fire at our house, and the servant girl was nearly burned to death." "Lighting the fire with kerosene, eh?" "No; it was a defective flue. You see, I yelled to the girl to get out as soon as we discovered the fire, but she said she wouldn't leave without two weeks' notice."—Philadelphia Record. A $10,000 Harness Set The young Egyptian khēlive is said to possess the most costly set of harness in the world. It is made of black leather, with chased gold buckles and collars ornamented with the same costly metal. The pad-cloths are also embroidered with gold, and the set is said to have cost £2,000. It is for four horses and is used on all state occasions—London Express. Braising Tags Quinn—What is all that waste paper doing in Carter's yard? De Fonte—That isn't waste paper. It's a great collection of steel tags. Carter fastened a tag to each seed so he would have no difficulty in knowing the variety when the flowers came up. —Chicago Daily News. His Little Joke Fmignan—Oi hear yez how a girrul baby at your house, McManus. Phwat is it yez are afther callin' th' infant? McManus—Shure, an' it do be Caro- nins, th' owd woman tells me, but Oi sell her Carrie for short, Oi dunno. "Carrie, is it, McManus? Faith, an' hots a good name fer a faymale miss- inger boy, Ol'm thinkin'."—Chicago Daily News. Long Lightning Rod 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.—N. Y. Times. Logic. Must—Who are they to be married? Ethel—Never. "Never? And why so?" "She will not marry him until he has paid his debts, and he cannot pay his debts until she marries him"—Fun. Trouble Ahead Clancye- Phwat's all th' thrubble In th' sley beant? Hogan—Some of th' bys fed Casey's go-at a dozen av these cannon crackers, an' now they're thryin t' git him t' ate a box matches.—Baltimore American. 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Connects at Davenport and Charlotte, with sleeper (No 27) carrying through sleeper, beween New York and Tampa, with connections for all Florida points. also connects with sleeper the Washington and Southwestern Lim- ited (No 27, carrying through sleeper angusta S.vannah Jacks nville Tampa Nath Neville, and Mphilp and Atlanta New Orleans also, Pelham Towns sleeper Moncays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Washington to San Francisco without change, with connections for all counts in Texas, Mexico and California 12 0. M No. 7, solid daily train or Charlotte, N.C. Connects at Moseley with Baltimore, Md. Railroad at Keysville for Clarksville, Me. Derson and Durham and at Greenbush for Durham, Raleigh, and Winston Salem at Darville with no. 35 United States Shipping to New Orleans and points South, whitie carries sleepers to new Orans and Jacksonville; connecting for Nassau and tuffet drawer; r on sleeper Richmond, to Birmingham and Atlanta. Through train sleeper, Sanbury, to Memphis. 6 20 P. M. LOCAL, daily exepts Sunday for Keysville and intermediate points TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHM OND. 6 80 A. M. 40. M. from Atlanta, Augusta, Asheville 8 40. M. from Keysville a d local stations. 8 40. M. from Keysville a d local stations. LOCAL FREIGHT TRAINS. Nos. 61 and 62 between Manchester and New apolis. Va. YORK RIVER LINE, WEST POINT The Faverite Route North. BALTIMORE LIMITED. Daily, except Sunday consultations. For information, for either at artistry and York River Landings. Stops on y at stations between Quinton and West Point. THIRD FOUR 230 V. m. LOC. L Exp. daily only. Sunday for West West Exp. and intermediate stations connects with stage at Lester Manor to Walker toum and Tannahannook. Train No. 74.6:98 A. M LOCAL MIXED, leaves daily except Sundays from Virginia Street Station for West Point Point, connects at Locust Station, connecting with stage at Locust Monor, for Walkerton and Tappanhock. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND 5:15 a.m. M. daily, from West Point, with connection from Baltimore except Mondays 10:45 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 8:50 P.M. m. arriving Baltimore 8:00 a.m. Steamers' call at almonds and York Town Tuesday's hursdays and Saturdays at Gloucester Gluecester Point Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. O. W WESTBRUY. FRANK S. GANNON Third Vice-President and General Manager, Washington, D. C. WANTED—a first-class pressman Send samples of work and recommendations to THE PLANET, Richmond, Va. RF&P RICHMOND FREEDRICK-BURG & POTOMAC R. R. Schedule in Effect May. 26, 1801. LEAVE BYRD ST, STATION. (Daily except Sunday) 7.15 A. M. Leaves Elba for Ashland. 4.00 P. M. Leaves Byrd 8.1 for Fredericks Bryan. 6.30 P. M. Leaves Elba for Ashland. 8:40 A. M. arrives Elba from Ashland. 8:25 A. M. arrives Byrd Street Station from Fredricksbury. 5.52 P. M. arrives Elba from Ashland S. A. L. Through Trains. Via S. A. L. Junction and R. F. & P. Bailrood. LEAVE S A. L. BROAD STREET STA TIO N 6:40 a. M., Daily, for Washington and points north. stops at Fredericksburg and Quantico Sleep art 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. Dally. Stops at Fredericks burg. Dowell and Ashland Sleeper from New York. 10:30 P. M. Dally. stops at Fred'sburg Doswell and Ashland. Sleeper from New York. W. P. TAYLOE, Traffic Manager. E. T. D. MYERS, President. VIRGINIA NAVIGATION To Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point, Newport, Newport, Charmouth and James River landings, and connecting a (Old Point) and Norfolk for BAYSIDE FOCUSING. To LONDON, War NEDREY AND DIRECT AT J. M. Micliec-sare direct to wharf. Fare only $1.50. Micliec-sare music. Newportmouth. Old Point and Newport News. Music by a grand Orchestra. Freight received daily from above-named locations in Eastern Virginia and North Carolina. LEVIN WINDSICK www.levinwindsick.com EDWARD WARNER XRPG1982 Atlantic Coast Line. Schedule in effect January 14 1901 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND-BYRD STREET STATION 9:00 A.M. NORFOLK LIMITED Daily Arrives Petersburg 9:34 a.m. m. N. folk 11:59 a.m. Stops only at Petersburg and principal stations east of Petersburg. 9:05 A.M. Daily Arrives Petersburg 9:50 a.m. m. Woldon 11:50 a.m. m. Fayetteville 4:25 p.m. haveston 10:55 p.m. savannah 2:55 a.m. m. Jacksonville 8:30 a.m. Port Tampa 7:10 p.m. connects at Wilson with No 47 arriving Goldabor 8: 25 p.m., Wilmington 6 p.m. m. Pullman Sleeper New York to Jacksonville. 11:56 A.M. Daily, except Sunday. Arrives Petersburg 12:30 p.m. m. Stops Manchester, Drewry's Buff. Centralia, and Ghester on signal. 1:15 P.M. OCEAN SHORE LIMITED. Daily. Arrive Petersburg 8:45 p.m. N. folk 5:35 p.m. m. Stops only at Petersburg, Waverly and Suffolk. 4:30 P. M Daily, except Sunday. Arrives Petersburg 5:20 p. m., Weldon 7:42 p. m. and Rosky 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 Daville for stations between Emporia and Lawrenceville, Weldon 9:18 p. m. Fayetteville 12:32 a. m. Charleston 5:23 a. m. Savannah 7:50 a. m. Jacksonville 12:15 p. m. Port Tampa 11:30 p. m. NEW LINE to Middle Georgia Points—Arriving Augusta 7:55 a. m., Mason 11:15 a. m. Atlanta 12:35 p. m., Thomasville 2:25 p. m. Pullman Siepers New York to Wilmington, harleston, Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Augusta and Macon. 9:10 P. M., Daily, Arriving Petersburg 9:55 p. M., connects at Petersburg with Norfolk and Western railway, arriving Lynchburg 2:30 a. m. Roanoke 5 a. m., Bristol 10:40 a. m. Pullman Sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg. 11:20 P. M. Daily, Arrives Petersburg 12:16 a. m. TRAINS ARRIVE IN RICHMOND, 3:20 A. M. Daily, From Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Atlanta, Maeon, Augusta and all points 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. 11:05 a.m. Sunday only from Norfolk Suffolk and Petersburg. 12:10 p. 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. Petersburg 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 S24 East Main St. W. P. TAYLOR. JLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP CO DAILY LINE FOR NEW YORK, EXCRET SUNDAY Passenger on East Main St. sunday via Chesapeake and Ohio; railway P. A. or Richmond and Petersburg rail road (Norfolk and West route) 9:00 A.M. conecting at Richmond with Old Dominion Line steamer sailing same evening 10 o'clock for New York. Tickets on Richmond Transfer company's, 900 east Main Street; Chesapeake Ohio railway and Richmond and Petersburg streets, and at company's office, 135 east Main Street. Richmond. Baggage checks through. for New York and all points beyond one shipped by steamers. sailing from Rihmond WNDENE DVYXI $ FRI DAY at 8:00 P.M. This steam carrier carries age passengers only Passengers can leave daily except Bsn 613 8 P (Saturday 4 P M). to Norfolk or Oldham, fortem, connecting with Norfolk and Western railroad or Cheapeake and Ohio railway. JOHN,F MAYER,Agent, 113 can trust trust Richmond, W N & RY. W Norfolk AND Western Nov. 19, 1899. LEAVER RICHMOND, BYRD STREET STATION. 8:00 A. M., Daily—Richmond and Norfolk Ves- tage Limited. Arrives Norfolk 11:25 A. M., Daily—Waverly and Suffolk Second class tickets not accepted on this train 8:06 A. M., Daily—"The Chicago Express" for Rosanoke, Ronanoke, Columbus, and Chicago and Columbus oke to Columbus: also for Briscoe, Knoxville, and Chattanooga Pull man sleeper Ronanoke to Knoxville 6:48 P. M., Daily Norfolk, Suffolk and in intermediae Norfolk, arrives at Nor- folk as 10:40 P. M. 9:00 P. M., Daily, for Lynchburg and Roanoke Connects at Roanoke with Wash- ington to Pulman Sleeper's Lynchburg to Memphis and New Orleans. Cafe Parlor and Observation Cars Ras- ford to Atlantic City. Sleep- er between Richmond and Lynch- burg, and berths ready foroco- ntry. 9:00 P. M. Also Pullman Sleeper Park. Train arrive at Richmond from Lynchburg and the West daily. 8:15 a.m. and at 9:35 p.m from Norfolk and the East 11:06 a.m and Vesti- buled Limited 7:00 p.m. at Richmond St. JOHN E WAGNER City Passenger and Ticket Agents C H BOSLEY District Passenger Agent W B BEVILLE General Passenger Agent Gene Offices. Roanoke Va. The Economy' 809 N. 3RD STREET. W. O. TURNER,||Prop. FINE TAILORING CLEANING 'DYEING and REPAIRING. RAILWAY. "CAPITAL CITY BOULE." Short Line to Principal Cities of the South and Southwest, Florida, Cuba Texas, California and Mexico, reaching the Capitals of six States. Schedule in Eff. on May 25 1901 Leave No. 2/ No. 81 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 10:35 p m 7:00 a.m Atlants 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 am Leave Columbia cent'l time 1:05 a.m 9:40 a.m Arrive TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND DAILY 6:32 a. m. No. 84 | From all points south 3:21 p. m. No. 66 | and southwest. 5:46 p. m. No. 38 | From Noclins, N. C. 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-cars to and from Atlanta, in connection with which Through Pullman Tickets are sold. Finest Day coaches. Z. P. Smith, Dist. Pass, Agent, 886 E. Main St. 'Phone, 405. J. M. Barr, 1st V. P. & Gen'l Mang Portsmouth, Va. R. E. L. Bunch, Gen'l Pass. Agent. C. & O. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ROUTE. Schedule in Effect May 26, 1901, From Richmond. LEAVE BROAD-STREET STAION For Newport News, Old Point, Nortok and Portsmouth. 8:00 a. m. (except Sunday) Local. 9:00 a. m. Daily, Fast train. Stops only at Williamamburg, connects at Nortok for Newport News, Ya. Beach Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with Boston steamers. 8:45 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 lift- on Forgie, connects for Orange Warrenton, Manassas Branch, Hagerstown and Lexington. No. 1. 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 Gordonsville to Staunton. 5:80 p. m. accommodation, except Sunday to Doswell. 10.45 A m. daily, with Pullman for Cincinnati, hicago, Louisville, St. Louis, etc. connects at Ronceverte, except Sunday with Greenbrier River Railway. LEAVE EIGHTH ST. 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GOOD conduct should be at a premium in our churches, and disreputable methods should be discountenanced. When the respectable, God-fearing members permit the other elements to secure a temporary control, all share alike in the disgrace which follows. COLORED people, let us practice patience and impress upon our people the necessity of good breeding. Much of our trouble comes from the fact that we are held responsible for those who will not behave themselves. DEMONS AT WORK It is indeed a startling condition of affairs when, within the brief period of one week two human beings have been put to death by being burned at the stake. JOHN WESLEY PENNINGTON, (colored) charged with assaulting Mrs. J. C. DAVIS of COFFEE county, Ala., was captured and after being carried before his alleged victim was burned at the stake in the presence of about 500 people at ENTERPRISE, ALABAMA, August 7th, 1901. His agonizing screams and pleas for mercy are said to have echoed and reechoed as the mob drowned its reverberations with their yells of delight. Then again in GEORGIA, about 18 miles from Savannah, a colored man, named WASHINGTON, charged with ravishing Mrs. J. J. CLARK, was captured at Way Station, Georgia, and after being identified by his alleged victim was burned at the stake. He went to his death denying that he was guilty of the offense with which he was charged. He was fastened to an iron crow-bar in sitting position, wood being piled about him. A chain was placed around him and the torch applied. He died without a groan or a struggle. When a man applied the torch, he looked straight into his eyes. His face showed no signs of the terrible agony he suffered and he died protesting his innocence. The distressing part of the affair is that colored men participated in both of these brutal murders, which to say the least, was as heinous as was the crime with which these hapless victims stood charged. And yet it may serve a good purpose, if it tends to silence the Negro-ha ters of the Southland, who are generally forward in condemning the race for the action of a few individual members of it. Ninety-five percent of the colored people abhor crime in all of its forms, and they are particularly antagonistic to criminal assault. They insist however that the officers of the law and not the representatives of the mob should punish. They insist that cruel and unusual punishment shall not be resorted to, as they do not tend to check the crimes; but rather serve to inflame the passions and increase the very evils which they were intended to eradicate. They insist that the Governors of GEORGIA and ALABAMA shall offer rewards and that the sheriffs in the counties in which the crimes were committed shall arrest the leaders of the mob and that, after being charged with premeditated murder, they shall be hanged dead by the neck and their accessories be given long terms in the convict camps of the respective commonwealths. They insist that the punishment of the Negro-lynchers shall be equally as severe as that of the white lynchers and vice-versa. They declare that the two men burned at the stake, even if guilty, were but the product of the community in which they lived, for the mob which so brutally executed them proved conclusively that they were willing to commit a crime as heinous as the one with which they stood charged. The aim of the law should not be so much to punish as it should be to reform. Vengeance should have no place in thoroughly civilized communities. The plea as to the heinousness of the offense charged against the victim offers no excuse. The community has no right to sink to the level of the brute which essays to punish. Its action becomes brutalizing when it resorts to methods outlawed by civilized governments. These axioms—these truths are the result of centuries of experience. SPAIN tried the torture. FRANCE followed in her foot-steps, even after ENGLAND had long before abandoned the methods as a failure. It is indeed unfortunate that the American Republic should tolerate such brutal practices when its inherent law speaks so emphatically against them. To-day, in this country, to be charged with a heinous offense is to be convicted. Where the victim is poor and without friends, his life is not valued as much as that of a chicken. Race prejudice was never more marked and justice never to a greater extent disregarded. It has poisoned our entire system of government, extending in many cases to the race with which the victims are identified. Many colored people are as intolerant as are the white people of whom we complain. They are imitators and have been influenced by the surroundings in which they live. This makes it all the more necessary that the God-fearing, conscientious, thrifty, law-abiding colored people should stand together, accumulate property, make friends with the better class of white people and insist upon a rigid enforcement of the laws. A crime committed by a colored man upon a white woman is no worse than a crime committed by a white man upon a colored woman. The time is not far distant when the fury of the mob will be blinded to the color of the victim and one or more white men will be called upon to offer up their lives at the stake just as these colored men have been required to do. Then, a reaction will take place and those who see these horrible punishments through smoked eye glasses will take them off and gaze upon the crime in all of its hideousness. It is a long time to wait, but the re- frain will yet come and the demand that lynch-law must go shall become the slogan in the land. God grant that we may live long enough to note the change and stand at the tomb of lawlessness, the first inscription of which shall be "Sacred to the memory of Judge Lynch." --- Any Day Would Do Tess—You could never convince her that Friday is an unlucky day to be married. Jess—Not superstitious, eh? Tess—0, she's superstitious enough but she's over 35, and still single.—Philadelphia Press. A New Way Out "You say that I am your first love, Edgar, and yet everybody knows that you have been courting any number of girls all summer." "Yes, dear—but—you forget I am beginning life entirely anew."—N. Y. Times. Rightness. "Be sure you're right," exclaimed the confident philosopher, "and then go ahead!" "Be sure you're right," protested the married man, "and then get down on your knees and ask to be forgiven!" —Puck. Yellowish. The Visitor—Of course you know nothing of yellow journalism, up here. The Villager—Wal, the ed'ter of the Banner he now'n agin puts in items upside down so's tew make folks read 'em. I reckon that's sawter buff like, alit't?—Detroit Free Press. Out of Hia Class. First Jersey Mosquito - I think I will try a taste of that baby ones. First serve Mosquito—I think I will try a taste of that baby over there. Second Jersey Mosquito—Aw, go tackle some one of your sizel—Brooklyn Eagle. Lucky So Fnr. Harry—How do you think I am getting on with my cornet? Fred—First rate. I expected to hear that some one had killed you before this. Stray Stories. RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA BREAK AT CARNEGIE'S Strikers Say It Is First Move In a General Tie Up. ADVANTAGE STILL WITH TRUST Mill Owners Assert That Intimidation Has Been Used At Several Points. Steel Production Has Depreciated 31 Per Cent. This Week. Pittsburg, Aug. 14—Ten men, five of them skilled, quit at the lower union mill of the Carnegie company in Pittsburg yesterday and joined the strikers. Their defection represent the first break in the Carnegie forces of more than 15,000 men. The strikers were jubilant over the incident, but the company claims to have filled their places at once and that there will be no more desertions at any of the plants. The Belleair plant at which the men struck on Sunday was finally closed down yesterday, after working short handed until Monday afternoon. When another start will be made is problematical. Several hundred boys, employed at the National Tube works at McKeesport, went out during the night and day and their action materially aided the effort of the strikers to finally tie the plant up. The works are going ahead short handed, but the ranks of the workers are thinning and the supply of material is limited. The strikers made gains at Pittsburg, and Wheeling also, in the last 24 hours, but the advantage is still with the mill owners. Reports of breaks in the ranks at Painters and New Castle are denied by the strike leaders. So far good order has prevailed, although the steel officials assert that there has been intimidation at Wheeling, McKeesport and Pittsburg. President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, left yesterday for Wheeling, where he is to address the strikers. The number of men out as a result of the general order is now roughly estimated at 16,000, and on the three orders at 62,000. It is reported this morning that the Chartiers plant at Carnegie, operated by the American Sheet Steel company, is to be dismantled and will be removed to Leechburg. The fires were drawn yesterday after the men had refused to go to work, and Superintendent Henry says they will never be relighted. The steel corporation held its ground at Chicago, Joliet, Bayview, Youngstown, Columbus, the Kiskimnetas valley and the Carnegie group, with the exception of the instance named. The strikers are considering plans for breaking the decision of Chicago, Joliet and Bayview to stand with the steel companies, but what they plan to do has not yet been made clear. They are charging some of the western men with dishonesty and disloyalty, and there is a general desire among members of the Amalgamated here for some form of inquiry. It is said authoritatively that the strike has, since its extended start this week, cut off over 31 per cent, of the combined steel and finished product tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation. Trying To Get Them To Reconsider Their Refusal To Strike. their Herself To Strike. Chicago, Aug. 14. - Assistant Secretary Tighe, of the Amalgamated Association, acting for President Shaffer, has called a meeting of the South Chicago men, who refused to go out, for tonight, when an attempt will be made to have them reconsider their action. Although the secretary denies that the question of financial aid would be considered, it is understood that, falling a substantial increase in the present strike benefit fund, the lodges may suffer expulsion from the national body. McKeesport's Executive Advised To Take Carbolic Acid. McKeesport, Pa., Aug. 14.—Mayor Black's mail yesterday brought two peculiar communications. One was a postal card and read as follows: "You will never live to serve your term. Somebody ought to kill you. There is a place for such fools as you." It was signed "A Striker." It was mailed at Washington, Pa. The other communication enclosed an editorial from a New York paper roasting the mayor, and on the margin of it was written: "Go take a dose of carbolic acid." Arbitration Impossible, Saye Bielchop, Columbus, G., Aug. 14—Joseph Bishop, secretary of the state board of arbitration, told Governor Nash yesterday: "The strike is in a condition now that makes arbitration for the present impossible. So far as I know there are no negotiations in Pittsburgh looking to a settlement of the strike." Texas Legislature May Aid Strikers. Austin, Tex., Aug. 14—A resolution was introduced in the state legislature yesterday, pledging moral and financial support to the steel strikers, and requiring members to contribute $1 per day of their salaries to aid the strikers. The resolution went over until today. Cigarette Flend Commits Suicide. Conesville, Pa., Aug. 14.—Edward Simmons, 18 years old, committed suicide last evening by shooting himself. His body was found in Newlin's woods. He had been addicted to the excessive use of cigarettes, affecting his mind. Cornelius Vanderbilt a Lieutenant. New York, Aug. 14.—Cornelius Vanderbilt was elected a Lieutenant in the Twelfth regiment, National Guard of the state of New York yesterday. BRYAN IN FAME'S TEMPLE. Nebraska Warmly Eulogized At Virginia's State Convention Today. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 14. - Norfolk is owned today by the delegates to the Democratic state convention, which convened at noon. Montague controlled 1,000 of the 1,467 delegates and was nominated for governor on the first ballot. State Senator Barksdale in a speeck this afternoon said: "Twice w have followed a great man to great defeat, but Democracy is not the party of one man or of one idea. We are not contracted by any 'pent up Utica' in the Democratic temple of fame, which is the hearts of the people, alongside Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Samuel J. Tilden and others of the Democracy, we will place the equally great Nebraskan, and in the memories of our past glorious record free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 will have an abiding place as another cause nobly fought and hopelessly lost." SUSPENDING THE SHEBIEF. No Action Taken At Alabama's Con- Vention Over Lynching Question. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 14.—At the constitutional convention yesterday Mr. Long, of Walker, moved to reconsider the action of the convention in providing that the governor may suspend a sheriff from duty pending impeachment proceedings for permitting a prisoner to me taken from him and lynched. Ex-Governor Jones, in support of the measure, severely arraigned participants in mobs, and, referring to the recent Lynching of two women and a man in a neighboring state, declared that the sheriff who allowed these prisoners to be taken put a stain upon the name of the state. He said he was distrustful of the passions and weakness of citizens of localities, and he thought the power to prevent lawlessness should be centralized in the governor. No definite action was taken. SANTIAGO'S GUNS FOUND. It Was Thought the Spanards Were Shipping Them Home. Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 14.—Several days ago it was discovered that the two modern six-inch Spanish guns comprising the Punta Gorda battery which commands the entrance to the harbor of Santiago were missing. This battery and the guns of the Sacapia battery were the only modern cannon employed by the Spaniards against the United States warships with the exception of those landed from the Spanish cruisers. Yesterday the harbor police discovered the guns which had been carried to a forest on the other side of the bay and been broken by explosives, ready for shipment as old metal. Several Spanish ships had been searched by the police who had expected to discover that the guns were being shipped by the Spaniards to Spain. WHITNEYS STORY BELIEVED. Irma Saw Sage, Tender, Tender, Jerome Says Evidence Tends To Cor roborate Tipsters' Confession. New York, Aug. 14.-Justice Jerome and officials attached to the district attorney's office held another judicial inquiry yesterday concerning the charges that police officials have been accepting bribes from keepers of illegal resorts. A number of witnesses were called. When the session adjourned Justice Jerome was asked if anything had developed so far which led to the discredit of Whitney's testimony, or its corroboration. He said: "So far, nothing has been adduced which causes us to doubt Whitney's statement. Where the testimony of other witnesses touches upon the same subjects, it is corroborated, and in no case has his story been diverged from." MacLAURIN NOT SO STRONG Tillman Satisfied That His Opponent Will Be Defeated Washington, Aug. 14.—Sepator Tillman, of South Carolina, who was in this city yesterday en route east to meet an engagement to lecture, said that Senator McLaurin is not so strong in his state today as he was six weeks ago. He was sure that if the primary election for senator were to come off in South Carolina now Mr. McLaurin could not get more than 8,000 or 10,000 out of 95,000 votes. He did not believe it would be possible for him to get more than 15,000 or 20,000 in the first primary a year hence and he was satisfied he could not be elected. SCHLEY WILL NAME WITNESSES. Secretary Hackett Says Santiago Hero Has That Right. Washington, Aug. 14—Acting Secretary Hackett of the navy department issued a statement last night in which he said that Admiral Schley had the right to call whatever witnesses he chose before the board of inquiry. He declined to state whether Sampson would be among the number, although it is reported here that he will be. The investigation will begin on the 12th of September. Big Increase In Postal Receipts. Washington, Aug. 14—The statement of the gross postal receipts for July, as compared with July of last year at 50 of the largest post offices in the country, shows a net increase of 12 per cent. The largest increases were 40.7 per cent, at Toledo, O., and 38.3 per cent, at Buffalo. Troyen Car Killed Mollenhauer. New York, Aug. 14—Fredrick A. Mollenhauer, 53 years old, head of a conservatory of music in Jersey City, N. J., a brother of H. F. Mollenhauer, the Brooklyn sugar refiner, was knocked down by an electric car in this city last night and crushed to death. GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS Hobbs, Ala., Aug. 18.—The first hale of Alabama cotton and the first new hale here was received last night from Wilcox county. Laureus, S. C., Aug. 10.—Three negro women were put to work here yesterday cleaning the streets. These women were convicted in the mayor's court for a petty offense and were given the option of paying a fine or working out a sentence on the streets. Lexington, Va., Aug. 13.—Assistant postmaster John G. Pole and his family, while attempting to cross a mountain stream about six miles from here were swept down by the waters of a cloudburst yesterday afternoon and his wife and three daughters, aged from 1 to 8 years, drowned. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 13.—The constitutional convention yesterday refused to repeal an ordinance here tofore adopted providing that the governor may suspend a sheriff pending impeachment proceedings for permitting a prisoner to be taken from him and lynched. Greenville S. C. Aug 10—Senator MacLaurin yesterday addressed 2,000 people at Oakway, near Westminster. He emphasized his position on national issues, touched on the Pars treaty and expansion and advocated the building of a merchant marine which shall fly the Stars and Stripes. Memphis, Tenn. Aug 8—A trolley car belonging to the Memphis Street Railway company was derailed while crossing a bridge over a bayou at Second and Mill streets yesterday aftercon, and went down a 20-foot embankment. Five persons were injured more or less seriously. Montgomery, Ala., Aug 8—Captain Noble Wiley, son of Congressman Wiley, of this district, and who recently received an appointment as a lieutenant in the regular army, was shot and seriously wounded here last night by Dr. J. H Crossland. The cause of the difficulty is not known. Norfolk, Va., Aug 8—The McNally Oil Manufacturing company, which manufactures castor peanut and other vegetable oils and which was about to leave Norfolk on account of excessive freight rates on raw material, will build a $60,000 plant and continue operations here. Tampa, Fla., Aug 12—It is stated today that Padilla, the secretary of Resistance, and the one strike leader who has successfully evaded deportation by the citizens has fled from the city to prevent being, summarily sent out. It is probable that labor matters will adjust themselves in the next few days. Memphis, Tenn. Aug. 10.—The safes of the Illinois Central railroad and the American Express company in the depot in Bollvar. Tenn. were blown open and robbed early yesterday by two masked men, after the robbers had forced the night telegraph operator into a box car and locked him in. No booty was secured. Birmingham, Ala. Aug. 12.—The 47th annual convention of the International Typographical Union will begin its session in this city to-day. Delegates have arrived from all parts of the United States and Canada. The most important matters under discussion are the eighth law and decreasing the numbers of districts in which organizers shall work. Tampa, Fla., Aug. 10.—The members of the Resistencia Cigar Makers Union, whose leaders have been deported by the citizens, are circulating a petition directed to the president of the Centro Espanol, asking that he call a special meeting of the Centro to take action demanding that the case be taken up at once by the Spanish minister at Washington. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 10.—The first indication of the revival of the export iron trade, which has been dormant for six months, was made known yesterday, when a firm of iron brokers booked an order for a good round lot of plg iron for European points. The southern iron masters had not received an export order in ten months up to yesterday. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 10.—Governor Jenks yesterday had a long conference with R. H. Parks, state solicitor of the Coffee county district, with reference to the bringing to justice of those who participated in the burning at the stake of John Wesley Pennington a negro, near Enterprise, Wednesday. Pennington is said to have confessed to having assaulted Mrs. J. C. Davis, a white woman, Roanoke, Va., Aug. 10.—A man giving his name as Frank Jones, of Lexington, Ky., but who has been identified as Charles Lyles, was arrested here yesterday afternoon and locked up, charged with murder. Lyles, alias Jones, is wanted in Charlotte, N C., where there is a charge against him for the murder of Newton Lanier, who was found dying last Friday evening near a railroad track a few miles south of Charotte Union, S. C. Aug. 10—Senator B. R. Tillman was the last speaker at the big meeting here yesterday. He discussed the "commercial Democracy" advocates by Senator McLaurin without personal bitterness or abuse, and said in part: "The report is going the rounds that the mills are behind this new doctrine. I do not believe any such report. I deny that the mills and their owners want to turn the state over to the Republicans. I give them credit for more patriotism and for more sense." Senator Tillman failed to see any reason or excuse for the mill men following commercial Democracy, and unless it be because of "boot licking," he could see no excuse for the change. He feared the trouble was due to the fact that they had been associating with northern bankers. Friday, August 9. Charles Towle, United States consular agent at Saltillo, Mexico, is dead. The conference between the glass blowers and manufacturers at Atlantic City adjourned yesterday. Signor Estrada Palma, in a long letter, declines to accept the presidency of Cuba if it is offered him. Oberlin M. Carter was told of the suits entered against him by the government for the recovery of property. Emperor William has granted Field Marshal Von Waldersee the order of "Pour Le Merite," with oak leaves. Negotiations are well advanced for the organization of a trust by the tomato canners of Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. Saturday, August 10. The Order of Galilean Fishermen adjourned at Baltimore yesterday. It is said there are rich deposits of iron ore in southern Japan. The rumor that Lord Kitchener was wounded by the Boers is discredited in London. The Russian minister of finance, Mr. De Witte, will probably visit this country in the near future. It is said that Mr. Steyn, the former president of the Orange Free State, will shortly join Mr. Kruger in Holland. Chief Morrissey, of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, says it is not likely that his people will become involved in the steel situation. OUR GREAT OFFER To the Colored People of the World. LUSTORONE THE GREATEST OF ALL HAIR TONICS. STRAIGHTENS KINKY, NAPPE, CURLY HAIR. You can straighten your hair in your own home. No one besides yourself need ever know how your hair became straight. Our Regular $5.00 Complete Treatment for $1.00 both must be used to secure positive results. LUSTORONE No. 1.—To be used at bed-time every night. Straighten Knotty, Napkin, Napkin, and press quickly, taking only one box to thoroughly straighten the hair. 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The managers of the Bay Shore Summer Resort, on the electric car line near Hampton and Old Point, have pleasure in announcing that that their Resort will be opened to the public for the season of 1901, on Wednesday, May 29th. This popular Resort is now undergoing important improvements: A large pavilion to accommodate 700 people is now being erected and a neat hotel with comfortable rooms and spacious parlors and private dining room is being built. The equipment is thorough and the service is the best. Special attention given to Church, Sunday.school and Society picnics and excursions. Large Hall for Summer Conventions. NO LIQUORS. 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 This organization has been chartered and legally instituted under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of nutting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial and Praternal and to promote the Social and Moral condition of humanity. Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization a place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand opportunity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organize lodges. Kindly address. Stamps accepted BEAUTIFUL, BREEZY, Buckr RIGHT ON THE CHESAP SEA-FOOD The managers of the Bay electric car line near Hampton in announcing that that their public for the season of 1901 popular Resort is now underg A large pavilion to accommodate erected and a neat hotel w cious parlors and private din equipment is thorough and th Special attention given to Church and excursions. Large Hall for Sum Correspondence solicited, Address, BAY SHORE H P. John W [Formerly with Groceries and C MEAT A No. 126 and 128 N. 18th St. KNIGHTS TO WHOM This org stituted und York, for the men on the Fraternal and to promote the Social and Its two distinct military and unifor place in the front ranks of all sacred in unity for active men. Deputies want lodges. Kindly address, G. W. ALLEN S 346 W. 37th St Old hunters say The MARLIN has so many things to com- mand it. The top of the action is always closed, the mechanism is most simi- ple, the finish elegant the form attractive. It seems to throw its bullets a little more accurately and plant than with a little more force than any other rifle. For deertake a 38-55 or 30-30. 120 yards. 300 Illustr- ations by Washington. MARLIN FIRE ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN, CONN. SUMMER BOARDERS WANTED Mrs. J. P. Altens, Cumberland county, Va. 15 minutes walk from Farmvillage station. Plenty of vegetable and fruit. Good mineral water of all kinds and a very quiet places. For other in formation apply to We pay slick Benefits Promptly. Death Benefits in 24 hours after satisfactory proof has been filed in the Office. OFFICERS & BOARD: PRES, - - - - ROSA K. JONES VICE-PRES, - - - MAGGIE L. WALKER TREAS, - - - FANNIE C. THOMPSON SECY' & MAN'GR, PATSIEK A. ANDERSON, LIZZIE M. DAMMALLS, M. LOU HARRIS, VICTORIA MOON, LILLIAN H. VICTORIA MOON, LILLIAN H. PAYNE, JULIA H. HAYES, ROSA E. WATSON, DELIA LEWIS. CORRECTION N. Fri. 21st August 4th, 1801. Forces above passau in the north horn Railway sell tickets from all states selling in Virginia to Black Mountain N. F. railroad station for Montreat, N. C. and return at first one and one-third for the round trip, selling dates in 19th to 22nd inclusive with return limit August 8th, and from all stations in N. C. atlanta at one fare, or the round trip, selling dates from North Carolina points July 20th to 23rd inclusive, with return limit Aug. 8th. HE SPERNET TRAIN BANDITS NABBED In Jail Two Hours After Train Was Held Up. BLOODHOUNDS ON THE TRAIL After Taking the Passengers' Valuables the Bandits Blew Up the Baggage Car, and Seemed To Enjoy the Hold-up Immensely. Denison, Tex., Aug. 14.—Within two hours after the robbery of the south-bound Missouri, Kansas and Texas train at Caney Switch, I. T., yesterday by five masked men, bloodhounds had trailed the robbers to their homes, where J. B. Davis, deputy marshal at Colbert, I. T., and a posse, arrested them. Their names are E. C. Richmond, Bob Alford, George Brown, John Gibson, Tom Edwards and Jack Barr Last night they were marched to Ataka, where Commissioner Ball held them in $5,000 bail each. Caney, the place where the robbery occurred, is a side track 39 miles north of Dennison. It is in the Choctaw Nation of the Indian Territory, and the population surrounding the station is only 125. The train does not stop at Caney on signal. As the proper signal was given, the engineer whistled his reply, and the train slowed down for the stop. Instead of the hurried signal to go ahead, the engineer and fireman were confronted by two men with masked faces. About the same time the express messenger and the mail clerk were communicated with through the closed doors of their cars. Three of the robbers shot wildly and then the call went to the messenger and clerk: "Open up, here. Open up, and don't be too slow about it." From within came no response, and the robbers again called out: "Open the door or we will blow it open and blow you to hell." There was no response to the second call and the firing again began, fully 20 shots being discharged. Still there was no response and the three men prepared a blast of dynamite and exploded it. This tore the side of the express and mail car and the robbers leaped through the opening and overpowered the messenger. He was ordered to open the safe, but he could not. The robbers then put a charge of dynamite to the safe and olew it open. They demolished the safe but only secured $1.50. Every mail pouch was emptied and the mail considered valuable by the robbers was taken. Then, with Postal Clerk Tulley holding an empty mail sack, the robbers went through the coaches and robbed every passenger. They got $280 in one coach. A negro who refused to give up his money was severely beaten. Superintendent Sam Gaines, of the railway mail service, says he does not believe the robbers got much money out of the mail pouches. After the work was done the robbers, who seemed to enjoy the situation, sat around and laughed over the matter and even went back into a car to get some papers, holding the train two hours. Then the robbers left, going east into the dense bottom timber for which the Caney creek is noted. British Government Has Expended That Amount in Missouri Alone. Kansas City, Aug. 12. -Colonel Skinner, one of the English officers who has been stationed in the United States since the outbreak of the Boer war, buying horses and mules, returned to Kansas City from New Orleans yesterday. With the shipment just made from Kansas City to Cape Town the British government has spent $1,000,000 in Kansas City for horses and mules for service in South Africa. Colonel Skinner says that approximately 100,000 animals have been shipped from this vicinity through the port of New Orleans during the past three years. The average paid for these animals is $50 a head, making the total expenditure $5,000,000 in Missouri and Kansas alone. St. Louis, Aug. 14.—President D. R. Francis, of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company, and Chairman Thomas H. Carter, of the national commission, will go to Canton, O., where President McKinley will be met and informed that all is in readiness for him to issue a proclamation inviting the nations of the earth to participate in the world's fair to be held in St. Louis in 1902. Steel Trust Must Pay the Tax. Columbus, Aug. 14.—The secretary of state today forwarded to the president of the United States Steel Corporation blanks similar to those sent to other foreign corporations doing business in the state, notifying the corporation that the state is ready to receive the tax due it under the law applying to foreign corporations. If the company refuses to pay the tax, suit will at once be brought to collect the same. Stereotypers May Organize Separately Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 14.—The International Typographical Union convention yesterday decided, by a vote of 84 to 76, to submit to a referendum vote the preamble of the proposition allowing the stereotypers and electrotypers complete autonomy, and to control, charter and organize members of their craft. SIGNOR CRISPI DEAD Italy's Former Premier Succumbs After Long Illness. A SHORT SKETCH OF HIS CAREER Family Was Fifty Hours At His Bedside Before the End Came—His Affairs Reported in Great Confusion. Funeral Arranged Before His Death. Naples, Aug. 12. "Signor Crispi died at 7.46 o'clock last night. He was surrounded by the members of his family and several intimate friends. The news was immediately telegraphed to King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena. The evening papers assert that the body will be conveyed by steamer to Palermo, where the municipality will arrange for a great public funeral. It is rumored that Signor Crispi's will authorizes a prominent Italian politician to examine his papers and to publish his memoirs. Some indignation was expressed when the public learned that the details of the funeral had been arranged before death came. It is rumored that the affairs of the deceased are in the greatest confusion, and that Signora LATE SIGNOR CRISPI Crispi will have to depend solely on the proceeds of the sale of the memoirs. The body will be embalmed and will lie in state for three days in the drawing room of the Villa Sina, in Naples, the walls of which are decorated with frescoes representing the principal episodes of the Garibaldean epoch. A great state funeral will be held in Naples before the body is removed to Palermo. King Victor Emmanuel will be represented at the obsequies. His wife and daughter did not leave the bedside for 50 hours and their friends were compelled to use loving violence to induce them to quit the chamber. When all was over Princess Linguaglossa fainted and had to be carried out by her husband. Francesco Crispi, of whom it was sand that he was the most hated man in Italy until a crisis arose in the government, when he was called its saviour, was 82 years old. It has been given to few men to play as many parts on the stage of life. NEWS FROM COLOMBIA First Authentic Reports From Seat of Trouble Received Washington, Aug. 14.—The state department yesterday received mail advises from three different quarters in Colombia, all showing revolutionary movements in progress and a rather serious condition of affairs. Both terminil of the Panama railway route were heard from, Consul General Gudger writing from Panama as to a revolutionary attack on nearby towns, and Consul Malmros, at Colon, reporting that guerrilla fighting had been going on at different points between Colon and Panama. At the same time Minister Hart wrote from the capital of Colombia as to the arrest and imprisonment of prominent adherents of the former president, Dr. Sanclemente, as they were suspected of seeking to have the Nationalist organization join with the Liberals, who are said to be showing increased strength and activity in a revolutionary movement. Although these letters have taken some time to come forward, yet they give the state department about the best and the only definite information which is at hand as to the condition of affairs. Uribe Uribe Reported Killed New York, Aug. 14: According to El Conservador, a semi-official newspaper published at Barranquilla, Colombia, General Rafael Uribe Uribe was killed at San Cristobal, Venezuela, on July 27, while fighting with the Venezuelan troops against the Colombian invaders. POLITICIANS IN A FIGHT. Congressman-elect Conroy, of Boston, Stabbed in Encounter. New York, Aug. 14.—A fight started in front of the Glissey House yesterday resulted in the stabbing of Joseph A. Conroy, congressman-elect from Boston, Joseph J. Norton, a member of the Boston board of aldermen, and William F. Francis, a wall paper manufacturer from Pittburg. It is known who did the stabbing, among indications point to a man called "Jim," who escaped. Francis was a spectator. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Thursday, August 8. Business lots in Hobart, O. T., are bringing from $9 to $56 at auction. Ice has gone down to 2 cents a pound, and rents promise to be much cheaper in Dawson City, Alaska. Hungary offers inducements to parties who will start industrial enterprises in that kingdom. Macabee day at the Pan-American Exposition yesterday was a great success. William Boyle, a prominent Philadelphia distiller, died yesterday at Spring Lake, N. J. Monday, August 12. George Suzulon, of Wilkesbarre, was struck by a train and instantly killed. A monument to the memory of Missouri's Confederate dead was unveiled at Springfield, Mo. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Senor Vicuna, the Chilian minister, who is ill in Buffalo, was reported as improving yesterday. The Central Federated Union of New York city last night endorsed the stand taken by Mayor Block of McKeesport. The funeral of the late Dowager Empress Frederick was held at Cronberg yesterday, King Edward and Emperor Wilhelm were present. Parker A. Johnson, a West Indian, who was buried alive in Boston while under hypnotic influence last Monday night, was restored to consciousness last in good health. Fire last night in the Weldon office building, Jersey City, caused an estimated damage of $50,000, $30,000 of which was to the tenants, including the Western Union Telegraph. Tuesday, August 13. The Boston American League Club, with a capital of $100,000, was incorporated at Trenton. Efforts are being made by twenty leading hat manufacturers to form a trust. Mayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia left that city yesterday to join Mrs. Ashbridge, who is reported to be ill. Mr. E. L. Godkin, formerly editor of the New York Evening Post, is seriously ill in London. The National Transportation company, to carry freight over the Great Lakes, will be incorporated with a capital of $2,500,000. Wednesday, August 14. Dexter Gaslor, New Orleans' chief of police, died last night. A dispatch from Moscow says Count Tolstoy is going to the Crimea soon. Ex-President Cleveland is at Buzzard's Bay on one of his old-time gunning trips. Much damage has been done to crops in Tennessee by the excessive rains of the past few days. The Grand Rapids Fire Insurance company has been purchased by the Hartford Fire Insurance company. The first bale of new Louisiana cotton was sold at the cotton exchange in New York yesterday for 15 cents a pound. GASOLINE MOST DANGEROUS Fire Marshal Says Its Private Sale Should Be Stopped. Philadelphia, Aug. 14.—Speaking of the recent Locust street explosion horror Fire Marshal John Lattimer sald yesterday: "A drop of gasoline put in a tin can, covered and allowed to generate into gas, and then exploded, will toss a pound weight 15 feet into the air. Its use should be prohibited in private families." Coroner Dugan yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of grocer MacClemmy. The coroner is convinced that the careless storing of gasoline in his cellar caused the big explosion. Displaying Ris Caption "I noticed he was unusually formal and circumspect in his behavior," she told her dearest friend. "and I thought at first I had offended him in some way." "Had you?" "Oh. no. As soon as Brother Willie came in and got the photograph he had inadvertently left on the table everything was all right again."—Chicago Poet. Advantageous Terms. "I hear that you have compromised your suit for damages against the P. D. & Q. Railroad company." "They paid my lawyer's bill." Town Topics. What Pa Said A bank clerk was accosted by the youthful son of his neighbor. youthful son of his neighbor. "Say, Mr. — does your bank whistle?" "Whistle? No, my boy. Why?" "Pa said he owed your bank $500 and he was going to let it whistle for it."—Indianapolis News. Troubles of Her Own. "The storm did a great deal of damage in our neighborhood. Blinder's house was struck by lightning and set on fire, and Jimmel's farm was burned with two valuable horses." "Yes, and we had two quants of fresh milk soured by the thunder."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Acquisition of Knowledge "Well, and what have you learned at college, Clarice?" we asked, anxious to know how our niece had profited by her residence at a distant institution of learning. "I learned to do up my hair in 18 different ways," replied she, proudly,—Detroit Free Press. A. Clodhonver Great Editor—That new society reporter won't do. He has not mastered the first principles of modern journalism. Manager—Eh? What's the matter? Great Editor—He says "handsomely dressed" instead of "smartly gowned." N. Y. Weekly. A Proud Papa. Mrs. Newkid (reprovingly)—George, I wish you wouldn't keep calling the baby "it." Mr. Newkid (gloefully)—Well, if he isn't "It" just now, I don't know who is!—Puck. Too Fast for Her. Miss Elden—There are so many fast young men nowadays. Miss Youngly—Him-yee; you do seem to have difficulty in catching one. —Philadelphia Bulletin. No Dividends. Frank—Didn't I understand that Belle married money? May—That can hardly be, for she told me herself that her marriage was a failure—Harlem Life. Couldn't Talk. "How does it come that new barber does such a rushing business?" "Deaf and dumb."—Ohio State Journal The Safest Plan. "Every man ought to make his will." "Especially if he is under the doctor's care."—Brooklyn Life. RAILROAD TUNNEL OPENING IN THE OZARKS. A Vast District of Undeveloped Mineral Resources. What the Shipment of the First Car of Ore Proved—Railroad Now Reaches the Center of the Region. (Special Eureka Springs (Ark.) Letter.) PERHAPS no region within the Mississippi basin has come into such prominent and general notice in so short a time as has that of the North Arkansas mineral field. While much has been written about its wealth and resources, it has, hitherto, been written in the future tense. But with the opening of the St. Louis & Northern Arkansas railroad to Harrison, on the border of the mineral region, and in the very vortex of action, prophecy will no longer serve. Promise founded upon contingency and speculation upon surmise must now give way to cold facts. Actual demonstration, for which the people have anxiously waited for years, has now begun. The first car of ore, carbonite from the Almy mines, has been loaded at Harrison and shipped to the smelter at Cherryvale, Kan. The result removes all doubt as to the feasibility of marketing Arkansas ore. It proves that even the carbonates, mined within 25 miles of a railroad, can be profitably shipped. The experimental stage of the relation between railroads and Arkansas mines is safely passed, and ore buyers are entering the field. Ore from a dozen camps which mine the silicates and carbonates of zinc, and which require no other treatment before shipping, is being hauled into Harrison, and several hundred tons of ore are already in the bins there awaiting shipment. The producers of jack, which requires crushing before marketing, are equally active. A half dozen mills are being placed in position, and within 30 days double that number will be in operation. Within a radius of 33 miles of Harrison are all the important mines of Boone, Marion, Newton and Searcy RAILROAD TUNNEL OPEN counties. These, by custom and for reasons of convenience, are grouped into districts, as follows: The Omaha, Crookad Creek, Sugar Orchard, Dodd City, Rush Creek, Tomhawk, Panther Creek and Mill Creek. In the Rush Creek district is situated the Morning Star mine, which first brought to prominent notice the wonderful richness of the region, and attracted hither the prospector with his pick. Andi throughout the era of development, which followed, the humble pick has played a prominent part. That is the fact, pertinent and persistent, which distinguishes North Arkansas from any other zinc field in the world. Here is a region where the geologist played an indifferent second to 'Professors Pick and Show' THE MORNING STAR MINE of" in the first development, as well as in its discovery. Although the amateur or native prospector uncovered hundreds of bodies of ore, it was declared by the "professionals" that these were at best but shallow faces of carbonates—and carbonates were little sought, because the American processes of smelting are mainly adapted to jack. The region had its defenders, however, who maintained that behind and below these weatherwrought carbonates were stored the main bodies of jack. But the prospector, however, strong in his faith that the more desirable ore was there, was not equipped to cope with conditions which stood between him and the proof. The remoteness and inaccessibility of the region rendered the importation of machinery, necessary for deep and effective exploration, extremely hazardous. And even if capital could be induced to accept the risk, it was con- The Wrong Thing Parke. Yes, sir. if I had a wife who was a Christian Scientist, I would leave her in a minute. Lane. What a fool you'd be! Why, she'd advertise it as a cure—Judge. Speaking from Experience. Tom—Benedict says he thinks it's nice to be engaged. Mrs. —Why, he's married. Tom—Of course. That's why he thin's so —Tit-Bits. fronted with the entire absence of transportation of its products in event of success. On the other hand, the railroads, while ready to extend facilities whenever such were actually required, did not care to anticipate these requirements, especially in a country where construction is extremely difficult and immensely expensive. And so development waited upon railroad, and railroad upon development. At this juncture the Morning Star mine again played an important part in the mining history of North Arkansas. From the hundreds of drifts and shafts which have been run in the exploration of this "Mountain of Ore," more than a thousand tons of marketable ore has been taken. But what is of vastly greater import to the whole region is the fact that these openings are a complete verification of the prediction that the presences and appearance of the carbonates indicated large bodies of jack further back and the deeper the mining the richer they would grow. The direction and distribution of these shafts have been such as to block out in a solid proven mine thousands of tons of rich ore, presenting the anomaly of a mine not to be mined and hoisted, but to be quarried and dumped. While most of the districts furnish examples of this accessibility in a modified form or lesser degree, operations are by no means confined to them, but this demonstration of results has stimulated every form of mining, which is everywhere being pushed with the greatest activity. The foregoing references to the Morning Star mine are not made for comparison with the wealish and importance of scores of other valuable properties, but for the purposes of illustration; and because it is not only the original discovery of zinc in large quantity in Arkansas, but because it presents, in the most concise and comprehensive manner, the results of systematic investigation. Its history tells the story of the discovery, vicissitudes and final expansion of the North Arkansas' field. The existence of zinc in Arkansas has long been known. But while scientific exploration was being conducted in a desultory way with unimportant results, the natives in their search for the precious metals ENING IN THE OZARKS. stumbled against the Morning Star, half way up the mountain. To their simple tests it yielded no silver or gold—and little else. They knew they had are, but knew not its value. The claim changed ownership upon slight provocation and, for trifling price. The consideration at one time being, 'as his said, a mess—not of potage—but of reasting ears. And again, for a certain number of cans of oysters—cove oysters at that, another owner parted title to a property, which is recently reported as having sold for $250,000. While history may not repeat this graphic story of the extreme transaction from a 35-cent claim to a $250,000 property, yet the transactions relate what has happened in degrees, over and over again. Of the thousand or more established claims or mines in the four counties, most of which were located by native prospectors, the majority are still in the hands of resident owners. With a few notable exceptions, the field has not yet been syndicated. Most investors now arriving, therefore, prefer to negotiate for located and partly developed prospects, rather than to devote time and take the uncertain chances of prospecting on their own account. In summing up the situation in the North Arkansas field, points for consideration are: Certainty of title, advanced stage of speculation, not yet reached. Tractability of ore; and ease with which it is mined and prepared for shipment. But upon the one contingency of transportation is hinged all others. Transportation by water is an accomplished fact. More than a thousand tons of ore, hauled 10 to 20 miles to the White river, have been floated to Batesville and thence shipped by rail to the Wisconsin smelters and there reduced for Belgian export. From greater distances along the tributaries of the White river, the ore has been floated down in steel barges or slight tonnage and draft. But these are conceded to be temporary make-shifts to be cast aside by their projectors as fast as each district is reached by the railroads, which, after all, are looked upon as the arbiters of destiny—measuring, by their proximity, the prosperity of each camp. JAMES 7. POMEROL. The World's Fux Supply The World's Fur Supply. Most of the world's supply of furs comes from the Russian empire. "The hunters of Russia and Siberia annually capture 3,000,000 ermines, 16,000,000 marmots, and 25,000,000 squirrels. As it is in Colville, "I think that of that man, said the political leader. "Who kindled the Reutenart. "Well, I had the job long enough to be reasonably familiar with the world, so we ought to put in a new noun. There's always the danger that a man become so proficient that it will be led to expect too much, and we must guard against it."——Chicago Post. TOLD BY A SHERIFF. Stories of His Experiences with Men of Evil Deeds. indefinable something in a Crook's Manner Distinguishes Him from Other Men-Thief Deposits Bin Spoils. A group of men sat in front of a Louisville hotel one hot night last week relating experiences. Among the star story-tellers were Dr. Albert D. Simpson, sheriff at Anderson, Madison county, Ind. The professional title of "doctor" was worn by Sheriff Simpson while living in Louisville, Ky., where he practiced medicine for ten years before entering this particular branch of the public service in Indigna. "People wonder how criminals are so easily recognized in strange cities and picked up by the police and detectives," said he to a Courier-Journal reporter, "but an experienced officer can tell a crook anywhere. There is an indefinable something in a crook's manner and appearance that at once identifies the class. About six months ago I had occasion to go over to Richmond, Ind., and had no sooner walked in the door of the hotel there than I saw sitting in the office several men whose appearance immediately aroused my suspicions. One fellow had his hat pulled down over his eyes, and as I passed he looked up at me with a rolling glance that confirmed my first impressions. "Without taking time to register I went out again and around the corner, where I telephoned to the police station to send four men up there at once. They came in a few minutes and I stationed one at each door of the hotel. Two windows remained unprotected, and I sent for two more men. When they were quietly put on watch the other four and myself entered the hotel from each door and corralled those fellows in a corner of the office as sleek as you please. They were so surprised they couldn't say a word and not a man drew a HE HAD BURIED HIS SWAG guns, although each one had a deringer of the latest pattern. "We found among their baggage several kits of the finest burglar tools I ever saw. There were chisels that would cut steel and saws that would go through iron without making the least noise. And it turned out that they were a noted band of bank robbers wanted in Syracuse and many other places. "Scenes of sorrow as well as excitement come to every sheriff, however," continued the speaker. "Not long since I took to the penitentiary an old man, gray-haired and feeble, who had been sentenced for receiving stolen goods. He had two beautiful daughters. They went to the train to tell him good-by, and I never saw such an affecting scene. Parting at the bedside of death would have been less terrible. He wept all the way to the 'pen,' and when the gates of the prison closed behind him, all hope of further happiness on this earth seemed to leave his heart and he broke down completely. "About the strangest case that ever came to my notice was that of a young man who stole $2,800 and planted it with the purpose of simply laying up in prison and coming out that much to the good. This fellow took the money from a grocery in broad daylight, and was arrested a few hours later with out resistance. At the trial he pleaded guilty, declined to accept the services of a lawyer, also refused to tell where he had hid the money and was sentenced to imprisonment for four years. As I was taking him down to the train he asked me if I would go with him to a certain street. He requested it as a favor and I did so. Arriving at a shady spot of a somewhat unfrequented street, he stooped down and pulled up a loose brick in the pavement, under which was the $2,800 in paper money, just as it had come out of the bank. "What are you going to do with that?" I asked, my first thought being that he intended to return it to the man from whom he had stolen it. Of course I had no authority in the matter, for the reason that the money was his own and sentence had been passed upon him. Well, sir, that fellow insisted on my going to the bank with him, and there he deposited the $2,500, where it remains to this day, drawing interest and wattling his pleasure when he shall have served sentence and be free to enjoy the profits of his prison term. Such cases are not uncommon." Eleven Feet at a Jump The kangaroo has been known to clear 11 feet at a jump. The best record of a deer is nine feet six inches. That Worried Him Anxious Daughter—Papa, dear, you must not worry because Harold is going to marry me and take me far away from you. Fond Daughter—No, daughter; a little thing like that isn't going to worry me, but if he ever does anything that will cause you to come back to me again I'll certainly do him bodily injury—Chicago Daily News. Rev. Mr. Doper (the exchange presher)—Deacon Elder, what do you think of a man who will sleep in church? Deacon Elder—You'll have to excuse me, Mr. Doper. I wasn't at church last Sunday. You see, I heard you were going to preach, and—the fact is, I'm apt to be sleepy myself now and then.—Boston Transcript. Two Classes. The Music Teacher—I might settle here, madam, if I thought I could obtain pupils enough. She—You might prosper. There are some here whose voices could be cultivated. The Music Teacher—And others, no doubt, who would take lessons?—Puck. Kept Busy. On the lecture platform women Of themselves aft make sights; But the foot that rocks a cradle, Never kicks for women's rights. —Chicago Daily News. ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT IT. Mabel—Miss Small is treating poor Johnstone shamefully. Ethel—O, really, I haven't heard anything. Mabel- Haven't you? They say she's going to marry him- The King. Broiled. In quest of sleep my eyes I shut, But fierce discomforts thrill. I bought for a mattress, but I seems more to be a grill. —Washington Star. Those Loving Girls. Nell-Did you ever take part in amateur theatricals? Bess-Yes, once. I took one of the principal parts in "Beauty and the Beast!" Nell-Oh, tell me all about it! Who took the part of Beauty?—Chicago Daily News. Just Cause. Millionaire to His Daughter—Why is it that the baron insists upon your being married so soon? His Daughter-I'll be frank with you, father. The tickets for his cornet and family jewels expire next month.—Brooklyn Life. 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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges. Thirty-fourth Session (1901-1902) will begin Oct. 1. Tuition fee in medical and Dental College each $80. Pharmacy College, $70. All students must register before Oct. 12th, 1901. For catalogue or further information apply to F. J. SHADD, M. D., See'y, 901 R St. N. W. Washington, D. D. 6 RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMONI NN i, : Bra fic forces thouseads of children into WOOIKe. 1 . we DU RE au environment whereby they are in! PROFESSOR'S | ZSADOIQUDIODVES as R a rome = me sane ee ot et Mistaken for a Horse Thiet, Chaeed yi 5d Na Re AS Seek nacianisy | SehGOINA “AR” Tha the phim cae Geen aaees oe i =f an mt BJ ip NE crime, thelr lives blakted and soctety Denice Sse, HY AMR souneea. eas Vey ‘ TOB. From Greensburg, Ind, 9 aorre- te AS EE A ODE SAIN (areas ee ee a ihe How = Preacher Stopped the Mowta| Press that » drama that included « E Ny und Spolled the Argumont of good many phases of weetern border be @ User of the Wood, tife wae enacted there when Sheriff d JG — Davis and 4 deputy, both hearily & DM Some pears yeu, while labortag as} armed, went out the Michigan road : PEN ors an evangelist im @ country ommmun-| to arrest a horse thief thet hed teen See ee it ity mea the oly te ks Xmen reported we headed for Greensbu Sav Guay. Acc; tool 1901 | Sewing on the evtl of using Aabases Lisea Shelbyville. At the city fmits ° 37 j While making calls ainong the poo-| the officers met « horse and bugey “—- === | ple the next day I vislted one of tha| and commanded the drmes co Meer | i ; leading families of the neighborhood. | The letter lashed the horse and start- 7 he» I expressed my pleasure st their] od on a rwn through the ety with the Hee An regularity in attending the meetings | officere in pursuit. The sheriff wee ; BASSO) ee zy | and invited them to. continue tof. Cad bt I. yl come. The man of the house re x Ff Cie PED cies that he dido't fost know ; ber ene? Bie about that, as he was offended at vies coveceecooue coms ug ny my remarks about tobeon replied 4 " [ESAS eg | Wat 1 would be vers steey take eo 4 Ny es © have him stop coming to meeting. Zin SS Se | ee os ee a | AN) 3 : OMELESS CHIL: = tobacco was a good thing, and he| Z< goer { could prove it to me, and added that | AAP Zam ~ : mrrytserr emma ce etal | Zp Zp <P EVERYTHIN wart Finsea by the Laser Teams | argument bs wold coatinhe to at | oN h About two years ago the New Woice, reviewing for its readers the “Committee of Fifty’s” book, “Eco: @omic Aspects of the Liquor Prob- dem,” emphasized the fact that, ac- AEFng 10 the statement of that ex. : Rely gouerrative work 45. per cent. of the great army of homeless children—an army that &: the United States is every Wir recruited by 16,- ae lity ones who were abandoned ‘Their parents—that 45 per cent. of these, by the most conservative estimate, are homeless and frieud- Jess because of drink. An the city of Chicago there is an Gmstitution that has for its object he care and rescuing of homeless ehildren. It is known as the “Amer- Yean Home Finding association” and {is particularly engaged, as its name would indicate, in finding homes for homeless little ones. Naturally this Sastitution has had much observation with regard to the part played by Brink in the destitution of children wand recently its superintendent was amequested by the New Voice to nar + SES i a a & Be GER wo for es SX V), 44 Oy eit), f | INN vi lh Z \ Iy\ Vel I nee —F | mh Tea skmEbam Eierce Sinecna: wate a few of the instances that he thas met. ‘The association keeps no statistics swith regard ta the causea of the homelessness of the ohildren for whom it cares, but everyone connect- wed with the institution has a fund of warratives bearing upou she subject wing to the fact that many of these @ttle ones are now in comfortable Mhomes where they are loved and “eared for, it is, of course, not desir wble that their history should be re- worded in such a way that in future ears it will be remembered. Nor is at wise, sometimes, to publish their aictures for the same reason. A few whotographs, however, were secured nd the story of many instances was earned. One of the inmates of the home “oday is a three-months-old baby ‘taken from its drunken father after ‘he death ofits mother ond after the Zather, in drunken brutality, had ‘hreatened to kill his child. There ‘are two other little ones of whom @he record is “mother drunken and @issolute, sunken in the very depths ©f dissipation.” ‘Two others are a brother and a sis- ‘ter, three and five years old, inmates ‘ef the home because their drunken Parents cannot care for them. There @re two pretty little boys, hardly ore than babies, both of them the wictims of drunken parents. ‘One of the interesting casea in the ‘home's history is that of a little girl who, at the age of 11 years, was found singing in the lowest dives of Chi- cago to earn money to buy drink for ber brutal father. ‘The little boy, Sylvester, was found almost dead from starvation lying ‘Dy the side of his dead mother, who, abandoned by her drunken husband, Penniless and an invalid, had com- mitted suicide in » dingy garret. Little three-year-old Verna will mever see the daylight and is blind Decause of the drunkenness and in- ‘Gifference of her parents. Not a few of the cases cared for by the Home Finding association are ‘hose of abandoned mothers with heir little children and among these ‘eases drink has been a most frequent factor. Jn the home at the present time are three mothers with their Aittle children, all of whom tell this story, one of them refusing in ab- fect terror to even tell her name for ‘fear its publication might reveal her hiding place to a drunken brute, who “Once awore to “love, cherish and pro- tect” her. ‘One of the stories told at the home was that of the rescue of a family of four little children, the youngest two years old and the oldest only ten, who were found in midwinter in a dilapi- ated house in Chicago, where for 24 hours they had been alone with- ont fire or food with the body of their dead mother. Their father had ied a drunkard two years before, The superintendent of the associa- tion, Dr. George K. Hoover, asked for “= statement with regard t® the per- scentage of homeless children who are we homelese by drink, said: “ft believe it to be a conservative ‘Stotement that the drink habit is the se of bringing more than one-half ‘of the homeless children to homelese- sawexs and poverty. In addition to this Mt must be remembered that the trat- fic forces thouseads of children into 4u environment whereby they are in the constant presence of dissipation and are of necosslty schooled in crime, their lives blasted and society scoured.” TOBACCO A GOOD THING. How a Preacher Stopped the Mowen and Spotted the Argument of @ User of the Weed, “Tine years aga, while lehortag as Sn evangelist i a country commun. ity near the city of A, I spoke one “evening on the evil of using tobacco. | While making calls among the peo ple the next day I visited one of the leading families of the neighborhood. 11 expressed my pleasure’ et thelz regularity in attending the meetings and invited them to continue to come, The man of the house re- marked that he dido’t tt, oem about that, as he was fended at my remarks about tobacco. I replied that 1 would be very sorry indeed to have him stop coming to meeting. He said that he was satisfied that tobacco was a good thing, and he could prove it to me, and added that if I could successfully answer his argument he would continue to at- tend the meetings. . He had a Jarge family of boys and girls, and it being a stormy day, sev- eral of his neighbors had dropped in, I thought, perhaps, a conversation with him on that subject might be Profitable to them, so I consented to ‘wy and meet his grguments, and asked him to proceed. "safe | 8Bfe voit Soave that God made to- bageo?” he asked. “I vertainly do,” I replied. “Did He not say that all He made was very good?” he continued. “If tobacco is good it is not there- fore an evil thing and consequently it is not wrong for even Christians to use it if they wanted to do so,” he said. with a look of triumph. T answered: “My friend, your ar- gument is the best I ever heard in faver of mankind using tobacco. In fact, 1 do not believe there is a better one. But it is my turn now to ask questions, You will kindly answer mine as frankly as I did yours.” To this he readily consented. “Very well,” said I, “did God make wolves?” “He did,” he replied. “And did He not pronounce them with the rest of creation, good?” “He certainly did," he answered. “Have you a flock of sheep?” I asked. “I have,” he re- sponded. “Well, sir, seeing that wolves ure good they must be good for all purposes, ‘Tell me why you do not get one and use him as a sheep dog?" “Why, he would kill my sheep,” he exclaimed, “Oh! I see then that according to the nature of the animal it is not good for it to act as a sheep dog. Now, six, tell me, do you think God made snakes?” “I believe He did,” he replied. “And they are, therefore, good?" I asked, “They must be if God made them,” he answered. “I see you wear a necktie. Tell me why you do not get one of those pretty, Mttle streaked snakes and make a necktie out of seen The boys Mughed and the girks shuddered, while the man, seeing the weakness of his argument, blished and said: “It would not do to use snakes in that way.” “So then, my friend, while & is true that God made wolves and snakes and pronounced them good, He did not mean that they were good for all purposes." “fi expect You are right,” answered the con- fused man. “Now, sir, while it is a fact that God made tobacco and saw it was good, do you not see that He did not tntend it for all purposes, and that it is good only in the Place God intended it to act as a good thing. I know of a few things in which it seems to manifest its vir- tues. Mountain goats and ugly green worms feed on it. It is certainly good for them It te olso used .for dyeing purposes and killing lice on animals; but because it is good for these things is no reason to suppose it ts good to be used in a manner ‘by men that makes them filthy, and fre- quently renders others uncomfort- able. Tt is just as much ont of place in « human mouth as a wolf is out ot place as a sheep dog or a snake used as a necktie.” After a few words of prayer I bade them a cheerful good morning and Passed on my way. He came to the remainder of the meetings.—Earnest Christian. NEWS AND COMMENT. The Corean government has pro- mulgated a law enforcing the penalty of death for opium smoking. ‘There are 28,804 juvenile temper. ance societies in the British islands with a membership of 2,536,000, Mrs. Angeline Ewing, of Toledo, 0. has been awarded damages of $100 against August Noethan, saloonist, for selling liquor to her boy. “Practical Methods of Dealing with the Liquor Trafile,” is one of the sub- jects announced on the programme of the great Ecumenical Methodist conference to be held in Londoa Sep- tember 4-16. ‘The new liquor law of North Caro lina requires that before application is made for liquor license it is in- cumbent upon every applicant to ad. Vertise the fact of hig intention 60 to do at least 90 days prior to the Passage upon said application by the county commissioners. An empty whisky barrel exploded in New Haven the other day, caus- ing considerable havoc. Here is an- other strong argument in favor of the proposition to let the whisky baz- rel remain unemptied.—Chicago Ree ord-Herald. Why not do away with the whisky barrel entirely? Peers and Public Housea.—A parlia- mentary return just issued shows the umber of licensed houses owned by Peers. The list includes the follow- ing: Lord Derby, 72; duke of Bed- ford, %; duke of Devonshire, 47; duke of Rutland, 97; duke of North- umberland, 96; Lord Dudley, 33; Lord Cowper, 22; Lord Salisbury, 11; Lord Dunraven, 11.—London Tit-Bite. Sere Thing. Ethel—Did you sccept him? Eaith—No; I refused him. “Oh, he'll probably keep right ex calling, then."—Judge. PROFESSOR’S WOOING. ‘Mietaken for a Moree Thiet, Chaeed | by the Sherif and Shot Ae While Drtving Rome, From Greensburg, Ind, 9 aorre- tpondent writes-to the Indianapolis Press that » drama that inoluded a good many phases of weetera border Life was enucted there when Sheriff Davis and a deputy, both heavily armed, went out the Michigan road to arrest @ horse thief that had been reported us beaded for Greensburg from Shelbyville. At the city Nmite the officers met « horse and bugey and commanded the driver to balt. The lotter lashed the horse and start- od on a rw through the aty with the officers in pursuk. The sheriff was $y ZA Paes th “4: Uy \ ; i] whipping his horse, and at every jump theré Was a pistol shot from the pur- suers. The chase occurred about mid- night, and the few men on the streets ‘were commanded by the sheriff to Join in the race. The clatter of the running horses, ‘the shouts of the men and the firing ‘of pistols awoke the people in the houses along the way. When the sup- Posed thief reached @ livery barn he turned the horse in, jumped from the buggy and hid in a pile of straw. The sheriff and a crowd of excited follow- ers poured into the barn and began to search for the supposed thief. Mean- while the owner of the barn appeared and identified the supposed stolen outfit as his own, which he had hired to Forest Eawanis, the young profes- sor of a Birmingham, Ala, college. Edwards had driven the horse ¢o the country to call on @ young wom- an. From his hiding place in the straw the professor overheard the explanation and ventured into view. He was so fright- ened he could hardly speak. He thought robbers were chasing him through the streets. Two bullets struck the buggy, and the professor had a close call for his life. ‘The offi- cers elt.im they shot into the air, but the bullets in the buggy tell a differ- ent story. STUDENT MOTORMAN. Plucky Young Greek Who Recentty Sentusion esas yolaiesores Momesie a ace, Constantine Demster Stepbanove, the plucky young Greek who, after seven years’ hard work, has won his degree of master of arte from Yale, was the hero of a thrilling episode on the morning on which he won his bech- paekiagne: Stephanove hes been working his eeawey Wreanh colteee During the past year he has deen o motorman on one of the New Haven id ~Sh | ek yi ee CN, a ae WA: ip Piet ~ = ‘ v ~ ae] hy’ SS Dinbaaien\\\\\\7 S SN LIFTED HER FROM THE GROUND, trolley lines and has attended lectures whenever his business would permit. One morning not long ago, as his car was bowling slong the street ata pret- ty fast rate of speed, a little child who was playing on one of the pavements, started for the other side of the street, apparently without seeing the on-rushing car. Stephanove clanged his bell with all his might and the child, instend of heeding it as a warning, gave one frightened look at the car and stood stock still in the middle of the track, paralyzed with fear. Immediately Stephanove applied the brakes with all their foree. ‘The car jolted and bumped and slowed down, bat the motorman and the horrifiel spectators saw that ft could not be etopped before it reached the child. Bat Stephanove did not lose his head for on instant. Letting go of the brake and the mo- ‘tor, he leaned far over the frontof the ‘car and just in the nick of timecaught ‘the frightened litte form in his arms and lifting it from the ground held tt there until the car stopped. There was s loud shout of relief from the spectators, and Stephanowe bes Deen @ hero ever since, He takes his honors modestly. ‘To him Ht does not seem remarkable that he should work like a day laborer for seven years in arder to obtain the education of a gentleman. - ‘The Only Kied She Knew. 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Pitteburg, See AN Te ‘a SSS 4 SB} SATURDAY, AUG. 17, 1901 COMPENSATION, # sit aione with my heart to-night wes ‘Where the gloom ts dark and deem, ¢ eres bee sobs oun oie eee: Bat oe nynet areas maces mentee ron seetoe eetnsenen niece tis Discs mance tiece ‘Tae nary le llent, the chore ar nad ae eoaee Gectnese es fe teats strain Se Sabtecy soeteenarets seam wie See onan eaccie eee mes neceiteen amen ‘The gariands are faded and old and ever, aed cee tress incr saees sila ta ea Fave pee wan toe Sree eae oan Se Soeies ne with ars eee eae neat an ee a, eee tenses Muriel Strode, in Chicago Evening Post See Se * = The Robiser’s Cross z sass z By David Ker. ; Fiseieiienaaaiweedied MATT) HEY call Spain the land of a4 venture,” muttered Harry White, as he strolled before broakfas! around the outskirts of a small Span ish town on the southern slope of the Sierra Morena; “and I've been in it three weeks, and not had one adven: ture yet. A man gets uo show at al in traveling nowadays. Hello! here comes somebody in « hurry!” Very much in» burry, certainly seemed the stunly Spanish peasant who had just appeared on the top o! the steep ridge above the boy's head for he was leaping from crag to orag aa recklessly ax a wildeat, and at time: even swinging himself over some dee; cleft by the bough of a tree, as if tp such haste that he had no time te think of such a trifle as the chance of & broken neck. But in this nse it was “most haste ‘worst speed,” for all at once a large stone gave way beneath the Span- fard’e feet, and he came tumbling headlong down into the road amid a whirlwind of dust, eae sympathies were al ready enlisted in favor of » man cap- able of such feats of strength and daring—flew to the spot, feeling as it he had really met with something like an “adventure”at last. But when he reached the fallen man he stopped short in sheer amazement. And well he might. ‘The man whom he had seen bounding along the ridge had had long gray hair and heard; he was quite sure of that for he re- membered wondering that an old mar gy > aut SPPoye : oe ft b> i a Bilbo - d By i ge Sp ei (a SNS wy, iB, ae hn, y' BALE ON LED HIM UP A STEEP ZIGZAG PATH. should be so active. The hair of the man before him was short, thick, and black ss night, and he had no beard atall Meanwhile, the stranger had man- aged ¢o sit up, and way wiping the blood from a bad cut on his forehead. In doing s0, he discovered the loss of his false hair and beard, and met Harry's eyes fixed wonderingly upon him. “Well,” asked he, fiercely, answer- ing the boy's glance with a defiant stare, “do you know me?" “No, and I don't want to know yon,” said Harry, in broken Spanish, rather nettled at the man's imperious tone. “I suppose you're a smuggler by your @isguising yourself that way.” “Yes, I am," replied the other, with & strange smile. “Are you going to give me up to the police?” “Not I!” cried Harry. “It's not the style of us Americans to give away @ man who osn't stand up for him- eel.” “Ah, you're an American, then?” said the smuggler, looking curiously at him. “Well, if you are willing to help_me, I'll tell you how you can do it.” Give me your arm as far as the ‘chapel of St. James, about half a mile down the road—tor I find I've sprained my ankle too badly to walk alone —and then I'm all right.” “Come along, thén,” rejoined! Hat- ry. offering his arm. R And the strangely askorted pair set forth. - On the way our hero told his new friend, who seemed.in too much, pain to talle himself, that he was traveling through Spain with his father, that he had picked up in Mexico what little Spanish he knew; that his tour had hitherts: been provokingly bare of ad- Ventures, and that the one thing in the world whioh he most desired was to fall in with a gang of real Spanish brigands, rl At lest they | the Pe pon tio ractebedtn os mugzier, five wild looking horsemen, with [ong guns on their ‘shoulders, Started out of the encircling mee: one of, Whom led bythe bridle n fine Diack horse, on which they at once mounted the crippled Spaniard, not without casting more than one puz- oe we Sey Se “FOR. Ww leara that you have sean half a dozen of them to-day.” So saying, he spurred Rie horse and vanished into the forest with his grim comrades, while Harry turned slowly back to the town, hardly knowing whether he was awake ar only dream- ing. “Just Khe my luckl Pre jost my way, sure enough! And this strikes me as the very phys to fall in with that nice man, Pedro Gonsalvez, the brigand captain, who seems to be ter- rorizing the whole country at this tune.” The speaker wae no other than our friend, Harry White, now grown into a tall young man, and revisiting, after a five-years’ absence beyond the At- lantic, his former haunta in southern Spain. He bad certainty good cause to feel uncomfortable just them To. lose one’s way in a gloomy foreet, among the Spanish mountains, with night at hand and a storm coming on, is not a Pleasant experience in any case; but when to all this is added a very strong Probability of tailing in with « band of robbers, whose usual mode of de- manding rensom for a captive is to mail his ears or nose to his anxious friends as a hint that “speedy pay- ment is requested,” he must indeed be 8 brave man who can face the situa- tion without flinchIhg. What Horry feared came onty too soon. A hoarse shout wos suddenly heard among the bushes, and before he could éraw his revolver he was sur- rounded by a gang of fieroe-looking men, whose grim, ruffianly faces and scowling eyes boded him no good. A Smart stroke from the butt of Harry White's heavy whip felled the foremost man, but the rest ut once dragged him from his horse, and, in spite of hie furious struggles, bound him hand and foot. “Let me kill the dog!” roared the injured robber. whose head was bleed- ing freely. “He shall never strike a Spaniard again!” “Not so fast, Brother Inan,” said another. “He looks like an English- man, and the English are all rich. We'll: make him pay a fat ransom.” “And if he don’t pay it quickly,” put in a third, with a significant whisk of his knife, close to the prisoner's ear, “his friends won't find him quite so handsome the next time they see him.” Harry shuddered at the horrible threat and the roar of brutal laughter that followed. He was not complete- ly disenchanted, for the brilliant and chivalrous bandits of hie boyish dreams were utterly different from these ragged, hangdog ruffians, who almost choked him with the stifling odor of garilc and bad tobacco. ‘Then his horror turned to rage at the thought of being plundered and in- sulted by thess brutal rascals, and he inwardly rowed that when he did get free he would spend all the money he had in hunting them down. But, aa we shall see, he never got the chance of doing so. ‘The robbers laid their prisoner on the horse and led him up a steep, zig- zag path to a kind of rocky platform, walled in on three sides by unsealable cliffs, while on the fourth lay a preci- pice of several hundred feet. Here about 20 more brigands were encamped; and Harry White, sudden- ly remembering his silver cross, Jooked eagerly to see if the man who had given it to him was one of the band; but he coukt see no one in the least like him, “Has Capt. Gonsalves come back yet?" asked one of his conductors. “No,” was the reply, “but wo are ex- Pecting him every moment.” Just then a hasty step was heard below, and a tall, dark figure, spring- ing up the rocks as nimbly a¢ a moun- tai goat, came bounding on to the platform. “Up with you, comrades!” shouted the newcomer, who was no other than the formidable Pedro Gonsalvez him- self. “We have been betrayed, and all the soldigrs from La Redonda are upon our trail. We must retreat at once. Hal who is this—a prisoner?” “We took him In the valley yonder, and have kept him for ransom,” re- Plied one of the bandits. “There is no time to think of ran- soms now, when our very lives are at stake," said the robber chief, sternly. “Take what money he has on him, and then fling him over the precipice.” Instantly a dozen eager hands were trifling Harry's pockets, and the brave youth, giving himself up for lost, pre- Pared to die like a man. But, as his watch was dragged forth by the rob- bers, the silver cross that hung to its chain caught the eye of Gonsalvez, who sprang forward and asked, hur- riedly: “Where did you get that cross?” “It was given to me five years ago by a smuggler of these parts, whom I helped to escape when he was crippled by a fall,” replied Harry, looking fixed- ly at him. “And [ain the man who-gave it,” suid Gonsalves, grasping his hand warmly; “and for that gooddeed you shall depart free and unharmed. Com- British Seeret-service Pand. A secret service fund is voted yearly by parliament for the purpose of de- feating conspiracies agninst the state. Last year £13,000 was paid to spies who. Were employed for this purpose. For.a copy of a treaty between France and Russia, known as the treaty of Tisit, Great in paid 840,000. } 4 o: Aoronants. , The inspiration of oxygen bas per- mitted aerosiauts to ascend to heights Where their Lives would bare been un- safe had they fepended alone on’ the thin air of these high regions. The oxygen is breathed through u tube held 40 the Ghonth acietnien THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND&SVIRGINIA Sennen nena Sennen eens ose 7 flelds aad Bura i large scole” Al Siient FACED TWO BAD MEN) hase ot's very siuiler description bos] Bare’™ AS 5. been observed in New Eugleod and] peen chose Upper Canade; so sisc, acoording to| Queen Viet Chicago Highwaymen Pofled by Seana. ia te eee wulley;] other patte . ‘covee In ail ceeee being aasignsd| Steer? Young Woman’s Piuck. to the extemaive burning, often ato os ees great distance, of grass or forest tim | margerers say, Wie eras meter | Soa ea a me seas ne te aoe Manis Property ana Roethiy me” | Moked oe fate cane of the burnicg| dgroue io Mite = Sree Bot Ratecet’ <°l tn Sondon,. wth thelone Al@orence] tyes ta, th Brevely Getymg the rewier and threate of s footpad, Mrs. Bessto Wil: lie, of 84 Ladin strect, Chicago, pre vented a highway robbery and saved for @ man woom sho doce not know his wuluabice and possibly bis life At about 11 o’clook Mra Willits wes standing et her door suping sr night to somo friende who hed “spending the evening with her, @Vhile they were talking in the Soorwey ¢ mon who leter reported hie name. tc the police aa B.C. Fowler, 403 West Adama steeot, pesced sloug the weet side of Ladin street, followed by. tw, ether mane Aa Bs, Root Teached the alley between Monroe ‘ond Adams atreete, the two men ‘stopped him The party on the eteps across the atrest at fret suspected ‘that it wae 0 case of robbery, but as there waa no straggle and no oltt cries the robbery idee was abandoned ‘The three men soon seperated, Mr Fowler continuing on his way to ‘wards Adome etree, the thieves re turning to Monroe street, where they stopped ot the corner to ewolt W. J Dowling, of 497 Polke atzeet, who wae Walking slong the south side of Mon- ‘roe street. Dowling wae stopped and the robbers ot once begun to ex through hie pocketa | ‘This time there could be no mts take, and the friends of Mra. Willts, eryingy “OQ, it's a holdup,” ran inte the hobhen Mra. Willi, however, | stepped out into the etreet and calle jout: “Let that man along” and then sent up loud calls for the police “Shut up there,” shouted back one oF the robbers. Mrs. Willts continued her cries for help, ond the fellow ‘then and there shouted: + “I'l blow your head of." The friends of Mra Wiltis, who could see the flash of steel in the robber’s hand, tmplored Pas” RES ‘ cy" (x ow \Z f j iy II her to stop calling for help and come into the house. But the plucky worm- ‘n refused to do anything of the sort, and one of the robbers, leaving ‘his companion to struggle with the Iman they were trying to rob, ran across the street toward her. When Fat ® distance of about 20 feet the robber fired, the bullet passing clome by Mrs, Willis’ head. Even then Mrs. Willis refused to step back, and the robber was advancing to try a sec ond shot when Mra Willis” friends | pulled her inside and slammed the front door. ‘The woman’ ertea hed the desired effect, however, for hearing footsteps coming on the run down the street, the two robbers took flight, running west to Monroe street. “There was not much to it,” said Mrs. Willis when | congratulated on her pluck. “I did not want to ace them rob that ifan it I could help i. They called to me to *hush up’ snd I woukdn’t ‘hush up. ‘Then one of them ran toward me, and Ido not think that he was over 20 feet away when he fired. I don't know where the bullet struck, but I could hear # sing, and it was not far away. I think he would have hit me the next time, ae he was getting ready to fire again and I had no in- tention of going inside. I had no choice about that, however, as my friends just hauled me through ,the door. I don't know who the man was, but the robbers did not get any- thing, so he told the policeman, He had just bought a new watch two days before. I heard him saying that. If those men had been holding up anybody I knew or cared about 'T think I would have gone right over to help him.” Mrs. Willis is 27 years old and of such modest manner, says the Chicago Tribune, tnat only her flashing eyes suggest the pluck she ‘has shows, ‘True to a Foottah Vow, Soon after her marriage, which took Place wbout 50 years ago, Mrs. Hester S. Thorpe, of Flushing, N. Y., made ‘& vow that she would never pass be- yond her front gate. She kept the ‘vow, confining ber strolls to her hit. tle yard. She never saw a railroad ‘or a trolley car, although both are within a few blocks of her home. Her death occurred recently at the age of 7 Kept Altve by Funeraln, The Boor war has seriously affect- ed the business of a certain little town in England, and lately there has heen considerable sickness among the inhabitants. An undertaker, com- menting on this, gravely said: “Trade has gone to the dogs, and if it wasn't for the funerals there woukin’t be any —de in the place,” How Smoke Travets, é ‘A @im, dry fog prevalent in Ger many, known as the Hohrauch, has deen traced for A 'dlstance of 19 miles from ite wpposed source with ont great diminution of ita intensity or distinctive wmell. It is commonly ‘attributed to the extensive burning of pent in North Germany, where the tillers of the soil will at certain sea fons hoe up the rank growth of thei fields aod Dur it on o large scale” A haze of & very similer description bas been observed in New Eugleod and Dpper Canade; so sis, scoording tw Livingstone, in the Borotee valley; ‘the conse in oll cases being assigned to the extensive burning, often at o great distance, of grace or forest tim der. The self-came rewulte must be looked for in the ease of the burning of coal on en equally gigantic scal fm London, with the one difference thet the effect mst be tmoomparediy mone pernicious—London Moth Ne Peoabia, “Te Gout know of oo cotcesd cimreb needin’ « preacheh, Go yo- eked & colored brother of the Mis court Baptist evengelist. “I got no Place 60 preach jus’ now" “Why, I alae thought di were Pastor of this cimrch here” the orsun Grlist replied. “T was, bat Te gui.” “Weil, I hope poo dit notgtve then lot of trouble, Itke their Inet paston He wearky rutned their dhuroh before they gut rid of bim” Zio math Meare Gira een 00 trout —der Ward’ no trolfbleerbeut MDa dewoona jor’ got togedder wn” handed mah reeagnation, en’ scoepted H" ode. ‘Wet Gp tn Ohateaes tak: When on one of the recent hot aye the lady of the house gent her Maid out to do the marketing, abe admonished ber to get everything fresh. ond eakit “Row, Mary, get come string beaos. ‘Break one of them to seo tf they are freeh, ant gi two pounds of tripe, end pinch tripe” Mary looked tndignent, end ther Diurted ont: “Sure, I waen® Drought up thet way, me’am, and ff yon want eny- thing pinched you'll heve to go out ‘end do it yourself.“-N, ¥. Times, ‘Tarkish Vocation, ‘Turks are very fond of singing, amd Doya or men with good voles are cogeriy sought after to make up water parties Their songs, however, sre not pleasing to Europeanears. The singer Jeans his jaw on his hand, es if he hed toothache, and then emits a series of yells, pies are impossible to convert into words, but which are supposed to form songs, nearly every word being followed by the word “Aman.” Some- time the whole song consists of long- drawn out “Amans™—N. ¥. World. ‘areas Atieel aeee “You cannot fail to note,” said the French war expert, proudly, "that we are taking the lead in adopting the balloon and the sntomobile. Think of the races thet have been held re- cently!” “That is @ wise peecantion,” re- turned the Yankee, “for those who an- ticipate thet they may want to get away in a hurry, but it lacks interest for those who hook at the matter from another point of view."—Chicago Post. Eagiandy Leaning Towen, The famous leaning tower of Pisa ‘has @ rival in the Temple tower of Bristol, in England. Tt is a square tower of early Gothio architecture. All ite parte still preseree their normal relative positions without cracks or fissures. The tower, which 1s about 115 feet high, is five feet out of perpen- dicular at the sommit—N. ¥. Sun, Lost Opportunity. De. Inencet—Well, Pincers has Drought bis patient throngh without hoving recourse to an operation att. er ail. Dr. Probe—Of course thet ie 8 good thing for the patient, but, just think, i wae only & week ago that Dr. Pincers bought splendid set of eur- gical tools.—Roston Transcript é ‘tal Bilin iain ie lial “T was standing in the lobby of the Auditorium tn Chicago,” remake: 2x-Congressman P. J. Somers over i the Plankinton lobby recently, “talk fag with Senator William E. Macon of Minois, when a trampish-looking fellow come rushing in, and, address ing him, sald: ““Billy, lend mo ten doliarsy I have = chance to make three dollars in 1: minutes’ “Billy went down in bis trousers fished out a two-dollar bill and @ one dollar nota, and passed them over tc ‘the man. “4 want ten dollars to make the deal,’ remarked the man ae he stretched forth his hand for oddi tional financial aid. “"You said you could make three dollars, didn't you?” "You! “‘Weil, you've made three Gotlars end I'm seven dollars ahead. Set! “The man saw the point and regrét- folly withdrew.—Milwnukee Sentined ‘he. Rantings tmencentes Mita. The cream of squirrel hunting i enjoyed by any man who uses a light vide of aimall caliber and cretion power. The “22 long” as now turned out by our leading makers is an excellent. weapon—in fact, the best in the world for the purpose. ‘Though not of sufficient range to be dangerous to people or stock at a sistance, tt throws lead with surprie. tng accuracy to the tops of the tall- est. trees. Good rifle shots always sim et the squirrels head, both to Budd to the difficulty of the sport and to avold spoiling meat And be it Known that a squirrel's head at a range of 40 or 50 yards ix no casy mark. If a reader doubt this, let him go to the woods for a day, keep all empty shells, and mt the end of the day let him try to make the dead squirrels and the empty shelly telly. —E. W. Sandyy, in Onting BDansitsh Gove buniowt. ne secretary for war hes oottfied to the army that the king has se lected and approved the royal ctphes to be worn on-badges, buttone anc other devices thronghont the service wherever the royal cipher ie at pres. ent borne The cipher consists of “E” and “R” hnpaled with “VII.” tn- terted in the lower loop of the “E,” the-whole aurmobited by. « crown, pnd the design has been made platn we h av folia-ion, at bis majesty’s ex Press wish. No deviatién from ft whatever will be permitted, and no evice or ornament will be placed abore or upon it, The crown now to be adopted and to become the sealed 4s ii et eee Patiers for the army fs the Tudor “Henry VIL" crown, stated to have deen chosen and always used by Queen Victoria personally; and all ether patterns ete to be abolished — Londan Globe. Muréerers Bacape Ton Prerecatty, ‘The number of deaths from mur drones violence is much smatier in [Proportion to popwietion tn Euelen: ‘then In the United Stetes But in ‘the okler country the teking of hu- nen life without werrent of Inw is Bdequotely puoiebed t most ip. stances, In the newer country the Be ee a eee a? polling. w! the penetty for Smardes Wsacaased, te cect chee tne Thet it does Dot appeer to beve an ef Soot qufficiently deterrent to those who ore inclined to Kil. ¥. Trib ape siei-aavtdes teases ‘The Kew Zeelead goverment hes Secided thes swhnmtng and MNte-cav. ing shell be tanght tn ell te schook. The Life Saving woctety’s method hav- Ing been sdopted, 2,000 hand books ‘end charts bare been sent by order of he goterament for the see of school: mater Tho hand book, in which the course of inatroction ts fully set forth for the use of classes, schools, Bnd individuela, has alec been trans lated Into Swedteh and Ttethan.—Lon- ton Moth Re eee en ein he eee ce A book om the ears en en index o! cheracter beving been published by wn Engtish outhor, a learned reviewer mentitns hie own elaborate study of Ge cars of more than 4,000 people, including #00 criminals and 2,000 in. Pane persons, besides those of 300 ‘epee. He was forced to the conciu: zion that the ears gave no clew to per- tonal tratte N.Y Trtane, Carried 1 Too Fir. “Nothing that iw produced tn this sountry is ever quite good enough Sor Mra. Willoughby,” declared Miss Frocks. “Everything must be im: ported.” “Thats trog” odded Mw Kittish. “She even carried her prejudice tugeinst domestic goods so far as to marry an imported husbend.”—De- troit Pree Press. z Anti-Jewel Leagos, The women of the island of Crete have founded a league similar to that which Lysistrata inatituted at Athens for half a day. The association has the object of restricting the luxury of the women of Crete. Its members are forbidfien to wear jewels or rich raiment—Bruseels Belge Indepepd- ence. 2th O88 Miwetcd Welin “Now,” remarked the bride, es they departed on the wedding tour, “let vs act #0 that no one will know we pave just been married.” “All right,” responded the groom: “just log thie valise."—Philadelphin Record. Now Don't Aak Us That Again, Miss Wunder—Why do they have that deep crease in the new panama hats you men are wearing? Mr. Knowsit—Why, that represents ‘the Panama canel—Baltimore Ameri- ean. | @e muall nde ae __ Amongst other ee bis maj ‘eaty has determined to ‘UP RO more vacancies in the ancient body of royn ‘watermen, who have been gradually Afiven out of existence by the multi plication of bridges and by more rap id means of transport on the water In the days when Thomes Doggett, “the famous comedian,” gave hia coa! fend badge to perpetuate his loyalty to the first prin@ of the house o! Hanover, the watermen were still it full force, and their epnnection with the actors (a point sekfom understood Ditherto) is explained by # petitior which they sent in to the privy coun- gil in the early seventeenth century Praying that the playhouses (Shakes Peare's among others) might be re opened again after thetr tong silence uring the plagne, as the custom they Jost when no one went to the theater was a very considerable fraction of their total income. In those days tome thousands of them were able seamen in the fleet, and for many Years afterwards they formed a re. serve scarcely lees valuable than the Sshing fleets of Newfoundland are to ‘the modern nary of France—London ‘Telegraph. Sank eke ee ‘The following story is told concern. ing two sailors, who happened to be ashore: One of these decided that after vis. {ting his own friends he would spend & few days with his messmate. Arriy. ing in the locality of Its mate's home be was horrified to find that he had for- gotten the number of the house. After @sking in vain polfcemen, postmen and pedestrians he caught sight of a toy windmill man, and hefling him he of- fered two pence for a “blow on his bugle.” ‘The mao agreed, and fock tar then gave the ship's call A crowd quickly gathered and stared at the musical sailor. Immediately a window was thrown ‘Up and a well-known rote exclaimed: “Ship shoy! Why, mate, your pipe’s been waiting hours!” Amid great cheering of the crowd he very quickly joined hie friend and bis pipe.—London Spare Momenta, Plant Reeebs hie Wan Wanten, Tt is po uncommon thing to hear persons say that they love flowers; but watch them among the flowers and you will see them pick @ fine specimen, toy with it for » time, and then—oalmly throw Ht on the ground to be trodden under foot. "Lote never wustes the en- ergies of its object, and we may there- for vet down this professed love of flowers os 9 very unreal thing. The waste, sheer waate, of plant life is in- wredible, and tt is not the children who are responsible for the vandalism be- trayed by bunches of wid flowers that strew the lones, paths and porches, Every child should be taugbt by. those who have jt in charge that plants are lving things, playing their part in the great scheme of life, a scheme so un- fothonable that it defies the most searching scrutiny of even the most Powerful Inteilects—Current Litera- tie. Lack of an Amertcan Type. 3h ie o thousand pities that we have mo typea The Irish girt still goes to Ballysbennon tuir in her jaunting car, the Irish lad ewings his shillalah, the Tough ts @ perpetual Bill Stkea, the Spanish lendiord, with his handiercbiet ted around hie head, ts We seme man who cooked the ols Bpirida for Bencho Panza; but thé ‘ankee landlord who afforded witti cteme for Smm Stick is now a member of congress, with a careful cutaway, fmmense standing collar, biack neck: the, and one stud in his immaculate mhirt How can you get ony fun out of wich a fellow? You can get a modepate good dinner ont of him, Dut not euch a good ome ax his fo ther served m hts shtrtsleeves to Your father 9 years ago. When his fon gore to Europe # ia impossible to tel bim from a “lourd"—he has the same reserry, the quiet manner, the feeling af certainty that he will Go the tight thing! He ft a pebble that hes been mbbed too smooth,— Mra Sherwood, in Smart Set. ial ah ae a a ear A curtous menece to brick street Paring hes com: to light in Council Bluffs, Ie. Numerous ants began burrowing into the sand beneath the bricks and removed ao much of it to other and unknown quarters that the city engineer was called in to re- Pair the damages. One street wns made unfit fot travel for several bivcks, While trestigating what tae going on, the officials witnessed © battle between an army of red and Diack ants. The latter were in- trenched In their home, when the for- mer made » raid upon them, routing end Griving them out. The reds swarmed across the street and moved in solid array some 50 feet down the averme, there attacked the enemy, broke Into their home, end carried of a large nomber of eggs. The battle Was eanguinary, and lasted fully half an hour.—N. ¥. Times Py Te ae In the constellation Gemini is a wellknown veriable star, Zeta, of Jess than the third magnitude when brightest, which, eccording to an es- timete recently set forth by Miss Ag- nes M. Clerke, may be ranked among the giants of storry space. The com parative insignificance of Zeta Ge- minorum among the visible stars ap- Pears to be due to its enormous dis- tance. If removed equally far away, our sun would be only one thirty- seventh as bright ax Zeta Geminornm when at fts maximum brightness, and Miss Clerke computes the gravi- tative power of the star at 223 times fhet of the run.—Observatory. + Very Strange. “Queer she never got married. She's s0 capable and resourceful a woman —s0 earnest and forceful.” “Is she?” “Oh, yes, indeed. She's the kind of ® woman who can look out for her- self. Why, she knocked a man dows ‘once when he tried to flirt with her, she took a horsewhip to a fellow who spoke of her in a derogatory manner and she drove a peddler four blocks with a mop.” “Yes, yes,” be teturned, theught- fully; “Ht Is strange thet no one ever bas seemed to want her for a wife, isn’t it?”—Chicago Post. I eae As I rode through the streets of Pe- king one day Inet August, with ghast. ly forms of death on every side, | Passed a Buddhist temple, over the door of which was a newly written in- scription, on which the ink was not yet dry. Capt. Munthe, of the Chinese ‘customs, who was with me, stopped io read it, “What a strange people they are,” he said. “Who but « Chinamas would ever bave thought, at such a time, of writing thie? “From ten thou- send bitternosses wells the Fterna! Peace’ "—Contemporary Review. Group of Neral Countna, The queen of the Netherlands, her husband, Prince Henry, and the Ger- ian emperor are all third cousins, ali three being grent-great-grandchildre of King Frederick William I, of Prus- sia. Prince Henry is also descended from Frederick William IIL, so that he is the emperor's second cousin. The queen ts also somewhat nearer than @ third cousin to the emperor, throngh their descent from Emperor Paul of Russta.—London News. ‘wenn hows. be. Wenaienaaa. ‘Colurabus rose. The fateful egg Had just been broken, and the courtiers With ‘wonderment the skill of one who seemed By his sheer nerve to conquer naturat law “That ts the way you do tt?" nald the king. “You take the ews, and whack It down, Compuctly > Columbus smiled, and, bowing, made re sponse: “That, royal highness, ts the trick, exes setts ~cniengo Journal HANDLY ConpiAL, Be ge Ste Bm ah ie CWE ee A Bee. pret) i ee > ROSY BI & OY geaicat bi As MN? fed te fe toa & we IES ITS JOP Visitor—Lovely place this of yours Pity it is so far from the station Host—Yes. if it warns a have scld tila seks Mee cae S. W. ROBINSON, = NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS, 2 CIGARS, &c. s@yAll Stock Sold as Guaranteed.-wa PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. ene al P ee ANY a. > lehie oblatvated’ Ekman ana ee highly celebrated” Business and Test’ Meditam, ‘Torenls “crery thing: oo impenition. Cam be Sohetted pom wil tal of fe, business we find marriage @ ppecialty. 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Remember Bhewill not for any pros Hatter youyoe mage Fest nesured you will gnin facts ‘WwithSut wont ‘Sense, Bhe chn ba consulted upon ail affairs oe Lite, Love, Courtship, Marriage Friends, Bte-,. with full deseription of your future compan Kru Shee were accurate in Qeseribing ae ing friends, nemies tens business, ln walt } journuys, contested wills divorce and Won ta Yalan asa “rohan She tenth come “SERS SEATENE tells pont amnire hve eaek amet ‘Oar entire hfe _Prenntand future n'a DEAD mance, We, ipower geany two Stedium you ever jin texts sho tells Jour mother's fall name ow fore marrage tho maroon of ll Sour ait. thelr nae tnd descr piom, the name and best of your presont husband, thennme of | Hext if Fouare to have one, ‘the name af ther Young ian whonow enils'tn yon, the nena oF 3Sur duturehusoand, and the Guy, month mach . 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