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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. --- NOT LIKE OTHER MEN By Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, Author of "The Brotherhood of Silence," "The Quality of a Sin," Eta. Copyright 1991, by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey. --- ISLE'S horse had not borne him much more than a mile when out of the semidarkness in front of him loomed a figure, also on horseback. At the same instant the stranger accosted him by uttering a shout which might, in that clear, still air, have been beard at the ranch. "Can you tell me if there is a human habitation near here?" he asked as soon as Lisle, pistol in hand—for strangers were not always friendly in that wild country—rode up to him. "There is one, sir," replied Lisle. "Are you in trouble?" "I should say so," was the petulant response. "Do you know a ranchman in this region by the name of Craig Thompson?" "Yes, sir; very well indeed." "No. He lives 30 miles away, but my father's house is about a mile distant. Will you go there with me? In the morning I will guide you to Thompson's ranch." "Thank you, young man. I accept your hospitality most gladly. My daughter will be especially pleased, for she is frightened to death at the prospect of spending the night on the plains, with nothing but the stars for a counterplane." "Your daughter!" exclaimed Lisle. "Yes, my daughter. I don't wonder that you express surprise at finding two strangers alone at night in such a place as this and one of them a woman. It is all because of her obstinacy. It's woman's mission to get men into trouble. She would come out here today. I could not prevail upon her to wait until we could get a guile. She never rode a horse in her life, so I found and bought an old wagon, which has done nothing but break down ever since we started, and now it has gone beyond repair." How much more of an explanation he would have volunteered is not known, for at that instant they were both interrupted by a clear voice calling to them out of the darkness, and presently Llisse saw approaching them a figure such as he had never seen before, not even in his most vivid hours of imagining—the slender, wilowy, perfectly clad figure of a woman fresh from the hands of her modiste. "I could not remain alone in that horrid place, with all sorts of eyes staring at me out of the darkness," she said as she approached. "Who have you got with you, papa? I hope it is not one of those dirty Indiana." "A gentleman, Erna, who has offered to assist us. This is my daughter, sir—Miss Ernestina Thomas. I am Thomas O. Thomas of Kansas City. May I ask what your name is?" Llisse raised his broad brimmed hat from his head with a courtesy that was instinctive while he replied: "I am the son of Richard Maxwell, who owns this ranch. I am quite sure that my father will welcome you, although it will be the first time that a woman has ever entered our house." "If the night were darker, so that I could not see you, I should say that you were a woman yourself," retorted Miss Thomas. "Is your father a woman hater, Mr. Maxwell?" "I believe so," replied Lisle calmly. "Have you not another boss, Mr. Thomas?" "No; I stripped the harness off the only one we had to search for assistance. We left Belmont this morning with the only conveyance that could be procured, and we've been hopelessly lost ever since we started. It comes of permitting a woman to run things for you." "You were nearer Thompson's ranch when you started than you are now. You have come past it," said Lisle, leaping from his horse. "If your daughter will let me assist her to mount my horse, I will lead the way to my father's house. It is not far." "What! Ride on that saddle? Sit astride, like a man? I guess not! I'll 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 till morning," said Lisle. "They will not be disturbed. If you are ready, we will start on." "But I can't go a step without some of my things. Can't you put my smallest trunk on your horse?" "I am 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 morning, and Erna can stay here or come with us, just as she pleases. Start along, Mr. Maxwell, and we'll follow." Lisle was accustomed to absolute authority on the part of fathers, and he obeyed. "Come, then," he said, leaping lightly into the saddle. "When we have risen the next ridge, the house will be in view. There is a light in the library, and we will be able to see it. I will ride on, then, and prepare my father for your coming." Miss Thomas uttered vehement protests against abandoning her "things," but her father was obdurate, and she had no choice but to follow them. When the crest of the next rise of ground was under their feet, Lisle pointed out the light and said that he would ride on, which he did without in the least heeding the many objections raised by the young lady. In truth, he was filled with dismay concerning what his father would say in view of the "More than a mile." prospect of receiving a woman into the house, and furthermore he wished an opportunity to consider what his own conduct should be toward her in juxtaposition with all the prejudice that had been instilled into his mind against her sex. He knew already that he did not like her. She was very different from anything that he had ever seen before, but he remembered that the light in which he had viewed her was very imperfect. He paid no attention to her calls for him to return. The light of the house was in view. That was enough. He had never been taught that it is customary to show women more consideration than men. He supposed that they should be as self-rant as men, and this one, he mentally decided, was a baby, afraid of the dark and doubtless of her own shadow. He had the same contempt for fear of any kind that any man of his training would have had, and he did not consider that a woman was primarily excusable for entertaining it. Richard Maxwell was standing on the veranda when he rode up. He knew that Lisle had ridden away in the darkness, and he was watching for his return, but he was not prepared for the announcement that his son had 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 Lisle to return to the unbidden guests and complete the obligation of an escort, and having Here raised his broad brimmed hat. turned his horse into the corral, he took a seat beside his father and awaited their coming. "Had you not better retire, Lisle?" murmured Richard Maxwell presently when the dark forms of the approaching guests could be discerned in the distance. "No, sir. I much prefer to remain until these people arrive. I wish to see what a woman of our own kind looks like. Is it the manner of dress that makes the difference?" "Dress and training. Let me beg of you, Lisle, not to permit your curiosity to express itself to either of our guests. Such conduct would not be gentlemanly." "You do not like to have this woman here, sir?" questioned Lisle. "No. Emphatically I do not." "I could not do otherwise than to ask them to come." "Certainly not. Their being here, however, need not necessarily bring you in contact with them or with the woman. I will send Jack over to Thompson's with them in the morning." "I have already promised to go father." "I have other duties for you to perform. It will make no difference who acts as their guide." The strangers arrived soon afterward. Mr. Thomas came up with outstretched hand, for he had dismounted and was walking beside his daughter. "Your son has been our savior," he said cordially. "We should have been obliged to pass the night in the open if he had not found us, and God knows what would have become of my daughter." ter before morning. I have been endeavoring ever since your son mentioned your name to me to recall it. I have succeeded. I think we have had some correspondence in the past, Mr. Maxwell. I 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 I can assure you that your house is a godsend to us now." "You are welcome, Mr. Thomas. Please to meet you, Miss Thomas. I regret that there is not a woman in my establishment; so, if you will permit me, I will show you to your room myself." "I you would show me to the dining room, it would be more to the point. I am simply famishing. As for going to a sleeping room, I much prefer to remain here for a little while. The night is heavenly now that I am not dying with fright," said Miss Thomas rapidly. She disposed herself in one of the big easy chairs and continued, almost without pause: "It is 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. Oh, dear! I'm completely done up by the terrible experiences we have had today." "We are provided with efficient servants, Miss Thomas," said Maxwell calmly. "Lisle, will you find Ah Sin and tell him to prepare supper for our guests?" "A Chinese cook!" cried Miss Thomas. "How lovely! Is he chambermaid too? I have heard that they are ex- THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA cellent servants and that they are really preferred to women in lots of places. Papa never took me with him on one of his trips before, but I just wouldn't let him go without me this time. An hour ago I would have given the world to be back again in Kansas City, and now I wouldn't be anywhere else than here if I could. What a pleasant room this one is!" rising and passing unceremoniously through the open window. "This is the library? Your son mentioned it to us, but I did not suppose that anybody had such a thing as a real library in this region." She began an inspection of the book-shelves, which she continued with verbal approval of the blinds until her eyes rested upon the piano. "Well, I never," she declared vehemently. Then, raising her voice, she called out, "Who plays upon this—the Chinese cook?" "No," responded a quiet voice directly behind her. "My father and I play upon it." "Why, Mr. Maxwell. How you started me! I did not hear you come in, Whoever would have expected to find a piano here? Why, you are really quite civilized, are you not?" She raised her eyes 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 Liske was regarding her glance sank in confusion, and the red blood suffused her throat and cheeks and brow. Then, because he continued silent and because she knew that he was still watching her, she became angry. "One would think that you never saw a woman before!" she exclaimed. "I never did," was the quiet reply. "What?" Miss Thomas forgot her confusion and her anger at the same instant. "What did you say? Sny it again, please," she exclaimed after a short pause. "You are the first woman that I ever saw, Miss Thomas," said Llisle in the same quiet tone. He was perfectly self contained. He regarded the beautiful creature before him with exactly the same emotions that he would have felt if he had been standing before a cage in a menagerie, viewing some rare specimen of capture from equatorial Africa. He was studying her physique without approval, mentally rejoiced that his own in no way resembled it. That slender waist, which he might have spanned with his fingers, found no likeness in his own. That swelling bust, prominent beneath the tight fitting tailor made waist, appeared to him like a deformity. The tightly drawn skirt of brown cashmere seemed to him as though it would be a decided impediment to walking, and he realized at once why its wearer had declined to mount his horse. Her hair failed him with wonder. She had thrown aside her hat, and he saw upon her head the most remarkable spectacle he had ever witnessed. Miss Thomas was justly proud of her hair. She had often been accused of bleaching it, but she had the satisfaction of knowing that it was not only natural, but that its tint could not be counterfelt by all the chemicals in the world, and Llisle studied it in amazement. He believed 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 is the first time," she said presently, "the very first time, in all my life that I ever posed as a curiosity. I rather like it. Go on. I am sorry that I did not think to provide myself with a catalogue. Perhaps, though, I can assist you verbally. What are you looking at now—my boots? They're two, manufactured by Smith & Brown, Main street, Kansas City; quality, of the finest; shape, the latest; style, unexceptional; finish, superb; handsome and warmer; price, $7.50. What now? Look at them closely; I wear fives. My, how cold your hands are! They're like ice. See how warm mine are. Oh, the rings! Did you think they were cornea? They slip off and on-so. 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 ?? "I am 18." Lise still kept his eyes fixed upon her, changing his gaze from point to point in search of new surprises 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 decidedly unlike. To him she was a human paradox. "Are you really?" she exclaimed. "I should have said that you were much A Her figure was what any man would have pronounced beetlething, younger. I am 18, too; but, then, you are only a boy. That accounts for the difference. Boys don't amount to much. "I have been taught that women do not," replied Lisle gravely. "That comes of having a woman hater 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. Oh, how I would like to have you in Kansas City! Shall I turn around? Would ```markdown ``` BE NOT DECEIVED To the COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS, "OZONO." Mr. Henry Stewart of Roanoke, Va., written: Before using Ozono my head was perfectly bald. Now a nice growth has appeared. Ozono's perfectly grand. MRS. Mart Helman, of Valley Mills, Texas, writes: Ozono is the only hair tonic that has ever done my hair any good. It has caused my hair to grow long and straight. Mr. George Branch, Mahon, Texas, writes: Ozono has done me a world of good. Everyone that uses it will use no other hair tonic. Miss Maggie B. Proctor, Fairfield, Texas, writes: I have used Orono, and give it my hearty recommendation. I think it is a great gift. I also mo- good to recommend, honest spod. BEFORE EFTER Henry Bell, Creeds, Va., writes: I cannot say too much in favor of your goods. This is the universal opinion in my county. you like to study my back?" "If you please." "Well, I never! There, how do you like that?" Her figure, though slight, was what any man would have pronounced bewitching, but it did not so impress Lisle Maxwell. "I do not think that I like it," he said reflectively. She wheeled with a suddenness that startled htm, but she only stared. For once she had not words with which to express her sentiments. "Do you wear a wooden jacket beneath this one?" asked Lisle, touching her waist gingerly with the end of one of his fingers. She burst out 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 it—and it isn't at all a bad name for it—that I wear underneath this one is not made of wood. I 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 is condemned to wear. I don't know why unless it is because our Mother Eve once stole an apple and ate it. You've heard 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 trunk here on your horse, I could have shown you a pair. They are mostly made of steel." "Steel! They must be bullet proof, then." "Well, I am not so sure about that, and I haven't any curiosity on the point. Have you quite finished studying me, do you think? Are you satisfied?" "I ought to be, but I am not. Have I offended you? If so, I beg your pardon." "Offended me? Not a bit. You're too original to give offense. I'll make papa stay over tomorrow, and you can study me to your heart's content. Will that please you?" "Yes. I wish that I might see you without"— He paused irresolutely. "Well, go on. Without what?" "Without your instruments of torture." "My Lord!" she gasped. Her face became crimson and then white with TRADE-MARK. BEFORE. AFTER. BEFORE. Recognizing the fact that there are many eners now on the market, and knowing to do and show you wish to make a straight-four through this great paper in the year past, a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt purchased to any extent until 1875, when it was successed by a pass by the color honest, legitimate remedy, trust to all that we of the confidence of every member of the colle hat to grow long and straight, soft and fine, whenever a hair is stitched upon the who imitate and make capital out of the marked success, numerous firms have entered straighteners, many of which are worthless, damage to the hair and scalp, and the colored which are filled with animal fats, and do the sound a warning—be careful what you use of advertisements and big words. Buy the Kin FORE. AFTER. If that there are many SO-CALLED hair-growers a market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these people in the year on our time of ordinary, Mrs. S. M. Nance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not sent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and, through test by the colored people of that time it was merely trace to all the resident of ordinary, every member of the colored race, because they found a market, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April article upon the market there are always a make capital out of the merits of these people. The serious firms have entered the market, offering hair-of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out of the colored people are buy, put in a animal fats, and to the hair more harm than good. Do careful what you use on your hair. Do not be deciphering words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics, Recognizing the fact that there are many SO-CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these are fraude purists and sinners, we are in a position to forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1871, the author, honestly, stated that a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchased to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked honesty, through test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate premature haircut, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race, to give hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are always a number of people whose marked success, numerous firms have entered, seeing our marked success, numerous firms have entered, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and scalp, and the colored people are buying these spurious compounds, and the colored animals fatse, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—be careful not to be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Ties. OZONO. which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to $50.00. Now, we ask you a piaiin question- ing, and we ask you to prepare preparations. If We have advertised for seven, every one who has used Ozono has been satis- tled. 100,000 people are to-day using our pre- zented Wash, Dandruff and Scurf cannot live after hours from falling out. It will restore gray hair and so on. Now, right here, let us make a statement straighten the hair, but when they send it out, Ozono straightens without a tie. Outzoono straightens without a tie and the hair stays straight forever. You can on the hair are seen in a day or two after the sum of One Dollar, and we will forward to bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which also removes small-pox pits. We will also join Nature's great beautifier—removes wrinkles, iabs, makes the old look young and the you- ll become one package of our CHEMICALLY PURE lastly, to prove our liberality, we will put in for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of Wombe also allow us to wear and odors arising fro- simply to introduce good goods. In order tions of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, Must Clean Short Hair and the has granted us this trade-mark on so if the coupon has this trade-mark on coupon having the two heads on it. As to you of this page, the metropolitan Bank of A last word. OZONO is beautiful, puff- ful and luxurious growth. If your hair is glossy, long growth. Send us $1.00 at once, receive your order. BOSTON BOSTON BOSTON CHEMICAL CO LTD BOTON CHEMICAL CO LTD We make up the difference between the public and the local. We are not true to all of our preparations, if they were not true to all of our preparations, if they were not true to some years under this condition. We are used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect, and every pure one is ready using our preparations, and every pure oil has been used to make the Rink. Refrigerator. Troublesome Hair. It will make the oil cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp and Scur cannot live after Ozono has been applied. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, make us a statement. Many firms are advertise but when they send the preparation they tell you how much they will be to the life of the hair, and even when they are to the life of the hair, and even when they are to the life of the right one might be right forever. You can stop the use at any time in a day or two after the first application. We make a bottle of the water. We make very little. Our time is to be used to buy some of the most good and skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, robin the diseases. Also removes all facial imperfection. We are also always using our Rinez and a lot of the new wrinkles, both patches, freckles, and look-on-topped and the young look younger. We make no scalp but a pure soap should ever be used. If, and no scalp, we will put in a pink package of Anti-Odonthosis, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chiliblains, Sore as all the skin and age are not as good as any other. We are not an honest goods. In order to protect the public in them and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our own living Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The best time to use our new water is the time to use our new water as this trade-mark on it. You will make no stocks on it. As to our responsibility, we refer you to the small and large waterள, and you can growth. If your hair is already straight, you can send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be sent to you. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO LTD BOSTON CHEMICAL CO LTD which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $0.00.15 you are disqualified from the package, they were not true to all we claim for them We have advertised for several years you are unqualified, we are glad to say that every one who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. 100,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Carsh, Refresh, Ozono will short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying and Eczema. Dandruff and Scurf cannot live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and soft. Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to straighten the hair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons, scientists do not use hot irons; they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop. Ozono is not suitable for outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair stays straight forever. You will need many time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozono is 50c. a bottle - 4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is the same coupon and send to us, enclosing with it the sum of One Dollar, and we will for you a bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright, tough skin soft and pliant, and cures all skin diseases. Also removes all facial imperfections, and actually Nature's great beautifier—we will also include one fancy jar of Our Electrical Skin Food—Nature's great beautifier—we will also include freckles, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look young and the young look rouner. We will also include one package of our celebrated Scalp Soap, which is absolutely CHICKEN, PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever be used on the scalp. And, lastly, to prove its value, put in a plint package of Anil-Odor, a positive cace for Sore Throat or Mouth, all forms of it, and also removes all smells and odors arising from the human body, such as feet, arm pts, etc. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but we let you have it for $1.00 stimulate honest goods. In order to protect the public in general from imitations of our goods, we offer one coupon our Trade-Mark, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair, which has granted us this trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; we have a coupon has to this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use only the coupon has to this trade-mark to our responsibility, we refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Trade-Mark. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful, full, shiny look. OZONO is glossy, long growth. Send us $1 100 at once, and the goods will be sent the day we receive them. 310 E. BROAD ST., RICHMOND, VA. I enclose you $1.00, for which please send 4 Boxes of Ozone, worth $2.00; 1 B 60c.; 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, Odor, worth 80c.; 1 Package Scalp S Name..... Street..... County..... If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. let her write her name on a piece of paper. $1.00, for which please send at once the following goods: 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c.; 1 Package (1 pin, worth 50c.; 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. Total, $4.00. House No. City. State. Itts like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you go I enclose you $1.00, for which please send at once the following goods enclose you $1.00, for which please send at once the following goods: 4 Boxes of Ozone, worth $2.00; 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth $0.00; 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth $0.00; 1 Package (1 pint) Anti- Odor, worth $0.00; 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth $0.00. Total: $4.00. If you want 4 lots like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has no coupon let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order anger. She turned haughtily away, and the next instant disappeared through the window. {TO BE CONTINUED.} The Boy Art Critic. Wise men say there is nothing really new in this world, and perhaps the boy who passed the following criticism upon the drawing abilities of his big sister was an unconscious plagiarist; but, anyway, his verdict amused the sister so much that she tells it occasionally, though the joke is on her self. The young woman has a fondness for executing those works of art which consist in the representation of dead game birds hanging by their heels from a nail on a board, fish on a platter ready for the cook, and fruit grouped on a table around a wine glass. Those gems she turned off at the rate of about four a year, and presented them to her friends for their dining-room walls. She had just completed 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 plush. 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 liked one and 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."—Chicago Tribune. Identification by Eyeballs. It has been suggested that the markings on eyeballs are a good means of identification. Some of them are prominent, especially on the upper half of the eye—that is, 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 identical; hence the means of distinguishing one person from another. After carefully registering the markings on certain eyes, some of which are illustrated, it is found that such markings are not, as might have been supposed, subject to any radical change. Now it is obvious that, by the aid of photography and various other means, we may make such copies of a person's eyes as would prove a certain and reliable guide to identification at any later date.—Chicago Tribune. ```markdown ``` AFTER. NO-CALLED hair-growers and hair-straight- tertainty that many of these are frauds pure ward, honest statement to the colored race in late secretary, Mrs S. M. Moore, through it for OZONG. It was not offered for sale or put upon the markets and met with marked people of that time it was pronounced an hair-more than good. To try respite race, because they found it to cause the and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, market there are always a number of people of other people, goodly, lovely, out the market, offering hair-growers and hair- staining the hair to fall out and doing great people are buying these spurious compounds, hair more harm than good. To these it us your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring of all Hair Tonies. all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit it would we absolutely agree to forfeit $50.00 if they were not true to all we claim for them. It is grammatical to me a glad to say that I ed in every respect. The Chemical Company, 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. CHEMICAL COMPANY, The Chemical Company, 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. and at once the following goods: Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth worth 50c.; 1 Package (1 pint) Anti- cap, worth 50c. Total, $4.00. House No. City. State. If you have a friend who has no coupon, and pin to coupon when you send your order. Didn't Want to Be Forgiven. "I'll admit that I opposed your marriage, my children," said Silas Fodder, "but now that you're hitched up I'll forgive you." The groom straightened up and put a No. 9 boot down hard on the floor. "I don't see where you come in in this forgivin' biness," he answered. "As you say, you done your level beat to keep us 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' to move over in Jasper township, an' if I ever ketch you aroun' the place I'll fill you full o' buckshot." And taking Mandy's Hly white hand in his own large brown one, he strode across the threshold.—Baltimore World. An Island of Cranes. Away off in Minnesota, at that popular summer resort, Lake Minnetonka, there is a picturesque island which takes its name from the fact that it is uninhabited by man and given over to the crane. Generations back these birds decided upon this spot for a summer resort. As time went on and the surrounding islands populated, no man had the heart to disturb them, until now Crane island is pointed out from passing boats as one of the curiosities of the north west—Albany Argus. "Vaccination Day." Edith, of Boston, came home from kindergarten in a state of excitement. "Oh, mamma," she exclaimed, "we don't have to go to school to-morrow!" "Why not?" asked mamma, smiling. "Because teacher says it's Vaccination day, when Bridget left Boston." Mamma thought a moment, and then remembered that the next day was the anniversary of Evacuation day, when the British left Boston.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The "Fastening Penny" in China. When you engage a servant or make a bargain in China it is not considered binding until the "fastening penny" has been paid. Although his bad faith is notorious in some matters, yet to do him justice, when once this coin has been paid by you the Chinaman, coolie or shopman, will generally stick to his bargain, even if the result to him be loss.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. A Welcome Visitor. Mrs. Wilson—Mrs. Chatterton called Miss Annie A. Wise, Onanoock, Va. writes: I and my sister have both used Ozono and we recommend it to everyone. It is the finest hair grower and straightener on earth. Mr. W. C. Diggs, Swarthmore, Pa. says: I have used your preparations. They have done more than you claimed for them. I heartily recommend them. BEFORE AFTER Miss Clara M. Bentley, Topeka, Kan. says: My hair was short and knotty and kinky. Now it is long and fine. Ozono did it. MR. MARK TAYLOR, Haverhill, Mass. says: Your discovery is little short of a miracle and surpasses the ingenuity of man. Miss Louisa Logan, New Orleans, La, says: I send you my photograph, so that you can see what your Ozono has done for me. on me yesterday afternoon. I was very glad to see here Mrs. Gilson—But isn't she an ewful scandal-monger? "Yes, that's just it. It was a stupid, rainy day, and you don't know what a lot of interesting tales she told me."—Somerville (Mass.) Journal. Senatorial Preacher Patience—is your preacher sensational? Patrice—I should say so! Why, he preached a sermon last Sunday, and he book for his subject, "It's Hard to Keep a Good Man Down." "Well?" "Oh, it was all about Jonah and the whale."—Yonkers Statesman. A Familiar Illustration. "Papa, what is a king?" "A king, my child, is a person whose authority is practically unlimited, whose word is law and whom everybody must obey." "Papa, is mamma a king?"—Pittsburgh Bulletin. Cash Better Than Credit. It is all well enough to give credit where credit is due but it is better still to pay cash — Chicago Daily News. It is a cold day when the firt has no use for a fan.-Chicago Daily News- Is Punishment Beneficial? The question was asked of a large number of persons: What punishments or sewards have you ever had that did you good or harm? The majority claimed to be benefited by punishment. The boys thought the effects of a good plain talk were salutary, and none had complaint to make against 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 everything, and it would seem that a good whipping is often the best way to cure this defect. Tenderness is excellent for most children, but there are certain natures on whom it is wasted, because they simply abuse it. Conscience does not seem to be very powerful in children before the age of nine. Prenching or advice unsought for does not seem to do much good, while suggestion does. As to the influence of companions, it was greatest between the ages of ten and fifteen. This influence is next to that of 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 Savannah.....4:52 a m 1:47 p m Fernandina.....9:30 a m 6:00 p m Jacksonville.....9:15 a m 8:16 p m Tallahassee.....8:15 p m 6:36 a m Ocala.....1:45 p m 1:00 a m Orlando.....5:10 p m 7:20 a m Tampa.....5:40 p m 6:15 a m Port Tampa.....10:30 p m 8:30 a m Miami.....9:45 p m Train No. 41 leaves Richmond 9:30 a.m., daily for Petersburg, Norilina, N.O., and all intermediate points. Connections at N.urlina wish train arriving from Henderson 2:10 p. m. and Raleigh 3:50 p. m. daily, and Durham 4:15 p. m. daily, except Sunday. Trains leave Richmond for Washington, New York and the East daily, No. 44 at 6:40 a. m. and No. 88 at 3:55 p. m. Connections at Jacksonville and Tampa for all Florida East Coast points and Cubs and Porto R.O. At New Orleans for all points in Texas Mexico and California. TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND DAILY 6:32 a. m. No. 84 | From all points south 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. STATION. 10,30 a. m. daily for Lynchburg; Lexington, and Clifton Forge, con- sistent accept Sunday with Buckingham and Alberene branches. parlor ear. 5:15 p. m. accommodation, except Sunday to Columbia. TRAINS ARRIVE BROAD STREET STATION. x 8:00 a. m. From Dowell. * 8:30 a. m. and * 3:50 p. m. from Cincinnati. 12:50 p.m. x7:08 p.m. 10 p.m. from Norfolk and Old Paint. x 8:15 p. m., from Clifton Forge, and Staunton x 6:20 p. m. from New Castle, Lexing ton and Rosrey. Trains marked * are daily, these with x are daily except Sunday. 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SA TURDAY, AUGUST 17 1901 WRONG-DOING should be condemned n colored people as much so as it is to be condemned in white ones and vice- versa. --- The way to keep disgraceful church proceedings out of the newspapers is to have no disgraceful church proceedings which could get into the newspapers. COLORED people should set a high standard, and condemn and expose those of the race guilty of conduct unbecoming to a cultured and refined people. 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. 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This undergoing important improvements accommodate 700 people is now being hotel with comfortable rooms and spacious dining room is being built. The hotel and the service is the best. To Church, Sunday.school and Society picnic, call for Summer Conventions. NO LIQUORS. ADDRESS, ORE HOTEL COMPANY, P. O. Box 364, Hampton, Va. W. Murray, (early with John Podesta) and Country Producer SEAT A SECIALTY 8th St. Prompt Delivery of Goods. NIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD. V. P. & F. K. of W. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally instituted under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial and Social and Moral condition of humanity. and uniform ranks will secure for this organization sacred institutions of modern events, a grand oppor-ties wanted in all sections of the country to organize address. LEN Supreme Voyager, 347th Street, New York City. WOMAN'S UNION. (INCORPORATED, JULY, 1898.) HOME OFFICE: ST. LUKE'S HALL, 900 ST. JAMES RICHMOND, VA. Buckroe Beach! RIGHT ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY. SEA-BATHS, SEA-FOOD, SEA-AIR. 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. External and Internal Elder Sister—Come, Clara, take your powder, like a dear. You never hear me making any complaint about such a thing as that. Tiny Clara (sorely)—Neither would I if I could daub it on my face. It is swallowing it I object to—Tit-Bits. Trus to Her Sex Clara—Jack proposed to me last night and asked me to give my answer in a letter. Maude—Shall you do as requested? Cars—Well, not exactly. I shall put my answer in the postscript.—Chicago Daily News. Next Thing to It. Mrs. Baldwin—That husband of mine is a most careless man. I expect he'll lose his head some of these days. Mrs. Bumn—I see he's lost the next thing to it—his hair. Tit-Bits. His Label Fate: De Bore (sadly)—N-o, but I've attented a good many of her not-at-hours—N. X. Weekly. ```markdown ``` WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair look better. 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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. HE PANET TEMPERANCE A Few Illustrative Instances of the Part Played by the Liquor Traffic in Torture of Little Ones. About two years ago the New Voice, reviewing for its readers the "Committee of Fifty's" book, "Economic Aspects of the Liquor Problem," emphasized the fact that, according to the statement of that exceedingly conservative work 45 per cent. of the great army of homeless children—an army that in the United States is every year recruited by 16,000 little ones who were abandoned by their parents—that 45 per cent. of these, by the most conservative estimate, are homeless and friendless because of drink. In the city of Chicago there is an institution that has for its object the care and rescuing of homeless children. It is known as the "American Home Finding association" and is particularly engaged, as its name would indicate, in finding homes for homeless little ones. Naturally this institution has had much observation with regard to the part played by drink in the destitution of children and recently its superintendent was requested by the New Voice to par- THE NAMELESS LITTLE SINGER. rate a few of the instances that he has met. The association keeps no statistics with regard to the causes of the homelessness of the children for whom it cares, but everyone connected with the institution has a fund of narratives bearing upon the subject. Owing to the fact that many of these little ones are now in comfortable homes where they are loved and cared for, it is, of course, not desirable that their history should be recorded in such a way that in future years it will be remembered. Nor is it wise, sometimes, to publish their pictures for the same reason. A few photographs, however, were secured and the story of many instances was learned. One of the inmates of the home to-day is a three-months-old baby taken from its drunken father after the death of its mother and after the father, in drunken brutality, had threatened to kill his child. There are two other little ones of whom the record is "mother drunken and dissolute, sunken in the very depths of dissipation." Two others are a brother and a sister, three and five years old, inmates of the home because their drunken parents cannot care for them. There are two pretty little boys, hardly more than babies, both of them the victims of drunken parents. One of the interesting cases 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 Chicago to earn money to buy drink for her brutal father. The little boy, Sylvester, was found almost dead from starvation lying by the side of his dead mother, who, abandoned by her drunken husband, penniless and an invalid, had committed suicide in a dingy garret. Little three-year-old Verna will never see the daylight and is blind because of the drunkenness and indifference of her parents. Not a few of the cases cared for by the Home Finding association are those of abandoned mothers with their little children and among these cases drink has been a most frequent factor. In the home at the present time are three mothers with their little children, all of whom tell this story, one of them refusing in object terror to even tell her name for fear its publication might reveal her hiding place to a drunken brute, who once swore to "love, cherish and protect" 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 dilapidated house in Chicago, where for 24 hours they had been alone without fire or food with the body of their dead mother. Their father had died a drunkard two years before. The superintendent of the association, Dr. George K. Hoover, asked for a statement with regard to the percentage of homeless children who are made homeless by drink, said: "I believe it to be a conservative statement that the drink habit is the cause of bringing more than one-half of the homeless children to homelessness and poverty. In addition to this it must be remembered that the traf- sie forces thousands of children into an environment whereby they are in the constant presence of dissipation and are of necessity schooled in crime, their lives blasted and society scourged." TOBACCO A GOOD THING. How a Preacher Stopped the Mouse and Spoiled the Argument of a User of the Wood. Some years ago, while laboring as an evangelist in a country community near the city of A, I spoke one evening on the eirl of using tobacco. While making calls among the people the next day I visited one of the leading families of the neighborhood. I expressed my pleasure at their regularity in attending the meetings and invited them to continue to come. The man of the house remarked that he didn't just know about that, as he was offended at my remarks about tobacco. I replied that I 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 attend the meetings. He had a large family of boys and girls, and it being a stormy day, several 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 try and meet his arguments, and asked him to proceed. "Do you believe that God made tobacco?" he asked. "I certainly do." I replied. "Did He not say that all He made was very good?" he continued. "If tobacco is good it is not therefore 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. I answered: "My friend, your argument is the best I ever heard in favor of mankind using tobacco. In fact, I 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 responded. "Well, sir, seeing that wolves are 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, sir, tell me, do you know 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, little streaked snakes and make a necktie out of it?" The boys laughed and the girls shuddered, while the man, seeing the weakness of his argument, blushed and said: "It would not do to use snakes in that way." "So then, my friend, while it is true that God made wolves and snakes and pronounced them good, He did not mean that they were good for all purposes." "I expect you are right," answered the confused 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 intend 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 virtues. Mountain goats and ugly green worms feed on it. It is certainly good for them. It is also used for dyeing purposes and killing lice on animals; but because it is good for these things is no reason to suppose it is good to be used in a manner by men that makes them filthy, and frequently renders others uncomfortable. It is just as much out of place in a human mouth as a wolf is out of 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 promulgated a law enforcing the penalty of death for opium smoking. There are 28,894 juvenile temperance societies in the British islands, with a membership of 2,836,000. Mrs. Angeline Ewing, of Toledo, O., has been awarded damages of $100 against August Noethan, saloonist, for selling liquor to her boy. "Practical Methods of Dealing with the Liquor Traffic," is one of the subjects announced on the programme of the great Ecumenical Methodist conference to be held in London September 4-16. The new liquor law of North Carolina requires that before application is made for liquor license it is incumbent upon every applicant to advertise the fact of his intention so to do at least 30 days prior to the passage upon said application by the county commissioners. An empty whisky barrel exploded in New Haven the other day, causing considerable havoc. Here is another strong argument in favor of the proposition to let the whisky barrel remain unemptied.—Chicago Record-Herald. Why not do away with the whisky barrel entirely? Peers and Public Houses.—A parliamentary return just issued shows the number of licensed houses owned by peers. The list includes the following: Lord Derby, 72; duke of Bedford, 50; duke of Devonshire, 47; duke of Rutland, 37; duke of Northumberland, 36; Lord Dudley, 33; Lord Cowper, 22; Lord Saliabury, 11; Lord Dunraven, 11.—London Tit-Bits. Sure Thing. Ethel—Did you accept him? Edith—No; I refused him. "Oh, he'll probably keep right on calling, then."—Judge. RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA PROFESSOR'S WOOING Mistaken for a Horse Thief, Charged by the Sheriff and Shot At While Driving Home. From Greensburg, Ind., a correspondent writes to the Indianapolis Press that a drama that included a good many phases of western border life was enacted there when Sheriff Davis and a deputy, both heavily armed, went out the Michigan road to arrest a horse thief that had been reported as beheaded for Greensburg from Shelbyville. At the city limits the officers met a horse and buggy and commanded the driver to halt. The letter lashed the horse and startled on a run through the city with the officers in pursuit. The Sheriff was VENTURED INTO VIEW. whipping his horse, and at every jump there was a pistol shot from the pursuers. The chase occurred about midnight, 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 supposed thief reached a 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 followers poured into the barn and began to search for the supposed thief. Meanwhile the owner of the barn appeared and identified the supposed stolen outfit as his own, which he had hired to Forest Edwards, the young professor of a Birmingham, Ala. college. Edwards had driven the horse to the country to call on a young woman. From his hiding place in the straw the professor overheard the explanation and ventured into view. He was so frightened 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 officers claim they shot into the air, but the bullets in the buggy tell a different story. STUDENT MOTORMAN. Plucky Young Greek Who Recently Graduated from Yale Proves Himself a Hero. Constantine Demster Stephenove, the plucky young Greek who, after seven years' hard work, has won his degree of master of arts from Yale, was the hero of a thrilling episode on the morning on which he won his bachelor's degree. Stephanove has been working his own way through college. During the past year he has been a motorman on one of the New Haven 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 along the street at a pretty 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, instead 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 force. The car jolted and bumped and slowed down, but the motorman and the horrified spectators saw that it could not be stopped before it reached the child. But Stephanove did not lose his head for an instant. Letting go of the brake and the motor, he leaned far over the front of the car and just in the nick of time caught the frightened little form in his arms and lifting it from the ground held it there until the car stopped. There was a loud shout of relief from the spectators, and Stephanova has been a hero ever since. He takes his honors modestly. He takes his honors modestly. To him it does not seem remarkable that he should work like a day laborer for seven years in order to obtain the education of a gentleman. The Only Kind She Knew. Mrs. Browne—Mrs. Whitty is forever talking about the repartee at her house when she and her husband entertain. Mrs. Malaprop—Yes, I suppose that's some cheap kind. I always use Oolong myself—Philadelphia Press. Be Opportunite. 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The harp is silent, the chords are dead Whose music was all too fleet, And I listen in vain for the silver strum That made my life complete; But long ago, when a care-free child, With no thought of sadder things I nestled a song-bird to my breast, And there it slugs and sings. The garlands are faded and old and sweet, And the laurels that came with the years Had their dreams and the per- ished honees -Muriel Srode, in Chicago Evening Poet "THEY call Spain the land of adventure," muttered Harry White, as he strolled before breakfast around the outskirts of a small Spanish town on the southern slope of the Sierra Morena; "and I've been in it three weeks, and not had one adventure yet. A man gets no show at all in traveling nowadays. Hello! here comes somebody in a hurry!" Very much in a hurry, certainly, seemed the sturdy Spanish peasant who had just appeared on the top of the steep ridge above the boy's head for he was leaping from crag to crag as recklessly as a wildcat, and at times even swinging himself over some deep cleft by the bough of a tree, as if in such haste that he had no time to think of such a trifle as the chance of a broken neck. But in this case it was "most haste, worst speed," for all at once a large stone gave way beneath the Spaniard's feet, and he came tumbling headlong down into the road amid a whirlwind of dust. Harry—whose sympathies were already enlisted in favor of a man capable of such feats of strength and daring—flew to the spot, feeling as if 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 beard; he was quite sure of that for he remembered wondering that an old man LED HIM UP A STEEP ZIGZAG PATH LED HIM UP A STEEP ZIGZAG PATH, should be so active. The hair of the man before him was short, thick, and black as night, and he had no beard at all. Meanwhile, the stranger had managed to sit up, and was wiping the blood from a bad cut on his forehead. In doing so, he discovered the loss of his false hair and beard, and met Harry's eyes fixed wonderingly upon him. "Well," asked he, fiercely, answering the boy's glance with a defiant stare, "do you know me?" "No, and I don't want to know you," said Harry, in broken Spanish, rather nettled at the man's imperious tone. "I suppose you're a smuggler by your disguising yourself that way." "Yes, I am," replied the other, with a strange smile. "Are you going to give me up to the police?" "Not II" eried Harry. "It's not the style of us Americans to give away a man who can't stand up for himself." "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—for I find I've sprained my ankle too badly to walk alone—and then I'm all right." "Come along, then," rejoined Harry, offering his arm. And the strangely assorted pair set forth. On the way our hero told his new friend, who seemed in too much pain to talk 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 hitherto been provoking bare of adventures, and that the one thing in the world which he most desired was to fall in with a gang of real Spanish brigands. At last they reached the chapel, and then, at a peculiar whistle from the smuggler, five wild looking horsemen, with long guns on their shoulders, started out of the encircling thickets, one of whom led by the bridle a fine black horse, on which they at once mounted the crippled Spaniard, not without casting more than one puz- zled and suspicious look at the wondering boy. "Take this for your good deed," said the tall smuggler, taking a small silver cross from his neck and giving it to Harry. "It may be of use to you if ever we meet again. And, as you seem anxious to meet with some Spanish brigands, it may please you to learn that you have seen half a dozen of them to-day." So saying, he spurred his horse and vanished into the forest with his grim comrades, while Harry turned slowly back to the town, hardly knowing whether he was awake or only dreaming. "Just like my luck! I've lost my way, sure enough! And this strikes me as the very pleas to fall in with that nice man, Pedro Gonsalvez, the brigand captain, who seems to be terrorizing the whole country at this time." The speaker was no other than our friend, Harry White, now grown into a tall young man, and revisiting, after a five-years' absence beyond the Atlantic, his former haunts in southern Spain. He had certainly good cause to feel uncomfortable just then. To lose one's way in a gloomy forest, 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 falling in with a band of robbers, whose usual mode of demanding ransom for a captive is to mail his cares or nose to his anxious friends as a hint that "speedy payment is requested," he must indeed be a brave man who can face the situation without finching. What Harry feared come only too soon. A hoarse shout was suddenly heard among the bushes, and before he could draw his revolver he was surrounded by a gang of fierce-looking men, whose grim, ruffianly faces and soowling eyes boded him no good. A smart stroke from the butt of Harry White's heavy whip felled the foremost man, but the rest at once dragged him from his horse, and, in spite of his furious struggles, bound him hand and foot. "Let me kill the dog!" roared the injured robber, whose head was bleeding freely. "He shall never strike a Spanidiag again!" "Not so fast, Brother Juan," said another. "He looks like an Englishman, 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 completely disenchanted, for the brilliant and chivalrous bandits of his boyish dreams were utterly different from these ragged, hangdog ruffians, who almost choked him with the stifling odor of garlic and bad tobacco. Then his horror turned to rage at the thought of being plundered and insulted by these brutal rascals, and he inwardly vowed that when he did get free he would spend all the money he had in hunting them down. But, as 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, zigzag path to a kind of rocky platform, walled in on three sides by unscalable cliffs, while on the fourth lay a preciice of several hundred feet. Here about 20 more brigands were encamped; and Harry White, suddenly remembering his silver cross, looked eagerly to see if the man who had given it to him was one of the band; but he could see no one in the least like him. "Has Capt. Gonsalvez come back yet?" asked one of his conductors. "No," was the reply, "but we are expecting him every moment." Just then a hasty step was heard below, and a tall, dark figure, springing up the rocks as nimbly as a mountain goat, came bounding on to the platform. "Up with you, comrades!" shouted the newcomer, who was no other than the formidable Pedro Gonsalvez himself. "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," replied one of the bandits. "There is no time to think of ransoms 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 riffing Harry's pockets, and the brave youth, giving himself up for lost, prepared to die like a man. But, as his watch was dragged forth by the robbers, the silver cross that hung to its chain caught the eye of Gonsalvez, who sprang forward and asked, hurriedly: "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 fixedly at him. "And I am the man who gave it," said Gonsalvez, grasping his hand warmly; "and for that good deed you shall depart free and unharmed. Comrades, give him back all that you have taken. Follow that path. Senior American, which will lead you to the village of San Tomas; and when you tell this story to your friends, tell them also that kindness is never thrown away, even upon a brigand." -Golden Days. A secret service fund is voted yearly by parliament for the purpose of defeating conspiracies against 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 Tilsit, Great Britain paid £40,000. Oxygen for Aeroplanes The inspiration of oxygen has permitted aeronauts to ascend to heights where their lives would have been unsafe had they spended alone on the thin air of these high regions. The oxygen is breathed through a tube held to the mouth.-Science THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA FACED TWO BAD MEN Chicago Highwaymen Foiled by Young Woman's Piuck. Bravely defying the roveries and threats of a footpad, Mrs. Laffin Willis, of 34 Laffin street, Chicago, prevented a Highway robbery and saved for a man whom she does not know his valuables and possibly his life. At about 11 o'clock Mrs. Willis was standing at her door saying good night to some friends who had been spending the evening with her. While they were talking in the doorway a man who later reported his name to the police as B. C. Fowler, 403 West Adams street, passed along the west side of Laffin street, closely followed by two other men. As Mr. Fowler reached the alley between Monroe and Adams streets, the two men stopped him. The party on the steps across the street at first suspected that it was a case of robbery, but as there was no struggle and no outcries the robbery idea was abandoned. The three men soon separated, Mr. Fowier continuing on his way towards Adams street, the thieves returning to Monroe street, where they stopped at the corner to await W. J. Dowling, of 497 Polk street, who was walking along the south side of Monroe street. Dowling was stopped and the robbers at once began to go through his pockets. This time there could be no mistake, and the friends of Mrs. Willis, crying, "Q, it's a holdup," ran into the house. Mrs. Willis, however, stepped out into the street and called out: "Let that man alone," and then sent up loud calls for the police. "Shut up there," shouted back one of the robbers. Mrs. Willis continued her cries for help, and the fellow then and there shouted: "I'll blow your head off." The friends of Mrs. Willis, who could see the flash of steel in the robber's hand, implored "LET THAT MAN ALONE." her to stop calling for help and come into the house. But the plucky worm an refused to do anything of the sort, and one of the robbers, leaving his companion to struggle with the man they were trying to rob, ran across the street toward her. When at a distance of about 20 feet the robber fired, the bullet passing close by Mrs. Willis' head. Even then Mrs. Willis refused to step back, and the robber was advancing to try a second shot when Mrs. Willis' friends pulled her inside and slammed the front door. The woman's eyes had 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 see them rob that man if I could help it. They called to me to 'hush up' and I wouldn't 'hush up.' Then one of them ran toward me, and I do not think that he was over 20 feet away when he fired. I don't know where the bullet struck, but I could hear it sing, and it was not far away. I think he would have hit me the next time, as he was getting ready to fire again and I had no intention 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 anything, 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 I 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, that only her flashing eyes suggest the pluck she has shown. True to a Foolish Vow. Soon after her marriage, which took place about 50 years ago, Mrs. Hester S, Thorpe, of Flushing, N. Y., made a vow that she would never pass beyond her front gate. She kept the vow, confining her strolls to her little 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 73. Kept Alive by Funezals The Bear war has seriously affected the business of a certain little town in England, and lately there has been considerable sickness among the inhabitants. An undertaker, commenting on this, gravely said: "Trade has gone to the dogs, and if it wasn't for the funerals there wouldn't be any ...se in the place." How Smoke Travels a dkm, dry fog prevalent in Germany, known as the Hohrauch, has been traced for a distance of 150 miles from its supposed source without great diminution of its intensity or distinctive smell. It is commonly attributed to the extensive burning of peat in North Germany, where the tillers of the soil will at certain seasons hoe up the rank growth of their fields and burn it on a large scale. A haze of a very similar description has been observed in New England and Upper Canada; so also, according to Livingstone, in the Barotse valley; the cause in all cases being assigned to the extensive burning, often at a great distance, of grass or forest timber. The self-same results must be looked for in the case of the burning of coal on an equally gigantic scale in London, with the one difference that the effect must be incomparably more pernicious—London Moth. No Trouble "To don't know of no colored church needin' a precoach, do you?" asked a colored brother of the Missouri Baptist evangelist. "I got no place to preach just now." "Why, I always thought you were pastor of this church here," the evangelist replied. "I was, but I quit." "Well, I hope you did not give them a lot of trouble, like their last pastor. He nearly ruined their church before they got rid of him." "No, said didn't give me no trouble—das warnt no trouble erbout it. Da deoons just got togededer an' handed in muth resignation, an' accepted it." -Judge. Not Up in Correction Shows When on one of the recent hot says the lady of the house sent her maid out to do the marketing, she admonished her to get everything fresh, and said: "Now, Mary, get some string beans. Break one of them to see if they are fresh, and get two pounds of tripe, and pinch the tripe." Mary looked indignant, and then blurted out: "Sure, I wasn't brought up that way, me'am, and if you want anything pinched you'll have to go out and do it yourself."—N. Y. Times. Turkish Vocalium Turks are very fond of singing, and boys or men with good voices are eagerly sought after to make up water parties. Their songs, however, are not pleasing to European care. The singer leans his jaw on his hand, as if he had toothache, and then emits a series of yells, which are impossible to convert into words, but which are supposed to form songs, nearly every word being followed by the word "Aman." Sometimes the whole song consists of long-drawn out "Amana"—N. Y. World. Two Steps of It "You cannot fail to note," said the French war expert, proudly, "that we are taking the lead in adopting the balloon and the automobile. Think of the races that have been held recently!" "That is a wise precaution," returned the Yankee, "for those who anticipate that they may want to get away in a hurry, but it lacks interest for those who book at the matter from another point of view."—Chicago Post. England's Leaning Tower The famous leasing tower of Plaza has a rival in the Temple tower of Bristol, in England. It is a square tower of early Gothic architecture. All its parts still preserve their normal relative positions without cracks or fissures. The tower, which is about 115 feet high, is five feet out of perpendicular at the summit. N.Y. Sun. Lost Opportunity Dr. Iancet—Well. Pincers has brought his patient through without having recourse to an operation after all. Dr. Probe—Of course that is a good thing for the patient, but, just think, it was only a week ago that Dr. Pincers bought a splendid set of surgical tools—Boston Transcript. Senator Mason's Thriff "I was standing in the lobby of the Auditorium in Chicago," remarked ex-Congressman P. J. Somers over in the Plankton lobby recently, "talking with Senator William E. Mason of Illinois, when a trampish-looking fellow came rushing in, and, addressing him, said: "Billy, lend me ten dollars; I have a chance to make three dollars in 15 minutes." "Billy went down in his trousers, fished out a two-dollar bill and a one-dollar note, and passed them over to the man. "I want ten dollars to make the deal," remarked the man as he stretched forth his hand for additional financial aid. "You said you could make three dollars, didn't you?" "Yes." "Well, you've made three dollars and I'm seven dollars ahead. See!" "The man saw the point and regretfully withdrew.-Milwaukee Senthel. The Squirrel Hunter's Weapon. The cream of squirrel hunting is enjoyed by any man who uses a light rifle of small caliber and medium 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 distance, it throws lead with surprising accuracy to the tops of the tallest trees. Good rifle shots always aim at the squirrel's head, both to add to the difficulty of the sport and to avoid spoiling meat. And be it known that a squirrel's head at a range of 40 or 50 yards is no easy mark. If a reader doubt this, let him go to the woods for a day, keep all empty shells, and at the end of the day let him try to make the dead squirrels and the empty shells tally. —E. W. Sandy, in Outing. English Royal Insignia The secretary for war has notified to the army that the king has selected and approved the royal cipher to be worn on badges, buttons and other devices throughout the service wherever the royal cipher is at present borne. The cipher consists of "E" and "R" inpailed with "VII." inserted in the lower loop of the "E," the whole surmohnted by a crown, and the design has been made plain with no foliation, at his majesty's express wish. No deviation from it whatever will be permitted, and no device or ornament will be placed above or upon it. The crown now to be adopted and to become the sealed pattern for the army is the Tudor "Henry VII" crown, stated to have been chosen and always used by Queen Victoria personally; and all other patterns are to be abolished—London Globe. Murderers Escape Too Frequently. The number of deaths from murderous violence is much smaller in proportion to population in England than in the United States. But in the older country the taking of human life without warrant of law is adequately punished in most instances. In the newer country the list of homicides every year is appalling, while the legal penalty for murder is enacted in so few cases that it does not appear to have an effect sufficiently deterrent to those who are inclined to kill—M. V. Tribune. life-saving The New Zealand government has decided that swimming and life-saving shall be taught in all its schools. The Life Saving society's method having been adopted, 2,000 hand books and charts have been sent by order of the government for the use of schoolmasters. The hand book, in which the course of instruction is fully set forth for the use of classes, schools, and individuals, has also been translated into Swedish and Italian.—London Mail. Eora Meen Northw A book on the ears as an index of character having been published by an English author, a learned reviewer mentions his own elaborate study of the ears of more than 40,000 people, including 800 criminals and 2,000 insane persons, besides those of 300 apes. He was forced to the conclusion that the ears gave no clew to personal traits. - N. Y. Tribune. Carried It Too Far "Nothing that is produced in this country is ever quite good enough for Mrs. Willoughby," deferred Miss Frocks. "Everything must be imported." "That's true," added Miss Kittish. "She even carried her prejudice against domestic goods so far as to marry an imported husband."—Detroit Free Press. Anti-Jewel League The women of the island of Crete have founded a league similar to that which Lysistrata instituted at Athens for half a day. The association has the object of restricting the luxury of the women of Crete. Its members are forbidden to wear jewels or rich raiment—Brussels Belge Independence. Like Old Married Folks "Now," remarked the bride, as they departed on the wedding tour, "let us act so that no one will know we have just been married." "All right," responded the groom; "just log this valise."—Philadelphia Record. Now Don't Ask Us Thnt 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 canal.—Baltimore American. No More Royal Watermen Amongst other economics his majesty has determined to fill up no more vacancies in the ancient body of royal watermen, who have been gradually driven out of existence by the multiplication of bridges and by more rapid means of transport on the water. In the days when Thomas Doggett, "the famous comedian," gave his coat and badge to perpetuate his loyalty to the first prince of the house of Hanover, the watermen were still in full force, and their connection with the actors (a point seldom understood hitherto) is explained by a petition which they sent in to the privy council in the early seventeenth century praying that the playhouses (Shakespeare's among others) might be reopened again after their long silence during the plague, as the custom they lost when no one went to the theater was a very considerable fraction of their total income. In those days some thousands of them were able seamen in the fleet, and for many years afterwards they formed a reserve scarcely less valuable than the fishing fleets of Newfoundland are to the modern navy of France.—London Telegraph. Good on Land or Sea. The following story is told concerning two sailors, who happened to be ashore: One of these decided that after visiting his own friends he would spend a few days with his messmate. Arriving in the locality of his mate's home he was horrified to find that he had forgotten the number of the house. After asking in vain polioemen, postmen and pedestrians he caught sight of a toy windmill man, and hailing him he offered two pence for a "blow on his bugle." The man agreed, and jack 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 voice exclaimed: "Ship ahoy! Why, mate, your pipe's been waiting hours!" Amid great cheering of the crowd he very quickly joined his friend and his pipe—London Spare Moments. Plant Lover Are Not Plant Lovers Are Not Wanton. It is no uncommon thing to hear persons say that they love flowers; but watch them among the flowers and you will see them plek a fine specimen, toy with it for a time, and then—calmly throw it on the ground to be trodden under foot. "Love never wastes the energies of its object, and we may therefor set down this professed love of flowers as a very unreal thing. The waste, sheer waste, of plant life is incredible, and it is not the children who are responsible for the vandalism betrayed by bunches of wild flowers that strew the lanes, paths and porches. Every child should be taught by those who have it in charge that plants are living things, playing their part in the great scheme of life, a scheme so unfathonable that it defies the most searching scrutiny of even the most powerful intellects.—Current Literature. Lack of an American type. It is a thousand pities that we have no types. The Irish girl still goes to Ballyhannon fair in her jaunting car, the Irish lad savings his shillalah, the English rough is a perpetual Bill Sike, the Spanish landlord, with his handkerchief tied around his head, is the same man who cooked the olla podrida for Sancho Panza; but the Yankee landlord who afforded witticisms for Sam Slick is now a member of congress, with a careful cutaway, immense standing collar, black necktie, and one stud in his immaculate shirt. How can you get any fun out of such a fellow? You can get a moderate good dinner out of him, but not such a good one as his father served in his shirt sleeves to your father 50 years ago. When his son goes to Europe it is impossible to tell him from a "bourd"—he has the same reserve, the quiet manner, the feeling of certainty that he will do the right thing! He is a pebble that has been rubbed too smooth—Mra Sherwood, in Smart Set. The Arts of Council Bluffs A curious menace to brick street paving has come to light in Council Bluffs, Ia. Numerous ants began burrowing into the sand beneath the bricks and removed so much of it to other and unknown quarters that the city engineer was called in to repair the damages. One street was made unfit for travel for several blocks. While investigating what was going on, the officials witnessed a battle between an army of red and black ants. The latter were intrenched in their home, when the former made a raid upon them, routing and driving them out. The reds swarmed across the street and moved in solid array some 50 feet down the avenue, there attacked the enemy, broke into their home, and carried off a large number of eggs. The battle was enguinary, and lasted fully half an hour.—N. Y. Times. A Giant Variable Star In the constellation Gemini is a well-known variable star, Zeta, of less than the third magnitude when brightest, which, according to an estimate recently set forth by Miss Agnes M. Clerke, may be ranked among the giants of starry space. The comparative insignificance of Zeta Geminorum among the visible stars appears to be due to its enormous distance. If removed equally far away, our sun would be only one thirty-seventh as bright as Zeta Geminorum when at its maximum brightness, and Miss Clerke computes the gravitative power of the star at 225 times that of the sun.—Observatory. Very Strange "Queen she never got married. She's so capable and resourceful a woman—so earnest and forceful." "Is she?" "Oh, yes, indeed. She's the kind of a woman who can look out for herself. Why, she knocked a man down once when he tried to flirt with her, she took a horseship to a fellow who spoke of her in a derogatory manner and she drove a peddler four blocks with a mop." "Yes, yes," he returned, thoughtfully; "it is strange that no one ever has seemed to want her for a wife, isn't it?"—Chicago Post. A Pregnation As I rode through the streets of Peking one day last August, with ghastly forms of death on every side, I passed a Buddhist temple, over the door of which was a newly written inscription, on which the ink was not yet dry. Capt. Munthe of the Chinese customs, who was with me, stopped to read it. "What a strange people they are," he said. "Who but a Chinaman would ever have thought, at such a time, of writing this?" From ten thousand bitternesses wells the Eternal Peace."—Contemporary Review. Group of Royal Custing The queen of the Netherlands, her husband, Prince Henry, and the German emperor are all third cousins, all three being great-great-grandchildren of King Frederick William II. of Prussia. Prince Henry is also descended from Frederick William III., so that he is the emperor's second cousin. The queen is also somewhat nearer than a third cousin to the emperor, through their descent from Emperor Paul of Russia.—London News. Twas New to Ferdinand. Columbus rose. The fateful egg Had just been broken, and the courtlers saw With wonderment the skill of one who seemed By his sheer nerve to conquer natural heat. "That is the way you do it?" said the king. "You take the egg, and whack it down, compactly?" Columbus smiled, and, bowing, made response: "That, royal highness, is the trick, eggs-actly." -Chicago Journal. HARDLY CORDIAL. Visitor—Lovely place this of yours Pity it is so far from the station. Host—Yes. If it wasn't I'd have sold it long ago—Mrs. Niles. M. MRS. MARTH, the world renowned and highly celebrated Business and Test Medium, reveals everything. No imposition. Can be life, business, love and marriage a speciality. Every vealed, also of absent, deceased and dying friends. Removes all trouble and estrangerships any Mediums who can exceed her in strength. Present, future events of one's life. Remember she will not for any price flatter you; you may rest assured you will gain facts without non-contradiction. Life, Love, Courtship, Marriage Friends, Ec., with full description of your future companion. She is very accurate in describing business, business, law, journeys, contested walls, discipline and is valuable and reliable. She reads your destiny—good or bad; she withholds nothing. present and future in a DEAD TRANSFER, has the power of any two Mediums you ever meet, who can jobs your mother's full name before marriage, before her parents' ages and description, the name and business of your present husband, the name of your next if you are to have one, the name of the next of your future husband, and the day, month, year of your marriage, how many children you have or will have; whether your present marry you; if you have an honest, clear and plain manner and in a plain manner should know the success of their husbands and children; young ladies should know everything about their sweethearts or intended husband. You should know the success of your business until you know all, do not let silly religious scruples prevent your consulting. Madame is the only one in the world who can tell you the full name of your future husband with age and date of marriage, and tells whether there is one you love is true or false. The person who believes that there is no truth to be believed is consenting a Medium, but such beliefs are contrary to the truth. It is only from the lack of discrimination that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not every one who placards himself or herself as a medium that can stand the test of what he or she claims. And a person of an inquiring mind may ask the reason why. It is simply that these advertisers do not take the trouble to structure a medium. They do not spend their thoughts for a moment with acquiring the art of phraseology and kindred branches that will have a tendency to make the pathway to the road of the business clear and devoid of all obstacles. It is and undeniable fact that persons will have a sense in full knowledge of what they want to know, and as they confront a medium they try their own means to dispel from their minds what they know so to hear if it will be rehearsed by the Medium. To get the secret out of a person by unfair and dishonest means is the art used by many unprincipled Mediums, but to take hold of the hand and gain control of the mind thereby is a necessary skill to do so. And yet this can be done, and by consulting Mrs. Marth the seemingly mysterious a realization. This subject has received no little attention by eminent men and even college professors; but it is not without doubt, although there are infringers in our midst with whom perhaps the gates of wisdom have not been closed to the entire profession. Of study to become an accomplished medical student is an untiming effort, the key to the well of apparently unfathomable mysteries has been secured by MRS. MARTIN for the benefit of humanity. ADVICE BY LETTER. $1.00. MRS. M. B. MARTH. 246 W. 31st St. (Near 8th Avenue.) NEW YORK CITY. Enclose Stamp for reply. JOHN M. HIGGINS, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street, [Near Old Market.] RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A. Hayes First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on kindly. NEW 'PHONE' 1198. The Custale House. The Custale House. Having remodeled my bar, and having an up-to-date place, I am prepared to serve my friends and the public at the same old stand. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT. Meals At All Hours. New'Phone. 1261. Wm. Oustalo, Prep H. F. Jonathan Fish Oysters & Produce 120 N. 17th St., Richmond, Va. Orders will receive prompt attention Phone 157. PATENTS events and Trade Marks obtained and all of business conquered for Patent our Office is supported by Patent and we can secure patent less than three months from subheading. Excellent work in obtaining, with locating on. We serve, if patentable, not less large. Our fee does not bill patent is secured. HAMMERLE. How to Obtain Patent. out of patent in the U. S. and foreign invoices out free. Rowsons. C.A.SNOW&CO. THE PLANET SATURDAY. AU. 17, 1901 Y. M. C. A. NOTES The Committee found in the city jail 100 colored men, 37 white men, and 18 colored men. 75 prisoners requested special prayer. Two meetings were held in the alms house last Sunday. 30 sick persons were visited. Master Jacob Daily read a very interesting paper to the boys last Sunday. The address to the boys by Mr. Joseph Eggleston was enjoyed. The men last Sunday were given a very timely address by Mr. A. D. Daily, who gave thoughts which will do every man much good if put into practice. The Y.M.C.A. will hold a mass meeting in Fulton, Sunday, 4 p. m., at the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Special music will be rendered by the choir of the church. Everybody is invited to help make this meeting a success. Mothers and fathers attend this meeting and invite others. The season for the work is near at hand. The Night School will open on Monday night, September 30th, 8 p. m. January Eighth, September 30th, 8 p.m. The Bible Class, taught by Prof. G. R. Hovey, Dean of Wayland College will open Saturday, Sept. 28th, 5 p.m. The Training Class and Bible Class taught by the General Secretary, will open Tuesday, Oct. 1st. 8 p. m. NOTICE. The Mount Olivet Baptist Church Sunday School Pic-nic and Excursion to Bothwell Park on Tuesday next, Aug. 20th. The Richmond Electric Railway Co. will furnish special ears at 8 o'clock a sharp, to carry the scholars and other desire to go to the train at Elba Station. Rates for Virginia Baptist State Sunday School Convention. The railroads of the state have granted a rate of 1 and $1/2 first class fare for the round trip to Charlottesville the place of meeting. Round trip fare from Richmond to Charlottesville over C. & O. R. R. $3.90 Delegation from Richmond will leave for Charlottesville. Tuesday Aug. 20, 1901 at 1:30 p. m. W. P. Eeps, chairman. 408½ W. Duval St. —Rev. T. M. Bowmuth, pastor of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church of Petersburg, Va. called on us. —Rev. R. L. Cosby, B. T., Missionary of the American Baptist Publication Society and the Virginia Baptist State S. Convention has returned to the city after traveling over 12 counties of the South-west. —Rev. P. R. Anderson, pastor of the Oak St. A. M. E. Zion Church called on us. Rev. J. H. Presley, of Providence R. I. will preach at the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church to-morrow morning and evening. Mrs. C. H. Lewis left the city this week for Hinton, W. Va., She will be away 15 days. Mr. Lewis left for California. He will be absent six weeks. Mrs. R. Winston and son, of Washington are in the city this week visiting her sister, Mrs. Polly Haydea, 514 W. Baker St. First Presbyterian, Catherine and Monroe Sts.: at 11 o'clock services Sunday, Aug. 18th, Rev. R. Baecher Taylor will preach, subject, "Yielding to Temptation. Mrs. Caroline Wilson of New York arrived in the city Friday, 9th instant. She leaves for Ashland, Va., Thursday, 16th, to pay a short visit to friends. Mrs. Lena Archer and son left this week for Amelia Co., Va. Mr. Andrew R. Black, formerly of Virginia is now practicing law at Seattle, Washington. Mrs. Annie H. Brown continues sick at her residence, 1236 N. 2d street. She will be glad to see her friends. Knights of Pythias. We earnestly hope that all Knights will decorate their houses in Pythian colors in honor of the unveiling of Col. Thomas W. Mitchell's monument, which will take place at Richmond, Va., August 26th. Signed: MEMBERS OF THE 1ST REGIMENT. A. J. Smith, Jr., Adjutant. Woman's Central League Training School and Hospital. Classes in Cooking, Dressmaking, the Taylor and White System), Domestic Service, Trained Nursing and Care and Feeding of Children, Etc., School opens Sept. 16th, 1901. Class lists are now open at the Building, 412 and 414 N. 3rd St., Richmond, Va. Hospital open all the year. BETTIE BROOKS, Pres.; LENA V. JACKSON, Secy.; Dr. R. E. JONES. Gen. Director & Fin. Agt. Address all communications to Dr. Jones, 412 N. 3rd St. 1—mo WANTED—50 men to learn Cooking, and 20 men to learn Trained Nursing. A great demand for both. Montreat Bible Conference, Monttrea, N. C., August 11th-25th, 1901. For the above occasion, the Southern Railway will sell tickets from points within the state of North Carolina at one fare for the round trip, and from points in other states fare and one-third for the round trip, tickets to be on sale from North Carolina points August 10th, 11th, and 12th, and from points in other states August 9th, 10th and 11th. This affords an opportunity for those wishing to visit Black Mountains and Land of the Sky at a most seasonable time. The rate from Richmond to Black Mountains and return for summer tourist tickets good returning October 31st. $14.75. Black Mountain is located only a few miles east of Asheville. A Voice From Massachusetts. NAHANT. MASS., Aug. 13, '01- Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., Richmond, Va. My Dear Sir— The trouble at the First Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia, and the shameful way in which you were treated, together with the bad conduct of the members, reminds me of the trouble late at the Mount Olivet Baptist Church in New York City; of the disgraceful scenes, and of the awful manner in which they treated the Rev. Dr. Wisher. REGRET TO SEE IT. As a member of the church and of the Baptist denomination I regret to see such ill-feeling in the house of the Lord, where love should always be supreme, and if love were supreme—madness and vilification would not be present to defame the church, but obedience and respect would be the willing companions love which seemed of insolence prevailing, that same deference of Christian love which controls a covensome meeting when just a few hours from the munion table, should characterize a church meeting, doing business to edify the church of God. A REFERENCE TO PAST SERVICES And therefore, you, the editor of a first class weekly, an honorable representative of the Colored American race, you, who constantly pleads with the American people to right the wrongs done the Afro-American; you, through whose efforts the lives of men and women of the Negro people have been saved from the hands of mobs and from filling untimely graves, would have been accorded a more respectful treatment, if not shown more brotherly love. But yet, hoping to see the day when we, as a race of people will learn to appreciate superior intelligence, look with fond respect on work and worth, honor manhood, and reverence distinction. I am very cordially yours, ROBERT W. CARTER. FULTON NEWS. The covenant meeting and Lord's Sun per services were much enjoyed at the Rising Mt. Zion Bapt. Church last Sunday. Rev. F. W. Williams attended the revival meetings of Rev. Mr. Steward's Church, King William, Co. and rendered him much assistance last week. "This week he is assisting Rev. Percy Wallace in meetings near Lestor Mance, King Williams Co. Little Frederick Banks is visiting his uncle, Rev. F. W. Williams and family. Mrs. Vestella Randolph and her two bright eyed daughters, Rebecca and Paulina left last Thursday for King and Queen Co. to visit relatives and friend in the neighborhood of Millers Tavern. We hope for them a pleasant stay. Mrs. Elizabeth Dabney and her daughter Addie, who have been here visiting her sister, Mrs. Martha Davis of State St., returned to their home in Ohio last week. Miss Fannie Booker is quite well again. Miss Virginia Bossieux is convalescing. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis are the happy recipients of a fine baby girl. There will be a grand meeting at the R. Mt. Zion Baptist Church next Sun day at 3:30 p. m. under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. of this city. The pub lic is cordially invited to attend. Rev. K. Jeffries will administer the Lord's Supper next Sunday at 4 p. m. Remember Rev. A. Furguson's Church excursion to De Witte next Monday, the 19th inst. Go with them and enjoy your self. Mrs. Celia Golding of New York City visited her sister Mrs. Maria Fleming last week. She is visiting relatives and friends in Nottoway Co. Va. MANCHESTER, VA. Please give notice that there will be a general mass meeting of good Samaritans and Daughters of Samarita next Monday night, 8 p.m. Business of importance. Deputies and members of Richmond are cordially invited. W. H. HATCHER, Deputy. We are planning to make Labor Day one of real pleasure. So watch and wait for West End Industrial Club, No. 1. They will run an Excursion to Spotswood Park, De Witt, Va., Labor Day, Sept 2, 1901. Rally at Salem Church, West Point, Virginia. The pastor, Rev R. J. Bass and members of Salem Baptist Church were very much gratified in their success Sunday, Aug. 11th, 1901. Rev R. Beecher Taylor preached in the morning. In the afternoon Rev Bass administered the Lord's Supper and many souls were made to rejoice. At night Rev Taylor preached. Both sermons seemed to have made deep impressions from the evidences shown by the congregation. Rev Bass is full of uniting zeal and rich with experience in church works. The future is full of success for his church. Notwithstanding the inclement weather, the attendance was very good. The collection was twenty-six dollars. Peerless Co., U. R. K. of P. of Lynchburg will come on an excursion Sunday, Aug. 25th, leaving Lynchburg at 9 a.m. It will participate in the unveiling exercises on the 26th inst. NOTICE Quarterly meeting at Third St. A. M. M. E. Church Sunday, the 18th. Divine services as follows: preaching at 11 o'clock by Rev. E. H. Bolden, P. E.; at 8 p. by Rev. T. R. Sinkfield, Presiding Elder of Roanoke District and at 8:30 p. by Dr. N. F. Turner, missionary of Richmond and Roanoke Districts. Mt. Olivet Baptis t Church, Sunday night, 8:30 p.m., Aug. 18th, 1901, divine services will be held, Rev. R. Beechert Taylor will preach, subject, "What Shall I think?" —Miss Bertie G. Brooks is in the city, the guest of Miss Mabel Holmes. The latter in company with Mrs. Susanna Holmes visited Washington last week. —Mrs. Mary E. Hooper who was taken suddenly ill at the residence of her husband's cousin Mr. Chas, Waddy, No. 20 Hill St. weeks 4 ago has returned to her home, 1012 St. Peter St., under the skilful treatment of Dr. Sarah Jones but is yet indisposed. Mr. Editor: I think that charges should be brought against Brother Nelson Williams, Jr. and have him show cause why the right hand of fellowship should not be with-drawn from him for forging the names of the persons to a paper without their concent. I have read your paper carefully and I don't see that you have done anything to cause you to be excluded from the church. Look at the minutes and if nothing appears there ordering you not to publish Rev. Johnson's letter they have nothing against you even by their records. Unless this was done and it was not done, there is no law on which to exclude you. B. FROM RICHMOND TO BEAVER DAM BY THE WORKING SONS OF HOPE Sunday Morning. Parties going on this excursion will have the opportunity of spending a pleasant day at Beaver Dam, where the Protracted Meeting will be going on at the Union Baptist Church, Rev. C. H. Phillips, pastor, assisted by other able divines from both the city and country. There will be two services held, at 11:30 a. m. and 3 p. m. in the old and new churches. This will be a protracted meeting of the old kind, where the mingled voices of a thousand souls all singing praises unto the Maker Those who have gone with the old, reliable Working Sons of Hope on the third Sundays for a number of years can testify to the good maintained on the train and pleasant time spent at Beaver Dam. Tickets will be sold by the committee. Fare from Richmond, Round-trip, $1.00 East of Peake to Beaver Dam, 75c. Hanover & Wickham to Beaver Dam. 50 Doswell & Hewlett to Beaver Dam. 25 Train will leave C. & O. depot Sunday morning, August 18th, at 9 o'clock promptly. Returning, will leave Beaver Dam at 6 o'clock p. m. Committee of arrangements:--J. Harper, James H. Shelton, Wickham; R. J. Robinson, Dowell; James H. Harris, Hewlett; E. F. Lightfoot, Hanover; J. W. Jackson, Robert Johnson; H. J. COLEMAN, Manager; ARCHIE HAWKINS, Secretary. Republican State Convention, Roanoke, Va., August 21st, 1901. For the above occasion the Southern Railway will sell tickets from all points in Virginia to Roanoke and return at four (4) cent per mile one-way for the round trip, tickets to be on sale August 19th, 20th, and 21st, with return limit August 27th. aug 10, 3t. Meeting Bluestone Baptist Association, Drakes Branch, Va., August 21st-23rd, 1901. For the above occasion the Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets South Hill, Averett, Clarksville, Randolph and Richmond and all intermediate points to Drakes Branch and return at specially reduced rates in accordance with Harriet 2, tickets on sale August 20th and 21st, with return limit August 25th. TO THE LADIES OUR MONTHLY REGULATOR has made hundreds of women happy. There is no remedy known that will so surely and quickly bring relief. It is perfectly safe and never fails. All packages sent securely sealed by Mail or express. Price. $2.00. OXFORD MEDICAL CO Oakland, CA, MI, CO Rumford Falls, Maine, Box 1147 8-3- Im. VIRGINIA BAPTIST STATE SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION. Daville, Va., July 5th, 1901. To the Sunday-Schools, Associations, Unions, and all connected with the VIRGINIA BAPTIST STATE SABATH- SCHOOL CONVENTION,--Greeting: We take this means of calling your attention to the fact that the annual meeting of your Convention will con- vene with the First Baptist Church Sun- day-School [of Charlottesville, Va., on Thursday before the fourth Lord's Day in August, 1901. The state B. Y. P. U. will hold its annual meeting also on Wednesday preceding, so that all delegates who desire to do so may have an opportunity to attend the sessions of both bodies. It may be useless to remind you that it is your duty to be represented at this gathering, as you have been so very dutiful in the past. But we are living in an active, earnest, and progressive present. Conditions have changed. New issues are to be met, and if you are convinced that the position taken by the Convention up the questions that are now being agitated State is the best calculated to advance our quests as a denomination and as a people, then show your faith by your works by being represented at Charlottesville. It is the earnest desire of the Board that our representation shall be larger and our contributions greater than at any previous session. See to it, brethren, that you send up more money for Home Missions. The Board cannot successfully do the work we have undertaken unless you contribute more liberally. Do not forget our Educational work. We have obligations that are pressing. They must be met. Union University, Hartshorn College and Spiller Academy all expect help at your hands. Let all be remembered. At our last session we decided to do our Foreign Mission work through the Lot Carey Foreign Mission Convention. Send up, therefore, something with which to carry out this obligation. Come to Charlottesville. Come with a renewed zeal. Come with a determined and fixed purpose to support and advance all the objects for which our Convention stands. The Convenion will meet on the original date Aug. 21, 1901. Reduced rates will be secured over alrailroad lines leading into Charlottesville! Let every School, Association and Union join in the cry: On to Charlottesville. Miss Addie Davis of 527 N. 4th St., who has been indisposed for about six weeks is out again. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA THE COLORED FAIR TASLEY, VIRGINIA. Aug. 13, 14, 15, 16, 1901. PROMISES TO BE THE MOST CAPTIVATING AFFAIR OF THE SEASON. The managers are sparing no pains in setting the grounds in a tasty order. The circle is being prepared for speedy flights and several jockeys are availing themselves of the opportunity of educating their horses how to come down the home stretch. One of our drivers gave his horse her head some days ago and the "test was equal to the task." The gait she pulled the bike is only a secret to be made known at the Fair if necessary. We hope no one will be unnerved but be pre pared vigorously to meet competition. The grand stand and ladies' hall are being beautified with a coat of paint. The exhibition ball has special facilities for display and safe keeping of articles. Nothing is overlooked or under-valued by the managers. We hope the friends and patrons will will show their appreciation and manifest their interest by producing something to put on exhibition. We ask the ladies especially to show their skill in needle work, bakery, cannery, and culinary line, while the gentlemen will make full the agricultural, mechanical and stock departments. The railroad authorities have given special trains and excursion rates to visit our Fair at Tasley, Va., August 13, 14, 15, 16th. We send a cordial invitation to the public to visit our Fair this season and be courteously conducted through the thouroughtafes of same. The merry-go-round and other amusement will be held. Read our weekly articles through these columns and follow them up to the Fair. For any information, write to J. D. UZZLE, Sec'y, Accomac C. H.; or $2:50—RICHMOND TO BALTIMORE. Via Popular York River Route. Leave Richmond via Southern Railway daily except Sunday 4:30 p.m. The favorite route to Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y., Atlantic City, Cape May, etc. Special excursion tickets to Atlantic City and Cape May on sale Wednesday of each week. $7:00 Round trip, good eighteen days, returning. Round trip season tickets $11:00. $4: round trip ticket between Richmond and Baltimore. jv 27 3t Wanted Weekly—100 Cooks, Housemaids and Waitresses for New York and other Northern cities. Wages from $3.00 to $5.00 per week. Transportation furnished. Also 50 Farm hands for Maryland. R. W. ELSON, 417 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. L. J. 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