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THE RICHMOND PLANET Supreme Lodge At Chicago. THE ENCAMPMENT A SUCCESS OFFICERS ELECTED.—THE PLANET UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED AND ADOPTED, As the Organ of the Order.—The World Its Field. VOL. XVIII NO. 38 Supreme I At O THE ENCAMPMEN Fine Report.--The The Next Place OFFICERS ELECTED.--THE LY ENDORSED AN As the Organ of the Order. [Continued from last week.] CHICAGO, ILL., August 27th, 1901. The Governor of Illinois was not in the city and his representative not appearing, the representative of the Mayor of Chicago was heard from in the person of Dr. Howard S. Taylor, (white). The welcome address on behalf of the church was extended by Rev. R. J. Cary, D. D., pastor of Quinn Chapel. He was followed by Major General R. R. Jackson, who made a most timely address of welcome on the part of the Uniform Rank and elicited much laughter and applause. THE GRAND CHANCELLOR SPEAKS. Grand Chancellor Edward Green welcomed the scene Lodge on behalf of the jurisdiction of Illinois. His address was scholarly and able. He was applued. Blind Boone of Missouri was repeatedly enceded as a result of his musical talent as shown on the piano. He seemed to enjoy it as much as any one else. It is genius with him and he is much on the order of Blind Tom. He was born without sight, and seems to be perfectly satisfied with his condition. Past Grand Chancellor James C. Ross of Georgia delivered a short but instructive address. He was followed by Supreme Vice Chancellor L. M. Mitchell of Texas, who was brief, but assured the audience there were many good things about Texas. Ex-Major-General Arthur R. Riggs of Ohio, the well-known orator made an address of short duration, but which was well received and elicited applause. THE VOICE FROM VIRGINIA. Supreme Representative John Mitchell, Jr., of Virginia was introduced as the "gatling gun" from Virginia. Amidst applause, he expressed his gratification at being permitted to come to God's country and breathe the free air of Illinois. He spoke of the problem now confronting the people of Virginia, where an unconstitutional "constitutional convention was trying to find a way to violate the law without violating it. He humorously referred to the remarks of the gentleman from the Lone Star State, declaring that he had always understood that the main entrance to hell was by way of Texas. There was laughter and applause which punctuated Editor Mitchell's remarks until the close. Even after he resumed his seat, it was continued and he was forced to come forward and bow his acknowledgements. THE SUPREME CHANCELLOR CONCLUDES: Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks spoke on the need of the colored people having good character and observing strict business principles. He was brief and made a fine impression on all who heard him. Benediction was announced. CHICAGO, ILL., August 28, 1901. The report of the Supreme Chancellor was made. It was a creditable document. He told of the condition of affairs upon his assuming the duties of the office. He made excellent recommendations relative to the handling of the funds. He reported that $3944.77 had been received on supplies. The indebtedness of the endowment department was reported at Jacksonville to be $1000. It was found later to be $2350 THE AMOUNT PAID: He reported that the total amount of money paid out during his two years' term of office was $7633.00. The Grand Lodge was instituted in Western Pennsylvania and in Colorado. The Supreme Chancellor dealt with the Courts of Calanthe and recommended the appointment of a committee to investigate the workings and report thereon. He reported $2088.70 in the treasury. The increase in receipts in the endowment department is $688.65 INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP: The membership of the order two years ago was 15,176 and to-day it is 26,814 members, showing an increase in membership of 11,738. The balance in hand of the endowment treasury is $78.75. The report was rapturously applauded DR. BOYD'S EFFORT. The motion to refer to the committee was discussed by Dr. R. F. Boyd of Nashville, Tenn., who made a most enthusiastic address, commending the excellent management. Past Supreme Chancellor James C. Coss made explanations relative to the report. He told of the diffi- culties with which he had to contend and expressed a hope that he had been given the proper credit for what he had done. The election of the officers of the Sup- reme Lodge, Knights of Pythias resu- ted as follows: Supreme Chancellor—S. W. Starks, Charleston, W. Va. Supreme Vice Chancellor—L. M. Mitchell, Austin, Texas. Supreme Prelate—C. D. White, Piqua, Ohio. Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal—C. K. Robinson, St. Louis, Mo. Supreme Master of Exoheque—John H. Young, Pine Bluff, Ark. Supreme Lecturer—John Mitchell, Jr.,—Richmond, Va, Supreme Master at Arms—D. S. Miller. Louisville, Ky. Supreme Inner Guard—Frank Brown, Jr., New Orleans. Supreme Outer Guard—Alexander Johnson, St. Augustine, Fla. The marriage of Miss Florence E. Isham to Rev. A. A. Graham, B. D. will take place at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., Wednesday, September 18th, 1901 at 2:30 p. m. Friends are invited. No cards. Reception immediately after ceremony at 809 N. 5th St. MOORE-William Moore departed this life Thursday, Aug. 29th, 1901 in his 69th year. He died in the full triumph of faith. He leaves a devoted wife, five sons and five daughters, two sisters, a brother and many grand-children to mourn their loss. The funeral took place from the First Baptist Church of which the deceased was a member for 25 years. TRICE--Mr. James Trice died Friday, August 30, 1901, at 7 o'clock P. M. in the blessed assurance of heaven, at his residence, No. 1002 N. 7th St. He leaves two daughters, six grand children and one son-in-law and many relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Our loss is his eternal gain. "Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep." Honorary pall-bears: Abner Cooley, Mr. Wilkerson, Alex. Christian. Jefferson Miles, Robert Hewlett, J. B. Page, Robert Johnson, Wm. Manns, Moses Norrell, Henry Harper. Active: James Tinsley, Walter Hudson, Edward Coleman, Henry Christian, Wm. Hill, Samuel Brown. Flowers were numerous and costly Funeral Director, Mr. J. D. Bliley. His daughters, M. C. TRICE, ARDELIA STUTELY. That Secret Circular—President Taylor Speaks Nearly All Day—Would Not Tell About The [Salaries—Officials Mute—Messrs Burrell and Hill Snowed Under—Forced to Praise Their Enemy,—Want to Send Him To Europe—That $8000 Residence, The Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers has been is session since Tuesday last. The first day was devoted to the discussion of the secret circular. Grand Worthy Master, W. L. Taylor took all the time he wanted which was practically all day in analyzing the charges and replying to his accusers. It was evident that Grand Worthy Secretary W. P. Burrell and Cashier R. T. Hill have again been "snowed under" so to speak. THE TAYLOR DELEGE. They had the Richmond city forces well in hand; but that Taylor "deluge" of three years ago was again here on guard and they did not dare to say a word against the chieftain whom it is known they so bitterly hate and in secret no doubt denounce. In fact, they were forward in their declaration of loyalty and their intention of doing all in their power to uphold his hands. They captured the treasuryship and pastorate of the First Baptist Church, but could not carry the Grand Fountain. Many delegates wear the Taylor badges of three years ago. THE PLANET IN EVIDENCE. President Taylor had a copy of the PLANET spread out and read the display heading. He stated that the Executive Board arranged the salaries and that the Grand Fountain had nothing to do with it under the law and he saw no reason for a change now. When the work progressed the salaries were increased, when it was otherwise they were decreased. He would not state the amount of his salary. It transpired that another secret circular has been issued worse than the first and being directed against President Taylor. The address of the Grand Worthy Master was punctuated with applause. It was unanimously decided that no one should bring up the secret circular in the body again. If it is done, expulsion is sure to follow. WILL HAVE OPPOSITION. The delegates who came seeking information along certain lines are as blind now as they were when they left home. The daily papers of Thursday last announced that there will be several candidates against Rev. W. L. Taylor next year for the position of Grand Worthy Master and President. One enthusiastic delegate proposed that President Taylor be sent to Europe, and all of his expenses paid. Brother Burrell and Hill who have control of the True Reformer First Baptist Church didn't say much, but they were evidently more in favor of this than any other proposition brought before the Grand Fountain. IN FAVOR OF THE TRIP If the trip could be made to include a tour of the world, they no doubt would be unanimously in favor of raising the money to defray the expense of the same. Work on Cashier Hill's $8000 house on West Leigh St. has been temporarily suspended. It will be one of the finest in that section. Contractor D. J. Farrar is in charge of the job and is giving first-class satisfaction. --- Sir John Mitchell, Jr., of Virginia created more applause in his response at the banquet than any other Sir Knight. His speech struck a responsive chord in the hearts of Chicagoans—Chicago Monitor. Miss Florence Handley of N. Y. City is visiting friends in this city, she is the guest of Mrs. Ella Robinson, of 516 W. Baker St. Rev. Dr. Mitchell Called. Rev. H. H. Mitchell, D. D. of Norfolk, Va., has been called to the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church at Columbus, O., and has accepted. He is one of the ablest divines in the state and his leaving, this commonwealth will be generally regetted. MANCHESTER, VA. SEPT. 1. Quite an agreeable surprise was led on Miss Celeste Moon formerly of Manchester, Va., but now of Barnwell, S. C. on last Friday night at Samaritans Hall, Cor. 8th and Hull Sts., by a number of her friends, led by Misses Elise Washington, Mary Walker and Nannie Morris. Among those present were Misses Pattie Walker, Virginia Armstead, Rubie, Etna and Celeste Moon, Nannie K. Wilkerson, Pearl Robinson, Lotte Robinson, Emma Woodson, Mrs. Lucinda Baily and Mrs. Laura G. King, Messrs David Murray, Willie Pryor, Charles Hickman, Eddie White, James and John Cogbill, Jordan Binford, Robert Howlett, John Ross, Earnest Baker, who has recently arrived from New York. He is looking well. The guests enjoyed themselves until the small hours of morn and all went home much pleased. Mr. Albert Moon and his three daughters left Saturday evening for South Carolina. M. SIR S. W. STARKS, Re-elected Supreme Chancellor, Knights of Pythias. M. CAPT. T. M. CRUMP, Treasurer of T. W. Mitchell Monument Association One of the interior walls of the Jefferson Hotel fell in last Tuesday, evening at about 6 o'clock, crushing the head of Mr. Osborne Lewis almost to a path and injuring William Adams slightly. Both are colored and reside in the West End. CAPT. T. M Treasurer of T. W. Mitche Lynching And Crime. From the Chicago Tribune, August 26 Does lynching prevent crime? On the other hand, does it not promote crime? These questions have been asked many times, but no satisfactory answer has been given to them. The conditions have now become so well marked and the relations between lynching and the crime are so clear that it is possible to answer the first question in the negative and insist upon an affirmative answer to the second. The number of lynchings during the present year to date has been ninety nine. In no other year during the last decade has the number been so large during the same period. Of this total there have been thirteen in the North and eighty-six in the South. This is not stated invidiously, but because the relations between lynching and crime are most conspicuous and most easily studied in the South. If the theory of the advocates of lynching be true, then this unusual increase in the number of lynchings should have been accompanied by an unusual decrease in crimes committed. Has such been the case? Far from it. While crime has increased all over the country, it has increased most rapidly in the South, and in the four States, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana; where lynchings are most frequent. In Mississippi the record of the last thirty days shows forty-five murders committed. In other states there has been a corresponding in- The funeral of Deacon Christopher Wilkerson took place last Wednesday afternoon from First Baptist Church. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. officiated. Deacon Wilkerson was one of our most prominent citizens and at one time was in a most prosperous condition. M. CRUMP, Cell Monument Association. crease. Evidently lynching does not prevent murder. From Chicago. CHICAGO, ILL., Aug. 29, 1901 The National Encampment, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. & A was visited by a large number of visitors, both male and female yesterday afternoon. The inspection was scheduled to take place. Major General R. R. Jackson had arranged for Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr. to have charge. All staff and field officers were ordered to appear in full dress. This they did and the movements took place without a hitch. The K. of P. Band of Minneapolis furnished the music for the occasion. The tented field, the musical cornet giving military calls, the waving flags, the crowd of visitors, the tent of the Major General crowded with officers added to the interest of the scene and it was voted a grand success. Tuesday night the play of Damon and Pythias was shown at the Frieberg's Opera House to a large audience. It was very fine. The Fairfield and Varina S. S. Union will meet at 1st Mission Bapt. Church Benedict Town on Creagton Road, Second Sunday Sept. 8th 1001. Washington Truman, Pres. M. E. Fergusens, Sec. RICHMOND ECHOES FROM THE UNVEILING THE VAST CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE. Never Seen Before Nor Since. The unveiling exercises Monday, Aug. 26th, 1901, brought to this city one of the largest crowds ever seen in this community. By a singular coincidence, the Monument Committee requested Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr. to fix the time for the unveiling August 26th instead of the 30th, the usual anniversary day. He complied with the request. As the Supreme Lodge to which he had been elected Supreme Representative met Aug. 31st in 1899 at Jacksonville, it was thought that it would be about this time that it would meet at Chicago in 1901. Instead, the proclamation came fixing the date August 27th, 1901, and General Mitchell saw no way out of it as the excursion trains, had been chartered for Aug. 26. He was accordingly forced to leave Saturday night for Chicago, Illinois. However, the matter was kept quiet, and all arrangements were made to receive the visitors. MRALS AND REFRESHMENTS FREE. Captain T. M. Crump was clothed with the responsibility of arranging for the Sir Knights at Price's Hall. Free meals and refreshments were served all day. At the Pythian Headquarters, 511 N. 3rd St., General John Mitchell, Jr. was chairman of a committee of ladies for the entertainment of the officers of the Uniform Rank, K. of P. Meals and refreshments were furnished free of charge. Adjutant General John R. Chiles had charge of these head quarters. Across the front of the hall were printed on sheeting by Sir O. M. Stewart, the words, "Headquarters, First Brigade, First and Second Regiments, U. R. K. of P. DECORATED WITH PYTHIAN COLORS. The hall was gorgeously decorated with Pythian colors. The companies from Newport News and Hampton arrived at about 1 p. m. and proceeded at once to the hall. Captain Philip Brown of Maceo Co., No. 16 and 1st Lieutenant B. F. Jackson wore white fatigue suits and were complimented all along the line. The Norfolk, Portsmouth and Berkley Companies did not reach the city until after 3 o'clock. COL. MEEKINS IN COMMAND. With them was Col. M. D. Meekins of the Second Regiment. If there was one happy contented man in Richmond, he was that man. Brigadier General Mitchell had transferred the brigade to him and although late, he took charge of the affair. The day was converted into a holiday. Fully ten thousand people lined the streets. The bands played lively airs during the time they waited for the delayed companies. It was about 4 o'clock when the line moved from 3rd and Baker Sts. Chief Marshall A. D. Price was ac companied by the following aides: companied by the robinning aides: S. S. Baker, Isham Mann, Dr. D. A. Ferguson, Sydney Goode and Rosebery Mosby and L. T. Crawford A FINE SHOWING. They wore fine sashes, that of the Chief Marshall being especially noticeable. They were mounted. Then came Col. M. D. Meekins, acting Brigadier General, Col. John R. Chiles, Assistant Adjutant General. Col. D. Wade Johnson, acting Chief of Staff, Col. Caspar Rowlett, of the Major General's staff. Col. E. F. Robinson, Brigade Signal Officer; Col. Augustus Taylor, Quartermaster General; Col. R. M. Sears, Inspector General, Col. E. R. Jefferson, Assistant Surgeon General; Major J. H Brice, Chaplain; Major John J. Bly, Maj. J. J. Booker. RIGHT OF THE LINE. The Second Regiment was accorded the post of honor. Then came Major George L. Pugh, Adjutant Edward Langley and the other members of the staff, mounted. First Regiment, Captain T. M. Crump acting Colonel; Major E. A. Washington, Captain A. J. Smith, Jr., Adjutant; Captain Henry Stokes, Signal Officer; Captain Willis Wyatt, Quartermaster. The companies in line were Norfolk: National, No. 6, Captain A. Jones, commanding; Norfolk, No. 9, Captain Henry Hill commanding; Manning Co., No. 13, Captain Dempsey White commanding; Berkley, Va. Pride of Berkley, No. 17, Captain Moses Perry commanding; Portsmouth, Va., Hannibal Co., No. 3, Captain John Winslow commanding; Newport News' Virginia., Roanoke Company No. 4, Captain J. F. Freeman commanding; Maceo Guards, No. 16. Capt. Phil. Brown commanding; Hampton Va., Joseph T. Wilson Co., Capt. S. E. Blue commanding; Petersburg, Va. Uniform Rank Co., Captain Edward Branch commanding; Lynchburg, Va., Peerless Company, No. 15, Captain W. J. Wells commanding; Richmond, Eureka, No. 1, Captain K. S. Nelson commanding; Planet, No. 8 Sergeant Johnson commanding; Blooming Lily Co., Captain C E. T. Stewart command. The Excelsior Band of Norfolk and the municipal Band of this city enraptured the lovers of music. Then followed a double row of carriages. The parade [Name] T. W. Mitchell Monument Association covered eight blocks. Broad St. was one surging mass of humanity. Street cars were blocked and white and colored persons were united in declaring that it was one of the most magnificent street displays ever seen here. Arriving at he cemetery where a stand had been erected the exercises were concluded as per report last week. The T. W Mitchell Monument Committee through whose efforts the necessary amount of money was raised deserves great credit. The officers are President, B. H. Peyton; Secretary, J. A. Smith; Chairman of the Executive Committee; W. Henry Walton; Treasurer, T. M. Orump. They report the following amounts received $837.55; expended $855.77. The cuts will be found in another column. P. W. HENRY WALTON, Chairman Executive Committee. T. W. Mitchell Monument Association W. HENRY WALTON, Chairman Executive Committee. T. W. Mitchell Monument Association Personals and Briefs. Mr. and Mrs. Wise Ellis 614 Judah St. was presented with a bouncing baby ast Sunday morning. 1 Miss Mary Jones of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. have been spending a few days with her friends in this city. Mrs. E. J. Crane and Mrs. Florence Aytes are at Buckroe Beach. Miss Marietta L. Chiles is now spending the time at Buckroe Beach and Phoe bus, Va. Mrs Walter H. Brooks of Washington was in the city last Monday. Upon her return Miss Bettie Brooks accompanied her Mrs Conway B. Reid and children are visiting relatives in Hanover. Miss Rebecca V. Vandervall left the city for Orange, N. J. and New York City to visit her brothers, Messrs. Jas. W., Fred. D. and J. B. Vandervall of Orange, N. J. and John S. Vandervall of New York City. Miss Maggie Lee of Pittsburgh, is now visiting in Charleston, Jefferson county, W. Va. Her absence is much regretted. Mrs. Rosa Robinson of Atlantic City, the daughter of Mrs. Eliza Hamilton has returned to the city to make this her future home. Miss Pocahontas Berry of Petersburg is in the city, the guest of Miss Senora Eldridge, 24 W. Leigh St. Rev. C. H. Philips conducted a successful revival meeting at his church at Beaver Dam last month and was rewarded with several conversions. The funeral of Mr. John H. Booker of Fulton who died on the 31st ult. will take place from the Fifth St. Baptist Church, Sunday at 11 a. m. Rev. W. F. Graham will officiate. NOT LIKE OTHER MEN By Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, Author of "The Brotherhood of Silence," "The Quality of a Sin," Etc. Copyright, 1901, by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey. FOR a moment Erna was stupied by the outburst of passion from Lisle. She had begun to think that her new friend would accept the change in her destiny as a matter of course and that in fact she was secretly glad that fate had created her a woman. The repressed passion which Lisle had suffered without manifesting any sign was a phase of character entirely foreign to her understanding. All her life Erna had without restraint expressed every emotion that possessed her, and she could not comprehend a nature which concealed the impulses of the heart until they were swollen to such an extent that they burst all bounds and swept everything before them, just as a raging torrent, held in check for years, at last demolishes the solid wall of masonry which holds it and rushes downward to engulf and destroy everything that lies in its path. She did not know that Lisle's calmness in view of the discovery made was the result of pride of will, which dominated her every act. She could not understand a woman who could endure with calmness agony that was consuming her like fire within, and instead of assisting Lisle, as she had been requested to do, she stood with clasped hands, parted lips and bated breath, terror stricken by the revelation of a depth of passion which she had not believed existed. Not until Lisle had tern the "instruments of torture" apart and flung them savagely to the far end of the room did she regain her composure; then, using much better judgment than would have been expected of her, she sprang to the assistance of her friend, but without offering any, protest against what she had said, better still, without venturing to give advice at a moment when it could neither be appreciated nor followed. Lisle kept silence also while being divested of the costume in which Erna had dressed her. Not until she had resumed the masculine attire, the one laid out for Erna and not the one previously worn, did she utter a word, but the struggle was raging within her with the same savage fury with which it had announced itself, and Erna, watching her furtively, became more and more dismayed. When Lisle was fully dressed in the garments to which she was accustomed, she walked to the window and with her back turned toward the room said quietly: "Dress yourself, Erna, as you were last night. While you are busy I will think. Do not speak to me, please, until you are dressed." Erna hastened to obey. Lisle's demeanor awed her into silence. She felt instinctively that she was in the presence of a character which dominated everything. She was, without being sensible of it, afraid, and she worked in silence, rapidly. "I am ready, Lisle," she said at last, but the girl at the window did not hear, and she approached timidly and touched her upon one shoulder. "I am ready, Lisle," she repeated, almost fearing that the words would call forth another tirade of passionate anger, but Lisle turned calmly, and there was a pathetic smile upon her lips when she spoke. "Forgive me, Erna, for giving way as I did a few moments ago. I will endeavor not to repeat the offense. Such evidences of weakness cannot benefit me, and certainly you are not to blame. The only person who is responsible for this moment lies dead in another room, and my vengeance cannot reach him. I am calm now and cold, too, as cold as death, and, I think, as unforging. You do not understand me. Nobody does; nobody ever can, I fear. If I am revengeful, it is because I inherit it and because I have been taught to be so ever since I can remember. If I hate and despise the memory of that dead man who taught me to call him father, as he taught me to believe myself to be a man, the sin rests upon his soul, not upon mine or yours. If I am unreasonable in my anger and rebellion against something that I cannot help or avoid, it is because that insane man wronged me so, not because you discovered and revealed the truth. The truth I am glad to know. I am angry only because it has been denied to me all these years. Can a human being commit a greater sin than to seize upon and defy a law of Almighty God and with his puny strength dare to effort the effort to alter it? I think not. Just heaven! Cannot you, my friend, imagine something of the horror of the position I am in? I realize the danger which surrounds me without knowing what it is. I know that there are bottomless pitfalls in my path, but I cannot locate them or recognize them when I see them. I know that there is something left for me to do, but I have no means of knowing what duty is, far that despicable dead man, while lived, was far too cunning to have left behind him evidence which will direct me. Think how he fooled me! Think how he has misled me! Think how the life that he lived and compelled me to live? Where shall I find truth in his career? And, if I find it, how shall I recognize it? Do you wonder that I am beside myself? Do you wonder that I fear to speak less I will shrink aloud with a rage that is as impatient as a particle of dust in a whirlwind? Tell me, Erna, who besides yourself is aware of this secret that we share." "Nobody, Ljsle," gasped Erna. "Does not your father know?" "Nobody knows but me." She told the falsehood tremblingly, but with decision, for she, already stood in more we of this strange woman than she feared the consequences of a harmless lie. "I am glad of that," commented Lisle, and Erna breathed a sigh of relief for the lie that she had told and in recollection of the fact that she had already warned her father that he was not to appear to know the truth until informed that he could do so. She had attended to that when she ran to him just before Lisle went out with her to the grove of pines. "I am very glad of it. I will tell him the truth myself after a little, when I have become calmer." "Calmer? You are calm now, Lisle, frightfully calm!" explained Erna. "True; I am rightfully calm. That exactly expresses it. It is the calmness of despair, of rage, of rebellion, of a torrent of water, mightily deep, which runs smoothly upon the surface, but whiche is carrying the universe along with it in its silent depths. That is the calmness that I feel. Do you think that your father will consent to reclaim here with me for a few days?" "He shall do so whether he cobsens or not. I'll make him do it!" Then, noticing the expression of wonder that came into Lisle's eyes, she added: "Of course he will consent. He never refuses me anything, and in this case I think he will propose it anyway." "I will be very grateful. Tomorrow or the day after I must tell him what I am. I must beseech him to advise me, and" "I know what you must do. You must leave this ranch and all that concerns it in the care of your men and return to Kansas City with me. There in my home"—Lisle raised one hand in protest. Babe raised one hand in protest. "It is kind," she said, "but it cannot be so at present. I have much to learn before I will consent to face the world. You forge; the long years of training that must be overcome before I can hope to acquire the rudiments of the new life that I must live. Already I know much that you have not told me. The life that I must begin is entirely different from the life that I leave behind me when I assume the garb that you wear and appear before the world for what I really am—a woman. God, how I flate it! What would happen if I should go with you now? I would discover insults in compliments; I would mistake deliberate offenses for favors. Ever since I was old enough to hold a pistol in my hand I have been taught to resent affronts with bullets. Would you have me murder your best friends? No; my place is here until I can go elsewhere with the freedom that knowledge alone can impart. I am neither one thing nor the other now. I am neither man nor woman. I am a monstrosity—a freak—a thing! Here you respect me; there you would despise me. Here I am master; there I would be—nothing! Here, for awhile at least, I can still be a man; there—faugh! Let us go to your father. Then, when I have talked with him, I will ride out to meet Craig Thompson." Mr. Thomas walked out upon the veranda with Lisle at her request. "Everything has been attended to, or is being done, Lisle," he said, adopting the given name in preference to using a pronoun which he did not know how to select. "You men—that is, those who have not been sent out on errands—have proved themselves extremely efficient in every way, and in an hour"— "I thank you, sir. I do not care for the details. It is very kind of you to oversee everything. Perhaps later I will know better how to express my appreciation. Just now"— "Not a word! Not a word, Lisle. Why, I feel already as if I had known you always. I'll go ahead just as though I had, and now, if you will take my advice, you will get on your horse and go for a good ride. It will do you good—lots of it! Take the word of Thomas O. Thomas for that." CHAPTER XIII. RAIG. THOMPSON, with the bridle of a led horse in his grasp and with three men similarly provided accompanying him, was riding with all speed toward Maxwell's ranch. Already halt the distance of 30 miles had been covered, and already he had changed horses twice, urging them to their utmost effort, impatient, silent, dogged. Before him, not half a mile away, was a rise of ground, more lofty than the others, and as he spurred his animal toward it a horseman emerged from the blank beyond and halted upon its crest, silhouetted against the sky. Even at that distance Craig recognized the rider, and, rising in his stirrups, he waved his hat in greeting. The salutation was returned. The half mile which separated the men was quickly traveled, and the galloping party came to a halt. "Ride on ahead, boys," ordered Craig, addressing his companions. "Till trail along behind with the kid. We'll get there soon enough, I reckon, since Lisle is out here to meet us. Is it true, Lisle, that Tom Thomas and his girl are there?" "Yes. They are at the house." "That's all right. You skip along, boys, and don't mind us. We'll jog along at a slower pace. Lord, kid, but it was lucky that I was home. I hadn't been there more an hour either when Pete rode up with the news. No foul play, was there, Lisle?" "No." "Just turned up his toes without a word, eh? Broke your heart, too, eh? Pull up here and let me look at you. What's the matter with you, lad? That ain't all grief that I see in your face. There's something else there. What makes your eyes blaze so? You look just as you did when you drew that bead on Jim Cummings while your other arm was held fast to your body THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA by the rope." "I feel very much the same as I did then, Craig," responded Lisle. "I am in very much the same position with the difference that I cannot see an enemy to fire at. Let us rest here awhile. I have something to tell you." They did not leave their saddles, but sat vis-a-vis. Lisle with her back toward the ranch. Craig facing it and studying with manifest care the loping of the horses which bore the three men who had ridden on ahead. He considered it best not to speak again until his young friend had told what there was to say. "Craig," said Lisle presently, "you have regarded me as rather a queer specimen of a boy ever since we first met. There is something concerning me that must be told, something that I wish to tell you, something that just now I could not tell to any other person—something which you must retain as a secret in your own heart until I give you permission to reveal it and, above all, something concerning which you must advise and direct me." "Let it go, lad, I'm listening." "I am a woman, Craig." Thompson did not move a muscle of his body except those which controlled his visual organs. He turned his eyes slowly until they rested upon the face of Lisle, and then, with marked deliberation, but undoubted emphasis, he said: "You don't mean it!" "I am a woman, Craig." "Who told you?" "Miss Thomas." "How did she know it?" "I do not exactly know. When my—when Richard Maxwell died, I fainted. She revived me, and"— "I know the rest. Does Tom Thomas know?" "Not yet." Thompson did not speak again for a moment or two. The muscles of his A Rising in his stirrups, he waved his hat in greeting. face were working, however, as though he were thinking words which he did not care to utter. "Did you know it, Craig?" asked Lisle suspiciously. "Know it? No! How should I know it? What do you think I am—a clairvoyant?" "But you believe it now, do you not?" "Of course I believe it. How could I help believing it? The only wonder is that I was such an idiot as not to see it at once. I ought to have seen it, and now, viewed in the light of understanding, I suppose I did see it without recognizing it. When I first came to this God forsaken country, I used to prospect for gold over there in the Slerras, and I've picked up pay dirt and chucked it away again a good many times without knowing what it was. That's just how it was this time. Well, kid, before we go any deeper into this subject, I've got just one thing to say—I'm going to be father and mother and brother and sister and the hull billot lot of relatives to you from this on, without regard to conventionalities, and for the present, while I turn this thing over in my mind two or three times, I'm going to think, and while I'm thinking I'm going to treat you as I always have—just as if you were a boy—and lastly, before I speak very decidedly on the subject, I'm going to have a talk with Miss Erna Thomas. She's a whole team with a hose behind and a dog under the wagon. "I're让 ride on." There was silence between them after that, neither speaking until the ranch was before them; then it was Craig Thompson who spoke. "I brought Hank Smith along with me," he said. "He's handy with tools and can make a coffin in a jiffy. Where shall we break ground?" "It makes no difference to me." "I mean where do you want the old man buried?" "I understood you. I do not care. Bury him where you please. It is all the same to me." "Humph! Look here, Lisle, I understand how you feel, but you don't want to do anything now that you'll be sorry for later on, and it ain't fair to try and convict a man without hearing him in his own defense. Dick Maxwell's gone where he can't be heard, and I don't believe that you are made of the sort of stuff that's going to hit a man when he's down—leastwise that ain't exactly the way that I sized you up." "What do you want me to do?" "Your duty, not to him particularly, if you don't like it that way, but to yourself and to others—to me, to the cowboys on your ranch and to the world. It's the worst kind of a coward that turns tail at a time like this. You go to your room and wait for me. Think it over. A man may have lots of reasons for doing things, and they may be of the sort that he can't explain, but there's one thing that is dead certain, and that is that every son and every daughter in the world has got a credit as well as a debit account in the names of the old folks, and anybody who won't study both sides of the ledger before making out the balance sheet isn't fit to be mentioned in polite society, and, Lisle, the only really polite society in the world is the one that's made up of honest people." Lisle reached out one hand and rested it upon the arm of her friend. "You are right, Craig," she said. "There is no need for me to think it over. You have done that for me in the few words that you have uttered. Before you leave me, however, there is one question which I must ask you." "What is it kid?" BE NOT DECEIVED To the COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS, "OZONO." BEFORE. AFTER. Mr. Henry Stewart of Roanoke, Va., writes: Before using Ozono my head was perfectly bald. Now a nice growth has appeared. Ozono is perfectly grand. Mrs. Mart Holman, 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 have been fooled so often it does me good to recommend honest goods. BEFORE AFTER Henry Bell, Creeds, Va. writes: I cannot say too much in favor of your goods. This is the universal opinion in my county. "Do you despise me because I am a woman? Tell me truly—do you despise me?" "Lisle, the man never lived who honestly despised women as a class. Here and there one man may have despised and hated one woman or two or a dozen—but all of 'em? Not much! Tain't natural, and God Almighty never made one of us that way." "Mr. father did." "Not on your life, Lisle. The best proof that you are wrong is the fact that he hid himself away from 'em all the way he did. He did that because he loved 'em so that he didn't dare to go where they were for fear that his pride would give in to human nature. It's more than likely that one woman has deceived him somehow, and he got on his car, just as you have done at him. There wasn't any old critter like Craig Thompson around to tell him the difference 'tween tweedledum and tweedledee. You just make out that balance sheet and look it over, and if you don't find more to your dad's credit than you've got ag'in him I will eat it." "But you have not replied to my question, Craig." "Ain't it? Well, I'll answer it now. It don't make no difference to me or to any other man whether a human critter's a man or a woman. It's the critter, not the sex, that we look at. Nobody will ever be despised by any body if he or she is honest and true. Those are the biggest words in the dictionary of human conduct, 'cause they mean the most. As for my despising you because you're a woman, the idea is infernal rot. When I despise a person, that person's pretty apt to know it 'thou asking questions on the subject. Look here. Liske. I wasn't intending to talk any more to you till after I had a chance to turn things over in my mind, but I'll say this: You're facing a situation that looks a heap sight bigger to you than if does or ever will to anybody you. You have found out that you are a woman without knowing what a woman is, and you sorter feel as if you was walking round arm in arm with your own ghost. You've met a stranger that you can't gift away from for the rest of your life. You've got to get acquainted, and the sooner you get on familiar terms with yourself the better for all concerned. If you had been plecked up and carried away and suddenly put down again on another planet, you couldn't have been in a much worse fix than you are now, but I reckon you'd find the inhabitants of the other place sort of decent, and TRADE-MARK. BEFORE. AFTER. BEFORE. Recognizing the fact that there are many eners now on the market, and knowing to a and simple, we wish to make a straight-for through this great paper. In the year 1871 a dovmate, many acquired the recei purchased to any extent until it was success. After a thorough test by the colore honest, legitimate remedy, true to all that we of the confidence of every member of the colo hair to grow long and stimulate, and fine, whenever a genuine article appears 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. fact that there are many SO-CALLED hair-grain market, and knowing to a secretive man much to make a straight-forward, honest start paper. In the year 1811 can late secretary, Mance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It went until late was put upon the mark through test by the colored people of that time, merely, true to all that was claimed for it, and every member of the colored race, because the red straight, red and fine, and as beautiful as a article appears upon the market, make capital out of the merits of other peculiar firms have entered the market, offering of which are worthless, causing the hair to soothe, and the colored apples of that animal fats, and do the hair, more harm than be careful what you use on your hair. Do no bold words. Buy the King of all Hair Tones. 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 fraudulent, and that they are straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the paper, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZENQ, to purchase to any extent until ISM, when it was put upon the market and met with marked purchase to any extent until test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate article appears for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race to hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, here is a genuine article appears upon the market there are always a number of people who marked success, numerous firms have entered the market, and the hair-straighteners, many of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing damage to the hair and scalp, and the colored people are buying these spurious compounds, sound a warning—be careful of amusing animals, and do the hair, more harm than good. To those let us sound a warning—be careful of bizarre advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair products. OZONO which is good at any time. We will forward to the bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes the old look young and the youthful. We will show Short Hair and the hair has granted us the trade mark on coupon having the two heads on it. As to our of this paper, let us the Metropolitan Bank of America, last week. OZONO is full and luxurious growth. If your hair is glossy, long growth. Send us $1.00 at once, receive your order. BOSTON C. JIO E. BROAD I enclose you $1.00, for which please send 4 Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00; 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, Odor, worth $0.00; 1 Package Soap S. Name. Street. County. If you want 4 lots like above, send $8.00, let her write her name on a piece of paper. in iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed you a plain question—would we absolutely our preparations, if they were not true, nor several years peace on it? Ozono has been satisfied in every respect to-day using our preparations, and every one of our preparations, Ozono will positively take Refractory, your own material, and will cure your head of all itching, worrying and Scurf cannot live after Ozono has been applied it will restore gray hair to its natural color let us make a statement. Many firms are but when they send the preparation they have no rons; they will burn up the life of the man without your hands already straight, straight, straight forever. You can stop the use at any in a day or two after the first application. no 100, a bottle—boxes do the work. We minimal work on it. You will make and we will forward to you four large boxes Skin Refiner, which makes black skin bright diseases. which removes all skin irritation you suffer—wrinkles, moth patches, freckle you look young and the young look younger. made a package of our celebrated Scalp Soap literary. we will put in a package of All Aouth, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains and odors arising from the human body, its Aggregation in $4.00. We have honest goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon upring Short Hair and the other head Long Hair Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin lite Electrical Skin Food, worth $00.; 1 Package lite 600.; 1 Package Soap, worth $00. Send us $1.00 at once, and the goods will be BOSTON CHEMICAL 310 East Broad BOSTON CHEMICAL 310 E. BROAD ST., RICHMOND $1.00, for which please send at once the follow- ing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair Ozono, worth $2.00. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin lite Electrical Skin Food, worth $00.; 1 Package lite 600.; 1 Package Soap, worth $00. B. City State is like above, send $8.00. If you have a friend name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon whi which is sold with an iron-clad guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfit $0.00. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfit $0.00 if you have advertised for several preparations, if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for several preparations, and we are glad to say that everyone who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. 100,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono to use today. Tonics. Ozono will positively take the kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Carly, Refractory, workable, workable short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, working hard to Eczema, Dandruff and Scarf cannot live after Ozono has been applied. It will snap 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, they do not use hot irons; they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop out. 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 a bottle, a 4-boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is not too expensive. We cut out this coupon and send to us, enclosing it with the sum of One Dollar, and we will send you a bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which makes skin bright, skin soft, plant, and cures all skin diseases. Also removes all facial imperfections, and actually Nature's great beautifier—receives all freckles, and all facial blemishes; makes the old look younger and the round look younger. We will also include one package of our celebrated Scaip Soap, which is absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever be used on the skin. And, last, prove our liberality, we will put in a pinit package of Anti-Odor, a positive care for Sore Throat, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chhilbains, Sore and Frosted Fees; also remores all gullies. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful, glossy, long growth. Send us $1,00 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive it. I enclose you $1.00, for which please send at once the following goods: 4. Expose 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 $0.01; 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth $0.01; 1 Package (1 pint) Anti-Odor, worth $0.01; 1 Package Scalp Scar, worth $0.01. Total: $4.00. you'll find 'em so here. I think that between Tom Thomas. Erna and me we can set you on the right road all right, but you've got to remember that you can't jump on to your boss and ride from here to my ranch in half an hour. If you do it in three, you're riding mighty fast, and you know it. So you see you can't expect to know everything that concerns this transformation of yours in a holy minute. It al't the future that's puzzling me; it's the present. I'll have a talk with Tom and his daughter, and bimehy we'll look over Dick's papers and things. The dominie'll be here about sandown, and we'll have the funeral and plant your guvnor in the morning, and tomorrow night after the rest have gone to bed you and me and maybe Tom will sit down in the library and talk it over. In the meantime I'll be doing some thinking, and you can note Erna around the place and show her things and talk. Tom and I will manage everything. You jest leave that to us. You keep "You are right." said Lise your head up and be a man yet awhile. Don't let anybody see that things are any different, and for the rest put your elbow on Craig Thompson's shoulder and lean there. and, lastly, don't go back on the dead man." He turned away abruptly and left Little alone, for they had brought their horses to a halt close beside the corral. [TO BE CONTINUED.] "In old times, when a man committed a mistake he was put in the stocks." "It is sometimes that way now," sighed the fellow who had been dah ```markdown ``` AFTER. SO-CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners, that many of these are frauds pure toward, honest statement to the colored race, our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through it for OZNO. It was not offered for sale or as put upon the market and met with marked people of that time. We encouraged an act claimed for it, and worthy in every respect race, because they found it to cause the man and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, people of that time made number of people merits of other people's goods. Seeking out the market, offering hair-growers and hair-straightening the hair to fall out and doing great people are buying these spurious compounds, to harm harm than good. To choose out your hair. Do not be received by flaring of all Hair Tones. do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit would we absolutely agree to forfeit $40.00 if they were not true to all we claim for them? they were we are glad to say that need in every respect. separations, and every purchaser recommends will positively take the kinks out of knotty, the short, harsh hair long will itching, worrying, scalp diseases. How Ozono has been applied. It will stop your ur to its natural color, making the hair long Many firms are advertising remedies to the preparation they tell you to use hot irons, up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop if nothing but Ozono is necessary, stop the use of any time. The good effects first application. does do the work. We make this liberal offer, coupon and so on, enclosing with it the powers to have knots on our skin, new black skin bright, rough skin soft and oves all facial imperfections, and actually one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food— with patches of creckles, and all facial blem- look younger. Celebrated Scalp Soap, which is absolutely soapy, and so on, on the scalp. And, you will make no mistake, pass on these Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; on the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. at $4.00, but you have it for $1.00 prepared elsewhere in our coupon. Our we have placed upon our coupon our mother-head Long Hair. The U.S. Government entered in the Intact Office at Washington, you can place upon our coupon our responsibility, we refer you to the Editor Richmond, Va. attended to straighten hair and cause a beauti- tle and brighten it, you can send the and the goods will be sent the same day we CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. CHEMICAL CO. BLD ST., RICHMOND, VA. and at once the following goods: bittle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth worth $50.; 1 Package (1 pint) Anti- spap, worth $50. 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. bling on a falling market. "To be caught in the stocks means you've done something you shouldn't have done." Philadelphia Times. Mrs. Purseproud—I see where several millionaires chartered a whole steamboat in order to come across the ocean. Mr. Purseproud—Well, when we go over we will lease the ocean for a week.—Baltimore American. The Killarney Eagler The famous eagles which used to haunt the lakes of Killarney, making their home in the "Eagle's Nest" mountain and living on grouse and kids from the farms along the countryside, have been exterminated.—N. Sun. Hot Weather Penulum Library Attendant—Would you like a historical novel? Young Woman—No; I'd like a hysterical novel.—Detroit Free Press. Sound Judges of Sound. Musical critics should be sound judges.—Chicago Daily News. Astronomers Live Long M. Flammarion, the French astronomer, believes that the study of astronomy is conducive to longevity, since it calms the human passions. He points out that the French Astronomical society, composed of about 2,500 members, possesses one member who is 105 years old, a dozen who are over 90 and a very large percentage of octogenarians—Science. Proof of Superiority "How is your daughter getting on with her piano lessons?" "Splendidly," answered Mrs. Cumrox. "We are very proud of her. She is so very classical and accomplished that she never thinks of playing a thing that anybody wants to hear."—Washington Star. "Ah, darling," sighed the rejected swain, "this is too much. I cannot live without you." "Well," said her brother, who entered at the moment, "I hope you'll not forget that I am an undertaker."—Baltimore American. He Couldn't Lose Them He couldn't Lose Them. Mr. Nagarajan must have band is unable to meet his creditors. Exclusiveness. BEFORE. BITTER. Miss Annie A. Wise, Onancock, Va. writes: I and my sister have both used Ozono and we recommend it to everyone. It is the finest hair grower and straightener on earth. MR. W. O. Diggs, Swarphmore, Pa. says: I have used your preparations. They have done more than you claimed for them. I heartily recommend them. Miss Clara M. Bentley, Topeka, Kan. says: My hair was short and knotty and kinks. Now it is long and fine. Ozono didit. AFTER. AFTER. 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. Mrs. Waggs—Don't you believe it. He can and does meet them much often oftener than he cares to.—Chicago Daily News. Primitive Telephone in Africa. People often wonder how the natives in Africa contrive to transmit news with apparently miraculous rapidity across miles of bush and desert. The explanation is a simple one. They use the telephone. The Sudanese telephone is nothing like the one in use in European countries. It is of two kinds—a hollowed-out elephant tusk of immense size or a tam-tam. The tusk can be made to transmit seven distinct notes by means of a slice of tree bark, which is placed on the outside of the tusk at varying distances from the mouthpiece. By means of this instrument sounds can be heard at a distance of several miles, and messages are frequently transmitted as much as 200 miles in a single day by these primitive telephones.—Detroit Free Press. Sweet Revenge. As the magazine editor walked toward home at three a. m. willing hands seized him from behind and dragged him upstairs into a garret room. The budding young authors bound and gagged him, and one after another read to him the MSS. he had sent back unopened. The editor tried to break his thongs, but finding this impossible he prayed for mercy. It was a hot night in July, but one spring poem after another smee upon his ears until he fainted sheer away. When consciousness returned he found himself on his own doorstep. There was a placard pinned on his coat bearing these words: "Returned with regret!" - Ohio State Journal. A Professional Distinction. "Doctor, I received your bill yesterday, and to be frank with you, I must say that I think it very high." "You have come to that conclusion without due consideration; you do not make note of the fact that during the greater period of your illness your fever was very high." "And you have as evidently failed to be impressed with the fact that, as you repeatedly said to yourself, my condition was very low." "Very true, but you must know that our rates are not based upon the state of the patient, but on the character of the disease."—Richmond Dispatch THE RICHMOND PLANET, KICHMOND, VIRGINIA. _ ane = How Aged Indias Women Dis. | stop at your office called umbrinas can be heard from Rall ( : e@ = 3 The attention of the United States “Thats just like you. If you'd only | depth of 30 fatho: yoatnerh way Auanllt Luadl Lille. Ea 7 2 gorernment/hes just been celled'tte | stop td think occasionally, perha LEnotr i —— —- s 2 P al ly, perhaps oa Darbarous custom that ts atill being you would have thought to stop" | ‘MEN WELL-KNOWN ABROAD. 4 dais B thee 5 ; arn practiced émong, the Kiowa, Comanche |Pnitadclphia Times, ; ——— SCHED LE TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND— ByED RAILWAY. ite ERT Hate | 22° Apache Indinns in Oklabomé ter- ? King Edward has reappointed Al- IN EFFEOT MAY 26° 3901, > stenme REA T Ii ioex > mu Kw iG lg | ritory- | The Indians of these fhree| | tiny Kangaroos Of the West, [fred Austin poet, laureate of Great ‘Traine Leaves Bichmond. Ve- 6:00:4; a BORFOLE LIDTTED Daft ‘OsPITSL ITY ROUTER REMAN ORS OWAS. | tribes, while living under the monage-| 4 miniature kangaroo hom been dia | Britain, tis bab BUS Moose MR REPRESS Dit be aries sn ee -—- Saas ment of an Indian agent, are compara-| covered in the fdr west. It strides |’ Don Jerman Riesco, the president- i. evlants cgests Jeckevn-ii- wad | Petersburg 9:87) m. Norfolk 11:60. AN tiredy civilized, and dovnot go on the | around Hke a kangaroo, making great | lect of Chili, is a relative of the re- Rolnty oat ailabers. ane cnsniene|® ™, Stops only at Petersburg and | RoFt Lins to Principal Cities eof time \ iY war path, but work for their ltving at | jamps on its hind legs, which are long | tiring president, Senor Errazuriz. end Sicoper oven at Micnmore soo. me’ | pricipal stations east of Petersburg. South sad Southwest, Floride, Ow @ oe / farming. But they have no love inland powerful. It also has a surpris- [has had the support of both liberals ‘Shope xr passengers at cca stations. 19:05 A.M. Dsiy. 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Rove Aevipe: hear the distressing cries of some de-| Daily News. gi une late Privce Hokenlohe hes lett |--35 o'F'u Be\'t, shite trate batty see Ose" crate nea Bibce ae stone Leave | Ces “A queer thing happened at Kene- saw,"\said the colonel, in the Chieago Inter} Ocean. “On July 1, 1864, we were lying within 30 steps of the rebel fntregchmente, holding the position reached in the charge of June 27. By ‘this thme we were used to the confed- erated, and they had become accus- ‘tomed to our presence and pervicious activity. This day they suddenly be- gan to throw stones, and the range was so shore they hurt many of our men. Occasionally a cold corn-dodger would come-over with the stones, and our boys woukl shout: ‘For God’s sake, Johnnies, throw rocks, but don’t throw] any more cornbread!’ And then fome of our men threw hard tack @t the rebels, and the Johnnies called) for more. ATI this time there was a brisk rifle fire, but the flying stones and cornbread and hard tack gave to the scene the appearance of a Zrolic,| and there was considerable hi- larity and contusion. “In ithe midst of the excitement a soldier with a tin bucket in his hand steppéd over our works and marched straight over tothe confederate works. He wds a stranger in our regiment, and none of the men seemed to know where) he came from. Suspecting that he a spy, I ordered some of the men qear me to shoot him, But be- fore they fired he climbed up the don- federakte works and was pulled inside. While, we were in a state of wordér- ment pver the strange affair the con- federages daked ‘is what we sent such a Dlamed fool over to them for. The man, Who belonged! to the Second brigadelof onr division, had become insane the battle, and he went into the confederate worka raving maniac. We afterward found him in the hospital, where the apnfederate in our\front had hurried him as soon as they discovered his condition. “Tite steBugest thing. sbofit the ed- venture at 0 had deen + at for four’ what thie crazy fellow did, and had been ‘killed -or ‘Wounded, amt yet this men with mind astray walked deliberately across the narrow zone of fire, ollmbed ‘up their breastworks, and was not in- jured. On the day of the charge and the night litter the rebels hauled a good many of our boys over thelr fortifications, 90 that. \part pt the'buaal ness Wis not new. But that a-man should leave tir works and march SSPREN over to Ureire was ® new px- perience to all of us, and we could scarcely beeve our eyes. But for that matter ‘the whole experience of Kenesaw’ was new to ua, We had charged right up to the confederate works and had remained within 27 steps of their riflemen and dond and wounded lying between the two lines. “I know it wns juet 27 steps _be- cause I counted them June 2%, when the joins and bursel¥es bur- ied the deads The armistice was asked for by thé confederates, and Gen. Jef C. Davis sent an officer halfaway to make terms. Our officer went for- ward 13 steps, and he stood within foot of the confederate who had “ake Jost a4 stege from thgir line: ‘The coh. federates ag this conference claimed the arms that lay where our dead and wounded had dropped them. Gen. Davis replied that the arms were ours, and would be oues as ote af we could fight for them. He wonld nat. con- sent to an armistice unless this paint ‘was conceded, and after a parley ft As } 6~—gG 4 i *, By ww ZA ee DING By sg Ke hg, sf SB", “Thy = Str, TH iy WALKED ACROSS” THE ZONE. OP si was conceded. The oonféderate bur fal party stood With their backs to our works and our:men stood with ‘their backs to the confederate works. Under this srrangement theré could be no spying by either party. “The graves were dug on the, top of the ridge between the lines, ‘offi- cers and men in the works on etther side watching the’ details at’ work. During the armietice I saw at’ short range Gens. Hardee, Cheatham, and others, and I fancied there was grcwt curiosity on their spart to see the Yanks who had stubbornly, remained so close to anienemy in overwhelming force. But I hed other things to think of. The orders were not to re- move any of the arms dropped by the wounded on the 27th, but Lieut. Rodgers carried on that day a sword sent to him from his home in El Paso, Til, When h¢ was wounded'he drépped the sword, aad the boys wanted to get it for him, #6 I detailed as one of the burying squad a man from the Jiewten- ant’s cympeny. , The latter was in- structed to wear a long coat and when opportunity afforded to secrete ‘the sword under the coat and bing it to me, He'acted ap to his insttuctions, and the'sword was in due’ time gent home to'Liéut. Rodgers." * |” How Aged Indian Women Die. ‘The attention of the United States government hee just been barbarous custom thet $s atill bel practiced émong, the Kiowa, ache avd Apache: Indians in Oklahome ter- ritory. | The Indians of these three tribes, while living under the menage- meat of an Indian agent, are compara- tiveby civilized, and do’ not go on the war path, but work for their ving at farming. But they have no love in their hearts for one of their own peo- pie-after that person hos passed his or her age of usefulness. An aged squaw, after she reaches the age of 80 years, is sent into the fields and left there to die, unless some sympathetic white person comes siong and sends the poor old woman to the Indida agency, where she may be taken core of at the expense of the government. ‘Travelers in the reservation may bear the distressing cries of some de- verted woman at most any time they care to listen, Buffalo Courier. Vecbe Saakbalenk Daten A It fs now an esteblished fact that Gates of a good quality and in cam mercial quantities can be Prodneed in the warmer parts of Arizona, Mexico and California, During the past year, at the government experimental sta- tion farm near Phoenix, three im- rted trees bore more than 500 Founda, the frais ripening between August and January. The fruit placed on the market sold at 25 cents per pound, wholesale, at Phoenix. Thousands of pounds could hare been sold at this price. Packed in neat la- beled boxes they retailed at 50 cents to 7 cents per pound. The seedling ate trees; in various parts of the territory, bore Inst year 40 to 200 pounds per tree. Those of good qual- ity sold at 25 cents a pound, whole- sale, at Phoenix.—N. Y. Post. ee ak BAC EB ‘The annual baie fair lately opened at Limoges is attended by buyers from Russia, Belgium and the United States. White hair commands much the highest figure. After that comes a lightish auburn, a sort of ‘Titian tint, whieh is much in demand by the American dealers. The prices scale trom that huegiywnte the xlyen bieck, which stilt remuins’ the che&pest com- modity. The increased: price onal grades of human hair this year ix the result of the enlarged. coiffure now fn vogue everywhere. The prices range from 0) shiltipgs to £8 per pound, ac- ‘cording to the length and quality of the capillary product.—London Chrogs cle. 7 at Eten ene. Deis Meee / PHE worthy Sunda’ school superin- tendent was iMustrating the text: “Whatsoever g man soweth-that shall he-also reap.4 Superint ie want ‘atraig crpp of t@rntbs, what sort of nes “Tsowe” Ndren— “Turnip seed.” Superintendent—"It I want to'raise a crop. of tomatoes, what kipd of seed. must I sow?" Chik dren—“Temato seed.” Superintend- ent—“Very good. Now, it you want fontise a.crop et good menhood what nd of seed must you sow?" And an ‘observer who kept tally Heported that the schonl on test vote was -aitle (dé tween turnip seed and tomate geed.;— Tadger Monthly. mariones Propneey of Namam, Nahum, the Elkosbite, one of the tersest and most compact of the Old Testauient prophets, ‘tay have fore- geen the era of the qutomobile, In his memorable utterance, entitled “The Burden of Nineveh,” he uses these Words: “The chariots rage in tho streets; they jostle one against another in the broad ways; the ap pearance of them’ is like” torches; ‘they run like the lightnings." Self. motors in New York's chief thorough- fare meet that description exactly.— WN. Y. Tribune. + ebsites ta Sun. Theg house 6f commons needs . to have behind it some driving power in the country, and the present home, owing its existence to a passing phase of warlike enthusiasm, is con- scious of no mandate and no positive duty-fn regard to legislation. It is old before it is young, and its minis- ters show signs of exhaustion after a too continuous spell of offices-West- minster Gazette. Just the Thing. “tam going to $pend a week ih camp with 8 party of convivial apirits,” eaid the fat man in the linen suit, as he en- tered the bookstore, “and I want good book to take along—something appropriate, you know." “Yes, sir,” réplied the knowing clerk, “we have just what you want in a revised edition of ‘How to Mix Drinks.’ "Chicago Dally News, She Learned Quickty, Bridget was just oy 7, and didn’t un- derstand the uses of the call bell, so her mistress explained that she was to come to her whenishe rang it. The next day millady’ missed the bell. She called Bridget to inquire about it, and Bridget replied: “Sure, mum, I have it, and when I went you TU ring tt"N.Y. Times. a TUTHS = For S&S years the Dutch have had compulsory registration of infectious disease. At their best schools there is ‘always, besides the teacher, an at- tendant who sees to the personal con- dition of each child upon entering the school Gach day—School Journal. . ee He—What I feel for you, Muriel, I can never tell in words. True love is silent * Muri¢l—Oh, no, I assure you, It speaks to paps.—Punch. ‘Not Good for Much. Some men are useful mostly to circu- Jote petitions —Washington (Ia,) Dem- berat, | They Were False. Blithers—He called me a liar tomy rery teeth. Blathers—Gerves you right; leave roar teeth home ext time—Ohio State Journal, ' ehoughtless Woman. Mt. Krusty—Well, it's too late now. Why gidn’t you come to my office When you. were downtown today and tell me all this?,)) ‘Mrs. Krusty—Why, I didn't think to stop at your office” “That's just like you. If you'd only stop td think occasionally, perhaps gos would have thought 16, stop" ‘Philadelphia Times. ener Sails Mtsitp “Kasieade ab tha Sree: A miniature kangaroo has been dis- covered in the far west. It strides around Kke a kangaroo, making great jumps on its bind legs, which are long and powerful. It also has a surpris- ingly long tail, which adds to its re- semblance to the marsupial after which it is named.—Indianapolis News. Bright side, ‘The Optimist—I was run over by patrol wagon one day last week. The Pessimist—Tough luck, eh? “Noy that’s what Icall good luck. The fact that Iwas run over by the thing shows I wasn’t ‘in it."—Chicago Daily News. A Bachelor's Advice, An appropriate wedding present for ajbachelor is a copy of “Paradise Lost” —Chicage Dally News. Ghee dn ee jCrops are worth on an average 110 shillings an acre in England and 127 ene: in Ireland. Pig aa eee (Mr. Ferguson was later than usnal in coming home, and as his wife met him in the hallway, with her usual kiss he said apologetically: {The train was crowded, Laura, and I had to ride in the smoking car. 1 siippose I smell like a tobacco fac tory.” “No, George,” said Mrs, Ferguson, “you'do not. ‘The smell from a to- Bacco factory, as I remember it, is not at all offensive.”—Chicago Tribune. | MATTERS OF ART. inford White is one of the largest lectors of antique statuary in erica. Not only is his house in mmarey park, New York, a ver- bie museum of Greek and Roman but the lawn is now filled te over- figwing with other examples. the mai staircase in William C. itney’s New York residence, Fitth nue and Sixty-eighth street, is of ite marble and is carved after a ircawe in tie Doge's palace in Ven- %. Mr. Whitney brought the design this country and the work took six ths for completion. nders Zorn, the famous Swedish int, “threatened,” ue he put it, to ‘some day prevent'one of his plétures athe Sk Loute Mencuy of Find Arts, at whe when he first visited the ia several years ago. The other day é picture arrived. It is a “Portrait of a Woman,” and is valued at over 96,000. t During excavations ngar Lampsaki, on the Dardanelles, a beautiful vase wos found. It is made of burnt clay, ererusted on the exterior with gold. It has three golden handles and spien- did reliefs” representing hunting scenes. The date of the vase, which contained human-ashes, bones and Pearls, is estimated at about’ B. C. 400. A bas relief by Clodion, representing fawns, nymphs and cupids at play, has been discovered in a Puris nun- aitry. |The relief was carved for Prin- exes Louise of Conde, in the eighteenth century, and when she became a nun the figures were covered with plaster. 4 Prussian cannon ball at the time of the siege of Paris chipped off the plas- ter, showing the sculpture beneath. A French antiquarian society intends to present it to the Carnavalet museum, théugh the price dsked'for It Is $40,000. OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. Elizabeth dé Belle, an! Atlahta (Ga) young women, is making a name for herself in law pPactice in Chicago. She recently won a cas¢-involving real estate taluéd ‘af $100,000, | | Mrs. Abdrew Carnegie Issa very Plajn, practical woman\)who buys carefully. Thus, while her gowns are fashionable, she wastes’ no part of her money on Paris dressmakers. Countess Tolstoi, Sophia ABerona, is a mild-seeming woman who since her marriage has devoted her whole time to her husband and her three children. Por the latter, spi ads ot the clothes until they 4 ten Sere otk | A French deputy has/announced ie intention to bring in s bfil duting present session of parliament making Ht-not only admissible ‘but legally obligatory for women to sit as jurors: ‘He proposes that all juries shall be Fequired to consiat of six good men 4nd truc and six women — similarly qualified. “It is not often thet a woman of to- @ey con array herself in any fabric that once formed part of the ward- robe of Queen Elfzabeth. The coun tess of Pembroke has, however, this privilege, and at the last drawing- Foi abe attended she word a white and silver gown, the peach-volored train of which was trimmed with old Point de Flandre, which not only had, been owned, but also worn, by the faincks Telor Gusen. WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US. i sabes — are. Deliewed to be 16 tons of Bhells to avery cublo. mile of ockgn. The shark holds the record for lobg-distance swimming. A shark has been known to cover 800 miles in'three days. ao passed a law tn 1871 that all mil should be sterilized. As a re- sult infant-mortality in that city has faflen from 30 per cent. to 2% per cent. Jin 8) years. ‘The dondelion produces 12,000 seeds per plant; shepherds’ pulse, 7,000; thisble, 65,000; chamomile, 16,000; bur- Gook, 43,000, and the common plan- tain} 44,000. ( . Pictet, of Geneva, is report- ed fo hare devised a ‘plan by which ‘oxygen can be progiiced’on a com- mergial scale end at a cost that will greatly inerease tts use. Many fish can produce musical sounds. The trigla can produce long- drawn notes ranging over’ nearly an octave. Others, notably two, species ‘of ophidium, have sound-producing apparatus, consisting of, small_mov- ‘able bones, which can be made to produce a sharp rattie. The curious “a@rummine” made by the spéctes called umbrinas can be heard from a depth of 30 fatho: MEN wicicewita ABROAD. King Edward has reappointed Al- fred Austin poet, laureate of Great Britain. Don Jerman Riesco, the president- lect of Chili, is a relative of the re- tiring president, Senor Errazuriz, and has had the support of both liberals and radicals. Pope Leo XIII. is still addiéted to the habit of taking snuff. It is not generally known that thé snuff used by the head of the Roman Catholic church {s.made especially for his use in America. This particular kind is the highest-priced made anywhere in the world and before being packed ix flavored with the costly attar of roses. The late Prince Hobenlohe has left behind him s mass of autobiographical Fecollections. He was recently occu- pied with preparing a selection from his memoirs for the press and had ad- vanced so far with his work that the publication of a first'installment may soon'be expected. It is reported that one ehapter is devoted to a generous fustification of the policy of Caprivi, Bismarck'’s successor and his own predecessor in the imperial chancellor- ship ORE, Reg Ty ‘The head of a fashionable millinery Disiness witnessed the Ouks this year, where he also witnessed a indy wearing a hat which she had ordered “on ap- proval” the day before. Next day he was therefore surprised to have'the hat sent back as “not quite suitable.” His surprise has been heightened by two or three more being ordered’ on trial just in time—such is coincidence —tor Ascot. Thisis like those unserv- pulous gentlemen who obtain free rid- ing for months on trial horses and stop six weeks af a country honse by keep- ing up a fiction that they-are examin- ing some of the land for immediate purchase.—London Sketch. gl aa! | News that the Colombian serpin ment has decided to lease the right to fish for pearls in the waters around the Pearl islands south’ ot Panama re- calls the good luck of & native boy in those waters two years ago.. The ad was diving id shallow water. for sport when he found a pearl, which ho sold to # local dealer far $1,760~ a sma}i fortune to the boy. The deal- er sold the same peari.in Panama for ‘$4,400, It is now in Paris, and an of- ter of $6,000 has been refused foniit ~Chieago Chronicle. ° Se ee rae A magnificent oak tree at Athens, Ga,, not only dwns itself, but possesses other property. ‘It was Owned ‘many years ago by Gol. W: H. Jackson, whd, in his childhood, played Around its massive trunk, and in later yedrs grew to love it almost ae hw would his own child. Fearing that after his death the old oak would fall inte the hatds of persons who wonld destroy ft, he recorded a deed Conveying to the tree “entire possession of itself and of all Yhd within eight feet of it on, all sides."—Cinetrinat) Epquirer. Splders’ Theends,’ The! body of every spider dbntains foyr little masses, picreed with a mul- titudeof holes (imperceptible to 'the naked eye), each hole permitting the passage of A Single thrend. AQ the threads, ‘to! the: amount 6f°1,000 to each muss, join together Wwhen the} qhmie out and stake the single thread with which the spider, spins its web, so that what we call a spider's thread consists of more than 4.000 threads anited.—Nature. sae Gures INSURES LOVE AND A HAPPY HOME FOR ALL Bow any man may guleny cure nmnsites iaedeitcty hi Hae risatne te aiargeamal meak ‘obeais bese muse and SS an ‘ (‘ B.| - Er, & ge’ Bly < 5 ghiann sig ee hae Cia Ree eee L. W. KNaPP. M.D. er simply send your name and addi $2r x Wi Roupp, The Walt bide’, Beerale Akon “and no wiil kindly vend the’ free re Celpe with full irections so that any man fay easily eure himself at home. ‘This weer falniy a most generous offer and the follow= HB srtracts taken trominy daily avail alow what mon think of his gentrosity. ear’ r—Peuse accupt my sincere thanks for yourrot recent date. Thave sive sayour Geatment « thorough test ana Ye Senoat ‘has ‘been “extraordinary. 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Seer aye eee Mestratfe Conese at ae eee RERERiesee rom Were Bek sane _ eee Po At = me caer aake aie oer ame sin nace sings antyeipt meas sarah $0 pesaitonatey TRAINS ARRIVE AT RIOHM OND. ae To SE, trem Acinnesneune: shar endall peins Soath. a 0g SAP a oa ion i eee Saige cere ese cea ek Gand eat The Faverite Route North. : LEAYR RICKMOND Train Re. 16,430 FM. saurimonn Luscreb, © Baily’ excaps sunday ‘connecting at West Polat with sears cr ifor. aldimore and. York River Pandings.” Stone omy at tations be- tween Quinton and. West Point. ‘Train NeW 2 90 Fm. Loo.& Rzpess daily except Suuday for witt Foint and intermediate sia\iona. oon Sects with singe at Lester Manor to Walker ton ane Tappsnanaock~ ‘Traum Ne. 74, 6:90 4. a. | LOCAL MIXED, leaves daily = ‘Bunce; ‘pe Viceinie’ acct sation for West oink fa intermediate siatient” eonnnoting wit ‘age at Lestor Manerfor Walkerton and Tay ‘pananmock: . .ERAINS ARRIVE AT RIOMMOND pee ee ‘tei46 a.m. daliy.excepe. sundays ana Mondays 515 pm. Daily, except Sunday frem West ‘Petal and intermediate stations, ‘Steamers. leave West Point daily except Cunday 6:50 P. M. arriving Baltimore 8.908. aaa Steamers call at alronds snd York- town Tuselaye: Thursdays and Satur Gays; Clay Bank and Gi ucester, Point Mosdays, Wednesdays and Fridays: O. Wi WESTBURY, ‘District eee. ‘00K. wan St va, J. M. Curr, Traffic Manager. 8 _H. Hanpwicx Gem. Pad Agt. FRANK 8. GANNON » Third Vice-Pres. acd General Mana- ger, Washington, D.C. WANTED—A Srst-class. pressman ‘Send samples of work and recommend- ations to THE PLANET, a ‘Bishmond, Va KICHMOND FReDERICK¢BURO & Potomac R. R. Sebedule in Effect Mey. 26, 1901, LBAVE BYRD &*. STATION, sagas caret errr malig, fr, Manito i Ser Potton Sa tenes Pattee SAM, Fux only. for Washirgton dnd polute Korth: Stmps at tie feegee Laem Siat Seaerre ree ae san a, meine Bey a lor Oa Feliocter sate nets Siskincbie sgnetalt nen, stege nines, oy atone Quantica | taclastve. after See oe Geom Wesbinaeeed meat Tina "Doaweli, Miifora, Wave: Ene Boon Sra Pa feemaceess, Conan i eee esis Noe aera ties Bae sia Ear ane Se ata ae burg. Brooke, Widowate: Teheecie coerce eee Seeelicnaere, clears Rit Biante Fane ‘ Amutva Brup-Sraset Station. Sat blige diggs Uy Wee the sit, Atta i Besig ater dene Samal, Asunae a Ei aioe os gee ts ‘124 P.M... Daily, except Surday. stops at Ba eerts Seer, to 8 Heaat aatrone Genny, ak pannt EDs. Audet Parlor-car. pate ek, aepeeatl Ms Peat cea, Aca a i Reet Se Saber Rs at tytn at Fradergkabar Begnele aanlaa ag AE Palas Gone Sp vs a, BRST, cat te oer dean to. Ana | Avcommopazion Trains. (Daily except Sunday) Pye ead i ncereente Teh ee oo : 640 P.M, Leaves Biba tor asninn 40 A. M-, arrives Slba from agbland. eB EB eiiee te ee ate vices arate 068 P. M.. arrives Biba from) ashiand Sa, L, Threugh Traine. Via s. A. L. Junction and & FF. & P. Beilroad. LEaVE®aA L\BROAD STREET STA i Tilo WN a so uesepate« weowenlinen tad ‘sats Duty for, Wastiansns ty a Sera asc mi Stag tal PE Slee tea taneeet anes ecaemeee Frets, hres ARRIVE &,4,L BROAD STREET 8Ta : TION at dey pes Fook: Baty. Slope at, resets See cert 0 Ps SS Se ear fe re are Rearend Amand, Bieeper Se ore ene Wikeinis NAVIGATION activa aaunenites Gee ‘Te Nerteik, Pertamouth, Old Sats Rowpece tndWoanestise, sanesting o (old Foimtand’ werent Washington, timore and the North. STRAxER meer ies Fiakey a worry. wa Sea aye bce treet as aa ea eioncttaee feocines | IRVIN WEISIG=a ‘Superiatendes: ; BDWARDSE. BARNEYreeFienge AU@BUG Loasl Lile, Sehed ule iv Effect Joruery 14 1901, TRAINS LEAVE RICH MOND—8YRD STREET STATION. 9:00 A. M. NORFOLK LIMITED Daily Arrives Poteraburg 9:3¢r; m. Norfolk 11,89 © m, Stopa only at Petersburg and pricibal stations east of Perersbarg. 205 A.M. Dai y. Arrives Petersburg 9:50 a.m, Weldon 11;50 8. m~ Fayetteville 4:25 p m., " harieston 10:65 p. m.. Savannah 2;55 a, m.. Jacksonville 8:30 0 m., Port Tam pa7:l0p.m.. oncecte at Wilson with No 47 arriving Goldsboro. 8: 25 p. m', Wilmington 6p. m. Pall- man Sletper New York to Jackson- ville, 11:65 .A. M, Daily, except Sunday. Ar- riven Peuarebare 12:80 p.m. Stops Manchester. Drewry's Blof, en. tralia, and | Bibeoter on signal. 8:15 P. M. OCEAN BHORE LIMITED, Daily. aruves Petersbarg. 8:49 p. @.. Woetoie 5:85 p.m. Stops we at Petersburg, Waverly and Sut folk. 4:80 P.M: Daily, except Sunday. ar tives Petersburg 5:20 p. m,, Wel den 7:42pm. and Rocky” Mount 8:56 p. m. Makes all intermediate tops. 6:00 P. M. Daily Arrives Petersburg 6:45 p,m. Makes all stops 6:87 FM. FLORIDA AND WEST IN. DIAN LIMITED. Daily, Arrives at Petersburg 7:87 p. m. Connects with Norfolk and Western for Nor- folk and intermediate points, Em— poria 80 p. m. (sonnets with Av- jantic and Danville for stations be- tween Emporia and Lawrenceville, Weldoo 9:13 p. m, Fayettesville 12:82 s. m., Obarleston 5:23 a. m., Savanneh 7:50 4.m., Jacksonville 12218 p. m Port Tappa 11:80 p.m NEW LINE to Middle:Georgia Foine—arriving Auguste 7,55 m., Mason 11:15 a, m., Atlanta 12; 85 p.m. Thomasville 2:25 p. m., Puliman Sieepers New York to Wilmington, jharieaton, | Port Tampa, JacksonYille, Auguata and Macon, 9:10 P. M., Daily, Arriving Petersburg 9:55 p. m,, Sonnecta at Petersburg with Norfoik and Western railway, arriving Uyrehburg 2:30 s. m., Roanoke 5a. m., Bristol 10:40 «. m, Pullman sleeper Richmond to Lynehburg. 11:80 P. M. Daily, Arrives ‘Petersburg 12:1¢ a. m. TRAINS ARRIVE IN RICHMOND, 3:20.4. M, Daily, From Jacksonville, Savannah, Sharieston, Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and all poinss South. 7:85 a. m. Daily From Petersburg. ‘Lynebburg, and the West. $45 s,m Dail, except Sunday,” Pet- eraburg local, 11:10 a m daily. except Sunday From Goldsboro and intermediate sta- “sions, Norfolk and Suffolk. 11:42@ m. Daily, from Norfolx, Sul «folk and Po x 12:05 aim. Sundar only from Norfoik Baffolk and Petersburg. 2:10 p. au. Dally, except Sanday, From sereburg.' Tetap m. Daily From Miam}, Port suapa, Jecksonville, . Savannab, ' * Charleston, Wilmmgton, Goldabo- Fo and all pointe Soath, 78:0 p.m, Daily From Nerfolk, Paters borg palintecsand inte stations, 8:56 'p. m. Daily, From Petersburg, ynohburg and Wes T. M. EMERSON Traflie Mapeger, 4. R, KEENLY, General Manager. 4.'M, EMERAON, i General Fassonger Agent 0.8 CAMPBED Division Passenge. Ag 824 Keat Main 3s, oat Beet Mai: JED DOMINION STEAMSHIP OO ‘BAILY LINE FOR NEW YORK, BxORPT «UND, > Passengers cau leave Richmond daily exeey Suuday via Gheeapeske and Obie: railway, OE ee Pocmer nat’ caesar) revé, (Norfolk and Western reute]#.00 AM Goa sroting at Norfolk with Old Domini a ee ebese Sick htekmand ‘Transtar on pear seen Sie Shes? Gacenpeets St viesd ancoi sad eh eenmese’s catsens ot 7 : east Main Street, Richmond. 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ML, Dail) arn Guicene Baproas” tor aio Guess pit te Wading. peepee sia chante, Ranman sien Eat Knoxville, and Chattanooga Pali Rroriues ge Guatiasoes fa cur w Batre tearecets Berrie Batre etten, Sutpln aad de imetaiiee Keene area se Pa ie net a gcaa neseons Sal peer ai aA ene nO Palinan, fmohburg “0 Renphis sn@Wew Ofiaee bate Homie sagen, oriaue, tate foe anda dan aa de er belween Richmond and Lynos- Sete pa oe Saat oreo Raters ea ins iti niente oie alte anaes oe, eae ‘frem Norfolk and the Hast 11:06 ama aud Vewws Valea Limited 1:00 pm Omce, S55 Main St. Joke SWAG RES. Clty Pamenger and Tieke! Agee Diariet Peon, oA VIEL . Ae ene Seer Rosnoke Va. The Economy’ W.0. Tonwan, Prop. FINE TAILORING : CLEANING ‘DYEING A. ke s a RAILWAY. “QaPIraL CITY ROUTE” Short Lins 20 Principal Cities ef time South amd Southwest, Florids, Oo ba, Texas, Oalifornia and Mem- igo, reaching the Capitals. of six States. Schedule in Effeot May 26, 1907 Leave No. 97 No. ay Riebmond . ........2:40 pm 10.40 mm Petersburg......—.8:27 pm 11:80 pam RaleiR ens cine 7:40) MLO Arrive Hatlet............ 10:85 pm 7.008 ms Atlante. 9.00am 4:45 pam Leave Famleta... ce. .10250 Pm 7:200 mm Srrive Polasbie, eaar'n time 2:00em10:38 ame ave Columbia coat’! time 1:05 »m9:40-a me Arrive SaveODabacccvencone 4:52 8.00 1:47 p me Fernanding......... 9:30am 6.00 p a Taoksonville.. 00. 9:15am 8:18» mm Tallahassee... 8215 Pm 6.308m0 QeBlenvssroresseennnne 1:48 Pm 1:00 8 mm Orlando. O02 B10 pm 70a me Pama ps oe wee BHO Dm 815 8 Port Tampa ......... 10:30 pm 8:80 «am MUMB<...'......... 0c anit tio’ 22: leaves Richmond 9:80 a.m, tuuy for Petersburg, Norlin, NO, and all intermediate poiate, Vonnestions at Noriina with train ar riving from Headerson 2-10 m. and Raleigh 8:50 p. m. daily, and” Dorhass 4:15 p.m ae except ee Trains leave Rienmoné for ‘ashing. ton,New Yrk and the East on No. 44 at 6:40 a, m. and No, 66 at Bi Dem. Connections at Jacksonville am@ Tampe for all Florids East Coss points and Cubs ard Porto R yo. as New Orleans fur all points in Texam Mexioso and California, / Rane ARRLYS AT RICHMOND Dares: 6:32a.m.No at From all pointe soutie 8:21 p.m. No. 68 and southwest, 5:46 p. m. No. 38—From Norlina, & CG. Petersburg and local pointe. SUMEFING- CAR suRviCE, Nos, a oe ee and Metre-- politan Limited. rawing-room and Sleaping-cars and Through Day Conebe ca besween New York and Tampa. Through Drawing-room Buffet Slesp— ing cars between New York and At- lente. Nos. 27 and 66—Florids and Atlante Fast Mail. Through Drawing-room Buff-t Sleepine-cars between New York and Jacksonville, connestiag ao ‘Hamlet with Sleeping-car to snd from scene in connestion with whieb Throi > Pullman Tickets are wold Finess Day coaches, 4% P. Smith, Dist. Pass, Agent, 886 E. Main Be, "Phone, 405, J. M. Barr, Ist V. P, é& Geni Mang Portsmouth, Va. RE. L, Bunch, Gen'l Pass, Agent, C.2O, Ciie"aete ane Sehedtile in Etect May 26, 1901, ' From Righmond. LEAVE BROAD-SIREET sTales For Newport News, Ola Pol Norfolk and Portamourh, o> 8,00 a, m, (exoept Sunday) Local. 9:09 a, m Daily. Fast traic, Stops om Wy at Williamsburg, eonnesta at lorfolk for Newpurt Nem, Va. Beach Mondey, Wedoeaday, Fri- day and Saturday with Boston . steamers. 3:45 pm. (Daily) Local. Conneots at Old Point fails, with Washing ton and Cage Oharles steamers, snd +xcept Sunday with New York (Old Dominion and Baltt- more steamers, Waernouxn. 10,00. m_ (except Sanday) for lite, ton Forge, connects for Orange Warrenton, Manassas Brangh, Hagerstown and Lexington. No, 1 2:45 p, m. daily 8t Louie limited with Pullman fcr Cineinnati, Louisville, 8 Louis and Chisago No 7, local train foilows No I, ex- cept Sunday, trom Gordonsville to Staunton, 5:80 p.m. aecommodation, except San— dey to Douwell, 10.454 m. daily, with Pullman for Otneinnati, biesgo, Louieville, St. Louis, ete. copnects at Ronceverte, excepts Sunday with Greenbricr River Railway. LEAVS EIGHTH eT, sraTiON, 10,80 s, m. daily for Lynchburg; Lex- ington, and Clifton Forge, eon- nests except Sunday with Buok- ingham and Alberene branches. parler ear. 5:15 p. m. accommodation, except Sum day to Oulumbia TRAINS ARRIVE BROAD STREED x 8:00 8. m. From Dowell. * 8380 @ m. and *3;50 p.m, from Cin | ainnati, 12:50 0. m . 7:05 p.m.* 10 p.m, from Norfolk and Old Peint. X 8:15 p. m., from Clifton Forge, ané Rtauntor, TRAIN ARRIVE EIGHTH STREBE: STATION. 8:40 acm.{from Columbia. ss *4:20 pms, from Clifton Forge ane Ly or x 6:00) ee Now Castle, Lexing ton acd Rosrey. ‘Traine marked * are daily, ther With s are daily exeept Gunday. Apply at 809 east Main, 908 east Maim and Murphy’s Hotel for farther infor - | mation. fhe National LOG. ANTLMOBand SNUVV 77 LYNOH.Law eo ee ASSOCIATION © tf ¥ D a Leernernna.) "fala Renee et er, ORK ls 0. Jenkins, Pres., a) HE ameeitcte., (ANY EF. fallen Organica ¥ sm emia." (BN. ie | Wil organise in every “i 2 sadte of as Gmc? wee asians re | GN Ese veace leak a sieeeai ne LS Ve rome a Bideartier"ceeaae <[eZ cai ———{[$>-> WANTED AT ONGE—An 8x30 iencad colored shoamaker, Apj te LN. BAROFY, * Gor, 28th and Pup THE PLANET Published every Saturday by JOHN MITCHELL, JR., at 311 North 4th Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., - EDITOR. All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. 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The courthouse decided that subscribers to newspapers who do not order their paper discontinued at the expiration of time for which it has been paid are unable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discontinued. **COMMUNICATIONS**—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address to bothwise we cannot find your enquiries on our books. **CHANGE OF ADDRESS**—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered in the Post Office at Richmond, Va., as second-class matter. THE session of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. & A., at Chicago, Ill., August 27-30, 1901, was a great success and the reports gave encouragement of a kind which promises great results during the next two years. Supreme Chancellor S. W. STARKS was re-elected by acclamation and good-feeling and enthusiasm were prominent features of this greatest of all the sessions. THE PLANET was, upon motion of Supreme Representative ARTHUR J. RIGGS of Ohio accorded a unanimous recognition and made the organ of the Supreme Lodge, covering as it does the world. The editor was elected Supreme Lecturer by acclamation, all other candidates previously withdrawing in his favor. A BRAVE LITTLE GIRL. A peculiar case is reported from Appomatox county, Va. It resulted in the unfortunate, but justifiable killing of THOMAS BRIGHTWELL (white) Friday, August 30, 1901. We arrived at this conclusion after a careful consideration of the statements made by the white people who told the story which we reproduce elsewhere. It is a settled fact that BRIGHTWELL had rented or leased the farm to a colored family named ROBERTSON. It is conceded that after so doing, he unlawfully went to this farm and proceeded to gather fruit. It is admitted that when he was ordered not so to do, he persisted and went so far as to follow the two colored girls into the cabin for the purpose of injuring them. When BRIGHTWELL crossed the threshold of that door against the protests of the occupants, he took his life in his own hands. Those girls had a right to defend themselves and when his head appeared above the level of the stairway, frightened as they were, there was nothing to do but hit it, and this LOTTIE is said to have done. This killing does not in law constitute murder. It is known as self-defense. BRIGHTWELL was a trespasser. When he rented the farm and its cabin to ROBERTSON's family, it passed out of his possession and his rights there ceased until the lease expired and he again secured possession. We regret the killing, but what was this frightened girl, LOTTIE to do? Country girl that she is, it is evident that she possesses the elements of character which it would be well for some of these cowardly colored men to imitate. She did not go into hysterics. She defended herself and sister, and under the Laws of this state she cannot be legally punished. A big fool he, who would poke his head through a stairway hole in another man's house, darkened as it was and attempt to harm or kill a person, armed with even an axe, provided they know how to use it. Such a man should be considered as saving committed suicide. We shall watch this case with inter est. LOTTIE ROBERTSON does not deserve punishment. She evidently regrets that BRIGHTWELL lost his life; but there should be enough people in Virginia, irrespective of color, to see to it that she receives justice in the courts of the commonwealth. When the men are not there to protect them, let our women learn to protect themselves. THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY. It is time for the United States Government to call the attention of the states to the violation of that Article of the Federal Constitution which provides that cruel and unusual punishments shall not be resorted to. This time HENRY NOLES, (colored) charged with assaulting and shooting to death MRS. CHARLES WILLIAMS (white) was taken from the officers of the law at Winchester, Tenn., Sunday, August 25th, 1901 and carried to the scene of the alleged crime, where he was burned at the stake. About 6000 people are said to have witnessed the execution. It should not be forgotten that NOLES was not charged with criminal assault. The surprising part about the affair was that the appeal for the observance of the law was made by Judge J. J. LYNCH, Capt. W. P. TOLLEY, Assistant Attorney-General N. M. WHITTAKER and the sheriff of the county. Despite all this, he was hurried away and burned at the stake. What excuse can be offered? His conviction was a foregone conclusion and yet the mob with the delight of demons went back to the tortures of the Middle Ages and burned him. Will the American people longer tolerate these infractions of the law? Will they stand mute while the Governor of Tennessee permits this atrocious crime to take place within the confines of his state? NOLES' crime was bad enough, but it was no worse than the one with which his murderers now stand charged. Such outrages are brutalizing to the communities in which they occur and emphasize the fact that lynch-law must go and the lynchers with it. SCYTHE-BLADE AS A WEAPON. WE have been on the lookout for another colored man who would deserve the commendation of every right-thinking colored man in the United States and we have just found him. His name is ENOCH HENDERSON and he is a farmer, who lives at Moulton Heights, Alabama. It seems that HENDERSON had a difficulty with a white man named GRAHAM, whose farm adjoins his property and as a result the white man's head came in contact with a brick which was said to have been thrown by HENDERSON. That HENDERSON had the law on his side admits of no question, for instead of having the colored man arrested, a mob of twenty-five white men was formed and proceeded to attack HENDERSON's cabin Sunday night, August 25, 1901, with the evident intention of lynching him. It was about midnight when they arrived there. The excitement which followed can be easily imagined for the mob opened fire upon the cabin and broke down the front door. HENDERSON had retreated to the attic. The men started upstairs, one leading with a lamp and a gun in his hands. He ascended the stairway unmindful of the danger, for just above was HENDERSON with a sharp sythe-blade in his hands. He grasped it firmly and as that head ascended, holding it with both hands, he let it down with all the force God had given him, fully into the face of the armed leader of the mob. He fell to the floor and was carried away by his friends. The mob did not seek any further into the secrets of that attic and Brother HENDERSON was permitted to rest in undisturbed repose. No report has as yet been received even of his arrest. It is evident that the mob knew that ENOCH HENDERSON was unarmed and thought to clean him out in short order. This is the way to deal with cowardly mobs. Every colored man should buy a shot-gun or a repeating rifle and learn how to use it. There is absolutely no protection in this section down here for a colored man, save that which he provides for himself. Mobs are cowardly. One brave man behind a trusty rifle can hold off a hundred. We might as well die fighting as any other way, and each and every man, white or colored, when attacked in this manner should give a good account of himself. Lynchers should be taught lesson after lesson. When they understand that every Negro lynched will have one or more lynchers to accompany him to the other world, he'll think a long time before he invites any one of those kind of Negroes to take the journey. Lynch-law must go! Want Post Office Clerks in Federation. Milwaukee, Sept. 4. At the convention of the National United States Post Office Clerks' Association yesterday, John B. Lennon, of Bloomington, Ill., treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, made a spirited speech, urging the association to join the Federation. White Not a Gubernatorial Candidate. Parkersburg, W. Va., Sept. 4. —Governor A. B. White has stated emphatically that he will not be a candidate for the United States senate to succeed Senator N. B. Scott. When his term expires as governor of West Virginia he will re-engage in the newspaper business. RAIN FLOODS CLEVELAND Terrific Storm Overflows City's Finest Residence Portion. DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO A MILLION Houses Undermined As Though Made of Straw—Graves Washed Out and Corpses Whirled Through the Streets—No Loss of Life Reported Cleveland, O., Sept. 2.—With the breaking of dawn yesterday morning the citizens of Cleveland awoke to look upon a scene of unparalleled devastation and destruction caused by a raging flood. While the entire city was more or less affected, the great volume of raging water vented its anger over miles of the eastern portion of the city, and caused an amount of damage approximated at $1,000,000. The appalling overflow was caused by a terrific rain that commenced to fall shortly after 2 o'clock, which turned into a perfect cloudburst between the hours of 8 and 5, and then continued with great force until nearly 10 o'clock. The storm, according to the weather officials, was the heaviest that ever swept over Cleveland since the establishment of the government bureau in this city over 40 years ago. That no lives were lost is nothing short of a miracle, as the stories of thrilling escapes from the water on several of the principal resident streets of the city are told. Great volumes of water poured over from Doan and Gildings brooks down Quincy street, swamped Vienna street, rushed over Cedar avenue back over on East Prospect street, rushed like a mill race down Lincoln avenue to Euclid avenue, and then on to Glen Park place where houses were undermined as though built of straw and almost incredible damage done to streets and property. Over a large share of this exclusive residence territory the water rushed with terrific force varying in depth from 1 to 6 feet. Culverts, treetles and bridges were torn down and for hours nothing seemed capable of stemming the tide of destruction. Shortly before noon the torrent succeeded in undermining a score of graves in the St. Joseph cemetery at the corner of East Madison and Woodland, and the bodies were soon being tossed about in the waters. Fully a dozen of the corpse were washed into gutters and had not been recovered early this morning. A remarkable feature of the storm which caused such terrific destruction is that up until 6 o'clock yesterday morning hardly a drop of rain fell west of Willson avenue while during the morning hours the east end was being fairly swamped in a perfect deluge of rain. Another remarkable thing is that no thunder and lightning accompanied the record-breaking downfall. While thousands of citizens in the most aristocratic section of the city were aroused, seeing thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of their property being crushed and destroyed, another and greater portion of the city was wrapped in slumber totally oblivious to the danger surrounding their fellow citizens. LARGEST WAGER KNOWN $150,000 Is Bet On Shamrock Against $250,000. Pittsburg, Sept. 4.—The great international yachting bet of $40,000 between an English syndicate, represented by Walter J. Kingsley, of London, and a group of patriotic Pittsburgh burgers, represented by Wm. I. Mustin, was finally arranged yesterday afternoon. The entire sum was deposited in the hands of the stakeholder, Mr. Kingsley turning over $150,000 in British bank notes and Mr. Mustin giving a certified check for $250,000. What is said to be the greatest bet in history was thus successfully consummated. The stake is to be paid within one week after the concluding race, the place of meeting to be New York. The wager is simply $150,000 to $250,000 that Shamrock lifts the cup. There are no conditions as to accidents. Both Mr. Mustin and Mr. Kingsley, the brokers for their respective syndicates will receive handsome commissions. Mr. Kingsley is to get 5 per cent of the whole amount in case the Shamrock wins and $2½ per cent of $150,000 in the event of her losing. Mr. Kingsley was glad to be relieved of the responsibility for the 31 £1,000 Bank of England notes he has carried on his person since leaving England. GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 3—Plough steady; winter superfine, $1.25;1.30. Pennsylvaniana roller, clear, $2.90;1.15; city mills, extra, $2.40;2.06. Rye floor slow, at $2.65;2.80 per barrel. Wheat steady; No. 1 red spot, $7.35;7.34%. Corn strong; No. 2 yellow, local, $8%. Oats quiet; No. 2 white, chipped, $14;42%. lower grades, $8;32%. Hay in good demand; No. 1 timothy, $15;50% for large bales. Beef firm, beef heams, $18;50% Pork steady; family, $17.50. Live poultry quoted at 11c. for hens, $6;7%c. for old roosters. Dressed poultry at 11c. for choice fowl, $6%; for old roosters. Butter steady; cremery, $20%. Eggs firm; New York and Pennsylvania, $16. Potatoes firm; Jerseys, $5@60. inc bushel. Baltimore, Sept. 3.—Wheat dull and lower; spot and the month, 73½% of 73½%; southern, by sample, 60½%; southern, on grade, 68½%. Corn vary dull; spot, 58½% of 58½%; southern white and yellow corn, 60½%. Oats steady; No. 2 white, 38½% of 38½%; No. 2 mixed, 37½% of 37½%. Rye pult; No. 2 nearby, 56½% of 56½%; No. 2 western, 57½% of 57½%. Hay firm; No. 1 timothy, new, 11½% of 11½%. Butter firm and unchanged; fancy imitation, 17½%; fancy creamery, 20½%. Eggs firm and unchanged; fresh, 16½% of 16½%. Cheese firm and unchanged; large, 10½%. JENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS. Columbia, B. C., Aug. 31.—About half the regular number of employees returned to the cotton mills yesterday. By count 710 people, half of them child-entered other mills. Marietta, Ga., Aug. 29.—A trestle on the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern railroad, near Ellijay, Ga., gave way last night as a freight train was passing over it. The engineer was killed and two trainmen fatally injured. Richmond, Va., Sept. 3.—In the constitutional convention yesterday Delegate Pedigo, of Henry county, moved that the convention adjourn in honor of Labor Day. The motion was lost, only Mr. Pedigo and one other member voting for it. Irwinville, Ga., Aug. 29.—Thleves broke into the post office at Mystic, a small station on the Tifton and Northeastern railroad, last night, riffed the cash drawer and stole two money order books. When they left they attempted to set fire to the building, but were unsuccessful. Streaks on Neptune. Neptune, the most distant planet of the solar system, to the telescope only a small disk on which no distinctions are visible. But during a year the great telescope of the observatory, at Washington, vealed indications of the e of streaks on Neptune bearing semblance to the belts of Jupitre few years ago similar streaks seen on Uranus. Saturn a seizes them, so that it may that cloud-like belts are a common to all the four great planets.—Scientific American. Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 28.—James Sweat, a special deputy sheriff, was shot from ambush and killed near Muscogee last night. He was aboard a train with six nigro prisoners bound for this city. Men secreted in the woods armed into the train. A posse is now in pursuit. Shreveport, La., Sept. 2.—Yesterday closed the most prosperous cotton season Shreveport has ever known. The receipts duing the past year were 312,007 bales, which makes Shreveport the third interior cotton centre in the world, being outdistanced only by Houston and Memphis. Wetumpka, Ala., Aug. 31.—Last night the jury hearing the cases of John Strength and Martin Fuller, who are charged with having participated in the lynching of Robert White, a negro, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced the defendants to ten years in the penitentiary. Wetumpka, Ala., Sept. 2.—John Thomas has been convicted of complicity in the lynching of Robert White, for which three men have already been given penitentiary sentences ranging from life imprisonment to ten years. The jury fixed Thomas' punishment at ten years in the penitentiary. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 28.—Thomas Johnson secured temporary possession of a purse containing $4,270 in gold and greenbacks in a gambling house here yesterday. He took the purse from a table, held five men at bay with a revolver and backed out of the place. The police captured him nearby and recovered the money. Danville, Va., Aug. 28.—A passenger train on the Southern railway ran into a washout ten miles from this city about 3 o'clock yesterday morning, inuring a number of people, but none seriously. The washout was caused by a little creek which had become swollen from a heavy rain on Monday night. Mobile, Ala., Aug. 28.—It was reported two weeks ago that while Frank Shugrue and wife, of Mobile, were visiting the Buffalo Exposition Shugrue had disappeared, and it was feared that he had been waylaid and killed. Mrs. Shugrue returned home, and after the lapse of another week received word from relatives in Cleveland, O., that Shugrue was there. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 2.—At Cherry Grove, N. C., one mile from the line of South Carolina, Felix Foley was shot and killed last night by an unknown man, supposed to have been a moonshiner against whom Foley was a witness. Foley was called to his gate by a man, who said he wanted to see him, and when he came within 20 steps of the murderer the man fired at Foley, killing him instantly. Savannah, Ga., Sept. 3.—The Labor Day parade was led by the negro union of bricklayers. Last night the unions went to Tybere Island, 20 miles from here, where there occurred what promised to become a general and dangerous riot between civilians and soldiers from Fort Screven. A call was sent to the fort for troops to quell the disturbance, but for some reason there was no response. After the rioting had subsided it was found that there were many broken heads and noses, but no fatalities. Richmond, Va., Aug. 31.—At the constitutional convention yesterday Mr. Sommers, Republican, assailed the Democratic party and also made a sharp attack on ex-Governor Cameron, a member of the convention. Before Mr. Sommers had completed his speech many of the Democratic members had quickly withdrawn from the hall. When he had concluded there were only 40 members present. Mr. Thomas Lee Moore, the Republican member from Montgomery, followed Mr. Sommers and made a speech that evoked much applause. He said that Mr. Sommers did not speak for the Republicans on the floor. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 30.—President Smith-Whaley, of the large cotton mills in Columbia, has issued a statement in which he declares that reports of the shutting down of the Richland, Granby, Olympia and Capital City Mills are without foundation "The so-called strike," says Mr. Smith, "ordered by the Textile Union could operate against no one in the mills, for all of the union men who had declined to conform to the rules of the mills were discharged on Monday last. The mills are not seeking their return, and, on the contrary, have given notice to the leading agitators among the union men to vacate the buildings occupied by them." MAYOR BLACK'S PROCLAMATION McKeesport's Executive Advises Strikers to Avoid Violence. McKeesport, Sept. 4.—Mayor Black last night issued a proclamation to "The Workingmen of McKeesport." He says: "The eyes of the country are on McKeesport. I have maintained all along that there would be no disorder and still have confidence in the workingmen. Use no undue zeal in keeping men out of the Demmler mill, for I have heard it will be started this week. The vernal eastern press has exaggerated and distorted every trifling occurrence here into riot, and injured the town. Any violence would be the signal for application of the infamous principle of government by injunction and would divorce the support of loyal laboring men outside of the Amalgamated Association. Violence never yet won a strike. No right can be gained by law breaking. I feel no uneasiness, Streaks on Neptune. Neptune, the most distant known planet of the solar system, presents to the telescope only a small, greenish disk on which no distinct markings are visible. But during the past year the great telescope of the naval observatory, at Washington, has revealed indications of the existence of streaks on Neptune bearing a resemblance to the belts of Jupiter. A few years ago similar streaks were seen on Uranus. 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PAVNRE, JULIA H. HAYES, ROSA E. WATSON DELIA LEWIS. Christian Workers Assembly, Montreal N C., July 21st August 4th, 1901. For the above occasion the Southern Railway will sell tickets from all sta- tions on its lines in Virginia to Black Mountain, N C. railroad station for Montreal, N C. and return at fare one daily. N C. and return at round trip, sell- ing dates July 19th to 22nd inclusive with return limit August 8th. from all stations in North Laona at one fare for the round trip, selling dates from North Carolina points July 8th to 23rd inclusive, with return limit Aug. 8th. THE PLANET KILLED BY A COLORED GIRL. USED AX WITH FATAL EFFECT ON A WHITE MAN'S HEAD. Details of the Tragedy Near Spring Mills, in Which Thos. Brightwell Lost His Life. - Picking Peaches Started the Trouble. LYNCHEBURG, VA., Sept. 2.—The Messrs Brightwell, brothers of Mr. Thomas Brightwell, who was killed on Friday evening at his home in Appomattox Co. five miles below Spring Mills, have returned to the city. From them the first details of the tragedy were learned. Thomas Brightwell was manager of a steam sawmill, owned by Mr. John Rosser, and situated five miles below Spring Mills, in Appomattox County. About 5 o'clock Friday evening, his day's work being done, he was sitting in front of his home playing with his two little children, one of whom begged him to get some peaches. WENT AFTER THE PEACHES Right across the road from his house was a piece of land that Mr. Brightwell, as manager for Mr. Rosser, had rented to a colored man named Robertson, and his family, and over there he went to a peach tree, from which he gathered about half a dozen peaches. Two daughters of Robertson seeing what he was doing, began to abuse him, whereupon he told them to behave them selves or he would get switches and make them. He started back to his home, they continuing their abuse. This became so intolerable that he threw the peaches down and started for their home. When they saw him coming they ran into the cabin, one of them Lottie by name picking up an ax as she went. They both ran up stairs and closed the shutter to the window. HEAD IN THE WRONG PLACE. Mr. Brightwell was a very tall man, so that when he entered the cabin and started to ascend the darkened stairway, his head was not far from a level with the top stairs, where the girls were waiting. Lottie raised the ax and brought the blade down, cutting a gash over his right eye. Whether this stunned him will probably never be known, but the blade from the ax split his head pen, and then as the man fell, the girl brought the ax third on the back of his head. It is not thought that Mr. Brightwell spoke after he fell, and he was found shortly afterward by one of his drivers and a neighbor, just as he was breathing his last. LEFT THE HOUSE The two girls when they saw that their work was accomplished, opened the shutter they had closed and jumped from the window to the ground. They made their way to a neighbor's house, where their mother was stopping. After telling her what they had done, it was decided that all three had better leave the neighborhood, and they started for their former home at Concord, near which place the mother and one of the girls was arrested Saturday. Lottie, the girl who actually committed the deed, was caught Sunday night in Appomattox, at a farmer's, where she had hired. All three were taken to Appomattox jail. Saturday afternoon Justice John Thos. Lee held a coroner's inquest over the remains, and after hearing seven witnesses, a verdict in accordance with the testimony was rendered. DIED AT THE STAKE. Lynched By a Mob For Killing a White Woman. CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Aug. 26—Henry Noles, a colored man, was yesterday burned by a mob of citizens for assaulting and shooting to death Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a prominent farmer, near Winchester, Tenn., last Friday. After admitting his crime and asking his friends to "meet him in glory," he died without a groan. Noles was captured early yesterday morning at Water Tank, near Cowan, Tenn. He was Winchester by his captors and placed in the county jail. Sheriff Stewart made him barricade the jail and protect the prison. TRIED TO SAVE HIM Soon an angry mob of several hundred men gathered, but Assistant Attorney-General N. M. Whittaker appeared and made a speech to the crowd, urging them to assist him in allaying the excitement and upholding the majesty of the law. He promised to reconvene the grand jury to-day in order to indict the prisoner promptly and have him speedily tried at the present term of court, assuring the crowd that the man's conviction and legal execution were a foregone conclusion. This appeal was supplemented by Judge J. J. Lynch, Captain W. P. Tolley, and others. No sooner, however had their appeals been made than several hundred citizens from the neighborhood where the crime was committed came up and augmented the crowd to thousands. OVERPOWERED THE OFFICER. They swept forward upon the jail, overpowered the Sheriff and his deputies; took the prisoner, and started at 10:15 a.m. for the scene of the crime, 12 miles distant. The mob was determined, and it seemed that almost the entire population for miles around had turned out to see the end of the wretched man. The procession followed the mob to the William's home. MADE A STATEMENT Arriving at a point in sight of the scene of the crime, the prisoner was placed upon a stump, and a chance to make a statement given to his captor. laughed as he began his statement. He said: "Tell my sisters and brothers to meet me in Glory. I am going to make that my home. Tell my mother to meet me where parting will be no more." He was then asked whether any one else was implicated in the crime. Noles stated emphatically that there was no one implicated but himself. "Why did you kill Mrs. Williams?" was asked. "I just done that because I had nothing else to do." was the reply. HORRIBLE TORTURE. He was then taken from the stump, bound to a tree with chains, and his body saturated with oil. At 1:40 p. m. a match was applied, and instantly the man was enveloped in flames. Fence rails were piled about the burning body, and soon life was extinct. The colored man made no outtry at any time. At least 6,000 people witnessed the lynching. Many remained until nightfall, augmenting the blaze until the body was entirely consumed. They then departed for their homes quietly. Y. M. C. A. Notes. Sunday was a busy day as usual. The several committees were at work in full. The following served on committee Brothers Braxton, Bolden, Borlett, Ross, Thornton, Quarles, and Rev. W. H. Stokes, B. D., in the jail and alms house, last Sunday. The boys took an active part in the Bible Study, and a special paper was read by Master Frank Pervall Subject; "Charles J. A. J. Wright, was very much pleased with the boys and so expressed himself last Sunday. Brother Joseph Arrington was equal to the occasion last Sunday the men were pleased with his address. Subject Pulling down the walls of the devil and building up the Kingdom of God: Sunday 11 a. m. jail and alms house work. Committee be on time. Master Johnson, Marks, Robinson, and Harris will read special papers befoe the boys Sunday 4 p. m. Mothers and fathers send your boys. Bro. Paul Pollard of the V. N. and C. I will address the men Sunday 5:30 p. m. at our rooms. Subject: The 20th. Century Call To The Young Men Through The Young Men's Christian Association. Every man should hear this address as Bro. Pollard is a deep thinker and a young man of moral strength. Remember that the Night School will open Sept. 30th. Monday 8 p. m. General Convention Episcopal Church San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 2nd, 1901. On account of the above occasion the Southern Railway will sell special tickets from all ticket stations on its lines to San Francisco and return at greatly reduced rates, at many points at less than one fare for the round trip. From Richmond, Washington, Norfolk, Lynchburg and Danville to San Francisco and return the rate will be $65.25, tickets to be on sale Sept. 18th to 26th inclusive, with return limit November 15th, 1901. The Southern Railway offers double daily service in both directions and the choice of routes. Its through cars connect at New Orleans with the through famous limited trains of the Southern Pacific "suisset route." 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The story of how it came about was told by a member of Congress-Thomas L. Hamer-who recommended young Grant as a candidate for West Point in 1839. Mr. Hamer had long been a friend of the Grants, but when he made 10 make out the application papers for Ulysses he could not recall the boy's full name. So, deciding that he was doubtless named for his mother's family, he wrote it "Ulysses Simpson Grant." Thus was it recorded at West Point, and though the attention of the officials was several times called to the error they did not feel authorized to correct it. This name was gradually adopted, and by it Grant was, and always will be, known. But as for any record of the birth of "Ulysses Simpson Grant," that does not exist. MR. CLEVELAND ON FISHING. Mr. Cleveland's next contribution to THE SATURDAY EVENING Post, of Philadelphia, will bean extremely readable paper, in which he sings the praises of his favorite sport. 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Readings by mail, send soiled pocket handkerchief, $1.00, 2 cent stamp and receive complete life reading. All business strictly confidential. MADAM ALVIAH. 321 Brook Avenue, Richmond. OFFICE HOURS: From 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. Daily. NEW PHONE, 1133. PRICE, CIMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN. notice by telegraph or telephone. Halle ents Plenty of room with all necessary ons for hire at reasonable rates and noth- Keeps constantly on hand fine Funeral EIGH STREET. HEY PLANET RELIGIOUS MATTERS AMERICA'S SABBATH DAY. A mighty Nation, proudly noty free. Wide her domain! In power and majesty America, to an expectant world. Gear Goes conquering forth with banners bright unfurled. unfriended. In war her sons undying fame have won. In peace her progress hath by far outrun All other and the fairly good in health. In education, science, age, in wealth. And now in many sports her youth excel- In world-wide contest winning prizes well. Such the effect, where shall we seek the cause. What is the rule of life, what code of laws, Doth govern this fair land and pave the way To her success? Ah, see Heaven's radiance play Upon America's holy Sabbath day! Oh, lovely day, thine impress on mankind Is felt the world around! Who is so blind He may not see the influence of those hours Of sacred peace, which like the cooling showers. When furnace heat of day has passed along, Descend upon the earth to make it strong! Thy blessed lessons, taught through ages past To many millions who are gone, shall last full time no more shall be—those truths Their lives sublime our marvelous course have laid: Our might descends from them, their lives were pure. And we who follow them shall see endure The labors of our hands it will be we may Our own America's holy Subbah day, -Oscar B. Smith, in N. Y. Observer. THE BOON THAT BLESSES. Comfort and Help in the Book for Every Experience of This Life. I was very much impressed recently, says L. A. Banks, D. B., in making a pastorial call on a lady who had but a few weeks, before been greatly afflicted by the death of her mother, by another phase of this growth and development in a Bible. The mother, who had gone away to Heaven, had been a very devoted Christian woman through a long life and had deeply loved her Bible. The sorrowing daughter brought me that precious book to examine. It was an old-fashioned-looking book, bound in the thick leather so common a hundred years ago. But thick and heavy as the binding had been, it was pretty well worn through, and was frayed at the edges from much use. And a great many chapters showed the evidence of having been read and reread over and over again. One very interesting characteristic of this Bible was that a great many places were marked with the occasion when they had been used to the dear woman's comfort. Here was one that was read at the funeral of her child. Here was another that had been her comfortor when she was sick. Here was still another that she had exulted in a time of great happiness. And so all through the Bible were these little wayside shrines where the good woman had paused in her pilgrimage to worship God, or to find the comfort or inspiration she needed on her hard days, or to give expression to her joy and gratitude in times of happiness and rejoicing. I was greatly interested at hearing the daughter tell how delighted she had been to find that many of these passages which had been such a comfort to her mother were now of the greatest possible comfort to her, though she had never noticed them with any particular interest until after the great sorrow of her mother's death came upon her. And with tearful eyes she turned to me and asked: "Why is it that these verses which I did not before care for seem so new and precious to me now? Is it because my mother loved them so, and I loved them on her account?" I told her I thought there was a deeper reason for it. Her mother had found the comfort of these Heavenly words, in times when great sorrow and trial had come to her own life, and had marked them then, and the daughter now rejoices in them because she has grown into the same experience. She has grown up to her Bible. She had not found them before because she had not specially needed them, but now that she needs them they are waiting there, running over with blessing and comfort. As I handed back the worn and soiled book I said: "That book must be a great treasure to you these days!" "Ah, yes," was the answer, "a big fortune would not buy that book from me. When I see that mother seems nearer to me than at any other time. I see her again in her rocking-chair by the window with the Bible on her knees and the old far-away look of Heavenly peace on her face." I walked away from that home thinking how many people there are who are losing beyond all possibility of recovery, by not planting on a Bible in youth, so as to have it growing and blossoming and bearing its fruit through all the years of life.—From Unused Rainbows. Unconscious Self-Revelation. Next to being manly is to appreciate manliness. Next to being womanly is to appreciate womanliness. There is, indeed a measure of the high quality in man or woman that makes one recognize it when exhibited in another. It is the lack of the high quality that makes one undervalue it as it stands out in its commendableness. In view of this truth, we must remember that we disclose ourselves by our estimates of others. —S. S. Times. His Wenk Point. The man who is keenest on the inspection of his neighbors is usually weak on introspection—Ram's lhorn. HAPPINESS A DUTY. Christians Have No Right to Go Through Life Complaining, Fault-Finding and Apprehensive. Every morning paper comes to us with a shock, for we are sure to find in its very first columns the names of those who during the preceding 24 hours have "rashly importunate" gone to their death. The fact is that we are passing through a period of spiritual depression, and all of God's people ought to feel some responsibility for keeping up the cheerful tone of life to which the Master has called them. Christianity is a religion of joy, and it can only be well represented to the world when its children live up to their privileges. We must not permit men to find excuses for our lack of control. It is our duty to live not only blamelessly but happily; and to show to the world that the peace which Christ gave to His people as a parting gift the world has not taken from them. Christians have no moral right to go through life complaining, fault-finding and apprehensive. Down in New England they have an oldwives' proverb to the effect that: "A great deal is laid to the nerves which comes from the devil;" and the world is very likely to judge after that manner the peevishness of God's people. Our best friends may say for us, as the little boy put in the plea for his dog when he had bitten a neighbor: "He don't mean anything by it; it is only a刀 he his god!" The truth is that we are responsible for our ways, which become part of our character. No farmer is responsible for the first thistle-seed; but he is at fault for the crop of thistles that follows undisturbed. "We cannot prevent wild birds flying over our heads, but we can keep them from making nests in our hair." It is the privilege of the Christian to live near his Lord. No one can so live and be permanently unhappy. Happiness is made up of content, gratitude and hope. The first is ours when we realize that the station in life we occupy is the one chosen for us by our Heavenly Father. The burden we bear, apart from its relation to our possible sin, is the one He thought best for us to bear. But beyond mere content we can all find positive reasons for grateful love. Every life has had its own providences which may excite wonder and which ought to inspire praise. But most of all, the sweet hope of a blessed and holy immortality is enough to support the most tempted soul who cherishes it, and comes to know its power. It is the presence and the glory of the world to come which enables us to bear the evils that we know rather than as some who fly to others that they know not of. It is the blessed privilege of the child of God to show to the too often depressed and despondent world that "Our Rock is, not as their rook, our enemies themselves being witnesses." —Chicago Interior. OLD JAKE. Read a Piece in the Good Book Every Night Because It Told Him About God. He did chores about camp. Nobody ever gave much thought to him. He had no trade, no money, no family, no home but that which he got from season to season in return for cutting, piling and carrying the logs for the camp-fires. No one loved him, no one but the coon cats. Wherever you saw Jake there was a coon cat at his heels. Old Jake was one of the folks we are apt to call "goodless mortals." One night, it must have been near 12 o'clock. I was making preparations for an early start to John's pond; the gun had to be cleaned, and I was out of oil. Jake had a kind which was concocted after a recipe known only to woodsmiths. His regular duties had been finished hours before, there was no reason why he should not be in his bunk. So, as I came to his cabin, I stepped quietly, and cautiously lifted the latch, for there was no use waking him. I knew I was welcome to the oil if I could find the bottle in which he kept it. But Jake had not turned in. Far over in the corner he sat with his head bowed over something which he was slowly tracing out with his finger by the light of an old stable lantern. I called him, but got no answer; he was hard of hearing—when he wanted to be. So I slipped over to his side and laid my hand on his shoulder, and there was his hand lying on a cheap well-worn copy of the New Testament, and his finger was just under the line: "I will arise and go to my father." "Jake"—I had to say it slowly, for something was rising in my throat—"Jake, what are you doing?" "I'm readin' the good Book,' he answered, with that nasal drawl of his; "it tells me about Gawd, and I read a piece in it every night of my life." "I forgot what I said, I forgot the oil. But as I went out and stood under the deep mountain sky, I wondared how many more men, of whom I never dreamed it, were "readin' a piece in it every night" of their life; and it came to me that the world was full of men reaching up after the Father, as the dark spaces, in that sky were crowded with unseen stars which were reaching out their faraway light to find and fellowship our earth—T. Calvin McClelland, in S. S. Times. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining.—Beecher. Product of Sea Plants Seven-year-old tea plants yield four ounces of leaves apiece, or 700 pounds of tea to the acre.—Scientific American. RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Made a Peccary Yow and Liven the Life of a Recieuse, Although Possessed of Considerable Property and Good Health. Living in solitude in the eastern portion of Nelson county, ten miles from Bardstown, is one of the most singular characters in Kentucky. Now in his seventy-fifth year, he has not touched foot to the earth for over 30 years. Basil Hayden, says the Philadelphia Press, is one of the wealthiest farmers in a district composed of 12 counties, and is descended from a family well known in the pioneer annals of the state. Many of them have also been distinguished in the different lines of life. One of his brothers, Raymond H. Hayden, for years held a controlling interest in one of the most famous distilleries in the United States. He, too, had peculiar ideas and lived a bachelor all his life, and at last died at an advanced age under singular circumstances. He was found dead in his orchard a number of years ago, a bottle that had contained poison lying by his side. It was generally thought that he had committed suicide, but there were some who held the opinion that he had met with foul play and the poison bottle was placed near him for a blind. Basil Harvey, "The Hermit," as he is known throughout the section in which he lives, in his youth was a social leader and very popular with a large circle of friends. When the war broke out he entered the confederate army and made a good soldier to the end. When he returned home he found his slaves free and his property greatly damaged. The emancipation of his negroes affected him seriously, and he brooded over it constantly. He became suicid and morose, declining all overtures of friendliness on the part of his neighbors. He A declarated that the Lord had dealt harshly and unjustly with him in depriving him of his slaves, and out of revenge he registered a terrible cath that he would never again put his foot to the Lord's ground, and so far he has kept his vow. Never since the registration of his vow has he appeared without his doom, nor will he have converse with anyone save one or two, who are immediately connected with him, and then his words are of the briefest possible character. His landed interests are extensive, and under the management of a competent overseer yield him a handsome income. The overseer makes his reports to the queer old man in his darkened indoor retreat, who gives his orders and directions as tersely as possible. He has never spoken to a woman since his self-imposed exile nor will he allow one to be employed upon his place. How he spends his time within his darkened room no one knows, but it is said that one employment is the counting of money, of which he is said to have a vast amount in gold and silver. He it as it may, a Bardstown banker twice a year visits Mr. Hayden, and through him the recluse settles his financial matters with the outside world. Mr. Hayden is described as a fine-looking man, with a full beard and flowing hair. His confinement has bleached him until he is as white as an infant and his hands are as soft as raw cotton. He had a sale of mules at his farm recently, and a number of animals were sold at fancy prices. A large number of people were present at the sale, but never a glance was caught of Mr. Hayden. His instructions to the auctioneer were sent out by the overseer, written in a crabbed hand, and were very direct. Almost Married Wrong Man. What would have been a rather serious complication was averted by the presence of mind of a bride at Towson a night or two ago, says the Baltimore Sun. To the best man was given the honor of escorting the bride to the altar, while the groom followed with the bridesmaid. Whether the groom and his best man forgot their positions or both went into a trance, is not known. They did not exchange places, but stood, the best man with the bride and the groom with the bridesmaid, as the clergyman began the ceremony. Then the bride realized that she was about to be married to "the other man" and objected. In a moment or two she got things straightened out and the ceremony proceeded. It was a narrow escape. The Kissing Bug. "What was that?" asked the old gentleman, suddenly appearing in the doorway. "I—I guess it was a kissing bug," she answered, hesitatingly, while the young man tried his best to look at ease. The old gentleman looked at them both sharply. "Does the kissing bug make people blush?" he demanded—Chicago Post. THE WHITE FRONT PRINTING HOUSE. WE PRINT.. EVERYTHING Our Job D IS THOROUGHLY EQUIPPE LIVERY OF ALL KINDS OF ARE THE LOWEST, CONSI AND GOOD WORK. Fine Wed OUR LATEST DESIGNS MAY BE SEEN AT THIS The 1R As an Advertising Medium o Family Paper, it is not to be excel 80 cents. 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BY CELIE GAINES. Y OU look very happy this afternoon, Frau Berger!" "Why not?" she answered. "My man is coming, you know." Frau Berger was a typical old German lady, very "thick" as to proportions and very rosy as to complexion. Her hair, which had evidently been blond, was how perfectly white, and the knitting in her fat little hands was the brightest of scarlet stockings. We were sitting on the plaza awaitt. We were sitting on the plaza awaiting the arrival of the stageconch. Her blue eyes sparkled so pleasantly behind her eyeglasses that I involuntarily drew my rocking chair nearer. "How pretty she must have been as a girl!" I thought. Perhaps she read my thoughts or something in my expression suggested confidence, for she presently smoothed out her knitting meditatively. "Ach, ja! I have been in America 40 years, and I have also been married 40 years, fraueln." "How did you happen to come?" I inquired eagerly, and with the funniest little accent she began: "I tell you bout that—something very strange. One day I met my husband, next day I love him, next day I marry him! You laugh? We also laugh about it now. "It was the first day of June. The winter had been a time of much sickness in Germany, and my father and mother had both dled in less than three months. I had no brothers, no sisters, and I was but 18 years old. "We were not rich people, and I knew not what to do at all. "One of my cousins was married, and I went to her house, but her husband was an old man and very cross. She was so kind as a sister to me, but he was fealous that she loved me so much and seemed always to be angry to me. I helped take care of the children and worked what I could, but he did not like me, and I was so unhappy. Many times I thought I would go away, but did not know where to go. "One day I walked out with the little girl. She was running ahead of me, but all at once she stumbled and fell. I hurried to pick her up, but before I reached her I saw a young man stoop down and lift her up. She was generally a very shy child, but her little head lay quite quietly on his shoulder as he comforted her. I was frightened, but something in the way his great, strong arms held her little form gave me courage, and I tried to thank blm. "Your sister? he asked, glaring from her to me. "No,' I replied; 'my cousin. Shall I not take her?' And I held up my arms—so. But she only buried her face on his shoulders and would not look at me. But he looked at me very hard. I knew my cousin's husband would scold because I had let the child fall, and I was so miserable the tears just came into my eyes and ran down my face. He saw it, I know, but he turned to the little girl again. "What is your name, little one?" he asked. "Lottle Muller," she answered. "And where do you live? "I show you," And when he put her down she took hold of his hand and pulled him after her, for it was not far. "Now you know, fraulein, there are so many Mullers in Germany like there are Smiths in America, but when we came to the house he said, 'Why, here lives my friend Muller' "And, sure enough, we all went in. Then I heard his name, Carl Berger, for Herr Muller had known him since he was a little boy and was very glad to see him. They talked a long time, and that young man laughed and seemed to be so happy. 'In two days,' he said, 'I am leaving the fatherland to go to America. I seek my fortune there. A young country is better for a young man.' "I had thought many times of America myself, and it seemed to me for a minute as if he was an angel sent to tell me about it. "Oh, sir," I cried, 'please tell us some more about America!' "What have you to do with America? asked Herr Muller, frowning. "Some day I may go there," I said. "Nonsense!' he answered crossly and seemed angry that I had spoken. But the young man smiled and said, 'So, fraulein, you would like America, you think? And then he told much about it, and by and by my cousin got some wine, and we all drank his health and luck and a good voyage, only I was very quiet afterward, because I dara not speak any more. "And my face was burning so much because I had been spoken to so kindly before a stranger that I left the room and went out into the little garden in front of our house. Pretty soon I heard them saying goodbye and knew that he was going. I hoped he would go through the garden without noticing me, and so I turned my face away and began to break off a rose from a small bush. But he must have seen me at once, for he came just up to where I was standing and held out his hand. "Will you not say goodbye to me, franlelp?" he asked. Then like a foolish child and not knowing at all what to say I put into his hand the rose which was in mine. "Ah, little one," he said, "that is a very sweet goodbye, but let us say instead. Auf wiederschen, yes." But suddenly his jolly, laughing face grew serious as he whispered earnestly, "Art you not happy here, franlelp." I tried to answer, but my lips were trembling so I could not, and I turtled and ran quickly, away into the house, but as I went into the door I looked back and he still stood in the same place holding the flower in his hand. "You know, I was but 18 years old, and joys and sorrows were all very great to me very real, indeed. Am I tiring you?" asked Fran Berger. "Please go on," he begged. "I am afraid the coach will come before I hear the rest." "It is really not much of a story. In truth it was far too short. Well, the next morning I was dusting, when suddenly the bell rang. Herr Muller was just going out, so he opened the door. "I stopped and listened. I knew that voice. Had I not been dreaming of it all night? It was his. In a moment they would both come into the wohnstube. Ach! I remembered the rose of yesterday and was so ashamed. What if Herr Muller should know of that? Was it very wrong? Why did he come back after saying goodbye? A hundred thoughts like that went through my mind in a moment. What could I say? Where could I go. I was standing near the carpet. It was a high backed, old fashioned one. "Come in! Come in! I heard Herr Muller saying. 'Very friendly, I am sure, to come to see us again before you go.' "Ah, how I had wished to see him again, and now"I would rather have seen the whole German army come in to that room as that same pleasant young man, and just as the door opened I fell on my knees behind the sofa and was quite out of sight. "Then they took seats and began to talk. Every word they said I remember like it was only yesterday. "Herr Muller, I have something to ask you." "So? What you want ask me, eh? And that young man answered. I want you to let me ask the franulen, your wife's cousin, if she will marry me. "Thunder weather" roared Herr Muller, which in the German language is an extremely bad swear. 'What man! You will go to a strange land to make your fortune, and now you want to take that "kind," that child, with you for your bride! You can never be such a fool! "Then I heard that young man laugh a little. I understand how you think about it," he said. "Most always a man in love is called a fool, but I cannot help it. I love her more than all the world. Since yesterday I have thought of nothing else. It is true, I have not much money, but so long as I have two hands she shall want for nothing." "By and by my cousin come in and talk a long while. His family, she said, were old friends of hers, and she knew he was a 'very fine young man also', but America was such a very far country, and I was very young. Oh, how my heart beat there behind the sofa on my knees! It seemed to me that they must hear it almost. "I nearly tried to stop my breathing, I was so still—so afraid they would find me, you know." "After awhile I heard young Berger say: 'All I ask is that you allow me to speak to her. If she will not marry me now, I will go and work alone, and after a few years I will come back for her, for of one thing I am entirely sure—only with her can I be happy.' "Then my cousin went to call me, and she called and called, but I made no answer, and Herr Muller became angry. "‘Where is she gone?’ he asked. ‘She is never there when you want her. What a crazy harum scarum that girl is!’ "Then he called very loud, and at last he ran out into the garden, where I often used to go, to seek me. I was trembling all over, but I peeked out from behind the sofa, and there sat my poor Berger with his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands. I got up very softly and came out. The first thing I noticed was that he had a faded rose in his coat. I stood quite still for a moment looking at him, and presently he sighed and raised his face and saw me. Ach, I don't know how that was any more now, but when my cousin and her husband came back into the wohnstube Herr Berger's arm was around my walst, and, somehow, I was afraid of nothing—not even of Herr Muller. "Well, the next morning after that we got married. Yes, it is true, it was very quick, but you see he had bought his ticket already, and he must go. I had not indeed much—what you call trousseau. I had some linen of my mother's, like every German girl have, and my cousin gave me some more things. "Berger laughed, and I thought he looked so nice when he laughed. "The greatest travelers,' he said to me, 'always have the least luggage to bother them. Everybody will think we are old travelers.' "But it all seemed like one dream to me until we stood on the deck of the big ship and I saw Deutschland and my cousins' faces growing farther and farther away every minute and at last could see them no more, and the ocean and the life before me seemed so strange, so wide. "But my husband's arm was around me, and I tried to look up at him and smile, although the tears would come into my eyes, and I was so glad when he said I was a brave girl." "Thank God, I can say now, when I am a white haired old woman, that a better man never lived, and we have also had very good luck. At first we both worked hard, but now we have all that we could wish, and the best thing that I could ever say to my children is that they should try to be like their father." "Ah, here is the coach!" And in another moment all my romantic imaginations were shattered by beholding my fat little heroine, panting with the exertion and delight, towing into the hotel a huge, corpulent, world faced, bald headed and very jolly looking German whom I afterward learned to know as the millionaire brewer, Mr. Carl Berger. LOST—At Buckroe Beach on the 7th inst, a watch chain. Liberal reward paid if returned to owner. JEFFERSON ART GALLERY, 523 E. Broad St. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMONDVIRGINIA WANTED TO KILL LEO When Searched By the Police the Prisoner Had a Revolver and Dirk Upon His Person—Authorities Keep His Name a Secret Name a Secret. Rome, Aug. 27.—The Italian police authorities are taking extraordinary precautions to keep secret the name of the prisoner captured in the Vatican gardens, suspected of an attempt to assassinate the Pope. It has leaked out, however, that the man is a noted Anarchist. To the police he freely admitted that he intended assassination. He denounced Leo as "a spiritual giant, keeping millions of men in [Portrait of a man in a suit, seated in a chair, with a serious expression.] POPE LEO XIII. thraldom." The Holy Father was notfled of his narrow escape last night, but refused to comment upon it in any way. New York, Aug. 27.—According to a special cable dispatch to one of last night's papers, the man carried a revolver and a dirk. He lay hidden in a part of the gardens through which the Pope traverses daily. His Holiness was being carried from his private apartments in a chair to where his landau waited to convey him to the pavilion of Leo IV., when a Swiss guardsman heard a noise in the shrubbery some distance away. The soldier investigated and discovered the assassin, whom he placed under arrest. At the rooms of the Swiss guards, where the man was taken, the revolver and knife were found. The man said he had been hidden all morning in the Vatican gardens and expected to have no trouble in killing the Pope. BIBLE CONFERENCE AT AN END. Scottish Evangelist Scores "Cuckoo" Preaching of the Day Preaching of the Day. Winona Lake, Ind., Aug. 28.—Winona's Bible conference, the seventh annual gathering of which covered a period of ten days, closed last night, Director J. Wilbur Chapman, of New York, giving the closing address in the auditorium to an immense crowd. The noted Scottish preacher, Rev. John McNeill, gave his closing address. It was the strongest discourse heard during the conference. He hauled the ministers over the coals for what he termed the "cuckoo" preaching of the day, saying: "We must fear God as well as love him. Preachers should stop coddling and consoling people. There is entirely too much of it." The United Presbyterians attending the conference held a meeting yesterday and decided to build a large summer home for their ministers at Winnona and also to hold a young peoples' convention on the assembly grounds next year. REPUBLICAN CLUBS A Potent Factor In Wrestling Nebraska From the Populiate Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 28.—The annual meeting of the Nebraska, League of Republican Clubs was held at the Lincoln Auditorium yesterday, with an attendance declared to be the largest in its history. The address of the retiring president, E. M. Pollard, was a summary of the work of the league in the past campaign, which he declared was a potent factor in wresting the state from Populist control. Secretary Waring reported a constant growth in membership, the increase in the past year being especially large. Beginning with but 30 clubs, the league now has 280. INSANE WOMAN FOUND. Dr. Nellie Poor and Two Sons Were In the Corning Woods. Corning, N. Y., Aug. 28.—Mrs. Dr. Nellie Poor and her two sons, of Chicago, were found in the woods near here yesterday. Mrs. Poor is the woman who acted in an insane manner on an Erie railroad train last Thursday night and then mysteriously disappeared. She and her sons have been living in the woods for several days and are suffering from exposure. They are now being cared for in the home of W. H. Chamberlain, of Kanona, N. Y., who is a relative of Mrs. Poor. The woman is laboring under the hallucination that a price has been put upon her head Minister Godoy, of Chile, Dead. Rio Janeiro, Aug. 28.—Jonquil Godoy, Chilean minister to Brazil, died in Rio Janeiro suddenly yesterday afternoon. He was formerly Chilean minister to the United States. This world is a peculiar place; We kick both night and day. But when it comes to leaving H We somehow want to stay. —Washington Star. A Queer Woman. Judge (in will case)—Did Mrs. Butl lon ever show signs of insanity in your presence? Fair Witness—She was often very ec- sentric. "Mention an instance." "On one occasion we came from Europe in the same steamer, and she paid duty on her new furs instead of wearing them." "When was that?" "Last August."—N. Y. Weekly. A Spaghetti Spread. The doctor was talking about dypepsia. "The very things which a man who suffers from indigestion shouldn't eat are invariably the things he craves most," said the man of medicine. "I have in mind one of my patients with whom spaghetti is a passion. He would rather eat spaghetti than anything else in the world, and nothing in the world is so bad for him, for his digestive apparatus is in very bad order. Yet that man will occasionally go on what he calls a spaghetti debauch. He will fix a certain day, and for a week previous he will touch no liquor of any kind, will eat sparingly of the most simple foods and will take plenty of exercises. At the appointed time, having got himself into fine physical condition, he will go to a little restaurant down in the Italian quarter and load up on spaghetti and Chianti, the Italian red wine. He has a profound contempt for spaghetti unless prepared by an Italian, and when he gets what he wants he never knows when to stop. Of course he suffers for it afterward, but he says it's worth the pain." Cincinnati Enquirer. Remarkable Memory of Caperies REMARKABLE MEMORY OF CANARIES. St. Andreasberg people know nothing of the canary of the encyclopedia, which can imitate perfectly the nightingale, or even enunciate some words in imitation of the human voice, declares Ida Shaper Hoxie, in telling about St. Andreasberg. "The Singing Village of Germany." The birds of one breed, subjected to the same influences, have songs that vary with the throat muscles and vocal chords of each individual. But so remarkable is the canary memory that a bird bred to a certain song, if removed from the cage in which he has heard it from his parent, when six weeks old, will later, when he himself begins to sing, give the same song, though never having heard it in the intervening period.—Ladies' Home Journal. Phlebitis and Flea Bites. There are in the pension service some medical officers described by pension office people as "crooked stick" physicians, whose knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology and prescribing is painfully limited. An applicant for pension increase has asserted in his application that he was suffering from phlebitis. A "crooked stick" got hold of the applicant, read his application papers, made his examination and reported that the man was suffering from "flea bites" from the hip down." Then he recommended that the applicant should be given an increase of pension for these disabilities incurred in the service, which in a pensionable degree deprived him of the ability to earn a livelihood.—N. Y. Times. Mining for Tree Stems One of the most curious mines that is worked is in Tongkin, China, where, in a sand formation, at a depth of from 14 to 20 feet, there is a deposit of the stems of trees. The Chinese work this mine for the timber, which is found in good condition, and is used in making coffins, troughs, and for carving and other purposes. The stems are about three feet in diameter and 45 feet in length, and apparently belong to fir trees which were buried thousands of years ago by an earthquake or other similar convulsion—Detroit Free Press. Looked Like Her "Sir," said the gentleman, angrily, as he burst into the photograph gallery, "you have insulted my wife, and I demand satisfaction!" "Believe me, sir," said the photographer, soothingly, "I am innocent of any intended offense; what have I done?" "You will have to fight, sir," went on the man; "you took a picture for my wife, and it looks like her!"—Boston Post. Perfumed Dervisher The Sudanese natives eagerly buy clothes, cotton goods, sugar, perfumes, tea, nails, chains, wire, leather, false jewelry and iron trinkets. Great Britain furnishes the cotton goods, but Germany, Austria and Italy have almost the monopoly of the other articles. Germany does a huge trade in perfumes. A single caravan started off recently with 20,000 francs' worth of German scents for the natives. Geneva La Suisse. Long-Cherished Delusion The "longest day" was nothing more than a courtey title this year, since there were no fewer than nine days (June 18 to 26) on which the sun was above the horizon for the longest period of the year. There are also no fewer than 12 shortest days (December 17 to 28). It is a delusion to suppose that in any year there is a single longest or shortest day.—Chicago Daily News. "I guess so. Anyhow, it was a match all right enough. There's evidence of that." "What evidence?" "You wouldn't ask if you could hear her splutter when she's refused a new gown."—Chicago Post. A Mean Way Men Have. Mrs. Whyte—Men have very poor judgment. Mrs. Browne—Yes; but it don't do to tell them so. If you do they are apt to make sarcastic references to the time when they got married—Somerville Journal. The Acrobat The acrobat is always willing to do good turn.-Chicago Daily News. One or the Other One or the Other. A woman always has the beet or the worst of it.—Atchison Globe. His Formula "Do you think the three R's are all a man needs in dis life?" asked Plodding Pete. "What's de three R's?" asked Meandering Mike. "Why, readin', 'ritin' an' rithmetic." "No, dey don't count. What a man wants to look out for is de three B's—bed, board an' booze."—Washington star. "Feelin' well yerself?" "Right peart." "Any news stirrin'?" "Nothin' but the measles, an' the whoopin' cough, an' the galler janders, an' a sprinklin' or chills an' fever!" "Atlanta Constitution." Making No Mistake "What a beautiful gown Mrs. Spingles had on at the reception," remarked Mr. Cumrox. "I am glad to see you showing so much taste and discernment!" exclaimed his wife. "Oh, I knew I couldn't go wrong on that proposition. Her husband told me that gown cost him over $600."—Washington Star. Broke Them All Un. Husband—You were not so late as usual to day. Wife—No; the meeting of the Society for the Emanipulation of Women from the Thraldom of Men had to be postponed. Husband—What was the matter? Wife—One of the members came in with a crinoline on, and we all rushed out to buy one.—N. Y. Weekly. "Oh- she had on a lovely white frock, with a white chiffon pompon in her hair; and she had a loaf of bread under her arm."—Chicago Record-Herald. She Meant It. "I wouldn't be discouraged," said Culbertson to his friend Tillinghast, who was fretting over Miss Gaskett's refusal of his offer of marriage. "A woman's no often means ges." "This one didn't," replied Tillinghast, disconcertedly. "She said no as though there were an exclamation point after it." —Leslie's Weekly. Conclusive Proof. Walter (mysteriously)—Send for a detective, quick! Head Waiter—What's up? "See that woman over there? She's a man in disguise." "Phew! How d'ye know?" "She ordered a reg'lar square meal an' gave me a tip." - N. Y. Weekly. Wink.—Pa, what's a caddie? Mr. Surly—Never mind. You'll never have any use for one. Wille—Well, I just wanted to know if it has anything to do with a cad. Mr. Surly—Yes, a caddie usually carries a bag of sticks for a cad.—Philadelphia Press. Unfortunately They were driving together, when Miss Rocka, unsolicited, gurgled forth her views upon matrimony. "Love is a dreary desert," she said, "and marriage an oasis." Whereupon Mr. Shyly remarked that "it certainly did require a deal of sand."—Leslie's Weekly. At the Seaside. Young Man—Is five dollars a day the best you can do? Hotel Proprietor—Are you single or married? "What difference does that make? My wife isn't with me."—N. Y. Herald. Pride. "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" I would make proper reply My wisdom would raise me so far o'er the crowd A Mrs. Newlywed—You told me we would have to give up luxuries and only allow ourselves necessities. Mr. Newlywed—That's right. Mrs. Newlywed—But you came home in a hack last night; that was a luxury. Mr. Newlywed—Er-er—that was a necessity, my love—Kansas City Star. His Personal Opinion. "Don't you think a man ought to be liberal in his political views?" "Certainly," answered Senator Sorghum. "In my opinion, a man can't hope to get very far along these days by being stingy."—Washington Star. Reward of Perseverance. George—I understand the Gottits had a hard struggle to get into society. Jack—I should say they had! Why, old Gottit had to spend nearly four years in the Klondike!—Puck. Early Suspicion He—When did she begin to fear that he had married her for her money? She—Well, I believe her suspicions were first aroused when she had to fee the minister.—Town and Country. Sufficient Evidence. Coroner—You seem to be certain that the deceased accidentally fell into the wafer. How do you know that this is not a case of suicide? Witness—He was a brother Scot, an' he had a wee bottle of whusky on him wi' ne'ear a nip te'en oot.— Pick Me Up. Jess-No; but I fancy she's very homely. My brother says all his girl friends speak of her in the highest terms.-Philadelphia Press. A Puzzler. Chilly Nates—Bill kin ask more puzzin' questions da a criminal lawyer. Breaker Day—W'ot's his latest? "Dis: 'Wot would yer sooner do er bot do it?' — Judge. In Boston. Mr. Beacon-Street (whispering)—Why are you so certain that is a burglar in the room, Hildegarde? Mrs. Beacon-Street (whispering)—For the most convincing of proofs, Ronald. I can see the reflection of his eyeglasses!—Brooklyn Eagle. A. Hard Character He—He didn't say anything. He looked at my hand, coughed a bit and then gave ma my money back.—N. Y. Times. The Se; st. of It. She's the beile of all the summer girls, For, strange as it may seem. As all the fellows have found out, She doesn't like ice cream. Philadelphia Bulletin. Sledge Dogs Apart from the great use that the sledge dogs were to us for pulling purposes, they made wonderful companions in the solitude of the far north. Already early in the expedition I had presented to each of the members a dog, and a great affection arose between the masters and their dumb companions. Members often retired to some quiet corner, petting their favorite dog; the lives, the struggles and the suffering of the dogs helped to take the members out of themselves, and thus assisted materially the common welfare of our small community. Suddenly the whole pack of 70 seemed to agree upon killing one of their number. For days they watched for an opportunity, and the unfortunate and doomed dog seemed at once to realize that the sentence of death had been passed. He sought refuge with us and would never go far away from camp until one day for a moment he might forget himself. The dogs would then rush upon him and tear him into pieces. -National Review. Bacteria That Give Light The photograph of Franklin under illumination by lightning has been outdone as a scientific marvel by a picture of a bust of Claude Bernard lighted only by photobacteria. The phosphorescent organisms were contained in bouillon in suitable glass flasks, and an exposure of several hours was necessary, the soft light produced being extraordinarily free from both chemical and heat rays. Under one of these vessels, supported above a book, reading is easy. The living lamps, as now made by U. Raphael Dubois, of the University of Lyons, have an arrangement for injecting filtered air as needed, and last several weeks without change or renewal. The illuminating power has been considerably increased since the beginning of the experiment.-Science. Percenies in House of Lords Peeresses in House of Lords. England is interested in the pretensions of certain English women who are peeresses in their own right, and believe that they can sit in the house of lords if they choose and help govern the empire. It is centuries since a peeress has done it, but there is to be a fancy dress coronation in London next year, and London gossip says that certain of these self-regulating peeresses propose to go to it as members of the house of lords and have their trains borne by pages, as the peers do. It seems an exceedingly proper purpose, and ought to be applauded, not by woman suffragists alone, but by everyone who likes a noble fitly ornamented.—Harper's Weekly. Couldn't Fool Her The circus had come to Raleigh, N. C., and Sall, an old colored woman who had never seen one, collected her courage and her money and went. Afterward, telling her experience to one of her friends, she said, in a very contemptuous voice: "Yes, indeed, dey done tried to mak me b' believe the mos' scan'lous things, till I jes' got so riled dat I jees' told dat nigger dey done had that in a cage wif 'Wile Man' writ on a little board above him: 'Wile man, is you? You ain't nothin' but an old Wilmington street nigger; if you'se a wile man, what's you doing wif a vaccination on your arm and corns on; you couldn't fool me." -Current Literature. Distillation of Petroleum The refining of petroleum is a process of distillation, in which it is separated into several marketable products. There are two methods of distillation, known technically as "in vacuo" and "cracking." In the first the petroleum is distilled in a partial vacuum, and in the second with superheated steam. This process receives its name from the cracking sound of the steam as it enters the undistilled petroleum.—Science. 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Mitchell, a well-known young divine was on the programme, but was not present. OTHER EXCUSES. Rev. W. H. Stokes, it is reported was not properly invited or was given a second or third show. He was unable to be present, owing to engagements elsewhere. Rev. Z. D. Lewis, B. D., was on the programme, but his friends say he was out of the city. Rev. W. M. Moss, B. D., of Danville was expected to come and play second fiddle, but he was "out of the city" too. LOCAL DIVINES IN EVIDENCE The result was that local talent had to be called on to fill in and the breaks in the programme reminded one of the break in Deacon R. T. Hill's announcement, when he declared the affair to be a funeral instead of an installation. Any error in any of the above statements is open to correction. Our information came through trustworthy sources, and we invite any one to attack the correctness of the assertions. PRESIDENT TAYLOR IN THE SADDLE It seems that Cashier R. T. Hill and Grand Worthy Secretary W. P. Burrell, have the First Baptist Church, but that President W. L. Taylor has the Grand Fountain, U. O. True Reformers. The church meeting Monday was stormy. If Rev. W. T. Johnson had any idea that the call was unanimous, his mind was disabused when he gazed on the rumpus which took place with Deacon R. J. Bass in the chair. MORE ABOUT THE CHURCH-MEETING Rev. Johnson announced that he wanted to get an idea as to the procedure and accordingly did not wish to preside. After the approval of the minutes and the transaction of routine business, Deacon S. W. Shorts arose and stated that he wanted peace in the church, it could not be obtained the way the church was proceeding. He wanted a RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. DOMINION MANUFACTURING COMPANY: No. 2220 E. 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Selden moved to reconsider the vote, but was ruled out by Chairman Bass, who finally declared all of it out of order. Brother Tom H. Briggs, whose bad record is known from Screamersville to Rockettts then moved that the matter be settled forever. This was ruled out of order by Chairman Bass. An appropriation of $10 was made for the Lot Carey Convention. The Foreign Mission Society voted to send $15 and $20 was appropriated for the purpose. THE RECEPTION. The reception on Tuesday night was a disappointment. No city pastor was present and Brother Tom H. Briggs, whose bad record is know from Screamerville to Rockettts escorted Rev. Johnson to supper. To show what a blunder has been made in the arrangements, one has only to note the number of ministers invited, all of whom had other pressing engagements: Rev. A. Binga, Jr., D. D., cause, church rally; Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., cause, absence from city; Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., cause, other engagements; Rev. A. S. Thomas, cause, other engagements; Rev. D. W. Davis, A. M., cause, called to Manchester; Rev. W. H. Stokes, B. D., cause, other engagements; Rev. W. M. Moss, B. D., out of the city; Rev. Wm. A. Mitchell, otherwise indisposed, and others whose names have not as yet come to the surface. WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED THE INVITATION. We understand that all of these divines would have gladly accepted Chairman Hill's invitation to preach Rev. W. T. Johnson's "funeral," as stated by True Reformer Hill, but for the reasons stated. As strange as it may seem, Rev. Tom H. Briggs, whose bad record is known from Screamersville to Rockettts was not placed on the programme, although it is stated that he would have willingly accepted, and as for Rev. Robert Watkins, who was guard at the penitentiary during the Readjuster Rule, why he wasn't even thought about. Mr. Robert A. Hawkins of Newburgh, N. Y., in company with Miss Sarah and Namie Jackson and Miss Mamie White called on us. Mrs. Kate Doshi of Southport, N. E., Miss Mollie Noyes, Wilmington, N. C., in company with Miss Lolin C. Brown of this city called on us. Miss Pocahontas Berry of Petersburg is in the city, the guest of Miss Senora Eldridge, 24 W. Leigh St. Baptist and the Mount Olivet Sunday Schools. Manchester had one—the Zion Baptist Sunday School. Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Caroline County, Alexandria, Charlottesville, Staunton, Clifton Forge, Danville, Bedford City, Roanoke, Salem Harrisonburg, Wytheville, East Radford, and all of Lynchburg had large Sunday Schools represented. Then came Port Royal, Concord and many other towns represented large and florishing Sunday Schools. There were such men and women as Drs. Bowling, G. B. Howard, W. W. Brown, E. W. Moore, (Philadelphia), B. F. Fox, B. Tyrrell; C. H. Phillips, J. H. A. Cyrus, T. H. White, W. H. Moses, Fyre, Fountain, Guinn, W. H. Dixon, Steart, Goff, Caloway, W. T. Hall and others. Then came Mesdames Tyrrell, Waller, Coles and Misses Mary H. Smith and Carter of Richmond, Annie Tucker, Dr. Winslow of Danville, Prof. Major Johnson of Petersburg and a host of others too numerous to name. Most excellent papers were read by our Richmond delegates Misses Smith, Carter, and Mr. B. H. Peyton. We have in our next annual gathering a condition that will excel the record of any other ever held in the State of Virginia. VIRGINIA In the Circuit Court of Henrico Co. "In vacation", Aug. 23, 1901. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii by the plaintiff, Frank Martin from his wife, Marina Martin, defendant, on the grounds of desertion for a period of more than three years. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Marina Martin, is a non resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she do appear here within fifteen days, after the due publication of this order, and do what is necessary to protect her interest herein. You are hereby notified that on the 15th day of October, 1901, at the Court house of Henrico County; Virginia, between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 5 o'clock p. m. of that day, I shall proceed to take the depositions of Wm.H. Lyons and others, to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Equity pending in the Circuit Court of Henrico County, Virginia, wherein I am plaintiff and you are defendant. And if from any cause the taking thereof be not commenced with, or if commenced be not concluded on that day, the taking of depositions will be continued from day to day and from time to time between the same hours, and at the same place until completed. The Baptist Sunday School Conven- vention of Va.-Great Gathering. Sixty-three (63) Schools. Representatives of Schools From Every Part of The State, About three months ago when the Va. Baptist State Convention met in Bedford City arrangements were made for the organization of a State Baptist Sunday School Convention in harmony and sympathy with the Virginia Baptist State Convention, the National Baptist Convention and which would give proper recognition to the Va. Seminary, the National Baptist Publishing House and all Negro enterprises. The first annual gathering was held in Lynchburg the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th of August. The number of schools represented exceeded the most sanguine expectation of the promoters of the new venture. The delegation was large and representative, there being farmers, carpenters, school teachers, preachers, lawyers, physicians and business men composing the large gathering. Every part of the state was represented—in fact, it was only Sunday School body in the state that can lay claim to the right of being called a state organization, all others being confined to a small portion of the state. FINE SHOWING There were in this new body sixty-three schools represented. No one can well see the proper estimate upon these figures without some knowledge of the old Sunday School Convention which met this year in Charlottesville. When that body met in Roanoke several years ago they had forty-two schools represented, in Portsmouth they had thirty-odd represented, in Manchester they had thirty represented, so it has been for years a body with less than fifty Sunday Schools. Consider therefore the significance of so large a number as sixty-three schools being represented in the first annual gathering of the Lynchburg Convention and this does not include the District Sunday School Convention, Associations and unions represented by delegates some of which have as high as thirty Sunday Schools in them. Notwithstanding this is our first gathering in which we had to plan and set in motion our new machinery, $271.00 was raised and plans laid to raise $1,000 next year when we meet in Roanoke. 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The Siwanoy Golf Club is a very exclusive organization, and its membership includes 250 of the fashionable residents of Yonkers. The excursionists from Washington, D. C., returning from the progressive city of Newport News bring a glowing account of the general prosperity and thrift of the people. Mrs. Ella B. Jenkins, one of them, accompanied by her little son, George, went down with the Patriots from Washing ton and she is loud in praise of the people. While in Newport News, she was the guest of Lawyer and Mrs. Thomas Newsome. She says the young man, Mr. Newsome has made marvelous progress, having purchase and furnished a beamful home where his wife, an accomplished young graduate from the Petersburg College, dispense a liberal hospitality. Mrs. Jenkins says she will go again.