Richmond Planet
Saturday, March 1, 1902
Richmond, Virginia
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THE RICHMOND PLANET
(Lynchburg, Va. Christian Organizer.)
The evident unhappy condition in which the old First. Baptist Church of Richmond finds itself can be explained only in the dispositions of some generates to operate the church in their own selfish interests. The desire on the part of two or three to force themselves into prominence over barriers that are insurmountable, because they are natural. These men until recently, had no acknowledged place in the life of the church developed. Their inability to lead aright is found in their lack of the fundamentals in a renovated life; they have shown themselves to be both pig and pup, and it is a most difficult thing to tell when they are the one or the other. Their weapons are purely carnal, and their ultimatum is fore-ordained failure. The surprise which has ceased now to be a surprise, has been to most persons, whose acquaintance with the Rev. W. T. Johnson had led them to think most highly of him, was that he should have accepted the church under the circumstances. This act betrayed a streak of character that no one could have guessed; what followed on Sunday morning, it was nothing more or less than a leap of weakness which will eventuate in the overthrow of an otherwise good man. Rev. W. T. Johnson has already lost his place in the hearts of his people. That is the first place that a man is overthrown, and that is the most serious overthrow.
This is to be regretted. The hope of the Baptist Church, as of any church, is in the parity and strength of the ministry. The young men who are stepping up into the splendid places left vacant by the fathers are to exemplify in themselves by a reverential stocism born of the lowly Nazarine as he walked beneath bended palms of Palestine. The character of a man filling a place will depend very largely, almost entirely, upon the character of the people calling him. This true in the *E*-*H*-*uzer*, the *S*th Mr. Zion and other churches. Whenever the will of the people is frustrated and tricksters are engineer matters, the real life of the church is violence, the real purpose of the Church is ed, and though it may go for a time, a reversal must come; it may come by peaceful means where the pastor finds himself the irritant and that he is likely to continue such; if he is sufficiently enlightened spiritually, he resigns peacefully. The reversal must come, and if he has not had that heavenly vision, it may come through a baptism of blood.
The Negro has now but one institution to govern outside of his individual home, and that is, his church. The Baptist Church at this late date, can not be converted into a monarchy. We have been taught that the Baptist Church is a democracy of the purest kind, and we will contend for this phase of the things delivered to the Saints; anything else received from the Freemasons and fullest recognition of his every right and member in full standing in a Baptist church, will be met; will be resented on Sunday morning, or any other morning.
It is indeed difficult to understand how the Rev. W. T. Johnson could allow himself to be led so far from the accepted—the common parlance. Nothing is more evident than that he is systematically planting the seed that must germinate and soon sprout into disord, disruption, disgrace and death. Will none of his real friends call a halt? We are informed that you are laughing in your sleeves at him, shame upon you!
The young man Absaomu is still alive.
There is a chance yet, tell him! tell him he is wrong! He is plunging in an abyss and dragging a few deluded followers with him!
These are sad reflections, but the truth, though sad at times, is still the truth.
We read, learn and inwardly digest the word of God in vain if we have not come up to this height.
The leader of a people can rot afford, by vicious, unparliamentary and unbaptistic ruling, show himself weak to the extent that he would take the smallest advantage of the humblest member of his church, and this has been greatly aggravated to the view of the outside world when it is seen that these things are preconcerted and artfully contrived to be done at a time when no intelligent self-respecting church would transact its business; when it is done under circumstances, to say the least, are questionable to the last degree; when they are done to the end of trampling the most sacred ordinances of the church in
that, when they are bound by men, they must be bound by women, to them of better things, and when they are contriving to enable the breacher, who had failed in his regular church meeting to win out with air "undercut," he should be too many to accept any such unholly victory. The fear is, that Rev. Johnson has fallen into the hands of advisors who do not register very high upon the righteous scale of Christian ethics in the estimation of a woman of enlightened condescens.
It might be well for Rev. Johnson to look about himself and note the trend events. He may recognize the old familiar name "God moves in mysteries ways." The court records will help him some by showing him that there are men and women in the church who believe in branding infamy, shamelessness and treachery in high places, and to reverse these people, is to put himself in the category of the loose and immoral. It represents him as siding with, hiding and abetting those who would rob the home of its light, truth and love. Can you do this, brother? These records will show him to what depths
some men have sunk, who are still blat ing, bawling, baffling and bluffing a certain class of too civilized people.
These records will show him that there are those with whom he is training and for whom he is fighting, who have gone down in the records of the State, before a regular tribunal of fair-minded men, as a blatant instigator of disturbances, as immoralists of so villanous a dye—a type so crude and cruel to use the sacred record to assist him not to raise and support the weak and corrupt records of biblical lore to deter, dissuade, subjugate a weak woman, a man's wife, members of their own flock—leading them from God and the truth.
Recent transpirings, too fresh to be called history, where the sacred office is reduced to the shame of futile attempts at public vindication, not only over the Lord's supper but in the secular press. What do you not recogni e in these "ill omens?" What right have the people to charge the buying of a "Raglan" coat to any preacher and force him to publicly deny the charge if there were not present in the minis of the people a suitable basic somewhat to light this torch of falsehood; if it be such. This prides himself upon his ability to butt; he himself for himself kinship with the goat; he butt out the Catholic Priest; he butt out the editor of PLANET, we now call out the conviction out of the hearts of the people that he bought that Raglan o at. We nof y him before hand that it will require some good, strong, tall, billy-goat butting to do this.
Now brother, are you training with this class? When you took up your residence in Richmond, you had lived a quiet life in our mountain city; yen furnished us a splendid place to call the brotherhood together and put these 'rascals' out, for this, we feel indebted to you, and would in this kind advice, pay the debt. You were beloved by your people; you had a splendid church building and a good people. We verily believed you could have gone to heaven from these heights, but you longed for the triumph's clangor and the cannon's roar. Your blood was stirred by the pictures painted by your own clarified and animated imagination. 'The great First Baptist Church, that magnificent audience stood out before you of the elite. The Negro lawyers will be there; the doctors of divinity will be there; the doctors of medicine will be there; the school teachers of this city will be there; the students from the University will be there; many of the host of northern visitors coming to Richmond enquiring for a place of Negro worship, will be there. What an opportunity!
The PLANET man will give to the world each week what transpires (which he does.) The imagery is not complete, none could be, but it told you that you would say to your Soul, "Take thy ease, much good are laid up in store for thee." Ah! good are laid up in the real picture. Do you not long for the quiet of our little mountain town where in one hour, you can stand on one corner and speak to and count every one in town—you know everybody and everybody knows you.
The Committee on Roads of the legislature of Virginia now has under consideration a bill offered by a Mr. Caton of Alexandria providing for "Jim Crow" street cars in this state. The measure has aroused the entire street-car interests of the commonwealth and every surface line is represented. The motormen and conductors have forwarded long patitions against the measure, and the strongest possible language in condemnation of the proposition has been used. The committee has visited the street car barns in this city, and the impracticability of the measure demotivated.
measure demonstrated.
As strange as it may seem, the colored people have tried to measure with utter indifference and those who are most pronounced against it are the white people, noticeably so, the conductors, to whom will be entrusted the duty of its enforcement.
The present indications are that the bill will be "put to sleep" and the vote against it overwhelming.
A Card of Thanks.
To the members and friends of Leigh Street M. E. Church, who presented me with a suit of clothes and hat on Monday night, I extend my thanks and trust that our brief acquaintance of a year may ripen into a life-long friendship.
Mr. William Ellis, Jr. slipped on the ice several weeks ago and in falling he struck his side against the curbstone. He continued to discharge his duties, but by the next day was too sore for service. An examination disclosed the fact that he had fractured one of his ribs. He is slowly improving.
NOTICE.
James Needham Lodge, 1468, G. U. O. of O. F. will hereafter meet at W. Isaac Johnson's Hall on Foushee St., between Broad and Grace Sts., on the 1st and 3rd Friday nights in each month. Yodrs in F. L. & T. F. Jor逊son, P. S.
THE OLD FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
OF RICHMOND, VA.
Editor White's Conclusions.
Whatever else Editor Mitchell of the Richmond PLANET has failed in doing, there can be no question that he has put the old First Baptist Church of his city and of which the grand, good man Dr. James H. Holmes was for more than thirty years pastor, in ill repute before the outside world.
If Editor Mitchell reports correctly, this church nearly a century and a quarter old, with a membership of several thousand has fallen not only upon evil times, but into evil hands. We have read with the deepest possible regret and mortification the accounts given from week to week in the PLANET of the confusion and disorder in the various meetings held in this church. If the reports given are truthful, then this old church ought to be remodeled. If not truthful, then Editor Mitchell commits a crime against the church, against the cause of Christ, against the Baptist denomination and against the Negro race. Rev. W. T. Johnson, the pastor recently called, is a man of culture and standing, but unless he can turn the present current of discord it looks as though his church will split up and he may not escape blameless.
[Louisville, Ky., American Baptist.]
Governor Beckham has nominated to the Senate the following members of the Board of Trustees for the State Normal School at Frankfort Dr. E. E. Hume, for a term ending June 0, 1902. William Cromwell, for a term ending June 30, 1903. Louis D. Smith, for a term ending June 30, 1904. Mr. Smith, the colored member of the Board gets the longest term and Dr. Hume, the oldest member of the Board gets the shortest term.
Rather Demoralizing
DURHAM, N. C., Feb. 6.—The workhouse scandal has again broken out here. At the December term of court the grand jury reported that they found one of the prisoners, Vally Trice, a negress, enciente and recommended that the county commissioners investigate the matter at once. The commissioners held an investigation but did not agree with the conclusions of the grand jury. Now the Trice woman has given birth to a child. There is considerable criticism of the management of affairs at the county home and work house. Just what the board of commissioners will do about the matter, we are unable to say—Raleigh News & Observer.
[We have examined the Year Beck published by the News & Observer and we find that Durham county gave 595 Democratic majority. When we read this and remember the Alamance business, and the sands on the state farms during the former Democratic administration, it looks like White Supremacy is kinder demoralizing.]—Winston-Salem Union Republican.
At Leigh St. M. E. Church
The Pink Tea Party given by Mrs. B. C. Eldridge on Monday and Tuesday nights was a grand success. The church on Monday night was well filled. The members and friends enjoyed themselves with feasting until 10 o'clock when Rev. D. Webster Davis rapped for attention. He announced that Rev. W. T. Johnson of the First Baptist Church, who was to present Rev. W. A. C. Hughes with a suit of clothes on behalf of the members and friends of the church was necessarily detained and could not be present until a very late hour, and that the committee had requested him to present the suit. The note from the church to the pastor was then read:
Rev. W. A. C. Hughes; Ph. B.:
The valuable service which you have rendered us this conference year calls for a formal acknowledgement.
While it must be evident to you that we appreciate your personal qualities and the efficiency you have shown in your church work. It affords us no little pleasure to give you a more substantial testimony than mere words can convey.
Please accept the accompanying gift as an expression of our good-will and our sense of eminent service you have rendered.
Yours ever most faithfully,
Mrs. MATILDA HALL,
The following names of contributors were then read:
M. M. Bunn, Mr. and Mrs. James Forrester, Robert Smith, George Allen, Nellie Harris, Alice Royal, Bertha Jones, William Tennant, Dr. Ramsey, Dr. Thompson, Dr. R. E. Jones, Walter Fairley, Alexander Smith, Mollie Smith Mary Carter, Pinkey Newton, Lucy Abrams, Mabel Edmundson, Cynthia Edmondson, Nellie James, Mary Wright, George Bragg, W. I. Johnson, Dr. Merriweather, Dr. Jefferson, Nancy West, Nancy Smith, Alice Thomas, Mollie Robinson, Matilda Hall, Anna J. Brown, Cora E. Smith, Robert Eldridge
Caddie Eldridge, Susan Thorn, D. J. Chavers, William Johnson, Bertha Johnson, Dr. Benson, M. A. Smith, Daisy Jones, William Ruffin, Mrs. Hamilton, W. G. Singleton, Jeff Williams, Luan Forrester, Blanche Moseley, James Hunt, William Taylor, Carrie Hundley, William Taylor, Celeste Crane, Ernest Mosby, Agnes Miles
Rev. Davis then made the presentation address; after which the pastor responded, expressing his heartfelt thanks not only in receiving the suit of clothes and hat, but also for the expression of confidence which prompted the giving of the suit. The pastor spoke for fifteen minutes, promising to do next year as he had done this year should the conference which meets in Washington next week see fit to return him. The people demanded that the suit be worn in Richmond, which means that the pastor must return.
Next Sunday, Rev. Hughes will preach his annual sermon. Come.
RICHMOND, VA., Feb. 27, 1902.
I simply ask you all to give Dr. D. P. Oroway's Improved Plasters a fair trial and I know that you, like all others who have used them in the past four months in our city will be astonished at the speedy, permanent cure for all aches, pains and weakness. No medicine is needed with the plasters, 35c. Regular plasters, 35c., Foot plasters, 35c., Corn plaster, 10c.
Mrs. EMILY HARRIS, Agent,
813 St. James St.
Come one and all between 10 and 11
A. M.
Mr. Editor:—
Will you please allow me a little space in your valuable paper in reply to the request made by Rev. Dr. W. E. Graham in the interest of the Lynchburg Seminary. I am in full accord with you request and shall be by the help of God, to have my little mite to help to pay the debt upon the Lynchburg school.
I think that every Negro in the city of Richmond male and female child must assist the Virginia Baptist State Convention which meets in Peterburg next May, to raise the money which is due upon the Lynchburg Seminary.
My church took an active part in planting this school of learning. I am a friend to every institution of learning, therefore I will do all that is in my power to encourage the people of the city of Richmond to respond to this Lynchburg enterprise.
HARRISON SMITH.
Rev. Burrell's Protege.
We have received two very handsome photographs of Rev. Scott C. Burrell, Secretary of the Colored Y. M. C. A. and the little colored boy who in 1898 was sent to him.
The youngster was without home or friends. He was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Williams and they have never had to pay any fees to work in the day and attends night school.
Rev. Burrell is very proud of this practical example of what the Y. M. C. A. is doing.
The marriage of Miss Folly Jordan to
Mary Henry in place of January
32d, R. I. S. Smith and
Miss Dollie Johnson and Mr. Jas.
B. Walker, both of Richmond, were
married Thursday, Feb. 20th, 1902, and
left for Washington, where they will
make their future home.
SEATON—Departed this life Friday,
Feb'y 14th, 1902, Mrs. Elianna Seaton.
Her funeral took place at the residence
of her granddaughter, Mrs. J. Andrew
Bowler, 706 N. 9th St., Sunday, Feb'y
16th, 1902. Rev. D. W. Davis officiated.
Wanted.
A nice industrious girl. A good home to the right party. Address,
We return thanks for an invitation to the 4th Annual Soiree of the Theban Social Club.
Hon. Caesar Perkins of Buckingham County, Va. called on us.
Mrs. Kate Turner, of 819 west Franklin street meet with a very severe fall Friday morning, February 21st. From all reports she is rapidly improving.
Y. M. C. A. Notes.
Prof. G. R. Hovey, Vice-President of the Virginia Union University explained the Sunday School lesson last Saturday to a good number regardless of the weather. This is a very profitable hour to all Christian workers. You are invited to join this class. Free.
The following served on the committee last Sunday: Chairman, S. Braxton;
J. B. Braxton, "Jas, Harnes, G. W. Roane, and W. T. McKissick." 153 colored men were found in jail, 53 persons were visited in the almshouse.
General Secretary Rev. S. C. Burrell, preached for the pastor of the Sixth Mt. Zion last Sunday.
The boys crowded to our rooms te an overflow last Sunday to take a trip to the Philippines by the way of Captain W. A. Hankins, who took special interest in addressing them. The captain told them about his trip in part to the Islands and many interesting things about some of the customs and habits of the people. The boys were more than pleased and very kindly thanked Captain Hankins for this treat. Let the boy know and feel that you are his friend and all of our efforts will not be in vain.
Last Sunday a large number of men greeted Rev. A. S. Thomas, pastor of Sharon Baptist Church who delivered a special address to them upon the subject "Organization of Thought." The reverend gave many helpful suggestions and each man felt that he was paid for coming. Rev. D. L. Cozy, State Missionary presided at the organ.
To-day 3 p. m. you are invited to the explanation on the Sunday School lesson by Prof. G. R. Hovey. Bring your friend.
Those who are to serve on the committee Sunday will meet at the rooms 10 n. m. sharp.
Bible Study for boys Sunday '4 p. m.
Rev. Nelson Brown, pastor of the Mt.
Olivet Baptist Church of Chesterfield
Va. will address the men Sunday 5:30
p. m. at our rooms. See that every man
you meet is invited to this meeting. It
is free.
Remember, your subscription is due. Pay our collector when he calls.
MRS. SOFFEL
Accompice of Biddle Brothers Kates Ball as Pittsbane.
Butler, Feb. 26—Mrs Kate Sofel, wife of the Pittsburg jail warden, who assisted in the escape of the Biddle brothers and was wounded in the battle when they were recaptured, was removed from the Butler hospital yesterday morning and taken to Pittsburg by County Detective Robison. She had fully recovered from her wounds. Three charges have been made against her, one alleging the crime of alding in the escape of murderers, and two alleging felonious assault and battery.
Pittsburg Pa., Feb. 26.—Upon arrival in Allegheny Mrs. Soffel was driven at once to the court house in Pittsburg, where her attorney made plea before Judge Marshal Brown for the prisoner's release on bail. Through her attorney she offered a bond signed by her father, Conrad Dietrich, for $5,000, but Judge Brown decided the bail not sufficiently secured and ordered that the prisoner remain in the custody of Detective Robinson, who removed her to the county jail and placed her in a cell, where she remained three hours, pending the securing of the bond. Mrs. Soffel walked slowly, with head bowed down. She did not show a trace of emotion. Her father did not once speak to his daughter. He said that he had not at first signed the bond voluntarily, but that his wife and another member of the family had persuaded him to do so. Mrs. Soffel, after being released, left with her father for his home on Mount Washington.
SEVEN DEAD IN COLLISION
New York Central Train Crashed Into Steam Derrick.
Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 26.—As the result of a collision on the Auburn branch of the New York Central railroad, seven miles west of Auburn, between west-bound passenger train, No. 211, and a steam derrick, late Monday night, seven trainmen are dead and two others missing. The following are the dead: Edward E. Wine, of this city; Frank Hinds, of this city; Engineer Durand, of Syracuse; John Evans, Samuel Schmuck, of Syracuse; Joe Shoemacher, of this city; Edward H. Renner.
As train No. 211, the west-bound passenger, was rounding a curve a few miles west of Aurelius, going at a fast clip, it met the steam derrick running "wild" from Canandalgua to Syracuse. There was an awful crash, followed by the sound of escaping steam and then silence. Scattered about was the wreckage of the two engines, which were so badly smashed that it was impossible to tell one from the other. From the head end of the train could be heard cries for help, and assisted by the passengers of his train, Conductor Killip began the work of rescue. The dead were removed from the heap of wreckage at various intervals and tenderly laid alongside the tracks.
The railroad officials are very reticent as to the responsibility for the wreck, but it is understood that the crew of the passenger train was in no way to blame for the accident, and that the steam derrick crew was solely at fault and running without orders. None of the passengers was injured.
CAUGHT IN DEATH TRAP
Nineteen People Perish in Fire in Park Avenue Hotel.
MANY SCENES OF WILD TERROR
Guests Were Watching Fire Close By,
When the Hotel Caught and Their
Escape Was Cut Off—Wildest Kind
of a Panic Followed.
New York, Feb. 24.—Another was
added to New York's list of hotel fire
horrors Saturday morning, when 19
guests of the big Park Avenue Hotel,
at Thirty-third street and Park
avenue, were burned or suffocated to
death, a score or more others were
injured, and property valued at $750.
000 destroyed. Among those whose
lives were sacrificed were several men
and women prominent in various
walks of life, among them being Mrs.
Ellen Foster, better known as "the
angel of the Tombs."
Fifteen minutes before the flames were discovered in the Park Avenue Hotel fire broke out in the immense granite armory of the Seventy-first Regiment, N. G. N. Y., located diagonally across Park avenue, at Thirty-fourth street, running through to Thirty-fourth. The blaze in the armory was discovered by a woman on the third floor at the Thirty-third street end of the building.
The flames quickly spread throughout the structure, and it was but five minutes after the fire was first seen that the entire building was a mass of flames. Ten minutes later the roof fell with a terrific crash. Later the Thirty-third street wall fell in.
The burning armory was separated from the Park Avenue Hotel only by the width of park or Fourth avenue and the 500 or more guests within the walls of the hotel were naturally aroused by the noise and excitement. The Park Avenue Hotel was supposed to be fireproof, and it is said that word was sent to all the guests that there was no danger. At any rate the windows looking toward the blazing armory were filled with guests who gazed with fascinated eyes upon the spectacle afforded. Suddenly a shout went up from the throngs on the street that the hotel was on fire. The cry reached the ears of the people inside, and the wildest kind of a panic followed, men and women rushing about in their night clothes vainly seeking a means of escape.
Finding the elevator shaft a mass of flames and the main stairway cut off, several jumped from windows and others perished amid the flame and smoke. More than 500 patrons were in the building at the time, and all fled in haste to places of safety. Those who occupied rooms below the fifth floor were able to escape down the stairways.
In their terror men and women climbed out of the windows of their rooms and tried to escape by crawling along icy window ledges. Firemen rescued nearly a score of them from the front of the building by the Pompier scaling ladders. Only one man jumped, from the rear of the hotel. He struck on an adjoining roof and his brains were dashed out.
The Park Avenue Hotel became a frightful death trap almost in the twinkling of an eye. Almost instantly the two elevator shafts became flaming chimneys from the ground to the sixth floor. The halls filled with killing smoke. Down in the office, where there had been no flurry of unusual excitement up to this time, the employees saw showers of sparks fill the elevator shafts.
Even with the warning it was impossible to convince scores of them that every second of delay brought death closer on their heels. Men and women who were awakened insisted on going back to bed. Many of those who ran into the halls became bewildered and half suffocated, and bolted back to the opened windows, through which embers from the burning armory entered in a fiery torrent. Down the stairways poured a stream of half-clad, frenzied patrons, and within ten minutes after the hotel was known to be on fire the offices and corridors of the ground floor were filled with fugitives, many in their night clothes, many of them burned and crying aloud in their agony.
Various opinions were given as to the origin of the fire in the hotel. The manager claims that it was of incendiary origin. Others hold to the theory that the fire originated from sparks from the burning armory building, swept by the wind in the direction of the hotel, descending the air shaft, which was directly alongside the elevator, and ignited the debris which was piled up in the basement near the elevator shaft. The idea of incendiary origin is scouted by the guests of the hotel and by Fire Chief Croker.
Diplomatic Bill Passed.
Washington, Feb. 26—The house
yesterday passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. It was the fifth of the regular annual supply measures to be sent to the senate at this session No amendments of importance were adopted. The feature of the day was the speech of Mr. Richardson, of Alabama, in reply to Mr. Corliss' speech a few days ago in favor of the construction of a Pacific cable by the government. The question of reforming the consular service was debated at some length.
Miners imprisoned in Colliery, Pottsville, Pa. Feb. 26.—George John and Martin Strakumus, brothers, three miners, have been imprisoned in the Cameron colony, at Shamokin, since Monday. Up to last night their rapping upon the side of the breast could be heard, but then it ceased.
A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, February 20.
William B. Fasig, of Brewster, N. well known horse dealer of the Fasig-Tipton Co., died yesterday.
Robert McCaw, of Philadelphia, secured a verdict for $15,000 d. magnes against the Union Traction company for the loss of a leg.
The president sent to the senate yesterday the names of Captain Phil H. Cooper and Captain George H. Wadleigh to be rear admirals.
H. H. Matteson, who confessed to embezzling $75,000 from the First National Benk of Great Falls, Mont., is now alleged to have taken $178,000.
Anthony J. Drexel's yacht Maranta has been chartered for two months by Mr. Alexander, of the New York Yacht Club. The consideration is $50,000.
Friday, February 21.
Pope Leo yesterday entered on the 25th year of his pontificate. He was the recipient of congratulations from all sides.
Two Italians were killed and three injured, nour Fitzburg. Pa., by being struck by a train on "he Fitzburg, Virginia and Charleston railroad.
William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, sixth earl of Fitzwilliam, one of the wealthiest of English peers, died in London yesterday.
Charles Denglers, a well-known restaurant keeper, of Trenton, N. J., died from a fall in a saloon. He struck his head against the bar and fractured his skull.
Saturday, February 22.
Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore, celebrated its quarter centennial anniversary.
It is announced that King Leopold, of Belgium, will make a short tour of America the coming summer.
The annual convention of the Society of the Children of the American Revolution, at Washington, closed yesterday.
A gas explosion in a building of the Rochester Gas and Electric Company destroyed the structure and caused a loss of $20,000.
The Ohio house of representatives has placed itself on record as favoring the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people.
Monday, February 24.
The Illinois auxiliary of the McKinley Memorial Association has received $30,616 in contributions.
James McGlashen and an unknown woman were found dead in a rooming house in Detroit. They were suffocated by illuminating gas.
Charles E. Dalton, secretary-treasurer of the Metropolitan Guaranty Company, of Cleveland, O., shot and killed Maurice Kratz in a bar room fight.
While cleaning a chute at No. 4 colliery of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company, at Tamaqua, Pa. John Wall was caught in a revolving wheel and instantly killed.
Tuesday, February 25.
William Emerson Richmond, better known as "Billy" Emerson, the famous minstrel, died of consumption in Boston.
The plant of the Tupelo Cotton Compress company, at Tupelo, Miss, with 700 bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $60,000.
General Pressley M. Guthrie, former adjutant general of Pennsylvania, and one of the best-known military men of the state, died in Pittsburg yesterday.
King Edward of England will have assigned to Miss Alice Roosevelt a place among the wives of ambassadors to witness the coronation ceremony.
Wednesday, February 26.
George P. Kurtz, city treasurer of Cleveland, O., died yesterday of typhoid fever.
The Empire City race track, at Yonkers, N. Y., was sold at public sale for $300,000.
The ninth conference of the foreign mission boards in the United States and Canada opened in Toronto yesterday.
Parties out walking at Benham, Tex. found the body of a young girl concealed in a hollow stump. She had been murdered.
The transport Rosecranz, with the Third Battalion of the Twenty-second Infantry, from Manila, arrived at Sam Francisco yesterday.
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Mrs, Sarah J. Young, or “Aunt
Becky” Young, as she is better known,
ls still living at the age of 70 in this
city. Mra, Young was the founder of
the New York Sanitary association.
She is among the last of the famous
nurses of the civil war, having served
for three years on the field of battle
from the Wilderness to Petersburg,
says a special correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean from Des
Moines, Ia.
Besides having founded the New
‘York Sanitary essoclation, Mrs. Young
4s also the founder of the Iowa associa-
tion of the same name. It isa more re-
gent organization, however, and had
its inception at the breaking out of the
Spanish-American war. The associa-
tion is being maintained at the present
‘time, and “Aunt Becky” is still presi-
dent of it.
It was a hereditary influence that
caused the girl of 31 to go out from
Ithaca, N. Y., with the One Hundred
‘and Ninth regiment, commanded by
Benjamin F. Tracy, afterwards seere-
“tary of war. The “Aunt Becky” of to-
day was then Sarah Graham. Her fa-
ther’s sister, Ruth Graham, had been
@ nurse in the war of 1812, and the
stories of her valor had thrilled the
girl from childhood.
When Sumter was fired upon it was
Sarah Graham who organized the
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For two years she stayed patiently at
home and made bandages and was con-
tent to look upon war from across two
atates. ‘Then the regiment from Itha-
‘ca was organized, and she deolared
that she must go with it. The Tomp-
Akins County Sanitary association was
Uifted from her shoulders and merged
with other kindred organizations and
Decame a state association,
. Mrs. Young is in the active posses-
sion of all her faculties, and takes @
great interest in the welfare of the
soldiers. She is even now planning to
@o what she may be allowed to do for
the soldiers who will come to Des
Moines next year with the opening of
the new army post.
She fs one of the few historic army
nurses left. She was with the army of
the Potomac and was to it what Math-
er Bikerdyke was to the army of the
Mississippi. She went into the thickest
‘of the fight and was not content to
stay in the rear with the hospital
‘corps.
She believes that she Is the only
nurse alive who saw three years of ae-
tive service on the field of battle, Mrs.
Mary Hazen, “Gentle Annie” Armitage
and Mary Blackmar were in the band
‘of nurses along with her, and she
speaks with reverence and admiration
of their work.
‘Of the 30 or more nyrses who attend
the meetings of the association at each
national encampment she does not be-
eve that a half ever saw service
enough to entitle them to mention or
‘credit. Mrs. Young draws a pension of
$20 per month from the government
for her services during the war,
‘The sobriquet “Aunt Becky” was be-
stowed upon her in this manner: Thy
‘boys had been calling her “Mother,
‘Dut she disliked the title on aecount of
hier youthfulness. One day she stopped
‘to scold a wounded soldier who had
called her that in a spirit of jest and
was overheard by Dr. French, of the
hospital corps. “T will give you a
name that will last you as long as you
live,” he said. “It is Aunt Becky.” Lit.
tle did he know the truthfulness of
his prophecy. Few people in Des
Moines or Iowa know her by any other
name than the one bestowed upon her
in that idle moment.
‘Mrs. Young returned to Ithaca at the
lose of the war and was married to
David Young, who is still living. He
wes a soldier under the queen and
served for five years in the Canadian
army during the Fenian outbreak. He
4p a carpenter by trade. Mr. and Mra
Young own the cottage in which they
Hive, and seem destined for many more
years of active life.
“Aunt Becky” saw President Lincoln
wag G0 you like your neighbars?”
“Not a bit,” said the woman who
was tying a little boy's hat on. “You
‘see they don’t like children.”
“How do you know?”
“They hurt Reginald’s feelings
@readfully. When he throws stones
‘at their dog, or plays the hos on
their window, they look ree? 6a
“at him!”—Washington Stax
ne —
2
Wetheriy Devatian.
but once. It was at Petersburg at tle
close of the war. The hospitals were
filled with the blackened and bruised
and torn men who were blown up in
the mine before that city, and “Aunt
Becky” was among the nurses. The
news came that President Lincoln was
Passing through from Richmond on his
way north. The hospital was tidied up
as well as possible, and every prepara-
tion made for the arrival of the presi-
dent. :
“When he came the nurses were intro-
duced to him. When he came to Sarah
Graham he said: “I’ve heard of you.”
‘Then he turned to the wounded sol-
dier on the cot before him—e confed-
erate lad of 16—and asked him how he
felt.
“Tell the president where you're
hurt,” said the nurse.
“Well,” he answered, “I'll never kick
my mother again, nor I'll never hug
my sweetheart any more.”
He had lost both legs and both arms.
‘Tears streamed down the president's
face as he listened to the strange re-
cital of the lad’s injuries, and then he
Put his hand on the shoulder of the
nurse and said:
“Poor boy! Take good care of him.”
ADORNS HIS OWN GRAVE.
Veteran of Long Inland Who Lost
Mix Reason at the Battle
of Vieksburs.
Few indeed have the strange priv-
Hlege of decorating their own graves,
Such a person, however, is to be found
in Corona, L. 1, He enlisted in the
Flushing regiment and in the battle of
Vicksburg was hit with the fragment
ofa shell.
For a whole day he layin the trench-
es, They thought him dead. When he
came to his mind and memory were
gone, Strangers found him and asked
him who he was. Hecouldnottell. He
‘eras: Mike a chtid
He was transferred, and after the
war was taken to the soldiers’ homein
Washington. There he learned once
more to read and write, to converse
and thus began life over again, sayse
Chicago paper.
One day 30 years after the battle
that robbed him of hie senses, the man
woke up, as it were. The pressure on
his skull was relieved. He came to his
old self. His first question was about
the battle.
“What battle?” they asked.
“Why, the battle I was in to-day.
Was Thit?"
‘They told him that he had been hit
30 years before. He had been restored
to his former identity, All memory of
the interveinig years now faded as
completely as that which had gone be-
fore had faded previously,
“Who are you?” they asked. He told
them. Then he started th? long jour.
ney back to Long Island, in search of
his former home and friends, Arriving
at Flushing, one of the first objects
that met his gaze was the soldiers’ mon-
ument. It stands in front of the eld
Quaker meeting house, dated 1661, and
which was used alternately as a federal
and a British stronghold’ during the
revolution,
‘The old man naturally paused and
read the familiar names of his mar
tyred comrades. To his consternation
he saw his own name enrolled there.
That was some years ago.
Since that day the old veteran has
never missed Decoration day in Flush-
ing. He comes with a big wreath and
lays it on the mound under his own
ume:
Crossing @ Coon Bridge.
“I remember,” said the major, “that
in a case of urgency we crossed the up-
per Cumberland on what the boys
called a coon bridge. A tree on one
side was felled so as to strike the top
of & tree cut down on the other side,
The interlocking branches in mid-
stream held thié foot bridge in place,
but it was a wobbly affair at best. Only
the sure-footed went over in peace of
mind, and some men who could not
walk a foot log at liome had to be blind-
folded and led over by those net given
to dizziness. The trouble about such
makeshift bridges was that they were
almost as dangerous to command as
a battle. On this occasion two or more
men in each company were disabled in
the crossing, but the: regiment was
ready for business and gave a good ac-
count of itself."—Chicago Inter Ocean,
‘The “Fanny” Man,
When it Is said of a man that heds
“funny,” it is usually « polite may ot
saying he is a tool—Atchison Glol
‘Where. Sympathy Was Necéed.
| “How's the baby?” asked the moth-
er, who had run in next door to sees
neighbor and had been detained.
“Madam,” coldly replied the father,
| who had been temporarily left in
charge of the infant, “your solicitude
i for the wrong person. If you have
any sympathy to waste give {t to me—
the baby doesn’t need it half as much.”
i—Chicago Post. 3
The “Renny” Mea
tHE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
‘The Atmonphere of Comets,
Several attempts have been made te
determine the refractive power of the
Stmosphere surrounding the head of
4 comet by measuring the change of
the apparent position of a star before,
during and after its occultation by the
comet. Observations made at Geneva
in 1881, by Dr. Meyer, were interpreted
to show an appreciable refraction.
Observations by Burnham and, Bar-
nard at the Lick observatory, in 1891,
onacomet that traversed the Pleiades,
showed, on the other hand, no such
effect. Mr. Perrine, at the Lick ob-
servatory, has lately repeated similar
observations and found no trace of
change of position of a star during its
occultation by the comet. The spec:
troscope showed the comet to be gas-
cous. The light from the star must
have suffered some refraction. Thr
observations prove that the amount
was inappreciable and that the gas
was of extreme tenuity.—N. ¥. Sun.
Sita ‘bas, “Sarhe Sraiane
*wo cows and a farmer were amb-
ling down Boylston street one night
recently. One cow, apparently of
an ugly disposition, was on the end
of a leading line and the other, a de-
mure and smaller creature, followed.
‘The cows were bound for the Brigh-
ton slaughter houses.
When the farmer, who was a tall,
Jank specimen, approached a group
of loungers a callow youth shouted:
“Say, mister, ain't you afraid that
cow without a rope will ran away?”
“She ain't got her car fare. If she
had she would. G'lang there.”
| The muscles of the farmer's face
never changed. He did not miss a
‘step or turn his head, and the laugh
that went up from the throng
4rowned for a minute some passages
which the hurdy-gurdy was playing
from “William Tell."—Boston Jour-
‘nal.
eee
| A lad in one of the London board
schools was found guilty of a serious
infraction of discipline, and was di-
rected by his teacher to tell his moth-
er when he got home what misde-
meanor he had committed.
The next morning the schoolmis-
tress called Johnnie to her desk,
when the following dialogue en-
sued:
“Well, Johnnie, did you inform your
mother what infraction of discipline
You were guilty of yesterday, and the
reprimand and punishment you re-
ceived?”
“Yes'm,” was the sententious re-
ply.
“Well, and what did your mother
say?”
“She said she'd like to wring your
neck for you.”—Stray Stories.
Pence Tents of Bravery.
| Peace has its tests of a sailor's or a
soldier's bravery no less severe than
those of war, though they may be less
glorious. Few civilians would fancy
‘the duty which has been assigned to
several naval officers oftsealing them-
selves up in the new submarine tor-
pedo boat Fulton, of sinking then be-
low the surface of the water and of
‘Temaining there from 12 to 15 hours.
‘The officers and men Who are to un-
ergo this experience will breathe
bottled air, so to speak, the necessary
| supply of atmospheric fluid being con-
tained in compressed air flasks.—N.
'Y. Mail aad Exsress.
‘One View of It. |
“Papa, you are a playwright, aren't
you?” asked the small boy.
“Yes, my son,” rephed the dramat-
ist, who was even then having some
trouble over the production of one of
his pieces. |
“Well, is there such a thing as a
play wrong?" persisted the boy.
“There is, my son,” was the prompt
reply. “He is the actor."—Chicago
Post.
Fatal Accident in the West.
Tourist—I understand that one of
your leading citizens, Grizzly Pete,
was accidentally kilied yesterday?
Bad Burt (of Bloody Guleh)—
That's what, friend! When he wuz
drawin’ bis gun it stuck in the hols-
ter.
“Ah! And was discharged?”
“No; it wuz the other feller’s that
wuz discharged.”—Puck.
Diplomatic,
“The earrings are very pretty,” she
said, with just a tinge of disappoint-
ment, “but the stones are very
small.” “But, my dear,” replied the
foxy man, “if they were any larger
they would be all out of proportion
to the size-of your ears.”—Philadel-
phia Press,
RE NS PTT AS
Edith—You say you were once in
great danger while shooting in Geor-
gia? I suppose you wounded a bear
or some other dangerous animal?
Chelly—Nope! I wounded a dog
that the guide thought more of than
he did of his mother!—Puck.
Delaware's Honor,
The fact that little Delaware is the
oldest state of the union gives her gov-
ernor social precedence over ail other
state executives who may share with
him any official entertainment in
Washington. —Ladies’ Home Journal,
Ancient Rivers of Greece.
‘The famous rivers of ancient Greece,
which are mentioned so often by the
Poets and historians of the peninsula,
Were mere creeks, some of them
scareely larger than ponds.—Geo-
graphical Journal.
‘Thorough,
Barker—One thing I am convinced
of; she will never do anything she
thinks wrong.
Simmly—I'm glad to hear you say
that. Some day, you know, I hope
to call her mine.
Barker—Another thing: she will
never think anything wrong that she
wants to do.—Brooklyn Life.
Diae’t Get Her Money's Worth.
Clara—Why, Ethel, what makes you
so blue?
Ethel—That fortune teller told me I
would be married twice, and she told
Edna she would have three husbands,
and to think I paid for having both our
fortunes told!—Chelsen (Mase.) Ga-
aette.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
*rains Leave and Arrive 14th St. Station
OBA. M., No. 9: for Durham, N C. Dan
vest ae Be
Eonryer cee eri
Ni Danville;
‘at Oxford for 3d
SP Mig Oe mited tran daily, for Jock,
eee
for ESleigh ard
Winston:Satem ; a ‘with No.
Spicierna matte ae
Drawing tioom er, Hichinond t5
nd < Trone?
Senin, with Slespor” to Mem
phis.” Bining-OarService,
P44, No. 11, Southern atty
mer Mian, goat Sacre 8
Bante south” "Biceper for, Drinlie,
pan at Richmond 38 Bee ame
Surwith New York and Mors ee
brew and Southwestern Limited, which
Spa Jacksonville, Tampa Messi
Goblets. Bintngoat Tact Ais
Pullman ‘nourat cor tony, Wed
Bantvanctaco, without change wisi ons
hections for ali points in. Tesuer Mesioe
and California.
. M., No. 17, local daily, except Sunday,
OOM br Maywvill’ and intercede okie
TRAINS ARRIVE IN RICHMOND,
6A.)
rer le Ra ee alipaney sat
8:0 AVL. from Keyeille and local stations.
S22) Mt from Durham, Charlotte, Danville
nd intermedintestations
LOCAL FREIGHT.
Yon. 61 and 62 between Manchester and Neapo-
hi 7
YORK RIVER LINE, VIA
| WEST POINT.
THE FAVORITE ROUTE NORTH.
cau, BATE RLCINOND,
a, HEAL .
sit hien mints Nag
soo ERSW ay een etter a
ane ener ane
ae oe eee
ie area th
bP 4. ii'So: i, say foc Wee Pua eee
smredlate reais connecting with rane
St Lester Manor for Walkerton and
Fostene
WPRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.
$1 cay pent Pl gma
Sis SARS cr rae loge
aaron a
slits oes oar ee, Pa
‘jm, Steamers call at Almonds and Yorktown
pay bese ae a
OW. WESTBURY, DPA,
920 E. Main St., Richmond, Va.
8 H HARDWICK, G. P. A.,
BP. 8. GANNON,
Third Vice-President and General
Manager, Washington, D.C
Norfolk and Western R. R.
November 24th, 1901.
LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD
_ STREET STATION.
9:00 A.M. Ni LIMITED. Arrives at
1a We a a oe
0:06.4. STR CHG BO ERP Rlisa, tor
Renae, ‘cola
Ltr Wine oe hoy
See ee eee eee
Sr ag ce mata oo
sine ge Balint Boy
3:00 P. Mt, Gosan Bore EGMUR. Arrives Nor
GhOD EM buat ony of ey
folk with “Becamersy0 mance Nor
fence, Now Sort Bahimare sna Wace
T:aNP. Misfor Suffolk, Norfolk and intermed
PP gpm arses af Rose
(ite P.M for Lapohivare, and Roenote. Cee
me os aaa on Reet Om
soe, Chaat aa
Siow Orlin Cate ation ee,
tion Cars Redford to Attala, Ala. Pull
ieee cir het
gaat x raise Palin ‘Sleeper
‘Traing arrive Richmond from Lynchburg and
nd the Wont daily mt fo cA RE.
Bip Ps Prom Norte andi
Setiioa! Sontisaras oek ee
-
Office 838 Main St.
JOHN E. WAGNER,
City Passengor. and Tickot Agt.
O. H. BOSLEY,
District Passenger Agent.)
W.B. ae
Gen Agent.
Goneral Oftice; Honma, 40°
de. 18
oestieemuitoetitus alee
FEBRUARY 10, 1902.
C. & O.
PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE AND
ARRIVE NEW MAIN-ST. STATION
LEAVE RIOHMOND.,
9A. 4, Dally, Polat, No
A. M. st re Old it, tole
10510 ALM. Bxe Sanday. Local to Calverton
deep Sanday, Local to Catverton
Siete Roem Coan a
w020 4, Me Bay for Levan. Larington
| Sunday for Romney Alors thd Se
OP GBS SSR ot
Sage amen wo ea
Old Dominion Annex ‘Bost for New
her iste eee
aeP. Be Damrcee onan’ Culetgo Liste
Seles ston nae
Soetriecere sata tae
Seley Wri ae peer
«ss ese, nes, Yosel
Sees scans teak See
nace tatite Oni ous gt
Oe eet Rl Rat
SE AE Set a eee
=
‘5:15 P. M., Rxcept Sunday for Bremo.
Ba0F. a moos andey to Dee
10#0P. M. Daily F. F. V. Dining Car train. Con
m, Daly B.¥, Yin :
BSR Gnctng ei par
cinnati, Louisville, and the West. F
ARRIVE NEW MAIN ST, TATION.
$0 2: MC Dally ram Gintama nee
ieee ae Bally From Rortolk "ss Porte-
9 haat Mesa wei Sis cain cos
. M. ‘from Cincinnat
BEA B Fe Oana rope
terbaidsernsrumeys ee ge Oat
eeu 7.35 pens Seat Rec oat ere
SSS Fe Bas fa Nort we recep
pater gem mar,
seems
ABU over eh ge waa
‘H.W, FULLER, JOHN D. POTTS
G.P. A. A.G.P. A.
Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad.
Schedule in Effect Jan. 14, 1902.
Trains Leave Richmond Northward,
Salar coe AE
tie ea
6:5 a.m. MAIN STREET
aaa
=
Sy,
edt es ee ee ae
Bier eee
Sees. No stop
RENE etogeatrencinet
ih eat’ Pullman’ charges" Bing
1:24 & me. Broopt from ELBA STA:
miokewitni for, BRA PE
Eck coeeae
Seen a te sa an FTE
Sa Rate gunman nea
Soquan and Alexandria. Buffet Parlor
8:08. E Sunday from BYRD STREET
"pelea rece rue rn
Beara hie, eraikernat et
aoe :
20 Xa ey Seay, from BYRD or
es peg te BYRD Se
SAT nacorenon rg
Saracens wate
s I Limited,
ou oR Paige te MAI BERS
SP EAREGW Pr warhing nan band
Sterne er ember
Slcrandria. “Sleeping carw to "New
- Bt Pony, frm the STEAD
AOnP- BrAte sommanscanuon fe Prete
Soran tees ate
sae. bul, en BBA SEATON,
Ranieeoten Re temgta
Car to New York. Dining Car. -
aor. East tay iret tba era
TION; Ascommedation for Ashland an
concer
a6 2. ae roe READ STHRET, eramion
for Washington, nnd beyond. af
Riba, Ashinnd, Borwell’ Mitford, Pret
setae eer Wigencice ce
Tear een Soe
Bioed to New Work ama Wankingten to
Female 5
11 Pt Bee fener, Ea. ea
‘TON Accommodation for Astiand al
Soest
Trains Arrive In Richmond South-
ward,
6:0 4.x, Beat ata mina srarion
Sa mee ieee Sree
825 A. Sreergt Sean ¢ BYRD STREET
© SEATION’ Accommodation Prom Pred
sition cotter Sate
sso bay vy PRT rio
Bipta’ sei ERT ANN
Eaasteer airy Seren a
Sei ence sce nore
Sieger fm tor to
0B, Beeps aay ne BYRD ermemr
Gane eaaian eae os
Allen and Elba. i * =
240 PB Paly a ELA STATION. stp
at Alexandria and rpsterekeare:
Mpeg Oh a Nee Yor hang
tar. Pay. at MAIN sth ERE
SEARO: RAE SER ERT
fetalor Reraeatcnat fies
Srercerever
Sarr. Sc sce nya ta STATION.
eee tk AT
termediate points. -
ras P. See ug’ er SiaD-orneer_ era
TION, “Stops at Alexandria, Preder
Sear rien Meeecree es
ington. | Dining Car. :
op. aig Das REED STR gr
oF tb, ale, BEERSTRET ge
Eeaey iceman.
ected nares
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Elite. Beop t Aiczandrin, Pree
ing Cars from New ‘York. Dining Car,
190 Pe cep any eA So
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: ori ra
eager" easy ana pee
Special, “Makes no stops. All Pull
atin ete ed
SMa Peet
wer. TAvLon,
Tf nner
WDD, TD MYERS
Counomce pe,
SEABOARD AIR-LINE R. R,
“Capital City Roste”
Short Line to Principal Cities of The
South and Southwest. Florida,
Cuba, Texas, California, and
Mexico, Reaching the Cap-
Itol of Six States,
SOHEDULE IN EFFECT DEC: 1,01.
Trains Leave Richmond Daily—Main
Street Station,
108» ect etepepion Lace
Rice nt Metrgotian Ht
Sete Rix: SSG" edad
war peek gactee antts, et, ales
Pig tan Rat foe cere
‘ern Pinos, Pinehurst, Athons, “Atlanta
HSE Green as
298 pam ‘Past Mails for Doteratan
Bing Hat, al ois eee ee
Siseseerisgere™
0 cee ee ee, LO
mediate stations. " Connection at Norm:
Rein rae u's ania
aand Burton, SC, S35"). ial
seg seni,
teen gee tc,”
Baap Besse Ertan Local
[A aan
P Daly ‘axcent Sunday, Potorsiure ‘and
ape EEE, wean
Kod Ga aE aye TaN
No Fork ahd the Hae day
ean RRC trct a
sina ee te Se
‘in ‘Toxas, Mexico and California, =
TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND—
DAILY.
$g5pm.|romallgtne Bouth and soot
ROE o hoe Wii a0, Beate
faa tad foe potas N° m
PRPS raped Wn pase
eae EM TERT, ay
esp Sbin ger scl erat fn Ti
Hag Sante fate es Seepage
Neti eas ie Ng arrnmnae, Ge
braete atin Gy grata Ber
goods handled’ but the freakeed nogeanncd
See ee ge ee
eee eee will be ore
Srations or taslede hore dining cases
SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
sk Pees aa ets
saat ste ten Meteo
Furae™ Ri Gene tgerem Se You a
Biaine Saar eae ares te
bra a oe tena tr,
moth Eat SoS Be Ma
SerePeinsig with Mens Gero
3 :
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Je Me BARR, 1g eee Beet”
REL PUGH,
=etamonth Va.
|
.
W. I. JOHNSON,
e
| FUNBRAL DIRECTOR°AND EMBALMER.
Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner
HACKS FOR HIRE:
Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Si
~ pers ard Entertainments prompily attended
Old ’Phone, 686, Residence in Butiding, New Phone,
————
2 Ag fd KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF THEW
as a
Ponti Me V.P. & F.K. of W.
) y ra 5 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
if i) A Veraede 7, __ ‘Thiy organization has been chartered and legalh
se Tal ke Ghana teutne enone nee
Pi Se men ‘on the Bron Bases of Charity Benefcl
Fraternal anc] to promote the Social and Moral con/lition of humanity.
Itstwo distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organ’
place in the front ranks of ‘all sacred institutions of. ‘molcrn events, a grand
tunity {)- agtive men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to
lodges. Ks 2 a address, ° Vv.
S888 W. SSiuest New Youre nS
ATLANTIC COAST-LINE.
Schedule In Effect Jan. 14, 1902.
TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND—BYRD
STREET STATION
9:00 8. a "eat ke Daly Ar.
i 2) mm. ony Petersburg,
9:06 N = 9:40)
B24 ee
4 AM Jacana da ot Bor
wine fare ES Aduboro;, 8:25
ia. eee
= 2
Srih ia anor
ter on signal.
8:00; [ORE
> Rana gen END Tate
GEES TS agora cota
cdsp.emyemees Seka, Arrows Po
sue Sovaeg, Ariz Pt
Hier Sadana, Wakes ads
son? Bate Eire Petersoarg 1D
var MERA. were meoiax ne
ITED. Daily. Arrives Petersburg, 7:58
BaP oat Mi ears Wee
evonkeesy mascae ie
Hee Pd Pndnttcmce ek
Siete tore re
Sony
SRES. We aig a
ene Wena
Fee a aE
‘LINE TO MIDDLE GEORGIA
Bator. to, epous, oppeau
. Rr hewee
Satan Ghent
ESSE eS
9:10PM Daily. Arrives Petersburg 0:8 8.
¥ ae Ate Ree A
Son a eeart Ye
BASE Bint Sorin
a9 EINES acviea Posrary i
ua? pags ra EW
Bi RS a nen
1s A'Me Sackwametio tio Ser Se
RRA ae score
TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.
sana. Dale, Foon deste Boren
ae teem dates, Sere
Seta and all ‘points South,
vin a I EE um
Su deere eer orem
TAA M. Dally, From ‘Petersburg, Lynch-
wa. GREG Ate anda. Peerbarg
NA0A.M. T oxi . From.
Bp oe on ee
ects
M42A.M. Daily. From Norfolk, (Suffolk and
aa
Fever =< ere pumas,
etc
susp Ba Ce Canday. Prom Po
rer. Baby, 2mm Minn. Post Tames
ienen adie saat SoG
6:0 P. 3 Daly. From Norfolk, Suffolt, and
£0 FEO TEE trem Peseta, Tom
en es wie
T. M. EMMERSON,
‘Traffic Manager.
J. R. KENLY, General Manager.
H. M. EMMERSON,
General Passenger Agent.
0.8. oe pee
rite Pasevbgee Ant,
‘838 East Main Street.
jan. 14.
WANTED TO BUY FOR CAS
Old Brass Fenders, Candle Sticks, old
Powter and Silver Plated Ware,” old
Blue Dishes and China Ware, and in
fact, every thing old fashioned.
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MASTER and SLAVE By... T. H. THORPE
Copyright, 1901, by T. H. Thorpe.
SEPTEMBER of the year 1860 was exceptionally hot and dry even for the climate of Louisiana. Navigation of the Mississippi's tributaries was impracticable. The baked alluvion crumbled into a depth of impalpable dust, which rose in clouds at the disturbance of a dog's trot. The stiff lands were of stony hardness. Creamy white lay the cotton fields on either side of the bayous to the green borders of the moss hung swamps, and the beds of the deep, yawning bayous themselves could almost be traversed dry shod.
It was afternoon at the close of the mouth when Evariste, attired in the latest of the city's modes, alighted from his buggy at Mother Deshautelles' gate. Though he had driven the long distance from Red River landing, on the Mississippi, where he disembarked from the steamboat on his return from a visit to New Orleans, he appeared neither travel stained nor heated. Rainer he looked spotless and cool. Laure, in a gown of stuff which might have been woven of the spider's web and which clung lovingly to her perch, welcomed him with a warmth of manner which would have proved fatal to any of her 20 Gosconold admirers. Her beauty, though dark, was rich, dazzling and dangerous, and she knew it. She realized the power of a smile made up of glistening teeth and parted carmine lips. The glinting of deep brown eyes, the arch pose of a pretty head and the springing step of dainty feet were a poem of health and vitality of her own composition. But the narrow forehead and mouth spoke as much of will as of love.
She led Evariste to the shaded veranda and, serving him a draft of refreshing wine, said:
"New tall me, great traveler that you are all about the wonders of the grand city, for you know I have never been there."
"Oh, no," he replied. "I saw no wonders except miles of steaming streets and swarms of sweltering people."
"Nothing short of Paris for you, then?" said Laure.
"Well, I might compromise on Vienna or possibly Nice. But see, Laure, what I bring you." Evariste took from his pocket a small-packet, opening which she discovered a dainty Russia leather and satin lined case, with gold on initials "I. I." inlaid upon it and within it the watch given her by Quillebert, which Evariste had taken to be repaired in New Orleans. Lifting the watch, she discovered at the end of the chain a charm, a gold crescent studded with wine red rubles and sparkling diamonds.
She could not speak her delight at once, but looked in an ectasy from the jewel to the young man and from him to the jewel—her face would then have been an artist's treasure—until words came to her, when she exclaimed: "From you to me?" "If you will accent," he said.
"I do accept," she cried, "and shall prize this crescent as the most precious of my possessions. But what will Estelle say?"
"What will Quillebert say?" returned Evariste, with some shade of irritation in his voice.
"Why?" asked Laure, startled.
"He gave you the watch and chain," he said.
"And she gave you the"— She checked herself and bit her lip in exication.
"The what, Laure? Say it and let it go."
"Forgive me, my friend. Yes, let it g and with it any thought of those two persons who"—
"Let us not speak ill of the absent, but talk of other things. Be prepared for unwelcome news from the city later on. Quillebert will lose the suit."
"Because I heard the arguments in the supreme court and thought I observed their effect upon the judges and the assembled lawyers. The whole matter is exceedingly distasteful to me, as you know; still I could not well decline my brother's invitation to be present at the trial of the appeal. Zabourin made a learned and forcible effort for Quillebert, quoting authorities and drawing deductions which appeared absolutely unanswerable. But Horace, with an ease at which I marveled, met every proposition, and his irresistible logic picked it into shreds. He exposed the sophistries of Zabourin's contention and fung them aside. With childlike simplicity of language he made Leon's case so plain that every layman understood the principles on which it rested as thoroughly as did the most learned lawyer, and with the eloquence that comes of unaffected earnestness he held up the justice and equity supporting the decision of Judge Talleur. He appeared to carry every man within hearing of his voice, and when he concluded it seemed that all doubts of the righteousness of his case had been demolished. His peroration was beautiful and pathetic without being theatrical—in fact, was what they call a prose poem. I was as much amazed as any of his hearers could have been. I cannot divine when and where he got all the wealth and variety of learning he displayed in that address."
Laurie was interested, but not pleased, by Earliste's glowing account of his brother's brilliant and masterly oratory.
"Where is M. Horace?" she asked.
"He came up on the boat with you?"
"No. Why?"
"Oh, nothing. I only supposed he had returned with you and stopped at Earliste's. That is what he will do when
CHAPTER XII.
THE LAW SUPREME
"From you to me?"
"Why do you say that?"
he does come back."
"Laure, why do you persist in such allusions. You surely know full well how they wound me."
"Of course I do. But it is not to wound you. No; it is to make you see who they are that care nothing for your happiness. That girl is as indifferent to you as the pearl whose beauty she vainly affects. She reaches for fortune; you have none. She aspires to American ladyship; you are a creole. Stay with your kind, my friend. It will pay you best in the long run."
This speech was a whip cut to Evariste's spirit, and words of chagrin and anger rose to his lips, yet he forced them back and, consummate actor that he was, gave no sign of his suffering.
"You have not told me where your brother is," Laure said, fondling the crescent lovingly.
"I left him at New Orleans talking politics. One hears nothing else there now. The supporters of Breckinridge encourage Horace to run for congress, and he is quite willing to do so, though he tells them he is opposed to the extension of slavery. They regard the race as being entirely between Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Douglas. Lincoln's candidacy is laughed at."
"If the lawsuit should be decided against M. Horace, he will be bitterly opposed in this parish," Laure observed.
"That is a very big if," Evariste replied.
"And if Lincoln should win a great many plans will be upset. I know nothing of politics, but they say these things on the highlands." Laure smiled apologetically.
"You must make that "if still larger, Laure. The great beads in the city will hardly admit that Lincoln is running." "I have heard my grandfather say there were just two smart men in this parish-Baldeulno and Quillebert-one gifted as if from God, the other as if by the devil." "Well?" owered Evariste.
"What queried Evariste.
He also have heard that Baldouino said not long ago that if both Douglas and Breckinridge are candidates to the end' Lincoln will be elected president, and Quillenbert has said that he will win the suit in the supreme 'court." Laure had spoken with a positiveness that was not without its effect upon Evariste, and as he pursued his journey homeward he seriously revolved in his mind these possibilities and their bearing upon his own aims and interests.
Oakfield returned a week later, and his supporters set actively to work to secure a favorable delegation to the convention called to met at Baton Rouge on the 15th day of October. They were successful, though considerable strength was developed against him. It was believed he would receive the nomination, which would be taintmount to election. His friends proudly anticipated the distinction his career in congress would give to the parish and had agreed upon three representative citizens to accompany him in a short canvass of the district after the convention. He had spent a happy hour with Estelle and was sitting in his plantation office thinking of her when Leon brought letters and papers from New Orleans just arrived by way of the Red River landing. One bulky envelope bore the card of a professional friend of whom he had requested the earliest possible news of the court's judgment. The letter said:
"I caused a copy to be made of the opinion handed down by the supreme court this morning in the suit of Leon Queyrouze versus Quilllebert for freedom and mail it by today's boat in order that you may know the result before tomorrow's newspapers can reach you. The chief justice was the organ of the court and had the concurrence of three of the associates. One justice, as you will notice, dissented."
Quivering with interest, he read the following dictum of the highest court of the state, penned by its chief justice: "The plaintiff, with his mother and other children, were inventoried as belonging to the estate of Queyrouze. One Poydre, acting as agent for the heirs, made sale of the property, with the exception of the boy Leon. He sold the mother of the plaintiff and her other children to the defendant Quillec. Leon himself was expressly exempt from the sale, being then in the keeping of one Mrs. Wyley, to whom he had been sent by the expressed wish of Queyrouze. About nine years after the defendant obtained possession of the plaintiff and enjoyed the benefit of his labor until he ran away after the institution of this suit.
"There is testimony in the record to show that Queyrouze and his heirs intended that Leon should be free and some conversations in which he said he was free. The plaintiff, however, never asserted his freedom and never left the service of the defendant until he absconded after the bringing of this suit. On the contrary, he admitted he was a slave to a person whom he wished to bargain for him.
"However desirous the heirs of Queyrouze may have been that the plaintiff should become free, their wishes alone could not make him so. This being a matter affecting the public order, it required the action of the public authorities before it could be brought about.
"It is apparent that in this controversy it is a matter of no consequence who is the owner, whether Quillebler or the heirs of Queyrouze. The only question which we can consider is whether the plaintiff had acquired the status of a free person of color prior to the promulgation of the act of 1857, which now prohibits emancipation. "It is quite clear that the obliter
"It is quite clear that the plaintiff
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The first banner flung to the breeze was the flag of France, hoisted by Quillebert over his dwelling, thus warning both factions that molestation of him or his would be at the peril of his imperial master's displeasure.
Oakfell was instant to take his stand. Though discountancing negro slavery, he was wedded to the doctrine of state sovereignty and in its defense buckled on his sword. He was chosen lieutenant of the company of horse organized under the captaincy of Judge Honore Victor Tailleur, whom Pratjean succeeded on the bench.
The day approached for the company to proceed to New Orleans for assignment to its regiment and brigade, to be forwarded to the front. The half brothers held a long conference in the plantation office.
"Evariste," Horace said, "I do not concur in the general belief that this strife will end in 90 days. My forecast is that it will extend into years and will be fierce and desolating. My life has known three sweet affections which have been as incense to it. The love I bore your mother still clings to her memory. All my yearnings for kinslay have been centered upon you, whom I have cherished as son, brother and friend and have sought to shield from the rude experiences of life. Though absent, I wish to leave my protection with you and for that entreat you to promise that under no circumstances will you enter the military service during the coming war. I leave with you full authority to manage all my interests, and this will supply you with ample means to purchase exemption from any call which may be made for troops. Promise me, Evariste."
"Not necessarily," repiled Horace, "after what I will say to our friends on the subject. But, even if it should, make that sacrifice for my sake and give me your promise, for should you enlist my anxiety for you would unman me as a soldier, and should you be killed this would never be home for me again. Promise me, my boy." Evariste walked to the door and looked out into the starlit night. Returning, he gave his hand to Horace and said, as if he had struggled:
"I thank you, Evariste. Now let us pass to another subject near my heart. You know I have intended always to divide with you all I own. Such is still my purpose. Perhaps it should have been done in form before this, but you have never intimated the wish, and I have been much distracted by other matters. But it is here provided for." Giving him a sealed envelope, he continued: "If I fall, open this and act upon it. A second and last pledge you must give me. I told you three affections have made life sweet to me. The last, Evariste, is my love for Estelle Latiolais." Evariste's heart suddenly ceased to beat. He felt himself falling from his chair, but clutched the arms with tightening grasp and by a supreme effort of will restored his self command without drawing his brother's notice. The latter continued:
"I need not tell you what this love is to me. You can well understand that it is more than food, drink, air, rest or sleep. It is all that makes life. Yet I have never told her of my love."
"The fate that awaits me as a soldier," Horace resumed, "is so uncertain that it would be unjust to leave her plighted, though I knew my love to be returned, and I have no such knowledge. Now, Evariste, you are well aware of the weakness of her old grandfather and how profitless to her is his guardianship—indeed, how sadly she needs protection against his improvidence; also you cannot be ignorant of the baneful influence exercised over the old gentleman by that consclelence-less wretch Quillebert. Swear to me, brother, by all you hold most sacred that you will advise, aid and protect her against the mischiefs these two may work to her fortune and defend her from danger and harm in every form. I place you on guard; give her in charge to you. Swear you will preserve her safe till my return." Oakfell's feelings had mastered him, and his eloquent eyes welled over.
"I make the promise and omen to
"I make the promise and swear to keep it," said Evariste.
"A wealth of gratitude shall be your reward," Horace cried, embracing him warmly, and the brothers spoke good night.
Wearing for the first time his military uniform, Oakfell had his visit of
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adieu to Estelle on the eve of the company's departure. Both had schooled themselves for the ordeal, she to appear brave and he to keep back the words of love that were ever rising from his heart to his lips. As is usual in such trials, the result was diluted with emotion. It is safe to say each understood the other better than if free rein had been given to speech. "Mademoiselle," Oakfell said on taking leave, "I have perhaps been somewhat officious concerning your affairs.
has never enjoyed his liberty for one week, much less the space of ten years. He has been all his life under the control of others, who have enjoyed the benefit of his labor. It matters not, so far as this controversy is concerned, whether the defendant Quillebert has acted in good or bad faith or whether he has acted against the wishes of the heirs of Queyrouze. If the plaintiff cannot show the facts on which the law declares his emancipation or freedom, he must fall in his action.
"The judgment of the lower court, which was in favor of the plaintiff, must be reversed."
Oakfell with burning eyes read again these words of the chief justice: "It is a matter of no consequence who is owner, whether Quillebert or the heirs of Queyrouze." "It matters not whether the defendant Quillebert has acted in good or bad faith or whether he acted against the wishes of the heirs of Queyrouze."
Sick at heart, he let fall the paper and lowered his head, murmuring:
"He finds his fellow guilty of a skim Not colored like his own and, having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey."
From his gloomy reflection he was recalled by the voice of Leon at the door, saying:
"Mr. Horace, are you sick? Is anything wrong"
"Yes; I never was so sick as now, and something has gone wrong. Leon, the supreme court has adjudged you a slave, the slave of Quillebert."
"O merciful God!" Leon groaned, clutching a chair for support. "Save me from that man, Mr. Horace, or kill me!"
"Save yourself. Take a good horse from the stable and fly for your life. Never stop until you are where that human wolf cannot reach you. The cursed news may not be known to any one else in the parish for two days yet, and, if so, you will have that much start. Take this and go." Oakfell gave him a sum of money.
"Some day I will prove I am grateful for all your goodness, sir," said the poor fellow, retreating from the door. Soon the muffled sound of a horse speeding over the dusty road was heard, and Leon was again a runaway slave.
The newspapers of the city arrived two days later, bringing the intelligence of the supreme court's ruling, with editorial remarks commending it as a timely check to abolitionist propaganda. Great was the rejoicing on the highlands. The cabbages had a day of business recalling that of the trial. Dede did so thriving a trade that he was put to bed early in the afternoon, leaving the harvest to the madame. At night bonfires were lighted, and ponies clattered and flitted across the prairie, their courses indicated by the cracking of pistols and shrill cries of "Long live Quillebert!" "Down with Oakkell!"
The victor received the congratulations of his admirers at Dede's with profuse entertainment of gunboo and rum, but with the tranquillity of a strategist who had foreseen success planned through feigned retreat. Pratjean's lips and eyes were beyond control and continued to dance long after the hot rum had stilled his tongue.
Oakfell assembled his friends and, explaining that the decision could be used as an effective weapon against him in the convention, requested their leave to withdraw his candidacy. After much discussion the justness of his view was conceded, and the consent he desired was given. A formal note was received from Pratjee demanding the return to his client Quillebert of the slave Leon, who, the writer said, was harbored by Oakfell. It was consigned to the flames. A little letter came through the local post saying, "I suffer for poor Oddette's grief, but more because you suffer and through my fault." This was not consigned to the flames.
The result of the litigation was a severe shock to the young lawyer. His confidence in his fellow men was weakened. He lost respect for authorities. Ambitions seemed but snares to peace of mind. Wrong, chicanery and cruelty appeared essential to success. His brother, upon whom he had lavished so much affection, could not or did not cheer his drooping spirit. The time
A man is sitting in a chair, leaning against it with his hand on his hip. Another person is sitting in a chair behind him, leaning against the wall.
"Save me from that man!" was sadly out of joint; the adjustment was that of the powerful, "brief, comfortable and wrong." Thus dejected and gloomy, he wandered for days about the plantation, not caring to read, avoiding converse, unable to feel interest in what had formerly engrossed him, when in the early days of November came the intelligence, astounding, incredible, yet verified, that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president of the United States.
CHAPTER XIII
TIME now seemed to quicken its flight. Events trod on the wheels of events in scramble and hurry of occurrence. Disintegration of institutions, enterprises and associations, public and social, appeared everywhere like a corroding disease, and demoralization was the rankest of growths. Secession, civil war, suspension of industries, gatherings and departures of volunteers, dissensions and suspicions, dread of the negro—dumb cause of contention—gave somber color to the life of fair
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"Would not that be taken as cowardice" asked Evariste.
"You have not?" Evariste exclaimed quickly.
"I have not."
"But you will before you go?" he asked anxiously.
"I will not," replied Horace, and Evariste breathed freely.
Oaktell saw the action.
but when I request my action I beg you to approve. M. Latoliaa, your only kinsman, your sole authoritative protector and adviser, is growing old and, as you have admitted to me, is, through his amiable weaknesses, to some extent subject to Quillebert's domination. I have charged my brother to be especially watchful of your welfare and in all things to stand between you and harm."
"And has M. Evariste accepted the charge?" Estelle asked.
"Most willingly, and bravely he will keep it," Oakfell answered. "His soul is a noble one, his heart as true as steel. Rely upon him and trust him implicitly,ademoleste, should any peril or crisis arise. I have chosen him for this because I know his lofty character and love him next to—his mother's memory."
"I will be guided by him because you tell me to." Estelle said, her trembling voice forbidding more of reply. "Wear this," she added, plining to his cont a tiny cockade of red, white and red. "And wear you this," Oakfell answered, passionately kissing her hand. "Au revoir, and God keep you." "Au revoir, and God bless"—Estelle could say no more, but threw her arms about Odette, who stood behind her, and wept as if her heart were broken. Oakfell saw the action. His grief was akin to joy.
It was a gallant company that pranced down the bayou road to the steamboat landing amid huzzas and waving handkerchiefs—dark eyed creoles, chevaliers by heredity, fair skinned Americans, soldiers by instinct. None sat his horse with braver men than Sergeant Valsin Mouillot, who, refusing to be repressed, had placed his daughters in the keeping of his sister and determinedly followed where Oakfell led. And in a few short weeks these elites of the southern countryside were swallowed up by the great, seething army of the southwest.
Quillebert exploited his tricolored standard to the utmost. His accustomed boldness progressed to daring audacity. As the rigors of the times and privations of the people increased he pushed his ventures and speculations, trading the necessities of life at exorbitant valuations for cotton, which commanded enormous gold prices in the markets of the world. Though embargo was laid by the authorities upon exportation of the staple, he successfully smuggled cargoes down the Atchafalaya through Berwick bay to French traders and brought back packets of consols and notes of the Bank of France.
A strange companionship came to be observed. Evalerie Oakfell and Quillebert were seen much together and not infrequently at Dede's cabaret, but so engrossed were the neighbors with the growing miseries of their isolation that theirs was only silent wonder.
The rumor that the two were partners in contraband adventures was received with mere shrugging of shoulders and turning up of eyes, save by Estelle, who repelled them as malleious and whose trusting heart was satisfied with Evariste's explanation that his intimacy with Quillebert and the cabaret was intended to enable him the better to guard her grandfather, for it was true that Leonidas was almost daily the third of the trio at Dede's testing the fortune of cards with Quillebert; that he made periodical settlements of losses by giving promissory notes, and habitually reached his gate stupefied by potations of rum.
After one of these seances, the old man having been lifted to his saddle and his horse's head turned homeward, Quillebert and Evariste sat at table in the cabaret, the former drinking brandy, the latter slipping a light wine.
"How much of Latiolais' paper do you hold?" asked Evariste.
"Sixteen thousand dollars, to be paid in gold," Quilllebert answered.
"How much of it is secured by mortgage?"
"Eleven thousand dollars."
"What will you take for half the whole batch?"
"Fifty bales of cotton."
"Have I that much under your shed now?"
"Yes; more."
"Where are the notes?"
"At my house."
"Will you transfer them today?"
"Yes, if you will come with me. But why do you want this paper, and what need is there for such haste?"
"It does not concern you to know. Come," Evariste said, rising from his chair.
"I am not so sure of that," replied Quillebert, following him.
The exchange having been completed, Evariste continued on to the Latiolais home. Most solicitously he pled Estelle with inquiry as to her comfort and health, the affairs of her plantation and behavior of her slaves.
"None of these matters gives me the care that my dear grandfather does, M. Evariste," she said sadly. "Not only does his intemperance increase appallingly, but he seems haunted by some secret fear, and he cannot sleep unless in his cups or under the effect of a drug. So kind, so gentle and loving, it is killing me to see his old age thus miserable. I am sure much of it is due to his association with M. Quillebert. Oh, can you not stand between him and that wicked man?" "Mademoiselle, believe me, I am sincerely distressed by what you say and am doing all I properly can to effect what you desire. A more direct interference on my part would be resented by M. Latiolais and render me powerless for future service in his behalf. But let us be hopeful. For your sake I will be watchful and ready to act for his protection." Evariste accompanied his words with look and gesture of sincerest devotion.
"I know you will. I know you will." Estelle replied, "and I trust in your friendship and tact unquestioningly, as your noble brother bade me." Evariste flushed and said: "Is it impossible for me to win your confidence by my own merit, made-moiselle? Must I have it only at the bidding of another, though that other be my brother?" "M. Evariste," Estelle exclaimed, "do not speak so! You wrong yourself, your brother and me by such words." "Possibly, but I have feelings, though
you persist in ignoring them."
"My friend, forgive me if a word of mine has wounded you. I did not so intend. Your brother always delighted at the mention of you, and I supposed"—
"Yes, mademoiselle, except when he is held up as the lens through which alone I am seen. I only mean that I strive by my own endeavors to deserve your trust and seek it not through the inspiration of another."
"I do trust you, M. Evariste, because, being Horace Oakfell's brother, you cannot but deserve to be trusted," she said firmly.
"This display of loyalty to Horace staggered him, and he retired, nettled and meditating things which boded no good to the dependent girl's peace.
The second year of the war witnessed a second conscription of recruits to
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Gave vent to her overwrought feelings, strengthen the armies at the front, and Evariste's name was drawn, to the infinite amusement of Quillebert and Dede. He joined in the merriment and by the application of 4,000 francs sent Dominique Blinoret of Par en Haut to the enrolling officer in his stead. Six weeks later Dominique was "capering as nimby as ever at the gumbo balls of Bayou Blanc, vanishing with the stars of morning and as completely.
Evariste hastened to explain to Estelle that his sending of a substitute was in fulfillment of the promise exacted from him by his brother, adding cynically:
"Therefore, mademoiselle, you will not only acquit but you will praise me."
But when at sight of him Laure sang tessingly,
"Soldier, soldier, marry, marry me;
I will give you a life and drum."
he was annoyed not a little.
"Very well," said he; "if you wish it so very much, mademoiselle, I can volunteer and march to the battlefields, gaining the credit for two recruits instead of one."
"No, you must not; you shall not," said Laure, suddenly dropping her gagety and showing alarm. "It is not your fight. You own neither slave nor land to fight for. Even the gains of your ventures with M. Quilliebert you must account for to your hero brother if he returns, for they were made by the use of his money."
"Laure, why are you continually saying things which you know vex me?" "Because I want you to realize your situation, learn the truth, see your interest and know who are your friends. Does that girl over there," extending her arm in the direction of Estelle's home, "ever tell you a truth for your profit?"
"She does not presume to advise me," Evariste replied.
"A little presumption in the way of good advice would be but slight return for your devoted protection of herself and her doting grandfather, protection so disinterested and costing so much self sacrifice on your part." Laure laughed contemptuously, assuming a mock attitude of humility and lifting her saucy eyes to the young man's burning face.
"Do you make bold to insinuate that I am acting selfishly?"
"Oh, I do not call it making bold to say what I know or what I think, and I never insinuate."
"How, then, can you know my motives save as they are indicated by my acts?"
"I am the granddaughter of the doctress," she said haughtily.
"Bah! exclaimed Evariste.
"Have a care, Evariste; have a care. The doctress must not be insulted."
Laure's warning was so serious and dramatic that Evariste involuntarily checked the impetuosity of his manner. He said:
"Laure, I meant no insult, no disrespect. Her relationship to you would forbid that. We are friends?"
"Friends?" she repeated. "I am your friend. I do not believe anything could make me other than your friend. But what does it mean to be friend to one? Is it not to tell the truth and warn away from danger? I am not convent taught, and I know nothing of what are called convent proprieties, but I do know when to speak and what to speak to a friend who is blindly endangering his career. Hear me well. Openly join hands with Quillebert and trust in me, and independence and happiness will be yours. Pursue your double faced course with that tearful chit, and upon your brother's return your post will be that of servile dependence upon his bounty. Bold? Yes, because I feel the truth and say it for your sake and"—turning away and hiding her face, she sobbed—"for mine."
"Laure, you have said too much!" he exclaimed hotly and started away.
"The senseless infatuation for a girl who despises you makes you say that. But time will show. You will come to me yet. You are of my kind. You will come to me yet." Her eyes blazed with passion as she confronted him again, and her words seemed to burn their way into his soul. She ran into the forest and, throwing herself at the foot of a familiar old oak tree, gave vent to her overwrought feelings in a fit of violent weeping. Then, bathing her cheeks and eyes in the cool waters of the marais, she stood long upon its edge, thinking intently. Setting her teeth firmly and clinching her little fists, she mentally vowed, "I will it—he shall be mine!" and returned to the cottage with the bright look and airy step of
one whose spirit had never known tribulation.
But Evariste's agitation was not so quickly allayed. He now saw in Laure an active, interested hinderer of his designs. He could not estimate the potentiality of her influence with Quillebert, who could make disclosures fatal to him in the regard of the pure hearted Estelle. He recognized that he had made no progress in her good graces. Difficulties accumulated, but they only hardened his determination and drove him to devise a course of action of swift and heroic severity in ending all uncertainty. The event on which this policy depended, though aborrent, was one for which he devoutly wished. Laure's speech had stung him, and he swore Estelle Latiolais should be his bride.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
He—Clarice, you know I have always thought a good deal of you, and I have flattered myself you think not unfavorable of me. May I—will you be my wife?
She—What a start you gave me, Harry! Do you know, I thought you were going to ask me to lend you some money—Boston Transcript.
Timidity.
"Don't you love children?"
"Some children," answered the man who is slightly bald.
"But don't you love children as a rule?"
"No. I once taught school. I don't love them. I fear them."—Washington Star.
Easily Discouraged.
Patience—Did you ever sleep with wedding cake under your pillow?
Patrice—Only once.
"Why only once?"
"I got crumbs all over the bed."—Yonkers Statesman.
He Knew.
"What would man do without woman!" exclaimed the moralist.
"Well," replied the thoughtful and observant child, "he'd have a pretty hard time, for he wouldn't have any body to blame for everything."—Chicago Post.
Proprietorship Retained.
"Do you mean to say that Erastus Pinkley sells his vote?"
"No," answered Mr. Jim Coliflower; "I wouldn' say dat 'Rastus sells his vote. But he's willin' to hire it out 'casionally to select parties.'—Washington Star.
Worth Accumulating.
I'd run for office; sure I would.
If I could just control
The other side from slingin' mud
And get 'om throwin' coal.
—Philadelphia Press.
THE WAY COOK PUT IT.
Wife—Well, John, I'll have to do the cooking now. The cook left without warning this afternoon.
Husband—Not exactly without warning. She told me this morning I had better bring home some dyspepsia tablets to-night, but I didn't quite catch on to what she meant.—Quality.
Just So.
"Pa, what are prejudices?"
"Other people's opinions, my son."—Puck.
A Deep Scholar
"Why is that handsome Mr. Parker such a furious woman hater?" The tall, dark, beautiful girl looked stealthily around before answering.
"I found out from his sister the other day," she said. "It's his very handsomeness that makes him so indifferent to the ladies. You see, he has an ambition to get along in politics, and he knows his good looks handicap him terribly in his efforts to stand well with the men."—Chicago Record-Herald.
Arithmetical.
At a school in Kent an inspector was examining a class in arithmetic, when the inspector asked the following question:
"Now, John, supposing I gave you two rabbits and another kind friend gave you one more, how many would you have?"
John—Four, sir.
Inspector—No, my boy, two and one don't make four.
John (quickly)—Please, sir, I've got one old lop-eared 'un at home.—London Spare Moments.
Good Work.
"Mr. Biblus next door just went into his house singing a drunken song," said the minister's wife.
"Did he?" exclaimed the reverend gentleman. "I'll go right in and see him."
"Do you think you can do any good, now?"
"Well, while he's in such a good humor I may induce him to pay his pew rent."—Catholic Standard and Times.
Losing Faith in Editors.
Old Lady—I don't believe this Sure Cure tonic is a-goin' to do me any good.
Friend—It's highly spoken of in the papers.
Old Lady—Yes; but I've taken 47 bottles, and I don't feel a bit better.
I tell you what it is, Sarah, I'm beginning to think these newspaper editors don't know everything—N. Y. Weekly.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1902
THE GOVERNOR AGAINST US.
"Woodman, spare that tree.
Touch not a single bough."
The message of Gov. A. J. Montague was noted for its brevity. His recommendations were based upon common sense and practical experience.
The only unfortunate part of the document was his reference to the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. It would have been a God-sent blessing had he kept quiet upon the subject of Negro education at this time when racial agitation is at a fever heat, and the opposition to the advancement of the colored brother most pronounced. We see no need of the change in the name. It would upset the fondest recollections of those who have graduated from the institution. It is a blow at the higher education of the citizen of color. The curriculum at Petersburg is low enough, but it seems that Gov. MONTAGUE would make it lower. Despite assertions to the contrary, we hold that it is the sworn duty of every official in Virginia to ignore the colorline and to be willing to accord to all citizens that equality before the law.
When Gov. MONTAGUE is ready to recommend a change in the name of the University of Virginia, and a reduction of its curriculum, then and not until then will we acquiesce in the change of the name and a reduction of the course of study at the Virginia Normal and College Institute.
Gov. MONTAGUE seems to favor, too, white teachers for colored schools. What else does this language mean?
'** the mandatory exclusion of white teachers should be repealed.'
What would the Governor think if some future Chief Executive would say in his message: "The mandatory exclusion of colored teachers from the University of Virginia should be repealed."
This grates harshly upon the white man's ear. No less so does the assertion of the brilliant Governor of Virginia sound upon the ears of the colored people of the commonwealth.
The most radical Democrats gave notice of their opposition to mixed schools and emphasized it by this official recognition of Negro teachers for Negro schools.
Does the Governor propose to reverse this order of affairs? With every schoolhouse in the state at the disposal of the white teacher, does he now propose to take from our nominal control the only institution wholly given over to us by the liberality of the people of Virginia?
If he does, so be it. Further than protest, we can do nothing. We bow to the inevitable, and submit our case to that God, who neither slumbers nor sleeps; but who in a few brief years will gather unto himself at the judgment all of the white men who have hindered our progress or done ought to wound us in our struggle up to the table land of material prosperity.
A WORD ABOUT THE CHURCH.
We publish elsewhere an editorial extract from the Augusta, GEORGIA BAPTIST, relative to the unfortunate conditions now prevailing at "The Old First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va." We agree in-to-to with all that Editor WHITE has said. When a ring has secured temporary control of a church, disregarded the Bible, trampled upon the Baptist polity, ignored the right of a respectable minority and set up an ab solute monarchy in a denomination known for its catholicity of spirit and republican practices, then nothing is left but exposure by the public press.
As to the truthfulness of the reports, we are ready to let those present testify. The PLANET has rigorously adhered to the truth.
It has utilized the shafts of ridicule, but the facts are just as stated, and we have from time to time challenged a denial.
We say it advisedly that colored people cannot practice the vices they condemn in certain classes of white people without making themselves ridiculous in the eyes of the civilized world.
We must condemn the ignorant, lawless, vicious elements amongst us with the same asperity and rigor which we exercise against those of the white race.
When this is done, then we make good our claim to recognition and prove ourselves worthy of all of the rights for which we contend.
It has been the source of mortification to us to witness the disgraceful proceedings at the First Baptist Church.
We had hoped that the exposures of the evils would result in the application of a remedy.
From the time, that Chairman Briggs declared that "this church don't want to hear no more law," down to the time when Rev. W. T. Johnson, the pastor, called a meeting of the church on less than a half hour's notice, suppressed all debate on a debatable question and declared a motion carried in a called meeting which was presumed to nullify the action of the church in a regular meeting, we have wondered whether these people were insane, or ignorant, or both.
A writer has well said:
"Where law ends, tyranny begins."
If then these people over-ride their own law and the laws of God, trample upon the rights of the minority by suppressing all discussion, they invite justifiable revolution.
We joined the Baptist Church because it guaranteed a republican form of government.
And yet it is a fact that one member of this church would actually rise in his seat, and when a member who did not agree with him spoke, would move that he or she be silenced, and in one instance at least, this motion was actually carried and the brother silenced.
They did not stop there, but had the audacity to attempt to muzzle the press, the acknowledged bulwark of liberty in every republic.
The absurdity of this procedure is apparent upon its face. We would not belong to any church, organization, political or religious where such a condition of affairs obtained.
It is an outrage, a disgrace, a standing shame to the denomination. Here we have the PLANET at our absolute control, and we have never during a journalistic career of eighteen years denied to a person attacked the right of reply free of charge, requiring only that such a reply be encouched in decent language.
A member disagreeing with the controlling spirits at the First Baptist Church is summarily squelched, and yet we have thrown the columns of the PLANET open to all of them.
We are grieved and yet hope that a change will come over this congregation to the extent that they will force a cessation of the unfortunate conditions which prevail.
Here before God and man, we pronounce the action of the ring at this church to be without a precedent in the history of the denomination.
The conduct of these alleged Christians has been a crying shame and a reflection upon the religion of the lowly Jesus. The Baptist churches of Richmond are practically unanimous in their position relative to these unfortunate conditions and none have extended sympathy. At the installation of the pastor, it was difficult to secure ministers to officiate on the programme. It shows that the Baptists of Richmond are all right and, regardless of their disagreements on minor questions, they will never trail the banner of true religion in the dust and declare that Wrong is Right or that the Baptist law can be flagrantly ignored by any church without winning the disapproval of the Baptist organizations of this community.
We challenge a denial of the facts as set forth in the PLANET's reports and throw wide our columns to any member of the First Baptist Church, who may have the temerity to defend its unlawful procedure.
THE EVILS AND THE REMEDIES.
The Petersburg, Va., INDEX-APPEAL in its issue of the 20th ult. discusses the reasons given by some of the southern representatives. To show the absurdity of the same we quote as follows:
WASHINGTON, D. C., February 18th. (Special)—Congressman Loud's, bill to place rural free delivery carriers under the contract system will be vigorously fought by the southern representatives in both branches of Congress. The passage of the bill, they assert, will place these jobs in the hands of Negro constituents. There will be no restriction placed upon the bidders, and the enterising Negro will want his share of gov
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ernmental business, provided he can come up to government qualifications. Such a state of affairs is very well in the Western and Northern States, where the country districts are thickly populated, and where Negroes are few, say the southern representatives, but it will take the section of the country where the businesses in great numbers, and where the country is sparsely settled. In explaining this opposition to the bill, one of the southern members said:
"We respect the Negro, and will aid him to better his condition in every legitimate way, but we will not allow a state of affairs, where it is possible for a Negro to travel over twenty or twenty-five miles of road and daily visit isolated farm-houses. Mind you, we are not against the Negro because he is black, but because it is made possible for irresponsible Negroes to obtain these positions, and create a great deal of fear throughout the country. The delivery of mail to rural districts is made by contracts. Bids are advertised. The contract is awarded to some supposedly responsible person. It turns out that the contract is sub-let—although this is illegal, it is done in hundreds of cases—and an irresponsible Negro is given the job. Perhaps temptation besets him. He gives way. A crime has been committed. There is a hat and cry, the white population is in arm, and a bloody race war is the result. The fear that such crimes will become common under the proposed conditions, and fear that such a race war will be the result, that makes the southern delegation oppose the passage of the Lord bill. The negative conditions might exist. The Negro might man of excellent character, but it would make no difference to the southerner in an isolated farm-house. The fears expressed above would be uppermost in the minds of the farming element, rural free delivery would have to be withdrawn, because the farmers would not accept their mail from Negroes, and the old condition of affairs would be resumed."
The INDEX-APPEAL SAYS:
"It does not seem to us that the grounds alleged for opposition to the Loud bill are either sufficient or reasonable, and it is to be hoped that Southern representatives will pause and deliberate before they reject the advantages of rural free delivery system for reasons so inadequate."
"This is a possible but a very remote danger, and we fail to see how it is increased by work in the rural free delivery service. Ordinarily this would be a protection against this danger, if there be any truth in the saying that an idle brain is the devil's workshop, for the carriers mind would be largely engaged in the performance of his duties, and the sense of responsibility and of respectability as a United States of America bandedoubtedly exert a restraining influence on. On the other hand, the wretches who usually outrage women in isolated homes are the idle and thriftless who loaf about the country unrestrained, and who have time to make their plans and to watch for their opportunity. Lone women in isolated homes are exposed to this danger all the time."
The INDEX-APPEAL concludes as follows:
"There is a remedy against this danger which Southern women in all country places, and in the cities, too, according to the experience of Lynchburg and Richmond, must adopt at once, and that is the practice of the use of firearms. Husbands and fathers and brothers should teach their female relatives how to shoot, and to shoot to kill. We are persuaded that this will do more to break up rape than any kind of law, not excepting lynch-law. Let it be generally understood that white women are not defenseless, but that they are armed for the purpose, and it will not be necessary to kill more than one or two rapists to reform the rest of them.
"Meanwhile, the free rural delivery system has come to stay, and the section which is the slowest to adopt it will be the section which will be behind all the rest in the growth of intelligence and prosperity."
This is the right advice and we commend the editor of the INDEX-APPEAL for his boldness in advocating such a policy.
But there is another logical phase of the question. The term "Southern women" embraces the colored ones as well as the white.
Colored women would find it a healthy pastime, even though its expense might be an item to be considered.
This also coincides with our advice to colored men in the Southland in dealing with white mobs. They too should learn to shoot and to shoot to kill.
"Let it be generally understood that colored men in the Southland are not defenseless; but that they are armed for the purpose, and it will not be necessary to kill more than one or two lynchers to reform the rest of them."
You are all right in your theory, Mr. INDEX-APPEAL, even though we have worked it out to its logical conclusion.
Armed colored men will do well to take notice and prepare themselves accordingly.
Lynch-law must go!
TILLMAN SILENCED.
Thank God, B. R. TILLMAN has gotten his deserts at last. The Senate of the United States by a unanimous vote adjudged him guilty of contempt and he was not only silenced, but his vote not counted on the call of the roll. The same punishment was accorded his colleague, Senator McLAURIN. The lawlessness practiced in South Carolina has been sternly rebuked in Washington. He not only assaulted a fellow senator upon the floor of the United States Senate, but in return received a blow on the nose which drew blood from that candle appendage.
We know that it is impolite to say it at this time, but then let us, "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." It is learned that further steps will be taken to curb their privileges. This is as it should be.
Senator TELLMAN has boasted of bloodshed and championed murder. He has confessed openly and boldly that his hands are stained with human blood. He is really unfit to sit in the Senate of the United States and this fact is emphasized by his disreputable
conduct.
He had no right to charge his fellow senator with bribe-taking during the latter's absence, and Senator McLAURIN could hardly have done less than brand such a charge as it deserved to be branded, although he might have been more choice in the language used.
The United States Senate should protect its dignity.
While it is about it, no doubt it would be well to inquire whether South Carolina has a Republican form of government, and if not, expel both senators from the body and declare their seats vacant until the state complies with the plain provisions of the constitution of the United States.
MORE TROUBLE IN LUNENBURG COUNTY.
We have repeatedly called attention to the inequalities of the law in this state, declaring that no crime had ever been committed by a Negro but what one worse had been committed by some white man.
JOE HIGGINBOTHAM, colored was hanged Monday, February 24th, 1902 as Lynchburg, Va., upon the charge of having criminally assaulted a white woman. It was universally conceded by both white and colored people that his punishment was just.
No black hand was raised to save. All bowed to the majesty of the law. When the Governor notified the authorities that all of the machinery and power in the state would be utilized to prevent a lynching every colored man and law-abiding white one accepted the decree and HIGGINBOTHAM was unmolested. He paid the penalty for his crime and the case is closed.
But in the lawless county of Lunenburg, Virginia, a Mrs. FAUST was murdered and two innocent colored men SIDNEY HAMBRICK and DOUGLASS WILLIAMS are under arrest. It is conceded that there is absolutely no evidence on which they could be convicted, and yet they are held. They were threatened with lynching, and the Governor was unofficially notified that should he send troops into the county the threat would be carried into execution at once. In the same jail with them was confined S. Y. STOKES, white, who had been convicted of raping HILDA WEISE, a ten-year old white girl. The punishment for this crime in this state is death, and yet this man was given only four years in the penitentiary.
If the raping or attempted raping of a white woman at Lynchburg, Va. is punishable with death, then the raping or attempted raping of a white child in Lunenburg County should be punishable with death.
But this is not all. The case was so disgusting that all hope of a pardon was abandoned and Stokes was released on Friday night, February 21st, and up to this writing, no effort has been made to discover has whereabouts.
No attempt was made to release the two innocent colored men confined in the same jail with him.
This is the same county in which Mrs. LUCY JANE POLLARD was brutally murdered and a fiendish attempt was made to lynch innocent women who knew absolutely nothing about the crime.
To show to what extent prejudice is rampant, it is well to remark that no white journal in this city will put the prefix "Mr." to a colored man's name in publishing anything about him, and yet in the article concerning the rapist, it is "Mr. S. Y. STOKES" and "Mr. STOKES" from one end of it to the other.
The white people of Virginia cannot afford to continue this kind of thing. If colored men yield up HIGGINBOTHAM for execution, then white men should yield up STOKES for a similar punishment.
As the matter now stands, justice in this state is very much like a jug-handle, being all on one side.
The colored people are disgusted and when certain white men talk to them about the short-comings of their own people, their faces become very much like a woman's bonnet—it is a hard matter to keep it on straight.
Oh, what a lot of blubbering hypocrites some of these Negro-haters are!
THE "Jim Crow" Car Bill was defeated in the Maryland House of Delegates last Wednesday. This is good news for the colored people of that state.
Such legislation is an abomination. The people of the state have our congratulations.
"It is a terrible strain upon the patience of the long-suffering people of our State to have the Constitutional Convention and the Legislature both in session at one time."—Harrisonburg, Va., Spirit of the Valley, (white.)
If you are grooming there at Harrisonburg, what must be our suffering here at Richmond?
The colored people of Maryland are making a determined fight on the proposed "Jim Crow" Car Bill. The Afro-American LEDGER, an excellent publication has been tireless in its efforts in arousing the colored people. Despite all this, the Committee on Corporations has decided to report the measure favorably and it is doubtful whether its passage can be prevented. With the accession of the Democratic Party to power in MARYLAND came the humiliation of the colored brother.
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the office of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
More Pay For Rural Mail Carriers.
Washington, Feb. 25. — The postmaster general has issued a general order announcing the increase of pay of rural free delivery mail carriers $100 each per annum.
New York, Feb. 26—After the launching of the emperor's yacht the president, with Mrs. and Miss Roosevelt, were the guests of the prince on board the royal yacht, Hohencollern, the president and his wife leaving for Washington in the afternoon. Miss Alice Roosevelt remained in New York with friends.
The feature of the afternoon was the presentation of the freedom of the city of Greater New York to Prince Henry. The ceremony, which took place in the City Hull, was short, and the prince, in response to the mayor's brief address, gave pleasant expression to the desire for continued and increasing friendship between the two countries, while he made graceful acknowledgment of the unusual welcome accorded him. It was interesting to note that the function at the City Hall marks the first time that the freedom of the city of New York has been extended to a titled foreigner since that honor was bestowed upon the Marquis de Lafayette in 1824. Since then various princes have been given marked recognition, but the word "freedom" has never been incorporated in resolutions adopted by common council or board of aldermen.
My Name is.
PHILIPPINE BILL PASSED
Senate Agreed to Tariff Measure by Strict Party Vote.
ONLY ONE AMENDMENT ADOPTED
South Carolina Senators Were Not Permitted to Vote, Which Caused Sharp Debate—McComas and Wellington Had Lively Tilt.
Washington, Feb. 25.--After eight hours of tumultuous debate yesterday the senate shortly before 7 o'clock last evening passed the Philippine tariff bill by a vote of 46 to 26, a strictly party vote. Mr. Tillman and Mr. McLaurin, the two senators from South Carolina, who on Saturday last were declared by the senate to be in contempt because of their first fight in the chamber, in which Mr. Tillman attacked Mr. McLaurin for denouncing an assertion of his as a deliberate lie, were not permitted by voice or vote to participate in the proceedings.
The question as to their right to vote precipitated a sharp debate lasting nearly two hours. Mr. Turner (Dem.), of Washington, contended vigorously for the right of the two senators to cast their votes, and he was sustained by Mr. Patterson, of Colorado; Mr. Bailey, of Texas, and other Democrats. They held that even though the two senators actually were under arrest and in the custody of the sergeant-at-arms they could demand that they be allowed to vote, as the senate had not passed on their case.
Mr. Foraker, Mr. Aldrich and other Republicans held that the senators clearly could not participate in any of the proceedings of the senate until they had purged themselves of contempt and the senate had removed the ban placed on them. President Pro Tem. Frye held that the two senators could not vote, and he was sustained by a majority of the senate.
During the debate on the Philippine bill Mr. McComas and Mr. Wellington, of Maryland, became involved in a controversy. Mr. McComas said Mr. Wellington had said that he (Wellington) had been given assurance by President McKinley that the United States did not propose to hold the Philippines as colonies. He referred to Mr. Wellington's desertion from the Republican party, but was interrupted by Mr. Wellington: "I object," said the latter, "to my colleague's words concerning my desertion from the Republican party."
Mr. McComas said he accepted the objection and continued. He said he had been present at the conference between the president and Mr. Wellington, and he denied emphatically that the president's promise had not been kept. It was absurd in his colleague, he asserted, for him to make such a charge. He regretted, he said sarcastically, that Mr. Wellington had forgotten the details of the conference.
Mr. Wellington answered with deliberation and emphasis: "I will say this. If my colleague at any time will reiterate outside of the chamber what he has said in this chamber, then I will tell him that he is not correct, and tell him what I will not say in this chamber, because of senatorial dignity, because of parliamentary rules, that he utters a cowardly and malicious falsehood."
President Pro Tem. Frye ordered Mr. Wellington to take his seat. The Maryland senator complied.
Many amendments were offered to the Philippine bill, but except those offered by the committee, only one, an amendment restricting the operation of the sedition laws enacted by the Taft commission, was passed.
Man and Horse Found Dead.
Ocean City, Md., Feb. 26.—George Powell and a horse which he was driving were found dead on the beach eight miles south of Ocean City. Powell left Ocean City Saturday with a team of two horses and a wagon, carrying two men to the wild-duck
106% E. Clay St., RICHMOND, VA.
Eighty Persons May Be Lost
PRINCE HENRY IN NEW YORK
Mayor Low Tendered Freedom of City to Royal Guest.
An immense crowd had assembled in Battery Park to do honor to the prince and his suite. As the prince stepped ashore he was greeted by the mayor's secretary, and as the party, consisting of the prince, Ambassador Von Holleben, Consul General Buenz, Admiral Evans and the legation attaches, walked into Battery Place, there was a tremendous outburst of cheering. As the carriages containing the party were driven rapidly up Broadway the throng which lined the pavements and stood at the windows of the tall buildings gave the occupants a rousing welcome. At Wall street an avalanche of ticker tape almost covered the prince, who took it in good part and saluted the throwers.
Prince Henry was present last evening at a gala performance given in his honor at the Metropolitan Opera House. The prince did not arrive at the opera until 9.30, and the first act of "Lohenggrin," with which the programme was opened, was nearly finished when he reached his box. The royal visitor was enthusiastically re-
The number of my house is.
celled by the large audience present, and he bowed his acknowledgments repeatedly.
The first act of "Lohengrin" was followed by the second of "Carmen," the third of "Alda," the second of "Tannhauser," the first of "La Travaila" and the first scene of the fourth act of Massenet's "Le Cd." Among the artists who took part were Mmes. Calve, Gadski, Schumann-Heink, Emma Eames, Ternina, Sembrich and Breval and Messrs. Dipple, Bisham, Eduard De Reszke, Alvarez, Scott, Journet, Vandyke, Van Reoy, Vanni and Sallignac. The conductors were Walter Damrosch, Flon and Beppilli.
GIFT FOR MISS ROOSEVELT
Gold Bracelet, With Picture of Emperor Jr. Diamonds.
New York, Feb. 28.—Before the luncheon given on the imperial yacht Hohenzollern yesterday in honor of President Roosevelt by Prince Henry of Prussia, a golden bracelet, with a picture of Kalser Wilhelm in diamonds, was presented to Miss Alice Roosevelt. It was the emperor's gift to the young lady as sponsor for the new yacht, Meteor. The presentation was made by Prince Henry on behalf of his brother, the emperor. The prince made a brief address, and the young lady thanked him very much.
DRIVING OUT INSURGENTS
Expedition of Native Police and Constabulary to Clear Rizal Province
Manila, Feb. 26.—Governor Flores, of Rizal province, has organized an expedition, consisting of native police and volunteers to co-operate with the constabulary and military and clear the province of the ladrones and insurgents, who have been pouring into Rizal from Batangas and Cavite provinces. Governor Flores says that when he has completed his task there will be no ladrones or insurgents left in Rizal.
Lieutenant Walter C. Johnston, of the Fifteenth Infantry, has captured Malvar's battle flag. Johnston has also captured Malvar's personal jewelry, valued at over $800.
Two Dead in Freight Wreck.
York, Pa., Feb. 26—Two men were killed and one dangerously injured in a freight wreck on the Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad a short distance south of McCall's Ferry. The dead are: Engineer A. T. Hatch and Fireman Paul Wilhelm. Henry Wolf, a brakeman, was dangerously injured. The men are all residents of Columbia. The wreck was caused by the train running into a landslide. About 25 cars were reduced to splinters in the wreck.
Steamboat Wrecked
Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 25.—The steamboat T. H. Bacon, plying between Loudon and Lington, Tenn., was totally wrecked in the Tennessee river seven miles below Loudon yesterday by the explosion of its boiler. Estil Hudgins, assistant engineer, was killed; Robert Bird, a passenger, who was on his way home from the Philippines, was fatally injured, and Engineer Albert Claiborne and Cook Smith were badly hurt.
Secretary Hitchcock Will Not Retire. Washington, Feb. 26.—W. Scott Smith, secretary to Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, yesterday denied the report that Mr. Hitchcock contemplates retiring from the cabinet. The denial is by authority of Secretary Hitchcock.
Those Feminine Critics.
"So she was led to the altar at last," remarked the girl in blue.
"Led!" repeated the girl in gray
"Led! I guess you didn't see her. She
didn't have to be led. When she start
down the aisle you couldn't have hea
ed her off with a regiment of cavalry
—Chicago Post.
Conelusive Evidence,
"Is she pretty?" they asked the
young man who was speaking of his
fiancee.
"Well, I don't want to boast," he re
plied, "but she always gets a seat of
the street car."—Baltimore Ameri
THE YEAR
LAUNCHING OF YACHT
CROWD CHEERED PRINCE HENRY
Immediately After Launching the Prince Sent Cablegrams to Emperor Announcing Its Success—Given the Freedom of New York.
New York, Feb. 25.—The finishing touches on the emperor of Germany's new yacht were given yesterday, and the launching took place at 10 o'clock this morning. The Union Jack was hoisted at her bow, and from a small temporary staff amidships floated the imperial standard. Directly under the
PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA.
cutwater of the yacht was the bunting-decked stand on which Miss Roosevelt, Prince Henry and President Roosevelt and two or three others stood. In the centre of this little platform was a box about three feet high. Into this box were run the steel wire ropes from the yacht's cradle. These were caught by a line, which Miss Roosevelt cut with a specially made silver hatchet. The cutting of this king rope released the weights, and the yacht immediately started down the ways amid a scene of great enthusiasm. The launching proper was without mishap and presented a graceful and beautiful picture, though it was accomplished in a drizzling rain and other inauspicious atmospheric conditions.
It was just 10.39 a. m. when the long narrow hull slipped into the water, Miss Roosevelt swung a bottle of Ger
EMPEROR WILLIAM'S YACHT METEOR. man wine, bedecked with long streamers of German colors, against the receding bow and cried: "In the name of the German emperor, I christen thee Meteor."
After the launching the president presented several persons to the prince. President Roosevelt, leaning over the rolling, shook hands with many of the guests, who were old acquaintances. While this scene was going on the crowd remained, continually cheering and occasionally calling "Cheers for the prince," "Cheers for the president" or "Cheers for Miss Roosevelt." The latter had repeatedly to bow her acknowledgments.
The prince immediately after the launching sent the following cablegram in German:
"To the German Emperor—Yacht just launched under brilliant auspices. Christened by Miss Roosevelt's hand, beautiful craft, great enthusiasm. I congratulate you with all my heart.
"HEINRICH."
Soon after the launching the presidential party and the prince proceeded to the hall, where a luncheon had been served.
Two thousand policemen in uniform were in service today to look after the comfort and safety of Prince Henry, his suite, President Roosevelt and his party and other distinguished guests of the city. Nine hundred uniformed men lined Broadway and adjacent streets from the Battery to West Thirty-fourth street.
On Staten Island, in Mariner's Harbor, and facing Shooter's Island, there were 250 men, and an equal number were stationed on Shooter's Island, facing Staten Island. Three tugboats cruised around the island, with a dozen policemen on each.
A detail of picked men met President Roosevelt and his party at Jersey City. With Prince Henry there was the regular detail from the de
tective force. Captain Titus had besides these men over 10 detectives in plain clothes circulating through the crowds.
Atlantic City's License Bill.
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 25.—The senate committee on revision of the law gave a hearing yesterday afternoon on Senator Lee's Atlantic City license bill. The bill gives to the local authorities in that city full control of the punishing of those who sell drink on Sundays. Over 100 ministers were at the hearing to protest against the measure. Among the speakers were Rev. J. M. Marshall, of Camden, and Rev. A. W. Wishart, of Trenton. The committee did not reach any conclusion as to the reporting of the bill.
Wants Free Trade With Cuba.
Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 26—Ex-
United States Senator W. D. Wash-
burne left Minneapolis for Cuba,
where he expects to make a careful
study of the island and its commercial
relations to this country.
Senator Washburne said if it were possible
he would like to see free trade estab-
lished between the United States and
Cuba, which, he said, would help
every industry in the country, with the
possible excursion of fuel and sugar.
STRANGE, BUT TRUE.
The Chinese have twice sacked Moscow, once in 1237 and again in 1293.
The starfish has no nose, but can smell with the whole of its under side. Sara Bernhardt rehearsed "Cleopatra" 500 times before playing it before an audience, so she says. A Baltimore engraver has put the alphabet on the head of a common pin. The work took only an hour and a half. All European Russia has only 780 newspapers and periodicals — about one-third the number in the state of New York. Starve was once to die any manner of death. Wyclifie's sermons tell how "Christ starved on the cross for the redemption of men."
Delays Arc Dangerous
"The reason some men never reach the top of the ladder," said the breakfast cynic, "is because they wait at the bottom for an elevator to take them up." -Chicago Daily News.
Early Marriager
Miss Budd—Do you approve of early marriages?
Mrs. Malaprop—Not too early. I should say not before high noon.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
**Whence Success?**
"After all, success in business only comes to plucky people."
"You mean 'from plucking people' don't you?"—Catholic Standard and Times.
Something in It
"Do you believe there's anything in spiritualism?"
"Oh, yes; a friend of mine who's a medium makes a good living at it."—Philadelphia Bulletin.
Resented It.
"Terence, the witness says you hit him in the jaw and knocked him down. What did you do that for?" "Yr honor, he called me names."
"Yr honor, he called me names."
"What did he call you?"
"He asked me wasn't I a adv'cate 'v riciprocity."
"What did you think he meant by that?"
"I didn't know, y'r honor. That's why I slugged 'im."—Chicago Tribune.
The Doctor's Mistake
The learned doctor solemnly shook his head.
"I am grieved to say," he slowly remarked, "that the patient shows every symptom of idiotic disintegration of the brain cells. Just lister to the crazy twaddle he is foolishly humming."
"That ain't twaddle," reared the patient; "that's the latest sentimental song, 'Because You're Mine.'"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Just the Girl for Him
Lover—You are getting prettier every day.
Sweet Girl—Just now I am living on brown bread and water to improve my complexion.
Lover—How long can you keep that up?
Sweet Girl—Oh, indefinitely.
Lover—Then let's get married.—Tit
Bits.
Holiday Cheer.
"Don't you think a holiday is more cheerful when there is a large family gathered about the festive board? "I do," answered the sardonic person. "A large family is a glad assurance that there is not going to be enough turkey left over to supply the menu for the next three days."—Washington Star.
Safety Assured.
Old Lady—Oh, I always get so nervous on a railroad. Don't you think we're goin' at an awful rate?
Mr. Illuck—Y-e-s, but you needn't worry, mum; there won't be any accident.
"How do you know there won't?"
"Cause I've got an accident insurance ticket—N. Y. Weekly.
Her View of It.
"You said you were going to kiss me," she asserted.
"Quite right," he answered, "but you said you would be very angry, and I am too much of a gentleman to do anything objectionable."
"A gentleman," she retorted, "does not break his word."
Then she got it.—Chicago Post.
Not to Be Expected.
Mrs. Spatts (nee Gotrox)—You're a perfect brute! I actually believe you married me simply because of my money.
Mr. Spatts—Well, my dear, you'd hardly expect a man to take such an important a step without some reason.—Harlem Life.
Irresistible Attractions
Mr. Jackson—Ah fell in love wif mah wife at fust sight.
Mr. Johnson—What was she doin at de time?
Mr. Jackson—She was making a deposit in the Blackville bank jes' aftah delivering a washing—Puck.
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
SPIRITUAL WEDDING.
Buxom Widow of Middle Age Becomes the Devoted Wife of a Ghostly Bridegroom.
Detroit, Mich., has been greatly stirred up in spiritualistic circles by the recent solemnization of a wedding ceremony which is one of the most remarkable and unique of modern times. It was the marriage of Mrs. Sarah Williams, a middle-aged and attractive widow, to the spirit of Theodore Comstock, a Michigan miller, who has been dead a number of years. The courtship and wedding has been conducted under the direction of a band of guardian spirits numbering ten, and the ceremony was performed at the same time
JUST AFTER THE CEREMONY
in the spirit world, the duties of a clergyman being assumed by the spirit of a Mrs. Wilson, who officiated through the organism of a medium, she conducting the ceremony as a minister would, only in different words. Mr. Comstock is now engaged in the work of materialization and trumpet bearing around the room and singing hymns by a concentration of spirit forces.
"Nearer, My God, to Thee," was sung at the ceremony, while the medium was entranced. Mr. Comstock was an Englishman by birth, and a chemist, and his spirit bride says that this is why he is a fine subject for materialization, chemists being particularly susceptible to that work through good mediums. The band of spirits that guard the bride have taken Mr. Comstock in and will form a spirit lodge, controlling the movements of the newly wedded pair. In her picture Mrs. Comstock wears her bridal gown.
LIVES IN A HENHOUSE.
Husband Quits His Home Because He Was Angered by Sight of a Whisky Flask.
A correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean writes that William H. Pugley, a contractor of Mount Vernon, N. Y., had his sister-in-law, Mrs. Alle Brown, in the police court the other morning on the charges of disorderly conduct and trespassing.
The trouble began Thanksgiving day, when Mrs. Brown, who is Mrs. Pugley's younger sister, came to live with the Pugley's. A few days later Pugley, who is a prohibitionist, declares that he came home and found a half empty whisky flask on the table.
That night Pugley went to sleep in the chicken-coop and has since made it his home, leaving his house to his wife and sister. He cooked his meals, made his bed, and lived like a 'hermit' in the
ORDERED HER OFF.
coop. Then the contractor hired a boy to do the cooking.
Monday Mrs. Brown went to the chicken-coop and began to order the boy about. Pugsley ordered her off the premises. When she refused to go he hastened to the police court and obtained a summons for her appearance. Pugsley interrupted the proceedings in court by jumping to his feet and pulling a ten-foot rope from his pocket.
"Say, judge," he said, "please hang me. I would rather die now than to think of intoxicating liquors being in my house."
Judge Bennet suspended sentence on Mrs. Brown, after warning her to keep away from Pugsley's home.
Planting Seed in Eggshells
A French gardener has adopted a new idea with regard to the transplanting of small shrubs. He sets the seed in some earth laid in half an eggshell instead of a little pot; the shell, which has a small hole in it to permit of draining, is placed in a box of damp mold. When the time arrives for transplanting all that need to be done is to lift out and break the shell.
Where Quinine Comes From.
Eighty-five per cent. of the quinine product of the world comes from Java.
Uncle Eph'm.
"De trusts," said Uncle Eph'm, "is jes' like musharoons. Hit takes a expert to tell which is de wholesome an' which is de pizen."—Chicago Tribune.
Washington's Shingle Industry.
Washington is called the shingle state. It has 444 lumber mills, sawing over 9,000,000 feet per day, turning out 20,000,000 shingles, and employing 24,000 men.
Straightens Kinky, Curly Hair
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TRUE SNAKE STORY.
Twenty-Six Big Reptiles Killed in the Midst of Winter.
Farmer Hindsell Discovers the Cause of Trouble with a Spring and Inaugurates a War of Annihilation.
According to the Hartford (Conn.) correspondent of the New York Sun, Deacon Joseph Pepper, of the Methodist church of West Avon, is truthful and a teetotal, and doesn't see snakes where no snakes are. Through him a remarkable tale of snakes has been made public.
Silas Daniels is a member of Deacon Pepper's church, and he was an eyewitness of part of the occurrence and was in at the death. It was from him that Deacon Pepper learned the particulars.
On the farm of Adelbert Hadsell, a neighbor of Daniel's, is a fine spring that never freezes over, even in the coldest weather. Hadsell carries the water from the spring through a pipe to the barn for watering his live stock.
Recently the cattle refused to drink the water, and Hadsell noticed a few days ago that the water, which is usually clear and pure, had become slightly muddy. He went to the spring to investigate.
He saw nothing unusual about the spring at first, except that the water was muddy, as though some animal had worked up the mud at the bottom. Mr. Hadsell returned to the barn for a pitchfork, and when he got back to the spring he made an investigation.
He jabbed the pitchfork about in the water without striking anything but the mud at the bottom. While he was thus engaged he noticed that the bank at one side of the spring seemed to be in motion.
He stuck the fork into this place and pried up a cloak of the frozen earth, leaving a hole about large enough to hold a man's fist. Out of this shot the head of a large blacksnake. Mr. Hadsell promptly killed it and dragged it out of the hole. Two more heads made their appearance and these two snakes were also dispatched.
When Hadsell looked at the spring again the whole bank seemed to be a living mass of reptiles. He threw down his pitchfork and ran for assistance. He found Daniels, and the two, each armed with a pitchfork, made an attack upon the army of snakes.
They had a big task. The spring was full of hissing, writhing, wriggling snakes, some of them of great size. For a time the battle waged fiercely, but at length the farmers routed the enemy with great slaughter.
A man digging a hole in the ground.
DRAGGED IT OUT OF THE HOLE
ter. After it was over they counted
26 dead snakes on the bank of the
spring, the snakes being from three
to five feet long and one of them
measuring 12 inches around the thickest
part of its body.
They are not certain that some of
the snakes did not escape slaughter
by remaining concealed in the hole.
It is not known why these snakes
should have shown so much activity
in cold weather, for if they had been
peacefully hibernating, as a self-re-
spelling snake should do, they would
not have brought down upon them-
selves such prompt destruction. It is
supposed that there is a cavern or
waterway through which the snakes
reached the spring, and that they
were stirred to activity and vigor
when they found that the spring was
not frozen over.
Fowls with Long Tails.
An interior province of China has produced one of the most remarkable curiosities in the shape of long-tailed fowls in the world. Two specimens recently brought to light, and which were kept in the imperial household gardens, are illustrated. The cock has feathers six feet long, and the hen a flowing tail 12 feet long. There are four varieties—white head and body, with feathers and tail black; white all over, with yellow legs; red neck and body feathers; reddish color mixed with white of body.
High Art In Decoration
A novel system of adornment for rooms has been perfected by a London electrician. The walls are lined with panels of transparent glass, which are faced with negatives of well-known pictures, through which filters subdued electric light. The effect is somewhat the same as the light of a stained glass window, and is quite artistic. There is no glare, and the pictures can be chosen according to the taste of the owner of the room.
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Evidence.
"Does Mr. Blimmins know much about horse races?"
"No," answered the man with a faded and experienced look.
Contour.
Percy—Can you outline character by the shape of his Guy—Oh, no; but I can smashing good guess at his shape of his shoes—Ditt
"By the fact that he is willing to bet on them."-Washington Star.
No Wonder It's Splendid
"What splendid language Mr. Chokah uses in his sermons!"
"Yes, indeed. But, then, what can you expect? His sermons are invariably made up of five-eighths Bible and three-eighths Shakespeare."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Some Evidence.
He—He claims to be related to some of the royal families of Europe.
She—But there is nothing to indicate that he is?
He—No—except that he is heavily in debt.—Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. Wederly—I am going to write to mamma to-day. Have you any message for her?
Wederly—Well, you may send her my regards, but perhaps it would be just as well not to mention how I regard her.—Chicago Daily News.
The Human Race.
Oh, life is a race that we all must begin. Success are scanty at most. A lot of us star in a few of us win. And a number get left at the post.—Washington Star.
Guest (at country hotel)—What kept you so long? Were you waiting for the hen to lay the egg?
Waiter—This was the only egg in the place, and the hen has been sitting on it for a week or more, and we had an awful time to get it away from her—Harlem Life.
Two Invalids.
"O, dear, I've a frog in my throat to-day," A stork was heard to coon in. "And I," said the fish, as he swam away, "Have water on the brain."
—Chicago Tribune.
Some Evidence
Old Story.
The Human Race.
REASON FOR DELAY.
Two Inxslids
Contour.
Percy—Can you outline a man's character by the shape of his head?"
Guy—Oh, no; but I can give a smashing good guess-at him by the shape of his shoes.—Detroit Free Press.
Ornithological.
Bowlby—This ostrich reminds me very much of a boarding house chicken fricase.
Dolber—How so?
Bowlby—Because it's all legs and neck.—Judge.
Just to Write It
"That young fellow who's so attentive to her has money, I suppose."
"Money! He has money to burn."
"Ah, yes. That explains why her mother is so anxious to make a match of the affair."—Chicago Post.
An Exaggerator
An Exaggerator.
Harry—Fred says there is only one girl in all the world for him.
Dick—That's just like Fred's exaggeration. He knows well enough there isn't even one.—Boston Transcript.
It Had.
First Doctor—Has the trouble reached an acute stage?
Second Doctor—I should say it had! I've paid him 46 visits and I haven't received a cent on account!—Puck.
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Irish fisheries employ 27,000 men in 8,000 boats.
England has 7,832 chimney-sweeps and soot merchants.
Omnibuses were not introduced into England before 1829.
England used half a million Christmas trees last Christmas.
Steam was first applied to draining British coal mines in the year 1700. To black British boots takes £560,000 worth of blacking in a twelvemth.
The area of the Channel islands is but 75 square miles, while the Isle of Man is 227 square miles. Yet the Channel islands have 95,000 to the Isle of Man's 55,000 people.
If parliamentary representation were divided according to numbers, each member would be chosen by 59,189 votes. As a matter of fact, 24 constituencies have each over 90,000 votes, and 14 less than 20,000.
An incident showing the value of quick wit in taking advantage of the situation in an emergency occurred on the coast of England, where a number of pilot boats and fishermen, having been caught in a storm, ran for the harbor, but failing to get quite into safety made for the end of a long pier which was being erected, where there was a huge iron crane. The boats were run under it and hitched on to the tackle, when five boats and 15 men in them were lifted bodily into port.
FINANCIAL FACTS.
It takes about 17½ years for a dollar to double itself at four per cent, interest compounded semiannually.
A census bulletin says that the gross value of the manufactured products of the United States in 1900 was $15,003,127,672, against $9,372,437,283 in 1800.
The Frankfurter Zeitung reckons last year's issues of new stocks and bonds in Germany as $468,175,000, against $394,845,000 in 1900, $584,440,000 in 1899 and $615,585,000 in 1898.
The London Economist's Berlin correspondent remarks that "evidence is unquestionably multiplying which goes to show that the (German) iron trade has really entered upon better times." Bar iron, wire and wire nail prices have all been lately advanced.
New issues of loans and securities in London during 1901 amounted to £159,000,000, against £165,000,000 in 1900 and £133,000,000 in 1899. But last year's total included £72,000,000 in new government bonds, and there was £48,000,000 of such bonds in 1900, while there were no government issues in 1899.
The trust companies of New York state made a remarkable showing for the past calendar year. Loans (on collateral and personal security) were increased from $427,751,480 to $582,116,066 and deposits (in trust and otherwise) from $642,121,769 to $792,931,723. There was a gain of $11,000,000 in profits.
IN REMOTE PLACES.
In China the year begins in February.
The government of Japan will hold an industrial exhibit at Osaka in 1903. Its primary object is to afford Japanese manufacturers an opportunity to study the latest products of western invention.
(What is supposed to be the largest and most valuable pearl in the world has been found near Broome, West Australia. Its value is estimated at between £9,000 and £15,000.
The investigation of the fishes of the Nile organized by the Egyptian government and the authorities at the Natural History museum, South Kensington, has resulted in over 9,000 species being received at the museum.
New South Wales was the first settled of the six states of Australia now constituting the commonwealth. Its area is 310,700 square miles, or 198,848,000 acres, of which it is estimated 2,965,850 acres are water and 2,700,000 public reserves, mountains and sterile lands. It would make five states as large as Iowa.
ABOUT TEXAS.
There are 244 counties in Texas. New York has 61, Pennsylvania 67 and Massachusetts 14—a total of 142 only.
The average depth of the Texas spouting oil wells is a few feet more than a thousand and the height to which the oil is ejected is 60 to 200 feet.
There are many professional "bee hunters" in the western and southwestern parts of Texas. Small caves and dark recesses formed by shelving rock abound along the tributaries of the Texas rivers. They are the natural bives of the wild bees and take the place of the hollow tree trunks of the forest regions of the northern country. These caves are used year after year by the bees, and in many instances have been found to be literally filled with honey.
Humbly Tended a Point.
Gilbert—I believe in a man being the master of the house. He should have the say in everything.
Mason—How about the naming of that baby of yours?
Gilbert—My wife gave way to me in a very proper and wifely manner. She said she didn't care what name I gave the little fellow so long as it was Henry. So that's the name I gave him. You know, I felt, after the hearty manner in which she deferred to me, I ought to yield a point out of appreciation of her humility—Tit-Bits.
First Honor Pupils, 6th Grammar—Hattie Kemp, Justice Williams, Sallie Harris.
2nd Honor—Marie Forsey, Daisy Thomas, Irma Brown, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Higgins.
Promoted Pupils—Eugene Howard.
5th Grammar, First Honor—Ethel Bowler. Elizabeth Gregory, Missouri Tharpus, Fannie Dungie, Theresa Braxton.
Second Honor—Viola Brown, Delia Caskie, Sallie Brown, James White, George White, Jennie McCulloch.
Promoted—Mary Scott, Carrie Morris, Luther Griffin.
4th Grammar, Second Honor—Elise Carter, Emmet Muse, Lucy Phillips, Nellie Booker Ruby George, Mary Mankins, Ida Walker.
Promoted—Clarence Hamm, John Kemp, Victoria White, Thaddeus Davis.
2nd Grammar, Second Honor—Clarence Jeter, Bernard Kemp, Alice Walker, Elizabeth Gardner, Blanche Granderson, William Banian, Harrison Woodson, Nannie Minns, Walter Randall, Thomas Fulton, Sarah Davis, Eddie Miles, Ira Fry, Jessie Phillips, Julia Mayo. J. Andrew Bowler.
Promoted—Ollie Mickens, Florence Phillips.
2nd Grammar, First Honor—Edward Stanton.
Second Honor—Gertrude Stanton, Emma Pemberton, Isaiah Jones, Lillie Washington, Lillie Webster, Lelia Johnson, Elvira Flournoy, Annie Smith, Robert Jones, Elizabeth Anderson, Ernest Jackson, Viola Williams, Dora Jones, Judson Mankins.
Promoted—Isabel Thompson, Kate Johnson, Bessie Thomas, Blanche Norton.
1st Grammar, Second Honor—Marthenia Mankins, Jasper Brockenborough, Bertha Hamm, Oscar Jackson, Betty Washington, Clotelite Griffin, Lelia Saunders, Daisy Johnson, Ollie Ross, Mattie Logan, Charles Kemp.
Promoted—Rosa Morgan, Robert Dispmond, Lillian Davis Daisy Flippin, Charles Tharps, Samuel Timberlake, Dora Addington, Sylvester Brisby, Ursine Gardner, Louisa Williams, Wallace Payne.
8th Primary, [First Honor—Sullivan Pitchford, Melvina Harris, Mary Vandervall, Emma Tinsley, Pearl Thomas, Elise Tyler.
Second Honor—James Bell, Janie Bailey, Albert Finch, Eliza Johnson, Philip Patterson, Allen Patterson, Jeanette Robinson, Hattie Dog, Creed Fulton, Estelle Walker, Essie Heppurn, Anna Jefferson, Thomas Branch, Walter Allen, Maria Brown, Hattie Covington.
Promoted—George Bray, Mamie Scott, Clarence Jones, Willie Mike.
7th Primary, First Honor—Gertrude Harris, Leroy Brown, Clara Mason, Otie Johnson, Jos. Anderson, Rosa Moody, Blanche Walton, Willie Cary, Lily Walker, James Gregory, Alfred Newton, Maud Poindexter, Ernest Hamm. Second Honor—Harvey Kenny, Harrison Cooke, Queen Jones, Emily Moseley; Melvin Robinson, Mildred Gallego, Mary Smith, Alonzo Miller, Wilbur Harris, Florence Jones, Rosa Woodsen, Sadie Bell, Lelia White'; Florence Brooks, Bernard Howard, James Johnson. Alonzo Stanford, Annie Dixon, Eliz abeth Orange.
Promoted—Linwood Henley, James Banks, Clarence Brown, Marie Daniels.
6th Primary, No. 33, First Honor—Zoia Washington, Pearl Brown, Bolling Crump, Marie Brown, Rosa Nelson, Collin Johnson, Archie Johnson, Alberta Lockett, Rosa Richardson, Lessie Matthews, Florine Smith, Flora Jackson.
Second Honor—Lily Jones, John Lancaster, Robert Stanton, Joseph Dungee, Lillian Walker, Bertha Thomas, Richard Jackson, Maggie Miller.
Promoted—Wille Madison, Lona Parson, George Johnson, Charles Harris, Eleanora Nash, Rebecca Brown, John Gray, Willie Robinson, Horace Brown, Emmett Christian, Frank Eddleton, Ida Burns, Annie Hill, Lacertie Randolph, Willie Munford, Ernest Winston.
5th Primary, First Honor—Annie Holland, Daniel Timberlake, Vivian Kemp, Annie Freeman, Lelia Dabney, Lillie Booker, Ernest Edwards, Ida Phels, Bertha Crump, Emmett Coleman.
Second Honor—Hattie Price, Morris Eubank, Jan. Monroe; Elizabeth Hall, Mattrie Trent, Stephen Banning.
Promoted—Robert Brown, Ella White
Marcellus Nash, Bertha Robinson, Juno.
Woodson, Beulah Thomas, Wingfield
Coleman, Alfred Stokes, Ella Harris, Erma Caskie, Josephine Robinson, Dora
Morris, Ruby Harris, Chris Gordon,
Jno. Williams, Jas. Ross, Walter Toran,
Hamlet Randolph, Ethel Kemp, Benjamin
Lewis, Sarah Mann.
4th Primary, First Honor—Rosa Perkins,
Leola Seaton, Bland Banks, Virginia
Seaton, Parish Lewis, Lillian
West:
Second Honor—Josephine Jackson
Rosa Gaines, Estelle Jones, Florence
White, Virgil Williams, Mary Francis,
George Murray, Rosa Pemberton, Lilian
Carter, Fitzhugh White, Lillie
Howard.
Promoted—Junius Anderson, Lula
Johnson, Joseph Thomas, Kate Flournoy,
Hezekiah Jones, Robert Carrington,
Julia Pemberton, Robert Jones,
Clarence Willis, Willie Scott, Ollie Dabney,
Nat Wickham, Benjamin Braxton.
3rd Primary, No. 36, First Honor—George Dance, Melissa Kinney, Bossie Wells, Fannie Braxton, Spencer Dance, Willie Richardson, Mary Woodson, Gertrude Walbarrow, John Dance, Pearl Jackson, Lizzie Edwards, James Scott, Thomas Kelly, Lizzie Johnson, Zipporah Yearman, Annie Harris, Alma Hamm.
Second Honor—George Carrington, Eva Thomas, Alvin White, Pearl Brooks Annie Hudson, Julia Pegram, Andrew Smith, Marie Randolph, William Morgan.
Promoted—Etta Johnson, Henry White, Lily Green, Estelle Gregory, Edie Bosher, Joseph Watson, Emma Johnson.
3rd Primary, 37, First Honor—Mabell Grammar, Joseph Scott, Virginia Brown, Morris Taylor.
Second Honor—Hawkeye Winston, Henry Robinson, Eva Williams, Adolphus Edwards, Willie Anderson, Willie Mankin, Percy Lee, Ella Stevens, Hazel Tyler.
Promoted—Osborne Mason, Blanche Eddleton, Agatha Jones, James Jones, Fred Tharps, Henry Winston, Virginia Willis, Mildred Smith, Aurelia Briggs, Charles Young, John Walker, Susie Wafer, Millie Washington.
2nd Primary, First Honor—Lillie Hill Nora Jones, Irene Pitchford, Marie Miller, John Lipscomb, Virginia Kenny, Mattine Green, Harriet Cooleal, Osser
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Allen, John Mankin, Walter Philips, Blanche Muse, Willie Johnson.
Blanche Muse, Willie Johnson. Second Honor—Arthur Hope; Prunella Anderson, Gertrude Harris, Harry Black, Joseph Jones, Frank Watson, Celestine Daniel, Robert Lambert, James Miller, Florence Jeanet. Promoted—Emmet Holmes, Ethel Shelton, Mildred Daniel, Ernest Venable, Harrison Jones, Sadie Russell, Lillie Gardner. 1st Primary, First Honor—Rosa Wing field, John Ellett, Walter Walker, Dora Jackson, Moses Brown, Maria Brooks, Mattie Jackson, James Byrd, Whitman Washington, Charlotte Smith, Arthur Dance, Eddie Robinson, Eva Coleman, Charles White, Percy Willis, Edward Taylor, Corneilus Manuel. Honor—Richard Wingfield, Pearl Brown, Victoria Dabney, Cillie Bosher, Edmondia Venable, Reymond Scott, Charles Hunter, Engenia Jones, William Nash, Nollie Johnson, Leroy Smith, Joseph Stokes, Oscar Brown, Cora Kelly.
Promoted—Martha Winston, Asa Lipscomb, Samuel Gaines, Florence Allen, Henry Overton, Charles Williams, James Richardson, Edward Jeannett, Malinda Payne.
2nd Primary: Miss Ella F. Bolling, teacher—First Honor—Maud Miller, Queen Robinson, Ernest Branch, Elise Jones, Marion Thomas, Adeline Hill, Louisa Bolling, Lula Duncan, Lula Johnson, James Mayo, Annis White, Lena Brown, Arthur Roots, Maria Williams.
Second Honor—William Davis, Fannie Baker, Mabel Wells.
Promoted—Willie Allen, Maud Fields Lily Allen.
1st Primary: Miss Ella F. Bolling, teacher—First Honor—Zebil Lancaster, Grace Sutton, Mamie Thomas, Estelle Wilson, Susie Christian, Frank Kelly, Mary Dixon, Adell Jones, Weldon Lewis, Edward Mankin, Virginia Dixon, Elizabeth Graves, Henrietta Wilkinson, Rolling Ellett, Pearl Harris, Amanda Reid, Eliza Montague, Emma Moody, Ida Hargrave, Gertrude Ellett, Mary Brooks Chas. Walbarow.
Second Honor—John Christian, Mabel Kelly, Leon Crawley, William Brown, Edna Burns, Estelle Wilkinson, Benjamin Hartwell, Robert Bell.
"Winter Homes in Summer Lands."
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Dr. F. Walmsley, superintendent of an idiot asylum in the metropolitan省
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DEAN FARRAR'S TESTIMONY.
Reasons Why He Became a Total Abstainer Fifty Years Ago During Early Ministry.
Speaking recently at a Band of Hope conference in England, the venerable dean of Canterbury, Very Rev. F. W. Farrar, told of the reasons on account of which he adopted total abstinence 50 years ago, as follows:
"My parish half a century ago abounded with slums, and I used to visit a drunken sweeper and his wife. I found that these people were accustomed to stay till midnight every night drinking themselves drunk in the public houses. They had three little children. Their room, for they only occupied one room, was kept constantly socked, and these miserable children and to play in this miserable slum until 12 o'clock at night. On one occasion the little girl rushed out of the room and hid herself in a disused celar, stayed there all night, and next morning was found, not dead, but not far from death, perfectly cold and perfectly ill. Two little boys on another occasion ran out of the house from their drunken parents and hid themselves in a neighbor's chimney.
"Now, these things impressed my mind so very strongly, though they were mere items of a very long list of horrors, that I became a total abstainer. I have never for one single moment negretted that action. What strikes me as so astonishing is that, if the mere sight of these miseries from one or two instances can so powerfully affect one or two minds, how is it that the English nation is so unawakened to the sense of their peril and disgrace? Undoubtedly drunkenness is the sin of the English race, and if England continues to turn a deaf ear to all these warnings, if England continues to read day after day the story of these horrors, which are perfectly preventable, it is certain that in the days that are coming she will suffer for this evil."
FACTS AND REASON
The life of the saloon depends on the death of souls.—Ram Horn.
It is useless for our soldiers to fight our foes abroad while our saloons foster them at home.—Ram Horn.
The drunkard carries the disregarded danger signal half way between his lustful eyes and his devouring mouth.—Ram Horn.
The total religious revenue of the United Kingdom is estimated at £25,000,000 per annum. The drink bill of the United Kingdom amounted last year to £160,891,718, which is over six times the sum raised for religious purposes.
Dr. David Paulson, a Chicago nerve specialist, declares that much drunkenness, especially in young men, is caused by highly-special food, and the use by cooks of pepper, mustard and similar relishes. To this also the doctor attributes the cigarette habit.
The New Leaf is a quarterly just launched by the patients of Willard
hospital, a newly-opened home for inebriates at Bedford. Mass. The New Leaf is issued to interest the general public in the question of temperance reform and inspire those who are victims to the drink habit with hope of rescue.
NON-ALCOHOLICS IN MEDICINE.
Doctor's Testimony After an Experience of Thirty-Four Years in the Medical Profession.
There is no provision made in the human economy for the toleration of alcohol. It is an irritant poison of great magnitude, from which no one can escape, because it aggravates the condition which it is given to relieve, besides creating an appetite for itself which otherwise would not exist. Alcohol is not acted upon by the gastric juice, but is carried through the system unaltered in its character by contact with the various secretions of the body. It cannot, therefore, be assimilated, consequently does not enter into the constituent properties of the body.
That which is not assimilated cannot be counted as food, because it does not repair waste, and is lacking in sustaining power. Alcohol may generate a fitful energy, but the value of energy is estimated by its enduring quality. The spirit of strength which alcohol gives is devitalizing, leaving the system 'weaker than it found it, being based upon that law of physics which declares that action and reaction are always equal.
Alcohol can never be a medicine because its mission is to consume substance, harden tissue and pervert function, possessing no compensating benefits in its malignant nature. Only the unscientific mind will prescribe alcohol, there being neither sense nor science in expecting a salutary action from its administration. Alcohol may temporarily palliate pain; it never cured diseased conditions. Palliation is always followed by a reaction which introduces complications foreign to the case and more taxing to the vitality than the original trouble, adding fuel to the fire.
Alcohol is a false friend; even in emergency it never revived a patient that there was not something better adapted to the case. Something more permanent in its power for good could have been given, and to which no after-effects would be attached, because restoration to normal balance is not its province. The system has less to contend with during suffering when taking nothing, than it has when taking the wrong thing.
The doctor who prescribes alcohol in any shape demonstrates his ignorance of the nature of disease and the nature of cure. A sick person is in more or less of a defective state of health, has less resistance to unfavorable influences, and should be tenderly protected from baneful risks. Alcohol is aggressive, inflammatory and intolerant in its effects on the human body. Make too hot a fire under a defective boiler and we all know what happens to the boiler!
The doctrine of total abstinence from alcohol under all circumstances, is not the product of sentiment or belief; it is based on a scientific truth borne out by accumulated facts through experiment and extensive observation. All assertions to the contrary spring from either a willful misinterpretation of the truth, or a gross, culpable and inexcusable ignorance. After an experience of 34 years, unbiased by prejudice, seeking only substantial facts, I am compelled to say that alcohol occupies no legitimate place in medicine.-Alice B. Campbell, M. D., in Union Signal.
TEMPERATE ISLANDERS.
No One Uses Intoxicating Elquors or Smokes in the Pitcairn Islands.
There is always a spice of romance about the Pitcairn islanders, and the report printed recently of the commander of his majesty's ship Icarus, who lately visited the lonely settlement, is very interesting. In some respects, at all events, the islanders seem to be a model community. A parliament of seven manages affairs. Men, women and children are described as in robust health; indeal, disease among them is almost unknown. Whether this is due to the fact that "the leading people prefer to continue as hitherto without medicines of any sort," we cannot say. Then, no one smokes 'or uses intoxicating liquor; food and water on the island are abundant; the adult males give all their labor from five a. m. until two p. m. to works for the public good; and all but general content, if not great prosperity, seems to prevail. The only thing that appears to be troubling these voluntary exiles is a surplus of females. Perhaps, however, when the trade which it is intended to open up between Pitcairn island and Tahiti gets in full swing the balance of the sexes may become more nearly adjusted.—Westminster Gazette.
A Medical Testimony.
A most important statement was made at the recent congress on tuberculosis, held in London, by Prof. Biruardel, who is described as the greatest living sanitary authority in Europe. He said alcoholism was the most potent factor in propagating tuberculosis. The strongest man who had taken to drink was powerless against it. There was a universal cry of despair from the whole universe at the sight of the disasters caused by alcoholism, and any measures, state or individual, tending to limit the ravages of alcoholism would be a most precious auxiliary in the crusade against tuberculosis. Prof. Biruardel's statement is of the utmost importance. The medical practitioner has tremendous power to stem the tide of intemperance, and if to his influence is added that of the sanitarium and of the scientist, we may hope that at last enlightened opinion will no longer doubt the evil effect of alcohol upon the individual, and the state may point back to its cause, and that the cause may bear upon its face the condemnation of those high in authority—Christian Work.
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IN A BUSY WORLD.
The entire street car system of Vienna was transformed recently from horse to electric traction.
Telephones on the Overland express permit of communication between the cars of the train while in transit, and up to the time that the train is ready to leave the station the passengers have the advantage of connection with the city service. John Cannan, of Williamsport, Pa., is about to be placed on the pension list by the Reading railroad, after continuous service of 50 years, during which time he has been off duty but 12 days. Even that was through illness, from which he suffered last year. An arrangement has just been made whereby the Berlin gas lamps in the streets will be lighted automatically and simultaneously by means of an electric attachment. The current will be switched on from the central station and a spark will ignite the gas, which will be turned on by a special apparatus.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
"If a bee stings, kill him and the wound will not swell," is an old belief. Peek at first meant a basket or receptacle for grain or other substances. The expression at first had no reference to size. The word miscreant formerly signified only an unbeliever, an infidel, Joan of Are, in the literature of her time, was called a miscreant. The Greeks, after exercising, always anointed their bodies with perfumed oil, sometimes performing this anointing three or four times a day. Some chemists affirm that the ideal ink consists almost exclusively of gallate of iron, and that the nearer the liquid approaches this substance the more perfect the ink. The Roman stylus was often made heavy, that it might be used as a weapon. It was with such a stylus as this that Caesar defended himself when attacked by the conspirators.
A piece of virgin gold weighing 82.18 ounces troy was put in the melting pot of the United States assay office at Helena, Mont., negotiations for its preservation in nugget form having failed because of the impossibility of an exact assay.
ALL SORTS.
Death from old age has increased in ten years from 44.9 per 100,000 to 54.0. About 16,000,000 pounds of macaroni, valued at $800,000, are annually sent from Italy to the United States. The weight of a cubic foot of cork is 15 pounds. Cork is the bark of a species of Spanish oak, and not properly a wood. American pine when green weighs 44 pounds 12 ounces to the cubic foot. When seasoned its weight is reduced to 30 pounds 11 ounces. Jaropolk, one of the early rulers of Russia, had only about half a lower jaw, the remainder having been cut off by a saber stroke during a fight with the Turks. The number of persons to the section of land is, in Great Britain, 342; Japan, 300; Italy, 276; Germany, 270; Austria, 225; France, 187; Hungary, 154; Spain, 92; United States, 22; Russia, 15.
Keepers of Washington boarding houses are taking prompt action under the new provision of the district code which fixes a heavy penalty against persons who fraudulently evade payment of bills for lodging and keen
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE
The bacillus of the grip is the smallest disease germ yet discovered.
The amount of blood in the human body is one-thirteenth of the body weight.
The mosquitoes found in swamps and damp woods are generally more brilliantly colored than those varieties which frequent human habitations.
The fertility of Egyptian soil is illustrated by the fact that every one of 10,500 square miles can support 928 persons, whereas even in densely populated Belgium there are only 580 to the square mile.
French botanists are endeavoring to vaccinate plants against parasitic diseases. As the elementary functions are the same in animals and plants there seems to be no reason why their diseases, whether arising from microbes or fungus, should not be treated in the same way.
TOLD OF THE RUSSIANS.
In Russia the penalty for leading a strike is the same as that for rebelion.
Russia is doing her best to exterminate the Tungus tribes in Manchuria. Gen. Grodeckow is carrying out the work.
Russian experts believe that opium might be produced successfully in the Caucasus and many regions of southern Russia.
Russian census returns reveal the presence of 640,000 idolators in a population of 125,668,000, among which for every 121 men there are 100 women.
OLD SAWS RESHARPENED
"Poverty is no sin," but is the creator of many.
"God sends meat and the devil tooks," and the doctor his bill.
"Old birds are not caught with new nets," but young birds are too often taught with old nets.—The Wiseacre, m Town Topics.
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"And they will be liberally dowered?"
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"Say, Silas, don't you think you've been hanging around that Widdie Brick long enough? Why don't you ask her text marry ye?"
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THE CHICKADEE.
The chickadee tilts
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The chickadee tilts
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BY MARY STARK.
TRAVELING through the Sierras in search of health and inspiration, Arthur Reynolds, artist, followed his guide through narrow passes, up rocky slopes and over footpaths winding in and out among the hills. Now he could reach out and touch a huge bowler towering above him, with his right hand, while his left was held over a hungry-looking chasm which almost made him shiver with fear. Again, the warm sunshine and the deep blue of the summer sky with the trickling of streamlets from melting snows higher up, would almost delude him into the belief that he was in some half-forgotten, secluded vale of his boyhood days.
They had camped each night, sometimes with rough miners or lumbermen, and sometimes alone; never with many tokens of civilization around them. On this morning, the guide had promised Mr. Reynolds a surprise. They traveled on slowly, stopping to admire, and the artist often to question. Suddenly Reynolds drew a deep breath of astonishment, and stopped short. The guide laughed, saying: "This is the surprise I mentioned when we were starting." They had come out upon a level sur-
WICKET
EDITH GREETS THE EVANGELIST
face, which seemed large after their long ascending journey. Not far in the distance, on the left, rose a tall, rounded summit, crowned with snow; and nearer, on the right, stood a beautiful little church, nestled among some tall firs. They walked over to the entrance, and stood listening for a moment to strains of familiar hymns coming from the organ. Entering, and seating themselves, after they had greeted the organist, the artist asked for the story of the place. "Many years ago," said the organist, "a bankrupt from the east, with his little daughter, made his home on this spot. Having been swindled by friends, as he thought, he no longer wished to see human faces around him. He felt that the solitude of this place was well suited to one who had been separated from his fellows by misfortune.
"Golden-haired Edith, his daughter, was at that time only 10 or 11 years old, and would have been well satisfied to be with her father, even in a desert. She had not been much with him in their prosperous eastern home, for business cares were too pressing. Now however, there grew up between them that love which comes only with constant companionship, and Edith was the sunshine of her father's life. Once or twice a year they made a trip to the settlement at the base of the mountains for supplies, and the only other times when they were not alone were when occasional travelers or surveying parties asked for shelter or assistance.
"Never a religious man, the father had not so much as brought a Bible to his new home; but Edith was of a different disposition. She had been a regular attendant at all services for children in her church; this, of course, the one of which her mother had been a member until her death five years
before. Every Sunday the child insisted upon her father's dressing for church; and, drawing up two chairs side by side very stiffly, they would have their service. She would bring out old lesson papers, and her father was obliged to take his turn in reading from them.
"And then, the questions she would ask, and the personal applications she would make of the verses read, were enough to make a sinner tremble or a saint rejoice. 'Love your enemies,' he would read. 'Father have you any enemies?' she would say. 'And do you love them? How can you do good to them if you are nowhere near them?' And 'father' would wince as he remembered all his thoughts of ill against James White, who had been president of the company in which he had lost all his property. A derisive smile would curl his lip as he thought of doing good to James White. 'And White a deacon in the church, too,' the father would mentally conclude, while he gave Edith some half satisfactory answer raked up from memories of his own Sunday-school days.
"After living here several years, one sultry July day, while they were in the settlement, they were attracted by the sound of music in a vacant store building; and, going in, found a congregation listening to some evangelists. There were three young men, one of whom was playing a small organ.
"Edith was delighted, and, seating herself upon one of the boxes which served as pews, drank in every word that was said. Her father listened with less interest, and kept his eyes fixed upon the young man still seated at the organ, with his back toward the congregation. There was something strangely familiar about his appearance, the poise of his head and his occasional movements. So absorbed did the observer become that he failed to hear the second speaker announce that they would be dismissed after prayer by Brother White; and when the young man arose, facing him for the first time, he almost started from his place. It was James White's son!
"When Edith wished to linger with the rest and greet the evangelists, she met the roughest refusal her father had ever given her. The sky had become dark with clouds, while they were engaged in the service, so they hurried up the mountain, trying to reach home before the storm should break.
"Ernest White had recognized his old neighbor at once, and inquiring where he lived, followed as soon as he could, for he had important news to give him. Before he had gone half way, the lightning began to flash, the rain came down in sheets and the wind roared through the trees and gulches; but he pressed forward, as it was no more dangerous than to halt or go back.
"The storm seemed to increase in fury as he went on; trees were falling and rocks crashing over his path. Almost at his destination, thinking that he heard voices, he quickened his pace until he almost stumbled over a young girl kneeling upon the ground, and trying with all her strength to lift a tree from her path. Under the tree was pinioned her father.
"Hastily laying hold of the tree, his greater strength, added to hers, was able to lift it away. Then the two carried the wounded and now unconscious man to his cabin, and Ernest Whife did all in his power to make him comfortable until the doctor could be brought.
"After long and careful nursing by Ernest White and Edith, her father was once more able to sit up. 'Are you ready for church, Edith?' he said one Sunday morning. Edith blushed, and, explaining to Mr. White how they had always held their service, brought out the lesson paper. 'Father, we have come to 'Love your enemies' again, she said. But 'father's hatred toward James, White was gone now.
"It was the next day that Ernest told them how his father's company had reorganized for the purpose of making full payment to the investors. 'A great many people say it is unbusinesslike and foolish, but my father judges himself by the law of God, which tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. And there is now 50 per cent. of your investment waiting for you at his bank; the rest will be paid later, with full interest.'
"Edith and her father returned to the east with Mr. White, who was in his junior year at college, studying for the ministry. Not long after they had gone a home missionary came to the settlement and made arrangements to have this church built upon the spot where they had lived. The funds were furnished by Edith's father."—Pacific Monthly.
Guided by Himself.
The father of Thomas Jefferson died in 1757, and the son's situation was touchingly described by him years afterward in a letter written to his eldest grandson when he was sent from home to school for the first time. It is given in "The True Thomas Jefferson," by William E. Curtis. The letter was as follows:
"When I recollect that at 14 years of age the whole care and direction of myself was thrown on myself entirely, without a relative or friend qualified to advise or guide me, and recollect the various sorts of bad company with which I associated from time to time, I am astonished that I did not turn off with some of them, and become as worthless to society as they were.
"I had the good fortune to become acquainted very early with some characters of very high standing, and to feel the incessant wish that I could become as they were."
His father left instructions for his education, and especially enjoined upon his widow not to permit him to neglect "the exercise requisite for his body's development." This strong man knew the value of strength, and used to say that a person of weak body could not have an independent mind.
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Lydecker—You have been misinformed. He works it—Brooklyn Eagle.
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Mrs. William McKay Barbour was born in the luxury surrounding all rich New York families, and was brought up in a refinement which might be called effete west of the Alleghanies. At the home of her millionaire father, Hartford B. Kirk, in her childhood, she was brought up as fairy book princess, who learns nothing of the selfishness, sordidness and sin of the world without.
Yet this girl, so delicately reared that she never felt the breath of the world'n wind in all her life, among all the men she knew selected as her hus-
BATS FLAPPED THEIR FACES.
and "Bill" Barbour, a westerner who had fought his way against the good, bad and indifferent to a top place in Colorado by sheer relentlessness. With a feeling that she was starting for Lhassa, Miss Kirk left for Colorado ten weeks ago to visit Mrs. Margaret Timmerman, a school friend. When she got there she met a good-looking fellow, "but so hearty." He was Barbour, and he immediately got up a coyote hunt. Miss Kirk was in at the death, and Barbour, smitten by her grace and pluck, proposed. She wonderingly refused. Then he took her down into his coal mine, 700 feet below ground. Bats flapped their faces and water lapped their shoes. He proposed again. She hesitated—and refused.
He took her out hunting, and their party regretfully aroused a snarling mountain lion. The lion charged, but Miss Kirk and Barbour raised their rifles at the same time, aimed at the same time and fired at the same time. The lion dropped dead, both his foreshoulders broken. Then Bill was accepted.
BURGLAR IN BEDOUILT.
Chicago Man Repels Intruder by Presence of Mind and Saves Lots of Cash by the Act.
John O'Neil, 426 Johnson, street, Chicago, saved $200 the other afternoon by the novel experiment of throwing a heavy bed quilt over the head of a burglar who was searching the bureau of the room in which he was sleeping.
The burglar fired two shots through the quilt, neither of which injured O'Neil, and escaped by way of the rear door of the house, while O'Neil, in scanty garments, ran down the front steps in search of a policeman.
When the policeman and O'Neil returned to the house the burglar had escaped. In the drawer of the bureau.
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THREW QUILT OVER HIS HEAD.
which had been open, was $200 left by the man. O'Nell is night manager of the Monarch bathrooms at 200 West Madison street. He was sleeping in his room early in the afternoon. His sister-in-law, Mrs. David O'Nell, had gone out shopping.
O'Nell was awakened by the noise made by the burglar, who had entered the house by a rear window. He save the man standing by the bureau, and, jumping quickly from the bed, threw the covering over the intruder's head.
While O'Nell and the policeman were examining the traces left by the burglar Mrs. David O'Nell returned. She soon discovered that the man had taken $26 which was in a bureau in her room. Besides the money she missed three diamond rings.
Mrs. Bangs- I met that Miss Brilliant whom you were once engaged to, and I was delighted with her. She's a woman among a thousand.
Mr. Bangs- She is noted as one of the most highly cultured women in society.
"Indeed she is. And she has so much character. You should have married her."
"Eh? Do you really think so? Why?"
"She has such wonderful self-control. She could stand any amount of abuse without showing it."—N. Y. Weekly.
5th Grammar—Lula Mines, Virginia Williams, Douglas Barcroft.
3rd Grammar—Robert Cole, Elsie Carter, Ollie Frysner, Peter Hudson, Virginia Martin.
2nd Grammar—Lillian Pearl Jackson, Jacob Milton Sampson, Walter Randolph, Mary Frances Bassett, Emma Craig, Benjamin Dean, Annie Goodwin.
1st Grammar—Albert Satterwhite, Bessie Holmes.
8th Primary—Lula Gray, Sallie Reader, John Goodman, Henry Johnson.
7th Primary—Geneva Trent, Lindsay Glasgow, Rhoda Neal, Amanda Sayles.
5th Primary—Ester Young.
4th Primary - Rebecca Winston, Lee Fraysier, Nina Beaber, Elizabeth Roberts R. Walker, R. Pryor, Jos Toney
3rd Primary - Ida Booker, Virgie Smith, William Johnson, Loyd Glover, Fannie Payne, Millie Norrell, Clyde Johnson, Fannie Smith, Isaac Smith, Willie Lumpkins, Thomas Jasper, Josephine Campbell.
3rd Primary, No. 87 - Lila G. Cuvilay, Serlestine Bolling, Mary Carter, Mary Gray, Harvey Page, Bettie Mayo, Leroy Johnson, Earnest Coleman, William Johnson, William Logan, Elijah Watkins, Ida Kenny, James Randolph, Alex Booker, William Ellis, James Barrett, Bessie Carter, Mary Davenport.
2nd Primary, 88 - Sarah Wytta, Ross Thomas, Laura Scott, Mary Coles, Royal Cooper, Fred Reid, Willie Walker, Sam Mayo, Mary Carter, Lonise Johnson.
2nd Primary, 99 - Clarenck Parsons, Joseph Shelton, Virgie Jefferson, Minnie Williams, Henry Booker, Clarence Booker, James Booker.
1st Primary, 90—Lucy Hilton, Lillie Walker, Clara Edwards, William Wytche Queen Brown, James Sidney, Clarence Lewis, Ada Beale, Ada Glover, Waverly Jackson, Emma Skipwith, James Beale, Martel Brackett, Harvey Pierce, Ada Freeman, Alice Green.
1st Primary, 91—Alexander Washington, Haskins Woodson, Grace Branch, Creola Carter, Willie Elllett, Annie Green, William Jackson, Paul Carter, Rebecca Johnson, Paul Booker, William Nelson, Olive Branch, Florine Johnson, Esther Brown, Hermine Toombs, William Randolph, Abraham Smith, Daisy Hendley, Gladys Mickey, Arthur Barcroft, Robert Shelton, Charlie Roach, Eugenia Berkley, Lelia Neal.
Organ Recital at the Second Baptist Church.
On last Monday night, the new pipe organ at the 2nd Baptist Church was for the first time opened to the public view. A most excellent program was rendered to a highly appreciative audience.
Through the kindness of Messrs Walta D. Messrs & Co., under the able direction of Mr. J. Sullivan a combination of music artists were brought together, which resulted in one of the best musical entertainments nessed at the Second Baptist Church.
The heartfelt thanks of the church is hereby extended to these liberal-minded ladies and gentlemen for their services.
The following program was rendered in a masterly way, each member of which was applauded.
1. Organ Solo, (a) Offertory, Gunl曼. (b) March, Lemare, by Mr. Herbert M. Phillips.
2. Quartette, "Jesus Lover of My Soul," Williams, by Mrs. Mercer. Mrs. Mathews, Mr. Mathews, Mr. Lohman.
3. Bass Solo, "Calvary," Mr. James W. Holleran.
4. Vocal Duet, "My Faith Looks up to Thee," Bassford, Messrs F. R. and J. H. Stokes.
5. Soprano Solo, "Ave Maria" Churubini, Miss Anna Trimmer.
6. Baritone Solo, "Rock of Ages," Morsell, M. F. Robert Stokes.
7. Vocal Duett, "Love Divine All Love Excelling," Stainer, Miss Trimmer and Mr. Sullivan.
8. Tenor Solo, "Holy City," Adams, Mr. Columbus Canepa.
9. Alto Solo, "Oh God Be Merciful, Barlett, Mrs. R. H. Matthews.
[K. of P. News From Lynchburg.
The Pythians had a fine time at the Court St. Baptist Church last Monday night. Pioneer Lodge, New Era Lodge, Peerless Co., 15, and Golden Seal Court were out in full force. Rev. J. C. Jackson made a fine impression. Deputy Grand Chancellor W. J. Wells has charge of this district.
—Miss Nannie M. Burrell of Richmond, Va., but who has resided in New Bedford, Mass, the last three years has been very ill. We are glad to know she is improving.
All persons who had tickets to sell for the Grand Opening Inspection of the Mechanics' Savings Bank are requested to report as soon as possible to Miss M. L. Chiles or Miss Eva G. Davis at 511 N. 3rd St.
MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK
511 North 3rd Street, Richmond, Va.
CAPITAL $25000.
4 PER CENT Interest Inc
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LOANS NEGOTIATED.—
is solicited.
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Loans, Etc., apply to the Cash
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OFFIC
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GE0. W. L.
4 PER CENT Interest Paid on All Deposits Remaining 60 Days or over. LOANS NEGOTIATED.—The patronage of the Public is solicited. For all information concerning Stock, Deposits, and Loans, Etc., apply to the Cashier. Apartments are fitted up with modern improvements. Building lighted with gas and electricity. Polite officials will be pleased to serve you.
OFFICERS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: J. C. FARLEY, W. F. GRAHAM, E. R. JEFFERSON, JNO. MILLS, B. P. VANDERALLY, SECY, D. J. OCAVERS, WM. A. HANKINS, JOHN MILLS, HARRY HORN, JOHN M. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH, R. W. WRITING, THOS. M. CRUMP, E. A. WASHINGTON, J. C. CARTER, WILLIAM CURTAZO
PROGRAM.
Notice.
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.
A woman has been elected to the board of directors of each of the national banks in Wabash, Ind.
One of the first Indian women to take up the calling of a trained nurse is an educated girl of the Pueblo tribe, Miss Seicher Atsye.
Mrs. Anna Conover, formerly an American actress, who has been the soul of the campaign for preventing cruelty to Paris cab horses, has been officially listed for decoration with the cross of the Legion of Honor.
Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth, wife of the London publisher, has made a sensation in Paris by appearing in a most novel automobile coat, made of the hide of a perfectly white colt, trimmed with sable tails and having a large collar, which can be turned up and buttoned so as to leave only her eyes and the tip of her nose exposed.
GREENROOM GOSSIP
Palermo has a fine new theater. The estimated cost was 2,450,000 francs; the real cost was 7,000,000. Joseph Jefferson is a member of the Sunshine society, having joined the Purina Mills branch in St. Louis while playing in that city. The performance that Richard Mansfield gave in New York for the benefit of the Actors' Fund of America, yielded the surprising sum of $8,566.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Change C. & O. Schedule—In Effect
Monday, February 10th, 1902.
Fast train now leaving Richmond at
4:45 p. m. for Norfolk, Old Point, etc.,
will, on and after February 10th, leave
Richmond at 2:10 p. m., except Sunday,
connecting at Old Point for Norfolk and
with Old Dominion Annex Boat for
New York Steamer.
Afternoon train for Norfolk, Old
Point, etc., now leaving Richmond at
3:45 p. m., will, on and after February
10th, leave Richmond at 4:00 p. m. daily,
connecting at Newport News for
Norfolk and at Old Point with boats
for Baltimore, Washington and Cape
Charles.
Trains arrive at Richmond on and
after February 10th from Norfolk, Old
Point, etc., at 10:00 a. m. daily
12:00 noon, except Sunday and 6:45 p. m.
daily.
No change of schedule west of Richmond.
Fifth Street Baptist Church Debt Must Go.
The members of the Fifth St. Baptist Church will please keep in mind that by act of the church three months ago the week beginning May 18th, continuing through the 25th, 1902 was set apart as Rally week. This is the final effort for the liquidation of the last of the long standing debt. We desire in that week to raise One Thousand Dollars.
On the first Sunday in June, it is the aid of the church along with the Tenth Anniversary of the pastor to have the mortgage burning. Let the members fat and needy this in mind.
Members out of the city may send money to help in this final rally to the pastor.
W. F. GRAHAM.
108 E. Leigh St.,
Richmond, Va.
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Meeting Grand Lodge, Knights of Honor, Fredericksburg, Va., March 4—7,
1002.
For this occasion the Southern Railway announces special rate fare and one-third for the round-trip from stations within the State to Fredericksburg, Va., and return. Tickets on sale March 3nd, 3rd and 4th with return limit March 10th.
The palatial trains, Nos. 29 and 30 of the Southern Railway run through Fredericksburg north and south daily via Richmond, thus offering elegant service for those attending from points south of Richmond.
Washington, Richmond and Florida Limited.
Leaves Richmond, daily at 2:30 p. m. via Southern Railway for Jacksonville and all Florida points, St. Augustine, Palm Beach, Miami and all Florida East Coast points, Havana, Cuba and Nassau; Tampa, St. Petersburg and all Florida West Coast points. Solid train to Jacksonville without change, Drawing-Room Pullmans, Dining car and the finest of Day coaches. Round-trip excursion tickets on sale daily at greatly reduced rates.
WANTED—Agents wanted to sell Electric Cough Syrup. Cures a cough in one day. Price to agents $1.50 per dozen bottles. Address,
L. A. BRUMSEIN,
Box 42. Woodstown, N. J.
Paid on All Deposits Remain-
nays or over.
The patronage of the Public
incercing Stock, Deposits, and
lier.
In improvements. Building lighted with
be pleased to serve you.
CERS:
WM. A. HANKINS, Vice-President.
EWIS, Cashier.
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In the Circuit Court of Henrico Coun to, February 4, 1902.
The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce a vinculo matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant and an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen (15) days after due publication of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect his interest in this suit.
Take notice that I shall on the 25th day of March, 1908, at my office, No. 1115 E. Main street, in the city of Richmond, Va., between the hours of 11 A. M. and 6 P. M., on that date, proceed to take depositions of C. A. Arthur and others, to be read in evidence in my behalf, in a certain suit in Equity depending in the Circuit court for the County of Henrico, Va., wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff, and if, from any cause, the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if commenced, be not concluded on that day, the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day, or from time to time, at the same place and between the same hours, until the same shall be completed.
Respectfully yours,
SUSAN RICHARDSON,
By COUNSEL.
E. M. Roscher, p. q. 2:8-4
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(INCORPORATED, JULY, 1898.)
HOME OFFICE:
ST. LUKE'S HALL, 900 ST. JAMES
RICHMOND, VA.
Mrs. Alice Granville, residence, No. 100 Sawyer street, Boston, would like to know the whereabouts of her sister, who was a Miss Mary E. Tomlinson, adopted some years ago by a Mrs. Priscilla Davis at Portsmouth, Va., and also same of an anewt, whom was a steward on a boat, plying between Norfolk via Baltimore. Maiden name, Ellen Smith.
WANTED—Names and addresses of 5000 respectable colored girls for high class domestic service in the north as cooks, chambermaids, child nurses, laundresses and general house-work.
The East End Memorial Burial Association of Richmond informs the public that having purchased six (6) acres of land, situated in Henrico County, near the city of Richmond, adjoining Oakwood Cemetery and that they are disposing of the same, in sections, half sections and at the following terms.
Sections, $25.00 and Half Sections, $15.00.
The situation of this Cemetery is high, dry and rolling and accessible to the Richmond Traction Street Railway and Seven Pines Railway lines, adjoining Oakwood Cemetery.
This Association has at a considerable expense divided this tract of land into sections, erected a fence around its boundaries, which with the additional improvements contemplated, will be an inducement to those desiring or contemplating purchasing resting places for their deceased relatives and friends.
The attention of the general public is solicited and advantageous inducements offered.
J. R. Griffin, President, No. 2412 E. Broad street; E. A. Washington, Secretary. Old 'Phone, 1983. For information, apply to John Coleman, Keeper, No. 2920 P street; Wm. Custalo, 702 East Broad street; W. H. Jones, 1037, St. Peter street; W. H. Lewis, 806 Buchanan street; Samuel Meredith, 1233 North 26th street; Joseph Robinson, No. 49 16th market or 2811 9-mile Road; D. J. Chavers, Supt., 1827 Carrington street.
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