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THE RICHMOND PLANET THAT HEINOUS CRIME IN HENRICO. THE VICTIM'S STATEMENT THE ATROCITY REVEALED A Graphic Description The Neighborhood was Aroused Animal Passion Predominant. THE GUN FIRED.—FEARFUL BRUTALITY.—AN OBJECT OF PITY VOL. XIX NO. 37 THAT HAD CRI THE VICT THE AT A Graphic Desc Aroused An THE GUN FIRED.— No crime in recent years has attracted more attention, with the possible exception of the celebrated Linnenburg Case, than has the fiendish rape case of Henrico county. Thinking that it would be well to further investigate the affair, on last Sunday afternoon, Editor John Mitchell, Jr., prepared his photographic outfit and with an easy, swinging gait went in the direction of Chelsea Hill, Henrico county. As he ascended the hill, he enquired of a white man, who passed him, the direction to the Bowling Green Road. He told him to go straight ahead. He did this and after further inquiry, the Editor found himself for the first time in his life standing in the middle of that county thorough-fare. THE HOUSE DESIGNATED. A colored lady pointed out to him the house of Mrs. Keiziah Banks. A knock on the door elicited no response. Then the Editor crossed over to the next porch and still no response. He went around in the rear and saw a Jersey cow. A further glance disclosed the presence of three ladies. "Does Mrs. Keiziah Banks live here" "Yes, sir," responded a lady, who introduced herself as Mrs. Lucy C Latina. "Aunt Keiziah is in here. She has been living with us for years and we gave her that room for herself." Editor Mitchell introduced himself and she proceeded to give him all the information he desired. IT WAS AWFUL. "Oh," she said, "it was awful. We heard the noise out there and I came out. I told one of them to go to Aunt Kezzy's door and arouse her. When the girl reached her door there, she found it open. I called Aunt Kezzy and she answered down the road where she was struggling with that man. The alarm was given and Mr. Board came out, and went over there. The white man was using terrible language, declaring that he would shoot any one who disturbed him. Finally the gun was fired and he arose and came running towards us, declaring that he would kill the one who fired that man. TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT Aunt Kezy was brought in and laid on the floor. The print of his fingers and the bruises could be seen. Her face is scarred up now." She escorted the Editor to the kitchen room in the rear. There sat Aunt Keziah Banks. "She has not been herself since," remarked Mrs. Latina. "She often sits down and cries about the way that villian treated her." It was a pitiful scene, as this aged woman arose in response to the salutation and Editor Mitchell photographed her in the yard of the Latina residence. THE VICTIM'S STATEMENT. In response to queries, she made the following statement:—"My name is Keziah Banks. I am about 60 years of age. I have been married ever since long before the fall of Richmond. My husband's name is Wilson Banks. He is in the insane asylum at Petersburg and has been there about 9 years now. I have had only one child that lived and that died when it was six months old. I may white folks soon after the fall of Richmond, and then lived in service with white folks on Church Hill. I lived with My Isaac Austin before the war. He was my master. He is dead and my mistress is. One of my young masters is living just before you get to Chickahominy Swamp. He is living down there now. THE BRUTE ATTACKED HER. I went to Mx. Mildred's store and bought a pound of sugar and a loaf of bread and in coming back, this white fellow was standing down by the side of the fence and he jumped at me. He scared me almost to death. I was then in sight of home. When he jumped at me, he put his hands around my neck. I said, go away from me, what do you want? He said, Iaint going to let you alone. God damn you, Iaint going to let you alone.' He told me he was going to have me this night, and I had just as well stop hollowing. STIFLED HER VOICE. He kept his hand on my mouth and I struggled with his hand so that I could get my breath. Then he threw me, stripped me in the road and accomplished his purpose as best he could for I was struggling with him all the time. As to the bread and sugar, I never knew what became of that. I made what noise I could and persons came to my assistance. He told them to go away. He would knock their damn heads off. He scared them off and they ran back to get some one to make him let me alone. A GUN MOVED HIM. He never left me until a young white man came, a Mr. Tate, who shot a gun off. Timberlake then ran up the road and asked, 'Who shot that gun, God damn him, I am going to kill the one who shot that damn gun.' All before that time, he head me on the ground. He repeated that I might as well be quiet, and stop my damn fuss,—he was going to have it this night. I did not recognize him while he had me down there until they all caught him. When Timberlake ran them all to the house, then I had a chance to get up to the house and hobble into the house. He had weakened me down so, I had to lay down on the floor. I was so tired wrestling with him and trying to keep his hands off my mouth that I was completely worn down." EVIDENCES OF THE STRUGGLE This ended her statement. Four scars on her face and cheek where the A A MRS, KEZIAH BANKS Aged, about sixty years, o night, about 8:30 o'clock by aged about twenty years, Henrico county, Virginia. H both white and colored citizen assault or attempted criminal [From photograph taken by Editor Mitch of victim's re Aged, about sixty years, criminally assaulted Saturday night, about 8:30 o'clock by Charles Timberlake (white) aged about twenty years, on the Bowling Green Road, Henrico county, Virginia. He was caught in the act by both white and colored citizens. The penalty for criminal assault or attempted criminal assault in Virginia is death. [From photograph taken by Editor Mitchell August 17th, 1903, in the book read fiend's cruel finger-nails had been wute witnesses to the truth of all that she had said. The crime was committed Saturday night, July 19th, 1902, at about 8:30 o'clock by Charles Timberlake, a white youth about 20 years of age. His parents reside about $ \frac{1}{2} $ mile from where Aunt Keziah Banks has her humble mansion. The evidence against him is direct and conclusive and the question naturally arises whether or not this rape case, this assault upon this harmless, peaceable old woman will be winked at by those sworn to execute our laws. The spot where the heinous crime was committed is not more than 50 yards from the unfortunate woman's gate, and can be plainly seen from her door-way. GARRISON-KELEY—The marriage of Mr. Lewis Garrison to Miss Eliza I. Kelley, will take place Thursday, Aug, 28th, at 2:30 e'clock, at the residence of her sister, 614 Harrison, St. Friends are invited. No cards. Marriage. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1902. Mrs. Nancy Anderson Gone on Before. Mrs. Nancy Anderson, one of the most faithful Christian workers in the city of Richmond, entered into eternal rest Monday, August 11, 1902th, at 10 minutes past 4 p. m., after a most painful illness of eight weeks. She underwent a delicate operation for a cancer on January 18th and never rallied from it sufficiently to gain any strength, and her intense suffering could only be relieved by morphine. She had been a member of the First Baptist Church, Rev. W. T. Johnson, pastor, for over 35 years, and throughout that time labored unceasingly and zealously for the welfare and uplifting of the same. Her funeral took place at the First Baptist Church Wednesday, August 13th at 4 p. m., Rev. Johnson officiating. He was assisted by Revs. W. H. Stokes, S. C. Burrell, T. H. Briggs, R. J. Bass and W. H. Camp. Mrs. Anderson had been a member of Esther Council, 22, I. O. of St. Luke for 18 years. She had been a member of Old Dominion Court since its organization. She was also a member of the Christian Helpers Union. The pall-bearers were Messrs. R. T. Hill, Benjamin Jackson, James Twine, Daniel Holman, Henry Paul, James Tinsley and William Henry Austin. Rev. T. P. Harris of Michaux, Va., called on us. A criminally assaulted Saturday Charles Timberlake (white) on the Bowling Green Road, He was caught in the act by us. The penalty for criminal assault in Virginia is death. Bell, August 17th, 1902, in the back-yard residence]. Personals and Briefs. —Mrs. Benjamin Jackson has returned from a visit to Washington. —Mr. B. H. Peyton is slowly improving. —Mr. Jacob F. Wright, who was dangerously shot has improved so rapidly that he is practically out of danger. The bullet passed through him and the ball can be felt on the other side of his body although it is not thought wise to remove it at this time. —The widow of the late Capt. Wm. A. Hankins has been very ill. This is to certify that Mr. M. C. Wailer, Jno. R. Holmes, and V. L. Hawkins are no morette Agents for the "Old Reliable" The Richmond Beneficial Ins Co. We will not be responsible for our policy-policies and the general public for a difference between the American Beneficial and the Richmond Beneficial. --- Pres. R. B. Ins. Co. The Society Met. The Negro Industrial and Agricultural Society has been in session during the week at the Third St. A. M. E. Church. There was a large attendance of delegates. An effort is being made to raise ($50,000) fifty thousand dollars to test the constitutionality of the new Virginia Constitution before the United States Supreme Court. Over three thousand dollars have been collected from the people for this purpose. Mr. Jordan Thompson was elected president and Mr. James H. Hayes, secretary. A Correction. The gold medal given by the Cable Piano Co., for greatest improvement in music was won by Miss Nannie B. Taylor, daughter of R. Beecher Taylor instead of Miss Maurice Taylor. She was a pupil of Miss Nannie B. Jones' musical class, whose efficiency as a teacher has brought her many scholars. Miss Cynthia H. Edmondson of 406-Gilmer Street is in Washington, D.C., visiting her uncle, Mr. D. C., Hrs. THE LYNCHING OF Thursday afternoon, July 31, half mile from "I'M INNOCENT. I DIDN'T KILL A The last words of Craven be- mob. He was beaten on the w he uttered the last word. Wils- county farmers pulled the rope air, and strangled him to death contents into his body, and str led down his bare feet and flow Only three of the guilty mu- the Grand Jury of Loudon Co. THE LYNCHING OF CHARLES CRAVEN afternoon, July 31, 1902 on the county half mile from Leesburg, Va. CENT. I DIDN'T KILL A WHITE MAN NAMED it words of Craven before he was swung was beaten on the way to his execution the last word Wilson, about a score amers pulled the rope that jerked his body rangled him to death. Fifty rifles em- to his body, and streams of his life's blood his bare feet and flowed to the ground. tree of the guilty murderers have been in Jury of Loudon Co., Va. THE WEEKLY PRESS THE LYNCHING OF CHARLES CRAVEN. Thursday afternoon, July 31, 1902 on the county road about half mile from Leesburg, Va. "I'M INNOCENT. I DIDN'T KILL A WHITE MAN NAMED WILSON." The last words of Craven before he was swung up by the mob. He was beaten on the way to his execution. When he uttered the last word Wilson, about a score of Fairfax county farmers pulled the rope that jerked his body into the air, and strangled him to death. Fifty rifles emptied their contents into his body, and streams of his life's blood trickled down his bare feet and flowed to the ground. Only three of the guilty murderers have been indicted by the Grand Jury of Loudon Co., Va. The image provided is too blurry and low-resolution to accurately recognize any text or graphics. It appears to be a blank or heavily pixelated area with no discernible content. THE SCENE OF THE OUTRAGE. This is a correct picture of the scene of the outrage. H. J. Latina, the man in the picture, is standing at act spot where Charles Timberlake(white) dragged and accomplished the outrage. The Bowling Court may be seen to the right. Charles Timberlake lie end of the road as shown in the picture. His house is not distinguishable in the distance. The sc is diagnally in front of Mr. H. J. Latina's property. [From photograph taken by Editor Mitchell August 17th, a correct picture of the scene of the outcrop, the man in the picture, is standing there Charles Timberlake(white)dragged unplaced the outrage. The Bowling Cen to the right. Charles Timberlake lies on road as shown in the picture. His house uninguishable in the distance. The socially in front of Mr. H.J. Latina's property. Photograph taken by Editor Mitchell August 17th, This is a correct picture of the scene of the outrage. Mr. H. J. Latina, the man in the picture, is standing on the exact spot where Charles Timberlake(white)dragged his victim and accomplished the outrage. The Bowling Green Road may be seen to the right. Charles Timberlake lives at the end of the road as shown in the picture. His house, however is not distinguishable in the distance. The spot shown is diagnally in front of Mr. H. J' Latina's property. [From photograph taken by Editor Mitchell August 17th, 1902.] Mrs. J. C. Fisher of Philadelphia, has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. Agnes Johnson o' 707 East Baker Street this city for the past two weeks. Left here Saturday, Aug. 16th for her home. Mrs. Rosa K. Jones has been spending the summer at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and Long Branch, N. J. Miss Lucy Graham and Miss Emma F. Carter have left the city to visit relatives and friends in Oumberland County, Va. On Tuesday, 26th inst., a picnic at Winddale Park will be given under the auspices of Mrs. Sarah A. Steward for the benefit of 1 eigh Street Methodist Church. Abundance of refreshments at city prices. Admission 5 cts. The trip, which is a delightful one through the ool country, will cost 10 cts making 15c all. A small sum for the pleasure received in return. The church mentioned is in great distress and it is to be hoped that everybody will turn out to lend it a helping hand. You can go and return every hour during the day. CHARLES CRAVEN. 1902 on the county road about Leesburg, Va. WHITE MAN NAMED WILSON." before he was swung up by the way to his execution. When on, about a score of Fairfax that jerked his body into the ground. Fifty rifles emptied their teams of his life's blood tricked to the ground. Borderers have been indicted by Va. the scene of the outrage. Mr. picture, is standing on the exclake(white)dragged his victim. The Bowling Green Road Charles Timberlake lives at the picture. His house, however the distance. The spot shown J' Latina's property. Editor Mitchell August 17th, 1902.] 1870 The gate of the residence of "Aunt" Keziah Banks opens into the Bowling Green Road. The end room is where the victim lives- Editor Mitchell unlatched the gate and knocked repeatedly to gain admission. After the outrage, she dragged herself inside of this room and laid on the bare floor, completely exhausted after the struggle with her assailant. CRAVEN' MURDERERS. A Brief Sketch of the Lynch-ing—Three of the Murderers Indicted. "I'm innocent. I didn't kill a white man named Wilson." These was the last words of Charles Craven, before he was lynched by a mob of white men, July 31st, 1902 at Leesburg, Va. Time has demonstrated that he told the truth and another fearful blunder has been added to the long list which will sooner or later confront the devotees of Judge Lynch. PRESUMED GUILTY. William H. Wilson, a farmer was found dead and all indications pointed to murder. Craven was prosumed to have been guilty of the crime. With no other evidence, this pre-umption was changed to a conviction and he was hunted like a wild animal. Blood-hounds were brought to the neighborhood and bodies of armed men scoured two counties in the search for the hapless victim. He was finally captured and landed in the county jail at Leesburg, Va. DISREGARDED PROTEST A mob disregarded the protests of some of the best citizens of London county, and it might be well to add that the mob was said to have been composed of some of the best citizens of London and Fairfax counties. Craven was dragged to the place of this execution. On the way there, he was beaten almost to death. Blow after blow was rained upon him, until it is said that he was almost unconscious when he reached the end of his journey. The picture of the lynching which we present in this issue, was taken shortly after the mob left him and is a mute witness to, of its murderous brutality. LYNCHERS INDICTED The grand jury of London county has indicted only three of the lynchers. The members of the lynching party made no effort at concealment, and are known to the authorities. Theague has been making vigorous efforts to toil and those who so boldly and insolently set aside the laws of the state. WHERE AUNT The gate of the residence of into the Bowling Green Road. victim lives- Editor Mitchell ed repeatedly to gain admission ged herself inside of this room completely exhausted after the [From photograph taken by Edi NOTHING BUT THE AMERICAN. Why is it so? Because it is already the strongest Negro insurance company in the state of Virginia. It has caught the ear of universal approval, nothing like it has ever been started before. Just four weeks old and yet $4,147,000 cash capital stock paid in and $7,600 00 subscribed to; and the Board, through its Attorney, J Thomas Hewin, has petitioned the court for an increase of $10,000.00. The architect is getting ready to fit up the Company's Home Office, 613 north 20 Street in first class style for immediate occupancy. Over 2,000 members have joined the company within three weeks. Two Branch Offices have been opened, one in Lynchburg and the other in Danville. Mr. Matthew W. Dillis is the stirring manager of Lynchburg. Mr W. A. Millner becomes the manager at Danville assisted by Mr. Stephen A. Parnell. Mr. John W. Howard of Danville has been unanimously elected by the Board General Organizer, and these two offices are sending in new applications by score. Very nearly all the insurance business PRICE, FIVE 5 CENTS Lynchburg and Danville has been turned over to The American Beneficial Insurance Company. Last Monday night was another stirring scene at Price's Hall. $405.00 in cash was paid in stock. Thoughout the entire State both town and country people are calling for stock. For the time being no more stock can be sold in Richmond since the Bard desires to accommodate friends els.wh are desirous of being stock-holders. Fifty agents are now hard at work in the city of Richmond. So great has been the increase of work that the services of two extra clerks(Misses Eva Jonathan and Blanche E ans) have been made, thus making six young ladies and two gentlemen who are hard at work at the Home Office. Dr. Graham is on the field, the country is on fire. The Company is pleased to submit the following additional names to the excellent list of stock-holders- Willie H. James, Mary Carter, Chas. H. Holmes, Sarah Mitchell, John M. Mitchell, Jeanette Mitchell, Edward Jones, Willie Mason, Lucy West, Lucy Spurlock, Jas, W. Page Jr., Clarence H. Page, P. Graham, Alexander Brooks, Hannah A. Archer, Leroy D. Brown Jr., Eliza Young, Susie E. Brown, Alice Jones, Cora Sheppard, John H. Nelson, Spencer Dance, W. R. Collins, Ray- mond S. Mosby, J. M Garant, S. W. Raub, Callie D, Brown, Mt. Nebo No. 4, Giles B. Jackson. The Church Union Excursion a Success. Monday, Aug 18th, an excursion was given to Buckroe Beach via: C, & O. R, by Revs. R J Bass and J. And Bowler of Mt Tabor and Mt. Olivet Churches. A large interesting crowd filled 10 coaches which left the depot at 11 A. M. The train was in charge of conductor W. B. Howlett whose courteous and efficient management added greatly to comfort of the excursionists. The ride was delightful not an unpleasant word was heard during the trip. The stay at the beach was charming. Leaving at 7 P. M. the excursion reached the city at 9 P. M. Mr W. E. Noble one of the committee was arrested upon reaching the city concerning some trouble that occurred upon an excursion given to Norfolk Sunday night, Aug. 12th. He being a committee on that excursion. The affair had no connection with the excursion to Buckroe Beach. Revs. Bass and Bowler, assisted by their faithful committee displayed much skill in the management of the excursion. T KEZIAH LIVES. of "Aunt' Keziah Banks opens d. The end room is where the ell unlatched the gate and knock- sion. After the outrage, she drag- om and laid on the bare floor, the struggle with her assailant. Editor Mitchell, August 17th, 1902.] From Pennsylvania. McDONALD, PA., Aug., 17, 1902 Editor Richmond Planet, Rev. Simpson of Pittsburg preached at the First Baptist Church at 11 A.M., on Sabbath and gave the Lord's Supper at 3 P. M. The members of the church are called to meet Monday night, to call a pastor. Prof Charles Red and choir have been invited to Oakdale to sing at the grand rally of the M. E. Church at 2. P. M. James Coley spent last Sunday in Pittsburgh with Miss Susie Arbison. Lacy Thornton, 30 years old of North Farm Street had his leg broken in Nickle Plate Mine and was sent to the West Penn. Hospital. The little son of Charles Red is confined to the bed with diphrina and their many friends hope for his recovery soon. Mr. Elizabeth Anderson and wife left for their home down in the East and will return to Jumbo in the fall. We wish them a pleasant visit and hope to see them soon. ```markdown ``` THE MAN WHO LAUGHS. The man whose laugh keeps ringing loud May never stand sublime Upon the height toward which the crowd Keeps striving; he He may not have the wish or will To lead at work or play, He may be weak or foolish I am that whose laugh keeps ringing clear. What other thing? May leave no work behind him here. That man may know him by. He may be satisfied to get His meals from day to day. Instead of rolling nobly Yours truly. We like him anyway. For him whose hearty laugh is heard The Lord be praised! His mirth Is greater than the sage's word For spreading peace on earth; The sage that opens dark with woe May brighten a day Because some folks come laughing —So— We like him anyway. A FIDDLER OF FORTUNE By HARRIET PEARL SKINNER. THE weekly hop was at its height when Dorothy Dunham entered the ballroom. She was accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. Parker Dunham, and as the two paused for an instant in the doorway, watching the myriads of dancers go floating by, the girl presented a picture fit for the brush of Titian. She was tall and finely proportioned. Her red-brown hair was piled in glorious masses, her brown eyes were flashing with girlish excitement, her cheeks were delicately flushed, and her whole being was vibrant with pleasure and anticipation. She was dressed in a gown of gauzy white, which left bare her exquisite arms and throat, and her only ornament was a single white rose fastened carelessly in her auburn hair. Instantly that she was discovered nods and smiles greeted her from all parts of the room, and it was evident that she was easily the favorite of the younger set at the lake. Her dances had all been promised beforehand, so her card was tossed aside while she graciously accorded to each of the young gallants the waltz or deux-temp he had previously begged. Never had Dorothy appeared more joyous and certainly never more beautiful than to-night, but this thought continually thrust itself upon her attention: "Just one week of fun, and then comes Saturday, and—Paul Churchill. But I have this one week of grace, and I shall certainly make the best of the time." For Dorothy's father had, upon a recent eastern trip, met with his old school chum, Henry Churchill, the now famous New York millionaire, and they, in the delight of their reunion, had concocted a plan whereby they might cement their lifelong friendship, ultimately combine their vast fortunes, and insure the future welfare of their children. A marriage between Henry Churchill's only son, Paul, and John Dunham's only daughter, Dorothy, was arranged, pending only the consent of the young people, which the dutiful children would scarcely fail to accord. The gentlemen had decided that the twain should meet at Delavan lake, and Dorothy, who was motherless, had arrived to-day under the care of her father's sister. "Of course I shan't be compelled to marry him," thought Dorothy, "but if I can possibly tolerate him, I shall feel that I must do it for parents' sake." To-night, however, she was determined to forget her impending ordeal and to enjoy every minute of the time. Suddenly, as with Howard Moore she waltzed slowly past the musicians' platform, her eyes met those of the violinist. For an instant she was spellbound as she met that earnest, compelling gaze. The color left her cheek, and for the first time in her life she lost the rhythm of the music. "We are out of time, Miss Dunham — my fault entirely—I beg your pardon." Her partner's words recalled Dorothy to herself, and with a quick flush she dropped her eyes and whirled away. "Bold, yes, very—and presumptuous, perhaps a little—but rude, not a bit! His look wasn't even one exactly of admiration, but just of a kind of interest. Pshaw, what do I care what this fiddler's glances mean! He certainly plays divinely, though," she meditated. All about the room Dorothy heard comments upon the musician and his art. "He's new—came to day. Tremendous tone—so much better than the other one!" Next morning Dorothy ran across the green sward toward the hotel tennis grounds, where three other pretty girls in short skirts awaited her, "Hurry, Dorothy!" called one. "I had four letters to read," she apologized breathlessly as she took her place. Happening to glance indvertently toward the adjoining net, where two men were playing singles. Dorothy recognized the new violinist in the court diagonally opposite her own. That he was about 30 years old, tall, dark, athletic, and vigorous she comprehended in a flash. Their eyes met, but his glance was as soal as her own, and he continued his game with an ease and dexterity which he felt rather than saw. She turned abruptly away with a sensation of positive annoyance. "How did he happen to choose this particular court? What difference does it make to me any way? Just a common fiddle player. He has the pride of a duke written all over him. Dorothy Dunham, you are a dunce!" She played a wretched game this morning, to the surprise of her comrades, and once sent a wild ball straight into the enemy's camp. The violinist caught it easily in his left hand and tossed it lightly back to her. Dorothy bowed haughtily and scrambled in the grass to recover the ball, her cheecks as red as a red, red rose. Presently she threw down her racket, despite the expostulations of her mates, and retreated to the hotel, confusedly murmuring something about "auntie and a drive, you know." Thereafter it seemed to Dorothy that at every turn her of roseate path she came in contact with this handsome, princely, never to be thought of musician. If she sailed, he happened to stand on the wharf while she embarked. At golf he was sure to precede her on the links. If she chose a quiet hour and a magazine in the otherwise deserted reading room he wrote letters at a distant table. If she drove into the village for letters, he entered the post office just before her, and if she walked by the lake, he was certain to be sitting with pipe and book beside the path by which she must return. Upon these occasions she displayed an elaborate indifference, which was quite unnecessary, for the offender seemed quite unconcious of her presence, never even remotely intimating the peculiar interest with which he had regarded her on the night of the ball. And Paul Churchill—he was to come on Saturday night, and then she would be bored beyond endurance. He was sure to be uninteresting, Dorothy was confident. "Doubtless his only accomplishment is his ability to spend his father's money. I like men better who do things. Now, if Mr. Churchill were a novelist, or a painter, or—or a musician—" On Saturday afternoon, as she was returning from a solitary ramble in the woods, Dorothy was overtaken by a sudden shower. Her thin, white gown was drenched in a minute, and, looking hastily about for shelter, she hurried toward an old band stand near by. Gathering up her skirts, she ran up the steps and stood face to face with the violinist. Before she knew what had happened the tall stranger had snatched off his "WE ARE OUT OF TIME, MISS DUN-HAM." "WE ARE OUT OF TIME, MISS DUNHAM." rough tweed coat, wrapped it closely about her, and was saying: "Good gracious, Miss Dunham, how wet you are! Pardon me, you must wear it whether you like it or not." Instinctively she obeyed his tone of command, but inquired, haughtly: "May I ask who ventures to take charge of my comfort?" "Paul Churchill," he replied, quietly. "Paul Churchill! But your violin, and—and salary?" All the admiration which he had so carefully concealed since the night of the dance now shone in his eyes as he replied: "I have always played for pleasure, and, forgive me, I substituted for Herr Fischer during this one week that I might see Miss Dunham in all her loveliness without the oppression of so fatal an introduction as ours was to be." "Such impudence! You have been playing detective?" "Something of that nature." "Watching—" "Watching you." "And discovered—" "That you are the most charming—" "Not another word! I am so surprised and—and vexed—and I just love the violin!" "And the violinist!" gravely. A dimple appeared in each rosy cheek, and she glanced roguishly into his eyes. "Ask me a week or two later, sir."—Chicago Tribune. It Blessed Him "Poker," growled the eminent financier, "is the most contemptible game ever invented." Here we gather around him, hoping to hear some pearls of wisdom, for well we know that the truly great are prone to guide us in the proper path by pointing out the pitfalls which beset our untrained feet. "It's an atrocious game!" he continues. "I sit at table for three hours and never held better than a pair of fives, and a common, low-browed person across from me, who hasn't got a million dollars to his name, held straights, flushes, fulls and the whole gamut of possible hands. It is a vile game! Besides, I lost a good deal."—Baltimore American. The Summer Girl. To carve her name upon a tree In romance without reason; Ed rather write it on the sand— it's there next season. Y. N. Sun. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND; VIRGINIA DEALS IN REPTILES Mrs. Masall, the Champion Snake Hunter of America. The most successful snake hunter in the United States is a woman Laura De Masall. She lives near Lexington, Oklahoma territory, in the Wichita mountains. At one time Mrs. Masall was a performer in a circus. Her face became disfigured accidentally, so she left the circus and took up the business of supplying snakes to snake charmers, scientists and eurators of museums. She collects serpent poisons, which are being studied extensively now in the hope that they may yield aluable anti-toxins for bacterial diseases. Mrs. Masall drives a large trade also in snake oils, warranted to cure many diseases, from rheumatism to insanity. The business is quite remunerative. Mrs. Masall came into Lexington the other day to put $250 in the bank the proceeds of a sale of snakes to a circus. Her method of catching snakes, as described in the New York World is remarkable. With her half-breed husband, Mespah, she lives in a little hut in the mountains. At a short distance from the house are a huge bowder and a spring called the Venom spring. Spring and bowder are infested with snakes of all sorts. Mrs. Masall has an old flute, and few tunes on it day or night will bring out an audience of squirming hissing snakes. They hid about with in a few feet of her in the grass. Rat snakes especially are fond of the noise of the flute. In catching the snakes the woman uses a long pole with a short running noose on the end. She drops the noose over his snakeship's head ENTERTAINING HER PETS. pulls it tight, and then seizes the reptile just below the poison sac or the head. In a trice the wriggling snake is safe in the flour bag she carries, and a few twists of the bag prevents all danger of the fangs striking through Mrs. Masall declares that snakes exert a curious charm on those who follow the business of snake hunting. She calls the reptiles in her collection "pets," and handles them as if they were kittens. The snake market varies greatly. Of late years there has been a large demand from physicians and scientists. Circuses and museums afford a more steady market. To collect the venom Mrs. Masall induces the snakes to strike again and again, discharging their poison in a sort of glass hood. This venom sells by the drop and is very valuable. Mrs. Masall maintains that the moocosin has no poison sac. The adder, the cotton mouth and the copperhead she ranks next to the ratter. Hoop snakes will not come at all. They live quite apart from the other serpents, and according to this woman an snake hunter, are extremely poisonous. They have to be tracked with care, and are difficult to locate. Owing to their peculiar manner of locomotion, rolling over and over tail in mouth, and forming a hoop they leave an unmistakable track. That hoop snakes really roll over and over has often been disputed by naturalists, but Mrs. Masall vouchers for the truth of the belief. "It is not a well-defined roll," she says, "but a wrigging, clumsy toppling over their own coils, as it were, their locomotion being impelled by their holding the ends of their tails in their mouths. "You can pick them up on a stick and they will remain in that position hung over the stick, helpless, until made to let go. "They are not a particularly pleasant pet, however, and I would rather handle a rattlesnake at any time than a hoop snake. "The rattlesnake, indeed, is not so dangerous as people generally believe, for he is a good deal of a coward, and can be easily managed." Salmon's Tremendous Jump. One of the directors of the Norwegian fisheries has been endeavoring to discover the height a salmon will leap when clearing a waterfall which obstructs its passage upstream. Masts were placed below the fall to insure accurate measurements. It is stated that a fish can leap to the height of 20 feet. When a fish failed to clear the fall at one bound it remained in the falling water, and then, with a rapid twist of the body, gave a spring and was successful. Reason for Patronage "People have strange reasons sometimes for patronizing particular grocery stores, steamboat lines and railway lines," said the vice president. "When I was a ticket agent, back in the fifties, I heard all sorts of them. One day an old lady came to the window and asked for a ticket up the line a short distance. "I thought I'd take this road 'stead of the other,' she said, 'cause I felt like I fed an interest in this road. "How's that?" I asked, thinking she might have a son connected with the road in some capacity. I knew a lot of clerks at various stations, and if this was a friend's mother I wished to help her if it were in my power. So I inquired: "How's that?" "Why,' said she, 'my niece's little boy, John, before he got a job in the messenger service, was office boy down here.'" -Detroit Free Press. Fire Chiefs in European Cities. Very few European chiefs of fire brigades have been trained or have worked their way up as firemen. In Paris the chief must be a soldier, and the department is a regiment of infantry, placed at the disposal of the city of Paris by the war office. In Berlin the chief and most of the men are veteran soldiers, though many are artisans and mechanics. In London the chief officer is from the navy, and nine-tenths of the men under his command are sailors, while in Glasgow the chief officer a master mechanic by trade, and every fireman must be a skilled worker of some kind. In Nasso, Sweden, the fire department is made up of 150 women and the "waterworks" are four enormous water tubs—Chicago Chronicle. Passing of the Smock. The farmer used to be proud of his smock, and it was often adorned with much beautiful work, and was worth from 20 to 30 pounds, but now the garment is almost wholly discarded. No farmer wears it, and even the farm laborer objects to it in its cheapest form, though here and there in out-of-way hamlets of the Berkshire and Wiltshire Downs the rustic may occasionally be seen clad according to the old fashion. This is but seldom, however, as the cheap tailor has long been familiar in Areadin, and the rural swain goes in the same attire as the city bean—Country Life. Long Floated the Seagr The Italian ship Anita, registered at the port of Genoa, lately sold at Tenerife to be broken up. The Anita, which resembled Christopher Columbus' ship, the Santa Maria, was built in Genoa in 1548 and effected her last voyage at the end of March, 1902, from Naples to Tenerife six or seven weeks ago. The Anita was of tremendously stout build and had weathered countless storms and tornadoes in all parts of the world, but it was also the slowest ship afloat, taking 205 days on one voyage from Baltimore to Rio Janeiro. -N. Y. Sun. A London crowd is the most good-humored crowd in the British islands. It is impossible for a man born and bred in London, with an average eye for the quaint side of life, to growismanthropic. A provincial crowd merely stares, mumbles, grins vacantly and passes on. A Dublin crowd will strike the note of geniality if it happens to be in the mood, but as often as not its passion for argument gets the better of it. A London crowd, with its admirable sense of camaraderie, recognizes that it is there to enjoy itself.—To-day. The Sea Birdz' Ory. The beauty of the sea bird's cry is one entirely of suggestion; its appeal is through the imagination, not the senses. Speaking in human terms, it occupies musical ground ignored by Mozart, appropriated by Wagner. And its suggestions are of desolate seas and savage shores; of an eager, maybe joyous, life; but of one, unlike that of the woodland songster, entirely alien from and indifferent to our own.—Outlook. **Omelet with Green Peppers.** Cut one green pepper in half; remove the seeds and chop fine. Melt one ounce butter in a saucepan; add the peppers, a pinch of oil, and cook five minutes; remove, and when cold mix it with six eggs and finish the same as plain omelet.—Ledger Monthly. Their Education Mrs. Hatterson—I suppose you send your children to public school because you want them to learn to accommodate themselves to all sorts of people. Mrs. Catterson—Yes. Later on, you know they will go to summer resorts.—Cleveland Leader. Barring e Guess "I wonder why there is no marrying in Heaven?" simpered the obviously aged maiden. "I presume," remarked the extremely crusty bachelor, "that some sort of a distinction has to be made in the two places."—Baltimore American. Netting for Himself Customer—I want 15 yards of netting. Clerk—For mosquitoes? "Naw, y' idiot! Fr myself. Th' mosquitoes have got enough comforts already."—Baltimore News. Good Imitation of Success. Frederick—Poor Felix, he is a saddening failure. Eugene—Failure? He has got nearly through life without ever doing a day's work—Detroit Free Press. Photographer's Mission Miss Frizzleface - Do you take photographs which look like your subjects? Photographer - Oh, no, madam; we aim to please - Boston Post. The Moral "An awfully kind-hearted man." "Yes, I saw him pick a bumble bee out of the water one day." "How lovely of him!" "Then the bee stung him."—Detroit Free Press. The Perversity of Woman. "Why did she marry the widower?" "Just to show that she could." "And why didn't she marry the young man?" "Just to show that she wouldn't" Chicago Post. THE X RAY AGAIN. First Doctor—Capital photograph, isn't it? Second Doctor—Flatters the left lung a little. I think—Westminster Budget. Sarcasm. Mrs. De Style (haughtily)—I am sorry, but I would not permit my daughter to go with a man that drinks. Turnedowne—I thought as much, for I have never seen your daughter ent with her father—Judge. Many Such "Paw," said little Oscar, "what is a community of interest?" "I guess it is this one," said Mijit. "Every person in this c community seems interested in every other person's affairs."—N. Y. Times. C & O PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE AND ARRIVE NEW MAIN-ST. STATION. AUGUST 17th, 1902. LEAVE RICHMOND. 7:45 a. m., Dally— Newport News Local All stops. 8:50 a. m., Daily—For Old Point, Newport and Norfolk. Two hours and twenty minutes, burg. Newport News and Hampton only. 4:00 p. m., Daily—Except Sunday—For Old Point, Norfolk and Norfolk. Two hours and twenty minutes, burg. Newport News and Hampton only. Connects at Old Point Cedarburg, Baltimore and Cape Charles stakes principal stops. Old Dominion steamers for New York. 5:00 p. m., Daily—For Newport News and Old Point. Lakes principal stops. Old Dominion steamers for New York. 10:10 a. m., Local to Clifton Fork. Daily to Charlottesville and except Sunday, between Charlotteville and Clifton Pointe on Orange. Culpeper, Calvert and Manassas. 2:30 p. m., Daily—Cincinnati and Louisville Express, parlor car car to White Sul- pentine. From Gordonville to Cincinnati, Louisville and the West; connects for Virginia Hot Springs. A local train from Charlotte to Louisville, shows, for local stations, except Sunday. 7:00 p. m., Daily—St. Louis and Chicago special to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St. Louisville. Chicago Except Sunday with parlor car. 10:30 p. m., F., F. V. Limited except Sunday to Gordonville. Daily beyond. Pullman to Cincinnati. Pullman to Cincinnati, Louisville and the West. Connects for Virginia Hot Springs. James River Division. 10:20 a. m., Daily--For Lynchburg, Lexington, New Castle and Clifton Forge; except South Rosney and Alberno. Parlor car Arrive. PENNSILA DIVISION — From Norfolk and Old Point, arrive 10 a.m., daily 2:30 p.m. m., daily 2:30 p.m., daily Local arrive 7:30 p.m., daily MAIN LINE, From Cincinnati, 7:45 a.m., daily; 9:45 a.m., except Sunday and 2:30 p.m. m., daily 7:30 p.m., except Sunday from Clifton Forge and daily from Charlotteville: Local from Dawley arrives 8:30 a.m., except Sunday. JAMES RIVER DIVISION — From Clifton Forge and Lynchburg 6:35 p.m., daily and 8:40 a.m., except Sunday from Manteo. Apply to E Main, Murphy's Hotel and Hotel Jefferson for Furthe information, Rates, tickets and Pullman Reservation. W. O. WARTEN, DISTRICT PASSENGER AGENT. C. E. DOYLE, H. W. FULLER, GEN'L M'G'R. GEN'L P. A. Seaboard Air Line R. R. "CAPITAL CITY ROUTE" Short line to Principal Cities of the South and Southwest, Florida, Texas, California, and Mexico, reaching the Capitals of Six States. SCHEDULE IN EFFECT APRIL 18, 19, 1992 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND-MAIN ST. STATION-DAILY. No. 27 No. 31, 2:15 P. M. 10:37 P. M.-Liv. Richmond. 7:27 P. M. 4:12 P. M.-Liv.雪堡. 7:27 P. M. 4:12 P. M.-Liv. Raleigh. 10:25 P. M. 7:04 A. M.-Ar. Hamlet. 10:35 P. M. 7:20 A. M.-Ar. Hamlet. 7:30 A. M. 7:30 A. M.-Ar. Atlanta. 2 A. M. 10:35 A. M.-Ar. Columbia. (Eastern Time.) 1:05 A. M. 9:40 A. M.-Liv. Columbia. Central Time.) 4:55 A. M. 2:10 P. M.-Ar. Savannah. 9:15 A. M. 7:00 P. M.-Ar. Jacksonville. 4:55 P. M. 6:45 A. M.-Ar. St. Augustine. 10:25 P. M. 7:20 A. M.-Liv. Hamlet. 10:22 P. M. 7:20 A. M.-Ar. Columbia. 7:50 A. M. 3:55 P. M.-Ar. Atlanta. 2 A. M. 10:35 A. M.-Columbia. 1:35 A. M. 9:40 A. M.-Liv. Columbia. (Central Time.) 4:55 A. M. 2:10 P. M.-Ar. Savannah. 9:15 A. M. 7:00 P. M.-Ar. Jacksonville. 10:25 P. M. 6:45 A. M.-Ar. Tampa. 10:32 P. M. 10:38 P. M.-Charlotte. 8:45 A. M. 12:35 P. M.-Liv. Greenwood. 6:13 A. M. 12:35 P. M.-Liv. Athens. 7:50 A. M. 5:40 P. M.-Ar. Augusta. 11:35 A. M. 7:30 P. M.-Ar. Macon. Train No. 35 leaves Richmond 8:10 A. M. daily and Richmond 10:10 A. M. daily mediate points. Connection to Norfolk with train arriving Henderson 2:10 P. M. and Relig- ious Boundary, and durham 4 P. M. daily Sunday. Trains leave Richmond for Washington, and new York and the best daily-No. 34 as 6:45 A. M. ANNO. 80; 80 at oyster P.M. Baltimore and Wilmington and Tampa for all Florida East coast points and Cuba, and Porto Rica; at New Orleans for all points in Texas, Mexico and California. SLEHING-CAR SERVICE. :Phase 406 Mamma's Advice Daughter—Mr. Millyons says that a woman's "No" always means "Yes." Mother—Well, I'd show him if I were you. Daughter—Show him what? Mother—Show him that it did.—Detroit Free Press. Contradictory Father—What? Fighting? Haven't I told you if an enemy smite thee upon one cheek you should turn the other to him? Tommy—Yes, sir, but you told me, too, that it was "more blessed to give than to receive."—Philadelphia Press. More Spitr "Is it true Blanche Poorecatch is going to be married?" "Yes, to Maj. Richman; he lost his arm in an engagement, you know." "Humph! He certainly lost his head in this one."—Ally Sloper Called Down Mr. Pinchback—You say you've had that bonnet for a year. I never saw it before. Mrs. Pinchback—I know that; I only wear it to church.—Chicago American. **Flunked at Last Moment.** Patience—I thought Will was going to ask your father for your hand last night? Patrice—Well, didn't he? "I don't know that he did. He's not disfigured any."—Yonkers Statesman. **The Less of Two Evils.** "No," said Willie Washington, "I am not going to protest against any methods of taxation. What's the use?" "Well," answered Miss Cayenne, "Perhaps you are right. You would rather let them tax your property than tax your mind."—Washington Star. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Schedule in Effect July 20. 1902 Trains Leave and Arrive 14th St. Station 10:15 A. M. No. 9 daily for Durham, N. C. Danville, and all local stations south, constituency for Farmville, Lynchburg and all local stations West; at Jeffreys for local stations on Norfolk Division to Danville; at Gustav Henderson 2:30 P. M. No. 28 limited for jacksonville and all Florida points; Havana, Nassan etc. Connects at Messeley, with Farmville, and Powhatan Railroad; at Gustav Henderson; at Winston-Salem; at O'Arlottle with No. 38. United States fast mail, solid train, and all local stations and points South which carriages sleep in Drawing Room, Sleeper, Richmond to Atlanta and Birmingham. Through train, with Salsbury to Memphis. Dining-Space 11: 05 P. M., No. 11, Southern Express, daily for Atlanta, Angela, Jacksonville, and Grapevine. South Sleeper for Danville, Gainesville, and Jacksonville, open at tichondh 9: 30 P. M., Connecction with New York and Florida Express and Southwestern Limited, which can connect to Savannah, Jacksonville, Tampa Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans, etc. Complete Dining-Car Service. Also Pratt University Savannah, neededs days and Fridays Washington to San Francisco, with outchange, with connections for all points in Texas, Mexico and California. 6: 00 P. M., No. 17, local daily, except Sunday, for Keysville and intermediate points. TRAINS ARRIVE IN RICHMOND. 7 A. M.) 5: 43 P. M., From Atlanta, Augusta, Jacksonville, Ashville and all points South. 8: 40 A. M., From Keysville and local stations. 8: 25 P. M., From Jacksonville, Danville and intermediate stations. LOCAL FREIGHT. Nos. 61 and 62 between Manchester and Neapo lis YORK RIVER LINE, VIA WEST POINT. THE FAVORITE ROUTE NORTH. LEAVE RICHMOND. 4:30 p. M., No. 10, Baltimore Limited, daily except Sunday for West Point, connecting at West Point with steamer for Dauphin Island, York river landings 2:15 p. m. No.10 daily except West Point, and intermediate stations, Connects with stage at Lester Manor for Walkerton and Tapestry. 5:00 A. M., No. 74, local mixed. Leaves daily except Sunday for West Point and intermediate stations, connecting with stage at Lester Manor for Walkerton and Tapestry. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 9:15 A. M. 10 no. 15 daily from West Point, with transfer from Baltimore, except Monday. 10:45 A. M., No. 9, daily except Sundays and Mondays. Steamers sail from West Point 5:30 p.m. m. d. on Saturday. Steamers enter the center pool and Clay bank, Mondays, wednesdays and Fridays, and Yorktown and Allmounds Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. O WESTBURST, D. P. A., 920 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. S. H. HARDWICK, G. P. A., C. H. ACKERT, General Manager, Washington, D. C. Norfolk and Western R. R. May 25th, 1902. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 A. M. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Norfolk 11:20 A. M. Stops only at Peterson. Stops at Wakefield only to let Peterson hold tickets from Richmond and Petersburg. 9:05 A. M. CHICAGO EXPRESS for Lynchburg, Roanoke, Columbus and Chicago. Buffet Parlor Carl Petersburg to Roanoke, Pallman Sleeper Roanoke to Roanoke for Bristol, Knoxville, and Chathamburg. Pallman Sleeper Roanoke to Knoxville. 1.10 p. m., Roanoke Express for Farmville, Lynchburg, Roanoke and intermediate stations. 7:36 P. M. for Suffolk, Norfolk and interm- mediate stations. Arrives at Norfolk 10:40 P. M. 9:45 P. M. for Lynchburg, and Roanoke, Con- nects at Lynchburg, with Washington and Chattanooga Limited. Pullman Grover Lynchburg to Memphis and New Orleans, Cafe Parlor and Observation Cars Radford to Attalia, Ala. Pullman P.O. Box 1044, Lynchburg, Berths ready for occupancy at 8:30 P. M. Also Pullman Sleeper Trains arrive Richmond from Lynchburg and the West daily 7:36 A.M. 1:50 p. m. and 8:50 P. M.; from Norfolk and the East at 11:10 A. m., 11:42 A. m., and 6:50 P. m. Office 888 Main St. JOHN E. WAGNER, City Passenger and Ticket Agt. O. H. BOSLEY, District Passenger Agent. W. B. BEVILL, General Passenger Agent. General Office; Roanoke, Va. Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. Schedule in Effect May 25, 1902. Trains Leave Richmond Northward. 4.22 A.M. Daily from EYRD STREET STATION, for Washington, Frederickburg and Alexandria, at Milford, Frederickburg and Sundays. Sleeping Cars to Washington and Alexandria. 6:46 a.m. M. Daily from M A I N S T R E E T E STATION, Florida and Florida Limited, Stonehill and beyond. Stoops at Fredericksbury and Alexandria. Sleeping Cars to New York. 7.00 a. M. Except from Ela Bstation, Amodation for Ashland and Ashland introduction station. 8.00 a. M. Sunday only from BETROPY STREET STATION, for Washington and beyond. Stoops Gilbert, Green and local stations. Ashland to Chester, Hill. Except Coquan and Alexandria. Buffet Park Cars. 8:38 a.m. Except Sunday from BYRD STREET STATION for Washington and beyond. Stops in Allen and, local stations, Ashland and to Acotink Indicative, Seminary and Alexandria. 12:36 Noon. Except Sunday, from BYRD ST. Station for Washington and beyond. Stops at Eka, Ashland. Feel free to rickaburk and Alexandria, Buffet Parlor Connects with Congressional Limited. m. Except Sunday, from the Bryd St. Stations and intermediate stations. 5:35 P. M., Daily, from Main St. Station, for Washington, and beyond. Stops at Dowell, Frederickburg, and Alexandria. Sleeping Car to New York. 6:32 P. M., Daily from Elba Station for Washington and beyond. Stops at Frederickburg, and Sleeping Car to New York. Di ning Car. 6:30 P. M., Except Sunday, from ELBA STATION. Accommodation for Ashland and intermediate points. 5:35 P. M., Daily from Byrd Street Station, for Washington, and beyond. Stops at ELBA, Ashland, Dowell, Milford, Frederickburg, Quantico, and Alexandria. Stops at other stations. Sleeping Car, Richmond to New York and Washington to Philadelphia. Except Sunday, from ELBA STATION. Accommodation for Ashland and intermediate points. Trains Arrive In Richmond Southward W. P. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager. W. D. DUKE. General Manager. E. T. D. MYERS. President. ATLANTIC COAST-LINE Schedule In Effect June. 8, 1902. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND—BYRD STREET STATION. 7:25 P. M. FLORIDA & WEST INDIAN LIMITED. Daily Arrives Petersburg, 8:02 P.M. For Norfolk and intermediate points; Emporia 9:08 P. M., (Connects with Atlantic and Danforn for stations between Emory, M. P., Fayetteville 1:15 A. M., Charleston 6:08 P. M., Savannah 8:10 A. M., Charleston 12:10 A. M., P. M. Port Tampa 10:30 P. M. NEW LINE TO MIDDLE GEORGIA POINTS—Arriving Augusta 18:10 A. M., Richmond 18:10 A. M., Pullman Sleeper New York to Wilmington, Charleston, Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Augusta and Petersburg 10:25 P. M. Connects at Petersburg with Norfolk & Western railway, arriving at Lynchburg 10:30 P. M. Pullman Sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg. 11:30 P. M. Daily. Arrives Petersburg 12:10 A. M. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 7:35 A. M. Daily, From Petersburg, Lynchburg. 8:48 A. M. Daily, except Sunday. Petersburg local. 11:10 A. M. Daily, From Goldsboro and intermediate stations. Norfolk and Suffolk. 11:42 A. M. Daily, From Norfolk, Suffolk and Petersburg. 1:50 P. M. Daily, From Petersburg Roanoke and intermediate points. 4:30 P. M. Daily, From Petersburg and intermediate points. 6:50 P. M. Daily, From Norfolk, Suffolk, and Petersburg. 7:45 P. M. Daily, From Miami, Port Tampa, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Goldsboro, and all points South. 8:56 P. M. Daily, From Petersburg, Lynchburg and West. Assistant Traffic Manger. W. J. CRAIG, General Passenger Agent. G. 8 CAMPBELL, Division Passenger Agt., 838 East Main St. WANTED-5 INDUSTRIUS COLORED MEN and, women in each locality, $10 to $30 per work be made to work, a paid and good done for the race. This announcement is of special interest to men and women of the race who desires to work themselves up. Full particulars furnished free. Apply by letter only. Address: UNITED MFG. PUB COMPANY, 1107 & 1109 E. Main St. Richmond, Va. 4-5-08 cm ALPHEUS SCOTT, CHURCH HILL FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND ENBALMER. Open Day and Night. Office and Ware rooms 3006 P. St., Church Hill. Orders By Telegraph and Telephone promptly attended to. All business con- idential. Old Phone No. 3182. THE JEWELT SATURDAR, AUG. 23 1902 DRIVES TEAM OF HOGS. Indiana Man Has a Troupe of Trained Porkers That Perform Some Wonderful Feats. Charles F. Holder, of Cambridge City, Ind., through his power over all kinds of animals, has attracted the notice of psychologists from many institutions, and students of animal and bird psychology have manifested the highest interest in him and his pets. Yet, Mr. Holder denies that he has any natural gift over animals or any power save that of infinite patience in training them and in studying their habits. It is said that he has never encountered an animal that was not tractable to his will. Horses, in his presence, appear to delight in obeying his commands, and THE HOGS IN HARNESS following him about. Birds forake their leafy coverties to obey his call, and often they may be seen circling about his head and perched on his shoulders and arms. Rats and mice forget the natural ennity between them and man, and scamper over his person and perform tricks and run on errands for him. Snakes and toads, and even ants and bugs, are amenable to his will and come and go at the sound of his voices. The hog has rendered another answer to the indictment that has stood against him from the earliest time. Mr. Holder declares that the hog has intelligence fully equal to that of any other animal except man, and a disposition singularly tractable and docile when treated with kindness. Mr. Holder has trained a troop of grunters and what he cannot make them do can hardly be mentioned. These are not blooded, sleek, pedigree swine, but are of the rough, ugly, friendless, wandering kind, against whom is every man's hand. There are ten in the troop. They have been trained to separate, at a certain command, into two squads, as soldiers, Spanish and American. There is a stone fort, over which the Spanish flag is seen to float. An officer of the American forces appears to order an advance. The fort is stormed, the flag falls, the dead and wounded are carried out, the stars and stripes are run up, guns are fired, and everything usual in such a scene is transacted with fidelity. These hogs walk tight ropes, play musical instruments and march and drill with singular precision and answer to their names. There is a clown pig, very ugly and suggestive of a shock-headed country boy, that can be relied on to do wonders in showing its intelligence. Mr. Holder drives a team of racing hogs at good speed over the country roads. BALLOON RAN AWAY. Small Boy Is Carried Toward the Clouds. But Providence Interfered to Save Hm. Aeronaut W. F. Ward, of Sioux City, and a ten-year-old lad named Clifford Lomax narrowly escaped HELD THE BOY FIRMLY. death at Broken Bow, Ia., during a balloon ascension at a recent county fair. While the balloon was being prepared for its ascension young Lomax became entangled in the parachute fixings and not until he was nearly 100 feet in the air did Ward notice the boy elinging on for dear life. He spoke reassuringly to the lad and tried to untangle him from the parachute, but without success. Ward determined to hold the boy firmly, allow the balloon to go to its extreme height, and then trust in providence that it would settle down to the ground safely. Providence was kind, and after going nearly a mile into the clouds the balloon descended slowly and landed the frightened pair two miles away. Anti-Luxury Legislation. There is in existence an unrepealed law in Switzerland which forbids the wearing of bats more than 18 inches in diameter, artificial flowers, and foreign feathers, under a heavy penalty. Eating Problem Solved Eating Problem Solved. A company has been organized in London which is expected to solve once and for all the eating problem is it faces the bachelor and the servantless household. This company guarantees to send a hot meal anywhere, at any time, at a moderate cost, the dinner to be as good as can be got in any of the first-class restaurants. Not only is the dinner sent, but with it goes a complete table service, silver, glass and napery. The idea in itself is not particularly new, but the price for which it is done is surprisingly small. A dinner for one, comprising soup, entree, roast and sweet, is sent out for two shillings. Breakfast costs a shilling and lunch a shilling and sixpence. The company undertakes to supply all the meals of a household at a guinea per week for each one. It has a central kitchen, where the food is prepared, and specially constructed baskets so arranged that the hot dishes will stay hot and the cold dishes cold.—Detroit Free Press. A Bird's Bump of Locality On shore the penguin is an awkward creature, says Prof. C. E. Borchgrevink, the Antarctic explorer. Water is its element. When hunted on the ice floes the birds generally try to run away in an upright position, but just as the hunter thinks he has got one the bird lies down on its white belly and paddles along over the snow very quickly, the hard, smooth quills slipping over the snow crystals almost without friction. A remarkable characteristic of the penguin is his bump of locality. Both on shore and in the water he never loses his way. To human eyes one ice floe is precisely like another, but under that roof of similar ice floes I have seen a penguin of the larger species find its mate on a floe after diving and swimming for a mile under water.—Leslie's Monthly. From Within. All unhappiness, as all happiness, is from within. For, as St. Bernard has said: "Nothing can work me damage but myself; the harm that I sustain, I carry about with me, and I am never a real sufferer but by my own fault." From the kingdom of the mind issue the edicts that govern life. If a ruler of a country were to abdicate, and turn his authority over to a lawless mob, one would hardly expect to see peace and order and happiness follow. If the ruler of his mind steps down from his throne, and allows fear, anxiety, hate, envy and other riotors to usurp his authority, what can he expect but anarchy, disorder and unhappiness?—Success. California as a Corner Field California as a Copper Field. A careful study of the map which the state mineralogist has prepared, showing the copper locations in California, will convince anyone that this state is destined ultimately to become the greatest copper producer in the world. Speaking in a general way, there are two belts of the red metal deposits which extend nearly the whole length of the state, one following the coast ranges and the other the foothills of the Sierra. Each of these have what appear to be offshoots.—San Francisco Chronicle. Not a Bird. The only time Justice Gray, of the United States supreme court, was ever known to make a joke while seated on the bench was one day when Judson Harmon, then attorney general, was arguing a case before him. Mr. Harmon had occasion to display a map, quite a small one, and he referred to it as a "bird's eye view." The justice could barely see it from the bench, and after peering at it for a moment he said: "Mr. Attorney General, I regret to tell you that I am not a bird."—Chicago Daily News. Made by a Mule On a brick wall published by the late Shalmaneser I of Assyria to commemorate in burnt clay a series of victories over the Babylonians there was recently discovered by the explorers a peculiar mark which none of the scholars could elucidate, but which a blacksmith declared to be the print of the foot of a mule. It will be remembered that Mr. Pickwick made once on a time a similar interesting discovery—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ban on Divorced Women No divorced woman will be admitted to Queen Alexandra's court. This is the extension of the rule which was adopted by Queen Victoria, and yet some divorced women have much to command sympathy and respect. But the line has to be drawn somewhere.—London Mall. Belief in Dreams Tess—Don't you really believe in dreams? Jess—No, indeed, it's superstitious to believe in dreams; and, besides, it's a bad sign when you believe in them, for it usually brings you bad luck.—Philadelphia Press. The Important Detail Dealer—Now, sir, you will find this automobile always ready to go any distance— William Wise—That's all right;—but, say, how will I find it when I'm ready to stop?—Puck. The Very Thing Edgar—Picture my despair if you refuse me! Elsie—The very thing! Wait 'till I fetch my kodak!—Puck. Men Who Never Make Mistakes. That man who says he never makes a mistake probably don't know one when he sees it. — Chicago Daily News. Farms in Russia Ninety per cent. of the 128,000,000 people of the Russian empire are farmers.—N. Y. Sun. Encouraging. "My heart," he said, "is in this work." "Good," she replied. "Now if somebody would put some brains in it we might look for results."—Chicago Record-Herald. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA LITTLE DICK'S LUCK. He Earned a Hundred Dollars for Not Shining a Shoe. Wall Street Men Engaged in a Bit of Horseplay Which Brought Much Comfort to a Poor Widow's Home. When Long Branch was not spread out as it is now, and the shore line of hotels and cottages was not us closely woven, the steamboat trip from the rickety long pier at Port Monmouth was a good starter for a day in New York city with such men as Addison Cammack, Harry Camblos, Orlando W. Joselyn, Charles Devil, Hugh Hastings, "Billy" Henriques, John Hoey and others. The theatrical people and the actor folk had their favorite sitting places under cover on the starboard side of the boat, while the Wall street men chose the forward deck, each with his own camp-chair, and the bootblack of the boat, bright-faced little Dick, was a favorite. Money was easy and spirits were generous, and it was always a quarter, sometimes a half dollar, for a shine, without the boy's asking for it, and Dick was on good terms with the world and with his customers. One day a broker who has since counted his millions had one foot on the box, says the New York Times. Dick had finished one shoe, and the other foot was just being brushed clear of dust, when Joselyn quietly said: "Give you a dollar not to black it, Dick!" The boy hesitated. There was an all around laugh, and the broker said, in a quiet voice: "Two dollars to black it, Dick!" "Oh, go on! Go on, Dick!" said Cambos, giving another sidewise tip to his soft hat. "Somebody else wants a chance!" "Five dollars, no black!" came from the edge of the circle of chairs. Dick looked up, and was about to put on the blacking, and then, at the cry of "No black!" stopped. "HAND IT OVER." "Ten dollars, Dick!" said the one-shoe-blacked broker. "What do you do with your money, boy?" "Give it to my mother, sir!" "Fifteen dollars, no black—your mother wants the money, Dick!" again from the outer circle. The competition ran high. A new source of merriment had broken out, and the broker with his foot on the box saw the offer and went five dollars better. It was a miniature stock board scene for a few minutes. The offers to black and not to black ran up till $45 was bid to black the shoe. "Fifty dollars for your mother, Dick! Don't black it! Don't black it!" came in a subdued voice, and the lad seemed nervous, if not frightened. "Get the money, Dick," said the broker, still holding his foot on the box; then, standing up and pointing to the last speaker: "Hand it on!" The money was forthcoming; Dick took it, stowed it away in his pocket, and the man with the unblacked shoe stooped low, got on one knee, and began to black his own shoe. He made a good job of it, and, refusing offers to black other brokers' boots, tossed box, brushers and blacking into the bay. But this wasn't the end of it. Every man in the crowd was a speculator. Many a share of stock was bargain for during the morning trips, and the victor in the joke asked Dick for the money. Dick hesitated, then slowly handed it over, and in a whimpering voice said: "I thought you was in earnest." "Never mind the earnest, Dick," said Cammack. "I'll put it into stock for your mother. It's a margin to sell on." "But I haven't any stock and I don't want any. You can't sell what you haven't got, mister, can you?" The query was a poser. Cammack offered 50 shares of an active stock to anyone that would take it. A hand up from another speculator closed the deal, and the transaction "for the account of Dick" was closed out by covering at a profit next day, and $100 in gold found its way to Dick's mother. Dog Attempts a Murder. A dog which had committed murder as deliberately as a human being ever did was shot to death by his owner in Texas a month ago. A rancher's wife named Harris, living near Santa Rita, had a big Irish setter, of which she was extremely fond and which was devoted to its mistress. When Mrs. Harris' first baby was born and received all the petting and cajolery which the dog had regarded as belonging to him he became intensely jealous. One day he seized the baby up from the floor and bounded away with it to the river. He swam out into the current and dropped the child into the water. The baby was rescued with some difficulty and then the dog was killed. Germs and transceptibility Some persons are susceptible to contagion, others are not, and it is not difficult to determine who are and who are not. Fire will not burn where there is not fuel. Fermentation will not take place in pure water; but stagnant water becomes impure and may then ferment. Every plant, germ and insect has its natural habitat and its natural conditions of life. Without these conditions it can not live or propagate. Germs of lower forms of life are always present, sooner or later, wherever conditions favor, and it is impossible to exclude them unless we exclude at the same time atmospheric air, or oxygen, which is equally necessary to the existence of man. So contagion or infection may hasten disease in the susceptible, but cannot impart it to those whose bodies are clean within and without.—Wisconsin Medical Recorder. An Insulation. It was a warm Sunday morning in church. Fans were fluttering, hymns flopping, handkerchiefs mopping streaming faces, and the minister thought his audience a little lax in attention. Finally he led up to a rebuke on their lack of consideration for sacred and important things. Said he: "People are prone to attend to the unimportant things of life." And he gave a few examples to illustrate his idea. Presently he made his pertinent application. "Now," said he, "you are attentive to your own comfort this morning, to the sinful neglect of the holy word. Take no thought for the heat," he said, dramatically, "for you may be dead to-morrow."—Detroit Free Press. Whims of Sarcasm Why do such an extraordinary number of people indulge themselves so wontonly in verbal crucify? It is uncommon for those who, so far as action is concerned, leave little to be desired, to go about armed with the whip of sarcasm, with which to torment their neighbors. They get so much pleasure out of watching the accurate way in which their cuts go home and the winces of their victims that finally the sport becomes absorbing, and they do not spare even those they love, until one day they find to their horror that they have destroyed that delicate plant known as natural affection—London Spectator. Disillusioned Again "And that beautiful young girl writing at the last table—who is she?" we ask. "She is the writer of those heavy articles on our foreign relations," is "Dear me! And that ugly, scowling brute with the chin whiskers, chewing tobacco and smoking a short, stubby the reply." pipe, he is"?—?—?—? "That is Mother Shipley, who gives heart-to-heart talks on the care of babies!" And so we wander hence to an optician and kick ourselves that sight is so deceiving—Baltimore News. One Good Reason "I don't see," said the first intellectual gentleman, "why people turn their noses up at the thought of eating locusts, yet devour the soft shell crab with avidity." "It is because," explained the second individual, who was a natural-born reasoner, "the locust may be had for nothing, but the crab comes at a dollar a dozen, and hard to get at that."-Baltimore American. Retiring Railway Presidents When a railroad president outlines and outgrows his usefulness in the activities of transportation the directors have a gentle way of shelving him. They make him chairman of the board. This puts him in a dignified place, with a dignified salary, and gives a younger and abler man an opportunity to be a live president.—Railway Journal. Ray of Hope. Employer—Mrs. Slack, would you like to have an increase in salary? Employee—Would I? I should say I would. "Well, let me tell you, then, that unless you get here earlier and work a great deal harder, you'll never get it in this world." Tit-Bits. Was Holding to It Wantanno- Why in the world have you been holding your right fist so tightly clenched all day? Duzno- I consulted a palmist late last night, and he told me I showed a lot of money in the lines of that hand. I'm simply hanging to it until I can feel it.—Los Angeles Herald. The Thoughtful Girl Madge--Dolly is going somewhere with that young map this evening. marrying him this evening. Marjorie—Yes, going to sit with him in the hammock. Right after dinner she went upstairs and put on a dark shirtwaist."—Portland Oregonian. Provided for Them. Mr. Hauskeep (at dinner)—This is a particularly delicious meal, my dear. Mrs. Hauskeep—Yes; the cook expects some of her friends to visit her this evening.—Philadelphia Press. London Roost on Sponges It is said that the flint which forms the substratum of London is nothing but petrified sponges. An examination of the fossil sponge, or flint, shows its structure.—N. Y. Sun. The Essential Thing It doesn't really seem to make any difference if a girl can sing or not, so long as her father has money, and her mother thinks she can—Atchison Globe. Hazarding a Guess. "I wonder why there is no marrying in Heaven?" simpered the obviously aged maiden. "I presume," remarked the extremely crusty bachelor, "that some sort of a distinction has to be made in the two places."—Baltimore American. Trying to Explain. "Why do they refer to the men who go into Wall street for the first time as lambs?" "I don't know," answered the morose wag, "unless it is because they are going to get fleeced and feel sheepish."—Washington Star. The Secret of Peace. Fuddy—There would be fewer unhappy marriages if young people in their days of coursehip did not try to deceive one another. Fuddy—Say rather if people did not quit the game of deception when they became married—Boston Transcript. The Industrial Situation as It Is Viewed in Chicago. Socialism to the extent of government employment agencies has been agencies has been a success in Chicago. When the agencies were first opened in 1890 there were many pessimists who predicted a short life for them unless they were kept open by political influence for the sake of the offices which they created with the attendant salaries. That any great number of people would seek cago. When the agencies were first opened in 1890 there were many pessimists who predicted a short life for them unless they were kept open by political influence for the sake of the offices which they created with the attendant salaries. That any great number of people would seek either to secure employment or engage help through them was quite generally scuffed at. But the day of laughing is past; the offices are still open and have proven the utility of their existence by providing seekers of employment with work, and those wanting help with employees. The South side is generally conceded to be the bon-ton section of the city. It is not supposed that the people of the South side have to labor with their hands to feed the domestic furnace. It is true that many of the moneyed kings of the city have their residences there; that it is the side of the city on which live a large number of the high-salaried officials of the large corporations, and flats that rent for from $75 to twice that amount monthly are not at all uncommon, and in some sections are quite the rule. But if we are to take the report of the state employment offices as a criterion upon which to base a statement we would say that there are more poor people living amidst the evidences of luxury in which the South side abounds than any other section of the city. Within one year's time there were 13,245 people who applied to the South side office for employment, while on the West side—the home of the factory and the factory worker—there were but 6,433 applications for work filed, and on the North side—supposedly the home of the struggling middles classes—there were only 5,618 applications filed. There is virtually no class of help the state employment offices will not attempt to secure for you. That they may not always succeed is proven by the fact that last year there were more than 1,000 more applications for help than there were applications for work, but that is a result of conditions rather than intentions. The offices are con- A City Man on the Farm. except to secure for you. That they may not always succeed is proven by the fact that last year there were more than 1,000 more applications for help than there were applications for work, but that is a result of conditions rather than intentions. The offices are conducted as but labor exchanges, and if what you want is there you are welcome to it without fee or without price. The class of labor that has so far sought a market through these offices has been, as a rule, that performed with the hands rather than with the head, and in the unskilled classes it embraces practically all lines. Through them the city is sending to the country each year a large number of embryo farmers. Out of 12,748 positions secured for men within a year 686 were sent to the farms to mystify the farmers with city ignorance as to agricultural methods. During the same period of time there were but 17 positions secured for men whose labor was to be with their heads rather than with their hands. These 17 were sent out to fill clerical positions. During the same time there were but 19 positions secured for professional men. But for men seeking employment at manual labor, at at the various trades, on the transportation lines and for miscellaneous positions the number of places filled ran well into the hundreds. For females the domestic service classification claimed by far the greatest number both of applications for work and places filled. In fact so great was the demand for servant girls that the number of applications for help exceeded the number of applications for places by nearly 2,000, the former being 11,408 and the latter 9,730. In clerical, commercial and professional lines the women, like the men, were not so successful, the percentages of places found being comparatively small excepting that of nurses, in which every one who applied was given a position. The statements recently made by some of the mammoth corporations employing large numbers of men to the effect that they desired only young men to enter their service gave rise to a world of protest, but if the records of age of applicants kept by the state employment offices may be accepted as a general criterion the old men, as a rule are not seeking AGENEY FIRMWARE HARVEY The Old Man Not an old men, as a rule Applicant. are not seeking positions. Of the 14,647 men who are recorded as applying for work in one year 61 per cent. were between the His Mean Fling "Yes," he answered, "and he isn't married, either."—Brooklyn Eagle. Too Late. "I'll teach you to make love to my daughter!!!"" "What's the use? She has already taught me."—Life. ages of 20 and 40, and another 14 per cent, were under 20 years of age, so that out of the total 75 per cent, of the applicants for employment were under the age limit set by the corporations that do not want to hire old men. Of the remaining 25 per cent, 13 per cent, were under 50, 51 per cent, were between 50 and 60, and but one per cent, beyond the three-score point. The remaining four per cent of the total did not report their ages. That uncertain quantity, a woman's age, is fairly well recorded in the reports of the employment offices, and only four per cent. out of a total of 10,650 applicants for work failed to state their age. Like the men, there were comparatively few old women applying for positions, and to secure employment for the older ones was even a harder task than the securing employment for the old men. Of the total number of women applicants 60 per cent, gave their ages as ranging between 20 and 40. Of that number 34 per cent, claimed to be under 30, though it is said that not all of them looked it. Seventeen per cent. were below 20; 14 per cent. between 40 and 50; five per cent. between 50 and 60 and less than one per cent. who would admit to having passed 60 or more milestones in the journey of life. The combination of muscle and brains of the tradesman seems to bring the most satisfactory returns in the form of wages that are found among those seeking employment in the city. The clerk and bookkeeper whose hands are seldom if ever soiled by the evidences of manual labor seldom has need of a safety deposit vault in which to The Trademan is the Best Reid keep his surplus earnings. Clerical help, and especially the unspecialized clerical help that is hired through employment agencies, is poorly paid. The rate of wages the state employment agencies were able to secure for the bookkeepers for whom employment was found was between $40 and $60 monthly. Clerks and salesmen are paid at about the same rate. At the same time the tradesmen, such as blacksmiths, brass finishers, electricians, bricklayers, compositors, gasfitters, iron workers, masons, millwrights, pattern makers, plumbers, plasterers, etc., are paid all the way from $3 to $4 and over per day. In fact, there are but very few trades in which the rate of wages run below $2.50 per day, and in the majority they run above $3. Men who work with their hands only earn from $1.25 per day up to twice that amount in exceptional skills. All things considered, there are few of the women who seek employment so well paid as those employed as house servants. Not that they are paid more than their labor is worth, but the earning capacity of a house servant is greater than that of other women in almost any of the unspecialized occupations. Their wages range all the way from $3 to $7 weekly, which of course includes their board, though the average rate for fairly experienced girls for general or second work is about $4 to $4.50. In the factories girls are being paid from $4 to $8 per week, and out of that must pay the expense of living. The clerks in the stores are receiving all the way from $4 to $10, but far more are getting $4 than $10, and out of this they too must pay their board and dress well enough to satisfy a sometimes exacting employer. According to the census reports of 1900 more than one-fourth of Chicago's population are foreign born. It is generally supposed that the street and railroad laborers, and in fact all forms of unskilled laborers are recruited more generally from among the ranks of the foreign born than from the native born population. Considerably more There Are But Few Americans Here. A There Are But Few population. Americans Here. siderably more than 50 per cent. of all applications for employment filed with the state employment agencies are for positions of this kind, and yet, in the face of Chicago's heavy population of foreign born, 45 per cent. and over of the male applicants for work were native born Americans. Among the females, where the great majority of the applications were for places as house servants, the percentage was not nearly so large, going only to 31. Of the total of 14,647 male applicants for employment for the year, 6,690 were Americans, 2,252 Germans, 1,217 Irish, 1,066 Italians, 586 Swedes, 547 English, and from that the figures drop down to almost nothing for the other nationalities. Of the 10,550 women applying for work 2,332 were Americans, 2,109 Irish, 1,581 were German, 073 English, 589 Swedes, 416 Scandinavian, and from this the figures drop down to insignificant numbers for other nationalities. DANIEL CLEVERTON. Lazy Husband. Mrs. White - Sam! Ah wish yo' was lak dat Mont Peles. Mr. White - How am dat? "Had plenty ob dust en wah active." -Chicago Daily News. The Name of Cuba The island of Cube was known by that name by the Luceyanan Indians, who were with Columbus when he discovered it.—Cleveland Plainie Daler, BRITISH STATPSMEN. Joseph Chamberlain will carry for the remainder of his life an ugly scar on his forehead, resulting from his recent cab accident. When Lord Carson, the viceroy of India, was an undergraduate at Oxford his handwriting was quite illegible. At this time he wrote two letters, one to a relative and one to a chum with whom he always discussed the faults of their respective relations, and accidentally put these letters into the wrong envelopes. He was about to write a profound apology to his relative when he received the following note from him: "Can't read a word of your four pages, but guess you want some money, you young rascal." Inclosed was a Bank of England note for a good amount. Mr. Balfour is the fifth statesman since the union of Great Britain and Ireland, who, having been chief secretary for Ireland, has become prime minister. More than 70 years have elapsed since the last Irish secretary who subsequently became prime minister was appointed. In 1830 Lord Stanley, subsequently known as the great earl of Derby, was appointed Irish secretary and held that office until 1833. The other prime ministers who were previously Irish secretaries are the duke of Wellington, who, as Sir Arthur Wellesley, was Irish secretary from 1807 until 1809; Sir Robert Peel, who filled that office from 1812 until 1818, and William Lamb (Lord Melbourne), was an Irish secretary from 1827 till 1828. FOREIGNERS OF NOTE. President Loubet has promised to visit Algeria, which has not seen a chief magistrate since 1865. The visit will probably be paid next Easter. The greatest dandy in the world is Prince Albert of Thurn, Germany. This fastidious young man attains himself in a new suit of clothes every day — enough yearly to keep 20 experienced workmen going, and to run up a bill of $15,000. While Ras Makonnen, the Abyssinian general, was in Paris a reporter undertook to interview him and among others put this decidedly leading question: "Do your countrymen like the French or the English the better?" The dark-skinned warrior gravely asked in return: "Is your respected mother still alive?" and on receiving an affirmative answer, said: "May she teach you better discretion." Sir Liang Chang, the new Chinese envoy to this country, is a many-sided man. He is 39 years old and one of the 120 students sent by China, beginning in 1872, to learn American ways. He entered Amherst college, but was unable to graduate because of recall by his government. He was an expert catcher and pitcher on the baseball nines at Phillips and Amherst. He is fond of society and is an entertaining conversationalist. It remains to be seen whether he can approach the retiring minister Wu as an after-dinner speaker. Sir Liang is a widower. BIG FEES FOR DOCTORS. The doctors who attended Queen Victoria in her last illness received $10,000 each. Dr. Lapponi's bill in removing a stryst from the pope's side a few years ago was recompensed with $2,500. The record in medical fees is held by the ancestor of the present lord mayor of London, Dr. Dimsdale, who received for his journey to St. Petersburg and vaccination of Empress Catherine II. $50,000 as his fee, $25,000 traveling expenses and also the title of baron and a life pension of $2,500 a year. For his four weeks' attendance at Sandringham and recovery of the king from typhoid fever in 1871 Sir William Gull received $50,000, as well as the dignity of baronet. Twice this amount was paid to Sir Morell Mackenzie for his treatment of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany and in addition he was presented with the order of the red eagle. SEEN AT THE JEWELER'S. A beautiful ring of emeralds and diamonds has all of the stones set in little claw points. There's a sterling silver belt watch design in the spirit of the various sports that is particularly adapted to outing costumes. In one the watch is designed like a compass, swung on a short rope-like chain, with a pin representing an anchor. Another is a tennis racket watch, with a pretty woman's head as a pin. Coral is the fad now, and nothing in the way of summer ornaments is considered more fashionable. Long strings of coral that knot just below the wrist line are worn about the neck. Of course, in the real coral these cost a great price, but one can purchase a string of beads that have the real look to them for a nominally small price. BRO. DICKEY'S PHILOSOPHY. In spite er all de bright sunshine in dis wort' some mens will go roam' huntin' fer happiness wid a candle. De rain falls on de jest en de onjest. De only trouble is, dey's seldom enough er it ter drown de onjest. No matter how long de sermon is, hit's better dan de trouble er de outside wort', which is ten mile longer. I don't trouble mysef 'bout whar de wort's gwine ter; de thing what bothers me is des how I'm gwine ter git thro' it. De sayin' is, you mustn't lay up fer ye'se' riches in dis wort'; yie dy comes in mighty handy wen de bailiff is a settin' on de front do'tep.—Atlanta Constitution. Eligible. A lady who spends her leisure time in organizing anti-cigarette leagues was recently speaking to an audience of boys over on the east side. After her lecture she talked with the lads informally. One little chap piped up: "Missus, kin I belong?" "Aw, close up!" interrupted an older boy, "you're too small to belong, ain't he, missus?" "Well, missus," insisted the urchin, "I smoke."—Detroit Free Press. THE PLANET All communications intended for publication should besent so as to reach us by Wednesday. ADVERTISING RATES REGISTERED LETTER—If a Money Order Post Office or an Express Office is not within your address, you should send your letter you wish to send on payment of ten cents. Then, if the letter is lost or stolen, you can send money in this summer at our risk. We cannot be responsible for money sent in letters in any other way than one of the four ways mentioned above. If you send your money in another way, you must do it at your own risk. RENewALE, WAIT—If you do not want THE SUBSCRIPTION has run out, you then notify us by Postal Card to discontinue it. The courts have decided that subscribers to newspapers who do not subscribe has run out, and notification of time for which it has been paid are held liable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discount. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue our paper, you should give your name and address to us. Otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent the new address on our books. 6 ATURDAY.....AUGUST 23 1902. CHARLES TIMBERLAKE (white) is now confined in the Henrico Co., Jail in this city, charged with the most heinous crime known to the law. There can be no doubt of his guilt in the minds of those who have heard the plain, straight-forward statement of Mrs. Keziah Banks or who have listened to the testimony of about a half-dozen witnesses, who caught the brute in the act of committing a felony. This case is an object lesson. CRAVEN was lynched at Leesburg for murder of which he was not guilty. TIMBERLAKE is allowed to linger in jail in this city and there is no demand on the part of the populace for a speedy trial. When JOE FIFE (colored) attempted a similar offence upon a white lady in this city, speedy justice was meted to him and both white and colored citizens said, "Amen," when the drop fell. His body was sent to the medical college at Charlottesville, Va., to become a fit subject for the medical knives used in the work of dissection. When JOE HIGGINBOTHAM committed a similar offense at Lynchburg, Va., the same decree went forth and if we mistake not his body, too, is at the present time in the pickling vat of the University College of Medicine in this city. But, what will they do with TIMBERLAKE? The press of this city is and has been silent. Will, the law's delay be exercised on this case? Will the poor old colored woman be tatalized and brow-beaten on the witness stand? Will the scars on her face and neck be lightly referred to, and will she be required to call on her young "marster" of slavery days for protection? We shall see. "He deserves lynching," you say. Perhaps he does. But lynching is murder and as guilty as he is and deserving as he is of death, we would to-day rally with the sheriff's posse to protect him from such a fate. In doing this, we would be upholding and defending the law rather than saving a brute, who had forfeited his right to live. He should die, but the duly authorized officers of the law should officiate at his timely taking off. It would be well to remember that this crime is becoming alarmingly frequent among white men. A young white lady charges her escort, who was a white man of good family of having attempted to criminally assault her and the matter will be aired again in the Police Court of this city. A stop must be put to this offense. Our white lead cars should teach the young men of their race to be moral and avoid these debasing evils which are sending them to perdition. The law, raising the age of consent to 16 years and making attempted criminal assault punishable with death is proving a two-edged sword and it seems that finally as many white brases as colored ones will be sacrificed upon thealar erected with the expectation that would be exclusively for Negroes. THE Bedford, Va., BULLETIN in discussing one colored journal rails at another, THE PLANET. It declares that t the best friends of the Negroes are the white people of the South. In this, it errs. If it will amend its statement to the extent of saying that some of the best friends of the Negroes are to be found among some of the white people of the South, there can be no disagreement with the assertion. The trouble with the BULLETIN and journals of its stripe is that it is unwilling to concede to the American citizen of color the same rights and privileges that it demand is for itself. We think that it is only fair that the Negroes should designate their friends as well as accorded an opportunity to label their enemies. That man, be he white or black, who recognizes me as a man and his equal before the law, denying no right to me that he would wish for himself is my true friend, and he who denies these privileges to me is my enemy even he parades himself as my friend. FAVORS TARIFF REVISION Secretary Shaw Addressed Republi- cans at Morristown Vt. Cans at Morristville, VT. Morristville, Vt., Aug. 20—Five thousand persons listened to Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, who was the principal speaker at a Republican rally here yesterday. Secretary Shaw lived here when he was a boy, and went to school here, and the residents of all the section round about came to hear him. He spoke in part as follows: "I have been quoted as opposed to a revision of the tariff. I have never opposed readjustment of the tariff. Whenever congress reaches the conclusion that the friends of protection are strong enough to conservatively modify certain schedules, so as to meet changed conditions and at the same time successfully resist the efforts of the opposition to revise the entire tariff law, thus paralyzing business for a season. I am in favor of it. I have expressed some doubt, however, about the wisdom of instructing by resolutions or exacting pledges from candidates for congress, when the effect is liable to precipitate a protracted debate with very uncertain results." The secretary appealed for the election of a Republican to congress. Then, he said, let the representatives from all sections of the country get together, "and if they can agree upon one or a dozen items in the present tariff schedule that can be reduced, let it be done, and done without three months' acrimonious debate." ATLANTIC CITY'S TIDAL WAVE Caused Big Scare Among the Colored Residents. Atlantic City, Aug. 19.—A great scare occurred in the colored resident district of the town about noon yesterday. Some one started the rumor that a long black line, supposed to be the tidal wave, could be seen approaching the city far out at sea and extending down the ocean. In an instant there was something doing. The older residents, who still recall plantation days, and who have never been weaned from the superstition of the southern colored race, fell on their knees and prayers and revival hymns were sent heavenward as only scared colored mon can pray and sing. There were lots of people who went to the shore yesterday either to see a real tidal wave or to show that they were not afraid of one. According to the figures announced the number of excursionists that went to the shore yesterday was 1,667. This is only 48 less than the record for the same day last year. So far 4,200 more people have been carried shoreward this season than last. American School Teacher in Phillip pines Victim of Cholera pines Victim or Cholera. Laporte, Ind., Aug. 20—Professor Rudolph Seumstein, who left Laporte last fall to become an instructor in the government schools in the Philippines, died there August 18 at the home of Charles G. Lunz, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Death came five hours after he had been married to Miss Jeannette Williams, of Denver, Colo., who that morning had arrived on the transport Meade from the United States. Miss Williams and young Seumstein had become betrothed while they were students at the Colorado University, and she crossed the Pacific to wed the teacher. He met her at the landing early in the morning, and shortly thereafter he was taken suddenly ill. His condition being critical, the ceremony was performed at once. At 1 o'clock Professor Seumstein died of cholera. Hope of Raising More Than $400,000 For Project Abandoned. Cleveland, O., Aug. 15—The promoters of the McKinley memorial have abandoned hope of raising the amount originally fixed as the cost of the monument to be erected to the memory of the dead president. At first it was thought $1,250,000 could be easily obtained in popular subscriptions. The money came slowly, however, and then the amount to be raised was fixed at $1,000,000. That was cut down to $650,000, and it is not improbable that the estimates will have to be cut down to $400,000. The subscriptions to date do not exceed $350,000. Drowned His Four Children Sailna, Kan., Aug. 20—Joseph Anderson, a farmer, living east of Sailna, in a fit of despondency yesterday, drowned his four children, three girls and a boy, in a cistern, and then shot himself with a revolver. Anderson is still alive, but will probably die. Financial matters had affected his mind. The crime was committed during the absence of the mother. The oldest child was six years old and the youngest a baby of four months. Anderson left a note on a table notifying the mother that the children could be found in the cistern. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND: VIRGINIA WOMAN'S LOT IN CHINA. With the Exception of That of the Empress Dowager It Is Indeed a Miserable One. In his lecture on "Woman in China," Mr. Chester Holoembe defined the status of the woman in three different periods of her life, and explained wherein lies the great influence which the present dowager empress exercises over the affairs of her nation. In all Chinese history probably no circumstances have occurred which might serve to illustrate so completely the natural position and autocratic power of a mother as those of the last few years in which the dowager empress has played the most conspicuous part. The dowager is the sole surviving widow of Emperor Hsien Feng, who died in 1861. In later years, by a process of adoption known only in China, the present empress dowager became the grandmother of the present emperor. Actually she is of no discernible relationship to him. But by that process of adoption, constantly practiced and everywhere recognized in China, she is his only surviving grandmother. And here is the one source of power and authority, alike over him and over the Chinese race. Not as empress, but as mother, she has the full right to rule under every foundation principle of the Chinese governmental system. However unwise, absurd and disastrous to the empire any act or acts of hers may have been, they have been well within the Limits of her authority, according to the constitution and laws of the empire. Only death or an entire overturning of the entire system of authority can either relieve or rob her of her rights, not as empress but as mother. In early life many of the women in China commit suicide. One has no legal protection against her master, man. He may abuse her and neglect her, fail to provide for her wants, desert her and divorce her. In practice husbands divorce their wives for any reason and for no reason. Any scrap of paper upon which the fact of divorce is written, and stamped with the impression of the thumb of the husband, is all that is necessary. The most serious of all hardships which fall to the lot of the Chinese woman come with her marriage. And these are often so bitter as to be unendurable, and to end in self-destruction. She is betrothed in infancy or childhood to a boy whom she has never seen, and whom certainly she does not know. The betrothal is legal ceremony, no less binding than marriage. She has THE EMPRESS DOWAGER absolutely no choice regarding whom or when she shall marry, and any expression of opinion or semblance of interest in a matter which so vitally concerns her would be as sadly immodest as to ruin her reputation. The members of her own family take no part in the wedding ceremonies; usually they are not present. She has separated from them forever, and her relationship is broken completely. She is dressed by her mother and when her toilet is completed and the appointed hour has arrived for the wedding, a large bag, made of red satin and brilliantly embroidered, is drawn down over her head and shoulders to the waist, where it is tied, thus completely binding her and pinioning her arms to her sides. Meantime a procession has come from the house of the parents of her future husband, headed by a band of music, and in which the most consoluous object is a red sedan chair—the wedding chair—borne by four or eight men. This chair is brought close to the door of her room and she is half led and half carried to a seat in it. The curtains of the chair are closely drawn so that not a ray of light can enter. When she has been placed within it the door is closed and locked by the girl's mother. Such precautions are taken that the wedding chair shall be tightly closed and no one given even a glimpse of the inmate that, in hot weather, at the end of the short journey a dead bride may be delivered to the waiting groom, the poor girl having been suffocated. The average Chinese old woman, be she the wife of a boor or the consort of a prince, has one terrible weapon, which long-continued exercise has rendered keener than a two-edged sword, and nimble beyond belief. In force, volume, rapidity of action and general nastiness it is probably unrivaled upon earth. It is her tongue. And when she opens her throttle valve, turns on a full head of steam and allows it to play at full speed the boldest warrior who ever led armies to battle will, if he has a morsel of discretion mixed with his valor, take at once to his heels. One able-bedded old Chinese woman would have routed Wellington or Napoleon, caused Grunt to retreat and settled the Schley-Sampson controversy out of band.—Boston Transcript. ART AND ARTISTS. Senator Clark will shortly remove to this country the famous Preyer collection of paintings which he bought last December at a cost of $375,000. The pictures are at present in Vienna. As a result of a popular vote in Mississippi the portrait of the following ten natives of the state will adorn the walls of the new capitol: Jefferson Davis, L. Q. C. Lamar, E. C. Walthall, James George, S. S. Prentiss, J. M. Stone, George Poindexter, William Sharkey, George Foote and J. L. Power. Sixty years after his death Gen. William Clark, of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition, is to have a monument erected over his grave. The monument is to be erected by Mrs. Mary Susan Glasgow Clark, of New York city, widow of Jefferson Kearney Clark. The portrait of a woman in black, by John Rocknagel, an American artist, in the Paris salon, is of great interest from the spiritual quality the artist has given to the whole. All accessories serve to center and emphasize the interest in the charming head, which looks out from the low tones of the canvas as if the woman's soul would speak. In Paris the sale of the Georgee Lutz collection at the Petit auction rooms brought a total of $363,000. The highest prices were: Corot's "Lac de Garde," $46,000; the same artist's "Morning," $19,500; Daubigny's "Bords de l'Oise," $15,100; Dupre's "Retour a la Ferme," $7,000; Gericault's "Hussards," $9,000; Harpigne's "La Grande Chene," $5,000; Henner's "Nymph," $4,500; Rousseau's "Sur l'Oise," $10,900; and Jongkind's "La Meuse," $8,400. Some statuary by Antone Houdon, who Benjamin Franklin brought to this country in 1755 and who was the sculptor of the famous statue of Washington in the Richmond courthouse, was recently dug out of an old cellar in Versatilles, where it had been buried in the German occupation in 71 and forgotten. It has been placed in the new museum devoted to the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which has but lately been arranged in the palace in two rooms under the gallery of mirrors by the direction of M. de Nolhas. In Vienna a unique exhibition devoted to art in the life of a child is being held which is said to be especially interesting. Carved toys of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are shown, besides all manner of modern wall pictures, books and other devices which go toward the making of a model nursery. In the department of works produced by children themselves the best things are said to be those sent by the school children of Minneapolis. The American section in the great arts and crafts exhibition at Turin has also been declared exceptionally fine. LAW OF PERSONAL DAMAGES Authority to a railroad company to "farm out" its right of transportation is held in Harden versus North Carolina Railroad company (N.C.) 56 L. R. A, 784, not to confer power to execute a lease exempting it from liability for injuries to the lessee's employees through the lessee's negligence. The set of a servant of a railroad company instructed to watch a station and catch burglaries, in mistaking a co-employee for a burglar and shooting him through want of proper care, is held, in Lipscomb Versus Houston & Texas Central Railroad company (Tex.) 56 L. R. A, 868, to render the company liable. The noon intermission is held in Mitchell Tranfer company versus Ehmet (Ky.) 55 L. R.A. 710, not to sever the relation of a servant to his master, so as to prevent his recovery for an injury resulting from an unsafe working place, received while attempting during that time by direction of a superior to remove broken timbers which render unsafe the work of the employees. The manufacturer of a drop press is held in MoCaffrey versus Mossberg & G. Manufacturing company (R. I.) 55 L. R.A. 822, not to be liable to a purchaser's employee for injuries caused by the breaking of a defective hook holding a heavy weight, the cause of the injury not being in its nature imminently dangerous, and there being no fraud or concealment or implied invitation to the employee to use the machine. TRADE AND FINANCE It is reported that the king of Italy has recently invested $8,000,000 in West Virginia coal lands. Recent reports show that Canada's output of pig iron in the calendar year 1901 was $44,242 tons, an increase of 184 per cent. The cost of Alaska was $7,200,000. Revenue exceeding $9,000,000 has been received from the territory since the purchase, and the value of the products exported every year now from Alaska is about $15,000,000, these being gold, fish and furs. According to the estimates of the census bureau the potential saving in the cost of human labor for producing the seven principal erops in 1890, owing to the utilization of improved implements, machines and processes in place of the hand labor and the processes of many years ago, was $681,471,827. A statement of the resources and liabilities of the 4,426 national banks, compiled from reports made on April 30, shows the following totals: Capital stock, $671,176,312; individual deposit, $$$11,431,143; outstanding bank notes, $309,791,739; loans and discounts, $3,178,757,485; total resources, $5,968,135,451. The Very Image of Papa. "Of course, it's a healthy, well-formed baby, Lucy," said the young father to his wife, as he stood over the cradle critically inspecting his first-born, "and will be a credit to the family when it grows older; but it's awfully ugly just now." "Dear little thing," ooed a neighbor who happened to drop in a few moments later. "It's the very image of its papa."—Tit-Bita. Not a Real Indian. "Do you remember that dark complexioned girl who was visiting the Pringles last summer?" "Yes." "They said she had Indian blood in her veins. But I don't believe it." "Why not?" "If she had been anything of an Indian she wouldn't have married a bald-headed man." - Cleveland Plain Dealer EUROPEAN ECHOES. Seven in every 10,000 persons who die in England are murdered. Of the 21 oldest persons in Wurtemberg, in 1900, all but four were women. Eight samples of lemonade analyzed at Leeds, England, have been found to contain lead poison. Of London's 12,000 hansens 1,295 had a slip of some kind last year. The method of road watering is blamed. In Switzerland 1,271 hotels, having an aggregate of 92,333 beds, have been got ready this season for the accommodation of tourists. A Nuremberg grocer was recently sentenced to ten months' imprisonment for making a practice of buying rotten eggs and selling them as fresh. The urban council and school board of Kettering, England, being unable to agree upon a site for a building, played a game of golf to decide it. The councilors won. Currants imported from Greece and other countries are largely used in France for making wine. The skins make good brandy, and are afterwards used as feed for animals. Some of the head bones of a wild pig have been discovered in a deposit of sand at Dumfries. The boar was exterminated in Scotland about the middle of the sixteenth century. Probably the smallest village in the United Kingdom is Bagley Wood, about 3.5 miles from Abingdon. It was formerly the abode of a hermit, and has only four inhabitants now. British fruit growers are adopting the idea of covering their crops with paper sheets during the cold nights. A small outlay in labor and paper results in considerable saving in the long run. HOME HELPS AND HINTS. Renovate brass chandeliers which have become dirty and discolored by washing them with water in which onions have been boiled. To preserve roses and other flowers and to prevent their opening out further in water put a little salt in the vase you arrange them in. To make a damp cupboard dry keep in it a bowl of quicklime. The quicklime must be renewed from time to time, as it loses its power. If a chimney catches fire throw a handful of sulphur into the grate. As the sulphurous fumes ascend the fire in the chimney will die out. To set the color of print dresses soak them in very hot brine, let them remain until the water is cold and then wring out and wash in the usual manner. Mildew stains can be removed by rubbing plenty of soap and powdered chalk on the garment and placing it in the sun. It may be necessary to repeat this operation. Many people think it a waste of time to iron stockings, but if they once find out the difference between darning ironed and unironed stockings they will speedily change their ideas. To peel onions without tears seems an impossibility to some cooks. They may do so either by holding the onions under water as they peel them, or else by sticking a small paired potato on the point of the knife with which the peeling is done. In the one case the water and in the other the potato protects the eye by absorbing that which so painfully affects them. OF FOREIGN INTEREST. Commercial travelers in Brazil pay a tax of $23 a year. Potatoes in Greenland never grow larger than a marble. The ancient belief that dreams were an important element in the diagnosis of diseases has been revived of late by French physicians. The census of the sexes in Canada shows that there are: Single males, 1,747,842; females, 1,563,450; married males, 929,015; females, 905,031. "Burnt ale," the liquid refuse from the manufacture of Scotch whisky, has been used with great success in the Glenlivet district this year as a soil fertilizer. Among a band of revolutionists which recently fought with Turkish troops near Monasir was a woman dressed as a man. She was killed in the fighting. The governor of Italy's African colony, Erythesnea, has placed a fine of 1,300 francs per head on every elephant killed, 700 francs on a giraffe, 650 on a zebra, 50 on a monkey, etc. Most of the principal products of Brazil, including tobacco, coffee, cocoa, sugar, manganese, have recently fallen so much in value that sometimes it does not pay to gather them. SCISSORS AND PASTE. the brilliancy of many a society leader depends largely upon her jewel box—N. Y. Herald. Miss Samantha Jenkins, of Orchard street, sprained her ankle one day last week while jumping on a chair to get away from a pestiferous mouse.—Soddy (Tenn.) Review. It is a pity that some of this praise of the way mother used to do things which men throw at their wives, was never given mother when she would have most appreciated it.—Atchison Globa. In the last issue of the blanket sheet published across the street, a half-page is given to a picture of a device for feeding hogs. The editor of the aforesaid sheet should invest in one.—Vandalea (Ark.) Register. Ezra Saxsour, of near town, recently discovered several pounds of honey in an otherwise unoccupied pumpkin. Ezra immediately set another pumpkin for the purpose of catching some buckwheat cakes.-Pomona (Kan.) Press. The Blood of the Soldier "I suppose, colonel," said the beautiful grass widow, "that there often are moments when you wish you were again on the battlefield, thrilled by the roar and fired by the excitement of war." "Yes," he answered, looking around eagerly for an avenue of escape and seeing none, "even now the old feeling comes back to me."—Chicago Record-Herald. A Generation Ago coffee could only be bought in bulk. The 20th century way is the LION COFFEE way—sealed packages, always clean, fresh and retaining its rich flavor. SCHWAB WON'T RESIGN President of Steel Corporation Has No Intention of Retiring. DON'T LOOK LIKE A SICK MAN Mr. Schwab Says He Needs Rest, and Is Going to France, Where He Will Take a Course of Treatment at the Mineral Springs. New York, Aug. 20. — Charles M. Schwab, the president of the United States Steel Corporation, arrived here last evening. He was accompanied by his brother, Joseph Schwab, and his private secretary. He stepped briskly from the car, and as he did he said to a number of newspaper men present: "Now, gentlemen, I am going to tell you three things, and I don't want you to ask me any further questions. In the first place, I don't look like a sick man. In the second place, I feel the necessity of a rest and I am going to take one. In the third place, I am not going to resign, and have no intention of retiring from the presidency of the United States Steel Corporation." "Are you going to Europe?" was asked of Mr. Schwab. "Yes," he replied, "but don't ask me any more questions; that's all I have to say." George W. Perkins, of J. P. Morgan & Co., said: "Mr. Schwab is not seriously ill, and the stories printed about his resignation from the presidency of the United States Steel Corporation are almost too silly to be noticed. He is not going to resign, no one has even thought of asking him to resign, neither does any one want him to resign. He will attend several business meetings before sailing for an extended trip to Europe, as his been his custom for many years past. Mr. Schwab has the confidence of every member of the Steel Corporation, and perfect harmony prevails among all the officials and directors of the corporation." Steel President Will Take Treatment at the Mineral Springs. at the Mineral Springs. Altoona, Pa., Aug. 20—Charles M. Schwab, president of the United States Steel Corporation, passed through this city yesterday in his private car "Loretto," enroute to New York, whence he will sail for Europe. He disclosed his destination to an old Altoona friend, who talked with him since he has been at Loretto. He said that he was going to France, where he will take a course of treatment at the mineral springs of that country. His chief aliment is an affection of the nerves. The steel president's stay amid the scenes of his boyhood has evidently done him good. He told his friend, F. D. Saupp, of this city, that he never felt better in his life, and Mr. Saupp emphasized this by stating that he had never seen him looking better. Mrs. Schwab is not with her husband. She will remain at Loretto during his absence. American Training For Priests. Manila, Aug. 18.—Father McKinnon, who first came to the Philippines as chaplain of the First California Regiment, and who is now pastor of the Catholic Church in Erinilla, Manila, suggests when the Philippine hierarchy is reorganized that 400 of the younger native priests be sent to the United States for a year's training in Catholic seminaries. Father McKinnon believes such a training would impart to them the spirit of American priesthood and a beneficial knowledge of Americans and their language. He proposes to ask American bishops to assist this project financially. Fifty Cavalrymen Drowned London, Aug. 20—In a dispatch from St. Petersburg the correspondent of the Daily Express says: "During the manoeuvres near here a squadron of cavalry was ordered suddenly to charge. It galloped into a river and 50 men are reported to have been drowned. Details of the affair are difficult to obtain." W. I. JO FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office & Warerooms, 207 N HACKS F Orders by Telephone or Te pers and Entertainme Old 'Phone, 686, Residence W. I. JOHNSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad. HACKS FOR HIRE: Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Old 'Phone, 686, Residence in Building, New Phone, 48. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally situated under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial and Fraternal and to promote the Social and Its two distinct military and uniform place in the front ranks of all sacred ins tunity for active men. Deputies wante lodges. Kindly address, G. W. ALLENS 846 W 37th St Fraternal and to promote the Social and Moral condition of humanity. Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand opportunity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organize lodges. Kindly address. G. W. ALLEN Supreme Voyages, 846 W 37th Street, New York City. GOING TO FRANCE A New Outing and Picnic Park at Jonesboro. There is a New Outing and Picnic Park, Jonesboro, at Fort Lee on the Eastern Branch of the C. & O. R. R. convenient for Picnics by wagon or rail. There is a large pavilion that will accommodate 800 persons and other attractions such as swings, base ball cute. Excellent water on the grounds. You cannot find a more desirable resort for church, Sunday School, society or private picnics or one that will afford a more perfect day of rest, recreation or pleasure. For particulars as to dates and rates apply at once to 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, 1223 North 26th street; Joseph Robinson, No. 49 1st market or 2811 9-mile Road; D. J. Chavers, Supt., 1827 Carrington street. RIPANS There is scarcely any conditions of ill-health that is not benefited by the occasional use of a R-I-P-A-N-S Tabule. For sale by Druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. THE MIDWAY LUNCH ROOM, 726 N. 3rd St. Richmond, Va. MEALS FROM 7 A. M. TO 8 P. M. Term Reasonable, Quick Service. Give Me A Call. MRS. S. L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. Go to Beach Park. Westpoint Excursion and Picnic Grounds. Only 30 Miles, One Hour's Ride From Richmond, yia Southern Ry. A great many excursions have already been booked for "Beach Park" for June and July. The various attractions and improvements at this popular resort gives it more prominence each season. To close proximity to Richmond, and the unlimited supply of the most wholesome artesian water, together with many other natural advantages, places it second to none as a pleasure and health resort for Richmond people. King William Pier, a substantial structure, extending 689 feet in length and 35 feet wide over the York River, with waterproof roofing as a protection from sun and rain, adds considerably to the beauty and convenience for pio-nic and other outing parties. In addition to the new Beach Park Hotel, now being erected, you will find other hotels and many nice boarding houses, furnishing cheap rates and good first-class accommodations. The principal attractions are such as fine fishing, boating, sailing, merry-go-round, shooting galleries, steam and napha launches, a large dancing pavilion with a band of music day and night, several wells of fine artesian water on the grounds, and various other attractions to suit the older people as well as the little ones. For any other information apply at or write to the Southern Ry. office, 920 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. Old Phone, 1233. New Phone, 1553, THE PRIVATE LIVERY 700 CATHERINE ST., QUICK TRANFERING AND MOVING. Saddle or Driving Horses, Buggies and Surries To Let at Lowest Prices. N. B. Tandem Lessons Given. Strict attention given to all orders. George Jenkins, Proprietor. JHNSON, R. AND EMBALMER. N. Foushee St. Corner Broad. FOR HIRE: Legraph filled. Wedding, Sup- ents promptly attended. in Building, New Phone, 48. OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD V. P. & F. K. of W. organization has been chartered and legally for the laws and statute of the state of New the purpose of uniting together all acceptable Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial and Moral condition of humanity. m ranks will secure for this organization institutions of modern events, a grand oppo- ed in all sections of the country to organise supreme voyager, Street, New York City. JNO. H. BRAYTON, 10 W. Jackson St. Notice !!! HE PLANET BALLAD OF THE FALLEN. Some there were that went farth to battle Have never returned to their sisters or brothers; Have come returned to friends, wives or to sweethearts; And never to children, to fathers or moth- ers. Let us be glad, indeed, that so many Have come home to their loved—come but alack Let us drop a and tear when we also re- member The brave boys that went forth—but will never come back. All had high hopes when they answered the summons. And they went to the "Front" with a faith that was splendid; Never knew—never dreamed of the fate of being killed Each one when he faced the foe—never those men did. Let us be glad, indeed, that so many Have come home to their loved—come home—but alack! Let us drop a and tear when we also re- member The brave boys that went forth—but will never come back. Ah! Mighty is war, and merciless—crue- War hath no pity for those that are in it; When the battle is on, one moment you may be Lie in dying—but a slave in Death's grasp the next minute. So it was, indeed, with our heroes in battle. They that bleeding went down to the hot dust, alack! Oh, we were glad for those that have not fallen. Let us weep for the boys that will never come back. In Fame's Temple the name of each hero is written— The dead and the living—in lines fadeless forever. And the living—they live to recount the grand story, But the dead—they speak only in their woehless endeavor. Dh. is it not go—not go—with the fallen? In their silence they speak, loi as martyr's Alack! While we are glad for those that have not fallen, Let us weep for the boys that will never come back. George Newell Lovejoy, in Boston Budget. A Wedding by Cable By HELEN T. WOODS. M. ARCHIBALD GIDDINGS was an Englishman, but not of the phlegmatic type, or this story would never have been written. At the death of his parents he had been taken by a male attendant to his only living relative, an uncle, in Melbourne. There he grew to manhood under the watchful eyes of his instructors and his bachelor uncle. At the age of 30 the fair sex had played no part in his life. His uncle spared neither time nor money to make Archibald Giddings' education complete. He had the best of instructors, and only the best, in art, in literature, in the sciences, was brought to his attention. In housemanship, hunting and athletics he was trained by the most skillful tutors. But women did not pass within the domain of his uncle. He grew up with a strange feeling of aversion for the opposite sex. Having a great admiration for his uncle, and feeling sure that his uncle's life had been saddened by a woman, he resolved to remain a bachelor to the end of his days. Then things took a widely different turn in the life of Archibald Giddings. His uncle died suddenly, leaving a will which made the nephew sole heir to his immense fortune on one occasion only — that he, Archibald Giddings, confirmed bachelor, marry within the next six months. It was sudden, startling and decidedly unthought of. At least, there was six months to book about in, certainly not for a wife, but for what might be done at the end of the six months when the income and all the luxuries of life which he had so long enjoyed should cease with him. A few weeks were given to the settlement of his uncle's affairs, and Archibald Giddings prepared to bid goodby to Melbourne. In packing his belongings he ran across a copy of a New York newspaper which had been among the last mail received by his uncle. The bold headlines on the first page caught his attention, and he read an item of most peculiar interest. A wonderful coincidence. A young woman in New York city had been left a bequest that was precisely similar. As in his case it amounted to millions. As in his case, also, the young woman was a confirmed disciple of single blessedness. The paper was four months old. Archibald Giddings betheought a plan—to plan was to act. The young woman in New York was immediately cabled an offer of marriage, said marriage to be performed by cable in the presence of a sufficient number of witnesses at both ends of the line. The entire situation was clearly explained in the message, and Archibald Giddings had only to wait for the return cablagram. The young woman in New York replied that she was still unmarried, and that she would accept Mr. Gidding's proposal on the condition that the marriage should be held sacred by both parties; that the understanding should be that they would live their lives as they were now doing, united only by lawful ties. "Archibald Giddings was delighted. He secured a verbose legal opinion from a most learned judge that such a wedding would be perfectly lawful, and preparations were immediately begun for a wedding by cable. Private wires were laid to the house of the bride in New York and to the house of the groom in Melbourne from the offices of the cable companies. corresponding date and hour was set for the wedding to take place in both cities. An eminent divine of Melbourne and an equally eminent divine of New York were engaged to officiate at this novel ceremony. The marriage was recorded in both cities. This accomplished Archibald Giddings came into possession of his vast fortune and assumed the air and bearing of a benedict. His marriage vows were sacred, and the understanding between himself and wife was perfect, neither should in any way interfere with the other—their lives should go on as before. Mr. Giddings decided to travel extensively, but he proposed to steer clear of New York. Three years later he left Boston for Liverpool. The social duties on a fast ocean liner would have bored him, so to make sure of privacy and his books he took passage on a show tramp. The captain and owner of the tramp was a rare type of the old sea dog, an excellent character, and a man of few words. "I sometimes take a few passengers," he told Mr. Giddings, "but they must pay fare and register on coming aboard." Having come on board at night at the moment of sailing Mr. Giddings was unable to register until morning. When he glanced at the book he wished that it was possible to leave the ship, but she had already sunk Highland Light in the horizon. There, before his eyes, in a fine, bold, feminine hand, were registered: "Mrs. Archibald Giddings, child and maid." Archibald Giddings' presence of mind did not forsake him. He signed the register, "Amos Griddley," and hurriedly left the cabin. He must make the best of it, and, at all events, his identity need not be discovered. It was really quite a piece of good fortune. He could meet and study his wife without being known. The child puzzled him. The maid called him "Archie"; he was a fine little fellow, about three years old; presumably Mrs. Giddings had adopted him. This appealed to Mr. Giddings as a piece of good judgment. At breakfast "Amos Gridley" and Mrs. Giddings were introduced and also Miss Eunice and Master Archibald. It suddenly occurred to Archibald Giddings (alias Gridley) that he had forgotten his wife's given name. Mrs. Giddings was well dressed and quiet, but neither particularly beautiful nor what could be called magnetic. In fact, she was quite plain; the child called her "mamma." "Now, if it had been the maid! Eunice, fine name!" thought Archibald Giddings; but he promptly drowned the thought by joining the captain in a brandy and soda. The captain took his straight. Little Archie promptly attached himself to the person of "Amos Giddley, Esq.", and the twain soon became bosom friends. This necessitated frequent walks, talks and games with the maid, who was exceedingly bright, accomplished and attractive—even beautiful. Mrs. Giddings was a very poor sailor and seldom left her cabin. Miss Eunice was an excellent mariner in both fair and foul weather. Father Neptune was dealing the cards. When Archibald Giddlings sought his berth he was haunted by dreams of Eunice (he dropped the "Miss" in his dreams). Archibald Giddings' mind had found something new to work up "I AM NOT THE MAID, BUT YOUR LEGAL WIFE, EUNICE." on and was making the best of it. His blood fairly boiled through unacustomed and delightful new channels. These sensations would have been extremely pleasant to Archibald Giddings had he not been tormented by his keen sense of honor. It was not Mrs. Giddings his lawful wife, that inspired this tumult within him. All voyages have an end, and on their last night afloat Archibald Giddings found himself promenading the deck alone with Miss Eunice. The ship pitched heavily, and Miss Bunice clung closely to his arm for support as they paced the deck. Was it possible that she cared for him? He never knew how he told her all about it, or what he said or what he did. His answer burned itself indelibly into his bewildered brain and a new world seemed to open to him. "I have known it all for three days, dear. I found your name in one of your books. I am not the maid, but your legal wife, Eunice. The real maid is my cousin, the 'Mrs. Giddings,' you know. Yes, it is her child." What followed is not a matter for the historian to record. Suffice it to say that the following week the Melbourne-bound packet bore the following entry on its passenger list: "Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Giddings, maid and child." Life's voyage had made its real beginning.—Sunny South, Atlanta. What She Needs Unfortunately, says the Chicago Record-Herald, the girl who jumped into the Mississippi river just to be rescued by Hero Hobson, seems to be too old to be spanked. What Honeyed Words Can Do. Talks wins elsewhere. The directors of a German bank, says the Cleveland Leader, loaned $16,000,000 to a man with a smooth tongue. Miss Eastside—That is a lovely gown, but haven't I seen it before? Miss Westside—No, I think not; I have only worn it at a very few smart affairs this season—Town and Country. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA How a Buffalo Policeman Inspired Respect for an Anti-Smoking Regulation. Most policemen would have come up and slapped the three roysterers on the back and said, gruffly, "Here, no smoking allowed in this depot." But the officer who was on duty before the ticket window of the Exchange street station at Buffalo, N. Y., the other night was a diplomat and worthy of a wider sphere than he will ever have, even as a depot policeman. There were really four in the party, but there were three of them who "WE DON'T BELIEVE IN SOIGNS." were seeing the other man off. All of them are exhibit attaches at the Pan-American exposition and the fourth man was leaving for his home in a far western state. With his three companions they had started for the train several hours before train time, and they had spent most of the intervening time in drinking his health. Naturally they were in a mood to be a little careless of the depot regulations. About half an hour before train time one of them discovered there was a later train which their friend could take and arrive at his destination just as soon, while the new arrangement would lengthen the time they would have to express their regard for him at sundry bars. They repitted to the depot to have his ticket changed. While he was going through this formality at the ticket office they stood a little way back in the waiting-room puffing vigorously on strong cigars. A policeman approached, but he wasn't gruff at all. With a pleasant smile and a strong Hibernian brogue he remarked: "It's ivident none of ye gentlemen believe in soigns." "Why not?" asked one of them. "Because," replied the diplomatic policeman, "there be wan over there which rades: 'No smokin' allowed in this waltin' room.'" Three cigars came out of three mouths with a chorus movement, and there was no more smoking. PARSON OUSTS ROWDY. Ohio Prencher, Interrupted During Service, Ejects a Noisy and Insulting Communicant. Rev. Mr. Homan, of the Rescue Mission on Ontario street, Cleveland, O., paused in the service long enough on a recent Sunday night to assume the roll of "bouncer." Peter Gorre, of 86 Michigan street, intruded upon the meeting and soon attracted more attention than the preacher by inters GORRE STRUGGLED IN VAIN. rupting the minister and trying to make a speech. "If you want to talk, please go outside. You're drunk," said Rev. Homan. "You can't put me out," replied Gorre. Rev. Homan shoved back his sleeves and left the pulpit. Goore made use of some violent language. When the minister reached him he grabbed him by the collar. Gorre struggled, but Rev. Homan showed the congregation that he was as capable of dealing with an unruly member as he was of addressing a meeting. Gorre landed in the street. 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"Nonsense," responded the skipper, sharply "if I can't get in, there's not a man on the Pacific that can." "I dunno," continued the mate; "like as not the Emperor will slosh through. She's due. And Cap'n Van Olinda, since he got his big ship, isn't paying much respect to weather. And he is a good man." Capt. Twizzle puffed out his chest under the blue jacket, bedewed with fog, and sniffed. "Oh, yes! he's a good man. But let me tell you, young fellow, that I don't reckon Van Olinda's any smarter than I am." "The mate pondered sluggishly. His efforts to think was agreeably put an end to, and he pulled the whistle rope. A hoarse, booming bellow rose into the air, and the fog seemed fairly to curdle. "I take it there's a craft off there to windward," he suggested. "All right, all right," said his superior, gruffly; "I guess that whistle will let 'em know we're around." "I reckon it will," said the other; "what in blazes did ye put a big trumpet like that on this dinky boat for? It's sacramentally (he meant sacrilegeously) indecent." "Reasons plenty," returned Twizzie. "Now, I'd like you to recognize, young clap, that when I do things there's reason behind 'em. Van Olinda, if he is master of a big steam plunger, isn't always able to give a good and sufficient reason for what he does. I've taught him things myself." The mate sidled over respectfully. To hear Cap'n Twizzie, of the Pudsey Dawson, speak familiarly, nay, contemptuously, of Capt. Olinda, who ruled the immense Emperor, and always wore a magnificent uniform with tails to the coat of it, was a near approach to glory. "Taught him things?" he repeated, in an insinuating tone, as though the story must be delectable. "Yes. And I'll teach him more!" roared Twizzie, quite infuriated with the memory of his last meeting with the haughty aristocrat of the Emperor. "What's he done?" asked the mate, bluntly. "Done! Why, his head's turned. I can recollect when he was skipper of the San Anton', the laughing-stock of the coast. And he actually told me, the last time I saw him, that I ought to live ashore. Said I had no chance of reaching his high position. Said I was getting too old to learn. But, by Jiminy Cripps, I'll teach him something before very long. I'll just make old Van get up on his bind legs and toddle." There was a sudden shriek from a steam siren in the invisible, and master and mate peered out into the fog ahead. "That must be the Emperor," said the mate. Capt. Twizzle pulled his souwester over his eyes and cursed gently. "Well," he said, finally, "if it is, Capn Van don't make port to-night. He'll just have to stand being a day late, and I hope the owners will fix him for it, too." "He's evidently headed right in now," answered the mate. Twizzle turned half around and eyed his subordinate. "Young fellow, I'll teach both you and Van something. Go down and tell the engineer to open his dampers. We are going to cruise around a bit. Tell him we want a lot of steam for the whistle." The mate left the bridge to execute this command, and the skipper looked over his craft. "She's small, and sets low, and no masts to speak of. He won't see me, but I'll see him." He didn't exactly see the Emperor with his eyes, but all his sea-bred senses told him that the big liner was fussing around a quarter of a mile ahead. The Pudsey Dawson swung around under her master's hand, and headed for the invisible craft. The fog was denser and wetter than before Suddenly there was a sound as of a bulky cow in tall grass, and Twizze pulled the whistle-cord. Again there issued that horrible, unearthly roar. The captain of the Pudsey Dawson put his wheel over a little, and edged toward the still invisible Emperor. They could not hear (the mate had again joined him) the thumping thresh of a propeller. The disproportionate trumpet of the coaster again rumbled forth, and its rolling bellow shook the fog as though it was jelly. When the last mutter had died away, Twizze and his mate listened intensely. There was silence. "That's lesson No. 1," said Twizze; "we've stopped him. If we whistled again, by Jiminy Cripp, I believes Van would reverse." "What's up? What's your game, sir?" asked the mate. Capt. Twizzle cast a glimmering eye over the muffled waters, and gave his orders curtly. "Keep that blasted silver-plated Emperor always in hearing. Whenever you see a good chance, run close and toot that whistle you were criticising a bit ago. See?" The young mate "saw" enthusiastically. "I savvy, sir. We won't give her room to turn around in. Cap'n Van Olinda will suppose that there's about five deep-water freighters knocking around here, and he'll sweat for his craft. Oh, yes! I think I see." Never was there such a night on the pampered Emperor. Now from one side, now from the other, and apparently always imminent, came the hideous, overpowering thunder of the whistle of the Pudsey Dawson. Capt. Van Olinda himself stood on the bridge of his favorite command, and around him clustered the officers of both watches. "Sounds like a Komos boat," suggested his brass-bound mate. "More likely it's a darned Maru, hunting around here at full speed for the hole in the wall we term the Golden Gate. By gummy, I wish I knew how many of them there were. Blow that whistle, there, quartermaster!" Then the shrill shrill of the Emperor sang haughtily. The answer, from right abreast, whitened the faces of "THAT MUST BE THE EMPEROR." SAID THE MATE. "THAT MUST BE THE EMPEROR," SAID THE MATE. the men on the liner's bridge. "Good Lord!" groaned Van Olinda, "it's a man-o-war, and probably a kid on watch. If she hits us it's good-by." "Funny we never catch sight of her," remarked another. Capt. Van Olinda burst out into a prayer, and its burden was that he might not see her. Finally, as morning broke, and the fog showed signs of lifting, Samuel Twizzled rested from his labors. "I'll bet you," he confided to his mate, "there are ten pages of log in the Emperor's book, telling of the marvelous escapes from being run down by a fleet of cruisers. Van will take eredit to himself, and the papers will be full of it." The mate's imagination was tired, and he added to the sweet picture: "Yes, and there'll be testimonials from passengers and silver plate with figures on it." The face of the master of the Pudsey Dawson clouded. "I never thought of that," he responded, "but he'll never dare show it more than once. I'll fix him." When the fog finally lifted, the Emperor found herself ten miles out of her course. The sea was absolutely clear, and, apart from the pilot schooner, not a craft was in sight, except that, with the glass, Capt. Van Olinda discerned a small coaster just entering the Gate. He turned to his officers with a blank look, and the mates, cross after a whole night up, tared blankly back at him. The mystery of the fog was deepening. But that afternoon, as the Emperor was steaming up from quarantine, the Pudsey Dawson ran slowly by. Her master, Samuel Twizzle, hailed the stately captain of the liner, but Capt. Van Olinda seemed very busy talking to the pilot. Twizzle stared at the decks crowded with passengers, took another look at the genteel figure on the flying bridge, of the Emperor, and pulled the whistle rope sharply. When the crashing rumble had died away, he twiddled his fingers at the raging master of the liner, and was satisfied, for he saw that Capt. Van Olinda understood.—San Francisco Argonaut. The Georgia method of cooking yams is equally good with sweet potatoes. Boil the potatoes with the skins on, and peel, slice lengthwise, and put in buttered baking dish; sprinkle with small cupful of brown sugar, add big lump butter and little hot water and bake slowly about an hour; it should be well browned on top. Many Degrees. Though to no colleges she's gone. Are gradnates her betters? Her necktie, monograms prove that She is a girl of "letters." —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. HUGGED BY A BEAR. Alaska Prospector Who Would Have Been Killed But for a Fearless Small Dog. Archie Park, a pioneer of Valdea, Alaska, was carried off by a gigantic white bear on September 9, and had it not been for a small dog, he would have lost his life. He was badly used up and several bones were broken. With two companions Park was prospecting the headwaters of the Shusheta river, and at the time of his exciting experience was some distance ahead of them on the trail Hearing a noise in the bush, he investigated. To his surprise he suddenly found himself face to face with an immense white glacier bear, which IN BRUIN'S EMBRACE immediately came to him with an ominous growl. Park threw his rifle to his shoulder and fired, but probably did not hit, as the bear rushed on and grabbed him. As Park felt the embrace of Bruin he thought it was all off with him, but he had forgotten a little cur which he had previously been tempted to kill as a nuisance. With snapping and growling the dog worried the bear into dropping Park. Park had heard that if one played dead a bear would leave him alone, but the plan did not work. Having driven the dog back, the bear again grabbed Park and was making off with him, when the dog attacked again and succeeded in making Bruin drop him a second time. This time Park crawled off into the brush, and in the meantime his companions, having heard the noise, came up and opened fire on the bear, which made a hasty retreat. Park was picked up a mass of blood and bruises. Several bones were broken and his scalp was torn loose. The affair occured 100 miles from the nearest camp, and at last accounts Park was being treated with ointment made from wild animals. MEAN ST. LOUIS MAN. His Poor Wife No Longer Helps Herself to Small Bills Secreted in His Pockets. "You know," said the man from St. Louis to a Chicago Daily News reporter, "how innocently your wife will look at you across the breakfast table when you have searched your pockets and discovered a tendollar bill missing. You may have your suspicions, but you must keep them to yourself. I stood it for two or three years before a bright thought came along. Then I got hold of a counterfeit five, placed it with my wad, and when I got up one morning and missed it I felt happy. PRISONER FOR TWO HOURS. Two hours after breakfast my wife went out and at noon I was sent for to identify her at the police station. She had handed that bogus V out in payment for an umbrella and been nabbed, and she had been a prisoner for two hours when I got there." "And what did you say?" was asked. "Not a word." "And what did she say?" "She laid it to the millman, of course." "But there were results?" "Oh, yes. Since that time I have left my wad under my pillow, under the bed, in my pants or on the stand and have never missed a penny. Once in awhile my wife looks at me reproachfully and clinches her fingers and breathes hard, but no words follow. She can't find any to fit her feelings." Female Criminals in England. Between 40,000 and 50,000 women pass annually through the prisons of England and Wales. Taking the figures for last year, it appears that 73 per cent. had been previously convicted, 42 per cent. five times and more, and 15 per cent. about 7,000 women—20 times or more. In the Whirl with Cupid. 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Her particular favorite was as follows, says the New York Sun: "One evening we were loitering past the animal show, when I noticed a queer sort of a chair in front of the place. It was a heavy, square wooden chair, with arms and a high back. It would not have been remarkable except for its width, which seemed excessive, and the fact that it was so very low. The seat was less than a foot from the ground. "We stood there speculating as to its use when another group of loiterers stopped near us. They were paying no attention to the chair, but were discussing just what particular fake they would experiment with next. Unconciously they had stopped near the peculiar armchair which had attracted my attention. They stood with their backs to it, one woman being only a few feet away. "Just as we were about to give up our attempt to solve the chair problem we saw a baby elephant come out of the menagerie building, swing along with the peculiar gait of its kind, and sit down in the very seat we were staring at. The barker came out too and began to get ready to shout for a crowd. "Just then the elephant, which was flapping its ears and swinging its trunk from side to side, seemed to decide on investigating the group standing in front of him. The woman had her belt pinned down in the back THE TRUNK WAS GONE. with a large-headed pin that gleamed temptingly in young Mr. Elephant's eyes. He stretched out his trunk and began fumbling with the pin. "The woman felt something and ptt her hand around to see that her belt was in place. Before her hand got there the trunk was gone. She satisfied herself that her moorings were secure and then brought her hand back to the front again. Presto, up went the trunk for a second attempt. The woman was so occupied in the discussion that she was probably only half conscious of being touched, for she did not turn around even then. She merely put her hand back on another reassuring expedition, which again missed the exploring trunk. "Once again the elephant found the field clear. This time he was surer of his ground. He definitely took the head of the pin, drew it out and then swiftly jabbed it—there is no other word for it—into the woman's back. Scream? Of course she did. She jumped about three feet, too, and as she came down she whirled around to see what had struck her. When she saw that elephant she jumped another three feet. If somebody hadn't caught her I think she'd be jumping yet. I have seen the Midway very lively at times, but I don't think I ever observed greater excitement than prevailed for the next few minutes. I must confess that we added to the occasion by going into fits of heartless mirth. The elephant? Oh, he was a model of a joker. He never cracked a smile." Meenest Man In Kerala Not long ago the wife of a western Kansas politician asked him to lay aside politics long enough one day to dig the potatoes in the garden. He agreed to do it. After digging for a few minutes he went into the house and said he had found a coin. He washed it off and it proved to be a silver quarter. He put it in his jeans and went back to work. Presently he went to the house again and said he had found another coin. He washed the dirt off of it. It was a silver half dollar. He put it in his jeans. "I have worked pretty hard," said he to his wife; "I guess I'll take a short nap." When he awoke he found that his wife had dug all the rest of the potatoes. But she found no colons. It then dawned upon her that she had been "worked." Women Run Canal Boats. In southern and midland England 50,000 women spend their lives in driving and steering the canal beats. Charming Gowns for September Fetes. Charming Gowns for September Fetes. ANY of the early fall gowns are now being made, and in fact a number are already completed. Judging from those I have seen I should say the fall season at such places as Lenox, and others of the fashionable fall resorts will show a wealth of ex- AN ELABORATE FALL FETE GOWN travagance that has never before been equaled. The fall season is enjoying a growing measure of popularity with each succeeding season, and more elaborate preparations are made for it now than was the case but a very few years ago. It is society's time out of doors, and it is safe to say the people of The Latest Nov M UT a few years ago for any one to intimate that a lady was wearing a wig, or that all the hair of her head had not been placed there by nature was to insult her grossly. Wigs were, in those days, counted an abomination, and while no doubt many wore them, few told of it. To-day the wigs have given place to the "transformations," which are the same thing under a new name, but "transformations" are fashionable and not to be dispised, and they are made up in all the latest coiffures. The whirl of society has assumed such a swift pace that the overcrowded society maid or matron, and especially the later, had to find some solution for the difficult problem of hair dressing. The solution was the "transformation." It accomplishes a double purpose as it saves her an infinity of time and trouble, and gives her own hair a rest from the curling which necessary. The illustration three of the last be either "trans natural hair dye popular style" which the light at one side in fr and loosely then at the back collow in the from the bonda shell loop-pins, the left should add that wreat pink and white there with diam sent to the admin and the critical glasses, a quite coiffure. Pretty Modes in Early Fall Hats. IRST models of the early fall hats are beginning to appear at the more fashionable milliners, though it is not yet time to begin buying them, and will not be until about the 1st of September. In both shapes and trimmings Paris seems to be dictating what we shall wear to a great extent, but it is an easy matter to submit to the dictations of such an artist as Paris is proving herself to be this season. Black hats will be much favored judging from present displays, and of these the kind I like best are those of Lamballe shape, with creamy white under the brim, plaited chiffon or white roses, etc., and with two black paradise plumes, one curving out from under the brim and the other from above the brim, one just over the other, and both drooping over the left side together. Another whim of the black hat is to sport a white plume—"to show the white feather," as was remarked; and this is a note of which the Parisienne is at all times peculiarly fond. Such quaint turbans are coming from Paris also. I expect they are of Caroline Reboux's invention. The real genuine turban shape are some of these, but often embridered on the brim, or, one might say, applied with flowers; and sometimes these are of jet, in which case the turban would be white. Another shape in which I have seen most lovable things is the mushroom. It is appearing at present adorned with a sort of demure sauciness that is most attractive. A wreath of little roses and small foliage runs around the crown quite simply and evenly, but broken in the center of the left side by a very coquet bow of either colored or black ribbon velvet, which should be about an inch wide, not more. This bow falls with loops and end Jonx—Young Simkins has at last succeeded in carving out a fortune by his own efforts. Hoxx—Why, I was under the impression that he married an heiress. along that he married an heiress. Joax—So he did, but he had to cut out a dozen other fellows before taking up his residence on the sunny side of Easy street—Chicago Daily News. B F His Line of Art THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA wealth enjoy the brilliant fetes they are constantly arranging to a greater extent than they do either the shut-in pleasures of the winter, or the hot weather gayeties at Newport and elsewhere in the summer. The illustration is of a beautiful gown that has been made for a fair matron who will spend the fall season at Lenox, and it will certainly attract a great amount of attention even among the many elaborate wardrobes that are sure to be there. It is fashioned of white satin mousseline veiled with chiffon of a delicate tea-rose yellow, which lends a curiously lovely softness to the pure white Irish crochet lace, which is the dominant, and fashionable, fabric of the dress. And on this lovely lace comes a decorative device applique in fine white cloth outlined with a silken stitchery, and here and there combined with encircling wreaths of white roses, whose outer petals of cleverly folded satin ribbon inclose an inner softness of chiffon, the bordering wreaths of blossoms at the trailing skirt-hem drooping over an en forme flounce of shirred and gathered yellow chiffon. So much for the skirt, and then the novel bodice is made with bolero fronts cut short above a deep-draped waistband of shimmering golden tissue patterned with faintly pink and mauve flowers, while at the back the lace with its applique of cloth is continued in the form of two long coat tails, whose transparency reveals a lining of yellow chiffon. For the rest, there is a little yoke of the golden tissue outlined with a trail of the ribbon roses and then giving place to a vest formed of crossed folds of the softly gathered chiffon. elties in Coiffures. rest from the constant waving and curling which would otherwise be necessary. The illustrations shown here are of three of the latest coiffures, and may be either "transformations," or the natural hair dressed in these ways. A popular style for evening is that in which the lightly waved hair is parted at one side in front, and drawn lightly and loosely across the forehead, and then at the back forms a deftly-twisted coll low in the neck, and, escaping from the bondage of sundry tortoiseshell loop-pins, one sofe curl falls over the left shoulder? It only remains to add that wreath of blossoms (whose pink and white petals glitter here and there with diamond dew-drops) to present to the admiring notice of all eyes, and the critical scrutiny of any operaglasses, a quite perfect and charming coiffure. over the left side of the brim almost on to the shoulder, and this is one of the few instances in which the dangling bow is really charming. The Parisienne seems to love the bordering band of black velvet, she likes it on the turban and on the picturesque Louis Seize hat; especially if the hat be a big picture one of black tulle or lace or chiffon or fine straw does she love the becoming border of black velvet. Another thing in which she delights is the draping with a lace veil the wide picturesque Louis Seize hat. A CHARMING PIOTURE MAT. She is also boasting the so-called lovable capeline of muslin or lawn which she delights to wear at Puteaux. A charming picture hat that I have seen on the street within the last few days is of a fine black crinoline, trimmed with plumes of the new and fashionable bright green shade and with black velvet ribbon. Another that is very much the same is of a tan crinoline trimmed all in black. Kurtel History Study. A little three-year-old miss, while her mother was trying to get her so sleep, became interested in a peculiar noise and asked what it was. "A cricket, dear," replied her mother. "Woll," remarked the little lady, "he ought to get himself oiled."—Chicago Daily News. His Last Wall. The white-robed nurses quietly busied themselves at the patient's bedside. He was plainly breathing his last. "Have you anything to say?" tenderly asked the attending physician. "Nothing—nothing!" gasped the dying man. "It is only this regret—this remorse—this terrible blow to my self-respect!" He breathed now in a labored manner, and they bent lower to hear his story divulged. "Ohl" walled the unfortunate; "to think—to think—that I have smashed all the anti-speed laws in Christendom against automobiles, and then—and then—to be run over by an ice wagon!" It was too much, and he gave up the ghost in mortal agony. Baltimore News. A Persian Dinner A traveler in Persia thus describes a dinner served in the household of a wealthy Persian: "The chief dish consists of a fowl boiled to rags, surrounded by a toothsome mass of rice, hard-boiled eggs, fried onions, almonds and raisins. There is a Shiraz wine, clear, golden-red liquid that has traveled over the mountain passes on muleback in a huge glass carboy. Among the dessert manna has a conspicuous place. This delicacy is somewhat akin to nougat; it is studded with walnuts and almonds and is jaw-sticking to the last degree. Like the mango, it is best eaten in private, for it renders the masticator speechless. It is made of gum that exudes from a tree and is said to be engendered by a worm."—Chicago Daily News. As Amended "Did I understand you to say," remarked the Boston damsel, as she polished her spectacles on her handkerchief, "that ice-water ran in my veins?" "Your ears don't fool you," replied the rash youth, who had loved and lost, "but I am prepared to offer an amendment to that hastily made remark." "Very well," she answered, indifferently. "The ice-water part of it stands," said the reckless young man, "but I was mistaken about its running."—Chicago Daily News. Flonts Over Stars and Stripes. The only flag ever allowed to float above the stars and stripes on the vessels of our navy is the church flag, a broad white streamer with a blue cross. Its presence marks one of the most impressive sights on shipboard—the sacred service held every Sunday morning, attended by all officers and men. Nearly all the denominations, in their national assemblies have lately protested against the growing secularization of the Lord's day. In at least one branch of the government service, the navy, Sunday has gained rather than lost with the years in tokens of respect—Chicago Chronicle. Highland Pride Why is it that a Scotchman is so often ashamed of being called a Scotchman? He must be a Scot, or a Scotsman, or a North Briton, or a Caledonian, or a "brither Scot," or anything, forsooth, except what he really is—a Scotchman! An Englishman does not mind being described as an Englishman. A Welshman has no objection to the style; and, with all his manifold and manifest shortcomings, an Irishman is rather proud of being so called—Vanity Fair. Knew Her Mamma. "And shall I speak to your father, darling?" saked the young man immediately after the fair maid had landed him. "Yes," replied the one and only, "but for goodness' sake don't say a word to mother." "Why not?" he asked. "Because," she answered, "we don't want the engagement made public for two or three days yet."—Chicago Dally News. An Uncleucky Restoration. "You know that real pearl necklace of mine, the one that I call the $10,000 one?" "Yes." "Well, I've had awful bad luck with it. I lost it in an elevator the other day and the elevator boy found it and told some reporters, and of course I had to give the boy a reward that wouldn't seem too small and mean, and so I made it $200." "Well?" "And $200 is more than the necklace is actually worth!" — Clereland Plain Dealer. Woman's Way. Though woman seeks a man's advice Do not certain matter And talks of twice, twice, With heaps of merry chatter, He will discover by and by. He might as well have kept K, And would have were spry, That she would not accept it. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Country Boy — Ketch anything, Algy? Algy Cityhead—I got the can be came in all right; he must have gotten away. —Milwaukee Sentinel. The Good Panama. He was a fool; he rocked the boat. The girl, she got ashore. His panama enveloped him— And he was seen no more! —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. 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It takes a great deal of study to become an accomplished medium and by a continuous and nurturing effort, the key to the well of apparentness. The student is secured by MRS. MARTHR at the benefit of her We promptly obtain U. S. and Foreign PATENTS Send model, sketch or photo of invention for free report on patentability. For free book, How to Squirture Patents and TRADE-MARKS to C. ASNOW & Opposite U. S. Patent Office WASHINGTON D. C. THE PLANET SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1903 SOCIETY MAN A SUICIDE R. R. Remington, Shot Himself in a Club House at Newport, R. I. HE WAS DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE Breaking of Engagement to Marry Miss May Van Alen, Granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor, Said to Be the Cause of the Tragedy. Newport, R. L., Aug. 19—Disappointment over a broken matrimonial engagement is believed to have been the cause of the suicide here yesterday of Robert Reading Remington, of New York. Mr. Remington came over to the club house from his rooms at the La Forge cottage about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and after reading the papers for some time, went to the committee rooms on the second floor. An hour and a half later two muffled reports were heard, but those in the building paid no attention to them. Later Mr. Remington's body was found by a member who went to the committee room. Remington had evidently been dead for some time. A local undertaker took charge of the body. Mr. Remington was well known among the summer residents in this city and had been closely identified with the social world here for the last seven or eight years. His engagement to Miss May Van Alen, daughter of James Van Alen and granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor, has been discussed for some months. At first it was denied, and then affirmed, but it is generally believed there was a definite engagement, which, however, was broken some three weeks ago. It is said that Mr. Van Alen was greatly opposed to the engagement from the beginning. Since then Mr. Remington has been despondent, although when asked about the engagement he steadily affirmed that he was to be married in the fall. He left the city about a week ago, breaking up his domestic arrangements here and sending away all his effects. Last Thursday, however, he suddenly returned to Newport. He had frequented the Reading Room, the leading club of Newport, and seemed to desire to be left alone. When the body was discovered blood was coming from the mouth, and a revolver was found by the dead man's side. A physician found that three shots had been fired from the revolver, and an examination of the head showed that all three had taken effect. The first bullet, apparently, ploughed across the forehead, cutting a deep gash, and the second glanced up over the head, making a furrow on the top of the cranium, but still not entering the skull. The third shot was fired through the mouth, and the bullet entered the brain, death probably resulting instantly. Mr. Remington was about 35 years of age, and a member of the firm of Remington Brothers, of New York. He had always been known as a man of very quiet tastes. His death has caused a tremendous sensation here. Mr. Remington's brother telegraphed from New York to have the body prepared for burial. It will be taken to Pittsburg, the former home of the Remington. FIVE DEAD IN TENEMENT FIRE Two Women and Three Children Were Barned to Death. New York, Aug. 20.—Something exploded in a furniture store on the ground floor of a double tenement at 35 Essex street yesterday, and before the tenants could recover from the surprise the building was a mass of flames. The fire obtained a frightful headway, which the firemen had to fight while the work of rescue was going on, and before the flames were under control two women and three children had been burned to death, and a man and a woman carried to the Gouverneur Hospital suffering painful injuries. Many others were badly burned. In addition to the three children burned another was reported missing. One of the dead bodies was believed to be that of Mrs. Hannah Baldothin and the other that of Mrs. Joseph Knott, but both were so badly burned that they were not recognizable. The three dead children were believed to be those of Nathan Liebowitz, who reported to the police that his four little ones, Moses, Julius, Louis and Sallie, respectively 3, 5, 6 and 8 years old, were missing. The money loses by the fire was $5,000. Congress Appropriated $800,624,496.55 Washington, Aug. 20. The volume containing statements of appropriations, new officers, etc., required by law to be prepared and published at the end of each session of congress, under the direction of the committees on appropriations of the senate and house, has been completed for the first session of the Fifty-seventh congress by Thomas P. Cleaves and James C. Courts, chief clerks respectively of those committees. A summary of the appropriations shows the grand total of $800,624,496.55. The new officers of a civilian character created number 6, $86, and those abolished 1,165. A Strenuous Preacher. Passaic, N. J., Aug. 20. — The Rev William Sweet, of Everett, Mass, gave unmistakable evidence that he is a strenuous preacher. During his sermon at the First Presbyterian Church, to an audience made up of the city's wealthiest citizens, he gave an excellent illustration of his methods. For the first ten minutes of his sermon all must along easily. Then he throws vase of flowers, a Bible and a pitcher down among the congregation. The worshipers only smiled, and the pastor quietly resumed his sermon. DEPUTY KILLS ASTRIKER Fatal Clash Between Miners and Guards at Nesquehoning. ONLY ONE SHOT WAS FIRED Strikers Were Persuading Deputies Not to Enter Colliery, When One of Them Fired at Close Range—Cool Heads Prevented Riot. Nesquehoning, Pa., Aug. 19.—In a clash between striking mine workers and deputies here last night, Patrick Sharp, a striker, of Lansford, was shot and killed almost instantly by a deputy. The shooting caused consid- erable excitement for a time, but order was soon restored without any other persons being injured. A deputy named Harry McElmoyle was arrested, charged with the killing of Sharp, and was taken to the county jail at Mauch Chunk. The shooting occurred shortly after 6 o'clock. Five deputies were on their way to shaft No. 1 of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, just outside of the town. In the center of the town they were met by a number of strikers, who began persuading them not to go to the colliery. The officers did not stop, but kept on their way and tried to prevent any trouble. The strikers, it is said, then began to abuse the men and followed them nearly up to the colliery. There are conflicting stories as to what actually brought on the clash, but just before the deputies entered the place a shot was heard and Sharp dropped to the ground. The bullet entered his body close to his heart, and he died almost instantly. Witnesses say that the shooting was done by McElmoyle, and that he stood only six or seven feet from Sharp when he fired his revolver. Only one shot was fired. The deputies immediately withdrew to the colliery and a large crowd gathered about the place. When it was learned that Sharp was dead there was the greatest indignation among the strikers and other town people, and for a time it looked as though serious trouble would follow. Cooler heads among the mine workers, however, prevailed upon the crowd to disperse, using the argument that if there is any bloodshed troops would surely be sent here from Shenandoah. The crowd dispersed and the town soon calmed down to its normal state. Witnesses to the shooting went to the office of W. R. Watkins, the justice of the peace, and made information against Harry McElmoyle, charging him with the shooting of Sharp. The justice placed the warrant in the hands of Conatable Deckert, who found McElmoyle at shaft No. 1, and, accompanied by a guard of other officers, took his prisoner to the county jail at Mauch Chunk. Baird Snyder, assistant superintendent of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, appealed to General Gobin, in command of the detachment of the National Guard now on duty at Shenandoah, to send troops to Lansford to preserve order. He said that the entire Panther Creek Valley from Nesquehoning to Mauch Chunk was in a riotous state, and that serious trouble was feared. General Gobin sent the first battalion of the Twelfth Regiment, who arrived early this morning and went into camp. STRIKE RUMORS DENIED Coal Operators Will Not Make Concessions to End Conflict. New York, Aug. 20.—The presidents of the anthracite coal roads had their usual weekly conference here yesterday. Before going to the meeting, Mr. Truesdale, president of the Lackawanna Railroad Company, said: "There is no foundation in fact for the rumor that the anthracite coal operators will make concessions in order to end the strike. I think work will be resumed in time to produce plenty of coal for the fall demand. The operators are ready, as they always have been ready, to adjust with their men any grievances that they may have, and they have never discriminated against any of their men because they have belonged to the union. What the operators will not do is to discuss their business affairs with outsiders." Trying to Settle Strike Hazleton, Pa., Aug. 20.—The People's Alliance of Hazleton, at its meeting tomorrow night, will elect delegates who will be instructed to act with similar representatives from other coal region towns in a joint convention to be held at some central point not yet agreed upon. At this meeting plans will be arranged for bringing together the operators and the miners, with a view of settling the coal strike. Mine Foreman and Workman Badly Injured. Soranton, Pa., Aug. 20—At the Edgerton wannery of the Temple Iron Company, at Edgerton, 16 miles north of this city, early yesterday morning James Connolly, foreman of the washery, and Foest Crossman, a workman, were shot and seriously wounded. Connolly will lose the sight of one of his eyes and Crossman had to have his left leg amputated above the knee. The two men had left the washery to visit the slush dump, some 200 yards away, to see how things were going there. While on the dump the shooting was done by an unknown man, who stood some 40 yards away. Crossman had to drag himself from the scene of the shooting to the office at the washery, a distance of 200 yards. His sufferings he says, were almost unendurable. There is no clue to the man who did the shooting. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Thursday, August 14. While despondent, William Abel, an Easton, Pa., merchant, drowned himself in a creek yesterday. The Texas Populist state convention nominated a full ticket, headed THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. St. Paul M & T. School, ADMITS BOTH SEXES 12 YEARS OLD AND UPWARD. Has Primary, Normal and over Twenty Trades Departments in addition to special courses in Music, Book-keeping, Stenography and Typewriting. A full corps of competent Teachers and Instructors employed. Terms within the reach of the poorest. Board and other bills $50.00 per session of nine school months. Students pay a portion of their bills in some department of Industry. Session opens October 1st, 1902. New spacious Dining Hall being built. All buildings and grounds lighted by electricity. For Catalogue and further particulars apply to the Principal. RVJ. JANES S. RUSSELL, Lock Box 149, Lawrenceville, Virginia --- A Story Worth Reading To be in love with a beautiful woman—to have an unscrupulous rival—to live in the shadow of lived. This is the story unraveled in "Professional Brethren." which will begin in our columns in a few days. It is hardly necessary to say that it is a story worth reading. By J. M. Mallet for governor. Five persons were injured, two seriously, in a collision yesterday between a trolley car and a wagon at Pittsburgh. James Sims, a wealthy farmer, of Ottumwa, Ia., was shot and killed by his son while endeavoring to murder his wife with a butcher knife. President Roosevelt has accepted the invitation of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association to be the guest of Milwaukee on his western trip. MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK, Over $70,000. Deposited There. The total amount deposited in the Mechanics' Savings Bank since, January, 1st 1902 to August 21st, 1902 is ($70,371.43) seventy thousand, three hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-three cents. 105 N. Linden. To sell cheap—house hold furniture, ice-box, kitchen press, parlor suit & etc. Southern Employment Agency is the leading agency for good work of all kinds for both white and colored, to obtain a position of any kind, namely as Cook, Chambermaid, Waitresses, House workers, Waiters, Butlers, Janitors, and useful men Laundras, Gardeners, Porters, maids, Book-keepers, Elevators, any place you wish in private family or boarding house. N. F. DREW & BRO., Props. 1793 3rd Ave., New York, N. Y. Y. M. C. A. Notes. Meetings in the jail and alms-house last Sunday were very impressive. The committee was on time. Men continue to be faithful. Pres. Clifton Cabell addressed the boys last Sunday and all were benefited. The men were happy over the address which was delivered to them by Dr. W. F. Graham last Sunday at the True Reformers' Hall. About 500 men were cut to hear the Dr. Not a man who was present who did not feel that the Dr. had delivered an able and a helpful address. Subject; There are holes in our pockets. The cry is now that Dr. Graham be asked to deliver the same address in early date. Knowing that the Dr. loved young man and stands ready to help them, you will grant their request. Prof. W. B. Smith, Jr. director of the Glee Club certainly deserves much credit for the excellent music which was rendered by the members of the Glee club. Mr. Woolfolk will not be forgotten very soon. Watch for the date of the next meeting. Committee for the work Sunday is requested to be on time. Mr. E. Jackson will address the boys Sunday 4 P. M. at the rooms. Special music by Mr. C. Foster and others. Boys be on time. Mr. Randolph will address the men Sunday 5:30 P. M. at the rooms. The men are working hard to raise $1000 00. That the Y. M. C. A. may be free from all indebtedness. Let no one refuse to lend a helping hand. We have received much encouragement from everybody. Let Richmond keep the same spirit and others will help. St. Paul M. LAWRENCEVILLE ADMITS BOTH SEXES 12 BOYS' DORM Central building, Boys Dormitor Has Primary, Normal and ments in addition to special co- Stenography and Typewriting. A full corps of competent Teachers the reach of the poorest. Board and other months. Students pay a portion of the Session opens October 1st, 1902. New buildings and grounds lighted by electric lamps apply to the Principal. REV. JAMES S. RUSSELL, A Story We To be in love with a b an unscrupulous rival- an awful disease which if developed would make marriage impossible—to lead a Jekyl and Hyde life, impelled to the bad by some mysterious, irresistible force—to go through all this and win in the end makes it worth while to have lived. This is the stonal Brethren." whi umns in a few days. say that it is a story w NORFOLK, VA., August 7, 1903. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sir Ransom Little, who was a member of Phoenix Lodge, No. 44, Knights of Pythias, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Signed: CLARISSA LITTLE. Witnesses: W. E. Wismuth, C. C.; Chus. C. Cypress, K. of R and S.; J. E. Cole, J. W. Gramby, D. D. G. C. NORFOLK, VA, August 7, 1902. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Stephen Wilson, who was a member of Benevolence Lodge, No. 34, Knights of Pythias, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Witnesses: W. H. Parker, C. C.; M. Isabel, K. of R. and S.; J. W. Gramby, D. D. G. C. Removal Geo. W. Lewis, Attorney at Law and Notary Public has removed to No. 307 N. 8th street, between Broad and Marshall streets. 2t —Mrs. B. G. Fitzerald of Atlantic City, N J is in the city, the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Farley. —Mrs. M. W. Knight of Portsmouth, Va., called on us. —Mr. A. S. West of Pungoteague Va., called on us. —Mrs. Susanna Holmee is rapidly convalescing. —Vice-President H. F. Jonathan's family has returned to the city. —Miss N. Beransenia Norrell has returned home, but is indisposed. —Dr. William Troy of Portsmouth is dangerously ill. —Miss Marietta L. Chiles: left the city last Tuesday to spend the remainder of the vacation at Old Point, Va. Mrs. Jennie Cheatham, who has left for Charlottesville to attend the Grand Council, Independent Order of St. Lukes will probably spend three or four weeks in Gordonsville with Mrs. Christian before returning home. Money to Loan On Easy Terms. Rents are being advanced every day. It is cheaper to buy. After you have bought, the price cannot be raised on you. We will loan you the money to buy, or pay off your mortgage on such easy monthly terms that the money you pay in rent will pay for your house. Call on. GEO. O.JEFFERSON, Times Building No. 6 North Tenth Street & T. School, VILLE, VIRGINIA YEARS OLD AND UPWARD. FORMITORY. try on lower line not yet erected. And over Twenty Trades Departments in Music, Book-keeping, and Instructors employed. Terms within their bills $50.00 per session of nine school their bills in some department of Industry, spacious Dining Hall being built. All vicinity. For Catalogue and further partion. Lock Box 149, Lawrenceville, Virginia. North Reading beautiful woman—to have—to live in the shadow of A ory unraveled in "Profes ch will begin in our col- It is hardly necessary to worth reading. Grand Excursion, Chase City, Va., And Intermediate Stations, to Beach Park, West Point, Va., Aug. 27th 1902. Via: Southern Railway. Special train will leave Chase City, August 27th, 6:00 A. M., stopping at all stations for passengers; leaving Keys ville, 6:40 A. M., arrive Richmond, 9:00 A. M., West Point, 10:10 A. M., return- ing, leaves West Point, Aug. 27th 1902, 7 P. M., Richmond, 8:20 P. M., arrive Chase City about 11:30 P. M. Fare, Chase City to Richmond, $1.50 to West Point, $1.75, and correspond- ingly low rates from all other stations. This is a personally conducted excursion and will be enjoyed by all. To all the colored business men and women of the city of Richmond, and to all the fraternal and benevo- leant societies of the said city, and to all the clubs and other organizations: It is now an assured fact that the National Negro Business League, at the True Reformer's Hall on the 25, 26, and 27 of this month will be a success beyond our expectations, as has been clearly demonstrated inience between Booker T. Washburn and myself, held in the city of Atlanta, Ga., on the 9th of this month. Now as it is the desire of our local league to have all the societies and business enterprises thoroughly represented at the said meeting. That the world may know what we have done and are doing in our city, from a business point of view. Now, on behalf of the Richmond Branch of the sa d League, we most respectfully invite you to meet at the Woman's Central League Hall, N. 3rd street between Clay and MarshallSts., to do whatever may be proper, so as to be represented in the National League by delegates duly appointed and authorized to represent you. W. F. GRAHAM, President, WILLIAM I. JOHNSON, 1st. V. Pres. A. D PRICE, 2nd. V. Pres. R. T. HILL, Treas. GILES B. JACKSON, Sec'y. The Southern Employment Agency is the leading agency for good work of all kinds for both white and colored, to obtain a position of any kind namely as Cook, Chambermaid, Waitresses, House workers, Waiters, Butlers, Janitors, and useful men Laundras, Gardeners, Porters, Maids, Book-keepers, Elevators, any place you wish in private family or boarding house. N. F. DREW & BRO., Props. $10.00 per month for a good cook, washer and ironer. If in need of a good home with a small family, or if you have a large, send name, giving references, to NOW OPEN WALKER'S HOTEL For First-class Colored Guests. 116 South Ave., Near New Market, Petersburg, Va. 7-14-8m CANVASSER —WANTED— to sell PRINTERS' INK—a journal for advertisers—published weekly at five dollars a year. It teaches the science and practice of Advertising, and is highly esteemed by the most successful advertisers in this country and Great Britain. Lateral commission issued Address PRINTERS' INK No 10 Spruce St. New York HOWARD UNIVERSITY Medical Department Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges. Thirty-fifth Session (1902-1903) will begin October 1, 1903, and continue seven (7) months. Tuition fee in Medical and Dental Colleges, each $30. Pharmaceutical College $70. All students must register before October 1, 1902. For catalogue or further information apply to F. J. SHADD, A. M., M. D., Secretary. 901 R Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. 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