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THE RICHMOND PLANET DOC BACON HANGED AT BOYDTON, VA. An Innocent Man Executed---Did Not Attempt the Crime. Tcuching Scenes at the Last Moment. FORGAVE HIS ENEMIES-THE GOVERNOR DISTURBED-A FEARFUL MISTAKE-THE END CAME QUICKLY VOL. XX NO. 44. DOC BAC A' An Innocent Not A Tcuching FORGAVE HIS ENEMI MISTA Boydton, Va., Oct. 3rd, 1903. This quiet town was the scene of a judicial murder to-day and hundreds, who stood in doubt, now shrug their shoulders easily when any reference is made to the fortune happening which has resulted in the launching of two souls into eternity, one of whom is now admittedly innocent. Bacon was hanged at 12:35 upon the charge of having attempted to criminally assault a white lady, Mr. Geoghegan, at Chase City, Mecklenburg county, Va., about two months and a half ago. THE CRIME CHARGED It seems that two colored men went to the lady's residence at about eleven o'clock at night and after throwing meal in her face, attempted to drag her into a dark corner of the porch. Anderson Finch was arrested and he implicated Bacon as being the man who was with him at the time. He subsequently admitted that he had made a false statement in connection with Doc Bacon and reiterated this statement from the gallows September 2nd. This declaration caused a profound sensation and the Commonwealth's Attorney was deeply affected thereby. He asked for a reprieve and three days were granted which was followed by a further reprieve of thirty days. When the stay came Doc Bacon was preparing to march to the gallows. CENSURED THE GOVERNOR The scene here was well described last week in the columns of the PLANET by Rev. J. B. Ferrell. Judge Homes, who presided at the trial was immovable and the resolutions passed by a committee of white citizens censuring the Governor for reprieving Bacon had the matter now stands, many white people regretting the occurrence and express the opinion that an innocent man has been beaten. A REMARKABLE SCENE. The scene in the jail here before the execution was distressing. Doc Bacon did not falter, although the light of hope had gone out forever from his eyes. He ascended the gallows with a firm step and showed his abiding faith in the Saviour by declaring that he had nothing against those who had brought about his destruction. He had told the story of his whereabouts and at no time had he wavered in his statement or contradicted himself. DECLARED HIS INNOCENCE Standing up before the audience, who were there to see him executed, he declared that there in the presence of the Almighty God in whom he trusted, he had been made the victim of circumstances and was innocent of the crime for which he was to suffer. He hoped that some day that the man would be found who had been guilty of the offense, but that he was not the man. His statement made a most profound impression upon his hearers. THE FEARFUL PLUNGE. A moment later, the black cap was adjusted and he had seen the last of earth. A creaking sound followed as the body shot through the trap-door. The body swayed to and fro. There followed a silence, then a convulsive motion and all was over. Doc Bacon had been sacrificed at the behest of a mob. Two lives had been sacrificed for an attempted crime, one of whom was innocent, and the bloodthirsty crowd on the outside retired with the satisfaction of knowing that, whether guilty or innocent, there was one less Negro on this side of the river. The most distressing part of the affair was the sending of the remains to the Medical Department of the University of Virginia to be used by the doctors for dissecting purposes. GOV. MONTAGUE'S EXPLANATION The Times-Dispatch quoted Governor Montague as follows: "Governor Montague when seen yesterday in regard to the case of Doc Bacon, was averse to going into print on the subject, but finally stated that he had intervened no further in the matter for the reason, that while there was considerable doubt in the minds of some of those interested in the case as to the guilt of the man, yet none of them were able to sustain this belief with any facts which would lead him as a judge on the bench to set aside the verdict, and he, therefore did not feel warranted in making any further interference. "I have the opinions of Judge Homes, Commonwealth's Attorney Goode, and prominent citizens who are familiar with the subject," said His Excellency and they all agree with me that to new evidence has developed in favor of the prisoner, which would warrant a further respite. There are rumors and suspicions, but they are not borne out by any tangible facts, and, therefore fore, no further respite was granted." Rev. David L. Cosby and Wife Sur prised. In view of the departure of Rev. David, L. Cosby, B. Th., and wife, for their new field of labor in Newport, Rhode Island, their numerous friends gave vent to their appreciation of them as neighbors, citizens and Christian associates by presenting a very fine tea-set, accompanied by a delicious collation. The affair was quite a surprise to these quiet people, who were sitting very quietly in their parlors with a very intimate friend. Mrs. E. R. Giles was manager, R. T. Hill, Esq., master of ceremonies. Dr. J. E. Jones offered a fervent prayer for the continual success of the gospel work which Rev. Cosby has done in years past. Many regrets were expressed at the loss of one of the State's best preachers and S. S. missionaries. All wished the Mount Olivet Church an abundant success under his administration. This show of appreciation has cemented the Rev. and people indelibly together. Under great emotion, upon the Indiana's and his part, thanks were extended to every one of the entire company of friends, whose names are here appended: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harris, Mrs. Randolph, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Durham, Lawyer J. C. Robertson and wife, Mrs. Martha Shepherd, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Stanard, Rev. and Mrs. D. Webster Davis, Deacon Benj. Jackson and wife, Deacon Studeley and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Luke Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Carrington, Prof. G. W. Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. Dammalls, Mr. and Mrs. Chandier, Mr. and Mrs. Booker Leftwich, Rev. S. C. Burrell, of the Y. M. C. A; Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Price, Dr. David A. Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. Finley T. Johnston, Mrs. Eveline Epps, Mr. and Mrs. P. Burrell, Dr. W. L. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Forrester, John Mitchell, Jr., Esq.; Mrs F. Crump, E. W. Brown, Esq.; Dr. J. E. Jones and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. W. Taylor, R. T. Hill, Esq., and wife; Mrs Bousseau, Jacob Wright, Esq., and wife; Miss Nannie Osborne, Miss Lizzie B. Yancey, Miss Sallie Boise, Miss Cora B. Epps, Miss Susie Crump, Miss Willie Kate Ellipt, Miss Ila Inforrester, Miss Victoria Johnson, Miss Mabel Holmes, Miss Ada Foster, Miss T. B. Brooks, Miss Kate Robinson, H. M. Booth, Miss Victoria Johnson, J. M. D. Frazier, Thos. Briggs, E. R. Giles, Esq., and wife, Rev. W. H. Stokes, B. D.; Miss Kate Randolph, Edward Ellis, Esq., and wife; Mr. and Mrs. Ed. D. Morris. SHOT HIM FOUR TIMES. Interfered With the Fisherman—1a the Heat of Passion—The Wounds Fatal. Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 6.—J. C. Reed, a well-known resident of Amherst, was shot and dangerously wounded today by a colored man, Robert Leyson. Reed attempted to fish in the same place in the river which was occupied by Leyson. This led to a quarrel, and as Reed attempted to throw in one of his lines, Leyson drew a pistol and fired four times. All four balls took effect, one of them passing entirely through the right side of the abdomen and inflicted a wound, from which it is thought he cannot recover. Leyson has been arrested. Attention. Ladies. Go to Mrs. M. D. Chamlee, 318 East Broad Street for your fall millinery. Most beautiful and latest of styles, prices to suit all. Saleslady accommodating to colored and white. Mrs. M. D. OHAMLEE, tolitlone 7 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1903. FATALLY INJURED. Dastardly Crime—A Premeditated Murder Warsaw, Va., Oct. 6—Mr. S. B. Hardwick, a prominent canner and merchant of Kinsale, Westmoreland county, and ex-treasurer of the county; shot and mortally wounded William Gordon, colored, this afternoon. Mr Hardwick was returning from the village to his home at Federal Hill when he saw Gordon gathering chestnuts from a tree on the line of Mr. Hardwick's property. Gordon was requested to cease gathering the chestnuts, to which he replied he would not. This greatly enraged Mr. Hardwick, who was under the influence of liquor. He replied to the colored man by saying if he stayed (here until he returned from his hardwick) would make him move. Mr. Hardwick soon returned with a snotgun in his hand, two shots, one of which took effect in the colored man's side and stomach. Drs. Young and Fairfax pronounced his wounds as necessarily fatal. Justice Unrun issued a warrant for Mr. Hardwick's arrest, and he was placed in charged of Constable Hudson. A Move in the Right Direction The first millinery store owned and operated by colored people of this city throw their doors open for business Oct. 1st, 1903, at 528 East Broad Street, over the New Enterprise Store, owned and operated by Maj. I. J. Miller, recently from Columbia, S. C. Both of these stores are well stocked with the latest styles of the season—the best materials in the market. They are centrally located, being the third door from the corner of Sixth and Broad Sts., and next to the Broad Street Bank. The millinery company will, on and after the 15th of this month, furnish ladies tailor made suits, furs and wraps, and will have a department of dress-making. They will have in their employment some of the best experts in cutting and fitting. Those who have inspected the hats now on sale in this store pronounce them to be second to none in stock and style. Our ladies are invited to inspect them before purchasing elsewhere. While they have nothing to say against others, they feel that they are entitled to a liberal patronage from our own people, especially since they can furnish hats equally as good and in many instances better than some others. FIRST MILLINERY STORE. The first millinery store in this city owned and operated by colored people was established on the 1st day of Oct., 1903, by a number of our enterprising people at No. 528 East Broad Street—up stairs on the second floor over the colored dry goods store. We cordially invite our ladies and friends to give us at least a part of their patronage in our efforts to establish a business, wherein we can give employment to a limited number of our girls, especially since we can furnish them with the best of goods and the latest styles and at the lowest prices. Call and see us before purchasing elsewhere, as we guarantee satisfaction. Very respectfully, THE RICHMOND MILLINERY Co. tilnov28inc St. Athanasius Normal and Industrial School. Corner Monk and Albany Sts., Brunswick, Ga., opened Monday, October 5th, 8:30 p. m., with divine service. Parents and friends are cordially invited to be present. The grade of the school will be raised. New industrial features will be added and every possible effort will be made to give the pupils thorough drill in English and a practical education that will fit them for the actual duties ofife. Special care will be exercised with reference to their mental, moral and spiritual welfare. The discipline will be thoroughly maintained and all misdemeanors promptly dealt with. For further information consult FROM NORFOLK. Illegal Registration—Hot Times There. Norfolk, Va., Oct. 7th, 1903. As it had been proclaimed throughout the length and breadth of Virginia, that the Negro was the bone of contention in Virginia politics, and with him out of the same demographic Democratic party would give fair ballot to honest count. There would no longer be any cause for those great apostles of homosexuality to wink at anything unfair as they would be need of any wrong doing. They have disfranchised us and done it boldly, and today there are only 600 colored voters in the entire city of 25,000 Negroes. SERIOUS CHARGE. They have their pure election laws and enough of it to purify and protect all, but today Norfolk is smiling under one of the bitterest party fights in her history. Colonization for illegal registration is openly charges insomuch so that the grand jury has the matter before them, and according to the reports made one faction of these good Democrats there are fully 125 illegal registered names in one ward, saying nothing of some other wards, a lengthy list of names and witnesses is now before the jury. The outcome is watched with much interest. Full particulars in our next article. MANY INDICTMENTS. John L. Sullivan, late champion of the world, as a pugilist, is in Norfolk as the Union Street Theatre in a play called "By the Sad Sea Waves." Of course the sporting circles are in evidence. Thirty-one indictments were returned by the October grand jury fully half of the white people against white people. One case of seduction being white; one of the two murder cases white. WANT THE PROPERTY There is still a great unrest to the property of Baron farm, better known as Bruce Park. The heirs of the late Mr. Barraud are making determined efforts to get possession of the property, which is now fairly settled and is worth fully $000,000. A lawyer from Richmond, Va., was in the city last week in the interest of the Barrauds. There are nearly 200 acres in the tract. There was great demand for the Prairie, but the just compliments paid Mr. B. R. Eoulding, one of our best citizens, was the cause. Norfolk shares and joins the press and public in these testimonials to a true man to the manor born. METHODIST CELEBRATION St. John's A. M. E. Church celebrates her fortieth year as a Negro Methodist Church next Sunday, Oct. 11th. A well prepared programme and service of special order will be observed to be followed with a bazaar lasting at least two weeks. Dr. Reynolds hopes to get at least one dollar each from each member of his church on the occasion of Sunday services. EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION The Emancipation Association elected officers this Monday night, electing J. E. Fuller, President and Grand Vice-President, M. A. Walter, 2nd Vice-president; S. Hines Treasurer; L. Dawley Chaplain, with John T. Herber Sergent at arms, Mr. W. H. Thoroughgood being again elected Chief Marshall which, of itself means a big parade. It had been said ever and amen and published and proclaimed. A Hustling Agent Mr. John H. Braxton, our hustling real estate agent, has changed his place of business from No. 10 W. Jackson St. to No. 112 W. Leigh St. The appearance of the new offices will enhance his increased trade, and his patrons are invited to call. He has been in the business for five years, and during that time has built quite an extensive trade, and our personal knowledge of his business career constrains us to commend him to the public, feeling assured that you could not place your property in better hands. Any real estate business to be transaction will be promptly and carefully looked after. Richmond, Va., Oct. 2nd, 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 endowment claim of Sir R. J Foster, who was a member Pythale Royal Lodge, No. 26. Knights of Pythale N. A., S. A., A & A. A. Signed. I. Trower. Do You Know Him? I desire to know the whereabouts of my brother, Hiram Bassett, who lives in Richmond. Any information concerning him will be thankfully received. Address JOHN S. BASSET, Georgel, Wise Co., Va. The Richmond Mutual Burial Association is the name of a new organization which is quite popular and promises to fill a long burial necessity in this section. It provides a burial for its members. Mrs.S.E.Randolph, the lady in charge is the only colored female embalmer in this section and her success is already assured. Past Grievances of Government Office Typos. WAS ALWAYS AN OPEN SHOP. Non-union Men Have Been Employed There Again and Again Without Causing a Watk-out, Although Vigorous and Stormy Protests Have Been Made—Quarrel Over the Son of Fred Douglass. [Washington, D. C., Post, Oct. 5, '03.] President Roosevelt has coined a new expression in connection with the Miller-labor union controversy at the Government Printing Office which will be frequently used in the coming campaign. In designating the Government Printing Office as an "open shop" the President has hit upon a happy and at the same time catchy phrase, which now appears in every discussion of the Miller case. The Government Printing Office has been an "open shop" ever since it was established in 1861. It was a union office from the very beginning, although non-union men have been employed there from time to time without causing a strike. General Grant was the first President to establish the "open shop" policy in connection with the Government Printing Office. In 1867, when A.M. Clapp was the Public Printer, he appointed Lewis Douglass, son of the late Fred Douglass, the Negro leader, a compositor in the printing office. Objection was at once made against the appointment of Douglass, and he, like Miller, became a national issue. Under the surface the real opposition to Douglass was race prejudice owing to his color. The union men in and out of the Government Printing Office charged Douglass with being an avowed "rat." It was alleged also that he had been denied admission to the printers' office his former home in Ohio. Upon arriving in Washington, through the influence of his father, he secured a "frame" in the composing room at the Government Printing Office. He at once made application for membership in the printers' union of this city, but it was denied him. REFUSED TO LEAVE THEIR PLACES There was a bitter contest in the local union over the Douglass case. The employees of the Government Printing Office refused to sacrifice their positions under the government and go on a strike on the demand of the less fortunate printers employed in private establishments at the National Capital. Since the foundation of the Government Printing office the union men in that establishment have maintained absolute control of the local union because they outnumber all of the "downtown" printers combined. A majority of the union men in the Government Printing Office would have been glad to see Douglass removed on account of his color, but when they were brought face to face with a proposition of going on a strike or submitting to the employment of Douglass they mustered enough votes at the meeting of the union to prevent a strike resolution being adopted. The controversy lasted over two years, and at each meeting of the union the subject was hotly debated without any definite result being reached. The Government Printing Office men were always able to stave off final action. The Donglass case was carried subsequently to the international union held at Buffalo, N. Y. Delegate John Hallock, representing the Washington union, introduced a resolution condemning Public Printer Clapp for employing in the Government Printing Office "an awed Noveg rat." The resolution occasioned a heate i debate, and the race issue became badly confused with labor unionism. A general row, which threatened to terminate in a free fight between the friends and the opponents of the resolution, ensued. In the midst of the excitement a veteran printer, A. T. Caviss, an ex-Confederate soldier, arose and brought the convention back to reason by saving: ELEVEN STATES AN EXAMPLE. "As a Southern man, I am no lover of Negro rats.' I simply want to remind the convention that only a few years ago eleven States in this Union went on a strike against Uncle Sam. We know the result." This brief, but impressive declaration had the effect of ending the discussion and defeating the resolution. Douglass remained in the Government Printing Office for several years until he voluntarily resigned to join his father in publishing a Negro newspaper in Washington. There was another instance where the "open shop" policy was invoked. The issue was made on the appointment of a copy-holder, a French-Canadian named Gervais, who was not a practical printer. The printers' union required that copy-holders should be practical printers. The Frenchman was appointed through the influence of a member of Congress from Minnesota. The union demanded his removal, but the Publisher, John D. Defres, backed up by the instructions of the printer to the demands of the Union. The union men in the Government Printing Office again refused to strike and the Frenchman was continued in the office. Miss Alice Harris has returned to Chester, Va., from Maryland. Miss M. E. Cabaniss, of Washington, and Miss P. E. Tancil called on us this week. The former is the guest of Miss Tancil, 601 N. 30th St. Mr. G. A. Dauge, general agent and corresponding secretary of Colemanville Mineral Springs, located at Lucyville, Cumberland county, Va., was in the city this week. Miss Boranena Brown, the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Brown, is teaching at Whitestone, Lancaster county, Va. The Pythian Carnival of Nations commencing October 19th will be for the purpose of raising money to defray the expense of improving the Castle recently purchased. The Mechanies' Savings Bank is prospering. You can deposit ten cents and upwards on Saturdays until 7 o'clock in the evening. Cherish Thomas H. Wyatt is ready to serve you and he is strongly supported by Mr. Elam L. Banks. Jackson Ward will be wiped out. The committee has agreed upon a report and the shoe-string district will be a thing of the past. The colored folks have no tears to shed. —Mr. John M. Higgins bitters will cure a bad case of stomach ache. You can have your bottle filled on Saturday night or Monday morning. See advertisement. Yes, they shed tears, but it was apparent that the family was consoled by the way in which the remains were laid away. Funeral Director A. Hayes furnished fine outfits and looked after all of the arrangements himself. They thanked him for his kindness. There is no worry when he has charge. —Deputy Grand Chancellor C. B. Brown of Covington, Va., addressed the Knights of Pythias club at Staunton, Va., on the 2nd inst. The initiation will take place on the 16th inst. Col. T. M. Crump and Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham will assist in conferring the ranks. Mrs. M. A. Hughes of Manchester, Va. returned home last Tuesday, evening from a ten days' visit to Powhatan county. She is looking well and has improved considerably. If you want good painting done at reasonable prices, call on Contractor Frank Waller, Jr. He is all right. See advertisement. The Woman's Corner Stone Beneficial Association continues to win friends by its good management. When you join that, you are investing in a gold mine. Try them and be happy. Another white school will be established in East End. The recent meeting of the National Baptist Convention was the grandest in the history of the organization. Rev.Dr. E.C. Morris gave unmistakable evidence of true greatness. Dr. W. F. Graham was in evidence and was recognized as one of the ablest leaders of the denomination. There will be funny scenes at the Carnival of Nations. The Turks and the Russians will be there as will also the proverbial Uncle Sam. —The interests of the wealthy John L. Williams & Sons are practically in the hands of receivers. The depression in the stock market is said to be the cause of their embarrassment. —Pharmacist Smith, of 105 West Jackson St., is opening a pahatal drug store on N. Second St., near Jackson. —Junius A. Scott, white, was shot and killed in his store Friday night, 2nd inst., at about 11 o'clock. The tragedy occurred on 28th and Main Sts. He was shot from behind. His murderer has not as yet been apprehended. —Sir Thos. Trent of Hampon, Va., in company with Mr. Ed Green of the Black Patti Troubadours visited our office this week. A Fine Meeting One of the most enthusiastic meetings of the Richmond Agents of the United Aid Insurance Company was held at the company's office Friday night October 2nd, 1903. Hon. J. E. Byrd spared neither time nor expense to make the occasion one long to be remembered. At 7:30 o'clock Rev. Nelson B.Brown, of the Richmond office offered prayer, after which the President announced that Mr. E. L. Stanford would deliver the opening address. After the address of Mr. Stanford, which was logical and instructive and highly complimentary to the noble efforts of the President ir behalf of his agents, the Rev. F. B. Mitchell, made a response which was listened to with markee attention. After these two addresses, the President announced that he would call on one of his old "War Horses," Gen. Lee of Fredericksburg, Va. Mr. Lee responded, by saying that he was only a private of the staff of Gen. Byrd. The speaker, (who is Supt. of the Fredericksbury Branch) delivered an address abounding in wit and logic, and at the close was followed by loud and long applause. Mr. C. H. Jones, Manager of the Eastern Division followed Mr. Lee in a powerful address, such as he only can deliver, and closed the evening's exercises. Mr. Jones is one of the oldest men in the employment of the company, and his address had special effect upon all present. Refreshments were served in abundance and all departed well pleased with their evenings entertainment. ALL WHITES FOB EACH OTHER Hot Times and Bitter Speeches—Colored Folks Happy. The Democrats of Henrico county, Va. are having a Kikkenny cat time of it in their political warfare. This is the county in which the colored voter was about the worst robbed mortal on the face of the globe. The new unconstitutional Constitution has practically removed the colored citizen out of the equation and the ballot-box stuffers and the tally-sheet manipulators have been practically out of a job. The desire to play the game again has been so great that they began operations on members of their party and the result is "There's a hot time in the old town to night." CRYING FRAUD The victims are crying fraud loud enough to be heard across the river in Chesterfield county. And the abuse that they are heaping upon one another is causing the average colored brother to hold his sides with satisfaction. He remembers that only a few years ago he was doing the same howling act himself. It seems that they held, what is known as a legalized Democratic primary, in which they did more crooked work, if such a thing is possible than they did in the unlegalized primary. After the fight was over the facts were so apparent that an investigation was called for and durdied the proceedings, one side said the other side lying, while an impartial public which looked on from the outside reached the painful culsion that both sides were lying, it being only a question as to which side was lying most. MR. BRAUER'S TROUBLE This is broad language, but it seems to be the only kind of expressions which will properly size up the situation. Mr. Brauer was nominated in the primary, that is received the heaviest count. But the Barksdale Pure Election Law had been passed and it imposed heavy penalties upon all guilty of lawfully influenced exactly what every candidate in the state is doing and will do to the end of the chapter. It is only a question of his ability not to get caught. ONE WAS ENOUGH. But it is alleged and was proven that Mr. Braner had been unwise enough to get caught and he was made an example, while the nominee for the position of commonwealth's attorney, who had also been caught a little bit was allowed to go free on a technicality or hair-line that was too fine for the average man to see. The committee evidently had one devil-fish its hands and presuming that one was enough did not seem disposed to go searching for another. ANOTHER SECURED CERTIFICATE It went blind on Brother Wendenburg, but took a fresh hold on Brother Braner. He sought relief from the State Democratic Committee and won out with hands down. The county committee had refused to grant to him the certificate of nomination, but awarded it to Mr. W. J. Todd, who could have been counted in just as easy as Mr Brauer. The action of the state committee only aggravated the situation and the county committee now announces that the state committee was without jurisdiction and that its action is final. The matter may be harmonized, but the "cussing" is loud and deep. COLORED FOLKS HAPPY The colored folks are enjoying the situation. It always is a source of satisfaction to see your old enemy sweating and perspiring, while undergoing the tortures to which you were once subjected. It is difficult to say with which wing one sympathizes. One moment we see the contours of one faction in one direction, then the same portions of the other side's raiments in the self-same place. FREE SHOW FOR COLORED FOLKS The exercise may be bracing, but evidently to them it is mighty tiresome. It is pleasant though sitting off under the shade of the trees, in easy reach of a spring of water and enjoy the situation. A free show of this kind is well worth a dollar a head and for it the colored people pay nothing. National Baptist S. S. Union The regular monthly meeting of the National Baptist Sunday School. Union will convene on next Sunday Oct. 11th, 1903, at 3:00 o'clock p. m., at the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church (Rev. J. Andrew Bowler pastor) Excellent programme. Special address, "Why are we Baptists?" by Hon. J. Henry Grutchfield. A large attendance is expected to be present. The Union Chorususes will sing. B. H. PREYTON, Pres. E. A. WASHINGTON, Vice. A. W. DANDRIDGE, Sect. Have you received a bill for the PLANET? We thank you for calling and paying the same. The others will be kind enough to do likewise. SPANISH PEGGY A STORY OF YOUNG ILLINOIS BY MARY HARTWELL CATHERWOOD CHAPTER IV From the back yard of more than one New Salem home, where soap-making and gardening were going forward, azure smoke rose over pink coals of wood and old vines. The whole world was getting ready to be new. Ann's own winter linsey was laid aside. She wore something which made her look like a blossom to the eyes of the boy. Anywine gave her the parcel and stood abashed while it was unrolled, revealing yards of dark red and yellow calico, the colors alternating in tiny flecks which globed themselves to pomegranates. Ann had noticed it in the store as a most daring attempt in cotton printing. Some balls of thread fell out and Antwine picked them up. "It's for Peggy, isn't it?" "Yes, mam'sella." "Did you buy it yourself, Antwine?" "I have some money that I make in Belleville," he apologized. "Shick-shack and the woman have not got some tase' in clothes for young girls. You, mam'selle, that tase'e." "If you think I really have, Anty-wine, you must let me help Peggy make this dress." "Oh, mam'selle! It is what I would ask, but dare not!" "I would love to do it, and Peggy will be so glad to have a new dress." Peggy was glad when Ann waylaid her in the evening. Her face quivered and she said, "Goody!" She talked the great event quite out with Antywine, standing beside their cabin, because they seldom spoke to each other in the presence of Shickshack's wife. Then there was the joy of going to the tavern and learning neat stitches while Ann cut and basted and fitted. The slow process of hand sewing went on a part of every day, as the two girls had time, until Peggy, by accident of Antywine's choice, stood at last unconsciously arrayed in the colors of Spain. The garment was gathered to her slim figure under the bust, whence escaping fullness hung as low as her ankles. This short-waisted look, and the gorgeous setting of colors for her pale olive skin, and her hair cut in the fashion of the middle ages, suddenly developed in her a charm. People noticed her, and said that she was not exactly growing pretty, but there was something to her. The confidence of knowing how to do things appeared in her face. For, having begun with the needle, Ann Rutledge went on to knitting and spinning. Ann had pretty clothes, for her father never rode to Springfield without bringing her a gift, and her mother even indulged her with a cassimere pelisse modeled after one worn by the doctor's wife, who came a bride to New Salem. Vlane saw with some resentment her elder sister take things which had usually fallen to her and cut them over for the Indian's adopted daughter. Thus Peggy became transformed in every garment except her moccasins. To these heelless, quill-embroidered shoes she clung with the instinct of a wilderness lover. They were light and soft and small, hammering her no more than her own muscles. Anywine made them for her when he made his own. In return she knitted woolen stockings to keep him and her foster father warm in winter. When Peggy first learned to knit she pulled the yarn so tight that the stocking leg stood above the needles as stiff as a board triangle and had to be raveled and done over. "You're not building stake-and-ridered fences for your men folks," laughed Ann. Shickshack's wife gave Peggy many tasks to do, but in a house where there was no home-making, strewn with the appointments of a dirty camp, the tasks were sordid and often useless. Sally let pots and kettles litter the hearth, the cob pipe dropped ashes into a dinner hanging on the crane; joists were grimy, and dust stood thick on the pewter she got with her first husband and was too stingy to use. But her splint-bottomed chairs had to be scoured with soap and sand every week, and she made the lame girl, in deerskin dress, creep inch by inch over the puncheon floor, cleaning it by the same hard process. When the weather was bad Peggy's tasks were doubled, and her struggle with marks of New Salem clay became hopeless. Shickshack's wife never seemed to look up; plodding along the street, her suilen eyes fixed on the ground, she exchanged no word with a neighbor. Shickshack's disgust was extreme with sordid housekeeping he had nowhere encountered in an Indian village. The changes in Peggy Shickshack were not without influence on her schoolmates, but the Spaniard, with pride of her own, held aloof from them. They swung their feet from tall benches and whispered behind their books while Peggy fiercely studied. When the Testament class stood up she was at the head. Her progress through the simple course was so rapid that Minter Grayham calculated she would know in a year all that he was able to teach her. Antywine, whose stepmother had never sent him to school, was nineteen years old, and could not read. Peggy began to teach him durin dong spring twilights. There was a large stone halfway across the valley, sheltered as the sun slipped north of afternoons, under which Peggy hid her outgrown lesson book for Antywine. Whatever direqion his day's hunt led him, he made a detour to arrive at the stone, and if he arrived first, sat down to study. If Peggy, carrying her dinner reticule home from school, reached it first, she waited. They sat and held their book together. English spelling provoked Canadian exclamations; but he had to spur him not only Peggy, but the powerful example of Sieur Abe Lincoln, studying every spare minute. Anywine knew where the best swimming places were in the Sangamon. Sometimes he came to his lesson, his blond hair separated into dark clinging tendrils, which, as they dried, became a powder of gold-dust curls around his face and temples. If Peggy could not keep her fingers from touching this A THEY SAT AND HELD THE BOOK TOGETHER. fleece, Antywine pretended he did not know it. His hands and shoulders worked as hard as his mind. With shrugs and gesticulating fingers he flung English spelling all around. When he encountered a terrific word he would throw down his book and jump on it. But Antywine's moccasins were light; he did not damage the learning under his feet. His rages were rages of laughter. Whatever he did so delighted Peggy that she said: "It makes me almost laugh out in school to think how you dance on your speller!" As month followed month and Pedro Lorimer neither showed himself again in New Salem nor made any other attempt to kidnap the Indian's adopted daughter, her guardian's anxiety relaxed to ease. He thought: "These white men in this vilage are my friends; they will take my part. The young chief Abe is as strong as three Pedro Lorimers, and his hand is with me." Every Sunday Mahala Cameron's father preached in the schoolhouse, and nearly all the people, whether they accepted the Cumberland Presbyterian creed or not, went to the service. Wildplum groves made bouquets of snow on the prairies. The woods were full of flowers, having such fragrance as breaks only from old loam. All the trees, from the rich green of the pecan to the delicate and slowly deepening maple gave out their foliage to the sun. The Judas tree burst out like flame in the forest. Happy boys were seen coming home from the river evenings with strings of croppies, bass, and pike. Half-yearly master day came, when the local militia stepped out in awkward squads and practiced such military tactics as the leader knew to the squeak of a life and the thump of a drum. Antywine put himself among the boys. He liked Life and movement. But Shickshack stood and looked gloomily on. He knew that his own people, the Sacs, were crowded in their reservation, and this play of war might sometime become reality. Whiskey was plentiful of master days. Antywine noticed that Lincoln did not touch it. Having considered the height and strength of Sieur Abe, he also spat out of his mouth a taste of fiery stuff pushed between his lips by a Grove boy, and decided that he would fight rather than be forced to drink. Slicky Green and Ann Rutledge's brother were home, working in their fathers' fields. Young Yates was seen at intervals during the summer. The boys and girls of New Salem found a world of material for their own happiness. There were quilts, where the older women labored in the afternoon and young men and women came to evening games. Peggy Shickshack stood outside or such residencies, and so did Antywine, because the singular mother of their household had no fellowship with the mother of any other household. For all the villagers began to look kindly at the unfolding womanliness of the lame Spaniard, the blond head of Antywine, and the good old Indian who loved white men. But the festival that Peggy liked best and was not left out of, was blackberrying. The girls rose at dawn and put on their worst clothes, meeting by appointment at the tavern with baskets on their arms. They did not speak loud. The dust in the road took the prints of their feet like ashes. The whole sweet-smelling world was drenched in dew, and as they brushed down the ravine across the woods beyond, they were baptized by every bush. Then their tongues were loosened, and they sang and told stories. Sometimes they pretended to see wolves sneaking to cover, but this merely for the pleasure of frightening themselves. It was the loveliest pilgrimage ever invented. There was peril in it too, for in the wooded field of wild brambles the thick-mottled rattlesnake, or objects resembling him, caused many a start and shriek. Once little Jane Rutledge got a fat grasshopper down her back, and yelled for deliverance from—"a snake! a snake!" "Oh, run home, Janel Run home, quik!" cried Mahala Camerap THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMON VIRGINIA. Sometimes the girls swam grass to their waists, as in a sea of dew, Peggy dividing her way with her crutch. The rising sun showed glittering in the brambles, blackberries and luscious dewberries half as long as one's thumb, melting ripe to keep that very morning's appointment. To go blackberrying late in the day was not to go blackberrying at all, but to a hot and weary search of rified fields. When the party trailed homeward with heaped baskets they could see along the ridge of the Sangamon tents and camps of farmers who had come long distances to mill. Each man was obliged to wait its turn to have his grain ground. It was like a fair. Quoit pitching, wrestling matches, races and trading filled up the idle time. Insensibly the season changed. Sumac leaves began to burn around scarlet fruit vellied in white, the oaks were faintly tinted, and the first September days had come. Anytwine's reading lessons at the stone ended, for Lincoln was taking up surveying and going out to distant parts of the country, and Antywine was to go with him as his chain-bearer. "I put the book in my bundle," said the Canadian while he and Peggy were bidding each other farewell at the stone. "Sieur Abe will help me." "Peggy's hand and feet became cold. She felt as if autumn were driving the blood back upon her heart. "Viane Rutledge told at school the other day that you are the best-looking young man in New Salem." Anytwine expanded with satisfaction. He always carried his chin up, so that people called him high-headed. "I am tall." "Don't you think Viane Rutledge is a pretty girl, Antywine?" "Yes." "She's the prettiest girl that goes to school, isn't she?" Tears sprang into Peggy's eyes; she winked them back, ashamed of being grieved. "But Viane Rutledge is not a good reader," she honestly declared. "Me, I am not a good reader, either," observed Antywine. "You don't want to put yourself alongside of Viane Rutledge as a poor reader," spoke Peggy, sharply—"do you?" "I don't know," returned Antywine, with a teasing winsomeness specially his own. He smiled on the landscape and lifted his chin higher, a look of concern replacing the smile. "Why you cry, sweetheart?" "My foot's tired," said Peggy, drying her tears. "You been trying to walk without the crutch?" "Then I carry you up to the house." "I don't want you to. If Mahala Cameron's brother was here he could help you make a saddle and carry me. He takes hold of hands with one of the Clary boys, and they lift me up on the saddle and run with me when we play Indian." "He have no business!" exclaimed Antywine, full of indignation. "They will fall and hurt you!" "O, no, they won't. He is a nice boy, and has such red cheeks." "Me, if I have those red cheeks I strip the skin off my face!" said Antywine, disgusted. "You like those red cheeks, eh?" "Well, I think you are about as pretty as Viane Rutledge." "Viane Rutledge," spoke Antywine, sincerely, "she not have that charm like you, and those manners." "Do you think I am learning manners?" "You have improve every day." "Any wine, I've got the best apple in my pocket! Don't you want a bite of it?" "Did those Cameron boy give you that apple?" "No." "You have it, then, from that Grove feller, who is behaved so bad the master whip him?" "No. Mehala gave it to me." "Then I will take some bite." Peggy drew forth the apple and they ate it together, feeling that their differences were reconciled. It was their parting meal, for food eaten at Sally's board had no such taste as this. Shickshack said nothing about Antywine's first serious undertaking of civilized work. The boy until that time had been nothing but a hunter. Perhaps the Indian pondered on the white man's influence. He set himself to bring in plenty of venison to dry for winter, and an abundance of buckskin to tan. His cabin was as good as any in New Salem. Shickshack held land in his reservation, as all his tribe held it, without cultivating or improving an acre except patches of maize and pumpkins. He could not understand the white man's greed for real estate when the prairies were so free to all. The product of his labor consisted of peltries. These he exchanged for the necessaries of simple living. Shickshack was not unmindful of the change in his adopted child. He used to watch her silently. When she brought him the first pair of stockings made by her hand he sat and smoothed them across his buckskin knee. They were useless to him as a covering, for he could not enjoy the freedom of his ankles in anything but hunter's neps. Before the weather grew cold he gave Peggy a roll of heavy dark red linsey cloth instead of the usual tanned deerskins. Ann Rutledge helped her cut and make the dress. He had the satisfaction of seeing her warmly clad, in short-walisted gown with bag sleeves and a thick cape and hood lined with dull yellow flannel which Ann had saved among her stores. As autumn days drew close to the margin of winter, the big boys, relieved of labor that they owed to their parents every working season until they were 21 years old, came to Minter Grayham's school. Though willing to make themselves useful carrying in logs for the fireplace, they were full of frolic as colts. They stirred up the school until Minter Grayham in despair made a new law and announced that he would listen to no more complaints of wadthrowing, fistuffing, and fighting, unless the complainant could show that blood had been drawn. Then the boys were gloriously happy. The sallow young schoolmaster, writing copies at his desk, would suddenly hear through the drone of study: "Master, Viane Rutledge looked at me and drew blood!" me and drew blood!" "Master, Nancy Green's eyes are drawing blood on me this minute!" In November there was a haze over the landscape like bloom on grapes. Indian summer lingered. Settlers had not then learned the Mississippi valley's sudden and bitter changes of climate. Lincoln and Antywine were still absent early in December, when Shickshack waited one evening behind Minter Grayham's schoolhouse for Peggy to come out. A jet of boys and girls seemed to spout forth, racing down to Rock Creek. They could almost smell their suppron y cake across the ravine. Peggy was hopping briskly in the joyful midst of her schoolmates, when she saw her foster father beckoning her at the foot of the bluff. She followed him. Shickshack led her where there was no path through ascending woods, parting naked bushes for her, and helping her over fallen logs which had become almost a powder of flakes covered with moss. "Where are we going?" she inquired more than once. But Shickshack made no reply until he had put a loop of deerskin around him over his blanket, and lifted Peggy on his back in this portable hammock. She was learning to use her lame leg with a stolical determination which the New Salem doctor encouraged. Though never without her crutch, she offender carried than leaned on it. Shickshack was evidently undertaking a journey, and she looked anxiously through the woods as some flakes of snow meted on her face, and up at the void people as by winged white insects. "Father," said Peggy in the Sac language, "where are you taking me?" "To the young chief Yates," he answered in English, trudging across the ridge, sure-footed and muscular. "But he lives far away and I won't go! What will Antywine and Mr. Lincoln say when they come home?" "Antywine and the chief Abe on the survey trail. They not here to stop Pedro Lorimen. He get you this time." "Has he come back again?" Has he come back again? Shickshack grunted. "At the Grove —two, four days. He tell the young braves Black Hawk is on the war path. Drive out old Indian! Burn his wigwam! Old Indian help Black Hawk. Me not need totem signs to find out what he want. He say old Indian have no business to keep white girl." "But, father, you cannot carry me so far!" Peggy strongly revolted. She wept, shivering against his back. He descended toward a darkened plain without heeding her arguments against his course, except to assure he he intended to hire a horse at the first cabin. The sloughs were frozen, and frost-blackened grass crisped under his feet. Nowhere could any farmhouse light be seen, and the gentle flicker-like insect wings had become a driving storm of snow. Shickshack found the road stretching southwest toward Jacksonville, and plodded steadily along. Jogging through an immensity of night and cold and drifting whiteness, Peggy ceased to beg that he would let her walk, and lapsed into such drowsiness that he was obtited to shake her when he set her down. By this time the chill windrows were nearly to his knees, Unsheltered by his body, she felt the dry spume spinning in her face. "Me have to put you in the log tonight," said Shickshack. "Snow too bad to go farther." Every new Salemite had heard of or seen the huge hollow log strangely left upon the prairie beside that road. Once Slicky Green and another boy, belated on a bitter night while searching for lost cattle, had driven wild hogs out of it, and saved their own lives in its roomy hollow. It loomed a white ridge, higher than Peggy's head, its black opening already banked with drift. Shieldshack crawled in with his knife unsheathed. A yelping, snarling struggle was muffled by the log, until something dark leaped past Peggy, and ran across the snow. "Wolf," observed the Sac. "Him not like to leave him good bed." Reluctantly, in spite of the cold, Peggy crawled past him into the deep shelter, dragging her orutch. Her hand touched something furry, and green eyes shot flame at her. Shickshack hauled a cub from its cushion of rotten wood and threw it out after its mother. Peggy was so drowsy that she remembered nothing further of the THE WINTER SHICKSHACK CRAWLED IN WITH HIS KNIFE UNSHEATTED. SHICKSHACK CRAWLED IN WITH HIS KNIFE UNSHEATED. night, except some noises at the open end of the log. When she awoke it was light enough to see overhead the ridged vault of her wooden cavern. The snow cast in a pallid illumination. She sat up and called Shickshack. He remained in a rigid attitude, with his back to her, and his legs extending out under a white lappul. His arm was hard as marble in her hand when she touched him, and he did not turn his head. *Fotherd's* element. Trouble sometimes comes in sight Only to remind us I am lived in too much light, Light I should blind us. -Atlanta Consulate JUST VISITIN' I'm tired of visitish 'a-laughin' at things. An 'talkin' myself pum out, A-askin' where John's at an Harvey an Jim, All the girls the girls is about. I'm tired a-settin' on Lord! I'm so tired, I wish I couldn't go home to-day. These folks is all right with their tunnin' an whims. an wains; But own folks is diff runt someway. I'm plum sick a-eatn' all kinds of strange truck. Pies an 'cakes (that be pixon to me) An' puddin' an' p'serve an' pickles an' such, An' a woman a-watchin' to see That you tackle it all with a toler'ble grace. An' I long for fried pork an' beans An' baked apple-dumplin' an' across in her place Just Mandy, a-turnin' my tea. (I'd no business to leave her alone there with Jake An 'this tee first calf') Enough play! I've enough layin' around with the toks I want to go back home an' stay. —Grace G. Bostwick, in Lippincott. One Wedding Trip By E. H. PORTER (Copyright, 1963, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) THE express thundered across the long bridge and curved in and out among the green hills like a huge black snake. The rose and amber lights from the setting sun were almost gone and the shadows in the river were deepening fast. Inside the parlor car the porter was busy lighting the lamps. Most of the passengers closed their books and dropped their papers—reading was impossible in this light, that was of neither day nor night. One closed his eyes and slept; another turned her gaze to the swift-flying trees that were growing so shadowy in outline; others—there were more of these—glanced with ill-concealed curiosity at a tall man and handsome woman at the farther end of the car. The couple had boarded the train at Albany, attended by a merry crowd of young people who, on leaving, had pelted them with a shower of rice and roses—the one now lay in tiny drifts of snow all about them; the other had long ago filled the car with sweetness. The man was tall, handsome (according to the verdict of the girl across the aisle), and attired with a nicety that was almost foppish; but there was a certain something in his eyes that the young matron four seats down on the other side did not like. She also did not like the expression she had seen once or twice on the bride's face; and she found much to wish for in the behavior of each to the other—the young matron was romantic, and her own wedding journey was yet fresh in her mind. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Knowlton seemed quite oblivious of the interest displayed by their fellow travelers. Her eyes, for the most part, were fixed on the distant sky-line, now all but invisible in the twilight. His shifted from her face to the red rose with which she was idly toying, and from the rose again to each exquisite outline of her graceful, faultlessly gowned figure. The light above his head fashed a seismillating gleam of crimson fire from a jewel on the bride's finger, and sent an answering gleam of covetousness to his eyes and diverted his thoughts into a new channel. Diamonds, rubies, emeralds; a small fortune was there, event—and Mrs. Knowlton wore few jewels traveling. At last he had won. The prize was his—this rich widow for whom he had schemed so long. Annoying creditors and dunning tailors would cease to trouble, and joy-killing, nerve-racking pinching was a thing of the past. And as for the lady herself—the necessary accompaniment to all this good fortune—she was not half bad, though hardly to be compared for a moment with his glorious Clarisse, of course. Still, she made a good figurehead for his table and his name, and she was a beauty in her cold, calm way. Would she be so cold and calm if she knew of Clarisse? Perhaps not; he had a fancy her eyes could flash—upon occasion. Never mind; she was not liable to learn of Clarisse—yet awhile, anyway. The dark outside and the light inside had been increasing fast. The man drew a long breath, picked up his book, and turned his chair so that the light would fall to his mind. In five minutes he was deep in his novel and oblivious of all else. Mrs. Knowlton turned at her husband's sudden movement. As he sat now she could just see the curl of his mustache against his cheek, and the curve of his ear, delicate and pinky-white as a girl's. A vague horror deepened her eyes and a shudder culvered through her whole body. Was she really married—and to him? Was this weak-faced dandy to take the place of her Jack—the noble-hearted, loving husband of the years that were gone? How had it happened?—she could scarcely tell. There was her own loneliness, her aunt's tiresome opportunities, her aunt had favored this marriage from the first for some reason). There was the emptiness of life in general and of her own existence in particular, and above all else, there was the unceasing pleading of the man himself. Wearied and half dazed from deseration she had yielded. And now she was here—here, whirling away from the old life, whirling into one new and untried, the portal of which suddenly failed her soul with horror. How she hated that smooth white hand resting on the arm of the chair to front! How she loathed the sight of the hair that waved above the girl-like ear! The very shade and texture of his coat became hateful to her. Ah!—how stifling the air was—this air that he breathed! She raised a shaking hand to her throat and tugged at the high collar of her gown. She must have other air—fresh air—air of which he had no part! The romantic little matron four seats down the aisle saw the bride rise from the pass hurriedly down the car. The sympathetic little lady was almost on the point of following her, so white and strange did she look. The porter was nodding in the last seat. Mrs. Knowiton sped swiftly through the corridor and opened the outer door. The car was not vestibulated and the cool wind, unhindered, swept across her hot cheeks and brought something like a sparkle to her eyes. She shut the door, stepped out on the narrow platform and advanced to the top of the steps. How good it was to be alone again! How beautiful to be out in the soft darkness with the rhythmic whiz and whir of the wheels under one's feet, and the mysterious shadowy sometimes flying past one's eyes. Was Jack way up among those stars that twinkled so brightly overhead? Was he looking down at her now? What did he think of that miserable, baby-faced man in the car back there? She stepped down one, two three of the steps; her horizon was wider now the steps; her horizon was wider now—there were some stars up in the sky. The car gave a sudden lurch around a curve and the woman swung violently with her side, clutching at the iron railing with her delicate jeweled fingers. In a moment she had regained her balance and was looking fearfully down into that yawning blackness at her feet. What if she had not caught herself? There would be a motionless, horrible something lying way back there in the dark, and the place where she now stood would be vacant! She shuddered involuntarily, then caught her breath with a little gasp. Yes—what if she had not—what, indeed? There would be no more going back to the side of that hated man, no dreary length of years passed in the thraldom of his will and wishes; instead there would be peace and a swift flight to the stars and to Jack. Oh, if only her fingers had been less strong, her natural instinct of self-preservation less keen! But there would be more curves, more sudden SHE MUST HAVE OTHER AIR-FREEH AIR lurches to one side—she moved slightly down to the lowest step and swayed there dizzily in the stinging, swift-flying air. The tightly clenched fingers on the railing began to loosen. Why wait for the sudden curve? One little step down, and then. No, ah no—she was not so wicked, so cowardly! Had she indeed sunk so low as that? With a stiffed sob she turned and stumbled and crawled up the steps. She had reached the platform when there was a series of sharp blasts from the whistle, a deafening crash—then oblivion. Two days later a New York paper bore this item: "A particularly sad feature of the railroad accident near Cobb's Crossing Wednesday evening was the death of Mrs. Chandler Knowlton. She was a bride of but half a dozen hours, and was quite dead when taken from the wreck. Her husband was unhurt, and had she been at his side there is every reason to think she would have been a living, woman to-day. But from the position in which the body was found it is thought that she must have gone to the door of the car—possibly for a breath of fresh air—and so perished. It will be remembered that the lady was well-known as Mrs. Jack Wilmington, a very wealthy young widow of Albany's most exclusive social set. Her will—made some years ago—had not yet been changed, and most of her property goes to distant relatives." KATYDIDS KILL CRANBERRIES. But New Jersey Growers of the Fruit Greet the Black Snakes with Pleasure. Craberry growers of New Jersey are complaining of the ravages of swarms of katydids, which are very destructive to the bogs, and there seems no way for the eradication of the pest. As this is about the only way in which the queer insects are destructive, no one has ever suggested means for their killing. The growers are equally anxious to cultivate the companionship of all the blacksnakes they can find, and they will not permit anyone to kill such a snake. The reptiles are very fond of field mice, and as the little animals are harmful to the growing crops, the snakes are permitted to roam at pleasure over the bogs, while some of the growers even suggest sending to other sections for a supply. Caroline Herschel firmly believed that if she met a cross-eyed beggar in the morning it presaged the discovery of a new star that night. His Narrow Logic "I if I had my way," said the man of high principles, "there would be no money in politics. "But," said Senator Sorghum; "If you didn't put any money in politics it isn't likely you could have your way."—Washington Star. She's All Right Mr. Churchmouse—What is your opinion of love in a cottage? Miss Belgrave—That it's very pretty in theory; but, personally, I shouldn't care to rent a cottage for longer than the honeymono—Ally Sloper. Estimating HIr. "Do you suppose old Pescads has any idea how much he is really worth?" "No. If he had he wouldn't give himself so many airs on account of the money he happens to possess."—Chicago Tribune. ETHICS OF WIDOWHOOD. Mourning Reduced to a Fine Art by New York Women of Wealth and Lensure. One frequently hears that the wearing of mourning is no longer fashionable. They who doubt should visit among the smart set in New York. On the day of the funeral a long English crepe bow is attached to the knocker, with white Japanese chrysanthemums arranged at intervals down the streamers. For the first period of mourning the coachman and footman are oblified to appear in black. The New York widow is graceful and quiet. She understands the chio effect much better than her western sisters. She has an air of individuality which enchants even the casual observer. She always uses correct materials and appropriate trimmings. Her vell is draped with a coquettish effect, but it is only in the first weeks of her sorrow that it is ever permit- ```markdown ``` ted to hang over her face. Soon she discards it, and a becoming short veil of Brussels is used instead. The New York widow is never seen with that narrow edge of whiteness in her bonnet. She looks on it with repugnance, because it attracts attention. It tells all the world that she is a widow in the second stage of grief, and that is not consistent with the ethics of unhappiness. All the toilets of her first black are trimmed with English crepe, an expensive melanoholy material that clings to the figure in a most graceful way. She believes in being eminently proper and doing all that etiquette desires of a mourner. When second mourning days arrive she wears soft folds of white crepe tissue at the throat; then come lavender and all the attendant shades of violet. There are many eccentric ideas in regard to the relations in New York, and in search for some of these novelties the correspondent has come across a most unique bit of furniture. It is in the shape of a mourning lamp. In the New York home of a well-known society matron, whose sister died abroad a few years ago, there is a roof furnished in remembrance of the deceased relative. Everything in the room is black, save the carpet, which was made to order and has a violet background, with black flowers standing upon it in somber relief. The furniture is of richly carved ebony. The curtains are black satin brocade, and all the ornaments are black. But, says the Chicago Record-Herald, the oddest bit of decoration is the lamp, the only light producing ornament in the room. It is black enamel, and stands 18 inches high. The shade is made of China silk, and a miniature of the sister is painted upon it. Each year at the anniversary of her relative's death this New York matron has memorial services held in the room, which is the only time that it is ever entered. What Neurasthenia Means. No word is so common in these days as neurasthenia; yet it is not easy to define, and many of those who use it have only the vaguest idea of what it means. The word originated with a New York physician and the malady indicated thereby has usually been regarded as a disaffectively American one, though it is found in most countries of the civilized world, and the unfortunate Mrs. Carlyle is now declared by Sir James Crichton Brown to have been "neurotic." Wear and tear, storm and stress, a badly regulated life, in short, are the causes usually assigned for this derangement of function resulting from the exhaustion of nervous energy, but defects of nutrition have much to do with it, and the solution of the problem, as in many other cases, may rest ultimately with the cook—Chicago News. Fog Cure for Complexion. The fog cure is the latest thing for the complexion. The beautiful complexion of the English woman is attributed to the continuous fog of the island and therefore some American women have conceived the idea of spending the winter in England for the good of their complexion. It is probable that the English complexion has other causes than this, but there is one distinct advantage in a fog for the beauty-seeker—namely, the absence of dust. 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COLORED people should practice politeness. It is indicative of good breeding. COLORED people should not be loud-mouthed and boisterous in public. It shows a lack of good breeding. A man who spends all he makes is worse off than a woman who spends all that she makes. WELL, they are getting tired of abusing the Negro and have started in to abuse the white folks some, too. We must continue to improve our condition and encourage those colored people who are making an honest effort to live upright lives. We should continue to engage in business. If we fail, we are not much worse off. We started with nothing and it will not kill us to land again at the same station. We lose nothing by being polite to white people or to colored ones either. On the contrary, we raise ourselves in our own estimation as well as in the estimation of others who observe our conduct. It seems that the charge that colored men sell out has been emphasized by the fact that white men sold out too and at a much larger figure. Some of them sold out twice and didn't seem to care much about it until the investigation by the councilmanic committee. If one will observe the daily newspapers, he will come to the conclusion that white supremacy is a failure. Capt. Pizzini testified that $100,000 was spent to secure a street franchise, and that white men in Richmond city got the money. --- "The lazy, good-for-nothing Negro is a serious draw-back to our progress and a blind man can almost see it. The white folks have the same kind of material on their side, but there are so many industrious, hustling elements among them that this class is not so observable."—Richmond PLANET. "You are hitting the nail about right now. The lazy, good-for-nothing Negro is a greater menace to the Negro race than lynching. Respectable Negroes should devise means to make him go to work or to get rid of him."—Petersburg, Va., INDEX-APPEAL. Our esteemed contemporary has evidently lost sight of the fact that the intelligent, industrious, well-behaved col- ored people have no more power or authority over the lazy, good-for-nothing Negroes than the intelligent, industrious, well behaved white people have over the lazy, good-for-nothing whites. The laws of this country forbid drastic measures and we can only use the influence of our displeasure, which counts but little with this class of worthless people. Moreover, we are too busy working to bother with them. We believe, however, in the doctrine that a person who will not work should not eat. We advise colored people everywhere to avoid feeding loafers and encourage the industrious elements every time. "An idle mind is indeed the Devil's work shop." THAT FEARFUL EXECUTION. THE execution of Doc BACON at Boydton, Va., Saturday, October 3rd, 1903, has caused a thrill of horror to permit the frame of every thoughtful person who may have considered the case in any of its phases. No one alleges that a crime was committed. It is conceded that a crime was attempted. One man's life paid the penalty and it would appear to the average mind that this would have appeased the appetite of the most blood-thirsty. It is conceded that BACON's conviction was brought about by the testimony of ANDERSON FINCH. His testimony was extorted when the community was in a high state of excitement over the outrage. But when FINCH went to the gallows, he boldly declared that BACON was innocent. This testimony made from the gallows deeply affected not only the commonwealth's attorney of Mecklenburg county, but thousands of white people in other sections of the state. Those in Petersburg contributed liberally towards defraying the expense of counsel to save the lonely prisoner, who lingered in the Petersburg jail. Gov. MONTAGUE was evidently impressed by the representations, although, according to his own statement, he took no action on his own motion. He rested the case on the Judge and the Commonwealth's Attorney and gave to them executive powers in the premises. Judge Homes had promised, so says our correspondent, that the Negro should be brought back and hanged. He did not qualify his remarks. It was a Negro hanging they wanted and a Negro hanging they should have. The effort to save Bacon should have been made in Mecklenburg county instead of at Richmond. This is an anomalous condition of affairs. Still, it is true. We read very carefully all that the distinguished Chief Executive wrote and we felt strangely satisfied that, so far as he was concerned, he washed his hands of the entire affair and left the responsibility with the neighborhood in which the alleged offense was committed. This sealed Bacon's fate and he walked fosth to his death, beseeching and imploring a merciful Saviour to forgive his enemies. We sometimes wonder if some of these white men ever expect mercy in the hereafter, or if they ever realize the full import of the oath of office. Was Judge Homes influenced by his surroundings? Would he have insisted on the hanging of Bacon if he had been a white man and had attempted to assault a colored woman? Would he have insisted upon the hanging of Bacon, a white man, who had attempted to assault a white woman? Would he have insisted upon the hanging of him if he had attempted to assault a colored woman, both parties being colored? If the witness who testified before a jury that a man was guilty should change this testimony on the gallows and in the face of eternity announce that he had lied and that Bacon was innocent, would he feel justified in hanging him, while the man himself protested innocence? If he would, then we have nothing more to say. As the matter now stands, he has the testimony of two dying men to the innocence of Doc Bacon. If their statements are to be believed, the blood of an innocent man rests upon the heads of those responsible for his execution. BACON protested his innocence upon the gallows. What more could this poor creature do? He begged and pleaded. He prayed and implored and his words were heeded not. His enemies wanted blood. It is a sad picture and is another graphic illustration of "man's inhumanity to man!" They demanded of this poor, friendless Negro, cooped up in a cheerless jail, with no money and with but few friends, that he should prove his innocence and not that they should establish his guilt. They said that no new evidence had been developed. What more did they want? Had not the main witness for the prosecution testified on the gallows that the man was innocent and was it not principally upon his testimony that BACON was convicted? But they wanted more. They wanted him to spend $1000 to pay counsel, when he hadn't a cent. They wanted him to put some other colored man's neck in the halter when he took his own neck out and so they sacrificed his life, committed a judicial murder in order to appease the blood-thirsty taste of a howling mob. The sacrifice has been made and the victim has stepped down into the chilly waters of death, never more to see the light of this world, but will tell all of his troubles and his trials and his tribulations to a sympathetic Saviour. White men who serve as judges and as commonwealth's attorneys are sworn to recognize no man on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. If they have observed this rule in Bacon's case, all will be well. ing over some phases of our undore condition. We have white friends, but in cases of this kind, they are sold out able to extend a helping hand. Bacon is better off they say. Let us hope so. Let us hope that the white men, who brought about his down-fall and hurried him to his destruction may some sweet day feel the soothing consolation administered to them in their dying hours. kind should always have on hand a good shot-gun or a repeating rifle. It is about as necessary to peace and happiness down here as an insurance policy and will ensure respectable treatment at the hands of the white hoodlum element, when all other remedies fail. The other colored people in Henderson, Texas, will have no trouble within the next five years. And as to flogging, why it won't even be thought about by MR. CH OPE Former M States H Death comes to all and there will be a time when this poor, hapless Negro's case will serve as a reminder in some other. It was a little thing to ask, the granting of a few more days to him. They were denied and he was hurried to the gallows. It's all over now. The troubles are ended. The nights of anxiety, the words of sympathy from friends will come no more to him. Did we say all was over? Oh, no. The coffin journeys not to the grave-yard. It starts for the express office and from there is carried to the dissecting rooms at the University of Virginia, where the students may indulge in jests and their keen knives separate muscle from muscle and tissue from tissue. BACON is to get no rest even beyond the grave. This is cruel; it is barbarous. It is a distressing ending to a most distressing case. Colored folks should have hope in God and believe in His precepts, for after all, there is consolation in the fact, "And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." RECOGNIZES NO COLOR NOW. THE American Federation of Labor has prepared a statement to the public which is very significant and may have a far-reaching effect in dealing with the labor question in the southland. It announces its intention of transferring its fight to congress. It is a special plea against the open shop, declaring that to permit this would be the death of labor-unionism. The last statement in the document will be read with interest by every colored laborer or mechanic in the United States. Here it is: "The hope for right and justice hereafter, as well as the perpetuation of liberty, and our republican institutions, lies in organized labor. Therefore, with the consciousness of the justice and soundness of our position, we appeal to the judgment of all men, and particularly to the toilers of America, that they organize, unite, and federate without regard to trade, calling, nationality, locality, sex, politics, color or religion." Read it again carefully and then read this list of names, who signed the address of which this is an extract. Here they are: "Fraternally yours, Samuel Gommers, President. James Duncan, First Vice President. John Mitchell, Second Vice Pres. James O'Connell, Third Vice Pres. Max Morris, Fourth Vice Pres. Thomas I. Kidd, Fifth Vice Pres. D A. I. Layes, Sixth Vice Pres. John B. Leenon, Treasurer. Frank Morrison, Secretary. Executive Council, American Federation of Labor." What say the labor leaders of Richmond? Only a short while ago, a colored member of a labor-union from Ohio had the door of a labor meeting slammed in his face and he was invited to a seat or stand on the side-walk, simply on account of his color. We cannot believe that this ringing call and advisory statement was inserted for use in the northern and western States. It seems to us that these far-seeing leaders have come to a realization of the fact that there can be no narrow platform for the hosts of labor. When the Negro labor of the Southland is ignored and insulted, the last nail in the coffin of labor-unionism has been driven home. Labor cannot afford to antagonize labor. It must be united in order to win or to maintain any advantage which it may have attained. If the labor leaders will emphasize its last declaration and see to it that the ranks of white labor maintain an an, broken front in dealing with the laborer of color, the battle will be more than half won before the first gun is fired. As the matter now stands, the colored brother is not only with the President, but is enthusiastically in favor of the "open shop." It has been the closed shop that has caused all of his misery and the antagonism of the labor unions in the southland which has made him a candidate for the poor-house. If this body of patriotic men can enforce this recommendation, a brighter day will dawn for us and the sun of the American Federation of Labor will be in the ascendency in this portion of the southland. KNEW WHEN TO SHOOT. THE following telegraphic report explains itself: "Henderson, Tex., Oct. 7. —Late last night a party of young white men went to the home of Bob Williams, a Negro, for the purpose of flogging him for some aged offense, not clearly stated. The Negro warned them not approach, but they continued to advance, when the Negro fired, killing Charles Brown, a young white man recently from Georgia, and wounding a young man named Gersett. The Negro is in the hands of the sheriff, who will probably spirit him away to night." That colored brother had the right kind of sense. He was strictly within the letter of the law, and he knew how to shoot. The sheriff evidently has more respect for him than he has for his white assailants. There are thousands of white men in the southland, who will say, "Amen to their damnation." The hoodium elements amongst us have no business with a gun, because, as a rule, they do not know when to use it. But the respectable, law-abiding kind should always have on hand a good shot-gun or a repeating rifle. It is about as necessary to peace and happiness down here as an insurance policy and will ensure respectable treatment at the hands of the white hoodlum element, when all other remedies fail. The other colored people in Henderson, Texas, will have no trouble within the next five years. And as to flogging, why it wont even be thought about by the admiring white neighbors in that locality. Great is the gun with a nervy colored man to use it. LABORING WHITE MEN'S TROUBLES. THE LABOR LEAGUE of Richmond held a meeting Monday night, October 5th and after "marching up the hill, marched down again" by declaring that it would place no ticket in the field. It declared in favor of purging the city government, but gave no inking as to how this was to be done when the guilty parties were expected to do the purging! After reading its declaration of principles, thoughts came thick and fast to us and we realized fully the truth of the Scriptures, "And with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Read the statements and see if they do not sound like the wails of the colored citizens ten years ago: Whereas, these who labor are in majority in the city of Richmond and State of Virginia; and whereas, we deem it to the interest of all classes affected by legislation that said classes should be represented in the law-making bodies of State and city, that their interest may be preserved, without prejudice to others; and whereas it has been demonstrated by past legislation that there is an absolute apathy on the part of many of our lawmakers as to the interest of the toiling classes, and, we regret to say, a desire manifested to serve wealth, corporations and trusts in the framing of laws, regardless of the burdens thus imposed upon the wealth producers; and whereas we have for years past used the powers of perspension and argument with our lawmakers for a just recognition of our rights, and in almost every instance have been ignored and our claims set at naught." Was this not and is this not applicable to the colored citizens case? "Resolved 2. That we regard the prer- primary system as but a subterfuge to deprive men of ordinary means from offering themselves for office in State and municipal elections, under the primary plan, through excessive fees, placed purposely at a figure which precludes the man of ordinary means from entering any contest under the primary plan." The above is rich reading and depicts the condition of the Negro-haters who have been rolling under their tongues all abuse of us as a sweet morsel. But these mem did not stop there. They had the audacity to refer specifically to the Negro in the same declaration of principles. Here it is: "Resolved 3. That the new Constitution having successfully eliminated the Negro vote and left none but white men to contest for political preferment, that we regard the primary as a thing no longer of necessity for the supremacy of the white race, and therefore recommend that until such time as the supremacy of the white race is threatened by a lack of a primary election, that our people refuse to sanction a system of fees which preclude the possibility of men of ordinary means to offer themselves for office." There you have it. The Democratic leaders deceived the poverty-striken white men into supporting the unconstitutional constitution, and then proceeded to raise the meal-trough so high that they have not been able to get even their noses on the line with its contents. They must graze on the ground. It follows with a most remarkable declaration, which would indicate deathbed repentance, and yet, so far as we are concerned, it means nothing. It is as follows: "Resolved 8. That we appeal to all good citizens to join hands with us in seeking to give to the whole an administration which will recognize the great principle of equal and exact justice to all." We shall observe with interest the result of this bloodless campaign. The walls are distressing, but the punishment is deserved. The poor white man and the poor colored man's interests are identical and blind indeed were the white labor leaders, who, until this time, have tailed to see it. --- --- Fraudulent Bankers Sentenced. Freehold, N. J., Oct. 7. — John W. Newbury and Rudolph Neumann, respectively president and secretary-treasurer of the Mercantile Building and Loan Association, of this place and Red Bank, who were convicted of having illegally conducted a banking business under the charter of a building and loan association, were sentenced, Newbury to pay a fine of $1,000 and serve three years and six months in state prison at hard labor, and Neumann to pay a fine of $300. Middies Deny Hazing. Washington, Oct. 6. — Midshipman Alyah B. Court, president of the second class at Annapolis, has written a letter to Captain Willard H. Brownson, superintendent of the naval academy, denying that the class has broken its pledge and indulged in hazing. Captain Brownson, in his reply, says he has confidence in any statement the class may make, and expresses the belief that the class kept faith. At his request Secretary Moody has made the correspondence public. Smothered in Pile of Seed Cotton. MR. CHAMBERLAIN OPENS CAMPAIGN Former Member of British Cabinet States His Views on Protection. MAKES A MASTERLY ADDRESS Glasgow, Oct. 7.—Whatever may be the opinion held regarding the great question which Mr. Chamberlain has raised or the probable issue of his campaign, it is generally admitted that he has opened it in a masterly manner, befitting the momentous occasion, and that he can no longer be accused of nebulosity in presenting his case. For nearly two hours, only referring occasionally to fairly full notes for figures and statistics, he held a vast and enthusiastic audience absorbed by one of his finest oratorical efforts. The points of his speech attracting remarkable attention were in eulogy of Mr. Balfour and his repudiation of the idea of superseding him; his representation of the coming struggle as one greater in its consequences than the Boer war; his declaration that all workingmen in the colonies were protectionists, and that any labor leader visiting the colonies would inevitably be converted to protection; his description of the American tariff as an abomination, and his curious presentation of the case as affecting the workmen's exchequer. Thus, according to him, the increased cost of the new duties to the laborer would be $4\%$ cents, to the artisan 5 cents, while the saving by the proposed reductions to the laborer would be 9 cents and to the artisan $9\%$ cents. Adducing statistics, Mr. Chamberlain contrasted the moderatq increase of $7\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. in the export trade of Great Britain and the increase of 30 per cent. in her population since 1872, with the enormous increase of trade in the United States and Germany, and he asked how the country could expect to support its growing population with its trade practically stagnant for 30 years. He proceeded: "On the other hand, the protected countries which you have been told and I myself one time believed were going rapidly to wreck and ruin, had progressed infinitely better in proportion than ourselves, and instead of our remaining the workshop for the world, we are sending less and less of our manufactures abroad, while the protected countries are sending more and more of their manufactures here. Thus our manufactured exports from £116,000,000 in 1872 have gradually dwindled to £73,500,000 in 1902 to the protected countries of Europe and the United States. "The countries to which I have referred are in different stages of the protective process. In the United States the process is completed. She produces everything and excludes everything. There is no trade to be done with her for a paltry six shillings per head." Mr. Chamberlain continued by saying England can intervene now and save a vast amount of commerce by reciprocity relations with the colonies, which 20 years hence would be lost forever. After outlining a reciprocity proposition, he said: "Suppose we had made such an offer to the United States 10 or 20 years ago, do you suppose that we should not have been able to retain a great deal of what we have now lost and cannot recover? I will give you an illustration. America is the strictest of the protective nations. It has a tariff which to me is an abomination, unreasonable and unnecessary, and although America has profited enormously, I think it has been carried to excessive lengths, and I believe that a great number of intelligent Americans would gladly negotiate with us for its reduction. But until very recent times even this immoderate tariff left us the great tinplate trade, amounting to millions of pounds per annum, and which we might have kept if we had given some reciprocal advantage. It would not have been worth America's while to put a duty upon an article of which it had no particular use or special aptitude." He proposed to put a low duty, not exceeding 48 cents, on foreign corn, but none on corn from the British possessions. He proposed no tax on maize. He proposed a corresponding tax on flour, and he would give special preference to the miller with the object of re-establishing one of the ancient industries and of preventing a rush from the country to the town, and also of placing corn, offal and feeding stuffs more cheaply within the possession of the farmer. A small tax of about 5 percent, on foreign meat and dairy produce would be imposed, excluding bacon, which was the food of so many of the poorest population. Lastly, he proposed to give substantial preference to the colonies on wines and fruits. Against these increases, he proposed some great remissions. He proposed to take off three-quarters of the duty on tea, half the duty on sugar, with corresponding reductions upon cocoa and coffee. Reformed Classis Wins Suit. Easton, Pa., Oct. 6. — Judge Scott handed down an opinion in the case of Rev. Dr. H. M. Kleifer, the deposed pastor of the First Reformed Church of this city, against the East Pennsylvania Classis, refusing an injunction restraining the classis from endorsing its decree dissolving the pastoral relations between Dr. Kleifer and his congregation, pending a decision on an appeal to the synod. The case is one of importance, and has created much interest throughout Reformed church circles. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. John W. Lill, a prominent Texas politician, dropped dead in a New York hotel from heart failure. One of four robbers was shot and killed in Chicago by Theodore Ray, a private watchman, whom they attempted to hold up. Fire destroyed the Norfolk and Western hotel 12 residences and nu- merous smaller buildings at Williamson, W. Va. Loss $100,000. Governor Murphy, accompanied by several New Jersey officials, paid a visit to the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. H. Mairie Hanna, brother of Senator M. A. Hanna, has given $100,000 to the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, O., to found a chair in an anatomy and kindred subjects. Friday, October 2. Plans have been approved by the navy department for a large new naval prison at Portsmouth, N. H. While stealing a ride on a freight train at Union City, Ind., one tramp was killed, two fatally injured and five others seriously injured. After being reconciled to his wife, Barney Barnes, of Augusta, Ga., fired a bullet through her heart and then killed himself. Jeaubousy was the cause. A mass of human bones, supposed to be the person who set fire to Jacob Schar's barn, near Elizabeth, N. J., were found in the ruins of the building. Saturday. October 3. Sir Thomas Lipton will sell from New York for London next Friday. The French Jewelry exhibit for the St. Louis fair already amounts to $4, 000,000 and includes a $500,000 pearl collar. Major General Corbin, adjutant general of the army, is to be assigned to the command of the department of the east with headquarters at Governor's Island, N. Y. The official trial of the battleship Missouri will take place on the 21st inst. Captain Cowles, President Roosevelt's brother-in-law, will be the first commander. Monday, October 5. Seven Chinamen were arrested at Cleveland, O., on a charge of trying to get into this country illegally. While on his honeycomon in Niagara Falls, N. Y., Herman Hocker, of Chicago, went insane and was taken in charge by the police. Because she was placed in the Children's Home at Terre Haute, Ind., 12-year-old Anna Eans committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Colonel Leonidas W. Spratt, one of the surviving members of the South Carolina secession convention, died at Jacksonville, Fla., aged 85 years. A. Parent and J. Curtis were shocked to death at Montreal, Can., by the boom of a derrick they were operating coming in contact with an electric wire. Tuesday. October 6. Fifteen persons were injured by the deralment of a trolley car on a sharp curve at Middletown, Conn. Three small children of George Hoether, of Caseville, Mich., were drowned by the capsizing of a row boat. Attorney General Knox has returned to Washington from an extended vacation and resumed the duties of his office. By an explosion of gas in a mine of the Plymouth Coal Company, at Plymouth, Pa., seven men were badly burned. The cause of the explosion is unknown. The entire force of butchers in Rice & Sterner's large abattoir, at Bethlehem, Pa., are on strike for nine hours with 10 hours' pay. Wednesday, October 7. George W. Mackey, a prominent lawyer, was found dead in bed at his home at Bangor, Pa. General Robert N. Pearson, assistant paymaster of Chicago, dropped dead of heart disease in his office. Senator Thomas C. Platt, of New York, announces that his marriage to Mrs. Lillian T. Janeway will take place in New York on October 15. As a result of several years' ill feelings, S. H. Terry, of Wilmington, N.C., shot and killed George T. Bland, his son-in-law. Terry was committed to fail. Instructions have been sent to United States Minister Squiers at Hawaii to exchange ratifications of the coaling station treaty between the United States and Cuba. GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 7. — Flour was steady; winter superfine, $3@3.20; city mills, fancy, $4.75@$4.75; Rye flour was quiet, at $3.25 per barrel. Wheat was firm; No. 2 Pennsylvania vaned, red, $9.72@$9.80; Corn was low, yellow, local, $4.54@$4.54; Oats were quiet, $4.25@$4.25; Oats lower grades, $4.24; lower grades, $4.24; Hay was steady; No. 2 timothy, $16@16.50 for large bales. Beef was steady; beef hams, $20@21. Pork was firm; family, $20.50. Live poultry, hens, 14c; old roosters, $9.14@$9.14; Dressed poultry, choice cows, 14c; old roosters, Eggs was steady; creamy, 22c Eggs was steady; creamy, 22c Pennsylvania, 25 per doz. Potatoes were steady, 65@85 per basket. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 7. — Wheat was dull and lower; spot contract, 80@80%; spot No. 2 red western, 83@83%; steamer No. 2 red, 72@72%; southern, by sample, 68@81%; southern on grade, 74@81c. Corn was dull and easy, spot 50@50%; steamer No. 2 red western, 68@81%; steamer and yellow corn, 50@54; Oats were steady; No. 2 white, 42@42%; No. 2 mixed, 40@42%; Rye was firm; No. 2 58@58%; No. 2 western, 59@59%; Live Stock Markets. Herr's Island, Pa., Oct. 7. — Cattle were slow; choice, $5.25@5.50; prime, $4.90@5.10; fair, $3.40@3.90. Hogs were lower; prime heavy, $6.35@6.49; mediums, $6.45@6.50; Yorkers, $6.40@6.50; light Yorkers, $6.15@6.40; roughs, $6.15@6.45. 5.75. Sheep were slow; wathers, $3.95@4; culls and common, $1.50@2; choice lambs, $5.50@5.80; veal calves, $7.70@5. Russell Sage's Farm Sold For Tax. Nyack, N. Y., Oct. 7.—A farm owned by Russell Sage, at Sickletown, Rockland county, was sold at the county tax sale for non-payment of taxes, amounting to $115. It was bought in by the county. The county also bought in the Andre monument property at Tappan, where Cyrus W. Field erected a monument to mark the spot of Major Andre's execution. After Mr. Field's death his heirs refused to pay the taxes on the property. Victim of Hatfield-McCoy Feud Victim of Hatfield-McCoy Feud. Nolan, W. Va., Oct. 6.—William McCoy, a young member of the McCoy family, shot and fatally wounded Everett Thompson, a son-in-law of the Hatfields. The tragedy is the outgrowth of a feud which has existed for 20 years. MORE POSTAL INDICTMENTS James Tyner and H. J. Barratt Must Face Charge of Conspiracy. THIRTY PERSONS NOW INDICTED Washington, Oct. 6.—Fifteen new indictments were brought in by the federal grand jury for the District of Columbia as the final result of the investigation in the postoffice department. Several of these findings were against persons who have already been indicted. The new indictments involve James N. Tyner, the late assistant attorney general, and his assistant, Harrison J. Barrett; James T. Metcalf, superintendent of the money order system; Norman Metcalf, son of James T.; Harry C. Hallenbeck, of the Wynkoop; Hallenbeck & Crawford Co., of New York, the firm which for several years supplied the department with its money order blanks, and William D. Doremus, who is connected with a house which has been supplying a stamp canceling machine to the department. There were additional indictments against August W. Machen, George W. Beavers, W. Scott Towers and State Senator George A. Green, of New York. In some cases there were several indictments against one person. Three indictments charge Tyner and Barrett with conspiracy, and two additional indictments charge Barrett with agreeing, while still in office, to receive fees for services rendered or to be rendered in cases pending before him as an officer. All the indictments are founded upon the treatment by Tyner and Barrett of the business of the so-called bond investment companies. The principal charge is that of misconduct in office, in obstructing and preventing the due and orderly administration of the law. It is stated that there were no less than 80 of the so-called bond investment companies to which the opinion of the department was sent, together with the circular intimating that Barrett's services as attorney could be secured. The charge against Hallenbeck and the Metcalf is that of conspiracy to defraud the United States. The company of which Hallenbeck is the head had a contract with the United States to furnish the postal service with its money-order blanks. Norman Metcalf was employed as a clerk in the office of the Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Crawford Company at a salary of $20 a week. It is alleged there was an agreement between them that there should be no inspection of the forms supplied by the company that on account of that agreement the forms were printed on inferior paper; that only one side of them was lithographed, while the contrast called for the lithographing of both sides, and that by other devices the company was enabled to save large sums of money at the expense of the government. It is asserted by the post-office authorities that the government lost at least $50,000 in one year by this arrangement. It is also asserted that there was an agreement whereby the contracting company paid young Metcalf 11-16 cents for each book of forms shipped, and it is stated that the shipments for one year reached as high as 800,000 books. Barrett and Tyner were admitted to bail. The elder Metcalf entered a bond of $10,000, and a similar bond will be required for Norman Metcalf and Hallenbeck. Postmaster General Payne expressed great satisfaction at the conclusion of the postoffice department investigation culminating in these indictments. He said that all the evidence secured in the investigation had now been placed before the grand jury and passed upon, and approximately 30 different persons indicted as the result of the probing that has been in progress since last spring. He said it had not been determined whether there had been any administrative reforms needing legislation by congress, but that many reforms had been from time to time suggested as the investigation proceeded. Jersey Trust Co. Gives Up Charter. Trenton, N. J., Oct. 7.—Attorney General McCarter and Banking and Insurance Commissioner Watkins consented to the Inter-State Trust Company of Jersey City surrendering its charter. This disposes of a suit that had been instituted by the attorney general for the banking department against the trust company. The company was organized by Leonard Imboden, of New York, and had established a chain of banks throughout the country. A proposition to issue $20,000,000 worth of bonds precipitated the suit upon the part of the state against the company. 1903 OCTOBER 1903 Su. Mo. Tu. We. Th. Fr. Sa. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 MOON'S PHASES. Full Moon 6 10:23 a.m. Third Quarter 13 2:56 p.m. New Moon 20 10:36 a.m. First Quarter 28 3:32 a.m. Pleads Gunty to Embezzlement. Trenton. N. J., Oct. 6.—Enoch L. Cowart, cashier of the Navesink National Bank of Red Bank, N. J., which is now in the hands of a receiver, pleaded guilty to two charges, one of them embezzling $20,000 and the other in alding the making of false reports to the treasury. Cowart's bond of $10,000 was continued for his appearance for sentence next Monday. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....OCTOBER 10, 1903 Struck Its Tormentor After Having Been Cut in Two. William Schley's Experience with a Rattler That Was Lively in Sections—Chicken as a Snake Bite Remedy. William Schley, of Decatur township, Williamsport, Pa., has resolved never again to cut a rattlesnake into more than two pieces. An experience which he had a day or two ago has convinced him that he may make two snakes out of one with impunity, but when he gets greedy and tries to make three, there is apt to be trouble. Incidentally Mr. Schley has learned that as snake-bite medicine common chicken can give cards and spades to whisky—a remedy which heretofore has been regarded as an indispensable adjunct to life in this mountainous region. It may be of interest to know just how it feels to be bitten by half a snake, and so Mr. Schley's account of his experience is given as he told it. While he talked he had a swollen and discolored right arm in a sling and sat dangling his legs from the platform outside the crossroads store, near his home. A half dozen of his friends stood about and listened with awe at the recital, which had to be repeated as often as another man appeared on the scene. "It happened up here in Sharer's gap," said Mr. Schley, to a New York World correspondent. "I started for a mess of huckleberries. After driving up through Bald Eagle valley to the gap, I hitched my horse and took my basket from the buggy. It was just a few feet from there that the berries were thick. I was crossing the road to the patch when I saw a big rattler right in front of me. In my time I have killed some big ones, but none that could hold a feather to that fellow. "For a moment I stood admiring him and wondering how I could catch him. He seemed peaceable enough colled up there in the road, and I thought he might stay there till I could get a crotched stick in the woods and catch him. I had a hatchet in the buggy and Victor BROUGHT THE HATCHET DOWN. went to get it, thinking to cut a crotched stick with it. "Well, sir, that snake must have been watching me, for the moment I turned my back it made a lunge for the horse's leg. I brought the hatchet down on the rattler, and when I lifted it there were two snakes where there had been but one before. I had cut the fellow in two, and yet I hadn't taken the fight out of him. No, sir. He kept right on—that is, the front part of him did—and In another moment he was ready to strike the horse. So again my hatchet went down, but he swerved aside and let me have those fangs right in the forefinger of my right hand here. "Well, I tried to shake him off, but he wouldn't shake worth a cent. In my excitement I forgot that I had a horse and buggy so near at hand, but I did remember that Chris Sharer lived about five miles from where I was, and I started over the hill toward his house. I put my foot down on the end of the snake and pulled my hand free from his fangs. I ran faster than ever before until I reached Sharer's home. "My finger had swollen to twice its natural size and my hand was badly swollen. My arm was blue up to the elbow. Sharer at once bound my arm to stop the circulation and then pooled whisky into me. "Sharer killed a chicken and it it open. Then he split my finger where the fangs had entered and the chicken on the wound. The meat turned green and yellow usually the swelling in my arm and the pain stopped. I made a poullet of scorn of an egg, and put it on. "This relieved the liquor that I had no me to sleep. I woke up house all day and though the swell felt sore, and time before I WOMANS MAGAZINE R. H. DROWN. CHARMING FANCY WORK. The Art of Tatting, So Popular in the Days of Our Grandmothers, Again Coming Into Favor. There never was a time when lace was so much in request, and there is a renaissance of some of the older kinds, such as netting, crochet and tatting. The only requisites for tatting are a bone shuttle, a crochet hook and coarse thread. In choosing the shuttle select one which has the two halves coming together at the points so as not to let the thread escape while working, and also that it shall not catch in the work. The two parts Fig.1 Fig.2. THE HANDS IN TATTING. should just meet, so that the thread, in pushing through, should cause a slight ollet. The two illustrations of the hands show the way the thread is passed round the hand and how the shuttle should be held. Having filled your shuttle with thread, take it in your right hand between thumb and first finger, take the end of the thread with your left and hold in position firmly with thumb and forefinger and pass the thread outward around the fingers, which should be spread out, and bring it round to the end and hold both with finger and thumb firmly, as in Fig. 1; pass the thread over to the left and bring the shuttle down on the right side on the thread head pretty taut by the spread fingers, carry it under the thread and bring it up on the left side between the taut thread and the shuttle thread (which was thrown over from the finger and thumb). This will make a single knot. The spread fingers must now be relaxed and the shuttle thread held taut to bring the knot into position and so that the thread round the hand shall be over the shuttle thread and allow the latter to be drawn back and forth through the middle of the knot. This so far is only a single knot. Now let the shuttle thread hang loose on the right side of the thread around the hand and pass the shuttle on the left under the thread and bring up on the right, as in Fig. 2; relax the fingers, tighten the shuttle thread and carefully draw up close to the other single knot. Now you have a double knot. See that the shuttle thread comes through the middle; otherwise when you have all your knots made the thread would not draw, and it would, therefore, be no use. I remember when a child picking up the stitch, but instead of making the knots with the thread around the fingers over the thread in the shuttle, I kept the thread around the fingers too tight and made the knot with the shuttle thread over it instead of vice versa. The consequence was I could make one hole and draw it with the end of the thread, but, of course, could make no more. When the shuttle is passed under the thread around the fingers the fingers must be spread and the thread held tightly around them. The moment the shuttle comes in on the other side the fingers must be relaxed and the shuttle tightly. All the time, the use of thread around the fingers is only by the fingers and over again. And this initial ditch can be used or ruffles stitched about apart and from the edge. Then color, or the sand, goods of Roman flies, or unzirized cotton, run through every which should be permit the thread to pass.—Good Housekeep- for four allow four ounces of cream in oil. Rub it in thoroughly; such hot milk mixed with cream as will make a soft mix quickly, roll out, cut into bake. Serve hot, cut open and uttered—Detroit Free Press. The Sun Spoils Mirrors. Do not hang a mirror where the sun gives for the sun's rays acts on the memory and the glass becomes clouded. Only His Assistant. "Well, boss!" began the tramp at the back door. "Don't call me boss," said the man who was shaking the ashes; "I'm not the cook."—Yonkers Statesman. Young Widow—Chocolate and vanilla. I am still in half mourning.—N. Y. Weekly. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA Across the borders of the central and western states our farmers are flocking to the free lands of the northwest in much the same way as they flocked to these western states but a few years ago. But a few days ago an old Canadian in Ontario explained the reason of this to me: A on the ground floor in the Manitoba wheat belt, and to-day they are independently wealthy. I visited at the home of one of them a year or so ago. He owned 2,500 acres of land, had it well improved and well stocked, and had that year harvested 67,500 bushels of wheat. These families were but the advance guard of the invading army that was to come. At the end of the fiscal year 1902 the Americans in western Canada numbered 77,000, a third of whom crossed the border that year. The official figures for the past year are not yet available, but the railway count gives the number of immigrants from the United States at about 50,000 people. One has but to visit the western Canadian plains to make it easy to believe these figures. New towns are going up everywhere; cities of tents are to be seen near every land office, and in them are Americans. Not exclusively, to be sure, but predominant. From Calgary north to Edmonton, in Alberta territory, every station along the line of railway has close beside it its city of tents overflowing with emigrants seeking locations. It is into this section, more than ethers, that the Americans are going. There are whole villages of them, villages more typically American than many to be found in our own northwestern states. An immigration official at Calgary, Mr. Wren, said to me: "Next year we shall make it 100,000 or better from the States. You don't need them as we do, and they are as much at home here as they are south of the boundary line." But are they as much at home there as they were in the States? In this country we hear the statement: "Canada will soon be a part of the United States." The statement is made by those who are not frequent visitors to Canada. Cross the line and ask the first Canadian you meet if he wants to be annexed. His "no" will come so quickly as to stagger you, but the chances are he will add, "but they ought to tear down the tariff wall between the two countries." It is in that sentence that one may find an undercurrent of annexation sentiment all through Canada. They are faithful to England; hats come off to the union jack as quickly in Canada as in England, but they see across that invisible line which separates the two countries an opportunity for financial betterment, a market for their enormous natural resources. The love of the dollar is strong in all peoples, and it may be that some day what is now but an undercurrent so weak as to be almost imperceptible save by imagination may become a raging torrent moving with such force as to sweep Canada into the union despite her regard for the mother land. "We have the best government in the world, we do not want to be annexed," said Alex. MaeDonald, an old Scottish merchant of Winnipeg, to me, "but we do want this nonsensical tariff barrier removed between the two coun- "Shall I have to get married when I grow up?" asked little Flossie one day of her mother. "Just as you please, dear," answered her mother, with a smile. "Most women do, however." "Yes, I suppose so," continued the little girl, musingly, "and I think I'd better start and look out for a husband now. They say that Aunt Jane has been at it for 20 years, and hasn't caught one yet." —Tit-Bits. NECKWEAR FOR AUTUMN Never Have There Been Greater Opportunities for the Selection of Pretty Styles. Never has more attention been paid to the dressing of the neck by maid and matron than at the present time, and never have there been greater opportunities for the selection of becoming styles than in this year of grace. If it be the strictly tailored, mannish type of collar or scarf that is demanded, the daimy, frilly fascinating stock or cape or the immense array of simple pretty styles midway between these two extremes, and from which the majority of women make their choice, all tastes can be thoroughly satisfied with the output for this and the coming season. If the spring and summer styles were attractive and delightful enough to tempt the average woman into extravagance, and make her sigh for an unlimited bank account, the fall productions are even more fascinating, for the good points of their predecessors have all been retained and some extra little touches added that give a distinctive and altogether alluring air. Some exceedingly pretty novelties have been brought out in stocks showing fancy lace-like weaves and embroidered effects. Macrame is introduced to give the note of novelty, the stock itself in most instances being quite simple and plain, with a fancy tab in front edged with macrame and possibly a tiny tassel in addition. The tassel is the dominant new note in the fall neckwear, and some of the smartest stocks are festooned all around with tassels attached to inlet motifs of some shear material or soft silk. Considerable vogue is anticipated for macrame trimmed stocks and likewise for broad collars of this lace which is enjoying considerable favor at present in Paris. Fringe, in company with tassels and pendants, figures on many of the fall stocks, more particularly those fashioned from crepe de chine, and similar sheer fabrics and soft silk, and strikingly pretty effects are obtained with ornamentation of this kind in self or contrasting tone. These fringed stocks suggest the old-time jabot, but it is a glorified jabot, with none of the stiffness of the old-fashioned article. The turnover collar and cuff sets in plain and embroidered linen and the newer Tenerife work appear in variety that is bewildering and it is predicted that later on these matched sets will be found in silk and chiffon prettily embroidered. In drawn work stocks are in many effective designs, and the mannish types are noticeable for their style and smartness. In the wash goods are included NOVELTIES IN NECKWEAR the numerous strips of embroidery or cambridge which some women prefer to the tight-fitting stock, while the fancy lace collars are found in a practically endless collection, ranging from the dainty little stock to the elaborate shoulder cape with stole ends. Broad collars and collars with stole ends promise to receive marked attention during the coming season, and so, too, do soft scarfs of crepe de chine and like materials, set off with decoration of Teneriffe wheels. So numerous are the new productions that but a hint can be given of their range and variety, but the accompanying illustrations represent a few of the newest and most distinctive models. Neckwear covers such a large field that the most exacting woman is sure to find that which will suit her fancy, and there is no excuse for the girl or woman who fails to obtain becoming stocks and scarfs and collars from the display for the present and coming season—Brooklyn Eagle. The Complexion in Summer The maiden who tans becoming is a hard thing to find, while as for those who blister and burn on the slightest provocation their name is legion. It is well for the ordinary woman, therefore, to forego her desire for a healthy tan and take a little care of her complexion. Powder is a great protection against the ravages of the weather and above all things, the face should not be washed with soap and water at the conclusion of an outing. Peeled noses and blistered cheeks are almost certain to result from such treatment. Instead a cleansing cream should be liberally applied. If soap must be used, the mildest of paste soaps should be selected, with a little borax in the water, and a good skin food should be rubbed in the skin afterward.—Chicago News. Homes Are Safe in Turkey. To seize a man's residence for debt is unlawful in Turkey, and sufficient land to support him is also exempt from seizure. A Variation. "She will marry the count, but she wishes to omit the word 'obey' in the marriage service." "Yes? Perhaps she'll promise to love, love and support him."—Puck. Our Invasion of Canada and Annexation Sentiment The Latter Is Not Noticeable in the Dominion Save on the Dollar and Cents Basis. HE "American invasion of Canada" is no longer a meaningless phrase. It is an invasion in reality, and one which is assuming such proportions as to cause the Canadians to think seriously of what the end may be. It is an invasion both of people and products. "These men who are now crossing the border went into your western states but a few years ago with nothing," he said. "They took homesteads which the government offered them free of charge; they have improved them and cultivated them; the country has developed until to-day they can dispose of the holdings which came to them as a gift from their government and have only to move across the border to get new farms again on the same terms upon which they got their first ones." Seven years ago there were comparatively no Americans in western Canada. Manitoba had probably a dozen families from the states. They got in A camp of tents. A TENT CITY OF IMMIGRANTS IN W. TERN CANADA STARRING IN LINE. T tries; we want a place to sell our grain and our lumber. It is that tariff which keeps us poor." That is it. I have heard the same sentiments expressed in Canada practically from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and if annexation ever comes it will be because love of the dollar has outgrown the love for England. It will not be because they love England less, but because they love the dollar more. Will the American immigrant to Canada influence a sentiment for annexation? Will he grow homesick? Will he wish for the old flag to fly over his school house and his home? The chances are that he will not unless the desire be born of love for the dollar. Canada will give him as good a government as he has ever known; it will give him as many liberties, as many opportunities for himself and family in the way of education and refinement, and as many or more privileges than he knew in the States. But when he sells his wheat for a few cents less per bushel, and his cattle for a trifle less per pound than he knows his old neighbor in the States is getting his love for the dollar may, we say, kindle within him a sentiment for annexation. Surrounded as he is by immigrants from every nation over which a flag of civilization files, and who care no more for the union jack than they do for the yellow banner of A Spain from a sentimental point, with neighbors from Sweden, from Denmark, from Russia, from Finland, from Austria, from everywhere save least of all England, it would be easy to spread this sentiment for annexation when annexation means dollars. There is yet another element which is doing its small part to spread the annexation sentiment. That element is the Canadians who come to the States to live, and there are thousands of them—in 1900 the total number of native born Canadians residing in the United States was 1,049,000, or nearly one to five of the people in Canada. They find more ready employment, larger opportunities for financial advancement here than at home, and, as a rule being of the younger element, are prone even to exaggerate the difference when reporting to friends in Canada. A clerk in a Toronto store said to me this summer: "I get but six dollars a week here, and have to work three nights each week, while I have a brother clerking in a store in Cincinnati who gets $12 a week without any night work. I am going over there to live this fall." An old gentleman, a resident of a little village in northern Ontario, told me of a young friend he had in Chicago. "He is a brick mason," he said, "and he is making five and six dollars a day over there, while over here he never got better than $1.60." He was comparing city conditions with those of the country, but he didn't know it, and was advising his young friends to go to the States for better wages. He was true to his homeland, he would die under the protection of the union lack, but time had carried him past the day of the love of the dollar. The younger element have not outgrown it. The tales of fabulous wealth across the boundary line to the south are having an effect on those left at home. There is a trade balance of $70,000,000 in our favor annually in our commercial dealings with Canada. We sold to her last year $126,000,000 worth of our products, and we bought of her $65,000,000 worth of her raw materials. These figures do not, by any means, represent the ratio in which Canada produces and consumes. The figures would be practically the other way if they did. The American customs officer prevents her shipping her products into this country without the payment of duty, while the customs officer of free-trade England does not, so she ships to England. But her own customs officers levy tribute on the importations from England in the same way they do on the importations from the States, though in a slightly less degree, so she buys from the States. The customs officer along the boundary, between this nation and our northern neighbor is not a favorite with the people of that nation, and if there is no other means of dismissing him they may, may we say again, in time favor annexation as a last resort. But it will be an annexation sentiment born of the love of the dollar. WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. The Spiteful Girl Again. May—Blanche says she had four proposals last season. Bess—What a blissful thing day dreams are to some people!—Brooklyn Life. Unsatisfactory Assurance. He—There seems to be quite a coolness between them. She—Oh, yes. He told her she was the only girl he ever loved platonically. —Judge. COAL!COAL! PLACE YOUR ORDER WITH US NOW AND GET IT AT THE LOWEST SUMMER PRICE. Crump & West Coal Co. Phone 83. 18th & Cary Sts 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. 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With a little drumstick in each brown hand, Rub-a-dub-a-dub-a-dub. The drummer he drummed at the head of the drummer to sea and he drummed them to hand. And he drummed the colors over the sand—Rub-a-dub-dub-a-dub-dub. The little gray bullets they came to stay, Rub-a-dub-dub-a-dub-dub. And the poor little drummer he feared to stay. But when he feared more was to run away, he stayed and he drummed and he cried; "Hooray!" Rub-a-dub-dub-a-dub-dub. He was shot. And they buried him under the sand, Rub-a-dub-dub-a-dub-dub. With a little drumstick in each brown hand, and the little brown drum, that he might at the head of the hosts of God's command. With a rub-a-dub-dub-a-dub-dub! -Governour Morris, in the Century. "THE OLD MAN" WAS RILED His Sons Knew What to Expect and That Ended a Civil War Battle. One of the battles of the civil war was fought just east of Lancaster, Mo., near the hamlet of Athens, on August 5, 1861, and the people of Clark county have annually celebrated that greatest of events in their quiet neighborhood. Athens is between 60 and 70 miles north of Gettysburg. It was garrisoned by about 500 federalists under Col. David Moore. The federal soldiers had been under fire before and were well disciplined. Col. Martin Green and 1,700 confederates were approaching from the west. The confederates were armed with shotguns, old-fashioned pistols, corn knives, pitchforks and clubs. At Edina they scatted a force of federalists and became so enthusiastic that they thought nothing could stop them. A confederate flag was run up on the courthouse, and these raw soldiers thought they had saved Missouri to the southern cause. There it was learned of the federal force at Athens. The confederates were keen for another scrap and demanded to be led against the enemy. What happened is thus told by N. T. Roberts, of Lancaster, who carried a musket with the "Johnnies": We left Edina with nearly 2,000 men, but about 1,000 dropped out as we got closer to the bear. The attack began a little after daylight. We approached from the south and west, I never saw people so full of fire as our boys were. Some of the officers, FORTS AND MILITARY "COME ON, BOYS." who were men of experience, had grave doubts about the outcome on account of our lack of discipline, but hoped that enthusiasm would make up for it. At first the confederates did right well. It was their first experience under trained fire and it looked like they might become soldiers. "Now and then our boys would break out with the triumphant 'rebel well.' The federals were hard pressed and fighting with great heroism. There was another yell, but it was not from our side. The enemy had got reinforcements from Keokuk. Our people heard of it and became demoralized. They didn't know whether the reinforcements amounted to 100 or 10,000, but imagined the worst. "The tide of battle was turned against us by an odd incident right here. Col. Moore, of the federalals, lined up his increased force and ordered an attack. Placing himself at the head of the column, he drew his sword and cried: "Come on, boys! We'll give 'em in-!" "Fighting with the confederates were John and Will More, sons of the federal commander. They heard the roar of their sire across the comfields and knew what it meant for them. They had been fighting bravely, and their faces and bodies were covered with dirt and powder smoke. But for them the battle was over. Turning to his comrades, John said: "The old man's riled, fellows, and there ain't any use bucking him any longer. I am going home.' "And home he went on the run. The worst of it was that the rest of the boys took John's word for the colonel's dangerous ire and skedaddled for tall timber." INCIDENT OF STONE RIVER. Battle in Which Guns Were Thrown Aside and Fists Brought In the battle of Stone river, the Third Kentucky confederates charged upon the 'Third Kentucky union, in McCook's division. These two regiments were raised in the same county and were consequently old friends, neighbors and schoolmates, and now about to meet for the first time as enemies, says the American Tribune. As soon as they came near enough for recognition they mutually ceased firing and began calling each other names and swearing at each other in a way that would have made the chapain's hair stand on end could be heard it; and all this time the battle was roaring around them without a great deal of attention from either side. It was hard to tell which regiment would come off victor in the wordy contest. At length, and as if by mutual consent, they ceased swearing, and, grasping their muskets, they charged into A WENT AT IT WITH THEIR FISTS. each other with the fury of demons. In many instances the muskets were thrown away, and, crazy with passion, they went at it with their fists and teeth in regular free fight style. The confederates were getting the best of it, and they began to fall back, taking with them about a hundred prisoners. At this juncture the Twenty-third Kentucky, union, charged them, rescued the prisoners and gobbled up an equal number of confederates. As the belligerents were conducted to the rear they forgot their late animosity and were on the best terms imaginable with their old friends. They chatted and joked as if there never had been a cause of quarrel between them, and, as some of them had their canteens full of whisky, they got drunk with their captors that night. A TERRIBLE PARSON. In the Memphis Appeal for August, 1861, there appeared the following stirring account of a fighting clergyman: "Parson Rippetoe, a Methodist preacher and captain of a Virginia company, performed prodigies of valor at the first battle of Bull Run. He charged Sherman's famous battery, which was taken and lost three times. In the last charge Capt. Rippetoe cut the throats of the artillery horses with his saber, and then engaged in a hand-to-hand conflict with Sherman. After a ten minutes' combat—both being accomplished swordmen—he severed Sherman's head from his body at one blow." The foregoing proves that southern newspaper correspondents were quite as imaginary as their northern brethren. I showed this extract to Gen. Sherman a year afterwards and he laughed very heartily. "Well," he said, "ever since the beginning of this war I have been feeling as if I had lost something; my enemies say it is my head, but I never knew how the operation was performed before." Perhaps his memory was affected by the operation, for while it is possible for a parson to prevaricate, we can hardly imagine a newspaper doing such a thing. Why Be Loved Her. A lady from Alexandria, Va., visiting in Philadelphia quite recently, told an anecdote of her retiring cook which is good enough to be told again: Myra, the colored cook, gave notice to Mrs. Richardson of her intention to leave at the end of the week. Mrs. R. highly prized the cook's abilities in the culinary line, and proceeded to interview her in an effort to learn the reason for her departure. The following conversation ensued: "Myra, are you not satisfied with the wages and the home I give you?" "Yes, Miss Richardson, I callus bin happy wily you all." "Well, why do you leave?" "Say, Mis' Richardson, don't you all 'member dat fun' in de next block las' Friday?" "Yes. But what of that?" "Well, I done gwine to tell you all de whole trufe. I se gwine to marry de husband ob de corpse. He 'low as I was de life ob de fun'."—Philadelphia Telegraph. Accounting for it. Uncle Josh—Still, the young fellers that leave the farm don't come back. Uncle Silas—Oh, well, it'd take longer 'n a man's lifetime to try everything else—Brooklyn Life. A Palpable Dog. She—Why are some fish gold? He—Probably because they're silent—N. Y. Hersald. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Thrilling Experience of a Plucky Montana Girl with a Pack of Wild Dogs. Chased for more than a mile by a pack of wild dogs, apparently a cross between the common dog and the wolf, Miss Gertie Sullivan, daughter of a sheepman living on Birch creek, 19 miles from Hayre, Mont., escaped only by spending the night in an old corral and picking off the animals now and then with rifle bullets. Miss Sullivan was riding her pony across the prairie when she saw some distance away, perhaps twenty animals, which at first glance she took to be coyotes, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press. As they came nearer, evidently in pursuit of her, the girl saw they were A MADE FOR THE CORRAL not coyotes, but wild dogs, of which there are several small packs in northern Montana and just over the Canadian line. With the brutes hot-on her trail, it became a ride for life with Miss Sullivan. She had with her a small rifle, but the animals seemed so savage she dared not stop and give them battle. As she began to deepair of saving her life she sighted the old sheep corral, and toward this she ran her horse, reaching it only when the pack was a short distance away, snapping and yelling with rage. To enter with the pony and quickly close the gate behind her was the work of a moment. As the gate swing into place the leaders of the pack threw themselves against it. Snapping and snarling with anger, the dogs tore at the poles forming the stockade, but were unable to gain an entrance into the place of refuge. After recovering her composure and finding that she was safe, the girl began shooting at the animals, which retreated when she fired and returned to the attack when the rifle was silent. Miss Sullivan was found by her father and her brother, who had been seeking her. The dog pack disappeared when the man approached. The girl had killed several of the animals. THE DOCTOR KNEW BEST. Story Which Shows Faith of Pennsylvania Dutch Woman in Skill of Medical Man. A Philadelphia musician who spent a week in Bethlehem retold to a Press reporter a stock of Pennsylvania Dutch stories, the favorite of which is the following: It seems that a farmer named Hans was subject to some kind of fits which rendered him totally unconscious for hours at a time, and on several occasions convinced his good wife that she was a widow. It was pretty generally known that she was by no means averse "DER DOCTOR KNOWS BEST." "DER DOCTOR KNOWS BEST." to the widowed state, for she and the doughty Hans did not live in peace and amity. One day Hans was stricken as usual. The good wife applied the usual remedies, but this time they failed to revive the unconscious man. A doctor was called, and after a thorough examination he shook his head and said, solemnly: "Dot iss zubed. He iss todt (dead)." The widow pretended to be overcome with grief, and, leaning over the prostrate form of her husband, she wailed: "Oh, mein Hans iss todd! Mein Hans iss todd!" But Hans, reviving suddenly, exclaimed: "Nein, nein! Ich ben nit todt!" "Hans," said his wife, reprovingly, "he still. Der doctor knows best." Pat's Load. Mike—Hello, Pat! Phat be ye workin' at now? Pat (with a hod of bricks on his shoulder)—Kape away furnishin' thot ladder. O'm carryin' knockout drops.—N. Y. Weekly. Gangleigh—Tit; but he is in no hurry about it. —Tit-Bits. THE WHITE FRONT PRINTING HOUSE. WE PRINT.. 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WILLIAMS, President KATE HOLMES, Vice-President BETTIE BROWN, Treasurer MILDRED COOKE JONES, Secretary and Business Manager BOARD OF DIRECTORS: LOUISA E. WILLIAMS, KATE HOLMES. MATTIE F. JOHNSON, ANN M. JOHNSON, BETTIE BROWN, MILDRED C. JONES. Your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of Refrigerators, Mattings, Oil-Cloths, And in fact everything that is needed in house furnishings. Of every description; also the latest designs in ROOKERS and special GHAIRS. Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. C. G. Jurgen's Son 421 EAST BROAD ST., between 4th and 5th Street HEY PLANET SATURDAY.....OCTOBER 10,1903 TEMPERANCE WOULD NOT TAKE THE DARE. Foolish Men Who Have Sacrificed Their Lives on the Altar of Bacchus. A few days ago a reveler in Paris, according to an account in the Petit Journal, made a wager that he could drink twelve glasses of absinthe while the clock was striking the hour of midnight. When the clock began to strike he began to drink and when the clock had ceased striking he had finished drinking the twelfth glass of absinthe. While his companions, leaping upon chairs, were cheering lustily, the absinthe drinker fell to the floor, dying instantly. This man died as the fool dieth. He really took his own life. On Wednesday, June 17, a lot of men were carousing in the little town of Yoakum, in Texas. After drinking a great deal and long the revelers all agreed that each would drink a pint DRANK TWELVE GLASSES OF ABSINTHE of whisky within a period of ten minutes. In the company was one known as "Dr." Jackson. "When the others got through with their dose," said the report, "some alleged wags put smoking tobacco and a large amount of alcohol into the glass prepared for Jackson. He drank the mixture, staggered to a seat and fell within a short time. No one," tdds the report, "was held responsible for Jackson's death." Well, some one is "responsible" for this man's death. The act of these "alleged wags" was little less than one of murder, and it should have been so regarded and so punished. "There are some men who will lose their best friends," says Carlyle, "in order to crack a joke." This observation of the sage of Chelsea needs to be revised and brought down to date. There are evidently in Yoakum, Tex., some men who are willing to do to death an innocent and helpless man in order to crack a joke. There are cases in which the "practical joker" becomes a practical criminal. In civilized society there is no place for him outside prison walls.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. NEWS AND COMMENT You cannot legislate a sinner into a saint, but a saint can so legislate as to make himself a sinner.—National Advocate. Thunder storms purify the air, but a burst of righteous indignation never was known to purify a saloon. Assessors have discovered that nineteenth of Cleveland, O., saloons belong to breweries, which will now be assessed $90,000 additional. Prof. Wiley, of the agricultural department at Washington, D. C., is to conduct a careful test as to the effect of different brands of tobacco, cigars or cigarettes on the human system. Prof. Wiley has just concluded tests for adulteration of food. We learn from Le Bien Social that the opinion of the medical men of Belgium has been asked on the subject of a law for the prohibition and sale of absinthe and such liquors. Out of 5,360 circulars sent out over 3,000 have been returned favorable to the proposed law. Alcohol and Criminality Caesar Lombroso, the well known Italian anthropologist, has lately published a new book in which he claims that there exists a certain type of men that are born criminals, who through the organism itself are ordained bad. They are seen among the lower classes who, through heredity, influences of climate, etc., are predestined to criminality. Lombroso especially attaches importance to the influence of alcoholism on criminality and the great misery it causes. He goes back sometimes for several generations to find why a man is a criminal. He says that of 97 children born by alcoholics only 14 are normal. The abnormality may not always show itself as criminality, but when it does in one generation some abnormality can be shown in every generation. Of 100 crimes alcoholism is the cause of 50 in France and 41 in Germany. Bound to Protect Soldiers Major General Davis, commanding the Philippines, has issued an order directing commanding officers to carry out the act of the Philippine commission prohibiting the sale of or traffic in intoxicating liquors, beer or wine at any place or on any premises within two miles of land now used or hereafter to be used by the United States government for military purposes. Persons violating the act will be subject to a fine of $109 or imprisonment for six months. PROSPERITY AND NO SALOONS. Striking Financial Results Obtained in Certain Dry Towns in Kansas. The towns and counties of Kansas in which the prohibitory law is strictly enforced are, as a rule, better off financially than those which allow open saloons and collect a monthly revenue from them for the support of the city government. The towns in which the monthly fine system has been longest in force are deep in debt; they are compelled to maintain a large and expensive police force, and the criminal dockets of their county courts are nearly always crowded. The opposite is true in the towns which will not tolerate saloons. This is aptly illustrated in the history of Hutchinson, a town of 10,000 inhabitants, and, with the exception of Wichita, the largest town in the south-central part of the state. After allowing "joints" or illegal saloons to run for a number of years under the monthly fine system—practically a license for the support of the city—a "dry" government was instituted two years ago and the saloons driven out. The result is given in a recent statement made by the mayor, Mr. F. L. Martin. He says: "For the first time in the history of the city of Hutchinson the floating debt of the town has been reduced during the past two years. The street fund has changed from a deficit of $8,000 to a surplus of $4,000, and the general fund from a $15,000 deficit to a $5,000 deficit. Not one dollar of 'joint money' went into the treasury in this time. "In the eight years prior, when the saloons were running, the floating debt was increased by $75,000. Of this $55,000 was refunded and $20,000 was left over for us to pay. During part of that time as high as $1,000 a month was collected from the 'joint's.' In two years the criminal decket of the district court originating from Hutchinson has practically disappeared. The total costs to county and city of criminal cases originating in Hutchinson for two years will be less than $500, against probably $5,000 to $10,000 for each two years prior under the 'fine' system of allowing saloons to run. 'Tax levies have been reduced, yet we voted one mill for a Carnegie library, increased electric lights from 34 to 46, and added 21 additional water hydrants and two miles of water mains to our water plant. "We reduced the police force and our city has been free from the criminal element. A large portion of the money formerly spent in saloons or lost in gambling has gone into legitimate trade, and our merchants all report increased business. During two years not a woman or child has complained that her husband's, father's or son's wages were spent in a saloon or gambling den." DRINK AND DIVORCE Some Statistics Which Show the Relation of the One to the Other. That drink is responsible for a large proportion of this domestic infelicity is the testimony of those who have had much to do with court business. A letter from Cincinnati says only yesterday eight divorces were granted in Judge Smith's divorce court and every one of them was caused by strong drink. Beer and whisky were responsible for these marital wrecks. Kate Chaplin testified that her husband was bookkeeper in a brewery, but drank so heavily he was constantly getting in a muddle and losing his job. He left her three years ago and never came back. Bessie Russel said that her husband spent most of his time in saloons. He was constantly beating her. While she worked he remained in bed. Louise Andrews said that her husband got uproariously drunk and cruelly beat her. Araminta Barker said she owned a piece of land, when her husband got possession of it and then drank up all the proceeds. Jessie Miller's husband was a hard drinker and a gambler, failing to support her. Minnie Schnurr said that her husband always came home drunk, and made her sleep on the floor. Laura Lykins said her husband preferred the saloon to her company and was drunk most of the time. Lydia Allen said her husband spent every cent that he could get for liquor and lived in the saloons. So we see that the saloon is at the bottom of the world's matrimonial unhappiness and ruin. Shut up the saloon and strengthen the family tie.—National Advocate. Labor's Greatest Foe. At a meeting of 12,000 laborers held in Chicago May 20, Organizer Fitzgerald made a forcible temperance address, in which he conclusively showed that whisky is an enemy of labor. Commenting on the bartenders' demand, he said: "The bartenders are not to blame for being forced to work at their business, but I wish they would strike and destroy every saloon and brewery in the country. Liquor is the laborer's curse. Let the man that thinks whisky strengthens him buy beefsteak instead—that's the kind of strength he needs. Let him buy books and educate himself, if he is not satisfied with his condition in life. Whisky only reduces his physical, moral and mental condition." Sarcasm. "Every one tells me I have a splendid face for light comedy." "How could you help it with that lantern taw"—Judge. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA. Large Enough to Accommodate Hundred Animals in the Height of Comfort. We submit the plan for a cattle barn which we have used for three years and consider the best of any we have seen, write Eastman Bros., of Hancock, county ill., in Breeders' Gazette. We obtained our plan from John Clark, of Illinois, who has used barns like it for many years. The barn is 96 feet by 48 feet. It is a pole barn, with posts 20 feet high. THE EASTMAN BARN. and a corn crib 80x12 feet runs through the center of the barn. The lower boards of the crib are hinged, and feed boxes built on a level with the crib bottom, so as to make practically a self-feeder, especially when feeding shelled corn. Hogs sleep under the corncrib. Hayracks on the sides are 80 feet long. Hay is put in at the ends of the barn. Sliding doors, controlled by weights, are used at the ends of the mow. They are closed when the hay is in the mow. There are doors alongside the haymow. When filling the mow we leave a space of four feet between the hay and the sides of the barn, which enables us to throw the hay into the racks when feeding. The south end is open. The north end has doors which we close in bad weather. We have lots on the north, south and east of the barn and scales east of the barn, so we can weigh cattle at any time. This barn will easily accommodate 100 cattle. We are now feeding 101 head, 97 of which are Herefords. This kind of a barn is a great time and labor saver. We keep it well bedded and it is always dry. THE OLD, OLD STORY. Mrs. Uptowne—Horace, who was Richard the Third referring to in that scene where he says "I have her, but I will not keep her long"? Uptowne—Oh! probably to a new cook he had just engaged."—Chicago Chronicle. A Deep-Laid Scheme. First Roomer—Say, are you in love with our landlady's daughter? Second Roomer—Indeed, I'm not. "Then why do you sit in the parlor every night and keep her playing on that piano?" "Hist! Don't say a word. I'm in hopes she'll break it."—N. Y. Weekly. Upright Always. "I believe that policeman is leading an upright life." "It's encouraging to think there are such men on the force." "Yes. He sleeps so much on his feet that it doesn't seem as if he could possibly want to ever lie down to rest."—Chicago Record-Herald. Cauro for Jex Metinuselah was asked if time did not hang heavily on his hands. "Not at all," he replied. "I do so enjoy watching my relatives wait to come into my money." Making a new will he went off to board with his great-great-great-grand nephew—N. Y. Times. Scheme That Failed. "Say," exclaimed the man in a hoarse whisper, as he met his wife at the depot, "didn't I telegraph you not to bring your mother?" "Yes," answered she, "but she opened the message, and insisted on coming along to investigate."—Chicago Daily News. Too Risky Curate—Your grace, shall I use the prayer for rain? Bishop (consulting barometer)—Not to-day, my brother.—N. Y. Times Time to Nan Quinn—Everything closes in Chicago now at midnight. De Fonte—Yes, even the eyes of the policemen—Chicago Daily News. How It Happened Bleeker—Say, old chap, that cigar you gave me yesterday was a dandy. Baxter—How careless of me? Indur He Knew His Wife "Your wife has some secret trouble." "You're wrong, doctor; my wife can't keep a secret"—N. Y. Herald. And He Is Too. "When a man buries himself in a book," remarked the Observer of Events and Things, "he is supposed to be dead to the world."—Yonkers Statesman. Woman Needs No Help. "A lawyer and a pretty woman can break any will." "Leave out the lawyer; I have been to court myself."—Town Topics. What Would Be Needed. "Papa says you couldn't support me in style." "No; he would have to make allowances for that."—Judge. Leave Richmond daily at 7 p. m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Daily except Sunday by O. & O. Railway, 9:00 a. m., 4 p. m., 9 a. m. and 3 p. m. by N. & W. Railway; all lines connect at Norfolk with direct steamers for New York, sailing daily except Sunday, 7 p. m. Steamers sail from company's wharf (foot of Ash Street) Rockets. K. F. CHALKLER, City Ticket Agt., 1212 E. Main St. JOHN F. MAYER, Agt. Wharf Foot of Ash St., Richmond, Va. H. B. WALKER, V. P. & T. M., New York June 14th, 1903 C & O ROUTE. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY. 2 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk. 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PRICE OF ABOVE PIECES. Any 10 for 35 cents. Any 21 for 65 cents. Any 43 for $1.25. Any 100 for $3.00. Write your name, full address, and pieces wanted by the number this, with stamps or silver, and mail to address given below, and the mum be sent direct from Boston, postage prepaid. 8 SSSww- e me Es _ a a eA it a Seana, a p yA SATURDAY ....,....OCTOBEK 10, 1908 GRAZY MAN FOUGHT TO SEE PRESIDENT Refused to Leave White House and Was Arrested. BADLY INJURED IN STRUGGLE Washington, Oct. 6—A desperate hand-to-hand encounter with an arm- ed insane man who was determined to see President Roosevelt occurred tm the vestibule of the White House. ‘The man, who gave his name as Peter Elliott, a machinist, of Minneapolis, Minn., was overpowered by the off cers and carried to a police van, Which had been summoned. He was placed in the van in the custody of two officers. Seeming to realize then for the first time that he was under arrest, Elliott began a furious strug: gle with his captors for liberty. He @rew a revolver from the right side Pocket of his trousers and attempted to shoot Officer James Cissell. The officer grabbed his hand and wrench: ed the weapon from his grasp. Elli: ott's struggles were so flerce, how- ever, that the two officers in their ramped quarters of the van were un- able to overcome him. Officer Cissell then drew. his revolver and fired two Shots to attract attention. In the struggle within the police van Elliott had broken a glass panel with his hand, severely cutting his head and face. Officer Cissell sus: tained « serious ent on his right arm, two inches of flesh being eut out of the fleshy part of the arm. He sut- fered considerably from loss of blood, but his injury is not serious. The van was hurried to the Emergency Hos- pital, where the injuries of Cissell and Eliott were dressed. Several days ago Secretary Loeb re- celved a letter written on letter paper af the St. James’ Hotel, this city. The letter enclosed a photozraph of Elliott and an incoherent request for an inter- view with President Roosevelt. ‘Tho letter was signed “Peter Ell,” the statement being made immediately under the signature that the writer was registered at the hotel as Peter EHiliott. It was evident to Secretary Loeb that his correspondent was in- fane, and he issued directions at once that the officers on duty both at the White House and at the executive of- fices should be on their guard against him. The photograph was turned over to the secret service officers. ' Nothing was seen of the man until the president attended services at Grace Reformed Church, when Bilictt appeared near the eptrance to the ehurch and made an effort to speak to the president, but he was foiled in his endeavor by the secret service officers, He next appeared at the executive of- fices and was turned away. At the Emergency "Hospital, where his wounds were dressed, Hiliott said that he was a Swede and that his home was in Minneapolis. From the hospital the man was taken to the First Pre- ‘einct police station and incarcerated in one of the detention wards. The police surgeons, after a careful examination of Elliott, certified that he was insane. An-Order was issued immediately for his removal to the St. Elizabeth's Hespital for the Insane. Elliott said he came to Washington from Paterson, N. J. He also said he had been in Lancaster, Pa. When Jocked up at the police station he made @ long, rambling statement ag to the Teasons for his action, ELIAS WILLIAMS CONVICTED Slayer of Percy White Found Guilty of Second Degree Murder. Media, Pa., Oct. 7.—Blias Williams, the colored farmhand who was placed on trial here Monday charged with the killing of Percy White, the young Springfield farmer, on June 19 last, was convicted of murder in the second degree. The jury was out three hours. Williams and White had a quarrel while in the fleld. of White's father’s farm, and as a result Williams pro- cured'a shotgun and deliberately shot the young farmer. ‘The defense made no effort to deny that Williams had killed White, but appealed to the jury for merey on the ground that the colored man shot in self-defense. Williams himself on the stand declared he had no intention to commit murder, and only fired when White approached him in a threaten- ing manner. Taking the gun in his band, the accused man described the Scene when the fatal shot was fired. He did not hold the gun to his should er, he said, but rested the breech on the crook of his right elbow. ‘When the young farmer came toward him the colored man said he warned him not to foliow. His warning was disregarded, and he feared that both Mr. White and Percy would attack him, so ke pulled tho trigger. He saw Percy stagger and then double up and hold his arms over his abdomen, and then the witness said he ran out of the lane. HOSIERY MILL BLOWN UP Boiler Explosion at Beverly, N. Ja Wrecks Plant and Kills Watchman Beverly, N. J., Oct. 6.—The large boiler in the hosiery mill of Turner Birshead, of this city, exploded with a fearful crash that. jarred. Beverly, wrecked the engine room and two- thirds of the main building and in- stantly killed Alfred Stucky, the watch- man. The building immediately be- came enveloped tn flames; and damage to the extent of $10,000 was done before the fire was gotten under control. The Joss is partially covered by insurance. ‘The crash of the exploding botler was heard and felt within a radius of five miles, and fearful of an earth- quake people rushed to their doors. In this city the buildings shook, glass ‘and dishes rattied, and it was not until a bright flame shot up tn the west that those who were awakened by the shock realized the situation. ‘The city fire department soon had a plug stream on the burning structure, and after an hour's work the flames were subdued. Meanwhile the body of Stucky, which had been blown several feet from the building by the force of the explosion, was removed to his home. ‘The body was badly torn, the clothing rent into shreds, and death must have come quickly. What caused the explosion is not known, since the boiler was recently inspected and pronounced in good con- dition, but it is presumed that Stucky, ‘who was an old man, turned cold water ‘on the hot crown head without look- ing at the glass, with the inevitable result, BYRNE’S SUCCESSOR NAMED President Appoints John P. Neilds Dis- trict Attorney For Delaware. Washington, Oct. 6. — President Roosevelt appointed John Perey Niclds United States district attorney for Del- aware to succeed William Michael Byrne, whose renomination for the place has twice failed of confirmation by the United States senate and who finally relieved the president of further embarrassment by resigning the office. Mr. Byrne was an Addicks man, ‘while Mr. Nields is an out-and-out ‘Regular Republican, so that this ap- ‘pointment is hailed as a distinct blow for Addicksism. A statement issued at the White House announcing the appointment says: “The two United States senators dis- agreed as to whom they would recom- ‘mend for the vacancy. The president “went over the endorsements of all the candidates who have been recommend- ed for the place. In such a case he feels that the opinion of the judiciary and the bar should have. peculiar weight, He finds that the federal and ‘state judges and an overwhelming ma- jority of the members of the bar, with- ‘out regard to party or faction, favor the appointment of Mr. Nields, and the president is entirely satisfied as to his personal and professional fit- “ness.” <p STR DIVIDEND SOT INHALE Directors Declare One-Half of One Per Gent. Ge Gasman Ota New York, Oct. 7.—The dividend on the common stock of the United Btates Stool Corporation for the last quarter bus deen reduced from 1 po: cent. to one-half of 1 per cent, thus setting at rest a matter that has agi- tated Wall street and financial circles generally for many weeks. To quote a very high authority in the affairs of the corporation, “the action of tho board was unanimous and was caused by the falling off of business.” ‘This last is borne out by the financial state- went issued shortiy after the meeting. The statement shows a decrease of $4,042,668 (September estimated) for the third quarter of the calendar year, compared with the same period last year and a decrease of $4,339,487 com- pared with the preceding quarter of this year, On October 1, 1902, the cor- poration had unfilled orders of 4,843,~ 000 tons on hand. This year the un- filled orders on the same date amount- ed to 3,728,742 tons. ‘The regular dividend of 1% per cent. on the preferred stock was declared. This dividend is payable November 16. ‘The dividend on the common stock is payable December 20. ; WILSON S. BISSELL IS DEAD Yestmaster General Under Cleveland Pasece Award buttete: bullalo, N. ¥., Oct. 7.—Wilson 8S. Bissell, former postmaster general, died last night. At about noon ke sank into a deep sleep, and it was with dim- ie i ip pa | 7 aes * SSS Se Se = RARE Siete tall culty that he was aroused at intervals during the afternoon for nourishment and medicine. The end came easily and peacefully. Dr. Dewitt H. Sher- man, the physician who has been at- tending him during his recent illness, and members of the family were at his bedside. Mr. Bissell suffered from complica- tions thought to be akin to Bright's disease, but not well understood. He was sent to his summer home at Bat Harbor, where he spent several weeks. He spent most of the time there in bed, and it was realized that his case was hopeless. In September he re- turned to Buffalo. During the latter part of his illness numerous messages of inquiry were received from former President Cleveland and members of the cabinet in which Mr. Bissell served as postmaster general. BRITISH CABINET NAMED amred ™yttieton Succeeds Chamber lain as Colonial Secretary, London, Oct. 6.—The three weeks’ cabinet crisis has ended fn a manner more remarkable and dramatic than that of. its inception. Mr. Balfour's new ministry affords a measure of the enormous. difficulty he has had to con tend with in the task of reconstruc tion, and its. composition seems to in dicate that the premier himself can have little belief of its durability: The most sanguine supporters of the gov. ernment express the smallest hopes THE RICHMOND 1 RICHM( VIRGINIA. of such an administration living many EnaEe Reeme 4 Cholr Day at;t months, and the prevatent idea is that |The Der, stood on the burning deck Wesy 5 SH there will be a general election before pecause he was 80 very sind dandy! Ook Darllament reassemble Hig lived, ind stilt @ good volce had, as Oholr Day» ‘he Duke of Devonshire, who was 50. just to celebrate the fact, Ch; leader of the Conservative party in TiS Besls, tosethes sharply cracked— aeuee he the house of lords, it was announced, —cincinnat! Commercial Tribune, of the Leigh has resigned the office of lord presi-| a aetna Mone preach, subject eae chats een al ‘The Bargain Hunter. tenet ee mee acoee ee e king | He—Where are you going, dear? White of the ‘The new cabinet was also announce) Spe, ym Syine shopping. Fan bieechet | “But you haven’t got a cent in your | death. ed. It is composed as follows: {opiate ‘The choir hai William St. John Brodrick, formerly ?° rien Plt have more room to hold the} for the occasion secretary for war, succeeds Lord gampies.”—~ uke vited to be pres ples." onkors Statesman » be pres George Hamilton as secretary for In- tit oct 17ex. dia; Austen Chamberlain postmaster | Did He Keep On. ne general, succeeds Mr. Ritchie as chan-| “Madam,” asked the polite stranger, | VIRGINIA:— cellor of the exchequer. | Is the emell of smoke disagreeable to! Henrico Go Alfred Lyttleton, recorder of Oxford, | you?” | 1908. In vac succeed Joseph Chamberlain as sec| “I don’t know,” “Madam” replied; ‘no | 4, st retary Si the coldaiag: | sentioman ever has smoked tn my pres- | MARY ANN Bri H. O. Arnold-Forster, secretary to} ence.”—N. Y. Times, | JoRDAN Brow the admiralty, succeeds Mr. Brodrick | - as secretary for war. — | Graham Murray, lord advocate of The object o: scstin euceseas kon “wae. WEAK MEN GURED (act's Burleigh, as secretary for Scotland. j the plaintift f Tort Stamey; tnanctt secsctees ot WITHOUT STOMACH |:ist tee the war office, succeeds Austen Cham-, Sink the datond he a os A on-resident o1 erlain as postmaster general. | DRUGGING; FREE | is crcerca thae GEN. BRADLEY T. JOHNSON DEAD’ = = ———~ST toe days aft The Well-Known Confederate Leader Passes Away in Virginia. Richmond, Va. Oct. 6.— General Bradley T. Johnson died at the home of his son, Bradley 8, Johnson, at Rock Castle, in Goochland county, Va. Brights disease was the cause of death. The body will be conveyed to Balti- more for burial beside the grave of his wife. A confederate veteran escort of honor will accompany the remains to the place of burial. General Johnson was born in Fred- erick City, Md, September 29, 1829, and came of a distinguished Maryland family, one of his ancestors having been a governor of that state. He lived at Frederick City until he came south to take part in the war. He married a daughter of Judge Saunders, of North Carolina, at one time American minis- ter to Spain. ‘Two children were born, a daughter, who died, and @ son, Brad- ley 8. Johnson. Anti-Slavery Law For Moros. Manila, Oct. 6.—The legislative coun- cil of the Moro provinces has passed an anti-slavery law which prohibits slave hunting in all territories under its jurisdiction. It also provides for the confiscation of all vessels engaged in the trade, American Nectoas Barred Flam Cubs: Havana, Oct. 7.—Atter much consic. eration and discussion the Cuban au therities have decided to deport the American negro. Of all immigrants to the young republic he ts said to be the most undesirable. Didnt Worry Her. “Doesn't it make you angry when folks twit you about your failufe to acquire a husband?” asked the girl who was doing her first season. “Not me,” replied the philosophical spinster. “It is better to be laughed at because you are not married titan not to be able to laugh because you are.”-— Cincinnat! Enquirer. ‘iinimnadaciae Doctor—Walker is the most unreason- able man I ever saw. Friend—Yes? Doctor—I set his little boy's broken arm, and now Walker refuses to pay me, merely because it happened to be my au- tomobile than ran over the boy.—Judge. ; Tender One Preferred. Brannigan—The doctor told me to get ‘& porous plasther for me stomach. Druggist—Yes, sir; what sort do yo. want? Brannigan—'Tis little I care what sort it Is so long as ‘tis alsily digested — Catholic Standard and Times. Not Qualised. Southern—I've been thinking serious- ly of employing a female bill collector. Nixon—Take my advice and don't. Southern—Because why? Nixon—Because according to the old adage “4 woman's work is never dun."— Cincinnat! Enquirer. Ought to Beat Sandow. ‘Madtson—Do you believe that in unton there is strength? Dearborn—I certainly do, “Well, Wabash ought fo be a pretty powerful man. I understand he’s been married six times.”—Yonkers States- man, why Gaia oe eck, Bride—What is the brakeman light- ing the lamps for? Bridegroom—We are coming to a tunnel, my dear. Bride—But what's the use of tun- nels if they light the lamps?—Judge. ‘The Usual Way. ! “A man gets very little credit for what he does in this world,” sighed the Mount Auburn eltizen, “Yes,” rejoined the Norwood philoso. pher, “but he gets a lot of blame for what he doesn’t."—Cincinnat! Enquirer, PS \pradinstenan Redyriedie, "| “Dr. Wise calls his new yacht “Pare gorle,’"” sald the commodore, + | “Odd name, Why?" asked the cap- tain. “Says ft ts so good in squalls,” an- Swered the commodore —Judge. Sunt So. Little Elmer (who has an inquiring mind)—Papa, which bone was it that ‘vas taken from Adam to make a woman of? Prof. Broadhead—The bone of conten- fon, my son.—Town Topics. Good Notghbors. “Do you think those new people will make good nelghbors?” “Oh, delightful. Why, I) ean see al- ready that they're going to do enough scandalous things to keep us in gossip ‘all. winter."—Chicago Post. Auti@rattles of Pabuet tea Ida—That parrot is always saying “Sit close.” May—Yes. ‘It's hard to’say whether his former owner was a street car con- ductor or a young lady Keeping regular company.—St. Louis Star. An Iee Cream Vacoum. (Oh, women are queer;.in the hot evening oP Sank, : Sat Judy and Jane on a bench tn the parks ZAR sat there and chatted, with joy in- ve sgmplete, a For each was’ expecting the other to treat, meee See Se at, | [Ga Keep Up With the Times | ey See ae YOU WILL ALWAYS BE BEHIND PSMA THE TIMES If YOU DON'T GET Peewee) ONE OF CARR'S EXCELLENT a = lime Keepers i a Think of this beautiful ladies SOLID SILVER WATCH | Stem Wind and Set and is a . very good time keeper. e Price Only $3.50. Sold elsewhere for $5.00. MP if you watch these advertisements, ce ‘Will, get many good’ bargains in jewelry. . Remember: thisis no fake.” Fair dealing is my motto. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send mail or express money order. Write your name and address plainly, Address all matters to | f Si Notwoh a A. RGARR, P. 0. Box, No; 900,” Yow York City, N.Y. Why Be Spoke. | ‘The doy stood on the burning deck ‘And made his speech, as stated, Because he was so very glad He lived, and sti a good volce had, ‘So, Just to celebrate the fact, Hila heels toxether sharply Gracked— ‘And deck-"orated!™ —Cincinnat! Commereiat Tribune, The Bargain Hunter. ‘He+Where are you going, dear? She—I'm going shopping. ; “But you haven't got a cent in your pockets.” “Then I'll have more room to hold the samples.”—Y onkors Statesman Did He Keep On. “Madam,” asked the polite stranger, “4s the emell of smoke disagreeable to you?” “{ don't know,” “Madam” replied; “no gentleman ever has smoked tn my pres- ence.”—N. ¥. Times, WEAK MEN CURED WITHOUT STOMACH DRUGGING; FREE Simple Home-Method In Possession of Detro!t Specialist Does Won- ders For Men—Something Entirely New. SENT FREE TO ALL There has been discovered by a well-known Detroit specialist # simple, direct and quick home method for the cure of such conditions as sexual weakness or lost manhood, night losses, varicocele, shrunken organs, bladder trouble, diseases of the Indneys and urinary ogans, prematurity, ete., and so‘effective is ft in re. snits on men, even as old ns 85, that it should ‘at once recommend itself to every thinking man who suffers in this way. 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Raynor, 70 Smith Bullding, Detroit, Michigan, and yon will immediately receive the treatment entirelyg FREE, as . well as a scholarly essay on thefsubject describing all the aymp- toms in detail, sent plain and securely sealed, Consider that nothing is impossible in thiscen: tury of marvelous achievements, the century that ave us anti-toxin and X-rays, and that however:doubtful youmay be because of past failures fo find a permanent cure, yet this may prove the very thing you have so long sought Let your response be prompt, DR. HC. RAY NOR, 708 Smith Building, Detroit, atich. ———-—--___ | ites Eadie ,, There will be a grand lecture at Pyth- ian Castle Hall, 727 N. Third Street by Rev. F. W. Williams, pastor of the Ris. ing Mount Zion Baptist, October 12th. A rare treat. Admission 10 cents. Go and hear him, Exercises begin at 8:30. _Lilectioine = a It is a long way around, but a short Way across to the Pythian Carnival of Nations at the Pythian Castle, Monday, October 19th, and lasting two weeks. ‘There will be plenty of music and re- freshments. =—_—_—_— _,,. WANTED—Honest colored man to in- duce his people to bay homes and save money. Pay $20 to $90, according to ability. Address Box 30, Richmond, Va. es | Notice. Ail persons who have furniture stored at A. ayes’ and not paid for within 80 Says, will be sold at public auction, un- less Otherwise agreed upon. Call’ and see about your furniture at once and pay for the’same. A. HAYES, 727 N. 2nd St. | Carnival of Nations. The Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe will have a grand rally at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. Third St., com. mencing Monday, October 19th, ‘and lnsting two weeks, for the benefit of the improvements being made on the new Oastle, An effort is being made to raise $1500.00 cash. ‘The entertainment is known as the Carnival of Nations, and booths to represent the several count#ies will be erected. ‘The commit- tces will as nearly as possible dress to Tepresent the countries with which they are identified. Tableau scenes will be among the at- tractions. A prize of a handsome gold jewel ‘will be given to the most popular Eemiphe and silver ‘one te the oe dest. A diamond ring will be given. to the lady who is the most populrr ana a gold ring to the second best. The lodges will meet at the old hall during the week of the carnival and the entire building will be utilized in the effort to raise the money for this worthy eanse. The public is earnestly requested to aia thom in this laudable undertaking. "The admission fee is only ten cents, Choir Day at,the Fifth’Street Baptiat eee > Oe Cherch at 8 October 18th, will_be known as Choir Day at the Fifth St. Baptir: agony Special sermons at each service. At ll a.m. Rev. G. D. Pinkney, D. D. of the Leigh St. M. E. Church will preach, subject “And they semen Ma song.” Rev. 5:9. Sp. m. Rev W. Ht White of the Me. Carmel Bapt, Church Qill preach subject™Efome of the soul at leath."" ‘The choir has arranged special music for the occasion. You are cordially in- vited to be present. Seats free. til oct I7ex. oe VIRGINIA:—In the Circuit Court of Henrico County, September 20th, | 1903. In vacation. Mary Axx Brown,.. «+... Plaintif?. vs. | JoRDAN Brown,......... Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant. An affidavit having been made and tiled that the defendant, Jordan Brown, is a non-resident ot the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit. Acopy, teste, J. E. BRoabpus, J.H. Cutrenrier, p. q. Clerk. To Jordan Brown: ‘You will take notice that I shall, on the 19th day of November, 1903, at’ the office of Phil B. Shield, numbered 60. Chamber of Commerce building, Rich: mond, Virginia, between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m., and 6 o'clock p. m. of that day, procied to take the depositions ot witnesses, to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Chancery, depending in the Circuit Court for the county of Henrico, Virginia, wherein you are defendant and T am’ plaintiff, and if from any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if commenced be not con- cluded on that day, the taking of the same will be adjourned und continued from day to day or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the taking of the said depo- sitions shall have been concluded. i = Mary Axw Brows. ae eee - == _By Counsel. J. Henry CrvrcnFien. p,q. Office 12113 E. Broad St.,, "> Richmond, Va. Don't fail to make your engagements for the Carnival of Nations at the a thian Castle, commencing October 19th. Admission only 10c. Have you paid your subscription? Your receipt is ready. Bring on the money. —_ An Interesting Article From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, of Sept. 14th. 1902. | {BEING COMPLETED FOR THE FRISCO. ‘Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. | Guthrie, Okla., Sept, 18.—In the com. pletion ofthe Arkansas Valley and Western railroad from Tulse, I. T., to | Enid, Okla.. the Frisco will have an- other valuable trank line through the richest agriculiural section of the two ‘territories. The tracklaying has been completed as far as Pawnee, Okla., a | distance of 125 miles from Tulsa, and’ is now within sight of Perry, fifty miles to the westward from Pawnee. ‘The com- any is working a full foree, the bridge work is all completed as far as Perry. ‘and the grade work as far as Enid, forty two miles west of Perry. ‘The Arkansas Valley and Western ‘Was first chartered from Tulsa to Enid, but this has been extended to Denver, Qolo., and the grade between Enid and Avard, in Woods county, sixty miles west of Enid, is now complete, The management’ announces positively that the line will be built into Den- ver, November Ist is the date now named for the completion and operation of the road between Enid and Tulsa, This road will be a great factor for northern Oklahoma, and itis said that ‘when built will do ‘the principal busi- ness for the Frisco between Western points and St. Louis. At Enid connec: tion is made with the Blackwell, Entd and Southwestern, recently purchased Dy the Frisco, to Vernon, Texas. The Arkansas Valley and Western traverses an untraveled country ,and it crosses the central portion of the Osage Indian reservation, rich in cattle, agriculture and mineral, and throagh the counties of Pawnee, Noble, Garfield and Woods it strikes the wheat belt of Oklahoma, With the Arkansas Valley and West- em through northern Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City and Western southwest to Quanah, Tex.; the Blackwell, Enid and Southwestern to Vernon, Tex.; the Arkansas and Choctaw into Ardmore from the east; the recently acquired Ozark and Cherokee Central through central Indian Territory; the lines south from Sapulpa to Denison, and the main line in. ‘Oxlanoma direct from St. Louis, the Friscd is in an enviable position, having more than any other one line in the two territories, through sec- tions u itraversed ore roads, th> richest portions of the territories. i WANTED—Young colored man to as. sist caterer, one with little capital Preferred. Wages $50.00 per month. A good opportunity for right party. Address ““O. 0. G.,” Bonsilene Hotel, Woldasush: Chats. tt com Booker’s = ‘Market eh BANG D>» 501 Webster St. d GA iy AN F A FULL LINE!OF FINE oN Z| p GROCERIES AND FRESH gt MEATS & VEGETABLES. Wood and Coal, Cigars and Tobacco, —- bar in cut aniee wees you CAN SAVE MONEY BY GIVING ME A CALL. ALL GOODS DELIVERED TO YOU FREE. TELEPHONE 1507~—_—. A. C. BOOKER, Prop. 501 WEBSTER ST. RICHMOND, VA. Sr : ’ / @ \ Mechanics f ee \ Savings Bank Sta Reas: \ avings an \ Brivis et | OF RICHMOND, VA ocgg \ Sea Wy / ——s:1 North Third Street —_ a es ee See Capital, $25,000. Money received on deposit and interest paid on ali 4 amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security, Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit: ‘This establishment is fitted np in the most improved style, having a largo white vault, burlar-proof stool chest, electric lights and every modern conven- ience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, ete., apply to the ‘Cashier. ; Banking Hours have been arranged for the Special convenience of the work- ‘ing people as follows: 9 A.M. to4 P.M. Saturdays, DA Me nes P.M. We ‘close Saturday at $ P.M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until 7 = M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS: JOHN MITCHELL, IR., President, H.P. JONATHAN, Vice-President, THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier, BOARD OF DIREOTORS: Rey. W. F. Granam, D. D., Jxo. R. Cates, B. P. VANDERYALL, E.R. Jerrerson H. F. Joyarmay, Tromas Sarrn D. J. Omavers, J. O. Farney, goes 'T. Taytor, nao . A. Wastinoton, BR. W. Warriso, ILL1aM CUSTALO, |. J. CARTER, JOHN MITOHELL, JR. Pres. THOMAS M. 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