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THE RICHMOND PLANET "PEACE LIKE A RIVER." First Baptist Church and the Fifth St. Baptist Church Shake Hands. REV. DR. GRAHAM MAKES A GREAT SPEECH--MUCH REJOICING-- REV. DR. JOHNSON HAPPY-EDITOR MITCHELL THERE TOO-HE JOINS IN THE PEACE JUBILEE-THE SEALING OF THE COMPACT- VOL. XXI NO.1. "PEACE First Baptist Chu REV. DR. GRAHAM MA REV. DR. JOHNS TOO—HE JO SEA The First Baptist Church of this city was the scene of a "Peace Jubilee Amcee Baptists" last Monday night at the regular meeting of that body and the crowning act in the pastorate of Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., was witnessed. The edifice was brilliantly lighted and after the routine business of the church, a committee of twenty-five members from the Fifth St. Baptist Church, headed by that most remarkable divine, the Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham was welcomed. THE ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE. It will be remembered that the First Baptist Church had withdrawn the right hand of fellowship from the Fifth Street Baptist Church because it had received into its membership upon the advice of a Baptist Council Editor John Mitchell, Jr., who had been excluded from the Church, because he permitted the publication of the proceedings of the church meeting in the columns of the PLANET. A PEACEFUL PROPOSITION. In the interest of peace and harmony, and in accordance with biblical instructions, the First Baptist Church at a special meeting decided to restore the right hand of fellowship to the Fifth Street Baptist Church and appointed a peace committee to visit the Fifth Street Baptist Church for that purpose. The committee was made welcome and the Fifth Street Baptist Church decided to send a similar committee to wait on the First Baptist Church. The visit last Monday night was the result. EDITOR MITCHELL INVITED In the meantime, it was deemed ad- visible to make the occasion truly a peace meeting and to bring together all parties to the controversy. With this idea in view, Editor Mitchell was consulted. He stated that he endorsed the idea and if the First Baptist Church, through its pastor, would invite him to be present, he would join in the "Pace Invitation" lists. This invitation came under date of December 7, 1903, the church having so voted December 2, 1903. A SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., presided last Monday night and Rev. Dr. Graham was accorded the floor. He made a most earnest and soul-stirring address, assuring the First Baptist Church that the friendship once existing was now cemented firmer than ever. There were many responses from the congregation and many an eye filled with tears. There was a commotion on the rostrum and Dr. Graham was requested to suspend his remarks while a committee of deacons proceeded to the front of the church to conduct Editor John Mitchell, Jr., to the rostrum. He had entered a moment before in company with Mr S. S. Baker and had taken a seat quietly near the door. THE MARCH UP THE AISLE The editor passed outside and entered by the center door and as he did so, grasped the outstretched hands of the deacons, extended with a hearty welcome. They were Deacons John S. Powell, Abner Cooley, Shepherd Shorts, Thomas L. Jones, John T. Allen, W. V. Jackson, Richard L. Harris and to emphasize the fact that the "hatobet was buried," came Deacons R. T. Hill and A. W. Holmes. The process formed with Deacons Hill and Holmes in the lead and Editor Mitchell following access granted by Deacon Shorts, while the other brethren brought up the rear. TWO MINUTE ADDRESSES: As the party came to the rostrum, Editor Mitchell was given a seat on the right of Rev. Dr. Graham, who then prosecued with his remarks. The scene was impressive. When he concluded, a hymn was sung and two-minute addresses were delivered by some of the members of the committee. Among whom were S. P. Brown, Absalom Randolph, Obadiah Ware, James Paga, J. H. D. Wingfield, Frederick Word, W. W. Fielos, J. Henry Crutchfield, Joseph Wilkerson, James West and Dason Woodson. OTHER SPEAKERS. Deacon Abner Coolay spoke with a voice filled with emotion, while Deacon STIRRING SCENES. Shepherd Shorts also had a word to say, Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, Rev. R. J. Bass, Henry G Carter and Rev. Thos. H. Frigris spoke. All of these remarks had been preceded by those made by Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson, who said after the remarks by Rev. Dr. Graham that when the First Baptist Church extended the right hand of fellowship to the Fifth Street Baptist Church, it extended the right hand of all of the members of the Fifth Street Baptist Church, the Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. included. He was welc me and he would now request him to speak upon this occasion. The ministers had that morning voted to have one conference. THE EDITOR SPEAKS. A hymn was sung, after which Mr. Mitchell said that he felt somewhat embarrassed when he came into the church, but all of this had been removed by the statement of the distinguished pastr, when he said that the First Baptist Church had extended to him also the right hand of fellowship. He said let by-gones be by-gones and the past be buried. Let us all be ever as a new-born babe in the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He declared that he had no ill-feeling against any member of the First Baptist Church. CAUSED MUCH WORRY With the conclusion of the exercises, Rev. Dr. Johnson declared that the unsettled condition of affairs had caused him much worry, that he had been kept awake many nights, thinking over the unsatisfactory conditions. All of this had been changed. He was lean, but he and Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., would now get fat. An offering was called for and the congregation requested to pass around and shake the hands of the committee, Mr. Graham and Brother John Mitchell. This was done and the "Peace Jubilee among the Baptists" passed into history, but not before Mrs. Rosa D. Bower in choice language and Mrs. Maggie L. Walker in inviting speech had put the seal of their approval upon the proceedings. Refreshments had been prepared in the basement and the guests repaired hence to seal the peaceful conditions at the festal board. The Georgia Lantern Party given by the Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Denny Monday and Tuesday evenings was quite a success. A big crowd attended both nights and were well entertained by nice singing, speech making and games. Prof. Clarke of Chicago, the famous magician and Prof. Johnson of this city royally entertained the party Tuesday evening. Prof. Clarke is a great wonder. The party was given for the benefit of Third St. Church Sunday School. A Successful Operation. Mr. William J. Pride of Lynchburg, Va., has returned from Washington, D.C., where he went to carry his wife. The madame was assisted to the depot by Deacons Green and Wilson of the 8th St. Baptist Church and by Miss Essay Calloway, Mrs. Signora Isbell and Mrs. Mary Lynch. The ambulance of the Freedmen's Hospital met the patient at the depot and she was removed to that institution where a delicate operation was performed by Dr. West, assisted by Dr. Hughes and Marshall, all of Washington. The attending physician was Dr. Lascot. Dr. West is indeed a great doctor and the first assistant at the Freedmen's Hospital. Dr. Hughes is the second. They exercised much skill and Mr. Pride was delighted when told that his wife was out of danger and doing well. Dr. Marshall is a practicing physician of P St., Georgetown, D.C. Dr. Lascot is from Porto Rico. Danville's Venture. The travelling public will no doubt be gratified to know that under the capable management of Mr. J. H. Lawson, Danville, Virg.nia nor has an up-to-date hotel which will be a great addition to its other advantages. Hotel Lawson, on the corner of Monroe and Gay streets is admirably located for the public and offers a first class for those who are desirous of obtaining the comforts of home. Write to Mr. J. Lawson for terms and assignments and he will provide for you on short notice. See advertisement. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1903. Y. M. C. A. Notes. The Y. M. C. A Conference last Friday was full of life. The personal reports made by men were encouraging. The mock court was extremely interesting. Mr. W. O. Christian had the Bee full as ever. The explanation on the Sunday School lesson Saturday by Prof. B. F. McWilliam was a help to all. No one should miss this hour. A large committee was out last Sunday to do the work in the jail and alms house. Keep at it, men. The Bible Study for the boys last Sunday was enjoyed by the boys and much was profited by them. The True Reformers' Hall was the place where the Y. M. C. A. hold its meeting. About 700 men were out to hear Rev. R. V. Leyton, pastor of the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, who who gave them a very straight address. There were many conversions brought forth by the thoughts which were given by the Reverend. Subject: 'Show Thyself a Man?' The music by the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Quartette was enjoyed by every man present. Last Sunday will not be forgotten very soon. Women and men are invited to the explanation on the Sunday School lesson Saturday 5 p. m. Come and bring a friend. All men for the work Sunday are requested to be on time. Boys' meeting Sunday 4 p. m. Open meeting for men Sunday at the Y. M. C. A. rooms 5:30 p. m. Subject: 'Freedom.' Tell the other man.Seats are free. Editor Fortune's Opinion Editor Mitchell, of the Richmond Planet, makes munce-meat of the hypocritical hystera of the New Orleans Daily Times-Democrat, which has been blue in the face and thick in the tongue in discussing the platform of principles recently re-affirmed by the Editor of THE AGE. The New Orleans newspaper, like the Louisville Courier-Journal, sees a demand for social equality in everything that President Roosevelt says and does, and is quick to use such non-political effect, utterly heed loss of the political effect, results which may follow upon its teachings, the crisis is shall be reached. The Times-Critic and the Courier-Journal will get all that is "coming to them" in the long run—New York Age. $100.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., Dec. 8th, 1903 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Miss Gertrude Ware, who was a member of Josephine Court, No. 228, I. O. of Calanthe. her Signed:— LUCINDA X WARE. Witnesses: mark Josie A. Graham, Fannie James. Deserves Credit. [Jacksonville, Fla., Record.] Editor Mitchell, of the "Richmond Planet," deserves credit for the able manner in which he takes the Boston Transcript's correspondent to task and shows up the fallacy of his argument against the Negro under the heading, "Obtrusive Negro. "Hit 'em" again, Brother Mitchell, you know how, when and where to direct the knockout blows. Gen. Meekins Painfully Injured Gen. M. D. Meekins of Norfolk was painfully, though not seriously injured last Tuesday night on the corner of Cary and Adams streets, as he attempted to leave the street-car. As a result, his left eye is swollen no, his head gushed and his shoulders bruised. Luckily, no bones were broken and he was resting easily at his temporary residence, No. 11 W. Main street, when we called to see him. He was here attending the sessions of the Masonic Grand Lodge. Mr. C. H. Lewis of N. 7th street is sick at his residence, suffering from injuries received in a recent wreck. Samaritans' Endowment Paid Two Claims. After the session of the Board of Managers, in annual meeting, President C. F. Hubbard and Secretary J. W. Thompson visited Manchester and paid the death claim of Daniel Pliuchum, of Robinson Lodge, No. 114; then went to Prince George and paid Patty Jackson's death claim, of Jones Lodge. No. 153. Despite the inclementity of the weather at Prince George, the Samaritans in great numbers to witness the payment on Monday night, Nov. 30th, they visited Norfolk, finding the work in good condition. Tuesday they visited Onn ck, in Accomac county. Th re they were met by a delegation of Samaritans and escorted to the elegant home of District Deputy, Geo. T. Hall. Here they dined. At 2 o'clock they were driven over to the Metropolitan Methodist Church. Deputy Hall had arranged the following programme: Opening ode by the audience. Prayer by _____. Introduction. Rev. Haven, pastor of the church, welcomed them to the church. Deputy Hall delivered the welc me address, responded to by Ero. Horner. Singing the choir. Grand Chief C. F. Hubbard, donor excellent address on the working of the order followed by Grand Secretary J. W. Thompson, who spoke all of the departments of the order, saying the work was succeeding elegant in every department, especially the Endown ent and Regalia. The Samaritans turned out en-masse and pledged themselves to do more for the upbuilding of the order. After the exercises and the encouraging remarks by Sister Rachel S. Hall, Asso, to Grand Chief, they were taken to the residence of Mr. P. Drummond, where a sumptuous repast was served. Every one seemed pleased at their visit and spoke words of praise for the order. "A Witness." A Great Day with the National Baptist S. S. Union. The regular monthly meeting of the National Baptist Sunday School Union will be held on next Sunday Dec. 13th, 1903 at 3 p. m. at the Fifth Baptist Church (Sydney) Excellent program will be rendered. Special address "Why are we Baptists?" by Hon. J. Henry Crutchfield. Dr. Anderson of the National Convention, also missionary to South America will be present, also some of the leading lights of the Baptist Sunday School Convention of Virginia. The celebrated "Non Pareil" Quartette will sing. Be on time. B. H. PRYTON, Pres. E. A. WASHINGTON, Vice Pres. A. W. DANDRIDGE, Sec'y. Masons Here. The Grand Lodge of Masons has been in session here this week and much business has been transacted under the leadership of Grand Master J. B. Evans, who seems to be giving general satisfaction. A grand banquet was given the visitors last Thursday night at Pythian Castle. —Sirs J. M. Booth and Isham Powell, of Suffolk, Va., called on us. —Mrs. Fernella Steele, of Washington, D. C., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edith boro Archer. —Mr. Dongless Johnson of Petersburg, Va., called on us. —Mrs. Mary Byrd of Darby, Pa., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Norrell, north 7th St. —Mrs. C. V. Hawkins, of N. First street, has returned from New York, where she has been taking a special course in manicuring and hair dressing. —Rev. T. H. Shorts, president of the Galilean Fishermens' Consolidated Bank at Hampton. Va., accompanied by his private secretary, C. F. McLaurin, called on us. He was from Culpepper, Va., and was enroute home. He reports his work as prospering. OST—December 8th, Open face Ladies Gold Watch and Pin with initials E. K. B. on back. $20.00 reward if returned to MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK. LINDSEY—Died at the home of his mother, Tuesday night, Dec. 1st, Henry Lindsey, son of Pattie Lewis. Age, 31. WANTED.—A settled colored woman to do general house work and cooking: Reference. Address Index Printing Company, Fairmont, Va. 2t. "The child is the father to the man" remarked the proverb disenser. "Don't you believe it," replied the observer of human nature. "The child howls when it is empty, and the man howls when he is full."—Chicago Daily News. He Knew Right 07 "Ah," sighed the wretched Mr. Newpop, "what can be more wearing on the nerves than a baby that cries all night long?" "Twins," answered the man who has been through it—Chicago Record-Herald. HCN. C. H. PAYNE SPEAKS. Aroused by Scandalous Assertions. Criticizes the Times-Democrat—Ringing Declarations—An Able Contribution. Editor Richmond PLANET. Sir—In the PLANET of Nov. 14th there appeared a review of a diatribe found in the New Orleans Times-Democrat of Nov. 3rd. I am greatly grati tious most masterly manner in which you demolish that which is prejudice, malevolence and malicious folly. CAUSTIC CRITICISM To my mind the most pusillanimous portion of that monstrous production is found in words you quoted from the Times-Democrat, which are these: "Mr. Roosevelt does not desire the votes of those 'who would close the doors of hope against the Negro as a citizen' Here again is a matter that requires an explanation before inference. Do the president know what the hope of the Negro is? Those who have unfortunately known the Negro all of their lives think they do, and they are determined to slam shut the door against some of his hopes and bar it tightly after it is closed. "'The door of hope' for the Negro means social equality, it termriage and even social superiority to the humber class of whites." Yes, "those who have unfortunately known the Negro all of their lives think they do"—and this 'think they do' is one of the ridiculous and disgusting features of the situation; those southern white men like Tillman, Graves, Morgan and men of their lik of speakers and writers on the Negro race problem, as they call it, to set themselves up as absolute authority upon all questions of Negro character, are absolutely the most incompetent class of persons to pass up on that important subject that can be found in the whole United States, for two reasons: first, because of their ignorance upon that subject; and second because of prejudice against the Negro as a man. PLAIN REASONS. The first reason is apparent to every thoughtful, observant Negro in the land; those people are ignorant because their prejudice prevents them from using such means as would supply them with a correct and intelligent knowledge of the Negro's real character, aspirations and aims. For instance, when did Morgan, Tillman, the editor of the New Orleans Times-Democrat or any of the would-be absolute authorities and exponents of Negro character and desires, visit any of the tens of thousands of well-regulated, intelligent Negro homes that are distributed all over the South? or when did they visit the thousands of splendidly organized and ably taught Negro schools, academies, seminaries, colleges and universities, as well as industrial schools where, in all, more than two millions of people are being trained in the most helpful departments of education in order that they may be trained in the most sense worthy citizens of what would be the greatest government upon the earth were it not for the influence of such men as those to whom we are now making reference? OTHER QUESTIONS. And again, when did Messrs Morgan, etc., visit the thousands of successfully conducted business houses, work shops and farms owned and managed by Negroes? or when did they attend service conducted by any of the many thousands of intelligent Negro preachers, who are conducting their churches and services from time to time in a way that is receiving the highest encomnoms of praise from all fair-minded people both North and South, who occasionally go among them and know? To each of the queries above, I am quite confident that a negative answer must be given. Then the question arises, how can these people speak intelligently about the Negro of today? TO KEEP HIM DOWN. The answer is plain. They are not speaking intelligently. Their ignorance concerning the Negro's real condition is only equalled by their diabolical efforts to keep him down, and to ultimately crush him to the earth. There is, as we see it, only one general source from whence the Tillman class gets their information concerning the Negro as a race, and that is from that most ignorant, shiftless class that is always in evidence about railroad depots, steamboat landings and other public places, and who are constantly hollowing and swaggering around, giving expression to many things which they themselves do not really mean, and many times do not fully. Yet these people, who are anxious at catching for something, catch every word and measure it up as the voice of the real Negro's sentiment. Then there is another choice of "shabby gentry" among the Negroes who will not "do hard work," and the strongest and almost the only evidence of their sense or manhood is seen in their well-laundered nirt and extremely clean apron. It is to this class also that the Tillman and New Orleans Times- Democrat man and their class of people, who claim a patient on Negro race desires and aspirations, go to for information, but never to Booker T. Washington, Judson Lyons, John Mitchell, Jr., John Dancy, Judge Gibbs, E. E. Cooper, W. W. Starks, Bishop Walters and thousands of others who compare favorably with the best, most intelligent and thrifty citizens of the Republic. THE FOULEST OF ALL: The most foul, baseless slander it seems to me, contained in that conscious production in the Times-Democrat, and that which would cause old Ananias to throw up the sponge, is the charge that the Negroes as a race or any considerable number of them 'hope' for social equality and intermarriage with white people. That editor knows better than any one who lives in the North or West that there are not a doz en of even partially informed Negroes in the whole South who want social equality or who would, if they could, marry white people. It seems to me that the subject of race mixing is one to be avoided by every New Orleans Democrat for, as has been hitherto said, there is not a city in America where as many mulattoes and albinoes are to be found as can be found in New Orleans. IA PI OPOSED SOLUTION It seems to me that, in justice to the white women of the South as well as the decent colored men of the South, there should be a general law made effective in all the Southern States as least which would compel every white man who had illicit intercourse with a Negro woman, if she were single, to either marry her or pay a fine of one thousand dollars, and if offspring, should be produced and the white father refuse to marry the Negro mother then force him to pay two thousand dollars as follows; $1200 for the care and education of the child, $200 to the mother and $300 to the school fund of the State in which the offense is committed, then let the illegitimate child lawfully bear the father's name. Let the same law apply in the care of illicit relations between a Negro man and a white woman. NO SOCIAL EQUALITY. It is the most heathenish, barbarous cowardly villain upon the part of that class of editors and would be statesmen and leaders in the South to persist in charging the Negro race with a desire for social equality and intermarriage with the white race. Every man who makes that charge against us as a race is either ignorant concerning the truth in the matter or else he is a base falsifier, indeed an outrageous liar. If these men are sincerely in the desire to keep the Anglo-Saxon blood pure, and if they really want to erect a barrier between the races, then let them put up legal bars, such as we suggest between white men and Negro women as well as between white women and Negro men. When those gentlemen charme the Nei ro with cherishing "hopes" and desires for social equality and intermariage, let Mr. Gorman look in Baltimore, the editor of the Times-Democrat look in New Orleans and Mr. Graves in Atlanta. Indeed, each one, if he looks in his own immediate section, will see scores, and in some instances, hundreds, and in some other sections thousands of children who have colored mothers, yet with fair complexion and flaxen hair, showing that their fathers are white men. Indeed, many are so white that as soon as they get into a strange community they pass undetected. THOSE HALF- WHITES. It is also safe to conclude that four fifths of those half white children, some of them with ebony black mothers have democratic fathers; our democratic friends, many of them, use to sell their own children and now since they are deprived of that luxury they get even by disfranchising them and chucking them into "Jim Crow Cars." Mr. Editor, let us all insist upon some such legislation as is suggested above; the democrats enmity to be carrying the war into "Africa," let us therefore, carry Africa into the war. It seems to me that the chief aim upon the part of those people is to keep the Negro men clear away from white women on the one hand and leave the Negro women absolutely unprotected and therefore the almost, helpless subjects of the foul lusts of the same class of monsters who are daily howling about Negro equality; If this is not true, where do these thousands of colored children born in the South each year, whose fathers are white come from? Any man who to day has the courage to express a sentiment that appears in, the smallest degree, to tend towards justice and fairness to the Negro in easily draws upon himself a deluge of abuse, slander and maliciously false accusations from all over the South, only however from a certain class, and from every dough face and "me too" sycophant in the North and West. THE REAL EFFORT. The real effort is to destroy the self respect, natural aspirations and manhood hod by the real man and women of the race, and this cannot be done for the Negro is a MAN, God Almighty made him a man, and there has never lived enough democrats from Jefferson on to Tillman and there will not accumulate a sufficient number from Tillman to the end of time to destroy what God has made. All of these things that the imp is too severe for that is that the Devil is mistaken if he thinks, for a minute, that he can, even with as strong an ally as the Democr tic party, prevent the Negro from becoming the equal of any man on earth in principle. intelligence, courage, wealth, honor and manhood, this being true the question is settled without further debate, and a man is a fool to continue telling another man that he, the other man is not his equal when the other man sees that he has not only as much but more manhood, money, courage, principle and sense than he has and so far as we know God thinks as much of black, as a color, as he does of white and as much of a bunch of kinks as he does of a lock of curls, for he made all, More Anon. O H. PAYNE. [Hon. C. H. Payne is United States Counsel General at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies.—Ed.] A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Pope Plus received in private audience Bellamy Storer, United States ambassador to Austria, and Mrs. Storer. The house of lords finally decided that women are debarred by their sex from becoming qualified lawyers in England. Because the Charlotte, N. C., Street Car company did not heat its cars, all employees went on strike, and traffic is suspended. Two men were killed and four injured in a collision between a freight train and passenger train at West Nutley, N. J. Officers of the United States Steel Company held a meeting in Pittsburgh, and a cut of 10 to 35 per cent, for high salaried men is probable. Friday. December 4. Hugh Schofield, a 12-year-old boy, died at Fishkill Landing, N. Y., from injuries received in a football game. Fifteen persons were injured, some seriously, in a railway collision on the Norfolk and Western railway at Portsmouth, O. President Roosevelt has pardoned William J. Wright, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Ariona for criminal assault. Sumner Swan, a prominent farmer near Huntington, W. Va., was shot and killed by Harrison Fowler, a brother-in-law, during a quarrel. While crossing the Lehigh Valley railroad tracks in a carriage at Ihaca, N. Y., Mrs. St. Clair Sincebaugh and Miss Fannie Palmer were struck by a train and killed. Saturday, December 5. The bank and postoffice at Mount Olive, N. C., was robbed. The amount taken is not known. The National Association of Master Plumbers organized at Wilmington, Del., and elected officers. George Wood, a prominent banker of Colfax, Ia., while despondent, committed suicide by shooting. Ex-Congressman William M. Springer, of Illinois, a former Democratic leader, died at Washington, D. C., of pneumonia. A wagon load of Chinamen, who were being smuggled into this country, was overturned near Buffalo, N. Y., and fell into the Erie canal. Four of them were drowned. Monday, December 7. A mob of white men lynched Lewis Jackson, colored, near Tampa, Fla., for an attempted assault upon a 3-year-old white girl. Herbert W. Johnson, of Camden, has been appointed sheriff of Camden county, N. J., to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sheriff Mines. The cruiser Des Moines, in her official speed trial over the Cape Ann course, exceeded her contract speed, making 16.63 knots an hour. In a rear-end collision between a passenger train and a freight near Worcester, Mass., three trainmen were killed and nearly 100 passengers injured, some seriously. Tuesday, December 8. President Roosevelt has appointed Jonas F. Laubenstein to be postmaster at Minervinsville, Pa. Russia and Denmark are the latest European countries to recognize the Republic of Panama. Mrs. Hattle Sutcliffe and son were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home at Lc. Rock, Mich. Eight more indictments in the water plant scandal have been found against prominent citizens of Grand Rapids, Mich. The report of the department of justice shows that 14,308 voluntary petitions in bankruptcy were filed in the United States for the year ending September 30. Wednesday, December 9. Burglaries blew open the safe in the office of the Garlock-Frazeye Laundry company, at Cleveland, O., and secured $2000. In the presence of 10,000, Governor J. C. W. Beckham for the second time was inaugurated governor of Kentucky at Frankfort. Representative Hepburn has retroduced the pure food bill, embodying the recommendations of the National Pure Food Congress. At the annual meeting of the Red Cross Society at Washington the request of the opposition to Miss Clara Barton for an investigation was granted and a committee appointed. = Sea eA a TE ABROIRNE) Aaa NS & Aa Fee Ny E age 2 NO eh 4 bee < é BATURDAY,... DECEMBER 12, 1908 First City on the Western Coast of the American Continent. ONCE WAS A PLACE OF BEAUTY ‘Et Figured Largely in the Spanish Gonqnests in America—The New ‘aud Old Chty—Wonderfal pckits aniaincs: TX miles northeast of the present city of Panama once stood wonderful old Pana- ma, whose riches and lovell~ mess were the pride of Spain. The houses were built of fragrant woods, the Anteriors richly hung with tapestries and ornamented with paintings and sculptures fit for a palace; in the 800 churches there were services of silver and of gold, frescoes of pearls and oth- er costly jewels, Along the wide streets rich equipages passed to and fro, and 4m the tropical pleasure gardens richly @ressed men and women gathered for social diversion. And this in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, ‘hen our own portion of the new world was as yet at the very rawest stage of civilization. Whence this wealth that allowed of ‘Bo much display in the isthmus of Da- A cat iE La VL oe PS fae ¥, rien sO son after its discovery by the whites? You remember when the In- trepid Balboa in 1513 discovered the wonderful Southern sea (the Pacific ‘xutn) he made also another discovery of great importance, the existence in the lands along the sea, in the islands ‘thereof, of rich pearls and gold inquan- tities undreamed of. The story travel- ed to Spain, and With het haste for- tune scekers of all classes sought the shores vi the land where gold and pearls were 80 abundant, It was in 1519 that Pedrarias, a high- born, high-handed Spanish officer, a man Jeafous of Balboa and his discov: eries, engaged In a work that for long has kept his name alive—the founding bf the city of Panama. Pedrarias had Deen sent out by the king as governor of Darien, and accompanying him wa: the usual band of adventurers and gold reekers. Pedrarias, lustful of gold troated the natives most cracily. exact ing tribute at any cost, Soon after his arrival in Darlen he heard a great dea of a place called Panama, and thinking it certainly must be gold that made it Bo mitch talked of sent an expedition to take possession of the spot ‘On rearhing {t his men found shapl @ collection of fishermen's huts—Pana ma means a place where there are plen ty of fish—-and were vastly disappoint ed. But presently the little village at tracted a few Spanish settlers, and “a length we find on the Pacific seabour a Europesn settlement, In the aboris inal fishing station of Panama th germ of a Spanish city, the first on th western side of the American conti nent from Patagonia to Alaska.” An AR) vias ee Bee igen Ns sens, MARIN ee Was a ae a8 eS Les tadan Spoon NZ bed if tea mia (i ise= Ap ey Cae es 7 ere pe 7 le ee oe Saree NG tee CGI EENNGR SE though those early settlers appreciated that there was a great future in store for the place, the greatness that even tually came was undreamed of. “Even in their wildest dreams they had not seen resting on their broad-stretching beach ships from the north and the south, and the far-western east, laden with the wealth of half a world, and in the streets of their sun-beaten city gold and silver stacked in bricks.” Panama stored treasures from the mines of Peru, from Mexico, Guatemals and Honduras, pearls from the tslanda apices, precious woods and gums from western tropical America, and sent this treasure, under strong guard, to the town of Cruges, on the Chagres river where barges took it to the statel; Spanish ships awaiting on the easterz toast. Royal favor was early bestowed upor the city, and the fing, in return for ') wealth gathered by the native: him, built tor the natives beautify churches and exthedrals. As the tow: Frew, the wonder and riches of it ere space. To such an extent that covecous tyes were cast upon it, covetous hands Aespoiled it. In 1670 it was the largest ind richest city in the new world and contained 20,000 inhabitants. It was at chis period that those wild rovers, the puccaneers, were assailed by Spain and hey retaliated w th full vengcance ‘The viratical buccaneers had various lerd- rs, but none that attained such prom- ence as one Welshman, by name, Henry Morgan. Followed by 1,209 men, Gnglish, French and Dutch, Morgan n 1670 crossed the isthmus and set hin face toward Panama. The band was aot well provided with food, and al- nost started on the journey, but on the ainth day of the march the freebooters saw before them the splendors of the pity of their search and set up wild aries of rejoicing. After a night of ‘test, they descended towar! the town. The Spanish force, consisting of 400 horse, 2,400 foot and 2,000 wild oxen, jame out to meet them. ‘There were :wo hours of fighting, then Morzan led ais men into the beautiful city and ruthlessly pillaged everywhere. A fire aroke ont, and though efforts were nade to extinpuish it, it spread rapidly, completely finishing the work of de- struction. ‘The traredy caused great erief In 3pain, and the town wa» ordered re- built immediately and fortified very strongly. The site chosen for the new town was close to the old one, on a Tit- ile peninsnta at the base of a hill. The rebuilt town became one of Spain's most powerful stroneholds; the walls were built of massive granite, from 29 to 49 feet in heieht and ten fect thie’; at intervals of 200 ana 300 feet stronely fortified watch towers were placed: a feen moat divided the city from the mainland, and three great gates gave entrance and exit. The cost of all this was enormons. M. McMahon, writing of Panama, old and new, tells an anec- fote relative to the money spend upon these walls: “The story fs told of a king of Spain, who looking one day from ihe window of his palace. shaded his eyes with his hand. A minister re- | marked the action. ‘Tam loo'ing,’ sald the king, ‘for the walls of Panama, for they cost enoneh to be seen even from here.’ When the Spanish council came to auditing the accounts for the fortif- cations, the sarcastic inquiry was whether the walls of new Panama were made of sflver or gold. The new Panama, like the old, en- loyed great prosperity, and up to 1744 was the principal entrepot of trade on the Pacific coast. But at that time, trade between Europe and western America began to be carried on around Cape Horn; and this fact, added to the decline of the Spanish possessions in Qa "Sei ae LS D cS 2 X — ee Se Meee > \ wae Tecrrne ocran MAP OF THE ISTHMUS. Guughes Gunad Scan: America, reduced the commerce of Pan- ama to a mere nothing; and so it re- mained until the establishment of the western steamship lines and the butld- ing of the Panama railroad. Corro de los Buccareros (the Hill of the Buceaneers) Is the name by which one of the summits overlooking Pana- ma fs called to this day, and doubtless all dwellers In the city know something concerning the story of the destroyers of the old town. As the traveler by the Panama railroad approaches the west- ern end of the road, his guide book di- rects him to mark well the spot made memorable >y Morgan and his. bucca- neers, and proper respect is paid to the hill famous in thehistory of theisthmus. After Cerro de los Buccaneros has been duly considered, the attention of the tourist falis presently on the cathedral towers, high roofs, and decaying fort!- fications of the new Panama, the city upreared soon after the fall of the old one. KATHERINE POPE. Oa ae William Cromwell, of Vineland, N.' J. has had a record-breaking run of hard luck for the past 12 months, A | year ago his wife was operated upon for appendicitis, ‘Two or three days after her return from the hospital she | fell down the stairs and has been an invalid ever since. Then his son ‘ot. | ver, seven years old, was hurt while crossing a railroad, and while he was in the hospital a 13-year-old daughter broke her arm. Later his son Melvin eaught diphtheria and the head of the house was mangled by a savage dog | Just after be had returned from the Pasteur institute in Baltimore ten days ‘ago, Melvin turned up with a broken collar bone. Now the father is wonder- ing what next. poe Thanktal for That. Gobbler—You're a scrawny, ldlotie ‘old goose. Old Goose—That’s why I’m so thank- ful every November.—Ohio State Jour- nal. { Witting. I tried to glve my share of thanks For my smaii eartRly store |. Ta tike an opportnty For giving many more. Washington Star. Parrot (to turkey)—Boast not of the morrow, for no man knoweth what a day may bring forth—Detroit Free (Press. Adlantic leebergs. Icebergs in the Atlantic sometime Jast for 200 years.- Mer Trolley Mileage. Germany has 2,117 miles of electric car lines. @ THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ES CONSTRUCTION OF DRAINS. 4 DIME NOVEL YOUTH. i CHRISTI Most Important Thing ta to Get the When Arrested in Buffalo, N.Y. Wil-; Religion Calls fo Fkehor Gunde Line tes aye Me's Pockets Were Foundte Be || of God's Auth ae eee 2 “A stream of wate at bottom of a With a collection of weapons, dis-; If Christianity 1 ditch is a better index for gradizeaditcn fulses, dime novels and other piwi-) all, says Rev. C than a level.” ‘This starement by one 2ernalia that would havedonecreditto| in the Boston who wrote on drainage matters taes 2€ Most dlood-thirsty hero of yellow; {t must mean evers ts back to primitive, methods when ered fiction, Willie Miles, of Buf-j ed by the same rut guesswork aud waste of enerey pre. 20, N. ¥., started for Toronto to iml-; curse of a misappl tilled. ‘To wait for awet time inorder te the heroes of his favorite litera-; dual existence; a to have water to level by would betoin- “Fe. The butt of hia big revolver was. of conscience, of | tite corresponding disadvantages. To %otruding from his hip pocket, and’ of salvation, on th Work in the mud’ and water with the 2é next thing that Willie knew he was! his home life, in 1 Micky earth clinging to the tools is ocked up in a cell at the Third pre-; his private life, ax fomerbing to be aroleed if postible. As “inct station on the charge of carrying. of the same princi to the grade line made by digging after “oncealed weapons. | politics, in amusen water It will be uneven, and although _ When Desk Sergeant Potter started to} culture and educati it may do where there is plenty of fall, 0 through the boy’s pockets, the: Perhaps no one t! it is not at all to be depended upon when 28tFolmen and specials around the’ more damage to th one is working within, close limits, ¢8k came to the conclusion that they’ in all ages than th 5 6s SY : S NX ‘ NN S GaacinG -k. SERGE Every practical ditcher knows, who has attempted to “grade himself” from stake to stake by water in the bottom of the diten, that he will rise too fast In those cases where the engineer has found it necessary to fix a grade verg- ing towards the least fall allowable. Many drains are put in nowaday with as small a fall as one Inch per 100 feet. A small fall like this often saves great ex- panse In dizging or {t may be that it Is not possible to get more. Digging such ditches by water In the bottom would be wholly tmpracticable and {t fs only by the help of an experienced engineer with a good level that successful re- suits can be assured. He will ful cases the drainage engineer alone fs able to tell whether a system of drainage fs pos- sible. He will adjust the grades, mark the cuts on each stake and put the work in such a shape that the work can be executed property elther with contract or day labor, Even in cases where there is plenty of fall {t will be economy to have a ditch or system of drains dug with a perfectly uniform erade. Digging beneath the grade line In places is not only a waste ‘of work but in cases will cause injury to the successful operation of the fin- ished drain by causing accumulation of silt. ete. Having the level stakes eet with the cuts given for each place the problem remaining is to get a uniformly finished bottom from one stake to the next. The best method of accomplizhing this is to set up targets at two or better three stakes on a straight course to be ditched. The target consists of a ver. tical pole set at the stake alongside the itch with a horizontal arm movatte up and down the pole and fastened at any point by a thumb screw Fix the hori. zontal arms of the targets at a uniform distance above the established grade line of the ditch, say six feet. Then the operator with 8 six-foot pole in his hands can really determine the prope depth to dig at any point by sighting along the targets. Suppose at stake No 2 the required cut is 2.6 feet. at No ¢ | ihe cut Is 3.1 feet. at No. 10 tt fs 2.8 feet | hen the targets will set above the sur face of the ground at the respective sta tion named 3.4 feet. 2.9 feet and 3.2 feet ‘The three targets will then indicate 1 line parallel to and six feet above the re quired bottom of the diteh.—Gran Davis, In Royal New Yorker. TIMELY ORCHARD NOTES. Currants and blackberries _ start growth very early in spring. There- fore, fall planting Is advisable, Nut culture holds out possibilities of profit in some lucalities, but the re- turns are longer coming in than from fruit trees. Cover strawberry beds early. Its the first hard freeze that does the most damage. Get the mulch on just be- fore this is expected. Delaware, Concord and Niagara—a trio of grapes hard to beat. Sei three vines of each and add one of Hartfgrd Prolific, Green Mountain and Brighton to make an even dozen. | The Ben Davis gets lots of hard ‘knocks from consumers, but it comes up as handsome and tasteless as ever. Look out for overplanting and add some better varietion to your list. At least a dozen varleties of cholee apples, suited to all seasons and tastes, ‘should be grown for famity use by every considerable land owner. Bui for profit, it were better for the growel to tle himself down to the least num ber of winter varieties, all of whict are found io do well in bis locality. To set an acre of two-year-old appl trees, of ordinary quality, $12.50 will perhaps, cover the expense. Suppos the cost of trees was double; tha would be a difference worth consider ing, but if you get trees that will bea a few more barrels of fruit, it woul be a good investment. In no other en terprise Is the starting with a goo thing so important—J. W. Adams, i ‘Bante nual dea A Watch Is Useless There. Moscow seems to be a city where no body knows with any degree of certainty what time it is. Arthur Symons in his new book on “Cites,” says that no two clocks In Moscow agree; even in the best hotels a clock will solemnly strike three a quarter of an hour before its neighbor strikes seven. ‘The confu- sion is increased by the fashion of stick- ing up dummy clocks in the streets as advertisements. The maddering mo- ment comes when you have to catch’ a train In Moscow. The railway time tables are worked on St. Petersburg time, which differs by half an hour from Moscow time. When youaretold that the St, Petersburg express leaves at nine o'clock, you are in doubt as to whether It leaves at 8:30, 9 or 9:30, by your care fully adjusted watch, DIME NOVEL YOUTH. When Arrested in Buffalo, N. ¥.. Wile, Me's Pockets Were Found to Be | Full of Weapons. With a collection of weapons, dis-| fulses, dime novels and other pera dhernalia that would have done credit to the most blood-thirsty hero of yellow: sovered fiction, Willie Miles, of But-; ‘alo, N. ¥., started for Toronto to imi~: ate the heroes of his favorite litera- mre. The butt of his big revolver was protruding from his hip pocket, and: che next thing that Willie knew he was ocked up in a cell at the Third pre- sinct station on the charge of carrying soncealed weapons. When Desk Sergeant Potter started to’ yo through the boy’s pockets, the: yatrolmen and specials around the Jesk came to the conclusion that they must have made an important capture. First, the big .38 caliber revolver made if { Ls f, \g Ven 1d 2 d {| Ge a jar of Th aA \ die = a1 As ew YQ i “om ie ay <= its appearance. Next came a viliain- ous looking slung shot, and then a wig. The policemen formed a close circle around their prisoner, and then a few more pockets were emptied. A tiase catter waa discovered. A mus: tache several shadesdarkerincolorthan the wig was found in one corner of one of the boy's pockets. The cause of all the blood-thirsty array was next unearthed. In an inside coat pocket was found a collection of nickel and dime novels from which the would-be desperado planned his campaign. The book which was apparently the best read bore the title “Hold-Up Dan's Best Haul, or Old Cap. Collier's Big Mis- take.” ‘This was apparently the guide book to the young man’s intend- ed career, Miles sat In the cell waiting to be taken to police court, and every time an officer pessed ne would ask that he might be aliowed to have just one of his favorite books. This favor was re- fused, and the boy had to content him- self with a morning paper. | Wille said that he thought he would give up his idea of going to Toronto, and see if he could not se- cure a place on the local detective force. He feit that bis natural tatents ran in that direction. | ADMIRED WIFE’S GIFT. How an Absent-Minded Man Gave Himself Away at an Inop- portune Moment. ‘The St. Louis Republic tells this de- liclous story of a prosperous business man who had no time to pick out a wedding gift for his dearest friend. So his wife went shopping and purchased a very handsome picture. “[ bought a picture, Jim,” she said that evening at dinner, “and sent it up to George Stone's house with our cards. I wish you could have seen it, for I know it would just sult you. In fact, when I picked it out I tried to look at things through your eyes and choose such a picture as you would have se- lected.” ‘The business man had carried the worries of the day home with him, so Ce Fai AN Ww i fie f\: bees Lil\ he merely remarked: ‘That's very nice,” in an absent-minded sort of way, ané let his mind go back to bis office again. ‘A week later he and his wife attend- ed George Stone’s wedding. It was a small affair, and:rather informal. The business man was wandering around in the room where the gifts were dis. played, looking aimlessly at the cut glass and silver, when he suddenly; stopped before a picture. “I say, Carrie,” he called to his wife 0 that every one near him could hear “Carrie, this is a beautiful picture. | wish we had it in our house. It's 3 fine bit of works.” ee Tt is against Italian law to sink 2 well within 300 feet of a cemetery. It Australia and France a well is not permitted within 600 feet of a grave- yard. Probably the Largest. The lerg’st plow in the world, per- haps, is owoed by Richard Gird, of San Bernardiuo, Cal. This immense sod- turner stands 18 feet high, and weighs 86.000 poun:s. It runs by steam, is pro- vided with 12 12-inch plowshares, and Is capable «f plowing 60 acres of land daily. !t consumes from one to 1% tons of coal per day, and usually travels at the rate of four miles an hour. oa CHRISTIANITY MEANS. Religion Calls for the Recognition | Of God's Authority Under AIL | ai a if Christianity means anything at all, says Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, im the Boston Congregationalist, \t must mean every act of life govern- ed by the same ruling personality. The curse of a misappled Christianity ts a dual existence; a recognition of God, of conscience, of righteousness, even of salvation, on the part of a man, in his home life, in his chureh life and his private life, and an abandonment of the same principles in business, in politics, in amusements and so-called culture and education. Perhaps no one thing has really done more damage to the chiurch of Christ in all ages than the sight of meu who have called themselves Christian, and have borne the outward marks of dis- ccipleship in the church, the prayer meeting and the home, and have not applied the teachings of Jesus to thelr money mating, to their politica life, to their recreation! The heart of Christianity itself is summed up In the verse, “Whatsoever ye do. whether ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of It is the part application of the Ser- mon on the Mount; it 1s the parti=! at- {tempt to follow Christ in the world, which have brought chaos and confus- fon into society. If the teachings of Christ apply to the home life or to the | Draver meeting. they apply no less di- | fectly to the store, to the office, to the legislative hall. If the minister is sup- ‘posed to live according to the highest standard of Christian lMving, no less the bank president, the railroad direc- tor, the hotel keeper, the newspaper jeditor. The Christranity which will ' not bear the test of the market place or the amusement hall is not worthy of [iss name. There is no Christianity unless it {s the direct living every day of what Christ taucht; and if in answer to the question, “What would Jesus do?” the business man finds it would wreck his business—then it is a business that oueht to be wrected! T believe there is no dowbt that if the disciples of Jesus should follow him as they ought in their business and nolit- {cal lives to-day, the resutt would ma- terially be a wrecking of very much of the present business and_ political life In the world. But ff our principle holds good, that to follow Christ him- self is to follow Him regardless of re- sults, then there is nothing else for the Christian to do. It fs not a case of saving the life, It is a eaze of losing it in order that the real life may be ‘saved. ‘The world will never realize tts mfl- lentum until the dfsciples of Christ fol- tow Him all the way, fot a part of the way. and follow Him in the affsirs of daily life, as well as in t%e devotional , Qnd strictly religious acts of Christian | discipleship. Practical Christianity means that Christ claims ownership and lordship of all the world, and He will never be satisfied with that type of Christianity j Which is real only in name, which de- nies His right to rule over all the af- fairs of the world, which follows His standard of conduct where it is easy, and abandons it when it becomes diffi- cult. This is not the Christianity of Christ, it is simply the defiuition of it which men have given. It will never satisfy Him, neither will it satisfy the world. RELIGIOUS TRUTHS. It were better that one should stifle his breath than his convictions.—Well- spring. ‘The real union of the human race lies in oneness of heart. Many languages will be no barrier. One Spirit and man will understand man.—F, W. Robertson. ‘The best perfection of a religious man 1s to do common things in a perfect man- ner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and herole virtue—Saint Bonaventura, The easiest way io get rid of a dis- agreeable duty ts to do it without delay. Then it docs not keep coming up to trouble one’s conscience.——Wellsprirg. Work is always tending to humility Work touches the keys of endless ac- tivity, open: the infinite, and stands awe- struck before the immensity of what there is to do.—Philiips Broo!:s. Kindness, gentleness, consideration for all with Whom our earthly lot is cast —these form the practice ground for the ultimate satisfactions of the communion of saints in heaven.—I. 0. R. Religion js no haggard or stern mont- tress waving you trom enjoyment; she is a strong angel leading you to noble joy. The Bible is not a book of repres. sions and prohibitions: it 1s a book o kindling Inspiration.—Canon Farrar. ‘To be bright and cheerful often re quires an effort. There is a certain ar in keeping ourselves happy. In this re- spect, as in others, we require to wate? over and manage ourselves almost as i we were somebody else.—Sir John Lub tock: On the Plata. Henry Clay Trumbull, speaising of the mission of the lowly road ‘in the Chris- tian’s life and its relative importance in comparison to the mountain road, says: “Phere are times in every life when the soul stands an the clear heights, and no task seems to be too difficult to the boundless enthusiasm of the moment. But what is to be done when the soul has descended into the plains, and the enthusiasm is gone. and tho task re- mains? Only to go on bravely, trusting to the c.cere. vision on the mountain top, and making faithful performance fil the place of enthusiasm. The mountain and the plain has each {ts place in Chris- tian life—the mountain for the clear vision ahead,‘ low! road along the plain for (he ac...) performance of the Journey.” One Way of Doing It. From Paris comes an amusing pit of information. In order to look one’s pret- Uest it is, of course, eseential to have 8 curl or two on the forehead. It has been found difficult to achieve this when mo- toring, but the Parisinne overcomes the difficulty with great success by provid- ing herself with detachable curls and fixing them securely to her hat, which In its turn is held in place by a motoring veil tied under Her chin. Aw Anpet Caid, ‘The chiluien were playing funeral, and Johnnie, our tour-year-old boy. was chosen a3 the one to be buried, H= was placed in a hammoc.. and taken to the supposed grave on the children’s shoulders. Grouped about the spot, the ebiidren began to fing. Johnnie joined in luestly. “Stop!” said Mary: “you must not Sing. You are deat.” “Ch, no.” was Johnnis’s answer; “I'm an ancel up in Henven."—Mary H. Northend, in Lippincott’s Magazine. Faithless Faith, Jones—I thougat your friend Smith was a believer in the faith cure. Brown—So he is. His wife was {ll Inst week and he refused to call a phy- sictan. Jones—But I saw Dr. Pillsbury com- Ing out of his house this morning. Brown—Well, that’s different. Smith Is sick himself now.—Cincinnat! En- quirer. Bringing Him to Time. Mrs. Mocus—Well, George, you prom- ised me a new bonnet. George—I? Promised you a new bon- net? Great Scot? When? Mrs. Modus—Before you married me you swore that never should ciserace rest upon my head through you; and what do you call this rhabby thing that’s on my head now?—Tit-Bits, / a a eT _ “You look unusually happy, old man.” “I feel that way. I ‘ve just paid for my bicycle. and—" “Gee whiz! What are you buying a wheel for? Nobody rides a bicycle— “Of course not. I'm speaking of the wheel I bought on installments in 1898."—Philadelphia Press. ; Wonderfat Medteine. Dr. Bluster—What! The boy is well already? Well, well! A marvelous cure, indeed! What do you think of my medicine now, Dame Tackleigh? Dame Tach le'gh—Wonderful, doctor —simple wonderful! I told the boy yes- terday that if that medicine didn’t cure him you were going to fetch a different kind to-day.—Tit-Bits. Her Wine Papa, She—Papa says that when coming to see me, you must not come in a street car any more, | He—Really! Does he expect me to walk all this distance? She—Of course, not. He says all he asks is that you will come in a carriage, hired by the hour.—N. Y. Weekly. eveeaintion: “Didn't your old employer recom- mend you?" “Oh, yes.” “Their word should have been enough.” | “It was. They announced me as the best man they ever turned out.”—Cin- cinanti Commercial Tribune. Cheap at Any Price. Husband—Where did you get that sideboard? Wife—At auction for $100. Husband—Awful! 1 could have bought the same thing for $50. ‘Wife—Well, I wasn't going to let that woman across the way outbid me. —Brooklyn Life. Juvenile Diplomat. Mamma—Now, sir, tor your disobed!- ence, I'm going to whip you! __ Willle—Say, ma, let's compromise this thing. ‘Mamma—What? ‘Willie—Call it@quits, and I'll use my influence with pa to yet that bonnet you want.—Tit-Bits, No Roem for More. ‘Wife—Wasn't that Mr. Guzzle we passed? He seemed preoccupied. Husband—He looked to me what you might call “occupied.” Wife—Occupied? How do you mean? Husband—Full.—Philadelphia Press. NmVER GAVE If A CRAXCH. | Fh | a= (sag Se —— PONS) ae = A/S ay Gor 2 ff == ==: RA a b> Seen eS / 2372 33 p22? 2223 Sie ee ie: yy ifs First Little Girl—Does your father hate work? Second Little Girl—No, indeed. Tt never done him no harm.—Cineinnat Commercial Tribune. Au Hadicas Programme. Te sighed for wealth ‘A mighty store He got: and then He sighed fer more Washington Star SSS oe: “I am going (o name my airship the Tramp.” said ihe inventor who had profited by Prof. Langley’s experience. “Why so?” asied his friend. “Then I am sure it will keep away from the water.” Philadelphia Record. Whnka Wdaeeal Harry—-Blanche says she has insuper- able reasons for remaining single. Horace—Yes, | know what they are. Harry—Then she has told you? Horace--No, but I have seen her.— Boston Transcript. One of the Jors. “The brusque way that you refused to buy Willie a knife cut him deeply,” as serted the mother. “In that case,” replied the father, “he has the result without having the knife.” —Chicago Post. Reccless Fenrs. Dinah Ebony—Aunty, de papers say mebby de biack plague will come ,to ais country. Aunt Ebony—Don't you worry "bout dat, honey. It won't show on us—N. Y. Weekly. A Provident Four-Year-o1d, “I said my prayers five times last night, daddy.” “why, Dorothy?” “0h, now, you know, I'll not have to gay ’em al! those other nights.”—Judge. —_ Curly Hair Made Straight By Taxes rnou ies: | merous an aren fucatwexe ORIGINAL ; OZONIZED OX MARROW Comrretinss preparation tnvthe morta tinge eae, a Purdy bate straight an shown above, "eure firs genreapd tose Wecanaue wares : Slee toning Rinty hate Wowace oF ‘ Gatatcers cas te eragnet Geena feeraibad beuilee ufo eargaaese, esa ei it tty ea Exprean charges," Kond 'wrcti_ or" deviate § Eniereinanpicse Wels otra ad + ozonizED ox Marzow co. § 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, fMlinois, § CIO OOODOOOG MOG’. Special Land Bayers’ Excursions Will ran to the new lands of Greer Covuty, Oklahoma, and cther sections of ths ‘great Southwest in November and December. via the Frisco System, Are you looking for rich and fertile farmitig lands in the Southwest which you cau bay for trom one-fourth to one- Yenth the cost of lauds of the Bast and North. | They produce as mach ucre for acre. Here tx a cnance to better your condition ard add a hberal amount to your pocket book For foll particvlars and special rail- Toad rates auply at once to R.S. Lemon, Secretary Frise System Immigration Bureau, St. Louis, Mo. Winter Tourist Excursion Rates Via the Southern Railway, Begining with October 15th, 1998 and cuurmaing until April 30th, 1904, the Southern Railway will have on sale excursion tickers to uLany poluts ta the South aud Sourh-west, at greatly re- duced rates. Frequeut ‘and convenient schedules; Taroagh Pullman and Thor- onghfare cars; diuiug car service of the huzhest class on all through trains. For detatis, apply to agents, ©. W. Westbury, DP. A., Richmond, Va. To Oulifornia, the South and South- West Via Southern Railway. Low rates exwuraion wokyt ous way, and round trip pow on sale Via Soath- ern Ruiway to California and the Sooth West. Slegaut taroagh service, “Dua- ing Gams."" ur detail, apy to agents O. W. Westoary, DP A. | ES ee yyy YY 1 saz, PAINLESS EXTRACTION .... For ‘eautiful Teeth, Comfort, Pleasure and Health. Orrice Houns:—From 8 A. M. to 6.P M. Old Phone, 816. | DR. P. B. RAMSEY, 102 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. Fred G. Gray, 208 West Leigh St. THE SPOVE MAN. You can have all kinds of Stoves Re- Baten bestiuors natal aad — a reasonable aa apieciniel. sid Phone, S00 FRED G. GRAY, Richmond, Va. AND HUNDLEY, LEADERS IN Qualit Furniture PARLOR SUITS, We have some twenty-five cr thirty suits bought, most of which will be in stock in a few days. “Don’t do a thing” until you see this line. MORR'S CHAIRS. This always popular chair of rest will be in as much de- mand this fall as ever. Part of our stock has already ar- rived and $ro values vie with $15 values of a year ago. Gall, see our stock of Bed Room Fat niture and save time and money. _____ Passeager elevator. Sydnor & fundley, __ -200-11-18 E. Broad St. The Way of the World banks giving, nineteen hundred and three Miss Betty Richards [fourth of the line] Rides after the hounds of the Bronx side her She wins the brush, but can't lay in dine A bite of a luncheon, and into town With a Yale - blue banner to wave off the game Yale wine of course and the hell-back crys I told you we'd win out, if you came? A bite of a luncheon, and into town With a Yale-blue banner, wave of the gun Yale wins of course and the ball back city I told you we'd win out, if you came. And as he waves her off at the train With, I'll surely be out for your dance tonight Miss Detty turns to Cousin John. Now isn't Thankgiving Day just right? - Moral - Though the Puritan warson of Plain is the Moral of what you The times may change but What the dear girls want is And as he waves her off at the train With, I'll surely be out for your dance tonight! Miss Betty turns to Cousin John. Now isn't Thanksgiving Day just right? - Moral - Though the Puritan porter shakes his head, Plain is the Moral of what you've read The times may change but the heart's the same What the dear girls want is the Thanksgiving game. Edith Kellogg Dunton. Winter Colors it is only a hairy, silvery surface on the black material, or a stripe raised like a ridge, or an oblong splash of closely- set silvery white fur. november, Eighteen hundred and three: Miss Betty driver in the Squirrel's big sleigh Through the drifted snow to the meeting-house To thunk the Lord on Thanksgiving Day. Then home to dinner, after grace, More thanks for turkey and pumpkin pie I can't be sorry, Miss Betty sighs, When this dull Thanksgiving day has But at "Roll-the-platter" and "Basket of Miss Betty boredom wears away. After all, she considers to Cousin John. There is some use in Thanksgiving Day. Winter Colors and Materials ASHIONS in materials, both for dresses and coats, are decidedly "turry." Long-haired camel cloth is made with a sheeny surface that proclaims the presence of mohair. The new fabrics are FASHIONS in materials, both for dresses and coats, are decidedly "turry." Long-haired camel cloth is made with a sheeny surface that proclaims the presence of mohair. The new fabrics are warm to the eye, smooth and bright, despite their long-haired proclivity. The check patterns are particularly smart, having one check of bright and one square of dull material. Paris sends us over some beautifully soft tartan and striped materials with lines of vivid color blurred by a woolen surface, so that the bright hues are seen under a haze of dark "fuff." Thick mohairs look rather hard, and we have endless new serges, homespun and heapsacks, all classical and eminently useful. New colors are not lacking—from the dull, faded plam bloom, to the wine shades and violine, which is a mixture of red and purple. Petunia and heliotrope have their exponents, but tobacco brown, just the color of a good cigar, is a prime favorite. It is much blended with almond green, Parma maue and deep orange. Tinted coloring, which is one deep shade, such as fruit red, paling to its faintest expression, and which in this case would be a paie coral, will be much affected, and in ribbons we have an immense variety of these ombre or shaded colorings. Dark blue is blended with apple green, crimson or yellow, but the contrasting color generally takes the form of panne or velvet. Three colors are sometimes introduced into one dress, such as gray and white, with just a suspicion of yellow or magenta velvet. Plum bloom, a dull bluish shade of plum, is susceptible of all manner of treatment as to color. It makes a splendid foliar for pale blue, straw color or cream, and mates admirably with certain shades of rose pink. White, ivory. 1 A DAINTY RECEPTION GOWN. champagne, and parchment tints are never more seductive than in gloomy winter weather, but such luxuries are reserved for Fortune's favorite's. Very lovely are the soft beaver cloths made in these delicate shades, which combine so well with fur or feather stoles. Spots of all sizes, from the pin's point to the size of a pea or a large pastille, are in vogue; sometimes the spot is a small bright silk one, raised like an embroidered dot, but oftener it is quite furry, a splash of fur on a light ground, or a disc of plush in a ring of white fur, silvery and long-haired, on a light surface. Pepper and salt fabrics are most effective for short costumes. Sometimes A Shallow Man. A Shallow Man. If you want to please a shallow man tell him he looks like an actor. Nation's Tobacco Bill. The Austrians spend over $40,000,000 a year on tobacco. Usefulness. There's nothing better in this world an usefulness. A very smart short skirt is the umbrella cut into narrow and graduated gores, say nine or 11 gores. With this skirt the coatlet may be a Russian blouse jacket, or a three-quarter tight-fitting coat. The seams should all be strapped with glace silk. The upper part of the coat sleeve might match the dress and end a little below the shoulder line, where the glace silk sleeve balloons out in the fullness provided by its closely-set gathers. Long skirts are more or less of the umbrella type, but many are gathered or tucked at the top. The present tendency in skirts is the F. Gould A CHARMING WINTER HAT. multiplication of the gores, as many as 11 or 13, or even 17 gores being used. These much-gored skirts fit closely to the knees, then spring out full and important looking at the hem, while they suit soft cloth, satin or silk. Skirts with every variety of hip yoke, also all plaited styles, have as great a following as any. The short skirt is undoubtedly the skirt of the moment for walking and all outdoor purposes. It has proved so useful and yet smart that it is unlily ely we shall ever be without the short skirt again. There is no question that in contradistinction to the light frothiness of the late summer costumes, the majority of present modes make, for heaviness and magnificence of effect. Beautiful glowing velvets, the richest and stateless of brocades, will compose our evening gowns; and furs, deep and soft, are left alone in their glory, for no longer is it smart to adorn them with lace, chiffon, or other filmsm trimmings. Coats and mantles are too varied to be quoted in detail. There is a feeling in favor of the tight-fitting coat with long basque. The loose-backed coat is still popular, but usually its fullness is caught in at the back waist by a belt which stops short at the side seams. Capes and capetels in one, two or three-fold form, embellish most of the newest coats, the shoulder alone being more accentuated than ever. Many smart coats are made of a sort of fur cloth with a close moire surface. There is always some flash of bright velvet or pale luminous panne, delicately embroidered, showing in these coats. Cloth of gold, embroidered with silk flowers of the most brilliant hue, is used as an inside facing to the velvet coats. A Welcome Guest "Will you have any guests at your Thanksgiving dinner, Mr. Clovseed?" "Well, I've axed a turkey."—N. Y. World. On Thanksgiving. Second Boy—We had turkey.—Judge. They Will Chew. At the request of Prof. Chittenden, of Yale, an assistant surgeon and 20 privates of the hospital corps are detailed to go to New Haven to chew under the direction of the professor. They are to be weighed and measured, to get quantities of food which they are to chew, and the effect on them will be recorded in detail. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IES.IE'S GOOD NIGHT. Her Last Greeting to Her Father Wrought His Deliverance from the Intoxicating Cup. "Good night, papa." They were the words of a blue-eyed child as she kissed her chubby hand and looked down the stairs. "Good night, papa. Jessie see you in the morning." It came to be a regular thing, and every evening as the mother slipped the white night-gown over the plump shoulders, the little one stopped on the stairs and sang out: "Good night, papa," and as the father heard the svery accents of the child, he would come, and taking the cherub in his arms, would kiss her tenderly while the mother's eyes filled and a swift prayer went up, for, strange to say, this man who loved his child with all the warmth of his nature, had oo fault to mar his manliness. From his youth he had loved the wine cup. Genial in spirit, and with a fascination of manner that won him friends, he could not resist when summoned by his boon companions. Thus his home was dar'ened, the heart of his wife bruised and bleeding, and the future of his child shadowed. There had been three years of the winsome prattle of the baby as she crept into the avenues of the father's heart, keeping him a little closer to his home. But still the fatal cup was in his hand. Alas for frail humanity! How could this father be saved? His love for his child, though it deeply affected him, did not win him from drink. But God, with unutterable ten- A child "GOOD NIGHT, PAPA," SOUNDED FROM THE STAIRS. derness, could not see him perish. He knew how this father might be saved. Calling a swift messenger, He said, "Scree thee to earth and bring me the babe." "Good night, papa," sounded from the stairs. What was there in the voice? Was it the echo of the mandate. "Bring me the babe?" A silvery, plaintive sound it was, a lingering music that touched the father's heart as the breeze touches the Acellian harp. "Good night, my darling," he said, but grew pale. "Is Jessie sick, mother? Her cheeks are flushed and her eyes have a strange light." "Not sick? Oh, I hope not," and the mother stooped to kiss the flushed brow. "She may have played too much. Pet's not sick?" "Jessie tired, mamma. Good night, pana. Jessie see you in the morning." "That is all, she is only tired." said the mother, as she took the small hand with another Piss, and the father turned away. But his heart was not satisfied. Sweet lullabys were sung, but Jessie was restless and could not sleep. "Tell me a story, mamma," and the mother told of the Blessed Babe that Mary crudled, following along the story until the child had grown to walk and play. The blue, wide eyes filled with a strange light, as though she saw a comprehended more than the mother knew. That night the father did not visit the saloon. He tossed on his bed, starting from a feverish sleep and bending over the crib, as the long, weary hours passed. Morning revealed the truth. Jessie was smitten with the fever. "Keep her quiet," the doctor said. "A few days of good nursing and she will be all right." The words were easily said, but the father saw a look on the sweet face such as he had never seen before. He knew the messenger was at the door. Night came; "Jessie is sick, can't say good night, papa," and the little cleaning fingers clung to the father's hand. "God, spare her, I cannot bear it," was wrung from his suffering heart. Days passed and the mother was tireless in watching her babe cradled in her arms. Her heart was slow to take in the truth. She did her best to solace the father's heart. "A light case. The doctor says Pet will soon be well," she said. Calmly, as one who knows his doom, the father laid his hand upon the hot brow, looked into the eyes, even then covered with the film of death, and with all the strength of his manhood cried, "Spare her, O God, spare my child, and I will follow Thee." said, "Jessie's too sick, can't say good night, papa." In the morning there was a convulsive shudder and the clasping fingers relaxed their hold. The messenger had taken the child. Months have passed. Jessie's crib stands by the side of her father's couch. Her blue embroidered dress and white hat hang in his closet. Her boots with the point of the feet just as she last wore them, are as sacred in his eyes as they are in the mother's. He thinks of her as not dead, but merely risen to a higher life, while sounding down from the upper stairs he seems to hear the words, "Good night, papa; Jessie see you in the morning"—angel words that have been the means at last of winning to a better way one who had shown himself dead to every former call.—National Advocate. --- DRINK CURSE OF LONDON. A Grocer's License Is the Greatest Curse of the Age in the World's Metropolis. The evidence showing the extraordinary extent to which the drink curse has undermined the social, physical and moral welfare of the people is overwhelming. All in a position to judge are as one in the opinion that the great mass of the people have no conception of the ravages which the consumption of drink—especially the cheap and poisonous kinds—is making upon the physical and moral condition of the people, through the weather sex. A doctor with a large practice in the suburbs told an express representative that grocers' licenses are among the greatest curses of the age. "I have traced," he said, "many cases of alcoholism among women to this source. The evil begins with the grocers' license and in a short time the public house is patronized. "Another evil is the medicated wine, the trade in which has vastly increased during the past few years. Scores of people who would not touch ordinary wine or spirits ask if they may take a little of somebody's medicated wine. It is nothing but ordinary wine to which a dune has been added. "It is my firm conviction that the use of such wine cultivates, and in some cases, awaits a craving for alcohol in stronger form." A member of a public body in West Ham showed an Express representative round the best parts of the borough on Saturday night. The passing of well-dressed women in and out of public houses of the better type was continuous. A visit was paid to what is an admittedly well conducted "hotel." In the saloon bar were 45 persons, 25 of whom were women, including six girls with young men, evidently sweethearts. "If you say what I have seen every day of my life" said a head master of a board school in the East end, "you would have that the children sent away by the Fresh Air fund would never come back. If we could only take the children out of the atmosphere in which they are compelled to live there might be some hone for them. "With public houses at every street corner, where boys and girls play every night for want of a better place, what wonder is it that the scenes of drunken, fighting, women dull their perceptions and lead them to look upon drunkenness as one of the usual features of their existence."—London Express. PUBLIC HALL FOR DRUNKARDS Kieff Temperance People Adopt a Novel Plan for Reform in Their Town. Friends of temperance at Kieff have hit upon a novelty—warm, comfortably equipped halls in three different quarters of the town for persons found intoxicated in the streets. The police have orders to carry such persons to these halls and not to the stations. Each hall is divided into two sections, one for men, the other for women. They are under the control of a doctor, who sees that the "guests" are properly attended to until they become sober, when they are liberated. These halls are open to the public at all hours, the theory being that nobody but a confirmed drunkard will risk being seen by his townsmen lying drunk in a public hall. The halls have been in use a month and have sheltered intoxicated persons. The average time required for becoming sober was ten hours. TEMPERANCE BREVITIES. A strong breath reveals a weak head. —Ram's norn. Bishop Hartzell says that 75 per cent. of the demoralization of natives of Africa in their home life and character comes from the use of strong drink, and Rev. Charles Satchel Morris declares that no fewer than 2,000,000 savages die every year as the result of the traffic. Dr. William Goodell Frost, president of Berea college, Berea, Ky., in speaking recently upon "Feeds in our southern highlands," said that it is the common benet of judges that have tried criminals to murder that 95 per cent. of all these killings are performed under the influence of the whisky bottle. A number of young men were one day sitting around the fire in the waiting-room of an English railway, talking about total abstinence societies. Just then a policeman came in with a prisoner in handcuffs. He listened to the young men's conversation, but did not give any opinion. There was also in the room Mr. McDonald, a minister of the Gospel, who, hearing what the young men were saying, stepped up to the policeman and said: "Pray, sir, what have you to say about temperance?" "Well," replied the policeman, "all I have to say is that I never took a testetator to York Castle prison in my life nor to Wakefield house." Barrie and the Reporters James M. Barrie, the novelist, has no patience with reporters who try to pry into his private affairs. On one occasion he was asked to pen a short autobiography. At first he refused and then, when the reporter began to coax him, he stopped him, took his pen and wrote as follows: "On arrival in London it was Mr. Barrie's first object to make a collection of choice cigars. Though the author of 'My Lady Nicotine' does not himself smoke, his grocer's message boy does. Mr. Barrie's pet animal is the whale. He feeds it on ripe chestnuts." Painted by Gaslight. Some of Solomon J. Solomon's most attractive pictures have been made by gaslight. He has accustomed himself to artificial light, and the Academician considers that every artist should do so, especially in London, where it so often happens that the sun ceases to shine for days at a stretch. The portrait of Mr. Zangwil, one of his most successful pictures, was painted in less than six hours. The Fuel Supply. The melancholy autumn days return, And many an eratwhile gay and festive soul Who seemed in summer to have cash to burn Is worrying now about the price of coal. -Washington Star. The Man On Horseback Mystery of the Battle of Kenesaw Mountain That Has Never Been Solved. "Some time ago," said the colonel, in the Chicago Inter Ocean, "there was a story told of an officer who rode his horse up the slope of the confederate breastworks at the bloody angle at Spottysvlania. No one knew who he was or what became of him. Now I have a story of an officer who rode his horse straight against the dead angle of the confederate breastworks at Kenesaw mountain, June 27, 1864, and it came to me in a strange way. Last September the survivors of Col. Dan McCook's brigade, which led the assault on that day, held a reunion on the ground they fought over in 1864. "Previous to that members of the brigade had purchased the ground about the dead angle, and at the meeting last year those present decided to erect a monument at the angle in memory of Col. Dan McCook and others or the brigade who fell there. They invited, through the Nashville and Atlanta newspapers, the confederates who were in their immediate front June 27, 1864, to mark with monuments the positions occupied by the men who defended the works and to give any incidents of the battle seen from their side which would shed light on the engagement. In answer to this invitation several confederate officers wrote, and to one of them, Maj. Spencer Eakin, of the Twenty-seventh R.J. HOLL J.M. C. BUT WHO WAS HE? Tennessee, was sent the proceedings of the reunion of Col. Dan McCook's brigade at Chicago in 1900. "After reading the recollections of the men on the union side and studying the maps made by union officers, marking positions and the spot where McCook fell, Maj. Eakin wrote, recalling many things that the men of McCook's brigade had forgotten. Among these was the story of an officer on horseback who rode a dark chestnut horse to within ten steps of the confederate breastworks, where his horse was shot. Maj. Eakin and his men watched this officer closely as he rallied his men after the first reprise and led them in a second charge, and have always believed that he was Col. Dan McCook. Much deposition and written, if I belonged question. "W. J. nassee r Cheatham held at the de from beg testifying those who that two the confere front of her were cap in the stir Eakin al "Noticing, however, that Col. McCook was shot at a different point in the line, and that not one of the brigade at the reunion in 1900 mentioned such an officer, Maj. Eakin asks, in the gallant fellow was not Col. McCook, who was he? All the boys of the Fifty-second Ohio know that Col. Dan McCook was on foot during the charge, and that he was shot at the top of the confederate breastworks. It is certain that the officer was not McCook, and no one of our regiment seems to have seen any officer at the point where Maj. Eakin saw his man. "Maj. Eakin's letter, however, set the boys to thinking, and S. W. Rilea, of the Eighty-sixth Illinois, remembers that after our brigade had fallen back 27 steps an officer on horseback passed from the right to the left just in the rear of our position. The men were busy throwing up rifle breastworks, and few noticed him. In a few minutes a man came from the left and rear with a bucks. in gauntlet, on the cuff of which was written in ink the name of Col. Charles G. Harker, who, he reported, had been killed. The question is. Was the officer Rilea saw the officer referred to by Maj. Eakin, The Civil War and Crime. Among the nuances which have powerfully affected the primary causes of crime and are sources of this present epidemic is the effect of the civil war. Though the reabsorption into the body polite of so many discharged soldiers without a great and sudden change in the morale of the people was most remarkable, and creditable alike, to the institutions and spirit of the country and to a large majority of the soldiers, it is still true that the evil done by that war to public and private morality was almost irremediable. From James M. Buckley's "The Present Epidemic of Crime" in Century. The 13-inch naval gun throws a mis- weighing 1,160 pounds; the 6-inch gun Our Total Farming Area Our Total Farming Area. The total area used for farming purposes in the United States is 841,000,000 acres, an area larger than England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Japan and the Transvaal. There are 10,650,000 persons in the agricultural purposes of the people employed by the people are in farming. Weight of Shells. and was he Col. Harker, commanding the brigade on McCook's left? "This question remains to be answered. It is desirable that some of Harker's brigade mark the exact spot where their commander fell. This may answer the question, but Maj. Eakin's description of the officer reminded Col. T. J. Holmes, of the Fifty-second Ohio, that he had heard a number of his men in discussing the battle between June 27 and July 2, 1864, refer frequently to a mounted staff officer who appeared in the thick of the fight near three large trees which stood to the right of the dead angle. He rode between these trees and the right of McCook's brigade as it advanced, and while he spoke to no one he was as cool as man could be. He disappeared when the assault failed. No one recognized him, and Col. Holmes supposed he was a staff officer acting under orders from Sherman or Thomas. But who was he? "Col. Allen L. Fahnestock, who commanded the eighty-sixth Illinois at Kenesaw, is positive that there were no mounted officers in McCook's brigade at the time of the charge. He suggests that Maj. Eakin may have seen some officer of Col. J. G. Mitchell's brigade. Mitchell had better ground to charge over than McCook's brigade, and many of his officers were mounted. WAS HE? Much depends on Maj. Eakin's position and its relations to Mitchell's position, who was to the right of McCook. If the officer seen by Maj. Eakin belonged to Mitchell's brigade the question is still. Who was he? "W. J. Whitthorn, of the First Tennessee regiment (Maney's brigade, Cheatham's division), says his regiment held the confederate breastworks at the dead angle against the assault from beginning to finish. In a letter testifying to the desperate bravery of those who made the charge, he stated that two union flags were planted on the confederate breastworks, one in front of his company, and that both were captured, three men being killed in the struggle to seize the flags. Maj. Eakin also speaks of a union flag planted on the breastworks to his right. Now the only flag that I saw on the rebel breastworks that day was that of the Fifty-second Ohio, and that was not captured. Who carried the flags that Mr. Whitthorn says were captured in his front?" "In regard to Col. Harker," said the captain, "my recollection is that on the 27th of June, 1864, he rode a white horse. Therefore the officer riding a dark chestnut seen by Maj. Eakin could not have been Col. Charles G. Harker, commanding the brigade to McCook's left. Col. Harker was on horseback at a point between the creek and the confederate works when he wounded. I do not believe the officer described by Eakin came from Mitchell's brigade. I saw Col. John G. Mitchell commanding the brigade on foot, and I think other field officers had followed McCook's example and had sent their horses back. I know that Jo Swan, of Company G, Fifty-second Ohio, took back the horses of Col. Holmes, and that with him were men leading the horses of McCook and others. Several of the boys remember that the body of a chestnut sorrel horse lay near our line. But this does not answer Maj. Eakin's question." Maintaining His Reputation Some time before the civil war, and while he resided in southern Illinois, John A. Logan once found it necessary to doubt the veracity of a man considerably older than himself, and told him so. "Don't you call me a liar, sir," said the man excitedly; "I have a reputation to maintain, and I mean to maintain it if I have to do it at the point of a pistol." "Oh," said Logan, "that won't be necessary. You maintain your reputation all right every time you tell a lie." His Preference. Martingale—She worships the very ground he wait's on. Gildersleeve—That's all right, but he would rather she'd worship him.—Town Topics. By Easy Stages. Bill—You say he used to hold up stage coaches on the frontier? First Educational Problem. Eve—What is the matter, Adam; you look worried? Adam—Yes; I am wondering how to raise Cain—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. His Preference. By Easy Stages. First Educational Problem 3 "Jane, why don't you stay at home evenings, instead of walking around with that young man?" "It's all pa's fault." "Your pa's fault? Why?" "He insisted on lighting the house with electricity, and you can't turn electricity down." -Cleveland Plain Dealer. Their Numbers Are Increasing. Of women sanitary inspectors there are over 40 in England and Wales, six in Scotland, and five in Ireland, about 140 women being engaged in various kinds of sanitary work. Under the home office there are seven lady factory inspectors, four under the local government board and five under the L. C. C. Very Different. "Women are very different from men. "Of course, they are, but what difference do you wish to specify?" "Men become members of 'ancient' orders of this and that and the other, but women must join the very newest organizations."—Detroit Free Press. To Clean Glass Wash windows, mirrors, glass over pictures, etc., with water as hot as can be used, containing a few drops of ammonia. Polish at once with a dry linen towel. They will shine and keep clean longer than when washed with soap. —Farm and Home. Imperial Woman The robes of an empress will not make a woman look imperial unless she has an imperial soul, and an imperial nature would impart something of its own dignity, in the eye of the discerning, even to the garb of a beggar—Philadelphia Bulletin. Not All Hard. "I tell you, the price of anthracite these days makes it come hard to the coal buyer." "Yes, but it doesn't make it come hard to the coal cellar. Sometimes it is mixed with bituminous."—Philadelphia Press. A Late Repentance "Madam," said the leader of the brig-gands, "we'll have to hold you until your husband ransoms you." "Alas!" replied the woman. "I wish I'd treated him a little better."—New Yorker. Care of Butter Molds. Butter molds and the little wooden paddles used for making butter balls should be scrubbed with a brush, rinsed thoroughly and kept in the refrigerator when not in use. Ancient Greek Statue A large and very perfect statue of the best period has been found at Samos, where excavations are still going on at the famous temple of the goddess Hera. Escaped. "Is he a poet? He looks it." "I think he has been indicted on the charge, but never convicted."—Town Topics. Enforced Economy A man thinks he is practicing economy when he denies himself something he can't raise the money to buy. Use a Fork If a fork be used in blending water and flour for thickening purposes, as for gravy, the mixture will not lump. All Want to Command. How few people there are who are willing to be privates.—Washington (Ia.) Democrat. To Cure Hiecoughs. Hiecough can be stopped at once by eating a lump of sugar saturated with vinegar. To Clean Mirrors. Mirrors are best washed with warm water to which a little turpentine has been added. Roba Himself. A man robs himself if he does not make the best of his time.—Chicago Daily News. Hone and Hurtle While living on hope it is well to hustle for a meal ticket.—Chicago Daily News. Cork, Ireland. Cork has the best dressed and most prosperous looking population in Ireland. **Original.** O'Beetle—Hear of Dubleigh's romance? O'Bottle—Nope. Didn't know he had one. O'Beetle—Yes, tudeed. He actually married the girl he became engaged to at the summer resort.—N. Y. Times. Stepping Stones. If you falter, let the error of each day prove a stepping stone to better results the next time, always bearing in mind that cordially, courtesy and tact come from the heart; superficiality either in manners or education deerves no one. Philadelphia Bulletin. Tolstoi and His Wife. For years Mme. Tolstoi did not sympathize with her husband in his tirades against the Russian government, and therefore refused to criticise or listen to his work. Finally, however, he convinced her and after that she was a sympathetic listener. Most Unspeakable. "They talk of the 'unspeakable Turk,' but the average Russian is worse." "Oh, I wouldn't say that." "You would if you had ever attempted to mention the average Russian by name."—Philadelphia Press. A Question of Relation Bertha—Are you and Miss Kelcher relatives, Bessie? Bessie—Well, no; I suppose you'd hardly call us that, although we have been proposed to by the same man.—Boston Transcript. The Yard Measure It is not generally known that the standard from which the English yard measure is taken was the arm of King Henry I. which was exactly three feet long. THE PLANET published every Saturday by JOHN M. TORELL n., at 811 North 4th Street. Richmond, Va. THE PLANET is listed weekly. The subscript son price is $1.50 a year, in advance. There are FOUR WAYS by which money can be sent by mail at our risk. - In a Post Office Money Order, you can send an Excise Money Order and when none of these can be procured, in a Registered Letter. 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The courts have decided that subscribers to newspapers who do not order their paper discontinued at the expiration date should hold liable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us, please your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address in full, otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. Entrated in the Post Office at Richmond, Va. second-class matter. SATURDAY..... DECEMBER 12, 1905 PRESIDENT ROOSFELT has ronominated Dr. W. D. CRUM to be Collector of the Port at Charleston, S. C., and the United States Sevate will have another chance to confirm him. No one can charge the occupant of the White House with cowardice or a lack of back one. The white messengers of the Western Union Telegraph Company refused to accept a reduction in their pay and declined to report for service. Colored men were utilized and have been rendering most satisfactory service. They were subjected to brutal treatment at first, but not one has quailed in the face of duty. You may say what you will about the colored brother, but when you get one of the reliable, industrious kind, you have a support that will stand by you "through thick and thin" and be at your front door in the morning. --- The action of the First Baptist Church in restoring the right hand of fellowship to the Fifth Street Baptist Church and accordingly fellowshipping us as a member of the same church ends a controversy of long standing and restores that brotherly friendship which had been ruptured. As for us, we are satisfied and assure all parties concerned that the past will be as a sealed book and that the friendly relationship which has been re-established will be regarded as saired by a man who has never violated a pledge to a friend or broken his word to an enemy. The trials in Henrico County, which have just been concluded and which resulted in the discharge of all of the persons charged with the violation of the Barkshale Pure Election Law, save one, assumed the phase of an amusing comedy. Three magistrates sat in the case and one of them, Squire FRIEND or Varina became so disgusted that he withdrew and went home. He is quoted as follows: "I am disgusted," he said to some of the bystanders, by way of explaining his position. "What's the use of having haws on the books it you don't abide by them? I refuse to be tricked by a lawyer. The other two magistrates will have to try the remainder of the cases. I refuse to sit with them any longer." This is a case of white folks fighting white folks. With the Negroes out of the way, it was announced that the millennium of pure elections was at hand. The facts seem to indicate that it is just the other way. Squire FRIEND's lament is pathetic, but laws were made to be enforced against the other fellow and the Golden Rule will be found to have no place in Henrico county politics. Legislator FOLKES is quoted as having boldly declared that this Barksdale Pure Election Law, requiring candi- dates to do nothing to promote their election in the matter of the use of money and whiskey and to submit a sworn statement of their expenses, was making perjurers of well-nigh every office-seeker in Virginia. He was not a million miles from the truth, for when it comes down to the question of simou-pure perjury, Mr. FOLKES is an authority on that subject. THE Washington, D. C., Post becomes alarmed over the attitude of the colored people in Louisiana, who assisted in lynching three colored men "because the white folks told them to." It remarks:— "Once let the ignorant and irresponsible class of Negroes in the agricultural South get the notion fixed in their minds that, when the courts do not act to suit them, they can rush with impunity into excesses of all sorts, and they will soon carry the logic a little further, and begin to make reprisals upon the whites against whom they cherish a grievance, if these happen to be in a numerical minority in the community. All the horrors of lynch-law as now practiced would be multiplied a hundredfold if such a train were once set in motion. We trust that our Louisiana friends will think twice before they do anything which can be construed as an encouragement of Negro cooperation in the administration of Judge Lynch's court. An improved example would be the most effective deterrent." It may be that these colored folks will learn that kind of sense. After they have lynched one white man, the authorities in that locality will conclude that the time to put down lynch-law and the lynchers has arrived. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has sent a message to the Congress that will be regarded as one of the ablest, as well as one of the most remarkable papers, that has ever been sent from the White House. It tells of a prosperity that will be gratifying to every true American. We were particularly interested in that portion of the document relating to Panama. It was evident that the President realized that it was very necessary that he should make out a case and support by facts and logic the very remarkable attitude that this government has assumed in its dealings with the Republic of Columbia. We are free to admit that in this President Roofevelt is consistent. He pledged himself to follow the policy of President McKinley, who was has predecessor in office and that distinguished statesman decided upon criminal aggression in the case of Hawaii and the Philippines. The government of the United States has proceeded to set up a government of straw that could not stand alone forty-eight hours without the support of the navy of the United States. It makes a treaty with this mock republic and has to guarantee its independence in order to hold it together long enough to have the document signed. It is discreditable business all the way through and savors of hypocrisy and deceit, both of which evils we abher. We cannot see by what system of renaming or logic, this rape of states of a friendly power can be condoned or explained away. Far better would it have been to to have seized the land boldly, declaring, our purpose than to have done so in this cowardly fashion, which is now known by all the world. It is not a party question, for both Republicans and Democrats are parties to what we regard as a most disreputable performance. The Columbian officials may have been corrupt, but to an observant citizen, it would seem that our own garments are not altogether free from stains which we have so quickly observed upon them. We, as an American are ashamed of the entire transaction and hope never to see the like again. TROUBLE AT BERKLEY. The Democrats of Berkley or rather certain lawless elements of that party went to the office of the county treasurer and drove away the colored men who were there to pay the poll taxes as a prerequisite to voting. These lawless elements were armed with shot-guns and threatened to use them. The County Treasurer was forced to seek an asylum in the station house. The reasons given were that this white treasurer received the poll-tax from colored men while difficulties were thrown in the way of white men. No arrests have been made as a result of this high-handed proceeding. It is rather surprising that the colored people in that section subnitted to it. They are as a rule property owners, thrifty and responsible and some of our best friends are to be found in that locality. These white men, who are outlawing themselves will yet meet a condition of affairs, which will astound them. Colored men will not forever submit to this flagrant curtailment of their rights. The masses are disfranchised and the better elements of us are now driven from the county treasurer's office with shot guns, although we are there on a peaceful mission, complying with the specific provisions of a law as enacted by an all white Virginia legislature. Liberal-minded white men do not endorse this kind of action on the part of these lawless elements, but what are they going to do about it? The officers of the law are silent. And yet it was asserted that the better class of Negroes would receive all of their rights and only the corrupt, venal, insulting, worthless elements distranchised. But what do these promises amount to? If the colored people of Berkley want their rights, they must get them. A flock of sheep will never do to meet a drove of wolves. Defenseless colored men at the polls are always an incentive for mischief on the part of armed white men, who envy their prosperity. Shanghai on the site of October, is a cause for satisfaction. This act, the result of long discussion and negotiation, places our commercial relations with the great oriental empire on a more satisfactory footing than they have ever heretofore enjoyed. It provides not only for the ordinary rights and privileges of domestic and corporate officers, but also for an important extension of our commerce by increased facility of access to Chinese ports and for the relief of trade phatic denial. Sentence Houston. Trict, court of Brown, a neglected criminal at 1000 years in the law the death senten PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Washington, Dec. 7. - The president's message has been transmitted to the congress. Its principal features are as follows: The country is to be congratulated on the amount of substantial achievement which has marked the past year, as regards our foreign and as regards our domestic policy: The preliminary work of the bureau of corporations in the department of commerce and labor has shown the wisdom affairs will and should advance and will afford facts upon which intelligent action can be taken. Systematic, intelligent investigation is already developing facts the knowledge of which is essential to a right understanding of needs and duties of the business world. Capital and Labor Receipts and Expenditures. From all sources, exclusive of the postal service, the last fiscal year aggregated $69,296,674. The expenditures for the same period were $69,296,607, the surplus for the fiscal year being $4,297,607. The amount of the present fiscal year will be very small, if indeed there be any surplus. From July to November the receipts from customs were approximately $3,000,000 less than the amount of the corresponding period last year. Should this decrease continue at the same ratio throughout the fiscal year the surplus will be reduced approximately $30,000,000. The amount of the question, and under present conditions it would be unwise and unnecessary to attempt a reconstruction of our entire monetary system. The same liberty would be granted to the treasury to deposit customs receipts as is granted him in the deposit of receipts from other sources. In my message of December 1902, I called attention to concerns I could feel in the situation, and I again ask for consideration of the congress for these questions. (The president commends the work of the international monetary conference and adopts the recommendations.) We cannot have too much immigration of the right kind, and we should have none at all of the wrong kind. The need is to devise some system by which underdeveloped immigrants, truly, while desirable immigrants are properly distributed throughout the country. At present some districts which need immigrants have none, and in others, the conditions are not so developed, immigrants come in such numbers as to depress the conditions of life for those already there. During the last two years the immigration service at New York has increased the corruption and inefficiency which formerly obtained there have been eradicated. Naturalization Frauds. Naturalization Frauds. The special investigation of the subject of naturalization of the naturalized attorney-general and the subsequent prosecutions reveal a condition of affairs calling for the immediate attention of congress. Forgeries and perjuries of shameless and flagrant character have been punished not only in the dense piles of petitions but in that the country, and it is established beyond doubt that very many so-called citizens of the United States have no title whatever to that right and are asserting and enjoying the benefits of the same through the benefit of the same through be forgotten that citizenship is, to note the words recently used by the supreme court of the United States, an "inestimable heritage," whether it proceeds from birth within the country or is obtained by naturalization. And we poison the strength at the fountain if the privilege is claimed and exercised without right and by means of fraud and corruption. Public Land and Postal Frauds. In my last annual message, in connection with the subject of the due regulation of the public land work, or may become injurious to the public, I recommended a special appropriation for the better enforcement of the anti-trust law as it now stands, to be expended under the direction of the attorney general, for the purpose of enforcing the federal trust and interstate commerce laws the sum of $500,000. I now recommend, as a matter of the utmost importance and urgency, the extension of the law to be available, under the direction of the attorney general and until used, for the due enforcement of the laws of the United States in general and especially of the civil and criminal laws relating to public lands and the crimes and offenses and the subject of the Recent Investigations have shown a deplorable state of affairs in these three matters of vital concern. Need For Treaties Making Bribery Extraditable Steps have been taken by the state department looking to the making of bribery an extraditable offense with foreign powers. The need of more effective measures to the crime is manifest. It should be the place of States to leave no place on earth where a corrupt man fleeing from this country can rest in peace. (The president here recapitulates the death of the imbroglio between European powers and the United States in the occurrence of certain points of the controversy to the Hague tribunal through the influence of the United States. This he calls a victory for American diplomacy and a triumph for international arbitration. He calls the international law to exempt all private property at sea from capture or destruction by forces of belligerent powers.) The signing of a new commercial treaty with China, which took place at phatic denial. Sentenced to 1000 Years. Houston, Tex., Dec. 8.—In the district, court of Cherokee county, Allen Brown, a negro, convicted of attempted criminal assaultd, was sentenced to 1000 years in the penitentiary. Under the law the jury could not impose a death sentence. At the time of his arrest Brown narrowly escaped being lynched. MARINES LANDED ON THE ISTHMUS Camp Established in Panama Canal Company's Buildings. A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE Colon, Dec. 9.—A company of marines from the United States auxiliary cruiser Dixie, under command of Captain Wirt McCreary, were landed here and took a train for Empire, a town on the railroad near Panama, where a camp was established in the canal company's buildings. Another company of marines, to the number of 50, from the Dixie left on a later train for Empire. The camp at Empire is now thoroughly equipped, and all precautions from a sanitary standpoint to ensure the health of the marines have been taken. The camp will be supplied with water from the Dixie pending the analysis of the drinking water available there. If this water should be found to be good, the remainder of the 450 marines on board the Dixie will be transferred to the camp in batches of 50. The stated official purpose of this movement is to give the marines practice in the building of camps and to provide relief from their long confinement on the vessel. The actual purpose of the United States government in landing the marines is, however, believed to be connected with the precautionary measures now being carried out on both sides of the Isthmus and perhaps also for the moral effect which the landing of the marines may have on the native garrison at Panama, the loyalty of which, though hitherto absolutely unswerving, has been questioned in some quarters, especially since the discovery of the plot against the life of General Huertas, command-in-chief of the forces of the Republic of Panama and the alleged effort on the part of a few army officers to persuade the garrison to revolt. It is considered significant that the point selected for the encampment of the Dixie's marines, while it is the highest and best so far as sanitary conditions are concerned on the line of the Panama railroad; it is also on the trail most frequently used in the past for the movement of troops overland from the Cauca district into the Chiriqui district. If a body of Colombian troops should succeed in obtaining a foothold in the rich Chiriqui district, it is generally conceded that after predatory raids on the countryside they could retreat to the mountain fastnesses, from which it would be most difficult to dislodge them. There is no doubt that the naval authorities took into consideration the moral effect on the Colombian government of the establishment of a marine camp at Empire. The report of the movement of 3000 soldiers from Cartagena for the purpose of invading the Isthmus cannot be confirmed. Rumors of such movements may be looked for frequently, particularly as the people of the Isthmus are more or less excited by the precautionary measures adopted by the United States. LION TAMER TORN TO PIECES Children of Performer Saw Their Mother's Horrible Death. Dessau, Germany, Dec. 8. — Frau Fischer, a lion tamer, was torn to pieces by four lions in a menagerie cage and in sight of a great crowd of people. She was trying to make a lion spring through a hoop and struck it with a whip, whereupon the animal leaped upon her and disemboweled her at one stroke. The woman gave one shriek, and the three other lions joined in the attack on her and fought among themselves for fragments of her flesh. There was a frightful panic among the spectators and many persons were injured. Finally the lion tamer's assistants, armed with iron rods and hooks, succeeded in dragging the animals from the woman's mangled body. The children of Frau Fischer were in a box witnessing the performance when their mother was killed. First Conviction in Postal Fraud. Baltimore, Dec. 9—Former Postal Clerks Thomas W. McGregor and Columbus Ellsworth Upton were convicted in the United States district court of conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with the purchase of 20,000 leather pouches for use in the free delivery service. Charles E. Smith, who received the order for the pouches through the influence of Upton and McGregor, was the principal witness against the accused. After deliberating 45 minutes, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty. Counsel for the convicted men immediately made a motion for a new trial, and Judge Morris agreed to hear arguments on the motion on next Saturday. Richmond, Va., Dec. 9.—The judge of the county court of Spotsylvania has issued subpoenas against 69 persons for alleged contempt in signing a petition asking that he do not try a certain case. The commonwealth's attorney was charged with being instrumental in the preparation and circulation of the petition, and was fined $25, which he promptly paid. _Moser Heir's Case Thrown Out of Court Moser Heirs' Case Thrown Out of Court Pottsville, Pa., Dec. 8. The court sustained the demurrier made by the defendant to the bill in equity in the case of the Moser heirs against the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company. The court decided that this was not the proper way to bring the suit. By this decision the case is virtually thrown out of court. Shanghai on the 31st of October, is a cause for satisfaction. This act, the result of long discussion and negotiation, places our commercial relations with the great oriental empire on a more balanced footing and heretofore enjoyed. It provides not only for the ordinary rights and privileges of diplomatic and consular officers, but also for an important extension of our commerce by increased facility of access to the Chinese market by the removal of some of the obstacles which have embarrassed it in the past. The Philippines and Porto Rico. Of our insular possessions, the Philippines and Porto Rico, it is gratifying to say that their steady progress has been much more necessary to spend much time in discussing the congress should ever keep in mind that a peculiar obligation rests upon us to further in every way the welfare of these communities. Of the laws providing a general staff for the army and for the more effective use of the national guard has been excellent. Great improvement has been made in the efficiency of our army in recent years. Such schools as those erected in Leavenworth and Fort Riley and the institute have work accomplish satisfactory results. I heartily congratulate the congress up-on the steady progress in building up the American navy. There should be no cessation in adding to the effective units of the navy. Meanwhile the navy department and the officers of the navy are doing well their part by providing constant service at sea under conditions akin to those of actual warfare. The best work ashore is indispensable, but the highest duty of a naval officer is at sea. It is eminently desirable that a naval general staff should be established. Isthmian Canal. By the act of June 28, 1832, the congress authorized the president to enter into treaty with Colombia for the building of the canal across the isthmus of Panama, it being provided that in the event of future to secure such treaty after the lapse of time, the president should be had to building a canal through Nilearagua. It has not been necessary to consider this alternative, as I am eabled to lay before the senate a treaty providing for the building of the canal across the isthmus of Panama. This was the route will follow from the liberate judgment of the congress, and we can now acquire by treaty the right to construct the canal over this route. The question now therefore is not by which route the isthmus canal shall be for that question has been definitely resolved. The question is simply whether or not we shall have an isthmus canal. When the congress directed that we should take the Panama route under the condition of course referred not to the government which controlled that route, but to the route itself to the territory of Panama, the president gave the name which for the moment the territory bore on the map. The purpose of the law was to authorize the president to take the power in actual control of the infrastructure of Panama. This purpose has been fulfilled. Repudiation of Treaty By Colombia. Last spring a treaty concluded between the representatives of the republic of Colombia and of our government that the treaty was entered into at the urgent treaty action of the people of Colombia and after a body of experts appointed by our government especially to go into the matter of the treaty had pronounced unanimously in favor of Panama route. In drawing up this treaty every concession was made to the people and to the government of Colombia with them. Our generosity was such to make it a serious question whether we had not gone too far in their interest at the expense of our own, for in our scrutiny we found that we merely to the real but even to the fancied rights of our weaker neighbor, who already owed so much to our protection and forbearance, we yielded in all possible respect to the treaty. Nevertheless the government of Colombia not merely repudiated the treaty, but repudiated it in such manner that it made it evident by the time the Colombian government entered into the scantiest hope of ever getting a satisfactory treaty from them. Revolution In Panama The people of Panama had long been discontented with the republic of Colombia, and they had been kept quiet only by the prospect of the conclusion of the canal treaty, which was to them a matter of great importance. They denied that the treaty was hopelessly lost the people of Panama rose literally as one man. Not a shot was fired by a single man on the Isthmus in the interest of the Colombian government. Not a shot was lost on the Isthmus in the intention of the lusion. The Colombian troops stationed on the Isthmus, who had long been unpaid, made common cause with the people of Panama, and with astonishingly strong resistance. The duty of the United States in the premises was clear. In strict accordance with the principles laid down by Secretaries Cass and Seward, the United States would permit the landing of no expeditionary force of which would mean chaos and destruction along the line of the railroad and of the proposed canal and an interruption in transit as an inevitable consequence. The government of Panama was recognized. Under such circumstances the government of the United States would have been guilty of folly and weakness, and would have been guilty of lying to the crime against the nation, had it acted more than it did when the revolution of November 3 last took place in Panama. This great enterprise of building the interoceanic canal cannot be held up to gratitude for the success of the Panama canal, governmental impotence or to the even more sinister and evil political peculiarities of people who, though they dwell afar off yet, against the wish of the government, assert an unreal apremence over the nation. The possession of a territory fraught with such peculiar capacities as the lathmus in question carries with it obligations to mankind. The course of events built by private enterprise or by any other nation than our own therefore it must be built by the United States. New Treaty With Panama. New Treaty With Panama. Eventually, by the government of the United States to persuade Colombia to follow a course which was essentially-not only to our interests and to the interests of the world, but to the interests of Colombia itself. These efforts have failed and Colombia has persisted in repulsing the advances that have been made, has forced us for the sake of our own honor and of the interest and well being, not merely of our own interests, but of the interests of the lustrum of Panama and the people of the civilized countries of the world, to take decisive steps to bring to an end a condition of affairs which had become intolerable, and to mediate offered to negotiate a treaty with us. This treaty I herewish submit. By it our interests are better safeguarded than in the treaty with Colombia, and we have its last session. It is better in its terms than the treaties offered to us by the republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. At last the right to begin this great undertaking has been done her part. All that remains is for the American congress to do its part, and forthwith this republic will enter upon the execution of a project colossal and ambitious to calculate possibilities for the good of this country and the nations of mankind. Wentz Has Not Been Found. Philadelphia, Dec. 7.—J. F. Wentz, Sr., the father of the young man who so mysteriously disappeared about two months ago, denied a report that his son had been found. A dispatch from Bristol, Tenn., stated that it was reported there that Wentz had been discovered in a demented condition by a laborer and secretly taken to Philadelphia. It was further said that the reward had been withdrawn. To all the statements Mr. Wentz or an Court Petitioners In Contempt. GIBBONS CONDEMNS SWEAT SHOPS The Cardinal Asks His Congregation to Boycott Them. AN ABSTRACT OF HIS SERMON Baltimore, Dec. 7—Cardinal Gibbons in the course of his regular monthly sermon at high mass at the cathedral took occasion to condemn "sweat shops" and appealed to his hearers to discriminate in making purchases in favor of employers who treat their employees with justice and charity, and recommended the charitable work for oppressed tollers conducted by the Consumers' League. The text for the sermon was "Am I my brother's keeper?" His imendice said in part: "My purpose, dear brethren, is not to commend to you indiscriminate charity, but my aim is to set before you a special class of persons in this city, that you may help to improve their condition, to redress their grievances, and enable them to earn by their industry and honesty a comfortable livelihood. To come to the point, there is a class of persons in Baltimore, and in other large cities, who are employed by proprietors of large clothing establishments. Some of these workers are employed in the stores, ethers make garments in their own homes and bring them to the establishments. Many of these workers, men and women, are compelled to toil in sweat shops, of which there are 18 in one section of this city, which are contracted in space, and poorly lighted and ventilated. They are overworked and underpaid. After a careful investigation I have discovered that after laboring for six days, at ten or twelve hours a day, their weekly compensation amounts to six or eight dollars. And with this pittance they have to pay for house rent, food and clothing and other expenses incident to family life. "You can encourage and co-operate with that excellent society existing here and elsewhere, called the Consumers' League. It is composed of ladies zealous in works of charity, and has already accomplished a great deal in improving the condition of these oppressed toilers and of establishing happier and juster relations between them and their employers." U. S. CONSUL ASSAULTED Arrest of Naturalized American at Alex andretta, Turkey, Caused Outrage. Constantinople, Dec. 9. The United States flag over the consulate at Alexandraretta, Aslantic Turkey, has been hauled down and Consul W.R. Davis has left his post for Beirut, in consequence of a serious diplomatic incident during which Mr. Davis was insulted and assaulted by the local police. The affair grew out of the arrest of an Armenian—Ohannes Attariam—a naturalized American citizen. Attariam had been in prison at Alpeppo during the last two months, and had just been liberated through the intervention of the American consular agent, on condition of his leaving the country forthwith. Mr. Davis was accompanying Attariam on board a departing steamer, when the police intercepted the party, assaulted and insulted Mr. Davis, and, despite the resistance of the consul and his attendant guards, rearrested Attariam and took him back to prison. Mr. Davis immediately lowered the flag over the consulate, and formally broke off relations with the Turkish authorities by quitting Alexandretta, leaving the consulate in charge of the vice-consul. A mob of Moslems saluted on the occasion to make a hostile demonstration against the consulate and against the Christians generally. The matter is engaging the energetic attention of the United States legation here. Minister Leishman has made urgent representations to the Porte, and is now awaiting a fuller report before taking further steps. The outrage, it is anticipated here, will lead to strong action on the part of the United States to obtain full reparation, especially as full satisfaction for the Beirut affair has not yet been given. Navy Takes No Action Washington, Dec. 9.—The navy department has so far taken no steps toward sending any warships to Alexandraretta, though the state department officials informed the navy department of what had happened at that place. The San Francisco and the Brooklyn are at Beirut, which is distant 140 miles from Alexandraretta. The state department does not anticipate any serious difficulty as a result of this incident, for it does not doubt that the Turkish government will make proper amends for any misconduct of its officials at Alexandraretta. HERBERT SPENCER IS DEAD Dlistinguished English Scholar and Author Passes Away. London, Dec. 9. — Herbert Spencer, the famous author, died at his home in Brighton. His health had been falling for some months. The illness took a critical turn a few days ago and he became unconscious Monday night, passing away without pain. By his own desire, the least possible information was given out during Mr. Spencer's illness. He was born in 1820. The last of the great Victorians—such was Herbert Spencer's title to present-day pre-eminence. Especially it was great in science, and Herbert Spencer was among the greatest of its scientists. He stands as one of that extraordinary quartette which forced John Bull and the Philistine at large to accept the doctrines of evolution that have practically revolutionized the entire world of modern thought. It was Charles Robert Darwin who first gave scientific cohesion and precision to the doctrine in 1858-59 by his "Descent of Man" and his "Origin of Species." Herbert Spencer emphasized and enlarged it on the side of social science. In fact, on the basis of what is now known in philosophical slang as "natural selection" and "the survival of the fittest," he produced an absolutely new philosophy of social science which is generally accepted by the thinking world. GENERAL WOOD REAPPOINTED Washington, Dec. 8. — President Roosevelt has sent to the senate the nomination of General Leonard Wood to be a major general of the army and the nomination of 167 other army officers whose promotion is dependent on that of General Wood. Accompanying these nominations were those of about 25 civilian appointees, including that of Dr. W. H. Crum to be collector of the port of Charleston, S. C., and some others whom the president nominated in the last congress. While the nominations are dated to take effect from the time the commissions were first issued on the recess appointments, it is the general opinion of members of the senate that the nominees will retain their old rank until the nominations are confirmed, despite the fact that all of the officers affected have been serving for nearly three months under the advanced rank and pay to which they will be entitled when confirmed. On this theory, General Wood will cease to serve as major general and will resume his rank of brigadier general and hold it until he is confirmed in the higher rank. When he is confirmed, however, he will receive a commission dated August 8, and his advanced pay will take effect from that time. LANGLEY AIRSHIP WRECKED Second Trial of His Machine Proves a Complete Failure. Washington. Dec. 9.—Under weather conditions which were regarded as perfect, the Langley airship or aeroplane was given a second trial a short distance from Washington down the Potomac, the result being the complete wreck of the airship. Everything had been in readiness for the trial for some days, so that it was felt all that was needed for the test was the right sort of wind and weather. These conditions presented themselves and the test was made under auspicious conditions. On the word being given to launch the aeroplane it glided smoothly along the launching tramway until the end of the tramway was reached when on being left to itself the aeroplane broke in two and turned completely over, precipitating Prof. Chua, M. Manly, who was operating it, into the icy water beneath the tangled mass. A number of launches containing newspaper men and others, immediately steered for the spot, but before they could reach Prof. Manly one of his assistants leaped overboard and brought him aboard the houseboat, on which the launching tramway was laid. Prof. Langley was present to witness the test and appeared crestfallen when he saw the product of months of study and labor, combined with an enormous expenditure of money, disappear beneath the water, close to where he was standing aboard a tug. FIRE TOOK FIVE OF FAMILY Father, Mother and Three Children Burned to Death in Dwelling Burned to Death in Dwelling. Freehold, N. J., Dec. 9. — Nearly a whole family perished in the flames that destroyed a dwelling at Clarkesburg, 10 miles from here. John Powler, 42 years old; his wife, 26 years old, and their four children, aged respectfully 16 years, 13 years, 2 years and 6 months, lived in the house, which was a two-story building. The blaze started on the lower floor, and when the family awoke the whole lower part of the house was in flames. The oldest child, a boy, jumped from the sece history window and escaped with slagal bruises, but Mr. and Mrs. Fowler were either afraid to jump or were overcome by smoke before they could reach a window, and they and the other children perished. Jersey Pose Capture a Murderer Morristown, N. J., Dec. 7.—After an all-night chase by a posse over the mountains near here, Frank Bectsa, a Hungarian miner, was captured and placed in jail here, charged with killing Minnie Root, the 10-year-old daughter of Daniel Root, foreman of a mine at Hibernia, N. J. Bectsa was discharged from the mine a week ago. While intoxicated he visited the boarding house where the Roots lived and was ejected. A few minutes later two shots were fired through a window, one of them striking Root's daughter in the head and fatally wounding her. A posse immediately started in pursuit of Bectsa. Makes Cowards. Guilty consciences always make people cowards.—Pilipay. Ability. Ability is a poor man's wealth.—M. Vren. FreeHoliday Games 60 different games—all new —one in each package of Lion Coffee at your Grocer's. AET PLANET SATURDAY ..... DECEMBER 12, 1908 A LIVE STOCK PLAN FOR HOG HOUSE. Advice to a Farmer Who Wants to Build a Structure to Accom- modate 100 Animals. It is difficult to plan a hog house where little is known of the conditions governing. It is assumed that it is the purpose of the builder to grow and fatten 100 hogs per year, or in other words that he is likely to have 100 hogs to shelter at one time that will average 800 pounds each. This being the correct assumption, it would hardly do to plan a building less than 32x50 feet, on the ground. The building should stand north and south, if the lay of the land and other buildings will permit, so as to get sunshine into each pen at some time during the day. If the building cannot be so placed it will be best to make it narrower and 32 ft. BROADGEMENT OF HOG HOUSE. longer, with only one row of pens and these on the south side, with feeding alleyes on the north. Sunshine is as essential to the healthy growth of hogs as it is to the growth of corn, and no effort should be spared to provide plenty of it. A wide house standing east and west may be lighted by having the north side of the roof three or four feet higher at the ridge than the south side, and windows built in between. This plan insures some sunlight in each pen. At least one foot of trough room should be allowed for each hog. If the house is divided into ten pens, each 10x14 feet, with four foot alley through the center, it will accommodate the full number while fattening. Twelve or 15 brood sows will be required to raise 100 pigs, and the ten pigs will be none too many during the borrowing season. If ear cora is used largely in fattening, labor will be saved by removing the slides between the pens, using three or four on one side for a feeding floor, and the other side for sleeping quarters. If this suggestion is adopted a passage two feet wide should be provided across the end of the feeding alley. Reserve pens are thus kept for store hogs and brood sows, and the full amount of trough room can be used. The construction of the house will depend largely on the amount of money that can be put into the building. A cement floor and cement troughs are allowable. The floor should slope to the outside for free drainage and should always be kept well bedded during cold weather. Drop siding over 2x4 studding makes a suitable building. It is assumed that the corn crib can be built close by, which is better than to make it a part of the building, as the steam from the animals is likely to injure the flavor of the grain. One pen may be inclosed entirely, to use as a feed room where mill feed is kept, and it will often be useful for a farrowing pen for early pigs. The posts should be eight feet high and floored to provide storage for bedding above the sleeping pens. Outside pens or yards should be bull else, if means will permit, access being made to them through a sliding door from each pen. A good sized window should be put in for each pen also, and movable partitions or at least sliding doors between the pens for convenience in changing stock from one pen to an other. Numerous conveniences can be added to suit circumstances, but as a note is stated in regard to the amount of money to be used, and as to personal preference, only the general features are given.—Prof. Andrew Boss, in Orange Judd Farmer. TIMELY STOCK NOTES Broken straps about the harness pate often lead to broken bones in the man. Breaking colts is a great deal like sitting up with a sick man. One must attend strictly to business. No napping on duty. Sometimes a bit of taffy goes a good ways toward making a man do his best. Cows are just so. Kind words and good treatment count for a sight Ever try it? Look well to the colts you are driving. It is a good plan to put them one at a time with some old and steady horse until they have become thoroughly broken. The manure produced by one pig is a year is worth about $12 for fertilizing purposes, hence the need of removing this to a suitable yard or shed where its fertilizing value will not be wased. DISTEMPER IN CATTLE. If Taken Early, the Disease Jan Be Checked Readily and a Cure Effected. The first symptom of cattle distemper usually noticed is swelling of the throat, especially the throat glands. It is more common with young animals than older ones, but may attack cattle at any age. The swelling comes suddenly, often within 24 hours, and is generally severe. It is preceded by discharges from the eyes and nose, accompanied with some fever. The swelling gradually increases in size until an abscess containing a thick yellow pus forms. Often two or three of these abscesses form about the throat, on the side of the head, or along on the jaw. The distemper appears to be somewhat contagious, but not especially so. If taken early, cattle distemper may be relieved ordinarily by rubbing the parts thoroughly two or three times daily with a filament made with equal parts of turpentine, kerosene oil and alcoholic tincture of camphor. This rubbing should be kept up faithfully until the swelling is entirely scattered. If, however, the swelling progresses too far, and abscesses form, they should be opened with a lancet, and the opening well washed out twice a day with soap suds, made of castile soap and warm water. Let it partially dry, and then apply freely a solution of blue vitriol of the strength of a tablespoonful of vitriol dissolved in half a pint of water. Continue this process until a cure is entirely effected.—T. E. Richey, in Epitomist. SHELTER FOR STOCK. Plan Adopted by a Tennessee Farmer Which Seems Both Plausible and Economical. I shelter all kinds of stock nicely in or near my barn. Plan of stables and pastures is as shown. Six horses have stalls as shown, grain mangers siding together, a straight trough answering for hay. Each stall has a door opening into a fenced yard, each end of which has a gate, as shown. The opened gate is to the horse run. The roadway from the street and residence runs down to the open gate, through the fenced yard to the hall. To the left of the hall is a stairway; to the right a passage. In front is a feed box with wheels on track, which is pushed from crib at opposite end. Four cow tie-ups are shown, mangers and gutter. A door opens in rear to fenced inclosures or to pasture and LOT for Movies Fence Enclosed Ware Stables for Houses Trash Hall Grip Sheep Fold Gutter LOT for Mule Hogs Fence LOT for Fishing Mesh GENERAL PURPOSE BARN. wood lot as desired. A similar door in sheepfold answers the same purpose. In a lot on side of sheepfold and crib, the boars are pastured, while in another lot beyond, adjoining the crib, fattening hogs are kept. Adjoining the fattened hog lot, crib and horse pasture is a lot for brood sows. Troughs for feeding grain are shown at b, hay racks at c, and holes through which grain is fed from truck box, at e. The sides along track hall are boarded up close, except for the doors. Roughage is fed from the floor above through holes cut for the purpose.—W. H. Stumpe, in Farm and Home. Why Hogs Get Mischievous Why Hogs Get Mischievous. The way to avoid having mischievous hogs is to keep them from getting so hungry that they are tempted to break through fences and become confirmed roamers. It is the underfed hog that is troublesome. A good many hograisers think that grass is enough for a growing pig, and so it is if the pig has enough of it; but overstocked hog pastures are a very common thing. While the grass looks to be plentiful, there is not enough of the kind the pigs will eat. A pig pasture must contain plenty of succulent grass, otherwise it might as well have none. At this season the succulence is on the wane, and a daily feed of corn is the thing. Whatever may be true of feeding cattle grain on grass, it is certain that pigs will pay for it in growth, and it keeps them out of mischief, which can easily be expensive. Teeth and Skull of Plgs According to Mr. Schwartzkopf, of the Minnesota station, the order of succession of teeth in our precocious pigs runs the same as in the primitive hog. The times when the teeth appear are variable, according to race, feeding and health. The same breeds, raised under the same conditions, will show the same appearance. The form of the skull depends upon nutrition, health, and more or less employment of certain muscles of the head and neck. Skulls of poorly nourished pigs are long and more slender than from those well nourished. Pigs that are prevented from rooting will acquire a short, high and rounded head, while those that are forced to root to secure a portion of their food will develop a long and slender form of head. Stand up for home industries and especially for your cremery or cheese factory. Help it all you can. If it or the owner or manager has any good qualities, show them up. This is the way to encourage and develop more. Wages of Street Car Men. Wages paid street car men in the United States annually amount to more than $88,000,000. UNHAPPY HOMES Caused By Weakness in Men A Michigan Specialist Finds an Easy Way to Cure Any Case of Sexual Weakness Even in the Oldest Men. This Wonderful Cure Has a Most Marvelous Record of Successes. BOOK M 501 W A FULL D GROCERIE MEATS & V SENT FREE TO ALL WHO APPLY IN WRITING There are thousands of cheerless homes in this country filled with discontent and unhappiness, lack in love and companionship through the sexual weakness and physical impairment of a man whose years do not justify such a condition. Indiscretious, abuses, and recklessness often cause a temporary cessation of vital power that instantly yields to the wonderful treatment discovered by the great specialist, Dr. H. O. Kaynor, of Detroit, Michigan. It is maintained for this great physician to discover that sexual we knees and similar trousers are cared and in a remarkable short coat. This treatment does not run the same, adding the miseries such injury entails, but it is a new treatment that easily and quickly restores youngful vigor to men as old as 85. The discovery is beyond doubt the most scientific and comprehensive that our attention has ever been called to. From all sides we hear private reports of cures in stubborn cases of sexual weakness, enlargement of the prostate, varicocele, spermorrhoea, lost manhood, im potency, emissions, prematurity, mutated organs, lack of virtue power, basal nervous system and like unnatural conditions. It does not hide its own app names, vacuum pumps, electric belts or anything of that kind. Satisfactory results are produced in a day's use and a perfect care in a short time, regardless of age or the cause of your condition. The lazy discoverer simply desires to get in touch with all men who can make use of such a treatment. They should address him in confidence, Dr. H. C. Kaynor, 172 Luck Building, Detroit, and immediately on receipt of your name, address it is his agreement with this paper to send you a free receipt or formula of this modern treatment by which you can cure yourself at home. Hla Family Stock. The distinguished ethnologist was the guest of the prison warden. He was ascertaining as nearly as possible the ancestry of the various classes of prisoners. The warden, opening one door, said: "In that department are the kleptomaniacs." "And what stock do they spring from?" asked the distinguished ethnologist. "Steal preferred," said the warden, who was a great wag.—Baltimore American. Texas George. Rt. Rev. George Kinsolving, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Texas, is a giant in stature. On one occasion he was in Philadelphia, when a wild west show happened to be in town. He was swinging along the street one afternoon when he stopped to buy a newspaper. The newsboy looked at the massive figure surmounted by a big slouch hat, and said: "Say, mister, are you Texas Bill?" "No, my boy, I'm not." was the bishop's laughing reply. "I'm Texas George." Stewed Oystera. Put a quart of oysters on the fire in their own liquor. The moment they begin to boil, skim them out, and add to the liquor a half pint of hot cream, salt, and cayenne pepper to taste. Skim it well, take it off the fire, add to the oysters an ounce and a half of butter broken into small pieces. Serve immediately.—Good Hosekeeper. Bat-Shaped Kite. The bat-shaped kite invented by S. F. Cody, F. R. M. S., has been adopted by the British admiralty. The kite is made from bamboo and silk and will carry a man. It may be used for reconnoitering on land or sea, and will be able to haul a sledge over Arctic ice with but one man to steer it. Kerosene for Porcelain Nothing equals kerosene for cleaning porcelain bathtubs. The ugly black streak around the sides that requires such vigorous rubbing when only soap and water is used disappears as by magic when wiped with a soft cloth moistened with kerosene. Lover's Need. A fortune big awaits the man Who will invent this wonder: A sofa built on such a plan A small boy can't get under. —N. Y. Sun. ACCURATE DEFINITION. A "Suppose you and I both got divorces and I married your husband and you married mine, what would our relation be?" 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So keen is the German emperor on his younger sons obtaining a thorough knowledge of warfare that he insists that some portion of their day shall be devoted to playing at soldiers. The youngsters receive periodical instruction to build fortifications of earth and mud, and the result of their labors is criticised by a military expert. The crown prince, by the way, is skilled as a carpenter, while the kaiser himself, having been taught to design buildings as a youth, is capable of following the profession of an architect. The late earl of Beaconsfield was gifted with any amount of political and moral courage, but he was an abject coward physically. When he was still plain Mr. Disraeli his wife once said of him: "Benjamin is the greatest coward I ever saw. Why, do you know I always have to pull the string of his shower bath?" And the great man was fain to confess that this was actually the case. Chinese farmers use a plow that is very small and with but one handle, the moldboard having but a few inches of surface. It simply scratches the top of the soil and is frequently drawn by men and women. The Chinese have no conception of deep plowing and it would be contrary to their traditional agricultural training to turn the valuable surface soil underneath. The wine flagon of Admiral Brney's captured by Lord Nelson and given by him to Lady Hamilton, was recently sold in a London auction room. The flagon is engraved on one side, "Nelson to Emma. In commemoration of the victory of the Nile, Vanguard, September 29, 1798. My fortiest birthday." When the Japs Are Pleased. In some parts of Japan the people have a queer way of showing their appreciation of fine acting. They throw portions of their clothing on the stage and after the performance redeem the articles, the money going to the actor or actress who has excited their admiration. Within the last five years the unskilled immigrant labor has begun to organize. The United Mine Workers, numbering 300,000, and the longshoremen, numbering 70,000, are perhaps the most compact of all organizations of labor, and they are mainly Irish, Italian and Slav. Dog and Goat Farms in Asia. Thousands of dog and goat farms are scattered over the northern portion of Mongolia and Manchuria. On each farm from ten to several hundred animals are reared annually, all of which are ultimately killed for the sake of their skins. The largest imports of iron into England—about one-third of the total amount consumed—is not due to any fear of the exhaustion of the supply in Great Britain, but to a desire to save the nonphosphorus iron used in the acid process. Mrs. Gladstone helped her husband more by keeping the house and children quiet when he was writing one of his great speaches than by criticising or actively helping him. Mr. Gladstone gave her praise for his best work. Mrs. Brown—How are you getting along? Mrs. Jones—Splendidly. Charles has two schemes that can't bring less than $1,000,000 each, and a $10 a week job.—Smart Set. He—I never did like that phrase; what's the matter with the cream?—Detroit Free Press. Before and After. Before marriage a man is willing to admit that he is unworthy of his wife, but after marriage he acts as though he had sacrificed himself. FRANCES. named, remember accept us atadelphia Bul- 914 N. St. James St., Richmond, Va. Regard for Appearances. Keep yourself well groomed, remembering that persons usually accept us at our own valuation.—Philadelphia Bulletin. Nothing Left But Friends. "Gracious! You look as if you had lost all your friends!" said the rosy-cheeked one aboard the steamer. "Well, I guess I've lost everything else," replied the pale one.—Yonkers Statesman. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Ims, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: None or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Sup entertainments promptly attended. Residence in Building, New Phone, 48. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD W. I. JO FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office & Warerooms, 207 N. HACKS F Orders by Telephone or Tele- pers and Entertainment Old 'Phone, 686, Residence W. I. JOHNSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Sup pers and Entertainments promptly attended. Old 'Phone, 686, Residence in Building, New Phone, 48. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF THE WORLD TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally instituted under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial to the Social and Moral condition of humanity.ry and uniform ranks will secure for this organization all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand oppose-puties wanted in all sections of the country to organi-ly address, ALLEN Supreme voyager. W. 87th Street, New York City. This organization has been chartered and legally situated under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial Fraternal and to promote the Social and Is two distinct military and uniform place in the front ranks of all sacred ins unity, for active men. Deputies wante lodges Kindly address, G. W. 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Send lock of hair, date of your birth and 25 cents in silver, and receive your life written from cradle to grave. Do not send postage unless addressed all letters to MRS. DR. BURKE. 1917 E. FRANK ST. NORTHEAST, Mt. FRANK WALLER, JR. Residence, 1 E. Orange St. Prompt attention given to all mail orders. Satisfaction guaranteed. All Kinds of Painting Bone Cheap. Give me a call before going elsewhere V. P. & F. K. of W. THE PLANET DAY OF A THOUSAND YEARS. For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a sun in the night, in xc. 14, And one time to another The full strains of a song Till the deeps of space gow with its grace And echo it full strong; And whirring out of the silence A word of words appears through the endless So an enward rush through the endless bush— And a day is a thousand years. And one star sings to another, And sun holds speech with sun, While the drifting veil of a vapor pale Shows another world begun. But we count time by a dawning Or mark by a twilight tail— Yet the stars sing out when the years are gone, And what are we, after all? The words and the hopes and doubtings, The joy and the dreams and dread, And the pungy lives in the puny hives When the moon is not heard; A day, a night, and another— A round of the spinning ball; A sigh and a smile for the briefest while— And what are we, after all? And one star calls to another A song we may not know; Calls a distant sun to a dying sun As the ages come and go. And we mark time by a minute, And croon over smiles and tears— But their singing on when the worlds are gone, And a day is a thousand years. —Chicago Daily Tribune. THE JOKE ON JOSE By LAWRENCE HENRY (Copyright, 1803, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) HA, HA, HA, a good joke, indeed," laughed the gay Hernandez as he flashed his brilliant back eyes upon the face of his pretty companion. "And so you have promised that half-silly yokel Jose to be his wife. How the clown will squirm when he finds out what game the charming Bonita has been having at his expense." Bonita laughed too and her voice was like the ripping of a brook while her oval face took on the innocent expression of an angel's. "Ah, it was such fun," she lisped. "I wish you had come with less noise, for then you could have seen him down on his knees here on the grass before me covering my hand with burning kisses as he blubbered out his gratitude at my acceptance of his suit." For one moment the handsome face of Hernandez convulsed with an ugly scowl, then realizing the absurdity of it he responded with affected indifference: "Oh, well, the caresses of even a shepherd would fill in the gap for some women." "Why, you dear angel, can you think it was anything but sport for me! I could hardly keep my sides from bursting at his gawkish exhibitions of tenderness." With this Bonita coquettishly entwined her velvety arm about his neck. "Does my noble Hernandez think I do not know the difference between a gentleman and a clod?" "Parbleu," he answered, pettishly, "I am almost as ruch a fool as he to find in your playful pastime with such a numbskull anything to ruffle me." Then suddenly appreciating the proximity of his affectionate sweetheart he impulsively drew her closer and pressed her inviting lips with a fervid passionate kiss. At this instant there was a rustle of the cactus bush near by. The leaves parted and exposed for a second a livid face, a pair of eyes that seemed to spit the venom of a snake. And then it was gone, but not before the lovers had seen. "Jose!" gasped Bonita. "It looked like him," replied Hernandez, also somewhat ill at ease; "your joke has a quick turn," he continued, with returning good humor. They laughed again and proceeded with their killing and coining. It was in Sonora, that province of Mexico, famed in story and romance; where the glowing sun makes Lothario's or Othellos of the men; coquettes or nuns of the women. Hernandez was the son of the owner of a hacienda just out of the village. While his career had been a checkered o.r.e. he was considered the most eligible match in the valley. His amours were notorious and many a poor male had cause to regret his concension in choosing his favorites, but he was handsome, dashing, rich, and few could resist. However, Bonita was wise in her day. She was not the belle of the village for nothing. Though her father was merely a saddle maker her beauty, grace and wif gave her precedence over many higher born. She had a beautiful olive complexion, big languorous black eyes and coral lips like Cupid. When Hernandez selected her as a conquest he found a tartar. Perhaps that is why he soon grew to really love her and offered his hand in marriage, and Bonita, coquette that she was really, gave her heart with her hand. Still with a nature such as hers she could not forego the opportunity to trifle with the emotions of the other sex, and when she found that poor lose, a common peon, showed signs of an honest ardor, she led him on, until as a climax to her humorous caprice, she promised to be his wife. Jose was by no means a weakling, because he lived so much of the time as a tender of sheep on the mountain side, or a fool because he was big, and brawny and uncouth. Nobody seemed to consider him seriously, however, as he had never done anything for people to fear or revile him. He never disputed, quarrelled or fought; did nothing but mind his own business; hence was regarded a simpleton and a coward. His love for Bonita was not generally known or he would likely have been made major for his presumption, with all in dog-like devotion he managed to have no one understand but his heart's idol. After the episode in the shade of the cactus just narrated, Joss was not seen again in the town. Hernandez and Bonita told with much humor and gaso the rich joe on Jose and the townspeople laughed with exceeding glee at a joke that was a joke. The time for the nuptials of the happy pair drew near. The marriage of the only son of Don Elizerez del Pio, the wealthy ranchero of the valley, to a humble maid, even were she the belle of the village, was an event, indeed. Preparations on a scale never before known were made for the happy occasion. Bonita's humble neighbors combined their forces with the purpose of showing a gentleman that it was not only the great ones who could do things right. And the expectant bride, what happy days they were for her in all the turmoil of making ready. Finally the momentous day arrived, the ceremony was to be performed in the little church with extraordinary pomp and dignity. There were decorations, bridesmaids, flower girls galore. A bishop had been sent for, but he had sent word he was ill, so the old Padre secured a new cassock for the service. At last the hour drew nigh. High noon was the culminating minute. Assembled before the little church door, the merry crowd was at highest tension in anticipation. No one would enter until the bridegroom made his appearance. He was to ride his horse in from the hacienda unaccompanied, a custom of the province. It was almost 12 o'clock, but no Hernandez. The venerable Don was there and ill-wise other members of his family, and still they waited. The hour passed; Bonita, with anxious face and all bedecked in bridal robes, climbed a little mound near by to look afar. Suddenly she clasped her hands in joy. In the distance, way out on the mountain slope, she saw a horse with a rider coming and then the crowd saw and a shout went up. Nearer and nearer it came, but how slow for an impetuous bridegroom! Soon they could distinguish. It was Hernandez' horse and then they could see Hernandez himself. But why BONITA WAS THE FIRST TO REACH HIS SIDE. did he walk his horse and why in such deep meditation? Bonita was the first to reach his side stretching her hand eagerly up to his. Suddenly she recoiled with a shriek of anguish. The horse stopped, the crowd seemed awe-struck; nobody moved. It was the old Padre who stepped forward to the silent rider. One glance told him. Hernandez was dead. Propped in the saddle by some ingenious device the horse had carried a corpse to the wedding. Looking closer the priest saw pinned on the breast of the lifeless man a scribbled bit of paper. There was a single line in poor Spanish. Somebody cried out: "Read it aloud." The priest read: "This is the joke on Jose." OPINION OF AMERICAN WOMAN. English Writer Holds Her a Dangerous Anarchist and Sees Danger to Civilization. American woman is declared to be a dangerous, abnormal type, in an article by H. B. M. Watson, published recently in Nineteenth Century. From the writer's point of view, American femininity is little better than a whited sepulcher. The character of the American woman of to-day, he says, is a product partly of racial modification and partly of the social conditions of a commercial age. We have many opportunities of studying the American woman, for she has undertaken to annex as much of Europe as practicable, and has succeeded very fairly. It is considered by the taste of the day quite creditable that some pork packer's dollars from Chicago should buy a coronet in Mayfair. The American woman is claimed by her admirers as being independent, but she is more than that, she is anarchical. The state has been built upon certain sociological facts as a foundation. The American woman is destroying these, and, with them, therefore, the structure of the state as it exists now. Evidences that American women are deliberately turning their backs on natural laws have accumulated of recent years. It would seem that while the American man unnaturally devotes all his days to money-making, the American woman, as unnaturally, devotes her days to pleasure. Whereas, the savage woman acted as a beast of burden to her lord, the American man works like a beast of burden beside his triumphing lady. Unless American civilization alters, it would seem to be doomed. How About the Privates? They found enough people in Panama to fill all the cabinet positions, but what, asks the Chicago Daily News, are they going to do for privates in the army? A paper in Southern Kansas makes the announcement that there is a temperance revival "on tap." The Woman of It. The girl who keeps her birthday, When she a merry little elf, Keep it still when she grows up— She keeps it to herself. —Cincinnati Enquirer. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. DRANK HUMAN BLOOD Story of a Russian Convict Who Ead a Strange Passion. Killed Eighteen Persons to Satisfy His Unnatural Cravings and Then Fed Their Bodies to a Drove of Hogs. The latest Sachalin mall, addressed to the minister of the interior at St. Petersburg, contains the following extraordinary story: "To Convict 1118, name Kaserski, home Moscow, banished to the village of Chandsa, 18 murders lately committed in the island have been traced and proofs are accumulating that he is guilty of many more. He admits his inability to state just how many men he killed. "This convict-passant first attracted the attention of the authorities by the frequency with which he sold fattened hogs. He raised more than any other deported settler. At the same time persons continued to varnish in the neighborhood, and finally a house to house search was decided upon. In the hut of Convict No. 1118 three bottles containing a dark fluid were found. When questioned, he said he used the stuff to grease his boots. The official thought this a lie and ordered the convict to drink from one of the bottles to show that they did not contain poison or explosives. "The convict complied with seeming pleasure, and the search continued. Something that looked like a human foot was found in the pig styce ard, suspicion being aroused, the governor ordered the garden dug up, with the result that 18 human skulls were discovered buried there. "The convict then confessed that he was responsible for the numerous disappearances, and, maybe, for the death of many more persons—he could not remember how many he had killed during the last three or four years. He claimed that his crimes were due to irresistible impulse, a wild passion for drilling human blood. He said he could not exist without a bottle stored away in his larder. "At the same time the convict was proud to show that he was not a mur- V. H. CONVICT DRANK COPIOUSLY. derer for gain. The money found on his victims he had either secretly returned to their relatives (which was proven true) or bept at the bottom of his well, from where it was recovered by the authorities. "He confessed, though, that he had made good use of their bodies by cutting them up and feeding his hogs on them. The investigation is still continued." As in Russia the death penalty is imposed only on political criminals, this ferocious monster will be suffered to live, and the czar's order against corporal punishment, formulated some two months ago, will likewise favor him. A further report by the medical authorities of the penal colony says that Convict 1118 is perfectly rational. Bears Chase Two Hunters. While Krebs Stewart and Peter Kimmel were hunting grouse in the vicinity of Bear Rocks, on the Alleghenies, north of Altoona, Pa., they unexpectedly encountered five bears, a maire and a female, and their cubs. Stewart fired two charges of birdshot into the family, slightly wounding all of the bears. Before the hunter could reload with buck shot, the entire Bruin family was after the two men. Kimmel and Stewart decided to retreat. The bears trailed them half a mile down the mountains before they abandoned the chase. The cubs were leading the chase the last time the sportsmen looked back. Baby Exchange Agencies. The practice of exchanging children by parents living in French and German Switzerland, in order to enable their boys and girls to learn another language, is spreading greatly in that country. An exchange agency to further this object has been founded at Zurich. A Swiss child has the opportunity to pick up three languages—French, German and Italian—at practically no cost to the parents. In six months a child is able to converse freely, and is then sent to school to learn the grammar and literature of the newly acquired language. Some New Uses for Paper Several new uses for paper have been discovered. Artificial teeth are made from it; a Lynn shoemaker employs it to make uppers for boots; a Boston manufacturer is perfecting a system of converting it into tall hats, and for years it has been worn as clothing by the Japanese, the seams being pasted together. The Latest Street Crane. The latest local craze is the sheostring watch fob. Since it invaded New York, not more than a couple of weeks ago, it has caused the sale of about 1,000,000 sheostrings. And still the demand exceeds the supply. The fobs do not come ready-made—you make them yourself by braiding together two sheostrings, which ought to be of sharply contrasting colors.—N. Y. Times. 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The following sug- festions as to construction are made by a government bulletin: No house should be built for more than 250 pairs, nor should more than 50.pairs be kept fn each section. tn our first fllustra- tion we show a house that is very ser- Viceable. This shows a general view ef the pigeon house in the rear, with the yard (called the “fly"). The house Pearce Becinhe neo cuee RRC Rae Rahs oe NNER Beane Send ORE hia SUES SN setae NN SSIS eS cae ee Sie Sek eee —— 1 Sanu dacseraan ‘kuaks Ge fe'40 feet lone, 12 feet wide and mine feet high to peak of roof. Along. the orth side a passageway threo feet wide Tuas the full dength.. This 1s shown in four second iiiastration. The rest -of the space is divided by four partitions Into five pens of equal size. The pene are separated f20m the pasageway" by Wire netting revching from the floor to the root, with x door into ach pen. If the pigeon raiser has but ane house’ he ‘shoeid either use one of these com- partments as a-room for sioring feed rand, other supplies, picking squabs, eA oe | Fe lees IZA RS alien VARGA BES Bs Z| Wea CAPE Nhl ZA lien Bas ee Kez || Ba a GG aNd | Be al Rose ert Rear oes ||| Bd SRY SheR Ean | eed Roza Iho cas] RFI || a ber BU re | Ra hae as AG Ga elle is gerne \ uN Bao bee A Tae } ASS RRA) \ Ue SS neil Nutt RU MSDN SCID ree ph eco car a ete., or aii ten feet to the length of the building for such purposes. Each gnble near the peak has a four- light window. Each section of the Poultry house has a six-light windew on the south side. ll the windows slide and are covered with wire net- ting on the outside. ‘The partitions between the sections tare made of ‘inch boasds running to netting and are hese with spring hinges, 80 asto. be self-closing to pre- vent the possible eseape of the birds. Bach pen hax oae of these doors, and dikewise cach end of the building. Both inside ang outside doors should be kept securely Jocked, TOLD IN & FEW LINES. ‘White washing in winterhelps to keep away roup and other diseases. Some poultry raisers succeed better than others, and it isa't luck, either. Nothing brings the ready money to the home like the prosuet af the hen. The drinking veseels should be thor- eughly scalded at least once a week. The successful poultryman Is a very good fellow. If he war not he would We doing something else. Bo not allow birds that have died of disease to lie, around the place. Bury them deeply Gr burn them at once, Regs at 25 certs « concn are cheaper than Seef stoak at present prices. Be- aides that teey are more beaithful.— ‘Dimemencin’l. Henltrs: Keep a Few Guinea Nens. Probably it is not every farmer who knows the ehiiiiy a guinea hen has to quell distarbences and break up quar- Fels that may end In fichts. We have witnessed eeveral such combative oc- ‘easions, and closely watched with inter- est the guineas as iiitle peacemakers, It has occurred even among the great yellow lipped white Pekin ducks, who are themselves non-combative. The lit- tle guineas are suarp watchmen, being wide awake and on the qui-vive for strangers, or flying poultry enemtee; they give alarms early and in due time for vagrants to escape, Farmers will do well to watch the shy guineas, and five them a trial for their good qual- ites. Their tiny eggs are rich and nutty, providing they can be found.— Prairie Farmer. How Exss Absorb Odors, Very few people are aware how rap. Adly eggs absorb the ordors of nearby ‘objects such as onions and kerosene o1 even the filth of the poultry house. The shell is porous and in a few hours th yolk of an ege will become tainted hy near proximity to sirong o¢ors, Strictly fresh ees that bring the highest prices to local cw'tcmers. are removed shorty after they become separated from the hen, ard are Vept tn a clean receptacle fn a clean room.—Midlar’ Farmer. ADUL. ERATED BUsEY. Onty Way to Avoid Getting It ts by Parchasiag Goods from Re~ Sabie Shaaban. || Complaints keep coming to hand all the time about adulierated honey, says Farm, Stock and Home. “Where can I get pure heney?” is question that I am as.ed almost daily. “I would not trust my own father when it comes to extraced honey,” was the reply I got to-day from a would-be purchaser of comb honey, who writes “Dr.” before his name. We seldom take avy notice ‘of such accusations of dishonesty, and we are weary of the ery of “Where can I get pure honey?” because it comes asa general rule from’those who buy from the fakirs, but werdisitke to jbave them come our way ‘for sym- pathy afcer getting just what they vere paying fer. However, in repty to those who really want a pure artiele, and are willing:to pay for it, there-is no diffi culty at all about the matter. A good way to get pure honey is to raise it yourself or else buy from.some pro- ducer whose reputation is above suspi- cion, or buy from:some reputable deal- jer who handies first-class: goods of all | Kinds, your grocer, for instance. If you live where there is a good pure food |law try the honey of various producers, |and when you get an article that you like send a sample of it to the dairy and food commissioner fer analysis |and he will tell you free of cost if it be pure or otherwise. But do not pro- nounce honey impure simply because you don't like it. “The combined efforts of the dairy and food ecmmissioner and the State Bee Keepers’ association have done much to drive spurious honey out of the market, and we hope the day is mot far distant wher congress will see its way Gear to pass @ pure food law that will make. the business of the sulterator both risky <Ak Gnnrahtnbsa ‘IMPROVING THE FLOCKS. It Cannot Be Done Where the Per miclous Practice of Exchang- | Inge Eigse In Im Vor we. The farmer who buys pure breeds this fall will benefit the entire community in which he resides. "While some may sup- pose ‘him extravagant in buying better stock, yet they will soon request an “ex- change of exes," which should not be allowed by any enterprising farmer. it is just as reasonable to exchange pure- bred.calves, pigs or lambs for inferior stock us to exchange eres, as eges repre- sent stock. Many farmers exchange eggs from common stock in order to avoid inbreeding. »in the first place, the eggs themselves are a-risk, as no one can estimate what they may pro- duce, perhaps no two chicks from them being alike, and no breeding of vaine in the stock. Again, the changing of eggs makes the flock tn a community all of one blood, so that really nothing can be gnined by the pructice after it has been prrsisted in for x time. Do not at- ‘tempt to better your flock by changing eggs for some nondescript stock that “has not merit por possesses any ad- ‘vantage. To improve a flock one should ‘know the kind of stock he is using and vwhat can be expected from it. ‘The ex- changing of eggs Is a, practice that should not be encouraged—Farm and Fireside. | SIMPLE TRAP NEST. Usctal for Poultrymen GVho Wish to Build Up a Specia: Strate | of Birds, A simple trap nest is te use by the Ontario agricultural college. The-door is adjusted low enough so that the hen on entering raises it slightly, thus re- Neving the heck, which drops backiand ry — | fra i hen A Be <a Ss HOMEMADE TRAP NEST. | SHiows the door to fall. The nest works well, if fowls are pretty much af the sanie size, bat a small hen may not raise the doar enous’ to unfasten It. The nest is 12 inches wide, 12 inches high and 15 inches long. The {ilustra- tion shows the hook which holds up the éoor, also the nest set ready for the hea to enter. Trap-nests are useful for poultry men who wish to build up a special strain of birds, as it will show which bens lay, thus enabling the breeder to know ezactly what he is do- ing.—Orange Judd ¥armer. Sesetend thn arenes ence: ens may. HOSUR) SRG: ieee: Ory goods boxes, put where no healthy fowls can get to them, made with slats came ‘as chicken coops. Keep close watch that everything is burned up, dead hers and all, Take all away so the well ones can not scratch in the ashes. No eick fowl should be fed corn or oats; feed soft food, and oyster shells. In winter I feed two quarts osyter shells a day; in morn- ings, a soft warm mash; at noon, corn; for supper they have oats and all scraps from table. Once a week I give small boiled potatoes mixed with bran. ‘They have dust bath and plenty of milk and I have plenty of eggs. With good care poultry pays.—Calla, in Obio Farmer, | oats for Fationtaz Fows, Oats as a poultry feed should be first- class, but owing to the large percentage of hulls they are not relished by chick- ens, and for this reason are somewhat indigestible. When ground they may be used freely in ths mash, also the ‘rolled and granulated oatmeals are ex- cellent for feeding young chicks. The ground oats without the hulls are used extensively in Canada for fattening fowls.—Orange Judd Farmer. A Maa Record. Since 1852 more than 26,000 convicts have been sent to French Guiana, o} whom 84% per cent. die of disease, hard- ship and insufficient food. THE RICHVMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA a a ESE AESET STARTING A MEADOW. VLD VOMINIWN SAM 4 Fam ation of the Lund and Syste- | Night Line for Nortolk. | LO matic Cultivation. a a MR a SSP When a new meadow is to be made it is advisable to see that the land has most thorough preparation. A meadow that is permitted Lo become such with- out proper preparing 1s likely to have characterisiics that will remain with it as long as it is a meadow. We have seen such meadows and have worked in them, and can testity that they are hard to mow, hard to rake and hard te travel ‘over. ‘Doubtless the plants find it hard sometimes to make a growth on hard, lumpy, sunburned land that might Rave been made otherwise by a little extra work with the harrow and drag. If during the year preceeding the abandonment of grass the land has borne @ corn crop, itsirregularities are very likely to be intensified. The old stalks are seen in the field of grow- ing grass and arc only-too plainly appar- ent. If such land be rolling and in a humid country, the chances of its gul- lying are increased. Sometimes these gullles develop into considerable water courses during the few days of heavy rainfall. | Itepays to put a:good deal of-work ‘on the land that is to be made into a meadow before seeding. If the disk harrow is used on the farm it can be made to do good service here. The smoothing barrow and the roller will carry the work onstill further, and in some cases, as of hard ridges, the drag will help to equalize matters. A smooth surface is desired, ‘and it should be obtained at any cost. Roll ing the land will-give it a surface that ‘will not easily gully, at least not sc easily as when the water gets star ‘Deiween the ridges of corn ‘of the previous year. | ‘When the grass gets started “is the time to see that there are no*barrer spots. When found they should re ceive attention and seed at once, be i {Wii or spring. ‘Grass starts on sucl spots from seetl sown in the coo weather of the fall or spring, but wil not start in the*hot weather, as th jsoil immediately von the surface is kep fried out too much to permit-of th seeds getting enough moisture Tor the | xerminating process. It must'be re {membered that moisture ts one of the requisite conditions that make germi \nation possible. “If these spots are al jowed to remain vacant through th fall and spring they will harden in th ;sun of July and August and ‘vecoms |stili harder to resced.—Farmers’ Re i iow. AN EFFECTIVE FENCE. Riche ot tne Paemet Variety, ome wal mural Anyalalng, vee (dee sncticer Acimake Seeing a plan fer a fence which has jong been in use here, I attempt-to de- ‘scribe one which is taking the place of he-poat and rall tance; belay eenash ‘cheaper, more durable, quicker, -and easier made, and will turn anythiog— Ro a Q a fy ooog lt Al NUTT Th pe ii Vi DONA Te TV Tf Hs eS enna men Ee. even dc. goat, chicken or rabbit. The Umber for the pickets are cut three feet long, and split like clapboards, or shakes, one inch thick, Two.thousand can be easily made in one day by two men— one bolt.and bark—and timber will go much farther than tn rails. The poste are set ten feet apart, and broken rails —sharpened—will do for every other post. ‘The pickets are woven between wires, and driven back with a little mal- let The-tension can be made at the blacksmith shop for a trifle, and will let the wires loose, as meeded. It is made with five little iron pegs, put through a:piece of iron extending one inch on each side; one wire goes on exch side of it. (Put a barb wiregon top. —E} mee Holland, in Epitomist. ‘ieee dae aaa Naat Sea The day ts perbaps not fer distant when the electric wire will take the place of the weodman’s 2x .and the erosscht saw in all extensive eperations involving the felling of trees for lum- ker. It has Jately been demenstrated that a tree may be brought to earth quickly and effectually by means of an erectric current coursing along s fine platinum wire which is placed in con- tact with the tree trunk. The platinum wire becomes white hot from the ac- tion of the current and in turn Utersily burns its way through the tres. ‘The operation only takes about one-tenth fof the time required to saw the tree down, and the labor involved is almost nothing. The above described metho¢ has been tried with success in Franee, and its Introduction into other coun- tries is looked for at au early date.— Rural World, Preparing Land for Corn. In the cultivation of com we find it is better to prepare the ground in the fall. Select a field that has had a crop on it, gang plow it first and work It down fine, and leave it until fall. Then plow it again and jeave uatil spring, when it should be eulti- vased and harrowed. In winter haul out manure and spread {t, putting on the ground about ten or 15 tons to the acre. It may now be plowed and made ready for planting—Edward Curts, in Farmers’ Review. A big elder barrel makes a poor farmer. A Good Motto. It would be difficult to find in the story of Sir Henry Stanley’s adven- turous life a more characteristic trait of the man than the answer he gave to his first employer when asked what he could do. “Anything,” came the Prompt and confident reply, “that a boy of my age and strength could be expected to do.” This saying might well have been adopted as the explor- fe “ite motia: VLD VOMINIUN >) AM- ~HIP COMPYMAXY, | Night Line for Nortolk. Leave Richmond daily at 7 p. | m™., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Daily excpet Sunday by O. & O. Raii- way, 9:00a.m.,4 p.m 9a. m. and 8 p.m. by N. & W. Realwny; all lines connect at Norfolk with direct steamers for New York, sailing daily except Sunday, 7 p.m. Steamiers sail from company’s what (foot of Ash Street) Rockets. K. F. OHALKLEK, City Tioket Agt., i212°E Main Se, JOHN F. MAYER. Agt. Wharf Poot of Ash St., Richmond, Va. HB. WALKER, V. P. & T. M., New | York. Nov 18%, 1903. ROUTE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY. 2 Hours and 26 Minutes t» Norfolk. LEAVE RICHNOND—EAS™BOCND. 720 n, m—daily—Local to Bewport News and way nebcionss 900 8.'m~"BaleyLimited~Ar-tyre Williams Sarg oie a2 mn. "Newnart Soe Wu sere m., Old Potad ii 0m mm, Noro tye vm | 400 pb: Week aay, al Arrives Wil Ramegay Sp ie nat Nive Wh | prim vOid Point 018 ye Noviolie 63 bm. Daly —Loenls tof'a Point, be DSA LINE WL SLOUNS 1920 a. cn Except Suminy tC ifton Fore. “E80 pi —Dally Special tin sna ae B18 bem:—Micei dain Lolo Prods Hal 100 Pm — ally “tlinitcd tg Uinclnnat Eocinetite Be. Luke wet Chica 1030 wm. -Daliy Rapes 83 [ymohburg New Gaiitio, Ciitton Forme nnd printed wee thous Gaonpt Sunday be Leiner ee 6:15 p. m.—Wenk duye—Lo-al ta Beem. Thais ARRIVE RIGOMOND FROM Norkiik nt Old Port Heb me date RR San end 20 puism: Gnlly. Nowpn Newnescal 0.20pm. ais | Fro Cincianati and Weat 7345 9. m. daily end ao psn: daily. Mans. Line Total 8 Clifton Forge 8:10 ‘p.m Ex sun. Brocarick's Hail Accommodation. 310 a. 1 Ey cee ates River Line Local Srom «tifton Forge sxe. m. daily. Bremo accom. 8000 m. Ex CF porns, W.0. WARTHEN, | Gen'l Manager. ‘Dist. Fass. Agi SOUTHERN RAILW.Y “Bective et. 41h, 1903, RAINS LEAVE KICHMOND. 7Q0e.m—Daily. Love’ for Chutlotte. 12,902. Daily. Limesed, be Set, allman fo “Atinuta and Fi 3 ingbam, New Orieame, Memphis, Chattar ye and all the South: Gp me Ex. uns ge Chase Ct. 11,055. m—Daily.""{ watedt Pullivan ready Sad p.m. for alle! smoath: YORK £IVEU LINE. The faver‘te rout to Baltimore and eastern pointy “Lenve Richton 420 p.m. Dally ce. Eepe senciny 308.12 — xcept Sundey. Local mix LA Bz Bxeept Sunday. Local mixed for URES ecettSE Ra rane p..— Hxcept Sumeuy. “For Weet Potn Stating with steamscis for Balinone sea eeelantines ‘THAIN APPIVE RICHMOND. [gS meena 6.46 pm From all the Mouth ga. t0 ~ From Chase City. 9:15 % ta.— Baltimore wns West Potnt, $180 p. ms. — From. Weet Fant HC Aceon, GM. 8.8 Haxpwiex, GPA. OW WaetbuW, DP. A. iichinone Wee SEABOARD Am?Line Rawwway SRAING LEAVE RIGEMOND DAILY 2:20 p. m.—Eeal onrd Mayi—10:98 pm. Sew Joard Expreve—0" tavasiah, Jackrotivile, Atlanta aud Southwest. THAINe Sienive Maw aOND ane (8.25 a. S30. H—A05 fu. —No. 6—Feomn Tet peer ea HB teeaten, District Pure aeot No, Gt tn Be, leeloucnd, - W. J. MavsGity Ticket Agent. ATLANTIC “OAST-LINE. TRAINS LEAVE MCHAOND DAILY BYKin STREET STATION. gape m Teall wine senen oo Foal pein sooth hee Se Hg ge Betersbarg and Ra }MUO p.m Gokisbore local. ‘ , Sse box Rossing Rosie 35 p.m. Peterburg and X w. SBR Reteiare pedo w. won TRALNS ARRIVE RBECHMOND. dirt {kaa Vee gt sesrpy eeoacy acim ides ths pops eemtes ve Sy, Div. Dass. Agt. 3. Gini S a ee ee Norfolk and Westeza R. R. LBAVYE RICHMOND (PALLY), BYRD STREET STATION, Reet TY eT SE LIMITED, Artec Waverly and duffle. Only at Peersburg, wit Am. SHICAGOSXPRERS Meet Parios One Betorabarg tougncht srg tel Gourake Pullnen Seq er Wawscke $s Cclcaniun nad Breodcut sc Ulweungus tino —Hemoke to Frecadio, and Knowvile to Chatisnoowa, and A2Wi. ca, Roanoke Es for Farmville, Lynehhecg and Roaeee on 334 Vga. Ocean Shans + mlted Arrives Nor folk 6018 Me Beops eat’ F Setarsacey wee $i And afaik. Cassel wish Steamers to Reston. Providence, ear Cok, Baltimore und Wasbewtas 8.98 Com. tor Nor‘sth> .€ gil etations east of Peterabaine. 020 PM. SEW ORLEANe.anORT Linz, Poult mao Sleeper islohmgnd to iiynchbang. Povers Gare to Romuoke: Lenenbues to Chattanooen, | Memphis end New Orloans. Owfe Dining Car, ‘Trains arrives from the wont 733) and 5 gee. Foy Nectotk i teas ia. ee embers en, Pass, Act Div. Pane Agent. Low Winter Tourist Rates via Sea- boad dlr Line Ry. ai eee mre enc edn ia ~ Seaboard Air Line Railway announses ‘special winter tourist rates to ail of the a points in Florida and the thweet. ‘Tickets on sale daily until April 30t, good returning uncl May Bist, 1904. Drawing-toom Paliman Oars on ali throagh train; Dining Car service south Hamlet, formation as to rates, tickets, eto., obeerfally farnished on ap: ee to the Rudersigned - . 8. LEaRD, W. J. May, Dist. Pass. Agt., ity Ticket '‘Agt. 880 E. Main St,, Richmond, Va, _tildeol9ino ALPHEUS SCOTT, OBUROH HILL FUNERAL DIRECTOR +. AND ENBALMER, ‘Open Day and Night. Office and Qmassons seen st cueae ine Orders By Ti ‘ph and Telephone ay attended to All bumsees sont Gitekal Oia Phone he See Pee eS age Ser gene oe eee Bor 2 y 4 ‘ga, The Greatest Offer Yeti “Qe JUST WHAT THE LADIES WANT. | AStual Size. a Send H Good Photograph. WF WILL SEND YOU A HANDSOME GOLD-PLATED BREAST-PIN W17 YOUR PICTURE HANDSOMELY COLORED AND REPRODUCE! ‘THEREON FREE OF CHARGE. \ They can be worn by either male or female, being called either Button or I lions. We have made special arrangements with one of the largest concerns in the ec te furnish all new swbscribers, who pay $1.50 cash in advance for the PLANET c these hardsome Medallion free of charge. Fill out the Coupon andsend it with $3.5% together with a good Photograph of the person whose features you desire reproduced ie colors and we will seud the button or medallion. All photographs will be returned, Enclose 5 cents extra to pay postage on the same. If youare not satisfied, your money will be refunded. Send us 3ne yearly subscriber and we will send one Medailion. ‘Tre yearly subscribers, two Medalliens. Now is the time to take advantage of the offer. The Medallion alone is worth ke price of the subscription. ieee hE : “= COUPON. B= Seas Sata eeeee eres ettanas eee ana JOEN MITCHELL, JR., Potfishes, ‘THE PLANET: Please find enclosed $1.50 for the Pla one year, which you will ex to the following address: sO ale eas lenchinemterinntenien a cc em se oeccpamereer onic ares ES AR AE heen lvepsieenensicaiebiecasassbianaasa i AI RELI i sec cease ccna ea A TS. ; closed photograph which I desire inser’gd in medallion or batten, j : - A FAMILY TALK, ss (| Soa Da a oo : EC a \ 2 : Yi lel, ¥ Ps |: A HN i Sed i | { mV: si / ff, i i if yet Oe WT Ws a a aan UB tay 97 974 “Papa, I dou't like to hurt your fed. teen aae oe ee =a OMeleee ees eee ee aoe ee a ees ‘ Small Wonder. “I brought home a friend to-dinner Inst ‘might and there was an awful row.” “Didn't you notify your wife?” “Oh, yes; but she forgot ‘to notify the cook."—Brool:lyn Life. His Niekname. “What is that nickname ‘you have given your boy?” | ‘““Ein’ Machine answered Far- mer Cerntossel. “You see, e's mighty fnterestin’ an’ promistn’, tut he won't work.””—Washington Star. The Masculine Becory. ‘Wife—I wonder why the fashions for ‘women change so often? | -Husband-—Probaity for the purpose ‘of ‘enabling them to correspond with ‘the feminine mine, my ‘dear —Cinein. nati Enquirer. The People Stared. “Mrz. Sperdcash (the possessor ofa new | Worth costam:)—Did you notice how ‘people stared at us last evening? ] Husband (meekly)—Y¥-e-s; I made a miistake and had mended my old éress- | coat with white thread. N.Y. Weekly. ' — ‘Miss Vera Plane--I always endeav- vr to bo very distant to Mr. Neersite, and yet he is infatuated with me. | Rose Budd—Yes, dear. I think if you weren't quite so distant he'd soon get over his infatwation.—Judge. Gottirw Ready. ““My wife is busy getting ready for ‘Cnristmas.” “What has she done?” “Oh, she's priced hundreds of thines he hasn't the slizhtest Gea of buying.” Chicago Recond-Heraid, Cheap Settlers” Tickets. On the first aud third Tuesday of each month till April, 1904, the Frisco Sys tem (St. Louis aad San’Franciseo Rail road) will sell reduced one-way ticket: from Birminghaw, Memphis and. Sain Louis to all paints in Arkansas, Kansas Missouri, Oklahoma, Indian ‘Territory and Texas. Write W. ‘T. Saunders General Afient Passenger Dopt., Atlan ta, Ga., for farther information CHESAPEAKE & O10 RATLWAY. 2000-Mile Tickets Discontinued. On and after June 1, 2000-Mile Tick ‘ts will be withdrawn from sale and re- placed by the 1000-Mile Refund Inter: changeable Tickets heretotore announe- This offer ty without the least doubt, thy greatest value for cite coma Money ever offtred oy any oewspaper tn the whole history of joursalismd diets Uae aopy ects, MUSIC a Copy’ * LARGE TYPE « B * UNABRIDGED * 7 Save ando arrangemonts with one of the largest musle houese n to furnia Wren $e iar ise tant Ns ony soittthaged, Rivet seete or ae aie dit “palatial sapere eat pete Pelube ton SKUIAL shvelanusie paper trun oot viaies made from large, clear type — tncledimy This offer kolis good to any of ovr axrbscribers or toany person sending as muck as 60 cents for a subs:ription to the PLANET Address, JOHN MITCHELL, JR. ™ 21x N.qth St., Richmond. 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Inetromental places give the be ‘to any mudliched -Alad don't forget tot > call your friends about this Sheet Wess" Write your mame, full address, ané = + pieces wanted by the mumberss¢ ° this, with stamps 0: sliver,and mail e toaddress given below,and the mus... besent direct from Boston, postage prepaid. $100,000 Stock of Fine Pianos, Organ and Musical Instruments to Be Sold by December 24th. Tenth Annual Xmas Sale, Attend It! Beautiful Mahogany and oak cases. Three pedals, full desk, carved center, double veneer, full iron frame. Terms: $10 Cash and $7 Per Month. Stool and Scarf Free. Ten Year G At $239.00. SPECIFICATIONS—Seven and one-third octaves, ivory keys, finished cases, all modern designs. Three unisons, overstrung, heavy iron frame, three pedals. Terms: $6 Cash and $6 Per Month. Stool and Scarf Free. Warranty cases. Three pedals, full swing music full iron frame. and $7 Per Month. Ten Year Guarantee. Beautiful Mahogany and oak cases. Three pedals, full swing music desk, carved center, double veneer, full iron frame. one-third octaves, ivory keys, handsomely Three unisons, overstrung scale, extra and $6 Per Month. Warranty Ten Years SPECIFICATIONS- Seven and one-third octaves, ivory keys, handsomely finished cases, all modern designs. Three unisons, overstrung scale, extra heavy iron frame, three pedals. Terms: $6 Cash and $6 Per Month. Stool and Scarf Free. Warranty Ten Years At a Sacrifice. Fifty good Square Planos and slightly used Organs, fre- $40. Terms, $3 per month. Music Cabi- nets. Large stock, something new. Prices: $6.00 $8.00 $10.00 $15.00 $25.00 Music 35c 50c 75c $1.00 $1.50 $2.50 $5.00 lightly used Organs, from $150 to Fifty good Square Planos and slightly used Organs, from $150 to $40. Terms, $3 per month. Music Roll. 8.00 35c. 8.00 80c. 8.00 75c. 0.00 $1.00 5.00 $1.50 5.00 $2.50 5.00 $5.00 instruments Eve. Make will be held The Hands Up! We've Got You! Hundreds of Musical Instruments will be sent out during Christmas Eve. Make your selection now. Your purchase will be held and delivered as a Christmas surprise. You can't get away from us when it comes to good stories. We fill the bill from the reader's standpoint. We've Got a NEW SERIAL Which Begins in Our Next Issue A Detective Story That Beats Old Sherlock Holmes in Every Way. It is the story of an amateur detective who detected and brought to justice the most ingenious band of criminals ever known to fiction. The story is entitled Scoundrels & Co BY COULSON KERNAHAN coundrels & Co. By COULSON KERNAHAN Here are a Few Lines About the Author—He has been prominent for years as a novelist and essayist, and is the author of a number of interesting books, among which is "The Child, the Wise Man and the Devil," of which some half million copies were sold. Others of his stories are: "Captain Shannon," "A Dead Man's Diary," "Sorrow and Song," "A Literary Gent." and others. His books have been translated into French, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Polish, and in fact practically all the languages of Europe. "Scoundreis & Co." is One of His Stories and It Begins in Our Next Issue is One of His Best in Our Next Issue. Scoundreis @ Co." is One of His Best Stories and it Begins in Our Next Issue. A delicious breakfast may be made by heating a cupful of thin cream to which has been added one spoonful butter and a little salt. Stir into this one can salmon picked up fine, pour over toasted bread and eat while very hot—Farm and Home. For Pains in the Back: post of animadversion ever since men began to rush into print. Yet common humanity would allow every creature one weapon of defense.—N. Y. Times. First Money Enrmed. The first money earned is like the first kiss of love, which carries one in an ecstasy of happiness to the porals of Heaven. A second installment is never the same.—N. Y. Times. Her "No." A woman's "no" is often seriously meant; but if the man's persistency be delightful, her "nay" will fade away like the mist before the sun.—N. Y. Times. An excellent remedy for pains in the back of the neck or side, the result of being exposed to draft, is a plaster composed of vaseline and mustard, two parts of the first to one of the latter. Mix and spread on a piece of muslin, applying in the affected region. Ridicule. Ridicule is most impatiently endured from one's own family. It is because they echo one's innermost convictions!—N. Y. Times. Ideals. Model your character and conduct on the best lines; then try to live up to the ideal—Philadelphia Bulletin. --- TWO MEN CARRY A BOOK UPSTAIRS. At $269.00. Large stock, something new. Prices: $6.00 $8.00 $10.00 $15.00 $25.00 J. H. H. Costly Dress. The most costly dress in Mme. Sarah Bernhardt's wardrobe is one of ivory satin, lavisily adorned with diamonds and turquoises and with a train lined with the fur of 200 ermines. Apart from the jewels the dress is worth $7,500. A Woman's Tongue. Woman's tongue has been the subject of animadversion ever since men began to rush into print. Yet common humanity would allow every creature one weapon of defense.—N. Y. Times. First Money Earned. The first money earned is like the first hits of love, which carries one in an ec- stee of happiness to the portals of Heaven. A second installment is never the same—N, Y, 7 times. Her "No." A woman's "no" is often seriously meant; but if the man's persistency be delightful, her "nay" will fade away like the mist before the sun—N. Y. Times. A Startling Announcement! Regular Price, $325.00. Regular Price, $300.00. Salmon Toast. Rifulele Ideals. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Our Tenth Annual Xmas Sale Means Dollars to You. The above announcement will be of interest to thousands of people throughout the Southland, and will attract buyers from many States. It has been our policy for the past ten years to offer during the holidays a large number of PIANOS, ORGANS and Musical Instruments at special holiday prices and terms that cannot possibly be duplicated at any other season of the year. Other firms have tried to imitate these sales, but without success. They are purely a CABLE INSTITUTION. We commence in the beginning of the year laying aside some of our best and most choice stock, to be embraced in our holiday sale, and in addition, large orders are placed with our own factories, which insures customers getting their choice of the latest and best in the Piano-building art. These sales have proven so successful and popular, hundreds of buyers await with interest the launching of these gigantic sales. Each year we have been compelled to increase our stock in every department to guarantee patrons against disappointment. We have outstripped all former efforts in this direction. To sell $100,000 in Musical Instruments in three weeks' time would seem well nigh impossible to any music firm, but with us it is different. We have the capital to expand, Pianos with reputation that attract buyers, and above all, the confidence of the people everywhere. Richmond's BIGGEST STORE. Wants you to come and inspect their line o mde garments for WOMEN and CHILDREN. One of the specials this week is the newest this seasons $22.50 all wool PEBBLE CHEVIOT SUITS, for $15.00. =Silk Sale Now On.= You can get most any of our silks now for about half-price. Two items-88c Black Liberty Satin 44c a yard. 79c Black pure silk wash Taffetas 39c a yard. HARMONICA Talking Great Funmaker for Christmas. Prices: $ 5.00 $30.00 10.00 50.00 15.00 75.00 20.00 Cable The Coh Richmond's BIG Wants you to come and make garments for Women. REMEMBER that all of our are made to our order and they were made by your t and wear. But the prices. One of the specials this seasons $22.50 all wool SUITS, for $15.00. Silk Sale You can get most any half-price. Two items—44c a yard. 79c Black 39c a yard. The Col $ 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 $30.00 50.00 75.00 Wanted—For ready engagements:— Artistic and Characteristic Entertainers, Choruses, Cake Walkers, Quartetts, etc. For information address, The Ethiopian Musical & Dramatic Exchange, JOHN LAMOTTE, M.g'r. P. A. MYERS, Director. 3 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11-7-1m Wanted—TRUST WORTHY LADY or Gentleman to manage business in this County and adjoining territory for housing solid financial standing $20 00 straight to cash salary and expense paid each Monday direct from headquarters. Expense money advance-d; position permanen. Adress, Manager, 605 Monon Bldg., Chicago. 11-21-08to1-9-04 Thimbles Not Modern Thimbles have been found in prehistoric mounds, with every evidence of having been made by processes similar to our own. Largest Bible The largest Bible in the world is a manuscript one in Hebrew at the vatican, weighing 325 pounds. Eight Churches Have Stood There. Eight churches have stood on the site of St. Paul's cathedral. The first one was built in the year 223. Accuracy. Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty.—C. Simmons. THE GRAPHOPHONE en Co., BIGGEST STORE.— and inspect their line o EN and CHILDREN. our suits, coats, and skirts are just the same as if tailor, both in appearance are half and less. A week is the newest this PEBBLE CHEVIOT Now On.— of our silks now for about 88c Black Liberty Satin pure silk wash Taffetas hen Co. Out of Town Orders Solicited and will Receive Prompt and Careful Family Wine, Liquor and Cigar Store, 422 East Broad Street, Richmond, Va. We make a specialty of, Mt. Vernon, Gubson, Old Jasper, Pennbrook Rye, Wilson, Old Heury, Old North Carolina Corn Whiskey and Mountain Apple Brandy. Imported and Domestic BEST AND MOST POPULAR BRANDS OF CIGARS. Goods Delivered Free to all Parts of the City. BUFFETIN REAR. PHONE 2234. Hotel Lawson, First Class Accommodation OPEN AT ALL HOURS. The only colored Hotel in the city. Visitors will and this the place to rest well and enjoy a good repus. Meals—25cus and served at regular hours on reasonable notice. MISS O. E. JONES, Proprietress. C. H. LAWSON, Gen'l Manager. dec12-19inc Grand Upright. Seven and one-third octave. Bushed tuning pins. Repeat. Terms: $5 Cars. Stock. At $1.75.00. Here is an opportunity that beautiful seven and one-third handsomely finished. On De- five of these beautiful Planos. Terms. You can't beat this anywhi Second-Hand. Exchanged and rented insti- t from $50 to $60. To Be Sold at One-Half Guitars $2.50 $3.50 $5.00 $7.00 $10.00 $18.00 $25.00 A Beautiful Xmas Present. # Best Moulded Records will fit any Cylinder Machine for Twenty-Five Cents. The same you have been paying 50 cents for. Seven-inch Records, $5 per dozen; ten-inch Disc Records, $10 per dozen. J. G. CORLEY, Mgr. 213 E. Broad St. New E New Store AN APPEAL to the Virginia to call and ex- Shoes and Gents' Fash- elsewhere, as we are th- We carry a well select- dies and Children. W prices and quality. A crease of clerks. If there is any Negro it is to build up and p should be, "YOUR OWN F full line of Overcoats for men, y up to $18.00. SHOES, from $1 OVERWEAR of all descriptions for discount allowed to Ministers and only one of the kind in Richm apped to any part of the state. New Enter rop. via South plus 25c, for points. Tick- 24th, 25th, 1st. return- 3. To teach- ing certificates, with return STBURY, Pass. Agt. Southern Ry. Educational Dec. 29th, December 29th, rd. One fare membership fee through Pull- STBURY, Pass. Agt. GIFTS are becoming more It's a wiser plan t set aside. The di number of exclusi HIGH C make our store par CREDIT BENNETT The Watch-word should We carry a full line of SUITS, from $1.00 up to $18.00 up to $4.50. UNDERWEAR and mixed. Special discount in the place. The only one of Goods promptly shipped to an The Watch-word should be, "YOUR OWN FIRST, LAST AND ALL TIMES." We carry a full line of Overcoats for men, youths and children from $2 up to $15. SUITS, from $1.00 up to $18.00. SHOES, from $1.00 up to $4.00. HATS, from 25cts. up to $4.50. UNDERWEAR of all descriptions for men and women, both wool, cotton and mixed. Special discount allowed to Ministers and Students. Don't make a mistake in the place. The only one of the kind in Richmond. Country Orders Solicited and Goods promptly shipped to any part of the state. Holiday Rates. 1903-'04 via South ern Railway. One and one-third fares, plus 25c, for the round trip between all points. Tickets on sale December 23rd, 24th, 25th, 30th and 31st and January 1st. returning limit January 4th, 1003. To teachers and students, presenting certificates, December 16th to 22nd, with return limit January 8th. C. W. WESTBURY. Dis't. Pass. Agt. Very Low Lates via Southern Ry. Annual meeting Southern Educational Association, Atlanta Ga., Dec. 29th, 1903-Jan. 1st, 1904. Special tickets on sale December 29th, returning limit, January 3rd. One fare plus 35c., plus $30 00 membership fee. Convenient schedules, through Pullman. "Dining Cars." WHY WORRY over your dreams or enemies when our book will give you the interpretati n to any dream, also a charm to protect you from danger? If you are in trouble or want to find anything out it will tell you exactly what to do. It also contains the Hinnock secret of love, how to manage, what to say and do to gain the love, heart and hand. Sent postpaid to any address for 18o. PRUNTY & Co., 127 Roy St., Braddock, Pa. --- I. J. MILLER, Prop I. J. MILLER, Prop. Attend Our Tenth Annual Xmas Sale. At $195.00. Grand Upright. Practice Attachment. Seven and one-third octaves, full metal frame, three strings to bass. Bushed tuning pins. Repeating action. First quality hammer falls. Terms: $5 Cash and $1.25 Per Week. Stool and Scarf Free. Here is an opportunity that presents it only once in a lifetime. A beautiful seven and one-third octave Upright Piano, elaborately curved, handsomely finished. On December 4th we shall display a lot of twenty-five of these beautiful Pianos at $175. Second-Hand Uprights. Exchanged and rented instruments, in perfect order. Former prices from $50 to $600. To Be Sold at One-Half Price. Terms to Suit Purchaser. Guitars $2.50 $3.50 $5.00 $7.00 $10.00 $18.00 $25.00 Music Boxes $1.50 $2.75 $18.00 $23.00 $50.00 $75.00 $390.60 A Beautiful Xmas Present. New Enterprise !! New Stock. New Prices. AN APPEAL to the People of Richmond and the State of Virginia to call and examine our Stock of Clothing, Hats, Shoes and Gents' Furnishings before making purchases elsewhere, as we are the only Colored Clothiers in the state. We carry a well selected line of goods for Gentlemen, Ladies and Children. We know we can please you both in prices and quality. An increase of business means an increase of clerks. If there is any Negro Problem to solve, the only way to do it is to build up and patronize colored enterprises. are becoming more pupular each succeeding year. It's a wiser plan to BUY NOW and have the goods set aside. The diversity of our stock and the large number of exclusive designs in HIGH GRADE GOODS make our store particularly interesting to gift buyers. CREDIT AND TERMS TO SUIT. YOUR WISHES GRATIFIED St. Practice Attachment. eaves, full metal frame, three strings to bass. beating action. First quality hammer falls. Cash and $1.25 Per Week. Pool and Scarf Free. 0. Xmas Special, $325 Value. that presents itself only once in a lifetime. A third octave Upright Piano, elaborately carved, December 4th we shall display a lot of twenty-nine at $175. Terms: $1 Per Week. Where in the world. -Hand Uprights. Instruments, in perfect order. Former prices Half Price. Terms to Suit Purchaser. Music Boxes $1.50 $2.78 $18.00 $23.00 $50.00 $75.00 $390.60 The New Century Hundreds of Musical Instruments will be sent out Christmas Eve. Make your selection now. Your purchases will be held and delivered as a Christmas surprise. Enterprise! Stock. New Prices. The People of Richmond and the State examine our Stock of Clothing, Hat Furnishings before making purchases at the only Colored Clothiers in the sta- cted line of goods for Gentlemen, I We know we can please you both An increase of business means an problem Problem to solve, the only way to patronize colored enterprises. FIRST, LAST AND ALL TIMES." youths and children from $2 up to $4. $1.00 up to $4.00. HATS, from 250 for men and women, both wool, cotton and Students. Don't make a mistake Richmond. Country Orders Solicited a erprise, OF FURNITURE 1300 Value.