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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL. XXI NO. 35. Judge En- Speer's The Fourteenth Colored Ma THE GREAT WRIT OF R BY A JURY—WAS NOT A REMARKABLE HENRY JAMISO Judge Emory Speer's Opinion. THE GREAT WRIT OF RIGHT--MUST BE TRIED BY A JURY--WAS NOT DUE PROCESS OF LAW. A REMARKABLE PHILLIPIC HENRY JAMISON DISCHARGED. A Federal Court's Decree Respected. [CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK ] FURTHER EXPLANATION. American system the ch place in the jurisdiction. It is obvious that all procedure incurs created or authorized by the state, must be authorized by state law. So long as the enactments to this end do not deny or violate the fundamental essentials of the Constitution, ordained for the establishment of justice and the perpetuation of liberty by the people of the United States, no interference there with is appropriate or to be tolerated. "When, however," said Professor Guth re, in his interesting work on the Fourteenth Amendment, pp. 104-105, "the statute clearly invades some substantive rights or has a statute, harmless on failure is generally enforced in favor of fundamental rights or a court, transgressing its function to render judgment without jurisdiction of the subject matter, or notice to the parties, the procedure is not due process of law and may be declared void and set aside by the courts under the jurisdiction, conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment." MODERATE PUNISHMENT CAN BE METED It is not questioned that the summary proceedings before municipal courts, for the punishment of minor offenses against ordinances or by laws can conclude with sentence of pecuniary fine, and, in default of payment, with moderate imprisonment, or with both one and imprisonment. Sir William Blackstone in his Commentaries, 4th book, par. 228, states: "Another branch of summary proceedings is that before justices of the peace in order to inflict divers petty pecuniary mullets and corporal penalties denounced by acts of parliament, for many disorderly offenses, such as common swearing, drunkenness, vagrancy, idleness and a vast variety of others." And the famous commentator cites certain evil consequences of this jurisdiction which we forbear to mention. But he concludes in this language: "From these ill consequences we may collect the prudent foresight of our ancient lawgivers, who suffered neither property nor the punishment of the subject, to be determined by the opinion of any one or two men, and we may also observe the necessity of not deviating any farther from our ancient constitution by ordaining new penalties to be inflicted upon summary convictions." ONE MAN PUNISHMENT The jurisdiction of the justices of the peace in England at the time of these authoritative declarations of that great writer and judge who "found the English law a skeleton and who clothed it with life and beauty," is practically equivalent to that of a police magistrate in our own times. Unhappily, we witness in the Recorder's Court in Macon the punishment of the citizens determined by the opinion of one man, and the punishment for such offenses as novel and unprecedented, as it is ignominious and cruel. The act of the general assembly of Georgia, attempting to bestow the power on the Recorder of Macon, is the only statute to which attention has been called, by which those convicted of minor offenses can be sentenced by a police court to confinement and hard labor on the chaining. By the charter of Atlanta the police court may inflict a fine of $500 or thirty day's imprisonment, or work on the public works. In Augusta the maximum fine is $300, and the maximum imprisonment or labor on the public works ninety days. In Rome, Athen, and Columbus "labor on the public works" is the term used in designating the punishment. While it may be true, as insisted in the argument, that the Macon chaining in management, discipline and punishment is not more than an equivalent for the management of "public works" elsewhere, yet the framers of the charters mentioned, perhaps with laudable respect for the opinions of mankind, seemed to have blinked the use of the word. NOT A THREAD OF AUTHORITY. indeed it may be with entire accuracy, declared that the voluminous and maustive preparation of the city attorney, and the subsequent examination the court has evoked no shred of authority, either American or English, a sentence for petty offenses, by the magistrate, to a public chain-with the ignominious accessories, the stripes, lash, and of the motion of convict life, has been or even pallated. Under the American system the chaining has no place in the jurisdiction and procedure of police courts where trial by jury is not a right of the accused. How abhorrent would be such a punishment in such cases to those great American jurists whose finding is ultimate determination, we may judge from Callan vs. Wilson, 127 U. S. 540. In denouncing a conviction in a police court of the District of Goumbia, Justice Harlan said "The jurisdiction of the police court as defined by existing statute does not extend to the trial of infamous crimes, or offenses punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary." And this for the reason that there was no provision for jury trial. THE DEFENDANT'S CONTENTION. THE DEFENDANT'S CONTENT. Finally it is urged that a court of the United States may not, by judgment upon habeas corpus, afford relief to the citizen who is deprived of his liberty even by a colorable order from a police court of the state, and though the court is without jurisdiction, its order void, and its sentence to infamous punishments, seve that if the petitioner can survive, he will probably exhaust the last resource of nature. This contention does not seem marked by any considerable writ. So valuable is deemed this great need, that the Constitution itself provides that "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in case of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." Sections 751, 752 and 753 of the Rev. Stat. provide that the Supreme Court, circuit and district courts, the several justices and judges of said courts within their respective jurisdictions shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of restraint of liberty. It is true that it is provided that the writ shall not extend to a prisoner who is in custody by a state court, unless that custody is in violation of the Constitution, or of a law or treaty of the United States. MR. JUSTICE HARLAN'S OPINION MR. JUSTICE HARLAN'S OPINION. This topic is thoroughly discussed in the opinion of Mr. Justice Harlan, for the unanimous court, in Exparte Royal, 117 U. S. 245. From this decision, which has never been departed from, the law is clearly deducible that the courts and judicial officers of the United States named in the habeas corpus enactments, shall not have power to award the writ to any prisoner in jail, or we may add, in confinement, by constituted authorities, except in the specified cases, and most important of these is when alleged to be held in custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States. Cases of this latter class are expressly provided for by the act of Congress of February 5, 1867, chap. 28, 14 Stat. L. 385. that the several courts of the United States and the several justices and judges thereof within their respective jurisdictions, in addition to the authority they have conferred by law that have power to grant writs of habeas corpus in all cases where any person may be restrained of his or her liberty in violation of the Constitution or of any treaty or law of the United States. The power therefore in the court to grant the writ, by statute and authority is complete. GREAT DISCRETION TO BE EXERCISSED. It is true that it has been held in expatriate Royal, and in many other cases, that the United States Court, having discretion to grant the writ, that discretion should be exercised in the light of the relations existing under our system of government between the judicial tribunals of the Union and of the States. It has been further held that the discretion should be subordinated to the special circumstances in each case, and that where the state court has jurisdiction the writ should generally not be granted unless the necessity is urgent. In of these settled principles, in a multitude of cases, the supreme court and the other United States courts have refused to award the writ. But as in the Royal case, it was always held that if the prosecution against the prisoner was repugnant to the constitution, the prosecution against him, and not nothing upon which to rest and the end of proceeding was annulity. It was said in expatriate Siebold, 100 U. S. 371,376, that an unconstitutional law is void, and as no law, a conviction under it is not merely erroneous but is illegal and void and cannot be a legal case of imprisonment. [TO BE CONTINUED.] THE MERRY-GO-ROUND. When chancing to stand by a merry-go-round. Some very queer things you observe, You notice that men who conduct such machines, "Don't need a great deal for their nerve." You notice that white folks and black folks alike. "White ladies are meant," they will say. You notice also, and you note it with pain though snubbed and insulted they be, The black folks will patiently wait for the ir turn, then mount the fake horses with glee. One lesson from these observations is learned— A lesson that Negroes should heed, Their comfort counts naught with the wooden-horse men, Their money is all that they need. Why buy yourselves longer an unwelcome place, Mongst those whom your presence ascends? Go run your own business, your banks and your stores And ride your own merry-go-rounds. U. G. WILSON. JIM CROW STREET-CARS Shall We Win or Lose ? When I remember how three months ago, the 20th of last month, the Jim Crow street-car regulations were put in force by the Va. P. & P. Co in this city, Manchester and Petersburg, and the colored people are almost as firm to day in their resolution not to submit. These regulations as they were the first day they went into effect, I am constrained to give all honor and praise to the people who have stood so firm and thereby demonstrated their right to be treated as a men and as citizens and tax-payers of the old and renowned commonwealth of Virginia. But, by the same token what must be said of the leaders? At the first blush, they gathered together and raised a standard. They called on people to come up to and be guided by that standard. The people came at their call and loyalty have they stood shoulder to shoulder under that standard, vainly looking around for a sight and listening to hear the encouraging and instructive voice of those leaders. Mr. Editor, we are more than willing to be guided by our leaders, but they must show themselves as loyal to us as we are to them. Are we going to fight this proposition of the street-car company, to degrade us, to a finish or are we to give it up and submit as they predicted that we would? And if we are going to prosecute the fight to the bitter end, shall we see our leaders in the front of the fight—calling us to "come on" or shall we not see them at all and only hear one say that the leaders say "go on?" I hope there will be no misunderstanding between the pulpit and the press; for these are our natural leaders and we want none better. If the leaders are agreed, they will lead the people to success. But if there be discord between the leaders, all will be lost. And if in this case all is lost, they—the leaders will certainly reap their fall share of the blame, as also will they have their full share of the glory and honor if success is attained. If there ever was a time to stand firm, it is now. Recently, the Va. Passenger & Power Company as good as confessed judgment and asked Judge Waddill, a Federal judge to appoint Receivers for the company, which he did. At the same time proceedings were pending in the state court at Petersburg and Judge Mullen has since granted the petition of Mr. Fisher to appoint Receivers for the Richmond branch of the company. All of which goes to prove the insolvency of the concern. Now, if this corporation cannot operate its cars on a successful financial basis with the full patronage of all the citizens of the community, how in the name of common sense it is to be supposed that they can do so when about forty per cent of the said citizens are ostracised by the company and are standing off and refusing to patronize the ears in consequence of the said ostracism by the street-car company? I tell you, Mr. Eilitor, I believe that no people contending for their rights ever was so near to the attainment of them as the colored people of Richmond are to-day. The argument of the empty seats on the street-cars (and there are plenty of them) plead for us far more eloquently than argument we can produce. Just let those seats remain empty. Let the colored people go on, showing their capacity to walk, and are long there will come, unsolicited, a modification of the Jim Crow regulations. But our leaders must do their duty. The people are looking to them and they should not be allowed to look in vain. Respectfully, EVA. The 5th St. Baptist S. S. will go to Jonesboro on Wednesday, Aug. 17th, 1904. GRAND LODGE OF WEST VIRGINIA Knights of Pythias Active—The Supreme Lecturer There. HINTON, WEST, VA., Aug. 6th, 1904. Gen. John Mitchell, Jr., Supreme Lecturer and Grand Chancellor of Virginia arrived here last Wednesday night and was carried to the First Baptist Church, Rev. L. B. Goodall, pastor where supper was served. Here he met Grand Chancellor S. W. Starks, and other dignitaries of the Grand Lodge. While he are Sir Mitchell was plied with a knife to introduce to the situation in Virginia and it was past midnight when he repaired to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Trent, where he spent the night. MUSIC AWAKENED HIM. Gen. Mitchell was awakened Thursday morning by the Knights of Fythias Band of Charleston led by Gen. J. M. Hazlewood, who had solemnly assured the editor that the mast rendered was by a "white" band from the capital city. Affer rendering several selections, Gen. Mitchell came forth attired in a white fatigue suit and in company with Gen. Hazlewood was escorted to the church where breakfast was served. The Grand Lodge convened and after the transaction of routine business, the work of electing a Grand Medical Register was proceeded with. THREE PHYSICIANS WERE CANDIDATES There were three candidates and the contest resulted in the election of Dr. C. A. Barnett, whose enthusiastic friend in nominating him alleged that he had shown remarkable skill in that he had brought a man to life twenty minutes after his heart had ceased to beat. The other candidates were emphatic in their opinions relative to this roary view of the doctor's abilities, but it availed nothing with the Grand Lodge of West Virginia and Dr. Barnett is now Grand Medical Register. THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS. The Grand Lodge appropriated $3000 to the business department of the Order known as the Pythian Mutual Investment Association. A lot has been purged from the registry and an appropriation of $2500 having been previously made for the purpose. The Grand Lodge, under the skillful management of Grand Chancellor Starks has $6000 in its treasury. The Grana Lodge was placed at ease and the Grand Court entered. This to why is presided over by Grand Worthy Counsellor Jefferson. Grand Chancellor Starks introduced Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., and he explained the business features of the Order in India. He was listened to with rapt attention and all opposition to the plans of the West Virginia Knights disappeared after his statement of the progress in the Old Dominion. At its conclusion, the body adjourned for dinner. A FINE PARADE The parade took place at about 4 o'clock. It was a grand affair. The First Regiment Band, Knights of Pythias of Charleston led the way. Then came Carlson Co., No. 1, of Charleston and Lincoln Co. from Montgomery, together with members of the Order, headed by Eagle Band of Montgomery, for presenting the principle streets, the event assisted by the Court-House green where Grand Chancellor Sturks introduced Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. A VOICE FROM VIRGINIA. He dealt with the benefits of the Order, showing that there were 46,000 colored knights and with the courts made an aggregate membership of about 70,000. He was outspoken in his commendation of the organizing power of the West Virginia leaders in the persons of S. W. Starks, J. M. Hazlewood and the eloquent Jefferson. There were many white persons present. The sword-drill by the Charleston company, under the instructions of Gen. Campbell was an interesting feature. It was 5:30 before the end came. IN A SOCIAL VEIN. Gen. Mitchell dined with Mr. and Mrs. Smithers, being entertained by Miss Emma Smithers, Miss Frances A. Becks and Miss Louise Smithers, who is the principal of the public schools of Hinton. He left for Richmond at 9:15 P. M., but not before Gen. J. M. Hazlewood had appeared with the fine 1st Regiment Band which played a most rapturous serenade as he boarded the train at the C. & O. Depot. Special Excursion Rates to Los Angeles and San Francisco via Southern Railway $65.50 for the Round Trip, Returning via St. Louis if desired. Beginning with August 15th and continuing daily to September 7th, Southern Railway will sell special tickets from Richmond and all points on its lines to Los Angeles or San Francisco and return at the rate of $65.25 round trip, final return limit October 23, 1904. The Southern offers the choice of several routes, rate open to the public—one route and return another if desired, the other to the St. Louis Exposition, tickets via this route allowing stop over of as much as ten days at St. Louis. For details, apply to any Agent of Southern Railway, or THREE FUNERALS THERE. Deacon Harris Passes Away—A Large Crowd Present. The First Baptist Church was packed last Tuesday afternoon. The central figure was Deacon Harris, who for more than half a century had been an official of the church. Across the main aisle in a heavy, costly metallic casket, and in charge of the veteran Funeral Director A. hayes, all that was earthly of this faithful Christian slept well. The church edifice was appropriately draped the choir gallery was thronged with songsters and the mellow, soul-stirring, heart-rending notes of the sweet-toned Madame Mildred A. Cross and the soothing, heaven-inspiring lullabies of Madame Carrie V. Hawkins tended to add to the awe-inspiring nature of the scene. Rev W. T. Johnson, D.D., was away on his vacation, but he returned home, reaching the city twenty-five minutes before the scheduled time for the funeral. As he delivered the sermon, there he bore him three bodies. To the right, Andrew W. White, in charge of Funeral Director W. Isaac Johnson and enclosed in a white figured, cloh covered casket. In the centre, Deacon Benjamin Harris, in that costly metallic casket, the like of which is rarely seen in funerals of colored people, and in charge of Funeral Direc or A. Hayes. To the left, Charles Croxton, in charge of Funeral Director W. S. Selden, and enclosed in a black cloth covered casket. There was a profusion of flowers over Deacon Harris, and the cost of these seemed not to have been considered by the donors. The Scriptures were read by Rev. Jacob Turner. Rev. A. S. Thomas read the letter from the family. Rev J. Andrew Bowler read the recollection of the Deacon Board of the First Baptist Church, of Eoenebe Lodge, G. U. O of Odd Fellows and a letter from his neighbors. Rev. R. Beecher Taylor read resolutions, showing that he had been a member of the First Baptist Church 62 years. Deacon W. P. Burrell read resolutions from the True Reformers' Office Force and brought greetings from the Deacons Conference. Neison Williams, Jr., read resolutions from the Home Mission Society of the First Baptist Church. Madame Mildred A. Cross sang with charming melody, "Sleep on beloved, sleep on and take thy rest." Rev. W. T. Johnson preached a most sympathetic sermon from Job 7:1, "Is there not an appointed time for man upon the earth?" He stated that Deacon Harris died Saturday, Aug. 6th at 11:30 P. M. His last words were, "I am on the ship If anybody tells me to get off, I shall not do it. I am so tired. There is Preacher Holmes, I shall be with you to-morrow. The chariot has come and I am going home." He called Brother Farrar, his mother, and others, who were dead. He called his son, Wellington and asked, "Did you give me this ticket?" He replied, "No, sir." "It is all right. I have mine for the gate. I am due at the station at 12 o'clock." Rev. Johnson then delivered his discourse, remarking feelingly, "This is a sad scene in the First Baptist Church." Andrew W. White, son of Deacon W. White, died Sunday, Aug. 7th, at 3:55 P. M. Charles Croxton was not a member of any church. He was killed Monday on the excursion train of the First Baptist Church after attempting to board the car after the trail had pulled on. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., then made impressive remarks and Rev. W. H. White made a passionate appeal to the congregation. Miss Nannie Osborne presided at the organ. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Mt. Vernon, N. Y., July 26, 1904 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr, Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Susanna Byrd, who was a member of Auxiliary Court, No. 46 of Petersburg, Va. Signed:—MARTHA HAMILTON. JOHN BYRD Witnesses: Leander T. Debb, Charles H. James, E. C. Day, Lodge, No. 1, K. of P., of Hartford, Conn. $150.00 Endowment Paid. New River, Va., July 1904. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythas, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. & A., $150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of J. E. Owens, who was a member of Silver Leaf Lodge, No. 61 of New River, Va. Signed:—R. J. AUSTIN, Beneficiary. Witnesses: Sandy Casey, C. C. Robt. C. Austin, M. of W. W. H. Respass R. M. Pettis, D. G. C. Mrs. Mary A. Harris of Catherine St., announces the marriage of her only daughter, Lillian B. to Mr. Julius W. Whalen, which will take place in the early fall. Royal Lodge, No. 26 K, of P. Richmond, Va., July 24th, 1904. This is to certify that Sir Wm. Payne has been a member of our lodge for 7 years since its organization. He was ever a true, faithful and a christian brother. Whereas, "The Great and Supreme Ruler," of the universe has in his wise and infinite wisdom removed from us, one of our esteemed fellow-laborers, Wm. Payne and Whereas. The long and intimate relation held with him in the faithful discharge of his duties in this society make it eminent ly befitting that we record our appreciation of him, therefore Resolved 1. That the wisdom and ability which he has exercised in the aid of our organization by service contribution, and a counsel will be held in grateful remembrance. Resolved 2. That the sudden removal of such a life from among our midst, leave a vacancy and a shadow that will be deeply realized by-all the members and friends of the organization and with a serious loss to the community and public. Resolved. 3. That with deep sympathy with the bereaved relatives of the deceased, we express our hope that even so great a loss to us all may be over ruled for good by him who doeth all things well. Resolved. 4. That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the records of this organization, a copy printed in the local paper and a copy forwarded to the bereaved family. Done by order of Royal Lodge, No. 26, K of P. CHAS. M. CLAYBORN, C. C. A. L. WOOLFOLK, M. of F. --- SELDON—Our beloved son, David Meade Seldon, son of D. M. and L. Seldon, departed this life Monday night, August 1st, 1904 in Newburg, N. Y., age 24 years. He leaves a father and mother, three brothers, three sis ers and a number of relatives and friends to mourn their irreparable loss. Funeral services were held at his father's residence, 134 Sumpter St., Richmond, Va., Aug. 6th at 11 A. M. and interment made in Evergreen cemetery Dear son, thou hast left us, We our grief most keenly feel, But 'tis God who hast bereft us, He can all our sorrows heal. —His Father. "Mob Specific" [Lynchburg, Va. Interpreter.] John Mitchell's "mob specific" is the best known remedy for an aggrivated case of hardware. For sale by all hardware dealers. PYTHIANS ENTER CHASE CITY. A New Lodge There. -The Grand Chan cellor Installs Officers. Chase City, Va., Aug. 6th, 1904. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. instituted Sons of Liberty Lodge, No 77, Knights of Pythias, here last night at True Reformer's Hall. He was assis- ted by Grand Master at Arms S. S. Baker, Col.E. R. R. Jefferson, Assistant Surgeon General, Capt. John G. Smith, Deputy Grand Chancellor H. S. Keen and Past Chancellor George W. Rison of Danville. The party arrived here yesterday at 3:41 P. M., via Keysville. This lodge was organized through the efforts of Sir H. S. Keen. The following officers were installed: Chancellor Commander, W. E. Davis; Vice Chancellor, W. L. Barton; Prelate J. H. Dodson; Keeper of Records and Sailor B. Smith; Master of Exchequer, F. L. Jones; Master of Finance, W. E. Oliver; Master of Work, Fred; Jones; Inner Guard, Isaac Toone; Outer Guard M. M. Jeffress; Master at Arms, Thomas F. Smith. Trustees; W. E. Davis, Jordan Doggett, Sandy Watson, Attendants; Daniel Wilson, Edward Dosson, Conrad Tucker and Lucius Oliver. A bounteous repast was served at the conclusion of the exercises. The Grand Chancellor and friends were the guests of the banquet. Bone. They left last night for Richmond. Schooner Sunk Four Drummer Schooner Sunk, Four Drowned. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 9. On board the steamer Nantucket, of the Merchants' and Miners' Line, which arrived here from Boston, was Edward A. Wentworth, of the schooner Ella Francis, which was sunk in collision with the Nantucket last Saturday night. Mate Wentworth was the only man on the schooner saved, the captain and three others having been drowned. The collision took place in a dense fog off Norwich Light, Cape Cod. The schooner at the time of the collision was bound from Elizabeth, N. J., to Rockland, Me., with a cargo of 240 tons of coal. Base Ball Player Died of Injuries Dresden, O., Aug. 8.—Verne Lowe, aged 19 years, a member of an amateur base ball team of Coshocton, died here. He was struck in the head by a pitched ball in Saturday's game. The accident occurred in the second inning, but the lad played through the other seven innings and made two hits, winning the game. At the hotel afterward he fell unconscious and never recovered. PRICE, FIVE CENT A Compliment From Texas Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., the versatile and fearless editor of the Richmond PLANET is carrying a series of articles in answer to Thomas Nelson Page's that appeared in the McClure's Magazine several months back against Negro that are glorious to read. They are strong refutations, backed up by strong proofs of facts and figures and stated in just the proper language and comparisons, etc. etc., and every wild statement made by this color-blind Negro opponent is proven to be false and hateful prejudice." The article of "Mr. Page and Negro Immorality" that appears in the PLANET this week is simply the great! O. that every white person in the country would read it. It is the real talk in the coconut" to all the Negro's charge of immorality. "That the Negro is the looking glass the whites see themselves reflected," (in 14 per cent of the whole Negro population having white blood in the veins) The article shows Mr. Mitchell to have a large store of general readings, a wide range of historical knowledge, through intellectual training in education. The PLANET can be had at the Arc-Light's Office. The National Baptist S. S. Union. "Rally Bay." The National Baptist S. S Union will hold their regular monthly meeting on next Sunday, August 14th, 1994 at the 5th Baptist Church, Sydney, Rev. Joseph Perry, D. D., pastor at 3:30 P.M. An excellent programme will be rendered. As this is the last meeting before the Convention, a large attendance is expected. The schools will assemble at the Fifth St. Baptist Church at 2 P.M. and march to the Union if the weather permits. All friends and Sunday School workers are cordially invited. Persons holding envelopes and donations can send them to the officers of the Union or report them at the meeting Sunday. Be on time with a contribution. B. H Peyton, Pres. E. A. Washington, Vice. A. W. Dundridge, Sec'y. Mr. C. T. Stokes of Terre Haute Ind., was in the city last week. Mrs Emma H. Brown, of 715$^{1}$ St. James St., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Georgia A. White of Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Lottie V. Watkins of New York, N. Y., is in the city, Richmond, Va., visiting her parents at No. 10 West Charity St. Mrs. B. H. Walker of New York left the city last Wednesday for L. unacaster, Pa., Lotsburg and Richmond, Va. She will be away about six weeks. After being away 40 years, Mr. Jacob Jasper, formerly of Powhatan Co., Va., returned from Duluth, Mich., to visit his sister, Mrs. Susan Jasper, 1217 Chaffin street. Aitr a pleasantness of seven weeks, he left for St. Louis, there he will attend the Exposition and from there, he will go to Little Rock, Ark., for the winter. The American Beneficial Insurance Company's Outing The 22nd of August will be a great day with the American Beneficial Insurance Company, in that their first Annu 1 Outing will be given at Buckroo Beach. A 1 persons going must be at the train at 1/4 past eight sharp, because the train will leave promptly at 9:15 in order to spend a great day by the seaside. This will be an orderly, up-to-date first class outing. Keep your eye on the date and time of leaving, Aug., 22nd at 9:15 A. M. W. F. Graham, President, B. H. Peyton, Secretary. When you want a good job done, give us a call. We can always guarantee our work, for painting is our living. We make your house look good and it stands. THOMAS J. BLACKWELL, 'Phone, No. 4762. Meeting of Grand Fountain Order True Reformers, Richmond, Va., Sept. 6-13, 1904. For the above occasion, the Southern Railway announces rate of one first class fare, plus 25c for the round trip, from all points on its lines to Richmond and return, tickets on sale September 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, with final return, limit September 15th, 1904. For information apply to Agents. --- Gentleman, 28 South American, a British subject, refined, cultured, honest, educated abroad, good moral character, desires acquaintance with a colored lady of means, one who is sinful, honest, object, matrimony, correspondence, with Photo which will be confidential and returned if desired. "Success." WANTED-Colored men with clerical education to call at room, 21 Ebel Building. MASSACHUSETTS MINING CORPORATION. HE PLANET SATURDAY ..... AUGUST 13, 1904 LIVE STOCK Results of Tests at Iowa Experiment Station Summarized in Very Interesting Bulletin. Much corn failed to mature fully in 1902 and 1903. The same, owing to very late planting, seems likely to be true in 1904. Hence the feeding value of soft corn is a live question. Tests at the Iowa experiment station are fully given in Bulletin No. 75, which may be had on application by mail to C. F. Curtiss, director, Ames, la. The following conclusions are deduced from the results obtained: 1. That soft corn in 1902 and containing 35 per cent. of moisture, pound for pound, on a water-free, or dry-matter basis, was fully inedible in feeding value to mature corn grown in 1900 when used for fattening cattle. 2. That cattle fed on such soft corn made nearly as heavy gains and finished as well as those fed on mature corn. 3. That when soft corn similar to that used in the test could be purchased for 30 cents per bushel, gains on fattening cattle could be made at a cost of 3.03 cents per pound less than when mature corn, costing 50 cents per bushel, the prevailing price, was fed. 4. That a study of the Chicago live stock market conditions from January 1, 1903, to July 31, 1903, shows that the comparatively low prices of beef cattle were not caused by an over-supply of half-finished cattle. On the contrary, there was a larger number of well-finished cattle marketed during that period for 1903 than for the corresponding period of any one of the past ten years. 5. That the chemical analysis would indicate that the nutritive value of the corn grown in 1902 compares favorably with mature corn grown in other years when water-free substance or dry matter serves as a basis of comparison. 6. That the amount of moisture present was the main difference so far as composition is concerned. That the amount of moisture depends mainly on the maturity of the corn when stricken by frost. HANDY LITTLE STRUCTURE house for Runt Pigs for Which Many Other Uses Can Be Found by the Housewife. We see a great deal about illustrated hog houses, but I have never yet seen my ideal house for the housewife's runts. Here is my plan: Make a sled 6 by 12 HOUSE RUN HOUSE AND RUN FOR PIGS. feet with a good floor; make a house on five feet of the floor and inclose the seven feet for three runs. Then get up your runs and give them to the wife. Pull the house up where it will be handy for her, and when not in use pull it somewhere out of the way, and perhaps the man may want to use it sometimes to put a few pigs in to wean, or so he can have a good board floor to slop them in, or he may pull it out so he can feed his young pigs in it. In fact, once made, he will find many uses for it—J. H. Tarplee, in Breeder's Gazette. Good and Bad Feeding Presuming that a breeder has swine of first quality the feeding becomes a question of great importance. It is often remarked that this and that breeder failed because he bought animals of fancy breeding points and then gave them scrub care. This is always a fatal mistake. The purebred animals have received many backsets in reputation from this cause. Take any of our best strains of hogs and let them be turned into a poor feed lot and be given little grass and much corn. A few generations of that kind of feeding will give us a scrub progeny with a good set of pedigrees. That is a case where the pedigree is worth less than nothing. It is not enough to know that an animal has a good line of ancestors; it is necessary also to know how its immediate ancestors have been fed.—Farmers' Review. Keep the Hogs on Pasture Keep the hogs on pasture, and make them get as much gain out of grass as possible, which is the cheapest way cheaper than corn alone, and the pigs are kept much healthier. If pigs are fed on corn all the time, there are few cases of profit. A hog likes clover as well as a cow, and will eat quite a lot if given a chance. Keeping the hogs in a close, small pen, is not the up-to-date way. More exercise and a good hog-pasture are the things needed. Midland Farmer. Aims of the Wise Farmer The object of the average farmer could be to produce as far as possible anything that his family and his live skill will use, and have a surplus of those products that can be most readily marketed, yet will take the least quantity of fertilizer from his soil. In this way, he reduces his outlay to a minimum and gives himself an opportunity to realize on a variety of products—National Tribune. KOCH DOES NOT RETRACT. Stands by His Guns in the Face of the Conclusions of a Very Positive Commission. The conclusions of the British commission do not appear to have frightened Prof. Koch, who has opportunely returned from South Africa to deal with them. Through the London Daily Chronicle the world at large learns that the professor sees no reason why he should alter his views because of the report issued by the tuberculosis commission. His own words are most emphatic: "I see absolutely no reason to change my view, arrived at after years of careful experiment, that there is no evidence to prove that man can be infected by animal tuberculosis in any than the very slightest degree. The commission has only treated half the question, and that the less important half. I remain where I was. Show me one single man who has been so infected. Prove to me that he has been so infected before you ask me to change my point of view. Of all the millions of men, women and children who eat bovine flesh and drink milk, how is it that no case is known where tuberculosis has been set up by the partaking of infected beef and milk?" This is the very question, says the London Meat Trades Journal, we have repeatedly put on record in our columns, with the additional remark that if any man, woman or child had ever been certified as dying from tuberculosis caused by the ingestion of tuberculous meat, we should have heard of it long ago. But there is no such record. The chief point we have to bear in mind, however, is that in this country practically there is no legislation satisfactorily dealing with the scientific economical issues surrounding bovine tuberculosis; and to remedy this the meat trades of Great Britain have now a bill before parliament, which, after it has been reported upon by the select committee, we hope will become a valuable addition to the enactments of the country, equitably dealing with the various interests concerned, as well as thoroughly safe-guarding the public health. A PLATE OF PORK CHOPS Corn should not be fed in large amounts to breeding swine. There is little reason why sows should not bear two litters of pigs a year, at least in the hands of a skillful breeder. Swinekeepers of large experience say that lousy hogs are much more likely to take disease than hogs on which no vermin exist. After the pigs are weaned the dry sows should be placed in a pasture by themselves and given very little grain for some time. Where herds of hogs are badly infected with lice the only serviceable method of getting rid of them seems to be to have a dipping tank and dip the hogs. Sort the sows. Those that have proved themselves to be prolific and good mothers may be retained as breeders, and those whose record has not been first-class should be discarded. It hardly pays to keep a bad-tempered sow under the impression that she may do better next time.—Farmers' Review. COMFORT FOR LIVE STOCK Bubbing Posts Should Be Put Up in Pastures Where There Are No Trees or Brush Where there are no trees or underbrush in the pasture the stock will often rub against fences and thus cause considerable injury to themselves as well as throw down the often 100 against fences and thus cause considerable injury to themselves as well as throw down the fences. If rubbing posts are provided this trouble will be avoided and the stock given very material comfort. Two convenient forms are shown in the cut. The one at a consists of two posts with top piece. The one at b is a single post set in the ground at an angle with corners rounded to prevent cutting. One of the posts, shown in a, must be considerably higher than the other. The top rail or bar should be mortised into the posts, which should be deeply and securely set to prevent breaking off.—Farm and Home. Early Maturity Means Profit Early maturity means profit. One of the features of the pig, which is not sufficiently appreciated, is its prolificacy. While the horse, cow and sheep, as a rule, produce but one or two young annually, the pig may produce from 16 to 24, an enormous percentage of increase. To make the most out of pork, the old style of keeping pigs 18 months or so before slaughtering is abandoned, and the animals are being fitted for the block at six or eight months. The first 100 pounds of gain made are the cheapest, the second 100 pounds cost more, and so on increasingly, as far as one chooses to go. Economy would dictate, then, that certainly when 200 pounds are reached the animal should be disposed of and a fresh start made with younger stock. The best breed is one which matures early, provided it is of good size.—Rural World. Patching Mice-Injured Comb A prominent bee-keeper gave us a "kink" along this line the other day which may be useful to some one. Cut off the top of an empty corn or tomato can, leaving the edge as straight as possible, use this for cutting out the mouse-eaten part of the comb and forming it so it can be easily patched; then cut out your patches of sound comb in the same way and attach them with a few drops of wax, just enough to hold them in place; the bees will do the rest—Canadian Bee Journal. Unavoidable Inference Fun For Fun Lovers. Professional Service, Gratis. One day when Helen was alone with her mamma, she said: "When I am big, mamma, I'm going to marry a doctor or a minister." "Why, my dear?" asked her mother. "Cause if I marry a doctor, I can get well for nothing; and if I marry a minister I can be good for nothing," replied Helen, ingenuously—Little Chronicle. Learning Is Dangerous. Mrs. Mulgret—Are ye goin' to sind yer boy Tommy back to school this week? Mrs. O'Dooley—No, indade; me ambition is to make an alderman of him phwhin he grows up, 'an' if he got too much edication he'd be shooped for the position intoirely—Tit-Bits. His Symptoms. Farmer Clodpeiter—Col. Chinnaway says he is out of politics. Farmer Bentover—Yes, I know he says so, but I notice he's actin' like a feller that is mightily afraid the nomination for congress will sneak up and bite him on the leg.—Puck. The Wonderful Heroine. She was beautiful and yet She had sense and she could cook; She was fair and witty, but She was only in a book. —Chicago Record-Herald. DIDN'T LOOK IT. fwef "Who is that awfully bald-headed man over there?" "He's the agent for 'Growem Fast Hair Restorer.'" —Chicago Chronicle. Like Summer Board. "May I consider we're engaged?" He asked in accents meek; She listened to the sobbing sea, and answered, "By the week." —N. Y. Herald. Her Observation. "Isn't it a terrible scandal?" asked the talkative woman. "I have often observed," answered Miss Cayenne, icily, "that people speak of a scandal as 'terrible' and insist on talking about it as if they found it delightful."—Washington Star. Perfectly Safe Cannibal Chief—Who sent you here? Thin Missionary—I was sent to teach you poor heathen not to eat human flesh. Cannibal Chief—Ah, I see; and to be on the safe side you left yours in your native land!—N. Y. Times. A Dangerous Woman She—Who said anything about gossip? She is learning to drive her new motor car.—Town Topics. Couldn't Be Genuine Guest—That still life study is a wonder. Nothing could be finer than that table, the book, the pipe and the purse. How perfect the bank bill is! By Jove! I believe it is a real bill pasted on. Host—Impossible! I bought it of an artist—N. Y. Weekly. Called Down. "Can't you come down Thursday?" "No; I fear I won't be able to come this week." "But why?" "The cook has notified me that I am taking too many afternoons off."—Houston Post. Trouble in the Air Bronco Bill—What did Tough Tompkins die of? Grizzly Pete—Well, the poor guy needed a change of air an couldn't get it. Bronco Bill—Lung trouble? Grizzly Pete—No; he was lynched.—Judge. Couldn't Do It If Poor. Bacon—I shouldn't think he could afford to go around wearing a dilapidated looking hat like that! Egbert—Of course he can afford it. Why, he's a rich man!—Yonkers Statesman. No Room for Doubt Short—I'm one of those chaps who don't believe in doing things by halves. Long—Yes; I've noticed that you never try to make a touch for less than a dollar—Chicago Daily News. The Main Question: First Artist—We must go to nature for our subjects. Second Artist—Oh, that's easy, but where in thunder are we to go for our customers?—Brooklyn Life. A True Friend. Teacher—Who was the best friend Ireland ever had? Irish Scholar—Oi don't just now remember, but he discovered Ameriky.—Town Topics. No Doubt About It Mr. Hardnut—I admit, sir, that my life has not been what it should be, but I truly and unselfishly love your daughter, and if I ever give her a moment's pain I hope I'll be made to suffer torture for it. Old Gentleman (warmly)—Oh, you will. You don't know her—Tit-Bits. Cause and Effect. Wedderly—My dear, you have improved wonderfully in your music since we were married. Mrs. Wedderly—Why, John, how can you say that when I no longer play or sing? Wedderly—That's where the improvement comes in—Chicago Daily News. How She Rebellled Nor ventured he the least caress Till his own bashfulness incensed him At last he boldly snatched a kiss- Did she rebel? I know but this. She was "all up in arms against him." -Town Topic ANOTHER DAY Joel She—The happiest day of a man's life is the day he's married. He—How about the day he's divorced—Chicago Chronicle. Somewhat Pugilistic Mrs. Churchleigh—They say our new minister is what they call a fighting parson. Mrs. Churchleigh-How's that? Churchleigh.-They put a lot of people to sleep.-Chicago Daily News. Had Thought About It Kind Lady—Do you ever think of the solemn fact that we all must die? Tramp—Yes, mum, often. "So do I, and I hope to die the death of a Christian. Have you ever thought of the death you would like to die?" "Yes, mum. I'd like to be drowned in a beer wart."—N. Y. Weekly. Feminine Strategy He—You are holding your parasol on the wrong side to protect you from the sun. She—Yes, I know it, but there's that horrid Uppson girl on the other side of the street, and I want her to see my new hat.—Cincinnati Enquirer. No Discouragement "One thing I likes 'bout Satan," said the old colored brother, "en dat is, he ain't never discouraged. Des run him out er one town en de fust news you hear is he done invested in real estate in the next settlement—bless God!"—Atlanta Constitution. Explained. Tess—I just met Miss Nuritch and she said she was in a great hurry to get downtown and buy some gloves for your feet. What on earth was she driving at? Jess—My feet? Oh! I invited her to my lawn fete this afternoon.—Philadelphia Press. Uncharitable "Bliggins is very slow to anger," said the little person who always says kind things. "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "He's so dense that he doesn't perceive when he ought to resent something until it is too late." -Washington Star. Que Case Giffle—Did you ever actually know of a man making a mountain out of a molehill? Spinks—Well, the proprietor of the hotel I stopped at last summer came very near doing it in his prospectus.—Puck. Not Fit for Publication. Red—And when this happened on the links, was he addressing the ball? Green—Well, I don't know just what he was addressing, but it was quite evident from the language that he was not addressing a Sunday school.—Tit-Bits. After the Ceremony Patience—That was the sixth time she's been married, and yet she looked nervous, didn't she? Pricess—Yes; poor girl. Perhaps she's afraid it will be her last."—Yonkers Statesman. Not Familiar with Him. "Have you ever read any of the teachings of Buddha?" asked Mrs. Oldcastle. "No," replied her hostess as they seated themselves in the sumptuous library. "Where's he teaching?"—Chicago Record-Herald. Two Kinds of Pumps He—Those pumps my brother bought a few months ago are worn out already. She—He must be a great dancer? "Dancer nothing! He's a milkman!" —Yonkers Statesman. What He Wanted to Say. Roxley—I want to put a personal in the paper to recover a horse and buggy I lost. Clerk—Ah! you mean an ad for the "Lost and Found" column? Roxley—No. I want to say, "If the man who stole my horse and buggy to elope with my daughter will return said horse and buggy suitable reward will be paid." Philadelphia Press. KANSAS CYCLONE STORIES. Traveler from the East Declares That the Tales He Heard Bordered on the Marvelous. "A fish story," here in the east is your euphoria for an incredible lie," said a traveler. "Now, if you should go to Kansas you would probably begin to call lies 'cyclone stories.' "Marvelous, truly marvelous, are the cyclone stories that the Kansas tell. A cousin of mine declared to me that on his Kansas farm a cyclone had once shot hundreds of straws against a telegraph pole with such velocity that, like steel A man is falling off a log. darts, they had penetrated the wood to a depth of several inches. "Another Kansan said that a cyclone once threatened to blow away a load of wood that lay in his yard. His father threw himself on the wood in order to anchor it to the ground with his weight. But the cyclone was too strong for the old man. It bore away him and the wood together, and a straddle of logs, he rode like a horseman slowly through the air. He would, no doubt, have disappeared forever, but his three sons rushed forth and overtook him, and their combined strength brought the old chap safely down. "A third Kansan told me that one summer such a steady and strong wind blew from the south that a pithfork of hay thrown against a southward facing wall would remain suspended against the wall as though glued there. The wind held the hay in place with a pressure like that of a mighty hand. "I suppose that most cyclone stories are untrue. Those concerning straws that penetrate wood are, however, true enough. To prove them straws have been shot from guns at blocks of wood, and at a velocity of 175 miles they have penetrated the wood like darts of steel." BABY PLAYED WITH SNAKE. Reptile Crawled Into Eva's Clothes Basket and Both Seemed to Have a Good Time. Undismayed by a blacksnake that crept into a clothes basket in which she lay in the yard, Eva Buelah, three years old, daughter of Peter Buelah, a River Hill (Pa.) farmer, hailed the intruder as a new pet and caressed it as she would a kitten until rescued from her dangerous position by her frightened father. Her years were too few for knowledge of the scrape her prototype had got into in connection with a serpent, but little Eva, perhaps, was wiser than Eve, for, whereas the mother of the race let the constrictor do most of the talking, the baby kept up an uninterrupted flow of prattle to the snake. From the moment L. H. SNATCHED UP LITTLE EVA. In which it dragged its four feet of length into her wicker paradise she was the most delighted youngster in those parts. She cooed the sable playmate, rapped it over the head with her rattle and laughed with delight when it wrigled over her. Her parents heard and saw her, but they didn't perceive the snake until the father walked from the door of the house toward the basket. Then he dashed to her side. Buelah snatched the little one from the basket and gave her a fling that sent her rolling over the grass. Then he raised a clothes pole and swung it on the snake until he had beaten the reptile to a pulp. He was astonished to find Eva unharmed. There was no danger of poison, but the snake, being of the constrictor species, might easily have choked the child in its folds. Cheap Production of Coal The American firm of Clarkson & Co., in Vladivostok, have substituted Russian laborers for Chinamen in their coal mines. The Russians are working cooperatively, by the job, and producing coal for two cents a ton. With Chinese cheap labor the cost was five cents a ton. That Compositor "I understand James Jawbone Bigmitt was looking for the editor this morning!" 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HUNDLEY, PARLOR SUITS. We have some twenty-five or thirty suits bought, most of which will be in stock in a few days. "Don't do a thing" until you see the MORRIS CHAIRS This always popular c of rest will be in as much mand this fall as ever. of our stock has already rived and $20 values view $15 values of a year ago, THE SIGN OF THE FOUR. EX CONAN DOYLE. A BREAK IN THE CHAIN It was late in the afternoon before I woke, strengthened and refreshed. Sherlock Holmes still sat exactly as I had left him, save that he had laid aside his violin and was deep in a book. He looked across at me as I stirred, and I noticed that his face was dark and trounced. "You have slept soundly," he said. "I feared that our talk would wake you." "I heard nothing," I answered. "Have you had fresh news, then?" "Unfortunately, no. I confess that I am surprised and disappointed. I expected something definite by this time. Wiggins has just been up to report. He says that no trace can be found of the launch. It is a provoking check, for every hour is of importance." "Can I do anything? I am perfectly fresh now, and quite ready for another night's outing." "No; we can do nothing. We can only wait. If we go ourselves, the message might come in our absence, and delay be caused. You can do what you will, but I must remain on guard." "Then I shall run over to Camberwell and call upon Mrs. Cecil Forrester. She asked me to, yesterday." "On Mrs. Cecil Forrester?" asked Holmes, with the twinkle of a smile in his eyes. "Well, of course, on Miss Morstan too. They were anxious to hear what happened." I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment. "I shall be back in an hour or two," I remarked. "All right! Good luck! But, I say, if you are crossing the river you may as well return Toby, for I don't think it is at all likely that we shall have any use for him now." I took our mongrel accordingly, and left him, together with a half sovereign at the old naturalist's in Pinchin lane. At Camberwell I found Miss Norstan a little weary after her night's adventures, but very eager to hear the news. Mrs. Forrester, too, was full of curiosity. I told them all that we had done, suppressing, however, the more dreadful parts of the tragedy. Thus, although I spoke of Mr. Sholto's death, I said nothing of the exact manner and method of it. With all my omissions, however, there was enough to startle and amaze them. "It is a romance" cried Mrs. Forrester. "An injured lady, half a million in treasure, a black cannibal and a wooden-legged ruffian. They take the place of the conventional dragon or wicked ear." "And two knight-errants to the rescue," added Miss Morstan, with a bright glance at me. "Why, Mary, your fortune depends upon the issue of this search. I don't think that you are nearly excited enough. Just imagine what it must be to be so rich and to have the world at your feet!" It sent a thrill of joy to my heart to notice that she showed no sign of elation at the prospect. On the contrary, she gave a toss of her proud head, as though the matter were one in which she took small interest. "It is for Mr. Thaddeus Sholto that I am anxious," she said. "Nothing else is of any consequence; but I think that he has behaved most kindly and honorably throughout. It is our duty to clear him of this dreadful and unfounded charge." It was evening before I left Camberweil, and quite dark by the time I reached home. My companion's book and pipe lay by his chair, but he had disappeared. I looked about in the hope of seeing a note, but there was none. "I suppose that Mr. Sherlock Holmes has gone out," I said to Mrs. Hudson as she came up to lower the blinds. "No, sir. He has gone to his room, sir. Do you know, sir," sinking her voice into an impressive whisper, "I am afraid for his health?" "Why so, Mrs. Hudson?" "Well, he's that strange, sir. After you was gone he walked and he walked, up and down, and up and down, until I was weary of the sound of his footstep. Then I heard him talking to himself and muttering, and every time the bell rang out he came on the stair-head with: 'What is that, Mrs. Hudson?' And now he has slammed off to his room, but I can hear him walking away the same as ever. I hope he's not going to be ill, sir. I ventured to say something to him about cooling medicine, but he turned on me, sir, with such a look that I don't know how I ever got out of the room." "I don't think that you have any cause to be uneasy, Mrs. Hudson," I answered. "I have seen him like this before. He has some small matter upon his mind which makes him restless." I tried to speak lightly to our worthy landlady, but I was myself somewhat uneasy when, through the long night, I still from time to time heard the dull sound of his tread, and knew how his keen spirit was chafing against this involuntary inaction. At breakfast time he looked worn and haggard, with a little fleck of feverish color upon either cheek. "You are knocking yourself up, old man," I remarked. "I heard you marching about in the night." "No, I could not sleep," he answered. "This infernal problem is consuming me. It is too much to be balked by so petty an obstacle, when all else had been overcome. I know the men, the launch, everything; and yet I can get no news. I have set other agencies at work, and used every means at my disposal. The whole river has been searched on either side, but there is no news, nor has Mrs. Smith heard of her husband. I shall come to the conclusion soon *that they have scuttled the craft. But there are objections to that.* "Or that Mrs. Smith has put us on a wrong scent." "No. I think that may be dismissed. I had inquiries made, and there is a launch of that description." "Could it have come up the river?" "I have considered that possibility too, and there is a search party who CLAD IN RUDE SAILOR DRESS. will work up as far as Richmond. If no news comes to-day, I shall start off myself to-morrow, and go for the men rather than the boat. But surely, surely, we shall hear something." We did not, however. Not a word came to us either from Wiggins or from the other agencies. There were articles in most of the papers upon the Norwood tragedy. They all appeared to be rather hostile to the unfortunate Thaddeus Shotto. No fresh details were to be found, however, in any of them, save that an inquest was held upon the following day. I walked over to Camberwell in the evening to report our ill success to the ladies, and on my return I found Holmes dejected and somewhat morose. He would hardly reply to my questions, and busied himself all evening in an abstruse chemical analysis which involved much heating of retorts and distilling of vapors, ending at last in a smell which fairly drove me out of the apartment. Up to the small hours of the morning I could hear the clicking of his test-tubes which told me that he was still engaged in his malodorous experiment. In the early dawn I woke with a start, and was surprised to find him standing by my bedside clad in a rude sailor's dress, with a peajacket, and a coarse red scarf round his neck. "I am off down the river, Watson," said he. "I have been turning it over in my mind, and I can see only one way out of it. It is worth trying, at all events." "Surely I can come with you, then," said I. "No; you can be much more useful if you will remain here as my representative. I am loath to go, for it is quite on the cards that some message may come during the day, though Wiggins was despondent about it last night. I want you to open all notes and telegraphs, and to act on your own judgment if any news should come. Can I rely upon you?" "Most certainly." "I am afraid that you will not be able to wire to me, for I can hardly tell yet where I may find myself. If I am in luck, however, I may not be gone so very long. I shall have news of some sort or other before I get back." I had heard nothing of him by breakfast time. On opening the Standard, however, I found that there was a fresh allusion to the business. "With reference to the Upper Norwood tragedy," it remarked, "we have reason to believe that the matter promises to be even more complex and mysterious than was originally supposed. Fresh evidence has shown that it is quite impossible that Mr. Thaddeus Sholto could have been in any way concerned in the matter. He and the housekeeper, Mrs. Bernstone, were both released yesterday evening. It is believed, however, that the police have a clew to the real culprits, and that it is being prosecuted by Mr. Athelney Jones, of Scotland Yard, with all his well-known energy and sagacity. Further arrests may be expected at any moment." "That is satisfactory so far as it goes," thought I. "Friend Sholto is safe at any rate. I wonder what the fresh clew may be; but it seems to be a stereotyped form whenever the police have made a blunder." I tossed the paper down upon the table, but at that moment my eye caught an advertisement in the agony column. It ran in this way: "Losr. — Whereas Mordecai Smith, boatman, and his son Jim left Smith's wharf at or about three o'clock last Tuesday morning in the steam launch Aurora, black with two red stripes, funnel black with a white band, the sum of five pounds will be paid to anyone who can give information to Mrs. Smith, at Smith's wharf, or at 221 b Baker street, as to the whereabouts of the said Mordecai Smith and the launch Aurora." This was clearly Holmes' doing. The Baker street address was enough to prove that. It struck me as rather ingenious, because it might be read by the fugitives without their seeing in it more than the natural anxiety of a wife for her missing husband. It was a long day. Every time that a knock came to the door, or a sharp step passed in the street, I imagined that it was either Holmes returning or an answer to his advertisement. I tried to read, but my thoughts would wander off to our strange quest and to the ill-assorted and villainous pair whom we were pursuing. Could there be, I wondered, some radical flaw in my companion's reasoning? Might he be suffering from some huge self-deception? Was it not possible that his nimble and speculative mind had built up this wild theory upon faulty premises? I had THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. never known him to be wrong; and yet the keenest reasoner may occasionally be deceived. He was likely, I thought, to fall into error through the overrefinement of his logic—his preference for a subtle and bizarre explanation when a plainer and more commonplace one lay ready to his hand. Yet, on the other hand, I had myself seen the evidence, and I had heard the reasons for his deductions. When I looked back on the long chain of curious circumstances, many of them trivial in themselves, but all tending in the same direction, I could not disguise from myself that even if Holmes' explanation were incorrect the true theory must be equally outre and startling. At three o'clock in the afternoon there was a loud peal at the bell, an authoritative voice in the hall, and, to my surprise, no* less a person than Mr. Athelney Jones was shown up to me. Very different was he, however, from the brusque and masterful professor of common sense who had taken over the case so confidently at Upper Norwood. His expression was downcast, and his bearing meek and even apologetic. "Good day, sir; good day," said he. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes is out, I understand." "Yes, and I cannot be sure when he will be back. But perhaps you would care to wait. Take that chair and try one of these cigars." "Thank you; I don't mind if I do," said he, mopping his face with a red bandanna handkerchief. "And a whisky-and-soda?" "Well, half a glass. It is very hot for the time of year; and I have had a good deal to worry and try me. You know my theory about this Norwood case?" "I remember that you expressed one." "Well, I have been obliged to reconsider it. I had my net drawn tightly round Mr. Sholto, sir, when pop he went through a hole in the middle of it. He was able to prove an alibi which could not be shaken. From the time that he left his brother's room he was never out of sight of some one or other. So it could not be he who climbed over roofs and through trap-doors. It's a very dark case, and my professional credit is at stake. I should be very glad of a little assistance." "We all need help sometimes," said I. "Your friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, is a wonderful man, sir," said he, in a husky and confidential voice. "He's a man who is not to be beat. I have known that young man go into a good many cases, but I never saw the case yet that he could not throw a light upon. He is irregular in his methods, and a little quick, perhaps, in jumping at theories, but, on the whole, I think he would have made a most promising officer, and I don't care who knows it. I have had a wire from him this morning, by which I understand that he has got some clew to this Sholto business. Here is his message." He took the telegram out of his pocket, and handed it to me. It was dated from Poplar at twelve o'clock. "Go to Baker street at once," it said. "If I have not returned, wait for me. I am close on the track of the Sholto gang. You can come with us to-night if you want to be in at the finish." "This sounds well. "I has evidently picked up the scent again." said I. "Ah, then he has been at fault too," exclaimed Jones, with evident satisfaction. "Even the best of us are thrown off sometimes. Of course this may prove to be a false alarm; but it is my duty as an officer of the law to allow no chance to slip. But there is some one at the door. Perhaps this is he." A heavy step was heard ascending the stairs, with a great wheezing and rattling as from a man who was sorely put to it for breath. Once or twice he stopped, as though the climb was too much for him, but at last he made his way to our door and entered. His appearance corresponded to the sounds which we had heard. He was an aged man, clad in seafaring garb, with an old peajacket buttoned up to his throat. His back was bowed, his knees were shaky, and his breathing was painfully asthmatic. As he leaned upon a thick oaken cudgel his shoulders heaved in the effort to draw air into his lungs. He had a colored scarf round his chin, and I could see little of his face save a pair of keen dark eyes, overhung by bushy white brows, and "WHAT IS IT, MY MAN?" I ASKED. long gray side-whiskers. Altogether he gave me the impression of a respectable master marriner who had fallen into years and poverty. "What is it, my man?" I asked. He looked about him in the slow methodical fashion of old age. "Is Mr. Sherlock Holmes here?" said he. "No; but I am acting for him. You can tell me any message you have for him." "It was to him himself I was to tell it," said he. "But I tell you that I am acting for him. Was it about Mordecai Smith's boat?" "Yes. I knows well where it is. An' I knows where the men he is after are. An' I knows where the treasure is. I knows all about it." "Then tell me, and I shall let him know." "It was to him I was to tell it," he repeated, with the petulant obstinacy of a very old man. "Well, you must wait for him." "No, no; I ain't goin' to lose a whole day to please no one. If Mr. Holmes ain't here, then Mr. Holmes must find it all out for himself. I don't care about the look of either of you, and I won't tell a word." He shuffled towards the door, but Athelney Jones got in front of him. "Wait a bit, my friend," said he. "You have important information, and you must not walk off. We shall keep you, whether you like or not, until our friend returns." The old man made a little run towards the door, but, as Athelney Jones put his broad back up against it, he recognized the uselessness of resistance. "Pretty sort o' treatment this!" he cried, stamping his stick. "I come here to see a gentleman, and you two, who I never saw in my life, seize me and treat me in this fashion!" "You will be none the worse," I said. "We shall recompense you for the loss of your time. Sit over here on the sofa, and you will not have long to wait." He came across sullenly enough, and seated himself with his face resting on his hands. Jones and I resumed our cigars and our talk. Suddenly, however, Holmes' voice broke in upon us. "I think that you might offer me a cigar, too," he said. We both started in our chairs. There was Holmes sitting close to us with an air of quiet amusement. "Holmes!" I exclaimed. "You here! But where is the old man?" "Here is the old man," said he, holding out a heap of white hair. "Here he is—wig, whiskers, eyebrows, and all. I thought my disguise was pretty good, but I hardly expected that it would stand that test." "Ah, you rogue!" cried Jones, highly delighted. "You would have made an actor, and a rare one. You had the proper workhouse cough, and those weak legs of yours are worth ten pound a week. I thought I knew the glint of your eye, though. You didn't get away from us so easily, you see." "I have been working in that get-up all day," said he, lighting his cigar. "You see, a good many of the criminal classes begin to know me—especially since our friend here took to publish some of my cases; so I can only go on the warpath under some simple disguise like this. You got my wire?" "Yes; that was what brought me here." "How has your case prospered?" "It has all come to nothing. I have had to release two of my prisoners, and there is no evidence against the other two." "Never mind. We'll give you two others in the place of them. But you must put yourself under my orders. You are welcome to all the official credit, but you must act on the lines that I point out. Is that agreed?" "Entirely, if you will help me to the men." "Well, then, in the first place I shall want a fast police-boat—a steam launch—to be at the Westminster Stairs at seven o'clock." "That is easily managed. There is always one about there; but I can step across the road and telephone to make sure." "Then I shall want two stanch men, in case of resistance." "There will be two or three in the boat. What else?" "When we secure the men we shall get the treasure. I think that it would be a pleasure to my friend here to take the box round to the young lady to whom half of it rightfully belongs. Let her be the first to open it. Eh, Watson?" "It would be a great pleasure to me." "Rather an irregular proceeding," said Jones, shaking his head. "However, the whole thing is irregular, and I suppose we must wink at it. The treasure must afterwards be handed over to the authorities until after the official investigation." "Certainly. That is easily managed. One other point. I should like much to have a few details about this matter from the lips of Jonathan Small himself. You know I like to work the detail of my cases out. There is no objection to my having an unofficial interview with him either here in my rooms or elsewhere, as long as he is efficiently guarded?" "Well, you are master of the situation. I have had no proofs yet of the existence of Jonathan Small. However, if you can catch him, I don't see how I can refuse you an interview with him." "That is understood, then?" "Perfectly. Is there anything else?" "Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wine. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a house-keeper." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Widow Made Restitution Martha M. Gray, widow of Miles B. Gray, of Marshal, Oklahoma, has refunded to the United States the sum of $1,274, representing the amount of her widow's pension for eight years, which she is alleged to have illegally drawn. Gray was a soldier, and he married the woman, who afterward secured a widow's pension, but their married life was stormy, and he obtained a divorce. After his demise she applied for and obtained a pension, the pension bureau knowing nothing of the divorce proceedings. She had drawn the pension for eight years when it came to the attention of the pension bureau that she had been divorced from the soldier whose pension she was drawing. The case was put in the hands of the United States district attorney for the district in which she lived, and on his representation of the case she made restitution to the government of the eight years pension. She will not be prosecuted. As Others See Us Biggs—What do you think of young Smyth's bride? Diggs—Is she wealthy? "Very." "Then he must have married her money and invited her to the wedding."—Chicago Daily News. Right in Her Line "No," said the woman contemptuously. "I don't understand her at all." "You don't," replied the young man. "I thought you posed as a clairvoyant." "Well?" "Well, she's a dream."—Philadelphia Press. Told in Fractions Teacher—How old are you, little boy? Sonny (who has just gone into fractions)—I'm six and five-twelfths.—Tit-Bits. FARM AND GARDEN STRONG BARRACK FOR HAY Type of Structure Here Described Is Advocated by Expert Agricultural Builders. From Vol. V. of Rural Affairs, which unfortunately is out of print, we copy the gist of the directions for making a hay barrack here given, with the illustration. Build the barrack 20 feet square. Insert four posts of durable timber; 22 feet long, in the ground to a depth of four feet. Stick should square at least eight inches, corners hewn off, making it a rough octagon in shape. Bore one and a half-inch hole through corners of each post, one foot apart A MODEL HAY BARRACK for the bolts that support the roof; bolts of one and a half-inch iron, one foot long, the outer four inches to be squared and turned up one inch; on this is laid a piece of joist three feet long (hardly shown in cut), to support the roof. Roof should run to a point from each side, and may be shingled, tinned or thatched. There are four plates framed together, and braced. The posts pass up through the roof on the inside corners of the plates. The roof is elevated and lowered with a small screw of wood or iron, about two feet long. A wooden screw three inches in diameter will answer. This is used on the inside of the post. One man can raise and lower the roof if it is done as fast as the hay is put in or taken out. Raise each corner of the roof one foot at a time, going regularly around the barrack. The roof will not be likely to blow off. If the above directions are followed in building. The posts, as far as they enter the ground, may be left the full size of the stick. A NEW VARIETY OF OATS. The Iowa experiment station distributed last spring to northern and central Iowa farmers several hundred bushels of an early white oat called "Wisconsin No. 4," which has given excellent satisfaction in Wisconsin, where it was first introduced. Its history is as follows: M. A. Carleton, cerealist for the United States government, visited Russia in 1898, and in northern Russia he saw a type of oats growing that greatly interested him. Its stiff straw, wide panicle and large kernel showed it to be a desirable quality of oats. He found on inquiry that it was an early maturing oat. It came from Sweden, and was one of the standard types of northern Russia. Mr. Carleton secured 20 bushels for the department of agriculture, listing it as No. 2,788. A small quantity of this seed was obtained by the Wisconsin experiment station in 1899 and placed in a variety test of oats. By careful selection, Prof. Moore, the station agronomist, has developed a very desirable type of early oat well adapted to Wisconsin climate and soil conditions, and has named it Wisconsin No. 4. It is the most satisfactory one tested at the university farm. It invariably yields well, shows a stiff straw—therefore does not easily lodge—has a good-sized kernel with a light hull, and weighs usually from 36 to 40 pounds per measured bushel. It generally ripens in 90 days from seeding. It yields from 5 to 15 bushels more per inch than any other variety. Its high percentage of meat to hull gives promise of a good milling oat. Johnson Grass in Southwest Johnson grass has become such a nuisance to farmers in some parts of Texas that they have been compelled to adopt (legislative measures to eradicate it. A law has been passed forcing railroads to keep their right of way absolutely free of it, in order that the grass may not spread in adjoining fields. The Santa Fe railroad has engaged the services of a professional grass exterminator, and thus far he has made a success of it. Johnson grass makes a good pasture and good hay, but is a decided nuisance to the crop raiser, as the more it is piled up, the better it seems to grow. The Use of Lime on Land During the last few years the use of ome land has greatly increased. This is the result of investigations as to the free acid in land of which lime is a neutralizer. It will pay every farmer to investigate his land as to acid. This he can do by planting on it clover of almost any variety, including sweet clover. If the plant grows well there is no great abundance of acid, provided nitrogen has not been applied to fertilize the crop. If nitrogen has been applied, the clover will grow anyway, whether the soil be acid or not. Thus the test would be of no value.—Farmers' Review. FARM HELPER TALKS BACK It is very seldom one picks up a farm paper without seeing an article giving the farmhand a whack. That is right. Keep on whacking. It makes him feel better. He loves his employer so much more when he reads these highly concentrated items, provided he get time to indulge in the luxury of reading. Give him to understand the farm is the proper place for farmbands; impress on his mind that he should be very thankful that you are giving him 365 days' work in the year, and that his wages are greater than your great-great-grandfather used to get. Feed him on common, everyday "grub." Sell all your butter and use grease for the table; it will increase your bank account; take all of your eggs to the market—they are not good for farmhands to eat—they injure the digestion. Expenses must be kept down, as you are thinking of buying the adjoining half section and you will need the money. Kill two or three fat hogs in the fall and have hog three times a day. Fat hog is the stuff to hang to a hired man's ribs. Be sure to have an early rising hour in the winter time for the hired man—3:30 a. m., at least. It will not be necessary for you to get up before breakfast; about six is the time for that meal. If the farmhand cannot find enough work to keep him employed before breakfast he can cut and haul up a load of wood. It is good for him, makes him strong, increases the appetite, and his love for you is tenfold stronger. Find fault with everything he does, whether right or wrong; it does him good; he will stay with you that much longer. Always go around with a long and sour face. Eat as fast as you can at the table. If you talk to the farmhand at all during meals tell him about some article you have read relating to the poor quality of farmhands at the present time. Take plenty of farm papers—six at least, one for every weekday. Make the farmhand do all the hard work. Use walking plows, but if you have a riding plow use that yourself; walking is good for the hired man's legs. Send him out to cultivate corn about four in the morning with a good fast team, and keep him at it until about 30 minutes after sundown. Probably you will have 12 cows for him to milk, and other work to keep him going two hours after he leaves the field. When a new hand comes give him all the hard work you can find for the first few days; that is the way to break in tender muscles. The farmhand likes this treatment, and will probably stay with you. Put the farmhand in the hottest bedroom in summer and the coldest in winter. Be sure to have a hard bed; he likes it; it makes him tough. These things will help in keeping farmhands from leaving you—Breeders' Gazette. QUITE POPULAR IN WEST. Type of Haystacker Here Described Has Been in Successful Use for Many Years. The picture shows a common type of haystacker used throughout the northwest. All such stackers are modifications in some respects of the poise, mast and boom. The stacker here described is essentially a derrick with pulley and hay fork. Several hundred pounds of hay can be lifted and placed on the stack at a time. These stackers are generally homemade. The derrick is best supported by a heavy framework for ground founda- WESTERN HAY STACKER tion; otherwise it may consist of poles held in place by gay ropes. With this the hay is usually lifted and carried over stack by a hayfork. In some localities nets are coming into common use. Attached to a lifting rope or cable, one or two horses furnish the power to elevate the load. When at desired height at end of boom, b, it is turned automatically by having the derrick leaning slightly toward the stack, when the fork swings by its own weight. The empty fork is drawn back to the wagon by means of the dumping rope, or by the handle shown in the cut. The upright timber, a, should be of hard wood not less than 6x8 inches. In the top of this is sunk the iron pin, d, which holds boom, b, and serves as swivel. The crosspiece, c, running from a to b is so arranged as to adjust height of boom over stack by drawing in or extending the lower handle end.—Russ M. Winton, in Farm and Home. Trolley Spreads Insect Pests As the result of inquiries made by F. B. Sanborn, of Concord, Mass., as to the spreading of insect pests by trolleys, etc., he finds that the browntail moth has been carried into New Hampshire by the electric cars, finding lodgment in Portsmouth, and that automobiles have taken the gypsy moth into the White mountain region. Such at least is the opinion of scientists at the New Hampshire agricultural college at Durham. PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE William Brown, alias the prince of Modena, from whom the countess of Russell lately secured a divorce, is making brooms in the Toronto prison, to which he was committed last January for defrauding a hotel keeper. John W. Gates made his first money by husking corn. At the end of two or three seasons he had saved enough to buy one-third interest in a threshing machine, from which he saved $50 a year for three years. He invested this in timber, from which he made $1,000, and with which he opened a hardware store. When Assistant Secretary Adee, of the state department, travels abroad, as he does every summer, he always carries two watches on his person with Washington and European time. He says: "When I want to think United States I pull out the Washington watch. and when I want to think European look at the other." Daniel Vierge, who died recently in Paris and who was known as "the father of modern illustration," was a Spaniard by birth. At the eighteenth birthday celebration of Victor Hugo he was stricken with paralysis, which rendered his right side powerless, but with rare courage and perseverence he trained his left hand and continued to the end to be at the head and front of modern illustrators. Adam Harvey, of Kokomo, Ind., is believed to be the oldest working blacksmith in the United States. Hale and vigorous at 86, he has been toiling at the anvil every week day until laid up recently by an attack of stomach trouble. He was just recovering from a broken collar bone when compelled to go to bed with the complaint mentioned. Mr. Harvey is an old-time wagon maker, and declares that even now he can first make his tools and then cut down a tree from which to build a wagon. William Schmitt, a New Yorker, should have his name embellazed in letters of gold. Of course, nobody knows him now, but he has taken a step that may immortalize him. He is a humble contractor, living in Harlem, who has begun the erection of an apartment house with special reference to large families. His chief feature is that young children and dogs will be made welcome; no family will be barred for these so-called incumbrances. Schmitt has six children of his own and is set against race suicide. The building is close to a public schoolhouse. He had the entire house rented before he had completed one story of it. FROM FOREIGN FIELDS Farm land in England ranges in price from $60 to $120 an acre. Twenty-four persons living in County Tipperary, Ireland, are centenarians. The government of Algiers contemplates giving subsidies to Algerian farmers for the purchase of plows of modern construction. A committee has been formed in Buda-Pesth to collect money for the relief of the families of railroad employees imprisoned or discharged in consequence of the late strike. The heirs of a Frenchman named Thiery, who died in Venice in 1674, claim that Napoleon took $2,000,000 belonging to their ancestor, says the Paris Matin. They have unsuccessfully sued the French government for its return. It has been found that a system of "graft" prevails among the police of Cape Town; that "the morality act passed in 1902 has been used as a prolific source of income by the police officers charged with the execution of its provisions." Nice has become the headquarters of fugitive Parisian criminals to such an extent that the French officials find their work considerably facilitated. Whenever a man is wanted they promptly hunt for him in that city, often with success. India is seriously being urged to follow in the footsteps of Canada, South Africa and New Zealand in according preferential tariff rates to Great Britain. The foreign trade of India is $683,000,000 annually, three-fourths of the imports being from Great Britain. WRITTEN BY WITS. If a man had to endure the morning after the night before he would probably act differently. A lot of useless argument might be avoided if people would candidly admit their ignorance. When the opportunity arrives for a man to break into the hero class he is usually taking a nap. A man never realizes that he is growing old until he is forced to envy the small boy who is hiking away for the swimming hole. Some men who recall with pride how they earned their first dollar would hesitate to let the world know just how they earned the most of their dollars. Speaking of men who deserve the hero medal, what's the matter with the man who has the courage and honesty to say he has no use for the mother-in-law joke? IN CHURCH CIRCLES. In England Lady Lawson has been appointed a church warden of Aspatria church, in Cumberland. Cardinal Gibbons is strongly in favor of women voices in the choirs of the Catholic churches of the United States. Mother Mary Theopila, the superior of the Notre Dame college, Baltimore, died recently. She was one of the oldest and most widely known holy women in this country, and on August 15, 1899, she celebrated the golden jubilee of her religious profession. Valor's Better Part "My wife's going to make biscuits to-day; won't you take dinner with me?" "Thanks; I'm not trying for the Carnegie hero medal."—Houston Post. QUITE DIFFERENT. KKK HEP PANET Published every Saturday by JOHN M. CROSS OR 311 NORTH STREET Richmond Va. 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The report states that he struck the smaller girl, named DAMERON, when she ran crying to Mrs. McLAIN. In the absence of this one, he attempted to assault the other one, BLOOMER McLAIN, nine years of age. The girl's mother arrived during the altercation. The white children were not injured. The lynching was without palliation or excuse and the men guilty of this murder should be apprehended and punished. If Virginia proposes to permit the execution of children, it would be well for the world to know it. It was murder—cold blooded and pre-meditated. It is now reported that the colored people in that section are much aroused and are making threats. This will do no good and may cause much harm. Talk is cheap. It is action that counts. If the lynchers are known, secure warrants for their arrest and put them to the expense and trouble of being charged with and tried for murder. Men, who would hang an irresponsible boy, without a trial and in violation of the law of the land, are guilty of murder in the first degree and should be themselves hanged and the accessories to the crime should be given a long term in the penitentiary. The case is a sad one. Nothing is said about Dudley's parents or of his opportunities or of his training. He was brutally murdered and silence reigns in the neighborhood. The fault is with the officer, who failed to protect his prisoner and with the murderers, who lynched him. The guilty parties are known to the officers of the law. The Commonwealth's Attorney should do his duty and the machinery of the law should be put in motion to the end that none of the guilty men shall escape punishment- Lynch-law must go! Train Went Through Bridge. Henderson, Ky., Aug. 9. — A fast freight on the Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis railroad went through an open bridge at Spottsville, Ky., and the crew of eight were drowned. The bridge is swung on a pivot in the cen- rer and had been turned to admit of the passage of a steamer. Roosevelt Receives Filipinos. Washington, Aug. 10.—Eight Moro Igorote chiefs constitute a part the Philippine exhibit at the St. Is Exposition, paid their respects president Roosevelt at the White JAPANESE WILL ATTACK LIAO YANG Preparations For Flanking Movement Continues. LOST 10,000 MEN AT PORT ARTHUR St. Petersburg, Aug. 10.—Although Lieutenant General Sakharoff reports that there is no change in the situation around Liao Yang, it is evident from the special dispatches from Liao Yang and Sintsinsin that the Japanese are continuing their preparations for a flanking movement, which may possibly alter the nature of the expected engagement at Liao Yang, and which may also further delay the crucial development. The concentration of a strong Japanese force at Siamatsze indicates an intention to press forward towards Mukden, and if possible to cut the communications and prevent General Kuropatkin from retiring northward. General Kuropatkin is evidently aware of this move and is sending out reconnoitering parties from Sintsiatin along the Siamatsze road. This is shown by the slight encounter with a Japanese outpost within 30 miles or Sintsiatin. The Japanese are also bringing up strong forces from Yinkow. A column marching from Newchwang, with the evident intention of flanking Liao Yang from the westward, included 10,000 Chinese from the Island of Formosa, who are Japanese subjects. The Associated Press correspondent at Liao Yang points out the alarming character of this development, and fears that the example may prove contagious. If the local Chinese are induced to join the Japanese it will be impossible to distinguish the Formosan and Manchurian Chinese. This revives the specter of Chinese embroilment, with the more remote possibility of foreign entanglements. There is considerable anxiety regarding the presence of General Tuan Shi Kai, commander-in-chief of the Chinese forces, and General Ma, with strong forces of troops in the north, lest should a convenient opportunity present itself they would be tempted to oversteep the bounds of neutrality. Although it now seems improbable that anything can prevent a Japanese attack on Liao Yang, in view of the prevalence of heavy rains, hope is expressed there that the elements may again prove to be Russian allies, just as they did in 1812. The prospect of rains heavy enough to arrest military operations is not likely, however, as the time for the rainy season is now past. There is an unconfirmed rumor that Lieutenant General Linevitch is bringing large forces to Mukden to reinforce General Kuropatkin. General Linevitch's troops are stationed around Vladivostok, and it is doubtful if they could arrive at Liao Yang in time. Russians Attack Kuroki's Right. General Kuroki's Headquarters in the Field, Aug. 9, via Fusan, Aug. 10.— Unofficial reports were current yesterday that a large force of Russians were advancing to attack the Japanese right. Heavy firing heard in that direction today appears to confirm the report. Two days of hard rains have followed a fortnight of severe heat. The Japanese losses in the fighting of August 1 were 990. Japs Using the Railroad. Mukden, Aug. 10.—The Japanese are using the Shanhalkwang-Yinkow railroad for provisioning the army and mobilizing troops for an attack on Simintun, 30 miles west of Mukden. Japs Renew Attack On Port Arthur. Chefoo, Aug. 10. — From a source hitherto reliable it is said there is good reason to believe that the Japanese are renewing their attack on the remaining outer positions at Port Arthur. The officers of the German cruiser Fuerst Bismarck, lying at the outer edge of this harbor, express the opinion that the firing heard Monday night was an encounter between detachments of belligerent warships, approximately 20 miles northwest of Chefoo. From the cruiser's advantageous position the flashes preceding the detonations could be seen. Japs Occupy Wolf Hill. St. Petersburg, Aug. 10.—A dispatch received here from Lieutenant General Stoessel, commander of the Russian military forces at Port Arthur, confirms previous reports that the Japanese before Port Arthur are in possession of Wolf Hill. The general says that on July 30 the Russians withdrew from their positions on Wolf Hill before the numerical superiority of the Japanese. General Stoessel estimates the number of Japanese attacking Port Arthur at 70,000. LAND BATTLE AT PORT ARTHUR Japanese Reported Repulsed With Loss of 10,000 Men. St. Petersburg, Aug. 8.—A telegram from Chefoo, dated August 7, says that according to Chinese information a fierce battle was fought on the land side of Port Arthur August 5. The Japanese are reported to have been repulsed with great loss, the killed alone being estimated at 10,000, while the Russians lost about 1000. The telegram says that Lieutenant General Stoessel was personally in command, and that the conduct of the Russian troops was splendid. Lieutenant General Stoessel, commanding the Russian military forces at Port Arthur, in an unassued dispatch to the emperor, says: "I am happy to report that the troops repulsed all the Japanese attacks of July 26, 27 and 28 with enormous losses. "The fleet assisted in the defense by bombarding the Japanese flank." "Our losses during the three days were about 1500 and 40 officers killed or wounded. "According to statements of Chinese THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA and prisoners, the Japanese lost as many as 10,000. "Their losses were so great that the enemy has not had time to remove the dead and wounded." General Kuropatkin, in a telegram to the emperor, dated August 6, reports a reconnoissance August 5 on the south front in the direction of the Japanese positions. The Russians set fire to the village of Henchuantsa, 13 miles northwest of Newchwang, from which place a small force of Japanese fled precipitately, leaving their transport animals. The report gives details of other skirmishes, and concludes with the statement that there is no change on the east front of the army. 10,000 Sick and Wounded at Fortress. London, Aug. 9.—According to the correspondent of the Morning Post at Shanghai it is reported there that there are 10,000 sick and wounded persons at Port Arthur, and that the Russians are negotiating with the Japanese to send the hospital ship Mongolia away full of sick. It is reported, the correspondent says, that Lieutenant General Stoessel (in command of the military forces at Port Arthur) has committed suicide, and that panic prevails at Port Arthur. Marquis Oyama, commander-in-chief of the Japanese forces in Manchuria, has proceeded north and expects to attack Liao Yang August 20. FOUR OF FAMILY KILLED Mother and Three Children Lost Their Lives in Teen Wreck Chicago, Aug. 10. — Mrs. C. C. Schwartz and her three little children were killed and a number of other persons seriously injured in a collision between a west-bound Baltimore and Ohio local passenger train, known as No. 17, and a Chicago and Erie freight train at the Brighton Park railroad crossing, at Western avenue and West 39th street. The collision followed a frantic effort on the part of the crossing flagman to change the course of the freight train, to the crew of which he had given a signal that all was clear for them to back over the Baltimore and Ohio tracks. The passenger train, which was approaching rapidly, was struck by the freight cars, and two of the coaches were overturned. One of the freight cars crashed through the wood work of one of the coaches, where the four who were killed were seated. They were a family of six, and C. C. Schwartz, the father, was the only one who escaped with his life. Although taken from the wreck unconscious and suffering from broken bones and bruises, it is believed that his injuries will not prove fatal. The mother and the three little children were killed instantly. TURKISH TROOPS ANNIHILATED London, Aug. 10.—The Tabriz, Persia, correspondent of the Daily News in a dispatch dated August 6 says: "On July 13 a band of Armenian revolutionists appeared near Outchkhlissa. Turkish soldiers and Kurds, finding an excuse, attacked and destroyed the villages of Outchkhlissa, Koomioubajou, Gougan, Karabazar and Sayto, butchering men and outraging women. "Two large Armenian bands, marching to Sassoun to help the insurgent leader Antranik, attacked the garrisons at Mosszoryn and Goutchagh for revenge on July 25. At dawn bombs were thrown into these places, killing many, and severe fighting ensued. A majority of the soldiers were killed, and the garrisons resembled graveyards. One band forced its way through the Kurdish tribes towards Arjess. The number of soldiers killed amounted to several hundred." DROWNED AT ATLANTIC CITY Philadelphia Met Death Trying to Swim Around Steel Pier. Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 8. S. Lowitz, of Philadelphia, a clothing designer at 13th and Arch streets, met death in the ocean. He, in company with four companions, attempted to swim around the steel pier. All four became exhausted. Lowitz drowned after his head struck against the steel pier posts. His body was recovered. The three companions succeeded in regaining shore safely with the assistance of others. The life boat upset when coming back. Charles Suss, one of the drowned man's companions, was so exhausted that he had to be sent to the hospital. He will recover. President Tips Scales at 206. Washington, Aug. 8. — President Roosevelt has troubles other than politics. He is getting fat. Before he was "portly" or "rather stout," but he now weighs 208 pounds, and the last 12 pounds he has put on worries him. Horseback riding, upon which he has always depended, failing him, the president is putting in most of his "weight-reducing" exercise at tennis. Clothes that he wore when he first came to Washington are much too small for him now. Sage Has $2,000,000 For Each Year. New York, Aug. 8. — An estimate made in Wall street of the wealth of Russell Sage placed the total at approximately twice his age in millions of dollars. As Mr. Sage was 88 years old on Thursday, that would make his fortune $176,000,000. Two Drowned at Cape May Point. Cape May, N. J., Aug. 10.—Margaret Gillies, aged 35, and Lizzie Carson, aged 21, of Front street and Fisher's lane, Oney, Philadelphia, were drowned in the surf while bathing at Cape May Point. They had been in bathing but five minutes when they were carried out by a strong current. An unsuccessful attempt was made to reach them. The bodies have not been recovered. Aged Couple Killed On Railroad. Ridgewood, N. J., Aug. 10—Hudson Conkling, 81 years old, and his wife, aged 85, were killed by the Middletown express on the Erie road between this place and Undercliff. They were walking on the railroad tracks and apparently heard the whistle of the locomotive, but became confused and stood in front of the train. The bodies were mangled horribly. TRAIN PLUNGES INTO RIVER Express Goes Through a Bridge Weakened By Rains. SEVENTY-SIX BODIES FOUND Pueblo, Col., Aug. 9.—The wreck of the World's Fair flyer on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad near Eden, seven miles north of Pueblo, proves to have been one of the greatest railroad accidents in the history of the country. Two crowded passenger cars and a baggage car were engulfed in the torrent that tore out a trestle spanning Steele's Hollow, otherwise known as Dry Creek, and so far as known, only three of the occupants of these cars escaped death. Fortunately two sleeping cars and a dining car completing the train remained on the track at the edge of the abyss, and none of their occupants was killed or injured. How many perished probably will never be definitely ascertained, for the treacherous sands are drifting over the bodies. Searching for the dead was begun on an extensive scale and still is in progress. All corpses found were brought to Pueblo and placed in four morgues here. Up to this morning 76 bodies had been recovered, and of these 50 had been identified. Bodies were recovered all the way along Fountain river from the scene of the wreck to this city. Two bodies were taken from the stream at First street, Pueblo, more than eight miles from the point where the disaster occurred, and it is probable that some may be recovered even further down stream. None of the bodies is badly mutilated, and all are in such a condition as to be recognizable. Many identifications have been made by articles found on the bodies, no persons who viewed them recognizing the features. On the lookout for danger, warned by the squally clouds and heavy rains to the north, Engineer Charles Hindman was running cautiously, about 15 miles an hour, as he approached the Arroyo, which was spanned by a bridge 96 feet in length. The condition of the bridge was not known until the locomotive, one of the monster passenger type, had nearly crossed. The bridge gave way as though it had been a stack of kindling wood, and the locomotive dropped with the blissing of steam 80 feet to the bottom of the Arroyo, crosswise to the track. The baggage car, smoking car and chair car followed the locomotive into the stream and we swept away. The first of the corpses recovered were those of Miss Irene Wright and little Dorothy Johnson, sister-in-law and daughter, respectively, of Harry Johnson, of Pueblo. Engineer Hindman was found with his watch still running, a few feet further down the stream. All day long stretchers with sand-covered, dripping burdens were carried every few minutes to the railroad tracks, where the death train awaited. A second party further down the river found several persons entangled in a mass of debris, thought to have been part of the baggage car, that was literally torn to pieces. In a short time a large number of bodies were dug out of the sand here. One woman was completely buried, some of her foot stuck above the water. Some bodies were found lodged in the shrubbery along the banks, others in the wreckage in midstream, and many half buried with only an arm or a bit of clothing to reveal their whereabouts. Many of the bodies were almost naked. Without doubt the great majority were drowned like rats in a trap when the cars were plunged without a moment's warning into the whirling water 35 feet deep, 100 feet wide and with a current strong enough to carry thousands of pounds of weight nearly a mile before subsiding. U. S. LEGATION NOT STONED All Is Quiet In Colombia, With General Reyes In Power. Washington, Aug. 10.—In response to an inquiry as to the truth of the report that the American legation at Bogota had been stoned, the state department received the following cablegram from Mr. Snyder, the American charge d'affaires as the Colombian capital: "Reported attack on American legation absolutely without foundation. All is quiet here. The administration of General Reyes is in power. Evidences of satisfaction everywhere visible." France Honors General Agnus. Baltimore, Md., Aug. 8. — General Felix Agnus received notice of his appointment as knight commander of the French Colonial Order of Nichan-El-Anouar, which is one of the divisions of the Legion of Honor. The distinction was bestowed in recognition of the special courtesies shown by General Agnus to officers of French cruisers visiting Baltimore at different times and to other Frenchmen who came to this city. Distinguished Democrat Passed Away After Long Illness. Sweet Springs, Mo., Aug. 10.—After lingering for weeks between life and death, former U. S. Senator G. G. Vest passed peacefully away. He had been SENATOR TEST so near death for the past three days that the end came without a struggle. At the bedside when the end came was his wife, Dr. Jarvis. the family physician; Senator Vest's son Alexander, his daughter, Mrs. George P. B. Jackson, and her husband, and Mrs. Thompson, a niece of Mrs. Vest. George Graham Vest was born at Frankfort, Ky., December 6, 1830. He graduated at Centre College in 1849 and from the law department of Transylvania at Lexington in 1853. Mr. Vest served 24 years in the United States senate, being elected from Missouri. He was one of the most notable figures in the national legislature and one of the greatest orators on the Democratic side. He made his last appearance as an active member of the senate on January 6, 1903, when he spoke upon his resolution calling for the removal of the duty on coal. Aroused, temporarily, to his old-time fire, he made a speech that attracted much attention and the scene was intensely dramatic. Since that day he had gradually failed. He was the last member of the Confederate congress who became a member of the congress of the United States. He was in the Missouri legislature in 1860, and afterward served until the end of the Civil War in the Confederate congress at Richmond, Va. A TRIPLE DROWNING Three Men Lose Their Lives While Planting Seed, Oysters Norfolk, Va., Aug. 9.—John D. Armstrong, the well-known oyster packer; his married son, Walter D. Armstrong, aged 21 years, and an aged man named Pulliam, from Norfolk, were drowned in Little Bay, near Willoughby Beach. The accident occurred while the three men who lost their lives and a colored man named John Gale were out in a small sailboat planting seed oysters. The boom of the vessel jibed in a slight gust of wind while Mr. Armstrong was leaning over the side of the boat, and being struck by the boom Mr. Armstrong was knocked overboard. Pulliam jumped in after him, and the two had nearly reached the boat, when Pulliam was taken with cramps and called for assistance. Then young Mr. Armstrong jumped in to try and save his father and companion. In the struggle which followed all three men were drowned. RACE WAR IMMINENT Whites at Greenfield, Va., Expect Out break by Negroes. Richmond, Va., Aug. 10.—An Afton, Va., special says everybody in the vicinity of Greenfield and within 10 or 15 miles of the scene of the recent lynching of Andrew Dudley, the negro boy assailant of two white girls, is in a state of intense excitement, the whites momentarily expecting an outbreak by the negroes. The latter are being closely watched, and every indication points to a clash between the two races. Military protection has not yet been asked for, but a prominent citizen said that it will be necessary if the worst comes. Crazed By Long Swim. New York, Aug. 8.—Clifford G. Baxter, a civil engineer, and Captain John Enright, of the South Beach life saving station, started on a swimming contest from Brooklyn bridge to the iron pier at Coney Island and both were taken out of the water temporarily crazed after swimming for seven hours and when within a mile of their goal The distance is established at 13½ miles. Baxter passed Enlight at Norton's Point, when both men were almost exhausted. Enright soon afterward declared that some one was holding him back and began to rave. He was taken from the water. By this time Baxter developed a delusion that a devil fish was towling him and that he was starving to death, and his friends dragged him from the water. HANG SUCH FIENDS SAYS PRESIDENT HANG SUCH FIENDS SAYS PRESIDENT Insanity No Excuse For Criminals Guilty of Assault. PARDON FOR NEGRO REFUSED Washington, Aug. 9. — President Roosevelt has declined to interfere in the case of John W. Burley, a negro, confined in the jail of the District of Columbia under sentence of death for the crime of criminal assault, the victim having been a little girl $4\frac{1}{2}$ years old. The president has directed that the sentence of the jury be carried into effect on August 26, as decreed. An application was made to the president to commute the sentence of Burley to imprisonment for life, it being alleged that the prisoner was of mind so weak as to be irresponsible for his crime. The subject was referred to Attorney General Moody. He investigated the case and reported to the president fully as to the facts. In rejecting the application for the commutation of Burley's sentence, President Roosevelt made the following memorandum: "The application for the commutation of sentence of John W. Burley is denied. This man committed the most hideous crime known to our laws, and twice before he has committed crimes of a similar, though less horrible, character. In my judgment there is no justification whatever for paying heed to the allegations that he is not of sound mind, allegations made after the trial and conviction. Nobody would pretend that there has ever been any such degree of mental unsoundness shown as would make people even consider sending him to an asylum if he had not committed this crime. Under such circumstances he should certainly be esteemed sane enough to suffer the penalty for his monstrous deed. I have scant sympathy with the plea of insanity advanced to save a man from the consequences of crime, when unless that crime had been committed it would have been impossible to persuade any responsible authority to commit him to an asylum as insane. Among the most dangerous criminals, and especially among those prone to commit this particular kind of offense, there are plenty of a temper so flendish or so brutal as to be incompatible with any other than a brutish order of intelligence; but these men are nevertheless responsible for their acts; and nothing more tends to encourage crime among such men than the belief that through the plea of insanity or any other method it is possible for them to escape paying the just penalty of their crimes. The crime in question is one to the existence of which we largely owe the existence of that spirit of lawlessness which takes form in lynching. It is a crime so revolting that the criminal is not entitled to one particle of sympathy from any human being. It is essential that the punishment for it should be not only as certain but as swift as possible. It is to be regretted that we do not have special provision for more summary dealing with this type of cases. The more we do what in us lies to secure certain and swift justice in dealing with these cases, the more effectively do we work against the growth of that lynching spirit which is so full of evil omen for this people, because it seeks to avenge one infamous crime by the commission of another of equal infamy." MAY BREAK WITH TURKEY If Negotiations Fail, Consequences May Be Serious. Washington, Aug. 10. — Secretary Hay occupied considerable time at the cabinet meeting in a presentation of the latest phases of the Turkish situation. He recounted the details of his interview with Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister, at which the secretary forcibly stated the attitude of the American government. He explained also the reasons which had actuated him in requesting that the American European squadron should be sent to Smyrna, the most convenient port to Constantinople. It is not deemed wise by the secretary that the reasons for this action should be disclosed entirely at this time. 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He was our boy— Soldier boy, and of fun; Never cured to have a toy, "Cept a sword, or drum, or gun, So, when he was gone, I say, Mother, she should sit and chat With the map spun out this way And the flag pinned "where John's at." Nights, when I would lock the door And go to put on the light, She'd say: "Let me book once more To find where John sleeps to-night." By and by she seemed to fall— Couldn't think what it might be, But her cheeks grew waxen pale Where the roses use to be. But she never suffered so That she could "find John's place"— And her eyes—how they would glow When his marches she would trace! Then, one day, the telegraph Came that our boy John was—deadI I can never tell you half What I thought when that I read. Mobbie it was wrong to do, Bunny it did; Told her John was almost through With the war, and then she cried. Late one night I heard her say: "Bring the map. I want to see When you Johnnie was to-day" Then she picked so strangue at me And picked up the map like this— But her eyes looked on, and on, And she cried out: "There he is!" Then dropped back and whispered: "John!" This old map—I keep it here, Smudged and tattered up this way. And that blot? That is a tear Markin; where John was one day. That is where our Johnnie fell, Fightin' with those of his. Mother knows—I couldn't tell. She—she says that Johnnie is." W D. in childish Miss Mollie's Romance By LOUISE T. HODGES (Copyright, 18, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) MISS MOLLIE had but recently come to occupy the little cottage at No. 20 Chestnut street. She lived alone, with only Susan, the maid of all work, for company. Miss Mollie was a cheery little body, and she was scrupulous in the care of her flowers and the vines which clustered about the cool little veranda, and of the canary whose cage hung during summer, among the vines. Being a stranger in the community she rarely left her own domicile, and her life was very uneventful. Each today was a repetition of yesterday. If Miss Mollie sometimes weared a little of the monotony she only sighed a faint little sigh and said nothing, for there was no one event to hear if she said anything. The one event that varied a little the daily routine of Miss Mollie's existence was the coming once a week of the "weekly" newspaper. Miss Mollie was a recent "subscriber," and taking a newspaper was a new experience with her. Therefore when the paper arrived each week she always began at the top of the first column and read straight through to the end of the last paragraph, never skipping a word. Of A woman in a long dress stands in a garden, holding a flower and looking out of a window. THE VINES REQUIRED A GOOD DEAL OF ATTENTION THESE DAYS. course she did not read it all at one sitting, but whenever she left off she always marked a little crease with her thumb nail, and when she began again she was careful to note the mark. Chestnut street was not a populous one, and as it was in the outskirts of the town the pedestrians who passed No. 20 were few. Therefore the coming of the postman each day, aside from the Thursday which brought the newspaper, grew to be something of an event to Miss Mollie. On Thursdays she was always on the veranda waiting to receive the paper. She had learned the hour that the postman was due at No. 20 and he, being a very methodical and punctual young man (not so very young either, judging by the lines on the kindly face), was seldom late. Finally it became a habit with her to walk out on the veranda at a certain hour every day; but she was not conscious of the eagerness with which she watched for the ning of a well-known figure. He always glanced up, lifted his cap and with pleased smile said: "Good morning, Mollie." He knew that her name was Mollie Sparks, from seeing it at little slip on her newspaper. She seemed to be casually adjusting hips, picking off the dead leaves, looking after the comfort of the vines and birdie required total of attention these days, Mollie was not one to neglect duty. One Saturday morning Miss Mollie was thrown into quite a little flutter of excitement by seeing the postman turn, and come up the steps instead of pass- ing on after his usual greeting. It was not the day for the paper to arrive, when then could be bringing him? She dropped the dead leaves which she had just picked off the vines, instinctively smoothed her hair and came to meet him. The reason of his coming was soon explained by his holding out to her a letter. In her excitement (it was such an unusual occurrence for her to receive a letter) she failed to keep her hold on it as it left his hand, and it fluttered to the floor. Both reached for it, and in doing so their heads came into such proximity that a button on his cap caught in her hair. Miss Mollie laughed a little embarrassed laugh while she frantically tried to disengage the button. He laughed also, and joined in the endeavor to liberate his cap from the soft meshes of brown hair. Their hands came in contact and the touch sent a thrill through Miss Mollie that was both new and strange to her. When finally the cap was restored to its rightful head, Miss Mollie's face was crimson, and she hastened into her room to smooth her disheveled tresses and to quiet the rioting of her heart. She had quite forgotten the letter. When she did remember to open it she found it was from a distant relative whom she had not seen in years, and who had written merely a friendly inquiry as to her health. Every time Miss Mollie thought of the episode of the entangled button, which was quite often, she blushed at the remembrance of the thrill which she had experienced, and wondered if he had felt the same. Miss Mollie continued to appear on the veranda each morning, and occasionally now the postman would stop for a moment, on other days besides Thursdays, and remark about the weather, the beauty of the flowers or, when birdie was in an uncommonly hilarious mood, listen in silence and watch the soft flushes come and go on Miss Mollie's face, while a smile tremulously played about her lips. Gradually a subtle understanding grew between them. Both felt the bond, though no hint of it was ever voiced. A new interest had come into the life of each. Miss Mollie would hum little snatches of songs she had learned in her girlhood's days, while her fingers deftly wrought the dainty designs she was fond of embroidering. And often the "weekly" newspaper would lie on her lap unread while undefined but happy dreams brought a tender light into the soft brown eyes. As for him—his route no longer seemed monotonous. There was always now the anticipation or remembrance of the gentle presence as he passed the vine-clad cottage, and he also had dreams which were, perhaps, more definite than hers. He meant soon to ask permission to "call" some evening. So the days glided along full of sunshine and contentment. One particularly brilliant Thursday morning Miss Mollie had given unusual care to the arrangement of her hair, and of the little knot of ribbon at her throat, and she was conscious of looking uncommonly well, so there was an expectant little flutter in her breast while she busied herself with the vines and listened for the familiar step. But she was startled at hearing an unfamiliar step and seeing a stranger come upon the veranda and hand out to her the paper. An undefined fear clutched her heart, and her throat choked so that she could scarcely articulate the words: "Is he—the other—sick—has something happened?" "Yes'm," answered the new postman, without stopping, as he went down the steps. "There was an accident. He was trying to stop a runaway horse, and was run over and killed; at least he died in a little while, and they've sent him to his folks. They didn't live here." Miss Mollie caught and held to the railing of the veranda while everything seemed circling around her, then settled into the blackness of night. Finally she tottered into the house and fell across her bed. Alone she fought her battle with a great anguish; and in the days that followed, the shadows of a deep sorrow settled in the gentle eyes. For weeks she could not bear to hear the step of the new postman, and every day about the time for him to pass the little cottage she would go into a back room and shut herself in. And on Thursdays now Susan receives the paper. ENORMOUS LOSS IN WARS French Statistician Says 14,000,000 Men Have Been Killed During Last Century. A Frenchmen, wont to give most of his time to statistics, has just made a calculation showing that in the lest century 14,000,000 men were killed in war. He had read thousands of pages in history and spent more than three years in preparing his tables. In a preface to his little volume he suggests that the only really effective method to populate the world completely is for all nations to unite. suppress war for at least a century. When asked if he considered the fact that in many places the world was already overpopulated he had no ready reply. Another Frenchman, who has given the voluminous tables a great deal of study, says that if there had been no war in the last century the earth could not supply food enough for the population. Something of the development of the automobile as a public interest may be judged from the fact that 75 men, who collect and write the automobile news of New England, were entertained the other day by a Springfield automobile company. To keep the record straight let it be known that it is pronounced E-so-pus, with the accent on the "so." Facts in the Case Mrs. Sponser—John, didn't I hear you slipping upstairs at four a. m.? Mr. Sponser—Not on your life. That was when I slipped down after crawling halfway up—Butte Inter-Mountain THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Thursday, August 4. William O'Connor Morris, the famous Irish judge, died in London. During a downpour of rain at Bialystok, Russia, there was a regular shower of small fish. The engagement is announced of Count Camille de Borechgrave d'Altena to Miss Ruth Reilly, of Philadelphia. Governor Lanham was unanimously nominated for governor of Texas by the Democratic state convention at Houston. Monsignor Falconio, apostolic delegate to the United States, was a passenger on the steamer Sardegna, which arrived in New York from Genoa and Naples. Governor Blanchard, of Louisiana, has selected Miss Juanta Lalland, of New Orleans, to christen the battleship Louisiana, which is to be launched at Newport News on August 27. The Democratic state convention of Utah will meet on September 8 to nominate a full ticket. John Lyons was hanged at Paterson, N. J., for the murder of John Christian, a watchman at a silk mill. Dr. P. P. Ramsey, of Lynchburg, Va., has been elected president of King college, at Bristol, Tenn. He will accept the position. Edward Van Buren Hoes, a linear descendant of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States, is dead at Asbury Park, N. J. Saturday, August 6. Victor Metcalf, secretary of commerce and labor, is ill with stomach trouble at his Washington residence. The cruiser Des Moines, which recently completed its final acceptance trial, has been assigned to the European station. Fire destroyed the Pacific hotel, the whole business section and many residences at Kendrick, Idaho, entailing a loss of over $250,000. The wrecked steamer Hibernian, of the Allan line, is now at New York, where she will be repaired. She was ashore at Codroy, N. F. Monday, August 8. The New Jersey state Democratic convention will be held at Trenton September 15. Grounded electric wires, with which Officer Henry Bowman experimented at Allentown, Pa., came near killing him. The United States army transport Buford arrived at Seattle, Wash., from Alaska with seven companies of infantry. Bruce Knorr, aged 15, and Bert Williams, aged 14, were drowned in the Susquehanna river at Wilkesbarre, Pa., while bathing. Brigadier General John A. Wiley, of the Pennsylvania National Guard, has been appointed chief marshal of the parade on Pennsylvania day at the St. Louis Fair. Tuesday. August 9. Fire destroyed the Colonial distillery at Xenia, O., entailing a loss of $240,000. The New York Republican state convention will be held at Saratoga, September 14. The protected cruiser Milwaukee will be launched at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, September 10. The Pennsylvania railroad has laid off 12 freight crews at Harrisburg, Pa., owing to lack of motive power. A terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by hail, passed over Lancaster county, Pa., causing a heavy loss in crops. Clarence Elliott, of Wilmington, Del., has been arrested for using the mails for a fraudulent purpose, by sending out tips on race horses. Wednesday, August 10. Cardinal Satolli sailed for Rome after a visit of nearly eight weeks in this country. J. Lovell, jailed at Princeton, W. Va., for stealing, was shot and killed while escaping from jail. Daniel S. Lamont says he is not a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York. Southron P. Walker, of Maryland, consular agent at Gera, has been promoted to be consul at Leipsig, Germany. The plant of the American Refrigerator Transit Company at St. Louis, including 100 cars, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $250,000. Constable Henry F. Bierer, of Greensburg, Pa., was shot and fatally injured by three Italians he attempted to arrest for robbery. GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia—Floor steady; winter superfine, $1.2@3.40; Penna, roller, clear, $4.20@4.40; city mills, fancy, $5.60@5.70; Rye flour steady, at $1.5 per barrel. Wheat firm; No. 2, Penna red new, 95% @96%; corn firm; No. 2 penna new, 95% @96%; corn steady; No. 2, white clipped, 46%; steady, grades 45c. Hay firm; No. 1 timothy, large bales, $16@17; Pork firm; family, $17. Beef steady; beef hams, $20@21; Live poultry firm; hens, 14%@15c. ; old roosters, 9@10c. Dressed poultry steady; choice fowls, 14c.; old roosters, 9@10c. beef firm; creamy, 2 Eggs. New roost; Penna and Pena, 20c. dozen. Potatoes steady; new. 25@30c. per basket. Live Stock Markets. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburgh—Cattle slow; choice, $5.75@10:90; prime, $5.25@ $5.60; fair, $4.25; prime, $5.25 active; hair, $7.50; $7.50@10:90, $6.25@ $6.20; heavy Yorkers and light Yorkers, $6.25@6:35; pigs, $6.20@6:25 roughs, $4@5; Sheep lower; prime roughs, $4@5; common sheep $1.50@2; spring lambs, $3.50@6:25 calves, $6@5.0 INDUSTRIAL ITEMS The iron mines of Michigan give employment to 14,456 persons, and their products amount to $23,695,800. Calthiness, Ornley and St. Iain are Scottish counties in which wages are lowest. A plowman there still considers himself well paid at $3.25 a week. The mine owners of South Africa are entering into contracts with Chinese laborers to work in the mines of that coun- Mrs. Dr. Cornelia White try. Ships are already at Hong-Kong to convey these laborers to the field of operations. The contracts are guaranteed by the British authorities, and are for three years. During the years 1902 and 1903 there was an almost complete failure of the French sardine catch. This year, however, the indications point to a fine catch and the packers and exporters are hopeful for the first time since 1901. It now seems certain that the absence of sardines last year and the year before was due solely to the cold and boisterous spring. Briquette fuel is now extensively used in mines, mills, factories, smelting works, chemical works, etc., in all parts of Germany, and the results are said to be eminently satisfactory. For instance, experiments with lignite briquettes in a plain grate furnace resulted in the generation of five kilos, of steam per one kilo, of fuel, or a relative capacity of two to three compared with ordinary steam coal. According to a bulletin issued by the chamber of commerce of Cadiz, the production of cork in Spain is estimated at 28,450,104 pounds. Algeria and other cork-producing countries, together, about 20,321,940 pounds, making the world's total annual cork production 81,217,760 pounds. The export of cork in sheets from Spain in 1902 amounted to 1,535,400 pounds and in 1903 to 9,516,082 pounds. The quantity of manufactured corks for bottle stopping purposes from Spain in 1902 amounted to 2,032,115,000, valued at 30,347,000 pesetas, the figures for 1903 being 2,178,456,000, valued at 32,677,000 pesetas. OLD WORLD CELEBRITIES Stamp collecting has for some time been a great hobby of Mr. Alfred Austin, the poet laureate. When Gen. Kodama started for the front the other day from Tokio the mikado presented his favorite horse to him. Ernst Possart celebrated recently the fortieth anniversary of his first appearance in Berlin of Franz in Schiller's "Robbers." Emile Robin, the aged vice president of the French Society for the Saving of the Shipwrecked, assists similar societies in other countries. The earl of Balsbury has completed the ninth anniversary of his third appointment as lord chancellor. He is nearly 80 years of age. Mr. Chamberlain first wore a single eye-glass many years ago while acting the part of Puff, in the famous play called "The Critic," at some Birmingham theatricals. He found it suited his appearance, and continued to wear it off the stage. Albert, the reigning prince of Thurn and Taxis, is an ardent sportsman, and puts on a new suit of clothes every day. To his critical eye a coat once worn is in rags. Each of these garments is perfumed with attar of roses that costs no less than £19 4s. an ounce. In a year his serene highness wears about 1,000 cravats. Daniel Vierge, who died recently in Paris, and who was known as "the father of modern illustrations," was a Spaniard by birth. At the eighteenth birthday celebration of Victor Hugo he was strenken with paralysis, which rendered his right side powerless, but with rare courage and perseverance he trained his left hand and continued to the end to be at the head and front of modern illustrators. NOTES FOR NATURALISTS The quangga, a South African animal of the horse family, resembling the zebra, which was hunted out of existence by the Boers for its hide, appears to have become extinct in Cape Colony about the year 1865, while the last survivor of its kind, as far as is known, died in the London Zoological gardens in 1872. A remarkable paca-like rodent described by Prof. C. Peters, in 1870, under the name of Dinomys branicki, has been known by a single specimen found near a house in Lima, and this lone animal has represented not only a species, but a genus, and even a family by itself. Other specimens are now reported to be living in a Para museum. 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ITEMS OF INVENTION A Joliet man has invented a process for making steel beer kegs, using old rails. An improved machine for sealing envelopes has been invented by a man in Topeka, Kan. The machine, it is claimed, will seal from 8,000 to 15,000 envelopes per hour of any ordinary bulk. Mrs. Alice Galleher Sessums, wife of Rt. Rev. Davis Sessums, bishop of Louisiana, has received from the United States patent office letters patent covering an improvement upon the bookkin. Mrs. Sessums has already received three flattering offers for the patent. The lath and wire patent fencing is finding a competitor in an English make, in which chestnut palings replace the customary laths. The pales, it is asserted, are cleft with the grain from hard, slow-grown poles, and are supported on annealed galvanized steei wires. The American Inventor tells of a narcotic bpmb invented by a surgeon in the Austrian army, which may be fired from any gun. 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Drinking leads to the degeneration of tissues; it spoils the health and spoils the intellect. 5. All alcohol, and all things of an alcoholic nature, injure the nervous tissues pro tempore, if not altogether. You may quicken the operations, but you do not improve them. 6. There is a great deal of injury done to health by the habitual use of wines and alcohol in its various shapes, even in so-called moderate quantities. 7. A very large number of people in society are dying day by day poisoned by alcohol, but not supposed to be poisoned by it. 8. People are injured by drink without being drunkards. There is a point short of drunkenness in which a man may injure his constitution considerably by means of alcohol. 9. A man may drink day by day, and almost kill himself with drink, and even his near friends not know it. 10. I hardly know any more potent cause of disease than alcohol. There is disease of the liver, which is of very common occurrence, and then from disease of the liver we get disordered conditions of the blood, and consequent upon that we get diseased livers, we get a diseased nervous system, we get gout, and we get a diseased heart. 11. The error prevalent is that alcohol cures the disease, whereas the disease runs its physiological course irrespective of alcohol. 12. There is a great feeling in society that strong wine and strong stimulants make strength. A large number of people have fallen into that error, and fall into the error every day. Note.—The foregoing statements are taken from the evidence given by Sir William Gull before the select committee of the house of lords on intemperance. TEMPERANCE FACTS. Good resolutions may make good pavements, but something also is needed to keep them clean—Smith's Weekly. In Russia the government has appropriated over $1,000,000 to establish tea-houses and temperance pleasure-houses to win the people from drunkenness. In ten years, under high license, the city of Boston, Mass., increased its net indebtedness from $87,000,000 to $120,000,000, while its sinking fund increased about $6,000,000. In charging a jury at Lincoln, Neb., Judge Holmes warned them as follows: "I don't know that any of you are addicted to drink, but I want so say that no man can drink liquor and be fit to give justice in this court. I want none of you to frequent any saloon. I don't want to seem harsh, but if I hear that you are visiting the saloons during this term of court, I shall surely punish you." St. Louis Saloons. It is estimated by the St. Louis excise commission that there will be 300 more saloons in St. Louis this year than there were in 1903. The increase, it is said, will be due largely to the world's fair, during which the saloon-keepers expect to reap a harvest. The number of licenses already issued is 2,450, more by 150 than were given out in the last six months before January and July, of last year. Estimating the population of St. Louis at 700,000, this gives the city one saloon to every 54 male citizens. The revenue which will be derived during 1904 in license taxes from saloons is $1,143,000. Of this amount $1,300,000 will go to the city and $130,000 to the state. The saloon business in St. Louis, it is said, is almost entirely in the hands of Germans and Italians. Of the 2,450 saloons in the city they carry on all but about 300. During the last year several Greeks have engaged in the business. Out of the 2,450 saloons, the breweries are reported to control more than 2,000. The brewer pays the saloon-keeper's license or rent, and takes in return rebates on the beer sold. Striking Temperance Lesson. What a temperance lesson there is in the annual report of the trustees of the Boys' Industrial school at Lancaster, that 125, or nearly one-third, of the 420 boys committed to that institution during the past year, had in temperate parents. Not only does liquor drinking have an immediate effect upon the one who uses it, but the injury it does to the offspring of drunkards is frequently worse. — Cleveland Leader. FAITH'S POSTSCRIPT. It Awakened the Saloonkeeper to a Sense of His Soul-Destroying Business and Saved Her Father. A small child crossed the street timidly but swiftly, holding tightly in one hand a bright, shining beer pail. The early morning hour brought with it a sharpness which tinged her cheek with color. A passerby taking note of the sweet brown eyes, the curling ringlets about the tiny ears, the anxious look upon the pinched face, would have helped her on her way had she not proved too quick for him, says Kate Grey, in Union Signal. Faith paid no heed to anything about but passed through the swinging door into the saloon just ahead of her. A sleepy-looking man rose to his feet when he saw her. "Well," he said, "what will you have?" "It's on this paper in here, sir." Faith replied, pointing to the pail. The man took the pail from her, slowly drew out the paper and began to read it aloud: "Five cents' worth of beer. They write it out for you, did they?—Why, what's this?" he continued, "and no more. Say, miss, did you write this here last line?" Faith nodded. "I couldn't make it very plain, sir," she said. "Our teacher says we must be neat and—" "Never mind what your teacher says. I want to know what you mean by 'and no more.'" Faith hesitated. "Go on," urged the man. "I ain't gohn to scold you." "Well, it's this way," began Faith. "I meant we don't want papa to have any A man in a white apron reads a newspaper to a young girl in a dress. THE MAN SLOWLY DREW OUT THE PAPER AND BEGAN TO READ IT ALoud. more beer at all and so—and so—I just thought I'd write it on. Papa is good when he doesn't have beer, but he—" "Never mind," said the man. "I kin guess the rest. And so you don't want your pa to have any more beer. Five cents' worth ain't a-goin' to hurt him." "Yes, sir; but when he drinks five cents' worth of it, he sends me out for more." Faith replied. The man looked out of the window, thought a few moments, then turned to the counter and began to write busily. When he had finished he said: "Here, little gal, I know your pa. Take this to him. Here's your beer." Faith's face showed signs of disappointment. The man-glanced at her, then added: "Run along now. I guess you'll like what I wrote." As night came on Faith's mother again and again looked wistfully down the street. "It's pay night and the galoons will get father," she said to her little daughter. "O. Faith, child, what can we do? You're always a comfort to me, but since your father refuses to let you go to the L. T. L. meetings and won't let that nice lady who is your leader come to the house. I have lost all heart." Faith patted her mother's hand lovingly. Suddenly she cried: "Here comes papa now. O. mamma, he's coming in. He is coming in." she repeated, "and he has something in his hand. Her mother ran to the door, but stopped short at sight of her husband's face. "Oh," she breathed. "Are you sick? Speak to me." "Sick? Yes." was the reply. "Sick with my own sin and weakness, and I agree with the writer of this letter." His wife stared. "Read this," said her husband, "and read it good and loud, so Faith can hear." "My dear sir," read his wife, "you will excuse me for telling you that you ought to be ashamed of yourself, you had, and I ought to be ashamed of myself, I had. Thereafter, since I'm ashamed and you're ashamed (or ought ter be), let's quit for good and all for the sake of that little gal of yourn that you send for the beer. I had thought of quittin' for a good long time, and the gaze your Faith gave me this morning done me up complete. Yores truly, Michael Calium, saloonkeeper no more." And then a very surprising thing happened. Faith's father kissed her mother, in token of his new resolve, and then he called Faith to him and kissed her, and they all laughed and cried and laughed together. And all this took place one Saturday night, too, and just after pay time. The following night Falth's father and Michael Callum joined hands in a hearty hand-shake. The annual average consumption of liquor per capita in the United States is $19\frac{1}{2}$ gallons, while in prohibition Kansas it is less than two gallons. In 37 counties in Kansas there is not a criminal case on the docket. 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T.S. suffocating here, Count Bob- brinski." Miss Throckmorton said to her partner, at the end of the waltz; "please take me to some place where I can cool off." The affair was given by one of the social leaders of Farragut Square, in honor of Count Woldemar Bobrinski. This amiable young man was being lionized by Washington society that season. He was a Russian nobleman of great wealth and ancient lineage, said to stand in excellent favor with the czar. He was traveling in America that winter, and was just then the guest of the Russian ambassador at Washington. "Some great Russian writer says," began Lilian, as soon as he and she were safely ensconced in a cool and retired nook, "some great writer says—was it Tolstoi?—that you Russians do not possess the art of small talk is it true?" "Very likely Tolstoi said it, and very likely it is true," returned Woldemar, readily. He was prepared to uphold the reputation of his great countryman, and admit everything, if that would advance the other's esteem in foreign lands. Your genuine Russian is nothing if not patriotic. "Shall I give you a lesson?" asked the girl, her eyes playing brightly. "I shall be under great obligation," the young man replied, simply. "I have come here to learn, Miss Throckmorton," he added, with becoming humility. "You know, it is to the young west that the old east must turn for enlightenment," he explained. This young man spoke English almost per- I "A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS," SHE SAID, PRESENTLY. fectly, and his accent, if he had any, was discernible only to the critical ear—and one was not habitually critical in dealing with Woldemar. During the silent interval which followed, Lilian busied herself rearranging her gown—a very becoming pale cream creation of a celebrated modiste. Lilian Throckmorton was one of the fitting belles of the national capital. Daughter of a rich western mine-owner, she was that season the guest of the hostess of the evening. "A penny for your thoughts," said she, presently. The young man seemed absorbed at that moment. Whether it was the curls of the girl's fair hair, at which he was gazing abstractly just then, or the matter of small talk, in which, as a Russian, he was so inefficient, that occupied his mind, is problematical. Perhaps it was both these factors together, and possibly others besides. "Is not that bid rather rash?" bantered he with equal gayety. "Perhaps," returned the girl, with a deprecating gesture. "Still—" "Yes?" encouraged the young man, contemplating his companion's beautiful profile. "I'll risk it," announced the other, facing Woldmar with resolution in her splendid eyes. "On second thought, 'no!' said the count, determinedly. He twirled his mustache for a second, then continued: "I am willing to do this, Miss Throckmorton: I'll let you have my 'Mishka' if you make an accurate guess of what there is in my mind at this moment." "Mishka" was a fine specimen of a Russian wolfhound the young man had brought with him from his native land. Lillian considered. "I could not guess it in the wide world," said she, distressedly. "You might try," returned the other, insinuatingly. He was making a mental picture of that straight, small nose of hers, remarking that the Russian aristocratic lady is very apt to have her nose retrouse. The girl looked straight ahead of her for a moment, then: "You were thinking of some beautiful woman in St. Petersburg," said she, coyly. "Wrong!" sighed the count. "I was thinking of—" he cut off his intended breech abruptly. "Would you really be to know?" asked he, solicitously. Mallian's curiosity thus pricked, he," replied she softly. "I was thinking of some beautiful man here," returned the other, his leaves ablaze with passion. "My girl flushed a little. "I do not be thought ill-mannered," said she, "but I do confess to a certain curiosity." "Which is perfectly natural." Woldemar hastened to quench any scruples his companion might have, "considering that I am responsible for launching the subject." Poor man, he little knew the other's capabilities. "And so?" Miss Throckmorton raised her wonderful eyes to those of the young man. "And so, in her little hand"—he glanced cursorily at those of his companion, lying idly in her lap"—in her little hand she holds my happiness," said he with, considering the subject, wonderful self-possession. "What would you advise me to do?" asked he anxiously. Thus appealed to, Lillian remained thoughtful for a full minute. "If I knew the girl," said she finally, with characteristic innocence, "if I knew the girl—assuming that it is a girl—I might be able to advise." "As to that," returned the young man, craftily, "as to that, I'll venture to assure you that you do know her." "Perhaps," admitted the other, "but not intimately, and so I cannot advise." Before the young man could say anything, Lilian proceeded to explain: "You see, I have heard rumors," and she looked up at him radiantly. "Rumors!" echoed the count, concernedly. "Yes; rumor has it that you are very—very much in demand—over—in certain quarters," said the girl, with a toss of her fine head. "And so?" asked the young man, hopefully. "And so, with the field clear, and a welcome certain, I fail to see that you need any more advice," replied Miss Throckmorton gravely. The young man took the girl's fan, bent his head close to hers, and whispered in her shapely ear: "Shall I tell her that I love her?" Lilian smiled very amusedly. "I understood that you have done that already," said she pleasantly. "No, not directly," returned the other, resignedly. "Nor intimated it in any way?" pursued the girl, laughing musically. "I could not say positively as to that," replied he, naively. "It is possible that I have done so, however." "I dare say," remarked the girl, graciously. "Woldemar took a deep breath. "I cannot make her out," said he, dolefully. "You have my sincerest sympathy, my dear count," the other responded, piquantly. "She tolerates my company, is rather pleasant—but it is a far cry from this to love," continued he, lugubriously. Lilian answered with a peal of silvery laughter, displaying thereby the smallest and whitest teeth in the world. "I should utilize my first opportunity to make sure," advised she, light-heartedly. The young man looked devouringly on the girl by his side for a second "Have the goodness to answer that question," said he, seriously. "Oh!" came a small exclamation. A pair of blue eyes, matching the heavens in their purity, were raised in surprise and wonderment. "My dear count," said Lilian, admiringly, "my dear count, your cleverness forces itself upon my mind more and more persistently." Bobrinski sighed helplessly. "Does my love seem so ridiculous?" asked he, piteously. The girl colored crimson, in spite of herself. "Is it not a shame!" said she, sympathetically. "Most assuredly!" was the decided response. "What would you? We American girls are so heartless!" And Lilian looked very humble. "I am too old, I suppose," said the man, who was but 29. "No; perhaps you think me too young," replied the other, who was already 23. "Too young?" Woldemar raised his eyes questioningly at the girl's triangular face. "Too young to know things," explained Lilian. "I see!" The young man fanned his companion most violently. "What is it you know?" he whispered, softly, watching her small mouth for pearls to come forth. "The niece of the Russian ambassador—" began the girl, distantly. "A youthful affair," interrupted the other, shrinking his shoulders eloquently. "I had a youthful affair of my own," said the girl, irrelevantly. "I beg a thousand pardons," came from the nobleman, imploringly. "Granted a thousand times," returned the girl, queenly. "I shall remain true to that," continued she, with a far-away, dreamy look. "Of course." The Russian was silent for a moment. "How am I progressing?" he asked, with barely raised eyebrows. "Progressing?" queried the girl. "Yes, in small talk," explained the young man. "You are a wonderful adept," the teacher replied, admiringly. "Let us join the dancers." Was it merely small talk? Lillian asked herself later, in the privacy of her apartment. Thirty-one thousand, three hundred and eighty-three homestead entries were made in the northwest provinces of Canada in 1903; 64,000 homestead entries have been received in the northwest in the last three years, equal to 10,000,000 acres. The entries for 1903 were double the number of 1902 and as many as for three years previous. These 31,383 homestead entries mean an addition of 89,907 to the population. President Woodrow Wilson's remark to the Pennsylvania Bar association, that the law is no longer the learned profession it was once, carries with it the implication that somebody is to blame for this deterioration. The ignorance of the lawyer should be excused by no one. Hateful! Patience—Peggy had 22 candles in her birthday cake. Patrice—What was the matter? Wasn't the cake large enough to get any more in?—Yonkers Statesman. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND VIRGINIA. HEN WITH A RECORD VERMONT BIDDY HATCHES A BROOD OF EAGLES. Bessie Found Deserted Aerie and Encamped on Two Speckled Eggs —Didn't Like Result of Her Labor. Wilmer Eaton, of Shrewsbury, Vt., is willing to bet anything he owns that he has the prize setting hen of Vermont, or of any other state. The last setting adventure of Bessie (that's the Plymouth Rock's name) was startling, and there are no takers, and the town generally agrees with Eaton. Bessie has never hatched out any chicks of her own, as she has never been able to lay eggs that would hatch, but she has mothered the eggs of nearly every other kind of barn fowl that exists, and has brought up families of bantams, geese, ducks and even pigeon. So strong are her maternal instincts that it makes little difference to her what she has in her nest or where her nest is, so long as she can sit undisturbed and hatch something. Like Emily, the chronic setting hen in Owen Wister's novel, "The Virginian," Bessie's family instincts are abnormally developed, and when she isn't engaged in roosting on eggs she is rushing around in search of something on which to sit. She has even been known to rake together a lot of uncooked potatoes and keep them warm for a week, and has adopted kittens, mice and one litter of motherless flying squirrels. Whenever a farmer about has a setting of eggs he is particular about he takes them to the Eaton farm and turns them over to Bessie, for no matter what the season or how good the feeding happens to be, the hen will cluck with delight and immediately spread herself over the eggs. Once a man named Turner brought up some Leghorn eggs and left them in the back of an old buggy in Eaton's carriage barn. Eaton was not about, so he told Mrs. Eaton. She forgot where Turner had left the eggs and her husband hitched up his mare to CHICKEN TRYING TO HATCH POTATOES. the old buggy to drive over to Turner's place and find out. "I left 'em in the back of the buggy you're settin' in," chuckled Turner. And when they looked there were the eggs with Bessie encamped on them. But, says the New York World, all former accomplishments paled into insignificance last week when Bessie was found contentedly sitting on a pair of bald eagle's eggs high up the side of a cliff a half mile back of the farm. The eagles have nested in some dead wood on the face of the cliff for several years and have come to be looked for every spring. This year they had nested as usual, when a couple of city chaps, encamped on the shores of Cold River, took it into their heads to shoot the birds. They had little difficulty, but found it impossible to get at the eggs. They made two attempts, and on the second were astonished to look down upon the coveted nest and find a hen calmly sitting on the eggs. It had been easy enough for the fowl to get there, but the reason she did it was baffling. The boys had never heard of Bessie, but a neighbor of Eaton's to whom they told the story had, and he communicated with Eaton. The later feared that Bessie would starve this time and so he investigated. He found his prize hen keeping the eggs warm and tried to lasso her, but couldn't, and compromised by lowering a box of feed in front of her noose. This was done several times until the young eagles were hatched. Just what to do with the youngsters puzzled the hen, as they didn't take kindly to grain. She was in a great stew when one of the boys volunteered to be lowered over the cliff and rescue the entire family. When the nest was brought up, the youngsters were carried to the farm, where they were put in a cage and fed. Bessie visited them regularly until the young eagles turned on her one day and scratched out some of her feathers. At this she deserted, went into the pantry and an hour later was found sitting on a bowl of china eggs. Small Farms in Denmark Most of the farms in Denmark are from five to 25 acres, and are owned by the peasantry. About half of the land is in oats, hay, pasture and root crops for the horses, milch cows and sheep. In proportion to her size. Denmark has more cattle than any other country in Europe. Jap Children Learn English English is taught in the public schools of Japan. The Japanese youths in the towns and cities are all eager to learn English, as a passport to wealth, position and employment. Exchange of Confidences. "Instead of being a millionaire," conided the young man at the seaside hotel to the beautiful heiress, "I believe it is only honest, now that we are engaged to tell you that I am the floorwalker at Catechem & Skinem's dry goods emporium." "I thought there was something familiar about you," answered the beautiful heiress, "I am in the ribbon department there."—Tii-Bits. The Elements of Happiness. She—I've just seen Mrs. Lovebird—she who was married last month, you know? He—Is she happy? She—Happy? I should say she was, and so she ought to be. She's got the loveliest diamond ring, a new set of furs and a silver-mounted bike.—Ally Sloper. . "What did she say when you told her I was out?" "She said to tell you she didn't call."—Chicago American. Teamster—You're a agent for the S. P. C. A., ain't you? Deacon De Good—Yes. "And you're a church member, ain't you?" "Yes." "Well, if you had a balky horse, what would you do—beat the horse, or just sit down and cuss?"—N. Y. Weekly. June 19, 1904 C & O 2 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk. LEAVE RICHMOND—EASTBOUND. 7:30 a.m.-daily—Local to Newport News Old Point and way stations. 6:00 p.m. 19.000 bury 8 36 a.m. Newport 8 36 a.m. old Point 11 1 a.m. nord, Norfolk 11 12 a.m. 4:00 p.m. — Daily — Special — Arrives Will liamburg 4:56 p.m. Newport News 5:38 p.m. Old Point 6:00 p.m. Norfolk 6:28 p.m. 5:00 p. m.-Daily-Locals to Old Point and Norfolk. NORFOLK LINE-WESTBOUND. 8:50 m. m.-Daily to Charlotteville and Except Sunday to Clifton Fortress. 2:50 p.m. — Daily — Special to Cincinnati, Louis St. Louis, St. Louis and Chicago 5:45 p.m. 10:45 p. m.-Daily-Limited. Local to Orange. 10:45 p. m.-Daily-Limited. Local to Encinnati. Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago. JAMES RIVER LINE 10:26 a. m. m.-Daily-Limited. Lynchburg, Lexington, New Castle, Clifton Forge and principal stations. 6:15 a. m. weekdays. Weekdays to Emmont. TRAINS 11:45 a. m. trains. Trains to Norfolk and Old Point 8:45 a. m. m., daily. 11:45 a. m., daily. 7:30 p. m. daily and 10:25 p. m. From Chicagoui and West 7:30 a. m. daily and 8:30 p. m. daily. Main Line-Local from Clifton Forge 8:10 p. m. Ex. Sun. Ex. Sun. James River Local from Clifton Forge 6:35 p. m. daily. Esmont Accoun. 8:40 a. m. Ex. Sun. DOYLE C. K. DOYLE. W. O. WARTHEN. Gen'l Manager. Dist. Fass. Art SOUTHERN RAILWAY Effective May 29th, 1904 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. 7:00 a.m. - Daily. 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It is printed on regular sheep-mine paper, from new plates made from large, clear type, in classic colored titles, and is in every way first-class. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....AUGUST 13, 1904 RELIGIOUS MATTERS GOD IN NATURE. MANLINESS. Christianity, Instead of Emasculating Man, Produces the Highest Type of Manhood. Christianity emasculates no man, makes no man effeminate, depreciates no manly virtue. There is nothing that puts no much iron into the blood, nothing that tones and builds up the manly nature; nothing that inspires and sustains the virtues of manliness; nothing that emphasizes and exalts manliness, as does Christianity. The purpose, the incarcerate idea of Christianity, is to make magnificent manhood, to make men like Christ, the maniest of all men, says Isaac W. Grimes, Ph. D., in Baptist Union. The denial of oneself is a cardinal teaching of Christianity. This impresses him who studies the life and words of its author—Christ Jesus; and the denying of oneself demands a greater manliness, more heroism and bravery than ever was displayed in coliseum contest, hippodrome race, or battlefield struggle. To keep your body under, its appetites and desires in subjection, to deny yourself gratification to which avenues of access are open to you, to face the cutting sarcasm of an enemy and utter only words of love and forgiveness, to be reviled and not revile, to be injured and not retaliate, to toil, suffer and sacrifice to uplift and bless those who recompense you not infrequently with a curse and a kick; in other words, to be and live a Christian life, insures a field for the development of manliness such as is to be found nowhere else in the world. If a man is seeking a means by which manliness may be developed and sustained; if he wants an arena in which to display bravery, herolism, loyalty to truth, to right, to duty, there is none such as Christianity offers. MEDITATIVE MOMENTS A man is never too poor to send a prayer dispatch - Ram's Horn. Half the power of a prayer meeting is in its preparation.—Ram's Horn. Your altitude with men depends on your attitude with God.—Ram's Horn. Many pray for prosperity and then prey to prosper.—United Presbyterian. There's no use praying for power unless you are ready to apply it.—Ram's Horn. There is a solution for the prayer meeting problem worth trying, and that is prayer.—Congregationalist. There never will be a poor prayer meeting so long as there is one heart rich with gratitude.—Ram's Horn. Excessive familiarity in prayer is illustrated in a story Principal Forsyth tells of a man who began his prayer thus: "Now, Lord, we have come to have a chat with Thee."—Congregationalist. A Prayer to Be Honest. The earl of Hopetown, in Scotland, has in his possession an old, brass-bound leather-covered ledger which he prizes very highly. It belonged to John Hope, the founder of the family, who kept a shop in Edinburgh 200 years ago. The first entry in that ledger reads as follows: "O Lord, keep me and this bulk honest!" If every merchant since had adopted John Hope's practice, there would certainly be a much higher standard of commercial morality than at present exists in the business world.—Ram's Horn. Truth Inviolable "Impossible for God to lie," says the author of the Book of Hebrews. It is not that God prefers to be truthful, but that falsity is incompatible with the very nature and essence of the idea of God. There must be absolute stability, perfect sureness, something to tie to somewhere. This we find in God. And man was made in the "image of God," yet we find men defending "white lies," and even black ones! To countenance falsehood is to deface the image of God, and to defame God Himself.-S. S. Times Kindling Fires. Theodore Cuyler found Mr. Moody laboring in a mission-room in the city of Brooklyn. With him was a handful of plain people. Dr. Cuyler whispered to him: "Slow work, this, is it not?" Mr. Moody looked at him and said: "Did you ever light a fire? I am lighting my fire;" and he kindled it to such good purpose that anon it blazed over two continents. THE THEOSCOPE. An Instrument or Rather Condition of Mind and Heart Which Needs Man. We have the microscope for seeing line, the telescope for seeing far, the spectroscope for seeing the dark lines of many material substances in the light, the stethoscope for perceiving, not by the eye, the internal state of the breast; and various other scopes for perceiving various things. But what we need most of all is a thescope for seeing God writes Bishop H. W. Warren, in Christian Work. This is a legitimate field for scientific research with suitable instruments. We need not wait till this muddy vesture of decay is taken off, as Job said in despair of present vindication, "Without my flesh shall I see God," for Moses but expressed a desire in accordance with human possibility when he said: "I beseech Thee show me Thy glory." History had told him that the Lord had appeared under various forms unto Adam, Abram, Isaac, Jacob and others. But Moses wanted to see the real essence. For that there must be waiting, but in the denial: God offered to make His goodness pass before him. And He did, to the great irradiating of his face. For such vision human eyes are not adequate. Elisha knew that the organs for seeing spiritual existences existed and only needed unveiling when he said: "I pray thee the eyes" of the young man. The Lord of all spiritual realms asserted the same fact when he said: "The pure in heart shall see God." This "shall" has an assertive or imperative rather than a future force. This is a common significance. The verb optimal, from which this opsital, "shall see," comes, does not mean to see with eyes exclusively, but it means to perceive with the mind, to know, as Acts 8:23: "I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity;" Col. 2:18, seen with feeling of reverence. (American Version note.) John 3:11 and 32, seen with spiritual organs. John 16:16. Ye shall see Me spiritually present after My body has departed. It also means to become acquainted with by experience. John 3:36, not experience life. Luke 17:22. Not know by experience one of the days of the Son of Man. It also means to take heed to, to see it. Matt. 27:4. See to your betrayal of innocent blood yourself. Also verse 24. See to it yourselves. Acts 18:15. See to the effect of your own law. In these senses, then (a) to perceive with the mind, (b) to know by experience, (c) and then to reverently take heed to, man may see God. What is the instrument, the theoscope? Prof. Agassiz once approached the instrument of a celebrated microscopist, but paused and said: "Tell me what I am to see." The microscopist, delighted, answered: "You are a man after my own heart. You recognize that there must be a prepared mind to enable the eye to see rightly." We shall see what we expect or desire to see. Thousands have eyes but see not the things that are visible to others. A cold critic, gazing on one of Turner's gorgeous pictures of sky in which God made the outgoing of the morning and evening rejoice, said: "I never see such colors in the sky as you paint." "Don't you wish you could?" said Turner. "I never can begin to paint what I see." To some A primrose by the river's brim And it is nothing more. To another every common bush is a flame with God. So the first qualification is desire and expectancy. Then one is anxious to be taught, like Agassiz, by artists already qualified. How many of them there are. What a choice selection of the results of their seeing is recorded in the Bible. The instrument of this theoscope is the heart. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and this rightness is the purity in heart that enables one to perceive God. As the patriot thrills to see his country in the flag; the bride to see covenanted constancy of love in a ring; the Christian to see Divine love even unto death in the cross, so the pure in heart have a theoscope to see God in everything that He has made. How the Bible seers saw Him. The heavens declare glory of God and the firmament showeth His handwork. He bringeth the rain. He causeth the grass to grow. He giveth to the beast his food. How the hymns roll the rhythm of His presence in nature till the morning stars sing together and all the universe is one Eolian harp swept by the breath of God. The harp at nature's advent strung Has never ceased to play; The song the stars at morning sung Has never died away. How the world, human history, and one's individual experience are all glorified when God is perceived, even dimly, in them all. The full revelation is not yet. with his marvelous certain of oure and gold. The full revelation of God, when we awake in His liness and see Him as He is, must be expected, desired and prepared for here. After our theoscope, which has been made by the best artist, has been used to perfection by an expectant soul till God is pavilioned in every splendor, breathed in every rose, and all nature sings His boundless love, then we may say: Oh, the hour when this material Shall have vanished like a cloud, When amid the wild ethereal. Vision is not always dependent upon altitude. We can see farther from our knees with our eyes shut than from our steeples with our eyes open.-United Presbyterian. Paying Him Back. "Was that your wife with you last evening?" "Of course it was. Whose wife did you think it was?" "Yours. She didn't look to me like a wife that anyone would care to borrow."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA World's Fair Visitors The pavilion erected by the Frisco Rock Island Systems at Main Entrance of the World's Fair is surely a place of no little interest, in fact, it is one of the many attractions. Visitors to the World's Fair are cordially invited to inspect the Frisco-Rock Island System building. Here will be found a place of rest, courteous attention, besides, there will be distributed, free of cost, souvenirs and descriptive literature of the Great Southwest. The reader will, undoubtedly, overlook a very important attraction in case of failure to visit the Frisco-Rock Island System pavilion. Remember, Main Entrance World's Fair. New Healing Powers in the Waters at Eureka Springs, Ark. It would seem that new properties have been discovered in the waters at Eureka Springs, Ark., particularly adapted to assisting in the curing of the drug and liquor habits. These new properties have led to the establishment of a large and splendidly appointed Sanitarium, where these diseases (if they may be called such) are treated. A large and commodious hotel has been fitted up comfortably and every attention is given to patients. The Sanitarium is in charge of a skilled corps of specialists in some remarkable cures are being made. Sanitarium is in charge of Dr. C. A. Red, and this gentleman in vita correspondence on all troubles of th nature. Excursion tickets are sold from all points on the FRISCO SYSTEM at very low rates. Fertile Valley of the Mississippi. While it is true Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Texas invite the Home-seekers and others in search of a profitable investment and business competency, there is another field along the Frisco System quite recently opened to those interested in a personal betterment of financial resources. On June 1st, the line of railroad herefore known as the St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern (now Frisco System), was extended to St. Louis, thus making a territory in Missouri and Arkansas, along the west bank of the Mississippi River, accessible by way of St. Louis. The present service consists of passenger train leaving Union Station 7:10 a.m. daily for Cape Gardean, Luxora, Carruthersville and intermediate points to Memphis, also the Cape Gardean accommodation (daily), leaving Union Station 4:20 p.m. Some years since, perhaps a quarter of a century, this section was avoided by reason of want of development or progressiveness; now, however, it is considered equal, as the homeseeker and investor may measure, to Oklahoma, Indian Territory or Texas. The change in condition throughout was accomplished by large governmental expenditure, a progressive extension and extended railroad facilities promoted and maintained by the Frisco System, operating, as it does, nearly 700 miles of railway in the immediate Mississippi Valley, less than 300 miles distant from St. Louis. The soil is exceedingly fertile, crops invariably abundant, timber interests extensive and resourceful. Those desiring additional particulars will receive immediate response. Address, Passenger Traffic Department. FRISCO SYSTEM. SAINT LOUIS. The Most Attractive Route to the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., is via the Southern Railway, through "The Land of the Sky"—Eron Richmond to St. Louis without Change of Train. The Southern Railway has on sale at Richmond and all stations on its lines very low rate excursion tickets to St. Louis, Mo., account the World's Fair. These tickets embrace stop over privileges between Salisbury and Morris town, which includes the famous mountain section of Western North Carolina, Asheville, Hot Springs and "The Land of the Sky." Elegant day coaches, through Pullmans and Dining Car Service of the highest standard of excellence. For detailed information, apply to your nearest Southern Railway Ticket Agent. F. H. Jackson. Chas. T. Wiliams JACKSON & WILLIAMS THE STAR BEER & Beef, Pork, Veal and Lamb 101 W. Jackson St., Richmond, Va. Fresh Country Eggs and Butter. Fine Butter a Specialty. SEABOARD SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY Short Line to Principal Cities of the South and Southwest, Florida, Cuba, Texas and Mexico Schedule in Effect April 17th, 1904 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND-MAIN STATION-DAILY 2:20 p. m.—"SEABOARD MAIL," composed at latest improvement, Pullman Sleeper, High of Hamlet, Atlanta, Cair, to Henderson, Raleigh, Southern Nice, Hamlet, Pinehurst, Atlanta, Cam- den, Columbia, Savannah, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and Tampa. 10:30 p. m.—"SEABOARD EXPRESS," composed of day coaches, Pullman Cars to Atlanta, Jacksonville and Cam- den, Cape Cay, Hamlet, To Housersee, Raleigh, Southern Pines, Hamlet, Pine- hurst, Atlanta, Camden, Savannah, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Tampa, and New York. 9:10 a. m.-Local for Northam, Hamlet and Charlotte. TRAINS ARRIVE RICOMM-DAILY. 6:35 a. m.-No. 24, from Florida, Atlanta, and the Southwest. 4:55 p. m.-No. 66, from Florida, Atlanta and the Southwest. 5:30 p. m.-No. 66, from Northam and Local Points. W. M TAYLOR, City Ticket Agent. H. S. 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ELLY, Plaintiff, vs CHARLES C. ELLY, Defendant. IN CHANCERY. The object of this suit is to obtain for the Plaintiff against the Defendant a divorce a vinculo matrimonii. And an alfidavit having been made and filed that the Defendant is a non- resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he do appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order, and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest here in. Teste: SAMUEL P. WADDELL, Clerk. JACKSON, Attorney. Please take notice that I shall on the 5th, day of October, 1904, at the office of Giles B. Jackson, No. 528 E. Broad St., in the city of Richmond, Va., between the hours of 9 A. M. and 6 P. 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"To the cook!" roared his father; "that's still worse!"—Spokane Chronicle In order to promote circulation and to create additional interest, we have decided to make the Knights of Pythias, pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge, costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges, apply at the main office. a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones in this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all ha could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $0.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court Band in your neighborhood, organize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department, address. For all information concerning special rates of membership in our information address, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAKS. F.C.B. A hand holding a plant with leaves and flowers. 311 North Fourth St., Richmond, Va. This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick days. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes MRS. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond, Va JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, V