Richmond Planet
Saturday, September 10, 1904
Richmond, Virginia
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THE RICHMOND PLANET
VOL. XXI NO. 40.
METHODIST CHURCH ACTS PROMPTLY.
LYNCHERS CALLED TO CONFESS.
They Must Leave the Church or Express Penitence.
Statesboro, Ga., Sept. 7.—The Methodist Episcopal Church has passed resolutions unanimously calling on every participant in the lynching of Reed and Cato last month to resign membership in the church unless "a public confession of wrong be made with expression of penitence and contrition." The resolutions denounce the burning of the negroes in very strong language, and state that the church wishes to be put on record as unalterably opposed to mob violence, calling it "a shameless violation of law."
The Rev. Whitley Langston, who at the court of inquiry gave names of several participants in the mobbing and has been strongly censured by citizens, is upheld and commended in the resolutions for his "Christian conduct."
Whipped His Aged Mother to Death. Wheeling W. V., Sept. 5. — Ambrose Dalton, a young farmer living near Hurricane, W. V., whipped his aged mother to death. He is now under arrest and feels runs high against him.
Two Miners Fatally Burned.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 5.—Joseph Gabriel and Joseph Wutshock were fatally burned and two others seriously injured an explosion of gas at No. 4 colliery at Edwardsville, near here
St. John's Institute.
St. John's Institute, North First St. will open its nineteenth year of active educational work on Thursday, September 15th, 1904, from Kindergarten to High School. Special branches of needlework, plain and artistic will also be taught. Tuition payable in advance. Number of scholars for admission strictly limited. Pupils will be offered September 13th and 14th from 10 A. M. to 12 noon. For terms and information, apply to the Principal.
Saint Lukes Active.
The Supreme Grand Council, Independent Order of St. Lakes is very active at present. At their regular annual session held in this city on August 23d, the reports showed a great increase in membership Miss Jenkins, Chief of Scottsville Division set apart two councils in Buckingham Co., and has two clubs on hand in Flavanna County. Mrs. Belle Christian and Grand Deputy J. Thomas Hewin made a trip to Baltimore last week to confer with the St. Lukes of Maryland, the result of which the two bodies will meet next year at Urbana, and a form one Grand Council. Mrs. Rosa Bowser, expecting to set apart two councils in Amelia County soon. The fact that the two bodies will unite next year has caused great rejoicing among the members of the Supreme Grand Council. The membership of the Order is entirely doubled.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Capital Lodge, No. 81 was instituted at the Pythian Castle in this city last Wednesday night by Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., assisted by Grand Master-At-Arms S. S. Baker, Past Chancellor James S. Forrester, Capt. Charles Steward, Past Chancellors Wm. E. Mitchell, B. P. Vandervall and others. This lodge was organized through the efforts of Col. E. R. Jefferson and the Grand Chancellor commended him highly.
The following officers were installed: C. C., I. E. Jackson; V. O., W. S. Forster; M. of W., W. C. Scott; K of R. & S., P.A Chappell; M. of F. W. F. Denny; M. of Ex., Charles H. Wells; Prelate, Rev. L. J. Morris; M. at A, Thomas E. Johnson; I. G., Charles Johnson; O. G. Peter Morris; Trustees, A. Beverly, Oliver Robinson and Colin T. Payne.
After the initiation, a bounteous repast was spread. The candidates were as well pleased as were the members who initiated them. Past Chancellor Wm. Custalo assisted Col. Jefferson in getting this lodge in shape and much of the success is due to his efforts.
Fine Company Organized
Pocantastas, Va., Sept. 5, 1904.
A Company of the Uniform Rank,
Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E.,
A., A. and A., was organized here last
Saturday night by Brigadier General
John Mitchell, Jr., assisted by Col. E.
R. Jefferson, Assistant Surgeon General,
with a membership of 39. The visitors were met at the train by Deputy
G. C., D. C. Johnson, Sir P. H. White,
Prof. S. A. Hance and others. They
are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
Johnson at their cosy new home, during their stay here.
The following are the officers of the company which will be known as Pocahontas Company, No. 23: Capt. K. S. Thompson; 1st Lieut., A. S. Thompson; 2nd Lieut., R. L. Jackson; Sir K. Recorder, S. A. Hance; Sir K. Treas., U. S. G. Freeze; Sir K. Guard, C. T. Davis; Sir K. Sentinel, S. L. Brown.
The men will proceed at once to uniform themselves. Mr. Mitchell spoke at the Methodist Church here Sunday morning and at the First Baptist Church Sunday night. Rev. D. W. Lewis of Lynchburg's pastor here now.
PYTHIANS ENTER RURAL RETREAT.
The Grand Chancellor Speaks—Grand Times There.
Rural Retreat, Va., Sept. 3, 1904
Grand Chancellor John Mitchell,
Jr., organized a lodge of Knights of
Pythias here last night with a membership
of 27. This is the first and only
secret organization that has ever
secured a foothold here. Sir J. F. Ben-
ley of Pulaski did the work under the
guidance of Rev W. E. Mitchell. Special
Deputy Grand Chancellor, who is
doing all in his power to spread Pythianism in this section. District Deputy
Grand Chancellor W. E. Williams of
Pulaski also paid us one visit and
lectured here.
Grand Chancellor Mitchell spoke to a
full house at the Methodist Church
here, entertaining the people with a
fine address for over an hour. He was
accompanied by Col. E. R. Jefferson of
Richmond, District Deputy R. M. Petus of Rafford, Special Deputy G. C. W. E. Mitchell, Sirs Nick Baker, William Winston of Pulaski.
The Grand Chancellor and Col. Jefferson were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bentley and they were outspoken in praise of the treatment received there. The initiation took place at Perry's Hall. The new lodge will be known as Summit Lodge, No. 80. The following are the officers installed. C. C., A. Davis; V. C., Edward Richardson; P., Rev. S. H. Hall; M. of W., J. F. Bentley; K. of R. and S., Willie Howard; M. of F., Pearl Richardson, M. of Exchequer, Charles M. Henderson: M at A., Charles Coffee; I. G., W. O. Richardson; O. G., Charles Russell, Jr. Trustees: Calvin Murphy, John F. Bentley, Stewart Richardson, Attendants, James Coffee, James Murphy, James Henderson, Henry Wilds. A repast was served after the initiation. Grand Chancellor Mitchell left this morning for Pulaski, Va. where he will visit Deputy G. C., W. E. Williams, who is sick.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS PARADE.
Uniform Rank Observes Anniversary A Fine Display.
The First Regiment, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythiias Col. Thomas M. Crump, commanding observed its anniversary Wednesday Aug. 31 by a magnificent street parade. The Municipal Band furnished music. The body assembled at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. 3d St.
Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr, accompanied by his staff led the procession. Those in line were Col. Jno. R. Chiles, Chief of Staff; Col. D. A. Ferguson, Ass't Adjunct General; Col. Jesse Scruggs, Ass't Commissary General; Col. D. Wade Johnson, Brigade Signal; Col. E F. Robinson, Master Mastering General; Col. E J. Jefferson, Asst. Sergeon General; Col. Thomas Smith, Asst. Quarter-master General; Col. Benjamin Scott, Asst Inspector General.
Maj. John J. Bly and Major R. S. Nelson, aides-de-camp
Eureka Co, No. 1, First Lieutenant Jesse Randall, commanding, Planet Co. No. 8 and Blooming Lily Co, No. 11, Cant, Charles Steward, commanding,
The Boy Cadets, Capt. Roscoe C. Mitchell, commanding wore their new uniforms for the first time and were much praised for their skillful menerves. The parade moved at about 6.30. As the night came on, the streets were illuminated with red fire placed at convenient intervals. Upon the return to the Pythian Castle, the whole front was one blaze of rich yellow light from the clusters of incandescent electric lights on the front. The Sir Knights and officers were addressed by the Brigadier General, "Col. E. R. Jefferson, Col. Benjamin Scott and Col. T. M. Crump. A repast was served by Capt. W. Henry Jones, Capt. John G. Smith and their assistants, in the electrically lighted dining hall. The members were jubilant and the public was outspoken in its approval. The order and discipline were perfect.
Plea for Negro Reformatory
Richmond, Va., Aug. 27th, 1904.
Editor of the PLANET:
The writer was highly honored this week in being one of a quartette, composed of our excellent Gov. Montague.
Pengressman John Lamb and Dr. Frazer.
Zion University, where interesting visit to the Negro Reformatory near Hanover Court House, where
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1904.
we were met by its President, John Snythe and driven two miles to this noble institution. A visit will dispel all doubts of the "Thomases" as to the proper care of these boy criminals under age, seven to sixteen years.
To many "seeing is believing." Thereore allow me to again urge your good people to pay this place a visit, feel sure of its effect. A noble good man gave 1800 acres of fine land. What they need and in fact want is the milk of human kindness along with further means (dollars and cents). We believe the Negro Reformatory is doing a great and noble work. I have appealed to all alike, white and black to come up to the help of the Lord in this matter, and believe me.
Yours respectfully.
LUTHER B. VAUGHAN.
Personals and Briefs
Mrs. John A. Brown, of Charlottesville, Va., called on us.
Mr H. L. Jackson of Blackstone, Va., called on us.
Deputy Grand Chancellor C. B. Brown and Sir S. A. Smith of Covington, Va., called on us.
Rev. S. H. Smith of Boston, Mass., was in the city this week.
Mr. James Richardson, Supt. of the Almshouse at Elizabeth City, Va., is attending the Grand Session of the Reformers. He visited our office this week and expressed himself as being well pleased with the Planet. He assured us that his name would always remain on our list of subscribers.
Mr. M. W. Byrd and M. W. Ida Hill of Central Point, Va., called on us.
Miss Mary E. Scott has returned to the city after a pleasant visit to her cousin, Mrs. C. H. Watts of Natural Bridge, Va., and friends of Glasgow and Indian Rock, Va.
Sir A. V. Brown, Chancellor Commander of Pioneer Lodge, No. 2$ Lynchburg Va., was in the city this week. He reports his lodge in good working condition.
Messrs. Charlie Hall, Cleveland Mc Dowell, and Irving Reynolds of Covington, Va., visited our office this week.
Mr. Jacob Johnson of Vasti Lodge, No 1, K. of P. of Wilmington, N. C. called on us this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Farrell were in the city this week visiting relatives and friends.
Mr. R. A. Jackson, now conducting a printing establishment at Atlantic City, N. J., was in the city this week, visiting his relative and friends.
Sirs S. A. Smith, O. B. Brown and C. H. Miller of Covington, Va., were in the city this week.
Mr. Wm. P. Allen of Lynchburg, Va., was in the city this week.
Rev. P J. Mitchell of Washington, D.C. in company with Mr. B. H [Peyton called on us.
Mr. J. E. Archer of Newport News, Va., was in the city last week. He was enroute to Chesterfield, Va., to visit his father.
Mr. W. S. Thomas of Clifton Forge, Va., passed through the city last week enroute home.
Mr. James W. Sherron of Norfolk, Va., was in the city this week.
Mrs. Evalina B. Holland, Mrs. Louisa P. Iroy and Mr. Walter Williams of Providence, R. I., called on us.
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Phelps Hall Bible Training School. Connected with the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., offers exceptional opportunities to young men wishing to prepare for the Christian ministry.
The chief aim of the Bible Training School is to give young colored men and women a comprehensive knowledge of the entire English Bible and to implant in their hearts a noble ambition to dedicate their lives to the elevation and Christianization of their people.
The students are required to do missionary work in the various churches and Sunday Schools near the Institution. In this way they have been very helpful to the neighboring communities.
The teaching of the Bible School is wholly undenominational, the intention being not to oppose or antagonize any theological work now being done, but rather to assist all denominations.
Phelps Hall, the building in which the school is taught, was given by a generous New York friend. It is a frame structure three stories high, containing a chapel, library, reading room, and the office of the Dean, with three recitation rooms; besides forty rooms for corrugative purposes.
Rev. Edgar J. Penney is the Dean. He is assisted by Rev. E. P. Johnson and Rev. J. H. Cadson. Rt. Rev. Geo. and Dinton, of Charlotte, N. C., and Dr. H. T. Johnson, of Philadelphia, Pa. deliver regular courses of lectures during the term. Rev. Moses Jackson, of the Presbyterian Church, Chicago, delivered a special course of lectures during the past term.
The teaching is free. The cost of board, including furnished room, light, fuel, washing, etc., is $8.50 per month.
Students will be given an opportunity to work out from $1.50 to $3.00 of this amount, thus leaving only from $5.50 to $7.00 to be paid in cash. In some cases arrangements may be made so that students may work out the whole amount. Lack of means need debar none.
For further information address BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Prin. Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Institute,
THE JAPANESE ARE PURSUING KUROPATKIN
Russian Retreat Impeded by Heavy Roads and Floods.
BURNED BRIDGES BEHIND THEM
Oyama's Forces Are Following Step By Step, and Rear Fighting Is Continuous—General Attack On Port Arthur Expected.
Tokio, Sept. 7.—It is officially announced that a portion of the Russian force remains at Ying-Shui-Su, south of Yental, where the bulk of the Russian army is assembled.
It was reported earlier in the day that Kuroki had occupied ental. There is no doubt, however, that he is in the neighborhood of the place.
Retreating Under Heavy Pressure.
Mukien, Sept. 7.—A Russian correspondent of the Associated Press supplies the following:
"Our retreat is being carried out under heavy pressure and with the Japanese on our heels. The task is additionally difficult owing to the terrible condition of the roads and the rivers, which are flooded.
"The fighting has now been almost continuous since August 24, and how much longer it will last it is impossible to say, as the initiative is in the hands of the Japanese.
"The number of lives sacrificed and the loss of supplies by burning, bridges being blown up, etc., can only be explained when we once more have concentrated, and this will occupy us for Bulk of Russian Army at Yentai.
NO NEWS FROM KUROPATKIN
Intense Anxiety Prevails Throughout Russian Empire.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 7.—There has been no news from General Kuropatkin since Monday afternoon. This is attributed to the interruption of direct communication with the commander-in-chief, owing to the transfer of the telegraph office to Mukden, whither messages have to be sent by courier.
The utmost confidence prevails at the war office that the Russian army is slowly but surely effecting the retreat without serious risk of being cut off. None the less intense anxiety is felt throughout the whole nation, and this feeling is shared by the emperor. His majesty is unwilling at such a juncture to absent himself from Peterhof and has countermanded all proposed journeys. He will not go to Warsaw or Libau, and remains closed for hours with his military advisers.
It is believed that the outcome of these deliberations will be an order to mobilize several more army corps.
A Russian correspondent of the Associated Press sent a message from Mukden Tuesday evening, more than 24 hours after the dispatch of General Kuropatkin's last published message. This correspondent gives no details of the retreat, and the ceasor is probably not allowed to authorize the transmission of this news until the commander-in-chief sends his report.
The correspondent points out in his dispatch that the Russian forces are followed step by step by the Japanese and are greatly impeded by heavy roads and floods. He adds:
"It is impossible to say how long the fighting will continue, as the initiative is in the hands of the Japanese."
The correspondent does not conceal the fact that the Russians are undergoing a severe ordeal, but he says that the courage of the troops remains undiminished.
St. Petersburg is full of the wildest rumors, some claiming that Kuropatkin's rear guard has been annihilated; that Kuropatkin has been taken prisoner, and that Port Arthur has fallen. These alarmist reports were circulated on the bourse and at one time threatened to cause a panic. Kuropatkin has three roads over which he is marching towards Mukden, besides the double-tracked railway. The latter is chiefly occupied in the transportation of guns and of equipment, of which there is a great quantity. The soldiers are marching in light order, and most of the wounded have already been dispatched north by rail.
General Kuropatkin, in a telegram to the general staff, filed at 1 p. m., September 5, north of Yental, says the Japanese on Sunday engaged his rear guard south of Yental, the fight continuing until Monday. The telegram details the precautions taken to checkmate the Japanese flankers.
Kuropatkin estimates his losses up to and including September 4, at 16,000. This is considered to be a very
conservative figure. The loss to the Japanese probably will be double this number, owing to their position as attackers. Kuropatkin says nothing regarding the loss of guns, but it is probable that some of the heavier emplaced guns at Liao Yang had to be abandoned.
BATTLE LIKELY AT YENTAI
Desperate Resistance of Russians Prey
anted, Overwhelming, Disconcert
vented Overwhelming Disaster.
Tokio, Sept. 7.—An extended report from Field Marshal Oyama, the Japanese commander-in-chief in the field, was received in Tokio and made public. It is largely devoted to a review of the fighting which took place between August 24 and September 4.
The announcement that the Russians still retain possession of the Yenta collieries indicates a strong possibility of a battle there. Yental is the only colliery in northern Manchuria, and its possession is of vital importance to the Russians in connection with the operation of the railroad.
Field Marshal Oyama reports that a portion of the Russian troops held Yingshiissu, south of Yentai, and that General Kuroki's right is in close touch with the Russians. He announces also that the left and centre Japanese armies, under the command of a general Oku and Nodzu, have halted on the left bank of the Tailie river, and that it is his intention to dispatch them to occupy the heights north of Muchang and along the railroad.
General Kuropatkin burned all the railroad bridges over the Tailie river. The report says that the exact number of Japanese losses since August 25 is not known at present but that the casualty lists are being compiled. The field marshal projects that the losses will prove heavy.
The report does not mention the number of guns taken, but it is known that 16 guns were captured at Auping and Anshanshan, and earlier reports mentioned the capture and use against the railroad station at Liao Yang of certain 10 centimetre canet guns. General Kuroki encountered desperate opposition in the battle on the heights to the west of Helyingtal, where he fought continuously and fiercely for four days before he succeeded in dislodging the Russians. It is manifest that the stubbornness of the Russian defense at Helyingtal saved the Russian line of retreat and averted overwhelming disaster.
REPORT OF LIAO YANG EIGHT
Delayed Dispatch Tells of Furious Japanese Attacks.
Yental, Sept. 3 (delayed by the sensor).—A Russian correspondent of the Associated Press, who has just arrived here from Liao Yang, gives some details of the final assault on that place. He says:
"At the time of the Japanese bombardment of the railroad station, the ambulances were in the rear of the station, from where it was impossible to move them. A sarirapnel shell, which burst over the station, wounded two nurses, one of whom has since died.
"The hottest fighting was on August 30 and 31, when the repeated assaults of the enemy were all repulsed.
"The 34th and 35th regiments of the ninth division, and the 23d regiment of the eastern division, were particularly hard pressed and were several times reinforced. Ammunition could not be brought quickly enough, and the men at times actually stoned their assailants.
"Many companies had all of their officers killed or wounded, and the men fought under non commissioned officers.
"Many of the Japanese wounded fell into the Russian trenches and could not possibly be removed when the retreat commenced and had to be abandoned. Others more unfortunate fell between the lines and we could not bring them in. The Japanese could not remove them, and they lay most of the day and night exposed in the line of fire. Their cries and groans, which were heartrending, could be distinctly heard. Our skirmishers fell on many of them while pursuing the retreating Japanese, and when they could gave water to them, but had to leave them to be run over by the succeeding waves of the Japanese attacks.
"There was a bull in the fighting on August 31. General Morozovsky, who was on the firing line the whole time, sat down with a Cossack picket in the shelter of the trees for a cup of tea and a biscuit. The Japanese artillery suddenly swept the woods with their fire and a shell burst, wounding the general in the leg and tearing off his orderly's arm."
FIRING HEART AT PORT ARTHUR
Chefoo, Sept. 7.—Firing at Port Arthur was heard here last night. Two Chinese interpreters, belonging to the official household of Lleutenant Gen-
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eral Stoessel, commander of the military forces at Port Arthur, have been caught spying at Shushiyen and Balungshan. They were executed by the Japanese.
Chinese who arrived here from Port Arthur declare that the Russian garrison expects a general land and sea attack today.
On September 2 and 3 the Japanese bombarded the fortifications severely, and two Russian guns on a fort near Rihlungshan were dismounted.
The recent entrance into Port Arthur of a large steamship carrying provisions, chiefly flour, has resulted in the reduction of the price of flour from $5 to $2 a bag.
Japs Losses at Port Arthur 25,000.
London, Sept. 5.—The Cheeto correspondent of the Daily Chronicle in a dispatched September 3 saps that 14 regiments will leave Tokyo during the week to replace the men lost outside Port Arthur alone. The losses at this point are estimated at 25,000.
VON PLEHVE'S SUCCESSOR
Senator Platonoff Appointed Russian Minister of Interior
Minister of Interior.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 6. — Senator
Platonoff, a member of the council of
the empire, has been appointed minister
of the interior and chief of the
Russian police, in succession to the
late M. Plehve.
Asassain Did Not Escape
St. Petersburg, Sept. 6.—There is no truth in the statement, printed in London, that Sassonoff, the manager of Interior Minister Von Plehue, has succeeded in escaping from plea on.
Potato Sugs Hold Up Trolley Car.
Uxbridge, Mass., Sept. 1. An army of potato bugs stopped an Uxbridge and Blackstone trolley car. It tolk the car crew 15 minutes to spread enuga sand on the rails so that the car could get up headway. The bugs were emigrating from a large potato field toward Milville.
Life Savers Rescue Six
Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 6.—The Barnegat lite saving crew rescued Captain John Adams, Mate John Erickson and four other seamen, who were thrown into the sea by the overturning of a launch. The party was fishing near the bar off Barnegat. The names of the other four men are not known.
TWO KILLED IN STREET BATTLE
Four Others Injured. One Fatality, In Shooting Attack Over Store Bill. Huntington, W. Va., Sept. 6.—As a result of an attempt to collect a long standing bill by a clerk in a country store at Green Shoals, 20 miles south of here on the Guan river, Allen Brumfield, justice of the peace, and William Adams were killed, George Mead fatally injured and John Lambert seriously injured, and two brothers of Lambert, who escaped and have disappeared, are supposed to be injured. The fight may result in another bloody feud being added to those already existing in this part of the country.
The fight started over an attempt of Lambert, who was clerk in a country store at Green Sheals, to collect a long standing account against Adams. The men engaged in an argument over the account in the street several days ago. Adams was with friends at the time, and after heated words he struck Lambert, who was alone. Lambert did not fight, but yesterday, while with his two brothers, he came upon Adams in company with George Mead. The fight was renewed upon sight, all three men being heavily armed. The firing opened in the street, and the men were almost enveloped in a cloud of smoke. Brumfield rushed between the faction with hands uplifted, unarmed and crying "Stop, boys, stop." Caught between the cross fire of the two opposing factions, he dropped to the ground dead. Adams just before Brumfield came upon the scene had been shot to death, four bullets having pierced his body. Mead was lying on the ground with two bullets in his body and firing as he lay on his side. John Lambert was found lying on the mountain side almost senseless by a deputy sheriff. The two brothers of John Lambert, who are wounded, escaped to the mountains and are being hunted by several posses.
SHOT DEAD IN MOTHER'S ARMS
La Grange, N. C., Sept. 5.—William Exum shot and killed his stepson, Guy Walstin, at their home, about two miles from Institute, on John H. Dawson's farm. A difficulty arose, and Exum went to the bureau drawer, took out his pistol and shot Walstin through the chest. The young man rushed into his mother's arms for protection, when Exum placed the muzzle of the weapon against Walstin's head and fired, blowing his brains out. Exum is at liberty. He and Walstin's mother were married 'ast Christmas.
HOW LABOR DAY WAS OBSERVED
23,000 Workmen March in Two Parades in Philadelphia.
CELEBRATIONS IN OTHER CITIES
Philadelphia, Sept. 6.—With a wave of his baton, Chief Marshal Frank Feeney gave the signal for 20,000 men to march in honor of the day set aside by act of assembly as Labor Day. Besides this one great parade a number of smaller ones were held, and the beat of drums and the music of many bands resounded in all parts of the city.
There were plenty of floats and wagons in the procession and they typified labor's likes and dislikes most picturesque.
After dismissal the workers by thousands made their way to Fifth and Wyoming streets to indulge in games and other pastimes and to listen to speeches appropriate to the day. The giant procession was made up of members of the Allied Building Trades Council and the Allied German Trades. Half an hour before the big parade took up its line of march from Broad street and Girard avenue, a parade of 3000 men started from Broad and Brown streets. It was composed of the Journeymen House Painters, the Structural Iron Workers, Steam Fitters and their helpers, Light Star Lodge of Hod Carriers, while the officers of the Stone Cutters' Union were in barouches.
The route of this parade was down Broad street to Locust, countermarch to Chestnut, to Delaware avenue, to Arch street, where a steamer walled which conveyed them to Washington Park. There the day was given over to speechmaking and sports of various kinds. The same orators addressed the Washington Park gathering as appeared at Central Park.
Split Over Non-Union Band
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Sept. 6.—There was much confusion and some excitement over the celebration of Labor Day in this city. A band of musicians, said to be made up of non-union men, was employed by one of the labor unions. Some of the other unions refused to march behind it. The result was two parades. Some of the unions paraded in one section of the city and others took a different route. The affair caused much hard feeling in the ranks of labor.
35,000 In Line In Buffalo
Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 6.—A parade in which 35,000 men took part was the feature of the Labor Day celebration here. The parade was followed by races and other sports.
Big Day at Boston.
Boston, Mass., Sept. 6.—Twenty-ele
thousand men, representing the variou
local branches of the Central Labor
Union, the Building Trade Council
and the Knights of Labor joined in one
of the longest Labor Day parades ever
seen in this city. The Knights of Labor
bodies had not participated for several
years. Picnics and sporting events
marked the observance of the holiday.
Parade and Sports at Pittsburgh.
Pittsburg, N. J. A. A parade,
follower by sports and athletics
at Schenley Park, were the features
of Labor Day were. The weather
was cool and pleasant, and it is
estimated that 12,000 men marched over
the route to Schenley Park, where
addresses were made by W. H. Leonard,
of the Western Federation of Miners
of Colorado, and a number of prominent
local leaders. An athletic program,
with valuable prizes for the different
events, closed the celebration.
The Day at Baltimore.
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 6—Labor Day was celebrated here in a more general way than usual. The banks, exchanges and municipal buildings were closed, as were the leading business houses. There was a grand parade of labor unions to Darley Park, where a number of speakers delivered addresses, and thousands attended a picnic. There were various excursions to the suburbs and down the bay and numerous outdoor sports.
Willow Grove Hotel Keeper Robbed.
Philadelphia, Sept. 7. — Charles F.
Ehrenfort, proprietor of the Mineral
Springs hotel, just outside of Willow
Grove Park, was robbed of over $2000
in cash, which included the receipts
of Saturday and Sunday. While the
guests of the hotel were at dinner the
thief crept stealthily upstairs, broke
the lock on the door leading to the
private apartments of the proprietor
and obtained the money from several
boxes in the closet.
THE PLANET
SATURDAY...SEPTEMBER 10.1904
THE DAIRY
BUILDING A SMALL SILO.
Not Such a Wonderful Undertaking
If You Know Just When and
Where to Begin.
In my experience I have seen all kinds
shapes, sizes and material to date
I do not know of anything better than
the common 2x4 of commerce. A sld
4 feet in diameter will feed 20 cows,
16-foot 30 cows, and a 25-foot 60 cows
with no loss.
We will now suppose that you are ready to build the silo. The site is selected as near as possible to the managers. The site is laid off with a board, a half as big as the intended silo. A pin in end of board driven in center of foundation and a peg in the other end to mark circle, will lay foundation mark for foundation ditch. By moving pin in from outside circle 18 inches, the inside line of the foundation is made. Excavate to a depth of 18 or 20 inches. Fill in with broken rock to level of ground. Make cement thin enough to run freely between these rocks and fill to level of ground, then brick or rock can be used
PLAN OF ROUND SILO.
to carry the foundation six or eight
inches above level for sill
Have ten-inch boards cut in segments of the circle of inside diameter of foundation. Enough of this lumber should be cut for a sill of four thicknesses. Bed the first course in mortar. Break joints with the second layer, painting first course well with coal tar. Paint second course and nail in a few places with six or eight penny nails. Then lay third course and nail to other sections with ten penny nails; fourth course same way.
You are now ready to build the silo. Set up four 4x6 hardwood timbers, at equal distances around the sill, and spike securely to sill. Then plumb and brace well. Begin by setting up 2x4's b, just as you come from the lumber yard. No beveling necessary. Have one man at top of scaffold, one in middle and a man at the bottom. Have 60-penny spikes ready, and as a 2x4 is set up, spike through its side into its adjoining mate in four or five places. If the lumber is quite dry, it is well to toenail to sill as well. Spiking the 2x4's together as above, allows one to go right on and build silo without bothering with hoops, until the silo is complete.
Before putting up the silo, lay the 2x4's on a level place, close together flat down. Then take an old broom or whitewash brush and paint with coal tar. Let them lie for a day or two, then turn over and paint same as before. Paint the edges in same way. In doing this you have a silo that will last about as long as you will want one. The hoops, d, can be one-half or five-eighths inch iron. Each hoop is in four sections. To reach through the 4x6 timbers, have threads cut six or eight inches on each end. Use cast iron washers. To make doors: Go inside of silo. Take pieces cut out and nail together with barrel staves. These doors will be held in place by pressure of the silage. Don't spend a cent on cement or other bottoms. Cement will not preserve the silage as well as the ground—E. N. Cobb, in Farm and Home.
EFFECT OF SOIL ON MILK.
English Scientist Advances a New Theory Which May Be Worth Thinking About.
The surprising assertion is made by an English scientist that the class of soil on which the hay or pasture grass is grown controls to a large extent the quality of the milk. Americans will be slow in accepting the statements in behalf of such a doctrine. It will do no harm, however, to note the points that the said scientist thinks he brings out. He claims, in the first place, that milk from grass grown on a limestone soil will be richer than on a clay soil, even though all treatment of the cows is the same. But we have frequently noted that the English still have the idea that the richness of the milk continually varies according to the richness of the feed. This idea is being constantly brought out in one way and another there, the local judges even letting off the milkmen that sell milk below the required percentage of solids, the milk producers having made the plea that the feed was poor in quality.
Again, the man referred to declares that milk made on limestone soil will keep 50 per cent, longer than that made on clay soils, other things being equal. He asserts that in the making of cheese the milk has to be scalded at not less than 108 degrees if it is made on clay, while if it is made on limestone soil the scalding can be done at 110 degrees. He does not try to envisin the causes of
those remarkable differences, but guesses that perhaps the micro-organisms in the clay soil are different from the micro-organisms in the other soil. Unfortunately, the gentleman does not furnish the verified data to prove his assertions. —Farmers' Review.
RATTLERS MILKED THE COW.
Vermont Farmer Makes a Discovery Which Surprised Him and His Neighbors as Well.
Simeon Johnson, a farmer of Tyson, Vt., made a discovery recently which so surprised him that he has spread the marvelous tale from one end of the county to the other.
For several months Sim has known that some one or something has been stealing milk from his pet Jersey cow. His good wife told him that the Jersey had simply dried up and that he was "afflicted with a spell of imagination." Sim, however, declared that he knew that he knew, and sat up nights to discover the thief. But he saw no invaders, and the more sleep he lost the madder he got.
The Jersey was one of a herd of 20, and as her milk was richer than that of the others the supply was saved for family use. She was quartered in a stall at the end of the cow stable and until three months ago gave four quarts morning and night. Then she suddenly cut down her morning quota to little or nothing. Sim would have agreed with his wife if Bess hadn't furnished the usual amount at night and seemed ravenously hungry.
It made no difference whether Sim watched or not; the milk was always gone in the morning, although it was several times established that at midnight the supply was normal. It was this fact more than anything else that bothered Sim and gave him creepy and uncanny sensations when he kept his vigils by the dim, uncertain light of an old kerosene lantern. He couldn't figure out why Bess should not give milk in the morning when there was plenv at midnight, or why she should be well supplied at night and not at the early milking.
"I don't believe there is anything milkin' that cow," said Mrs. Johnson one day recently, "but if there is it crawls, and you won't catch it unless you clean out the bedding so you can see the stall floor."
Sim allowed there might be something in this, and so he swept out the stall and made Bess He on the planks instead of on a fine bed of clean straw. About nine o'clock he got his lantern and once more took up his post of vigil. He had begun to doze when he heard Bess shift her position, and he held up the light. He was just in time to see a long, glistening, sinuous form slip from under the side of the reclining cow and glide down a rat-hole in the corner of the stall. At the same time he heard a familiar sound that caused his hair to stand on end.
"Rattlesnakes." he gurgled, and grabbed a pitchfork.
Bess jumped to her feet and moored contentedly as the farmer advanced cautiously and began a careful investigation. There was but one rat-hole. This led to a pile of rocks under the barn, and Sim retired to the house. In the morning, with the help of the hired man, the rocks were removed, and five rattlers, each three times its natural size, were killed. According to the number of rattles, all but one was young, but exceedingly large and fat.—N. Y. World.
CALF FEEDING MADE EASY
You have probably fallen often from grace in feeding that irrepressible calf, either with the spume or froth with which he lathered your face or ruined a good suit of clothes. I have devised a little plan which enables me to feed a calf and still re-
either with the spume or froth with which he lathered your face or ruined a good suit of clothes. I have devised a little plan which enables me to feed a calf and still remain out of his reach. Cut a hole in the wall between the calf pen and feeding alley. Build a braced shelf, as shown in the cut. Hinge one edge of it to one side of the opening, as shown at a. This shelf may be swung in to the feeding alley and the bucket placed on the shelf, secured by rope and swung into the calf pen, where it may be readily fastened with a hook. When pail is removed a button prevents the calf from getting his head out through the opening.—R. M. Winthrop, in Farm and Home
STOCK AND DAIRY NOTES
For hog pastures woven wire is the best fencing material.
No man should attempt to raise hogs without adequate fencing of yards and pastures.
The portable hog house is coming into very general favor, especially in disease infested districts.
Sweet cream butter is coming much into use in this country. This kind of butter is not made, as might be supposed from the name, from cream from sweet milk, but is generally made of ripened cream. It is called sweet because it is not salted.
A cow must be a very poor milker not to respond to good feed and good care. Good feeding can greatly increase the milk-producing powers of the cows we have, but only to the limit of their natural capacity. Many of our cows are being fed so unscientifically that they have never been brought up to their full capacity.—Farmers' Review.
When Milk Cans Get Rusty. Don't keep throwing away money patching rusty milk-cans, when at best they will last but a little longer; such a practice is decidedly disastrous to the quality of the milk. Throw them away and get some good, new cans, well tinned. Always empty them as soon as they return from the creamy; wipe dry after washing and give them a daily sun bath. Given this treatment, a good can ought to last seven or eight years.—Midland Farmer.
Usual Trouble.
"Rowing down the stream of life," With a charming little wife, Would be lovely if the dear Didn't always want to steer
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
Fun For Fun Lovers.
"What's that noise?"
"That's Gladys. She has a five-dollar gold piece bangle that was coined the year she was born and she wants to wear it again."
"But that doesn't explain the hammering."
"She's battering it so the year won't show."—Houston Post.
A. Brilliant Idea
Clerk—Mr. Muldoon, we have an order for hard wood kindlings, but the hard wood is all gone.
Mr. Muldoon (dealer)—Sind 'em saft wood.
"They will notice the difference, because soft wood burns too fast."
"Bejabers, that's so. Wet it"—N.
Y. Weekly.
Tried to Brace Up.
Wife—You've been drinking! And you told me you were going to a prayer-meeting!
Husband—Y-e-s, m' dear, I wash delayed at the prayer-meeting and I—hic—knew you'd make big fuss 'bout my—hic—coinin' home s' late, and I—I—hic—tried to brace up for the ordeal.—N. Y. Weekly.
Shrewd Business Man.
He has arranged the matter quite To his content, they say;
THe body takes its sleep by night,
The concerned his by day!
—N. O. Times-Democrat
T. W. B.
"They say the Japanese never kiss."
"That reminds me that I wanted to ask you something, Mr. Timld."
"What is it, Miss Flip?"
"I wanted to ask you if you had any Japanese blood in your veins."—St. Louis Republic.
Can't Please 'Em
Employment Agent—Some people are entirely too particular for this world.
Friend—What's happened?
Employment Agent—That flinchy Mrs. Upton has discharged the cook sent her, just because the cook couldn't cook.—N. Y. Weekly.
Prophecy That Failed
Willie—Ma, you ain't much of a prophet, are you?
Ma—What do you mean, Willie?
Willie—You said if I ate that cake that was in the pantry it would make me sick, but it didn't.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Mutual
Griggs—Gillsnap told me the other day that after ten years of married life he and his wife at last understood each other. Cumming—Yes. I hear they are trying to get a divorce.—Brooklyn Eagle.
In the Wrong Place
"Do you give gas here?" asked the man with the enlarged jaw as he entered the dental parlor.
"No," replied the dentist, "you have to pay extra for it. This isn't a barber shop."—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Why They Walked On.
Boarder—I suppose your wife takes summer boarders so as to help you out? Farmer Winrow—I 'spose so. I wouldn't know how to farm it now if it wasn't fer th' suggestions I git from summer boarders—Puck.
Deep or Shallow
Mrs. Bacon—Do you think that women talk too much?
Mr. Bacon—Well, you know, dear, that still waters run deep, but babbling brooks often appear to be shallow. Yonkers Statesman.
Two of a Kind
"It's simply impossible for me to find bread for my family," said the loafer.
"Same here," rejoined the hustler.
"I have to work for it."—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Not His.
Little Boy—Perkins, our new coachman, says England is his mother country. Is it yours, too? Gardener—No, be jabers, it's my shtepmother country—N. Y. Weekly.
Might Grow Out of It.
Fond Mother—Are you not somewhat astonished at my daughter's singing? Professor—I certainly am. But then she is young yet!—Illustrated Bits.
Also It.
"Some foolish persons always answer one question by asking another."
"Why do they, I wonder?"—Indianapolis Journal.
A Prudent Man
Ikey—Do you believe in luck, fader? His Father—Vell, yes; but I don't depend on it—Booklyn Life.
Out of the Ordinary.
Meeks—My wife is nothing if not original.
Parks—Well, what's the answer?
Meeks—When I proposed to her she didn't get off that old chestnut about its being so sudden.
Parks—Indeed! What did she say?
Meeks—She said: "Well, the expect- does happen occasionally, after all."
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Lucky Accident
"This man Lobbs is one of the luckiest fellows I know of. You heard of his arm being blown off last week in that explosion?"
"Yes, but there is nothing lucky about that."
"It was his right arm, you know."
"Well, what of that?"
"Why, he is left-handed."—Tit-Bits.
A Bargain Hunter
A bright little girl came into a store and asked the price of collars.
"Two for a quarter," said the clerk.
"How much would one cost?"
"Thirteen cents."
She thought for awhile, and then said:
"Then it would make the other 12 cents, so I guess I'll take that."—Little Chronicle.
Nothing Impossible
"Why is Harkins rushing around so excitedly?"
"Why, he says his baby is financially embarrassed."
"Get out! How could a baby be financially embarrassed?"
"Oh, he swallowed a cent, you know."—Chicago Daily News.
Correcting Wrong Impression.
"I see," observed the traveler, "the people of your city are contemplating a Greater Boston."
"Not at all, sir," returned the Bostonian. "Such a thing is impossible. We are merely contemplating a Larger Boston."—Chicago Tribune.
Hard Lines.
"Woman," cried the big, burly husband, shaking his finger wildly, "I can read you like a book."
"That may be," retorted the little wife, with a queer smile, "but you can't shut me up."
And then she spoke volumes.—Chicago Daily News.
Insult to Injury.
Farmer Greene—So thar wan't nuthin'
but sawdust in th' satchel when ye got
it home, hey!
Farmer Medders—Why, th' infernal
bunko man didn't even hev th' decency
to put in sawdust! He had it filled up
with breakfast food, b'gosh!—Puck.
Pretty Big
Seth—Thet thar wheat exchange down tew Ch'cawgo must be a sight. Cy-An' jest think what a size it is. Why! the paper sez on y last week some feller got 5,000,000 bushels in one corner—Brooklyn Life.
Not Necessary
Enthusiasm—Did you ever hear of such a thing as winning a battle without firing a shot?
Philosopher—Well, my wife usually wins, and she doesn't use a gun, either—Detroit Free Press.
Asked and Answered
"How would you like to live in a flat, my dear?" asked the husband.
"Not at all," snapped the other half of the matrimonial combine, "living with one is bad enough"—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Whyness of the Which.
The rain falls not alike upon
The just and the other fellow;
At the season of it is because
The unjust wipes the umbrella.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
HARD PARENT.
A girl in a dress is running away from a man in a suit and a boy in a swimsuit.
Henry—Uncle Reub, that girl in the bathing dress has the richest father in the world.
Uncle Reub—Well, he must be a stingy cuss if he wouldn't buy her no more clothes than what she's got on.—Chicago Daily News.
The Millennium.
Each summer, when we go away,
How happy we would be
If our bald head could only say,
"There are no flies on me!"
—Judge.
His Conceit.
"Miss Smythe has made the catch of the season."
"Why, I thought she was going to marry you?"
"She is."—Houston Post.
Advice
Hewttt—What is the best business to which a young man can give his attention?
Jewett—His own.—Harper's Bazar.
At Early Breakfast.
Bill—What do you consider the greatest evil of the time?
Jill—That alarm clock of mine!
Yonkers Statesman.
Morkers Statesman.
Curious
"You must not imagine," she said,
"that I would consent to be your wife,
simply because I have let you kiss me."
"Oh, of course not," he replied, "but
I wish you'd tell me something. Are
you letting me kiss you because you
like it or merely because you want
the practice"—Chicago Record-Herald.
Real Genius.
Jigsmith—That fellow Piter is certainly a clever, ingenious chap, isn't he?
Browning—Why, I never heard of his doing anything remarkable.
Jigsmith—That's just it. He manages in some way to get along without doing anything—Savannah News.
Part of the Curriculum
Hi Tragedy... close people
with Stormington cancer!
Lowe Comerdy—Takes on the sample from his "School of Acting" just starting out for their summer session.
Hi Tragederd—For their summer session?
Lowe Comerdy—Yes, he's going to teach them how to jump on and off freight trains—Philadelphia Press.
Securing a Substitute
The stork had deposited twins in the cozy little flat inhabited by Mr. and Mrs. Thirdflore.
"You'd better send for your mother, Araminta," suggested Mr. Thirdflore.
"Why, John, you know you can't get along with mother," was the wifely response.
"Yes; but somebody's got to tell the janitor."—Pittsburg Post.
Her Face.
Miss Hoamley—He seemed to think he knew me I noticed him studying my face.
Miss Sharpe—Yes, I noticed that, too.
Miss Hoamley—He asked you if I was born down his way, didn't he?
Miss Sharpe—Not exactly. He asked if you were 'born that way.'—Catholic Standard.
The Farmer's Complaint.
He said 'twas sad, yet humorous.
The township's plight to view.
The statesmen were so numerous;
The farm hands were so few.
—Washington Star.
Chequers—Hns your father-in-law forgiven you for eloping with his daughter?
Joskyns—I haven't asked him. When I found that he had paid for the hire of the motor car that we bolted in, I thought there was no need.—Ally Sloner.
The Candidate
He kindly shakes you by the hand
And talks of crops and weather.
When votes no more are in demand,
He shakes you altogether.
—Washington Star.
Changed His Boarding House.
"Is your dog trained?" asked the new
boarder.
"Oh, my, yes," replied the boarding-
house lady; "he goes down to the butcher's
every day, and brings home the
meat for dinner in his mouth."—
Yonkers Statesman.
Idle Curiosity.
"idle curiosity, my boy, is when your mother tries to see what some other woman has on and falls"—Yenkera Statesman.
The Conclusion
"What conclusion did your literary and debating society meet last night?" "Oh," answered Miss Cayenne, "the conclusion was as usual, chicken salad, ice cream, and 'Good night; had a perfect lovely time.'" - Washington Star
The Usual Thing
Little Clarence (who has an inquiring mind)—Pa, when a man is too lazy to work, too proud to beg, and too honest to steal, what can he do?
Mr. Callipers—Oh, marry money or organize a new fraternal order.—Puck.
Prose and Poetry
"Life is but an empty dream," remarked the man with the quotation habit.
"That's what it is," rejoined the poet, "especially when a fellow has to go to bed supperless."—Cincinnati Enquirer.
She Hanced Him One
"That's arrant nonsense," said Mr. Henpeck, "about there always being room at the top." "Oh," his wife sarcastically replied, "when were you up to see?"—Chicago Record-Heald.
A Matter of Outlines
Ethel—I'd hate awfully to be as intel-
lectual as some people.
Virginia—Why?
Ethel—Oh, I think a bulgy forehead
would be hideous on a girl.—Indianap-
olis Journal.
When the Preacher Works.
Church—The average man likes to sit
idly and see some other man do all the
work.
Gotham—Why is it, then, that more
men don't go to church?—Yonkers
Statesman.
Gladys—What do you hear from Clarence? How is he doing in Wall street now? Jerrold—Great! He writes that the market is so dull, he ain't losing a cent!—Puck.
Fair Warning
Subbubs-I suppose you've noticed I've bought a watch dog? Naybor—Yes, and now let me give you a piece of advice. Study up all the antidotes for poison.-Philadelphia Press.
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and his massive jaw clenched. His
countenance, usually serene and trust-
inspiring. had for the moment lost its
Kindliness, and was forbidding almost
to repulsiveness. A patient viewing
him from the operating table would, it
is likely, unless possessed of superior
nerve, bave succiimbed to heart. fail-
ture; at best he would have demanded
another appointment; for by some
Atavie reversion the good doctor had
apparently returned to savagery of @
virulent type. When he paused ab-
ruptly before the clock and suffered
his jaws to relax, the spectacular re-
@ults were even worse. He glared vin-
dictively at the placid timepiece and
gnawed fiercely his heavy mustache.
“Four o'clock! four o'clock!" he ex-
claimed, “and this is her last day!”
‘The sentence ended in something like
a groan.
“Well,” replied a voice near at hand,
“there must be last days for everybody
‘and every-hing.” The voice was full
and musical, with a shading of melan-
choly. The speaker stood in the deor-
way, hat and cane in hand. “If this
were my last day of bachelorhood, 1
@ou't think I could have stated it so
‘woefully,norhave I put as much despair
into the sentence. How are you,
Frank? Why, what is the matter?”
he continued, entering the room slowly
as the other remained motionless, gaz
ing silently towards him, “Don't know
me? Sorry to ace me? You are glar-
ing!”
“Dick Somers!” The name burst
from the doctor's lips, and he rushed
‘on his visitor, seizing and wringing the
proffered hand. Again he stopped, his
whole soul in his face and eyes.
“Well,” said Somers, cheerfully,
“what is on your mind, old man? Five
years is a long time and Paris was a
‘Bay place; but five years and Richmond
are not enough, surely, to effect such
e@ change as this! And I shall have use
again for that hand, perhaps, bones
and all, so—"
“The last days of your bachelorhoba
You said the last days of your bach-
elorhood, did you not? Then you are
still a bachelor, Dick?”
“Well, yes,” and Somers smiled wist-
folly into his friend's face. “The same
old Brodnar,” he continued, “headlong,
enthusiastic, impetuous! What new
acheme is afoot now? Do you want to
offer me up on the altar of inatrimony?
YW eo, T draw the line there. Why, crn-
found it, man, what is the matter with
you?" he added; for the other, still
Fetaining his hand, continued to regard
Bim in deep thoeght.
“Sit down,” said the doctor, drawing
Rim to-verds a chair—“sit down.” And
Gomers perforce accepted the seat.
“Dick"—and the professional man
stood over him—I will welcome you
formally to-morrow, but today you are
the most welcome man on earth, Isup-
pose T am heacilong, enthusiastic and
impulsive, but | am true, am I not?—
true to my friends?"
“True? As truth {tself, old fellow.”
And Somers, who had taken a cigar
from a box on the table by his side, sus-
pended the lighted mateh over the
weed as he looked up. “Anybody been
asting a doubt on that yoint?”™
“And honorable?”
“As honor!”
“You would take my word unsup-
Ported for any amount, would you
not?”
Somers looked affectionately into
{he flushed, eager face above him and
grew serious. “I would take your word,
Frank, against the world, except in
‘one event"
“And that?”
“Well, if you speak disparagingly of
Yourself, Frank.” Their bands met im-
pulsively,
“Dick, don't laugh at me or think me
eut of my penses, but tell me seriously
is there any reason why you may not
be married to-night?” Somers started
to tise, a queer sock upon Bis face.
“Sit down,” ¢ the doctor, with
both bands on his shoulders “Answer
me frankly.”
‘Heavens! mun, are you ip your right
senses ?—but yes, this is oniy the sume
old Brodnar.”
“You do not answer, Dick. You are
treating me lightly, and Iam desperate-
dy in earnest.”
“Well, then, old fellow, I will answer
you seriously. There is no reason on
God's earth why I may not marry to-
night. No heart will break, no trust
be shattered, no one will care. Yes,
one—my mother,” He lifted his fine
face towards his friend. It wore again
the characteristic half-wistful, half-
mocking smile.
“You would not care, either, Dick?
Not if by marrying you obliged a friend
whe loves you? Not if by marrying
you enabled him to defeat a piece of
Villainy planned against the Mie and
welfare of one of his dear friends?
Not if it defeated a cowardly enemy?
Ok, don't you sce my whole soul Is ia
this matter?” ‘The doctor resumed his
agitated pacing.
“Wouldn't it be best for me to kill
him—in some genteel way—say—"
“No; Killing is still a erime, but mat-
Fimony isn't—(hough often more im-
moral, And killing would settle with
ut one, while matrimony wipes out
the whole crowd."
“Which, anfortunately, incfudes wie,
WET erisatens eather eas
“Of course, it is absurd, Dick,” be
said, coming back, “and is obliged to
strike you so; but, do you know, I be-
lieve that friendship is the one undy-
ing bond of our race. All others have
their limitations—even love of man
and woman burns itself out. I believe
that somewhere between men such a
friendship as this exists: to love where
another loves instantly and forever;
to hate where he ates blindly and im-
placably; to hold his honor higher and
sweeter than life, his happiness above
one’s own; to feel this holy affection
so strong that it permeates every qual-
ity of mind and body, and makes eo tm
truth that which we believe our friend
to be. In such a friendship, Dick, self
perishes. We look into the eyes of our
friend and say ‘Command!’ We do not
question; we trust implicitly, blindly;
and if we err—"
“Life is black forever!” Somers had
arisen, and, taking his friend’s hand,
was regarding with affection his
flushed face. “That is Frank Brodnar
indeed,” he continued. “You mean it,
my dear fellow; and Iam satisfied that
if after five years of separation Ishould
enter this room and say: ‘My boy, if you
have no previous engagement and the
way is clear, you will do me a great
kindness by stepping down the street
and letting me marry you out of hand
to a friend who is being or has been vie-
timized’—wait, I am in earnest—you
would take up your hat, smooth your
hair, and join me before I reached the
street or you had remembered The
madam and babies at home. Put, my
dear fellow, I haven't the ability to
throw myself headlong into a plot. It
is constitutional that I do not excite
easily. I must find my way up to par
by stages; while you, you were born
above par. You inay guess from my
metaphor what I have been doing of
late, but it doesn’t fotlow that I nerer
reach the point of high tension. Nor
does it follow that Iam a cold blooded
friend. A little siuggish blood some-
times savesa friendship. Sit down and
tell me all about it.”
“And that is just what I may not
do.” Somers sticied the gloomy face
& moment in silence.
“You may at least tell me what you
would have me do, Frank.”
“I would have you come here to-
night, let me blindfold you, take you tc
a certain room in this city have per-
formed over you a ceremony which will
unite you to a perfectly honorable
woman, leave you there with her until
dawn, when I shali bring you away. |
would have you ask me no question
a
‘Row or hereafter touching this mat-
ter; have you regard this woman to-
night as a holy charge and trent her
with the reverence and respect you
should yield to your dead sister; and
never from this moment until the day
comes when I may release you—and
that may be near or far—would I have
You seek to discover her name or place
of living. By your marriage contract
You obtain no rights whatever over thr
woman or her property—assure you
she wil claim nothing of yon—and
when the time comes for her to ask an
honorable divorce at your hands—a
mere matter of a few years, 1 think—
you are to grant it openly and freely.
More than this I may not tell you."
Somers had leaned forwaru upon
the table and was looking with deep
interest Into the speaxer's face.
“It sounds like an Elizabethan ro-
manee, er a chapter from ‘Don Caesar
de Bayan.’ I am approaching par.”
And then he added gravely: “You
have not forgotten that my mother
and yours were somehow cousins,
and—"
“I have not. Nor have I forgotten
that @ friend's name and honor are
sacred whether he is or is not of
Kindred blood. And I have not for-
gotten that the woman herself—this
woman of whom I spesk—eonfers an
honor with her blind trust. ‘There
has been my chief difficulty, Dick.
In these days it is hard to find »
man into whose hands you may place
& young woman and say to her: ‘Trust
him implicitlyl’” Somers smiled
slightly.
“My dear fellow, don’t you see that
it is you whom the woman will trust
4n this instance, not me? I am only
to vindicate you.”
“Then you consent?”
“Why, of course! I have no ties to
hinder me; and { shall never marry
with any serious intentions. As you
know, miy life chance passed from me
when I laid down my commission In
the army to become a wanderer, I
am here to-day to sign for a small
share in some property of my grand-
mother's, and to-morrow I shall be
off again, I do not think I will be
inconvenienced much by the fact that
I shall leave a bride in Richmond
whom I have never seen nor am apt
to see; and since it helps you and
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
‘your friend, why, I ani positively
happy over the affair. Fact is, Frank,
I am about up to par in this matter
now.”
“You make me happy, Dick. True
as steel always, but always—always—
I wish, old fellow, I might find the
missing note in your life.”
“Satisfy my ambition, Frank, and
you have found it. My people were
of the army and navy. You remem-
ber Somers in Tripoli, api—but this
ds idle. When that damnable villain
Holbin tempted me to embroil myself
with the authorities in an act of in-
subordination the world was rose-
ate—”
“Holbin—Raymond Holbin?”
“Why, yes. Had you forgotten the
circumstances? I used to rage over
it enough in Paris, God knows. Pass
the matches, please.” Brodnar passed
them and moved quickly to the rear
of the speaker, lifting his right hand
in excitement, his features working
‘convulsively. “It did not help mat-
ters that they cashiered him for ras-
cality and pusillanimity, for they had
let me resign, and my apjlication for
reinstatement lies unacted upon still.
Frank, there is the open grave in my
life, and the missing note is silent
Within H" Me wheeled his chair
about and looked up into his friend’s
face. “You would help it if you could,
I know; and bless you, my boy, for
your sympathy. What was it you
wanted me to do? Oh, yes, the mar-
riage. Let us get back te that, Am
I to make a toilet? But of course—”
“You will do as you are, It will be
in the dark. But, Dick, at this mo-
‘mont, for the first time, the full ex-
tent of your friendship dawns upon
| me and I'see the generous heart beat.
ing away so faithfully in my behalf.
| Dick, there was a woman in the af-
fair ‘between you and Holbin; you
have never told me of her and I
don’t ask you now, but if there is a
‘sacrifice in this for you it is not too
late—”
“Sacrifice? Lead on! I am in the
hands of my friends. Iam not the
| first to leap blindfolded into the sea
of matrimony, nor shal! I be the last,
Life fs a cycle and fools beget fools.
Besides, T have in my rdigiom some
of the fatalism of the east: That
which comes to us withoutour seeking
and seemeth right to do, is generally
the right thing to do. The falling
cocoanut that breaks the sleeping
robber's head feeds the starving pil-
grim.”
“Well said. And in this adventure,
my friend, I take it that you are
the cecoanut. I am old-fashioned
enough to believe in God, and with
His help you may break a villain's
head indeed,”
“But I shall be satisfied if my own
fsn't broken. Dy the way, my wife
should understand that if this ugly
rupture between the south and north
involves blows, she may hear of her
husband bearing arms against her.”
“Fiddlesticks! ‘There has been
more blood shed in my back office
than you will see spilled between the
north and south. The: people on the
streets and up yonder in the capitol
are temporarily insane, Tt will end
in wind—my name for oratory.”
Cheers in the street below, followed
hyahersiuharuevct. & stnoan <cncnn
the windows. A boy rushed past
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THIS DOG LIKES TOBACCO.
He Is a Black Spaniel and Recognized
as Champion Stump Shooter
of Philadelphia,
Every now and then a dog is heard of
that has tastes in the way of beer or
other intoxicants, but the distinction of
owning a tobucco-loving dog belongs to
Ellis Ward, the veteran rowing coach o1
the University of Pennsylvania, says the
Philadelphia Record. Tobacco Is as re-
Dulsive to the average dosns tt ts to some
People, and though they will stamp out
or bite out a lighted cizar, a little of the
leaf In their mouth enuses a splutter of
many minutes. Sut it {squite different
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‘When only a puppy he would chew cigar
stumps with a relish, and now the habit
has so possessed him that he is never so
happy as when a bit of tobacco is thrown
his way.
He will watch a cigar smoker with
more eagerness than the “stump-shoet-
Ing” urchin, ready to dash for the dis-
carded bit. Recently thedog has devel-
oped a taste for Turkish tobacco, and a
Turkish cigarette gives him exquisite
pleasure. The tobacco 1s not only
chewed, but also swallowed, yet no mat-
ter how much is consumed the doz shows
no signs of {!!ness, and te Is now a par-
ticularly healthy canine,
Nursery Hint from Far East.
‘The native women: of the Himalaya
mountains have a singular way of put-
ting their children to sleep in the middle
of the day. The child is put near a
stream of water, and by means of a palm
leaf or a tin scoop the water is deflected
80 as to run gently overthe back of the
child's Head. The water pouring over
the child's head apparently sends‘it to
sleep and keeps it so, while the mother
proceeds with her work in the fields,
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ABOUT MASKED BATTERIES.
{n the Early Days of the Civil War
‘They Were Looked Upon as
a Bugaboo.
“The great bugaboo in the army in
1861,” said the major to a Chicago Inter
Ocean man, “was the masked battery.
‘The boys seemed to believe, and the peo-
ple at home did believe, that to mask a
battery or to conceal it was contrary to
army regulations and the laws of war,
“In April and May, 1861, there was
more news in the papers about masked
batteries than there was about skir-
mishes snd°marches. The men in front
rarely mode 2 forward movement with-
battery. Masked battery and the black
horse cavalry were like a nightmare to
the army in Vireinia, and the boys talked
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vessels of the Russian volunteer fleet.
“One day our company, out scouting,
spied on a distant ridge what was at
once pronounced a masked battery. It
seemed to me an ordinary Ohio back-
‘woods brush heap, but men of more ex-
perience said it was a battery hidden by
innocent looking brushwood, and dis
Positions were made to attack it. We
opened fire at long range, but there was
no reply, Then we closed in, firing as we
ran forward.
“Our blood was up and we were ready
for a charge when there came from the
brushwood three large biacksnakes, or
mountain racers. ‘There was confusion
in the ranks, and then a wild chase after
the snakes. Tho masked battery was a
common brush heap, and the experience
of that cay raised the question if any
man In the reximent had ever seen a
mashed battery. We asked the captain,
an old veteran, about it. He sald he had
seon lots of masked batteries, In fact,
he sald, t was the rule In defensive war-
fare to hide a battery or to place it where
{t could not be seen by an approaching
enemy.
“He showed us that our own battery at
the falls was masked, and that our
howitzer battery on the mountain toour
rear was hidden fn the brush, and finally
Iaughed the buzaboo out of our minds.
A few days later he stationed ue on elth.
‘er side of a mountain road to ambush a
company of confederate cavalry.and att-
er all was over asked fa masked battery
was more reprehensible than an ambush.
A month later we were moving along the
same defile, when there was a flash of
brass In the distant eunlieht, and a solid
shot came plowing down the road in
front of us.
| “The theory among the bors was that
every cannon Dall fired from a cannon
‘must necessarily kill somebody, and they
wore Inclined to stand and take thelr
medicine, But the old eatpain shouted:
“That's from your masied battery, boys.
Give It the road.’ He hustled the men to
sheltered spots on the roadside, and they
watched 20 cannon balls rake the defile
without Injuring a man, So we learned
two lessons In war”
The Pyramid Limp.
The pyramid limp is a disease that
usually attacks the tourist the second
or third day after his arrival in Cairo.
‘To many visitors the pyramids are all
there Is to see In Egypt, and once ar-
rived there they proceed to make the
ascent. It is not an easy climb, as
these steps are so high that no one
een seach the top without help from
before and behind, and the result ts
strained and lamed muscles. Rest
dents and habitues recognize the pyra-
mid limp in an Instani, and the suf-
ferer is greeted with jeers whenever
he makes reference to his sufferings. —
N. Y. Times.
Simple Question.
“May a man marry his widow's sis-
ter?” was a question put to a prominent
lawyer.
“Certainly he may,” was the reply,
without a moment's hesitation. Then
the lawyer had another think coming.—
Albany Journal.
Bullfrogs as Sentries,
A Pennsylvania fisherman has discov-
ered that bullfrogs act as sentries to
fish, and that It is useless to try to catch
bass when a deep-voiced, bellowing frog
is watching.
CLAIMS MEDAL OF HONOR.
After a Lapse of Forty Years John
Hayes Sends to Washington
for Rare Decoration,
For nearly 40 years a United States
congressional medal of honor awarded
to one John Hayes for distinguished
services on the old frigate Kearsarge tu
her historic battle with the confederate
Milp “Alabama his been Tying safe Te
the bureau of navigation. at Washing-
ton, waiting to be claimed by the man
to whom it was awarded by con-
gress,
Rusty, with its ribbon frayed and
moth-eaten, this medal has at last been
sent to its owner, who, after ail these
Years of silence, recently wrote to the
navy depariment ciniming the medal.
Its existence had been forgotten until
the arrival a few days ago of a letter
from Muscoda: Grant county, Wis., from
& man 70 years old, who wrote that he
had just learned through the accidental
Feading of an old navy ceneral order,
dated 1864. that John Hayes. coxwain
of the frigate Kearsarze. lat been
awarded a medal of honor for distin=
guished conduct in battle.
He said in his letter to the depart-
ment that be was the only John Hayes
who served on the Kearsarge in the fa-
mous battle with the Alabama, and that
it must be he who is entitied to the
medal. He forwarded his enlistment,
and discharge papers, which showed
conclusively that bis claim was just.
An investigation was made by the bu-
Teau of navigation and the oid medal
was found in the archives of the de-
partment. It was forwarded to Mr.
Hayes, with a letter from the secre-
tary of the navy, saying that he Is en-
titled to $100 bounty. which he can
have as soon as he forwards the prop-
er affidavits. It is believed that this
money will be quite acceptable, as the
old salior wrote in his letter that he
was physically nnable to work, and de-
pended for his living solely on his pen-
sion of $12. month.
One of the most remartable features
Of this ease is the fact that Mr. Hayes?
enlistment papers were sizned by the
late Rear Admiral Belknap. whose son
is now on duty in the burean of navl-
gation, and his discharge papers and
Tecommendation for the medal were
signed by the late Capt. John A. Wins-
low, whose nephew is also on duty in
the burean of navization ard who signed
the letter forwarding the medal to the
nayal veteran.
THIS CORPSE WAS LIVELY.
Tt Cost a iolly Soldier a Week's Pay
to Scaare Himself for an
Absurd Joke.
An old v.teran of Chicago tells this
story: I came very near getting killed
in camp once by two colored boys,
Four or five fellows on our skirmish
line had been shot during a sudden
raid by confederate cavalry, and thelr
bodies were brought in and iaid right
fn front of the regimental hospital
tent. My orderly sergeant discovered
two of our men among the killed, so T
directed him to have the bodies taken
to our company headquarters for burial.
He deputed two colored carriers at-
tached to the relief corps to bring
them up, and while they went off for
a stretcher L asked my lieutenant and
several other officers who stood by me
if they wanted to see some fun. Of
course they did. So T told them to
watch me, and, running over to where
the dead privates lay, I raised the
blanket and slipped in between them,
Nearly all the colored men attached
to the relief corns had a great aversion
to handling corpses; in fact, it is a
characteristic of the race, and, although
many of overcome the fecling owing toa
forced familiarity, still the superstition
was always near the surface, When the
carriers returned with the stretcher I
lay stiff as a ramrod with my eyes closed.
T heard one say, “Look yah, Jim, dey's
th’ee hyer, ‘stid o' two.” “Reckon we
can’t tek ‘em all now; less tote this un
fust,” sald the other. ‘So they picked up
the body on my left and took it up to
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theothertwo. I held my breath and kept
my muscles rigid when they lifted me up,
then waited until the dead private was
laid alongside. Just as the boys straizht-
ened up with the load I gavean unearth-
ly shriek and, dashing over the side,
madea bee line for our tents. The fellow
behind yelled like a whitehead and
dropped his end; his partner grasped the
situation, and fn an instant both put
after me. Well, gentlemen, they each
carried a revolver, and began popping
away at the corpse that “dun got away!”
If I hadn't dodged into the quarter-
master’s tent I should have been a sure
‘enough corpse in a few minutes, for both
the niggers were scared to death and
thought the “so'dger” was bewitched. I
lay hid for half an hour before I dared
venture out, and meantime those rascal-
ly officers had told the joke all over camp.
It cost me a week's pay to square my-
self.
Not Much Difference.
Tatterden Torem—Why is {t 20
many lovesick girls takes carbolle
acid?
Wayback Bosgs—Well, dat's de next
best ting ter takin’ a husband, yer
know.—Judge.
Battles? Cnn
east broke up your Browning
elu?”
|_*Oh, strained relations between the
‘Women who chew gum and the women
‘who don’t”"—Cincinnati Commercial-
‘Tribune.
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Information Wanted.
“This,” sald the farmer, proudly, “Is
the best layin’ hen I've got”
+ “Yes,” replied the pressman, who was
‘on his vaeation in the country, “what's
her capacity per hour?”—Piladelphia
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CRANKY SHOPPER PUNISHED
A New York Incident Which the Gov-
ernor of Washington Remem-
bers with Picasure.
Henry McBride, the governor of
Washington, was taldng about de
partment stores.
“A department storekeeper in Se-
attle,” he said, “complained to me one
day about the people. in outlying sec-
tions of the city, who were always hav-
ing delivered to ineir homes papers
of pins, thimbles, finer ricgs and sim-
War infinitesimal paciercs. He said
that sometimes a two-horve team would
travel a mile to carry home a half
dozen shoe butions or a skein uf
silk.
“Then he described a trick that an
old employer of his in New York had
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chronic offender. Two or three times
&@ week she would harass a half dozen
salesgirls an hour or more, and finally
buy, and order delivered, a paper of
needles or a quarter of a yard of rib-
bon.
“So the man decided to make an ex-
ample of her.
“One afternoon, after her usual
shopping excursion, there drove up to
her door a huge dray, drawn by four
horses, and containing six brawny,
bare-armed laborers.
“A crowd collected. It was thought
am enormous safe was to be moved.
“The woman stood at her front door.
‘The laborers laid a heavy plank from
the wagon to the sidewalk, and then,
with many loud grunts of effort, they
rolled barrel fashion on to the plank
and thence down to the street a tiny
spool of cotton thread. They carried
the thread painfully to the woman's
doorstep, and there, after a desperate
struggle, they up-ended it.
“Then they departed. The woman
kicked the spool into the gutter imme-
diately, but this action on her part
only made more pleasing to the neigh-
bors the little joke that had been
played on her.”
BEGS FOR MISTRESS,
MONGREL DOG KEEPS WOLF
FROM BLIND NELL's DooR.
2d Woman Is Too Ili to Take Accus-
tomed Place So Cur Holds Cup
to Receive Pennies of the
Charitable,
“Blind Neil,” the organ grinder who
for years has gathered the pensies and
the nickels of the charitable that pass
State and Van Buren sireeis, at Chi-
eago, is ill, but sue placed her faith
fn a dog, and she animal is now
earning the bread that mons life for
both.
‘There are few people in the down-
town district who do not kuow “Blind
Nell.” ‘There are few business wyen
Who remember when she came. She
was on the southeast comer when
they Were clerks in the siores that
they now own. She was the liak that
conuected them with the day that had
been, and sometimes they paid her
Well for the memory. And the old
dog, a yellow car, was always at her
side.
“Why do you keep him? He's get-
ting old, isn’t he?” inquired some of
the old business men,
“He's all that I have,” was the an-
swer.
So it wasn’t strange that men
stopped and listened when they. left
the elevated and the street cars the
other morning. Usually it was one
of “Blind Neli's" airs that told then
tat they had reached the scene of
another day's activity. Some of them
Stood In the middie of the street and
Waited for the familiar strains, Bui
the old hand organ was silent. ‘They
crossed to “Blind Nel!’s” corner and
there stood the dog, alone.
If he bad been a man people would
have said that he was transfigured.
It seemed that he had shaken the
years from him and that he realized
his importance. It was the placard
on his side that attracted everybody's
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Rose against their iezs. ‘The cares
told much. It tole of how “Biimd
Neli” had at last siven away and how
she wos lying ‘ll im some uncom
fortable spot. It told why the han@
organ was silent. It told that even af
mean, yellow cur was not without @
heart and that he alone stood betw
the old woman and starvation.
the caress touched many and. tl
was a heap of briht silver in the
eto the Cay’s work had begun
the downtown dis:riet
He disappeared while the om
Was still young. His course was
Van Buren street and down Wabash
Javenne, ~AlL tr him was lost ag
he rowided the corner, but the m
ing of the old woman and the eld ded
with a cup of siver must have beam.
a happy one
He was back at the comer when the
shoppers Lesan to arrive. ‘The womem
Were touched by ite story told on the
Placard and they contributed freely
At noon the dos disappeared agaim,
He rested this time and perhaps the
old Woman told tim what a great
friend he was, for it was almost time
for the stores to close when he reached
the corner. F
There was another flow of pennies,
nickels and dimes and the cup wag
half full when a tLief came along. He
stooped and patted the animal on the
back and at the seme time tried ta
empty the cup. But “Blind Newsy
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SATURDAY...SEPTEMBER 10, 1904
TERRIBLE TIMES IN GEORGIA.
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The official investigation of the stake-burning lynching at State-boro, Georgia, recently has tended to inform the country thoroughly with reference to the deplorable conditions now existing in the Southland. It deals a staggering blow to the advanced ideas of civilization and emphasizes the question as to how far is a civilized man removed from the innermost recesses of barbarism. The cruelty displayed and the fiendishness exercised would seem to indicate that the present affirmations of our advanced stages of enlightenment are as "sounding brass and tinkling cymbals."
Our "holier than you" attitude in dealing with the "unspeakable Turk" in our appeals for the Armenians and our "prayer-book position" in making our demands upon the "barbarous Russians" in their treatment of the Jews have received a set-back, and invited embarrassment as the odor from the burning flesh of the hapless Americans of color and their shrieks of agony invite a contemptuous smile from the two other parties to the controversy.
It is now definitely ascertained that the presiding judge, the sheriff, the deputy sheriffs, the captain of the company of the state troops and many of the troops themselves connived at and added the lynchers who burned to death the two colored men, who were charged with murder.
It was a carnival of crime and it tends to make the heart sick. It is but fair to state that white men are pushing this investigation and white men are endeavoring to fix the responsibility for this murder of colored men, who were already in the hands of the law. These white men represent the conservative elements of the New South. To them, we can safely entrust our interests and to them we can with assurance make our appeals. As we note these acts of savagery, we sometimes tremble, and we sometimes waver in our confidence, but in the "wake of the storm comes the host of peace-makers," who give to us consolation and attempt to bind up all of our wounds.
THE POST'S ABSURDITIES:
THE Washington, D.C., Post is humorous to the extreme at times. It has been discussing the question, "Will rabbits fight," and cited instances from the statements of "snake story" correspondents to show that they will fight and that dogs have been literally torn to pieces by them. Not satisfied with these miraculous statements, it proceeded to argue the question, "Will mules kick?" and again the correspondent of ghost stories came to its relief and gravely assured the public that the statement that mules kick was entirely
erroneous, that the long-eared fraternity has been grossly misrepresented and that they do not kick.
Of course the Negro-mule drivers, who have come in contact with the mule both before and behind were not consulted and the mule itself no doubt "smiled" grimly as it contemplated the number of colored persons it had landed above the level of its back. But the Posr gave a grunt of satisfaction as it argued the question and from a theoretical stand-point proved its case, to its entire self-satisfaction.
Its latest venture is a refutation of the working capacity of the Negro. We showed in a recent article that the number of bales of cotton produced in 41 years was (321,880,337) two hundred and thirty-one million, eight hundred and eighty thousand, three hundred and fifty-seven bales, which would make the average yearly production of cotton valued at $40.00 per bale amount to one hundred million, four hundred and forty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
The amount of cotton produced per year has increased and the value of the crop since 1865 on an average basis amounts to two hundred and twenty-six million, two hundred and twenty-four thousand, seven hundred and twenty dollars. This was too much for the Post as the Negroes of the South were known to be the great cotton-producers of the South-hand. It then propounds the question, "Do Negroes produce cotton?" and although, we, who are down here are looking at the Negroes producing the cotton, the gentleman in the Post's editorial sanctum, with much gravity, argues that the Negroes do not produce cotton.
It says:
"Here again is the long-ago exploded fallacy that the cotton crop is produced by Negro labor, and that every reduction of the volume of that labor means a corresponding curtailment of the crop. Nothing could be more nonsensical. As far back as 1885 the Times Democrat, of New Orleans, showed by unassailable statistics that more than half of the cotton crop was produced by white labor, and since then the proportion has steadily increased. To-day it may be asserted with entire safety that at least three-fifths of the crop is the result of the white man's industry. The "hot Southern suns" are a mere figure of speech, a superstition. Every intelligent person in the cotton belt knows that this is true. And the fact is that if every Negro now residing in the Southern States were to move North to morrow, there would be very little disturbance of the industry even at first and none at all after a year or two. Southerners like the Negro as a laborer. They are conservative they are used to him, and they have no taste for radical experiments. But whose imagines that the South's welfare depends upon the black man is utterly mistaken, and he who speculates in cotton with Negro labor as his basis will go broke as surely as the sun shines above this tree and happy land."
These statements are on a par with the other questions asked. It shows to what extent Negro-haters will go in order to minimize the true value of the black man to the community and with all of its slate erasing, it leaves one hundred million dollars worth of cotton to the producing power of the Negro, without counting the production of the corn, oats, tobacco, sugar and molasses. If a rabbit fights and a mule doesn't kick then the Negroes of the South-land do not produce cotton and that's all there is about it.
Go on with your nursery hymes and your ghost stories, Mr. Posr, but be kind enough to leave us out of the equation. There are enough Negro haters abusing and slandering us already, without having you lending the influence of your powerful journal to those who so wantonly assail us.
AWFUL BEUTALITY
The Richmond, Va., TIMES-DISPATCH,
in a recent editorial article called upon
the colored people to assist in running
down colored men charged with crime.
Right on the heels of this comes a report
from BRUSSON, FLORIDA, reciting the
fact that WASH, BRADLEY, the colored
man charged with having shot and
killed Mrs. N. B. BARROW, (white
Friday, Sept. 2nd, 1904 was captured by
SHED and WALTER HOWARD, both of
whom are colored, Monday, Sept. 5th at
about sunset two miles from LEVYVILLE,
just as he was trying to trade a shot-gun
for a revolver. They over-powered him,
tied him hand and foot and delivered
him to the white citizens.
Did they deliver him to the officers of the law and accord to him a fair and impartial trial as is guaranteed by our laws? Let us see. The reports states that his ears were cut off, his back slashed with knives, while the blood spurted and the victim groaned. His arms were nearly severed with buck-shot, and the other indignities are no doubt unfit for publication. After torturing him as described, his body was riddled with bullets and hanged to the limb of a tree by the murderers. Do you think that this will tend to induce other colored men to capture Negro criminals? Do you think that we would raise our hands to prevent the escape of a fugitive, be his crime what it may if we knew or believed that he would be tortured in the manner described? Not much! We wouldn't aid in the capture of a white fugitive who had killed a colored woman, if he were to be similarly treated and we do not care who knows it either.
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Strictly Business.
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Young Nervie—Y-yes, sir; but I
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you know!—Puck.
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FIERCE "BATTLE" AT BULL RUN
"Blue" Army Unable to Break Defense of the "Browns."
HALT CALLED IN FIGHTING
Gafnesville, Va., Sept. 7.—The Blue and the Brown armies were in fierce contest when halted by the chief umpire. Previous to this the commanders of the two forces had spent the time manoeuvring for position. The net result of the day is that General Grant, who is charged with forcing back General Bell's brown army through Thoroughfare Gap, has not been able to break the line of defense established by General Bell. This line extends north and south, bisecting the manoeuvre zone about midway of its length.
The northern half of General Bell's defense line is composed of infantry and artillery. General Grant opposed this force in the extreme north early in the day, but with no success. After five companies of the Blue army had been ruled off the field for attackink in the open a strong concealed defense, hostilities ceased for nearly three hours.
During this time General Grant swung the bulk of his infantry and artillery to the south in an effort to flank General Bell's line of infantry on the right. General Bell, however, learned of the movements of his adversary, and rushed up his reserves to the threatened point. The two forces came in contact, artillery was brought into play by the Brown army, and rapid-fire guns spoke on both sides, while volley after volley of musket fire added to the sound of battle, which could be heard through the Virginia hills for miles. The battle had proceeded only a short time when an order from the umpires was given to cease firing. At this time the forces were practically equal, and the situation was such that a decision from the umpires seemed to be demanded. Instead, 15 minutes was granted each side to rectify its lines. Then, at a signal from the chief umpire, the action was resumed. The First Vermont, a portion of the 12th New York, the Eighth Massachusetts and the Second Maine made a charge on the Blue position, moving over very open ground and under a very heavy fire from the Seventh Virginia, the First Maine and the First Texas. The Brown charging force was ordered back after sustaining heavy loss. The success of the Blue army at this time was but temporary, as an enfilading fire of infantry and artillery from the Brown troops on the right and left made it impossible for the Blue to hold its position, and an order to fall back was given. General Bell had ordered up reinforcements, consisting of the greater part of Barry's brigade, which had been holding the line still farther to the south. The situation was critical for either side. The fighting forces were approaching closer and closer and the firing was growing hotter. A decision from the umpire would have been imperative had a halt not been called.
DELAWARE DEMOCRATS
C. S. Pennewill, of Dover, Named For Governor, On Fifth Ballot.
Dover, Del., Sept. 7.—After being in continuous session for eight hours the Democratic state convention adjourned after having nominated the following state ticket:
Presidential electors—J. Harvey Whiteman, of New Castle; Nicholas R. Johnson, of Kent; Landreth L. Layton, of Sussex.
Governor—Caleb S. Pennewill, of Dover.
Lieutenant governor — James R. Clements, of Clayton.
Representative in congress—Edward D. Hearne, of Georgeown.
Attorney general—L. Irving Handy, of Newark.
Insurance commissioner—Francis D. Baldwin, of Hockessin.
Auditor of accounts — William T. Carter, Jr., of Greenwood.
State treasurer — James T. Shallcross, of Middletown.
Every office was so bitterly contested for that ballot after ballot had to be taken, Mr. Pennewill being nominated on the fifth ballot. The convention adjourned in an uproar.
The platform endorses the principles of the Democratic party and the St. Louis platform. It ratifies the nomination of Parker and Davis. It sets forth that the political control of this state was obtained and is now held by conscielessness persons, whose prominence and success are due to their unchallenged ability to corruptly win elections and escape criminal punishment therefor.
REPUBLICANS SWEEP VERMONT
Claim to Have Elected Ticket By 32,000 Plurality.
White River Junction, Vt., Sept. 7.—Returns indicate that the Republicans in the state election have elected the head of their ticket by a plurality equal, if not greater, than that returned for William W. Stickney when he was elected governor in 1900. Stickney, however, received the support of many gold Democrats, and the Republicans generally did not look for more than 28,000 plurality. Stickney was elected four years ago by $1,282 plurality over Senter.
Secretary A. E. Watson, of the Republican state committee, claims the state by $22,000 plurality.
Betrothal to Duchess Cecilia of Meck
Jahnburg Schwerin, Announced
Tenbury-Schwerin Announced.
Altona, Prussia, Sept. 5.—During a dinner which Emperor William and the Empress Augusta Victoria gave at the Kaiserhof to the leading officials of Schleswig-Holstein, the emperor announced the betrothal of Crown Prince Frederick William to the Duchess Cecilia, sister of the reigning grand duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The announcement was received with great enthusiasm.
"Candle" Was Dynamite Stick. Burlington, N. J., Sept. 5.—Harry, the young son of Robert Haines, found what resembled a dirty candle in a pile
of scrap iron, and boylike touched a match to the "wick." A terrible explosion followed,uckily exerting its force in the opposite direction from Haines. However, he was much cut about the head and may lose his sight. The "candle" was a stick of dynamite.
World's Fair Records Broken
St. Louis, Sept. 7. - All attendance records of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition were broken Monday, when 207,454 persons passed through the gates. Tits number, it is stated, exceeded the attendance on Labor Day at the Columbian Exposition, when 198,858 visitors were registered by the turnstiles.
Seven Prisoners Break Jail.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 7. - Seven prisoners convicted of various charges escaped from jail here by sawing the steel bars in one of the cells.
A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, September 1.
Thursday, September 1.
Three masked men held up an express train at Kemmerer, Wyo., and escaped with $500.
Senator Fairbanks, Republican candidate for vice president, opened the campaign in Kansas at Marion.
Washington Hancock, grandson of the late General W. S. Hancock, died suddenly in London of heart disease.
Dr. Thomas Herran, who represented Colombia at Washington up to the time of the Panama incident, died at Liberty, N. Y., after a long illness.
Friday, September 2.
Three hundred students of the Ohio Normal University at Ada have signed a petition to bar negroes from the school.
Nathan Frye, treasurer of the Watertown, Mass., Savings Bank, is under arrest charged with embezzling $12,000 of its funds.
The 296 survivors of the "Old Bucktails," famous sharpahooters of the Civil War, held their annual reunion at Lock Haven, Pa.
For wireless telegraphy work in the navy during the coming year the bureau of equipment will recommend an appropriation of $300,000.
The new United States mint at Denver, Col., was opened with a presidential salute of 20 guns, but coining will not begin until July 1, 1905.
Saturday, September 3.
The Most Rev. Dr. Flood, Catholic archbishop of Trinidad, has arrived in New York from Brazil.
John Joiner, colored, was hanged at Wilmington, Del., for the murder of John R. Taylor, colored.
Wilson Jarrell fell from his bicycle at Felton, Del., and was struck by a railroad engine and instantly killed.
An examination was held at the navy yard, Washington, D. C., to fill two vacancies in the grade of assistant paymaster in the navy.
Six Indians of the Turtle Mountain reservation, Rolla, N. D., were found dead from drinking wood alcohol, and four more are dying.
Monday, September 5.
The union butchers of New York have declared the strike against the Beef Trust at an end.
William Talmadge, of Philadelphia, died in hospital in agony after drinking a quart of whisky.
Coal operators and miners in Montana have agreed on a wage scale to continue one year from October 1.
A block of business houses in the wholesale district of Memphis, Tenn., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $800,000.
Rosa Stern, the 23-year-old daughter of Rev. Lewis Stern, of Washington, while despondent through sickness, cut her throat with a razor.
Tuesday, September 6.
Five laborers were killed by the explosion of a threshing engine on a farm near Bricelyn, Minn.
The biennial convention of the Letter Carriers' Association of Pennsylvania was held at Allentown.
John, Lightman, aged 14 years, of Philadelphia, was drowned in the Delaware river while swimming.
State Senator Alexander E. Patten, of Curwensville, Pa., died of heart disease, after an illness of 24 hours.
George B. Cortelyou, Republican national chairman, visited President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay and discussed campaign plans.
George Schmidt, of New York, in a fit of jealousy, shot his wife three times and then himself, and both are in a critical condition.
Wednesday, September 7.
Wednesday, September 7.
The state convention of the Populist party of New Jersey was held at Atlantic City.
The Cuban senate has ratified the treaty of extradition recently concluded between this country and Cuba.
Two railroaders were killed and one fatally injured in a head-on collision on the Pittsburg and Rochester railroad near Carman, Pa.
Miss Putnam and Arthur Courtney, of Pittsburg, were drowned in Lake Barmore, near Grove City, Pa., while sailing, their boat upsetting in a squall. President Roosevelt and President Diaz, of Mexico, may meet at Galveston, Tex., in November, as Mr. Roosevelt will spend several weeks hunting there at a time when Diaz will visit El Paso.
GENERAL MARKETS
Philadelphia—Floor firm; winter superfine, $3.65@3.80; Penna. roller, clear, $4.60@4.80; city mills, fancy, $6.25@6.50. Rye floor firm; per barrel, $4.25 Wheat firm; No 2 Penna, red, new $1.03@1.03"; Corn steady; No 2. yelow $1.03@1.03"; Ons firm; No white, clipped, $6.12%; grease $8c, Hay firm; No 1. timothy, large bales, $15@15.50. Pork firm; family $1. Beef steady; beef hams, $23@24 Live poultry firm; hens, 13%@14c; old roosters, 9c. Dressed poultry firm; choice fowls, 14½c; old roosters, 9c Butter firm; creamy, 20c. Eggs per dozen, 9c. Potatoes steady; new, per basket, $2@30c.
fancy imitation, 17@18c; fancy cream-
ery, 19@20c; fancy ladle, 14@15c;
store-packed, 10@12c. Eggs firm; 21c
Live Stock Markets.
Union Stock Yards, Pittsburgh—Cattle
steady; choice, $6.69@7.55; prime, $5.30
prime; heavy, $5.90@6; hogs steady;
prime, heavy, $5.90@6; @6.30; heavy Yorkers, $6.25@6.30;
light Yorkers, $6.10@6.25; pigs, $5.70@
5.90; roughs, $4.50; sheep slow-
ing, $4.50; common sheep, $1.50@2; spring lamb, $3.50@
5.75; yeal calves, $7.750
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PURCHASING F. CIT TREES.
Many Farmers Pay Too Much Attention to the Beauty of Branches and of Foliage.
Ordinarily it is better to purchase trees near home than at a distance, as they will have just that much less to endure in the way of transportation. If they come from a long distance they can, it is true, be delivered in good shape, if their roots are properly packed in damp moss and like material. But this is not always certainty. It does not pay the buyer to always select the cheapest trees, nor will it pay him always to select the expensive trees. The younger the tree within a certain limit the better. In this matter of selling young trees the nurseryman cannot always do as they would. One nurseryman says that young and small fruit trees are better than the longer and older ones, but the customer can't be made to believe that. He wants bigness. The nurseryman says that if he tries to sell one-year-old trees the other fellow—the competitor—gets in with his big trees, and the buyer is caught by him. A young tree has more power of getting hold of the soil, and for some unaccountable reason makes a better growth in five or six years than does the older and larger tree. The buyer will do well to say to the nurseryman that he is willing to take young trees, if, in the opinion of the nurseryman, they are the best. In that case the nurseryman will be frank and state his real views of the matter.
There is another thing that the buyer of fruit trees should remember, and that is that many varieties of fruit, many varieties of apples as well as of other fruits, are grown on trees that are ill-shaped. This is due to their variety characteristics, and the buyer should not try to get a fine-shaped tree in such a case.
The desire of the buyer to get a nicely shaped tree has more than once resulted in the nurseryman selling him some other variety. The buyer demanded a smooth, nice-looking tree. The seller could not find it in his variety, because it did not exist, and so polished off on the trees of another variety to keep from losing the sale. When the trees got old enough for the buyer to find fault, the nurseryman may go out of business. When we select a fruit tree it is selected for the fruit it will bear, and not for the beauty of its branches or its foliage.—Farmers' Review.
COVER FOR BEAN STACKS
Easy Way to Improve the Quality of Beans Without Any Extra Expense Worth Mentioning.
Ordinarily beans are pulled and stacked in the field about a single pole.
about a single pole,
without cover for
the top. This is
often the cause of
severe loss, resulting
from rain per-
colating through
middle of stack
where it cannot
readily dry out. As
offen, too, this
without cover for the top. This is often the cause of severe loss, resulting from rain percolating through middle of stack where it cannot readily dry out. As often, too, this trouble is found at the bottom of the stack, as a result of moisture in the ground. The illustration shows the method I adopted years ago, and with which I have had the best of results. Any kind of rough sticks may be used, and a haycap stretched across the top and tied to the stakes. Protected in this way the quality of beans will be much improved without any extra expense worth speaking of.—Farm and Home.
Knew the Important Thing.
Betty—So Maud is engaged? Well, I'm sorry for the man. She doesn't know the first thing about keeping house.
Bessie—Oh, yes, she does.
Betty—I'd like to know what?
Bessie—The first thing is to get a man to keep house for.—Harper's Bazaar.
One Hope Left
Manager—I hate to say it, but the public seems to have lost interest in you.
Old Actor—'Tis true; too true. But I can easily disguise myself, and if you will kindly announce me as an ex-burglar, green-goods man or pugilist, we'll take the town—N. Y. Weekly.
Going One Better
Mamma—Sometimes there are rude little boys in church who giggle and smile at the girls, and some of the little girls smile back at them; but I hope my little girl does not behave like that? Little Girl—No, indeed, mamma; I always put my tongue out at them.—Ally Sloper.
"She is truth personified," said her friend.
"Yes," assented her enemy, "plain truth."—Chicago Record-Herald.
The One Essential.
The Fiance—Now, don't let us quarrel.
The Flancee—Quarrel? Why, my dear, if I could have my way, we'd never quarrel.—Puck.
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ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT
Excellent for Smoothing Rough Fields, Scraping Roads and Other Like Purposes.
I have always wanted some sort of a tool that could be used to joint and smooth up a plowed field, scrape a rough road in the spring and meet other like demands; but the plank "granger," the flat log with a cutting edge and like devices never quite filled the bill, and they in some way all went into innocuous desuetude. It occurred to me that a big iron ring with some sort of an inside cutting attachment would be the thing. A bar of steel four inches wide and one-half inch thick and long enough to make a five and one-half foot hoop was procured. Another bar of the
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same size was made into a triangle, just a fit, and put inside the hoop and riveted at the angles. Ring hooks were put into the outer rim, to which a bale was fastened, and then I had a most complete tool. The cost was $5, and we have found it of the greatest use. As a road smoother it is all that can be desired. Every inch of its 33 feet of under edge is either cutting, pushing or scraping back to the center, filling as well as leveling, and a good team will pull it all day. For road smoothing—not scraping—it equals a big machine. It is well to have a plank fitted on top, so that in extreme cases the driver may add his weight and do a little more complete work.—John Gould, in N. Y. Tribune-Farmer.
TWO EFFECTS OF CLOVER.
The Crop Acts Either as a Collector of Nitrogen or as a Sub-Earth Cultivator.
The work of clover is not always to get nitrogen from the air. There are some solls that are rich enough in nitrogen and yet need the presence of the legumes. In a visit to Antloch, Ill., the writer observed that the soil is only a little addy, and that it is also rich in nitrogen. Clover is being grown, but its work of soil renovation is different from that it has to perform on some other solls, especially those that are deficient in nitrogen. Here the roots go deep into the soil and help to improve the physical condition of the soil. It taps the stores of potassium and phosphorus that are hidden away in the depths of the earth and brings them to the upper layers of soil, where they will be within the reach of the plants that do not have the deep root systems that clover and alfalfa have.
The clovers will be found to be useful on almost all soils where they will grow, either as collectors of nitrogen or as subaureth cultivators. They send their roots deep into the soil and tunnel in every direction. The roots in time die, leaving a multitude of passages in the soil. These act as drains and as air channels, by which the soil is more fully aerated. As a nitrogen gatherer the clover is of great use on millions of acres of our lands from which the nitrogen has been exhausted, and on millions of other acres it acts as a carrier of fertility from the cellars to the upper storage rooms of the soil—Farmers' Review.
New Potato from Uraguay.
Prof. Heckel, of Marseilles, France, discovered a few years ago, along the banks of the River Mercedes, Uruguay, a new tubercle, which seems to put the common white potato in the background, if reports are true. This wonderful potato need be planted but once, as new tubercles and stems to branch off in every direction all the year, and after one planting the vegetable perpetuates itself from the broken roots left in the soil. The flowers are abundant, and very odorous, and a perfume resembling jasmine has already been manufactured from them. Enormous production, absolute immunity from common potato diseases, delicious flavor and easy culture are some of the features already claimed for this new discovery.
A Crop of Antique Corn
Several years ago, in exploring an Indian mound in the southwest part of Missouri, a quantity of corn was found. Some of this corn was planted, and, to the surprise of all, it germinated and matured. How long it had lain in the mound, on which large trees were growing, no one can conjecture—probably several hundred years. Last fall a citizen of Jamesport, Mo., secured a handful of this
corn and now has a dozen hills of it growing in his garden. The grains are about the usual size of field corn, but are of a deep brown, mottled with yellow.
CANADA IS AHEAD OF US.
Roads and Road Laws of Our Northern Neighbor Are Far Superior to Our Own.
It is subject for frequent comment on the part of travelers that the roads of Europe are far superior to those of the United States; and this result is generally attributed to the system of government aid and supervision which prevails in nearly all European nations. But it is not so generally known that our nearest neighbor, Canada, is also ahead of us, not only in the character of the roads, but in the matter of road legislation.
Hon. A. W. Campbell, highway commissioner of Ontario, is an enthusiast on the subject of good roads, and at the same time a very able and practical public official. He is quite well known to the good roads people of the United States, as he has attended and addressed a number of important conventions in this country. In a recent report he says:
"Good roads are essential to the full development of agriculture. In a country such as Ontario, dependent upon agriculture, this means that good roads are of very great importance to the towns and cities as well. Good roads are not a benefit to any one class of the community. They are of universal value. This is a matter of which too narrow a view has been taken in Ontario. If we must have carals and railways, then we must have good country roads. It has been taken for granted that if the country as a whole constructed canals and subsidized railways, the common roads could take care of themselves. But this has not been the case.
"The broader aspect of the question has recently been given prominence by the decision of the provincial government to appropriate $1,000,000 for road improvement. This, for lack of a better name, has been termed government 'aid' or 'assistance.' It is a recognition of the value of good roads to every citizen of the country, and a just effort on the part of the government to cooperate in procuring them.
"The object of the present measure is not so much to aid by the gratuitous distribution of money, but has for its aim a nobler purpose. While it aims to encourage the doing of a work which is acknowledged by all as being an important and necessary service, its prime object is to equalize and lighten the cost. The unfairness and injustice of the present system of taxation for highway construction is so noticeable as to be a matter of wonderment that some step of this kind has not been these devised by government, or compelled by the people.
"The government is only exercising its rightful function as a part of the administrative system in providing a portion of the cost of making roads and distributing the money among the different municipalities entitled to it. This function can be performed by the provincial government only."
In Nova Scotia nearly 15 years ago the provincial government began the appropriation of funds to improve the roads, and the plan has proven entirely successful where the old system of depending on the local communities was a complete failure.
Even away out in British Columbia there are many fine roads which are said to be "the delight of tourists." All these are built and kept up by the government.
BARROW FOR BARBED WIRE.
A handy device for carrying or stringing barbed wire is shown in the cut. Take two pieces of 1x7 stuff six feet long. Cut the ends down for handles, same as for a wheelbarrow, and round
BARROW FOR HANDLING WIRE.
one corner on the other end. The barrow is drawn instead of being pushed. Bore an inch hole 20 inches from lower end. Nail a piece of 1x7 across the handles 12 inches from the hole, making space between the handles two inches wider than the reel. Brace as shown.
Take an old wagon hole, bore three-sixteenth inch hole through each end and use tire bolts for pins. One man can string more wire with this device than two men carrying the reel on a bar.—Farm and Home.
Preserving of Hollow Trees
Often a valuable lawn or roadside tree is found to be hollow and decaying rapidly, and unless something is done to preserve it, it will not last long. We have seen trees preserved as follows; Remove all unsound and decaying wood with a chisel until the sound wood is exposed. Mix one part Portland cement and three parts clean, sharp sand into a thin mortar and fill the cavity with it. When it is about "set" coat the exposed surface with a mortar of about one part cement and one part sand. It is recommended to treat the exposed wood, inside the cavity, with a solution of one pound copper sulphate in five gallons water before putting in the cement.—Ohio Farmer.
Success with Angora Goats
Success with Angora Goats.
The breeder of pure Angora goats must give close attention to his flocks the year around, says Country Life in America. A doe will often leave a new-born kid to join her flock as often as it gets out of her sight, nor will she return to her kid, unless the flock happens to feed that way. Naturally, many kids are lost, and others would die if they were not take care of. A few head of well-bred goats may be found profitable on an farm, especially on a farm where brunning is an improvement, as no other will destroy shrubs so quickly.
Usual Way.
Isabel—Fred and I have decided to form a life partnership.
Myra—Indeed! And of course Prie is to be a silent partner and put in the money—Chicago Daily News.
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
WAS A DAISY INDEED
METEORIC CAREER OF KENTUCKY GIRL IN OKLAHOMA.
Gained Fame by Leaping from Cow-catcher and Hanging Her Skirt on a Bush, Thus Staking Her Claim.
An advertisement for the sale of a valuable lot by the administrator of the estate of Nannette Sweeburg means to those who are in possession of the facts that it is the closing chapter in the story of the most spectacular woman who has ever called Oklahoma home. She is dead now, and, strange to say, there are no distant relatives fighting over the wealth she left behind. A few there have been who have laid claim to the lands she owned, but when traced to the end their claims have proved false, or, at least, shadowy.
Miss Nannette Daisy, her name before her marriage, was a Kentuckian and a beautiful woman. It is related that prior to going to Oklahoma she was assistant state librarian of Kentucky, but further than this her antecedents are little known. But she was a good "mixer" and a "wire puller" and showed other evidences of having had her share in the politics of the state which claimed her birth.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says that it was on April 22, 1889, that she first came into prominence. Upon that date old Oklahoma, as it is now designated, was first opened for settlement. Miss Daisy contrived to make friends with the engineer of the first train which went into Oklahoma from the south. From a point near the southern border she boarded the train, taking a seat on the cowcatcher of the engine. When the train reached a point a few miles north of where Britton, Okla, and south of Guthre, Okla, are now located, she gave the preconcerted signal to the engineer, who slowed the train while she leaped to the ground and hung on a convenient bus her petticoat, which she had inscribed with the legend: "This is my claim." Being a woman of considerable breeding and education, she naturally fell in with the better element and numbered among her friends the
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newspaper men and the politicians of the day. None of them, however, were better "wire pullers" or lobbyists than she and the first few legislatures bear ample testimony to this fact. She was soon dubbed "Kentucky Daisy," and to the majority of the people of Oklahoma she so remained until, like her name sake, she faded from the life of the territory.
This fading process was a long way off, however. She had a facile pen and while in Guthrie was correspondent for big dailies in St. Louis, New York, Chicago, Dallas and Cincinnati and was occupied part of the time in doing local work for Guthrie papers.
A few years later this spunky and beautiful Kentucky girl was again a conspicuous figure in the public eye when she made the run with the thousands of others at the opening of the Sac and Fox reservation. Astride a strong white horse she was well in the lead and stood a good chance to once more win a claim, but the horse suddenly stumbled and she was thrown violently to the ground. It was thought she had been killed and was so telegraphed all over the country, but instead she was merely stunned, and upon regaining her senses laid claim to the ground upon which she had fallen. This became a part of the town site of Chandler and is the lot which is now being advertised for sale.
Although she had had during her career many tempting offers of marriage, it was her fate to fall in love with a young and handsome Swedish soldier, member of a troop of cavalry maintained in Oklahoma by the government. This young fellow was some ten years her junior, but despite this they were married, and, while he remained in the army, she continued her work in public life. By this time, however, Mrs. Svegeburg, her husband's Christian name, was not so young and fresh as in the first days of Oklahoma, and for this and other reasons the Swedish soldier commanded to view his marriage as anything but tasteful. He was suddenly transferred to Chicago, and, although his wife remained in Oklahoma for a time, her love for her husband was strong, and at length yielding, she followed him there.
Upon her arrival she discovered he had secured a divorce from her and remarried. She never returned to Oklahoma, and was heard of no more until her death, which occurred last autumn. At that time a Chicago attorney went to Oklahoma and told of the pitiful death of the one time well-known woman.
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JOURNEY OF TERROR
CREW LITERALLY DEVOURED BY VICIOUS CENTIPEDES.
Italian Bark Has a Serious Time in Reaching Its Destination — Neither Work Nor Prayer Brought Relief.
Capt. L. Rubell, Philadelphia agent of the Italian bark Annita-e-Menottie was in receipt of a letter from Skipper Ferrara of the bark, telling how, on the ship's voyage to St. John, N. B., the crew were horribly bitten by hordes of bugs and centipedes. As a result of the sailors' battle with the pests part of the crew are in the hospital at St. John and it is feared that blood-poisoning may result.
On her last trip the bark brought a cargo of bones from Buenos Ayres. As always happens in this sort of a cargo there lurk thousands of nasty bugs and deadly crawling things. In discharging the bones the bug and centipede contingent took refuge in various parts of the ship, escaping the vigilance of the seamen.
The bark sailed from Philadelphia on June 16 and arrived at St. John on June 23. The Delaware breakwater had been left behind a few hundred miles when the bugs and centipedes swarmed out of hiding places and actually took possession of the vessel. The decks and masts became covered with them. They attacked the sailors; they made an onslaught upon the man at the wheel. He would have been driven from his post had not a seaman been ordered by the skiiper to heat off the bugs.
The plight of the crew became serious. Nothing could conquer the terrible enemy. The bugs, Capt. Ferrara says in his letter to Capt. Rubelli, of the pinching species. They flew about the vessel and lit upon the sailors, particularly their faces. The centipede added to the horror of the situation by crawling up the inside of the seamen's trousers. "What a position to be placed in," said Capt. Ferrara in his letter. "It was awful. The crew were almost at the mercy of the bug and centipede scourge. In their desperation they tore sails to
TORMENTED BY BUGS
pieces and with the bits about the length of towels tried to beat off their blood-thirsty assailants. It was useless. We killed hundreds of the tenacious pests, but as fast as we did so hundreds more swarmed up through the openings in the hatches. The decks became so thick with the smashed bodies of the enemy that it was with difficulty we kept our footing.
"The fight was a sorely unequal one. We soon saw that we could not conquer the bug and centipede horde, so I ordered all sail to be clapped on and this, despite the fact that a three-fourths gale was blowing and the topmasts on fore and mainmasts were bending like reeds. With the masts and no easy work to handle the sails. I felt that our only salvation was to reach our destination."
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quickly as we could. There was a time when I feared that the sailors would take to the boats and desert the bug-cursed ship. But I succeeded in persuading them to stick to the bark.
"Under the great spread of canvas that we carried we made the trip in seven days, beating all previous runs by three days. No matter how hard the wind blew we kept all sail on the ship. Meanwhile the bugs and centipedes fought us. The faces and arms and hands of the crew were in a frightful condition. Even the eyes of the sailors were affected.
"You have seen me jolly, Capt. Rubell," concluded Skipper Ferrara. "You ought to have seen me and the crew when St. John came in sight. I became devout. I prayed. The anchor was no sooner let go in the harbor than, with a shout, the crew lowered the boats and were soon pulling frantically shoreward. Poor fellows, it will be a long time before some of them recover from their blites. The most serious I ordered to the hospital. I very much fear blood poisoning for not a few and I am a little nervous on the same score myself."
Birds Nest in Letter Box
A letter box in the wall of a house at Leedham, England, has been converted into a receptacle for a nest by a pair of tomlits. At present it is occupied by 11 young birds. And they are quite friendly with the postman, who opens the box four or five times a day.
Too Many Educated Men
Greece is overrun by well-educated men who are unable to make a living. The country swarms with doctors who have no patients, and lawyers who have no briefs, while laborers are in demand to till the soil at good wages.
Bonds of the Philippines
The bonds of the Philippine islands are quoted higher than British consolls.
The Pigeon.
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The pigeon is of lower mold,
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Proficient Charles
"Does your husband take as much interest in horse racing as he used to?" "Yes," answered young Mrs. Torkins. "Charley can always tell the day before a race which horse ought to win and the day after why he didn't"—Washington Star.
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About the Size of It.
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IT WAS a lovely morning in May. From the sunny gardens of the Alcazar a light breeze carried into the great hall of justice the fragrance of the blossoming lime and orange trees, momentarily clearing its perfumed atmosphere with a breath of refreshing coolness. On his raised dias at the farther end of the chamber the most noble and powerful Dom Pedro, by the grace of God, king of Castile and Leon, allowed his pale blue eyes to wander reslessly over its crowded confines. Beside the royal chair of state, with its overhanging dorset, was another, somewhat lower, occupied by the king's beautiful mistress, the good Maria de Padilla, one enabling influence of his brutal andanguine life. The tapestried wall where the three castles stood out in gold broidery against a crimson background, were lined with a strong of the proudest knights and barons of Castile, nearer the dals were clustered the great officials of state and the most intimate of the monarch's courtly encourage, as well as the ladies in attendance on the uncrowned queen. At the entrance of the chamber stood a detachment of the bowman of the guard.
But it was no routine matter that held the attention of the courtly multitude this day. A brave and loyal gentleman, beloved and esteemed by all who knew him, was within the hour to answer with his life for an alleged neglect of duty, and those who knew
JIMS
ONCE MORE, I'LL BOWED TO THE
FLOOR.
the tender mercies of their sovereign had but little time in his chances of escape. It was, but three days past that Don Diego de Guamau, alcede of Seville, had been made answerable with his head for the first unpunished murder within the city walls, for many brawls took place between the hot-headed capitans who thronged the town in artesia on the court, and the king was on putting an end to their continuation. Searcey 24 hours ago, however, Don Sancho de Espinosa, a cavalier of Aragon, had been found dead in a pool of his own blood in one of the narrow streets of the Moorish quarter without a trace of any kind to give a cue of the assassin's identity. The alcede had left no stone unturned in his endeavor to discover the culprit, but could rest his case on no firm foundation than the testimony of the old crone before whose dwelling place the corpse had been found. Drawn to the windowsill by the class of steel, she had noticed, by the grimmer of her on lamp, that one of the combatants was a tall man, with a profusion of fair hair, the other, being in the shadow, she could not see at all. The alcede had his enemies, and the matter had been brought to the king, who, delighted with so favorable an opportunity of gratifying his cruelty with so fair a semblance of justice, had commanded Don Diego's presence in the hall of justice to answer for his remissness.
There was a slight stir at the lower end of the great room, and the alcyde, escorted by four archers, proceeded up the hell in the direction of the throne. Arrived at some ten paces of the dais, he sank on one knee, then rising said, simply, yet not without pride, "I place I, self in your majesty's hands." The royal judge smiled vaguely, and refreshed, with a delicately affected sadness in his even voice: "No one grieves more deeply than I, Senor de Guzman, over the vow I made concerning you, but I swore by St. Juan of Compo, ode that should murder be done here in my loyal city of Seville, and the murderer escape his fate on the gallows, your head should take his place at your neck feel his noose. A king's row, alcea, is a holy thing, and glad as I would be to pardon your neglect. I could not, therefore, imperil my own soul's salvation. If there is ought you can offer in extenuation or desire I will now give it my best consideration."
The alcayde poised to collect his thoughts. There is a ring of finality about the kind's mache that clearly boded him no good. Rich powerful and popular as he knew himself to be, there were none a long his kinstolk or friends who would have to brook their monarch's wrath by pleading in his behalf. As he gave about him in his
perplexity, his eye chanced to meet that of Maria de Padilla, and he noticed that she looked at him with deep meaning. With an almost imperceptible movement of her head she let her glance fall on a spot about five feet from the dals, where the polished oak floor shone like a mirror.
His eyes followed hers, and there cast on the waxed surface, he saw a face. It was the face of the man whosat upon the throne, that of his august majesty, Dom Pedro himself. Bewildered, he sought her eyes again. Again the meaning look crossed her features, and now her glance wasturned to a little tapestry-hung door that led from the hall at the righthand side of the throne. He watchedher narrowly, and saw that the inscription, broidered in large, black letters on the hangings' lower end,seemed to hold her attention. The tapestry itself was a crude bit of work. On a white charger, King Alfonso the Wise, surrounded by hisknights, watched the hang-man flinging into the flames of the Toledan bonfire the sacred books of the Mozarabrital. Beneath, ran the staring gothicletters of the inscription, "Lo quehace el ry, es res hecho" (Thatwhich the king does, is well done). Again her eyes returned to the reflection on the floor, and Don Diegounderstood. The little pantomime hadtaken but a few minutes, yet it wasanother man who stood before themonarch now. Everything was clear tohim. The old woman had said thatthe unknown assassin was fair-haired. The king's mistress had unmistakablypointed out his reflection on the polishedsurface of the oak, and the inscription completed the chain ofcircumstantial evidence. The bland,smiling monster on the throne wasthe slayer, and secure in the knowledgeof the other's ignorance, wasgloating over the prospect of hisapproaching end. There was only onepossible way in which he might savehimself.
Once more he bowed to the throne. "I have but one request to make of your majesty," he cried. "Give me 24 hours, and Don Sancho's murderer swings from the gallows in the Plaza de San Francisco. Your majesty shall see him face to face."
The king's smile grew and broadened. Was ever comedy more amusing.
"Can you offer us this proof of your vigilance and skill? How happily shall I be relieved of my vow," he answered, "and what is more, you shall have from the royal treasure a grant of 10,000 duros of gold the better to maintain your high office as governor of Seville."
"I thank you with all my heart for this boon. Your majesty shall not be disappointed," was Don Diego's rejoinder, as he backed from the royal presence. The sitting was over, and king and courtiers repaired to the cool gardens of the alcazar for rest and refreshment.
The morning dawned, but the al-cayde had not been idle. A skilled artificer in the Moorish quarter had fashioned a cunning image of the king—his very double in every respect, even to the color of his hair, and this dummy now swayed and dangled from the loft gibbet in the Plaza de San Francisco, filling the gaping crowd with wonder and delight, not unmixed, however, with some secret fear. The al-cayde, together with his officials, reined their steeds toward the right of the high wooden platform, along the way the royal cortege would have to take.
They had not long to wait, for the king's curiosity had been aroused in the highest degree. Near the tenth hour, announced by the blare of trumpet and atabal, preceded by steel-clad men-at-arms, and surrounded by a glittering torr of lords and nobles, himself on a huge black charger, Dom Pedro appeared. A cloak of dark crimson velours set off his costume of black silk, the osirish plume that curled gracefully, round his baret was fastened by the great balas ruby, for which he had shamelessly slain his guest, the Moorish king of Grenada, and the gold-inaid trappings of his desirier shone like fire in the bright sunlight. Followed by his train, he swept along until the foot of the gallows was reached, then reined in his mount and looked aloft. There was an instant and universal hush. A hot flush rose to his pallid cheeks, one hand tightened on the reins, while the other half-drew the jewelled dagger that hung at his belt. But he controlled his emotion, and motioned Don Diego to approach. The alcade, bowing to his horse's flowing mane, drew near.
"Senor Alcacev," the king said slowly, "you are beyond doubt the most daring man in my dominions; but since justice has been done I am satisfied. Your grant shall be made out in form to-morrow."
Again Don Diego bent to his horse's mane, then, lifting his hand he cried in thundering tones: "Long live Dom Pedro, the just king."
Taken up by the multitude, his outcrey reechoed through the square. Again the trumpets blared and the royal precession moved on toward the palace.
In Don Diego de Guzman's oratory there was one little shrine which he never neglected. It held no picture of either saint or Madonna, only the portrait of a pure, beautiful face, whose eyes look with a gaze of deepest meaning into the room. Here he often kneels to say a prayer, and to thank in spirit the noble Maria de Padilla for her saving glance.
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‘ALCOHOL IN THE KITCHEN.
\M Little One-Act Drama Prepared by
‘Walter N. Edwards for the
\ ational A denn te.
Sn ee ee ee ae:
eon.
Mrs. Hilder—Newly married.
Miss Wilder and Miss Freeling—Youns
Indies who have only recently graduatec
from seminary.
Mrs. Hilder—You would hardly be
fteve, Mrs. Prowning, the trouble I have
ad With my cok. She Is never up te
ime, and nine times out of ten the din:
mer is late in being served. She always
seems to be ina muddled condition.
Miss Freeling — This everlasting
servant question again! It seems to be
Me only topic of conversation nowadays
Mrs. Browning—It isa most important
opie, let me assure you, Miss Freeling
and I have every sympathy with Mrs
Hilder in her troubles in the kitchen
What do you think is the cause of the
ook being muddled?
Mrs. HI hardly like to say It, but]
Believe she drinks. She is a most excel-
Ment servant, but there is this one fant
Miss Wilder—ifow horrid! ‘To thin?
of anyone in a comfortable place givins
Way to drink. Oue can hardly wonder
at the poor and miserable flying to drink
4m order to drown their cares, but for 1
Respectable woman it is simply awful!
Mrs. B.—I have found a remedy for
ail that in my house, Mine was just the
Same experience. Mr. Browning and 1
talked it over, and we came to the con-
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clusion that there was but one way of
dealing with the matter,
Mrs, H.—Pray, what was that?
Mrs. B—The conclusion we came to
was to keep alcohol outside the house al-
together. ‘
Miss F.—Then you are a total ab-
stainor?
‘Mrs. B—Certainly. My husband and
T have been abstainers for many years
Mrs, H.—But, my dear Mrs, Browning,
don’t you find it very awkward some-
Umes—with visitors and all that?
Mrs. B.—Not at all. Some of our
frlends are not abstainers, but they re-
cognize that we have the same right to
abstain as they claim In using wine. We
never admit strong drink of any kind
into the house.
Miss W.—But how awkward for the
eook! How does she manage for brandy
sauce and wine jellies and confections?
Mrs, H.—You surely don't mean, that
Ro wine fs used in the kitchen?
Mrs. B.—I certainly do; and what {
more, I think that of all places It is the
least needed in the kitchen. May not {ts
use there in some way be responsible fo:
the muddled state of your cook?
Miss F—I am glad to hear you take
such a stand, Mrs. Browning; it is just
the position that father and mother take
and we find it no inconvenience.
Miss W.—But really! I can't see
what harm a little wine can do; and see
how it improves the dishes with its
flavor.
Mrs. B—That is, of course, a matter
ef taste, and personally I dislike brandy
Sauce and wine jellies and th §pirit
@avored confections.
‘Miss F.—I agree with you; and i
Seems to me that there are so many fn.
Rocent and wholesome preparations
that it ts a pity that we should have re-
course to alcoholic liquors.
Mrs. H—Rut is not this carrying
things a little too far? [think itis. You
‘Object to wine jellies and all that sor
Of thing, but ali tle time there is aleohol
in the bread.
Miss W.—Or course there is. How
funny {t 1s that people don’t see that.
They go to an extreme on one hand, an¢
yet use the same thing on the other hand.
‘Mrs. B.—Are you sure of that? It ts
certainly new to me. I was talking not
Jong since to Dr. Walker, and he abso:
fately stated that aicohol is never found
fm natural foods. and very seldom, in.
deed, In prepared ones, so long as thos:
foods are fresh and wholesome.
Mrs. H.—Boi that can't be so. Why, tn
making bread yeast is used, and the only
object in using tt fs that’ pas may be
Generated, and it 1s these bubbles of gas
that make the oread rise,
Miss W—Thers is no doubt but that
aleohol is formed in the dough—for }
know a little chemistry, and the very
fact that the rae i= nrodneod shows tha
Alcohol has been formed
Miss F.—Thot ‘oubsedly. Bu
have you not ¢ the bread
Das to be bales? Pic fact thai alcohol
ts In the doush Coes not prove that it fk
‘also in the bread.
Mrs. H.—1 con't see that. If it fetm the
‘one, surely it must be fn the other.
Miss F.—That may be a relief—but It
48 not the fact. What really happens i
this—that the yeost acts upon the sugai
in the doush, and splits it up into alco
hol and carbonic acid gas. This ga
escapes and makes the dough rise, bul
when the bread ts put Into the oven al
the alcoho! is driven off in the steam
from the dove,
Mrs. B—That seems to clear up that
point. and we may. therefore, once agalt
feel free.
Miss W.—I am not sure abont tt. 1
don’t quite see what proof there is.
Mrs. H.—Of course it is all very well
to say the alcohol escapes, but what
proof Is there of this?
__ Miss F.—The proof is easy. ‘The heat
‘of the oven is abov= that of the boiling
Polnt of water, and as alcohol bolls al
40 degrees below that of water. it follow:
‘that it must vaporize very much more
‘guickiy, and thus be driven off in the
first quantities of steam.
Mrs. B.—That Is quite a satisfactor
explanation. I did not know the reason
and I am obliged to Miss Freeling for
explaining it.
Miss F.—The bread could, of course, be
tested after it has been baked, and I be-
Meve that where this has beea done nc
alcohol has been found to be present.
Mrs. H.—Well, that seems to settle It
“Live and learn,” they say, and I have
Jearned something this afternoon.
Miss W.—But would not the same ar.
gument apply to other cases where wine
Is used In the kitchen?
Mrs. B—1 think not; for in mans
cases the material Is neither bolled not
baked, and consequently, the full flavor
of strong drink is present.
Miss F —T know that mother objects
to that kind on the ground thatit 4s not
hecessary—we do not even think it mic
to the palate and there ts always the
danger that some one who bas con:
quered the drink habit may have the
érink habit revived.
Mrs. B—That is a very real danger
And I am» all the more certain, after our
talk to-day, that we are adopting the
Tight course in exeluding strong drink
entirely from the house.
Mrs. H.—Well, ladies, T must go, as1
still have some calls to make.
DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
Sad Legacy Which Alcohol Has Be.
stowed Upon the Country
of Belgium.
Le Bien Social has an article on de-
fective children. in which we read that
the schools for such children con-
tain 954 scholars, but the Society for
the Protection of Defective Children
has made inquiry, and found that in
Belgium there are at least 8.000 such
children and the greater number are
recelving no education at all. The ar-
ticle goes on to say that In this sad
matter “alcoho! plays a preponderating
role.” The teacher of a school at Ant-
werp “was so struck with the evil alco-
hol had caused to the children that
he renounced for life the use of all alco-
holic drinks, liqueurs, wine and beer.”
He one day said to a friend: “How
can one continue to drink when one
sees In these children the terrible evils
caused by alcohol?” Our. contempo-
rary then asks: “Do the rich distiMers
‘and the public empotsoners pay for the
‘special teaching of these children? Do
ae charge themselves with the duty
‘of remedying the sad consequences of
their pitiable condition? These ‘hon-
Orables’ content themselves with shut-
ting up In their drawers and safes the
cursed money which they gain through
the misfortune and stupefying of the
people.”
_ In another article on criminality In
Belgium, after giving details of the
crimes committed through drink, show-
Ing that 75 per cent. of the criminals
Bre alcoholics, it says; “It {s the in-
fernal commerce of the distillers and
the retail dealer in alcohol which pro-
duces all these criminals. Why not
make those who deliver themselves up
to this destructive commerce pay the
considerable cort. amounting to mil-
lions, which criminality entails on the
country?”
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that tribunal may not hand down a de-
cision for some mouths. Accordingly
about 40 saloons will go out of business
for awhile at least.
Prof. J. G. Jordan, of Bates college
was receutly asked to analyze some so:
called “beer” confiscated by a sherif
fn Maine. His report was as follows:
“I should say that it was composed o}
the rinsings from sour molasses bar.
els, the suds obiained in washing a
Darroom floor and all of the molds
grain the liquid would absorb, It 4
‘only 2.75 per cent. alcohol, but a man
fought to be prosecuted for selling such
stuf.”
No liquor is permitied the Indians
who form a large part of Cummins’
Wild West Indian Congress at the
world’s fair. So insistent is Col. Cum-
mins upon a strict observance of this
rule that he employs a skilled detec-
tive to search out violators, and In-
@ians who offend are promptly returned
to the reservation. Prohibition 1s,
maturally, conducive to better discipline
among the 750 Indias who take part
Im the congress, but it may be dificult
to persuade the aborigine that what
Ys s0 harmful to himself is not equally
go to bis clvitized brother.
Above the Siae af oe.
‘Teacher—New Jommy, how did Adam
fall?
Johnny— Puttered side down.—Brooke
lyn Life.
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA.
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LOCKED UP IN BREAD BOX: The Mepry Paste Fore Norfolk and V
Mr. Les it vember, DBAYE RICHMON
Burglar Scar Is Ceated by Boy Pris- | Year, whe. your 1aue: wedsus ue wie SIRERT
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cure #reecom. Mis. acy—Yes aod wien moder Wage aan aati
Woulda’t let me ous of les aque tor a Ge RAMS HICAGO |
Marvin G. Hosiss, of Bloomfield ave-| moment Ewlnan Sooper Bo
fue, Bloomfels, N. J, was awakened at| Mr. Cesy—Ano I made up my miad RUte. tiatum
an early hour in tie morning by a noise| to go olf und ce? : Semen 3
eiigube aleve wasteauehrabursar| "are. Uesy ses and 1 dares tther Leta sas
frost parior of his house. He| .nto thinsing 1 was ia a cecline? Fe Sc Be
arose, got his revolver. and crept quiet~| Both soxecier Weren't those hap. SEEM F M Sipe
ly to the door leading to the room, pre-| py days!—Tit-Lits, Bowton. Vrovidence: ©
pared, to ¢o battle with the intruder, but yeaa: Westnet
could see nobody. ‘The nuise continued The Modern Homebody. Perera
all the rest of the risht and Houisssat! He—And you are willing to become caso ee Reon
by the window. revolver tz hand the wife-of a poor man iar tn Roem
| It was car whenainanonbisway} She—Oh, sea: 1 am truly domestic Tania aed New Ort
}to work saw Hories at bi H, and} in my tastes i belong to only nine he gather pe
asked him what ie was doing there.| duue—N. a Weeks ; wea tna
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sounds, which at that moment were re-
peated. They were traced toa bread
box, and Honiss joined the man in an in-
Yestigation. When they opened the box.
which was in front of a grocer’s store, 3
Uittle boy jumped out, much to. thei
amazement.
He said he was Johnny Johnson, nine
years old. He had gone into the brea¢
box early in the evening while playing
hide and seek, and, being tired from
Playing all day, had fallen =sleep. ‘The
grocer evidently had fastened the has}
later, and when the little fellow awoke
he found himself a prisoner. The noise
Honiss heard was his kicking and pound-
ing inside the box. If it had not been
for a few gimlet holes in the box the boy
‘undoubtediy would have been suffocated,
. ——— jes
CAT AND DOG AS FISHERS.
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Declared by Everybody Champion
Anglers of Region Surround-
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From Littleton, N. H., a truthful
correspondent writes that the cham:
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Which hangs around the establistimen
of the Saranac Glove company. Her
title was disputed by “Mike” Corliss’
Newfoundland pup, but with the land-
ing of 4 1i-pound trout the eat t
in the lead.
‘The cat has been a most persistent
angler for some time, bringing in fish,
large and small, so regularly that its
reputation got abroad. Included in her
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Pussy Is seven-toed. She knows all
the best fishing holes in the neigh-
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Mrs. Corliss’ dog gocs fishing every
ay, and never ccmes back without a
trophy. His best catch recently was a
sucker 15 inches long.
Girl Victor Over Rattler,
Miss Julia Divers, the daughter of W.
A, Divers, a promiaent citizen of Rocks
Mount, Va., kept alarge rattlesnake cap-
tive under her feet for ten minutes and
feame out unscathed. She and her
father and her little brother were attend.
ing a picnic on Grassy hill, the foot of z
Dig mountain near the town. Whil
strolling with her brother Miss Divers
stepped on the reptile. ‘The snake was ir
coll, but unab!> to strike because of he:
weight. She realized her danger ané
planted the other foot firmly on the rep-
Ble and called to her little brother. He
went nearly a quarter of @ mile for his
father, who Lilled law snake. The rep-
thie measuret four feet and had nine rat
tes.
; Rasteuh: tn. Wak at Senn:
John Cupsick, 2 miner of Hyzleton,
Pa., becume extremely ill, and in a lo-
eal hospital, a iew days later, was
‘Pronounced dead by the doctors. Be-
ug friendiess, his body was sent fo.
‘Gissection (9 % Philadelphix hospitas
Just as the nhvcicians were about to
‘use the knife John aroused from hia
‘ance and asked this conundrum:
“Why am 1 undressed?"
‘An Easy Winner. :
| Beautiful Ernestine was sobbing a
though her heart would breaik.
“What is it, dear?” asked her girl
friend.
“W-why,” she sobbed, “I t-told Jack
after he proposed, to go up and see
papa.”
“What of that?”
| “Why, they started playing cards
to BOW be Koes up to see papa every
aiebo"— Tir Bus, ao oe
The Meppy Dzzt of Fore,
Mr. “Uses—evus 44 sexuember,
Gear, whe. Your kader wedcus ale wie
house?
Mis. Ussy—Yes. and when mother
wouldn't lei me out of hex aque tor a
moment?
Mr. Cesy—Ano f mace up my miad
‘to go olf and Ge?
Mrs. Cgsy—ies, and 1 Seared father
“nto Usinking 1 was im a decline?
Both sogecier—Weren"t those hap.
py days!—Tit-bits,
‘The Mocern Homebody.
He—And you are willing to become
the wife‘! a poor man?
She—Oh, yes: 1 am truly domestic
in my tastes i belong to only nine
clubs.—N. Y. Weeity.
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SATURDAY... SEPTEMBER 10 1904
THE SONG OF LABOR.
Basing the sone of the workman,
Eahe Joy of theman whore hand
Beans to ruitit wick practiogg! okutt
The kev, sure brain's semand,
Wae Acnows the thrill of creation,
Who stueds with the Lord as one
Bees what was wrougit trom. hidden
thevsht,
and can say of his work: “Weil doner
“ANG search the wice wePd through
me knows the doe where grand ought
Which Tubs! Cain once knew:
Peanuts, may lic ina woman's eve,
And dwell on ber tips so sweet
PB Rives as wer! in the engine's swell,
And tke piston’s throbbing beat
Pe arch which vesiee ihe river's hood,
“And hoids its wanes in check,
be fair ce the line wherv trensea twine,
par ie curse ota snows necks
dhe who can feel such beauty's power,
And bid {t live and move,
Prmows a decor tiles than a malgen's
| €an give to the heart of tove.
Pome mist te soft und feed datnttiy,
Or thé soul in'them makes moan:
BRUt little he heeds who firds his needs.
In the maker's joy alone
Berrow and pain mes come to him—
‘They sureiy come co ail—
But ever he fees a sires ath that steels
Bis heart to the shaite that fail
We gladly greets the comtne years;
They bring him added ski
Me feeisno ruth for the less of youth,
His goal 1s nearer stil:
Bnd only this he asks of fate
‘That he may keen his dower
BF strength. and wit!, and iabor's skill
Unto his life's tast hour
eNinetic M. Lowater, in Youth's Compan-
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| By J. C. PLUMMER |
(Comsright,12%, by Daily Story Pubs Co
R. KAGGS pulled himself wearily
up the Jacob's ladder. His in-
med face denowd interior heat; his
Busty clothes a tramp a-shore and his
wolce, as he spoke to the men in the boat
Below, an irritated temper.
‘When he stood on the deck of the ship
Bde! Dodge, of which craft he was chief
BMlicer, his superior hailed him from
Bhe poop.
“Did you find ‘im Mr. Kages?”
“Naw.” replied the mate, dissustedly,
couldn't find a Johan Stein in all
Buonos Ayres who's lookinkg for a wife
from Germany.”
“I guess you didn't look for ‘im very
ard,” said Capt. Eby, “he’s hyar some-
where aud you passed him a dozen times,
B suppose.”
“I tell you he ish’t here,” snapped the
mate, mutinously, “I made a fool of my-
elf asking Dutchmen if they expected
@ wife by the Abel Dodge. I'm 4 sailor
fend you don't cateh me hunting Duteh-
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tine.”
‘Just then the cause of the mates ex-
fursion asiore and of his inflamed tem-
Ber clicked across she deck, ina pair of
Babols, bearing the captain's supper to
the cabin. ‘Two weeks ago the Abel
Dodge arrived from Bremen with an as-
Borted cargo and 71 emigrants. Her
argo had been unloaded and 70 emi-
grants had gone ashore, but Lena Os-
Aertag stayed because she had to, Johan
Bein, late of the Fatherland, had writ-
ten to his native dort that being able to
Support a frau it would be well for Lena
Ostertag be sent out on the first ship so
&s to MII that vacancy in Is home and
heart. There being several female Os-
tertazs of nubile age and the paternal
home and Income being alike small, the
Tequest was recelved with acclaim and
Lena was promptly exported on the Abel
Doige.
Apparently the 55 days consumed by
the ship in the pasesge had cooled the
ardor of Stein {or he did not cal? for his
Amportation and the poor giri remained
‘on the ship a source of anxiety to the of-
ficers, Lena was an enlarged repro-
@uction of one of those china statuettes
pf German shepherdesses one sees on
‘mantel-pteces, with yellow hair, pink
And white face and blue eyes entirely
devold of expression. Withal she was
o modest and obliging that the officers
became fond of her and Capt. Eby de-
Slated he would find Stein if he held the
eulp in the La Plata until he couldn't
peo her for barnacles.
‘The next morning, after breakfast, the
skipper appeared on deck armed with
immense umbrella and ordered a boat
loweres
“I'm going ashore to find Stein,” he
|, confidently, “I'll have "Im aboard
dinner time, I always was good at
things that go wrong and fl fie
this”
‘The mate smiled skeptically.
“I guess we bad better not walt din-
ner for you.” he said, sarcastically, “we
might all starve.”
“I don't remember,” retorted the
skipper, “whether it was the prophet
Jeremiah or George Washington who
said ‘if you want a thing done right
do it yourself,” but, whoever it was, I
neree with him,” and with this shot he
cavered the boat and was pulled ashore.
It was just short of high noon when @
sallor hailed the quarter deck with the
news thet the siipper was coming.
© The mate peered through his glase, he
Tecognized his commander, but he eould
not understand the presenceof four men
Desides ttre oarsmen. “The old man's
bringing the whele Dutch colony
aboard,” he mused,
When the captain reached the deck
he assisted, with soltcitude, the ascent
_a stolid-looking German who was
| promptly followed by a man in the unt-
form of the Argentine repubie, he, by
@ man in semi-clerieal costume ‘and he,
azain, by a rough looking individual who
seemed more or Tess drunk.
“Hyar’s the derelick, Mr. Gages,”
sang out the skipper innotes of triumph,
“I found 'm. Hyar's the officer to see
things straicht and hyar’s the preacher
to tie the knot. ‘This other man is the
interpreter to dish up the lingo. Oh, I'm
great at fixin’ up things, always was.
Bring up the girl, Mr. Kaggs.”
“Where did you find him,” growled
the mate.
“Easy as holystoning a deck,” replied
the captain, “I asked where any Germans
worked, went here and asked the boss if
there was a man named Johan Stein.
‘There was. Was he married. No. ‘Then
I want him, says I, and I brought him
aboard.”
“How do you know he's the right
man?” asked the mate, with jealousy.
“The lands sakes, isn't he rtamed
Johan Stein and isn't he unmarried.
What more do you want?”
The mate went below shaking his
head and brousht up Lena Ostertas.
‘When she clicked up to the group in
her sabots the skipper explained.
“Hyar’s your lover, Lena, Hyar's
your man.” ;
“Ja, Ja,” said Lena, not half-under-
standing.
“See that.” sald the skipper,” she
knows the Inbber. Goahead Mr. Preach-
er”
i “fold on.” put in the Argentine off-
cial, “interpreter, ask this man if this
fs the woman he sent for.”
| “He. says she vas not der woman he
| wants,” said the interpreter, after con:
| Versing with Stein,
“In a pic's eye,” snarled the captain.
“In der eye of vot?" enquired the in-
terpreter, puzzled.
“In your eye, youluuber,” snapped the
captain.
The interpreter retailed the captain's
remark to Stein,
“He say if she vas der woman in mine
eye Tcan haf her.”
“Did ever a man see such ascoundrel,”*
exclaimed the captain, “no, tell this
lump o” lard that he either marries this
hyar girl now or Ul bang him to the
yard.”
“And be quartered afterwards,” added
the official.
| “And go to hell on top of all,” re-
marked the semi-clerical man,
| “He say,” reported the interpreter,
after talking with Stein, “dat he vill ge
to hell”
| “rte witt, witt he?" shouted the skip-
per, “taen he'll go there with a red
Mark around his neck. String him up,
(Mr. Kaggs. String him up.”
i -At the sight of the rope aud the trucu-
{lent face @f the mate Stein murmured
something to the Interpreter.
\ “He say he vill marry her.” pro-
claimed tha gentleman,
| “Nothing like a rope to bring people
to thelr seuses,"" said the skipper, “go
ahead Mr, Preacher.”
|The semi-clerical man rattled through
the service. Lena said “Ja” at the pro-
Der moment, prompted by the shipper.
but the groom made no sign, Mr. Kagzs,
however, placing his large hand on the
German’s head enforced an affimatory
gesture that made the groom's neck
crack.
1 “Go ashore and be happy,” exclaimed
the skipper, spreading his hands pa-
ternally, and Lena's baggage was low-
Jered into the boat. The groom, after
| arrosty escaulngs injury trom g eas
sea-boot hurled at him by an‘enthus-
{fastic seaman, but suffering annoyance
from a pint of barley which the cook, in
| New of rice, poured down bie collar, en-
tered the boat with his bride and guests
| and was pulled ashore amid the accla-
| mation of the crew of the Abel Dodse
| tthe nastiday. a boat pat om trom the
city and a stockily built’ German
| climbed on the deck of the ship.
As no one could understand him the
| snterpretor ‘was sent for and he ane
| Nounced that this was Johan Stein seek
ing his bride on the Abel Dodge.
the captain.
j_ “He vas on a sheeps farm and dey
‘youlin’t lets him lef,” reported the in
terpreter.
“Tell him,” thundered the skipper.
frowning at the mate who was laughing
{ Qotigntedty, “that the girl waited for him
je she was tired and then she fell in
| love with anciter man and married him
She was crazy over thet other fellow.
“He sty.” proclaimed the interpreter,
HGattuhe vab urkes head wane nen Th
Post Offices in Canal Zone.
The post office department has es
tablished nine post offices in the canal
gone In Panama, and postmasters will
be appointed as soon as suitable men
for the places can be found. ‘The nine
Post offices are the following: Cris-
tobal, Gorgona, Gatun, Matachin, La
Boca, Bohio, Emperador, Ancon and
Culebra, Mail intended for the places
named should be addressed, for con-
venience, in the following form:
“Cristobal, Canal Zone, Isthmus. of
Panama”—N. Y. Times.
Victim of Black Spider.
A black spider bit Mrs. J. C. Wilson, of
Knoxville, Tean., and in three hours her
entire body had swollen to twice its nat-
ural size. In less"than 24 houfs death
‘Senaited.
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGCINTA
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“Love Across
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HARRY STILLWELL EDWARDS,
MOSQUITOES TAKE TOWN.
Village Down East Practically De-
populated Because of Raven-
ous Insect Swarms.
A village of 400 inhabitants 20 miles
from Bivalve, Md., is practically de-
Populated on account of mosquitoes.
‘They are so thick that over two-thirds
of the inhabitants have left their
homes, going to the bay on steam-
ers to be rid of the pests.
Cattle in the marshes are dying by
the score, and many are driven into
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the river to get relief and are
drowned.
George Phillips, a traveling sales-
man for a wholesale tobacco firm, of
New York city, was attacked by a
swarm of the pests. His horses. be-
came frantic, throwing him out of his
carriage and breaking both his legs
and three ribs.
A camp meeting which was in prog-
ress had to be postponed. ‘The steam-
ers plying between there and Baltimore
run at top speed between Bivalve and
Beal's island, and do not stop at
these landings on account of the
mosquitoes. Deal’s island is one
of the largest shipping points for
soft-shell crabs, and ail shipments go
to New York city.
Santee: Sein ons A akokne
‘The quailty of foo2 given to the pan-
pers in Wilehingen, Switzerland, did not
come up to their expectations, and they
set fire to the almshouse, burning it to
the ground.
His Hardest Fall.
As a boy he fell Into the creck,
And oft Into disgrace:
He fell asieep, and aiso sick.
He fell from many & place,
But he never knew what a fail was ike
Nor what it consisted of—
For a real hard fall he never had—
Unit he fel! in iove.
Philadelphia Bulletin,
HE GUESSED IT.
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She—I wonder how the water gets
into the melon?
‘He—I suppose they plant the eeeds
im the spring.—Chicago Journal.
Greater Love.
“Bhe was engaged to a millionaire,
but she jjilted him to marry another
man.”
“Ah! So she’s really marrying for
Jove?”
“For love of money, yes. The other
man’s @ multi-miliionaire.”"—Philadel-
phia Press.
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