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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL. XXI NO 41. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN BENEFICIAL INS. CO. A Fine Showing—New Fields to be Opened Up. On Wednesday night Sept. 7th, the American Beneficial Insurance Company held its annual meeting at A. D. Price's Hall on Leigh St. The meeting was a most interesting one. President Dr. W. F. Graham called the house to order, made some few remarks and then called for the regular order of business. After the roll was called and the minutes were read, General Manager Peyton made his annual report, which showed that 8778 new members had been taken in during the year. The financial growth was in keeping with the numerical and the clearing for the year above all expenses amounted to $7700 00. All claims had been met promptly. The following Board was re-elected: President, Dr. W. F. Graham, Vice-President, Ed. T. Coleman, General Manager, B. H. Peyton, General Supt. John W. Howard, Treasurer, V. L. Hawkins, General Sick Inspector, R. H. Fauntleroy, General Route Inspector, M. J. Harris, General Attorney, J. Thomas Hewin and J. H. D. Wingfield, James Page, Lewis Cheatham, Joseph Loving, James H. Chiles, A. D. Price, Adophus Humbles, Dr. Holland Powell, W. Watkins Kearns, W. Seary was elected as cashier, Mrs. Josie A. Graham, Assistant Cashier, Miss Ida A. Kyles was elected as the Company's General Stenographer and Misses Pollie Clarke and Cara Kersey retained as clerks. The Company is in a healthy condition and has two leading physicians to look after its work, Dr. H. L. Harris is Medical Examiner, and Dr. J. A Lewis is his associate. This was the second years' report and showed that the Company had in so short a time hurt two thousand policy officers. That we have commitments to commence in pennsylvania and will open at once in Philadelphia and Pitts- open at once in Philadelphia and Pittsburg. WOOLDRIDGE—MATTHEWS—The marriage of Miss Fannie M. Gwooldridge to Mr. Pryor H. Matthews will take place at the residence of the bride, No. 1200 North 33rd St., September 23d, 1904 at 8 o'clock P. M. Will be at their future home, No. 3104 P. St., Sunday, October 2nd. Their friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to come and see them. No cards. Do You Know Him? I desire to know the whereabouts of my son, Willis Scales. I have not heard from him for several years, but have been recently informed that he is living in Richmond. Any information concerning him will be gladly received by his mother. Address, Mrs. NANCY SCALES, care of Mr. Stacy Hibber, West Point, Miss All parties having bills against the estate of the late Benjamin Harris as well as the amounts due the same will please report to me at once at the Mechanics Savings Bank, 511 N. 3d St. "Paying The Fiddler." There will be a grand lecture at the 1st Baptist Church Monday, August 19, 1904 at 8:30 o'clock P. M. by Rev. D. W. Davis, under the auspices of the Deacons' Club, subject, "Paying the Fiddler." The public is cordially invited. Admission, 10 cents. The National Baptist S. S. Union. The regular monthly meeting of the National Baptist S. S. Union was held on last Sunday, Sept. 11th, 1904, at the Zion Baptist Church. The attendance was large and quite an interesting program was rendered. Mr. Glenn of Zion Baptist Church welcomed the Union and Col. E. A. Washington, 1st Vice President, responded. The address, "The Duty of Young Men in the S. S." by Secretary A. W. Dandridge was a masterpiece. It pleased all who heard it. President B. H. Peyton made a brief address, touching the work of the convention. It was well received and all present promised to do more for the convention the coming year. A handsome collection was made. Ninth will meet at the Mr. Olivet Baptist Church on the 2nd Sunday in October. Supt. J. Y. Harris of River View was present and gave a very wholesome address, also Mr. Jacob Sevall from the Union with many sweet songs. Supt. M. L. Crittendon of the 5th Baptist Church acted chorister. S150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., Sept. 14, 1904 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitehell, Jr., Grand Chancellor the Grand Lodge of Virginia, ($150 00) Fifth and Fifty Dollars in payment and a claim of Sir Frederick Giles, who was a member of Unity Lodge, 24, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. & A EDITOR MITCHELL CONGRATULATED. THAT TRIP TO STAUN- TON, VA. [Washington, D.C. Post, Sept. 4, 04. [Washington, D.C. Post, Sept. 4, 04.] The esteemed Richmond (Va.) Planet is a newspaper from which we always derive pleasure and information in equal quantities. It is an earnest friend of the African race and is, of course, conducted by colored talent and supported largely at least by colored patronage. Moreover, the Planet gives its readers excellent suggestions, as, for instance, when it says that "there is no enmity between the better class of white people and the better class of colored ones. It is the hoodlum, irresponsible elements of both races which cause trouble and stir up race prejudice." This is both wise and true. No one could have said it better. On this occasion, however, our chief object is to congratulate the editor of the Planet upon his recent trip to Stuartton, Va., and to thank him for the useful and significant revelations contained in his reshape chronicle thereof: "We arrived at Staunton Thursday evening, August 18, at about 7 p. m., and proceeded to Bruce's Hall, where the ladies were assembled and soon after an excellent repast was spread. During our stay we were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George H. White at their cozy and admirably located residence. The front yard is a flower garden, while the lawn is kept well-trimmed and walled. Mrs. White did all in her power to make it pleasant and we rested well. She is in fine housekeeper. We wanted to remain fine now. "Mr. White conducts a large grocery and produce store on one of the principi e streets, and his trade is made up largely of the white people of the community." No wonder the Richmond editor, fatigued by the cares of journalism in a bustling city, "wanted to remain till now" in that cool, sequestered glade, where all is pastoral, melodious, and perfumed by the meadows and hills; where daisies grow and the yellow-legged chickens can wade all day, knee deep in hyacinths. There was a land of excellent repasts, and a particular home rich in flowery front yards and velvet lawns. Think of the assembled ladies and the grooming board, and say if you dare, that our conferee of the Planet was ill-advised in wanting to remain till now! "We visited Dr. M. W. Pannell at his residence, and met his accomplished madame. He is the leading physician of this locality and is deservedly popular The fine drug store of the Pannell Brothers is a revelal io to a visitor here. The concern is doing a thriving business, and the people seem to take pride in having such progressive young colored professional men in the community. Under the same foof is the K. L. Pannell ladies tailoring establishment. The madame is past-mistress in fitting, cutting, and sewing, and has on her list of customers some of the leading white ladies in Staunton. She has a complete outfit, and her rooms would do credit to cities of a Northern clime." Is there not in this experience something more than the recreation of an editor, the exploits of a brilliant trencherman, the nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles of the ladies? Here we are told of Staunton, in the very heart of the valley, the home of Virginians of the Virginians—the descendants of an ancient aristocracy, whose traditions still prevail and whose ideals are as unchanged as the blue hills that grace and beautify the distance. Yet colored people are there engaged in legitimate and remunerative avocations, patronized, protected, and encouraged by their white neighbors. They are embarked in prosperous and honorable enterprises, they have comfortable if not luxurious homes; yet the whites do not hate or persecute them. On the contrary they contribute to their opulence. There are hospitable homes, trim lawns, festivities, and so on, but the races dwell together in good will and peace, while the negro thrives according to his worth, just as the white man does; Surely there is in this a moral which our Richmond editor might elaborate still further; and to the great advantage of his readers. 8100.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., Sept. 10, 1904. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Belle Epps, who was a member of Cordelia's Court, No. 194 of Richmond, Va. Signed: LEWIS EPPS, Beneficiary. Witnesses: Eva G. Davis, Emma G. Smith. FOR SALE—As a whole, or in tracts to suit, farm of 110 acres in Amelia Co., well wooded and watered, ½ mile from Union Branch Church, schools, stores and post-office. 3 miles from O. H. Immediate possession. BOOK-KEEPER, 530 E. Broad St. President John Mitchell, Jr. of the Mechanics Savings Bank is in New York this week attending the American Bankers' Association. Mrs. Annie E. Jockson of Maceo Court, No. 222 is quite sick at her residence, 910 St. James St. Mrs. Cora Bell Beck of Jackson, Michigan and Mrs. W. A. Sterling of Wilmington, Del., in company with Miss Myrtle Silas called on us. Father Thomas J. Donavan was in the city last week and called on us. — Mrs. Emma J. Lavender of Denver, Colorado, and daughter, Miss Lola M. Lavender of Montgomery, W. Va., were in the city last week. — Mr. P. W. White, a merchant of Pocahontas, Va., called on us. MUST FACE COURT MARTIAL Officers of Georgia Militia Derelict In Duty at Statehouse Lunching Duty at Statesboro LYnden. Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 14. After receiving and considering the full report of the Statesboro court of inquiry, Governor Terrell has ordered a court martial to decide as to whether or not Captain Hitch, Lieutenant Mell, Lieutenant Griner, Lieutenant Cone and Lieutenant Morrison were derelict in their duty during the recent trouble at Statesboro, when two negroes were burned at the stake. The court martial will convene at Savannah September 29. The report of the court of inquiry amounts practically to an indictment of the officers in charge of the troops at Statesboro. Lieutenant McIntyre was the only officer exonerated by the court. His action in making an attempt to withstand the mob and protect the prisoners is praised by the court. The report goes into details, stating that the evidence "failed to disclose any energetic efforts on the part of the military authorities to disperse the mob, and likewise failed to disclose any serious casualties either to the mob or to the military." TRAIN HELD UP AND ROBBED Masked Men Secure $6000 From Safe On Canadian Pacific Express Winnipig, Man., Sept. 12. The Canadian Pacific railway west-bound trans-continental express was held up by four masked men four and a half miles west of Mission Junction. At the point of revolvers the express messenger was compelled to hand over the valuables and the safe was dynamited. The registered mail also was ransacked. The robbers escaped to the bush and are supposed to have crossed the boundary. They secured about $6000 from the express safe. Ran a "Diamond Lottery" Boston, Mass, Sept. 13.—Guy C. Stillings, treasurer of the Preferred Mercantile company, of this city, was arrested on a charge of conducting a "diamond lottery" business in violation of the postal laws. The company was formerly located in Kansas City. In five months it is said that $1,655,030 in contracts was written by the concern, which has 40 branch offices in many of the large cities. Famous Racer Dying Topeka, Kan., Sept. 14.—Dan Patch, the famous bay pacing stallion, brought here to go against his record at the Kansas Fair, is at the point of death. He is suffering from strangulated hernia. The veterinary surgeons say the crisis will come today, and that they have a chance to save the horse's life. Colonel W. H. Patterson is Dead. Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 14.—Colonel W. H. Patterson, of Philadelphia, Pa., died at his home at Russellville, Tenn., aged 70. He was a writer of note. He was a son of General Robert Patterson, a distinguished soldier and patriot. Will Pay Cuban Soldiers October 1. Havana, Sept. 14.—President Palma has decreed that payments of one-half of the amounts due revolutionary veterans shall begin on October 1. Veterans who have not sold their claims will be paid first in their own localities, and others, including buyers of claims, will be paid in Havana. The proceeds of the $35,000,000 loan will pay one-half of the recorded claims, with $4,000,000 to spare. Explosions in Westminster Abbey. London, Spet 12. A singular affair took place in Westminster Abbey. At the middle of the morning service a series of loud explosions came from the north transept and started the kneeling congregation to its feet, causing an almost dangerous rush for the doors. Rev. Canon Duckworth succeeded in reassuring the people and in preventing a panic. It was discovered that the cause of the explosions was a firecracker, the label attached to which showed the outrage to be the work of a fanatical adherent of the late John Kensit, the anti-ritualistic crusader. The culprit escaped in the confusion following the explosions. JAPS 25 MILES FROM MUKDEN Believed Kuropatkin Will Fight Rather Than Abandon City. THE CHINESE CAUSE ANXIETY St. Petersburg, Sept. 14.—The emperor has received a dispatch from General Kuropatkin announcing that a considerable force of Japanese has been seen about 25 miles northwest of Mukden. No further engagements are reported. The authorities here are unanimously of the opinion that General Kuropatkin will not withdraw from Mukden without accepting battle. It is expected that he will leave 50,000 men to defend Mukden, while the remainder of his army retires to Tie Pals. It is believed that General Kuropatkin has over 200,000 men. The general staff said that since the battle of Liao Yang General Kuropatkin had been reinforced by two army corps. The people are harrassed by rumors of impending disaster to General Kuropatkin, which find ready credence because of the lack of information from the general's headquarters at Mukden, and for the moment the popularity of the head of the Russian armies in the field is in eclipse. The report persists, although there is nothing official to confirm it, that General Kuropatkin has recommended the trial by court martial of Major General Orlof, upon whose advice to carry out his orders the non-success of General Kuropatkin's plans against General Kuroki at the most critical hour of the battle of Liao Yang is attributed. Reports that the Chinese are making preparations to occupy conquered territory are creating some uneasiness, for China has been all along an uncertain quantity from which any development or complication might be expected. No one knows precisely what pressure, racial or political, Japan may be able to bear upon the great, silent empire. The logical belief always has been that China would endeavor to the utmost to refrain from taking side in the present conflict, in order that she might be in a position to make the best terms possible with the ultimate victor; but it is realized that a continued Japanese advance into the heart of Manchuria might exert a powerful influence upon both the Chinese peasant and the nearby, ill-controlled regular troops, which the weak central government at Pekin might find it difficult to curb, thereby precipitating serious complications upon the scene of actual hostilities. There have been no developments here regarding the case of the Russian transport Lena, in the harbor of San Francisco, beyond those noted in Tuesday's dispatches to the Associated Press. While it seems almost incredible that the admiralty should remain ignorant of the Lena's mission and her whereabouts, such seems to be the case. It appears that the vessel was acting wholly under the orders of Vice Admiral Skrydloff and that he had not reported concerning the Lena, or that if he had done so the report had not reached the admiralty. Departure of Baltic Fleet Deferred. Berlin, Sept. 14. — The Tagebiatt's St. Petersburg correspondent telegraphs that the departure of the Baltic squadron had at the last moment been deferred for several days, apparently to await news from the Far East. The fleet will remain for the present at Reval. Reserve Troops Called to Arms. St. Petersburg, Sept. 12.—The emperor has called to arms the reserve troops in 22 circuits of the governments of Kherson, Bessarabia, Ekaterinoslav and Taurida, belonging to the military district of Odessa, and also one category of reserve officers throughout the empire. Alexieff Again Resigns London, Sept. 12. — A dispatch to Reuten's Telegram company from St. Petersburg says it is understood that Viceroy Alexieff, in view of the paramount military exigencies in the Far East, has placed his resignation in the hands of the emperor, but that no decision with regard to it has yet been made. Jans Lost 17.539 at Liao Yang Tokio, Sept. 12.—An approximation of the Japanese casualties in the battle of Liao Yang, based upon reports of the chiefs of the medical corps of the three Japanese armies, has been concluded. It covers the fighting from August 26 and shows that the Japanese killed and wounded amount to 17,539 men, divided as follows: In the right army, under the command of General Kuroki, 4866 men; in the center army, under the command of General Nodau, 4932 men, and in the left army, under the command of General Oku, 7681 men. These casualties include 136 officers killed and 444 officers wounded. The fact that the army under General Oku sustained the heaviest losses is accounted for by its assaults upon the Russian defenses to the south of Liao Yang. Telegraphic reports received here from the headquarters of the Manchurian army declare the Japanese to be in full possession of the Yental coal mines; estimate the Russian losses up to the fall of Liao Yang at over 25,000 men, and give additional details of the disposition of the Russian forces ground Liao Yang during the battle. The estimate of losses does not include those suffered by the Russians in the rear guard actions fought after the evacuation of Liao Yang. The date on which the Japanese occupied the Yental coal mines is not given. Pronouns and others affirm that the Russian losses between the retreat from Anshanshan and the final fall of Liao Yang amounted to over 25,000 men. Before the battle the Russians assembled a great number of railroad cars at Liao Yang, which were constantly used in the removal ofounded men and arms and ammunition to the rear for three or four days. vast quantities of arms, ammunition and stores were burned at Liao Yang before the final retreat, but an enormous amount of shells, ammunition and powder wagons, stores and miscellaneous property was captured by the Japanese. Among the ammunition captured was a quantity of dum-dum bullets. THE LENA NEEDS REPAIDS Will Take Six Weeks to Repair Russian Warship at France Washington, Sept. 14.—The developments of the day so far as it related to the Russian cruiser Lena at San Francisco was the clearing up of the official muddle arising out of the doubt as to which of five departments of the government should deal with it. It was finally decided by the president that the state and navy departments should treat the case, acting jointly, a decision calculated greatly to simplify its handling. Over night came a telegram from Admiral Goodrich, at San Francisco, showing that on his own initiative he had caused one of his expert officers to make a preliminary examination of the Lena, and that temporary repairs would occupy six weeks time, and that new boilers would involve eight months delay. There is good ground to believe that instructions contemplate the allowance of sufficient time to the Lena to make temporary repairs. However, there is a growing belief here that the vessel will be obliged to intern in the end, for it is altogether likely that by the time she could be made ready to go to sea one or more Japanese cruisers would be off the Golden Gate ready to sink or capture her. Foreseeing such an event as a request for the right to intern, the officials have been considering what shall be done with the crew—whether they may be allowed to return to Russia on parole or must be interred on their ship in San Francisco harbor. On this point no decision has been reached. WAR ON LABOR UNIONS Luzerne County, Pa., Contractors Make a Stand For the Open Shop I stand for the Open Shop. Wilkesbarre, Pa. Sept. 14. The Employers' Association of the building trades of Luzerne county declared open warfare upon union labor and will make a stand for the open shop in every branch of the building trades. The employers posted notices at every shop and building operation that a general suspension had been decided upon until September 19, when all men who desired would be re-employed under open shop rules only, and that hereafter the building trades unions would not be recognized. The order came as a complete surprise to the workmen, who consider it a direct challenge, and a labor war greater than any since the anthracite strike is expected. Between 5000 and 10,000 workmen, carpenters, masons, bricklayers and metal workers and other building trades are affected directly, besides several thousand building laborers. The lock-out embraces all operations in the city of Wilkesbarre, Pittston, Plymouth and Nantucket and the large boroughs of Kingston, Edwardsville, Ashley, Plains, Parsons, Luzerne and West Pittston. The action of the employers was the outcome of several stormy meetings and was due principally to a strike of carpenters against alleged unfair lumber at several buildings under course of construction. Nearly all the employers paid off their employees immediately after the order was posted, and all the men at once removed their tools. The excitement among the men in Wilkesbarre over the order is intense, and meetings of all the unions will be held. The men declare that they will never consent to work under open shop rules and will remain idle until the Employers' Association again renews its agreement with the unions. CATHOLIC MISSIONS CENTER Brisbane, Queensland, Sept. 12. News has been received from German New Guinea, saying that natives attacked the Catholic mission and murdered Fathers Raschen and Ruttar, Brothers Bley, Plarschert and Schelkens, and Sisters Sofia, Agatha, Annie, Agnes and Angela. Thirty-six natives were captured and 16 of them were executed for the crime. The design of the natives was to murder all the whites, but this was frustrated. Gen. Wade to Sail For America. Washington, Sept. 13.—Major General James F. Wade, commanding the Philippines division, was authorized to sail for the United States on the next available transport leaving Manila. He sails soon Major General Leonard Wood, commanding the department of Mindanao, will succeed him, pending the arrival of Major General Henry C. Corbin, General Wade is to succeed General Corbin in command of the Atlantic division, with headquarers at Governor's Island, New York. Got Eighteen Years For Murder. Huntedon, Pa., Sept. 13.—Allie Hassine was sentenced by Judge Woods to 18 years' imprisonment in the Western Penitentiary for the murder of his companion, who was a peddler, by striking him with a stone in the woods. Hassine was convicted of second degree murder. PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN JERSEY egates to State Conventions. Trenton, N. J., Sept. 14—Under New Jersey's general primary election law party elections were held throughout the state. Each party elected delegates to the conventions which will nominate candidates for governor, congress, state senator, assemblymen and county officers. Voting for candidates for ward and township nominations was direct. The indications are that former State Senator Edward C. Stokes, of Millville, who is now clerk in chancery, will be the unanimous choice of the Republican state convention for governor. Of the Democratic state delegates elected more favor the nomination of Charles C. Black, of Hudson county, than any other candidate. Among the other candidates are State Senator Thomas M. Ferrell, of Glassboro; Mayor Frank Katzenbach, of Trenton, and Howard Carrow, of Camden. The Democratic and Republican state conventions will be held in this city, the former tomorrow and the latter next Tuesday. MAINE PLURALITY 27.000 Republican Gain Over 1900 is 5 Per Cent. and Democratic 24 Per Cent. Portland, Me., Sept. 14. — Returns from the small towns in distant parts of the state and a careful revision of the early figures place the Republican plurality in Tuesady's state election at about 27,900. Returns from 450 cities, towns and plantations out of 552, give William T. Cobb, Rep., 75,954; Cyrus D. Davis, Dem., 50,017. The same places in 1900 gave Hill, Rep., 72,541; Lord, Dem., 39,714. The Republican gain over 1900 is now estimated at 5 per cent. and the Democratic gain at 24 per cent. Next year's senate will probably stand 27 Republicans and four Democrats, as against 29 Republicans and one Democrat in the last legislature. It is estimated that the house will be 121 Republicans and 30 Democrats. The last house stood 121 Republicans and 20 Democrats. REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN OPENED National Committee Ready to Assign Speakers to States. Chicago, Sept. 12.—By the issuance of President Roosevelt's letter of acceptance today, the Republican campaign may be considered as formally opened. It depends upon the various state organizations to arrange for their meetings, and the national committee will assign the speakers who are to do the work. Partly in furtherance of this, a number of state chairmen are being called in to see National Chairman Cortelyou, who has been in Chicago for the past week. State openings follow rapidly on the issuance of the president's letter. Michigan, Washington and Montana will begin on September 15, Nebraska and West Virginia on September 17, Indiana and Iowa on September 20, Pennsylvania on September 21, Minnesota on September 24 and Ohio on October 1. In Missouri and Kansas work already has begun. STEAM LAUNCH CUT IN HALF Sunk by Delaware River Steam and Eight Persons Drown. FOUR OTHERS WERE RESCUERED Philadelphia, Sept. 12.—The Delaware river steamer Columbia, on way from this city to Bristol, crashed into a steam launch about 10 miles north of here, grinding it pieces and causing the drowning of eight of the dozen occupants of the small boat. All of the party were Philadelphians. The dead are: Joseph Fortescue, Wade Auday, Thomas Duffy, Thomas Corviesier, Anna Young, Joseph Primmer, Mrs. Joseph Pfrommer and James Briggs, the engineer. The accident was the tragic ending of a day's pleasure trip on the river. The launch was owned by Joseph Pentescue, and the party had been made up from among a few of his friends. The day was spent in a cruise up the river as far as Trenton. The return trip was begun after nightfall, the pilot of the boat keeping close to the Pennsylvania shore on the run down the river. When a point was reached near Andalusia, the Columbia suddenly loomed up in the darkness. Pentescue jammed his wheel to starboard, but just a moment too late. The big steamer struck the launch squarely in the middle and cut it in half, throwing all the occupants into the water. A terrible shriek went up as the boats struck, which almost caused panic among the passengers on the Columbia. Dozens of life preservers were thrown to those in the water, and a boat was quickly lowered. Notwithstanding the fact that Captain Campbell, of the Columbia, instantly reversed his engine, the Columbia was some distance above the struggling people in the water when he came to a full stop. When the row boat reached the spot only four persons could be found in the darkness. It is believed that several of the victims were crushed by the paddle wheels of the Columbia. The four taken from the water and Thomas and Mrs. Dunn, John Heston and George Young. Dunn was thrown some distance from the wrecked launch when the collision occurred. His first thoughts were of his wife, and in the darkness he caught sight of her sninking. Dunn seized her and fought desperately to keep his head above the surface of the water. A rope was thrown to him just in time, and both he and his unconscious wife were pulled aboard the steamer. The survivors of the launch claim that the launch was burning the necessary river lights, as does also Captain Campgell. The latter declared that the accident was unavoidable. Youth Walked Out of Prison Clad Dress and Bonnet. Bristol, Va., Sept. 14.—Wiley Gibson a youth being held in the Lee county jail at Jonesville, Va., to await conveyance to the penitentiary at Richmond to serve a five year sentence for robbery, made good his escape by departing from the prison clad in the dress and bonnet of his aged mother, who had been left alone with her son that she might say good-bye. Gibson's escape was discovered when a fellow prisoner, marking the departure of the mother, went to the young robber's cell to comfort him, and there found the aged lady dressed in the clothes her son had discarded. Another "Before Day Club." West Point, Ga., Sept. 13.—What is said to be a "Before Day Club," but goes under the name of "Double Pine Lodge," was discovered near here in Harris county, and considerable excitement was created when a negro member weakened and informed Tom Daniels and Bartow Daniels, two prominent planters, that they were to be killed. An armed force at once gathered, and two negroes, T. J. Buneden and West Billingsley, supposed to be the leaders, were captured. It is not known what was done with the negroes, but it is supposed that they were taken to the Hamilton jail. School Children In a Papio Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 14. — Grace Walters, aged 12 years, and several other pupils of one of the primary schools in this city were slightly injured in a small sized pane in the Cameron school building. The children took fright at the sight of their teacher, a young woman, fainting and falling to the floor, cutting a gash in her forehead, and ran screaming for help. This alarmed the children in other parts of the building, and many of them hurriedly left their school rooms before the teachers could quitter them. THE PLANET SATURDAY... SE. TEMBER 17. 1904 President Roosevelt's Letter of Acceptance Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1904. Hon. J. G. Cannon, Chairman of the Notification Committee: My Dear Sir—accept the nomination for the presidency tendered me by the Republican national convention, and cordially approve the platform adopted by it. In writing this letter there are certain points upon which I desire to lay especial stress. It is difficult to find out from the utterances of our opponents what are the real issues upon which they propose to wage this campaign. It is not unfair to say that, having abandoned most of the principles upon which they have insisted during the last eight years, they now seem at a loss both as to what it is that they believe and as to how firmly they shall assert their anything. In fact, it is doubtful if they ture resolutely to press a single issue; as soon as they raise one they shrink from it and seek to explain it away. Such an attitude is the probably inevitable result of the effort to improvise convictions; for when thus improvised it is natural that they should be held in a tentative manner. The party now in control of the government is troubled by no such difficulties. We do not have to guess at our own convictions and then correct the guess if it seems unpopular. The principles which we profess are those in which we believe with heart and soul and strength. Men may differ from us, but they cannot accuse us of shiftiness or insincerity. The policies we have pursued are those which we earnestly hold as essential to the national welfare and repute. Our actions speak even louder than our words for the faith that is in us. We base our appeal upon what we have done and are doing, upon our record of administration and legislation during the last seven years, in which we have had complete control of the government. We intend in the future to carry on the government in the same way that we have carried it on in the past. A party whose members are radically at variance on most vital issues, and, if united at all, are only united on issues where their attitude threatens widespread disaster to the whole country cannot be trusted to govern in any matter. A party which with facile ease changes all its convictions before election cannot be trusted to adhere with tenacity to any principle after election. A party fit to govern must have convictions. In 1898 the Republican party came into power in 1899 it retained power on certaininite pledges, each of which was serupously fulfilled. But, in addition to meeting and solving the problems which were issues in these campaigns, it also became necessary to meet other problems which arose after election, and it is no small part of our claim to public confidence that these were solved with the same success that had attended the solution of those concerning which the battles at the polls were fought. In other words, our governmental efficiency proved equal not only to the tasks that were anticipated, but to doing each unanticipated task as it arose. When the contest of 1856 was decided, the question of the war with Spain was not an issue. When the contest of 1900 was decided, the shape which the Isthmian canal question ultimately took could not have been foreseen. But the same qualities which enabled those responsible for making and administering the laws at Washington to deal successfully with the turf and the currency enabled them to act wisely. But the same qualities which enabled them to act wisely in the Philippines and in Cuba also enabled them to do their duty as regards the problems connected with the trusts and to secure the building of the Isthmian canal. We are content to rest our trusts on the fact that to adherence to a lofty ideal we have added proved government efficiency. Therefore, our promises may surely be trusted as regards any issue that is now before the people, and we may equally be trusted with any problem which may hereafter arise. So well has the work been done that our actions do not venture to recite the facts about our policies or acts and then oppose them. They attack them only when they have first misrepresented them, and their recital would leave no room for adversary. Similar misrepresentation is the one weapon of our opponents in regard to our foreign policy and the way the navy has been made in carrying out this policy. Here again, the most basic ask is that they truthfully state what they done and then say whether or not the object to it; for if continued in power we will continue our foreign policy and our handling of the navy on exactly the same as in the future as in the past. To what phase of our foreign policy, and to what use of the navy, do our opponents object? Do they object to the way in which we have been strengthened and upheld? Never before has this doctrine been acquiesced in abroad as it is now; and yet, while up- holding the rights of the weaker American republics against foreign aggression, the administration has lost no opportunity to point out to these republics the need to improve their defense with clean hands, and that whoever claims liberty as a right must accept the responsibilities that go with the exercise of the right. Do our opponents object to what was done in reference to the peace agreement with the Armenians Kishlineh massacre, or to the protest against the treatment of the Jews in Roumania, or to the efforts that have been made in behalf of the Armenians in Turkey? No other administration in our world has more consistent and broadest spirit of brotherhood in our common humanity, or has held a more resolute attitude of protest against every wrong that outraged the civilization of the age at home or abroad. Do our opponents advocate a national tribunal at The Hague was rescued from impotence and turned into a potent instrument for peace among the nations? This government has used that tribunal and advocated its use by other nations. It has behaved to the cause of international peace and good will by all honorable methods. In carrying out this policy it has settled dispute after dispute by arbitration or by friendly agreement. It has behaved to the cause of international peace and good will by courtesy, dignity and justice, and it is now on excellent terms with all. When our opponents speak of "encroachments" by the executive upon the authority of congress or the judiciary, apparently the act they ordinarily have under the authority of existing law. This order directed that hereafter any veteran of the civil war who had reached the age of sixty-two should be presumptively entitled to the pension of $5 a month, given whose capacity to earn their livelihood by manual labor has been decreased 50 per cent, and that by the time the age of seventy was reached the presumption should be that the physical disability was not permanent, and the dental fact in each case. This order was made in the performance of a duty imposed upon the president by an act of congress, which requires the executive to make regulations to govern the subordination of those who are entitled to pensions. President Cleveland had already exercised this power by a regulation which declared that seventy-five should be set as the age at which total disability should be concluded. Kinley established sixty-five as the age at which half disability should be conclusively presumed. The regulation now in question in the exercise of the same power supplemented these regulations made under President Cleveland and McKinley. The men who fought for union and for liberty in the years from 1861 to 1865 not only saved this nation from ruin, but rendered an inestimable service to all mankind. We of the United States owe the patriotic justice of the policy of the Republican party, what they did, and the nation has decreed by law that no one of them if disables from earning his own living shall lack the pension to which he is entitled not only as a matter of gratitude, but as a matter of justice. The policy of the Republican party, steered through many years, to treat the veterans of the civil war in a spirit of broad liberality. The order in question carried out this policy and is justified not merely on legal grounds, but also on the moral ground. The order of common knowledge that when the average man who depends for his wages upon bodily labor has reached the age of sixty-two his earning ability is in all probability less by half than it was when he was in his prime, and that by the time he was 65, his earning ability probably lost all earning ability. If there is doubt upon this point let the doubler examine the employees doing manual labor in any great manufactory or on any great railroad and find out how large is the earnings of sixty-two and seventy, and whether these men are still employed at the highly paid tasks which they did in their prime. As a matter of fact, many railroad pensions their employees when they have reached these ages, and in nations where the wages of sixty-two and seventy ways begin somewhere between the two limits thus set. It is easy to test our opponents' sincerity in this matter. The order in question is revocable at the pleasure of the executive. If our opponents want to be the executive, this order and announce that they will treat veterans of sixty-two to seventy as presumably in full bodily vigor and not entitled to pensions. Will they now authoritatively state that they intend to do so, we accept the issue. If not then we will not ask to ask; we raise an issue which when raised they do not venture to meet. In addition to those acts of the administration which they venture to assault only after misrepresenting them, they may be charged with overtly or officially attack, and yet which they covertly bring forward as reasons for the overthrow of the party. In certain great centers and with certain great interests our opponents make every effort to show that the settlement of the antitrust coal strike by the individual act of the Northern Securities success suit against the Northern Securities company—the merger suit—undertaken by the department of justice, were acts because of which the present administration would be thrown from power. Yet they dare to attack the government. They dare not in any authoritative or THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Formal manner say that in either case wrong was done or error committed in the method of action or in the choice of instruments for putting that action into effect. In the case of a man must carefully assert in open day they seek to actively and through special agents. It is perhaps natural that an attack so conducted should be made sometimes on the ground that too much, sometimes on the ground that too much, has been done. Some of our opponents can be under the antitrust and interstate commerce laws suits were undertaken which have been successful; others because suits were not undertaken which would have been unsuccessful. The Democrat-Party work with the antitrust department, manding, in deliberate and formal fashion, that the national government should take possession of the coal fields; yet champions of that convention's cause now condemn the fact that there was an antitrust president at all, though they must know that this action by the president which prevented the movement for national ownership of the coal fields from gaining what might well have been an irresistible impetus. Such mutually destructive criticism furnish an adequate measure of the change in action or constructive legislation if our opponents should be given power. So much for what our opponents openly or covertly advance in the way of an attack on the acts of the administration. When we come to consider the policies we have to pass to stand we are met with the difficult question when statements of policy are so made that they can be interpreted in different ways. On some of the vital questions that have confronted the American people in the last decade our opponents take a more practical approach, making it possible to convey their views. They contend that their leuwarm attitude of partial acquiescence in what others have accomplished entitles them to be made the custodians of the financial honor and commercial interests which they have but not made available to agree among themselves as to whether the gold standard is a curse or a blessing, and as to whether we ought or ought not to have free and unlimited coinage of silver, they have apparently not made any contribution to mital on these subjects, and individually each to follow his particular bent. Their nearest approach to a major judgment seems to be that it is now inexpedient to assert their convictions one way or the other, and that the establishment of the gold standard should not be disturbed unless there is an alteration in the relative quantity of production of silver and gold. Men who hold sincere convictions on vital questions can respect equally sincere men and women they politically offer, and men may confess a change of belief without compromising their honor or their self respect. But it is difficult to respect an attitude of mind such as has been fairly described above, and where there is no respect there can be no trust. We should not stand the strain of principle would not stand the strain of a single year of business adversity. We, on the contrary, believe in the gold standard as fixed by the usage and verdict of the business world and in a sound monetary system as matters of principle—in the business world, the monetary policy, pedency, but of permanent organic policy. In 1896 and again in 1990 farsighted men, without regard to their party fealty in the past, joined to work against what they regarded as a debased monetary system have been steadfastly opposed to the administration, and by the act of March 14, 1909, congress established the single gold standard as the measure of our monetary value. This act received the support of every Republican in the house and of every Democrat in the senate. Of our opponents eleven supported it in the house and two in the senate and 150 opposed it in the house and twenty-eight in the senate. The record of the last seven years proves that the party has been able to provide additional action necessary to improve and strengthen our monetary system and that our opponents cannot be so trusted. The fundamental fact is that in a popular government such as our no policy is not possible to keep in control of the government men who believe in that policy as a matter of deep root conviction. Laws can always be revoked. It is the spirit and the purpose of those responsible for their government and administration which must be fixed and the administration which must say that the monetary standard of the nation is irrevocably fixed so long as the party which at the last election cast approximately 46 per cent of the total vote refuses to put in its platform any state termination to remain silent cannot be accepted as equivalent to a recantation. Until our opponents as a party explicitly adopt the views which we hold and upon which we have acted and are acting in the same direction, the currency, the only real way to keep the republic coming unsettled is to keep the Republican party in power. As for what our opponents say in reference to capital and labor, individual or corporate, here again all we need by way of a point to what we have actually done in the past. In my speech of acceptance I said, "We recognize the organization of capital and the organization of labor as natural outcomes of our industrial system. Each kind of organization is to be favorable, and each kind of organization is to be favorable and of regard for the rights of others. Each is to be granted the full protection of the law, and each in turn is to be held to a strict obedience to the law, for no man is above it and no man below it. We have in our modern industrial and social life an obligation in which it is necessary to approach their solution is simply the spirit of honesty of courage and of common sense." The action of the attorney general in enforcing the antitrust and interstate commerce laws and the action of the last court of appeal in enforcing interstate commerce law and in creating the department of commerce and labor, with a bureau of corporations, have for the first time opened a chance for the national government to deal intelligently and adequately with the questions affective to the business community because of the accumulation of capital in great corporations and because of the new relations caused thereby. These laws are now being administered with entire efficiency, and as in their working, need is shown for amendment or addition to the laws. The laws require proper publicity or better to guarantee the rights of shippers or in any other direction—this need will be met. It is now asserted "that the common law as developed affords a complete legal remedy against movers of goods there is no law of the United States that rules can be enforced only by the state courts and officers. No federal court or officer could take any action whatever under them. It was this fact, coupled with the inability of the states to control trusts and monopolies, which led to the passage of the federal statutes known as the Sherman antitrust act and the interstate commerce act, and it is only because of these statutes that they are referred by these acts and by the statutes of the last congress supplementing them that the national government acquires any jurisdiction over the subject. To say that action against trusts and monopolies should be limited to the application of the common law is equivalent to saying that the state should take no action whatever to regulate them. Undoubtedly the multiplication of trusts and their increase in power have been largely due to the "failure of officials charged with the duty of enforcing the law to take the necessary procedure." Such officials of the national government to do their duty in this matter is certainly not wholly undeserved as far as the adminis- fration preceding President McKinley's concern, but it has no application all to Republican administration. It is also undoubtedly true that what is most concerned with the administration is position and the courage to enforce existing law." This is precisely the need that has been met by the consistent and steadily continued action of the department of justice under the present administration. The wageworker and the individual capitalist are concerned, both as regards one another, as regards the public and as regards organized capital and labor, the position of the administration has been so clear that it has not presented it and no ground for opposing less misrepresented. Within the limits defined by the national constitution the national administration has sought to secure to each man the full enjoyment of his property and the discharge of his property and his labor. Best so long as he wrongs no one else. It has shown in effective fashion that in endeavoring to make good this guarantee it treats all men, rich or poor, whatever their creed, their color or their birthplace, their family and disease of the law. Under our form of government in which the nation as distinguished from the state can act is narrowly circumscribed, at within that sphere all that could be done has been done. All thinkers are aware of the restriction upon the power of the national government in such matters. Being mindful of them, we have been scrupulous careful on the one hand to be moderate in our promises and on the other in spirit. In deep these promises in letter and in spirit, these promises have been hampered by no such contempt. They have promised, and many of them now promise, action which they could by no possibility take in the exercise of constitutional power, and which, if attempted, have used and offered much. They have wild invective and appeal to all the barter passions which tend to excite one set of Americans against their fellow Americans, and yet whenever they have had this extravagance of promise by absolute nullity in performance. This government is based upon the fundamental idea that each man, no matter what his occupation, his race or his religious belief, is entitled to be treated equally to any man and neither favored nor discriminated against any accident in his position. Even here at home there is painful difficulty in the effort to realize this ideal, and the attempt to secure from other nations accustomed to the sometimes encounters obstacles that are within their power for there are many nations which in the slow procession of the ages have not yet reached that point where the principles which Americans regard as axiomatic are manifested in whatever. One of the chief difficulties in coming to a position with certain American citizens of foreign birth or of particular creed who desire to travel abroad, Russia, for instance, refuses to admit and protect Jews. Turkey admits and protects certain sects of Christianity and other nationalities insistently demanded equal protection abroad for all American citizens, whether native or naturalized. On March 27, 1889, Secretary Hay sent a letter of instruction to the United States and consular officers of the United States, asking that the department of justice agents abroad have been repeated again and again and are treated as the fundamental rule of conduct laid down for them, proceeding upon the theory "that naturalized citizens of the United States are not citizens of the United States entitled to and shall receive from this government the same protection of persons and property which is accorded to native born citizens". In issuing passports the state department never discharges any foreign citizen, and in giving to every American citizen, native or naturalized, Christian or Jew, the same passport so far as it has power it insists that all foreign governments shall accept the passport as a means of entering the United States described is a citizen of the United States and entitled to protection as such. It is a standing order to every American diplomatic and consular officer to protect every American citizen of whatever country abroad have been stringently required to comply with this order. Under such circumstances the demand of our opponents that negotiations be begun to secure equal treatment of all Americans from those governments which are opposed to the invasion norance of the facts or insincerity. No change of policy in the method or manner of negotiation would add effectiveness to what the state department has done and is doing. The stendy pressure which the department has been keeping up in the past will be there. This administration has on all proper occasions given clear expression to the belief of the American people that discrimination and oppression because of religion wherever practiced are acts of insincerity. In the event of an evident evidence to the world the depth of American convictions in this regard we have gone to the very limit of diplomatic usage. It is a striking evidence of our opponents' insincerity in this matter that with the assistance of the state department in this state department they couple a demand for a reduction in our small military establishment. Yet they must know that the heed paid to our protests against all treatment of our citizens will be exactly to the belief in our ability to make these protests effective should the need arise. Our opponents have now declared themselves in favor of the civil service law, the repeal of which they demanded in 1900 and in 1896. If consistent they should have gone one step further and constitutionally repealed the civil service law is now administered and the way in which the classified service has been extended. The exceptions from examinations are fewer by far than ever before and are confined to individual cases where the application of the rules is not necessary or unnecessary. The administration of the great body of the classified civil service is free from politics, and appointments and removals have been put upon a business basis. Statistics show that there is little difference between the tenure of the civil service and the tenure of the employees of private business corporations. Less than 1 per cent of the classified employees are over seventy years of age, and in the main the service rendered is vigorous and efficient. Where the mer- t system, was of course most needed was in the Philippine Islands, and a civil service law of very advanced type has there been put into operation and scrupulously observed. Without one exception every officer has been made to in accordance with the strictest standard of fitness and without heed to any other consideration. Finally, we come to certain matters upon which our opponents do in their platform of principles definitely take issue in the course of their triumph would meet disaster to the country. But exactly as it is impossible to call attention to the present promises and past record of our opponents without seeming offensive, so it is impossible to compare their platform with their other and later official utterances and not create a more serious and private or unofficial utterances many of them frankly advance this insincerity as a merit, taking the position that as regards the points on which I am about to speak they have no intention of keeping their promises or of departing from the point on which I am bound and that there they can be trusted not to abuse the power they seek. When we take up the great question of the tariff we are at once confronted by the doubt as to whether our opponents do or do not mean what they say. They say that protection is robbery, that care can be careless, if they are given power. Yet prominent persons among them assert that they do not really mean this and that if they come into power they will adopt our policy, as regards the tariff, while others seem anxious to prove that it is safe to give them partial power, because the power would be only partial, and therefore they would not be able to do anything to advance on behalf of a curious plea to advance on behalf of a seeking to obtain control of the government. At the outset it is worth while to say a word as to the attempt to identify the trust question with a solution of the trust question. This is always a sign of desire to avoid any real effort to deal adequately with the trust question, in speaking on the trust at Minneapolis on April 4, 1983, said. "The question of tariff revision, speaking broadly, stands wholly apart from the question of dealing with the trusts. No change in tariff duties can have any substantial effect in solving the so called trust problems. The fact that the portions are wholly unaffected by the tariff. Almost all the others that are of any importance have as a matter of fact numbers of smaller American competitors, and of course a change in the tariff which would work injury to the large corporations. The destruction to its smaller competitors, and equally of course such a change would mean disaster to all the wageworkers connected with either the large or the small corporations. From the standpoint of the trust problem such a change would therefore merely mean that the trust was relieved of the competition of its weaker American competitors and thrown only into competition with foreign competitors, that the first foot to meet this new competition would be taken from down wages and would therefore be primarily at the cost of labor. In the case of some of our greatest trusts such a change might confer upon them a positive benefit. Speaking broadly, it is evident that the tariff would affect the trusts for weal or for woe simply as they affect the whole country. The tariff affects trusts only as it affects all other interests. It makes all these interests, large or small, profitable, and its effect is taken from the large only under penalty of taking them from the small also." Our opponents assert that they believe in reciprocity. Their action on the most important reciprocity treaty recently negotiated—that with Cuba—does not bear out this assertion. Moreover, there can be no doubt that the United States has substantial tariff. Free trade and reciprocity are not compatible. We are on record as favoring arrangements for reciprocal trade relations with other countries, these arrangements to be on an equitable basis between the United States and other countries. The Republican party stands pledged to every wise and consistent method of increasing the foreign commerce of the country. That it has kept its pledge is proved by the fact that, while the domestic economy of the United States is the entire export and import trade of all the nations of the world, the United States has in addition secured more than an eighth of the export trade of the world, standing first among the nations exporting goods. The United States has exported during the last seven years by $10,000,000,000 worth of goods, on an average half as much again annually as during the previous four years, when many of our people were consuming nothing but necessaries and some of them a fairly surplus of these. Two years ago in speaking at Logansport, Ind. I said: "The one consideration which must never be omitted in a tariff change is the imperative need of preserving the American standard of living for the American workingman. 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CHAPTER 11 Richard Somers reentered the office of Dr. Brodnar as the clock was striking ten. He was in full evening dress and wore a white rose, a Lamarque, upon his lapel. As he stood drawing on his gloves Brodnar regarded him with silent admiration. The straight military figure of good height looked taller than it had. There was no suggestion of heaviness at any point, but behind the perfect lines lay, as he knew, an amount of strength and nervous force that would with retraining rank their owner among the athletes. But fine as was the framework of the man and his physical development, there was in the face, shadowed at the moment by broad, down-drooping lashes and mustache, patrician elegance, native refinement and innate nobility that commanded undivided attention. The slightly aquiline features were softened by arched and evenly matched brows and an expression indescribable by any other term than that invented by a Paris friend —"the Somers smile." One never appreciated the value of that smile until in some moment of emotion the face which wore it it grew white and straight, and the level gaze of the man was encountered. Above a white, inclined forehead hair almost black lay in waves, but so closely as to leave visible the outlines of the splendid head. Such was Richard Somers at 28, a man raved over by women, envied by men, known to but few. "It is better this way," he was saying of himself; "a man owes something to his family and his bride in the matter of dress, even though he is not to see or be seen. And he owes a great deal to himself. By the way, I assumed that I am not to be seen—however, is that one of the questions I must not ask?" "Your face is not to be seen, Dick, except in the dark—dimly. But I am glad, nevertheless, that you selected your dress suit; it does seem more in taste. By the way—speaking of Raymond Holibin—Dick, have you forgotten that he dated from this state in the army? —God knows where he was born. I see him occasionally in Richmond, and" —Brodnar paused and looked curiously on his companion—"have you ever been told that there is something not unlike in your personal appearance? Don't be offended, old fellow, but, between you and me, there isn't a more unprincipled rascal unhung." Somer's face flushed once and the smile left it. He replied with some constraint: "I did not know that he ever favored Richmond with his presence. I did know, however, that he once lived in this state. His was a presidential appointment. His mother years ago wielded considerable influence around Washington, especially among senators. As to the likeness, it has been commented on before, and I once fought a boy at school for discovering the fact. Does he make Richmond his home?" "Of late, yes. But I see that you are annoyed. My dear fellow, very ugly people may resemble very handsome ones. Shall we start?" "This bandage," said Brodnar, "seems to imply a doubt of you, Dick, but believe me it has its proper use. In the future, if accident should confront you with the—woman, neither of you will be embarrassed. She will, it is true, know your name, but unless she should look you up in days to come she will never see your face. Is that comfortable?—yes? Well, a moment and we are gone. Your hand, my friend, now, and your word of honor. You will not look on this woman's face, nor seek in any way to discover from her, from me, or from anyone aught that I am seeking to conceal; under all circumstances you will yourself conceal from everyone the facts of this night's business; and you accept the woman to whom we go as your wife with all the limitations I have outlined. I know that in your own heart you are resolved, but the honor of a woman is at stake, and you must promise me as man to man." "As man to man, then, and upon the honor of Richard Somers, I promise. Lead on!" The chance passer-by who saw a blindfolded man led from the elegant apartments of Dr. Francis Brodnar was not surprised. The explanation was easy. But Somers himself was distinctly surprised at the length of the ride and the number of corners turned. It seemed to him that the carriage traversed more than once the same road, for in spite of himself he could not but take notice of such things. Dr. Brodnar described the drift of his thoughts. "For a man to note the direction of a journey," he said, "is a natural, an almost automatic, action of the brain-cells—an inheritance from both animal and human ancestry. Therefore, Dick, if I have sought to confuse you by my queer route, it is only through distrust of the original and savage Somers, and to save all parties embarrassment. I trust few people. Here we are at last." Dismounting, he led his companion on a pavement, through a narrow gateway, the gate of which he unlocked, along a gravel walk with shrubbery on both sides for about 60 paces, up two stone steps to a door, that had neither bell nor knocker, and into a woman's room. How weak is human invention. Richard Somers gathered these facts without mental effort from small signs. The footfall upon the pavement, the search for the key, the clicking lock, the crowding, the gravel under foot, the touch of shrubbery, two steps at the door, and the indesirable air of every lady's room—the faint, blended odor of powders, toilet waters and pressed flowers. That it was the room of a refined woman he was sure in advance. Had he not been, there was the deep carpet into which his feet sank noiselessly. And it was plain that he had come into a garden from a side street, since no residence would have opened from a woman's room into a walk that led directly to a main street. Here, then, was a woman who lived upon a first floor with a private garden at her disposal. He had heard the gentle plashing of water outside; there was a fountain in this garden. On the morrow he had but to walk the city until he found the prelimes, if he would. So much for the secrecy of his friend Brodnar! By this time Richard Somers was a deeply interested man. Despite his resolution to carry off the affair lightly, he began to feel the presence of something like a tragedy. Where was the woman who was to make use of him blindly and go through the form of a marriage? Dimly at first, perhaps as a matter of logic, he was conscious that she was in the room and near him. Then without more reason he became certain of it. The room was not dark, for he felt light upon his bandaged eyes. Instinctively he stretched out his hand. Then there was laid within it another as soft as silken velvet and small and tremulous. The touch thrilled him from head to foot; it was the hand of a young woman—the timidity belonged to girlhood—and instantly a deep sympathy moved him. It was indeed an urgent cause that forced her into this situation—forced her, because now she was softly crying, and her emotion shook the little hand. Instantly his own hand closed above hers. "Be not afraid, my child," he said; "all will be well." His voice, low and sympathetic, was the first to break the silence of that room. The girl ceased crying and her hand lay quiet within his own. Then the doctor spoke in a whisper: "We are ready," he said to a third person; "make the ceremony as brief as possible." The other began: "Richard Somers, do you take this woman to be thy wedded wife, to live together after God's holy ordinance in the holy state of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?" There was silence, and then Richard Somers said gravely: "I take this woman to be my lawful wedded wife; and I shall comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health, to the best of my ability, as long as I shall continue to be her wedded husband. Is that sufficient, sir, to answer all legal requirements?" "That is sufficient," said the unknown speaker. "Frances, wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband—" "To honor him at all times and in all hours while life shall last?" said Somers, interrupting. "I ask no more, no less." Then upon his hearing fell a clear, musical voice, flawless as the note of a dove, plaintive as the wind-harp of the pines: "Yes," it said, "to honor him at all times and in all hours while life shall last, whether in the days to come we meet again or we meet no more." He lifted his head quickly, his hand closed impulsively over hers, and a cry trembled upon his lips. "That voice!" he said, deeply affected. "I have heard—but no!"—his chin sank upon his breast; "it cannot be." SHE BENT FORWARD SUDDENLY, AND, HIDING HER FACE IN HER HANDS, RESTED THEM ON HIS KNEES He caught the words of the unknown speaker beginning the invocation. "No! no!" he cried, almost fiercely, "it is a sacrilege!" "Then," said the speaker, "it is sufficient to say that under authority vested in me by the state of Virginia I pronounce you man and wife." Somers stood silent and depressed. There was a whispered consultation; the inner door opened softly and some one passed out. The scene and circumstances had powerfully affected the doctor. "There were difficulties I had not foreseen," he said, gravely, "but you have safely passed them, my friends. And now I must leave you. Dick, I have placed in your hands the honor of a woman—and my own. I will return for you before it is light. Remember! The gas is now extinguished and you may remove the bandage." He drew the girl towards him tenderly. "You may trust him implicitly. For the rest, all is now safe. Good night, and God bless you both." He laid his hand reverently upon the girl's head, clasped his friend's hand and would have passed out, but the hand he clasped restrained him, and Somers spoke feelingly as he drew him aside: THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "Is this necessary—this remaining? Think how—" "Absolutely! I read a decision last week, and I must have a marriage that will stand the test of the highest court." "You read a decision? Are you not acting under the advice of your lawyers?" "Lawyers be hanged! I know Virginia law. A simple acknowledgment before a witness, with this addition, fixes everything. Don't sulk now, Dick; it won't be long." "I was not thinking of myself," said Somers. "Good night." He stood a moment in thought, then turned to his companion. In the darkened but not dark room he saw a slender, girlish figure near him, the face bent forward and hidden in her hands. "Come," he said, cheerfully, "let us sit down and talk it all over. It is true we are married, but that is no reason why we shouldn't be friends, I suppose. If you will find me a chair, I am sure you will confer a great favor. By the way, what shall I call you? 'Madam' or 'Mrs. Somers' sounds too awfully formal. Shall I say—" "Call me Frances," she said, simply. She understood without analyzing that he was trying to make it easier for her, and was grateful. "Frances! What a beautiful namel I like it already because it is the feminine of Francis. Yes, the armchair will do, and I shall sit here by the table. And you? Oh, I seem to see you snug in the rocker in front. This, I suppose, is the proper arrangement for a family party when the meter isn't working; but I know very little about it. I never was married before, and I suppose you are equally in the dark." It made him happy to hear her friendly little laugh, even though it was instantly checked. "By the way," he continued, "do you know anything of me? I am to ask no questions concerning you, but I suppose we may talk about me, may we not? "I know that you are a friend of Dr. Brodnar, and what he has told me. You are a stranger in Richmond and a gentleman. But I would have known that you are a gentleman anyway." "Thank you, Miss Frances; that was nicely said." "Miss Frances!" he insisted. "I am sorry," said the girl, after moment's silence, "but if you wish, let it remain that way." "But I am curious to know how it was that you so quickly decided in my favor the question of gentility." "My mother told me, when I was little, that any man in whose presence a girl or child feels at ease is a gentleman at heart, and somehow I trusted in you from the moment you spoke. But Dr. Brodnar told me—" "Well?" "Told me such beautiful things—stories of your life; I seemed to feel, sir, that I had known you always." "And what has Brodnar been saying of me?—I can blush unseen." "He told me you were brave—" "Most men are. And at times all animals." "That you loved flowers, birds, horses, children and old people—" "Objects that can't get away from me. Go on." "That you are generous to a fault—" "Especially my own—or his." "And that no woman on God's green earth, those were his words, ever appealed to you for help in vain. He told me once he saw you get out of your carriage in Paris in your evening suit, pick up a drunken old woman who had fallen, and carry her to a house of refuge—and, oh, sir, you did it because you said the noblest, the most sacred image on earth to a man should be a woman's form, the form like unto that of his mother—too sacred for the laugher and jeers of a city's idlers—" "Tindorse the sentiment, whosesoever it is. But what a sad gossip Brodnar is!" "But you did do this, didn't you?" "Would it please you to think that I did?" "Would it! Why, sir, it was that that made me trust you!" "Trust me? You were crying!" "Because—because—this is a most strange position for you to find me in, Mr. Somers. I thought that I wouldn't care; and I did not, until you came, but I did then. And that is why I cried. Somehow, I felt that in spite of all at stake, it ought not to have happened this way." "I understand. But in my estimation, my child, you have sacrificed nothing." "You did not think so—but—but—" He took up the thought. "But you are grieved because you are saying: 'Now here is a gentleman who, I have suddenly discovered, I wish to respect me for myself, and as a refined, modest girl; and what must he think of one who is willing to be locked up here in a room with him all night!'"—the girl caught her breath and half rose from her chair—"and for what? I cannot even tell him. I am bound not to tell him. I must sit by and see him sacrifice himself to friendship!" "Oh, sir, do you think—" She bent forward suddenly and, hiding her face in her hands, rested them upon his knees. He placed his own hand lightly upon her head and wondered if it were treason to have discovered that her hair was a mass of curls and clustering ringlets. "That is only what you were saying to yourself, not what I am thinking. When I called you 'child' I absolved you from all the crimes of womanhood. There are many actions that flow naturally from childish hearts which carry not the slightest flavor of immodesty; and yet a woman may not copy them. So in this, my young friend." "Ah, you do not say 'my child' now!" "No, you have passed into womanhood with the consciousness of this error. I say error, because it is a situation that you should not have been placed in—no, not to save human life—not even to save your own; for the unscarred whiteness of a woman's soul is the priceless pearl of eternity, and not to be staked on earth. But the thought behind it all was not your own. You yielded under the pressure of fear and advice. Your objections were overcome, and you obeyed an elder person in whom you had implicit confidence. That is all, and I understand." "Then they did not tell you about "Then they did not tell you about me!" she whispered, breathlessly. "Ne; you have told me all that I know of you, here in the dark. You are tender, modest, true and pure; and were you my wife in truth, I would not be ashamed to tell this story to the world myself and own you as such after." The words fell from his lips so tenderly, so kindly, she took his hand in both of hers, and laid her face upon it, crying silently. "The blame of it all is on our friend, the doctor," he continued, deeply touched, and his voice a little unsteady. "What a tumultuous, headlong, hurricane sort of fellow he is! There is no blame for you; for look, if I am here, how could you have resisted him? And it is only his judgment that was at fault, after all—only his judgment. Why, a truer heart never beat than Brodnar's." "Would it offend you if I ask a question?" She had waited for composure, and now did not lift her head. "Why, no, of course." "You are right sure?" "Right sure." "Then, how could any gentleman consent to be placed in such a position as yours? You must have known how embarrassing it was to be for me." His first inclination was to whistle out his astonishment, but he restrained himself. "You forget, my child—I see you have backslided into childhood—you forget that in the first place I was appealed to in behalf of a woman and no gentleman may resist that. And then I had no reason to suspect that I was to marry a girl. It might have been an experienced widow. Indeed—" "But you are glad it wasn't, are you not?" she asked, anxiously. "Yes, my child." "Does my question then indicate that I am a child?" "Yes, my child." "I don't see why." "Because you are still—a child." She was not satisfied. "Mr. Somers, I want you to think well of me always, and the thought that I may meet you sometime doesn't embarrass me now. It would not embarrass me if I did meet you—even if I should meet you to-morrow. But I wish you to know all about me, and I am going to tell you everything from the beginning." "No, indeed, you shall not," he said, quickly. She lifted her head, startled. "Why not—if I choose? I am not afraid to trust you." "No! no! Miss Frances." "Ah, I am a woman again!" "Yes, a woman of a charm so sweet and a heart so true that Richard Somers must arm himself. Not your honor, but mine, the honor of your husband, is at stake, and you promised to regard that always." "And I shall, sir; only tell me how." "Why, I have promised my friend not to seek to find out, or permit anyone to tell me anything about you. I may not let even you inform me. You must not." She was silent, disturbed, and wondering at his intense earnestness. Then she said, in awe at the mystery of it all: "When we part to-night we are to meet as friends no more? You may never take my hand in yours and speak kindly to me again? Oh, sir, you do not know, you do not know what your tenderness has done for the girl—no, the woman you call a child. You do not know what it is to have missed a father's care, a mother's—" "Hush! he cried, 'not one word more. You are making it hard—hard for me to keep faith with my friend. You are betraying his secret." She threw off his hand and arose suddenly, with an abandon of passion that over-whelmed him. "What a mockery! what a mockery! I am ashamed—ashamed! I is it who am betrayed!" He had arisen also, full of emotion and almost unmanned. "Never—at my hands. I chose the words deliberately. I will honor and protect you—to the best of my ability; but my ability ends where my promise began. All is based upon my contract with Francis Brodnar, my friend." "Friend—friend!" she said, bitterly; "in God's name, sir, what am I to you?" He was too deeply affected to answer at once. When he did his voice was unsteady. "This: In the hour I have been here you have found an untrodden way to the heart of Richard Somers. I know now that no woman was ever there before you; none will ever follow you. I may not be here to give you my hand—I do not know the circumstances that surround you, or even if in winning your sympathy I am playing false—but wherever you are, remember that my soul follows, and I would keep guard over you if I might." He spoke with an earnestness and passion that disturbed and alarmed himself. Something like a groan burst from his lips when he realized how far he had committed himself, and he sank back in his chair. There presently she found him, and resting her hand timidly upon his arm, she said, gently: "What would you have me answer you?" She was calm and confident now. At first she had shrunk a little from him. Her simple, confiding action restored to him his calmness. "I would have you say at what hour it is you are accustomed to close the eyes which look down upon without seeing mine." "At nine. But what is this upon your lapel—a flower?" "A white rose for our wedding." With pretty show of authority she drew it from its resting place and fixed it in her hair. "Do not flowers belong to the bride?" "Wear it in memory of me," he said, gently. "But now I am going to insist that you take steps to preserve those other roses which I am sure have bloomed for you. Have you a dressing-room?" "Yes, but I am not sleepy and I shall not desert you. Wait. Speaking of the rose, I shall sing you a song I love very much—that is, if I can find my guitar. Ah, here it is! Now I'll sit here—and you right there—but I wonder if I can ever play in the dark? May I not have just a little light? I won't mind—" "How easily you forget! It is impossible. Sing as you are; I shall not hear any discord." He was astonished at her swift change of mood and a new, glad note in her voice. She sang low and sweetly, with perfect control of her tones, the "Last Rose of Summer." And then he understood better. For in her voice he read that the soul and spirit of an impassioned woman dwelt in the slender frame veiled by the shadows of the room. He was silent. Every heartache that had been crushed out of his manhood seemed to have revived under the magic of a subtle tone, an indescribable, indefinable echo. It was a resurrection of something that had died hard within him. "You do not like my singing," she said, disappointed, when, waiting for his praise, she found him silent and thoughtful. "Your singing? Yes. But a memory! Go to sleep now. Make yourself comfortable and leave me to keep watch. Yet stay; will you not sing over those lines again? To me they are inexpressibly beautiful." Standing in the doorway of her dressing-room, she sang the verse through again softly without accompaniment, waited until she was assured that he would not speak, and then passed thoughtfully within. When she came forth, arrayed in her wrapper, she paused beside him, puzzled over his change of mood. "I am afraid you are going to be lonely," she said. "Sleep, my child, sleep; I shall not be lonely—knowing you are there." "Perhaps I am keeping you awake?" "Yes. That is it; you are keeping me awake!" "Well, I am holding out my hands and saying 'good night,'" she said. He found and pressed his lips upon them. He held them so tightly and trembled so violently she bent down over him confused. One of her curls, loosened, dropped upon his neck, and another across his cheek. The mingled odor of her hair and the rose filled him with a strange intoxication. "I am sorry if I have distressed you in any way," she said; "you have been kind, oh, so kind to me. Good night." He still held her hands, his face bowed upon them, his form shaking with a strange emotion. "Good night," she said again. "If I do fall asleep and you are lonely—oh, sir, you hurt my hands." "Good night," he whispered, hoarsely, recovering himself and releasing them. She crossed the room, and he saw her, dimly, standing by the bed, as though in doubt. And then she sank softly to her knees and laid her head upon her arms, child-wise, in prayer. He arose and stood until he saw her head lifted. "Wait," he said, earnestly; "will you not pray also for me?" "I have prayed for you already," she answered. "Will you tell me the prayer?" "Some time, perhaps, when it has been answered." He thought then that she had fallen asleep, but after awhile she spoke again. "Will you let me ask you a question—of yourself again?" "Yes, if you wish." "Dr. Brodnar said that you had never had but one ambition in life, and that you had been disappointed. What did he mean?" "I once had ambition to be a great soldier. That is all." "Were you ever a soldier?" "Yes, an officer in the regular army." "And now?" "I am a wanderer. A gentleman only." "Why did you leave the army?" "I struck my superior officer. They heard my defense and—let me resign." "And the other—what became of him?" "He cheated at cards, was publicly insulted—and cashiered." "Why did you strike him?" "Is this asking 'a' question?" "Oh, forgive me! Good night." "It is very short," he said, repentantly. "There was a woman in the case; the card incident was but a pretext." A low cry escaped the girl. Then she said, half rising: "You loved her?" "Yes." He heard her sink slowly back upon her pillow. "I thought so, at least—until now. I was mistaken in her; my pride was wounded." He arose and paced the room. "Tell me of her." "She lived not far from Washington with a relative, her parents both dead. She had some means of her own and frequently came into the city, where she had friends. We met, and I believed in her; but this officer came between us. She thought him rich, and I was deserted for him. She belonged to that class of women who esteem wealth the foremost object of life, women who go deliberately to men they do not, cannot love, or even respect, and say in effect: 'Here, we have beauty, youth, freshness, for sale. Take us, dress us, give us jewels and fine clothes to wear, carriages to ride in; give us a chance to command the homage of men, and all that we have is yours.' Watch for them upon your streets; all men know them at sight, God, but they pay at last! Look in when the excitement has passed and see upon their faces the frozen despair; see in the heaviness of their step the weight of a dead youth, and in their eyes eternal hopelessness, Child, child, be not deceived; love is the only gold that pays a woman. Shun them, these wretched advertisements of dishonor. Let no man come into the holiness of your life until love has sanctified the sacrifice." He ceased abruptly, and the next instant was kneeling by her side. "Forgive me!" he cried. "Have I not told you I hold you blameless?" Suddenly he felt her arms about his neck, drawing his face to hers. Her hair enveloped and almost smothered him in a sudden storm. Holding him thus, she broke into such an agony of grief and tears as to render him speechless and helpless. She held him in such frantic embrace that each effort he made to free himself was defeated. When her strength was exhausted she sank back among the pillows, breathless. He bent above her unnerved. "How lonely, how barren must have been your life, that a little kindness—another's sorrows—should touch you so deeply!" "Lonely! Speak of the persecution, the brutality, the infamy—!" "Hush." he whispered. "No more—to me. Come, you must sleep." Rising abruptly, he left her side. When it was that she fell asleep he could not discover, but presently he seemed to near her deep, regular breathing, and was thankful. And so the moments passed. The girl started up once or twice and spoke his name; but always at sound of his calm, reassuring voice sank back again upon her pillow. From time to time he went and stood above her—a spell upon him new and strange, a spell that filled him with unceasiness and vague alarm. He was no longer lonely. In some mysterious way a burden seemed to be slipping away from him, and in its place came a sense of companionship sweet and comforting. Most men discount married life in their dreams, and few ever realize the fullness of those dreams; but with him it had been different. This strange experience preceded the dreams. Without a day's warning he had been plunged into the privacy of a young and modest woman's life, had become the guardian of her honor and in a measure of her future; and in a mysterious way the divine sweetness of her soul had issued forth and enveloped him. In the chiaroscuro of the still room he could just determine the outlines of her bed and upon its whiteness the outlines of her slender figure. He was glad that she slept; in that quiet falling asleep was for him the finest tribute ever paid to his manhood. A glad, quick pulse leaped from his heart as he realized this truth, and the words of the girl's mother, so artlessly repeated, came back to him. Then in the desert of his life a stranger came before his tent and asked for shelter. He bade him enter. Why should not this scene be fixed and real and lasting? Would it be possible? Would the girl some day accept it as such, yielding still the trust and tenderness she had brought to the counterfeit? Was she trusting Brodnar? Or was she trusting him? The trust was in him. He felt it instinctively; and her little white hand seemed to steal forth to his again, her arms to enfold him. What a child she was! And yet—and yet—An irresistible impulse seized him to be near her, to touch her hand, her hair, and to pass within the electric radius of her presence again, if but for a moment. He was her guardian whether she slept or awoke. A strange curiosity to be near a sleeping girl, to enter further into her life and absorb the sweetness of its innocence, possessed him. She would not know, she would never know, perhaps; and why should he not snatch from fate this one brief moment of happiness? A doubt assailed him and brought hesitation; but with an impatient gesture he threw aside the hesitation. He would not let even himself doubt himself. And so he came and stood above the sleeper, and presently, entranced, he kneeded and saw her lying there, vague, dim and unrecognizable, but a girl asleep. Her face was towards him upon the pillow and one hand lay upon the edge of her bed. So quietly did she sleep she seemed not to breathe. He watched her until a tremor shook him from head to foot, and a never before experienced confusion seized upon his mind. Instinctively he leaned above her hand and touched it with his lips—lightly, reverently. She sighed and spoke his name, and, overwhelmed with sudden dismay, he would have withdrawn, but she seized his arms and cried out: "Light! light!" And then, brokenly: "Oh, sir, for the first time—I am —I am—frightened!" He sank his face beside her, overwhelmed with shame. "It is half-past three," he said, brokenly; "I must soon say farewell to you—" "Oh, sir, will you not light the gas?" Seeing that she still trembled, he arose and went to his chair. "No," he said, calmly. "But sleep on. I shall not disturb you again." And then presently she came, and, kneeling in sudden abandon, before him, placed her hands upon his shoulders, her face into his. "I shall not let you leave me thinking that I do not trust you," she said. "Oh, sir, kiss me now, my hands, my hair, my lips if you will. I trust implicitly! I trust you—yes, and more, I—" "Child, child, you do not know what you are saying!" He covered his face with his hand. "Child! No, woman! You do not understand; it is you who are the child. Listen. I was not asleep when you struck a match and, turning your face from me, looked at your watch. I was awake, and I saw your face in the glass across the room." "You should not—" "It was an accident, and I thanked God, for it has given me a living memory of the kindest friend since mother died. It is not the first time, for your picture is in the doctor's office. He did not know that I have hung over it—fixing it in my mind—many—many times—oh, will you, will you say that you wish to see me? Have you no wish to remember me?" "Remember you? I shall carry with me forever the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand, the perfume of every curl upon your head—" "But my face! Will you look upon that? I release you from all your promises." "I cannot! I cannot!" "Oh, sir, think what it will mean to me in all the lonely days to come, the memory of you and the consciousness that you carry in your heart sometime the face of the girl who—" "It must not be. Remember your husband's honor! You promised to honor him. Is this the way?" "My husband! my husband!" she cried, half rising, "you have said it!" "Frances! Frances!" "Ah, Frances! Say it all, Frances, my wife." "Frances, my wife!" A passionate cry burst from the girl's lips. "Yes, Frances, your wife. The woman who loves you, who has loved you from the day she saw your picture and heard your story! Oh, he never knew—he never dreamed it. Nothing can silence these words: Frances, my wife.' I will look upon your face, and you shall, you shall see mine! The matches—ah, they are here!" "Hold!" he cried, huskily. "I should be unworthy of your love and trust if I could break my sacred promise. Look upon me if you will, but the eyes that would weep tears of joy to say you will be closed while the match is burning. Look, if to carry in memory the living record of one face will help you, take mine, and with it, right on wrong, the love of Richard Somera. She struck the match and held it above his lifted face, advancing her own and gazing eagerly upon him. "Ah, again! again! My husband, my husband," she remurmured. "it is the face of an angel!" The match grew short and the fatal red spark was showing in the flame when there came a flash of light in the window across the room, the quick, sharp report of a pistol rang out, and Richard Somera reeling, plunged through her arms face down upon the floor. The awful silence that followed the tragedy was broken at length by the faint whisper of the dazed and half unconscious girl. "Speak," she said, kneeling over the prostrate form; "why—what is the matter?—what has happened?" Her hands found his head and passed rapidly over it. "You do not answer me!" She drew slowly back from him, chilled with a great and unspeakable horror. Her hands were wet and slippery. Instinctively she knew it was blood. She could not rise nor cry out; her heart seemed paralyzed, her throat in the clutch of an invisible hand. The door opened silently, and the doctor's low voice was heard: "Somers, Somers, the day is almost breaking." There was no response. He spoke again. Then the two figures became dimly visible. "What has happened?" he whispered, bending above them. He, too, felt the tell-tale blood RICHARD SOMERS. REELING. PLUNGED THROUGH HER ARMS. upon his fingers as he touched the prostrate man, and, rising hastily, struck a match. Somers lay senseless before him, the young woman kneeling by his side staring speecklessly upon her bloody hands. His quick glance swept the room and rested upon her. The match fell to the floor and went out, leaving the scene to blacker darkness. "Remorse!" he said, in a whisper, and was still. Rallying his faculties at length, Dr. Brodnar hurriedly lit the gas, and with his stern features contracted examined the fallen man and saw a wound back of the right temple from which the dark blood was still oozing. "He has shot himself," he said. A moment he stood, with covered face, wavering in his tracks. Suddenly the enormity of the interests at stake flashed upon him and stupor gave way to intelligent action. Seizing a towel, he wiped the girl's hands and forced her into a chair. "Stay there," he said, "and on your life do not cry or leave the room before I return. Do you understand?" "Yes," she said, simply, and fixed her gaze upon the window. He bound the towel tightly about the head of the wounded man, lifted him in his arms as if he were a child, and passed out into the night. A few moments later the rush of wheels was heard upon the street. "Some patient of the doctor's is worse," said a policeman upon a corner two squares away as the flying vehicle passed him. Dr. Bronar was rescued from a bad complication by his especial treasure, Joe, the driver. "Go and bring your mother," he said, quickly, as he lifted the unconscious Somers from the carriage in front of his office. "Don't lose one second! Keep your mouth shut." Joe was of hearing before the doctor reached his operating-room. The doctor's assistant, half dressed, appeared quickly. Somers was stretched upon a table, and his wound critically examined. The bullet had entered over and behind the right ear, and the side of his head was clotted with blood. A second wound an inch farther back became visible as the blood was washed away, but a probe carefully inserted in the forward wound came out of the other, touching the skull in passing. There was no particle of brain-matter in the blood. "Syncope from concussion," said Brodnar. "Watch him carefully until I return and do not permit him to speak." The sound of wheels approaching caused him to descend the steps three at a time. He pressed back the aged negro woman who was dismounting. "To the same place, Joe! Hurry!" he said, and the door closed. The woman so hastily scurred was none other than the "mammay" who had looked after the welfare of Frances since infancy. She had been encouraged to absent herself for the night, Trained under the old regime, with a sense of proprietorship in her old mistress and daughter, with a deep and impregnable pride in the family, she needed no cautioning. Nevertheless Dr. Brodnar said as they entered silently the deserted yard: (TO BE CONTINUED.) Friend—What is your life for you? Modern composer—finished a new film, am hattening down to the De Fashion theater to have the man- ager produce it. "Well, my new opera has songs in it."—N. Y. 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When writing to w do" Povey your sulseriotion or to discuntinge Serarele, Sau show rive soar name and nd sete Radi: otheretee We cannes Ana om Vere tte ose HasGRORADURES—In order to. comox: wes uacrmw ofa. suecriber, we muse ese 302 Tornice as Weil us the present addin Sn tered in the Post Ofer at am eeatsedene estes es SATURDAY... SEPTEMBER 17, 1904 Tue Twestiets Cextory Homr, a monthly journal published at Irving- won, New York, is unquestionably the nest journal of its kind now before she American public. It is admirable edited and its corp of contributors rep- Sesent some of the best mental cultare cf the republic. It is only $1.00 per year and every female in the land, who admires progress and wishes assistance nnd advice as to the best methods in vogue in all departments of a twentieth century home can not afford to be with- ‘out this pabhieation, MOB DEPEATS TROOPS. Horace Maries, (colored) charged with the murder of Jouy Watprop, white) was taken from the jail at Mantsville, Alabama, Sept. 7h, 1904, slespite the presence of the state troops and hanged to a lamppost, after which ais body was riddled with bullets, ‘The state troops had stationed sen- eries about the place and established their |-eadquarters inside the jail, The mob drove in the sentries, smol- ed out the troops and captured the prisouer with the result before stated. ‘Maries was not charged with criminal assault. A special grand jury had beeu ompanelled in the case and everything indicated that a speedy trial would be asccoried him. Troops had been ordered from Bir- mingham, Soottsboro and Decatur by Acting Governor Ousxixanam. It seems that those on guard were of the ‘opinion that they were there to protect the Negro, Maries, instead of being present to uphold and maintain the majesty of the law. ‘They could only do this by protecting Mapres, because he was in the custody of the officers of the law. ‘That they should have surrendered to the mob is evidence of cowardice and so an observer, it indicates that the company should be mustered ont of service. Asimilar experience took place in this state at Roanoke, Virginia, The prisoner was taken from the jail and dynched, but not before the company of state troops had fired upon the mob with terrible results and numbers of . them had been killed end wounded. ‘The troops though, seemed to have been ‘horrified by their own work and resist. <4 no longer, Lynching is being condemned by the Uiberal-minded white elements every where, but it as yet has its army of ‘Supporters and can only be stamped ont Sy heroic measures, such as will teach ‘thore who advocate it that death is the penalty for its exercise. Af the state cannot and will not pro- Sect a prisoner committed to its care, then it has no right to receive such a tT. Better it 18 to furnish the tended victim With fire-arms and give ‘chance to defend himself. GOV. MONTAGUE VINDICATED. | Gov. A. J. M-xtacue of Virginia ‘must have read with rim satisfaction the accounts of the surrender and do- feat of the state teoops at Statesboro, Georgia and Huntsville, Alabama, where an insufficient namber of the citizen soldiery were themselves over- awed instead of over-aweing the mob" He was severely criticised in some quarters for his action in ordering out regiment of state troops to Roanoke, Virginia, darmg the trial of Haxey WiLiaMs, the self-confessed colored fiend, who attempted to kill a white lady of that city. Itisas plain as day now that the Governor was right. W1LLLAMS was tried, convicted, sentenced and hanged. ‘Ivis but fair to state thee he was at ‘one time an inmate of an insane asylum in Maryland. The majesty of the law ‘was maintained and time has vindicat- ed the wisdom of Governor Mowta. ©URK’s course. ‘The Democratic Party is composed of some of the anarchistic eledents of the republic, but it rarely makes a mistake in the chuacter cf the men it eievates 10 office. | Gov. Moytacve of Viratyta, Gov. Aycock of Nort CsRoutna and sever- ‘al other southerners of equal prom ‘neuce that we might name are notice. able off-sets to the freaks of the Gov, VARDAMAN type and lead us to hope ‘and believe that liberality and progres: sive ideas ure as yet on the march throughout the length and breadth of the Sonth-land. And believe that liberality and progres- sive ideas are as yet on the march throughout the length and breadth of the South-land. THE POST'S OBSERVATIONS. Our able contemporary, the Wash- ington, (D. ©.) Post paid us the follow- _ing complimcnt in its issue of Sept. 4th, “1904: “The esteemed Richmond, (Va.) Puaxzr is a newspaper from which we always derive pleasure and information in equal quantities. It is an earnest friend of the African race and is, of _conrse, conducted by colored talent and supported largely at least. by colored patronage. Moreover, the PLANET gives its readers exrellent saeeeeaee as, for instance, when it says “there is no /enmity between the better class of white people and the better class of colored ‘ones. Itis the hoodlum, irresponsible ‘elements of both races which cause troable and stir up race cee This is both wise and true. jo one could have said it better."” one. | It continued: Roden | “On this occasion, however, our chief object is to congratulate the editor of (the PLaNet apon his recent trip to Staunton, Va.,and to thank him for the useful and significant revelations con- tained in his roseate chronicle thereof.” | ‘Thon followed an extract from the } columns of the PLangt, with reference to our recent trip to Staunton. ‘The lan / guage used is not only entertaining, but amusing as well in commenting up: on the joyous hours we spent in Staan- ton. ‘The Post conctudes as follows: “Is there not in this experience some- thing more than the recreation of an editor, the exploits of a brilliant trench- Jerman, the nods, and becks,and wreath- ed smiles of the indies? Here we are told of Staunton, in the very heart of the volley, the home of areas the Virgivians—the descendants of an ancient aristocracy, whose traditions still prevail and whose ideals are as un- | changed as the blue hills that grace and beautily the distance. Yet colored peo- ple are there engaged in legitimate and remunerative Avovations, — patronized, protected and encouraged by their whit neighbors. They are embarked in pros- perous and houorable enterprises, they have comfortable if not luxurious homes; yet the whites do not hate or persecute them, On the contrary, they contribute to their opulence. There are hospitable homes, trim lawns, festivi | ties, and so on, but the races dwell to: gether in good will and peace, while ‘the Negro thrives according to. his worth, just as the white man does Surely there is in this a moral which our Richmond editor might elaborate sull further, and to the great advantage of his readers.’’ ‘The Post is right. _ In this, there is much upon which we might elaborate. The trouble in this section is due to the hoodlum element of both races. The conditions portrayed in Staunton are duplicated in other sections of this com. monwealth, and noticeably so in Rich mond. The upper classes of whites | have no ill feeling towurds the Negroes, and in fact, never think of the race discriminations so much commented upon, until they are reminded of it by either the politicians or the “poor whites,” or rather that element of the ‘latter who may be classed as loafers and have time to exercise their preja- dices. | Oar experience, extending over a pe riod of ten years has been that a pro gressive citizen of color is respected | down here just in proportion as he re- | spects himself andadds to his earthly possessions,to the extent of making him. self a tax-paying citizen in thecommun. | ity in which he lives. It is bat fair tos |tostate that we have never known a | white southern business man to endeav. | or to crowd out, antagonize or ‘kill off” a “go-ahead” colored man engaged in | business, even thongh it be the same kind of business in which the white | man is engaged. There is abso ‘|Tutely no race discrimination at the | teller's window of a white bank, oithe |in depositing money in the bank ot | drawing it out. | On the other hand, white men wil | give us advice and encouragement and | if we prove ourselves worthy, will give | as credit as well. This is one of the | anomalies of southern life and it often | induces us to say that when a southers | white man 1s @ friend to you, he is s friend all the way through, We ad. vise our people to cultivate this friend. ship. Our curse is the ill-mannered, il-bred, disreputable, _crap-shooting |lqafer. We are aflicted too with the | other kind, who although well-dressed are no less inimical to our material ad THE RICHMOND PLANET. RIGYVOND. vipers. Yancement and pe un.eus prosperity. This is why we have insisted that discrimination should bo based’ upon condition and not upon race or color. We subscribe to the dovtrine that it should be all men up, rather than some men down. The better class of southera whites wittt whom we iiave cous in contact dy not object to vhis. They are silenced however by the stenworian blasts from the politictui's hora, who desire a coucinuation of the Negro aagi- tation in order to longer perpetuate them in office and im some. cases to pre- Vent an invystization that would dis close fiuancial discrepancies, which per- chance might “make au angel weep.” THE POST'S STRICTURES, ‘Suill, it has at times given aid und comfort tu this element of our body politic and it may have been wise after all in so doing this, in that it extended the scope of its usefulne-s, and later ex erted an influence in our behalf which could not have been exercised by a journa, of a more radical tendency. Certain it 18, that it occupies an ‘unique position and ranks among the must popular journals of the United |States. During a short stop at Burke- |ville, Va... via Norfolk & Western Rail. | road, we saw a white gentleman of the |F. F. V. type, who sought for a copy of | ‘Tae Post and refused all other substi. | tutes, although some of the best New | York dailies were at his disposal. He | wanted ‘lum Post or nothing and he ‘stat chose the latter and walked away. | But to the discussion! The Post in | its issue of the 11th inst. says: | “Our esteemed colored contemporary, jthe Richmond Pranet, from whose columns we constantly derive both | amusement and instruction, is mistalc | en in supposing that The Post is a ‘*Ne- | gro hater.” Nothing of the. king. | When we say that considerably less | than half the cotton crop is produced | by Negro labor we simply state a noto- rious fact, without intending the slight- est reflection upon the colored people. ‘The truth is that during the past tn oc fifteen years many thousands 01 Ne groes have left the telds to cougregate lu owns; other thousands have gome to | the mines, factories, lumber mills, &., | of the South; while still other thous- jands have migrated this way. \cight jhere in Wasntugton there are ac east 20,000 Negroes fur whom there is no legitimate and profitable employ:eat— the resulé of which arrangement we suppose need hardly be suggested to jsuen an iuteliigent observer OL puuiic events as the Aichmoud PLaxer,”” | Le? us grant that less than half the ‘cotton crop is produced by Negro labor jand we have, according to the United States Census Reports, an annual cotton production to the credit of the citizen of color aggregating (10,758,000) ten million, seveu hundred and nfty-eight thousand bales, valued at ($172,128 000) one hundred and seventy-two mil- jtion, one hundred and twenty eight (thousand dollars. This is for the year | of 1902. The total Negro population of the United States according to the latest censos reports is (9,204,531) nine mil- hon, two hundred and four thousand, five handred and thirty-one Of this pumber (3,992,337) three mil. lion, nine hundred and ninety-two thou- sand, three hundred and thirty-seven are engaged in gainfal occupations and aze enutied “bread-winuers.” They co. stitute 45.2 per cent of the whol Negro population as against only 37.3 percent of the same kind of poople jamong the southerf whites. This indicates that there are more white loafers in the southern states than there are colored ones, See United States Census Reports, Bulletin 8, Page 18, first column, Negro “bread-win ners’? constitute 622 per cent of all Ne. groes at least ten years of age while the southern white “bread-winners” con- stitute only 48.6 per cent, showing 13.0 per cent in f. vor of the Negroes. As to whether the Negroes have left the South, we let tLe Census Report an- swer. Iesays: “Nearly nime-tenths (89.7 per cent) of the Negroes living in continental Un- ited States are found in the Southern States and three-tenths (31-4 per cent) in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama,” Astowhether the majority of the Negroes live in the cities, this report sayson Page 11: | “More than three-foarths (77.8 per cent) of the Negroes live in the coun try—chat is, outstde of cities, having at least 2,500 inhabitants.” | This emphasizes the fact that the Post has drawn its Negro population o' Washington from the ranke of th | five million anti-bread winners, and i: | suffering as a result of its folly. | ‘The ‘bread winners,’ my dear sir, are |still with us and if you have any farch | er doubt with reference to that subject | we shall quote youa few facts, show | ing the enormous amounts of money | they are piling up in the Scuth-land t the credit of that section of this great republic. | The Negroes produce every year. to |baceo valued at ($5,756,851) five mil ‘ion, seven hundred and fifty six thous ‘and, three hundred and fifty-one dol Jlars. They raise (5,927,056) five mil Hiion, nine hundred and twenty-sever | thousand and fifty-six bushels of wheat | per year, the value of which is ($4,148, | 939.89) four million, one hondred anc | forty eight thousand, nine hundred an thirty-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents. Theso same Negroes raise (184,522 one hundred and thirty-four thousand five hundred and twenty-two bushels o/ forty thousand, three haudred and fifcy- six follars and seventy-one cents. | They raise (269,908) two hundred and sixty-nine thousand, nine hundred and eight bush ls of rye, the vaine of whici | is ($215,926.43) two hundred and fifteen thousand, mine hundred and twenty-sis doliars and forty-three cents. They raive(2,561,695) two million, five hundred and sixty-one thousand, sis huncred aud ninety-five bashels ot potatoes the value of which is ($76,508 74) seven hundred and sixty eight thousand, five handred and eight dollars and seventy four cents. They raise (5,973,182) eight million, nine hundred aud seventy-three thous. and, one hundred and thirty-two bush. els of sweet potatoes the value of which is ($2,691,939.85) two million, six hun- ‘red and ninety-one thgasand, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents, ‘They produce (93,374,987) ninety three million, three huadred and seventy- four thousand, nine hundred and eighty seveu bushels of corn, the valae of which is ($46,687,493.77) forty-six mill- ton, six hundred and eighty-seven thousend, fourhundredvnd ni e y-three dollars and seventy-seven cents. Ic will be seon then that the pro- ‘ductive power of the Negroes, placing the valuation on its lowest basis is 3232,437,919.89) two huadred and thirty-two million, four hundeed and Uurty-seven thousand, five hundred and fifteen dollars and cighty-nine cents per year. This does not include the rice, of which the Negroes produce (26,574,750) twenty-six million, five hundred and seventy-four thousand, seven hundred and fifty bushels per year, or the hay of which the Negroes ‘Produce (299,287) two hundred and ‘ninety-nine thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven tons per year It will be seen then that the Negroes ‘are producers despite the fact that they are handicapped by the thousands of worthless Negroes who look on while we do the work. * We should like much to ship fifty thousand more worthless Negroes to the city of Wasurxorox aud thus rid our- selves of that class of people who im- pede our progress and embarrass us in our effort to march upward and on- ward to the table-land of material pros perity. But, sir, can the South afford to got rid of such a productive portion of its population as is shown by ‘the facts cited? ‘The Posr thinks that it can and that it will not long miss the Negro populat- jon. We beg jeave to differ and assure our distinguished white citizen that ‘every lynching tends to disturb the feel- ing of security of the average Negro laborer aud tends to make him wish for ‘the comforts of city life. This is why, to an extent at least that the bet- ter class, the business white South is de- manding a cessatio. of lawlessness and ‘their appeals are being heeded by every Governor in the Sowh-land. It would be well to remark that the value of the Negroes’ farms and farm products in the United States is ($109, 941,234) four hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and torty one ‘thousand, two hundred and thirty-four dollars. See Census Report, Balletin, No. 8, Page 326. ‘The Post can rest assured that it has produced an impression relative to the Negro loafers frcat the ones with mags ‘and tatters who, ‘shoot crap" on the side-walks to the ones in the porches who display their weaknesses in the club-houses. Many of the latter wear ‘silk-hats and ‘shad-belly” coats and are supported in idleness by others who labor, and their notions are condoned ‘by many who abhor their methods and ‘detest their practices. We only ask that in looking at them to their detriment, do not fail to. repri mand the white ones, who, after all are the ‘ ‘shining examples,” whom our loaf- ing Negroes are imitating. Sclah. Last Resort. Samsmith—Where are you going to pass your vacation? Jimjone-—Don’t know yet. I'm look- ing for a place where there are no talk- ative women. Samsmith—What's the matter with @ cemetery?—Cbicato Daily News. Similar But Different. “Tommy,” said the tercher to a small pupil, “you were not present at school yesterday. Were you detained at home Decause of inclement weather?” “No, ma‘am,” answered Johnnie, “my mother wouldn't let me come "cause it was rainin’.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Groundless Fear. Cholly—I did think of going in for politics, but I was afwaid I vouidn’t «now just how to tweat my infewiahs, don’t y" know. Pepprey—Your inferiors? O! you wouldn't be likely to meet any of them. Philadelphia Press, A Serious Doubt. “Do you think he loves you?” asked ‘Maude. “I don’t know,” answered Mamie. “He writes to you every day?” “Yes, But his letters sound suspictous~ ay sane and sensible.” — Washington Star. i te ei ai ks Crimsonbeak--One thing I never ould understand. ‘Yeast—What’s that? “Why a man who drinks should in- variably get the wife with such delf- cate sense of smell.”—Yonkers States. man. Day to Be Remembered. “I dread to think of my thirtieth birthday,” began Miss Pasay. “Yes,” replied Miss Pert, “something éreadful must have happened to you then or you wouldn't remember it this long.”—Philadelphia Ledger. 4 WEEK'S NEwo CONDENSED. ‘Thursday, September 3. Fe ar agate ein aap po ea arasenly sietenat ap Hye saniting a young ¢irl, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Chicago judge. General Ballington Booth and Mrs, Booth, of the Volunteers of America, have arrived in New York from Lon- don. ‘The Japanese government has placed @ concract for 7590 tons of the finest nickel steel plates with the Carnegie Steel Company, of Pitsburg. Nathan Merris and H.C. McMichael, machinists, were serigusiy burned by coming in contact with a live wire at the Central Iron Works, Harrisburg, Pa. Governor Pennypacker has appointed Horace Hoskins, of Philadelphia, and Jacob Heimer, of Scranton, members of the Pennsyivania Veterinary Medi- cal Examining Board. Friday, September 9. ‘The Panama Canal commission has talled for proposals for 11 steam shov- els for canal construction. Joseph Elsie, an acronaut, was killed while making a ballooa ascension and Parachute leap at a fair at Tuscola, 11. Mrs, Eckley B, Coxe. widow of the Luzerne county, Pa., coal operator, will establish a hospital for consumptive miners. ‘The comptroller of the currency bas issued a call for the condition of na- tional banks at the close, of business September 6. David Greenburn, a wealthy junk dealer of Greensburg, Pa., was mur- dered and robbed by a man with whom he was riding. Saturday, September 10. Solomon Kerr, aged 67 years, post- master at Lebanon, Pa., died suddenly of pralysis. Sir Thomas Lipton will leave Eng- land the latter part of this month to visit the World’s Fair at St. Louis. Because her husband went to a base ball game over her protest, Mrs. Charles Evans, of Monterey, Ia., com- mitted suicide. Justice A. P. Rich, of the New York supreme court, and members of his family were received in private au- dience by Pope Plus. While praying on the grave of her twin sister, Yetta Berkowitz was crushed to death under a tombstone in a Brooklyn cemetery. Monday, September 12. The battleshty Georgia will be launched at Bath, Me., October 11. Rear Admiral W. S. Schley, retired, will shortly publish his autobiography. Accused of being short $1200 in bis accounts as clerk in the postofiice, Harry S. Rawls has been arrested in Effingham county, Va. ‘The United States crutser Milwau- kee was launched at San Francisco, Miss Lillian Jeffrey, of Calirofnia, christening the ship. ‘The 2-yearold child of Milton Mann, of Bangor, Pa. died from scalds re- ceived through the overturning of a bucket of scalding water. Tuesday, September 13. Almost every business block at Idaho Fails, Ida., was destroyed by fire, en- tailing a loss of over $300,000, Herbert W, Bowon, United States tulnister to Venezuela, has arrived at New York on a leave of absense, ‘The plasterers of Wilkesbarre, Pitts ton, Plymouth and Nanticoke, Pa., are on strike for an increase of wages from $3 to $3.20 a day. ‘Thomas Thompson, of Pottsville, who was convicted of murder in the second ogree for killing Peter Curley, was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, The Ottoman Bank has notified the American lezation at Constantinople that it has on deposit $25,000 for land of an American citizen, Megally seized at Smyrna. Wednesday, September 14. Charles 8, Hall, a New York lawyer, has been appointed assistant treasurer of the national Democratic committee. The strike at the American Steel and Wire company’s plant at Sharon, Pa, has been settled and the men returned to work. By the explosion of a 12-inch steam pipe at the American Steel and Wire works, Worcester, Mass,, five men were scalded, two fatally. John D. Rockefeller has given the Young Women’s Christian Association of Cleveland, 0., $100,000 for the erec- tion of a new building. J. P. Fenton, a traveling man from Philadelphia, while crazed with drink, leaped from a window of a hotel at Wintel Sa’ peal sone Sane GENERAL MARKETS Philadelphia—Flour firm; winter su- rine, $2.65@P3.80; Penna, roller, clear et GO@ANO; “city. mills, taney, $6.2507 3.50. Rye four firm; per barrel, $4.25. Wheat ‘firm; No. 2 'Penna., red, ‘new, $1.05@1.05%5. Corn steady; "No. "2 yel- low, local, 63%4@64. Oats ‘firm; No. 2 White, clipped, 36%4c.; lower ‘grades, 85c. Hay firm; No. i timothy, large bales, $15@15.50. Pork firm; family, $17. Beer steady; beef hams, $23@24. Live poultry firm; hens, 13%4@11c.; old roosters, 9c, Dressed poultry firm: choice fowls, 14%c.; old roosters, 9¢. Butter firm; creamery, 20c. Eggs steady; New York and Penna., 22c. per dozen. Potatoes steady; new, per basket, 250.306, Baltimore—Wheat strong; spot con- tract, $1.094@1.04%; spot No. 2 red Western, $1.0644@1.06%; steamer No. 2 red, 97@9i44c.; southern, by sample, 83c.@$1.01; southern, on grade, 864¢¢.@ $1.04%%. Corn firm; year, 53c.; southern White corn, 55@60e.; southern: yellow corn, sogitie, Oats active: No. 2 white, 35%4C.; No. 2 mixed, 344@35e, Rye firm; uptown, No. 2 western, 82@8ic. Butter firm; renee. imitation, 17@ 18ec.; do. creamery, 20@2I¢.; do. ladle, 4@ Joe; Store packed, 10@12e. Exes’ firm; per dozen, 21c, Live Stock Markets. a Sees Sages rey mee pee le steady; choice, $5. 5.75; prime, $5.30@ 5.50; fair, Sosbas, Hogs active; rime heavy, $6.10@6.15; mediums and Reavy Yorkers, fesoq@ni0; light York ers, | $6.20@6.30; pigs," $5.80@6.10; xoeen HO 5.25. Sheep steady; prime Wethers, $4.26@4.40; ‘common sheep. 81.5002; spring lambs, $4@6; "veal calves, $7@7.50. Imported trom England. De Havea—I teil you what, De Young, I have the sharpest wife you ever saw In your life. Why, the other éay I gave her just barely enongh money to go out and buy one dress, and if you'll believe it she came home with two, De Youngz—That is sharp. How aid she manage it? De Haven—Why, she bought one, and the other she had on when she went out. —Tit-Bits, Negroes Take City By Storm. z Tter one yvar's secret planing 3,000 Negroes armod with the most modera unploments of war fare, boldly assaulted the: capital of one of 5 the largest western states. - All day long on August Slat and. Soptoue tember Ist 2ud. the in-bound trains bro. agat oar loads of the attackin, MBEAN troops from every section of the conatry. The mon had boon 80 well drilied in the method of attack, that no time was lost after gatting off tho train. 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Though all the world doth scorn each endeavor, Go bravely on, nor fear what it doth fall. Armed with the truth, at last the right will conquer, And we shall rise victorious from the fray. All the pure thoughts and holy aspirations That have been ours, brief though they may have been, Have lifted us from our base selves to greater, Nobler heights, beyond this world of sin. Far, far beyond this life of earthly shadows. ow. From what we are to what we yet may be. Endure all things, that perfect life endured them. Through darkest hours the invisible we'll see. Then shall we triumph over earthly sorrow. And know of wondrous things that are to be. -Miss Aline Chester White, in N. Y. Observer. THE OTHER HOME. "One may boast of the sweetness Of morn's early dawn, Of the sky-softening graces When day is just gone." but far sweeter is the home, when night has spread her mantle over the earth without, and the family is shut in, entrained with the night's dark- it is then, indeed, love finds a voice. The toils of the day are over What otherwise might make one mor- oise is laid aside, and a gentler mood and a more loving spirit take possession of the soul. Whittier's legend of Goodman Garven and his wife has a surpassing charm. "Dog with head on paws and tail slowly wagging, mottled cat winking and purring, crackling walnut log, and dame and goodman sitting right and left," is a picture true to life—the old home life. The walnut log and the old-time home are no more. In their stead have come the modern home, and its changed conditions. But the home spirit is the same. The family hearthstone is eternal. W. turn to the long ago, when we were all together in the old home, but it is not what it used to be, writes J. C. Shipp, in the Baptist Stancard. It is gone; it lives only in memory; but the new home, with its light and hope and cheer, is ours. The germ out of which it has grown is the old home of the past; its reality is the new home with its song and joy. "Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home." Whether it be the old or the new, the roses of morn's early dawn are not so fair and the sky-softening graces when day is just gone are not so sweet. But the home of the soul lies over yonder and the divine heartstone is eternal as His throne. So it let us repair when the day's work of life is done, and the night of death has flung her mantle over us. BRAVE COMMON SENSE Times When It Is Harder to Speak Plainly Than to Face an Army in Battle. A veteran of the civil war once said it was very difficult for him to define courage in war. He said it was usually considered courage to face the enemy and die in your tracks if need be, but he added that he had seen men running to the rear as fast as their legs could carry them, and while he stood in the line facing the enemy he envied those men their courage to run, it really seemed to require more courage to be a coward than it did to hold one's ground. Seeming cowardice, however, is sometimes inherent common sense. President Eliot recently said at St. Louis that the American people were cowardly in that so few of them dare to stand against the crowd. But in America public opinion rules, as Wendell Phillips said, omnipotent and omnipresent. It sometimes may require more courage not to antagonize our neighbors than to throw down the challenge of open war. The Germans have recently invented a cylindrical dam, says Frederick M. White, in the Baptist Union, which is so adjusted that it can be rolled up out of the way when the heavy floods with ice and logs sweep down the stream; it is simply courageous good sense for the dam to get out of the way when come the spring freshes. Christ Jesus knew likewise this courage seemingly to lack courage when he passed through the mids of the mob at Nazareth. He bided His time. He waited till His day had come, then nothing could swerve Him. Let us do as well Selfishness is animalism in full fress.—United Presbyterian. CONCERN FOR ONE LIFE. Admirable Heroism Where a Life I in Danger and the Value of a Soul in God's Sight. We do not pretend to dispute a single word in the Bible about the lost estate of fallen man. We believe the record of the fall. The evidences of it are manifold and exceedingly manifest. But although we accept the doctrine of total deprivacy, and would not on any account whittle down any of the Bible's severe arraignments made against the sinful sons of Adam, yet every once in a while we are compelled to admire the nobility that shines forth in human nature, says Alexander Williams, in New York Observer. The doctrine of total deprivacy does not imply that there is nothing commendable in mankind. Christ looked on a young man once and loved him, even though the young man was not in the right way. Surely Christ would not have been thus moved towards the young man had there not been in him something worthy of affection. A few days ago a diver went down into the depths of a large reservoir at Boonton, in the sister state of New Jersey, bent on an important duty, when, sad to say, the suction at the mouth of a huge pipe drew him in and kept him there until he became exhausted and so perished. In vain other brave men have sought to rescue him. One who went down had his hand-crushed in the attempt to rescue his fellow laborer, was determined to go down to rescue "my pard," but was of course prevented from making the useless attempt. For hours the unfortunate victim below the water hoped against hope. Again and again the frantic pulls upon the signal ropes told the workers above that he still lived. By and by these became feebler and less frequent; then they ceased altogether, for the man was beyond the best of human help. As the news of the unfortunate diver's predicament spread in the neighborhood, it was received with a sense of horror. Thousands of persons from far and near came to watch the efforts put forth to rescue him. The intenseest anxiety was manifested. The tragic incident was recorded in the suburban and metropolitan press. Every detail of the casualty and every particular of the work of rescue was given. In thousands of homes the man's awful fate was the subject of anxious and sympathetic converse. The chances of his ever being brought back to land alive were eagerly discussed. The life of a fellow man and brother was at stake, and countless hearts were disturbed and distressed, as the evilent hopelessness of the case became apparent. Rescue apparatus was promptly rushed from New York; all that could be done was done, but all ended in bitter disappointment and forced resignation to the inevitable. But the interest manifested during the proceedings did credit to all who longed and hoped, and in many instances prayed, that the diver might be saved. Men in the common avocations of life may essay to get the better of one another, but every now and again one man's peril becomes the anxious concern of the many. All eyes, all thoughts, all hearts will center on one life, one victim, one sufferer. We rejoice that it is so. We soon forget it is true. Seven hundred brave Russians may go down with a sinking man-of-war, and the disaster be forgotten very shortly thereafter. The human mind cannot too long stand the strain of dwelling upon the world's dark and dreadful happenings, yet white lives are being quenched by thousands every day, the intensest interest is aroused by one man's misfortune, by the peril of one life. Since our great Creator has made us with this wonderful fellow feeling, we may be assured that He too is deeply interested in the welfare of the men whom He has made. Not a hair of our head goes unnumbered; we know that not a sparrow's flight escapes His attention, and we are assured that we are of more value than many sparrows. Our God cannot be indifferent to the pains and perils of men. He must surely witness with pleasure every noble effort on the part of man to save the life of his fellow. All that is good and noble and true is of God, and from God, and He must approve the manifestation of brotherly love and noble fellow feeling among the human race. And if one mortal life, that must soon or later come to an end, is worth so much interest and effort as in the case we have instanced, of how much more earnest effort is the salvation of an immortal soul worthy. God expects us to be interested in and concerned for imperilled lives and imperilled souls. The heartfelt interest of man in man is a sight to encourage us all and to gladden the inhabitants of the skies. It is a sight which God approves. GEMS OF THOUGHT Personality warms life into color and thrills it into music. He only really aspires to the heights of holiness who walks in the depths of humility.—Ram's Horn. If your spirits are low, do something, and if you have been doing something, do something different.—E. E. Hale. It is hard to tell whether the world suffers more from the optimist who has no sense or the pessimist who has no sight—United Presbyterian. We see what we are in the light of His perfection. We are toolerably contented with our character once, but when Christ comes we are never that again. Like the sheep that look clean enough among the summer grass, but against the background of the virgin snow look foul; so you and I never know how vile we are until the background of our life is Christ.—G. H. Morrison. Failure. A Mexican maid named Cholita. In bravado attempted to fool a Traveling man By the name of McGann. Nice to see Mrs. McGann, Poor Cholita. Pick THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. AN IDEA FROM AUSTRALIA Interesting Method of Budding Which Is Worthy of Careful Trial in Other Countries. A simple and very successful method of budding trees has been used by J. Bell, a fruit grower of New South Wales, with splendid results. He says: "I I have a large peach tree in my yard measuring 13 inches in circumference at the base and 18½ inches 6 feet from the ground. It is about ten years old. I made some experiments upon it with a new method of budding. I sharpened a piece if bone to a point like a lead pencil and fixed it in a handle as shown at a. The tool resembled a carpenter's awl. The handle of an old tooth brush can be used to good advantage in making this point, as it can be mounted in the handle. a b BELL'S IDEA ABOUT BUDDING In my experience, I find that bone will not discolor the sap like steel or iron. After making a sufficient hole in the bark, I inserted the bud and then tacked a piece of leather (shown at b) over the bud, using upholsters' one-half-inch glimp pins. The pins are enameled and do not rust. "Several buds were inserted in this manner and when they swelled the tacks were loosened so that the leather could be easily removed. Wedge grafts, six inches long, were also put in the same way. The buds, however, grew much more evenly and were stronger than the grafts. I inserted 11 buds of three different varieties of peaches in this tree. They are now all bearing large and excellent fruit. I would recommend the adoption of this method for all old trees requiring new wood. This can be done without interfering with the tree's bearing fruit while the buds are maturing. No string, clay, grafting wax or other material is required with this system. The accompanying illustration gives a fairly good idea of this method, including the shape of the awl and piece of leather used. This method can also be applied to the old T-system of budding by tacking wet sole leather over the buds, leaving space for growth. A hole should be made in the forlorn the pins, so the bark or bark will not be bruised. The best time for doing this work is when the sap is full and when the bark will strip easily." This idea of budding and grafting is interesting and may have some advantages, but it is questionable whether or not it will prove as effective, in the long run, as where buds are put in young growth and where the graft is properly set. Mr. Bell's method, however, is worthy of attention from the fact that the production of the tree is not interrupted. At any rate, the system is worthy of careful trial and may be of special value on trees where it is not desirable to cut them off to force new growth for budding or grafting in the regular way.-Orange Judd Farmer. Good Way to Pick Apples. One man suggests that a good way to pick apples is to put a tick filled with hay under a tree and drop the apples into it from the limbs. He asserts that this has been his practice and that the fruit is not thereby injured. This may be all right for some kinds of fruit, but it would not be for others. There are some of our varieties that injure so easily that even the pressure of the thumb and finger must be looked out for. Besides, in the letting fall of apples from the top of the tree a great deal of skill is required not to hit the other apples in the tick or the limbs of the tree when the apples are being dropped. The apple basket and the apple bag will be found most advantageous for most of the work of fruit gathering.—Farmers' Review. The Standard Apple Barrel The apple barrel in common use throughout the United States is practically the same as the flour barrel, the latter being very largely used for packing apples. At the 1903 meeting of the "apple congress," at St. Louis, it was provided that apple barrels shall be $17\%$ inches in diameter at the head, with staves $28\%$ inches long, holding three bushes or 96 quarts. White Mustard in Fields Wild mustard growing with cereals or peas can be destroyed with a solution of copper sulphate, without injury to the crop. Use three per cent solution (about ten pounds per barrel, or 40 gallons water) at the rate of 40 or 50 gallons per acre. This gives very satisfactory results.-Prof. J. L. Stone, Cornell University. Result of Folly. Wife (after midnight)—I'm sorry to see you come home in such a state as this, Charles. 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All the Comfo of Home Orders received by letter or telegra MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH, PROPRIETRESS, ST6 N. 2d St., Richmond, THE PLANET THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE Any man can keep up courage when the way For line comes to lay new treasures in his hands; Any man can scoff at care When around him all is fair. When he work that he is doing wins the praise of those above; Any man can gady wave Hope's baner and be brave When the mistress of his fancy gladly yields him all her love. Any man can be a hero when the blade Of the trumpet and the cheers of comrades thrill; Any man can have the bravery to dare When he sees his colors carried up the hill Any man can join the throng And, hurring, march along. Though a thousand deadly dangers lie upon the way he goes; Any man can rush ahead Where the furrowed heds are red When his captain caims him forward to strike down his country's foes. They are few who have the bravery to flaunt The splendid flag of hope in Trouble'sWho can still press on when Failure, grim and gaunt; Stalks with them sullyly from place to place; They are few who have the heart to courageousy depart From the worn ways wherein other men have followed have led; They are few who dare burst Custom's bonds and be the first. Who as pioneers are willing to push boldly out ahead. S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. Kitty Enters By SARA LINDSAY COLEMAN (Copyright, 1994, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) HEYWARD looked down at the open telegram in his hand. The girl's voice singing Kitty's little song drifted into the room's stillness. The girl had but recently moved into the house next door. She sang often, but tonight it was that old, foolish, forgotten song of Kitty's. Heyward stirred under it, restlessly. If the telegram had reached him earlier he would not have had soilude and the song forced upon him. Now, under its influence, his heart went out over far seas and through distant lands in search of Kitty. Wonderful things—old songs! Stronger than newly evolved philosophies of life that exclude old loves. A rusling and fleeing through the hallway, a fron-frou that distinctly bespoke femininity, and Heyward looked up to see Kitty hatted and gowned in charming travelling attire hesitating on his doorstep. He stared at her bewilderingly. It was no wrath revoked from a past B. W. B. GOWNED IN CHARMING TRAVELING ATTIRE. April night by the power of a song sung by an unknown girl—it was the glowing, laughing, sumptuous Kitty herself. "The hackman was so uncertain," she said, with a soft, breathless catch in her voice that he remembered. "He insisted that he was wrong after he got me here, and he wanted to take me to another Mr. Heyward's. Did my wire surprise you? When I found there was a delay here I couldn't resist the impulse to run up and dine with Nell and you. It simply overpowered me. I didn't weigh things. I tried to tell myself that I didn't know the address, whether you lived here still, whether you still lived, in fact. But I could do nothing with myself. Why were you staring at my message? Couldn't the dragnet of memory find me? Were you saying, 'Hang it all, who was Kitty Manson, anyway?' Heyward flung back his head and laughed. "We never forget," he said. "Not a man of that big army of the rejected. You have witch ways of returning to us. That," with a jesture towards the open window, through which the girl's voice still singing the old, familiar words came, "is one of them." Kitty dimpled distractedly. Time in its long running off of three years had succeeded in doing what Heyward had persuaded himself that he had done—it had forgotten Kitty Manson. "When the young spring comes," she laughed, "the most emotional things it finds is the young girl. That child couldn't be persuaded out of her melancholy. If I should go over there and tell her that the biggest fires burn down to ashes, she wouldn't believe me. There's nothing one can do for them. I they've got to learn by living." "Lord, yes," said Heyward, without a trace of bitterness in his voice, "that's the only school. Young things will concentrate on a supreme passion. They don't know the solid comfort in a scheme of life that is all things to all men—especially to all women." "Except one. Nell doesn't come into that scheme, of course." "Nell?" inquiringly. "Naturally I spoke of Nell Griffls Heyward," with an icy little tinkle in her voice. Heyward laughed good-naturedly. "But why? I never philosophized for her benefit. I always thought her a doll with a sawdust heart—begging your pardon." "My pardon?" Kitty stared at him in amazed indignation. For the first time her glance went down the room that showed no trace of a woman's presence. "Where is she?" she asked. Who? Oh, Mrs. Heyward. At one of her eternal card parties, probably." Kitty's eyes had sobered. Again they swept the long, dusty, tobacco-scented room that showed no woman's touch anywhere. And it had come to this! She thought of the foolish little quarrel that had separated her from Heyward. Remembered the wild way the flowers on the wall had danced when she read, over and over, that her old friend, Nell Griffis, was going to marry Lewis Heyward—the man to whom she had been engaged not six months before. She had believed things would come right between them down to the very day the flowers swayed on the wall, and, believing, had dreamed, as women will while time lasts. Because of the little dream's sweetness she had put an ocean between herself and Heyward and kept it there. "Haven't kept up with Mrs. Heyward?" Heyward's voice was cheerful. It seemed to sway to her as from a distance. "She chases the butterfly. Did it ever occur to you, Kitty, that hymnal beatitudes are not always what they're cracked up to be?" Kitty got to her feet. She was very indignant, and very disappointed. Not so much with Heyward as with herself. For three years, although at times she wanted to shriek out at her bondage, she had wandered, trying to forget an idol, clay to his chin. She held out her hand in farewell, and the light went out of Heyward's face. Women do not love perfect men. He was still an idol. Clay, probably, but lonely, to all appearances deserted, and—she had quarreled with him foolishly. "I thought you were happy," she said, as she dropped back into her chair. "I wanted you to be." The pathos in her voice reached him. He went to her uncertainly. "Child," he said, "those big fires you spoke of burn down to cold looking ashes that have live embers under them. Child!" But she shrank from him. He went back to his chair and sat down, leaning back as though sat. down, leaning back as though tired. When Mrs. Heyward came in with a silken swish of skirts a few moments later she didn't notice Kitty's dejection or that Heyward was just about as cheerful as a funeral director—she was not an observing woman. She fell on Kitty affectionately. I've been to the train," she said. "I've searched the streets, and stopped at the hotels. If I had not met an old hackman I know who is burdened with a conscience I would not have found you. Why didn't you bring her to me Mr. Heyward? Lewis," to a man's figure that loomed in the doorway, "you had better come here and meet Kitty before she vanishes into the air. She ran away just before our wedding, Mr. Heyward. And she's been prowling about over there ever since. What made you stay so long? Didn't you get very lonely, Kitty?" "I thought—thought—" Kitty's voice sank and stopped. How they all stared! And the deadly faintness that she felt that long gone day when the flowers reeled on the wall was overtaking her. That day her Lewis Heyward was engaged or wasn't—she couldn't tell with her senses swaying so. "I thought," she stammered again, and fung a frightened appeal at Heyward. A sudden light shone in on his dense soul. He put a steady hand on her shoulder, lightly. "I'll just have to make a clean breast of it," he said, reassuringly. "She came in here and found me reading a telegram from some fellows that meant to dine with me to-night, Mrs. Heyward. She thought it was her message to you; that she was in your house. She's a great one to jump at conclusions. I should have told her at once, of course." "I see," said Mrs. Heyward. She sent her mind back nimbly, and smiled broadly. "I see!" "You don't!" said Kitty, thrillingly conscious of the pressure of those fingers on her shoulder—pleading, tightening fingers—"you don't!" Suddenly she laughed a low, sweet, bubbling laugh of content that Heyward echoed with deeper notes. "But, Nell, we." lingering on the pronoun for a breathless moment. 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Local causes, notably the competition between new farm lands and old farm lands, tend here and there to obscure what is happening, but it is as certain as the operation of any economic law that in the country as a whole farm values will continue to increase as the partnership between manufacturer and farmer grows more intimate through formal trial science. The American manufacturer never could have placed this nation at the head of the manufacturing nations of the world if he had not had behind him, securing him every variety of raw material, the exhaustless resources of the American farm, developed by the skill of the enterprise of intelligent and educated farmers. On the other hand, the debt of manufacturers is equally heavy, and the future of American agriculture is bound up in the future of American manufactures. The two industries have become, under the economic policy of our government, so closely interwoven, so mutually interdependent, that neither can hope to be more than a high water mark of progress without the help. Whatever makes to the advantage of one is equally to the advantage of the other. So it is as between the capitalist and the wageworker. Here and there there may be an unequal sharing as between the two in the benefits that have come by both, and a reverse benefit that have come to damage to both, and, while the damage could be heavy to all, it would be heaviest and it would fail soonest upon those who are paid in the form of wages each week or each month for that week's or that month's work. Conditions change, and the laws must be modified from time to time to fit new business requirements and the principle of protection, as it has been embodied in all but one of the American tariff laws for the last forty years, has worked out results so beneficent, so even and so advantageous that farmers are required and ingmen, to commerce and trade of every kind, that the American people, if they show their usual practical business sense, will insist that when these laws are modified they shall be modified with the utmost care, to protect their friends and not the enemies of the protective system. They cannot afford to trust the modification to those who treat protection and robbery as synonymous terms. Elsewhere what I have to say about the system of promoting American industry let me add a word of cordial agreement with the policy of in some way including within its benefits by appropriate legislation the American merchant marine. It is not creditable to us as a native and great export and import trade should be held out exclusively in the hands of foreigners. This deficit is imaginary and is obtained by including in the ordinary current expenses the sum of $50,000,000 which was the right of way of the Panama canal out of the Panama canal out of the treasury. Comparing the current or ordinary expenditures for the two years, there was a surplus of nearly $80,000,000 for the year 1900 and of only a little, more than $80,000,000 that has just closed. But this diminution of the surplus was brought about designed by the abolition of the war taxes in the interval between the two dates. The acts of 2, 1901, and April 12, 1902, cut down the surplus amount estimated at $105,000,000 a year. In other words, the reduction of taxation has been considerably greater than the reduction in the annual surplus. Since the close of the war with Spain there has been no substantial reduction in expenditures. As compared with the fiscal year ended in June, 1901, for example, the fiscal year that has just closed showed a relatively small increase in expenditures, with the payment already referred to, while the year previous showed a relatively small decrease. The expenditures of the nation have been managed in a spirit of economy as far removed from waste as from niggarishness, and in the future every effort to improve the economy as strict as is consistent with our policy. Once more our opponents have promised what they cannot or should not perform. The prime reason why the expenses of the government have increased of recent years is to be found in the fact that the department of agriculture, in the thought have deemed it wise to have the government work for the public undertaken by the public. This necessitates such expenditures, for instance, as those for rural free delivery, or for the inspection of meats under the department of agriculture, or the inspection of meats necessary. No new expenditures are necessary. No new expenditures are necessary to abandon them. And yet it is idle to declaim against the increased expense of the government unless it is intended to cut down the very expenditures which cause the increase. The pensions of veterans of the civil war are demanded by the government. The rural free delivery is of the greatest use and convenience to the farmers, a body of men who live under conditions which make them ordinarily receive little direct return for what they have to support the support of the government. The interest in the army and semiarid regions of the west is far fraught with the most beneficent and far reaching good to the actual settlers, the homemakers, whose encouragement is a traditional feature in America's national policy. Do our opponents grudge the $0.000 million amman canal? Do they intend to cut down the river to the veterans of the civil war? Do they intend to put a stop to the irrigation policy or to the permanent census bureau or to immigration inspection? Do they intend to abolish rural free delivery? Do they intend to cut down the navy or the military system? Do they intend to disarm or outlaw our enemies? If there is to be a real and substantial cutting down in national expenditures it must be in such matters as these. The department of agriculture has done service of incalculable value to the farmers of country in many different lines. Do our country have any opportunity for this service? They can do it only by destroying the usefulness of the service itself. The public work of the United States has never been conducted with a higher degree of honesty and efficiency than at the present time, and a special meet of belongs to those officials responsible for the public service where the administrations have been models of their kind. Of course wrong has occasionally occurred, but it has been relentlessly stamped out. We have known no party in dealing with offenders every wrongdoer about mercy every wrongdoer in the service whom it was possible by the utmost vigilance to detect, for the public servant who betrays his trust and the private individual who debauches him stand as the worst of criminals, because their crimes are not only against the community and not only against this generation but against generations that are yet to be. Our opponents promise independence to the Philippine Islands. Here again we are confronted by the fact that their irreconcilable differences of opinion among themselves, their proved inability to create a unified political system, their readiness, for the sake of momentary political expediency, to abandon the principles upon which they have insisted as essential, conspire to puzzle us as to whether they do or do not intend in good faith to carry out this promise if they are not willing to invest in government their platform they declare for independence apparently—for their language is a little obscure—without qualification as to time—and indeed a qualification as to time is an absurdity, for we have neither right nor power to bind our successors to the conditions which may confront us, if there is any principle involved in the matter it is just as wrong to deny independence for a few years as to deny it for an indefinite period. But in later and THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND VIRGINIA. squally official utterances by our opponents the term self government was substituted for independence, the words used being so chosen that in their natural construction they described precisely the policy now being carried on. The language of the policy, and the change of policy, the later utterances indicated a continuance of the present policy. But this caused trouble in their own ranks, and in a still later, although less formal, utterance the self government promise was recanted and indicted in its place. They have been treated three entirely different positions within fifty days. Which is the promise they really intend to keep? They do not know their own minds, and no one can tell how long they would keep of the same mind should they by any chance come to believe that the promise they promised nothing which it did not perform. If promised independence they will expect independence, not in the remote future for their descendants, but immediately for themselves. If the promise thus made is not immediately fulfilled they would be trusted to American faith, and it would be a wicked thing to deceive them in such fashion. Moreover, even if the promise were made to take effect only in the distant future the Filipinos would be thrown into confusion instead. Instead of continuing to endeavor to fit the promise into the present advancement in the present they would abandon all effort at progress and begin factional intrigues for future power. To promise to give them independence when it is "prudent" to do so or when they are "fit" for it of course implies that they would be "prudent" would be imprudent to give it to them now. But, as we must ourselves be the judges as to when they become "fit" and when it would be "prudent" to keep such a promise if it were made, it necessarily follows that to make such a promise now we account to a deception upon the Filipinos. So far from having "sapped the foundations" of free popular government at home by the course taken in the Philippines, we have been spreading its knowl- ment of bringing its practice among peoples to whom it is an empty name. Our action represents a great stride forward in spreading the principles of orderly liberty throughout the world. "Our flag has not lost its gift of benediction in its worldwide journey to the world," we have treated the power we have gained as the illusion and have used it in the interest of mankind, and the peoples of the world, and especially the weaker peoples of the world, are better off because of the position we have assumed. To retrace our footsteps, we have gained an infirm and unstable national purpose. Four years ago in his speech of ac- Four years ago in his speech of acceptance President McKinley said: "We have been moving in untidied paths, but our steps have been guided by honor and duty. There will be no turning aside no wavering, no retreat. No blow has been struck except for liberty and Humanity, and once will be. We will perform without fear for every national and international challenge. The Republican an party was dedicated to freedom forty-four years ago. It has been the party of liberty and manhood from that hour; it has been the party of protection but of performance; it has been the party of slaves and made them free, and to the Lincoln has come another supreme opportunity which it has bravely met in the liberation of 100,630 of the human family from the voice of imperialism. In its solution of great problems, its performance of its duties, it has had the power of all parties in the post, and it confides in invokes their cooperation in the future." This is an true now an four years ago. We will not take the Philippines at will, and we cannot put them aside at will. 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This offer holds good to any of our subscribers or to 17,000,000 much as 50 cents for a subscription to the PLANET. Address, JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 N.4th St., Richmond, Va. SATURDAY....SEPTEMBER 17, 1904 BETRAYED BY ALARM BELL Bleif. Whose Specialty Was Clocks Captured Because Buzzer Rang at Wrong Time. "Speaking of curious things, one of the strangest experiences I ever had, and I have had a great many," said the old policeman, to a New Orleans Times-Democrat man, "was brought about some years ago by the arrest of notorious clock thief. The fellow had a perfect mania for stealing blocks, and when his place was searched we found about the strangest collection of timepieces you ever laid your eyes on. "The fellow made a complete con- fession and stained that he had never taken anything but clocks, and had no CAUGHT IN THE ACT desire to pilfer any other article. Watches of the very finest and costliest kind, jewelry, diamonds of all sorts and sizes, he had passed by frequently in order to lay his pilfering hands on a two-dollar clock. But I was about to tell you how I made the capture, for this is the most interesting part of the story from my way of looking at it. I had had a very dull night of it, and was getting sleepy along toward four o'clock in the morning. I had hid myself in a shadowy place, and to be frank about it, was looking just a blit. A man could have passed me with ease if he had made no more than ordinary noise in walking the pavement. "Suddenly I was roused by the buzzing and clanging of an alarm clock, and jumping up, threw my pistol right into the face of the fellow who had the noisy timepiece. About the same time a head was shoved out of a window two doors away, and the cry of 'Thief!' rang out on the air: I had caught the thief. The man who wrtched 'thief' owned the clock, and had it to 'go off' at four o'clock in the morning, as he wanted to catch a train. He caught the train and I caught the thief and found a collection of clocks numerous enough to start a clock store. It was one of the strangest catches I ever made, and the fellow I ran down wound up his career by doing time in the state penitentiary for a term of years." NAG IN MILLINERY STORE. New York Delivery Horse Had Blind Staggers and Chiffon Hats Are Ruined by Score. New York had a unique equine sensation the other day. A roan horse hitched to a seltzer water wagon was attacked by blind staggers in front of 1070 Third avenue, where there is a millinery shop on the ground floor. Samuel Elchenbaum, of 745 East Sixth street, the driver, unlatched the horse and called Polleman Devine, of the MILLER BACKED TINY HOUSE A WINDOW. East Sixty-eventy net station, to help him handle it. The animal waited the cop all over the street, and finally backed through a plate glass window in the millinery shop. The crash of the splintered glass seemed to madden the horse, and it backed still farther into the shop, lashing out with its heels. A young woman trimming hats in the rear of the store fled through a back window. Hats of chiffon, lace, feathers and various other trimmings were kicked about and deposited in melancholy wrecks all over the floor. The policeman and the driver finally got the horse out of the millinery shop and as he was driven away in an S. P. C. ambulance the aggrieved young woman stood in the door and heatedly inquired who was to settle for the damaged hats. MRS. H. M. FLAGLER ROBBED OF $20,000 Wife of Standard Oil Magnate Had Valuables in Chatelaine. TAKEN AT A LAWN PARTY Newport, R. I., Sept. 13.—Word was received from New York that a robbery by which Mrs. H. M. Flagler, of that city, lost a chatelaine bag containing money and jewels aggregating several thousand dollars in value, at Newport, was being investigated by detectives. The date of the robbery was not given, but as Mrs. Flagler has not been here since the middle of August it is thought it must have occurred at that time. Mrs. Flagler was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Julian T. Davies while here. The police say that they had no report of the robbery of Mrs. Flagler. The messages from New York say that the chatelaine bag contained $6000 in cash, a draft for $10,000 and jewels valued at $4000. All signs indicate that Mrs. Flagler was robbed by the Raffles who has preyed upon Newport society leaders all summer, and it is whispered that the thief is a rich young woman who is a confirmed kleptomaniac. For the sake of her family, the police say, every one of the victims has shielded her upon the return of the stolen gems. Mrs. Flagler attended a lawn fete, and while there her gold chain chalaine was stolen from her belt. The bag contained five $1000 bills, eight $100 bills, about $200 in smaller bills, a draft on New York for $10,000, and a long neck chain set with 30 sapphires and diamonds, valued at $4000. Mrs. Flagler had worn the neck chain on leaving her rooms, but it caught on the carriage door and broke. Then she placed it in the chalaine. Mrs. Flagler wore the chalaine suspended from her belt by a hook which could have been easily slipped out. She ate luncheon at a table on the lawn, and afterward mingled with a crowd of equally fashionably dressed men and women at the booths where chances were sold in lotteries for the rattle of various goods. Being a large patron of charity, for which the lawn fete was given, Mrs. Flagler bought many chances, paying for them each time. She had purchased a score or more of tickets, when she reached for her purse to pay for still more purchases. To her horror, she discovered that her bag was gone. It is possible that it may have been pulled off in jostling with the crowd, but if it was it was not found. Who ever picked it up kept it. NEW HIGH PRICE FOR WHEAT Killing Frosts Run May to 118-3-4 and December to 116-3-4. Chicago, Sept. 14. — Killing frosts, past and prospective, caused sensationally bullish trading in wheat and corn. At one time all deliveries of wheat were up four cents, an advance of eight cents in 48 hours. May wheat sold at 118% @ 118%, a bushel, a new high record mark for the season. December advanced to 116%. At the close wheat prices were up over three cents. Corn was up almost two cents. Oats made a net gain of %c., and provisions 2½c. to 25c. Intense excitement prevailed in the wheat pit at the opening, with apparently every trader an avowed buyer. The demand was so urgent and offerings so limited that prices for all deliveries were bid up fully two cents at the start. The wheat market closed strong, with May at $1.177% and $1.18 and December at $1.15%. Corn also closed strong, with December at 53% c. and May at 52% c. Learned Horse Examined By Experts. Berlin, Sept. 14.—The learned horse Hans has just stood a successful examination before a scientific commission, including physiologists, psychologists, pedagogues, naturalists, animal trainers and others. Their report sets forth that the evidences he gave of comprehending handwriting, his musical and color discrimination and math ematical work were performed under circumstances excluding the possibility of a trick. The methods of the horse's owner, Herr Von Osten, are pronounced to be those of a pedagogue rather than of an animal trainer. The case appears to them to be wholly exeptional and to deserve thorough scientific study. Killed in Football Game Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 12.—A special dispatch to the Patriot says that Blaine Hoffman, 19 years old, was tackled by an opposing player in a game of football on Saturday at Lykens, where he resides, and received such serious internal injuries when the remaining players piled upon him that he died. One of Many Frog Hollow Citizen—How is yer son dein't in th' city? Bungtown Man—Fust-rate. He gets two dollars a day as motorman on the Steenth street street, and makes five more a week as New York society correspondent of the Bungtown Bugle.—N. Y. Weekly. A. Two-Edged Truth Blowyer—No, sir, our hard-working laboring men don't even yet get the half of what they deserve. Quietus—Well. I notice that our multi-millionaires don't usually get half what they deserve, either—Town Topics. Where the Danger Lies Young Hatch—Don't you worry about this leap year business. The pretty girls don't have to propose, and the homely ones are afraid to. Old Batch—Yes! But there are the widows!—Browning's Magazine. Surely. Though wide his influence may extend, With love's intentions rife, It must be owned that Cupid takes An arrow view of life. —Philadephila Bulletin. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION. OF THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, located at Richmond, in the State of Virginia, at the close of business, 6th day of Sept., 1904, made to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts. $ 1,349.55 Overdrafts. 58.02 Stocks, bonds and mortgages. 2,617.74 Other real estate. 26,411.80 Furniture and Fixtures. 2,160.62 Exchanges for clearing-house. 350.38 Due from National Banks. 16,330.16 Specie, nickels and cents. 4,012.37 Paper Currency. 1,838.00 All other items of Resources, viz.: 1,313.01 TOTAL, $56,441.65 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ... $ 6,707.56 Surplus fund ... 2,250.00 Dividends unpaid ... 53.51 Individual deposits subject to check 18,473.09 Time certificates of deposit ... 28,794.94 Certified checks ... 156.80 Cashier's checks outstanding ... 5.75 TOTAL, $56,441.65 I, Thomas H. Wyatt, cashier, do solely swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of the Mechanics Savings Bank, located at Richmond, in the State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 6th day of Sept. 1904, to the best of my knowledge and belief. THOMAS H. WYATT, Cashier. Correct-Attest: H. F. JONATHAN, W. F. GRAHAM, J. O. FARLEY, Directors. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th day of Sept. 1904 this 13th day of Sept. 1904. J. THOMAS HEWIN, Notary Public, My Commission expires 11th of April 1906. STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL NICKEL SAVINGS BANK located at Richmond, in the State of Virginia, at the close of business, Sept. 6th, 1904, made to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts..... $ 6,790.00 Furniture and Fixtures..... 1600.00 Exchanges for clearing house..... 45.00 Due from National Banks..... 1,522.47 Specie, nickels and cents..... 2,784.37 Paper Currency..... 2,046.00 Capital stock paid in..... $ 6,000.00 Surplus Fund..... 1,200.00 Individual deposits subject to check..... 5,700.06 Time certificates of deposit..... 1,837.77 Total..... $14,737.83 I, E. A. Washington, Cashier, dolemally swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of the Nickel Saviirs Bank, located at Richmond, in the State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 6th day of September 1940 to the best of my knowledge and belief. E. A. WASHINGTON, Cashier. Correct-Attest: Directors. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of Sept., 1904. GEO. W. LEWIS, Notary Public. My Commission expires Feb. 5th, 1906. 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 celebrate 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 dormitory purposes. Rev. Edgar J. Penney is the Dean, H. assisted by J. Vew, E. P. Johnson and Rev. H. Cadson, Rt. Rev. Geo. W. Clinton, of Charlotte, N. C., and Dr. H. T. Jobson, of Philadelphia, Pa. deliver a regular course 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, Whyness of the Wherefore, "I suppose," said the scary haired man, "you have never given marriage a thought." "Oh, yes, I have," replied the bachelor. "Then why are you still single?" asked the other. "Because I gave marriage a thought, answered the advocate of single blessedness—Cincinnati Enquirer. How He Had Earned It. Old Hewligus—You're getting to be quite a character. I've heard you spoken of often as the "sage of Drearyhurs." Old Hunks (much gratified)—That's what my neighbors out there call me is it? Old Hewligus—Yes; they say you're rich, stingy and never take a vacation. —Chicago Tribune. THE PLANET FOR 1904. FOLLOWING LIBERAL OFFERS: To any person sending us a yearly subscription of $1.50 and the name of a friend or relative as a subscriber on the basis stated, we will send them, postage prepaid, a handsome gold-plated breast pin, with their photograph colored and placed therein. 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We will send the St. Louis, GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, semi-weekly edition, one of the leading Republican papers in the United States to any one sending two yearly subscribers. We will send this great Republican journal to any subscriber who will pay the advance rate of $2.00. This will give the PLANET for one year and the St. Louis GLOBE-DEMOCRAT for one year. To any one sending 25 yearly subscribers we will send a Sewing.Machine. To any one sending Seventy-five Subscribers, we will give a free trip to the World's Fair at St. Louis. These Offers are made in good faith and will be carried out to the letter. The Cosmopolitan will be sent one year and the PLANET one year for $2.00 for both. Good, Live, Active Agents Wanted IN EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY. WRITE TO US FOR TERMS. ADDRESS: ```markdown ``` FOLLOW To any person sending on the basis stated, we will send and placed therein. A handsome Pillow Massacre, Fall of Peto charge of 9th and 10th Cavalry Hill. We will furnish pictures of President Theodore Roosevelt, parents and ten children, Auto President McKinley and his Cavite, Spanish and American. Anyone sending two years. We will send the St. Louis United States to any one sending who will pay the advance rate one year. To any one sending 25 scribbers, we will give a free trip. These Offers are made in and the PLANET one year for $ Good, Live IN EVERY PART JOHN Opportunity for Young Men. The demands in all parts of this country, and in several foreign countries for well trained men of our race in the direction of scientific and practical agriculture are so great that this institution is willing to offer exceptional advantages to young men who wish to come here and take either a regular or post graduate course in agriculture. We cannot begin to supply the demands that come to us for trained men in the direction of agriculture. The positions for which these trained men are wanted are those in most every case which pay high salaries. We wish to get hold of men who have received far as possible, a good education before coming here, and are ready to enter upon a thorough course of agricultural training. For further information address, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. 9-3-4t. "THE ECONOMY," 803 N. 3rd St.. Fine Tailoring CLEANING, DYEING, AND REPARING. W. O. TURNER, PROPRIETOR. Mr. John Scheer, expert jeweler, and optician, has moved from East Main street to his handsome new store, 6 North Ninth, opposite News Leader, where he will be glad to meet his many friends and patrons. Everything in jewelry, etc. Expert repairing. In order to promote circulation and to create additional interest, we have decided to make the knights of Pythias, It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge, costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges, apply at the main office. a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones in this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all the could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick, dues and death benefits of from $0.00 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Beneath neighborhood, or canize one. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAAS F.C.B.S. A 311 North Fourth St., Richmond, Va. This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick aues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes N. A., S. A., E., A., A. AND A. 120 W. Hill St., Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va.