Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. A New Lodge in North Danville—A Large Attendance. Danville, Va., April 5, 1905. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. arrived here to-day at 5:10 P. M. to institute a new lodge of Knights of Pythias at North Danville. He was met at the train by District Deputy Grand Chancellor W. A. Milner, Past Grand Chancellor L. W. Holbrook, Past Chancellor L. M. Smith, Special Deputy Grand Chancellor H. S. Keen. The fine electrically lighted, rubber-tired carriage was awaiting the Grand Chancellor and he was conveyed to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Smith, 526 Cedar Street where he will be comfortable. Supper was served. Dr. A. L. Winslow called on him. The initiation was a success and there was a large out-pouring of knights to take a part in the exercises at the Pythian Castle here. The following participated: Sir W. A. Milner, D. G. C.; Sir L. W. Holbrook, G. M. of W.; Sir W. L. Williamson, Sir W. W. Mann, G. V. C.; Sir A. H. Clalborne, G. P.; Sir H. S. Keen, G. M. at A.; Sir C. M. Smith. Those actively engaged were Sirs O. C. Clemans, Frank Price, A. B. Martin W. Carter, Moses Wheaton John W. Johnson, John Tism, H. W. Patterson, Hardy Allen, A. B. Ruffin, W. M. Johnson, J. A. Womack, Fletcher Wood, George Fultz and G. W. Young. The following are the officers of new body, which will be known as Moving Light Lodge, No. 86:—C. C. H. Flippin; M. of W., Eugene Holland; V. C., L. C. Woodruff; P. S. H. Smith; K. of R. and S., Wilson Buck; M. of P. D. Hill; M. of Excxequer, J. H. Goode; M. at A. Willie Hodge; I. G., G. Motley; O. G. Charley Neal. Trustees; R. H. Dews, George Neal, Wells Clark. Refreshments were served. Addresses were delivered. This lodge was organized through the efforts of Past Chancellor C. M. Smith and the Grand Chancellor his former master that he had been desiring a lodge in North Danville for ten years. The Grand Chancellor left-to-night for Richmond. eridge Taylor The following letter was received at the Washington Conservatory of Music. A great friend of ours has been asked regarding the appointment of some music teacher for Lagos W. Africa. A certain enthusiast will guarantee an annual amount as salary. The idea is, of course, to help and further the art of music among the colored people of Legos. A man of color is preferred, and it struck me that perhaps you might know of some really good teacher who would leave America for Africa without regret. If so, please let me know. I should have mentioned that they want some one who can teach more than one branch of music. With kind regards to you and yours, and with every good wish for the success of the conservatory Yours friendly, S. Coleridge Taylor Applications for the same will be considered at the conservatory, 902 T Street N. W. Emancipation Celebration. The colored people of this city celebrated the fortieth year of their emancipation on last Monday with a large parade. Excursionists from other cities swelled the crowd and five bands of music mustered into service. The gathering was orderly. The day was an ideal one and the exercises were conducted at the Broad St. Base-ball Park. The grand-stand gave way and partly collapsed, but this inconvenience was only temporary. Rev. D. W. Davis, A. M., was orator of the day and his effort was an eloquent one. Major J. B. Johnson, the military leader and tactician was Chief Marshall and he handled the line with skill and ability. The line of march was shortened considerably and the Church-Hill route was a bandoned Mr. J. C. Randolph was president and Lawyer J. Thos. Hewin, secretary. The affair was a success and the best of good-feeling prevailed. Capt. Benjamin Scott, who was elected president during the early stages of the affair was in a carriage and many were disappointed at not seeing him on horse-back. WANTED. Good, first-class colored brick and stone masonns, carpenters, molders plumbers, pipe fitters, plasterers and electricians. None but good mechanics need apply. For further particulars, write to H. Snow and Son J. J. & Co. Limited, 1101 Webster Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. Bell telephone, 433—J Grant. Erickson 2 cent stamp for prompt Enclose z-cent stamp for prompt reply. Pythians at Newport News Newport News, Va., March 30 1905. The Pythians and Courts convened at the Pythian Castle, on Sunday at 2 P. M., formed the line of march and wended their way to the St. Paul's A. M. E. Church. The scene was the greatest ever witnessed in the city of Newport News. The line of march was over six blocks and those who were not Pythians or Courts were in sad mourning, when they beheld such a vast crowd of Pythians and Courts Rev. G. C. Taylor preached a soul stirring sermon, explaining Pythianism in its highest terms and told the Courts all about their true, loving and faithful women, Calanthe and Hermione, and said he was but a baby in this grand and noble Order. But if God would help him, you would do the could to spread the work until the women can hear persons seeking the cann entrust to our happy band. The Pythians filled the church, aisle and all and could not be seated, and during the services seats were being brought until there was not a space to be found. This church seats one thousand persons. The gallery was the only place left for citizens was the only place left for citizens and the programme consisted of solos, and a most excellent paper by Mrs. M. E. Dixon, W. C., of Silver Key Court and also a very fine speech by Sir Knight J. J. Booker, D. D. G. C., on the rapid progress of the order and its noble principles, F. C. B. The progress of the order in the last eight months has been wonderful in membership and also finance. They are magnificent business department, known as the New News Pythian Castle Association. After the sermon, the collection was lifted as follows: $75.00, which was presented to the church as a Thanksgiving offering and the church returned the Sir Knights their grateful thanks and invited them to come again. The order then found the line of march and marched to the Castle and was dismissed in order. Committee, Richard Ash, Wyatt Roane, J. Booker, C., T. Taylor, J. A New Court in Richmond A new court was organized last Tuesday night at the Pythian Castle, 727 N. 3rd St., by Grand Worthy Counsellor John Mitchell, Jr., assisted by the following ladies:— Mrs. Anna Taylor, District Deputy Worthy Counsellor; Miss M. L. Chiles, G. W. Register of Deeds; Mrs. Harriet E. Thompson, Chief of Regalia Department; Miss Cora Epps, Miss Bertha Thompson, Mrs. Nannie, Johnson, Mrs. George Loge, Lout Jones Randall; Mrs. George F. Wesen, Mrs. Mildred Johnson, F. Ewg. D. Evans, Capt. Willis Wyatt, and many others. The following officers of the new Court which will be known as Ivy Leaf Court No. 85, were installed; Worthy Counsellor, W. I. Johnson; W. Inspectrix, Mrs. Lucy Toney; W. Inspector, Mrs. Nannie Price; Escort, Mrs. Katie Pool; Senior Directress, Mrs. Barbara Chiore; J. Directress, Mrs. Annie Chamberlayne; Orator, Mrs. Laura Washington; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Mamie Mason; Register of Deeds, Mrs. Anna Page; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Mary Adams; Conductress, Miss Fan Mie Page; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Jackson; Herald, Mrs. Ella Payne; Protector, Mrs. Charlotte Cooley Trustees, W. I. Johnson, Mrs. Cary Booker, Mrs. Maggie Naples. This court was gotten up through the efforts of Mrs. Lucy Cross. She was highly commended by the Grand Worthy Counsellor Refreshments were served and all heartily enjoyed themselves. Rey, Dr. Tyrrell's Great Work The annual spring rally of the Diamond Hill Baptist Church closed last night after a total of $1,321. 80 had been raised in less than a month. Only a year or so ago this church succeeded in paying off a debt on the building of $14,000. This winter the church has been entirely remodelled at a cost of $7, 000 and the money raised yesterday is the first installment towards paying it off. At present the auditorium is not quite finished, the new pews not having arrived. It is hoped the occupant, by May it can be regularly occupied for worship. This congregation, for which raising money has time and again been the wonder of the city, consists of about 500 members, with Rev. Bernard Tyrrell, as pastor. Union! Union! Union! The regular monthly meeting of the National Baptist S. St. Union will be held on next Sunday, April 9th, 1905 at the 5th St. Baptist Church at 3 P. M. Rev. W. H. Stokes, A. M., will deliver a special address. Starlight Club will sting, also music by the 5th St. Baptist S. S. Choir. Come and bring a friend. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY APRIL 8, 1905. Do You Know Them? I desire to know the whereabouts of my father. He lived at a place called White Oak Ridge and his name was Nelson Barnett. My mother and father separated before the war. My father worked for a man named William Snead. He belonged to William Gault. Any information concerning him will be thankfully received either at the Planet Office or by Nelson Weatherton. No. 811 S Fair Oak Ave.. Pasadena, California. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Danville, Va., March 30th 1905. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of C. ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death 'claim of the late Sister Lucy Watkins, who was a member of Magnolia Court, No. 253, Danville, Va. Signed:—Virginia P. Watkins. Beneficiary. Witnesses:—A. L. Hairston P. M. Johns, L. W. Holbrook S. J. Holbrook D. D. W. C. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., April 3rd 1905. 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 Fanny Baskerville, who was a member of Theresa Court, No.178 of Berkley, Va. Signed:—J. B. Baskerville Administrator. Witnesses:—J. J. Cornew Witnesses:—J. J. Corprew, John Alexander Atlantic City Notes. terly Meeting at Price Memorial for this Conference year. Dr. Hazel, P. E., preaches morning and night. Dr. Coffy filled the pulpit at Price Memorial morning and night. He had a crowded house at night. His theme was "Love." Dr. Coffy said that Bishop Walters was trying to secure one of the ablest men of his country to hold this church for the conference if so, the people would come from everywhere, will not take time to say more, but walk over everything and everybody until they reach your door. Miss Eva Perkins entertained the members of the Edison Whist Club Tuesday evening at her home. The meeting which was the second season for this popular organization was decidedly enjoyable one. Young Tayor Paroled The Pardon Board has paroled young W. L. Taylor, son of Rev. Dr. Wm. L. Taylor of the True Reformers. He was sentenced to two years in the Virginia Penitentiary for feloniously assaulting a conductor on the N. & W. R. R. The distressing part of the affair was that young Taylor had been recently married. Thompson's Dining Room, 702 E. Broad St., was crowded with patrons April 3rd, Emancipation Day. If you want a nice lunch, drop in Thompson's. If you want to be in the topics of the day, drop in Thompson. If you want to be in a jolly crowd from 12 to 3, come to Thompson's. WANTED—A lady from 20 to 25 years of age or a young man, who can teach music and do type-writer work. Address, Rev. JAS. M. HENDERSON, M. M., P. O. Box 31, Southern Pines, N. C. PLANETS can be obtained from Mr. Joseph Evans, 364 Bouquet St. Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. C. W. Washington and Mr. C. W. Johnson of Petersburg, Va. called on us. NEW CANAL COMMISSION NAMED President Fixes Salaries and Duties of New Appointees. Washington, April 4—The personnel of the new Isthmian canal commission is as follows: Theodore P. Shonts, chairman; Charles E. Magoon, governor of the canal zone; John F. Wallace, chief engineer; Rear Admiral M. T. Endicott, U. S. N.; Brigadier General Peter C. Hains, U. S. A., retired; Colonel Oswald M. Ernst, Corps Engineers, U. S. A., and Benjamin M. Harrod. These names were announced at the department, and in connection with the announcement Secretary Taft gave out for publication a statement showing the allotments of salaries to the new commissioners and his own letter to the president and one from the latter explaining the plan of reorganization of the commission; the reasons therefor and the particular duties to be assigned to each commissioner. The first reads as follows: "The president has made an order allowing a salary of $7500, with traveling expenses, to each member of the commission; and to the chairman of the commission on the additional compensation of $22,500; to the chief engineer the additional compensation of $17,500, and to the governor of the some the additional compensation of $10,000. The head of each department is allowed the use of a furnished house upon the isthmus, and his travelling expenses when traveling on the business of the commission." WANTED TO KILL GOV. HOCH Insane Man Arrested Near the State House at Tongke, Kan. House at Towson, Kan. Topeka, Kan., April 5—An insane man, who gives his name as J. Everest Worthington, whose former place of residence the police have been unable to learn, has been captured within a block of the state house, where he said he was going to kill Governor E. W. Hooh. The man was unarmed, but he is of powerful build, and undoubtedly would have handled the chief executive roughly had he not been intercepted. Worthington is now in the county jail and will be sent to an asylum. Communication with the men is held by means of written questions and answers, as he pretends to be leaf and dumb. In answer to a question in regard to what his purpose was with the governor, Worthington said: "I was inspired by Pyrus, the God of Fire, to come here and kill Governor Hoch. I have sworn eternal vengeance against all statesmen who pretend that they are self-made men. If it had not been for the officer who captured me Governor Hoch would have been no more, when I was arrested I was on my way to the capitol to kill him. One who has risen from obscurity to a high place is the worst enemy of the impecunions. Therefore I hate Hoch." BUILDING BLOWN TO PIECES Terrific Explosion at Bridgeport, Conn., Kills Three Men. Bridgeport, Conn., April 5.—In a terrific explosion that blew to pieces one of the brick buildings of the Union Metallic Cartridge company, three men were instantly killed. Great crowds gathered, and in the panic that followed women fainted and frantic efforts were made to get within the walls surrounding the plant, as it was reported that many were lost. They were held in check, however, and the employees in the other buildings made their escape in safety. The apparent horror of the situation was increased by the breaking out of fire and the appearance of ambulances and morgue wagons, which rattled up to the factory. A few moments after the explosion occurred the fire department arrived on the scene and succeeded in checking the flames. The foundations of every building were shaken as if by an earthquake, and the explosion was felt in houses within a radius of a mile. Superintendent Ryland said that the loss to the company would be about $30,000. Three Men Blown to Pieces Three men Brown to Pieces. Bay City, Mich., April 4.—A small tank used for the storage of nitroglycerine exploded at the dynamite manufacturing plant of H. H. Thomas, six miles northwest of this city. Three men—Moses Island, an Indian, aged 40 years; George Godfrey, of Kawkawil, aged 26, and George Uhlbricht, aged 24, of Auburn—were in a building that covered the tank. They were blown to pieces. The cause of the explosion is a mystery. The monetary loss does not exceed $150. May Reinter Remains of Pocahontas. Richmond, Va., April 4.—General Fitzhugh Lee, president of the Jamestown Expansion company, announces that an effort will be made to have the remains of Pocahontas, the Indian princess, daughter of Powhattan, brought from Gravesend, England, where they now lie, for reinterment in the old Jamestown churchyard during the period of the Jamestown Tercenary in 1807. Roosevelt's Birthplace to Be Sold. New York, April 5.—The house in which Theodore Roosevelt was born, at 28 East 20th street, is about to be sold. Leo P. Glosel, president of the Roosevelt Home Club, said that he has undertaken to organize a protective association to purchase the property and maintain the house permanently, and will within the next few days announce a treasurer for the fund, and an appeal will be made for funds. $35,800 For Loss of Both Arms. Lima, O. April 4.—A jury awarded Joseph Hicks $25,800 for the loss of both arms. Hicks was a lineman, and three years ago both arms were burned off at the shoulder by a live wire. At a previous trial Hicks was awarded a heavy judgment. Prominent Insurance Man Dead. Philadelphia, April 5.—Thomas H. Montgomery, president of the American Fire Insurance company, died suddenly at his home here, aged 75 years. Mr. Montgomery was one of the best known fire insurance men in the country. In 1872 he was a pointed general agent of the National Board of Fire Underwriters and conducted its operations at the time the fire insurance business of the country was rathed. He was also one of the organizers of the Philadelphia Fire Underwriter Association. $50,000 Blaze at Williamsport, Pa. Williamsport, Pa., April 3. — Fire damaged the Weed building to the extent of $30,000. The flames communicated to the Gazette and Bulletin building, which suffered a loss of $20,000. The press' room was completely gutted, and the paper was printed today from the Sun office. Several tenants in the Weed building were rescued by the firemen with ladders. BALTIC FLEET OFF FOR VLADIVOSTOK BALTIC FLEET OFF FOR VLADIVOSTOK Rojestvensky's to Attempt to Run Japanese Blockade WARSAW RIOTERS SHOT DOWN St. Petersburg, April 4.—A letter from Vice Admiral Rojestvensky to his wife, which has just been received here, indicates that the departure of the second Pacific squadron from Madagascar waters is final, and that it is VICE ADMIRAL ROJESTVENSKY now on the way to Vladivostok. In the letter the admiral wrote that the sailing of the squadron had been fixed for March 19, but naturally he avoided mention of the route which it was intended to follow on the voyage eastward. The admiralty yesterday admitted knowledge of this determination of Vice Admiral Rojevtensky, and stated that no contrary orders had been sent him. It is understood that a rendezvous with Vice Admiral Nebogatoff's division of the Baltic squadron is not contemplated. Gossip is busy with rumored cabinet changes, including the nomination of General Trepoff, the present governor general of St. Petersburg, to the ministry of the interior, and the recall of M. Muravieff from the embassy at Rome to resume the portfolio of justice, Count Lamsdorff, the present foreign minister, taking up the Italian embassy. The Gazeta says it thinks the German emperor made a great blunder, which can only result in embittering the anti-German feeling both in France and in Great Britain, bring about better relations between France and Great Britain and emphasize the isolation of Germany. The foreign office is reticent, declining to do more than to express the opinion that the Tangler incident increases the difficulty of the position of France's ally. 100,000 Homeless Near Mukden General Oku's Headquarters in the FField. April 4, via Fusan—There is much suffering among the Chinese in the vicinity of Mukden. Scores of villages were destroyed in the recent fighting, and 100,000 persons are homeless and destitute. The Chinese government is now feeding and housing 60,000 refugees at Mukden and is also furnishing seed grain. There is little prospect for good crops this season, owing to a lack of farm animals and implements. The Japanese are employing thousands of Chinese and paying them liberally. MANY KILLED IN MINE DISASTER MANY KILLED IN MINE DISASTER Terrific Explosion in Joe Leiter's Colliery at Ziegler, Ill. THIRTY-SEVEN BODIES FOUND Carbondale, Ill., April 5. — Thirty-seven bodies of miners who lost their lifes in the gas explosion at the mine of Joseph Letter at Zeigler have been recovered, and it is supposed several more bodies are in the mine. The exact number of dead will probably not be known for several days, at least not until the mine has been divested of the gas and persons are permitted to enter. After 36 hours but little light is shed on the cause of the catastrophe. The accident is attributed to carbonic acid gas, due to poor ventilation. Every body so far recovered is a blackened mass. State Inspector Allinson, who was killed, was one of the best-known miners of the district. He was the father of four children and was a member of the Masonic fraternity. When between 35 and 45 miners had descended into the mine to resume work, a horrific explosion blew the mouth of the mine high into the air. One of the steel cages was blown to the surface from the bottom of a 500-foot shaft. The shock of the explosion was felt at Benton, 12 miles northeast of Zeigler. A teamster driving along a road half a mile from the mine was covered with falling cinders, and debris covered the floor of his wagon half an inch deep. One miner was killed and four were severely injured at the mouth of the shaft in which the explosion occurred. The work of rescue was begun at once by miners who were arriving when the explosion took place. But the main shaft was deniolished, that rescue work has to be carried on through the air shaft. A committee of union miners from Duquere and other neighboring mining towns, headed by District President Morris, hastened to Ziegler soon after the explosion occurred and offered their aid. The bodies of the dead are so blackened that they cannot at once be identified. Rolla Campbell is the injured miner brought out of the shaft, and it is said that he cannot live. Campbell is conscious, but he is unable to give any explanation of the accident. C. E. Childers, a striking Ziegler miner, last October predicted in a printed article that an explosion was likely to occur on account of what he termed improper ventilation of the shafts. There was much excitement among miners when the accident became known, because there had been a strike of long duration, and many conflicts had occurred between strikers and non-union miners. WILL EXAMINE MINERS Must Pass Stringent Examination to Secure New Certificates. Secure New Certificates. Scranton, Pa., April 3—Chief Roderick, of the bureau of mines, has ordered a re-examination of the anthracite miners to provide them with new certificates. Chief Roderick complained to the inspectors of the increasing ratio of mine accidents per ton of coal mined, as shown by the last annual reports. The inspectors replied that it was not their fault, and declared that the blame lay in the fact that so many miners, who are grossly incompetent, are in possession of miners' certificates, and therefore entitled to work in the mines. This, coupled with the fact that there have been numerous disclosures of late of miners securing certificates by fraud, prompted the chief to order that all miners must undergo a new examination. The questions will be prepared by Chief Roderick himself, and they will, it is said, insure a thorough and stringent examination. Preacher's Daughter Disappears Miford, N. H., April 5—The police are hailed in their search for Miss Susan P. Babcock, daughter of Dr. D. C. Babcock, the aged pastor of the Methodist church, who left the parsonage here early Saturday and has not since been seen. The woods and waters of the surrounding country have been searched, and a general alarm has been sent to the police of nearby places. Miss Babcock, who is 40 years of age, is widely known in church circles. Overstudy is said to have brought on an illness from which she never fully recovered. Agent of Storey Cotton Co. a Suicide POSTAL INSPECTOR RESIGNS G. C. Holden Accepted Loan of $1100 From: Storey, Cotton, Company From Storey Cotton Company. Philadelphia, April 3. — George C. Holden, the inspector in the United States postal service attached to the Philadelphia inspection division, who admitted that the Storey Cotton company, the defunct "get-rich-quick" concern, most of whose officers are fugitives from justice, advanced $1100 to him as a loan for a few days, has sent his resignation to Washington. Holden declares that he received the money and paid it back a few days later, without any understanding or agreement with the Storey Cotton company that he was to protect the concern against investigation by the postoffice department. He, however, admitted that in accepting the loan from that concern he was indiscreet, and thought it best, in view of the revelations in the case, to send his resignation to the postal authorities at Washington. In a statement made by Holden, he says that the loan was paid back within a very few days, and that he was greatly surprised to learn that it had been entered on the books of the company, because it was a personal loan from F. Ewart Storey. He believes, he said, that the loan was placed on the books to do him injury. Since the loan was made, he says, he has sent three separate reports to Washington recommending that fraud orders be issued against the Storey concern. Asked if it was true, as Iiden contends, that Garrett was responsible for the failure of the postoffice department to issue a fraud order against the Storey Cotton company and that he was their lawyer, United States Assistant District Attorney Stewart said: "I can only say that the investigation into the Storey affairs and the discovery of certain papers seems to partially bear out that contention. I know what he got." TWO FUGITIVES LOCATED Postal Authorities Running Down the Storey Cotton Company Promoters. Philadelphia. April 5.—It was authoritatively stated that two of the fugitives wanted in connection with the alleged swindling transactions of the Storey Cotton company had been located by the postal authorities, and that their arrest will follow within the ensuing 24 hours. It was not announced which two of the fugitives had been traced to their hiding places. Specific orders have been issued from the department at Washington to locate all o the missing persons who were in any way connected with the defunct Storey Cotton company and to bring them back to this city. Counsel for Receiver McNeal, of the Provident Investment company, procured access to a private box rented by W. H. Latimer in a trust company's vault. From it they obtained securities for property in Montour county, this state, representing $30,000. This property will be transferred to Mr. McNeal for the benefit of creditors of the Provident Investment company. FIGHTING FOREST FIRE Mountain People Praying For Rain to Check the Flames. Hagerstown, Md. April 5—Efforts to check the forest fire raging on South Mountain east of this city have been futile, and the mountain people are praying for rain to stop the ravages of the flames. The fire has covered a distance of five miles on the west side of the mountain from Smoketown to Beaver creek and crossed the range into Frederick county and is raging fiercely there. The greatest damage has been done to the young timber, while a great quantity of cordwood, rails and fencing have been destroyed. Residents of the fire swept region have been fighting the flames day and night for four or five days, with but little or no success. The fire that has been burning on the Heartstone Mountain of the North Mountain range, west of here, has been checked in the vicinity of Casey's Knob. A large space on the west side of the mountain has been swept by the flames, with considerable loss. Electric Waves Electric waves measured by Hertz—and named after him—were found by the great scientist to be 150 feet from the top of one wave to the top of the next. The waves used by Marconi in telegraphing across the Atlantic are much longer. They are said to be 600 feet or more. They travel at the same speed as light. 184,000 miles a second. But the light wave measures only a few millionths of an inch. Setting Her Right Aunt Rachel - I see you've pitched it up with Archie, and he's coming here again, oftener than ever. He's asked you to marry him fifty times, hasn't he? Miss Mandy - Oh, dear, no, unac, but I suppose he has asked me fifty times to marry him - Chicago Tribune A Visit to the Stars "DINGDONG, dingdong!" sounded the great church clock. "Hello! I say, Daisy, it is half past 6." said Rob. "Only half an hour to bedtime. What shall we do?" "Can't do much in half an hour," replied Daisy. "Oh, can't you? I am not so sure about that." The voice was old and cracked and sounded so close behind them that the children jumped. Then they heard a sort of cackle, which was evidently intended for a laugh, and, looking around, whom should they see but a witch. She was a little old lady in a tall, steeple crowned hat. She wore high heeled, buckle shoes, a cloak like Little Red Riding Hood's, and in her hand she carried a magic wand. "To any one who knows the value of time half an hour is a very great deal," she said. "You just come with me, my little dears, and I will show you something surprising in half an hour. I am the Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe, but you will not be whipped before going to bed, for I am sure you do have bread in your broth. Now I will order the carriage." She waved her hand and muttered something, and then a broom appeared, with a handle about seven feet long—a remarkable broom, as you will soon see. "Now, children, take your seats on the coach, and hold fast when I've said, 'One, two, three!' "High, diddle, diddle, The girl in the middle, The crab jumped over the bear; The dicky birds laughed To see such fine sport, And the small man away with the hare. Then follow me, One, two, three!" Up rose the broomstick with its three passengers into the air. At first Rob JOHN LANE UM and Daisy felt just a little shivery-shaky with their feet off the firm ground and nothing to hold on to but the broomstick. But they soon began to get used to their new surroundings. Now, the wonderful broomstick traveled so fast that almost before you could have said "Jack Robinson" the travelers were up among the stars, and just to make the children feel a little more at home the old lady took them first to the heavenly twins. "Castor and Pollux," she said, "here are Rob and Daisy come to see you. Having now introduced them, I shall leave you now to enjoy yourselves," she said, "so goodbye for the present." And, breaking off a couple of feet of broomstick, she sailed away. "Say, do you like chocolate creams?" asked Castor and Pollux. "Yes, indeed," replied Rob and Daisy. The twins gave some to each, to their surprise. learning here. There ittarrus, the archer, you shooting. We have shooting stars. Then fessor Aquarius—the is called, because he all the water company you how to turn on an storms; or silly Miss get her to teach you scales—libra, they fishes have been he'b they are the most so ing. 'All the people are members of the you going?' Goodbye into his shell. Off sailed the broom by the children heard "If exercise for c Jump upon the c All the way. Naught to pay; Jump up, I say!" "And now what shall we play at?" said their new friends. So they played at "hunt the slipper" and other games until the broom handle suddenly started off and began to travel through the air again. "Goodbyy, goodbyy!" cried the children. And they were soon out of sight. Then a low growl attracted their attention, and their "coach" came to a stop before a great bear. He was a comical old fellow and looked uncommonly friendly. He put up his eyeglasses and welcomed the children with a broad grin. Over his furry coat he wore a thick jacket, fastened with big buttons, to keep out the cold, and in his mouth was a long clay pipe. "How dye do, how dye do, Rob and Daisy?" he said, waving a paw. "Do you know my name?" No, srl." replied Rob. "Well, then, you must remember that I major Ursa, or Ursa Major, it's all the same. But you can call me 'the msjor' if you like." "Don't you find it lonesome up here?" asked Daisy timidly. Knew the Meaning of It! Jones.—The chief has promised to give me a rise in my salary next week. Bones.—Sorry, old man, but I can't lend you anything.—Royal Magazine. Those Foolish Questions. "Jinks broke through the ice and was under water half an hour before they found him." "Did he drown?"—Houston Post. D "High, diddle, diddle. "Oh, no. I've always plenty to do, and then the little un--my son, Ursa Minor, you know—isn't far off. I'll call him." The great bear gave a great growl. "Listen!" said the major. And, sure enough, they heard a distant growl and saw in the distance Ursa Minor waving his handkerchief. "Don't you want an introduction to Mr. Taurus?" asked the major. "Who is he?" "An old friend and near neighbor and one of the twelve (of the zodiac). Listen and you will hear him bellowing." The children listened, but heard so many sounds that they could not distinguish Mr. Taurus' voice. Presently, however, they caught the sound of Mr. Taurus' voice, and, following it, they heard him say: "Who'll toll the bell? "I'll toll the bell. Because I can pull, I'll toll the bell." The children banded him the card, and Daisy said, "Were you really at Cock Robin's funeral?" "I was," sobbed the bull. "Don't you know I toiled the bell? Go and see Mr. Cancer, the crab, He, too, is one of the twelve. I am very bad company for any one. I tol the bell." Rob and Daisy hurried off to the crab. "How do you do?" said Rob. "Do?" said the crab. "I am always at work, minding a lot of stars, and besides I have a line to look after." "Line?" cried Rob and Daisy. "A railroad line or fish line or what?" "Silly!" snorted the crab. "No, a tropic line. Have you never heard of the Tropic of Cancer? I have to keep it in order, just as Capricornus—that ridiculous old goat—has to look after his line, the Tropic of Capricorn. But, look here, don't you want to learn some business. Rob? You might as well begin learning here. There is Professor Sagittarius, the archer, who will teach you shooting. We have a big school of shooting stars. Then there is old Professor Aquarius—the water bearer he is called, because he is at the head of all the water companies. He will teach you how to turn on and off the thunderstorms; or silly Miss Virga, the Virgin; get her to teach you the use of the scales — libra, they are called. The fishes have been her best pupils so far—they are the most scaly creatures going. *All the people I have mentioned are members of the twelve. Oh, are you going? Goodbye!" and he retired into his shell. Off sailed the broomstick, and by and by the children heard a kind of bleat: "If exercise for children lack, Jump upon the old ram's back; All the way, Naught to pay; Jump upon Larry." These words were spoken by Mr. Aries, the ram, and Rob and Daisy thought the invitation so kind that, climbing on the ram's back, they had a most enjoyable canter among the stars. Then they returned to their coach, and Rob asked for the time. The ram looked at his watch. "It is exactly five minutes to 7." said he. "Will you visit Venus next, or Saturn, or Mercury, or Jupiter, or"— "Oh, stop, please, Mr. Aries," begged Rob and Daisy, "7 o'clock is our bedtime, and we must not stop another minute!" So they said goodbye and hurried off. And now a remarkable thing happened. The broomstick without warning suddenly disappeared, and in a twinkling Rob and Daisy found themselves sprawling on the grass. "Listen!" said Rob. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven! It was the great church clock striking. Then a cracked voice said, "Can't you do much in half an hour?" But when they looked for her the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe had vanished. Philadelphia North American. No Half Measures Molly—When you spoke to father did you tell him you had £100 in the bank? George—Yes. Isn't Contagious Isn't Contagious. "I hear he is very happy as an after-dinner speaker." "Possibly, but it is more than may be said for his audience"—Brooklyn Life. THE RICHMOND PLANE: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. A Little Old Story There were once a little old man and a little old woman, and they lived in a little old house on a little old farm. They had a little old cow and a little old horse and a little old dog and a little old cat. One day the little old man dug him a load of potatoes and started off to the little old town to sell them. The little old woman took a little old bucket and went out to the little old barn to milk the little old cow. But no sooner had she begun her milking than the little old cow picked up her little old feet and kicked the little old woman over. She was so badly hurt that she could not get up, so she lay on the ground calling to the little old dog: "Tipsy, Tipsy! Oh, Tipsy!" The little old dog came and walked around the little old woman and knew not what to do. By and by she began saying: "Go for your master, Tipsy!" Go for your master, Tipsy!" The little old dog, who was sitting looking at her with his little old tongue hanging out of his little old mouth, trotted off down the road to the little old town. He found the little old man in a store, where he had just sold his potatoes and was putting his little old pocketbook in his little old pocket. "Why, bless me, here's Tipsy!" the little old man cried when he saw the little old dog. Tipsy took the little old man's coat edge between his teeth and pulled at it. "Tipsy, Tipsy! Is there anything wrong at home?" the little old man asked him, and when the little old dog kept on pulling the little old man ran out to the little old hitching rail, untied the little old horse, jumped in his little old wagon and whipped up the little old horse to as fast a trot as he could travel. When he finally got to his little old house he saw no little old woman anywhere about, so he quickly drove back to the little old barn, and there she lay, still grooming, on the ground. The little old man picked up the little old woman in his arms and carried her into the little old house and laid her on the little old bounce. Then they sent for the little old doctor, and he came in his little old buggy with his little old fat gray horse and gave the little old woman a little old pill, so that she was soon well again. But they all knew that if it had not been for the little old dog the little old woman might never have got well, so they gave him the best there was in the house to eat. But they sold that little old cow to the little old dairyman who lived in a little old house back of a little old bill. And every day the little old dog Tipsy would trot down to make a visit to his friend, the little old cow.-St. Nicholas. Candle Plants Plants at the Cape of Good Hope are often rare and curious. There is one, stunted and thorny, which lighted at the end when green, burns slowly and steadily like a wax candle. That is why it is called the candle bush. On the slopes of some of the hills grow trees named euphorbia. They may reach a height of forty feet and stand up stiff and straight as if made of metal. Their branches are as severely formal as the arms of a candleabra, and the tree has on that account been likened to the Jewish candlestick carved on the famous arch of Titus in Rome, which pictures have made familiar to every one. Travelers say that they look quite uncanny when they ride through a grove of them at dusk. Odd Tastes In Diet In India ants are mixed in a batter and baked like cookies. In Brazil ants are grilled, and the people eat them like marrons (chestnuts). The Romans gathered white worms from the leaves and trees of the acacia plant and cooked them. These worms are eaten alive by some Australian tribes, who say they taste like eggs. The Chinese fatten the white worms found on cabbage by feeding them apples and bananas. This diet is supposed to give them a better flavor. The Dearest Dolls DAG. ALICE IN WONDERLAND Miss Winifred Evelyn Constance McKee Invited our dolls to an afternoon tea. "But don't bring them all, For my table is small; Just let each little girl bring her dearest," said she. I felt in my heart it would not be polite To take my poor Rosa—she's grown such a fright! She is blind in one eye, And her wig's all awry. For she sleeps in my bed with me all through the night. To the Other Fellow. "Miss Mabel," said the persistent suitor. "I can't help speaking to you again. It is true you have said 'No' very emphatically to every proposal—" "Not at all," interrupted the sweet girl; "I said 'Yes last Tuesday.'" "Last Tuesday? Er—I wasn't here then." "No; but Jack Hansom was."—Tit-Bits. In former times there ruled at Olmutz, in Moravitz, a duke who allowed himself when in anger to do many cruel things. One day Bruno, his falconer, came trembling before his master and announced to him that the finest of the falcons was dead. When the duke heard this he flew into a passion and commanded his servants to chastise the man severely. Bruno, however, succeeded in escaping the intended punishment, and hid himself in the thick forest which extends from Olmutz to the Oder valley. There he lived by hunting and occupied himself with charcoal burning. It happened one day that as Bruno, armed with bow and arrow and battle-ax, was going through the forest he suddenly heard the well known hunting cry of the duke. He quickly hid himself behind an oak tree in order that his master should not discover him, and he saw to his horror that his master was pursued by a wild bison. The duke would have lost his life if Bruno, with his battleax, had not courageously attacked the furious animal and given it a mortal wound. Deeply touched, the duke thanked the deliverer of his life for his proved adultery and bade him ask any favor he pleased. Bruno did so. He asked to be allowed to possess as much land as he could encircle with the skin of the dead bison. Smilingly the duke promised to grant the request. The falconer began to cut the skin into small strips, and with them encircled the whole hill upon which he had saved the prince's life. The duke was highly pleased with this proof of Bruno's cleverness as well as courage made him a knight and put him in a position of honor at his court. Brune became dearer to his master every day and rendered him many and great services. In later times he built a castle on the hill, which, in memory of the duke's deliverance, he called Helfenstein. The Magic String Here is a simple trick, but one that will keep your audience guessing for a long time unless having seen something of its kind before. Take a piece of strong twine and loop through a pair of scissors, as shown in the picture. Then fasten the THE LOOP IN POSITION ends securely to a book or door knob, and ask each person in turn to try to release the scissors without cutting or untying the twine or taking them apart. Solution: Take hold of the end of the loop and pass it through the smaller opening in the handle, then pass the scissors through the loop (polut first), and you have them free. Tommy's Definition: Little Tommy, who had been watching a race, remarked to his mother "Mamma, I feel nervous." On being asked what "nervous" meant he said, "It means just getting in a hurry all over." I explained to dear Rosa just why she must stay. And I dressed Bonniebelle in her finest dress. And then, do you know, When the time came to go. I snatched up my Rosa and ran all the way! And—what do you think?—of the six dolls that came There were four that were blind, there were two that were lame! And each little mother Explained to some other "She's old, but I love her the best just the same!" —Youth's Companion. Moderation. Weary Walters—I don't believe in doin' two tings at once. Sunny South—Two tings! Gee. I don't believe in doin' one ting at once. —Puck. Girl-I dunno. mem. I've always wurruked in flats--Chicago Tribune. Little Nannette's Dream WHAT! Weeping again, my discontented Violet? questioned the fairy as she came from her mossy couch under an acorn cup and wiped away with the hem of her gauzy robe the tear which glistened in the blue violet's eye. "Discontented with your beautiful surroundings, my dear?" she continued. "But you shall have your wish tonight, so smile your sweetest and come with me." And the fairy queen folded her favorite close in her arms, and they sailed away through the chilly night air of that early springtime. "Remain you here," said the indulgent fairy, "and see and hear all the wonderful things you have longed for. Then if you wish to return to your home on the shady side of the mossy bowder all well and good; if not, you shall remain in the city, and I will grieve for my sweetest flower." And the fairy left the violet alone in the great city while she hastened away to make others happy. Violet waited and shivered in her nest of strange green, and she could hardly breathe, for the air was close, stifling and pungent with queer new odors. The noise from without fairly shook her frail head, and each time that she shivered the most wonderful perfume floated from her deep blue gown, but Violet did not realize that, for the perfume had always lingered about her. She never once dreamed in all her discontent that she was so rarely blessed. "I feel so queer and lonely, and I can hardly breathe," cried the violet aloud. "I wonder when I will see the wonderful things the fairy queen promised." "Who speaks before the time and in such strange language?" questioned a loud voice with a perfumed breath, and Violet quivered the more on her Pierre Dauphin Dorothy Patterson "TAKE ME HOME, DEAR QUEEN." slender stem as she saw the tall white lily bending its head, and as she shivered and trembled her perfume in great quantities floated about her. "Who speaks?" again demanded the lily. "The city's clock across the way says 'tis but three minutes to 1. Who dares to frolic before it strikes the hour'" "I did not know; I am very sorry," the blue violet stammered. "Flowers," exclaimed the lily, "some stranger is here." Up flared the lights in eye blinding radiance, and, against all rules, every flower in the place walked from vases, jars and baskets and crowded about the shy, strange violet. A pair of massive doors swung open, and a chilly blast came out of a dark, cold prison place in company with hundreds of rosebuds, cremum, yellow, pink and coppery as a storm tinted sky on a summer sunset; iliacs as pale and fair as a wee child in arms, wonderful stocks of American Beauties so deep and rich as to put to blush the crimson meteor, who always contended its wealthy color came direct from a maiden's heart. Ajong came the valley illy, switching her perfume in dainty disdain of the pungent half odor of the calla illy. The sun centered daisies crowded in wild confusion among the throng, and all chattered at once. "Who are you?" they questioned in rude haste of the bashful, shrinking violet. But Violet forgot in her fright who she was. "She's wild," asserted the daisies. "We once heard of her kin growing beside a rock in a field where our grandmother was reared." "Never in the world" stoutly contradicted narcissus. "With such a colored gown and delicious perfume she has strayed from some far distant land." Violet had dreamed a thousand times of being the center of an admiring throng, and when she was alone and the dewdrops shone in little mirrors about her she would bow and bend and courtesy in anticipation of this very time until she grew so haughty and over- A Universal Rule. The microbe doth exemplify By efforts of the keeest, How little natures always try Somehow to be meanest. -Washington Star. That Old Score Blox.—I've got an old score to settle with Spotkins. Knox—Yes, he was telling me the other day that you had owed him $20 for quite a long time.—Chicago News. bearing she would fail to notice the tender, shrinking cowlip, which had been an orphan since the early spring-time. "Really, who are you? Please do tell us!" a waxen, pink begonia asked of her. "I have lived in flowery circles all my life, and I never smelled such perfume as you have about you. I haven't any. "Tis the grief of my life. I am only prized for my beauty and profuse blooming." And begonia's sigh was lost in a babble of questions which came from the carnations. They did not fancy a rival at all, but for all the questions and opinions little blue violet remained a mystery still. Then Violet grew out of her shyness and told the flower company of her life in the deep fern woods. "Beautiful! Wonderful!" cried the flower hosts, and Violet saw glistening tears in many eyes. "We all grew in a greenhouse under a glass roof, and the heat and the damp were nothing but a Turkish bath from morning until night," said a dignified fern. "We had nothing to amuse us," sighed the rose. "We could not even nod our headg together in a friendly chat that a cruel gardener did not come along, with a stick and a string, and tie us up as straight and prim as a cast iron poker." "Tis awful!" wailed the valley lily. "We are cut with sharp scissors and crowded together, and after traveling a long way in the dark and the cold we come here to be sold like slaves in the market." "Yes, but we can go to parties," interrupted the bride roses. "And to funerals, which are, oh, so sad!" cried the lilies. "To feasts," continued the rosebuds. "But we are so warm and tired hearing and seeing nothing much that is good we are left to wither and THE LIGHT OF THE MOON dle," moaned the white waxen jasmine. Violet lost her shyness completely in this bubble of tongues and complaints, "I go to parties, too," she cried. "Bluebird and robin always give the first party of the spring, and last time I danced with dainty Johnnie Wren, who had just returned from abroad, and he said I was the sweetest flower he had met in his travels." "Oh-h-h! Oh!" cried all the excited flowers. "How lovely! How charming!" and the perfume which floated about was stifling and caused Violet to hang her head and long for the pure heavenly freshness of her own cozy woodland home. But a faint blush came stealing over the eastern sky as the fairy queen appeared among them. "Take me home, dear queen. I am very tired and falut" cried the violet plungingly, as she nestled in the fairy's arms, and the fairy smiled back to the city's throng as she floated away with a contented blue violet hugged to her breast. This was the dream of little Nannette as she gazed in the window at the hothouse flowers in their stately splendor, while drooping in the corner lay faded blue violet. Australian Champion Won A peculiar contest between a big bull buffalo and a full grown kangaroo in an English zoo recently proclaimed the superiority of the latter as a fighter. Both animals had broken loose from their inclusions. The buffalo would rush furiously at the kangaroo, who would defy side step and then land both boots square on his opponent. About an hour's thumping suffaced for Mr. Buffalo, who limped painfully away, badly battered. Come, little Willie, and come, Marle. It's half past 5 and time for tea. There's bread, I know, and there's milk to drink. With biscuits and strawberry jam. I think. Grace- What an absurd flatterer Tom is! Gladys- Did he say that you were pretty? Father—Why don't you start, that open grate in the parlor? Daughter (who has a lover)—The share is so unpleasant.—N. Y. Weekly. Tea Time. 4 Seeing Is Believing "Razor all right sir?" asked the barber. "Well, er—would you mind letting me look at it?" said the victim in reply. "Certainly not, sir," answered the tonsorial artist. "But why do you wish to see it?" "Oh, merely to see if you hadn't made a mistake in calling it a razor," explained the man in the chair. "I thought perhaps it might be a piece of old barrel hoo." Labor Lost. Mrs. Upmore—You remember I told you I had asked a rising young foreign artist to my reception the other evening? Well, at the last moment he sent his regrets. He was prevented by illness from coming. I was so provoked! Mrs. Highmus—Provoked? Why, if he was ill he couldn't help it, could he? Mrs. Upmore—No, of course not, but I had spent nearly a whole evening trying to learn how to pronounce his horrid name—Chicago Tribune. Artificial Heat "How is this committee room heated?" asked the legislator in child-like innocence. "By an indirect hot air system." replied the bland lobbyist, slipping a roll of greenbacks into the statesman's hand. "Seems remarkably successful," said the latter, dazed at the size of the wad.-Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Appropriately Named "Boston girl's reserve." "Humph! Why such a name for armor plate?" "Nothing can pierce it."—Houston Post. What Hurt Most Subbubs—In the midst of that blizzard the other night a burglar broke into our house. Citiman—The Idea! That was cool— Subbubs—Cool! It was positively frigid! He left the window open— Philadelphia Press. She Could Do It All Indignant Husband (who is putting down his foot for once and for all)—Now, look here, my dear, it's no use talking— Exasperating Wife—Why on earth don't you hold your tongue, then?—Ally Sloper. The Real Thing "Say, pa," queried little Johnny Bump-ernickle, "what is a hero?" "A hero, my son," replied his father, "is a man who does his duty and doesn't stand around waiting for people to pass him on the back."—Cincinnati Enquirer, Just Escaped the Knife Barry—They tell me you have had a very narrow escape from death. Harry—Yes; they were going to operate upon me for appendicitis, but they discovered in time that I hadn't the money to pay for it.—Royal Magazine. Even If It Was a Dog-Wood Tree. "Now why," remarked the little dog, in speaking to the tree. "Would you say that the heart of you is like the tail of me?" The tree gave the conundrum up. The pup, with wisdom dark, Explaind the matter, saying: "It is far- thest from the bark." Eva—But you know an eminent professor says that kissing is a form of insanity. Jack—Well, dear, haven't you often said that I was crazy?—Chicago News. To a Chair* Said our preacher last week: "I desire To thank our servant, Miss Higger, For her service, lady, As with the you will acquire Was an excellent gift to acquire" —Cleveland Leader Not Quite Save Tomkins—So all your children are married and settled, are they? Simkins—Well, they are all married, but I'm not so sure about their being settled. None of them is divorced.—Chicago News. As It Should Be The Pessimist—What is the use of struggling? We must all meet our Waterloo some day. The Optimist—Well, when I meet my Waterloo, my name is going to be Wellington—Cassell's. Behind the Scenes In the Future. Chauffeur—I want to get some gasoline for my machine. Dealer—Yes, sir; what odor, please? New Mown Hay, Attar of Roses, or Violets, sir? —Yonkers Statesman. Possible Explanation Mrs. Homer—I wonder why poets repeat words unnecessarily? Homer—I wasn't aware that they did. Mrs. Homer—Well, there's that poem in which the line "Charge, Chester, charge," occurs. Why is the word "charge" repeated? Homer—Oh, I guess that fellow Chester must have been a plumber and the poet was throwing bouquets at him—Cincinnati Enquirer. ee PURICIY Woven ak Strecl, ickunoad Ves” JONN MITCHELL, JR, + EDITOR. Mb Gd'Toeens soran ovens cs ty” Wensenten TERMS IN ADVANCE Que Cony, rome. 0 Ses geez: sieee meeane y f= eee : ay ey ~ IRSTAMPS OF A HIGHER DE- "TOMAR Maan Qs eee Roe SuBscRienose ‘ean agi tame weedy Se See Seraanon eaetr sian reese Pee ee eae Ba Soon Slemey Grider aasd when aswe'od these fan be procured. in a Registered Lotter. Storer OnipeonYou an bar & Mave Or Sedvaakee on ee ee toe for Hts sate arrival. Resanee anone Cususahngs ts thiol Eee amps eee ees Being Raye Gov tat twat Pe Soa le eerie Retsene a Fea Whe Rapes Mocey Oriee ts's “sale SS (irmomoeny 7a Enc preg ia setSEeee ta eres Ges ey Se Perengom reegeer sul era Toe grpies e pea os eS Sa can betraced. Yuu can send money in’ this star ao eg a ees Scorettete rot Sia ten casa Sarena as ae Cooraoss sc ear ea Soe ae eer ASR tk2t os Sn Koen ele Peeerpcep ta rca raseber sy Ly ea eh Seep eeredeementen cant Seach paper Siegal wee PERS eS Pa EE Tamia dote wen By order ae paper Se Cauunsalgen hin rial bon 0 Cm ER es Siete eames aad In Pull, otherwise we cannot find your nam: on, ia eau ok asaeuigs Ai om shea Re en aot er epee wee satectees Entered at the Post-Office at Richmond, Va., acmevond-clam matter. SATURDAY,... . . . APRIL &, 1905 SATURDAY,... . . . APRIL 8, 1905 ‘Many of our troubles are of our own making. Don’t forget that. President Roosevelt is being win- ed and dined in Kentucky and will no doubt be lionized in Texas. The world is moving even though a New York Republican is President of the nation, Colored people must set their faces steadily against the lawless elements of the race. They are a handicap to our efforts and a men- ace to our prosperity. Some of this “rising” generation will “spoil for a fight” if a colored person speaks to them and will “run their legs off” getting out of the way, if a white man appears upon the scene to enforce order. They are cowardly through and through and must be put down. Colored folks, we must impress upon our off-spring the value of good manners. Truly has it been said that it will carry one where money wont. Jealousy and envy tend more than any one thing to hinder the progress of many of us. It fs a natural occupant of the bosom, but it can be driven out by judicious management and —_ conservative watchfuness. Let us be more open-hearted, and lees prejudiced one towards the other. Chicago, Ill, has elected Judge Edward F. Dunne, Democrat, Mayor of that city. It is stated that the colored men supported him strong- ly on account of his friendship for them. Well, there’s not much politics in a municipal election in that great big town, and the Repub- Ueans in the rest of the world are not shedding any tears over the re- sult. According to the Bluff City News of Memphis, Tennessee, the Mem- phis, Tenn., | Commercial-Appeal should feel like going into its hole and pulling in the hole after it Mr. J. Samuel Davis, (white) and his wife were brutally attacked in the out-skirts of that city and the latter probably fatally wounded, at- ter having been viciously assaulted. When the news was first received, the Commersial-Appeal got in its work, charging the crime to a Ne- gro. An investigation of the facts and So Mr. Davis himself the fact that the assail- ant and murderer was « white ee ‘We bave received a letter from Prof. W. H. Council, D. D., presi- dent of the Agricultural & Meehan- eal College at Normal, Ala., deny- ing that he adversely criticized the Afro-American Press of the country for defending the Negro against un- just treatment in the South. This denial is especially gratifying to us. We had read Editor H. C. Smith's utterances In his journal, the Cleve- Yand Gazette. and had suspended Judgment in the matter, awaiting further developments. | ee a | The Holy Family Coliege at Lang- ston, Oklaboma, is prospering and the statements sent out of {ts con- dition are highly commendatory of Father Anciaux of Belgium, who seems to be well adapted to that aS oe works ane veneae ahate that the dormitories are now crowd- ed and that the open-door may be found for sll, regardless of race, ereed or color. Father Anciaux [was stationed many years at Lynch- |burg, Va., where he was a favorite ‘with all who knew him ‘The Washington, D. C. Record ts responsible for the statement that Hon. R. T. Greener, U.S. Consul to Viadivostock, Russia has been sum- marily removed by President Roos- eyelt and no reasons given ‘The Chief Executive seems to know his business and explanations will be in order upon the return of Mr. Greener to this country. It Is need lees to say that the gentleman in question {s one -of the most accom plished colored men in this country ‘The editorial utterances of th Washington, D. C. Post on Prof. Langley and all other flying machine inventors are always interesting and amusing. We could read col- umns of this kind of literary food without tiring. If we were in Prof. Langley’s shoes, however, our feel- ings would be just the other way. ‘The jim-crow street car law as op- erated in Memphis, Tenn., and Hous ton, Texas, prevented all right think ing’ colored folks from making use of the street railways. The result is that the Memphis company has changed hands while the Houston company has failed to declare a div- idond. —Dallas, Texas Express. And the “Jim Crow” Street car law here has forced the street-car company in the hands of the recety- ers. The worst is not yet. In a recent issue of our little Jour- nal, we complimented, editor Mitch- ell of the “Planet” ‘upon the im- provement made in his plant. We See he accepts the compliments of others and ignores ours. It may be he thinks we are too small to be in the complimenting business. Never theless we are going to compliment him just the sane. Again we compliment the Editor of the “Planet,” Hon. John Mitchell Jr., for the wonderful improvement made in his printing plant, and we warn him that as soon as he does some other good thing, we are go- ing to throw another compliment at im. —Harrisonbarg, Va. Phonograph. Our healthy and lusty young con- temporary will accept our apologies for the oversight. We appreciated the compliments. The Phonograph is one of the most welcome visitors ‘on our exchange list. Colored people should patronize each other, If they hope to succeed in business. When white people see that colored people support each other, thousands of them are liberal enough to come forward and sup- port them. After all, the stock sold in colored business houses is purchased at wholesale rates from ‘White business ones and the white brother gets the benefit of it and can afford to look with composure upon the effort. When a white retail dealer sells goods, the white wholesale dealer gels the money and when the color- ed retail dealer sells the goods, the ‘white wholesale dealer gets the money just the same. You talk about “‘catehing .them a-coming and a-gwine,” but the white man knows how to do it. s to Remove the Odor of Ontons. It fs worth knowing that the odor of ‘onions may t« almost entirely removed = the bands by rubbing thon with celery tops. This means will also re move the odor from dishes. a ei ee To clean wash wringers loosen the screw and wipe the rubbers very dry. then wet a dry rag with kerosene oil, Fub all over the rubbers until they are white; slip a clean piece of old muslin between them (the rubbers) and put wringer away. To keep wash boilers from rusting rub your boiler dry and hold over the gas flame or put on the ‘cooking rauge until perfectly dry, ‘Then with a dry rag saturated with kerosene oll rub it all over (the fnxide of the ket- Ue) and put away. or. better still, hang it up in a dry place, How to Clean Dinmonds, Diamonds set without pearl or tur- ‘quoises may be cleansed by a brusaing With methylated spirit. It will greatly q@pbance their brilliancy. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. PRESIDENT ON WESTERN TRIP ‘St Louis, April 5.—President Roose- Yelt and party passed through Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Ulinols, and ‘efter spending an hour and a half in this city, left here for the southwest ever the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway. The most notadle reception of the day was at Louisville, Ky., where the president spent two hours. From Louisville to St. Louis’ the train siackened down at a dozen or more towns, and at most of these great crowds were at the depot cheering as Jong as the train was to sight. The president made throe speeches enroute. ‘They were at Milltown, Ind.; Hunting- burg, Ind., and Mount Vernon, Ill. At East Junction, near Princeton, Ind., where a change of engines was made, the president Jumped down from the rear platform of the train to shake hands with a number of employes of the railway shops there. The train ran through Princeton slowly to give the Bresident an opportunity to hastily re- ‘view several hundred school children ‘who had been assembled near the rail- road tracks At Huntingburg, Ire, the president said: | “Gentlemen and Ladies- It ts a great Pleasure to catch this glimpse of you and greet you on my way down to the reunion of my old regiment at San Antonio, Texns. There Is one thing | am always tmpreased with In going through this country, and that Is that down at bottom, east or west, north or south, wherever you met the average American, he is a pretty good Ameri can. (Cheers and applause.) In greeting all of you I want to say that while 1 am particularly glad to see the men and the women, I think I am even more glad to sec the children, 1 think the American stock ts a midd!ing good one, and I do not want to see it die out. i see here men who wear the button that shows that they fought in the great war. They have left us a legacy. not only of how to do our duty tm war, but in peace. Let us of the younger generation try to keep up their standard.” (Cheers and ap- plause.) At § o'clock the train passed down the steep incline at the Missouri end of the Merchants bridge, and as soon as the assembled crowds discerned it in the darkness an enthusiastic welcome from Missouri was given the presi dent. Thirty minutes Inter the train pulled out, with a pilot engine running five minutes ahead. The first stop will be made at Vinita, I. T. ARTIST STABBED BY GIRL Plunged Knife Into Man's Breast After @ Quarrel. Lancaster, Pa, April 3.—Ralph W. Kline, aged 26 years, an artist, was fa- tally stabbed by Jennie Good, aged 18. Kline and Miss Good were members of & party who were fishing in the Little Conestogn, near Long Park. Kline and the girl had @ quarrel, during which Miss Good threatened to cut out his heart. Thinking that she would not executo her threat, Kline threw out his chest and told her to stab. She did, plunging @ knife into his breast, near the heart. He ts at a hospital, uncon- sclous, The girl fled and has not yet been arrested. CORDOVA TAKEN TO JAIL Former Methodist Minister Taken to Station Handeutted. New Brunswick, N. J., April &—J. Frank Cordova, the former pastor of the South River Methodist church, who eloped twice with Miss Julla Bowne, a choir singer in his church, was taken to state prison to nerve a term of four years for abandoning his wife and assaulting her. He was taken to the station handcuffed and followed by a big crowd, which made no demon- stration. Cortova’s case is before the state supreme court on appeal. Chief Justice’s Son-in-Law # Suicide. Chicago, April 5.—William H. Det jus, a contracting freight agegt em. ployed by the Chicago & Northwestern railway, committed sulelde by shoot- ing himself at his home. When Delius returned home he appeared cheerful and entering the Ubrary said he was going to write several letters. His wife was startled shortly afterward to hear the report of a revolver shot. Running to the library she found her husband lying on the floor with a bul- let wound in his right temple. De'jus was a soninlaw of Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States supreme court. Shortage May Reach $132,000. ~ Torain, 0., April 4—A director of the closed Citizens’ Savings Bank is ‘responsible for the statement that the shortage in the bank may reach $132. 000, Counsel for the accused men | said that he did not believe the short- age would be so large, and that tt would not exceed $102,000. He said that Cashier Kancen admits that the discrepancy may be §102,000, but he knows nothing about the larger sum. James S. Scranton Dead. Scranton, Pa., April 5.—James Sel- den Scranton, last member of the {m- mediate family of Colonel George Scranton, for whom this city ts named, died bere, aged 64 years. The de- coased was a pioneer in the coal and fron business here, and was also in ‘the iron business at Oxford, N. J. 4 WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED ‘Thursday, March 30. ‘The cruiser Columbia will carry the Temains of the late Mexican ambassa- for to Vera Cruz, Mexico, Two Pittsburg mitl workers died and several are in @ precarious condition owing to the excessive heat of the past fow days. During @ quarrel over a game of ards, Thomas Fry shot and instantly eo no Reeee Same] ba) > heey va ee ae Rr mond, ons of: th on comms mss int Now c-eppeect et ne Friday, March 31. Mrs, Iaaae Bachman, of Prackyilie, Pa, foil into a well in tho rear of ber howe and wes drowned. H.R hy, cashier of the Atlanta tional Banik, disd of grip, death being hastened by hic- conghs. no Andrew Carnezie has donated to S*. John's College, Anwepolis, 24. $16.7 0 to construct auptiysicel ani chemical Jeboratory, Judge Josep) C. Fergt:on, of the Philadelphia orphons” corr. died trem neuralgia and"Be'vous complaint after a long iness Fire men, who are charged with robbing stores in Mauch Chunk, Pa, ‘of goods ralued at $1600. were cap tured by @ posse. Saturday, April 1. Fifty conta Ras been fixed as the general admission price to the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland, Ore. Mrs. Roosevelt and all of the chil- dren except Miss Alice left Washing- ton for a 10-day cruise tn southern waters. The ue Iieutenant Governor W. M. Bro of Pennsylvania, at New Castle, was ransacked by thieves during the atisence of the family. Andrew Carnegie hes given Nor. wich University, Northfield, Vt, $25,- 000 for a lhrary and $25,000 for elec- trical equipment for the engineering department. Monday, April 3. Ralph Voorhees, of New Jersey, has donated $100,000 to the American ‘Tract Society, whose headquarters are in New York. Fire that destroyed the home of W. J. Thompson, near Charlottesville, Va., burned to death Mrs. Thompson and two children. Fred Henninger was caught between cars at the Sloux colliery, Mount Car- mel, Pa, bis back being broken and his life crushed out. In attempting to board a moving train on the Reading railroad at Phila- @eiphia, Winford Childs, 12 years old, fell under the wheels and had both legs cut off. Mianle Newton and her brother Harry were smothered to death neat Iaeger, W. Ve., by the overturning of fa wagon load of hay which thelr father was tinloading Tuesday, April 4. Countess Cassini, daughter of the Raceian anbasca or, sailed from New York tor a long visit to relatives ta Russia J. Marchall: Wright. naval officer at Philadelphia during President Cleve- land's second aiministration, died at Allentown, Pa. Thomas Boyer, an employe of the Wert Chester, Pa, Normal School committed aulcid: by hanging himeelf while despondent Frank Rause, of New Tripoli, Pa. was committed to jail, charged’ with embeazling $3200 tn settling his fatn- rs estate After building. a fire in her yard Mrs. Charles Hemmers, of Portland Ore, sattrated her clothes with ol and’ deliberately burned herself ta death, Wednesday, April 5. James Conway, of Philadelphia, was killed at Weston, W. Va. in attempting to board a B. & O. freight train T. A. Letbetter has dug up a pot containing nearly $2000 in gold coin. 20 miles north of Mt. Pleasant, Texas. While attempting to board « frelghi train at Stoubensvilie, 0. Peter Hard was struck and killed by Presiden Roosevelt's special train ‘An express train on the Clevelani and Pittsburg railroad collided with s freight at Cogtonia, 0. and two per fons were killed and three injured, ‘At Corsicana, Tex, fire destroye the main building of the 1. O. O. F widows’ and drphans’ home with al its contents, and several invaaten wor hurt umping from window 5. Philadelpuia—Fiour steady; winter extras. $1 109430; Penna’ Taller, clear, $42) 7440; clty mills, fancy, $5.9006.95. Rye four frm; per bar. rel, $4.20, Wheat firin; No. ? Penna. Ted, new, $1.03%@ 104. Corn steady: No. 2 yellow, local. sige. Onts fru: No. 2 whic, clipped. “Site; lower rates, fac Hay steady Xo. 1 thmo- thy, $4915 for large bales. Pork Bieidy;, family. fit eet Arm: beet hams, $23G24. Live poultry steady; hens, 13icc.; aid roosters, Lue. Drosaed poultry firm; choice fowls, 14%e.; old Fosters, 1ic.. Butter steady: cream ery, ac. Exga steady: New York and Petina., 18igc. doz. Potatoes steady; new, per bushel. 554 60c. Raltimore—-Wheat neminal; No. 2 red,/$1.10g1.10%; ‘steamer No. 2 pot, sive 02%; southern, 87¢.@$1.10%' ra steady: mixed, spot, 5253 %xc: steamer mixed, 49420 49%; south gin ATgSzise” Oie steady’, white No. 2, 3 gic. No. 3, 364 @36%e ; No. €. $5le ibe: mixed, Noa, 26 B6ie.; No. 3, 85@35%4c.: No. 4. 1147 38c. Hutter Arm; creamery extras, 27 G28) pring Bie.” Maryland an! ana. dairy "prints: 226206. Rae steady; ‘fancy Maryland and Penna. 16c.; Virginia, 166 16%e.; West Vir ginia, 16@ 15ige.; southern, 154 15% Live Stock Markets. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg—Cat tle higher: cholee, $5.73@6: prime $5005.70, mediums, $5.20; heavy rorkers.$5.69@5.70;" licht Yorkers. 6 5005.55. pina, $5.30005.49; row'h: G45). Sheep Arm: prime’ wath-rs 5.5005 65; common, $203; laabs |@6.80; veal calves, $66.50. A Fine Disposition. Pat — Do yex ever git dispondint, Moike? Mike—Only whin Of'm feelin’ “pine.” OL mfways feel good as long a8 Ot'm feelin’ foine, be gos!~—Puck. Koage Tattooing. In the Kongo colonies of Belgium both men and women.are tattooed ac. cording to thelr status in society. A woman of high caste wili have a de sign not unlike © zouave Jacket worked upon her back, and it would seem that the native is ds content with this mode of covering as If ft were a substitute for clothing. By injecting the juice of certain herbs the scars left by the tat: tooing process retain a swollen ap- pearance, giving the effect of bas-relief ‘work. The thorns of the acacia are generally used as a needle, while 2 certain biack clay is used as a coloring medium. NEW YORK FASHIONS Pattere For Gs ee Dress Designed by et es ny i i NN AL a Ka, Wi Ts Seen oe Aguatic Animals, Leather is prepared from the hides of pearly all aquatic aninals, principally the seal, whale, porpoise, alligator and walrus, ‘The use of these hides ts al- most as old as man himself, and they bare ever been most eagerly sought After for the many uses to which they eoukl be put after being prepared as Yeather. At the time of the Russian decupation of Alaska they made great ‘use of walrus hides. Furs were usual- Jy wrapped up in these skins, and when they reached Kiachta, China, the great tart of those days, the skin was sewed over chests of tea, On arrival at Mos- cow the soundest portions were re- moved, cut up and stamped Into ko- Decks und a variety of small change. ‘This formed the chief currency of Alus- ka fora time. ‘The Russians also made harness of walrus leather, while the natives of Alnskn used the skin as a covering for their boats. ‘A queerer kind of leather, however, comes from the bodies of fishes. An extremely fine quality of green leather made in Turkey ts manufactured from the skin of an ugly fish called the angel fish. ‘The sword grips of the German army are made from shark leather, which Is beautiful in pattern, being marked with dark diamond shaped fig- ures. This skin comes from a North sea shark called the diamond shark. Leather manufacturers have tried to produce a substitute from animal hides, but in vain, Untike animal leath- er, fish leather is absolutely tnpervious to water and never gets sogey from dase. ‘Therefore it ts ideal for ‘sword grips, as, no matter how much the hand imay ‘perspire, the grip re- mains hard and dry. Teather is made from the skin of the Pacific coast and great lakes sturgeon, which Is exceedingly tough and is used tn making laces for Joining leather belting. In Canada the skin of a spe- cles of ailurold Is used in making ‘gloves. THE PARIS CAFE. Bt In the Frenchman's Outdoor Home Part of the Day. For an bour or two of the day the cafe ts the Parisian’s outdoor home. ‘There he gets all the morning and aft- ernoon papers. There if he likes he may write his business letters and pri- ‘vate correspondence. Many a “client” writes all or most of Lis correspond- ence at bis little marble topped table. ‘The garcon brings him the black port- folio stocked with letter paper and en- ‘Yelopes and pens and ink. Notre client may use up as much paper and en- velopes as he pleases. These are pro- vided by the.statf of waiters at their own charge, not by M. le Patron, the Jandlord—a curious custom. Notre client 1s welcome to sit there all day long over his newspapers and corre- spondence and his glass of bordeaux oF his “lait chaud” (perhaps with a nip ‘of rum in it when the weather 1s cold). ‘The counter 1s reserved for walters and for M. le Patron’s wife or daugh- ter or lady clerk, who sits behind it re- celving orders, ‘The “habitues,” “nos clients” or pass- ing customers are comfortably seated at thelr neat, scrupulously clean little tables. Outside the chairs and little tables are arranged in rows, three, four, five, six deep. There “nos clients” sit ut thelr ease underneath the broad awning when the sun is ablaze, Win- ter drives “notre client” indoors, though out he will come again on the alightest temptation from the weather, for your Parisian loves fresh air, loves to gaze over his light bordeaux or his “bock”” at the tide of human life as it sweeps by. On the inner baif of the pavement beneath the awnings, bebin¢ ‘the trees, along the miles of boulevard sit in their thousands in spring, sum mer and autumn the customers of the Paris cafe.—London News. The Wambarg Bourse. Hamburg’s first bourse, established in 1558-00, was a shelteriess, paved meeting place, 112 feet long and 42 feet wide, supported toward the water front by means of bulwarks and hav- Ing Its three other sides surrounded by & low stone wall. In 1577 the bourse was enlarged by adding a cloth hall, supplied with a roof. The present Dourse also differs in many respects considerably from American and other foreign exchanges, No membership ex- iets here, but attendance and admit- tance to all privileges of the foor free ‘of charge are permitted to every re- apectable male person. Derby's Market Stone. Ip Derby, Engiand, there is a curt- ous relic of the great plague of 1605. Tt stancs tu the arboretum gardens an! is cou amie cated “the market FSi. Tay ih wie. bec Aah low. GONE A St We Cones: Shas le mee: decomlag In its graceful Lines ts shows here for misses. for whom It is #0 haré te find jurt the style that Is neither too old nor too young. The design is simple, yet has @ chic air that makes it extremely stylish, The waist, with ite Russian cloning, has tucks Just where they are needed to give a pretty round fullness to the gore. The siveve ts daintily set off by the use of a weve cap and @ fanciful cuf. The skirt is circular. with an ia- verted box plait or guthera ut the back. For a wash dress or light woolen or stilt nothing could be prettier, and the style fe one that does not grow old. It de- sired the bands may be of plain of con: trasting material, machine stitehed, whlch latter is one of ‘the prettiest as well at most ccnomical Ways of trimming. ‘Try ft'on 4 blue or brown cashmere, using coarse white silk or sansilk for stitching fat the tands, and you will be surprined at the ‘phasing “results,” For a Greaaler Gress’ ove finds the shops full of pretty. inexpensive Persian bands that come In all widihe and colors. Any of the ma- terials muitable for girls’ Greases may be sed in the construction’ of the. mode. Pattern No. it. Sizes, 6, 7. 8 ® 10, Ad and 14 years DIRECTIONS TOR ORDERING Send 1 cents to this office, give number of this pattern, No. 47, and state alge de- fired. IU will then be sent to you by mail Posipal. "He sure to write plainiy amd al- Ways five full addreas.” ‘Several days Bust be allowed for delivery of pattern: fry fok from the surrounding villages would leave thelr orders for anything they night want with the watchman, who wed to go into the town, make the neessary purchases and epost them on the steps of “the market an A Good Reason. The food woman was distributing a few tracts behind the bars. “And what are you in for, my un- fortunate friend?” she asked of No. 1313. “Cause T can’t git out,” sullenly an- swered the prisoner. And the good woman passed on. An Extended Sonnet. “He doesn’t display much originality tn bis poems.” “Doem't he? He wrote a sonnet with twentythree lines the other day. If ‘that Isn't originality, what do you call it"—Coleago Record-Heraid. Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and sadness are incompatl dle.—Bovee. CARE OF PARROTS. Mow They Should Ne Fed and Tangh preg snes ee The parrot’s food may consist of warm sipped bread, boiled maize, oats, hemp wed and canary seed. It will thrive all the better for having small Quantities of ripe, sound fruit—for in- stance, one cherry, grape, strawberry or a sie of apple, says the New York Journal. The sop should be prepared by Pouring boiling water over u slice oF crumb of bread ond allowing it to stand for w couple of minutes, when all superttious water may be poured off. ‘The maize should te bolied til soft and & fresh supply of abvut four table- spoonfuls given every morning. when the tin in which it Ix pet should be seakie! thoroghly. Maize left over from the previous day shoubl be throwa away, Te sopped bread sbostid be laid above the nuize, and the dry grains and xenlt should be kept separately. A Tew slices of ripe capsicum may be given to the bird occasionally if it Is at all bested, or some cayenne pepper ‘sprinkled over its sop. ‘The capsicum it will eat with great satisfaction, this forming part of {ts natural food in tte wilt wate. Sometines when the bird seems w be suffering from indigestion it t8 a good plan to give a pinch of b- | carbonate of potash for a few days in a ete water. ‘When parrot tukes to feather pluck- Ing. bathing for a few days with cold salt water will generally effect a cure, If the feather piucking be very pro- nounc and this treatment proves tn- effectual, proceed as follows: ‘Take the bird into the kitehen every alternate day for an hour and spsinkle tt with warm water with x small syringe. Aft- erward dast it well with powder made of equal parts of fuller’s earth, pound: ed qiiasia chips and insect powder. After two or three weeks {twill only de necessity to repeat the treatment twice 2 week. Uselly the cure fa Wrouglt in about ty tows, When ary, the tid may go back to ft ust place. “The best tive to teoels macs at a ses “repented over atid aver agai (ist pee feet, when the bial showal ne ros aside With sone specks! cainty, The cae, which stould be lunge should be kept in x sitting room, not ouly bewuse the bint likes human com Pantonship, but because warmth Is nec eesary, A temperature of from 55 to 63 degrees is excellent for it. It must he Kept froin drafts, and its cage should be scrupulousty ‘clean and berall sprinkle! with abell gravel, Shier Serer tre tie 1905 APRIL = 1905 | ia im bape 2.8 4/5 6 7/8 910 in 12 a3\i4 15 18 17 13,15 20/21|28) oo $125125127128120) ie y we Qe ese eT Ks Oey oss A ea ‘ ——__ on \ a Eiee DdyeS [FT VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF Lire So call and see our large va- riety of ——— aby Carriages, ‘Deas : Suites, Chiffoniers, Toilet Tables AND ' Astomatic Refrigerators. YOU can have the advan- tage of our great stock and great values. We are of- fering NO CHEAP VALUES, but goods of such REAL VAL- UE as will insure you con- fidence in us. Do not fail to at least INSPECT OUR GOODS. We are sole agents for the Macey Sec tional Booke-« ase MACEY-WERNICKE CO FILING CABINETS. SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, 11-713-715-717 E. Broad St - oo ee Johnny," said the anxions mother, ors tonsils toa) poly eat ce “Why. mother, repiled Johnny, “Then you must not associate with PREPARAT:ON | aT] i Hl ocd i eH ee | a Re Gaol Aah te Phage or wih ROI a Wee a ee FAC ee in GU¥) | iP YR ‘y Ni | es <— | ~ The doctor says all you need now is some medicine to bulld up your ner Vous system.” “Yes; I suppose he’s getting ready to tell me how big his’bill ts."* Reasonadle Request, { The Mats ' “1 do not want your kisses, ste, i And [will mwas spure them” ‘The Man “Then if my kisses you don’t want, Wl you kindiy return them?" Chicago News, About the Size of It, “Say, paw.” queried little Johnny Bumpernickle, “what does a paper mean when it says that further comment is ennecessary?" “It usually means, my son, that the writer doesn’t know what else to say,” answered the old gentleman.—Cincin- ‘nat! Enquirer, Slippery Ice. Church—I never saw so much ice as 4s now in the ferry slips. Gotham—Perfectly natural. “What do you mean?” “Why, where there's so much tes there's sure to be a slip.”"—Yonkers Statesman. Why She Hung On. “And you say you worked four years for the same family? How did ft hap- pen that you remained there so long?" “Well, you see. ma'am, none of the family Hiked che white part of the chick- en. so I always got it.”—Chicago Record- ‘Herald, An Enviable Condition. “That's a man Tenvy.” “Who? Pickelhoupt? Why, he's al- ways in debt “Yes, ard doesn’t that prove that his credit is always good?" — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Beauty Lost Mre. Passay—Everybody says my danghter got her beanty from me. What Jo you say to that? Mr. Witts--Well, I think it was very unkind of her to take it from you—Tit- Bits, Flower-Pot Pincushions. Dainty little pineusbions for desk or bureau or working table represent flow- a pots, with roses, chrysanthemums or other flowers, blossoming therein. The pot is of clay-colored velvet, the mossy earth surrounding the plant (the cush- fon) fg cf creen velvet, while the flower is paper, toe atem of paper-covered wire SATURDAY... APRIL 8, 1905 LIVE STOCK SILO BUILDING. Wooden Hoop Structure Is the Most Durable and Satisfactory—How It Is Built. "As I am in the boat with a great many others, I must ask for advice. I want to build a silo this coming summer. I have a plan and will ask you whether it will do, and if not, tell me the failure. Take elm %x4 inch wide and make hoops, for... thicknesses to a hoop; put first two or three hoops six inches apart, next one 12 inches, next 18 inches, next 24 inches, then 30 inches apart the rest of the way; put a door between each hoop; line inside with white oak flooring or best pine (which is your preference?) and outside with sugar fooring. The size will be 12x28, and I want to put in six acres of corn. What kind of corn do you recommend? In FRAME FOR MAKING SILO HOOPS. filling, how much tramping is necessary, and after filling how often is tramping required? Should oats be sowed on top as a protection, etc.? "Please give best instructions to a young farmer, to build a good, but cheap silo." The above letter is from a Greenford (O.) farmer, and the Ohio Farmer answers the queries as follows: Your plan is all right, and you will have little cause to regret building a wooden-hooped silo, especially when you see your neighbors' iron-hooped silo in a state of utter collapse, incident to shrinking staves and lengthening hoops, that are in "cahoot" with hot weather. Yes, your built-up hoops of elm will be all right, though for the five lower ones I would make them of five layers. You will not need your hoops, anywhere, nearer than 20 inches, from center to center, as a well-nailed wooden hoop never pulled in two yet. If I were you, I would line up the silo on the inside with a single thickness of one-inch Georgia phe flooring, well matched, jointing on the hoops, having this flooring not over three inches wide. Then you have a lining that will not shrink or swell, and will stay with your hoops, which can never expand or contract the fraction of an inch. Before putting on your maple outsiding, giving the outside of the silo, hoops and all, a heavy coat of Portland cement paint, and then add the outsiding of maple. If you use skim-milk to mix the cement with, it will prove to be about as durable as if oil was used. Ten years later on, if any defect comes in the walls, you can then line up with tarred paper inside and nail on another ceiling. There is a difference of opinion as to the kind of silage corn to plant. For a dozen years we have sent direct to Albemarle county, Va., and got their common, white field corn, and have never met with its equal as a corn for the silo. We do very little tramping beyond keeping the silage highest along the walls. With a blower and flexible nozzle, the silage will be blown about as compact as one could tit it, and the men are scarce who "crave" the job of mowing away silage under the discharge of the blower. It will be well enough to tramp down the surface of the silage three times within a week, the last time putting onto your 12-foot silo at least three barrels of water, being sure that the outside gets quite a little more than its share. Oats are all right on the surface, if there is considerable light. If you sow oats, you will need to put on more water a week after they are sown. Sometimes it pays and other years it does not, to put on the oat crop. A tight roof is more ornamental than useful. In regard to hoop making so that they will be accurately round, it is well to have a pattern made like that depicted in the cut. Take inch thick, foot wide boards, and slx or eight feet long, and cut them "bias" on the ends, and by doubling and well nailing, one soon has the form, on which a circle can be marked, and the pattern is then quickly sawed and hewed into a perfect circle, which will be two inches thick. This can be placed on saw horses and the hoops quickly sprung to the exact form. George E. Scott, the well-known institute lecturer, is a great advocate of this wood-hooped silo, and was fortunate enough to have an old high-wheeled velocipede, which made an admirable form for hoop making, and I think he loans it to silo builders for hoop making, though any carpenter can quickly make one as above described. Sheep Supply Decreasing The number of sheep in New Zealand in 1904 was 18,290,000 head, a shortage of 665,000 compared with 1903. The cattle supply, however, shows a substantial increase. It is claimed the development of dairying in New Zealand is a drawback to the mutton and wool industry. A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. THE BEST THAT HAS BEEN UPON THE MARKET IN TWENTY YEARS BY THE BEFORE USING AFTER USING VIRGINIA CHEMICAL COMPANY THE WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER, in both box for $1.25. Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the best in the world. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH — A ROSY LIKE con plex on obtained if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter and a mulatto person three-fourths lighter or nearly white. In two days a shade or two lighter will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin in spots, but bleaches out white, the skin renaming rosy and beautiful. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimps' bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Small-pox pits, tan liver spots removed. THE VIRGINIA CHEMICAL COMPANY'S HAIR TONIC that goes in every 81.25 box is enough to make any one's hair grow long and straight and keep it from falling out. Highly perfumed and makes the hair soft and easy to comb. Any person sending us 81.25 by Post Office Money Order, Express Money Order or Registered Letter, we will send it by Mail with postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by Express 350 extra. Orders are coming by thousands daily. Send in at once. Virginia Chemical Company. 14-61mo 528 E. Brond St., Richmond, Va. Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe BADGES, JEWELS, SECRET PARAPHERNA- LIA, UNIFORMS, LODGE AND COURT COL- LARS. Write for catalogue. COURT JEWELS AND BADGES A SPECIALTY. CENTRAL REGALIA CO JOS. L. JONES. Manager, N. E. Cor. 8th and Plum Sts., Cincinnati, O. What Men Want Simply send your name and address to the Remedy Room 02, 283 Lucy Bendry, Determined Health, 12345 North Avenue, Bend, you absolutely need a trial treatment with this. This offer is open to all, and the medicine will be absolutely necessary to you who will apply, and your name, your address once and take advantage of this fair and liberal Wool exports the past year showed a decrease of 11.000.000 pounds. Government reports declare a scarcity of fat sheep in New Zeeland. LOOK OVER THE TEETH. A Suggestion to the Farmer Who Would Make a Success of Sheep or Other Live Stock Raising. A little attention to the teeth of sheep and other farm animals is often of great benefit. This is even more particularly true with old ewes retained in the flock because of their good breeding qualities. I noticed recently an old ewes which had dropped two nice lambs, that was eating slow, and seemed very poor, says J. C. Gamber, in Farm and Home, I looked at her mouth and found the nolar teeth on one side were loose with some of them long and sharp next the cheek, which they were cutting. One tooth was split and a silver interfered with the tongue. I extracted the loose tooth with a pair of forceps and smoothed down the sharp points with a coarse flat file. Within a few hours she began to eat with a relish and is raising a pair of nice lambs. Whenever you discover a sheep frothing at the mouth and dropping her food after chewing it a little you will find something wrong with the teeth. DOGS AND HOG CHOLERA How the Running of Large of the Former Increases the Spread of the Latter. We attribute the small amount of hog cholera the past season very largely to the fact that strict orders are issued to residents of. needed lowships that all dogs must be coiffed to the owner's premises says Dr. S. H. Ward, secretary of the Minnesota live stock sanitary board. Notice are also printed in con- WE MAKE NEW CLOTHES erate prices.——Give us a TEST We'll do the REST. TURI 303—5 N. 3rd St. A WONDERFU MARKET IN TWEN IN UPON THE spicuous places forbidding the hunting with dogs. The chairmen of local boards are instructed to see that these orders are enforced. Occasional trips are made by an officer of this board to see that these regulations are properly carried out. Failure on the part of the residents or health officers is met with prosecution. There is no question but that the strict enforcement of these regulations limits the spread of the disease. GONZALES The Greatest Clairvoyant & Fortune Teller the World Has Ever Known. Unites Separated. 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Then she put her nose against the fence, shoved it out and lifted it so she crawled under. writes a Michigan girl to the Farm and Home. Then she put her nose against the fence, shoved it out and lifted it so she crawled under. Then father put three rings straight up and down the nose, then put one in each ear near the top and fastened a wire into rings in end of nose and through the ring in each ear, loose enough so as not to pull the rings. She has not bothered since. She cannot touch the fence but that it will pull on one of the rings. THE LIVE STOCK A cow well fed will buy good bread. All stock should be kept out of the young orchard. Clean and thoroughly air the dairy stable before milking. For pigs, milk and mill feed makes the cheapest feed for winter. Whenever a sheep is seen to refuse water, there is something wrong with it. With all stock, the value of good feed is wonderfully increased by close attention. Wooden pails in the dairy are one source ofainted milk. 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THE PLANET SATURDAY,..... APRIL 8, 1908 THE WORST MOSQUITOES. Maubin, Burma, Has the Biggest and Most Virulent Known. Unsurpassed in all the world in number, size and virulent activity are the mosquitoes of Maubin, a town of Burma, according to V. C. Scott O'Connor. He says: "One's first visit to Maubin in the mosquito season is an experience, and to see them under the flare of an electric searchlight come over the ship's side in hordes and occupy like an irresistible army every fraction of its surface, to see them hanging in festoons from the white canvas awnings, the mosquito nets, the table linen and the punka flaps and from every object on which they can secure a footing, to have lived indeed. How to continue to live after the novelty of the spectacle has worn off is the definite problem that occupies every one's mind in Maubin. It is achieved in the main by intrenching oneself within an iron fortress of fine mesh. In some houses there is a special room, a kind of inner citadel and last refuge, which is wholly of iron gauze, and within it the master of the house sits like a vanquished lion in a cage. "To enter this fortress in advance of the enemy calls for the exercise of agility of a high order. The doors have swing backs and are made to close the instant that they are released. Outside them the light cavalry of the enemy hover in clouds. The man within, this Englishman in his strange castle, observes your approach with furtive and anxious eyes, and if you be a newcomer he begs of you to be careful in entering. Immediately you enter he falls with an astonishing onslaught upon such of the enemy as have come in on your back, in your hair, in the creases of your clothes and in an aurora of cloud about your brows. "At one end of the chief magistrate's house there used to be, when I was last at Maubin, a long room thus defended, in which he sat daily to dispense justice, and great activity in entering was expected of the prisoner under trial, the assembled witnesses and the counsel employed in each case. Many a sentence, it is whispered, has fallen with enhanced severity from judicial lips, many a prisoner has come away with a lighter punishment as the consequence of his manner of entering the court." —Chicago News. A Bare Plant A year or two ago there were among the boarders at a mountain summer hotel a celebrated botanist and a certain pretentious rich woman, who liked to make it appear to the guests that she was very well informed on all subjects. The rich woman affected to take an interest in the researches of the botanist among the flora of the mountains. "I suppose, Mr. Caylix," said the lady, "you find almost all the mountain flowers around here." "I have found a great many, ma'am," said the botanist. "Well, there's one kind of flower that I've read a great deal of as being always on the hills, and I've always wanted to see it. Perhaps you could pick me some." "What is it?" "The 'purple gloaming,' you know!" A Success. The head of a matrimonial combine glanced at a bill from his wife's dressmaker. "When I proposed to you, less than two years ago," he said, "I was rather wild, and you said you considered it your duty to marry me for the purpose of making something of me, did you not?" "Yes, John," answered the wife. "Well," he continued, "your efforts have not been in vain. You have succeeded." "I'm so glad," she said. "What have I made of you, dear?" Once more he glanced at the bill. "A pauper," he replied, with a deep sigh. How He Used the Whisky. An Irish butler, newly engaged, requested his master to allow him some whisky. "There's nothing like it to clean the windows," said he. However, a few minutes later his master chanced to pass through the room and, to his surprise, found the glass empty. "Why, Barney," he asked, "where's the whisky?" "Well, you see, sir," said Barney, not in the least put out, "it's this way, I drink the whisky, and then I breathe on the glass." Startling Result. "I think you told me Miss Thuttyfore was taking elocution lessons from Professor Rantwell?" "So she was, but they came to a sudden stop, and the professor has left town." "What was the trouble?" "Why, it seems he was showing her how to read the balcony scene in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and he did it so naturally that she accepted him before he could stop her."—Chicago Tribune. THE FINGER NAILS. How They May Be Manicured Successfully at Home. For the woman and man who desire to manicure their own nails all that is needed are a nail file, an orange wood stick and a set of nail emeries, which can be bought by the half dozen or by the box. Some nail salve, pink nail powder for polish and a piece of chamois skin are also necessary. The art of manicuring is not hard to learn, says the Chicago American. You must attend to your fingers every day. Never, never bite your nails. Do not cut the cuticle, for that only makes it grow thicker and ugly. Manicure the nails in this manner: First dip the hands in a bowl of warm soapy water. Soak them for a few minutes, then wipe them, pushing the cuticle downward instead of upward. Take the little nail emery and carefully file the nails in curves, not pointed. Use the scissors only to cut down in the corners of the nails, but never cut either the curve of the nail or the cuticle. Push the cuticle down softly with the orange stick. If any little particles adhere to the nail, wrap a small piece of cotton wool upon the orange stick and dip it either in lemon juice or a bleaching fluid and scrape the nail. After filing, scraping and pushing down the cuticle, dip the fingers in the soapy water again. Wipe them dry. Now comes the polishing. Put on a little of the nail salve and polish each finger separately with the chamols or nail polisher if you have one. Then dip in water again. Wipe and put on the powder and polish again. Be careful not to get too high a polish on the nail, for this is vulgar. If the skin around the nails has a yellow appearance, use more of the bleaching fluid. How to Make Cheese Croquettes. Mix together one cupful of grated breadcrumbs, two cupfuls of grated cheese, half a teaspoonful of salt and a dash of cayenne. Moisten with one well beaten egg to which have been added two tablespoonfuls of cream; when thoroughly blended shape into small balls, dip in yolk of egg and then in crushed cracker crumbs and fry in hot fat till a golden brown. Serve on triangles of fried hominy with tomato sauce. How to Frame Picture How to Frame Pictures. Colored prints vary their frames with their subjects, but usually have no mats, says Harper's Bazar. Old English hunting scenes, with a preponderance of fashing scarlet, have narrow black frames, Japanese prints either black or brown bamboo with the brown prints. The prints of old Madonnas have dull gold frames, while engravings and etchings have a molding toning in with the brown or black of the print. Photographs are almost invariably framed close, the frames matching the darkest tone of the picture. The artistic framer stains his own frames the exact tone required. The molding must be as simple as possible in design. The width is governed both by the size of the picture and by the detail in the picture. A landscape or scene containing many small figures will admit of a very narrow molding, while a large head demands a broad one. No definite rule can be given. Landscapes are sometimes framed with double glass to bring out the perspective. How to Make Pay Rum Bay rum may be made as follows: Oil of bay (from myrica acris), 240 grains; oil of orange (bigarde, sixteen grains; oil of pimento, sixteen grains; alcohol, one quart; water, twenty-five fluid ounces. Dissolve the oils in the alcohol and add the water. Str into the liquid about two ounces of precipitated phosphate of lime and filter. It will improve with age. How to Keep Cheeses. Edam cheese is best kept on a cool, dry shelf. If one has a buffet in the kitchen it will keep fresh for some time if placed thereon. Cheese dishes with glass or porcelain tops are apt to cause Edam cheese to sweat. Roquefort cheese may be kept out of the window or in a cool closet in a jar, but should first be wrapped in paper tinfoil. Camembert, Goronzola and Brie should be treated in the same way, but must be brought in some time before they are to be used, as the cold air will make them too dry to serve immediately. American cheese should be wrapped in several thicknesses of paper and kept on the lower shelf in the refrigerator or in the fresh air food chest. How to Clean Bird Cages To clean brass bird cages wash in cold suds and rub with whiting, then dry and polish with soft flaunel. A paste made of rotten stone and turpentine is all that is required for polishing brass that simply needs brightening, but oxalic acid is the best agent for cleaning brass andirons or candlesticks that have suffered from neglect. **How to Make Walnut Catchup.** When walnuts are in a fit state to pickle beat up fifty-six to a pulp in a mortar, then set in a large jar with five ounces of shallots, a clove of garlic, four ounces of salt and one quart of vinegar. Stir the contents of jar night and morning for several days. Strain off the liquor, boil it for half an hour gently with one ounce each of whole black pepper and anchovies, a dozen cloves and a blade of mace. 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When the splinter is embedded in the flesh of hand or foot the point of a small pair of scissors—a manicure pair will very well answer—should be inserted directly over and following the path of the splinter and a small incision made. If there be any bleeding stanch it by a little pressure, then on the wound by stretching it a flare, and with your forceps pick out the ending object. When the splinter is under the nail cut a little V-shaped piece out of the nail, and with the forceps the splinter is easily removed. I insert the cut made with a little collection or a hager cot. How to Clean Brass. Brass so much stained and discolored as to look as black as slate (one sees this in old country churches sometimes where memorial tablets let into the wall have been neglected can be easily brightened with oxalic acid and chamois leather to look as bright as when new. How to Make Sausage Meat. Butchers generally, with an eye to economy, make sausage meat of inferior pork. On this account that which is made in one's own kitchen is preferable. The proportions are: One pound of lean pork and one pound of lean veal chopped very fine, well mixed, and both very fresh. Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg and clove grated, and with cinnamon if liked. A yolk of egg may also be added to a pound of meat. It may also be made with one pound of veal and half a pound or less of pork, or with veal only or pork only, according to taste. How to Make Good Massage Creams A massage emollient which is excellent for relaxed tissues and will soften and whiten the skin as well is made of the following ingredients: Oil of sweet almonds, one and a half ounces; oil of bitter almonds, five grams; balsam of tolu, one gram; benzoin, one gram; essence of lemon, one drop; essence of cajeput, one drop. The rossins are powdered and mixed with the oils. Keep at a gentle heat for twenty-four hours, then pour off from the sediment and add the essential oils. How to Develop the Neck Have you ugly little hollows in your neck and a flat chest? Here is an admirable exercise taught to women who are so afflicted, which, if followed persistently, will develop the chest muscles and fill out all those telltale hollows in the neck, says the Journal of Health. Advance one foot as in a long step and stand with the weight on it, extending the arms parallel to each other in front until they are in line with the shoulders. Energize them and close the hands as if each were firmly grasping a rope, keeping the eyes steadily fixed on some point about two feet above the level. Inhale slowly and with great energy pull the extended arms down and well backward, at the same time bending the torso forward, but do not transfer the weight of the body. The head bends backward in opposition to the torso. Hold the position for a moment, then withdraw all unnecessary nerve force from the muscles and exhale as the body returns to the original position. 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PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street [Near Old Market.] RICHMOND, VIRGINIA --- THE PLANET SATURDAY...APRIL 8.1905 A TERRIBLE PENANCE. Tibetan Monks Who Suffer Life Imprisonment in Dark Cells. Perhaps the most terrible penance suffered for religious reasons anywhere in the world is that of the monks of Nyen-de-kyl-buk, as described by Percival Landon in "The Opening of Tibet." These monks live in the ordinary manner during the novitate; then they go into cells for a period of six months; then, after an interval, for three years and ninety-three days; later for life. And such a cell! "Almost on a level with the ground." says Mr. Landon, "there was an opening closed with a flat stone from behind. In front of a window was a ledge eighteen inches in width, with two basins beside it, one at each end. The abbot was attended by an aculey who, by his master's orders, tapped three times sharply on the stone slab. We stood in the little courtyard in the sun and watched that wicket with cold apprehension. I think, on the whole, it was the most uncanny thing I saw in all Tibet. After half a minute's pause the stone moved or tried to move, but it came to rest again. Then very slowly and uncertain it was pushed back, and a black chasm was revealed. There was again a pause of thirty seconds, during which imagination ran riot, but I do not think that any other thing could have been as intensely pathetic as that we actually saw. "A hand, muffled in a tightly wound piece of dirty cloth, for all the world like a stump of an arm, was painfully thrust up, and very weakly it felt along the slab. After a fruitless fumbling the hand slowly quivered back again into the darkness. A few moments later there was again an ineffectual effort, and then the stone slab moved noiselessly across the opening, "Once a day water and an unleavened cake of flour is placed for the prisoner upon that slab, the signal is given, and he may take it in. His diversion is over for the day, and in the darkness of his cell, where night and day, moon, sunset and the dawn are all alike, he—poor soul—had thought that another day of his long penance was over." COPIED FROM ANIMALS Many human devices are copied from animals. The woodpecker has a powerful little trip hammer. The jaws of the tortoise and turtle are natural scissors. The framework of a ship resembles the skeleton of a herring. The squirrel carries a chisel in his mouth and the bee the carpenter's plane. The great fashions its eggs in the shape of a lifeboat. You cannot sink them without tearing them to pieces. The diving bell imitates the water spider. It constructs a small cell under the water, claps a bubble of water between its legs, dives down into its submarine chamber with the bubble, displacing the water gradually until its abode contains a large, airy room surrounded by water. A. Warm Retort "While I have hitherto sworn off smoking as a New Year's pledge which has never been kept," said a Universalist minister at the Jewelers' club dinner in Chicago some years ago, "this night, with a beautiful smoking set as a souvenir, has brought to me the determination to make a new pledge that I can keep—to smoke as long as I live." William Porter Williams was the toastmaster. He had been considerably scratched at by the Universalist brother. When the minister was seated Mr. Williams said, "When I reflect upon the uncharitableness of my brother in what he said about me, I am constrained to wonder why in making that resolution to smoke as long as he lived he necessarily drew the line at his death."—Everybody's. At the Dangerous End. After the collapse of the Confederacy ex-Senator Wigfall, a member of the Confederate congress from Texas, fell in with a party of Union soldiers in that state. Being well disguised, he entered freely into conversation with the soldiers of the guard, in the course of which he asked what they would do with "old Wigfall" if they were to catch him. "We should hang him, sure," was the prompt reply. "Serve him right," exclaimed Wigfall. "If I were with you I'd be pulling at one end of the rope myself." Lattakia Tobacco Lattakia tobacco, an article of commerce well known in Europe and America, is black in color owing to its fumigation by the Nusairish mountainers in the smoke of a tree called "elezzer" or "ezzr," which imparts to it a peculiar aromatic flavor. The "ezzr" grows wild, seldom attaining the size of the oak, and gives out its aromatic odor when burned in the green state. Eye Surprised Htm "And now, Johnny," said the Sunday school teacher, "is there anything you don't understand about Eve and the serpent?" "Yes'n." "Well, what?" "How'd Eve keep from havin' a fit when she seen it comin'?" — Detroit Tribune. Painfully Tame Aunt Jane—Well, there's one thing about Martha—she attends to her own business and to nobody else's. Eva—Poor thing! She must lead a very dull, uninteresting life—Boston Transcript. WASHING THE HAIR. How to Cleanse the Head Without Injuring the Scalp. There is a right way as well as a wrong way to wash the hair, says a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and one of the wrong ways is to apply the cake of soap directly to the head. Nine out of ten people do this, but it is wrong nevertheless. When the cake of soap is rubbed on the hair it crusts there and often cannot be rinsed out with the most elaborate applications of water. To wash the hair properly, so as to cleanse the head thoroughly and at the same time leave the hair in good condition, a lather should be made from soap in somewhat the same general way as for shaving and this lather then applied to the hair. Hot water should be used in making the lather, while borax and just a drop or two of ammonia added will do much toward preserving the natural softness of the hair. Hot water ought also to be used for the rinsing save toward the finish of the operation, when cooler water may be employed to prevent any possibility of taking cold when the hair is drying. The rinsing should be most carefully done, for the smallest quantity of soap clinging to the hair will prove a veritable catch-all for dust and germs and perhaps lead eventually to a diseased condition of the hair and scalp. One thing that people should avoid in cleansing the hair is in rubbing too hard. Men especially are prone to use their finger nails on the scalp, and the habit is found to some extent among women also. The scalp is not rendered any cleaner by doing this than it would be by drying gently, and the hard scrubbing will have a tendency to inflame the roots of the hair and cause it to fall out. How to Cure Indigestion Glycerin is a really valuable remedy for indigestion, and in the course of a few days or at most of a fortnight a sufferer may expect to be cured. Mix a small teaspoonful of pure glycerin with water and take it with or immediately after each meal. Of course the patient should also use discretion in the selection and in the amount of food, for if the diet be at fault it is folly to expect health. How to Wash a Flannel Blouse. This is not a difficult task even for an inexperienced person; but, like everything of its kind, it needs a little care to prevent the blouse shrinking. First make some soap jelly and dissolve two tablespoonfuls of it in half a gallon of warm water. Add one teaspoonful of ammonia and put the blouse in this, letting it soak for about ten minutes. Wash the blouse in the usual way, taking care to rub the parts which are most soiled. No soap must be rubbed on the blouse. Squeeze the water out and wash in fresh water prepared in the same way. Put it through the wringer, then rinse it in clean tepid water to which ammonia has been added in the same proportion as to the lather. Again put it through the wringer, fold it evenly and pass it through again and yet again. By taking this precaution the moisture will nearly all be pressed out of the flannel, and it will only require to hang out for a short while. How to Freshen Furs. Fur often gets rubbed and crushed, and the best way to freshen it is to brush it with a clothes brush that has been dipped in cold water and then shaken as dry as possible. Brush the wrong way, then shake thoroughly and dry in the open air, beating it occasionally with a stick. Some kinds of fur need to be combed when dry, but it must be carefully done. How to Make Lemon Marmalade. Take half a dozen good large lemons and slice them very thinly, reserving the seeds in a separate basin. To every pound of thinly sliced fruit add three pints of cold water and let it stand twenty-four hours. Place the seeds in a piece of muslin and boil with the pulp until all is well flavored, then remove the pips and continue cooking the fruit till it is quite clear and tender. Pour the pulp, etc., into a china bowl and let it stand until the next day. Then weigh it, and to every pound of fruit allow one pound and a half of lump sugar; boil all together till the sirup jellies and the chips are slightly transparent. How to Brighten Carpets. After having thoroughly swept the carpets go over every inch with a clean mop wrung out of half a pail of tepid water to which have been added half a cup of camphor and three or four tablespoons of ammonia. This applies to dark carpets, of course, for these are the sort that generally need brightening. How to Be Popular Be natural. People are quick to discern affection of any kind and have a contempt for it, so give up affection. Be neat. There is great charm in neatness. Be affectionate and sympathetic and don't be self conscious and ashamed to show either quality. Be home loving and kind to all old people, poor people and children. These are womanly qualities and all love and admire the womanly girl. Don't have "moods." Avoid the blues. People like to know how to find a girl, not to have to renew her acquaintance every time they meet. Be athletic, as that means health, and be healthiness means wholesomeness. How to Disinfect a Room A simple way to clear the atmosphere and disinfect a room is to place a lump of camphor on a saucer and set fire to it. This will cause strong fumes to arise and will quickly cleanse the air. The fumes from burning camphor inhaled are also very beneficial for a cold in the head. How to Renew Cane Chairs. If the seats have become limp and stretched, so that they sink in the center, they may be made as good as new if none of the strips of cane are broken by washing them well in hot water and then placing them in a current of air to dry. This causes the cane to tighten up, and when dry the seat will be quite flat as when first woven. THE RICHMOND PLANET, KICHMOND VIRGINIA "I wish they'd invent a new expression occasionally," said Top, as he perused the account of a recent wedding. "It's always 'the blushing' bride." "Well," replied Mrs. Top. "when you consider what sort of husbands most girls have to marry you can't wonder at them blushing."—Chicago Journal. That Would Be Different "What," exclaimed the dealer, "you want $50 for that old mule? Why, he actually isn't worth killing." "That's all yew know about it," rejoined Farmer Geehaw. "Ef I could manage t git him killed by 'rh railroad he be wuth twict that sum, by grass!"—Chicago Daily News. Went the Same Road "Do you know where my poor little ugly duckling is?" asked the distressed mother-duck. "Ah! madam," replied the polite but still hungry fox, "I have inside information on that point; you will soon meet your little one."—Philadelphia Press. Theory and Fact "I don't believe in this theory that fish is a brain food. I've tried it for years and—" "Excuse me, but you couldn't fatten a pig, no matter how well you kept the trough filled if there was no pig there."—Chicago Record-era'd. NATURALLY SHE WAS NERVOUS Maizy.—Were you nervous when Tom proposed? Daisy. —Yeah; I was so afraid he'd be interrupted. —Brooklyn Eske. Force of Habit There was once a pennan so queer He wrote on a typwriter cover; he taught him English Pray what did he so But hang it up over his ear But hang it up over his ear He Know Vie Ducnner Wife of His Broom—how does it happen, dear, that you are never accused of misrepresenting him, men in your reports of intercourse? Experienced interviewer—I don't print what they say, but what they ought to say—to a magazine. A. "Some men use just automobiles," she said, with a yawn, as the clock struck 12. "How is that?" he asked, pleasantly, glancing in the direction of the clock. "Why, they won't go when you want them to." "You are Statesman." An Early Start. Brown—I see by the papers that Ardupp has just celebrated his golden wedding. Green—His golden wedding! Why, he was only married yesterday. Brown—Yes; but he married an heiress.—Cincinnati Enquirer. INGENUUS FUER A mother and her son Mamma—I thought there was an apple on the sideboard, and I was going to give it you, but I find it isn't there." Freddy—Well, will you give me something else, mummy, 'cos it wasn't a very good one?'—Punch. Sometimes Justifiable. "The nature of an oath?" the wit replied, when questioned: "Clearly it requires circumstances it is human nature merely." —Philadelphia Press. A Social Wrinkle Mrs. Grogan—Ol decoiled on the next mornin' beucuz that's the tome Ol always think av the witty retorts—N. Y. Sun. Not Favorites Patience—Who is your favorite dentist? Patrice—Good gracious! I never knew anyone to have a favorite dentist!—Yonkers Statesman. The Dreaded Artist The thought of possible cartoons cannot well be absent from the minds of men whom all the world knows. Mr. L. A. Tollemache, the author of "Talks with Mr. Gladstone," tells—not in the book—a story which presents the statesman in an attitude not familiar in ordinary representations of the great man. One stormy day during one of Mr. Gladstone's visits to Blarritz he walked from his hotel fo call on Mr. Tollemache, who was amazed to see that Mr. Gladstone came without an umbrella. Mr. Gladstone laughingly explained that if the high wind had happened to turn his umbrella inside out, a picture of him in forlorn plight would have found its way into half the comic papers of Europe. Just a Weigh They Have Kerwin--So there is, if enough is there. No, it's most of it. a weigh--Cincinnati Enquirer One Every Two Feet "Hear me!" sighed Romeo Centipede. "Does not your heart melt at seeing me at your feet?" "Well, you see." coyly answered Juliet Centipede. "there are 49 others wooing me at my 98 other feet."—Judge. CONSIDERATE. "I want a picture book for a child two years old." "One of these books with cloth leaves? They are practically indestructible." "No. I am afraid the poor thing will over-exert herself in tearing it to pieces."-Flegende Blaetter. But he tasted the dog And his smile was contented and swite. -Iluus Dull—Denham tells me he is study ing harmony. Wyld.—I didn't know he was musical. Dull.—He isn't. He is going to be married.—Town Tooles. Nklicker.—Do you approve of the government's distribution of free seeds? Bocker.—Yes, I'd go even further and give free chickens to dig them up.—N. Y. Sun. Bound to Keep the Girl. Mrs. Suburb.—I think Mrs. Lawn-now must have a girl at last. Mr. Suburb.—Why? Mrs. Suburb.—I hear her giving some one a lesson on the piano.—N. Y. Weekly. MISPLACED FAITH. Mother Mother—Johnny, you got that black eye through fighting. Didn't I tell you good little boys never fight? Johnny. Yes. And I thought he was a good little boy until I hit him. Then I found he wasn't—The King. A Strange Case who was bound to slug bass Would a man make up such a fass that they could hear Wr. pronounced his condidian A distance and a wonderful case. He Two of a Kind Teacher.—What is autology? Boy.—Repetition. Teacher.—Give me an example. Boy.—We are going to have sheep's head for dinner, and my sister Elsie's young man is coming to dinner, also. Teacher.—Go up on top—TiteBits "Why don't you think better of our civilization?" "Because," answered the Chinese official, "I can't see anything it has done for us, except to introduce the two-step and the automobile."—Washington Star. Getting Ahead of Nera Nero had just given orders for the burning of Rome. .. "How lovely!" exclaimed his wife. "I will begin with the money right away." Herewith she hastened forth to shop while he hunted for his fiddle.—N. Y. Sun. Knew His Limitations. Jerrold—Well, I'm going to marry Dolly Frizzlefrazzle! Hobart—Gad! Can't you live without her? Jerrold—Not without being sued for breach of promise, I'm afraid.—Puck. Money received on deposit amounts above $1.00 which receive Money Loaned on Satisfaction Business Accounts Handled Amounts of ten cents and This establishment is fitted up in the white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, elec lence for safety and the accommodation is For all information concerning Stock Oaahier. Banking Hours have been arranged in people as follows: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. close Saturday at 3 P.M. and open again P.M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICE JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. THOS. H. W BOARD OF REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JN E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN J. O. 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For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashist. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the work people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 8 P. W. close Saturday at 8 P. M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS R., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President THON. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: HAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL, H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAVER D. FARLEY, JN., TAYLOR JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL, E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAUVR J. O. FARLEY J. TAYLOR, E. A. WASHINGTON, R. W. WHITING, WIL. AM OUMPLE, J. J. CARTE) JOHN MITCHELL, JR. FREES, THOMAS OUMPLE, SCH W. I. JO FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office & Warerooms, 207 N. HACKS F Orales by Telephone or Tele pers and Entertainme Old Phone, 686, Residence M. JOHNSON. DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Rooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Sup l Entertainments promptly attended. 6. Residence in Building, New Phone, 18 W. I. JOHNSON. FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Onlines by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Supports and Entertainments promptly attended. Old Phone, 686. Residence in Building, New Phone, 4.8 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF T TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally situated under the laws and statute of the state of York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial to the Social and Moral condition of humanity. Library and uniform ranks will secure for this organization if all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand oppo- depties wanted in all sections of the country to organ- kidly address. V. ALLEN Supreme voyager. This organization has been chartered and legally situated under the laws and statute of the state of York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity, Benefice and Internal and to promote the Social and Its two distinct military and uniform place in the front ranks of all sacred instu- ntility for active men. Deputies wanted lodge. Kindly address, G. W. ALLEN ST Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization place in the front ranks if all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand opportunity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organi lodges. Kindly address. G. W. ALLEN Supreme voyager. 846 W. 83th Street, New York City. Out of Town Orders Solicited and will Receive Prompt and Careful Attention. Isaac Straus and Co., Family Wine, Liquor and Cigar Store, 422 East Broad, St. Richmond, Va. WE MARK SPECIALty OFFICE OF Vernon, Glenn, McMahon, Rye, Wilson, Old Henry, Old North Coral, Whiskey and Mountain spirits IMPORTED ARE DEMONSTRATED WINES, BRAN DIES, GINS AND RUMS. Best and most popular brands of CIGARS Goods Delivered Free to 'Phone 2234 all parts of the CIGAR BUFFER IN EATEN. FIRST CLASS Restaurant. Barber Shop, Pool Room, Boarding House and Employment Office. CHARLES H. BAILEY, Proprietor and Manager. Center Ave., opposite R. R. Station, Lock, 13. mos Atlantic Highland N. J. FRANK WALLER, JR PRACTICAL HOUSE PAINTER, 14 W. Baker St., Richmond, Va. Residence, 1 E. Orange St. Prompt attention given to all mail orders. Satisfaction guaranteed All Kinds of Painting Done Cheap. Give me a call before going elsewhere New Dress or War. L HOUSH TER, Richmond, Va. Orange St. 6.23 a. m.-Solid Pulman from St. Augustine 6.45 a. m.-From Florida, Atlanta, and South- west. 6.55 p. m.-From Florida, Atlanta and South- west. 6.30 p. m.-From Local Points. "Do you mean to say you don't have any trouble in keeping your wife dressed in the height of fashion?" "That's what I said. My trouble comes when I don't keep her dressed that way." —Tit-Bits. "No, sir," said the waiter, "we haven't got it; it's tough when a man orders a steak and we haven't it, isn't it?" "Yes," replied the patron, "and it is usually tough when you have it."—Houston Post. An Impostor. Green—Brown claims to be a poet. Smith—Well, he isn't. Green—How do you know? Smith—He asked me to change a $20 bill for him the other day.—Chicago News. Explained. "My husband never spoke a harsh word to me in his life," said Mr. Meekton's wife. "Too considerate?" "No. Too cautious."—Washington Star. ```markdown ``` --- SAMUEL B. G Either Way Explained Mechanics' Saving Bank OF RICHMOND, VA 511 North Third Street. Capital, $25,000 WIL. AM CUSTALO. J. J. CARTER THOMAS M. M. CRUMP, SRC'c. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER CRANES HAIR TONIC that is good is every exculiar box is enough to make anyone's job easier. We have been selling from falling out. Highly performed and makes the hair soft and smooth. Any person sending us one click to a letter or Post Office address will receive it. We can send it through the mail postage prepaid, or if you want it sent to us, we can send it by fax. In any case where it fails to do what we want, we will return it to you. Faced so that we one will know the contents except receipts. SEABOARD 1-9-1905. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND-DAILY 9:10 a.m.-Local for Norfolk, and Hamlet 9:20 p.m.-Sea岸ard Fast Mail-Savannah Sea岸ard Fast Mail-Southwest. 9:30 p.m.-Florida Limits and Pullman New York to St. Auguste. 11:00 HOUGHTON Express - Savannah Jacksonville TRAINS AREIVE RICHMOND DENTISTRY ```markdown ``` OFFICE HOURS:—From 8 A. M. to 6 I M. Old Phone, 816. DR. P. B. RAMSEY. 102 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. "THE ECONOMY," 303 and 305 N. 3rd St. CLEANING, DYEING, AND REPAIRING TURNER & WHITE, PROPRIETORS. THE PLANET is a live up-to-date weekly journal. SUBSCRIBE NOW SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST 2 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk LEAVE RICHMOND-EASTBOUND. 7:35 a.m.—Week days—Local to Newport News and way stations. 0.50 p.m. Old Point 6:00 p.m. Norfolk 6:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Locals to Old Point MAIN LINE- Wilmington 8 20 a.m. - Except Sunday to Clifton Force 8 20 a.m. - with through Pulman to Cincinnati and Chicago without change - Pulman service for Iowa visit to St. Louis. 5:15 p.m. 10 45 p.m. - Daily - Laminar with Paulman Service to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago MASS RIVER LINE 10 20 a.m. - Daily - Express to Lynchburg, Lexington, Clifton Forge and principal stations 5 15 a.m. Week days - Local to Eumont. TRAINS ARRIVE RIVERMOND FROM Norfolk and Old Pole 10 a.m. m. week days 11 30 a.m. m. daily and 7 00 p. m. daily, Newport News local 8 00 p. m. daily West 7:30 a. m. daily and 8:30 p. m. daily Local from Stanley 7:40 p. m. Ex. Sun except Sunday James River Local from Clifton Forge a. m. daily Esmont Accommodation 8:40 a. m. except Sunday C E. DOYLE Genl Managor W. O. WARTHEN, List. Pass Agt H. W. FULLER, W. H. P WA SOUTHERN RAILW Y Effective April 5th, 1905. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. Daily. Local for Charlotte. 12:30 p.m. - Ft. Lincoln Built Pulman 12:30 p.m. - to Atlanta and Ft. niguelan. New York New York. Gephys. Chattawan and all the South. 11:30 p.m. - Daily. limited for Albany. 11:30 p.m. - for all 3 South. 9:30 p.m. - for all 3 South. CORNER WEST NINE The favorite to leave Baltimore and eastern Woodlands and Fridays. Local mixed for West Point. 9:45 p.m. - Except Sunday. Local mixed for West Point. 9:30 p.m. - Daily except Sunday. Local for West Point. 4:30 p.m. - Except Sunday. For West Point. 4:30 p.m. - with steamers for Baltimore and riverlanding. Worktown and clay Bank Mondays. Wednesday. Friday Gloucester Point and All mornings Tuesdays. Saturdays TRAINS ARE WEDENING 6:35 a.m. and 6:35 p.m. - From all the South. 6:35 a.m. from Charlotte and Durham. 6:40 a.m. - From Durham. 6:45 a.m. - From Mattimore and West Point. 10:45 a.m. - From West Point. 10:50 p.m. - From West Point. 11:00 a.m. - From West Point. M. G'p'g' - M. G'p'g' - M. C. ACKERST, G.M. - W. H.TAYLOR, G.P.A. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A., Richmond, Va. POLK LIMITED. Arrives at Norwich II 10 and stops only at Peersburg. Wavier and Suffolk. 9200 a.m. CICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Parlor Cullenburg to Lychnburg and Roakare Pullican to Roakare, Coltambu and Bunfeld i. Cullenburg, and Roakare to Knoxville, and Knoxville to Chattanooga, and 12:20 a.m. Roakare Express for Farmville, Lychnburg, and Roakare. R. F & P Richmond, Frederickburg, and Pote mac Railroad. Traits Leave Richmond, Northward. 4:15 a.m., m. daily, Byrd t. Through. 6:28 a.m., m. daily, Main St. Through. 6:45 a.m., m. daily Main St. Through. Pallium cars. 6:24 a.m., daily current 634a. m., daily except Monday Byrd through. All Pullman cars. 730. m., week days. Eiba. Ashland accom- modation. 830. m., daily Byrd st. T. Harough Lost stops. 12:30 noon, week days. Byrd st. 3 through m. w., weekdays. Byrd st. Frederick's burial. 5:50 m. melficial. Main st. Through. 5:50 m., weekdays. Elba. Ashland acco modification. Through. Trails Arrive Richmond, southward. 6:40 a.m. week days. Byrd St. Ashland accommodation. 8 a.m. week days. Byrd St. Frederickburg accommodation. 8:25 a.m. daily. Byrd St. Through. 8:25 a.m. weekdays. Byrd St. Through. Local stops. 2:14 a.m. daily Main St. Through. 2:14 a.m. weekdays. Byrd St. Ashland accommodation. 7:15 a.m. daily. Byrd St. Through. 7:15 a.m. daily. Byrd St. Through. Local stops. 9:46 p. m. dally, Main St. Through All Pullihan cars. 11:40 p. m. week days. Byrd St. Through All Pulman cars. NOTE--Pulman Sleeping or Parlor Cars on all above trains except train arriving Richmond 12:50 a.m. week days and local accommodations. Time of arrivals and departures and connections not guaranteed. W. P. PURE, G. W. CULP, W. P. TAYLOR, Gen'l Man. Ass't Gen'l Man. Traf. Man. ATLANTIC COAST-LINE. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY BYRD STREET STATION. 9:00 a.m. Petersburg and Norfolk. 9:05 a.m. A. C. L. Express to all points south 12:30 p.m. Petersburg and N. & W. West. 12:50 p.m. Petersburg and Norfolk. 14:10 p.m. Goldsboro oak. 14:45 p.m. Petersburg oak. 7:25 p.m. Florida and West Indian Limited' To point South. 9:20 p.m. Petersburg and N. & W. West 11:30 p.m. Petersburg local. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. 4:07 a.m. 7:35 a.m. 8:25 a.m. except Sunday 10:30 a.m. Sunday only 11:40 a.m. 1 p.m. 2:45 p.m. 7:45 p.m. 7:50 p.m. except Sunday OLD DOMINION STEAM- SHIP COMPANY. Night Line for Norfolk. Leave Richmond daily at 7 p.m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. and both directions. Fare, $2.50 one way, $4.50 round trip, stateroom, berth; meals, 500s. Street cars to Steamer's Wharf: For New York by O. & O. Railway. 9:00 a.m. 4 p.m. 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. by N. & W. Railway; also by Old Domination night line steamer. All lines connect at Norfolk with direct steamers for New York, sailing daily except Sunday, 7 p.m. K. F. OHALKLER, City Ticket Agt., 808 E. Main St. JOHN F. MAYER, Agt. Whart Foot of Ash St., Richmond, Va. H. B. WALKER V P & T. M., New ork. THE PLANET SATURDAY APRIL 31 1905 FARM AND GARDEN A POST PULLER. Strong and Durable Device Which Any Farmer May Construct for Himself. The post, puller illustrated is a strong and durable one. It will pull any fence post. The two uprights are 2x6 inches and 3 feet long, mortised in 12x36-inch THE POST PULLER, scantling, and 2 inches thick and braced. Bore a 1-inch hole in end of uprights, in which insert a small pulley wheel. Take a chain, fasten around lower end of post; put chain over wheel; hitch horse to end of chain. By this device, says the St. Louis Republic, you can pull a more solid post than by hand. TESTING FARM SEEDS It Should Be Done Before Planting to Prevent Use of Wenk or Dead Seed. Unless a farmer learns to do this sort of work for himself he is always liable to be sowing weak seed or a certain percentage of dead grains. The loss to the farmers of this state from seeding binburned, bleached and other types of weakened wheat and oats, is, to my knowledge, very much greater than anyone would ordinarily estimate, says Prof. H. L. Bolley, of the North Dakota experiment station. There is much weak seed sown every season. If the grain was damp for any considerable time either before or after thrashing, it ought to be tested. Farmers cannot well afford to lose two or three bushels per acre in the yield, if a few cents per bushel will insure sound strong seed. It is a cardinal point in agriculture that there ought to be a rapid first growth from the seed. It is a very easy matter to learn whether the seed will put forth a quick, strong growth. Take a deep plate, fill it full of sand or dirt. Pure sand is best. Lay on top of the dirt or sand a sheet or circle of unglazed paper, or clean blotting paper. Pour on water until the sand is just nicely saturated, and the paper evenly wet through. Count the seeds to be tested in lots of 100 each and spread them evenly on the paper. Place another 100 of very good seeds of the same sort there also, so that you can compare the growths that occur. Invert another plate over the seeds or cover with a tin lid to keep In the moisture. Keep the germinator at ordinary room temperature. Add enough water each morning to keep nicely damp, and observe what happens. In about four or five days one can count out the bad or weak seeds. It will pay to note what sort of grains make the strong growths and vice versa. In this manner one can soon become a good judge of seed grain. We get discouraged with our profession when we get bad grain to be tested from the same men every year. In some cases they actually send seed of worse type and character each time. If you do not like the plate method, described here, plant a few hundred of the seeds to be tested in a common box of dirt or sand and keep moist and in a warm place for a week to see what per cent, shows strong germination. This is about all that is done by us when the seed is sent here to be tested, and we think that our time is worth more to the state if it is spent in the line of new studies upon plant diseases. Farmers testing seed for themselves are greatly benefited by the experience and we strongly urge them to follow the above directions, instead of sending the seed to the station for examination. STOP FIELD FROM WASHING I have found this to be the best way to stop a wash in a field, says an Illinois correspondent of Farm and Home. Get IMPROVISED DAM IN GULLY. some old rails and sharpen, then drive them in the ditch level with the ground so when the rains come the rails gather the stalks and grass and rubbish and in a year's time the ground is nearly level. These dams should be four to seven rods apart. I find them a great success. Care of Ensilage Ensailage is a very good food for cows, but needs to be taken care of. Only the careful dalryman will be likely to feed it properly, and that is why some milk bottling establishments are refusing to buy milk made from silage. They say that most of the feeders are careless and allow quantities of the silage to lie about the barn and become rotten. In that state the gases from it taint the Good time now to touch up the spots in the sap buckets that have been knocked bare by the ice or otherwise.—Farm and Home. FLOWERS ON THE FARM A Suggestion for Beautifying the Grounds About the Farm House in Summer. While the raising of flowers is not regarded as a branch of agriculture, it is somehow inseparable from it, and to a limited extent always finds place on any farm, while it can easily be made one of the delights of country life. From my earliest recollection I always had a passion for flowers, and am now able to testify to the very material enlargement of my world by the culture and study of them, such as I could not possibly have obtained in any other way. But the farmer is usually so overworked in the growing season that he finds, or imagines he hinds, little or no time for anything that he looks on as a mere embellishment, and so misses one of the pleasures that he is surely entitled to, if anyone is. It is not, after all, so much the question of time as of taste that determines the matter, for there are a host of the better flowers that will truly take care of themselves when once established. I could name probably a hundred species, most of them well known and all desirable, that need no more care than a good mulch of coarse manure once a year to keep down the grass and possibly a fringe of wire screen at about them to keep fowls from disturbing it. Of course I do not mean roses or other flowering plants that are subject to insect ravages, though some of them will flourish in spite of their enemies with a little help. Then we have so many attractive flowering shrubs and trees that it seems too bad to find so many farm houses standing out bleak and bare to the weather, a constant invitation to the younger portion of the family or the community to depart for more congenial climes. I am going to mention first the late success I have had with tuberous-rooted begonias, which were said to be going to drive out the geranium when they first came out, but which proved too delicate and exacting quite to do that. The plan that works with me is simple enough, and it produces a flower that is beyond all others in the elegance of a bloom that will be just as rampant in October as in May, if a little care is taken to shield them from the early frosts. If early blooming is thought worth a special effort, start the bulbs indoors in March. They will transplant readily at any time, even in full flower, as they have very little root. A rich soil and plenty of water will carry them through the summer, a glory to all eyes. If one should desire to save a few at the last, they transplant into a box perfectly, and will bloom some time indoors. Then take all to some dry place, safe from freezing, soil and all, and let them stand till spring, those not treated as winter bloomers being taken up with some soil and left in it. The begonia has no insect enemies. The dahlia is still mostly a failure with us, not in late years being vigorous enough, with an occasional exception, to blossom in warm weather. My collection stood still all summer, after getting a fair growth early, and produced its first flowers in October, says a New York correspondent of Country Gentleman. My site is not of the best, but I find professional florists quite often without flowers in quantity. The "development" of this desirable flower has weakened it very much, as it has some of our vegetables also. Of late we are getting to the introduction of tall woody plants that produce yellow flowers in the early fall, the Golden Glow Rudbeckia leading the host. For the most part, they take up very little room and they need but little care, unless it be to tie them up against bad winds and rain storms. They are all quite closely related botanically, and include the sunflower in the group. It is hard to keep a floral corner attractive all the season, as it requires a variety of spring bulbs to begin with early perennials next, annuals and summer-flowering bulbs after that, and the late tail, yellow flowering plants at the end. The tuberous-rooted begonia goes far toward solving the problem. GOOD RUNNER CUTTER Take an old hoe that is not good enough to use for hoeing and bend it out straight so that the sharp edge will be in line with the handle. It needs to be sharpened so as to cut the runners of strawberries off without pulling the plant out of place. I have found it very practical. It can also be used to cut turf into squares.—Epitomist. LITTLE HINTS Tis unwise to plow ground when it's "sticky." Wait a few days.—Farm Journal. Now is the time to start the Fourth of July dinner—green peas and new potatoes. Tidiness about the farm and the farm buildings indicates a careful and industrious farmer. An ash box may be made of old sheet iron. Flattened stovepipe is good. Nail it to posts on the outside. A slot sawed down into a stump top holds a crescent saw nicely when it is necessary to file in the woods. Put up a little bracket shelf with holes bored in it to hold the bits. And put them in it when done with them. Not Good on Oil Stones. Kerosene is not good to put on oil-stones used in sharpening tools. Sweet oil, lard or something similar is better and causes the stone to cut faster and give a finer edge. Plenty of Cait A smooth millstone grinds no grist and smooth gravel will not grind grain in the dizzard of the fowl. Furnish your birds grrity grit and plenty of it. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA BETTING ON RACES RUNNING WOMEN THE RACE-TRACK EVIL FINDING NEW VICTIMS. ONE TELLS HER SAD STORY With Sick Hustand at Home She Loses His Hard-learned Savings Trying to Pick a Winner—Confesses Her Misdeed. Los Angeles.—A racetrack evil, comparatively new in Los Angeles, has fallen upon women of the middle class here, who, lured on by the glittering and glowing stories of racetrack winings, have sought to better the conditions of their sim purses, with the usual result—misery and disrace. Three women, two of them displaying despair on their features and the other wearing the smirk of semi-intoxication, walked from the grand stand of a prominent track the other afternoon. Once on board the cars at the entrance, two of the women gave way to their feelings and for a few moments wept bitterly. The woman who had been drinking is a waitress in a downtown cafe. As for the woman who sat at her side and wept, little could be gained of her story. It appears she had been "scrimping" on the table money for several weeks, had lied to her husband when the favored meals of the day and Sunday were not so good as usual, and that she had lost all she had "sneaked" from the family purse and table. "John, poor fellow, he has struggled so hard to provide a home for me and the children," sobbed the remaining woman of the three, who had not spoken until now. "I'll have to tell him I have been a gambler, and that I have lost the money we have been saving to pay on our little lot. Oh, what shall I do?" she exclaimed to her companion. Six months ago this woman, who may be called Mrs. Wilson, her husband and a little son came to Los Angeles from Ohio. The husband is a high-class carpenter, and earned good wages in the east, but he was threatened with pulmonary troubles and decided to make his home in southern California. With his savings he purchased a "ready-made" home, and agreed to assume the mortgage on the lot, a matter of several hundred dollars. Mrs. Wilson, the business head of the family, was intrusted with the duty of caring for their savings and the monthly installments she met without trouble. Then her husband took a severe cold and had to give up his LURED BY THE GLITTER OF THE RACE TRACK. work. This came at a time when the wife had to struggle with herself between dropping a payment or putting off the doctor's pay. While this struggle was going on on a foolish woman friend, who had been "lucky" a few days before at the races, told her of her winning and how "casy it was to pick a winner," and double, if not treble her money. It was an evil moment for Mrs. Wilson, and she told a victim to the tempter. The next day she visited the track, but was not successful. The holder of the mortgage was informed of the husband's illness by Mrs. Wilson, who made it an excuse for not meeting the monthly payment. To the physician she told a story of the mortgage being due and he was asked to wait. The other day the regular monthly payment and the one a month overdue and the doctor's bill should have been paid. Mrs. Wilson lost all the money she had laid to to meet these bills. Being a true, loyal wife at heart, she bravely confessed all to her husband. Wilson, who had passed the danger point of his illness, almost suffered a relapse when he heard his wife's tearful confession. She realized the full extent of her sin, and on her hended knees asked forgiveness, and obtained it—from her husband, at least. Later in the evening Wilson sent for the physician and told him the story. Aged Woman Elopes Boston's Famous Back Bay Furnishes Fair Followers of Father Boston.—Many of the fair young women of Boston's famed back Bay have become disciples of Father Kneipel, and snow bathing, or rather barefoot, welking in the snow, is becoming popular among them to a degree appalling to the fair devotees' less determined society girl friends. "Iight! barefooted in the snow. I never could do it!" exclaims one of the timid. But the girls who have found courage to try it say. "It's just lovely after you reused to it." And many of the girls of Back Bay's society circles are getting used to it A woman in a dress and hat runs down the street, holding a snowman in her hand. FAIR DISCIPLES OF FATHER KNEIPP. as speedily as possible, some in the high-fenced back yards o that aristocratic section, and others, lacking the advantage of a back yard secure from prying eyes, in their bathtubs. "It is not generally known," said one versed in snow lore, "that Father Kneipel ardently advocates the use of snow as a means of promoting health and creating vigor and energy. "It is the ozone in the snow that gives it its beautifying quality. Why, one of the best complexion creams contains the same properties as snow. "For the healthy, snow walking hardens the nerves; for the nervous, as well as those who suffer from headaches, there is nothing more beneficial than the snow walk. It draws the blood to the feet and relieves them." ROYAL FIGHT WITH FISH. Florida Fisherman Captures Leopard-Shark with Rod and Reel After Desperate Battle. Jacksonville, Fla.—The only leopard shark ever known to have been caught in Biscayne bay was captured the other day by George Worthington, just below the canal leading to the Miami river. Mr. and Mrs. Worthington were out fishing in an open launch, Mr. Worthington using a rod and reel. The shark struck the bait and was made fast, and then the fight began, and it was a fight royal. The shark was a monster, measuring 11 feet and two inches from tip to tip. For an hour Mr. Worthington battled with the monster, and had him well-nigh captured when Capt. L. D. Potter, of the launch Llennett, who was returning from the fishing grounds with a party, came along, and seeing that Mr. Worthington was in need of assistance, came to his succor. It took four loads of buckshot from his gun before his sharkship gave up the struggle. The fish was too large to get aboard the boat, and a rope was used to tow it into port. The great fish was pulled out on the stone seawall in front of Mr. Worthington's palatial residence. Later it was taken to the Royal Palm dock and a frame was erected, under which it was suspended and a photograph was taken. Capt. Med Kellum, who has charge of the Royal Palm dock, says this is the first genuine leopard shark ever captured in these waters, and he is authority on fishing in Biscayne bay. TOT SMOKES LIKE VETERAN Twelve - Year - Old Cigarette Fiend Comes to Grief at Portland, Ore. —Promises to Quit. Portland, Ore.—Lloyd Anderson, 12 years of age, was walking along the street blowing out clouds of cigarette smoke like a locomotive. He held a cigarette between his fingers. "You can smoke well, can't you?" said Detective Hawley, approaching him. "Do you prefer Turkish or Egyptian? "Don't make no diff," replied the youngster; "make 'em myself most'd time. I kin chew pretty well now, any- way; it don't make me slick any more. Got a pipe here, too, but it don't look good to use a pipe on de street." "Take a walk with me, little fellow.", sald the officer, who took the lad by the hand and escorted him to police headquarters. The youngster was deeply grieved at the imposition of his confidence. He was held until his mother was notified, who came frantic to the station. "I don't talk to strangers much," he said to Hawley, "but you looked pretty good, so I talked. And you was an officer. And you 'peached' to my ma. You're no good." The lad reached Portland from Kansas City a few days ago. His father is a barber, and the family will locate at Woodburn. "All de kid's smoke in K. C.," he said. Queer, If True. Little Willie had a gun, Pulled the trigger, just for fun; No one chanced to be in range— Doesn't this sound strange? —Kansas City Tances. From Bad to Worse. Gray—Our landlady is deeply interested in the foreign war news. Smith—Well, I hope she doesn't contemplate the substitution of hard tack for hash.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A, E., A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most power- has been phenominal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The largest features, but the principles sended on Friendship, based on Chas- the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit o 50 per week sick dues. The badge regalia. For information concerning currs of Calant of the Order. It requires a mem- court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. benefit of $150.00. It pays $3 00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 of funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.09 to $4 your neighborhood, orgnize one. ning the Children's Department ad This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. 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. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of 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. pays $4.00 per week only absolutely necessary regalla. F apply at the main office. The Courts Is the Department of the Ord thirti ons to organize a court. It Fid exercise Harmony and prove a. ment and burial benefit of $ dr the only expense for regalia in a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral THE BANDS OF CALANTHE stitutes a feature and persons cannot do circle. The expense is nominal and is $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death be Lodge or Court or Band in your neigh For all information concerning the For all information concerning sp membership in the lodges and courts. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty members to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fid exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays a. ment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3 00 per week sick dr 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 a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address. The Greatest Offer WHAT THE LAST Good Photo A HANDSOME GOLD-PLATTER THE HANDSOMELY COLORED CHARGE. other male or female, being called real arrangements with one of the la- ders, who pay $1.50 cash in advance free of charge. Fill out the Coup- graph of the person whose features button or medallion. All photo postage on the same. If you are the yearly subscriber and we will s- tallions. advantage of the offer. The Me COUPON. LANET: closed $1.50 for the Fl. ATE, ph which I desire inserted in meda AL BENEFIT. Of Stylish Suitings or Particular People MERCHANT TAILORS AIRING A SPECIALTY every skillfully we do make "almost as good as NEW," LOVE OUR CLAIMS TO YOU. For all information concerning special rates of JOHN MITCHELL, JR. membership in the lodges and courts, address 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. WE WILL SEND YOU A HAND YOUR PICTURE HAND THEREON FREE OF CHARGE. They can be worn by either male tions. We have made special arran- to furnish all new subscribers, who p these handsome Medallion free of ch together with a good Photograph of t colors and we will send the button. Enclose 5 cents extra to pay postage will be refunded. Send us one yearly yearly subscribers, two Medallions. Now is the time to take advantage price of the subscription. Send A Good Photograph. WE WILL SEND YOU A HANDSOME GOLD-PLATED BREAST-PIN WITH YOUR PICTURE HANDSOMELY COLORED AND REPRODUCED THEREON FREE OF CHARGE. They can be worn by either male or female, being called either Button or Medallions. We have made special arrangements with one of the largest concerns in the county to furnish all new subscribers, who pay $1.50 cash in advance for the PLANET one these handsome Medallion free of charge. Fill out the Coupon and send it with $1.50 together with a good Photograph of the person whose features you desire reproduced in colors and we will send the button or medallion. All photographs will be returned. Enclose 5 cents extra to pay postage on the same. If you are not satisfied, your money will be refunded. Send us one yearly subscriber and we will send one Medallion. Two yearly subscribers, two Medallions. Now is the time to take advantage of the offer. The Medallion alone is worth the price of the subscription. PUBLISHER, THE PLANET: Please find enclosed $1.00 to the following address: NAME..... STREET..... CITY OR TOWN..... COUNTY, STATE..... closed photograph which FOR MUTUAL An Attractive sortment OF AT Popular For Prices TURNER & WHITE 303—5 N. 8rd St. 'PHONE 1138. ★★★ CLEANING AND REPAIRING You have no idea how very skillful OLD CLOTHES, look "almost a COME, AND WE'LL PROVE OUR The Brinkley House, 225 W. Camden Street. Please find enclosed $1.50 for the F one year, which you will the following address: CITY OR TOWN..... closed photograph which I desire inserted in medallion or button FOR MUTUAL BENEFIT CLEANING AND REPAIRING A SPECIALTY You have no idea how very skillfully we do make OLD CLOTHES, look "almost as good as NEW," COME, AND WE'LL PROVE OUR CLAIMS TO YOU. Address:—C. H. MILLER, Box 173, 3 mo Covington, Va. 225 W. Camden St., near B. & O Station, Baltimore, Md. 3 mo KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAVS F.C.B. Actual Size JOHN MITCHELL, IR. BOARDING AND LODGING. Established 30 years ago and reopened. The rooms are published and furnished. Attention paid to transient people. Persons rooms during the inauguration may obtain transfer fees. of the most powerful in the co- tal. The Grand Lodge of Vir- land counties in this state. new lodge. The benefits paid of the principles are greater based on Charity and estab- lright people of the state will report. burial benefit of of $200.00 fo- fes. The badge costing 75 cen- tation concerning the organiza- tion. Calanthe requires a membership of s are pledged to exhibit for the other. It pays pays $3.00 per week sick of the badge, 50 cents and men's Department also con- man to enter the little ones in- s all that could be expected. from $30.00 to $40.00. If you orgnize one. Department address. Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR. W. M. test Offer THE LADIES W Photograph GOLD-PLATED BREAST LY COLORED AND RE le, being called either But th one of the largest concerns cash in advance for the PL all out the Coupon and send i whose features you desire million. All photographs wi me. If you are not satisfied er and we will send one Medallion alone Offer. The Medallion alone ON. one year, which usered in medallion or button NEFIT. Phone 2048 John H. Two Musicians Wanted Wanted two musicians, one who can also do barber work, and who knows something about carpentry. J.W. the little ones into this mystic did be expected. It pays from $40.co. If you have no Pythian address. Offer Yet ADIES WANT, photograph. LITED BREAST-PIN WITH ED AND REPRODUCER led either Button or Medallion largest concerns in the court ance for the PLANET one upon and send it with $1.50 res you desire reproduced in photographs will be returned are not satisfied, your money send one Medallion. 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