Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET THE LAST SUPPER. PAINTED BY DA VINCI VOL. XX(1 NO 20 The Editor's Observations. We left Richmond Friday, April 14th, 3 P. M. over the N. & W. R. R. The accommodations were strictly first class, but limited. The travel however was not large enough to cause any inconvenience and the trip was pleasant. We were met at Suffolk by Mr. J. M. Boothe, Mr. Powell and a committee of ladies. A carriage was soon in evidence and we were soon at the residence of Mrs. Sarah P. Marshall, where a finsure was issued. We left the same night for Richmond. We had nearly reached Petersburg, when a colored man, wearing boots 'came in gasping, with an occasional "cussword" with every breath. The conductor was at his side asking for his ticket. "Give a man time to blow," he responded irritably. "I've run myself almost to death to catch this train." The conductor insisted and he paid his fare in money, making some good-natured remark. The conductor gave him to understand that the language that he was using would not be permitted and it was many minutes before this colored man could be taken to talk to every one on the train. We reached Richmond at 12 o'clock and a short time afterwards, we were in the land of dreams. On Monday afternoon at 2 P. M., we left for Staunton. We met Hon. John H. Smythe, his daughter and Mrs. White enroute to the Negro Reformatory at Hanover county, Va. At Gordonsville, three colored ladies boarded the train and proceeded to open all of the windows in their immediate vicinity. They seemed to be oblivious of any discomfort that they might cause others and it was with a sigh of relief that we reservoir, we saw the last one of them dismay, down the platform of the station. Reaching Staunton, we visited the pharmacy of the Pannell Brothers and met Mrs. R. L. Pannell, who informed us that she was about to organize a training school. We found Dr. M. W. Pannell in his office too. Rev. W. H. Moses is erecting a large church. It is not yet completed, but is under roof. He is in Pittsburg. Mr. George H. White, who had a case of facial paralysis is now looking as well as ever. We met Mr. A. C. Mabrey and after our brief stay, we boarded the train at 2:09 for Richmond. At Gordonsville, a tap on the shoulder caused us to look around and we were cazing in the face of Mr. W. Pannrester. He had been to Arlington to attend the funeral of Mr. H. L. Holmes. We had reached Richmond and our conversation had not lagged. A carriage drive to the PLANET office and a similar favor to Mr. Forrester completed our trip and landed us in the midst of our duties at Richmond. Grand Easter Festival. Grand Easter Festival and Easter Egg Hunt will be given Easter Monday, April 24th at No. 727 N. 3rd St., for the benefit of Macedonia H. H. of Ruth. Refreshments at reasonable prices. Good music. Admission to Festival, 10cts. and to Easter Egg Hunt, 5cts. Come and enjoy yourself. THE RESURRECTION FROM PAINTING BY NAACK ```markdown ``` EASTER ```markdown ``` # GREETING PRICE FIVE CENTS ```markdown ``` Do You Know Them? Information concerning the whereabouts of Mrs. Nancy Ford is desired. Her son, Harry Ford, was killed in Pittsburgh and he left some insurance money. Before his death he stated that he had not heard from his relatives for 8 years but that he had one married sister, two brothers and one single sister, all of whom lived in Richmond. OLIVER TOMPINKINS. OLI EI TRIOMPKINS, Address, No. S. Hill's Mill, Kittsburgh Ten Thousand Dollar Suit. The suit of Maj. J. B. Johnson against H. Edgar Allan, Jr. against H. F. Jonathan and Mr E. J. Cook for $10,000 upon a charge of libel has been on trial this week in the Law and Equity Court of this city. During the campaign last Fall, It is alleged that the defendants published a circular intimating and charging that Major Johnson had been fixed and sold out. The plaintiff is seeking vindication at the hands of the jury. There are only six of them trying the case. Judge Jigram is presiding. For up-to-date clothing at the lowest prices, call at the New Enterprise Store, No. 528 E. Broad KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Another Court in Staunton Staunton, Va., April 18, 1905. Another Court of Calanthe, Knights of Pythias, was organized here last night by Grand Worthy Counsellor John Mitchell, Jr. He reached the city at 6:35. He dined at the residence of Dr. M. W. Pannell, where he was also entertained with selections on the piano and violin by the accomplished Mrs. Pannell and the popular Miss Lena B. Trent. Mr. Crawford handled the violin. The following assisted: Mrs. Fanny Scott, Mrs. Fannie J. Moore, Miss Essie Crawford, Miss Daisy Johnson, Mrs. Lasale Scott, Mrs. Annie Southall, Mrs. Roena Moore, Mrs. Frances Perkins, Mrs. Annie Johnson, Mrs. Margaret Southall, Mrs. Maggie Washington, Mrs. Fannie Brown, Sir W. M. Perkins. The new body will be known as Stark of the Valley Court, No. 87. The following officers were installed: W. C. Mrs. Mary Frances; W. Inx, Mrs. Annie Mickens; W. Ir, Mrs. Mary Brown; S. D. Mrs. Maggie Timberlake; J. D. Mrs. Amanda Ross; O. Mrs. Mary Wells; R. of D, Miss Georgia Brown; R. of A, Miss Gertrude Bowles; Rec of Dep, Mrs. Paulina Young; E. Mrs. Emma Brown; C. Miss Adsonia Williams; Asc' C, Mrs. Annie Smith; Herald, Miss Missie Brown; P., Mrs. Cora Powell; Trustees, Mrs. Daisy Payne, 18 months; Mrs. Mary Williams, 12 months; Mrs. Cary Cosby, 6 months. This court was gotten up through the efforts of Deputy A. C. Mabrey. The hall was decorated and the repast was fine. Grand Chancellor Mitchell heartily enjoyed himself. He left this morning for Richmond. Mr. James S. Forrester is out again. Mr. I. J. Miller continues indisposed. He has been confined to his residence during the week. A Plodding together through the sand. Here, then is the old situation which has been dear to mankind, young and old, since the days of Robinson Crusoe—ashipwreck, an uninhabited island. Defeat found one single human being sufficient for his purpose; nowadays a man and a woman are preferred; we must have a "love interest." New York Mail and Express. WOMAN'S WORLD MRS. THOMAS F. RYAN. A New York Woman Whose Benefactions Run Into the Milli- Conducted on rigid business principles is the charitable bureau established, maintained and operated by Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan at her home, 60 Fifth avenue, New York. Mrs. Ryan, who is the wife of a millionaire, during the last few years has given more than $2,500,000 toward the advancement of the various charities maintained and controlled by the Roman Catholic church in the United States, besides contributions to nonsectarian institutions. The exact amount of her benefactions will probably never be known outside of the immediate members of her family. Her gifts, however, extend to eight or ten states in the Union, from North Dakota to Texas and from New York to Virginia. No gift is made until she has satisfied herself personally of its necessity. MRS. THOMAS F. BYAN. and, once she determines to build a church, a school or a hospital, immediate steps are taken to establish an endowment fund sufficient to insure its support for all time to come. In carrying out this work Mrs. Ryan has set aside several rooms in her Fifth avenue mansion as her office and equipped them accordingly. Here she spends from three to four hours each day when in New York with her secretary and clerks in examining reports, looking into requests for additional assistance and taking steps to strengthen the financial support of institutions already established. Mrs. Ryan's munificence covers the building of at least 100 new chapels, schools, churches, hospitals, homes for sisters of charity and homes for aged and infirm. In addition to these, there are hundreds of others which have been increased in size, repaired or enclosed so that they could not be abandoned altogether through a lack of support. From 9 o'clock every morning until luncheon, at 1 o'clock, Mrs. Ryan gives her entire attention to this work. During these hours prelates of her church and officials of different charitable institutions are received, as are her architects and contractors or builders whom she has engaged for the construction of a building. Those who have good cause to plead are seldom dismissed without encouragement or a provisional promise, depending upon the outcome of a personal inspection. Those who lack sincerity get no response. When at her country home, Montebello, in Suffern, N. Y., during the summer, Mrs. Ryan takes her staff with her and transfers her business headquarters from the Fifth avenue mansion to the country place, so that her absence from the city will not hamper the extension or steady maintenance of the institutions already established, and that appeals for new contributions where found to be worthy may receive attention as speedily as possible—New York Herald. Face Blemishes. The girl who is troubled with face blemishes and an oily skin will find help in the following treatment: Bathte the face with hot water and a glove. The Wings of the Morning BY LOUIS TRACY Here is a story filled with the swing of adventure. A beautiful girl and a gallant gentleman—who for the time is disguised as a waiter on board a ship in tropical seas—are shipwrecked, and of all the guests and crew of the ill-starred vessel they two alone survive. On a desert island, filled with all sorts of hair-raising dangers, these two fight for their lives against dreadful odds, and incidentally, they learn together the alphabet of love. There are no dragging intervals in this volume; from the moment of their landing on the island until the rescue crew find them is not a dull moment for the young people—nor for the reader either, for that matter.—New York Times Saturday Book Review. The Wings of the Morning Will Begin in Our Next Issue soap before retiring, using a rough face cloth or a camel's hair face brush. Press out such of the specks as yield easily. Obtain from a skin specialist a prescription for a lotion which will make the poras smaller and apply this after the bath. By following this mild treatment for eight or nine months the complexion will become spotless and of fine texture. If the pimples are of the ordinary, curable kind, in order to drive them away eat simple and nutritious food, exercise daily and keep the digestion in good order. In addition to these precautions drink a glass of hot water in which a tablespoonful of phosphate of soda has been dissolved every morning before breakfast for about two weeks. If the pimples come from a use only a skin specialist can cure tl m. If the skin is very oily sponge it with alcohol, but be careful not to use this too often or you will go to the opposite extreme and your skin will be come dry. A little borax in the water in which you wash your face is also good. Don't Nag. There are two ways of looking at a husband. One is to make up your mind that he has no faults and to consider him a piece of perfection. The other is to recognize his faults and to make up your mind to love him in spite of them. This is the way that will wear. Look out for the good qualities that offset them. You will find them if you take the trouble. Then make up your mind that you will adapt yourself to the fallings. Sensitiveness is after all a form of selfishness, and married life is a perpetual giving up of your selfishness. Don't believe that your husband wants to hurt you or that he is a selfish brute because he has forgotten something you asked him to do. "He would not have done that when he was courting me," you may murmur. Very probably not. But he does other things for you that he didn't do then. Think of those and look after your own transgressions in the way of forgetfulness and neglect and think less of his. But above all, whatever his faults, don't nag - Woman's Life. Lotion For the Hands A good lotion for the hands is the following: To four parts of glycerin add one part of tartaric acid dissolved in the smallest possible quantity of hot water. Mix well, apply a few drops to the hands and rub in thoroughly. If hands are badly chapped use more of the lotion, rubbing in thoroughly. Wash in clean lukewarm water, dry well and apply a little more. Applied immediately after peeling fruit or vegetables it will remove stains at once. When hands are badly stained treat as if badly chapped. This lotion will remove ink stains from goods if spots are immediately put to soak in a little of the liquid and afterward washed in clear lukewarm water. The process must be repeated several times. Rice Powder. One of the best formulas for a rice powder, which comes from France, is composed of three ounces each of rice flour and rice starch, one and a half ounces of carbonate of magnesium, three-quarters of an ounce of pulverized boric acid, three-quarters of a dram of powdered orris root, eight drops of extract of violet and fifteen drops of bergamot. To prepare the essences should be mingled with the carbonate of magnesium and then shaken all together. If before going out the face is first anointed with cold cream, then the powder applied and all that is superfluous removed the skin will be effectively protected from winds and change of temperature. The Eternal Truth. There cannot be one standard of duty or perfection for the two sexes, and it is in comparing the one with the other that the conflicting schools of education both go wrong. In a complex civilisation such as ours there is room for professional women as well as domestic women. But the great function, the true vocation, of women is now, as in the beginning, to be a helpmeet for man, to be the mother and trainer of the children who will be the men and women of the future. Men will be forced to realize and respect her position and will deem it an even greater honor to seek her alliance in matrimony.—London Queen. Sealy Finger Nails When a nail appears scaly and broken it is useless to treat it with the ordinary anomalies of the manicure THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA set. It may be worked fairly smooth by rubbing with a piece of wash leather that has been dipped in a little moistened pumice powder. But the one essential is to dip it nightly into a strong solution of gelatin and to bandage without wiping. The bandage should not be removed in the morning until the finger has been placed in hot water. Hanging Out Clothes. When hanging clothes to dry remember that the thickest part of the garment must be hung highest, for were the thinnest part uppermost the water would run into the thick part, and thus the drying would be greatly prolonged. Next hang up everything inside out for then any accidental soil is likely to come on the inside of the garment where its presence will generally not very much matter. Floor Polisher. For polishing a floor melt the requisite amount of beeswax (according to size of room), then mix in sufficient turpentine to bring it to a paste. Keep in a jar and rub on with a piece of flannel; polish afterward with a cloth or leather. Plenty of elbow grease is essential. About a quarter of a pound of beeswax to half a pint of oil of turpentine should be the right quantity. Children's Food Salt meat should not be given to children nor food that is highly seasoned. Fruit when it is thoroughly fresh and sound may be given with every meal either raw or stewed. Never allow children to eat much jam, cake, pastry or sweets. The plainest of food is really best for them. Curried Eggs For curried eggs cut one apple and one onion in thin rings and fry a gold-en brown in butter. Sift into this a dessertspoonful each of curry powder and flour and dilute with half a pint of water. Lay in four hard boiled eggs shelled and quartered. Serve in wall of boiled rice. Shabby dark leather will look like new if rubbed over with linseed oil on the well beaten white of an egg mixed with a little black ink. Polish with soft dusters until dry and glossy. When color has been removed from silk by acid it may be restored by touching the spots with a little salt volatile or hartshorn. Don't wear tight shoes; they make a young face look old, drawn and wrinkled in a few hours. Take your carpets and even your ollettos up once a year. DRESS HINTS Don't buy cheap boots or gloves. Remember to iron the wrinkles out of sleeves occasionally. Don't let boots and shoes wear through before they are soled. Kid boots can be kept soft and free from cracks by rubbing with pure glycerin or castor oil. It is positively a crime against dress to hang a skirt up by the fastening. Fix two tapes to it for this purpose. Vells are apt to become narrow when a good deal worn, but if they are rolled up instead of in the usual way when taken off they will be found quite straight and like new when next wanted. The secret of good dressing lies in the caring for one's clothes, not a detail of which should be neglected. The proper putting on of one's garments means a great deal. Some people's clothes look as if they were pitched on rather than adjusted. Dolls That Breed Bad Habits Dolls That Breed Bad Habits. One of the things the wise woman wanted to buy was a doll with its mouth shut. Except for an occasional rag horror she found only open mouthed dolls in every shop in town. "Breathing through the mouth," said she, "is the most pernicious habit a child can acquire, and children acquire habits by imitation. When I was a child we had wooden dolls with their mouths shut. You never heard of a child having to be doctored for growths in its nose or for mouth breather's teeth then. Nowadays every other child I see breathes through its mouth. It's the example of these idiotic looking dolls that does it. They are ruining the health of the children, and they ought to be forbidden by law."—New York Press. SCALP MASSAGE A Simple Remedy For Weary Brains and Tired Heads. Society women and working women often find their brains so weary and their heads so tired that to keep up hour after hour is really torture. Set the fingers hard against the scalp after one of these days of suffering, and you will find that the scalp is tight, as if glued to the skull. This tightness of the scalp is due to tension or nervous excitement and can be relieved by simple scalp massage. To gain relief take the pins and combs from the hair and brush out the tangles. Toss up the hair to lighten it. With hair hanging, place one hand on top of the head and the other just above the base of the brain; with both hands, and without letting the finger tips slip over the scalp, push toward the crown of the head, as if attempting to make a fold in the scalp. Continue for some time, changing the position of the fingers. Then place one hand on each ear and push toward the crown of the head. Continue working along the edge of the hair to the forehead and to the base of the brain. Place the suffused fingers of both hands almost together at the base of the brain and shake that portion of the scalp quickly and vigorously with the fingers, making the scalp move with the fingers. Take the fingers up, set them down in another spot and continue from the base of the brain to the forehead and back again; then repeat the motion by working from the base of the brain close to the ears and up to the center of the forehead. To set the scalp into a glow throw the hair into a part, lift the arms and bring the edges of the hands down on to the head with a sharp quick movement. The fingers should be relaxed and apart, that a separate rap may be felt for each finger as the fingers come together upon the scalp. Repeat this all over the head. Place the fingers on the crown of the head and make circles with them, causing the scalp to circle with the fingers. Go to the ears, to the base of the brain, to the forehead and back to the crown of the head. — Pittsburg Press. DAINTY BED DRESSING Pillow Shams and Coverlet of Linen Stripped With Embroidery A bed daintily dressed is a cause of pride to the housewife and of joy to the beholder, and it is so easy to have one. The illustration shows pillow shams and coverlets made of linen striped with embroidery. The coverlet simu- ARTISTIC BED EFFECT lates an embroidered sheet turned down and is of the depth shown in the illustration, extending from the frill to the head of the bed. The initials should be embroidered in a good sized monogram. The same thing made in white swiss and lace placed over colored lawn is equally attractive and of less expense if durability is not considered. —American Queen. The Inefficient Mistress The domestic employee as she is today is in part the product of inefficient, inconsiderate and indifferent employers. I have experienced all three and may have a choice as to which I should prefer. But the question here is not one of personal choice, but what sort of domestic employees these different sorts of employers will produce. Take the inefficient first, and let the girls themselves answer the question. "She don't know anything about keeping house. What's the use of trying to do it right?" "The idea of her givin' us orders when I know it all and she don't know no more than a baby." "Mrs. B. thinks she can cook, but she says, 'Ann, take a little of this an' a pinch of that--you know how. I want it to taste right.' And I don't know what she means." Under such employers maids grow careless, contemptuous and impertinent, three very unpleasant characteristics, for which they are not wholly to blame.-Jane Seymour Klink in March Atlantic. Vegetable Substitute Here is an addition to either a meat or fish course which can be served instead of a vegetable; Break crisp, well browned soda crackers (selecting only thin ones) into small pieces. Pour scalding water over them, then drain and press dry in a jelly bag. Next put them in a baking dish, stir in a heaping tablespoonful of butter, break in one egg and salt and pepper to taste. When well mixed place under flame of coal grate or gas broiler till it is of a delicate light brown. This may be made up into individual dishes or cups if preferred. Stuffing Green Peppers Before stuffing green peppers fry them in deep fat for one minute; lift them out, drain and let cool; then cut off the tops for covers and scoop out the insides; fill with sausage meat and put on the covers. Place the peppers on a buttered baking dish and pour over each a little salad oil. Cook in a slow oven for about fifteen minutes. These are very good served with baked fish. Camphor For the Piano "Now," said the tuner, when he had finished tuning the piano, "you ought to put some camphor in the piano." "Camphor?" said the owner of the instrument. "Yes," said the tuner, "to keep the moths out. Moths get into the pianos, as they do into closets and elsewhere, and here they feed on the felt coverings of the hammers, eating away their surfaces, and so impairing their effect. The Wings of the Morning BY LOUIS TRACY What you want is a couple of camphor balls, each in a little bag of cheesecloth, hung inside the plano, one at either side." -Chicago Post. Wise Economy. Be prudent and as thrifty as you can. Men are attracted by ethereal means, but held by material methods. Wise economy, however, requires great tact. There is no economy in that course which leaves your linens limp, your personality shoddy or your home regime conducted on poor house rations. TO HANG CURTAINS How Good Effects May Be Secured by a Little Care. As many a woman is puzzled to know how to hang her curtains, the advice of the Upholsterer on this point may be helpful. It says among other things: If sash curtains are used it is usually a good plan to hang the long curtains so as to be the opposite of the sash curtains—that is, if the sash curtains hang straight loop the long curtains, and vice versa. In this way the treatment will balance and a neutral effect be obtained. Bear in mind also in this connection that long curtains hanging straight reduce the width and increase the height of the window, while curtains looped or caught up with a rosette reduce the height and increase the width: Curtains reaching only to the sill or just below it have a tendency to shorten the window, and if looped or draped this effect is increased. Sash curtains, panels or any other style of glass curtains are hung with the right side of the goods to the glass unless the windows are so far removed from ordinary vision that it is impossible to discern the difference. Long lace curtains are hung with the right side to the room where sash curtains are used; to the reverse way when hung alone, subject to the above proviso in reference to the difference being perceptible from without. Lace curtains may be shirred on to the pole or rod by making a double hem at the top, the distance between the two stitchings being a little less than twice the diameter of the pole to allow for shrinkage. Thus for a one inch pole, which would measure loosely three and one-eighth inches in circumference, you would require to allow about one and seven-eighth inches between the shirrings, making three and three-quarter inches of a pocket for the hole to pass through. Lace curtains hanging straight should just clear the floor, and to adjust this to a nicety we have found it a good plan to pin them so as to clear the floor by about two inches (not more) and then gently stretch them down this distance. To stretch them place an outspread hand on each side of the curtain and, pressing the two palms together, stretch gently, a little at a time, working across the curtain from one side to the other until it is the required length. This must be done very carefully, and if the curtain is not found pliable enough to stretch the required distance pin it over again, allowing it to be longer. Narrow windows in large rooms may be made to appear wider by making the poles or cornece project at each side and plaiting the curtain to cover part of the wall at each side. The pole or cornece should be placed high enough in this case to entirely conceal the top of the wood trim, but in cases where it is advisable to show the wood trim at the top it should be shown also at the outside. Filled curtains made up as sash curtains are very effective next to the glass, but should be made of very soft material that will drape easily and gracefully. Sash curtains, lace curtains or overcurtains should be plaited to the exact width of the space they are to cover, sufficient pins being used to dispose of all the fullness and hold the top edge of the curtain from sarging between the pins. This may seem a small thing, but to those accustomed to neatness the sloppy droop of the top edge of a curtain from pln to pln is extremely distasteful and would spoil an otherwise neat arrangement. How to Clean Coral. To clean white coral soak it for some hours in cold rain water and then immerse it in a solution of chloride of lime. Let it remain for twenty-four hours and then hold it under a cold water tap for about ten minutes so that the water may percolate through it. If the coral be very dirty this process may have to be repeated a second time THE RIVER He staggered blindly on. This is a charming love romance full of exciting adventures admirably related. We have secured the serial rights for our columns and will begin its publication in an early issue. From the moment that the man and the girl, who are the survivors of the good ship Sirdar, are described on the beach of their island until the last page, Mr. Tracy keeps you interested. The people in this story are real and no puppets. Altogether the novel is an achievement.—New York Evening Sun. "The Wings of the Morning" is one of those books that you just HAVE to read to see how it all comes out.—San Francisco Argonaut. MEDICINE FOR CAMPERS How to Treat Wounds and Cuts When Camping Out. Those who camp out in the summer or take long trips through the woods will get some useful suggestions in the following article from Forest and Stream: Did you ever notice how awkward one always is with his hands the first two or three days on a trip in the woods? Fingers seem to get in the way of every ax, knife, fire, splinter or thorn encountered, and the result is a pair of hands more or less damaged. Adhesive plaster is good, but I have found a compound made as follows most useful and comforting; Equal parts by weight of Japan wax, mutton tallow and vaseline melted together. While warm add half as much glycerin. Fill a metal primer box with this, and at night rub it well into the hands. It is neither sticky nor unpleasant and will cure damaged hands or chapped lips very quickly. I have never tried it, but if raw linseed oil will mix readily with this compound it will be found advantageous. Rubbing it alone on the hands is a good plan; but, while it heals quickly, all surplus must be rubbed off or it will ruin any fabric with which it comes into contact and can never be removed in any ordinary way. Tincture grindella should never be omitted, as it is a rapid and certain cure for ivy poison and will alleviate the suffering induced by the bites of chiggers, sand files and mosquitoes. I consider it the most valuable item in one's ditty box for summer trips. A three ounce bottle of equal parts linseed oil and limewater is worth its weight in gold for sunburn and for ordinary burns as well. An ounce bottle of chloroform will surely drive chiggers and ticks away. Lacking this, use grain or wood alcohol. Either one must be applied locally, for these pests are not removed by ordinary means. A tiny tin box of mercurial ointment will prevent rust in firearm barrels in which nitro powders are shot if the barrel is cleaned thoroughly before applying the ointment on a cloth patch. In places where sand files and ticks are bad it will prove the right thing for the occasion, though not pleasant to apply to one's person. Shellac or spar varnish will keep a cut closed if covered with a bit of muslin. A reserve supply of matches, the heads of which have been dipped in shellac and dried, should be kept handy in a vasseline bottle. These are "good" medicine when everything is wet. How to Get Into a Hansom When two persons are about to get into a hansom common politeness prompts the first one to leave the seat nearest to the pavement vacant so that the second person may be able to enter easily. This is the theory of the thing, but practical experience tells one that it is easier for any one getting into a hansom when some one else is already there to take the seat farthest from the pavement than to take the one on the offside. Therefore if you are the first to get into a hansom take the seat nearest to the pavement, and your companion will easily be able to cross over you to get to the other seat. How to Kill Dandelions In regard to the trouble owners of lawns and grass plots have in keeping them free from the pestiferous dandelion, a benevolent citizen who has experienced lots of this trouble writes to the Portland Oregonian to say that many people bring more of this trouble on themselves by trying to extirmate dandelions by cutting the plant off just below the ground. A great deal of this is done early in the spring by people collecting dandelion plants for "greens," they being an excellent and wholesome pot herb. This, it is said, does not kill the plant, but causes each root to throw out several shoots and thus multiplies the number of dandelions. The correspondent mentioned writes to impress his fellow sufferers that if when they cut off the dandelion plant below the ground they will drop a pinch of salt or a teaspoonful of coal oil on the root left in the ground it will effectually kill it. This may seem a troublesome Job, but to one who is set on keeping his grass plot clear of dandelions it will in the end save a lot of trouble. How to Save Starch After using a bowl of starch do not throw away what is left. Put the basin on one side and when the starch has dropped to the bottom pour off it water. Place the basin in the water. five minutes. The starch will be found in hard cakes and can be put away ready for use another day. How to Put Rows In Windows To put new ropes in windows take off the strips and hold the lower sash in place. You will find a pocket in the casing about ten inches from the bottom, where the weights are concealed. Take the old ropes from the weights and sash, taking note of the method of fastening. Cut the rope to be put in three-quarters as long as the window. Take a small piece of iron that will slip through the pulleys easily and fasten it to a piece of twine. Tie the other end of the twine to the rope. Drop the small weight through the pulley until it comes down to the pocket. Pull the rope through the pulley and fasten it to the window weight and the sash in the same manner as the old one. Replace the sash and the side strips. --- How to Remove Shine From Woolen. Lay the garment on a table as smoothly as possible; wring out a cloth in water as dry as you can; have a hot iron ready and put wet cloth on it; hold it close to the garment, but do not touch it. Go all over it, then brush quickly. The steam does the work. It will look like new. How to Save Repaperlog Cleaning paper instead of replacing it with new when soiled has become a common method of keeping our walls in a presentable condition, but in cities where smoke consumers are still a dream of the future hiring this cleaning done by experts is considered too heavy an expense by many families of moderate means. I feel sure, therefore, that many people will welcome, as I did, the recipe for the manufacture of the material used for cleaning I received from a thrifty neighbor, says a writer in Good Housekeeping: One quart of flour, one heaping tablespoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of soda, three tablespoonful of ammonia (the common household kind) and one pail of rain water. Mix and steam one-half hour in a greased tin pan, cut in pieces to handle while still hot and knead thoroughly. Keep in air tight box or jar until ready to use. How to Mend Amber To mend amber requires a certain amount of care, though the process is a simple one. Apply some linseed oil to the broken edges and then hold the oiled parts over a gas jet, covering the rest of the amber meanwhile with a cloth. As soon as the oiled parts become sticky with the heat press the edges which are to be united together and hold them very carefully till cold. How to Freshen Old Walst A pretty way to freshen up worn white china or india silk waistls is to put in a guipme and half full sleeves of colored lace. This lace, by the way, can be easily colored at home with any one of the prepared dresses. One girl recently made an old white china silk waistl over into a fetching evening waist by these means: She took some quite dilapidated renaissance lace which had been on another gown. Out of that she got enough for a guipme and full half sleeves with the under-sleeve effect. Then she dyed the medallions in the lace a delicate blue. A big bow of the same shade of blue in velvet decorated the left side.—Harper's Bazar. How to Make Corn Gone Corn pone is recommended as a breakfast dish. Take a beeping coffee cupful of boiled hominy, heat it and thin in a tablespoonful of butter, three eggs and nearly a plint of sweet milk. As much cornmeal may be added as will serve to thicken this till it is like the batter for johnnycakes. Bake in a quick oven and serve immediately. How to Freshen Carpets: A cleansing fluid said to restore freshness to carpets, curtains, table covers, clothing and similar textiles that become soiled is made of a quart of bolling rain water to which four ounces of castle soap have been added. When cool throw in four ounces of ammonia, two each of glycerin, alcohol and ether and, last of all, a gallon of rain water. Bottle and use as required. How to Season a Fowl To improve the flavor of fowl when seasoning it add ginger to the salt and pepper and rub this into the flesh well. For a change try putting an onion and an apple in ducks in place of the usual breadcrumb dressing. 2 How Nugent Emulated Maeterlinck By KEITH GORDON [Copyright, 1804, by T. C. McClure.] NUGENT was in despair. For three weeks he had been trying to ask Virginia Dinsmore that pointed and personal question that should decide matters between them, and for three weeks he had been held back by an invisible but impassable barrier. Ralph Merton, of course, was always hanging about her, but that gentleman, Nugent assured himself, was neither invincible nor insuperable. The thing that he was afraid of was less Merton than the long, mystical discussions that the two held concerning the meaning of certain modern writers whose very names were strange to himself. So, procuring a few volumes of Maeterlinck, he determined to prepare himself to "trot in the same class" with her, as his borsy friend, Michael, would have termed it. Clad in an old coat whose pockets augged delightfully, his feet thrust into slippers whose original shape and color could only be guessed at and fortified by his beloved pipe, he settled down one evening and solemnly opened the first volume of Maeterlinck that his hand fell upon. But, though he made an honest effort, the atmosphere of his comfortable bachelor quarters, whose golf clubs 1 MISS DINSMORE APPROACHED HER LATEST POSSESSION. pipes, swords, riding crops, etc., displayed themselves with masculine variety and confusion, did not seem conductive to the study of the modern mystic. Horse and dog pictures looked down on him, and pictures that were neither of these noble animals testified somewhat trivially to the existence of the eternal feminine. Rows of smartly bound volumes filled the low bookcases decorously, bearing witness to their owner's aspirations, while his actual achievement was evidenced by the litter of magazines and several dog eared Kilping books upon his library table. Obviously it was not a Maeterlnck room. "Good Lord!" he grouned at last. "Good Lord!" And to think that she can read such slush as this when there are horses to ride, good golf to play and men to talk to!" For one passing moment a doubt of Virginia's common sense assailed him, but only for a moment. Not even Maeterlinck could make him disloyal to her. Besides, it must mean something—all this endless dialogue in which fear whitened men and women echoed each other's words to the accompaniment of shrieking winds and ghostly moans in a greenish gray light that never existed outside a melodrama. Surely no man would write all this stuff without meaning something. But that was just it—what? "You may search me!" growled Nugent, throwing aside the second volume with a disgusted air and refilling his pipe. "If I've got to stand above ninety in Maeterlinck before I can win Virginia—well, I might just as well give up right now!" Then Virginia's face, her eyes alight with interest, rose before him. That, he remembered perfectly, was the way she looked as she listened to Merton's conversation, and for the first time he felt a sharp pang of jealousy of the man. The certainty that Merton understood and even found interesting what he could not read, much less comprehend, gouged him. In a meeker spirit than was usually his he tried tentatively to get some points on the maddening Maeterlinck from Virginia. "It's symbolical, you know," she explained a trifle vaguely, regarding him with a lazy question in her eyes. She was so unlike Peter Nugent to be yearning for book talk that she was curious. "Everything stands for something," she added, as if that made the matter entirely clear. "But tell me," retorted Peter, "what is the use of having everything stand for something? Why doesn't the man say what he means and be done with it?" Miss Dinsmore had no answer for this pertinent question, and, seeing his advantage, her stalwart admirer continued: "What would you think of me if I employed symbols instead of plain, everyday English?" Not a Vegetarian. "Children," said a Sunday school teacher to her class of small boys, "God gave us something that he did not give the lower animals. Who can tell what it is?" A little boy who had been exhibiting a cut finger rose to reply. "Please, teacher," he said, "God gave us blood, but he only gave the animals dish gravy."—Brooklyn Life. His listener laughed outright at this simple way of disposing of a great modern writer and his cut. "I'm afraid I should think you were off your head, Mr. Nugent," she replied with the frankness of long acquaintance. "That's just what I think of Maeterrinck," replied her companion dryly, feeling that the writer must either be conquered or crushed and leaning toward the last named alternative. Still, he could not give up. It seemed to him preposterous that a fellow like Merton should understand things which he, Nugent, could not, especially when Merton's diabolical keenness gave him the advantage of Virginia's open interest and appreciation. It was not a thing to be borne quietly. "Perhaps we understand it more clearly than you do," she acknowledged. And that "we" that put her and Merton together on one side of the question as opposed to him on the other shook Nugent strangely. Something of the dismay that he felt showed in his face, and seeing it, Miss Dinsmore attempted once more to explain the methods of the new school of writers. And her efforts were rewarded, for at last a light seemed to break upon him. "I see!" he ejaculated slowly. "I see at last! The gentlemen write in cipher, just as we send secret messages in business, and it doesn't mean a thing unless you understand the cipher. Tog pigment chair' doesn't sound very intelligible to you, does it?" He waited a moment; then as Miss Dinsmore shook her head he went on: "And yet I sent that very message to a firm yesterday in a matter involving the investment of thousands of dollars. And they understood, just as you and Merton understand your Maesterlinck code!" he concluded airily, while Miss Dinsmore studied him with a new interest. After all, she reflected, these practical minds were keen enough once they got the point of view. Meanwhile Peter Nugent went his way with a curious exhilaration. At last, he felt, he was catching up with Merton. Since he had the important question to ask, why not heap coals of fire on Virginia's head by asking it symbolically? But how? It was the Saturday before Easter. All the afternoon the bell of the Dinsmore mansion had been ringing with monotonous regularity, which kept the Buttons at the door at work like an automaton. "Gee whiz!" he solloquized as he took in an azalea almost as large as himself. "Miss Virginia must be de whole ting, judgin' by dese Easter greeting." The very last offering to arrive came about 9 o'clock in the evening, when the Buttons, wearied out, was dozing at his post and dreaming that he sent Sadie Flaherty a bunch of American Beauties with stems as long as telegraph poles. It was therefore with a somewhat bored and chastened air that he carried the package that was handed in up to Miss Virginia's room, where in a low chair she sat reading "Monna Vanna." "Open it, Thomas," she commanded languidly, laying her book face downward in her lap and watching him idly as he removed the enwrapping tissue paper. But at sight of the object he lifted out of the box a moment later all her languor disappeared, and she uttered an exclamation of amazement. It was a huge nest, upon which a bantam hen-soft, white and with matronly, alert yellow eyes-sat with non-chalent grace. Tucked under the edge of one wing was an envelope. Buttons did his best, but it was poor. With a guffaw as involuntary as it was hearty he deposited the nest and its occupant upon a table and, holding his hand over his mouth, fled from the room. Miss Dinsmore approached her latest possession and removed the note, saying, "Who under the sun"—Having read it, she sank into a chain, tears of merriment streaming from her eyes, for this was what she read: Dear Virginia-I call you that because I know instinctively that symbolize cause no use for formality. The Easter gift that I am sending may at the first flash seem bizarre, but when I explain that it is a symbolic offering you will understand. It is as symbolic as anything Masterkier ever dared to do, and I intercede because in this particular case I fancy that I can do better than Merton himself. The nest—what is it but the home that I would offer you? The egg therein—please notice that it been made beautiful—stands for me, and, as with me, you will find it to get beneath the shell to find its real significance. The hen that is sitting upon the egg in the nest I come to my liveliest bit of symbolism, a touch that I pride myself upon—typified upon" when this simple effort of my imagination reaches you! Be merciful, then, to P. N. Weak with laughter, the recipient of this extraordinary missive approached the table once more and gingerly removed the hen, half expecting an angry, clucking protest. There in the nest, sure enough, was an egg bearing an ugly caricature of Nugent, which crumbled in her fingers as she clutched it, releasing a scrap of paper that fluttered back into the nest. It contained but a few words, but in them all the poetry of Nugent's strong, sane nature had been compressed, and with a little catch of the breath Dinsmore pressed the slip of paper to her lips. The book that she had been reading had fallen to the floor. With the tip of her toe she gave it a disdainful little kick as she fluttered across the room to her writing desk. A Menu For the Easter Dinner. Oysters on Half Shell. Salted Almonds. Olives. Cream of Celery Soup. Fricassee of Belgian Hare. Rice Croquettes. Marched Potatoes. Fried Eggplant. Bird's Nest Salad. Cheese Cake. Ice Cream. Angel's Food. Coffee. A Modern Instance. Mother--Yes, I know you and George are very devoted now, but are you sure that after marriage von won't tire of each other? Daughter--Wei, if we do, we can go into society, and I can join all the charitable associations, and women's clubs, and he can join all the social and athletic clubs, and then we'll never see each other, you know--N. Y. Weekly. THE RICHMOND PLANE1, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA EASTER IN JAPAN. The Cherry Blossom Festival, Resurrection of Fruits and Flowers. By reaching Japan just at the beginning of spring you will find yourself in the midst of the native Easter season, which in reality is the cherry blossom festival. Because it comes at the time that Easter is celebrated in the western countries it is given that name. The dawn of Easter in Japan is a dazzling and fascinating sight even to an American, used as he is to the great display of flowers and bright and dainty costumes that come out on that day in all the cities in the United States to welcome the season. The Japanese are like a lot of happy school children let out to play, happy in their religious flower festival. None of the church ceremonies has any part in their celebration, and, although the cherry festival commemorates the resurrection, it is the resurrection of the fruits and flowers. All Japan rejoices. The children have a day set apart for their special delectation, and the grown people do little but seek to make the young people happy. Along the roadways, inch deep with fallen cherry petals, the children draw immense movable temples. Sometimes more than a hundred little girls dressed in gorgeous hues are in line, pulling on the ropes attached to these charriots, on which the boys, dressed in blue and white togas, ride and play on their musical instruments, while the cleverest of their number: in masked faces render religious dramas on the elevated platform in front of the charlot. The streets are choked with thousands of grown people, who give up the day to witnessing these processions, and as the chariot and the children pass down a carpeted avenue of cherry trees, and the gentle spring breeze blows, a constant shower of pink perfumed snow falls from the cherry trees and everything becomes hazy in the entrenching mist of a pink snowstorm of soft petals. All nature seems to take part in this Easter festival of the Japanese children. "Cherry blossom Sunday" at Uyeno park, in Tokyo, is one of the prettiest sights in all Japan. The avenue of cherry trees going up from the town forms an exquisite arch of pink boughs, under which the people throng purely on pleasure bent. The tea houses have spread their best red blankets on the matted plafonds, which serve for seat and table. Carriages and jinkikishas roll by, their occupants dressed in their best, the women in exquisitely delicate crapes, because it is the time of spring and flowers, and the light and dainty colors are most appropriate. Under the trees are light hearted picnic parties seated on their blankets and lunching on rice sandwiches. Restraint is thrown aside during "cherry time," and at Mukojima, where a double avenue of cherry trees, the most magnificent display of these lovely blossoms in Tokyo, stretches along the far bank of the Sumida river beside the road, the wildest carnival reigns. Mummers in all sorts of fantastic costumes, in which red and white, the colors of spring and happiness, predominate, dance in and out among the tea houses that stand along the bank under the trees. The river is gay with roofed pleasure boats, and the sound of the geisha's samisen is added to the general clamor of rejoicing and merry-making—Washington Star. THE EGG DANCE. A Curious Easter Custom of Ancient France—A Royal Romance. In very ancient times a most curious Easter custom prevailed in France. Wooling lads and lasses would come forward as applicants for the "egg and matrimonial dance." A hundred eggs were arranged on a level sweep spread with sand, and all the young tenancy selected their partners to dance on the green among the eggs. The story is told by an old chronicler that Philibert, duke of Savoy, was out hunting and, being in the neighborhood of the beautiful palace of Margaret of Flanders, called to pay his respects to her. All the tenancy were dancing on the green, the eggs were laid, and the lovers were treading a measure of the national dance amid them. Few there were who managed to dance through without breaking some of the obstructions. If they succeeded not even the "nay" of the parents prevailed to break up the match. It was an evidence of the intentions of Providence to smile on the union. While many had tried and been unsuccessful, the duke bespoke the princess to try the dance with him. Though it was the first time they had met, she agreed, and they executed the national dance without breaking an egg. They were greeted with enthusiastic cheers, and, as it was a sure sign that they were afflianced by divine will and their wedded life would be one of great bliss, they bowed to the fates that ordained it so, and in the sentiment of the romance they were "married and lived happily ever after."—Philadelphia Press. Easter In the Phillippines. In the Philippines the natives celebrate Easter day in gorgeous fashion. Processions headed by bands of music are held in the morning of Easter Sunday, and the remainder of the day is given over to fencing and games. The Royal Pathway of the Cross. Christ must needs suffer, rising from the dead and enter thus into his glory. And how do you ask for another road than this the royal pathway of the holy cross? - Thomas a Kempis. A Serious Error Druggist—Great pills! I believe I put arsenic instead of powdered sugar in that man's prescription. Which way did he go? Do you know who he was? What shall I do? Can't you help me some—Friend—Good heavens! I don't wonder you're excited. Druggist—You bet. Why, man, arsenic costs ten times as much as sugar, and I only charged him for sugar!—The Doctor. Consider The Lilies,How They Grow UNTIL the early eighties the favorite Easter lily with Americans, who spend over $1,000,000 a year upon this feature of Easter decoration, was the Madonna or Annunciation lily (Lillium candidum), the common white species of the old world, a native of southern Europe. But in 1882 it was quite eclipsed by the Bermudan lily, which was introduced by William K. Harris, a Philadelphia florist, under the name of Lillium harrisii. The new variety had larger flowers than the Madonna lily and more of them. It was earlier, requiring only thirteen weeks for development under favorable conditions, and, best of all, it took kindly to the hothouse forcing process. Then came the bonanza period for the Bermudan grower, but in his zeal he came near to killing the goose which laid his golden egg. Competition carried the forcing process to such a point that the bulbs were dug before they were ripe in order to get them into the American market by Christmas or earlier, and disease resulted. In the most prosperous days of the Bermudian lly one grower often harvested 20,000 bulbs from a single acre, with gross profits of $2,000 to $2,500. The United States department of agriculture exhaustively investigated the lly disease, but the Bermudans were not bound to follow its advice, and little good was accomplished. Here was Japan's opportunity, for the Bermudian lily was originally a native of Japan and China. In 1870 Japan sent the United States only $2,000 worth of bulbs. In 1895 the exports amounted to $40,000. By 1890 they had reached $130,000, and they have been increasing ever since, while the Bermudian product is supposed to be a quarter less than it was a decade ago. But the Japanese made the same error as the Bermudans, and the lily disease is now ravaging the white fields of the milkado's empire. The agricultural department again took up the lily question, and in 1900 an attempt was made to transplant the whole lily industry to the United ```markdown ``` THE GIANT LILY OF INDIA. States. The best stock obtainable was imported and planted in chosen sections of the southeastern states. Every scientific method of propagation and growth was tried, but the experiment proved a failure. The climate was unsuitable. Now the department has conceived the bold idea of growing the bulbs from seed, and experiments along this line have been unexpectedly successful. The main advantages of the new method of propagation will be the elimination of disease and the fixation of three or four well marked varieties. We need early, midseason and late varieties, the first of which will naturally cost more and the last least. One of the most beautiful of all white lilies is the Lilium gongaleum, or giant illy of India, but only those who are especially favored may enjoy this Easter eaglem. It is seldom grown in America except by scientific horticulturists. It often attains a height of ten to eleven feet, and its large, odorous flowers remain in good condition for nearly three weeks. The Lilium longiflorum is a tall, late northern variety that sometimes requires thirty weeks for the development of the flower. Its southern form is called by the botanist and the Japanese grower Lilium longiflorum var. eximium and by the Bermudan Lilium harrisii. The intermediate form, Lilium longiflorum var. giganteum, though requiring about eighteen weeks to force, is a most promising variety for the plant breeder. It is taller than eximium, with larger flowers. The bulb stores better than those of the other types and commands the highest price of all because it is said to be a difficult subject to propagate by vegetative methods. - Country Life In America. Like a Lily In the Street. See her gwine long dar. Lak a lily in de street; 'Tailt' in Easter hat—it's des De face dat makes it sweet! Bull de lilies know her step. En hee hee 'bear hee' En Miss Springtime wid her flowers She dress up fit ter kill; De valley sen's de brightens' De billow; But er all de Easter illies She de bes' en sweets' still! —Frank Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. Pardonable Curiosity The train was rushing over the prairies of western Kansas. "Is that another jack rabbit, uncle?" asked the fair passenger who was looking out through the car window. "Yes," replied the elderly man at her side. "That's what you have said about all of them we have seen. Are there no ah—ill rabbits, uncle?"—Chicago Tribune THE FIRST EASTER EGG. It Was Lald, It Is Said, by a Roman Emperor's Ben. Who used the first Easter egg, and was it a colored one? If we are to believe one of the most reliable antiquaries the practice of using colored eggs had its origin in the interesting fact that when the Roman emperor Alexander Severus was born a hen belonging to his parents made the day a memorable one by laying a red egg. That the custom of coloring them is older than the Christian era is proved by the fact that colored eggs have been found in the coffins of Tartars in Russia who were buried many years before Christ. The Persians, who have kept the festival of the solar year in March from time immemorial, make free use of eggs as gifts, colored most effectively with their splendid dyes. The Romans made more use of eggs than any other nation, for they were not only articles of everyday diet, but were used upon many ceremonial occasions. For these people they seemed to possess some mysterious power of reparation and purification, as when they felt the need of a moral rejuvenation it was their habit to carry eggs to the temples and place them on the altars of the gods. To the ancients the egg was something very mysterious on account of the manner in which life was evolved from it, which idea may have led them to attribute to all life a similar origin. There can be little doubt that the use of eggs in the spring was originally symbolical of the revivification of nature, the coming forth of new life. We find traces of superstition connected with the egg, many of which are firmly believed in today, coexistent with the first record of the ceremonial use of the egg. When the church was obliged to make Easter coincide with the date of pagan festivals these superstitions were grafted on to the Christian belief, which accounts for their existence today.—Laura B. Starr in Woman's Home Companion. EASTER RECIPES Five Ways of Making Eggs Into Toothsome Dishes. Here are some recipes for making Easter eggs, not the colored kind, but the edible variety: Baked Eggs.—Break six eggs into a well buttered dish, cover with breadcrumbs, season with pepper, salt and butter, then cover with cream. Bake twenty minutes and serve hot. Egg Salad.—Use the required number of hard boiled eggs. Remove the yolks carefully, so as to leave them whole, and chop the whites. Serve on lettuce leaves with a boiled dressing and balls of cottage cheese. Eggs a la Parisienne.—Generously butter the bottom of a baking dish, then cover with grated cheese; break eggs upon cheese without breaking the yolks, season with pepper and salt and a little cream, cover with grated cheese and bake brown on top. Escaloped Eggs.—Cover the bottom of a well buttered dish with breadcrumbs, then a layer of sliced hard boiled eggs, covering with a cream sauce to which the yolk of an egg has been added, then a layer of finely chopped meat, preferably ham or chicken; then eggs and sauce, with crumbs on top. Bake until light brown. Egg Talmibles.—Chop fine any good cold meat. To one cup of meat add a scant cup of breadcrumbs, pepper and salt to taste and mix with beaten egg. If necessary add a little milk to make stiff batter. Line timable molds, bottom and sides, with paste and drop an egg, without breaking, in center of each. Sprinkle breadcrumbs on top and bake brown. Gem pans may be used in place of timble molds. WHY WECOLOR EASTER EGGS The Ancient Legend of the Syrian Nightingale. The Syrian bulbul (nightingale) has the loveliest voice of all God's creatures and the saddest song ever heard. Shady coverts fringing the Jordan still shelter the bird that "sings darkling." There is a legend that the bulbul sat in the olive tree in the garden of Joseph of Arimathea, and the night before the resurrection, through the darkness, she poured her soul in sorrowing plaint above the still sleeper in the tomb wherein was never man laid. When the first Easter morning broke over the eastern hills the eggs in the nest of the brooding bird sparkled with gold, blue, orange and crimson, and so we color eggs at Easter for a memorial of the lone singer that sang by the holy酥升er 1,900 years ago.—From "The City of the King," by Mrs. Lew Wallace. Easter Doll Parties. Parties where each little girl is invited to bring her favorite doll, or her whole doll family, for that matter, are popular and timely. At one affair of this kind given under the direction of a kindergarten teacher, says the Washington Star, there were dolly songs and a dolly drill, dolly tableaux and dolly recitations, a baby coach parade to music and lastly a photograph taken on the front porch, where the whole bevy of little mothers posed with their babies of bisque, china and wax gathered about them. When refreshments were served there was a special table for the dollies, beautifully set with doll dishes, tiny candles and colored shades, simple refreshments warranted not to disturb the most delicate digestion and a little name card with appropriate souvenirs at each plate. God and Immortality After you have assumed God you cannot without doing violence to your reason fail to assume immortality.—Washington Gladden. cautions Violet—What makes Mr. Cashly talk so painfully siow? Rose—He's been sued for breach of promise so many times that he turns a word over three times in his mind before he dares let go of it—Detroit Free press. In France doctors' prescriptions must be written in French, and not in Latin, as is the custom here. The Poet And the Easter Bonnet HIS EASTER. He sits behind his dearest, And on her dainty head The sweetest, neatest, queerest Of quaint conceits is spread. Albeit the hour is sainty— Through mint the ahar gleams— He hears the rector faintly; To him the chants are dreams. THE CHORAL CONCERT HIS LESSON FOR THE DAY. Oh, sinful man, that Easter Should bloom and fade away With just a woman's bonnet His lesson for the day! —New York World THE INTERRUPTED POEM THE Easter sunlight floods the world that seems a dream of May. (Tom, guard the door and tell 'em all I'm not at home today.) The blossoms seem to throb with light; the daisies look alive. The birds, half hidden in the blooms—they talk of this and that. (I wonder what the bill will be for those on Mollie's hat!) And the very winds have voices sweet that win me more and more. (Again, again the tramp of feet—a bill be-neath the door!) Oh, wondrous weather! Life supreme with glory and with light! (I think I'll take the fire escape and rival time in flight!) Oh, world of loveliness and joy! My soul with rapture thills! (I think I'll seek the buzz of bees—and leave the buzz of bells!) A MARRIED MAN'S SONG OF EASTER. WHEN Betty went to church with me At Eastertide, she used to wear Some fetching headaddress for the day, A rich and elegant affair. It was a thing of loveliness How dear to me was Betty's bonnet. And now when Betty goes to church At Eastside she still is seen In some creation much the same As gave her charm at sweet sixteen. The charm has somewhat passed away. 'Tis true, I like to see her don it. But I can - alas, too well- Antiquity of the Spring Festival. From earliest times mankind has celebrated a joyous festival at this season of the year. Pagan nations made merry at the return of the sun to the northland when the sleeping earth awakened after the death of winter and all nature had a new birth. The rude Saxon tribes read meanings in the blossoming flowers and the fresh beginnings of natural life. In the south the Romans made feasts, the Persians regarded the occasion with gifts of eggs, typifying a resurrection of the body, and, taking all the festivals and their meaning, the thoughtful mind can readily trace them, leading to the great Christian festival teaching of the eternal life of the soul and the resurrection of man from the dead. Russian Easter Eggs. On Easter morning in Russia every one in the royal household distributes eggs. Those given the high officials are often very valuable, made of gold and set with precious stones, and very often worth thousands of dollars. In all the Greek and Roman Catholic countries the reigning sovereign is on Easter presented after high mass with a large basketful of beautiful decorated eggs, natural or artificial, which he distributes to the immediate members of the royal household. Boosting It Up. "Have you made any plans for the future?" the reporter asked the dashing young actress, who was to be released from jail the next day. "Oh, yes!" she replied, as she selected a box of bonbons from the large assortment that had been sent by admirers. "I shall lecture on the best methods of elevating the stage"—Brooklyn Lif. E CLUB SANDWICHES. How They May Successfully Be Made at Home. When you are in doubt what to have for luncheon or for a late supper to which you have invited friends surprise them with some dainty club sandwiches, says the New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser. Many persons think this viand cannot be made at home, but with a little pains and with the right sort of bread a homemade sandwich is quite as good as that made by an experienced hotel chef. You must have freshly made and very light wheat bread, cold boiled ham, cold turkey or chicken and some crisp lettuce. These are the materials required. Some persons use bacon instead of ham, but ham is much the better of the two. Cut thin slices from the breast of the turkey or chicken and lay them on a plate ready for use. Get the lettuce leaves ready for use and lay them on a plate near at hand. Cut as many thin slices from the boiled ham as are required and lay them on the broiler. Cut the bread in thin slices, first carefully removing the crust from the entire loaf. You must have a very sharp, thin bread knife. Toast the bread quickly a delicate brown and put it where it will keep hot, but not get dry, while you broil the ham. This must be done quickly, and as soon as it is done begin to put the sandwiches together. Dip one side of toast in a little melted butter; lay it on a platter; on the slice of toast lay a crisp leaf of lettuce, on the lettuce lay a slice of the broiled ham, then a slice of the turkey or chicken; season this with salt and pepper, then lay on a lettuce leaf and, last of all, another slice of toast. Press the whole firmly with the hand to pack it, then cut the sandwich across in triangular shape and serve with a mayonnaise in a separate dish, or, while making the sandwich, spread the mayonnaise on the lettuce leaves. If possible, one should have an assistant in making club sandwiches, as they must be made as quickly as possible in order to keep them hot and at the same time soft and fresh. How to Clean Gold Frames. To clean gold picture frames beat the white of an egg. Add to it one point of cold water and moisten your frames with this mixture, using a sponge. Then with a soft flannel carefully wipe. Take a second cloth, perfectly dry, and give the frames a light rubbing. If the frames are not clean and bright after this treatment you would better take them to a gilder and have them reglid. How to Keep Household Accounts. Keeping accounts may be a little troublesome, but it is quite worth while. Have just one book, rather thick, that will do for everything. Turn the front part into a cash account. Open the book out flat, write down your allowance on the left hand page and on the right put down what you have paid the butcher, baker, etc.—everything even to a postage stamp. Then once a week or oftener balance. Balancing is nothing harder than subtracting the total of the money you have spent from what you had in hand. The difference is what you should have in cash. When you have been keeping accounts for some time you will realize as you never did before what your money goes for. Keeping accounts is not helping you to make money, but it does help you to find out how to get the most for your outlay and how to balance your needs with your income. How to Make Caramel Ice Cream. How to Make Caramel Ice Cream. Prepare your caramel by putting in a small pan eight tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar and cooking it, stirring until it turns to a dark brown. Make a custard of a pint of milk, three eggs, and sugar to sweeten abundantly. Take from the fire and set away to cool; then add the just prepared caramel and a quart of cream. Flavor with vanilla and freeze. How to Make Omelet Light How to Make Omelets Light. An omelet would oftener be served if there were not the general experience that it is apt to fall and be heavy, says Harper's Bazar. This danger may be entirely obviated if the eggs are beaten separately and very light, the yolks folded daintily into the whites, salt and pepper added and the whole transferred to a pan where the butter is already heated sufficiently. The omelet may be doubled into half its dimensions and sent to the table, a puff of lightness, all in a moment's time. Of course it should not "stand and wait" or it will hardly be like those who "also serve" in Milton's famous sonnet. How to Remove Molecules Here is a safe remedy to apply to the mole: Diachylon plaster, half ounce; tartar enamel, one dram; croton oil, five drops. The plaster should be spread the precise size of the mole. It should be left on until the mole suppurates, then removed and allowed to heal. How to Remove Grease From Silk. To remove grease from silk use chloroform and a cotton cloth, finishing with a dry cloth. Benzine can also be used as well as French chalk. In using chalk place a hot iron over the spot until the grease is removed. Benzol or turpentine can be used to remove grease from clothing in general by first thoroughly saturating the cloth at and around the spot and then placing soft blotting paper beneath and on top of the grease and pressing it. The fat is thus dissolved and absorbed by the paper. How to Flavor Baked Beans A small quantity of ordinary elder vinegar in the proportion of one tablespoonful to a quart added to Boston baked beans before putting them in the oven will be found to give an improved flavor. A Regine For Health There is probably no prima donna in the world who enjoys better health than Mme. Nordica. She is always well and always in good spirits, all of which is doubtless due to the fact that she has a secret recipe for health. Here it is: Indulge in temperance, exercise and good humor. Repeat the dose as often as possible. 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You can send money in thin statis a a aS seco ta reecentantee money satin Speed eet cs cae pee a os Shor re Sei ta as Sal Sege a puarraia, Beor Itre,go ot, wont Tes Reiser egrets Ao ee Porte ferme teecenresiere eee ee aera kee Peg ee EET eet afte aaa Eee Shoes Sez Ceseecapern When ring Swe to aaisoermscneeens Wee i, we Sore eres ies ei Sonar (LE LP, tee es ae sese ee Entered at the Post-Offlow at Richmond, Ve. aeccondl- cine tater. SaTURDAY... APRIL 22, 1908 IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. Our good friend, M H. Adan s| of Wahington, D. C., sends us his abscription fee and a highly com. plimentary letter. He eriticizes us however in a mild manner and ob- Your paper is a good little paper, and it strikes at every thing that strikes our people in the wrong, and it up-holds our people in all of our right doings. But some how or other, you are kind of silent on the future of our race since March 4th last and I cannot understand you. T have not heard you mention in your paper about the rebels flags be- ing returned that we captured dur- ing the War of the Rebellion. If it is wrong, speak out and let us all Kuow its wrong. If it ts right, speak out and let us know it is right T see they are whipping them and that the killing and lynching of our people are still going on, even though it be not so great as it used to be. In the last session of Con- gress, I did not see anything about the Freedmen's Bank petition bill or anything else concerning it. I hope that you will whet up your sword and prepare for. war on the Freedmen’s Bank bill for the next session of Congress.” We confess that we have not been able to comment upon all of the questions which have — presented themselves to the public. In some instances, it was from a lack of op- portunity and in others on account ot a possible too strict observance of the rules of discretion Be this as {t may, we have never yet been afraid to meet an issu squarely We have not been silen on the future of the race. We re gard our prospects as “bright an brightening”. Our energies hav been devoted to the task of practi! cing what we preached by engagin in business and actively promotin: the industrial enterprises with whic we are now connected. We find 8 we grow older that nothing speak so loud as money and industria power. So busy are we that we have nc ‘the time even to complain, althoug there is much with which we cou! find fault. The question of the r turn of the rebel flags is one wit whieh the northern veterans or rat! er the survivors of the Union arm should deal. They gave their bloc and treasure to secure these fia ‘and if they can see their way cles to retarn them to their old antag nists, we did not see that the colore people of the country should ha hysterics over the delivery. It would give the Negro-hate pleasure rather than pain. We pr ferred to see them returned in lence, and the sooner the paint duty was performed, the better f all concerned. To be plain, we ha deer eee get our bea Ings. gentleman in the Whi _ House at Washington is a politic eo Ee Wil ao madl acd wa meet — e will do next and we are | * that he does not know m ‘He seems to work by tm- pulses, most of which are genersus. ‘He has the courage of bis conwic- tions and evidently means well He is now understood to be the friend of the colured man and—the white one. He “O. Ked” the return of these flags and we with the rest of the col- cored folks down here were charita- ble enough to believe that because he did it, necessarily, tt was all right although it did look “kind o” funny.” Those of us who tried to think that he had surrendered to the southern brigadiers could sot long entertain the thought, when we remembered Mr. Charles W. Ander- on as Collecter of Internal Revenue at New York and the tender of the Guadaloupe portfolio to Mr, James H. Hayes of Richmond, His nam- ing of Sergeant Thompson as a Heutenant in the Philippine scouts was also a gentile reminder that the Negro-hating contingent of the south erners was not in the saddle. For this reason then, we presumed that the time had arrived when “si- ence was golden” and more harm than good would be done by inter- ference with what scemed to be the sentiment of the North as weil as the South It seems that every Re- publican President from the time of Grant has been more or less de- ceived by the diplomatic course of the Southern leaders. All of them have husbanded the idea that they would succeed in breaking the solid South and be the leader of the new dispensation which wonld weld to- gether again the sections. "Mr. Roosevelt has succeeded bet- ter than any of them, but it has been by a steady devotion to principle and by @ refusal to yield up any of the ideas upon the race question for which he has contended. We did not see then that it was the part of wisdom for the colored men or col ored newspapers to handieap him in| his efforts. With reference to the Freedmen’s Bank Bill, it fs an Interesting fact that Hon. Grover Cleveland, a Dem- ocrat was the only president, who ever recommended the payment of the depositors and we are at a loss to know why a Hepublican Congress and e Republican President, who have been giving money to every chure and every soatherner who alleged that the Union army de- stroyed even his hen-coop should fail and decline to reimburse these poor colored. people, who were the sufferers from this species of official raseality, perpetrated with the knowledge, if not with the sanction of the government A REMARKABLE CONUNDRUM. If we are to accept the statements of the Wasbington, D. C., Record, it seems that Prof. W. H. H. Hart is still with us and of us. Under the caption of “Prof. Hart and His Crit- fea" It says Prof. W. H. H. Hart, who is just now conspicuously before the public has been made the target of some non-sepsical criticism, due to his in~ sistence that he be treated as an A~ merican citizen should be treated, It {s well known that he be not misun- derstood. ‘At the time of securing his mar riage license, the clerk placed the word “colored” after Prof. Hart’s name. Whereupon Prof. Hart in~ auired of his authority for so doing. To the Inquiry the clerk responded that {t was customary to make such designations. Prof. Hart told him not to do it—and jocularly quer- ied, “Why not make it customary to designate by using the word white?” This is all there is to it. Prof. Hart did not say that he was a white man, nor’that he was not a white. He questioned the legal right of any- one to officially desigaate bimw as col- ored. This is in keeping with Prof. Hart's well known consistency on this point. Prof. Hart believes that he is right. He is a eitizen of the United States, and believes that the all prev- alent practice of designating people as “colored” and “white” should be stopped, as it is invidious, and helps to perpetuate prejudice and establish a line of caste. | _ It ts thought that the criticism ot Prof. Hart is due more to the fact | of his having been so favorably men- | tioned as candidate for the record Jership of deeds than for any othe | reason. z ‘The gentle reminder that Prof | Hart may consent to the presenta ¢} tion of his name as a candidate fo 1|the Recordership of Deeds of th 3} District of Columbia, may in a meas s} ure account for this rather remarka 1] bie explanation. ‘We are glad to know, however ti that we have not lost the professor A }even though he persistently decline 1} to personally enlighten the publi -}upon the subject. How to Trent Gloves, This is the proper way to treat 2 glove: When you spy a tiny hole mend it without delay that it may not iu crease in size. Mend it on the inside of the glove with fine cotton of the same color as the kid. Do not mse silk, for it soon wears out. Never break off Your cotton, but cut it, so as not to draw the seam hard and uneven, Wher sewing a split in a finger seam insert finger Into the glove and draw the edges together so that they meet, and ‘that ts all, A ridge would not only be uncomfortalie, but would look unsight ly. When a glove ts too small and slits it is worse than useless to sew up the rent. It must be patehed. ‘The patel ‘must be of kid of the same color. THE RICH MOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA UNKNOWN SHIPS IN. PHILIPPINES Three War Vessels Sighted Of the Coast of Batangas. EXPECT NEWS OF FIGHTHOURLY Mantle, April 18—These war vesseis | were sighted at Batanges at 4 clock known Left to Patrol Philippines. Labuan, Britian Borneo, April 19. —| The United States torpedo bouts Chauncey and. Barey lete thie port to join the cruiser Raleigh in a patrol of ‘Midian Wubi dunia ee London, April 1% Barca Hayashi, ‘the Japanese minister to Great Bri- tain, expressed the opinion that Admi- rai Toxo would not give batale w Ad- miral Rojesivensky with bts entire squadron, but would continue the can- tlous tactics which characterized bin attacks on the Port Arthur squadron, not because he feared defeat, butiowing to his desire to inflict the greatest amount of damage om the Russians with the least loss to bivaeelf. While confident of his ability. ta: accomplish the total destruction of: the Russian squadron in a big battle, there Is: the danger of Togo loving one or two of his big ships. Therefore’ Haron: Hay- Ashf believes Toro will emifey his tox pedo boats and torpedo beat aatroyers which mumber more thon 10% and ars vaste euperior to the Kusstica torpede boat flotilia is harassing the’ Ruaans while-gradnally picking off the+Rasslan warships. He sald the conats of Japan: Korew and Formosn lent. themacives to night work with torpedo boserwhile the narrow channels will make te ma- noeuvring of large warships ditkewlt and dangerous. @Gimece News of Fiche Stéaeth: Paris, April 19.—Tae St. Pevr) dere corresyomdent of the Journal sare Chat the Russian admirsity ix housty ex. Pecting” to hear of an encouner bo- (weenie deets in tye Chine Sa A dispateh to the Petit Jonrmet tory Haiphong. Tonquin, seys that a waster which? lias arrived there reports thet she prased 49 Russian vessels Evidey. night imiatitade 17 decrees norttit They were -xtearring north at the rare-of 12 knots with thefr lights out (Latitude 17 rans through the-nureh- orn part of the Philipines and tr-abpout two days’ sail south of Formoes. Jap- anese ships have aiready been ceported. im that vicinity.) Sighted Unknown Fleet: Hongkong, April 19.—The Brith: steamer Notth Anglia reports that she Sighted a» strong fleet of crult.re ppo- ceeding south off Bombay Reef 360 miles northeast of Kemranit Baz: on the: night ef Apell 14. ‘The warships were using thelr searchlight. Their nationality could not be learned. but from thelr position it ts believed they were Japenese: Russians Cut Cabie. Londom, April 19.—The Daily Mall's sorrespondent at Singapore learns that Russian agents have cut the canle be- sween Foochow and Formosa. ‘A dispatch to the Daily Mai dated Manila, April 18, says: “This merning 16 Japanese cruisers and.torpedo boat Mestroyers. were scouting; off Sampaloc Point.” Two Jurks Blown Up by. Mines. London, April 19.—A: despatch from Shankhat to the Morning Post. says: “Two junks have been blown up by ‘mines near Chusan. The appearance of mines south of Shanghaw ta caus Ing great npprehensien for the suiety; of European mail steamers.’ 4APS CAPTURE COLRIERS. Large Number of Russian Vessets Bagged By Adroical Toga’s Ships, Seigon, April t&—The Japanese re- ceatly captured a large number of eol: legs off the cont of Cockin-Ching Six men, suposed to ke Japanese, landed some tuys age, at Cape St Jnmes, near here, from. an Annamese ymmk, and after a brief stay reem- barked A number of Russian warships are anchored in Kamranh Bay, where they are revictualing [The extneure of coiliers by the Jap- anese goes x long way toward explain ing the tring in the vicinity of the Natuna tslands by the steamer Tele machua The Natunas are “off the coast of Cochin-China.” Mt probably also explains the Hong Keng repart of & minor naval engagement, ‘The verification of the report that & namber of Russian warships are in Kamranh Ray. 200 miles above Saigon, on the Cochin-China coast, clears up much of the mystery regunting the whereabouts of the Russian fleet This, taken in conjunction with the sighting on Saturday of some 4 Rus- sians, north and west of Manila, prac- tically explodes the Berlin theory that Roestvensky headed Into the Sulu Bea to coal his vessels at the Cuyos Islands, The details regarding the Kamranh ships, however, are quite | meagre.) || Geld Medals For German Sallors. | Washington, April 19.—Gold medals have been awarded by the American government to Paul Sinkwitz, Herman Schutt and Albert Schuster, of the German gunboat Vorwaerts, for thei: gallant conduct im rescuing trom | drowning at Shanghai two Americar | saliors, Thomas Nolan, chief water | tender, and Jeremiah Quill, water "| tender, of the crew of the Monadnock PRESIDENT BAGS BIG GAME Killed a Sear and 2 Bob Cat and Said it Was Bully Sport. Glenwood Springs, Col., April 19-— President Roosevelt has killed « bear And a bob cat. He is saustied with his hunt for the biggest game the Rockies afford. To quote his own words: “I got what I was after. It was Dolly sport, and I hope it keeps up.” ‘This is the story brought to Secre- ane ‘Elmer by = oy a coe r, Whe was chosen to ‘mossages between the President and the tempo- ‘try seat of ment at the Hotel Cccorado ir this ety. ‘Fhe courter got through Newcastle without — ‘Lie president made geod to thoer | complied with bis wishes, But if the conrier was reticent at Newedstle, he was (oferent when his jorteneay was cf and Seerstry Loeb had removed tie inj:netion of veerovy. His eyes K’ndiog wish # fre that told bis @émiretion. 6 ‘tee precident's prowesi.as a hire'r mike thin cova the: wora at bis commend One os- preesion #hteh t ¥ oomeaimonr Injected fata bt © Say, take lows, he's! gober tard ro mistake The wy he scents cme would make you think lie was vce in he moun- tains and had’ never lett them. Say, now, belng presi! nt font marke any difference wii @ man’ tr-t’s got te real stiff In fim. Goff sald he was the real thing and didn't seed Sowing, bot T didn’t beitirce it." FREEZE DID) CREAT DAMAGE Heavy Losses to Truck Reported Srom ‘Gulibes ute: Nortotk. Va. Aprit 18—The forma- tow of fee throughout the vast Norfotik county trucking sectien did yereat dism- seo. Weather Poreraster Day made inqat- ry frome all seetions ia the trucking belt ax to the damace done” by thu freee. He was told by a number of Big trackers om the weatern branch of the Elizabeth river that’ all veretation: mow ont of the ground Nad been des stroyed. including strawWerry: blooms; Deans. peas amg other early” crops. Other trackers reported siixht damage. ‘Truck Badly Damaged BY Freeze: Wilmington, N.C, April: 19.-Téle- graphic reports to the Carctina Prait and Truckers’ Journal of this-city f¥om many points in the strawberry nnd vex stable district tadicate that the damage By. the ooli€ weather and frosts of the past. two: days by cemeral thronghaat the: belt. The eld berry plaats sus- tained but Rttle damagr, but tase of last” yenr's planting were hit’ rather hard. the damage deine estimated at somethin [he 2 per cent. Bears, peas and Irish pocriors were damaged tora greater extent The average in faryoups se tie prownt tx estimazed as follows: Strawberries, 18 to'29! pee cent Ir18h potatnes, 35 to 40 per'eent.c Dears: yeas, ote, 50 to 6 per cent Georel Daach Cron Kmies: Gatnesv@le, Ga. Aprit 18.—Ahsost tbe-entire pemulrerog i northeast Geor- ‘pia vas Kilby the freeze, Growers state that thers wil! fot be éuoach peaches gruwm fhr a single shipment Vegetation of ai kimts wax hurt. The therrrometer registered 29 degrees nnd feocwus bixtl am farh (ick, OLS KIRCED IN PANIC Boys: Crushed to Desth In Strugote Ror Gattneatre Tickets. Indianapolis, tol April 18.—Frea aied by a false alarm at fire, sevwrnt Rundeed newslmse strugeling to ce tain free ticket@te a show by a pate ent medicine advertising compar, stauapeded. in x narrow stairway in the Masoaie Temple, ermhing the Me out of foxr bore end probably fatally infuring avert other chihiren. Tals alleges by a withoas that ne of:the buys, I am endeavor to hastn the. exiti of ose wa had receleod Danses, shousad “Fir.” Immed:asely ‘tense ak the wp at the stairs sirwed about aad mumiiy Began to force acway te the bottam of the steps. Strteke amd phyaical eneoesters followed and those at: the mp beeame so closes en- Yangled: thet the mara of boys, foil. elingins to each other, on the strug gling mass. of vemtha at the botupm af ‘the seairs. Government Property In Pawashope: Narfolk. Va. Aprii 19.—Speceal Gov. erent: Arent Cutebins, accompanied by two Kecxeaets of marines and De- teotive Cotton. of the Norfoit pottce department. raitted several pawnshops and secoa:-hand elothing stores in thts city, selane and eanfisenttns 1 wagon loads of gowerwment property. The property seized eomsisted of sailor and marine amborma, Caps. shoes. pea fackets, naval sweaters, bedding, Blankers ond the Hike, andits. valued ae several thenvznd dollars. Bertin, N. J.. April \lT.—-Mre Robert. Givens. of Crowfoot, Cwo mifes fram here, shot her husband twice as he lay tm ded, and then tried to kill herself, She fired three shots-at-her- own head, Dut alt the bullets: went wide of the mark. Givers will recover; it im sald. One bullet struck him in: the forebeat and glanced off, and the other indg fm bis arm. Mra, Givene’ minst is be- Heved to have been unbalanced owing to financial troubles. Drowned ta Swimening Pool. New Haven, Conn. April. 38—Ctar- ence H. Barnes, # Ifyearol! member of a high school, gyranastic class. was found drowned in the swimming pool ‘of the Young Mews Christian Asso- [serve Young Bares. left the class before the others and went into the iswimmng tank, where he paddled {around It is believed that he dived while alone into the tank an that he twas stunned by striking bottom. The {body was discovered im water less than five feet deep [ae vere To clean velvet take pure turpentine [And soft cleaw cloths und sponge a [small spot with the turpentine, then wipe with one @r more dry clotha, When the entire piece Is cleaned, hang in the air and afterward, if possible, in a bot room, and the odor will leave ft. 1) 2 SI ee When the painted woods of the in terior of the house are solled or spat ted get a plate of very good whiting. It will cost only a few cents. Dip a plece of funnel into warm water, squeeze nearly dry and dip It into the whiting. Then rub the paint with the whiting and all the dirt and grease will disap- pear, and the paint will luok like new, Bo matter how delicate. Mow to Fold Vets, Veils are apt to become narrow when & good deal worn, but if they are rolled CHORUS GIRL SHOT BY ACTOR Then Turned Peal oo Himself, But ‘Thiek Shuli Saved Him. WOMAN ict Wedec ac DIE PhilacelphiaAptit 1¢—Because she Intended leaving the theatrical com- pany of which both were members, Edward Smedes: shot Bessie Helen ‘Davis at a theatrital hotel where they were staying, Inftleting a: grobably fa- tal woaud near the’heart, and then at- tempted to kill himself. The builet fastened against his-skull and he was not badiy hart. The couple were mem- bere of the chorus in “The Schoot Girl” corpany, of which Edna May Is the war. The Woman Is"known' on the stage as Resste Dale. She ts 2 years old, aud her howe is in Hebrom Neb. Smotex home, if ts believed, Is in Vicksburg, Miss Other neste at the hoter hewra a Pistol shot, «ad inmaediately affer Miss Davis ran screaming down the” stairs and fell uncossciows into the arms of @ servant. A policeman who Witt pass ing the ote! can fate the place, and whet Smetes saw hint he tuned the “weayon won himself. The wollsded couple were taken to « hospital, where. it was fount the young woman's: Int jury ix Mkely te prave fatal. Smiedes is guarded in the hompital by two po Heemom. The: coupir arrived at the hotel on Smiay and reristered as Mr. and Mrs. Amedss. Miss Desig obtained a post- on with « compaay now rehearsdng Ae one of (le local theatres, she in- tending to feave “Phe School Girl” compan. She wax at the theatre re: hearsiue with tie mew company, whon Smodes gainet adintttance to the play Rowse and’ souRht sa emxagement. He fafled to obtaiw it. Seetng Miss Davis om the «tare, he went to her and threatened to” shoot: her If she joined the new company. fir was ordered frowr the place: anit! Mike Davis went wittt nim. They” returned to the hotel and, it Is Helleved, they renewed their quarrel) wich. rested ini the shoot. ing. Om the berreatr ii thie room was found « note waren Tiy Steeter reat “To dose-who: know: and meat my mother, kelpsto-saustalns and keep her.” | A letter: addressed: to, Mrs. T. % Smedis, Vieksburg, Mim, and one ad- dressed to Miss) Davite” mother at He- ‘bron were alte found in the room. The police ave aot apened: them. CARTED OFF MeKINCEY STATUE Logarrsport,. ind.,. Failed te Pay Soulp- tor; Who- Stized Figure. Logansport, Ine, Ape 18—In broad daylight, C. 9: BUlmam, a sculptor.re- movet from its pedestal tn City Park an herai¢ statue:to William McKinley which had been. erected by citizens as & memorial (>the mactyred president. Billman alleges that the statue: had not been patil for. ‘Tuking advantage of the alsexce of all city officers at a Municipal Leagne meeting, Hillman backed a waxon against the buse of the monument and, with block and tackle, transferred! the monwmeat to the back yard of is home. ‘The monument was arranged, for by ‘8 commitine of clttewns shortly after McKinley's essansination. Subscription Papers wore circulated to raise funds, but through some mistake, Billman al- leges, the sculptor was never compen- suaed. ‘The statue represemted a draped fo- male figure Roliing @ laurel wreath. ‘The monument hed been the subject «f some adverap criticism bepawne it was aituated. opposite a Hvery,atable and & salgon, Many persons, peacefully ‘watcha? BSlman eart away the sculp- ture, DANZ VERDICT SUSTAINED Phifadelphia Woman. Wiil Hang Un lees Pardon Board.interfores. Philadeiphia, April 18 — The sw preme court In an opjniom by Justice Brown affirmed the court of oyer and terminer in the case-af Mrs. Catharine Danz, who was convicted of munier of the first degree in killing her hus- ‘band. by the adminintration of; ar- tenie. No day has beew: fixed for the hang: ing of Mrs. Dans: and Hossey. The Attorney fer the woman intends. to take the case before the board ef pardons. No Evidenee. of Alleged Freud. Scranton, Ra, April 19.—Heerings were conducted by Alderman Miller In the cases. In which Director of Pub- Me Works B. T. Jayne and Superin- tendent Tarwilliger, of the bureau of highways and sewers, who were charged by the Taxpayers" Association with conspiring to defrayd the city. In the case in which they were accused of having been implicated in the ille- gal withdrawal of $1500 from the city tronsery they were both discharged, the alderman consicexing the evidence inguficlemt to warrant binding oxer the prisoners to the grand jury. Rev. Dr. Stewart Declines. Philadelphia, Aprtl 19.— Rev. Dr. George B. Stewart, president of Au- barn Theological Seminary, and a former pastor of the Market Square Churck in Harrisburg, hae declined to serve as seoretary of the Prosbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath Behool Work. which bas ita head- quarters in this city. Dr. Stewart's reason for declining the position is that he (eels that the important post he now occupies demands his time and service. He Is the third clergy- man to decline the secretaryshtp. ~ Live Stock Markets. Union Stock Yarda, Pittsburg—Cat : cl 3 prime. weal Ge ee ee medium snd ‘wy Yorkers, § 30 25; lebt Yor! ers, $5,89@5.10; piss a Ge enue. SOR Sh Btee te Sk See gease gas Ce AD p 7°00” 8: fame, Bae hoy sak Rae | WERK'S NEWS CONDENSED Thersday, April 13. . Pomona eee at Alia, Ala and I be nd into the “General J. Fred. Gratit, grand secre- ‘tary of the Grand Lodse ot Odd Fellows, died Wh Daitimore as the ‘posit of an operation, — Gwing to ill health, Arthur Lateh- ford, secretary-treasurer of the Me- cianes' Savings Bank, Rochester, N.x., committed suicide by shooting. ‘Mips Florence Oates, a nurse’ tn the Chester couniy, Pa, insane hospital, Was drowned in the Brandywine oy Upping off a foot log which she was endeavoring to cious. Friday, April 14. B. J. Rowe, Pennsyivania raliros® brakeman, was ki'ld In a wreck nea* Fern Glen. ‘The Lewis county jail at Weston, W. Va., was partiaily demolished by an explosion, and seven prisoners escaped. ‘Three cars running wild on the South- ern railroad at Columbus, Ga.. struck a Passenger train and killed three col- ored girls. _ ‘The isthmian canal commission will establish a purchasing depot in New York, to be in charge of a man selected by Chatrmea Shonts. First Lieutenant Henry Clay Evans, Jr, son of the former pension commis. sioner, has been placed on the retired Uist on account of disability, Saturday, April 15. Arthur Laster and Joseph Atller, two Negro murderers, were hanged at Pat- erson, N. J. Robert Hodges, a prominent Raiti- more architect, while suffering from MH health, “ommitted suicide by eut- Ung his throat. The greater portion of the businest section of Springyaie, Me., with many dwellings, was destroyed by fire, en- tailing a los of $400,000. John D. Rockefeller has given $100,- 000 to the University of Virginia to perpetuate the memory of Dr. J. L. M Curry, the famous southern educato,. Allezing that utterances of her father aused her fiance to refuse to marry her, Mrs. Helen Hazeltine, of New York, has sued her father for $20,000 for wander. Monday, Aprit 17. Prices of live eattle in all the Texas markets have been materially increased Beetve a ons’ leather tannery at Ti. tumvitle, Pa. was destroyed by fire, en- talling w loss of $175,000. Thrown from « vicious colt, his foot catching in a chain trace, R. Percy Hospep was diagcea to death near Har- ‘Three men wore AT damage to property done by an Oe) sion of powder in a hardware store at ‘Trenton, Tenn Henry White: the new American am- Dassador to Kome, was recelved by King Victor Emmanuel and presentod his credentials. Tuesday, April 13. John Paddock And Carl Lamphend high school students at Charleroi Mich., were drowned while canoeing in Pine lake. Mollie Harpert, 4 years 0.4, of Phila. | deiphia, found @ polsoned rat biseult t her home und ate it, dying an bow later in avany: Mark Wiatlers and a laborer named Burgess were burued to death in a fir that drsttoyed @ boarding house Cranberry; _C ‘After a qiacrel with her parents Miss Lillinn Smith, of Wilxington Del., swallowed a dose of poicn aud wad only saved by prompt medical treatment Wednesday, April 19. The Mute Plumbers’ Assoctatto of Penneyivania held thelr 11th anaus convention at Reading. Senator James P. Taliaferro was re elected to the United States sonate fh the Floride lewislature ‘Asa 8, Gates, father of John W Gates, the muiti-millionaire, is dead a ‘St. Charles, lil, aged 82 years, ‘The annual meeting of the Souther Newspaper Publishers’ Association will be held at Charleston, S.C. Ma: 2 and 3. A butler employed in the home D. R. Richardson, Morristawn, N. 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Friendly Advice, “Now that youh have~.aw—wefused me,” salt young Sapteigh, “I—aw— have ¢ notion to blow je hwains out, doncher know.” “Well,” answered Migs Biffkins, “Ta advise you not to aay anything about it if you do, and ma one will ever know the d:ference"—Cincinnatt Bar auirer. aset pF eR 2 ’ “What did that gentieman mean whem he asked you {f your environment was Pleasant?” asked the younger sister. “Oh, he weant the things which were around me while I was in the country,” replied the older one “Welt, Julia, L never heard men's atme called by that name before!”"—Youkers Statewnan. Tt Was Alwprs So. Methusclch s fethor bad just vought wo reserved seats. “[ didn't want (0 £0 Qaysuit,” be ex- plained, polating to hig 40-year-old of- ‘spring, “but I had tq sake the boy to the selreus.” Investing in gome pesnute, be biithe- ly passed foaide N.Y, Gua, THE PLANET SATURDAY ... APRIL 22 1905 JEFFERSON AWAITS DEATH Aged Actor Abandone Hope and the End Is Near. West Palm Beach, Fla., April 19. Joseph Jefferson's condition remains unchanged, except that he is gradually growing weaker. His trouble is a complication of diseases from which he suffered last summer. His physicians regard his condition as critical in the JOSEPL JEFFERSON. extreme, and it would not be surprising if he should pass away at any moment, yet he may rally and live for days or even weeks. The veteran actor realizes that his end is near and looks forward to it without fear. All hope for his recovery has been abandoned by his family. For a number of years past Mr. Jefferson and ex-President Cleveland have spent a week or two of each year together fishing in Florida. It was on his return from one of these fishing trips that Mr. Jefferson's illness developed. He went to Hobe Sound about three weeks ago on his annual fishing outing, and returned about 10 days ago to his home slightly unwell. He had taken a severe cold. He improved for a few days, but suffered a relapse. Dr. Worley, of St. Augustine, was sent for, but at the time his condition was not considered serious, except that his illness against him. He held his own took a day, when his disease again seen that the illness was near. Al Mr. Jefferson s teacher, are his wife and sons, Charles B. and frank Jefferson, and granddaughter, Married Jefferson, and Mrs. C. Symons, together with his secretary, Carl Kettler, and his nurse, Mabel Bingham, Dr. Potter, his physician, and Dr. Worley, of St. Augustine, who have been called in consultation, remain with him all the time. NAVAL HONORS FOR PAUL JONES American Squadron Will Be Sent to Bring Body to United States Bring body to United States. Paris, April 19. The state department has advised Ambassador Porter that an American squadron will be sent to take the body of Paul Jones to the United States probably in June. It is expected that the French government will participate in an imposing funeral pageant when the body leaves Paris. Detailed plans have not yet been made, but it probably will occur shortly before the French national holiday July 14. Large forces of French soldiers and sailors will form the escort. The following cable messages have been exchanged: Admiral Dewey to Ambassador Porter: "Cordial congratulations upon the wonderful results of your search. "GEORGE DEWEY, Admiral U.S.N." Ambassador Porter to Admiral Dewey: "Happy to receive congratulations concerning the famer of the American navy from his most illustrious successor." Fredericksburg Wants Jones' Body, Richmond, Va., April 17.-Fredericksburg, Va., Claims to have been the only home that John Paul Jones, the naval hero, had in America, the famous admiral having lived there at the home of his brother, William Paul. The citizens will therefore seek to have the remains recently exhumed in Paris given final sepulchre within Fredericksburg's borders, and guarantee to place an appropriate monument over their resting place. TEN-HOUR LAW INVALID New York Statute Declared Unconstitutional By Supreme Court Washington, April 18—In an opinion by Justice Pockham, the supreme court of the United States he to be unconstitutional the New York state law making 10 hours a day's work and 60 hours a week's work in bakeries in that state. Justice Harlan, White, Day and Holmes dissented, and Justice Harlan declared that no more important decision had been rendered in the last century. The opinion was handed down in the case of Lockner vs. the state of New York, and was based on the ground that the law interferes with the free exercise of the rights of contract between individuals. The court of appeals of the state upheld the law and affirmed the judgment of the trial court holding Lockner guilty. Judge Parker wrote the opinion of the New York court of appeals supporting the law, and the court divided four to three on the question of validity. Boul Perishable, They Contend. Richmond, Va., April 17.—The students of the University College of Medicine in a public statement,ent resent the attacks on Dr. William H. Taylor, professor of medical jurisprudence, who recently declared that the soul FIELD MARSHAL COUNT TARO KATSURA, PREMIER OF JAPAN. Count Katsura is both premier and minister of the interior of Japan. He is a statesman of great sagacity and one of Japan's famous soldiers. His early military education was received in Germany. [A view of a town with a river and hills in the background.] Chemulpo, which is the port of Seoul, has never until recently been noted for any fact other than that. It is a poor sort of place of about 50,000 population. Now it is notable for having been the first place in Korea to be occupied formally by the Japanese after the outbreak of hostilities. Then, too, it was off Chemulpo that Russia's American built cruiser Variag and her consort were destroyed. HU was a generation of the brain and that it died simultaneously with the brain. In a public statement the student body backs up Dr. Taylor's statement, which they say, however, was made purely from a scientific point of view. ADJUSTING A CORSET The Proper Method. According to a Dressmaking Expert. Mrs. A. M. Wade of New York, an official of the dressmakers' national organization, in a recent lecture on the art of dressing properly spoke about the manner of putting on a corset. It is a matter not of wearing a No. 22 corset, but of wearing a No. 27 and looking as though you wore a 22, she said. It is not so much a matter of a Paris gown as it is the manner in which the gown is worn. Mrs. Wade began by saying: "If you begin to hook your corset at the top and push yourself right on down with the hooking you will end with an abdomen and no hips. The woman who boasts that she never mathes her corset laces has no idea of what dressing properly means. You must untie your corset laces at night, and in the morning you must pull them just as loose as you can." This is the way to dress as Mrs. Wade explained it: With the strings all loose, put on the corset and hook the lower hook. They will fasten your hose supporters. They will pull the corset down into place. Don't go right on hooking the thing up, but let it alone to adjust itself to your figure. Brush your hair and read the morning paper; manicure your nails; do all the little odds and ends. Then, when it has worked down into place, hook up the rest of the hooks. It will be comfortable for the day by that time. Then pull the strings as tight as you want them, and you will have just as good a figure, perhaps better, if they are not pulled as tight as you can tug them. Now, don't tie the strings. That is so silly and unnecessary. Just tuck them in somewhere. They will stay in place well enough. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICKMOND, VIRGINIA COUGHS AND COODS. How They May Be Relieved by Simple Remedies. A few drops of spirits of camphor taken on sugar every three or four hours will usually check it cold, says the Chicago Tribune. A little camphorated oil rubbed well into the chest when a cough is painful will give great relief. As long as you are shielded from draft an open window is no source of danger even on the bitterest night. A cup of hot flushed tea taken before retiring for the night is a good remedy and will often prevent a cold. Hourssiness may be relieved by using the white of an egg well beaten mixed with lemon juice and sugar. Take a teaspoonful every hour. Cayenne pepper tea is good for a cold. Take a quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper and nearly a teacupful of water and drink it as hot as it can be swallowed. For a tight, hoarse cough: take hot water often, as hot as can be sipped. This will give immediate relief. A little lemon juice added to the water is beneficial. Sneezing is averted by pressing the upper lip, because by doing so we deaden the impression made on a certain branch of the fifth nerve, sneezing being a reflex action excited by some slight impression on that nerve. Sneezing does not take place when the fifth nerve is paralyzed, even though the sense of smell is retained. Squeeze a large, clean handkerchief out of water and place in a wad on the pillow of the patient an inch or two from his nose, so that he can inhale the moisture. He will usually cease coughing in fifteen minutes. While this treatment may not cure a cough, it will insure a good night's rest to many a sick child and tired mother. To avoid taking cold keep the circulation in good condition by regular bathing and exercise. Be careful about clothing, and do not make sudden changes in it unless there is a decided change in the weather. To change from increase to a new size gurnard or front wall to low shape alarms involves volves risk. 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AGENTS are making $5.00 per Day Selling : : McGirt's Magazine." THE PLANET FOR YOUNG FOLKS This Little Trick Shows How Easily the Eyes Are Deceived. Here is a little trick that any girl or boy can easily master. The next time you have chicken for dinner save the wishbone and wind some strong thread several times about the extremities of it, passing it around both ends. Insert a match between the two passes 2015 THE CLEFT WISHBONE. of thread thus formed and turn it in a circle several times until the thread is very tight and the ends of the wishbone are drawn closely together. Then suddenly let the match go, and it will describe a complete circle, producing the most curious optical illusion. The rotary motion of the match is so quick that no eye can follow it, and it seems as if the free end actually cleft the wishbone in passing from one side to the other. No matter how often the trick is done nor how closely the audience is watching, the illusion will remain. Try it and see for yourselves. WHITE RABBITS AS PETS Easy to Take Care of and Very Sat- isfactory Little Companions. "What do white rabbits most like to eat?" Almost everything. They are not in the least fussy as to diet. For that reason and for their attractive appearance and playful ways they make excellent pets. Always have an ample supply of good, clean hay and oats before them. Give green food once or twice a day and only in quantities that will all be eaten. If at any feeding they do not eat all you give them, onmit the next feeding and then give less thereafter. They are fond of almost any kind of grain or vegetable—in fact, anything that a cow or a sleep will eat—and they will devour almost any plant except plantain ivy or wild parsnip. Among the favorite delicacies of the summer are clover, dandelion, plantain, blackberry briers and blackberry leaves. Give them water once or twice a day. Some dealers and breeders may tell you not to do this, but if you love your pets pay not the slightest attention to such advice. It is cruel treatment. Hay should be kept in a rack on the side of the hutch, oats in a self feeder or in a firm dish that will not tip over easily. Clean the hutch frequently and cover the floor with a light layer of sawdust or fine shavings.—St. Nicholas. Conundrums. What is it that no one wishes to have and yet when he has it he does not wish to lose it? Answer—A bald head. What is the difference between a tight boot and an oak tree? One makes acorns, and the other makes corn acce. When is a schoolboy like a postage stamp? When he is licked and put in the corner to make him stick to his letters. What is the difference between a farmer and a seamstress? One gathers what he sows; the other sews what the gathers. Why is a very pretty girl like a locomotive? Because she sends off the sparks, transports the mails (males), has a train following her and passes over the plain—Boston Globe. Some Good Advice. Don't be egotistical over any unusual talent you may possess and never call the attention of others to your attainments. Genius is its own standard bearer, and self praise dims its luster. Don't be foolish enough to repeat compliments others have paid you. It is a sure sign of self vanity and a frivolous mind. Don't be sloven in your dress. To be well groomed pronounces the lady and the gentleman and is the greatest recommendation to a young person entering society or business. Helen's Troubles. Oh, dear me, you Amanda. Why don't you sit up straight? Why do you make me scold you From early until late? And as for you, Belinda. I'd really like to know Why you don't hold your arm out straight. But always curl it so! It's very well. Miss Lucy, For you to sit and stare, So impudent and saucy, As if you didn't care. I 'spose folks think I'm playing With you dollist. They don't see Your wicked, bud behavior. Or how it troubles me. A HOMEMADE HAMMOCK. How to Make a Good Strong One at Very Little Expense. If you can afford to pay not less than $5 for a hammock don't try to make one, for it requires much patience and several days of honest labor. If, however, you don't see your way to such extraagance as paying this amount for a garden hammock, don't buy one, for unless you are exceptionally lucky your money will simply be thrown away. For those who care to take the trouble there is a simple manner of procuring a homemade hammock which, when properly done, will be far superior to any factory product, no matter how much it glitters, how long the fringe may be or what it costs, says a writer in the Washington Post. A homemade hammock can be made forty-five inches across, which will give a sense of security and restfulness that cannot be obtained in the commercial article. The cost for materials is very small; it is the time and labor which go to make up the homemade hammock. You must buy a long needle, say seven inches, with a big eye; two iron rings for each end of the hammock, two long, smooth sticks on which to knit your hammock and two pounds of strong cord or twine. The whole should cost about 60 cents. Then, with due labor, you can produce a hammock that will prove a dream of oriental luxury, in which one can sleep under the trees without dread of falling. First take your threaded needle, taking it in the left hand and using the thumb to hold the cord in place while looping it over the tongue. Pass the cord under the needle to the opposite side and catch it over the tongue, repeating until the needle is full. Next make a loop of a piece of cord two yards long and fasten this to the door knob; then tie the cord on your needle three inches from the end of your loop. Place the small fd, or mesh stick, under the cord, the beveled edge close to the loop. With your thumb on the cord to hold it in place while you pass the needle around the mesh stick, and with its point toward you, pass it through the loop from the top, bringing it over the stick, and this will form the first half of the knot. Pull this tight, holding it in place with your thumb while throwing the cord over your hand, which forms the loop; then pass the needle from under through the loops, drawing it fast to fasten the knot. Hold this in place and repeat the operation. When thirty of these knots are made push them off the stick. The next row is done in the same manner, being added to the first row by passing the needle first through each of the thirty knots already made for the first row. Knit thirty rows of this and then tie the last loops to the other iron ring. With cords through the two iron rings you will have a hammock that for strength and comfort cannot be surpassed, and all for 60 cents. How to Polish a Stove. Put a quantity of stove polish into a dish, add equal parts of water and turpentine and a few drops of varnish. Mix this well together and apply with a small paint brush. Let the polish dry and then rub briskly with a stove brush. This will give a glossy polish that will last from one spring until the next. This should not be used on the top of a cook stove that is in use every day, for the odor would be rather offensive when the polish was first put on. It is an excellent polish for stoves that are not used through the summer. How to Send Lace. Now that real lace is in fashion it is quite an accomplishment to know how to repair the delicate web. Lace mending requires both good eyesight and patience to accomplish it properly. Lace thread, a loose thread which comes especially for the purpose, is used. The groundwork mesh should be imbated as well as possible. To keep the lace in place it is best to baste it to a piece of enameled leather, such as is used in embroidery, repairing carefully the damaged portion. If the mesh is badly torn take a scrap of fine brussels net the size of the tear, lay it on a scrap of the mending tissue, procurable at any of the dry goods shops, and pass a warm iron over it. If carefully done the mended spot will be scarcely perceptible. How to Clean Bronze To clean bronzes wash the surface with pulverized whiting or powdered saffron until the surface is smoothed; then rub the surface with paste of plumbago and saffron, which will impart the desired color; then heat the articles before a slow wood fire. Large statues which cannot be removed are washed with a weak solution of alkali and soap water. How to Sit For a Photograph. "If I had just one bit of advice to give a prospective sitter," says a famous New York photographer in L'Art de la Mode. "I should say: 'Don't think about the picture for days before having it taken. Choose a good photographer and leave it to him. Dress naturally—that is, as you are accustomed to do in your daily life—and, above all, don't dress as you have never dressed before.' That is where so many people make a mistake. They get a new gown for the special purpose of having a photograph taken and often as a elimax their hair dressed in an unusual way. Then, having changed themselves as much as possible, they come to the photographer." How to Make Linseed Tea. Pour two quarts of boiling water on one ounce of whole linseed and twelve draims of sliced licorice root. Add a few slices of lemon. Let this stand in a covered jar for six hours, then strain for use and sweeten to taste. Glass Pastry Boards. Glass Fancy Board. The newest idea in pastry boards is thick glass. The old time marble slab is now said to absorb, whereas the THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA JOB DEPARTMENT VISION WORK Quarter-Sheets, Half and Whole Placards, Society Cards, Mi- ning Stationery. WE AN ELE WHICH WE WILL Stock Ro- THE LATEST STYLE BOND, I AS SMALL AS A DODGER Sheet Poster A FRONT DOOR. OUR PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYE IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF tired and has no objectionable enter without embarrassment , 2213. EXCURSION We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placard utes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stations WE HAVE Our St. OF THE LATE WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL A Three-Sheet AS LARGE AS A FRO Our street-entrance is retired and fastidious lady being able to enter w EXCURSION WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheets, Half and Whole Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placards, Society Cards, Minutes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stationery. OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. We furnish "cuts" when desired and we will arrange to complete special work in our line. When in need of any work in our line, call and see us and estimates will be furnished. WE HAVE AN ELEGANT LINE OF SAMPLES WHICH WE WILL SHOW ANY ONE DESIRING TO SEE THEM. WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL AS A DODGER. A Three-Sheet Poster AS LARGE AS A FRONT DOOR. WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST OF WOOD- Our street-entrance is retired and has no objectionable features, the most fastidious lady being able to enter without embarrassment or annoyance. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE, 2213. Mrs. Cutting Hintz (hugging him)— Ah! I love you so, dearest. Can you let me have that $10 you promised me? Cutting Hintz—Now I understand what it means to be pressed for money.—Chicago Journal. She—I'm going to make a cake for the sale. I hope it will bring a lot of money. He—Why don't you sell it by weight, dear! It's sure to bring a lot, then.—Yonkers Statesman. MRS. P. C. EASLEY, 615 N. Second St. ICE CREAM, CONFECTIONARIES — CAKES, ETC. | Lawn and Pio-nic Parties, Festivals, Weddings etc., furnished with the best high-grade Ice Cream or the Shortest Notice. Satisfaction Guaranteed 6-7-8mos. --- It is thoroughly equipped to do all kinds of printing on short notice. We make a specialty of Society printing and work for Insurance Companies, such as Financial glass is quite impervious, hence much more sanitary. Under the glass is placed a thick sheet of felt. A great many kitchen conveniences are now made of glass. Rolling pins and washboards are familiar, but glass rollers for towels are not yet common. MENDING HINTS. How Broken China or Glass May Be Cemented Successfully. In mending glass or china the pieces should be washed with soap and water and then carefully dried in order to remove any grease that may be on them. Care must be taken not to break off the sharp points of the fracture, for the more irregular it is the better the cement will adhere, says the Chicago Tribune. Warm one of the pieces and then put the cement on the other, not in excessive quantity, however. Bring the parts close together and contrive to have them remain so until the cement hardens. If the pieces are numerous it is best to cement one piece at a time, allow it to harden and then put on another, and so on. In cementing all the pieces at once the difficulty of keeping them together is increased, and when you get them in contact at one point you will find you have displaced them at another. Be sure to let the cement harden thoroughly before you test the adhesion, otherwise you may undo what you have done. In either case the blame belongs to you and not to the cement. Most of the cements on sale will be found durable if the directions are carefully followed. Fractured pieces in cases where the article is not frequently used may be mended with white coachmaker's varnish or wet white lend or the white of an egg. A good cement is made by dissolving Russian isinglass in soft water. Oyster shells finely pulverized and mixed into a thick paste with the white of an egg produces excellent cement, which can sustain heavy weights. If lamps become loosened from their metallic sockets they can easily be repaired with plaster of paris. Be sure that it is boiled plaster. If it has not been boiled, boll it yourself by putting it in a vessel on the stove. The air and moisture will be forced out, as you will see by the bubbles. Remove all the old plaster from the lamp, fill it with fresh plaster mixed with water and while the plaster is still soft press the lamp into the socket and let it harden. The plaster must be just stiff enough to pour, and the surplus plaster which will be forced out of the socket can be readily wiped off. To repair knife handles fill the handle with powdered rosin, heat the knife and force it into the handle. How to Care Nervous Headache How to Cure Nervous Headache. An effective cure for nervous headache is found in the simple act of walking backward. Ten minutes is quite long enough for the "constitutional." It is not necessary to walk particularly straight; any sort of walking will do as long as it is backward. It is well to promenade in a long narrow room where the windows are high—a corridor, for instance—and walk very slowly, first placing the ball of the foot on the floor, then the heel. This exercise not only acts as a cure for nervous headache, but it promotes a graceful carriage. 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PLY TO nell, Jr., Richmond. 'Phone, 1589. Residence No. 911 32 Street. ROBT. W. WILLIAMS, FUNERAL DIRECTOR & EMBALMER. NO. 3019 P. STREET, BETWEEN 30TH AND 31ST STREETS. RICHMOND, VA Special attention given to all business entrusted to me. Carriages for funerals, receptions and marriages at all hours. Satisfaction guaranteed to all 116-20-'04 A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on kindly. 'Phone, 2778. The Custalo House, 702 E. BROAD ST. Having remodeled my bar, and having an up-to-date place, I am prepared to serve my friends and the public of the same old stand. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT Meals At All Hours. New Phone, 1261. Wm. Custalo, Fax S. W. ROBINSON, NO. 23 NORTH 18TH S1. DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. *PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. JOHN M. HIGGINS, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street, [Near Old Market.] RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. SATURADAY...APRIL 22 1905 Easter By... Archdeacon Farrar WITH trembling fears and streaming tears Sre dawned the Easter day. Slow to the tomb, through the shuddering gloom. "And the cave is dark and deep, And the cross towers still on the dreadful hill, And what can we do but weep?" THE little maid his voice obeyed By sweet Genesearth's wave, And Lazarus heard his thrilling word And came from the rocky grave. And the youth of Nain to rise was fain. And his mother walled no more. But now the Giver of Life is dead. And joy and hope are o'er. THE ANGELS FACES AND ANGEL WINGS! L. from his ebrouh of crimson cloud "Why seek ye the living among the dead? Oh, not in the tomb is he! He has burst the prison of death," they said; "Ye shall meet him on Galilee!" Weep no more, though ye weep so sore. For the loved in the farther land; Though the dust be spread on the cherished head. To set his prisoners free, And the death on earth is a heavenly birth, And time is eternity. IN JAPAN AND RUSSIA How the Warring Nations Celebrate the Festival of Peace. Every nation has its Easter. In faraway Japan this celebration of the rebirth of the year is called the feast of the cherry blossoms and is attended with much merrymaking and jollification. The blossoming cherry trees are hung with innumerable paper lanters. The boats on the rivers at night are similarly decorated, and there are processes of singing girls, actors, tradespeople and monks. In Russia Easter is a festival celebrated much like our Christmas, with gifts and rejoilings. Dolls and eggs are bought for the little ones by every householder, and the week immediately preceding is devoted to what has been called the "great annual Muscovite wash." Every housewife makes an elaborate cleaning of her dwelling, and the public baths are crowded with people who deem cleanliness at this particular season a religious duty. Valuable presents are interchanged. Formerly every one had a right to kiss everybody else, though this curious custom now prevails only in rural districts. Among the rich gorgeous artificial eggs, sometimes worth thousands of dollars apiece, are given and received. Such eggs often contain costly jewels, and in this shape the czar each year bestows upon his wife a precious token of his imperial regard. —New York World. What Americans Spend For Lilies. The rise of the Easter lily is one of the most sensational features of greenhouse floriculture in America during the last quarter of a century. Our florists raise about 5,000,000 Easter lilies a year. Assuming that only half of these plants are sold, that each bears only two flowers (a good plant --- should have six to eight) and that the public pays 50 cents a bud. it would seem that the American people spend at least $2,500,000 for Easter lilies every year.—Country Life In America. THE EASTER RABBIT Why Mr. Long Ears is a Symbol of the Festival. For more seasons than one cares to count the Easter egg has been the familiar symbol of the great spring festival, but of late years another emblem has begun to dispute its supremacy in the confectioners' shops, and for some time the hares at Easter have been almost as numerous as the eggs. The hares are quite as often rabbits, delicate distinctions in zoology not being the province of confectioners, but in this case they cannot go far out of the way in confounding the two, because in symbology the animals are identical, and, moreover, to the American eye the rabbit is the more familiar form. But why either? What has the innocent rodent, as George Elliot would say, "with its small nibbling pleasures," to do with the great festival of the resurrection? Easter, though apparently a solar festival in its connection with the equinox, in reality and even as ordered by the Christian church belongs by rights to the moon, and the hare, we find, was in ancient and especially oriental symbology identical with the moon, across whose disk endless numbers of Hindoo and Japanese artists have painted him, while their Chinese brethren represent the moon as a rabbit pounding rice in a mortar. The Buddhists had two different stories explaining the hare's presence in the moon. One was that Buddha once took the shape of a hare, that he might feed a hungry fellow creature, and was translated in that form to the moon, where he forevermore ablides. The second myth, as told by Dr. Gubernatis in his "Zoological Mythology" seems more likely to be the genuine. This legend says that when Indra, disguised as a famishing pilgrim, was dying for food the hare, having nothing to give him, threw himself into the fire that he might be roasted for his benefit, and the grateful Indra translated the animal to the moon. There are several other reasons why the hare was chosen to symbolize the moon. One was that it is a nocturnal animal and comes out at night to feed; another that the female carries her young for a month, thus representing the lunar cycle; another that the hare was thought by the ancients to be able to change its sex like the moon, which as it waxed or waned was regarded as masculine or feminine. Sir Thomas Brown says that this was affirmed by Archelaus, Plutarch and many others. Pliny, who is not mentioned by Sir Thomas, gives it the weight of his authority in his "Natural History." The historian of "Vulgar Errors" devotes a chapter to the subject, but is extremely cautious in his dealings with it, considering it quite possible that such a change might take place, but in exceptional instances only and certainly not annually, as the ancients asserted. Beaumont and Fletcher allude to this several times, especially in the "Faithful Shepherds." act 3. In the incautation of the soiled sheeped: Hares that you have chosen Protea, alighting off and storage Harecats with you Let this ridden chap be CASTRO IS DEFIANT Won't Back Down if Whole U. S. Army and Navy Go to Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela. April 12. — "President Castro will not withdraw the New York and Bermudez Asphalt company case from the Venezuelan courts and will not resubmit the Olcott case to arbitration if the whole American army and navy come to Venezuela." This emphatic statement of General Alejandro Ybarra, the Venezuelan secretary of foreign affairs, reflects the spirit of the reply which President Castra made to the recent proposal of the American state department for the arbitration of the Bermudez and Olcott cases. New Test For Blood Stains Bridgeport, Conn., April 12. — Dr. Justin D Lisle, of New York city, explained to the members of the Fairfield County Medical Society at its 113th annual meeting here the facts of a newly discovered test for determining whether or not blood stains on garments or on other things are human or animal stains. The stains, he said, are first washed with a saline solution and the mixture set aside. A few drops of serum obtained by the admixture of human blood with that of some lower animal are added, and the solution is put in a warm place for 24 hours. If the solution after that period has elapsed assumes a cloudy appearance or there is precipitation in the test tube, the stains are human blood. Killed His Sister With Hat Pin Huntington, W. Va., April 10. James Callen, of Wilsondale, became enraged at his 5-year-old sister because she refused to play with him, and, grabbing his mother's hat pin, he stabbed his sister five times. The little girl ran screaming from the room and fell dead in her mother's arms, the hat pin having pierced her heart. How to Succeed With the Calla. We now have nine varieties of the calla, all worth growing, either as pot plants or in a wet situation outside. They are the little gem, a very dwarf variety; the black calla, with jet black flowers; golden calla, yellow calla, leopard calla, with spotted flowers; red calla and spotted leaf calla. They all require a soil of rich alluvial loam, with plenty of well rotted manure. Start with two-year-old roots. Pot them and set the pot in water and leave it there until the plant has done blooming, then take it out and let it grow until August, when let it dry off and put in the dark until January, when start it by putting it in the water again. The calla is a swamp plant and must be treated accordingly. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND VIRGINIA An Obstinate Stand "The trouble with you," said the musical enthusiist, "is that you do not understand classical music" "Perhaps," answered Mr. Cumrox. "But I refuse to be regarded as a man of inferior intelligence until I find some one who is competent to prove that he understands it."—Washington Star. Keeps One Secret "Tis said women can't keep a secret, And yet very oft we hear tell Of one who "is certainly forty, But keeping her age very well." —Chicago Journal. THE INTERESTING FEATURE. Young Lady (slumming)—And if you come to the children's meeting tomorrow night you will hear me play the organ." Little Girl;—O! miss, and will you have a monkey? Frenzled Finance. She beard Wall street was full of bears. She thought the chance to seize To get a hug; she stayed all day. And didn't get a squeeze. No Choice. "Which do you prefer, summer or winter?" "I have no preference," answered the over-anxious parent. "I don't feel that it makes much difference whether Willie runs the risk of drowning while swimming or skating."—Washington Star. "No, George," she said; "I never can marry you." "But Rev. Hitchem-Upp has advertised that for to-day only he will perform the ceremony for $1.99. In an instant George Keene held the beauteous Miss Bargaynescale in his arms.-Judge Dién't Kneri Clara—Did he go down on his knees when he proposed? Dora—No, but I don't think he ought to be blamed for that. "Why not?" "He was helping me over a mud puddle."—N. Y. Weekly. Sea and Sky. "When the tenors' voice scared up it seemed to lift me to the skies." "Perhaps you went to such an altitude that you couldn't see I'm floundering on the high Cus."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A "Willis calls his wife Birdie." "Making game of her, I see."— Wheeling Register. Just a Tip. Do not worry over coal Or the gritging plumber; Be in time, it always pays. Study up these winter days. A note to our next summer." —Chicago News. Nemesis Mrs. Knicker—Does she tell him the virtues of her first husband? Mrs. Bocker—Yes; but the cook telis her the virtues of her last mistress.—N. Y. Sun. Fierce Pace. "They say poor Jack Spender is on the 10wward path." "Is he going fast?" "Yes; literally coasting."—Kansas City Star. On Safer Ground. "How is your son getting on in his new position?" "Weil," answered Farmer Corntossel, "he ain't learning' as fast as usual, but he has a better chance of holdin' his job. Fur the first time he is willin' to admit that the boss knows more about the business than he does."—Washington Star. Incurable. "Well," said the tall agent, "did you find those two people who were suffering with loss of appetite?" "Yes," responded the short agent. "And did you sell them any of the remedy?" "It was no use. They were on their honeymoon."—Chicago Sun. Wishing. "That hateful Mrs. Nexdore remarked to me to-day," said the pretty young wife, "that 'beauty is only skin deep,'" "Come, now," replied her shrewd husband, "what are you leading up to?" "Well, I was just going to say I'd like to have a little of it that was sealskin deep."—Philadelphia Press. ANE CUST W JUDGE. Jinks—I'm ever so much obliged for this favor, and if I ever have a chance, I'll do as much—Hello! Here comes Bilkins. Let's do dugge into an alleyway. Binks—Don't you like Bilkins? Jinks—He did me a favor once, and the fellow may want me to return it.—N. Y. Weekly. After this we easily perceived the rest was mere child's play.—N. Y. Sun. Weal, Wine and Winegar. Tommy had just repeated the French alphabet, and by mistake had put in "W." "There is no 'W' in French," observed his teacher. "No 'W'!" repeated Tommy. "Then how do you spell out?"—Ally Sloper. AN OMISSION "Ah, my good woman, what are you looking for so industriously in your prayer book?" "O, sir, I've always found such consolation in this book, and now I want a prayer for protection from automobiles, and I can't find one."—Filegende Blaster. "He's too loud mouthed." "Why, I thought him a man of very few words." "Who said anything about words? You ought to hear him eat."—Houston Post. An Explanation: She—I wonder why men stay away from church? Her Husband—Why, they are not as much interested in each other's clothes as women—Brooklyn LIke. THE HOMEMAKER. She Is the One Woman the World Cannot Do Without. The home woman is the indispensable woman. It has been wisely said that we could do without the women who have made careers for themselves in all other directions, but without the home woman we should have to shut up shop at once. The homemaker is the absolute, necessary element, the woman the world cannot do without. It is therefore a pity that the home woman allows herself so often to fail of her full development and reward. She is apt to be so unselfish and so conscientious that she lets the four walls of home narrow about her. The household woman, as she is called, does not get enough exercise every day, nor does she breathe enough of the outside air of thought and action to refresh her spirit. The simplest remedy is that of at least one outside interest. The woman who takes up one hobby, one charity, one line of work, beyond her household cares and follows it steadily will find that it brings freshness and power with it. The study of some special art, together with the collection of old china, reading up a special subject, making a garden—any one of these if pursued thoroughly will bring her in touch with others and open vast vistas of interest unendingly. And the woman with a hobby grows old so slowly that she often never grows old at all, but keeps to the last that freshness of interest which is the mark of youth—New Orleans Times Democrat. MANAGING A HUSBAND The old proverb says, "There are three things which can be managed only by coaxing—a kid glove, a fire and a man." Take my advice, says a woman who signs herself "A Wife Who Knows" in the New York Journal, and never try any other method with a husband. The woman, married or single, who fights for her rights has a hard struggle, often to fall at last, while she who takes them graciously is allowed to walk off freely if not invited to come back again. Any married woman gifted with even a small degree of diplomacy may have her own way quite as much as if not more than is good for her if only she be careful always to defer to her nominal lord and master and never to allow any one, himself least of all, to suspect that she has been able to persuade him that her way is his own. The secret of her power lies in a nutshell—it is the power behind the throne which never openly assists itself. All men hate to be ruled—indeed, no man will be if he knows it. The woman who is truly mistress of her household never fails to set her husband upon a pedestal and to insist that all the household shall honor him as lord and master thereof. Deference to her husband is the drop of oil which keeps the wheels of the domestic machine running smoothly. How to Scent the Hair. Dellcately perfumed hair is liked by particular women, and from London comes an idea for perfuming it. This is a pretty little silk cap, softly padded and scented, intended to be worn for some little time before going to a dinner or a dance. One's personal choice may be followed in the matter of perfume. How to Select Ewls See that the spurs are short and that they have not been cut or pared to deceive the buyer. The comb of a cock should be bright red. Black legged fowls are to be preferred for roasting, white legged for boiling. Money received on dept. amounts above $1.00 which re. 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, enience for safety and the accommodation. For all information concerning Stock Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged, 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. FARLEY. E. A. WASHINGTON, R. W. WHITING. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. PRES. W. I. JOE FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office & Warerooms, 207 N. HACKS R Officers by Telephone or Te pert and Entertainment Old Phone, 686. Residence and on deposit and interest paid on to which remains 60 days and over. on Satisfactory Security. ents Handled Promptly. cents and upwards received on deposit atted up in the most improved style, having a large steel chest, electric lights and every modern conven commodation of the public. morning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the been arranged for the special convenience of the work . M. to 4 P. M. Saturday, 9 A. M. to 3 P. W. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until from work. Money received on deposit and interest paid on amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vank, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. 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 3 P. W. close Saturday at 3 P. M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL, F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAVER RLEY, JN. TAYLOR, W. WHITING, WILI AM CUSTALO, J. J. OARTE R. PRES. THOMAS M. ORUMP, SEC'T. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Ims, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad MACKS FOR HIRE: None or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Sup entertainments promptly attended. Residence in Building, New Phone, 44 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. CHAVER J. O. FARLRY, JN. TAYLOR. E. A. WASHINGTON, R. W. WHITING, WIL. AM CUSTALO, J. J. CARTB JOHN MITOHELL, JR. PRES. THOMAS M. ORUMP, SRC. W. I. JOHNSON. FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Odyssey by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Support and Entertainments promptly attended. Old Phone, 686, Residence in Building, New Phone. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF T TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally instituted under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial to the Social and Moral condition of humanity and uniform ranks will secure for this organization all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand oppo-puties wanted in all sections of the country to organi-ly address. ALLEN Supreme voyager W. 82th Street, New York This organization has been chartered and legally situated under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity... Beneficial external and to promote the Social and its two distinct military and uniform place in the front ranks of all sacred insu unity for active men. Deputies wante bodges Kindly address, S. W. ALLENS 346 W. 27th St. Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events a grand open unity, for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organize lodges. Kindly address. REGISTERED PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH ... AND HAIR TONIC... both in a box for $5.00, or three boxes for $4.00. Guaranteed to stay in a sweaty and to be "the best in the world." One box is all that it requires in the office. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH. A FRACH-LINE completion obtained if used as digested. Will stain skin of a black or brown person A five oz. bottle lighter, in a pint bottle or person bottle. In certain hours a shade or two lighter will be noticeable. It does not burn upon exposure to sunlight. Beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, scars, bruises or burns, making the skin very soft and smooth, glosses the face, and removes wrinkles without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, 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. DENTISTRY SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY PAINLESS EXTRACTION For beautiful Teeth, Comfort, Pleasure and Health. OFFICE HOURS:—From 8 A. M. to 6 M. Old Phone, 816. DR. P. B. RAMSEY. 102 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. THE PLANET is a live, up-to-date weekly journal. SUBSCRIBE NOW. District Passenger Agt City Ticket Agt 808 East Main St., Richmond, Va. --- M. H. 图 CRANE'S HAIR TONIC FRANK WALLER, JH ```markdown ``` 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 MAKE A SPECIALTY OFFICE Mt. Vernon, Gibson, Old Jasper, Pennbrook Rye, Wilson, Old Henry, Old North Crown Own Whitney and Mountain Apple Inn. REPORTED ARE DOMESTIC WINES, BRANDS, GUNS AND RUMS. Best and most popular brands of CIGARS Goods Delivered Free to 'Phone 2234 all parts of the City. BUFFET IN REAR. Capital, $25,000 WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE REPORTED BY M. FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW 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. Short line to the principal Cities of the South, Southwest, Mid Florida, Cuba and Mexico. 9:10 a. m. —Local for Norlina, Raleigh, Hamlet and Charlotte 2:20 p. m. SEABOARD Mall, composed of Pullman cars to Atlanta, Savannah and Jackson; SEABOARD Cafe cars are also maintained on this train, they are maintained at the highest degree of excellence; alarge comfortable day coaches, running schools. 10:30 p. m.—SEABOARD EXPRESS, to Florida, of Pullman slepers to Atlanta, Brevann, Jacksonville and Tampa. SEABOARD, Cafe cars, and day coaches, running to Florida without change. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND, DAILY. 6:25 a. m.—From Florida, Atlanta and the Southwest. 4:25 p. m.—From Florida, Atlanta and the Southwest. 5:30 p. m.—From local points. For all information as to rates, schedule and conditions apply to any SEABOARD Agent, or to H. S. LEARD. SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST 2 Hours and 25 Minutes to Norfolk LEAVER ROWHAM BAY LEAVE RICHMOND-EASTBOUND. 7:35 a.m.-Week days-Local to Newport News and way stations. Newport News 5:30 p.m. Old Point 6:00 p.m. Norfolk 6:25 p.m. 5:00 p.m.-Week Day- Locals to Old Point MAIN LINE-WESTBOUND. 8:20 a.m.-Event Center to Clifton Force 2:00 p.m. - Daily - with through Palmettan to Cincinnati. Indianapolis. without change for Palmettan to Lost Lake. Local 8:15 p.m. - Week days - Local to Gardensville. 10:45 p.m. - Week days - Limited with Palmettan to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago. 7:30 a.m. m. daily and 8:20 p.m. m. daily. Mam. Local from Staunton 7:45 p.m. m. Ex. School Gordon office accommodation 8:20 a.m. ex. James River Lake from Clifton Forge 6:35 p.m. m. daily. Eamont Accom 8:30 a.m. except Sunday. SOUTHERN RAILW Y Effective April 5th, 1905; 12:30 p. m.—Daily. Local for Charlotte. Buffet Pullman 1 to Atlanta and Ft. mingham, Okeanee Memphis, Chattanooga and all the South 6:00 p. m.—Ex. Ks. Ark., Keysville. 11:30 p. m.—Daily. limited; fullman ready 6:30 p. m. for South. LORE LINE The favorite route to Baltimore and eastern points. Leave Richmond 42 p. 0 p. m. Monday and Fridays and Fridays. m. Monday 4:15 p. m.—Except Sunday. Local mixer for West Point. m.—Except Sunday. Local for 25 p. m.—Daily except Sunday. Local for Washington. m.—Except Sunday. For West Point, connecting with steamers for Baltimore and river landings. Steamers call at Yorktown and Gateshead, Sundays, Wednesday and Fridays and at Gateshead, Sundays and Allmonds Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Saturday TRAINE ARBIEF RICHON 6:38 a. m. and 6:23 p. m. - From all the South. 6:39 a. m. From Charlotte' and Durham. 6:39 a. m. - From Durham. 6:35 a. m. - Saltmore and West Point. 10:50 a. m. - From West Point. 5:10 p. m. From West Point. S. H. HARTLEY, M. F. M. F. M. F. H. C. ACKERT, G. M. H. W. TATTON, G. P. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A. Richmond, VA. ORPOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Norfolk 11:30. Suffolks only at Peebersburg. Waverly and Suffolks. 9200 A.m. CHICAGO EXPRESSES Buffet Parties 9200 A.m. LYONNE LOUGHTON and Roarkes Pullman Hall Cumbus and Shelfid t. Cincinnati also Rochester and Knoxville to Chittagong, and Memphis. 12:20 p. m. Roanoke Express for Farmville, Lynchburg, and Roanoke. R. F & P Richmond, Frederickburg, and Pote daily Main St. Through. AF Pullman a.m. in daily New York St. 6:34 a.m. a. m. daily except Monday byrd Thursday in carl's 7:25 a.m. Ashley, Ashley 7:25 a.m., week days, Elaa. Ashland accommodation 8:40 a.m., daily Byrd st. Through Local steps. 12:00 noon, week days, Byrd st. Through 4:00 p.m., week days, Byrd st. Fredericks bush accommodation. 5:05 p.m., midday st. Through. 6:30 p.m., week days, Elaa. Ashland accommodation daily. 200 m. , week days, Byrd St. Frederick- burg accommodation. m. daily, Byrd St. Through 11:50 a.m. week days, Byrd St. Through Local stops 2:14 p.m. daily Main St. Through 3:14 p.m. week days, Eiba Ashland accom modations 7:15 p.m. daily, Byrd St. Through 9:15 p.m. daily, Byrd St. Through Local stops 9:40 p.m. daily, Main St. Through All Pullman cars 150 p.m. daily Main St. Through 150 p.m. daily Nain St. Through 150 p.m. daily days, Byrd St. Through All Pullman cars NOTE----Pulman Sleeping or Farior Cars on all above trains except train arriving monday 1:30 a.m. week days and local secon- dations. Time of arrivals and departures and connections not guaranteed. L. B. DUKE, C. W. CULP, W. P. TAYLOR, Gen. Man r. Asst. Gen. Man. Traf. Man. ATLANTIC COAST-LINE. TRAINS LEAVE SICHMON DAILY BYRD STREET STATION. 9:10 a. m. A. C. L. Expresso to all points south 12:00 a. m. Petersburg and N. & W. West. 13:00 p. m. Petersburg and N. West. 14:00 p. m. Goldsboro local. 14:50 p. m. Petersburg local. 17:25 p. m. "Florida" West Indian Limited To points South. 19:00 p. m. Petersburg and N. & W. West. 11:30 p. m. Petersburg local. **TRAINS ARKIVE RICHMOND.** 9:30 p. m. Petersburg and N. & W. West. 11:30 p. m. Petersburg local. **TRAINS ARKIVE RICHMOND.** 9:30 p. m. 7.35 a. m. 8.25 a. m. excepc Sunday 10:45 a. m. excepc only, 11:40 a. m. 1 p. m. 10:55 p. m. 8.50 a. m. 7.45 p. m. 9:55 a. m. 10:65 p. m. 8.50 a. m. 7.45 p. m. 9:55 a. m. **Excepc Sunday** 12xcept Sunday. S. G. GARBELL, Div. Pass. Agt. W. J. ORAIG, Gen. Pass. Agt. OLD DOMINION STEAM- SHIP COMPANY. Night Line for Norfolk. Leave Richmond daily at 7 p. m., stopping at Newport News in both directions. Fare, $3.50 one way, $4.50 round trip, includes stateroom, berth; meals, 50cts. Street cars to Steamer's Wharf: For New York by O. & O. Railway, 9:00 a. m. m. 4 p. m. 9 a. m. and 8 p. m. by N. & W. Railway; also by Old Dominion night line steamer. All lines connect at Norfolk with direct steamers for New York, sailing daily except Sunday, 7 p. m. K. F. CHALKLER, City Tinket Agt., 808 B. Main St. JOHN F. MAYER, Agt. Wherf Foot of Ash St., Richmond, Va. H. B. WALKEK V P & T. M., New o rk. THE PLANET From Atlantic City. Atlantic City, N. J., April 22d.—The St. James A. M. E. Church entertained the New Jersey Annual Conference. The reports were a financial success. The addresses were handled with skill. Rt. Rev. Benjamin W. Arnett, D. D., LL. D., presided. The Bishop closed the session on Monday at a time that he had at least a measure of sightseeing in our beautiful city. Trolleys were chartered to convey them from the inlet to Long Park, which cover the length of our city. After the return, the Avenues and Boardwalk were next in consideration in the evening. The apointments were read and Conference adjourned to meet in 1906, with many pleased faces. Rev. James N. Deaver, Rector of St. Augustine's Church Episcopal has placed a beautiful pipe organ at the Sunday service being held for the occasion. Palm Sunday was strikingly effective when the peal of the organ was heard. 25 were confirmed last Friday. The kindergarten, kitchen, garden, 1st and 3rd men guard, St. Augustine cadets, cooking and sewing school are doing great work. Bishop Arnett filled the pulpits of Price Memorial A. M. E. Zion, Asbury M. E. and Nebo Baptist Church and all the various churches of our city. Dr. Murray has been appointed for another year. He has had spiritual and financial success in the past six months. Last Sunday was an all season day here. We had snow, rain and sunshine. The town is full of help and still they come. Our city has a remarkable name for furnishing work to men from every state in the Union. We are possessed of a remarkable degree at our printing office from S. Carolina and invite our friends to come and see him. Mrs. W. T. Thomas, one of the most popular ladies of Atlantic City is preparing to give an Easter reception to her friends from Baltimore. Mr. Allen Bowles, formerly of Richmond, Va., arrived in the city this week from Palm Beach, Fla. He is now at the Savoy Hotel. Mr. R. A. Jackson is still in the printing business. His work equals any gotten out in this city. Geo. M. Fischer of 140 N. Delaware Ave., died Saturday morning, April 15th at 11:25 o'clock. The deceased was a resident of Atlantic City for the past 35 or 40 years. He was born at Woodbury, N. J., and was 71 years of age, being a member of the Masonic Order. There survives him a daughter and three grand children. The funeral services will be held at Camden, N. J. Interment will be made at Camden, N. J. Providence, B. L. Items. To Richmond Planet: Mr. Frd. Moore of New York, Editor of Colored American, President of Business Men's National League spoke in this city at People's A. M. E. Church, Rev. McCallume, pastor on the 9th, under the auspices of Douglass Afro-American Press Agency, Mr. F. R. Purnell, manager and treasurer. Mr. Moore was introduced to his large audience by Mr. Chas. Alexander, Editor of Boston Colored Citizen, who is ably assisting Mr. Purnell in trying to form colored men that are in business in this city into a league to help to build up the business of patronage for each other. His subject was Business Relation of Race. He told his neeches that in the past 40 years the Negro has tried and is trying to educate himself so that he can compete with his white brothers. Batson and Miller Concert Company sang at Olney Street Baptist Church on the 6th to a large audience. Mr. F. Moore was the guest of R. Hart on the 9th while in our city, the only colored grocer in the city. Messrs. Moore and Alexander were also entertained by the Irreproachable Club Sunday evening, after the lecture, the guest of President McGurley. The Douglass Afro-American Press Agency has opened their new room at 10:00 Westminster Street, room 5. Officers are F. R. Purnell manager and treasurer; J. Maddox secretary; G. H. Purnell, L. C. Cerry, Reporters. They are the distributors of all colored papers and Magazines in this city and state Y. M. C. A. Notes. The Y. M. C. A. Conference was well attended last Friday evening. This is an hour which is always full of many rich blessings. The explanation on the Sunday School Lesson was a blessing to all who attended last Saturday. Reports from the jail and alms-house for last Sunday's work were good. Mr. A. D. Daily addressed the boys last Sunday. The boys always like to meet our brother. About 500 men were out last Sunday to the men's meeting. Dr. Deo. W. Daniel was the speaker. Frank W. Cunningham, accompanied by Mr. W. R. Walker sang special solos, which were in keeping with the address. Three men accepted Christ. Songs in the dark Sunday 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hall. Every man is invited to spend Easter with the Y. M. C. A. Illustrated songs on the canvass. Rock of Ages and others. Sliding pictures. Subject, "Who Was Jesus?" by Mr. S. K. McKee, General Secretary of the white Y. M. C. A. The boys quintette from boys work will sing. Only men will be admitted. The great rally day with the Wo- man's Auxiliary Sunday, April 30th at 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hall. Every woman is invited to come and bring an offering. A special address will be delivered by Dr. D. Webster Davis. Subject, "The Three Golden Words." Special music by a female quartet, under the direction of Mrs. Mary E. Washington. Solo by Mrs. S. Alice Kemp Burrell. Invite the other woman. Free. At the new Pythian Castle, north 3rd St., Sunday, April 30th, a great mass meeting for men. Dr. J. E. Jones of the Va. Union University will address the men. Come. Live singing. 24 Negro Melodies Transcribed for the Piano by S. Coleridge Taylor. The twenty-four transcriptions or fantasias which make up the contents of this volume deserve to be ranked with the Hungarian Rhapsodies of Liszt and the Slavonic Dances of Dvorsak, as masterly translations of folk-music into the idiom of the piano. The composer has selected his themes from the native songs of Africa and the West Indies, and has found many of the finest and most suggestive in the songs which came into being among the American Negroes during the days of slavery, which have become familiar through the work of the Jubilee Singers. In treating these melodies, Mr. Coleridge-Taylor has been careful to preserve the aesthetic qualities of the music while giving them form and structure through consistent thematic development. Their depth and spontaneity of feeling, rich and individual harmonic expression, and mastery of technique entitle these compositions to a high place in piano literature. The volume contains a portrait of the composer and an explanatory foreword, besides an introduction by Booker T. Washington, giving the biography of the foremost musician of his race, and a sketch of Negro folk-music. The volume is one of the "Musicians Library," published by Oliver Ditson Company, Boston. Price in heavy paper, cloth back, $1.50; in cloth, full gilt, $2.50, post-paid. Richmond, Va., April 18, 1965. Mr. Editor:— We thank Mr. Russell Nicholas and Mr. Robert Smith, the head- waiters of Covington, Va., while spending their vacation in Palm Beach, Florida. They did not for- get the orphans. The collected $11.21. I thank both of them for their generous gift and may God's richest blessings be upon both of them. Yours respectfully, BETTIE GRAVES. Matron. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Another Court in Suffolk. Suffolk, Va., April 15, 1905. Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchell, Jr., organized a club for the female department of the Knights of Pythias here last evening to be known as Golden Rule Court, No. 86, I. O. of Calanthe. He was assisted by Miss M. L. Chiles of Richmond, G. W. R. of D.; Mrs. Julia A. Powell, D. Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor; Mrs. Sarah P. Marshall, Special Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor and Mrs. Bette Hunter, Mrs. Susan Jones, Mrs. Carriebed, Gwaltney, Mrs. Luzenia Johnson, Gwaltney, Mrs. L. Watkins, Mrs. Martha Hines. The candidates were initiated at Gwaltney's Hall. The following are the officers installed:—Worthy Counsellor, Mrs. Mary Jane Cooper; W. Inspectrix, Mrs. Carrie Gaskins; W. Inspector, Mrs. George Moore; Senior Directress, Mrs. Bettie Harris; Junior Directress, Mrs. Ida Freeman; Orator, Mrs. Maggie Martin; Register of Deeds, Miss Inez Cousins; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Eva Biggs; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Celestine Folk; Escort, Mrs. Susie Reid; Conductress, Mrs. Mary Garris; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Eliza Newsome; Herald, Miss Sarah Ricks; Protector, Miss Julia Goode; Trustees, Mrs. Laura J. Stephenson, Miss Eva Ricks and Mrs. Clara Jones. This court was organized through the persistent efforts of Mrs. Sarah P. Marshall, the Special Deputy here, Grant Worthy Counsellor Mitchell complimented her highly on her work. Refreshments were served and all enjoyed themselves. Sir Mitchell left last night for Richmond. An Early Morning Blaze A fire occurred Monday morning at about 2:15 o'clock at the store of Mr. H. M. Booth, near the corner of Third and Duval Sts. When Mr. Booth awoke, he found his coal-house in a blaze. It was some time before the fire department got to work and the house and the one adjoining were nearly destroyed by the flames. The loss was covered by insurance on the coal-house and the dwelling, but the furniture in the latter place was uninsured. There was a big blaze and many residents in that locality were out in scant costume. The cellar was open wide, he did not walk into it, although he was reading about the new stock of clothing which Mr. I. J. Miller has now on hand at his emporium. It is needless to worry about the price, if you buy your clothing from Mr. I. J. Miller. Call and see the stock that has just arrived from the Northern market. His number is 528 E. Broad St. Dr. R. E. Jones is erecting a palatial mansion at Jonesboro, a settlement about six miles from this city. He announces that Mr. W. Isaac Johnson and others will do likewise. The plans have been drawn for these residences. Yes, I am bound to go to that lodge meeting and I have not time to go home, so I will drop in Thompkins Road St., and get that quick lunch. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA EVERYBODY With us it takes but a few dollars to make you look dressy and dignified. Easter is at hand, you will buy a new suit of clothes; your boy also wants one. You will need a hat and a nice pair of shoes to complete your Easter outfit. Why not come to the Which is owned and managed entirely by colored people and buy these things? Oh; you want yours Tailor Made, do you? Well, we are the right people, we take your measure and our tailors in Baltimore do the rest. Suits From $15.00 to $45.00 Made to Order. Our Suit Department for men, boys, and children, is up-to-date, in every respect. Bring your boys to us, we will do the rest. Hundreds of parents are rejoicing that they came to us and purchased clothing for their children, for we have the best line in Richmond. The boys can't come too big or too little for us, for we handle Children's Suits in Serge and other fabrics in sizes from 3 to 17 Our Shoe Department is Ready for Inspection. And is composed of some of the leading brands, Kreator, Snow and Road King, among them, all the latest styles in bluchers, Oxford, and others in all the different leathers, for men, women and children. Our HAT and CAP Departments are Alright, to say nothing of the latest styles and novelties in GENTS FURNISHINGS. Give us a Call, that is all we Ask The New Enterprise Store. 528 E. BROAD ST., Near cor: 6th & Broad, J. J. MILLER. PROP. COLORED MAN WRATHY. Wanted His Money—An Echo from the New Insurance Laws. J. H. Blackwell, principal of the colored High School, and W. H. Hatcher, a well known colored insurance man, were arrested last night at their homes by Captain Tomlinson, Sergeant Wiltshire and Sergeant Wright, on the complaint of Frank Quinn, that they had secured from the police false pretences the sum of $285.35. Blackwell and Hatcher were the president and secretary, respectively, of the Benevolent Relief Association, an insurance organization of $5,000 capital, which went out of business on January 1st. In going out of business the concern went to the wall, and there was litter in the treasury. Quinn therefore in the treasury were Blackwell is well thought of in Manchester. He said last night that there could be nothing of a criminal character in the charge. "We were forced out of business by the new insurance laws," he said, "and have been trying to settle up the affairs of the concern in the most equitable way. We cannot see how anything more than a civil case can be made of it. We have engaged Mr. Smith as counsel, and feel that the case will be dismissed." The two men were taken to the Second Station, where they were detained. The case will be called in the Police Court this morning. —Manchester correspondence of the Times Dispatch, April 20, 1905. Died While Visiting Friends. Clifton Forge, Va. Departed this life April 9, 1905, at Petersburg, Va., Estelle Sanderson, the daughter of Mrs. Mary Sanderson, in the 17th year of her Mary, a member of Main St. Baptist Church, and at time a student at the Va. Seminary. At the time of her death, she was visiting Mrs. James Smith of Petersburg, Va. All possible attention was given her. The kindness of the family and many friends will never be forgotten, and we thank them so much for their kindness. --- No use to go home for something to eat these days as they are house cleaning. But Thompson's stews, jowl and salad, roast beef, stenks, chops, boiled and baked beans will fix you up all right. FOR SALE:—One High Mandolin and Guitar on easy payments to party giving reference. Apply at this office. M.B. MAN AND WIFE FOUND DEAD Musical Director of Koch's Philadelphia Theater died by Gas. FOUND IN WILLIAMS PARENTS POLICE DEPT. NO. 17—Louis Heck, Jr., died on Koch's Chestnut Street and his wife, who fainted while watching a ville stage as well as were found asphyx-ing in the bedroom of their fiancée and the Lombard streets, this day. Two burners on a chandelier in the room were turned on. Whether the couple had deliberately planned to end their lives together or whether their death was an accident has not yet been definitely determined, but the coroner is inclined to believe they died through accident The finding of their bodies was attended by rather sad circumstances. T. W. Eckert, of San Francisco, the father of the dead woman, and his wife, who are on the vaudeville stage, and who had completed an engagement in New York and were to appear in Washington next week, had planned to dine with his daughter and her husband. They were to have been met at the Pennsylvania railroad station on their arrival from New York by Mr. and Mrs. Heck. Failing to meet EVERY Likes a dressy looking MAN With us it takes but a few do and dignified. Easter is at of clothes; your boy also w them at the station. Mr. and Mrs. Eckert went to the house, and the finding of the bodies of their daughter and son-in-law followed. Mrs. Heck's body was found lying on a couch. The body of the husband was on the floor, in a sitting posture, with the head resting on the body of the wife. The corner's physician said Mrs. Heck had been deed about 16 hours. The last seen of the husband alive was when he left the theatre about 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and the wife was seen for the last time about 5.30 Saturday, when a neighbor spoke to her. There was no note or other direct evidence found to indicate suicide. Mr. and Mrs. Heck were married about five years ago, and were much devoted to one another. They were well known in vaudeville, having traveled as a musical team under the name of "Eckert and Heck." About three years ago Heck left the stage to become musical director of Keith's theatre in this city, but his wife from time to time appeared on the stage in musical and singing specialties. Mr. Eckert will not make arrangements for the funeral of the couple until he hears from Louis Heck, of Topeka, Kan., the father of the dead man. RHODDA UNDER ARREST Man Who Issued Fraudulent Miners' Certificates Under $500 Ball. Certificates under £500 Bail. Hazleton, Pa. April 18. — James Rhodda, of Upper Lehigh, a member of the miners' examining board, who is charged with fraud in connection with granting of certificates of competency to mine workers, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by District President Dettrey, of the United Mine Workers of America. Rhodda waived a hearing and entered ball in $500 for court. His arrest followed a confession he made to the mine workers that he and his colleagues on the examining board had 'issued certificates to hundreds of applicants without regard to their qualifications, and that they had received various sums of money for issuing the papers. District President Dettrey says there have been 350 accidents, 100 resulting fatally, in the district during the last 12 months, and officials of the mine workers' union declare that the promiscuous sale of certificates to incompetent miners is the principal cause of the accidents. Little Allentown Lad Had Heard About Burnt Offerings in Sunday School. Allentown, Pa., April 19—Earl, the 6-year-old son of Mrs. Kate Thrasm, built a baphein under a couch on which his baby sister Nabel, a year old, was sleeping. He burned his hand while lighting the paper and ran into the yard to complain to his mother. She suspected something wrong, and rushed into the house, accompanied by a neighbor. The room was dense with the smoke, and the couch was all in flames. By dint of dousing it with a dozen buckets of water they extinguished the flames. The blaze had not touched the baby's clothes, but she was almost drowned by the efforts to save her. The boy said he had heard the Sunday school teacher explain about burnt offerings and sacrifices, and he concluded to try it on his baby sister. Four Acquitted of Murder Newark, N. J. April 19.—The jury in the case of the four state asylum attendants accused of the murder of Patrick Corrigan, an inmate of the asylum, returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of each of the men, and the court immediately ordered their discharge from custody. The accused men were Thomas Murray, Otto Blon, Charles O. Herder and Samuel Redden. It was alleged that they had beaten Corrigan and inflicted injuries which caused his death. Murdered In Quarrel Over Five Cents. Philadelphia, April 17.—In an endeavor to part two friends who were quarreling over a five-cent stake in a game of cards, Angelo Gentilo was stabbed to death with a stiletto, the police college, by Antoni Pioni, at Manayunk, a suburb of this city. Pioni was captured by policemen after a long escape. Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A, E., A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenominal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles handed on Friendship, based on Charl the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of 50 per week sick dues. The badge regalia. For information concerning curts of Calant of the Order. It requires a memb court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. benefit of $150.00. It pays $300 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 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 our neighborhood, orgnize one. using 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 regalia. For apply at the main office. The Courts Is the Department of the Order thirty cents to organize a court. It Fid exercise Harmony and prove a treatment and burial benefit of $1.00 the only expense for regalia is a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral of THE BANDS OF CALANTHE. It institutes a feature and persons cannot do circle. The expense is nominal and the $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefit Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood. For all information concerning the C For all information concerning special 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 $300 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, orgnize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address. The Greatest C WHAT THE LAST Good Photo A HANDSOME GOLD-PLATTE THE HANDSOMELY COLORED ARGE. other male or female, being called all arrangements with one of the lairs ers, who pay $1.50 cash in advance free of charge. Fill out the Coupon 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 millions. advantage of the offer. The Me COUPON. LANET: closed $1.50 for the F. ATE, ph which I desire inserted in meda AL BENEFIT. of Stylish Suitings or Particular People MERCHANT TAILORS PAIRING A SPECIALTY very skillfully we do make "almost as good as NEW," LOVE OUR CLAIMS TO YOU. Two Musicians Wanted. For all information concerning special rates of 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 arrangement to furnish all new subscribers, who pay these handsome Medallion free of charge together with a good Photograph of the colors and we will send the button. Enclose 5 cents extra to pay postage will be refunded. Send us one yearly subscribers, two Medallions. Now is the time to take advantage price of the subscription. WE WILL SEND YOU A HANDSOME GOLD-PLATED BREAST-PIN WITH YOUR PICTURE HANDSOMELY COLORED AND REPRODUCE THEREON FREE OF CHARGE. They can be worn by either male or female, being called either Button or Medallion. We have made special arrangements with one of the largest concerns in the country to furnish all new subscribers, who pay $1.50 cash in advance for the PLANET on 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 AT Popular For Prices TURNER & WHITE 303—5 N. 3rd St. 'PHONE 1138. ★★★ CLEANING AND REPAIRING You have no idea how very skill OLD CLOTHES, look "almost COME, AND WE'LL PROVE OUR Please find enclosed $1.50 for the F one year, which you are the following address: 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. 220 W. Camden St., near B. & O. Station, Baltimore, Md. 3 mo KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAST FCB Actual Size. OHN MITCHELL, JR The Brinkley House, 225 W. Camden Street. BOARDING AND LODGING. Established 30 years ago. Has re-opened. The rooms are furnished. Special attention is required by writing obtained. Special attention paid to transient people. Persons desiring rooms during the inauguration may obtain a room by calling 212-555-5555. SUMMER of the most powerful in the c ental. The Grand Lodge of Vine and counties in this state. new lodge. The benefits paid at the principles are greater up, based on Charity and esta right people of the state will import. burial benefit of of $200.00 f es. The badge costing 75 cen tation concerning the organiza Calanthe requires a membership of s are pledged to exhibit e for the other. It pays t pays $300 per week sick of the badge, 50 cents and ren's Department also con- han to enter the little ones in its all that could be expected. from $30.09 to $40.00. If you organize one. s Department address. MRS. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M. test Offer THE LADIES W Photogra GOLD-PLATED BREAST LY COLORED AND R sale, being called either But with one of the largest concerns cash in advance for the PL will out the Coupon and send whose features you desire million. All photographs will come. If you are not satisfied er and we will send one Medallion alone Offer. The Medallion alone ON. one year, which inserted in medallion or button BENEFIT. 'Phone 2048 John H. Wanted two musicians, one who can song and one who knows something about carpentry. J. Offer Yet ADIES WANT, photograph. TED BREAST-PIN WITH AND REPRODUCE ed either Button or Medallion largest concerns in the court face for the PLANET on pon and send it with $1.50 yes you desire reproduced in photographs will be returned ne not satisfied, your money send one Medallion. Two Medallion alone is worth b one year, which you will Medallion or buttons. 'Phone 2048 112 W. Leigh S John H. Braxton REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns, Special attention to repairs. NOTARY WITH SEAL. 14-1-19 Photographic Studio. Mr. George O. Brown, formerly of the Old Dominion Gallery, wishes his friends and the public generally to know that he has opened a first-class Photograph Studio at 605 N. 2nd Street, and is prepared with the highest class portraits, life size, pastels or oranges, door view work at the most reasonable prices. 1 mo. Dwelling, No. 704 N. 10th St., with 6 rooms. $0 per month. Will put in good repair for a good tenant. The New York, Realty Company, 439 W 33th St, New York City. Real Estate and Insurance Property used for, and rented collected. Flats and rooms in all parts of the great metropolis write us at once and we will secure you a respectable home. J. W. WATKINS, AGENT. GREEN & REDD. REAL ESTATE Agts. 1114 E. Main St.