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THE RICHMOND PLANET ECHOES FROM ROANOKE. More News About the Session. OFFICERS ELECTED AND COMMITTEES APPOINTED. WILL MEET NEXT YEAR IN STAUNTON VOL. XXII NO 25. ECHOES FROM More News Above OFFICERS ELECTED APPO WILL MEET NEXT The Grand Court, I. O. of Calanthe of Virginia, (Female Department of the K. of P.) convened in its 8th annual session at High Street Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va., May 16th, 1905, at 10 A. M. and continued in session three days. The Grand Worthy Counsellor, Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., presided. The G. W. R. of Deeds, Miss M. L. Chiles called the roll and the following responded to their names: G. W. C., Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Richmond, Va.; Inx., Mrs. Julia A. Watts, Lynchburg, Va.; Inr., Mrs. M. E. Washington, Newport, News, Va.; O., Mrs. M. C. Adams, Danville, Va.; G. W. R. of D., Miss M. L. Chiles, Richmond, Va.; G. W. R. of Dep., Mrs. Josie A. Graham, Richmond, Va.; Escort, Mrs. Lizzie B. Greene, Newport News, Va.; S. D., Mrs. Anna Tayor, Richmond, Va.; J. D. Mrs. N. C. Johnson, Richmond, Va.; Con, Mrs. Lucy Cross, Richmond, Va.; Herald, Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, Richmond, Va.; Pro, L. W. Holbrook, Danville, Va.; Lectur-Mrs. Blanche Lewis, Assistant Coner, Mrs. S. J. Holbrook, Danville, Va. duetress, being the only absentee, Mrs. Camilla Riddick of Ruth Court filled her chair until election of officers. Roll of delegates and roll of committees were called by the G. W. R. of Deeds, absentees noted and vacancies filled by the G. W. C. Committee on Credentials appointed were Miss Sarah C. White, Mrs. A. G. Thompson, Miss Susan Merchant, who examined the credentials and reported 42 new delegates and 64 representatives out of 85 benefited courts. The Grand Court then went into regular session. The Grand W. Counsellor read his report in the afternoon session. It was a sparkling gem in language and quotations, and showed that not a ripple of discontentment within the bounds of his jurisdiction had reached him during the past twelve months. Peace reigned from the mountains to the sea and the Courts of Calanthe were firmly bound in the ties of Fidelity, Harmony and Love. 17 new courts and 990 members had entered our fold during the past year inspite of the terrible hard winter through which we had passed. 91 Courts in 8 years and 4307 policies have been issued in Va. The receipts had also been in excess of former years, the total amount being $4724.50. His report showed new fields entered and Sir Knights gallantly adding Courts of Calanthe—Sir A. C. Mabrey, two courts, Staunton, Va., Sir H. L. Jackson, Blackstone, Rev. Dr. Caesar Perkins, Buckingham, Va., Sir John G. Smith, Richmond, Va., were voted special honors for having thus worked in 1905, while Mrs. Lula Clarkson, Mrs. A. B. Ellis, Mrs. Emma B. Brown, Mrs. S. J. Holbrook, Mrs. M. C. Wood, Mrs. Margaret H. Burrell, Mrs. Lucy Cross, Mrs. S. P. Marshall, Mrs. Mildred Johnson, Mrs. Anna Taylor, Mrs. Laura S. Williams, Miss Marietta L. Chiles were highly complimented for their new courts and recommended for high honors and favors. He urged the courts to greater efforts in the Business Departments and keep step with the music of the 20th century. He brought forward plans for the establishment of a self-extending endowment feature which will place the Order ahead in that respect of any colored enterprise. The applause was deafening and the representatives were ready at once for their adoption had he allowed such. The rules were suspended and on motion of Sir U. S. G. Patterson, G. W. C., Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., was elected by acclamation for the ensuing year. The G. W. R. of Deeds, Miss M. L. Chiles read her report, which was very fine. Mrs. Josie A. Graham, G. W. R. of Deposits read an excellent report, also Mrs. Harriet Thompson, Chief of Regalia Department. The reports from all over the state showed that the Order is at its noonday of progress and members are flocking in. One distinguishing feature is that only the best people in the various communities are admitted, which causes persons who have previously scorned fraternal organizations to enter ours. The parade was the most magnificent ever witnessed in the city of Roanoke and white and colored citi- zens thronged the streets and admired its beauty. The Cadets attracted much attention also in their handsome uniform. The Public Meeting was held Wednesday night and the church was packed. An excellent programme was rendered: Scripture reading and prayer, Rev. R. C. Quarles, of Charlottesville, Va.; Music, Choir of the church; Prayer, Rev. Burkes. Mr. Mitchell introduced Lawyer W. H. C. Brown as "the silver-tongued orator from the city by the sea," and well he showed he deserved that introduction. He held the audience spell-bound as the beautiful thoughts fell from his lips. He highly complimented the G. W. C, and said also he considered the Pythians the greatest Order on earth, urged all to rally to the offerts of the G. W. C. and with integrity, industry and truth the Negro problem will are long be solved and if the Negro do his duty, Jim cars will be wiped out of existence and his civil rights will not be mere hopes. Lawyer W. R. Reld of Portsmouth and Lawyer Oliver of Roanoke also entertained the audience excellently. Sir U. S. G. Patterson sang. "You're as Welcome as the Fowers in May." He was encored and then sang. "In the Valley where the Blue-birds sing." Mrs. Minnie Nowell Allen presided at the organ. The delegation was tendered a fine banquet in the lecture room of the church, which all enjoyed. After the banquet, the night train for their respective homes. ROLL OF COMMITTEES Committee on Finance: Miss Eva G. Davis, Mr. Casper Rowlett, Mrs. Laura S. Williams. Appeals and Grievances: Mrs. Gracie Lucas, Mrs. Hattie G. West, Miss Lelia B. Robinson. Mileage: Mrs. Sallie Fox, Mrs. Mary A. Gray, Mrs. E. B. Brown. Credentials: Miss Sarah C. White, Mrs. Bettie Cowling, Miss Susan Merchant. Dispensation and Charter: Miss Lucy E. Christian, Mrs. Anna Lewis, Mrs. Sallie B. Pree. Law and Supervision: Mrs. Phyllis G. Williams, Mrs. Charlotte Penn, Mrs. Sallie J. Murphy. Printing: Miss M. L. Chiles, Miss Susan Wright, Miss Mary J. Scott. Revision of Constitution: John Mitchell, Jr., Miss M. L. Chiles, Mrs. M. E., Washington, Mrs. Emma G. Smith, Mrs. L. G. Merriman. Business Committee: Mrs. Adlaide G. Thompson, Mrs. Emma Cherry, Miss Susan Merchant. State of the Order: Mrs. Marian S. Robinson, Miss Odell Pleasants, Miss Bertha Jones. Obituary: Mrs. Mary J. Veals, Mrs. Bettie Thomas, Miss Nannie Chaney. Regalia Committee: Mrs. Kate Thomas, Miss V. C. Proctor, Mrs. Laura Johnson, Miss Lucy E. Christian, Mrs. Irene Holmes, Mrs. Harriet Thompson, Chief; Mrs. N. C. Johnson, Assistant Chief. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY MAY 27, 1905 ENDOWMENT ADVISORY BOARD Mrs. L. B. Merriman, Lynchburg. Mrs. Mildred Johnson, Richmond. Mrs. Kate Thomas, Richmond. Mrs. Gertrude Patterson, Lynchburg. Mrs. Georgie Bolling, Richmond. Mrs. Mary N. Gay, Norfolk. Mrs. L. D. Byrd, Newport News. Mrs. Emma G. Smith, Richmond. Mrs. R. Elnora Wesley, Richmond. Mrs. Rosa Lovings, Richmond. Mr. J. W. Robinson, Richmond. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., G. W. C. Mrs. Josie A. Graham, G. W. R. of D. Miss M. L. Chiles, G. W. R. of Deeds. (Ex-officio.) DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND WOR THY COUNSELLORS. Richmond, Mrs. Anna Taylor. Petersburg, Mrs. Martha Harris. Lynchburg, Mrs. Laura S. Williams Danville, Mrs. S. J. Holbrook. Newport News, Mrs. Lille D. Byrd. Norfolk, Mrs. Fannie Cook. Berkley, Mrs. Della Hicks. Suffolk, Mrs. Julia A. Powell. Portsmouth, Mrs. Camilla Riddick. Pocahontas, Mrs. M. C. Vivian. Radford, Mrs. Della Lawrence. Pulaski, Mrs. Sarah J. Murphy. Chariottesville, Mrs. Mary M. Dav emport. New River, Mrs. Mary Casey. Stanley Blackstone, Mrs. Martha D. Taylor. Covington, Mrs. Emma B. Brown. Martinsville, Mrs. Charlotte Penn. Roanoke, Mrs. Margaret H. Burrell SPECIAL DEPUTY GRAND WOR THY COUNSELLORS Miss M. L. Chiles, Mrs. Josie A. Graham, Mrs. Kate L. Thomas, Mrs. Mildred Johnson, Mrs. Emma Cherry, Mrs. G. A. Patterson, Mrs. Julia A. Watts, Mrs. Fannie R. White, Mrs. Sarah P. Marshall, Mrs. Sarah A. Steward. Roanoke, Va., May 20th, 1905. The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A. S. A., E. A., A. & A adjourned last Thursday night after the most successful session in the history of the organization. The following officers were elected on Thursday for ensuing year:—Grand Chancellor, John Mitchell, Jr., Richmond; Grand Vice Chancellor, T. J. Free, Newport News; Grand Prelate, R. L. Jackson, Pocahontas; Grand Master of Exchequer, H. F. Jonathan, Richmond; Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, Thos. M. Crump, Richmond; Grand Master at Arms, Wm. E. Mitchell, Richmond; Grand Inner Guard, Thos. B. Steward, Norfolk; Grand Outer Guard, W. E. Williams, Pulaski; Grand Medical Register, Wm. E. Atkins, Hampton; Grand Lecturer, Wm. M. Reld, Portsmouth. Appointments by Grand Chancellor: Grand Marshall, Capt. W. H. Mills; Grand 1st Attendant, O. M. Steward; Grand 2d Attendant, W. C. Venable; Grand 3rd Attendant, R. B. Clarke; Grand 4th Attendant, Capt. John G. Smith. Committee on Finance: B. H. Peyton, Chairman; Thos. H. Wyatt, D. C. Johnson. Committee on Obituary: Clifton G. Cabell, Sam'l Q. Swarm, Homer Mitchell. State of the Order: Rev. W. E. Mitchell, Dr. R. A. Reynolds, Alex. Brooks. Appeals and Grievances: Dr. W. W. Johnson, H. A. Patterson, L. F. Flood. Supreme Representatives Elected: Thos. M. Crump, John Mitchell, Jr., N. A. Twitty. Law and Supervision: A. W. E. Bassette, Wm. A. Merchant, D. J. Chavers. Committee on Business: John T. Taylor, Geo. W. Rison, H. L. Jackson, W. R. Smith, E. F. Scott. Endowment Advisory Board: Capt W. A. Millner, S. M. Wilson, M. Isbell, Jesse Scruggs, W. H. C. Brown, Jesse Willis Wyatt, Col. John R. Chiles, Anderson Branch, Capt. U. S. G. Patterson, Wm. A. Myers, Dr. I. D. Burrell. Returns and Credentials: A. C. Mabrey, Geo. W. Dandridge, S. D. Jones. Printing and Supplies: Thos. M. Crump, W. P. Allen, T. W. Merchant. Dispensations and Charter: Rev. R. C. Quarles, Jas. L. Hill, A. Morton. Shriners' Fine Parade. The Mystic Shriners had a grand banquet last Monday night at the Pythian Castle, No. 727 N. Third St. It was preceded by a grand parade, headed by a brass band. All along the route red fire was burning and the Shriners presented a fine appearance in their full-dress suits and the fez caps of red. Just before the Castle was reached the electric lights on the front were turned on and presented a scene of dazzling brilliancy. The supper was one of the finest ever given in this city. The organizat on was highly complimented all along the route. Colored Man's Strange Death.— Chased a Cow. Aniston, Ala., May 21. — Neil Garrison, a respectable colored man of Hobson City, the only town in the south composed wholly of colored people, met death suddenly yesterday in a field near Leander Champion's residence, southeast of Oxford. He was after his cow, the animal crossed a ditch and in pursuit of her he attempted to do the same, when he fell into the ditch and was killed. Berry Powell and Elisha Clark were plowing near by. They saw the cow cross and Garrison start after her, and upon his not appearing went to look for him, and found his dead body. Dr. B. D. Williams, who was called to investigate the case, found that Garrison's neck was not broken and that everything indicates that he had an attack of vertigo, fell into the ditch on his face in about 6 inches of water and was smothered. There will be no inquest. Garrison was at one time mayor of Hobson City, and had many friends among both white and colored people. The Thirty-third annual session of State Grand Lodge, No. 6, I. O. of G. S. and D. of S. will meet at Alexandria, Va., June 13th, 1905. Rates have been granted over all railroads at One Fare and a Third for the round trip. Delegates, in purchasing tickets, will ask the agent for a Delegate's Certificate. C. F. HUBBARD, G. C. J. W. THOMPSON, G. S. 3t :0: FOR Rent. No. 2305 Carrington St.,... $10.00 Rear of No. 16 N. Beech St., 12.50 No. 107 St. Paul St., one floor, 6.00 Either of the first two can be subdivided and one floor rented to good Sunday, June 18th, 1905, will be observed as Sacrifice Day at the Moore St. Baptist Church. An effort will be made to lift a mortgage of $450.00 and all friends are invited to help aid this worthy cause. Sums to any amount will be thankfully received. Hicks' Swimming Pool and Grove for fun, amusement and a general good time on Decoration Day, May 30th. All kinds of innocent sport: Boating, Bathing, Dancing, Music Swimming, Potato Race, Sack Race, Pie Eating Contest, Climbing Greasy Pole. Admission, absolutely free. Go out and have a good time at no cost. The J. R. Giddings and Jolliffe Union, known as the Tents, of which Mrs. A. M. Lane of Norfolk is the official head has been in session since last Tuesday at the Third St. A. M. E. Church. A large number of delegates are present and the sessions have been harmonious. Mrs. Lane is a skillful organizer and the organization is doing a grand work, Those K. of P. brethren going and coming from Roanoke broke bread at Thompson's Dining Room, 702 E. Broad St. Mr. Editor. Please allow me just a little space in your wonderful paper to say a word concerning the old V. S. Baseball boys of Martinsville. They still hold their record. They have we all the games that they have played this year. The closest contest they have ever had was the Rabbit Foot boys on Saturday, May 20. Will Quarles was in the box and he gave the Rabbit Foot boys a little rough treatment for a few minutes. Mr. Pat Chapelle seems to take care. Although our manager seems to feel sorry for Mr. Chapelle he had charged us to shut out Mr. Chapelle's Rabbit Foot boys and of course we had to go by the orders. The score stood 6 to 3 in favor of Martinsville and we thought to keep it that way. The V. S. will be out to travel for a while and they will make it warm for all the baseball boys. Y. M. C. A. Notes The Y. M. C. A. Conference was well attended last Friday. The reports from the committee work for last Sunday are very encouraging. President Clifton Cabell addressed the boys last Sunday. The men were very encouraged by International Secretary, Mr. J. E. Mooreland last Sunday to always take a stand for right and keep it. Our brother said many good things, which are still burning upon the hearts of the men. Prof. Thomas H. Hopkins and Mr J. H. Daly sang special solos. Every man who attended the meeting was helped. All men for committee work for Sunday are requested to be on time. Prof. J. H. Rhorer will conduct the boys' meeting Sunday at 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. Dr. W. E. Partee, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church will address the men Sunday at 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hall. Subject, "How Men Are Made and Unmade." Special solos will be sung. All men are invited. Come and bring the other man. Dr. D. Webster Davis will address the men Sunday, June 4th, 3:30 P. M. at the True Reformers' Hall. Subject, "The Search-light," by special request. Mr. Davis will have his quartette sing special music at this meeting. Tell every man that you see. Baltimore, Md.—Richard H. Parson, the son of Rev. R. T. Parson of Richmond, Va., died in Baltimore, Sunday, May 21st. Age 8 years. The funeral was conducted byDr. E. W. S. Peck at St. Matthew's M. E. Church of which his father is the pastor. Clarke—Burke The marriage of Mr. Philip T. Clarke to Miss Elsie Burke will take place at St. Phillips Episcopal Church in New York on Thursday, June 1st, 1895. P friends present. Harper—Judkins The marriage of Miss Virginia Belle Harper to Rev. Robert Chapman Judkins, B. D., will take place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hill, 1401 West Leigh St., Wednesday morning, June 7th, at 7 o'clock. Friends are invited. Do You Know Them? I desire to know the whercabouts of some of my people. I was given in charge of Classy Gaines of Farmville, Va., who came to Richmond to visit her son, whose name was Washington Gaines. I was given to her by a person called my aunt. I called her sister and she had promised me to a lady across the ocean, but Mrs. Classy Gaines persuaded her to let her have me. I was carried to Farmville. My name is Katie Holston, but in Farmville my name was Katie Gaines. In Richmond, it was Katie. I did not know my aunt's name. Her children were Junius, Mayliza and "Shugg." Washington Gaines was a well-known man there and I think he knows from where the old lady got me. Any information concerning them will be gladly received by KATIE HOLSTON, No. 521 S. 18th St., Birmingham, Ala. Miss Edna Debress is indisposed. Mrs. Frances Scott continues indisposed at her residence. The Norfolk Red Stockings Base Ball Club ate their meals at Thompson's Dining Room, 702 E. Broad St. while here. We received an invitation to the Commencement Exercises of the Normal Class of the Hartshorn Memorial College May 18th and also to the 16th anniversary of the Alumnae Association May 19th. We regretted that our absence from the city prevented our attendance. We received an invitation to the 23d Annual Commencement of Livingstone College and East Tennessee Industrial School May 24th to 31st, 1905 at Salisbury, N. C. We received an invitation to the 17th Annual Commencement Exercises of the St. Paul Normal and Industrial School at Lawrenceville, Va. May 24th, 1905. Rev. D. W. Davis will lecture at the Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, Woodville, Monday night, May 29th Subject: "Paying the Fiddler." SAMARITAN CONVENTION Reduced Rates C. F. HUBBARD, G. C. J. W. THOMPSON, G. S For Rent. CHAPIN & HUME No. 13 N. 11th St. A Grand Rally Go To The Tents Here Martinsville, Va., May 22, 1905 Your agent, Charlie France Atlantic City Notes. The contest between the two Assemblies was promised to be announced in this issue. While the Brighton did bring the most friends from Philadelphia for the occasion, the Traymore had the largest attendance and was the grand est success. A large number of the city's most exclusive society gathered for the occasion, and the concert and reception were exquisite. The majority of the toilettes were both dainty and elaborate, and the spacious auditorium presented a beautiful picture. Prof. Fred. Forman's grand orchestra of Philadelphia was hidden behind a huge bank of palms, potted azalias and ferns. The concert programme was furnished by Prof. W. A. Miller's Twentieth Century Concert Company of Philadelphia, consisting of Mme. M. E. Shields, Miss Mary Shields, Mr. Horace Molton and Mr. P. S. Howard, soloist. Dancing was continuous from 9:30 until 2 o'clock. Officers of the Assembly are Lewis Cooke, Pres.; Edward Ross, Vice-Pres.; Samuel Johnson, Secretary. Mr. J. W. Whipps, the well known salesman, who once represented some of the largest Gent's furnishing and clothing houses; is doing great business at 1616 Atlantic Ave. T. B. Rice, the second waiter of the Mariborough, will spend his vacation in New York. E. P. Hammett returned to Atlantic City last Saturday from Washington, accompanied by Mr. Clopton of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Mr. Charles Clopton from Hot Springs, Arkansas is in our city and is stopping with M. J. Satchell, 1916 Arctic Ave. Mr. Isaac J. Nicholson has removed from 900 Baltic Ave. to 135 N. Maryland Ave. He has the largest and finest Tonsoral Parlor.colored, in our city. His little boy takes great pleasure in introducing the Planet. M. J. Satchell, the agent, has promised him a prize at the end of each month. Anyone having any avds. or notes will please leave them at 1916 Arctic Ave. and the agent will see that it reaches the Planet in time. Mr. W. L. Young, his little son, Luther and Mr. D. W. Thomas of File, Va., were in the city this week and called on us. Yes, those Ministers going and coming from the General Association got lunch at Thompson's Dining Room, 702 E. Broad St. We have received an invitation to the Commencement Exercises of Tuggle N. and I. Institute, Birmingham, Ala., May 21-24, 1905. We return thanks for an invitation to the Tln Wedding of Prof. and Mrs. Gregory Willis Hayes of Lynchburg, Va., Friday, May 26th, 1905. We received an invitation to attend the 22d anniversary exercises of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute at Petersburg, Va., May 7th and 12th, 1905. Mr. John W. Smith and his son Mr. J. B. Smith were in the city and called on us. Mr. Smith was here to attend the exercises of the Hartshorn Memorial College where his daughter, Miss Ardelle was the recipient of the first prize for an original composition. Mr. H. L. Jackson of Blackstone, Va. accompanied him. ALEXANDER'S MAGAZINE Alexander's Magazine has just reached our office. It is in every respect the most excellent publication of the character we have ever seen. The table of contents reveal an unusual array of fine literary talent. Perhaps the most notable contribution to the Magazine is that of the sketch of the life of S. Coleridge-Taylor, the great African composer. This sketch is written by Dr. Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. There are two fascinating love stories and a sketch of Madam Estelle Pinckney Clough, the New England Nightingale, whose residence is at Worcester, Mass., and a catchy little story entitled outwitting the Devil" by a distinguished citizen of Massachusetts. The Editor contributes a sketch of the life of Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford of Cleveland, Ohio, and a tribute to the late Joseph Jefferson. There are quite a number of other very excellent contributions to the May Number of Alexander's Magazine. The subscription price of the magazine is but $1.00 a year and 10 cents a copy. Our readers desiring to see this publication may send 10 cents for a specimen copy to Charles Alexander, 714 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, Mass. Charlie Washington, Joseph Dabney, John Smith and William Jones are known as the jolly four at Thompson's Dining Room. PR CE FIVE CENTS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS A New Lodge at Suffolk. Suffolk, Va., May 13th, 1905 Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. accompanied by Col. E. R. E. Jeferson, Assistant Surgeon General; Capt. John G. Smith, arrived here last evening. A new lodge was instituted at the Samaritan's Hall with the following officers:—Chancellor Commander. C. W. Jordan; Master of Work. B. B. Elliott; Vice Chancellor. J. W. Brown; Prelate. C. W. Jones; Keeper of Records and Seal. Fletcher Jordan; Master of Finance. Rev. J. F. Jordan; Master of Exchequer, William Coker; Master at Arms. B. F. Johnson; Inner Guard. John Reid; Outer Guard, Paul Bridgeford. Trustees: W. T. Howard. J. E. Smith and William Myric. Those who assisted in the initiation were Sirs N. A. Twitty, J. M. Boothe, W. W. Urquhart, Isham Powell, and the visitors. The others were Dr. W. E. Atkins, Abe Nofleet, Haywood Jenkins, S. S. Gwaltney, Oscar Hunter, Thomas Black, Charley Trotmon, K. Hall, Leroy Morris, Beverly Hunter, Charles Taylor, Henry Southall, I. Coleman, Larney Watkins. Dr. W. E. Atkins examined the candidates assisted by Dr. Jefferson Deputy Urquhart was here from Franklin. All heartily enjoyed themselves. Refreshments were served. The Grand Chancellor and Capt. Smith were the guests of Sir C. W. Jordan where they were royally entertained. The party left this morning for Richmond. The new body will be known as Nansenlodge Lodge. No. 91. STREET-CAR "MEDICINE." [Shreveport, La. News-Enterprise.] The street car conductor who was discharged for kicking Mr. R. A. Rodgers off the car last week, and then went to give the president of the company, Mr. L. M. Levison, a reprimand for discharging him and in turn got a lick in the face from the president's fist, had his case of assault up in the City court last Monday, resulting in the dismissing of the charge against Mr. Levison and fining the conductor $10 and cost making a total of $15 for the assault on Mr. Rodgers. Do You Know Him? Rev. Lewis S. Price of Fort Payne, Ala. writes that a prepossessing stranger sailing under the name of C. H. Jones, alias A. Harty has landed in that neighborhood and is a candidate for matrimonial honors. He claims to be connected with the International Stock Exchange and declares that he owns a stock farm at Steverson, Alabama and one at Richmond, Va. We have made enquiries here and we can find no record of any such man. As we have lived here more than thirty five years, and we have never heard of either him or his farm, we have naturally become suspicious of his pretentions. He is about 38 or 40 years of age in appearance says our correspondent. Height 5 feet, 9 inches. Complexion, bright mulatto, Freckled face, Red hair and brown eyes, a little reddish. Some of his teeth out on left side of the upper part of his mouth. Any person knowing such a person in any part of the country would do well to furnish us with information of his origin. $150.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., May 22d, 1905. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of th Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sir Charles H. Johnson, who was a member of North Star Lodge, No. 52 of Richmond, Va. Signed:—Laura Johnson Beneficiary. Witnesses:— W. H. Newton, Pinkey Newton. A Touching Scene. Ponds. Ala Spring-hill Baptist Church was crowded to hear Rev. M. Northman. Text:--"Jesus came to save that which was lost." Three children without mother or father came into the church and seated themselves in the front pews. The largest was about 8 years or age and the two smaller ones depended on the larger one. The latter finally fell asleep. A short while afterwards the two smaller ones fell asleep. A tall, pleasant looking lady came into the church and looking at the little ones took them in her arms. THE YLONGT SATURDAY, ..... May 27th, 1905 GIRLS IN BUSINESS THE PRIZES WON AND THE BARE LIVING WAGE. Likelihood of Sudden Leaving to Marry Discounts Value of Girls' Labor in Business Positions—Physical Disadvantages Due to Corsets, High Heels, Etc.—Home Management Incomparably Superior to Any Business Position—Peculiar Temptations of Ill-Paid Shop Girls. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER (Copyright, 1966, by Joseph B. Bowles. (Copyright, 1986, by Joseph B. Bowles). One reason why the labor of young women is discounted in the market is that their tenure of a position is very uncertain. For example, in a well-known township of New Jersey it has recently been stated that 16 of the teachers, all presumably young and attractive girls, are engaged to be married, and the school board must therefore look about to supply the vacancies thus created. Nobody can fail to rejoice that marriage is popular in the community, and it is a sign of wholesome public morals and of growing prosperity, when young men woo young masters, and new households are established. But the embarrassment and responsibility of school boards are doubled, when they must be always on the lookout for those who are to take the places of the marrying contingent. Equally in other lines than the one alluded to, this liability to change on the part of young women is a factor in the bargain. A firm in New York congratulated itself on having in its employment a young woman of very marked ability, an ability that was almost genius, and of a trained technical knowledge surpassing that of most men in the niche she occupied, that of buying goods of a certain kind. In Europe or America this girl was valuable to them, and they raised her salary over and over. Bui one day she handed in her resignation. She was engaged to a man in Arizona, and he carried her off, as was perfectly right, the only shadow being that after the firm had given their late employee a beautiful wedding present they found themselves compelled to hire two men to do what one woman had done. Business ability is not confined to one sex. But a man is very apt to remain in a good place, and when married, he is not removed from the sphere of daily labor, but has every added incentive to work hard and faithfully to support those dependent upon him. Women complain, often bitterly, that there is unfair discrimination against them in the matter of remuneration. They work as many hours as men, and they do their work as well, they affirm, and why should they be paid less than men in the same berthes? Why, indeed? Candor obliges us to admit that this why is very squarely met by a little if. If women, taking them as they come, not judging from the exceptions, were as responsible, as steady, as certain to render smooth, equable and efficient service as men are, they would not long have so much for complaint. Women cannot free themselves from limitations that are in a measure the hampering conditions of their physical life. They cannot have, or at least they do not often have, the immunity from nerves and headaches and backaches that men enjoy. Their dress is against them. The corset, that need not be an unhygienic part of dress, alas! too often squeezes in a girl's waist and diminishes her breathing capacity. A silly notion that high heels and pointed toes belong to an elegant feminine shoe, leads too many of our girls to endure agonizing tortures when standing for hours on their poor deformed feet. They sacrifice health and comfort to a false ideal; and in our stormy winters, a multitude of women workers are not warm enough, nor adequately protected by useful wraps from wild wind and frigid weather. Hence, their days off are taken into account. They cannot be treated precisely as men are. Sex and Nature are against it, and the theories go down before natural law. And it is in the order of Nature, too, that the sweetest girls, the most winning, the most capable, shall be sought in marriage. While there are thousands and tens of thousands to be fed, the stress of the labor market will continue to force women into the ranks that toll. Strenuous commercial competition has forced young girls into factories and mills and offices and shops the wide world round. But not yet has it become general that the wages of a girl are as the wages of a man. When they are, it is because in a particular girl, a marked and peculiar faculty, facility of a high order, and a rare fidelity have been discovered. Nevertheless, I. for one, rejoice when I hear that in one small borough six young women teachers are at the same time engaged to be married, and that in a larger one, 16 young men have courted as many girls and persuaded them to name the happy day. For home, and not business, is woman's true sphere. Let nobody induce you, dear girl, to think that any work on earth can for an instant compare in worth with the task of managing a home, or that any honor is so great as that of presiding at one's own heart. Other issues dwindle in importance before this. Our girls do not marry to so early an age as their mothers and their grand-mothers did. They are not too easily pleased, and are sometimes repelled by suitors who would make them excellent husbands because of some lack of polish or of veneer in the men. A man leaves school early and is at once obliged to begin the task of self-support. He is rebuiled, snubbed, knocked about more or less among rough men. He does not receive the gentle consideration accorded to girls. And so he loses some of the surface refinement, or he never acquires the society manner that a fastidious girl prizes. But he makes up for this by earning, if he have average qualities, a good deal more than she can, and by advancing faster. If he possess solid and substantial characteristics, if he be steady, temperate and honorable, a girl can do far worse than trust herself to his love. In the association of marriage, a really refined wife will exercise over her husband an influence and power that will refine his manners and annoble his nature. A woman, to whom fortune has been kind, and who may, so to speak, choose among her admirers, is short-sighted. If she turn away from love, and decide on a business or professional career of her own. For the day of youth is fast speeding away, and later there will be lonesome days, when she will see her old friends happy in their homes, their sons and daughters beside them, their husbands true comrades on the road, and for her, there will be only fragments left, not life's full feast of joy. Perhaps it is all for the best that things are as they are. Girls are obliged by circumstances to compete in the eager strife of the early twentieth century. But the make-weights in the struggle are formidable and one of them is the low rate at which much very hard work is estimated, the small weekly wage, the invasion in some shops and factories of fines and reductions that make it smaller still. No one who is fair-minded can shut her eyes to the fact that the pitifully scanty remuneration occasionally of fered in shops and factories, opens the door to peculiar temptations in some quarters. Half-educated, ill-trained and discouraged girls, away from home, and confronted by hard conditions, are the prey of destining and unscrupulous vampires, both men and women, who blight whomsoever they touch. Here is one inevitable and sorrowful result of the salary that is not, and is not meant to be, a living wage. When we have said everything, we can but fall back on the old truth that honest love is the world's salvation. Though employers regret, and school boards tear their hair, it is a splendid and heartening sign of good times coming, that 16 engagements should be announced in one season, in a single small town. FINE HOME-MADE SEAT This Piece of Furniture Can Be Made to Answer Double Purpose and Be Attractive in Appearance. A very useful and ornamental seat for the fireplace or a cozy corner might be constructed from simple materials as follows: Obtain any plain square box of about 12-inch sides, a rough deal one would do; turn it upside down, and place castors at each corner. The material chosen for its decoration should correspond with the chair coverings or curtains of the room in which it is destined to stand, or if that is not possible, then a material of a shade that will not look out of harmony with its surroundings should be selected. We will suppose that the A USEFUL SEAT. room is furnished in gray green and white tapestry. Of this take a length about 14 inches wide, fold in a hem at the edge, and stitch invisibly, then arrange in stiff box-plats, nailing firmly all round the top. Next choose a cushion about 21 inches square to project out some distance beyond the box, and cover with gray green glaze silk, edging all round with silk cord to match. The cushion should be sewn to the tapestry here and there invisibly with strong thread. Materials require! One and one-eighth yard of glace silk 22 inches wide, one and three-fourths yard of tapestry 52 inches wide, two and one-half yards of cord. A Few Fashion Hints The girl with the small income has numerous opportunities this season of displaying her ingenuity. The fashionable modistes nest on the pointed bodice, broad shoulders and full sleeves, but what is a poor girl to do under these deided changes? It is not so difficult if one stops to consider. For instance, the large "puff" at the top of the sleeve can always be added, and Fashion has decreed a combination of different materials on one gown. This fact is a boon to the girl who is brave or industrious enough to remodel her own garments. To Soothe the Eyes. If the eyes are strained and inflamed with sleeplessness or fige work apply to the lids soft linen wrung out in boiling water. Use this as hot as can be borne and relief will be felt in half an hour. When the Feet Perspire For perspiring feet dissolve an ounce of sulphate of soda in a pint of hot water and rub the feet over with this every night and morning. Just a little boracic acid into the stocking. Retort Courteous. "A woman's bonnet would not cost much if it wasn't for the trimming," said the miserly husband. "Neither would a man's whiskers," answered his wife.—Chicago News. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. CHILD'S TABLE MANNERS. Parents Should Carefully Train Child in All the Niceties, But Release It from Long Sittings. As soon as a child is old enough to handle a knife and fork he is capable of doing it correctly, and should be taught that there is only one proper way of using these implements. The knife was not intended to stab at one's food with, nor should it be used to pile meat or vegetables on the back of the unoffending fork. The knife is always held in the right hand and is used to cut meat and other foods as require cutting. When the knife is laid by it should not be placed on the table nor with the tip of the blade resting on the plate and the handle on the table. It should be laid on the plate. Children should hold the fork in the right hand, and not in the French manner, which permits of eating with the fork held in the left hand while the knife is in use in the right hand. A child is often reprimanded for seeming greediness, and it is probably the hardest point to impress upon its AWKWARD. BUT ALL TOO COMMON volatile little mind the necessity of concealing is v. racious appetite and eating with dignified indifference. A child may be restrained by the presence of older people from behaving in a manner suggestive of primitive man, but as soon as its elders are out of sight it will reinpose into less mannerly and more rapid methods of consuming food. If possible, when correcting a child for some slight breach of etiquette, explain the reason for the form or custom, in order to make a deeper impression. For instance, the original reason why a spoon should not be left in a tea or coffee cup is because it endangers the equilibrium of the cup. A child should be permitted to leave the table after dessert is finished, but never without saying: "May I be excused?" Minors grow inexpressibly weary of their olders' after-dinner talk, and to remain quiet during half an hour of it would weary the soul of a martyr, and guests are often martyrs in disguise. In concluding, let me emphasize this: Considerations of size and age of children's varying dispositions and the restlessness and heedlessness of childhood should temper the discipline of the children's table. THE AFTERNOON CALLER. What to Do and What Not to Do When Acting This Part in the Social Life. An afternoon call must be a short and yet not a hurried one. Don't enter the house saying that you have not a minute, and don't leave it declaring that you must hurry on to another friend, or you give an idea that your visit has been paid grudgingly. Don't monopolize the conversation. Your hostess likes to retail her own news, to air her own grievances, to discuss mutual friends from her own point of view. You may be the most amusing person present, but your very brilliance gives others the desire to shine also, and courtesy demands that you should give them their opportunity. Above all, don't talk of yourself. "I" is a letter of the alphabet to be omitted as much as possible. Who does not know the bore who tells you of his health, his family, his plans, till you sigh a sigh of unutterable relief when he at length takes his departureure? Don't utter in an audible aside to your companion: "Thank heaven they are out!" A whisper is fraught with danger, and may possibly be retained from one person to another until it reaches the mistress of the house. Leather Table-Govers The arts and crafts in this country have brought out table covers of natural leather that are most attractive. They are stained in the different art greens, three tones, or red, and also left in the natural tans and browns. They are used for library and sitting-room tables, and men particularly prefer them for dens. There is no attempt to cut the edges even or to have any appearance of finish about them. They wear forever and a day, and are no laudering. The most fanciful of them are illuminated in the dull purple and gold of the old missals. This takes a great deal of skill but the result is in doubtful taste.—Philadelphia Press. The Shirtwaist Box. Shirtwaist boxes, which are now found to be almost indispensable articles of furniture for bedrooms, come in all sizes, and are made of plain white pine covered with burlap or French cretonne, with long brass hinges and brass handles; or of burnt wood, either with or without coloring. For a Sallow Skin. The girl with the sallow complexion will do well to eat oranges. Not one orange alone at breakfast time but four or five each day. This works wonders. To Preserve a Clothes-Line. Before using a clothes-line boll it well. This will keep it from stretching and make it last an extra long time. AN AFTERNOON .RECEPTION Some Suggestions as to the Graceful Poise That Should Be Maintained in Standing. The large afternoon functions that are fashionable at present require that a guest shall stand most of the time, and an awkward woman is never more at a loss than when standing. Practice at home to prepare yourself for this emergency. Stand with your back to the wall, touching it with your heels. Now force the knees back against the wall, bringing as much of it in contact as possible. Let the shoulders be pressed against it. This brings the chest up and gives erectness to the whole body. But this would be a stiff position if you were conversing over teacups. Keep the heels in position, hold the chest up and body erect, while you sway slightly forward from the wall, shifting the weight from the heels to the balls of the feet. You now find yourself in a graceful and comfortable standing position. The arms should swing easily at the sides. Stand for five minutes until the position becomes natural to you. When standing during a conversation it would be awkward to keep the hands dangling; let them fall, clasped, before you, or hold some article. But maintain the position which your practice teaches you. Avoid the mannish habit of folding the arms and the provincial habit of resting the hands on the hips. In sitting avoid nervous tension. Relax. If you obey this law your position is pretty sure to be graceful. The hands may rest in the lap, on the arms of the chair, one of them may be on the back of the chair; in any case, they must not clasp anything tightly as if you were trying to hold yourself firmly in the chair. Sit well back in the chair, thus avoiding the bad habit of sitting on the spine. You can lean back far enough for grace if you are chatting; if you are busy, you will avoid fatigue. When sewing or writing you should be upright with high chest as much as when standing, and what leaning is to be done should be done from the hips. The shoulders must not bend. COLLAR AND CUFF SET. Suggestion for Dress Accessories Now So Much Worn That Can Be Made by Home Needlewoman. The illustration shows one of the new designs in linen collar and cuff sets, to be worn with spring or summer shirt waists. The stock proper—which has no lining—and the turnover are THE LATE MODE in one piece, and the edge and dots of both collar and cuffs are embroidered in mercerized cotton. Similar designs may be bought stamped, ready for working. These sets are effective in either white or colored line. FASHION'S FRILLS Skirts must be full. Changeable taffetas are much in demand for spring suits. Light weight crash linen is used for smart summer frocks. Black embroidery on white leather with a touch of gold here and there is effective. Waistcoats of white kid are embroidered all over in satin stitch in self color. Separate coats of eyelet embroidery are among the season's novelties. Opalescent effects assert themselves everywhere. Most of the summer suit jackets have vests. Pompadour ribbon insertion is seen on new style white silk parasols. Crochet belts, crochet lace edgings, crochet yokes and crochet collars are expressions of the present favor for hand-work. Elaborate embroidery is a feature of the new hosiery, the familiar clocking having given way to instep and higher up decoration in front. A coaching parasol of red taffeta shows a deep border of striped red and white ribbon. Clever Dinner Cards A clever set of dinner cards to be used for tally cards through an evening card party, were painted at one end, poster fashion, for the girls, with the queens, and for the men, jacks and kings. Playing cards were taken as models, and were found surprisingly easy to reproduce. And, by the way, a girl who was clever at originating just such little cards found a ready market for her wares. She "gets up" unusual cards for club luncheons and dinners, and for holiday affairs, trying as hard as possible (and succeeding wonderfully, too, as her increased orders prove) to keep away from stereotyped ideas. Trees Without Leaves Forests of leafless trees are to be found in some parts of Australia. They respire, so to speak, through a little stem, which apparently answers all the purposes of a leaf. The tree is known as the "leafless acacia." Purely Accidental "Do you have many accidents on your road?" asked the caller of the railroad agent. "Oh, yes; some of the trains get in once or twice a week on time!"—Yonkers Statesman. Hard Job. Wife—It is so kind of you to put on my boots for me. Kneeling husband (tugging away)— It's a—a pleasure, my dear. Still, I'm glad you're not a centipede.—Pick-Me- lio. ON MOTHERS-IN-LAW THEIR DUTIES AND THOSE OF DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW. Mothers' Pangs at Losing Their Boys at Marriage—One Mother-in-Law's Advice to Another—Hints for the Daughter-in-Law—When She Marries the Man in a Way She Marries the Family. BY KATE UPSON CLARK. (Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.) It is probable that not one girl in a thousand—if so many—is instructed before marriage as to her duties to her mother-in-law. Conversely, how many mothers-in-law study the duties of their position? One of the chief stupidities among the many with which human nature is afflicted is that of not taking the long view. A mother says: "Oh, my boy is leaving home to start out in business for himself. How dreadful this is!" Well—what did you bring him up for? Did you look forward to having him tied always “to your apron strings?” Did you intend to support him in manhood, just as you did in childhood? And did you suppose, in case he earned his own living at all, that he would always be able to stay at home and do it? Had you not observed that a large proportion of sons have to leave their parents' home and go to some distant place in order to make the best living? And then did you intend that he should live a bachelor—never having the dignity and joy of a home and wife and children of his own? Did you think, with all the lessons of past generations behind you—especially of your own and your husband's experience—that the love of his parents was going to be enough for him? Did you not foresee that a stronger and deeper love must—and should—come to him some day? And is it possible that you were so selfish that you were sorry that this brightest of all earthly experiences (if it occur in the natural way and between noble souls), was coming some day to your boy? The woman who does not thus look forward and thus rejoice must be lacking both mentally and morally. The good woman brings her boy up to aim at independence in manhood; and if in the long view that independence seems likely to come more quickly or more richly in some distant place than near his home, she speeds him on his way. She wants him to set up a home for himself. She does not want him to live and die an old bachelor. A superfluity of bachelors is one of the greatest plagues with which a community can be cursed. She knows that she will have to overlook faults, and that she cannot expect the new daughter-in-law to fall in love with her, just because she is the mother of that daughter's husband. She knows that every relation in life has its own peculiar trials and joys, and that some preparation of mind and spirit should be made in order that that relation may be properly maintained. Yet how many women take this long view of life, and try to fit themselves, as the time approaches, for the high office of the mother-in-law? Judging from the "funny papers," we should answer: "Very few." One vivacious, but faithful and affectionate mother, went one day to visit an older friend, and said, laughingly: "You have heard that my Tom is going to marry Amy V — It is a good match—and we are all pleased. We are going to miss our good boy cruelty—but I long ago determined not to grieve for any such thing as this. I have always been concerned for fear I might fail in my duties as a wife and mother. Now I have a new fear. I would not for the world fall in my duties as a mother-in-law. But they seem to be of a delicate and difficult nature. I understand that a really satisfactory mother-in-law is one of the rarest creatures in existence. You have been a mother-in-law for some years now—and you are a model in what ever you undertake. Now, give me the benefit of your experience." "Well," returned the older lady, "there are only a few points of which I am perfectly sure. These are: 'Let the young people entirely alone, as far as giving advice or criticising is concerned. Do whatever they ask you to. Give them all the nice things you can. Say pleasant things—and leave the unpleasant things unsaid, unless there is absolute necessity. That is as far as I can instruct you." But those of the daughter-in-law are quite as important. The girl who promises to marry a young man may boast that she is not "going to marry his whole family." But flesh and blood cannot be argued out of existence. In a way, my dear girl, you have got to marry his whole family when you marry him. And if you are at all what you ought to be, you want to make the best kind of a sister-in-law and the best kind of a daughter-in-law. You may not be able to love your new relatives—but you can be frank and friendly with them, doing all that you can to make them happy, and guarding their interests and their good name and dignity as faithfully as you guard those of your husband. In serving his loved ones you are only serving him. He will love you a hundred times more whie. he sees that you recognize your duty toward them. A vast amount of unhappiness arises in families from a failure on the part of women—for women err oftener than men in this relation—to live up to their duties and privileges as mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. Love may not spring up at once in any specific case—but it can usually be developed. HANDKERCHIEF KIMCNO. Directions for Making the Simple and Popular Article Out of Five Japanese Handkerchiefs. The Japanese handkerchiefs, so popular now, make very pretty summer kimonos. For the above illustration five handkerchiefs are used, four for the kimono and one for border and revers at neck. Fold two of the handkerchiefs diagonally, one for the front, the other for the back; join the other two to the sides of the back and front for the MADE OF HANDKERCHIEFS sleeves. Cut the handkerchief used for the front through the center, shape the neck, and sew the border on. Or, instead of cutting the front through the center, one handkerchief may be used on each side, making the necessary fullness. Six handkerchiefs are sometimes fancied, in which case two are used for the back. Where five or six are utilized the neck is not shaped but the corners are turned down. MATERIALS OF THE SEASON Flowered Stuffs Now to the Fore and Silks of Various Sorts Appeal to Economical Purchaser. The new materials look surprisingly like pictures of flower gardens, for they show many blooms arranged upon a common ground. One of these new stuffs, a crispy, silky print, was in very pale lemon color, while upon it it were little garden roses numerous forget-me-nots, and many white flowers. In the background, almost covering it were white lilies. This flowered stuff was for an evening dance dress and was to be made up with bindings of lemon color. The evening silks are admirable and one would almost advise them in preference to the thinner stuffs for evening. There is something about a silk gown which makes it more suitable for a person of moderate means than one of thinner material. It wears better and is more certain to hold its style. Chiffon broadcloth makes a handsome evening dress, and we are returning to the merino dinner gown, with its trimmings of buttons and silk ruffles. Here are the materials in the order of their desirability. There is ponge taffeta, which is a very good material. It wears better than taftela, yet it has its shining face. This makes up beautifully for evening and can be remodeled a little and worn with an Eton for fall wear for receptions, and even for after- noons. Next to pongee taffeta, though quite different, is pompadeur crepe de chine, which is one of the newest and prettiest of stuffs. It is, as its name suggests, a crepe de chine, but upon its face there are lovely big roses, pompadeur roses of rankest and most beautiful growth. A pompadeur crepe de chine in either white or black, with big pink roses, is beautifully girdled with pink, piped with pink and wern with a skirt of the same, or with a skirt to match the waist in color, but not in material. The flowered bobbinets come this year in a quality which shows a great deal of stability. There is a heavy bobbinet, with a medium-sized mesh, which makes up in the most approved manner. It is the very best material one can have for evening wear in the summer time, for it is very durable, not very expensive, and very easily made. Baby Clothes-Rack. A pretty gift for a baby is a clothes' holder. It is made of a strip of hard wood nearly a yard long and about five inches wide. It is painted white and enameled, after which forget-me-nots are used as decorations for, and the words "Baby's Clothes" painted in fancy lettering. Small hooks are inserted in the strip of wood, which has blue satin bows at each end with which to suspend it. The little frocks, caps and sacques of the baby may be conveniently hung on this rack. Good Hair Tonic The treatment of the scalp will depend largely on the condition of the hair. If the scalp is very oily, you will need a hair tonic especially adapted to the trouble, while the hair is shampooed very frequently with the green soap. The following tonic is used for an oily scalp: It is made from 26 grains of quinine sulphate, four drams of bay rum, one dram of tincture of cantharides, one dram of tincture of capsaicin and eight ounces of distilled water. Same Qid Plant The Lady—It seems to me these berries are rather small. The Peddler—I'm sure they have got their full growth, ma'am. The Lady—Possibly; but I'm quite sure your quart boxes haven't got theirs. -Cincinnati Enquirer. He Got Her. Mr. Isaacstein—So you want my daughter? Could you lend me $10,000 for 60 days mitout security? Mr. Rosenbaum—Of course I could Mr. Isaacstein, but I wouldn't. Mr. Isaacstein, but I can't!—Puck At Her Own Estimate Lavinia—True, but, as you yourself have often said, she is awfully thick-skinned—Judge. Easily Remedied A mother was trying to impress her young son with the grief his naughtiness caused her, and said: "George, you know it hurts me terribly when you do wrong, and if I were ever to be taken away from you, it would make you feel sorry to look back and think how you had grieved me. Boys do lose their mothers sometimes, you know, Tommy Brown's mother died last year." "Yes, but he got another, right away," said George, and his mother wished she had chosen a different example to point her moral.—Brooklyn Life. Not a Mare Clerk Wealthy Parent—What? Engaged yourself to young Tapestier. Outrageous! The idea of a Van Juneberry marrying a mere store clerk! Daughter—But he isn't a store clerk now, papa. He's a gentleman of leisure. "Eh?" "Yes: he's been discharged."—N. Y Weekly. Disappointed. "Luck never manages things just right," said the irritable man who dislikes music. "It might just as well have been the other way around, but it wasn't." "What is the trouble now?" "My daughter who plays the piano has a sore throat, and the one who whoshes has a sore finger."—Washington Star Rebuked. Owner (of the automobile)—Anything serious? Repair Man—Oh, it might have been worse. Owner—Much? Repair Man—Well, if you had tampered with it half an hour longer you have needed a junkman instead of me. —The Wavfer. Definitions. They challenged the sage to define courtship. "Courtship," said he, "usually consists of a pair of ruby lips smothered with kisses." "And marriage?" "Oh, that is more often a beefsteak smothered with onions."—Chicago Sun. What She Gave Up. Husband—I have made all sorts of sacrifices for you. Now, what did you ever give up for me? Wife—What did I ever give up for you! Well, I never! Why, I gave up half a dozen of the nicest young men in town!—N. Y. Weekly. Had a Sinecure Snobs—You here, Blobs! Really, my boy, you have not come down to working, have you? Beastly bad form, you know. Blobs—No, Slobs, not working; I merely have a job—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. His Active Wheels. "My head is going 'round," he said, "At least, that's how it feels." "Your head," she answered, "does not move; What moves is just your wheels!" -Yorkers Statesman. AT HOME. 13 Keeper—You seem to be perfectly happy here. Stripes—Perfectly. You see, I've lived in a flat all my life.—Chicago Journal. No Trouble. "Although 'tis true," remarked the clock, "That by myself I have to flock. Yet 'tis quite easy, day by day, For me to pass the time away." —Judge. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER NEGENT FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW This wonderful hair pomade is the only are prepared in the world that makes kinky or shiny hair. It is applied to the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out or brooking out, eures dandruff and makes hair soft and shiny. It is made for 18 years, and used by thousands. Warranted sale for strengthening kinky hair. Because of its suitable for all hair types, Ozonized Ox Marrow is put only in the hair, made only in Chicago, Ohio, Chicago. It is printed on the package, be not just as good—but always insist upon getting the hair straight, soft and beautiful. Once so much desired, a toilet necessary for gentlemen and children. Elec- trically perfect it is the best and most economical. Quality is the best and most economical. Preparation equal to it. Full directions with preparation equal to it. Full directions with and dealers, or send us 56 cents for one bottle postpaid, or $1.40 for three bottles, express and send postal or express money order. Please Send postal or express money order. Please Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. Charles Ford Post 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. The Wings of the Morning By LOUIS TRACY Copyright, 1903, by CHAPTER V He awoke to find the sun high in the heavens. Iris was preparing breakfast; a fine fire was crackling cheerfully, and the presiding goddess had so altered her appearance that the sailor surveyed her with astonishment. He noiselessly assumed a sitting posture, tucked his feet beneath him and blinked. The girl's face was not visible from where he sat, and for a few seconds he thought he must surely be dreaming. She was attired in a neat navy blue dress and smart blouse. Her white canvas shoes were replaced by strong leather boots. She was quite spick and span, this island Hebe. So soundly had he slept that his senses returned but slowly. At last he guessed what had happened. She had risen with the dawn and, conquered her natural feeling of repulsion, selected from the store he accumulated yesterday some more suitable garments than those in which she escaped from the wreck. He quietly took stock of his own tattered condition and passed a reflective hand over the stubble on his chin. In a few days his face would resemble a scrubbing brush. In that mournful moment he would have exchanged even his pipe and tobacco box, worth untold gold, for shaving tackle. Who can say why his thoughts took such trend? Twenty-four hours can effect great changes in the human mind if controlling influences are active. Then came a sharp revulsion of feeling. His name was Robert—a menial. He reached for his boots, and Iris heard him. "Good morning!" she cried, smiling sweetly. "I thought you would never awake. I suppose you were very, very tired. Please wash quickly. The eggs will be hard." "Eggs!" "Yes, I made a collection among the trees. I tasted one of a lot that looked good. It was first rate." He had not the moral courage to begin the day with a rebuke. She was impressible, but she really must not do these things. He smothered a sigh in the improvised basin which was placed ready for him. Miss Deane had prepared a capital meal. Of course the ham and biscuits still bulkled large in the bill of fare, but there were boiled eggs, fried bananas and an elderly coconut. These things, supplemented by clear, cold water, were not so bad for a couple of castaways hundreds of miles from everywhere. For the life of him the man could not refrain from displaying the conversational art in which he excelled. Their talk dealt with Italy, Egypt, India. He spoke with the ease of culture and enthusiasm. Once he slipped into anecdote apropos of the helplessness of British soldiers in any matter outside the scene of the king's regulations. "I remember," he said, "seeing a cavalry subaltern and the members of an assort sitting half starved on a number of bags piled up in the Skunkin desert. And what do you think were in the bags?" "I don't know," said Iris, keenly alert for deductions. "Biscuits! They thought the bags contained patent fodder until I enlightened them." It was on the tip of her tongue to pounce on him with the comment, "Then you have been an officer in the army." But she forbore. She had guessed this earlier. Yet the mischievous light in her eyes defied control. He was warned in time and pulled himself up short. "You read my face like a book," she哭ed. "No printed page was ever so—legible. Now, Miss Deane, we have gossiped too long. I am a laggard this morning, but before starting work I have a few serious remarks to make." "More digs?" she inquired saucily. "I repudiate digs. In the first place, you must not make any more experiments in the matter of food. The eggs were a wonderful effort; but, flattered by success, you may poison yourself." "Secondly?" "You must never pass out of my sight without carrying a revolver, not so much for defense, but as a signal. Did you take one when you went bird's nesting?" "No. Why?" There was a troubled look in his eyes when he answered: "It is best to tell you at once that before help reaches us we may be visited by cruel and bloodthirsty savages. I would not even mention this if it were a remote contingency. As matters stand, you ought to know that such a thing may happen. Let us trust in God's goodness that assistance may come soon. The island has seemingly been deserted for many months, and therein lies our best chance of escape. But I am obliged to warn you lest you should be taken unawares." Iris was serious enough now. "How do you know that such danger threatens us?" she demanded. He countered readily. "Because I happen to have read a good deal about the China sea and its frequenters," he said. "I am the last man in the world to alarm you needlessly. All I mean to convey is that certain precautions should be taken against a risk that is possible, not probable. No more." She could not repress a shudder. The sailor wanted to tell her that he would defend her against a host of savages if he were endowed with many lives, but he was perforce tongued tied. He even reviled himself for having spoken, but she saw the anguish in his face, and her woman's heart acknowledged him as her protector, her shield. Copyright, 1903, by Edward J. Clode "Mr. Jenks," she said simply, "we are in God's hand. I put my trust in him and in you. I am hopeful—nay, more, confident. I thank you for what you have done, for all that you will do. If you cannot preserve me from threatening perils no man could, for you are as brave and gallant a gentleman as lives on the earth today." Now, the strange feature of this extraordinary and unexpected outburst of pent up emotion was that the girl pronounced his name with the slightly emphasized accentuation of one who knew it to be a mere disguise. The man was so taken aback by her declaration of faith that the minor incident, though, it did not escape him, was smothered in a tumult of feeling. He could not trust himself to speak. He rose hastily and seized the ax to deliver a murderous assault upon a sago palm that stood close at hand. Iris was the first to recover a degree of self possession. For a moment she had bared her soul. With reaction came a sensitive shrinking. Her delicate nature disapproved these sentimental displays. She wanted to box her own ears. With innate tact she took a keen interest in the felling of the tree. "What do you want it for?" she inquired when the sturdy trunk creaked and fell. Jenks felt better now. "This is a change of diet," he explained. "No; we don't boll the leaves or nibble the bark. When I split this palm open you will find that the interior is full of pith. I will cut it out for you, and then it will be your task to knead it with water after well washing it, pick out all the fiber and finally permit the water to evaporate. In a couple of days the residuum will become a white powder, which, when boiled, is sage." "Good gracious!" said Iris. "The story sounds unconvincing, but I believe I am correct. It is worth a trial." "I should have imagined that sage grew on a stalk like rice or wheat." "Or Topsy." She laughed. A difficult situation had passed without undue effort. Unhappily the man reopened it. While using a crowbar as a wedge he endeavored to put matters on a straight-forward footing. "A little while ago," he said, "you seemed to imply that I had assumed the name of Jenks." But Miss Deane's confidential mood had gone. "Nothing of the kind," she said coldly. "I think Jenks is an excellent name." She regretted the words even as they fell from her lips. The sailor gave a mighty wrench with the bar, splitting the log to its clustering leaves. "You are right," he said. "It is distinctive, brief, dogmatic. I cling to it passionately." Soon afterward, leaving Iris to the manufacture of sage, he went to the leeward side of the island, a search for turtles being his oscensible object. When the trees bid him he quickened his pace and turned to the left in order to explore the cavity marked on the tin with a skull and crossbones. To his surprise he hit upon the remnants of a roadway—that is, a line through the wood where there were no well grown trees, where the ground bore traces of humanity in the shape of a wrinkled and mildewed pair of Chinese boots, a wooden sandal, even the decayed remains of a paiki, or litter. At last he reached the edge of the pit, and the sight that met his eyes held him spellbound. The labor of many hands had torn a chasm, a quarry, out of the side of the hill. Roughly circular in shape, it had a diameter of perhaps a hundred feet, and at its deepest part, toward the cliff, it ran to a depth of forty feet. On the lower side, where the sailor stood, it descended rapidly for some fifteen feet. Grasses, sirubs, plants of every variety, grew in profusion down the steep slopes wherever seeds could find precarious nurture until a point was reached about ten or eleven feet from the bottom. There all vegetation ceased, as if forbidden to cross a magic circle. Below this belt the place was a charnel house. The bones of men and animals mingled in weird confusion. Most were THE WATER IS BROKE The place was a charnel house. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. mere skeletons. A few bodies—nine the sailor counted—yet preserved some resemblance of humanity. These latter were scattered among the older relatives. They wore the clothes of Dyaks. Characteristic hats and weapons denoted their nationality. The others, the first harvest of this modern Golgotha, might have been Chinese cookies. When the sailor's fascinated vision could register details he distinguished yokes, baskets, odd looking spades and picks strewn amid the bones. The animals were all of one type—small, lanky, with long pointed skulls. At last he spied a withered hoof. They were pigs. Over all lay a thick coating of fine sand, deposited from the eddying winds that could never reach the silent depths. The place was grewsome, horribly depressing. Jenks broke out into a clammy perspiration. He seemed to be looking at the secrets of the grave. At last his superior intelligence asserted itself. His brain became clearer, recovered its power of analysis. He began to criticise, reflect, and this is the theory he evolved: Some one, long ago, had discovered valuable minerals in the volcanic rock. Mining operations were in full blast when the extinct volcano took its revenge upon the human ants gnawing at its vitals and smothered them by a deadly outpouring of carbonic acid gas, the bottled up poison of the ages. A horde of pigs, running wild over the island—placed there no doubt by Chinese fishers—had met the same fate while intent on dreadful orgy. Then there came a European who knew how the anhydrate gas, being heavier than the surrounding air, settled like water in that terrible hollow. He, too, had striven to wrest the treasure from the stone by driving a tunnel into the cliff. He had partly succeeded and had gone away, perhaps to obtain help, after crudely registering his knowledge on the lid of a tin canister. This, again, probably fell into the hands of another man, who, curious but convinced, caused himself to be set ashore on this desolate spot with a few inadequate stores. Possibly he had arranged to be taken off within a fixed time. But a sampan laden with Dyak pirates came first, and the intrepid explorer's bones rested near the well, while his head had gone to decorate the hut of some fierce village chief. The murderers, after burrying their own dead—for the white man fought hard, witness the empty cartridges—searched the island. Some of them, ignorantly inquisitive, descended into the hollow. They remained there. The others, superstitious barbarians, fled for their lives, embarking so hastily that they took from the cave neither tools nor oil, though they would greatly prize these articles. Such was the tragic web he spun, a compound of fact and fancy. It explained all perplexities save one. What did "32 divided by 1" mean? Was there yet another fearsome riddle awaiting solution? And then his thoughts flew to iris. Happen what might, her bright picture was seldom absent from his brain. Suppose, egg hunting, she had stumbled across this valley of death! How could he hope to keep it hidden from her? Was not the ghastly knowledge better than the horror of a chance ramble through the wood and the shock of discovery—nay, indeed, the risk of a catstrophe? He rushed back through the trees until he caught sight of Iris industriously kneading the sago pith in one of those most useful dish covers. He called to her, led her wondering to the track and pointed out the fatal quarry, but in such wise that she could not look inside it. "You remember that round hole we saw from the summit rock?" he said. "Well, it is full of carbonic acid gas, to breathe which means unconsciousness and death. It gives no warning to the inexperienced. It is rather pleasant than otherwise. Promise me you will never come near this place again." Now, Iris, too, had been thinking deeply. Robert Jenks bulked large in her day dreams. Her nerves were not yet quite normal. There was a catch in her throat as she answered: She bit her lip to suppress her tears; but, being the Eve in this garden, she continued: "How did you find out? Is there anything—nasty—in there?" "Yes, the remains of animals and other things. I would not have told you were it not imperative." "Are you keeping other secrets from me?" "Oh, quite a number." He managed to conjure up a smile, and the ruse was effective. She applied the words to his past history. "I hope they will not be revealed so dramatically," she said. "You never can tell." he answered. They were in prophetic vein that morning. They returned in silence to the cave. "I wish to go inside with a lamp. May I?" he asked. "May I come too?" she demanded. He assented, with an explanation of his design. When the lamp was in order he held it close to the wall and conducted a systematic survey. The geological fault which favored the construction of the tunnel seemed to diverge to the left at the farther end. The "face" of the rock exhibited the marks of persistent labor. The stone had been hewn away by main force when the dislocation of strata ceased to be helpful. His knowledge was limited on the subject, yet Jenks believed that the material here was a hard limestone rather than the external basalt. Searching each inch with the feeble light, he paused once, with an exclamation. "What is it?" cried Iris. "I cannot be certain," he said doubtfully. "Would you mind holding the lamp while I use a crowbar?" In the stone was visible a thin vein, bluish white in color. He managed to break off a fair sized lump containing a well defined specimen of the foreign metal. They hurried into the open air and examined the fragment with curious eyes. The sailor picked it with his knife, and the substance in the vein came off in laminated layers, small. brittle scales. "Is it silver?" Iris was almost excited. "I do not think so. I am no expert, but I have a vague idea—I have seen." He wrinkled his brows and pressed away the furrows with his hand, that physical habit of his when perplexed. "I have it," he cried. "It is anti-mony." Miss Deane pursed her lips in disdain. Antimony! What was anti-mony? "So much fuss for nothing," she said. "It is used in alloys and medicines," he explained. "To us it is useless." He threw the piece of rock contemptuously among the bushes. But, being thorough in all that he undertook, he returned to the cave and again conducted an inquisition. The silver hued vein became more strongly marked at the point where it disappeared downward into a collection of rubble and sand. That was all. Did men give their toil, their lives, for this? So it would appear. Be that as it might, he had more pressing work. If the cave still held a secret it must remain there. Iris had gone back to her sago kneading. Shouldering the ax, he walked to the beach. Much debris from the steamer was lying high and dry. It was an easy task for an athletic man to reach the palm tree, yet the sailor hesitated with almost imperceptible qualities. "A baited rat trap," he muttered. Then he quickened his pace. With the first active spring from rock to rock his unknowledged doubts vanished. He might find stores of priceless utility. The reflection inspired him. Jumping and climbing like a cat, in two minutes he was near the tree. He could now see the true explanation of its growth in a seemingly impossible place. Here the bed of the sea bulged upward in a small sand cay, which silted round the base of a limestone rock so different in color and formation from the coral reef. Nature, whose engineering contrivances can force springs to mountain tops, managed to deliver to this isolated refuge a sufficient supply of water to nourish the palm, and the roots, firmly lodged in deep crevices, were well protected from the waves. Between the sailor and the tree intervened a small stretch of shallow water. Landward this submerged saddle shelved steeply into the lagoon. Although the water in the cove was twenty fathoms in depth, its crystal clearness was remarkable. The bottom, composed of marvelously white sand and broken coral, rendered other objects conspicuous. He could see plenty of fish, but not a single shark, while on the inner slope of the reef was plainly visible the destroyed fore part of the Sirdar, which had struck beyond the tree, relatively to his present standpoint. He had wondered why no boats were cast ashore. Now he saw the reason. Three of them were still fastened to the davits and carried down with the hull. Seaward the water was not so clear. The waves created patches of foam, and long submarine plants swayed gently in the undercurrent. To reach Palm Tree rock—anticipating its subsequent name—he must cross a space of some thirty feet and wade up to his waist. He made the passage with ease. Pitched against the bole of the tree was a long, narrow case, very heavy, iron clamped and marked with letters in black triangles and the broad arrow of the British government. "Rifles, by all the gods!" shouted the sailor. The Sirdar carried a consignment of arms and ammunition from Hongkong to Singapore. Providence had decreed that a practically inexhaustible store of cartridges should be hurled across the lagoon to the island. And here were rifles enough to equip half a company. He would not risk the precious ax in an attempt to open the case. He must go back for a crowbar. What else was there in this storehouse thrust by Neptune from the ocean bed? A chest of tea, seemingly undamaged; three barrels of flour, utterly ruined; a saloon chair, smashed from its pivot; a battered chronometer. For the rest, fragments of timber intermingled with pulverized coral and broken crockery. A little farther on the deep water entrance to the lagoon curved between sunken rocks. On one of them rested the Sidar's huge funnel. The northwest section of the reef was bare. Among the wreckage he found a coil of stout rope and a pulley. He instantly conceived the idea of constructing an aerial line to ferry the chest of tea across the channel he had forded. He threaded the pulley with the rope and climbed the tree, adding a touch of artistic completeness to the rule of his trousers by the operation. He had fastened the pulley high up the trunk before he realized how much more simple it would be to break open the chest where it lay and transport its contents in small parcels. He laughed lightly. "I am becoming adde headed," he said to himself. "Anyhow, now the job is done, I may as well make use of it." Recoiling the rope ends, he cast them across the reef. In such small ways do men throw invisible dice with death. With those two lines he would within a few fleeting seconds drag himself back from eternity. Picking up the ax, he carelessly stepped into the water, not knowing that Iris, having welded the incipient sago into a flat pancake, had strolled to the beach and was watching him. The water was hardly above his knees when there came a swirling rush from the seaweed. A long tentacle shot out like a lasso and gripped his right leg. Another colled around his waist. "My God!" he gurgled as a horrid sucker closed over his mouth and nose. He was in the grin of a devilish! A deadly sensation of nausea almost overpowered him, but the love of life came to his aid and he tore the suffocating feeler from his face. Then the ax whirled, and one of the eight arms of the octopus lost some of its length. Yet a fourth flung itself around his left ankle. A few feet away, out of range of the ax and lifting itself bodily out of the water, was the dread form of the cuttle, apparently all head, with distended gills and monstrous eyes. The sailor's feet were planted wide apart. With frenzied effort he hacked at the murderous tentacles, but the water hindered him, and he was forced to lean back in superhuman strain to avoid losing his balance. If once this terrible assailant got him down he knew he was lost. The very need to keep his feet prevented him from attempting to deal a mortal blow. The cuttle was anchored by three of its tentacles. Its remaining arm darted THE TERRIBLE TREASURE Its remaining arm darted to again clutch the man's face and neck. with sinuous activity to again clutch the man's face or neck. With the ax he smote madly at the curling feeler, diverting its aim time and again, but falling to deliver an effective stroke. With agonized prescience the sailor knew that he was yielding. Were the davishl a giant of its tribe he could not have held out so long. As it was, the creature could afford to wait, strengthening its grasp, tightening its coils, pulling and pumping at its prey with remorseless certainty. He was nearly spent. In a paroxysm of despair he resolved to give way and with one mad effort seek to bury the ax in the monster's brain. But ere he could execute this fatal project, for the cuttle would have instantly swept him into the trailing weeds, five revolver shots rang out in quick succession. Iris had reached the nearest rock. The third bullet gave the octopus cause to reflect. It squirited forth a torrent of dark colored fluid. Instantly the water became black, opaque. The tentacle, flourishing in air, thrashed the surface with impotent fury. That around Jenks' waist grew taut and rigid. The ax flashed with the inspiration of hope. Another arm was severed. The huge dismembered coll slackened and fell away. Yet was he anchored immovably. He turned to look at Iris. She never forgot the fleeting expression of his face. So might Lazarus have looked from the tomb. "The rope!" she screamed, dropping the revolver and seizing the loose ends lying at her feet. She drew them tight and leaned back, pulling with all her strength. The sailor flung the ax to the rocks and grasped the two ropes. He raised himself and plunged wildly. He was free. With two convulsive strides he was at the girl's side. He stumbled to a bowler and dropped in complete collapse. After a time he felt Iris' hand placed timidly on his shoulder. He raised his head and saw her eyes shining. "Thank you," he said. "We are quits now." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Gems In Verse True Creations. How sad that all great things are sad. That greediness knows not to be glad. The boundless, spacious, fearful sea. Pursues the moon like constantly, And Chearer, children, lives and dies. The thirsty born sequoia tree In so many isolation cries Snow covered branches Above the clouds, above his kind, Above his hardened peak, above All sign or sound or some of love, How manacles, desolate and drear His lorn, lour seven thousand year! His commands, lovers dare to be My friend in Caesar's be Who knew three husbands apart Yet never truly touched one heart, The tearful, lorn, complaining sea The very moon looks down upon, Then changes—as a saber drawn; The great sequoia lords as lone As God upon that fabled throne, The glory, glory, glory, fame, Is his who claims nor name, But loves and lives content, complete, With baby flowers at his feet. Ension Enoos. Ensign Epps, at the battle of Flanders, Sowed a seed of glory and duty That beautiful flowers and flames in the sky burst forth Like a crimson lily with hearts of gold Today, when the wars of Gheut are old, And buried as deep as their dead com- manders. Ensign Epps was the color bearer— No matter on which side, Philip or Earl- Their cause was the shell; his deed was the pearl. Scarce more than a lad, he had been a sharer That day In the wildest work in the field. He was wounded and spent, and the fight was lost: His comrades were slain or a scattered host. But stainless and scathless out of the strife. He carried his colors safer than life. By the river's brink, without weapon or shield. He faced the victors. The thick heart mist He dashed from his eyes, and the silk he kissed And hurted at the leader with a laugh. Then round his breast, like the scarf of a wolf. He tied the colors his heart above And clung in his armor into the tide And there, in his dress of honor, died. Where are the lessons your kinglings teach? And who is the text of your proud commanders? Out of the centuries heroes reach With the scroll of a deed, with the word of a story, with truth and all men's slog. Of one man's truth and all men's glory, Like Ensign Epps at the battle of Flanders. —John Boyle O'Reilly La Grinpe You kick the dog and kick the cat, Then swallow a dose and kick at that And growl And greet And writhe And moan And cough And wheeze And gasp And sneeze And swear by all that's good and great That never was man in such a state Since Adam was stung By a woman's tongue And made to hate the earth and sky And honestly with that he could die. Your head feels like a bursting bomb. Your back doesn't feel like a bump, hum, Your back doesn't feel like a back at all, Your legs are as stiff as a garden wall. Your muscles are sore and your nerves are string To a pitch as high as the topmost rung In the ladder of fame. And Then When The doctor comes and says to you. With a fendish grin, "How do you do?" Feels of your pulse, surveys your tongue. Tries to look wise and taps your lung And says, "You're getting along al right." You feel like kicking him out of sight. -Thomas Holmes in Trenton State Ga- gette. Woman's World What I most prize in woman Is her affections, not her intellect! The intellect is finite, but the affections Are infinite and cannot be exhausted Compare me with the great men of the earth? What am I? Why, a pygmy among giants? But if thou lovest—mark me, I say lovest— The greatest of thy sex execls thee not! The world of the affections is thy world, Not that of man's ambition. In that still- Which most becomes a woman, calm and holy, Thou sittest by the fireside of the heart, Feeding its flame. The element of fire Is pure. It cannot change nor hide its na- ure. But burns as brightly in a gypsy camp As in palace hall. —Longfellow. Forebodings The winds and the waves are wailing And the night is full of tears. And over my spirit forebodings Are borne from the coming years. I fear for the child heart in me, With its oneness of faith and sight. Lest the glow of its strong endeavor Go out in the passionate night. I fear for the swift feet running Full speed through the morning dew Lest they fall in the arid race course With the goal, unwon, in view. I fear lest the motive for striving is perishing in the strife; I fear lest the glory of living is darkening in the life. I fear and in tears I shiver At the feet of coming years; The weds and the waves are wailing And the night is full of tears —george E. Woodberry. Tis not the food but the content, That makes the table's merriment. Where trouble serves the board we eat The platters ther- as soon as meat A skimmer with a bit Of mutton for callum fit Set on my table, trouble free, More than a feast contentte me. Late Flowers What simple sights give comfort On a bare, brown winter day! A little bird by our window, A little child over the way A little roof and roof roof, Where the sunshine flashes clear; A rose that blooms serenely Despite the time of year. What little things give pleasure When Sorrow hath her way And life bereft of gladness Is but a winter day! A word with accent tender, A softly dropping tear, Love's roses blooming brightly Despite the time of year. -Mary Frances Butts in New York Tribune. Certainty The road of right has neither turn nor bend; It stretches straight unto the highest goal. Hat long and lonely? Yes, yet never soul Can lose the way thereon nor miss the end. —Priscilla Leonard in Outlook. Appropriated It She—They say there is only one person in fifteen who has perfect eyes. He (with uncommon fervor)—In fifteen? There's only one in a million! She—There you go again, Mr. Spoonamore! Always flattering somebody—Chicago Tribune. Her Greater Trouble Mabel—Does your husband talk much about his mother's cooking? Martha (wearily)—Some, but not as much as he does about mine.—Brooklyn Life. Mr. Good—Well. Bobby, how was school today? Did anything make an impression on you? Bobby—Well, I should say so. The teacher caught me throwing paper wads, and she took a whip and made about a dozen impressions, I guess. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Excellent Exercise: "Yes," said the good old professor, "the memory may be perfectly trained by proper study." "But," asked the absentminded scholar, "what do you consider the best exercise for the memory, professor?" "Remember the poor." — Catholic Standard and Times. 3 HE PASSED THE STAR. An Experience of a Negro aa Steeres on a Schooner. Wallisville, Tex., receives all its freight by boat from Galveston or Houston, and as it happened one day the captain of a two masted schooner found his helper to sick to return with him to Galveston. His search for a nautobuston was unavailing until, just before dark, he found a negro on the landing he had never before seen a boat or as large a body of water as the Trinity river. A bargain was, however, struck, and the negro agreed to go with him to Galveston. After getting through the river into Trinity bay the captain called the negro to him at the helm, and after explaining to him at great length and with much care how to steer by the rudder he pointed to a bright star directly ahead and said, "Now, Bob, you see that star directly over the nose of the boat?" "Well, that star is right over Galveston island, and if you will keep the nose of this boat pointed at that star we will but into Galveston. Now, you remember all I told you about steering. do you?" "Yes, boss." "You can keep the nose pointed right at the star, can you?" "Sure, boss." "All right. I'm going to sleep for awhile, and then I'll steer and let you sleep." "All right, boss." When the captain woke up the first thing he did was to look for his star and, to his consternation, saw it over the stern of the schooner. "Say, you black devil, where are you steering for?" he roared. "Don't know now, boss. You got to give me anuder star; I done passed dat un." - Lippincott's Magazine. Saying the Price Mrs. Stinjay—Good morning! Pardon my calling so early, but I saw your advertisement for a cook. Mrs. Hiram Offen—But—er—surely you are not after the place! Mrs. Stinjay—Oh, no! I need a cook myself, and I thought you might send to me all the applicants you reject.—Catholic Standard and Times. His Obligation. "Some day," said the village philosopher, "you may wake up and find yourself famous." "That sounds pretty good," yawned the man on the herring barrel, "but there is one thing I don't like about it." "What's that?" "Waking up."—Chicago News. All He Left "Didn't Smugley leave anything at all?" "Oh. yes, but it was dissipated immediately!" "You don't say? What was it?" You don't say: What was it? "A good reputation, but two widows presented themselves to claim it."— Philadelphia Ledger. No Reciprocity. "Almost every father overestimates the intellectual capacity of his children." "Yes," answered the gloomy person, "and the misfortune of it is that the children so seldom reciprocate when they get big enough to take notice"—Washington Star. The Real Scheme "There's always somebody hobbing up with a scheme to extract gold from sea water." "Their real scheme is not to extract from sea water." "What, then?" "To extract gold from lobsters."—Houston Post. Restricted. "Her husband is teaching her to say yes' and 'no.'" "That's strange. Why does he restrict her in such a fashion?" "Because if she says any more she's sure to say it ungrammatically."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Good Thing Weary Willie—I dumbo but it'd be a good thing if a lot o' them Filipinos would emigrate over ter this country. Dusty Rhodes—W'at fur? Weary Willie—I was readin' in de paper dat dey kills dogs an' eats' em.—Philadelphia Press. Enterprise "So you prefer a horse to an automobile?" "Yes," answered the irascible man. 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We have received "Notes on Negro Crime, particularly in Georgia." This is a social study under the direction of the Atlanta University by the Ninth Atlanta Conference. Robt. Shaw, colored, was lynched at Waltman, Kentucky May 22d. He was insane and had killed Deputy Sheriff W. C. Brown, who had come to arrest him. He wounded seven other men. No attempt will be made to punish the lynchers, although it is evident that had due care been taken.blood-shed would have been avoided as it is evident that the colored was demented and was not responsible for his own acts. THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Presbyterian Church is now in the throes of a proposition to reunite the northern and southern branches of the Church. This incidently brings the color question to the front. The colored brother is to be eliminated as an equation in the settlement of the past troubles. A separate reservation has been prepared for him by the northern branch of this great Church and he is very restless over the prospect. Some of the delegates in attendance at the sessions of the General Assembly at Winona Lake, Indiana, have been outspoken and Mr. Justice Harlan, who is an active member has been forward in giving voice to advanced opinions. The telegraphic reports say: "The proposition to allow separate presbyteries in the boundaries of old presbyteries was adopted with but one dissenting voice. This is to allow separate presbyteries for Negroes and foreigners." This recalls with added force the ringing utterances of Rev. Dr. F. J. Grimke, the able Afro-American Presbyterian divine of Washington, D. C., and the earnest utterances of Mr. Justice Harlan, who was also an interested observer, when the vote was taken. The Associated Press dispatches say further: "Discussing the report on freedom, Dr. R. D. Breed, of Philadelphia, said the peril before the Negro is that he will not rise to his racial rights, but will be content to be an appendage to the white race. It is possible, he said, for the Negro to rise in attainment until the race will be the peer of the whites." No words spoken in the meeting were truer than those utterances of Dr. R. D. Breed of Philadelphia, and they contain a hint which will prove to be of great value, if it is followed to its logical conclusion. It means that the Negroes in the Presbyterian Church can see if the vote is a criterion of the wishes of the great masses of the Church that they are not wanted, and that the time has come for them to cease to be an appendage to the white race, so far as the Presbyterian Church is concerned. There is no reason why they should not take the white membership at its word and organize separate presbyteries and have a separate General Assembly, with Negro officers from bottom to top and top to bottom. They have as shining examples the Great A. M. E. Church, the A. M. E. Zion Church and the National Baptist Convention. These powerful Negro organizations are doing a great work and are learning the lessons of self-government in a way that is gratifying to every devotee of the race in this country. By this means alone can the Negro rise in attainment until the race is the peer of the white man. Is it possible that the strong men of the race now affiliated with the Presbyterian Church cannot see? When the General Assemblies, both North and South get through resoluting, let the leaders of that denomination who are of Negro origin call a meeting to formulate plans and take steps to launch a movement, which will have for its aim and purpose the organization of a Presbyterian Church in keeping with the purposes of the original founders. The report says further: "Rev. W. A. Alexander, colored of Brooklyn, spoke on the alleged criminal tendency of the Negro. He said when disturbances arise in the south the Negroes who have no local attachment to a community begin to move. It is largely this class which goes into the north. Much of the criminality among Negroes, he said, is due to taking them into police courts and prisons for trivial offenses. The Negro race is growing in its power to deliberate. He said the Negroes are against separate presbyteries." Mr. Justice Harlan delivered a rebuke in the following language: "Justice John M. Harlan said it is the gib talk about growing criminality among Negroes which comes from people who want to keep up race prejudice. In proportion to numbers, he said, there are no more Negro criminals than white. "Let us find nowhere in the reports or deliberations of the General Assembly anything of 'the criminality of the Negro.'" he said. The resolutions of the committee were adopted with no reference to Negro criminality." We shall watch with interest the result of this agitation now going on in the Presbyterian Church. If the leading colored men are able to formulate plans and "blaze" out a way, we shall be gratified. If they are content to register their protests and submit without a struggle, it will prove that they got their deserts and have been assigned a place where weaklings are permitted to rest in "inocuous desuetude," not having anticipated such a contest and accordingly not having prepared to meet the crisis. SOUTH'S INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS Eleven States Represented at Sessional Being Held In Washington. Washington, May 24—Eleven states—Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Virginia—are represented by delegates in the Southern Industrial Parliament, which began its sessions here and will continue through Friday. There are also present representatives from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, who are interested in the objects for which the parliament was called, which includes the exchange of ideas regarding matters of importance to the development of the south. The feature of the day was the address of Governor Robert B. Glenn at the morning session. BOMB IN LADIES SHOE Honoured Freel Contains Enough Explosive to Kill Several Persons. Connellsville, Pa., May 24.—In the office of District Attorney Thomas H. Hudson is a ladies' shoe, the hollowed heel of which, it is said, contains enough dynamite and nitro-glycerine to kill a number of persons. Mrs. Lulu Engle, of Uniontown, Pa., found a pair of ladies' shoes in her back yard. While examining them she discovered that the heel of one had been hollowed out, four exploding caps placed on four iron pegs set in an the hols filled with waste soaked with nitro-glycerine. The shoes were turned over to the authorities, who are making a rigid examination. A "Black Hand" Outrage Monessen, Pa., May 23.—The fruit store and home of Vincenzo Palumbo, an Italian, were damaged by a charge of dynamite, said to have been exploded by members of the "Black Hand" society. No one was injured. Recently Palumbo received a letter demanding $5000, and threatening death if he failed to comply. The letter was ignored. Another was received and treated in a like manner. The explosion followed. The police are making an investigation. Degree For Governor Stokes. Trenton, N. J., May 23.—Governor Stokes was advised that Dickinson College at the commencement exercises would confer upon him the honorary degree of LL. D. Governor Stokes is a graduate of Brown University. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA PEACE IN CINGAO STRIKE Hope of Settlement Disappears and Flight to Florida. MORE MEN ARE COMING CUT Chicago, May 24—All prospects of peace in the teamsters' strike have disappeared, and it will be open war from this time on. The last conference locating toward a peaceable adjustment of the trouble was held between James E. Barry, business agent for the Express Drivers' Union, and the local managers of the seven express companies. The conference was brief and pointed. Business Agent Barry opened the negotiations by saying: "Our position is this: I want all the men reinstated except those who have been guilty of violence. I cannot do anything different. That is what the local union wants, and that is what the local officers have told me to demand. That is all I can do. The men told me they all want to go back in a body or they won't go back at all. This is the position of the union and the union officials." The reply of the representatives of the express companies was brief. It was: "Our opposition to the reinstatement of the men will be the same four years from now as it is today. We will not take them back under any circumstances." This brought the conference to a close and all parties concerned in it left the city hall. The strike continues to spread, and by tonight fully 4000 more drivers will be out. They are the employees of the Lumbermen's Exchange. With the union drivers employed by the Lumbermen's Association on strike it will be only a matter of a short time until outside unions will be affected by the trouble. Unless the strike is settled within a short time the carpenters, stonemasons and other affiliations are bound to become involved in the difficulty. The possibilities for increased rioting are, of course, greatly enlarged by the present situation. Sherliff Barrett said: "At the first outbreak of trouble which in any way approaches the rioting we have had I shall call for troops. I will do everything in my power to maintain order, but the minute it gets beyond me I will appeal to the government, and the troops will be on the ground within less than two hours." Every preparation has been made for a prompt response by the national guard, and a large consignment of riot cartridges has been received. These differ from the ordinary rifle ball, in that they contain three backshot each in place of the single steel bullet ATLANTIC FLYING EASTWARD Yacht Sighted Last Saturday 690 Miles From Sandy Hook. New York, May 23.—The American yacht Atlantic, one of the contestants in the trans-Atlantic race for the Emperor William's cup, was sighted late Saturday night 650 miles due east of Sandy Hook. She was heading east, and with fine weather and a fresh west-southwest wind, and was making a little better than seven and a half knots an hour. The Atlantic was sighted by the steamers Cedric, Minnetonka and Noordam. To have reached the point at which she was sighted the Atlantic must have averaged more than 200 miles per day, or more than eight knots an hour. The British steamer Gorsemore passed the schooner yacht Thistle last Saturday. The yacht was making about five and a half knots an hour. WHALES IN DELAWARE BAY Three of Them, Fisherman Say, and One of Them 115 Feet Long. One of them 115 Feet Long. Milford, Del. May 22.—Men in one of the off-shore boats of the Harris Shore fishing crew at Bowers' Beach, Delaware bay, spied what they thought looked like men on a raft far out in the bay. Casting off their end of the seine, they pulled lustily, expecting to rescue shipwrecked sailors. After a mile of hard work the raft and men loomed into three whales. They estimated that one whale was about 115 feet long and the other two whales each about 60 feet long. The levitians were spouting water 20 feet high, and when last seen were floating up the bay with flood tide. Thousands Leave Russian Church. Warsaw, May 24.—Since the promulgation of the emperor's ukase conceding liberty of worship and abolishing the religious disabilities of the Roman Catholic and other religious Christian communities, 26,000 persons are reported to have left the Russian church for the Roman church in the governments of Sledoel and Lublin. The censor has ordered the Polish press not to make any reference to the subject. In one village of 680 inhabitants 678 have changed their faith. Drowned Herself and Three Children. Sulphur Springs, Tex., May 24.—Mrs. Tip Sanders drowned herself and three children in a creek near her home, two miles south of here. The oldest child was a boy 6 years of age. The other children were girls aged 3 years and 10 months respectively. The tragedy, it is said, was the result of domestic troubles. Zionists to Meet in Philadelphia. New York, May 23 - The eighth annual convention of the Federation of American Zionists will be held in Philadelphia from June 16 to 20. The future of the Zionist movement in this country will depend largely upon the deliberations of this convention. 3000 Templars Parade Williamsport, Pa., May 24.—Thousands of visitors from all the interior towns of the state reviewed the $2d annual parade of the Knights Templar of Pennsylvania, and never before in the history of the city was such an imposing demonstration witnessed. Although nearly every city in the state was represented by the $3000 Knights in line, the honors were easily carried off by the visitors from Philadelphia. SECURED FOR THIS PAPER SIR A. CONAN DOYLE'S Latest and Greatest Achievement The Return of Sherlock Holmes Copyright by Collier's Weekly. 'SHERLOCK HOLMES EXAMINES THE GLASSES. PRESBYTERIANS VOTE FOR UNION Cumberland, Church Received Into the General Assembly. Winona Lake, Ind., May 23—Amid a storm of applause, without debate or a dissenting voice, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church voted to reunite with the Cumberland Presbyterian body, which withdrew from the original denomination of February 4, 1810, thereby, so far as the main church is concerned, bringing together the two largest branches of the Presbyterian faith. The Cumberland conference, now in session in Fresno, Cal., has not yet decided as to union. If the opposition to the union has made any fight it has been chiefly at the secret meetings of the special canvassing committee, but there were no signs of such a contest. The special committee in its report canvassed the votes taken by presbyteries on the question of union. It showed 144 votes yes, 39 no. Two took no action, one gave conditional assent and five made no report. The special committee in its recommendations asked that the proposition be referred to the committee on co-operation and union, that the committee be increased in membership to 21, that it have power to confer with a committee from the Cumberland church, that it find what details must be worked out to consummate the union, and that report be made to the general assembly next year. This committee is to consider the corporate and legal rights of both general assemblies. The purpose is to keep the consolidation within legal limits so that all civil suits and injunctions may be avoided. The report was accepted as a whole. The committee is to make report on some other affairs, including consolidation with the Reformed church, and its business was made a special order. An official telegram was read by Stated Clerk Roberts from the colored Cumberland assembly, in session at Huntsville, Ala., saying a committee of seven had been appointed to consider union with the Presbyterian church, and asked that a similar committee be named by the assembly here. It was referred to the committee on bills and overtures. The assembly then took a recess. The assembly voted to select a special committee to arrange for a celebration during May of next year of the 200th anniversary of the formation of the first presbytery in Philadelphia. It is understood this celebration will be held in Philadelphia. The proposition to allow separate presbyteries in the boundaries of old presbyteries was adopted with but one dissenting vote. This is to allow separate presbyteries for negroes and foreigners. Cumberland Voted For Union. Fresno, Cal., May 24.-By a majority of 27, the Cumberland general assembly adopted the majority report declaring for union with the northern Presbyterian church. BIG FIRE AT WILKESBARRE Welles Building Destroyed, Entailing Loss of $300,000. Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 22—One of the most disastrous fires that has occurred in this city in some years happened yesterday, and after 12 hours' hard work the firemen were able to control the flames. The loss entailed will reach fully $300,000. The fire originated in the millinery department on the second floor of the Isaac Long dry goods house in the Welles building, on the west side of the public square, one of the handsome and costliest structures in this city. When first discovered the flames were promptly controlled by the firemen in less than an hour. A second fire broke out in the bequest of the building about an hour after the first one had been subdued. A careful investigation was made by the experts, who declare the fire was first caused by the crossing of two electric wires. The water used to quench the first flames followed some of the wires into the basement of the building, where a short circuit was formed, causing a flash from a large dynamo which started the second fire among some inflammable dry goods stored there, which spread with great rapidity, and before the general alarm could be sounded the entire building was a mass of flames. CONCESSIONS FORFEITED New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company Lose In Venezuelan Court. Caramans, May 22.—The president of the federal court of cassation, sitting as a tribunal of first instance in the case of the government of Venezuela against the New York and Bermudez Asphalt company, in the matter of the Hamilton contract, dissolved the contract and ordered the company to pay damages. NEW YORK BANK CLOSE& The Merchants' Trust Company Suspends Operations. New York, May 24.—The Merchants' Trust company of this city was closed by the order of the state department of banks because it had made loans amounting to about $1,250,000 upon which it had not been able to realize a sufficient sum to pay depositors and save the capital of the company from impairment. Upon the application of the state attorney general, Douglas Robinson, a brother-in-law of President Roosevelt, was appointed one of the receivers of the company. All the company's loans which had no ready market value were about $850,000 on securities of the Hudson Valley Railway company, of Glens Falls, N. Y., which is a consolidation of trolley lines in the vicinity of Albany, Troy, Saratoga and Lake George, and nearly $400,000 to the Rutland, Vt., Street Railway company and Chittenden Development company of Rutland. The trust company owes depositors about $2,200,000, and according to the state bank examiner has available assets, other than in the Hudson Railway company and the Rutland companies, of nearly $1,200,000; that it will be necessary to realize $950,000 to pay depositors. LIVES WITH BULLETS IN HEAD Man Who Tried Sulicide Amazes Physi cians By Recovering. clans by Recovering. Baltimore, Md., May 22.—On May 3 George Horst, 32 years old, an employee in a brewery here, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself twice in the head. The bullets have not been removed, but to the amazement of physicians who have interested themselves in his case, he is not only still living, but according to present indications will soon be well enough to be out of the house. Of the bullets with which Horst attempted to end his life, one entered just above the right ear, while the other entered just below the right temple. 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When they started their merriment they were fired upon and returned the fire, did no damage. Both institutes outside the corporate limits on the town authorities have no juri ditition. No arrests have been made. None of the students is seriously wounded. The Jeter authorities decline to say who fired on the visitors. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. Thursday, May 13. The New Jeraey State Firemen's Association held their annual meeting at Trenton. In a pistol duel at Owingsville, Ky., James Stephen and John Burns were fatally wounded. George H. Butler, of New York, has been appointed interpreter at the American legation at Pekin. The mixing mill of the Oliver's Powder Mill plant, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., blew up, but no one was injured. Charles E. Magoon, who succeeds General Davis as governor of the canal zone, has sailed for Colon, accompanied by John F. Wallace, the chief engineer. Friday, May 19. Mrs. Jacob A. Riss, wife of the writer, died of pneumonia at her home at Richmond Hill, L. I. Prof. C. R. Stiles, principal of Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, Towanda, Pa., died of apoplexy, aged 47 years. The army transport Buford, which ran ashore at Malabong, Philippine Islands, has been relocated and sailed to Xanla under her own steam. The Pennsylvania Railroad company has awarded a contract for 22,000 tons of structural steel to the American Bridge company for use at its New York terminal. Saturday, May 20. The next national convention of the Railway Telegraphers' Association will be held at Denver, Colo. The First National Bank of Cornwall, N. Y., has been closed by the comptroller of currency on the ground of insolvency. Daniel Graebay, a telephone lineman, was shocked to death at Mahanoy City, Pa., while repairing a wire at the top of a 50-foot pole. Dr. William Osler, recently professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and who goes to Oxford to accept a professorship there, sailed on the steamship Cedric for Liverpool. Jewels valued at $2000, which have mysteriously disappeared from the trunk of Mrs. Thomas H. West, Jr., of St. Louis, Mo., are being searched for by police detectives in St. Louis, Boston and New York. Monday, May 22. William J. Bryan has announced that he will tour the world to study municipal ownership and railroad problems. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw directed the laying of the new federal building corner-stone at Cleveland, O. P. J. McArdle, of Muncie, Ind., was elected president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin-workers. Falling into a cellarway at Washington, Pa. Dr. S. C. McCracken, an aged physician, sustained a fractured skull and died in 15 minutes. Knights of Labor in Chicago asked an order restraining the Cigarmakers' Union from circulating literature condemning Knights of Labor cegars. Tuesday, May 23. President Roosevelt has appointed J. E. B. Stuart collector of customs at Norfolk, Va. The furnaces of the Moorhead Bros.' steel mill, at Sharpsburg, Pa., resumed operations, giving employment to 500 men. James Fatserson, son of a wealthy farmer, was murdered and robbed at Latrobe, Pa., the body being badly mutilated. Major John W. Johnston, father of Mary Johnston, the authoress, died at his home in Richmond, Va., aged 66 years. Forty monuments erected by the state of Ohio to its soldiers who fell in the siege of Vicksburg were dedicated in the National Military Park at Vicksburg, Miss. Wednesday, May 24. Brigadier General Alfred T. Smith, retired, died at Buffalo, N. Y., after a short illness. John S. Crossy, known as one of the "two Joens," the famous fat men of the stage, died at his home in St. Louis. W. G. Parker, teller in the Arkansas National Bank, at Hot Springs, is missing, and his accounts are short $10,000. Admiral Dewey, who has been suffering from a severe cold, has fully recovered and is able to be at his office in the navy department. President Roosevelt has reiterated his intention of calling congress in extra session October 16 to consider railroad rate legislation. Byrnes Guilty of Manslaughter. Atlantic City, N. J. May 23.—The jury in the murder trial of Charles Byrnes, tried for the killing of James McMillan, returned a verdict of manslaughter. He admitted killing McMillan, whose body was found in a rabbit pen in the South Jersey woods. Gives Instant VigOr. Weak Men Can Have It Free by Sending Name and Address Imparts Strength, Nerve and Vigor. YOU WILL BE DELIGHTED THE FIRST DAY How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual exhaustion, lost vitality, varicocele, prostatic troubles, bladder or kidney troubles, blood poison, stricture, gonorrhoea, and all other ailments that may have been caused by early indiscretions or excesses, which sap the vital energy of men, take away their ambition, and unite them for social and business life. 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London.—A honeymoon In Abys- sina is the novel experience decided upon by an English couple who were married recently. The Bride was Lady Ethel Keith Falconer, daughter of the earl and countess of Kintore, and the man her choice Mr. John Baird, of the British diplomatic service, and con- sul general to Emperor Menelik's doma- nial. When the happy young couple were talking over plans for the honeymoon, Lady Falconer vetoed suggestions of Paris, Switzerland or Italy. She proposed that they camp out in the wilds of Abyssinia. As this proposition eliminated chances of interruption and intrusions so frequent in the usual honeymoon, and boring to the honeymooners, and as it insured having his bride all to himself amid the picturesque scenery of East Africa, Mr. Baird consented. Indeed, to him the idea seemed an inspiration. In order to reach the interior of Menelik's empire—those splendid high lands lie some distance inland from UNDER THE MELLOW SKIES OF TOR RID AFRICA. the Red sea—Mr. and Lady Ethel Baird landed at Dijbouti, the capital of the French Somaliland coast. From there the first stage of 125 miles across the desert was made by railroad. This railroad, as yet, extends only a little way into Abyssinia. Beyond its terminus the trips must be made on the backs of donkeys or the more stately camels. It is usual for travelers to employ native servants to look after the animals of the caravan. These servants, in turn, frequently employ servants of their own, so that a considerable retinue is accumulated as the outfit proceeds. No one knows just what spot was selected for the honeymoon camp, but the experiences en route were no doubt novel to the daring English girl. At first travelers journey across arid, stony plains, and then for several days over rich prairie land. Caravans laden with hides, coffee and ivory, on their way to the coast, are frequently met, and the patient camels striding along, with shuffling, ungainly gait; the white and colored robes of the natives fluttering in the breeze. At night camp is pitched beside some well, the camels are formed in a circle and given their meal of mimosa twigs; cooks busy themselves preparing supper, while the foreigners sit about amid their baggage and admire the radiant moon, which is nowhere more beautiful. Next comes the longest and most trying stage of the journey. The Hawash plain and the Foutelle range have an evil reputation in Ethiopia. The long stretch before the Stassan river is reached is without water, extent such as may sometimes be found in the crevices of certain rocks. In most parts of Abyssinia, the lion, elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, wolf, hipopotamus and zetra abound, and expeditions of European and American hunters frequently seek them in their native wilds. It may be that the excitement of a lion or elephant hunt will add zest to Lady Ethel's honeymoon in Africa. Upon the highlands of the interior—a beautiful plateau amid mountain ranges—the bridal couple have probably pitched their camp. Here nature smiles in her tenderest, sunniest moods, as well as revealing her mildest caprices. As Mr. Baird is connected with the diplomatic service, he was probably extended the traditional "hospitality of the empire" as he proceeded on his journey. This means the right of "durgo" that inhabitants must bring gifts of supplies. In the rich agricultural provinces favored travelers are sometimes overwhelmed with this "hospitality"—as many as 40 people arriving at sunday with steers, goats, eggs, barley and native wine. Vastly superior to any other in Ethiopia is the race occupying these highlands, having descended, it is said, from the natives and those people of ancient Palestine, who, according to ancient tradition, followed the queen of Sheba after her visit to King Solomon. One of the most interesting spectacles to a stranger, as it will undoubtedly be to Lady Ethel Baird, is the review of Abyssinian troops constantly taking place. Surrounding their chiefs, the warriors march in most extraordinary confusion, sometimes performing evolutions, sometimes walking their horses, and sometimes galloping. It is a beautiful spectacle. Scarcely any two costumes are alike. Saddles and bridles are decorated with gold and silver fringe. Bucklers of burnished gold are carried by the soldiers, and from their shoulders fly mantles of leopard and lion skins, of silk, satin and velvet. Only the bright riffle barrels mark the difference between the Ethiopians and the army of their footfathers who followed the queen of Sheba when she went down into Judea. The spectator is spellbound by the moving mass of color across which floats the weird music of a band of shawm players—playing as others of the bind played when the walls of Jericho fell. HEIRESS DEFIES ALL; ELOPES WITH A CLERK. Pretty Student at College, Smuggles from President's Office, Evades Guard and Is Married. Columbia, S. C.—Miss Bertha Cradock, pretty and just 17 years old, an helix and a popular student at Columbia college, defied President W. W. Daniels, her rich relatives, the entire police force, half a dozen clergymen, and a few notaries public, and assisted by three college chams eloped from the college and after much trouble had inconvenience was finally married to Lovice Thomas, a clerk in a local railroad office. When President Daniels learned of the intention of the pretty coed to marry the railroad clerk he immediately telegraphed her guardian. In reply he was told to "prevent it at any cost" until her relatives could reach Columbia and take charge of her. President Daniels relied, as will be shown by the following action he took without delay: Called on Chief of Police Duty for special detail of policemen to guard college grounds. Notified all preschoolers in town not to the knot under any circumstances. Summoted Miss Cressidde and ordered her not to leave his office. The young student was a member of what has been generally known as the "big four" in the college. The other three members of the quartette learned of her trouble, and decided she should not be hampered if she wanted to marry and if they could help her. Two members of the "big four" went to President Daniels' office, and while diverting his attention with various pretexts the third young woman smuggled the pretty captive out of a window. All plans had been carefully made. Lovice Thomas was waiting in a carriage near the college grounds. A mad drive followed, and the young THE PRETTY CAPTIVE ESCAPED THROUGH THE WINDOW couple narrowly escaped being caught because three preachers and two notaries public refused to perform the ceremony. The third notary visited disregarded President Daniels' warning and accepted the young sweathearts vows. Bertha's friends of the "big four" were immediately expelled from college, and they joined Mr. and Mrs. Thomas at the Hotel Jerome Insane from Laughing Gas Traverse City, Mich—Miss Lampson, of Ionia, is now an inmate of the asylum here. She is said to have become insane from the administration of laughing gas administered for the extraction of teeth a year ago. At the time she was taken to the asylum and returned home a few months ago, but her parents were unable to control her. Her malady takes the form of a nervous disorder. She awakens in the night and runs out on the street in the wild hallucination that she has never recovered from the anesthetic. Motherly Cat Adopts a Rat Bellefontaine, O.—William Hitchcreek, of Middleburg, has a cat which for years has been a famous ratter, but now has developed a curious trait. Recently a family of kittens was taken from the cat, and she felt the loss so keenly that she adopted a young rat, which she is taking care of in a motherly way. A Desire to Care. "I was bound to marry a nollemens or nothing," reminiscent of an American in returning with a foreign host, and "I guess you got to" said her father and went on making out a check.—Tit Blits. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA The Return of Sherlock Holmes By A. CONAN DOYLE. The Latest and COMPRISING Thirteen New and Thrilling Detective Stories Author of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," "The Hound of the Baskervilles," "The Sign of the Four," "A Stud in Scarlet," Fts. The Latest and Greatest Achievement in Fiction All Marvelous Masterpieces of Mystery The publication of this famous series in a great New York daily has just created a profound sensation and stamped the work as the greatest of twentieth century fiction. We have secured exclusive rights for this field and publication in this paper. and get the first install- ment ACTRESS MAROONED WHILE IN BATHTUB TAKES PLUNGE AND CONSTABLE CARRIES OF CLOTHES. HAS ONLY BATHROBE LEFT Habit of Beginning Day with Water Anties Brings Exponents of the Stage Into a Chicago Court. Chicago.—If Miss Mavine Ford, actress, had not formed the habit of beginning the day with a cold plunge she would not have been compelled to appear in Justice Everett's court in borrowed raiment. And if she had foregone the luxury for a single morning her wardrobe might have included silk dresses and tailored gowns, fur-lined coats and imported hats, silk underwear and silk stockings, instead of a single bathrobe and a solitary pair of bath slippers. But Miss Ford indulged in the plunge as usual the other morning. Constable Jonas visited her apartments at Twenteth street and Michigan avenue, and the wardrobe that was the pride and joy of the actress passed to another. The sun arose long before Miss Ford. She had danced and sung the night before and she was tired. It was almost noon when she awoke and jumped from bed. She hastily domed the bathrobe and the slippers. She slipped in the bathroom, just off her room, and a moment later the cold water was running. The tub was full and Miss Ford was enjoying its luxuries, when there came a knock at the door. Of course, she did not respond. "I WANT YOUR CLOTHES." CALLED THE CONSTABLE. "I WANT YOUR CLOTHES." CALLED THE CONSTABLE. She couldn't. There came another and another knock, and then the door was opened. And Miss Ford, actress, shivered in the water. She heard the heavy tread of a man. "Who's there?" came the voice of the actress in the bathtub. "A constable," came the answer in gruff, masculine voice. "What do you want?" demanded the voice that came from the bathtub. "Your clothes," replied the gruff, masculine voice. It was a moment filled with horror for the girl in the bathtub. --- Greatest Achieve copyright by Collier's Weekly. WE LOOKED UP TO FIND A QUEEN DOOR W A WE LOOKED UP TO FIND A QUEER LITTLE OLD MAN IN THE DOORWAY. "What right have you to take my clothes?" she demanded, and there was indignation in the voice. "Miss Gertrude Hazen has replevin your clothes," came the answer. "She says you owe her $169 and won't pay." The situation was critical for the girl in the bathhub. She started to arise. Then she fell back into the water. The girl in the bathtub thought she heard the sound of a closing door. She called and there was no response. She arose and called again. She opened the door and peeed out. The room was silent. She threw on the bathrobe and donned the slippers. She ran to the bureau and opened the top drawer. It was empty. And a moment before there had been a dozen suits of silk underwear in it. She opened the second drawer and it was empty. And a moment before it had been filled with lingerie. She ran to the closet and threw open the door. And it was empty. Just a moment ago there had hung two silk gowns and two tailored gowns. She ran to the corner where the trunk had stood. And it was gone. It had held three hats, one of which cost $15. Then came realization. The only garments she possessed were the bathrobe and the slippers and it was noon. Miss Ford was crushed. She sat down and wept, but she soon realized that would get her no clothing. She thought of her friends. Some were too large and some were too small. And then she thought of Helen Wolff. She called the girl on the telephone. She borrowed enough clothes to get downtown. She visited Justice Richardson's court and asked for a change of venue. She went to Justice Everett's court and there another blow awaited her. Miss Hazen had preceded her and obtained a continuance for a week, and until that time the actress had to accommodate herself to the trying conditions of an emergency wardrobe. Weds to Escape School Marion. Ind.-Katie Bodkins, aged 13, escaped a hard lesson in arithmetic by marrying. After an absence of three days from school the principal sent the truant officer to the girl's home, where the ceremony had just been performed. TEMPERANCE BITS If you wish to keep out of debt, keep out of the saloon.—American Home. Heaven's perspective sees no difference between running a saloon and renting one.—Ram's Horn. Putting screens in the saloon doors is one of the devil's ways of trying to hide his face.—American Issue. Upwards of 40,000 copies have been sold of the English edition of John Burns's great lecture "Labor and Drink." Last Christmas Prince Henry, of Prussia, presented all in the navy with the temperance pamphlet, "The Poison Tree of the German People." Associate Justice Charles C. Hagarty, of Massachusetts, said recently: "I could prove to you by the county and state records that the direct cost of the liquor traffic is about five times as much as the license fees received." It must be remembered that every line of temperance legislation to-day in America, with perhaps the exception of one state, is non-partisan legislation, and the same is true of its enforcement. Cawker City, Kan., claims more happily married people than any other town of 1,200 people in the United States. There have been only three divorce cases in 15 years, and these I ement in Fiction ER LITTLE OLD MAN IN THE AY. were granted on the grounds of incompatibility. The absence of saloons is given as the reason for the happiness of the community. So great has been the advance of intelligent public sentiment, that the unrestricted liquor traffic is now seen to be an evil in itself, and it is not within the power of legislative enactments to make it respectable.-Hon. Charles E. Littlefield, M. C., of Maine. Saved by a Grasp of the Hand. A day or two after Gough had signed the pledge, he was cold and miserable, and shaking from head to foot. He knew that a glass of whisky would brace him up. In the crisis a gentleman met him, and said how glad he was to hear he had signed the pledge. "You are heaving a bad time, I suppose," said his friend, "but I hope you will stick to it." He grasped Gough's hand, and the poor trembling creature's eyes filled with tears, as he said: "Thank you, sir; I think I can bear it now." Those few words decided the conflict, and Gough was saved. How They Get to Be Drunkards. Every man who becomes a drunkard becomes so in trying to be a moderate drinker and failing—John B. Gough. A Resemblance Noted. "Yes," said the man who poses as a connoisseur. "I am fond of music, although I don't know how to play." "That," replied young Mrs. Torkins, "is just the way Charley is with the races."—Washington Star. Spring. Beneath this stone, in calm content, Lies Jedediah Brown; When he'd donned his summer underwear The mercury went down. —Houston Post. HER FAULT. "She is always jumping to conclusions." "Yes, I know. She is a great reader of novels."—Wheeling Register. Emulation Canada's wealthy men are beginning to emulate the example of American philanthropists in the liberality of their gifts for public purposes. 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San Francisco. — The recent "Dance of Criminals" in Berlin, which has so shocked all right-thinking people in the German capital and elsewhere, and in which each cancer personated an exponent of some form of crime, from arson and murder to pocketpicking, had its counterpart not long ago in a ball given by a number of artists in Munich. Each guess, assumed the character of some historic criminal, and to and to the grimness of the occasion the wall of the bathroom were covered with bizarre figures, under which grisly stories reminiscent of the gallows were written. Lucerne Borgia walticed with Lady Macbeth; Nero, Pedro the Cruel; and, in fact, almost every great criminal in history tripped it merrily with a partner as infamous as himself; while "to complete the gayety." in the words of a reporter, "there was also a mock judge, who promised all the imitation lawbreakers an acquittal." In worse taste, if possible was a dance given at the inauguration of the new town morgue at Wardner, Idaho a year or two ago. The opening of this house of the dead was celebrated by a reception, followed by a dance, given in the morgue itself, and attended by many of the principal inhabitants of the town. Coffins served equally as tables and seats for the guests; sandwiches were served on coffin-plates; coffee was drunk out MORCUE COFFINS SERVED AS TABLES FOR THE GUESTS. COFFINS SERVED AS TABLES FOR THE GUESTS. of tins similar to those used for embalming fluid, and the cold joints were imposingly and temptingly arranged on the slabs which were later destined to receive dead bodies. In such a grewsome environment the feet tripped as lightly and the laughter and conversation were as gay as if the ballroom were a bower of roses. These exhibitions of questionable taste are by no means the monopoly of any country. The humor that is grewsome quite eclipsed itself in a ball given a few weeks ago by the medical students of Paris. The evening was heralded by a procession of cars designed by the surgeons of the different hospitals. On one car were presentments of several of the most famous surgeons in France, each bearing emblems which suggested with painful vividness the particular operation for which he is noted; the car of the hospital of the Twenty-ninth Bastion pictured a great doctor, M. Plot, surrounded by hideous microbes, streptococci, paeumococci, etc. The Enfants Malades contributed a procession of monsters of inconceivable ugliness; while a humorous feature was presented by the car of the Andral hospital, on which Prof. Metchnikof was ladling out curried milk to clamorous old men in search of youth. But the grimmest car of all was that of the house surgeons of Necker, which won the first prize, and which presented on odd medley of spectacles. There were Petronius Arbiter opening his veins on a bed of roses; bishops and cardinals chanting Latin prayers for the dead; tableaux contrasting various kinds of pleasure with their horrible penalties, and so on. After the procession came the dance, which lasted until long after dawn broke, and in which "micobes danced furiously with serumes, surgical instruments with anatomized subjects, and there were quadrilles of all the horrors at once." From this exhibition of medical humor it is almost a relief to turn to the eccentric and, one would think, unappetizing dinner given by a San Francisco lady to a number of guests, each of whom, like herself, had undergone an operation for appendicitis. The table was decorated with a miniature operating-table, on which lay a wax doll, surrounded by replicas, in miniature, of all the instruments used in the operation the guests had survived. By the side of the table stood another doll dressed as a hospital surgeon, and placed conveniently near him were bandages, hot-water bags and the varied implements of an operating room; while around this unpleasantly suggestive table were floral decorations "emblematical of rejoicing." "When the recent victims of appendicitis were seated," says a chronicleer of this strange feast, "there was great merriment and they heartily congratulated each other." Gotham Policeman Unravels Mystery and Lands All Concerned in Jail. New York.—Among the crowd that hurried down the Fulton street pier to board the Red Star liner Kroonland, was a tall young man with a pretty girl leaning on his arm and accompanied by an old gentleman in a high hat. Both men were laden with bagage. From out the crowd a young woman with yellow hair and a big, red, cherry-covered hat suddenly emerged. Bush- A ing up to the young man, she threw her arms around him and screamed: "Albert, I love you! You will marry only me! You will not go away!" Another gentleman in a frock coat objected. "Let them alone," he said, in German. For reply, the first old gentleman soaked the second one over the head with a hat box. Out of the confusion which followed, the only definite thing known is that the Kroonland slipped her moorings and headed for Antwerp. Two passengers who were booked did not sail. They are Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reis, of 9 Sutton plact, New York. The last the Kroonland's crew saw of them was a young man on the pier being smothered by a red hat and a pretty girl weeping hysterically. Incidentally, two frate old gentlemen were swatting each other and exploding fart German phrases. In charge of Officer Connors, both landed at the station. "The young woman with the cherry hat is 'Miss Lucille Tuitloff, of Heidelberg, Germany, the daughter of a professor,' said Connors. "She was engaged to this young man when he was a pupil of the old gent's over there. He came to this country to make his fortune, and promised to marry the girl as soon as he succeeded. While working for a firm in West Broadway he falls in love with the typewriter. See? She was Miss Emma Irene Benderson, of Hoboken. They were married, and planned a honeymoon trip on the Kroonland. "In the meantime Miss Tultloff gives wise and beats it to this country on the double quick, see?" She stops with her uncle, Mr. George Rechold, of Belleville, N. J., and together they get onto the trail of Reis. Then the mixup occurs. When I got there young Reis is being hugged by Miss Tultloff, Mrs. Reis is in hysteria, and the two old gents, Mrs. Reis' father and Miss Tultloff's uncle, are lambasting each other with baggage." "That's all correct," muttered Reis, who was listening intently. "It's the God's truth; he deceived me, and I love him," murmured Miss Tultloff, recovering from her third faint. Reis was discharged and started to leave the courtroom. Leaping over three seats, Miss Tulloft landed on her recreant lover's flee and sobbed out her sorrow. Four court cops unlocked her embrace. Reis fled downstairs, but the cherry hat nailed him again in Franklin street. More embraces. "Let me get to the Kroonland," choked Reis, struggling free and darting for Broadway. "I'll follow mit you to Heidelberg," shrieked the cherry hat, taking up the pursuit. GIRL HAS VISION OF HEAVEN Alameda, Cal.—After coming out of a trance that lasted for 17 hours, nine-year-old Roberta Russ described to her mother a wonderful vision that she had of the pearly portals of heaven and angels, and the child's parent believes that to her little one was given a view of the abode of the blessed. Roberta was stricken with an illness some days ago that puzzled the physician. She requested her mother to put her to bed, as she felt weary. Shortly thereafter the child passed into a comatose state, from which she could not be aroused. 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MARTH tells your entire life past, and present and future in a DEAD TRANCE, has the power of any two Mediums you ever met. In tests she tells your mother's full name before marriage, the names of all your family, their ages and description, the name and business of your present husband, the name of your next if you are to have one, the name of the young man who now calls on you, the name of your future husband, and the day, month and year of your marriage, how many children you have or will have; whether your present sweetheart will be true to you and if he will marry you; if you have no sweetheart she will tell you when you will have one and his name, business and date of acquaintance. All your future will be told in an honest, clear and plain manner and in a dead trance. Mothers should know the success of their husbands and children; young ladies should know everything about their sweethearts or intended husband. Do not keep company, marry or go into business until you know all, do not let silly religious scruples prevent your consulting. Madame is the only one in the world who can tell you the full name of your future husband with age and date of marriage, and tells whether the one you love is true or false. There are some persons who believe that there is no truth to be gained from consulting a psychologist. They are not truth. It is only from the ack of discrimination that such a conclusion can be reached. It is not every one who places himself or her hands on what can stand the test of what he or she claims. And a person of an inquiring mind may ask a psychologist how to treat itsiders do not take the trouble to study human nature. They do not spend their thoughts for a moment with acquiring the art of phrasology and they do not study the nature of memory to make the pathway to the road of the business clear and devoid of all obstacles. That person will come for advice in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a medium they try their utmost endeavor to know what they know so as to hear if it will be rehearsed by them. To get the secret out of a person by unfair and dishonest means is the art used by many unintelligent people. To get the secret out of the hand and gain control of the mind thereby is a matter of impossibility to most of them. This can be done and by consulting Mrs. Martha's mystery becomes a realization. Mrs. Martha has received no little attention by the man in men and even by the man in women. It so proves conclusively that although there are infringers in our midst with oily tongues, they have not been closed to the entire profession. It takes a great deal of study to become an expert in the art of a continuous and uniting effort, the key to that success is unfathomable mysteries has been secured by MARSH. M.R.A.S. for the benefit of humanity. CHICKASHA, INDIAN TERRITORY. (BOX, No. 958.) Enclose Stamp for reply. We print Wedding Invitations, and High Class Stationery for Balls, Parties, Picnics and all entertainments of a social nature. ALL DESCRIBE ans and to service at consistent work. We furnish "cuts" when complete special work in our in our line, call and see us at T LINE OF DESIRING TO SEE THEM. braces a full coat and LINEN PAPER, ENVELOPES WE HAVE ONE OF THE OF WOOD Of Any Job Printing T AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE IS WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, AND John Mitch 311 N. 4th St N. LAWSON & CO., DEALERS IN FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, APPLY TO John Mitchell, Jr., S. J. GILPIN, believe that consulting may be the discriminine reached. It self or her best of what I may ask these adversary human oughts for phrasiology aecology of the busi New Phone, 478. ROBT. S. FORRESTER FLORIST 215 E. 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SCRIPTIONS resired and we will arrange to line. When in need of any work and estimates will be furnished. SAMPLES Line PES, ETC. LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OD-TYPE Establishment in the city. PLY TO nell, Jr., ., Richmond, Va. 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. Carringes for funer- als, receptions and marriages at all hours. Satisfaction guaranteed to all. 118-20-04 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. Gustalo, Fri S. W. ROBINSON. NO.23 NORTH 18TH ST. 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.] MICHIGAN VIRGINIA THE PLANET SATURDAY, ..... May 27th, 1905 TEMPERANCE NOTES THE POTENTIAL DROP A little drop of drink That makes bright eyes drow dim. A little drop of drink Takes the manhood out of him. A little drop of drink Brings "the wolf" to many a door. A little drop of drink Makes bate the cottage floor. A little drop of drink Sinks the man below the brune. A little drop of drink Brings forth but sorry fruit. A little drop of drink Ponder it, neighbor, well- A little drop of drink Can bring a soo, to hell! FOR SOBER REFLECTION. Some Facts in Regard to the Evils of Intemperance which Are Worth Considering. Who wants a drunkard for a husband, a wife, a brother, a sister, a business partner, an employee, a companion or a friend? Then win, should anyone want the drunkard factor, to be kept running? Every asylum is an argument against the grog shop, for more or half the inmates are there because of the rum. Every jail is an enactment of license, for four-ninths of the criminals are the finished products of the criminals of the rum traffic. Three out of four of all the dollars paid in taxes by the voter, out against his depositing a vote to keep open the rum shop, because in this the institution were once abolished, those three dollars need not be paid; for three-quarters of all the taxes are simply the contribution which the people are compelled to make to defray the running expenses of the saloon. And yet we can ourselves a free people! Why is it any less slavish to go on paying this enormous contribution to King Alcohol? But some tell us that there will be as much liquor sold under no license as under license. Then why is it that all rum-dom is up in arms against prohibition and pours out money by millions and fights tooth and nail to put it down? The duke of Wellington used to say that it was good generalship to do the thing that the enemy does not want to have done. As the liquor men made it plain enough that they do not want no license it will be perfectly safe for temperance people to vote for it. The fact is there is no more need of providing that no-license is a blessing than there is of proving that the sun shines. It is self-evident. The liquor traffic is not only vile, but atrociously wicked. It thrives only by the destruction of the virtue, the happiness, the lives, and souls of men. Both the Old Testament and the new are against it. It is the aborgation of Christianity. It is Satan's masterpiece. The upright citizen could scarcely enjoy a greater privilege than the opportunity of giving it a blow by casting his ballot against it. — Searchlight POINTED PARAGRAPHS The saloon comes to still the laughter on the lips of little children. A selfish life means sulphuric life hereafter. The devil is never far away when preachers quarrel about water and keep whisky.-American Issue. The Minnesota Total Abstinence society is growing at a very encouraging rate. It now numbers 6,500 members in 110 societies. The most dangerous saloonkeeper is the one who most successfully conceals that the devil is his business partner.-American Issue. Last year there were 27.322 United States liquor tax certificates issued in the state of New York. This was an increase of 174 over the number of the preceding year. German newspapers report that during the fiscal year ending March 31, 1904, British East India imported 4,069,000 gallons of beer, of which 3,830,000 gallons came from England. In addition to this the 27 breweries in India produced 6,474,860 gallons. Cambridge, Md., is a dry city of 7,000 people. A leading citizen and office holder says: "Cambridge gives the lie to the claim that to banish saloons injures the town." The principies or teetotalism appear to be making way steadily in Scotland, notwithstanding the enormous waste of expenditure which still goes on in intoxicating drinks among the working classes. No Money to Liquor Enterprises. Andrew Carnegie will not have anything to do with an enterprise, however tempting financially, that has anything to do with the sale of intoxicating liquors. This is the report brought to a party of Pittsburgh business men who some days ago sent one of their number down to New York to interest Mr. Carnegie in a Pittsburg hotel project which would involve the outlay of about $2,000,000 and would give Pittsburg a hotel, Mr. Ca. declined to take the subject under advisement, though admitting that there would be much money in it, giving as his reason that he would have nothing to do with any project which would include the sale of liquor to insure success. HOW DO YOU LIKE THE SAMPLES? Samples of wine and samples of beer, Samples of all kinds of liquids sold here; Samples of whisky, samples of grain; Samples of all kinds of bitters, sleep in. Samples of headache, samples of gout, Samples of coats with their hues out, Samples of boots without their orces, Samples of men with a broken nose, Samples of men in the gutter lying, Samples of men with ochium caking, Samples of men cursing and scaring, Samples of orsey, tired me! Who long in vain for their freedom again; Samples of old men, worn in the strife, Samples of young men tired of the, Samples of ruined hopes and lives, Samples of desolence homes and wives, Samples of grawned cows, With arguish and misery united, Samples of nobe youths in distance, Who meet you with lavered face Samples of hungry little ones Starving to death in their dreary homes. If fact there is scarcity a woe on earth But our hearts have nurtured or given them birth. Oh, all ye help to sorrow and crime, Who deal out death for a single dime, Know ye that the Lord through He may delay. Has in reserve for the last great day The terrible voice of witness weighs their heart and nearly gate Is closed and all with one acc Acknowledge the justice of their reward THE REWARD OF THRIFT Above the noise of the Halsted street car two voices in pleasant conversation could be heard. One possessed a decidedly southern quality, and as the remarks followed along it was evident that a colored policeman was talking to his friend, a Pilum porer. In these days of discussion as to all things concerning the race, says the Chicago Record-Herald, it was refreshing to hear this bit of conversation: "Do you know," said the policeman, "I got to thinkin' one day that a lot of money was goin' for drinks, treatin' and so on. So I jes' got myself a little blank book and put down all I received and all I spent for 30 days. "At the end of the time I ciphered it up, and found that $15 of my income was goin' for whisky every month. "When I got home that night I says to my wife: 'Lucinda, you pay $20 a month rent for this flat, don't you?' And she says: 'Yes.' "Then I told her about my keepin' account, and I says: 'Well, I've well my mind to put by that $15 a month that's been a-goin' for whisky, and we'll move into a cheaper flat for awhile, and we'll put by the money and buy a home of our own.' "About that time I ran across Joe. You remember him, don't you? Well, he had a house with an $1,800 mortgage on it. I says to him: 'You know you can't never pay that Joe. What will you take for your house?' "Well, we had some talk, and the up-shot was that I paid him $00 down, and we soon moved into one of the nicest, coost cottages you ever saw. My whisky money soon helped me to pay off the mortgage, and in a few years the place will be all our own. "Bring your wife and come out some time. My wife and I will be glad to see you. The number is 378 — street." REFORM NUGGETS In America fully 1,000,000 railway men and 2,000,000 more in other employments are required to be total abstainers. Of every 100 alcoholies attacked by pneumonia 70 die, while of every 100 non-alcoholies so attacked only 23 die. The bartenders of Anderson, Ind., have entered complaint against being compelled to work seven days in the week, and are seeking to have saloons closed on Sunday. The decision of Judge Bonney, of Portland, Me., in a case involving a charge of assault with intent to kill, that drunkenness could not be pleaded as a defense, is to be heartily commended. Dr. Jacques Bertillon, the famous chief of the statistical bureau of Paris, has written a volume entitled "Alcoholism, and the Way to Fight It." Drink, he declares, is likely to prove the ruin of the French race unless something is done to overcome the hatit. Every province of the Dominion of Capada steadily increases the restrictions of its liquor laws. Nova Scotia makes the obtaining of a license so difficult that there are only two counties in the whole province in which any legal liquor selling is permitted. The Cigarette Abomination The cigarette abomination has been receiving the attention of our legislative bodies of late. The Pennsylvania legislature recently passed a bill imposing a fine of $100 to $300 on any person convicted of giving cigarettes to another. It will be a triumph for decency when the air will no longer be polluted with the foul and beady odor of cigarettes and old rotten pipes. It is strange how tobacco causes men to lose their manners.—United Presbyterian. A Moral Lesson "A criterion" explained the teacher, "is something to go by. Now, what little boy or girl will give me a sentence in which the word 'criterion' is used?" After some moments of silence and thoughtfulness on the part of the scholars, Maggie Maggins lifted her hand. "Well, Maggie, can you give us the sentence?" "Yesm. Pat Carrally's saloon on the corner is a criterion on our street."—Judge. Clearly Hinted. They were seated in the drawing-room, and there was a sudden pause in the conversation. He seemed nervous, and she seemed a trifle bored. Finally he said: "What a lovely evening for a walk." "Indeed it is," she replied. "Would you hike to take a walk?" "Then why don't you?" she queried. And he did.—Cassell's. THE RICHMOND PLANET, KICHMOND VIRGINIA FRANCE HAS BETTER ROADS A Comparison of Road Building Which Is Not Highly Flattering to America. in France over most of the roads of this country which is not often thought of is pointed out by Prof. A. P. Brigham, of Col- in France over most of the roads of this country which is not often thought of is pointed out by Prof. A. P. Brigham, of College university. In France the famers are able, on account of the excellence of the roads, to employ stormy periods for hauling their produce to market, whereas in America it too often happens that the farmer must use for this purpose fair, dry weather, which might be better employed in his field work. When the country roads are in bad condition the railway receipts fall off. Youth's Companion. TESTS FOR ACID SOILS. Some Suggestions for the Use of Blue Litmus Paper—The Care That Should Be Exercised. The best single test for determining soil acidity which is capable of being used by persons upon their own farms is that with blue litmus paper. Such paper can be bought of an apothecary at trifling cost. Strips half an inch wide and two inches long are convenient for making the test. Care should be taken not to handle the end of the paper that is to be inserted in the soil, for if the fingers are most they will redden the paper so that it will appear much as it does when redened by acid soil, says the Rural New Yorker. The soil to be tested should then be moistened sufficiently with water to make a trick paste and should then be allowed to stand for half an hour longer. it may then be parted by the use of a knife blade or other convenient instrument, and after introducing one end of the litmus paper the soil should be pressed against the sides of the paper. After from half an hour to an hour the paper may be removed from the soil, taking care not to tear it. After its removal the paper may be dipped repeatedly in water in order to wash off the adhering soil. If a distinct red color has entirely taken the place of the original blue color of the paper, it may be concluded that the soil probably needs lining. In the case of very red soils it is often better to press the blue litmus paper against the soil than to have it surrounded by it. If in such cases the blue color of the paper disappears and gives place to a distinct red one, acidity is indicated. This blue litmus-paper test furnishes also a good means for testing for acidity in subsols, or soils very deficient in organic matter, where the acid substances may be largely of mineral origin. A good supplementary test, which is applicable only in soils containing considerable humus, is made by means of adding dilute ammonia water to soils. Ammonia, too, can be bought of an apothecary at slight expense. In making this test take two glasses, place a level tablespoonful of soil in each, then add water until the glasses are about two-thirds full. Now add a tablespoonful of diluted ammonia water to one of the glasses. Stir each with a different spoon or knife. If, after standing some hours, the liquid in the one to which the ammonia water was added has become dark brown or black, it may be concluded that acid humus was probably present and hence that liming will prove helpful. A CLOD CRUSHER Put a Seat on It So That Weight of Driver May Help in the Work. A clod crusher and ground leveler, to be effective, especially on rough and heavy ground, must be of good weight. This can be most conveniently applied by attaching to the leveler a seat. heavy ground, must be of good weight. This can be most conveniently applied by attaching to the leverer a seat, upon which a man may ride while driving, says Farm and Home. Of course on light soil, where less weight to the leverer is required, the man will not ride. The cut herewith shows the construction of such a leverer with seat, I saw a device of this kind used in Texas very profitably. It costs little to make and saves the expense of a bought implement. Vegetables Under Cheese Cloth. A number of experiments conducted by the Canadian experimental farm showed that lettuce grew quicker outside the inclosure. That grown outside was from two to four days earlier than that grown inside. Radishes were three days earlier inside and were perfectly free from maggots. Beans were earlier when grown inside and were very nearly as productive. The conclusion from the entire experiment seems to be that cheese cloth inclosures may be of value in cities and towns, where it is difficult to have a garden, owing to injury from cats, dogs, and even children. They may also be useful to market gardeners for growing vegetables which are affected by root maggots. Bacteria in Milk The number of bacteria in milk does not prove its value. The bacteria produce the souring of milk and such milk is healthful. Then why judge milk by its bacterial content! What we want to keep out of milk is not all the bacteria but the special kinds of bacteria that produce diseases. Burn 'Em Mark Twain does not like to write letters, and this proves that he is a very wise old owl. Letters produce more trouble than any other invention in the world.—Memphis Commercial Appeal. Three C's for Chaugeurs After all, the most effective regulation of the use and speed of automobiles is courtesy, caution and common sense on the part of the operator at the lever.-Hartford Times. In the Bible Class "Johnny," said the Sunday school teacher, "what is a centurion?" "He's a feller what rides a hundred miles on a bike," promptly answered the boy—N. Y. Thuns. Serious Damage. "I'm glad to see you didn't laugh at that poor old man when he fell down," said the stranger. "That's my gran-pop," the little boy howled. "Oh! boo! boo!" "Don't cry, boy. There's nothing serious—" "Oh! wow! He sat down in my mudpies, an I'll bet he busted 'em all. Accommodating "My dear," said the decrepit millionaire to his youthful bride. "I am only too glad to die when I think of the pleas ure you will derive from the fortune I shall leave you." "If it makes you happy, dear," she replied, artlessly, "consider yourself dead now, if you wish."—Brooklyn Life. An Idea "There's a lot of talk in the papers," said Mr. Dumley, "about the 'necessity of uniform divorce laws.' I wonder what that means?" "Probably," suggested Mrs. Dumley, "it's to compel divorced people to wear a uniform so other folks can recognize 'em.'—Philadelphia Press. Worth While Perhaps you've stored no wealth away, or gained a higher place. But when you may, If you have bruised no heart to-day, And shown a cheerful face. —Chicago Record-Herald. WASTE OF GOOD MONEY A Hon Braggs—Yes, Miss Violet, it cost me $10,000 a year to live. Miss Violet—Oh, Mr. Braggs, do you think it's worth it?—Scraps. Not So Bad. A woman whose friends called her Molly Lost her husband one day by a troll; But he was insured. His loss was endured, And the baby was bought a new dolly. —Houston Twin Souls. "Jack and Vera come nearer fulfilling my idea of 'two souls with but a single thought' than does any other couple I have ever known. He fairly worships her." "And she fairly worships him?" "No, she fairly worships herself."—Houston Post. Cause and Effect "Why is it that so many chess players go crazy?" "Well, I can figure it out on only one tlfeory, which is that people who are likely to go crazy are about the only ones who can be expected to play chess."—Chicago Record-Herald Femine Intelligence "Do you believe men like women with intelligence?" asked the serious girl. "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, "provided they have enough of it to refrain from impressing the man with his ignorance."—Washington Star. Futile. Wife—Did you find out from your publisher how many copies of your book had been sold? Author—No. The only one who was in was the man who writes the advertisements about the number of copies that have been sold.—Life. A Plensant Combination. Jenks—Hummerton's a clever chap, isn't he? Jonks—I've never discovered it. Jenks—He looks like a sage. Jonks—Yes; but he smells of the onions and talks like the goose.—Ally Sloper. His Observation "Do you think that republics are ungrateful?" "Well," answered Senator Sorghum "they may be more or less ungrateful but they are not necessarily unremunerative."—Washington Star. The Southern Problem Meandering Mike—What's dat I hear about you takin' a bath? Thoughtful Terence—Dat's what I'm going to do. I'm goin' ter try ter reduce de acreage at least 20 per cent!—N. O. Times-Democrat. Then They Fought Gunner—What are you talkingabout, man? Why this cigar is so expensive it comes in a celluloid case. Guyer—H'm! Is that the celluloid case you are smoking or the cigar.—Chicago News. Too Lingering. "Cigarette inhalers are said to die after a year of inhaling; isn't that terrible?" "Yes; terrible slow. I wish they'd die after ten minutes of it."—Houston Post. A Gentleman Burglar. Madge—How do you know it was the Gentleman Burglar who held you up? Dolly—Because when I told him I carried my money in a garter purse he didn't attempt to take it—Town Topics. Explained. "I see you a good deal with that young Sparks." "Yes." "I thought you told me some time ago that you didn't like him." "Why, he's bought the finest aute you ever saw."—St. Louis Post 's patch. Money received on deposit amounts above $1.00 which reel Money Loaned on Satisfaction Business Accounts Handled Amounts of ten cents and This establishment is fitted up in the white vanit, barlar proof steel chest, elevation 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 you come from work. OFFICE JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. THON, H. W. BOARD OF REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JN. S. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN J. O. FARLEY, E. A. WASHINGTON. R. W. WHITING JOHN MITCHELL, JR. FRES. W. I. JOE FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office & Warerooms, 207 N. HACKS R. Offers by Telephone or Telex and Entertainment Old Phone, 686, Residence received on deposit and interest paid on 11.00 which remains 60 days and over. used on Satisfactory Security. accounts Handled Promptly. ten cents and upwards received on deposit it is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern conve on concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the have been arranged for the special convenience of the work 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 8 P., W. M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until come 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 vanit, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenence for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Oasis Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 8 P. - We close Saturday at 3 P. M. and open again at 6 P. M., remaining open till P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS R., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President THON. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: JAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, B. F. VANDERVALL, H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAVERS F. FARLEY, JN. TAYLOR. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President THON, H. WYATT, Cashier. DONALD J. MILLER, N. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Rooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Sup l Entertainments promptly attended. 6, Residence in Building, New Phone, KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF T W. I. JOHNSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Duties by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Old Phone, 686, Residence in Building, New Phone, 48 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally stituted 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 note the Social and Moral condition of humanity. military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization of all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand oppose Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organ- kindly address. V. ALLEN Supreme voyager, 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 raternal and to promote the Social and Its two distinct military and uniform place in the front ranks of all sacred ins tunity for active men. Deputies wante lodges Kindly address G. W. ALLEN S Paternal and to promote the Social and Moral condition of humanity. Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organisation place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand opportunity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organize kindly address. G. W. ALLEN Supreme voyager, 446 W. 87th Street, New York City. Interested in Omens. "The finding of a spider on the wedding gown of a bride is an omen of future happiness. Did you know that, Harold:" "Glad to hear it. I found a heir." "The finding of a spider on the wedding gown of a bride is an omen of future happiness. Did you know that, Harold:" "Glad to hear it. I found a hair snake on my coat sleeve last evening. Wonder what that presages."—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Worse and Worse. Miss Passay—No, I don't like him. He accused me of giving the impression that I was younger than I really am. Miss Sharpe—O! he has more sense than that. He merely accused you of trying to give that impression—Philadelphia Press. LODGE ROOM PRACTICAL HOUSE PAINTER. Long—Did you give him the high sign? Short—Well, I did the best I could.—Chicago Journal. But I have heard it staeen. They're full of animation, 'cos Their names are "Annie-May-Ted." —Ally Sloper. Luxury in Alaska. Alaskan Host—Will you have straw- berries, mum? Fair Tourist—Dear me! strawberries in Alaska! Yes, indeed I will. But what is that you are pouring on them? It doesn't look like cream. Alaskan Host—It's blubber, mum.— N. Y. Weekly. Self-Defense. Mrs. Houskeep—Yes. I simply had to buy this plain gown on account of our cook. Mrs. Ascum—I don't understand. Mrs. Houskeep—Well, she goes in for gaudy things and I want to have just one dress that she won't copy—Philadelphia Press. Bloommer—1 am told there are twoes as many men as there are women at rest in the poorhouses of the country. How do you account for it? Wisely—Very simply, my boy. The women get the money, and we get the rest—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. 川 Interested in Omens Worse and Worse NOT HIS FAULT Suitably Named Self-Defense. Simple as Could Be Capital, $25,000 WILM AU CUSTALO, J. J. CARTEN THOMAS M. CRUMP, SEC. V. P. & F. K. of W. Gone out of Business FRANK WALLER, JR 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 PAINLESS EXTRACTION For beautiful Teeth, Comfort, Pleasure and Health. OFFICE HOURS: From 8 A. M. to 6 F. M. Old Phone, 816. DR. P. B. RAMSEY. 102 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. SEABOARD Short Line to the principal Cities of West, Southwest, the Florida, Cuba and Mexico. 9:10 a. m.—Local for Norlina, Raleigh, Hamlet and Charlotte 2:20 p. m. - SEABOARD Mail, composed of Pullman, sleeping cars to Atlanta, Savannah, Jacksonville and BOARD Cafe cars are also operated on this train, they are maintained at the highest standards of excellence; also large comfortable cars, running without change to Florida. 10:00 p. m. - SEABOARD RESS, Composed of Pullman, sleeping cars to Savannah, Jacksonville and Tampa. BOARD Cafe cars, and day coaches, running to Florida without change. 6:55 a. m. -From Florida, Atlanta and the Southwest 4:55 p. m. -From Florida, Atlanta and the Southwest 5:30 p. m. -From local points H. S. LEARD. W. M. TAYLOR. District Passenger Agt City Ticket Agt 808 East Main St., Richmond, Va. C & O ROUTE SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST LEAVE RICHMOND-EASTBOUND. 7:35 a.m - Week days - Local to Newport News and way stations. 9:00 a. m.-Daily—Limited-Arrives Williamsburg 9.54 a m., Newport News 10.90 a.m. Old Point 11.00 a.m., Norfolk 11.25 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Daily — Special—Arrives Williamsburg 4; 6 p.m., Newport News 5:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. — Week days — Locals to Old Point MAIN LINE—WESTBOUND. 8:20 a.m.—Except Sunday to Clifton Forge. 2:00 p.m.—Daily—with through Pullman to Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Chicago without change. Pullman service for Louisville and St. Louis. 5:18 p.m.—Week days—Local to Gordonsville 10:45 p.m.—Daily—Limited with Pullman Service to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis and Chicago. JAMES RIVER LINE. 10:20 a m.-Daily-Express to Lynchburg, Lexington, Clifton Forge and principal stations. 6:15 p.m.-Week days—Local to Esmont. TRAIN3 ARRIVE RICHMOND FROM Norfolk and Old Point 10:0 a.m. week days. 11:45 a.m., daily. and 7:00 p. m. daily, Newport News local 8:00 p. m. daily. Cincinnati and West 7:30 a. m. daily and 8:30 a. m. daily Local Local from Staunton 7:30 a. m. Ex. Staunton Gordonville accommodation 8:20 a. m. ex. James River Local from Clifton Forge a. m. daily Emmont Acom 8:40 a. m. ex. except C.E DOYL5 W. O.WARTHEN, Genl Manager Dist. Pass Agt H.W FULLER, G.F.A. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION 6:00 a.m. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Norfolk St. stops only at Peersburg Waverly and Suffolk. 9:00 a.m. CHICAGO EXPRESS Burlington Cork St. lynchburg and Roanoke Pulimar St. brittany and Bloody Cork St. (Ginnastia) also. Roanoke and Knoville to Chittanooga, and Memphis. 12:30 p. M. Roanoke Express for Farmville, Lynchburg, and Roanoke. 12:30 p. M. Roanoke Express for Arrived New folk 5:30 p. M. Stops call 1 Petersburg Wav Cause with Steamers to Boston Providence. N 10 or Baltimore and Washington. m. for Norfolk, d all stations east of Petersburg 9:35 P.M. M NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE. Pull in Hepper Richmond to Lynchburg, Petersburg burg to Lynchburg. Lunchburg to Anastoga. Memphis and Cafe Dining Car. Trains arrive from the west 7:35 a.m. from Norfolk to 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. m. and a. Office Ng888 East Main Street. W B HOSLEY Gen. Pass Art G SOUTHERN RAILWAY Effective April 5th, 1905. TRAIN8 LEAVE RICHMOND. p.m.—m., limited; julian ready 9:30 p.m., for south, 9:30 p.m., for north, YORK & N.Y. LINE LINE The favorite to route. Baltimore and eastern points. Leave Richmond. 4 20 p. m. Daily except Sunday. 4 20 p. m.-Except Sunday. Local mixed for West. 35 p. m.-Daily except Sunday. Local for West. 35 p. m.-Daily except Sunday. Local for West. 4:20 p.m. -- Except Sunday. For West Point, with steamers for Railroad and river landings, and Clay Bank Mondays, Wednesdays and Clay Bank Sundays, Wednesdays, Point and All monds Tuesdays, Tuesdays. TRAINS A and B: Days and Saturdays 6:38 a.m. and 6:23 p.m. - From all the South. 6:35 a.m. - From Charlotte and Durham. 6:35 a.m. - From Cayville. 6:35 a.m. - From Satinville and West Point. 10:45 a.m. - From West Point. 5:10 a.m. - From West Point. 5:10 a.m. - From Mig'r. H. B. SPENCER, G. M. W. H. TATWAN, G. P. A. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A. Richmond, V. A. R. F & P. Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Pote- Trains Leave Pichmond — Northward. 6:45 a.m. d. m.ly. Byrd t. Through. 4:50 a.m. d. m.ly. Monday Byrd 7:25 a.m. w. week days, Ashlea. A屋ne mediation a. m. d. m.ly. Byrd t. Through. 8:40 a. m., daily Blyrd st. Through London 12:00 noon, week days. Blyrd st. "through 12:00 p.m. week days. Blyrd st. Frederick's bus accommodation. 12:00 p.m. Main st. Through. 12:00 p.m. week days Elba. Ashlih accommodation. 12:00 p.m. daily Blyrd st. Through. 8:20 a.m., week days, Byrd St. Frederick- burg accommodation. 8:20 a.m., daily, Byrd St. Through 8:15 a.m., week days, Byrd St. Through local stops. 8:20 a.m., daily Main St. Through 5:43 a.m., week days, Elba Ashland accu- modations. 7:15 a.m., daily, Byrd St. Through 8:20 a.m., daily, Byrd St. Through Local stops. 9:50 a.m., daily, Main St. Through NOTE: Pullman Sleeping or Parior Cars can all arrivers except train arriving Rich- mond 8:15 a.m., week days and local modifications. # ATLANTIC COAST-LINE TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY BYRD STREET STATION. EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, APRIL 10TH. 9:05 a.m. a. M. Express to all points south 9:00 a.m. m. Petersburg and Northfolk. 12:10 a.m. m. Petersburg and N. W. West. 12:10 a.m. m. Petersburg and Norfolk. 14:10 a.m. m. Goldberg local. 14:10 a.m. m. Petersburg local. 7:22 p.m. a. Florida and West Indian Limited To. Points south. 9:20 p.m. m. Petersburg and N. W. West 11:30 p.m. m. Petersburg local. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND—Daily 4:07 a.m. m. 7:32 a.m. m. 8:33 a.m. except Sunday 10:10 a.m. Sunday only. 11:40 a.m. l. p. 2:05 a.m. m. 7:45 p.m. w. 9:18 p.m. C. S. CARK, Div. Pass. Agr. W. J. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. Agr. Out of Town Orders Solicited and will Receive Prompt and Careful Attention WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OFFICE Mt. Vernon, Gibson Old Japier, Pembrook River, Gibson, Old Henry, Old North Carolina, Winstery and Mountain Apple Brand IMPORTED AND DOCUMENTAL WINES, BRAN DIES, GINS AND RUMS. Best and most popular brands of CIGARS Goods Delivered Free to 'Phone 2234 all parts of the City. BUFFET IN REAR. THE PLANET is a live, up-to-date weekly journal. SUBSCRIBE NOW. THE PLANET POLITICAL WAR IN PHILADELPHIA Mayor Weaver Dismisses Two Principal Members of His Cabinet. WILL FIGHT THE MACHINE Philadelphia, May 24.—In his effort to defeat the consummation of the plan to lease the city gas works to the United Gas Improvement company for 75 years for $25,000,000, Mayor Weaver dismissed from office the two principal members of his cabinet, and there by delivered a staggering blow to the dominant political organization of this city, which has caused probably the greatest sensation in the history of Philadelphia municipal affairs. While the citizens were expecting some sort of a move on the part of the mayor they were not prepared for the immediate removal from office of David J Simyh, the director of the department of public safety, and Peter E. Costello, the director of the department of public works. The mayor has announced that he is in the fight to the bitter end, which means that a great political battle is now on and will be carried to the polls next November. In his fight against the gas lease and the Republican organization the mayor has called in as counsel Elihu Root, of New York, and former Judge James Gay Gordon, of this city, Judge Gordon is a Democrat. The mayor's stated purpose in going outside the city for his principal counsel is that he wants a man who is not identified with any faction in the struggle now on. Simultaneously with the dismissal of the two directors, Frederick J. Shoyer, director of the department of supplies, by direction of the mayor, suspended, pending an investigation, Arthur R. H. Morrow, the assistant director of that department. No action was taken against any employee in the department of public health and charities. Immediate Resignations Demanded. The removal of Directors Smyth and Costello did not come until after the mayor had asked them to resign immediately. In reply each sent a letter to the mayor offering his resignation to take effect when his successor "shall be qualified." The mayor answered them by demanding their immediate resignation. The answers the directors returned were to the effect that they had tendered their resignations "in the usual form and in accordance with the provisions of the city charter," and that they would stand by them as tendered. Mayor Weaver then ended the correspondence by sending to each a letter in which he said: "I feel that the best interests of the city require that our official relations shall terminate at once. You therefore place me under the painful necessity of immediately removing you from the position, as I feel that I must have some one in that office responsible only to the mayor and to the city at once." After the removals had been announced the mayor made public the names of the men he had selected for the places. They are Colonel Sheldon Potter to fill the office of director of public safety, ad interim, and A. Lincoln Acker to be director of the department of public works, ad interim. Control Over 10,000 Officeholders. The fight over the form of the resignation was an important one, in that the new directors can only be qualified by the confirmation of councils, which is controlled by the organization. The department of public safety has charge of the police and fire bureaus, electrical bureau, prisons, building inspectors, boiler inspectors, city property and inspectors of fire escapes. The bureaus of gas highways, lighting, surveys, street cleaning, water and city ice boats are under the supervision of the department of public works. Each director receives $10,000 a year, and together they have control of upwards of 10,000 officeholders. It is not likely that city councils will confirm the men appointed by the mayor, but they will hold the office, ad interim. Cause of the Fight. Neither Mayor Weaver nor the removed men would make a statement as to the specific reason for the changes, beyond the general statement that the proposed lease of the gas works was the cause of it. The organization to a man was in favor of the lease, while the mayor was unalterably opposed to it. He was utterly ignored in the transaction, and he has been urged by the newspapers and reform organizations to veto the ordinance passed by councils last Thursday. This he has announced he would do. In the meantime he brought every influence to bear on councilmen to sustain him in his veto. In this he had little success. The two directors refused to use their influence to help him, and this led the mayor to ask the directors for their resignations. Every request of the mayor for delay in the matter of passing the gas lease ordinance met with refusal on the part of councils. In addition to this, when the gas lease was passed last week, both branches of councils passed over the mayor's veto eight bills of minor importance that he had returned that day. Ordinarily vetoes are laid over for at least a week. Machine "Stands Pat" On Lease. The news of the mayor's action spread quickly to every section of the city, and all afternoon the "rialto" around the city hall, where politicians rather every day, was densely crowded with political workers and citizens. Every one wanted to know what the "organization" was going to do. The leaders, however, made no public announcement beyond the statement that the organization would "stard pat" on the lease, and that if the mayor wanted a fight the organization was ready. State Insurance Commissioner Israel W. Durham, the leader of the party in this city; State Senator James P. McNichol, who has many of the city's contracts, and who is next to Durham in the leadership; Charles Seger, the leader on the floor of city councils, were besieged by leaders from the 42 wards all day and evening. Numerous conferences took place, but not a word as to future plans was disclosed. It is evident, however, that the organization is planning for a great contest. The next city election will be held in November, when a sheriff and coroner are to be elected. The candidate for sheriff is Harry C. Ransley, president of select council, and an advocate of the gas lease, and it is likely that the reform organizations of the city will centre their strength to defeat him. While the mayor refuses to say what his future action will be regarding other officeholders who oppose him, it is believed that he is not yet through with his work in this direction. There is much uneasiness displayed by thousands of officeholders lest they be caught in the political vortex. The new directors refuse to say what plans they have mapped out, and until they make some announcement the political situation will remain in a chaotic state. Some of the organization leaders fear that many of the officeholders will side with the mayor and thus weaken the organization forces. TWENTY INJURED IN "L" CRASH A Terrible Tragedy Was Narrowly Averted In New York New York, May 23.—Twenty persons were injured, six of them so seriously that they were sent to hospitals, and more than 100 persons narrowly escaped death or serious injury, when a fast moving train crashed into two others on the high elevated structure on the Third avenue line at 133d street and Alexander avenue. Two trains were standing on the trestle waiting for the drawbridge over the Harlem river to close, when a third train swung around a curve and crashed into them. Only the best of good fortune prevented a terrible tragedy. After the crash the ends of shattered cars hung far over the side of the elevated structure at one of the highest points on the line. Had they moved a few inches more they would have pitched to the ground far below, with terrible results. Good fortune also kept the wrecked cars free from the heavily charged third rail. As they bounded from the track they rolled away from the deadly rail and settled down safely, but insecurely, at the most distant point possible on the narrow trestle. CONVICT LABOR BARRED President Prohibits Their Employment On Government Work. Washington, May 24.—The president has issued an order prohibiting the employment of convict labor on government works. The question of the employment of such labor was raised in connection with certain river and harbor improvements in Arkansas, the contractor for which desired to employ a number of state convicts under contract with the state authorities. The officials of the war department were almost unanimously opposed to the plan, and Judge Advocate General Davis gave an opinion that it was contrary to the spirit if not the letter of the labor laws of the United States. SLAYER OF SERGIUS EXECUTED Denied On Scaffold He Asked For Par dons and Sold He Won $40 to Darden den and said He was Glad to die. St. Petersburg, May 24. — It was semi-officially announced that Ivan Kaleeff, who murdered the Grand Duke Sergius at Moscow, February 17, was hanged at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. On the scaffold Kaleeff made a speech, in which he said: "It is said that I asked for pardon. It is a lie. I am faithful to the tradition of the people's will. I do not ask any favor. I am glad to die." The people's will is the name formerly borne by the party identical with the present social revolutionaries. BEEF TRUST PROBE A FIZZLE Investigation That Has Cost $125,000 Promises No Returns Chicago, May 22.—There are indications that the Beef Trust investigation which began two months ago and has cost $125,000 will end in a dismal fizzle. Two hundred and fifty witnesses have been heard of the 325 summoned, and nothing tangible has been secured upon which to ask indictments. The inquiry adjourned until June 7, but it is believed that before that date President Roosevelt, realizing the hopelessness of the cause, will order the entire matter dropped. 750.000 Died From Plague London, May 23.—Three quarters of a million of people have already died of the plague in India this year, according to figures furnished by Indian Secretary Brodrick in the house of commons. The mortality from January 1 to April 1 was 471,744, while another 215,961 succumbed during the four weeks ending April 29. Seven Burned In Mine Explosion. Manahoy City, Pa., May 24.—Seven miners were burned, two of them fatally, by an explosion of gas at the William Penn colliery of the Susquehanna Coal company. The fatally burned are Joseph Litzak and Michael Synkiewicz. Big Copper Mine Caves In. Prescott, Ariz., May 23. — Senator Clark's great copper mine at Jerome, Ariz., caved in from the surface to the 700-foot level. No dives were lost. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIEGINIA Annual Statement For the Fiscal Year Ending the 31st Day of December 1904 of the Actual Condition of the SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY Insurance Company. Organized under the laws of the State of Virginia, made to the Auditor of Public Accounts for the Commonwealth of Virginia, pursuant to the laws of Virginia. Name of the Company in full, Southern Aid Society of Virginia. Location of home or principal office of said company, Richmond, Va. Character of the business transacted by the company, Sick and Death. President, A. Washin. ton. Organized and incorporated Feb. 23, 1893. Secretary, Thos M. Crump. Commenced business March 10, 1893. Name of the General Agent in Virginia, Thos M. Crump. Residence, 1418 Ross St., Richmond, Amount of capital stock, $5,000. Number of policies and the amount thereby inforce at end of the Number of policies issued during of insurance effected there Number of policies and the amount have ceased to be in force Whole number of policies in forbilities or risks thereon at Amount of premiums received..... Amount of interest received..... Amount of rents received..... Amount of all other receipts, viz. DISBURSE Amount of losses paid (sick andAmount of dividends paid to stockAmount paid for expenses, includeAmount of all other disbursements Bonds, market value..... Stocks, market value..... Real estate, unencumbered marketCash in banks, trust companiesUncollected and deferred premiumAll other assets, office fixtures, etc. Mortgage on building, 555—25th BUSINESS Number and amount of policies Number and amount of policies Deduct number and amount which force during 1904..... Total number and amount of poli year, 1904..... Amount of losses and claims on the year, 1904..... Amount of losses and claims on the year, 1904..... Amount of assessments, premium during the year 1904 in losses, dividends, commiss [Signed] [Signed] State of Virginia. City of Richmond. SS: — Swor Annual For the Fiscal Year End of the actual condition FICIAL INSURANCE Organized under the law to the Auditor of Public Virginia, pursuant to the Name of the Company Location of home or p Street, Richmond, V Character of the business President W. F. Graham Secretary B. H. Peyton Name of the agent in V Place in Virginia where Companies not organ Amount of capital Stock, $20 Number of policies and the effected thereby in for year. Number of policies issued during mount of insurance of Number of policies and the effected ceased to be in for Whole number of policies in mount of liabilities of year. Number of premiums received Amount of all other receipts, D Amount of losses paid..... Amount paid for surrender value Amount paid for expenses (in Amount of all other disbursements Bond, market value..... Real estate, unencumbered, Cash in banks, trust company Uncollected and deferred pr All other assets..... Carried out at market DISBURSEMENTS ASSETS. Total. No. of policies in force December 31st, 1903, 1900 of policies issued during the year, 1904, 1902. Total. 12,533. Amount which have ceased to be in 1904. 1,480. Amount of policies in force at end of 1904. 11,043. Claims on policies incurred during 1904. 4,000. Claims on policies paid during the 1904. Events, premiums, dues and fees collected or secured in 1904 in cash and notes or credits, without any dues, commissions, or other expenses. A. WASHING THOS. M. CRUZ SS: Sworn to March 2, 1905 before GEO. W. LEWIS, Hickmond, Va. The business transacted by the Company, F. F. Graham. Organized and incorporated H. Peyton Commenced business Aug. 7 agent in Virginia, W. F. Graham, Residence, 108 E. Leigh St. Virginia where principal business is done (to be does not organized under the laws of Virginia Stock, $25000. Claims and the amount of Insurance thereby in force at end of previous. 23491. Claims issued during theyear and the a-insurance effected thereby. 7728 TOTAL. 31219. Claims and the amount of Insurance which had to be in force during the year. 5017 of policies in force, and the a-liabilities or riskthereon at end. 26202 RECEIPTS. Receipts received. 6,728.25 Amount of losses paid (sick and death claims) ..... $18,232,68 Amount of dividends paid to stockholders ..... 251,26 Amount paid for expenses, including taxes .. $601,69 ..... 11,526,14 Amount of all all other disbursements, viz. Misc ..... 1,190,24 Bonds, market value.....$10,000.00 Stocks, market value.....5,000.00 Real estate, unencumbered market value.....8,638.00 Cash in banks, trust companies and company's office, 6,925.79 Uncollected and deferred premiums.....3,560.50 All other assets, office fixtures, etc.....1,145.22 Carried out at market value—Total.....$35,269.51 Mortgage on building, 555—25th St., Newport News.....$1,600.00 BUSINESS IN VIRGINIA DURING 1904. State of Virginia. SS: — Sworn to March 2, 1905 before City of Richmond. GEO. W. LEWIS. Notary Public. Annual Statement For the Fiscal Year Ending the 31st day of Dec.,1904 of the actual condition of the AMERICAN BENEFICIAL INSURANE COMPANY. Organized under the laws of the State of Virginia, made to the Auditor of Public Accounts for the Commonwealth of Virginia, pursuant to the laws of Virginia. Name of the Company in full, The American Beneficial Ins. Co. Location of home or principal office of said Company, 613 N. 2nd. Street, Richmond, Va. Character of the business transacted by the Company. President W. F. Graham. Organized and incorporated Aug. 1st '02 Secretary B. H. Peyton Commenced business Aug. 2nd. 1902. Name of the agent in Virginia, W. F. Graham, Residence, 108 E. Leigh St. Richmond, Va. Place in Virginia where principal business is done(to be answered by Companies not organized under the laws of Virginia.) Amount of capital Stock, $25000. Number of policies and the amount of insurance which have ceased to be in force during the year...5017 229,729.00 Whole number of policies in force, and the amount of liabilities or riskthereon at end of year. 26262 882,957.00 Bond, market value..... $10000.00 Real estate, unencumbered, market value..... 3172.32 Cash in banks, trust companies and companies office..... 5326.14 Uncollected and deferred premiums..... 4187.60 All other assets..... 2700.00 Carried out at market value-TOTAL..... $26385.06 BUSINESS IN VIRGINIA DURING 1904. Number and amount of police 31st. 1903. ..... Number and amount of police year 1904 ..... Amount of losses and claims Number of losses and claim- ing the year 1904 ..... Amount of assessments, pre- lected or secured in W 1900 in cash and note deductions for losses, or other expenses ... Subscribed and sworn to be A. 22264 750174 g the 7206 311081 g the yr. 29470 1061255 3813 197833 25657 863422 curred dur- 3625 1325928 I fees col. the year without any missions 27967.29 W. F. GRAHAM, President. B. H. PEYTON, Secretary. J. THOMAS HEWIN, Notary Public. RECEIPTS. DISBURSEMENTS. ASSETS. Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A, E., A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenominal. The Grand Dearer all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles founded on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of $20 per week sick dues. The badge of regalia. For information concerning Courts of Calanthe of the Order. It requires a member 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, 500 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the criminal and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.90 to $40our neighborhood, orgrnize one. During the Children's Department act Mrs. Anna Tait 120 W. Hill morning special rates of JOHN and courts, address The Greatest Offer WHAT THE LAST Good Photo JUA HANDSOME GOLD-PLATE THE HANDSOMELY COLORED CHARGE. Other male or female, being called in arrangements with one of the large, who pay $1.50 cash in advance of charge. Fill out the Coupon graph of the person whose features button or medallion. All photos postage on the same. If you are the yearly subscriber and we will send millions. advantage of the offer. The Med Coupon. ANET: Closed $1.50 for the Plain one ATE, which I desire inserted in medal. 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 nales 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 regalla. For information concerning the organization of lodges, apply at the main office. pays $4.00 per week only absolutely necessary regalla. For apply at the main office. The Courts Is the Female Department of the Order thirty persons to organize a court. Its Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove an endowment and burial benefit of $1 dues. The only expense for regalia is a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral of THE BANDS OF CALANTHE stitutes 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 neigh For all information concerning the For all information concerning sp membership in the lodges and courts. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $300 per week sick dues. 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 con- stitutes 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 $30.99 to $40.00. If you have a yulian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address For all information concerning special rates of JOHN MITCHELL, JR. membership in the lodges and courts, address 311 N. 4th St. Richmond Va. The Greatest Offer Yet WE WILL SEND YOU A HAND YOUR PICTURE HAND THEREON FREE OF CHARGE. Send A Good Photograph. WE WILL SEND YOU A HANDSOME GOLD-PLATED BREAST-PIN WITH YOUR PICTURE HANDSOMELY COLORED AND REPRODUCED THEREON FREE OF CHARGE. They can be worn by either male fions. We have made special arrange- to furnish all new subscribers, who pa these handsome Medallion free of chap- together with a good Photograph of the colors and we will send the bottom Enclose 5 cents extra to pay postage will be refunded. Send us one yearly yearly subscribers, two Medallions. Now is the time to take advantage price of the subscription. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Publisher, THE PLANET: Please find enclosed $1.5 to the following address: NAME..... STREET..... CITY OR TOWN..... COUNTY, STATE..... closed photograph which They can be worn by either male or female, being called either Button or Medallions. We have made special arrangements with one of the largest concerns in the country to furnish all new subscribers, who pay $1.50 cash in advance for the PLANET one of 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. closed photograph which I desire inserted in medallion or button Good, first-class colored brick and stone masons, carpenters, molders, plumbers, pipe fitters, plasterers and electricians. None but good mechanics need apply. For further particulars, write to H. Snow and Son J. J. & Co., Limited, 1101 Webster Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa. Bell telephone, 433—J Grant. Enclose 2-cent stamp for prompt reply. Four nice dwellings with six rooms each on one of the best dwellings blocks on West Leigh St., being the same block with the fine residence of R. T. Hill, Esq. Terms: $1100.00 each. $50.00 Cash. Balance at $12.50 per month. J. D. Carneal & Son. 1106 East Main Street. KNICHTS OF PYTHAS 1628 C.B. Actual Size. VIRGINIA.—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 17th day of May, 1905. Martha Jane Harvey,..... Plaintiff Vs Phillis Burton, J. H. Crenshaw, substituted trustee for Phillis Burton, Leroy Bowles, and the unknown heirs of Judith Adams, deceased, if any, whose names and whereabouts are unknown, and who are made parties defendant by the general description of parties unknown. In Chancery. The object of this suit is to make partition, in some mode prescribed by law, or if necessary to sell that certain lot of land with a frame tenement thereon, in the city of Richmond, Va., fronting on the north side of Baker street $24\frac{1}{2}$ feet, and running back between parallel lines 97 feet, more or less, to an alley 16 feet wide and is the same real estate of which Judith Adams died, siezed and possessed. An affidavit having been made and filed, that the unknown heirs of Judith Adams deceased, if any, are unknown and whose names and whereabouts are unknown, and who are made parties defendant by the general description of parties unknown, are required to appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this notice, and do what is necessary to protect their interest herein. A copy test: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. C. F. Whittle, Giles B. Jackson, po WANTED. FOR SALE. MONEY always on hand to lend on Real Estate. Any amount to buy. "THE ECONOMY," 303 and 305 N.3rd St.. Fine Tailoring. CLEANING, DYEING, AND REPAIRING TURNER & WHITE, PROPRIETORS. ```markdown ``` Offer Yet! ADIES WANT, photograph. TED BREAST-PIN WITH LED AND REPRODUCED led either Button or Medallion largest concerns in the court, once for the PLANET one upon and send it with $1.50 res you desire reproduced in photographs will be returned are not satisfied, your money send one Medallion. Two Medallion alone is worth one year, which you will send one Medallion or buttons. The Brinkley House, 225 W. Camden Street. BOARDING AND LODGING Established 30 years ago. Has reopened. The rooms are furnished. The rooms are service obtained if desired. Special attention paid to transient people. Persons desiring rooms during the financial crisis may obtain them. The FHA SMA 226 W. Camden St., near B & O Station. Two Musicians Wanted Wanted two musicians, one who can play the guitar, and one who knows something about carventry. Address:—C. H. MILLER. The New York, Realty Company, 439 W 35th St., New York City. Real Estate and Insurance Property cared for, and rents collected. Flat and rooms in all parts of the city. If you are desirous of coming to the great metropolis write us at once and we will secure you a respec- table home. J. W. WATRINS, AGENT. '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.