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THE RICHMOND PLANET VIRGINIA BAPT. STATE CONVENTION MEETS. Large Attendance at Norfolk. Mayor Riddick Welcomes Them. Impressive Exercises---A Magnificent Church Edifice. VOL. XXIII NO 23 VIRGIN COM Large Att Rid Impressive Norfolk, Va., May 10th, '06. The Virginia Baptist State Convention shows not a "ruffle on the water," so far as surface indications are concerned and yet there are bitter animosities and intense feeling on both sides of the controversy now pending between President G. W. Hayes, A. M. and the Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. for it is under the leadership of these prominent Baptists that the forces are lined up for the struggle which is liable to break out at any time. It is difficult to forecast the result for there are many here who are endeavoring to bring forth the olive branch of peace and heal past dissensions and difficulties. The following report gives no sign of the conflict beneath the surface. "Go Preach My Gospel Salta the Lord," was the hymn that opened the thirty-ninth annual session of the Virginia Baptist State Convention yesterday morning in the First Baptist Church, Bute street, which brought to the city many representative colored men and women from all parts of the State, and some from the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The convention is composed of many of the leading colored men of the country and is working for the moral, intellectual and spiritual development of the Negro race and men who believe in the Negro helping himself. These men boast of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College located at Lynchburg, which is supported entirely by themselves, and it has as president Professor G. W. Hayes, who is one of the most noted Negro educators in America. Rev. Dr. R. H. Bowling, pastor of the church and president of the convention, called the assembly to order at 9:30 o'clock, and assured the delegates that he was pleased to see so many present, and referred to the work of the convention, saying that if the condition of the Negro was to be lifted up at all it would have to be through his own efforts, and it further gratified him to see so many men and women trying to help themselves. The song and prayer service was conducted by the Rev. Tinos, Hill, Rev. W. W. Gaines and Rev. W. R. Ashburn. Mayor James G. Riddick delivered the address of welcome, in which he assured the delegates that he was pleased to welcome them to the city, and tendered them the freedom of the city. "I was born and raised," said May or Riddick, "when slavery was passing out, June 1, 1861. My father was a large slave holder, and I glory in the fact that after the emancipation not one of the slaves left him, but worked on for him. I was pained a few days ago to learn that one of the boys with whom I was raised had met with a severe accident. "In the South the white and color races have been thrown together as in no other part of the world, and there is a peculiar interest, love and friendship existing between us. If I am permitted to go to Heaven when I leave this world and find no black faces there to greet me, then I shall think Heaven incomplete. We are glad to have you here. You have a great work to do. There is nothing accomplished without work. Thought is work and hard work at that. It is easier to perform manual labor than it is to do brain work." "As workers you should look ahead and plan for your people; you are to lead them to right and to higher things. In this country you are an integral part. Let me say with all honesty and sincerity that the future of your people depends upon you as leaders. We are glad to welcome to the city every atom of good. It is seldom that I am called before a body of ministers, and there is nothing on earth that I esteem more, and have more implemt confidence in than the prayers of the righteous. Where a man is true to his God, his country and himself, he need not fear anything on earth." In closing, Mayor Riddick paid a high compliment to the members of the First Baptist Church, and to the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Bowling, for erecting such a magnificent edifice, which he termed as a monument to VISITORS THERE FROM OTHER STATES. ... FLAMES SWEEPING OVER SAN FRANCISCO AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE. the race, which would be handed down from a race that loved God. The Rev. L. W. C. Mertz, in a short address in b half of the city's Baptist preachers, said that it was a pleasure to welcome to the city of Norfolk the leaders of the Negro race. "You are the best men in the world," said the speaker, "because He has called you to preach His gospel. Some of you come on "Jim Crow" cars and "Jim Crow" boats but you were men, and if you had been hauled here in box cars it would have been box cars full of men." The/Rev. Dr. L. H. Reynolds, pastor of the John Brown Memorial Copyright, 1906, by Judge Company. Church, was introduced and delivered an address in behalf of the Methodist preachers of the city. DR. JOHNSON RESPONDS TO ADDRESS OF WELCOME. The Rev. Dr. W. Bishop Johnson, of Washington, D. C., responded to the address of welcome, in which he paid a high tribute to Virginia as a slave State. He said Virginia was different from all other slave States because it accepted the slaves as members of a royal family. He further said that Virginia had contributed more toward the development of the Union than any other State; had furnished many great men and Negroes. Referring to the body in convention, he said: "We stand for the highest ideals in life, and we intend to push the battle to the gate and let the world know that we believe in the possibility of the Negro race and in the doctrine of self help." DR. BOWLING'S MASTERLY EF. FORT. The president, Rev. R. H. Bowling, D. D., delivered a masterful address, selecting as his theme, "Through Sacrifice to Victory." In the address he pointed with pride to the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, located at Lynchburg, and the heroic work performed by Prof. G. W. Hayes, the president of RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY MAY 12, 1906. the institution. He also asked that special prayer be given for the sufferers at San Francisco. Recognizing the worth of Dr. Bowling to the church and the race a motion prevailed by which the rule was suspended and he was unanimously elected president for another year. URGED COLORED RACE TO GRASP OPPORTUNITIES Col. Giles B. Jackson, of Richmond addressed the convention as did Rev. Dr. S. J. Jones, president of the National Institute, Jenkintown, Pa. which is an enterprise for Negroes S SWEEPING OVER In his address he said that the time had arrived in the History of his people that they should not sit down and complain about opportunities, when they were plentiful and needed industrious, honest and energetic negroes to take them up. He contended that all Negroes could not be teachers, preachers and professional men, and that some would have to enter the business and commercial world just like the white brother. He showed what his people could do and what they were doing in Pennsylvania for themselves Rev. Dr. J. Anderson Taylor, of Washington, D. C., addressed the convention and in this he urged the Negroes to attend the session of the Negro Educational and Religious Congress, which is to be held in Washington, D. C., in July. Dr. Taylor thought that the Negro should bend every possible effort in the future to reach the unreached members of his race, and if this was done he would get more respect. NIGHT SESSION One of the features of the session last night was the music rendered by the choir of the First Baptist Ch. The choir is composed of some of the leading colored singers in the city, and had a special musical program, which was rendered during the service. The Rev. Dr. J. H. Burks, of Roan- oke, read the scripture lesson and made the opening prayer, which was followed by the annual sermon preached by Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham of Richmond, Va., who is one of the leading ministers in the United States, as well as a leading business man of Richmond. He discussed "The Mighty Call: The Answer." Rev. W. R. Asaburn, of Manchester, delivered an address on the "Virginia Theological Seminary and College," which he termed the pride of the Negro Baptists in Virginia. "We have reached the place in our history," he said, "where we must do something for ourselves. The Ne- SAN FRANCISCO A groes themselves must train the Negroes for their religious work, and it is indeed gratifying to see what this convention is doing along that line. NEGRO MUST ACT FOR HIMSELF "We must no longer sit down and wait for the white people to take us up and carry us along. There was never a better time in the history of this country for the Negro to do He is no longer looked upon as an object of charity, but he is now a full grown man, having passed from bondage over forty years. He must no longer be considered a baby, but must get up and walk. I tell you, my friends, we must do something for ourselves. "The Virginia Seminary and College is teaching the Negro what he should do. It is teaching him that no race or nation or individual can be great without the religion of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We believe in an educated head and heart, the heart to serve God and the head to think. This is the need of any nation, the need of any people. We are in this country and are here to stay, and we find as our leader, Professor G. W. Hayes, and we are willing to follow him." At the close of the address a collection was made for education. The speakers for to-day are Charles S. Carter, Rew E. W. Moore D. D., of Philadelphia; Rev. W. B. Reid, B. D. Madison, N. J.; Rev Harvey Johnson, D. D., of Baltimore Md.; Rev. A. E. Edwards, D. D. of Richmond, and the Rev. Dr. L. W. Wales will preach to-night and Rev Dr. William Beckham, of Nashville Tenn., Field Secretary for the National Baptist Convention, will deliver an address after the sermon. President Roosevelt, on account of previous engagements, can't come but the Greenville Debating Society will meet just the same at Leigh St. Methodist Church, Monday night. Let every body else come! 19cts. Resolutions. Death has visited us and has taken one sister from our mist, we have crossed the threshold of nearly three years with its labors, joys, sorrows, failures and successes. Be it Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy to husband, son and entire family in the death of our beloved Sister Nannie Laurence has been a member of Rose of Sharon Court, No. 66 since organization Sept. 15th, 1903 and was a true member of the same. We the members of Rose of Sharon Court, No. 66, I. O. C. bow in humble submission to the will of an allwise Providence in removing from our midst Sister Nannie Laurence. Resolved, That in the death of Sister Laurence this Court has lost a jewel that shined equally in fraternal and social circles. Resolved third, that we extend to FTER THE EARTHQUA the bereaved family our sincere sym pathy and in this hour of dire distress and grief direct them to our Heavenly Father, who can all our sorrows heal. / Resolved, fourth. That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the family and also our weekly paper and spread upon our minutes. Done by order of Rose of Sharon Court, No. 66, I. O. C. Committee: R. M. PETTIS. DAISY BLANEY. VENEZUELA DELANEY. Dr. Graham is Dressed. The 5th Baptist Church through the pastor's committee, on last Sunday presented its pastor, Dr. W. F. Graham a fine suit of clothes. Mr York Harris made a happy speech in presenting the suit. WANTED-A first class cook Good wages. Apply at 816 Floyd Avenue, City. —You will ever regret it if you miss the side-splitting laughter at Leigh St. Methodist Church, Monday night Virginia Union University. Seventh Annual Commencement, May 1906 Sunday, May 13th, 3:30 P. M.—Baccalaurate Sermon by Rev. H. H. Waring Alexandria, Va. Monday, May 14th, 8:15 P. M.—Graduating Exercises of the Academy. Tuesday, May 15th, 2 P. M.—Business Meeting of the Alumni, 5 P. M.—Alumni Dinner, 8:15 P. M.—Public Exercises of the Alumni Association. Necrology, Prof. S. L. Wade, A. B. Centralia, Il. Poem. Dev. D. N. Vassar, D. D. Lynchburg. History, Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. Richmond. Oration, Prof. S. H. Archer, A. B., Atlanta, Ga. Wednesday, May 16th, 10 A. M. Meeting of the Social Study Club Paper by Prof. B. F. McWilliams, A. B. B. D. 8:15 P. M.—Commencement Exercises. The Faculty cordially invites you to attend the exercises of the week. All literary exercises will be held in Coburn Hall. Tat University will provide board and lodging as far as possible for Alumni who come from a distance. —Rev. W. J. Smith, B. D. reports a new lodge of Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A, A. and A. at Fall River, Mass. The good work is spreading in New England. —Do you like to laugh? Go to Leigh Street Methodist Church Monday night. 10 cents. UAKE. Forecast For Two Weeks. April 30th, 1906. I, Robert Jeter, in obedience to the command of God, with the great est compulsion will now write again. The sun and wind are telling the world the truth, they have obeyed the writing. Look for five days good weather this week. The wind has to blow in regulation with the summer and is not to fail. Look for the sun at 1:30 rest of week. Next week at 12 o'clock, the world shall look at these changes with a deep consideration. The wind has to change the falling of the rain from day to night. The wind has got to blow hard and manage the clouds. The world has got to have every hour good weather that can be had according to law. Watch blowing of wind to-morrow at 10, the sun at 11:30. Watch shining of sun at 12, the winl at 1 o'clock tomorrow. Northeast wind Wednesday. Thurs day will be a nice pleasant day, may be cloudy in the afternoon. These changes must be and has got to be. Saturday nice day, may be cloudy in afternoon. Sunday may sprinkle. Early summer this year. Look for five days good weather next week. Monday, watch blowing of wind at 10 o'clock and shining of sun at 12 o'clock. ROBERT JETER. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY MAY 14 1906 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. PRICE.FIVE CENTS Who Will Win? The Minister's Contest is on Come and get votes for your minister and give him a $40 suit of Clothing absolutely free. Asleep in Jesus. SCOTT—Died on Thursday April 26th, 2 P. M. at her residence 1027 N. 21st St., Mrs. Charlotte Scott in full triumph of faith. She leaves three daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes of Churchill, Mrs. Josephine V. Jones, and Miss Estelle Scott of New York; eleven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren to mourn their loss. Her funeral was held at First Baptist Church at 3 P. M. Sunday April 29th, 1906. Rev. Binford officiated. A precious one from us has gone, A voice we love is stillled. A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled. Her daughter, E. S. New York Age please conv. The Rage: The Greenville Debating Society, Leigh St. Methodist Church Monday night. 10 cents $100.00 Endowment Paid Danville, Va., April 28th, 1906. This is to certify that we have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, L. O. Calan- the ($100,00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Ella Hill, a deceased member of Industrial Court No. 74 of Danville, Va. Signed: her Alberta X Fuller. mark her Sarah X Graves. mark Witnesses: L. W. Holbrook. S. J. Holbrook. —Eight Grand Mothers appear at the Greenville Debating Society's meeting at Leigh St. Methodist Ch. Monday night. 10 cents. NEVER found it very hard to get into trouble. As far back as I can remember that has come dead easy for me. I When this happened I hadn't been railroading a month, and I was up with my conductor on the carpet, sweating from sheer grogginess and excitement. The job of front end brakeman on a mountain division is no great stake for a man ordinarily, but it was one for me just then. We knew when we went into the superintendent's office that somebody was to get fired. The only question was, who, the train crew or the operator? Our engine crew were out of it. It was up to the conductor and to me. Had the operator displayed red signals? The conductor said no; I said no. The operator said yes, but helied. We couldn't prove it. We could only put our word against his, and, what made it the worse for me, my conductor was something of a liar himself. I stood beading in a cold sweat, for I could see with half an eye it was going against us. The superintendent, an up and up railroad man every inch and all business, but suspicious, was leaning the operator's way the strongest kind. There wasn't another soul in the little room as the three of us stood before the superintendent's desk except a passenger conductor, who sat behind me with his feet on the window ledge, looking into the yard. "Morrison's record in this office is clean," the superintendent was saying of the operator, who was doing us smooth as smokeless powder. "He has never to my knowledge lied in an investigation; but, Allbers," continued the superintendent speaking bluntly to my conductor, "you've never told a straight story about that Rat River switch matter yet. This man is a new man," he added, throwing a hard look at me. "Ordinarily I'd be inclined to take the word of two men against one, but I don't know one at all and the other has done me once. I can't see anything for it but to take Morrison's word and let you fellows both out. There wasn't any wreck, but that's not your fault, not for a minute." "Mr. Rocksbys." I protested, speaking up to the division boss in a clean funk—the prospect of losing my job that way, through a lying operator, took the heart clean out of me—"you don't know me, it is true, but I pledge you my word of honor"— "What's your word of honor?" asked the superintendent, cutting me like a hatchet. "I don't know any more about your word of honor than I do about you. Allibers, take your man and get your time." A wave of helpless rage swept over me. The only thing I could think of was strangling the lying operator in the hall. Then somebody spoke. It came calm as sunshine and cold as a northwester from the passenger conductor behind me, from Dave Hawk, and it pulled me into line like a bugle call. I felt my English all back at once. Everybody heard him and looked my way. Again it was up to me. This time I was ready for the superintendent, or, for that matter, for the blooming Mountain division. I had forgot all about my papers till Dave Hawk spoke. I put my hand, shaking into my inside vest pocket for a piece of oilskin—it was all I had left. I was a good way from my base that year. I laid the oilskin on the superintendent's table, unfolded it jealously and took out a medal and a letter, that in spite of the carefulest wrapping was creased and sweated. But the letter was from my captain and the bit of bronze was the cross. Rocksby picked up the letter and read it. "Have you been in the British army?" he asked curly. "Yes, sir." He scowled a minute over Picton's scrawl, laid it down and gratified his curiosity by picking up the medal. He studied the face of the token, looked curiously at the dingy red ribbon, twirled it and saw the words on the reverse, "For Valor," and looked again at me. "Where'd you get this?" he asked, indicating the Victoria. "In the Sudan, sir." Dave Hawk kept right on looking out the window. Neither my conductor nor the operator seemed to know just what the row was. Nobody spoke. "What you doing here?" Rocksby went on. "I came out to learn the cattle business." His brows went up easy-like. "They cleaned me out." Brows drop ped gentle-like. "Then I went bad with mountain fever," and he looked decent at me. "You say you had your head out the cupola and saw the white signal?" he asked, sort of puzzled. "I saw the white sir al." Rocksbey looked at the operator Morrison. "We'll adjourn this thing," said he at last, "till I look into it a little further. For the present go back to your runs." We never heard any more of it. Allburs got out quick. I waited to pick up my stuff and turned to thank Dave Hawk. He was gone. It wasn't the first time Dave had pulled me out of the water. About two weeks before that I had crawled one night up on the front platform of the baggage at Peace River to steal a ride to Medicine Bend on No. 1. It was Dave's train. I had been kicked out of the McCloud hospital two days before without a cent or a friend on earth outside the old country, and I hadn't a mind to bother the folks at home any more, come Conan or the devil. The night was bitter bad, black as a Fuzzy and sleeting out of the foothills like manslaughter. When the train stopped at Rosebud for water, what with gripping the ley hand rail and trying to keep my teeth standy on my knees I must have been a hard sight. Just as the train was ready to pull out Dave came by and poked his lantern full in my face. If it had been a headlight I couldn't have been worse scared, and I found afterward he carried the brightest lamp on the division. I looked up into his face, and he looked into mine. I wonder if in this life it isn't mostly in the face after all? I couldn't say anything. I was shaking in a chill as I climbed down into the storm. Yet I never saw a face harder in some ways than a Dave Hawk's. His visor hid his forehead and a black beard covered his face till it left only his straight, cold nose and a dash of olive white under the eyes. His whiskers loomed high as a Corsack's, and his eyes were onxy black with just such a glitter. He knew it was no better than murder to put me off in that storm at a mountain sliding. I knew it, but I didn't much care, for I knew before very long I should fall off anyway. After I crawled down he stood looking at me, and, with nothing better on, I stood looking at him. "If you get up there again I'll break your neck," he promised, holding up his lantern. I was quiet. The nerve was out of me. "Where are you going?" he asked shortly. "Medicine Ben"— "Get into the smoker, you fool." Get into the smoker, you root. It galvanized me. For twenty-four hours, I was just out of a hospital bed and six weeks of mountain fever, but I braced at his words like a Sloux buck. I hurried back ahead of him to the smoking car. RÉGÉRÉ JAMES Dave came by and poked his lantern full in my love drenched wet and tough, I know I looked so tough that the brakeman grabbed me the minute I opened the front door and tried to kick me out. I turned snarling then, crazy as a wolf all in a second, and somehow backed the brakeman against the water cooler with his windpipe twisted in my bony fingers like a corkscrew. The train was moving out. I had been cuffed and kicked till I would rather kill somebody than not; this seemed a fair chance for a homicide. When the poor fellow's wind went off—he wasn't much of a scraper, I fancy—he whipped around in the aisle like a dying rooster. As he struggled in my grip there behind him in the doorway stood Dave, lantern in hand, looking on with a new face. This time he was smiling. Dave's smile meant just the parting of his lips over a row of glistening teeth, perfectly even teeth and under his black mustache whiter than ivory. It appeared to amuse him to see me killing the brakeman. The instant I saw Dave I let go, and he watched the crestfallen trainman pull himself together. "Guess you'll let him alone now, won't you?" said Dave pleasantly to my rattled assailant. "Sit down," he growled harshly at me, stringing his lantern on his arm. He walked unconcernedly down the aisle, and I dropped exhausted into the front seat facing the Baker heater. It was heavenly hot; red hot. I loved loved a car heater ever since, and Baker to me is hardly lower than the angels. My togs began to steam, my blood began to flow, the train boy gave me a wormy apple, an Irishman with a bottle of rank whisky gave me a stinger, and I wanted to live again. I curled up in the seat, and in five minutes I was roasting—oh, such a heavenly roast—and dozing—Lord, what a heavenly doze—before that Baker heater. All night the forward truck beat and pounded under me. All night I woke and slept in the steaming, stinking air of the hot car. And whenever I opened my eyes I saw always the same thing—a topping tall conductor looming in the aisle, his green hooded lamp like a semaphore under THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA his arm. And above in the gloom a bush of black beard and a pair of deep set, shining eyes back under a peaked cap. Dave often comes back as I saw him, waking and dreaming, that night in the smoker of No. 1. It was breaking day when he bent over me. "We're getting into the Blend," he said grudely. "Got any money for breakfast?" "I haven't a cent on God's earth." He put his hand in his pocket and, pulling out a handful of loose bills, shoved one into my fingers. "I'll take it from you, and gladly," I said, sitting up. "But I'm not a beggar or a tramp." "Off track?" "Yes. I'm going to enlist." His teeth flashed. "That's worse than railroading, ain't it?" Something came into my head like a rocket. "If I could get started railroading"— "Get started easy enough." "Get started easy enough." That's how I happened to show him my Victoria. He gave me a card to the trainmaster, and next day I went to braking for Allibers, who, by the way, was the biggest炎 HI ever knew. But the morning I got into Medicine Bend that first time on No. 1 I had another scare. I went into the lunchroom for coffee and sandwiches and threw my bill at the boy. He opened it, looked at it and looked at me. "Well," I growled, for I was impudent with luck and a hot stomach. "Good, aln't it?" "Smallest you got?" I nodded as if I had a pocketful. He hustled around and came back with a handful of money. I said nothing, but when he spread it out before me I sat paralyzed. I had just assumed that Dave had given me a dollar. Sinkers, deducting the price of two coffees and six sandwiches from the bill, counted out $19.30 for me. That change kept me running for a month, and after my first pay day I hunted up Dave to pay him back. I found him in the evening. He was sitting alone on the eating house porch, his feet up against the rail, looking at the mountains in the sunset. "Never mind," he said as I held out a twenty dollar bill and tried to speak my little piece. He did not move except to wave back my hand. "Oh, but I can't let you do that," I protested. "Put up your money, Tommie." He called me Tommie. "No." he repeated, putting by my hand, his face set hard—and when Dave's face did set it set stony. "Put up your money. You don't owe me anything. I stole it." It was a queer deal out on the West End in those days. It was a case of wide open from the river to the Rockles. Everybody on the line, from the directors to the car tinks, were giving the company the worst of it. The section hands hooked the ties for the maintenance, the painters drank the alcohol for the shellac, the purchasing agent had more fast horses than we had locomotives, and what made it discouraging for the conductors the auditors stole what little money the boys did turn in. A hard place to begin railroading the old line was then, but that's where I had to tackle the game, and in all the hard crowd I mixed with Dave Hawk was the only big man on the division. There were others there who fixed the thing up by comparing notes on their collections and turning in percentages to make their reports look right, but Dave was not a conspirator, never made a confidant of any man in his stealing or his spending and despised their figuring. He did as he pleased and cared for no one. No superior had any terror for Dave. He had a wife somewhere back east of the river, they said, that had sold him out—that's why he was in the mountains—and he lived among free and easy men a lonely life. If anybody ever got close to him I think maybe I did, though I was still only a freight conductor when the lightning struck the division. It came with a clean sweep through the general offices at the river—everybody in the auditing department, the executive heads down to general manager, and a whole raft of East End conductors. It was a shake-out from top to bottom, and the bloods on our division went white and sickly very fast. Of course it was somebody's gain. When the heads of our passenger conductors began to drop they began setting up freight men. Rocksbys had resigned a year earlier, and Haverly, his successor, an ex dispatcher and as big a knave as there was on the payroll, let the men out right and left with the sole idea of saving his own scalp. By the time I was put up to a passenger train the old force was pretty much cleared out except Dave. Every day almost we looked to see him go. Everybody loved him because he was a master railroad man, and everybody except Dave himself was apprehensive about his future. He moved on just the same, calm and cold as ice water, taking the same old chances, reckless of everything and everybody. I never knew till afterward, but the truth was Haverly, with all his bluff talk, was just enough afraid of Dave Hawk to want to let him alone. The matter, though, focused one day up in the old office in an unexpected way. Haverly's own seat got so hot that, bedevelied by his fears of losing it and afraid to discharge Dave, who now sailed up and down the line reckless as any pirate of the Spanish main, he cowered, called Dave into the little room at the Wickrum and asked him to resign. In all the storm that raged on the division the old conductor alone had remained calm. Every day it was somebody's head off; every night a new alarm. Dave alone ignored it all. He was through it all the shining mark, the daredevil target. Yet he bore a charmed life and survived every last associate. Then Haverly asked him to resign. Dave, bitter angry, faced him with black words in his throat. "It's come to a showdown," muttered the superintendent unceasily after a minute's talking. "Do you want to resign? Dave eyed the mountains coldly. "No." "You will have to" "Have to? " Hawk whirled dark as a storm. "Have to? Who says so?" The superintendent shifted the paperweight on the desk uncomfortably. "Why should I resign?" demanded the old conductor angrily. "Resign?" He rose from his chair. "You know --- I'm a thief. You're a thief yourself. You helped make me one. I've carried more men for you than for anybody else on the whole division. I don't resign for anybody. Discharge me! I don't ask any oids of you." Haverley met it silently, yet he didn't dare do anything. He knew Dave could ruin him any day he chose to open his mouth. What he did not know was that Dave Hawk was molded in a class of men different from his own. Even dishonor was safe in the hands of Dave Hawk. There was no change after except that darker, moodier, lonelier than ever, Dave moved along on his runs, the last of the old guard. Better railroad man than he never took a train out of division. Stress of wind or stress of weather, storm, flood or blockade, Dave Hawk's trains came and went on time or very close. So he rode, grim old privateer, with his letters of marque on the company's strong box, and Haverly trembled night and day till that day came that fear had foretold to him. A clap of thunder struck the Wicklup, and Haverly's head fell low, and Dave Hawk salled boldly on. I was extra passenger man when John Stanley Bucks took the West End. He came from south of our country, and we heard great things about the new superintendent and about what would happen as soon as he got into the saddle. What few of the old men in the Wickup were left looked at Bucks just once and began to arrange their temporal affairs. His appearance bore out his reputation. Only every body, while pretty clear in his own mind as to what he would do—that is as to what he would have to do—wondered what Dave would do. He and Bucks met. I couldn't for the life of me hold thinking when they struck hands, this grizzled mountaineer and this contained, strong, soldierly executive who had come to command us, of another meeting I once saw when I carried Crook out on a special and watched him at Bear Dane strike hands with the rest of the big fighting chiefs of the mountain Sioux. For three months Bucks sat his new saddle without a word or an act to show what he was thinking; then there came from the little room a general order that swept right and left from trainmaster to wrecking boots. The last one of the old timers in the operating department went except Dave Hawk. The day the order was bulletined Bucks sent for Dave; sent word by me he wanted to see him. "Come on," said Dave to me when I gave him the message. "What do you want me for?" "Come on," he repeated, and, greatly against my inclination, I went up with him. I looked for a scene. "Dave, you've been running here a good while, haven't you?" Bucks began. "Long as anybody, I guess," said Dave curly. "How many years?" "Nineteen." "There's been some pretty lively shake-outs on the system lately," continued Bucks. The veteran conductor looked at him coldly. "I am trying to shape things here for an entire new deal." "Don't let me stand in your way," returned Dave grimly. "That's what I want to see you about." "It needn't take long," blurted Dave. "Then I'll tell you what I want." I even take long, hurted Dave. "Then I'll tell you, what I want"— "I don't resign. You can discharge me any minute." "I wouldn't ask any man to resign Dave, if I wanted to discharge him. Don't make a mistake like that. I suppose you will admit there's room for improvement in the running of this division." Dave never twitched. "A whole lot of improvement," Bucks, with perceptible emphasis added. It came from the new superintendent as a sort of gauntlet, and Dave picked it up. "I guess that's right enough," he replied candidly; "there is room for a whole lot of improvement. If I sat where you do I'd fire every man that stood in the way of it too." "That's why I've sent for you," Bucks resumed. "Then drop the chinook talk and give me my time." "You don't understand me, Dave. I want you to give up your run. I want your friend, Burnes here, to take your run"— A queer shadow went over Dave's face. When Bucks began he was getting a thunderstorm on. Somehow the way it ended, the way it was coming about—putting me into his place—I, the only boy on the division he cared anything about—it struck him, as it struck me, all in a heap. He couldn't say a word. His eyes went out the window into the mountains; something in it looked like fate. For my part, I felt murder guilty. "What I want you to do, Dave," added Bucks evenly, "is to come into the office here with me and look after the train crews. Just at present I've got to lean considerably on a trainmaster. Do you want the job?" The silent conductor turned to stone. "The men who own the road are new men, Dave. They didn't steal it; they bought it and paid for it. They want a new deal, and they propose to give a new deal to the men. They will pay salaries a man can live on honestly; they will give no excuse for knocking down; they want what's coming to them, and they propose the men shall have their right share of it in the pay checks. "But there's more than that in it. They want to build up the operating force, as fast as it can be built, from the men in the ranks. I aim to make a start now on this division. If you're with me, hang up your coat here the 1st of the month and take the train crews." Dave left the office groggy. The best Bucks could do he couldn't get a positive answer out of him. He was overcome and couldn't focus on the proposition. Bucks saw how he had gone to pieces and managed diplomatically to leave the matter open, Callahan, whom Bucks had brought with him as assistant, filling in meanwhile as trainmaster. The matter was noised. It was known that Dave, admittedly the brainiest and most capable of the old guard, had been singled out, regardless of his past record, for promotion. "I'm not here sitting in judgment on what was done last year." Bucks had said plainly. "It's what is done this year and next that will count in this office." And the conductors, thinking there was a chance, believing that at last if they did their work right they would get their share of the promotions, began to carry their lanterns as if they had more important business than holding up stray fares. Meantime Dave hung to his run. Somehow the old run had grown a part of him, and he couldn't give it up. When he told Bucks at the end of the week that he would like another week to make his decision the superintendent waved it to him. Everybody began to make great things of Dave. Some of the boys called him trainmaster and told him to drop his punch and give Tommie a show. He didn't take the humor the way one would expect. Always silent, he grew more than that—somber and dejected. We never saw a smile on his face. "Dave is off," muttered Henry Cavanaugh, his old baggageman. "I don't understand it. He's off. You ought to talk to him. Tommie. You're the only man on the division can do it." I was ordered west that night to bring a military special from Washakie. I rode on Dave's train. The hind Los Angeles sleeper was loaded light, and when Dave had worked the train and walked into the stateroom to sort his collections I followed him. We sat half an hour alone and undisturbed, but he wouldn't talk. It was a heavy train and the wind was high. We made Rat River after midnight, and I was still sitting alone in the open stateroom when I saw Dave's green light coming down the darkened alley. He walked in, put his lamp on the floor, sat down and threw his feet on the cushions. "How's Tommie tonight?" he asked, leaning back as if he hadn't seen me before, in his old teasing way. He played light heart sometimes, but it was no more than played; that was easy seeing. "How's Dave?" He turned, pulled the window shade and looked out. There was a moon, and the night was bright, only windy. "What are you going to do with Bucks, Dave?" "Do you want my punch, Tommie?" "You know better than that, don't you?" "I guess so." "You're blue tonight. What's the matter?" He shifted, and it wasn't like him to shift. "I'm going to quit the West End." "Quit? What do you mean? You're not going to throw over this trainmaster offer?" "I'm going to quit. What's the use?" he went on slowly. "How can I take charge of conductors, talk to conductors? How can I discharge a conductor for stealing when he knows I'm a thief myself? They know it; Bucks knows it. There's no place among men for a thief." "Dave, you take it too hard. Everything ran wide open here. You're the best railroad man on this division; everybody old and new, admits that." "I ought to be a railroad man. I held down a division on the Panhandle when I was thirty years old." "Were you a railroad superintendent at thirty?" "I was a trainmaster at twenty-seven. I'm forty-nine now, and a thief. The woman that ditched me is dead; the man she ran away with is dead; my baby is dead, long ago." He was looking out as he spoke on the flying desert, ashen in the moonlight. In the car the passengers were hard asleep, and we heard only the slew of the straining flanges and the muffled beat of the heavy truck under us. "There's no law on earth that will keep a man from leaving the track once in awhile," I argued; "there's none to keep him from righting his trucks when the chance is offered. I say a man's bound to do it. If you won't do it here, choose your place, and I'll go with you. This is a big country, Dave. Hang it, I'll go anywhere. You are my partner, aren't you?" He bent to pick up his lantern. "Tommle, you're a great boy." "Well, I mean it." He looked at his watch. I pulled mine. It was 1 o'clock. "Better go to sleep, Tommie." I looked up into his face as he rose. He looked for an instant steadily into mine. "Go to bed, Tommie." He smiled, pulling down his visor, and, turning, he walked slowly forward. I threw myself on the couch and drew my cap over my eyes. The first thing I felt was a hand on my shoulder. Then I realized I had been asleep and that the train was standing still. A man was bending over me, lantern in hand. It was the porter. "What's wrong?" I exclaimed. "There's trouble up ahead, Mr. Burnes," he exclaimed huskily. I sprang to my feet. "Have you got your pistol?" he stuttered. behind me. It was the hind end brakeman, but he was so scared he could not speak. I hurried forward. Through the head Los Angeles sleeper, the San Francisco cars and the Portland I ran without meeting a living soul, but the silence was ominous. When I caught a glimpse of the inside of the chair car I saw the ferment. Women were screaming and praying, and men were burrowing under the foot rests. "They've killed everybody in the smoker!" shouted a traveling man, grabbing me. "Damnation, make way, won't you!" I exclaimed, pushing away from him through the mob. At the forward door, taking me for one of the train robbers, there was another panic. Passengers from the smoker were jammed together there like sardines. I had to pile them bodily across the seats to get through and into the forward car. It was over. The front lamps were out and the car smouldering blush. A cowboy hung pitched head and arms down over the heater seat. In the middle of the car Henry Cavanaugh, crouching in the aisle, held in his arms Dave Hawk. At the dark front end of the coach I saw the outline of a man sprawled on his face in the aisle. The news agent crawled out from under a seat. It must have been short and horribly sharp. They had flagged the train east of M. M. Without a word he opened on the for- ward robbers. Bear Dance. Two men boarded-the front platform of the smoker and one the rear. But the two in front opened the smoker door just as Dave was hurrying forward to investigate the stop. He was no man to ask questions. He saw the masks and covered them instantly. Dave Hawk any time and anywhere was a deadly shot. Without a word he opened on the forward robbers. A game cowboy back of him pulled a gun and cut into it and was the first to go down, wounded. But the train boy said Hawk himself had dropped the two head men almost immediately after the firing began and stood free handed when the man from the rear platform put a Winchester against his back. Even then, with a hole blown clean through him, he had whirled and fired again. We found the man's blood on the platform in the morning, but whoever he was, he got to the horses and got away. When I reached Dave he lay in his baggageman's arms. We threw the carriage into the baggage car and carried the cowboy and the conductor back into the forward sleeper. I gave the go ahead orders and hurried again to the side of the last of the old guard. Once his eyes opened, wandering stillly, but he never heard me, never knew me, never spoke. As his train wore that morning into division he went with it. When we stopped his face was cold. It was up to the Grand Master. A game man always, he was never a cruel one. He called himself a thief. He never hesitated with the other man high and low, to loot the company. The big footers were financiers; Dave was only a thief, yet gave his life for the very law he trampled under foot. Thief, if you please, I don't know. We needn't quarrel about the word he branded himself with. Yet a trust of money, of friendship, of duty, were safer in Dave Hawk's hands than in the hands of abler financiers. I had him not up for a model, neither than in his wickedness. When I was less than he was my friend. His story was A WIFE'S MESSAGE Cured Her Husband of Drinking. hard drinker for over 20 career ways to stop but could never cure him by a simple home remedy which any one can give secretly. He was drunkness in their homes to know of this and desire to cure this disease and will write to me. I will tell them just what the disease is, Mrs. Margaret Anderson, Box 505 Hillburn, N. Y. I have not yet heard I have seven valuable information to thousands could not do so. I at last cured him by his simple home cremation, which one can give secretly. I want one who has dunked in their homes to know of this and if they are sinecure in their dorm room this disease and will write to me, I will tell them just what the remedy is by my address to Kara Mara, Room Box 508 Hillburn, N. Y. I am pleased in this offer. I have no information to thousands and will gladly send it to you if you will but write me to do this, if you have nothing to sell. I want no money. USE OF PERFUMES. Dupo Seent Bottle In Wardrobe Gives a Delicate Odor. Two thousand dollars is the modest sum spent every year for perfumery by one American woman, well known both in London and New York society. "I happen to know this," says the representative of an English perfumery house, "because she gets her goods direct from us. Scores of other women, both English and American, think it necessary to spend two or three hundred dollars every twelvemonth for scents. Ten or twenty dollars a bottle is nothing to the woman who can afford it, or the man either for that matter, and in my opinion people are quite justified in spending money that way if they have it, but those who haven't should try to get the same thing in a commoner bottle for a dollar. You see I am perfectly frank. "A good deal has been said about the vulgarity of perfume. Of course there are vulgar perfumes, just as there is low music or art. The real reason, I think, for the prejudice some have against perfumes is that the scent bottle is made too evident. A woman of taste will not smother herself in perfume. It is not a rapid evaporation of strong scent that she delights in, but a very faint, clinging fragrance. A good way to secure that result is to leave a bottle open, so that the perfumery may evaporate in your wardrobe. It takes a long time for the subtlest part of the scent to get into every fiber of the clothes, but When you wear those clothes there is no vulgarity about them. You carry a kind of fragrant presence about with you."—New York Tribune. THE BABY. A Few Points by a Doctor About Its Training. A baby can be taught to go to sleep at a certain hour in its own bed without breast or bottle and without a light just as well as it can be taught the opposite. I have no patience with parents who want to drag a baby from one place to another, let every one handle it, trot it and excite it. Another point along the same line: We do not do our duty when we neglect to instruct parents in reference to punishment of children, telling the children the policeman will get them, cut off their ears, etc. Many an idiot and nervous wreck is the result of such training. Raising babies on artificial food in our cities is a fearfully discouraging task. Above all else, here is where attention to detail and little things counts—attention not for a day, but weeks and months. The majority of sick, emaciated, rachitic, deformed children brought to my clinic are the result of poor artificial feeding. As to the little things in diagnosing babies' troubles, what a mine of information we have in the sleep, the cry, the gestures and the expression! The single sharp, shrill cry in the dead of night, tuberculosis of brain or bone; the suppressed cry, pleurisy; the "quack of the duck" cry, post pharyngeal abscess; the sudden and long continued cry, with every evidence of pain, carache or colic. And so we might go on indefinitely.—Dr. Phillips in Healthy Home. KITCHEN HELPS Dishcloths should be boiled with soda once or twice a week. Salt sprinkled on any substance that is burning on a stove will stop the smoke and smell. Add borax to the water in which the dish towels are washed and it will aid in making them white and soft. If housewives would remember to put a towel, folded several times, in the bottom of the dishpan there would be less broken thin glasses. A cupful of vinegar placed in an open basin on the stove while cabbage, cauliflower, onions or fish are cooking will permeate the kitchen with its aroma and do away with unpleasant odors. Empty pasteboard cracker boxes and the clean white wooden boxes that chocolate comes in, which are lined with paraffin paper, are excellent to bake sponge cake in. They will not burn, and the paper prevents them sticking. Woman's Narrow Horizon. A government employer of many women clerks has declared that not one in twenty reads the papers or knows anything of geography or contemporary events, says Success Magazine. "Ask them if the Panama canal is to be at sea level or not, and they will stare as if you were talking Chinese," he complained. "They may read the horrors in the papers, but they skip everything of value." He had his finger flatly on one of woman's chief defects—the lack of broad, impersonal interests. The average girl's horizon is bounded on the north by her clothes, on the south by her social relations, on the east by her private hopes and on the west by her income—four solid walls that shut out very thoroughly the world's light and movement. She can never go far in any but mechanical work until she has climbed out into wider horizons, and she will be at the world's mercy until she opens her mind by an interest in what happens outside her circle of acquaintance. Old Papers. Save washing and dusters by using old newspapers for cleaning. They are excellent for window polishers, first rate for scouring thware and are as good as a brush for polishing a stove. The prudent woman will always keep a good pad or newspaper at hand and use it for wiping up grease or water spilled on the gas or coal cooking stove, for it will enable her to keep the store clean with half the usual trouble. How to Kill Insects on House Plants. If any insects are found on your plants, says Outing, apply sulpho-to-bacco soap infusion at once. Begin the fight against insects early in the day and half the battle is won, but if you let them alone until they have intrenched themselves on all your plants you will find the task of getting rid of them a most difficult one. Gems Gleaned From the Teachings of All Denominations. The purer and stronger and diviner our faith the richer and more beautiful and fruitful will be our life—Rev. J. B. Remensnyder. Lutheran. New York. Honey of Happiness. Follow the bee and search out the sweets of life if you would have the honey of happiness - Rey, Moore Sanborn, Unitarian, Atlanta, Ga. Value of a Man. It is a man's affections that decide his worth or worthlessness to a community. It is not his brain power or his wealth.—Rev. M. N. Preston, Congregationalist, Chicago. World's Ruling Religion. World's Ruling Religion. Christianity is destined to become the dominant religion of the earth. The good, the true, in all religions, will abide. The false, the fanciful, fanatical, mythical and mystical will give place. A mingling and comparing of religions will eliminate the false. It will take time yet, but marvelous progress has already been made.—Rev. W. S. Gilbert, Presbyterian, Portland, Ore. Safety In Hard Labor. There is nothing grows so monotonous as work that is easy. Easy work if long continued breaks us down. Even horses will do more in a month if compelled to travel up and down hill than if driven along a dead level road. God built us for climbing. We are created to bear heavy burdens. We are safe only when we put forth all our powers.—Rev. C. E. Jefferson, Baptist, New York BEN'S LANGIES SKYSCRAPER THREE FEET OUT OF PLUMB. THE PLANET EARTHQUAKE WARNING Dr. C. Willard Hayes Believes Shocks Can Be Predicted. MANY PREMONITORY SYMPTOMS Expert of Geological Survey Says Foretelling Earthquakes Is Merely a Question of Observation—Suggests the Establishing of Well Equipped Stations. Dr. C. Willard Hayes, geologist of the United States geological survey, recently expressed the opinion that the time would come when the scientists would be able to predict an earthquake sufficiently in advance of its occurrence to give warning to persons likely to be caught by it, says a Washington special to the New York Times. "Of course I do not say that it will come soon," said Dr Hayes, "but I see nothing improbable in the idea at all. I think it is largely a matter of having a sufficient number of properly equipped observation stations, with prompt and thorough exchange of observations. Earthquakes are almost invariably preceded by premonitory signs and symptoms. These are now recognized and recorded. But there are not enough observers engaged in the work to make their records and observations of practical benefit in the way I have indicated "Fifty years ago the idea that it would be possible to predict a storm would have been regarded as propitious. But with the increase of the number of weather observers and the development of their instruments they have reached the stage of practical certainty, and the service has become of immense value throughout the world. Of course they have had a great deal more weather to observe than the geologists have had earthquakes, and the scope and thoroughness of their observations have developed more rapidly than in the case of seismic disturbances. But I see no reason why, with a proper extension of the field of observations and the proper equipment of the observers, there should not result in a comparatively few years substantially the ability to foretell for an appreciable period of time the occurrence of serious earthquakes." In discussing the shocks which devastated San Francisco Dr. Hayes said that the ultimate cause was undoubtedly "a deep readjustment" of the earth, manifesting itself upon the surface by a slip along the line of a fault. These faults occur at various places upon the earth's crust and are SMITH BEN'S LANDIES SKYSCI similar to those found in ore or coal veins, except that their scale is thousands of feet compared to inches in the mine scale. When for any cause a deep readjustment takes place the surface effect usually follows the line of a fault. When somebody asked what caused this deep readjustment Dr. Hayes smiled and replied: "That is just what the geologists are asking. 'Why' is what we want to know. That is the great problem or one of the great problems that we are studying all the time. We know that certain parts of the earth are slowly going down and other parts are rising. That has been going on in California. Only yesterday (April 18), speaking geologically, the coast line of California was lifted up to a considerable extent. The traces of the old beach line are easy to follow, and the fact that the line has been lifted to different heights at different places and that in places it lies at an angle and not horizontally shows that it was lifted and that it was not the receding of the water which left it there. "There are several clearly defined faults which run near and, even through San Francisco," continued Dr. Hayes. He took a geological map and pointed out four or five. The more extensive run just south of the city, but there are two or three which cross the ground on which the city stood. They all trend northwest and southeast, in the direction in which the earthquake wave is reported to have traveled. The most pronounced of them passes through Palo Alto, where a violent shock was felt. "It may be," said Dr. Hayes, "that a slip occurred somewhere at the upper or northern end of one of these faults LAKES THE HARNEYS THIS WEIR and, following down to the southeast, produced the shock that destroyed San Francisco and wrecked Palo Alto buildings." Captain Roosevelt, of the marine corps, a cousin of President Roosevelt, has lost heavily. His wife, a daughter EARTHQUAKE'S SPE Costly Art Treasures Lost. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has lost in the San Francisco fire nearly all of the paintings bequeathed to it by Collis P. Huntington, says the New York Tribune. The fire that swept over Nob hill early the other morning overwhelmed the old Collis P. Huntington house in California street, between Mason and Taylor streets. Stored in the old house was the greater part of the art treasures collected by the railroad man. In addition to the pictures comprising the Metropolitan legacy were nearly a hundred others of lesser note. Mr. Huntington spent years in acquiring this collection. When he died the best pictures in his collection were willed to the Metropolitan museum. A condition in the will, however, left them in the possession of the family during the lives of Mrs. Huntington and Archer M. Huntington, and not until their death could they be bung in the museum. Some pictures in the legacy Mrs. Huntington brought east, and they now hang in her Fifth avenue house in New York and her house at Throgs Neck, but they form only a fraction of the entire collection left by Mr. Huntington, and the loss to the museum represented by the destroyed paintings will amount to many thousands. MILLIONS IN PRIVATE LOSSES Rich Californians, Who Suffered Heavily In Frisco Horror. All the California people who spend their winters in Washington have suffered heavy losses through the San Francisco disaster, says the New York World. The Sharon estate, of which Senator Newlands is executor, owned RAPER THREE FEET OUT OF the Palace hotel and many buildings and tenements. Practically every building it owned in the business district has been destroyed. It is estimated that the loss to this estate alone will be from $7,000,000 to $9,000,000. The California Wine Growers' association, of which Percy T. Morgan is president, loses $5,000,000. Mr. Morgan recently left Washington for San Francisco. He has lost his $25,000 residence and a collection of art objects valued at as much more. Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst has lost $1,000,000. She owned the San Francisco Examiner building, valued at $750,000. Gardiner Williams, who was chief engineer of the famous De Beers mines in South Africa, has lost a magnificent residence, and the fire has destroyed a number of enterprises in which he was largely interested. A. C. Jennings, a California mining engineer, has lost his home. Frank J. Honey, who prosecuted the land fraud cases in Oregon, lost his residence on Nob bill in San Francisco, with a law library valued at $25,000. He had no insurance on either. Honey's funds were deposited in a bank which was wrecked by the earthquake and burned over. He does not know where he stands now, although a little while ago he considered himself fairly prosperous. D. E. Skinner, president of the largest lumber company of the Pacific coast, who lives in San Francisco; H. M. Wright, J. A. Sinclair, C. H. Adams and L. H. Pierson, all wealthy lumbermen of that city, left for home the other afternoon. "We do not know that we have anything left," Mr. Skinner said as he boarded a train. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Captain Roosevelt, of the marine corps, a cousin of President Roosevelt, has lost heavily. His wife, a daughter of Judge Morrow of California, hnd large property interests in the city. The wife of Commander Fechtler of the navy, who lives in Washington, is a sister of Captain Roosevelt's wife. Others who have lost heavily are Mrs. Eddy, who lives at the Shoreham hotel and is the mother of the wife of Captain Deiggs of the navy, and Mrs. Clement, who lives in the Connecticut apartment house. EARTHQUAKE PROOF MINT Building. That Withstood Disaster Has Walls Five Feet Thick. The one building to withstand the earthquake and fire in the burned district of San Francisco is the United States mint, says a Washington special to the New York World. It stands today a monument to the kind of buildings the government puts up and to the devotion to duty of the employees in the government service. The mint is a massive stone structure of the Dorie-lonic style located on the northwest corner of Mission and Fifth streets. It is two full stories in height, with a deep basement, and is in the shape of a hollow parallelogram. Its walls are in some places five to eight feet in thickness. It is constructed of brick and a blue-gray freestone from British Columbia. The approach to the building is by a grand flight of steps of California granite to a portico supported by six fluted granite columns. The foundations are of concrete five feet deep. The building is not unlike the treasury building in Washington, except that it is much smaller. The interior woodwork of the mint building is of golden mahogany. It was this building that the employees of the mint started to save when they found it had withstood PLUMB. the successive shocks of the earthquake. The mint, which is one of the largest in the United States and is kept running all the year round, was admirably equipped for a defense against fire. Inside the courtyard is a large artesian well equipped with the latest pumping appliances. Fire hose is stretched throughout the building, and it has been the custom ever since the government occupied the building, in 1874, to have the employees drilled as a fire brigade each week. It is possible the two big smoke stacks will have to be torn down because of the damage the brickwork sustained by reason of the great heat, but even this is not known for a certainty. Naples and San Francisco. Napites and San Francisco. These two unfortunate cities are similarly situated, says the New York Press. They are just about as far apart as the length of the earth's diameter. They are almost in the same latitude. San Francisco being between the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth parallels and Naples between the fortyth and forty-first. Population of Naples, 585,000; of San Francisco, nearly 400,000. There were 30,000 more men than women in the California city. It is surprising to learn that of the total population only 85,000 were of native parentage, 275,000 being of foreign parentage. Soap bark jelly is the best all around cleansing agent that a woman can keep on hand. It may be prepared by putting a handful of soap bark in a quart of boiling water and letting it cool. EARTHQUAKE'S SPEED EARTHQUAKE'S SPEED How Its Tremors Traveled Across the Country. AT NEARLY SIX MILES A SECOND Took Seven Minutes and Twenty- four Seconds For the Shocks at San Francisco to Cross the Continent. Duration of Quakes Was Nearly Four Hours. At a rate of five and one-half miles a second tremors from the earthquake in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, April 18 were transmitted through the continent from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast, says a Washington special dispatch to the New York Herald. Such is the story of the seismographic instruments in the United States coast and geodetic survey laboratories in Cheltenham, Md., and Sitka, Alaska, a full record of which was recently issued. As heretofore stated, the disturbance recorded by the seismographic earthquake machine was greater than any hitherto shown since the observatories' establishment. Here is the official statement issued at the coast and geodetic survey: "The record from a distant earthquake (one more than 690 miles away) may conveniently be divided into several portions. The first portion, generally known as the preliminary tremor, consists of very small, irregular vibrations with a period of two to four seconds. The duration of these preliminary tremors is believed to increase directly with the distance from the origin of the earthquake. Next comes the principal portion of the earthquake, which generally continues with three or four large waves over a period of fifteen to twenty-five seconds. Immediately following these waves come the large waves, generally lasting several minutes and producing the maximum motions of the recording stylus. After this the motion dies down slowly until the end. "At Cheltenham the preliminary tremors began at 10m, 21s, at a distance of 2,450 miles from San Francisco. Assuming now the first shock as 5h, 12m Pacific time, or 8h, 12m eastern time, as given by Professor Davidson of the University of California, the velocity of these tremors is found to be five and one-half miles per second, about twenty-seven times the velocity of sound. The time taken for these waves to cross the continent was 7m, 24s. "The large waves began about 8h, 30m, 13s, or an interval of 18m, 13s, after the first shock, and the velocity of these waves appears to be about two and one-quarter miles per second. "As will be seen from the accompanying table, the duration of the earthquakes was nearly four hours. The duration of the strongest motion, however, was only from 8h. 30m. to about 8h. 40m. During this period the motion was too large to be properly recorded by the seismograph. The period of vibration in the preliminary tremors was about two or four seconds; in the principal portion it varied from ten to twenty seconds." Here is a comparative statement of results at Sitka and Cheltenham, according to eastern time: Chelten- Sitka. ham. h.m.s. h.m.s. Preliminary tremors began. 8 16 56 8 19 24 Principal disturbance at.. 8 20 48 8 30 13 Maximum disturbance at.. 8 23 00 8 35 00 Disturbance ended about. 10 57 00 12 00 00 This statement of the magnetic effect of the San Francisco earthquake was made at the coast and geodetic survey: "The San Francisco earthquake, besides being recorded the world over on specially designed earthquake instruments, called seismographs, likewise affected the self recording magnetic instruments at the three magnetic observatories of the coast and geodetic survey thus far heard from. "At the magnetic observatory at Cheltenham, Md., this disturbance began about half past 8 a. m., eastern time, on April 18, and continued for about half an hour. It will be noticed in the table giving the time as recorded by the seismograph that this disturbance began some time later than the preliminary tremors, coinciding with the principal portion of the disturbance as recorded on the seismograph. "It affected chiefly the horizontal and vertical components of the earth's magnetic intensity, the greatest disturbance amounting to one thousandth part of the horizontal intensity and about one two-thousandth part of the vertical intensity. It was not of the same character as that due to a cosmic magnetic storm or as that recorded in connection with the Mont Pelée erun- Knights of Pythias, 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. 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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- THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgnize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address, tion, but appears to be chiefly if not entirely mechanical. "At Baldwin, Kan., where there is no seismograph, the magnetic instruments also recorded a similar disturbance, lasting from twenty-two minutes after 8 to half past 8, eastern time, some time after the preliminary tremors of the earthquake reached Cheltenham. "At the Sikta observatory this disturbance was also recorded by the magnetic instruments from twenty-four minutes past 8 to thirty minutes past 8, eastern time, somewhat later than the preliminary tremors recorded on the seismograph at this observatory. "It is to be noticed that in each of these three cases the magnetic disturbance occurs at about the same time that the greatest motion is being recorded on the seismograph. "The question whether the earth quake disturbed the magnetics in a purely mechanical way or by its action on the earth's magnetism is by no means settled—in fact, it is only recently that attempts have been made to study the phenomena." CURIOUS CHINESE DENS Burrows a Hundred Feet Deep Lafd Bare by Fire. "Strange is the scene where San Francisco's Chinatown stood," says W. Overton, who reached Los Angeles recently from San Francisco. "No heep of smoking rules marks the site of the wooden warriens where the orientals dwelt in thousands. 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It is conced ed that the evil, of which complaint is made has been remedied in many cases, but there is a strong suspicion that there are many other evils concealed and in need of caustic treatment. It seems that Mr. Roosevelt is anxious, by congressional enactment to make it impossible for the Standard Oil and Sugar Trusts to return to their past unfair practices. It seems to us that Mr. Roosevelt has amply justified many of Mr. W. J. Bryan's allegations and that with the exception of the free silver heresies, he is equally as positive in the advocacy of the new Democratic-Populistic doctrines as is the Nebraska statesman himself. We confess that we had not taken the time to investigate the details of the allegations against the trusts, but Mr. Garfield's report makes the matter so plain that the average reader cannot only understand, but with ordinary intelligence and acumen realize the full effect of suca radical discriminations in freight rates. LYNCHING AND ITS PUNISHMENT Sam Sims, colored, was lynched about six miles from Jackson, Miss. on Monday night by a mob of white men. He was charged with killing the horse of Constable Hendricks, while resisting arrest. The friends of Constable Hendricks captured the colored man, and after tying the constable to a tree, proceeded to lynch the prisoner. Why they should tie the officer of the law to a tree, deponent sayeth not unless it was to force him to witness this bloody murder. The telegraphic report says that it was done to prevent interference. This is something of a joke, although rather a gruesome one. The situation of affairs in this state are deplorable and it requires much nerve and more determination to meet existing conditions. If Sims had been more careful and not killed a horse, but saved his ammunition for the lynchers, he would no doubt have been in no worse fix than he is today. To kill a white man's horse or dog in that section means death and to threaten a white man's life means the same punishment. Death is but death and a man might as well go --- at one time as another if he has to go and for our part we prefer to specify our method of being taken off. There will be no punishment of the lynchers and colored men should know it. The proper taming to do is to assist the government and punisa the lynchers yourselves. A report comes from Nasaville, Tenn., stating that Thomas Stewart and his young daughter (both being white) received a letter several days ago to leave the neighborhood within ten days or they would be killed. They did not leave and so on Saturday nigat, 5th inst. at 11 o'clock a mob of white men surrounded Stewart's house and opened fire on it. Stewart opened fire on the mob, although himself and daughter were wounded. The next morning Melvin Winters, a white man was found dend about fifty yards from Stewart's house. A charge of shot had killed the lyncher. As for the others, they took to their heels and have not been heard from since. Thus Winter's friends are saved the necessity of testifying in court that he was in bed at the time the mob attacked Stewart's home. No detectives are necessary to find out whether or not he was guilty. That double-barrelled shot-gun did the work. This white man, Stewart understood his business. He knew exactly the kind of medicine to employ in dealing with his patients. Will the conservative, self-respecting colored men in the Southland profit by the lesson? Shoot the life out of a white mob with the same precision and accuracy that you would shoot the life out of a colored one. Mobs, as a rule are cowardly and will hardly ever go up against a shot gun or repeating rifle proposition when they happen to be in front of the muzzle and a cool-calculating man is at the other end, with his finger on the trigger. Lynching will be permanently checked even without the intervention of the law when the intended victims make up their minds to check it. The Lynchers will then see in luminous letters over the gate-way of every Negro's cabin in the Southland, Dante's famous inscription, "Who enters here, leaves hope behind," Lynch-law must go! A BOASTING SHERIFF CONVICT ED. Sheriff Newman of Franklin county, Mississippi made a boast on April 8th, 1906 as follows: "Let the United State government do its d—dest to convict me. It won't amount to anything. I am going to beat the government. It can do its worst and it can't touch me. I am not afraid of the United States as long as I am in Mississippi." This defiant, oath-breaking sheriff and about three hundred citizens of Franklin County were charged with whipping Negroes. On May 8th, 1906, this sheriff and three hundred men pleaded guilty and were given the minimum punishment of twenty-five dollars fine and three months imprisonment with the suspension of the imprisonment part of the sentence during good behavior. In other words, this federal judge can place any of these Mississippiians in jail when it suits his will and pleasure. It may be that the action of this judge will have a greater tendency to afford the colored people of that locality the necessary relief than would the immediate incarceration of the criminals. The situation is anomalous and amusing. Here is a Sheriff entrusted with the duty and responsibility of the law convicted of breaking the law and yet he holds office. But then all of this will tend to open the eyes of conservative people both north and south and show them to what extent these citizens of this section have become deprived and to what extent they violate the fundamental and vital principles of this republic. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SUR RENDER. If there is a person in the United States, who has had any doubt as to the powerful influence of the Southern oligarchy at Washington even with a Republican administration, his eyes should now become open and his days of suspense be at an end. Rev. Thomas Sherman, son of Gen. W. T. Sherman decided to accompany a detachment of the Twelfth Cavalry that had decided upon a practice march over the route of Gen Sherman in his famous "March to the Sea." This information came to the ears of certain southerners and this in than was communicated to the President of the United States. Senator Bacon threatened to have the matter brought up in the United States Senate and have the detachment sent back to its barracks. Just how he could succeed in doing this is not clear to the average reader, since a concurrent resolution would be necessary so to do and both branches of the congress are just now in the hands of the Republican Party. 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Sherman's son said: "If it were left to me, I'd have caught and hung before he reached Savannah." These are sentiments expressed in the face of the policy of conciliation on the part of President Roosevelt. 34,000 members. At the close of that tour there were 80,000 members in the organization. Had that tour not been made, there would have been a reduction in wages, according to reliable information that I have in my possession. My information is that the railroads were ready to increase the working day from 9 to 10 hours; to require the engineers to work 7 days in the week, and to require the firemen to work 12 hours instead of 8. If this is true, then we have won a victory. pany will make a similar decrease in price. SWEPT OVER DAM AND DROWNED Three Men Tried to Cross Flooded River In Canoe and Two Are Lost. Old Town, Me, May 9—By the upsetting of their canoe in the turbulent flood that sweeps down the Penobscot river in the spring, Harry F. Semen, of Philadelphia, and William B. Russell, of Boston, a brakeman, were both FATAL CRASH ON THE PENNSY Express Trains Collide Head-on on Petersburg Cut-off. 10 KILLED AND 36 INJURED It has come to the point that the troops of the regular army cannot travel through the south without giving offense, although these same peo ple insist that the animosities of the past are obliterated and the wounds healed. Senator Bacon is quoted as follows: The department was besieged all of yesterday with protests against the ill-advised action" of the army in furnishing the "escort," and demands were made that the troops be ordered back to their quarters. Senator Bacon of Georgia, notified Assistant Secretary of War Oliver that if the troops were not recalled by the department, he would take action on the floor of the Senate to have the escort sent back to its barracks "to attend to its legitimate duties." "I have asked the War Department to advise me as soon as possible if troops have been ordered to escort Father Sherman." said Senator Bacon last night, "If I ascertain they have been so ordered, then as Senator from Georgia I shall pro test against it. "Rev. Thomas Sherman will be welcome to come to Georgia and to follow his father's line of march to the sea. As an individual, he would be cordially welcomed by the people of Georgia. His father, General Sherman, were he living, would be cordially welcome. But this military feature is an insult to the State." General Bell said: "It is a common thing for officers interested in their studies to visit the battlefields of the civil war in order to get a clearer idea of what they learned from maps and histories. It is customary to have a detachment of soldiers accompany them. "The fields of engagements fought between the armies of Gen. Sherman and Gen. Johnston along the route pursued by these armies between Chattanooga and Atlanta are favorite places of study of army officers, because the strategy and tactics involved in the operations of Sherman's and Johnston's armies are considered among the best examples of the art of war afforded by our civil war. "Recently an order was issued by the War Department, requiring marches to be made through the country, some of them to last one day, some three days, and every post was required to have at least one march which should last a minimum of twenty-one days. Under the provisions of this order either a department or a post commander can send out parties of this kind on such marches. It has, therefore, be come quite the customary thing. "No one could ever anticipate," said Gen. Bell, in conclusion, "that misapprehension of feeling would arise over permitting Father Sherman to accompany such a detachment, a courtesy which would have been extended to any distinguished person under similar circumstances." President Roosevelt ordered that Senator Bacon's demand be complied with and this is the diplomatic language used in so doing: "In view of the misapprehension seemingly caused by the terms employed in your order, the President deems it best, after the detachment of Twelfth Cavalry has gone as far as Resaca and visited the intervening field of the engagement at Dalton, the officers and men composing the detachment shall return to Fort Golthorpe, which he directs be done." 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We should support and compliment the liberal elements and prepare to sell our lives as dearly as possibly when we are forced to go up against those of the other kind. MINERS RATIFY AGREEMENT MINERS RATIFY AGREEMENT Convention Decides to Enter Politics and Denounces Constabulary. MITCHELL WILDLY CHEERED Scranton, Pa. May 9.—Work will be resumed by the mine workers throughout the anthracite field Thursday morning. The repairmen and any others necessary to prepare the collieries for general operations reported for work today (Wednesday). Those things were decided upon at the closing session of the convention. The agreement entered into on Monday between the operators and the sub-scale committee was formally ratified. The convention was called to order by District President T. D. Nicholls, and the first matter brought up were two resolutions coordening the state constabulary. One of them referred to the constabulary as cossacks, and also compared them to "the evicting Irish constabulary." The other characterized them as "a roving band of armed men." Both resolutions pledged the miners to work for the repeal of the constabulary law. The resolutions were adopted unanimously. A resolution providing for the holding of tri-district conventions annually was offered, but promptly tabled. The following resolution favoring the taking of political action by the organization was offered and adopted: "Whereas. The representatives of all political parties to the state legislature have done nothing for the mine workers of this state; be it. "Resolved, That the mine workers in convention assembled at Scranton go on record as advising all local unions to take action in getting representatives placed in the field to represent all crafts of labor in the state of Pennsylvania." President Mitchell came in and he was loudly applauded. He was called upon before adjournment for a speech. He said: "This will probably be the last time that I shall address you, and it might be well for me to say one or two things. Some are, inclined to believe that because we have not secured an advance in wages or any improvement in the conditions of employment, that we have not accomplished anything. I want to say that I believe you have taken the most advanced step in the history of this movement. "You have secured what you have never, before secured—a signed agreement with the operators. It is an agreement which is not entered into with the United Mine Workers, but with the officers of that organization, but they have signed an agreement with your national president and with your district officers. "I am convinced that if the United Mine Workers maintain the strength and solidarity of their organization, that three years hence the railroad presidents will ask you to make an agreement with them, rather than that you should be forced to ask them to make an agreement with you. "Last summer I made a tour through this region. I urged the railroaders to come back in to the organization. At that time there were 34,000 members. At the close of that tour there were 80,000 members in the organization. Had that tour not been made, there would have been a reduction in wages, according to reliable information that I have in my possession. My information is that the railroads were ready to increase the working day from 9 to 10 hours; to require the engineers to work 7 days in the week, and to require the firemen to work 12 hours instead of 8. If this is true, then we have won a victory. "In conclusion, let me express the hope that when you return to your homes you will be as loyal to this union as you have been in the past. As I said before, this may be the last time that I will have the privilege of addressing you. Whether it is or not, you owe it to yourselves, to your families, to your class and to your craft to be loyal and true to this organization, which has done so much for you. It can and it will do more for you if you will stand by it and remain true to yourselves." There was a tremendous outburst of applause when Mr. Mitchell sat down. The convention adjourned sine die immediately after. As the delegates filed out, some one proposed three cheers for Mitchell, and they were given with a vehemence that was fairly startling in its vociferousness. Mr. Mitchell's statement that it may be the last time he will address the anthracite miners has no particular significance. It is a potential statement he has frequently made before. Mr. Mitchell left for Indianapolis. AGREEMENT WITH OPERATORS Award of Strike Commission Extended Until March 31, 1909. New York, May 8. After carrying on negotiations for nearly three months the sub-committees representing the anthracite mine workers and operators of Eastern Pennsylvania agreed to continue the award of the strike commission for another three years. This outcome of a dispute, which threatened to develop into a long and bitter struggle and paralyzed a great industry, was looked upon with considerable satisfaction by the coal road presidents, as the agreement entered into its first proposition made early in March in reply to the mine workers original demands. The following is the text of the agreement: "Whereas pursuant to the letter of submission signed by the undersigned in 1902, 'all questions at issue between the respective companies and their own employees whether they belong to a union or not,' were submitted to the anthracite coal strike commission to decide as to the same and as to the 'conditions of employment between the respective companies and their own employees' and the said strike commission under date of March 8, 1903, duly made and filed its award upon the subject matter of the submission and provided that said award should continue in force for three years from April 1, 1908, and the said period has expired. "Now, therefore, it is stipulated between the undersigned in their own behalf in so far as they have power to represent any other parties interest, that the said award and the provisions thereof and any action which has been since taken pursuant to the ether, either by the condiction board or otherwise, shall continue in force for three years from April 1, 1966, namely until March 31, 1969, with like force and effect as if that had been originally prescribed as its duration. That work shall be resumed as soon as practicable and that all men who have not committed violence to person or property shall be re-player in their old positions." The agreement is signed by George F. Baer, E. B. Thomas, W. H. Truesdale, David D. Willcox Joan D. Kerr, Morris Williams, Joseph L. Cake, John Mitchell, P. D. Nichols, John Dempsey, W. Dettrey, John P. Gallagher, John Fahey PRICE OF COAL REDUCED All Except Steam Sizes Down Forty Cents a Ton. New York, May 8.—A reduction of 40 cents a ton in all except the steam sizes of anthracite coal was announced by the Lehigh Valley Railroad company. This announcement followed the news that the committees representing the operators and the miners had reached an agreement. The reduction is customary at this time of the year and it is understood that the Reading com- pany will make a similar decrease in price. SWEPT OVER DAM AND DROWNED Three Men Tried to Cross Flooded River In Canoe and Two Are Lost. Old Town, Me., May 9.-By the upsetting of their canoe in the turbulent flood that sweeps down the Penobscot river in the spring, Harry F. Semen, of Philadelphia, and William B. Russell, of Boston, a brakeman, were both drowned. William B. Ramsden, a companion of Semen's in a travelling theatrical company, was saved. The men were attempting to cross from Indian Island to Old Town in a canoe, when their craft became unmanageable in the current, which rapidly carried them towards a high dam. All three jumped into the river and tried to swim ashore, but the rush of water swept them to the dam. Semen and Russell were carried over and drowned. Several workmen hastened along the dam and rescued Ramaden as he was on the point of disappearing. The bodies of Semen and Russell have not been recovered. CHICAGO GROGERIES CLOSED High License Drives Out 1354 and Swells City Revenues $3,000,000. Chicago, May 7.—The effect of the $1000 saloon license is seen in the police reports showing that 1354 saloons have gone out of business since April 30. Of these 38 are in the First ward, while the largest number is in the Maxwell street police station district, where 112 are reported closed, and in the new city police district, where 107 went out of business. There are 600 applications for new saloons. Even if all these are granted it will make a net decrease of 700 saloons. Since May 1 2000 licenses have been issued. The revenues will be increased more than $3,000,000. The retiring saloons are of the "groggery" variety. BONAPARTE GOES DRIVING Secretary of Navy Recovering From Attack of Acute Indigestion Baltimore, May 9 — Secretary of the Navy Charles Bonaparte went driving for a short time, this being the first time he has been out of the house since his recent attack of acute indigestion. His physician reports his progress toward complete recovery as entirely satisfactorily. There seems no nobut that he will be able to go to his country residence, in Baltimore county, on Thursday, as planned. Dropped Dead While Making Address. Detroit, May 9.—Afred Russell, one of the prominent attorneys of Detroit, and formerly United States district attorney for the eastern district of Michigan, dropped dead at the Detroit Club. At the time he was stricken Mr. Russell was in the act of making an address at the annual banquet of the Michigan Society of Colonial Wars his collapse creating consternation among the guests and bringing the banquet to an abrupt close. Heart disease was assigned as the cause of death. Mr. Russell was 76 years of age. Shot Wife Dead·On Street. Long Branch, N. J., May 7.—Thaddeus Burch, who came here from Virginia in search of his wife, who left him some time ago, met the woman on the street, and after a few words shot her dead. He was arrested, and declared that his love for his wife impelled the deed. Seattle, Wash., May 8.—Frank E. Creffield, leader of the so-called religious organization known as the "Holy Rollers," was shot in the head and instantly killed on First avenue by George Mitchell, a laborer, aged 25 years. Mitchell, when arrested, asserted that his two sisters had been wronged by Creffield. Leader Creffield and his wife were walking down the avenue, when Mitchell, who had been following them, addressed a remark in a low tone to Creffield. Instantly following this, Mitchell shot Creffield Negro Lynched Jackson, Miss, May 9.—Sam Sims, a negro, was lynched by a mob six miles from Jackson. Resisting arrest, he killed a horse under Constable Hendricks, and friends of Hendricks captured the negro and lynched him, first tying the constable to a tree to prevent his interference. FATAL CRASH ON THE PENNSY FATAL CRASH ON THE PENNSY Express Trains Collide Head-on on Petersburg Cut-off. 10 KILLED AND 36 INJURED Altoona, Pa., May 7.—The official report of the collision between the Chicago mail and the Chicago and St. Louis express on the Petersburg Cut-off Friday night lays the blame on Engineer J. T. Dougherty, who was hauling No. 21 west. He was given orders to wait at the end of the double track at Carlim to permit No. 18 to pass, but he misunderstood them and continued out on the single track. Railroad officials here say it was the duty of Dougherty to hold his train at Carlim until he received definite orders to proceed. Engineer Dougherty did not deny that he had made a mistake when before the officials for examination. The disaster in one sense was the result of a costly and damaging freight wreck which had occurred at Union Furnace. An east-bound freight train's air-hose broke near the forward end in the train, and 27 loaded cars piled up and blocked all tracks. On such occasions the Petersburg branch is used by the company for the movements of its passenger traffic, and fast passenger trains, both east and west-bound, are ordered to use this branch. Ten persons, mostly men employed on the fast mail, were killed and 36 were injured, the latter mostly passengers. The following is the list of killed and injured: The Dead—Mrs. W. N. Trinkle, of Philadelphia; J. W. Wagner, postal clerk, Mifflin; J. W. Cox, postal clerk, Downingtown; E. H. Shultz, postal clerk, Washingtonboro, Pa.; H. F. Jones, postal clerk, residence unknown; F. G. Harder, brakeman, Harrisburg; J. W. Herr, baggageman, J. D. Conover, traveling salesman, New York; Max Tarlove, South Norwalk, Conn.; G. W. Law, president of York Neckwear company, York, Pa. The Injured—Oscar Anderson, Velva, N. K.; J. A. VanHook, Philadelphia; W. W. Applegarth, Baltimore; W. G. Dickman, West Fairview, Pa.; A. W. Livingstone, Lancaster; A. A. Camp, Harrisburg; M. R. Beam, Harrisburg; J. F. Gearich, residence unknown; O. L. Hoffman, Petersburg, Pa.; W. D. M.Cullough, Altoona; C. X. Irwh, Pittsburg; T. J. Scott, Fort Wayne, Ind.; F. J. McDermott, Tyrone, Pa.; David Millen, Harrisburg; Engineer J. S.Fickes, Fireman A. T. Cook, J. H. Collins, conductor; W. Osborne, Harrisburg; J. R. Carpenter, Williamsmars; Mrs. Nora Trieingier, New Orleans; J. L. Mireanet, porter, Jersey City; Andy Bealor, Johnstown; J. H. Downs, Columbia; Frank Sample, Dunmore; Donato Bauerl, J. H. Hamburg and J. T. Dougherty, all of Altoona; C. T. Fisher, Harrisburg. All the wounded are doing well and it is thought none will die. FATHER AND SON MURDERED Found In Barroom Near New Brunswick, New York With Tireless Coding Wick, N. J., With Throats Cut. New Brunswick, N. J., May 8—Jason Whitman, aged 70 years, and his son George, aged 40, were murdered in a little roadside barroom kept by them at Browntown, near here. They were last seen alive by Miss Whitman, the daughter of the older man, who lived nearby, and who on going to the place three hours later found the door shut and all the blinds drawn. Pushing open the door, she found the bodies of her father and brother lying on the floor. The throats of both had been cut and their bodies were covered with wounds. The condition of the room indicated that the men had made a desperate resistance before being overcome apparently by several assailants. On the floor lay three blood-stained razors. All the furniture in the room was overturned and the floor and walls were spattered with blood. The location is a lonely one, and it is believed that the Whitmans were attacked and killed by one of the numerous birds of tramps that infest the barroom. ```markdown ``` IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the RICHMOND PLANET. --- THE PLANET EFFECT OF HAIR DYE EFFECT OF HAIR DYE THESE COMPOUNDS HARMFUL BUT WOMEN PERSIST IN USING. Vegetable Not as Injurious as Chemical Mixtures — Their Continued Use Eventually Ruins the Hair Causing It to Become Dry. A black cast is given by steeping once-half ounce of mullein flowers, one-half ounce of genista with a pint of boiling water. The tea should stand until quite black and then be strained. Always before applying any dye the hair must be washed thoroughly to remove all oil, and be quite dried before the coloring is put on. Usually a brush is the best agent, and is with this vegetable tea. Wet the hair at night, letting the mixture dry in. A towel should be spread over the pillow. Potato peelings if boiled in an iron kettle, which acts chemically upon them, will make a deep brown or black dye. The coloring is made by covering the parings with cold water (they should have been well washed first) and simmering gently until soft. Then strain, and when cold put on with a brush. Wain. its will stain black, and the mixture is made by taking husks, dried or green, although the latter is better, and putting them in a bottle covered with alcohol. This should stand for a week, and then the liquid is poured off and the husks are squeezed to extract all the juice. Bottle tightly. Put the husks on in cold water to boll. There should be just liquid enough to cover. Let them simmer for half an hour and then strain. Mix the water, when cold with the alcohol. This makes a fairly good stain. Henna colors the hair auburn, a deep gold or else red, and of course, comes under the head of vegetable dyes. The leaves are to be bought at any drug store and should be crushed before using. The simple paste for auburn is to make a tea of the leaves, using an ounce to a pint of boiling water or stronger if desired, letting it steep for half an hour. It is then drained and the liquid evenly applied to the hair. The precise shade obtained can only be told by experience, for it depends upon the original color of the hair, but the dye should stay on for at least half an hour before washing off in clear water, drying the hair afterward in the sun. The longer the dye stays on the deeper will be the color. A chemical dye less strong than some others will turn the hair black after repeated applications and is composed of one dram of precipitated sulphur, one dram of acetate of lead and four ounces of rose water. This is applied twice a day until the desired shade is obtained, and is known as the Twiggs dye, after the originator. New Form of Kettle It is well known that in handling the common form of kettle for boiling water the hands are often burned, due to displacement of the cover of the kettle and escape of steam or from similar cause. To obviate this difficulty a kettle has been introduced. Kettle Without Cover. The latter is of special formation, having at its upper extremity a funnel-shaped extension of greater capacity than the spout. A cover is hinged to this extension and the whole used as a pouring lip. In order to attach the spout to the body of the kettle there are employed two tubes, which not only serve as a reinforcement for the spout but afford passages in communication with the spout and receptacle. The upper spout allows an escape for the steam generated in the kettle, the steam passing from the receptacle at a point where it is not likely to scald the person who is grasping the handle. The receptacle is, of course, filled through the spout. Covers for Card Tables A new item has been added to the linen closet in the shape of card table covers. These are made of plain linen with stitched edges and corners, provided with tapes with which to tie them to the legs of the tables. They just cover the tops of the tables, being shaped exactly like them. When laundered they should be rolled, not folded. An expeditient for women who do not entertain with cards often enough to make it worth while to go to the expense and trouble of the table covers is found in white paper cambric, which has a IF YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR NEIGH BORS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET. WE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM. COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN COLORS. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AND RETAIL AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. WE WILL FURNISH FRAMES FOR ANY OF THESE FINE CHROMOS FOR 2 DOLLARS & 50CTS. EACH ADDITIONAL. BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, BATTLE OF SHILOH, BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS, VA., BATTLE OF ATLANTA, GA., BATTLE OF SPOTTSYLVANIA, VA., BATTLE OF VICKSBURG, MISS., BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, TENN., BATTLE BETWEEN THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC, BATTLE OF BULL RUN, VA., BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, BATTLE OF THE BIG HORN, (CUSTER'S LAST CHARGE) STORMING OF FORT WAGNER, S. C., (COLORED TROOPS IN THIS FIGHT), BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS, LA., CAPTURE AND DEATH OF SITTING BULL, THE GREAT INDIAN CHIEFTAIN; FORT PILLOW MASSACRE, FALL OF PETERSBURG, VA., BATTLE OF WINCHESTER, VA., BATTLE OF OLUSTEE, FLA. WE WILL SEND FAMILY RECORD, SIZE 22 BY 28. WHICH CONTAINS SPACE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF PARENTS AND TEN CHILDREN. WE WILL SEND SOLDIERS WAR RECORD (CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE IN UNITED STATES ARMY.) FOR ONE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, THE MOST INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK IN THE COUNTRY. WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO delightful glossy surface and which may be pinned neatly over the edges of the boards and be fastened around the legs or across the sides and ends under the tables. ```markdown ``` A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Leander Hart, of Girard, Pa., shot and killed his wife and himself. Governor E. W. Hoch, of Kansas, was renominated by the Republican state convention at Topeka. Gertrude Bendel, 5 years old, was burned to death while playing with matches in her home in Philadelphia. The new six-story building and stock of the Aaron Furniture company at Connellsville, Pa., were damaged by fire to the extent of $5,000. The Glen Ellyn Springs Hotel, the $90,000 building used last summer as a sanitarium for poor children of Chicago, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Friday. May 4. Morris K. Jessup has been re-elected president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Four men were killed by the falling of a derrick at the limestone quarry at Rockland, Me. The plant of the Lamotte Powder works, at Ashburn, Mo., was blown up and two employees killed. John R. Walsh, former president of the defunct Chicago National Bank, was held in $50,000 ball for trial. Three Americans, Alfred Sweeney, Joe Purony and a man named Fisher, together with three Mexicans, were drowned a fortnight ago in Minatilan river, Mexico. Saturday, May 5. Chief of Police Harry C. Eldridge, of Atlantic City, died suddenly. Corporal James Tanner, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., declares the veterans are dying at the rate of 5000 a month. Ex-President Cleveland addressed the members of the Periodical Publishers' Association at their annual dinner at Atlantic City, N. J. To give United States senators an opportunity to review the evidence, the vote in the Smoot case has been postponed until May 18. Colonel Charles W. Eckman died at his home near Shamokin, Pa., from a complication of diseases due to a bullet wound received during the Civil War. Monday, May 7. Elizabeth Gates, 114 years of age, said to be the oldest person in Georgia, died at Brunswick. For a fall into an unprotected street opening, Miss Hannah Sullivan has sued South Bethlehem, Pa., for $10,000. A ball of lightning shocked and barely missed ex-Legislator George W. Mumper, who sat at an open window in New Cumberland, Pa. Henry G. Goll, former cashier of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, Wis., convicted of misapplying funds, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Pleading guilty to robbing the Dr. Plnault residence, of which he was caretaker, Thomas J. Wainwright was sent to jail for seven years at Minneapolis. Tuesday, May 8. Speaker Cannon was 70 years old Monday. Four men were drowned in the Montmorency river at Quebec by the upsetting of their boat. Fifteen persons were injured in a head-on collision of two trolley cars near Plainsboro, N. J. The office of Joseph Letter in Chicago was robbed of bonds and securities valued at from $10,000 to $25,000 and there is no clue to the thieves. Following a quarrel Samuel Wallace and Matthew Aurell fought a duel with pistols at Randall, O., and Wallace was killed and Aurell disappeared. Wednesday, May 9. County Judge Benjamin A. Vail, of Rahway, N. J., has been appointed circuit court judge. Deputy sheriff fired into a crowd of riotous strikers at Pueblo, Colo., killing one and fatally injuring two others. Christopher Faker, of Philadelphia, committed suicide by drowning by jumping off the Pennsylvania railroad bridge crossing the Delaware river. Thinking that a stick of dynamite was a pencil, 12-year-old John Renwich, of Princeton, N. J., tried to cut it with his pennant and lost three of his fingers in the explosion that followed. SO STRAIGHTENS The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co (None gexual without my signature) Charles Ford Park 76 Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL Agents wanted everywhere. IN ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE OUR STEADILY GROWING CIRCULATION WE WILL OFFER PRIZES. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEMI-WEEKLY GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE LEADING REPUBLICAN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPH, ONE FOR TAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE LADIES IN ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILLED; HALF IN EN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, ONE AL CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKINS, ONE DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCOLATE POT, PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID GLOVES, HAM, ONE TURKEY. FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PICTURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, LAND BATTLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR SANTIAGO, JUNE 24, 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH AND TENTH COLORED CAVALRY IN SUPPORT OF ROUGH RIDERS, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, LAND BATTLE AND CHARGE OF THE 24TH & 25TH READ THE GREAT INDUCEMENTS OFFERED BY THE PLANET THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ```markdown ``` FOR TWO YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS FOR FIVE NEW SUBSCRIBERS REQUISITE NUMBER IS OBTAINED, WE WILL FORWARD THE PRESENT INDICATED. A PERSON WHO TRIES TO GET FORTY SUBSCRIBERS AND GETS TIRED MAY INDICATE HIS WISH AND WE WILL SEND THE PRESENT FOR THE NUMBER HE HAS SECURED OVER FIVE. THE NUMBER WILL BE FOR NOT LESS THAN FIVE NOR MORE THAN TEN AND NOT LESS THAN TEN NOR MORE THAN TWENTY AND NOT LESS THAN TWENTY NOR MORE THAN FORTY, TO DETERMINE THE PRIZE TO WHICH THE WORKER IS ENTITLED. IF ANYTHING IS DESIRED NOT SPECIFIED IN THIS LIST, WRITE US ABOUT IT AND WE WILL TELL YOU IN WHAT CLASS IT BE LONGS. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. 311 North Fourth Street, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA A man in a chair BODILY GROWN LANET EEEKLY LEADING UNITED BATH. T AND ER $2.25 T AND YEAR ND PIC- THEO- WASH- D BAT- JUNE 24, BATH COL- BIGH RI- LAND & 25TH ```markdown ``` REQUISE FORWA SHOULD YOU DESIRE ANY COLORED JOURNAL IN THE UNITED STATES, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PLANET AT A GREATLY REDUCED RATE FOR BOTH. FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPH, ONE FOUNTAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE LADIES RING, ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILLED; HALF DOZEN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, ONE ALARM CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKINS, ONE HALF DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCOLATE POT, ONE PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID GLOVES, ONE HAM, ONE TURKEY. WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKESPEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE UMBRELLA, ONE PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE PAIR LACE CURTAINS 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER PRINTED AND DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET, ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED WOOD. FOR TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS WE WILL GIVE ONE HANDSOME GOLD RING WITH OPALS, RUBIES OR PEARLS; ONE JEWELRY BOX FINISHED IN GOLD OR SILVER; ONE SILK SHIRT WAIST; ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE GOLD WATCH, FILLED, WARRANTED FOR TEN YEARS, ONE ROCKING CHAIR, ONE LOAD OF COAL, ONE GROSS OF SOAP, EITHER WASHING OR TOILET; ONE BARREL OF BEST FLOUR, ONE PAIR BLANKETS, ONE MANICURE SET, ONE SEAMSTRESS' WORK BOX, ONE PAIR SHOES, GENTS OR LADIES. FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS OR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE SEWING MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING, ONE GOLD WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE, GOLD EARRINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRAPH, ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD-HEADED CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVER-PLATED KNIVES AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RACK, ONE SILK DRESS, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO THE SEASHORE, RAILROAD FARE AND HOTEL BILL PAID, FOR ANY RICHMOND WORKER. THESE OFFERS MAY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY SENDING ONE OR TWO SUBSCRIBER'S NAMES AT A TIME. WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON AS THE FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS FIVE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` THE PLANET FOR YOUNG FOLKS COCOANUT WARE. Pretty Ornaments That Can Be Made Out of the Shells. The next time you buy a cocoanut instead of throwing away the hard shell let it be the nucleus of a set of coconut ware, for the ugly, hairy shell may be converted into a beautifully carved vase, drinking cup or flower holder if you follow the directions given below. The first operation consists of scraping off all the growing fiber from the outside with a piece of broken glass. Be sure to work in the same direction in which the strands run. After this outer coating is cleared away go carefully over the same surface with your knife until it is symmetrical. Then rub the surface to a perfect smoothness with a piece of sandpaper, wiping away all superfous dust. Rub beeswax or a candle end over the surface and into the nut with the hands and a piece of old silk (do not use woolly cloth). Continued application results in a fine mabagny colored polish, leaving the nut hard and very smooth. Saw off the top of the thick end. You must use your own judgment as to SAMPLES OF COCOANUT WARE. how much is to be removed, as that will depend upon what you intend to make-vase, drinking cup or flower holder. Each shape must govern the amount to be taken off. The sharp edge of the bowl must be cut off outside and in and then sandpapered and polished with the beeswax. Cut out the contents of the nut and sandpaper the interior; and at last you are ready to display your skill as a wood, or, rather, nut carver. Take the end of a needle or the end of a compass leg and sketch out your design on the polished outside surface, or, if you are not expert with a pencil, cut from some old magazine an outline picture which pleases you and paste it on the nut in the position you wish your decoration to be. Now take a sharp knife and cut through this picture into the nut, following the outlines of the picture. As your lines are bound to be more or less wobbly on account of the round surface you have to work on select some design suggestive of Indian work, as the Aztec style of decoration, as shown in the drawing. This does not require any very great art and is very effective. When you have cut your design out, you may beautify it still more by painting the parts in low relief with white, or, what is better, gold, paint, and the cup is finished except for the holder, which you may obtain for a few cents from any carpenter who owns a wood turning lathe. A set of half a dozen such pieces of cocoanut ware will more than repay for the work required in making it by the attention it will attract as a beautiful and unique curiosity. "Program" and "Programme." "Program" and "Programme." Our boys and girls have noticed, of course, that the dropping of the "me" from the word "programme" is becoming more and more general. This is not so much in obedience to the demands of the so called "phonetic reform" as it is a move toward uniformity in spelling words that have the termination "gram." The word comes regularly from the Greek "programma," and really should be "programme," but the advocates of the shorter form say that if we write "diagram," "telegram," "epigram," etc., we might as well write "program," especially as the final "me" is not sounded. But you should not fall into the incorrect pronunciation that many people are guilty of and say "pro-grum." The accent is on the first syllable of course, but the "gram" is distinctly sounded like "am."—Exchange. Be Polite School children are most apt to be guilty of a certain breach of street etiquette. This is the forming of a group on the pavement so that the knot of people interfere with passersby or the walking together three or four abreast, so that the same hindrance is presented. Please try to remember that, while the street is meant for you as much as for any one else, it is meant for any one else as much as for you. Conundrums. In what color should our friendship be kept? In violet (inviolate). Why is India ink like a cunning Hottentot? Because it is a deep black. There is a well known word in the English language, the two first letters of which signify a male, the three first a female, the four first a great man and the whole a great woman. He, her, hero, heroine. Marie's Accident. "Now tell me why you cry. Marie." "Where are your bruises? Dearia met What was your accident, Marie?" "I almost tumbled down," she said. "And very nearly humped my head!" —Della Hart Stone in St. Nicholas. WOMEN AND CAREERS. The Change That Has Come In the Last Half Century. "Once it was difficult, almost impossible, for a girl of breeding to have a career," said Juliet Wilbor Tompkins in Success Magazine. "Think of poor Jane Austen dropping her white sewing hastily over her writing when a guest came in that she might not be called unengeneed. And it is only fifty-seven years since Elizabeth Blackwell, applying for permission to win a medical diploma, was refused by a dozen colleges, one of which added to its refusal the interesting statement that it would be unbecoming and immoral to see a woman instructed in the nature and laws of her organism.' Now, in the United States alone, there are seven medical colleges for women besides the men's colleges to which they are admitted, over 7,000 are practicing physicians and surgeons, and the theories for and against such things are being forgotten in the light of their actual work. The same opposition met every new venture. About fifty years ago an Englishman tried to introduce watchmaking among his countrywomen, a delicate and profitable trade in which hundreds of Swiss women were employed, but his initial lecture on the subject was mobbed and broken up by British prejudice, and, though three venture some souls did try to follow his suggestion and learn the trade, persecution finally obliged them to give it up. Now there are over 4,000 watch and clock makers in the United States, and a woman may learn any trade she pleases without opposition, almost without comment." THE SIMPLE HOUSE How It May Be Achieved In an Easy, Natural Way. The simple house must not only be simple, but it must be good. Its simplicity is not that of mere bareness. That is something quite different. Simplicity in house design does not mean a mere deending of ornament or its deliberate omission. It means that the house must be designed in a simple way that is also beautiful. Simplicity of design is based on structural development. In the hands of the skilled designer these structural lines become also lines of beauty. The construction, therefore, becomes beautiful construction, and the simple house is achieved in a natural, beautiful way. Plainness, severity, commonplaceness, barrenness, must not be confused with simplicity. There must be artistic effort or the house will be completely wanting in external merit. A fussy house will not necessarily be made beautiful by stripping it of its ornament. It may be bettered—at least it will be rid of unnecessary parts. The evil is more deeply rooted than that. It lies in the very bone and sinew of the house, and the remedy, if there can be a remedy, must be applied to the whole structure. Mere plainness in house building has no positive qualities of excellence. A house that is merely plain and with no other quality has nothing else to recommend it. The simple house, on the other hand, has beauty in its simplicity, a beauty due to its fine lines and to the harmony of all the parts.—American Homes and Gardens. TOILET TIPS Be careful to use only the mildest, blandest, purest, unscented soaps when bathing. Rose water, eight ounces, and tincture of benzoin, two drams, make one of the best skin tonics and whiteners. The orange stick is the only nail cleaner necessary. The stick properly pointed will not injure the enamel or the cuticle around the nail. To have the best possible effect from face creams the surface of the skin must be thoroughly dry. Any moisture will prevent the pores from absorbing the cream. A 3 per cent solution of boracle acid is invaluable as a bath for tired eyes. It is also exceedingly effective to use as a bath for the face if the skin has become muddy. Improper bathing—that is, bathing that is only a half portion of a cleaning—will cause the complexion to become muddy and yellow, just as improper and partial laundering will ruin a fine piece of linen. Dinner Serving In serving dinner the maid holds plates and large dishes in her hand, but passes sugar, cream, olives and small dishes from a small tray covered with a dolly. Service plates which remain on the table generally during the soup and shellfish courses are removed by the maid with her left hand when she slips the plate of the meat course into place with her right hand. When the hostess has unusually hand-some plates she wishes to display they remain through the meal up to the dessert, says the Brooklyn Times. All dishes are removed by the maid before serving the dessert and the table gone over with a silver crumb knife. Fancy plates holding finger bowls and tiny dolls are placed before the guest when the dessert is of fruit or cold dishes. An Old Beauty Recipe An old beauty recipe reads: Take half a teacupful of fine oatmeal and gradually stir it into a pint of boiling water, using a double saucepan for the purpose to prevent any possibility of burning. Let boil till clear looking; then strain through a cloth, boil again and once more strain. To this add enough rose water to make it pour easily and about an ounce of glycerin. This may be perfumed in any way you like and is recommended to rub into the skin to prevent roughness. Bottle and shake well before using. CANVAS COVERED HOUSE The Tough Cloth Takes the Place of Plaster or Cement. In a suburb of New York city stands a house of the style of the Swiss chalet THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA JOB DEPARTMENT VISION WORK Charter-Sheets, Half and Whole Placards, Society Cards, Min- ing Stationery. WE AN ELE WHICH WE WILL Stock Roof LATEST STYLE BOND, F AS SMALL AS A DODGER Sheet Poster A FRONT DOOR. OUR PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYE IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF tired and has no objectionable enter without embarrassment , 2213. EXCURSION We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placard minutes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stations WE HAVE Our St OF THE LATE WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL A Three-Sheet AS LARGE AS A FRO Our street-entrance is retired and fastidious lady being able to enter w EXCURSION WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheets, Half and Whole Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placards, Society Cards, Minutes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stationery. OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. We furnish "cuts" when desired and we will arrange to complete special work in our line. When in need of any work in our line, call and see us and estimates will be furnished. WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL AS A DODGER. A Three-Sheet Poster AS LARGE AS A FRONT DOOR. 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Hursey Bros., 1217 Commerce Ave. MALDEN, MASS. E. J. Derricotte, 505 Main St., HAVERHILL, MASS. J. B. Mobley, 25 Main St., J. B. M It is thoroughly equipped to do all kinds of printing on short notice. We make a specialty of Society printing and work for Insurance Companies, such as Financial Its owner learned that there are disadvantages connected with the use of rough cast plaster or cement, such as is commonly used in the exterior finish of a house of this type. It is almost impossible to prevent uddy cracks (4) HOUSE FINISHED IN CANVAS. appearing in the plaster from time to time. The successful use of canvas on yachts and other craft constantly exposed to the weather suggested an idea. When his house was ready for its final exterior finish the owner purchased a quantity of stout sail cloth and nailed it securely to the sides of his house, over a lining of building paper, before adding the cleats that form the paneling. The canvas was painted gray, in imitation of plaster, and the deception to the eyes of the casual c-server is complete. In a dozen years no crack or injury of any kind has appeared, and each successive coat of paint simply adds to the durability of the canvas, which has been proved to possess remarkable qualities of resistance to cold and dampness.—Good Housekeeping. Celery Jelly. A writer in a household magazine recommends the following celery jelly: Cover two cups of celery stalks cut in small pieces with one pint of hot water. Add a few slices of onion, two sprigs of parsley, salt and paprika to suit the taste. Let it simmer for about three-quarters of an hour, then strain through a cheesecloth bag, allowing the liquid to be perfectly clear. Add to the celery water two tablespoonfuls of gelatine softened in a quarter of a cup of cold water and squeeze in the juice of one large lemon. Strain again on to a large platter wet in cold water. It should form a layer an inch thick. When cold and thoroughly hardened cut it into small squares and fancy shapes. Use five or six to garnish each plate of salad. This garnish would probably be nice with a chicken salad served with mayonnaise. A Cozy Tea Table. One of the prettiest, coziest tea tables seen lately was that on which Bulgarian embroidery mats, all in scarlet on canvas, were used. There were a centerpiece and square mats in wonderful openwork. A glass vase of scarlet nasturtiums and blue and white china made the table attractive and homelike. Cards, Policies, both straight life and benevolent, Physician's Certificates, Sick Cards, Application blanks, Agents Report Sheets, Rate Cards, etc. IS, Half and Whole Society Cards, Ministry. is to please give them the lowest with satis AN ELEGANT WHICH WE WILL SHOW AN Rock Room D STYLE BOND, FINE WRITE ALL AS A DODGER. Poster DOOR. 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PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street [Near Old Market.] RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE BROOKLYN BANK RUINS OF A LODGING HOUSE IN FOURTH STREET THE PLANET SATURDAY....MAY 12TH. 1906. BRIGHTEST OF CITIES Tribute to San Francisco as Davenport Knew It. WIDEST AWAKE OF ALL IN UNION First City the Cartoonist Saw as a Boy Made an Indelible Impression on His Mind—Its Citizens Happy In Rain or Sunshine—Says No New City Can Equal the Old. San Francisco as Homer Davenport knew it is thus graphically described by the cartoonist in the New York Mail. The first city a boy sees, though he RUINS OF may be grown and awkward, still the impression that city leaves on your mind always remains the sweetest, especially if the city that you first saw was the brightest, the most inspiring, the widest awake of all the cities in the Union. To me no other city in the world could ever take the place of San Francisco. I went there in 1889. Held spellbound by the awe of that beautiful busy throng, I rode up and down Market street, even far out on Valencia, trying to find a place to alight. The town was too big for me, and after wandering around a few weeks, though fascinated by its beauties, perhaps more still by its historic points and buildings, I was compelled to go back to the farm for shelter. But the memories of what I had seen gave me no rest, no peace of mind. So in 1892 I returned again. On this second visit I got really acquainted with the San Francisco people. They are unlike any other people in the world. In a few months I felt that I was as much a part of San Francisco as all other San Franciscanes were. Everybody on Market street and Kearney had a speaking acquaintance with one another. It seemed that we missed each other if one of us was absent from the nightly parades that took place on those two historic thoroughfares. Those thoroughfares were crowded all the time with distinguished lawyers, great actors and actresses and famous athletes. The brightest newspaper men in the world walked arm in arm with the few remaining pioneers, many of whom wore the picturesque attire of the days of 1840. People of California aid more especially in San Francisco if they had offices and studios and places of business seldom remained in them. They were too fond of outdoors. The very air of the city seemed to be full of inspiration and success. In later years, when skyscrapers arose, a tall building would stand majestically by a little old wooden building that had perhaps been famous when gold dust was weighed out on the main streets in exchange for merchandise. Both buildings seemed to look as though they were proud of each other. At the old Lick House, when Senator Fair was alive, in the main lobby of that hotel were many of his associates in mining days. After his death one could generally see several characters walking down Montgomery street of the same type as the sheriff now playing in "The Girl of the Golden West." Those were not exaggerations. Around Cape Horn and up through the Golden Gate ploneers were brought that were men of higher stamp than to be swayed by the fashion plates that changed from year to year. They were characters and proud of the fact without being offensive. Crocker, Hearst, Flood, Fair, Mackay and Stanford were men who left a great influence on the community in which they lived. And San Francisco in a way looked like those men. San Francisco, above all cities in the United States, was the artistic place. It had many little nooks, celebrated little cafes, historic clubs, quaint little shops and was naturally made up of people capable of main- talning and appreciating them. If you know any one well you either like him very well or else not at all. It was on that basis that I knew San Francisco, and as a result of that acquaintance I fairly loved every building in the place, even to the little open corners of almost, every block. The flowers around Lottie's fountain smelled sweeter than any other flower, and the English lavender sold by an old peddler on Kearney street perfumed that whole part of the town till you came to Chinatown, which made up in its picturesque way for what it lacked in other respects. Whether it rained or whether it shone San Francisco was happy. The only time that its people ever seemed alarmed was now and then when some slight quiver was felt from beneath the earth's surface that caused the evening papers to sell like hot cakes. But the laughing, beautiful women for which the city was justly famed soon smiled the seriousness away, and San Francisco resumed a gala life again. At clubs the wittiest speakers joked off any serious attempt to get frightened over the rumbling sounds and the unsteady buildings. In a few years the slight terror caused by the feeble earthquakes had been forgotten, people were charmed and captivated by the picturesque trees and most exquisite color of green that covered the landscape just out of San Francisco, and thousands upon thousands were content to call existence in San Francisco supreme success and existence in another city in the world a failure in life. A LODGING HOUSE IN FOURTH To a lover of San Francisco it's an awful task to read of what seems to be its total destruction. After the loss of life the financial loss in property doesn't appeal to one as much as the destruction of the buildings so intimately associated with its historic past and so typical of it—buildings that were built by the pioneers and the wiping out of that first beautiful picture that impresses itself like mother's cooking, never to be replaced by any others quite as good. Once gone, always gone. A new city may grow, but it will be built with the memory of awful times. New San Francisco will never look like the old one. Mark Twain, Joaquin Miller, Joe Goodman and Ned Hamilton looked like San Francisco. The George Knights, the Reuben Lloyds, the Louis Strausses and John P. Irish were characters in keeping with San Francisco and the Golden Gate. I am fearful that when the new San Francisco appears it won't harmonize with the low cut velvet waistcoats and the watch chains that circle around the neck; that the bohemian clubs, though Uncle George Bramley may continue to recite "When the Cows Come Home," will never be quite the same. Nob hill will never appear as it is in my memory. The landmarks of time are gone. They couldn't have been bought by man and can't be reproduced by man. While the homeless gather on the warm sand hills of Golden Gate park, peering through wet, glazed eyes upon the harbor called Golden Gate, that admitted their ancestors in better days, they will realize that all the associations with those golden days have gone—have been wiped out by the same destiny that made their landscape and their people so beautiful. CAUSE OF EARTHQUAKE Great Disaster's Origin Explained by a Scientist. The following is the opinion of a noted American scientist on the cause of the San Francisco earthquake: Dr. G. F. Becker, chief of the division of physical researches of the United States geological survey, who lived many years in California and who has made a special study of seismological disturbances for the government, says the earthquake in California has no relation to the recent eruptions of Vesuvius. He ascribes the "shake" to an unusually acute development in the process of "faulting," which has been going on along the Pacific coast for thousands of years, says a Washington special to the New York Tribune. This process consists in a adjustment of the rocks forming the crust of the earth. "The people of California," said Dr. Becker, "have not been having their usual monthly 'shakes' recently, and so this time they got them in a lump. The case might be likened to that of a man suffering with fever, whose regular attack of chills in a mild form had perhaps been postponed for a long time and then the disease shook him all at once in aggravated form. "The coast line of the Pacific has been rising for a thousand years. This is shown by the geologic formation on the coast, old beaches being found high upon the cliffs where the sea evi- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA idently at one time washed. There is a peculiar geologic mark to be noted also in the traces of a fish known popularly as the 'date fish', which burrows into the beaches. The holes made by these fish are found high up on the cliffs, showing that the coast has gradually risen above the sea. Along the coast of California, at a relatively short distance from the shore, the shoal water suddenly becomes very deep and from a depth of a few fathoms changes abruptly to a depth of perhaps thousands of fathoms. This great submarine cliff extends all the way to Chile, the same geological formation being noted generally. Continuing the examinations still more, we find that this same general formation extends to Japan. Actually it may be described as a great line of uplift in the earth's surface extending all the way from Singapore around to Valbarso. "It would not be surprising if we heard of severe shakes along the fissure extending from California to South America, which I have described, and possibly we will hear reports of a disturbance in Chile similar to that in San Francisco, but it would be due to the same change in elevation. I would like to add that I do not think there is any danger of a recurrence of a severe earthquake of this kind in California for a very long period of time. Of course there may be mild shakes for some time, but the read justment of the earth's crust in this disturbance was probably so complete that there will be no change in the H STREET. geological formation for many years. The people of San Francisco should be encouraged to go ahead and build up their economy later ever, because RETURNED TO RETURNED TO MAIN OFFICE. MA PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. Strange, Wonderful but True are the awe stricken tests given by The Great Australian Medium, PROF. D. D. BRUCE, M. 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In Charleston the movements were less violent than at the center of the disturbances, a point fifteen miles west of the city. A large number of houses in the city were thrown down, and nearly all the buildings in the city were more or less damaged. The damage was computed at $8,000,000. Twenty-seven persons were killed outright and others died afterward from injuries received. Following is a list of the most destructive earthquakes of the last two centuries: Number killed. 1703 Yeddo, Japan 180,000 1715 Alters, Algeria 18,000 1726 Palermo, Italy 6,000 1736 Peking, China 96,000 1746 Lima, Peru 18,000 1754 Cairo, Egypt 40,000 1755 Lisbon, Portugal 35,000 1757 Quintemala, Central America 33,000 1771 Quito, Ecuador 41,000 1822 Aleppo, Turkey 12,000 1861 Mendoza, Argentina 12,000 1888 Arica, Chile 6,000 1880 Manila, Philippine Islands 3,000 1883 Ischia, Italy 2,000 Seemed to Affect the Rates Perhaps the news of the San Francisco earthquake was telegraphed across the continent in some strange way to the animals, says the New York Times. Several New Yorkers saw rats, apparently driven from their holes by some disturbance and, dazed with fear, playing on the streets the day after the earthquake. The animals run around and frolicked as if they had no fear of dogs or of persons who came near them. 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Baby Carriages! Summer Furniture! Bridal Suits! SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, LEADERS. 709-711-713 E. Broad St. JEWELS OF RICHMOND, VA. 511 NORTH THIRD STREET. Capital, $25,000. 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 vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 3 P. We close Saturday at 3 P. M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Money received on deposit and interest paid on amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security 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 vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the work ing people as follows: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. We close Saturday at 3 P.M. and open again at 5 P.M., remaining open until P.M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President THON. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL, E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAVERS J. O. FARLEY, JNO. C. TAYLOR. E. A. WASHINGTON. R. W. WHITING. JOHN MITOHELL. JR. FRES. E. A. WASHINGTON, R. W. WRITING, WILL AM CUSTALO, J. J. CARTER JOHN MITCHELL, JR., PRES. THOMAS M. ORUMP, SEC'C. W. I. JOHNSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad KACKS FOR HIRE: Officers by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Sup pers and Entertainments promptly attended. Old Phone, 686. Residence in Building, New Phone, 18 W. I. JOHNSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Officers by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Sups pers and Entertainments promptly attended. Old Phone, 686. Residence in Building, New Phone, KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF T V. P. & F. K. of W. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered and legally attributed under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Races of Charity. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF T KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OF T 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 external and to promote the Social and Moral condition of humanity. Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organization place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand oppo- nunity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organ- lize. Kindly address, W. ALLEN Supreme voyager. This organization has been chartered and legally attributed under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial external and to promote the Social and 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 oppo- unity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organise Kindly address, W. ALLEN Supreme voyager, 148 W. 87th Street, New York City. The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER [TRADE MARK REGISTERED.] Has proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunate, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it reassures us of its satisfactory results. We can welt boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoys the commendation of the very best white and colored people in this immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. W. Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do so, who have used our preparations. has proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunate, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it reassures us of its satisfactory results. We can well boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoys the commendation of the very best white and colored people in this immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do so, who have used our preparation and are to-day among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all imperfections. Restore Hair on Clear Tissue. among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Care Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. A. B. PRICES:—25 cts. per box (local orders) 35 cts. out city; eight boxes. $2.80 express prepaid. less prepam. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order A charge of 10cts, extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Phone, 577. Richmond, Va A. D. PRICE, Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large pismle or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class carriages, buggies etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. 'Phone, 577. Richmond, Va A. D. PRICE. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large pisncle or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class carriages, buggies etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. No. 212 East Leigh Street. Residence Next Door. OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night SEVEN Schedule Effective, April 15, 1906 Short Line to the principal Cities of the South and Southwest, Florida, Cuba and Mexico. SOUTHBOUND TRAINS LEAVE MICRODON DAILY 9:40 A. M. Local for Norlina, Durham, Raleigh Wilmington, Charlotte, atanta, Birmingham, Memphis and south-west. 2:30 P. M. Train to Raleigh, Columbia, Savannah, making connection to all Florida Points, making connection to Nassau and Cuba. 11:00 P. M. Through Pullians and coaches to Columbia Savannah, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis and south-west. Trains Arrive Richmond Daily. 6-10 A. M. 4-30 P. M., 5-30 P. M. H S. LEARD, D P. A. W M. TAYLOR, C T. A. 820 East Mona Street R. F. & P. Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad Trains Leave Richmond—Northward 12:35 noon, week days. Byrd st. Through. 4:00 p. m., week days. Byrd st. Fredericks- burg accommodation. 4:00 p. m., daily. Main st. Through. 4:00 p. m., week days. Elba. Ashland accom- mation. 8:20 p. m., daily. Byrd st. Through. Trains Arrive Richmond—Southward. 4:40 a. m., week days. Elba Ashland accom- mation. 8:20 a. m., week days. Byrd st. Fredericks- burg accommodation. 5:43 p.m. w week days. Eba Ashland acad modification. m. daily, Byrd St. Through. 9:30 p.m. daily, Byrd St. Through. Local stopa. m. daily, Main St. Through. NOTE-Pullman Sleeping or Parental care on all above trains except train arriving Rich mond 11:20 a.m. w week days and local acad connections guaranteed. Time of arrivals and departures and con nections not guaranteed. W. P. LLP, W. P. TAYLOR, Asst. t to free. G. Genl LP, Tref. Mgr SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST CINCINNATI, INDIANAPOLIS, ST. LOUIS CHICAGO, LOUISVILLE, NASHVILLE, MEMPHIS, 2:00 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. daily. WESTBOUND LOCAL TRAINS 7:30 a. m. and 5:15 p. m. week das. NEWPORT NEWS, NORFOLK AND OLD POINT. 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. daily. Local For Newport News and OLD POINT. 7:35 a. m. and 4 p. m week days JAMES RIVER LINE; 10:20 a. m. daily; 5:15 p. m week days. Arrive Maine Line from West; 7:30 A. M. *8:30 A. M.; 7:30 P. M; 7:30 P. M. From East; 8:30 A. M.; 7:30 P. M. *8:50 P. M. James River; 8:50 A. M.; 6:35 P. M. (Daily) *Ex. Sunday* Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. *0:00 a.m. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives Norfolk 11:20 a.m. M. Stops only at Peersburg. Waverly and Buffalo. , CHICAGO EXPRE Buffet Par lor Car Furniture to Lymeham and Roanoke Fulman Sleeping field to Cincinnati, also Roanoke to Knox and Knoxville, also Chattanooga and Mem phias. 12:29 P. M. Roanoke Express for Farmville, Lynchburg and Roanoke. 9300 K M Ocean Shore Limited Arrives Nassau Bay, where only at Petersburg Waverly and Suffolk, with Steamer to Boston, Providence, New York, Hartnorth and Washington. 6364 F. M., for Norfolk and all stations east of Petersburg. 9:35 P.M. M. NEW OKLAANS SHORT LINE. Pull man sleeper Richmond to Lynchburg, Peters Memphis to Lynchburg to Chattanooga Memphis and Carriage Car Trains arrives from the west 7:35 p.m. m and 8:36 p.m. from Norfolk 11:30 m 11:30 a.m. m and 6:50 p.m. 6:50 a.m. East Main street. W. B. BEVILLE C. H. BOSLEY Gen. Pass. Art ATLANTIC COAST LINE For Florida and south, 9:05 A. M., 7:25 and *11:50 P. M. 130 P. M. 130 P. M. For Gold Coast, Fayetteville, *$*28 P. M. Trats arrive Richmond, d. 4.17, 6.14, *$*30 *$*10.45 and 11.40 A. M. *$*1.00, 2.00, 6.50, 8.00 and 9.20 P. M. *Except Sunday, *$* Sunday only. C. S. CAMPBELL, D. P. A. STEAMSHIP CO. NIGHT LINE FOR NORFOLK Leave Richmond every evening (foot Ash Street) at 7 P.M. stopping at Newport and St. John's at 10 P.M. 50 round ship, including stateroom both meals, 50c. each Street Cars to Stanner's Wharf. FREE WEEK YORK. Via Night Line Streams (except Satur day) making connection in Norfolk. Ship, following day at 7 P.M. also Norfolk and Stern at 7 A.M. and 3 P.M. and Chesapeake. Oriley River. M. making connection daily (except Sunday). Norfolk with Main Line Ships sailing at 7 P.M. SOUTHERN RAILW Y Effective Eeb. 11th, 1906. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND 7:00 a.m. m.-Daily. Local for Charlotte. 1:00 a.m. m.-Daily. Limited, Belt Petulman 1 to Austin, Kirkham, New Orleans Memphis. Chattanooga, South. through coach for Chase City, Oxford, Dur- hamburg, m.-Friday. Keysville, 6:00 p.m. m.-Friday. Sunday, Keysville, 11:30 p.m. m.-Friday. Limited, full-runme 3:30 p.m. m.-Friday. WORK EVERY LINE The favorite routes to Baltimore and eastern pole. Leave Richmond 4:20 p.m. Daily ex- cept Sunday, connecting with boat for Balti- more. 4.35 a. m.—Except Sunday. Local mixed for West Point. 2:15 p. m.daily except Sunday Local for West Point. 4:20 p. m. — Except Sunday. For West Point connection, with steamers for Baltimore and river landage. Steamers call at Yorktown and Clay Bank on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and at Gloucester Point, Clemente and Almonds on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. TRAINS ABRIVE RICHMOND. 6:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. — From all the South 8:36 p. m. From Charlotte and Durhain and Raleigh. 40 a. m. From Keysville. 9:20 a. m. From Charlotte with Baltimore connections except Monday. 10:45 a. m. — From West Point daily except Sunday. 5:10 p. m. — From West Point. S.H. HARDWICK, Pass. Traf. M'g'r. H. B. SPENNER, G. M. W. H. TAYLOR, G. P.A. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A., Richmond, Va. — Subscribe to The PLANET. Only $1.50 per year. EIGHT THE PLANET SATURDAY.....MAY 12TH, 1906 A New Lodge and Court in Norfolk County. Taylorville, Norfolk County, Va. May 10th, 1906 Grand Chancellor John Mitchell Jr. arrived here last evening over the C. and O. route. He was accompanied by Capt. John G. Smith. Grand Master at Arms W. E. Mitchell and Sir S. S. Baker. He was met at the Portsmouth wharf by Sir William A. Myers, District Deputy Grand Chancellor. The party took passage in a wagon and after a long drive reached here about 7:30. A court of the Order of Calanthe was organized with the following officers: Worthy Counsellor, Mrs. Lavinia Brown; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs Susan McClennon; Worthy Inspector Mrs. Adeline Jones; Orator, Mrs. Daisy Johnson; Register of Deeds, Mrs. Mary E. Jefferson; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Rosa Rogers; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Helen R. Bealey; Escort, Mrs. Alice Elliott; Senior Directress, Mrs. Mary E. Bland; Junior Directress, Mrs. Wertley Brown; Conductress, Mrs. Bettie Owens; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Jennie Montgomery; Herald. Sir Henry S. Cooper; Protector, Sir Henry Rogers; Trustees, Mrs. Mary Lee, Mrs. Bettie Ridgway, Mrs. Hattie Carter. The new body will be known as Mt. Hermon Court. No. 105. It was organized through the efforts of Deputy Myers and his assistant, Mrs. S. B. Wright. A few moments later after the examination of the candidates by Dr. F. B. Elliott, in place of Dr. Wm. E. Atkins, who did not come, the new lodge was instituted. It will be known as Mt. Hermon Lodge, No. 108. The following are the officers: Chancellor Commander, Sir John S. Smith; Master of Work, Sir Frank Brown; Vice-Chancellor, Sir Elliott McClinton; Master of Finance, Sir Henry Rogers; Keeper of Records and Seal, Sir Alonzo Cooper; M. of Exchequer, Sir J. W. Wynn; M. at Arms, Sir Raleigh Harold; Prelate, Sir Walter Barnes; Inner Guard, Sir R. Stanback; Outer Guard, Sir George Washington. Trustees, Sir Thomas Scott, Sir Frank Hunter, Sir C. H. Wright. The ladies who assisted were Mrs. Eliza Cooper, Mrs. Lottie R. Butts, Mrs. S. B. Wright. The Knights who assisted were Maj. Archer Drew, Sirs D. White, S. H. Clark, S. Hodges, G. Douglass, J. Blackwell, W. B. Barge, M. Branch, A. Knight, G. Reed, T. Elliott, Lee Hunt, J. C. Williams and Chief H. S. Cooper. Grand Chancellor Mitchell returned to Portsmouth shortly after 12 o'clock and stopped at the residence of Attorney William M. Reid, in company with Capt. John G. Smith, while Sirs Mitchell and Baker stopped with Sir W. A. Myers. The party left on the early boat for Richmond. District Deputy Grand Chancellor William A. Myers organized this lodge. —All Richmond and 'ais wife and children are going to Leigh St. Methodist Church Monday night. 10cts. —Rev. Thomas White, Rev. W. D. Scott and Rev. V. S. Smith of Clifton Forge, Va., passed through the city this week en route to Norfolk to attend the Virginia Baptist State Convention. —Rev. P. H. Graves of Long Creek Va., is attending the Convention at Petersburg, Va. —Rev. D. M. Miller of Bolling, Va. was in the city this week and called on us. $100.00 Endowment Paid Suffolk, Va., April 27th, 1906. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. C. Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Sister Annette Hill, who was a member of Bethel Court, No. 99 of Suffolk, Va. Signed—Cora L. Twitty, Beneficary. Witnesses: John M. Booth, W. C. Mattie A. Morris, R. of D. Julia A. Powell, D. D. W. C. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., May 8th, 1906. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the 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 William Smith, who was a member of Blooming Lily Lodge, No. 15 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Mary Smith, Benefecary. Record-Breakig Trip From Frisco. New York, May 9.—E. H. Harriman arrived here on the Empire state express on the New York Central & Hudson River railroad, having made the journey from San Francisco in the record time of 71 hours and 27 minutes. Sharp Fighting In Morocco Port Say, Morocco, May 9. -Sharp fighting has occurred on the banks of the Muliya river between the Pretender's forces and the sultan's troops. The latter in endeavoring to cross the river lost 30 killed and many wounded. WOULD REGULATE THE OIL TRUST President Suggests Federal Control of Railroads to Prevent Rebates. SENDS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Washington. May 5. — President Roosevelt in a message to congress accompanying Commissioner Garfield's report on the Standard Oil company, blames the railroads for fostering such monopolies through secret rebates. He suggests these methods for curbing corporations: First—That the government examine railroads as thoroughly as it examines national banks. Second—That railroad rates be fixed by the inter-state commerce commission subject to court review. Third—That the railroads be permitted to combine to protect themselves against great industrial corporations. Fourth—That alcohol be placed on the free list. Fifth—That the remaining government oil lands be carefully protected. Flagrant discriminations by the railroads in favor of the Standard Oil company are revealed by Commissioner Garfield's report on his investigation. In almost every section of the country that corporation has enjoyed unfair advantages which have given it a monopoly. That the Standard not only received secret rates from the railroads in the past but is still receiving them is one of Mr. Garfield's charges. In 1904 alone he figures that the amount saved to the corporation through discrimination was $750,000. Some direct rebates were paid he discovered. In most states, though the discrimination by the railroads was effected through secret and semi-secret rates, discriminations in the open arrangement of rates, discriminations in classification and rules of shipment and discrimination in treatment of private tank cars. So long continued, so secret, so ingeniously applied to new conditions of trade, and so large in amount have these discriminations been, says Mr. Garfield, as to make certain that they were due to concerted action by the Standard and the railroads. Most of the secret rates and some of the open discriminations discovered by Mr. Garfield's bureau have been abolished by the railroads after such discovery. Therefore he thinks his investigation has already done good. The price of oil, says Mr. Garfield is from two to five cents a gallon higher in states where the Standard has no competitors. For shutting out the independents he blames the railroads in those states. President's Message. President's message. In his message the president expresses the view that the report is of great importance because of the effort now being made to secure such enlargement of the powers of the interstate commerce commission as will confer upon the commission power to meet the clearly demonstrated needs of the situation. The statement is added that the department of justice will take up the question of instituting prosecutions in at least certain of the cases, and the hope is expressed that congress will enact into law a bill of Senator Knox to correct the interpretation of the immunity provision rendered in Judge Humphry's decision. Continuing, the president says: "The report shows that the Standard Oil company has benefited enormously up almost to the present moment by secret rates, many of these secret rates being clearly unlawful. The benefit amounts to at least $750,000 a year. This $750,000 represents the profit that the Standard Oil company obtains at the expense of the railroads; but of course the ultimate result is that it obtains a much larger profit at the expense of the public. Big Profits in Secret Rates. "But in addition to these secret rates the Standard Oil profits immensely by open rates, which are so arranged as to give it an overwhelming advantage over its independent competitors. The refusal of the railroads in certain cases to prorate produces analogous effects. Thus, in New England the refusal of certain railway systems to prorate has resulted in keeping the Standard Oil in absolute monopolistic control of the field, enabling it to charge $300,000 to $400,000 a year more to the consumers of oil in New England than they would have had to pay had the price paid been that obtained in the competitive fields. Sugar Trust Favored. "The attorney-general reports to me that the investigation now going on as to the shipments by the sugar trust over the trunk lines running out of New York city tends to show that the sugar trust rarely if ever pays the lawful rate for transportation, and is thus improperly, and probably unlawfully, favored at the expense of its competitors and of the general public. "The government should have power by its agents to examine into the conduct of the railways—that is, the examiners under the direction of the inter-state commerce commission should be able to examine as thoroughly into the affairs of the railroad as bank examiners now examine into the affairs of banks. "Though not bearing upon the question of railroad rates, there are two measures consideration of which is imperatively suggested by the submission of this report. The Standard Oil company has, largely by unfair or unlawful methods, crushed out home competition. It is highly desirable that an element of competition should be introduced by the passage of some such law as that which has already passed the house, putting alcohol used in the arts and manufactures upon the free list. "Furthermore, the time has come when no oil or coal held by the government, either upon the public domain proper or in territory owned by the Indian tribes, should be alienated. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA DOLLAR PACKAGE FREE Man Medicine Free. You can now obtain a large dollar size free package of Man Medicine—free on request. Man Medicine cures man-weakness. Man Medicine gives you once more the gusto, the joyful satisfaction, the pulse and throb of physical pleasure, the keen sense of man-sensation, the luxury of life, body power and body comfort—free. Man Medicine does it. 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Odd Fellow's Sixty-third Anniversary The Sixth-third anniversary of the Odd Fellows will be held at the 5th St. Baptist Church Sunday, May 13, at 3:30 o'clock P. M. The following program will be rendered: Sermon by the pastor, Rev. A. E. Edwards; Paper by Mrs. Mattie E. Tyler; Eulogy on deceased members of the Order, R. Beecher Taylor. Special singing. M. V. P. S. S. Master of Ceremonies. Members of the Order will meet at Price's Hall, 2 P. M. May 13th. Sisters of H. H. of Ruth will meet at the church. S. S. RICHARDSON, Chair. R. BEECHER TAYLOR, Sec. Colored People's HAIR Human Hair Switches, 50c, 75c, $1.00. Pompabell, whole head, $1.50, $2.00. Complexion Whitener, $1.00. trial bottle, 25c. Express paid. Satisfaction guaranteed. Exhaustive 30 Weeks. The fee to such lands should be kept in the United States government whether or not the profits arising from it are to be given to any Indian tribe, and the lands should be leased only on such terms and for such periods as will enable the government to keep entire control thereof." RUSHING WORK IN FRI SCQ Temporary Frame Buildings Being Erected In Burned District Elected in Buried District. San Francisco, May 8.—Construction of temporary frame business buildings is proceeding rapidly in the burned area, merchants showing undaunted energy and pluck in an effort to resume business. Thousands of clerks, stenographers, bookkeepers and other office employees, as well as professional men, finding themselves out of employment, are seeking work as laborers in the clearing away of the debris left by the earthquake, fire and dynamite. What is to be done with the great number of men and women who cannot get down to the level of common workmen is a question that is puzzling the city officers. Relief work is proceeding smoothly along the lines arranged by the city. The issuance of food tickets has begun. The finance committee reported that the amount of relief subscriptions confirmed to date was $4,406,328. W. H. BERRY TAKES OFFICE Pennsylvania's First Democratic State Treasurer Since 1879. Harrisburg, Pa., May 8. — William H. Berry, of Chester, has succeeded William L. Mathues, of Media, as the state treasurer. Berry is a Democrat and was elected on a fusion ticket over J. Lee Plummer, Republican, last November. Berry took into office with him an almost entire new staff to take the place of Mr. Mathues' assistants, Benjamin P. Thompson, of Norristown, an old soldier, is the only member of Mathues' staff who is retained. Berry took the oath of office at his home in Chester on Saturday and had previously filed his bond of $500,000. He is the first Democrat to become state treasurer since 1879, when Amos C. Noyes went into office. The transfer of the office was made without any formal ceremony. Benjamin F. Measoy, of Ridley Park, is Berry's cashier. VESUVIUS AGAIN ACTIVE Volcano Throwing Out Dense Columns of Smoke, Sand and Cinders. Naples, May 9.—Vesuvius is again showing considerable activity. A dense column of smoke is arising from the crater and spreading like an umbrella, accompanied by loud detonations and electrical discharges, which are especially noticeable from Resina. The main crater is discharging sand and cinders. An English engineer, named Mozer, ascended Mount Vesuvius, going within 80 yards of the opening of the crater, which is now 400 feet lower towards Resina than it was before the recent eruption. Wood Alcohol Kills Two Tunkhannock, Pa., May 9. — Mrs. Patrick Farrell and her son John, of this place, died as a result of drinking wood alcohol. The young man was employed by the Tunkhannock Distilling company, and it is alleged that he stole the spirits from the plant and carried it home and he and his mother frank of it, dying in great agony. The soroner is investigating the case. RAGLAND STREET ALLEY 16 FEET WIDE SELDEN STREET ALLEY 16 FEET WIDE NEW BERNE STREET WOODVILLE AVENUE WOODVILLE! Any colored man buying one of those lots in WOODVILLE while the price is low, will find himself on the road to peace and happiness. Many colored families now own their own houses there and many more will join them soon. A church has just been built there, and every city convenience at hand. I have only And they are all choice ones, and will be sold to those who make first application. Lots are 25 feet wide and 120 to 137 feet deep. Grand lots for a home, and well worth $100 each. SEND FOR A CIRCULAR GIVING FULL INFORMATION. FRED. J. WHYBREW, 710 N. 28th street, Richmond, Va. United Aid Insurance Company. HOME OFFICE, 312 East Broad St, Richmond, Va Incorporated 1894 under the lawsof Virginia. Capital Stock, $25,000. Has written over Three Million ($3,000,000-00) Dollars worth of business since organization. Over sixty-five thousand policy holders. Over twenty-five Branches. All claims paid to date. Ten Thousand Dollars on Deposit with the Treasurer of Virginia. OFFICERS. J. E. Byrd, President. W. W. Lee, 1st Vice President. D. S. Alston, 2nd Vice President. W. J. Spratley, Sect'y. and Gen'l. Manager. R. L. Clay, Asst. Secretary. R. H. Stokes, Cashier and Treasurer. R. C. Malloy, General Inspector. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. J. E. Byrd, W. J. Spratley W. W. Lee, D. S. Alston, R. L. Clay, V. Bailey, W. C. Carter, P. S.Brown, C. H. Jones, R. H. Stokes, F. E. Puryear. Reliable men can find employment as solicitors and agents. Address, UNITED AID INSURANCE CO. Pythians Grand Lodge Session Postponed. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. has postponed the session of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. Knights of Pythias until the third Tuesday in June. The Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, (white) have been meeting in February. At the last session, they changed the time to the third Tuesday in May and selected the same place as the one decided upon by the colored knights. To meet this peculiar condition, it was decided to change the time and the colored Pythians will be in evidence in Staunton at the time specified. Minister's Contest is On. To the two Ministers receiving the highest number of votes before the first of July, The New Enterprise Store of 528 E. Broad St., I. J. Miller, Prop. will give absolutely free, two Tailor Made Suits of Clothing, one $40.00 Suit and one $25.00 Suit. The contest is now going on, it is up to you to make your Pastor win Every dollar that you spend there will entitle you to one vote. Come now as every day makes the time grow shorter. A full and brand new line of Clothing, Hats, Shoes, and Gent's Furnishings. Cast your vote at the following places: Smith's Drug Store, 609 N. 2nd St.; Jackson's Drug Store, 825 W. Leigh St.; Thompson's Drug Store, 2 E. Duval St.; Smythe's Drug Store, Church Hill; Miller's Hotel, 2nd and Leigh St.; Reformers Store Manchester. Do You Know Her? I desire to know the whereabouts of Moselle Warner, a little girl about eight years of age. When last heard of, she was living in Richmond. Her mother's name is Mrs. Mattle Lee Warner. Address, A. A. MARTIN, U. S. S. Monongahela, Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Subscribe to the PLANET. SPECIAL NOTICE! While thousands of people are dying, yet at Lucyville, Cumberland Co Va., are the greatest healing waters known to the world. We have more medicinal springs with greatest healing properties in the world. We challenge the world on healing and restoring health to people whom the Doctors have given up to die. For this city these waters are kept at W. H. 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Salary $20 and expenses paid weekly; expense money advanced. Work pleasant; position permanent. No investment or experience required. Spare time valuable. Write at once for full particulars and enclose self-addressed envelope. SUPERINTENDENT, 132 Lake St., Chicago, III. IS THE COLORED MAN'S PARADISE. It is near Fairmount, not far from street cars and just outside of the city limits. Are level and ready to build on WOODVILLE is not in the city and not in the county—It is on the borders of both. YOU SAVE CITY TAXES BY LIVING IN WOODVILLE. WOODVILLE THEY LAST. YOU CAN BUY ONE OF THESE BEAUTIFUL LOTS FOR ONLY 60.00 Cash ODVILLE T. YOU CAN BUY ONE OF THESE FUL LOTS FOR ONLY 00 Cash WOODVILLE WHILE THEY LAST. YOU CAN BUY ONE OF THESE BEAUTIFUL LOTS FOR ONLY. OR INSTALLMENT PLAN. Remember, I have only NINE lots left and to the first applicants and you can never get any more. Go out and see the land, and put in your order que pay $3.00 a month on the installment plan. 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The above named book proves that jesus Christ had Negro blood in his veins, that David and Solomon both married black women, that Solomon's Temple Was Built by a Negro, that Free Masonry was founded by a Negro, that the first righteous priest recorded under Heaven was a black man, and that the black man married as high up in society as was possible for man to go, and many other such wonderful things are to be found in this wonderful book. Price, prepaid, 50 cents. Cash with order. Good agents wanted. For terns, etc., send three 1-cent stamps. Write to-day and be first to sell this book in your town. SPECIAL—Send this "Adv." with only 35 cents cash, and a copy will be sent to you. W. G. OVERTON, Wilburton, I. T. $5.00 A DAY CAN BE MADE BY.... AGENT Selling family rights to make a ver terms and full description and be fin Only 25cts. J. F. .00 A DAY CAN BE MADE BY.... AGENTS $5 family rights to make a very fine soap full description and be first in the fie A DAY CAN BE MADE BY.... 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