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THE RICHMOND PLANET TWENTY YEARS FOR KIDNAPPING John J. Kean Sentenced for Crime. Wanted Money. How Freddie Muth Was Found by Policemen. VOL. XXIII NO 29. TWEN FOR K John J. K Crime. How Freddie M Philadelphia, June 20.—Twenty years of hard labor in solitary confinement in the Eastern penitentiary was the sentence pronounced on John Joseph Kean, the abductor of little Freddie Muth. The enormity of the man's crime, which had aroused the whole city, stirred the officers of the law to quick action, and the swiftness with which justice moved has never been equalled in this community. Kean fell into the clutches of the law Monday afternoon about the time the courts were closing. Promptly at 10 o'clock Monday morning he was photographed and measured by the Bertillon method. Twenty-five minutes later he had been arraigned before a magistrate and committed to courts without bail. The grand jury quickly found a true bill, and at 11.20 a.m. he was in the criminal court awaiting his turn to face Judge Sulzberger. He pleaded guilty, and shortly after 12 o'clock the Judge passed sentence upon him, and at 1.30 the great iron doors of the penitentiary closed behind him. In his quick trip from liberty to the solitude of Cherry Hill no friendly hand or voice was raised in the prisoner's behalf. If he behaves himself his sentence, under the law, will be reduced to 12 years and three months. The court had the power to give him a life sentence. Much sympathy is expressed for the wife and three children Kean leaves without means of support. Mrs. Kean is prostrated by the shock and disgrace that the abduction has brought upon the family. She will break up her home here and remove to New York, where she has relatives. From the day of the kidnapping until the arrest Kean had kept the child in three vacant houses in West Philadelphia. Meantime the entire detective and police force of this city were conducting an unremitting search, and the authorities of other cities had been furnished with a description of the boy and his captor, with instructions to keep a lookout for the pair. The first information that Kean and his captive were in the vicinity in which the arrest was eventually made came from Joseph Sager, a baker at 60th street and Haverford avenue, who told a policeman last week that he had seen a man and boy answering the description of the pair in an oyster saloon at 6013 Haverford avenue shortly after midnight last Wednesday. Special Officers Clare and Vale were immediately detailed upon the case and instructed to remain in that neighborhood until further orders. They immediately began a search of all the vacant huses in the neighborhood, and their search led them to the very house occupied by the abductor and the child. The dwellings were so constructed, however, that by means of a rear shed Kean was able to elude the police by climbing into the back windows of two adjoining houses, which were also unoccupied. A second investigation resulted in the recovery of the boy and the arrest of the kidnapper. Sager, the baker, was acquainted with Kean, and the police were thus enabled to obtain his address. They visited his home and learned from his wife that he had not been there with her knowledge since last Monday, the day previous to the abduction. She stated, however, that he had evidently crept into the house, as a pillow, an overcoat and a cape were missing. With this clue to work on, the police redoubled their efforts. They were certain of the identity of the man, but all doubts in this direction were removed when Charles J. Cooke, a real estate dealer, appeared at headquarters with a complaint that John Joseph Kean, who had acted as collector and agent for him, had embezzled $400. Specimens of his handwriting were shown the police, and they were found to be identical with the writing in the letters which the abductor had begun sending to Mr. Muth. CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE DR. WHITE IS GUILTY. Celebrated Case Ends in Conviction. [Baltimore, Md. American.] "Dr." Theodore H. White, the head of the so-called "College of Science," at 1917 East Pratt street, who had been on trial in the United States District Court since May 31, charged with fraudulent use of the mails, was found guilty yesterday afternoon. Sentence was suspended pending the argument on a motion for a new trial. On motion of District Attorney John C Rose Judge Morris increased the "Doctor's" ball from $10,000.00 to $15,000.00. Failing to secure it, owing to the lateness of the hour 5 o'clock—when the verdict was rendered, Dr. White was taken to the City Jail by United States Marshal John F. Langhammer. The verdict of the jury was reached in 1 hour and 10 minutes, but not until after the members of the jury had once more examined the famous red book; the pamphlet, "Blessings to all Mankind," and seeral of the letters, the notorious life reading being among them. White took the verdict with the same composure as he had shown on the witness stand. He only raised his brows when the foreman, J. Burgess MacNeal, in answer to the question of Clerk Chew as to whether the prisoner at the bar was guilty or not guilty uttered the ominous word "Guilty." There was silence as the jury filed into the room, and it prevailed until the announcement of the verdict had been rendered. Then there was an audible murmur from the women and a surging of the crowd as it swayed to and fro through the excitement. Balliff Amendt shouted "Silence!" two or three times. This relieved the strain. Fifth Baptist Church Successful Meeting. Last Sunday was a grand day at the Fifth Baptist Church. The Sunday School was largely attended and a great crowd was present at the morning service to hear Rev. S. C. Burrell preach from the text: First seek ye the kingdom of Heaven and all these things shall be added unto you." The sermon is a most exerting one, powerful in delivery, clean in thought, convincing in reason. In the afternoon, communion service was held and twenty-eight persons received the right hand of fellowship. At night Rev. W. H. White preached an able sermon from Rev. 7:13. His sermon was received with joy and pleasure and was pronounced one of the ablest sermons ever listened to upon that text. A rally was on hand. Dr. Graham had asked for $1000.00. He received $931.00 with three clubs to be heard from. It now looks like the rally will reach $1200.00. To morrow at 3:30 Dr. Graham will preach a special sermon to the Magnolia Present Aid Club. No. 1. This is a strong body and will be out in full. Everybody is invited to be present. $100.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., June 6th, 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. Canthae ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sister Sarah G. Jones, who was a member of Royal Court, No. 148 of Richmond, Va. Signed—M. B. Jones, Administrator. For Picnics and Excursions Good Lawn, Fine Shade and Elegant Bathing on Hampton Roads at Pine Beach Va. Address C. W. PEARCE, Norfolk, Va. Subscribe to the PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY JUNE 23, 1906. BAKER SCHOOL—PROMOTED PU PILS. 7B GRADE...First Honors—Virginia Tomlin, Bernetta Young, Lillie Gray, Junius Smith. Second Honors—Mabel West, Wilnette Ferguson, M Lillian Chiles, Bruce Fountain, Janie Royal, Azelia Storrs, Mary Palmer, Gussie Forrester, Lillie Wrigat, Charles Gray, Cora Smith, Emily Glipin, Julia Deane, Edna Webb, Jeanette West, Hermione Jackson, Marie Ellington, Hadjassa Wood, Hattie Carter. Others Promoted—Marie Ellis, Bertha Lee, Gazelle Banks., Harold Banks. 7A GRADE. First Honor—Bennie Bass, Annie Brown, Henry Dawson, Katie Gilpin, Esther James, Carlotto Kersey, Anne Mosby, Louis Richardson, Louise Robinson, Spotswood Robinson. Second Honor—Erna Benjamin, Willie Dabney, Samuel Gardner, Willie Harvey, Willie Kyles, Mary Miller, Armeta Stokes. Others Promoted—Lillie Price, Florence Pervall, Fannie Taylor, Lucy Williams. 6B GRADE. First Honor—Marie Brown, Mercer Burrell, Maggie Farrar, Sallie Gayles, Zipporah Yearman. Second Honor—Annie Brown, Maria Burke, Annie Carter, Alice Chiles, Irma Davis, Wert Ellis, Cora Ford, Grattan Graves, Richard Jackson, Mary Johnson, Bessie Jones, Franklin Jones, Lorenzo Jones, Ellis Mayo Other Promotions—Sydney Brown James Edwards, Leah Farrar, Nellie Flusher, Robert Harris, Rosa Rowe, Lillie Waddey, Robert Washington, Eddie Yancey. 6A GRADE. First Honor—Minnie Brown, Frank Cephas, Ira Deane, Irma Holmes, Rosa Scott. Second Honor—George Brown, Hortense Grey, Besse Hodge, Goldie Lee, Mabel Lipscomb, Daisy Moore, Blanche Scott, Charles Storrs, Viola Wells, Jack Wyche. Others Promoted—Rhoda Bowles Percival Carter, Gussie Daggett, Eugenia Ellis, Lossie Hawks, Allison, Miles, Ernest Morton, Ila Skipwith, Alberta Smith, Bessie Ware. Virie. 5B GRADE. First Honor—Annie Bowles, Willianna Branch, Ruby Green, Lottie Lewis, Marion Miles, Ethel Minor, Mamie Robinson, Eva Smith, Florence Taylor, Joseph Thompson. Second Honor—Irene Brown, Nathaniel Charity, Doris Crawford, Lula Eggleston, Beatrice Eldridge, Ethel Forrester, Ella Goodman, Lizzie Harris, Martha Jonathan, Amy Lipscomb, Martha Merriweather, Fanny Pollard, Irene Pollard, Mattie Ross, Mary Vaughan. Other Promotions—Carroll Anderson, Esther Beverly, Augustine Bolling, Alice Edney, Helen Edwards William Jenkins, Arthur Jernigan, John Johnson, Stephen Jones, Eva Wells. 5A GRADE. First Honor—Fannie Henderson, Rexford Ovelton, Irvin Powell, Percy Vaughan, Samuel Woolfork, Coleste Weaver, Benjamin Wilkerson. Second Honor—John Mosby, Mary Layne, Thomas Jackson, Stanley Wilkerson, Daniel Farrar, Adolpause Gardener, Wilnette Gaston, Virgie Richardson, Louise Savage. Others Promoted—Edward Eldridge, Julian Knoin, Winston Payne, Sarah Carter, Marks Randall, Sweetie Lee, James Holmes, Ethel Barrett, Adelle Liggins, John Dabney. 4B GRADE. First Honor—Joseph Brown, Minnie Boldin, Ethel Branch, Nannie Goodman, Edna Haris, Camille Mayo, Sadie Nelson, Hel en West Rebecca Wilson. Second Honor—Ruth Cary, Hannah Giles, Mary Harris, Robert Johnson, George Johnson, Huldah Jackson, Ata Jackson, Hattie Lewis, Martha Manning, Joseph Meade, Louise Nelson, Florence Quarles, Susie Robinson, Ethel Rowe, Mabel Spotwood, Rufus Jackson. Other Promotions—Andrew Pleas ants, Lorraine Wilson, Myrtle Boldin Samuel Brown, Robert Edwards, Rosa Gerdner, Cornelius Price, Allen Steward Mabel Woolridge. 4A GRade. First Honor—Julia Bolling, Bertha Crawford, Leonard Cephas Daniel Davis, Hugh Fourz- tain, William Jackson, Blackwell Johnson, Norval Jones, Robert Lewis, Bertha Lockett, Joseph Nelson, Percy Stewart, Pauline West, Sadie Wilson. Second Honor—Mary Beverly, Bertha Fife, Ardella Johnson, Russell Catlett, Joseph Shackelford, Rosa Simms, Harriet Stuart, Lucy Tucker. Other Promotions—Hezzie Stores, Rosa Pervall, Charlie Ross, Lottie Roane, Raymond Scott, George Scott Ottoway Taylor, Edna Tinsley, Marie Ellis, Horace Fisher, Warrenton Lovings. 3B GRADE First Honors—Chas Brown, Gertrude Chambers, Martin Chiles, Fannie Gaston, Annie Haskins, Ethel Johnson, Vivian Lemus, Rosa Robinson, Ethel Robinson, Besie Smith, Willie Watts. Second Honor—Bessie Anderson, Mary Christian, Jessie Coleman, Richard Edwards, Robert Eldridge, Lizzie Gaines, Inez Graves, George Gaskins, Florence Gardener, Benjamin Holmes, Royal Hamilton, Jessie Harris, Richard Johnson, Alice Jenkins, Christopher Jackson, Hobart Lipscomb, Joseph Miller, Luther Powell, Samuel Rose, Junius Smith, Ella Sydney, Ruth Wood, Daisy Wright, Irene Tomlin. Others Promoted—Estelle Green, Zenobia Hodge, Edward Lee, Bessie Price, Clarence Nelson, Willie Taylor, Josephine Watson. 3A GRADE. First Honor—Lizzie King, Willie Johnson, Ethel Lemas, Rosa Meade, Willie Mitchell, Bernard Mitchell, Lucille Payne, Marion Parham, Horace Scott, Henry Smith, Helena Tomlin. Second Honor—Leonard Barcroft, Charles Campbell, Martha Christian, George Greene, Ruoth Holeman, Lucille Johnson, Annie King, Gracie Knox, Wendell Miles, Etta Payne, Walter Robinson, Alta Robinson, Lesie Syms, Ruth Thompson, Lucille Wynn, Thomas Webb, Leroy Wyche, Clarence Wilkerson. Others Promoted—Benjamin Carter, James Carter, Marie Epps, Francis Goodman, Goldie Hill, Rosa James, Ellsworth Storrs, George Thompson, Susie Polke, Laura Yancey. 2B GRADE. First Honor—Mozelle Anderson, Ruth Catlett, James Chiles, Laurence Butler, Beatrice Harris, Henrietta Mason, Zenobia Gilpin, Alvin Lewis, James Pearson, Marie Trent, Alma Hope, John Price Second Honor—Louise Adams, Pauline Clarke, Fred Cephas, Daisy Hill, Artie Graham, Ella Morris, Robert Jones, Beryl Fleet, Gracie Coleman, Sadie Johnson, Imile Woodson, Willie Reed, Robert Lee Jones, Willie Holmes. Others Promoted—Thomas Barrett, Rebecca Burke, Cardwell Bass, Marrian Dixon, Blanche Morris, Sadie White, Grannis Turner, Robert West, Sylvester Harris, Nannie Pollar, Elnora Wood, Joseph Harris, 2A GRADE. First Honor—Aubrey Chambers, Daniel Clarke, Daisy Crutchfield, Rachael Davis, Alexander Davenport, Lizzie Ferrell, Margaret Gillam, Nolia Davis, Ida Hayden, Ida Johnson, Wilmer Jones, Mamie Hall, Maria Knight, Louse Shelton, Pearl Vest, Bertha Wells, Moses Toliver. Second Honor—Henry Brown, John Bradshaw, Marion Brown, Hattie Carter, Otella Ellington, Ella Fountain, Beulah Johnson, Regina Jonathan, Robert Merriweather, Jno Minor, Ernest Patterson, Lillie Tribey, Alex. James. Others Promoted—Susie Benjamin, Adelalea Bridges, James Booker, Joseph Bragg, Hortense Cooper, Estelle Goodman, Timothy Morton, Annie Graham, Sanuel Harris, GeoRoy, Arthur Patterson, Gladys Robinson, Helena Tinsley. 1B GRADE. First Honor—Belle Boyd, Arthur Ferguson, Clarissa Kyles, Essie Mosby, Lillian Peters, Ruth Deane, Jessica Harris, Irene Liggins, Clara Pollard, Marion Thompson, Emmett Scott. Second Honors—Richard Ballard, Ruth Augustus, Abram Harris, Mary Eldridge, Doni Gardner, Geneva Short, Banch Holmes, Andrew Jackson, Joseph Richardson, Chris Pollard, Robert Wood, Alice Jackson, Lucy Mickens, Viola Epps. Others Promoted—Lucile Lipcomb, George Flournoy, Ruth Gaston, Geneva Mackintosh, Bessie Elmonds, Naomi Deane, Antionette Gaines, Ada Carter, Blanche Clarke, Walter Wells, Annetta Peyton, Dorothy Murray, Bettie Stanard, Maud Miller. 1A GRADE. First Honor—Marion Anderson, Louise Davenport, Carrie Fuller, James Goodman, George Lacy, Rosalie Davis, Junius Davenport, Oliver Gaines, Bessie Lemas, Hunter Scott, Benjamin Woolfork. Second Honor—Harry Hickman, Joseph Barlow, Rosa Trent, Sallie Robinson, John Vaughn, Andrew Jackson, Charlie Jackson, Lingard Holmes, Lene Randall, Helen Waddill, Carrie Wells, Winnie Woodsill, Carrie Wells, Winnie Woods, Margaret Taylor, Clarence Payne. Others Promoted—Regis Denny, Fannie Hooper, Alice Brown, Allyn Burwell, Creed Chiles, Mary Johnson, Herman Giles, Louise Wyche, Ruth Leftwich, Hattie Pryor, Walter Johnson, Leola Samuels, Ida Tomlin, Douglass Johnson, Ottie White, Clarence Roy. Knights of Pythias at Staunton, Va. Grand Parade. The Grand Lodge of Virginia Meets. Magnificent Display. Large Attendance. Delegates from All Parts of the State. Staunton, Va., June 19, 1906. Twenty-first Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of Virginia opened this morning at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Augusta St. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. called the body to order at 9 A. M. sharp. Among the imposing features of the occasion was the arrival of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment, Uniform Rank, under command of Major William A. Robinson. The companies in his Battalion were in heavy marching order and were headed by the Municipal Brass and Reed Band from Richmond, Va. cheers and complimentary expressions of the soldierly bearing of the men as they passed in uniform. The entire 1st Battalion wore the regulation fatigue dress with white duck pants and the more magnificent sight has not been witnessed by the citizens of Staunton who were eagerly watching every move of the men. The troops were marched to the Base Ball Park where dress parade was had also a most excellent regimental and Battalion drill. The Pythian Cadets under command of Capt. Roscoe C. Mitchell gave an ex Association for Protection of Colored Women. Every self respecting man or woman should be interested in the work of the above named Association and should give it his moral and financial support. Its efforts are directed toward the suppression of the systematic and wholesale impulse of colored women and girls north by fraudulent methods and for immoral purposes. Seventy-five per cent of the employment agencies now doing business are disreputable. The company were as follows: Eureka Co., No. 1 under command of Capt. Isaac Moore, Lleut. Mack C. Jones, R. J. Jackson, acting 2nd Lleut.; Planet Co., No. 8, Capt. Adolphus Jackson, Jr. commanding, 1st Lleut. Leroy Brown, 2nd Lleut. R. T. Kinney; Blooming Lily Co., No. 11, Capt. V. M. Gwathmey; Mitchell Reserve, No. 21. Capt. W. T. Bell commanding with full quota of officers. The Pythian Cadet, under command of Capt. Roscoe C. Mitchell, 1st Lleut. Archer Ferris, 2nd Lleut. William Cary, headed by their own life and drum corps carried their new guns, blankets, tincups, etc. Of the 2nd Battallion of the 1st Regiment: Pythias Co., No. 7 under command of Capt. A. M. Miller, with full quote of officers; Lynchburg Co., No. 20 from Lynchburg, Capt. — Commanding. The sight was one of the most imposing ever witnessed by the people of Staunton who were awakened by sweet strains of music from the Municipal Brass and Reed Band from Richmond, Va that accompanied the troops. One of the principal features of the session was the introductory speech by the Mayor of the City extending a pleasant welcome to the Grand Lodge, wishing the body a pleasant stay and the privilege of the city and the hospitality of its citizens. Lawyer W. H. C. Brown of Newport News, was called upon by the Grand Chancellor to respond to the address of welcome and in an oratorical and masterly manner he performed the pleasant task. Both speakers 'received an ovation at the conclusion of their speeches. After the report of the Committee on Credentials which was the only business of importance transacted to day, the Grand Lodge took recess for the Annual Parade. GRAND PARADE Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr. on his iron grey charger was in the lead, next came Col Casper Rowlett of Newport News, mounted on a magnificent black horse; Col. John R. Chiles, Chief of Staff on a bay; Col. D. A. Ferguson Assistant Adjutant General on a black horse, Maj. Robt. S. Nelson on a bay charger. Then came Col. Thomas M. Crump, the commander of the 1st Regiment, on a gray horse with Capt. Thomas H. Wyatt, Regimental Adjutant on a large bay. Next came the Municipal Brass and Reed Band of Richmond; Maj. Wm. A. Robinson, who was in command of the 1st Battalion mounted on a magnificent and spirited dark bay horse with his staff. His Battalion consisted of Eureka Co. No. 1; Planet Co. No. 8; Mitchell Reserve Co. No. 21; Blooming Lily Co. No. 11; the Pythian Cadet Fife and Drum Corps and the Pythian-Cadet Co. A provisional battalion composed of Lynchburg Co. No. 20 of Lynchburg, and Pythias Co. No. 7 of Danville, under the command of Senior Capt. W. A. Millner. Then came the local band of Staunton dressed in white duck uniforms and were followed by the members of Staunton Lodge, No. 62 and Brotherly Love Lodge, No. 78 wearing the regulation streamer. The parade was fully 8 blocks long and took in the principal streets of the city. The police did valuable and efficient service in clearing the streets of vehicles and pedestrians. People thronged the street corners the windows, porches, and in fact every conceivable place where they gazed on the troops as they marched with steady tread. Both white and colored people were loud in their cheers and complimentary expressions of the soldierly bearing of the men as they passed in uniform. The entire 1st Battalion wore the regulation fatigue dress with white duck pants and the more magnificent sight has not been witnessed by the citizens of Staunton who were eagerly watching every move of the men. The troops were marched to the Base Ball Park where dress parade was had also a most excellent regimental and Battalion drill. The Pythian Cadets under command of Capt. Roscoe C. Mitchell gave an exhibition drill at the Park and were cheered vociferously. The entire Regiment was drawn up in line and the officers brought front and centre While in this formation the popular photographer, Mr. J. C. Farley, took a photo of the Regiment. The parade was then continued to the place of starting and passed in review before General John Mitchell, Jr. and Staff. The Band and troops were then countermarched and cheer after cheer rend the air from thousands of throats who thronged the streets watching the manoeuvres of the troops. The troops were disbanded and went to their headquarters. The photographs of the Grand Lodge and Grand Court were taken in front of the church by Mr. J. C. Farley of Richmond. MR. STEWART SPEAKS PLAINLY The Ransom Episode Normal, Ala., June 16—My attention has been called to an article in your paper recently sent from Boston, touching the treatment received by Rev. Reverdy Kansom, D. D., of Boston, at the handle. Prof. Joseph H. Council of the hand. I was here time, and feel that you would give space to true statement, I am now writing to you. It is true that Dr. Ransom did reach Normal, and I went to call on him at his quarters. He occupied the guest chamber in the President's mansion. His door was open and I walked to it and saw him on the bed with his shoes, coat and hat on. I spoke to him and he got up, but could hardly stand. I soon discovered that he was intoxicated, and told him to go to bed. He told me that he had had some trouble en route to the place and showed me a paper containing an account of it. He asked for some milk, which I had brought to him immediately. Later he was waited on by the officers of the Alumni Association of the school, and finding out his condition they recommended to Prof. Councill that he be excused from making the address. Mr. Ransom was paid his money, and informed that a carriage was at his disposal to convey him to the city whenever he desired to go. He left for his home at once. I wish to correct the false impression going out that Prof. Councill refused to allow Dr. Ransom to speak because he had been ejected from a Pullman and had some trouble down here with white folks. Dr. Ransom was excused because he was drunk, and Prof. Councill said that he would not allow Ransom speak for his weight in gold. Ransom has drifted back into his old habit. He took the Keeley cure while in Chicago, and when he was sent to New England his friends hoped that he would stop drinking. —CHARLES STEWART. President and Mrs. John J. Smallwood of the Temperance, Industrial and Collegiate Institute of Claremont. Va., are both very happy over the appearance of a bright boy in their home. The mother and child are both doing well. President Smallwood has been spending two or three days this week with his family in their city home 102 E. Leigh St. At Fifth Street Baptist Church Tuesday night, June 28th, 1906, under auspices of B. Y. P. U., Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D. will preach a special sermon to the Union. Subject: Young People to the Front. There will be other exercises. Public invited. Come early. PRICE, FIVE CENTS ythias on, Va. the Grand Meets. attendance. Del- the State. Association for Protection of Colored Women. Every self respecting man or woman should be interested in the work of the above named Association and should give it his moral and financial support. Its efforts are directed toward the suppression of the systematic and wholesale imputation of colored women and girls north by fraudulent methods and for immoral purposes. Seventy-five per cent of the employment agencies now doing business are disreputable agencies in the north cooperating with agencies and agents south, who canvass city, town and country districts, promising "good times" high wages and little work to these unsuspecting girls who flock to the appeal, (and come north unfit for the conditions of work they meet, when they are sent to work in respectable homes) who are generally sent to disorderly houses as inmates or servants. These girls generally have their transportation paid by the agency who sends them. They sign a contract, never stopping to read it and when they get north find they have agreed to work two or three months for the agency man, who holds their trunks and baggage and in this they are at the mercy of these unscrupulous people who force them to lead lives of shame, thus they contribute to large criminal clauses and their end is the jail, almshouse and hospital. This is why so many parents and friends never hear from their girls after they leave their Southern homes. The Association for protection of colored women now has agents in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore and Washington who meet boats upon arrival giving direction to respectable lodging places, where to get work and general aid to colored women and girl travellers. Its work has been extended to Norfolk, Va., where a matron is placed on docks to tell girls when they arrive north, a woman wearing a badge will meet them. Help me PLANET emphasize this "Ask no man advice nor the way up town; ask only this woman wearing the badge or a policeman." Hundreds of men and women are robbed and ensnared by asking advice of strangers whom they do not know, but who appear well and over-willing to aid. It is hoped Richmond will at once effect the same organization for large numbers of our people take boat there for Washington and the North. Let the good pastors and representative people become interested and determined to put a suppression on this traffic in Richmond. Girls, girls, if you will go north for work and honest employment listen to the agent, who will meet you. You can in advance write for information a bout work and you will surely get an answer from: Boston Mass., 264 Boylston St.; New York City, 111 E. 23d St.; Philadelphia, Penn., 205. Pemberton St.; Washington, D. C., 4½ St. and Maryland Ave.; Baltimore, Md., 704 George St. Address your communications to agent of Association for Protection of Colored Women. This organization is to become a national institution and is extending its work as fast as its imperative needs are becoming known and the investigations of local conditions in each city can be made in order to adopt its organization to meet the special needs of each place. This Association must become to our race as familiar honored and established an institution as is to the world the Y M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. S. WILLIE LAYTEN, Agent Phila A. P. C. W. —Mrs. Sallie Cophas, the fashionable dress-maker, has removed from 2 W. Baker St. to 912 N. First St., where she will be glad to receive her many friends. —Mr. J. Patrick Smith left the city Thursday for Watch Hill, R. L. where he will watch the remainder of the summer. FILE NO. 113. ONE OF THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS, AND HOW IT WAS SOLVED. BY BIBLE QABORIAU CHAPTER VII. Prosper had been languishing in his private cell for nine days, when on Thursday morning the jailer came to inform him of the judge's decision. He was conducted before the officer who had searched him when he was arrested; and the contente of his pocket, his watch, pen-knife, and several little pieces of jewelry were restored to him; then he was told to sign a large sheet of paper, which he did. He was next led across a dark passage, and almost pushed through a door, which was abruptly shut upon him. He found himself on the qual; he was alone; he was free. Free! Justice had confessed her inability to convict him of the orime of which he was accused. Free! He could walk about, he could breathe the pure air, but every door would be closed against him. Only acquittal after due trial would restore him to his former position among men. A decision of "Not proven" had left him covered with suspicion. The torments inflicted by public opinion are more fearful than those suffered in a prison cell. At the moment of his restoration to liberty, Prosper so cruelly suffered from the horror of his situation that he could not repress a cry of rage and despair. "I am innocent!_ God knows I am innocent!" he cried out. But of what use was his anger? Two strangers, who were passing, stopped to look at him, and said, pityingly, "He is crazy." The Seine was at his feet. A thought of suicide crossed his mind. "No," he said, "no! I have not even the right to kill myself. No; I will not die until I have vindicated my innocence!" Often, day and night, had Prosper repented these words, as he walked his cell. With a heart filled with bitter, determined thirst for vengeance, which gives a man the force and patience to destroy or wear out all obstacles in his way, he would say, "Oh! why am I not at liberty? I am helpless, caged up; but let me once be free!" Now he was free; and, for the first time, he saw the difficulties of the task before him. For each crime justice requires a criminal; he could not establish his own innocence without producing the guilty man; how find the thief so as to hand him over to the law? Discouraged, but not despondent, he turned in the direction of his apartments. He was beset with a thousand anxieties. What had taken place during the nine days that he had been cut off from all intercourse with his friends? No news of them had reached him. He had heard no more of what was going on in the outside world than if his secret cell had been a grave. He slowly walked along the streets, with his eyes cast down, dreading to meet some familiar face. He, who had always been so haughty, would now be pointed at with the finger of scorn. He would be greeted with cold looks and inverted faces. Men would refuse to shake hands with him. He would be shunned by honest people, who have no patience with a thief. Still, if he could count on only one true friend! Yes; he was sure of one. But what friend would believe him when his father, who should have been the last to suspect him, had refused to believe him? In the midst of his sufferings, when he felt almost overwhelmed by the sense of his wretched, lonely condition, he thought of Nina Gipsy. He had never loved the poor girl; indeed, at times he almost hated her; but now he felt a longing to see her. He wished to be with her because he knew that she loved him, and that nothing could make her believe him guilty; because he knew that a woman remains true and firm in her faith and is always faithful in the hour of adversity, although she sometimes fails in prosperity. On entering the Bue Chaptal Prosper saw his own door, but hesitated to enter it. He suffered from the timidity which an honest man always feels when he knows he is viewed with suspicion. He dreaded meeting anyone whom he knew; yet he could not remain in the street. He entered. When the porter saw him, he uttered an explanation of glad surprise, and said: "Ah, here you are at last, monsieur, I told everyone you would come out as white as snow; and when I read in the papers that you were arrested for robbery, I said, 'My third-door lodger a thief.' Never would I believe such a thing, never!" The congratulations of this ignorant man were sincere, and offered from pure kindness of heart; but they impressed Prosper painfully, and he cut them short by abruptly asking: "Madame, of course, has left: can you tell me where she has gone?" "Dear me, no, monsieur. The day of your arrest she sent for a hack, got into it with her trunks, and disappeared; and no one has seen or heard of her since." This was another blow to the unhappy cashier. "And where are my servants?" "Gone, monsieur; your father paid and discharged them." "I suppose you have my keys?" "No, monsieur; when your father left here this morning, at eight o'clock, he told me that a friend of his would take charge of your rooms until you should return. Of course you know who he is—a stout gentleman with red whiskers." TWO Prosper was stupified. What could be the meaning of one of his father's friends being in his rooms? He did not, however, betray his surprise, but quietly said: "Yes, I know who he is." He quickly ran up the stairs, and knocked at his door. It was opened by his father's friend. He had been accurately described by the porter. A fat man, with a red face, sensual lips, brilliant eyes, and of rather coarse manners, stood bowing to Prosper, who had never seen him before. "Delighted to make your acquaintance, monsieur," said he to Prosper. He seemed to be perfectly at home. On the table lay a book, which he had taken from the book-case; and he appeared ready to do the honors of the house. "I must say, monsieur—" began Prosper. "That you are surprised to find me here? So I suppose. Your father intended introducing me to you; but he was compelled to return to Beaucaire this morning; and let me add that he departed thoroughly convinced, as I myself am, that you never took a cent from Moussier Fauvel." At this unexpected good news, Prosper's face lit up with pleasure. "Here is a letter from your father, which I hope will serve as an introduction between us." Prosper opened the letter; and as he read his eyes grew brighter, and a slight color returned to his pale face. When he had finished, he held out his hand to the large gentleman, and said: "My father, monsieur, tells me you are his best friend; he advises me to have absolute confidence in you, and follow your counsel." "Exactly. This morning your father said to me, 'Verduret, that is my name—'Verduret, my son is in great trouble, he must be helped out.' I replied, 'I am ready,' and here I am to help you. Now, the ice is broken, is it not? Then let us go to work at once. What do you intend to do?" This question revived Prosper's slumbering rage. His eyes flashed. "What do I intend to do?" he said, angrily; "what should I do but seek the villain who has ruined me?" "So I supposed; but have you any hopes of success?" "None; yet I shall succeed, because, when a man devotes his whole life to the accomplishment of an object, he is certain to achieve it." "Well said, Monsieur Prosper; and, to be frank, I fully expected that this would be your purpose. I have therefore already begun to think and act for you. I have a plan. In the first place, you will sell this furniture, and disappear from the neighborhood." "Disappear!" cried Prosper, indignantly—"disappear! Why, monsieur? Do you not see that such a step would be a confession of guilt, would authorize the world to say that I am hiding so as to enjoy undisturbed the stolen fortune?" "Well, what then?" said the man with the red whiskers; "did you not say just now that the sacrifice of your life is made. The skillful swimmer thrown into the river by malefactors is careful not to rise to the surface immediately: on the contrary, he plunges beneath, and remains there as long as his breath holds out. He comes up again at a great distance, and lands out of sight: then, when he is supposed to be dead, lost forever to the sight of man, he rises up and has his vengeance. You have an enemy? Some petty imprudence will betray him. But, while he sees you standing by on the watch, he will be on his guard." It was with a sort of amazed submission that Prosper listened to this man, who, though a friend of his father, was an utter stranger to himself. He submitted unconsciously to the ascendancy of such a nature so much more energetic and forcible than his own. In his helpless condition he was grateful for friendly assistance and said: "I will follow your advice," monsieur." "I was sure you would, my dear friend. Let us reflect upon the course you should pursue. And remember that you will need every cent of the proceeds of the sale. Have you any ready money?" no, but you must have some. Knowing that you would need it at once, I brought an upholsterer here; and he will give 12,000 francs for everything except the pictures." The cashier could not refrain from The cashier could not refrain from shrugging his shoulders, which M. Verduret observed. "Well," said he, "it is rather hard, I admit, but it is a necessity. Now listen: you are the invalid, and I am the doctor charged to cure you; if I cut to the quick, you will have to endure it. It is the only way to save you." "Cut away, then, monsieur," answered Prosper. "Well, we will hurry; for time passes. You have a friend, Monsieur de Lagors?" "Raoul? Yes, monsieur, he is an intimate friend." "Now tell me, who is this fellow?" The term "fellow" seemed to offend Prosper. "Monsieur de Lagors, monsieur," he said, haughtily, "is Monsieur Faulvel's nephew; he is a wealthy young man, handsome, intelligent, cultivated, and the best friend I have." "Hum!" said M. Verduret, "I shall be delighted to make the acquaintance of one adorned by so many charming qualities. I must let you know that I wrote him a note in your name asking him to come here, and he sent word that he would be here directly." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "Oh, I suppose nothing! Only I must see this young man. Also, I have arranged and will submit to you a little plan of conversation—" A ring at the front door interrupted Ed M. Verduret. "Sacrebleu! adieu to my plan; here he is! Where can I hide so as to hear and see?" "There in my bedroom; leave the door open and the curtain down." A second ring was heard. "Now, remember, Prosper," said M. Verduret, in a warning tone, "not one word to this man about your plans, or about me. Pretend to be discouraged, helpless, and undecided what to do." Although Raoul said that he was twenty-four, he appeared to be not more than twenty. He had a superb figure, well knit and supple; a beautiful white brow, shaded by soft chestnut curly hair, soft blue eyes which beamed with frankness. His first impulse was to throw himself into Prosper's arms. "My poor, dear friend!" he said. "my poor, Prosper!" But beneath these affectionate demonstrations there was a certain constraint, which, if it escaped the cashier, was noticed by M. Vrduret. "Your letter, my dear Prosper," said Raoul. "made me almost ill, I was so frightened by it. I asked myself if you could have lost your mind. Then I left everything, to try to your assistance; and here I am." Prosper did not seem to hear him; he was preoccupied about the letter he had not written. What were its contents? Who was this stranger whose assistance he had accepted? "You must not feel discouraged," continued M. de Lagors; "you are young enough to commence life anew. Your friends are still left to you. Rely upon me; I am rich, half of my fortune is at your disposal." This generous offer, made at a moment like this with such frank simplicity, deeply touched Prosper. "Thanks, Raoul," he said, with emotion, "thank you! But unfortunately all the money in the world would be of no use now." "Why so? What are you going to do? Do you propose to remain in Paris?" "I know not, Raoul. I have made no plans yet. My mind is too confused for me to think." "I will tell you what to do," replied Raoul, quickly, "you must start afresh; until this mysterious robbery is explained you must keep away from Paris. It will never do for you to remain here." "And suppose it never should be explained?" "Only the more reason for your remaining in oblivion. I have been talking about you to Clamerman. 'If I were in Prosper's place,' he said, 'I would turn everything into money, and embark for America; there I would make a fortune, and return to crush with my million those who have suspected me." This advice offended Prosper's pride, but he said nothing. He was thinking of what the stranger had said to him. "I will think it over," he finally forced himself to say. "I will see. I would like to know what Monsieur Fauvel says." "My uncle? I suppose you know that I have declined the offer he made me to enter his banking-house, and we have almost quarreled. I have not set foot in his house for over a month; but I hear of him occasionally." "Through whom?" "Through your friend Cavillon. My uncle, they say, is more distressed by this affair than you are. He does not attend to his business, and wanders about as if he had lost every friend on earth." "And Madame Fauvel, and—" Prosper hesitated—"and Mademoiselle Madeline, how are they?" "Oh," said Raoul, lightly, "my aunt is as pious as ever; she has a mass said for the benefit of the sinner. As to my handsome, icy cousin, she can not bring herself down to common matters, because she is entirely absorbed in preparing for the fancy ball to be given day after to-morrow by Messieurs Jandillier. She has discovered, so one of her friends told me, a wonderful dress-maker, a stranger who nas suddenly appeared from no one knows where, who is making a costume of Catherine de Medici's maid of honor; and it is to be a marvel of beauty." Excessive suffering brings with it a sort of dull insensibility and stupor; and Prosper thought that there who nothing left to be inflicted upon him, and had reached that state of impassibility from which he never expected to be aroused, when this last remark of M. de Lagors made him cry out with pain: "Madeleine! On, Madeleine!" M. de Lagors, pretending not to have heard him, rose from his chair and said: "I must leave you now, my dear Prosper; on Saturday I will see these ladies at the ball, and will bring you news of them. Now, do have courage, and remember that, whatever happens, you have a friend in me." Raoul shook Prosper's hand, closed the door after him, and hurried up the street, leaving Prosper standing immovable and overcome by disappointment. He was aroused from his gloomy reverie by hearing the red-whiskered man say in a bantering tone: "So these are now for you!" CHAPTER VII—CONTINUED "Yes," said Prosper, with bitterness. "You heard him offer me half of his fortune?" M. Verduret shrugged his shoulders with an air of compassion. "That was very stingy on his part," he said, "why did he not offer the whole? Offers cost nothing; although I have no doubt that this sweet youth would cheerfully give ten thousand francs to put the ocean between you and him." "Monsieur! what reason?" "Who knows? Perhaps for the same reason that he had not set foot in his uncle's house for a month." "But that is the *auth*, monsieur, I am sure of it." "Naturally," said M. Verduret, with a provoking smile. "But." he continued, with a serious air, "we have devoted enough time to this Adonis. Now, be good enough to change your dress, and we will go and call on Monsieur Faueel." This proposal seemed to stir up all of Prosper's anger. "Never!" he exclaimed, with excitement, "no, never will I, voluntarily, set eyes on that wretch!" This resistance did not surprise M. Verduret. "I can understand your feelings toward him," said he, "but, at the same time, I hope you will change your mind. For the same reason that I wished to see Monsieur de Lagors do I wish to see Monsieur Fauvel; it is necessary, you understand. Are you so very weak that you can not put a constraint upon yourself for five minutes? I shall introduce myself as one of your relatives, and you need not open your lips." "If it is positively necessary," said Prosper, "If—" "It is necessary; so come on. You must have confidence, put on a brave face. Hurry and fix yourself up a little; it is getting late, and I am hungry. We will breakfast on our way there." Prosper had hardly passed into his bedroom when the bell rang again. M. Verduret opened the door. It was the porter, who handed him a thick letter, and said: "This letter was left this morning for Monsieur Bertomy; I was so flustered when he came that I forgot to hand it to him. It is a very odd-looking letter, is it not, monsieur?" It was indeed a most peculiar missive. The address was not written, but formed of printed letters, carefully cut from a book, and pasted on the envelope. "Oh, ho! what is this?" cried M. Verduret; then turning toward the porter he said, "Wait." He went into the next room, and closed the door behind him; there he found Prosper, anxious to know what was going on. "Here is a letter for you," said M. Verduret. He at once tore open the envelope. Some bank-notes dropped out; he counted them; there were ten. Prosper's face turned purple. "What does this mean?" he asked. "We will read the letter and find out," replied Verduret. The letter, like the address, was composed of printed words cut out and pasted on a sheet of paper. It was short but explicit: "My Dear Prosper—A friend, who knows the horror of your situation, sends this succor. There is one heart, be assured, that shares your sufferings. Go away; leave France; you are young; the future is before you. Go, and may this money bring you happiness!" As M. Verduret read the note, Prosper's rage increased. He was angry and perplexed, for he could not explain the rapidly succeeding events which were so calculated to mystify his already confused brain. "Everybody wishes me to go away," he cried; "then there must be a conspiracy against me." M. Verduret smiled with satisfaction. "At last you begin to open your eyes, you begin to understand. Yes, there are people who hate you because of the wrong they have done you; there are people to whom your presence in Paris is a constant danger, and who will not feel safe till they are rid of you." But who are these people, monsieur? Tell me, who dares send this money? "If I knew, my dear Proper, my task would be at an end, for then I would know who committed the robbery. But we will continue our searches. I have finally procured evidence which will sooner or later become convincing proof. I have heretofore only made deductions more or less probable. I now possess knowledge which proves that I was mistaken. I walked in darkness; now I have a light to guide me." As Prosper listened to M. Verduret's reassuring words, he felt hope arising in his breast. "Now," said M. Verduret, "we must take advantage of this evidence, gained by the imprudence of our enemies, without delay. We will begin with the porter." He opened the door, and called out: "I say, my good man, step here a moment." The porter entered, looking very much surprised at the authority exercised over his lodger by this stranger. "Who gave you this letter?" said M. Verduret. "A messenger, who said he was paid for bringing it." "Do you know him?" "I know him well; he is the errandrunner who keeps his cart at the corner of the Blue Pigalle." "Go and bring him here." After the porter had gone, M. Verduret drew from his pocket his diary, and compared a page of it with the notes which he had spread over the table. "These notes were not sent by the thief," he said, after an attentive examination of them. "Do you think so, monsieur?" "I am certain of it; that is, unless the thief is endowed with extraordinary penetration and forethought. One thing is certain, these ten thousand francs are not part of the three hundred and fifty thousand which were stolen from the safe." "Yet," said Prosper, who could not account for this certainty on the part of his protector; "yet—" "There is no yet about it; I have the numbers of all the stolen notes." "What! When even I did not have them?" "But the bank did, fortunately. When we undertake an affair we must anticipate everything, and forget nothing. It is a poor excuse for a man to say, 'I did not think of it, when he commits some oversight. I thought of the bank.' If, in the beginning, Prosper had felt some repugnance about confiding in his father's friend, the feeling had now disappeared. He understood that alone, scarcely master of himself, governed only by the inspirations of inexperience, never would he have the patient perspicacity of this singular man. Verduret continued talking to himself, as if he had absolutely forgotten Porsper's presence: "Then, as this package did not come from the thief, it can only come from the other person who was near the safe at the time of the robbery but could not prevent it, and now feels remorse. The probability of two persons assisting at the robbery, a probability suggested by the scratch, is now converted into undeniable certainty. Ergo, I was right." Prosper listening attentively, tried hard to comprehend this monologue, which he dared not interrupt. "Let us seek," went on the fat man, "this second person, whose conscience pricks him, and yet who dares not reveal anything." He read the letter over several times, scanning the sentences, and weighing every word. "Evidently this letter was composed by a woman," he finally said. "Never would one man doing another man a service, and sending him money, use the word 'succor.' A man would have said, loan money, or some other equivalent, but succor, never. No one but a woman, ignorant of masculine susceptibilities, would have naturally made use of this word to express the idea it represents. As to the sentence, 'There is one heart,' and so on, it could only have been written by a woman." "You are mistaken, monsieur," said Prosper; "no woman is mixed up in this affair." M. Verduret paid no attention to this interruption, perhaps he did not hear it; perhaps he did not care to argue the matter. "Now let us see if we can discover whence the printed words were taken to compose this letter." He approached the window, and began to study the past words with all the scrupulous attention which an antiquarian would devote to an old, half-efaced manuscript. "Small type," he said, "very slender and clear; the paper is thin and glossy. Consequently, these words have not been cut from a newspaper, magazine, or even a novel. I have seen type like this, I recognize it at once; Didot often uses it, so does Madame de Tours." He stopped with his mouth open, and eyes fixed, appealing laboriously to his memory. Suddenly he struck his forehead exultantly. "Now I have it!" he cried; "now I have it! Why did I not see it at once? These words have all been cut from a prayer-book. We will look, at least, and then we shall be certain." He moistened one of the words pasted on the paper, with his tongue, and, when it was sufficiently softened, he detached it with a pin. On the other side of this word was printed a Latin word, Deus. "Ah, ha," he said, with a little laugh of satisfaction, "I knew it. Father Taberet would be pleased to see this. But what has become of the mutilated prayer-book? Can it have been burned? No, because a heavy bound book is not easily burned. It is thrown in some corner." M. Verduret was interrupted by the porter, who returned with the messenger from the Rue Pigalle. "Do you remember bringing this letter here this morning?" "Perfectly, monsieur. I took particular notice of the direction; we don't often see anything like it." "Who told you to bring it? a gentleman or a lady?" "Neither, monsieur, it was a porter." This reply made the porter laugh very much, but not a muscle of M. Verduret's face moved. "A porter? Well, do you know this colleague of yours?" "I never even saw him before." "How does he look?" "He was neither tall nor short; he wore a green vest, and his medal." "Your description is so vague that it would suit every porter in the city; but did your colleague tell you who sent the letter?" "No, monsieur. He only put ten sous in my hand, and said: 'Here, carry this to No. 29, Rue Chaptal; a coachman on the boulevard handed it to me.' Ten sous I warrant you, he made more than that by it." This answer seemed to disconcert M. Verduret. So many precautions taken in sending the letter disturbed him, and disarranged his plans. "Do you think you would recognize the porter again?" "Yes, monsieur, if I saw him." "How much do you gain a day, as a porter?" "I can't tell exactly; but my corner is a good stand, and I am busy doing errands nearly all day. I suppose I make from eight to ten francs." "Very well; I will give you ten frances a day if you will walk about the streets and look for the porter who brought this letter. Every evening, at eight o'clock, come to the Archangel, on the Oual Saint Michel, give me a report of your search, and receive your pay. Ask for Monsieur Verduret. If you find the man I will give you fifty frances. Do you accept?" "I rather think I will, monsieur." "Then don't lose a minute. Start off!" Although ignorant of M. Verduret's plans, Prosper began to comprehend the sense of his investigations. His fate depended upon their success, and yet he almost forgot this fact in his admiration of this singular man; for his energy, his bantering coolness when he wished to discover anything, the surety of his deductions, the fertility of his expedients, and the rapidity of his movements were astonishing. "Monsieur," said Prosper, when the porter had left the room, "do you still think you see a woman's hand in this affair?" "More than ever; and a pious woman, too, and a woman who has two prayer-books, since she could cut up one to write to you." "And you hope to find the mutilated book?" "I do, thanks to the opportunity. I have of making an immediate search; which I will set about at once." Saying this, he sat down, and rapidly scratched off a few lines on a slip of paper, which he folded up, and put in his vest-pocket. "Are you ready to go to Monaleire Fauevel's? Yes? Come on, then; we have certainly earned our breakfast to-day." CHAPTER VIII When Raoul de Lagors spoke of M. Fauvel's extraordinary dejection he had not exaggerated. Since the fatal day when, upon his denunciation, his cashier had been arrested, the banker, this active, energetic man of business, had been a prey to the most gloomy melancholy, and absolutely refused to take any interest in his affairs, seldom entering the banking-house. He, who had always been so domestic, never came near his family except at meals, when he would swallow a few mouthfuls, and hastily leave the room. Shut up in his study, he would deny himself to visitors. His anxious countenance, his indifference to everybody and everything, his constant reveries and fits of abstraction betrayed the preoccupation of some fixed idea, or the tyrannical empire of some hidden sorrow. The day of Proper's release, about three o'clock, M. Fauvel was, as usual, seated in his study, with his elbow resting on the table, and his face buried in his hands, when his office-boy rushed in, and with a frightened look, said: "Monsieur, the former cashier, Monsieur Bertomy, is here with one of his relatives. He says he must see you on business." The banker at these words started as if he had been shot. "Prosper!" he cried, in a voice choked by anger, "what! does he dare—" Then remembering that he ought to control himself before his servant, he waited a few moments, and then said, in a tone of forced calmness: "Ask them to walk in." If M. Verduret had counted upon witnessing a strange and affecting sight, he was not disappointed. Nothing could be more terrible than the attitude of these two men as they stood confronting each other. The banker's face was almost purple with suppressed anger, and he looked as if about to be struck by apoplexy. Prosper was as pale and motionless as a corpse. Silent and immovable, they stood glaring at each other with mortal hatred. M. Verduret curiously watched these two enemies, with the indifference and coolness of a philosopher, who, in the most violent outburst of human passion, merely sees subjects for meditation and study. Finally, the silence becoming more and more threatening, he decided to break it by speaking to the banker: "I suppose you know, monsieur, that my young relative has just been released from prison." "Yes," replied M. Fauvel, making an effort to control himself, "yes, for want of sufficient proof." "Exactly so, monsieur, and this want of proof, as stated in the decision of 'Not proven,' ruins the prospects of my relative, and compels him to leave here at once for America." M. Fauvel's features relaxed as if he had been relieved of some fearful agony. "Ah, he is going away," he said, "he is going abroad." There was no mistaking the resentful, almost insulting intonation of the words, "going away!" M. Verduret took no notice of M. Fauvel's manner. "It appears to me," he continued in an easy tone, "that Prosper's determination is a wise one. I merely wished him, before leaving Paris, to come and pay his respects to his former chief." The banker smiled bitterly. "Monsieur Bertomy might have spared us both this painful meeting. I have nothing to say to him, and of course he can have nothing to tell me." This was a formal dismissal; and M. Verduret, understanding it thus, bowed to M. Fauvel, accompanied by Prosper, who had not opened his lips. They had reached the street before Prosper recovered the use of his tongue. "I hope you are satisfied, monsieur," he said, in a gloomy tone; "you exacted this painful step, and I could only acquiesce. Have I gained anything by adding this humiliation to the others which I have suffered?" "You have not, but I have," replied M. Verduret. "I could find no way of gaining access to M. Fauvel, save through you; and now I found out what I wanted to know. I am convinced that M. Fauvel had nothing to do with the robbery." "Oh, monsieur!" objected Prosper, "innocence can be feigned." "Certainly, but not to this extent. And this is not all. I wished to find out if M. Fauvel would be accessible to certain suspicions. I am now confident that he is." Prosper and his companion stopped to talk more at their ease, near the corner of the Rue Lafette, in the middle of a large space which had lately been cleared by pulling down an old house. M. Verduret seemed to be anxious, and was constantly looking around as if he expected some one. He soon uttered an exclamation of satisfaction. At the other end of the vacant space, he saw Cavaillon, who was barheaded and running. He was so excited that he did not even stop to shake hands with Prosper, but darted up to M. Verduret, and said: "They have gone, monsieur!" "How long since?" "The deuce they did! Then we have not an instant to lose." He handed Cavallon the note he had written some hours before at Prosper's house. "Here, send him this, and then return at once to your desk; you might be missed. It was very imprudent in you to come out without your hat." Cavailon ran off as quickly as he had come. Prosper was stupefied. "What!!" he exclaimed. "You know Cavailon?" "So it seems," answered M. Verdurat, with a smile; "but we have no time to talk; come on, hurry!" "Where are we going now?" "You will soon know; walk fast!" And he set the example by stridling rapidly toward the Rue Lafayette. As they went along he continued talking more to himself than to Prosper. "Ah," said he, "it is not by putting both feet in one shoe that one wins a race. The track once found we should never rest an instant. When the savage discovers the foot-print of an enemy, he follows it persistently, knowing that falling rain or a gust of wind may efface the foot-print at any moment. It is the same with us; the most trifling incident may destroy the traces we are following up." They went up the steps, and stopped on the second floor, before a door over which was a large sign, "Fashionable Dressmaker." A handsome bell-rope hung on the wall, but M. Verduret did not touch it. He tapped with the ends of his fingers in a peculiar way, and the door instantly opened as if some one had been watching for his signal on the other side. The door was opened by a neatly dressed woman of about forty. She quietly ushered M. Verduret and Prosper into a neat dining-room with several doors opening into it. This woman bowed humbly to M. Verduret, as if he was some superior being. He scarcely noticed her salutation, but questioned her with a look. His look said: "Well?" She bowed affirmatively. "In there?" asked M. Verduret, in a low tone, pointing to one of the doors. "No," said the woman, in the same tone; "over there, in the little parlor." M. Verduret opened the door pointed out, and pushed Prosper into the little parlor, whispering as he did so: "Go in, and keep your presence of mind." But this injunction was useless. The instant he cast his eyes around the room into which he had so unceremoniously been pushed without warning, Prosper exclaimed in a startled voice: "Madeleine." It was indeed M. Fauvel's niece, looking more beautiful than ever. Hers was that calm, dignified beauty, which imposes admiration and respect. Standing in the middle of the room, near a table covered with silks and satins, she was arranging a skirt of red velvet embroidered in gold; probably the dress she was to wear as maid of honor to Catherine de Medicis. At sight of Prosper, all the blood rushed to her face, and her beautiful eyes half closed, as if she were about to faint; she clung to the table to prevent herself from falling. Prosper well knew that Madeleine was not one of those cold-hearted women whom nothing could disturb, and who feel sensations, but never a true sentiment. Of a tender, dreamy nature, she be-trayed in the minute details of her life the most exquisite delicacy. But she was also proud, and incapable of in any way violating her conscience. When duty spoke, she obeyed. She recovered from her momentary weakness, and the soft expression of her eyes changed to one of haughty resentment. In an offended tone, she said: His curled tone, she said: "What has emboldened you, monsieur, to be watching my movements? Who gave you permission to follow me, to enter this house?" Prosper was certainly innocent. He would have given worlds to explain what had just happened, but he was powerless, and could only remain silent. "You promised me upon your honor, monsieur," continued Madeleine, "that you would never again seek my presence. Is this the way you keep your word?" "I did promise, mademoiselle, but—" He stopped. "Oh, speak!" "So many things have happened since that terrible day, that I think I am excusable in forgetting, for one hour, an outtorn from me in a moment of blind weakness. It is to chance, at least to another will than my own, that I am indebted for the happiness of once more finding myself near you. Alas! the instant I saw you my heart bounded with joy. I did not think—no, I could not think—that you would prove more pitiless than strangers have been, that you would cast me off when I am so miserable and heart-broken." Had not Prosper been so agitated, he could have read in the eyes of Madeline—those beautiful eyes which had so long been the arbiters of his destiny—the signs of a great inward struggle. It was, however, in a firm voice that ° = . - i EN NY 7 » cs ; BS. SATURDAY. ... .JUNE 23RD, 1906 ‘he same time. You suger, I suffer with you; I pity you as a sister would pity a beloved brother.” “A sinter!” said Prosper, bitterly. “Yea, that was the word you used the ay you banished me from your pres- noe. A sister? ‘Then why during three years did you delude me with vain hopes? Was I a broth- er to you the day we went to Notre Dame de Fourvieres—that day, when, ‘at the foot of the altar, we swore to love each other forever and ever, ang you fastened around my neck a holy relic and said: ‘Wear this always for my sake, never part from it, and it will bring you good fortune!’ ” Madeleine attempted to interrupt him by a supplicating gesture; he would not heed it, but continued with increased bitterness: “One month after that happy day— @ year ago—you gave me back my Promise, told me to consider myself free from any engagement, and never to come near you again. If 1 could have discovered in what way I have offended you. But no, you refused to explain. You drove me away, and to obey you I told everyone that 1 had left you of my own accord. You told me that an invincible obstacle had arisen between us, and I be- Hieved you, fool that T was! The ob- stacle was your own heart, Madeleine. I have always worn the medal; but it has not brought me happiness or good fortune.” As white and motionless as a statue, Madeleine stood with bowed head be- fore the storm of passionate re- proach. “J told you to forget me,” she mur- mured. “Forget!” exclaimed Prosper, ex- citedly, “forget! Can I forget! Is it in my power to stop by an. effort of will the circulation of my blood? Abt you have never loved! To forget, as to stop the beatings of the heart, there is but one means—death!” ‘This word, uttered with the fixed determination of a desperate, reck- Jess man, caused Madeleine to shud- der. “Miserable man!” she exclaimed. “Yes, miserable man, and a thou- gand times more miserable than you can imagine? You can never under- atand the tortures T have suffered when for 9 year I would awake every morning, and say to myself: “It in all over, xbe hus ceased to love me!” ‘This great sorrew stared me in the face day and night in spite of all my ef- forts to dispel it. And you speak of forgetfulness! 1 sought it at the bot- tom of poisoned cups, but- found it not. I tried to extinguish this mem- ory of the past, that tears my heart to shreds like a devouring flame; in vain. When the body succumbed, the pitiless heart kept wateh. With’ this corroding torture making life a burden, do you wonder that I should aeek rest which can only be obtained by suicide?” “{ forbla you to utter that word,” “You forget, Madeleine, that you have no right to forbid me, unless you Jove me. Love would make you all powerful, and me obedient.” With an imperious gesture, Made- Jeine interrupted him as if she wished to speak, and perhaps to explain all, to exculpate herself. But a sudden thought stopped her; she clasped her hands despairingly, and cried: “My God! this suffering is beyond endurance!” Prosper seemed to misconstrue her words. “Your pity comes too Inte,” he said. “There is no happiness in store for ‘one like myself,whohas had a glimpse of divine felicity, had the cup of bliss held to his lips, and then dashed to the ground. There is nothing left to attach me to life. You have de- stroyed my holiest beliefs; I came forth from prison disgfaced by my enemies; what is to become of me? Vainly do I question the future; for me there is no hope of happiness. I Jook around me to see nothing but abandonment, ignominy, and de- pair!” “Prosper, my brother, my friend, if you only knew—" “I know but one thing, Madeleine, and that is, that you no longer love me, and that I lore you more madly than ever. Oh, Madeleine, God only knows how I love you!" ‘He was silent. “He hoped for an answer. None came. But suddenly the silence was brok- ‘en by a stifled sob. eal r7at Madeleine's maid, who, seat- @ corner, was weeping bitterly. Madeleine had forgotten her pres- ence. Prosper had been so surprised at finding Madeleine when he entered the room, that he kept his eyes fast- ened upon her face, and never once looked about bim to see if anyone else were present. ‘He turned m surprise, and looked at the weeping woman. He was not mistaken; this neatly dressed waiting-maid was Nina Gip- sy. Prosner was so startled tha) he he. 1¢ could never love any woman but Madeleine, that if his love were ‘aot reciprocated he would kill him- ie as be hed nothing else to live Prosper could judge of her suffer- ings by his own. For she was wound- ‘ed not only in the present, but in the past, What must be her humiliation and anger on hearing the miserable part which Prosper, in his disap- Pointed love, had imposed upon her? ‘He was astonished that Gipsy—vio- lence itself—remained silently weep- ing instead of rising and bitterly de- nouncing him. Meanwhile Madeleire tad succeed- ed in recovering her usual calmnoss. Slowly and almost unconsciously, she had put ‘on her bownet and skawl, which were lying on the sofa. ‘Then she approached Prosper, and said: “Why did youscome here? We both have need of all the courage we can command. You are unhappy, Prosper: I am more than unhappy, I am most wretched. You have a right to com- plain; I have not the right to shed a tear. While my heart is slowly breaking, I muxt wear a smiling face. You con seek consolation in the bosom of a friend; 1 can have no con- fidant, but God.” Prosper tried to murmur a reply, but his pale lips refused to articulate; he was stifling. “Lwish to tell you." continued Madeleine, “that I have forgotten nothing. But oh! let not this knowl- elge give you ony hope: the future is blank for us, but if you love me you will live. You will not, I know, add to my already heavy burden of sorrow, the agony of mourning your death, For my sake, live; live the life of a good man, and perhaps the day will come when T can justify myself in your eyes, And now, oh my brother, oh my only friend, adieu! adieu!” She prested a kiss upon his brow, and rushed from the room, followed by Nina Gipsy Prosper was alone. He seemed to be awaking from a troubled dream. He tried to think oyer what had just happened, and asked himself if he were losing his mind, or whether he had really spoken to Madeleine and seen Gipay? He was obliged to attribute all this to the mysterious power of the strange man whom he had seen for the first time that very morning, How did he gain this wonderful power of controlling -events to suit his own purposes? He seemed to have anticipated ev- lerything, to know everything. He was acquainted with Cavaillon, He knew all Madeleine's movements; he had made even Gipsy become humble and subminaive. Thinking all this, Prosper had reached such a degree of exaspera- tion, that when M. Verduret entered the little parlor, he strode toward him white with rage, and in a harsh, threatening voice, said to him: “Who are you? The stout man did not show any sur- prise at this burst of anger, but qui- etly answered: “A friend of your father’s, did you not know it?” have been surprised into being influ: enced by a stranger, but now—" “Do you want my biography —what Thave been, what [ am, and what I may be? What difference does it make to you? 1 told you that 1 would save you; the main point is that I am saving you.” “Still I have the right to ask by what means you are saving me.” “What good will it do you to know what my plans are?” “In order to decide whether I will accept or reject them.” “But suppose 1 guarantee success?” “That fs not sufficient, monsieur. 1 do not choose to be any longer de- prived of my own free will, to be ex- posed without warning, to trials like those I have undergone to-day. A man of my age must know what he is doing?” “A man of your age, Prosper, when he is blind, takes a guide, and does not undertake to point out the way to his leader.” The half-bantering, half-commis- erating tone of M. Verduret was not calculated to calm Prosper's irrita- tion. “That being the case, monsicur,” he eried, “I will thank you for your Past services, wnd decline them. for the future, as I have no need of them. If I attempted to defend my honor amd my life, it wos beeause I hoped that Madeleine would be restored to me. I have been convineed to-day that all is at an end between us; I retire from the struggle, and care not what becomes of me now.” Prosper was so decided, that M. Verduret seenied alarmed. “You must’ be mad,” he finally said. “No, unfortunately Tam not. Made- leine has ceased to love me, and of what importance ix anything else?” THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ‘Dy this generous girt comes ee tyne her love and what she to be her duty. Were you not convinced of her love when she ‘bade you farewell?” “She loves me, she is free, and yet ‘she shuns me.” “No, she is not free! In breaking off her engagement with you, she was governed by some powerful, irrepress- ible event. She is sacrificing herself —for whom? We shall soon know; and the secret of her self-sacrifice will discover to us the secret of the plot against you.” As M. Verduret spoke, Prosper felt all his resolutions of revolt slowly melting away, and the place taken by confidence and hope. “It what you say were true!” he mournfully said. “Foolish young man! Why do you persiat in obstinately shutting your eyes to the proof I place before you? Can you not see that Mademoiselle Madeleine knows who the thief is? Yes, you need not look so shocked; she knows the thief, but no human power can tear it from her. She sacri- fices you, but then she almost has the right, since she first sacrificed her- seit.” Prosper was almost convinced; and it nearly broke his heart to leave this little parlor where he had seen Made- leine. “Alost™ he said, pressing M. Ver- duret's hand, “you must think me a ridiculous fool! but you don't know how I suifer.” The man with the red whiskers sad- ly shook his bead, and his voice sound- ed very unsteady, as he replied in a low tone: “What you suffer, I have suffered. Like you, I loved, not a pure, noble girl, yet a girl fair to look upon. For three years I wax at her feet, a slave to her every whim; when, one day, she suddenly deserted me who adored her, to throw herself in the arms of a man who despised her. ‘Then, like you, I wished to die, Neither threats nor entreaties could induce her to re- turn to me. Passion never reasons, and she loved my rival.” “And did you know this rival?” 1 knew him." “And you did not seek revenge?” “No,” replied M. Verduret, with a singular expression, “no; fate took charge of my vengeance.” For 1 moment Prosper was silent; then he said “I have finally decided, monsicur. My honor is a sacred trust for which T must account to my family. Tam ready to follow you to the end of the world; dispose of me as you judge proper.” That same day Proser, faithful to his promise, sold his furniture, and wrote a letter to his friends announe- ing his intended departure for San Francisco. In the evening he and M. Verduret installed themselves in the Archangel. Mme. Alexandre gave Prosper her prettiest room, but it was very ugly compared with the coquettish little parlor on the Rue Chaptal. His state of mind did not permit him, however, to notice the difference between his former and present quarters, He lay on an old sofa, meditating upon the events of the day, and feeling a bitter satisfaction in his isolated condition. About eleven o’clock-he thought he would raise the window, and let the cool air fan his burning brow; aa he did so a pice of paper was blown from among the folda of the window- curtain and lay at his fect on the floor. Prosper mechanically picked it up, and looked at it, Tt was covered with writing, the handwriting of Nina Gipsy; he could not be mistaken about that Tt was the fragment of a torn let- ter; and, if the half sentences did not convey any clear meaning, they were sufficient to lead the mind into all sorts of conjectures The fragment read as follows: “of M. Raoul, Lhave been very im... plotted against him, of whom never. warn Prosper, and then....ccsses000 Rese ttlend hes vcsc5<i5-5.0scseseenes hand of Mile. Ma...." Prosper never closed his eyes dur- Ine that nivht TO BE CONTINUED. DRINKERS TAKE HEED. Corporations and Business Firms Be coming More Strict Regarding Employing Drinkers. Over 2,000,000 of the best positions in the United Siates are clore4 to men who drink, In the: centers of business men who are placed in positions of trust must be bonded by bonding compantes, and not by their friends. One of the main questions that a bonding company asks of one to be bonded is “Do you drink intoxicating liquors?” and they will not bond one who fs given to drink. ‘The Pennsylvania Railroad company not only insists on {ts men being sober but insists on their keeping out of the way of temptation. On one division the trainmen were given orders not to stop over night at the end of their division at a hotel that had a bar. The hotel near the depot closed the bar because they preferred the patronage of the railroad without drink rather than to Jose this patronage and retain the sale of drink. In Cincinnati a railroad employe Mved next door to a saloon. He was much surprised one morning to get a notice from headquarters to change his place of residence or give up bis position with the railroad. The only explanation given was that the railroad company did not care for any of its employes to be so closely associated with any sa- Toon. Yet there are those who are demand- ing that a saloon shall be placed in every soldier's camp. WHO PAYS THE BILLS.? An Important Question Which “the “Tax Payer Should Try to Answer. In Burlington, Vt. in one month, under license, 44 drunks took their al- ternative sentence of ten days in jail (Who boards the drunks?) In St, Al bans, in three months, 77 men took Sheff ten days in fatl~ (Who paid the ‘bilis?) In Kalkaska, Mieb., the chief clcct na large department store felt it t ’e his duty as a citizen to complatr gainst a certain saloon keeper, and he id so, and the saloon keeper had tc say the penalty of his violation o: aw. The next day the saloon keeper alled at the store where this clerk vas doing duty and demanded of the merchant that he discharge this clerk orthwith, The merchant remon. strated. He was a valuable man—h could not well dispense with the serv: ices of this young man. “Then,” saic the saloon keeper, “you will pay m what you owe me.” The clerk had te go. The saloon keeper, always doins 4 cash business, as against the mer: chant who had to do largely a credit Dusiness, had so prospered that he hele & mortgage against the merchant, anc the merchant (and there are others) had to bow to the saloon keeper's de- mand, and yet people would argue that the saloon helps business. ‘uaa Gee Tee Two or three years ago a western merchant did some figuring as to the cost of beer. He inserted it in a local paper as a paid advertisement and It excited so much interest that it was sent as a special telegram to a Chicago newspaper. It was as fol lows: “Look at this: Three beers a day for a year, would bring into your home one barrel of flour, 50 pounds of sugar, 12 pounds of cornstarch, 10 pounds of macaroni, 1) quarts of beans, four 12-pound hams, one bushel of sweet potatoes, 10 pounds of rice 20 pounds of crackers, 100 bars of soap, three 12-pound turkeys, five quarts of cranberries. 10 bunches of celery, 10 pounds of prunes, four dozen oranges and 25 good beef: steaks.” They Don't Pay. ‘The saloon doesn't pay. As an economic measure It is an absolute failure. The only man who makes money out of the saloon is the keeper. In Monmouth, UL, six saloons were licensed at $1,000 each, and paid thelr license fees and began business. In Jess than two weeks from the time the $6,000 License fees were paid in and the saloons opened, the “city fathers” voted an appropriation of $5,300 for additional police protection to take care of the extra business those saloons were thrusting upon the elitr. eg Prof. William James says “An un- healthy minded person suffering from all sorts of regrets where ambitions and aspirations has been obstructed, suffers from bodily discomfort, not dis- tinctly localized, but breeding a gen- eral mistrust, and state of depression, It fs this condition that develops the thirst for alcohol, and more than half of all persons who drink, oso at first to secure the temporary anasthesta from these morbid feelines, which had they been normal at first would not have existed.” Self Indicted, ‘When they tell you that there ts just as much liquor drunk with as without saloons they admit their connivance with lawlessness, for an antl-saloon ad- ministration could and would enforce the law. The saloon administration never wishes the law enforced. It de- stroys their areuments.—Amertean Is ‘sue. é GIRLS STOP A RUNAWAY. ‘Two Brave Misses Risk Lives in End. ing Mad Dash of Dray Wagon Team. Minneapolis, Minn.—The presence of mind of two telephone operators who are employed at the Twin City tele. phone offices brought to an abrupt ending the mad career of a team of runaway horses hitched to a heavy ray wagon the other morning. Tt was at the time that Miss Li Han Palmer and Miss Ella Peterson were being relieved for 15 minutes that they saw the team approaching at a blind gallop down the street, ‘The two girls left thelr seats in front of the building, and while Miss Peter. som ran to the side of the road and caught the flying reins Miss Palmer circled to the other side of the horses ‘and screamed. Between the two the horses were startled into obedience to the tugging on the limes, and they were brought to a stop within a few feet of the spot. ‘The horses had evidently been standing waiting for the driver, when they were frightened either at’ a car or an automobile and started running, Fortunately there were no obstacles, fs in the maddened condition of the animals {t is doubtful if accidents could have been avolded had teams or people been in thelr course, ane Yin ter Ge ee |. Utica, N. Y.—Suspended by three fingers of his right hand for 30 min utes in an unoccupied house, unable to touch his feet to the floor or to re lease himself, was the agonizing ex perience of Henry Stonard, a carpen ter, in Uradilla. Stonard was inspect ing a house which he contemplated occupying and he ascended to the at tie, drawing himself up through a manhole covered by a tight-fitting trap door. In descending the door dropped upon the fingers of one hand, pinning them, just as he was about to drop to the floor, only a few inches below his toes. His weight and struggles only wedged the door against his fingers the tighter. He was unable to raise the door with his other hand and ‘there he hung for balf an hour, until neighbors heard his groans and discov ered his unconscious form suspended from the trapdoor. Ohild Roasted by Young Girl. York, Penn.—Lillian Thorman, A-yearold girl, pleaded guilty” to Killing Helena Dorsey, a three-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Robert Dorsey. On Washington's birthday the Thorman girl, having become an gored at something the Mttle Dorsey child had done, placed her on a red- ‘hot stove. ‘The child died later. The ‘Thorman girl added: “I did it be cause I have the devil tg me.” Rnights of Pythi nights of Pytbias, N. A.,S. A., E. A., A. AND A, _—_— a CUD This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its SS OX progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris \\ diction over all of the cities and counties in thisstate. “Thirty males FY _\e\ are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one we SZ 5a of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything he. by J} else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be Net Perf nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find itau order Re Ss worthy of their heartiest support. aa It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalla. For information concerning the organzaition of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. 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The action of Governor Swanson in protecting William Lee from a mob and his subsequent transfer to the jail at Norfolk ts deserving of all commentation. Equally so is the attitude of Gov. Warfield of Ma- ryland who commended Virginia's Chief Executive for so doing. If Lee has committed the crime of criminal assault, death will be his portion. It is well to remember that in the matter of the mainte- nance of the law. ami the putting down lynching, there is no politics for Democratic governors are e- qually as prompt in performing thelr duty as are Republican ones. It would be well to remark that we have no sympathy with the rap- ist and the sooner the earth ts rid of him the better for all concerned. He is equalled inly by the mob that ts anxious to murder and torture him. The colored people have need to con tinue their efforts against the Je- Praved elements of the race. Ev- ery crime committed by them throws the shadow of suspicion upon every upright colored man, leading a god- jy Christian life. ‘The crime of rape is heinous and men who are guilty of it are entitled to nosympathy whatever. We only in sist that they shall be exectfted by the strong arm of the law The colored man who commits a heinous wrong injures himself first, but more than this, he injures the Face of colored people with whom ‘ae is Menetified. This should not be so, but it fs so, and it is the result of the peculiar conditions now existing in this country. We must be of good cheer. We shall reach the promised land bye and bye The outh-ole in this country is bright for the Negro, but the surface appear- ances are otherwise. ‘The proper course to pursue isto go ahead and continue to live upright lives, save money and suce ceed along those lines which have made the white man famous. Just as the better class of white and colored men begin to understand each other and commeuce to work along the lines of mutual helpfulness, some foolish Negroes of the other class will commit a heinons crime upon some white person or some foolish white person will com- mit some fiendish crime upon some colored person, It makes the situation embarrassing even though it does not break the strain of trienship. ——___. The Ransom affair was unfortunate. One side is endeavoring to sacrifice and ‘kill off Ransom in the public estimation and the other side is endeavoring to do a similar thing for Prof. W. H. Councill by painting him as a brate and void of the usual elements of hospitality 80 aps, Parent in every true white and black southerner. AGREE ON MEAT BILL President and House Committee Get Together On Disputed Points. ‘Washington, June 19—The basis of & complete agreement on the meat im Spection legislation between Presi dent Roosevelt and the house com- mittee on agriculture was arrived at at the White House. Speaker Cannon Yepresented the committee in this Instance and subsequently spent some time explaining the situation to the committee In its room at the capitol. The bill was practically completed when the committee adjourned. It will authorize an annual sppro- priation of $3,000,000 to pay the cost of inspection and wil! contain no provision for the levy of an assess ment to make up any deficiency tn the amount avaliable for this work, as Suggested by Mr. Cowan, representing the Texas cattle growers, and later urged by the president. ‘The court review provision will not be contained in the measure. This action meets the suggestion of the president. The words “in the judg: ment of the secretary of agriculture” will not be contained fn the measure, This action meets the suggestion of the president The section waiving the civil service Jaw for one year in the selection of in- spectors will go out of the proviston, also one of the president's recommen- dations. There fs to be no date on the label of the packing of meat food product. In this the president yields to the oommit- tee. The language which gives Inspec- tors the right to the packing plants at all times is amplified by the words “whether the same be in operation or eo" SEIZED A SAUSAGE FACTORY Concern In Newark, N. J. Reeking With Filth and Vermin, Closed. Newark, N. J, June 20.—City health inspectors confiscated the contents of Harry Rosenthal’s bologna sausage establishment, a small room in a Jones street leather factory. They claim to have fonnd the utensils, machinery and the room in general reeking with filth and vermin. Four baskets of meat, said to have the appearance of scraps Picked up from the floors of butcher shops, dirt and sawdust being present in abundance, were eeized by the In spectors, together with other acraps of meat which were said to be decay: ing in the sausage-making machines Preservative solutions and coloring matter also were taken by the au thorities. Rosenthal, when questioned by the Apspectors, declared that for five months he had worked under an ar Tangement with a number of butchers, who furnished the materials to be round into sausage. He said he ro celved $4 for every 100 pounds turned ut. The butchers sold the product, he Said, for 12 cents a pound. JERSEY POSTOPFICE LOOTED Postmaster's Family Exchanged Shots With Burglars, Who Escaped. Phillipsburg, N. J, June. 20.—Barg. lars entered the postoMce at Hampton Junction, 18 miles east of here, aloug the line of the New Jersey Central Tailroad, and blew open the safe and carried off all the money and stampe ft contained and articles of Jewelry owned by the postmaster. The baul is valued at $500, Herman Bigelow te the postmaster, and he and his family Feside in the building. About midnight Mrs. Bigelow was awakened by an ex Plosion, and on going to the front window saw a man standing on the Pavement. She raised a cry and the fellow fired at her. Her son ran to her assistance and opened fire on the burglars, five In number, who by that time had left the bullding and were shooting. The postmaster also joined in the battle, and 40 shots were ex changtd. No one in the Bigelow family was injured, but it 1s not known if any of their shots took effect. FAMILY OF FIVE DROWNED While Returning From Circus They Drove Into River In Darkness. Sisseton, S. D., June 20.—A family of five—C. W. Martin, his wife and three children—were drowned in Lit tle Minnesota river near Bosco, The family came here from their farm to see a circus. Returning home late at night along the river road, Martin drove off the bank in the darkness. The whole family and one of the horses perished in the river, which was swollen greatly by recent rains, Valuable Race Horse Dead. New York, June 18.— James R. Keene's famous 4-yearold colt Syson- by, conceded last year to be the best horse in training in America, died In his stall at the Sheepshead bay race track of blood pofsoning. The horse had been ill for a long time with a skin disease. His ailment had neces- sitated his withdrawal from all of this year's big stakes, including the Brook- lyn, Suburban and Brighton Handt- caps, in all of which he was the tu- ture book favorite. As a 2-year-old Mr. Keene was offered and refused $100, 000 for his colt, whose only defeat in his racing career was in the Futurity of 1904. Insane Keeper Killed By Lunatic. Trenton, N. J., June 20. — Henry Conant ,an attendant at the State Hos- pital for the Insane, died at the instt- tution from a fractured skull, result- ing from an attack made by Moses Kirby, a colored inmate of the pavilion for the criminal insane. Kirby had Deen searched by Conant for some keys, and becoming enraged at this he Jay in wait Sunday night and struck Conant with the leg of 2 table. Conant was rendered unconscious at the time and his death followed. Wife Sorter Shet By Policeman. Chester, Pa., June 18 — While at- tempting to esc2pe from a policeman, William, sins “Citck,” Horsey, a ne. Bro, was shot anc killed. Horsey was Deating his wife on the street when the policeman core on the ecene. The ne- &ro ran and the policeman chased him, Gring two shove after the man. One of the bullets entered the fleeing man’s back, causing almost Instant death. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SLEEPING LATE INJURIOUS. . clent Declares Physician. Women who sleep six to eight | hours one day and ten or twelve the next are rarely physically well, for ‘thelr dally habits of Uving are too ‘Arregular. One day too much rest, ‘the next day too little, and, as a re- ‘sult, irregular meals and disturbed order of the day, says a well-known physician. If women would sleep properly, taking just enough and that as regu- larly as ts possible, and then have some outdoor work or recreation, when the sun is shining, there would certainly be less filness or rather tendency to iMness among them. The bedrooms should be properly Ventilated at night. I think any tem- perature from 45 to 60 degrees dur- ing the night’s sleep ts healthful. ‘The windows should be open from the top sufficiently to allow the free passage of fresh alr in and out, or, Mf desired, the windows may be opened from both top and bottom. The ventilation should be so ar- ranged that the sleeper will not be in a draught, for that ts likely to Produce colds The bed covering should be warm, but not heavy, Blankets are much more healthful, for they are warm and Nght and do not make the body tired, a8 comfortables and heavy coverings frequently do. Many per- sons Ifke to sleep In cold rooms, but I think for the majority of women fresh air slightly warmed is best. FASHION NOTES. Princess and Directotre costumes lead In Parts atilers. Walst effects are decidedly shorter. All dresses are worn long except those used for walking or outing wear. For these purposes the trot- teuse gown reigns supreme. For street costumes even the handsomest and most elaborate are made decid- edly short, clearing the ground by fully four Inches, and showing the neatly turned walking shoe to ad- vantage. Shoes with cloth uppers to match costumes are smart. Light colors lead, At the best ma- kers one sees fascinating creations fn pale gray, biscuit, matse and in blue and white, the latter espectally ia Datistes. In votle, red and white checks and lovely self-colored checks tn chrysanthemum red are among the newest colorings. Handkerchief linen fs, {f anything, more popular than ever. For lng- erte waists, coats and costumes, em- brolderies done on the fabric are the preferred garntture, and “Val.” lace worked {nto most of the designs. ‘TASTY COMBINATIONS. With clear soup serve bread or rolls, baked crusts or toasts, With thick white soup serve grat- ed cheese. With fish soups, rusks or croutons, With dolled fish, Hollandaise sauce and bolled potatoes. With baked fish, potato balls, lets tuce salad With fried fish (small), lemon, cut bread and butter. Fried fish (large), whipped pota- to, lemon sauce and bread, With plain botied cod, botled po totoes and parsnips, cream sauce. With oysters, lemon or vinegar, brown bread and butter, and lettuce salad afterward. With brotled chops, creamed pota- toes and peas and a sharp sauce. With breaded chors, rerve tomato sauce, baked potatoes or chips. With roast mutton, mashed pota- to, turnip and brown sauce. With Broiled beef stenk, lettuce salad, plain French dressing. With roast beef, any green vege- table or cauliftower, Yorkshire pud- ding. With cold roast beef, horseradish sauce, salad, roasted potatoes. — — With cold tongue, potato salad, brown bread and butter. With veal cutlets and tomato sauce, rice balls, peas canned corn. With polled ham, apple sauce or currant felly. With roast pork, baked potatoes, green vegetables. With sausages, baked potatoes, cooked celery, tomatoes, fried apples. With roast lamb, cooked cucum- bers, spinach or peas, mint sauce, potatoes, With roast chicken, rice or potato croquettes, stewed celery of peas. With roast turkey, mashed potato, cranberry sauce, celery. Serve with any meat one starchy and one green vegetable or salad. The Beautifying Art. Most women are prone to under- take the beautifying art In too much of a hurry. A spasmodic attack is followed by a/long spell of carcless- ness. Patience and perseverance bring fine results to the seeker after beauty. Molst and persplring hands may be helped by dusting over them oceastonally a Mttle starch, scouted with any favorite perfume, as it is very drying. Washing them in water in which a lump of soda Is dissolved {8 also helpful, as the soda neutral izes the acid of the perspiration. THE PROPER PREPARATION. Despite Her Tender Years She Knew the Preliminaries. i William O’Brien, in his newly published “Recollections,” tells this Story of Dr. Coke, the archbishop of Cashel: “Once on one of his exami- nations of the children for copfirma- tion, the archbishop put to a little sirl the question from the catechism: “What {s the preparation for matri- mony?’ The little one blushed and Siggied and put the corner of her bib in her mouth by way of answer. The question was repeated. ‘Oh, sure,your lordship knows it yourself.’ was the timid reply. ‘Yes, but you must tell me, my ehfld. What ‘e the preparation for matrimony?’ “Well, my lord, a ttle courting, of course,’ at last came the reluctant answer from amid @ rosary of blushes.” TAKING HIS OWN MEDICINE. How He Was Brought to a Realizing Sense of His Duty. When Dr. John Dewey, now head of the department of psychology at Columbia, was professor at Chicago he had a good deal to say about the training of children. He particularly urged that they should call their pa- rents by thelr first names. Abont this time he went home one day to find water trickling through the celi- ing of his study, and on investiga- tion found his son converting the bathroom into a natatorium. Mildly expressing his surprise, he was greeted with: “Don't stand there shooting off your mouth, John; get a mop and get busy before the old woman comes home."—Chleago Tribune. ‘Gaieited to Cute. LOE Say (# iD . gis fh vi tie i | By ( ‘ ste van | f cst BOSH 3 comin School ls sending out a book showing how to shave oneself. Till—Yes, T saw It, but the books wouldn't suit “Why not? a. | A traveling salesman arrived at home about three in the morning to discover that bis wife had given birth to triplets He was delighted almost beyond control of himself, “My,” he Said, “I must go right tn and wake up Dooley.” Dooley was his next door neighbor and a dog- fancler. He pulled Dooley out of bed, got him té hurry on his cothes, brought him in about half awake, and stood him before the triplets, “Aren't they dandies?” he asked. Dooley gazed at them tn a semi- awakened state and, still rubbing the sleep from his eves, replied: “Yes; they're all right. 1 think if 1 were you T would keep that one in the middie.”"—Punch His Indignant Protest. The college freshman, who had doubled himself up on a seat In the smoking car, was sound asleep when the train ran off the track. He was thrown across the back of the seat ahead, and half a dozen men were piled on top of him. “Oh, I say, fellows,” he mumbled angrily, “let up! When you've hazed ‘@ chap once, good and proper, that’s enough! Cut It out!"—Chicago Tri- bune. Sei ie Died Clerk—The man who does the plumbing handsome has arrived Millionatre—Any oue else? Clerk—Yes sir. The decorations beautiful man, the floor fanciful man, the tiling lovely man, the wain- scotting wonderful man and the house beautiful man are all here. Millionatre—Then notify my wife that the matter repairs can be taken up.—Hrooklyn Life. It Has Been Done. “Now, in order to subtract,” ex- plained a teacher to a class in math- ematies, “things have to always be of the same denomination. For tn- stance, we couldn't take three apples from four years, nor six horses from nine dogs.” A hand went up in the back part of the room. "Teacher," shouted a small boy, “can’t you take four quarts of milk from three cows?”"— Punch. The Hard Working Artist. Bacon—You say your artist friend 1s industrious? Egbert—Very. Why, I've known htm to work-over four years on one picture. Bacon—1s that possible? Egbert—it is, He was a month painting {t and four years trying to sell 1t!—Life, A Clincher. A Chicago mother was trying to get her little boy to go to bed. “Run along, Johnny,’ she sald, “and get into your bed. The little chickens have all gone to bed. " “Yes, mother, I know,” said the Mttle tot with a quivering Mp; “but the old hen went to bed with ‘em.” —Judge. As She Understood It, “According to the old proverb," remarked the bachelor, “we should Prepare for war in time of peace.” “Well, I'm willing,” replied the young widow. “But as poor, dear George has been dead only six weeks I think we ¢ ight to wait s Mttle longer.” Rural Remorse. Said the farmer, “I'm dreadful, 1 , think; Of perdition, this sure ts the brink, It must be the rye, Of which large fields are nigh, But I drive all the cattle to drink.” —Baltimore American, ‘The Club Woman's Spouse. “Does your wife insist on knowing exactly when you get home?” asked the intrusive friend. “My wife never knows when I got home,” answered Mr. Meckton. “I'm always home before she 1s.”—Wash- ington Star. Money tm Imitations. “There is a man who has piled up & fortune by a career of deception.” “Then deception does pay? Is he &® grafter?” “No, he manufactures talse teeth.” —Cleveland Leader. GOVERNOR OF OHIO DIES SUDDENLY John M. Pattison Succumbs to Long Cincinnatl, ©., Jur> 19—John M. Pattison, governor of Chuo, died at his home in Milford, a suburb of this city. ‘He had passed a good night, and there had been no report of any serious change during the day. The early ‘news from his home was considered favorable, and the later announce- ment of his death came as a great shock to the governor's friends. Not at any time a man of powerful physique, Governor Pattison entered upon the responsibilities of his office in a weakened condition, the strain of the political campaign having so worn on him that a trip to the south was taken in November and December tn the hope of regaining health. After the election in November it was said that he was suffering from malaria, The severest backset during his ill- ness came about the middle of March, and for several days he hovered be- tween life and death. During this time his every thought seemed to be bent on a return to his country home at Milford. and as soon as his weakened condition permitted he was brought to Cincinnati, spending several weeks In Christ hospital until the physicians thought him ready for the trip to his country home. One week ago he seemed to have so far recovered bis strength that no ill effects were antici- pated from the trip to Milford, and a special electric car carried him to with in a short distance of his home, an ambulance taking him the rest of the! way. Physicians expressed a cheerful view as to the outcome of his sickness up to within a few hours of his death. John M. Pattison, born in Clermont county, Ohio, on June 13, 1847, retained his home there during his entire life. For the last 15 years he has been pres- ident of the Union Central Life Insur- ance company, As a Democratic leader in the senate he supported every move- ment for a more stringest observation of the Sabbath. It was because of this that the anti-saloon league gave him its support in the last election. He was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was a trustee as well as an alumnus of Wesleyan Uni- versity. Andrew L. Harris, Republican, lieu- tenant governor, under he constitution becomes governor during the rest of the term for which Pattison wat elected. FOUND BOY TIED TO RAILS ‘Trackwalker Saved Lad From Awful Death On Railroad. Glens Falls, N. Y., June 19. — Ex hausted and almost unconscious, Ben- Jamin Stott, a lad of 10 years, was found tied down on the rails of the Delaware & Hudson railroad between Fort Edward and Sandy Hill. A track walker found the boy and released him Just In time te save him from being crushed by a train. The boy, who lives in Fort Edward, sald that he had been seized while on his way home by two young men, who, after lashing him securely across the rails, left him, How long he had lain there he could not say, but It ts supposed that he must have been there for more than ‘an hour. THREW HER BABE INTO RIVER Woman Says She Committed Deed Because Husband Maltreated Her. Wilkes-Barre, Pa, June 18.—Mrs, Kate Wichk, arrested on Saturday, charged with having thrown her baby aged § months into the river, con- fessed to the police that she had done the terrible deed because her husband had maltreated her and had told her to get rid of the child. He claims he was not the father. She was taken to the river by the elty detectives and Indicated to them where she had theewe the child ta. BIG PARADE OF | REPUBLICANS Monster easels in Commem- oration of Birth of Party. REVIEWED = Goran GRANT Philadelphia, June 20.—A great street demonstration in commemoration of the birth of the Republican party was held, in which nearly all the Republi- can clubs of this city and neighboring tows participated. Over 10,000 per sons were in line. General Fred D. Grant reviewed the parade in front of the Union League club house, which was brilliantly Muminated. Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart, of the Pennsylvania national guards, was chief marshal of the parade, and among those in line were about 100 men who Yoted for Fremont for president. They Todo in automobiles. The line of march was along Broad street, which was densely crowded with people. Speaker Cannon, of the national house of representatives, who also was to have reviewed the parade, was un- able to be present, and sent a telegram of regret, in which he said: “I regret that I cannot join the Na- tional Republican League in celebrat- ing the golden anniversary of the Re- publican party. Under the leadership of that party the people of the republic have made progress in 50 years which, $f you measure time by extent, is more than In many centuries of the history of the race. {The preservation of the union, the economic and fiscal policy of the Re- publican perty from '61 to the present time has mde it first tn production, first a wes'th, firet ta prosperity and first tn Jet comyerention for all kinds of endrtver execs all the nations. of the worl * ceot\er=nce of the poles andar wht > toc creat remiite: lieve OF THE VERY BEST ANTHRACITE ALL COAL IN STOVE, EGG and NUT SIZES. SPLINT COAL: LUMP and HAIL SIZES. All of our product whether purchased by the Bushel or by the Ton carefully screened before leaving our yards. Good Seasoned Wood. SOLD AT THE LOWEST PREVAILING PRICES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. bees SEER ADT ION GOARANTERDS, <3 = Phone Us Your Orders, if you haven’t the time to send them. A call on Long Distance ‘Phone @@ will re- CG" Now is the time to place your WINTER ORDERS. CRUMP & WEST Coal Co., NERDS; sop oe ay cree eee, beef accomplished will lead to greater accomplishments and greater good te all the people in the next 50 years thaz has been realized in the last 50 years While we rejoice in the accomplish. ments under the leadership of this party in the past, let us, from the standpoint of practical achievements, hold fast to these policies in the pres- ent.” The delegates to the fublice conven. tion of the National League of Republl- can Clubs assembled in Musical Fund Mall, elected General Edward A. Me- Alpin, of New York, president of the organization. H. H. Myers, of Little Rock, Ark., was elected vice-president The election was conducted with a great deal of cheering and a fine show of enthusiasm. Chauncey Dewey, of the Hamilton Club, Chicago, was chosen secretary by acclamation, and W. D. Porter, of Sioux Falls, 8. D., was re-elected treas. urer. The convention then adjourned The platform adopted by the con vention in part {s as follows: “We pay tribute to our great leat. ers from our first standard-bearer, John C. Fremont and Abraham Lin coln, the first’ Republican president, to Theodore Roosevelt, our present leader, the world’s first citizen, who, through his rugged honesty, his per sistent determination, his unflagging courage and his demand for a square deal for every person and every tn: terest, has gained not only the respect and love of his fellowcountrymen, but the esteem and admiration of all man. kind. “We endorse the sentiment of Wil Ham McKinley that the principle of a protective tariff 18 sacred, but that Schedules should be changed when conditions of industry, commerce and finance demand—and not till then. “We are opposed. to all illegal com- bitiations in restraint of trade, where. by the interests of elther producers or consumers are injured or whereby, through monopoly, rates and prices of products are controlled at the ex pense of the masses. We wage no war on capital or corporation as such, but we do ask for equity and justice to all, by all and for all. “We ask for immediate legislation louking to the establishment of a par. cels post and postal currency or notes to facilitate trade through orders by mail.” KILLED IN AUTO COLLISION Chauffeur Met Death When Machines Crashed at Asbury Park. Asbury Park, N. J., June 18.—Henry Isaacson, chauffeur for Peter Fogerty, of New York, was killed here when the automobile in which he and his employer were riding was in collision with another mach‘ne driven by Isaac T. Strauss, a leather manufacturer, of Newark, N. J., who bad as his guests Misses Rena and Augusta Relasco, daughters of David Belasco, the play. wright. Both of the young women were bruised by jumping when the crash came. Mr. Fogerty was driving his car at the time of the accident, the chauffeur sitting at his side. The Fogerty automobile was thrown sharp- ly against a telegraph pote and Isaac- son was pitched out, suffering a frac- ture of the skull. 4 WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED ‘Thursday, June 14. Elthu Root, secretary of state, has been chosen Dodge lecturer at Yale College for 1907. The Western University of Pennsyl- vania conferred the dcgree of doctor of laws upon Senator Knox. ‘The University of Pennsylvania con- ferred the degree of LL.D. upon King Victor Emanuel of Italy, The American Order of Steam Engi- neers decided to hold their next con- vention at Atlantic City. A, E. Ireland, formerly a national vice president of the American Federa- tien of Labor, was released from the Kinfield, Ken., jail, having completed & sentence of six months for asaulting & bon-unionist machinist. Friday, June 15. Robert E. Roosevelt, uncle of the President. died at Sayville, L. L, after & Ingering illness. ‘The spectal session of the Delaware legislature adjourned sine die on Thursday afternoon, Solomon Herbert, a negro, was ar- rested in Jorsey City on the charge of murdering his wife in Philadel- phia, Major John W. Mish, aged 84 years, the first district attorney of Lebanon county, Pa,, and the oldest lawyer at the Lebanon bar, died of = age. Major Hugh L. Scott, 14th Cavalry, has been chosen by Secretary of War ‘Tait to suceted Brigadier General K ‘T. Mills as superintendent of the West Point military academy. Saturday, June 16. The National Editorial Association will hold thelr next convention at Jamestown, Va. Edward Flynn, a well-known con- tractor, was struck and killed by @ Penneylyania railroad train at Phila- delphia, William J. Bryan, Jr., expecta to en- ter the United States navy after com- pleting an academic course in an In- diana school Joseph Leroy, Richard Hinch and Lewis Holden lost their lives in a fire at the Allen Excelsior and Tub works at Fulton, N.Y. Monday, June 18. San Francisco saloons are to be al- lowed to reopen July 5. President Roosevelt has signed the bill admitting Oklahoma and Indian territory to the Union as one state. At the end of the present college year, Professor T. R. Lounsbury, of Yale, will terminate his 87 years’ ser- vice with the university. Two hundred and twenty-five public school teachers were elected by the Altoona, Pa, school board, and thelr salaries were raised from 2 to 10 per cent. Arrangements are being made to take the 3000 former Schuylkill countians now residing in Philadelphia to Potts- ville, Pa., on special trains to celebrate “Old Home Week.” Tuesday, June 19. The 18th annual convention of the International Pressmen and Assistnats' Union of North America was held tp Pittsburg. Five men were killed in a colliston between a freight train and a hand car on the Loulsville & Nashville railroad hear Chattanooga, Tenn. Because her parents objected to her marrying Anna Landis, aged 17, com- mitted suicide by shooting at Swatara Station, near Harrisburg, Pa. William R. Keep, former assistant general counsel for the Chicago & Northwestern raflroad, who shot him- self In the head in his office in Chicago on Saturday, died of his wounds. Wednesday, June 20. President Roosevelt has appointed Herbert H. D. Peirce to be United States minister to Norway. Grover C. Poole, convicted of mur- dering James O'Hara ,was sentenced to prison for life at Mineola, I. I. Twelve collieries in the Mahanoy (Pa.) region were flooded by the heavy rains and $000 workmen were made idle. Dr. FE. M. Sutton, one of the leading surgeons of Uilinois, committed suicide at Peoria by shooting himself through the head. While saying farewell to his wife on board a steamer at New York, Bugone L. Vresick, of New Brunswick, Ne Js: fell down a companionway and was killed. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Princienl Mariate: PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR steady; Winter extras, $3.303.50; Pennsylva- nia roller, clear, $3.60@3.75; Sue mills, faucy, $4.6004.70. RYE FLOUR firm; per barrel, $3.60. WHEAT firm; No. 2 Pennsylvania red, 884%@89. CORN Was steady; No. 2 yellow. local, 60c. OATS steady; No.°2 white, clipped, 48ec-; lower’ grades, 46c. HAY Rin; No. 1 timothy, $17. PORK firm; family, $19.50. BEEF steady; beef hams, $19. POULTRY: Live firm; hens. l4e.; old roosters. 91gc. Dressed firm; choice fewls, 12%c.; old roosters, 8c. BUT- TER steady; creamery, 23c. EGGS firm; selected, 19@20c.;" nearby, 18¢.; wien 18e.; southern, EC POTA- TOES firm; old, per bush. S0@S83e. BALTIMORE — WHEAT quiet and steady; No. 2 spot, 83'gc.; steamer No. 2 spot, 78i%c.; southern, 7c. CORN quiet and etry mixed spc BT ige.5 steamer mixed, 531¢c.; southern, 57igc. OATS dull and lower; white, No, ¥ Ay Gdic:: No, 8 s6qigte: No. 4, Cy iee.; mixed, No. eine Bui No. , 43% @Aic.; No, 4, 42@43c. 2 BONE steady; creamery separator, ex! @2lc.: held, 17@ise: privts, 2¢@gzes Maryland and Pennsylvania dairy nts, 16@17c. EGGS in eo. demand; cy Maryland and auyivanie I8e.; Virginia, 18; West Virginia, 18c.; southern, 17c. Live Stock Markets. FITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE active; choice, $5.6505.80; Pilme. $6.400080, HOGS active; prime eavies, $6.75 6.80; mediums, $6.80; heavy and. light Yorkers, $6.80q6.85; Bite 602 8.20; | rouhs, $876G 6. HEP slow and lower; prime weth- $4. $6.6005.80; culls and common, $3 GF labs Hbogt: veal calves, 7’ per 100 pouns Betsy Ross’ Great-Granddaughter Dead Philadelphia, June 20.—Mrs. Mary Sidney Garrett, a groat-granddaughter of Betsy Ross, maker of the first American flag, fe dead in this city. She was 66 years old. Her mother was Emilia Sillimon, whose mother was # Gaughter of Betey Ross. Ss A! | Py (le VDL bce eae ~ ~~ ; NA Ws Nah: a ee we” SATURDAY. JUNE Gant, 1900 TEMPERANCE IN GERMANY. Gaining Headway—As Yet, Church ‘and School Indifferent. The simple five-line cable announce- ment that the German emperor has Permitted bis army officers to drink toasts in water doubtiess seemed of trivial importance to most American Feaders, Yet it is certain to have cre- ated a sensation in Germany, where the officer who wished to be @ total abstainer bas found it practically im- possible to live up to his principles. To drink the health of his majesty in any- thing else than champagne has hitherto been regarded as a mild form of lese majeste, It would be a mistake for any one to portray the officers of the kaiser’s army as merely an aggregation of topers. Not even the sensational writers, like Beyerlein, Bilse and Von Baudissin have gone so far as this in their recent Rovels. But all of them have dwelt upon the fact that there was entirely too much drinking, and drinking to ex- cess, particularly In the officers’ casinos or clubs, and there has been a wide- Spread belief that this evil, instead of decreasing, has grown worse, particu- larly in isolated garrisons and in the most fashionable and aristocratic reg- iments of the service. Everywhere the temptations besetting a young officer are very great. He is expected to drink with every comrade at the first enter- tainment in which he participates, and 4a supposed to lag behind no one in conviviality at the regimental gather- ing known as the Liebesmabl, or regt- mental “feast of brotherhood,” which has been the undoing of many an off- cer. Curiously enough, it is the sctentists who have led in the movement rather than social reformers, and, as one of our correspondents recently pointed out, it was in Heldelberg Itself, the home of the beer-drinking student, fa- mous for its giant tun, that the expert- ments of Prof. Kraepelin, begun in 1892, supplied a variety of scientific ar- guments in favor of abstinence as op- Posed to moderate drinking. — Prof. Kraepelin and his assistants speedily became convinced that there was no in- erease in vigor and alertness through drinking. In the case of some type- Setters it was “ascertained that when these men had drunk half a bottle of wine each, they were under the delu- sion of increased vigor and capacity for work, while they actually did in- ferior work. This disturbing influence was still quite distinct on the follow- ing day, so that a second day of ab- @tinence was necessary to bring the men up again to their own standard of efficiency.” Among the students, par- ticularly among those studying medi- eine, there are flourishing abstinence societies which make the oldest inhab- ‘thts of Heldelberg rub their eyes in amazement. Moreover, the German movement has at last obtained a re- spectful hearing from the press, which ‘will be all the more Mberal-minded now that the emperor has taken his stand fim regard to temperance in the army. Octopus Alcohol in Spain, An alcohol trust has been formed in Madrid, Spain, tneluding more than half of the distillers in the country, with a capital of about $3,088,000. The basis is the molasses contract entered into with the Sociedad General Azuca- Tera, which owns most of the sugar mills in Spain, Besides these, the com- Dine has already acquired the largest ‘and best situated grain distilleries, and hopes to be able to control also the production of vinic alcohol. The pro- posal to form an alcohol trust was, at the outset, regarded with doubts ana miegivings by producers of whxt is known as industrial alcohol, when they Jearned the conditions under which the trust was to be formed, but more than Balf of all the manufacturers of Spain have now given their adherence, and among them are some of the largest distillers in the country. At present the annual production of industrial al- ‘eohol is calculated to be 600,000 hectoli- ters (15,850,200 gallons), By producing eheaper alcohol it ts hoped that the consumption for industrial purposes will increase. Alcohol is at present ‘sed almost exclusively for heating, put the purpose Is to bring it into general use for light and power, iat i Cire Belief advanced by so many famous surgeons that intemperance is an ac- tive agent in the spread of consump- tion has found a powerful supporter in Sir William Broadbent. In a striking speech at a meoting of the National Association for the Pre- vention of Consumption at the Mansion House he declared that deficient fooa, overwork, stuffy rooms and alcoholic excesses were the principal factors in the progress of the disease, and then in impressive tones he emphasized his be- Met that the greatest and most potent of these was aleoholic excess. “To be a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! 0, Strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredients is the devil!”—Shake- apeare. 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In a speech just de- livered he declared that alcohol was a distinct poison, and that the law should Testrict its sale as closely as it does other poisons. Sir Frederick, even as a physician, could find not one word of commenda- tion for the use of alcohol. It is an insidious poison, he said, producing ef- fects which seemed to have only one antidote—alcohol again. It is not an ‘appetizer, and even in small amounts it hindered digestion. It modified the nourishment of the body very much, indeed, with the result that drunkards become ill-nourished. It was true, unfortunately, that al- cohol had a stimulating effect, but tt lasted only for a moment, and after it had passed away the capacity for work fell enormously. It brought up the re- serve forces of the body and threw them into action, with the result that when they were used up there was nothing to fall back upon, so that it dispersed rather than conserved bodily energy. Alcohol, he declared, is inconsistent with fine-work and absolutely incon- sistent with surgical work, or any oth- er work which requires quick, keen and alert judgment. His association with the king and his great authority with the general pubite nevertheless will make his pronounce- ment more potent in decreasing the use of alcohol than many acts of par Mament, yet, notwithstanding bis coun- terblast, the house of commons recent- ly spent a night in throwing out Scot- land's request for local control of the Mquor traffic. ‘The English brewer vot- ed down the Presbyterian conscience. In our country the violent and suicidal opposition to true reform in the un- Teasoning hatred of the canteen, local option and scientific schoolbooks on physiology and hygiene s one of the greatest obstactes to genuine temper ance, and the ald of medicine, which every physician is more than willing to give. Alcohot and Efficiency. Recently there was a conference of business men in London to consider the question of the use of alcohol as a bev- erage or stimulant. The points put forward appealed to men where man is most susceptible—the pocket. ‘The direct annual outlay in drink tn England is nearly £180,000,000, says the Rapid Review. It is the cause of most of the crime, much of the prema- ture deaths of breadwinners, much of the filling of rate-supported lunatic asylums, much of the preventable dis- ease of the country. How about the “moderate drinker," the ordinary, average man, who takes @ little with his meals? At the conference every speaker, mevlical and lay, was of the decided opinion Laat the single glass of aico- hel, beer, wine or spirite—taken at Junch was absolutely prejudicial to the work of the consumer for the remain- der of the day. It produces—being. al- cobol—a state of narcotiam, sleepiness, inertia, disinctination for work. In business {t fs, therefore, a destroyer of commercial efficiency. There is but one time to take alco- hol, and that is with or after the last meal, according to Dr. Able, an ex- pert. The quantity taken should be equal only to one, or, at most, two Glasses of wine, containing 10 per cent of alcohol. Fase: Medetnin ‘Cutten. “It is a striking fact that from year to year the number of those investiga- tors increases who see in the so-called moderate but regular drinking a far greater danger than in the drunken- ness of individuals. Before one recov- ers from the Injury whica a small dose of alcohol occasions (€. x., one liter of deer), the injury is repeated, and so on through years until nally the condl- tion of severe alcoho! poisoning ts pres- ent without the patient's ever having been intemperate or having had a sin- gle spree.” A Physiognomist. Mistress—My husband, Bridget. is at the head of the State militia. Bridget—I_ Vought as much, ma'am. 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Sprague, of Company I, Sixth Massachusetts regiment, in the National Tribune: "The Sixth Massachusetts, to which I belonged, although I was detached at the time, was out on the Somerton road. The confederate sharpshooters had taken possession of a house just outside the lines. A squadron of Spear's Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry had tried to dislodge them, but were worsted in the attempt and had to retire, leaving one of its officers badly wounded in the road. But the ONE OF SPEARS' OFFICERS WAS BADLY WOUNDED. ONE OF SPEARS' OFFICERS WAS BADLY WOUNDED. wounded man was able to move his arm back and form to let the boys know he was alive. He was one of Col. Spear's pet officers, and therefore the colonel was bound to make a try for him. "Quite a number of the men were around the road, but out of range of the enemy's fire. I do not remember just what we were there for, but near me was the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Pennsylvania man, a German, who could not speak English very well. Spear came dashing along the road with his saber drawn. He drove every man of us into line, and made us charge down the road. The fire was mighty hot, but we got the wounded man. A little later a section of Howard's battery shelled the confederates out of the house, demolishing it. MAJOR BRAGG. He Attended Church in South, But Didn't Sit in the "Niggers" Gallery. Gen. Bragg was noted in the army for his faithful attendance at religious services. One Sunday when the regiment in which he was then major was encamped near that town he went with a fellow officer to church at Fredericksburg. It was the most fashionable church in town and the people did not have any great amount of love for union officers. The sexton glanced at the blue uniforms and then started to lead the visitors upstairs. "What are you going up there for?" inquired Bragg. "To give you seats." "That gallery is for niggers, isn't it?" "Yes." "See here; do you know where the parson's pew is?" quietly asked Bragg. "I do, sir," replied the sexton, beginning to look scared. "Then show us to it;" and the order was promptly obeyed. "The hymnals showed that we sat in the pastor's pew that Sunday," says his companion, who tells the story. "The church was well filled, but that pew contained only the two union officers." ROUT OF SECOND KANSAS. It Was Brought About by Charge of Bees and Not Men with One fine day, as the Second Kansas regiment was marching through southern Missouri, one of the men observed a lot of bees near a farmhouse, and was immediately convinced of a call to forage. He was one of the reckless fellows, on such expeditions, who would go through any adventure that promised something good to eat. As if entirely unconscious of the presence of the bees, he proceeded at once to help himself by turning over a gun and knocking the head out with the butt of his musket, cutting the honey loose with his bayonet. After securing a quantity of the sweet on the point of his bayonet he fell into line—and we fell out double quick, and more, for the bees came charging us worse than the enemy ever did, and they certainly felt as if they had their bayonets fixed. The boys couldn't stand the charge of the little creatures, and soon we were the picture of an inglorious rout. At last 'we forced the bee-general and his army into the stragglers' line, but he carried his booty safe into camp, and when we were feasting on flap-jacks and honey we felt almost like making a bee-line for another bee-route.—American Tribune. M'CLELLAN IN CHICAGO. Impress of the Young Officer on the Military Affairs of the City in 1861. "Yes," said the major, "I remember when George B. McClellan was elected captain of the old Chicago light guard. Capt. J. B. Wyman, the organizer of the company, was called away from the city by business. In looking about for his successor members of the company and citizens interested in military affairs turned to George B. McClellan, who had resigned from the regular army to become chief engineer of the Illinois Central railroad. "McClellan was at that time about 30 years old. He was, through his visit to the Crimea and his book, published soon after his return, one of the best known of the younger officers of the regular army. The light guard was then the crack military company of the northwest, and it was natural that the men should turn to the former army officer who had just located in Chicago and who carried himself like a thorough soldier. "McCellan did not remain long enough in Chicago to leave his impress on the local companies. When the war came in 1861 the light guard was not in existence as a military organization, and McCellan entered the service as commander and organizer of the Ohio troops and was appointed major general in the regular army before the real work of the war had begun. Most of his old military friends in Chicago went into service early in the western regiments, Turchin going to the Nineteenth Illinois, Barker to the Twelfth Illinois cavalry, Forsyth and others to the Eighth cavalry. "Of all the old military circle of 1857 and 1858, Capt Barker, of the Chicago dragoons, was the only one to be closely associated with Capt McCellian of the light guard, in the early months of the civil war. After participating in the Cairo expedition Barker, through the intervention of McCellian, took the dragoons east to become the escort or bodyguard of "Little Mac," the most popular soldier of the day. After three months' service the dragoons scattered into various regiments, several going to Farnsworth's Elighth cavalry. A score or more of the dragoons, who served with McCellian, became commissioned officers and won distinction. "McCellan's acquaintance in Chicago (he had been here before the Mexican war, and attended the first meeting of the St. Andrew society) took another Chicago military company east for special service early in 1861. This was the Sturgls guards, armed and equipped as sharp shooters by Solomon Sturgls, and assigned to duty as McCellan's bodyguard in the army of the Potomac. It would be interesting to trace the influence of McCellan's military experience in Chicago on his acquaintances here. I wonder if there is anyone living who can do it?" "If Ellsworth had lived a few months longer," said the colonel, "a good many of the zouaves who went into Turchin's regiment would have gone cast. The story of the military companies in existence in the several states in 1860 is a curious one. But in no state was the history of such organizations more highly spiced with romance than in Kentucky. During the excitement preliminary to the outbreak of hostilities in 1861 companies in many counties were organized for both armies. In Lexington John Morgan, captain of a crack company, went into the confederate service. Sanders D. Bruce, captain of the Chasseurs, another crack company of Lexington, went into the union service. "Bruce was given command of the Twentieth Kentucky, and later of a brigade under Nelson. Morgan was given an important cavalry command, and made several raids in Kentucky. In 1863 he surrounded one battalion of the Twentieth Kentucky with 6,000 men, and after a stubborn fight captured it. This gratified him exceedingly, but the several Kentucky cavalry regiments galloped after him through Kentucky and Ohio, and in turn captured Morgan and his immediate command. "I saw those Kentuckians when, after their long ride, they made their last charge on Morgan's men, and it was worth remembering. In all my war experience I never saw men so eager to make a capture as were these Kentuckians—some of them Morgan's old neighbors. They were not malevolent. In their own language, they "simply wanted to take John in out of the wet." But they went at it in a way to make Morgan feel that he would like to surrender to somebody else. Has a War-Time Relic. I am glad to say I have one of the famous papers printed in Vicksburg on wall paper, bearing date of July 2, 1863, with note of July 4 added, writes Alice C. Risley, of Ohio, to the National Tribune. My husband, Sam A. Risley (now deceased), was a member of the U. S. signal corps, attached to Gen. Grant's headquarters in Vicksburg. I also have a copy of the Planters' Banner, published in Franklin, La. (on the Bayou Teche), September, 1860, when it was a strong Bell and Everett paper. I lived in New Iberys during all the excitement of that time Easy Way Out. The Mald—I like you well enough, Harry, but I made a vow years ago that I wouldn't marry any man on earth. The Youth—That's all right, Fanny. We'll be married in a balloon—Chi- cago Tribune. Which Shall It Be? If we "spare" the saloon we are absolutely sure to spoil some boys. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA JOB DEPARTMENT ION WORK arter-Sheets, Half and Whole Placards, Society Cards, Minu- g Stationery. WE AN EL 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 fired and has no objectionable enter without embarrassment 2213. 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E. J. Derricotte, 505 Main St., 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 Danger. I'll shoot no foilies as they fly, I couldn't hit 'em if I tried, And if I should, I can't deny It might be much like suicide. -Washington Star. NEW CRITERION. ```markdown ``` Mabel—Did she marry well? Grace—Why, yes; splendidly. She didn't begin to think of divorce for nearly six months—Chicago Daily News. The Orators. A special providence doth seek To shield thee from their speak. However much or long they speak, There's always more to say. —Washington Star. Sure Enough. Cards, Policies, both straight life and benevolent, Physician's Certificates, Sick Cards, Application blanks, Agents Report Sheets, Rate Cards, AN WORK C is Half and Whole Society Cards, Min- ry. O is to please give them the lowest with satisf AN ELEGANT WHICH WE WILL SHOW AN Rock Room D STYLE BOND, FINE WRITE L AS A DODGER. Poster DOOR. PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYEES ARE IN EASY REACH OF THE PUBLIC as no objectionable features, the but embarrassment or annoyance WHICH WE WILL SHOW ANY ONE DESIRING TO SEE THEM. OUR PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYEES ARE COMPETENT AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF THE PUBLIC, BEING WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. PLANET DEPOTS. NEW YORK CITY. PHILADELPHIA, PA. PITTSBURG, PA. Jos. Evans, care Jones & Laughlin E. K. Thunmm., 1402 Wylie Ave. A. Johnson, 1230 Wylie Ave. C. Branum, 657 Shawmut Ave. J. W. White, 832 Tremont St. R. E. Crusenbery, 113 Hammond St. S. M. Peterson, 79 Shawmut St. NORFOLK, VA John Debona, 610 Church St. T. E. W. Perry, 2 Jones Place. CLEVELAND, OHIO. J. H. Jackson, 3315 Central Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. E. H. Faulkner, 3104 State St. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Lee Ricks, 782 Fulton St. William A. 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We furnish "cuts" when desi complete special work in our line in our line, call and see us and T LINE OF S DESIRING TO SEE THEM. braces a full 2 AT AND LINEN PAPER, ENVELOP WE HAVE ONE OF THE I OF WOO Of Any Job Printing E NT AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. OR FURTHER INFORMATION, AP John Mitch 311 N. 4th St. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. APPLY TO John Mitchell, Jr., New Phone. 478. ROBT. S. FORRESTER, FLORIST 212 E. Leigh Street, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Reliable Prescription Drug Store 724 North Second Street. BEFORE MAKING Refrigerators, Mattings, Oil-Cloths, And in fast everything that is need- ed in house furnishings. RUGS AND CARPETS. S. C. G. Jurgen's Son 421 EAST BROAD ST., between 4th and 5th Street N. C. S. Road St WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OF WOOD-TYPE Of Any Job Printing Establishment in the city. 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. John H. Braxton REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns Special attention to repairs. Notary With Seal. Frank Waller, Jr PRACTICAL HOUSE PAINTER, Residence, 1 E. Orange St. Prompt attention given to all mail ers. Satisfaction guaranteed. 1 Kinds of Painting Done Cheap. Give me a call before going else- where. Plant Decorations, Choice Rosebuds, Cut Flowers, Funeral Designs, House Decorations for Wedding Parties, &c. a specialty. Give me a call. Pure and Fresh Medicines only will sure you then purchase your Drugs and Medicine from; Leonard's Your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine lines of Of every description; also the latest designs in ROCKERS and special CHAIRS. Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. opes, Note and Letter Paper, Bill-heads, Monthly Statements, Business Cards, Financial and Order Books, Circulars, Check-books, Pamphlets. SCRIPTIONS sired and we will arrange to line. When in need of any work estimates will be furnished. SAMPLES Line PES, ETC. LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OD-TYPE Establishment in the city. PLY TO nell, Jr., ,, Richmond. Va. 'Phase, 1589. Residence. No. 911-82d 84. ROBT. W. WILLIAMS, FUNERAL DIRECTOR & EMBALMER. NO. 5019 P. STREET, BETWEEN 30TH AND 31ST STREETS. RICHMOND, - - - VA. Special attention given to all business entrusted to me. Carriages for funerals, receptions and marriages at all hours. Satisfaction guaranteed to all. A. Hayes First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets or kindly. 'Phone, 2778. THE Custalo House, 702 East Broad Street. Having remodeled my BAR, and having an up-to-date place, I am prepared to serve my friends and the public at the same old stand. WM. CUSTALO, - Prop. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. JOHN M. HIGGINS, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL, VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin Street [Near Old Market.] RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE YLANG SATURDAY...JUNE 23RD, 1906 INSURANCE AND ALCOHOL Testotalera Make the Best Risks- Immoderate Drinkers Not Taken Life insurance companies know that teetotalers make the best risks, and as a class live longer than the moderate drinkers as a class from 20 to 50 per cent. A number of actuaries and medical directors have been working on the statistics for several years, with the result in prospect that the total abstainers will soon have policies offered to them at a considerable reduction from the rate which moderate drinkers have to pay. Immoderate drinkers are not taken at all by any of the companies knowingly, though some sober up long enough to get in and then go on as before, the line between moderate and immoderate drinking not being easy to define. It is foreseen that persons taking out policies as total abstainers may afterward throw those restraining principles overboard and adopt more self-indulgent habits, and an effort will be made to provide a remedy for such cases in the terms of contract. The official recognition by the companies that even moderate drinking tends to shorten life is a good argument for the temperance societies and one with a sound statistical basis, which cannot be said for all the contentions they advance. Guarding Its Interests The registers and receivers of the United States Land offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming were instructed recently by the commissioner of the general land office to notify all persons who have heretofore entered, or who hereafter enter, any of the lands which have been segregated under the reclamation act of June 17, 1902, that the leasing of these lands to persons who sell alcoholic liquors, principally to the employees engaged on the government works, will be deemed sufficient cause for the cancellation of the entries. The officers of the land offices are giving the widest possible publicity to the fact that use of any lands withdrawn under this act, whether they have been entered or are unentered, for the sale of liquor, will be prevented by actions in ejection, by injunction or otherwise. This action was taken because of the conditions existing in Nevada, where the government work employs several thousand men. Homeleaders have leased portions of their lands to liquor dealers, and murder and robbery have been common in consequence. The commissioner's decision is likely to correct these abuses, and will undoubtedly prevent their occurrence in other sections wherein the government is about to engage upon similar works.—New York Sun. Liquor and Hypnotism. A London hypnotist who says he is able to cure the appetite for liquor explains the method as follows: "I merely say, 'You will feel an intense antipathy to wine, beer and spirits,' but, of course, this can't be done without their consent. One of our society told the son of a dipsomaniac that if he drank he would be sick, and for six years he has not touched liquor. It is the same with smoking. This same doctor had a patient who, whenever he was not eating or sleeping, was smoking. He therefore hypontized him, saying: 'If you ever put a pipe or cigar into your mouth you will be sick.' He then woke him and watched him fill his pipe. He put it between his lips, but he became sick immediately. The patient has not smoked since, nor shown any wish to smoke." "Dr. Jung of The Hague," says this hypnotist, "has treated forty-one drunkards, and has had nineteen complete cures. The suggestion aids in establishing self-control, not in establishing a mere negative feeling toward drink. Dr. Milne Bramwell has made twenty-eight cures, while Tokarsky of Moscow has treated 700 patients and had 80 per cent of cures. Fifteen or twenty suggestions are usually sufficient. Where drugs are believed in either by the patient or by the doctor improvement will follow. "Suggestion in the treatment of disease," he asserts, "has been strangely neglected, but it is our aim to have it restored. How much of the benefit is derived from faith and how much from psychic force we have yet to learn. Five thousand years ago India knew more about it than we do now." British Army Reports From the abstainers out of 1,000 men 49 hospital cases are reported, on an average, in a month, and 82 from the non-abstainers. The contrast is great and the significance of the figures is increased when we consider that the two bodies of men are so similar—of the same generation, of similar physique, and of the same calling, with the same food and lodgings—practically the only difference is that part drink and part do not. Yet just this "little" difference makes a difference of almost 50 per cent in the slick list. Rear Admiral Barker indorsed the navy system of no-canteen so emphatically that the army officers are again confronted with the need for explaining why the military establishment on land needs something that the military establishment on sea can get along without so finely. Shephards believe the wool on a sheep's back is an unfalling barometer The curler the wool the finer will be the weather. INTEMPERANCE IN PANAMA. Commissioner Adopt Stringent Rules Against Intemperance. Gen. Davis, in talking to the members of the house committee, says, and all other American officials agree with his statement, that so great a tendency toward drink has manifested itself on the part of a goodly percentage of the men brought here, that many of them have had to be sent back home. They sent back 20 out of 100. If there is one thing upon which the canal officials are going to insist beyond all others, it is temperance—so-briety—on the part of all employees. The necessity for this is absolute. The health problem down here is not a particularly difficult one to men who keep alcohol out of their systems, and the moment Mr. Wallace or Gen. Davis have evidence of too great a tendency toward drink on the part of any of the men under them, those men receive their walking papers. This has been the rule up to date, and it is going to be the rule as long as these men are at the head of affairs. Men stationed in the tropics seem to think they can, without harm to themselves, drink more than they could in a temperate or cold climate. Whether they can or not is a debatable question. That those who come to Panama are not to be permitted much experimenting on this line has already been demonstrated. And it has also been demonstrated that such experiments spell fevers and death. The temptations are by no means small. The natives get drunk upon every provocation, it being about their only amusement. Into this atmosphere the young men who come to take places in the different departments of the canal work are thrown. It is the only phase of native life they see. As a bright young college man, who has been here for some months, attached to the engineering department, said: "The thing that influences so many of our men to dissipation is the absence of diversion of any kind. There is absolutely nothing here—nothing but the vices. Those of us on duty at Panama hang around our offices at night because there is nothing else to do; those out on the line are denied even that pleasure. There are no theaters, no dance halls, no clubs, and there is no home life open to them. It is an altogether desolate existence. While I have never taken a drink, I can say in all honesty that once in a while I have envied the fellows who do, for they seem to find a way to forget." The same story on all sides. A good many of the people here now are pretty sore on it all. Unless a man comes for the love of the work and finds it his greatest joy, in its accomplishments, he had better stay away. Before things have progressed very much farther the commission probably will make provision for amusement of some kind.—New York Sun. The Curse of Drink. Some striking facts have recently been brought to light in Berlin bearing on the pernicious results of indulgence in alcohol. The medical director of a large workmen's hospital, Dr. Stadelmann, says that nearly 30 per cent of the uphappy wretches who fill the large wards in his hospital are there because of the misuse of drink, and to these another 10 per cent may be added for those whose parents have been drinkers. Were drinking customs abolished not one hospital would be wanted for every three now in use and not one lunatic asylum in ten. With reference to the effect of alcohol on suicides instructive statistics show that of 300 suicides which occurred last year in Germany, in nearly 150 cases the suicide was under the direct influence of drink and 78 when the victims were recovering from the effects of intoxication. Of the remainder, 25 were children of drinking parents.—London Tatler. Chicago's Poor Beer Market Chicago's Poor Beer Market. Chicago's breweries experienced a poor year during 1904. The sales of beer did not fall off so much, the government revenue stamps issued reaching 3,829,554 barrels, or only 41,493 barrels less than 1903. With the cost of doing business fully 10 per cent higher and prices for beer averaging about $1 a barrel lower on the various grades, it is estimated that the value of the trade was 12½ per cent less than in 1903, reaching possibly $16,000,000. The mating business also was a disappointment, selling prices averaging 10 to 15 per cent lower. In spite of the slow times, local jobbars in wines and liquors sold slightly more goods than the year before, the total business in Chicago and tributary territory reaching a value of $38,500,000. The feature of the trade was an increased call for straight goods in whiskies. Moderate Drinking. If moderate drinking led to more reration, and that to total abstinence, it would not be dangerous. The trouble is that it leads to more drinking and intemperance. Fifty years ago, in France, the people drank freely of light wines, using little strong drink. But the French people have learned a sad lesson. The wines created a thirst for intoxicants, and now strong drink has a firm hold on that people. Light wines are no longer satisfactory; distilled liquor and drunkenness are the common thing. The average consumption of alcohol is 33 pints a year to each inhabitant, twice as much as in any other country in Europe, except Switzerland; eight times as much as in Canada. It is a sad commentary on moderate drinking, but a very suggestive one.—Herald and Presbyter. Everybody understands that an old boiler must be treated with care, but very few understand that an old stomach is as dangerous as an old boiler. 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Well, there'll never be any such trouble while I am with you. I have a wife, too, and she knows I write 'em."—N. Y. Weekly. "Do you remember how Count Cashnaught sympathized with America when he was wooing the daughter of the New York millionaire?" "I should say so. Why, he used to sing 'Yankee Doodle' two or three times every day." "And does he still sing 'Yankee Doodle' now that he has won her?" "Papa, I am going to get married, and myself and wife have decided to stay here with you and mother." "You and your wife will have another 'decide' coming to you, my son, when you have tried that little game. By the way, who is your wife to be?" "Our cook." "Bless you, my son, bless you! Keep her here by all means."—Houston Post. "I understand that Nocoyne had an attack of heart trouble brought on by financial difficulties." "You got it twisted. He had an attack of financial difficulties brought on by heart trouble. The wealthy Miss Van Rox filited him, you know." —Cleveland Leader. 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"But most of them are likely to lead to the consumption of medicines."—Washington Star. Cause and Effect She—Did you ever hear of a girl dying of a broken heart?" He—Yes; once. She—Tell me about it. He—Oh, there isn't much to tell. She sued a millionaire for breach of promise and lost out—Chicago Daily News. Naming the Baby "You've got a good collection of works of fiction, Smithers." "Pretty fair. My wife bought them to look for a poetic name for the baby." "And what did you call her?" "Susan."—"Tit Pits." "There's one thing I cawnt under stand, don't you know." "Then what Jack Hugger said about you is true?" "Aw-er—what was that?" "He said you were not such a fool as you looked."—Houston Post. Secret of a Sphinx The Man in the Iron Mask explained: "To prevent identification in case I am caught in an auto accident," he voucsafed. Herew he applied for a patent on the invention—N. Y. Sun. 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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 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. J. THOS. H. WYATT, Cas BOARD OF DIRECTOR REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R CHIL E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, THOM J. O. FARLEY, JN. R., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: AM. D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERTALL, H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH, D. J. CHAVERS FAIRLEY, T. T. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. 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It will positively remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. PRICES:—25 cts. per box (local orders) 35 cts. out city; eight boxes, $2.80 express prepaid. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25, 50 cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order. A charge of 10 cts. extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Address all communications to MME. J. V. HAWKINS, 612 N. First Street, Richmond, Va. PHONE, 4661. Correspondence strictly confidential. A. D. PR Funeral Director, Embalmer All orders promptly filled at shortnotice by Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainment with all necessary conveniences. Large pl hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral su No. 212 East Leigh S Residence Next Door OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT.—MA D. PRICE, Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. y filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone settings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room conveniences. Large pisnic or band wagons for cars and nothing but first-class carriages, buggies y on hand fine funeral supplies. No. 212 East Leigh Street. Residence Next Door. Y & NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night 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 plasic 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. M. B. Pablo Picasso W. H. 'Phone, 577. Capital, $25,000. WILI AM CUSTALO, J. J. CARTER THOMAS M. M. ORUMP, Scc. c A Richmond, Va SEVEN SOUTHERN RAILWAY Effective April 29th, 1906. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. 7:00 a.m. Daily. For Charlotte, N.C. 12:90 p.m. Daily. Limited, Buffet Pulman o Atlanta and Biringham, New Orleans Michigan, Chattanooga and all the South. Through concourse, Chase City, Oxford, Durham and Raleigh. 6:00 a.m. Daily. Sunday, Koyville Local. 11:30 p.m. Daily. Buffet Pulman ready as 2:30 p.m. for all the South. FORE RIVER LINE 4:20 p.m. Except Sunday, No. 16, Baltimore Limited 2:15 p.m. Except Sunday, No. 10, Local to West Point 4:45 a.m. Except Sunday, No. 74, Local to West Point 11:35 a.m. ARRIVE RICHMOND. 6:38 a.m. and 7:50 p.m. From South. 8:36 p.m. From Charlotte, Durham, Chase City, Raleigh and local stations. 9:35 a.m. No 15, Koyville and local stations. 9:35 a.m. No 15, Baltimore and West Point. No. 1, No. 9, 5:15 p.m. No. 73, From West Point and local stations. No. 15 and No. 16 stop Quinton, Tunstall, White Haven, Manor. C. WESTBURY, D. P. HARDWICK, Virginia. W. H. TATLOE, G. P. M. B. SPENCER, General Manager. Washington, D. C. SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST CINCINNATI, INDIANAPOLIS, ST. LOUIS CHICAGO, LOUISVILLE, NASHVILLE, MEMPHIS, 2:00 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. Dally. WESTBOUND LOCAL TRAINS. 7:30 a. m. and 5:15 p. m. week day. 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 5 p. week days. JAMES RIVER LINE: 10:30 a. m. daily; 5:15 p. m. week days. Arrive Maine Line from West; 7:31 A. M. *8:00 P. M. *8:30 P. M. *7:45 P. M. From East. 10:30 A. M. *7:45 P. M. *8:00 P. M. James River; *8:40 P. M. *8:35 P. M. (*Daily; *Ex. Sunday.) STEAMSHIP CO. NIGHT LINE FOR NORFOLK Leave Richmond every evening (food A& Street) at 7 P.M., stopping at Newport and St. John's, both with a round trip, including statewide and meals. Sce. each trip, in Boomer's Wharf FOR NEW SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY Schedule Effective, May 27, 1906. Short Line to the principal cities. SOUTHBOUND TRANS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY 9 30 a.m. mound for Localor Durham, Raleigh Hamble, Wilmington and Charlotte. 2 20 a.m. mound for local coaches to Raleigh, Columbia, Jacksonville and Florida points, through sleeper to Atlanta, Birmingham, making fastest time to south-west. 10 0 p.m. m. Through Pullman, Columbia, Savannah, Jacksonville and Northpoint points, also to Atlanta, Birmingham and Northpoint, making connection with the Frisco System, making connection for all south-western points. Northbound Traits Arrive Richmond Daily. 1 45 p.m. D. P. A. H S. LEARD, D. P. A. W M. TAYLOR, C. T. A. R. F & P. Richmond, Frederick'sburg, and Pote mac Railroad. Trains Leave Richmond—Northward. 5:20 a.m., daily. Byrd st. Through. 6:20 a.m. Daily, Main st. Through 6:20 a.m., week days. Elsa. Ashland acco- mmodation. 8:40 a.m., daily. Byrd st. Through Local stops. 8:40 a.m., week days. Byrd st. Through 4:00 p.m., week days. Byrd st. Frederick'sburg accommodation. 8:30 p.m., daily. Main st. Through. 8:30 p.m., week days. Elsa. Ashland acco- mmodation. 8:20 p.m., daily. Byrd st. Through. 8:20 a.m., week days, Byrd St. Proderick- burg accommodation. 5:20 a.m., Byrd St. Through. 11:20 a.m., week days, Byrd St. Through. Local stops. 2:14 p.m., daily Main St. Through. 2:14 p.m., week days, Elba Ashland accom- modation. 7:15 p.m., daily Byrd St. Through. 7:15 p.m., daily, Byrd St. Through. Local stop. stops. 9:50 p. m. daily. Main St. Through MAIN ST. Through NOTE - Pullman Sleeping Parlor. Partor on all above trains except train安和 Riemond 1150 a.m. week days and local accommodation. Time of arrivals and departures and connections not guaranteed. G. Genl. CULP, W. P. TAYLOR, Ass t. to Pres. G. Genl. $upT. Traf. Mgr. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. ORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Norfolk 11:30. Stop only at Petersburg. Waverly and York. 9.00 A.M. CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Parlor Car Petersburg to Lynchburg and Roanoke Mountains and Columbus and Bluefield to CinemaMall and Roanoke to Knoxville and Knoxville to Chattanooga and Memphis. 12.10 P.M. Roanoke Express for Farmville, Lynchburg and Roanoke 3:00 P M Ocean Shore Limited Arrives Nassau M M Ocean Shore only at Petersburg Warrington and Connects with Steamer to Boston, 'providence, New York, Baltimore and Washington. 6.20 P. M., for Norfolk and all stations east of Petersburg. 8:20 P.M. M. NEW ORLEANS SHORT STREET. Pull in to the 100 block of Lynchburg. Poters burg to Roanoke: Lunchbox burger in Memphis and New Orleans. Cafe Dining C Trains arrive from the 10 a.m. to 2.05 p.m. in New Orleans. Norfolk's Office Np 888 East Main Street. W. B. Parking: ENY B. Pass. App. Art. Div. Pass. Age. For Florida and south, 9.05 A. M., 7.25 and For Norfolk, 9.00 A. M., 3.00 P. M. and 6.20 P. M. For N. & W. Ry. West, 12:10 and 9.30 P. M. For Petersburg, 9.00 A. M., 12:10, 6.20, 6.30, 9.00 P. M. For Goldbabor and Fayetteville, "8.35 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily, 5.10, "8.38 "10.45 and 11.40 A. M., "1.00, 2.05, 6.30 and 8.50. * Except Sunday * **Sunday only.** C. S. CAMPBELL, D. P. A THE PLANET SATURDAY...JUNE 23RD, 1906 STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR GUERRILLAS ROUNDED UP. Troopers of the Sixth Tennessee Have a Lively Time with Rebel Raiders in the Winter of 1863. A lively cavalry raid in the vicinity of Bolivar, Tenn., in the winter of 1863, is described in a communication to The National Tribute from Comrade W. F. Mosier, Company G, Sixth Tennessee cavalry, dated Alvord, Tenn. He says Col. Feeling Hurse was commanding his regiment at the time, and it was in camp near Bolivar, Guerilla bands made frequent incursions in that vicinity, and one night the post known as "mill post" was fired upon and captured. The men comprising the post were turned loose, but the confederates kept all the guns and equipments. These descents were of such frequent occurrence that Col. Hurse determined to put a stop to them, and although it was raining, he mustered about 300 of his men and pursued the enemy. On the second day the colonel and 12 of his men who were in advance of the column came to a house on the right of the road. This was near a town known as Saulsbury. "The colonel rode toward the house, and beckoned to the boys to come ahead. As we passed in front of the BY THIS TIME I HAD SPRUNG TO THE GROUND. house the confederates began to run out, and we fired into them. In turning the corner of the house and going down a little hill my horse stumbled and fell. Part of the column passed over me and went to the right into the woods. I sprang up, and seized a fine horse tied close by which belonged to the enemy, and, mounting the animal, rode to the top of the hill. Coming near to where the firing was, I found Col. Horse alone and two confederates on foot firing at him. I was within about 40 yards of him when his horse feared and he went backwards on the animal's witers. He quickly arose and drew another pistol. "By this time I had sprung to the ground from my horse, and was trying to shoot one of the enemy. But one of them ran away, and Old Hurse was taking aim at the other, and had clipped a wisp of hair from the left side of his head, when he surrendered. Upon examining the colonel's pistol it was found that one of the bullets fired by the confederates had hit it in the center of the muzzle, thereby disabling it. The colonel asked him why he did not shoot some more before surrendering. He replied because he knew if he had continued to shoot the colonel would have killed him. We captured 38 of the gang. They said they belonged to Old Saul Street. We got as the spoils of war 27 carbines that they had captured from our picket posts at different times." CALIBRE FIFTY-FOUR Plucky Lad While Painfully Wounded Cautions Gen. Sherman to Remember the Ammunition. At the first assault on Vicksburg, while the battle was raging, a boy in the employ of a regiment crossed the plain where iron hail was falling to reach one in action. "How can I help you?" he cried. "Bring me some ammunition," said Colonel Malmbury, "and be sure it is calibre 54." The boy darted off, returned with his apron full of 54 calibres, and again crossed the exposed plain under a heavy fire, when a bullet struck his hip; still he went forward, limping. General Sherman's quick eye saw him and he cried out: "Go instantly to the hospital." "I can't," said the boy. "You must," said the general. "I can't," repeated the boy; "they need ammunition, calibre 54." "Go instantly to the hospital, and I'll attend to the ammunition." As he trudged away he thought he forgot something. Slowly and painfully he limped back and called out, "General Sherman!" But General Sherman was directing the battle. Again he called out, "General Sherman!" No answer. Still a step nearer and a louder cry, "General Sherman!" "What now!" came quick and sharp. "General, remember, callibre 54." The wounded boy dragged himself to the hospital and so severe was the injury that he was laid up for months. The boy's name, says a correspondent of the American Tribune, who relates the incident, was O. P. How, who was later a cadet at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. HIS HEAD BLOWN OFF. Former Wearer of the Gray Tells of the Tragic Death of a Conrade During a Desperate Charge. An account of a tragic war-time happening is related in the National Tribune by Corporal Engene O'Connor, of Georgia. It is as follows: With more than 40 years between him and the events of Malvern Hill, Capt. Warren Moseley, confederate army, was standing on the curbstone brooding over the death of a soldier in gray, wondering who it was who stood foremost in a charge of a Louisiana brigade with fixed bayonet, advancing up the hill and across a clover patch, when a shell from a gunboat in the bay took off his head and spattered his brains and blood all about the uniform of Capt. Moseley, himself advancing through the thick rain of shot with his Georgia brigade. "I turned suddenly at the terrible concussion caused by the proximity of the shell's trail of death," said Capt. Mosely, speaking of the incident, "and saw that man standing headless, with bayonet drawn as in the charge, his blood spurting high in the air from the jugular vein, and it seemed to me an hour before he reeled and fell, still holding on to his gun. To me that was one of the most horrible sights of the period. I went back and looked at him after the fight to assure myself that it was not a dream of frenzy in those exciting moments. He was there as I had seen him fall, and more than 40 years have passed with that picture forever impressed on my memory." Capt. Mossely was thus relating this story on the street corner to an interested party of gentlemen. He said he had long tried to learn who the private was, but while he was talking he had not noted that a listener in this group, long since the events of the civil war a gray-haired man, himself a man of those strenuous times, now growing pale and tremulous as the grim tale was reeled off. This listener then asked where the Louisiana brigade had entered the fight, and when Capt. Mossely went over this part of the story again a little chapter adding another event to the stories of the '60's was closed. "That was my brother," said the pale man, and the one described the affair with such precision as to convince the other that they had the identical incident fastened in their minds. The interested and saddened speaker was R. W. Jemison, and it was his brother's blood that had been mingled with Capt. Mosely's on the uniform of the latter at Malvern Hill when the one was killed and the other was badly wounded in the rain of shells. Both Capt. Mosely and Mr. Jemison have been citizens of Macon many years, but they had not known all of this one of the many unwritten tragedies of the civil war. THE GETTYSBURG GUN A Piece of Rhode Island Artillery with a History—Part It Played in the War. The state of Rhode Island has now as a treasured relic a cannon which belonged to battery B, First R. I. L. A., and a resolution is before the general assembly authorizing the appropriation of $300 for the erection of a tablet on the place where the gun was last in action. On the tablet will be placed the name of Alfred G. Gardner, "whose hand placed the shot in the muzzle and sealed it with his blood." The battery, better known as Hazards belonged to the artillery brigade, Second corps, with its captain commanding the brigade and Lieut. T. Frederick Brown commanding the battery. At Gettysburg the battery lost one officer and six men killed, and one officer and 18 men wounded, and the five batteries of the brigade were so shattered that they had to be consolidated into three. During the fiercest of the fight William Jones was No. 1 and Alfred G. Gardner No. 2 at the piece. Gardner was in the act of taking the shot from No. 5, over the wheel, when he was struck by a shell, which tore off his arm and shoulder and then struck the muzzle of the gun and exploded, instantly killing Jones. Gardner lived for a very few minutes. Sergt Albert Straight was in command of the piece, and ran to Gardner, who took from his pocket his Bible, and, handing it to Sergt. Straight, said: "Give this to my wife, and tell her I died happy." Sergt. Straight then turned to the gun and tried to force down the shot which Gardner had placed in the muzzle, but owing to the bruised condition it would not go down in spite of Sergt. Straight's pounding it with an ax. As the gun cooled it gripped the shot in the muzzle as in a vice. Refuge for Debtors The Isle of Man, headquarters of Scandinavian pirates in ancient days, was in modern times the happy city of refuge for the debtors of England and the bold, bad smugglers. The debtor especially gave the island an evil name. A sorrowful historian declares that for nearly a century the isle was a "sanctuary for the unfortunate and profligate of the surrounding nations, who flocked thither in such numbers as to make it a common receptacle for the basest of their kind." Happier days have come to the island, for it is now only the fortunate "who flock thither in such numbers." Her Experience. "One doesn't often get a husband like John," said the St. Louis lady. "No?" "No, indeed. At least I seldom have."—Louisville Courier-Journal. "It isn't running. It is at a stand-still."—Houston Post. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA TWENTY YEARS FOR KIDNAPPING. CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. Special Officers Clare and Vale main instituted a search of the vacant houses in their district, and they paid another visit to the dwellings 423, 425 and 427 North 62d street. When Vale reached the third floor of No. 425 he observed Freddie Muth standing on the rear shed of No. 427. He called to him, saying: "Hello, Freddie." Fired On Kidnapper. Freddie said "Hello," and immediately began to cry. Vale leaped through the window and stepped across the roof to the ajoining house. He was just in time to see Kean hurry down the stairs. Drawing his revolver he fired at the feeling man, but missed. He crawled through the window and followed, catching up with Kean as the latter was making for the front door. The policemen again pointed his revolver at the kidnapper, who threw up his hands, crying: "I surrender." The child in the meanwhile had followed the pair and reached the first floor as the arrest was made. The kidnapper and his captive were hastened to the nearest police station and from there taken in a patrol wagon to the city hall. With the boy, he was taken into Mayor Weaver's office, and the mayor immediately communicated by telephone with Mr. Muth, who hastened to the Mayor's office, and the meeting be- tween father and child was most affecting. When his father had ceased to hug and caress him, Freddie drew several small coins from his pocket and showed them to Mr. Muth, saying in his childish way that the man had given them to him. Was Not Ill Treated. The child bore no evidence of ill treatment beyond lack of sufficient nourishment. He had been fed on bread and milk which Kean had stolen from doorsteps. When found he held a couple of crusts of bread in his hands and his school book was under his arm. He had not been washed since his abduction, and his face was smudged, while his jacket was much soiled from sleeping on the dirty floor of the house. Kean never left him alone until he was asleep. Not since the abduction of Charlie Ross has this community been so wrought up by the commission of a criminal act. The newspapers, in order to aid the police in tracking the kidnapper, were compelled to publish misleading stories for the purpose of throwing Kean off his guard. In the letters which the kidnapper wrote to Mr. Muth he threatened to kill the boy if his demands were not met. He demanded that Mr. Muth tell the police a fictitious tale about the disappearance of his son in order that the detectives might be withdrawn. His letters were answered by Captain Donaghy through the "personal" columns of the newspapers, and apparently all of his demands were granted. The reward of $1000 offered by the father of the boy was accepted by Kean, and as a test he sent a letter to Mr. Muth requesting him to send $200 to a certain address, the remainder to be paid later. Another letter commanded Mr. Muth to place the money in the engine shad of an engineering operation in the centre of the city. The police were on hand to arrest Kean if he should appear, but the letter was received so late that when the police arrived at the point Kean, if he had been there, had left. Kean promised in the letter to send the boy to his aunt, Mrs. Becker, at New Brunswick, if the money was forthcoming. Was In Financial Straits. Kean told the police in his statement that he abducted the boy primarily to secure the $400 he had embezzled from Charles J. Cooke. In addition, he said, he is in debt, with no means of providing for his family. He said he never intended to harm the boy, and declared the statements he made in his letters to Mr. Muth that the child was being dosed with whiskey were untrue. He kept Freddie quiet by giving him candy and pennies, he said. Kean's parents live at 967 Park avenue, New York. His brother is to be ordained to the priesthood this month. It developed after Kean's arrest that he had stolen $20,000 from the Harlem Bank, New York, when he was bookkeeper in 1894. He admitted the theft. Freddie, with his books still under his arm, was welcomed home by more than 1000 persons. Mr. Muth had gone to City Hall, and Mrs. Muth, who had been prostrated by the crime, rose from her bed to welcome her child. Despite efforts of relatives to detain her, she insisted upon waiting at the front door until the crowd had swelled to more than 1000 persons. Then she withdrew into the house, and shortly afterward a carriage with the boy and his father drove up to the house. The crowd cheered as the little fellow was hurried into the house and into his mother's waiting arms. The scene within the home was far more affecting than the meeting between father and son in the mayor's office, and while the mother was listening to the child's story the house was closed to all callers. Cried For His Mamma. Later reporters were permitted to question the boy, but he seemed too much dazed to give a connected story of his adventures. In answer to questions, the child said: "The man took me on one car and then on another and put me in a house where there were no chairs. He locked the door. I was afraid and cried. He told me to stop crying, as I would soon see my mamma. I cried all the time and went to sleep. The man folded a coat and put it under me. The next day in the day time he brought bread and milk and some oysters. I cried again, and the man said I would see mamma soon. That day he went out to get something and locked the doors. I went to a window and saw some boys and ladies looking up at me. I tried to lift the window to talk to them, but the man came back. He cooled the shutters and told me to stay away from the who dows. I asked him why he was hiding, and he said the police were after me. I got awfully frightened. Two or three times we heard noises down stairs, and the man took me on the roof and we went into the next house. The man said they were policemen. The man gave me pennies and told me not to make a noise. We were going some place when a lot of men and policemen caught the man." Mr. Muth said that he did not know Kean and had never seen him until Monday. Commissioner of Education Resigns. Washington, June 20—Dr. W. T. Harris, commissioner of education, has tendered his resignation to the president, and the latter announced the appointment of Dr. Elmer E. Brown, professor of education in the University of California, as his successor. Killed By a Pitched Batt. New York, June 18.—Struck by a wildly pitched bail while watching an amateur ball game. Moran Doran, 21 years of age, was knocked sense less. He died within a few hours. Ptomaine Poison Kills Three. Little Rock, Ark., June 19. J. B. Baremore, a farmer residing near Fort Smith, and his two children, Emma, aged 5 years, and James, aged 18 months, died in a hospital at Fort Smith of ptomaine poisoning. They had eaten bologna sausage. A daughter, aged 7 years, is at the point of death. The mother ate none of the sausage and is not affected. The sausage was purchased from a street lunch stand. Coal Company Seizes Their Land. Harrisburg, Pa., June 26. — Daniel Ott and J. L. Manges of Palmtown township, Somerset county, complained to Governor Pennyjacker that the Berwind-White Coal company was taking their land for mining purposes without their consent. The governor promised to refer the complaint to Attorney General Carsen for investigation. Ladies, go to Mrs. Chamlee's the great millinery sale is going on. You can get a hat at your own price. Why go on the other side and pay three times as much for goods as you can get at 316 and 318 E. Broad Street. Special on all goods the balance of this month, bring your country friends. Best of attention and polite salesladies. MRS. M. D. CHAMLEE. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, this 20th day of June, 1906. Annie Green Plaintiff. vs. Montgomery Green, Defendant. IN CHANCERY. . . . The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimoni by the plaintiff from the defendant. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Montgomery Green, is a non-resident of that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication hereof and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit. A Copy—Teste: P. P. Winston, Clerk (C. P.) Cause of His Death A coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death from exposure. "What do you mean by that?" asked a relative of the dead man, "when there were two bullet holes in his head." The coroner replied, with a wave of his magisterial hand: "Just so. He died from exposure to bullets."—Tit-Bits. Sounded Funny A French lady, on her arrival in this country, would eat only such dishes as she was acquainted with, and being on one occasion pressed to partake of a dish new to her, she positively replied, thinking she was expressing herself in admirable English: "No, I thank you; I eat only my acquaintances." Tit.Bits. A Champion. Ma Twaddles—Tommy Twaddles, what do you mean by cursing and swearing in that horrible manner at that little boy? Tommy Twaddles—Well, ma, he was makin' fun of our church!—Cleveland Leader. No Place for Him "How 'artistic'" exclaimed Miss Gusch at the musical, as Miss Kreech finished her solo. "What is your favorite air, Mr. Crabble?" "Fresh air," replied Crabble, as he went for his hat.—Philadelphia Ledger. "Both of my grandparents on my mother's side were nonagenarians," said Mrs. Oldcastle. "Really?" replied her hostess. "My folk were all Baptists, but Josiah comes from a Methodist family!"—Tit-Bits. In the Dark. Ma—is Edith in the parlor with her beau? Pa—I couldn't find out. Ma—You couldn't find anything out? Pa—Nothing but the gas."—Philadelphia Ledger. Lucky After All Softly—I'd have you understand, sir, that I'm not such a fool as I look. Sarcast—Well, then, you have much to be thankful for.—Tit-Bits. Ran the Blockade. "This is the third time I have rung your bell this week." "Yes; but you have got a new bonnet this time and I didn't recognize you."—Houston Post. ```markdown ``` CHILDREN AND WHISKY DROPS. Dangerous Effects of Eating Candy That "Tastes Like Liquor." "Give me a cent's worth of whisky drops." The alarming frequency with which school children are buying these "whisky drops" has aroused the teachers in the New York east side schools, and they have issued warnings to their pupils, telling them these so-called candies develop a taste for liquor that will ultimately make drunkards of those who acquire it. "Whisky drops" are sold in most of the small east side candy stores. They can be obtained in almost any store near the public schools in Harlem and the Bronx. In Brooklyn the trade in the goods has increased rapidly during the past few months. These candies are sold in several shapes. The most popular is the "chocolate cordial." This is a small, round ball of candy that resembles a chocolate cream, but the center is a hollow ball, in which the manufacturer puts a white liquor that tastes and smells of alcohol. It is claimed that less than 1 per cent of alcohol is used in these preparations, and for that reason the board of health cannot stop their manufacture, but children of the east side tell of being made drunk by eating "whisky drops" and declare that some children have developed so strong a taste for these alcoholic sweets that they will buy nothing else. Another form in which these "whisky" drops" are sold is the cone. Still another form is the bottle. These are miniature whisky bottles made of clear candies, and by biting off the neck of the receptacle the whisky-tasting liquid may be sucked out. A manufacturer of this grade of goods was seen. He declared that he kept within the law. "There is only 1 per cent or less of alcohol in the goods, and that is not enough to hurt anybody," he said. At one of the large wholesale places in the east side the proprietor brought out his stock and asked the reporter to taste the goods. They were sampled, and each of the chocolate drops and little bottles of liquor tasted and smelled strongly of whisky. "But we don't put whisky in them," he said. "We make a cordial that tastes and smells like whisky, and we put that in the drops." A worker in one of the factories where the "whisky drops" are made said that no cordial was used in the establishment in which he was employed. "They buy a cheap grade of brandy or whisky," he said. "They then make a sugar water of sufficient consistency, and in this mix the intoxicant." Sobriety and Success. The announcement of Indiana's new governor to office seekers, that "no drinking man need apply," is the latest example of the disrepute into which tippling has fallen. For years, several of the great railways have insisted that their employees shall be sober men, and other large corporations have followed their lead, with the result that drinking is no longer considered "respectable." To be sure, every now and then we hear the pessimistic wall that intemperance is on the increase, but the facts show nothing of the kind. Half a century ago our representatives in congress thought it no disgrace to be carried helplessly intoxicated from the dining table. Today the sale of liquor is prohibited in the national capitol, and many of our senators and congressmen have interceded themselves actively in temperance legislation. At banquets of chambers of commerce in our large cities it is not uncommon to emit wine from the menu, and where wine is served it is untasted by a large number of the diners. The employer no longer demands ability in the bibulous line from his traveling men. Business is not got by the corkscrew nowadays. In the twentieth century scheme of civilization there is no place for drones or drunkards. It has taken our race a good many years to reach this point where it is just beginning to learn to live.—The Housekeeper. Beer Brewed Annually. The 5,353 firms of brewers in the United Kingdom last year brewed 36,-064,657 barrels of beer, and upon this they paid £13,552,833 in duty to the national exchequer. According to a parliamentary return, there is only one firm of brewers which has an annual output of over 2,000,000 barrels. This firm alone used 6,293,963 pounds of hops and 4,395,718 bushels of malt, while its payment in duty amounted to £932,-614 1 shilling and 6 pence. One Drink Too Many. Sam Hey, a saloonkeeper of Bradford, England, would give workmen only one drink on pay day till they had been home. He used to say: "You must go home and give your wife your wages. You may then come back and have another drink when you have washed yourself and brushed up." The English workman does not "clean up" before leaving his workshop. Alcohol In Russia. The carr of Russia has recently offered a prize of $25,000 to any one who will invent a process for making alcohol undrinkable. He might well wish to make undrinkable tae output of the eight vodka distilleries in Harbin, the probable winter headquarters of his great Manchurian army. What Liquor Will Do. It took a posse of the military to supress the riot in Phoebus, Va. Phoebus consists mostly of saloons and they sell uncivilized liquor in nearly every one of them. Uncivilized liquor makes uncivilized conduct. Vegetartans—Green grocers The temperance people of Helsingfors, Finland, are giving a course of scientific lectures every year and certificates are given to those who pass examinations. England's Wine Drinkers England consumes less wine than any of the other 12 European countries. At no time since statistics were put on record has the consumption exceeded half a gallon a year per head. OPEN: MATINEE, 2:30 TO 5 P. M. ADMISSION, 5 Cents. NIGHTS, 8 TO 11:30 P. M. ADMISSION, 10 Cents, WHICH INCLUDES MOVING PICTURE VIEWS SKATES: Gents, 15cts.; Ladies, 10cts Children, 10cts. First Class Order. SPECIAL:—Free for Ladies every Monday at 10:30 A. M. Free admission. Free Skates. Free instructions. Come and learn to skate and bring your lady friends. Fine and healthy exercise. You are welcome. JAMES BAHEN, PRESIDENT. BY J. THOMPSON 1113 M Auction 9 Church- 33d AND S NEAR OAK TUESDAY, JU These Lots front 30 by 12 and nicely located and in an TERMS, $25 cash on ea- monthly if desired. J. THOMPSON BRO HER FACE NOT HER FORTUNE J. THOMPSON BROWN & CO. ```markdown ``` 1113 Main Street Action Sale EASY TERMS. Church-Hill Lots 9 53d AND S Streets, NEAR OAKWOOD AVE, DAY, JUNE 26, 6 P. M. Lots front 30 by 124 feet to an alley; are level located and in an improving location. $25 cash on each lot and balance, long time, desired. HMPSON BROWN & CO., Auctioneers. Auction Sale EASY TERMS. 9 Church-Hill Lots 9 33d AND S Streets, NEAR OAKWOOD AVE, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 6 P. M. These Lots front 30 by 124 feet to an alley; are level and nicely located and in an improving location. TERMS, $25 cash on each lot and balance, long time monthly if desired. J. THOMPSON BROWN & CO., Auctioneers Gibson Girl—That horrid C.ara actually has her photograph for sale in the shops! I couldn't do such a thing for anything: "No, you haven't the face to, have you, dear?" Mistake in the Landing. He tried to land on the other man's neck But the other man had to be shown; The would-be lander was a sorry wreck- He had landed, instead, on his own. -Chicago Daily News. The Little Girl—Eve's husband— forget his name—Cleveland Leader. "I don't know," answered Mr. Cumrox. "It's likely to get him into the patent food habit nowadays."—Washington Star. One of Cleverest. Mrs. Avenoo—How greatly Mrs. Brown-Jones-Green admires her husband! Mrs. Torkins—Yes. She says he's one of the cleverest men she ever married.—Judge. Up Against It. Her—I'm very sorry, dear, but the roses you sent me don't at all match my party gown. Him—Then I'll buy you another gown. Those roses cost $10 a dozen—Cleveland Leader. e Failing. ing I don't like about nternal, half-witted, il- ways calling some- dge. J. C. RANDOLPH, President. 1203 W. Moore St. J. THOMAS HEWIN, Sect'y. 603 N. Second Street. Agent Wanted! VIRGINIA:—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Rchmond ...June 11th, 1906. Eliza A, Branch, Complainant vs. Charles H. Branch, Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the defendant on the ground of desertion, and it appearing by affidavit duly filed according to law that Charles H. Branch, the above named defendant is a non-resident of this state, it is ordered that the said Charles H. Branch do appear within fifteen days after the due publication of this order, in the Clerk's Office of our said Court, and do what is necessary to protect his interests. A Copy—Teste; P. P. Winston, Clerk. Leary and Kean, pg. Boarders Wanted! Gentleman lodgers wanted, with or without board. Pleasant location. Good service. 502 $ \frac{1}{2} $ N. 2nd Street. Attention! The Afro-American Emancipation Association, desiring that Harmony shall prevail in the celebration of April 3rd of each and every year, adopts this method of sending a circular letter to all clubs and organizations in the City and State to meet in convention in the City of Richmond on July 4th, 1906, to perfect more harmonious arrangements for the future. The future of the organization is well set in the people's mind. Therefore, to the end that all may work together for good, the Afro-American Emancipation Association extends to all clubs and organizations, the privilege of sending to Convention not less than three nor more than five delegates. We want every organization in the State to be represented. Don't forget the time and place of meeting, Richmond, July 4th, 1906, at Price's Hall, at 8:00 P. M. Agent Wanted! To sell R. G. Wells books, a colored man. Title, "Anthropology Applied to American Negro and White Man." $5.00 cash or its value in a prize to any one selling 25 books, besides the large commission per volume. Write C. E. COVINGTON, Buxton, Iowa.