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THE RICHMOND PLANET A RINGING ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY. Race Leaders Draft Model Document AGAINST LAWLESSNESS IN ALL OF ITS FORMS-A PLEA FOR FAIR PLAY-JUSTICE DEMANDED-A STORMY SESSION BUT A CALM CONCLUSION. VOL. XXIII NO 36. A RING T Race Lea AGAINST LAWLESS DEMA Washington, D. C., Aug. 6, '06 As the last official act of the Negro Young People's Christian and Educational Congress, assembled here since last Tuesday afternoon, there was read last night before the largest assemblage of the convention, 6000 strong, an "Address to the American Public." Its reading to the gathering, which occupied every available seat in the vast auditorium, evoked applause that could be heard blocks away. Again and again the crowd wildly shouted approval of the document, which is most comprehensive and touches on every phase of the social and economic welfare of the race. It was adopted with a storm of approval that seemed to shake the Convention Hall to its foundations, after which 6000 voices were lifted in the final hymn of the big congress, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again." The paper follows in full: "The Negro Young People's Educational and Christian/ Congress, assembled in its second quadrennial session, presents to the American public the following appeal and declaration of principles: "We wish to acknowledge the guidance of an all wise Providence, which for the second time brings together the various religious denominations among us in the spirit of Christian fellowship to deliberate for the common good of the race and for the spread of the cause of righteousness. "We glory in the prosperity of our common country and in the lead ing part it has taken to bring about peace and Christian amity among the nations of the earth. "We rejoice in the higher standard of civic righteousness which is being brought to bear upon some of our domestic problems, as seen in the crusade against municipal corruption and the just restrictions placed upon corporate greed and rapacity. AMERICA'S GREAT PROBLEM. "We express the hope that this aroused public conscience may be directed to America's most troublesome and complex problem—the harmonious adjustment of the races. "We wish to direct the energies of our people to the Christian training and nurture of the young, and to greater evangelical effort toward spiritual awakening, believing, as we do, that the Christian religion is a solvent for all human problems. "The negro is heavily handicapped in his upward struggle. We appeal to the friends of humanity everywhere to aid and encourage him in the development of character and the acquisition of intelligence, thrift and frugality, as means to reach a higher level of life. "The progress already attained is but an earnest and a hopeful indication of the larger development necessary to meet the requirements of our civilization. "It is often claimed that the means and effort devoted to the education of the negro race have been wasted. On the contrary, we affirm that no like sum of money during the same period, expended in any other direction, has produced such moral and material advantage to any other class of citizens or to the general welfare. We invite a candid and dispassionate investigation of the basis of this affirmation. "We are greatful to Northern philanthropy for means and service contributed in our behalf. We also appreciate the fact that the Southern States have devoted a considerable part of their general fund to the education of the negro youth. We wish to commend the fair-minded attitude of those Southern white men who stand for equal educational advantages for all the children of their respective States. "We wish, however, to state, in the most positive terms, that the prevail ing dogma to the effect that the white race voluntarily imposes taxes upon itself for the education of the negro contains a mischievous fallacy. On final analysis labor pays every tax in the world. The laborer more than any other class, bears the weight of the public burden, and is justly entitled to share in all public benefits. NEGRO HELPS BEAR BURDEN. "The apportionment of such ben- elts according to taxpaying abilities is never advanced except where the race issue is involved. This policy would be laughed to scorn in any other section of our country, and would be considered as suicidal as to mete out punishment for crime according to the taxpaying ability of the criminal. Directly or indirectly the negro contributes his full share toward bearing the public burden in every Southern State, and is, therefore, entitled to the education of his children on equal terms with the rest, as his just and equitable portion, and not as a civic gratuity. "We deprecate the controversy now happily waning, between the advocates of higher and of industrial education. The negro requires every kind and degree of education to meet the wide circle of his needs. The question of industrial, higher, or professional training is merely one of ratio and proportion, and must be left to individual attitude, incination, and opportunity. "We believe that the individual should be developed as a man, as well as a workman; that his training should lead to a broader conception of truth and duty, as well as to the performance of specific modes of service. "We advocate national aid to local education in those States and parts of States where existing conditions demand it. "Crime has no color: the criminal no race. The wrongdoer should be isolated and dealt with as an enemy to society. To impute to a race the evil deeds of individuals tends to promote rather than diminish crime. It engenders race animosity and incites the spirit of revenge and reprisal, which always finds lodgment in the breasts of the baser members of both races, thus perpetuating a constant state of hatred and strife. OPPOSE VICE AND CRIME "All the forces of law and order, without regard to race, should be solidly arrayed against vice and crime, and especially against its most heinous and repugnant forms. There should be inculcated in the minds of white and black alike the necessity for higher respect and relevance for law and order. We stand pledged to continue to do our utmost in this respect and to cooperate with our white fellow-citizens to bring about the desired result. "It is the duty of every citizen to obey and uphold the law of the land and of the community in which he resides, to fulfill cheerfully every civic obligation, and to uphold the highest patriotic principles and ideals. It is the reciprocal duty of the government to protect every citizen in the full and equal enjoyment of guaranteed rights and privileges. For any State or community to enact oppressive regulations tending to humiliate and degrade any part of its citizens is a mistaken and a shortsighted statismanship. "Equality before the law and behind the law lies at the basis of our institutions. Every citizen should have due weight and influence in making the laws by which he is to be governed, as well as equal protection and benefits of such laws. We are anxious to be clearly understood on this point. We enter our determined and unalterable protest against all regulations subversive of this principle, under whatever guise or disguise they may appear. In this attitude we believe that we represent the true American and Christian ideal. "Pessimism is a remedy for nothing. It rights no wrongs, corrects no evils, leads to no constructive results. It chills our spirit and paralyzes our energies. We urge the negro to maintain a mainly Christian courage and to preserve an optimistic spirit, even amid conditions which baffle and buffet him. God reigns and the negro is an optimist. SITUATION DEMANDS UNION "The situation demands union of aim and effort among all those who are subject to the same burdensome conditions. The counsel of division is the counsel of death. We rejoice in the growing spirit of harmony and cooperation among negroes of various beliefs and shades of thought for the common good of the race. In our united endeavor we invite the cooperation of all A- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1906. mericans who feel it a human duty to help bear the burden of those who are cast down and overborne. "We believe that our cause is just, and therefore we confidently submit our appeal to the considerate judgment of our fellow-men without regard to race or section. "Believing as we do in the efficacy of prayer, even as did our fathers and mothers in the darker days of slavery, we propose that the first day of January, which marks the period of our emancipation in this land, be devoted to praise, prayer and supplication touching conditions of our race. We invite all our fellow citizens who believe in the influence and power of prayer to unite their prayers with ours in behalf of this great human cause." Prior to the adoption of the resolution the choir of a thousand voices rendered several sacred selections. Solos, instrumental and vocal, and vocal duets were parts of the musical programme. The entire evening was one of farewell exercises. Parting addresses were delivered by Bishop W. B. Derrick, of New York; Rev. J. W. E. Bowen, of this city, who took for his theme, "The Voice of the Negro;" Rev. J. B. Rives, of Philadelphia; Bishop R. S. Williams of Augusta, Ga., and the final farewell address was delivered by the new president of the congress, Bishop George W. Clinton. Prof. I. Garland Penn. correspond ing secretary, read the address to the American public. It has not been definitely settled as to where the next quadrennial meeting of the congress will be held. ADVICE FOR YOUNG MEN In the afternoon more than 1000 men gathered in Convention Hall, at 3 o'clock when addresses teeming with advice to the young man were delivered. They were confined to suggestions as to how he should conserve moral probity, physical and mental force. Bishon J. W. Smith, of this city spoke on "The Consecration of the Physical Man to Christ;" Rev. E. J. Gregg, D. D., of Jacksonville, Fla. on "The Consecration of the Intellectual Man to Christ," and Rev. D. Webster Davis of Richmond, Va. on "The Consecration of the Spiritual Man to Christ." A woman meeting was held in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, when "Woman's Place in the World's Work and Results Therefrom" was discussed. "Woman in Social Reform" was the theme of Miss Nannle H. Burroughs, of Louis ville, Ky. Mrs. S. W. Layton, of Philadelphia, spoke on "The Rescue of Colored Girls Coming North;" Mrs. W. A. Hunton, of Atlanta, on "Enthusiasm for Race Service;" and Mrs. I. Garland Penn of Atlanta, on "Woman's Place in the Home." Other speakers discussed like themes during the meeting which lasted until 5 o'clock. A missionary mass meeting, at which fully 2000 persons were present, occupied the morning. The speeches all dealt with the work being done by the colored churches of the country for the dissemination of the Gospel both in this and other countries. Rev. J. L. Gordon, of Louisville, Ky.; Rev. H. B. Parks, of New York and Rev. W. B. West, of Dallas, Tex., were the speakers. Sympathy Extended. Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Cogbill and family of Manchester, Va. extend their sympathy to the bereaved family of Mr. Richard Drew of Washington, D. C. in the loss of his Daughter Mabel, who departed this life on the 30th alt. We can but bow in humble submission to the divine Ruler of the universe who is too wise to err and too good to be unkind. "Peace to her ashes!" —Dr. I. D. Burrell, the accomplished and popular physician of Roanoke was in the city this week. He was looking well and during his stay here was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gray. WILLIS ELLIS GETS TEN YEARS Verdict of Murder in Second Degree for Killing Mr. W. H. Childress. Buckingham Courthouse, Va., August 3.—Willis Ellis, colored, was sentenced to ten years by the Circuit Court here to-day for the murder of Mr. W. H. Childress. This case, according to local lawyers, is one of the most peculiar in the history of Virginia. No parallel case can be found in any of the law books, which will fit this case. On May 26th, of this year, Wm. H. Childress, an inoffensive, friendly old veteran, was shot down in the middle of the road between here and Dillwyn by Willis Ellis. Childress was riding to Dillwyn, in company with P. A. Grigg, when suddenly Ellis appeared in a curve of the road and without warning raised a shotgun to his shoulder and fired. Mr. Grigg at once wheeled his horse and disappeared into the woods, making for Dillwyn as fast as possible. When Mr. Grigg reached Dillwyn he already found Ellis there, hunting for a doctor. Dr. Mitchell was found, and at once, with Mr. Grigg and Editor White, of the Outlook, went to the scene of the murder, and found a crowd gathering around and Childress lying in the road dead Ellis gave himself up and was brought here to jail. At the time feeling ran high here and summary punishment was talked of strongly, but has finally quieted down. Ellis testified in his own behalf, and claimed that he shot Childress, thinking he was Reuben Jones. His story is credited, people believing generally that he is telling the truth. It seems that several years ago Ellis's wife was bent up badly by Jones, and that himself suffered in a scrap between the two. A warrant was issued for Jones, and after a trial he was fined. However, the two shook hands and made up, although there has been considerable ill feeling between the two since. The day before the death of Childress Jones paid another visit to Ellis's wife and whipped her badly, and when Willis came home in the evening he was told of the occurrence. He took down a gun, went to Dillwyn, had a warrant issued for Jones, bought some cartridges and started home again, when he met Childress riding a horse that looked like Jones's and Ellis raised his gun and shot. Ellis, as soon as he found out what he had done, jumped on the dead man's horse and rode to Dillwyn, where he told his story just as he told it in court, and sent help to his victim, but too late. He expressed extreme sorrow for what he has done, and there is considerable sympathy expressed for him. A number of good people of the county testified to the good character of Ellis. All day Wednesday was taken up with witnesses, and most of Thursday was used in an effort to get instructions before the jury. Attorneys Flood, of Appomattox; Strode of Amherst, and Gayle, of Buckingham, appeared for the defense, while Commonwealth Attorney Hub ard was assisted by Frank Moon, of Scottsville. Mr. Moon made the opening address to the jury Thursday evening and was followed by Mr. Strode. Mr. Gayle and Mr. Flood closed for the defense this morning, leaving Mr. Hubbard to close for the State. The verdict was murder in the second degree, with punishment as above noted. Fifth Baptist Church Alive. Rev. Dr. Graham preached at the Fifth Baptist Church last Sunday for the first time for six weeks. He is just recovering from an attack of malarial fever. Large crowds at tended church last Sunday. The church clubs are all thoroughly organized and the church is working like a bee hive to raise five hundred dollars in October. Friends on all sides are promising help. Dr. Graham thinks he can clear the church of debt in twenty-four months. BARBARISM RAMPANT IN NORTH CAROLINA. Three Colored Men Lynched MURDERED WHILE ON TRIAL—THE JUDGE IMPOTENT—THE SHERIFF LACKS NERVE—STATE TROOPS COWED AND NOT ORDERED TO FIRE. Not a Shadow of Excuse Offered—Law-Abiding Citizens North and South Indignant. Salisbury, N. C., Aug. 7.—There has been great excitement in Salisbury to-day following the storming of the county jail last night by a mob of 3000 people when Nease Gillespie, John Gillespie, Jack Dillingham, Della Dillingham, Henry Gillespie and George Irvin, colored, on trial for murdering the Lylery family, were taken from the prison cells and the three first named lynch ed by the frenzled crowd. rar, Lillie Holmes, Susie Glover, Katie Brown, Messrs. Willie Williams Roscoe Mitchell, Percy Johnson, James Grey, Leroy Frayser, James Gatewood, Walter Poytress, Douglass Edwards, Willie Randolph, John Goode, Willie Williams, Thomas Stuetley, Richard Lucas. An excellent repast was spread an all heartily enjoyed themselves. President Smallwood Speaks. Rev. Dr. John J. Smallwood, foun Little Ollie Laid to Rest. Little Ollie Price, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob R. Price, died in Steelton, Pa., Sunday morning, Aug 5, 6 A.M. She had been sick only nine days and though only six years old, requested to be brought to Richmond and buried beside her grandmother. She was exceptionally bright and intelligent for her age and was loved by all who knew her. Her funeral took place in Steelton, Pa. Rev. Merrit and Rev. Crittendon officiated. Beautiful floral GATLING GUNS TOO LATE Late to-night the Queen City Guards placed two large gatling guns at the jail, one in front and one in the rear. The arrest and incarceration of several well known citizens alleged to have been in the mob last night is rumored, but the officers will not talk. The governor has been notified that the troops are on duty, and it is believed will maintain order. The crowd which to-night filled the streets near the jail began to disperse when the gatling guns were placed in position. TROOPS AFTER THE LYNCHING The Iredell Blues, of Statesville, arrived here to night, sixty strong. The company was at once assigned to duty around the county jail. Large crowds had gathered on the streets, and the officers were shouting for order, and marching the people from place to place. A mob of from 500 to 1000 men assembled in the suburbs of the city and were for a time expected to attempt to liberate George Hall, a distiller, held as a leader in the trouble last night. Hall is an exconvict and has a long list of crimes to his credit. INVESTIGATING THE MURDERS The Queen City Guards, of Charlotte, with fifty men, arrived in the city to night, are patrolling the streets. Solicitor Hammer and Sheriff Julian are on the scene. Judge Long and Solicitor Hammer turned their attention to day to an investigation of the lynching with the result that George Hall was placed in jail as an accessory to the crime. The sheriff has many more names and arrests will follow as rapidly as practicable. There is intense feeling here to night against a prosecution of the lynchers. Judge Long to day warned all citizens not to enter the jail premises at the peril of their lives, and also ordered the arrest of all who engaged in unlawful assemblages. JAIL A WRECK The jail was a veritable wreck this morning. Not only had every window pane been broken, but the blinds and sashes had been literally thrashed to splinters by the fury of last night's mob, members of which used bricks and stones with telling effect. The first entrance to the prison was effected by the leaders of the mob chopping down the large rear doors. After gaining the stairway, the locks to the cells were soon battered off and the prisoners taken. In the melee Ed. Taylor, a white prisoner and Tom Broyn, charged with burglary, escaped from the prison. The latter returned an hour afterward, begging for protection. BARBARIANS IMITATED Following the lynching of the three colored men, thousands of people visited the scene. Some of CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE. Pleasant Evening Spent. On last Wednesday evening there was an entertainment given at the residence of Miss L. Irene Brown, No. 8 E. Baker St., in honor of Miss Robnett Quarles, of Washington; Miss Helen Taylor, of Canada, and Miss Bessie Wilson of Baltimore. Among those present were Misses Mary L. Smith, L. Irene Brown, Mildred Bowling, Sarah Morton, Martha Ellet, Vergie Morton, Alma Far- rar, Lillie Holmes, Susie Glover, Katie Brown, Messrs, Percy Williams Roscoe Mitchell, Percy Johnson, James Grey, Leroy Frayser, James Gatewood, Walter Poytress, Douglas Edwards, Willie Randolph, John Goode, Willie Williams, Thomas Stuetley, Richard Lucas. An excellent repast was spend an all heartily enjoyed themselves. President Smallwood Socaks Rev. Dr. John J. Smallwood, founder and President of the Temperance Industrial and Collegiate Institute at Claremont, Va. created the greatest possible sensation here in Kingston, Sunday, Aug. 5th. He spoke four times to the greatest throng of human souls each time. Never in the history of the Negro race, has anyone of that much discontented people created such an impression here in the advocacy of human rights. Dr. Smallwood is a man winning white and colored people by his amazing boldness, his profound eloquence and his exceptional jolliness and personal dignity. The white people have requested Dr. Smallwood to speak here in the City Hall on Wednesday night. Aug. 8th. President Smallwood was born in this state and the masses are delighted at his great advancement. He paid the Negro business men and women of Richmond a fine tribute His manner of denouncing lynching and peace disturbers was indeed eloquent. He said: "that all lynchers are willful murderers and the meanest enemies the South has. There is no doubt about it we must condemn crime, but we must never allow a set of moral cowards to take our civil law in hands and murder our accused before they are given a fair trial by our laws. We have no race problem between the best white people and the best colored people. The best white peo ple and the best Negroes are friends. The infamous, ignorant politician and office seeker keep up the false cry of social equality and Negro domination. Let us shut the mouths of the politicians and these rum shops. Let us shut up forever. Dr. Smallwood has done his work well here in this Southern town for his race. Miss Dolly Adams left for Wytheville, Va. Aug. 5th, to spend her vacation with her friends. We hope her a pleasant stay. Mr. John A. Turner, Jr., of Manchester left the city this week for West Point, Va. to spend his vacation. Miss Bertha E. Hughes has arrived in the city from Petersburg, Va., where she has been visiting friends. Misses Lottie A. Lomax and Pinkie Lee of Abbeville, S. C. are in Manchester, Va. visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Rogers of No. 20 W. 19th St. They will remain in the city several weeks. Mrs. P. L. Walker of Lynchburg, Va. is in the city visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. A. Moss, who has been very sick for four weeks. Mrs. Moss is improving slowly at her residence 419 W. Duval St. Mrs. P. L. Walker will be glad to meet her friends at her aunt's. Mrs. W. F. Denny, the wife of our hustling Real Estate Agent left the city Monday in company with her three sweet, little children to visit relatives and friends in Alken, S. C., Augusta, Ga., Atlanta, Ga. and other cities of the South. The PLANET wishes her a pleasant stay and a safe trip. MT. OLIVET'S DATE CHANGED The excursion of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church to Buckroe Beach, changed to Monday, August 20th, in order to secure a sufficient number of coaches. The train leaves Richmond 9 A. M.; Buckroe, S P. M. REV. J. ANDREW BOWLER, Pastor 2t PRICE, FIVE CENTS MPANT ROLINA. Lynched POTENT—THE SHERIFF OT ORDERED TO FIRE. Little Ollie Laid to Rest. Little Ollie Price, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob R. Price, died in Steelton, Pa., Sunday morning, Aug 5, 6 A.M. She had been sick only nine days and though only six years old, requested to be brought to Richmond and buried beside her grandmother She was exceptionally bright and intelligent for her age and was loved by all who knew her. Her funeral took place in Steelton, Pa. Rev. Merrit and Rev. Crittendon officiated. Beautiful floral designs from her Sunday School teacher, class mates and friends covered the little casket. Mrs. Bruce of Harrisburg, Pa. sang a very sweet solo entitled "At Rest." Dear little Ollie thou hast left us, And thy loss we deeply feel. But 'tis God who hath called thee; He will all our sorrows heal. Thy little hands are folded. Thy sweet voice is still; One little chair is vacant. That no other can fill. Farewell, dear little angel, With us you will be no more. But we shall strive to meet thee On the bright and shining shore. The remains of little Olive reached the city Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2 P. M., accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Nannie Price. Mr. A. D. Price, the well known undertaker met the remains and followed by a number of friends the little body was laid to rest in Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob R. Price formerly lived in this city and is sister to Mrs. R. Beecher Taylor. Notice! The time of the Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. Convention is near at hand and the committees are very active. As the Convention is expected to be the largest in its history, all friends and lovers of a good cause are asked to assist in caring for the delegates. The Virginia Seminary Board will meet during the convention. Matters touching the advancement of the school will be discussed. Next Sunday will be convention day at the Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School. All parties holding envelopes are requested to turn them in. A fine programme will be rendered and we hope to raise a large collection. The National Baptist Sunday School Union will meet with the Fifth Baptist Church (Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., Pastor). As this is the last union before the convention, it is hoped that a large crowd will be present. Be on time with a contribution for the work. WOMAN RETRACTS, BUT DAVIS WILL NOT SAVE NEGRO. First Swore to Guilt—Committee of Citizens Pleads with Arkansas Governor in Vain. LITTLE ROCK, ARK., July 13—After carefully reading the sworn statement of Annie Hartley, in which she declares the innocence of Govan Beard, the colored man who was convicted for criminal assault upon her and sentenced to be hanged at Helena July 18, and reading the man my affidavits concerning her character, Gov. Davis today refused to respite the condemned man. He declared he would take no action whatever in the case. A committee of prominent citizens waited on the governor to-day and asked for his pardon. Govan Beard was tried and convicted for criminal assault at the circuit court at Helena some months ago, on the testimony of his alleged victim, Mrs. Annie Hartley. At the time she was the state's witness and was positive in her statement concerning the assault made upon her by the colored man, and he was sentenced to be hanged. The Hartley woman recently became very repentant since she found that Beard's neck is to be broken for the crime she testified to his committing, and has made confessions to many parties completely exonerating him of the assault. ° Two inca ee ik ee ahaa FAR ASD = GARDEN CULTIVATING THE a Sue The Merits of Level as Against Hill Cultivation—Better for Dry ‘Weather. ‘There are two distinct ways of cul tivating the potato—level and hill cul: tivation. The latter ts the older meth od and many farmers still follow this plan, trrespective of the possible value of level cultivation. I delleve that a Bood deal depends upon the year and the kind of potatoes planted. I have found, however, says a Wil county lL) correspondent of the Prairie Farmer, that I get jug as satisfactory Tesults from level cultivation as I used to get from hilling, besides I have the advantage of keeping my ground tn better condition. During a dry year I have found Saee 3 QA &s x SIR ot 4 is SS tl & Troteal Potts Vine j Serious objection to hilling the crop, for the reason that the greater sur face exposed by hilling aids evapora tion. In the accompanying sketch, which I have taken from a recent bul: Jetin from the Maryland experiment station, is shown a typical potato vine. Suppose that the soll about this vine fs hilied. The result {x that the pota- toes and roots are nearer to the sur- face than {f the land is level on three @ides. I think that the point I wish to make ts so clear that further discus- sion ts unnecessary. I must admit, however, that hilling the potato field with a shovel plow the Jast time through may have some ad- vantages, particularly during a wet season—the surface potatoes are bet- ter covered. perhaps, and the soll will ary out quicker. Concerning the for- mer advantage I think that the farmer should endeavor to select the potato that grows down and thus avoid sun Durns. I would like to have some readers @trcuss thelr experience In The Prairie Farmer telling why they hill thetr po- tatoes. I think it will be found that when everything {s sifted down that gome will become convinced that a good many are doing some useless ‘Work and leaving their potatoes In a sworse condition to resist dry weather ‘than would be the case with level cul ‘tration. » HAMMER MADE OF PIPE. Very Handy Tool Which Can Be Mado of Odd Pieces of Iron j Piping. ‘A very handy hammer can be made for little or nothing provided one has some old ma- terials on hand, PEL EG says H. C. Stebel, Jr, St Louts county, Missourt, in a late tusne of Popular Mechan- ics. Into one- half inch tee (B) screw a piece of 2 one-half-tnch pipe CA.) waema? aman and Seo gia eres et ee eee terials on hand, FEL: EA says H. C. Stlebel, Jr, St Louts county, Missourt, in a late Issue of Popular Mechan- ica. Into a one half inch tee (B) screw a piece of one-balf-tach pipe (A) about eight finches long with threads on one end end two pieces of one-half-inch pipe (CC) 234 Inches long with thread on Both ends. On the ends (DD) put one- fbalf-inch caps. A larger hammer may be made by ‘Using pipe of larger dimensions, and the hammer can bv made heavier by ‘stopping up the tee and filling the head with lead. Such a hammer as thie has {ts Mm- Mtations, but for heavyweight work, dees than what would be required for @ heavy fron maul, such a hammer might de used to an advantage $ IN DRY SEASONS. Thorough Cultivation Will Hold Mots- ture in Soil and Keep Crops b ‘Ainiiiiae os When rainfall is short in the spring more careful cultivation te necessary, ‘m order that hoed crops may grow steadily without @ setback. Cultive tion retains moisture and the harrow or shallow cultivator should be kept going constantly. Don't work wet #otl Dut after a light shower, stir the ground as quickly ss possible to pre. Vent the moisture getting away. The ust mulch is a great benefactor to ‘the farmer tm dry districts. By using & carefully, enough moininre ix _re- tained t2 the practically rainless dis Ackts_of Colerago wo grow good ors _ ‘The seeret of the Tate Tr sol! culture, exsizint Farm en! Home fe to retain what moisture Js -evelved by the so! and rllow very little to ¢=- cape by evapozetion. This ‘ entirely Possible end the great results attend- ing this work are sufficient proof of its ‘success. BUILDING A CISTERN. Nothing Better Than Cement—Three Plans of Filtering the Water, ‘There is no better material to use in the coustruction of a cistern than Portlaad cement concrete. Such ma- terial will make a permanent, effective and sanitary receptacle for drinking water. If small cobble stones are available, these may be used in mak- fag concrete walls with a saving tn cemeat. If the cistern is to be in an exposed position, {t would be well to make the upper four feet of the wall with a two or three Inch air space, to reduce tendeacy to freeze. The inner walls of the cistern should be plas tered with a rich coat of Portland cement, not less than half an inch thick; and after this coat has set It should be whitewashed with two coats of pure Portland coment, the last coat being applied after the first has had time to become hard. In the {flustrations, taken from Country Gentleman, three plans of ar- ranging for the filtration of the water are represented tn the ground plan. As shown, the filters are constructed on the bottom of the cistern after the concrete bottom and sides have been completed. The filter consists of two walls made from a good quality of hard-burned porous brick carefully laid in cement mortar, making the mortar no more than quarter of an Inch thick, aud taking pains not to get cement on either exposed face of the brick so as to clog the pores through which the water must filter. Lime Mortar could be used in laying the Drick. but the solvent action of the soft water would in time carry the lime Away and weaken the walls of the filter. The space between the two brick walls, which should not be lees than 18 inches in the clear, should be filled with a fairty fine clean sand. The filter should extend from the bottom to the top of the cistern, and the ovrerfiow from the cistern should be below the top of the fitter. so that there can be Ro direct discharge into the filter chamber. In fisure 1 the filter ts in the center of the cistern, about three feet In Inside diameter, and is formed of two single layers of brick laid flat wise. The water enters the outer chamber, A. of the cistern, and reaches the filter chamber, C, by percolating through the walls of the filter, as indi cated by the arrows. A cistern ten SO CIVTERN WITH FILTER ARRANGE- MENT, G, Fitter in Center. 2 Filter at Side 2, Filter at End.) feet inside diameter and deep enough to contain 3,600 gallons of water, al lowing for the filter as represented in figure 1. The filter Itself will have a pore space equal to a full third or more of its volume, and so does not reduce the capacity of the cistern more than two-thirds of the volume of the filter wall, In Oigure 2 the cost of the filter will be leas than In figure 1, but the ca- pacity of the filter will be as much leas ag the filter wall fs less; still a filter of such a stze would supply an ordinary famtly with an abundance of water so long as the depth of water tn the cistern exceeded three feet. If the cistern Is given the form repre- sented in figure 3 {t would be neces. sary to use two thicknesses of brick to withstand the pressure of the water when the water surface was much lowered on the filter chamber below that of the surface outside. If, how- ‘ever, the walls are arched slightly so as to convex toward A then a single layer of brick will give a sufficient strength. The top of the cistern should be of coment concrete, either slightly arched #0 as to be self-supporting, or ft may de flat and reenforced by one or more ‘T-beams resting on the walls of the elstern and filter. In any case the es- sential point is that {t should be water and vermintight. The entrance way and overflow will provide sufficient ‘Ventilation but there should be pro- vided a manhole to the filter B, and also to the chambers C, and A. The man-holes in the two water chambers are necessary to provide for occasion- al cleaning; and there ts a possibility Dut not a probability that the sand might need changing after a good many years. FARM POINTS, Many methods of cleanliness cost only « little thought. Don't let the fence rows grow up in weeds. Clean fence rows show the possessor to be interested in his bust ees Save ali the hay and gram in the fence corners or around the trees. Easier to get it now than next winter ‘when you will be wanting tt. Where hay crop is light, there is still time to put in some catch crop which will afford forage or late fall pasture, as fodder corn. rape, oats, etc. Hen manure and wood ashes should never be mixed, except just betore ‘Detng applied to the soll, as the wood aabos sot free the ammonia in the ma- mure and it is lost. Coal ashes can be ‘safely mixed with hen manure and help to retain the valuable fertilising ingredients. Jimmie Is Polite ‘Mr. Jimson—So old Mr. Titewodd| 7% A REDDY. eh? Well, what did] THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. yOR my W OTT ie oe Jimmie Jimson—I was as p'iite as I could be. { told him thank you, an’ 1 ‘Baid I didn’t see why you always sald De was the stingies: old slob in seven states.—Cleveland Leader. SUMMERING OF HOGS. Experience of a Missouri Farmer— How He Arranged His Farm for the Animals, Last fall our 12 sows saved over 100 pigs, und all of these, except the few ‘which have been sold at extra prices for breeding purposes, are ready for market, writes a Missourl correspond- ent of Farm and Home. An aged sow Was sold and the remaining dozen gave ‘nearly 100 pies this spring. The cut ‘shows the (J-acre farm cross-tence! into four equal squares. The south- jeast quarter is further divided into a three-acre barn lot, a blue grass pas- ‘ture, d, of about equal size, a somewhat smaller piece containing orchard and garden, nnd along the west side a 60- foct Jane from the house to the barn. The fences are of hog-tight wire. For three yars the house quarter, ¢, has been in grass. This field is roughly divided by a ditch into two parts of four and six scres respectively. The former is in red clover and the latter fm alfalfa. Since its first year this ae aes ie ARIA OF THE FARM ARRANGE- | MENT Meadow has been pasturet consider- Rbly, but with so much care that t has Mteadily improved. The orchard, also, of 134 acres, is in clover. The northwest field, a, ts to be in corn this summer. The whole upper half of the farm furnished rye pasture all winter, and to May, when the fat- tenting hogs were restricted to the barn Jot and soll-fed with fresh alfalfa and clover. With the advent of spring the slop feed of the fall pigs 1s gradually changed to whole grain, and duriug the last few weeks of feding the variety of grain gives way to corn alone. All of the swine have access to coal, salt, ‘ashes and charcoal Toward the latter part of the winter, the brood sows were separated from the younger hogs and confined to the Jane. When the ground was not soft they were allowed to run by them- selves in one of the flelds. It ts al- wuys planned that the spring pigs shall come between March 15 and May 1. Until the pigs are weaned the brood sowy are kept in the grassy lane and allowed to use the pens which are floored. During this time they are supplied once a day with all the green alfalfa and clover they will eat, provid- ed with an abundance of water to drink and slopped heavily morning and evning. Oats and corn, with a iletle bean meal, are used for the slop, which fs never cooked, but is made with warm water on chilly days When the pigs are old enough to begin eating they are fed skim milk in a trough by themselves. Water and ground feed are added whenever the milk is insunictent During April, May and June a small opening in the fence will give the Spring plge a chance at the meadow, providing them with pasture, adding fertility to the field, and not materially lightening the hay crop. By the middle of June the youngest litter will have been weaned. Ax eich sow is taken from her pigs she is removed to the orchard. The boar recetves less corn than the sows, but otherwise Is fed about the Same. Most of the time he ts kept by himself and usually with more than ‘one fence between him and the other breeding stock. The lane is hia run- way sevral mouths in the year. At other times be occupies the orchard, eats blue grass in the cow pasture, or occasionally has to be confined to his pen for short periods, During July and part of August the shotes will be continued to the barn lot, Dut for a time in the latter month, they ‘Will be allowed to pasture on peas and Deans In the corn field. They will en- Joy this freedom ss long as they do not molest the corn. After that they will Spend several weeks in the barn lot again, with some opportunity of glean- ing in the field of soiling crops. During the hot weather <he swine of all ages have an abundance of shade. As ut other times, they also have plenty of water to drink, but none in which to wallow. The breeding ant- mals are fed sip, but not much corn except when it is weeded to put or keep them in fair flesh. The growing pigs are given slop untli new corn ts ready. ‘The constituents of this slop are varied to make, with whatever soiling crops are at hand, a balanced ration, The barn jot and the lane, which contain some forest trees, are always available for the hogs and there is a for any. cmorsency.” While at ‘ies for any . While at times nearly all the swine run together, yet thefr grain feed is given to them in the stationary troughs of ‘he pens in the hog shed. Every ania) isa pet and each one knows to whet bunch he belongs. In this way, those of like age ese ae together. an, eyactel attention given wo ones that need it, in order to have a fairly oven drove at selling time. 7 : A Eoodoo. | “Do you believe in opals for en- gagement rings?” | “Nope; opals are too unlucky—the ‘chances are ten to one that when « fellow gives » girl an opal engagement ring be marries her."—Houstou ,Post. Viewpoint of « Bachelor. Irie—I wonier why you are so eo ‘ular with the + dows? ) Jack—I guess th 7 fool sorry for me Deoause I haven't heen anybody's frst cholea—Chicago Daily Nowa, REMARKABLE FEAT OF A HA. WAIIAN FISHERMAN. IN WATER NEARLY 17 HOURS Boat Capsizes in Squall and His Three Companions Perish —Is Nearly Driven Mad by Crabs During itn) Exvertesne Honolulu, H. 1—Edward Duvau chelie, of Molokai, is the hero of s most remarkable story of human courage and endurance and of a mar. velous estape trom death. The fact that he was one of the team that rep. resented the national guard of Ha wall at the rifle shooting at Sea Girt, 'N. J, last fal! will perhaps add some interest to the tale of his thrilling ex. ‘pertence. _ Monday night, May 28, Davauchelle, who is a fisherman, living at Pukoo on the southern cast of Molokai, with three native Huwailans as compan- fons, left home |» a whaleboat with a Joad of fish for Lahaina, Maul, about 12 miles away. They arrived there safely, sold their fish, and about eight o'clock started in a dead caim to row back. A light breese sprang up and they hoisted sail, making the sheet fast. A sudden squall capsized them before they could ease off the sheet. The boat became waterlogged and be gan drifting ou: to sea They were at the time @ mile or two from Kaana. pall landing, Moai. They made a float with four oars aod the mast and with this to help them, two of the natives, at thelr own roquest, started to swim ashore to get help. After waitin: their return for three hours in vain [uvauchelle and his re- maining companion, Dan’ Pawaa, came to the conclusion that the two men had fa.led to reach shore, and as the whaleboat was drifting still farth- er out to sen ‘hey decided that they would thems: ives attempt to reach the shore by «»imming. They made a float of the bo: - and gaff and all that was left of t!« boat's gear and start- ed. The cursot carried them tn the direction of Na) il! and they were able to gradually wake thelr way toward the shore, When within half a mile of It they disc vered, to their conster- nation, that th« current was setting against them ond that in spite of all their efforts th<) were drifting farther away—this tine im the direction of Molokai, whic! seemed to them to be about ten miles distant, They there- fore made up ‘heir minds to swim to- ward the shore of that tsland. They se \\ \ sy) ' wy = ee) |) 7 pe SB Seemed to be making considerable headwn by sunset were as near as they could judge by the line of breakers on the reef, four or five miles from the shore, They 1 moonlight until nearly midnight, when the moon set. By this time Dan Pawaa was becoming ex. hausted and could barely keep himself afloat. ereupon Duvauchelle gave up the flow: te him entirely, placing Bim on the middle of it and he himself swam without the ussisting buoyancy of the at. When about 500 yards from the ore of & tittle rocky islet, about a mile from the Molokat coast, Pawaa was overcome with exhaustion, and = bidding Duvauchele good-by dropped from the flcat, sunk and nev- er rose Duvauchelle succeeded about an hour later im reaching the rock and dragzing himself, wounded and bleeding. teyond reach of the waves, Where he fell asleep from exhaustion, not awakening until past noon the next day. Then he swam to the Molo- kal shore a mile away and made his way home When he ‘started on his swim he had taken off his shirt, as tt was a hindrance in swimming, but had kept hls trousers on, so that the white skin of his lees would not attract the sharks which infest these waters. He Was terribly/tormented while in the water by small crabs which fastened themselves to the skin of kis chest and clawed and bit him almost to ‘Madness. He was in the water nearly AT hours and swam a distance of be- ‘tween 25 and 40 miles. Duvauchelle Is of French and Ha- waiian parentage, 38 years old, tall and powerfully bul. In many re- ‘spects Duvauchelle's experience 1s without a parallel, although there have been several somewhat similar osterences i Chase, waters. the cox paratively between ‘the islands of 7 Lanai and ‘Maui tempting many to cross in [halebosts sit Other small cratt: Delicately Put. “Do you think these carnations are Decoming to me?” she asked. “Oh, yes,” he replied, “but there are other flowers which [ would rather ‘see you wear.” | “Pray tell me what they are,” she sald, always anxious to please, “and 1 will wear them for you.” “Orange blossoms,” he sald. 30 now all is settled. —Royal Magazine. VON BLUMER PLAYSIN HARD LUCK WITH HIS CREDITORS. ‘Von Blumer—I had the most singu Jar thing happen to me the other day. ‘Did you ever go into a man's place to pay a bill you owed him, and find him out? Plankington (emphatically) — No, sir. Did that happen to you? “It did. I had a notion, or, rath. er, I nerved myself to it, to settle ‘up some bills that | owed. So on my ‘way from the office I dropped in to ‘see my fishmonger.” in | “And he was out?” “Correct. Then I tried my grocer.” “He was out?” “Right. Plenty of shopmen, but no Proprietor. Of course, I left word that I called in to settle up, but wanted to see the proprietor first. Dispute about bills. See?” “Oh, yes, that strengthens your credit.” “Exaetly. Then I called to see my butcher, and I'll be hanged if he wasn't out, also!" “By Jove! but you were in luck!" “No, I wasn't.” “Why not?" “When I got home I found them all walting for me.” REASON ENOUGH. _=— re. he aD al Ce 3h ‘Unreasonable Wish. _ “What I want,” said the fastidious tenant, “is a quiet home in the most desirable neighborhood.” “Impossible,” answered the candid real estate man. “There is always ‘So much building gofng on in a desir able neighborhood that it can't be quiet.”"—Washington Star. Beginning Barly. Bridegroom—I say, will you see the minister for me? I—I quite forgot the wedding fee. = Father-in-Law—Yonng man, you are beginning early. I at yeast expected you back from yeur honeymoon before this began. —Tit-Bits, One Convert. Dick—I know that man. He goes around telling people where to. dig for water. Ty the way, do you be- Ueve in this witch hazel superstition? Rick—I do. The most charming, tantalizing ittle witch | know of is hamed Hagel —Chicago Tribune. In the Spacious Times, Raleigh had just thrown his mantle jae the queen's feet. “A fine excuse to be a shirt waist man,” murmured the Knowing ones, wiping thelr brows. ‘Thus we may see that politeness does sometimes pay.—N. Y. Sun. ; Exasperating. Patience—Have you read that new society novel?” Patrice—Not yet “Well, don't. It’s the most exasper ating book I ever read. Why, he ‘never kisses the rir! wil the Inst Shapter!"Yonkers Statesman ‘The Proper Cut Seedy Gentleman (to butcher) — You say you have cuts to sult al ‘purses. What sort of a cut have you got for’an empty purse? Butcher (running him out)—The cold shoulder, to be eure—Tit-Btes, Different. “Before we wore married: you said you Just loved to make your own dresses.” “Yes, dear, but that was before { had you to buy them for me”—De trott Free Press, 'Fessing Up. “You acted tke @ fool when we were married.” “I was one.” atmttted Henyeck, sad. ly-—Houston Post. enn | “Yes, I got an auto on purpose to spite Mrs, Hauty.~ | “And did you spite her?” | “No; I ran over her husband the first time I went out in ft, aad she looks lovely in black!~—Houston Post. Piensed the Baby. Uacte Tom—The baby's looking wonderfully happy to-night. | Nurse—I expect he heart a indy, who calted this afternoon, say that be ‘wnso't & DK Hike any of his relations —T-Bits. Premearine fer Gemenee Pationce—is Will getting ready for summer 1 Patrice—Oh, yes; he’s broken off his engagement with bis winter girt!— Yonkers Stetesmun. MODEST BOY'S ALL-NIGHT VIGIL IN BATHING TRUNKS. HIS CLOTHES ARE STOLEN Young Messenger Takes Dip in Surf &t Coney Island, Loses Wearing Apparel, and Is Too Bashful to Tell the Police. New York.—Joha B. Dixon, a tele graph messenger boy who lives in Brooklyn, went to Coney Island the other night for a swim. He decided he would have his bath under the old tron pler, and forthwith planted bis clothes in a sandhoie, having in mem- ory stories of ~beach-combers” who took away garments under such cir- cumstances. Apparently he was spied upon, for when he came out of the water two hours later his clothes were gone. He alleges that at this point of his ad. ventures he took things philosophical- ly and reflected upon the stars. Finally he took to walking up and down the beach, still reflecting. About ten p. m. a man met him and sald: “Say, sonny, 1s it as hot as all that?” “Naw,” sald John B, Dixon, messen- ger boy. “It's as frozen as a tall buildin’ in Mareh. “Why don't you go to headquar- ters?” asked the man when he heard the details of the case. “Hate to,” said John B. Dixon, “like this!” But finally the chill drove him up Surf avenue attired in trunks to a charity tent beside potice headquarters. Here his pride prevented him from ‘telling what the trouble was. He ad- ‘mitted that he didn’t have a cent in his pockets, but the manager of the ‘relief tent had no sense of humor, and failed to see the delicately conveyed point. So the boy, after a cup of coffee, set forth again on his weary way. It was now one o'clock in the morning, and cnilly at that. He had another swim, and that warmed him up a little, or rather left his temperature at the de- gree required for comfort. About three a. m., according to Dixon's own story, he met a man who had been all night at Brighton Beach. The man invited him to shoot in a gallery. John B. Dixou, messenger doy, sald: “Weil, boss, I ain't fit to go in pub- lie places.” “Aw, shucks!” said the man, They went to a shooting gallery and Ae, OO es) 4 \ spent an hour, which resulted disas- trously for the man, John B, Dixon in his bathing trunks being rather ex- pert at the ritle game. As the gray dawn crept on apace John B. bade farewell to his enthusias- tic friend and took to the beach again, this time marveling about the wonder of the sunrise. The sun came up, and people began to take to the water, but John B. Dixon, messenger boy, who had been under the shroud of dark- hess all night, felt sensitive, and fan- efed that all the people in the world were looking at him. About nine o'clock a man came along and learned his story. He sald he was Mr. Tompkins, an engineer, and ad- vised Dixon to go back to the relief tent and ask them If they couldn't do a little better. John B. went bashfully, and when this time he told the whole truth and nothing but the truth everybody laughed except the women attendants, who felt maternally sympathetic cad called him a “poor Httle fellow.” “But I was all to de merry,” said John B. Dixon. The relief tent looked up a suit of overalls, and the messenger boy ap- peared before his anxious mother and friends and told the whole tale. “Dere's some men,” said he, “dat gets mean because dey're down on der shoes, but a man wot steals a kid's cloes must ha’ bin born that way.” On the whole, John B. Dixon said he thought the loss of his clothes was worth the insight he had obtattied into the wonders of nature, human and ‘otherwise. Had All Eternity. An old citizen, who had been hen-. pecked all his life, was about to die. His wife felt it her duty to offer him. such consolation as she might, and maid: “John, you are about to go, but { will follow you.” “I suppose 80, Manda,” said the old man, weakly, “bat so fur as I am concerned you’ ‘Yon't need to be in any blamed hurry sbout it!” Figaratively Speaking, She—They say every man has bis price. He—Well, | suppose every woman bas ber figure. Got It Back. “Was that little inclosure you sent the editor used" rere of > - art or it? . ee a 5 SYMPTOMS—SOME OF THE TROUBLES OF A PHYSICIAN. A physician was talking about bis patient's symptoms. “Young, strong people don’t give me enough symptoms when they are ill,” he said, “but the middle-aged and the aged give me too many. Thinking about their health all the time, study- ing thelr condition all the time, the aged and the middle-aged discover a symptom in every muse, in every organ, in every limb. Thus they con- fuse me. “The average sufferer of 50 or s0 will pour upon my head a deluge of ‘symptoms like this: "“ "Well, doctor, I'm miserable all over, Feverish one minute, freezing the next. I've a gnawing pain in my hip and side and back, and an all- gone sensation in the stomach, with a shooting. neuralgic headache over the left eye. I have a queer taste in my mouth, a dizziness when I stoop over, and a dull ache up and down the right side, along with a kind of num> ness. I cough a lot, my throat’s sore, and I've the earache Appetite’s fair, but not what it should be. I have a feeling of lassitude, and I'm very weak. These are only a few of my main symptoms. To proceed—,’ etc.” —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. a Mayme—Why did you allow him to turn Sa hot Easth. merely out of curiosity. 1 wanted to See if he would try to kiss me. Mayme—And was your cariosity sat- fstied? Edyth—I should say not? He only ‘Kissed me once.—Chicago Daily News. . te tin tein” ‘Bill—I see that dried flies are ex- ported in large quantities from this country to England. They are chiefly collected in the southern and western ‘states, and are used in the making of chicken feed. Ji—It looks very much then as if the only good fly in a dead one—Yon- kers Statesman. Til at Ease, “How do you lke your new house?” “Well.” answered Mr. Cumrox, “it pleases mother and the girls. But there are so many pictures and statues And vases that I feol we ought to run ‘@ railing in front of each wall, and bang ‘hands off labels on it."—Wash- ington Star. The Form. ‘The Tintey Girl—But what makes you think she’s been used to good so- cety? The Brassy Woman—Well, dear, if You notice, she always says “Thank you” to the servants,and when she kisses you she never makes you feel as if she meant it. His Impression. “I sha‘l go to the arctic regions,” said the dauntios explorer “Welt,” answered Col, Stillwell, of Kentucky, “I can't say I care for the uretic regions. My impression of them ‘s a place with a whole lot of ice and nothing worth drinking to put it in."—Washington Star. Her Lovely Sunday. “~ had m lovely Sunday,” twiviored Mra Seine, Sar hendar “x went to chureh and hoard the swest- Strict Honerty. in Lite Things’—it vie to fine, that itl Remain within my memory forever, I've no doube ‘And coming home a thing ocourred’ thet Sertaniy’ aid’ lente Ms alt to ceathe-the street ar win for sot to tabs ey nickel —eierenna Loner MOTOR STATISTICS, As Ad : ae he ae y ‘é Ss i, ES bs eee! i, S bas Ki feo Joan—What be the meantin’ o’ that number ‘angin’ up in frout Darby—Why, that be the number 0 people they've killed —London Tatler, Smallness, The smallest man iu the world went courting. To shew how very small he was, let ft be known that he laid neither $18-a-dozen roses nor §3-e- pound candy at the feet of his intend- ed, but only @ quantity of 5-cents-a paper popcorn. Of course he foorled. “An impossible fellow!” declared Love, disgustedly, in speaking of the affair later. “There positively waan’t enough of bim to make any kind of a fool of, so what was I to do?”—Puck. He Had Boen There. Old Medical Student—Are you look- ing for dogs? New Medical Student—Yes. Old Do. Do.~—-What do you want— rooms? New Do. Do—No; I want to get ‘board im a private family. % to Miss Slowkins over the ‘You'll be bored to death there in ‘than « month, 2 Stent a Bamnel Bieden ~ A daily paper is responsible for the atatement that a single county in Ne- vada, covering 16,000 square miles, has nowhere within its borders even @ mission hall in which the Gospel is Dreacnea, and yet there is a population of severa! thousand people tm this tar SATURDAY,... ©. AUG. 11TH, 1906. ee eae pa. co f & COMB-HONEY SHIPPING CASE Arrangement by Which the Glass Fronts to the Sections Are Eliminated, ‘The shipping case here shown was exhibited at the Michigan State Bee- Seve coctanes Seren ent, says Gleanings in Bee Culture. ‘The freight classification puts honey “tn glass” as firet class, and that “in yc ee <7) THE HONEY COME PACKING CASE. wood” as second class. When this tar- 1 was first printed, gome of the roads Were Inclined to consider that all comb honey in shipping cases yith glass front was fn glaas, and, conse- quently, the freight rate wae pushed UD one notch; but after considerable explanation we showed that, evidently, ‘such classification referred to honey in otties; that comb honey in a shipping ‘ease with glass fronts ought to cons ‘Second class because the percentage ‘of glass was very small to the amount of wood. All the railroads, I think, ‘now accept shipping cases with glass fronts as second class. But the dee ‘keeper must not make the mistake of having such honey billed “in glass” or eise It will go at first class rates. The Aspinwall case is a very unique one; and if the discrimination against glase fronts had continued the all- wood case with the lettering would ave been the solution. ‘The all-wood ease can be made con- siderably cheaper, and I do not know why it would not be just as good. If the fretght handler cannot read he ‘ought to be bounced frow: the pay-roll, Shipping cases with glass fronts have been broken into, and the fine cakes of honey despoiled by some big fin- gers, Ume and time again. The Aspin- wall case would prevent anything of this kind. The arrangement of the no-drip cleats in mortises oF slots in the ends ‘of the cave is very unique. It could not, however, be very weil applied to ‘& gluss-front case showing four sec- tions six deep. But where the cases are two-row, Itke the sample here shown, there "will be no trouble about muprtintne Ser the cheatn, GATE FOR CHICKEN YARD. How It Can Be Built So That It Wil Not Sag—Are Simple in ~ Construction. Thave in use several gates Hie that shown f the cut, which do not sag or get out of beeen) ary aoe ore very satisfactory, says a dorrespond: eat of the Farm and Home. They are six feet high and three — feet wide, made of spruce 1%x3 inches. The ends Were sawed square and the pteces bb butted against the site| ee ee ee ee Ree ad uae ane ae shape and prove very satisfactory, says a torreepoat. eut of the Farm and Home. They are six feet high and three = feet wide, made of Spruce 1\x3 laches. The ends were sawed square and the Pheces b b butted against the side | bE pieces a a. 1 use fourmch wo. 15 screws which were countersunk 1% inch This was a ‘much quicker way than cutting a mor ‘tise and tenon. The gate was well ‘braced with 1x2inch stays which ‘were haived together at the middk.. After the frame was made and paint- ‘ed it was covered with poukry net ting. THE POULTRY. More attention should be given to water fowls. The poultry yard, as well as the poultry house, néedé to be kept clean. When fowis need a tonic, there are some who put a few drops of tincture of irom into their drinking troughs. Tobacco stems covered with straw are an excellent preventative of in sect breeding, especially when the hens are setting. Feed the fowls about to be shtpped nothing but herd grain the day pre- vious. They will carry better and arrive tp @ better condition. So long as good prices can be ob tained for broilers it will pearly al- ways be found best to sell at. this age, or either to feed to maturity and sell in the fall or winter. Poultry keeping can be made an fuxillary to other pursuits without infringing upon the time of the keep ‘er and will bring in a handsome re- turn for the food and care given them. ns Keeping Down the Mites, ‘Poultry droppings seem to be the Mayorite _ conditions for pree¢‘ng ‘mites. Coops and houses that ar® cleaned often are not mueb troubled with them. But tt fs a good plan not to depend too much upon anything. Careful examination needs to be made frequently, so as to be sure that they are not getting a start. IMPROVED POULTRY HOUSE. One with a Scratching Shed Neces sary, for Plenty of Room for Fowls Is Essential “2 order to have hens do well, they want commodious quarters. Especial: Jy Js this true during the winter and, if they are prohibited running at large throughout the year. Owing to their love for that freedom which allows them to move about at will and work as they please, they soon get tired if confined in a small closed pen, and stand around and mope, as it were, until they became fat and lazy and lose their appetite, whereupon they are a detriment rather than a good, to the owner. What they need is an open scratch- ing shed, where they can exercise in the open air, going in and out as they wish. They will then be always ready to eat or work, and this, in turn, giv ing them health and strength, will ea- able them fo lay a large number of g00d, fertilo exzs. . Fortunately, it is not necessary to build an elaborate, costly structure to bring about these results. A simple scratching-shed house, ifke that shown in the accomp&nying illustration, will suffice just as well and, oftentimes, much better. This affords the great advantage of having a “ving room” adjoining the sleeping apartment, so that on sunny days a complete change of alr and eeene can be enjoyed by the fowls without exposing them to piercing or driving storms. It also permits of the ventilation being adapted to the ‘weather and temperature conditions at the discretion of the owner. When the imprisonment of the birds in a single apartment ts taken into consideration, the importance of this is at once apparent, says Prairie Farm. er, for if limited to one atmosphere and one temperature night and day, throughout the cold, stormy months of winter, they cannot help but be ———== ——— —— Z POULTRY HOUSE WITH SCRATCH- ING SHED. come listless, debilitated and “out of condition,” and what few eggs they do lay be incapable of hatching strong, robust chicks that will live aud grow. . Best of all, however, by using a house with a scratching-ehed, as many again birds can be kept as compared with the closed pen. Hence, the cost of the scratching-shed does not add anything in the way of expense, as far as having buildings to accommodate a certain number of fowls Is concerned, On the other hand, there ts every thing to commend it—the better health of the birds, the greater pro. duction and higher fertility of their ‘eggs, and, owing to the natural warmth from the bodies of so many of them, the elimination of supplying artificial heat in the roosting room at night. Moreover, by adopting the ar Tangement illustrated, it Is possible to duplicate the construction and have a succession of closed rooms and open sheds, extending, if the ground ts suf- ficiently level to allow ft, almost any tength desired The shed part should be 10x10 feet, the roosting room 10x8 feet. The sills, Which should be laid at least a foot above the surface of the ground, may rest On stone or brick foundations, or ‘posts set into the ground below the usual frost line; these “piers” should be located at a distance of sbout five feet from one another. For the sills, ae well as plates, rafters and corner studs, 2x4 ecantling wil! do; the inter. mediate studs may consist of 2x3 stuff. The studs, of course, want to be too. nailed firmly to the sitts, the plates to the studs and the rafters to the plates. The froat studs shoukt be T% feet long, and the rear ones 5 feet long. ‘This will give a fairly good pitch to ‘the roof,on which any firet rate roof- ing may be used. The house, of coarse, abouk! face towant the south, After provisions have been made for the window and doors, as is sug- peeted in the cut, the sidos should be boarded up with good matched lum- ‘ber, ‘To prevest the fowls from wan- dering away end mixing with those (of other pasa, and also protecting them from binds and animals of prey, the front of the scratching-shed must be inclosed with wire netting; i is Conventent to have one section of it ‘made into a gate to open and let the ‘birds owt into the yard tn front of ‘the house. In addition to the netting there should be a cloth curtain to close at night ie winter, or on stormy or ‘windy days, thus protecting the fowls from snowstorms and plorcing winds. On clear days it shoukt be lifted soon after sunrise and kept up until the sun gets low in the west, but if the weather ts very cold tt is bet. ter to raise & only for an hour or two during the middle of the day, and in case a storm or cold wind prevaiic, not at all. Such « curtain may be feetened at the top by nail- ing it in place with a strip of lath, and the lower edge held where want: ed by means of hooks having screw eyes. ‘With the curtain fastened down at night, it is not necessary to close the door between the roosting room and scratching-shed unless the weath- er t severely cold, and unless it is way below zero, the small opening at the right of this door should never be closed. It will otherwise be warm enough—that is, if the walls are celled on the inside and the space be tween packed with straw or swale. hay, as it sheuld be. By opening the window in warm weather, and part- ly on very warm winter days, ezcel- lent ventilation st all seasons of the year can be obtained, 8 oi teeta Sn eee ce ae eee Young chicks grow very fast when given all the milk they will drink. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. PEELE ELAS SELES DELLE TEE EE SEED EEE EERE ES: SCYTHE SONG 3 By Andrew Lang SF) OWERS. weary and brown and blithe, aX, ‘What ts the word methinks ye know, : Le) Endiess overword that the seythe wk é Sings to the blades of the grass below? 3 i cS Scythes that swing tn the grass and clover, CSR} Something, still, they say as they pass; : Aye What ts the word that, over and over, Sings the scythe to the flowers and grass? : Hush, ab, bush, the seythes are saying, Hush and heed not, and fall asleep; Husb, they say to the grasses swaying; q Hush, they sing to the clover deep! . Hush—tls the lullaby Time is singing— ' Hush and heed not, for all things pass; Hush, ab, hush: And the scythes are swingiog : Over the clover, over the grass! | A Queer Animal Party Ben PU TIS NGO Ae a : Ys\ 1 | a Wa: ay RUNG qj t = J4\ BD: “WE ARB CERTAIN IT IS THE PANTRY DOOR,” CBIED THEY. AMES was reading a book ty the kitchen fire when nurse came in eearch of him, saying: “It is thme to go to bed.” James wanted to finish the story, but the clock struck 8 aud nurse burried him upstairs. He left the book open on the kitchen table where he couid find it the next morning. ‘There was no one in the kitchen. After James and nurse bad been gone @ short time an old ow! in the book that had been taking a nap opened bis eyes. He saw at once what bad bap- pened. He gave a loud hoot, which awoke all the otber animals in the book. “This is a fine chance!™ erie] he in @ shrill voice. “Now we can leave this old book for awhile and have some fun” Nevertheless be was not the first to leave, He waited until the monkey on the opposite page sprang out. The monkey danced around the kitchen floor chattering. He called to the oth- ers to Join him. ‘The eat came next. She found a ‘saucer of milk in the corner and purred 80 loud that she sounded Itke a tea- kettle, ‘Then the elephant stepped forth, He Wns so large that, fearing to make too much noise, he let himself down by bis trunk. He shook his bead and Woked around, saying: “It all seems strange to me.” ‘The rabbits left their page. The ta- bie seemed so far from the foor that they ran down one of the legs. “Have you seen any lettuce?” they asked. The cat was wasbing her face and answered: “Of course not.” The elephant replied, “I don’t know what It ts.” ‘The rabbits were disappointed, so they begun to scratch the door, “Here comes the giraffe,” cried the owt ‘The giraffe lowered her bead and ate 8 cracker cramb from the floor. “I don’t think I shall come down,” be said. A white dog walked out and stood beside her. “Why not?" asked the dog. “Where Is the fun?" said the giraffe, ooking around. “In the pantry, of course,” answered the white dog. “Oh!” replied the giraffe. She low- ered herself t the floor. The dog sprang after her. He hit the cat, who ‘scolded and told him to keep away. ‘Then the camel crawled from one of the last pages. “If there i¢ any water I shall come down,” he said, | No oue answered, so he came down anyway. ‘The ow! looked around. s “Why, the bear is not out yet,” be aid. He gave another shrill hoot. The bear growled angrily. “There is no ne&d of doing that right tm my ear,” said the bear, belding her pew over ber ear. “I was cfraid you wouki miss the fun,” explained the owl, moving away. “There is only the rooster left now,” | he said, So be hooted for the rooster. ‘The rooster came forth, shaking his One reg combs. All the animals called for the owl. ‘The bear roared for him to come down at once, The owl flew to the floor, fol- lowed by the rooster, “Now,” sald the white dog, “we must not waste any more time. but find the pantry.” ‘There were sever doors. The dog sniffed about until he thought he bad found the right one. “This ts It, I believe,” he said. “Here, giraffe, you look thrush the keyhole.” ‘The giraffe closed one eye and looked through with the other. “I think you are right.” she said. ‘The rabbits peeked throuch the crack under the door. “We are certain it is the pantry door,” cried they. “Then the elephant must ope: the door,” said the dog. ‘The elephant wound his trunk about the door knob. The camel and the bear pushed. The door grve way, and they all fell into the pantry in a heap. ‘Once in there was a fine feast awaiting them. The rabbits were the first to find something to eat. They scampered around among the tins until they un- covered some le(tuce and carrots. ‘The elephant said, “I smell peanuts.” He poked hig tmmk among the shelves and reached them after much trouble. ~The camel ate shredded biscuits and drank a bottle of clder. Tue bear found a piece of beefsteak left from dinner. ‘The white dog asted for half of tt Dut the bear growlel and showed so many teeth that the dog backed away. He discovered a turkey with plenty of dark meat instead. The cat scokled because they made ‘such a nolee. She caught a ptump fit- tle mouse as he tried to run home, The giraffe stretched her neck to the top shelf, where she found a jar of Peaches. She put her head into the jar and ate them all. ‘The monkey ran frm shelf to abelf, tearing open the paper bags, stealing froit and nuts from them. ‘The ow! sat on the floor. Whenever any of the other animals @ropped any food he ate ft up ins burry. The rooster stayed iy the kitchen. He was to crow wten it grew day- Hight. They finished eating and were about to march around the kiteben tn circus order, the white dog st the head of the Mine, when the rooster crowed. The white dog beggrd them to wait a few minutes, but the antmals shook thelr heads. The owl flew back to the book first. He settled himself on his page in great haste. It was much hander for the animals to crawl up on the tible. Onee there they found thetr pleses without trou- ble. The monkey, for a Joke, stole into fhe rabbit's page. He had barely time to reach his own place when the rooster crowed again and cook walked tnito the kkttchen. Later Jame found the book open just as be had left it He never Knew of,the lark the animals had had tm the pantry.—New York World. - The Young Pig. ‘The pig that ts not vigorous cannot grow. Good health must be insured. Good pasture and pleaty of it will make the pix bealthy unless it is dis eased to star’ with. Rnights of Pythi las, N.A.,S. AE. A., A. AND A. ee, LEED This organization is one of the most powerful in tl y i QD progress has been phenominal. The Grand Taig ev ne ie AX diction over allof the citi Seal in, tls state. “hires sanie a , the cities and counties in thisstate. Thirty imal CY) are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits pai pinuiefons ia ae ge. The benefits paid constitute one WS SK of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than ythi' Ege Bey | cise. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established oa Be Soe nevolence; the respectable, upright people of the state will fate oo ore CRY worthy of their heartiest support. te ee ares It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 paiva $4.00 per week aick dues,” The badge contite se cena soko dit only absolutely necessary regalla, For information concerning the orcoasatton flown os serran ings ied a erning the organzaition of lodges he Courts of Calanthe _%*, Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and arosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children’s Department also con- . stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mysti circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays frot $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have noPythia: Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrnize one. For all information concerning the Children’s Department address, Mrs. Anna Taytor, W. M., 120 W. Hill St, Richmond, Va. For all information concerning special rates of JOHN MITCHELL, JR., membership in the lodges and courts, address 3tr N. 4th St, Richmond, V: TOO GREAT A RIsK— WHY BLINKS HEDGED. Jinks—Hne a husband a right to open bis wife's letters? Binks (a lawyer)—Certainiy, sir, certainly; open ail you please. “Well, here is a letter my wife has written to your wife and handed me to deliver. I feel pretty sure there's something unpleasant in it about me. I wish you'd open it, and, if there is, dust burn it up.” “Humph! Does my wife know your wife 1s going to write to her?” “Yes.” “And if my wife doesn’t get this letter she'll soon find it out, won't she?” “Ot course.” “On second thoughts, I believe there is a new law which makes {t a pent- tentiary offense to open a wife's let- ters. I couldn't take the risk, sir; indeed, I couldn't.”—N. Y. Weekly. Sudden Change of Mind. Poffing and blowing, the fat passen- ser began to climb to the upper berth in the sleeping car. “Pretty bard work, fsn't it?” sald the man in the lower berth. “It ts," answered the fat passenger, “for a man of my weight.” “How much do you weigh, may I ask?" “Three hundred and eighty-seven pounds.”" “Hold on! Take this one!” ex- claimed the other, his hair beginning to rise on end. “I'd rather sleep in the upper berth, anyway. The venti- lation is better."—Chicago Tribune. Study Not to Blame. “I shouldn't think you would let your daughter study so hard that ber health was likely to be affected, even for the sake of being able to gradu- ate.” “Oh, it isn’t studying that has made her i. She has had such poor luck with the dressmaker.”"—Chicago Rec- ord-Herald. Nothing Radical. Languid Lannigan (with paper)— Tt takes all sorts uy cranks ter make a world, all right. Now, here's a near- STRAUS’ SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover cf the right We have all grades of geod Uqaors, Olgars and Tobacco. Call and see ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. 60 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE | ‘Trace Marne ae Corrmants &c. sprelal notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. HN Co, 2eomor Now Fork GEORGE O. BROWN, PHOTOGRAPHER, a G08 N. nd St., Richmond, Va. 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SATURDAY.....AUG. 11TH, 1906 We have received a communication from the "Voice of the Negro" with reference to the intimation recently published in the New York Age that the journal was losing money and liable to follow in the footsteps of the Moon of Memphis, Tenn. The management declares the statement to be unwarranted and cites its present issue as an evidence of its soundness and stability. AFTER NEGRO SECRET ORDERS The following extract from the Atlanta, Georgia Constitution explains itself: "A bill introduced in the upper house yesterday by Senator Foy is calculated to deal a solar plexus blow to the Negro secret order of Elks. This measure makes it a mismeanor for any person not a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows or Ancient Free and Accepted Masons to wear any insignia of said organizations. The clause which is believed to be aimed at certain Negro societies which nominate themselves "Elks" is that "no defense will be allowed in any prosecution, that the accused is a member of any organization other than those specified which has adopted an insignia as its own." The Elks in many sections of the country have gone into the courts with injunctions to prevent Negro Elks from wearing the regulation insignia and to prevent them from using any ritual which may be the same as the white order. A few months ago in a northern state, the supreme court ruled against the existence of the Negro Elks. A case of injunction is now pending before the Macon courts and action of the same kind has been taken up in Savannah." We fail to see how such proceedings can stand the test of the courts. The right to use these emblems must be conceded so long as they are not copyrighted. This copyrighting must be done at Washington and not in Georgia. Nearly all of the Orders herein specified are working under charters of incorporation and they are therefore legally entitled to use the names under which such acts or charters of incorporation exist. The white people must first secure a revocation of these charters before they can lawfully secure a perpetual restraining order prohibiting the use of these emblems and names The words Elks, Eagles, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Masons are general terms and are universal in their use. There must be some distinctive designation in connection therewith, before even a court order can be made perpetually binding. We have a designation which per- mits one who is at all familiar with either organization to tell whether the one or the other is white or colored. The Negro-haters who are engaged in this business will ultimately find out that in their efforts to demoralize and injure the Negroes they will surely embarrass and handicap themselves. It is a very narrow-minded policy that would restrict colored people in the matter of organizing and benefiting themselves along these lines. The Orders in question did not want colored men in question and they accordingly went off and organized to themselves, in no wise interfering with the members of the white organizations. This is in keeping with the southern policy of separation and even at this some of the most narrow-minded elements are not satisfied. Georgia may be able to prevent its own citizens from doing as is herein specified, but if its own Supreme Court will uphold such legislation we shall be greatly surprised. For our part, should the issue present itself in this state, we shall fight it out in the state courts, trusting to the sound judgment and innate sense of fair-play, so often displayed by the jurists of this commonwealth. As to the United States Supreme Court at Washington, it is the rank state's rights decision that have made the agitation of these subjects possible. The other fellows can go up there, but when we are through with the Supreme tribunal in this state we feel that we have gotten about all of the justice that it is possible for a Virginia citizen of color to obtain. It is unfortunate indeed that as the Negro advances along the lines of material progress and legitimate endeavor, he is handicapped and embarrassed by these annoyances that are launched by the Negro-hating contingent of the South-land, who have little discretion and no judgment. They will awaken in other Negroes, the spirit of persistence and determination and the entire race will rely upon the divine promise that He will so arrange it that where one door is shut another will be opened. To the colored leaders of the country, we can but say, "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward." A LEGAL LYNCHING. One of the most radical cases of legal lynching ever witnessed in this country is announced to have taken place at Mayfield, Kentucky, Tuesday, July 31st, 1906. Allen Mathis, colored, was charged with as saulting Miss Ethel McLane, white. He was placed in jail at Louisville and then on the same Tuesday specified conveyed to Mayfield, where he arrived at 6:45 that afternoon. Judge Bugg had convened his court in a special term to try the prisoner. The formalities of a trial were gone through within fifty-five minutes and as the jury was drawn from among the lynchers, there was no difficulty in reaching a unanimous conclusion. Mathis was hanged on the gallows that had been erected the day before his trial. The correspondent remarks that the trial and execution, though swift lacked no essentials of justice to the accused. We are not so much concerned as to the punishment of the accused as we are about the use of the legal machinery as a weapon of the lyncher. Every fundamental principle of law was violated and the professed trial was no more than a farce. This is about as sure a way to undermine the law itself as it is to permit the lynching. The reaction will set in and then white men will at last see that in their blind fury, they have dealt a death blow to civilization so far as that section of this country is concerned. It is an open question as to whether or not these vital weaknesses in our form of government may not yet prove fatal to the republic itself. The outlook is that we shall yet drift to a condition of affairs for which the South American republics are noted. THE LYNCHING AT SALISBURY The lynching of three colored men at Salisbury, North Carolina Monday August 6th, 1906 was horrible in all of its revolting details but in none of its heinous phases does it differ from similar occurrences elsewhere. In one respect, it will prove a blessing in that it will deal a stunning blow to all of the specious arguments and pretensions of those who favor this kind of lawlessness. In the cases of the alleged criminals, every argument of the advocates and apologists of lynching had been met. A special term of the court had been ordered for the trial of these very cases. There was but little likelihood of their acquittal for the jury was composed absolutely of white men of that locality and if they had any prejudice whatever it was against the prisoners. But the mob was thrusting for blood and it satiated its desires in flendish tortures and with brutish execution, thereby discrediting the Court that was trying the case and defying the commonwealth that had THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA put in operation its machinery for the punishment of the guilty parties. There is not much more to be said. Lynch-law must be summarily put down if free government in this country is to continue. BIG CHICAGO BANK FORCED TO CLOSE President and Cashier Missing and Shortage May Reach $1,000,000. HAD DEPOSITS OF $4,000,000 Chicago, Aug. 7.—With a deficit in its accounts of close to $1,000,000, and with the whereabouts of two of its chief officers unknown to the authorities, the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, one of the largest outlying banks in Chicago, was closed by State Bank Examiner C. C. Jones. The failure was responsible for the death of one of the depositors and led to the suicide of another man who a month ago had placed the earnings of a lifetime in the institution. In the excitement following the announcement of the failure, J. G. Visser, an officer of the Royal League, who had on deposit in the bank funds of that organization, fell dead. Henry Koepke, a grocer, on hearing that the bank had suspended, went to the rear of his store and shot himself. He died a few minutes later. The bank had deposits amounting to about $4,000,000, and loans and credits to about the same sum. The fact that the bank was on the verge of failure was first revealed by by the president of the institution, Paul O. Stensland, in a letter written from St. Paul to his son, Theodore, who is vice president of the bank. The letter was received last Saturday, and it started the investigation which brought about the suspension. Cashier Henry W. Herring disappeared and a warrant was issued for his arrest on a charge of embezzlement. The news spread rapidly throughout the entire northwest side of the city, where the bank had been for years a popular depository for funds saved by working people. Soon a clamorous crowd gathered before the doors and demanded admission. Anticipating trouble, a score of policemen were sent to the bank. The people were permitted to file past the doors bearing the posted notice and were compelled to keep moving. Only those having access to safety deposit vaults were allowed to enter. Many burst into tears when they found that their savings were endangered. Visser, to whom the shock proved fatal, was several blocks from the bank. Hearing the rumor, he stepped into a drug store, seeking particulars. He fell dead when assured that the band had failed. An examination of the bank's affairs was begun quietly last Saturday after receipt of a letter from President Stensland. Acting on instructions contained therein, Vice President Theodore Stensland opened a deposit box and discovered proofs that the bank's funds were in bad shape. The shortage of between $750,000 and $1,000,000 is said to be due to speculation in real estate and in the security market. Members of the clearing house committee were told that most of this amount was unprotected by adequate collateral. The Stensland family owned much of the bank stock, and members of the family operated the bank. A statement made showed $1,051,000 in cash on hand. The vice president said that the bank carried deposits of $4,000,000, and had 22,000 depositors. The concern's New York correspondents are the Mercantile and the Chase National Banks. MURDER AT VINELAND. N. J. Nicholas Berti Shot and Killed By Alexander Cordella in Quarrel. Vineland, N. J., Aug. 6.—Nicholas Berti, aged 30 years, a well-known and popular resident of this city, was shot and instantly killed by Alexander Cordella, a prominent farmer living near this place. Both men had been to a party, and Berti accompanied Cordella to the latter's home. Near the house the men quarreled, which resulted in Cordella shooting Berti with a shot gun which he procured in a barn. Cordella fled and took refuge in a vineyard, where he was found by detectives. He confessed to having shot Berti, but said he did not want to be hung. "Give me a knife or a revolver," he pleaded. "and they can bury me at the same time they do Berti." Some of Bert's friends tried to take the prisoner from the officers as they were going into the jail. There was a free fight, in which several men were hurt, but the officers succeeded in getting their prisoner into the lock-up. Want Mechanics For Canal Work. Chicago, Aug. 8.—The government wants 500 skilled mechanics for service on the Panama canal. Henry A. Smith, employment agent of the Isthmian canal commission, arrived in Chicago to recruit these men. The class of men wanted are mechanics, boilermakers, blacksmiths, locomotive engineers, conductors and brakemen. Mr. Smith will remain in Chicago for three weeks to receive applications and as soon as the men qualify they will be furnished transportation and sent to Panama. Heat Crazed Man Kills Wife New York, Aug. 7.—Crazed, it is supposed, by the heat, Michael Maher, of Brooklyn, assaulted his wife with a knife, and after inflicting wounds which caused the woman's death, he stabbed himself. Woman Sentenced to Hang. Stockton, Cal., Aug. 8.—Mrs. Emma LaDoux was sentenced to be hanged October 19 next on her conviction of the murder of Albert H. McVickar, a miner with whom she had been living. The case will be appealed. —Subscribe to the PLANET. MOB LYNCHES THREE NEGROES Alleged Murderers Taken From Jail at Sallisbury, Md., and Hanged. Charlotte, N. C., Aug. 7.—A mob of 3000 determined men forcibly entered the Rowan county jail at Sallisbury, removed therefrom three of the six negroes charged with the murder of the Lyerly family at Barber Junction, July 13, and lynched them. Nease and John Gillespie and Jack Dillingham, supposed to be the principals in that crime, were the victims of mob vengeance. The remaining negroes, Henry Lee, George Lurvin and Bella Dillingham, were not molested, and later officers hurried them away to Greensboro. The negroes were quietly marched northward toward Spencer, but a halt was made at Henderson's ball grounds in the edge of the town. There the negroes were given time to confess the crime. They refused to either deny or confess, and were so thoroughly frightened as almost to have lost the power of speech. John Gillespie wept piteously and begged for his life. Tiring of its efforts to secure statements from the negroes, at midnight the ropes were quickly brought forward and adjusted, and the three were strung up to the limbs of one tree, and with howls and curses the crowd riddled the dangling bodies with bullets. Long before the sun rose curious persons went to the scene of the lynching and cut off the toes, the fingers and ears of the negroes, who were hung to the limb of the big tree on Henderson's base ball ground. The bodies were badly mutilated before they were removed. George Hall the ex-convict from Montgomery county, who is supposed to have led the mob which lynched the three alleged murderers of the Lyerly family, is in the jail. The plan to rescue him, rumors of which caused Governor Glenn to hurry troops to Salisbury, has not materialized. BALLOONIST FATALLY INJURED Utica, N. Y. Aug. 8.—William Johnson, a balloonist, made an ascension in connection with a street fair in Little Falls. In coming down with a parachute the apparatus failed to work, and Johnson fell upon the railroad tracks, receiving injuries which undoubtedly will cause his death. Johnson went up to a great height, and it is estimated he was 3000 feet high when he left the balloon to make what he called a double parachute descent. The first parachute opened well, and Johnson descended about two-thirds of the distance. Then he attempted to open the second parachute and descend the remainder of the distance with that. He discarded the first parachute, and as he grasped the handle of the second one the strings became broken, causing it to collapse. Johnson shot downward very rapidly, and the thousands who were watching him were horror-stricken. He attempted to guide his descent so that he would strike the wires running along the railway which climbs the cliff. He partially succeeded in this, but he went through the wires and fell to the bottom of the cliff, striking upon the railroad tracks 100 feet below. His spine was fractured at the base of the brain. SHOT AND KILLED HIS FATHER Boys' Gun Exploded As He Tried to Extract Cartridge. Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 8.—Joseph B. Hench, of Juniata township, Perry county, four miles from Newport, was shot in the heart and killed by his 8-year-old son. The boy had been shooting at a target with a Flobert rifle, and approaching where his father was standing in a stooping position, tried to take a cartridge which had become jammed from his gun. As he did so the weapon was exploded and the shot entered his father's breast, killing him instantly. The boy is nearly distracted with grief and refuses to be comforted. Only a few minutes before the shooting he had welcomed his father home from Bloomfield, where he had been attending court all day. TWO BATHERS DROWNED One Seized With Cramps, and With Rescue, Both Went Down Rescuer Both Went Down. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Aug. 6.—William and George Newcomb, two young men of this city, the former aged 27 and the latter 19 years, were drowned while in bathing at Bear Creek, a summer resort near here. Their parents live at the above place, and they were spending the day with them. They took out a boat and went in bathing. Both are good swimmers, but the younger of the two was seized with a cramp, and when the elder went to the rescue both went down. Their bodies were not recovered until several hours later. Father Rocked the Boat Mount Clemens, Mich., Aug. 7—John Willman, a farm laborer, aged 26 years, and his son Albert, aged 8 years, were drowned while rowing in the Clinton river in a small boat. The father rocked the boat to frighten the little fellow, and accidentally upset it, throwing himself and his son into 12 feet of water. Mrs. Willman sat on the bank and saw the accident Neither father nor son rose to the surface after sinking the first time. President Grants Reapite Oyster Bay, N. Y., Aug. 6.—President Roosevelt granted a respite until November 1 of the execution of the death sentence in the case of Robert Sawyer and Arthur Adam, negroes, who are confined in the Wilmington, N. C., jail, having been convicted of murder and mutiny on the high seas. The stay was granted because of the confession of Henry Scott, who said on the scaffold just before he was hung, that he had killed the three officers and the cook of the schooner H. A. Berwind, which sailed from Philadelphia July 6, 1905, and for which the three were convicted. Another negro also implicated in the mutiny was killed by Scott. Bride and Groom Killed. St. Joseph, Mich., Aug. 8.—Hiram R. Helmick and his bride of two weeks, while driving from Benton Harbor to St. Joseph, were ground to pieces beneath the wheels of an electric car which struck the runabout in which they were driving. Mrs. Helmick was instantly killed, while Mr. Helmick lived for a few moments, although literally wrapped about the wheels of his pig. A dozen physiants were summoned, but Helmick was dead before they arrived. HOMER CASTLE FOR GOVERNOR Pennsylvania Prohibitionists Fill Vacancies on State Ticket. EMERY DEFEATED BY 12 TO 4 Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. S.—The state executive committee of the Prohibition party filled three vacancies on the state ticket by nominating the following: For governor—Homer L. Castle, of Pittsburg. For lieutenant governor—H. D. Patton, of Lancaster. For secretary of internal affairs—George Hoffman, of Montgomery county. All are Prohibitionists. The governorship vacancy was due to the declination of State Treasurer William H. Berry, Democrat, who was nominated by the state convention in May. The nomination for secretary of internal affairs had been declined by Elisha A. Coray, Lincoln Republican, necessitating the filling of that place. For the governorship the name of Lewis Emery, Jr., the Lincoln-Democratic nominee, was presented, but the vote was 12 to 4 against him. Mr. Castle was then nominated unanimously. The meeting was behind closed doors. The only persons admitted, aside from the committeeemen, were State Treasurer Berry and Mr. Coray, both of whom made speeches in favor of Emery. All the members were present except Secedetary George Hoffman, of Philadelphia, and C. W. Flower, of Venango. This action completes the Prohibition ticket, all the candidates being straight Prohibitionists except William T. Creasy, Democrat, of Columbia, who is the fusion candidate for auditor general. State Chairman McCalmont said that campaign headquarters would likely be opened in Pittsburg and sub-headquarters in Philadelphia, and that the most energetic and vigorous campaign in the history of the Prohibition party of this state would be conducted this fall. "Our candidates," he added, "will be heard upon the rostrum in every county in the state, and before election day the reform forces of the state will line up for Castle. Patton, Creasy and Hoffman as offering the only real chance of freeing the state of Pennsylvania from corruption and graft. The slogan of the organization will be righteousness in candidates and platform." MINE EXPLOSION INJURES SEVEN Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Aug. 7.—An explosion of gas occurred in the old No. 1 shaft at Nanticoke, operated by the Susquehanna Coal company. As a direct result of the accident, six men and one boy, all Polish, were injured or burned, four of whom are not expected to recover. The explosion was caused by a miner with a naked lamp coming in contact with a feeder of gas, which he ignited while in the act of blasting. There were nearly 100 men in the main gangway at the time, but they fortunately escaped. Many of them were knocked down by the force of the explosion, but none was seriously injured aside from the seven who were near the point where the gas was set off. Frank Laman, a door boy, crawled along the rails in the mine and made his way through three doors and gave the alarm to one of the mine bosses. It took some time to reach the men and rescue them. The injured are: Edward Malkowske, laborer, fatally burned; Michael Rablouski, laborer, fatally burned; Stanley Opoloski, laborer, fatally burned; Bartek Sheeriski, laborer, fatally burned; Joseph Zeook, laborer, seriously injured; Edward Maraski, laborer, badly burned; Frank Laman, aged 18, door tender, seriously injured and slightly burned. PENNSY TO LAY OFF 280 MEN tween Harrisburg and Atglen Opens. Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 8.—It is reported here that the Pennsylvania Railroad company contemplates the dismissal of 280 men in Harrisburg and Columbia after the opening of the new low grade line between this city and Atglen. These men will be notified that they will be no longer needed, will be given what money is due them and allowed to seek positions elsewhere. Their names will be retained and they will be taken back as rapidly as the company finds need of their services, if they desire to again enter the employ of the company. IOWA DEMOCRATS FOR BRYAN Conservative Element Swing to Support of Nebraska. Waterloo, Ia, Aug. 7.—The conservative element of the Democratic element in Iowa, which in the past has opposed William J. Bryan, will be in control of the Democratic convention and will urge the nomination of Bryan for president as a conservative. The leaders were in conference working out a platform. The conservative element will control the caucuses and name all the convention committees. Drowned While Learning to Swim. Trenton, N. J., Aug. 7.—Wilson Relley, aged 19, of Williamsport, Pa., and a student at Johns Hopkins University, was drowned here while learning to swim. The boy was spending his vacation in Trenton with his brother. Coal! Coal! Coal! OF THE VERY BEST ANTHRACITE 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. 'Phone Us Your Orders, if you haven't the time to send them. A call on Long Distance 'Phone 83 will receive prompt attention. Now is the time to place your WINTER ORDERS. YARDS, 18th and Cary Streets, and 16th and Clay Sts., Richmond, Va. Another Fascinating Story by A. 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Our Patrons selves for a Rich Rep Thrilling tale detailing French court in its striking contrast, the early French settlers in man had to be a fight of a frontier battle wi Through it all run beautiful girl and a br The R Is one of A. Conan Doyle reader who begins it pleasant anticipation Charmingly Full of Inc Historically Watch for the first ch them you will no LIGHTNING KILLS TWO Terrible Storm Caused Stempede In Wild West Show at Harrisburg Wild West Show at Harrisburg. Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 7. A terrible wind and rain storm struck Harrisburg, instantly killing Charles M. Richwine and Chic Befrandi and injuring slightly several employees of Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show. Richwine was a Pennsylvania railroad brakeman and was struck by lightning while standing under a tree near the show grounds. Befrandi, a Japanese acrobat, who sought shelter under a tent, was struck on the forehead by the lightning and died almost immediately. Several women in the main tent fainted from fright and were taken to houses in the vicinity of the show grounds. As the wind blew a hurricane and the rain came in blinding sheets, the people on the seats began to stampede for shelter. Several were knocked down, a number fell from high seats in their efforts to get to the ground, and others were badly squeezed in the crush. But nobody was seriously injured. Just as the people got safely away the horse tent of the circus fell with a crash, and one of the bronchos was caught beneath a pole and killed. The show property was more or less considerably damaged. TEN MORE HEAT DEATHS Heavy Thunder Storm Brings Relief to New York. New York, Aug. 8.—A heavy thunder storm, accompanied by a deluge of rain, brought welcome relief from the torrid heat of the past three days. Lightning struck in several places in the city, but no serious damage was done. While the temperature Tuesday was perceptibly lower than on Monday, the humidity remained high, and the cumulative effects of the heated term were shown in the record of 10 deaths attributed directly to the heat. The total deaths of the heat spell were 30 Ten Heat Deaths In Philadelphia Ten Heat Deaths in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Aug. 8. — Ten deaths directly due to the excessive heat of the last few days were reported by the Philadelphia police to the coroner. More than two-score cases of prostration were taken care of by the various hospitals. The maximum temperature recorded Tuesday was 90 degrees. at 2.30 p. m., which is four degrees lower than Monday's maximum. ```markdown ``` DOCTOR'S BILL $299,980 And Because She Didn't Pay, Laura Biggar Bennett Is Sued. Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. S.-Dr. G. C. Hendricks, of Atlantic City, N. J., en- tered suit in the county court here against Mrs. Laura Biggar Bennett, widow of Henry M. Bennett, a former theatrical manager of Brooklyn and Pittsburg, claiming $299,980 for professional services. Dr. Hendricks alleges that he att- ended Mrs. Bennett in his private sanitarium in New Jersey for two years, and that he was only paid $20 during that time. The suit is in the nature of a foreign attachment, and attaches all goods, moneys, credits and chattels in the hands of Peter J. McNulty and James Platt, of Pittsburg, the executors of Bennett's will. Dr. Hendricks says Mrs. Bennett now resides in Chicago, and, to the best of his belief, has no place of residence where service may be had on her in this state or county. CUTTING CORN CAUSED DEATH Woman Died of Blood Poisoning After Leg Was Amputated. Scranton, Pa., Aug. 8. — Mrs. Margaret Oliver, aged 63, of Berwick, died in a private hospital here from blood poisoning. Six weeks ago she pared a corn on a toe with a razor. Her foot began to swell, and when she was taken to the hospital the physicians decided to amputate her leg at the knee. This was done, but it proved to have been undertaken too late, as the poison had gotten above the knee. Two weeks ago the remainder of the leg was amputated in the hope that the poison would be headed off, but again the knife was found to have been applied too late. The poison had permeated her whole system. MAJOR SCOFIELD A SUICIDE Army Officer Feared Attack of Locomotion Ataxia and Killed Himself San Francisco, Aug. 7. —Major William B. Scofield, paymaster in the regular army, son of the late Lieutenant General Scofield, U. S. A., retried, shot and killed himself. Major Scofield was on a leave of absence on account of ill health, and in explanation of the suicide it is said that he feared an attack of locomotor ataxia and that he would become a burden to his wife. IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promoting the CIRCULATION of the RICHMOND PLANET. --- THE PLANET SATURDAY.....AUG. 11TH, 1906. POLICE PUT A STOP TO SODA FOUNTAIN "JAGS" Alluring Decoctions Which Have Been Appeasing Seattle Appetites Barred from Sale. Seattle, Wash. — Society women down town shopping and young school girls of respectable families can no longer have their appetites for exhilarating intoxicating drinks satisfied at the fashionable soda fountains and temperance drink parlor of the city. Mayor Moore has instructed Chief of Police Wappenstein to put an end to the practice, declaring at the time that many respectable women and young girls were becoming slaves to the liquor habit through partaking of drinks thoroughly saturated with liquor at soda fountains. The owners of these places announced that 23 drinks for which there had been a large demand in the past could no longer be sold because of police opposition. Such decoctions as "Louisville" punch, "champagne freeze" with POLICE ARREST PURVEYORS OF SODA WATER JAGS "Kentucky frappe" and "frozen sherry punch," do not contain any secret as to their ingredients. The suggestiveness of the names, police officials claim, was fully borne out by the mixture when served. The entire list of 23 drinks no longer served at the fountains afforded a variety of jag that no licensed thirst emporium advertised. The police authorities claim the sale of these drinks to women and children and even to male visitors barred after one a. m. from the saloons satisfied an appetite for intoxicants which must hereafter be appeased only in licensed saloons. Until the revised menus of the fashionable resorts came out after the mayor's orders there was no clear understanding of the extent to which the sale of intoxicants was carried on at soda fountains. It was generally understood that a few liquors could be had from a friendly soda fountain clerk, but the rounders did not appreciate the variety of drinks that were served. The police orders are to absolutely prevent any further sale of these drinks, and all the down-town fountains have withdrawn them. IS VARNISHED BY HAZERS. Marion, Ind.—Everett Storts, 18 years old, escorted Miss Blair to her country home, after an entertainment in Van Buren. When Storts was re- turning to his home in Van Buren at 12 o'clock at night he was overpowered by a dozen young men, was gagged, bound and tied to a tree. Varnish and turpentine were used to anoint him, and then one of the young men declared he intended to stab him. A wet thumb was thrust against Stort's neck, and the varnish that ran down over his collar was thought by Storts to be blood. He is said to have fainted. The young men cut the ropes that bound him, and, after test- ing his pulse and listening for heart beats, decided he was dead and ran away. Storts said he was conscious, and that when the young men left he walked to Van Buren, notified the officers and had warrants issued for the arrest of the young men. He had recognized Clayton Bradford, Coan Paxton, Elmer Brown, Charles Smith and Clarence Brown, and all were arrested on the charge of assault and battery. They pleaded guilty when arraigned, and were fined one dollar and costs in each case. The young men said it was the intention to frighten Storts, haze him, and then let him go. They declare there was no intention of injuring him, but Storts does not see the funny side of the affair. Hounds Eat Each Other New Albany, Ind.-Four blood-hounds, the property of Sheriff Raymond Morris, which were neglected by a farm hand in whose charge they had been placed on the C. Kraft farm, north of New Albany, developed cannibalistic tendencies and two of them were devoured and a third killed. The hounds, which had been in training, were confined in an outbuilding, and it is believed the three stronger brutes when starved to a point of des BORS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET WE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM. COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN COLORS. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AND RETAIL AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. 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FOR ONE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, THE MOST INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK IN THE COUNTRY. WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN. YOU TO peration fell on the weaker one and ate it, and when attacked again with hunger another battle ensued, leaving only two alive. The final struggle between these two resulted in the death of one. WORK OR PLAY By H. C. HILL "Mother won't let me go down to the deep swimming pool," said Jack. "My mother won't. And she won't let me go off and camp with the other fellows," said Louis. "And I can't go down by the wharf alone," continued Jack. "No, and I can't go out in a sailboat without papa." Then the boys sat down under the tree and looked as if they had been very much abused. Just then grandpa came along. He had heard the complaint. "No fun?" he asked. The boys shook their heads. "We can't do anything down here because our mothers are afraid," said Jack. "I know something that is safe," said grandpa. "You know that old chicken run made of laths down there by the brook and the little low henhouse that stands there all tumbled down? Well, it is to be torn down and the wood piled up in the shed. The brook runs right down from the chicken run to the walk leading up to the shed. Now, if you boys take off one side of the henhouse you can use it for a raft, pile all the laths on it and tow it down the brook. Then you could unload it at the flat rock and carry it into the shed. That would not scare your mothers one bit." The boys were up and away before he had hardly finished, and soon the sound of tearing boards and snapping laths was heard. When supper was ready the bit of land that had been an eyesore was all cleaned up, and the boys were hungry for grandma's good biscuits. They told their mothers that they liked games that seemed like work. Grandpa laughed and said, "I guess it is work that seems like a game."-Youth's Companion. Stool Dance. This is a game for the lawn. Get a small stool (a three legged one is fine for the purpose) and set it on the lawn in the center of a circle of players. The players should divide into two sides, facing each other. At a given word or at the touch of a plano the two sides should join hands in one circle and dance around the stool. Then, at a second signal, they should suddenly take sides without letting go hands, each side striving to pull the other side forward, causing some one to touch the stool and upset it. This somebody must then drop out of the ring, the dance is resumed, then the scrimmage, another player has to drop out, and so it will go on until at last only two contesting players remain, and while they fight things out the others will line up and cheer their respective champions. What adds to the excitement of the game is this: That with care players can avoid touching the stool by hopping over it or by throwing themselves back hard or by doing some other clever thing. It is one of the jolliest games ever! Facts About Big Things Facts About Big Things. The longest wall in the world is the famous stone defense made by the Chinese against the Tartars about 200 B. C. It is twenty feet high, twenty-five feet thick at the base and stretches for 1,280 miles over hills, valleys and rivers. The longest fence in the world is a wire netting fence in Australia 1,230 miles long, its object being to keep the rabbits from the cultivated fields. The longest stretch of railway without a curve is 211 miles, from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the Andes, on the new Argentine Pacific railway. Found Dead In Atlantic City Hotel. Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 8. —Professor H. W. Hart, of 1265 Broadway, New York, was found dead in a bedroom at a hotel. 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FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS OR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE SEWING MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING, ONE GOLD WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE, GOLD EARRINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRAPH, ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD-HEADED CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVER-PLATED KNIVES AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RACK, ONE SILK DRESS, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO THE SEASHORE, RAILROAD FARE AND HOTEL BILL PAID, FOR ANY RICHMOND WORKER. THESE OFFERS MAY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY SENDING ONE OR TWO SUBSCRIBER'S NAMES AT A TIME. WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON AS THE FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS FIVE not= the COLORED WE WILL WITH THE RED RATE RIZES. ONE FOUNDEDIES RING, HALF DOZZLE ALARM ONE HALF POT, ONE MOVES, ONE BERS THIRTY-ONE BIS, SHAKESPELLA, ONE CURTAINS OF PAPER TOILET SET, D. BERS GOLD RING; ONE JEW-DR SILVER; READY MADE PALED, WARD ROCKING GROSS OF TOILET; ONE AIR BLANK-AMSTRESS'ANTS OR LA- BERS ONE SEW-RING, ONE GOLD EAR-ONOGRAPH, SUIT OF GEN-OLD-HEADED SPELLA, ONE EAR-PLATED MACK, ONE TO THE SEA-HOTEL BILL KER. EN ADVANT-TWO SUBWE WILL CON AS THE 5 ```markdown ``` THE PLANET SATURDAY.....AUG. 11TH. 1906. LIVE STOCK STOCK-LOADING CHUTE. Can Be Permanently Located Near the Scale House Where Animals Are Welghed. In addition to having a set of wagon scales snugly housed, every farm ought to have a loading chute, so that when five stock is ready for market and has been weighed, the animals, especially hogs and sheep, can readily be driven into the wagon and drawn to market. In the accompanying illustration is shown a plan that has been adopted with considerable success by a reader A HANDY STATIONARY LOADING CHUTE. of The Prairie Farmer in Livingston county, Michigan. His loading chute is built at the side of the scale house so that when the hogs or sheep have been weighed the door can be roadly opened and the animals urged out into the chute and then driven into the wagon. In building a chute in this way the matter of measurements must be governed largely by condition. The height must be according to the wagon. It will be well to have considerable length, so that the slant will not be too great. Strong posts must be set in the ground so as to support the frame. The bottom should be of plank with cleats across so as to provide footing. The sides may be made of inch lumber, but should be high enough so that whatever is being loaded cannot jump out. WATER IN THE PASTURAGE Vital Importance of Having Fresh Water and Plenty of It for the Stock. Few farms are provided with an abundance of good, fresh water in the pasture fields. Water may be obtained in most farms without going into very heavy expense. Cows require a great deal of water and they should have it as fresh and pure as possible. Where water may be obtained at a reasonable depth it is economy to sink a well as near as possible to the corners of four fields. A zig-zag fence and a long trough may be reached from each pasture, or a short pipe underground may be used. Wind mills are cheaper for pumping than any other power. A small mill will keep the trough full most of the time. The few days when it is necessary to pump by hand are just about sufficient to give a man a correct idea of the value of the mill, and he also can get a good deal better idea of the amount of water the cows will drink. Cows having water constantly before them will drink a great deal more than they will if obliged to travel some distance to get it, and they will give more milk in proportion, says the Standard Guide. A few pounds of milk additional each day will easily pay the interest on the cost of the outfit. HOG HELPS. Do not keep the hogs in one lot till it gets dusty. A good sow in perfect health always loses flesh while suckling a litter of pigs and needs to be well fed. Usually the hogs with coarse, straight hair will not fatten near so rapidly as the one with the soft, fine hair. As a rule aged brood sows are the most prolific, the best mothers and produce the most vigorous offspring. The thumps in pigs is often caused by an excess of fat about the internal organs and especially around the heart. Every farrowing sow should have a shelter to herself and be put in it in time to get soainted with her surroundings. To make hogs most profitable a steady daily gain must be secured from the time the pig is farrowed until it is marketed. Pigs often lack vigor because the brood sows are kept too fat. A good, thrifty condition is much better for the pigs than too much fat. Give the pigs a fair start in life by feeding the sow upon milk producing rations. There is nothing much better than skim milk mixed with shorts. All waste from the kitchen are wholesome and suitable as food for pigs, but a swill barrel that is never empty and never clean impairs the system of a hog and his owner's profits. Feeding Milk. Milk as a food for pigs has a feeding value far beyond its actual food elements if given in the proper com- blination with other rations, but it is a great waste to raise pigs exclusively upon it, no matter how pleniful it may be. Middlings and grass should be fed with it, and so double the number of pigs kept with the same amount of milk. FEEDING TANKAGE TO HOGS What the Experiments at the Michigan Experiment Station Demonstrated. Often a farmer feels the need of something that will take the place of or else help out the skim milk portion of the ration for pigs. Up in Michigan creameries and cheese factories have been making serious inroads into the supply of skim milk on the farm. The farmers have seen fit to sell this product, and at the same time desire to false pigs. How to sell their milk and yet at the same time raise their pigs successfully has been a problem with many of them The state experiment station has come to their assistance in an effort to provide a link for the gap. In Bulletin 237, just issued, Shaw shows what he has been able to do with digester tankage, which is a packing house product. After a number of experiments Shaw has reached conclusions which are substantially as follows: 1. The gains were greater in every case where tankage was used in the ration fed to the pigs. 2. The gains of the pigs were more marked as the feeding period was prolonged, showing that the digester taken not only made good gains, but agreed well with the pigs. 3. In every test made the pigs which had the tankage made the cheapest gains, though in one or two cases better gains were made with the milk. The tankage used in this experiment as sold by a leading packer at the Union stockyards, Chicago. It was guaranteed to contain 60 per cent. protein, 10 per cent. fat and 6 per cent. phosphorus. The cost to the station was $32.50 a ton. The corn meals used was valued at $20 per ton, middlings $20 per ton, and skim milk 20 cents per hundredweight. VALUE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS Figures Which Mount Into the Billions Show Importance of Industry. There were 12,147,304,550 pounds of milk and 588,186,471 pounds of cream used in 1904 in the manufacture of 551,278,141 pounds of butter, $13,685,290 pounds of cheese, and 308,485,182 pounds of condensed milk. These figures are part of the census of manufactures for 1905. The total cost of the material used in the industry was $142,920,277, while the value of the products was $168,182,789, an increase of the former of 31.3 per cent, and of the latter of 28.6 per cent. The number of establishments dropped from 9,242 to 8,926, while the capital increased 30 per cent, to $47,265,556. There were 3,507 salaried officials and clerks and 15,557 engaged in the manufacture of these articles. These received salaries and wages amounting to $7,839,036. RINGING HOGS UNAIDED. Easily Done with Slip Noose When Work Is Done Near a Fence. I have rung some very large hogs with no assistance whitower. Proceed whatever. Procure a rope five or six feet long and tie at one end, as a running loop shown. At the other end, the an old stirrup, for a foot rest Lay the noose on the ground close to the fence. Scatter corn around a rope five or six feet long and the at one end, as a running loop shown. At the other end, the an old stirrup, for a foot rest Lay the noose on the ground close to the fence. Scatter corn around the loop, and let the hog get interested in his eating before you try catching him. A little maneuvering is often required before you can get the rope in his mouth, but when once in, there is no get away, says Farm and Home. Be quick about tightening the noose. Now draw his head up until his front feet are off the ground, place your foot in the stirrup, and you are ready to insert the rings. Have the ringer and rings in your pocket. A half-rope, if new, is large enough. With the proper kind of noose, simply pull the end of rope to loose it. Blue Grass His Only Pasture Blue Grass His Only Pasture. The pasture that suits me best for the grazing of cattle is the blue grass pasture, writes an Ogle county correspondent of the Farmers' Review. I cannot compare this with other grass in wild pasture, as I have never had any experience with pastures other than the blue grass pastures. My method is to buy my feeders in the fall, keep them on full feed in the winter and in the spring turn them on the pastures with a full feed of corn. Of course our pastures can be improved because there is room for improvement in everything. The World's Goat Population The use of goat flesh throughout the world assumes very large dimensions. We know something of the numbers killed in cultivated countries, but we know nothing of the millions slaughtered for food in the interior of China and Central Africa. One writer declares that if we could take account of the goats used in these populous countries the figures of the annual consumption of goats would have to be increased by at least 70,000,000 head. IT WAS ALL FOR THE BEST AFTER ALL. Bronson—Yes, my daughter's commencement essay was very fine. Woodson—Did you enjoy it? Bronson—I should say so! I wish I could write something like it. Woodson—You regret not having applied yourself to literary pursuits! 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I think these exposures are sometimes somewhat too pronounced. First Backset. "Bryyan't win!" says Jimkay Jones. "Clonl! I can feel it In my bones!" -Chicago Tribune. HE DIDN'T LIE—WHAT THE GOOD BOOK SAID. There is in the service of a Baltimore man an elderly darky, who is much given to rebuking the mischievousness of his grandson, also in the employ of the Baltimorean. One day the latter chanced to overhear a conversation between the first and third generations, from which it was at once apparent that old Mose was scolding the boy for some trifling fault. The cross-examination appeared unsatisfactory to old Mose, he suspecting the pickainny of concealing something. "Jackson Brown," said the grandfather, sternly, "yo is shore keepin' sumthin' back! 'Member' what de Good Book says, chile." "Yassah," glibly responded the third generation; "I knows dat de Bible says yo' all mustn't lie; but it don't say yo' all got to tell de truf all de time!"—N. Y. Times. Diplomatic Refusal. 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Pure and Fresh Mediences only will sure you then purchase year Drugbrand Medicine from: Leonard's Reliable Your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of opes, Note and Letter Paper, Bill-heads, Monthly Statements, Business Cards, Financial and Order Books, Circulars, Check-books, Pamphlets. SCRIPTIONS resired 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. 'Phone, 1589. Residence. No. 911-82d 84. ROBT. W. WILLIAMS, FUNERAL DIRECTOR & EMBALMER. NO. 3019 P. STREET, BETWEEN 80TH AND 81ST 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 Call and see me and you shall be waited on 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. CHOICE WINES, LiquORS & CAGARS. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT, MEALS AT ALL HOURS. New 'Phone 1261, WM. STALO. - Prop. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. *PROMPT ATTENTION. Your storage is respectfully solicited. JOHN M. HIGGINS, DEALER IN THE PLANET SATURDAY.....AUG. 11TH. 1906. THE CHURCH AT WORK CHURCH GROWTH. Rapid Increase in Membership Mark ed by Obliteration of Denominational Lines. It is wonderful how complete and rapid has been the change in the attitude of our churches within the past quarter of a century. No one can fail to notice how denominational lines have been swept away and how sectarian differences and teachings are being disregarded, the churches now trying to emphasize points of agreement rather than a difference and are working harmoniously together for moral and humanitarian ends, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Theology and doctrine have been sent to the rear, and it is recognized that the true work of the church is here and now, in making this world a happier and better place for everybody to live in, on a basis of unselfishness and brotherly love. In this effort agnostic and churchman, Jew and infidels are working together, and what a man believes is regarded as of comparatively little consequence. He can't be wrong whose life is in the right." Has come to be recognized as good sense and pretty safe theology. It is under these conditions that the growth of the churches is taking place in our time, and the figures given for 1905 are interesting. They are given by an ecclesiastical statistician as follows: In the year 1905 the total number of communicants was 31,148,445, a net gain for that year of 519,155. This membership was distributed as follows: Roman Catholies first, with 10,785,496, net gain 192,122; Methodists second, with 9,428,815, gain 102,892; Baptists come third, with 4,974,047, gain 72,667; Lutherans fourth, with 1,841,346, gain 51,580; Presbyterians fifth, with 1,723,871, gain 1,428; Disciples of Christ sixth, with 1,325,294, gain 1,428; Episcopals seventh, with 827,127, gain 19,203; Congregationalists eighth, with 687,042, gain 13,321; Reformed (Dutch and German) ninth, with 405,022, gain 4,021. In their percentage of increase they stand in this order: Lutheran, .028; Episcopalians, .023; Congregationalists, .019; Roman Catholics, .017; Methodists, .015; Presbyterians, .05; Baptists, .014; Reformed, .008; Disciples of Christ, .001. Methodists and Baptists are doing most for the negro in the south, and are very strong in that section. The Baptists' growth in the north, where they number 1,075,833, was but 4,864; but the Methodist Episcopal church North, 2,910,779 strong, had a growth of 62,847. A GOOD SHOWING Gratifying Record of the Congregational Home Missionary Society The Congregational Home Missionary society held its eightieth annual meeting recently. This organization had been a self-perpetuating body, empowered at the expiration of a term of service to elect new members to succeed to the offices. At the Oak Park meeting this was so far changed that hereafter each contributing state society will have a voice in the constitution of the body. Four out of every five of the 7,000 Congregational churches have been brought by it to self-support. In connection with its auxiliaries it has raised and expended $23,401,528. During the past year $130,000 has been added to the endowment of the society, and the increase of gifts for the current work of the year was $70,000. It employs 1,641 missionaries who have during the year preached at 2,216 stations. during the year 5,100 converts have been added to these home missionary churches. Forty-five churches have been organized during the year and 57 houses of worship completed. Forty-one young men connected with the home missionary churches are preparing for the ministry. Missionaries as Bible Translators. Rev. J. S. Dennis has recently stated that the number of translations made by missionaries covering the entire Bible—including three versions now obsolete—is 101; number of additional translations by missionaries covering the entire New Testament—including 22 versions now obsolete—127; number of additional languages into which missionaries have translated only portions of the O'd and New Testaments—including 15 versions now obsolete—254; the resultant total being 482, to which may be added the versions prepared by transliteration. A Chilly Comparison. "Which is better, brains or money?" "Well," answered Mr. Dustin Stax, "I hate to say it, but it seems to me that people with brains always have to have money, while people with money can, on a pinch, manage to get on without help."—Washington Star. STORY OF LOVE AND MURDER REVEALED BY HERMIT'S DEATH Queer Character of Whom Little Was Known, Dies in Montana Cabin--Kilis Rival in Germany and Fees to America. AERONAUT BRAVES SEA AND STORM IN BALLOON AND LIVES Twin Bridges, Mont.—Letters and papers discovered in a rusty old tin box hidden beneath a board in the floor of a little old weather-beaten, dilapidated miner's cabin clinging to a mountainside not far from here tell one of the strangest stories that has come to light in this region in many years. The story is of an eccentric old hermit who died in the cabin in which the papers and letters were discovered. The name of this hermit was Roscoe Overhardt. For years before he died Overhardt lived alone in the little old cabin and wandered over the mountains hereabout in quest of game and gold. It was always supposed by those who knew him, or rather by those who saw him, for no one hereabouts knew him, that Overhardt was mentally unbalanced and that he was extremely poor. In the twenty-old years that he made his home in the little old cabin on the mountainside he never spoke of his own free will to any person, never raised his eyes to look into those of a man or woman with whom he met face to face and never bought groceries or clothing at a store in Twins Bridges or any other town in this part of Montana. The furniture in the one room of his cabin was of the meanest sort. The clothing upon the old man's back was shabbier than the furniture in his cabin. A dog was the hermit's only friend and companion. For the dog he seemed to cherish a deep, warm affection, while the faithful animal's love for him was well-nigh human in its tenderness and constancy. The strange, silent old man fell ill a few weeks ago in his shabby little cabin on the mountain side and could not leave his bed thereafter. No one knew he was ill until the day he died, when a prospector, happening to pass that way, stopped at his door to ask for a drink of water and found him dying. Before a doctor could be reached the hermit went to his final rest. A careful search of the dead man's cabin brought to light a rusty tin box containing a few gold coins and the letters and papers which tell in part the story of his life before he came west to spend his declining years in loneliness. Roscoe Overhardt was born in Germany, according to the story these letters and papers tell. His father was a well-to-do merchant in Berlin and he gave his son a university education, intending him to adopt the profession of medicine. In his student days young Overhardt paid court to pretty Katharine Meller, and finally won her consent to marry him. Katherine Meller had had another sutor before she met Overhardt. His name was Matthew Schoenfeldt, and he belonged to a dignified family at Frankfort. Schoenfeldt flew into a high passion when he learned of Miss Meller's engagement to Overhardt; sought out the girl's accepted lover and picked a quarrel with him. In the quarrel Overhardt stabbed Schoenfeldt, who died of his wounds soon afterward revealing the identity of his slayer. Overhardt, well-night crazed with grief, went immediately to his sweetheart and confessed his crime to her. She begged him to flee to the United States, promising to join him in this Is Rescued Far Out in Ocean After Being Buffeted by Wind and Twice Drenched by the Waves. Boston.—After being buffeted by a thunderstorm, twice ducked in the ocean and spending the night in the car attached to his balloon, James K. Allen, a veteran aeronaut, was rescued off Block island by the crew of A THE CAR DASHED INTO THE WATER. the fishing schooner, Frances V. Silva and brought to this city by the tug Clara E. Ula. Though he has made more than 400 ascensions. Allen says this latest one was the most thrilling of his life. Power of Love There are few souls so base but some fond heart is ready to trust them. God sometimes sends the clinging vine up the dead trunk of the tree to teach us that even in death his grace clings green and vigorous, and to remind us that the wrecked life, though deformed and unsightly, can be made beautiful by ever-clinging love—United Presbyterian. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA country as soon as he should send for her to come to him. The death of Schoenfeldt was still shrouded in mystery, so far as the police and relatives and friends of the dead man were concerned, when Overhardt left Germany and fled to Paris. He remained in Paris a few weeks and then went to London, whence a few weeks later he came to the United States. He sought and obtained employment in New York under an assumed name, but, fearing that the mystery surrounding Schoenfeldt's death might be cleared up and that he might be discovered and arrested there as his slayer, he set out for the west. T IN THE QUARREL OVERHARDT STABBED SCHOENFELDT. spent a few weeks in Cincinnati, being attracted there by the large German element in the population. Then he went to Louisville, where he remained several months. From Louisville he went to St. Louis and from St. Louis to Milwaukee. He remained in Milwaukee six months. Meanwhile he was writing regularly to and receiving letters regularly from his sweetheart in Germany. He told her that he should send for her as as soon as he should settle down and become able to support her and himself in comfort. On coming to this state he began prospecting for gold, and within a year he struck a rich lead. Thereupon he dispatched a letter to his sweetheart, begging her to come to hm at once She answered his letter, saying that because of the illness of her mother she could not leave her home. A few weeks later he received another letter from her, saying that her mother was better but that for other reasons she could not then come to the United States to join him. Apparently realizing finally that his sweetheart did not intend to join him, Overhardt ceased writing to her and abandoned hope. He disposed of his mine several months after he received his last letter from his sweetheart and, coming to this region, built the little cabin on the mountainside, in which he spent the rest of his miserable life. It is believed that in his loneliness and his grief his mind finally became deranged and that was responsible for his eccentric habits. What became of the fortune which the old man realized from the sale of his gold mine is a mystery. Allen started from Providence at noon. It was raining at the time, and soon the lightning was playing about the big gas bag. There was something wrong with the anchor rope, and Allen let out enough gas to bring the balloon to earth. The trouble was righted, ballast was thrown out, and the balloon shot into the air to such a height that the aeronaut was able to look down and see the storm raging far below. The wind was blowing from the west, and at dark Allen found himself over the tip end of Cape Cod and being rapidly carried out to sea. The balloon sank lower and lower, and Allen drifted rapidly at a height of 100 feet above the water, the anchor rope trailing through the waves and retarding the progress. Twice the car was dashed into the water, but each time Allen threw over ballast and the balloon rose. At daybreak no land was in sight. The captain of a tug towing a string of barges heard Allen's cries for help, and gave chase, but the balloon was going too rapidly, and soon the vessel dropped out of the race. Several hours later Allen came near the schooner. The vessel started toward him, but failed to reach the drag rope in time. Members of the crew were out in dories, however, and one of them managed to seize the rope. The dory was dragged through the water at a great rate for a time, but Allen let out gas and managed to step from the car attached to the balloon to the dory without getting his feet wet. In spite of his thrilling experience Allen retains his nerve, and says he is ready to make another ascent. Reckoned Up. "How long is it going to take to get through this case?" asked the man who was under remand for housebreaking. "Well," replied the young lawyer, thoughtfully, "it'll take me about two weeks to get through with it, but I'm afraid it's going to take you about five years." - Cassell's Journal. Dorothy's Dream Not a word had she said about it to any one, but for days and weeks—yes, for months, indeed, ever since the Truemans had moved in across the street—Dorothy's dearest dream had been—but I am going too fast. What I meant to tell you was how two people who had not had a hint of the dream together made it come true. One shiny, frosty morning Dorothy's Aunt Frances, who lived in the suburbs, came into the city to do some shopping at her favorite department store. What should be going on there but a special sale and dazzling display in dolldom! Dorothy's Aunt Frances, passing by the bright bazaar, paused to look and linger. How, indeed, could she help doing so? All at once she thought of Dorothy and her coming birthday, but not a whisper had there been about the dream. One frosty, shiny afternoon Dorothy's Cousin Beth from the east side went downtown to do some shopping in her favorite department store. And what should it be but the very same day and the very same store with the very same special sale and dazzling display in dolldom! Dorothy's Cousin Beth, passing by the bright bazaar, paused to look, and she lingered, as indeed, how could she help doing? All at once she thought of Dorothy and her coming birthday, but not a snipcion had she about the dream. Not many days later on a particularly shining and frosty morning Dorothy sat up in bed and rubbed her eyes and began to remember it was her birthday—when, oh, wonder! On the right side of her pillow, close by the "sleepy hollow" her tumbled curls had made, lay the most beautiful big baby doll she had ever in her life beheld. It had just such blue eyes and golden curls as all dolls and as many babies as possible should have. The dress was a lovely, long, white baby robe and cunning white cap tied with a blue bow. Dorothy gave one delightful scream and was just reaching out her arms when, oh, wonder of wonders! On the left side of her pillow, close by the "sleepy hollow" her tumbled curls had made, lay the most beautiful big baby doll she had ever in her life beheld—until a moment before! Blue eyes it had and golden curls. It was dressed in a lovely, long, white baby robe and cunning white cap tied with a pink bow. Two delighted screams Dorothy gave this time, for in that waking moment she knew her dearest dream had come true! Twins—twin dolls—just like the Trueman twins across the street! Exactly alike they were, as all thoughtful twins should be, except that Aunt Frances had preferred pink, where Cousin Beth had liked blue! Asla and Australia were the names already awaiting the twins, and downstairs with them she bounced to introduce them to Europenn, her favorite before the dream came true, and Cuba, her wooden horse of undying fame—Washington Star. A Lapland Birthday Present. As soon as a Lapp baby is born a reindeer is presented to him. This reindeer is literally his start in life, for not only that deer, but all its young—and as they grow up all their young deer—belong to the child. When he is of age he has quite a herd of his own. An Optical Illusion. Here is a rather curious illusion, showing how easy it is for the eye to deceive the judgment. At first sight which dotted line—the horizontal or the vertical—would you suppose is the longer? Now take a measure and test the accuracy of your eye's estimate. DON'TS FOR THIN WOMEN. Don't walk to excess. A short walk will be beneficial, but long walks are flesh reducing. Don't strive for long waisted effects. The longer you make yourself look the thinner you will appear. Don't wear black. Black has a tendency to make any one look slender. Light clothes are the most becoming. Don't stay up late at night. Get at least nine hours' good sleep. A woman needs more sleep than a man, and nothing keeps her in good condition like lots of sleep. Don't wear stripes. Checks, plaids and horizontal effects are better for thin women. They should strive for becoming, deceiving effects if they study art in dressing at all. Don't forget that a well rounded figure makes you look younger and is considered a mark of beauty. Starchy foods, massage, moderate exercise, rest and sleep should produce this. Bible Circulation in Samoa Bible Circulation in Samoa. Writing from Apla, Samoa, Rev. G. W. Sibree, of the London Missionary society, asks for a further consignment of 2,500 Samoa Bibles, and reports that the German governor has granted permission to import Bibles or educational books free of duty. Mr. Sibree has remitted $1,410, representing the proceeds of sales of Bibles in Samoa during 1904. THE BEST. 100 Mechanics' Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA. 511 NORTH THIRD STREET. received on deposit and interest $1.00 which remains 60 days signed on Satisfactory Security. Accounts Handled Promptly. In ten cents and upwards receipt that is fitted up in the most improved st of steel chest, electric lights and even the accommodation of the public. on concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans. have been arranged for the special conven- tion 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. and open again at 5 P. M., remain come from work. OFFICERS: JR., President. H. F. JONATH. THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: on deposit and interest paid on which remains 60 days and over. Satisfactory Security. Handled Promptly. nts and upwards received on deposit up in the most improved style, having a larg- hest, electric lights and every modern conven- tion of the public. ing Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the arranged for the special convenience of the work to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 8 P. . W open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until work. OFFICERS: Ident. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President S. H. WYATT, Cashier. RD OF DIRECTORS: Money received on deposit and amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 Money Loaned on Satisfactory Seed Business Accounts Handled Prom Amounts of ten cents and upward. This establishment is fitted up in the most imp white vanit, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights fence for safety and the accommodation of the publ For all information concerning Stocks, Deposit, Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the speci people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturday close Saturday at 3 P. M. and open again at 5 P. P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. J. THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier BOARD OF DIRECTOR REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILE E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, THOM J. C. FARLEY, JNO. Money received on deposit and interest paid on amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit. This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturday, 9 A. M. to 8 P. . We close Saturday at 3 P. M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until 7 P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. E. A. WASHINGTON. B. W. WHITING. WILL A. JOHN MITOHELL, JR., FRES. THOMA. W. I. JOHN FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foush, HACKS FOR HI Offices by Telephone or Telegraph pers and Entertainments prom Old Phone, 686, Residence in Build M. JOHNSON DIRECTOR AND E rooms, 207 N. 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ALLEN Supreme voyage This organization has been chartered and legally ated under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial social and Moral condition of humanity. and uniform ranks will secure for this organization accredited institutions of modern events, a grand oppo- ses wanted in all sections of the country to organise address. LEN Supreme voyager This organization has been chartered and legally situated under the laws and statute of the state of New York, for the purpose of uniting together all acceptable men on the Broad Bases of Charity—Beneficial Praternal and to promote the Social and Moral condi Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of unity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sect lodges G. W. ALLEN Supreme Praternal and to promote the Social and Moral condition of humanity. Its two distinct military and uniform ranks will secure for this organisation a place in the front ranks of all sacred institutions of modern events, a grand opportunity for active men. Deputies wanted in all sections of the country to organize lodges. Kindly address. G. W. ALLEN Supreme voyager. 346 W. 37th Street, New York City. The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER [TRADE MARK REGISTERED.] Hass proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunate, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it reassures us of its satisfactory results. We can well boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoys the commendation of the very best white and colored people in this immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. 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We will just here remind the public as placed national patent rights on curry and we are in turn responsible to the gree dealings. move Dandruff, Cura Scalp store Hair on Clean Temples the roots are not dead. r box (local orders) 35 cts. 80 cts. less of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the magi miracle or anything unreasonable. Our prepound, the ingredients of which we would not ill just here remind the public that the United national patent rights on our hair preparation be in turn responsible to the government for honors. ndruff, Oure Scalpt among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Oure 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, 50cts. and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order, or Express Money Order. A charge of 10cts. extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Address all communications to: MME. J. V. HAWKINS, 612 N. First Street, Richmond, Va. 'PHONE, 4601. Correspondence strictly confidential. 'Phone, 577. A. D. PR Funeral Director, Embalmer All orders promptly filled at short notice by Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainm V. HAWKINS, Richmond, Va ONE, 4601. e strictly confidential. D. PRIC Director, Embalmer and I fully filled at shortnotice by telegraph meetings and nice entertainments. . PRICE, Embalmer and Liveryman. Not shortnotice by telegraph or telephone, and nice entertainments. Plenty of room ances. Large picnic or band wagons for nothing but first-class carriages, buggies, and fine funeral supplies. 2 East Leigh Street. Residence Next Door. NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night A. D. PRICE, Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at shortnotice 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. OPENALL DAY & NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night ```markdown ``` A. B. Capital. $25,000 CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL, THOMAS SNAKE, D. J. CHAVERS WILL AM CUSTALO, J. J. CARTM THOMAS M. ORUMP, SC'c. M. Richmond, Va SEVEN SOUTHERN RAILWAY TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND N. B.-Following schedule figures published only as information, and are not guaranteed. 7:30 a.m. - Daily. Located for Charlotte also connecting at Keysville for Chase City, Clarks Valley, and Lakewood. Daily. Limited. Get Pullman o Atlanta and Birningham, New Orleans Memphis. Chattanooga and all the South. Through coach for Chase City, Oxford. Durah. 6:00 p.m. - Ex.午, keysville Local. 11:30 m.-Daily. Limited: Pullman ready at 9:30 p.m. for all the South. WORK RIVER LINE 4:30 p.m. Except Sunday, No. 16, Baltimore Limited TRAINS ARBRE BICHMOND. 6 58 a.m and 7 50 p.m. - From all the South 6 58 a.m to Charlotte, Durham, Chase City, Baleigh and local stations. 8 40 a.m - From Keyville and local stations 9:35 a.m. No 15. Baltimore and West Point. 10 45 a. m., No. 9, 5 15 p. m. No. 78. From West Point and local stations. No 15 and No 16 stop Quinton, Tuastalls White House and Letter Manor. C. W. WESTERBY. D. P. a. 200 E Main St. Richmond, Va. S. H. HARRICK, Pass. Traf M'g r. B. SPENCER, General Manager, W. H. TATLOE, G. r. a Washington, D. C. SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST CINCINNATI, INDIANAPOLIS, ST. LOUIS CHICAGO, LOUISVILLE, NASHVILLE, MEMPHIS, 2:15 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. daily. WESTBOUND LOCAL TRAINS. 7:30 a. m. daily and 5:15 p. m. week days. NEWPORT NEWS, NORFOLK AND OLD POINT. 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. daily. Local For Newport News and OLD POINT. 10:20 a.m. daily; 5:15 p.m. daily. Aveiro Main Line from West; *7:30 A.M.* *8:30 A.M.* A.M. *7:45 A.M.* M. From East; *10:30 A.M.* A.M. *11:45 A.M.* M. From *8:00 P.M.* James River; *8:40 A.M.* M. *0:35* P.M. (*Daily.* *Ex. Sunday.) OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP CO. NIGHT LINE FOR NORFOLK Leave Richmond, every evening (food Ash Street) at 7 P.M. Mapping in Newport News en route. Fare M. 205 one way, 40 round trip, in inding stateroom berth, meals each, each. FOR NEW YORK Via Night Line Steamers (except Saturday night) connection in Norfolk with Main Line Ship, Birthday day at 5 P. M., also Norfolk and Western Railway at 6 P. M., also Norfolk and Ohio & Michigan Ry at 9 A. M., and 4 P. M. making connection daily (except Sunday) at Norfolk Railway at 7 P. M. Tickets: 808 E. Main Street VIRGINIA NAVIGATION COMPANY. LIGHT Steamer Pocosontah leaves Wednesday wednesday and Friday at 7 a.m. for Norfolk Portsmouth, Old Point, Newport News, la- mont and James River landings, and com- mencement. Ride Washington, Baltimore, and the North State rooming for t o night at moderate prices. Electricity to the wharf. Fare only $1.50 and Norfolk feign received for above named places an all rights reserved and North Ca- olina. IRVIN WEISGUNG Mgr E. A. Barber, JR. Secretary. SEABOARD Schedule Effective, May 27, 1906. Short Line to the principal Cities of the South and Southwest, Florida, Cuba and Mexico. SOUTHBOUND TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY 9 20 a.m. m. Local for Norlina, Durham, Raleigh Hamble, Wilmington and Charlotte. 2 0 p.m. f.ast train with through sleeper and other trains, thru Jacksonville, Jacksonville and Florida points, thru Birmingham, making fastest time to lanta, Birmingham, making fastest time to the entire south-west. 10 0 p.m. m. trains and the entire south-west. Columbia, Savannah, Jacksonville and Florida points also to Atlanta, Birmingham, Birmingham, with the Frisco System, making immediate connection for all south-western points. Northbound Trains Arrive Richmond Daily H S LEARO, D P A. H S LEARO, D P A. 800 East Main street, Richmond, Va. R. F. & P. Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Poto mac Railroad. 5:20 a.m. m., daily Byrd St. Through. 5:29 a.m. Daily, Main St. Through. 5:30 a.m. weekdays, Elba. Ashland accommodation. m., m., daily Byrd St. Through Local stops. 12:03 noon, week days. Byrd st. Through 4:00 p.m. week days. Byrd st. Fredericks burg accommodation. 5:05 p.m. daily. Main st. Through. 6:30 p.m. week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. 7:30 daily. Byrd st. Through. 8:20 p. m., daily, Byrd st. Through. Trains Arrive Richmond — Southward. 6:40 a. m., week days. Elba Ashland acom modation. 8:20 a.m., week days, Byrd St. Fredericks burg accommodation. 8:25 a.m. m., daily, Byrd St. Through. 11 a.m. m., week days, Byrd St. Through. Local apartment 2:14 p.m. m., daily Main St. Through. 3 a.m. m., week days, Elba Ashland accom- modation 7:15 p.m. Byrd St. Through. 9:00 p.m. m., daily, Byrd St. Through. Local apartment 6:50 p.m. m., daily, Main St. Through. NOTE: Pullman Sleeping or Parior Cars on trains except train arriving Richmond 11:50 a.m. m., week days and local accom- modations. Time of arrivals and departures and con nections not guaranteed. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. 6:00 A. m. MORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Waverley and Suffolk. Tops only at Petrisherville, Waverley and Suffolk. 9:00 A. m. CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Par- tor Car Petersburg to Lynchburg and Roanoke to Lynchburg and Roanoke and Bluedeck to Cincinnati, also Roanoke to Kendall and Knoxville to Chattanooga and Mem 12:10 P. M. Roanoke Express for Farmville, Lynchburg and Roanoke. 3:00 P.M. M. Ocean Shore Limited Arrives Norfolk 5:30 P.M. M. stops only at Petersburg Connecticut to Boston, Baltimore to Boston, providence, New York, Baltimore and Washington. 6:30 P. M. for Norfolk and all stations east of Newburg 6:30 P. M. for New Orleans SHORT Line. Pallman Sleeper Richmond to Lynnhurst, Patterson to Roanoke: Lynnhurst to Chattanooga, Memphis and New Orleans. Cafe Dining Car Trains arrives from the west 7:30 a. m. -2:00 p. m. Office Ng 988 Heart Main Street E. HO BOLLEY Teen. Paula 988 Jean. Paula 988 ATLANTIC COAST LINE For Florida and south, 9:05 A. M., 7:25 and For Norfolk, 9:00 A. M., 9:00 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, 6:20 P. M. For Goldbabor and Fayetteville, "8:38 P. M. Trats arrive Richmond daily, 5:10, "8:38 "10:15 and 11:40 A. M., "10:00, 6:30 and 8:50. * Except Sunday * **Bunday only** C. S. CAMPBELL, D. P. A EIGHT THE PLANET STEAMER WRECKED 300 DROWNED Italian Vessel Struck Reef Off the Coast of Spain. DUE TO CAPTAIN'S NEGLIGENCE Cartagena, Spain, August 6.—A terrible marine disaster occurred off Cape Palos. The Italian steamship Siro, from Genoa for Barcelona, Cadiz, Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, with about 800 persons on board, was wrecked off Hormigas island. Three hundred emigrants, most of them Italians and Spaniards, were drowned. The bishop of Sao Pedro, Brazil, also was lost, and it is reported that another bishop is among the missing. The remainder of the passengers and the officers and crew got away in the ship's boats or were rescued by means of boats sent to them from the shore. A number of fishermen who made attempts at rescue were drowned. Those rescued from the vessel are now at Cape Palos in a pititable condition, being without food or clothing. The Siro struck a rocky reef known as Bajos Hormigas, and soon after, stern first. Hormigas Island lies about two and a half miles to the eastward of Cape Palos. Before he committed suicide the captain declared the steamer had 645 passengers on board, and that her crew numbered 127 men. The Siro had 570 passengers when leaving Genoa, but additional Spanish passengers were taken on board at Barcelona, where the vessel touched a few hours before the disaster. The steamer was threading a difficult passage through the Hormigas group, where the Bajos Hormigas reef is a continual menace to navigation. The vessel began to settle rapidly immediately she had struck, and a terrible scene of confusion and panic ensued on board. The fishermen along the coast sought to render every assistance in their power and sent out boats which brought many survivors ashore. Most of the officers and crew of the Sirio are among the saved. From the broken narratives of the terror-striken survivors it would appear that it was the intention of the captain of the Sirio, after leaving Barcelona, to call at Cadiz before proceeding to Brazil. The captain, in order to shorten the route and gain time, purposed to pass as close as possible to the dangerous rocky ledges surrounding the Hormigines Islands. Without any warning and while running at full speed, the Sirio crashed upon the rocks with terrific force. A few minutes later the stern of the vessel sank beneath the waves. The passengers were in a state of horror and panic. Crowds rushed forward, pushing each other and fighting for places in the bow of the boat. Many fell and were trampled to death. Dozens of men and women threw themselves into the sea. A young mother who was carrying her baby was advised to abandon the child and try to save herself alone. This she refused to do, declaring she preferred that they die together. Both eventually were picked up alive from the water. The Italian emigrants, with knives in their hands and without regard for the women or children, fought with: the greatest brutality for the possession of life buoys and boats. Many were killed or wounded, including several members of the crew, who were attacked by emigrants. Eye witnesses give awful pictures of the brutal panic on board. For half an hour the emigrants were masters of the situation. One report even states, the correspondent continues, that a group of emigrants approached one of the ship's boats which already was full and which was about to be launched, and dislodged the people, killing several with their knives. Just as they were about to occupy the boat themselves, another body of armed emigrants came up and a fierce fight for the possession of the lifeboat followed. An additional sadness is added to the catastrophe owing to the fact that a number of fishermen who were conducting rescuing operations were drowned in consequence of the overturning of a boat. The captain of the Sirio just before he killed himself attributed the wreck to his own imprudence. THE BEDROOM. It Should Have as Little Furniture In It as Possible. Decorations and hangings for a bedroom should be of the daintiest material both in color and design. Printed dimity is quite the prettiest and most inexpensive to use in furnishing a sleeping apartment. Curtains, bedspread, dresser covers and chair cushions may be made of it, though for the latter chinz in the same design is heavier and more desirable. In the properly appointed modern bedroom as little furniture as possible is used. This insures proper sanitary conditions, for the less there is to collect dust the better. The floor should be either plain varnished wood, with a few rugs on it, or a denim carpet tacked close to the wall. The bed is best of iron or brass, as it is less apt to collect dust or dirt. A pretty cover can be made for it of dimity, with ruffles at the edge, hanging well over the sides, but clearing the floor by several inches. IN COOKING MEAT. Cure Should Be Taken to Preserve the Juices. Except for soup stock, meat should be cooked in a way to preserve its juices. In the first few minutes of boiling it should be subjected to a temperature higher than boiling point, so that a crust will form and keep in the juices. Then the temperature should be lowered and the meat merely smothered till done. In roasting and broiling the same principle is followed. The meat is put directly into an extremely hot oven or over the flames and allowed to become seared over the surface, after which the temperature is lowered. For soup stock meat should be put into cold stock or water and gradually brought to the boiling point in order that the juices may flow from it, adding strength to the stock. When roasting beef some housewives to give it flavor rub the surface with an onion or place an onion on top of it. A certain housewife who prepares delicious roasts says that she never bastes her meat with water, but uses the drippings instead. Demented Woman Burned to Death. South Bend, Ind., Aug. 7.—As a result of a gasoline fire, Mrs. E. H. Denzlow, demented, was burned to death. H. E. Denzlow and Mrs. Eugene Balfour were probably fatally burned, and Mrs. G. E. Hunt and her child were seriously burned. Mrs. Denzlow, taking advantage of a temporary release from her husband's watchfulness, poured gasoline on the parlor carpet and applied a match. She was immediately enveloped in flames. The others were burned while trying to rescue the burning woman. Seven Little Pussy Cats. Seven little pussy cats, invited out to tea, Cried: 'Mother, let us go. Oh, do, for good we'll surely be! We'll wear our bibs and hold our things as Tom has shown us how- Spoons to give us cups in left—and make a pretty bow. We'll always say, 'Yes, if you please,' and 'Only half of that.' "Then go, my darling children," said the happy mother cat. The womb with pussy cats went out that night to tea. The heads were smooth and glossy; their tails were swinging free; They held their new things as they had learned and tried to be polite! With snowy bibs beneath their chins they were bright and neat. But, alas for manners beautiful and coats as soft as silk. They put their noses in the cups, and all began to drink! PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR steady; winter exerts. $3 @ 13.15; Pennsylvania roller, clear, $2.25 @ 3.40; city mills fancy, $4.50 @ 4.60; RYE FLOUR firm; per barrel, $3.55 @ 3.75; WHEAT firm; No 2. Pennsylvania red. $75 @ 1/8; 75C CORN stendy; No 2 yellow, local, 59C stendy; steady, white, clipped 44/4 @ 1/4 lower grade; 44/4 @ 1/4 lower grade; 44/4 @ 1/4 lower grade; 44/4 @ 1/4 lower grade; No 1 timothy, $17.50 @ 18 PORK firm; family, $19.50 BEEN stendy; beef hams, $19.1 POULTRY Live firm; hens, $13 @ 14/1; old roosters, $9 @ 19/2; Dressed firm; choice fowls, $14/2; old roosters, $9.8 BUTTER steady; creamery, 25c. EGGS firm; selected, $22 @ 23c; 20c. EGGS firm; selected, 17@ 19c. per dozen POTATOES steady; new, per barrel $150 615 71 BALTIMORE - WHEAT steady; No. 2 spot, 74% @75c; No. 2 spot, 68% @68%c; southern, 68% @73%c. CORN quiet; mixed spot, 54% @54%c; mixed steamer, 51% @51%c; southern 55% @55%c; mixed steamer, 51% @51%c; sales; No. 3 39% @40c; No. 4 38% @39c; mixed, No. 2 88%c salos; No. 3 27% @37%c; No. 4 36% @38c. BUTTER firm, creamy separator extras, 21% @22c; held, 18@20c; prints, 22@23c. Maryland and Pennsylvania dairy; EGG, 20@20c. Maryland and Pennsylvania, 18c Virginia, 18c; West Virginia, 175% southern, 17c per dozen. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE slow, choice, $5.75@6; prime, $3.00@6; HOGS slow, prime $6.00@6; $8.00@6; HOGS slow, $6.90; $6.90; heavy Yorkers, $8.90; light Yorkers and plga, $7.70; roughs $5.50@6; SHEEP steady; prime weth $5.00@6; culls and common $2.50@8; lambs, $4.50@7.50; vee calves, $7.25. A Freak In Names Among the thousand and one kinds of people that it takes to make the world may be reckoned the man who has a fancy for grewsome and freakish names. Two such cases came under the editor's notice the other day. One was that of a man named Death, who had one of his sons christened Jolly and another Sudden, so that he had a Jolly Death and a Sudden Death in the family. Is there any subject so serious that people will not joke about it? Another case was that of a man named Rose, who called his daughter Wild, and she then became Wild Rose, a pretty name indeed, but she afterward married a man named Bull, when she became Wild Bull, which is not so pretty. An Early Bird. "Procrastination is a dangerous thing in business, isn't it?" said the young man who is anxious to learn. "I should say so," answered Dustin Stax. "You don't know how thankful I am that I made my pile before all that furore for investigation started in."—Washington Star. Easy. Young Dedstuk—Miss Hope, here's a new conundrum. Why is a cow with only one horn like an unabridged dictionary? What's your answer to that? Miss Dora Hope (with a dreamy, faraway gaze)—The answer is "Yea."—Chicago Tribune. "You must remember," said the bestress who was talking about her love affair, "that he is of noble lineage." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne," but we should not select husbands as we do bocks, merely because we like the titles."—Washington Star. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA WILD MAN ROOSTS IN BRANCHES OF TREES WILD MAN ROOSTS IN BRANCHES OF TREES Long Island People Thrown Into Panic Over Antics of Creature Who Inhabits Nests. Baldwin, L. I.—That a wild man lurks in the woods hard by this villa lence there can be no possible doubt. Constable Stephen Petit sed a posee into the haunts of the creature, but was able to find only a few deserted nests in the trees where the unwel- come visitor had lodged. Residents are in a state bordering on terror. They bar and bolt their doors at night and two or three of the inhabitants have set spring guns on their front porches. Because the creature has been seen perched like a wild turkey the story has gained circulation that he has wings. Miss Sempronia Jenkins, prin­ cipal of the Freeport high school, has called him Dracula, after the principal character in one of Bram Stoker's novels, and the watchword of all Nassau is "Dracula alive or dead." Dracula has been wandering near the pumming station, which is used to A PERCHED LIKE A WILD TURKEY IN A TREETOP. supply a portion of Brooklyn. He has also appeared at dawn to Mr. Simpkin, who was gathering the products of his Plymouth Rocks. The wild man seized the rubber dating stamp with which Mr. Simpkin was about to imprint an egg, and with a flendifish cry tore across the railroad track and disappeared in a clump of blackberry bushes. Young persons who are accustomed to visit the kissing bridge at [twilight now shun it, for the unpleasant experience of a Freeport couple there has alarmed the community. They were leaning against the rail when the wild man approached and laid a heavy hand on the youth's shoulder, and then laughing in his face suddenly swung himself into the branches of a weeping willow which was on the overhanging bank of the stream. Miss Conway, who lives outside of the main portion of this village, declares that the other afternoon she saw a tall man emerge from the woods. His clothing, which was torn and threadbare, was black. His hair was intensely black, and he also wore a black mustache. His eyes had a wild and restless expression, and she noted also that his feet, which were incased in patent leather shoes, seemed small and that he apparently had little or no toes. The wild man looked about him in every direction, and, catching sight of an automobile, gave vent to ribald laughter and receded into the underbrush. Wild men have been seen from time to time in this vicinity, for several sanatoriums for the weak-minded are within a radius of ten miles, but this is the first one who goes to roost Rude platforms of branches on which he had been in the habit of sleeping are in evidence. GIRL FIXED HOUR OF DEATH Writes Her Obituary with Strange Exactness Two Months Before End Comes. Newcastle, Pa.—Miss Nannie Kyle, a handsome young woman of Springfield township, handed a sealed envelope to William Johnston, an undertaker of Newcastle, two months ago, with instructions that it be not opened until after her death. The undertaker laughingly took the envelope, and declared that, judging from appearances, he would keep it a long time, as Miss Kyle, who was 27 years old, was the picture of good health. He placed the envelope in his safe and forgot about it. Johnston was called to the Kyle residence the other day and found Miss Kyle dead. She had died of stomach trouble. When the undertaker returned to his office he opened the envelope and found that it contained the announcement of the girl's death, giving the day and hour correctly, the cause of her death, and her biography. Ear Nipped Off by a Horse. New Rochelle. N. Y.—Harry S. Green, a dairman, had his left ear bitten off by his pet horse. Green grabbed the chewed ear in his handkerchief and, boarding a trolley car, hurried to the home of Dr. Emerson, where it was grafted in place. There is hope of the dismembered ear growing in place. Green was horseback riding when the accident occurred. The animal stumbled and throw Green over his head, rendering him unconscious. The horse attempted to assist him to his feet and in doing so nipped off the ear. True Prophecy. Comedian—Yes, and now he is moving an audience every night. Soubrette—You don't mean it? Comedian—Sure! He is selling peanuts and popcorn and every time he comes down the aisle the audience has to get up—Chicago Daily News. BARBARISM RAMPANT IN NORTH CAROLINA CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. them cut off fingers, ears and other parts from the dead bodies and carried away the grewsome souvenirs. At a very early hour this morning, Misses Maggie and Addie Lyerly, the only surviving members of the murdered family, were driven to the scene of the lynching and viewed with awe the three bodies swimming to a limb. The girls have borne up thus far, and it is believed will survive the shock, which at one time threatened their lives. REMOVED THE BODIES The bodies of the lynched colored men were to-day viewed by Coroner Borsett and taken down from the limb to which they had been hanged. J. C. McLendon, the Southern Railway engineer who was shot in the mouth during the riot last night is in a critical condition. An officer is said to have shot the engineer as he was battering a window. Others say say that he was merely a spectator. MOB LEADERS SHOOT EACH OTHER Fireman Sells and Brakeman Mauney, both of whom were dangerously shot in the attack upon the jail last night, were taken to a hospital in this city, where they are being treated. When the court convened this morning there was a slight diminution in the crowd, though every seat was taken. There was noticeable suffering written on the face of Judge Long, his attitude was yet determined, but it was changed completely. His references to yesterday to mob talk were always characterizing it as vaporings, and of the men most interested here, and most anxious to see the trial proceed, he appeared to fear violence less. His disappointment and humiliation are complete. THOSE NOT KILLED At the earnest entreaty of some level-headed citizens in the mob, Della Dillingham, Henry Gillespie, and George Irvin, concerning whose guilt there was some doubt, were turned over to a posse of deputies who hustled them away in the darkness to an unused country building for safety. It was at first reported that all had been lynched and the latter three had been burned. They were however, to-day spirited away by officers to Charlotte, but before leaving were taken to the spot where the three lifeless bodies of their cellmates were dangling in the air, with hundreds of bullet holes exposed to view. A DEATH QUARREL Eyewitnesses to the lynching state that Nease Gillespie and Jack Dillingham, who have at all times been considered the leaders of the gang of murderers, quarreled outright while the death rope was being placed around their necks as they gazed at the huge limb which was to hold their bodies. "You are to blame for all this," said Gillespie to Dillingham. The latter replied that Nease was the cause of the calamity, who in turn blamed Della Dillingham with the entire affair. GOV. LONG INDIGNANT. Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 7.—This afternoon Gov. Glenn received a telegram from Judge B. F. Long, at Salisbury to the effect that one person had been identified as a member of the mob that lynched the alleged murderers of the Lyerly family last night, and he has been placed in jail; that evidence was in hand against others, and that the investigation is being pushed as rapidly and thoroughly as possible. The governor, at the request of Sheriff Julian and Judge Long, telegraphed an order to the military company at Charlotte to go to Salisbury at once and guard the刀 to prevent the liberation of any alleged lynchers arrested. Salisbury, N. C., Aug. 6.—At 11 o'clock to-night an infuriated mob of several thousand citizens from Salisbury and surrounding country overpowered Sheriff D. R. Julian, Jailler J. H. Krider, and about fifty officers, and took from the jail three of the colored men charged with the murder of the Lerly family, near this city, three weeks ago. The colored men were carried by main force to the outskirts of the city, where they were lynched. The local military company was called out but was powerless in the face of the howling mob bent on the destruction of the criminals. The mob began gathering at sundown. Mayor Boyden promptly ordered the saloons closed and, with other prominent citizens, United States Senator Overman, Judge Long who was holding the special term of court to try the colored people, and Solicitor Hammer, gathered on the jail steps and addressed the crowd, which at that time numbered 2000. There were howls and cat calls from the mob, but for a time there was no move—the mob lacking a leader. While citizens were appealing to the mob, two men slipped through the crowd and were entering the jail with hammers. They were discovered and arrested. The mob continued its yelling, but there was still no concerted move. THE ROWAN RIFLES. About 9 o'clock, Mayor Boyden called upon the local military company, the Rowan Rifles, for aid. They assembled quickly, but were supplied only with blank cartridges, having no orders to shoot to kill. At the first attack several shots were fired in the jail door, and Engineer J. C. McLenden, of Spencer; Fireman Sells and Brakeman Mauney were dangerously shot. Private Maxwell, of the Rowan Rifles, was also shot in the foot. The firing of pistols became miscuscious, and the militin, not having authority from the Governor to slow, let the scene. The arc lights around the jail were knocked out by the mob, after which the prisoners were soon hurried out in the darkness. Sheriff Julian and his assistants pleaded earnestly for the mob to allow the law to have its course, but to no avail. The blow to the community is keenly felt. PROPERTY WILL SUFFER When the crisis came, Sheriff Julian exclaimed: "They have got the prisoners, and you men of property in Salisbury will suffer for it." Time after time the mob surged and yelled till the jail doors flew open. Then came shriek after shriek from the inmates of the prison. "They have got them!" came the response from one in the entrance to the prison, and the infuriated mass of humanity seemed appeased and satisfied. The officers could have killed many, but there seems to have been no authority for such a course. The lynching to-night terminates the trial began to-day, but it is not known what steps will be taken by Judge Long and Sollicitor Hammer, now on the ground, as to the prosecution of the members of the mob. HORRIBLE ATROCITIES The lynching took place one mile from Salisbury, and while from one to two thousand persons surrounded the jail at the time it was stormed, a very much smaller crowd accompanied the colored men to the place of execution. The mob treated the cowering wretches with the greatest ferocity, cutting them with knives and otherwise torturing them. The prisoners were dragged to the scene with ropes around their necks, crying and pleading for mercy. ROPE BROKE As soon as a convenient spot was reached one of the Gillespie men was strung up, but the rope broke and he fell to the ground. While preparing to swing lim up again, some one suggested that he be given an opportunity to pray. The crowd then waited several minutes while the colored men all prayed aloud, and then swung them to a single limb and fired hundreds of shots from pistols into their bodies. The crowd was made up of citizens from Salisbury and six or seven counties around, and there were a number of persons also from other States in the lynching party. FEELING OF HORROR The affair has caused the greatest feeling of horror here, and all action of authority seems paralyzed. Nease and John Gillespie and Jack Dillingham, supposed to be the principals in the crime, were the victims of the mob's violence. It is said the mob was augmented by fully 500 men from Whitney, where the Whitney Reduction Company is developing the Yadkin water power. It was said to have been this crowd that helped form a sort of flying wedge, made a break for the jail doors, overpowered the officers and effected an entrance. The great crowd outside surged in behind the leaders and in a few moments the leaders emerged from the door with their victims. MAINTAIN INNOCENCE After the lynching, George Irvin was taken from the jail with his associates and closely questioned. Then he was led back to his cell. Nease Gillespie maintained his innocence to the end. Edd. Barber, a relative of the murdered man, followed the mob with the prisoners to the scene of the lynching and pleaded with them to return the colored men to the jail, and let the law take its course, but the mob heeded him not. FIREMAN McLendon wounded by a stray bullet from the mob, will die. His home is in Charlotte. THE RE BY A. CON Creator of the Famous Every reader of fiction is this writer whose stories tained people of every nat THE REFUGEES BY A. CONAN DOYLE Creator of the Famous Sherlock Holmes Stories Every reader of fiction is familiar with the work of this writer whose stories have fascinated and entertained people of every nationality. The Refugees The Refugees Is one of his most famous to be the best he has ever tale of the troublous times driven from France. The and America, then the new free and oppressed from all Beginning in the course the life of the vacillating exploiting the intrigues of the story carries the reader world where a band of bra experiences with ferocious peace at last when they re about New York and Bost Is one of his most famous productions, said by many to be the best he has ever written. It is a stirring tale of the troublous times when the Huguenots were driven from France. The scenes are laid in France and America, then the newly founded home of the free and oppressed from all climes. Beginning in the court of Louis XIV, detailing the life of the vacillating and pleasure loving king, exploiting the intrigues of the leisure class about him, the story carries the reader to the shores of the new world where a band of brave refugees have thrilling experiences with ferocious Indian warriors and find peace at last when they reach the English provinces about New York and Boston. THIS ALL ABSORBING TALE WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THIS PAPER We have secured the right readers can look for somet Watch for the Which Will Appe We have secured the rights for this section and our readers can look for something worth while. Watch for the Opening Chapters Which Will Appear at an Early Date shoot, left the scene. (Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutic Colleges.) WASHINGTON, D. C. Thirty-ninth Annual Session will begin October 1st, 1906 and continue eight months. Students Matriculated for day instruction only. Instruction is given by didactic laboratory demonstrations. Well-eccled hospital facilities. All s 12th, 1906. For catalogue or further Instruction is given by didactic lectures, quizzes, clinics, and practical laboratory demonstrations. Well-equipped laboratories in all departments. Unexcelled hospital facilities. All students must register before October 12th, 1906. For catalogue or further information, apply to Left Home. On July 11, 1906, Willie Freeman, left his home, 908 N. 1st St., and has not yet returned. He is a boy 13 years of age, maltatto in color and wears a full head of sandy colored hair. He is very neat in appearance, quick of speech and generally very pleasing in manner. Any information as to his whereabouts, dead or alive, will be a source of great relief to me. If found, he may return home without any fear, or if he does not desire to return home, it will still be a great relief to me to know that he is living. I am, an anxious aunt, ELLA B. BRIGGS, 908 N. 1st Street, Richmond, Va. 2t Vacation Trips. There is no more delightful spot in America in which to spend your vacation than "The Land of the Sky," or the Beautiful Sapphire Country. Excursion tickets on sale all the year round from various points to this favored section at greatly reduced rates. Excellent train service. Through Pullman Sleeping Cars. High-class dining car service a feature. FOR RENT—A flat of 3 rooms. 17 East Canal. WANTED—100 Colored girls to do light manufacturing work, will be well paid while learning. Can soon make from $3.00 to $5.00 a week, according to capacity and willingness to work. Steady employment. Only girls of good character wanted. Apply at once to. 516 N. 12th Street. Opposite Colored Normal School. 2t Richmond, Va., July 24th, 1906. Dear Brethren and Sisters: We are aware of the fact that in less time than a month from now, the great Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. convention of Virginia will meet in the great Fifth Street Baptist Church of Richmond. The committee is uniring in its efforts in making preparation for the delegates that will attend the convention. We earnestly hope that all the schools will rally with a large delegation and contribution for educational, state and foreign mission. We earnestly request that all parties that will be in attendance at the convention will notify the committee at once. Send names to the pastor Dr. A. E. Edwards, 916 Turpin St. or B. H. Peyton, 613 N. 2nd St. We hope to see you all in August and that all will rally together to lay $1000.00 on the table. B. H. PEYTON. FUGEES MAN DOYLE Sherlock Holmes Stories is familiar with the work of have fascinated and enter- niality. the productions, said by many or written. It is a stirring s when the Huguenots were the scenes are laid in France newly founded home of the all climes. Art of Louis XIV, detailing and pleasure loving king, of the leisure class about him, her to the shores of the new have refugees have thrilling us Indian warriors and find reach the English provinces on. Opening Chapters ear at an Early Date Four Years graded course in Medicine. Three Years' graded course in Dental Surgery. Three Years' graded course in Pharmacy. 1st Vice President 2t Notice! Low Rate Excursion Via Southern Railway. Low rate excursion tickets on sale to sales points as indicated below, open to the public: To Atlanta, Ga. Nation Dental Association. Tickets on sale Sept. 12th; return limit Sept. 25th, with privilege of extension of return limit to October 30th. To Atlanta, Ga. Home-coming for Georgians. Tickets on sale October 9th and 10th. Return limit October 20th, with privilege of extension of return limit to October 30th. To Atlanta, Ga. Carriage Builders National Association. Tickets on sale October 19th and 20th, with return limit October 30th. To Atlanta, Ga. 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And an affidavit having been made and filed that the plaintiff has used due diligence to ascertain in what county or corporation the defendant James Wilson is, without effect and that the plaintiff Mary Wilson does not know his whereabouts: it is ordered that the said defendant appear here with'n fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interests herein. A Copy—Teste: P. P. Winston, Clerk. J. Henry Crutchfield, no. To James Wilson: You'll take notice that I shall on the 20th day of Sept., '06 at the office of Phil B. Shields, room No. 60, Chamber of Commerce B't'dg, situated S. W. corner Main and 9 Sts. in the city of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. 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