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THE RICHMOND PLANET LYNCHER NOT CONVICTED. The Lynching in Missouri. STARTLING TESTIMONY AGAINST GALBRAITH—JURY DISAGREES—IN NOCENT COLORED MEN LYNCHED—WHITE WOMAN NOT ASSAULTED—THE WRECKING OF THE SPRINGFIELD JAIL—MANY VOL. XXIII NO 39. LYNCH The Lynch STARTLING TESTIMON NOCENT COLORED ME ED—THE WREC SPRINGFIELD, MO., Aug. 20—After considerable delay, the first of the lynching cases, that of Daniel D. Galbraith, on a charge of second degree murder, instead of first degree murder, as charged in the indictment returned by the special grand jury, went to trial in the criminal court today. Attorney General Hadley and Assistant Attorney General Kennish are here to aid Prosecuting Attorney Patterson and his two assistants. The state has forty six witnesses and the defense eighty four. The forenoon session of the court was occupied by the statements of counsel, the defense indicating an intention to attempt to establish an alibi. Prosecuting Attorney Patterson son stated briefly what the state expected to prove. He said the testimony would show that Horace Duncan, one of the colored men hanged by the mob, was arrested on a charge of having attacked Mrs. Mina Edwards, the preceding night. When the woman failed to identify him he was released by the police, and later taken into custody on a charge of highway robbery, and was awaiting a hearing at the time he was hanged. CLAIM AGAINST GALBRAITH "The evidence will show." continued Mr. Patterson, "that Galbraith was the second man to enter the jail after the mob had succeeded in battering down the doors. He was in the residence part of the jail when Sheriff Horner's wife was driven out. When he entered the jail he had a hammer in his hands. The colored men resisted the mob, and the testimony will show that Galbraith struck Coker in the back with the hammer. "On the public square, where the colored men were hanged and burned, Galbraith was seen with a rope on his arm. He said to several persons in the crowd, 'We have run out of niggers, but we have plenty of rope.' After two of the blacks had been hanged, the testimony will show Galbraith said: 'Come on, boys; let's go back and get some niggers.' When a citizen of Springfield protested against the hanging of the colored men Galbraith attempted to incite the mob against him. When none would for low him Galbraith stepped up to the citizen and said: 'I can put my fast in your face.' After the mob had hanged the colored men they returned to the county jail and liberated fourteen convicts, eight of whom had been sentenced to state's prison." DEFENSE COUNSEL'S CLAIM Wal Mason, chief counsel for Galbraith, followed Prosecuting Attorney Patterson in a brief statement, saying that his client did not participate in the lynching of the colored men. "Galbraith did go to the county jail," said Mr. Mason. "and when he arrived there he made an appeal to the mob, saying: 'Gentlemen, for God's sake, get out of here. You can't afford to tear up the jail.' Somebody said, 'We are only looking for niggers,' and Galbraith replied, 'You won't find them here in the sheriff's house under the carpet.' The testimony will show that Galbraith entered the jail under orders from a deputy sheriff and there saw a man with his hammer. He then said that he was going home to see if the mob had entered his blacksmith shop. He then went home, but returned later to the public square to watch the mob in its work. While on the square the testimony will show that some man remarked that the men who hanged the negroes were no better than the blacks. Galbraith told him that it was dangerous to give utterance to such language there. The man repeated the remark, and Galbraith did say to him, 'If you say that again I'll bust you in your mouth.' THE JURY. The jury selected to try the case is composed of four democrats and eight republicans, as follows: Geo. Flannery, farmer; J. P. Snead, farmer; C. J. Diemer, farmer; George Smith, farmer; M. P. Rogers, re- WITNESSES TESTIFY. tired farmer; P. C. Freeman, capitalist; W. M. Justin, farmer and preacher; E. C. Johnson, carpenter; E. E. Husey, carpenter; E. E. Wilson, farmer; George Vansand, farmer, and Fred Peck, clerk. E. C. King, a clerk in the post office, but who was jailer at the time of the triple lynching, was the first witness called. King told how the mob battered down the doors of the jail. L. V. B. Rucker a newspaper man who was in the jail with Sheriff Horner when the mob arrived, told how the mob secured the prisoners and how they were hanged from the electric light tower. NEGRO CONVICTS TESTIFY. Robert Culp, colored, who is serving a term in the penitentiary for forgery, said he was in jail here at the time of the lynching. He declared Galbraith was one of the first men to enter the jail and that he asked him (Culp) where the colored men who attacked Mrs. Edwards could be found. Culp, who was released on a bond a few days later, said that Galbraith threatened his life if he should testify against him. Marshal, another colored convict brought here from Jefferson City testified that he knows Galbraith and that he saw him hammering on the doors of the cells that night. Manuel Inyard, colored who is serving six months in jail for stealing chickens, also pointed Galbraith out as the man who helped to lead the mob. Mrs. E. V. Horner, wife of the sheriff, told how the mob battered down the doors and drove her and her two small children from their home in their night clothes. Thomas Jenkins testified that he saw Galbraith in the jail, and in the public square saw him three different times with a rope in his hands. Jenkins also said that while the mob was shouting and cursing at the jail, Galbraith told them to keep quiet, and "that they would get the niggers." H. H. Snow testified that he has known Galbraith for eight years; that he saw him with a rope on the square, and that when he asked him what he was doing the blacksmith replied: "We have run out of negroes, but we have plenty of rope left." Ernest Snow testified that he overheard the same conversation. Mrs. Bertha Hull testified that as she was crossing the square after the first two colored men had been hanged, she heard Galbraith shout to a crowd of men: "Let's go back to the jail and get some niggers." Dave Boyer testified that he heard Galbraith say, "I'm going to keep this rope. We may have to use it again." Harry Williamson testified that he was present during the hanging and remarked that if the negroes were not guilty they should not be hanged. Galbraith overheard the remark, Williamson said, and called to the crowd saying: "Any man who will talk like that is no better than a nigger, and we ought to hang him also." Otto Nicholson testified that he heard Galbraith threaten Williamson. Several more witnesses testified during the afternoon, but their evidence was not important. The state will conclude the introduction of its testimony to-morrow. Thirty five witnesses are yet to be examined GALBRAITH'S SON TESTIFIES Springfield, Mo., Aug. 21.—Nothing that borders on the sensational has as yet cropped out in the trial of Daniel D. Galbraith, the first of the alleged mob leaders who is on trial before a jury in the criminal court. Nearly a score of witnesses testified for the defense to-day and counsel for Galbraith made every effort possible to establish an alibit for their client. Half a dozen witnesses said they saw Galbraith on the city lot in the vicinity of his blacksmith shop while the mob was making an attack on the county CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1906 Passed Away. RANDOLPH—Mr. Edward Randolph of 806 N. First St. departed this life Thursday afternoon, Aug. 23d, 1906 at 5:55 o'clock. Mr. Randolph had been sick since January. He professed religion about four months ago, manifesting great joy and sincerity in his faith. He bore his long illness with great patience, saying in his last days he was only waiting for the messenger. He leaves a devoted and faithful wife to mourn her loss. Though cast down we are not forsaken. Though afflicted, not alone; Thou didst give and thou hast taken. Blessed Lord. Thy will be done. HIS WIFE PERSONALS AND BRIEFS —Shriners—Nuff Sed. —Deacon I. H. Scott of the Ebenezer Baptist Church is sick at his residence 1107 N. 1st St. We hope him a speedy recovery. —Mr. Alexander Anderson of Philadelphia, Pa. in company with Mr. Armstead Washington called on us. —The friends of the colored people are preparing for their enjoyment. Go to Jamestown and have a pleasant time on the historic James River. —Miss Bertha E. Thompson left last week for Philadelphia and Atlantic City, N. J. She will visit oth er northern cities, returning in about three weeks. —Mrs. H. A. Johnson, Field Missionary of the Woman's Convention called on us. —Major I. J. Miller, proprietor of the New Enterprise was in New York buying his fall and winter stock. —Sir Charles Taylor of Blackstone, Va. was married to Miss Julia Moore of the same place, while on an excursion trip to Richmond. Rev. W. R. Ashburn performed the ceremony. Quite a number of their friends witnessed the affair. —You can go to Claremont that way, but you need not do so, when you go down the James River next Sunday on the Pocahontas. —Mrs. A. W. Fowliks, No. 604 N. 30th St. left Saturday Aug. 25, 1906 on an extended tour west for a three weeks visit to Mrs. Gilliam and Mrs. Johnson her sisters in law of Chicago. Ill. Returning home she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Pannell of Hot Springs, Va. In Staunton, Va. she will be joined by her husband Sir Knight A. W. Fowliks arriving home about Sept. 15th, 1906. —Moonlight Sept. 6—Shriners. —Mrs. Bettie E. Booker of No. 725 N. 3rd St., who has been indisposed is out again. —Mrs. J. Henry Stokes of Richmond, Va. in company with Miss Willanna G. Robinson and Miss Lula Maler has gone to spend week with her sister Mrs. Tealie N. Fleming of Powhatan Co., Va. Left Home Norman Jones, age 10 years left home Tuesday, Aug. 21st, 1906. He is a heavy set boy, brown skin. When he left he wore dark linen pants, white cap, black and white blouse. He is called "Tumler" as a nick-name. Any information con- cerning him will be thankfully received by his parents. A reward will be paid for his return. JOHN JONES, MRS. ELLEN N. JONES, 1023 West Leigh St. Richmond, Va. NIAGARA MOVEMENT. RINGING ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY. No Compromise with Wrong. Race Leaders Emphatic. The Issues Squarely Met. The men of the Nigara Movement coming from the roll of the year's hard work and pausing a moment from the earning of their daily bread turn toward the nation and again ask in the name of ten million the privilege of a hearing. In the past year the work of the Negro hater has flourished in the land. Step by step the defenders of the rights of American citizens have retreated. The work of stealing the black man's ballot has progressed and the fifty and more representatives of stolen votes still sit in the nation's capital. Discrimination in travel and public accommodation has so spread that some of our weaker brethren are actually afraid to thunder against color discrimination as such and are simply whispering for ordinary decencies. ETERNALLY PROTESTS Against this the Niagara Movement eternally protests. We will not be satisfied to take one lot or tittle less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American political, civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America. The battle we wage is not for ourselves alone but for all true Americans. It is a fight for ideals, less this, our common fatherland, false to its founding, become in truth the land of the thief and the home of the Slave—a by-word and a hissing among the nations for its sound pretensions and pitiful accomplishment. NEVER BEFORE Never before in the modern age has a great and civilized folk threatened to adopt so cowardly a creed in the treatment of its fellow-citizens born and bred on its soil. Stripped of verbage and subterfuge and in its naked nastiness the new American creed says: Fear to let black men even try to rise lest they become the equals of the white. And this is the land that professes to follow Jesus Christ. The blasphemy of such a course is only matched by its cowardice. In detail our demands are clear and unequivocal. First, we would vote; with the right to vote goes everything: Freedom, manhood, the honor of your wives, the chastity of your daughters, the right to work, and the chance to rise, and let no man listen to those who deny this. We want full manhood suffrage, and we want it now, henceforta and forever. Second. We want discrimination in public accommodation to cease. Separation in railway and street-cars, based simply on race and color is un-American, undemocratic, and silly. We protest against all such discrimination. RIGHTS DEMANDED Third. We claim the right of freemen to walk, talk, and be with them that wish to be with us. No man has a right to choose another man's friends, and to attempt to do so is an impudent interference with the most fundamental human privilege. Fourth. We want the laws enforced against rich as well as poor; against Capitalist as well as Laborer; against white as well as black. We are not more lawless than the white race, we are more often arrested, convicted and mobbed. We want justice even for criminals and outlaws. We want the Constitution of the country enforced. We want Congress to take charge of Congressional elections. We want the Fourteenth amendment carried out to the letter and every State disfranchised in Congress which attempts to disfranchise its rightful voters. We want the Fifteenth amendment enforced and No State allowed to base its franchise simply on color. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FAILED The failure of the Republican Party in Congress at the session just closed to redeem its pledge of 1904 with reference to suffrage con CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE COLORED TROOPS LEAVE TEXAS. The Trouble at Brownsville NO MORE BLOODSHED—WHITE CITIZENS WERE FRANTIC—PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S ORDERS—TEXAS RANGERS DID NOT MOLEST THEM. SOLDIERS HAD ORDERS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES—FORT Fort Worth Tex., Aug. 23.—Clarence Ouseley, editor of the Fort Worth Record, has written an open letter to President Roosevelt on the projected abandonment of Fort Brown. He concludes: "While not so designed, its effect is to put hellish lust in the minds of the millions of colored brutes who are no more comparable to the intelligent Negro you have met, than the best of the race to-day is comparable to the savages of Africa. "Those Negroes of whom I speak and whom you do not know, constitute the vast majority of the 9,000,000 living in our back yards, and they are absolutely incapable of reason. Social equality, to their minds, means the unspeakable crime. For every aspiring and decent Negro who sees the 'door of hope,' which you vainly imagine you are holding open to the race, ten brace of a white virgin." Cut on our rations, drive our men out of the house of their fathers as an atonement for slavery, but don't make our wives and daughters the victims of a false philosophy and a partisan regime. "You have proved your greatness in many achievements, and I like to think you are honest. But you are not infallible, and you cannot perform miracles." ORDERS WILL BE CARRIED OUT Oyster Bay, Aug. 23.—Brig. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, Chief of Staff of the army, was in consultation with President Roosevelt at Saganore Hill to-day. Gen. Bell was accompanied by Capt. Hutchinson, a member of his staff. Gen. Bell said he came here at the suggestion of Gen. Ainsworth, military secretary, in order that the War Department might know exactly the President's ideas and desires regarding the difficulty at Brownsville, Tex., between United States colored troops and the residents of that place. Gen. Bell said the colored troops at Brownsville had been removed to Fort Reno and replaced by a company of white soldiers. On leaving, Gen. Bell said that the army post at Brownsville would be temporarily abandoned, as soon as orders to that effect, issued yesterday by the War Department, could be carried out. The company of white troops now stationed there will remain only so long as is necessary to guard government property. This property will be removed on abandonment of the post. A Negro race problem, which is causing grave concern, has arisen in the army. The recent trouble at Brownsville, Tex., in which the State requested the War Department to order the colored regiment away, is said to have been expected for some time, and will tend to bring the deep-seated trouble to a crisis. Wherever the colored troops are stationed, whether in the North or South, many requests have repeatedly come to the Secretary of War from those in authority or of high influence that the colored soldiers "be replaced with white." This has happened, it was asserted by a high official of the War Department yesterday, not only in Texas and other Southern States, but in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska and other Northern States. Colored troops had to be withdrawn from Manila and replaced with white regiments. The only place in the Philippines that they are tolerated is in Mindanao. Even the Filipinos object to having colored soldiers quartered near them. A SERIOUS PROBLEM "It is a serious problem," said a prominent officer yesterday, "and one which the department has been struggling with for some time. The colored troops make the best sort of soldiers. No one has ever denied that. No special reasons are given for asking for their removal. It is simply the old race hatred cropping out again in its old form, and, strange to say, it is as noticeable, if not more so, in the North than in the South. "We are in a quandary to know what to do with these colored troops WILL BE ABANDONED. Congress has ordered that four colored regiments be maintained, and we have now 4,000 colored men wearing Uncle Sam's uniform. But they are buffeted here and there. They have been tried in the Philip pines, they have been quartered North as well as South, and there seems to be nothing left to do but for Congress to repeal the law and allow us to muster out the troops, or to say emphatically that no requests shall be made for their removal from posts where they are stationed." Officers are loth to see the colored troops go, for there is no criticism heard on any side of their conduct as fighting men. They are easily disciplined, and are capable of enduring great fatigue. It is thought that recommendations will be made to Congress this fall asking for some legislation on the rebred. With will, we abolish their stations and make their retention there compulsory. The problem of getting the colored troops away from Fort Brown in safety is assuming serious proportions, and caused several conferences yesterday between Acting Secretary of War Alnsworth and Gen. Bell, Chief of Staff. Word has reached the War De partment that it is understood that certain rough characters in Browns ville have signified their intention "of shooting up the train" when it leaves with the colored troops. The War Department immediately notified the city authorities to see to it that the troops left Brownsville without being molested. ANOTHER OUTBREAK IS FEARED The authorities of the Texas town assure the War Department that they CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE —What are you doing? Getting ready for the Shriner out Sept. 8. John Robinson's Circus—Preaching There. There will be preaching in the Menagerie Tent of John Robinson's Circus, Sunday afternoon, Sept. 9th, 1906. Go and hear the sermon Uniform Rank to Parade. The Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias will observe its anniversary Monday, Sept. 3d, 1906 by a parade and banquet. The line will form at the Pythian Castle at 3 P. M. and march to Broad, to 9th, to Grace to 3d, to Franklin, to Monroe, to Brook Ave., to Leigh, to 2nd, to Baker, to Third, to Pythian Castle. White Fiend Charged With Criminal Assault. Cairo, Ill., Aug. 27—The 5 year old daughter of Edward Albright, a farmer near Bertrand, Mo., was assaulted this afternoon by Charles Goforth, a farmhand employed by her father. Goforth was captured in the Mississippi swamps by farmers headed by Albright, who seriously hurt Goforth and tried to kill him but Goforth was rescued by deputies with bloodhounds brought from Charleston, Mo. Goforth was taken to Charleston. The little girl is in a precarious condition. A report reached here that a mob is going from Bertrand to Charleston to attempt to lynch Goforth to night. Do You Know Them? I desire to know the whereabouts of my mother and father Minerva and Henry Williams. When last heard from they were living in Rich mond. Address. MISS LENA WILLIAMS. 311 W. 37th St.. New York, N. Y. PRICE FIVE CENTS ROOPS TXAS. ownsville E FRANTIC—PRESIDENT DO NOT MOLEST THEM. EMSELVES—FORT Returned From New York Mr. I. J. Miller, our popular Broad street clothier has returned from New York where he has been to purchase his Fall and Winter Stock. He extends an invitation to the public to call and examine his stock of clothing, shoes, hats and gent's furnishing goods. We feel sure that he can please you as he is carrying all the latest styles in the above named line. He is handling this season the Snow shoe which is one of the leading line of the country. You will find in his store suits for men from $5.00 up to $40.00. Overcoats for men from $5.00 up to $25.00. Suits for boys from -1.00 to $10.00. Shoes for men and women from $1.00 to $5.00. Shoes for children from 50c to $1.50. Our underwear is complete from 50 cents a suit to $4.00 a suit. chasing elsewhere; Don't make a mistake in the place, 528 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. Battle Ship. Since the very incipiency of the John Robinson Show it has always been the aim of the management to present for the patrons of the enterprise the best that money could buy, or hire, and its parade has been favored with as much attention as the performance, for each year some new and costly feature has been secured, and this season its magnificent array of gilded dens, gold be decked charlots, and costly trappings has been added to by the introduction of two splendid reproductions of two of our modern battleships. They have been carefully built under the direction of an ex- member of the navy and will form one of the most interesting features of the big daily street parade. To be seen here Monday, Sept. 19th, 1906. SMITH—WHITE. Mr. Clarence Howard Smith, K. of P. of Osceola Lodge of New Jersey the son of Howard H. Smith, K. of P. of Pilgrim Lodge, New York and former Afro-American newsdealer and Mrs. Mary E. White of Richmond, Va., were quietly united in the bonds of holy wedlock at their residence at 239 W. 62d St. Mr. Smith is a brother to Mrs. Edward Wilmot Blyden, Jr. of Liberia, Africa. The guest present were Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Smith, Mr. and Mrs Edward W. Blyden, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Royall of New York, Mrs. Anna Irvin of Charleston, S. C., Mrs. Day of Richmond, Va. and others. Services were conducted by the Rev. Robert Mount. Ceremonies were most impressive, however disclosing many points and good advice to this happy couple including a father's blessing. —See Jamestown and live. Go on the Steamer Pocahontas and have a good time. Fare only $1.00. DREW—Died suddenly at her home in Powhatan County, Va. last Thursday evening in the 64th year of her age, Mrs. Mary J. Drew, beloved wife of Mr. Tyrre Drew and mother of Mrs. A. L. Morton. She was apparently in good health laughing and talking with her daughter, who left her alone about ten minutes and returned to find her lying dead on the floor. She leaves a husband, one sister, three brothers, seven children, five grand children and many relatives and friends to mourn their loss. The interment took place Satur- The interment took place Saturday 25th inst. —Nuff Sed. I am going too. Yes, we all go with the Shriners Subscribe to the PLANET. es =“ Pte a!) ah? et ee or =a THES By A. CONAN DOYLE, Actbor of “The Return of Sherlock Holmes™ Corehians. 1854. Ak MAURER Ce ahereine Two a CHAPTER vr —— a Sa an SOrTeee SS See time when they were allotted to ber. but with that rare tact and self re- straint which were the leading fea. tures in her remarkable character she had made vo change Iu her lving with the increase of her prosperity and forbore from provoking envy and Jeal ousy by any display of wealth or of power. Inu elde wing of the palace, far from the ceutral salons and only to be reached by long corridors and stairs, were the two or three small chambers upon which the eyes, first of the court, then of France and finally of the world, were destined to be turned. In such rooms had the dest! tute widow of the poet Searron been housed when she bad first been brought to court by Mine. de Montespan as the governess of the royal children, and fa such roome she still dwelt’ now that she had added to ber maiden Francoise d'Aubigny the title of Mar. quise de Maintenon, with the pension and estate which the king's favor had awarded her. The young guarieman had scarce ever exchanged a word with this pow erful Indy, for it was her taste to iso late berseif and to appear with the court only at the hours of devotion. It ‘was therefore with some feolings both of nervousness and of curiosity that he followed his gukie down the gorgeous corridors, where art and wealth had Deen strewn with so lavish a hand. ‘The lady paused in frout of the cham- ber door and turned to her companion. “Madame wishes to speak to you of what oceurred this morning,” sald she. “I should adrise you to say nothing to madame about your creed, for It ls the only thing upon which her heart can be hard.” She raised her finger to em- phasize tho warning, and, tapping at the door, she pushed it open. “I have brought Captain de Catinat, madame,” ald she. “Then let the captain step in.” The voice wae frm and yet sweetly mu sical | Obeying the command, De Catinat found himself in a room which wae Bo larger and but little better furnish. ed than that which was allotted to his own use. Yet, though simple, every: ‘thing in the chamber was scrupulously neat sod clean, betraying the sap €d leather furnituro, the La Savon. nlere carpet, the pictures of sacred sub- fects, exquisite from an artist's point of view, the plain but tasteful curtains, all left on impression half religious and half feminine, but wholly soothing. Indeed, the soft light, the high white statue of the Virgin in a canopted niche, with 2 perfumed red lamp burning be- fore it, and the wooden priediew with the red edged prayer book upon the top of It made the apartment look more like a private chapel than a fair lady's boudoir. On each side of the empty ‘fireplace was « little green covered armchair, the one for madame and the other re ‘Served for the use of the king. A small three logged stool butween them was heaped with her workbnasket and her tapestry. On the chair which was far thest from the door, with her back turned to the light, madame was ait. ting as the young officer entered. De Catinat, without having time to notice Getatls, was siinply conscious that he ‘was in the presence of a very hand. Some woman and that her large, poo sive eyes were fixed critically upon him and seemed to be reading his thoughts as they had never been mud before, “I think that I have already seen you, sir, Have I not?” “Yes, madame. I have once or twice had the honor of attending upon you, though it may not have been my good fortune to address you." “My life ts so quiet and retired that I fear that much of what ts best and worthiest at the court is unknown to. me. You have served, monsieur?" “Yes, madame. Ia the Lowlands, on the Rhine and in Canada.” “In Canada! Ab! What nobler am- ‘Lition could woman have than to be @ member of that sweet sixterhood which was founded by the boly Marie de Incarnation and the sainted Jeanne je Ber at Montreal? And Goubdtiess you have had the privilege also of seeing the holy Bishop Laval?” “Yes, madame, I have seen Bishop Laval.” “And I trast that the Sulpictans still bold their own against the Jesuit?’ “I have heard, madame, that the Jesuits are the stronger at Quebee and the others at Montreal.” “And who is your own director, mon- sieur?” De Catinat felt that the worst had come upon him. “I have none, ma- dame.” “Ab, it t* too common to dispense with a director, and yet I kuow not how I could guide my steps in the dif- ficult path which I tread if it were not for mine. Who t your confessor, thea?" “L have none. I am of the Reformed church.” ‘The Indy gsve a gesture of horror, and a sudden hardening showed itseif in mouth and eye. “What, in the court itself,” she cried, “and in the neighborhood of the king’s own per p> cement gy, Uy nce a ge Son opened ere his end came, and I pray—| ‘ob, from my beart 1 pray—that yours may be also.” : She rose and, throwing herself down upon the prie-diew, gunk her faco in her bands for come few minutes A tap at the door brought the Indy back to thig world again, and her devoted at tendant answered her summons to on. ter. “The king ts In the Hall of Victorivs, madame,” sald she. “Ho wilt be here in five minutos.” “Very wall, Stand outside and let me know when he comes. Now, xin.” sbe continued when they were alone once more, “you gave a note of mine to the king this morning? “I did, madame.” “And, am I understand, Mine. de Montespan wax refused admittance to the grand lever? “She was, madame” “But she waited for the king in the! Passage and wrong from bim a prom- Ise that he would sco her today?” “Yes, madame.” “{ would not have you tell me that which it may soem to you n breach of your duty to tell But I am fighting now against a terrible foo and for x great stake. Tell me, then, at what hour wae the king to meet the mar- quise im her room “at 4, madame” “I thank you. You have done me a service, and I shall not forget it. Now you must go, captain. Pass through: the otber room and Ko tuto the outer: Passage. And take thia It is Boe ‘suet's statement of the Catholle faith. ‘Tt bas softened the hearts of others and may youra Now, adieu!” De Catinat passed out through an- ‘other door, and as be did so be glanced back. The lady bad her back to bim, ‘and ber band was raised to the mantel. piece. At the Instant that he looked she inoved her neck, and be could see what cle war doing. She was pushing Back the loug band of the elock. Captain de Catinat had hardly van: Yshed through the one door before the other was thrown open by Mile. Na- hom, and the king entered the room. Mme. de Maintenon row with a pleas. ant smile and courtosted deeply, but there was no anawering light upou ber visitor's face, aud he threw bim- soit down upon the vacant armchair with « pouting Itp and a frown upon DALE cote we avery” oa” com pliment.” she éried, with the gayety which she could assume whenever It Was necessary to draw the king fro bia blacker humors. “My poor iittle dark room haw already cast a shadow ‘over you.” “Nay; 4 i Fathor la Chatse and the bishop of Meaux, who have been after me nll day tke two hounds on a stag, with talk of my duty aud my position and my wins with Judgment and boil fire ever at the end of their exhortations.” “And what would they have your majesty do?” “Break the promise Which I made when 1 came upon the throne, and which my grandfather made before me, They wish mo to recall the edict of Nantes, and drive the Huguenots from the kingdom. You would not bave me do it, madame?" “Not if It ls to be a grief to your maj- esty. Rethink “you, sire, that the Al- mighty eau himself incline their hearts to bettor things tf he ts eo minded, evon as mine wax inclinéd. May you not leave it in his hands?" “On my wont,” said Louts, brighten- ing, “it 1s woR put. I shall see if Fathor la Chaise can find an answer to that It is hant to be threatened With eternal flames because one will Rot ruin one’s kingdom.” “Why should you think of such things, sire?” sald the lady in her rich, soothing voice. “What have you to fear, you who have been the Srst som of the church?’ . “You think that I am safe, then? But I have erred and erred deeply. You have yourself said as much.” “But that la all over, sire. Who ts there who is without stain? You have turned away from temptation. Sure- ly, then, you have carne! your fo.give- ness.” “I would that the queen were living nce more. She would find me a bet ter man.” “1 would that she were, sira” “And she should know that it was to you that she owed the change. Oh, Francolse, you are surely my guardian angel, who has taken bodily form! How can I thank you for what you haxe done for me?” He leaned for ‘ward and topk ber band, but at the teh ean ee sprang into bis eyes, and ke would have passed his other arm round her had she not risen hurriediy to avold the embrace. “Sire!” said abe with a rigid face and ove So “You are right; you are right, Fran- colue. Sit down, and I will control myself. Rut how ls it, Francoise, that you have such a heart of ico?” “I would It were #0, sire.” ae. But surely no man’s love has stirred you! And yet you have been a Wife You did not love this ‘THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. See eee ‘<rour words soul “Hare you never. ; your heart some little | love which glows Iu mine?" He rose with bis bands outstretched, a ding monareh. but she, with half turned head, still <brank away from bim. “Pe assured of one thing, aire,” sald abe. that even If T loved you as no won es loved a man, yet C should tather cota from thet window on to the soe terraces beueath than ever by wood er sip confess as much to you." “And why, Prancose?” “You bavs wested teo amch of your life and of your thoucht= upon wom- an’s love And now, site, the years tea) oa. andthe day ie conting whem even you will be ealled upon to give @n account of your actions and of the Innermost thoughts of your heart. I would see you xpond the time that ts left to you, sire, iu building up the chureb. In showing a noble exampie to yoor subjects" The king sank back into his.chair with a groan. “Forever the same,” said be. “Why, you are worse than Father la Chaise and Bossuet.” “Nay, nay.” said sho gayly, with the quick tact In which she never fatled. “I have wearied you when you have stooped to honor my little room with your presence. That ts indeed Ingrat. Itude, and it were a just punishment {€ you were to leave me in solitude to- morrow and so cut off all the light of my day. And why have you not rid- den today, sire - “Pab! It brings me no pleasure. ‘There wae a time wheu my blood was stirred by the biare of the horn and the Tush of the boofs, but cow it ie all wearlsome te mo." “And hawking too! “Yes; I sball hawk no mora™ “But, sire you must have amuse ment” “What i vo duf as an amusement which bas ceased to amuse? I know not how It ja. Whea I was but a lad, and my mother aud I were driven from place te place, with the Fronde at war with ua and Paris in revolt, with our throne and even our lives in danger, all life seemed to be #o bright, so new And so full of Interost. Now that there is no shadow aud that my voice Is the Oret in France, ae France's le in Eu- rope, all ie dull and lacking tn flavor. eee EB | NI ae eTh Aa Caen hh WW Gaoe | PADS oe — A} if ee ee, Oe ee What use ts it to have all pleasure be. fore me when it turns to wormwood When {t la tasted”? “True pleasuro, sire, es rather in the inward life, the serene mind, the easy conscience.’ And, then, as we grow older is it not natural that our minds should take a graver bent? We might Well reproach ourselves if it were not #0, for it would show that we bad not learned the lewson of life.” “It may be ea, and yet it le sad and weary when nothing amuses. Who is that knocking?” asked the king “It ts my companion.” sald madame, “What is it, mademolsalle?” “M. Cornwille, to road to the king,” waid the young indy, opening the door. “Ah, yes, sire; I Know how foolish ia 4 woman's tongue, and so I have brought a wiser one than mine here to charm you. M. Racine was to have come Dut I hear that he has had a fall ‘from his horse, and he sends his friend ia his piace. Shall I admit him?" “Ob, as you like, madame, as you like," said the king Matlessly. At a sign from Mile, Nanon a ilttle peaky man with a shrewd, potulant face and long gray hair falling back over his shoulders entered the room, He bowed profoundly three times and then sent ¢d himself nervously on the very edge of the stool, from whieh the lady bad Femoved hor workbasket, “Shatl it be a comedy, or a tragedy, or a burlesque pastoral?" Corneil asked timidly. “There is my ‘Pre tended Astrologer.’ ” “Yes, that will do.” Corneille commenced to read his comedy, while Mme, de Myintenon’s white and delicate Gngers picked among the many colored silks which she was weaving into her tapestry. From time to time she glanced across, ‘Gret at the clock and then at the king, who was leaning back, with his lace handkerchief thrown over his face. It was twenty minutes to 4 now, but sire knew that she had put it back half an hour and that the true time was ten minutes past “Tut, tut!” cried the king suddenly. “There is something amiss there. The sécoud last line bas a limp ia it sure- ly” It was one of his foibles to pose as a eritic, and the wise poet would, fall im with bis corrections, however unreasonable they might be. “Your majesty is perfectly right,” said Corneille unblushingly. “I shall mark the passage and gee that it is corrected.” He picked up his book again and was about to resume his reading when the king said: “M. Corneilie, I am obliged to you for what you have read, and I regret that I must now interrupt your com- of ito" He emiled in the gracious fash- fon which made all who came within his personal influence forget his fi and oe —s the Imper- sonation of of courtesy, Sn dint: Son i’ Se Eee eon ek "Tho poet, with bis book under his arm, slipped out, while bis majesty anid to wadame: ‘tee yg your clock that tt a 4 o'clock. 1 mist go.” “My clock, sire, is half an hour slow.” “Half an hour! The king looked dismayed for xo instant and then be- gan to laugh “Nay, tn that case,” said he, “I bad best remain where I am, for it is too late to go, and I can say with a clonr conscience that It was the clock’s fault rather than mine.” “I trust that it was nothing of very sgTeat hmportance, sire.” said the lady, with a look of demure triumph In her xen “By no means.” “No state affair?” “No, no; It was only that It was the Dour at wooed E bad intended to rebuke the condu@t,ef @ presumptucus person. But perbag tt le better as it le My abernce wiiin itsait convey my mew eage and fmeuch # sort that I trust 1 tay Devet-pee that person's face more at my eoug, But, al, what is this?" ‘Bre door had been flung open, and Mme. de Montespan, beautiful and furi- ous, was standing betore them. eres ak Ceeaenes Bend. “Thia ie Indeed « pleasure,” sald she. But Mme. d» Montespan was very angry, so angry that she was evidently waking strong offorts to keep herself within contro! and to avold breaking tuto a furious outburst, She disro- ganiod her: rival's outstretched hand and turned toward the king, who had been looking at her with a darkening face. “I fear that I !ntrade, sire.” “Your entrance, madame, ie certainly somewhat abrupt” “I must erxve parton If It is so. Since this lady bas bean the governess of my children I have been in the hab- it of coming into her room unan- pounced.” “As far ae I am concerned, you are mont welcome to do #0,” said her rival, with perfect composure. “Loonfeen thst I bad not even thought 1 necessary to wek your permission, madame,” the other answered coldly. ‘Then you shall certainly do so in the future, madame,” said the king sternly. “It is my express order to you that every possible respect Is to be shown in erery way to this Indy.” “Oh, to this lady!” with @ wave of her band in her direction. “Your maj- esty’s commands are of course our laws, But I must remember that it fe this Indy, for sometimes one may get confuse? xs to which name It is that your majesty has pleked out for honor.” She was superb in her pride and her fearlessness as vbe stood, with her sparkling biue eyes and her beaving bosom, looking down upon her royal lover. Angry as he was, his gaze lost something of its sternneas as It rested BRU SIS SO teva, and the | “There is nothing to be gained, ma- dame, by being insolent,” said he. “Truth ls always mistaken for tnso- lence, sire, at the court of France.” “You forget yourself, madame bag that you will leave the room.” “I must first remind your majesty that I was so far honored us to have @n sppolntment this afternoon. At 4 clock I had your royal promise that You wold come to me. I cannot doubt that your majesty wil keep that proa- ise la spite of the faseinations which you uny tind here." “I should have come, madame, but the clock, ne you may obsorve, ts half an hour slow, and the time had passed before I was ‘aware of it.” “I beg, sire, that you will not let that distress you. Iam returning to my chamber, and 5 o'clock will sult me as well aa 4.” “I thank you, madame, but I have not found this Interview so pleasant that I ahould seek another.” “Then your majesty will break your word!” “Silence, madame! This 19 tnfoler. able!” “It i indeed intolerable!” erfed the anary lady, throwing all discretion to the winds “Oh, Tam not afraid of ou, sire. I have loved you, but I have never feared you. I leave you here. I Jeave you with your conscience and your—your lady coufessor. But one Word of troth you shall hear before 1 go. You have been false to your wife, And you havo been false to your mis. tress, but it {s only now that I find that Fou can be false also to your word.” She swept bim an indignant courtesy and glided with bead erect out of the Foor, The king sprang from his chair as if he had been stung. Aceustomed as he was to bis zontle little wife and the even gentler La Valliore, such lan- guage ue this had never before intrud- ed itself upon the royal ears. And then dis whole soul rose up in anger at ber, at the woman who had dared to raise her voice against him. He gave an in- articulate ery of rage and rushed to ‘the door, “sire Mme. de Maintenon, who had wetched keenly tho swift play of his emotioos over his expressive face, took two quick steps forward and iaid her hand upon bis arm, “I will go after her.” “And why, sire?” “To forbid her the court.” “Bot, sire"— “You heard her! It 4s infamous! 1 shall go.” “But, sire, could you not write? “No, no; | shail seo her.” He pulled ‘open the door. “Oh, sire, be firm, then!” It was with Sa Aizlous face that she watched him start off, walking mapidly, with angry gestures, down the corridor. Then she turned back and, dropping upon her knees on the prie-dieu, bowed her bead 4m prayer for the king, for herself and for France, ployed bimselt in bis young ae. over the water all he won- "De Catinat had ~ ae showid a ‘Major de ‘as the time Sm serene astonished to see the kthg, without es- cort or attendants, walking swiftly dow. the passage. His delicate face was disfsured with anger, and his mouth was xet gtimly, like that of a man who bad trken @ momentous res- olution. “Officer of the guard,” satd he short- ty, “Yes, sire.” “I wish your assistance.” “I am at your command, sire.” “Ie there a aubaltern here?” “Lieutenant de la Tremoulile ts at the side guard.” “Very well. You will place him tn command. You wil! yourself go to the apartment of M. de Vivonne. If he ls not there you must go and seek bi. Wherever he la, you must dnd bim within the hour.” “Yes, sire.” “You will give him an orter from me. At 6 o'clock he Is to be in his car- riage at the east gate of the palace. His sister, Mme, de Montespan, will await him there, and he is charged by me to drive her to the chateau of Petit Bourg. You will toll him that he ts an- swerable to me for her arrival there.” “Yos, sire” De Catinat raised bis sword in salute and started upon bis miseton. The king passed on down the corr or and opeued a door which led him Into a magnificent anteroom, all ond blaze of mirrors and gold, furnished to a marvel with the most delicate ebony and silver suit, on a deep rod carpet of Aleppo, as soft and yielding ag the moss of a forest. Without knocking, be opened the oor farther and passed on Into the lady's boudotr. It was a large and lofty room, very different from that from which be had CEN TH) MAM Just come. Three long windows from ceiling to floor took up one side, and through the delicate pink tinted blinds the evening sun cast a subdued and dainty light. At the farther side, Prone upon an ottoman, her face buried in the cushion, her beautiful white arms thrown over tt, the: rich ‘cola of her brown hair hanging in dis order across tho long curve of her tvory neck, lay, lke a drooping ower, the woman whou le had come to dis cant At the sound of the closing door she had glauced up, and then, at sight of the king, who sprang to her feet and ran toward him, ber hands out, her blue eyes bedimmed with tears, “Ah, stra,” she cried, with a pretty Uttlo sunburst of joy through her tears, “then T have wronged you! I bave wronged you eruelly! But you have come after me to tell me that you have forgiven me!” She put her arms forward with the trusting alr of a pretty child who claima an embrace as her due, but the king stopped swift- ly back from her, “All is over forever between us," he cried harshly. “Your brother will awalt you at the east gate at 6 o'clock, and ft is my command that you walt there until you receive my further orders.” She staggered back aa if he had struck her. “Leave you!” she cried, “You must leave the court.” “The court! Aye, willingly; this tn stant! But you! Ah, sire, you ask what is impoasibla” “I do not ask, madame; I order. Since you have learned to abuse your Position, your presence has become in- tolerable. The united kings of Europe have never dared to speak to me as you have spoken today. Such things are not done twice, madamo, You see your mistake now. At 6 o'clock you leave Vorsatiles forever.” His eyes flasbed and bis small upright figure seemed to swell tn the violence of his indignation, while she leaned away from him, ono hand across her eyes. “Ob, I have beon wicked!” she cried. “I know it; I know it! How could I speak to you so! How could I! Oh, that some biight may come upon this unhappy tongve! I, who have had nothing but good from you! { to insult you, who are the author of all my hap: Piness! Oh, sire, forgive me, forgive me; for pity’s sake forgive me!” Louis waa by nature a kind hearted man. His feelings were touched, and his pride also was fiattered by the ‘abasement of this beautiful and haughty woman. His face softened ‘somewhat in its expression as he glanced at her, but he shook bis head And his voice was as firm as ever e8 bw ‘answered. “It {a useless, madame,” sald he. “1 have thought this matter over for Jong time, and your madness today has only burried what must in auy case have taken place, You must leave the “ i leave the palace. Say = will leave only ‘that you forgive me. Oh, sire, I cannot bear your anger. It crushes me down. | Tam not strong enough. It ig not ban- 2m Sects So ‘which you sen- am saved: f am saved! “No, no, madame,” cried the king, dashing bis hand across his eyes. “You see the weakness of tho man, but you shall algo woe the firmness of the king. “Aa to your tusuita today, I forgive them | ‘freely, if that will make you more hap- ‘by 1 your retirement. But a time has come when it 18 necosaary to review ‘our past life and to prepare for that which is to come.” “Ab, sire, you pain me. You are not yet in the prime of your years, and you speak an if old ago were upon you. In & score of years from now it may be time for folks to say that age has made @ change in your life.” The king winced, “Who say so?” he eried angrily. “Oh, sire, tt slipped from me un- awarea, Think no more of It. Nobody ‘ays 80. Noboily.” “You are hiding something from me. Who ts it who saya this?’ “Ob, sire, It was but foolish court foeeip, all unworthy of your attention. To me, sire, you are an pleasing and as gtacious as when you first won the heart of Mile. Tonnay-Charente.” The king smiled as he looked at the beautiful women before him. “Ip very truth,” said he, “I can say that there bas beea no such great chauges {a Mile. ‘Tonnay-Charente el- ther. But stil! tt is best that we should part, Francoise.” “You hare but to name the place, sire—Petit Bourg, Charguy or my own convent of St. Joseph la the Faubourg St. Germain. Wheat matter where the flower withers when once the aun has forever turned from st? At least the past is my own, and [ shall Ive in the Temombrance of the days when none bad come between us and when your sweet love was all my own. Be happy, sire, be happy, and think no more of what I said about the foolish gossip of the court. Your itfe Mes im the fu- ture. Mine fs in the past. Adieu, dear sire, adieu! She threw forward hor arma, ber eye dimmed over, and she would have fallen had Lowie not sprung forward and caught her im bis arma Hor beautiful head drooped upon his shoulder, her breath was warm upon his cheek, and the subtle scent of her hair was In his nostril, Her broad white throat was thrown back, ber eyes almost closed, her lips Just parted enough to show the line of pearty teeth, ber beautiful face not three inehes from his own And then sud- denly the eyolids quivered, and the great blu eyos looked up at him lov- ingly, appentingly, half deprecating. half chalienging, her whole soul in a glance. Did he move? Or was It she! ‘Whe could tell? But their tips had met in a long kise and then In another, and plans aud resolutions were stream. ing away from Louis Uke autumn eaves in the west wind. “Then [ am pot to gol You would not have the beart to send me away. ‘woukl your” “No, no; but you must not anpoy me Fraucolss.” “I had rather die than cause you ar Instant of grief. Ob, sire, I have soer 80 little of you lately! And I love you fol It has maddeved ma And then that dreadful woman”— “Who, thear* “Ob, I must not speak against her I will be civil for your sake even te her, the widow of old Scarron.” “Yes, yes, you must be civil. I can. not have any unpleasantness.” “But you will stay with me, sire?” Hor supple arms coiled themselves round bis neck. Then she held him fo: an instant at arm's length to feast her eyes upon bis face, and then drew him once more toward her. “You will no loave mo, dear sire. Tt ts so long since you have been bere.” “I will etay,” said he. “And that carriage, dear sire, at the east door? “I bave been very harsh with ‘you, Francoise. You will forgive me. Have you paper and pencil, that I may coun. termand the order?” “They are here, sire, upon the side tbie. FE have also a note which, if |] may leave you for an instant, T wil write In the anteroom.” She swept out with triumph in her even. It had been a trerible fight, bu all the greater the credit of her vic tory. She took a little pink slip of paper from an inlaid desk and dashed of a few words upon tt. They were, “Should Mme, de Maintenon have any message for his majesty he will be for the next few hours in the room of Mme. de Montespan.” This she ad- Greased to ber rival, and it was sent on the spot, together with the king's order, by the bands of a page. 1 a a tie os OR nearly @ week the king was constant to his new humor. ‘The routine of his life remained unchanged, save that it was the room of the frail beauty rather than of Mme. de Muintonon which attracted ‘him tm the afternoon. And in sym- pathy with this sodden relapse into his ots life his coats lost something of thetr somber hue, His wale was brisk- ‘ef, and be gave a youthful flourish to ‘his cane as a deflance to those who had seen in his reformation the first ‘symptoms of ago. And as the king brightened, so all the great court brightened too. ‘The salons began to resume their former splendor, aud gay coats and glittering embroidery which had lain in drawers for years were seen once mare in the halis of the palace. The Montespan anteroom was crowded every morning with men end women who had some sult to be urged, while her rival's chambers were us deserted as they had been beforo the king first turned @ gracious look upon ber. Faces which ‘had been long banished from the court began to reappear in the corridors and gardens unchecked and unrebuked, ‘while the black cassock of the Jesult and the purple soutane of the bishop Were lesa frequent colors in the royal circle But the church party was never se- v msly alarmed at this relapse. ‘The grave eyes of priest or of prelate fol- Jowed Lonis in his escapade as wary buntsmen might watch a young deer which gambols about In the meadow ‘Under the impression that It Is master Jets when avery gap and path is uet- ted and It ts te tothe tae cy Bands as though it Letore them. ‘They | = it was that his confessor, Chaise, and Bossuet, the great Heaney waited —— pea | de Maintenoo ees eee eee ome ‘boalde ber, abe was endeavoring to teach geography to the lame Doe du Maine and the mischie- "yous little Comte de Toulouse, who bad enough of their father’s disposition to make ‘them avorso to learning and of thelr mother’s to cause them to hate Aiseipline or restraint. iiae Ge" Maiztence Glecileesd ‘ber twe puptis and received the ecclesi- astics with the mixture of affection kad respect which was due to those who were not only personal friends, but great Hebts of the Gallican church. ‘The lat few days bad cast pallor over her face which spiritualized and refined the features, but she wore un- impaired her exprossion of sweet se renity. “I see, my dear daughter, thet you bave sorrowed,” said Bossuet, glancing at her with a kindly and yet searching ee. “I bave Indeed, your grace. All last night I epent in prayer that this trial may pass away from us.” “And yet you bave no need for fear, mademe—none, I assure you. Others may think that your tnfluence has ceased, but we, who know the king's heart, think otherwise. A few days may pass, « few weeks at the most, and once wore it will be upon your rising fortunes that every eye in France will turn.” The lacy's brow clouded, and she glanced at the prelate as though his speech wers uot altogether to hor taste. “I trust that pride does not lead me astray,” she said. “But tf T ean read my own soul ari ct there is no thought Of myself in the grief which uow tears my beart. It is for the king I grieve, for the nove heart, the kindly soul, which might ri-o so high aud which ts Gragred 80 low.” “For all that, my daughter, you are ambitious. Would you sot love to ture the king toward good?” “I would ative my life for It" “and thore is your ambition, Ah, ean J not read your noble soul? Would Fou not love to eve the church reign Pure and serene over all this realm, to see the poor hous. the needy helped, the wicked turned from their ways and the king ever the leader in all that is noble and good? Her cheeks had @ushed, and her eyes shone as she looked at the gray face of the Jesult asd saw the picture whieb his words had conjured up be fore ber, “My daughter,” said Rossuet solemn- ly, “It fe time for plain speaking. It is Ip the Interests of the church that we do It. None hear and none shal ever hear what passes between ws now. Regard us, if you will, as two confess- ors, with whom your secret ts inriola- ble. 1 call It @ secret, and yet it is none to us, for it is our mission to read the human heart. You love the king.” “Your grace—father!" She turned in confusion from one to the other. “There is no shame in loving, my Gaughter. The shame lies only in Fielding to leve. I say again that you love the king.” “At least [ bave never told him so” ebe faltered. “And wilt you never?’ “May boaven wither my tongue first!” “But consider, my daughter, Such love in a soul ike yours is heaven's gift and seat for some wise purpose. We spoak for the interests of the holy church, and those interests demand that you should marry the king.” “Marry the King!” The little room #wam round her. “Marry the king!" “There ites the best hope for the fu. ture. We see in you a second Jeanne @Are who will save both France and France's king.” Madame sat silent for a few mo ments. Her face had regained its com- posure, and her ayos were bent va- cantly upon her tapestry frame as she turned orer in her mind all that was involved in the suggestion. “But surely—surely this conld never be,” she sald at last. “What king of France has marcied a subject? See how every princess of Europe stretches out her hand to him. The queen of France must be of queently blood, even as the last waa” “All this may be overcome.” “And then there are the reasons of state. If the king marry, It should be to form a powerful ailiance, to ce Ment a frientehip with a neighbor na- tion or to gain some province which may he the bride's dowry. What is my dowry? A widow's pension and a workbox.” “Your dowry, my daughter, would be those gifts of body and of mind with which heaven has endowed you. ‘The king has monoy enough and the king has provinces enough. As to the state, how can the state be better served than by the assurance that the king will be saved in future from such sights as are to be seen In this palace today?” “Oh, if it could be so! Bat think, father; think of those about him—the dauphin, monsieur his brother, his ministers, You know how little this ‘would please them and how easy it ia 2 ae Pipes s Ae Se Wy “That Js true. Aad yot my heart softens for them.” Pere ia Chaise and the bishop shook their beads. “You would befriend God's enemies, then?” “No, no; not tf they a-. -udeed #0.” “Can you doubt It? fe It possible that yonr heart still turns toward the beresy of your youth? “No, father; but It is not ta nature to forget that my father and my grand- fathor"— “Nay; they have answered for thelr own sins. Is It pousible that the chureh has been mistaken in you? Do you, then, refuse the fret favor which abe asks of you? You would accept her aid, and yet you would give none la return.” Mme de Maintenon rose with the alr of one who Las wade her resolution. “You are wiser than I,” said abe, “and to you have been committed the inter- este of the church. I will do what you advise” “You promise it?” “Lo.” ‘Hee two visttors threw up thelr bands together... “It ts a blessed day,” they cried, “and generations yet unborn will learn to deem tt #0.” She sat half stunned by the which wae opening out tn front of Ambitions ste had, as the Jesuit ny surmised, always been—ambitious fi the power which would enable her tb leave the world better than she found it. But close at the heels o: her joy there came = sudden revulsion to doubt and despondency. Was not all this fine prospect a more day dream? And how could these men be so sure ‘that they beld the king in the hollow of thelr hand? The Josult read the fears which duiled the sparkle of her eyes, and answered her thoughts. “The church rodeoms tte pledges swiftly,” suid he. “And yoo, my daughter, you must be as prompt whon your own tum comes.” “I have promised, father.” “Then it is for us to perform. Yon wil remain tn your room all evening.” “Yes, tether.” “The king already bositates. I spoke with him this morning; and bis mind was full of blackness and Gespair. His Detter self turus tn disgust from his sins. I have to sew and speak with him onee more, and I go from your Toom to his. And when I have spoken ‘be will come from bis room to yours, oF T have etudied his heart for twenty years in vain” They bowed low to hee, both togetber, aud left ber to her thoughts. An hour passed, an4 then a second ome, as she sat in ber feuteull, her tapestry before ber, but her hands list: Jess upon her lap, waiting for hor fate, Her life's future was now boing set: led for her, and she was powerless to ‘ele | Nig WZ turn in one way or the other. Day. Ught turned to the pearly light of even ing, and that ngain to dusk, but she still sat: waiting in the shadow. A) last, however, there came a quick sharp tread, eriep and authoritative which brongit ber to her feet witl finsed checks und ler heart beatins Wildly. The door opened, ang #be sa™ outlined agnlust the gray ight of th outer passigs the erect and gracefu figure of the king. “Sire, oue lustant and mademotscll will light the lamp." “Do uot cull her." He entered and closed the goor bebind him. “Francotse the dusk i* welcome to me because 1 Screens me from the reproaches whict must He in your giance even if you tongue be too kindly to utter them.” “Reprosches, sire! God forbic sat | should utter them!" “When I last left you, Francoise, i swas with a good resolution in my mind I tried to carry it out, and I fatled— falled. I remember that you wirned me, Fool that I was not to follow your advice!” “We are all weak and mortal, sire ‘Who bas not fallen? Nay, sire, it goes ‘to my heart to see you thus.” He was standing by the fireplace, bis face buried in bis hands, and abe could ‘tell by the catch of his breath that he was Weeping. “I cannot do without you, Fran. ‘coisel” he cried. “I am the joneliest man fm all thie world, like one whc lives om a great mountain peak, with Rone te bear him company. Who have 2 for @ friend? Whom can I rely upon’ ‘Rowe ate for the church; sine are fo e themselves. But who of them aif is single mmdea? You are my better self, Francoise. You aro my guardian angel. What the good father says ts truw, aad the nearer Tum to you the farther am I from all that te evil. ‘Tell me, Francoise, dc you love me?” “E have loved you for years, sire.” Her voice was low, but clear—the voice ote oman to whom coquetry was ab- horrent. “I had boped tt, Francois, aod ye! it thrills me to bear you sey tt Will you be my wife, Francoise?” And so the moment bad tn yery truth come. She paused for an in. stant, only an tnstant, before taking this lant kroat step, but even that was too long for the pationee of the king. “Wil you not, Francoise?” he orted. “May God make me worthy of such an honor, sire!” sad abe. “And here I jewaur that If heaven deuble my life ‘every bour shall be spent in the one ‘endeavor to make you a happlor man!” She bad kuelt down, and the king. still holding ber band, knelt down be. ‘alde hoe | “And I ewear, t00," be cried, “that i ‘my days also are doubled you Will new and forever be the one aud only wou | an for ma” And so thelr double oath was taken an oath which was to be tested In the ‘future, for each did lve almost double ‘their years, and yet neither broke the Promise made band in band on that evening in the shadow girt chamber. CHAPTER Ix. aera consdante of Aime. Z de Maintevon, had learned some thing of thie tnterview, or it may ‘be that Pore ja Chaise, with the shrewd- Bess for which his order is famous, had come to the conclusion that publicity was the best means of holding the king ‘to his prepent tatention, but, whatever the souree, It was known all over the court next day that the old favorite wae again in disgrace and that there ras talk of @ marriage between the ‘king-aud the governess of his chil- dren. By midday there was none in the court whe bad not beard the tid- ings save only Mme. de Montespan, who, alarmed at her lover's absence, bad remained in haughty seclusion ip her room and kaew nothing of what bad passed. Louls tn bis innate selfishness had been so secustomed to regard every event entirely from the side of how it would affect himself that it had never struck bim that his long euffering fam- ily, who had alwaya yielded to him ‘the absolute obedience which he claim- od as bis right, would venture to offer Any opposition to bis new resolution. He wae surprised, therefore, when his brother demanded & private interview that afternoon and entered his pres- ence withowt the complatesant smile and humble air with which he was wont to appoar before bin. “Why, monasteur, you seem lees gay than ueuel today,” anid the king, with asmile. “Your dres# Indeed Is bright, but your brow is clouded. I trust that all te well with madame and with the Due de Chartres.” “Yes, sire, they are well, but they Are sad. the mywelf, and froin the same cause.” “Indeed! And why? “Flave I ever failed tn my Guty as your younger brother, eire?” “Never, Philippe, never! snid the king, laying his hand affectionately up- on the other's shoulder. “You have set an excellent example to my eub- fects." “Then why set a slight upon me?" “Philippe!” “Yes, sire, I say f te a slight We are of royal bieod, and our wives are of royal blood also. You married the Princess of Spain; | married the Prin- cess of Bavaria. ‘Tt was a condescen: sion, but still I did it My fret wife was the Princess of England. How can wo admit {nto a house which has formed such alliances as these a woman who ia the widow of a bunch: back singer, © mere lampooner, a man whose name is a byword through Eu- rope?” The king hed stared in amazement at his brother, but bis anger now over- came bis astonishment. “Upon my word!" be erted; “upon my word! I! hare said just now that you hare been an éxcelient brother, but 1 fear that I spoke a little prematurely. And so you take upon yourself to ob- ject to the lady whom I select as my witer’ “I do, sire.” “And by what right? “By the right of the family honor. sire, which is as much mine as yours. T look upon it as a alight upon me and 8 slight upon my wife.” “Your wife! I have every respect for Charlotte Elizabeth of Bavaria, but how is she superior to one whose grandfather was the dear friend and comrade in arms of Henry the Great? Bnowgh! I will not condescend to argue such a matter with you! Be- gone, and do rot return to my presence ‘until you have learned not to interfere in my affairs.” “For ail that, my wife shall not know her! snarled monsieur. ‘The king was to bave no quiet that day. If Mme. de Mainteson's friends had rallied to her yeateraay her ene mies Wore active today. Monrleur had hardly disapnenred before there ruahad into the room x youth who bore npen his rich attire every sien ef havin Just arrived from a dusty journey. Fic was pale faced and ahera haired with features which would have been strikingiy ike the king’s {f It were not that his pose bad been disfigured tn bis youth. The king’s face had lighted ‘Up at the sight of him, but it darkened ‘again a8 be hurried forward and threw himself down at his foet, “Ob, sina” be cried, “spare ue this griet—epare us this humiliation! I un- plore you to pause before you do what ‘will bring dishouor upon yourself and ‘upon ue! The king started back from bin, “This is imtolerabler’ he cried. “It was bed from iy brother, but worse from my son, You are ia a conspiracy with him, Loula, Moueleur bas told ‘Tou to act this part.” The dauphin rove to his feet and Fooked steadfuetty at his angry father. “I have not acen my uncle,” be said. JT was at Mendon when I beard this —this dreadful news—and I Rare Se tA Ee te Signe ge ee es ‘TWhel over to Tmplore you to thithk ‘again before you drag our royal house 80 low." “You talk Uxe a foolt™ cried bis fa- ther. “I propose to marry a virtuous and charming lady of one of the oldest noble families of France, and you talk as if I were doing something Gograd. ing and unbeard of.” “She Is the daughter of a man whose vices were well known, ber brother Is (J = ; = > | hige oN soi) SAS SL | “Pass tt through my hourt, sine!” Of the worst repute, abe has lod the lite of an adventuroes le the wilow of deformed seribbier, and she occupies & menial position In the palace.” The king bad stamped with his foot upon the carpet more than once during this frank sddrees, bat bis anger blared into a fury at Its conctuelon. | “Do you dary” be cried, with Susb ing ete, “to call the churge of mj chikirea & menial position? I say that there ie no higher In the kingdom. Gc back to Meudon, sir, this instant and never dary to open your mouth agaly 00 the subject.” ‘The young wan bowed low and walk ed) wich Siguty trom the coasber The King’s fret bot anger bad died ‘away by now and had left bebind it s cold, bitter spirit which was even mor formidable to his antagonists, But be bad little breathing space Eile assailants Knew that with persist ence they bad bent bis will before, and they trusted that they misbt do sd again It was Louvols, tho minister now who entered the room, with hi majestic port, bis lofty bearing, bis buge wig and his arietocratic face which, however, abowed some signa of trepidation as Ht met the baleful eye of the king. “Weil, Lonvols, what now? be ask ed impationtly, “Tias some new stats matter arisen “There is but one new etate matter “which has arisen, sire, bot Ht i of such feaportance us to banish all others from our mind—yvar marrige, sre.” MFow dimpprove we tet 7Ob, sire, can T belp ter “Ont of ny room, wir! Am I to be tormented to death by your importunt. tes? What! You dare to linger when Lender you to go! The king advanced Angrtly upon the minister, but Lourols suddenly flashed out bis rapier. Louls sprang back, wh alarm and amaze tent poo his face, but It was the hilt and bot the point which was pemented to bin, “Paes K through my beart, sire the minleter ried, falling upon bie knoes, his whole greut frame in a quiver with emotion. “I will not Itre to #ee your Blory fader “Great beavent” sbrieked Louis, throwing the ewont Gown upon the ground. “I belivve that thie is a con- apiracy to drive me mad. Was ever a man vo tormented in this life? This will be a private marriage, man, and tt will not affect the state in the least degree.” | Louvols gathered bimeott up and shot bie rapier back into ite sheath. “Your majesty is Getermined?” he aakod. - “abeotutely.” “Then I say no mora I have done my duty.” He bowed his head as ond fn Goep ejection when he departed, but in truth bie bowrt was Hghtened within bim, for he bed the King’s as surance that the woman whom ta ‘hated woukl, even though bis wife, no ‘sit on the throne of the queens of France. Those rmpeated attacks, if they had not shaken the king's resolution, had at least irritated and oxneperated him to the utmost. He wore accontingly BO very contial face when thé. usher im attendance admitted the veserabk figure of Fatber in Chaise, bie con tewwor, “I wish you all bappinces, aire,” said the Jesuit, “and I congratulate you from my beart that you have taken th Froat etep which most load to conten both in thie work! and the noxt” “I have had netbee bapplnoss no ‘Sontentment yut, father,” answered the King peevisbly. “I bave never boon a pestered in my life The whole cour bas been oa its kness to me to cbange my tntention.” ‘The Jomit Jooked et bim anxiously ot of ie keen gray eyes. “Fortunately your majesty ts ¢ man of strong will,” waki be, “and not to be # easily swayed aa they think.” “No, na I di not give en inch But iM must be confesed that is vory unpleasant to bev so many againet ana” “Then there is the more qratit to your majesty for having resisted them, You bave done nobly, aire. You bevs earned the prate and blessing of holy church.” “I trust that what I have done ts right, father,” sail the king gravely. "I shoul be glad to see pou again later tn the evening, bot o€ present I desire 4 Ite Jeleure for solitary thongbt* ae elles St ast eee a deep of the king's intentions Te was obvious ibat the powerful ap peels which bad been made to hin had Teotatin. ‘Wat moa be th er Tesolution._ would ‘if more were made? And more would be made ‘That wag ae certain as that . Fa oe eae THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. gard must be played pow which would ‘bring the matter to a crisis at once. ‘The bishop of Meaux was wulting In ‘the anteroom, and Father la Chaise in '& few brief words let him seo the dan- ger of the sttuation ant the means by Which they should meet It. Together ‘they sought Mme. de Malntenon in her |Foom. As the two plotters looked upon ber perfect complexton, ber regular fea- ‘tures, 80 calm and yet eo full of refine ‘ment, and the exquisite grace of ber figure and bearing they could uot but feel that if they failed In thetr ends it [sbecyptigendiiy te npicesbe tool. She bad risen at their cotrance, and ‘ber expression showsd that abe had ‘Toad upon their faces something of the janxiety which Siled their minda, “You beve erll newsl ebe cried. | “No, no, my daughter.” It was the ‘bishop who spoke. “Bint we must be on our guard againet our enemies, who would turn the king away from you if they coukt.” _ Her face shone at the mention of ber Jover, “Ab, you do not Kaew!" sho ‘cried. “Tie has made a row. I woukt trust him as T woukl trust wyeelt.” But the Jeeuit’s tutellect was arrayed against the Intuition of the woman, “Our opponents are many and strong.” ‘said bo, shaking bis bead. “We must Dring the matter to ap eod™ | “And how, father?” “The marriage must be at once, this [very night If pooalbla” “Oh, father, you ask too much The king woukl never consent to such a proposal” “It te be that will propose tt" “And why?" “Because we shall fore him ta It te only thos that all opposition can be stopped. When It ts done the court ‘will accept H. Until ie done they ‘will resist 1." What would you have tse da, then, father | *Resign the king.” “Resign bim™ She turned ae pale ne a Illy. Pe nde lk mes “Ab, father, I migtt bare done it Just month, leet week, oven yootenday morning.” “Fear not. madame. Woe advise you for the bowl. Go to the king now, at once. Say to bim that you bare heard that be has been subjected to much ‘annoyance upon your account, that you cannot bear to think that you shoukd bea couse of Gieeeasion in bis own famfly and that therefore you will re ease bim from his promise and will ‘withdraw youreelf from the court for: over.” She cast a ight mantw aboot her shoukier. | “I follow your adview™ she said. °T belleve that you are wieer than But, ‘oh, If be should take me at my word “He will not take you st your word.” | The king bad remaine! alone in his cabluet, wrapped ln somewhat gloomy thoughts. Suddenly there came a geu- ‘tHe tap at the door, and there was the woman who was In bis thoughts stand ing in the twilight before htm. He sprang to his feet and beki ont his hands with a emile. Sere Birwt one todey.” Sire, T fear that you have been tmoubled.” “T have tadeed, Francoise” “But I bave a rewedy for i" “And what ie thach” “I sball leave the court, aire, and you shal think po more of what has passed Detween us I hare brought discon! where | meant to being peace. Let me retire to Bt Cyr or to the Abbey of Vooterrack, and pou will no longer be called upon to make woch sacrifices for my sake.” ‘The king turned deathly palo and ctutched at ber ebaw! with a trembling hand, as though be feared that she Was about to put bor resolution into effect that very Inetant. “No, mo Francoise; you must not leere me! Tou must etay with me and be my wife" He oomkt hardiy speak for agitation, and be still grasped at hee Grew to Getain bew, “Bome time must elapse before our wedding, etre. Yet during al! that in- | terval yoo will be exposed to these an- noyances, How oan I be happy when T feet thet I have brought upon you so Jong & period of Abeomfort? A day woul! be too bong, sire, for you to be nabappy through my fen. Mt te a miory to me to think of R Believe toa, MH wohl be better that I shoukl keve you” “Never! You shall nott Why shouki we oven wait « Gay, Prancatest I am peady. You are ready. Why shook we not be married nowt “At once? Ob, eirem “We ebail, It te my wish It te my créer. That % my anewor to thove who would drive me Let i be done mommy, Francois I will send in 2 trusty messenger this veey night for the archbisbop of Paris, sod I swoar Get if ail France stand tm the way be shal! make os man and wife before Be Ganerts* Rnigbts of Pytbi nigbts ot [pythias, N. A.,S. A.,E. A., A. AND A. KS MOS This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its ky SA progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia’ has juris- f~ So diction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males | Cr) 3 are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one We Sd Cs of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything os ag lo Tawnded_om Briangdchin asi mC} ity a esta ished..an LS Fee) | nevolence, the respectable, upright people BATHE Ge WAH ad ork SS worthy of their heartiest support. 5 rss) It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It ‘ pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalla, For information concerning the orgauzaition of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe .%*, Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of “~ thirty persous to organize a court. Itsmempers are pledged to exhibit 5 Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays r 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, so cents and hw arosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. 7 THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children’s Department also con- stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays fron $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have noPythiar Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrnize oue. For all information concerning the Children’s Department address, Mrs. Anna Tavtor, 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 arr N. 4th St., Richmond, Va men | “I trust thet they bave not started, ‘aire. I will seo.” He hurried off ant ‘was back In ten minutes in the cabinet ‘ence more. “Weil? “T have been fortunate, sire. 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By the same authority, it has placed twelve colored soldiers and one discharged colored soldier in Fort Sam Houston, Texas to await the action of the Texas authorities, who have sworn out warrants 2- galnst them, charging them with murder although they have no evi- dence on which to base such a charge. It looks like an attempt to get into their power men without riftes, who but a short time before were men with rifles. The cowards can then proceed to lynch and burn. It 4s unofficially announced that the death penalty will be meted the col- ored soumers guilty of the escapade. If the Texas authorities get hold of them, such announcement is un- necessary. The War Department has certain ly acted along the most conservative linet. The Texang now find that the border should be guarded, yet they were insulting, assaulting and tantalizing the troops placed there to guard It. The people of the country will watch with interest this war-cloud and if the exercise of di plomacy will prevent the punishment of colored soldiers not concerned in the shooting everybody will be grat ifed. It 1s admitted that race fecling is at the bottom of the trouble. ‘This should tend to clear the atmos phere and give President Roosevelt and his advisers an insight into the trouble. The white citizens at Brownsville have suddenly become “angels” and the colored troops the “evils incarnate. One thing we know they will fight gnd that is why they, are wearing a uniform, If they are sent to Brownsville to] be tried, they will be dangling from| a rope’s end, before the legalized lynching machine !s put into opera- tion. Oh. for a good strong back- bone in the War Department at Washington! THE LYNCHING IN MISSOURI. Despite all of the efforts of the Governor and the Attorney General of Missouri, the jury disagreed in the case of the white lyncher, who was known to have led the mob that lynched three colored men at Spring field, Missouri. It was finally es- tablished by the testimony that al! three of the victims were innocent of the crime for which they were lynched. It seems to us that no argument could be more potent than these facts which speak In clarion tones for themselves. North Carolina promgtiy convicted one Iyncher, iat Missouri seems to be marking time in the matter of making un object Jesson of this man, Galbraith, who seems to be guilty of murder. __ It emphasizes though our conten- lon that the time to punish the lynehers is when they are engaged in their murderous practices. The officers of the law have no right to disarm a prisoner, making bim ab- solutely helpless if they do not intend to defend him with their lives if necessary. It has gotten to be 80 that a man who submits to arrest on a charge of criminal asgault, be he guilty or innocent signs and seals bis own deathwarrant. It is far better to die fighting than it Is to be strung up like a whining cur or burned like a heathen at the stake. The effort will be made again we Presume to convict one man out of ‘three thousand Iynchers, but it ts jevident thut the officials have lost heart over the failure. People who will lynch prisoners will commit perjury and one class of lynchers at Springficld now seem to be en- gaged in the business of clearing the other class. Had the sheriff discharged his duty, the tangible evi- dence of their guilt would have been lying on the side walk and in the jail yard and the undertakers and the hospital surgeons would have made good witnesses. BiG BANK FAILURE IN PHILADELPHIA Bad yey ae Rea — Trust DEAD PRESIDENT RESPONSIBLE " Philadelphia, Aug. 29—Unable’ to imeet ite obligations because of the large amount of money loaned on in- sufficient security by its president, now dead, the Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia, which up to last Sat- urday was considered one of the strongest financial institutions in the city, closed its doors. Soon after the doors were closed George H. Earle, Jr, @ prominent financier, was ap- pointed receiver. The liabilities of the fompany are placed at $10,000,000, ‘against which there are quick assets of about $3,500,000 and collateral of ‘About $5,000,000 which ts not negotia- bie or readily convertible. ‘The doubt- ul collatera} is held mostly as security For oane of hat 18300000 sade to ‘Wie Than responsible for the fallure | Was Frank K. Hipple, one of Phitadel-| phia’s best known citizens, who ated Suddenly last Friday morning tn his country home at Bryn Mawr, near ere, under circumstances which, ip fie lent or the seveupeonts lead &he suspicion that he may have com- fitted suicide. Mr. Hipple, tn addt- fon to being president of the Real tate Trust company, was treasurer ‘Of the board of trustees of the General [Assembly of the Presbyterian church fa: the ‘United Staisa and. of. sevecal pther cburch funds, and was a director ef the Franklin National Bank. Re seni Mr. Hipple’s necounts of the resbyterian church were examined by certified accountants and were found to be correct, but it cannot be fated positively whether all the ae uritles belonging to the General As sembly are intact, although tt ts hoped Frey are Some Bad Loans. } For the loans Hipple accepted as follatezal securities of the Majestic Hotel. a big new apartment house op frated by Segal: the Swedish Steel ‘company, of Lancaster, Pa., and the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining com pany, of this city. The steel company And the sugar refining concern have | ‘never been placed in operation. Segal, claims the collateral he gave fs goo, | and that he will meet all his obliga | tions. There are others to whom Hip ‘ple loaned money on tnsuffictent secur ity, but their names have not been made public and the sums are not be eved to be large. Falsified His Reports, How far Hipple benefitted In the loans made or whether he was merely the tool of others ts yet to be deter. mained. All the directors are remain- tng silent on that point, and also on the quertion of whether there will be any criminal prosecutions. 1a order to hide the trie condition of the com- Dany and save himself Ilipple resorted to the falsiftestion of hfs reports, which Were accepted aa trie by the dirsctors He used what the receiver termed a “double system" of making reports When the state bank examiner called Hipple presented to him good secur. ties to offset the loans made, and when the president made his reports to the directors he would show them a bun- ble of other securities and other paper. and along with these he would exhibit the certificate of the bank examiner which showed that the accounts the examiner had investigated were cor- rect. The directors, supposing the se- purities shown them were the same. Approved the reporis, Directors Leam True Conditions, As soon as the directors learned of he sudden death of Prosident Hipple hey began an investigation of his af- fairs and were shocked when they earned the true condition of the com- any. This was after the close of busi- tess on Friday, A meeting of the oard was hurriedly called, and it was Sis Soe ae a out gevente rocetvadtter| norning should be set aside and sited with the Franklin THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ‘Bank in the names of the Individuals Presenting the money. This was done to absolve the directors from erfminal Proceedings for recetving money after ‘they knew the trust company was in- solvent. On Monday more than $169.- 000 was deposited by patrons of the bank, which waz practically offset by withdrawais by persons who had heard Tumors of the company's condition. ‘The money deposited since Saturday Will, however, not be returned to the depositors, but will Ite in the Franklin National Bank unt! the courts have @ecided whether it should be paid back. ‘While the depositors were supposed- ly placing their money with the Real Estate Trust company the directors ‘Were making strenuous efforts to tide the institution over the difficulty. Ap- Plication papers for a temporary re- delver were prepared and left at the offices of the trust company, . after which the directors. went to the-nieet- ‘Ung of the Clearing House Association to make a last appeal for help. The @irectors stated that they needed $7,000,000, but the best the banks could do was to guarantee $3,500,000. This ‘was not enough, and as all other means for getting money bad failed, Vice President Houston telephoned to the Dank to suspend business and send the recelvership papers to court. In an in- credibly short time the story-was on the street and created great conster- nation. Hundreds of persons gathered about the building clamoring for in- formation, and the crowd grew 80 Kreat that a detail of police was sent for to clea rthe street. There was no disorder, Tho application for a recelver says that the company has a paid up capt- tal of $1,500,000, an apparent surplus of an equal amount and deposits of about $10,000,000. The assets consist of real estate in Philadelphia, loans upon col- lateral upon demand and on time and other securities. President Hipple, the | Appitcation says, “By false reports to the directors of the loans made by him | brought about the condition of the ‘company which was first discovered by the officers of the bank subsequent te the death of the president.” The court then appointed Mr. Earle recetv. er, and he entered security to the hamount of $1,000.000. Had State Deposit of $175,000. Harrisburg, Pa. Aug. 29.—The Real Fstate Trust company, of Philadel- phia, which closed its doors, was last examined by the state banking de partment about two years ago. The institution was on the list for exami nation, and work was to have been begun this week by two state bank examiners, In {ts last report to the banking de partment, which 1s dated May 26, 1908, the estimated value of the se curities held by the Real Estate Trust company Ix given at $400,450. This report 1s signed by William FP. North, treasurer, and attested to by three dl- rectors, one of whom was Frank K. Hipple. former president. The institu- tlon had @ state deposit of $175,000, which 1s protected by corporate bonds for double this amount. This deposit when State Treasurer Berry withdrew $25,000. MORE OIL INDICTMENTS Grand Jury Finds Ten True Bills With $420 Counts Against Trust. Chicago, Aug. 28—The first federal grand jury returned 10 indictments against the Standard O!l company be- fore Judge Bethea in the United States circuit court. The indictments, which contain 6420 counts, are all tn connection with the granting of re bates. No railroad was-mentioned tn the indictments, It was declared by the district at- torney’s office that the penalty for each offense alleged in the indict: ments is a fine of not less than $1009 hor more than $20,000. If a fine of $1000 on each count were Imposed it would amount to $6,420,000. It ts be leved by the government attorneys that the lawyers for the Standard Ol company will enter the appearance of the corporation in court as goon as they have examined the indictments, There 1s no authority at present al- lowing the arrest of officers of a cor- poration against which tadictments have been found. CLOSED SHOP ILLEGAL Wisconsin Judge Deals Organized La- bor a Heavy Blow. Racine, Wis., Aug. .29.—Unton labor was dealt a heavy blow by the de cision of Cireult Court Judge Chester A. Fowler, of Fond Du Lac, in the boy: cott suit for $25,000 damages brought by Otto B. Schultz, a Racine baker, against the Trades Labor Counell, Benjamin Dressen and others. The de cision holds {egal the contract ex- acted from the boss bakers by the union men, in an effort to enforce the closed shop. The Trades Council and the individual members are enjoined from using the “unfair list." The boy- cott is declared an actionable con- spiracy to accomplish a criminal or unlawful purpose; Schultz fs allowed to recover damages of $2500 for the loss of profits from the time of the conimencement of the boycotting acts up to the time of the trial, and $3500 in damages for the amount of injury to his business and ‘property In rela- tion to its selling value. & WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED- ‘Theredan, Anus 0. “. W. Criswell, of Steelton, has been Spopinted chief figh warden of Penn. sylvania, William A. McAneny, treasurer of the Associated Lawyers of New York, Committed suicide. Dr. John C. Holmes, « retired phy. Welan, of Cranberry, N. J., was struck by a train and instantly killed, Governor Stokes, of New Jersey, Visited Camp Roosevelt at Mt. Gretna, Pa.. to witueus the drill of New Jersey troops. Dr. A. F. Morris, of New York, one ef the for2uost automobile enthusiasts of the coursry, died at his country home, no> Easton, Pa. Friday, August 24, Inezne foo: the heat, T. T. Foster! ‘Banged himself in Se ee ee ee A seat on the New York stock ex- change sold tor $95,000, the highest price - Dr. » F. Brenate, a prominent from hea} rome Struck by lghtning, the extensive plant at the hematite ore mine near Allentown, Pa, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $10,000. Mrs. Douglas Robinson, aged 83 years, of New York, whose son is the husband of Corinne Roosevelt, sister of the president, died at Little Falls, NY. Saturday, August 25. Governor Harris, of Oho, is suffer- ing from a severe attack of vy pol- soning, his whole body being affected. ‘While bathing In the Delaware river at Philadelphia at midnight, B. Antgon was attacked by heart failure and drown: a P. Ae Waletine, & prominent Chicago packer and a relative of the Armours, was operated on for appendicitis at Oconomowoc, Wis. ‘Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte has been invited to attend the trans-Mis- sissipp! commercial congress at Kansas City, November 20. Frank K. Hipple, president of the Real Estate Trust company and a prominent financier, died suddenly at bie home tn Philadelphia. Monday, August 27. James Keckle, aged 10, was struck and instantly killed by the Black Dia- mond Express tn the Lehigh Valley yard at Sayre, Pa President Roosevelt has appointed Basil Miles, of Pennsylvania, formerly private secretary to Ambassador Mey- ets, as first secretary of the American embassy at St. Petersbure. Undertaking to warm a bottle of tur- pentine near fhe blaze in a cook stove at her home, near Waynesborro, Pa, the stuff exploded. and Mrs. Welty Shockey was terribly burned, As John Fenstamacher and brother [wore driving @ traction engine over 4 bridge in Pine township, Columbis county Pa., the bridge gave way and the engine Iles upside down in 10 feet ‘of water in the creek . Tuesday, August 28. | While suffering from cramps Wil ‘Mam Shirley, of Philadelphia, drank brandy and fishberries and died in great agony. Mise Florence Mullen and Lucy Hill were drowned by the overturning of a buggy while crossing a small stream near Loveland, 0. The Japanese government has nott. fied the state department that ft wil! open the port of Dalny, Manchuria, to the commerce of all nations Governor Folk, of Missouri, hae re prieved until October 26 Mrs. Agnes Myers, now in jail at Liberty awaiting execution for the murder of her hus- band Wednesday, August 29. ‘The 16th annual convention of the International Leageu of Press Clubs ‘was held at Denver, Col. |The annual Industrial Exposition at Cincinnati, Ohfo, was opened by Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, who pressed a gold btuton in Music Hall. mere. AMTERPOE SELMMEE, OC Ente Gelphia, was given carbolic acid tn mistake for medicine by her nurse and there Is little hope for her recovery. William and Theodore Holliday, col- ored, were sentenced to nine years tn the penitentiary for assault and bat tery on a policeman at West Chester, Pa. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets, PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR weak; winter extras, $3@3.18: Pennsylvania roller, clear. Sere city mills, fancy, $4.5004.60. YE FLOUR firm: Ror barrel $3.5093.55. WHEAT firm: No. 2 Pennsylvania red, 72% @ Te. CORN steady; No. 2 ‘yellow, local, S9c. OATS steady; No. 2° white clipped, 36\4c.; lower grades, 35. HAY steady; No. 1 timothy, $17 @ 17.50. PORK steady; family,’ $19.50. BEEF firm; beef hams, $19. POULTRY: Live firm: hens, eles old roosters, 9@9ige. Dressed firm: ehotce fowls, Me.; old roosters, 9¢. ‘BUTTER firm: creamery. extra, 27¢c. EGGS firm; se- lected, 24@ 26c. "Sout 22c.: western, 22c.; southern, te lc. POTATOES omer, za barrel, $1. en ses BALTIMORE —WHEAT—No, 2 spot, TS%c.; steamer No. 2, 67c.; southern, 6c. CORN—Mixed spot, B5e.; mixed steamer, 53c.; southern, “< OATS steady; ‘white, No. 2, aSe.; No. 3, H@ atic’ No. 4, UN ange mixed. No, 2 ote: No. 3, st@sae. BUT: TER Arm: creamery separator extras 23G2tc.; ‘prints, 24@25c.; held, 184 20c.; Maryland and Pennsylvania dairy ‘ints, 14@iSe. EGGS firm; fancy Maryiana and Wee Utena Vir- ginia, 2ic; West Virginia, 0%c.; southern, 2c, Live Stock Markets. =m PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE slow: choice, $5.75@6; prime, Bot 70. HOGS strong; prime heav- fea, $6506.65: mediums, $6.75@6.80; Beary Forkers. light Yorkers and pies S0@E85; rourhs, $5@5.60. SHEEP Sandys picts ethene $5.0068.75; gig ae fommen.$2.50198.80; laaabe, 8; veal calves, $56 8.00. CUBAN REBELS DEFEATED Battle Near Cienfuegos. Havana, Aug 28.—At the moment when the government was issuing it Proclamation offering pardon to re bels who would lay down their arms its forces were dealing the most tell ing blow that bas yet been struck against insurgents in the field. For Several days it bad been stated that General Guzman's force of insurgents, which was variously estimated at from 200 upwards, contemplated an attack on Cienfuegos. Colomel Valle, with @ detachment of rural guards and vol unteers, was dispatched to Clenfuegos for the purpose of engaging Guzman and breaking up the band. The en counter of the two forces resulted in the worst disaster which the tnsur gents have sustained up to this time. They lost 17 mon killed and many wounded, while the loss to the gov. ernment force was one man Siok The government is without further Particulars of the fight. That the insurrection Is In a shaky condition seems io be a fact, although the end may not be as near as mem. bers of the government profess te EMERY ACCEPTS, RAPS OPPONENTS Speech by Fanon unt a Gov- PATRIOTISM ae PARTISANISM re ee ens ee homination at a large meeting in the Nixon theatre. Chairman Harry 8. Paul and Mayor George W. Guthrie welcomed the dole- and -the notification addrétses were made by J James eo lon,-for the: Dhaai and Vivian F. Gable, for the Lincoln party. In accepttng the nomtnation for governor, Mr. Bmery said in part: “I speak today not as Republican, nor as a Democrat. but as one citizen speaks to others who have joined with him in behalf of @ cause that s far Above partisanship, “Our cause has Rothing to do with federal policies. Right fs in arms against wrong. ‘The fundamental principles of morality are af stake. The people have arisen agninst the combined forces of political cor- ruption and lawless power. He who hesitates in such a crisis ts tea than & man and more than a partisan: he {s either a moral coward or a for to good government. “When a system of political misrule, continued for half a century. debauched an entire state, robs and oppresses the public, wrecks banks and drives bank- ers to suicide, and ‘causes pubite ofi- clals to seek in self-inflicted death re- lief from the pangs of remorse conse- quent pon having yielded to Gang permuasion, the honest citizen body. ts confronted by a duty which it cannot shirk withont being guilty of complic- ity in the crime. “This not a time for partisaniam, but for patriotism. The state maching has for 40 years made your nomina- tions, controlied your affairs, usurped your rights, inflicted Injuries upon you, ‘Abused your confidence, robbed the peo: ple, sneered at thelr protests and dellb- erately conspired against public wel- tare.” ME. Emery then reviewed the polit: cal history of Pennsylvania, and said for 59 years It was a record of Infamy. He said Simon Cameron founded thé state machine ard made the state a field of organized corruption and ¥i- cious legislation. He then sald “Quay’s advent “upon the scene marked the introduction of satanic cunning into machine methods and the elaboration of a system of political de- bauchery without parallel in history. The history of the past 40 years in Pennsylvania polities down to the pres- ent day {sas black as the pit of hell ‘and as foul as the infernal sink of cor- ruption. It has been an unbroken ge- rles of graft. bribery and corruption, pandering to vice, alliances with crime, Sales of spectal priviiewes, trafficking in public utilities and public offices, cor- Tupt misuse of public finds and pollut- ing the ballot. Lextslation has been for sale to the Bighest bidder, and legisintors, judges and governors have ] been. the servile creatures of the gang. “You remember the Quay specpli- tion tn treasury funds, which sent “Old Square Timber” Noyes to an un- timely grave a broken-hearted — man. caused Cashier Blake Walters to com: mit suicide and brought Quay to the Yerge of arif-destraction, You recall Phe meDipalation of the funds. of the piss Bank ‘by Guay ‘and Caster Hopkins, how the latter committed sulcide, “how. President James Mc Manes ‘pad $600,000 out of his own pocket to keep off a scandal, and how Quay ercaped prison stripes by plead: ing the statute of limitations, “1 ated not multiply, instances of pectlation, graft and juggling with state funds and banks, nor refer you to ripper bills, contract manipulations and covenants with vice: nor need I refer You to, the packing of juries with crim nals in order to save gang followers from the penitentiary. The great crime: gealnst the state ile along broader ines. But when political corruptiontsts join hands with greedy corporations it is for the purpose of preying upon the publte. Since the beginning of boss Tule in this state the state machine and the Pennsylvania railroad. have deen accomplices, and when the Stand- ard Oil company forced its way into the conspiracy, the triumvirate was complete, | By ‘collusion ‘of the. state machine, the railroad ceased to be a common’ carrier and became a car- Her for » special class.“ Under agree- ment with tho Standard Ofl company, the Penntylvania railroad. tatroduced & ayatem of rebate and discrimination which crushed competition, ruined. in- dependent coal, tron and oll operators and others and Iaid the foundation for the first, the biggest and most rapac- fous of American trusts, “Recent revelations show conditions in the Pennsylvania raliroad calculated to open the eyes of the blind. The Pennsylvania official who failed to get his share of the bribe money or stock distributed by coal compantes for spe- clal favors, appears to have been an exegption, “No fair-minded man has objection to wealth honestly acquired and legiti- mately used. Big corporations are nec- essary and even inevitable, in this age: but the ‘corporation tn polities “must g0. The corporation must be brought Under the jaw, and this cam be done only through an administration and a logisiature not tn partnership with the offenders. “Reform should be entrusted to the true friends of reform. Following the example of our revolutionary fathers, the people of the state of Pennsylvauis fre in Tevolt against tyranny "and wrong, and they have made thelr de- claration of independence. “When In the course of political events t becomes necessary form people. to: TETET fe Donde which have ‘United jem to a tyrannical oligarchy, and de- clare themscives fren and, ladependeen, it ts fitting that they set forth the rea: fon for their action. We, therefore, the People of Pennsylvania, declare ‘our selves (roe of allegiance 10 the gang erganteation for following ‘rea- “They ba¥e denied us government Pis_Powers of which have beon derived fram the consent of the people, and they have ruled in defiance of just pop- | they have refused to pass iey have Tet to pass laws for the eccommodation of the people an- Teax the People would relinquish: some Tight to representation, as was shown the iron, coal and oll producers of the state sought release from intol- erable conditions through the passage OF THE VERY BEST ANTHRACITE ALL COAL IN STOVE, EGG and NUT SIZES. SPLINT COAL: LUMP and HAIL SIZES. All of our product whether purchased by the Bushel or by the Ton carefully screened before leaving our yards. . Good Seasoned Wood. SOLD AT THE LOWEST PREVAILING PRICES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. *Phone Us Your Orders, if you haven’t thé time’ to send them. A call on Long Distance 'Phone §@ will re- ceive prompt attention. WG Now is the time to place your WINTER ORDERS. CRUMP & WEST Coal Co., YARDS. 18th and Cary Streets, 1 and 16th and Clay Sts., Richmond, Va. sche tel THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; By William Shakespeare ; spoken by Jacques, on of Bir Roland De Hols and brother of Orlando. after the death of Shakempeare. Some of the incidents of the play | 3 ‘are derived from & romance by Thomas Lodge printed tn 1800. SA) LL the world’s a stage Di PR} Ad ait the men nd women merety players: S| They have their exits and their entrances, DBD SY And one man in his time plays many parts \ )) His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, PIM AMA) Mowilug and puking In the nurse's arms; CCSFIESENG) Then the whining schoolboy with bis satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school; and then the lover, Sighing Ike furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow; then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like « pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seoking the bubble reputation : Even in the cannon’s mouth; and then the justica Iu fair, round belly with good cepon itned, Pm With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern tnstances— s And so be pinys bis part; the sixth age sbitts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, é His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide = , For his shrunk shank, and his big, manly voice ; Turning again toward childish treble, pipes ; And whisties in his sound. Last scene of all, : ‘That ends this strange, eventful history, 4 Is necond childishness and mere ottivien— : Sans teeth, saus eyes, sans taste, sius everything, : SAARI R IRI III III AIA IA III NII TERIA Tlons and to the hardships and oppres- lon of corporate rule. re | Charged With Reb! - ave made the state treasu a aye & political asset of the machine and| , Shamokin. Pa ; have used the state funds go promote) Farneworth, a cier private ends. office, was arrested, aahey have, established an electoral States Postomice In system whereby in almost open market bby the ike men have been bought and sold, and| With robbing the mai they have fought every honset attempt | under bail for the to to, Prohibit or, restrain this execrable| believed his peculat commerce in the honor of the voter. ick “They have been deat to the voice of | $600 through rifting + sustice, they have profaped ihe balls fie’ Of legisiation; they have debaucl 0 qinetons;, thé, have stuffed the ballot BXOULEMENT ON Kes and prostituted honorable office to the most degraded service, and they “lgnals of Distress are at this very time trying to re-estab-, Stirred Up Atlantic lish themselves in power under cover’ Atlantic City, N. J. Of @ stolen clok of respectability. led the bo: “We, therefore, citizens of the com- "nO crowded the bo Mmonwealth of Pennsylvania, in com. Nisht were greatly ex mon cause united, do, by the authority of signals for distre of the people of the state, solemnly out in the ocean. The prplish and declare that Pennsylvania from the three static y right and ought to be free and tn dependent of machine and corporate 10 discover that a 60- ule, and we do hereby sever all con:| from Essingion, Pa. nection with it, and we declare that Slleglance thereio'is totally “dissolved. eee ene “As a free and independent people,! stored Te, Shall exercise our. political rights; boat could not procees nd for the support of this declaration and was therefore in we mutually pledge ourselves, our for- tunes and our sacred honor {eae Sea Addresses of acceptance were also, Ore made by Jeremiah 8. Black, candidate , 0C¢an liner in distres for lieutenant-governor;, W. T. Creasy, | re candidate for auditor general, and! ene John J. Green, candidate for secretary ; io ‘ of internal affairs. 4 , oD f RAILROAD RATE BILL A LAW Measure ts Now Effective and Rall roads Are Complying With It. New York, Aug. 28.—The railroad rate bill became a law today (Tues day) and ail the railroads are ready to comply With its provisions. For the past several weeks the legal depart ments of the different companies have been busily engaged in studying every item. As a direct consequence of the provi- sions of the rate bill, the Union Pacite railway has determined to install its own system of refrigerator cars. Here- tofore the Armour private car lines have had a monopoly of this businest over the Union Pacific and Southers Pacific with all the profitable fratt trade. The Unfon Pacific opened bids for the construction of 6000 steel under. body refrigerator cars, and is likely te ‘ask for bids for another lot soon, PURSUED BY HER CONSCIENCE Woman Who Murdered Her Child _ Nine Yeare Ago Confesses. SMaghamton. N. Y., Aug. 28.—Nine. years ago, Mrs. John Coleman, so she claims, murdered her 2 year-old daugh. ter in Towanda. For nine years she kept the secret to herself. She has been a wanderer and an outcast, pur- sued wherever she went by the thought of her crime. Two months ago she was sent to the Pentecostal Rescue Mission by Recorder Roberts. Last Thursday during the revival camp meeting at Port Dickinson she made a public confession of her al- leged crime. The local authorities have notified the Towanda police. 7 Charged With Rcbhhine the Maile. Shamokin, Pa, Aug. 29.—Elner Farnsworth, a clerk in the local post- office, was arrosted, charged by United States Postoffice Inspector Malone with robbing the mails. He was held under bat! for the federal court. It ts believed his peculatfons will reach 9500 through riffing registered letters. EXCITEMENT ON BOARDWALK Signals of Distress from Launch Stirred Up Atlantic City Visitors. Atlantic City, N.J., Ang. 29.—People who crowded the boardwalk Tuesday night were greatly excited at the sight of signals for distress several miles out in the ocean. The life saving crews from the three stations put out only to discover that a 60-foot launch Mary from Essington, Pa., was out of gaso- line and was signaling for help so that the supply could be replenished, The boat could not proceed, they explained, and was therefore in danger. There were five passengers aboard, and board walk rumors had it that she was an ocean liner in distress, ee y an > we “7X <j Ae | Sh NN eens SAIS x ye \ r% ¥, - f- Mr. Timid—O-er-pardon me, Miss Maudie, but at what age do‘you think women should marry? Miss Maudie—At about my age— Philadelphia Record, Quiet Observer. “We are offering special induce ments this season to purchasers of our machines,” said the automobile manutacturer “So?” rejoined the quiet observer. “Have you built a hospital for them?” —Chicago News. Art and Business. Summer Boarder—It is so picture: esqu to watch the cows come home. Farmer—There’s more money in it jwhen they stay on the railroad track. —New York Sun. The Epidemic. Friend—Uncle dead. eh? What ‘was his complaint? Nephew—That be couldn't live long- THE PONG WOMAN TELLS OF CANNIBAL FEAST MISSIONARY SAW ELEVEN SAIL ORS KILLED AND EATEN. IS WRECKED ON AN ISLAND Miss Tuthill, With Others, are Pursued In Canoe by Party of Savages— Saved in Nick of Time by German Gunboat. Chicago.—Miss Beulah Logan Tuthill, 30 years of age, a Methodist missionary, whose ancestors were missionaries before her, told the big Methodist camp meeting on the Desplaines river how she saw eleven persons killed and devoured by cannibals. She was taken to the Caroline islands when she was six years of age and began her missionary work when she was 17. In 1900 her parents left the Carolines and went to Sidney, Australia. She remained on the islands for several months, and then she took passage on the steamer Aragul for Sidney. A terrific storm drove the vessel near the island of New Ireland, 200 miles northeast of Australia, and Miss Tuthill was swept overboard. She was an expert swimmer and was picked up by some Christian Malays. They were subsequently wrecked on a sand bar, on which a schooner was going to pieces. This bar was two miles off the cannibal islands. "As the tide began to rise to free us the horror began," she said. "One of our lookouts gave an exclamation of terror. We looked, and there on the shore we saw a horde of savages coming down the beach—fully 200 of them—in full war panoply, armed with shields and spears and heavy clubs. "They stole down upon the schooner and then attacked it with a rush. The sailors made no resistance. They had conceded themselves in the hope of escaping, but one by one, eleven men in all, they were found, dragged out and killed with a blow on the back of the head with a war club. Then they dragged the bodies ashore and prepared for the feast. They beat on tom-toms and strange drums. "The victims were laid in a circle on the ground while the savages brought brushwood and great logs for the fires. Then a strange thing came THE HAWAIIAN FESTIVAL They Ate the Human Flesh with Animal-Like Greed. They seemed actually to make a sort of religious ceremony out of this horrible affair. They beat their tomats and pulled their hair and uttered their weird, guttural cries. "The rest is too horrible—how they cooked their human food, how they danced about their victims, how at last they tore the smoking human flesh to pieces with their nails and teeth in a mad orgy. The chief ate first, and then allowed his followers to partake. "At last, when it seemed to me that I surely could stand it no longer, the savages formed in line and started to march away. The tide had flowed in and we were free. The frightened sailors who had rescued me made haste to pull away." "But now we were seen. The savages broke their line and rushed to the beach. A score or more of them entered a canoe and pursued us. We had a lead of several hundred fathoms, but their canoe, driven by a score of savage arms, fairly leaped through the water. "They gained upon us, fast, faster. I turned sick at heart. I hardly had strength to pray. The island is a German possession though inhabited chiefly by cannibals. Three miles away, across the bay, there was a German station, and for this we headed. They gained on us more and more. We could hear their savage cries but, thank God, there was a German gunboat in sight. They saw our predicament. "Glancing toward the warship I saw a little puff of smoke curl out from its bow and a four-inch shell came ricceting across the water toward the cannibal canoe. It missed. Then another, and this time it hit squarely." and exploded and dealt death and destruction. I could see the survivors jumping into the water and swimming for the shore. The Germans welcomed us and I could not thank them sufficiently." DAUGHTER OF SHOWMAN IMITATES WILD PERSON Exhibited at an Indiana Fair as "Gorilla Girl"—Eats Raw Meat—Fake Finally Acknowledged. Hagerstown, Ind. — Congressman Watson and friends were at the Hagerstown fair and in one of the side shows they found what was represented to be a Filipino girl chained to a post and half clothed in skins. The "barker" announced that she was a "gorilla girl" and very dangerous. Her keeper would throw scraps of meat to her, which she would catch with great dexterity and devour ravenously, tearing the tendons with her teeth and eating with horrible noises. Congressman Watson became interested. He gazed in compassion on the girl and expressed the belief that here was work for a society for prevention of cruelty to children. The girl crouched in a corner, with her WORLD GIRL She Devoured Ravenously the Food Thrown to Her. She Devoured Ravenously the Food Thrown to Her. massed hair about her face, and gave no heed to anyone, nor could she be made to show that she understood a word addressed to her. When anyone reached a hand to her she viciously grabbed at it. The congressman reached out his hand, which the girl made an effort to grasp, but she was more successful when his friend attempted the same experiment, clutching it with great force. She threatened to scratch and bite, but as he offered no resistance the girl immediately stopped her attack. The congressman asked for an explanation, and the keeper, after the most outlandish stories, finally acknowledged the girl was his own daughter. Watson saw the prosecuting attorney, who will stop the unnatural exhibition. Leads Rescuers to Hiding Place of Aged Hermit-Miser. Omaha.—But for the whinings of a dog George A. Weygold, 72 years of age, with no relatives on this side of the Atlantic, would have literally starved himself to death for fear of disclosing the hiding-place of $2,000, which he avers the spirit of his dead brothers sought to take from him. The old man had already gone four days and nights without food or drink. Never having married, Weygold lived the life of a hermit, alone with his faithful shepherd dog, in a little cottage. The distressed barkings of the old man's best friend brought the neighbors to the place and the police were called. The officers had to break a window to gain admittance to the cottage. On entering they found the house apparently deserted. The dog, however, licked the policeman's hand and directed the way to his master's recumbent form under a bench. Weygold "imagined he saw spirits peering through the window and sitting in the chairs of his room. Through sheer fright he had hidden under the bench. One side of his face was black with files. Weygold had lived in Omaha for 39 years. He had acquired a little property, some of which he sold a year ago for $3,000. According to his own statement he buried the money as soon as he received it, and nothing will persuade the old man, although he realizes now that he is being protected from the brothers' ghosts, to reveal the hiding place. When found he was almost unconscious from lack of food. He had ceased to feel any pain, he says. "I was sorry for my poor dog," he added. "He tugged away at my trouser legs, and I knew he was as hungry as I was." Aged Woer Has Schedule Changed, Marlon, O.—After two years of argument, Porter E. Barnes, a sexagenarian grain dealer of Richwood, O. has persuaded the Eris railroad to stop its train at Peoria to allow him to spend the evening courting Mrs. Josephine Thompson, a comely well-do widow. The last evening train for Richwood stopping at Peoria formerly went through the latter town at 5:34 p. m., and daylight courting did not seem the real thing to Mr. Barnes. He preferred to reach Peoria on the eight o'clock train at night and spend the evening. Now the Erle has agreed to stop the 11:24 p. m. train, if flagged, and Mr. Barnes can make his evening calls. "A lawyer's. A divorce costs more than a wedding." -Houston Post. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. JOB DEPARTMENT EXCURSION WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS EXCURSION WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheets, Half and Whole Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placards, Society Cards, Minutes, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stationery. OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. We furnish "cuts" when desired and we will arrange to complete special work in our line. When in need of any work in our line, call and see us and estimates will be furnished. WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL AS A DODGER. A Three-Sheet Poster AS LARGE AS A FRONT DOOR. WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST OF WOOD-T Of Any Job Printing Establishment Our street-entrance is retired and has no objectionable features, the most fastidious lady being able to enter without embarrassment or annoyance. It is thoroughly equipped to do all kinds of printing on short notice. We make a specialty of Society printing and work for Insurance Companies, such as Financial EXCURSION We print Handbills, Quarter-Sheet posters, Tags, Tickets, Placards, Visiting Cards, Mourning Stairs WE HAVE Our Shoes OF THE LATE WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL A Three-Shee AS LARGE AS A FRO Our street-entrance is retired a fastidious lady being able to enter LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE, 2213 BY THE SAD SEA Same old summer As of yore, Same old breakers On the shore; Same old music In the river; Same old bathers On the sand; Same mosquitoes, Same old bites; Same old candle Out of nights; Candy, corn, Pressed in slabs; Lemonade, and Soft-shelled crabs; Same old muders In the air; Same old sameness Everywhere. —Washington Star. Strategy. The drummer was observed to be decorating his sample trunks with white ribbons and old shoes. "Have you lost your mind?" asked a brother knight of the road in astonishment. "Oh, no," laughed the other, "this is merely a scheme of mine." "What kind of a scheme?" "Why, there is a very romantic baggageman on this route, and when he sees my trunks decorated like this he will think they belong to honeymoon couples and pass them on tenderly without a single smash."—Chicago News. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MAHROW" 80 KINKEY or CURLY HAIR that it can be put on any style desired consistent with its length. Ford's Hair Pomade was formerly "Hair Pomade" but now is known as the only safe preparation, known to us that it is safe for all hair types and colors. It is shown above. Its use makes the hair stubborn, harsh, kninky or curly hair soft, and may be obtained from one treatment; 2 to 3 bottles are required for uniformity of the "OZONIZED OX MARROW" removes and prevents dandruff and it is perfumed and harmless, it is a polish perfumed and harmless, it is a polish "OZONIZED OX MARROW" has been added and sold contin- ual. OX MARROW" was registered in the United States Patent Office, in N.A. In all this long time, it has been used to keep the hair from returned from the hundreds of thousands we sweat and effective, no matter how long we keep it. Be sure to get Ford's, as it is use PILABLE. Beware of imitations. Use NEXT Hair Pomade ("OZONIZED OX MARROW") has been made in Chicago and by us. On each package. Refuse all others. Full di- rections with every bottle. Price only $5 cts. Gist or dealer can not supply you, he can procure it from his jobber or wholesale dealer for $1.49 for three bottles or $2.59 for six charges to all points in U. S. A. When order send postal or express money order, and address plainly to The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charles D. Park 70 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. Cards, Policies, both straight life and benevolent, Physician's Certificates, Sick Cards, Application blanks, Agents Report Sheets, Rate Cards, etc. MATION WORK arter-Sheets, Half and Whole Placards, Society Cards, Min- ing Stationery. WE AN EL WHICH WE WILL Stock Roo LATEST STYLE BOND, FI AS SMALL AS A DODGER. Sheet Poster A FRONT DOOR. OUR PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYE IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF ired and has no objectionable for center without embarrassment or 2213. IN WORK C is, Half and Whole Society Cards, Ministry. is to please give them the lowest with satisf AN ELEGANT WHICH WE WILL SHOW AT Rock Room D STYLE BOND, FINE WRITTEN AL AS A DODGER. Poster DOOR. PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYEES ARE IN EASY REACH OF THE PUBLIC as no objectionable features, the but embarrassment or annoyance OUR PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYEES ARE COMPETENT AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF THE PUBLIC, BEING WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. PLANET DEPOTS. P. Ritzheimer, 7 N. 134th St. M. B. 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E. Carroll, 21 N. Kentucky Ave. Frank A. Hursey, 945 Baltic Ave. W. J. Stanford, 1 N. Michigan Ave. BRONX BOROUGH, N. T. J. H. Barrett, 602-162d St. --- ORK OF AL OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. LEGANT I SHOW ANY ONE DESIRING from Embrace ONE WRITING—FLAT AND ELEVENES ARE COMPETENT AND QUI THE PUBLIC, BEING WITHIN FI eatures, the most or annoyance. FOR FURT Joh PLAINFIELD, N. J. Thos. H. Bridges, 614 W. 4th St., BRADDOCK, PA. G. A. Nevels, 421-6th St., WASHINGTON, D. C. W. L. Smith, 2201-7th St., N. W. F. O. Robinson, 634 O St., N. W. Miss E. Morris, 2000-11th St. L. H. Singleton, 20th and E Sts. R. S. Douglass, 1405 F. St. Southwestern Drug Co., 732-2d Street, S. W. LAWRENCE, MASS. A. E. Evans, 382 Essex St. SPRINGFIELD, MASS. W. H. Brown, 13 Stockbridge St. COVINGTON, VA. Daniel Braxton, Box 91. NEWPORT NEWS, VA. E. J. Jefferson, 1211-30th St., George T. Hall, 1332-30th St. TARBORO, N. C. V. 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We print Church Envel- ALL DESCRIBE ons and to service at consistent ork. We furnish "cuts" when desi- complete special work in our li- in our line, call and see us and T LINE OF S DESIRING TO SEE THEM. braces a full LAT AND LINEN PAPER, ENVELOP WE HAVE ONE OF THE L OF WOOD Of Any Job Printing Es ENT AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. OR FURTHER INFORMATION, APP John Mitch 311 N. 4th St. 'Pbtne, 1589. Residence. No. 911-$2d St. ROBT. W. WILLIAMS, FUNERAL DIRECTOR & EMBALMER. NO. 8019 P. STREET, BETWEEN 80TH AND 31ST STREETS. RICHMOND, - - - VA. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, APPLY TO John Mitchell, Jr., John Mitchell, Jr., FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT, MEALS AT ALL HOURS. New Phone 1261, WM. CUSTALO, - Prop. NO. 22 NORTH 18TH ST. DEALER IN O. T. JOHN M. HIGGINS, DEALER IN 1610 East Franklin Street, [Near Old Market.] RICHMOND. VIRGINIA WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OF WOOD-TYPE Of Any Job Printing Establishment in the city. 311 N. 4th St., 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 727 North Second Street. RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be vetted on kindly. Phone: 2778. Custalo House, Having remodeled my BAR, and having an up-to-date place, I am prepared to serve my friends and the public at a same old stand. S. W. ROBINSON. FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. *PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. FIVE opes, Note and Letter Paper Bill-heads, Monthly Statements, Business Cards, Financial and Order Books, Circulars, Check-books, Pamphlets. SCRIPTIONS sired and we will arrange to line. When in need of any work estimates will be furnished. SAMPLES Line PES, ETC. LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OD-TYPE Establishment in the city. PLY TO nell, Jr., , Richmond, Va. Phone 2048 112 W. Leigh S John H. Braxton REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns Special attention to repairs. Notary With Seal. Frank Waller, Jr PRACTICAL HOUSE PAINTER, Residence, 1 E. Orange St. Prompt attention given to all mail lers. Satisfaction guaranteed. 1 Kinds of Painting Done Cheap. Give me a call before going else- where. ROBT. S. FORRESTER, FLORIST RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Plant Decorations, Choice Rose- bugs, Cut Flowers, Funeral Designs, House Decorations for Wedding Parties, &c. a specialty. Give me a call. When You Are Sick Pure and Fresh Mediames only will sure you then purchase your Drugs and Medicine from: Leonard's Reliable Prescription Drug Store. 724 North Second Street. BEFORE MAKING Your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of Refrigerators, Mattings, Oil-Cloths, And in fact everything that is need- ed in house furnishings. RUGS AND CARPETS. Of every description; also the la- est designs in ROCKERS and speci- ial OHAIRS. Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low. C. G. Jurgen's Son 421 EAST BROAD ST.,, between 4th and 5th Street SIX LL eae: NE: ; LS) eG a eo, eareMbar!. (SUEe ues nse ta. over TNE OE ty Jin, SS As ees oe ov) SVL eae LUEN US Py 8? in ee ee It was 12 o'clock, the hour wher thousands of folks who work in the big and little shops fare forth to join the hosts on the streets. In the midst of this crushing multitude, says the Chicago Journal, near the northwest corner of State and Washington streets, a young girl and a woman stood, the latter wildly gesticulating 4nd speaking blasphemous words while the former ebuddered and shrank away. The woman's face was red with cruel passion and her bieary eyce were inflamed with the fever of the debauch in her velng, swollen with purpling blood, a debasod and de basing woman frenzied with her own fury and the alcohol that ruled aa the fiend of her brain. The girl? On her face wne the vivid color of shame. In ber eyes was the gloom of humiliation. A girl stricken into silence by the horror of the scene. “Money! Gtve me money!" shrieked the woman, violently reach: ing for the girl. "Give me money, or I will beat you so you'll newer bang your bead any more and refuse to Speak. Give me money” What might hare happened, tt te as well not to predict, had not.a polioe man rounded tnto view. He omught the Woman's arm with bis forceful hand and brusquely said: “See here! Come away from this; you are creating a disturbance, Come, Ket out of this.” Of course the woman restated the policeman's Interference—ehe curead And raved—aod still the girl stood silent, while the crowd stared sad listened. Losing patieaoo, the officer grasped ‘the woman roughly snd began to drag her away, the crowd clearing a path for the strugeling pair. Then the girt suddenly startet out of her quivering crouch of despair. She put hor hand on the officer's shoukter and gasped “Don’t run her in; doe't! Sbe's my mother, and she thinkk she bas the right to ask me to give her money, But TI haven't any. [ gave her the last cont I had last night Doct run her in—whe hasnt becn stealing— she's—" ‘Then the girl shrunk away from the officer and again was sflent, and the edge of the crowd nearest the noone murmured: “Drunk.” The vivid color of shame denpened on the girl's face—énto her eyes fiared a hunger for Qight from dis- grace. But she was trapped, hommod in for the crowd to gaze upon, the prey of public curiosity. ‘The officer did not loosen his grap on the struggling woman But he said, with « note of gentleness in bis vatce: “No, I won't run her in. Mow chase away, little girl—eet out of her sight and shel quiet down and go home.” ‘The girl didn't speak. Put tn her eves was a glow of gratitude in a mist of tears. She turned say from the cause of her public humltiatton. The crowd divided so that phe might go back to the work which tm, per- haps, the Kindest friend she bas on earth. ‘Then a woman In the crowd nald: “Dear Lord! Dear Lori! A drunken father is bad eoough—but ® drunken mother ‘There was a great steh of sympathy und then the crowd broke into groups and units, and scattered over the streets. A mere incident in the day of a great city was past and gone. A COURT ROOM SCENE. Satire Whioh Illustrates the Unreason: ableness of the License System. Did you omer bear of a scbne in court room lke the following? A young man Is brought into oonrt and charged with stealing a hore. “Do you plead guilty or not guilty tT He replies: “If I had not stolen the horse some other man would.” ‘The court replies: “That has noth. ing to do with the question. It is a simple question of fact; are you guilty or not guilty?” The prisoner replien: “People hare always stolen horses, and always will, and it is not fair to pitch onto me” ‘The court indignantly puts the ques tion the third me: “Are you guilty or not guilty?" ‘The prisoner answers: “Suppose | am, what are you going to do about it? All prohibitory laws have fatlod. Persons steal everywhere. You can. not stop {t Prohibition 1s a failure. Let me tell you what I will do. I you let me go and give me permission to steal, I will give you half the money I received for the horee.”—- American Issue.” Alcohol in Hospitals. aa spovch recently at tho Bish- ‘opsgate institute, Sir Victor Horgiey THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. : ses : : << aot q é Lake Lee eet cee. 4 te oad Se rbotitok aie bothtko att abe Beakeay ee . ate : es } e . * : es . rrr ’ . e br } * | lo interest yourself in promot- i F e 7 | ing the CIRCULATION of the RAN a FN ae OL BN ae onan ae ae eee : 2 | @ $33 °@e | e@e C— ee eee Se SS re : So $38 IE YOUrWILL TALK WITH:YOUR:NEIGH- SHOULD YOU DESIRE ANY COLORED —— JOURNAL IN THE UNITED STATES, WE WILL a | BORS. AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET, SEND IT TO YOU IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE - EY SRE SCE NTE ITE A - WEWILL HELP YOU:TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM. PLANET AT A GREATLY REDUCED RATE MIUM. FOR BOTH. + INORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE OUR STEADILY GROWING CIRCULATION WE WILL OFF &R PRIZES. WE WILL SEND YOU ga@-THE PLANET FURNISH THE PHOTOGRAPH, ONE FOUN. AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEMI-WEEKLY TAIN PEN, GOLD POINT; ONE LADIES RING, GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE LEADING ONE BREAST-PIN, GOLD FILLED; HALF DOZ. REPUBLICAN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED EN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, ONE ALARM STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. CLOCK, ONE DOZEN NAPKINS, ONE HALF WE. WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND DOZEN TOWELS, ONE CHOCOLATE POT, ONE e THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PAIR VASES, ONE PAIR KID GLOVES, ONE PER YEAR FOR BOTH. HAM, ONE TURKEY. ese WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND - McCLURE’S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE SEE * FOR TWO YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKES. PEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE. UMBRELLA, ONE OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PIC- PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE PAIR LACE CURTAINS TURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEO- 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER DORE ROOSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. WASH- PRINTED AND DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET. INGTON, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, LAND BAT- ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED Woop. : TLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR SANTIAGO, JUNE 24, 2 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH AND TENTH COL- FOR TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS : OF ROUGH RI- E ; DERS, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, LAND ee Gone ere en ee GOLD RING He . ! 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WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY ge OR EQUIVALENT, WE OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL ey ING MACHINE, ONE DIAMONS Bake ge WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES ay GOLD WATCH i d v ord Ded 7 | ONE PAIR FINE GOLD EAR. LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED I} RINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRae COLORS. THEY ARE 22X28 INCHES AND RE- | ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GEN. TAIL AT ONE DOLLAR EACH. WE WILL aks TLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLDAeAne FURNISH FRAMES FOR ANY OF THESE FINE CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE. CHROMOS FOR 2 DOLLARS & 50CTS. EACH AD- CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVERPLATED DITIONAL. BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, BAT-| q KNIVES AND enore ee CE VER-PLATE gave some remarxabie ngures to show how the use of alcohol in hospitals was decitning. Im 182 nearly §40,000 was spent on alcohol in the London hospitals, and $15,000 on milk; in 1908 tho situation was almost exactly re- Yersed, about $15,000 betug spent on aloohoi ant over $49,000 on milk. THE BEER FLOOD. What the Government Figures Tell as to the Growth of intemperance. Tho rece(pts of the Internal revenue bureau from fermented iiquoms. tel the story of how the consumption of beer has swept over the country iike & prairie fire. To meet the enormous expenditures of the war everything im sight had to be taxed, and while whisky was at first taxed $2 a gallon, Door escaped with the light taxation of $1 barrel of 31 gallons. Our firat returns from thts ‘source were in 1863, when the internal revenue bu- Tewu collected the modest sum of $1, 828.934, each dollar representing a barra! of beer. The following table of the annual receipts from this source will show the marvelous increase in the production aad consumption. of| beer, romiembering that as a rule eeck dollar recelvest represcats a barrel of| nade ca St aations: Ome... fee 2c : = ee i : tae ie ae x : tee Be a ua oe tae He Se ea ee oe ta a ue ea eae ae Bo ee eae y : Se ie ase i Seroere = eee a “aa MEE =--5- i 3 oat = seat ss ae is Sy Bo : = epee — 5 Rega sas] s ate So Soo ee = ee a = = = pee ct = Sees Be too OOD Sassi bapieeeee Saga Sbe overwhelming tmmensity of thewe figures can be only grasped by subjecting them to. analysi«, and betnging them into relation to each in- atvidual citiwen of the country. Tak tmx in connection with the beer brewed at home that imported from Abroad tt makes the astounding total Of between 1,500,000,600 and 1,600,000, 900 gallons consumed by the §2,000, 900 people of this country last year Disregarding sli fractions, this ts ap proximately 20 gaiions a year for every man, woman and chtld in the United States. Assuming a glace of beer to be half a pint, this gives $60 glasses of beer a year for each of them, or one a day. Now we know, in spite of what the yellow papers may say about the Increase in drink ing by women In the cities, substan- Wally none of our women drink beer. Those that do are really an Inconsid- erable fraction of the population. Nor do the children drink beer. Then there are millions upon mitHons of men in the agricultural districtts, business men and mechanics in the cities, railroaders, clerks, professional men, clergymen, phystelans, and teachera who are rigid temperance men, and never touch beer from one yeer's end to the other, There are thousands of counties where local option prevatls, and drinking Is pro- hibited, There are great prohibition states—itke Maine and Kansas— where beer ean be only obtained. sur reptitiously and in sniall -quantitles. Nearly all the southern states have fairly wellenforced temperance laws, to Keep beer and whisky away from the negroes and “po” white trash.” Consequently, If we put the real beer Grinkers at 10,000,000, or one in elght of our population, we shall make a Wberal estimate. Therefore each of these mnst consume nearly half « gal- lon of beer a day, to the destruction of their working capacity, thelr hoalth and their morals. Abstinence and Longevity. ‘The tmmense advantage of tote! ab- stinence tn view of good health and long life is again demonatrated in the annual report of the Scepter Lite As- sociation, Limited. The following fig- ures are given: General Section. Bxpected Actual Per- ‘Death, Death contage. un ua 79.68 Temperance avetton, | Papectet Actual Per. ‘Drenthe Deathe cuntage. ue o ‘i REQUISITE NUMBER IS OBTAINED, WE. \ FORWARD THE PRESENT INDICATED. A PERSON WHO TRIES TO GET FO SUBSCRIBERS AND GETS TIRED MAY | CATE HIS WISH AND WE WILL SEND PRESENT FOR THE NUMBER HE HA: CURED OVER FIVE. THE NUMBER WILL BE FOR NOT | THAN FIVE NOR MORE THAN TEN AND LESS THAN TEN NOR MORE THAN TWE AND NOT LESS THAN TWENTY NOR M THAN FORTY, TO DETERMINE. THE PRIZI WHICH THE WORKER IS ENTITLED. Seepreron Tne Me is Urehenest. Jndwe Daywa, of the federal court of Clarksburg, W. Va. in passing sen tence last year upon three saloonints for Mlegally selling whisky, to whom he gave heavy Qnes and jall sentence, among other things waid: “The whisky traffic fe the sreatest curse that ever came to mankind. When a mau be gins to sell whisky there is ground: to hold suapicton that he ia dishonest. The whisky seller stands ready to make a drunkard of his neighbor's son, A prostitute of bis neighbor's daughters and to dostroy our system of government.” Merchante Like It. A leading merchant at Hunter, Okla, says as quoted tn the Kremlin Sun: “My books show an increase of trade ot #10 8 day since the closing of the saloons and this I attribute to that in- cident As a business proposition we merchants took hold, proportioued the ‘expenses, and closed them.” #@7IF ANYTHING IS DESIRED NOT SPECI FIED IN THIS LIST, WRITE US ABOUT IT ANI WE WILL TELL YOU IN WHAT CLASS IT BE LONGS." The Feiend ia Mast $$ ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO 44g Sai JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 35% North Fourth Street, RICHMOND, - - - VIRGINIA, Jackson (senteatiously) — Ab, my boy, there's mothing lke a friend in need. _ Samson—i dom't agree with you ‘He's generally a thundering nuisance, for he's sure to want to borrow some thing —Tit-Bits, Unfailing Abundance. Advice ts sowothing they ‘uy. ‘There is oo need of special tase The more @ person gives away The more he always has to spare. ~ifashanahen Ghee, ee . SATURDAY SEPT. 1ST, 1906. EN Sis Lo he Bs Sn SN A LOPES Juet le! Ste ahh ASH Wh ep Ae > BRERA Rie AL LR RR ead aw SER NENT HIS FIRST BATTLE. How Johnny Bates Reedemed Him self Gloriousty When the Ghahoe Came. Old soldiers could tell you of many, casos in which men who were sup- posed to be brave and stout-bearted behaved Ike & frightened schoolgirt at the firet sound of the enemy's guns. I haye a story of that kind to tell You, but [i fs of a boy, not of a man, ‘and you will read tt with no less in- terest when I say that it ts true, says @ writer In the Chicago Daily News. I was a captain in the army during the civil war, and among the mem- bers of my compaay war a boy of 16, who had obtatned the consent of bie parents to enlist, that being noces- sary on account of his youth He was a strong, sturdy fellow, full of Mfe and spirit, and obediont, intellt- Seat and falthful fm the porformance of his duty, T noticed him often, chiefly because he was the youngest member of the company, but also because be showed Sreat aptitude tn learaing the duties of a soldier. He seemed to take a positive interest in everything con- GRD Ge Sy 2 oe bead me BeOS aie co ON & Bee at Py Sp ga e 0 oo a | nected with camp life, and I frequent- ly told myself that Johnny Bates, as he was called, would soon wia pro- motion and distinction. One night this little idol was shat- fefed into a thousand fragments. We had been ordered to the fleld, but had not yet bad an cagagement with the enemy. A soldier's firet battle le a trying episode in bie Mfe I belleve that 75 men out of every 100 would {urn and run at th first volley from the enemy were ft not for the moral Support given by the presence of their companions, But Johnny Bates cave way before his first battle came. Our regimeat ‘was encamped well toward the front of our Mne, and we knew that the enemy was not far off. In fact, we were gradually approaching each off. er and a great battle could not be de- Inyed much longer. About 12 o'clock one night the long roll was sounded and our rogiment was roused and soon forme Into line of battle, where we were to await fur- ther orllers. A sentinel on one of the outposts had fired his gun and we thought the enemy was upwa us. ‘That was my first experience of the kind, too, and I shall never forget the strange feeling that came over me. ‘There we stood in the darkness and silence, not a man daring to speak, walting for the expected order to march to the night attack. Here and there, down the line, I heard a man cough, Sut no other sound broke the stillness. Suddenly, right behind me, | caught the sound of a boyish voice whimper ing and crying. Amazed beyond ex- pression J turned and saw Johnny Bates. He was cry‘ng Ike a big baby. When I sternly ordered him to stop, he burst ont wors® than ever, Apparently overcome by uncontrol- able fear. He begged me most piti- fully to allow him to leave ths line, claiming that he could not possibly stay there; and that he was {ll, weak, trembling lke a leaf and utterly un- able to perform bts duty as a soldier. It never occurred to ine to pity the boy; on the contrary. I blazed out at him with all the vigor of a man fairly beside himself with indignation and anger, I told him that if he did not stop his blubbering {ustantly [ would have bim shot like a cowardly puppy. ‘That thréat, or my manuer, perhaps both, had the effect of quieting him. In half an hour or so word came that the alarin was false and wo were or- dered back to our quarters, ‘The next day I sent for Bates to come to my tent. When be entered his face was full of shame and re- pentance. That softened me some- what, and I determined to lead him ‘on to a frank expression of his feel Ips Lat it be mufictent to say that of the expected battle had wholly unmanned him aud turned him into a baby. He did not believe that he was a coward, but he had found At imposatble to subdue his fear as he ‘stood there in the darkness -waltiz for the fire of the enomy's. uns. ~ __I really felt sorry for the boy, ‘for the sake of discipline I had to face of the soupony i don't men Tmposed n task that carried some de- gree of Ignominy with it. “A week passed. and we had not yet had the contiict that we had been expecting. Then, one evening, be tween supper time and “taps,” orders came for us to be ready to move against the enemy early the noxt moraing. Woll, we “moved™—and got fate one of the hottest battles that wore ever fought. Before our part of the line the ememy had thrown up breastworks of earth, and from behind them they poured volley afver vdliey into our ranks. Suddenly the colorel of our regiment rode forward aad, rising in ‘his stirrups, erted out in tones that every man of us heard: “Charge, mea, aad take those works!” Hils manner aud his words thrilled us as if they had been charged with electricity, and we rushed forward with a yoll that made the sarrouuding woods ring again. Just as wo start ed, the color-bearer of our regiment waa shot down, and the flag went down with him. A dozen men sprang. forward to raige it again, but a slight, boyish fig: ure was the first to reach the spot. Throwing his gun aside, he grasped the fag staff, raised the calors once more to the breeze and pressed hero leally to the front of the line. It was our Little soldier, Johnny Bates, and bis gallant act sent a thrill of indescribable enthusiasm along our tue. Jobnny Bates was the fret to scale the breastworks of the enemy, and when he planted the colors thera it waa 0 Gumoence cur victory. CARRIED HIS EAR AWAY. Georgia Sergeant Receives Peouliar Wound at Gettyaburg—Thought He Was Killed. A doseription of the peculfar wound- ing of a member of a Georgia rost- ment, C. 8. A, is given by Private Abe Goldstein, of the Sixth 8. C, (confederate), fm the National Trib- une. it occurred at Gettysburg dur- ing the terrific cannonading which Preceded Pickett's charge. The Goor- gians were making for cover when a tall sergeant was seen to tumbie head- Jong to the earth. His rogimont Passod slong, leaving him lying on the ground. Te 8 fow minutes he came running up to his company, holding his hand to the side of his head and aa pale as a ghost. “We thought you had beon killed,” said the Houtenant who was command: ing the company. “Not quite,” replied the sergeant, “but I thought that doggoned cannon shot had taken my head clean off.” After the regfuent bad got down close to the ground a hasty examine tion of the sorgeant’s hoad was made, And it was found that 2 fragmont of & shell from one of the Round Tops had taken bis right ear of close to his head, ae clean as though it had Deon cut off with a surgeon's knife, Im describing bis sensations the ser. goant said he felt as though he had boon overtaken by a cyclone and that & sixstery butlding had fallen upon him. The noise of the passing frag. ment of a shell on the drum of his ear sounded Ike the suddon explosion of s thunderbolt. “T felt that T had been suddenly Killed a dozen times over.” said the tall sergeant, after hia wound had been bound with a cloth, and as be bit the end off & cartridge, rammed It into his musket and got ready for the charge that followed. GENERAL LEE’S BREAKFAST. ‘The Little Pleasantry Which the Con. federate Passed in Gen Grant's Message. Toward the end of the ctvil war the value of a wellorganized scout service came to be fully appreciated by the leaders of both armies. Per. haps no commanders of modern timer were better served in this respect than Gen. Grant and Gen. Lee. Both were kept informed dally as to nearly everything that went on within the enemy's lines, says the Youth's Com- panion. Gen. Gordon relates that ome morn- Ing toward the end of the long con- Mict, whea the confederates, officers and men alike, were reduced to un- pleasant straits for food, a captain from the union headquarters went, under a flag of truce, with a communi- cation to Gen. Lee concerning the ex- change of prisoners. “Gen. Lee,” said the captain, with a smile, after delivering his message, “Gen. Grant sends you his personal compliments, and bids me assure you that he knows exactly what you had for breakfast this morning.” “Gen. Grant must be misinformed as to this,” replied Gen Lee, survey: ing the message-bearer with a sad smile. “Gen. Grant is a generous man; and ff he bad known with what a breakfast I had to contént myselt, he would certainly have sent mo halt of his. But give him my compli- ments,” he continued, with a sudden twinkle; “and say that although I do not know as to his breakfast, I have full particulars concerning his dinner fast night.” Tar Inheritance. “That-tough little Jones kid grows ike a weed.” “He ought to; about all of his an- cestors were pretty rank.”-—Detroit Free Pross. Wise Man. “When are you going to sead for you wife and baby to come home?” “As soon as the baby Is done cutting (eeth."—Houstop Post. Prettiest Hands in the World. ‘The prettiest hand tm the world be- longs to Mdlle. Marie de Castellane, member of the famous French family of that name, and one of the reigning beauties of Paris. The countess, who gets her title through the dethroned fy‘! and See. dropped, the family TEAL upon the staze, where she is known by mee page. ‘THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGINTA. BIBLE TEMPERANCE SELECTIONS Read Them and See What a Strong Temperance Book God's Word Is. | 1. Genesis tx:19-27; | Deuteronomy xxi: 18-20, 8 Deadiy Work tn the Home. Sideffgbta for unmixed clases of mea or women, Genesis xix:29-38, where women give the wine. These passages plature drunken fathers (see Vashtl story, Esther 1, for a drunken husband). Dont. xxt:18-21 may be usel to show God's disploas- ure at a drunken son, even though the death penalty ia no longer inflicted ta this world. 9.2 Genesis xxv:2824 Future Good Sacrificed for Momentary Pleasures of Appetite. Although lgvors are not moationod In this passage, tt deaia with tho vory ‘elements of charactor that loud young “men to drink 3. Exodus xvil:17. God's Wonderful Git of Water. ‘Thia is a lesson through which may ‘be shown the wonterful ralaos of wa- ‘ter as a dally miracle, as well as the “bert of drinks. 4, Exodus xx:1-17. Prohibitory Laws Though neither water nor wine is mentioned 4p the Decale, it af. fords fundamental preocdents for pro- -Bibitory laws. God doos uot repeal His probibitions because they do not ‘annihilate the evils forbidden, 3. Leviticus £:1-11. Go's Flaming Displeasure at Drink {a the Church. (Asa sidolight, Corinthians ¥:11; xi:21). @. Numbora vi:1; Luke 1:5.17. The Nazarites, the First Tomporance So- “ctoty. 7, Numbers vilt:37-88; Luke vill: 43 | 48. Tho Firat Ribbon Badges. Although liquors are not mentioned In this losnon, the algnificance of white and red and blue ribbon badges worn dy tomperance societies may be {m- Prosstvely taught. 8. Deuternonomy xxii:$16, 29-36. “Thotr Wine is the Polson of Drag one.” 8. Judgen xv1:23:90, The Merriment of Wine One of the Sports That Kill, 10, Kings xvi:8-10; xx:12-21. Defeat “and Death by Drink. "1, Nehemiah xitf:1623. Wino and Work Invading the Sabbath "Yh Pasims x; xelv. Calle to Battla “Against: Wrongdoing. 13. Proverbe xx:118. “Wine is a /Mocker.” 14. Proverba xxiit:2028 “Bo Not “Among Wine-bibbers.” 16. Isaiah ¥:2-30, Captivity Through Drink. 16. Taaiad xxvitt:1-7, 1418; x:1-8. National Glory Deatroyed by Wine and Wicked Laws, AT Jeremiah xxxv:110. The Ab- staining Rechabites 18, Daniel 1. Daniel's Band of Hope. } 19. Dantel ¥. A Young King’s Dead. ly Revelry. 20. Nahum { The Drunkanta of Nineveh. 21. Habakkuk {1:920. “Woo unto Nim that Giveth His Neighbor Drtake.” 32, Joba lf:1-12. Joaus Turns Wator Into Wine. 23. Matthew xxiv:4261. The Drunk. on Servants. Nye Matthew xxv:1420. Talenta Wasted Through Drink. 25, Luke xxi:29-39; Romane xilt: $14, The Law of Love for the Cure of Lusts. } 26, 1. Cor, vIM:S:1% Abstinence for the Sake of Others 87. L Cor, $£:25-27; Heb xii: 112, Athletes and Alcohol 28, Galatians v:19-26; Ephootans W221, Spiritual Joys | Better than Spirttuous Pleasures. 20. Tita [:4-14; if:11-18. Religion Blossoming lato Morais. 20. Revelations xxi:17; 222. The Now Earth WHISKY—THAT'S ALL. Ee Eo 3 Seeks: NETS mS Ses y x L fag iF, 2 2 rn A-SAR = er = ‘ S om Charges It to Alcohol. Mr. Leif Jones, M. P., one of Great Britain's most active temperance workers, {8 convinced that one of the reasons of commercial depression is the prodigious consumption of alco- holic stimulants. “I recently met the Gnished article of the liquor trade,” be says. “He was lying in the gutter. He had no hat; the hat trade was suffer. ing. His coat waz full of holes; the tailoring trade was suffering. He had no shirt; the hostery trade waa suf- fouling. Hewas dirty; the soap trade was suffering. Indeed, | can hardly mention an industry in this country which was not affected by that man’s insobriesy.” Cowat Tolstol’s Principles, Count Tolstot neither drinks, smokes, nor eats meat. It is his boast that he does not possess a single ar- tcle he could possibly dispense with; and he has even rofused to recelve a bicycle a3 & present, on the ground that It was a luxury. His recreations are chess and lawn tennis, at both of which he became aa expert, WARNING TO YOUNG MEN. Andrew Carnegie Utters a Strong Plea Against Use of Aicoholic Liquor. Great captains of industry are gem erally so much absorbed tn the pur sult of gain that they seldom, if ever, make @ public address In which they emphasize the importance of moral Virtues. Me. Carnegie is an exception, since at the opening of the gymnastusn of the University of St. Andrews, tn Dundes, Scotland, some months ago, ho brought out tre importance of ab- staining from aloohol and tobacoo as Madranoes in the race of life. As the Fosult of correspondeace with Mr. Car- nogie, wo are in receipt of the Dundee Advertiser, containing an excellent re Port of bis adiross. While aLtee sons coe tue eee aes strict affention td fhelF development that they might fora ound mind bare a sound body. he said he shoaN! “iike to call their ar- tention to the possibility that ever white they reap with ono hand ther might waste with the other, that they might indulge in babits that neutral- wed the good eects of their exercises “There were two such habits very common among the young men today ‘The first and mort serious was the uve ef alccholles. A danzerong babi: very Mkely to caute grevous result~ all agreed; that tt could cause no beneSetal results all azreed. It was thorefore the part of wisdom to ab patain from the habit that might work evil and could de ne good. That eo tI! effects wore vislbie from indulgence during the vigorous pericd of youth rendered the darser of serious conse quences in ator ice still greater than if the I eexte Were visible from the basianiaa They were plsying with an insidious foe. “Viewing them &s young steeds tralning for the cage of lite, he knew of no oue babit x0 likely to defeat them tn the contest as tho drinking of al€oholte liquors. ‘That, taken in er. cess, they destroyed the character of men and rendered them useless mem: bers of society, thoy all knew. The Une between excess and sufficiency was so uarrow that ‘i was very sai dom the drinker knew and observed Mt Better be on the cafe side. Why Fun into danger? As no possible good could result from tndulgence, no risk should be tneurred. Believe him, tn ‘the stern game of life they had all to Play; they could afford to throw no Advantages away. “Drunkennese was the great rock shead in. the carger of every young man. It was far more important that he insure himself against {t than againet death, A drink policy was worth ten life policies in thelr cave Abstain and evade the danger.” A BALOONLESS COMMUNITY. Pioneer Town of California Where the Curse of the Rum Giass. fe Unknown. The pioneer towns tn the Imperial valley in lower Californta have sev. eral unique features besides that of being considerably below the level of the sea. One of these ts the depth of the soll, all alluvial, which Is said to be not less than 700 fect, and an- other fs the fact that there te not a saloon nor a gambling place in the whole valley with {ts prosent popula- ton of 10,000 souls. This happy con dition is owing primarily to the fact that when the valley was opened for settlement abot six years ago the original owners of the land ran a clause in all their deeds forbidding the manufacture and sale of liquor on any and all property sold. Thus A prohibitory law of the most tron clad kind has been fastened on t+ country. The natural result has beon ‘that the valley bas been remarkably free from the evil elements that too often dominate frontier communities. and crime of all kizds, and especially crimes of violence, have been exceed iugiy rare. On the other hand tho condition named has attracted a tem berate, thrifty and progressive class of settlers, who have placed the em. phasis upon the building up of schools, churches and industrial establish. ments rather than upon agencies of erik THE FIEND THAT IS WORSE THAN PESTILENCE, FLOOD OR FIRE. Mme a” Money for Temperance Cause. The cause of temperance In England should get big boom. A merchant of London who recently died left a will fn which he bequeathed $1,250,000 to be speat for the promotion of tem- perance. To de sure, thal fs an insig- niflcaat sum compared with the amount spent fer intoxicants, but it should go 8 great way toward provid- Ing effective arguments fn favor of te- totalism.—Trov Times, Has Right to Spank Daughter. Wilkesbarre, Pa—Judge Trexler, of Allentown, has affirmed the right of a mother to spank her daughter. Minnie Klotz brought an’ setion tn the court for the appolatment of a guardian be- cause her mother had spanked her for keeping company with young men. ‘The judge dismissed the petition. A Very Promising Sign. The Wise Son—Oh, paw! I think Holen’s young man must be gotting along toward the: point where he's About to ask you for her, His Father—Pshaw! I don't believe he has the sumption to even hint that he ilkes her. Tho Wise Son—Well, I noticed this morning that one of the hammock- hooks 1s pulled out—Judge. ‘A Reteith Mai Yorker (replying to magistrate)— Tm sorry to say that I did take a Httle, ore veer than was good tor me; but yesterday, yer worship, was me weddin’ day. Bin married jest a bloomin’ year! Magistrate—That's all very well; but aurely you need not get drunk to celebrate your wedding day. Yorker—It wasw't to colebrate it, yer worsh?p; !t was to forgit it! Smart. “There are five shilltags,” said the oM gentleman to his young grandson, “one for each of your birthdays, What more could a little fellow like you wish?” “Only that Iwas as old as you grandpa,” replied the young Suancler. —Cassell’s Journal. THE BEST. Refrigerators! | Baby Carriages! | Summer Furniture! | Bridal Suits! SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, ‘eames 709—711—713 E. Broad St. Mechanics’ OF RICHMOND, VA. 511 NORTH THIRD STREET. Capital, $25,000. Money received on deposit and interest paid on » amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit This emablishment is “tted pin the most improved style, having larg yhite vaalt. burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern conven fence for safety and the accommodation of the public. 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Pa EIGHT THE YOUNG SATURDAY...SEPT. 1ST. 1900 LEAVE TEXAS CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE will do all in their power to prevent another outbreak, which, it is said, would surely cause more casualties than before, but war officials fear that they will not be able to prevent this, even though they exert every effort. The colored troops have been or dered to protect themselves in the best way possible if they are set upon by a mob, and it is understood that these instructions mean that there will be shooting on both sides if trouble starts. It is a long march from the barracks to the railway station, and it is thought here that some trouble may be had between the two factions while on this march. WAR OFFICIALS IN CONFERENCE Nothing could be learned as to the result of the conferences between the Acting Secretary of War and the chief of staff regarding the impending trouble, and it is thought there can be very little done at this end of the line. If the authorities in Brownsville are unable to cope with a mob uprising, which is intent upon making it hot for the colored troops, it is asserted there will be nothing left to do than order the troops to protect themselves by resisting by force of arms. In such a case the first Brownsville melee will pale into insignificance at what may result from the removal of the troops for shipment to Fort Reno. RUSHING TROOPS TO BORDER Austin, Tex., Aug. 24.—It is reported that a battalion of troops at Camp Mabry will leave in an hour for the Mexican border. While the reason for the issuance of such orders is not positively known, it is rumored that there has been a recurrence of the trouble at Brownsville, and that the troops are to go to that point. Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 24.—Last evening Ranger Capt. McDonald caused the arrest of the following members of Company C, Twenty fifth Infantry: Sergt. W. O. Bower, Sergt. George Jackson, Corp. David Powell, Corp. Madison, Privates John Holloman, J. H. Howard, J. H. Newton, Oscar W. Reed and J. H. Askew on the charge of being the principals in the recent raid which resulted in the killing of a citizen and the wounding of the lieutenant of police. This morning, after all prepara- tions had been made for the removal of the colored soldiers to Fort Reno, Okla., a cipher message was received by MaJ. Penrose directing him to hold the three companies here pend- ing the arrival of Gen. Bell, chief of staff, to make a thorough investiga- tion. Consequently there is some perturbation. To night there is a renewal of the precautions taken to see that none of the blacks enter the town. It has been determined to ask for a special term of court to sit in the cases. Austin, Tex., Aug. 25.—Gov. Lan ham to day received the following telegram from Brig. Gen. McCaskey commanding the Department of Tex as: "San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 25.—Reference to your telegram this morning. Soldiers held on civil warrants at Fort Brown to be transferred to Fort Sam Houston by order of the President of the United States. The President further directs that the soldiers shall not be removed from the jurisdiction of the State of Texas. It is now believed that the destination of the three companies from the Twenty Sixth Infantry which left here last night is Fort Brown where these companies will likely accompany the colored troopers back to Fort Sam Houston. By removing the colored troops at Brownsville at 6 o'clock in the morning, the Acting Secretary of War was informed yesterday by message from Maj. Penrose that they were safely gotten out of the city. The War Department has also learned that the authorities in Texas were afraid the government was trying to get the troops out of the jurisdiction of the State. Several telegrams were received at the department yesterday to this effect, and officials made the following reply to those concerned: "The War Department has no intention of removing from the jurisdiction of the State of Texas any enlisted man who has been acused or suspected of complicity in the recent outbreaks at Brownville nor has the department any intention of withholding any of these men from delivery to the State authorities at the proper time. The War De partment will not cease in its efforts to discover the guilty parties and is equally as solicitous and determined to bring these parties to justice as are the authorities of the State." Maj. Penrose made no mention in his dispatch of a number of Fort Brown troopers said to have been arrested by Texas rangers in connection with the recent disturbances at Brownsville. COLORED INFANTRY AT FORT RENO. El Reno, Okla., Aug. 27th—The Twenty-fifth Colored Infantry reach ed Fort Reno last night from Brownsville. Orders were issued to-day at Reno that no trooper may visit El Reno without a pass. The camp is quiet to-night. —Subscribe to the PLANET. CULBERSON WIRES PROTEST Texas Senator Says Abandonment of Fort Brown is Regrettable. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 22.—United States Senator Charles A. Culberson of Texas, to-day sent the following telegram to Gen. F. C. Alnsworth, military secretary at Washington; "In the morning papers here the Associated Press states that Fort Brown will be abandoned, and I thank you to wire me if this course has been determined upon. It is due of the United States to protect the frontier, and as Mexico borders on Texas, it has always been deemed advisable to police the frontier with regular troops, including those stationed at Fort Brown. Although conditions on the border have improved very much within recent years, this course is still advisable, and it would be regrettable that this fort should be abandoned because of the Brownville object to colored troops under circumstances of raid and murder such as recently occurred there." Senator Culberson to-night said that no reply had been received. He will leave to-morrow for New York and Washington Maj. Blockson, who was sent by the War Department to Fort Brown Tex., to investigate the riot at Brownsville precipitated by the colored troops stationed there, yesterday wired the Acting Secretary of War that the committee designated to investigate the trouble began its work yesterday afternoon at the post headquarters, and is being given every facility possible. Capt. Kelly, a prominent citizen; District Attorney Kleiber, Judge Barlett, county judge of Cameron County, and Judge Welch form the committee. The War Department is determined to ascertain the guilty ones among the colored soldiers, although thus far the efforts to fix the respon sibility for the shooting, which resulted in the death of one citizen and the maiming of another, have not met with success. The death penalty will be inflicted in case any soldier is found guilty of participating in the shooting. Bowles, Colored, is in Savannah. [Washington, D. C. Post, Aug. 24.] MaJ. Sylvester yesterday received a communication from the chief of police of Savannah, Ga., to the of feet that Louis M. Cleverly, white, of that city, who was married in Washington last Friday to Kate Bowles, colored, of the same city, has a white wife and child living in Savannah. The letter also inquired if the Washington authorities could file charges against him. The communication further stated that Cleverly and his colored bride arrived in Savannah Monday morning. Hardly it is said, had they stepped from the train when his troubles began. Cleverly was employed by the Chi cago Picture Company, which has a branch office in Savannah. When his employer heard of his marriage he was immediately discharged. On the way to the manager of the company he said he wanted to leave the city for a few days. He borrowed $10, it is said, and the next day left, presumably for Washington. Last Friday he was married to the colored woman by the Rev. E. W. S. Peck, pastor of the Ebenezer African Methodist Church of this city. According to the letter, Cleverly married the colored woman for her money. She is said to possess $15,000 in her own name. It is also alleged that Cleverly declared that he did not intend to live with her, but, as heretofore would live by himself. Although he is said to have a white wife and child living, under the Georgia law he cannot even be charged with bigamy, as a marriage between blacks and whites in that State is not considered valid. Cleverly, it is said, has been living in Savannah for eleven years, but dur ing that time had not lived with his wife. Mrs. Cleverly No. 1 said that her husband was a morphine flend, and that on several occasions had broken into her trunk and stolen her bank book and had drawn out all of her money. The only way, it is said, that Cleverly can be handled is for his wife to swear out a warrant in Washington charging him with bigga my. This she refuses to do, as she says she prefers to drop the matter in the year 1912, son. Maj. Sylvester has the matter under adjudement. Young Man Arrested At Annapolis, Md., Returns Many Letters. Annapolis, Md., Aug. 27.—James E Porter, aged 24 years, was arrested on the charge of robbing lock boxes in the postoffice. Porter rents one of the boxes, and it is charged has been making a practice of opening it late at night, reaching through and taking mail matter from adjoining boxes. Porter broke down and admitted that he had been robbing the office for some months, and gave the officials a bundle of from 75 to 100 letters which he admitted he had taken. The theory of young Porter's mental irresponsibility has been advanced. Preferred Death to Insanity. Muskegon, Mich., Aug. 28—Haunted by the fear that she would become hopelessly insane, Mrs. H. D. Hatch, a prominent matron of Hart, poured benzine on her clothes, applied a match and died a fey hours later. Mrs. Hatch had recently returned from the Travers City asylum, where she had been receiving treatment. Drowned in Five Inches of Water. Scranton, Pa., Aug. 28—Mrs. Mary Madden, aged 58, was drowned in five inches of water in a small creek near her home in South Scranton. In crossing a narrow foot bridge she fell, it is supposed, and striking her forehead on a stone in the creek, was rendered unconscious, and as she was lying face downward she drowned. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA LYNCHER NOT CONVICTED. CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. Perhaps the most interesting of the day's proceedings was the testimony of Virgil Galbraith, the 13-year-old son of the accused mob leader. "Did you see your father that night?" he was asked. "Yes sir; I met him on the city lot and we came to the public square together." "What was going on in the square? "They were just stringing up the second negro?" replied the lad. "Were you with your father all the time? "No, sir; he left me for awhile." "What happened before your father left you? "I heard some man say that the men who are hanging those niggers are not better than the niggers themselves." "What did your father say? "He replied that if the man said that again in the hearing of his boy he would punch him in the mouth." On cross-examination, he said that he saw his father at Center and Boonville streets, within half a block of the county jail. He said his parent was going in the direction of the county jail. He remained there until he saw the mob drag the prisoners through the windows of the county jail, and then he turned and ran toward the square. The boy declared he did not see his father with a rope in his hands, and neither did he see him with a hammer. E. T. W. Grantham, who was a member of the police force at the time of the triple lynching, admitted that he made no effort to check the work of the mob. Henry Flora testified that he walked up the Boonville street hill with Galbraith while the mob was passing, and that he saw neither lamp nor rope in the blacksmith's hands. SEEN AT COUNTY JAIL James Rhodes testified that he saw Galbraith at the county jail, but did not see him enter. On Easter Sunday, following the hanging, Rhodes said that he met Galbraith and that the blacksmith showed him a piece of rope and a strip of cloth cut from a trousers leg, which, he said, were relics of the hanging. Rhodes also said that Galbraith had a piece of one of the dead negroes' skulls. 'Robert Young said there were three men on the tower when the noose was adjusted about the necks of the negroes. One man remained to push the bodies off the platform, while the others climbed down. He said that Galbraith was not one of the three men. Lee Barrett testified that he saw Galbraith with a rope over his arm after the lynching. He said Galbraith cut one end of the rope which was used to hang the blacks and kept it as a relic of the triple lynching. Attorney-General Hadley took part in debate over legal points involved during the day. CASE GOES TO JURY. Springfield, Mo., Aug. 23.—The taking of testimony in the case of Daniel D. Galbraith, the alleged mob leader, was concluded at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon and at that hour court adjourned to 8 o'clock to morrow morning to hear arguments of counsel. By agreement the prosecution and defense were given four hours each for arguments, so that the case will go to the jury at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon. There was some disappointment when it became known this afternoon that Attorney-General Hadley, had returned to Jefferson City and would not make the closing argument in the case. While here the attorney general did not take a very active part in the trial, but seemed content to leave the conduct of the case on the part of the prosecution to Assistant Attorney General Kenish and Prosecuting Attorney Patterson. TRIAL SHOWS MOB VICTIMS INNOCENT. In the trial of the mob cases, whether a conviction is had or not the state has brought out one important fact, and that is the three colored men who were hanged by the mob the night of April 14 were innocent of the crimes of which they had been accused. The testimony of witnesses in the Galbraith trial has substantiated the findings of the special grand jury which investigated the triple lynching, which was that neither Coker nor Allen had attacked Mrs. Mina Edwards. P atterson is credited with making a hard fight in the face of many obstacles. The mob which hanged and burned the three colored men was composed of nearly 3,000 men and boys. When the blacks were strung up from the electric light tower in the center of the public square it is estimated that more than 4,000 persons were present, and yet out of all this vast throng the state was only able to find nineteen witnesses who gave any direct testimony or identified any of the mob leaders, and three of this number are convicts now serving terms in state's prison. Galbraith then said that when he reached the square the second negro was being hanged. He denied that he procured the rope and made the noose or that he took any part in the hanging. He admitted that he quarrelled with Harry Williamson and threatened to slap his face because he (Williamson) had said that the white men who were hanging the negroes were no better than the negroes. Galbraith said that after the colored men had been hanged he cut off a small piece of the rope and divided it among a half dozen traveling salesmen as a memento of the triple lynching. He then stamped out the fire which was fast consuming the colored men's bodies and cut a strip of cloth from a trouser leg as a relic of the hangings. He said he then went home. Galbraith denied every statement of the witnesses for the prosecution that he helped to break into the county fall and that he lt matches so as to find the cowering colored men in their cells. He denied every statement made that he led the mob or helped to lead it, and that he pushed the negroes from the tower. Galbraith was on the witness stand for over two hours, and when he had concluded the defense closed its case. NIAGARA MOVEMEND. ditions at the South seems a plain, deliberate, and premeditated breach of promise, and stamps that party as guilty of obtaining votes under false pretense. Fifth. We want our children educated. The school system in the country districts of the South is a disgrace and in few towns and cities are the Negro schools what they ought to be. We want the national government to step in and wipe out illiteracy in the South. Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. REAL EDUCATION WANTED. And when we call for education we mean real education. We believe in work. We ourselves are workers, but work is not necessarily education. Education is the development of power and ideal. We want our children trained as intelligent human beings should be, and we will fight for all time against any proposal to educate black boys and girls simply as servants and underlings, or simply for the use of other people. They have a right to know, to think, to aspire. These are some of the chief things which we want. How shall we get them? By voting where we may vote, by persistent, unceasing agitation; by hammering at the truth by sacrifice and work. VIOLENCE NOT A TENET We do not believe in violence, neither in the despised violence of the raid nor the lauded violence of the soldier, nor the barbarous violence of the mob, but we do believe in John Brown, in that incarnate spirit of Justice, that hatred of a lie, that willingness to sacrifice mony, reputation, and life itself on the altar of right. And here on the scene of John Brown's martyrdom we reconsecrate ourselves, our honor, our property to the final emancipation of the race which John Brown died to make free. Our enemies, triumphant for the present, are fighting the stars in their courses. Justice and humanity must prevail. We live to tell these dark brothers of ours—scattered in counsel wavering and weak—that no bribe of money or notoriety, no promise of wealth or fame is worth the surrender of a people's manhood or the loss of a man's self respect. We refuse to surrender the leadership of this race to cowards and trucklers. We are men; we will be treated as men. On this rock we have planted our banners. We will never give up, though the trump of doom find us still fighting. VICTORY PROPHESIED And we shall win. The past promised it, the present foretells it. Thank God for John Brown! Thank God for Garrison and Douglass! Summer and Phillips, Nat Turner and Robert Gould Shaw, and all the halloween dead who died for freedom! Thank God for all those today, few though their voices be, who have not forgotten the divine brotherhood of all men white and black, rich and poor, fortunate and unfortunate. We appeal to the young men and women of this nation to those whose nostrils are not yet befouled by greed and snobbery and racial narrowness: Stand up for the right, prove yourselves worthy of your her itage and whether born north or south dare to treat men as men. Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without castrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve A BRILLIANT PERORATION. Courage brothers! The battle for humanity is not lost or losing. All across the skies sit signs of promise. The Slav is raising in his might, the yellow million are tasting liberty the black Africans are writhing toward the light, and ev everywhere the laborer, with ballot in his hand, is voting open the gates of Opportunity and Peace. The morning breaks over blood stained hills. We must not falter. We may not shrink. Above are the everlasting stars. Harper's Ferry, W. Va., Aug. 16, 19. 1906. Card to the Public Richmond, Va., Aug. 28, 1906. Owing to circumstances over which I have no control, the Reunion of my old pupils which was postponed from the 29th of July to the 10th of September, at Leigh Street Methodist Church is indefinitely postponed. O. M. STEWARD. 2t White Man Assaulted White Lady. Wants to Lynch Him. Augusta, Ga., Aug. 27.—A special from Alken, S. C., by telephone, says Sheriff Raburn, of Alken county has been notified that a mob is being formed near Graniteville, where Mrs. Bryant says she was criminally attacked by a white man named Barton Saturday, with the determination to take Barton from the Alken jail. Sheriff Raburn has taken every precaution. —Bring or send us your JOB WORK; we do it nicely. We do it quickly. 32 KILLED IN BOMB EXPLOSION Russian Premier's Home Almost Torn to Pieces. VICTIMS HORRIBLY MANGLED St. Petersburg, Aug. 27.—The daughter of Premier Stolypin, who was injured by the bomb explosion in the premier's summer home Saturday, and who was erroneously reported to have died, is still alive, and passed a quiet night under the effects of an opiate. The premier's son, who also was hurt, is better. The telegram sent by Emperor Nicholas to M. Stolypin after the explosion was as follows: "I cannot find words to express my indignation. I hope with all my heart that the health of your son and daughter will soon be restored and likewise that of the other persons injured." Two more of the 25 persons injured by the explosion died, bringing the total number of deaths up to 32. Twenty-six persons were instantly killed. The premier was holding a reception when the four terrorists arrived in a coach. One of them was dressed as a driver and was on the box. Two wore foreign military uniforms and the fourth was in civilian dress. Two of the occupants of the carriage, who were ostentatiously laughing and chatting as they approached the house, descended from the carriage, one of them carrying an article about a foot high, resembling a gilded vase, and passed unhindered into the house, though a police sergeant was stationed near the door to keep a lookout for suspicious persons. The driver remained on his box, and the man who wore civilian clothes remained in the carriage. The two men who entered the house easily gained admission to the anteroom, where a footman and three secretaries were stationed. Without explanation they tried to pass through to the reception hall, where an official reception was being held. One of the secretaries, however, started forward to inquire their business, and, evidently realizing that it would be impossible for them to gain access to the premier, the man who held the supposed vase hurled it with all his strength against the wall next to the reception hall. At the moment of the explosion the large reception hall was filled with a great concourse of officials and visitors. M. Stolypin, himself, had an instant before stepped out of the room. People were literally blown to pieces. Those who were not killed instantly were horribly malmed or lacerated, and all the others present were prostrated by the shock. Pieces of flesh and clothing clung to the shattered rafters overhead and some lodged in the branches of the elm trees which border the roadway separating the premier's residence from the river. General Min Assassinated St. Petersburg, Aug. 27.—General Min, commander of the Seminovsky guard regiment, who suppressed the riots at Moscow last December, was assassinated at Peterhof. General Min was at the railway station with his family when he was killed. The deed was committed by a young girl, who fired five shots from a revolver into his back, killing him instantly. Madame Min seized the assassin by the hand and held her until the police arrived. After her arrest the girl showed the police a bomb lying in the station, telling them to beware. Acting Governor of Warsaw Slain. Warsaw, Russian Poland, Aug. 28.—General Von Liarliarskil, acting military governor of Warsaw, was shot and killed while driving in a cab. The assassin escaped. VICTIM OF WRECKED BANK Depositor In Looted Chicago Concern Becomes Insane. Chicago, Aug. 27.—Johann Kindler, 18 years old, became violent and alarmed passengers in an Ashland avenue car while brooding over the loss of $50 which he had deposited in the failed Milwaukee Avenue State Bank. Kindler is held pending an investigation of his sanity. Kindler is the second person to become mentally deranged as a result of the failure of this bank. In addition, three persons, including a teller of the defunct bank, have committed suicide, and one man fell dead following the flight of President Paul O. Stensland and the closing of the Milwaukee AvenueState Bank. The police are still in the dark as to the whereabouts of Stensland. Blew His Head Off With Dynamite. Blew His Head Off With Dynamite. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Aug. 27.—John Donnelly, aged 50 years, of Glen Lyon, an inmate of the almshouse at Retreat, nine miles from here, committed suicide in a novel manner. He forced an entrance into the boiler house and secured a stick of dynamite, which he exploded with a stone and blew off his head. Naval Militia Seasick Norfolk, Va., Aug. 29.—With 250 members of the Rhode Island naval militia on board, all seasick, the United States cruiser Columbia arrived in the Capes to escape rough weather at sea. Ground to Death Under Train. Scranton, Pa., Aug. 27.—Frank Holland, 35 years old, a laborer with the Barnum & Bailey circus, was ground to death by falling under a circus train. His home is in Ingersoll, Canada. Two Students Drowned. Annapolis, Md., Aug. 27.—John M. Thaler, of Baltimore, and Edward Sephton, of Boston, student members of the Redemptorist order attending the Annapolis college of the order named, were drowned in the Severn river, near this city. It is said that Sephton went beyond his depth and that his companion lost his life in attempting a rescue. JOHN ROBINSON'S 10 BIG BUMPS COMBINED 4 CIRCUSES 3 MENAGERIES, ROMAN HIPPODROME GRAND KING SOLIDON - COURT P. SANITA RICHMOND MONDAY, SEPT. 10th Presenting under 10 Acres of Water-proof Tents. 1500 Rare and Costly Wild Animals. Double Herd of Elephants. Ponderous, performing Pachyderms, presenting a program comique of perfection. Stupenduous realistic production. BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE. Introducing 500 Indians, Cowboys, Scouts and Soldiers. The Leavensworth Zouaves, direct from a successful European trip. America's greatest military company, presenting Butt's Mauual of Arms to Music. Two companies of cavalry, late of the U. S. Army, in expert feats of horsemanship. Ellworth female Zouaves. See Capt. Winston's wonderful educated Seals. The Lucuzon Sisters, wonderful Aerial Iron jaw act. Flying Banvards, sensational European Aerialists. The latest foreign novelty, Mr. James Dutton and Mlle. Winnie Van, grand spectacular double riding act. McNutt Troupe—Aerial cycle whirl riders. Prof. Nygard's School of wonderfully trained Menage horses, 12 in number. 20 male and female riders. 3 Miles of Gold Bedecked Wagons and Chariots, Prancing Horses, Dens of Rare and Costly Wild Animals, and including the season's newest novelty, a quarter of a million dollar reproduction of the Battleships of our Navy. The Grand Musical Ballet. 50 men, Women and Children in the cast. Chief White Thunder's Band of Indians. 50 bucks, Squaws and Papooses. The Celebrated Banda Rosa, of 50 Soloists, under direction of Antonia Oliveto, give one hours musical program before each performance. TWO SHOWS DAILY, RAIN OR SHINE. EXCURSION RATES ON ALL RAILROADS. SPECIAL NOTICE—People attending night exhibition, in order to see menagerie, opening spectacle, and the big acts, must be present not later than 7:30 p.m. The horses, ponies and wagons loaded at dusk are used only in parade and are hurried to the next town as "The Flying Squadron." (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. Four Years graded course in Medicine. Three Years' graded course in Dental Surgery. Three Years' graded course in Pharmacy. 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 F. J. SHADD, M. D., Secretary, 901 R Street. 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 DPD 701. VIRGINIA:—In the Law and Equity Court for the City of Richmond this 28th day of July, 1906. The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonil from the defendant on behalf of the plain tiff. 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 within 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, pg. 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'ld'd. g. situated S. W. corner Main and 9th Sts. in the city of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. M. of that day, proceed to take the depositions of witnesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the city of Richmond, Virginia, wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff; and if from any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or, if commenced, be not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be attained and continued from day to day, or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall be completed. Respectfully, Mary Wilson, By Counsel. J. Henry Crutchfield, pq. 1211 $ \frac{1}{2} $ E. Broad St. Richmond, Va. Mary Wilson, vs. James Wilson. IN CHANCERY. To James Wilson: tictures, quizzes, clinics, and practical ripped laboratories in all departments. adents must register before October information, apply to F. J. SHADD, Π. D., Secretary, 901 R Street. SORE FEET Itching, burning and offensive perspiration are instantly relieved and speedily cured by warm baths and afterwards by using BURKE'S FOOT POWDER Sent by mail on receipt of price, 10c. and 25c. Address, BURKE L. GRINDLE, 725 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. SMITH'S BUSINESS COLLEGE LYNCHBURG, VA. COURSES: Phonographic, Commercial, Penning English, Electric wiring, Civil Engineering. No Vacation. Instruction Thorough...Positions Se cured. Correspondence Solicited. Send 2c for particulars. Address: T. P. SMITH, A. B , President Established 1899. Phone 4160. JOHN FOXEL, Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CIG- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, VA. The American Beneficial Insurance Company. The annual stockholders meeting of the above named Company will be held at Price's Hall Wednesday, Sept. 5th, at 8:30 P. M. All the stockholders please take notice. Those who cannot be present may designate someone in writing to vote for them. W. F. GRAHAM, President. B. H. PEYTON, Secretary.