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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL. XXIV. NO. 6. THREW DEADLY BOMB IN BANK Assailant and Cashier Killed and Many Others Injured. WAS REFUSED LOAN OF $5000 Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 7.—With the finding of the personal effects of the man who threw the bomb in the Fourth Street National Bank on Saturday, when refused a loan of $5000, killing Cashier W. Z. McLear and himself, there is little doubt left in the minds of the police officials that he was Rollo Steele, of Garner, Ia. The dead are: William K. McLear, cashier; Rollo Steele, the bomb thrower. The injured are: Thomas B. Rutter, discount clerk, fractured skull, concussion of the face; William Crump, colored, messenger for President Rushton, horribly mangled by fragments of bomb, eyes partially blown out, scalp nearly torn off and chest and arms badly cut; William A. McAney, lacerated face and scalp; Miss Julia Brady, cut about face and hands; Frank Laboe, lacerated ear; Harper Mercer, slightly cut about face and neck; William Wright, scalp wounds; Harry Beck, lacerated scalp; Eugene McIlhone, ruptured ear drum and laceration of face and scalp; Angelo F. Dominicl, shock and contusions; C. R. Horton, head cut; J. T. Albert Hosbach, badly cut about face; Halburt Smith, lacerated arms; Arthur McNichol, cut about head and face; Jay McNichol, cuts of face and arms; Albert Troebler, lacerations of face and ear nearly torn off, Horace Kriebel, cut about fac eand neck; Robert Robertson, thrown to the floor by force of the explosion and severely shocked; W. D. McAleer, contusions and cuts of face and scalp. The bomb threater was found to have slept Friday night at the Grant House, a hostelry on the outskirts of the Tenderloin, frequented mostly by respectable working people. The man registered as J. R. Steele, of New York. He arrived at the hotel about 7 o'clock on Friday night and engaged a 50-cent room. He carried a grip, which he refused to allow the colored porter to carry to the room. William J. Crump, the negro messenger in the bank and body guard of President Richard H. Rushton, of the institution, who is the most seriously injured, was operated on. His condition was such a few hours after the explosion that he was reported dead, but he rallied, and the physicians operated in an effort to save his eyesight, though his eyes will never regain their normal condition. Crump was visited after the operation by his brother, Thomas, of Richmond, Va., through whom he gave an interview. He said that his recollection of what occurred coincides with the statement that was made by President Rushton regarding the affair, except that when he started to escort the bomb thrower out of President Rushton's office he walked him past Cashler McLear's desk. Crump says the man was apparently making for the door, and he permitted him to go on alone. When the messenger turned to go back into Mr. Rushton's office he saw that Steele had stepped back to McLear's desk. It was then that Crump remarked to Mr. Rushton: "That is a persistent man." He says he started toward Steele when the explosion occurred. He remembers nothing more. Mr. McLear was sitting at his desk when the bomb exploded. The force of the explosion picked him bodily from his chair, hurling him over the top of it into the rear of the office. His face and trunk were mashed into a pulp almost past recognition. His arms were torn from his frame, and only his legs showed no effects of the explosion. The small counter over which the bomb thrower had beer, leaning was wrested from its fastenings and the splinters, hurled against him, dismembered his body, tearing it into shreds and hurling it with great force in every direction. The two legs were torn apart, the arms broken and the flesh cut into ribbons, the torso mashed into a jelly and cast against broken pieces of iron grating, and portions of the skull scattered over the entire reception room. A shovel was used to collect the scattered pieces. Couldn't Stand Boston Blue Laws. Boston, Jan. 9.—The Lexington hotel, one of the oldest in Boston, was closed after J. D. Fanning, president of the Lexington Hotel company, had made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities are given as $75,000 and the assets as doubtful. "Sunday blue laws and country village ideas," according to Mr. Fanning, were largely responsible for the financial difficulties. BOLD DECLARATIONS BY THE OHIO STATESMAN. Sparks from Senator Foraker's Anvils.=The 25th Infantry and Its Rights under the Law. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AS A ROUGH RIDER—OVERSTEPS BOUNDS AND USURPS AUTHORITY. THAT SOUTH CAROLINA ENDORSATION. “There is no autocracy in this country, or autocratic, dictatorial, unrestrained, and unrestricted power, no, not even in the Commander-in-chief of the army. All power is derived from the Constitution.” "I think the Senate of the United States would be in a ridiculous attitude before the country, if it should here and now adopt a resolution that could be interpreted to estop us when we come to consider this case upon the facts which are to be developed as to whether or not the President acted within the constitutional or legal authority." "These men were charged with murder and conspiracy. Because there was no evidence to sustain the charge, the men were turned out of service. On this point, the Supreme Court has ruled that where crimes cannot be proved, the offenders must go free, no matter how great the offense, or how disastrous the consequences to the country." He quoted the Supreme Court on the question of the right to suspend law to meet an emergency as saying, "Such doctrine leads directly to anarchy." "Each individual had a right to the benefit of the 146th regulation of the army—that he should have a board of enquiry, and should have it without asking for it. It was the duty of his superior officer to know of his rights, to advise him of them and to protect him in them. But it was not so. If the President can discharge men because of a state of facts that cause suspicion, he can say, 'I'll dismiss without facts.' He'll tell you, as in fact, the Senator from Massachusetts has told you—it is none of your business." ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` COLORED TROOPS SENT Must Go Out of the Country.—Remarkable Action of War Department [Washington Post, January 6, '07.] Official orders were issued yesterday that will send every Negro soldier in the American army to the Philippines during the present year there to remain for two years' service. The President stated that he knew full well his duties and his powers, and was satisfied with what had been done regarding the colored troops concerned in the Brownsville incident. He suggested to put men that it would be a waste of time for Congress to enact any remedial legislation. In conversation with a number of members of Congress, who visited him yesterday, the President declared, in unmistakable terms, that he was the commander-in-chief of the army and army and asserted that he had not exceeded his authority in dismissing the colored troops of the Twenty-fifth Infantry involved in the Brownsville incident. Meanwhile, it became public that the programme had been agreed upon by the General Staff involving the general shifting of the troops for the current year. Before the day was over the text of this order was issued and it was found that the programme of the War Department contemplated the transfer to the Philippines of every Negro soldier. Mrs. Mildred Johnson Remembered Last New Year's night Olivette Court, No. 88 led a surprise on Mrs. Mildred Johnson of 1000% St. Peter Street. The Fast Worthy Counsellor, Sir Daniel W. Washington presented her in behalf of the Court RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1907. "Is the President of the United States over and above the law? Can he ignore it?" a handsome pair of earrings and breast pin, also a neat purse, in a few well chosen remarks, after which a table was richly spread with all the delicacies of the season. They had an enjoyable time and wended their way to their several homes. Mrs. Mildred Johnson extends thanks to the officers and members of the Court. Committee: Sisters Mary Peniston, Mary Watson, Susie Reed, Bro. Daniel W. Washington, Sister Martha Thompson Chairman. BAKER SCHOOL—HONOR ROLL 7 B GRADE—Cassie Nelson, John Morris. 7A GRADE—J. Mercer Burrell, Louis Payne, Marie Brown, Izetta Bass, Sallie Gayles. 6B GRADE—Frank Cephas, Charlie Storrs, Irma Holmes, Daisy Moore, Sarah Sydney, Jack Wyche. 6A GRADE—Marion Miles, Mamie Robinson, Florence Taylor, Lotle Lewis, Gertrude Powell, Virginia Knight, Frank Stewart, Beatrice Elridge. 5B GRADE—Fanny Henderson, Florence Hunt, Samuel Woolfolk, Benjamin Wilkerson. 5A GRADE—Helen West, Edna Harris, Sadie Nelson, Ruth Cary, Joseph Brown. 4B GRADE—Daniel Davis, Hugh Fountain, Robert Lewis, Ira Williams, Lena Bass, Julia Bolling, Bertha Fife, Maria Jones, Sadie Wilson. 4A GRADE—Martha Chiles, Vivian Lemas, Royal Hamilton, Richard Edwards, Charles Brown, Clara Yancey, Florence Gardner, Daisy Wright, Georgie Gaskins, Ethel Robinson. 3B GRADE—Celestine Nottingham, Rosa Mende, Lucie Payne, Lucy Smith, Horace Scott, Helena Tollin. From speech of Senator J. B. FORAKER in the United States Senate, January 7th 1907. SOUTH CAROLINA ENDORSES PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT "COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 9. -By a vote of 21 to 16 the South Carolina senate today adopted a resolution indorsing the action of President Roosevelt in the Brownsville matter. The resolution requests the South Carolina delegation in Congress to support this course. 3A GRADE—Mabel Washington, Henrietta Mason, James Pierson, Beatrice Harris, Robert J. Jones, Ruth Catlett, Laurence Butler. B GRADE—Samuel Harris, Wimel Jones, Louise Shelton, Regina Smith $100,00 Endowment Paid. Suffolk, Va., Jan. 2nd, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred dollars in payment of the death- claim of Ellen Biggs who was a member of Suffolk Court, No. 63 of Suffolk, Va. Signed: Willie Biggs, Clara Biggs, Beneficiaries, Witnesses: John W. Booth. Evova A. Biggs. Anne Trotnor. Eva V. Wrench. Isham Powell. Julia A. Powell, Deputy. No Hope for Terry McGovern. New York, Jan. 8.—All hope for even the partial recovery of Terry McGovern was blasted when Dr. Givens, in whose sanitarium in Stamford, Conn., the little fighter is combined, stated that Terry is incurable. "There is no hope for him," said Dr. Givens. "He is dead mentally now, and it will not be long before he is physically dead." Anarchista Protest to Gov. Stokes. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 8.—Governor Stokes received a telegram, signed by the Anarchist Club, of Newburyport, Mass., protesting against the arrest of Lulie Galleanis, who was brought from Vermont to Paterson, N. J., on the requisition of the governor, to answer to charges of having made an anarchistic speech in Epstein. He Blew Out the Gas Bethichem, Pa., Jan. 9. — Stephen Hoch, brother of ex-County Recorder George Hoch, of Easton, was found dead in bed at the Washington house here, having been asphyxied by gas which he blew out instead of turning off. He was 77 years old. ```markdown ``` --- $150.00 Endowment Paid Radford, Va., Dec. 25th, 1906 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A, and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sir Floyd Alexander, who was a member of Lovely Mount Lodge, No. 57 of Radford, Va. Signed—Nancy Alexander, Beneficiary Witnesses: Harvey Fields. Samuel Steward. I. Giles Claytor. A. O. Pettis. R. M. Pettis. $100.00 Endowment Paid Suffolk, Va., Dec. 28th, '06. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred dollars in payment of the dental claim of Mary J. Cooper, who was a member of Golden Rule Court, No. 86 of Suffolk, Va. his Signed—Romus X Cooper mark Beneficiary. Witnesses: Celestine Folk, R. of D. Georgie Moore, P. W. C. Thomas L. Black. Isham Powell. Julia A. Powell, Deputy. —Subscribe to the Richmond, Va. PLANET. Only $1.50 per year. PRICE, FIVE CENTS His Brother Injured Mr. Thomas M. Crump, General Manager of the Southern Aid Society has been in Philadelphia all this week at the bed-side of his brother, William Crump, who was injured in an explosion at the Fourta Street National Bank. It seems that on last Saturday a white man entered the bank named J. R. Steele. He went into the president's office and demanded a loan of $5,000. Messenger Crump was called and directed to show him to the Cashier. This was taken as a means to get rid of him. The messenger was showing him out of the building when he stepped back to the cashier's desk and in doing so dropped a bomb which exploded with terrific effect killing the cashier and blowing the man. Steele to fragments. The inside of the bank was wrecked and Crump was injured about the face and eyes. It was thought that he was totally blind, but it has since been thought that his eye-sight can be partially saved by an operation. PERSONALS AND BRIEFS —Miss Ada G. Foster left her entire estate to her mother. —Rev. Thomas H. White of Clifton Forge, Va. was in the city this week. —Rev. G. B. Howard, Petersburg, Va. called on us. —Mrs. E. W. Brown continues seiously ill at her residence, Second and Leigh Sts. —Messrs. J. Lawson and Thomas J. Callaway, Washington, D. C. were in the city on business last week. —Rev. W. H. Moses of Staunton, Va. and Rev. W. R. Ashburn, Manchester, Va. called on. —Mr. S. D. Pannell was in the city last Thursday. He was enroute to Hot Springs, Va. He will take charge of a hostelry at Norfolk, Va. —The estate of the late William B. Lyons has been admitted to probate with George W. Lewis as executor. The tth value of it is $10,000. —Mr. William Miller, the popular hotel man is making extensive improvements at his hostelry, 2nd and Leigh Sts. The cost of the work will probably exceed $5,000. —Miss Bessie Payne from Atlantic City in company with Mrs. Lena Blackston is visiting her parents, 213 E. Leigh St. —Lawyer J. E. Byrd, representing the Negro Business Directory Company is preparing a Directory of the Negro business places in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. All persons wishing terms for "Ads." address J. E. Byrd, 312 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. —Rockingham Star Lodge, No. 72 at Harrisonburg, Va. is progressing. It added recently the following members: Rev. W. E. Jecerson, R. Walker Lee, Wm. Smith, R. Collins Mason, Green Sellers, Curtis Black, George W. Armstrong, Wm. H. Scott, John J. Wood, Charles H. Wright, Lester Smith, James G. Myers, Wm. Atkins, Thornton Fleming, F. Mack. —National Sunday School Union will be held at the Zion Baptist Ch. Rev. W. R. Ashburne, D. D., pastor, next Sunday January 13th, 1907 at 3 o'clock P. M. Excellent New Year program will be rendered. Some of the leading speakers of the State Convention will be present and deliver special address. Be on time. All are invited. A night class for young girls who are willing to advance themselves will be opened on Wednesday evening, January 16th, at 103 E. Duval Street. A thorough course in dress-making will be taken up, also the Kensington and Roman Embroidery. Only girls with good references will be received. Application for admission can be made at No, 101 E. Duval St. Thirty Years in the Ministry The Fifth Baptist Church is preparing to have a great time the 1st Sunday in February. Dr. Graham will have been preaching thirty years and pastoring the 5th Caurch for one year. The church proposes to make a grand affair of it. They had a great time last Sunday and raised $52. Dr. W. P. Lawrence of New Jersey preached a very eloquent sermon at night. The pastor will preach tomorrow. WANTED—A young woman stenographer and typewriter. One who has some knowledge of book-keeping preferred. Good pay. Address LEWIS O. SUMMERSETT, 37 W. Front St. Red Bank, N. J. DUKE OF DEVIL-MAY-CARE BY HARRIS DICKSON AUTHOR OF "THE BLACK WOLF'S BREED" COPYRIGHT:1905 BY D.APPLETON & CO TWO CHAPTER XVI. A DASH IN A CAB Joe halted at the prison gates, his hands deep in his pockets, his head bent down, struggling with all the strength that God had given him to see the straight course for Duke and himself to pursue. Duke and himself, yes, it was their affair; they would be jointly responsible for whatever had happened, for whatever came of it. Yet, before he went back in there, he must be cool and calm, his brain must be clear, he must consider many things. His head now was in a whirl, spinning round and round with a clatter and a riotous disorder that drove him mad. The few ideas that he selzed upon and dragged from the chaos were disconnected, vague, fantastic even. The girls were in New Orleans; crushed, broken, withered, they could stand but little more. This notoriously would cause them misery unspeakable. He must get them away, get them home before the storm broke. Besides, he could not have Mrs. Chaudron's quiet house besieged by a horde of harples clamoring for details. He and Duke were men; they were responsible; they could endure. That did not matter. Joe had always looked through the eyes of his heart upon the frailties of Noel Duke. When the judgments of his head had been too severe, then the man's heart, which after all was stronger, had folded the transgressor to itself. In his book of judgments there was many and many a page upon which his tears had fallen until they washed it purer than the snow. "It's my fault, my fault entirely." he kept saying to himself: "I could have prevented it; I could have kept him in Vieksburg; my God, if I had only known!" But he did not know; he had done his best. He lifted his head in the air, the sun shone upon his face; he turned decidedly and entered the gate. A gust of wind, chill and dank with prison odors smote him; he shivered but did not halt. Baker had been leaning against a post waitking for Joe to leave. It worried him to see the lawyer turn and reenter the prison. "That feller's goin' to make a pile of trouble; I always thought 'e was goin' to get in the way from the first minute I clapped eyes on 'im.' He followed, muttering to himself, for he did not like the set of Joe's jaw. The detective waited just outside the door when Joe entered the jailer's office. and without waiting for a pause in the conversation tapped Fitzgerald on the shoulder. "I want to see that prisoner again," he said. Fitz thought, of course, it was Baker until Joe spoke, then he sprang up and overturned a chair. "I want to speak to your prisoner." Fitz looked at the jaller undecidedly, and the jailer looked back at Fitz. Baker tried to catch the eye of either, shook his head, but wisely remained outside. "But, Mr. Balfour—" Fitz commenced. "You needn't send for him," Joe said; "I shall go to his cell." "The rules are Mr. Balfour—" "Which is his cell?" Joe had stepped out into the hall again, and was already walking down the corridor. Fogarty lagged behind conferring in whispers with Jimmy Fitz. Baker pulled at Fitz's sleeve on the other side. "What are we going to do?" Fogarty asked. "Don't see how you can help it." Jimmy answered, doubtfully; "he could make a hell of a row if you didn't let him see the man. Maybe that would be worse. I reckon we'll have to play the string out this way." Joe had reached the cell and turned: "Give me the key?" Fogarty surrendered it without a word, swearing at himself for being such a fool. Joe unlocked the door and went in. He took the precaution to close it carefully behind him, and left Fogarty standing in the corridor. "Well, I'll be damned," said Fogarty. And Jimmy Fitz looked as if he felt pretty much the same way about it. Duke had his back toward the door; he was peering through a grated window into the courtyard. For several minutes, perhaps, Joe stood there looking at him, with all the tenderness of a father who has himself been wild, toward his best beloved and most wayward son. For such a father well knows the sufferings of such a son. "Noel," he called very softly. The man at the window wheeled; Joe's uplifted hand hushed an exclamation. "Sh! Don't speak too loud, they may be listening." Joe looked once into the eyes of his friend, then he stepped forward and held out his hand, the hand of boundless trust, of faith unshakable. "I knew you would come, Joe," said Duke, as if the other's presence in the parish prison gave him no surprise. Joe put him arm about the younger man's shoulder, and drew him from the window to a chair. They sat opposite each other at the rough table, alone, facing a crisis. But, now that Joe was here he could not force his awkward tongue to frame a single one of all the questions that burdened him. "Well, Joe," Doke spoke first, and with the resignation of a man who has grown accustomed to the dept. "Well, Joe, everybody must know it by the time I take a bite." T. VAN GOGH PEERING THROUGH A GRATED WINDOW, let her name be dragged into the newspapers. I can keep quiet." The hopeless tone cut into Joe like a knife. Duke was essentially a man of combat and of action; the fact that he could remain passive marked a vital change in the man. But his eye was calm and steady, there was neither fear nor back-down in it. Joe said nothing; there was nothing he could say. "Joe," the other looked up suddenly from the table, "where did she go? I saw her drive off that morning in a carriage, and don't know whether she came back to the hotel or not, I searched everywhere. I have not seen her since—since—this happened." "She is at Mrs. Chaudron's with her cousin." "Miss Ashton was taken ill, wasn't she?" "I thought that must be the reason. She did not look well when they drove away." He dropped his head in his hands; after all it did not matter very much, not now; nothing mattered. "Does she know where I am?" He did not raise his head. "Yes; she was here just now; she saw you when you came into that room." Duke toterted to his feet, leaning heavily with one hand on the table. "Why did she come to this place?" "You would not give your name, and the police wanted to identify you. No, it wasn't exactly that way, but—" "Anita! Came to identify me? My God!" he sank back into his chair again. "Yes, both the girls are at the Chaudrons." Joe repeated, aimlessly; "Mrs. Chaudron took them home with her after Mrs. Ashton disappeared. Of course they couldn't stay at the hotel alone. They are completely crushed and heart-broken—" "Mrs. Ashton? Disappeared?" Duke looked up blankly. "What are you talking about? What are you talking about?" "We've never found her, you know; we don't know a thing—" "Don't know a thing about what?" "Don't know what became of Mrs. Ashton. She's been missing now since last Thursday, about 11 o'clock. We have about come to the conclusion that she has been—" Duke was staring at Joe, so steadily in the face that Joe scarcely knew how he finished the sentence; "—we have come to the conclusion that she has been murdered—" "So that's it! That's it!" Duke exclaimed, and sprang excited to his feet—the man's eyes were terrible to look at. "By God, Joe Balfour, you don't mean to tell me that I am here in jail under suspicion of murdering a woman—a woman? I thought those police were asking me a lot of fool questions—couldn't make out what they were driving at. That old porter said those hotel doors were not opened on Thursday night—did he? He's a liar, a leather-faced liar. And that other Frenchman, the one with the black mustache—he's a liar, too. They carried somebody away from that place about daylight the next morning. Let me out of here—let me get out. No, no. I forgot." Joe caught him firmly by the arm and sat him down at the table again. Joe was now much more excited than the other man. "Tell me, Noel, tell me! You say those doors were opened on Thursday night, that they carried somebody out of there the next morning? What do you know about it?" "I saw it myself—stood right there and watched the whole thing. I walked up and down that street all night long. An ambulance from the hospital came there about daylight—men with uniforms on—yellow flag. They took somebody out of there on a stretcher. I don't know how, but I got the idea that it was a woman. Both of those ying hounds helped to lift the stretcher into the ambulance." At the words "hospital," "stretcher," "yellow flag." Joe bounded to his feet. He stopped, listened to a few more sentences, then tore open the door and rushed like a madman through the corridor. It was done so quickly that he got away before Duke could understand what had happened. When he ran out of the cell and reached the jailer's door he heard Joe's excited voice in the room. "Look here, Mr. Fitzgerald, he says that some one was taken away from that hotel in an ambulance—" Jimmy Fitz and the jailer were already on their feet, standing close together for protection—they had heard Joe coming. Baker tried to slip out through the door, but Joe blocked it, and the man took refuge behind a THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Houses and banquettes crept by on either side; never-diminishing stream of human life crawled on—black-coated men lifted their shining hats to every sinnerer in petticoats—how she hated them all! Father of Mercy, would she never get home, never get beyond the reach of prying eyes? Would she never be able to close her own door, and be alone with herself?—alone for one moment when she might let go. Anla felt that she was clinging tightly to something that she could not let go—of which she dared not let go. If she could only break down and weep. No, no, no, she could not do that. There would be Mrs. Chaudron and Alice—perhaps Felix Chaudron and Woodford Yance—they would ask her a thousand questions. How could she tell them? How could she stand it? Yet she must hold up her head and face it all. There was no hovel in all the city where she might hide. Anita paid the man mechanically, and glanced up that interminable walk which led to the front door. Oh, if she only dared slip round the house and go into the conservatory where she could be alone. She thought of a sheltered spot upon the mountain side at home, where she used to go and sit, where nobody came to ask her questions, where she could let go, let go. It was there she went in the evenings after her brother's death, and her father's. Evening after evening she sat gazing through the trees, past the windling roads and tiny creeks, across the flatwoods country to the far-lying ribbon of the James. There was silence in the mountains, there was companionship on the plains; God's peace was everywhere. The city stifled her, she could not breathe; she could not think. "Yes, yes," Anita nodded. She must go into the house; she must tell Mrs. Chaudron something; she must hold up her head. Celeste opened the front door. "Why, Miss Anita, are you fill? Let me bring a glass of wine—some water?" "No, thank you, Celeste; you are very good." Anita bore herself erect, yet she felt that she was staggering, feeling her way through the hall. She laid her hand upon the newel post; how could she ever get to the top of those terrible stairs? The girl halted, steadied herself for the effort, and—the telephone rang. The bell started her; she dreaded to answer. "Walt, Alice," Mrs. Chaudron re-strained the girl. "Here comes Felix, he knows Dr. Anderson very well." Another cab dashed up to the curb; Chaudron and Vance sprang out before it stepped. The man who had been clinging to the fence caught sight of them and dodged around the corner. desk. Fitz and Baker and the jailer glanced uneasily at each other. "Yes, Mr. Balfour—" Jimmy Fitz began. "In a hospital ambulance on Friday morning—" "Well, you see, Mr. Balfour, it was this way—" "Those two Frenchmen helped to put a stretcher in the ambulance—" "Yes, Mr. Balfour." Jimmy had now caught his breath; he spoke in the most conciliatory tone, spreading out his hands as if he were pouring oil on the troubled waters. "Yes, Mr. Balfour, you see it was reported by a physician that Mrs. Ashton had the smallpox, and we wanted to keep it quiet until after Mardi Gras—" Joe stopped, perfectly still, and stared at the officer. He could not comprehend. Jimmy Fitz nodded, without a glimmer of surprise on his face. Joe looked at the jailer, at Baker—neither of them were surprised. "Then, then," he commenced rather vaguely, but his voice began to rise; "then—you—knew—this—all—the time? Then you were ying to us and sending us off on all sorts of fool errands—keeping us amused like a lot of children." "For keep—ing quiet? For keep—ing qul—et!" "Yes, sir, you see it would not do—" The storm burst. Joe farmly denounced the detectives, denounced the police, denounced their whole infernal system. Once Jimmy's voice piped out, weak and apologetic: "But the board of health—" "Damn your board of health, damn your Mardi Gras, damn you and all your pack of liars—" Joe advanced farther and farther into the room until he drove the three men into a corner where they had to listen. He overwhelmed their explanations in a whirlwind of impetuous wrath. Duke stood in the doorway, listening. There was perhaps never another instance in his career when he failed to assume his full share of such an argument. But this discussion presented no openings; there were no crevices, no joints, no pauses for breath or punctuation. There was only one side to the argument, and Joe was taking good care of that. There were no gaps where he could squeeze in a suggestion, no halt for mouth-filling, mind-relieving words. At sea Neo Duke had made a dazzling reputation for his command of spectacular English suited to a sailor's comprehension. But now perforce he listened in wide-eyed, tight-lipped admiration, as a rank amateur listens to a past-master of his art. There was never an instant when he felt that a syllable of his could add to the picturesque remarks of steady old Joe Balfour—easy going Joe, who was noted for holding his temper and his tongue. Jimmy Fitz, Baker and the jaller huddled closer in their corner; they wriggled and writted, but did not contradict. And therein they displayed their eminent good sense. When the tempest had lashed itself to tatters Joe reached into the huddle, caught Baker's arm and jerked him out. "Get me a cab—and get it quick." Baker vanished through the door. Joe held his position between Jimmy Fitz and the hall, making a few observations that he had forgotten during the first eruption. Neither of the men replied. Joe was very sorry that they did not. For several minutes Jimmy Fitz stood with his mouth open, as if waiting a chance to get in a word. Then J. H. H. "GET ME A CAB." he lifted his fluger, and pointed: "Your cab is waiting. Mr. Balfour." As Joe bolted out of the prison gates he caught Baker by the arm. "Get in that cab, quick!" Baker had not expected this, but he got in; and Duke got in behind him. "To the House of the Samaritan," Joe ordered the driver. The cabman lashed his beast. It was half-past 11 o'clock on Sun day morning. CHAPTER XVII ANita, dry-eyed and silent, rode home in the cab alone. The monotonous thump! thump! thump! the horse's hoofs up that long street of never-ending asphalt seemed to beat in upon her brain and deaden it. She wondered vaguely if men suffered when stricken with a mortal wound. Did a woman ever suffer? Could a woman suffer? Was it very queer that she should sit dumbly, with her hands folded? Was it so very selfish that she did not consider her aunt, that she thought of something else? Why did she not scream? Was it because she did not care? On, on, on the street ran, past row after row of stupid-looking houses, their windows blinking at her in the sun. On, on it ran, far—farther than she could see—beyond the boundaries of the world, into the narrow lane of eternity. Thump! thump! thump went the horse's hoofs; beat! beat! beating in upon her soul. The cab rolled on, and stopped at Mrs. Chaudron's. Mrs. Chaudron tapped on the upper window and beckoned her to hurry. It rang again, impatiently, per- emptorily before she could reach it. "Miss Cameron? Is that you?" the voice she heard was trembling with excitement. "This is Joe Balfour, Mrs. Ashton I here, at the House of the Samaritan, suffering from a slight attack of smallpox or variloloid. She's doing splendidly, in no danger what-ever— Anita's knees gave way; she dropped the receiver. When she caught it up again Joe had gone. "Oh, Mrs. Chaudron! Alice!" she shouted, and started to run. At the foot of the stairs everything suddenly became dark—and peace came. "What is it, dear?" When Anita opened her cus Mrs. Chaudron was bending over her, and Celeste. "I-I think I stumbled—" "Poor child, you must get some sleep—" "No, no," she sprang up; "she's found! she's found! she's well!" Mr. Balfour found her at the House of the Samaritan—" Then Anita rushed up the stairs to Alice with the glad news. It was scarcely half an hour later when Mrs. Chaudron, Alice and Anita alighted from their carriage in front of a small red building that stood in one corner of the hospital grounds. The pest-house itself, with its great gray gables shrieking back among the trees, no visitor was permitted to enter. Joe's cab was still waiting at the gate. Baker clung nervously to the iron fence, glancing once in awhile at the door. "Hurry, Anita, hurry!" Alice called, excitedly fumbling with the latch. "Hurry, Mr. Chaudren," Alice begged. "Please open this gate." Anita put her arm about the impatient girl. The instant the gate was opened Alice broke away from Anita, ran up the walk, climbed the stone steps, and Miss Thibodaux, the head nurse, confronted her in the door. "My mother, my—" Alice gasped. "Yes, my dear, come in." Miss Thibodaux nodded pleasantly to Mrs. Chaudron, and drew Alice into the hall. "Dr. Anderson is with your mother; he will be here presently. Good morning, Mrs. Chaudron, Mr. Chaudron." "How is Mrs. Ashton?" Felix Chaudron asked. The calm-faced woman smiled, a confident competent smile that gave Alice a world of comfort. "Mrs. Ashton is doing very nicely indeed, thank you. Mr. Chaudron. Come right in here. Don't be uneasy, miss, your mother is getting well just as quick as ever she can." "Where is mother? I want to see her," Anita insisted. "The doctor will be here presently." Miss Thibodaux parried the question. Miss Thibodaux parried the question. Woodford Vance passed on and entered the small reception-room into which Miss Thibodaux had pointed them. Now, that the strain was over, and the excitement, he felt a consuming curiosity to know how this singular flasco had come about. He stepped into the room alone. There was a man standing at the window; a man very much preoccupied, gazing across the hospital yard. Something familiar about the attitude caught Vance's eye. He looked again, took a quick stop forward, and stopped. It was the same man whose brief and active acquaintance he had made in Pedro's Place. Vanee hesitated in the doorway as if fighting down a desire to go over and catch hold of the man's arm again—just to see what would happen. While he was still standing in the doorway Anita passed in behind him, and he heard her smothered exclamation. "Noel!" The man turned slowly from the window, as if annoyed at the intrusion. He saw Anita; his face lighted, and he came across the room. Mrs. Chaudron and her son had stopped in the hall with Alice, and were talking to the nurse. Duke walked straight to Anita without perceiving the stranger—other people were nothing to him. She saw that his eyes looked neither to the right nor left; he did not see Vance; and Anita feared that he might say something indiscreet. "Mr. Duke, this is Mr. Vance—" she said, quietly. Duke glanced with purely formal interest at the stranger, stopped abruptly, and—Vance laughed. "Oh!" Anita looked from one to the other in great surprise; "you knew each other? I thought—" "We did not know each other; we met—accidentally—once," Vance corrected with such a good-natured grimice that Duke's lips twisted themselves into a smile. Then the fellow, perfectly incapable of harboring malice, stuck out his hand, and the other took it. He could do nothing else while Anita was standing beside him. Even after Mrs. Chaudron and the others had come into the room, crowding it with discussion, once in awhile he would catch Vance looking sidewise at him. It irritated Duke to see the other man smile. Of course Vance had the best of it, he thought. And Vance could not keep from smiling at their absurd adventure in Pedro's "rester-raw." Mrs. Chaudron paced the floor, expressing her unqualified disapproval of Dr. Anderson, a matter which the nurse tacfully avoided. Anita settled down upon the sofa with Alice. Chaudron and Vance had drifted over to the window with Noel Duke, None of them could understand exactly what had happened. They knew that Victor Labouisse had sent Mrs. Ashton to the hospital, and that the police had conspired together to mislead them. But for the life of him Chaudron could not see how the thing had been kept so quiet. And then it suddenly dawned upon him that the newspapers had never even mentioned the occurrence. "They must have known, too," he thought. "How did Joe manage to stumble on it?" Chaudron asked of Vance. Vance did not know; and Duke volunteered no information. "Anyway it's a damned outrage," Chaudron said, "and I'm going to make 'em swat for it—after the Carnival. Joe will be here in a minute; he knows." Bald said little or nothing; he only watched his chance to get away. But glancing again at Anita, he waited. He stood there, half listening to the discussion between Chaudron and Vance, half-looking at Anita. The tense anxiety of these last few days had only made her forehead seem paler and purer, had only deepened the violet mystery of her eyes, had only touched the firmness of her lips with a tremor of pathetic sweetness. He shuddered to imagine her being brought into the polluted atmosphere of a prison in consequence of his erime. "My God!" he thought, "punishment reaches out like the tentacles of a devil-fish, and clutches everything you love. Here comes Joe," he spoke aloud, pointing out two men who were crossing the yard. "And Dr. Anderson," Chaudron added. Dr. Anderson hurried along with the tread of a man who has no apologies to make; the tall guard old surgeon strode ahead of Joe, swinging his arms and shaking his head aggrily. His decided steps rang through the hall, then, white-balared and indignant he burst into the room. "Mrs. Chaudron, this is an outrage, an infernal outrage—" Alice sprang up, ran to him, and caught his hands. "But, my mother—" The old doctor took her into his big comforting arms. "She'll be well again pretty soon, and she wants you to enjoy Mardi Gras. Now, my child, don't be worried any more. Your mother is doing nicely, and in the very best place that she could possibly be. Mrs. Chandron, this is an outrage; I never suspected the trick. That fellow Labouisse telephoned for our ambulance and brought Mrs. Ashton here about daylight Friday morning. He said nothing about her having relatives who might be uneasy. She supposed that the girls understood, and did not want them exposed to infection. Labouisse has been coming here twice a day, bringing flowers and messages which he said were from the young ladies. Mrs. Ashton knew that you had taken them to your house, and sent her thanks by Labouisse. She is quite contented, and has not the faintest idea how anxious this poor girl has been. Of course, I shall not tell her now; it would only fret her—" Anita tried conscientiously to listen as the surgeon reassured Alice, and denounced the subterfuge which had caused such unaccomplishment. Yet her ears and eyes wandered persistently to the three men who gathered around Joe Balfour at the window. They deluged him with questions, at all once. Joe was still very angry, but he had worn the wire edge off his temper in those few remarks hurled at Jimmy Fitz. "That dyed-mustache devil Labouise started it. I'm going down there after awhile to tell him what I think of him—" "No, Mrs. Ashton will be well in a few days." Duke interrupted, dryly: "leave him to her, she'll attend to his case better than you can." "Yet, yes, that's so. It secures that Mrs. Ashton was in kill n ill during the night. The two girls slept soundly and did not hear her when she called Arthur. Arthur came—he has nursed your care of health—and they see her." across the street. He's some kind of an officer in the board of health. I'll have to pay my respects to him before I go home. He promptly diagnosed the case as smallpox. Labourise was afraid that his guests would leave the house—you know he never makes a red cent except at Mardi Gras. So he bundled Mrs. Ashton off in a hurry, cleared everything out of that room, and refurnished it before morning—even put new paper on the walls. Pretty slick trick, wasn't it? "I don't think he originally meant to carry the thing so far. But he kept getting deeper and deeper in the mud until he couldn't back out. He just had to go on. "When the police came, Labouisse tipped them off the first thing. Of course, they were dead anxious to prevent a smallpox scare right in the face of Mardi Gras, with the town full of strangers. They took every precaution, and there was really no danger. These Carnival visitors would have lit out from here like a flock of partridges, and hit the ground running. So the police threw dust in our eyes, told us any old thing, sent us off on false trails—anything to keep us amused until after the Carnival. That's the truth of it. Then it got so hot for them that they couldn't tell." "But what about that room?" Chaudron asked—"the door that had the broken knob? I can't get that straight in my head." "Labouisse cleaned it out; changed the furniture, pictures; everything; the girls got excited and confused; that helped Labouisse." Duke was beginning to understand. It began to penetrate his head that he had been made a scapegoat, a mere dummy for the purpose of diverting suspicion. It dawned upon him gradually, almost imperceptibly, that his arrest had no connection whatever with the affair at Vicksburg. And all the while he had had no other thought except that he was being held pending the arrival of extradition papers from Mississippi. It took him quite a little while to fully comprehend. Great God, to what depths had he descended, he, Noel, Duke, to be picked up on the streets like a common vagrant, cast into prison, suspected of murdering a woman! And he dared not open his lips. Anita heard it, she saw him there; perhaps she suspected. She heard that insolent creature asking him questions. What could she think? What could Joe think? Oh, well, he could not help it now. "It doesn't matter anyway." He turned off with a shrug, and went to another window. But Anita was watching him, he knew it, he felt it—watching him not so much with her eyes as with her very soul, tortured with doubts. The girl had long forgot her aunt lying ill in the red ward, forget the people around her, forgot Alice whose head she was stroking—forgot everything except the one thing, the unforgettable thing. Why was Noel in that prison? Why did he not deny those fearful accusations? It was so unlike him to be silent; they talked to him as if he had been a thieving negro, and he said nothing. Yes, yes, Noel had been wild, she knew that. But Anita came of wild stock herself. Brothers, father, grand-fathers—as far back as there was any record of them—the Camerons had been hard-riding, hard-fighting, hard-loving, hard-hating gentlemen. It was in her blood, and Anita understood. But when men impugned the Cameron honor, when men accused them of crime! Anita's full round eyes rested upon Noel Duke, and wondered. The subtle magnetism of her gaze drew the man unresistingly toward her; whether against his will or no, she could not tell. Step by step he crossed the room, touched her on the elbow, and she, looking at him all the while, seemed to rouse herself and be conscious that he stood beside her. "I must see you at once—alone," he bent down and whispered. "May I come this afternoon?" "At three," she answered, and gave the address on St. Charles avenue. "Alone; people must not see me," he insisted. "Come to the side door, next the conservatory; around the corner on Bellevue street, number 48." Anita Jannet "AT THREE." went on calmly stroking Alice's hair, is if she were quite accustomed to making such appointments. He moved away aimlessly, absent-mindedly. As he passed the door she saw him step into the hall and disappear. After Duke went out Anita half-listened to the other three young men who were talking angrily; they seemed to be just realizing the thinness of the bluff that had been played upon them. "Well!" Chaudron remarked, innocently; "it's no wonder that poor Baker could not get on the track of anything, with all those fellows pulling against him." Joe could not help it; he looked at Chaudron, and laughed. "Poor Baker—poor Baker knew more about it than anybody; he came out here half a dozen times to see how Mrs. Ashton was getting on—" Chaudron stared—the fullness of Baker's duplicity burst upon him. Joe. "He's out there in the street, came in the cab with me. I saw him walking up and down the sidewalk a few minutes ago." Chaudron snatched his hat from the table and boiled out of the door. The detective prided himself upon his intuitions—and discretion. For an hour he had been hanging to the iron fence in front of the little red house trying to catch a whiff from the pot of trouble that was stealing inside. Not a word could he hear, and it made him desperately uneasy. The atmosphere began to feel sultry; the barometer fell as if the bottom had dropped out. "Hit's goin' to blow," thought Baker, and pulled his hat on tighter. If that lawyer from Vicksburg who looked so bloomin' good-natured, could raise such a row, Baker shuddered to think what would happen when Chaudron, the fiery Creole, exploded. And the more he thought, the less of curiosity he had to witness it. When Chaudron bounded through the door he saw no diggety little Englishman racing up and down the banquette; there was no checkered suit hanging over the fence, and none of the caben knew in which direction it had vanished. Dr. Anderson accompanied Mrs. Chaudron and the girls to their carriage, gave Alice his final assurances, and they drove away. Chaudron hurried his mother off, jerking restlessly at his tiny mustache. "Come along," he caught Vance by the arm, "let's go find Baker." "All right," the other man laughed, getting into the cab. "I've got to play even on somebody." Then Joe began to look around for Duke. The erstwhile prisoner had disappeared, as silently and effectually as Baker. He had walked out of the front door, and seeing no one to hinder, went his way unmoistened. "I think he went down that way," he cabman suggested, pointing in the direction of Canal street. Joe's temper was getting raw; the slightest thing irritated him. "Now, I'll have to find him again," he swore between his teeth; "and the devil only knows where he has gone this time." TO BE CONTINUED. A RHAPSODY. Plei Brown, Iuscious Morse! Why Dost thou crush us Later with a dream That raises Cain! A pain Which e'er presages A midnight scream? Oh, why? And yet, If youder waitress, pompadoured, Will turn this way, And in her bored Manner drawl, "Dessert?" You bet I'll say, "Pie, please." "What kind?" "Oh, cheese, Or apple, coconut, or peach, or plum, Pumpkin, custard, mince, raisin—yum— Bring me anything, my Dear, so long as it's PIE!" —Philadelphia, North American. Mr. Rounder—Does your Cousin George take as much interest in horse racing as he used to? Mrs. Rounder—Yes, indeed, George can always tell the day before a race which horse ought to win, and the day after why he didn't—Rochester Democrat. His Count "Why, I thought you told me you had nine rascals in here," said the visitor. "I see only two. "You don't see correctly," answered the turnkey. "The one with the ragged beard is a horse thief." The one with the smooth face is a bank wrecker, who robbed poor people. He's the other light."—Chicago Tribune. "Well," said the beautiful girl, "it will soon be time for you to return to your labors in Washington, won't it, senator?" "Oh, I got all that happily fixed up. I'm paired with Senator Flubbington, and we intend to spend the winter fishing along the coast of Florida."—Chicago Record-Herald. Feminine Way "A woman," remarked the cynical bachelor, "seldom says what she thinks." "That's right," remarked the man who had been married so long that he had to comb his hair with a towel; "she only says what she thinks she thinks." - Chicago Daily News. Not Knowing. "That San Francisco disaster was a terrible thing, wasn't it?" "Oh, I don't know; it separated my rich uncle from his fims and I got it." "What became of your uncle?" "Nobody knows; all that is known is that he was killed?"—Houston Post. Poetic. "My heart is a garden and you are its rose," the young man said. "Sh-she" replied the girl. "If pa hears you he may take it into his head to be the pig that comes in and roots around."—Chicago Record-Herald. THE PLANET GHOST VISITS HALL OF GIRL STUDENTS EVANSTON SHOCKED BY TEMER- ITY OF UNEARTHLY SPIRIT. MANY SEE APPARITION Appears Before Belated Residents of Chicago's Aristocratic Suburb—Police Trying to Solve the Mystery. Chicago.—Evanston, refusing to play second fiddle to Englewood, has developed a first-class, unalloyed ghost, and a fastidious one at that. For the last five nights the police department has been trying to solve the mystery and after the last performance, in which the ghost had the effrontery to circle around Willard hall, the home of 300 girl students of Northwestern university, four times, the minions of the law are more determined than ever to lay low the offending spirit. The apparition in white, feet as a hare and imbued with the astonishing habit of appearing and disappearing before the wondering eyes of the beholder at will, was first seen by Sergt. Jamison between the hours of twelve and one o'clock in Sheridan road, near Maln street, South Evanston. Ten minutes later Patrolman McArdle, stationed in North Evanston, saw the same identical shade floating along Sheridan road toward Willmotte. Every night since then, with prodigious speed even for a ghost, the apparition has made its appearance in different parts of Evanston and Wilmette around the hour of midnight. Automobile parties returning home late have seen it for a moment in the glare of their searchlights and then lost sight of it, only to have it appear the second time two or three miles farther along their route. Belated pedestrians have been terrified by having it appear running along beside them for a moment and then disappearing in the darkness. When Assistant Chief Shaffer first had the matter brought to his attention he ridiculed the idea that it could be a ghost and offered as a solution of the affair the theory that some health maniac was doing a running stunt. Therefore, Sergt. Jamison seated himself at the telephone desk and after monopolizing the wires for two hours announced that Evanston's 55 physicians had not recommended night air as beneficial to any of their patients. The other day all the men students of the university and academy were approached by their professors. "Why, we would rather sleep than eat, let alone roaming Evanston's streets at midnight," was the tenor of the answers the professors received. The police department, baffled, gave THE GOD OF WAR The Ghost Terrifies Belated Automobilists. up the problem in despair and as the ghost was doing no apparent harm would have let the matter drop if the shade had kept to the road. The visit to Willard hall, however, was too much for a police department to ignore. "Just think of it!" Patrolman Newel exclaimed. "Did you ever see such nerve in all your life? Why, a live man, let alone a shade, would not dare approach Willard hall after nine o'clock at night. It's simply shocking. Something must be decamped to stop it or the girls will decamp for other parts." Accordingly the reserve force of special policemen will be called upon and the offender, ghost or maniac, will be given "a run for his money." Girl Seeks to Man Engine. Albany, N. Y.-Stationmaster Reis of the New York Central nearly collapsed when a pretty young woman with blend hair walked into his office at the Union station and asked if she could get a position as engineer or fireman on the road. She gave her name as Miss E. H. Snyder and said she was a graduate of a mechanical school. 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As soon as enough had arrived the hen GROCET The Queer Coin-Collector of the Organ Grinder. dropped to the ground and began to navigate in a series of circles toward possible donors of coin. Owing to the fact that one leg was shorter than the other it could not proceed in a straight line, and its efforts to pick pennies tossed on the ground were extremely ludicrous. Once it had a coin in its beak the hen would flutter and squawk and circle back to the grinder and place the treasure in his breeches pocket. Then it would navigate back to the crowd and look for more. The long neck of the fowl was of advantage, for, by standing on the toes of its long leg, it could search vest pockets for pennies. In this way several were added to the collection. The hen, in fact, was as good a pickpocket as was ever found operating at the county salt. Accounted For. Loeye—It's dusty on the river, today, Uncle Henry? Uncle Henry—Yah; dot is because de wind is blowing der shore off—Yonkers Statesman. 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You can send money in his Sanner et ourgiake We cannot be rempomatble for money sent in letiore'n any chner way tha one of the feat Chys mentioned shoves "Lf yon send our son Sy way other way, You mant'do @ at Pour Rasawata, Pro--It ro, do not want tne vlaner comtinasd feranetier pear Sate St Prpeie See ran cat ee ee wily oy Eistei Card toeiccostinaste. The seucte hare Wtheg Mia eciecribers rhe phe ration of time Yor whiek te bes, en psi SNF he Por ale payment of the game eer meskr nee Coma nteariows—When writteg to ue ‘0 synew Font pakecrptlon or ecko tee roc? Sater, Jum ahnald give yore azo wd wid ren a hail abcewine we canucl Gat yer une CUANOR Of ADtME® —In onder t0 chases us naire ut aatecritorr we tase te mat tie furmen ne well an the pesca whites Entered at the Post Ofhce at Richmond. Vn. opens iaater. ee eee SATURDAY, JANUARY 127TH, 1907, President Roosevelt has made a mess of that Brownsville, Texas af- fair and everybody knows it Colored men should be polite and obliging. Let us live upright. God will be with us. Ben Tiliman with horns seems to be more in our favor than Theodore Roosevelt with wings at this time. Colored folks have already begun to count the days, when President Roosevelt's time will be out. President Roosevelt sent to Texas to get information to justify a con- vietion and punishment without trial. According to Senator Culverson, a colored soldier can get more jus- tice In Brownsville, Tex. than he can in Washington, D. C. President Roosevelt has not only Aischarged some of the colored sol- iers from the army, but he has pro- ceeded to dismiss all of them from the country. He has sent them to the Piilippines. We are badly handicapped in our fight In the United States Senate on the colored soldier question. We have the ardent support of Senator B. R. Tillman. If we can win with ‘him,—well, we could win anyway. Let us be polite and obliging to An unusual extent to the white peo- ple of this section. Let us be so to ovr own color. We will win friends and they are sadly needed at this time. We presume that the publisher of that “Booker T. Washington Social Equality Picture” has gone out of business. There is no demand for it down this way now, unless some “poor devil” would be under the im- Pression that by exhibiting it, he would tantalize President Roose- velt. We met a colored merchant a few days ago who was in despair. In January of last year, he ordered ex- pensive Rooseygit calendars for dis- tribution and this year, be is long- ing for some one to come and get them for distribution. His trade is colored, and the white folks have not as yet put in application. The Senate of South Carolina seems to have no confidence in its representatives in Congress, when it has to go into the business of instructing them how to vote. Well, there ts one thing we aave learned since the advent and reign of President Roosevelt and that is that soldiers and civilians are out- side of the constitution when It comes to ap executive order. Tac soldier is outside in the United States and the civilian is outside in the Philippines. ‘The best way to get rid of state's rights fs not by election or congres- sional enactments, but by appoint- ments to the Supreme Court. That's the logical deduction drawn from the speech made recently by Secre- tary Root by the command and au- thority of the President of the United States. It must be evident to everybody, now, why President Roosevelt has persistently declared that he will not stand for election for another term. He doesn’t propose that his enemies shall have a chance to work on his hide. He has a great head and In this he has shown transcend- ent judgment. When it comes to stopping Sen- ator Tillman from getting a blow in on President Roos.velt, it will re- quire more states than are in the American union, not excepting South Carolina to do it. Sénator Tillman is like a bull-tog.—you can't call him off by whistling or by passing resolutions either. Senator Lodge says the President of the United States has the right as Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy to punish or discharge, then came, except so far as it {s lim- ited or regulated by the law-making power, which has enacted the arti- cles of war. It is this “except” bus iness that we are talking about. Senator Lodge seemed to have for gotten that there is a discharge with ‘honor and a discharge without hon- or and a dishonorable discharge. The Constitution of the United States provides that any of these methods of getting out of the army as a method of punishment shall on- ly be accomplished by means of a court-martial, Senator Daniel Is of the opinion that the angels will protect the Inno- cent colored soldiers of the Twenty- fifth Infantry. Maybe, he’s right, but that’s after they are dead, Sena- tor and what we are hunting for is protection while they are lying. Mr. Foraker said that the con- tract of enlistment could be terml- nated at the pleasure of the govern- ment subject to the articles of war and rules and regulations of the ser- vice. Senator Lodge said about the same thing, but argued about as far away from it as the poles. “There 1s no autocracy tn this country. or autocratic, Wietatorial, unrestrained, and unrestricted pow: er: no, not éven in the Commander- in-Chief of the Army. All power is derived from the Constitution.” ‘These words volced by Senator JB. Foraker of Ohio will strike most people, both North and South as being correct. Senator Daniel said that he can- not agree with the President that he had the right to debar colored sol- diers from ever re-enlisting or from ever holding civil office under the government. We wonder if the Sen- ator will ever darken the front door of the White House again, after making that statement. That's a- bout the gist of our argument against that Presidential order. Senator Daniel says that he fs not in favor of a centralized form of government as enunciated by Secre- tary Root and President Roosevelt. It’s comforting to know that, but very unwise to say it just at tais time. If he is going to stand by the President, for God's sake, keep quiet about those things that you are not going to stand by him on. Senator Foraker challenged the Senator from Massachusetts ami the President of the United States and the War Department to cite a sin- gle instance where a man, charged with a crime had been discharged from the army, without honor, when THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. he had protested against being so discharged. None of them ean cite such a case. Senator Foraker sald that each tnember of Companies B, C, and D had a right to the benefit of the 146th regulation of the army—that he should have a board of enquiry and should have it without asking for it. No one denies this and yet the distinguished occupant of the White House, the advocate of a ‘square deal” refuses to give them the benefit of this plain provision of the law, Senator Daniel, In discussing the Brownsville affair says that the an- gels look after the innocent, If he refers to their efforts in this life, he must have taken this method of paying a deserved tribute to Sena- tor J. B. Foraker of Ohio, who seems now to be in possession of the heavenly wings for this special purpose. Senator Foraker declared that the power of the President of tae Unit- ed States as Commander-in-Chief of the Army was not deduced from what was the power of the Command er-in-Chief of the British Army but fron the Constitution of the United States. This must have been news to the War Department, whica seemed to have been so intent in imitating British customs as to have forgotten the supreme instrument of law in this country. Congressman Slayden of Texas is in favor of the bill dismissing the colored troops from the army. Pres- ident Roosevelt Is In favor of the order providing for the wismissal of colored troops from this country. The latter has already gone into ef- fect ami {t seems to us that those Texans should be satisfied, and if death shoul! come, die happy. Senator Culberson of Texas says that the reason the grand jury of Texas ald noc indict any of the mem. bers of Companies B,C, and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry was be- cause they did not want to punisi the innocent. It seems that this Is a direct affront to President Roose- velt and the War Department. ‘They did not stand back for such a great big Uhing like that. They had no scruples in the matter. They ad- mittedly punished the innocent with the guilty, demanding that the whole criminal form of our proced. ure be reversed and that soldiers be reqnired to prove themselves both innocent and guilty. President Roosevelt evidently a- bored under the impression that when he consented to the recommen- dation of the War Department that the Negroes be “kicked out of the army, he was on that platform, where his actions would not be open to question. The United States Sen ate seems to be the forum in which he is called upon to defend himself The Negro soldiers, who are out may hot get back, but those who are in will have no recollection of getting out in the way the members of the Twenty-fifte did at Brownsville, Texas, ‘The Senate of South Carolina by & vote of 21 to 16 adopted a reso- intion endorsing President Roose- velt In the Brownsville, Texas affair and calling upon the South Caroli- ha delegation in Congress to sup- port him. This is good news to the colored folks of the country for it neutralizes the offect of the support of Senator Foraker’s resolution by Senator B. R. Tillman, and will off- set our tiandicap in this direction When the Senate of South Caro- lina endorses any policy concerning the Negro, everybody In the United States, including President Roose- velt should know that policy ts wrong. President Roosevelt has been the exemplification of all that is pure and good with the colored folks of this section, but they have ‘had a rude awakening. It reminds us of a story told about Hunnicut, a car- pet-bagger, who wielded a great in- fluence among the colored people immediately after the war. He was making a speech on the Capitol Square here, and a large crowd of colored people were out to hear him. He was about to te- sert his black allies, although they did not at that time know it. Some said he had been bought off. During his remarks, he said, “If I be a candidate for Governor, will you vote for me?" “Yes, yes, yes!" was the response. If I be a candi- date for congress, will you vote for me?" “Yes, yes, yes!” again re- spomled the colored folks. “If I run for President of the United States, will you vote for me?” “Yes, yes, yes!" He paused for a mo- ment and then vehemently asked, “If I go to hell, will you follow me there?” “‘Yes,—y—, No, what did that man say?” From that moment all of is pow- er and influence with the coloret People were gone, and it may be said that he was gone. This fittingly il- lustrates the attltmde of the colored people of this country towards Pres- ident Roosevelt. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT VINDIC- TIVE. ray wet ae: OMeial orders were issued Satur- day, January Sth, 1907 sending ev- ery colored soldier in the American army to the Phillppines. In view of the discussion which tas been taking place in-the United States Senate concerning the dismissed bat- talion of the Twenty-fifth Infantry this will be rightly construed as a- nother method of getting back not only at the colofed soldiers but at their friends in this country as well. ‘The War Department officials glibly explain that it is their turn to go. ‘This may do very well on paper, but when the color Ine fs drawn to the extent of sending them all there at the same time the conclusion will be drawn that this is an unusual exhi- bition vf race prejudice, even for the Negro-haters in this branch of the service. It is admitted that the service Is rigorous and that the colored sol- diers have discharged their duties faithfully wherever assigned. The Indications are. that this affair will be the subject of discussion for ma- ny months to come and that it will constitute an important factor in fu- ture political campaigns. President Roosevelt has not only punished in- nocent men in the companies dismiss ed from the service, but every col- ored soldier in the United States Army is made to feel the effect of this unjust decision. ‘There is some malign influence op erating upon this remarkable man in the White House. It seems to have him in its power as absolutely as did the evil spirit exercise It- self on the swine in the Scriptures and drown them in the sea. But it fs not the first time that colored peo- ple have been similarly treated. The man, politician or statesman, who condemns the Negro with the idea of popularizing himself with any sec- tion of this country will be woefully disappointed in the result of his per- formances. When President Roosevelt admit- ted that there were innocent men in Companies B, ©, and D, 25th Infan- try, men who neither committed the alleged offense nor knew who com- mitted it, he closed the case so far as the attempt of a justification of his acts is concerned and he shocked the moral sensibilities of the nation at large. His efforts to squelch the plans made to Investigate the affair by the Senate Committee on military af- fairs and his sending of Assistant Attorney General Milton D. Purdy to Brownsville, Texas to make a “star chamber” investigation and exami- nation of witmesses have lowered him in the estimation of fair-minded people everywhere, If this can be construed In any sense as being “a square weal” it presents an anomalous condition In a free country. President Roosevelt has gone even further than this in declaring that he would veto any measure passed! by Congréss for the relief of these soldiers and that if the measures were passed over his veto, he would risk Impeachment proceedings by refusing to comply with the command of the represen- tatives of the people. By is action he has given the lawless elements of the country renewed impetus in their movements and he has caused con-| servative statesmen to ask, whither are we drifting and wonder, if the time has come when the Chief Ex- ecutive of tie Nation is above the law. One thing ts evident to our minds and that ix that the distinguished | occupant ef the White House has) reached the zenith of his glory. His sun has set and he is going down. | The settling of this affair either way will mark the eclipse of this great man’s ambition and from this time | will date the blasting of all of his hopes. Other great men have taken| the wrong side of the Negro aues-| tion and have gone down and Theo-; dore Roosevelt will prove no excep- tion to the rule” He fad an oppor-| tunity to do right and he turned a- way. Selah. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND HIS | PoLicy. , In view of the virulent attitude of the Dreident of the, United. State toward the colored soldiers of the refer to Mr. John Corrigan’s corres- pondence in the Atlanta Constitution of December Sth, 1906. Taat gen- tleman is the Washington corres- pondent of that ably edited demo- cratic journal. He said: “The President will not consider the applications which have been filed for appointment to the post of internal revenue collector at Atlanta to succeed Rucker. The positive announcement comes from a_relia- ble source with the evident authority of the President. From all the in- formation that can be gathered here the President will not molest, ex- cept for cause, any of the Negro ap- pointees he inherited, and who have an indefinite tenure of office subject an Indefinite tenure of office subject = a range: . ‘glared, fake the faltiative in ¢ te holders in the South.” Subsequent developments seem to have borne out this view of the sit- uation. He will “bear the fils, ae has, rather than fly to those he knows not of.” So Collector Ruck- er Is an Inherited “source of afic- tion so to speak and for this reason will not be disturbed. Let us all be thankful for that. Mr. Corrigan ‘said: “In this connection, it may be stated that the president feels very keenly the distasteful cartoons and offensive criticism of him waich bhve appeared recently in southern papers. His attention has been di- rected to one cartoon in particular, which was reproduced by a Philadel phia paper from The New Orleans Picayune. In one sketch the pres- ident was represented as cheek by jowl with a Negro, and in the next was facing the Negro the drawing of the two faces being designed to make them appear similar. The president seems honestly surprised at such criticism coming from the south at this time, in view of the at- tacks which have been made upon him in other quarters for his act In discharging the Negro battalion en- gaged in the Brownsville outrage. The charge was made that he dis- charged them for no other reason than because they were Negroes. When Representative Livingston called upon the secretary of the treasury this morning to urge his recommendation of a democratic as- pirant in the event the president concluded to abandon Rucker, he was promptly showed The Picayune cartoon. The secretary said that the president would not terminate Rucker's tenure of office. It may be set down as positive, therefore, that Rucker in Atlanta, Crum tn Charles- ton, Deveraux at Savannah and oth- er ‘southern Negro office-holders, who were appointed before Theo- dore Roosevelt succeeded to the pres idency, will not be disturbed. No new ones, however, will be appoint- ed. “Two Atlantans, one a white re- publican and the other a democrat, were applicants for the position I~ ed by Rucker, if the office aad been declared vacant.” | It-would appear then that In the Gischarge of the colored troops from the service, Including the gutlty with | the Innocent and the debarring of them from ever re-enlisting In the army or navy of the United States, and from employment in any etvil| department of the government. he| expected the plaudits of the south-| ern press and had hoped to neutral-| ize if not eliminate the effect of his! alleged “social equality” lunch with that distinguished educator and econ | omist, Booker T. Washington ‘The colored man, or the white one either, for that matter, who can- not seo the animus in President Roosevelt's drastic action in tats| matter must be blind indeed. Pres-| ident Roosevelt has bended himself too far backward in this matter and] he tas lost his balance. He expect-| ed Democratic support in the| Senate just as he expected it in the matter of the Rate Bill and he Is being grievously Wisappoint | ed. Even his defenders are admit-| ting that when he attempted to de- clare that a man shall be forever debarred from re-enlistment and that he shall be forever prohibited from holding office unde- the gov-| ernment, he exceeded his authority, as President of the United States. When it is remembered too that he did not originate this order, but approved it, all must admit that the race prejudice therein came by trans mission. It looks to us that Pres-| ident Roosevelt's leg Is In a mind- hole, up to his neck, We are sorry for him —and the colored soldiers Conscientious. _. 2 you guarantee your work to give satistaction?” asked the homely spinster. “Not necessarily," answered the conscientious photoxrapher, “but I guarantee an exact Hkeness”"—Chiea- 0 Daily News, A Womanly Woman, “What.” she asked, “is your idea of a womanly woman?" “One,” he replied, “who takes the comb out of her back halr every tittle While and gtves it two or three up. ward scrapes and thea jabs it in again."—Chicazo Record-Horald, Weitderty—At ttt I haye discovered an easy way te macare my wife, Singteton—Pat wo next. Wedderly—I let her have her own way,—Chicage Daily News, | “Anything te Obtige. Miss Jarmor--'ara says T musn’t see you any more Young Spocsa'l—Well, we musn't disobey papa TH tern the lieht a He tle lower still—Chicaro ‘Vribune. iinet - How, versatile is Vatior Timet Kath season some row change hel ‘The Uahing tackte’s out of date— ‘The football tackle Is the thing, Chicago News SOME GECSCIA TExTs. The word ¢ ey (rom the folks who are always sailing at ft, and leaves them in the wilderness. Sometimes tho devil finds himselt in high water; but he's one of the best swimmers, and hab even been known to set the river on fire. A pint of modest business beats a whole bushel of misery, but the bushel measure Js what this old world ts aft- er every day in the week —Adanta Constitution. SHAH OF PERSIA PASSES AWAY Wealthiest Ruler in the World Died of incurable Malady. HIS JEWELS WORTH £200,000,000 London, Jan.-9—The Uaily Matt's torrespondent at Teheran, in a tele gram sent Tucsday night at 11.50 vclock, says: “Ihe shan of Persia died Tuesday evening. though no pub- lic announcement of the fact will be made until tomorrow (Wednesday). “It was evident Monday that the end was rapidly approaching, and four injections of camphor were employed to prolong the ruler’s life. All the ay fo me 2 . h * 2 AA Gap a FS a SPS \ VS pee Se ee \ Noakes 1 \ Fog fo A\ erart ‘The Sha! ar Persia. Shah's vital functions were suspended ‘Tuesday, and at 5 o'clock in the even- ing the heir apparent and the minis: ters were summoned. The women of the palace also began preparations for mourning. “Soon after sunset the doors of the harem were closed. This was the sign that all was over, “The news of the shah's death Feached the foreign ministers late on Tuesday evening, but the public is still unaware of his majesty’s end.” Muzaffer-ed-Din, shah of shahs, as- cended the throne of Persia May 2, 1896, the day after his father, the famous Nasred-Din, was assassinated by a religious fanatic. | Reputed to be the wealthiest mon- arch in the world, the shah's reign has been clouded by a malady which would not yield to medical treatment. Dur ing his visit to Engiand in 1902, the most ambitious journey he undertook during his life, he was suffering such pain that in spite of the extravagant plans which had been made for his entertainment, he wax sccn to smile but once during his stay. Shortly after his return to Persia he was said to be hopelessly mad. He has lived since that time In semi-se clusion. Muzaffered-Din bas been a reformer during the 10 years of his reign, and the only concessions which the Per- sians have obiained for 4000 years have been made by him. A reign which began most {nauspiciously has continued in peace and quiet. ‘The shab’s houschold made him a unique figure in the 20th century, He was sald to have 800 wives. They were selected as Artaxerxes, who ruled in Persia before Christ, chose his help meets, Every year 100 of the most beautiful maidens in the country were brought be‘ore the shah, He selected the 25 who were most beautiful to him, Muzaffer-ed-Din’s wealth was fabu- lous, although reports of the value of his property have been exaggerated. His jewels are said to be worth $200, 000,000, Most of them are kept in the palace tn glass jars. The crown Itself, surmounted by a great flawless ruby as large as a hen’s exe, 1s valued at several millions. Two gem-studded Swords with their scnbbards were said to have cost $1,000,000 each, ‘The shah of Persia was the absolute ruler of Persia until last August, when he proved his progressiveness by: granting a constitution to his people. ‘The shah's second son, Ali Mahom- met Murra, whom he named as the valiahd, or crown prince, for succes- sion to the throne, Is even more pro- gressive than his father. The shah broke the accepted rule of succession by chootins a son to be valiahd who is not the offepring of a-Kajar prin- cess, but his people have made no ob- ection. Persia, the shxh's kingdom, ts about one-fourth the area of the Untied States, exchidiny Alaska, and hae a population of 9,009,060 persons, The people nearly all live in cities and towns, and larse tracts of land are vir- tually deserted. GAS KILLS ENTIRE FAMILY Six Persons Asphyxiated As They Slept In Vermont Town. Burlington, Vt, Jan. 7.—The entire famlly of George Devino, at Winoosk!, fonsisting of six persons—the father, Mother and four children—were killed during the night by ilauminating gas, which entered the house from a break in the street main through a sewer Pipe. Killed By Headache Powder. Cumberland, Md, Jan. 9—John W. Shinholt, aged 53 years, died suddenly here. Dr. George I.. Carter says death can he directly traceable to a head- ache powder which some advertising agent had loft at the Shinholt house as a sample. Mr. Shinholt complained of a severe pain in theregion of his Fight ere, At his solicitation he was given the healache powder, and ehort- ly after taking it he died. Five Injured Gy Gas Explosion. Punxsutawney, Pa., Jan. 9—James McEwen, his wife and two daugh+ers Were injured and their house was par- tially destroyed by an explocton of Aatural gas, Mrs, McEwen detectod # strong odor of gas in the house when she arose, and she stra k a motcb te Bod the leak. & WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED ‘Thureday, January & fail at econ 2 i Simsaalt Ss is eal 2 aoe bers, who secured jewelry valued at $1000 and escaped. cea ee Tn a fight between the oa Hanks families at Pine Top, Ky., one of the former and two of the latter, wete kilied and ‘several others were wounded, “In a fire in New York a dozen per sons were injured, 40 families made homeless, 50 horses roasted to death and property valued at $200,000 was destroyed. Friday, January 4. Walter D. Swan, an instructor at Harvard University, committed sul- cide at Cambridge, Mass., by shooting himself. William B. DeCosta, the negro tailor, was found guilty of perjury in his tes- timony in the Hartje divorce trial at Pittsburg. Representative Morrell introduced a resolution in congress to widen the channel in tie Delaware river between Philadelphia nd Delaware Bay from 600 to 1000 feet. Cc. R. Keiley, chief of the bureau of exploitation of the Jamestown, Va, exposition, resigned to devote his time to private business, Saturday, January 5. Miss May M. Idler, aged 82 year s, died at her home in Philadelphia from inhaling smoke during a slight fire. ‘Stephen W. Keat, one of the pioneer slate operators in America, died at his home in Bangor, Pa, aged 79 years. Herman Belek was held for trial in Chicago, charged with the murder of three members of the Vzral family for their insurance money. Declaring he was tired of living this: kind of weather, Anthony Koocher at- tempted to commit suicide at Pitts- burg by cutting his throat. Monday, January 7. While her husband talked to an ac quaintance at Hamilton, O., Mrs. Wil- lam Keefe stepped beside him and killed herself. Richard M. Jennings, a wealthy oil operator and president of the Pine Oil company, died suddenly in Pittsburg of heart failure. Retrayed by a plugged nickel taken from a child's bank, John Dillon ts held for robbery at Chicago, $10,000 worth of stuff having been taken from one place. ‘Tommy MecGeough, the Gilberton (Pa.) sprinter, won Margaret Pitts, of Girardville, to be his bride, when he defeated Rarret, of Scranton, in a 100- yard dash at Mahanoy City, Pa. on New Year's day and captured a $2000 purse. Tuesday, January 8. The strike of the clerks on the Southern Railway has been declared off. Because Mrs. Minnie Seekom reject- ed him, Leo Blochosky, in New York, shot her and then killed himself. One man was killed and seven in- Jured, one fatally, in a collision on the = Ogdensburg Railway, near Oswego, N.Y The equestrian statue of General George B. McClellan will be unvelled in Washington on May 2, instead of May 15, as previously stated. Jumping off his train at Bethlehem, Pa.. in order to hurry home, Charles Ritter, a Lehigh Valley Railroad freight conductor, dropped dead of heart failure just as he stepped into his home. Wednesday, January 9. Despondent over the death of her father, Anna McDowell committed suicide by hanging in Philadelphia The iron works of Potts Brothers’ Iron company, at Pottstown, Pa., was daniaced to the extent of $18,000 by fire. Samuel Slater, watchman at the Glen Lyon Dye works, at Providence, R. 1, was shot and killed by burglars, who escaped. Two-yearold Lioyd Buckingham fell into a boiler of scalding water at his home in Philadelphia and recetved in juries that will cause his death. James Cullen stabbed his wife and steyson to death at Charles City, Minn., and then attempted to kill him. self, but changed his mind and started feet ts ete We’ ecae aecasee PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Pitncinal Midian - PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm; winter extras, $2.80@3; Penna. roller, clear, $3.05@'3.20: city milis, fancy, $1.5004.75. RYE FLOUR firm, at $3.75 per barrel. WHEAT steadys No. 2 Penna. rod. 734 @74e. CORN frm: No. 2 yellow. ‘local, 53@54e. OATS firm: No. 2 white, clipped, 41e.; lower grades, 39%c. HAY frm: No. 1 timo thy. large bales, $21.“ RERE steady: family, per barrel, $19.50. BEEF firm; beef hams, per barrel, $19. POULTRY: Live firm: hens, 13@18ge.; old ro-at- ers, 949%%c. Dressed steady; choice fowls, 13e.; old roosters, #'4¢. BUT. TER firm; extra creamery, 36c. EGGS. steady; selected, $0@ 32¢.; nearby, 27e.; western, 27¢.: southern, 24@ 260. POTATOES firm; 55@58e. per bush, BALTIMCRE—WHEAT armor; No. 2 spot. 774@77'c,; steamer No. 2 Spot, 7% G7ec; ‘southern, ene T5e.’ CORN’ steady, mixed spot, 4% @ATM%e.; steamer Mixed. Me@isher southern, 44h @4ic. OATS — steady; white, No. 2, filg@dze.; No. 3, 40%4@ fle; No. 4, 38@29c.; ‘mixed, No. 2, 3916 @40c.; No. 3. 3814@39c.; No. 4 27@38c. “RUTTER firm; creamery separator extras, eas: held, 24 @25e.; prints, 35 34e.; Maryland and Penna. dairy’ prints, 20@21c. EGGS: easy; fancy Mgrviand, Penna. and Vir- ginia. 24¢.; West Virginia, 28¢.; southern, 21@22¢. per dozen. Live Stock Markets. Z PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)— CATTLE. steady; choice, eee: prime, $5.50@5.75. SHEEP steady: prime’ wethers, $5.60@5.75; culls and common, $26 3; iambs, $507.89; veal calves, $8.50 9.25. HOGS active and higher; " prime “heavies, §$6.65@670; recipe and heavy Yorkers, S275: Hight’ Yorkers and pigs, $6.50@68a; foughs, $546. Christmas Tree Fire Burns Two. Newark, N. J. Jan. 7.—E. Callan Duffy, of Washington, D. C., secretary of the Pigeon Club of America, and his wife were painfully burned about the face and hands while extinguishing a Christmas tree fire here. Their injuries are not dangerous. The Duffys are guests at the home of his uncle, Charles M. Duffy. ite ve in Gas FIREMAN SAVED FROM AWFUL DEATH New York, Jan. 8. — After being buried alive under tons of~w»bris for over 24 hours, Fireman J. Seufert ‘was rescued from the ruins of a fire that destroyed Hill’s paver warehouse on Roosevelt street Sunday night, Seu: fert will live, although he is very weak and his right leg is badly injured. ‘The search for the three firemen who went down with the ruins when Hill's paper warehouse was burned was suddenly halted as the sound of ‘some one rapping on a timber from within the debris was distinctly heard. For nearly 24 hours, with brief re- spite. the firemen had sought the bodies of their comrades, and at first they doubted their seuses. As they stared at each other a voice from be- neath the charred pile und recognized as that of John Seufert was faintly heard. Seufert said: “ Tam alive and so is Campbell. We can't see anything. The debris is all about us. Get us out as quick as you can.” Then later: “It is cold bere. I have to keep kicking my legs to keep warm.” ‘The men were caught among the timbers about midway between the second and third floors when the three upper floors of the five-story structure went down. The third man, Thomas Lennon, apparently was instantly killed. His body was located after hours of digging. At that time it was not belleved possible that the other two men had survives their Injuries. As quickly as possible after Seu- fert's voice was heard an ambulance, with Dr. Beuwkes, was called from the Hudson Street hospital. A rubber tube three feet long and half an inch fn diameter, with a funnel arrange- ment at one end, such as is used in the hospitals as a stomach pump, was in- troduced into a hole in the debris, which the workers made, and lowered 80 that Seufert could apply his mouth to it. Through this he was given a ‘stimulant and afterward two cups of strong hot coffee. After receiving the stimulant Seufert said he felt better and could await with patience until his rescuers got him out. Father Rafferty, of St. James church, and Father Smith, the fire de partment chaplain, were called to the building soon after Seufert’s volce was heard. Through the tube Father Smith heard the buried fireman make his act of contrition, according to the rites of the Catholle church, of which Seufert is a member, and gave him absolution. Fire Comratssioner Lantry appeared at the building and also had a talk with the fireman. He called down to Seufert, und the buried man sald: “Oh, is it you, Mr. Commissioner? I feel as If | had been down here about five years.” “Are you hurt?” asked the commis: stor.er. “No.” said Seufert, “I don’t think so, but I feel cold and hungry.” PLOT TO KILL WHITE OFFICERS Army Men Believe Such Was Intention of Negro Scidiers at Fort Reno. El Reno, Okla, Jan. 9—Belief of the army officers at Fort Reno that a conspiracy to murder every white of- ficer at Fort Reno, beginning with Cap tain Edgar A. Macklin, against whom It fs said many negro soldiers at the Yost entertain a grudge as a result of the affair at Brownsville, Tex. and the @ischarge of the negro soldiers that followed, became known as a result of a preliminary hearing In the case of Edward L. Knowles, corporal of Company A, 25th Infantry, who was held on a charge of assault with Intent to kill Captain Macklin on the night of December 21. Knowles was boust over to await the action of the Canadian county grand jury at the opening term of court. All of the officers now go heavily armed and protected throughout the night. Every effort has been made by the officers at the post to keep the alleged conspiracy a secret, but it ts learned that an investigation is now being conducted at several army posts and important places throughout the coun- try, and in a short time several ar- rests of the members of the companica recently discharged in disgrace are ex- Dected to follow. Information was given out here that the arrest of a negro soldier was made at La Junta, Colo, Suspicion rests upon negro soldiers at Fort Niobrara, Neb, and at three other points. WOULD OUST McCLELLAN Suit Entered to Give Office of Mayor of New York to W. R. Hearst. New York, Jan. 8—Attorney Gen- erat Jackson, on behalf of the people of the state of New York, entered suit in the supreme court against George B. McClellan, praying that the latter be ousted from the office of mayor of the city of New York, on the ground that he has usurped and unlawfully holds such office, whereas William Randolph Hearst is legally entitled to the same. A summons and copy of the com- plaint in the action were served upon Mayor McClellan at the city hall. The complaint declares flatly that at the election in November, 1905, Mr. Hearst “was duly and legally elected mayor of the city of New York.” It ts fur ther alleged that ballots legally mark- ed for Hearst were counted for Me- Clelian by the inspectors of election, and that these “miscounts” formed the basis of the returns of the cote. It is alleged that men not entitled to vote were permitted to vote for McClelland, and that in many other ways the elec- tion laws were violated. Votes cast for Hearst, it is declared, were not counted In a number of districts. FOUND POISON IN BODIES. mrs. Carey Must Face Two Additional Murder Charges. Philadelphia, Jan. 9.—Coroner Jer } mon stated that enough arsente had | Deen’ found in the bodies of Patrick | Cook and his sister Celfa to have Killed six persons, and Mrs. Bridget Carey, who was recently held by the coroner to await the action of the grand jury on the charge of poisoning her two children, will again face the “ordeal of an itquest when the coronct Will investigate the deaths of the Cooks, who formerly boarded with Mrs. Carey. After the sudden deaths of the children and Mrs. Carey's arrest on suspicion of poisoning them, the coroner's offictale and the city detec tives made an exhaustive investigation into her past, which include! her lite here and in Centralla, Pa., her former home. They found that the Cooks, who knew Mrs. Carey In Centralia, came to Philadelphia and boarded with her. Celia Cook died first, and fosur ance on her life was collected by her brother Patrick. He died suddenly and his life had been insured in Mrs, Carey's favor. TRAIN ROBBER CONFESSES Man Arrested For Seaboard Air Line Hold-Up Admits Hie Guilt. Huntington, W. Va, Jaa. 7.—Percy Martin, of Atlanta, Ga, was arrested here by Chief of Police Dawson, charg: ed with being one of the bandits who recently held up a Seaboard Aair line train 80 miles south of Richmond. Martin, an hour after his arrest, con- fessed his guilt. He delivered to the officer a $500 diamond ring which bad Deen taken from one of the passen- ers. Martin says he and his pal, now in jail in Richmond, planned the rob- bery while in Washington. D. C. After committing the robbery and shooting the conductor, they stopped the train ‘and walked to Norfolk, Va. TIED TO R. R. RAILS BY THIEVES Farmer and Son Beaten Unconscious and Former Bound to Track. Pittsburg, Jan. 9.—After being bru- tally beaten by highwaymen, and while his son, also assaulted, lay un- conscious nearby, Frank Mason, a Beaver county farmer, was tide to the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad bear Beaver, and escaped being trushed to death by wrenching bim- Self free of his bonds just as the Cleveland-Pittsburg flyer was thunder- ing down upon him. Mason was driving along a lonely country road, preceded a short dis- tance by bis son and another team. ‘Two men jumped for Mason after the fon had passed and demanded his money. Mason showed fight and was battling with the robbers, when his son, missing his father, turned back and was almost instantly knocked un- conscious. The older man, infuriated by the treatment of his son, renewed bis fight and was beaten into insensi- bility with stones. His body was then dragged to the railroad track and tied to the rails. Regaining consciousness, Mason Fealized his predicament and began to Struggle to release himself. He was unable to release the cords and had ‘almost abandoned nope, when he heard the rumble of the approaching flyer. With one last desperate effort, he managed to free himself and crawl from the track just as the headlight Of the engine sent a gleam along the Fails where he had been Iving. After resting and recovering from @ state of collapse, Mason dragged himself to a farm house and told his story. The son was found lying un- conscious and was revived with diffl- culty. Both men will recover, though their injuries are serious, Mason says he recognized his assailants, and war- rants were sworn out for their arrest. FRIGHTFULLY HURT IN RUNAWAY Children Trampled Upon. New York, Jan, 8—A runaway team dashed Into a crowd at a First avenue crossing, killing a baby in its carriage, and so injuring the child’s mother and three other children that they can hardly survive. As the driverless team, drawing a heavy ‘ruck, turned into the avenuo, Mrs. Minnie Klappel, pushing a car- riage occupled by her 16-month-old boy, Sidney, and with another son, Harry, aged 4, and a daughter, Mille, 6 years old, on either side, started for the opposite curb. With them were Frank Sohn, aged 3, and Frederick Leachman, 7 years old. The woman saw their peril and made a frantic ef- fort to get her charges back to the curb. Only Millie escaped. The baby was crushed to death, while Mrs. Klap- pel and the other three children were trampled upon. Removed venseless to a hospital, all were found to be frightfully injured, in each case internal wounds being Probably serious enough to cause death. The momentary check to the run- aways as they stumbled among the victims permittéd others in the ave- Rue to escape, The team was stopped by policemen, who arrested Alexander Targert, the driver, who is alleged to have left his horses in the street. He was caarged with homicide, after he had been dragged through a threaten- Ing crowd to a police station. HEAVY SENTENCE FOR ASSAULT Assailants of Judge Hawkins Get Seven Years Each. Pittsburg, Jan. 8.——Robert Campbell and Augustus Delpiro, two of the as- sailants of Judge W. G. Hawkins, of the orphans’ court, were sentenced to Serve a term of seven in years in the state prison. The prisoners, with Lou- is Goodman, set upon Judge Hawkins ‘THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRCINTA. I | —_ ———— WE INVITE THE ATTF’“TION OF THE PUBLIC TO OUR———_—______—_____ | it is thoroughly equipped Cards, Policies, both straight We print Wedding Invita- opes, Note and Letter Paper, to do all kinds of printing on life and benevolent, Physi- tions, and High Class Sta- Bill-heads, Monthly State short notice. 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" > k b ; em —= Our Stock Room Embraces a Full Lines OF THE LATEST STYLE BOND, FINE WRITING—FLAT AND LINEN PAPER, ENVELOPES. ETS WE CAN PRINT A BILL AS SMALL AS A DODGER. s WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST ASSORTMENTS Thess f ‘(OOD-TYPE A Three-Sheet Poster s OF WOOD-TYPE AS LARGE AS A FRONT DOOR. { Of Auy Job Printing establiahimedtin the Gey Our Present Corp or ErLovEes ARz COMPETENT AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR Orrice | a one | x wrrmn Easy Reacu or THE Pustic, BEING wrrHtw Fiery YaRps oF BRoab Sr. | mre ‘ Our street-entrance is retired and has no objectionable features, the most 2 fastidious lady being able to enter without embarrassment or annoy auce. FOR FURTHER {NFORMATION, APPLY TO 8. ff . ©3 ge ee e se = last summer while he was walking ‘fiear his home one night, and beat the Jurist into insensibility, subsequently Teleasing him. For a time it was fear- ed, because of Judge Hawkins’ ad- vanced age, that he could not recover. Goodman, the third assailant, was convicted of receiving stolen goods, and was sentenced to two years In the same institution with his companions, After sentence was passed Campbell, when asked if he had anything to say, made a speech to the effect that he was not guilty of the crime charged. THIRTY STRIKERS KILLED Mexican Troops Fired On Textile Workers—Over 80 Wounded. Clty of Mexico, Jan, 9—Related re ports from the mill district of Orizaba, state of Vera Craz, where rioting has attended the strike of the textile work: ers, indicate that the government Is now complete master of the situation. To gain control of the rioters, how- ever, it was necessary for the troops to fire upon the men. Thirty dead have been counted, while over 80 are report- ed wounded. It is believed that the strike has been broken, ‘The jails and armortes are filled with imprisoned strikers. JR. 0. U. A. M. CASE HEARD Penna. State Council Trying to Re ameae Pesearte Prom @tacdere, Holiidaysburg, Pa., Jan. %—A test case affecting the 278 councils of American Mechanics in Pennsylvania, that seceded from the parent organiza: tion three years agv and formed lodges of the Loyal Americans, was heard In the Blair county court. The state council of American Mechanics entered suit against the Altoona Coun: cil, No. 152, one of the seceders, to re cover the rituals and degree parapher palia, but refuses to part with the money because it is a trust fund, Hable solely for the payment of sick and death benefits of members. Judge Bell Teserved his decision. If the state council Is successful in this case it will seck to confiscate the property of the other seceding councils. MURDER AND ARSON Daniel Davis Killed and House Set On Fire to Hide Crime. Atlantic City, N. J., Jan. 7.—Daniel 8. Davis, of Absecon, was murdered at his home and the house was set on fire to hide the crime. Davis’ body was found in the debris with the skull crushed, as if by some blunt instru- ment, and there was a pcol of blood ta the cellarway. The police authori- tles have no clue to the murderer. Died of Alcoholism and Exposure. Danville, Va., Jan. 9—The coroners fury empanelled to investigate the death of J. M. Thomas, of Roanoke, Va., whose dead body was found in a ravine near the city last Tuesday, re- turned a verdict that he died from acute alcoholism and exposure. While the evidence did not show that he was Burdered, it did show that he had been robbed and was in company prior to his death with three young white men now ia jail, One of the men has made a confession of the rob- dery, implicating the others. A trial on the charge of Mghway robbery will be given the trio Thursday. The men un- der arrest ave Fiotcher Harris, George Stevens cui Aluirt Atkins. But a rolling stone doesn't often Ret catalogued with the mossbacks, The cream of Christianity can only rise from the milk of human kindness She that lets her heart go for a song soon realizeth the world’s scorn of bargains. He that looks backward too much gradually gets out of the habit of moving forward, You don’t catch the woman with the new baby wasting any time on the how-to-be-beautiful stants in the Sun. day supplement.—N. 0. Picayune, PUCKERINGS. Why is it that bumorists and mon keys always look so serious? It Is difficult at times to delleve that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest applies to polities. Considering how many millions of microbes there are, the competition Among them must be tremendous. Some people have sense, but more haven't. This {s not more true in polite society than elsewhere. ‘The peculiarity of polite soctety is that there the people who haven't sense set the pace. ‘The way people keep on marrying and giving in marriage, in the face ot all the statistics, shows only too clear. ly that this matter of a sucker being Dorn every minute is quite in accord: ance with the laws of heredity — Puck. MEMS FOR MOTHERS. Don't hang heavy curtains at the windows; let the sunshine pour in, Don't comb a child's hatr too much Prush it carefully with a soft brash. Don't expect children to be beautl ful unless they are healthy, happy and contented. Deut have any carpets on the bed- room floors; use russ Instead. Have few hangings and fewer ornaments. Don't think a child can have bright- hess of eyes. cloartess, softness and smoothness of skin without good food, though itgsheuld be oaty of a plain kind. —Chiearo Swerican WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS. He dies twite who perishes by his own band.—Pubilus Syrus. Give not thy alms to the poor with grudging —Phyociides A man of senso talks little and lis tens much.—Chinese Proverb. Art and hope are twin brothers, and they die together.—Maga. it is often better not to see an to sult than to avenge it—Seneca. The very autumn of a form once fine retajns its beauties.—Euripides. No book is so bud but that some- thing may be learned from it-—Pliny. It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to repay.—Publius Syrus. He who restrain not his tongue shall Mve in trouble—Brahmin Max. im. If you wish to remove avarice, you must remove its mother luxury — Cicero, First build your house, and then think of your furniture.—Hebrew Maxim. Bashfulness 1s an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age — Aristotle. Time, which obliterates the fle tions of opinion, confirms the deci- sions of nature—Cicero. WHAT THE LAW DECIDES. | Faliure to number ballots as re- “quired by statute {s held, in Montgom- ery vs. Henry (Ala), 1b, ROA. (N. 8.) 656, not to be fatal. Failure to specify the time within which a contract for sale Is to be performed is held, in Ulisperger vs. Meyer (IM), 2L. ROA. (N.S). 221, | mot to defeat {ts specific perform: “ance, Exeeuting a note for another's debt is held, in Fort Jefferson Improve- ment company vs. Dupoyster (Ky.), 21. R.A. (N. 8) 263, to be equiva. Tent to a payment in cash for pur- poses of subrogation. Claims of a nonresident corpora. tion, in dodinite, tanzible form, are held to be taxable in Monongahela River C. C. & €. company ‘vs Board Of Assessors (Liu), 2. LRA. (N.S) 627, similar property owned by a resident being subject to taxation, A provision for liqnitated damages tn case of a breach of contract for exchange of lands {s held, in Koch va. Streuter (IL). 2 L. ROA. (x. 8) 210, not to defeat a right for spect ‘fle performance, where the provision was intended merely as secarity for “performance. | WIDOWS. Tt has been said “beware of wid- ows.” But that is unnecessary. For no man can really help himself. All the perfect men now dead have married widows, thus forming a con- tinuous contrast to the miserable spe- cimens who still live. It {8 generally considered unlucky to meet a widow on a dark piazza by the light of the moon. In many coun- tries to be kissed by a widow means endless trouble. Widows are frequently accompanied by children whose number is con stantly Hable to fuerease. They roam at large over the principal sections, and no man is safe when they are near. Widows exist in all countries, thus counterbalancing the matrimonial de- cadence which might otherwise result from timid men, Widows are clinging Dy temperament, and attach —them- selves readily to any object that can't hetp Itself Lite, LOVE LANGAUGE OF FRUITS. Pears—"Name the day.” Small Melon—“Can’t elope.” Currants—"You shock me.” Pineapples—"I_am_ lonesome." Raisins—"You're coming up." Bananas—“There's many a slip.” Grapes—"You are a scedy bunch,” Peaches—"The frost didn’t touch me.” reen Apples—"Yeou give me a yarn.” Lemons—"Not on your taiype"— Chicago American. What knots shoutt lovers tle thety vows with?--The forgeme-nota, When are ares the Indie, oathing coxtur oa cut abort, iia Bie) Obs thei ters ae PLANRT DRPOTS eee Leer areas eee Green and Bailey, 249 F. 127th St J. H. Parker, 144 W. 26th St Charies Devan, 1.1 W. 30th St. W. J. Buckner, 150 W. 53rd St. M. W. Slaughter, 312 W. 40th St. W. W. Johnson, 247 W. 47th St. E. H. Mitcheil, 152 W. 27th St ‘Turner R. Roblason, 12-6th Ave. B. A. Williams, 200 W. 63rd St. ‘M. B. Walker, 309 W. 37th St. J. H. Jarrett, 453-7th Ave. Smith & Miles, 232 W. 41st st. M. B. Wineyglass, 222 W. 69th St. | PHILADELPHIA, PA. M. Clay, 1801 Fitzwater St. a H. Gray, 1233 Pine St Bishop Robinson, 1234 Melon St. E. P. Mackens, 1116 Pine St James BE. Warwick, 254 8. 11th St. Mrs. B. Homsher, 1040. 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WILMINGTON, N. C. William H. Moere. STAUNTON, VA. ‘ Wm. C. Johnston, 111 bs. Main St, LYNCHBURG, VA. Charles Morgan, 702 Taylor St. HAMPTON, VA. John M. Phillips. \ Oo. P. cungae PN. Union St, H. 8. Ooctaen Taeh Osa “St, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. John H. Johnson, 210 Bridge &t., PROVIDENCE, R. J. Douglass A. A. P. Agency, DEMOPOLIS, ALA. John W. Anderson. MILWAUKEE, WIS. J. D. Cook, 26 Juneau Ave, OKLAHOMA CITY, 0. ¥. ete SALTIMORR, MD. Heary Albert, 203 Rickmead St., THE PLANET FEMALE WHITECAPS CHASTISE WOMAN APPLY STOVE POLISH, MOLASSES AND FEATHERS. PARADED BEFORE PUBLIC East Sandy, Pa., Wife Is Punished for Alleged Disgraceful Conduct—Vigilantes Are Fined but May Repeat Act. East Sandy, Pa.—A vigilance committee consisting of four young married women, forceful and determined, stirred this ordinarily quiet village to enthusiastic admiration by correcting, in whitecap style, the alleged evil conduct of Mrs. Hattie Lowry, a neighbor, also the possessor of a husband. The vigilantes—Mrs. V. Lowry, sister-in-law of the victim; Mrs. Nellie Glaze, Mrs. Bertha Brinkman and Mrs. Hilda Pherson—appeared at Mrs. Hattie Lowry's home in open day and announced that as she had not heeded their warnings to desist from actions they believed had brought disgrace upon the community, they had decided to chastise her by humiliation. Two of the women seized her and tied her hands behind her back. The captive was too much amazed to even cry out. Mrs. Glaze, who acted as spokeswoman and leader, took from a package a box of stove polish and a dauber. While two of the women held Mrs. Lowry on the floor, the other two smecared her face with stove polish until it was completely covered. From the same bundle Mrs. Glaze took a jar containing thick molasses, which she poured upon the head of the helpless victim. One of the other women then emptied the contents of a feather pillow upon the molasses, to which the feathers stuck in a mass. The quartet of women seemed to have their victim completely hypnotized, for when they seized the loose end of the rope that bound her hands and commanded her to march out of the house, she did so. They took the direction of a railroad camp, and there she went. Two hundred workmen employed there ceased operations to see the spectacle. When Mrs. Lowry had paraded through the camp, the women tied her to a large box, where she remained until a man released her. Mrs. Lowry immediately went to Franklin and procured warrants for M. She Was Marched Past Two Hundred Workmen. the arrest of her assailants. Sheriff McElhainy served the papers upon all but Mrs. Pherson, who was not at home. Their husbands accompanied them to the office of Alderman Henderson, at Franklin, where they pleaded guilty and were fined $10 and costs. The husbands settled. Mrs. V. Lowry, a very attractive woman, explained the matter to the alderman, saying: "For a long time my sister-in-law's actions have brought reproach upon the entire neighborhood. When kind words did not cause her to cease her objectionable conduct, we four women decided to adopt vigorous measures, in the hope that the woman would either reform or leave the village. The chastisement happened in much the manner that Mrs. Lowry has described. "We are not ashamed of what we have done. We feel that we have done the community a public service, and I do not doubt that under similar circumstances we would do the same thing to-morrow. We think these measures are more effective than when the law is invoked, for a delay in the trial would occur and there would have been even more publicity than has been the case in this instance." The feminine vigilantes acted with secrecy, lest their husbands should prevail upon them to desist. Now that the deed has been done the men say the measures, though severe, were warranted. Mrs. Lowry says that she will not leave East Sandy. Freak Sheep Has Six Legs Mexico. Mo.—W. W. Johnson brought in a large shipment of sheep and when they were unloaded a freak was found in the bunch. It was a sheep with six well developed legs. The two additional members were perfectly formed, one growing out from the right shoulder and the other from the breast. It is likely that this freak will make the circuit next season with the eight-footed horse. GIRLS CRAZED BY NEW SECT. Two Former Public School Teachers Become Insane at Holy Ghost's Camp. Portland, Me.-Mrs. Alice Phelps, of Kansas City, has consulted attorneys in an effort to have the law remove her daughter from the Holy Ghost and Us sect of worshipers at Shiloh. Rev. Frank Sandford is the head of the colony and styles himself its "Elliah." Six years ago May and Bessie Phelps, aged 32 and 33, respectively, were respected young women of Kansas City. They were considered intellectual and were teachers in the public schools. They had made a special study of Biblical literature, and fell easy victims to the arguments of one of Sandford's missionaries. Then they came to Shiloh. The methods of the strange sect undermined the reason of the younger girl, Bessie, and she became insane. Her mother had her removed to the state asylum. There she has remained in a semi-conscious, catalytic state, despite all physicians can do. Recently the mother heard the elder daughter was also likely to become insane. Mrs. Phelps went to the Shiloh colony, but could not induce the young woman to leave. The girl seemed thoroughly imbued with fanatical ideas. She was clad in only a calico wrapper, and was shivering. It is said her food allowance for that day was one teacupful of parched grain, and that many days she was allotted even a smaller proportion of either oatmeal flakes or grain, with occasionally half a cup of skimmed milk. It is further alleged that she slept on the coldest nights in an old shed, through which wind and rain swept, and that her bed was a pile of straw or a few shewelfolds of sawdust. The young woman claimed this to be the true life. Mrs. Phelps says she saw many in the same plight. Small children were so emaciated that their cheek bones almost protruded from the flesh and their eyes were glaring and sunken. Sandford is on a cruise in his palatial yacht in the Mediterranean, and has practically all the funds of the colony in his possession. As the daughter of Mrs. Phelps, if age attorneys says she cannot be compelled to leave. Faith, Hope and Charity "Borroughs doesn't speak as well of you as he did," said the friend. "He says he's lost faith in you." "Huh!" granted the man who used to be easy, "it isn't a matter of faith. He means he's lost all hope of my charity now." TIME TO BE IT. There was to be a circus in town next day, and Robert wished to go to see it unload; so he sought to obtain his father's consent. The first question his father put to him on being approached was, "Have you asked your mother?" "Yes, sir," was Robert's prompt reply. "What did she say?" the father pursued. "She said I couldn't go," was the frank rejoinder. "What do you mean, Robert, by coming to me to ask to do a thing after your mother has told you you could not do it?" "Well, papa," the little fellow observed, "I heard you say last week that you're the boss of this ranch, and I thought it was about time for you to assert yourself."—Judge. A "My friend, do you put your trust in riches?" "No, I put my riches in trust."—Philadelphia Press. Never Had. Miss Flurry—Have I ever given you reason to suppose, Mr. Smallpyle, that I cared for you otherwise than as a friend? Mr. Smallpyle—You have not, Miss Flurry. I ought to have had sense enough to know that when you accepted kisses and presents from me you didn't mean anything by it.—Chicago Tribune. All in the Point of View. "It's a terrible thing to lead a dog's life!" panted the cur with the tin can attachment, crawling into a corner to rest himself. "O, I don't know," contentedly answered the lap dog.—Chicago Tribune. Not an Admirer of Phonographs. "Mamma, will there be any phonographs in heaven?" asked the little six-year-old girl. "No, my dear," was the mother's reply. "That is the way we'll know it is heaven." —Yonkers Statesman. —Subscribe to the Richmond, Va. PLANET. Only $1.50 per year. THE RICHMOND PLANET: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA One of the Smithsonian scientists calls attention to the fact that the duration of the lives of the lower animals differs from that of men's lives in being far more uniform. While human beings die at all ages between infancy and senility, among the lower animals, on the contrary, all individuals of the same species live to very nearly the same age, unless killed by violence. Some examples of remarkable longevity among animals may be cited, says the Philadelphia Record. For instance there is the story of the elephant Ajax, which Alexander captured at his victory over Porus. The conqueror affaxed an inscription to the animal and set it at liberty. Three hundred and fifty years later Ajax is said to have been found still living. But little dependence can be placed on most stories of long life among animals. "It is 900 years since the failure of a bank in China," said a bank examiner. "More than nine hundred years ago, in the reign of Hi Hung, a bank failed. Hi Hung had the failure investigated, and to his indignation found that it had been due to reckless and shady conduct on the part of the directors and president. Hi Hung at once issued an edict that the next time a bank failed the heads of its president and directors were to be cut off. The edict, which has never been revoked, has made China's banking institutions the safest in the world." When the German emperor appointed a Jewish banker as director of the colonial office the other day, much surprise was expressed in Berlin that a business man and a Jew had been called to so high an office. Such an appointment would have caused surprise neither in the United States nor in England. It is a good idea in the training of wives to send a wife to the country when a farmer's wife is cooking for threshers. After the town woman has watched the farmer's wife a day she never complains if she has washing kin company, a fire and her bread burns all in the same day. The latest statistics on the subject of clergymen's salaries furnish material for the conclusion that a preacher of the present day must choose between debt, single blessness, race suicide and a rich wife. But, asks the Boston Herald, what's the matter with trusting in the Lord? British doctors, finding their incomes cut 25 per cent, since 1900, blame it on mild winters and the disappearance of epidemic influenza. It seems to be up to the home office to devise a new disease in the interests of British medicine. The English have explained their two railroad disasters by saying the engineers suffered from a "mental aberration." More likely the juries were the sufferers. A winter in balmy Cuba is not such an unpleasant outlook for Uncle Sam's marines. The safe bank is the bank whose president has no vaulting ambitions. Mr. Crimsonbeak—Who did you meet there to talk to, dear?—Yonkers Statesman. Fighting to Finish: Fighting to Finish. Bacon—She believes in a fight to the finish. Egbert—That looks bad for her husband. He'll never be able to get a divorce. -Yonkers Statesman. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $300 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also con stitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address Scientific men have at last discovered how to catch the octopus. All you have to do is to "put salt on his tail." A very fine specimen of the octopus, or, as it is more commonly called, the devil-fish," has been added to the New York aquarium. As a general thing it has been found impossible to take this creature alive and in health, because as soon as any object touches one of its tentacles, or "feelers," it fastens to the rocks so tenaciously with the other tentacles that some of the limbs may be, and generally are, torn off. Fishermen lately discovered, however, that salt sprinkled upon the gills of the creature acts as an anesthetic, and renders it temporarily powerless. The specimen in the New York aquarium is said to have been captured in this way. American men, and especially Kentucky men, have always been noted for their appreciation of American women and their gallantry to them. Now they have their reward. Thirty-six Kentucky "schoolmia'ams," who spent the summer traveling on the continent, remarked, when they set foot upon their native soil again, that as compared with the Americans, the men of Europe are "a most ornery-looking and ornery-acting lot." The girls seem to have accomplished Burke's impossibility of indicting a whole peole. Having adopted a new army bullet that will go faster, further and harder than the one hectofore used, it is clear that we are better prepared than ever to do our full duty toward maintaining the peace of the world. A Detroit physician has discovered that "soft bread causes appendicitis," which will doubtless be followed up by the news that hard bread causes ring-worms, sprained ankles and sunburn. The old-fashioned, bloody kind of football is to be played at Yale this year. Yale may be cunningly scheming to have a big enrollment. Knight KNIGHTS OF PYTHAS CIVIL 1683 only absolutely necessary rega apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for re- arosette, costing 25 cents for fiv THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons c circle. The expense is nomina $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and de- Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concerni For all information concer- membership in the lodges and I CAN SELL YOUR REAL ESTATE OR BUSINESS..... No Matter Where Located. Properties and Business of all kinds sold quickly for cash in all parts of the United States. Don't wait. Write to day describing what you have to sell and give cash price on same. If you want to buy any kind of Business or Real Estate anywhere, at any price, write me your require ments. I can save you time and money. DAVID P. 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Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets Call and see me and you shall be written or indly. 'Phone, 2778. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. Organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand Court all of the cities and counties is intended to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles founded on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of $10 per week sick dues. The badge of galla. For information concerning courts of Calantia. In the Order. It requires a member court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per megalia is the cost of the badge, 500 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could be death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00 your neighborhood, organize one. Mrs. ANNA TAY 120 W. H. 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The white-winged dove of peace has perched on the unraised rifle of the statue at Bloody Angle, on the field of Gettysburg, this year, and witnessed the unusual spectacle of veterans of the war from both north and south shaking hands across the famous stone wall over which Pickett's men made their glorious but useless charge. The many distinguished survivors of the war who were present saw one of the best preserved of all the historic spots on this continent. Gradually the government is acquiring all the property over which the great three days' struggle was fought, and in time the ground will be entirely the nation's own, to be preserved forever intact as it was when Lee reached the limit of his northern march. Monument after monument has been erected on the field, until the entire ground is dotted with memortos of the stirring incidents of the great battle. Among the most interesting is the monument of Gen. Warren, on Little Round Top. It shows Gen. Warren looking toward the spot where he noticed the flash of hayonets on the second day of the battle, and rightly guessed that the enemy were advancing through the woods back of the Devil's Den with the object of seizing Little Round Top. Warren hustled around and gathered together sufficient troops in the vicinity to save this key to the position. The statue of the famous general was placed on the very bowler on which he stood when the fortunate discovery of the confederate attempt on Little Round Top was made. He is made to look toward the exact MOSKOV Monument at Bloody Angle—the Farthest Point of Pickett's Charge. spot where the glint of bayonets caught his sharp eye, and started him on a run for riflemen and guns. No one could have stood where the Warren statue stands now and have lived a second during the progress of the battle, for in the attack on Little Roundtop Confederate sharpshooters were thickly sprinkled in the Devil's Den, a pass of rocks in the valley below, and these marksmen, retiring into the cave beneath a big bowler to load, would fire and retire again, so that a constant rain of bullets was kept on the defenders of the hill. The guns that poured shot and shell down on these sharpshooters and raked Death valley in the immediate vicinity, are still on Little Round Top, Death Valley, so called because no one could cross it on account of the sharpshooters on both sides, was one of the places visited by the blue and gray at the reunion. Every stone of the famous wall, says the New York Tribune, is preserved just as when Pickett made his charge, and the veterans of the fight shook hands across the battle line. The wall is partly hidden by bushes in places, but its twists and turns can be plainly followed from the road along Bloody Angle. The trees behind which the confederates formed for this desperate charge are to be seen plainly from the angle. So also can the gap through which Pickett's men advanced after the terrible artillery duel of the third day of the battle. Fifteen thousand strong, Pickett's men moved across the open ground between the lines, and, though torn by cannon shot and rifle fire, kept doggedly on until the stone wall was reached. As the guides say: "They were the bravest men in the world, but men just as brave were there to meet them, and the charge beat itself to pieces against the impassable barrier of the federal line, comparatively few of the flower, of the southern army reaching the shelter of the woods again." A little further on is the monument erected to the memory of the brave handful of Minnesotaans who charged the thousands of advancing confederates when it was found that there was a gap in the line and there was a danger of the federal army being broken. They were asked to make the charge in order to allow time for the bringing up of reconstructions to stop the gap, and they did so, knowing that they were going to certain death. Such deeds are so commonly recorded on the monuments on this battlefield that it would be necessary only to copy the inscriptions to obtain a string of stirring incidents in which brave men who counted life as nothing compared with the winning of the day figured as the principals. A BRAVE ACT. How Philip A. Hawk Spiked a Brass Cannon at Chickamauga. Early on the morning of the 20th of September, 1831, Gun. John Beatty's brigade, to which the One Hundred and Fourth Blinols was attached, was sent from our position on the right near the Widow Glenn's house to the extreme left of our lanes near Kelley's house and across the Lafayette road, writes Philip A. Hawk, in the National Tribune. We reached the position assigned, and, moving out, skirmishing soon began. The confederate lines kept ad vancing, and engaging our one main and only line of Beatty's brigade, soon drove it back. Bridges' battery was engaged, but was short of men, and Capt. Bridges asked Gen. Beatty for a detail of men from the infantry to help work the guns. At Beatty's order Col. Hapeman of the One Hundred and Fourth Blinols, called for volunteers, and myself and others at once responded. We reported to the battery and was assigned to the different guns. I went to one of the brass 12-pounder guns and carried ammunition to the gun. The confederates continued to advance, and we kept on firing, seven sheets being given after my arrival, but when the last two were fired only the sergeant of the gun and myself remained at the gun, and these last times we loaded her to within one foot of the muzzle and let go. One man at our gun had been killed, two badly wounded, the other men were gone. Of the six horses five were down killed or disabled. We could not remove the gun and the confederates were advancing obliquely across the open field in our front, their left nearer our gun than their right, and covered by a woods. The sergeant then said he could cut the one unhurt horse loose and get out and I had better, also. But I did not, and hearing the men at another gun on my left calling for canister I filled my arms full and ran to that gun, which was perhaps 300 feet distant. This was a steel gun. The sergeant, however, cursed me and told me to take the ammunition back. I said that no one was now at the gun. He then told me to go to the rear; he did not need me. But I did not feel like going and started back to the brass gun. It flashed into my mind to spike the gun. On the way I picked up a stone as big as my two fists, perhaps, and running to the limber chest, grabbed a file that I had before seen there, and just as I reached the gun to spike it a confederate soldier stepped out of the woods or brush, not more than 20 feet away raised his musket and fired. The thought came to me. I can spike it as quick as you can fire. I gave the file one blow, and it was done. That instant the confederate ball hit me over the left eye and instinctively turned to the rear, or found myself so faced. I was blinded or dazed, and blood flowed, but I then ran. I heard the confederate say: "Oh, you ____." I did not stop, but had attracted notice, and very soon after was hit again by a bullet in the left leg above the knee, a flesh wound, which lame me. Almost immediately after I was hit by a piece of shell in the right leg below the knee. These various wounds did not cause me to stop, though very lame. Meantime the confederates had been so well met on the left that they soon halted or sought shelter in the woods. The wounds received there, or two of them, still disabled me in my eye or head and in my leg. At last I reached the log hospital on the hill, but it was soon shelled by a confederate battery, and those who could got out on order of the surgeon. I then got into a little valley near by, and found there the Second Ohio. The colonel called me up washed my face from his canteen, and tied his handkerchief about my head, and told me to wait for an ambulance I did so for awhile; then occurred a great stampede of non-combatants and to avoid being killed. I got behind a tree. The Second Ohio moved out to battle. The stampede soon passed, and no one pausing to take me up, I started for Rossville. 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"The robber," says Mrs. Williams, who is a pretty blonde, "seemed to take the whole affair as a joke, laughing when he found I possessed no valuables, and departing after a stolen kiss, with a cheery 'Good-night, girlie.' "I was awfully frightened, but I remember noticing almost the first thing that he was jolly, and it flashed upon me that it might be some friend playing a practical joke. He had his slouch that pulled down over his eyes, and his coat collar turned up over his chin, so that little of his face was visible. He was a very large man, at least six feet tall, and weighed ```markdown ``` He Pressed His Lips to Hers. probably 200 pounds, but his outlines He Pressed His Lips to Hers. probably 200 pounds, but his outlines ```markdown ``` Home Office: 613 North Second Second Street, Richmond, Virginia. suggested nobody I knew. "I handed over my purse, and he opened it. A quarter was all there was in it, and he asked me if I had any more. I said 'No.' "At that he burst out laughing, saying: 'Well, then, I don't want it,' and handed back the purse. Then he asked me if I had any rings. I told him 'No,' and he laughed bolsterously, as if it was a good joke. Then he took hold of me and turned the side of my head to the light to see if I had earrings. "I was almost ready to faint, and thought of screaming, but was afraid he would kill me. When he satisfied himself that I had no more valuables he threw one arm about my neck and bent me backward. I thought he was going to throw me down, and I commenced to fight back, but he hugged me tightly about the head and neck, and pressed his lips against mine. "Then he laughed again, and with a 'Good night, girlie,' walked off in the direction of three men who had crossed Seventeenth street on Broadway. Then I ran all the way home." TOO MUCH KISSING IN GAME Oklahoma Teacher Asks School Board to Order Playing of "Postoffice" Stopped. Lawton, Okla.—Kissing has become so obnoxious to a young woman teacher in a district near this city that she has called an extra session of the board of education to provide a rule that will prevent it on the school ground and about the premises of the school house. In compliance with her request a special session convened to make the necessary order. The children of this school have been playing an outdoor game that they call "postoffice." The girls congregate in one place and the boys in another so that each aggregation is not in sight of the other. Then a herald from the camp of the girls comes out upon the common ground and calls the name of one of the youngsters, who stands in silent contemplation of what is to follow when he is called to get his "mail." The boy follows the girl into the precincts of the quarters of the girls and is instantly grabbed by two or three of their number, who imprint kiss after kiss upon his lips. He is sworn not to tell his fellows what has happened until all the boys have tasted of the sweetness of the lips of the girls and then the boys establish a postoffice and invite the girls to call or "mail." Of course the secret is out after they have gone around, but the desire was created so that the game did not end with the first playing. Pretty soon kissed became public and was called to the fair teacher's attention. She then began making strenuous efforts to have it stopped, but the mania had become so rooted and enticing that the pupils were disobedient to her orders. Thus the board of education was called upon to interfere. So Striking. In a so-called literary salon, an emi THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA E. T. COLEMAN, Vice President; R. W. ANDERSON, General Route Inspector; P. F. CLARKE, Assistant Cashier; ment philosopher engaged in conversation with a young widow. He asked her to describe that which struck her the most in life. The widow, without hesitation, replied: "My late husband." -Gil Blas. More Courtship After Marriage More Courtship After Marriage. Some men seem to consider the marriage certificate as a sort of full-paid-up policy of happiness. They act as if the courtship days were those of paying premiums of compliment cheerfulness, courtesy, consideration and chivalry, and that marriage cuts off all these premiums of lover-like attention. The only way to get an absolutely guaranteed insurance on matrimony is to keep paying the premiums. Many first-class matrimonial policies lapse just because of these suspended payments. There is a tendency to assume that this love is known and recognized, so why speak of it? This is a dangerous taking for granted of what should be made real, pulsing and vital in thought, word and deed. There is little danger of overtelling this story; it is often the wine of life and inspiration to one hungering and thirsting for the little tendernesses of affection. There are more people on this greet, big, rolling earth hungering for sweetness, tenderness, and words of appreciation, genial condition and generous affection than are starving for bread. With husband and wife these delicate messengers of affection cost so little—sometimes only a thought but it is the thought that is all. Continued courtship after marriage, says the Delineator, preserves the lover in the husband and the sweetheart in the wife. But courtship is not solitaire; like a quarrel, it requires two to make it a success. It is not the wife alone who needs the gracious sweetness of concentrated comradeship, for husbands who are built on the right lines have the same hunger for loving kindness and kindly loving. Courtship is a vessel of promise that is often wrecked on the shoals of matrimony. Courtship means two mates without a captain; marriage sometimes becomes two captains without a mate. The Vice of Haste Every virtue lies between two vices. Such is the location of the virtue of leisure. Especially in this hurrying age and country, haste becomes a habit and then a disease. If one rushes to the next mail with a letter whose reception, whether this week or next, is no matter at all; if he vaguely feels that not to have to hurry for his car is to begin the day but slackly, evidently he is in the grip of a disease. The spendthrift of his time is no worse than the miser of it, who must needs have every moment an usury, remarks Arthur Colton, in Reader. If procrastination is a thief who steals from to-morrow for the benefit of to-day, he has his counter who steals from to-day for the benefit --- ```markdown ``` of to-morrow. Thlevery is thlevery, and Poor Richard, with his 'Have you somewhat to do to-morrow, do it to day,' was a most immoral counselor. This encroaching future must be kept in its place, and justice and courtesy done to the hour which is our guest. 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