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RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXIV. NO. 14. WITHIN THE SHADOW OF THE GALLOWS. He is Free Now. Mr. Isaac Kenon called on us last week. He has been a subscriber to the PLANET for many years and we did not know until the occasion of his visit that he was a lifetime convict in the Maryland Penitentiary at Baltimore, Md. He has been recently pardoned by the Governor of that state. He killed a man and was sentenced to die on the gallows. Twice he was within two days of his execution, when he was reprieved. He described the sensation of hearing the gallows built and of seeing it after it was built. He worked persistently for his release, making friends with everyone who came his way. He had been a seaman and had before visited Europe. His home was originally in North Carolina. Finally white ladies became interested in his story and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He continued to labor until he succeeded in interesting the Governor, who recently pardoned him. He looks well. When he came out, he found that his wife had married again. She was living in Baltimore and he went to see her. He had served eighteen years in all and she had her third husband, the second one having died. She never obtained a divorce from Kenon. He went to the house and told his friend to tell her that a man wanted to see her. When she came she was dumbfounded to find out that it was Kenon. Her mother invited him to spend the night with them and so did his former wife. He accepted the invitation apparently, stating that he would return, but he went out and has never been back since. Kenon was enroute to New York where he has a job awaiting him. He tells an interesting story. He also spoke of Paul W. Read, who is a life prisoner in the penitentiary and he was desirous of knowing if the PLANET still went to him and it was by this means he found out that he had not secured his release. CRUMP PAYS A VISIT TO FOURTH STREET BANK. Colored Messenger, Injured in Bomh Explosion, Heartily Greeted William Crump, the colored messenger of the Fourth Street National Bank, who was so seriously injured in the bomb explosion at the institution January 5, was heartily greeted by all when he paid a visit to the bank this morning. Though unable to see well because of the injuries to his eyes, he recognized all the officials and clerks by their voices, and was able to distinguish some of the kinds of clothing they wore. He will never recover the sight of his right eye, but his left eye is regaining strength and may yet make him fit for work in President Rushton's office. Vice-President E. F. Shanbacker and B. M. Falres were among the first to greet Mr. Crump, but as soon as it was discovered the faithful messenger was in the bank, business was suspended. Bookkeepers, clerks watchmen and depositors crowded around, anxious to grasp his hand and extend words of congratulation. It was a touching scene, and moist eyes were seen in the little gathering. -B Philadelphia Evening Telegram Resolutions Richmond, Va., Feb. 27, 1907. Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God in His wise providence to take from our midst our beloved Sister Anna R. Cambel and while we fully realize that the icy hand of death has been thrust in our midst yet our hearts are still aglow with that love and friendship that we once had for her; knowing as we do that he has taken but what he gave. Though we miss her, we can but bow to the Divine will of Him who created all mankind and hope to meet her in the great beyond where danger, sorrow, pain and death cannot come. She was a faithful member and officer of this Court. She has been with us ever since our organization and loved by all who knew her. Resolved, First. That we humbly bow to the will of Almighty God, who is too great to err, and too good to be unkind. Resolved, Second. That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon our minutes. Done by order of Blooming Lily Court, No. 142, Independent Order of Calanthe. REBECCA E. MORTON, R. of D VIRGINIA WRIGHT, W. C. —W. S. Blackburn, Esq., of Danville, Va. was in the city last week on business in the Law and Equity Court. He returned home last Saturday. He is succeeding in his practice and reports a most prosperous outlook in business. 10,000 Pounds of Dynamite Goes Off Near Mt. Carmel, Pa. MANY BUILDINGS WRECKED Pottsville, Pa., March 6.—By the explosion of 10,000 pounds of dynamite at the dynamite storehouse of the Richards colliery of the Susequehanna Coal company damage to the extent of $150,000 was sustained, two score of persons were injured, four of whom may die. The dynamite house was situated about 125 feet southwest of the offices of the company. No one is known to have been in the house at the time, and the cause of the explosion is a complete mystery. The office building in which the clerks were at work, the supply house and the carpenter shops, all filled with workmen, were completely demolished, the wood being torn to kindlings. All of the workmen were badly torn by flying splinters, and numerous fractured arms and legs were sustained. The large hoisting engines in Nos. 1 and 2 shops were torn from their foundations, and were almost completely wrecked. A hole 50 feet in diameter and 15 feet deep was torn in the ground, and the wood was scattered over the entire valley, while the ground around was painted as though with black tar. Seven hundred men and boys will be thrown out of employment for at least a month. The damage to the colliery property will exceed $100,000. In Mt. Carmel, several miles distant, all large plate glass windows as well as many smaller ones were splintered by the shock, while the expensive stained windows in the churches were also ruined. Fully two-score were injured in the explosion, all of them though being in buildings which collapsed under the pressure of the concussion of air and shock. Four were seriously hurt and may die. They are: Lewis Dowie, skull crushed. Reilly Arnold, compound fracture of skull and extensive lacerations. George Billman, compound fracture of skull, three ribs broken and bad cuts about the head and body. Thomas Pritchard, lacerations of the arms and head and several blood vessels bursted. SIX DEAD IN MINE HORROR Eight Men Frightfully Burned in Explosion at Taylor, Pa. Scranton, Pa., March 4—The gas explosion at the Holden colliery of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western company, at Taylor, was not as serious as first reported, although it has resulted in the death of six men and possibly fatal injuries to two more. There were 12 men all told who received burns or other hurts, and eight of these were in such a serious condition that they could not leave the hospital. Six of the eight died. The list is as follows: Dead are: William Z. Williams, Joseph Kozepski, Michael Waznik, Andrew Zerwiski, Thomas Williams, son of W. Z. Williams; John Jozerva. Injured are: Frank Conoski, Gusta Orokoski. The explosion was a terrific one, and tore down doors, brattices and all sorts of timber holding up weak places in the mine and did much damage. Fortunately fire did not follow. A rescue party at once went down the shaft, and near the foot found eight men slowly being asphyxiated. The rescuers also felt the effect of the gas, and quickly as possible they placed the men on the shaft lift and removed them to the surface. There it was found they had been badly burned about the face and body. FROZEN TO DEATH Farmer Lost His Way in Blinding Snow Storm and Perished. Uniontown, Pa., March 5. — Jacob Bowman, a farmer, aged 66 years, living seven miles from Wymp's Gap, in the mountains, was found in a snow drift, frozen to death. He had lost his way while returning home in a blinding snow storm. Sunday was one of the worst days ever experienced in the mountains. A fine snow prevailed all day and the wind blew a gale. Bowman leaves 15 children. Rev. W. H. Stokes Resigns To the Public: This is to certify that I am no longer connected with the official department of The Baptist Record, having tendered and placed into the hands of the President, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. my resignation as an Associate Editor February 16th, '07. Respectfully, WM. H. STOKES. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH, 1907 Thanking you for your courtesy in allowing me to discuss the above subject in the columns of your valuable paper in a series of articles, I present herewith the first number, hoping that the thoughts which I shall put forth will awaken an interest in others and provoke abler pens than mine. I wish in the outset to disclaim any intention or desire to be offensive or to wound the feelings of any person or class of persons. If my object, which I hope shall at some time be realized is ever attained, it must be through the friendly cooperation of the white people of this country, North and South. It would therefore, be the height of folly for me to wantonly say or do that which might needlessly offend them. My object shall be to state facts and notbing but facts as they appear to me. As to the people of my own race, I presume that they will not be offended since my aim and object shall be the ultimate welfare of our race. Is it not, Mr. Editor, full time for us, especially the thoughtful amongst our race, to begin seriously to consider the following questions: 1st. Who and what are we? 2nd. Whence came we? 3rd. How came we here? 4th. Why did Providence permit us to be brought here? 5th. Shall we remain here forever, oppressed by the dominant race and dened over every right dear to the hearts of freemen, which rights are freely accorded to every other race though they be aliens while we are natives and citizens? 6th. Shall we not rather return to the land of our fathers bearing the torch light of the Gospel of Christ and of civilization when God has given us to our benighted brethren who are waiting and praying for our coming? 7th. Will not true and real freedom in our fatherland, though we be years in reaping it, more than repay us and our children for any deprivations which we may sustain in leaving this country? From 1821, the time of the Missouri compromise, to the end of the Civil War in 1865 the Negro problem in the United States was the question of slavery or freedom of the Negro. That question was settled by the war of 1861-65. From that time to the present, the real Negro problem in this country has been race prejudice, race antipathy and race antagonism. These have existed from the time of the dispersion of the builders of the tower of Babel to the present day. If the white race is prejudiced against the black race it is equally certain that the black race is prejudiced against the white race. These things being true the great question comes up—How are these races to be reconciled to each other? These questions are discussed from the white man's standpoint in the white people's papers every day, while we, the subject discussed, seem to be utterly indifferent and have little or nothing to say. As to the first question—Who and what are we? We are at least a very ancient people, Hamites, Cushites, Ethiopians, Africans or descendants of these, if you please; citizens of the United States of America entitled to all the rights and privileges of such citizens. See 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Also see Psalms 87:4; 2nd Kings, 19:9. Ethiopians have figured in the history of nearly every notable nation playing a most conspicuous and important part in many instances. A race or nation that could muster an invading army of more than a million soldiers must have been no mean nation. See 2nd Chronicles, 14:9. As to the question, What are we? I think I can truthfully and appropriately use the language of Judah, pleading for himself and brethren, when accused by his brother Joseph with being spies, when Judah said, "We are true men." The Negroes of this country have ever been loyal. Their faithfulness to the families of their masters while the said masters were at the front fighting to rivet the chains of slavery upon them forever, stands as a monument to their simple but praise worthy loyalty. Knights of Khorassan. Mecca Temple, Improved Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan initiated ten candidates into the mystery of that degree Friday night, 1st inst. All heartily enjoyed themselves. —Mr. S. J. M. Brock, one of the leading Afro-American real-estate dealers in this country, who is located at Philadelphia, Pa. was in the city last week and called on us. SHOT BY REJECTED LOVER After Wounding Girl, Young Pool Killed Himself. Philadelphia, Pa., March 4.—Driven to bay by a crowd of men who pursued him after he had twice shot and wounded 17-year-old Edna McKnight, of whom he was enmorated, Malcolm H. Pool, 21 years of age, shot and killed himself here. Pool had boarded at the McKnight home until recently, when he was ordered to leave because he insisted upon forcing his attentions upon Miss McKnight. Her parents objected to the young man, chiefly because of their daughter's age. When the girl's father ordered Pool to leave the house, he threatened to shoot McKnight, and was ejected after a struggle. Pool went to a church where Miss McKnight was in attendance, and tried to induce her to take a walk with him. Sherefused, but he waited until she started for home, and followed her. The girl fled, and Pool fired two shots from a revolver at her, one of which took effect in the arm. The shooting occurred near one of the Rapid Transit company's barns, and half a hundred motormen and employees gave chase to Pool. He ran around the barn with a large crowd in pursuit, and finding himself cornered, jumped over an iron fence into the yard of the Greenway public school, where he turned and sent a bullet into his heart as the foremost of his pursuers came up. SUES FOR DIVORCE Dan Hanna's Wife Charges Him With Neglect and Extreme Cruelty. Cleveland, Ohio, March 6.—Suit for divorce was filed in common pleas court by Elizabeth Gordon Hanna, wife of Dan R. Hanna, only son of the late Senator Hanna. Hanna is accused of gross neglect of duty, abandonment and extreme cruelty. Mrs. Hanna asks for divorce, adequate alimony and the custody of her daughter, Elizabeth, aged 5 years. The plaintiff is Hanna's second wife, her first husband being Walter De S. Maud, an Englishman. She was divorced in 1900, and on February 19, of the same year, she was married to Dan Hanna. Hanna also has been married twice. His first marriage was to May Harrington. She obtained a divorce in 1898. She has since remarried. JUMPED TO DEATH Actor Instantly Killed in Leap From Burning Hotel. Chester, Pa., March 4.—In an effort to escape from a burning hotel, John Conly, a comedian of the Vanity Fair company, was instantly killed by jumping from a window of the Arcade hotel at Sixth and Market streets, where the theatrical company was stopping. The flames broke out on the first floor of the building, and cut off the escape of all the members of the company. Firemen were on the scene before the flames gained much headway, and rescued all the occupants of the hotel except Conly, who seemed to have lost his presence of mind and jumped from the third-story window, despite the warning of the firemen. Mrs. Watson, also a member of the company, was severely burned. She is in a hospital in a serious condition. The monetary loss will amount to about $15,000. ARCHIE ROOSEVELT BETTER President's Son, Suffering From Diph Washington, March 6.—Archie Roosevelt, the president's son, who has been suffering from diphtheria since last Friday, was declared to be entirely out of danger by Surgeon General Rixey, the attending physician. "Archie passed a fine day," said Dr. Rixey, "and is doing as well as could possibly be expected." Dr. William C. Woodward, the district health officer, was officially notified of the existence of diphtheria at the White House, and as required by law, a large yellow placard bearing the word "diphtheria," printed in black type, was tacked on the door which leads to the eastern portion of the mansion on the upper floor. This part of the building is quarantined. Snow Storm Caused His Death. Snow Storm Caused His Death. York, Pa., March 6. One death is the result of a blinding snow storm which raged for half an hour in this city. Samuel H. Spangler, aged 69 years, one of this city's most prominent residents, died after returning to his home, with congestion of the lungs, due to exhaustion from struggling through the storm. He was a member of the Worth Infantry Association, a fireman, lodge man and at one time editor of this city's pioneer daily newspaper, the York Evening Record. When the battle of Gettysburg was over the news was brought to this city by Mr. Spangler and then telegraphed to President Lincoln at Washington. THE FIRST COURT AT HOUSTON Bad Roads But a Good Time. Houston, Va., Feb 28, 1907. Grand Worthy Counselor Joan Mitchell, Jr. arrived here last evening accompanied by Sir J. Alexander Lewis, M. D., District Deputy Grand Chancellor A. D. Ragland Special Deputy Grand Chancellor H. C. White District Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor Fannie L. Coleman and Mrs. Lucretia Crawley to organize a Court of Calanthe here. The ladies were from South Boston, Va. The party came in two buggies and they reported the roads to be in bad condition, the mud reaching up to the hubs of the buggy wheels. Supper was served at the residence of Rev. A. Smith and wife, Rev. Smith is pastor of the Baptist Church here and he owns two farms in this county. The visitors heartily enjoyed themselves. The initiation took place at the Halifax Institute. Those who assist ed were Mrs. Nannie Boyd, Mrs. Mary W. Canada, Miss Ella B. Walker, Sir Cubit Pate, Juccetia Crawley. After the initiation, the following officers were installed: Worthy Counsellor, Mrs. Pattie Neal; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs Ann Edmondson; Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Mary L. H. Leigh; Senior Directress, Mrs. Mary Ann Easley; Junior Directress, Mrs. Hannah Howerton; Orator, Mrs. Hallie Jones; Register of Deeds, Miss Rebecca Leigh; Register of Accounts, Miss Almeda Leigh; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Rachel Ann Smith; Escort, Mrs. Florence Wicks; Conductress, Mrs. Emma Leigh; Assistant Conductress, Miss Almeda Easley; Herald, Mrs. Mamie Easley; Protector, Miss Sienie Edmondson. Trustees: Mrs. Ellen Palmer, Mrs. Emma Owens, Mrs. Mary Bailey. This Court was organized through the persistent efforts of Mrs. Fannie L. Coleman and the Grand Worthy Counsellor complimented her aighly. The visitors left here shortly after 12 o'clock for South Boston at which point Sir Mitchell and Sir Lewis were to take the train for Richmond. Another New Court in Petersburg Petersburg, Va., March 5th, '07. Crystal Court, I, O. Calantine was organized here last night at Jackson's Hall. Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchell, Jr. came and he was accompanied by Mrs. Anna Taylor, D. D. G. W. C.; Mrs. Mildred Johnson, Mrs. Sallie Fox, Mrs. Lucy Cross, Miss Eva G. Davis and Dr. J. Alexander Lewis. They were met at the train by Sir Edward Wood D. D. G. C and Mrs. Martha Harris, D. D. G. W. C. The hall was festooned with decorations. The candidates wore white dresses. It made the whole affair one of great brilliance. The following officers were installed: Worthy Counselor, Mrs. Fanny Pegram; Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Julia Harris; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs. Nanie May; Orator, Mrs. Alice Foster; Register of Deeds, Mrs. Bettie Hill; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Gracie Warren; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Salle Pegram; Senior Directress, Mrs. Susan Stokes; Junior Directress, Mrs. Alice Morris; Conductress, Miss Lucy C. Mayfield; Assistant Conductress, Mrs Ella Hatchett; Escort, Mrs Mary Eliza Harris; Herald, James Mayfield; Protector, J. W. Harris; Trustees, Mrs. Minnie Randall, Mrs. Rosa Jones, Mrs. Mary Eliza Bailey. The other members present were Mrs. Mary P. Smith, Mrs. Nannie E. Brown, Mrs. Nannie Coleman, Mrs. Mary E. Morgan, Mrs. Katie Lowry, Mrs. Mary J. W. Jackson, Mrs. Mary A. Morton, Mrs. Loula Hastings, The supper was all that one could wish and the visitors heartily enjoyed themselves. The Grand Worthy Counselor spoke in high terms of Mrs. Martha Harris, District Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor and her work. She was instrumental in getting up this Court. The visitors left last night for Richmond. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS: Anniversary Exercises. The Anniversary Exercises of the Knights of Pythias of this city will be held Sunday, March 24th, 1907 at the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church at 2 P. M. sharp. Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church will de liver the sermon. The members of the Order, march to the church. Ian Castle, 727 N. 3rd Street at 1 P. M. and wearing the regalia of the Order and march to the church. The Uniform Rank will also attend. The Courts of Calanthe will ob serve their anniversary, Sunday, March 24th, 1907 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church at 4 P. M. Rev, R. V. Peyton, D. D., pastor of the 6th Mount Zion Baptist Church will de liver the sermon. The members of the courts will assemble at the church at 3:30 P. M. wearing the regalia of the Order. The public is invited. Subscribe to The PLANET. Rev. Dr. Taylor to Build a Mansion. Rev. W. L. Taylor, D. D. is preparing to build a palatial brick residence on Second Street, between Clay and Leigh Streets. He will also erect three other dwellings adjoining. He has a lot with an aggregate frontage of 100 feet. The Southern Aid Society had offices on a part of this and they are moving into their own building across the street, the location being temporary until they can erect a building of their own. The cost of the improvements of Rev. W. L. Taylor will possibly be $16,000, while those of the Southern Aid Society will be anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000. The plans of the latter have not been drawn as yet. Dr. Beckham to Speak Rev, William Beckham, D. D. the distinguished Field Secretary of the National Baptist Convention will speak at the Fifth Baptist Church, Tuesday night, March 12th. Dr. Beckham is one of the ablest pulpit orators of the race. It is hoped that Richmond will turn out in full to hear Dr. Beckham on the questions affecting the race and denominations. Pastor W. F. Graham is anxious for the people to hear Dr. Beckham. Five Hundred Stemmers Wanted! Good long, new tobacco. High prices. Steady work. R. A. PATTERSON TOBACCO CO. 7th St. bet Cary and Canal Sts. Leaf Department. Fifth Baptist Church Rally At a large church meeting last Monday night, the Fifth Baptist Church unanimously agreed to have a grand rally the third and fourth Sundays in June, 1907, at which time they hope to raise $1,000. The church is in perfect harmony and under the leadership of the pastor, Rev. W. F. Graham, they will soon be out of debt. They have decided to hend $100 to the Baptist State Convention in May. Mr. Robert S. Forrester Gone The death of Mr. Robert S. Forester removes the first and only colored florist in the city. He had been falling in health for some time. The unique sight of a floral car was provided by Funeral Director A. D. Price and created much favorable comment. Notice! Richmond, Va., March 1st, '07. To the Public: We, the Stockholders of the Union Mercantile and Mfg. Association assembled in annual session, beg to apprise the citizens and public in general that we found the work of Mr. R. H. Stokes, President and Mr. R. L. Harris, Manager of our Association and our Broad Street Confectionery highly commendable and praise-worthy and by unanimous vote pledge them our hearty support and encouragement for the future, and beg to thank the public for their support thus far, and further promise the continuance of a first-class service in our store and restaurant. Respectfully signed, J. W. THOMPSON. W. F. DENNY. J. H. BLACKWELL. Do You Know Her? I would like to know the where abouts of my mother, Lucy Hackett. I have not seen her for twenty eight years. I. her daughter, Hattie Hackett, was placed in the Colored Home in West Philadelphia. The white lady with whom she lived for years, said that she married from her house and went to Virginia to live. Any information will be gladly received. Address MRS. HATTIE M. BRANUM 3431 Ludlow Street. Philadelphia, Penn. Mr. I. J. Miller, our popular Broad Street Clothier, is now spending fifteen days in New York and the northern markets buying his line of Spring and Summer Clothing and when he returns he will open the finest line of goods ever seen in the city. The investigation of the "shooting up" of Brownsville, Texas will be resumed before the Committee on Military Affairs Monday, March 11th, 1907. Ex-Congressman Cheatham's Son. Richard T. Cheatham, age four years, infant son of ex-Congressman H. P. Cheatham of Littleton, N. C. was bitten by a stray cat at his home Littleton, N. C., February 9th, 1907. He has been here for treatment at the Pasteur Institute as a means of safety, thought that the cat which afterwards died with a convulsion, may have afflicted with the rabies. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Newport News, Va., Feb. 26, 07. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. Q. of Cianth, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Martha Wallace, who was a member of Silver Key Court. No. 75 of Newport News, Va. M. E. Dixon, P. W. C. J. J. Booker, R. of D. Sallie B. Free, P. W. C. Lillie D. Byrd, District Deputy. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Pocahontas, Va., Feb 23, '07. This is to certify that I have re- ceived from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pyth- ias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A., ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of R. S. Thompson who was a member of Pocahontas Lodge, No. 41 of Pocahontas, Va. Signed—Lula D. Thompson Beneficiary. Witnesses: D. C. Johnson, D. D. G. C. T. W. Green. F. A. Green. U. S. G. Prae. Charles Davis. $150.00 Endowment Paid Pocahontas, Va., Feb 23, '07. This is to certify that I have re ceived from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pyth ins, N. A., S. A., E., A. A. and A., ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the deata claim of Tobias Philpot, who was a member of Pocahontas Lodge, No. 41 of Pocahontas, Va. Signed—Alice Philpot, Beneficiary. Witnesses: D. C. Johnson, D. D. G. C. T. W. Green. F. A. Green. U. S. G. Froe. Charles Davis. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Pocahontas, Va., Feb 23, '07. 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 J. L. Woody, who was a member of Pocahontas Lodge, No. 41 of Pocahontas, Va. Signed—Lucy Woody, Beneficiary. Witnesses: D. C. Johnson, D. D. G. C. T. W. Green. F. W. Green. U. S. G. Froe. Charles Davis. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., March 4th, '07. 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 ... ( $150.00 ) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of J. S. Forrester, who was a member of Venus Lodge, No 46, of Richmond, Va. Signed—Virginia Forrester Beneficiary. Witness: S. S. Baker. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Elm City, N. C. March 1st, '07. 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-caim of Charles Parker, who was a member of Eureka Lodge, No. 30, ot Newport News, Va. Signed—Matilda Parker, Beneficiary. Witnesses: Charles Armstrong. Felby Sasser. --- IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the RICHMOND PLANET. --- THE PLANET SATURDAY...MARCH 9TH, 1907 ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT BUILDING GOOD ROADS BUILDING GOOD ROADS What Oklahoma Is Doing to Improve the Highways. Oklahoma is starting in young with a campaign of education for model roads. Its first legislative body will be given object lesson instruction in practical road building by the National Good Roads association, and both national and state associations will attempt to have inserted in the constitution a clause that will enable the legislature to provide general legislation that will cover the entire state for the purpose of road building. Good roads meetings were held in Muskogee, December 5 to 7 inclusive for the purpose of starting the new state in with the advantage of all the experience in road building that it has A Good Road in Construction. taken 30 years for some of the older states to acquire. The state aid plan will obtain in all the information that the national association has to impart. That is, the present plan is to try to instil into the new state legislation that will provide that the state shall have the authority to pay 50 per cent of the cost of constructing state roads, while the county and abutting property owners shall bear the remaining 50 per cent, ad at any time that a majority of the property owners petition the road shall be constructed. All construction must be under state supervision. W. H. Moore, president of the national association, states that it costs from $1,500 to $3,000 per mile to construct a macadam road, depending upon the available material. Such a road, when built, is practically indestructible. There is as much road building material in the new state as in the union, and the natural roads are as good as any state has. The duty the national association has set for itself is to first instil into the minds of the people of the new state the necessity and the value of good roads, and then teach them how to construct them. It will endeavor to transmit to the legislative bodies that make the laws of the new state progressive road legislation that has been tried successfully in the older states. All the best legislation will be canvassed and made to apply here. A KETTLE SUPPORT. Convenient Contrivance for Use at Butchering Time. At butchering time and whenever water is to be heated it is a bother to set the kettle or to hang it with chains. A simple hoop with three or four legs welded on, saves the time and trouble. Any blacksmith will or to hang it with chains. A simple hoop with three or four legs welded on, saves the time and trouble. Any blacksmith will make it for a few cents if you furnish an old cart tire for hoops and legs, says Form and Life. Order the legs the right length to hold the kettle just high enough. It is easily moved then from house to barn, or to a neighbor's. FARM NOTES. The fruit grower who didn't spray his orchard last season is not likely to have the largest balance this winter. Sometimes spray drops are almost as valuable as pearls. Yes, it's cold outdoors; but cold won't kill San Jose scale lice. They'll all be on hand in the spring—so be ready for them! If there are any signs of this pest on your trees, buy a good spray pump and be prepared to fight the enemy in March. The most obvious means of controlling the brown-tail moth, and the easiest one, is the collection and destruction of the winter nests after the leaves have fallen, says American Cultivator. These webs are conspicuous from October to April.—Farm Journal. Corn Stalks for Horses Corn stalks, if bright and sweet, are useful for wintering horses. They may be cut in half-inch to one-inch pieces, and steamed or sprinkled in advance and allowed to slightly heat before being fed. When steaming or BORS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET. WE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM. COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN COLORS. 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FOR ONE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, THE MOST INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK IN THE COUNTRY. WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO wetting, says Farm Journal, add some bran, middlings or shorts in such quantity as your experience and the demands of the stock may indicate. If feeding some hay, it will be better to alternate it than to mix it with the stalks. THE CONCEITED COW. MARQUES "Now, what do you think! Since that cow has had her picture painted by the artists, she's that stuck-up she won't give any more milk!"—Fliegende Blaetter. A Hunch. If you wish to kill time Your life is your own. But don't bother busy men. Leave them alone; If some one is knocking, chure chup with a will. If you can't say something Good of him keep still. —Kouston Post. Change of Heart. First Female Advocate—What? Do you mean to say Mrs. De Sweet has resigned from the Woman's Rights society, and says she has all the rights she wants? Second Female Advocate—Just so. F. F. A.—Mercy me! What has happened! S. F. A.—I'm sure I don't know. Johnny! Have you seen Mrs. De Sweet lately? Little Johnny—No, ma'am, but as I was passin' her house this mornin' I sawd a furniture wagon stop and unload a cradle.—N. Y. Weekly. NOTHING WORSE TO COME. I She—You always used to say that you would rather be with me in purgatory than without me in paradise! He—Did I say that? Well, that wish has certainly been gratified!—Heittere Welt. Confessions of An Autograph Flend. First Autograph Flend—I don't see how you got autographs from all those great poets. Second Autograph Flend—Easy enough. I would write some 'Sweet Singer of Michigan' sort of verses, and print them in our local paper under the name of the poet I wanted to strike. Then'd I'd write to him, asking if it was true that they were written by him. 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" a ee Panag es on ‘aces Ja, at 2) Noria ath Street, Kicumond Va ” 1OHN MITCHELL, JR, + EDITOR Sttcceanes astern et OY Wetec PERMSIN ADVANOR ten pa y Seca fara ante, 3 ADVERTISING RATES f conto ck eboerint imertece, 8 Se testenes wes ae Sse: £ IMAGE TANTS OA AOE De ee eS ere ate uaa peice te Bea per yaar is ee eae i saat ans aetna a ee Ria bapeoceret is Gieghhored tomes Rare eee ig oP Rear Pega pe a ARE Soret were ee See ee nae a ac estaba oR, Ono on be ttn act ase ae hacen PR age See eos Receecoenrsly erage tae ‘The 7 Order ie . eee as pans pele Post-Oflice or an Express Office is nol witis ieree omte peta oe Seasst press shee ‘tan be traced. Yor cam send money in chin Sse ec vecnaes Scrpmettates mony ways mentioned above. If you end your toon: Syinany other way, you must do @ at your eae ee ea a tas Pe inet emt z Portal Gard to gincamtioasin, ‘The cousts have Pear Regime ewe hee Sing tis coer soem: ratiie ean Sees es ED hue, oan bet oe Eon tg date ‘wien bay onder te poper iis Bee ioatie eicieie week ieee temas En fail Ochurwise we casmol find your wame on Spec SSS eae ws ease Seat iakuaes Poser nt the Pane SATURDAY. ...MARCH 9TH, 1907 “THR GREAT AMERICAN QUES. THON.” Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, former- iy of Virginia, but now of Wasning- ton, D. C. contributes an article to McClure's Magazine for March, under the caption of “The Great American Question.” It {s valuable to us in that it gives a clear insight Into the in- fluences and methods now being utll- ized by certain influential characters ta this country to discredit us a5 8 people in the minds of the philan throple elements of the North and to cause them to adopt a policy which, If t does not check our pro- gross will so handicap us as to make our efforts less effective in reaching that plane of legitimate endeavor and usefulness for which ail intel- Higent people yearn, and for which all educated ones hope. We are especially interested in all that Mr. Thomas Nelson Page says for the reason that he has the ear of the distinguished occupant of the White House and we feel dis- posed to charge to his account the great change that has taken place in this great statesman during recent years, so far us his attitude to the citizen of color is concerned. This brilliant writer is noted for his ap- parent fairness and his seeming frankness. He insists upon putting the Negro in the category of animals and speaks of him in this vein in language so sympathetic and friend- ly, as to deceive our friends at the North and our own leaders at the South. It ts not at all surprising then that “Tom's” frequent visits at the White House and Mr. Roosevelt's boyish designation of him in the lan- guage quoted should have borne fruit to the extent of amazing every Negro voter in a northern state. The “dismissal without honor’ or- der will go down in history as one ef the most remarkable ebullitions that has ever emanated at~the Pres. ident’s mansion. Here is what the distinguished Virginian says: “There are some things so wel ‘understood by those who know the Nogroes, as to appear to them almost teuisms, For example: Taat the white race is superior to the Negro face; not accidentally and because of superior training, but inherently and fundamentally.” (f ft fs — fact and if it appears gfmost a truism, why do you con- stantly make the assertion? Does aot the very reiteration of this al- Joged truism inticate that it is open ae ‘question? Dr. Thomas Nelson 1s too much of a scholar not to know that no history, either sacred profane bears out this radical ‘this phase of the subject. He says further: S 7 “That in certain things Negroes differ widely among themselves; for ‘example, in temper, character, train- ing, manner, temperament. But that in certain respects, all, or nearly all Negroes. have the same race char- acteristics.; us Indians, Chinese, Cau- casians, and other races have them. | We will not dispute this conser- vative statement, Our disagreement will necessarily come as to what constitutes the race characteristic of which he speaks. Mr. Page then specifies the traits of character to which he refers. Here is what he says: “ Negroes, well-nigh uni- jeicaor, wok not excited by eee influences, live with the white race amicably. ‘That the Negroes are kept in a state of excitement and tension by the belief that in all matters of dif- ference between them and the whites of the South they are sustained by the whites of the North. ‘That under or nearly all, differen- ces arising between the Negroes and the whites lies a racial feeling. That Negroes under subjection are, for the most part, docile, amia- ble tractable, and pleasant to deal That Negroes in power are, for the most part, arrogant, swaggering, dangerous and intolerable. That Negroes almost always band together as a race: oppose as Negroes the whites as the whites; harbor as Negroes their criminals, because they are Negroes; and almost universally where crimes have been committed by Negroes against the whites, fail to help execute the law. | That the Negroes have been misled as to their privileges by false ideas inculeated by the teachings of an element at the North. } That the Negroes understand by “social equality,” for the most part one thing only: the right to stand with white women on precisely the same ground as that on which white men stand with them.” ‘This is a great deal of a dose for & man to swallow at one time. Let us see. We are willing to admit all that Dr. Page says to be true wita the exception of the charge that we jharbor Negro criminals, for every colored man charged with a crime is hunted by other Negroes who Join the whites in their search and assist in running to earth the criminals. ‘The treacherous nature of thousands of colored people throughout the Southland in all matters pertaining to the white people Is proverbial and this makes even the attempt at an uprising dangerous business. If it is proposed in the Morning, the white man will learn of it before night fall. It is unfortunate that {t is true. Dr. Page speaks truly relative to the self importance of some Negroes when vested with power. Our peo- ple feel the effect of it though more so than the white men to whom this Virginian refers. But then this fs hot truc of all Negroes and there are thousands of others who are models of courtliness and g00d breeding when vested with power either as an office-holder or as a man of business. Dr. Thomas Nelson Page charges the ideas inculcated in us to the North. He might have remained nearer home and found “a solution of the problem.” It was caused by the Declaration of Independence and the BIN of Riguts of Virginia. | Colored men of the Southland do not demand “social equality” as it Is understood in this section. They do not care to stand on equality with the white women of this section. rts charge is dragged forth in order to prejudice our case before we have been accorded a hearing. It may do for the average political demagegue, but it is hardly becoming for a gentleman of Mr. Thomas Nelson Page’s breeding and culture. He should know better. White women and the gallows are synonymous down here. A Negro cannot well secure the one without getting the other, and sensible citizens of color jhave taken the hint and have acted accordingly. It is needless to deny that the bet ter class of white women, gowns jfor the occasion are tempting assets ifor the white man as well as for the colored one,-but Sembo has schooled ‘himself to think of other things, and the most skillful reader of the human mind will fal' to discover one ‘amor- ous look from the “brother in black” as he waits upon this charming ele- ment of God's creatures and does all in his power to please the gallant, THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ‘would be led to believe that it 2 ‘the white man, who was being pressed in this country and not the Negro. As a matter of fact a big, burly white man is sitting upon 4 hapless, helpless Negro, and the former s worried more than the latter. His fears are intensified when the thinks of the retribution in store for him when the Negro awak- ens to a full realization of his con- dition and a fuller appreciation of his power. A full realization of Dr. Thomas Nelson Page's fears is admirably portrayed in Mrs. Josie D. Heard’s “Black Samson” when she says: “There's a Samson lying, sleeping tn the land, He shall soon awake, and with a venging hand, In an all unlooked for hour. He will rise in mighty power; What dastard can his righteous rage withstand? B’er since the chains were riven at a stroke, Ever since the dawn of Freedom’ morning broke, ‘We has groaned, but searely uttered ‘While his patient tongue ne'er mut- tered; Though in agony he bore the galling yoke. o what cruelty and torture has he felt? Could his tears, the heart of ‘ais oppressors melt? In his gore, they bathed their hands, Organized and lawless bands— And the innocent were left in diood to welt ‘The mighty God of Nations doth not sleep, His piercing eye, its faithful watet doth keep, And well-nigh his mercy's spent, To the ungodly lent ‘They have sowed the wind, the whirlwind they shall reap.” From his nostrils issues now the an gry smoke, And asunder bursts the all oppres- Si¥e yoke: When the prejudicial het Shall be lifted, we shall feel, That the hellish spell surrounding us fs broke. ‘The mills are grinding slowly, slowly on, And Ull the very chaff itself is gone; Our cries for justice louder, ‘Til oppression’s ground to powder— God epeed the day of retribution on! ‘Fair Columbia's filmy garments all are stained: In her courts is blinded justice rude- ly chained The Black Samson is awaking, And his fetters fiercely breaking; By his mighty arm, his rights shall be obtained.” MR. ROOSEVELT’S PERSONALITY. | The following editorial comment Jot the Petersburg, Va. Index-Appeal Jof the first inst., under the caption of “What the President Demands,” Is, in our judgment a correct sum- ming up of the characteristics and purposes of this most remarkable statesman in the history of the A- |merican republic | ‘The President needs no interpre- ater. What he says can be under- tood of all men. He may not jalways look ahead for the possible Jeffects of what he says or does, but there can be no misapprehension as to what he means. It was a surprise to many, therefore, when, lately, | Representative Longworth delivered what seemed to be a disguised mes- sage from the President. Mr. Long. worth denied that he spoke for any Jone but himself, yet the ideas were ithe Presitent’s or such as one would Jexpect him to have. The main point in the Representative's statement [was that there could be no backward steps by the Republican party in the course marked out for It by the President; that the White House {- deas must be sustained and carried [to thelr legitimate conclusions, Nt is immaterial whether Mr. Longworth was a trusted messenger, or gave out a statement that was what a stronger mind than his o-yn had im- pressed on him. In either event, what he sald was what the President thought and had safd in some form o1 other, and what the party will be expected to do is to carry out the President's wishes, no matter what they are or may hereatter be. As to the most Important act of the last session of Congress. the railroad regulation measure the President already dissatisfied with it, As to the Panama Ca nal, he ‘has favored one plan, ther another, put his faith in’ tal official ‘and then in that one. He revoked ‘a part of this order dis missing the colored troops, after dis cussion among lawyers had hown { to be an act of usurpation on his part. He pledged himself when Me Kinley died to carry out the latter's policies. McKinley died advocatins reciprocity, and we have never hear¢ since then, from the White House that there was any such thing as re Ciprocity in the sense in which Me Kinley favored it. He had becn, te the day of his elevation to the Pres ‘dency, a persistent and extreme ad Yocate of civil service reform, yet since he became possessed with’ pow. er, he has done more to weaken the Gause than any other President eve Saying that he had taken polltie and sectionalism out of the Diplo matic and Consular service, he ‘ha: given therein only insignificant po sitions to a great section of | tae country or to one of the great par ies. totsting that fis efforts are al for the good of the people, he thas ea see eee ee Hee the bea ep: ines—the best Protection the people could have— Panis te ten ee man who must be un- Waveringly followed jy his party, though to foliow him is to waver, and this is the man whom many Democrats in and out of Congress ‘Molight to sustain. After a while doubt not, of epubitense ae Dee of Republicans and cerats to the folly of such « course. ‘Tt ts time already. } WEEK'S REWS CONDENSED a Sap ptnteg Stead ‘ ‘ego cata sioner of Wk elected president ef the Line railroad to James W. district at torney of Schuylkill County, Pa., dled suddenly at Maboney City, of heart trouble. ‘The Indiana legislature passed a bill_appropriating $5000 for a statue of Gengral Taw Wallace to be places im 5 ‘Hall at Washington. Friday, March 1. A seat on the New York Stock Bx. change was sold for $75,000. Amy Rockhold, a former Virginia slave, aged 102 years, died at Piqua, 0. ‘The Wisconsit senate defeated a bill to appropriate $25,000 for the Jamestown exposition. ‘The botier of a locomotive on the Michigan Central railroad exploded at Chicago, killed two trainmen and in- furing one. After quarreling with his wife, Henry Gann, of near Mt Holly, N. J., swallowed strychnine, and died in great agony. The Kelly Coal company at Dan- ville, Ill, with five shafts and an out- put of 2,000,000 tons annually, was sold to a syndicate for $4,000,000. Saturday, March 2. The Y. M. C. A. building at Utica, N. Y., wes destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $150,000. In attempting to save the life of his son, John Nolls was struck and killed by a train at Chicago. Frank M. Mabry, a well-known bank- @r, was sentenced to prison for five Years at Waco, Texas, for embezzle- ment George A. Fuller, master of the New York State Grange. dropped dead at bis home in Philadelphia, N. Y., of heart disease. One fireman was seriously injured and five others elightly hurt at a fire which destroyed a schoolhouse valued At $175,000 at Allegheny. Pa Monday, March 4. William Giles, ‘crippled son of a Wealthy farmer, was shot by a bur- slar at bis home, near Edinboro, Pa., but will recover. In 17 days @ $275,000 fund was rais- ed in Indianapolis for a Y. MC. A building, and $40,000 out of $100,000 for @ Y. W. GA. building. Stepping from the way of a Reading fiyer at Yerdiey, Pa, a man fell to the ice on the Delaware, 65 feet, and was erushed beyond recognition. A thrid charge of forgery was lodg- ed agsinst Claude A. Marette, a Leb- anon, Pa, life ineurance agent. who is believed to have realized $10,000 by forgeries. Tuesday, Merch 6. Fire destroyed a block of business houses at Danbury, Conn., causing a loss of $125,000. Frank Furlong was electrocuted in Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison for killing his aunt in New York in 1904. The Central labor bodies of Nor- folk, Portsmouth and Newport News, Va. will erect a labor ball at the Jamestown exposition. Burglare foreed an entrance into the store of the Geller, Ward & Hasner Hardware Company, at St. Louis, and secured over $6000 worth of plunder. Frank X. Fitzpatrick, a prominent resident of Cambridge, Mass., was ar rested by government detectives on a complaint that he conspired to vio Inte the Interstate Commerce regula tions by sending lottery matter from one state to another. Wednesray, March 6. James R. Garfield took the oath of office as secretary of the interior. Jesse White was killed and anothor man fatally wounded in a saloon fight at Nashville, Tenn. Thomas McCamant, formerly audi: tor general of Pennsylvania, died of & complication of disease, aged 67 years. Despondent over the death of his adopted daughter, Frank Shoal drown- ed himself in the bathtub at his home in Philadelphia. Richard 0. Floops, a student at Lake Forest University, Chicago, is under arrest, charged with robbery, over $5000 worth of jewelry having beer recovered. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets. mince aot ca anes se PHILADELPBIA — FLOUR ‘4rm; winter extras, $2,702.90; Penusylva nia, roller, clear $2.95 @ 3.15; cit Mulls fancy. f-ob@aes, RYE FLOUR steady; per barrel, $3.65. WHEAT steady: Xo 2 Pentisyivania, rod. 77% G@i8e. CORN firm; No. 2 yeliow, lo- cal, 52%G ssc. “OATS steady; No. 2 white, "clipped. 48% @ 49¢.° "lower grades, 170 HAY steady; No. 1 timo thy, large baleg, $21. PORK steady; family. per, barrel, $19.50. BREF Steady; beot ‘hams,’ per barrel. $19, POULTRY: Live stéady; hens, 1314¢.; old roosters, Bie. Dréssed ‘steady: Choice fowls, 14c.; old roosters, 1c. BUTTER firin; extra creamery, 36¢. EGGS firm; selected, 21@23c.; near: by. "19c.; southern, i¢@i8e. 'POTA. TOES firm; 68@G6c. per bushel. BALTIMORE—WHEAT easy; No. E.spot, 797946; steamer No. 2 spot 3q73%c., southern, 73@76%c. CORN jsteady; mixed 50% @5084c.; steamer, mixed, 48% @48%c.; south: IB {4G5046. OATS firm: white No. 2. dag qi0e; No. &. 48ia@de: No. 4, 47@47'4e.; "mixed, No. 2. fei No. 8. MBO s7c.; No. 4, 45 dé BUTTER firm: creamery’ sep ra dairy, prints, 20@ie. EGGS unsettled: 1éc. BUTTER firm; creamery aspera tor extras. 33%e1 prints. 840030. held, 2G 86e.; land and Penney! vanta dairy pi @2ic. EGGS un settled; fancy land and, Penney! yania, 230. ; vugets, 23e.; West Vir sinia, 23c.; southern, 21@22c. Live Same Markets, CATT tegen oh Stock Yards) —CATTLE steady; choice. $5.707 6; prime, $5.5095.65.. SHEEP steady: prime’ wethers, $5.65@6.85- cuils and common $208; lambs, $507.75; veal calves, $808.56. HOGS slow; prime beavies, $220; mediums and Bears Yorkers, $7.40; Nght Yorkers, §7.45; pigs, 735; roughs, $606.80. Dead Body Burned In Ice Box. Philadelpbia»March 6.—The body of an unidentified man was burned to a ‘crisp in an ice box in the morgue. How it was burned js not known, but the coroner's office is making an investl- gation. A man about 36 years old, em Ployed at the Harrison Sugar Refinery, was accidentally erushed by an eleva tor. He was erushed from the hips down. In hie pocket was & pay check ipouslnds wantectt tar emrents see 1907 MARCH i907 Su,|Mo.|Tu.|WejTh. ie: i 3 cit 7| 8/9] 10} £412] 13] 14) 15] 16 7a 92012 24/95] 26|27|28|29130 Washington, March 5.—Representa- tive Charles H. Grosvenor, of Ohio, who after 20 years of membership in the house, retired to private life, was presented with a club service of 300 pieces of silver tableware, the donors being the members of the 59th con- gress. Fire in Pennsylvania Capitol. Harrisburg, Pa, March 6.—A slight fire was discovered in the offices of the state department of health, on the first floor of the northwest wing of the new capitol. Several chairs and a desk were burned and considerable damage was done to the costly decorations of the room. ADVICE ON SLEEPING. Sp Grr | omer eee: Serer nett er ee Repose. | During childhood and exhaustive states too much sleep Is rarely possible. For those in full tide of vigor too much tleep is often distinctly hurtful, says Popular Science Monthly. The action of narcotics presents none of the characteristics of normal sleep except the temporary arrest of con- sciousness; hence narcosis Is not true aleep. "The best position to assume tn sleep to invite the least disturbance of the functions of the great orgaus Is on the abdomen or nearly so. Many obscure forms of digestive or circulatory disor- ders may have been initiated in in- fancy through lying too long upon the back. ‘To wecure the most perfect repose the temperature of all parts should be equalized before retiring. Cold feet in- duce delay Jo securing sleep, and it ts theu shallow when attalped. It is most unwise to overfill the stomach before retiring. ‘This disturbs sleep almost as mveh as hunger, but moderate eating before sleeping is not hurtful and ia of- ten salutary. Body clothing at night should be loose, not dente, permitting the rendy Passage of air, never of wool next to the skin. Bed clothing should not be too close of texture, blankets being preferatle to dense Scomfortables” and not “tucked in” too closely. Air should de allowed to pass occasioually under the sides at least as one turns about more or less freely. Early rising Is a salutary custom, es. ‘pecially when the day comes early, not otherwise. More sleep is required in ‘winter than In summer, The best sleep Ishad during the hours of darkness. | The sleeping room should be cool, abundant air being always admitted, This shontd not be interpreted to mean that the room may safely remain In- tensely cold. ne es er tee eed ere ‘The manner of washing and wiping one’s hands has much to do with thelr general condition and even with the shape of the finger tips. ‘These can be helped to taper if each finger is wiped Separately by taking the towel between thumb and forefinger of the other hand and pressing exch finger at the side. Deginuing at the nail and rubbing down to the palm. This, after a long time, will affect thelr shape, says a writer In the New York Post. The common way of wiping by passing a towel over the hands, rubbing from the Palms down to the finger tips, Is a mistake and will thicken the flesh about the nails. Well shaped nails are essential, and unfortunately few per- sons have them naturally. Many are “mide worse, though, by the way they are mistreated, end. Uke the dngers, ‘they may be Improved in wiping. Each should always be dried separate- ly by pressing from the top of the nail ‘down to the base, which keeps con- -stantly pressing back the cuticle from the moon. It takes only a couple of ‘more mluutes to treat the fingers this way each time they are wet, and It Is ‘more than worth while. Another ald ‘Is to rub cold cream ever the nails on “going to bed, using only Just enough to Ql! in the space between cuticle and base of the nail. This will not rub off on the bedding and will prevent the cuticle from hardening. ANENT CHEESES. Mew to Keep Different Varieties Preah and Palatable, Few housekevpers have any idea that special care should be taken In order to keep cheese in the best condition gays the Boston Traveler. Most of them wrap it in a paper and jay it upon the pantry shelf, there to remaiu until {t becomes too dry or moldy te be good. Different cheeses require dif ferent treatment. Edam cheese is best kept on a cool dry shelf. If one bas a buffet in th kitchen, it will keep fresh for some time if placed there. Cheese dishes with glass or porcelain topa are apt to cause Edam cheese to sweat. Roquefort cheese may be kept out of the window or In a cool closet in a Jar but should first be wrapped in paper tinfotl. Camembert, Gorgonzola and Brie sbould be trented in the same way, but must be brought In some time before they are to be used, as the cold air ‘will make them too dry to serve im- mediately. : American cheese stionld be wrapped im several thicknesses of paper and Kept on the lower shelf in the refrig- e@vater or in the fresh alr food chest. HA Poem for Today | ACCROSS I TID ISIS ISIS III IIIS IIH THE SWAN SONG OF PARSON AVERY | By John Greenleaf Whittier é ce of Massachusetts’ Bay," where may be found anchony | Thatcher's “Narrodve of His Shipwreck.” ‘Thatcher was Avery's come | anion wad wareivas 26 tok the tone 3 ea. pair Wes coal: tua ee its Soe hee i THEN the reaper’s task was ended and the summer wear | Ing late, a i A] Vorsou Avery sailed from Newbury, with his wife end children eight. : ‘ Dropping down the river harbor in the shallop “Wateh ; and Wait” q Pleasantly lay the clearings in the mellow summer mern, ° ‘With the newly planted orchards dropping thelr fruits first born 3 And the home roots like brown islands amid a sea of corn. ‘ Broad meadows reached out seaward the tided creeks between, g And bills rolled wave like inland, with oaks and walnuts green; ; A fairer home, a goodlier land bis eyes had never seen. 3 ‘Yet away sailed Parson Avery, away where duty led ; And the volce of God seemed calling, to break the living bread : ‘To the souls of fishers starving on the rocks of Marblehead. : All day they sailed: at nightfall the pleasant land breeze dled, : ‘The blackening sky at midnight tts starry lights denied, ; And far and low the thunder of tempest prophesied! Blotted out were all the coast lines, gone were rock and wood and sand; - Grimly anxious stood the skipper with the radder in bis band . And questioned of the-darkness what was sea and what was land. And the preacher beard bis dear ones, nestled round him, weeping sore: - “Never heed, my little children! Christ is walking on before . To the pleasant land of heaven, where the sea shall be no more.” All at once the great cloud parted, like a curtain drawn aside, 5 ‘To let down the torch of lightning on the terror far and wide; ; And the thunder and the whrlwind together smote the tide. : ‘There was wailing in the shallop—woman’s wail and man’s despal— —- A crash of breaking timbers on the rocks so sharp and bare, § And, through It all, the murmur of Father Avery's prayer. : From his struggie in the darkness with the wild waves and the blast, ° On a rock, where every billow broke above him as it passed, : Alone of all bia ouseliold the man of God was east. ‘There a comrade heard him praying in the pause of wave and wimdt ; “Al my own bave gone before me, and I linger just bebind; 3 Not for life I ask, but only for the rest Thy ransomed find! ; “In this night of death I challenge the promiso of Thy word! 4 Let me see the great salvation of which mine ears have heard! : Let me pass from hence forgiven, through the grace of Christ, our Lard! “In the baptism of these waters wash white my every ain, : And let me follow up to Thee my household and my kin! 4 Open the sea gate of Thy heaven and let me enter in!” When the Christian sings his death song all the listening heavens: draw near, And the angels, leaning over the walls of crystal, hear : How the notes, so faint and broken, swell to music in God's ear. 3 ‘The ear of God was open to His servant's last request; ; As the strong wave swept him downward the sweet hymn apward. pressed, And the soul of Father Avery went, singing, to its rest. . ‘There was wailing on the mainland, from the rocks of Marbiehead; In the atricken chureh of Newbury the notes of prayer were read; ; And long, by board and bearthstone, the living mourned the dead. And still the fishers outbound or scudding from the squall, : With grave and reverent faces, the ancient tale recall ; When they see the white waves breaking on the Rock of Avery's Fall! a a iL oS eee ie le ee Bic CHILD CISAPPEARS Father Believes 4-YearOld Son Was Kidnapped. Wilmington, Del, March 6—The + yearold boy of Dr. H. W. Marvin, re cently of Sioux City, Iowa, disappeared from home and has not been found. Kidnapping Is suspected Dr. Marvin recently purchased a farm near Kitishammock, on the bay shore, eight miles from Dover, and moved there on Saturday. It was walle the family were working In the house, setting things to rights, that the doy, who was playing around a hay- stack nearby, disappeared. The clos- est search of the neighborhood ever since has failed to reveal the slight- est indication of the missing Ind. Attorney General Richards has been notified, and State Detective Hawkins went down to join in the search. Dr. Marvin bought the farm for the par. pose of engaging in stock breeding. He knows of nothing, beyond a hope of gain, which would induce anyone to strike him such a blow as the steal- ing of his child. KILLED IN ELEVATOR Female Operator Crushed to Death In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa., March 4.—Martha Peterman, an elevator operator at the Y. M. C. A. building in this city, was crushed to death by the lift she was running. Sho had run the elevator up to the elghth floor, where she left it standing while she went to break- fast. The elevator had dropped sev- eral feet below the floor when she re turned. Miss Peterman law down oD the floor to reach the controller and Tun the lift back to the floor level. In doing so she turned the lever the wrong way and the car descended, crushing her head. This ts the first fatal accident to a female elevator ‘operator ever reported in the city. WILL REVIVE WHIPPING POST Colored Wife Beater in Maryland to Get Nine Lashes. Raltimore, Md., March 2—The whip- ping post is to be revived in Mary- land after having been in disuse for 20 years. Sadler Brooks, colored, was Rentenced to receive nine lashes in addition to a jail sentence of two omnths for brutally beating bis wife. Consclence Wouldn't Let Him Sleep. Harrisburg, Pa, March 5. — State ‘Treasurer Berry received an anony: mous letter, postmarked “Philadel: phia,” containing $200 in greenbacks, with the request that it be added to the “Conscience Fund” of the treas ‘ury, and the explanation that the send- er “wanted to sleep at nights.” Bia Addition to Forest Reserves. ‘Washington, March 5. — Seventeon million acres of forest lands have beer Added to the forest reserves cf th United States by proclamations isra- by President Roosevelt. Thirty-two forest reservations are created or in- creased in area by these prociama- See SENATOR SPOONER © WILL RETIRE Wisconsin Man Sends Resignation to Gov. Davidson, WILL RESUME LAW PRACTICE Washington, March 4. — Senator Spooner has written a letter to Gow ernor Davidson, of Wisconsin, tender img his resignation as a senator of os a a y ‘] & WSs ~ 3 7. : the United States, to take effect May 1 next. The letter was dated Satur day, but the fact that guch a letter had been written or that Mr. Spooner contemplated resigning did not become Known tn the senate until late Sun- day, when it created great surprise, and the Wisconsin senator at once found himself the subject of many anxious inquiries. To all he replied that his mind was fully made up. He had found, he said, that to continue in his present position would require '@ sacrifice on his part that be could ‘not justify himself in making. In re ‘ply to questions, he said he would re- sume the practice of the law, but de clined to say whether be would be focatea in Wisconsin. He did say, however, that he would continue to be a citixen of that state as long as he lives. Vice President Fairbanks was one of the few public men to be made ac quainted with Mr. Spooner's plans be fore he wrote his letter. The knowl ‘edge came to him through the perso- ual confidence of the senator, but the latter made no official communication ‘on the subject to either the senate or ite presiding officer. The law does not require that a resigning senator should do more than Mr. Spooner bas done, but some senators who have re- signed have given notice to the sen- ‘ate. Mr. Spooner served 16 yeam fm ‘the senate. THE PLANET SATURDAY...MARCH 9TH. 1907 WOMAN THINKS DEAR IS WAITING HUSBAND WOMAN THINKS DEAR IS WAITING HUSBAND MOTHER, IN DARK, HANDS CHILD TO ANIMAL, MISTAKING IT FOR HER SPOUSE. Afton, Va.—James Ingram, a young farmer of Nelson county, had occasion to go to a neighboring plantation on business the other afternoon. Knowing he would not be able to return until late and that his wife desired him to accompany her to the home of a neighbor, where there was to be A The Bear Made Away with the Baby, a dance, it was agreed that the woman should start alone, taking their child with her, and meet her husband at a fence near a small body of woods. The young woman started later than she intended. It was dark and cold when she reached the fence where her husband was to have met her. She saw a figure in the dusk on the other side of the fence and took the object to be her husband. Calling him by name she handed the child over without hesitation. When she had climbed the fence and looked up she was astonished to see the figure disappearing, taking the baby with it. She then noted that the figure traveled low on the ground and not upright like a man. Frantic with fear she ran screaming and calling to her husband, whom she met coming toward her along the road. He also had been delayed. Lights were immediately procured, the alarm given and a thorough search made, but nothing could be seen or heard. Next morning the tracks of an immense bear were found leading from the point at the fence where the child disappeared upward through the woods toward the mountain. No trace has yet been found of the missing infant. During the intense cold of the last few days wild animals from the mountains have been forced down to the settlement for food. There is scarcely any doubt that the infant was dewoured by the hungry bear. SEPARATED FOR 16 YEARS. Father and Son Meet By Accident at Toledo, Ohio. Toledo, O.—To find his 19-year-old son clerking in a Toledo candy store, after he had not seen the boy since he was a babe of three years, was the experience of J. C. Heimerdinger, a traveling salesman. The other day the father stepped into a candy kitchen to invest in some confectionery. Business was dull and he got into conversation with the clerk who was waiting on him. The customer said he was from New York, and the boy clerk replied that he was born in that city himself. Then each told in what section of the great metropolls he had lived and the two learned they were from the same neighborhood. "Did you ever ever a man there by the name of Heimerdinger?" asked the younger, "for he was my father." "That is my name, so I guess I am "That is my name, so I guess I am your father," came the reply. Then there was handshaking and mutual inquiry about relatives. It developed that Mr. Helmerdinger had separated from his wife and babes in New York 16 years ago. He disappeared one day and left no trace of his whereabouts. Shortly afterward Mrs. Helmerdinger and her children came to Toledo, where she has lived ever since. The mother supported her family by conducting a rooming house at 914 Jefferson avenue, and the youngest son some time ago secured employment in a candy kitchen a short distance down the avenue. The mother and children got along very well without the aid of a husband and father. The boy, when he met his father last evening, hoped that the long absent one would return to his family. But it was not to be. The father did not even call on his wife, although she lived but two squares from the candy store. Contractors In Novel Race Pedestrians along lower Broadway, New York, each day are interestedly watching the progress of a novel race by building constructors. Each contractor is rushing work on a 24-story building and each contractor now has his men at work on the twenty-third story. One of the buildings is to be occupied by the United States Express company and is in Rector street, just off Broadway. The other is known as the West-street building. Each structure is to cost over $3,000,000. NOT ASKING FOR MUCH. I do not want to be so rich that other men will sadly sich I do not long to have my sway extend so far or be so great That I may ne'er be free from care-let me be spared from such a fate! But, candidly, I'd like to be just rich enough to feel at ease. To play when I might wish to play, and toll sometimes—when I should please. I do not wish to be so rich that slumps and panics must ensue When I've a coated tongue or lie propped up in bed a day or two; up in bed a day or two; I do not long to be the one who gives Or foolishly be booish o'er the monthly bills that I receive. I do not long to be so rich that senators will lick my boots. Or that I'll have to dodge about escaping from annoying suits; I do not want to be so high that every time I blink or yawn Without a care and with the right to - S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Keeper Alas! Wild Rose. Things are always happening which illustrate that the 'best-lald plans of mice and men gang aft agley.' A romantic couple by the name of Rose named their daughter Wild. And truly Wild Rose seemed to justify her name. She was shy and graceful and beautiful. For years the parents enjoyed all the romance and poetry of the name. Then they awoke to the fact that young women often change their last names, and that any other combination than the present one would be likely to leave very little of the beautiful. At last the very worst came. She married Charlie Bull—Judge. Internal Application He found his hair was leaving the top of his head, and took his barber to task about it. "You sold me two bottles of stuff to make this hair grow." "It is very strange it won't grow again," interrupted the barber. "I can't understand it." "Well, look here," said the man. "I don't mind drinking another bottle, but this must be the last." Up-to-Date Petro "Every day da policeman taka my orange," sighed Petro, as he polished his fruit with a damp cloth. "To-day I maka da change." "Made a change, eh?" replied the fat man who was buying a quart of peanuts. "What kind of a change did you make? "Why, before he could taka da orange I hand him da lemon."—Chicago Daily News. A Young Wife—Why were you se awkward and embarrassed when you proposed to me? Young Husband—Oh, I was only trying not to look so cocksure of being accepted as I felt. Freddy (romantically)—The moon! The moon! The beautiful mellow moon! Edna—And you remind me of the moon, Freddy. Freddy—1? In what way? Edna—You are also mellow. Bill—He offered her his hand and his heart. Jill—I suppose she didn't think it a fair exchange for her money? "But you know her face went with the money!"—Yonkers Statesman. They Did. Hogan—Did th' b'y's injee Moriarity's spache? Grogan—Did they? Well, ye should how bin there. They cheered so loud ye couldn't hear a wur'd he said.—Judge. Probably. "I saw a picture of a group of children who will be rulers of men some day." "Must be girl children, aren't they?" --Houston Post. Luxury, Indeed. Sam Sunflower—Dat Misteb Bur banks out in California am a great man, pard. He kin graft a sweet tateh on a white tateh. Pete Persimmon—Golly! What a great thing et would be ef he could graft a sweet tateh on a possum!"—Chicago Daily News. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. JOB DEPARTMENT VISION WORK Charter-Sheets, Half and Whole Placards, Society Cards, Min- ing Stationery. WE AN EL WHICH WE WILL Stock Roof LATEST STYLE BOND, FI AS SMALL AS A DODGER Sheet Poster A FRONT DOOR. OUR PRESENT CORP OF EMPLOYE IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF tired and has no objectionable f enter without embarrassment o , 2213. 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Our street-entrance is retired and has no objectionable features, the most fastidious lady being able to enter without embarrassment or annoyance. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE, 2213. And he thought it was so wonderful that he immediately put the hen in a cage and took her to the circus, so that everybody could see the hen that laid eggs as big as she did. He made a nice nest for her in a box, and she was given a good position on the side-show platform between the fat lady and the tattooed man. "Oh, save me! Save me, Brother Bunny Rabbit!" he cried, for Mr. Coon, who could not swim, was helpless with fear.—Atlanta Constitution. How to Make a Skating Pond. Stake out the pond and cut down the sides a foot, so that a uniform depth is obtained. The soil can be thrown back upon the embankments at each side. All weeds and bushes must be cut down below the level of the intended surface of water, for these form disagreeable obstructions when left to freeze in the ice, says American Homes and Gardens. Thick mud soil should now be carted from some nearby swamp and spread evenly over the surface of the pond. Ordinary marl, which is so abundant in many localities, makes an ideal material for this purpose. When first dug from the swamp it is lumpy and hard, and it --- It is thoroughly equipped to do all kinds of printing on short notice. We make a specialty of Society printing and work for Insurance Companies, such as Financial An Animal Story For Little Folks The Deceptive Hen's Fate A hen wanted to have some fun at her master's expense, so she procured an ostrich's egg and placed it in her nest. "Oh, my," cried her master when he saw it, "what a remarkable hen I have! See, she has laid an enormous egg." Everybody went to see the wonderful hen, and her master was very much SHE GOT AN OSTRICH'S EGG. pleased. But the next day the ben laid an ordinary egg, and day after day it was the same size. At the end of the week the circus man went to the hen's master and said: "Why have you deceived me? This hen only lays ordinary eggs." And the master did not know what to say. He gathered up his cage with the hen in it and went back home. When he got there he picked up an ax and chopped the ben's head off. And that reminds me that we should always be careful not to make things appear in a wrong light.—Detroit Journal An Animal Story For Little Folks RARE JUSTICE Bunny Rabbit went one day last week to rob Mr. Coon's cornerib, and Mr. Coon caught him in the very act "I'll coin you off to jail, sir, and that's what I'll do with you!" "Oh, don't march me off to jail! Anything but that!" 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The FOREIGN MISSION BOARD of the National Baptist Convention Is Issuing 150,000 Programs For their 11th Annual Rally. Any Church, Sunday School or Society may have all they wish free by writing Rev. L. G. Jordan, 726 W. Walnut Street, Louisville, Ky. Drs. Bouey and Prowd, Brethren Cheek, Buchanan, Murff and other workers are looking to the rally for means to carry on their work in heathen and pagan lands. "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel" is the command of the Christ whom we profess to love. Indeed we must "GO, let GO or help GO" if we would meet God in peace. will be necessary to pulverize it with a harrow after it is spread on the bottom of the pond. If carefully distributed around to a depth of two or three inches the first rainstorm will dissolve it into the right consistency for use. Then with a hoe and rake go over the pond and compact the marl surface so that when it dries it will form a tough, almost water tight skin over the top soil. 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Henry Albert, 308 Richmond St. s SPitwes = 410 aa ENE T. aa arated. : AN Se SATURDAY....MARCH 9TH, 1007 neees, YF. + Gantaiciset) Bee RE DYORAS ae Oo we “The regiment I served in put ina Sood part of its time in states on the southern Atlantic seaboard, in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, where, with water transportation to us, we sould be got at rather more easily than troops not so faraway, but at {n- terior pests, says a veteran of the elvil war in the New York Sun; and 80 while you couldn't have things shipped to you there as you could in this town or the other in times of peace, still you could get things there pretty well, and the patron of whom our company was named when it was first recruited, back im the town In which il was raised, used to see to it that at Christmas time there was delivered to us a big box filled with things f-om friends at home. “We no longer bore bis name in the army, for from the minute we were mustered into the United States serv. RCS. La Se ee 2 ee ae € es yy \ ‘view |S ef hes, rey mE | RG SEZ ee ; Some Went to Their — fee we had become simply company soandso, of such and such a num: bered regiment, of such and such state volunteers, but we nover forgot our friend at home, and surely he never forgot us, and at Christmas time he used to see that our company got ‘that box. “Well, in advance he would an. nounce In the home papers that on such and such « date a box would be sent to the company, and if friends or relatives of members of the com: pany would bring in the gifts they wished to send they would be care fully packed and duly shipped. And then the people used -to bring In the things; and though, somehow, I never thought of it then, I have thought often since, with what loving care and tenderness must those Christmas gifts have been prepared, those things sent from home to thelr soldiers in the field! “When everything was all in our friend would have the things securely and safely packed, and then he'd hike the box down to New York and there the quartermaster’ department would put It aboard an army transport and bring It down to us. So Santa Claus wasn’t coming to us, with his pack on his back, down the Chimney, but tn @ box in the hold of a steamer. “When we got our first Christmas box we were on an Island down the coast there, drilling some and do!ne guard and picket duty, but largely engaged in building corduroy roads through swamps by day, and by night hauling by hand, with a wgole regi- ments on the ropes, heavy mortars and guns over these roads, and also, under the same friendly cover of dark. ness, in building masited batteries in which the said guns and mortars were mounted, all this in the course of be- sieging a fort occupied by confeder- ate soldiers on another island. “It was plenty of hard work and ‘not much play, and most of the freight that came to us, besides the usual commissary supplies, was guns and mortars and powder and shot and shell and the various material of war; Dut one day there came ashore a lighter from a transport anchored off, along with barre!s of pork and kegs of powder, that Christmas box from home for us soldiers. “We hauled it up from the beach and set it down carefully, right side wp, at the end of the company’s street and I donbt if any Greplace on a Christmas morning was ever a greater magnet of attraction to children than that box was to the men of Company X. To a man they gathered around It to see what Santa had brought them from home. % “It was a big box, a big dry goods packing box; big enough to hold something for evervbody; and care- fully we opened it; and, with the itd off, H seemed full of innumerable treasures, 80 full to the last Inch of Space was in packed. “The orderly sergeant of the com- pany made the distribution. He raised z reached over and picked MD & package that iay at the center t the box, Ufted It and rend oa It, and passe the ot a bad OF this wisn to whom it be OM eras or es NS | he went on more rapldiy up the things and reading off the names and passing them over— of all sorts and shapes and sires, ail eagerly received. Some men stayed to seo everything given ont. ‘and some of them went to thelr tents to see what the folks had sent them, ‘or to read the letters that had come with the gifts. And so the things In the box got lower and lower, while Still there were some men who had as yet got nothing and who now were More and more a:ixious—and how Joy. fully relieved when at last something came up for them! “But there were a few, a very few, who lUngered ta yain; who among all these gifts got nothing: and plainly @isappointed were some of these, while others took tt jaratily—perhaps they had no one to send them, these— but still all bore it bravely: and be sure that those who got shared what they could share with those who had nothing in the box. “What came in the Christmas box? Well, not much brieabrac, not many fancy candlesticks, nor card. cases. nor fancy purses, nor that sort of thing, but mostly useful articles; though among these were watches and pocketknives, and so on; but there were home knit stockings, and sewinz Kits, and suspenders, and shoes, and books, not forgetting Bibles and Tes taments; and tobacco and pipes and cigars; ‘all sorts of useful things and many letters and pictures. “And from whom did all these things come? From wives, and from ‘children; and from asters, and sweet hearts, and mothers; and It was that that made them all so dear, And bless the'r dear hearts, they did not forget, they did not at all forget, the things to eat “The box seemed full of roasted chicken and cuokies and jellies and Sausages, and sealed up cans of but ter and grand cakes, and all manners of good things to eat. True, we had pork enough, and we had plenty of hardtack; but here was something that savored of Christmas!” TWENTY-ONE YEARS LATE. Former Guardsman Créered to Report For Militia Practice in 1886. Frank A. Bovey, secretary of the Rovey-DeLalttre Lumber company. has been summoned to appear at the armory in fatisue uniform to drill with company C, First infantry, N. G. S. M. says the Minneapolis Journal. His presence ts required at 7:45 p. m. sharp, Monday, January 20, 1886, and again on tho evening of Wednesday, the twenty-ninth of the same month. For neariy 21 yoars the postal card bearing this order has been on its way to Mr. Bovey. There have been some dolays along the way, but the card Is at length in the hands of the Superintendent of mati delivery, Mare D. Wanter, and will reach Mr. Rovey im time for him to report at the armory just 21 yeara late for drill. Blame for this, the record slow de livery of Minneapolis, does not rest with the loca! post office, but with the old mail chute in the old chamber of commerce bullding, where the card has spent tho creater part of the time intervening botweon its dispatch and its delivery. For the last two years the chute has been out of order, and now workmen aro busy replacing It. On taking the old ehate apart, the workmen today discovered the card addressed to Mr. Bovey, and several letters, The iatter are of recent date and have already been returned to their senders by the post office. Twenty-one years of loitering on the road have axed the militia summons until it ts as unrecognizable az Rip Van Winkle after his 20 years’ nap in the Catskills. Betwoen the ink fading and the paper turning dark, the writing 1s -hardiy legible and the buffeting of other mail matter shot past it throuzh the chute has worn Several hola in the card The card is addressed to “F. A. Bovey, care Eastman, Povey & Co, Minneapolis, Minn.” The summons, partly printed and partly written. reads as follows: “Headquarters Company C, First infantry, N. G. S. M.—You are hereby ordered to report at the armory {o fatigue uniform at 7:45 p.m. sharp, Monday and Wed- nesday, 29th inst., for drill. By order of John D. Oszoo4, captain command: fing. John E, thmes, sergeant.” | A WARRIOR, TOO. Memorial Day Mistake That Brought | Delight to a Poor Swede's Heart. . The wooden boards that had marked the graves in a certain rural ceme- tery rotted off, aud were raked up in the spring cleaning; consequently, ‘on Memorial day, when the delega- tion from the G. A. R. arrived with flags and appropriate floral decora. tons for their departed comrades, the decorating committee found itself ‘somewhat in doubt as to which grave belonged to Captain Plodgett and which to Hannah Ericson, Tho mufstaken delerates, says Youth's Companion, heaped their offerings upon Hannah's last resting place and departed. That afterzoon. Erfeson, the widower, drifted, wich the rest of his world, to the cemetery. ‘When he saw the fing and the flowers above Hannah, the astonished Swede fell to chuckling joyously. ; “Vell,” he exclaimed, delightedly, “dose faller bane pooty smart, too! ‘Ay tank dat vor all right and som gude yoke on Hannah—be vor pooty gude fighter hersellut.” A Peculiarity. | “Do you atii believe im the faith eure?” Yes" answered the tolerant man; “ut there's this peculiarity about It It always appears to be rood for some. thing that somebody eise bas and you Baven't” Proof Positive, Maude—Fred proposed last night, and he was avfully rattled. 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Arrangements were made to send enough ham, hoof. flour, ees, but- ter and other edihies to last a week. ‘This was the lensth of time the party intended to stay. The provisions were forwarded according to agreement, and at the end of the week hardly enough were loft to make a respecta- ble meal, All would havo cone well had not the unexpected happened. The morn- ing the party was to break camp after 4 light broakfant « Sne snow began to fall and this continued until a rising wind made the trip harardous. In- stead of abating the storm tncreased to a blizzard * Mrs. Northup sconred the bungalow from top to bottom to find forgotten food, but nothing more substantial than three apples could be discovered. ‘These were served as their sauce for dinner, and for sunper Mr. Blake found half a dozen acorns some squir rels had hound under the gable. Then every one drank all the water he could. ‘The children, the oldest of whom Yeas nine, became fretful as thelr hun- ger increased, and at thelr usual bed time they refused to go to sleep. Mrs. Northrup bore with them patiently for an hour, and then suggested that they dress, open a trunk of playthings brought in during the summer, und amuse themselves until the “sand. man” came around. The litte folk had no sooner spread out thelr toys than Mrs, Northrup ut tered a suppressed exclamation of de Meht and fairly gurgled with glee. Then she whispered to her husband. His mouth watered. Mr. Blake want. ed to know what all the excitement was about, but the only information he got was that a hearty meal would be served for breakfast. ‘The moment the children returned and Mr. Blake had — fate ee KG | ae iC Le Ys | Pisa uy Oa Cag a Mrs. Northrup seized six bean. bags with which the little folk had been playing and ripped them open. Out of the six she managed to get two quarts of beans. 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Mr. Jerome was requested by the presiding judge to submit to him whatever authorities he had upon the subject. "I have such a high respect for the courts of this jurisdiction," retorted Mr. Jerome, "that I will not submit authorities on a question of law which is so elemental in character and upon which the authorities are so abundant that I must presume the learned court knows of them." With flushed face and a sharp rap of his gavel, Justice Fitzgerald said if the district attorney did not submit the authorities the court would assume that he did not know of any. Mr. Jerome did not submit the authorities, and Justice Fitzgerald ruled in favor of the defense on the point at issue, which, briefly stated, was the question as to whether the state on cross-examination should be allowed to go further with an expert witness than counsel for the defense was allowed to go upon direct examination. District Attorney Jerome was as defiant in his tone as he was in the words he uttered. Justice Fitzgerald rapped several times with his gavel, twisted about impatiently in his chair, and it was plainly with much effort that he retained his judicial composure. The storm broke in the midst of an extremely dull session, when some of the spectators in the courtroom actually were nodding in their chairs. During the unusual scene between the judge and Mr. Jerome, however, there was a hush in the room, which gave emphasis to each word uttered, either from the bench or by the prosecuting attorney. The incident began with an objection interposed by Mr. Delmas for the defense to a question asked Dr. Wagner by Mr. Jerome. The district attorney wanted the witness to repeat certain conversations he had had with Thaw in the Tombs. Mr. Delmas protested that he had not been allowed to go into these conversations on direct examination. He was proceeding at some length to state the position of the defense, when Mr. Jerome interrupted with the remark that argument did not call "for a stump speech." Mr. Delmas protested against this "offensive language" by the district attorney. Justice Fitzgerald interposed in the discussion, and Mr. Delmas was soon lost to view because of the turn affairs took. During the course of his argument, the district attorney placed himself on record by saying that the legal assumption before the court is that Harry K. Thaw is insane. He declared the alienists for the defense have shown Thaw to have been insane as late as September 22 last, and in the absence of proof to the contrary, the assumption is that he remains insane. Justice Fitzgerald declared that the present jury only has to do with the question of Thaw's sanity or insanity on the night that he killed Stanford White. Dr. Wagner was allowed to give his conversations with Thaw during the period that he believed the defendant to be of unsound mind. He said Thaw remembered having approached and having shot White. He protested, however, that he had not intended at any time to kill the man, but wanted to have him legally punished. Dr. Wagner also declared that Thaw had irrational knowledge of what was transpiring on the roof garden. He believed the man's insinity dated from the time Evelyn Nesbit told her story in Paris in 1903. Dr. Wagner created quite a stir in court by using the present tense in responding to a question by District Attorney Jerome as to what form of insanity Thaw "has or had." Dr. Wagner declared Thaw "is suffering" from symptoms which lead toward a melancholic state and a state of demenda praecox. When asked to describe the latter phrase, Dr. Wagner said it covered such a wide field of dementia as to be difficult of strict definition. Dr. Wagner declared Thaw's condition of mind at the time of the shooting was the result of one of the insanities of adolescence. He would not go further than this in an attempt to classify the exact form. Nordica Seas Bull Eight El Paso, Texas, March 4.—Lillian Nordica, grand opera singer, and 10,000 other persons gathered at the Juarez, Mexico, Plaza del Toros, to see a bull fight in which professional female Spanish matadors and bandierillos killed three out of four bulls. Two of the bulls killed would have done credit to any male matador who ever appeared in the Juarez plaza. Mime, Nordica, in whose behalf one of the bulls was killed, rewarded the successful matador with a roll of bila. CONGRESS ADJOURNS Some of the Important Measures Passed At This Session. Washington, March 4. - The 59th congress adjourned sine die at noon today (Monday). The filibuster against the ship subsidy bill was continued to the end and the measure was defeated. More money has been appropriated during the short session of the 59th congress than during any previous session. The amount, as near as can be estimated, approximates a billion dollars. Two big battleships were authorized for the navy, and the artillery corps of the army was reorganized and enlarged. A general service pension was granted to veterans of the Mexican and Civil wars, and like provisions were made for army nurses. For river and harbor improvements the appropriation aggregated $33,000,000. Increased salaries were given to cabinet ministers, the vice president and senators, the speaker of the house of representatives and its members; to ambassadors, ministers and consults; to post-office clerks and letter carriers. A bill was passed for the establishment of an agricultural bank in the Philippine Islands. The free alcohol law of last session was modified that farmers may distill the waste products of the farm to be denatured and used in the arts and sciences. The right of appeal in criminal cases was granted the government, a measure intended to strengthen the antitrust legislation by affording a means whereby the supreme court may pass on the constitutionality and construction of such laws. RAILROAD OFFICIALS HELD Coroner's Jury Charges New York Central With Negligence New York, March 5.—The coroner's jury, which has been investigating the wreck of February 15 In the Bronx on the New York Central Railroad, as a result of which 23 persons met death, returned a verdict, finding "that the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company did not take all the necessary precautions to guard its passengers at this point, and consequently were culpably negligent, and that the responsibility for the existing conditions seems to be divided between the construction and operating departments." Assistant District Attorney Smythe, as he was leaving court, remarked that now he could present the case to the grand jury. The directors of the New York Central are: Chauncey M. Depew, William K. Vanderbilt, Frederick K. Vanderbilt, Sampel F. Barger, J. Pierpont Morgan, H. M. McK. Twomby, William H. Newman, Charles C. Clarke, George S. Bowdolin, William Rockefeller, D. O. Mills, James Stillman and George F. Baker. W. H. Newman is president. Making Mattresses For Strike-Breakers and Watchmen. Altoona, Pa., March 6. With a view to being prepared for a long siege in the event of a strike of trainmen, the employees of the upholstering department of the Pennsylvania railroad shops in this city are working day and night making mattresses for use of strike-breakers and watchmen of the company's property who may be obliged to camp out. This precaution was taken on a former occasion when a strike was threatened, but when the emergency passed the mattresses were burned. The report from Pittsburgh that the railroad company is hiring strike-breakers in Baltimore and Cleveland could not be verified here, General Superintendent Creighon saying that he had no knowledge to that effect. WOULD RUIN THEM Short Line Railroads Asked to Be Exempt From 2-Cent Fare. Harrisburg, Pa., March 6.—The senate railroads committee gave a hearing to representatives of the short line railroads of Pennsylvania in opposition to the Dunsmore 2-cent fare bill. The short line railroads claim a 2-cent fare fould ruin them, and asked that they be exempted from the provisions of the bill. Instead, however, a separate bill will be drafted to apply to roads of 50 miles or less so as to permit them to charge a maximum fare of five cents a mile. The committee will give a hearing to representatives of the larger roads next week, after which it is expected the Dunsmore bill will be reported in the form in which it passed the senate. Fireman Drowned Newark, N. J., March 4.--Leutenant Benjamin B. Oirch lost his life in a fire which burned out Murray Brothers' cafe on Market street. Fireman Joseph Carland barely escaped death while trying to rescue his superior Fireman William Beebe and Chief of the Fire Department Robert Kierstead, while going to the rescue of Leutenant Birch were both seriously hurt. The firemen were dragging a hose through the basement, when they were caught in a back draught and nearly suffocated. Groping for an exit, Birch fell and apparently was first stunned and then drowned in the water that covered the basement floor. He Captured First Rebel Flag Orange, N. J., March 5.—Leutenant Colonel John N. Coyne, who was the first Union soldier to capture a confederate flag in the civil war, died of a complication of diseases at his home here. He was with Sickles' brigade, and for his services received a modal of honor. Subscribe to The PLANET THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA AUTO RIDE ENDS IN A RESTAURANT SERVANT TAKES MASTER'S CAR OUT FOR JAUNT AND HAS EX- CITING ADVENTURE. MACHINE BECOMES UNRULY Throws Driver Through Negro Cafe Window Into Ham and Eggs—Would-Be Chaufeur's Curiosity Causes Trouble. New York—Dr. Edgar Calrin Selbert of Orange, N. J., has a lively sense of humor. When he viewed the wreck of his fine new touring car the other day he fairly doubled up with mirth. Of course it wasn't a hopeless wreck. There was a good deal of the body and framework of the machine left. There was a worse wreck stewing in ointments, bandages and lint in a wing of the physician's house. Competent chauffeurs are scarce in the Oranges. Dr. Selbert found this out when he sought to hire one. He employed several alleged drivers who seemed very eager in the interests of local funeral directors. Discouraged he decided to drive his own car, and carry along a sort of footman to crank up, clean the car, and do the messy work. In time he imagined that he might train the man to run the machine. So he engaged Wilkes, a serious young Englishman. The other night the physician went out to deliver a lecture. He went inside, leaving Wilkes in charge of the car. Wilkes had a long wait ahead of him, and in his somber British way began to take an interest in things. He crawled under the car and studied the machinery intently. He had heard the doctor speak of his fine engine, and wanted to look it over. He saw a maze of little wheels and pipes that puzzled him. He got a mouthful of dripping gasoline and crawled out suddenly to the street. He studied the house fronts and snow-sugared trees. This palled him. Suddenly he realized that he had some small spark of genius in him. He could crank the car and knew how to put in the spark plug. He cranked viciously, and the engine burped with vigorous, hoarse music. He had seen the doctor throw over the throttle and set the speeds. He didn't know the first from the third speed, but he knew there was a speed lever. "Blarst it, I'll take a blooming hazard!" he soliloquized aloud. He sprang aboard, and simultaneously jammed over the speed lever and throttle. Then he grasped the wheel BILL OF FAR RESTAURANT He Went Headlong Through the Window. and let her go. The spark was working fine and the engine was fairly bursting with energy. The machine sprang forward in a half circle and shot toward an elm tree. Wilkes managed to yaw to leeward, scrape the bark of the tree, taking the sidewalk in a splendid leap. He had his foot on the clutch and was working it as if it were the pedal of a bicycle, with picturesque results. The mystery of the brakes was utterly beyond him, so he let them close. He had gone about two blocks on the sidewalk when he suddenly weered and mowed down a fence. He dashed safely through an arbor and demolished a dog-house in which there was a sleeping pet. The glass screen of the machine was shattered and there was much glass and splinters in Wilkes features and hair when he aimed for the porch of the Dodson homestead. He toiled furiously at the steering wheel, and only tore down one angle of the veranda. This caused him to carom out onto the roadway again and he was soon flying diagonally toward a busy restaurant. In his emotion he had one foot on the syren and it was wailing horribly when he collided with the upstanding bill of fare and rolled to the window. The car hit the structure fair and stopped. Wilkes went out through the window and dived over three tables, landing headlong on the fourth at which five negroes were sitting about a platter of ham and eggs. There was consternation amidst them and the ham and eggs, but at this juncture Wilkes lost consciousness. When they took him and the shattered car home his mind was on his childhood days. "They ought to name the next battleship Rumor." "Why such a name as that?" 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And an afidavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used by and on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or corporation the defendant, Andrew Hill is, without effect and that she does not know his whereabouts, it is ordered that said defendant, Andrew Hill, appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interest herein. A copy—teste: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. To Andrew Hill: You'll take notice that I shall on the 2nd day of May, 1907 at the office of Phil B. Shields, room numbered 60. Chamber of Commerce Building, situated at S. W. corner of Main and 9th St., city of Richmond, Virginia between the hours of nine o'clock A. M. and six o'clock P. M. of that day and proceed to take the depositions of witnesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the city of Richmond, Virginia, wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff and, if for any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day or if commenced be not concluded on that day, the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been completed. Respectfully, ISABELLA HILL, By Counsel. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq.. Office: 1211 $ \frac{1}{2} $ E. Broad St. Richmond, Va. VIRGINIA: In the Law and Equity Court for the city of Richmond this 12th day of February, 1907. Daisy M. Vandervall. Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonil, and an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Daisy M. 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M. of that day proceed to take the depositions of Wit nesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the city of Richmond, Va., wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff; and if for any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if commenced be not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been concluded. JOSEPH B. VANDERVALL, By Counsel. J. HENRY CRITCHFIELD, pq. Office: 1211 I. E Broad St. Richmond, Virginia VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of Richmond, Va., Feb. 26, 1907. IN CHANCERY The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant. An afidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of Virginia it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do whatsoever is necessary to protect her interest herein. A Copy—Teste: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. To Mary E. Elllett, Take notice: You are hereby notified that I shall on Thursday, May 30th, 1907, at the law office of Wm. M. Turph, Room No. 11, Shafer's Building, Corner of 10th and Main Streets, in the City of Richmond, Va. between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. M. on that day proceed to take the depositions of Douglas Elllett and others to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Equity, depending in the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, Va., wherein you are the defendant and I am the plaintiff. 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One of the very latest fads among women who take pride in the daintiness of their homes, especially their sleeping rooms, is the flower garden room. It is now a flower garden; it may not have a single real bloom in it, but it is none the less attractive for that. Suppose it is to be a violet bed, the walls are tinted in pale lavender and the curtains are either white or lavender, preferably the former, with violet ribbons to hold them back. The bed is covered with a spread made from figured lawn or other dainty material, the figures to be nothing more than clusters of violets. The bolster roll is of the same material, and at each end are tied clusters of artificial violets, with ribbons to tone with them. The soft silk, or silkline coverlet, which is rolled up at the foot of the bed, must be made by the girl herself, for they cannot be purchased. It is made from cotton sachet and the silk, and it need not be very large. In between the layers of cotton spread a generous quantity of violet sachet, being careful to see that it is placed so that it won't sift through. Then catch the cotton here and there before the covering is put on. Tuft the comforter with a deeper shade of violet and bind it in violet satin ribbon. On the dressing table there is a violet colored cover and a hatpin holder made from a test tube, and violet ribbon, with a tassel or two to match. A hairpin holder is made to correspond; it consists of nothing but a small glass jar purchased at any department store, and covered with violet ribbon. The handle is a loop of ribbon. The plin cushion and odds and ends, even to the chamois skin for powder, are all in the same color scheme. The latter is a heart-shaped piece of chamois dug in beading and a tiny bit of lace. A baby ribbon is drawn through the beading. The floor may be covered in a matting to match the other tints, and a rug in a harmonizing tone placed here and there. When the girl enters the room she is not only greeted by the sight of the violets—the whole pretty color scheme—but a delicate aroma of violets pleases her sense of smell. This same idea may be carried out with carnations or roses in a red or pink room, or with any other flower for which there is a sachet powder made Pretty Things Are Not for Street Wear Alone. So many girls spend all their available money for street and party clothes, quite content to look shabby and ungroomed while about their own home. Any cast-off piece of finery or an antiquilluvian walking skirt is sufficiently good for "around the house." Now this idea is indicative of a frivolous nature and sloveniness, and should be avoided by all self-respecting young women. An attractive appearance when about the house is greatly to be desired, and it is a real saving of money, too, to have a decided change of clothes for indoor wear. The real economy is to provide oneself with a house dress of some sort. It is worth the effort and the few minutes to change one's dress as soon as one comes into the house. Street boots are exchangeable for light slippers—a great saving on feet, stockings, shoes, carpet and nerves—and the boots are put away with trees. Boot trees are a necessary indulgence in the economical girls' scheme. Boots will last twice as long with their help. Any girl who can hold a needle can make herself a "negligee," more or less elaborate, but always dainty. She should also be able to make herself a shirt waist suit of some lightweight, durable stuff—pongee, foulard, cashmere—that with the aid of fresh collars and cuffs will always look attractive in the house.