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THE RICHMOND PLANET AN ECHO FROM ATLANTA RIOT. A Vivid Portrayal of Past Conditions. THE IMPARTIAL CRITIC-BOTH SIDES GIVEN A HEARING-THE CRIMINAL NEGRO AND THE LAWLESS WHITE MAN-TOUCHING PLEAS BY UNPREJUDICED SOUTHERNERS. VOLUME XXIV, NO. 20. AN EC ATI A Vivid THE IMPARTIAL CRITIC NAL NEGRO AN PLEAS B The following interesting account of the Atlanta Riot appears in The American Magazine for April under the caption of "Following the Color Line" and is from the pen of Mr. Ray Stannard Baker. It reads like a novel and we shall continue to publish extracts from it in our next issue. Upon the ocean of antagonism between the white and Negro races in this country, there arises occasionally a wave, stormy in its appearance, but soon subsiding into quietude. Such a wave was the Atlanta riot. Its ominous size, greater by far than the ordinary race disturbances which express themselves in lynchings, alarmed the entire country and awakened in the South a new sense of the dangers which threatened it. A description of that spectacular though superficial disturbance, the disaster incident to its fury, and the remarkable efforts at reconstruction will lead the way naturally—as human nature is best interpreted in moments of passion—to a clearer understanding, in future articles, of the deep and complex race feelings which exists in this country. INFLAMMABLE CONDITIONS On the twenty-second day of September, 1906, Atlanta had become a veritable social tinder-box. For months the relation of the races had been growing more strained. The entire South had been sharply annoyed by a shortage of labor accompanied by high wages and, paradoxically, by an increasing number of idle Negroes. In Atlanta the lower class—the "worthless Negro"—had been increasing in numbers: it showed itself too evidently among the swarming saloons, dives, and "clubs" which a complaisant city administration allowed to exist in the very heart of the city. Crime had increased to an alarming extent: an insufficient and ineffective police force seemed unable to cope with it. With a population of 115,000 Atlanta had over 17,000 arrests in 1905; in 1906 the number increased to 21,602. Atlanta had many more arrests than New Orleans with nearly three times the population and twice as many Negroes; and almost four times as many as Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a city nearly three times as large. RACE FEELING SHARPENED Race feeling had been sharpened through a long and bitter political campaign, Negro disfranchisement being one of the chief issues under discussion. An inbammatory play called "The Clansman," though forbidden by public sentiment in many Southern cities, had been given in Atlanta and other places with the effect of increasing the prejudice of both races. THE MINISTERIAL WARNING Certain newspapers in Atlanta, taking advantage of popular feelings kept the race issue constantly agitated, emphasizing Negro crimes with startling headlines. One news paper even recommended the formation of organizations of citizens in imitation of the Ku Klux movement of reconstruction days. In the chamor of this growing agitation, the voice of the right-minded white people and industrious, self-respecting Negroes was almost unheard. A few ministers of both races saw the impending storm and sounded a warning—to no effect; and with in the week before the riot the citizens, the city administration and the courts all waked up together. There were calls for mass-meetings, the police began to investigate the conditions of the low saloons and dives, the county constabulary was increased in numbers, the grand jury was called to meet in special session on Monday the 24th. But the awakening of moral sentiment in the city, unfortunately, came too late. Crime, made more lurid by agitation, had so kindled the fires of hatred that they could not be extinguished by ordinary methods. The best people of Atlanta were like the citizens of prosperous Northern cities, too busy with money making to pay attention to public affairs. For Atlanta is growing rapidly. Its bank clearings jumped from ninety millions in 1900 to two hundred and twenty-two millions in 1906, its streets are well paved and well lighted, its street-car service is good, its sky-scrapers are comparable with the best in the North. In other words, it was progressive—few cities I know of more so—but it had forgotten its public duties. THE LOAFING NEGRO: Within a few months before the riot there had been a number of crimes of worthless Negroes against white women. Leading Negroes, while not one them with whom I talked wished to protect any Negro who was really guilty, asserted that the number of these crimes had been greatly exaggerated and that in special instances the details had been over-emphasized because the criminal was black; that they had been used to further inflame race hatred. I had a personal investigation made of every crime against a white woman committed in the few months before and after the riot. Three, charged to white men, attracted comparatively little attention in the newspapers, although one, the offense of a white man named Turner, was shocking in its details. Of two crimes committed by Negroes in the six months preceding the riot two were rape, horrible in their details, three were aggrivated attempts at rape, three may have been attempts, three may cases of fright on the part of the white woman, and in one the white woman first asserting that a Negro had assaulted her, finally confessed attempted suicide. A FEW FACTS CITED. The facts of two of these cases I will narrate—and without excuse for the horror of the details. If we are to understand the true conditions in the South, these things must be told. One of the cases was that of Mrs. Knowles Ethiehn Kimmel, twenty-five years old, wife of a farmer living near Atlanta. A mile beyond the end of the street-car lines stands a small green bungalow-like house in a lonely spot near the edge of the pine woods. The Kimmels who lived there were not Southerners by birth but of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. They had been in the South four or five years, renting their lonesome farm, raising cotton and corn and hopefully getting a little ahead. On the day before the riot a strange rough looking Negro called at the back door of the Kimmel home. He wore a cast-off khaki soldier's uniform. He asked a foolish question and went away. Mrs. Kimmel was worried and told her husband. He, too, was worried—the fear of this crime is everywhere present in the South—and when he went away in the afternoon he asked his nearest neighbor to look out for the strange Negro. When he came back a few hours later, he found fifty white men in his yard. He. knew what, had happened without being told: his wife was under medical attendance in the house. PLAINLY DESCRIBED HIM She had been able to give a clear description of the Negro: bloodhounds were brought, but the pursuing white men had so obliterated the criminal's tracks that he could not be traced. Through information given by a Negro a suspect was arrested and nearly lynched before he could be brought to Mrs. Kimmel for identification; when she saw him she said: "He is not the man." The criminal is still at large. One day weeks afterward I found the husband working alone in his field: his wife, to whom the surroundings had become unbearable, had gone away to visit friends. He told me the story hesitatingly. His prospects, he said, were ripe: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 20TH, 1907 neighbors had been sympathetic but he could not continue to live there with the feeling that they all knew. He was preparing to give up his home and lose himself where people did not know his story. I asked him if he favored lynching, and his answer surprised me. AGAINST LYNCHING "I've thought about that," he said, "You see, I'm a Christian man, or I try to be. My wife is a Christian woman. We've talked about it. What good would it do? We should make criminals of ourselves, shouldn't we? No, let the law take its course. When I came here, I tried to help the Negroes as much as I could. But many of them won't work even when the wages are high; they won't come when they agree to and when they get a few dollars ahead they go down to the saloons in Anchita. Every one is troubled about getting money and every one is afraid of prowling Negroes. Now, the thing has come to me, and it's just about ruined my life." When I came away the poor lonesome fellow followed me half-way up the hill, asking: "Now, what would you do?" ANOTHER CASE One more case. One of the prominent florists in Atlanta is W. C. Lawrence. He is an Englishman, whose home is in the outskirts of the city. On the morning of August 20th his daughter, Mabel, fourteen years old, and his sister Ethel, twenty-five years old, a trained nurse who had recently come from England, went out into the nearby woods to pick ferns. Being in broad daylight and within sight of houses, they had no fear. Returning along an old Confederate breastworks, they were met by a brutal-looking Negro with a club in one hand and a stone in the other. He first knocked the little girl down, then her aunt. When the child "came to" she found herself partially bound with a rope, "Honey," said the Negro, "I want you to come with me." With remarkable presence of mind the child said: "I can't, my leg is broken—" and she let it swing limp from the knee. Deceived, the negro went back to bind the aunt. Mabel, instantly untying the rope, jumped up and ran for help. When he saw the child escaping the Negro ran off. HER PITABLE CONDITION "When I got there," said Mr. Law rence, "my sister was lying against the bank, face down. The back of her head had been beaten bloody. The bridge of her nose was cut open, one eye had been gouged out of its socket. My daughter had three bad cuts on her head—thank God, nothing worse to either. But my sister, who was just beginning her life, will be totally blind in one eye, probably in both. Her life is ruined." About a month later, through the information of a Negro, the criminal was caught, identified by the Misses Lawrence, and sent to the penitentiary for forty years (two cases), the limit of punishment for attempted criminal assault. COLORED PEOPLE BETRAYED THEM. In both of these cases arrests were made on the information of Negroes. The effect of a few such crimes as these may be more easily imagined than described. They produced a feeling of alarm which no one who has not lived in such a community can in any wise appreciate. I was astonished in traveling in the South to discover how widely prevalent this dread has become. Many white women in Atlanta dare not leave their homes alone after dark; many white men carry arms to protect themselves and their families. And even these precautions do not always prevent attacks. But this is not the whole story. But this went in Atlanta. I heard of the feet of the feet of but not much was said of the terror which the Negroes also felt. And yet every Negro I met voiced in some way that fear. It is difficult here in the North for us to understand what such a condition means: a whole community namelessly afraid! The better-class Negroes have two sources of fear: one of the criminals of their own race—such attacks are rarely given much space in the newspapers—and the other the fear of the white people. My very first impression of what this fear of the Negroes might be came, curiously enough, not from Negroes but from a fine white woman on whom I called shortly after going South. She told this story. INNOCENT BUT FRIGHTENED "I had a really terrible experience one evening a few days ago. I was walking along——street when I saw a rather good-looking young Negro come out of a hallway to the sidewalk. He was in a great hurry, and, in turning suddenly, as a person sometimes will do, he accidentally brushed my shoulder with his arm. He had not seen me before. When he turned and found it was a white woman he had touched, such a look of abject terror and fear came into his face as I hope never again to see on a human countenance. He knew what it meant if I was frightened, called for help and accused him of insulting or attacking me. He stood still—a moment, then turned and ran down the street, dodging into the first alley he came to. It shows, doesn't it, how little it might take to bring punishment LYNCHING IN LOUISIANA The Mob Leaders Wounded.—One Dead. New Orleans, April 15.—Five white men and two Negroes were shot, two of them fatally, in a shoot ing attack and attempted lynching at Bunkie, La., last night. The afair is somewhat mixed, and the exact truth is not yet fully known. Saturday a Negro named Charles Straw, a railroad hand, criminally assaulted Mrs. Edward Norris, a white woman at Hansville, about 7 miles west of Bunkie. He attempted to cut her throat, but his knife was not sharp enough and he choked her into insensibility. He was captured and taken to Bunkie, where he was confined in the parish jail. SOURCE OF SHOOTING UNKNOWN In the meanwhile two other Negroes were locked up in the jail, Isom and Louis Robertson, charged with having shot and fatally wounded another Negro in a gambling game. Late last night a small mob went to Bunkie jail, but whether to lynch Straw or the two Robertsons is not known. There was a shout that the Negro prisoners were escaping and a fusilade of twenty or more shots followed. It was then found that five members of the mob had been shot. All are seriously wounded, but only John Derman, a sawmill owner is fatally injured. A Negro, E. Madson, was shot through the lungs and fatally wounded, and another Negro was shot. It is believed that the mob fired recklessly in the darkness and shot five of its members, although those who were engaged in the affair aver fired no shots and suggest that the shooting was done by friends of the Negroes. During the excitement Straw escaped. The wounded white men are H. V. Crutcher, H. S. Dougherty, O. Quinn, John Dorman, and C. H. Emery, the latter of Brandon, Miss. Negro is Hanged and Body Riddled Eola, La., April 16—The sequel of the shooting of five white men and two Negroes at Bunkie, La., Sunday was the lynching of the Negro, Charlie Strauss, near here to-day. Masked men took him away from deputies who had arrested him, and it is said that the deputies offered no resistance. The Negro was hanged to a tree, after which many shots were fired into his body. He was charged with assault upon a white woman This was the second attempt in two days to lynch Strauss, the first one Sunday night, having resulted in the serious wounding of five white men. Strauss had been taken from the Bunkie jail, and escaped in the darkness while his captors were shooting at random. It is also alleged that Negroes fired into the lynching party. Salaried Positions. Are offered men and women with small means to represent us in all the principal cities. Experience unnecessary. For information, enclose stamp. Consolidated Order of Friendship, Roanoke, Virginia. THE BLACK BATTALION. The Constitution League Appeals for Help. We make the following statement in answer to many inquiries and for new friends of the cause. The present incorporated league is the outcome of the preliminary organization of 1903. It is a beaten expression of American conscience and patriotism, organized to achieve specific results. The league believes that the Constitution of the United States is "the supreme law of the land" and that "the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding" (Article VI); that "The United States shall, guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of government" (Article IV); that the Constitution "freedom of speech" and "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" (Amendment I); that "the trial of all crimes" and "shall be by jury" (Article III.), and that, all persons accused of crime shall have "the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impunity jury" and "have the assistance of counsel for his defense" (Amendment VI); that "excessive ball shall not be required, nor excessive balls imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" (Amendment VIII); that no "involuntary servitude (except as punishment for crime) shall exist vijghin the United States" (Amendment XIII); that "all persons born in the United States are citizens" (Amendment XIV); that, in States where citizens are unlawfully disfranchised, its Representatives in Congress "shall be reduced in the proportion" prescribed in the Fourteenth Amendment; that "the right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (Amendment XV); that Congress by special provision of the Constitution itself, is given "power to enforce the provisions (of the last three) articles by appropriate legislation." That the President, the Congress and political parties should be held accountable for long neglect of this constitution obligation. THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION The League recognizes the valuable assistance given by the Federal Administration in the prosecution of violations of the Thirteenth Amendment in the so-called peonage cases' first iniated by independent effort. All friends of the cause hope that violations and disregard of other constitutional provisions will not in the future remain ignored either by the Executive or by the Congress. With trial by jury ignored, freedom of speech denied, the mandates of the Supreme Court defied, with the constitutional rights of citizens "denied," "abridged" or more dangerously circumvented by perversion of the forms of law; with a weekly average of three citizens put to death without legal trial, every week for nineteen years, it would seem that the time for organized protest and action had arrived. It is to the credit of sympathetic America that we have been horrified at the Jewish massacres and Armenian assassinations, but the outside world has also stood agast at the race mobs, lynchings and massacres in "Christian America." North and South. UNITED INFLUENCES TO WORK The League desires the united influences of Christian civilization, North and South, to uphold the law, adequately punish the guilty and make every citizen respect the guarantees of the Federal Constitution, without regard to person or locality. The League proposes, by means of organized lawful resistance and positive action, to aid in suppressing THE 25TH INFANTRY The League regarded as unjust, unconstitutional, and without "due process of law," the condemnation and punishment of the members of Companies B, C and D, Twenty-fifth Infantry, discharged "without honor." It demanded an open hearing for these defenders of the flag, and sent two, commissions, part white and part colored, to the scene of the disturbance in Texas to San Antonio and also to El Reno, Oklahoma to ascertain the face. The facts and affidavits gathered by the League were laid before the President and the Senate of the United States (Senate Document 107), in consequence of which the President sent two messages to the Senate (Document 155), hastened his Assistant Attorney General to Brownville and revoked the most drastic feature of his sweeping order of discharge. There was then precipitated one of the most important debates on Executive authority" that the country has witnessed. It has brought the people of the United States again face to face with the fundamental questions of Liberty, justice and humanity. 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STATEMENT OF RESULTS COLORED SOLDIERS NOT ATTANCE. Rev. Dr. Edwards Resigns. The trouble at the Fifth Street Baptist Church of this city has taken a most remarkable turn. Rev. Dr. A. E. Edwards is said to have signed an agreement to give up the pastorate of the church and to bring thereby peace and harmony among the warring factions of the church. This created consternation among the members who have been following him. He seemed to have taken this action without consulting D. C. Richardson, Esq. (white) and J. Henry Crutchfield, Esq. (colored) counsel for the church. Rev. Dr. Edwards was not in the city last Sunday and he has since returned to the city from a trip to Lexington, Kentucky. G. K. Pollock, Esq. and John A. Lamb, Esq. both white, represent the dissenters. Last Wednesday was the last day for the filling of the answer to the Chancery suit that has been instituted to settle the matter. It is understood that Dr. Edwards was to be paid for three months time in full and all back salary as he has a right to demand three month's notice. The feeling among the members is still bitter. The calling of a new pastor will no doubt cause an animated scene and it may be a long time before the situation becomes normal again. A Dear Little Angel Laid to Rest DIED—In Washington, D. C. Thursday April 11, 1907 the little daughter of Mrs. Maude Polindexter, Holt of Louisa, Va. She was such a bright little toi, just 28 months old, a ray of sunshine. Home is dark without her. Just six weeks ago to the time she died, death visited the home and took away a loving father. She said "I do not want to get well, but I want to go to be with papa." She had been carried to Washington to be treated by a specialist for tubercular meningitis, where she died. The funeral services were conducted Friday at the residence of Mrs. Dr. Addle Mitchell, on New Jersey Avenue, Washington, D. C. by the pastor of the Berean Baptist Church. The remains were taken to Louisa, Va. where they were tenderly laid to rest in the Louisa Cemetery, Sunday, April 11, 1907. Pall-bearers: Messrs. Garrett and Baker. The casket was lovely white plush. The floral designs were numerous and costly, being from Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Staunton and Louisa. A. B. Woodward, of Louisa, a undertaker. —Mr. G. W. Glenn of Lakewood, N. J. is stopping at Miller's Hotel. He will remain until the opening of Jamestown Exposition. —Mr. Royal Davis of Hot Springs, Va. is in the city, the guest of Mrs. Nannie B. Davis, his mother, 806 St. James Street. AGENTS WANTED in every county great chance to make money. Write to-day for particulars. Address. LINWOOD & CO. 229 E. 75th St. New York City. 2t Richmond, Va., April 15, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court, I. O. of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Peeler Hargrove, who was a member of Silver Star Court, No. 65, of Richmond, Va. Signed—J. Thomas Hewin, Administrator. The Prisoner By... ANTHONY HOPE Of Zenda TWO CHAPTER 1. WONDER when in the world you're going to do anything, louis? "said my brother" wife. WONDER when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?" said my brother's wife. "My dear Rose," I answered, laying down my egg spoon, "why in the world should I do anything? My position is a comfortable one. I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know). I enjoy an enviable social position: I am brother to Lord Burleson and brother-in-law to that most charming lady, his countess. Behold, it is enough." "You are nine and twenty," she observed, "and you've done nothing but"— "Knock about? It is true. Our family doesn't need to do things." This remark of mine rather annoyed Rose, for everybody knows—and therefore there can be no harm in referring to the fact—that, pretty and accomplished as she herself is, her family is hardly of the same standing as the Rassendyils. Besides her attractions, she possessed a large fortune, and my brother Robert was wise enough not to mind about her ancestry. Ancestry is, in fact, a matter concerning which the next observation of Rose's has some truth. "Good families are generally worse than any others," she said. Upon this I stroked my hair. I knew quite well what she meant. "I'm so glad Robert's is black!" she cried. At this moment Robert, who rises at 7 and works before breakfast, came in. He glanced at his wife. Her cheek was slightly fushed; he patted it caresingly. "What's the matter, my dear?" he asked. "She objects to my doing nothing and having red hair," said I in an injured tone. "Oh, of course he can't help his hair!" admitted Rose. "It generally crops out once in a generation," said my brother. "So does the nose. Rudolf has got them both." "I wish they didn't crop out," said Rose, still fushed. "I rather like them myself," said I, and, rising, I bowed to the portrait of Countess Amelia. My brother's wife uttered an exclamation of impatience. "I wish you'd take that picture away, Robert," said she. "My dear!" be cried. "Good heavens!" I added. "Then it might be forgotten," she continued. "Hardly, with Rudolf about," said Robert, shaking his head. "Why should it be forgotten?" I asked. "Rudolf!" exclaimed my brother's wife, blushing very prettily. I laughed and went on with my egg. At least I had shelved the question of what, if anything, I ought to do. And by way of closing the discussion—and also, I must admit, of exasperating my strict little sister-in-law a trifle more—I observed: "I rather like being an Elphberg myself." When I read a story, I skip the explanations, yet the moment I begin to write one I find that I must have an explanation. For it is manifest that I must explain why my sister-in-law was vexed with my nose and hair and why I ventured to call myself an Elipheng. For, eminent as, I must protest, the Rassendylls have been for many generations, yet participation in their blood, of course, does not at first sight justify the boost of a connection with the grander stock of the Eliphberg or a claim to be one of that royal house. For what relationship is there between Rurtania and Burleson, between the palace at Strelsau or the castle of Zenda and 365 Park Lane, W.? Well, then—and I must premise that I am going perforce to rake up the very scandal which my dear Lady Burlesdon wishes forgotten—in the year 1733 George II., sitting then on the throne, peace reigning for the moment and the king and the Prince of Wales being not yet at loggerheads, there came on a visit to the English court a certain prince, who was afterward known to history as Rudolf III. of Ruritania. The prince was a fall, handsome young fellow, marked (maybe marred; it is not for me to say) by a somewhat unusually long, sharp and straight nose and a mass of dark red hair—in fact, the nose and the hair which have stamped the Elphberries time out of mind. He stayed some months in England, where he was most courteously received; yet in the end he left rather under a cloud, for he fought a duel (it was considered highly well bred of him to waive all question of his rank) with a nobleman well known in the society of the day not only for his own merits, but as the husband of a very beautiful wife. In that duel Prince Rudolf received a severe wound and, recovering therefrom, was adroitly smuggled off by the Buritanian ambassador, who had found him a pretty handful. The nobleman was not wounded in the duel; but, the morning being raw and damp on the occasion of the meeting, he contracted a severe chill, and, falling to throw it off, he died some six months after the departure of Prince Rudolf, without having found leisure to adjust his relations with his wife, who after another two months bore an heir to the title and estates of the family of Burlesdon. This lady was the Countess Amelia, whose picture my sister-in-law wished to remove from the drawing room in Park lane, and her husband was James, fifth ear of Burlesdon and twenty-second Baron Rassendyll, both in the peerages of England, and a Knight of the Garter. As for Rudolf, he went back to Ruritania, married a wife and ascended the throne, whereon his progeny in the direct line have sat from then till this very hour—with one short interval. And, finally, if you walk through the picture galleries at Burlesdon, among the fifty portraits or so of the last century and a half you will find five or six, including that of the sixth earl, distinguished by long, sharp, straight noses and a quantity of dark red hair; these five or six have also blue eyes, whereas among the Rassendylls dark eyes are the commoner. That is the explanation, and I am glad to have finished it. The blemishes on honorable lineage are a delicate subject, and certainly this heredity we hear so much about is the finest scandalmonger in the world; it laughs at discretion and writes strange entries between the lines of the "peerages." It will be observed that my sister-in-law, with a want of logic that must have been peculiar to herself (since we are no longer allowed to lay it to the charge of her sex), treated my complexion almost as an offense for which I was responsible, hastening to assume from that external sign inward qualities of which I protest my entire innocence, and this unjust inference she sought to buttress by pointing to the uselessness of the life I had led. Well, be that as it may, I had picked up a good deal of pleasure and a good deal of knowledge. I had been to a German school and a German university and spoke German as readily and perfectly as English; I was thoroughly at home in French; I had a smattering of Italian and enough Spanish to sweat by. I was, I believe, a strong, though hardly a fine, swordman and a good shot. I could ride anything that had a back to sit on, and my head was a cool a one as you could find, for all it flaming cover. If you say that I ought to have spent my time in useful labor I am out of court and have nothing to save, say that my parents had no business to leave me £2,000 a year and a roving disposition. "The difference between you and Robert," said my sister in-law, who often (bless her!) speaks on a platform and oftener still as if she were on one, "is that he recognizes the duties of his position and you only see the opportunities of yours." "To a man of spirit, my dear Rose," I answered. "opportunities are duties." "Nonsense!" said she, tossing her head. And after a moment she went on. "Now here's Sir Jacob Borrodaile offering you exactly what you might be equal to." "A thousand thanks!" I murmured. "He's to have an embassy in six months, and Robert says he is sure that he'll take you as an attache. Do take it, Rudolf, to please me." Now, when my sister-in-law puts the matter in that way, wrinkling her pretty brows, twisting her little hands and growing wistful in the eyes, all on account of an idle scamp like myself, for whom she has no natural responsibility. I am visited with compunction. Moreover, I thought it possible that I could pass the time in the position suggested with some tolerable amusement. Therefore I said: "My dear sister, if in six months' time no unforeseen obstacle has arisen and Sir Jacob invites me, hang me if I don't go with Sir Jacob!" "Oh, Rudolf, how good of you! I am glad!" "Where's he going to?" "He doesn't know yet, but it's sure to be a good embassy." "Madam," said I, "for your sake I'll go if it's no more than a beggarly legation. When I do a thing, I don't do it by halves." My promise, then, was given, but six months are six months and seem an eternity, and inasmuch as they stretched between me and my prospective industry (I suppose attaches are industrious; but I know not, for I never became attache to Sir Jacob or to anybody else) I cast about for some desirable mode of spending them. And it occurred to me suddenly that I would visit Ruritania. It may seem strange that I had never visited that country yet, but my father (in spite of a sneaking fondness for the Elphbergs, which led him to give me, his second son, the famous Elphberg name of Rudolf) had always been averse to my going, and since his death my brother, promoted by Rose, had accepted the family tradition which taught that a wide berth was to be given to that country. But the moment Ruritania had come into my head I was eaten up with curiosity to see it. After all, red hair and long noses are not confined to the house of Elphberg, and the old story seemed a preposterously insufficient reason for debarring myself from acquaintance with a highly interesting and important kingdom, one which had played no small part in European history and might do the like again under the sway of a young and vigorous ruler, such as the new king was rumored to be. My determination was clinched by reading in the Times that Rudolf V. was to be crowned at Strelau in the course of the next three weeks and that great magnificence was to mark the occasion. At once I made up my mind to be present and began my preparations. But inasmuch as it has never been my practice to furnish my relatives with an itinerary of my journeys, and in this case I anticipated opposition to my wishes, I gave out that I was going for a rame in the Tyrol—an old haunt of mine and propitied Rose's wrath by de- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA claring that I infended to study the political and social problems of the interesting community which dwells in that neighborhood. "Perhaps," I hinted darkly, "there may be an outcome of the expedition." "What do you mean?" she asked. "Well," said I carelessly, "there seems a gap that might be filled by an exhaustive work on"— "Oh, will you write a book?" she crled, clapping her hands. "That would be splendid, wouldn't it, Robert?" "It's the best of introductions to political life nowadays," observed my brother, who has, by the way, introduced himself in this manner several times over. Burleson on "Ancient Theories and Modern Facts" and "The Ultimate Outcome," by a political stud... are both works of recognized eminence. "I believe you are right, Bob, my boy," said I. "Now, promise you'll do it," said Rose earnestly. "No; I won't promise, but if I find enough material I will." "That's fair enough," said Robert. "Oh, material doesn't matter!" she said, pouting. But this time she could get no more than a qualified promise out of me. To tell the truth, I would have wagered a handsome sum that the story of my expedition that summer would stain no paper and spoil not a single pen. And that shows how little we know what the future holds, for here I am fulfilling my qualified promise and writing, as I never thought to write, a book, though it will hardly serve as an introduction to political life and has not a jot to do with the Tyrol. Neither would it, I fear, please Lady Burlesdon if I were to submit it to her critical eye—a stop which I have no intention of taking. CHAPTER II I was a maxim of my Uncle William's that no man should pass through Paris without spending four- and twenty hours there. My uncle spoke out of a ripe experience of the world, and I honored his advice by putting up for a day and a night at the Continental on my way to—the Tyrol. I called on George Featherly at the embassy, and we had a bit of dinner together at Durand's and afterward dropped in to the Opera, and after that we had a little supper, and after that we called on Bertram Bertrand, a versifier of some repute and Paris correspondent to the Critic. He had a very comfortable little suit of rooms, and we found some pleasant fellows smoking and talking. It struck me, however, that Bertram himself was absent and in low spirits, and when everybody except ourselves had gone I rallied him on his moping preoccupation. He fenced with me for awhile, but at last, flinging himself on a sofa, he exclaimed: "Very well, have it your own way. I am in love—infernally in love!" "Oh, you'll write the better poetry," said I by way of consolation. He ruffled his hair with his hand and smoked furiously. George, Featricity, V. CEREA I saw her glance at me. standing with his back to the man- tellepiece, smiled unkindly. "If it's the old affair," said he, "you may as well throw it up, Bert. She's leaving Paris tomorrow." "I know that," snapped Bertram. "Not that it would make any dif- ference if she stayed," pursued the reent- less George. "She flies higher than the paper trade, my boy!" "Hang her," said Bertram. Bertram. "It would make it more interesting for me," I ventured to observe, "if knew who you were talking about." "Antoinette Mauban," said George. "De Mauban," growled Bertram. "Oho!" said I, passing by the question of the de. "You don't mean to say, Bert"— "Can't you let me alone?" "Where's she going to?" I asked, for the lady was something of a celebrity. George jingled his money, smiled eruelly at poor Bertram and answered pleasantly: "Nobody knows. By the way, Bert. I met a great man at her house the other night—at least about a month ago. Did you ever meet him—the Duke of Strelsaun?" "Yes, I did," growled Bertram. "An extremely accomplished man, I thought him." It was not hard to see that George's references to the duke were intended to aggravate poor Bertram's sufferings, so that I drew the inference that the duke had distinguished Mine. de Mauban by his attention. She was a widow, rich, handsome and, according to repute, ambitions. It was quite possible that she, as George put it, was flying as high as a personage who was everything he could be short of enjoying a strictly royal rank, for the duke was the son of the late king of Kuritania by a second and morganatic marriage and half brother to the new king. He had been his father's favorite, and it had occasioned some unfavorable comment when he had been created a duke, with a title derived from no less a city than the capital itself. His mother had been of good, but not exalted, birth. "He's not in Paris now, is he?" I asked. "Oh, no! He's gone back to be present at the king's coronation: a ceremony which, should say, he'll not enjoy much. But, Bert, old man, don't despair! He won't marry the fair Antoinette—at least not unless another plan comes to nothing. Still, perhaps, she" He paused and added, with a laugh, "Royal attentions are hard to resist. You know that, don't you, Rudolf?" "Confound you!" said I, and, rising, I left the hapless Bertram in George's hands and went home to bed. The next day George Featherly went with me to the station, where I took a ticket for Dresden. "Going to see the pictures?" asked George, with a grin. George is an invertebrate gossip, and had I told him that I was off to Turitania the news would have been in London in three days and in Park lane in a week. I was therefore about to return an evasive answer when he saved my conscience by leaving me suddenly and darting across the platform. Following him with my eyes, I saw him lift his hat and accost a graceful, fashionably dressed woman who had just appeared from the booking office. She was perhaps a year or two over thirty, tall, dark and of rather full figure. As George talked I saw her glance at me, and my vanity was hurt by the thought that, muffled in a chill coat and a neck wrapper (for it was a chilly April day) and wearing a soft travelling hat pulled down to my eyes. I must be looking very far from my best. A moment later George rejoined me. "You've got a charming traveling companion," he said. "That's poor Bert Bertram's goodness, Antoinette de Mauban, and, like you, she's going to Dresden—also, no doubt, to see the pictures. It's very queer, though, that she doesn't at present desire the honor of your acquaintance." "I didn't ask to be introduced," I observed, a little annoyed. "Well, I offered to bring you to her, but she said, 'Another time.' Never mind, old fellow, perhaps there'll be a smash, and you'll have a chance of rescuing her and cutting out the Duke of Strelsau." No smash, however, happened, either to me or to Mine de Mauban. I can speak for her as confidently as for myself, for when, after a night's rest in Drussen, I continued my journey she got into the same train. Understanding that she wished to be let alone, I avoided her carefully, but I saw that she went the same way as I did to the very end of my journey, and I took opportunities of having a good look at her when I could do so unobserved. As soon as we reached the Ruritanian frontier (where the old officer who presided over the custom house favored me with such a stare that I felt surer than before of my Elphibber physiognomy) I bought the papers and found in them news which affected my movements. For some reason which was not clearly explained and seemed to be something of a mystery the date of the corigation had been suddenly advanced, and the ceremony was to take place on the next day but one. The whole country seemed in a stir about it, and it was evident that Strelsau was throughed. Rooms were all let and hotels overflowing. There would be very little chance of my obtaining a lodging, and I should certainly have to pay an exorbitant charge for it. I made up my mind to stop at Zenda, a small town fifty miles short of the capital and about ten from the frontier. My train reached there in the evening. I would spend the next day, Tuesday, in a wander over the hills, which were said to be very fine, and in taking a glance at the famous castle and go over by train to Strelsau on the Wednesday morning, returning at night to sleep at Zenda. Accordingly at Zenda I got out, and as the train passed where I stood on the platform I saw my friend, Mme. de Mauban. In her place. Clearly she was going through to Strelsan, having, with more providence than I could boost, secured apartments there. I smiled to think how surprised George Featherly would have been to know that she and I had been fellow travelers for so long. I was very kindly received at the hotel—it was really no more than an inn—kept by a fat old lady and her two daughters. They were good, quiet people and seemed very little interested in the great doings at Strelsan. The old lady's hero was the duke, for he was now under the late king's will master of the Zenda estates and of the castle, which rose grandly on its steep hill at the end of the valley, a mile or so from the inn. The old lady, indeed, did not hesitate to express regret that the duke was not on the throne instead of his brother. "We know Duke Michael," said she. "He has always lived among us. Every Rurtitanian knows Duke Michael. But the king is almost a stranger; he has been so much abroad not one in ten knows him even by sight." "And now," chimed in one of the young women, "they say he has shaved off his beard, so that no one at all knows him." "Shaved his beard!" exclaimed her mother. "Who says so?" "Johann, the duke's keeper. He has seen the king." "Ah, yes. king, sir, is now at the duke's shooting lodge in the forest here; from here he goes to Strelsau to be crowned on Wednesday morning." I was interested to hear this and made up my mind to walk next day in the direction of the lodge on the chance of coming across the king. The old lady ran on garrulously: "Ah, and I wish he would stay at his shooting—that and wine (and one thing more) are all he loves, they say—and suffer our duke to be crowned on Wednesday. That I wish, and I don't care who knows it." "Hush, mother!" urged the daughters. "Oh, there's many folks to think as I do!" cried the old woman stubbornly. I throw myself back in my deep armchair and laughed at her zeal. "For my part," said the younger and prettier of the two daughters, a fair, buxom, smiling wench, "I hate Black Michael! A red Elphberg for me, mother! The king, they say, is as red as a 4. 48711 "Pray, sir, do you know our king?" fox or as"— And she laughed mischievously as she cast a glance at me and tossed her head at her sister's reproving face. "Many a man has cursed this red hair before now," muttered the old lady, and I remembered James, fifth earl of Burlesdon. "But never a woman!" cried the girl. "Aye, and women, when it was too late," was the stern answer, reducing the girl to silence and blushes. "How comes the king here?" I asked, to break an embarrassed silence. "It is the duke's land here, you say." "The duke invited him, sir, to rest here till Wednesday. The duke is at Streslau, preparing the king's reception." "Then they're friends?" "None better," said the old lady. But my rosy damsel tossed her head again. She was not to be repressed for long, and she broke out again: "Aye, they love one another as men do who want the same place and the same wife." The old woman glowered, but the last words pricked my curiosity, and I interposed before she could begin scolding: "What, the same wife too! How's that, young lady?" "All the world knows that Black Michael—well, then, mother, the duke—would give his soul to marry his cousin, the Princess Flavia, and that she is to be the queen." "Upon my word," said I, "I begin to be sorry for your duke. But if a man will be a younger son, why, he must take what the elder leaves and be as thankful to God as he can," and, thinking of myself, I shrugged my shoulders and laughed. And then I thought also of Antoinette de Mauban and her journey to Strelsaun. "It's little dealing Black Michael has with"—began the girl, braving her mother's anger, but as she spoke a heavy step sounded on the floor and a gruff voice asked in a threatening tone: "Who talks of 'Black Michael' in his highness' own burg?" The girl gave a little shriek, half of fright—half, I think, of amusement. "You'll not tell of me, Johann?" she said. "See where your chatter leads," said the old lady. The man who had spoken came forward. "We have company, Johann," said my hostess, and the fellow plucked off his cap. A moment later he saw me, and to my amazement he started back a step, as though he had seen something wonderful. "What all you, Johann?" asked the elder girl. "This is a gentleman on his travels, come to see the coronation." The man had recovered himself, but he was staring at me with an intense, searching, almost fierce glance. "Good evening to you," said I. "Good evening, sir," he muttered, still scrumming me, and the merry girl began to laugh as she called: "See Johann. It is the color you love! He started to see your hair, sir. It's not the color we see most of here in Zenda." "I crave your pardon, sir," stammered the fellow, with puzzled eyes. "I expected to see no one." "Give him a glass to drink my health in, and I'll bid you good night, and thanks to you, ladies, for your courtesy and pleasant conversation." So speaking, I rose to my feet and with a slight brow turned to the door. The young girl ran to light me on the way, and the man fell back to let me pass, his eyes still fixed on me. The moment I was by he started a step forward, asking: "Pray, sir, do you know our king?" "I never saw him," said I. "I hope to do so on Wednesday." He said no more, but I felt his eyes following me till the door closed behind me. My saucy conductor, looking over her shoulder at me as she preceded me upstairs, said: "There's no pleasing Master Johann for one of your color, sir." "He prefers yours, maybe?" I suggested. "I meant, sir, in a man," she answered, with a coquettish glance. "What," asked I, taking hold of the other side of the candlestick, "does color matter in a man?" "Nay, but I love yours—it's the Elphberg red." "Color in a man," said I, "is a matter of no more moment than that!" and I gave her something of no value. "God send the kitchen door be shut!" said she. "Amen!" said I and left her. In fact, however, as I now know, color is sometimes of considerable moment to a man. CHAPTER III I WAS not so unreasonable as to be prejudiced against the duke's keeper because he disliked my complexion, and if now found that his duties would not permit of his absence. He begged therefore that if such humble (though, as he added, clean and comfortable) lodgings would satisfy me I would take his place. He pledged his sister's acquiescence and urged the inconvenience and crowding to which I should be subject in my journeys to and from Strelsau the next day. I accepted his offer without a moment's hesitation, and he went off to telegraph to his sister, while I packed up and prepared to take the next train. But I still bankered after the forest and the shooting lodge, and when my little maid told me that I could, by walking ten miles or so through the forest, hit the railway at a roadside station I decided to send my luggage direct to the address which Johann had given, take my walk and follow to Strelsau myself. Johann had gone off and was not aware of the change in my plans, but as its only effect was to delay my arrival at his sister's for a few hours there was no reason for troubling to inform him of it. Doubtless the good lady would waste no anxiety on my account. I took an early luncheon, and, having bidden my kind entertainers farewell, promising to return to them on my way home. I set out to climb the hill that led to the castle and thence to the forest of Zenda. Half an hour's leisurely walking brought me to the castle. It had been a fortress in old days, and the ancient keep was still in good preservation and very imposing. Behind it stood another portion of the original castle, and behind that again, and separated from it by a deep and broad moat which ran all round the old buildings, and a handsome modern chateau, erected by the last king and now forming the country residence of the Duke of Strelsau. The old and the new portions were connected by a drawbridge, and this indirect mode of access formed the only passage between the old building and the outer world, but leading to the modern chateau there was a broad and handsome avenue. It was an ideal residence. When Black Michael desired company he could dwell in his chateau; if a fit of misanthropy seized him he had merely to cross the bridge and draw it up after him (it ran on rollers), and nothing short of a regiment and a train of artillery could fetch him out. I went on my way, glad that poor Black Michael, though he could not have the throne or the princess, had at least got as fine a residence as any prince in Europe. Soon I entered the forest and walked on for an hour or more in its coop, sonder shade. The great trees enlaced with one another over my head and the sunshine stole through in patches as bright as diamonds and hardly bigger. I was enchanted with the place and, finding a felled tree trunk, proped my back against it and, stretching my legs out, gave myself up to and disturbed contemplation of the solemn beauty of the woods and to the comfort of a good cigar. And when the cigar was finished and I had, I suppose, inhaled as much beauty as I could I went off into the most delightful sleep, regardless of my train to Strelsan and of the fast waning afternoon. To remember a train in such a spot would have been rank sacrifice. Instead of that I felt to dreaming that I was married to the Princess Flavia and dwelt in the castle of Zenda and beguiled whole days with my love in the glades of the forest, which made a very pleasant dream. In fact, I was just impressing a fervent kiss on the charming lips of the princess when I heard (and the voice seemed at first a part of the dream) come one another. part of the dream) some one exclaim in rough, strident tones; "Why, the devil's in it! Shave him, and he'd be the king!" The idea seemed whimsical enough for a dream. By the sacrifice of my heavy mustache and carefully pointed imperial I was to be transformed into a monarch! I was about to kiss the princess again when I arrived (very reluctantly) at the conclusion that I was awake. I opened my eyes and found two men regarding me with much curiosity, Both wore shooting costumes and carried guns. One was rather short and very stoutly built, with a big, bullet shaped head, a bristly gray mustache and small pale blue eyes, a trifle bloodshot. The other was a slender young fellow of middle height, dark in complexion and bearing himself with grace and distinction. I set the one down as an old soldier, the other for a gentleman accustomed to move in good society, but not unused to military life either. It turned out afterward that my guess was a good one. The elder man approached me, beckoning the younger to follow. He did so, courteously raising his hat. I rose slowly to my feet. "He's the height, too!" I heard the elder murmur as he surveyed my six feet two inches of stature. Then, with a cavalier touch of the cap, he addressed me: "May I ask your name?" "As you have taken the first step in the acquaintance, gentlemen," said I, with a smile, "suppose you give me a lead in the matter of names." The young man stepped forward with a pleasant smile. "This," said he, "is Colonel Sapt, and I am called Fritz von Tarlenheim. We are both in the service of the king of Buriliana." I bowed and, baring my head, answered: "I am Rudolf Rassendyll. I am a traveler from England, and once for a year or two I held a commission from her majesty the queen." "Then we are all brethren of the sword," answered Tarlenheim, holding out his hand, which I took readily. "Rassendyll, Rassendyll!" muttered Colonel Sapt. Then a gleam of intelligence flitted across his face. "By heaven," he cried, "you're of the Burlesdons!" "My brother is now Lord Burlesdon," said I. "Thy head bewrayeth thee," he chuckled, pointing to my uncovered poll. "Why, Fritz, you know the story?" The young man gianced apologetically at me. He felt a delicacy which my sister-in-law would have admired. To put him at his ease I remarked, with a smile: "Ah, the story is known here as well as among us, if seems." "Known!" cried Sapt. "If you stay here the deuce a man in all Ruritania will doubt of it—or a woman either." I began to feel uncomfortable. Had I realized what a very plainly written pedigree I carried about with me I should have thought long before I visited Ruritania. However, I was in for it now. At this moment a ringing voice sounded from the wood behind us: "Fritz, Fritz! Where are you, man?" Tarluenheim started and said hastily: "It's the king!" Old Sapt chuckled again. Then a young man jumped out from behind the trunk of a tree and stood beside us. As I looked on him I uttered an astonished cry, and he, seeing me, drew back in sudden wonder. Saving the hair on my face and a manner of conscious dignity which his position gave him, saving also that he lacked perhaps half an inch—nay, less than that, but still something—of my height, the king of Ruritania might have been Rudolf Rassendyll and I Rudolf the king. For an instant we stood motionless, looking at one another. Then I bared my head again and bowed respectfully. The king found his voice and asked in bewilderment: "Colonel—Fritz—who is this gentleman?" I was about to answer when Colonel Sapt stepped between the king and me and began to talk to his majesty in a low growl. The king towered over Sapt, and as he listened his eyes now and again sought mine. I looked at him long and carefully. The likeness was certainly astonishing, though I saw the points of difference also. The king's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced and, as I fancied, his mouth lacking something of the firmness (or obstinacy) which was to be gathered from my close shuttling lips. But for all that and above all minor distinctions the likeness rose striking, salient, wonderful. Sapt ceased speaking, and the king still frowned. Then gradually the corners of his mouth began to twitch, his nose came down (as mine does when I laugh), his eyes twinkled, and, behold, he burst into the merrier fit of irrespressible laughter, which rang through the woods and proclaimed him a jovial soul. "Well met, cousin!" he cried, stepping up to me, clapping me on the back and laughing still. "You must forgive me if I was taken aback. A man doesn't expect to see double at this time of day, eh, Fritz?" "I must pray pardon, sire, for my presumption," said I. "I trust it will not forfelt your majesty's favor." "By heaven, you'll always enjoy the king's countenance," he laughed, "whether I like it or not; and, sir, I shall very gladly add to what services I can. Where are you traveling to?" "To Strelsau, sire—to the coronation." The king looked at his friends. He still smiled, though his expression hinted some unaciness. But the honorous side of the matter caught him again. "Fritz, Fritz!" he cried. "A thousand crowns for a sight of brother Michael's face when he sees a pair of ust" and the merry laugh rang out again. "Seriously," observed Fritz von Tarlenheim, "I question Mr. Rassendyll's wisdom in visiting Strelsau just now." The king lit a cigarette. "Well, Sapt!" said he questioningly. "He mustn't go," growled the old fellow. "Come, colonel, you mean that I should be in Mr. Rassendyll's debt if"— "Oh, aye, wrap it up in the right way," said Sapt, hauling a great pipe out of his pocket. "Enough, sire," said I. "Till leave Ruritania today." "Now, by thunder, you shan't, and that's sans phrase, as Sapt likes it. For you shall dine with me tonight, happen what will afterward. Come, man, you don't meet a new relative every day!" "We dine sparingly tonight," said Fritz von Tarluenheim. "Not we, with our new cousin for a guest!" cried the king, and as Fritz shrugged his shoulders he added, "Oh, I'll remember our early start, Fritz." "So will I—tomorrow morning," said old Sapt, pulling at his pipe. "Oh, wise old Sapt!" cried the king. "Come, Mr. Rassendyll. By the way, what name did they give you?" "Your majesty's," I answered, bowing. "Well, that shows they weren't ashamed of us," he laughed. "Come, then, cousin Rudolf. I've got no house of my own here, but my dear brother Michael lends us a place of his, and we'll make shift to entertain you there." And he put his arm through mine and, signing to the others to accompany us, walked me off westerly through the forest. We walked for more than half an hour, and the king smoked cigarettes and chattered incessantly. He was full of interest in my family, laughed heartily when I told him of the portraits with Elphberg hair in our galleries and yet more heartily when he heard that my expedition to Ruritania was a secret one. "You have to visit your disreputable cousin on the sly, have you?" said he. Suddenly emerging from the wood, we came on a small and rude shooting lodge. It was a one story building, a sort of bungalow, built entirely of wood. As we approached it a little man in a plain livery came out to meet us. The only other person I saw about the place was a fat, elderly woman, whom I afterward discovered to be the mother of Johann, the duke's keeper. "Well, is dinner ready, Josef?" asked the king. The little servant informed us that it was, and we soon sat down to a plentiful meal. The fare was plain enough. The king ate heartily, Fritz von Tarlhelm delicately, old Sapt voraciously. I played a good knife and fork, as my custom is. The king noticed my performance with approval. "We're all good trenchermen, we Elphbergs," said he. "But what?—were eating dry! Wine, Josef; wine, CONTINUE ON SIXTH PAGE." THE VANET ISLAND INHABITED BY 60 CRUSOES LONE COLONY OF ADVENTURERS ON TRISTAN DA CUNHA, IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC. ALL MADE DARK BY THE SUN Do Without Bread for Six Months of the Year and Sustain Life Chiefly on a Diet of Potatoes. Cape Town, South Africa.—An extraordinary picture of life on that barren isle in the South Atlantic is drawn in a letter received here from a passenger who sailed from Table bay for Montevideo by way of the Island of Tristan da Cunha. A pathetic appeal was recently received in this country for some one, preferably a Church of England man, to go to Tristan de Cunha to teach. No salary could be offered, the appeal said, as in one whole year only £25 was taken on the island. The letter from the passenger on the Surrey brings news of a calamity which has bereft the island of a large part of its able-bodied male population and tells of conditions of privation and misery among those who are left. Among the Surrey's passengers were Rev. Mr. Borrow, his wife and another woman, bound for Tristan da Cunha. Describing the difficulty experienced in landing them the letter says: "The coast is very dangerous, and there was quite a possibility that the trio would have to be carried on to Montevideo, but fortunately, although we had encountered many rough seas, when we came in sight of Tristan, the weather abated, and contrary to the captain's expectations we were able to anchor within a quarter of a mile of the shore. "Two canvas boats put off from the shore immediately, bringing letters which the islanders wanted posted. They had live sheep, ducks, etc., and cured albatross and other birds for barter, also milk. The settlers were very peculiar looking. With some few exceptions their skins are exceedingly dark, owing to the sun, but most of them are of European descent. "The postmaster came on board. He said that the yacht Valiballa had brought them word that Mr. Borrow would arrive on the Surrey, and they had reckoned so well that they had expected us the day before. "He said they now number only 60 inhabitants on the island, mostly women and children. The two boats alongside us had the sole able-bodied THE BOAT The Strange Crusoes. male population. Some time ago 17 men had put out to sea to fish and had been lost. "The island is overrun with rats, which eat all the crops, wheat especially, and for six months they had not had bread, but had lived chiefly on potatoes. The rule of the islanders is for all to share alike, so that when an animal is killed each gets his portion. This applies to everything that can be divided. "It took a whole day to land the nine tons of baggage, and, owing to the roughness of the sea, it was an extremely dangerous task. Some of the passengers helped. One was washed out of the boat, but, being a good swimmer, struck out for the shore. "The farewells were said and the party got into one of the canvas boats which had been swinging on the davits to make it easier for them, but the combined weight was too much, and the boat began to break, so it had to be lowered into the water first, and the trio made the descent one by one, aided by the officers. "The ship was standing very high out of the water and going down the ship's side with the roaring surf below must have been a terrible ordeal for all, but they were all very brave. We did not continue our voyage until we saw them safely through the surf and on shore, but it was an anxious time even for us on board, as we could not foresee how it would be with them. every other wave seeming to cover their boat. "The government sends a warship once a year to this island. With this exception it is a chance whether they get in touch with the rest of the world." Change Enough. Stage Manager (to lessee of theater)—Our scene-shifter wants a holiday. He says he hasn't been away for three years. Lessee—Well, tell him he cannot have one. He gets change of scenery enough for anybody. ON $1,250 A YEAR His salary was $1,250 a year, and he had just proposed to Miss Clare Lighthead and been accepted and they were both exquisitely happy until she said: "And you don't know how lovely our home will be, George. It shall be a home indeed for you; a place of rest and joy and comfort! I'll ring the housekeeper up every morning, and—" "The housekeeper?" "Yes, yes, dear. Now, don't interrupt, you naughty boy. I'll tell the housekeeper to tell the cook to—" "The cook?" "Of course; and I do hope we can get a French cook. I love French cooking. And I'd like the parlormaid to—" "The parlormaid?" "Yes, yes; I'd like a brisk, tidy, rosy-cheeked girl. I don't care so much about the housemaid." "Why, my darling, I'm afraid—" "Now, now, you bad old boy; you must let your little girl have her own way when it comes to the house serv- vants. You can engage the butler, if you like, and of course you'll get the coachman; but when it comes to the laundress and seamstress and—why George, what a dreadfully long face you have! I don't like it!" It looked longer as he sat in his 10 x 12 room an hour later trying to "figure out" how the wages of the cook and housekeeper and butler and all the rest of them were to be paid on $25 per week. He hasn't calculated it yet Thankful. Indeed! The prodigal son stood in the doorway after his long absence. "I have come, dad," he said, choking with emotion. "I have come back with a reformed conscience and a reformed disposition." The old gentleman shouted himself hoarse and danced a jig. "Thank goodness, lad!" he ejaculated. "Thank goodness, you haven't come back with reformed spelling." And then the old gentleman went out and killed the fatted calf.—Chicago Dally News. A Needed Explanation: "Yes," said Lassitudinous Luke as he traded his battered tomato can for a nice fresh one from the dump, "dey wuz once when me an' a New York copper had a million dollars between us." "What!" yelled Frayed Francis. "Fact," said Lassitudinous Luke as he fastened the string securely to his new carry-all. "Y' see. I wuz in de alley on one side uv a savings bank an' he wuz lookin' fer me in de alley beyont."—Judge. For the Auto Show: FOR THE AUTO SHOW. Flowers—Car-nations. Sweets—Car-mels. Illness—Car-buncle. Medicine—Car-bolic. Vegetable—Car-rot. Flavor—Car-away. Author—Car-lisle. Pictures—Car-toons. Token of affection—Car-ess. Color—Car-mine. Music—Car-ol.-Judge. JUNGLE JINKS. Major Stupotte—Where the purple chutney has that confounded fool of a mahout got to now? The Future Education. Fond Mother—What's the matter with my little boy? Doesn't he want mamma's nice Teddy bear? Young Financier—N-o-o, I don't. I want one of papa's nice Wall street bulls.—Baltimore American. His Change. "You certainly look better; you must have followed my advice and had a change." "Yes, doctor, so I have." "Where did you go?" "I went to another physician." "Is he a man of good deeds?" "Can't say; but I know he is a man of many." "Go on." "He's in the real estate business."—Milwaukee Sentinel. Has Gallery of Ancestors Mrs. Upperten—What a fine gallery of ancestors! And what a strong family likeness in the faces! Mrs. Gottt-Quick—Yes; you see, the artist had only one old photograph to go by. 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If you do not want THE PLANET continued for another year after your death you can send it to the Card to discontinue it. The course have decided that subscribers to newspaper, who do not subscribe to time for which it has been paid, are held liable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper on account. COMMENCATIONS.—When writing to us to know your subscription or do discontinue your payment you should give your name and idle information we cannot find your name on our cards. NATION OF ADDRESS.—In order to change the name of a subscriber, we must be sent forward as well as the present address. Attended at the Post Office at Richmond Va. as grand-less matter. SATURDAY . . . APRIL 20, 1907 Money is power and it behooves the colored folks to get money. The isolated Negro in the Southland is just as unsafe as was the early settler of the Far West. The Negro haters are the dangerous elements now even as the Indians were the threatening ones then. The American Magazine for April publishes a most graphic and entertaining account of the Atlanta, Ga. Riot. It gives the inside history of this most outrageous happening and is fair to both sides of the controversy. The caption of the recital is "Following the Color Line." It will richly repay a careful perusal as it states acts that will be readily recognized by every truthful resident of the Southland. That President J. W. E. Bowen of Gammon Theological Seminary was struck over the head by one of the readymade police officers will be interesting information. The portrayal of the slum conditions is realistic and the condemnation of the loafing Negro all that could be desired. This Magazine is published by the Phillips Publishing Co., 141 Fifth Avenue, New York. The price is ten cents and it can be obtained from the news-stands. White and colored people should read it. The outlook in this country for the colored citizen is bright, despite the warning notes of those who see trouble ahead for us and our offspring. The millions of dollars expended for our betterment and elevation by the philanthropists of the North have done much to simplify great questions and to enable us to do for ourselves, what others could not do for us. To this may be added the expenditures of the southern states in the cause of education. In our midst have grown up intelligent units, who are separated from the degrading conditions of other days and who bitterly abhor the criminal elements of the race who handicap us in our struggle onward and upward. It may be that this feeling is so rampant among the better class of colored people that they really do not go amongst these criminal, lounging, loafing class enough to bring them to a realizing sense of their undone condition. We rescue the young, where we may and do all in our power in the Sunday Schools and the Churches to bring them to a realizing sense of their deplorable situation. The fact is plain in the case of the intelligent, upright, colored people, as much so as in the case of the upright, intelligent white people that we must lift these bhodium elements up or they will pull us down. Our aim and purpose must be to reduce the list of criminals identified with our side of the contention. When this is done, we shall find that the barometer of public opinion will rise in our favor. MR. ROOSEVELT'S DEMOCRACY That a mighty political change is going on in this country is plainly evident. It is a blind man indeed, who cannot see that President Roosevelt has shifted his position so to speak, has left the platform and principles of the Republican Party and that he has proceeded to build a structure made up of his own unique personality braced and bound by the Bryan principles of the Democratic Party. The first significant movement is the action of the citizens of Brownsville, Texas as shown by the following report: Brownsville, Texas, April 13.—In appreciation for the stand he has taken in discharging the Negro soldiers President Roosevelt is to be present ed with a jeweled "big stick" by the citizens of Brownsville. The large walking cane is made of Mexican coffee wood, exquisitely carved and mounted with Texas silver. An engraver has been working on the emblematic figures for over six months, and the cane is pronounced the finest piece of workmanship ever designed for a stick. It weigas four and three-quarter pounds. It will be forwarded to the President in a few days, with a petition that we use it on the Senate Committee in the name of justice and the honor of Brownsville citizenship. Here is the case where the punishing of an entire battalion for the alleged action of from seven to twelve of them is taken as the excuse for praising this distinguished citizen of New York. It has since been demonstrated by evidence that is practically conclusive that colored soldiers did not shoot up Brownsville. This then leaves the President in a most embarrassing position. Will he accept this "big stick" and if accepted, will he continue to wield it on the heads of the devoted black men in the army? In all that calls forth vulgar southern applause President Roosevelt has excelled and it may be that John Temple Graves' startling appeal to the Democracy of the country may receive more than a passing notice. At the banquet tendered to Hon. William J. Bryan, Wednesday night, April 10th, he is quoted as follows: "Mr. Graves then touched upon the aims, purposes, and work of President Roosevelt, terming him an "unexpected and potential convert to the creeds and theories of Democracy," saying Mr. Roosevelt "has learned his Democratic lesson well." "Speaking here deliberately for myself, and in my fair judgment of the great majority of the plain and honest Democrats of the Empire Southern State, from which I came, I believe that we should put the party then below the people, the principle above the man. We should rebuke the spirit of spoils and the hunger of faction. He should affirm our principles, confess our faith, recite the necessity of the reform of corporate capital as the supreme and transcendant issue of the times, pay tribute to the great and typical American who has proved himself the dauntless and conquering captain of the people's cause, and then and there in that great convention of our own, William J. Bryan, the one unmatched and incomparable evangel of our faith, speaking for a pure democracy and speaking for the whole plain people of this republic, should put in nomination Theodore Roosevelt for one more undisputed power of power to finish the work that he has so gloriously begun." Mr. Bryan was unwilling to pledge himself to comply with Mr. Graves wishes, but he was careful not to offend him or those who entertained a similar idea. He diplomatically showed that such a thing was impossible "as at present advised." Still at the rate of progress he is now making towards Bryan Democracy, it is evident that it will not be long before Mr. Roosevelt will be "boots and baggage" over in Mr. Bryan's political barn-yard. The Republican Party will put up a platform at its next meeting that will not hold even one foot of Mr. Roosevelt and if he shall not have completed the organization of the Roosevelt organization, he will be a "man without a party." For our part, we cannot see any hope for the citizen of color in the Roosevelt organization. It is a thing purely political and hopes to ride into power by the support of the masses, in an attempt to establish a utopian condition of affairs that is impossible. We should not object to seeing Mr. Roosevelt, the candidate of the Democratic Party with Mr. Bryan supporting him. The reversal of the majority that was for him would form one of the most remarkable events in the history of this or any other republic. 99 Years For Assault. St. Louis, April 17.—Robert Smith, 45 years old, was convicted in the criminal court of having attacked Bueah Libbard, a 14-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 99 years in the penitentiary. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA THE THAW JURY FAILED TO AGREE Discharged by the Court After De- liberating Forty-seven Hours. WERE 7 TO 5 FOR CONVICTION New York, April 13. - Hopelessly divided—seven for a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree and five for acquittal on the ground of insanity—the jury which since the 23d of last January had been trying Harry K. Thaw, reported after 47 hours and 8 minutes of deliberation that it could not possibly agree upon a verdict. The 12 men were promptly discharged by Justice Fitzgerald, who declared that Photo by Campos 1917 he, too, believed their task was hopeless. Thaw was remanded to the Tombs without bail to await a second trial on the charge of having murdered Stanford White, the noted architect. When this new trial would take place no one connected with the case could express an opinion. District Attorney Jerome declared that there were many other persons accused of homicide awaiting trial, and that Thaw would have to take his turn with the rest. As to a possible change of venue, both the district attorney and counsel for Thaw declared they would make no such move. Thaw's attorneys will have a conference with the prisoner to decide upon their next step. They may make an early application for ball. Mr. Jerome said he would strenuously appose it. He added that the belief as seven of the jurors had voted for "gutty" his opposition probably would be successful. In that event Thaw has another long summer before him in the city prison, for his case on the already crowded criminal calendar cannot possibly be reached until some time next fall. The scenes attending the announcement by the jury of its inability to agree upon any sort of verdict were robbed of any theatricalism by the general belief that after their long deliberation and the reports of a wide division of sentiment, the jurors could have no other report than one of disagreement. Thaw, surrounded by the members of his family — the devoted aged mother, the pale young wife, the titled sister, Countess of Yarmouth; Mrs. George Carnegie and Edward and Josiah Thaw, the brothers—received the news in absolute silence. When it became known that the jury was about to make its report and that the case would be disposed of, Thaw called his wife to a seat by his side and sat with his right arm thrown about her until he was commanded to stand up and face the jurors. Smiling and confident as he entered the court room, he sank limply into his chair when Foreman Deming B. Smith, in response to a question by Clerk Penny as to whether a verdict had been agreed upon, said: "We have not." The mother, her features hidden behind a dense vell of black, stat scold and motionless. In ill health of late, she had felt severely the strain and stress of the long hours of anxious waiting. The wife, by her husband's side, gripped his hand tightly as the jury foreman spoke, and then, when he sunk down by her side, she tried to cheer him as best she could by saying that she believed he would now be admitted to bail and that a second jury would surely set him free. The mother, the sisters and the brothers, pale and well nigh exhausted by their tedious, nerve racking wait for a verdict, smiled wanly at Thaw as he was led away again to the Tombs. They were permitted to speak with him for a few moments to bid him be of good cheer, before he crossed the "Bridge of Sighs" to the cell in the prison, which until a few minutes before, he had hoped that he was about to quit for ever. Thaw, when he had returned to the Tombs prepared and gave out the following statement: "I believe that every man in the jury possessing average intelligence, excepting possibly Mr. Bolton, comprehend the weight of evidence and balanced it for acquittal. All my family bid me good-bye with courage. I trust (D. V.) we may all keep well." To his attorneys Thaw said he was deeply disappointed. "But I could hardly expect anything else in view of the events of the past few days," he added. The story of the proceedings in the jury room as they were learned far outranged in interest the brief court proceeding which brought the famous trial to a close. It developed that the jury had considered everything connected with the case except "the unwritten law." Basing their judgment entirely upon the evidence they voted either for or against murder in the first degree when they cast their first ballots. The first vote was 8 to 4 in favor of conviction. Then the jury tried to reach a common ground upon a verdict of manslaughter in the first degree, the punishment for which ranges to a maximum of 20 years' imprisonment. The men in favor of acquittal—largely on the ground of ingenuity, it is said—would not change their ballots, and in the end won over to their side one of the eight who favored conviction. During the nearly 48 hours of deliberation only eight ballots were cast. The jury spent the two night sessions dozing in their chairs. The entire story of what transpired in the jury room from the time the 12 men retired at 5.17 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon until they finally decided that the prospects of a verdict were too remote to warrant longer discussion of the facts, was told by one of the jurors, Henry C. Harrey, No. 5, a manufacturer of planes. The final ballot—taken just before the jury reported its disagreement in court, was as follows: For conviction of murder, first degree—Messrs. Deming B. Smith, foreman; George Pfaff, No. 2; Charles H. Hecke, No. 3; Harry C. Brearley, No. 6; Charles D. Newton, No. 8; Joseph B. Bolton, No. 11, and Bernard Gerstman, No. 12. For acquittal, on the ground of insanity—Messrs. Oscar A. Pink, No. 4; Henry C. Harney, No. 5; Malcolm S. Fraser, No. 7; Wilbur F. Steele, No. 9; and John S. Denee, No. 10. Mr. Bolton is the juror whose wife died during the trial while the jury was being kept under lock and key. MRS. HOLMAN DIDN'T KNOW Would Have Killed White Had Evelyn Told Her of His Maltreatment. Pittsburgh, April 17.—The Pittsburg Leader prints a six-column statement from Mrs. Charles J. Holman, mother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, in which she defends herself against the accusations expressed and implied against her during the Thaw trial. The statement opens by saying that two nights after the night upon which Harry Thaw shot Stanford White she received this telegram from her daughter: "It is most important for you to say absolutely nothing." Until now she has remained silent and has been forced to take the defensive because of the attack made upon her by Mr. Dehmas in his closing address to the Thaw Jury. She denies that she aided the district attorney in any way and that she had been seen by Mr. Jerome, Mr. Garvan or Mr. Hartridge. Mrs. Holman then details her struggles following the death of her first husband in her efforts to properly raise her two children and says her daughter first posed for an artist named Storm, of Philadelphia, who met Evelyn at Cressen, Pa., a summer resort, when a little girl. "Florence," she said, "was in love with the stage." She did everything to discourage her, but it was useless. The story of Florence's first meeting with Stanford White, she says, is substantially as told by her on the witness stand. When Florence returned she told her mother she had met the grandest man, and later when Mr. White sent for her she went to his office. Mr. White, she says, warned her specifically against several young men with whom Florence had become acquainted, but did not refer to Thaw. His manner, words and actions were the personification of whole hearted disinterested generosity, Mrs. Holman says, and if ever a woman reposed implicit confidence in a man she says she did. Mrs. Holman then asserts that if Florence underwent the experience that she is said to have befallen her, she did not take her into her confidence. Continuing she says: "Had she told me what she told the Thaw jury it would not have been necessary for Harry Thaw to kill Stanford White, I would have done it myself." Speaking of the European trip, Mrs. Holman says: "Every detail of the trip was and is a nightmare to me. Mr. Thaw joined us in Paris. Florence and I shared the same apartments. Mr. Thaw had apartments by himself. There was no pleasure in the tour for me. The things which appealed to Florence and Mr. Thaw in Paris did not appeal to me. Florence testified that we quarreled frequently while in Paris, in fact, continually. The disagreements were caused by my protests at visits to various restaurants." In closing, Mrs. Holman says: "I solemnly affirm that my love for my daughter is as deep and intense as it was when I first held her in my arms a helpless baby. Regardless of all that has transpired, my affection is unaltered. The door of my home is open to her and will swing wide at her lightest tap today, tomorrow and always while I live." Will Erect Monument to Ensign Bagley Raleigh, N. C., April 15.—A monument to Ensign Worth Bagley, who lost his life on the torpedo boat Winslow in the Spanish-American war, will be unveiled in the capitol square on May 20. Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson, of Alabama, has accepted an invitation to deliver the dedicatory address. Died of His Injuries Norfolk, Va., April 16.—J. C. Apperson, aged 70 years, prominent in his home county of Mathews, Vt., where he had served as a magistrate for 32 years, died in Portsmouth, Va., where he was recently assaulted and robbed by an unknown highwayman near the home of his son whom he was visiting. ONE KILLED, TEN INJURED Trains On Philadelphia & Western Railroad Collide Philadelphia, April 16. — Guisseppe Gaspiro was killed and 10 other Italian laborers were injured in a collision between construction trains on the new Philadelphia & Western railroad just outside of the city limits. A locomotive, tender and flat car, going west from the terminus of the road at 69th and Market streets, in the city, ran into a similar train coming east. The flat cars on both trains were filled with workmen. After the collision the east-bound train ran backward down a long grade and jumped the track. It ran into a freight car on a Pennsylvania railroad sliding, side-swiped a way station at City Line and turned turtle. Guisseppe Gaspiro was buried under the debris. QUAKE DESTROYS MEXICAN CITIES Chilpancingo and Chilapa Are Reported in Ruins. MANY ARE DEAD AND INJURED City of Mexico, April 17. — Heavy earthquake shocks continue on the west coast. Late news from the area of greatest destruction in the recent earthquake shows that the devastation was greater than at first supposed. Besides the destruction of Chilpancingo and Chilpaca, it is now reported that Tixitla, between these two cities, containing about the same population as Chilpancingo, was also leveled. Messengers from the coast who reached Chilpancingo also say that the towns of Ayutla and Ometopoc have been destroyed. The former place is about 50 miles southeast of Chilpancingo, in the state of Guerrero, and some 20 miles west of Acapulco. It is one of the most historic towns in the republic, for it was here that the "plan of Ayutla" was conceived which caused the revolution, made a real republic and developed the the talents of a young officer named Porfirio Diaz Owing to the remoteness of this point and to the fact that wire and rail communication is very poor, news from the stricken district comes very slowly. Only one wire is working to Chili pancingo and that rather spasmodically. The telegraph office is accepting messages only on condition that they will be sent subject to delay. Thousands of messages are now on hand at the main office of the federal telegraph, and it is said that commercial business is 48 hours behind. A dispatch to El Pals, a daily paper, which is the organ of the Catholic church in this city, from the bishop of Chilapa, confirms the report of the widespread destruction in that vicinity. Fourteen are reported to have been killed in one house and the number of wounded is given as 39. In Tixla it is reported that 12 bodies have been taken from the ruins and that twice that number of wounded are being cared for in temporary structures erected in the open country. An operator at Chilpancingo says that the four men in the office have been working without relief for 48 hours and exposed to inclement weather. He reports that the state government has provided tents for the homeless and has taken other means to provide for the comfort of the inhabitants. Up to Tuesday the shocks continued with more or less severity near Chill pancingo, completing the work of destruction and destroying many of the most important public buildings of the city. The new municipal palace was badly shattered. Its predecessor was levelled by an earthquake four years ago. The hospitals, schools and the jail are in ruins. Prisoners from the jail were placed under guard by the rurales and are now incarcerated in a barracks. The hospital patients are being cared for in a temporary structure erected in the open country. Up to this time the number of deaths reported is 88 and the wounded 93. But in view of later reports it is thought that these figures will fall far short of the real number of fatalities. These, it is feared, will never be accurately known, as many of the dead are of the poorer classes living in small settlements. It is reported that Acapulco was partly submerged from the great waves, which dashed over the breakwater. Although no breath of wind was stirring on the night of the first shock when the earth began to tremble, the sea was lashed into a fury and as the shocks continued the harbor took on the appearance of a typhoon-swept ocean. Just how much of the port has been submerged it not known. PRESIDENT'S COUSIN DEAD George W. Roosevelt, American Consul at Brussels, Dies. Brussels, April 16. — George W. Roosevelt, the American consul general here, is dead. Mr. Roosevelt was a cousin of President Roosevelt. His end came unexpectedly. He was under treatment early in February for intestinal trouble and his condition was then serious. He recovered and on February 14 his condition had so improved that hopes for his complete restoration to health were entertained. Suit to Test Two-Cent Fare Law. Indianapolis, Ind., April 17. — A suit in equity, apparently to test the legality of the two-cent fare law in Indiana, which went into effect April 1, was filed by Anna H. Boyle in the United States court. Anna M. Boyle is a stockholder in the Louisville & Corridon railway of Harrison county, which is 12 miles long. The complaint asserts that if the law is enforced, the railway, which now has a face cash value of $157,153, would not be worth $50,000. Freezing Weather In South. Raleigh, N. C., April 16—Ice formed everywhere in North Carolina, with serious damage resulting to crops. In the Wilmington section strawberries have been hurt and the shipping season delayed. Vegetable truck crops have been almost ruined in the central and western districts. Wheat was badly damaged by the freeze, in some localities as much as 50 per cent. There will be no fruit this year, except possibly some late apples. Stage Held Up; $28,000 Stolen. Malta, Mont., April 15.—Word has just been received of the hold-up of a stage, presumably by the "Kid" Curry gang, $28,000 being stolen. $10,000 Mall Package Miracles Mary Package Missing. Raleigh, N. C., April 17. It was learned here that a registered package containing $10,000, sent by the Atlantic National Bank, of Wilmington, to the Chemical National Bank, of New York, in the last few weeks, was not in the registered pouch when opened in the New York postoffice. No arrests have been made. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Thursday. April 11. John Davis, better known as Owen Hall, author of "Florodora," died in London of acute gastritis. John Henry Clews, a member of the banking firm of Henry Clews, of New York, died after a long illness. The Connecticut house of representatives adopted a resolution endorsing President Roosevelt's administration. The fifth annual meeting of the Newspapers and Publishers Association will be held at Richmond, Va., May 21 and 22. Mrs. Sarnh Hanna, 82 years old, the only woman upon whom the degree of chivalry was ever conferred by the I. O. O. F., died at Kansas City, Mo. Friday, April 12. Mrs. Grace Redpath, who died recently in London, left $150,000 to McGill University, Montreal. M. D. Clay was killed and R. A. Matthews seriously injured by a gas explosion in their home at Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Ignatz Lowengart, wife of a wealthy merchant of Portland, Ore., committed suicide by jumping from a bridge 60 feet high. Frank McCloskey, a stone cutter, dropped dead in his boarding house at Wilmington, Del., while he was eating his dinner. Secretary Straus, of the department of commerce and labor, has ordered a rigid inquiry into the operation of all the immigration stations in the country. Saturday, April 13. Judge Beverly T. Crump has resigned as chairman of the Virginia corporation commission. Frederick Pabst, the millionaire brewer was seriously injured in an automobile accident at Milwaukee, Wis. John Herschberger, a prosperous Lebanon county, Pa., farmer, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn. A Brazilian squadron of warships left Rio de Janeiro for Hampton Roads, Va., to take part in the Jamestown Exposition. John A. Kebler, manager of the Colorado Fuel company, died at Denver, Colo., of ptomaine poisoning after eating canned salmon. Monday, April 15. Vice President Fairbanks will be one of the speakers at the International Christian Endeavor convention at Seattle, Wash., in July. George Duttright, of Bolling Springs, Pa., was struck by a Reading passenger train and cut to pieces while working on the bridge at Mountz's. James A. Quarles, D. D., LL. D., for 21 years professor of moral philosophy at Washington and Lee University died at Lexington, Ky., aged 70 years. While insane, Ed Stockton, 17 years old, fatally shot his uncle, J. F. Stockton, and beat his aunt insensible, after which he set her on fire, at Bardwell Ky. Tuesday, April 16. Chief of Police John Adams, of Newark, N. J., shot and killed himself while despondent. As the result of a quarrel with Italianans on an elevated train in New York, Ernest Hartman was stabbed to death. Tom Walker, a negro, was hanged at Fayetteville, N. C., for the murder of Chief of Police Chason and Officer Locamny. Fire at Hackensack, N. J., destroyed the Second Returned church, a carpenter shop and five barns, entailing a loss of $30,000. Frank M. Thorn, one of the best-known lawyers and newspaper writers of Western New York, died in Buffalo after a lingering illness. Wednesday, April 17. Edward Sexton was electrocuted at Auburn, N. Y., for the murder of Thomas Mahaney. Dr. Austin S. Tinsley, the noted southern specialist, died at Augusta Ga., after a short illness. The medical building of McGill University at Montreal was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $500,000. John D. Rockefeller has notified the American Baptist Missionary Union at Boston that he will contribute $200,000 this year. Mrs. Sarah A. Albaugh, a widow, was found dead in her home in Chicago, having cut her throat by falling through a window. Five Killed In Wreck St. Paul, Minn., April 16. --Running at a speed of 70 miles an hour on a straight track, the Great Northern west-bound Oriental Limited was de-ralled at Bartlett, N. D. Five persons were killed and a score or more injured, some of them seriously. After the wreck a gas tank exploded and the train took fire, seven passenger coaches being destroyed, the sleeper and observation cars escaping the flames. There is said to be some evidence that the railis had been tampered with. Corey and Miss Gilman to Wed. New York, April 17—The Herald says: "William Ellis Corey, president of the United States Steel Corporation, and Mabelle Gilman will be married in this city May 7. If their present plans are not changed. They will leave for Europe soon after the ceremony and will pass the honeymoon trip abroad, returning to New York about August 1. The announcement was made by Major James O. Harley, a cousin of Miss Gilman." Murder, Jury, Unable to Agree Murder Jury Unable to Agree. Upper Mariboro, Md., April 13. Unable to agree upon a verdict, the jury in the case of Corporal William F. Wineberger, charged with the killing of Private Frederick Gosney an January 26 inst., was discharged. Both men belonged to an artillery company stationed at Fort Washington, and the killing occurred during a row several miles from the fort. Wineberger was remanded to jail. Mark Hanna's Sister Dead. New York, April 16—Mrs. J. Wey man Jones, a sister of the late Senator Marcus A. Hanna, of Ohio, and wilow of a well-known mine owner, died Roosevelt hospital of peritonitis, flowing a surgical operation. Mrs. Jun was born in Cleveland 63 years ago. JAMES H. ECKELS FOUND DEAD Former Comptroller of Currency a Victim of Heart Disease HE WAS STRICKEN IN BED Chicago, April 15.—James H. Eckels, president of the Commercial National Bank, and formerly comptroller of the currency, died at his home of organic heart disease. The death of Mr. Eckels occurred apparently while he was asleep. The fact that he was dead was discovered by Frank Evans, a butler, who entered Mr. Eckels' room to answer a telephone ring that had continued for some time. Evans found Mr. Eckels apparently asleep. The butler called to him, and, getting no response, sought to arouse the banker, only to find that the former comptroller was dead. The members of the household were summoned, and Dr. Frank Churchill was called. The doctor said that Mr. Eckels had been dead for some hours. Mrs. Eckels and her daughter, Phoebe, 18 years old, are in Paris, where the latter is attending school. They have been abroad since last fall, and planned to return to Chicago in a few weeks. They were at once communicated with by cable. James A. Eckels, of Princeton, Ill., father of James H. Eckels, died recently. On the day of the death of the elder Eckels the son was a host of former President Grover Cleveland. The former president and Mr. Eckels were at breakfast when the news of the father's death was received at the Eckels' residence. Mr. Eckels was kept in ignorance of the fact for several hours, until Mr. Cleveland had left the city. It developed that the person who was trying to communicate with Mr. Eckels over the telephone, the ringing of which led to the discovery of the death, was George M. Eckels, a brother. Half an hour later the brother was called to his own telephone and informed of the death. James Herron Eckels was born at Princeton, Ill., on November 22, 1858, and most of his life was spent in Illinois. He got his early education in the schools of Princeton. He was graduated from the Albany (N. Y.) Law School in 1880. He practiced law at Ottawa, Ill., until appointed by President Cleveland to the post of comptroller of the currency in 1893. Mr. Eckels during the agitation of the currency question became prominent as an advocate of the gold standard. Always a Democrat, he became affiliated in 1896 with the Gold Standard Democrats. He retained the office of comptroller of the currency until the end of President Cleveland's term in 1897, when he became president of the Commercial National Bank. BOY KIDNAPRED 6-YearOld Tamaqua, Pa., Lad Carried Off By Strange Man. Tamaqua, Pa., April 17.—John Sabol, aged 6 years, was kidnapped on Sunday afternoon from near his home at Hauro, near here. The boy is the son of a Slavonian miner. On Sunday afternoon John and his 3-year-old brother Joseph went for a walk. A short time later Joseph returned home and said that a strange man had given John one dollar and some candy to go along with him. No trace of the boy has been learned since his disappearance. There is no known motive for the kidnapping, as the father of the kid is in only ordinary circumstances. WON RHODES SCHOLARSHIP Donald G. Herring, of Bloomeburg, Pa. Capture Price. Princeton, N. J., April 15. — The Rhodes scholarship committee of the state of New Jersey, consisting of President Woodrow Wilson and Dean Henry B. Fine, of Princeton University, and President Demarest, of Rutgers College, announced as the Rhodes scholar for New Jersey, Donald Grant Herring, of Bloomsbury, Pa. He will receive his A. B. degree from Princeton in June. Herring prepared for Princeton at Lawrenceville Academy, where he was prominent in literary work and athletics. In Princeton he played substitute tackle on the varsity football team for two years, and in the last two years played regularly at tackle and centre. Disappeared From Steamer at Sea. New York, April 16. — A wireless message has just been received by way of Hallifax stating that Percy Janis, a brother of Elsie Janis, the young star of the "Vanderbilt Cup," disappeared from the steamer Minneapolis at sea. It is believed that he either fell or jumped overboard. He was 22 years old and was on his way to London, where he was to take part in the production of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." Killed Wife With a Chair Greensboro, N. C., April 17.—While his wife held in her hands a pistol pointed in his face, Dr. R. B. Patterson struck her over the head with a chair in their home at Liberty, Randolph county, and a few minutes later Mrs. Patterson died from the effects of the blow. Dr. Patterson to call upon a woman patient and Mrs. Patterson objected. On his return the quarrel, with fatal results, followed. He will plead self-defense. NEW REVENUE COMMISSIONER President Offers Appointment to Colonel Went, of New Orleans. Washington, April 17. — Colonel Pearl Wight, of New Orleans, the Republican national committeeman from Louisiana, was a guest of President Roosevelt at luncheon and it is understood that the president tendered to him the position of commissioner of internal revenue to succeed John W. Yerkes, resigned. Colonel Wight, it is believed, will accept the appointment. THE PLANET SATURDAY ..... APRIL 20, 1907. FIREMAN FLEES FROM GRAVEYARD GHOSTS FIREMAN FLEES FROM GRAVEYARD GHOSTS ALONE IN A CEMETERY AT MIDNIGHT HE SEES WEIRD SPECTERS AND RUNS AWAY. St. Louis—Lost for an hour among the tombstones of Calvary cemetery at midnight, fleeing till out of breath from mysterious white figures that seemed to rise up from among the graves, William Carpenter, a fireman, had an experience which he hopes will never be repeated. Members of his fire company, still talking about Carpenter's experience, took on the whole affair as a joke. He is not quite convinced that the white-garbled figures were not ghosts. Late at night, about half-past ten o'clock, the Baden firemen were aroused by an alarm turned in from a box DIED The Ghosts Appeared on Every Side. at Calvary and Florissant avenues. Their shortest route to the fire was through Calvary cemetery. At the big iron gates on the Broadway side of the cemetery Capt. Ammon and Fireman Carpenter left the hose reel. Ammon opened the gates and then sprang to his post on the wagon. Carpenter was left behind to close the gates after the engine. When he had closed the gates the hose reel and engine were a hundred feet ahead of him, dashing rapidly up the hill. Carpenter ran after the wagon, sounding loudly. He saw the lights of the engine disappear in the distance and started to find his way out of the cemetery. "I kept on running," he said to a reporter, in telling of his experience, "wishing every minute I could escape. "All around me were white tombatones. I heard a noise in another direction and then I saw a white thing. It seemed to rise out of the ground. My hair went up, too. I think. "Then I did run. I'll admit I was dead afraid. I just wanted to get out of that place of horrors. I think I prayed. I was damp all over with a cold, clammy sort of sweat." Carpenter wiped his forehead with his handkerchief in memory of the event before he went on. "I thought all the time that I was heading for Calvary avenue. After a time I saw the light of a street car in the distance and it sort of kept me company. I followed the light, and the next thing I knew I had stumbled and fallen, and there looking at me was another white thing. It wasn't as bad as the first, though. I was getting used to the spooks a little. "I got up again and ran until I came to a barb wire fence. I got over the fence without a scratch, and found I was in Walnut Park, north of the cemetery. All the time I had thought I was going south. "A policeman told me where I was, and how to get back to the enginehouse. He said we had made a run on a false alarm. I had been in the cemetery an hour." Hens Laid for 35 Years Pennsburg, Pa.—Twelve dollars was the price realized for a pair of hens at the public sale of William Stengal's property at Bally. Mr. Stengal said that he had owned the fowls for 35 years, and that during all that time they had attended stricly to business. Mr. Stengel's farm is located near a camp-meeting ground of colored folks, and he did not lose sight of the fact, for whenever gatherings were on he would double-lock and bar his chicken-coop. The visit of the local preacher to the Stengel farm always resulted in a hurry call for secretion of the favorite hens. Young chickens were hastily slaughtered and conspicuously displayed. Hit by Train: Runs Away. Bloomsburg, Pa.—Knocked from the track by a locomotive and escaping uninjured was the experience of William Neal of this place. Neal stepped from the main track to a sliding, and was watching a passenger train go past when he was struck and hurled several feet from the tracks. The crew hurried to his assistance, but before reaching him Neal jumped to his feet and ran from the place. Upon reaching his home a physician was called, and it was discovered that he had not suffered even a scratch. He said that after being struck his one idea was to get away from the railroad as fast as he could. Church Road, Va. Any one who knows his whereabouts or can furnish any information of him please write, MRS. BETTIE TUCKER, Church Road, Dinwiddie Co., Va. 3t MEN BATTLE FIERGELY WITH THOUSAND RATS CORNERED IN GRANARY ROOM, BIG GRAY RODENTS ATTACK WOULD-BE EXECUTIONERS. Waterbury, Conn.—With their backs against the wall and their clubs flying like falls, Charles Wheeler and William Wesa fought for their lives with a thousand big gray granary rats. The men had planned a slaughter of the rats, but when the animals were cornered they came precious near devouring the men. Wheeler and Wesa killed 200 rats in the brief but deadly combat, which ended only when other men went to the rescue. A horde of greedy rats infested H. R. Stone & Co.'s grain warehouse at Woodbury and devoured much grain. Wheeler and Wesa, clerks there, de- termined to exterminate the pests. For days they plugged various rat holes, then by sprinkling grain temptingly they finally lured the rats into a small M. The Maddened Rats Swarmed About Them. room where bran is stored. While the big drove ran here and there the men plugged the rat holes in the little room and attacked the rats with clubs. But the rats, cornered, did not wait to be clubbed. No sooner had Wheeler and Wesa slammed the door behind them than a great lean rat, squealing, jumped at Wheeler's face. Behind it came the rest of the drove. They writhed about the men's feet, swarmed up their legs, bit savagely at their shoes and sprang high in the air in an effort to get at their unprotected hands and faces. The men wielded their clubs like mad and yelled for help, but the squealing animals only attacked them the more furiously. One worked his way inside Wesa's trouser leg and tore savagely at his ankle. Another sank his teeth into Wheeler's hand. The two might have been eaten alive had not other employees heard their shouts and thrown open the door. The rats scurried out of the building and the two executioners dropped exhausted. STICKERS FOR PUPILS' LIPS. Teachers of Lynn, Mass., Accused of Using Court Plaster. Lynn, Mass.—Dissatisfaction on the part of parents in the eastern section of this city with the methods of teachers in the Eastern Avenue training school manifested itself at a hearing before the school committee the other evening, when W. R. Felter stated that there was "a strong objection to permitting teachers to lick sticking plaster and place it on the lips of whispering pupils." The meeting was attended by 100 parents, and nearly a score of mothers intimated that they would make charges of a serious character to the members of the school committee in private. Among the forms of punishment which various persons allege to have been used were forcing a quantity of green soap into the mouth of a boy and tying of stockings about the faces of pupils for whispering. These reports will be investigated thoroughly by the school committee, and James M. Blaisdell, a member, said he would recommend the dismissal of any teacher convicted of such practices. Women Plow Like Horses Kansas City, Mo.-Julian Fustrade, a Belgian, who conducts a truck farm within the city limits, has been utilizing his wife and 15-year-old daughter as plow horses. Both women made this acknowledgment to a Humane society officer to-day. "It is no more than we were accustomed to in the old country," they declared. Fustrade has been warned that women are not permitted to do such work in Kansas City, and that he would be locked up if it is attempted again. INFORMATION WANTED. 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The king drained a bumper to his "Cousin Rudolf," as he was gracious— or merry—enough to call me, and I drank its fellow to the "Elphberg red," whereat he laughed loudly. Now, be the meat what it might, the wine we drank was beyond all price or praise, and we did it justice. Fritz ventured once to stay the king's hand. "What?" cried the king. "Remember you start before I do, Master Fritz— you must be more sparing by two hours than 1." Fritz saw that I did not understand. "The colonel and 1," he explained, "leave here at 6. We ride down to Zenda and return with the guard of honor to fetch the king at 8, and then we all ride together to the station." "Hang that same guard!" growled Sapt. "Oh, it's very civil of my brother to ask the honor for his regiment," said the king. "Come, cousin, you need not start early. Another bottle, man!" I had another bottle, or, rather, a part of one, for the larger half traveled quickly down his majesty's throat. Fritz gave up his attempts at persuasion. From persuading he fell to being persuaded, and soon we were all of us as full of wine as we had any right to be. The king began talking of what he would do in the future, old Sapt of what he had done in the past, Fritz of some beautiful girl or other, and I of the wonderful merits of the Elphberg dynasty. We all talked at once and followed to the letter Sapt's exhortation to let the morrow take care of itself. At last the king set down his glass and leaned back in his chair. "I have drunk enough," said he. "Far be it from me to contradict the king," said I. Indeed his remark was most absolutely true—so far as it went. While I yet spoke Josef came and set before the king a marvelous old wicker covered dagon. It had lain so long in some darkened cellar that it seemed to blink in the candlelight. "His highness the Duke of Strelsau bade me set this wine before the king when the king was weary of all other wines and pray the king to drink for the love that he bears his brother." "Well done, Black Michael!" said the king. "Out with the cork, Josef! Hang him! Did he think I'd filnch from his bottle?" The bottle was opened, and Josef filled the king's glass. The king tasted it. Then, with a solemnity born of the hour and his own condition, he looked round on us. "Gentlemen, my friends—Rudolf, my cousin (it's a scandalous story, Rudolf, on my honor)—everything is yours to the half of Ruritania. But ask me not for a single drop of this divine bottle, which I will drink to the health of that—that skin knave, my brother, Black Michael." And the skin seized the bottle and turned it over his mouth and drained it and flung it from him and lald his head on his arms on the table. And we drank pleasant dreams to his majesty—and that is all I remember of the evening. Perhaps it is enough. TO BE CONTINUED. GNATURALLY. Susy—I say, Jennie, what's a naturalist? Jennie—I'm not sure. A man who catches gnats, isn't it.—Judy. What His Bumps Told. "That man is a phrenologist, Pat." "A what?" asked Pat, puzzled. "A phrenologist." "An', sure, what's that, sorr?" "Why, a man that can tell, by feeling the bumps on your head, what kind of man you are?" "Bumps on my head, is it?" exclaimed Pat. "Begorra, then, I think it would give him more of an idea what kind of a woman my wife is!" YOUNG BRIDERISKS LIFE FOR HUSBAND MRS. PETRA LIEN RIDES THREE MILES,IN NIGHT ROBE TO SUMMON AID. BITTER COLD HAS NO TERROR Woman First Carries Injured Man from Burning Home—Is Now Near Death Because of Her Awful Experience. Harrold, S. D.—South Dakota's new heroine is Mrs. Petra Lien, the bravest girl in the west, who is hovering between life and death at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Elseman of this place, and the title of heroine will remain with her whether she lives or dies. Petra Peterson, aged 23, married Andrew H. Lien three months ago, and their honeymoon was scarcely over when the tragedy occurred. They lived on a farm ten miles south of this town and their home was a favorite place for the young people of the community to gather. When the young couple retired a few nights ago, the fire in the sitting room above was quite low. About midnight the husband arose to look after it. Fearing it would go out he threw in some kerosene, or possibly, as some of the neighbors think, gasoline. An explosion followed, enveloping the man in flames. He was terribly burned, his thin attire being consumed instantly. His screams brought his young wife from her bed. With a skirt which she had grabbed as she ran, she fought the flames and managed to drag her husband from their midst. The whole room was ablaze and she realized the uselessness of trying to extinguish the fast growing fire. Although much smaller than her sturdy husband, she practically carried him, herself barefoot, through the snow to the barn. She laid his quivering form in a pile of hay and returned to the house for clothing. The whole building was in flames. She could neither enter to get wearing apparel nor to telephone to neighbors. She knew she must herself, so for aid. Returning to the barn the brave young bride took the scorched skirt with which she had fought the flames, and wrapping it about her now semil-conscious husband, prepared for the terrible ordeal of riding through snow and bitter cold wind, almost nude. A bridle was hastily put on their fleetest horse, but no saddle, the wife realizing that the warm body of the animal must be relied upon to supply needed heat to keep her own tender flesh A She Rode at Furious Pace for a Doctor. from freezing. And so she began the notable ride which will be related for years to come to the children of this community and state. Through the dark, moonless night she urged her horse, her stiffening fingers and limbs from the biting cold being forgotten in the mental anxiety for her suffering husband. The thin night gown offered but meager protection from the near-zero weather and the snow flung from the hoofs of the running horse struck her continually. But she conquered, where failure would have been more logical. Three miles were traversed and a wall from the freezing wife brought quick response from neighbors. When helped from her horse she seemed on the verge of collapse, but rallied quickly and insisted upon going back to her husband at once. She would wait for nothing but to be hurriedly dressed in clothing of her neighbor, and then astride her panting horse she again covered the three miles at top speed. Friends came and medical aid. All effort to save the life of Mr. Lien was futile, however, and he died at daybreak, in the barn where his young wife had placed him. Knowledge of his death was the signal for Mrs. Lien to collapse and she was taken to the home of a friend. Burned and frozen and suffering from nervous shock the bereaved bride is still in a precarious state at her sister's home here. Her hands and face were scorched terribly by the fire. Their home and all its contents were destroyed. The funeral of Mr. Lien was one of the largest ever held in this (Hughes) county. Strange, but True. "Who is happier?" asked a young man of a father, "a millionaire, or a man who has seven daughters?" "The man who has seven daughters." "Why so?" "He who has a million pounds wishes for more; the man who has seven daughters does not."—Royal Magazine. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN Secured by This New Union Order—Grows By Leaps and Bounds—Started Five Years Ago with Nothing But a "Principle"—Now Has Over 400 Subordinate Lodges and 36,000 Members. Over 30,000 homes of our people have been illied with joy, because of the Protection of a great and powerful Union Order, which is using its strength and influence to secure better conditions for our people. This is the first and only great Union Order in this country, holding an International Union Charter from the Courts, which give a full Protection and Benefits to our race. There is no color, race or sex discrimination in this Order. The negro has an equal standing with the white members, and can be elected to hold any office. Every effort is made to advance the condition of the members, by securing equal opportunities to work with other workmen, to learn the trades and to have steady work at high wages and Union hours. The Grand Lodge donates $100.00 for the burial of each deceased member. A fine monthly Journal is published. A Membership Book of the Order is recognized by all Lodges everywhere. Distressed members are assisted. Each member and Subordinate Lodge has the privilege of buying stock in the Order, on low monthly payments, said stock paying 8 per cent interest, guaranteed. A Leading Negro Deputy is wanted in each locality, AT ONCE, to form Lodges, sell Buttons, take Journal Subscriptions, sell Stock and act as DISSTRCT DEPUTY ORGANIZER. This work can be done in spare hours, but many are devoting their whole time and attention to it. Big money is made by good hustlers. Write at once. State name of this paper, and enclose 10 cents for full information and postage. Address THE I. L. U. GRAND LODGE, 34 to 40 Canby Building, Dayton, Ohio. HUNG FROM TRESTLE WITH BOY HE SAVED HUNG FROM TRESTLE WITH BOY HE SAVED TWELVE-YEAR-OLD NEW JERSEY BOY IS TWICE RESCUED FROM DEATH. Paterson, N. J.—While walking on the trestle of the Erie railroad at Riverside, 40 feet above the Passaic river, 12-year-old Edward Berger misses his footing and fell between the dies, striking the steel framework in his descent to the water. As the boy fell Chris Naumann, with a friend, Peter Brueck, started across the trestle on their way from Hawthorne to this city. They saw the boy struggling in the river and Naumann ran to the nearest pier and clambered down the steel work. At the base of the pier, which is barely wide enough for a foothold, Naumann took off his overcoat and threw one end to the boy, who was clinging to a cake of ice. The boy caught the coat and Naumann hauled him to the pler. He was exhausted and unable to help himself A man carrying a child on his back is hanging from a steel beam. The background features a cityscape with buildings and trees. They Hung Suspended Under the Train. and Naumann, who is big and muscular, put the boy on his back and started up to the top of the trestle. He had first instructed Brueck to see if a train was coming. Naumann reached the top of the trestle with the boy on his back when Brueck began waving his arms wildly. An express, which Brueck saw he would not be able to stop, was almost on the trestle when Naumann had lowered the helpless boy between the ties with one hand and was hanging himself to a tie with the other. The express roared above them, and following it as swiftly as his legs could carry him came Brueck, who marveled at his friend's escape. Brueck helped Naumann and the boy back on to the trestle. The two men carried Berger to his home in River street and left him with his mother, not stopping long enough to tell the story of the boy's double peril and Naumann's gallantry. The boy recovered enough to tell it himself soon afterward. 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The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also conti constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have noPythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrnize one. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KIBOSH ON POLAR EXPLORER. "Ah!" said the emaciated man, "it was arctic exploration that put the kibosh forever upon my salubriu." "Yes," said the sympathetic individual; "the long, dreary marches, the wretched food, the awful cold, the loneliness—" "No, no—" "Do not deny me, modesty personified—do not deny me! 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"But I'd like to find out: what we are going to do with the children, for, as he says, they certainly need a mother's care."—Chicago Record-Herald. Dick—I don't believe I'll be a sailor when I'm grown up, after all. Tom—Why not? Dick—I talked to an old man today who had been a sailor for 50 years, and he had never been shipwrecked on a desert island once.—Royal Magazine. United Aid Insurance Company. HOME OF PAGE, 312 East Broad St, Richmond, Va. Incorporated 1894 under the laws of Virginia. Capital Stock. $25,000 Has written over Three Million ($3,000,000-00) Dollars worth a business since organization. THE PEOPLE'S REAL ESTATE AND until your system reached once more its normal condition." "I tell you, your sympathy is entirely misdirected. All those things you mention were sure pretty tough, and seemed at times unbearable. But they were peaches and cream, porterhouse and mushrooms, parlor A, with both and other luxuries, compared with the small village hotels I had to hang up at when I began my lecture tour just after the rescue."—Strickland W. Gillian, in Judge With an Eye to the Future Sheridan was about to start on his 20-mile ride to Winchester. "I could do it quicker in an auto mobile, of course," he said, "but that would knock the poem into the mid- dle of the next war." Pausing just long enough to per- mit the young man with the camera to take a snap shot of Liam he dashed the rowels into his steed, and was of like an arrow—Chicago T. Duncan N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. Organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand Court over all of the cities and counties is needed to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles is based on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of up to week sick dues. The badge of regalia. For information concerning Courts of Calantia of the Order. It requires a member court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could be death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00 your neighborhood, organize one. Using the Children's Department ad Mrs. ANNA TA 120 W. H. Evening special rates of JOHN and courts, address 312 United Aid Insurance HOME OFFICE, 312 East Incorporated 1894 under the laws Has written over Three Million business since organization. Over sixty-five thousand over twenty-five Branches All claims paid to date Ten Thousand Dollars on Deposit OFFICE J. E. Byrd, L. W. W. Lee, D. S. Alston, W. J. Spratt, R. L. Clay, R. H. Stokes, R. C. Malloy BOARD OF J. E. Lyrd, W. J. pratley W. W. Bailley, W. C. Carter, P. S. Stokes, F. L Reliable men can find employment at Address. THE PEOPLE'S REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT COMPANY WHY NOT CALL ON US? J. J. CARTER, President. W. F. DENNY, Secretary. JOHN FOXEL. Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CIGARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, VA BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH, PROPRIETRESS S16 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va RICHMOND MEDICAL COLLEGE 406 E. Baker Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Chartered June 14, 1905. Co-ed educational. The only Colored College in Virginia for a thorough course in Medicine, Denistry and Pharmacy. Session: 1905-1906 begins Oct. 2, 1905. For further information, write, J. ALEX. LEWIS, M. D., Secretary 9-23-3mos. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH St., RICHMOND, VA ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance Phone, 758 ythias, perful in the country and its Lodge of Virginia has juris in this state. Thirty male the benefits paid constitute one are greater than anything clarity and established on Be- f the state will find it an order of of $200.00 for all ages. It the costing 75 cents each is the ing the organization of lodges ```markdown ``` nt also con- e little ones into this mystic d be expected. It pays from 40.00. If you have noPythian address, MAYLOR, W. M.. Hill St., Richmond, Va. MITCHELL, JR., 111 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. France Company, First Broad St., Richmond, Va. of Virginia. Capital Stock. $25,000 ( $3,000,000-00) Dollars worth a nd policy holders. ones. with the Treasurer of Virginia. ICERS. President. 1st Vice President. 2nd Vice President. ley, Secty. and Gen'l. Manager. Asst. Secretary. ess. Cashier and Treasurer. v. General Inspector. DIRECTORS. Lee, D. S. Alston, K. L. Clay, V Brown, C. H. Jones, R. H. E. Puryear. as solicitors and agents. UNITE, AID INSURANCE CO., 312 E. Broad St., chmond, V. STATE AND PANY. When renting, When buying, When lending money, When borrowing money, When you have Real Estate for sale When you want an estate managed Just call Phone 4854. --- Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. ...PARLORS..... 108 E. Leigh St., Richmond, / 'Phone, 1034. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmond. The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, face and skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald beads and bare temples, 25cts. per jar. By mail, 35cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo ' for developing and beautifying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beautiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mail 35cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mail, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of massaging and beautifying ladies' faces for parties and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham shampoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents. All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and towns can make good money by selling these preparations. Write for terms to Mrs. J. A. Graham. No. 108 E. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. 'Phone 2048 112 W Leigh S John H. Braxton REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns Special attention to repairs. Notary With Seal. SMITH'S BUSINESS CCLLEG LYNCHBURG, VA. COURSES: Phonographic, Commercial, Penning English, Electric wiring, Civil Engineering. No Vacation. Instruction Thorough... Positions 8c cured. Correspondence Solicited. Send 2c for particulars. Address: T. P. SMITH, A. B. President STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. Will Satisfy the lover of the right kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 E. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NCRTH 18TH ST. DEALER IN FINE WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. —Subscribe to the Richmond, Va. PLANET. $1.50 per year. GEORGE O. BROWN, PHOTOGRAPHER. 605 N. 2nd St. Richmond, Va. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class sales. Latest Improvements in Photograph- ing. Outdoor Work presented. Reasonable estimates and Prompt Service. Pictures Enlarged from Old negatives or Photographs. 8-ms THE ECONOMY, 303-5 North Third St. FINE TAILORING. CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be visited or indly. 'Phone, 2778. ice ANNE a4 vi — , HE EG ceils of rr ns 7 NY , R ee SATURDAY .....APRUL 20, 1007. DETAIL IN DRESS VAST IMPORTANCE OF THE SMALL THINGS. Business Women in Particular Should Be Careful That Accessories of the Toilet Are in Prop. Sahara: Once upon a time this scribe was traveling in Scotiend, and stopped for service at a little church in the High- lands on a summer Sunday evening. ‘The sermon was preached by an old clergyman, who spoke in a broad Scotch dialect, and took for his text, “Beware of the foxes, the little foxes!” A quaint subject for a sermon. And the good old divine laid stress upon “the little foxes” that attack one in daily life. He spoke of the little things, the muititudinous little things, and their relative significance; and then went on to point out their tre- Mendous importance when considered in relation to the whole, to the sum to- tal of life, “"Tis the little things that count!* and It is the little things of dress that really make up the whole, the sum total of one's appearance. ‘The head of a large corporation had occasion to advertive for a stenogra- pher. Applicant after applicant for the position was examined in the pri- vate office. Some were dismissed ‘with a few words, and out of over 40 candidates but three wore retained to undergo further test as to their ft- ness for the work. The president said: “You noticed ‘that there were some girls whom I asked If they could take dictation In some one or another foreign language. ‘Well, it was not that I require such ‘work, but merely that their appear- ‘@nce was against them, and I wanted ‘to let them down easy. One girl had @ skirt with a long train to it, quite ‘unsuitable for a business office, al- ‘though it might be all right for a thea- ter party. Another had a lace waist, with a fot of fancy ribbon fixings, tha: looked like an aftcrnoon tea table. Another showed gloves with her fin- gers sticking through for lack of mend- ing; while another had her hair so be- frizzed and becurled that she looked more like a toy terrier than a stenog- Fapher. You noticed, doubtless, that the three I retained Tor examination had plain clothes, neat and tidy—al- though, perhaps, they might not be considered in the first flight of fash- fon uptown, and the impression they gave me was that of successful bust mess women. Their hair was well brushed, their collars ntted, their shirtwaists set well and their belts looked trim and trig; and I Just guess ed that their work would be like thelr appearance—up-to-date, trim, trig and Dusinesslike throuzhowt.” ‘There is no one who should be more careful or pay more attention to her appearance than the business woman of to-day, Good taste in dress cannot Assert Itself just ax conspleuously in business garb as in dinner gown or @ressing frock. A well-fitted tailored shirtwaist of some durable material, either a linen or madras, if wash mg- terials are liked; or one of mohair, Coleen poplin or a plain dark taffeta, if laundry bills are somewhat a con- alderation—preferably with a detacha- Die collar, since the collar soils 80 much sooner than the waist. Some ar- rangement or device to hold the shirt- ‘Waist and skirt together is wecessary to the trim and trig set around the waist that the present fashion de mands; and a skirt well cut and short enough to clear the floor all around completes the costume. Where a touch of color is liked, a lttle butter- fly bow and a ribbon belt to match ‘Will serve to rolieve the severity of the garb, without in the least detract- ing from the suitably plain appearance Of the design. For example, a very pretty dark blue mohair shirtwaist sult Is furnished with sets of cravat and belt. Some are in plaid ribbons, ome in pale-blue velvet ribbon, while 4 Uttle made bow tle is matched in a belt of bias armure of a brilliant tone of scarlet, which well sets off the som- ber tints of the dark blue and does not Jook in the least out of piace, since the little touch of color is but a mere MILLINERY OF THE MOMENT. Flowers Lavishly Used, Though Some Aigrettes Are Seen. In the lavish uso of flowers there is less call for plumage, but a number day inspection showed Paradise cock's plumes, set in with clusters of flowers, holding them in place, while in the smaller creations the algrette was often in evidence, says the New York Post. Grass aigrettes are cer- tainly very attractive for midsummer ‘wear. In form they have the appear- ance of a paradise tall, and are to be bad in different colors and combina tions, the shaded ones being particu- larly effective. Many novelties in the feather and aigrette are noticed. Ar- ‘Bus quills, coque feathers, marabout combinations, fancy quills, all have been refashioned in lightened and more airy manner, for use in the millinery, and are more beautiful and alluring than when adorning our head- wear this winter. a Plain Blouses. ‘The plain blouses with their studs 2h Se te carry out, but they are apt to look trim and fashionable much longer than the thin lagerie boilices and, too, they give far moro satisfactory wear, so that they bring their own compen. ‘sations. MAKES PRETTY PHOTO FRAME. Ornamental and Useful, and Easily Made at Home. Photo frames covered with embroid- ered silk or linen are very dainty. ‘and they may be easily made at home. or recovered where necessary. The frame we show is covered with pale grey satin worked with pink and Breen silk. ‘The size of the frame must be regu. lated by the size of the photo it is in tended for. Stout cardboard is used for the foundation. In it an opening must be cut with a knife. Cut the silk a little larger than the founda tion, then work with the design whown. One or two strands of filoselie or Mlo-flosse may be used for the work, and two or three shades of each of 2 $4 Eee es Se oad Se got A as RA aa i ee lick Bes soft tones of pink and green. Four tiny gold sequins are sewn in each square or knotstitcbes in gold silk may be worked, If preferred. When the embroidery Is fintshed the silk should bg stretched over the card. The edges must be snipped and fixed at the back with seccotine, A piece of glass must also be fixed by feccotine behind the opening. For the back, cut another plece of card like the front, except the open- ing ts not required, cover with sateen; then fix to the edges of the front with seccotine, or seam together neatly, leaving the bottom unjoined to slip the photo through. If the frame is to stand, a support of double card an inch wide must be covered with sa- teen, and one end sewn to the center of the back. A pretty silk furniture gimp, composed of the same colors as are used in the embroidery, should be fixed round the edge by a little ‘seccotine. EMBROIDERY iS MUCH USED. Linen Coats All Ornamented With ‘This Device. Priceless hand embroidery lavished on nen coats as (t appears to-day cannot help but call forth admiration. A pattern of pronounced character and beauty represents huce daisies whose petals stand out in retief against the pale green yackround, the centers are of wide mesh net darned with yellow, Curlous little scrolls and con- Yentlonal figures that coll among the flowers and leaves are wrought with Mnen goutache braid. The collar and cuffs are incrusted with smaller de- signs, as is also the bolero yoke at the back. The full box plaited skirt accompanying this marvelous coat is without furbishiags. There ts no dl- minution in the craze for Irish lace and linen combinations. Now and then one sees a sumptuous crochet coat combined with white or unbleach- ed linen. Sometimes the value of the lace will exceed the cost of an elegant evening gown. A gorgeous lace coat that played a prominent part in a fashiouable wardrobe during the win- ter has given up its satin and chiffon plisse linings for plain bands of coarse linen. The cuffs and collar earry out the effect of stitched plaitings on the skirt and the fronts are finished with loops and crocheted balls. ie bas Weak Baden ‘The Parisienne who values her fig jure will not wear bulky furs and ‘clings to Persian lamb in black or the new gray. She bas it made cut away ‘at the throat, where she shows her ‘pretty lace collar or chemisette, or she wears her large boas or small fur cravats with it. Woven cloths in imi. tation of furs cut after these lines, ‘exquisitely ta‘lor made, without cheap ening by trimmings, are well worn as ‘small coats by tho girl who has nice furs to go with them. Styles in Sleeves. Long sleeves are alone appropriate for the tailor-made blouses. The cuffs may be elbow length or shorter, but with the long cuffs on dark Linen bod: fees separate white lingerie cuffs should be added. Narrow cuffs of the regulation three or fourinch width, finished with a soft frill or plain with Jewel cuff links, are really most ap- propriate with the severe waists, For tennis and general morning wear this style of sleeve will be found infinitely more comfortable and sensible than the dainty lingerie affair that has been popular now for some time. New Hate Leghorns are very plentiful. Velvet ribbon rosettes are noted. Plaited velvet ribbon appears en many a chapeau Val. lace is discovered upon period millinery. One smoke lace scarf is finely em- broidered in straw. Soft, rich pink roses appear om very many of the hats, All told, bats are rather flat in effect, lace draperies falling over the should. ate oe Sree Enough. ‘I cannot sing the old songs, gk esas Bar the sow.- looked at ecstasy. “Oh, darling, I love youl” Clee THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. CCCEE33S333929335335 €e,, £ Everthing! Everthing! % a $» FURNITURE» @ FLoor Coverincss & SYONOR & HUNDLEY, ING. 8 @ Leaders. a "709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. & 933993599355330000538666E¢ beGbbsbbebasuasecdidhes we The People's Restaurant, aay ———— 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va———_——_ MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Gol, Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. POLITE ATTENTION......... a GIVE ME A CALL. Mme. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Propetetress. 000600880008 08008 28000 MOST POPULAR TRIMMING OF THE SEASON. Larger Variety Then Usual Is at Hand to Choose From—Negligee Gar- ments a Necessity for Home Wear. Home dressmakers who understand exactly, how to use dres trimmings to tl enhancement of the gown’s bons Mis season are playing a great part fm trimmings, and there Is a Iarger variety from which to choose than ordinarily Narfow velvet ribbon in colors, but particularly in black, while used con- “ 1D, on me a } siderably in the winter styles, {x in much more evidence In cowns and furbetows for spring. Other ribbons Are the Persian, coming in various different widths and prices, ranging from 24 cents up, loulsine, Japanese ribbons, and numerous others. Many entire small garments are fashioned of ribbon and lace exclu- sively. Princess gowns and girlish skirts and soparate blouses are made in this manner, and the ribbon select- ed 1s usually some paste! shade of rather narrow satin ribbon. The lace ig Valenciennes. To thevesthetic maid or matron few garments appeal more strongly than @ Deautiful matinee jacket of short neg: ligee. These little boudoir fittings are not only an economy in that they save the lingorte blouse from loot ing houso- worn, but are a strongth-saving device to woman. A loos, comfortable matl- nee jacket worn in hours of relaxation Proves a necessity to women on ac- count of their restfulness. ‘The design shows one fashloned of wide Persian ribbon with Valen- clennes lace forming the ribbon. Nat- urally there {3 no obligation to use the size of ribbon here shown, and the model may be mado available in silks, organdies, challies or other materials. Challie, at 60 cents a yard, would make a most acceptable jacket, using narrow baby ribbon to match the fig- ure or dot in the material. Broad pteces of ribbon may be used &s four-in-hand tles, and the ends may be finished with lace and narrower ribbon. Inch-wide satin ribbon and Valen- Cm ont an, pif LER? Me Ry Bw Ley i ee Bey i i Gury Sa Se Spas iy y Hi tosi 4 Ban ey / aN fe Pi Wee SY w G: igo BA ees NESE \ Kies Ie rs ‘ With Persian Ribbon. elennes lace make pretty berthas for either a silk or lingerie blouse. Ribbons are advantageously made fato stocks by using the very narrow ribbon, either ip satiy or velvet, and all of the ‘shades known to the ma ‘may be employed In their creation. If organdie is used to construct the Jacket, on actount of its wiith, it will take very little over a yard. This would insure the wearer a garment at Very little cost, and one as fresh and airy as may well be imazined. Ribbons are very much utitized in forming half-princess gowns. The hich Birdle belts are fashioned of veivet ribbons and the skirt ma‘ertal and the straps going over the shoulder are of the ribbon. Easy Way to Sharpen Scissors. Have you ever been annoyed to tnd that just as you had made up your mind to do some specis! piece of work your scissors seeme! suddenly to have grown ‘dull? This {s often the case, and {s something that no one can satisfactorily explain. Anyway. the immediate remedy is very simpic and ts always at hand. Open the scissors around the neck of a small bottle and work them vigorously for a few seconds, say @ half-dozen times. The scissors will then be found to cut very well. The glass acts as a sharp. ening stone, and while the edge given is what is known as a “wire edge” and will not hold for any large amount of work, It ceriainly {sa great convenience and will last for two or threo days sometimes. JUST LIKE A WOMAN, eet 2 Geary) |. SA eg; yeti a Sp a | A My iy Sea \— iif i ee BN i wes i" (eee Ny Re \\ <a Be iN s “ , Py one RRR eis PE ies és Ee oo Hubby (shivering)—It's bitter cold. Why don't you button up your jacket? Wifey—The idea! Why, if I did that no one would know it ts lined with fur—Brooklyn Eagle. Besta = “These bridge digesters are terri ble,” remarkod the man who was read- Ing of bridges being ewept away by the river floods. “I should say 80,” replied bis friend. “My eife lost ail ber yoar’s pin money in a game of ‘bride’ jast night"— Chicago Dall: News. Gaining S:lf-Centrol. “Your husband looks Nke a man of great self-control.” remarked Mrs. Gadd to Mrs. Gabo. “Well, he hada’: mueh when I mar ried bim,” replio! Mrs. Gabb, “but,” she added, with a coli-steel look In her gray eyes, “he's getting it."—N. Y. Weekly. Made Her Tired. Mrs. Snooper—Mon make me tired. Mrs. Swayback—What's the matter ‘now? Mrs. Snooper—My husband saw ‘Mrs. Keedick yesterday, and I asked him what she had on, and he replied: “Oh, clothes.” | ee eee ; Neturat. Johnny—What gave you such a broad smile in this pleture? Has the manager just promised you a raise {n salary? Chorus Girl—No. He had just promised to psy up my back salary, that’s all.—Detroit Free Press. The Soeeders, Gunner—Helene's father sald you were going to the dogs since you bought that automobile, Any truth in the report? Cogger—Hardly! The dogs are coming to me, [un down a dozen yes. terday.—Chicago lally News, : —— es f @ ~\ Mechanics ff a eS) £ I f gate. \ Savings Bank Wis sees | OF RICHMOND, VA. ae Tae E a } 511 NORTH THIRD STREET. aa Mads oaae/ ee reeneeeenna aa Capital, $25,000. Money received on deposit and interest paid on amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. é p Amounts of ten centseand upwards received on deposit -_., This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having e iarg whites vault, buriar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every’ modura conven tence for safety and the accommoration of the public. { For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, eto., apply to the Onahier. | Banking Hours have been arranged for the specia! convenience of the work ing people as follows: 9 A.M. toa P.M. Saturday * 9AM oS Pom We close Saturday at 3 PM. x2) open again at 6 P. Me remaining open cntil ‘ P M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS: JOUN MITCHELL, JR., President, HLF. JONATHAN, Vice-President THOS, M. WYATT, Cashier, BOARD OF DIREOTORS: Rev. W. F. Gaanax, D D., Jo. R Ones. B. P. Vawpenvann, &. RB. Javrersox H. F. Jovatmay, ‘Thomas Surrat D. J. Onavens 5.0. Panter, dhe. Tavion, ©. A. Wasnreoror, BR. W. Wxitia, Wr. ax Ovstao, J.J. Oanran SOHN SUTOHELL. IR. Pus. THOMAS M. CRUMP, Bx0"c, ov fans Che J. V. Hawkin’s HAIR GROWER & idea aoe ange FES TORER. ——ITKADE MARK REGISTERED.) —— | tis prov ise nifixtans Wamuy ot Gt ce Leh Wwouderfal’ results. ‘The merits of this great (i B\ —allof itwown, aud tho glowing teraw in ote fii BB) iauiny reeutie Western tence ate a, 5 & Patronage throoghout this and other States een aoe ° Also enjova the commendation of the veep beer Vet ioe >, white and colored peoole in this immediate oun: | ba “ munity. In order to convince the moat skept! Oe ahs cal readers of the wertts and reanits of the J. V. ee Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will who have used our preparation and are to-day among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the ‘ration is @ batural and pure compound, the ingredients of which we would hot ‘hesitate to putin print. We will just here remind the pablic that the United States Government bas placed national parent ES es on cur bair preparation by ‘whioh it is protected and we are im tarn responsible to the government for hoe Sectotigurone eriars aataae It will positively romove Dandruff, Oure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples oe tid toate ehee ees arco aaa ys (OMT PRices;—15 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.30 esa 2S expose prepaid. a) €e ‘the Fuce Beautitier makes the use of powder en- A Aaa eed ‘tirelv unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless, Sale p= | a prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00, [i< nd, Moncy can be sent by Post Office Money Order [pies mE fasts or Express Money Order 97" A charge of lets, {h ha extra is Imposed on all out of elty orders. "BQ. \ is resiochachenbilT RIMES were y) MME. J. V. HAWKINS, S y G12 N. First Street, © Richmond, Va bs "PRONE, 4601. {OMF Correspondence strictly confidential. "WM *Phone, 577. Richmond, Va 4.0). Pee, | Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All erders promptly filled at shortnotice by telegraph or telephone Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty ot room with all necessary conveniences. Large pisnic or band wagons for ire at reasonable rates and nothing but fMret-class carriages, buggies, ete. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. we No. 212 East Leigh Street. ee OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT.—Man on Doty All Night ————eSE ~ W. I. JOHNSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR” AND EBMBELMER. Offiee & Waserooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad KACKS FOR HIRE: : Osttare by Feeticce ce Telearerk filled. Wedding, Sup > (pers and its promptly attended. : an “id Phene, 686, Residence in Butiding, New Phone, t&. Se ae a | ya be A Ey | es pas | Be - 2 hes | PROP. D. D. BRUCE, M. D-, Strange, Wonderful but True are the awe stricken tests given by The Great Austrialian Medium, PROP. D. D. BRUCE, M. 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WESTROUND LOCAL TRAINS. 7:30 @. m. dally amt 6:15 P. m. week days, NEWPORT NEWS, NORFOLK AND OLD POINT. @ a. m. and ¢ p. m. dafly. Local For Newport News ant im OLD PUINT. 720 a. mand Sp. week Gaye, JAMES RIVER Liste Arrige hale ahs iinet Boll Tise a. he ee et SP Best; Siaiah Acti Ae, orb eRe Rae ate dames Rye: oats ke Pag 13K. Dally ER Sumtag) SS Ov DOMINION STEAMSHIP. 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LEAVE KICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION, 4,90 Am. NORFOLK LIMITED. “Arrives ap Xoroik 11:20 A.M. “Seopa only ai Peterebaete Waverly. and Borfoit 8.00 4, M CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Par Jor Car Petersburg to Leneiburs ned teat Pullnan ‘sicepor Koaucke to: Colaaben ea Blucfild to Clocinnatthvalao Rowtckes Rimes ville and Knoxville to Chattanooga ad ahest Dlina. ieiv P.M Roanoke Expreen for Fe-mville lagpenvang aod oan tt B:0) PW Cea shore Limited Arrtves Norfolk 520 b ‘hi "Stope only’ wt beeceshaee Waverly and Sutfote Connetes with Seseet to Boston. “rovidence, New Yorks Baltes sh Wanker P20. Mocter Norfolk and all atntions wat of Potecubure, 4.0878 SEW ONLEANS auonT Line. Pull ann sleeper iiehmond to. Lynchburg Peters SBE to Kounoke: Lenchourg to Chat “Traine artis fom the wos te ee Ste Arrives woah 1:35 0m bm" and’s 80 pm. from Norfolk 1 sx ae Ww 1 Rash Bast Bats ren! Son Pane aa eat, pee COAST LINE ERYECTIVE MAY 27TH. Traine leave Richmond daily: eee Merton, bi aa doe, aS Sad oP Me " an pagr Ns & W. Ry. West, 12:10 and 0.9 Wor Petersburg 9:0 A. M..12:10, 8:00, 6:29, 990 and 10 EB For Goidaiuro and Fayetteville, 8:88 P.M. Brana srrice, Mewmtet, daly’ 8, a sol0'S and Th A "1 00-208, Boe 0 teak shoe *iteapt Sunday, ce sunday onty C.S. CAMPuE DPA pe ener eee —1ne—_. Custalo House, 702 East Broad Street. Having remodeled my BAR, and hav. ote Soy Seeie and toe game ee the same old stand. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS, First Class REsTAuRAnT, (O@ MEALS AT ALL HOURS. “SQ | New "Phone 1261, WM. CUSTALO, - Prop. —Bring er send us your JOB WORK; we de i aicaly. "We dob quickty. BIGHT —_— EEE ; Z att Ub a apa aLe f Nas a wy SATURDAY APRIL 20, 1907. MR. ELEPHANT TRIES ] TO TAKE ADVICE | a : : eat exit of « be dex red. “But I s! wear them.” - Sffe> 2 Cia CRSA BRISK lp ve Boe ta “If you are going to be a man,” the Baboon interrupted, “you must walk @ your bind legs.” And so Mr. Elephant wabbled around en his hind legs until he was abou played out. “Goodness me!” he exclaimed. “This fs tiresome. What does a man do wher he 1s tired?" “Why, he sits down,” sald the Saboon. So Mr. Elephant sat down to rest Dut he was not satisiled. “It is almost as tiresome sitting @own as standing up,” said Mr. Ele phant. “What does a man do when he gets tired sitting down doing nothing?” “He takes a smoke,” said the baboon. ‘Then the elephant got a pipe and to ‘Bacco and tried to smoke, but he made ‘@ wonderful tezle of it. ‘He got smoke In his eyes, in his nose and his throat, and he was In a pretty predicament. “1 don't wont to be a man!” he cried, ‘while tears streamed down bis cheeks. “I am going to try to be a good ele Phant instead.” “That's what I meant tn the first Place,” said bis father.—Pittsburg Dis patch. An Animal Story For Little Folks The Deceived Dogs ‘the spaniel to the other dogs who oc “No, she cares most for me,” sald ees “You are both wrong, for I am ber favorite," chimed in another dog. “Why should you dispute this mat. ter among yourselves when It {s easy to be seen that I am uppermost in her affections?" added a shaggy coated lit- te poodle. And so it was that the discussion waxed warm between them, and they actually grew angry and snarled and snapped and made ugly faces, all be- cause each of them was sure that he ‘was the best beloved and because they could not convince each other of their Tespective claims to the affections of their mistress, Now, while all this was going on the mistress’ little boy Willie was lying on Ae ay Ne ieee eee re { =—S the floor reading © book and paying na attention to the cburlish squabble that was going on among the canines in his mother's lap. “What are you reading?” asked his mother. “A nice little story I learoed at echool.” repiied Willie. “Well, come up on my lap aud read % to me. my little boy." (‘And witb that she dumped the dogs tm a heap on the floor. “I guess she don’t care as much for ‘@8 a2 we thought.” they each said a: SET cs ey west ot guess were ‘Bt Louis Post-Dispatch. ; $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., April 16, 1967. ‘This is to certify that I have re- ceived from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of tae Grand Court, LO. of Calsnthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Fran- ces Scott, who was a member of Pure Gold Court, No. 69 of Richmond, Va. Signed—M. C. Trice Administratrix. An Appeal From Alexandria, La- ‘The colored people of Alexandria, La., appeal to the public to aid them in caring for the Cyclone Sufferers. There are over 200 homeless colored people in want and distress. Any thing in the line of contributions and subscriptions will be thankfully received and distributed among the needy. Send all moneys to PRINCE ASKAZUMA, ‘Treasurer of Cyclone Fund for the colored people. Alexandria, La. AN ECHO FROM ATLANTA ROIT. CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. upon an innocent man!" BISHOP GAINES’ EXPERIENCE. The next view I got was through the eyes of one of the able Negroes of the South, Bishop Gaines, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He ts now an old man, but of tm- posing presence. Of wide attain- ments, he has traveled in Europe, ‘he owns much property, and rents ious es to white tenants.’ He told me of services he had held some time be- fore in south Georgia, Approach- ing the church one day through the trees, he suddenly encountered white woman carrying water from a spring. She dropped her pail {n- stantly, screamed and ran up the path toward her house. “It I had been some Negroes,” said Bishop Gaines, “I should have turned and fled in terror; the alarm would have been given, and it is not unlikely that I should have had a posse of white men with bloodhounds on my trail. If Thad been caught what would my life have been worth? The woman would have Identified me—and what could I ‘have said? But I did not ran. I stepped out tn the path, held up one hand and said: _ NO CHANCE TO EXPLAIN. “Don't worry, madam, I am Bish- op Gaines, and T am holding services here in this church.’ So she stopped running and T apologized for ‘having startied her.” The Negro knows he has ttle chance to explain, If by accident or ignorance he insults a white woman or offends a white man. An educa- ted Negro, one of the ablest of his race, telling me of how a friend of his who by merest chance had pro- yoked a number of balf-drunken white men, had been set upon and frightfully ‘beaten, remarked: “It might have been me!” Now, Tam telling these things Just as they look to the Negro: it is quite as important, as a problem in human nature, to know how the Ne- gro feels and what he says, as It ts to know how the white man feels. Ga ‘the afternoon gf te. riot the newspapers in flaming headiines chronicled four assaults by Negroes on white women. I had a personal investigation made of each of those cases. Two of them may have been attempts at assaults, but two palpa- bly were nothing more than frisht ‘on the part of both the waite woman and the Negro. | ANOTHER INSTANCE. As an Instance, In one case an el- derly woman, Mrs. Martha Holcombe going to close her blinds in the evening, saw a Negro on the side- walk. In a terrible fright she scream ed. The news was telephoned to the police station, but before the of- ficials could respond, Mrs. Holcombe telephoned them not to come out. And yet this was one of the “as- saults" chronicled in letters five inches high in a newspaper extra. In short, Atlanta before the riot was in a condition of extraordinary nervous tension. A thorough study of the psychology of this riot, as of many others, would undoubtedly show that the chief cause was fear— fear on both sides—the sort of panic fear that strikes out blindly, not knowing or caring what it hits. ‘TO BE CONTINUED. —_—_—_to9____. REV. DR. TAYLOR'S INVESTMENT. Will Cost $40,000. Rey. W. L. Taylor, D. D. is erect- ing three modern brick houses, 12 rooms each for tenants and one three story modern residence for aimself on his 100 foot lot on Second Street between Clay and Leigh Streets. ‘The cost of the first three houses is said to be $14,000 and his own residence will cost, it {s said $16,000. It will have .4 rooms, and wiil be the most modern and expensive pri- vate rvtidence owned by any colored man in the state and one of the most costly dwellings owned by any col- ored man in the country. ‘The value of the ground, houses and furnishings will approximate forty thousand dollars. Rev. Dr. Taylor ts Grand Wortay Master of the True Reformers and now takes rank among the wealthy men of our race. eee cae en aaa Fa oe In Bacon Ridge. Stlas—What in the world ts Hiram Hardapple doing running around with that old musket? Cyrus—By heck! He says he is go ing to shoot the village editor on ac- count of an article he printed about his son. Silas—Why, didn’t the editor say the son wes “a chip of the old block?” Cyrus—No, by gum! He said the son was “e. chip of the old blockhead.” Chicago Daily News. __ THE RICHMOND PLANET, RivtiMOND, VIRGINIA. ‘To Lacy P. Jasper, ‘Take notice that I shall on the 25 day of May ,1907 at the office of E. M. Roscher,” Attorney-at-Law, 1112 E. Main Street, in the city of Rich- mond, Va., between the hours of 2 ‘A.M. and’6 P. M. on that day take the depositions of David W. Dawson, ‘and others to be read in evidence in my behalf in a certain suit In Equity ‘depending In the Law and Equity Coxrt of the elty of Richmond, Va., wherein you are the defendant and Tam the plaintim, and if from any cause, the taking or sald 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, MINNIE’ JASPER, By Counsel E. M. ROSCHER, pa at Do You Know Them? Carbondale, Ill, Feb. 12, '07. My Dear Brother: Being unacquainted with any one in your city, Iam writing you, through your Postmaster, this letter of inquiry in regard to some of my relatives who may live in that coun- try, 1 refer tg the Samson Wilker- son family (colored). Tam the son of Sofa Wilkerson who was taken away from Richmond, Virginia, about fifty-six (56) years ago by Roberson and Garrett, Slave traders, and taken to Mississipp! and sold Into slavery. Her (Sots Wil- kerson's) first husband's name was Callis Sheppard. She was also the motner of Georgiana, Juda and Van- uel, the last name being a boy born blind. | She also had other children whom I cannot name. Her supposed hus- band, when she left there, was Henry White and her mother's name was ‘Lucy Wilkerson. When she left Virginia, I think she was living with Dick Chidester. 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WINSTON, . 587 Brook Ave. ‘Phone, 2253 _LSSGoceonessossseresgereesessoeesonsesensesasToOsOssesSEROES: 33 : + & ce $ oe = a a ee 8 ee & + i ' s 3 Annual Spring Sale of Lots. : 2 a $< ————OC 2 ° 25 FEET FRONT. $100 00 EACH. $3.00 down, $3 00a month © > Size: f 120 FEET DEEP. I erms: j $9000 6" S500 eee Oe ee 23 © (16 FOOT ALLEYS. © $8000 « CASH. : . We WIDE STREETS. g Ro ee ee a ee ee 2 ; ; & := All Lots Are Level with Good Drainage. : .. WOODVILLE HAS A FINE NEW CHURCH AND ALL CITY ADVANTAGES, IS JUST $ oe OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS OF RICHMOND, AND IS THE........ 8 2a : & 3 Dey ai ED —°S U pd & > is COLORED PEOPLE'S SUBURB. : ew . Gn account of the iow prices on these lots, not over TWO will be sold to any one party. 3 $ & Bo ee + EVERY SPRING for the past Three years Now this is your chance to secre a place to put a @ So T have been offering to PLANET readers] home at a low price and easy terms. This chance will # “ied lots in the beautiful suburb of WOOD- | hardly come your way again. 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PPE WE Sex je > SUG lai NRG AACE EAS 7M ee i EIN S RD \ (i ae a gee iy i 2 pm ca, (Se Span OE amar aN 7 NS Ce bee A fae Sr A mtn = NIRA SIS eee es Z I |S Fi coe WERE See 7 ai, band SSY This is one of the thrilling situations in which the hero finds himself in that marvelous romance The Pri f Zend By Anthony Hope Illustrated by Heyer Famous on two continents as the original of all the Zenda stories How would you conduct yourself if you were suddenly called upon to act the part of a king, if the most beautiful princess in the realm fell in love with you, and if you had a rival in a powerful and cunning enemy? How the hero deported himself is illustrated by the danger- ous situations which abound in the story. The plot is too original and audacious to be spoiled for the reader by outlining it, The author is a born story teller—The Outlook. A grand story. It is dignified, quick in action, thrilling, terrible. —Chicago Herald. 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