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THE RICHMOND PLANET Major Penrose Again Declares Colored Soldiers NOT GUILTY. Amusing Scenes at Investigation==Texan Officers Hidden by a Woman==Ridiculous Cowardice. THE CLEANING OF ARMY RIFLES—SENATOR FORAKER'S SCATHING VOLUME XXIV. NUMBER 28. Major P Amusing THE CLEANING OF ARM REBU [Washington Post, June 6, 1907.] Senator Foraker was given assurance yesterday that it would be safe for him to visit Brownsville, Texas, regardless of his efforts to prove that Negro soldiers were not guilty of shooting up the town. At the conclusion of the testimony of Louis Cowan, of Brownsville, who was a witness before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, Mr. Cowan said he had been quoted in special dispatches from St. Louis as saying that if Senator Foraker went to Brownsville he would be "tarred and feathered." Mr. Cowan denied that he had made any such remark. "Then you think it would be perfectly safe for me to go there?" asked Senator Foraker. "Oh yes," said Mr. Cowan. "I greatly appreciate this assurance," said Mr. Foraker. The Senator then referred to another special dispatch saying that Mr. Cowan, on his way to Washington, compelled a Negro to make up a berth on a Pullman car by threatening to shoot him Mr. Cowan also denied the truthfulness of this story. Mr. Cowan told the committee he was not surprised at the outbreak of the Negro soldiers, because a week before it occurred he had been told by William Henry, a Negro servant formerly in his father's family, that the soldiers were going to shoot up the town on the next pay day. He had paid little attention to the warning at the time, but after the attack on Mrs. Evans he became apprehensive and bought forty rounds of ammunition for his revolver. COWAN SAW FLASHES. Mr. Cowan's testimony as to the shooting was principally with regard to seeing the flashes from seven or eight shots fired from Company D barracks, some of the bullets passing over his head, two and one-half blocks from the barracks, on Elizabeth street. The most dramatic account of the shooting up of Brownsville yet presented was given by Mrs. Cowan, whose house was riddled with bullets by the rioters and who probably saved the lives of her five children by hiding them under a bed as soon as the building was fired upon. Mrs. Cowan had given a children's party that evening, and the last of the forty guests had left only a short while before midnight, when the riot ing began. Mr. Cowan had also gone downtown a few minutes before, so that the wife and children were alone, except for a Mexican girl. Mrs. Cowan showed considerable excitement even yesterday when telling the committee of how her children were scared when the bullets began to come through the walls, how she had taken them to one of the bed rooms, pushed them under the bed, and had then thrown herself on the floor; how the bullets that passed over them wrecked the room and some of its furniture, including a large mirror. Twenty three bullets were fired into the house most of them passing through one or more rooms and then out of the house again by the rear walls, covering everything with splinters and plaster. SURE ABOUT ARMY RIFLES After the shooting was over Mrs. Cowan took her children to the Leahy House, near by, where her husband joined her. She was sure from her experience that the reports of the guns were those of army rifles, and that the rioters were Negro soldiers. She did not, however, see any of them, but as the doors and windows of the house were open, REBUKE TO A CONDUCTOR. plainly heard the "pumping" of the magazines, and heard the men run ning past the house on the way back to the barracks, only half a block away. Armado Martinez, Mrs. Cowan's servant girl, corroborated her story of the shooting, and also told how when she had started to close the shutters of a window she had seen a Negro soldier in the act of shooting into the house, and had dropped to the floor, where she remained until the firing was over. The Negro, she declared, was not over three feet away. She saw his face distinctly by the light of the lamp in the room, and described his uniform in detail. The lamp was put out by the shots. the fast Ellis the near rise the tended sier she a dents HOTEL CLERK TESTIFIES. Arthur H. Davis, a clerk in the Miller Hotel, testified that he heard the shots, and heard also the working of magazine guns. On the following morning he picked up a number of shells, which he gave to army officers, who investigated the affray. Bernard H. Kowalski, a guest at the Cowan's children's party, told of hearing while sitting by the open window one Negro to say to another as they passed the house: "Those people are having a nice time now, but in half an hour they won't have such nice times." R. B. Creager, United States commissioner at Brownsville, was examined concerning the investigation by citizens of the shooting. [Washington Post, June 7, 1907.] Mrs. Emma Leahy, manager of the Leahy house, at Brownsville, proved an interesting witness before the Senate Committee yesterday. It was she who according to the testimony of other witnesses, had concealed the two Brownsville policemen in her bath room until after the shooting was over. "Yes, I am to blame," said Mrs. Leahy. "The policemen who heard the shooting came under my window and inquired, 'Where is the fire?' "I told them there wasn't any fire but the niggers were shooting up the town, and I brought them in and put them in the bath room, and told them not to come out until I told them, on penalty of their lives. And they didn't come out." This statement seemed to afford much amusement to Senator Foraker, who asked the witness if she didn't think it would have been wiser to turn the two Brownsville's "finest" loose upon the shooters. "No, I don't," spoke up Mrs. Leahy. "What could two poor little policemen do against all those soldiers, armed as they were. I'll say this: I wish now that I had brought them out and fought it out with them myself." Mrs. Leahy explained that she was the widow of a former trooper of the Eighth Cavalry. WHITE PLUME IMPRESSIVE. She was dressed in a close fitting white duck suit that set off her well-rounded form to advantage, and the immaculate effect was accentuated by a large white hat, with an impressive plume. Mrs. Leahy was very positive in her answers—so much so that Senator Foraker calmed her at times by gentle admonitions. She testified that when the shooting began she supposed it was a fire in the post. She rushed across to a window which commanded a view of the middle barracks, she said, and reached there in time to see a flash of the fifth shot. She witnessed flashes from the fifth to the ninth shots, inclusive. She saw the forms of men walking on the gallery of RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1907. COLORED TROOPS UPHELD. COL. SCOTT SAYS THEIR CONDUCT AT WEST POINT IS FLAWLESS. Col. Scott, superintendent of the Military Academy, has made the conduct of the Negro troopers stationed at that place the subject of a special report to the War Department, the residents of Highland Falls having become apprehensive of disorderly conduct on the soldiers part. As a matter of fact, Col. Scott says the conduct of the Negro troops since they have been at West Point has been admirable and flawless; indeed, he adds, it has been much better than that of the white regulars who preceded them at the post. There are very few of these Negro troops at the Academy, he says; most of them being short-term men connected with the regiments that have been sent to the Philippines. They were kept at home to avoid the expense of transporting them to the Philippines and return after a few weeks' active service in order to be discharged. the barracks, and distinctly saw the flashes of shots. She stepped out in Elizabeth street and looked toward the post. The bullets began singing near her, and she saw shooting at the garrison gate and over the garrison wall, she added. She realized that the soldiers were shooting up the town, she declared, and returned to the house for protection. SOLDIER'S FACE SPOTTED. She testified to seeing sixteen soldiers in the streets. Two of them she saw very plainly. In answer to a question by Senator Foraker, she described one as very black and the other as "a yellow nigger with spots on his face." "What kind of spots?" inquired Senator Foraker. "I don't know," replied Mrs. Leahy "How many spots?" inquired the Ohio Senator. "How do I know?" replied Mrs. Leahy with a laugh. "I didn't count them." Senator Scott inquired of the witness whether she could have pointed out the soldier with spots on him. "I would know that nigger any- COLORED COL. SCOTT SAYS THAT Col. Scott, superintendent troopers stationed at that place residents of Highland Falls have part. As a matter of fact, Col. been at West Point has been a than that of the white regulars. There are very few of the short-term men connected with were kept at home to avoid the after a few weeks' active service where," said Mrs. Leahy, with great positiveness. "Why didn't you go before the grand jury and point out the man?" "I was not asked to do so." Recurring to the two soldiers whom Mrs. Leahy claimed to have identified, she said they looked squarely at her, and, she supposed, recognized, her, for one of them said: "Mrs. Leahy, keep straight and shoot ahead." MUCH FEELING AGAINST TROOPS Mrs. Leahy admitted that there had been much feeling in the town against the Negro soldiers on account of the Evans case. Mr. Cowan, proprietor of the Cowan House, had said to her the evening before the shooting up that "if any of those niggers insult my wife or children or any lady in whom I feel an interest, I'll take my Winchester and go to the fort and kill him." "Was he excited when he said it? Did he seem violent? asked Senator Foraker. "No, he was calm," replied Mrs. Leahy. "Just said he would kill—that was all!" suggested Mr. Foraker, with a faint smile. Mrs. Leahy will be recalled for further cross-examination to-day. Lleut. Hawkins of the Ordinate Department, formerly with the Springfield Armory testified that he made microscopic examinations of the bullets picked up at Brownsville and stated they could not have been fired from Mexican Maulsers. Lieut. Col. Frank Baker of the Ordnance Department of the army who was a member of the Penrose court-martial said he had examined the shells and they had the markings of army ammunition. GEN CROZIER TESTFIES Gen. Crozier, chief of ordnance gave the committee expert testimony concerning the shells and bullets obtained in that city as evidence against the Negro soldiers, who were quartered there and charged with "shooting up" the town. He also testified concerning the length of time required in nearly a dozen tests ter they had been fired several times The latter testimony contradicts nearly all of the former Negro soldiers who were put on the stand by Senator Foraker, in that it was shown (Continued on Eighth Page.) PERSONALS AND BRIEF'S. —In our report of the Memorial Exercises last week, we failed to TROOPS HEIR CONDUCT AT WEST ment of the Military Academy, has the subject of a special report become apprehensive of dis- Scott says the conduct of the L admirable and flawless; indeed, he who preceded them at the post. these Negro troops at the Acaden- the regiments that have been se- expense of transporting them t e in order to be discharged. mention the poem of Mr. Edward El- lis, Jr. and the speech of Mr. W. P. Burrell. —Mrs. Luvinia Burrell, who has been indisposed is out again, but her daughter, Miss Bessie continues sick. Mr. W. F. Denny has nearly completed the work of remodeling his residence. Mr. T. W. Taylor, son of Rev. W. L. Taylor, D. D. has purchased the brick semi-detached dwelling east of the palatial residence of Mrs. Maggie L. Walker for $3,500. —Mr. J. C. Farley has sold his residence to Mr. D. S. Carrington for $3650. —Mr. J. W. Johnson, the well-known real estate capitalist is still remodeling and building on the property recently purchased by him at the corner of Fourth and Baker Sts. Three of the dwellings are as yet incomplete, but the others seem to be in the hands of good tenants. —Work is now being punched on the fine palatial residence of Rev. W. L. Taylor, D. D. on Second St. It is reported that Attorney J. C. Robertson will also erect a handsome new residence on the site of his present attractive one. —Mr. B. F. Howard, Exalted Ruler of the Elks and Dr. J. E. Mills, the former of Covington, Ky. and the latter of Norfolk, were in the city last week in connection with business for the Order. —The Commencement Exercises of the Richmond Hospital were a grand success. —Mr. James Evans' funeral took place last Sunday morning from the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He was one of the best known barbers in the city and had been an invalid for many years. —Mr. Paul Carr is quite ill at his residence. His wife and daughter are here from the North to look after him. —Mr. N. Winston is furnishing high grade ice-cream. Information Wanted. Information wanted of Louisa Bruce or her husband, Billy Bruce, by her sister, H. TURNER, 117 E. 84th St., New York City. West Virginia papers please copy. 3t. UPHELD. AT POINT IS FLAWLESS. I made the conduct of the Negro to the War Department, the orderly conduct on the soldiers Negro troops since they have he adds, it has been much better my, he says; most of them being sent to the Philippines. They to the Philippines and return TENNANT—ROANE. * The marriage of Miss Lella Elema Rorena Borne of Brooklyn, New York, to Dr. Albert Alonzo Tennant of Richmond, Va. will take place Tuesday evening June 18, 1907 at Saint Augustine's 'Protestant' Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. At home, at their residence, 1005 N. Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. Sunday, June 30, 1907 from 3 to 6 P. M. No cards. Friends invited. To Wed. The marriage of Miss Maddie Lillian Vass of Raleigh, N.C. to Dr. Urbane Francis Bass of Fredericksburg, Va. will take place Wednesday evening, June 19, 1907 at the home of the bride. Reception Thursday evening June 20, 1907, 15 E. Duval Street. Richmond, Va. Friends invited. COLEMAN—LEE The marriage of Miss Alice R. Lee to Mr. George Coleman of Phoebus, Va. will take place Wednesday June 26th, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Crump, No. 603 W. Le'gh Street at 8 o'clock P. M. Friends invited. No cards. —Subscribe to The PLANET. —Mr. William Dandridge of Saratoga. New York is in the city and will be here about a week. He is looking well. —The colored male teachers in the public schools of this city have been granted an increase of $10.00 per month on the ground that they were men of families. The colored female teachers did not receive an increase. —The district schools closed last Thursday. DIED—At the home of her great-grandchild in Cumberland Co., Va., May 24, 1967 Judie Brown, in the 109th year of her age. She had been blind for twelve years and bore her affliction as became the Christian she was without complaint. She had only one child, who was the father of Mrs. Nannie Thompson, No 913 St. John Street. Rally Day at Fifth Baptist Church Tomorrow will be rally day at the Fifth Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. Dear of the Leigh Street M. E. Church will preach at 11:30 A. M. Communion will be given in the after noon, and at night Rev. W. R. A. Ashburn, D. D., of the Zion Baptis Church, Manchester, will preach. The Church is making an effort to raise $500 and all of the members are expected to be prompt in their payments. Baptizing will take place in the morning. The Conroe Baptist College of Conroe, Texas, one of the very leading Negro Baptist Institutions has conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon Rev. F. P. Saunders of Norfolk, Va. Dr. Saunders will wear D. D. with honor. He is able full of experience and stands high in the ministerial fraternity. Dr David Abner, Jr. is the President of Conroe College. TAYLOR—Alberlee Taylor died in New York May 31, 1907. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Caroline Taylor and grand daughter of E. G. Taylor. She was in her 32d year. THE KNIGHTS OF KHORASSAN The Knights of Khorassan, Mecca Temple had a grand time last Friday night week at the Pythian Castle. A class of twelve were initiated into the mysteries of this branch of Pythianism. A bounteous repast was served to all present. The next meeting will be July 5th and many are expected to be ready to go on the journey. Do You Know Him? Any information of the whereabouts of William H. Bowman, will be gladly received by his step-father, William Johnson. He is about five feet tall and worked in a coalmine at Petersburg, Va., when last heard of. Address all information to Wm. Johnson or D. Johnson, 96 Bryn Avenue, Kingston, N. Y. —Don't forget to patronize our advertisers. PRICE, FIVE CENTS oldiers Y. den by a WANTED—A good cook to go to the mountains for July, August and September. Apply at 509 E. Grace Street. THE REV. E. P. JONES. An Impressionist Sketch. [Burton Daily Mail, May 25, '07.] The Rev. Edward P. Jones is staying in Burton for the week-end, together with Mrs. Jones and their friend Mrs. McKissack, the revencrd gentleman having consented to address the Town Hall Pleasant Sunday Afternoon class tomorrow at 3 o'clock, and to preach at New Street Baptist Chapel in the evening. Local friendly society men who were disappointed at the non-arrival of Bro. Jones in time for last Sunday's service are expected to attend in large numbers at New Street, but there will also be a large general congregation. During the course of the week the reverend gentleman has made many friendships among not only the delegates, but every class of the community with whom he has come into contact. He has been introduced by Ald Thompson to Lord Burton, Major, Ratcliff, M. P., and many other of the leading townpeople, and so delighted have the Grand Officers of the Order been with the glowing enthusiasm he has displayed in the cause of Oldfellowship, that they have presented him with the insignia of a District Master. It is an undoubted intellectual treat to listen to the passionate discourses of Mr. Jones. Commencing with the studied, deliberate tones of the accomplished orator, he weaves his arguments skillfully driving home every point with sledge hammer force. But it is when he has thoroughly warmed up to his subject that the silver tongued eloquence with which he is so gifted finds its outlet. His voice thrilled with passion, his words full of the poetry and imagination of the cotton fields, and his cheeks aglow under their tawny skin with the fire of his native enthusiasm, his hearers are kept oblivious to everything else but the rich colours of the picture he is painting. So deep is the impression made in the town by this cultured coloured gentleman that the opportunity he is affording by addressing the two gatherings tomorrow will be much appreciated, by Burton people. Shall We Go To Africa? If we will seriously consider the population of this country and the ratio which we bear to the whole number we will find that we are hopelessly in the minority. The white population of this country is something like seventy millions while the whole number of colored people is about ten millions. And we must not only consider the great discrepancy in numbers but we must remember that this vast majority of white people own the land, possess the wealth, are superior in education arts and science and control the government. We must therefore be entirely in their power so far as government goes as long as we remain in their country. If you will live in the house of a man more than seven times as strong as yourself you must be content to take such treatment as he may please to accord you. If you are not content, your only remedy is to move out. The great majority of the white (Continued on Eighth Page.) IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the RICHMOND PLANET. --- THE PLANET SATURDAY.....JUNE 15, 1907. LIVE STOCK SELF-FEEDER FOR HOGS. Arrangement by Which the Work Is Much Simplified. I have a plan for making a self-feeder for hogs which I think is different from anything that has as yet appeared, says a correspondent of Prairie Farmer. It has a capacity of 250 bushels of shelled corn, 70 bushels of oats, and is just right to feed one car load of hogs. I think that this self-feeder is one of the most profitable convenences on my farm. As shown in fig. 1 there are two divisions, one being for shelled corn and the other for oats. Twelve spaces on each side are made for the corn and four on each side for the oats. Each space whether for As shown in fig. 1 there are two divisions, one being for shelled corn and the other for oats. Twelve spaces on each side are made for the corn and four on each side for the oats. Each The Back-Board. space, whether for corn or oats is 11 inches wide in the clear, 22 inches high and 18 inches deep. At the end of each one of these stalls is a space exactly three inches high, for pouring grain to feed down into the stall. As shown in fig. 3, a six-inch board is placed a few inches back of the opening so as to prevent the corn and oats from getting out and under the feet of the hogs. In fig. 3 there is shown a front view SHELLED COOM GAY8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 Fig. 1.—Ground Plan of Self-Feeder. of this self-feeder with the stalls arranged for the hogs. As already suggested, similar stalls are made on the rear side. By this method I wish to say most emphatically that hogs cannot and do not waste any feed. They feed quietly and profitably, but I do not recommend that any feeder attempt to use a self-feeder of this kind with mixed grade hogs. Arrange to feed an even car load and I believe that it is more important that they should be even in size. I have found that hoge fed in this way will make money fast and easy. It is important, however, to keep good oats at one end and good shelled corn Fig. 2.—One Side of Self-Feeder. on the other and you can safely count on getting one pound of pork for every five pounds of grain fed. Providing you put this little building up properly any intelligent farmer can make a structure of this kind for $40, and will save him a great deal of labor to feed. Here is another strong advantage in a feeder of this kind. If you have some of that corned-to-death land, plant to clover and then pull this self-feeder when empty to the place where you want the land built up. Next fall when the corn is gathered from this land you will find, if your experience agrees with mine, that where you had your feeder you have your best corn. I do not have any hogs get sick when starting them on feed. We prefer starting pigs to feed when they weigh about 150 pounds. SHEEP NOTES. Do not hurry sheep through doors and gates so that they will crowd and get hurt. Grain should be given the ewes twice each day. Hay in the morning, shredded fodder at noon and a feed rack of hay at night. Sheep should not be caught by clutching handfuls of their wool, as this injures the fleece, to say nothing of giving pain to the sheep. Catch them always as if they had no wool. This is the time of year when you will need the best feed, for as the warmer weather comes the appetite is not so keen, and they will also need a more succulent feed at this time. Early lambs and their mothers as well need to be kept warm for quite awhile. 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To get over this fence, the dog will jump at he railing and be thrown back by the top wire. A few attempts at this fence and he will give it up. Such a rail can be made from poles and need not be expensive. The point is to allow no dogs to enter by way of gates or embankments where fences may not be kept secure. DO NOT MIX BREEDS OF CATTLE Experience of One Farmer Was That It Did Not Pay. The temptation of farmers not especially interested in dairying to cater to meat production as well as milk is very strong, but if they will follow the experience of others who have endeavored to carry on dual purpose stock raising I believe they can save themselves some costly experiments. I refer in particular to the mixing of different breeds of cattle in order to obtain an animal that will be valuable for both milk and beef. I met the other day a farmer, continues this writer in Orange Judd Farmer, who had used no less than four different breeds of bulls in the last six years. He said he had arrived at the point where he was determined to sell out everything and start again, this time to breed one kind of stock and keep them pure. The demand to-day is for animals that are able to do a certain class of work a little better than the ordinary or common kind. To do this we must use special purpose animals. There is no dedging the fact that such animals will in the long run perform their work with greater economy and greater profit. There is no objection to grading up with one line of stock. In fact, this is a good method to pursue, and certainly a practical one, but I believe it is a great mistake to use, in this grading up, animals with a great difference of type and conformation. As competition grows sharper, and it certainly will, we will feel the need of getting the best service from not only our live stock, but also our fields. The importance of making two blades of grass grow where one formerly did, or to make a cow produce as much butter as two of the common sort, or a steer to fatten a year earlier and with less feed than his scrub cousin, is growing more urgent every year. Don't be satisfied with average results for the average is always poor, and certainly one should have an ambition to do better than poor. The Mortgage Lifter Some successful hog raisers like to speak of the hog as a mortgage litter, and doubtless he is that in many cases. The great fecundity of the hog and the fact that his meat always brings a big price makes him an easy animal to figure on to help lift the debt that has been placed on the farm. The study of the hog and his needs will increase his importance as a mortgage litter. There is no doubt that if we can learn how to keep the cholera away and learn how to furnish cheap food, rich in muscle-building elements, we will reduce in number the mortgages on American farms. Abnormal Appetite. The sow that eats her pigs has an abnormal appetite. It is believed by hog feeders that this is caused by a deficiency in the food. A ration of corn meal with nothing to offset the high starch proportion does not give the substances that the sow needs for the building up of her body. She seeks to satisfy the abnormal craving and the pigs suffer. The Kicking Horse. The kicking horse should not be suddenly startled. When entering the stable where a horse is he should be spoken to. Fear is often the cause of a horse kicking, this being due to his instinct of self-protection. Horsemen that handle kicking horses make a practice of speaking gently to them, especially when working about them. Talk to your sheep; they will understand you. Try it and see. Tough Luck. "What makes you look so sad?" "Fellow I owe $50 has just recovered from pneumonia."—Cleveland Leander. 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We cannot be responsible for money sent in letters in any other way than one of the four ways mentioned above. If you send your money in another way, you must do it at your risk. We received an invitation to the marriage of Miss Maud Lillian Vass of Raleigh, N. C. to Dr. Urbane F. Bass of this city, June 19, 1907. Dr. Bass is practicing in Fredericksburg, Va. We return thanks for an invitation to the Commencement Exercises of the Post Graduate Class of the Richmond High and Normal School, June 14, 1907 at the First Baptist Church, kindness of Miss Coralease A. Norrell. We have received "Souvenir Views of Negro Enterprises and Residences of Richmond, Virginia," published by D. A. Ferguson and Co. It is richly worth the price asked for it and may be obtained at Smith's Pharmacy, St. Luke Emporium, Miller's Hotel, Duval Street Pharmacy and I. J. Miller's clothing establishment. The action of the Richmond, Va. City Council in appropriating $56,000 for the erection of a colored alm- house is to be commended. Mayor Carlton McCarthy promptly signed the measure and much praise is due Councilman Henry Gunst for his championship of this most meritorious measure. That it will redound to the financial benefit of the city hardly admits of a question as the present site will bring at least $200 000 as a real estate investment. We have all along seen the advantage of this proposition and we have only been surprised that the opposition to the measure should have developed from certain sources The poor we have always with us and they must be looked after. This city took a long step in the right direction when it made the appropriation. Rev. E. P. Jones, of Mississippi, the fraternal delegate from this country, representing the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and carrying the best fellowship and good wishes of the fellowship seems to have made a profound impression in England. The Burton Dally Mail contains glowing accounts of his mission and he has in a measure been lionized. The gratifying part about it is that he seems to be measuring up to the standard. The cut of him appears in the Burton Daily Mail an extract from which we publish in this issue. It is always a source of satisfac- tion when our representative men in whatever sphere are able to "make good" in these representative gatherings. It makes friends for our cause and tends to advance the interests of the race in this country throughout the civilized world. Rev Jones sends us a souvenir postal card of the "White Hart" Family and Commercial Hotel, Burton-on Trent, Mr. John Oulton, Proprietor and we presume this is where at night, he buries his recollections of the ostracisms at home in the sea of forgetfulness to rise against him no more until he returns to his native land. A FIGHT TO THE DEATH. Two reports have been sent out, one from Memphis, Tennessee and the other from Yazoo City, Mississippi stating that a white plantation owner, named T. D. Kirk gave orders to some of his colored tenants relative to some field work. It was evidently an order that infringed on the rights of the tenants and Abe Johnson refused to comply with the same. In the war of words that followed, Johnson is said to have used words in keeping with those applied to him and the white plantation owner knocked him down and went to his house to get his gun. What follows varies. Anyway, the colored man Abe Johnson shot T. D. Kirk, one report says killing him and another alleges that he was only wounded. The colored men retreated to the cabin of Abe Johnson and when attacked opened fire with the result that three more white men were killed, one of the reports say that they were wounded. Both reports agree that three colored men are dead, two others severely whipped and that armed men are scouring the neighborhood. The other report states that four white men are dead, three of them being the Kirk brothers and one named Cheatham, while five or more colored men have been shot to death, two lynched and numbers of others wounded by the mob of white men. This horrible affair took place on a plantation near Anding, Mississippi June 8, 1907 and in speaking of Abe Johnson, the intrepid colored man, who is now stiff and stark in death, one of the reports says that he was a leader of the colored people during reconstruction times, but since the colored people have been put out of politics he and his family have been rated among the peaceful and lawabiding members of their race. This is the wreath of praise laid on the grave of this leader of the colored people of this section. He was not a Negro loafer. He was an industrious, wealth-producing Southerner, who respected and obeyed the laws and who died nobly fighting in defense of his lonely cabin home. Here is a state where the rights of the citizen of color so far as they relate to politics have been eliminated and a system of peonage exists which savors strongly of the nature of the slave-holding regime of other days and yet the rod of oppression is being wielded in such a way as to cause revolts of the character just described. Is there a man or woman who will impartially review the situation who believes that Abe Johnson, the leader among his people would have wantonly sacrificed his own life and those of his family and friends unless he had been goaded to the point beyond human endurance? The testimony of his white neighbors attests the fact that there are many white people in that sunny land, who sympathized with him and who no doubt have shed a tear since his untimely taking off. But in the midst of these outbreaks, they appear to be powerless, and succeed in paying a tribute to the memory of some worthy Negro as these white men have done. It must indeed have been grim business in that fight which one of the reports so graphically described. It is said that three of the colored men in Johnson's cabin got away and made a stand in a cabin of another colored man where they were joined by from fifteen to fifty colored men. These reinforcements evidently came as a protection to themselves. Certainly not for warfare. They knew that to be caught isolated was to be lynched. The scene no doubt beggars description and the true facts perhaps will never be known. But what is the better class of Negroes to do? Is there any other recourse than that appealed to by Abe Johnson? A white man in Georgia who had suffered grievous wrongs at the hands of a hoodlum Negro asked Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, in plaintive tones, "What would you do?" Here in a similar strain, we repeat the question to every justice-loving white man, "What would you do, if you had been in Abe Johnson's place?" We have given our answer more than once. Let colored men do like white men. Let them do as Abe Johnson did. Let them sell their lives as dearly as possible, pumping THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA every bullet in their Winchesters or repeating shot guns, thus registering their protest against the impotency of the law as administered in the Southland. This action will bring respect and the death of every member of the mob will be a clarion bell against future outrages. The world hates cowardice and it admires bravery, whether it exists in a white man or in a Negro, in a Chinaman or in a Japanese. The trouble is we need more of the dying religion, that which will enable a colored man to meet death bravely with a gun in his hand. We deplore this unfortunate happening. We hope to God it will be localized and will not tend to stir up further strife among the races. Our individual opinion is that it will better the condition of colored people in other sections of that blood-stained state. The Negro-hating white elements do not regard the lives of one hundred Negroes a fair equivalent for the death of four white men. Let all of us be polite and obliqing and especially so to the better class of white men in the Southland. Despite adverse conditions and appearances to the contrary, we have more white friends in this section than we have ever had. This friend ship extends to the moneyed elements and to the employing contingent of this sunny land. We should continue to increase the wealth of this section by our labor, stay here and "fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." We stood 250 years of degrading slavery and we can withstand one hundred years of quasi freedom with all of its handicaps and its embarrassments. We shall send up prayers as heretofore, but like the Pilgrim Fathers, we shall continue to watch as well as pray and keep our powder dry. In the defense of home, sacrifice life and property and prepare to meet the other members of the race on the other shore. Abe Johnson had no doubt lived his allotted time and he has given a good account of himself. His remains will rest beneath the sod, with now and then some member of the race to shed a tear. His example should be emulated and other colored men should realize that only by this course can this kind of treatment of citizens of color be made dangerous. The law in Mississippi is all for the white man and there was no reason why Mr. T. D. Kirk should not have appealed to it. He appealed to lawlessness and injury of the most serious kind has been his portion. God grant that in the coming years, the rain-bow of peace may appear in the heavens and the better class of white men and the better class of colored ones shall be able to meet on a common platform and discuss the merits and demerits of the lawless elements of both races. God knows we are sadly hampered by the loafing disreputable elements of our own people, but according to the record this man was not amongst them. When "peace like a river" flows throughout this section the songs of praise will be heard from the white man as well as from the colored one and we will realize that after years of turmoll and decades of trouble, God in His own time has wiped all of the tears from our eyes. SENT OUT OF THE COUNTRY. President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War William H. Taft have ordered every colored regiment, both cavalry and infantry to the Philippine islands. If this is not a punishment, it looks that way. In view of the agitation now going on in Japan and the gloomy outlook for peace between the two countries, it would seem that the intention is to have the colored soldiers killed in the slaughters for which the Japanese are noted. It is a foregone conclusion that in a combat off the coast of Asia or that part of the world in which the Islands of Japan and the Philippines are located, the war is practically decided before it is begun. This country would be in practically the same predicament that Russia found itself. If anything we would be twenty per cent worse off for that country had the Siberian Railway on which to rely. Pres. Roosevelt seems to think that the colored soldiers are good enough to die for their country, but not valuable enough to live for it. He continues to be closeted with Dr. Booker T. Washington and we are at a loss to understand why Tuskegee Institute requires so much attention at the hands of the Chief Executive of the nation. Dr. Washington is the most influential citizen of color in this country at the present time and it seems surprising to us why he has not been able to check this surprising onslaught that this distinguished statesman continues to make upon the colored people of the United States by way of their soldiers. When the foremost statesman in all this world visited the Negro building at Jamestown, it was presumed that he would have had at least something to say, but he found "silence to be golden." The last time he spoke of us, he held us up to the world as a body of midnight assassins and despite the evidence that has since been introduced to the contrary, he has not seen fit to revise his utterances. It has wounded the colored people deeply and the feeling is universal. We would to God that some man, white or colored could get the ear of this great man and tell him he is wrong. It is a delicate piece of business, but we have felt at times constrained to make an appeal to Mrs. Roosevelt or to his popular daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. If we could enlist the sympathy and support of these ladies, it would be a case of "uneasy the head that wears a crown." He would surrender in twenty-four hours, because any other man would have to perform the same feat in just about half the time TROUBLE WITH JAPS. Coghlan Says We Need Real Fleet on Pacific. WASHINGTON, June 12.—That the Japanese of the Pacific coast and the Progressives, a political party of Japan, have entered into an alliance which has the earmarks of an international conspiracy, with the overthrow of the present ministry in Japan and the annulment of the clause in the immigration bill excluding Japanese cooly-labor from continental United States as the ultimate objects, was learned authoritatively here. A Tokyo dispatch says that Viscount Tani, leader of the opposition in the house of peers and head or the defense of Kumanoto in the Satsuma rebellion, said aent the American question: "The persecution of the Japanese in San Francisco is a most wicked act. Should diplomacy fail to bring about a satisfactory solution the only way open to us is an appeal to arms. Our mind is firmly made up. It is certain that America will yield, for its people are radically commercial in their sentiment." Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, recently retired from the United States navy, made this statement. "I don't believe that Japan will ever attack us. "One thing is certain, however. Our naval force in the Pacific is woefully inadequate for any such possibility as a war with Japan. We have three battleships along the Pacific coast now. We might just as well bring them around into the Atlantic waters, where they can be added to our fleet. "We need a big navy not only as the surest guarantee of peace, but as protection to our colonial possessions and the retention of our self respect among the nations." HIS MOTHER'S STATE. Roosevelt's Old Homestead Reproduced at Jamestown. NORFOLK, Va. June 12.—Brought back to the Jamestown exposition by the formal opening of Bulloch Hall, the ancestral home of his mother at Roswell, Ga., and reproduced here as the Georgia state building. President Roosevelt was for the second time the central figure of an attractive exposition programmer. The celebration of Georgia day with a military and naval spectacle was the feature of the day. The president made a speech as a part of the Georgia celebration and another at the convention of the National Editorial association in the Auditorium. He reviewed the parade of the military and naval forces, visited the negro exhibit, participated in the presentation of a silver service by the state of Georgia to the battleship named for her, attended a reception given at the Georgia building by Georgians alone in honor of himself and Mrs. Roosevelt and visited informally the New York state building. Every part of the exposition grounds except the War Path was covered by the president in his strenuous day. Upon his return to Washington the president will dispose of urgent matters that await his attention and early this morning left with Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary Loeb and members of the White House staff for Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay for the summer. "BRIGHT EYES" DID IT. Vanderbilt Advised by Spirits to Wed May Pepper. NEW YORK, June 12.—Letters from the spirit of his first wife, advising him to marry the Rev. Dr. May S. Pepper, who served as the medium for the spiritual communication, it is said, will be produced on Thursday, when the hearing on the application to investigate the sanity of Edward Ward Vanderbilt of Brooklyn is continued before Justice Maddox in the supreme court. Mr. Vanderbilt's estate is estimated to be worth $100,000. In affidavits presented it is alleged that a spiritualistic control known as "Bright Eyes" had induced Mr. Vanderbilt to marry Mrs. Pepper. "Bright Eyes," who is an alleged Indian spirit and gives messages to Mrs. Pepper, according to the court affidavits, wrote a number of letters through Mrs. Pepper which induced Mr. Vanderbilt to sign sundry checks. It was charged at the hearing that the daughter was left to the charity of friends by the marriage. Standing of the Baseball Clubs. NATIONAL LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. P.C. Chicago 35 10 778 New York 31 14 689 Philadelphia 27 17 614 Pittsburgh 23 18 654 Boston 18 27 400 Cincinnati 18 28 391 Brooklyn 15 30 333 St. Louis 15 30 333 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. P.C. Chicago 30 16 667 Cleveland 30 17 638 Detroit 25 17 566 Philadelphia 24 21 533 New York 30 22 476 St. Louis 29 28 444 Washington 14 27 354 Boston 15 30 333 Auto Hit a Carriage. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. June 12. Alexander Thompson of New Haven, one of four occupants of the machine, was almost instantly killed here when an automobile was in collision with a carriage in North avenue. Thompson was thrown out when the automobile wrecked against a telegraph pole. NAVAL DISASTER Pleasure Party to Jamestown Exhibition Missing. GOCKSWAIN AND FOUR IN GREW Admiral Evans' Message to Washington Department Says That a Ditty Box From Warship's Missing Motor Bont Has Been Picked Up Affont Near Norfolk, Va., and He Is Forced to Conclude That All In Her Have Been Lost—Wns Last Seen at Exposition Pier at Midnight. WASHINGTON, June 12.—A telegram received at the navy department from Rear Admiral Evans says: "Minnesota steam launch after going to the exposition at a late hour is still missing, and grave fears are entertained that she has been run down and sunk. She had crew of five men and as passengers six midshipmen—P. H. Field, W. H. Stevenson, H. L. Holden, W. C. Ulrich, H. C. Murfin, Jr., and F. P. Halcomb. Search has been made, but without success. "A ditty box belonging to the Minnesota's missing launch has been picked up aft near here, and I am forced to conclude that the launch with all on board is lost. Have ordered board of investigation. Steamer last seen at exposition pler about midnight. "The capes of two midshipmen were found floating in the harbor last night." Admiral Evans' telegraph says that the five missing seamen are R. H. Dodson, H. L. Vandorn, F. R. Plumber, G. W. Westphal and Jesse Coun. Midshipman F. P. Holcomb was attached to the Connecticut and is supposed to have taken passage on the missing launch. The loss at one time of six bright young midshipmen fresh from the academy at Annapolis, a young marine officer very recently appointed and a cockswain and four other enlisted men attached to the big battleship Minnesota, twelve men altogether, is one of the most severe blows that has fallen upon the personnel of the navy since the Spanish war. In the opinion of the officials of the department Admiral Evans had delayed sending the sad message until he had exhausted every means of finding a trace of the missing men. Sailors at the navy department say that there is always a chance that the launch had merely broken down her machinery and, going adrift without control in the very strong ebbs that sweep through the roads, had perhaps gone out to sea with her crew and passengers still safe. There was also the chance that, having been run down by some big steamer, the men had been hauled aboard, while the launch had gone down. Naval officers at the department recalled many perilous passages between ship and shore in these little steam launches. But the general opinion was that with careful management the launches would weather almost any kind of a storm. Root Refused to Talk on Jap Scare. WASHINGTON, June 12—Secretary Root positively declined to make any statement respecting the Japanese situation. This was done with the full knowledge of the uneasiness which exists in financial circles as the result of the circulation of war rumors. It may be said, however, that the secretary's refusal was based solely upon his unwillingness to accord the rumors official notice and not upon any belief on his part that there is the least danger of war or even of a breach of the friendly relations that now exist between America and Japan. Laugh as Japs Play "Mikado." CHATHAM, England, June 12. The admiralty ordered that the music of Sullivan's "Mikado" should not be played on British warships in order not to offend the susceptibilities of the visiting Japanese, but all Chatham is laughing over what is called "the Japanese insulting themselves." The Japanese cruiser Tsukuba is here, and Setoguchi, the bandmaster, has chosen Sullivan's music to play at after dinner dances given for the entertainment of visitors. The band's repertoire, written and played by Japanese, contains all the music of the "Mikado." Apostles of Peace and War to Meet BERLIN, June 12.—Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Carnegie will be the guests of Ambassador and Mrs. Charlemaigne Tower during the Kiel yacht- ing week. It has already been arranged that Mr. Tower shall present Mr. Carnegie to Emperor William, Joseph Wharton of Philadelphia will also be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Tower at Kiel. Russell Murder Trial Opens WATERLOO, N. Y., June 12.—The trial of Daniel Clark of Waterloo for stabbing and killing Miss Annie Mac Russell opened here today. Senator Morgan Dead. WASHINGTON, June 12. - United States Senator John Tyler Morgan of Alabama died here at 11:15 o'clock last night. Twenty-eight Drowned. BARBADOS, June 11.—The French schooner La Lause, from Cayenne for St. Lucia, sank off Barbados during the night. Her commander and twenty-one men reached Barbados. Twenty-eight passengers, including twelve women and children, were drowned. The women and children were below when the schooner was struck by a squall that capsized her and had no chance for their lives. CONDENSED DISPATCHES Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronoled. Mrs. Bessie Metzdorf of Cleveland, O., eighteen years of age, confessed to the police that she was a burglar. She admitted that she accompanied her husband, Otto Metzdorf, in his alleged raids on stores dressed as a boy. For the first time in many years the "unwritten law" has been disregarded in the famous case of Mrs. Angie Bird-song of Jackson, Miss., a member of one of the most prominent families in the south, with a decision of the supreme court affirming her conviction of the murder of Dr Thomas Butler and sentencing her to five years' imprisonment. Tuesday, Jan. 11. Tuesday, Jan. 11. Five persons were killed and twenty injured in a street car wreck in Engle Rock valley, near Los Angeles, Cal. St. Louis is going to lead the nation in a war on rats. Next Saturday night has been set for the initial slaughter, and plans are going forward which mean the running to earth of thousands of the pesky rodents. It will be a war of extermination. In a motor car accident at Edge hill, seven miles northwest of Banbury, England, H. C. Johnson of California was killed and James Blake of Philadelphia was seriously hurt. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Blake, who were of the party, sustained grave injuries. "New York is for Roosevelt, the country is for him, and, in my judgment, he will be nominated and re-elected." These were the words of Representative Sherman of New York, the chairman of the Republican congressional committee, as he left the White House after an interview with the president. Monday, June 19. Two Americans, G. Otto Elterich, an American railroad promoter and civil engineer, of Freeport, N. Y., and Mrs. Emily Mary McLean, a millionaire widow, who formerly lived at the Hotel le Marquis, New York, were drowned in the Thames near London while boating. The famous Princess Anne hotel at Virginia Beach, Va., built twenty-five years ago and one of the handsomest summer resort hotels along the middle Atlantic seaboard, was destroyed by fire, with the loss of two lives. There were 110 persons, guests and employees, in the hotel. All escaped with the exception of Emma Clark, a negro chambermald, and John Eaton, the white steward. There were no fire escapes. Saturday, June 5. Mrs. Howard Gould of New York will make an effort to secure alimony from her husband while her suit for separation is pending. The millionaire is now paying his wife $60,000 a year. In her suit Mrs. Gould asks for $250,000 per annum. Lieutenant Mack Richardson, whose resignation was accepted by President Roosevelt on Thursday last, was found unconscious in his room at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and died soon after. Examination disclosed the use of morphine and prussic acid. Friday, June 7. The Republican state convention in session at Harrisonburg, Pa., indorsed Philander Chase Knox for the Republican nomination for president in 1908. A verdict for 25 cents, the price of his ticket, was returned in the case of Chief Yeoman Freed J. Buenzle of the United States naval training station, who was excluded from a dancing pavilion because he wore the uniform of the United States navy. Justice Sweetland ruled that the Newport Amusement company had a perfect right to select the patrons at its dancing pavilion. President Roosevelt had contributed funds toward the prosecution of the case, as have also many officers and enlisted men of the navy. Thursday, June 6. That the submarine torpedo boat is only a scarecrow, that battles among airships in midair is a dream and that every war benefits nations were the ideas expressed by Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigseys at Baltimore. Sixty thousand people, including King Edward, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Commons, saw Richard Croker's colt Orby, the three-year-old son of Orme and Rhoda R., ridden by the American jockey, Johnny Reiff, win the Derby, worth $2,500, on Epsom Dowus, near London. General Elynnine Assoclnted General Ulyanine Assassinated. ASHKABAD, Russian Transcaspian Territory, June 12.—General Ulyanine, chief of the Central Asia railroad, was assassinated here. His murderers wore the uniform of soldiers. They escaped, and their identity has not been re- vealed. Tornado Hits Duranin III DUQUOIN, Ilia, June 12—A tornado passed over this section last night, doing heavy damage. A tornado swept this town last Friday night, blowing town many houses and destroying crops. WAR ON HARRIMAN. White House Conference Decides to Promote WASHINGTON, June 12.—Developments since a conference at the White House, in which the president, Attorney General Bonaparte, Secretaries Root, Taft, Cortelyou and Garfield, Interstate Commerce Commissioners Knapp and Lane and United States Attorney Kellogg of St. Paul participated, make it probable that the government will begin proceedings under the antitrust act against E. H. Harriman and his associates for violations of the law in connection with the so called Chicago and Alton railroad deal, the Union and Southern Pacific transactions and perhaps in connection with the Southern Pacific and the San Pedro traffic agreement. The contemplated prosecution of the bituminous coal carrying roads, however, will likely await the result of the action by the courts in the cases to be brought against the Harriman roads. It is explained that there are some important questions that are common to both cases, and therefore, it is asserted, the suits against the bituminous coal roads will not be brought until the courts have rendered judgment in the Harriman cases. A CONFESSING MANIA Boise Star Witness Charged With Munchausenism. CRIMINAL ONLY IN HIS OWN FANCY Counsel For Prisoner Declare That Accused Is Victim of Great Conspiracy of Enemies of Western Federation. BOISE, Ida., June 12.—Harry Orchard, who has confessed on the witness stand to having committed eighteen murders, including the blowing up of ex-Governor Steenenberg, as the paid tool of the "inner circle" of the Western Federation of Miners, was recalled for cross examination in the trial of William D. Haywood, charged with instigating the Steenenberg assassination. Orchard had directly accused Haywood of sending him, Steve Adams and others to "get" Steenenberg. The others dropped out of the plot, he said, and he alone planted the bomb which went off when the former governor opened the gate of his home in Caldwell and blew him to bits. Mr. Richardson, for the defense, brought out in cross examination the facts that Orchard had set fire to a cheese factory in Canada, run off with another man's wife and had done other reprehensible deeds before coming to Idaho. Orchard admitted that while he was in the Idaho mining country he became quite a gambler, playing poker most of the time. He was asked how he voted the day the unions decided to go down to Wardner and blow the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine mills and said he did not remember. Mr. Richardson wanted the witness to name all who attended the meeting. He gave the names of five or six. Orchard after admitting that he went to Denver in the pay of the railroad detectives stated that he threw them down, ceased to report to the detectives, and took up the work of the Western Federation of Miners, who paid him all he needed. On leaving Denver, Haywood told him, he said, to go back to Cripple Creek and "kill some of them soldiers." He calmly admitted planning the blowing up of fifty nonunion men in the Vindicator mine. Attorney Richardson sought to show that Orchard had suggested blowing up the Vindicator, but he swore that a man named Davis first suggested the act. By his own admission Orchard is a bigamist, a thief, a liar and an incendiary. He has played the traitor to his employers. He has deserted two wives and his children. All of these offenses he has been forced to confess, but under a grueling examination by Richardson he has stuck to his story in general and in detail. Counsel for William D. Haywood repeatedly threw the suggestion of a great counter conspiracy formulated and carried out by the enemies of the Western Federation of Miners and indicated a determination to construct their main line of defense on that field. They carried Orchard by slow steps through the minutest details from the dynamitting of the Independence (Colo.) station down to the attempt on the life of Fred Bradley and his family in San Francisco. In addition to a series of particular attacks on the credibility of the witness and the general probability of his stories and preparing their way for their own testimony in rebuttal, the defense sought to show that Orchard has a mania for boasting of the commission of crimes nonexistent except in his own mind. The Globeville inquiry developed another shocking crime. At this Denver suburb there was a diabolical plot—Orchard swore it was inspired by Max Malich; the defense claimed that Orchard was its author—to dynamite a boarding house where 150 nonunion men lived, and in preparation for this murder Orchard, Adams and a man named Joe Mahalich broke into two magazines and stole 600 pounds of dynamite, which they lugged home at night and buried in their cellars. The crime was abandoned, Orchard said, in one of those flashes that make his testimony remarkable, because Haywood intervened and forbade him to have anything to do with it. Orchard also brought Mrs. Steve Adams into the play. He said that while he and Adams were watching Judge Goddard's house Mrs. Adams went with them a couple of times as a blind to divert suspicion from them. Mrs. Adams, who had a seat among the witnesses, laughed when Orchard told the incident. Longworths Plan Western Trip. WASHINGTON, June 11.—Representative Longworth and Mrs. Longworth are planning to go to the Yellowstone park about the 20th inst. to make two weeks' trip on horseback through the park and thence will go to the Hawaiian Islands to spend the remainder of the summer. Irishmen Will Fight Government. LONDON, June 12.—The more aggressive members of the Irish Nationalist party had their way at a meeting held in the house of commons, with the result that the Irishmen will fight the government both in the house and in the constituencies. Kelly Murder Trial at Rochester. ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 12.—Taking of testimony in the Edward Kelly murder trial was brought to a close after a brief rebuttal by the prosecution. There is a possibility that the case will go to the jury today. Women Suffrage Detected Women Suffrage Detected. HARTFORD, Conn., June 12—The bill to give women the right of suffrage in presidential elections and the right to vote in municipal elections was defeated in the house here. The senate is expected to reject the bill also. Public to Honor Cooker DUBLIN, June 12. At the next meeting of the corporation of Dublin a motion will be discussed to confer the freedom of the city on Mr. Croker. THE PLANET DEATH AT HORSE SHOW. General Ellis, Equerry to King Edward, gets Sudden Summons. LONDON, June 12.-This has been the most interesting day, from the social side, of the international horse show at Olympia. The king and queen of England, accompanied by King Frederick and Queen Louise of Denmark, who are spending a short time in England, visited the show with a very distinguished party. Olympia was beautifully decorated for the occasion and crowded with the elite of society. A very large number of Americans were present also. Walter Winans, Alfred G. Vanderbilt and C. W. Watson took respective first, second and third prizes for coach teams. General Ellis, an extra equerry to the king, died suddenly of heart disease during the show. He had been officially connected with the royal family for forty-one years. The general and Lady Ellis were chatting with Sir Frederick Treves and other friends when the general gripped his throat and fell back in his chair unconscious, his death being practically instantaneous. KUROKI SAILS FOR HOME No Fear of War With Japan, Says His Friend, General Wood. SEATTLE, Wash., June 12—General Baron Kuroki sailed for Japan on the steamship Kaga. Before leaving General Kuroki, through the American honorary escort, General O. E. Wood, said that his visit to this country had been a most pleasant one and that he leaves with the kindest feelings for Uncle Sam and his people. Reports from Washington that an anti-American combination exists between the Japanese of the northwest and the Progressive party at home are discredited here by both the Japanese consul, S. Hishimidzu, and General Wood. The former declared the report to be absurd and without any foundation. General Wood laughs at the idea of any combination trying to bring on war and says that the trouble is due to the agitation of several dissatisfied persons who thought they saw an opportunity to make some noise; that Japan does not want to go to war with the United States. AN "UNDESIRABLE CITIZEN." Caruso, World's Greatest Tenor, May Be Barred From United States. NEWYORK, June 12.—Enrico Caruso, the world's greatest tenor singer, however much he desires to keep his $200,000 per season contract with Herr Conried, may never be permitted to set foot on United States soil again. It is asserted that the federal government immigration officials will not permit him to land when he seeks to return to this country in October. The officials say that Caruso comes clearly within the meaning of an undesirable alien as defined in section 2 of the act of 1903. This act stipulates that "persons who have been convicted of a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude" shall be excluded from the United States. It is cited that the records of the New York court in the famous "monkey house" case show that Caruso was convicted of an offense strictly within the meaning of "moral turpitude." FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Stock Quotations. Money on call unquoted; prime mercantile paper, 56%2% per cent; exchanges, $222, $30.87; balances, $15, $20, $527. Closing prices Athens, Copper... 84% N. Y. Central. 113 Atkinson... 87% Nort. & West. 74 B. & O... 93% Penn. R. R. 120 B. Rocky Brook, R. T. 53% Reading. 103% C. C, C & St.L. 66% Rock Island. 20% Ches. & Ohio. 35% St. Paul. 120% Northw. I. 35% St. Paul. 120% D. & H. I. 27% Southern Ry. 52% Erie. 26% Southern Ry. 60% Gen. Electric. 130% Sugar. 120% Ill. Central. 130% Texas Pacific. 27 Lackawanna. 64% Union Pacific. 133% Nash. 14% U. S. Steel. 98 Manhattan. 138 U. S. Steel. 98 Int.-Met. 16% West Union. 81 Missouri Square. 74% New York Markets. FLOUR - Dull and nominally lower, Minnesota patents, $.106.56; winter patents, $.425@; winter straights, $.435@4.50; winter extras, $3.50. RYE FLOUR-Firm; fair to good, $4.75 76; choice to fancy, $5.19/26.40. POTATOES - Firm and in good demand; bushel, $0.5c; fair to good. do, $0.5c LIVE POULTRY-Quilt, but steady; farm chickens, 244/326; ducks, old, old; do, spring chickens, 144/326; POULTRY-Firm and in fair demand; fresh killed fruits, choice; 18/326; do, fair to good, 144/326; old; western broilers, 30/326; western do, 244/326. VETOES TWO CENT BILL. Governor Hughes Declares For Justice to Railroads. ALBANY, N. Y., June 12—Governor Hughes vetoed the bill of Assemblyman Baldwin of Onondaga, which would have compelled a flat passenger rate of 2 cents a mile on every railroad system in the state more than 150 miles long. In the course of his veto message the governor points out that "the passage of the bill was not preceded by legislative investigation or suitable inquiry under the authority of the state. Nor is the fixing of this rate predicated on reports or statistics officially collated which would permit a fair conclusion as to the justice of its operation with reference to the railroads within its purview." The senate passed the New York city recount bill over the veto of Acting Mayor McGowan of New York city. The bill now goes to the governor for approval. The bill was repassed by a vote of 36 to 8, those voting against it being Senators Boyce, Cullen, Harte, Hasenflug, McCall, McCarren, Owens, Democrats, and Cassidy, Republican. Apparently hopeless deadlock is still the situation between the two houses of the legislature in the matter of reapportionment of senate districts. WAR IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Nicaraguanus and Rebel Salvadoranus Capture Acajutla. CITY OF MEXICO, June 12.-Hostilities have broken out in Central America. Nicaraguanus, assisted by Salvadoran revolutionists, captured Acajutla, Salvador, at an early hour. This news came to the capital in a telegram from President Fogueron to the Salvadoran minister, Manuel Delgado. The minister is now closed with President Dlaz. Nicaraguanus on the gunboat Momotombo bombarded the fort and then landed troops at Acajutla. The town is now in the hands of the Nicaraguan General Manuel Rivas. It is believed the objective point of the expedition is San Jose de Guatemala and that President Zelaya of Nicaragua has declared war against Guatemala. PASSED OVER VETO. Albany Assembly Puts Through New York Mayoralty Recount Bill. ALBANY, N. Y., June 12.—The assembly last night by a vote of 82 to 17 repassed over the veto of Acting Mayor McGowan of New York Assemblyman Prentice's bill providing for a Judicial recount and recavanness of the ballots cast at the mayoralty election of 1905 in New York city. The bill was repassed practically without debate. Four Republicans were among those who voted against the bill. They were Hammond and Schoeneck of Onondaga, Fowier of Ulster and Yale of Putnam. Escaping Convict Talked Too Weeh. TRENTON, N. J., June 11.—Because of his remark in a saloon in Bonham-town that a drink he was taking was the first he had in nine years, Henben Strickland, who escaped from the New Jersey state prison Sunday afternoon, where he was serving a thirty year sentence for murder, was recaptured by Chief Marshal Fouratt. Course of Dieting Family Physician—Nothing will do your daughter any good unless she controls her appetite for sweets and rich dishes. She must live on the plainest food, and very little of it, for months. Mother—Very well. I'll send her to the boarding school I used to attend. —N. Y. Weekly. THE NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE OF VIRGINIA CALLED TO MEET IN SUFFOLK, JULY 10. Great Preparation Being Made by the Business Men of Suffolk. Newport News, Va., June 11, '07 To the Members and Friends of the Negro Business League of the State of Virginia: It will be remembered that in our last annual gathering, Suffolk was designated as the place of meeting this year. Wednesday, July 10th, was the time set for the opening of our meeting. The coming together of the Negro business men and women in these annual gatherings is doing much good to advance the interest of our race. It makes no difference how much wealth and prosperity there may be among the race, it cannot be very effective in giving the race power, influence and proper respect unless the progressive, business element get together in organizations—for in union there is strength. We, therefore, call upon all the local leagues, all the business men and women, and those who follow professional, industrial and domestic pursuits, to meet us in Suffolk, July 10th, in our third annual gathering for the express purpose of taking in consideration those things which will tend to advance the cause of our race. It is expected that some of the officers of the National Negro Business League will be present. We shall make an effort to have with us Dr. Booker T. Washington and Fred. R. Moore. Suffolk is a beautiful, wide awake hustling little city. Its colored population is progressive and engaged in many business pursuits. 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Robbins, 155 Cambridge St. MEMPHIS, TENN. Standard? News Company. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....JUNE 15. 1907 TUMBLED AMONG COUNTERFEITERS SECRET SERVICE OFFICIAL TELLS OF UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE IN WOODS NEAR CHICAGO. CROOKS ALL MAKE ESCAPE Weak Board Breaks and Listener Falls Into Midst—Frightened by Startling Proceedings, Men Took Freight. Indianapolis, Ind.—"Did I ever tell you of the time I fell from overhead into the midst of a gang of counter- feiters while they were busy making spurious coin?" said Capt. Thomas E. Halls of the United States secret service the other day. "Well, it was a long time ago. I was in the department of justice at the time, and news was brought to me of strange doings in a forest just outside of Chicago. It was said that a gang of men repaired every night to a shed in a lonely part of the woods and was busy by candlelight until the wee small hours of morning. No stranger could approach to discover what was being done, as a guard was always posted to keep the curious at a distance. They were suspected of beautiful counterfeiters. "I determined to find out what was going on and decided the best plan would be to approach the place by daylight. I had no trouble getting into the shed unobserved. I found plenty of which to be suspicious, but no really incriminating evidence. In looking the place over I noticed the great height of the shed and the fact that there were several board braces set edgewise near the top of the building and more than 30 feet from the ground. I reasoned, and correctly, too, as I learned afterward, that the candlelight would not penetrate the darkness overhead enough to discover the presence of a man who might be hiding upon one of the cross braces. After a little trouble I got on a cross brace directly over the metal pots. Not long after the first of the crowd came in and the preparations for the casting of the coins went steadily forward. When the time came for the most interesting part of the work I found that I would have to slide along the board a little farther to be able to see down into the center of the group. Of course every motion I made had to be accomplished with the greatest stealth and in breathless fashion I began slowly to hitch my way to a position of greater advantage. The board was warped, and before I had gone far without realizing it I put myself in a position where my weight was acting with considerable leverage against the nails which held the brace board in place. Another X The Counterfeiters Stampeded in All Directions. little slip and the board creaked and snapped with the sound of the pulling nails and I found myself falling. It was too late to grab hold of anything, so I hung to the board. The nails at one end held more firmly than at the other, and this kept me from falling as hard as I might if both ends had given way at once. At the first sound the men looked upward, but apparently did not see me. But when the big crack and the crash came they were all looking my way, and I struck the floor almost in their midst. They must have scattered in every direction, as when I came to, it must have been several hours later, there was not a man in sight and the candles were almost burned out. I was not molested in getting back to town. The gang was later apprehended, but not by me." Fairmount, Ind.—Unconscious of the fact that his life had been spared because of his prophetic comb, a black Langshan rooster, more proud of his plumage than his usefulness, still lives at the home of Mrs. Emily J. Davis, a physician at Marion, Ind. With unfailing regularity this rooster has for the past two years been foretelling storms and fair weather, and the prophecies always are made from six to twelve hours in A black comb means a very bad storm. If the weather is clear and a storm is coming the comb will have one dark spot, and if a fog is going to occur the notches of the comb will be fringed with black. ANGRY BUCK KEEPS GIRL UP A TREE FOR HOURS SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILD, WHEN RESCUED, NEARLY DEAD FROM FRIGHT. Waterbury, Conn.—An angry deer treed Mary Rossiter, six years old, the other day and kept her prisoner for hours, making desperate attempts to impale here on its horns. Mary was nearly dead from weakness and fright when she was rescued. Her brain seems benumbed by her experience and her parents fear her reason may be affected permanently. The child, Charles T. Rossiter's daughter, went to school, but did not return to her home at Wintrop, near Depe river. On the way she had to pass through a lonely copse of cedars. Her father feared some mishap had befallen her, and calling his neighbors they went in search of her. They beat A The Enraged Deer Circled About the Tree. every foot of underbrush on many acres, searched lonely woods and finally heard her crying feebly. She was perched in the fork of a cedar tree. The ground all around it was trampled by the hoofs of a big buck, which ran away when it heard the men approaching. Mary said the buck chased her and she climbed the tree. She could not climb higher and was not more than an inch out of reach of the buck's rearing antlers. The scars on the tree proved that. In Cheshire, near the Prospect Line, a deer ran through Mrs. Hedges' backyard yesterday and carried off on its horns a pair of overalls and a blanket which were hanging on a clothesline. Mrs. Hedges does not care much about the overalls, but she mourns the loss of the blanket, which had been in her family 46 years. SAVES CORPSE FROM KNIFE. Preacher Finds Body of Son in Medical College Pickling Vat. Omaha, Neb.—On coming to Omaha from his home at University Place, a suburb of Lincoln, a few days ago, Rev. J. Q. Helm, a well-known preacher, made the shocking discovery that the body of his son, Arthur Helm, was in a pickling wat at one of the local medical colleges. The minister did not know that his son was dead until he discovered his body in the pickling wat at the college. The young man was killed by falling from a window in the second story of a building in North Sixteenth street several weeks ago. His body was taken to the morgue, where it was held for several days. The authorities did not know who or where the dead man's parents or other relatives were and, nobody calling at the morgue to claim the body, it was finally turned over to the medical college for dissection. The father came to Omaha to pay his son a visit and it was on his arrival here that he learned of the young man's death. He began an investigation and finally discovered that the body was in the pickling vat at the college. He claimed the remains and had them taken to University Place for burial. Snake Tale Palm to This Man. Ada, O.—James Brunot, a student in civil engineering at the Ohio Northern university, told of a narrow escape from death he had the other day. His companions vouch for the truth of his story. He was surveying and left his companions to locate a site. Suddenly the latter heard cries for help. They found Brunot held fast by two big black snakes. They had coiled one about each of his legs and lashed themselves to a small tree, while two smaller black snakes had taken a couple of turns about an oak tree and were using their tails as whips to beat Brunot. The big snakes were killed and measured over six feet in length with 18-inch belts. Roem for Doubt ..Blinks- I read a most remarkable story the other day in an Arizona paper, the Tombstone Epiphath. Jinks- Huh! Who ever heard of an epiphath telling the truth?—N. Y. Weekly. "What is that fellow's occupation? He says he works about the public offices." "So he does; works about everybody in them."—Baltimore American Carrying Out the Simile. "They tell me Mrs. Bitterpill works like a beaver." "Yes, I guess that's right. She fell in love with a perfect stick and has been chewing about it ever since."—Judge THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA WOMAN'S NERVE SAVED HER LIFE WIFE OF POLISH DOCTOR, LEFT ALONE AT NIGHT, SAW BURGLARS. CLEVERLY GAVE THE ALARM She Then Sat Down and Played the Piano and Sang Until She Could Stand the Strain No Longer. Warsaw, Poland.—By the exercise of courage and presence of mind, such as probably few women have possessed, Mime. Stresky, the wife of a Warsaw physician, has just saved herself from murder and robbery under circumstances as thrilling as ever were put into a novel. Mme. Stresky lives with her husband in a small villa on the outskirts of Warsaw. One night she was alone in the house, but for an old, deaf cook, who dozed in the basement. Mme. Stresky sat with her needlework upstairs in the drawing room. Suddenly looking up, she saw, in a mirror, the reflection of a huge, ruffly-looking man, crushing behind a screen which stood at the back of her chair. For a moment fear petrified her, as she thought that this man, knowing she was alone, had crept into the house and was awaiting an opportunity to murder her and strip the house of valuables. Outside the street was as quiet as the grave. Her husband would not be back for hours. To rush from the room and cry madly for help meant hastening death. Then a thought struck her. There was a telephone in the room. She went to it and quickly rang up a family she knew. The servant answered at the other end. "I want your mistress," she said. After two interminable minutes her friend's voice was to be heard. "My dear Sophy," began the doctor's wife. "Be so good as to send me round that $4,000 roubles this evening. I must pay it into the bank to-morrow morning. I'm very sleepy and want to go to bed." The friend at the other end of the phone was mystified. They had never had any financial dealing with each other, nor had she heard of the sum M. The Burglar Discovered Her Ruse. In question. But before she could say anything, the doctor's wife began again—this time in French: "Some wretch has got into the house—I'm alone. Come at once with a patrol, or the first man you can get hold of!" Then she added, in Polish: 'Send the money as soon as possible. I'll wait up for it.' This done, she sat down at the piano and, with shaking hands and voice, began to play and sing. She calculated that ten minutes at the most would see her out of her terrible dilemma. She could not leave the room without passing by the screen; all she could do was to appear as if she did not know what stood behind her. Her voice got weaker and shakier every minute, though she hoped the ruffian would wait for the fictious 4,000 roubles. But 15, 20, 25 minutes passed and there was no sign of help. She feared the wretch would suspect her. She determined to ring up the police and ask for help in French, trusting to the chance that one of the inspectors might understand her. Again she went to the phone, rang up and gave the necessary number. But the ruffian behind the screen knew the number, too; pushing down the screen, he rushed forward, knife in hand, upon the defenseless woman. She tried to wrench the weapon from him, but in vain. He pointed the knife at her and struck. Happily it clashed against a large metal buckle she wore on her belt. With an oath, he raised it again—it was within an ace of her heart when the sound of breaking glass arrested the murderer's hand. He looked around—a soldier's head appeared in the broken window. Flinging down his knife, he made for the door, only to fall into the arms of another soldier. The doctor's wife was found on the floor unconscious. The wretch who had all but murdered her was known to the police as one, of the most desperate characters in the town, wanted for several crimes. Official Explanation. "I notice," remarked the tenderfoot, "that in eastern countries the man who tends sheep is called a shepherd, while out here you call him a 'sheep herder.' Is there any difference between them?" "You bet there is!" answered the cowboy. "A reg'lar shepherd carries a crook, and a sheep herder, blast 'im, is a crook!"—Chicago Tribune. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also 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 the Children's Department address For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KNIGHTS OF PYTHIA'S. F.C.B. only absolutely necessary regal apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a court Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial benefit dues. The only expense for re- rosette, costing 25 cents for fur THE BANDS OF CALAN stitutes a feature and persons ca circle. The expense is nominal $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and dea Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concerning For all information concern membership in the lodges and d ALL ON HIS NERVE. Nervely-Hello, Jack! Got a clove in your pocket? Markly—Yes. Here you are, old man. Nervely—Thanks! Now, have you a match? Markly—I have. Help yourself. Nervely—Thanks! Loan me your cigar-cutter for a second, will you? Markly—Certainly! But where's your cigar? Nervely—Why, I was just going to ask you for one. Markly—Humph! Well, here you are. The match you borrowed is to light the cigar, I suppose, and the cigar-cutter is to take the end off? Nervely—You've guessed it, old chap. Markly—But what did you borrow the clove for? Nervely—Oh, that's to eat after I take that drink you are going to buy me.—Judge. JUST A HINT. Spinks—Does your girl like poetry? Winks—Yes; but she's too insinuating. Spinks—In what way? Winks—Well, she won't agree that anything rhymes with "springtime" but "ringtime"—Chicago Daily News. Sure Thing. One cute little girl, In your fond embrace, Is better than two In some other place. —Life Port Jervis, N. Y.-Gabe Winters, fishing for pickerel in Long pond recently, dropped his watch in Long pond and bade good-by to it forever, he thought. The other day he went fishing again in the pond, and his first strike was an eight pounder. He was astonished upon landing the fish to find his gold watch lodged in the pickerel's mouth. The watch was running. It is a stem winder, and the theory is that in mastinating its food the fish had wound up the timepiece, as the time was correct. The fishing season is now officially opened. Consolation Overdone "Oh, yes, she is disappointed that she has no children, but I said to her: 'My dear, be consolled. After all, you can never be sure beforehand how a child will turn out, and if you had had a boy, how do you know that he would not have grown up to be the kind of creature that brings lighted sigars into the street cars?" But at that she fainted, and I knew that I had overdone it."—Life. Suitable. Guyer—I don't know, but I think it should be called "The Avilary. " Gunner—And why so? Guyer—Because all the women are parrots and all the men are "owls."—Chicago Daily News. N. A., S. A, E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenominal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties is in to organize a new lodge. The largest 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 50 per week sick dues. The badge, regalia. For information concerning hurts of Calant of the Order. It requires a memorial 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 or better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.09 to $44our neighborhood, orgrnize one. ning the Children's Department a the most powerful in the country and its al. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris- und counties in this state. Thirty males w lodge. The benefits paid constitute one the principles are greater than anything based on Charity and established on Be right people of the state will find it an order port. burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It s. The badge costing 75 cents each is the tion concerning the organization of lodges Men's Department also con- tan to enter the little ones into this mystic is all that could be expected. It pays from from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have noPythian orgrnize one. Department address, Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. 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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 filled 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 gives full Protection and Benefits to our race. or Home letter conditions for the first and only this country, hold- Union Charter h give s full Pro- our race. race or sex dis- orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIETRESS 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va 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 DISTRICT 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. State name of this paper and enclose 10 cents for full information and postage. Address THE I. L. U. 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If you have any kind of a contrivance that will keep my wife from waking up when burglars break in, come around and I will talk business with you"—Chicago Record-Herald. Necessary. "I am afraid you are becoming a practical politician," said the sincere friend. "I am," answered the eminent personage. "A statesman must be a mighty good politician if he wants to stay in public life long enough to put his theories into actual operation."—Washington Star. Girl Turning to Snake Athens, Ga.—There is a very remarkable case of a negro girl turning almost into a snake in Madison county. The girl is 15 years old, lives at Planters, and is afflicted in a most peculiar manner. She has attacks that last several minutes, during which time she writes exactly like a snake. These attacks have increased from day to day until now she spends most of her time in wriggling around on the ground and over the floors with all the sinuous movements of a snake. 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I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be watted on kindly. 'Phone, 2778. IEAM UAE AG ener Nh aa SATURDAY.......JUNE 15, 1007 ONES age Fi WA Tie Vetiiae ts oreo ey vd eRe oRkas Rae Se o ws GEN. WILLIAM SHEPARD, Davbletionary Haro” Whe’ Eeoght 22 Daisies in Gafence of his Country le Pe Meee vigel: FEE ene grave marked with a simple marble slab and the bronze insignia of the Sons of the Revo- Intion, decorated with the buff and blue of that order. Tt ts probable that ere long a suitable monument will be erected by e NG the citizens of Westfield to commenio- rate the services of one who fought 22 Battles in defense of bis country. Gen. William Shepard of Westfeid began his military career as a youth of 17, fighting all through the Freach and Indian war. At 19 he was @ ser. geant, at 21 a lieutenant and at 22 a captain. He fought all through the revolutionary war, always at strategic points. He was the confidant of Wasb- ington and Lafayette, commanding a brigade under the latter. As major general of the fourth division, state militia, he defended the Springfield arsenal against Daniel Shays and his misguided followers in the memora- ble “Shay's rebellion.” As a civilian General Shepard was chosen selectman of Weatiteld ten times, moderator of town meetings several times and was on many {m- portant town committees. In 1785-6 he was in the lower house of the Massachusetts goneral court, was next four years in the senate, and for five years a member of the govern- or’s council. In 1797 he was appointed a repre: sentative of the United States, a po- sitfon which he held for six years. Twice General Shepard was one of the presidential electors voting for Washington. In 1796 he was Massachusetts com- missioner to treat with the Penob- scot Indians, and the next year repre- sented this country tn a treaty made with the Six Natlons at Geneseo. ‘There are a good many reminders bf Shepard to be found in Westfield. Franklin street was formerly Shepard Une, Shepard strect is named after him. The old Shepard elm, 200 years old, under whose spreading branches Washington once sat, is kept in good condition by the Western Hampden Historical society, and tho sword which Lafayette presented to General Shepard during his first year of serv- fco under him was for a time on ex- hibition at the Westfleld athenaeum and {s now in possession of Edward Shepard of Newark. Henry Shepard of Westfield owns a desk of cherry with curious pfgeon holes, which often held undoubtedly Important state documents belonging to. General Shepard. Tho desk is 200 years old. William Abbott, editor of the maga- zine of History, published in 1901, shows how General Shepard, with 200 men held back a large foree of Howe's trained veterans and Hessians. When being taken off the field Wounded in the neck by a cannon ball, Shepard sald: “Stick on a plaster, ‘and tie on my cravat, doctor, 1 am go- tng In again.” For his gallantry Gen- eral Shepard recetved the thanks of Washington, Senator George Peabody Wetmore of Rhode Island, whose grandfather married a daughter of General Shep- ard, Nancy Shepard, is also collecting material relating to this hero of 22 battles. A Good Head. When Farragut ran the gantlet of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, below New Orleans, the little gunboat Ca- yuga went in the lead, and was every where in the thick of the fighting. A colored boy of the crew was passing powder when a spent grapeshot struck & casting near him, shattered and flew tm many directions. One piece hit him on the thickest part of his forehead, says the autbor of “A Sailor of For: tune,” and dropped to the deck. He picked it up nonchalantly, put it in his pocket and kept at work. When the Oghting was over and the members of the crew were bragging, this boy, who was not over 14, stepped up to some of them and pulled the grape-shot from his pocket. “You hush!" he said to the boasters. “Dat shot done hit me on de haid an’ broke in two! Dere’s de shot and dere’s de place it bit me. You can see fob youse’t.” Mrs. Roosevelt to Furnish Flag. Emulating Betty Ross of Revolution- ary memory, who made the first flag of the United States of America, Mra. Roosevelt, wife of the President, cbm- plying with @ request made by Ed- ward W. Matthews, formerly a chap- iain In the British. navy, has to furnish an Amorican flag ape the bust of Admiral json to ‘eremepted to the Naval academy hy Mirection of King Edward. On the other hand, Queen Alexandra will make with ber own hands a British fag to be used upon the same occasion and in connection with the American PMS pene eaeioae, Seed “SALLIE”: A DOG OF WAR. Was Always in the Thick of the Fight ‘With Her Regiment. ‘The heroism and tragedy of war are not confined to its human participants. “Sallie was nothing more than a lit tle dog, but she showed a spirit which Save her a warm place in the hearts of the soldiers of Pennsylvania whose “Martial Deeds” are chronicled by Mr. Samuel Bates. Sallie was brought to the captain's quarters when she ‘was & puppy, and soon became a regi- mental institution. As soon as the drum beat for re- vyeille she was at hand, and she never missed a roli-call. No soldier was more regular at drill, and on dress pa- rade she always accompanied the col- or-sergeant. Sallie was at Manassas Jnnetion, Port Royal, Shenandoah, Waterloo, Rapidan, Cedar Mountain and Bull Run, and in all these battles stuck close to the colors. Through cities, towns and wearisome marches she managed to thread her way. At Antietam she went into the corn- field with the skirmishers, who tried in vain to drive her back. A ball touched her side, but only marked her hair. At Fredericksburg Sallie was in the thick of the fight. When the ranks thinned aad broke, she, for the first time tn her life, became ¢emor. alized. Missing accustomed faces, she sought the rear, and was seen to ap: proach ft at a rapid pace. This was the only time she showed fear. Stead. ily sharing toil, privation and danger, she never straggled or deserted. During the first day's fight at Get. tysburg she became separated from her regiment. Returning to the battle fleld she sought out her friends among the dead and wounded. There, for three days and nights, she kept a faithful vigil, without food. Finally the provost of her company found her and carried her back to her own. Bailie received her first wound at the Battle of the Wilderness, where @ minie ball hit ker in the neck. She was sent to the hospital and carefully treated, but she soon returned to the field, where her first act was to tear the trousers of a conscript from an other regiment who, scared at the firing, had broken ranks and was re treating. Sallie was killed at Hatcher's Run, as the regiment was making its firs! advance. She was burled in the face ~~ | or ) oe i ° \) Si\ 7: pes > \ if ; Ioan ee aa es i Be ~ “ye ES $B o a hs za a ee sy = Patmos gc fae Re ay Se wee aA ey Bailie Was In the Thick of the Fight. of the enemy's fire, as the adjutant stated at the end of his official report. Bictiy: honest, generally: grades: pered, with & strong dlalike for roa en, civilians and strange darkies, Sal- He lived and died faithful to her regi- ment and was interred with the bos ors of war. “you WAITI War Nurse Found One Susceptible ices Assaha Vee patuace “Kin you write a letter?” drawled « whining voice from a bed in one of the wards of a confederate hospital one day in 1862. The speaker was an up-country Georgian, lean, yellow attetnuated, with wisky strands of hair hanging over his high, thin cheek. bones. He put out a hand to detain the passing matron, says the author of “Hospital Life,” and his nails were like claws. “Why do you not let the nurse cut your nails?” she asked. “Because I aren't got any spoon, and I use them instead.” “Will you let me have you hair cut, then? You can't get well with all that dirty hair hanging about your eyes and ears.” “No, I can't git my bair cut, kase as how I promised my mammy I would let it grow till the war be over. It's unlucky to cut it.” “Then I can't write any letter for you. Do what I wish you to and I wil then oblige you.” The hair was promptly sacrificed, and the matron brought her portfolio and sat down to write, The soldier dic- tated enough to fill al! tour pages of a sheet to his mother, and the matron folded and addressed it. Then the sol- dier gazed about cautiously, to be sure there were no listeners. “Are you married?” he queried, in ‘a low tone. *T am not; at least I am a widow,” she replied. | Ho rose slightly in bed. A faint color fluttered in his cheek, and he stretched out a bony talon and touch- gigs so “You wait!" he whispered, myste- riously. Was Lee's Chief of Engineers. Gen. E. P. Alexander, with whom the only living expresident shoots ducks down in South Carolina, distia. guished himself at West Point and in 1866—Appomattox year—wes Gen. Robert E. 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The bag was then held by one * Se : =! = ig ea er ‘The Press in Use. person, and another applied the pres sure. While under presauro, just about as much Wax was squeezed out as came from the extractor, says Bee Culture, and the pressure was ob- tained very cheaply. Two sticks were nailed together at cne end by a leath. er hinge, the other ends used as han dies, when a mizbty pressure could be brought to bear on the hot refuse. ‘The one who held the sack kept twist tng, and the squeezer kept squeezing, 80 to speak. FEATHERING OF CHICKS. It te Exhausting Growth and Healthy Feeding Is Necessary. The sooner the young chick devel- ops his feathers and gets rid of his down the better. The time at which the chick is putting out feathers is considered a crisis in his life. It is therefore necessary to give him nutrl- tious food wo as he can build tho feathers as soon as possible. A part ration of meat daily is very good to help him in this work, which comes as an extra strain at this time. The fact that some chicks feather too rap- fdly {9 a cause of weakness with them. ‘There ia no other way to do than to five the very hest food that can be given, those feeds rich in body bulld- ing material. Skim milk {= good. But feeding of corn meal {s com- won on some farms, the young chicks being given a very large amount of this kind of food. With corn meal, says Prairie Farmer, the chick has to @igest a great doal of food to get the amount of nitrogen needed for the building of the foathers, and tho feath- ers are rich in nitrogen. One of the dest feods at this thne is oatmeal, POULTRY NOTES. |, Keep poultry houses clean and or- erly. A pound of poultry can be grown at Jess cost than a pound of beef, and fe worth moro. ‘Tn setting hens, it is very {mportant to provide dry earth, mixed with lice powder, in the bottom ef the box or barrel. Feed your poultry on raw onions, chopped fine, mixed with other food, once a week. It is better than a dozen cures for cholera. Many young ladies who are seeking situations as clerks, teachers or sales- ladies, can find more profitable and healthy employment in raising poub try. : Sour milk and butter milk are ox cellent food for all kinds of poul- try, especially turkeys, ducks and geese. When thickened with shorts, bran or meal, it is a very nourishing diet for young fowls. Give the boys and girls an interest fm the poultry yard. Let them have a share of the profits, to clothe them- selves with. It will teach them self- reliance, business methods and prove ‘a powerful incentive in keeping them at home. Quantities of chickens are count- ed on that never hatch, every spring for want of a little common sense In this very thing. A simple nest of hay or shavings on a bare floor will not answer. The hen who steals her nest knows how to do it and hatch ten out of every dozen eggs. Provide something to hold the heat under the exes while the hen leaves the nest to feed, and make it easy for the hen to supply her want without absenting ersdif Yoo long from the nest—In- @iana Farner. Save the feathers: ceese feathers are always high and duck feathers are worth almost as much. Turkey tail feathers bring from 30 to 40 cents per pound, being used in making feather dusters. Even colored chick- en feathers are worth saving, al- though they sometimes get down to five cents per pound. White Plymouth Rock feathers have brought 28 cents per pound. In picking chickens, sus- pend them so you ¢an stand up, and have a barrel at your side te drop in the clean dry feathers. Facing the Hives. Hives should never be faced to ward the north, In northerm lati tudes, a northern exposure tn winter is almost sure to result in the loss of the oolony, from the rigorous north wind blowing in at entrance, and the confinement of the bees, caused by the entrances being shad. ed on mild, sunny days whon the bees ‘fn hives facing southward fy froely. Expert Testimony. Foreigner—t often hear of the ‘raptd transit problem’ in this country. What is the nature of it? Native—When you get on one of these lightning trains, mister, it's a problem whether you're going to got through allve or not—Chicago Trib aa A Preference. “Would you prefer (o hare your son & rhetoriclan or an athlete?” “A rhetorletan,” answered Farmer Corntossel; “a good one can make the average person look lke a mollycod- dle without running any risk what- ever of physteal punisiment."—Wash- ington Star. Handed Her 2 Bunch. Eva—Yes, indeed, the bride wore orange blossoms, but no thanks to her rival. 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Crozier said that none of these could have been fired on a Remington, Winchester, or Mauser, but from the bullets alone it was impossible to say whether they had been fired from a Krag or a Springfield. He said, however that if the bullets taken from the walls had been discharged from car tridges picked up in the streets, the combination of the two circumstances showed conclusively that they must have been fired by the Springfield gun of the model used by the Negro soldiers. Senator Foraker suggested that the demonstration of the time it takes to clean a rifle be made before the committee at the Capitol. This suggestion will be carried out, and Gen. Crozier will have gun fired at Fort Myer and brought to the committee room, where they can be cleaned in the presence of the committee. While cross-examining Gen. Crozier concerning the work of the expert of the Springfield armory who by microscopical examination determined what guns had fired shells at Brownsville, Senator Foraker salute had no doubt of the good faith of that investigation. [Washington Post, June S. 1907.] The Senate committee investigating the shooting up of Brownsville is approaching the end of its sessions and many members are quite glad that this is true. An adjournment was taken yesterday until monday. It is the present programme to conclude the hearings for the present early next week and send a subcom mittee to Brownsville later. The testimony yesterday opened with light comedy and came near closing with melodrama. Mrs. Leahy the keeper of the "Leahy Inn" a Brownsville, continued her testimon, begun Thursday. She kept the com mittee in an unroar of laughter most of the time. Mrs. Leahy, according to the testimony of many witnesses seems to have been in general command of the Brownsville forces or the night the Negro soldiers are all leged to have shot up the town. "I never knew what fear was it my whole life," said she, replying to a question of Senator Foraker. "Do you fear lightning?" inquire. Mr. Foraker. "Oh, yes," replied the woman inn keeper. "That is the work of God; not the work of man." DIDN'T HIDE UNDER BED "So you wouldn't fear the work or man?" "Well, I didn't hide under the bed like a lot of other people did that night," remarked Mrs. Leahy. Senator Foraker vainly sought to establish the identity of the person who sought shelter in that way. Bu Mrs. Leahy "didn't care to mention names." "Well, tell us what you heard?" "That would take a year," replied Mrs. Leahy, whereat Senator Pettus who is already getting impatient at the long-drawn-out hearing, muttered a protest. Mrs. Leahy observed that one woman whom she sheltered that night was hysterical. "I have no sympathy for a woman in hysteries," said she. The witness added some new and valuable testimony to the effect that she passed the post early the morning after the affray, about 5:30 o'clock, on her way to visit her mother and she saw five or six Negro soldiers sitting on the gallery of the barracks cleaning their guns. She testified to seeing two officers, on of whom she recognized. SENATOR SCOTT'S JOKE Harold Cowan, who testified Thursday, was recalled, but aided no new testimony. The last witness of the day furnished a mild sensation. He wa Charles N. Lukenheimer, a conductor on the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad. He testified that he formerly lived in Pennsylvania "He is a Knox man," remarked Senator Scott, in an undertone. The suggestion seemed to create so much merriment that the witness, who had not heard the remark was embarrassed. Senator Warner explained the cause of the amusement. The witness was conductor on the train which carried the Negro troops to Brownsville. He told of the conversation on the train. How they inquired if it were possible for Negroes to be served in the saloons and finally sugged-sted that they had taught the people of the town from which they had just come to give them everything they wanted, and expressed their confidence of being able to discipline Brownsville and wipe out race prejudice. ONE SOLDIER APOLOGIZED The conductor testified that a "ginger-cake nigger" as he described one of the troopers, came out later and apologized for the threats made by his comrades, declaring that a few of them had always brought discredit on the regiment by their conduct. He explained later to Senator Foraker that a "ginger-cake nigger" was a dark mulatto. The witness related some obscene conversation alleged to have been uttered by the soldiers. "Leave that out of the record," suggested Senator Warner. "No, it must go into the record," demanded Senator Foraker. "It discloses the character of this witness." "That remark is not justified, Senator Foraker," said Senator Waner. "The witness is simply repeating the language conveyed to him by the soldiers." Finally it was agreed to expunge the objectionable words and describe them in the record as "foul language." Senator Foraker declined to cross examine a witness "who used such language." [Washington Post, June 11, 1907.] James W. Newton, who was knocked down by a blow on his head with a six-shooter inflicted by a customs house in-spector at Brownville a short time before the town was "shot up" and Frank K. Lipscomb, who accompanied him on that occasion, were both before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs yesterday. They are Negroes. Newton and Lipscomb were members of Co. C Twenty-fifth Infantry, and Newton was one of the twelve men who were placed under arrest and held at San Antonio under suspicion of having been implicated in the "shooting up" of the town. Both witnesses denied that they had given any affront to Mrs. Tate wife of the inspector who knocked Newton down and said they were quietly passing along the sidewall when attacked. Both denied that they heard any expressions of resentment over the affair afterward. Newton and Lipscomb were subjected to a severe cross-examination by several members of the committee. Asked by Senator Tallafero whether, if he had done the shooting he would swear falsely to conceal it Newton replied; STATEMENT OF NEWTON "Yes, sir, if I did it myself." Newton admitted that any soldier, could get out of the barracks inclosure into the town without being seen if he wanted to do so. He had heard the shooting on the night of August 13, but could not tell in the excitement whether it was by high power guns or pistols. He had not heard any discussion among the soldiers on the "shooting up" of the town or on the attack upon himself after the 1 of August. Asked by Senator Foraker if he had ever sworn falsely in his testimony in this case, he replied that he had not. He was questioned about his record in the army, he having been fined $3 on one occasion, and $1 three other times for minor breaches of discipline. Alexander J. Levy, who was first sergeant of Company L, Twenty-sixth Infantry at the time it was ordered from Brownsville, Texas, upon the arrival of the Twenty-fifth, testified that he heard conversations on the streets in Brownsville showing that a strong feeling existed among citizens against the Negro soldiers being ordered there. He heard one old gentleman, whose name he afterward learned was Mc Donough, say: "The first crooked move they make we will annihilate the whole shooting match." TIME TO CLEAN SPRINGFIELDS Levie was questioned concerning the length of time required to properly clean a modern Springfield rifle. The rifles sent to the committee room from the War Department were placed before him. Both of these rifles had been fired, and one of them, Gen. Garlington testified had been cleaned in one minute. The other had been uncleaned. The witness said that either of them would pass inspection. Questions by Senator Lodge resulted in the witness stating that the rifles might have passed inspection at the time they were cleaned, but that the lapse of three days would cause the powder to reappear. They would need two or more cleanings to put them in permanent condition for later inspection. A communication from Gen. Garlington was presented to the committee, stating that 2,456 enlisted men are on the retired list of the army, all having served more than thirty years with good records. This information had been called for to meet the claim of Senator Foraker that Mingo Sanders' record of twenty-six years service without unfavorable record was exceptional. [Washington Post, June 12, 1907.] The examination of Maj. Penrose in command of the Negro troops stationed at Brownsville, Texas, on August 13, when that town was "shot up" and Capt. Macklin, of Company C, Twenty-fifth Infantry, consumed nearly the entire time of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, yesterday. They were both recalled upon the suggestion of Senator Foraker and were asked concerning testimony of other witnesses who have recently been before the committee. They denied several important statements of witnesses tending to fix upon the Negro soldiers the blame for the shooting up of the town. Maj. Penrose reasserted his belief that the soldiers did not do the shooting. Oth er officers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry are in waiting and will be put on the stand during the next day or two. Senator Hemenway questioned Maj. Penrose concerning the efforts made by the military authorities to fix the responsibility for the Brownsville shooting. The witness reasserted his opinion that the Negro troops were innocent and that citizens had done the shooting. He believed the shells of Springfield cartridges had been scattered in the streets in order to place the blame upon the soldiers. THINKS SHELLS WERE PURLOIN ED. He was satisfied that the report of the experts of the Springfield ar- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA mory, by which the firing of many of the shells had been traced to rifles in possession of the battalion, was trustworthy, but he believed that those shells had been fired at Fort Nlobrara, Neb., at target practice just before the battalion went to Brownville, where the shells were taken in a box and placed on the rear porch of "B" barracks. Maj. Penrose supposed some of them were purloined by citizens and later scattered in the streets to incriminate the Negro soldiers. When he was last before the committee he did not believe his men were guilty and yesterday that belief was more positively expressed. Capt. Macklin, of Company C, denied having made statements at Brownville before the affray to the effect that if the people didn't look out the Negroes would jump the barracks wall some night and shoot the town up. He said he had never made any such statement. COULD NOT SEE FAR He was questioned by Senator Foraker as to the possibility of seeing at a considerable distance on the night of August 13. He declared he could not have told that a man had on a uniform at a distance great or than ten or fifteen feet. This was substantially in accord with the testimony of Maj. Penrose, who said he could not recognize his officers ten feet away that night. Maj. Penrose discredited the testimony of witnesses who stated that they recognized Negro soldiers, because he did not believe any one could see well enough that night to do so. He acknowledged that artificial lights may have altered conditions. Capt. Macklin was stationed on the barracks road after daylight on the 14th, and denied that any one had gone down that road. Mrs Leahy recently testified that she went down the road about 5:30 o'clock, and saw five or six soldiers cleaning guns on the upper porch of "B" barracks. OTHER OFFICERS TO TESTIFY Capt. Macklin's examination will be continued to-day. Other commissioned officers of the battalion who have previously been examined will be put on the stand a second time. Private Alexander J. Levie of the Eighteenth Infantry, also was recalled yesterday, and, in the presence of the committee, made a more thorough test to assertion the condition of the Springfield rifle cleaned at the War Department several days ago by direction of Gen. Crozier. Gen. Crozier testified that this rifle had been cleaned in one minute. The witness drew a piece of white linen through the bore of the gun and stated that the result showed both stains of powder and rust and that such a gun would not stand inspection. He stated, however, that he could not testify that a rifle had been cleaned several days previously by its appearance. He said that with the smokeless powder now used in the army it required two or three cleanings in order to remove all traces of it so that they would not return. VIRGINIA—In the Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, the fifth day of June, 1907. IN CHANCERY The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii, by the plaintiff from the defendant. And affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do whatever may be proper to protect his interest herein. Teste—Sam'l. P. Waddill, Clerk N. J. Lewis, pg. To Junius Russ: Take notice that I shall on the 16th day of July, 1907 at the offices of N. J. Lewis, 2118 E. Main Street, Richmond, Va. between the hours of 9 A. M. and 6 P. M. on that, proceed to take the depositions of witnesses to be read in evidence in my behalf, in a certain suit depending in the Circuit Court for the County of Henrico wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff and if from any cause, the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if commenced, be not concluded on that day, the taking of the same will be 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 be completed. VIRGINIA—In the Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Hencio, the fifth day of June, 1907. IN CHANCERY vs. Philip Mills Philip Mills. Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii, by the plaintiff from the defendant. And affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication hereof and do whatever may be proper to protect his interest herein. Teste—Sam'l. W. Waddell. Clark Teste—Sam'l. P. Waddill, Clerk N. J. Lewis, pq. To Philip Mills: Take notice that I shall on the 16th day of July, 1907 at the offices of N. J. Lewis, 2118 E. Main Street, Richmond, Va. between the hours of 9 A. M. and 6 P. M. on that, pro- ceed to take the depositions of wit- nesses to be read in evidence in my belfh, in a certain suit depending in the Circuit Court for the County of Henrico wherein you are defa- dant and I am plantiff and if from any cause, the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if commenced, be not concluded on that day, the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day, or from time to time, at the sama place and (Continued From First Page.) people of this country are not only not enemies of the Negro race but are friendly toward them and desire to see them do well. But that same majority are unalterably determined that the Negro race shall never participate with them on equal terms in the government of this country. As a race, we have no tonue in this country. If all the white people should determine tomorrow (which God forbid) to drive the Negro race out of this country, there is no power on earth that could prevent them. And where would we go? Echo an answers, "Where?" This picture is too awful to contemplate. But there is one consolation, and that is, nobody either white or black ever expects that any will occur. But there is another danger that is worthy of our consideration. And I am not so sure that it will never overtake us. This is the danger of being reinslaved. I seem to hear some one say, what beast! Well, let us look into the matter. At the first way back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries all the white people of this country and especially the Southerners were opposed to slavery. But as time went on, these people changed their minds, and African slavery became an institution in this country so deeply rooted that it cost millions of precious lives, rivers of blood and the expenditure of untold treasure to break it up. History often repeats itself. Let us beware. When all sections of this country were in harmony and fraternal union, slavery flourished and was secure. When sectional feeling became rampant it rent the country in twain and the abolition of slavery was the result. Of course nobody believes that the Negro race will ever be reinslaved by proclamation as it was emancipated. But if the present signs of the times mean anything, and the race remains in this country long enough, there is great danger that, little by little he will be reduced to such a state of vassalage that he will wish for the former days of slavery as being far preferable. We should also consider the labor phase. Competition between white and colored labor is ripe at the present but it is nothing like as keen as it is destined to be in the future. Blood is thicker than water. The employers are nearly all white and they will naturally give preference to white labor. Then the antagonism between the two classes of laborers is becoming more deadly every day. If ever a war of races should be precipitated in this country it will be done by labor antagonism and not by that of politics. And here again, it is proper to call attention to the fact that history often repeats itself. There are those especially among the Negro race, who think that the Yankees set the Negroes free because they loved them. They could not be guilty of a greater mistake. It was antagonism between free and slave labor which brought on the war between the two sections of this country and which resulted in the freedom of the Negro slave. Before the war wealth and culture of this country were in the South. To-day they are in the North. The Northerner saw that he, who had to labor with his own head and hands could never successfully compete with the man of the South who had a hundred to a thousand slaves to work for him without remuneration. The white laborer of the North, the foreign immigrants saw their chances of employment cut off by the slaves. All of these combined, therefore, and resolved to wipe out slavery for these reasons and not for love of the slave. Let us beware then that when all these forces, South as well as North combine to crush out Negro labor in this country, it will certainly be done. If we can barely line now with employment what will we do when the day comes that employment shall be denied us? It were far better to go when you may go in peace, having some where to go and time to go: having friends among the other race to help you in your removal and leave a friendly and strong government behind which would stand by and protect you in your own government in your own country until you are able to stand alone. O. M. STEWARD. P. S.—In my paper No. 4 on Africa published in The PLANET essayed to state the estimate of immigrant commissioner Frank P. S.agent of the number of immigrants coming into this country for the fisca year ending June 30th, 1905. Bu what the printer printed was hardly intelligible. 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