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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXIV. NUMBER 30. He Missed His Aim. Immediately upon Governor Vardaman's ascendance in Mississippi and his inauguration as governor he abolished the Normal School for colored people, located at Holly Springs, Miss., hoping thereby, no doubt, to curtail the educational privileges of the Negroes of that section of his state. But while he was musing the fire burned. The Negro was not asleep. The members of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of that state, under the intrepid and invincible leadership of Bishop Ellas Cottrell, had set about to establish a school of their own. Consequently practically within a stone's throw of the school abolished by Governor Vardaman there has been erected, largely by Negro contributions, a school better in every way than the school formerly provided by the state. Bishop Cottrell and his supporters purchased a number of acres of land and have erected a substantial brick structure, beautiful and convenient in arrangement. The total aggregate value of the property is estimated to be $50,000 all of which, except a few thousand dollars, came from the pockets of the colored people. If Mr. Vardaman hoped to curtail the Negro's educational privileges in Mississippi he failed. But more, not satisfied with what had been accomplished, these Colored Methodist Episcopallans are led on to larger victories. They met recently at Holly Springs and laid the corner-stone of two new buildings—a boy's dormitory and another building. It was an auspicious event, which called together not only representatives of that church, but also such distinguished men of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as Bishop Charles B. Galloway, and Dr. J. D. Hammond, Secretary of Education. Inspired by past success these Negroes brought up a substantial collection for these new enterprises. It is said that in one year the two Mississippi Conferences of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church raised $8,000 toward the institution referred to. The faculty of this school is headed by Dr. Frank H. Rogers, president, a graduate of Gammon Theological Seminary, and a classmate of the editor of the Southwestern. We congratulate these our brethren on their magnificent success, for no man takes greater pride in this splen did outcome than we, and we certainly wish them well and hope for Dr. Rogers pre-eminent success in this great field. —Southwestern Christian Advocate. Planet Prizes Miss Sarah J. Harris of Nottoway Va. secured 12 subscribers to the PLANET and a china set was sent to her. In her letter to us under date of the 14th inst. at Petersburg, Va., she says: "Dear Editor: I received the dinner set Monday before leaving home and I was surprised to know that I could get such a lovely prize for the little service I have rendered to The PLANET. I am delighted with the set." Read the list of prizes in this issue and work for what you want. Twenty-fifth Anniversary Prof. and Mrs. J. E. Jones, celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary at their cosy home, No. 520 St. James Street, last Tuesday night. Many friends called to pay their respects and the silver offerings were select and beautiful Baptizing Converts. The revival season has about closed and the work done was not as satisfactory as in former years. On the second Sunday morning in June, Rev. R. V. Peyton, D. D. pastor of the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church baptized 117 candidates. On that same Sunday Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church baptized 48 and Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., pastor of the Second Baptist Church baptized about 56. —A Grand Sacred Concert will be given at Third Street A. M. E. Church Sunday, June 30, 1907 at 2:30 P. M. under the auspices of the famous J. P. Dashill Quartette. A most excellent programme will be rendered. Hon. Carlton McCarthy will deliver an address. Admission Free. —Mr. J. Patrick Smith left the city June 20, for New London, Westly and Watch Hill, R. I. to spend the summer. His many friends wish him a pleasant stay and a successful season. —Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Stanton have moved back to their residence at No. 4 E. Leigh Street. SENATOR FORAKER MAKES GREAT SPEECH. He Electrifies the Citizens in Ohio. His Audience Enthusiastic. A REVIEW OF THE BROWNSVILLE TESTIMONY-GUILT OF THE COLORED SOLDIERS NOT PROVEN PUNISHMENT WITHOUT TRIAL-SECRETARY TAFT'S LANGUAGE USED WITH TELLING EFFECT. "An enlisted man is more or less a ward of the Government, and if the Government steps in merely to see that he is tried according to law, it seems to me that it is an exercise of a discretion which the Government has." [Secretary Taft's language when Athens, Ohio, was shot up by white soldiers of the regular army.] "The reason that prompted him prompted me. I thought that what a white soldier was entitled to at Athens, Ohio, a Negro soldier was entitled to at Brownsville, Texas." Xenia, Ohio, June 20.—Senator J. B. Foraker attracted thousands here to-day to hear his address at the forty-fourth commencement of Wilberforce University. Colored peo we have been arriving from all over the country for several days. The Senator received many ovations during the day and there were thousands at the depot to meet him when he arrived from Cincinnati at 10:30 this morning. All of the G. A. R. men of the county, white and black, with several brass bands, escorted him from the depot uptown. A short speech by the Senator early in the day served to whet the appetite of the masses for his formal address this afternoon. Mr. Foraker was introduced by former State Senator J. G. Carson. Wild enthusiasm greeted many of his utterances. That the Senator feels deeply the position in which his controversy with the President has placed him was shown by this utterance, made after his reference to the Brownsville affair: "If for what I have done in this behalf I am to be eliminated from public life, as has been proclaimed, then let it be known that I shall at least carry with me into private life the consoling satisfaction of feeling and knowing that I have been rebuked for an action that I shall never regret but always esteem as creditable to my heart as a man and to my sense of justice and duty as a public official." A REFERENCE TO THE PAST Senator Foraker opened his address with the remark that it was just twenty-two years since he had spoken to the graduates of Wilberforce. He then discussed the history that the college has made in that time, the progress of the Negro and the hopeful outlook. He then mentioned the men prominent in Ohio and national affairs who have died in those twenty-two years and paid tribute to McKinley, Hanna and others. Of President Roosevelt he said. "At that time Theodore Roosevelt was barely known to the American people, but he too had been laying the foundations broad and deep on which he was to build that remarkable character that has enabled him not only to be President of the United States but to fill the whole world with the fame of his deeds." Mr. Foraker then talked of the Spanish war, and the honorable part the Negro took in it, saving: "They were represented among the volunteers we raised for the Spanish-American war. They were gallantly represented among the regulars who fought the battles in Cuba. No braver troops bore the flag to victory in that contest than the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry. They were represented on every fire line in the armies of them perished in every clash of arms. They fled fighting side by side with the white soldiers, and wherever there was hard service or dangerous duty to be performed they were present and did their full share. THAT PRESIDENTIAL ORDER Speaking of the Brownsville affair Senator Foraker said in part: "The investigation has not yet been concluded. All know, however, what has been accomplished. "That this may be the better understood it is well to recall that the President's order dismissing the battalion without honor was based on certain reports made by officers of the Inspector-General's Department and certain testimony taken by the citizens of Brownsville. This seem- RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1907. [Secretary Taft's language when Athens, Ohio, was shot up by white soldiers of the regular army.] ed to the President to show conclusively that some men of the battalion were the raiders and that other men of the battalion had knowledge of their identity but would not disclose it. "The testimony and the reports upon which the President acted seemed unreliable and insufficient to establish guilt. After it had been dissected in the discussions in the Senate the President, apparently recognizing its uncertain and unsatisfactory quality, sent Mr. Purdy, Assistant Attorney-General and Major Blockson to Texas to take testimony to establish the fact. They took the affidavits of a great many witnesses. They also secured a lot of shells and clips and cartridges and bullets from the streets and houses of Brownsville. The shells and clips and cartridges and bullets all seemed to indicate that the firing party had used army ammunition and the army rifle. been nured except at Fort Niobrara. NO ROOM FOR DISPUTE. "This fact as to three three guns being dependent on human testimony might be disputed, but as to the other gun which was in the arm chest there was room for dispute. It could not have been fired and was not fired that night. From this fact it necessarily follows that if any of the shells picked up in the streets of Brownsville were fired out of that gun, then they were not fired at Brownsville the night of the raid, but at Fort Niobrara before the battalion left Nebraska. It was easy to account for the presence of the shells in Brownsville, for long before it was known that any such question would arise it had been proved that Company B brought from Fort Niobrara a large box filled with exploded shells and clips, &c., which stood on the back porch of their citizens of Athens protested. He answered that 'an enlisted man is more or less a ward of the Government and if the Government steps in me to see that he is tried accorded to law, it seems to me that it is exercise of a dissection which the Government has." That answer was a credit to both his head and his heart. The reason that prompted him prompted me, thought that what a white soldier was entitled to at Athens, Ohio, a Neg soldier was entitled to at Brownville, Texas. "I do not question the good faith (Continued on Eighth Page.)" Successful Scholars THE CHARGE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. "The President sent this testimony to the Senate, stating in the message transmitting it that it left no room for doubt that some of the soldiers were guilty of shooting up the town and that many of them who did not participate in the firing necessarily had knowledge as to the identity of the raiders and were guilty of withholding that knowledge. "It was after this testimony was so transmitted that the investigation was ordered by the Senate. The purpose of the investigation was not only generally to establish the facts, but "1.—To give the men a chance to be heard in their own defense. "2—To fix the identity of the soldiers guilty of the shooting, if any of them were guilty. "2—To ascertain and report all other important facts connected with the shooting which it might be possible to establish. "There were 167 non-comissioned officers and men discharged without honor. About sixty of these have been called and examined as witnesses. These men were all examined very carefully and cross-examined very rigidly. The effect of all this testimony was to show that there was not a missing cartridge nor a dirty gun in the whole battalion, that the soldiers were in a good state of discipline, under entire control and without any resentment such as would prompt such a conspiracy and such a crime because of any mistreatment they or any of them might have received at the hands of the citizens of Brownsville. THAT MICROSCOPIC TEST During the progress of this examination of the men the War Department caused a microscopic examination to be made of the exploded shells that had been picked up in the streets of Brownsville, with the result, as stated in the report of the experts who made the examination, that it showed without doubt that the shells so picked up in the streets of Brownsville had been fired out of four certain guns. "It was further shown that one of these guns was on the night of the shooting in an armchief under lock and key in the room of the quartermaster sergeant of that company, and that it had never been fired, except only on the target range at Fort Niblora. All of the other three guns were shown to have been in the hands of the men who were in line, and not one of them was fired that night, nor had any one of them ever NO ROOM FOR DEPUTE. "This fact as to these three guns being dependent on human testimony might be disputed, but as to the other gun which was in the arm chest there was no room for dispute. It could not have been fired and was not fired that night. From this fact it necessarily follows that if any of the shells picked up in the streets of Brownsville were fired out of that gun, then they were not fired at Brownsville the night of the raid, but at Fort Niobraska before the battalion left Nebraska. It was easy to account for the presence of the shells in Brownsville, for long before it was known that any such question would arise it had been proved that Company B brought from Fort Niobraska a large box filled with exploded shells and clips, &c., which stood on the back porch of their barracks uncovered for some days following their arrival during which time any one so disposed might have removed the shells and clips there from which were afterward found in the streets. The effect of all this testimony, when properly analyzed and weighed went to show that no one in the battalion was connected with the raid in Brownsville, and that all the men were innocent both of participation in the raid and of wrongly withholding knowledge with respect to it. They simply had nothing whatever to do with it. Thus the soldiers were acquitted a second time." TEXANS TESTIMONY WORTHLESS Mr. Foraker said that most of the personal testimony taken was worthless, because it relates to matters about which there was no dispute. The only question, he said, about which there has been a controversy is whether or not the men who did the shooting were soldiers of the garrison or were somebody else. Continuing, Senator Foraker said: "Various people said they heard the shooting, went to their windows looked out into a night of unusual darkness, and at a distance ranging all the way from 25 feet up to 150 feet saw the men who were doing the firing and recognized them as Negroes wearing the uniform of United States soldiers. "All the officers of the battallion, in addition to everything else that they said in favor of their men, testified that the night was so dark that it was impossible to tell a colored man from a white man without the aid of artificial light at a distance of ten to twelve feet. Major Penrose testified that he could not tell his officers, who were 'white', from his enlisted men, who were colored, ten feet away from him, and that he could not tell at that distance from him anything about clothing. The testimony of every other officer was to the same effect. These officers are all intelligent, honorable, nigh minded men. USED SECRETARY TAFT'S LAN GUAGE. "Why have I bothered myself about this matter? My critics have assigned a good many reasons, all of a reprehensible character. Let me tell you the real reason and let me tell it in the language of Secretary Taft. I refer to what he said when Athens, Ohio, was shot up two or three years ago by a lot of white soldiers of the regular army who were encamped there with our National Guard. He sent representatives of the Government to look after the defence of the men who had been arrested for the crime. The citizens of Athens protested. He answered that 'an enlisted man is more or less a ward of the Government, and if the Government steps in merely to see that he is tried according to law, it seems to me that it is an exercise of a discretion which the Government has.' That answer was a credit to both his head and his heart. The reason that prompted him prompted me. I thought that what a white soldier was entitled to at Athens, Ohio, a Negro soldier was entitled to at Brownsville, Texas. "I do not question the good faith Successful Scholars. Successful Scholars. MONROE SCHOOL—Honor Pupils. 4B GRADE—First Honors: Albert Dabney William Lester, Malinda Jackson, Lucretia Johnson. Second Honors: Mary Booker, Jennie Binford, William Banks, Volgillia Ellis, Ruth Evans, Mary Ford, Fred, Grey, William Hamilton, Walter Harris, John Hopkins, Rosa Harris, Ellise Harris, Lille Jackson, Fiorence Jackson, Alex, Lewis, Lee Morton, Russell Mickens, Arthur Matthews, Pearl Mosby, Ethel Mosby, Annie Price, Lucile Smith, James Sire, Arisia Williams. Others Promoted: William Black, Rebecca Dandridge, Kate Hewin, Netie Funn, Kate Hopson, Charles Branch, James Shelton, James Vaughn, Braxton Payne. 4A GRADE—First Honors: Lilian Scott, Annie Watts, Elizabeth Watkins, Sallie Cherry, Wyndham Dandridge. Second Honors: Maria Moore, Ernest Liggins, Carrie Hudson, Gladys Hill, Cellestein Lee. (Continued on Eighth Page.) Baptized There. Rev. A. E. Edwards, D. D. baptized nine candidates at the Fifth Street Baptist Church last Sunday morning. In anticipation of some trouble a police officer was on hand, but his services were not needed. The trouble that has been manifest in the church for some time is still in evidence. No business meeting can be held until the injunction is removed, but the supporters of Dr. Edwards seem in no hurry about removing it. No money can be paid out for salaries or other expenses, by way of the treasurer of the church and this difficulty is being tided over by making the stream leading to the treasury as small as possible. Dr. Edwards' friends are furnishing him with salary. The last condition of the church seems to be worse than the first so far as an early settlement of the controversy is concerned. TENNANT—ROANE. The marriage of Miss Lella Elenora Roane 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. Richmond Normal School Graduating Exercises The First Baptist Church was packed Friday evening, June 14th, with a brilliant audience, composed of both white and colored persons to witness the commencement exercises of the Richmond Normal School In the choir gallery, back of the rostrum were the white teachers of the school. On the rostrum were Mr. Bagby, Major J. H. Capers, Superintendent Fox and Mayor Carlton McCarthy. The musical part of the programme was under the management of Mr. Walter C. Mercer. Principal S. D. Turner, Jr., is in charge of this school and gave evidence of having kept it up to a high standard. The programme was an improvement on the one of last year. Miss Serena Robinson attracted much attention by her excellent rendition of "In the Tolls of the Enemy," while Miss Ewa Graham, the accomplished daughter of Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham gave evidence of a remarkable gift for music in her skillful rendition of a piano solo. Mayor McCarthy's address was the feature of the evening and Major J. H. Capers address won immediate and lasting favor. The following was the programme: Entrance of graduates and postgraduates; "Lady Arise" (from "The Dream, by Costa), the school; recitation, "A Plea for Patriotism," Rus sell Walker; "Junita," the school; Scene from "The Merchant of Vence" (act v.), normal class; "The World is Full of Beauty," the school; Scene from "The Tempest" (act v), normal class; "Slumber Song," (Lohr), the school; recitation, "In the Tola of the Enemy." Miss Serenia Robinson; instrumental solo, Miss Eva Graham; recitation, "Mustard Plasters," Miss Blanche Walton; "Swing Song," normal class; address Hon. Carlton McCarthy; "Spring Song," the school; delivery of diplomas, James H. Capers, chairman of School Board; "Auld Lang Syne," the school. The following is the list of graduates: January, 1907—Miss Mary Elizabeth Ammons, Miss Mary Magdalene Barrett, Miss Willie Louise Brock, Miss Bessie Gwendola Brown, Miss Elsie Beatrice Carter, Miss Tamar Estelle Carter, Miss Mamie Lou Daggett, Miss Lillie Belle Fox, Miss Eva Lee Graham, Miss Alberta Edith Hughes, Miss Lillian Pearl Jack son, Mr. Peter Carlyle Jones, Miss Florence Augusta Taylor, Miss Louise C. Tilton, Mr. Russell Eccles T. Walker, Miss Ophelia Myrtle Washington, Mr. George Ruffin White. June, 1907—Miss Lottle Irene Brown, Miss Della Ellen Caskie, Miss Bessie Courtney Edwards, Miss Collea Viola Grevy, Mr. Edward Hilton Stanton, Miss Mamie Lee Johnson, Miss Ora Arnita Johnson, Miss Rebecca Thomasine Mitchell. Post Graduates, January, 1907—Miss Alice Belle Johnson, Miss Coralace Arealea Norrell, Miss Marie Regina Stokes, Miss Rosa Ellen Toast June, 1907—Miss Elsie Beatrice Carter, Miss Virginia Belle Lee, Miss Carrie Etta Young, Miss Godie Letta Young. Miss Edna Debbress, who failed to make the average in one study has been given permission to go on with the class and make up the deficiency during the next term. Colored High School of Manchester Closes The 17th Annual Commencement Exercises of the Colored High School held June 18, 1907 in the First Baptist Church, 15th and Decatur Sts. was one of the grandest in its history. Promptly at 8:15 o'clock to the sweet strains of music played by Miss Bertha E. Hughes, the graduates entered, after which an excellent programme was rendered. The graduates are as follows: Mr. Othello R. Howell, Miss Ode A. Selden, Miss Martha F. Smith, Miss Mayme B. Nelson, Miss Augle L. Miller, Miss Elise M. Robinson. Seated on the rostrum were Supt. D. L. Pulliam and Board, Principal J. H. Blackwell, Prof. J. E. Jones of B. U. U., Prof. C. L. Umpee and other distinguished gentlemen. The Essays, Recitations and musical numbers rendered by the graduates were greatly enjoyed and they were loudly applauded. One of the most interesting features of the occasion was the address to the graduate by Prof. J. E. Jones, of V. U. U. His subject "The Duty the U Educated Owe to the Uneducated" was skillfully handled and no doubt proved much benefit to all who heard him. Encouraging remarks were made by Supt. D. L. Pulliam, Mr. Benjamin P. Owens and E. H. Wells, Esq. The following prizes were awarded: Miss Edna Drumgoode, prize in Mathematics; Miss —— Hilton, prize for Department; Master Conley Manning, prize for highest examination mark. Prizes having been awarded Principal Blackwell proceeded to give some data regarding the history of the school. He outlined the number of graduates which the school had sent out, touched on some of the PRICE, FIVE CENTS past and present history of the school and the industrial feature, which has lately been added. The exercises closed with a "medley" sung by the school and benediction by Dr. A. A. Graham of Burkville, Va. Mr. R. A. Johnson conducted the music while Miss Bertha E. Hughes displayed her skill in handling the organ. Funeral of a Prominent Woman The funeral of Mrs. Emily Barrelinger, who died Friday afternoon, June 14th at her home, Greensboro, N. C., took place from the Shiloh Baptist Church. The impressive service which was conducted by Rev. Dr. Thomas D. Atkins was attended by a large crowd at the Shiloh Baptist Church of which the deceased was a consistent member for more than 14 years. Mrs. Barringer died at the age of 55 years. She said she was ready to go, that her life's work was ended, that her friend that Dr. Atkins preach her funeral and that Mrs. Katie Grasty sing "On Jordan's Stormy Bank I Stand and Cast a Wishful Eye." Every available seat in Shiloh was occupied and many were turned away unable to get a seat. Mrs. Barringer leaves a husband, nine children and a host of friends to mourn their loss. The funeral eulogy delivered by Dr. Atkins was indeed tender and pathetic, and at times there was not a dry face in that great church. Dr. Atkins ended by saying, "That far above the ancient tracks of planets and the burning paths of melting worlds and incinerated systems the great white throne of Jesus Christ the Son of God appears and around him bright conclaves and concentrated files of the unbroken ranks of the oldest children of eternity glitter, as if colored by the lightning's flash. And the deep rolling thunders shake the mansions of the dead, stir the sleeping millions from center to the utmost poles of humanity and rising to the judgment bar, we will see our dear sister again." The Doctor was indeed at his best and this sermon will live in the walls of Shiloh and Greensboro. The deceased was a member of Household of Ruth Lodge, No. 683 and Eastern Star. The following over the pill bearers: Messrs. W. P. Sipes, D. D. Sharppe, C. L. Sharppe, W. W. Donell, G. W. Stanfield, J. W. Harris, George Eccles and Silas Graves. The following ministers took part in the services: Rev. T. D. Ware of the Baptist Church, Revs. Gibson and Jones of the M. E. Church, Revs. Frazier and Johnson of the Sanctified and Baptist. Yours for Heaven WM. MORRIS STATON Deacon Shiloh Bapt. Ch. Greensboro, N. C. "Sleep on beloved, sleep and take thy rest, Lay down your head upon the Saviour's breast; We love thee well, but Jesus loves thee best. Good night, good night." Gone to be With Jesus. After an illness of several days duration, Mr. Edward J. Johnson, the devoted, son of Mildred and Peyton Johnson and the husband of Mary E. Johnson, died at his residence, 115 W. Charity Street, Wednesday night, about 11:15 P. M. His funeral took place Sunday morning from Jasper's Memorial Church of which he had been a member 18 years. The profusion of flowers was a fit testimony of the sympathy of his many friends. The services were conducted by Rev. R. V. Peyton. The beautiful solo, "In Death's City," was rendered by Mrs. Mary E. Washington. Royal Lodge, Knights of Pythias and Olivette Court, Order of Calanthe of which he held membership, were out to pay the last tribute of respect. His casket was tenderly borne by members of Royal Lodge. Honorary: Messrs. Darvis Harris, John Brown, Thomas Archer, Prof. J. A. Mayo. He leaves a wife, 3 small children mother and father and other relatives and friends to mourn their loss. "He has gone to live with Jesus, Away in Glory land; He is gone to swell the number That live at God's right hand. In health he was a blessing. In sickness suffered much: But Jesus said, 'Come unto me, My Kingdom's made of such.'" —Mrs. Miles C. Debbress is out again after a severe spell of sickness. —Mrs. Jane Reed of 313 N. 4th St., who has been ill is improving. —Subscribe now. The PLANET is only $1.50 per year. The MYSTERY of CARNEYCROFT BY JOSEPH BROWN COOKE COPYRIGHT 1007 BY STORY-FREES CORPORATION rwo CHAPTER XIII. Quiet Is Restored "Now then," said MacArdel, the next morning, as we were comfortably seated in the library, "this mystery is clearing itself up more rapidly than I expected. Have you got those two notes with you?" I mean the one you found on your bed the other morning and the one that slipped out of your pocket last night?" I handed them to him and we spread them out on the table and examined them closely. The first was written in a cramped labored hand which was obviously disguised, while the more recent one had evidently been dashed off hurriedly and with no attempt at masking the chirurgy of its author. In both instances, however, the English style of writing was so clearly exemplified and there were so many letters having points in common, that it did not require the skill of an expert to perceive that the two notes were the work of the same individual. "You see," exclaimed MacArdel, "I was right, only I got the cart before the horse. I told you that after we had discovered how the first note was placed on your bed we would have little or no difficulty in tracing its authorship. As matters have turned out, however, we know the author but we don't know how she got the paper into your room. Nevertheless you cought to be satisfied for you remember you said that you cared very little how the letter reached you if you could only find out who wrote it." "I am not so sure that we know who wrote it even now," I returned, gloomily. "The goings-on in this house are altogether too bewildering to suit my taste." "Why, it must have been the woman!" cried MacArdel, with emphasis. Who else could have done it, man? You'll admit that both were written by the same hand, and I hardly think you'll deny that she was responsible for the one we found last night. If she wrote one she must have written the other, too." "Perhaps she didn't write either" I muttered insistently. "Oh, rubbish, Ware!" exclaimed MacArdel, impatiently. "What's the use of looking for more mystery when the whole thing is as good as explained! There she was, locked up in that little room across the hall. She couldn't get out, except through the window, and there was only one, which opened on the veranda right beside my chair. But she could look out and see all that was going on, and when we had our little tussle with Jenks, she took it all in from start to finish. "Now, the widow's no fool, Ware, and as soon as she realized that she and Jenkins were completely in our power she wrote this note at the desk in the corner of the room and kept it in her hand until the opportunity came to slip it into your pocket. She wrote hurriedly for she did not know when she would be interrupted and so she had no time to disguise the hand as she did before. She's English the writing's English and I'll warrant the paper in the desk is the same as this she used." We crossed the hall to the little reception room, and, as MacArdel had suggested, we found the desk open and some stationery strewn about which exactly matched the paper I held in my hand. Moreover, on the floor near by was a lead pencil which, apparently, had been thrown down carelessly so that it rolled off the desk to the place where we discovered it. The note was in pencil, and, undoubtedly, had been written with this pencil or with one of the same quality of lead. There seemed to be no room for further argument as to the identity of the author of these remarkable communications, but, while the facts concerning the second were sufficiently plain, much mystery still surrounded the first. "Hang it all, Mac!" I exclaimed, I'll have to admit that the widow wrote the notes in spite of myself, but how on earth did she know of my feelings toward Miss Carney? And, what's more, how did she get that letter or my bed? "Guessed at it, as far as your first question is replied," repelled Mac-Ardel, cheerfully. "Just used her common sense as to the fitness of the match, and took the chance. That's all there is to it. Ware." "Even so," I returned, "and I'm hardly willing to admit that your explanation is correct, how did the note get on the bed?" "Easiest thing in the world," laughed MacArdel. "You were in and out of your room after you made up the bed for the night, weren't you?" "Why, certainly!" I rejoined. "I fixed it up first and then came down and locked up the house. I must have been out of the room for 15 or 20 minutes after the bed was made." "Well," he continued, "what more you want? The woman, or one of her accomplices, evidently has a way of getting in and out of the houses, at pleasure, and while you were fussing around downstairs the note was tucked under a fold of the counterpane with the idea that you would find it when you turned in. As a matter of fact you didn't find it till morning, but you probably slept as well, for all that." "How about the cigar case?" I asked, with a grin. "Oh, bother the cigar case!" exclaimed MacArdel. "That was only an incident in this whole plot to scare people away from here. It looks queer, I know, but so did the other things, for a time. We'll find out how it was worked, sooner or later, and even if to see you!" Mrs. Randolph, who proved to be Miss Weston's aunt, kissed both young women affectionately and then I was introduced in due form. "Mrs. Randolph is to be our chaperon," Miss Carney explained, "and is going to Carney-Croft with us as soon as the place is ready. I was wishing this morning that you knew her, for I was sure she would be here and you could have been company for each other while you were waiting for the ship to come up. We used to say, when we lived here, that there seemed to be a fate that kept you two people from meeting one another." "You had a pleasant trip, I hope? I asked, solicitously, after expressing my regret that I had missed the pleasure of Mrs. Randolph's acquaintance. "Dellightful, every minute of it!" she rejoined. "If it hadn't been for Annie's seasickness and—" "And the parson's!" interrupted her friend, with a laugh. "Yes, the parson's," continued Miss Carney, flushing fatally as a smile flitted across her face. "They were going to some kind of a convention and they were everywhere; in the forecastle, praying with the sailors; in the smoking room casting horrified glances at less sanctified passengers who ventured to drink or play; at the table before the places were fairly laid; and—" "Under an awning, back of a vaultator, making volent love to Miss Carney of Carney-Croft!" gurgled Miss Weston in a tone of waggish softness. How are we to address you in the future, my dear: 'The Rev. Mrs. Simpkins,' or 'Mrs. Rev. Simpkins,' or what, pray?" "Wasn't he awful, Nan!" cried Miss Carney, laughing heartily. "And did you hear him saying good-by to the steward as we were coming into the dock?" Turning to me she explained. "The chief steward was quite deaf and the A "There Are So Many Things I Want to Ask." reverend gentleman grasped him fervently by the hand and, rolling his eyes to heaven, said earnestly: 'Goodby, steward, good-by' I hope we may meet again; if not on earth perhaps in the home above! 'Eh! eh!' cried the steward, putting his hand to his ear. 'Wot line are ye goin' by? "How sailors do dislike to have clergymen on shipboard!" said Mrs. Randolph, in a conventionally apologetical tone as if, in her character of chaperone, she must be properly shocked at the levity of Miss Carney's narrative; but our merriment was too real to be subdued by a look, and at length she gave up entirely and laughed as heartily as the rest at the cleverly told little anecdote. "There must be some reason for it," sald Miss Weston with a chuckle, and then she added roguishly: "The captain sald we were lucky to get home at all with such a 'delegation of dominies' on board to enrage the elements and drive the officers to suicide!" By this time the customs inspector had finished with the hand luggage and Miss Carney, followed by the others, made her way to the end of the pier to the carriage I had provided for their use, leaving her maid to look after the trunks and heavier pieces of baggage. "You must come, too," she insisted, as I was about to close the door of the brougham. "You know, Martha was born and brought up in New York and she can attend to the trunks and find her way to the hotel without the slightest difficulty. Besides," she continued, as I obediently took the vacant place opposite her, "I want to see you, and talk to you, and hear some good 'United States' spoken again." Her eyes fairly sparkled and her expression of vivacity made her face radiant. "There are so many things I want to ask," she went on, "that I don't know where to begin, except that you must tell me the very earliest minute that we can start for home." "Any minute you wish," I replied, laughing. "The place is ready and waiting for its mistress." "Why, how did you ever manage to do it all so soon?" she exclaimed in unfeigned delight. Then, turning to Mrs. Randolph, she continued: "Mr. Ware is one of the most wonderful men in the world! He must be descended from the genius of old, for I can hardly express a wish to him before it is fulfilled. How did you do it, Mr. Ware?" "It wasn't a very difficult task, Miss Carney." I replied, with becoming modesty. "You see, being on the spot, as I was, I could direct the work to so much better advantage, and—" "Why! were you there yourself?" she exclaimed in amazement; and then, turning her face away, a faint flush, scarcely visible at first, crept slowly up from her cheeks until it was lost under the little ringlets of soft brown hair that nestled about her ears and forehead. My heart seemed to rise in my throat for an instant, and then began to beat so violently that its throbbles became somewhat nodule as I said. we don't. I can't see that if makes any great difference. We know the leaders in this business and we've got them pretty well subdued. All you have to do is to go ahead and open up the place. There won't be ahy more nonsense when they realize that you don't care a snap of your finger for them or their doings. Just get your servants here all at the same time. Have the house cleared and alred from top to bottom and keep burning in the halls all night. Fill the stable with horses as you told me you intended to do, and see that all the servants' cottages on the place are occupied. "You won't have any trouble, Ware, if you will only take the precaution to have all these people come at the same time, and transform the place into one of bustling activity within a few hours. All you have to do to stamp out this ghost business is to overwhelm it entirely, and there won't be any more of it, I promise you, as soon as the place is running full blast." MacArdel's idea seemed to be the most practical one that presented itself, and within a few days, the house was filled with workmen and their helpers, while the retinue of carefully chosen servants was imported from town, and gave to the establishment an air of permanent occupancy. As many men from the village as could be persuaded to work on the place at all were assigned to the roads and lawns, and every effort was made to beautify and render attractive the entire estate. I had no hesitancy in authorizing the lavish expenditures which were necessitated by such wholesale rehabilitation of the property, for not only was I assured that anything I might do would meet with the full approval of Miss Carney, but, from my position as her trustee, I knew that the income of the estate would warrant the steps I was taking toward its improvement. There were no further uncanny manifestations or mysterious happenings of any kind, and Jenks and the widow continued to follow their usual vocations as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred, so that we were forced to believe that they were living up to the spirit as well as to the letter of their oath. MacArdel who had remained with me as my guest and companion while this work was in progress, did not half like this submissive behavior on the part of Jenks and the Bruce woman and his suspicions were greatly increased when I ordered the widow out of her cottage to make room for the golf links that Miss Carney wanted laid out. "Keep an eye on her, Ware," said MacArdel, when I told him show promptly and willingly she had acquieced in my wishes, and with what seeming gratitude she had accepted the new quarters in which I had installed her." Watch her carefully, old man," he continued. "She'll be up to some deviltry yet, you may be sure. Neither she nor Jenks has breathed a word, even to you or me, about that business the other night, but they haven't forgotten it by any means, and we'll hear from them when we least expect to, unless we keep a sharp lookout. I almost wish they had cut up a row over it at the beginning, rather than have them go on like this. They are nursing their rancor all this while and some day they will try to get their revenge." A telegram announcing the sailing of Miss Carney and Miss Weston spurred us on to greater efforts and, when at last we were ready to leave for town that I might meet the travelers at the pier, we were both satisfied that our labor had not been in vain. Carney-Croft looked like its old-timesself in its happiest days. The lawns had been cut and sodded, the roads and paths graded and repaired, the shrubs and hedges trimmed, and the flower beds filled with rare and well chosen plants. Within the house had been cleaned and renovated from garret to cellar and the corps of servants from housekeeper down to kitchen maid, were reliable, capable, and of thoroughly attested respectability, while the stable, with its new horses and trustworthy men, was nowise behind in point of complete reorganization and equipment. "You've done a great bit of work in the last few weeks," said MacArdel, as we were speeding toward town in the fast express. "Well," I replied, "my heart was in it, Mac. That accounts for it, I suppose." The idiotic grin with which he received this remark caused me to blush like a schoolboy, and I turned away from him to the window and watched the ever changing panorama that glided past as we rushed on toward the city. CHAPTER XIV. Miss Carney came down the gang-plank followed closely by Miss Weston, and greeted me in a way that was plainly sincere. "Oh! I am so glad to be home again!" she exclaimed joyously, and her face lighted up with pleasure as she glanced about at the crowd of expectant people that choked up the pler. "So is Annie, too!" she laughed, laying a hand on Miss Weston's arm and patting it playfully. "She was dreadfully ill all the way across and scarcely left her room until we reached Quarantine this morning. I don't know what seasickness is, myself, and I simply lived on deck. Why, how do you do, Mrg. Randolph! I am so glad THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA proved to be beed both young and then I was be our chap- tained, "and is with us as soon was wishing new her, for here and you for each other for the ship way, when we remed to be a people from trip, I hope? or expressing missed the ohh's acquaint- ation of it!" she somewhat sheepishly: "Yes, I was there all the time. I went expecting to stay only a day or so, but there were so many things to be attended to that I stayed on and let the time go to my vacation." "It couldn't have been much of a vacation," she exclaimed, regaining her composure in an instant, "and I don't intend that you shall be treated so shabbily. Mrs. Randolph, won't you please ask Mr. Ware to visit us at Carney-Croft for a fortnight after we got settled? If he makes any excuses I will order hfm to come in his professional capacity. You see, you can't escape us if you would," she laughed, and the matter was settled. When we reached the hotel Miss Carney insisted on my remaining to luncheon, explaining that she wished to talk over some business matters with me in the afternoon. Bled a comm myself together der to avoid coat in his Before I I had conv ney's behavior, simple, una position, co returning more than any other "Good m claimed Ml somewhat the breakfast to raial at C of Mrs. Raa report has Ara we had It was a merry quartette that assembled around the table in the dining-room of Miss Carney's apartments, and my memory naturally carried me back to my first luncheon with her, over three years before. The anxious, tearful expression of the past had given way to a countenance beaming with vivacity, health and peace with all the world, and her soft, ruddy complexion, heightened by the voyage across the Atlantic, enhanced, if such a thing were possible, the glorious beauty of her face. We chattered in a delightfully unconventional way until luncheon was over and then Mrs. Randolph tactfully left us to ourselves to discuss business matters in the sitting-room, while Miss Weston, who was the very antithesis of Miss Carney, by reason of her ill health and frustration, retired for her usual afternoon nap. The moment we were alone Miss Carney's levity and frivolity left her, and, motioning me to a seat by her side, she plunged at once into the consideration of a mass of details concerning Carney-Croft and its affairs. Suddenly she surprised me by asking pointedly: "Why did you remain at Carney-Croft longer than you had first intended? Was it solely to superintend the opening of the house or was it for some other reason?" This question, put to me so ingeniously, could be answered only with the utmost frankness, and I said earnestly: "There was another reason, Miss Carney, and an important one." Then I told her the whole story, as far as its practical features were concerned, but avoided, as much as possible, the recital of any unnecessary details. "So you think this will all be stopped, now that you know who the ring-leaders are?" she asked, anxiously. "I am sure that it will," I replied, more positively than my true feelings warranted. "There has been no more of it since we learned who wrote the notes and it looks as if Jenks and this Bruce woman were going to keep the affair entirely to themselves. Besides, the new house the widow has is much better than the old one, and she has considerably more land than before. She ought to be perfectly satisfied with her present situation and stop her performances, if only for her own sake." "But about their getting in and out of the house whenever they want to?" queried Miss Carney. "Don't you think it is rather dangerous to have any such mysteriously hidden entrance entirely unknown to us? Might they not get in again, while we are there, and take things or do something of that sort?" "Oh, no!" I replied, reassuringly. "You may be certain they won't do that. If they had wanted to steal they'd have done it long ago, when they had the place to themselves. I think they had a key that opened one of the doors, and I've had new locks put all over the house. They couldn't get in now if they tried." "What was said in the notes?" asked Miss Carney. "I wish you had saved them. I should have enjoyed seeing them, I know." "Oh, nothing of any consequence," I replied, hastily. "Just a few words warning me not to allow you to return and expressed in regulation penny-dreadful style. The whole thing was A man is sitting in a room with a large flower arrangement. He is looking at a woman who is standing in front of him, holding a bouquet of flowers. There are other people in the room, including a man and a woman. "How Delightfully Interesting!" crudely and awkwardly done and I am sure we have heard the last of it." "I hope we we have," she rejoined, earnestly. "I am very fond of Carney-Croft, and, while I don't believe in ghosts, and shouldn't fear them if I did, I cannot say that I fancy the idea or having human prowlers about the place. I know that we can get rid of them sooner or later, but I trust they won't cause us any annoyance at all." "I said what I could to reassure her, and, as I was going away, she offered her hand and held mine while she said softly: "You have been very thoughtful of my interests and happiness, Mr. Ware, and I appreciate it more than I can tell you." The pressure of her fingers tightened for an instant and made the blood course through my veins until my whole body tingled and my breath seemed to catch in my throat. I mum Bled a commonplace reply, and pulled myself together with an effort in order to avoid making my exit like a boy in his teens. Before I reached my office, however, I had convinced myself that Miss Carney's behavior was due only to her simple, unaffected, generosity or disposition, coupled with her delight at returning home, and that I was no more than a conceited ass in attaching any other significance to it. CHAPTER XV. A. New VisitIm "Good morning, Mr. Ware!" exclaimed Miss Carney, as I made a somewhat tardy appearance at the breakfast table not long after my arrival at Carney-Croft in acceptance of Mrs. Randolph's invitation. "What report has the bold Nimrod to-day? Are we to have game for dinner tomorrow, sir?" "Not so much as the report of a gun," I replied, as I dropped into my seat. "I only flushed one bird and he flew straight into foliage so dense that I couldn't get a ghost of a sight on him—" "We don't mind, so long as we don't get a sight of a ghost some dark night, do we, Nan?" laughed Miss Carney. "Besides. I've ordered some partridges from town and we won't be disappointed in our dinner, either! You should be very grateful to me for saving the day for you, sir!" "You might save my reputation, too, if you would only remark casually, as the game is served, that I have been out shooting every morning since I came," I suggested with a smile. "I believe you are to have guests to morrow." "Yes," she returned with provoking gravity, "but it's to be the rector and his wife. I would do a great deal for you, as you know, but in such highly moral company you are asking too much." "Speaking of ghosts, Mr. Ware," said Miss Weston, whose assumption of interest and good spirits was scarcely in keeping with her wanly glistening eyes and the pale, emaciated, hectic expression of her face, "you seem to have these Carney-Croft wraiths most decidedly under your control. You have laid them, in a word, haven't you?" "There certainly have been no uncanny doings since we've been here," cried Miss Carney in a bantering tone. "I don't really believe that Mr. Ware ever laid a ghost in his life, my dear. He has just been trying to tease us all the time!" "I think Dr. MacArdel had more to do with it than I." I replied gravely. "He engineered the whole campaign against them and is entitled to all the credit of putting an end to their performances." "Did you say that a woman was the leading spirit in all this mysterious affair?" asked Miss Weston, with interest. "Yes," I returned "and a most mild mannered woman, too. You never would imagine that she could be capable of originating such a startling plot. It really was quite exciting while it lasted." "I wonder if I saw her the other day," continued Miss Weston. "Was it the gentle-faced, motherly old soul who lives in the new house over by the orchard?" "The very one," I replied, laughing. "And this same motherly old soul, as you call her, can be as self-contained and tragic as you please when occasion requires. She ought to be on the stage, I assure you." "Why, what did she do that was so tragic?" they exclaimed in a breath, and Miss Carney continued, reprovingly: "You couldn't have told us the whole story, I'm sure. Please give us the tragic part of it at once, Mr. Ware." "Well," I said, thoughtfully. "Dr. MacArdel put her through a course of spouts that made a strong, hearty man faint away twice, and yet she never a word nor moved a muscle." "How delightfully interesting!" said Miss Weston. "I should never have dreamed from her appearance that she had so much fortitude. What could Dr. MacArdel have done that was so thrilling?" "Oh, he didn't do much." I returned. "He just asked some questions about the things that had been going on, but he did it in a way that was very effective. We wanted to learn who wrote the mysterious note that I had received on the night of my arrival. We found out that she did it, but it was only by chance and not through anything that she told us. If she had been a little more clever in delivering the other I am afraid we would be in the dark about it yet." "And so this Mrs. Bruce really wrote them both, did she?" asked Miss Weston, with continued interest. "What a horrible creature she must be!" "I don't believe she is exactly horrible," I said, cautiously, "but she certainly wrote the second note, and who ever wrote that one must have written the first as well." "Wouldn't it be interesting if some more would come!" cried Miss Weston, enthusiastically. "I think it would be the greatest fun in the world!" "You might change your mind if it really happened," I said with a smile. "These things are well enough after they are explained, but before that time, they strike one rather seriously, as I know from experience." "Well, I'd be willing to try it just for once," said Miss Weston, confidently. "I'm simply crazy to see what a real good mystery is like at first hand." As I chanced to move my plate a folded paper was disclosed and I hastily slipped it into my lap and read it surreptitiously. It said: "You have not kept Miss Carney and her friends away. Do not be surprised if the ghosts return." "Your wish is granted, Miss Weston," I exclaimed, holding it up in my hand. "Here is one of the spook notes this very minute. It is under my plate." "Oh, do let me take it!" she entreated, and I passed it to her by way of Miss Carney, who read it thoughtfully before handing it to her friend. The moment Miss Watson saw the paner a most unaccountable thing go curred. Her face blanched and she awayed in her seat for an instant as if in danger of falling, but regaining her self-control in another moment, she exclaimed: "How silly I am! This ridiculous note made me quite dizzy for a minute. Where did you say you found it, Mr. Ware? Under your plate, here at the table? Why, some one must be playing a joke on us all!" "No doubt," I returned, watching her closely. "But it may prove to be a very serious joke. You see, a thing of this kind is more startling than one would expect. I've grown rather used to it myself, but you seem to be quite upset over it." "Oh, it's just for the moment," said Miss Weston, with a forced laugh. "I didn't get much sleep last night and this thing came on me so suddenly and unexpectedly that it quite took my breath away." A moment later she left the table on some trivial pretext, and Miss Carney called the butler, who had left us to our coffee before this conversation began, and questioned him closely as to the affairs of the morning. He said that he had laid the plates himself not long before we came down to breakfast and that while he had not been in the room all the time he was positive that no one could have entered without his knowledge. "It looks as if you must have slipped it under your plate yourself, Mr. Ware," said Miss Carney in a bantering tone that ill betokened her true frame of mind. "There doesn't seem to be any other explanation. And do you really think the ghosts will come back again? I shall not let you go away until they are permanently suppressed, you may be sure." "I know I appear to be guilty," I replied with a laugh, "but I assure you I am not. You are merely having a taste of the same mysterious phenomena that I myself saw here last summer. I cannot say whether the ghosts will return or not, but I scarcely think they will. If they do, we know where to go to discourage them." "But how do you suppose the note was placed under your plate?" asked Miss Carney, in an anxious tone. "I don't like this sort of thing at all! It makes me dreadfully nervous." "I haven't the slightest idea," I said, frankly. "But I am sure we will find out all about it before long. You know the other notes seemed very mysterious at first, but we soon explained them without the slightest difficulty." As I said these words I thanked my lucky stars that I had taken the precaution to keep Miss Carney in ignorance concerning the cigar case and the odor of the rags that we found in Jenks' possession. For my part, the mystery of Carney-Croft seemed to be growing deeper and deeper, and yet I felt it my duty to my hostess to make as light of the matter as possible, especially in the presence of her other guests. After breakfast Miss Carney and I walked down toward the river together and passed the spot where Mac-Ardel had questioned Jenks and the widow. "This is where you saw the ghosts, isn't it?" asked Miss Carney, with a little nervous shudder. "Yes," I replied, "and we could have captured them, too, if we had not been so sure that we already had bigger game in our hands." "I do hope they won't come back again," she said with a shiver. "I'm almost as much upset over it as Annie was. But she is not at all well, Mr. Ware. Do you know, I really think she is growing weaker and weaker every day. Her spirits keep her up and all that, but she certainly hasn't the strength she used to have." "I suppose that is why the note affected her so," I returned. "You remember, she was actually calling for some ghostly manifestation only a moment before, and yet you must have noticed how completely she lost her head when I found the paper." "But not until she had read it," said Miss Carney. "She didn't seem to mind it at all until then, you know." "No, it is totally unfamiliar to me. I hardly think that Annie knows anything about it, either. It was merely her weakness that upset her, Mr. Ware. You cannot realize how feeble she is." We returned to the house as the moring mail arrived and it chanced to be handed to me for distribution. As I sorted over the letters I came across one for Miss Weston and it was addressed in the now well-known hand of the Bruce woman and had been posted in the village the day before. I stuffed it in my pocket without comment, and, when I had an opportunity to hand it to its owner, she returned my significant glance with a book of such pathetic appeal that I knew she was innocent of any wrong doing, and that, at the most, she had become unwillingly entangled in this almost unfathomable mystery, which seemed to grow from hour to hour. Animals That Roam. "Now, Johnnie," asked his teacher, "when you go to the country in summer what animals, do you see roving about?" "Boarders," was the prompt reply.—Judge. Was a Postman. Spencer—Miss Whiston told me that her father was a much traveled man of letters. Ferguson—So he was. He had the biggest round of any postman in the district. His Last Wash. Unsympathetic Lady of the House— Well, you ain't been washed since, I'll wager. FROM THE PENCIL'S POINT. A reckless chauffeur is a sort of automaniac. A woman is always looking on the bright side—of a mirror. Any man who doesn't want what he hasn't got has all he wants. Just now the open season for coal chuting is drawing to a close. Never judge the dimensions of a woman's brain by the size of her hat. It is necessary to show some people the open door in order to shut them up. With the exception of the undertaker few men finish all they undertake. It is fortunate that the best man at a wedding is content to take second place. It takes a man to explain to a woman things that he doesn't understand himself. Some women marry in order to be independent, and some men get unmarried for the same reason. Most men appreciate the nonsense of a pretty woman far more than they do the sense of a honely one. No, Alonzo, don't think because a woman is swathed in an automobile veil that she is the owner of a motor car. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Words never fail a smooth hypocrite. A funny story gets more applause than sensible talk. There's always room for a few more—at the bottom. It's a woman's plain duty to be as handsome as she can. Jonah was the first man on record to get inside information. Popularity is an article that isn't displayed on bargain counters. It takes a fool to fool himself into the belief that he isn't foolish. It's up to a married man to be a husband—not merely an ex-bachelor. When a society woman attempts to put on style it looks much like a take-off. No, Alonzo, a man seldom puts his foot in it when he takes a step in the right direction. Female suffragists, Cordelia, are just plain women—and the plainer they are the more they suffer. It is far better for a girl to remain single than marry a good-looking man, for he will monopolize the mirror.—Chicago Daily News. DYSPEPTISMS. Tell a secret to a woman if you want it syndicated. Our sins also have an uncomfortable habit of finding us in. A lot of sympathy is wasted on the under dog and the old mald. A peck of trouble is easier to get into than a pint of happiness. If marriage is a lottery, allmony must be a sort of gambling debt. A girl must be very intellectual not to be able to tell what another girl has on. A fellow asks for a girl's hand, and the first thing he knows he is under her thumb. When a man boasts that he never did anything he is ashamed of, it may merely indicate that he is lacking in a sense of shame. The poor man who can't afford an automobile can console himself with the thought that a mule doesn't cost as much, and is almost as dangerous. COMMERCIAL PROVERBS. The earning power of a dollar depends on the brains of the man back of it. Feed your mind—the fellow who feeds his body only keeps on shoveling coal. The greatest combination in the world is ability, ambition and initiative, seasoned with honesty. A thousand men do a thing so-so and exist on liver to one who does it well and commands his own price. When a lily stops growing its beauty begins to fade, and when a man quits studying his brain begins to shrivel. Putting up money on a chance is gambling—whether in the money market on stocks or at the race track on a horse If you want to succeed, either work at the thing in which you are interested or cultivate an interest in the thing at which you work.—Cent Per Cent. A Frightful Rumor. Cecil—Poor Algy Daffington is on the verge of complete nervous prostration over a criminally stupid rumor. Percy—My word! It’s the first I’d heard of it. What agitated the dear boy so? Cecil—Some anonymous writer has declared that in the very near future valets will no longer be fashionable.—Puck. IT WILL PAY YOU To interest yourself in promot ing the CIRCULATION of the RICHMOND PLANET. --- THE PLANET SATURDAY JUNE 29, 1907 VERSE WORTH READING Oh, the scent of the sage comes drifting down on the breath of a prairie breeze. From an alpine where the bunch-grass ripples brown, like the waves of the summer seas. And the dear, sweet smell of the hillside pines and the cotton woods that grow. In canyons deep come home to me when the west winds gently blow. I can see the bulk of a milling herd in the rain clouds massing black Oh, for the feel of a braided rein and the plunge of a prairie steed. And the brave, true hearts that the open plain and the wind-swept mountains hold. Oh, for the days on the long divides and nights by the camp fire's glow. Man Who's Down and Out. A song for the man who loses, The yellow plods the road And tries to win in battle his din And smiles beneath his load. A song, I say, for the man who tolls And laughs in the endless fight— Who keeps his eyes to the bended skies, And ries to win with right. A song for the man who labors With never a grouch or frown— Who seeks no fame or lofty name, Through ages rumbling down. The man who bends unto his task, Though fate has been unkind. And does his best to reach the crest With thongs that chafe and bind. A song for the man who loses, No matter where he may be— Who knows the cost of efforts lost, And groped through mystery. It isn't much, the song I give, But a word of cheer for the fellow here Who lost—who's down and out! -Will F. Griffin, in Milwaukee Sentinel. His Old-Time Religion Sweet fields of Eden there, invitin' you to rest! Now and then a tempest on Jordan's stormy banks. But all of us enlisted in the halleluiah ranks! Old-time religion, people, made flowers in wintry ways. An' life moved to the music of the old camp-meetin' days; 'Twas then the brighter country was beamin' on the sight— 'Sweet fields arrayed in livin' green, an' rivers of delight!' Old-time religion, people, is what I want to know— To sprinkle with the fire of faith the new religion's snow! The Old-Time Games I want to go back to the old home nest. And swing on the sycamore tree; I want to go some again and rest in the garden. And play the games with the old-time "What time, old witch?" I want to play hide and seek again, And climb in the hatch to loft. Oh, the world is empty and all in vain its riches, and oft and oft I turn aside from the path of pain To list to a whisper soft. "Ouch!" said the well, zan, Bobtail, vinegar, tickler, tan, Harum, scarm, Irish narum Swingerium, Swangerium, Washumbuck" —Cana Myrover Robinson, in New York $n. A. Brutal Reminder. The foremost looked behind and saw The others on their way. Quite a few people were in mine, These others simply walk in line; Just think how they would feel my loss! Fool hoss! A man once stood before a crowd Who cheered his words full off. He spoke to them in accents loud And to himself he sometimes said, "Mine is the only thinking head— The one salivation of the clan." Fool n —Washington Star. Still Waters Aye; yet reproach for this I reckon wrong. Does not the proverb say That deepest waters run not loud, but still? The shallow babblings of my rhyming rill content me not to-day: My happy heart beats to rhythm sweeter Than can be bound a slave to rhyme and meter. Why pen should I employ When to the music of your love so strong My life is vocal with the sweetest song? I live the poem Joy. - Maud Scotfield Beeson, in the Century. The Old Man on Deck. Say, I'm a 'o' rheumatic— An' it tackles me in spring. But you Jes' play a fiddle, An' I'll hit the "plgeon-wing!" They say the old man's done fer— A-goin' down the hill; But you Jes' play a fiddle, An' I'll "double-shuffle' still! Thar's life an' joy amazin' In this life no joy to right; B thar's Caim yit for the raisin' The o' man's out o' sight! Atlanta Constitution. Sweet Sunset Give me bright eyes at sunset, And silence o'er the scene, With deeper shades and softer hues, Than through the day have been. Give me bright eyes at sunset, And music on the sea. BORS AND INTEREST THEM IN THE PLANET. WE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PREMIUM. COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS. AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. 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WE WILL SEND SOLDIERS WAR RECORD (CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE IN UNITED STATES ARMY.) FOR ONE YEAR EACH, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, THE MOST INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK IN THE COUNTRY. WE WILL SEND YOU A GOLD-PLATED BROOCH WITH YOUR PICTURE THEREIN, YOU TO Give me those taffy brown strains. Of Nature's melody. Give me bright eyes at sunset. That in the waning light. That in the dreams of beauty. And speak a sweet "good night". -La Touche Hancock , in New York Bun. DON'T YOU MIND. Trouble—don't you mind it, and don't you mind the care. Push 'em all behind you, and dream of heavens fair. The sorrows, that, like shadows, come falling 'cross the way Will fade before the sunbeams and blossoming of May. Don't you mind the thunder, and skies that threaten low. Don't you mind the wind sighs that keep a-walling so; For every sigh we hear, dear, there'll come a lilting tune— For every bit of trouble there'll come the smiles of June! Don't you mind the grieving—grief must play its part; Tears must blind the sight, dear, ere joy creeps in the heart. Don't you mind the thistles that wound the weary feet— We must know the bitter that we may know the sweet— -Milwaukee Sentinel! THE SPY. I saw her drop a rosebud, and I thought she did not know; And its petals by her dainty little fingers had been pressed. I watched the fragrant rosebud where it lay beside a chair. And because she was so winsome and because she was so fair. And because—because I loved her whom And because—because I loved her whom I had not dared to tell. I had not dared to tell. I bent stealthily to claim it, vowing I would prize it well. I had pressed my lips upon it and was turning to depart. Thinking I should always keep it safely hidden near my heart. When a friendly mirror showed me where she stood upon tiptoes In a little nook and gladly watched me as I kissed the rose. Ah, what cared I+ for the rosebud? It had lost its charm for me; Joyously I caught the maiden ere she had a chance to flee: had a chance to see. Nay, the rest shall be secret—if you'd learn it, find a nook. That contains a lovely malden who has told you with a look. -S. E. Kiser, in Puck. A Losing Game. George—You seem devoted to that old lady you were with. Is she a near relative? Gus—Hist! I'll tell you how it is. She is the mother of Miss Beautie, and I've always heard that the nearest way to a girl's heart is through her mother's. That's why I'm so sweet on the old lady. See? Gus—Yes, and you married the girl, didn't you? George—True. But the old lady took such a fancy to me that she has been living with me ever since.—N. Y. Weekly. Smoketown's Seal They met on the rim of a golden cloud. "Get turned down?" queried the shade who was on his way up. "Yes," sighed the shade who was on his way down. "St. Peter found out I was from Pittsburg." "And how in the world did he find that out?" "Why, I absent-mindedly offered him a stogey." -Chicago Daily News. In the Court Room: What is that man on trial for? "Well, he tried to drown his troubles in drink." "Do they try a man so solemnly for that?" "Not always, but in this case his chief trouble was his wife, and unfortunately for him, she could swim." —Baltimore American. A Word of Caution. "Be sure you're right, then go ahead; that's my motto," said the determined character. "Yes," answered the conservative friend; "but you mustn't be so sure you're right that you get to thinking you have a monopoly of all the good judgment in the world."—Washington Star. TWO OF THEM. Madge—Young Sickuppe has his good points, you must admit. Ada—M'yes, his moustache sticks out all right. True to Nature. "Look pleasant, please," said the seaside photographer, perfunctorily, as the old lady faced the camera. "Don't you do it, Marier," said her husband; "not on your tintype." 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If you do not want THE PLANET continued for another year after your money is mentioned above, you must send your money to the Planet to discontinue it. We decided that you submit to newspaper, who do not order their paper discontinued at the expense of the holder liable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discontinued. CONFIDENCIONS — When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your subscription, you must in full otherwise we cannot find your name on our ORDER OF ADDRESS. — in order to change your address of a subscriber, we must be sent the former as well as the present address. SATURDAY.....JUNE 29, 1907 IN THEIR OWN TRAP. The "Jim Crow" street car law has given the white people of this city no end of trouble and it is still doing so. Despite the fact that a white man is permitted to ride on a car anywhere from the fender in front to the "tall-board" behind, there are times when it is absolutely necessary to make him move in order to make room for some belated colored passenger. It has been understood that the third seat was for colored passengers and yet one of the most influential white gentlemen in the city, seeing this place unoccupied at the time took occasion to enjoy a smoke on this seat, apparently oblivious of the fact that the fumes from his aromatic cigar were blown into the faces of the colored passengers behind him. As some of them do not appreciate the flavor of even Havana cigars, it can readily be seen that his presence there did not tend to the comfort of all of his colored colleagues on that particular car. The conductor requested him to move up to the front. He refused so to do. This was in violation of the law as enacted and construed by every legal tribunal in Virginia that has had the displeasure to pass upon this feature of the law, for a conductor, with just enough sense to collect fares and turn in the money, even if he has no knowledge of the names and locations of the streets of the city has the right and the authority to make the Governor of Virginia move at his beck and call. In fact he can keep a passenger moving from the time he enters a car at "Screamersville" until he leaves it at "Rocketts" and the passenger may have really taken just as much exercise as though he had walked that distance. A failure to obey these "lords of creation" means ten dollars fine in Justice Crutchfield's court. Judge Edmund Waddill, Jr., who really has charge of the street car system by way of the Receivers was ordered to move from one seat to another, and Hon. Fritz Sittering, president of the street railway company was directed to move by one of his own conductors. We doubt if the conductor knew Mr. Sittering, so "green" are some of them. That these Virginia white folks should *get tired* of this kind of business is not surprising and that a test case has been made up emphasizes the position we took in this matter from the start. It is a nulsance and there was no necessity for any such regulation in the state of Virginia. It was put into effect to --- please a certain element of white folks, who had not been used to anything and who from the outlook will not learn by experience. The better class of white people and the better class of colored people in this state were getting on well together and the close proximity of one to the other did not concern either. It was just as reasonable to carry this discrimination to the streets and parks of the city. But to the point, Mr. Gordon whose case was heard in the Police Court last Wednesday morning contended that he could be moved only when it was necessary for a conductor so to do and as there were no colored people on the seat he occupied at the time the conductor had no right to make him move. It was recognized at once that if this position was tenable then the practical operation of the "Jlm Crow" Car law was at an end, for colored folks, occupying seats in the forward end of the car could set up the same plea and could not be made to move by the mandate of a conductor unless there were enough white people boarding the car to fill all of the other seats and to occupy at least a portion of the one on which they were sitting, and then they could not be made to move unless provisions were made to give them another seat. Justice Crutchfield was not slow to see the significance of the argument and the usual order to "give me $10.00" was suspended and he took the matter under advisement for the purpose of consulting eminent counsel. Mr. Gordon was represented by Mr. Henry Pollard and Mr. James E. Cannon and the Virginia Passenger and Power Company was represented by Mr. Eppa Hunton and Capt. A. B. Gulgon. That the case will be carried to a higher court seems evident if Mr. Gordon is fined. It is evident that pressure is being brought to bear on Mr. Gordon to have him retire from the controversy. But then how can the President of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce submit to a fine and how can Justice Crutchfield avoid fining him, if he is to live up to the past record of his court? These are pertinent questions. It is evident that this case is the culmination of many others. White people have been annoyed time and again by the senseless operation of the hatred-breeding law and they are tired of it. One thing we know is that when the white folks of Mr. James R. Gordon's calibre and influence decide that that law shall be nullified, its fate may be set down as having been settled. We have not been on a street-car in this city since it went into effect. God blessed us with big feet and we are walking. We pause to remark that we are enjoying better health now than we have ever experienced during our whole life. Even our financial condition has improved to an extent as a result of it. To Mr. Gordon and his friends as well as to the colored folks, we say, walking is good, now, stay off the street-cars SENATOR FORAKER'S DELIVER- The ringing address of Senator Joseph B. Foraker at Xenia, Onalb Thursday, June 20, 1907 will be the key note of the coming campaign so far as the colored people of this country are concerned. This distinguished statesman laid down premises that cannot be gain-said or denied and if he lives up to the declarations made, he is bound to emerge a victor in the end. There is no halfway ground in his utterances. It thrills us and makes us feel young again. In a moment of eloquent enthusiasm he said: "Stand up for your rights and make everybody else stand up for them. Let your ballots read: 'Down with grandfathers' clause,' and 'Down with every man who upholds, condemns or defends them, no matter where he lives, what politics he professes, or what office he holds.'" Is there a man who has read history, who does not realize that this is the only course for a free, patriot ic people to pursu? His analysis of the testimony thus far taken in the Brownsville investigation does credit to him. He showed conclusively that the official lynching by the War Department headed by Secretary William H. Taft and endorsed and approved by President Theodore Roosevelt was without justification or excuse. It is evident that any Republican, Democrat, Prohibitionist or any other member of any other party who approves this treatment of the gallant Twenty-fifth Infantry will be condemned by the colored voters in the northern states. The fight has just begun. The treatment of the colored soldiers by the citizens of Brownsville, Texas was bad enough, but their punishment at the hands of the War Department and the President was much worse. The doctrine of punishing even the innocent with the guilty is repugnant to every principle of American liberty. We do not believe that there are enough colored leaders in the United States or white ones either for THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA that matter, who could control the colored vote at the polls in the face of the showing that has been made before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs at Washington. Senator Foraker deserves the thanks of the American people. Circumstances seem to have made him the agent of God Almighty and right well is he rendering an account of his stewardship. President Roosevelt should revoke that infamous order. Should he fail so to do, every President of the United States for the next hundred years, be he Democrat or Republican will be impunted so to do. These brave colored men cannot afford to rest under the brand of Cain that has been stamped upon them. With the retirement of the present distinguished occupant of the White House, we shall make our appeal from Pillate to Caesar. Colored men should continue to agitate. In this rests the hope for political salvation. We have several million of men busily engaged in looking after the financial part of the controversy and the orators can go ahead with their job. We direct attention to the advertisement of the Mt. Clemens Hotel and Bath House at Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Mr. George I. Hutchinson is the proprietor and he understands the business thoroughly. Persons desiring a favorite place with all of the conveniences of a modern resort will do well to call there and take advantage of this unique offer. It is much better to get health there than it is to pay doctor's bills at home. Write to him for terms and quarters and learn of the advantages of this thoroughly up-to-date resort. The Seattle, Washington Republican has issued a Northwest Negro Progress number, which excels anything of the kind that we have ever seen put forth by the Afro-American Press. Our good friend M. M. Lewey of Florida has been far ahead in this kind of journalistic enterprise and is the only competitor of this northwest journal in this field of endeavor. It may be that our friend Lewey has equalled this, but he certainly has not exceeded it. We congratulate these citizens of color, and join with them in saying, "Go West, young man!" As for ourselves, we shall stay South. We return thanks for an invitation to the 19th Annual Commencement of the Gloucester Agricultural and Industrial School, June 11, 1907, W. G. Price, principal. We return thanks for an invitation to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of Prof. and Mrs. J. E. Jones, June 25, 1907 at their residence, 520 St. James Street Richmond, Va. We have received the unique alumnium souvenir of the National Publishing Board to be used at the sessions of the National Baptist Sunday School Congress and Young People's Chataquau to be held at New Orleans, June 26 to July 1, 1907. We return thanks for an Invitation to the Commencement Exercises of the Manchester Colored High School June 18, 1907 at the First Baptist Church, J. H. Blackwell, A. M., principal. We return thanks for an Invitation to the Third Annual Session of the Mississippi Negro Business League June 26, 27, 28, 1907 at Meridian Miss. Mr. Charles Banks of Mound Bayou, is president. We return thanks for an invitation to attend the re-opening of the Shriloh Baptist Church and installation services of the new pastor, Rev J. Milton Waldron, D. D., June 17 1907, Washington, D. C. We return thanks for an invitation to the Eighth Annual Session of the Topeka Colored Business League, August 14, 15, 16, 1907, Mr. Ira O. Guy, president. We return thanks for an invitation to the marriage of Miss Mary Elizabeth Watts to Mr. Robert Jamifer, June 19, 1907 at Natural Bridge, Va. We have received a copy of the proceedings of the inaugural meeting of the Liberian National Ban Association in the Senate Chamber, Monrovia, Liberia, January 2, 1907. Judging by the excellence of the addresses, the legal and executive ability of the statesmen in that country is of the high order. Thanks. We extend sincere thanks to our many friends for the handsome bridal presents which were given us on the occasion of our marriage. MR. & MRS. I. GRIEF HOUSTON. HAYWOOD TOTESTIFY Orchard Killed Steunenberg For Private Vengeance? CALLS WITNESS BOGUE, THIEF, LIAR Bolse Murder Trial Defense Lawyers, Making General Denial, Will Put Prisoners on Stand In Their Own Behalf. BOISE, Ida., June 26.—The detalled defense of William D. Haywood to the charge that he murdered former Governor Steenberg in broad description is a denial of every material count in the testimony of Harry Orchard and a claim that Orchard killed Steenberg because of a private grudge borne by the loss of a rich share in the Hercules mine and explanations of the independent circumstances that tend to connect the co-defendants with Orchard's life and operations. Haywood, Counsel Clarence Darrow said, will take the stand to make personal denial of Orchard's accusations. Darrow denied the intimacy with the three co-defendants that Orchard laid 040 STEVE ADAMS claim to, denied the several conferences and conversations that Orchard swore to, denied that Orchard had even committed many of the crimes he had boasted of and promised to make proof of his contention with many of the men named by Orchard when on the stand and many witnesses of creditable character not connected by any tie with the federation or its leaders. Darrow charged that agents of the Mine Owners' association of Colorado and the Pinkerton detectives had joined hands in a conspiracy to discredit and destroy the Western Federation of Miners. "Harry Orchard," he said, "was a cheap soldier of fortune, a sheeostring gambler, who had never done a day's work in his life. He owned a sixteenth share of the Hercules mine, but sold it because of his needs to continue his gambling." Darrow denied the existence of the great conspiracy to murder, alleged by the state, with Orchard's testimony as a basis; denied that the federation was anything but an earnest, fighting labor organization, with higher wages, shorter hours, tolerable working conditions and the care, safety and education of its members and their wives and children as its high and only aim. Mr. Darrow said: "Orchard went to Caldwell vowing vengeance against Steunenberg. He had for years been connected with a detective agency. Now, don't understand me to mean that I think any detective agency or the mine owners wanted to kill Steunenberg. "But I do say that Orchard while a detective In the employment of the agency killed Stewnenberg because of the old grudge of which he had spoken so often. He killed him in the most cowardly way murder could be committed. He was caught red handed and turned over to McPartland, the head of the western branch. After some manipulation he was persuaded that the best thing he could do would be to place the blame on some one else, which he did. He is getting the biggest price for this he ever got for a crime. He hopes to save his miserable neck." Clarence Darrow, for Haywood, said that his client is not only not guilty of conspiracy to assassinate Steunenberg, but that Haywood is in fact the victim of a conspiracy to disrupt the Western Federation of Miners and under the guise of legal procedure to condemn to death the chief officers of the federation, of which Haywood is the secretary and one of his co-defendants under the indictment, Moyer, is the president. Darrow did not deny that Steunenberg was assassinated, but maintained that his client had nothing to do with this or any other murders and that the state has not connected Haywood with any conspiracy. He charged conspiracy on the part of the Mine Owners' association, which, with a large membership and unlimited money, tried to wreck the Western Federation of Miners. He asserted that the Orchard story was true only in that the crimes were committed and that all alleged conspiracy between Haywood, Moyer, Pettibone, Orchard and Steve Adams was a fabrication made up by Orchard to save his life and that the price of the concocted confession was the pardon of the actual murderer of Steunenberg. Cuban Strelkers Refuse HAVANA, June 25.—The mayor of Havana has failed in his effort to induce the striking cigarmakers to accept arbitration. LOVING GIRL'S STORY. On Truth of Her Tale of Ontrage Hangs Judge's Life. HOUSTON, Va., June 26.—Between stifling sobs, with tears streaming from her bright blue eyes and while striving to hold back the tears Miss Elizabeth Loving, who has occupied the center of the stage in the trial of her father, Judge William G. Loving. for the murder of Theodore Estes, told on the witness stand here the story of her alleged ruin by the young man whom her parent shot down. Miss Loving testified that she was twenty years old, that her relations with her father were always affectionate and that he had "always been a devoted father." "When I told him the story," she said, "he got so white and unnatural looking that it scared me. I ran out to mother and told her I believed I had killed my father." Estes, she said, had given her a drink of whiskey from a flask he had in his pocket while they were out buggy riding on the afternoon prior to the killing. After taking the drink she declared that she immediately began to feel dizzy and her head "spinned around" as if she had been given some powerful drug. In this condition and despite her protests she declared that her escort drove her over an unfrequented road and despite her screams outraged her. Exhausted by the struggle and her mental faculties rendered incapable from the stimulant, the witness declared that she recalled nothing more until she regained her senses while in bed late that night at the home of County Clerk E. L. Kidd, where she had been visiting Miss Kidd. Whether the story told by the nineteen-year-old girl can be torn to pieces and disproved by the prosecution remains to be seen, and on the disproving of this story hangs the fate of the defendant. They claim that it can be shown that the outrage laid at the door of the man whose lips are sealed forever was impossible. TAFT AT OYSTER BAY. Secretary Says He Visited President to Bet on Ball Game. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., June 26—Secretary Taft visited President Roosevelt here and said as he left Oyster Bay to return to the Yale commencement that a number of important matters relative to Cuba, Panama and the Philippines had been concluded. The public announcement relative to these transactions, he said, would come when the appropriate orders were issued on his return to Washington. Relative to Cuba the secretary said that Governor Magoon's administration there would continue for about eighteen months longer and that the taking of the census which is now progressing and the preparation for the election to select a native president would require about that time. That Governor Magoon is encountering many difficult problems and solving them in a thoroughly satisfactory manner was the comment of Secretary Taft. When the secretary was asked to talk of his presidential candidacy on his arrival at Oyster Bay he carried the question with the jocular announcement that he had run down from the Yale commencement exercises to lay a bet with the president relative with the Yale-Harvard game. Farm Planted by Children's Hands. NORFOLK, Va.. June 26- The children's school farm at the Jamestown exposition was opened with addresses to sixty children by J. Taylor Ellison, lieutenant governor of Virginia and governor of history and education of the exposition, and Henry G. Parsons of New York. The value of the knowledge of farming was the subject of both speakers. The model farm is a well tilted plat of ground in which every vegetable and product of the farm and many different kinds of flowers have been planted by children's hands. Redmond Hurls Defence DURLIN, June 26—John E. Redmond delivered an address at Wexford at the unveiling of a memorial to Wexfordians who fell at the battle of New Ross in 1798. He gave a defiant warning to Britain, saying: "We tell England that we hate her rule as bitterly as did our forefathers when they shed their blood on this spot. We tell her that we are as much rebels to her rule today as our forefathers were in 1798. We tell her that she can change that hatred only by granting freedom to Ireland." Warship Ordered to San Salvador. WASHINGTON, June 26.—The possibility of serious trouble in Central America growing out of the disturbed conditions existing there incidental to the alleged ambition of President Zelaya of Nicaragua to form a union of Central America states has caused the administration to dispatch the fine new cruiser Milwaukee to La Union, San Salvador. Orders for her to proceed forthwith from the Mare Island navy yard, California, went forward from the navy department. Balloon Fell and Exploded. VIENNA, June 25.—Thirteen persons were killed in a balloon accident near Debreozin, Hungary. Three aeonautas, two French officers and one Austrian officer, fell from the balloon and were killed. Peasants in trying to capture the balloon approached it with a light, and the balloon exploded, killing ten of them. Dewey's Famous Flagship NEW YORK, June 26.—The famous cruiser Olympia, flagship of Admiral Dewey's feet at Manila bay, came into port carrying 250 cadets from the Naval academy. In her wake were the three monitors, the Florida, Nevada and Arkansas, each also bearing a quota of coming officers. --- Storm Cast House Into River. CROOKSTOWN, Minn., June 25—A terrific windstorm passed over this region during the night. In this city the house of C. J. Gilbert was lifted bodily and hurled 500 feet into Red Lake river, where it went to pieces. Boston Has Eighty Cent Gas. BOSTON, June 25—A reduction of 5 cents per 1,000 cubic feet in the maximum price of gas was announced by the Boston Consolidated Gas company. This makes the maximum price 80 cents. Sixty Officers Accused at Odessa. ODESSA, June 26—It is authoritatively reported here that sixty officers of the southern military district, several of them connected with the Odessa garrison, have been arrested. GOVERNOR CHIDES. Hughes Sends Caustic Message to Albany Assembly. APPORTIONMENT IS A NECESSITY. Recommends That the Measure Pass Without Delay Before Adjournment—Says Session Should No Longer Be Protruded. ALBANY, N. Y., June 25—Governor Hughes sent to the legislature last night a special message urging the passage of a constitutional apportionment before the final adjournment. The governor's message as is follows: "I recommend to your most serious consideration the importance of making a constitutional apportionment of senators and members of assembly before the legislature adjourns." "The necessity of a new apportionment is obvious. The apportionment act of last year has been set aside, and it would be not only inconvenient, but most unjust, in view of the changes in population, to have an election upon the basis of the apportionment fixed in 1835. The alternative is to have a new apportionment in accordance with the requirements of the constitution, and this should be provided without delay. "It is undoubtedly important that the present session of the legislature should no longer be protracted. I am informed that several hundred bills have been passed and are awaiting executive action, and it is practically impossible that they should be disposed of save during the period allowed for that purpose after adjournment. "I present the matter to you as one of paramount public obligation, and I deem it my duty respectfully to urge an immediate response to the just demand of the people of the state." Each side seemed disposed to regard the message as rebuking the obstinacy of the other. "What effect will the message have upon the situation?" Majority Leader Raines was asked. "None whatever, so far as the senate is concerned," replied the senator. A similar reply was made by Chairman Tully of the senate apportionment committee. "It's up to the assembly," said he. HEARST WANTS RECOUNT New York Mayoralty Election Dispute to Have Hearing Thursday. NEW YORK, June 26.—Counsel for W. R. Hearst has applied to Justice Maddox in the special term of the supreme court, Brooklyn, for the appointment of commissioners to conduct the recount of ballots cast in the last mayoralty election in accordance with the provision of the new recount law. Thursday next was set as the date for argument on the application, when Mayor McChellan may interpose objection if he so desires. The petitioner expressed his willingness to file an ample bond as required by the law. The application covers all election districts in Brooklyn, Richmond and Queens. Similar applications covering New York will be made within a few days. SAN FRANCISCO. June 25. On motion of his counsel the district court of appeals has dismissed the petition of Mayor Schmitz for admittance to bail through a writ of hobbes corpus. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Stock Quotitions. Money on call unquoted; prime mercantile paper, $550 per cent; exchanges, $331, 953,000 balance, $334,243,000 close prices. Amara Copper, 81% N, Y. Central, 113 Atchison, 89% Norf. & West, 74 B. & O., 89% Peen, R. R., 161 Brooklyn R. T. R., 163 Reading, 161 C.C. C. & St. L., 89% Rock island, 21% Ches. & Ohio, 90% St. Paul, 21% Northw., 90% Southern Pac., 78% D. & H., 167 Southw., 21% Erie, 21% South Ry. pf, 61 Gen. Electric, 149 Sugar, 121 Ill. Electric, 149 Texas Pacific, 27 Lackawanna, 140 Union Pacific, 27 Louis & Nush. 141 U. S. Steel, 134 Lackawanna, 141 U. S. Steel pf, 99 Int.-Met, 148 West, Union, 79 Missouri Pac., 14 New York Markets. FLOUR-Quiet 12:30 about steady; Minnesota patients, $4.50; winter patents, $1.500; winter straights, $4.30; 4:45; winter extra, $3.75. RYE FLOUR-Quiet; fair to good. $4.75 £5; choice to fancy. $5.00-40. wheat to fallow, $43,666.40 WHEAT—to fairly early due to light offerings and bullish foreign crop news, wheat caused off under fine weather west and absence of fall support; market and of a sculpting order; July $89.60 9% of September, $10.90;10.90; December, $10.90.6% COIN—Market opened unchanged, later eating under good weather, commission housing and with wheat; September, $10.90.6% BUTTER—Creamery, extras, per pound, $29.26;29.26; seconds, $29.26; thirds, 18.18 CHEESE—State, full cream, colored and white, small, best, 12.9; large, colored and light skims, 9.6; half skims, 7.4; part skims, prime, 66.6%; fair to good. BOGS—Bush gathered, extras 18.18; firsts to extra firsts, 19.12%; western, firsts extra, 16.16.16. HAY—Steady; shipping, 55/68 s.c.; good to choice, $1.20/1.25. STRAW—Steady at 65. WHEAT—Donate double cheese, 21/36 s.c. BEANS — BEANS marrow, marrow, 21/36 s.c., medium, $1.75/1.75; peas, $1.80/1.32; red kidney, $2.50/2.57; HOPS - Qulet: state common to choice. 120s. 878le. 160s. 658le. 120s. 878le. 160s. 658le. POTATOES - Dull; old, 20/30c. per bushel. LIVE, POULTRY - Qulet, but steady; chickens, 135/14c; oil roosters, 10c; spring chickens, 135/14c; oil roosters, 10c; do, spring, 135/14c. POULTRY clair, Firn; higher, fresh killed towels, choice, 14c; dair, fair to good, 15/16c; oil roosters, 10c; broilers, 28/30c; western broilers, 16/17c. Live Stock Markets CATTLE--Supply light; market show OATTE--Supply light; prime, $900.616; val eal, $797.50; HOGS—Receipts light; market slow; prime heavies. $1.10; mediums. $3.30; heavy Yorkers. $2.30/67.35; light Yorkers and pigs. $4.40; roughs. $65.20. SHEEP - Supply light; market slow; parchers; $5,000.75; culls and patrons. FIND HEADLESS BODY. Little Walter Lamana at New Or- lone Village, Nile Island NEW ORLEANS, June 26.—Two miles in the interior of a big swamp near this city the headless body of Walter Lamann, an Italian child between seven and eight years old, who was kidnapped and held for $6,000 ransom two weeks ago, was found by police and vigilantes just before day- break. He had been strangled to death, according to the confession of one of several Italians held by the police. The boy's neck is supposed to have been broken when he was strangled, causing the head to become separated from the body when decomposition set in. The head was found a short distance from the body. Five Italians, two of them women, are under arrest charged with being accomplices to the murder, and extra details of police are maintaining order in the excited Italian quarter of the city. All day long small crowds have been dispersed promptly by the police, despite whose precautions a report has got out summoning a mass meeting at Elk place. Seldom since the Mafia lynchings sixteen years ago has New Orleans been so stirred with threats of violence as at present. ALL GLORY TO YALE. Sons of Eli's Wild Dance For Victory Over Harvard. NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 26.—On the green sward of the Yale field diamond, encircled by humanity kaleide-scople in brilliant coloring of attire and fantastic costumes, the Yale baseball nine crushingly defeated Harvard in the second game of the series by the score of 14 to 6. This means a play-off of the tie in New York on Saturday. For the blue it was simply a batting bee in the first three innings and as good an exhibition of fielding the rest of the time as the team has shown this season, a contrast so vivid in comparison that interest soon turned from the game itself to the singing and cheering of the sons of Eli who had come back for their reunions. The feature of the gathering, which was the largest ever seen on the field, were the parades of the reunion classes headed by the bands, and while the costumes lacked some of the grotesque-ness of previous years the designs combined artistically, and the colors made a general scheme that was the prettiest seen in many years, and the wild dance of the Yale graduates after the game was one grand frolle. CONVICT DR. GUY. Flushing Trial Ends With Verdict of Munslaughter. NEW YORK, June 28.—The jury that tried Dr. Samuel S. Guy, charged with murdering his wife, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. The trial was held in Flushing, N. Y. Throughout the trial Dr. Guy stoutly maintained his innocence. He took the stand in his own behalf and stated that he was asleep when his wife was shot and did not know anything about it until after his arrest. Dr. Guy was at once sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment. KIEL, Germany, June 26.—Emperor William during one of the few periods of sunshine that have broken the past six rainy days, while on his way to the Naval academy, stopped to watch some girls playing tennis on the academy courts. He became interested and asked if he might join in the play. His majesty chose a partner, played with her against two other girls and was beaten. He laughed, thanked his partner and went on. Andrew Carnegie before leaving Kiel said the report that he was to present Berlin with a library was incorrect. Dan R. Hanun's Third Venture M. R. Hanna & Third Venture. CLEVILAND, O. June 26-Dan R. Hanna, son of the late Senator M. A. Hanna, was married here yesterday to Mrs. Mary Stuart at the residence of the bride's mother by a justice of the peace. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Hanna left for the east. Mr. Hanna has been married twice before, a divorce having been obtained by each of his former wives. Mrs. Daisy Gordon Hanna, the second wife, was granted a divorce by Judge Phillips on Friday last. The bride is the divorced wife of Frank S. Kelly, formerly a hotel clerk here. E/Huiner Win Xue Heng NEW HAVEN, Coun., June 26.-Secretary of War Taft at Yale heard the announcement that two Filipino students whom he sent to college had captured the leading scholarship honors open to the members of the senior class. Jose Escaler of Pompanga won the highest scholarship, being awarded the only "Magna Cumla" given. Mariano Honrade de Jova of Batanza took a "Cumlaude." He ranked second. Easily Satisfied Matilda—Have you spoken to papa? Bertie—Yes; I asked him through the telephone, and he answered, "I don't know who you are, but it's all right." It Wasn't the Custom Eve-I haven't a thing to wear. Adam-You are not supposed to wear anything.-Jud, e. Four Deaths at Pittsburgh From Heat PITTSSURG. June 26-Four more deaths from heat occurred here, making a total of fourteen fatalities since Sunday evening. Probably a score of persons have been prostrated, a number of whom are in a serious condition. The mercury hovered about 82 degrees. T. H. Baird Patterson, a well known and wealthy member of the Allegheny county bar, was one of the victims whose death last night was caused by the excessive heat. Labor Would Abolish "the Lords." LONDON, June 26.—The house of commons occupied practically the whole sitting in debating Premier Campbell-Bannerman's motion to curtail the powers of the house of lords and the amendment, moved on behalf of the Labor party, in favor of the total abolition of that house. Gettysburg Veteran a Spicide CATO, N. Y., June 26. - Matthew M. Hunter, a merchant in business in the village since 1809, committed suicide by hanging. Mr. Hunter was a veteran of the civil war and had suffered since then from a wound received in the battle of Gettysburg. HEAVY LUNET SATURDAY...JUNE 29, 1907. WOULD BUY WINDSOR Mark Twain Jokes With British Sovereigns. TOOK A FANCY TO HISTORIC CASTLE American's Prince of Humorists Is Treated Like a King at England's Capital-Styly Praises the Queen's Beauty. LONDON, June 26.—Mark Twain was the center of attraction at the king's garden party at Windsor and besides meeting the king and the royal party had a handshake with several hundred notables. Upon his return from the garden party he declared that he was not a bit tired and had thoroughly enjoyed himself. After tea, which was served on the lawns, Ambassador Reid presented Mark Twain to King Edward and Queen Alexandra, and the king and the humorist spent a quarter of an hour in conversation, the king laughing heartily at Twain's jokes. The queen also joined in the conversation and was much amused when Twain jokingly asked if he could buy the Windsor castle grounds from her majesty. Then the king called on him to meet the other guests. He introduced Twain to the king of Slam, the Duke of Connaught, Prince Arthur of Connaught and others. Prince Arthur is to receive a degree at Oxford at the same time as the American humorist, and he remarked that he would collapse if called upon for a speech. Thereupon Twain offered to undertake to speak for him. Mark Twain were the regulation frock coat and silk hat at the garden party. Speaking of his reception there, he said: "His majesty was very courteous. In the course of the conversation I reminded him of an episode sixteen years ago, when I had the honor to walk a mile with him when he was taking the waters at Homburg. I said I had often told about that episode and that whenever I was the historian I made good history of it, and it was worth listening to, but that it had found its way into print once or twice in unauthentic ways and had been badly damaged there. "His majesty intimated his willingness that I should continue to disseminate that piece of history and added a compliment, saying that he knew good and sound history would not suffer at my hands and that if this good and sound history needed any improvements beyond the facts he would trust me to furnish those embellishments. "I think it is no exaggeration to say that the queen looks as young and beautiful as she did thirty-five years ago, when I saw her first. I didn't say this to her, because I learned long age never to say an obvious thing, but to leave an obvious thing to common-place and inexperienced people to say. "That she still looks to me as young and beautiful as she looked thirty-five years ago is good evidence that 10,000 people already have noticed this and have mentioned it to her. I could have said it and spoken the truth, but I have been too wise for that. I have kept the remark unuttered, and that has saved her majesty the vexation of bearing it for the ten thousand and one time. "I have received since arriving hundreds and hundreds of letters from all conditions of people in England. There is compliment and praise in them; but, above all, there is the note of affection, and affection is the most precious reward a man can desire, whether for character or achievement. These letters make me feel that in England, as in America, I am not a stranger, not an alien, but at home." LAWY SAYS HE BARRED LITTLE MARY. WEST CHESTER, Pa., June 26. Irwin A. Lewis, arrested on a charge of murdering his little five-year-old stepdaughter, Mary Newlin, at their home in Franklin township, who was committed to the Chester county prison on Saturday afternoon, has confessed to the district attorney, saying: "I buried her, but I did not kill her. When I went home on Sunday afternoon I found her there. I did not let any one know, because I thought I would be suspected of putting her out of the way, and that would be a disgrace to the family." Standing of the Baseball Clubs. NATIONAL LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago 45 W. L. P.C. New York 33 21 788 Philadelphia 33 21 579 Pittsburgh 30 26 645 Michigan 21 34 738 Boston 24 32 658 Brooklyn 23 36 390 St. Louis 15 46 246 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Chicago 39 20 651 Cleveland 39 22 651 Philadelphia 34 24 586 Detroit 31 22 559 New York 28 22 551 St. Louis 25 34 414 Boston 19 28 332 Washington 17 36 311 NEW YORK, June 26—How Mrs. William A. Stokes came to believe that her husband, John Hitchings, was dead when she was married to Colonel William A. Stokes of the crack Twenty-third regiment of Brooklyn, who is now sning her for an annulment of his marriage to her on the ground that Hitchings is still living, was a question that is widely discussed. It is said that Hitchings is now keeping a general store and selling supplies to miners in Tacoma, Wash. Their Charred Bodies in Ruins. MALONE, N. Y., June 25—While James Bond and Jennie Grant of Ellenburg were out driving near here a thunderstorm came up and they took shelter in a barn. The building was sruck by lightning and buried. Their charred bodies were found in the ruins. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicked. Wendell P. Reid, aged eighteen years, of Freehold, N. J., a member of the freshman class of Rutgers college, was drawn while swimming with several other students in the lake at the college farm in New Brunswick, N. J. President Roosevelt received a message from the Central Labor union of Washington asking him to cause an investigation to be made to ascertain whether the telegraph companies have violated the Sherman antitrust law by conspiracy in restraint of trade. Tuesday, June 25. President Roosevelt signed the Dominican treaty at Oyster Bay, N. Y. The convention regulates customs matters between the United States and Santo Domingo. The Pacific Steam Navigation company's steamship Santiago has been wrecked off the coast of Chile. Only one passenger and one officer are known to have been saved out of ninety-one persons on board. Mrs. Russell Sage of New York has added to her charities by giving $300,000 to found and maintain the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology as an adjunct of the New York City hospital. Mrs. Sage's chief purpose is that the diseases of old age may be carefully studied. Irvin Lewis, the young farmer accused of murdering his stepdaughter, six-year-old Mary Robbins Newlin, by burying her alive in his barnyard near West Chester, Pa., was so hysterical and apparently insane in his cell it was necessary to send physicians to examine him and quiet him. Monday, June 24 All doubt as to the fate of Lieutenants Caulfield and Leake of the royal engineers, who made a balloon ascension from Aldershot camp, near London, on May 28, has been removed. The body of Lieutenant Caulfield was picked up at sea near Weymouth. The American delegates to the peace conference have discussed the proposition of the United States relating to the collection of contractual pecuniary debts with the lending European plenipotentiaries, and General Porter says that neither Great Britain, France, Germany nor Russia would oppose it. Saturday, June 22. SATURDAY, JUNE 22. Princeton university team secured the Jamestown exposition college athletic meet championships, sweeping the field and scoring 64 out of a possible 100 points. The University of Pennsylvania was a close second. Secretary of War Taft arrived at St. Louis en route to Washington. During his brief stay Festus J. Wade was in conference with him relative to the dispute between the Philippine government and the Jesuit fathers concerning the ownership of $8,000,000 worth of property there. Friday, June 21. Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambassador in Washington, who has shown a marked resilience for publication in discussing the pending questions affecting Japan and the United States in an interview denied that there was any Japanese "situation" and expressed the belief that the report that he was to be recalled was incorrect. An announcement given out at Paris from the Elysee palace says, "Owing to the occurrences in the south of France, the president of the republic, after consultation with the king of Slam, has decided to postpone the banquet arranged in honor of that sovereign." A whole army corps has been put in motion to deal with the rebellious wine growers in the Midi. 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 into 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. It is only twenty-three miles from Norfolk, and during the week of the Business League, we will go over to the James town Exposition in a body and hold a session by the courtesy of the officers in the Negro Building. Committee on Arrangements at Suffolk: John Marshall, Merchant; W. H. Crockett, Liveryman; M. B. Hucleas, B. D., Ins. 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If your head is full of dandruff. If your scalp is diseased, LINCOLN HAIR POMADE will make it grow, remove the dandruff and cure scalp diseases. LINCOLN HAIR POMADE is highly perfumed and is the finest toilet preparation on the market. All we ask is for you to give it a trial and we feel confident the result will be so satisfactory that you will recommend it to your friends. Be sure and get the genuine and refuse weak and inferior substitutes. For sale at all Drug Stores. If your dealer does not keep it, send his name and 20 cents in silver and we will send you a bottle by return mail. Agents send everywhere. Write for particulars. The Eyes of the World are Upon Me. The colored race in the United States at the present time is having some very trying experiences and only the best sort of advice and the wisest counsel should be given and heeded if your people are to continue in this land of prosperity and enjoy life, liberty, security and the pursuit of happiness. In this book we have attempted to present to the colored people of this great country a solution of our problems. it utterly impossible to produce a book of such proportions at less cost. We hope that you, dear readers, if you cannot send the one dollar at once, will write to us and state whether or not you would like to have a copy of the book reserved for you and that you will state at what time you will be able to send us the $1,00. Hoping that we shall hear from you by return mail, we are Yours truly. RICHARD H. BALL. We have called attention to the commendable steps made by our people along commercial, intellectual and moral lines, and we believe that if this book is read carefully, that it will prove a source of great inspiration and encouragement to not only the colored people themselves but the white people who are interested in our progress. All of the readers of this journal, who will send to us at once $1.00 by P. O. money order or registered letter will receive a copy of the book in cloth binding just as soon as it comes from the press. We offer this special inducement in order to ascertain to what extent our people are willing to support such an enterprise. We will have to charge $1.50 for the book after it comes from the press. We find --- --- WORK OF ALL OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. LEGANT I SHOW ANY ONE DESIRING om Embrace NE WRITING—FLAT AN EMPLOYEES ARE COMPETENT AND QUALIFIED IN THE PUBLIC, BEING WITHIN FURTHER features, the most annoyance. FOR FURTHER JOI COLN POMADE SOFTENS THE HAIR AND KEEPS IT FROM BREAKING KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLESOME or Mars Her Beauty. Our head is full of dandruff. If COLN HAIR POMADE will dandruff and cure scalp diseases, it is highly perfumed and is in the market. All we ask is we feel confident the result will recommend it to your friends. And refuse weak and inferior drug Stores. 5 CENTS. FURNITURE BY pomade Company. it utterly impossible to produce a book of such proportions at less cost We hope that you, dear readers, if you cannot send the one dollar at once, will write to us and state wheth er or not you would like to have a copy of the book reserved for you and that you will state at what time you will be able to send us the $1.00. Hoping that we shall hear from you by return mail, we are Yours truly. RICHARD H. BALL. 28 Franklin St. Lawrence, Mass. Excursions to Jamestown Exposition Norfolk, Va. via Southern Commencing April 19th and continuing daily to November 30, 1907 Southern Railway will sell season sixty day, fifteen day and ten day excursion tickets to Norfolk, Va. and return at reduced rates account the above; and on Tuesday of each week coach excursion tickets, not good in parlor or pullman cars, will be sold at greatly reduced rates, limited seven days. Inquire of Southern Railway Agents. We print Wedding Invitations, and High Class Stationery for Balls, Parties, Picnics and all entertainments of a social nature. We print Church Envel ALL DESCR ons and to service at consistent work. We furnish "cuts" when de complete special work in our in our line, call and see us and T LINE OF S DESIRING TO SEE THEM. braces a full AT AND LINEN PAPER, ENVELOP WE HAVE ONE OF THE OF WOOD Of Any Job Printing E NT AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, AP John Mitch 811 N. 4th St. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, APPLY TO John Mitchell, Jr. John Mitchell, Jr. --- A Railway. WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF WOOD-TYPE Of Any Job Printing Establishment in the city. 311 N. 4th St., Richmond Va SEABOARD SOUTHBOUND TRAIN: SCHED- ULED TO LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. 9:10 A. M. — Local to Norlina, Raleigh, Charlotte, Wilmington, 2:20 P. M. — Sleepers and coaches, Savannah, Jacksonville and Florida points. 9:50 P. M. — Sleepers and coaches, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, Savannah, Jacksonville and Southwest. NORTHBOUND TRAINS SCHED- ULED TO ARRIVE RICHMOND DAILY. 6:45 A. M., 5:10 P. M., 5:45 P. M. H. S. LEARD, D. P. A. JOSHUA BANKS & SONS CATERERS EVERY FACILITY CONSISTENT WITH FINE CATERING. Special Attention Given to Balls, Suppers, Installations and Smokers at the Shortest Notice. Your Patronage Solicited. Refreshment Cars and Boat Privileges Handled in Season. BLACKWELL & BRO. ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Painters, Graining and General Contractors. .....ALL WORK GUARANTEED ..... Cards, Letters or Orders. .Give us a trial, you will never regret it. Address, Cor. Price and Jackson Sts. RICHMOND, VA. PLANET DEPOTS NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK CITY W. H. Warrington, 71 W. 99th St. W. H. White, 328 Columbus Ave. R. Plummer, 100 W. 134th St. Standard, 100 W. 53d St. J. Welch, 334 W. 52d St. Rev. A. L. McKee, 52d St. F. Green, 302 W. 40th St. W. H. Jones, 249 W. 35th St. W. B. Bee, 1 W. 134th St. Clarence Bush, 851 Morris Ave., Bronx-Borough. J. H. Parker, 144 W. 26th St. Charles Devan, 1.1 W. 30th St. W. J. Buckner, 150 W. 53rd St. W. W. Johnson, 247 W. 47th St. E. H. Mitchell, 152 W. 27th St. Turner R. Robinson, 12-6th Ave. E. A. Williams, 200 W. 63rd St. Smith & Miles, 232 W. 41st St. M. B. Wineglass, 322 W. 99th St. PHILADELPHIA, PA. J. H. Gray, 1319 Pine St. Bishop Robinson, 1234 Melon St. E. P. Mackens, 1116 Pine St. James E. Warwick, 254 S. 11th St. Mrs. P. Homsher, 1040 Pine St. William Parker, 631 Pine St. Mrs. Lavinia Aldridge, 521 S. 12th. Chas. A. George, 4063 Market St. F. A. Stewart, 1730 Federal St. PITTSBURG, PA. F. H. Harrison, 1310 Wylle Ave. Jos. Evans, care Jones & Laughlin. E. K. Thumm, 1402 Wylle Ave. opes, Note and Letter Paper Bill-heads, Monthly Statements, Business Cards, Financial and Order Books, Circulars, Check-books, Pamphlets. SCRIPTIONS sired and we will arrange to line. When in need of any work estimates will be furnished. SAMPLES Line PES, ETC LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OD-TYPE establishment in the city. PLY TO nell, Jr., Richmond Va. BOSTON MASS John Debona, 610 Church St. T. E. W. Perry, 2 Jones Place. CHICAGO, ILL. E. H. Faulkner, $104 State St. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Lee Ricks, 782 Fulton St. William A Dabney, 8 Quincy St. CHARLESTON, W. Va. L. C. Farrar, 501 Brooks St. ASTORIA, L. I. Frank R. Wood, 144 Broadway, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Hursey Bros., 1217 Commerce Ave. WASHINGTON, D. C. L. H. Singleton, 20th and E St. Southwestern Drug Co., 732-2d Street, ! W. COVINGTON, VA. NEWPORT NEWS, VA. Freddie Smith, 1355-29th St. L. J. Jefferson, 1211-30th St., V. E. Howard. WILMINGTON, N. C. William H. Moore. STAUNTON, VA. Wm. C. Johnston, 111 E. Main St. LYNCHBURG, VA. Charles Morgan, 702 Taylor St. HAMPTON, VA. John M. Phillips. DANVILLE, VA. O. P. Clark, 233 N. Union St. PORTSMOUTH, VA. H. S. Cooper, 1332 County St. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. John H. Johnson, 210 Bridge St. PROVIDENCE, R. L. DEMOPOLIS, ALA. John W. Anderson. BALTIMORE, MD. Henry Albert, 203 Rickmond St. PASSAIC, N. J. Robt Lee Greenwood, 142 Myrtle Ave ASBURY PARK, N. J. Geo W. Moody, 1139 Springwood Ave A. Haynes, 1103 Springwood Ave. ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. W. A. Fleming. BURLINGTON, N. J. Joseph Anderson, 120 E Delaware ave WICHITA FALLS, TEX. F. L. Lindsey, Box 72. James Wingfield, 422-12th St. I. D. Robbins, 155 Cambridge St. MEMPHIS, TENN. Standard? News Company. --- THE YLNET SHED PROTECTION FOR BARN. Floor Joists Extended Six Feet Beyond Sides of Barn to Support Roof. An Iowa correspondent sends a sketch of his method of attaching a shed roof to the side of his barn in such a way that it protects the doors and enables the owner to pass from one door to another without being obliged to expose himself unduly to severe weather, says Prairie Farmer. When the barn was built the correspondent says that he had the floor joists extended six feet on the out side of the barn so as to enable him to erect this shed roof as shewn in the illustration. Rafters were used to connect the outer end of this joist with the siding so as to permit a half pitch roof. He is well pleased with the idea. The Use of Tar and Oil in Road Improvement. In all parts of the civilized world men are testing various materials that can be used in road improvement. In most countries the matter of road dust is something that excites the concern of people. It is one of the great inconveniences of living in the country. In the United States the country roads are all wide and all have more soil uncovered by verdure than in perhaps any other country. These wide roads give a large surface for dust production and in some localities the dust blows in clouds from the roads, till the verdure is anything but green. It gets into the houses and permeates every nook. To get rid of this nuisance is a task worthy of our best thought. Some road experiments have been in progress in the neighborhood of Jackson, Teen. Most of the tests were made on roads in the city, but some also on the neighboring country roads. The tar was applied during hot weather to the repaired, cleaned and thoroughly dried surfaces of roads in and near the city. The tar was kept at a temperature of 200 degrees while being conveyed over the roads in a tank wagon, from which it was distributed over the road surface by a hose with a special nozzle and spread evenly in a thin layer by laborers using stiff brooms. The tar was absorbed by the road in eight or ten hours, after which a light coat of sand or screenings was evenly spread over the surface and the road rolled by a steam roller. The average amount of tar used per square yard was 45 hundredths of a gallon. The labor cost less than one-tenth of a cent per square yard. These roads stood well for at least seven months, says Farmers' Review. The tar surrounded the stones and gravel and formed a hard surface about one to two inches in thickness. In other places some experiments have been made with oil and tar, both of which are fairly good under right conditions. On the dusty country highway, however, the oil is too light for permanent results, but tar proves to be very effective wherever used. BEANS AND CORN FEED. It Makes an Excellent Combination to Feed the Pigs. This is an excellent combination in pig feeding. Beans strong in protein and corn in fat. Young hogs thrive rapidly on such a combination. Prof. Shaw has this suggestion as to the preparation and feeding of beans. He says: "Beans can be fed to swine only in the cooked form. The pig seems to be unable to utilize beans which are at all hard or firm, even though they have been boiled for some time, hence it is very essential that they be thoroughly cooked. To supply a single feed of half-cooked beans to a pen of hogs, robs them of their apetites and relish for their food, if indeed it does not put them off feed. The cooking should be conducted in an even more careful manner than it would be in preparing them for human food. It will materially shorten the cooking period and give better results, if the beans are soaked an hour or two, or better, over night, before the cooking proper is begun. "Palls used should be rinsed after each feeding and especial care should be taken to clean the kettle or barrel after each cooking and not allow sour or moldy material to collect about the food receptacle. More than one case of supposed hog cholera has been traced to ignorant or careless neglect in allowing old swill to accumulate in a barrel instead of emptying the barrel each time before the new material is dumped into it." Too True. Bill—The aggregate of wealth buried with Turkey's sultan would pay Russia's national debt. Jill—Well, the aggregate amount of debts buried with a lot of people I have known would pay our national debt! -Yonkers Statesman. "BIRD PARTY" IS PRETTY Splendid Idea for Hostess Who Is Seeking Some Novelty for the Entertainment of Her Guests—Rhymes in Which Answers Are Cleverly Concealed. Splendid Idea for Hostess Who Is Seeking Some Novelty for the Entertainment of Her Guests—Rhymes in Which Answers Are Cleverly Concealed. The cut illustrates some new designs in wicker and grass furniture, the first sketch showing a comfortable and well-shaped rocker in grass furniture painted an artistic green. The table depicted is convenient for the porch or living-room and has a sufficiently broad base to hold a lamp, a large fern bowl or any such ornament. The little stool is both decorative and useful and the shapes may be had either in all wicker or with a cretonned cushioned top. One of the prettiest parties to be given this month is described here. The idea is not original with the hostess, but was given to her by a friend who also sent her the rhymes which I have copied for the benefit of all the department readers. The scheme is so clever that I am sure many a hostess will find it just the very thing she is looking for. Each invitation will be decorated with birds, two of a kind, one to be sent to a man, the other to a woman, so partners or mates will be easily found when all have arrived. Vines, flowers in season, palms, ferns, and quantities of artificial flowers will transform the rooms into veritable bowers and cages containing canaries and parrots will enhance the woodland effect. Of course these will be borrowed and a number will be rented from a nearby store. Stuffed birds, owls, etc., will perch upon branches of trees in a most realistic manner. The place cards or favors are to be tiny nests filled with candy eggs, a little bird perched on the nest. Little booklets, with "Echoes from Birdland" painted on and a flock of birds decorating the cover, will contain the following rhymes, the hostess keeping the "key," which will be read after three quarters of an hour, and a prize of a real live canary awarded to the person guessing the most, a toy bird rattle or whistle is to be the consolation prize. A flash of sky on the wing — (Bluebird). Oh! shall I call the bird. Or but a wandering voice? The notes from household clocks are heard. And children* ears rejoice — (Cuckoo). King of the water, as of the air. He lives and finds his gree — (Kingfisher). The plasterate cry announces punishment. And warns the luckless bird for whom 'tis sent — (Whippoorwill). You introduce yourself throughout your song And tell the world your brief old-fashioned name. - (Phoebe). Cooling, teeth the rafters. Pouting sometimes, too. Rippling like child laughter All the winter through—Pigeon.) VEILS OF ALL KINDS Queen of Them All Is One of Very Finely Woven Lace Many Novelties Shown in Patterns. Again the veils are triumphant. Floating behind or drapping from the chic hats of the year, they are like Peter Pan's shadow—quite indispassable to perfect happiness. The queen of 1907 in veils is of real lace, a finely woven lower border as pretty as a labor-loving lace weaver knew how to design it and then a surface sprinkled with the Brussels lace open dots and then an upper edge of woven lace simpler than the lower edge. These tempting bits of finery begin at a yard in length and reach two yards. Any price at all may be paid, according to the quality of the lace weaving. Next to this supreme veil are those of very fine Brussels net or another strong cobwebby lace with a sewn lace border. These come handsome and expensive, depending on the lace sown on and the work in tucks or neatly stitched velvet or narrow satin ribbon. Lace veils are draped on the small hats and fall from the large brims in becoming drapery. The milliner usually pins on a veil when she sells a hat and thus the proper style goes with the hat. Frequently a priceless veil is used to drape the crown of a fine straw hat, which is to be worn on informal occasions. White lace, cream and black are the regulation colors for stock veils. Brown, blue and pearls are the novelties which come to match costumes and these, too, are sold in exquisite quality and are too pretty to pass by. The all-over pattern in veils is a novelty that goes only with a pretty face and high color. The all-over For the Sum The cut illustrates some new design first sketch showing a comfortable and painted an artistic green. The table d living-room and has a sufficiently broom bowl or any such ornament. The little stool is both decorative either in all wicker or with a cretonne Not to Be Caught Again. "Good!" exclaimed a Welsh hotel proprietor, as a departing guest prepared to photograph the establishment. "I rejoice to see that you take with you one little memento of your visit; it shows you have been happy here. Is it not so?" "Not exactly," was the morose answer; "I'm taking it to prevent any chance of my making a mistake and coming here again." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA An English emigrant, bird of the street, So common that thou art not much like in the Good Book we are told Yet in the Good Book we are told The Father He careth if one should but fall—(Sparrow.) Red-breasted harbinger of spring We wait and hope to hear the sing. —(Robin.) Yellow captive in a cage. Silver notes thou giv'st as wage. —(Canary.) A flash of white upon the sea, And yet 'tis not a sail. A "little brother of the air" Hath dared to ride the gale. —(Seagull.) Black robber of the corn fields, oh, be- Black prophet of adversity.—(Raven.) Black-winged, in crimson thou art dressed. Fine feathers make fine birds, it is con- sessed. And none more fine than thou. Oh, brilliant beauty of the bough. —(Scarlet Tanger.) Oh, singer famed by thousands, sweet the strain That ripples from thy pulsing throat like rain. (—Nightingale.) You imitate the foe who does you harm, And so to the world give alarm. - (Catbird.) A symbol of perfect love Sent from above. (Dove.) I supplicate At heaven's gate, And rest on wing Where angel—(Lark.) An enormous pie is to be the center piece; around the rim there will be a circle of cunning little Japanese pas per birds. The rhyme on each card attached to the ribbon leading to the places is as follows: When the pie was opened The bird began to sing That is where we will fool you For we'll not do any such thing. When at the signal the ribbons are pulled each guest is to receive a card on which a Mexican feather bird is mounted. Any small favor will do though, if these are not obtainable. The refreshments are to be chicken salad, sandwiches, ice cream in bird shapes, bird cookies and coffee. MADAME MERRI patterns left over from the lacemaking days of our grandmothers are to be treasured and when now and then one can be found at a high-class shop in imitation lace it is not to be despised, but should be picked up post haste. --- Blouse of white silk trimmed in an original way with open work and multi-colored embroidery. It is made with a group of plaits at each shoulder and the sleeves have caps trimmed like the rest of the waist. The chemisette is of lace and the cravat and girdle are of ribbon. In volle and similar sheer stuffs one finds many one-tone stripe designs, with stripes of varying width achieved in the weaving, or often with satin finished stripes. Lovely sheer volles are shown, too, with big satin finished dots in self tone at rather wide intervals over the volle surface. omer Cottage igns in wicker and grass furniture, the and well-shaped rocker in grass furniture deplicted is convenient for the porch or road base to hold a lamp, a large fern and useful and the shapes may be had ed cushioned top. For Succession. After the places are marked off for the various seed, don't plant but a third of the bunch beans, peas and corn at a time, in a week plant some more; in another week, the last third; do radishes the same way; thus there will be a succession of tender vegetables. Lay the places for seeds off in rows, mark with stakes and a string, or wire, so they will be straight. 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 regalla. 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 $300 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also 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 no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgnize 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 PYTHIAST F.C.B. only absolutely necessary regu- apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony and an endowment and burial ben- dues. The only expense for it a rosette, costing 25 cents for THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons a circle. The expense is nomin- $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and d Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concern For all information cone- membership in the lodges and SPRAYING FOR APPLE SCAB. Prof. Emerson, of Nebraska Experiment Station, Tells of Work Done. In some spraying tests against apple scab, carried on on the Nebraska experiment station, the varieties of apples used were Sweet June, Winesap, Malden Blush, Jonathan and Rails Genet. Bordeau was the solution used. The first two varieties named were young trees, five and eight years old respectively. The other varieties were old trees. The Malden Blush and Winesap were sprayed only once, May 23, for the former and May 27 for the latter, in both cases after the blossoms had fallen, and in case of the Winesap, even after the calyx lobes had closed. The Sweet June, Jonathan and Rails Genet were sprayed at different times. The prevalence of scab on the sprayed and and unsprayed trees was first determined approximately by simply examining from 100 to 200 fruits per tree. Later, when the apples were picked, all the fruits except in case of Jonathan were examined and the amount of scab on different trees determined more accurately. trees determined more accurately. In the records of the tests given, two or three facts stand out with special prominence: The unsprayed fruit was very scabby, running from about 50 per cent. in case of Jonathan to 80 per cent with Winesap. The first spraying, April 26 and 27, when the leaf buds were just opening, afforded no protection to the fruit. Trees sprayed late in April, and not sprayed afterwards, had fully as scabby fruit as unsprayed trees. The third spraying, May 23 and 28, gave very good results. Winesap trees sprayed only once late in May, showed only about 13 per cent of scabby fruit, as against 80 per cent, for unsprayed trees, and Malden Blush only four per cent of scab on sprayed, as against 55 per cent. on unsprayed trees. The second spraying, May 7 and 9, while beneficial in practically all cases, was not quite so effective in controlling scab as the later spraying. The best results followed two sprayings, one early and one late in May. This is well shown in case of Sweet June, where an unsprayed tree had 78 per cent. of scab, one sprayed May 9, 40 per cent. one sprayed May 28, 20 per cent, and another sprayed on both May 9 and 28 only four per cent. Some of the apples, notably Jonathan, were injured considerably by the spraying of May 23. The fruit was badly rusted on one side. In the worst cases the injury took the form of one-sided development of the fruits. Whether the injury was due to an overdose of the spray, to improperly made bordeaux, to the green arsenol PLANTING A RARE GRAPEVINE. Care Will Be Rewarded by Vigorous, Fruitful Vines. When I have a grapevine I think more of than any other variety I always give it the best, sunniest spot I have in garden or field, as far as possible from all trees if you want fine, large bunches of fruit, says a writer in Rural New Yorker. First I dig off all the surface soil for a space from two to three feet each way, according to size of vine roots; then I dig out the subsell at least two feet deep, fill up the hole with good, rich surface soil mixed with a little fine, well-rotted manure within eight or ten inches of the surface, setting the vine not more than ten or 12 inches deep. If dry, wet the roots well; put on top of roots at least six inches of good soil, then finish with three or four Posts 20ft Plan of Pruning and Training. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand Dauver all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The biggest features, but the principles handed on Friendship, based on Charity, the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of $ per week sick dues. The badge of regalia. For information concerning courts of Calantia. In the Order. It requires a member court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.09 to $40 our neighborhood, orgrnize one. Using the Children's Department ad Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond merring special rates of and courts, address JOHN MITCHELL, 311 N. 4th St., $150 PER MONTH SURE TO GOOD AGENTS, HAIR TONIC greatest seller in America to-day. Nothing else like it. No does the work. Sells at almost every home over and over again on the dollar. Write to-day for full particulars, with real cha- Address $150 PER MONTH SURE TO GOOD AGENTS, HAIR TONICS. Absolutely the greatest seller in America to-day. Nothing else like it. No long talk. My plan does the work. Sells at almost every home over and over again. 87 clear profit on the dollar. Write to-day for full particulars, with real chance of a lifetime. Address J. F. CLARK, CONWAY, ARK. FARMING PAYS When the Farmer combines Scientific Methods with his Labor. The Sun and the Soil have no Race Prejudice. HAMPTON INSTITUTE Offers a new Undergraduate Course of three years for training practical farmers in modern methods. Young men without money can earn their way. All who have completed the Graduate Course have good positions. Write for circular to PRINCIPAL, HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Hampton, Virginia. Offers a new Undergraduate Course of three years for training practical farmers in modern methods. Young men without money can earn their way. All who have completed the Graduate Course have good positions. Write for circular to PRINCIPAL, HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Hampton, Virginia. HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN Secured by This New Union Order—Grows By Leaps and Bounds—Started Five Years Ago with Nothing But a "Principle"—Now Has Over 400 Subordinate Lodges and 36,000 Members. Over 30,000 homes of our people have been 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. 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 $ 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. Write at once. State name of this paper, and enclose 10 cents for full information and postage. Address THE I. L. U. GRAND LODGE, 34 to 40 Canby Building, Davton, Ohio. inches of subsoil. This will help keep down the weeds and force roots downward. Hoe around the vine lightly until vine gets well started. I have set many vines during my life, and never known one to die. I am a firm believer that growing grapevines have some faculty or way of seeing. To test this I have set vines at both sides of fence, and, in fact, on all sides at least 20 feet away, yet all the vines would grow forward and try to reach the tree or fence, and would if let alone. I do not call this instinct. You cannot grow fine bunches of grapes in shade. The picture shows how I train the vines. The vines are put ten feet apart. We use three wires to start with, but when the vine grows large enough, remove the lower wire. When thinning, do not be afraid of getting too thin, more rows are spilled by containing over-crowded plants than where they are too thin. Really, the size to which a bean vine (bunch) or tomato will grow, when not crowded, is almost unbelievable to those that never saw one grow this way. Don't Crowd. the membership of to exhibit it. It pays over week sick to cents and ment also con- e little ones into this mystic d be expected. It pays from 40.00. If you have noPythian address. Hill St., Richmond, Va. N MITCHELL, JR., RII N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. 1 MONTH NTS, handling the world's greatest of HAIR TONICS. Absolutely the long else like it. No long talk. My plan one over and over again. $7 clear profi- culars, with real chance of a lifetime. AYS When the Farmer combines Scientific Methods with his soil have no Race Prejudice. INSTITUTE Three years for training practical farmers in money can earn their way. All who have positions. Write for circular to INSTITUTE, Hampton, Virginia. JOHN FOXEL Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CIGARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, VA BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIETRESS, 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH St., RICHMOND, VA. ALL ORDERS WILL RECVIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance Phone. 758. "Jones must be getting ready to run for office." "Why?" "He admits that he's one of the common people.'—Chicago Record- Herald. Mr. Flubdub—What's the use of keeping that old umbrella around? It's no good. Mrs. Fubud. All-right. I'll lend it to somebody.—Philadelphia Press. 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Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be warted on cordly. 'Phone, 2778. THE PLANET SATURDAY... JUNE 29, 1907. HORTICULTURE GRAPE GROWING. Girdling the Vines Entarges Fruit but Injures the Flavor. In reference to the grapes here shown, which were grown in Litchfield county, Conn., the grower was very careful to make plain that he does not ordinarily believe in girdling grapes. It causes the fruit to grow much beyond its natural size, but the quality is never improved and is usu- Girdled Grapes. injured, says New England Homestead. In the same paper Prof. Gulley writes of the best time to trim grape vines, as follows: "The best time to trim grapes is early winter. Days can then be selected that are mild and the ground dry. It can be done at any time before the vines start in the spring. If trimmed after the sap starts they may run or bleed badly. Do not, however, onit the trimming if the work has been left so late, as the creeks have left on the vine would do far more damage than the bleeding from one year's trimming. When done in early winter the vine should be cut free from the trellis, letting it fall to the ground or as near it as it will. This is to prevent the breaking of the vine or trellis by snow when it settles. If it should happen to be deep or drift it also protects the vine from extreme cold. In places where there is danger from cold, a few brush laid over the Ungirdled Grapes. vines when trimming add much to their safety. Do not use for this purpose anything like straw or manure that may attract mice. Very early in the spring before work is hurrying the vines can be taken up and again tied to the trellis. As to general care, cultivation and fertilizing, what will grow corn will grow grapes. Orchard and Garden Barnyard manure with some form of potash makes the best peach orchard fertilizer. Any how, however cold it is, it is advisable to break the ground as early as it is in the right condition; such soil will warm up and dry out earlier. Lima beans may all be planted at once, for if rains and cultivation are right they continue blooming and bearing until frost, unless allowed to ripen seed freely. An acre of peach trees will in ten years use 490 pounds of nitrogen, 125 pounds potash, 300 pounds phosphoric acid and 370 pounds lime. This calls for good culture and fertilizing. Lettuce and radishes are not allowed to seed, as the space they require is worth more than the seed will cost new and fresh; any varieties destro For a small garden, the garden plow, with the attachments, is the best way of all to cultivate with. Handy, efficient, not difficult where soil is in good condition, and speedy, it is the tool, or tools, as there are several of them to use. Prune Carefully. Young trees are seldom pruned carefully enough the first year, and long, willow branches, which bend to the ground with the first load of fruit is the result. Too many second-class trees are set, the growers failing to realize that a poor tree is dear at any price. seed as directions give, but perhaps it is well to plant a little thicker than directions give; this for a small garden, for they may easily be thinned, while if too thin there will be vacant spots to produce weeds. SECRET OF GOOD CREAM Suggestions Which If Followed Will Give Good Results. The following suggestions are given as a guide for the production of cream of good quality: 1. Clean cream, cold cream, and rich cream are the three words which tell the secret of producing sweet cream. 2. Be clean and sanitary in milking. 3. Have all pail's, crocks, cans, and dairy utensils scaled and clean. 4. Keep the separator clean by washing after each separating. 5. Cool each lot of cream in cold water before setting it away and have it thoroughly cooled before adding to the general lot of cream. (A good way is never to mix a fresh batch of cream with older cream, but keep each lot from the different separatings, separate and in one-gallon crocks.) 6. Have a well-ventilated cave or cool cellar in which to keep the cream. 7. Stir each of the separate lots of cream every day to keep them uniform. 8. Have a wire screen for each crock so as to "air the cream" and keep out files and insects. 9. Skim a rich cream—35 to 45 per cent—and it will keep sweet longer. 10. Deliver the cream to the creamery or receiving station three times a week in summer and twice a week in winter. 11. Insist upon the creameryman weighing out the sample of cream for a test instead of measuring in a pipette. The scales are more accurate. 12. Have the cows come fresh in September and October and receive 25 to 30 cents a pound for the butter fat in winter instead of 15 to 20 cents a pound in summer. 13. Make a study of the herd of cows, select the best ones, sell the poor ones, buy or raise more good ones, grow more cowpea and alfalfa hay for winter feeding, and make the cows keep you instead of you keeping the cows. A BAD PRACTICE. Don't Let the Milk Remain in the Barn After Milking. A good many keepers of cows have in the cow stable and behind the cows, pegs on which to hang the milk pails that are too full of milk to prevent their being further used at that milking. A man fills the pail, hangs it on the hook and proceeds to milk another cow. By the time the milking is completed several pails have been hanging on the pegs for 15 minutes to half an hour. In addition the empty pails hung on the same pegs before they were taken for milking purposes and just as readily gathered germs as when they had the milk in them. So far as the milker can see, there is no reason why this practice should not be continued. The pails look clean when they are taken down to be used for milking purposes and the milk in the pails that have been hanging there looks as clean as any other milk. The pails are hung too high to catch any visible dirt. The custom is bad, says the Northwestern Agriculturist, but its badness is hard to prove because the student and the scientist know that the air is full of odors and germs that are constantly settling in the pails to become manifest later in bad flavored butter or quickly souring milk. The milk should be removed from the stable as fast as milk, that the time exposure to bad odors may be as short as possible. FEEDING CORN AND FODDER Special Form of Rack Which Makes the Practice Easy. The feeding of old corn stalks with ear attached is being practiced with good results by many western corn belt stockmen. This requires a special form of rack if it is successfully fol- lowed. One such as shown in the sketch is a good one. The corn is put into the rack at a, and the cattle reach over the bar, c, and eat it through the slanting slats, b. Corn that falls off drops down upon the platform, e, where it is reached by the stock. There is no loss in this method of feeding, says Farm and Home, and tests at the Nebraska experiment station show that in many cases a greater net profit can be secured from the feeding of corn to the stock with the tedder in this method than can be had by feeding shucked or shelled corn. Never. No. Never. Never milk with wet hands. Never mix warm with cold milk. Never close a can containing warm milk. Never try to break a kicker with a club. Try kindness. Never form the habit of feeding and milking at irregular hours. Never allow the cans to stay in the dairy stable while being filled with milk. Never add an animal to the dairy herd before being sure it is free from disease. Never buy a cow on her pedigree alone. It's her performance at the pail that counts most. Never allow cows to become excited by hard driving, unkind words, or unnecessary disturbance. A Diamond Composer. composer or op rss galore Wrote broke for a twelvemonth or more! But to write to you With the baseball team which Employs him, to write out the score THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Everthing! Everthing! IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. The People's Restaurant, 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. POLITE ATTENTION.....GIVE ME A CALL. Mme. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. THE ROAD TO SUCCESS. The youthful jokesmith stood in the august presence of the great editor. With trembling fingers he untied the string around his batch of jokes and laid them on the editor's desk. "I have brought you some jokes," he said, with unsteady voice. "Would you care to look them over?" 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The Metropolitan Habit In an Italian mission school in New York city the teacher was giving a lesson on the life of Lincoln. "And remember, children," she said earnestly, "when Lincoln went to school it wasn't as easy for him as it is for you. He had to walk miles and miles and miles." "Why didn't he ask for a transfer?" asked a little boy on the front seat.—Judge. THE SECRET. Have my eyes not told the secret That has long been in my breast? That has as I lingered with you, Never known to be afraid? Need I beg of you to listen, Need I beg of you to listen, Since my glances have betrayed me, Since you know the truth so well? By your sights and by your glances All that you could whisper now I have learned with glad assurance— But repeat it, anyhow. Under the table The Age. First Boarder—It was an easy matter to classify the stone age, the bronze age, etc.; but this age with its many and wondrous inventions, what name will fit? 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We can well boast of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoys the commendation of the very best white and colored people in this immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do so, who have used our preparation and are to-day asses of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the aga miracle or anything unreasonable. Our prepapound, the ingredients of which we would not just ill just remind the public that the United national patent rights on our hair preparation by us in turn responsible to the government for loans. druff Cure Scalp among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. 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Pullman ready at 9:30 p. m. for Elk River. **YORK RIVER LINE** 420 p. m. Except Sunday. No. 10, to West Point, commute to Baltimore Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 2:15 p. m. No. 10, Local to West Point Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 4:45 p. m. Except Sunday, No. 74, Local to West Point. W. Wednesdays and Fridays No. 9. 5:15 p. m. No. 10 West Point and local stations. Receipt. D. A. C.W. WESTBURY D. A. Richmond, Va. C. H. ACKERWY 200 E. Main S. H. HARDWICK V. P. & Gen. GEN. Pass. T. Cal. Mgr' W. H. HAYLOR P. T. Washington, D. A. R. F. & P. Richmond, Frederickburg, and Potom **road.** Trains Leave **Seahound** — Northward. 1:00 a.m. Byrd St. Through. 7:00 a.m. Daily, Elba. Through. 7:30 a.m. week days. Elba. Ashland secon- mation. 8:40 a.m. m., daily Byrd st. Through. Local stops. Week days. Elba. Ashland se- communication. 12:01 noon, week dava. Byrd st. Through. 12:00 noon, week dava. Byrd st. Washington accommodation. 333P. m. Sunday only. E.iba. Washington accommodation. 6:30 p. m., week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. 6 5 p. m. daily, Main st. Through. 6 5 p. m. delly, Byrd st. Through. 6 5 p. m. chinchmon - southward. 6 5 a. m. week days. Elba Ahland accom modation. a.m. Dally, Byrd street, Through. 3:30 wk days, Byrd 3. Washington accommodation 10 25 a.m. Sunday only. Elba. Washington accommodation. dation. 10:44 a.m. week days, Elba Ashland accom modation. M. d. mally, Byrd St. Through, 9:30 p. m. d. mally, Byrd St. Through, Locals stope. J. LIPP. m. d. mally, Main St. Through. NOTE----Fulman New York Institute are on all above trains except local accommodation. Time of arrivals and departures and con- nections not guaranteed. G. W. CULP, W. P. TAYLOR Genl'Sup't Tr. F. Mgr. SCENIC ROUTE ROUTE TO THE WEST CINCINNATI, INDIANAPOLIS, ST. LOUIS CHICAGO, LOUISVILLE, NASHVILLE, MEMPHIS, 2:15 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. d. mally. NEWPORT NEWS, NORFOLK AND OLD POINT. 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. daily. Local For Newport News. 10:30 a. m. daily; 5:15 p. m. daily. Arrive Main Line from West; *1:30 A. M., *8:30 A. M. from East; *1:45 P. M. from East; *1:05 A. M. *11:45 A. M. *3:00 P. M. James River; *3:40 A. M., *6:30 P. M. (Daily). **Ex. Sunday.** LD DOMINION STREAMSHIP CO DOMINION NIGHT LINE FOR NORFOLK Leave Richmond every evening (look Ash Street) at 7 P. M., stopping at Newport Nash Street, care $2.50 one way, $4.50 round trip, include the classroom berth, meals 50c. each, Street Cars to the Wharf FOR NEW YORK. Via Night Line Steamers (except Saturday making in Norfolk in Norfolk with Main Line ship, following the Norfolk to Norfolk and Western Ry. at 9 A. M. and 4 P. M. purchase Ohio Ry. at 9 A. M. and 4 P. M. make in Norfolk (except Sunday) at Norfolk with Main Line, sailing at 7 P. M. Tickets, 808 E. Main Street Steamer Pocahontas leaves Monday. We travel friday at 7 a.m. for Norfolk Portsmouth, then move to news cla- mons and James River landings, and go to the North Sea room reserved for tight at moderate prices. Fare only $1.50 and Nor- fox. Freight leave above name places an all points in Eastern Yankees, NWEISIG, Gen'MU E. A. Barker, Jr. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD STREET STATION. Norfolk 11:30 A.M. M. Shops only at Petersburg, and Suffolk. **Arrives** 9:00 A.M. M. Shops only at Petersburg, 9:00 A.M. M. Shops only at Petersburg, Car Petersburg to Lynchburg **BUFFET Parlor** Slipper Sleeper Roanoke to Columbia and Lincoln, Lincoln, Lincoln, also Roanoke to Knoxville and Knoxville, Chattanooga and Memphis. 10:00 P.M. Roanoke Express for Fawnville Lynchburg and Roanoke Limited Arrives 3:00 P.M. M. Ocean Shore stops only at Petersburg Waverley and Suffolk. Connects with Steamer to Boston, Providence, New York, Baltimore and Washington. for Norfolk and all stations east of Petersburg. 9:30 P. M. NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE. Pullman Musher Richmond to Lynchburg. Peters Memphis and New York Lynchburg to Chattanooga. Memphis and New York Lynchburg to Chattanooga. Trains arrives from the west 7:30 a.m. 2:05 p. m and 8:30 p. m., from Norfolk 11:40 a.m. 8:58 East Main Street. W. B. BEVILLE Gen. Pass. Act Div. Pass Agent ATLANTIC COAST LINE EFFECTIVE MAY 27TH. Trains leave Richmond daily; For North and south, 9:25 A. M., 7:25 and For North, 9:30 A. M., 3:00 P. M. and 6:20 P. M. Oscario and Wayetteville, $8.50 P. M. Traino and Wayetteville, $8.50 P. M. Traino and Wayetteville, $8.50 P. 11.40 A. M. $8.50, 6.00, 8.50 and 11.40 A. M. $8.50, 6.00, 8.50 and *Except Sunday, **Sunday only.** C. S. CAMPBEE X D. P. A THE Custalo House, 702 East Broad Street. Having remodeled my BAR, and having an up-to-date place, I am prepared to serve my friends and the public at the same old stand. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT, MEALS AT ALL HOURS. New 'Phone 1261, WM. CUSTALO, - Prop. —Bring or send as your JOB WORK; we do it nicely. We can quickly. RECYPLANET (Continued From First Page.) Others Promoted: George Sales, Llewyn Quarles, James Jones, Ethel Jones, George Hopson, Alma Taylor, Aubrey Wyatt, Bessie Trowers, Polindexter, Mary Owens, Marie Oweton, Louisa Nash, Bertha Morton, Benjamin Hamilton, Carrie Goode, Joseph Fountain, Con Baker Lillie Barrett, Philip White, Charles Collins, Robert White, Norma Taylor, Percy Willis, Lillie Woodson, Estelle Logan, Marshall Spain. 3B GRADE—First Honors: Herman Harris, Everett Hill, Robert Hobson, Othel Bown, Ophelia Grey, Eva Taylor. Second Honors: Charles Glasgow, Malcena Ammons, Alice Franklin, Laura Cross, Ethel Jasper, Williana Williams, Lucy Johnson, Ardella Franklin, Margaret Clarke Others Promoted: Martha Bolling, Maude Wilson, James Fleet, Hayes Morton, Morris Holmes, James Mitchell, Beulah Franklin, Arnita Staves Rebecca Martin, Louise Dandridge. 3A GRADE—First Honors: Georgiana Burraill, Richard Hall, David Meyers, Edna Royal. Second Honors: Alma Burrell, Helen Cross, Howard Lewis, Edward Loney, Marie Loney, Daisy Randolph Sarah Reed, Walter White, Melicenia Webster. Others Promoted: George Banks, Mamie Cross, Mildred Dandridge, Goldie Fraysier, Roscoe James, Julia Jackson, Rosa Mosbey, William Pride Mary Turner, George Washington. 2B GRADE—First Honors: George Green, Gracie Braxton, Harriet Johnson, Granner Montague, Adelle Claiborne. Second Honors: Elnora Robinson, Henry Mallory, Clarence Johnson, Wilkie Thompson, Dewy Hobson, Emma Anderson, Jennie Dabney, Emily Williams, Elvira Epps, Julia Saelton Darris Sheldon, Henry Killen, Lillian Bonner, Alexander Eillington. Others Promoted: Mary Stokes, Emmett Cousins, William Woolfolk, Stivester Jasper, Maurice Dismond, Celestine Franklin, Jasper Burton, Charlie Gibbs, Lucile Watkins, Adelle Evans, Mary Tucker, Irving Johnson, Horace Green, Willie Cheat ham, Ruth Davis, Horace Hobson. 2A GRADE—Arthur Cooper, Aubrey Gaines, Everett Lee, Elsie Chiles. Second Honors: Fleming Brown, Bernard Beverly, Junius Carter, Clarence Coutts, Willie Lewis, Jacob Peaton, Samuel Phillips, James Steward Richard Fleming, Irving Robertson, Mary Burton, Maggie Byrd Lucy Bullock, Virgile Gibbs, Ethel Knight, Mamie Pleasants, Emma Willams, Carrie Smith. Others Promoted: William I. Johnson, Irving Moore, Gracie Dismond, Lizzie Moore, Inez Coutts, Martha Cheatham. IB GRADE—First Honors: Williana Bolling, Lillie Dabney, Irving Goff, Virginia Minor, Gertrude Minor Charles Liggons, Annie Liggons, William Hatcher, William Henderson Charles Randolph, Robert Patterson Second Honors: William Roane Nowlan Wingfield, James Thornton James Patterson, Mary Carter, Cora Carter, Lottie Cousins, Gertrude Page, Viola Parris, Clara Smithers, Kate Pleasants, James Lee, Annie Carner, George Cross, Burton Epps, Wellington Harris, Wavell, Hill, Sagle Jones, Willie Richardson, Woodson, Mary Branch, Melvina Burton, Mahala Carter, Lillie Jones, Marjorie Smith, Gertrude Lipscomb, Rebecca Woodson, Mary Washington. Others Promoted—Frank Jackson, Lawrence Payne, Samuel Booker, Alfred Jackson, Alphonso Ransom, Robert Scott, Augustus Gayles. IA GRADE—First Honors: Frances Allen, Minnie Carter, George Epps, John Gibson, Willie Gray, Ruth Herndon, Jennie Johnson, Ella Lynch Clarence Ross, Frank Smith, Robert Searcle, Etna Woodson. Second Honors: Alex Holmes, William Jackson, Thomas Willis, Webster Hill, Annie Randolph, Robert Willis, Williford Roberson, Eugene Willis, Williford Branch, Mary Fields, Arthur Mallowy, Anna Mason, Arthur Jones Sam Allen, Rebecca Holmes, Lynwood Mason, Dabney, Tom Patterson, Mary Richardson, Edna Flournoy. Others Promoted: Irene Holmes, Arthur Ridley, Don Booker, George Burton, Willie Houston, Columbus Brent, John Sledd, Mary Hill, Percy Smith, Charles Allen Rosa Woodson, Rebecca Mosby, Charles Franklin, Irma West, Jeremiah Douglas, Berta Claire, Rodger Chiles, Marie Jones, Edward Roberson, Chancel Davis, Josephine Vaughan. BAKER SCHOOL—Honor Pupils 7B GRADE—First Honors: Maggie E. Farrar, John Mercer Burrell. Second Honors: Maria Burke, Zipporah Yearman, Leah B. Farrar, Grattan A. Graves, William C. Gray, Morhea Steward, Annie M. Carter. Others Promoted: Emanuel Stuart Richard Jackson, Sallie Gayles, Lena Goodwyn, Annie R. Brown. 7A GRADE—First Honors: Geo. Brown, Frank Cephas, Ruby Coots, James Edwards, Hortense Grey, Irma Holmes, Daisy Moore, Sarah Sidney, Charlie Strore, Jack Wyche. Second Honors: Alice Chiles, Gussie Daggett, Eugenia Ellis, Bessie Jones, Goldie Lee, Rosa Scott, Blanche Scott, Ellis Mayo, Eddie Yan cey. 6B GRADE—First Honors: Ruby Greene, Lossie Hawks, Lottie Lewis, Marion Miles, Gertrude Powell, Mamie Robinson, Florence Taylor. Second Honors: Willianna Branch, Irene Brown, Lizzie Harris, Allison Milee, Alberta Smith, Eva Smith, Frank Stewart. 6A GRADE—First Honors: Samuel Woolfolk, Fannie Henderson, Rexford Ovelton, Percy Vaughan. Second Honors: Doris Crawford, Daniel Farrar, Ethel Forrester, Adolphus Gardiner, Arthur Jernigan, Charles Lewis, Amy Lipschomb, Ethel Minor, Irving Powell, Mattie Ross, Sarah Taylor, Celeste Weaver, Eva Wells, Benjamin Wilkerson. 5B GRADE—First Honors: Sadie Augustus, Hazel Carter, Ruth Cary Hannah Giles, Edna Harris, Ethel Cowe, Helen West. Second Honors: Joseph Brown, Marle Browa, John Dabney, Wilnette Gaston, Alphonso Graham, Robert Johnson, Grace Quarles, Mark Randall, Rebecca Wilson. Other Promotions: James Holmes. 5A GRADE—First Honor: Julia Bolling, Bertha Crawford, Lula Clemons, Leonard Cephas, Daniel Davis, Maria Jones, William Jackson, Robert Lewis, Camille Mayo, Sadie Nelson, Sadie Wilson. Second Honors: Ethel Branch, Blanche Day, Bertha Fife, Nannie Goodman, George Lipscomb, Ira Wiliams, Susie Robinson, Norval Jones, Edward Stanford, Pauline West, Hattie Lewis. Others Promoted: Hugh Fountain, George Scott, Percy Steward, Mabel Wooldridge. 4B GRADE—First Honors: Chas. Brown, Gertrude Chambers, George Gaskins, Royal Hamilton, Richard Johnson, Vivian Lemus, Ethel Robin Johnson, Willie Watts, Clara Yancey. Second Honors: Mary Christian, Jessie Coleman, Holt Dawson, Richard Edwards, Robert Eldridge, Florence Goodman, Inez Graves, Lizzie Gaines, Florence Gardner, Fannie Gaston, Benjamin Holmes, Christopher Jackson, Edward Lee, Warenton Lovings, Rosa Pervall, Godfrey Royal, Bessie Smith, Harriet Stuart, Joseph Shackelford, Ella Sydney, Daisy Wright. 4A GRADE—First Honor: Ethel Ellis, George Green, Annie Haskins, Alice Jenkins, Ethel Lemas, Rosa Meade, Joseph Miller, Willie Mitchell, Celestine Nottingham, Lucile Payne, Luther Powell, Henry Smith, Horace Scott, Helena Tomlin. Second Honor: Arthur Barcroft, Benjamin Carter, Martha Christian, Jessie Harris, Rosa James, Lizzie King, Wyndall Miles, Etta Payne, Samuel Rose, Ellsworth Storrs, Willie Taylor, Ruth Thompson, Josephine Watson, Thomas Webb, Leroy Wyche. 3B GRADE—First Honors: Mosselle Anderson, Daisy Greene, Beatrice Harris, Robert J. Jones, Henrietta Mason, James Pierson, Mabel Washington. Second Honors: Louise Adams, Cardwell Bass, Lawrence Butler, Pauline Clarke, Gracie Coleman, James Chiles, Joseph Fisher, Zenobia Gilpin, Ottie Graham, Alma Hope Alwyn, Lewis, Inez Smith, Marie Tren, Robert West, Indie Woodson Others Promoted: Thomas Barrett Easton Cosby, Frank Manning Blanche Morris. 3A GRADE—First Honors: Aubrey Chambers, Daisy Crutchfield, Mamie Hall, John Jackson, Wilmer Jones, Maria Knight, Pearl Vest, Bertha Wells Second Honors: Morton Braxton, Marian Brown, Hattie Carter, Frederick Cephas, Daniel Clarke, Nolia Davis, Rachel Davis, Marlon Dixon, Ella Fountain, Annie Graham, Samuel Harris, Sylvester Daisy, Daisy Hill, Alexander James, Ida Johnson, Nannie Pollard, George Roy, Louise Shelton, Regina Smith, Marranis Turner. 2B GRADE—First Honors: Belle Boyd, Richard Ballard, Ruth Deane, Arthur Ferguson, Abram Harris, Ida Hayden, Jessica Harris, Clarissa Kyles, Clara Pollard, Lillian Peters, Katie Stephens, Marian Thompson. Second Honors: Irene Liggons, Tanner Nottingham, Chris Pollard, Ada Pitts, Emmett Scott, Clara Williams. Others Promoted: Joseph Richardson, Antonette Gaines, Eddie Thomas, Floyd Trent, Arthur Patterson, Caledonia Gardner, Mary Eldridge, Ada Carter, Herbert Lewis, Susie Benjamin, Ruth Augustus. 2A GRADE—First Honors: Marian Anderson, Lottie Carey, Iola Cosby, Rosalie Davis, Louise Davenport, Oliver Gaines, Andrew Jackson, Bessie Lemas, George Lacy, Alice Mende, Beulah Johnson, Benjamin Woolfolk. Second Honors: Joseph Barlow, Alice Brown, Blanche Clarke, Creed Chiles, Waverly Carter, Regis Denny Floyd Davis, Junius Davenport, Bessie Edmonds, Carrie Fuller, George Flournoy, Eddie Giles, Herman Gilles Lingard Holmes, Rosa Trent, Ida Tomlin, Margaret Taylor, Hunter Scott, John Vaughan, James Wells, Walter Wells, Helen Waddill, Louise Wyche. Others Promoted: Ruth Gaston, James Goodman, Robert Jenkins, Clarence Payne, Samuel Pleasants, Clarence Reye, Lene Randall, Sallie Robinson, Bettie Stanford. 1B GRADE—First Honors: Bennie Braxton, Laura Gaskins, Douglass Johnson, Robinette Lewis, John Milene, Clarence Roy, Martha Smith, Eloise Williams. Second Honors: Millie Brown, Ruby Coles, Ethel Graves, James Cooper, Irene Barcroft, Helen Cosby, Burnette Graham, Royal Mason, Freddie Scott, Camilla Stallings, Halie Smith, Julia Jefferson, Ella Booker, William Anderson. Others Promoted: Linwood Archer Charles Bentley, Mercer Crawford, Maria Chafin, Robinson Davis, Devetta Facion, Leonard Gray, Ollie Graves, Mota Johnson, Anita Knight Naomi Langton, Ruth Leffwich, Annie Monroe, Ernest Meade, Ambrose Price, Leslie Patterson, Hattie Pryor, Leola Samuels, Willie Stallings, Ottie White. 1A GRADE—First Honors: Chas. Butler, Bossie Goode, Flossie Martin, Flossie Winn, Laura Smith, Gladys Carrington, Louise Goode, Mabel Miller, Carrie Pierson, Helen Bassett. Second Honors: George Burrell, James Braxton, Agnes Jimmerson, Mabel Lockett, Elijah Minor, Pailan der Thomas, Alex. West, Isabelle Booker, Mazy Day, Arthur Hubbard THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER. PROPRIETOR WITHIN ONE BLOCK OF STREET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY TERMS REASONABLE SECOND AND LEIGH STS. RICHMOND, VA. Daniel Jackson, Reuben Merriwenter, Lovie Thomas, Sarah Walker, Norvell Coots, Joseph Purvall. Others Promoted: Lula Carter, Robert Green, Eileth Thomas, Adèle Mayo, Lewis Anderson, Harry Coleman, Burnell Stors, Bettle Thomas, Hattie Burrell. —Mr. W. L. White has returned from Norfolk, Va., whee he has been serving as a petit juror in the United States District Court. —Mr. Ernest Brown, who was painfully injured about two weeks ago is improving at his residence No. 2 W. Baker St. SENATOR FORAKER MAKES GREAT SPEECH. (Continued From First Page.) of the President or of the Secretary of War, but when I looked at the reports of Major Blocksom and Gen. Garlington and the testimony submitted therewith, upon which the President acted, I felt that whether it was intentional or not he had been misled." A LASE OF RACE PREJUDICE. Senator Foraker then quoted from the testimony of Gen. Garlington to show that the General had a prejudice against the Negro soldiers and had said that he would not believe them unless they were corroborated and continued: "I do not wish to disparage Gen. Garlington. He has the reputation of being a good officer and I have no doubt he is so far as the general duties as a soldier are concerned, but in view of this testimony I submit that it was gravely unfortunate that such an affray as that at Brownsville should have been investigated and reported upon to the President by one who has so little confidence in the truth and veracity of the colored men as he has expressed. The prejudice against Negroes, and against these Negro soldiers in particular, so strongly expressed by him was shared in, in so far as they could be induced to give any expression on the subject, practically every item from Brownville who testified on the subject. All assumed from the first shot that was fired without any testimony whatever that the soldiers were doing the firing and that no weight whatever should be given to their denials of guilt. The investigation may prove futile to establish the truth. It may never be known who did the firing, but it will always be known that the men have at least had a chance to state their side of the case. Special Rates Special rates over the Southern Railroad to Nashville, Tenn., on account of the National Allen Christian Endeavor League are as follows: From Washington and return, $26.85 From Richmond and return, $23.63 From Norfolk and return, $24.25 From Lynchburg and return, $21.90 From Danyville and return, $21.90. There will be a special train leaving Richmond, Va. at 11:30 P. M. June 30, which will arrive in Nashville, Tenn. at 6:50 A. M. July 2nd. This train will be composed of Pullmans and a Diner. Buy regular ticket going at regular one way rate securing at the same time receipt in shape of certificate from the ticket agent, which will entitle the holder to purchase ticket returning at one-third rate over the same route. Rates authorized on this basis from all points south of the Potomac and east of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, including Washington, D. C. For further information write W. F. Denny, President of State League, 797 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. Information Wanted. Information wanted of Louis Bruce or her husband, Billy Bruce, by her sister, H. TURNER, 117 E 88th St, New York City. $ \cdot^{*}0^{*} $ VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, the 29th day of May, '07. In Vacation. Mary Barnes, Plaintiff vs Isham Barnes Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonil by the plaintiff from the defendant. And affidavit having been made an 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 here of and do whatever may be proper to protect his interests herein. Teste—Samuel P. Waddill, Clerk N. J. Lewis, pq. To Isham Barnes: Take notice that I shall on the 8th day of July, 1907, at the offices of N. J. Lewis, No. 2118 E. Main St. 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 belfair, in a certain suit depending in the Circuit Court for the County of Henrico wherein you are def- endant 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 tak- ing 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. Very respectfully, MARY BARNES, By Counsel. N. J. Lewis, p. q. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, the 5th day of June, '07. In Vacation. IN CHANCERY Mattie Russ, Plaintiff Junius Russ. Junius Russ. 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 of this order and do whatever may be proper to protect his interest herein. Teste—Sam'l. P. Waddill, Clerk 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. Very respectfully, Mattie Russ. By Counsel. N. J. Lewis, p. q. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the County of Henrico, the 5th day of June, '07. In Vacation. IN CHANCERY Pump 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. 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, 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. N. J. Lewis, p. q. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 4th day of June, 1907. Pleasants McCaw, Jr.. Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonil by the plaintiff from the defendant. And affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is under sentence of confinement in the Virginia State Penitentiary; it is ordered that he appear h re within fifteen days after due publication hereof and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interests herein. A copy—Teste: P. P. Winston, Clerk. N. J. Lewis, pq. To Pleasants McCaw, J.: Take notice that I shall on the 22d day of July, 1907 at the offices of N. J. Lewis, 2118 E. Main St., Rich- KINK·NE Most Wonderful Discovery ever made for curly, kinky and knotty hair. Makes hair grow long, straight, soft and silky; cures dandruff and stops falling hair. Kink-ine acts like magic on the hair. Kink-ine Is No Experiment. It was discovered by R. 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Friends invited. ter Orders West Coal Co., Streets Clay Sts., Richmond, Va. famine that is to come. It is sold at $1.00. Address all communications to MRS. LUCINDA YOUNG, Lambertville, N. J. Agents Wanted. Nelson's Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. Any information of the where- be gladly received by his step-father, William Johnson. He is about five feet tall and worked in a coal mine at Petersburg, Va., when last heard of. Address all information to Wm. Johnson or D. Johnson, 96 Bryn Avenue, Kingston, N. Y.