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THE RICHMOND PLANET
VOLUME XXIV. NUMBER 32.
SHALL WE GO TO AFRICA?
MR. STEWARD TELLS OF THE BEAUTIES OF THAT COUNTRY.
Rather than remain in America under a regime of oppression and repression, ought we not to return to Africa, bearing the torchlight of the Gospel of Christ and of civilization which God has given us, to our benighted brethren who are waiting and praying for our coming? This is the topic for this paper.
Some may ask, Why go to Africa? Are there not other parts of the world besides Africa? Are not there the Philippine islands and the Hawaiian islands to which we can go?
We should go to Africa because it is our fatherland, and there we will find our brethren with whom we can readily become assimilated. The Philippines belong to the United States and so does Hawaii. They are dependencies of this country and are likely to remain so. Their inhabitants although a dark race are as alien to us as is the white race of America and Europe.
Africa is one of the five grand divisions of the earth. It is triangular in form. It has an area of 11,556 600 square miles with a population of 192,520,000 souls. The western coast is washed by the Atlantic Ocean, the Northern Sea by the Mediterranean and the eastern by the Indian Ocean. It is rich in oils, ivory gold, precious timber, diamonds and beautiful lakes and grand rivers. The climate is thoroughly tropical and fruit of nearly every description abounds.
Some people regard Africa as being a wild waste of jungles and marshy, malarial low-lands. The real truth is that it is one of the most salubrious parts of the earth. Its grand mountains, table lands and majestic rivers are famous the world over. Read the following description of a sunset on the Atlas mountains by Frank G. Carpenter, one of the most renowned of modern travellers:
"As one climbs up the Atlas Mountains the views widen so that the whole world seems spread out below. One can see so far that such mountains as the Alps are dwarfed by the mighty panoramas. The ragged hills stretch away for hundreds of miles on every side, and in the winter, when the Atlas is covered with snow, the views must be, beyond expression magnificent. I saw one sunset at the very top of the pass, which will remain in my memory as among the most wonderful of the cloud paintings of my life.
"During the day the sirocco had been blowing its hot blast from the desert and the sun had been hidden. When it set the sky was full of clouds, and it gilded them in a hundred rosette hues. We were high up in the sky, with great masses of fleecy gold above and below us. The mountains took on all tints and shades and their sides became a patchwork of many colors, which we saw through a thin veil of gold. On other hills the veil was a delicate lavender, and on others a snow-white tinged with rose pink. As the sun disappeared a band of royal purple ran around these mountain peaks, resting below them, while there were bands of burning copper above and below."
The condition of the Negro in this country is pitiful beyond conception He is utterly helpless and at the mercy of the white man who looks upon him only as an object of either pity or hatred. So far as protection goes he is worse off now, in a state of nominal freedom than he was in real slavery for then, with interest indeed in his master to stand by and protect him.
Now he is at the mercy of every white man who chooses to kick him. Any frank and honest colored man will acknowledge that he is afraid to go into a miscellaneous crowd accompanied by his wife, daughter or sister, or indeed, by any lady, for fear that insult may be offered her, the resenting of which by him would result in a race riot.
When God resolved to free the Children of Israel from Egyptian bondage, He carried them away from the presence of their former masters to a country of their own. Again, when He delivered them from the Babylonish captivity, He caused them to return to their own country—to Palestine. We would do well to con sider these matters and inquire what in the will of the Lord concerning us. I know that thousands and tens of thousands of us are doing well in this country—so well that, possibly we are loth to consider the will of God in the matter. I am glad that
STARTLING REPORT FROM WASHINGTON.
Senate Committee Will Recommend Restoration to the Army.
THE BASIS OF A COMPROMISE—REPUBLICAN LEADERS ALARMED AT THE DISAFFECTION. COLORED VOTERS UGLY—WILL STRIKE BACK—"THERE'LL BE A HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN TO-NIGHT."
Washington, July 7.—The settlement of the Brownsville investigation and the report of the investigating committee will be a compromise that will be approved by the President and Senator Foraker, to the end that the Negro race may thereby receive the greatest possible benefit, and the racial issue, which was so accentuated by the unfortunate incident, will be given a lasting quietus. This inquiry will be a lasting quietus. This inquiry will be a unification of the Republican elements to the discomfiture of the Democrats.
More than this, the report will bring about a more advanced step by President Roosevelt's administration in the recognition of the colored race, so far as the army is concerned. The report will not be made until Congress convenes, but it will fail to uphold President Roosevelt's course in all particulars and will pave the way for the discharged colored soldiers to re-enter the army. This much has been disclosed. Senator Foraker will not win on every point, but he may be so well satisfied that he will make no minority report. There are assurances also, that President Roosevelt will be satisfied.
NO DIRECT CHARGE.
The committee will make no direct charge that Negro soldiers, individually or collectively shot up the town of Brownsville, but will let the people draw their own conclusions. The committee will recommend the passage of a law by Congress which will authorize the discharged soldiers to re-enlist "without prejudice" and their army status be fixed as it was before they were dishonorable discharged, providing each soldier shall make a statement that he did not participate in the shooting. While this result will not give the discharged soldiers as clean a bill of health as they had hoped for, it will no doubt satisfy them. It will restore them to their civil and military rights which they lost through the President's order.
POLITICS AND MERCY-COMBINED
There is politics as well as the quality of mercy in this decision. There has been no doubt since the action of the administration in the Brownsville case that the Negro race has been stirred to a resentment that it has at no time felt since emancipation. There are intimations that the President has been advised by Booker T. Washington that his sentiment did not extend beyond the Negro politicians, and would soon blow over.
Further investigation, how has shown that it extends from more advanced Negroes of the der states to the field hands of plantations of the South and farms of the Central West. The Brownsville incident and terrible punishment met out situated the first blot upon the cord. It has been insisted by Negroes, Senator Foraker being spokesman, that such punishment should not be visited without the Senate Committee will take the approval by President F. velt of such a decision by the ate Committee will be accepted country over as a renewed adher to his doctrine of the "square." He asserted that his order w stand unless convincing proof submitted to him of the innocent the Negro politician.
so many are doing well. This is God's way. If they are doing well, let them continue to do well. The Lord would not have us go away as so many beggars, not at all. He did not bring away his chosen people from Egypt as such. They were well provided for. The doing of God's will is not always agreeable to us, but we should seek to find out what is His will and do it nevertheless.
I think I hear some one say, How do you know what is God's will in this matter, who made you a prophet? I am no prophet nor the son of a prophet. I do not even pretend to know what is God's will in this matter. But I call upon every thinking man, every leading man of the Negro race in America to seek to find out what is the Lord's will as to our destiny in this world.
I do not believe that it is the will of God that ten millions of people whom He has caused to be civilized, Christianized and educated, should be lost in a country and amongst a people who do not want them nor need them, while their own country which He has given them and their own people and kinsmen are perishing for lack of the services which they can render.
Go on, do well in America. Get wealth, build houses, palaces, halls, churches; acquire land; get religion, become educated and moral. Do all of these for yourselves in America, it will the better qualify you to build empires and redeem millions of souls in Africa.
"Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands unto God."
O. M. STEWARD.
Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., instituted Navy Hill Lodge, No. 131 at the Pythian Castle Thursday night, July 4th, with the following officers: Chancellor Commander, Marx Funn; Vice Chancellor, William Hill; Prelate, J. W. Johnson; Master of Work, R. W. Moss; Keeper of Records and Seal, Christopher Williams; Master of Finance, Richard Jackson; Master at Arms, Percy Barley; Master of Exchequer, William Wynn; Inner Guard, Clarence Moss; Outer Guard, Charley Green. Trustees, Daniel Lewis, R. W. Trusts, Marx Funn.
This lodge was organized through the efforts of Sir R. W. Moss and Sir John H. Holmes. The Grand Chancellor complimented them high-
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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1907.
to uphold President Roosevelt's course in all particulars and will pave the way for the discharged colored soldiers to re-enter the army. This much has been disclosed. Senator Foraker will not win on every point, but he may be so well prepared to do so. There is no mority report. There are assurances also, that President Roosevelt will be satisfied.
NO DIRECT CHARGE
The committee will make no direct charge that Negro soldiers, individually or collectively shot up the town of Brownsville, but will let the people draw their own conclusions. The committee will recommend the passage of a law by Congress which will authorize the discharged soldiers to be stationed in the town and their army status be fixed as it was before they were dishonorably
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
A Lodge and Court in Chesterfield
Winterpock, Va., July 9, '07
Grand Chancellor John Mitchell,
Jr., accompanied by Dr. E. R. Jefferson,
Sir S. R. S. Baker, Dr. J. Alexander Lewis, Capt. John G. Smith, Sir R. L. Jackson, D. D. G. C. of Chesterfield and one other arrived here yesterday afternoon for the purpose of instituting a lodge of Knights of Pythias. They camped out under the trees, where lunch and refreshments were continuously served until 9 o'clock at night when they repaired to the hall and proceeded with the initiation. The new body will be known as Winterpock Lodge, No. 132. The following officers were installed: Chancellor Commander, D. R. Randolph; Master of Work, Tony Hembrick; Vice Chancellor, Washington Baskins; Prelate, Tom Hembrick Master of Finance, Andrew Finn; Keeper of Records and Seal, Jacob Dyson; Master of Exchancellor, Sam Crawley; Master at Arms, Michael Inner Guard, Elijah Piper; Outer Guard, Eddie Pollard; Trustees, D. R. Randolph, Thomas Lee, William Winston.
This lodge was organized through the efforts of Sir R. L. Jackson. Sir Mitchell then organized Morning Star Court with the following officers:
Worthy Counsellor, Mrs. Vina Mack; W. Inspectrix, Mrs. Anna Hawkins; Orator, Mrs. Julia Green; W. Inspector, Mrs. Betsy Stidphant; Register of Deeds and Register of Accounts, Mrs. Rosa Winston; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Mary E. Crawley; Escort, Mrs. Nancy Brown; Senior Directress, Mrs. Phyllis Brown; Junior Directress, Mrs. Lucinda Malone; Conductress, Mrs. Mary Eliza Olds; Assistant Conductress, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson; Herald, Mrs. Jilia Langton; Protector, Mrs. Delia Epps. Both of these bodies were organized through the efforts of Sir R. L. Jackson, District Deputy Grand Chan cellor of Manchester and Chesterfield
DIED—Kizzie Howe, wife of Mr. Wash. Howe, Sunday, July 7, 1907 at 11 Coutts St. Her funeral took place Tuesday, July 9th, in Hanover County, Rev. Stephenson of this city officiating. She was a devoted wife and mother, and a consistent Christian. She leaves seven children and eleven brothers and sisters to mourn their loss.
—Mrs. W. H. Isham and Miss Cassie D. Isham were called to Phoebus the day of Monday on account of the death of her daughter of Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Grasham.
blow over.
Further investigation, however, has shown that it extends from the more advanced Negroes of the border states to the field hands on the plantations of the South and the farms of the Central West.
The Brownsville incident and the terrible punishment meted out constituted the first blot upon the record. It has been insisted by the Negroes, Senator Foraker being their spokesman, that such punishment should not be visited without positive proof of guilt. This is the view the Senate Committee will take.
The approval by President Roosevelt of such a decision by the Senate Committee will be accepted the counterpart as a renewed adherence to his doctrine of the "square deal."
He asserted that his order would stand unless convincing proof was submitted to him of the innocence of the Negro soldiers.
Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson in Seattle Washington.
Dr. W. T. Johnson, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of this city is now in Seattle, Washington attending the International Christian Endeavor Convention. Dr. Johnson has the distinguished honor of being one of the Trustees of this great convention. This is a great trip for Dr. Johnson. This trip will be beneficial and profitable to the Doctor in many ways.
IN MEMORY of Mrs. M. A. Henderson, the widow of D. B. Henderson, died June 15th in her 52d year buried June 19th.
She was a faithful worker and a zealous christian. She was a great wrooker in the I. O. of G. Samaritans and D. of Samaria. She lived a christian and died the death of the righteous. The Sunday School has lost a faithful teacher as well as a faithful member of Jackson St. M. E. Church.
She was sick five months and was a patient sufferer. She was beloved by all who knew her. She is missed in the community as a music teacher. She was unexcelled.
Sleep on, dear one, sleep on; She has has asleep in Jesus. Her last words were, "I want to sleep away to Heaven." So she slept away to Heaven.
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We thank our subscribers who have heeded our appeal circulars and sent us subscription money. God bless 'em.
discharged, providing each soldier shall make a statement that he did not participate in the shooting. While this result will not give the discharged soldiers as clean a bill of health as they had hoped for, it will no doubt satisfy them. It will restore them to their civil and military rights which they lost through the President's order.
POLITICS AND MERCX-COMBINED
There is politics as well as the quality of mercy in this decision. There has been no doubt since the action of the administration in the Brownsville case that the Negro race has been stirred to a resentment that it has at no time felt since emancipation. There are intimations that the President has been advised by Booker T. Washington that his resentment did not extend beyond the Negro politicians and would soon
JANIFER —WATTS.
A quiet wedding was solemnized at Natural Bridge Wednesday, June 19th, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Watts, between their oldest daughter, Mamie E. to Mr. Robert Janifer of Washington, D. C. The scene was impressive, the two plighting their troth surrounded by kindred and friends. The ceremony was performed by the bride's uncle Rev. S. S. Watts of Beuna Vista, Va. The wedding marches were well rendered by Mrs. Janie B. Watts as the wedding parties arranged themselves under the handsome arch decorated with ferns, evergreens and roses and the soft light rising out of this threw a glow over the scene.
The bride entered with her father by whom she was given away. She ored lace princess over creamy colored lace princess over vreamy colored taffeta silk, a diamond brooch in her hair and carried a bouquet of white illies.
Mrs. Ira T. Watts, brother of the bride was best man who came in with the bridegroom and stood in front of the minister awaiting the bride, who was led in by two little flower girls strewing a table in the hall. Mrs. Wamie Day of Indian Rock, V.J. J. C. Hubert in attendance. Outside the central group stood the ushers, Sherman Watts and Willie Day.
Following the marriage a reception was served at a table decorated with candles, beautiful flowers and cakes. The bride received many costly gifts from far and near.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Janifer left June 20th for Jersey City, N. J., where they will make their home in the future. Miss Watts is the grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carter Stanford of Richmond, Va.
The Grand Lodge Session.
The Grand Lodge will convene at Norfolk next Tuesday. Delegates in the Southwest have been permitted to take advantage of the reduced rates that will be on Monday night and Tuesday morning. The parade at Norfolk will take place Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 P. M. A large delegation will go down from this city Monday at 4 P. M.
Notice!
All delegates to the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias and the Grand Court, I. O. Calanthe will buy tickets to the Jamestown Exposition via Norfolk. Members of the Uniform Rank, travelling in uniform will get the advantage of the military rate. The encampment at Norfolk will be ready to receive them.
REV. MRS. L. GASKIN.
Men and Girls Wanted.
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Cor. Price & Jackson Sts.
Send fifty cents for the Northwest Negro Progress Number of The Seattle Republican and learn of the opportunities of the Negro in the far Northwest.
THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN.
Seattle, Washington
100 OFFICERS INSTALLED.
ZION BAPTIST CHURCH CROWDED—GRAND EXERCISES.
Newport News, Va.
One hundred officers were publicly installed Tuesday night, July 2nd, Zion Baptist Church was crowded to its utmost capacity in honor and appreciation of the public installation of the Knights of Pythias. Never be fore has the city been more aroused in the interest of Knighthood than now and the public installation which had never been witnessed before served to inspire and to stimulate.
Deputy J. C. Allen was the source of this inspiring deed. He is untiring in his efforts and is successful in all his undertakings. Prof. J. E. Byrd, acted Grand Prelate; Special Deputy J. W. Larkins acted as Master at Anchor. The officers of the following lodges: Damon, No. 12, Eureka, No. 30, Lily of the Valley, No. 40, Cavailor, No. 56, Star of the East, No. 58, Rose of Sharon, No. 63, Newport News, No. 74, Athletic, No. 113, Prince of Peace, No. 114, Flying Eagle, No. 130, were escorted to their respective places and in a most impressive way, received their solemn obligation of duty.
This act alone, with many other interesting features, planned by the brained men of this city, enables the Knights of Pythias to stand head and shoulders above all the other Orders of the city. After receiving the obligations, charge was delivered to them by the Grand Vice Chancellor, T. J. Pree, whose speech enapt the audience with such surprise, till the cry was, "No man spake like he."
Grand Vice Chancellor T. J. Pree,
Deputy J. C. Allen, Special Deputy
J. W. Larkins, Prof. J. E. Byrd are
four of the excellent characters wily
selected to lead the Fraternity of
Knighthood in this city. With these
magnets, the Order is bound to mark
up its banner, "Excelsior."
After the installation service they
were refreshed by a collation of ice-
cream and cake. Ice-cream was fur-
ished by Excelsior Ice Cream Co.
a company newly organized and
composed of the best citizens of the race
with all modern improvements to
manufacture ice-cream in all styles,
if necessary can turn out a gallon
per minute.
BYSTANDER
Notice!
All pastors and delegates who will attend the National Baptist Convention to be held in the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Washington, D.C. from September 11th to 16th inclusive should write Rev M. W. D. Norman, D. D., Chairman of the Local Committee at once. Address 1211 T. St., N. W., Washington, D.C. M. W. D. NORMAN, Chair A. SAVIES, Scotts'
Baptist papers please copy and oblige the Local Committee.
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS
Mr. J. W. Johnson, capitalist, will reside on his brick residence next to the Sharon Baptist Church. He will have his office there and will engage in the real estate business.
Rev. A. A. Graham and wife had the misfortune to lose their nine months old child. It was buried Tuesday last at Phoebus.
Capt. W. H. Ward has been assigned to the command of the Second Battalion at Lynchburg, Va. Capt. U. S. G. Patterson has been appointed Assistant Inspector General and Capt. W. J. Wells, Alde-decamp, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias.
You expect to leave the city. Have the Planet follow you. We will send it to you for two months for 25cts, and pay the postage on it too. This is fair enough.
Mr. Gharles G. Jurgen's Son has a fine place at Adams and Broad Sts. The selection of furniture is of the highest order and you would do well to call and see them.
—Mr. N. Winston is the leading man here now. His ice-cream is up to date and its cooling, refreshing qualities are recognized. You can have a half gallon or as many more gallons as you wish. Make the females happy. Give them ice-cream. He is polite and obliging. Now is the time to make your affection appreciated. Order ice-cream.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
$1,750 PAID.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
PAY DEATH CLAIMS
PROMPTLY.
$150-00 Endowment Paid.
Houston, Va., July 8, 07.
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.,
Grand Chancellor of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias,
N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.60) One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars in payment of the death-
claim of William Owen, who was a
member of St. Matthew Lodge, No.
88, of Houston, Va.
her
Signed—Lucy X Owen,
mark
Beneficiary.
Witnesses:
J. H. L. Crenshaw.
Eddie Owen.
A. D. Rackland.
$150.00 Endowment Paid.
Newport News, Va., July 7, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of James Cross, who was a member of Star of the East Lodge, No. 58, of Newport News, Va. Signed—Mary E. Williams, Beneficiary.
Witnesses:
William R. Newlin, K. of R, S.
W. W. Hairston, M. of F.
J. C. Allen, D. D. G. C.
$150.00 Endowment Paid.
Newport News, Va., July 8, 1907.
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.,
Grand Cancellor of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias,
N. A, S. A, E., A, A, and A.
($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars in payment of the death-claim
of Arthur Thompson, who was a
member of Rose of Sharon Lodge,
No. 63 of Newport News, Va.
Signed—Annie L. Thompson,
Beneficiary.
Witnesses:
J. H. Taliaferro, K. of R. & S.
C. H. Brown, M. of F.
J. C. Allen, D. G. C.
$150.00 Endowment Paid.
Clifton Forge, Va, July 3, '07.
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.
Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Edmund Hansborough, who was a member of Olympia Lodge, No 49 of Clifton Forge, Va.
Signed—Annie Hansborough,
Beneficlary.
$150.00 Endowment Paid.
Richmond Va., July 5, '07.
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.
Grand Chancellor of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars in payment of the death-
claim of William Shelton, who was
a member of North Star Lodge, No.
52, of Richmond, Va.
her
Signed—Keziah X Shelton
mark
Beneficiary.
Witnesses:
James Chatman.
James Wilder.
$150.00 Endowment Paid.
Richmond Va., July 5, '07.
This is to certify that I have re-
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The MYSTERY CARNEYCROFT
BY JOSEPH BROWN COOKE COPYRIGHT 1907 BY
STORY-PRESS CORPORATION
Another sleepless night followed, but long before the morning broke I had formed an opinion of myself and my conduct that was in no way flattering to either. To be sure, I had been sincere in every thought and act, and when, at times, I had felt and believed that Miss Carney loved me, I had soon argued myself into an opposite way of thinking on the ground, as I have said before, that her feelings toward me were influenced and magnified by her present anxiety and distress. Now, however, after considering the matter through the long hours of the night until my brain fairly reeled and I was sick at heart at the thought of my brutal behavior I was at last able to see things in a right light.
Miss Carney had given me every evidence of her regard that she could give and still preserve her dignity and womanliness. She had doubtless realized the difficulties of my position, and she had taken into account that her brother's absence served as an added reason for my silence, and so she had met me more than half way and yet I had remained silent.
She had even permitted me to kiss her hand, and then, on the first occasion that offered, she had given me an opportunity to say the words that I owed to her if she would preserve her self-respect and not consider that I had trifled with her in a most cruel and unmanly way. And still I had remained silent, in an egotistical belief that my attitude was chivalrous and commendable when, in fact, it was only Quixotic and brutally unkind.
Now, she could only think that I did not love her, for surely she could not conceive that a sane man would have acted the part I did on the veranda unless he regarded her almost with indifference.
I rose and paced the floor until my head throbbed, hating myself and trying to smother my emotions until the morning came and I could go to her and beg her forgiveness.
As the day began to dawn a cold gray light spread itself over the fields, knowing the heart frost on the grass and bringing clearly into view many distant objects which stood out sharply in the crisp autumn air.
I glanced from my window and saw what appeared to be two people walking slowly down the hillside in the direction of the Bruce cottage. A hasty scrutiny through my field glasses confirmed my suspicion and it seemed that one figure, that of a man, carried an implement like a spade or shovel, while the other was evidently a woman of about the window's size and general appearance. I dressed rapidly, and, slipping out of the house, made my way as quickly as I could to the point where I had seen them passing, feeling sure that I would have no difficulty in following their trail through the frost-covered grass. It was all I had expected, and I walked rapidly up the hill, retracing the path they had made, and, occasionally leaving the trail where it led too directly through the open, and slinking along in the shadow of the hedges until I could again take it up with safety.
About half way up the incline I turned and looked down toward the Bruce cottage, from the chimney of which a black column of smoke was pouring and whose windows were brightly lighted as if something of importance was going on within. As I looked, and I had taken the precaution to bring my binoculars with me, a man emerged from the house and I had no difficulty in making him out to be Jenks, the stage driver. He was followed in a moment by Mrs. Bruce and the two stood for some time in earnest conversation, after which the man strode rapidly down the road and the woman reentered the house.
It had seemed to me that the widow and Jenks were quarrelling, for, during their talk, he had gesticulated violently and shown every evidence of extreme carnestness, if not of actual anger; but they must have come to some sort of an agreement at last, for he waved his hand pleasantly as he left her and she returned his salutation by throwing him a kiss as coyly as a schoolgirl.
The first thing the woman did after entering the house was to extingush the lights, no longer necessary, as the rays of the sun began to touch the hilltops, and I was just lowering my glass when I caught a fleeting glimpse of another man, darting around the corner of the building and disappearing behind the woodpile. I watched in vain for him to show himself again, but he did not, and finally, I turned and followed the trail once more, making all possible haste, lest I should lose it when the frost disappeared.
The foot prints led me up on the hill and around to the side away from the house and, at length, became lost in a grove of hemlocks under which there was no tell-tale frost. For a time it seemed that my efforts were to prove of no avail, and that I might as well return home, but the more I thought of the matter the more I was convinced that these people had been out for no good purpose, and that it was my duty to learn, if possible, what mischief they had been contriving at this early hour and where they had been.
In fact, I suddenly realized that I had not taken a proper interest in the mysterious happenings at Carney-Croft and that while it had seemed quite enough to bring them to a stand.
still, as far as outward appearances were concerned, they were, in reality, of far too great importance to let pass so easily.
Miss Weston's connection with the affair gave a new aspect to it, of course, and while I was bound by my word to respect her secret there was nothing in my promise to her to prevent me from using every legitimate means to find out all that I could on my own account and make use of such knowledge as I might acquire in any way that would best serve my purposes without reacting on her.
Since I had come to a correct understanding of my position in regard to Miss Carney, it seemed imperative that I should probe this whole affair to the bottom, if for no other reason than to show my devotion to her and her interests.
I wandered about more or less alm-
lessly, in the grove until, as I was on
the point of leaving in chargin. I again
discovered the tracks in the frost leading
across a little open space from an
other and denser grove near by. I
plunged at once into this and had no
trouble in directing my steps through
the underbrush, which was broken
and bent in many places and showed
plainly the course taken by the man
and woman but a short time before.
After going on in this way for some
little distance I suddenly found myself
in a small clearing under the
branches of the overtowering trees,
and saw, to my horror, an oblong
space of newly turned earth which
bore every resemblance in size and
general appearance to a grave.
For several minutes I stood spell-bound with fear and dread and then, summoning up all my courage and with a cold sweat standing out on my body, I began to dig down in the soft brown earth, using a stick that was lying near by, and even my hands, to remove the stones and larger clumps of soil.
About a foot below the surface I came upon a bundle wrapped in cloths of the same kind in every way as those found by MacArdel and myself on the night when we first saw the ghosts and shot at Jenks.
I could bear no more for the moment, and quaking visibly. I rose from the ground and leaned against a tree for support. Then, for the first time, I saw that there were many other little mounds surrounding the one I had opened and—but I had reached the limit of my endurance, and, with pallid face, I gashed madly down the hill toward Carney-Croft.
Miss Carney was not at breakfast, nor did she show herself during the day, and my inquiries concerning her elicited the information that she was constantly with Miss Weston, whose condition had become truly alarming.
I wrote to John Carney, as his sister had asked me to do, telling him all that I knew of Miss Weston's condition and of her strange connection with the mystery of Carney-Croft which, for the first time, I recited to him in full. Moreover, on the bare chance that he might, through his previous intimacy with Miss Weston, be in possession of knowledge that would give me a clew if not actually explain the present inexplicable occurrences, I asked him to cable me immediately any facts that might help to clear up the situation and put me on the right track in my war against the Bruce woman and her allies.
I did this, hardly thinking that he could be of any material assistance to me in my investigations, but, rather than leave any stone unturned, I related in detail the events of the last few months, not omitting my experience of the morning in the little hillside graveyard, and I closed by urging him most earnestly to return home by the first steamer.
This letter I posted at once, so that it would catch the next mail boat for England, and, to make sure that it would reach him promptly, I cabled to his bankers that an important letter was on its way and asked them to recall him at once to London if he was at any distant point.
When these matters were attended to I again set to work to organize a plan of campaign against the Bruce gang, and, as a preliminary step, I went into the village and made all the inquiries that I judiciously could
A man in a suit is running through a forest.
1 Stood Spell-Bound with Fear.
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
concerning her and her character.
To my surprise I found that she was respected and held in the highest esteem by the townspeople, and prominent in all the good work of the parish. Some of the people even said that she gave, so much of her meager income to charity that she often suffered herself for the ordinary comforts of life.
As to Jenks, I could only learn that he was an honest, trustworthy fellow, that he was ardently devoted to the Widow Bruce, but, with it all, I could not find a soul to say a word against the character of either; unless Jenks' keenness in striking a bargain, and the businesslike way in which he brought home the intoxicated frequenters of Hoskins' hotel when they had the money for their fare, and left them to get home as best they could when they had not, could be laid up against him as a crime.
His own occasional potations seemed to be entirely overlooked by the townspeople in general, or else wholly unknown to them, and, taking everything into consideration, Jenks seemed to be regarded by the community as a pretty fair sort of a citizen.
With these facts in my mind I tried to reconcile the doings of the early morning, as well as the other happenings of which I was cognizant, with the reputations borne by Jenks and the Bruce woman, and I freely confess that I soon became completely bewildered.
It must be admitted that I had no positive assurance that the little graves up on the hill contained the bodies of infants, except that their general appearance suggested as much, and the fragments of bone that I had seen served as a mute witness of some ghastly crime.
MacArdel, too, had identified the odor of the rags beyond all question of doubt, at least as far as he was concerned, but it still must be remembered that I had not opened the parcel and that I had no way of knowing that it contained anything more than rags, as did the one that we had examined so carefully in the summer.
The more I thought of it the less I was able to make out of it, and, finally, as I had determined to take a walk, and was leaving the house for this purpose, my astonishment was increased by meeting the widow face to face in the hallway as I descended the stairs.
She was dressed neatly in freshly laundered calico, with an laimaculate apron of generous propositions, and, in her hand, she held a tray with a cup and some plates on it. We gazed at each other for an instant and then I said, in as unconcerned a tone as I could muster up for the occasion:
"Good afternoon, Mrs. Bruce. Do you remember me? I am Mr. Ware, you know."
"Oh, yes, sir," she replied, bowing pleasantly as she spoke, "I remember you very well indeed, sir."
I smiled at this in spite of myself and stopped her as she would have passed me and gone up the stairs.
"What are you doing here, Mrs. Bruce?" I asked. "I had no idea of meeding you in this way."
"Why you know, sir, I was a nurse in the old country, sir," she returned, in the same sweetly modulated voice that I had noticed before, "and when the young lady took so bad, sir, she sent for me to take care of her until the 'ospital nurses came from town.' "Who sent for you?" I continued curiously, again impeding her progress up the stairs.
"Miss Carney, of course," she rejoined. "She asked the rector and he recommended me most 'lightly, sir. You know I do most of the nursing in critical cases 'ereabouts, when I can find the time for it, sir."
She caught her breath at this last clause, as if she would have wished it unsaid, and blushed violently as I remarked: "You are very busy most of the time, I presume?"
"Yes, sir, I am, sir," she retorted, defiantly, "and my business is my own, sir, and it ill becomes outsiders to meddle with it!"
With these remarkable words she swept past me and proceeded to Miss Weston's room with all the importance of an idealized Sairy Gamp from whom the objectionable qualities had been eliminated.
As I watched her ascend the stairs with a little self-reliant poise to her head and a manner of absolute nonchalance, I came to the sudden and positive conclusion that the woman had not a bad trait in her makeup, and that the only way to deal with her was to approach her frankly and in all honesty of purpose. I was convinced, too, that Miss Weston had played no small part In persuading Miss Carney to send for her as a nurse, and I wondered how and through what sort of argument she had been induced to admit to her house a woman whom she had every reason to suspect of bearing her no great amount of good will.
From the housekeeper, who chanced to pass through the hall, I learned that the nurses from town were expected on the evening train, and that Mrs. Bruce would go home as soon as they arrived, and I determined to see her and talk with her that very night at her cottage.
Shortly after dinner, which, like all the other meals of the day, had been conspicuous by Miss Carney's absence, I again started out in the direction of the widow's house, and arrived just in time to find her and Jenks in heated arguments at the gate.
I slackened my pace as I saw them standing in the light of the doorway and, feeling that the circumstances warranted me in playing the part of eavesdropper. I stepped stealthily forward in the shadow of the shrubbery until I was within hearing distance.
"Wal!" Jenks was saying doggedly, "th' hull thing's baout teh come aout 'fore long an' ye might' well tell me naew an' he dowt wit it!"
"I'll tell you when the time comes. Sam," she said, soothingly, and then she added something in a tone so low that I could not hear.
"Course I'll trust ye, Matilda," said
Jenks earnestly and in evident response to her last remark. "Hain't I allus trusted ye from th' start; an' got them pesky bundles fur ye, an' buried 'em, too, 'thaout never askin' no questions? But I tell ye, Matilda, th' hull thing's comin' aout 'fore long, an', what's more, that lawyer cuss wuz up on th' bill this mourin' right after we left, an' dug up th' last one we planted."
"What!" she gasped, selzing him by the arm, "did he open the parcel an see what was in it or—or take it away with him, Sam?"
"No," said the man, "he didn't do nuthin' to, cept scratch th' dirt of th' top, an' when he got a whiff of it I guess wiz all he wanted, fur when I seen him he was a comin' dawnth' hill like the 'old Nick wuz after him. I surmised what he'd been up to, an' so I went back an' covered it up again."
"Thank God for that," she murmured, "and you did not touch it or open it yourself, did you, Sam?" "No," he replied. "I jest left it lay, like you've alius told me to do, an covered it up again 'thaout askin' no questions, one way nor tother. But I tell ye, Mattilda, it's all gain' teh be known 'fore long, an' I do wish'y'd tell me nnow, 'fore it' too late." "Yes!" I exclaimed, stepping suddenly before them, "and I wish you'd tell me, too, Mrs. Bruce." They sprang back in amazement, and for an instant I thought that Jenks was going to strike at me, but I continued earnestly:
"I have come here as your friend to night to ask and beg of you an explanation of this mystery that is upsetting the whole place. I know, Mrs. Bruce, that you can put everything to rights if you will and I am prepared to do almost anything that you want me to if you will only made a clean breast of the whole business. I don't believe there's been any very great wrong on your part, Mrs. Bruce, although I must admit that I did think so at one time, and I want to say now that I am sincerely sorry for the maner in which Dr. MacArdel and I treated you both last summer."
They said nothing and after pausing for a moment, I continued:
"As I say, I come here as a friend to ask you to explain this matter once and for all, or at least go away and leave us in peace."
"Oh, I can't go away, sir!" exclaimed Mrs. Bruce. "I can't do that, sir, whatever you ask, and I can't tell you anything, either, for the present, sir."
"Oh, nonsense!" I cried impatiently. "You can tell me just as well as not, and I give you my word that you can trust me in every way if you will only take the right view of this thing and slide with me in helping to rid Carney-Croft of all further annoyance."
"No," she returned, weeping silently. "I can't tell you anything now, sir, although I say it with no disrespect. As you are a friend of Miss Carney and the other lady, don't ask it of me, I beg."
"The other lady?" I exclaimed in amazement, and with some sudden suspicion in my tone. "Do you mean to say that you don't remember her name when you know her well enough to have written her so many letters that she is perfectly familiar with your hand, and you have even had her here in your house?"
"Written her letters?" cried Mrs. Bruce in a bewildered tone. "Why, sir, I—"
Here she was interrupted by Jenks, who suddenly broke out into guffaws of uncontrollable mirth.
Mrs. Bruce eyed him in a puzzled way for a moment, as if she thought he had lost his mind and then, coming to my side, she drew my head toward her and whispered in my ear:
"In God's name, sir, trust me as you would yourself and ask no questions about the letters or anything else. Do this, for pity's sake, and for the sake of the sweet young lady you love."
CHAPTER XXI.
An Amphibian Mystery.
My astonishment at this last remark of the Bruce woman was beyond expression, and, grasping her somewhat rudely by the arm, I exclaimed: "What do you mean by that? Explain yourself at once!" "You know well enough what I mean, and who I mean, sir," she replied in a whisper, placing her mouth close to my ear as she spoke. "As you love Miss Carney, and as you value her happiness, sir, you must trust me and ask no questions now." I pondered deeply for a moment before I answered her and then I said in a low tone:
"You are asking a great deal of me, Mrs. Bruce. You must remember that I am Miss Carney's legal adviser and that I am in duty bound to look out for her interests. This thing has gone quite far enough already, and yet matters are growing more and more mysterious. I heard Jenks tell you that I was up on the hill this morning, and I have no wish to deny it, but I saw something there that must be explained at once or I shall notify the authorities; and, for my part, I do not see how it can be explained at all."
"What did you see, sir?" she gasped, as if in great mental distress.
"Well," I replied, slowly, "I saw a number of little graves, or what appeared to be such."
"Oh, my God!" she moaned, covering her face with her hands, "I did not think anything like that could happen! I should have burned them, sir. Oh, why didn't I burn them! It would have been much safer!"
Jenks had slunk into the house, leaving us to ourselves, and I was enabled to talk more freely.
"Look here, woman!" I exclaimed. "What in the name of heaven does all this mean? Speak, or by all that's holy I will have you in jail before morning."
My impassioned words had no effect upon her other than to make her weep piteously, and I waited until she had regained her composure somewhat and was able to talk coher-
ently.
"You misjudge me, Mr. Ware," she said. "Indeed you do, sir. I have committed no crime, sir, and I am doing all in my power to prevent one; for it would be a crime if it happened, although the law wouldn't call it so, sir."
She laid her hand on my shoulder respectfully and then, the old-fashioned, motherly way coming over her, she continued in a choking voice:
"You must do as I ask, Mr. Ware. Do not distrust me, I beg of you, sir, for I have so much to bear and I have borne it all so patiently and so willingly, too, sir. Remember, I have no fault to find, and I am glad to have been able to do what I have done, sir, but the end is so near now that I cannot bear to have everything go for nothing at the last."
Her eyes were filled with tears, and,
do what I might, I could not doubt
her honesty and sincerity. Before I
could speak, she wont on hurriedly,
looking about her in an apprehensive
way:
"Just believe in me for a few days,
sir, won't you? Do this for your own
sake and for Miss Carney's and the
other young lady's. You will never
regret it, sir, I promise you; I swear
it, sir, on everything I hold sacred,
and God knows I am a churchwoman
and live in fear of Him and His love
sir."
For my life I could do no more than
she asked, and, after a moment's
hestitation, I said slowly:
"I must trust you, Mrs Bruce, but I must tell you that I do so against my best judgment. I do not see how all those things can be explained satisfactorily and they must be explained soon in every way. Still, I believe that you are stoncore in what you tell me, and, for the present at least, I will ask no more questions and rely upon you to fulfill your protections of good faith when the proper time comes. You will understand, of course, that in spite of this promise I shall feel perfectly free at any time to take such steps in this matter as I may deem necessary, and, while I am willing to let things stand as they are now for a short time, I shall act promptly and effectively if they now of otherwise suspicious circumstances arise."
With these words I turned and walked down the path in the direction of Carne-Croft leaving her standing by the rate order, softly.
tion of Carney-Croft, leaving her standing by the gate, crying softly. The next afternoon I took a boat on the river and paddled almostly up and down trying to kill time and watching for an opportunity to speak to Miss Carney, whom I had not seen for two days. Miss Weston's condition was growing steadily worse, and the arrival of the nurses from town and their close attention to their patient, coupled with the frequent and anxious visits of the village physician, served as a sufficient excuse for the hurried departure of all of Miss Carney's guests except myself, who remained at a sense of duty as well as a desire to be near at hand and in a position to set myself right with my hostess on the first occasion that offered.
I did not go far from the house, but rowed up and down the stream with no particular objective point in mind and only thinking of what I might do in regard to Mrs. Bruce, and, most of all, how I could hope to again gain Miss Carney's good will, if nothing more, and explain, in the slightest doggie, my outrageous behavior. It is needless to say that I was in no happy frame of mind and, as I allowed the boat to drift slowly down stream with the current, I leaned over the side and peered into the depths of the limpid water on which I was floating.
As I drifted carelessly along in this lazy fashion I finally came to a point opposite that portion of the bank where the ghosts had disappeared so suddenly and mysteriously in the bright moonlight. Up to this time my mind had been free from any thought of this feature of the Carney-Croft puzzle, for the events of the past few days, together with my anxiety to see Miss Carney and right myself in her eyes, were more than enough to occupy my entire attention for the moment.
The realization of my position off the shore, however, served to recall vividly the spectral scene of the summer, and I again began to speculate as to the manner in which the ghost-like figures had managed to disappear from view in such an effectively supernatural way.
While I was pondering over this problem and wondering if I was ever to solve it with any degree of satisfaction, I noticed a slight commotion in the water between me and the shore, such as might have been made by a beaver or a muskrat.
In another moment a man's head appeared above the surface and then, with a wild look at me and my boat, not 20 yards distant, he gave a convulsive quitter and disappeared again with a plunge like that of a porpoise playing under the bow of a ship.
The water was bitterly cold, for it was now near the end of October, and there was a chill in the air which foretold the coming of snow, yet, although I patrolled the spot for nearly half an hour and had a clear view of the river and shore for fully a mile in every direction, the figure did not seem apparent.
For a time it seemed to me that the fellow's life must have been lost and that his body had floated down the stream with the current, which increased steadily in force as it neared the falls, some two miles below.
Whence he had come I did not know, for I could not conceive that a man would be swimming in the river at this time of year, and, just as I was about to row ashore and report the affair to those who could institute a proper search for the body, an idea flashed into my head and served to explain the matter in short order.
The ghosts, or at least the men who impersonated them, had always disappeared from sight at this point on the river bank, and, doubtless, they
had dived into the water and toults shelter somewhere under the shore. If this were the case, a man might easily enough have ventured out from his hiding place, and, upon seeing me, returned and waited until the coast was clear again.
I pulled in close to the shore, and, paddling slowly along under the overhanging bank. I soon discovered a broad flight of stone steps lying entirely beneath the surface of the water, and leading apparently to some sort of a tunnel or cave.
As I made this discovery I had no doubt that the mysterious figure I had seen had emerged from this sunken tunnel, and, upon encountering me, had returned to it with all possible haste. I certainly had no desire to follow him through the submerged entrance to his place of concealment, but I determined to oust him without delay, and leaving my skiff at the boathouse, I returned for a final reconnetter before summoning a gang of men to dig down from above and lay bare the subterranean vault to which the submerged stairway doubtless led.
Clambering up on the knoll that overlooked this part of the river, I cast my eye in every direction up and down the stream, keeping as close a watch as possible on the entire landscape, and, even sooner than I had expected, I was rewarded by seeding the fellow's head again emerge from the water about 20 feet off shore.
As he shook the drops from his face and glanced about him apprehensively I crouched low down on the ground, back of a brush, and watched him attentively from this point of vantage. His countenance was so distorted with the cold and the water in his eyes that I could not have recognized him even if I had seen him before, and he seemed to swim with great difficulty, doubtless because of the icy chill of the water; but he went bravely about it and struck out manfully for the shore, which he reached in a few sturdy strokes.
As he got into shallow water and made his way to the land, I could see that he was fully dressed, even to his shoes, and that he was shivering violently from the effect of his exertion and the exposure to which he had been subjected
I was almost on the point of calling out to him and offering him such assistance as I could render lest he should collapse before my eyes, when I discovered that he, himself, had made provision for this contingency. From under a growth of underbrush he hurriedly extracted a heavy ulster or storm coat, and, taking a flask from one of the pockets, he raised it to his lips and drank long and greedily. This done, he drew the coat nervously about his shaking limbs, and, with a hunted sort of a look in every direction but mino, so that I did not get a view of his face, he ran at top speed along the shore and finally disappeared in the trees at the turn of the river.
It would have been futtle to have followed him, and I once more began to look about me before calling for aid and having the cavern, or whatever it was, unroofed. The lawn at this part of the grounds was kept in especially good condition, as it lay almost directly in front of the house, and scattered about it were numerous flower beds and clumps of shrubbery. In going over this area carefully and systematically as I did, I was not long in finding in the center of a mass of
A man in a boat
A Mart's Head Appeared Above the Surface.
thickly leaved evergreen bushes, a patch of earth that had evidently been disturbed within a few hours. On brushing away the leaves and dirt, which seemed to have been replaced hurriedly, in an awkward attempt to conceal the spot, I came upon an iron grating like the covering to the manhole of a sewer, but with openings which, if they had been clear, would have permitted a certain limited amount of ventilation. This lid was hinged at one side but was not fastened down and I had no great difficulty in lifting it up so that I could peer into the blackness below.
An iron ladder, very much rusted and weather worn, but apparently perfectly strong and secure, was attached to one side of this shaft, and after waiting for a few minutes until my eyes had become accustomed to the blackness of the hole, I could see that it was about 12 feet deep and opened into the arched roof of a tunnel of some kind, the floor of which, as well as the sides and top, was constructed of massive masonry.
At times the most level-headed and evenly balanced man is tempted to do some foolhardy thing, and, while I make no claim to any unusual degree of personal bravery, and have not a dare-devil trait in my disposition, I was suddenly seted with an irresistible desire to descend into this forbidding looking pit and investigate it for myself, then and there.
My revolver was fully loaded and I also carried a small pocket-lamp which had been given me some time before and which I had found useful on sev-
oral occasions, less strenuous, how ever, than the one at hand.
With these thoughts in my mind and, it must be confessed, with many misgivings which I strove to keep down and ignore, I propped open the lid of the manhole and descended boldly into the underground passage, holding my revolver firmly in my hand and ready to light my little lamp as soon as I reached the bottom of the ladder.
Once in the tunnel I stepped to one side in the direction of the river, where I could not be seen by anyone looking in from above, and tried to accommodate my eyes to the darkness of the place and avoid, if possible, the use of my lamp.
After a time I found that I could see fairly well and that I was in a long, narrow tunnel of brick and stone, about six feet wide and seven in height, which shopped gradually down to the river, where it ended in the flight of stone steps that I had seen and which were entirely under the surface of the water. There was a damp, noiseless odor to the place and I soon recognized in it the same graveyard smell that I now knew so well and dreaded so much.
I had, however, expected something of this sort, and nerving myself to almost anything that might be disclosed in my search. I proceeded cautiously and stealthily along toward the steps, thinking I would explore that part of the tunnel first, before going in the other direction.
I saw nothing of interest until I got near the water, where I found a heavy, warm coat neatly folded and, on it, a whisky flask with the cork loosened, evidently awaiting their owner and indicating clearly that he purposed returning by the route he had taken when he left.
Leaving these as they lay, I retraced my steps and passed once more under the open shaft and on up the gentle slope of the passage-way, holding my platoi well in front of me and wondering at what moment some ghastly sight would meet my gaze and account for the constantly increasing fetidness of the place. I had not lighted my lamp, for the faint glimmer that filtered in through the river water and the illumination from the shaft enabled me to see with reasonable distinctness.
As I proceeded up the tunnel, however, objects began to grow dimmer and dimmer and I was on the point of striking a light when I heard a sudden crash and saw, to my horror, that the lid of the manhole had fallen shut with a bang, leaving me in total darkness.
Before I could ignite my lamp or even collect my thoughts, there was a rush of foul air, from the upper end of the tunnel and then some heavy, lumbering creature brushed past me, breathing into my face a hot breath of unspeakable suggestiveness and wheezing and mumbling like a feeful lion just after a generous meal.
I shrank close to the wall of my prison, for such it now was, not knowing what to do or which way to turn, when, to my great relief, the beast, or whatever it was, shuffled awkwardly past me again, still making horrid guttural sounds and breathing deeply as before.
A rat, or some similar little animal, scuttled over my feet at the same moment, stopping long enough to bite my ankle sharply, but I made no sound and held my breath until the more formidable creature was well beyond me and left me a free course to the river.
As soon as I felt that the coast was clear and that I could not be overtaken, I sped down the incline toward the steps and plunged headlong into the water, which glimmered faintly green before me. Striking out under the surface, I swam as far away from the entrance as I could, and, coming to the top at last, I made for the shore and dashed on to my room for whisky and dry clothing.
[To be continued.]
IN BOSTON.
"My name, kind sir, is Emerson E.
E. Emerson."
"And what ar the middle 'Es' for?"
"Why, for 'Emerson', of course!"
Poor Stuff.
P—I see you have my novel. I'll wager you had to look at the last page to see how it all came out.
Q—No; I looked at the name of the publishers on the title page to see how it came out, and even now I can't understand how it was.
Diplomatic Caddle.
Bertle (to caddle, searching for lost ball)—What are you looking there for? Why, I must have driven it 50 yards farther.
Diplomatic Caddle—But sometimes they hit a stone, sir, and bounce back a terrible distance.
Baby Stolen by Jackals
Paris.—A woman at Philippeville, in Algeria, was seated by her baby's cradle on the veranda of her house a few days ago when she was called within by her husband. Returning to the veranda after an absence of a few minutes, she found the cradle knocked over and the baby gone. Next day the shepherds discovered in the undergrowth of a wood the boxes of a young child and a string of amber beads, which was immediately recognized by the mother as having been on her child's neck.
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SATURDAY JULY 13, 1907
HIRED MAN FED OLD DoBBIN
CHICKEN FOOD, CHANGING
ANIMAL'S HABITS.
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Caldwell, N. J.—Pinoak Bush, @
truck farmer living near this village,
rove into town the other day and to
‘@ group of men gathered fn the local
Bardware store told a story of a mix-
‘up on his farm which if true is rather
‘usual. The tale was elicited by the
‘actions of a sorrel horse that, attached
to a light farm wagon, stood hitched
in front of the place of business.
‘The animal was pawing up the
ground, not with bold swinging strokes
of the front hoofs, as horses usually
do, but with a peculiar scratching mo-
‘tion of all four feet that resembled the
‘efforts of a Shanghai rooster trying to
secure the early worm. Every few
‘minutes he would give vent to a pe-
cultar kind of whinney, which, if not
an exact imitation of a rooster’s crow,
‘was about the nearest thing to it that
ever a horse uttered.
“That darn foot of a horse has an
Adea he’s a rooster, and It’s all because
T trusted a green Swede to take care
of my stock last winter,” was Mr.
Bush's comment on the actions of the
quadruped,
“Last fall my wife heard of some
new fangled chicken food, guaranteed
to make hens lay in the coldest
weather. Nothing else would do but
fhad to get her some. Old Dobbin
was kind of run down. I'd worked
im nearly 20 years, and so I got him
some condition powders at the same
time that I got the patent chicken
food for my wite. ss
“T've got a green Swede working for
me and I told him to mix a little of
the chicken food with the het's food
and to throw ® handful of the’ condt-
‘tion powders into Dobbin's manger,
along with his oats, every time he fed
him. Ithought nothing more about
‘the matter for more than a month and
‘then Ole—that’s the Swede's name—
sald that he was all out of both the
food and powder.
“My wife, too, was complaining. Sho
said there was something strange up,
for she hadn't got an egg since I first
brought the new producer of hen fruit
home. I noticed that Dobbin's appear-
ance hadn't improved either; if any-
thing, he looked worse than ever, his
hair stood out on his back like so many
feathers,
“Lasked Cle ff he had done es I told
him; he assured me he had, s0 I de-
termined to make another trial. Next
time I got twice as much chicken
food and condition powders as 1 had
at first, and told Ole to double the
dose. If there was any virtue in the
stuff I was going to find {t out.
“At Easter we had to buy ees in-
stead of selling thom, and my wife
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Dobbin ee!
was madder than any settin’ hen you
ever saw. I'd been havin’ such a
good time all winter loafin’ around and
Jettin’ the Swede work that I hadn't
noticed things much, but havin’ to buy
eggs with a hundred hens on the
place set me to thinking.
“T didn’t say anything, but began to
take observations in a quiet sort of
way. When I went out in the yard
Johanie—that's my boy—had two hens
hitched to a little cart and was drivin’
"em around just as if they were used
to it all their lives. Johnnie sald he
could drive any of the hens the same
way.
“What's more, pa’ he says, ‘the
chickens don't roost on thelr perches
any more. When night comes they
Just lay down in the straw in any old
place.”
“Sure enough, I found what Johnale
‘told me was true, and when I went
Anto the stable I saw Dobbin had
Droken the manger down trying to
‘Foost on the rail, 3
a T asked Ole to show me what
Sec ertttery aut
‘winter; It was exactly as I hed begun
to suspicion. The darn Swede couldn't
read English and he'd been giving the
hens condition powders and Dobbin
patent chicken food.
“The result was what anyone might
expect—they'd been feedin’ on the
blame stuff so long that their natures
jwere completely changed. It's more
than a month ago since I first found it
Jout, but you can’t undo in that time
what it takes four months to accom-
plish. I've almost given up hope of
ever getting things back where they
‘was last fall with old Dobbin and my
wife's chickens.
“Yesterday 1 started in to do some
plowing, but IT had to quit, because
Dobbin stopped to eat every angle-
worm he could scratch out. I guess
TM have to let Jobonie finish the job
with the hens.”
“Weill, there ain't any angleworms
in the gravel of the road out there in
front of the store,” interjected the pro-
[prietor of the place, “and as I don't
care to have a well dug you'd better
move on.”
As Dobbin and his master passed
out of sight around a bend in the road
those on the store stoop heard the
horse give another very close imita-
tion of a rooster's crow. A neighbor
of Mr. Brush who came into town in
the evening said it took the,old man
four hours to drive the four miles to
his home. Dobbin wanted to join
every flock of chickens he saw on the
‘road.
MASKED MAN PARADES
FAMILY IN RIGHTIES
BURGLAR comPets FATHER TO
OPEN SAFE WHILE WIFE AND
DAUGHTER LOOK ON.
Clearfield, Pa—Samuel_Wallwort,
a nino superintendent at Briton, was
scene oon ead per deed
LY ae al @
Ee
vga |
TG
ty
SEO Sanee She wee Parniiy Up,
o'clock in the morning and accompany
Ja burglar to the library where the fam-
ily was lined up to watch him open
the safe for the purpose of handing its
contents over to the robber.
|. The burglar, who was a negro with
his face covered with a mask, played
a lone hand, but pretended ‘all the
time he had @ number of accomplices
on the outside, He first ransacked the
entire first floor, Not finding any
money he proceeded to Mr, Wallwort's
sleeping apartmen: apd, shaking him
roughly, ordered him to get up in a
hurry and go downstairs and open the
safe.
With an ugly sooking revolver cover-
ing him, the superintendent immed!
ately obeyed.
‘The family of six was then paraded
out in thelr night gowns and the pro-
cession silently moved downstairs to
the brary, where, with the family as
spectators ‘and the armed burglar as
master of the situation Mr. Wallwort
Proceeded to work the combination
and open the safe.
There was’ only $1.50 tn the cash
box, which amount was spurned by
the robber. After a thorough search
of the house had been made for money
the accommodating robber explained
that he was not a jewelry thief and
that he would not molest any of the
valuables of the house.
Finding no money he compelled the
family to retire to the upper floor and
Mr, Walworth to accompany him out
into the yard. Here he told the super-
Intendent to go backward into the
house without raising any alarm, say-
ing that disobedience would result in
instant death. The burglar then made
regalo ay
MOUSE CAUSES BIG SCARE.
Redent in Woman’s Hat Starts Excit
ing Hunt in Central Park.
| New York—There was a “wild” ant-
mal hunt in Central Park the other
day, during which the fugitive baffled
‘the efforts of a menazeriekeeper;s a
policeman and a park laborer to cap-
ture him and caused a panic among
women visitors.
Joseph Cunningham, a duckkeeper,
saw Policeman McKue running after
&@ woman on the walk bordering the
lake.
When overtaken, sobbing and hys-
terieal, the woman explained that she
felt an animal crawling about inside
her bat. The headgear was so Ughtly
Jammed on her head that the men had
difficulty in removing it. Whea they
did so & mouse jumped from under-
neath the lining almost into their
faces.
Cunningham started after the
mouse, which darted among the park
visitors, Women scattered and leap-
ed on benches, eee
“Paddy” Marran, ly keeper
of bears, followed Cunningham, but
they lost sight of the quarry, and
McKue shouted that the rodent had
returned to the hat, The intruder
was nally driven out of his hiding
place and disappeared among a clump.
of bushes. .
Tied end Untied 3
“Was their marriage a failure? _
"Oh, no. They were divorced be
fore it had a chance to be ‘that
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SATURDAY.......ULY 12, 1907
THE TROUBLOUS OUTLOOK.
‘The ordering by President Roose-
velt, by way of the Navy Department
of sixteen or more battleships to the
Pacific coast has attracted widespread
attention and caused no end of com-
ment both in this country and In Eu-
rope. This action is in keeping with
President Roosevelt's way of doing
things. He will be a rough rider to
the end of the chapter.
No diplomat on earth would have
counselled such a course at this time.
If the battle ships had been sent In
stoups of twos or fours they would
hardly have attracted more than pass
ing notice, but he sends them all at
once and this action must be regard-
ed as a menace to Japan and is no-
tice to her that she might as well
look out for trouble.
‘Had this same fleet been sent to
the Philippines, there is no doubt
but what the Japanese government
would have sounded our state de-
partment as to our intentions. The
‘Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth In-
fantry (colored troops) have been
ordered to the Philippines and it
war follows will be the first to fee!
the brunt of the conflict. They are
good enough to die in the Pbilip.
pines, but they are not good enough
to live in Texas. ‘This kind of treat
ment will not strike the average col:
ored man favorably.
‘We hope that there will be no wa:
but the outlook is not bright for
peace.
DRAWING THE COLOR LINE.
‘The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has rendered a most remarkable
decision and the full opinion of this
tribunal ts before us. The conclu-
sions reached are far-reaching in
their effect and virtually enable the
railroads of the country to make
laws for the control of the travelling
public nullifying basic guarantees
of the constitution itself. The Four
teenth Amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States provides
that “no State shail make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens
of the United States.”
Here then {s # plain violation of
the plain provision of the constitu-
tiom for the privileges of a white
citizen are violated in not permitting
him to go into the Negro compart-
ment and the of the Negro
stain er obtidnsd wy not parmiang
ast Ses ate ae wh ae
can as eae , . a
“The case before the Interstate
Commerce 8 resalt
ed im the « the “jim
Se ae a ae by Geor-
Entnst "the Nashettte Chatiansors
and St. Lous Railway. She in
ed the provisions of the rate bill im-
mediately after its passage by Cov-
gress, and it was generally under-
stood that she was acting for many
prominent colored people in the
South and North.
| “Her first move was to purchase a
ticket entitling her to first-class pas-
sage from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Dal
ton, a. She enterec the car as-
signed to white passengers, and was
promptly removed therefrom to the
car assigned to the colored people.
‘Through her attorney, she filed a
complaint attacking the law and al-
leging discrimination in the facilities
furnished to her as against (those
provided for white passengers. |,
‘The commission heard arguments
on the case, and while affirming the
validity of the law, found the com-
plaint as to inferior accommodations
well founded and ordered the rall-
road to provide equal facilities for
colored passengers.”
| According to this dictum, states
that have passed “jim crow” laws
can discriminate against colored pas
sengers and states that have not
passed “Jim crow” laws can diserim-
‘inate aguinst them, providing the
/Failroad companies are willing to as-
‘sume responsibility for the job. The
interstate Commerce Commission
solemnly declares that this is in ac-
cordance with the ruling of the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
Tt will be seen that racial separation
is now tn order from Maine to Texas,
trom Maryland to California,
| The “crumb of comfort" given ts
that the xecommodations must bee
qual, and it has been explained that
equal does not mean the same or
Just alike, It has been varfousty
described that the Negro’s accommo-
dations must be “Just as good,” and
as a rule the railroad company and
{te attorneys are permitted to pass
upon this phase of the question.
"te is platnly evident that our ap-
peal must be made to public senti-
ment and not to the courts. Their
attitude relative to our rights in fhis
country are as yet hostile. Any rule
or regulation, iaw or statute that
permits a common carrier to discrim
inate against any citizen, white or
biack on account of his race Is tyr-
anieal and oppressive.
Traced to its logical conclusion,
no hotel tins a right to refuse to re-
ceive colored patrons and the accom-
[modations must be equal although
separate, Woe now have a national
[sim crow” car law, recently promul
[gated by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. There is nothing left
to do but to continue to agitate, even
‘though we obey the provisions of
this new construction of the law.
EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW.
It is a singular fact that nt irreg-
ular Intervals, some white orator
with a Wesire for notoriety and a
wish for public faxor proceeds to
solemnly announce the superiority of
the white race. He will also em-
phasize the fact as he regards It
that Negroes can never live on &
basis of equality in this country, that
he belongs to an inferior race and
he must know his place and keep it.
It would be well for us to remem-
ber that white men who are truly
superior to Negroes do not go about
the country announcing the fact.
Their virtues shine with resplendent
brilliancy and they are known of all
men. .
"It ds only men of small minds that
boast of racial superiority for the
very action in this respect belies the
assertions of the man maxing the
vaunting declarations. For our part
these blatant utterances of tema-
sores no longer disturb us. It is
our duty to labor on to the end.
‘Merit will tell in the long run and
we can afford to pay no attention to
these boasting utterances. When
colored men realize that white men
who are guilty of this conduct are
the ones whom we are outstripping
they can afford to smile. Let us
accumulate money, buy property, en-
gage in business and the result wil
be soon told. Tho time will come
when there will be another evolution
lof races. Woe can afford to labor on
jand trust to the future for our vin-
|dication.
THE BROWNSVILLE INQUIRY.
| ‘That the Brownsville case will re-
sult in the undoing of the Republican
Party in the doubtful states, so far
fas the colored voters are concerned
scome now to be a foregone conclu-
sion. The party managers are appar
ently alarmed at the extent of the
Jaisattection. It is announced that
ee. recognition of colored men will
be one of the features of the new
programme to counteract the effect
of the dissatisfaction and that the
members of Companies B, C and D
will be reinstated either by execu-
tive order or legislative enactment
seoms to be one of the arrangements
for the future. é
‘It is alleged that the unification
of the Republican elements will be
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
rit is or not, we feel safe In
‘that the colored people of
ready to submit to the disgrace of
their soldiery and the Genominating
‘of the innocent members of the 25th
Infantry as murderers and assassins
without an organized protest. ‘They
‘will oppose the President, Secretary
‘Tatt, in fact anybody this side of
God Almighty, who advocates such
a policy.
‘These men must be proven guilty
and there is no provision in the laws
of this republic where they are re-
quired to prove themsolves Innocent,
‘The report states that there are in-
timations that the President was ad-
vised by Dr. Booker T. Washington
that the resentment of the colored
people was confined to the Negro
politicians. We cannot understand
‘how Dr. Washington could have made
‘such a blunder.
‘We intend to presume that he wid
not say It until it Is proven that he
aid say it, ‘The feeling against Pres
{dent Roosevelt on account of this
Brownsville affair extends from the
‘colored rag-picker on the dump to
the colored president in the financial
institutions of the race, ‘The feeling
is universal and the colored politi-
cian who would justify or condone
the Chief Executive's action In this
particular might as well have his
| political coffin ready and his polltical
pall-bearers ready to carry hie re-
mains to Potter's fleld.
But then Dr. Washington bas not
written or spokon on this subject,
much to our surprise and chagrin.
His representatives have given us to
understand that no attempt has been
made to justify or to approve Pres-
lident Roosevelt's treatment of these
colored soldiers and we naturally pre
‘sumed that they were acting under
Hustructions of their chief. We
have never known the distinguished
educator to be guilty of double deal-
ing and ho holds a high position in
the esteem of the race, We are not
ready to ald in his destruction or
counsel any attempt to bring about
his humiliation,
| We have too few, earnest, honest,
[self-sacrificing colored leaders for us
ito wish to destroy, or nullify the in
‘Muence of any of them, but If Dr.
‘Washington ts favorable to the col-
ored soldiers we should be pleased
to have him speak out and add the
welht of his Influence to their case
at this stage of the investigation.
White men have taken an interest
aud thousands of them have beer
forward in expressing thelr disap
proval. ‘The Constitution Leagu
[nas done herote service in this pat
|ticular and the results are apparent
[to al! men. ‘The National Afro-A.
| merican Counell, while M-advised tr
|some of its pollelés and utterance
has come boldly into the breach too
and if It does not handicap our caus
by too much radicalism, and dam.
aging declarations will be of grea
service in this most important strus
gle.
President Roosevelt could settle
tho whole matter with a stroke o
bis pen and we hope that he wil
do so. For our part, we shall con
tinue to agitate the matter until Jus
tice fs done and the colored peopl
‘of the country should, both by vole
and vote, tell him, tell him he 4
[rons
‘Too Much for Pa.
Visitor—Well, Tommy, I hear you
have brand-new twin sisters.”
Tommy (sadly)—Yessum, that’s
what it is,
Visitor (surprised)—What does your
father say about the dear little angela?
Tommy—He doesn’t call them
angels, and he doesn't say nothin’.
He ust goes ‘round knockin’ over
chairs and kickin’ the @og and throw.
in’ things at the cat. Ob, he's awful
slid, I don’t think!
Mean of Him.
“John,” snapped Mrs. Blazeup, at
supper, “you take those long rides all
alone in your automobile and I bet you
never even think of me?”
“That's where you are wrong, Ma-
ria,” replied Mr. Blazeup, as he filled
his gasoline tank, “I think of you
every timo I look at the machine.”
¥ “Indeed, sir. And what {s the re
semblange?”
“Why, it 1s so expensive, contrary
and highly explosive.”
_ And then he ran over and shut him
‘self up in the garage.”"—Chicago Daily
News.
IN THE SEWING ROOM.
“You are a pushing sort,” sald the
Scissors to the Thimble.
“Yes,” replied the latter, “but Td
Uke your life better. It’s just ripping
‘And you?” to the Needle.
“Well,” replied the latter, “my lite
1s just sew-sew. But then though not
& blunt individual, I generally come tc
the point.”
“Oh, you have an eye to things,” in.
terposed the Pin, “but I generally con.
trol matters by my head work.”
“I am sorry,” remarked the Spool
“that I can’t be serious, for I'm in a
continuous round.”
But bere the seamstress appeared,
And soon all felt themselves in pret
ty much of a box.—Baltimore Ameri
can.
‘chin Oh gi
“I hear your firm discharged you.”
“Yes, but I wouldn't mind that eo
fauch if they hadn't added insult to
injury.”
“How?”
"They advertised for a boy to fill
my place”
FORCED ON STAND.
Rookefeller,an Unwilling Wit-
ness, Gives Standard Away.
Vast PROFITS OF GREST MONOPOLY
Hee. Semkgiiiier=s tab tn Shoes
Years Net Earuings of $190,800,000
and Pala Dividends of
a
CHICAGO, July 10—With Joba D.
Rockefeller ‘as the central attraction
‘aud other officers of the Standard Of]
company as satellices, distinct progress
hhas been made by Jadge Landis in his
‘efforts to discover facts upon which to
‘base the amount of dues to be impos:
ed upon the convicted Standard Ol
Company of Indiona.
‘The corporation's counsel fought ev-
ery step with ail thelr might, but the
Judge was not to be deterred from his
purpose. Although Mr. Rockefeller
Proved an unsatis‘ctory witness these
facts had been sifted from the an-
swors:
‘The Standard 01] Company of New
Jersey holds $409,500 of the $1,000,
(000 worth of the copital stock of the
‘Standard Of Company of Indiana,
Outstanding c:pital stock of” the
Standard Of Company of New Jersey
‘amounts to $98,500,000.
Net earnings or the Standard OU
Company of New Jersey for the years
1903, 1904 and 1905 approximates
'$109/300,000.
Dividends paid on the capital stock
of the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey during thors years approximat-
ed 40 per cent of the amount of the
‘stock, or nearly $1,000,000,
‘The Standard 011 Company of New
Jersey holds “by far the major por-
tion” of the stock of the Union Tank
Line company.
‘The Union Tank Line company, with
® capital stock of $3,500,000, 1s $5,000,-
000 in debt ani bas paid no dividends
since 1901,
Mr. Rockefeller when he was called
walked slowly to the witness chatr at
the right of Tusse Landis and raised
his right hand cs the clerk administer-
ed the oath “to ear to tell the truth,
the whole tro‘) end nothing but the
trath, so help you God.”
“Mr. Rockefe!: asked Judge Lan-
dis, “have you «oy connection with the
Standasd Of company?”
“I am president of the Standard Oil
Company of Sow erses," ean, Mr.
Rockefeller de! ately. “e
“The position \s purely an honorary
one and has b for the last elgbt or
ten years,” he sumed. “T have taken
no active part i: its affairs during that
time.”
“What ig the outstanding capital
stock of the Stoolard Off Company of
New Jersey?’ »sked Judge Landis.
“I believe #! ut $100,000,000 Is ont-
standing,” eal! Mr, Rockefeller, “I do
‘not state this U-‘initely, your honor.
“You think, then, it {e about $100,-
900,0007"
“That is my Kea.”
“Generally speaking,” resumed Judge
Landis after a moments. hesitation
shat fs the business of the Standard
Olt Company of New Jersey?”
“<The production of oll” succinctly
replied My. Rockefeller, and the crowd
smiled.
“Your honor,” said he, loaning to-
ward Judce Landis, “I have been s0
Jong out of business, so long out of
this business, that T could not well an
swer that question. It Js a dozen yours
since I have been actively related with
ita affairs. It te elght or ten years,
your bono:, since T have even been
the office at all.”
“Wall, what fs your general impres-
‘sion of what the business of the Stand-
‘ard Oil company Ia?”
“They hove refineries to refine oll.
‘This \s as near as I can say without
a study of the charter.”
“That is vil for the present,” sald the
court.
Hours fore the trial opened the
corridors of the federal building were
througed with people of all walks of
fe, curious to catch a glimpse of bin
who is sail to be the wealthiest mar
ee eel:
Golfers at Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, ©. July 10.—Walter
Egan of Exmoor, Walter J. Travia of
Garden Ciiy and Fred Herreshoff of
Garden City led the field of contestants
‘at the end of the first day's play in the
qualifying rounds for the national am-
ateur champtonship, exch taking but
75 strokes. lose behind them were
W. J. West of Philadelphia, FP. W.
Whittemore of Brookline, Thomas W.
Sherman of Sadagnada nd Ned Saw.
Yer of Wheaton, with 76 each. Jerome
D. Travers had 78. «
O14 War Spirit Stl Thera,
LAWTON, Okla.;July 10.—Gerontmo
the aged Apache chief, when attending
& colebration at Cache as guest of Co
manche Chief Quanah Parker, mad
an effort to eseape across the Texa:
panbandle into Mexico. Geronimo was
missing from the Indian camp over
night, and a detall of soldiers from
Fort Sill captured him several mile:
out of Cache next morning. Geronim:
had beard of the recent trouble wit!
Apaches near El Paso, and he explain:
that be wanted to go and help bis peo
ple fight.
PLEET MAY VISIT JAPAN,
Metcalf Deprecates Talk of War
With Priondly Nason.
WASHINGTON, July 10.— Special
dispatches from Oekiand, Cal, say
that Secretary of the Navy Metcalf
Geprecates the wate aspect that has
been given the order of the cruise of
the great battleship fleet from the At
lantle to the Paeife fleet. The secre-
tary says that the proposed movement
‘was that of @ practice cruise and that
the feet would not be kept in the Pa-
cifle permanently.
‘With considerable emphasis the seo-
retary voiced his opinion that the war-
Like interpretation of the fleet's move-
ment made im some quarters was not
Justified by the facts. In fact, the
‘widely published reports suggesting
hostile preparations seem to be &
source of irritation for the beed of the
avy.
“The feet which will be moved from
the Atiantic to the Pacitie this wintes
‘a_coming to this side mersly ons
Practles Cruise” be salt "The “Meet
‘Will copsist of eixteen or more yes-
sels, not more than twenty, and its
Stay on this side will not be perma-
Rent. OF course the fleet will not come
here, turn around and go back again.
How long ft will remain in the Pucltic
will be determined at the proper time.
“There is no sound reason or excuse
for all this talk by the pubile and
through the press of on attempt to
overawe the Japanese by a warlike
naval display. I do not believe that
the newspapers are justified or right
in so construing and coloring the
cruise of warships to the Pacific.
It is now considered possible, even
probable, that the American fleet will
go to the Pacific via the Suez canal
and that its real destination ts the
Philippines, so that San Francisco
will have to wait for a view of the
fleet until after it has been exhibited
in Asiatic waters, Indeed, it is thought
possible that the Japanese will have a
view of the big fleet before the island
possessions of the United States.
The decision of course les with
Preaident Roosevelt.
Dewey Would Dominate Pacific.
UTICA, N, ¥., July 10.—"It ts a pity
we have not ships enough to keep pow-
erfal fleets in both oceans, but since
we have not it seems to me that in the
interests of pence it is best at this time
that our fleet should be in the Pacific.”
In this comprehensive and significant
sentence Admiral George Dewey, chalr-
man of the general navy board and the
hero of Manila bay, summed up the
Teason and necessity of sending the
United States battleship fleet from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, the longest
cruise of the sort In naval history.
To him the 15,000 mile trip is not an
experiment in naval mobility. It is for
the purpose of keeping peace In the
Paelfic by seizing as quickly as possi-
ble the balance of sea power.
BRADLEY'S STORY.
Boise Court Hears Detatis of Oreh-
ard’s Alleged Crime.
BOISE, Ida.,July 10.—Part of the San
Francieco depositions dealing with the
Bradley explosion was read to the jury
that is trying William D. Haywood for
his life on the charge that‘he murdered
Frank Steunenberg. The depositions
have an tmportant bearing on the case.
Mr. Darrow read the testimony of Mr.
Bradley.
In his testimony Bradley stated that
on the morning of the explosion, Nov.
17, 1904, he started to leave bis apart-
ments about 7:96 a.m He had a iight-
ed cigar in his moutiy as he walked
downstairs.
“Immediately after placing my hand
on the knob and starting to open the
outside door of the vestibule,” sald
Bradley, “there was a flash of light at
the ond of my cigar, I thought some
one had been joking and that I had
been givam @ trick digar. Next there
was a deafening explosion, My first
impression was that I had been shot in
the head. My next impression was
that I was being asphyziated and
would die if T did not get out. I felt
there was a tremendous pressure hold.
Ing me down, Then there came n lift-
Ing ferce and I was thrown out into
the street on to the car tracks. TL kuew
T was on the car track, for I remem.
ber feeling [ must get out of the way
or a car would be along.”
‘Wres: Juut *@hebbeaeehe
WASHINGTON, July 9.—Neatly at
tired in a blue ginghazo suit, but hat-
less and without stockings oF shoes to
hide his tanned legs, a wee boy slowly
walked through the war department
building here. He was spled by one of
the watehmen and when asked bis
business said, with a grin, “Oh, nustin’,
me des rabberin’." He conldn't ot
wouldn't tell lis name, and he was
turned over to the police as loxt prop-
erty.
Army In Auple Protection,
NEA YORK, July 9.—General Pred
Grant, interviewed here, sald: “If, as it
now appears, the fleet galls to the Pa-
cite T suppose it will go as a test of
efficiency. Whether it goes or not I
fully agree with Admiral Dewey that
there need be no cause of fear, ax the
army Is amply able to protect the At
antic sea const against any possible
Snyaston.”*
Baronet Dies In Houne.
LONDON, July 10.—During a diyt
sion in the house of commons. Inst
evening Sir Alfred Billson, member for
the northwest division of Stafford-
shire, suddenly falnted away and then
expired, His daugtter was in the la-
ies’ gallery. The house immediately
adjourned. Sir Alfred was born in
1839,
etna Ahan ane een aad
PANAMA, July 10.-The hotel be-
uing to the Isthusian canal commis-
sion at Empire, on the line of the ¢a-
ral, was burned down during the
ght. :
The Silver Lining.
| “Terrible accident you had on your
jroad,” observed the sympathizing
friend
} “Oh, not s0 bad,” replied the rath
|Way president, cheerily. “You seo,
[there ain't a single one can be identi
flod except the engineer and a couple
of firemen.”—Puck.
A Pertinent Query. :
Lady of the House—Why don’t you
go to work? Don't you know that a
rolling stone gathers no moss? 7
Tramp—Madam, not to evade your
question at all, but merely to obtain
information, may I ask of what pract!-
cal uttlity moss is tos man in my con-
‘ition?
’ Bizby’s Effort.
_ “Bisby said that when he was mak.
‘that speech at the banquet the
night he was so rattled he didn’t
what he was talking about.”
“He may not have been rattled. Not
‘& soul who heard him had the faintest
{dea of what he was talking about"—
‘Chicago Journal, ..__ me
: ee
A Growing Practice.
Young Doctor (watching his only
patient, his tailor’s son, go by the
window)—liow that youngster does
grow!
Servant (sarcastically)—Yes, our
Dractice ts certainly getting bigger.”
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
GAL Weel enemies | ok a
Notable Events of the Week Briety
Jobn HH. Rickenberg, aged twenty:
1 Sagara: Conan ea
on for appendicitis by Dr. George
L, Carder, was found to have two well
formed appendices, both of which were
removed.
‘The wife of the Earl of Rosslyn, for-
‘Imerly Anna Robinson of Minneapoits,
thas sued him for a divorce at Eqin-
‘burgh. ‘The earl ts living in Paris.
‘Lord Rosslyn was bora tn 1869, for-
meriy a, Meutenant in the Royal Horse
‘guards, for a time made bis living as
€n actor, appearing in a number of
plays In Europe ‘and the United States,
. Tuentay, July o,
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard
Charles H. Wilson, manager for Al-
eighth birthday by watching the play
for the Olympic cup on the Euclid
elub links at Cleveland, O.
‘The action of President Roosevelt In
adopting Mark Twain's “purity suit”
idea and appearing at church as he
id in a spotless suit of white has for-
nished Oyster Bay with a new sensa-
tion which is discussed generally. The
idea Is sure to have an extensive
‘Vogue. a8 nowhere else are the prest-
dent's admirers more enthusivatie.
[aatiss Florence 1. Schenck, whose
name has been Inked with that of
Charles H. Wilson, manager for Al
fred G. Vanderbilt's string of horses,
fs at the Victoria hotel in New York,
having arrived on the Atiantle Mner
‘Minnehaha from London. She declared
‘that khe was married to Mr, Wilson at
Richmond, Va.. on Oct. 19, 1906. Wh-
‘son denies the marriage.
Mayor McClellan of New York be-
fore departing on his summer vacation
gave his adininistration a shaking up
by removing Corporation Counsel EMf-
kon, accepting the resignation of Mac-
donough Craven as commissioner of
street cleaning, demanding the resig-
nation of Albert J. ‘Talley as commis-
Mloner of civil service, filing all the
vacaneles $0 created and tn addition
appointing a city chamberlain to suc-
cood the late Pairick Keenan,
Monday, July 8
The battleship Hoche had a narrow
escape from destruction at Toulon,
France, when fire broke out near her
powder magazine, and to prevent the
spread of the flames the battleship
was scuttled at her dock,
Realizing that conditions on the Pa-
cific slope, together with the new Im-
migration law, must operate to a com-
plete stoppage of Japanese immigra-
tion into the United States, the Japa-
nese government has taken steps for a
‘thorough Investigation into the posal-
bilities In other countries, from which
have come a call for immigration,
Saturday, July @.
Donald Peck, sixteen years old, son
of Charles Peck, hax received medal
from the New York State Volunteer
Life Savers’ association for saving two
lives at Glenwood at the risk of his
own.
Governor Guild decided to order an
Investigation of the charges made by
cadets of the Massachusetts nautical
training ship Enterprise, at Boston,
that the food served on board the ves-
sel is of poor quaiity and that they do
not get enough sore leave.
Petany, July 5.
Tommy Burns knocked out Bill
Squires in the first round of their bat-
tle at Colma, Cal, in less than two
minutes.
At Toronto, Herman Rartels, a mil-
Honatre brewer of Syrucnse, arrested
In Welland © month ago on a charge
of perjury and ordered to be extra-
dited and who appealed to the courts
at Toronto, escaped from custody and
has diappeared.
‘The British government {n a commu:
nication to the Moroccan government
has demanded that prompt steps be
tuken for the release of General Sir
Harry Maclean, commander of the
xultan's bodyguard, who was captured
by the bandit Raisull and who Is held
4 prisoner pending the granting of the
robber's term of release, .
Thursday, July 4.
“As long as the United States and
Great Britain keep together I am
afraid Japan will have a hard time
whipping us.” This statement was
made by General 0. 0. Howard of
Vermont, the only surviving general
of the civil war, In the course of an
address at the Montclatr High school,
Montelatr, N. J.
With a wonderful display of cool
ness, nerve and endurance Felice Nax
taro, the Ttilian champion, driving a
Flat car, captured the automobile
Grand Prix at Dieppe, France, at an
average speed of 113 kilometers, 600
meters, per hour, breaking the world’s
record.
edn tot (nee en 6 Sa
SCHENECTADY, N, ¥., July 10.~
A jnry in the county court acquitted
John Hallman. who was indicted for
attempted murder and assanit in the
first degree. He was alleged to have
sent an infernal inachine to Daniel
Miller, suid to have been his rival fn
love. 'Milier was terribly Injured by
the explosion of the machine and ts to:
tally blind.
Mes aes ee
LONDON, July 10.—Society is pleased
and surprised over the announcement
of the engagement of Sir Conan Doyle
and Miss Jean Leckie, Untiljthe news
was made public it was thought that
the young woman and Sir Conan were
merely friends and there was nothing
serious in the author bachelor’s atten-
tlons,
To Look After Hawall’s Defenses,
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.—Secreta-
ries Metcalf and Straus are going to
Hawaii to iook into the fortifications
and Japanese immigration, Mr. and
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth will arrive
fn San Francisco in a day or two, en
Toute to Hawail
In the Front Rank.
Customer (trying on his new trow-
sers)—Great snakes! These things
peem to be a bifurcated skirt. Til
Jook lke & guy if I wear these.
_. Conscientious Tailor—Can’t help It,
sir. If fashion says men must look
Ake guys, they'll have to iook lke
gays if they deal with me—N. YX.
ERIN'S REGALIA GONE
Thieves Take St. Patrick In-
signia From Dublin Castle,
EDWARD TO REACH IRELAND TODAY
Ceeseas' Sf Dheuiolas, Stars of Rabien
and Mesenaia thssrecka, Guarded
By Seldlers, Mysteriomsty
piece
, DUBLIN, July 10.—Officiais of Dub-
Un castle are iu consternation over the
discovery that the Jewels of the Order
‘of St, Patrick, valued at $430,000, have
deen stolen. ‘The officials have stam-
Peded because the king, who Is the
bead of the historic order, leaves Eng-
land today to pay a stute visit to Ire-
land.
‘The thieves got the insignia of the
Order of St. Patrick, composed of a
star of diamonds with a cross of rubles
and a shamrock of emeralds, inclosed
fn an enameled circle bearing in dia-
monds a motto and the date 1783, when
the order was founded. ‘This insignia
is valued at $150,000,
‘The thieves got a diamond badge
yalued at $80,000 and five enameled
Jeweled stars of the order valued at
$200,000.
When and how ihe thieves got the
Jewels is a mystery. They are: kept
in the strong room of Dublin castle
and are never exhibited to the public.
Sir Arthur Vickars, the Ulster king at
arms, the official custodian of the jew-
els. is ignorant of the time of the
theft. The jewels were kept In a
room in the Birnilngham tower of the
castle, the entrance to which is al-
ways guarded by sentries. Nearby is
Dublin's Scotland Yard, filled with de-
tectives.
Lord Castletown, knight of St. Pat-
rick, was the man to have been chief
of the state ceremony on the yikit of
King Edward Vil. to Dublin, but It is
officially announced that the ceremony
will be postponed.
‘Sensational developments are expect-
eo.
| Cranke After Reitteh Rulers,
| HOLYHEAD, July 10—Plain clothes
officers who are accompanying King
Edward and Queen Alexandra on thelr
tour of Wales took a suspicious act
ing Individeal Into custody here. The
man bad hidden tn the bushes aloug-
side the approach to the residence of
Sir Richard Bulkeley Just before the
arrival of the king and queen. As
soon fis he was discovered he mado
frantic efforts to escape, but was cap-
tured after a lively chase and lodged
in jail. ‘The police had difficulty in
protecting the prisoner from the venge-
ance of an excited crowd of people.
‘The identity of the man has not been
divulged.
Denounces Teddy Hear Fad.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich, July 9.—The
“Teddy bear” fad was severely scored.
by Rey. Richard G. Esper from the pul-
pit in St Joseph's Catholic church lawt
night. ‘The priest held that the toy
beasts In the hands of litte «ire were
destroying all instincts of motherhood,
and fa the future would be real'zed a
powerful factor in race suicide. Father
Esper spoke earnestly to his cougrega-
ton, exhorting all parents to replace
the doll in the affections of children,
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Stock Quotations.
Money on call steady at 5 per centt
prime mercantile paper, Sig per cents
Axchanges, $309,769,008; balances, $17,751,356
Amal. Copper... 1 N. ¥. Central...112%
Atohinon.......:. GM Nort. & West... 16%
B&O. ST Penn. RR...
Brookiyn R. T..€7% Reading...
C.C..C.& StL... 64 Rock Inland... 1%
Chee. & Ohio... 3h St. Paul......2--.235%
Chi. & Northw. 148" Southern’ Pac.. 19%
D. @ H...-.....10 Southern Ry... 33
hte. once 0% South. Ry. pean. @
Gen. Bieciric...18 Sugar co
Ml. Central......12% Texax Pacific...
Lackawanna... 49% Union Pacifto.. 139%
Touts. & Nash. Woy U.S Steel... a
Maphattan......18¢ U, 8, Bteol pé...300
Int-Met..u00... 17% West. Unton.... 77%
Missourt Pac... 7%
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is irises:
‘The train was just disappearing
around a curve as the drummer
reached the depot.
“Say,” be queried of the station’
agent, “how did that train happen to”
an ene the agent.
wasn't,” explained
“That was yesterday's train.”—Chica-
go Dally News. ’
THE PLANET
LESSON TEXT.—Exodus 20:1-11. Memory verses, 1-11.
GOLDEN TEXT.—"Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thine heart, and all thy soul, and with all thy might."—Deut. 65.
TIME.—Fifty days after leaving Egypt (Coptic). The day of Pentecost, the first fruit of the season, some time in May. 1491. B. C. or perhaps 1393.
PLACE.—In the plain at the base of Mt. Sinai in the southern part of the Sinaiatic peninsula between the two northern arms of the Red Sea.
BURRENGER.—The Tables of Stone; Ex. 24:13; 32:18; 32:15-18; 34:1; Deut. 4:13; 9:9-11; 10:1-5; 1 Kings 8:9; Heb. 9:4. Read Psalms 19, 119.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
Mt. Sinal and Its Surroundings.—The exact mountain is uncertain, but Hastings' Bible Dictionary inclines to the traditional Jebel Mousa, "Mountain of Moses," 7,363 feet above the sea, in the wild, mountainous region of the glorious range of granite mountains of which Sinal is the nucleus. At its northwestern base stretches Er-Rahah, "the wilderness of Sinal," the only plain in the neighborhood capable of holding 2,000,000 persons, allowing a square yard for each. The camp itself (Palmer) was doubtless more extensive, occupying the neighboring glens and mountainsides, wherever there was sufficient fertility for the cattle. Fronting the plain is a lofty and precipitous bluff, Ras-Sufsaf, whence, probably, the law was proclaimed.
The Commandments Are Divine
Laws—V. 1. "And God spake all these words," in three ways: (1) by his voice; (2) by writing them on the tablets of stone; and (3) he has written them on the very nature of man.
We are not to imagine that nothing of these commands was known before Moses. They were written on the hearts and consciences of men from the beginning. We see them in the early history. They are a lesson for all mankind.
V. 3. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," "Side by side with me," "in addition to me," "in my presence," and therefore "in preference to me."
Vs. 4-6. This forbids making any representation of God as a means of worshiping him.
The First Reason is that all images misrepresent God. They are not like God. They do not represent God as pictures of a friend represent him to us.
The Second Reason. V. 5. "I . . . am a jealous God," i. e., not willing that any other should be regarded as his equal, or take his place in the affections and worship of his people; because no other can take his place; no other can love as he loves, or help as he helps. Every idol god is not only useless, but leads to immortality. The Third Reason. "Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children." The visitation here spoken of can hardly be any other than that which we are accustomed to witness in the common experience of life (Ex. 34:7; Jer. 32:18). It is a statement of the scientific doctrine of heredity. V. 7. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," i. e., lightly, carelessly, thoughtlessly, insincerely.
1. This forbids professing to be God's people, in covenant relations with him, and then acting in a manner that dishonors God and misrepresents him before the world. It disgraces religion, and drives men from God.
2. It forbids perjury. "False swearing is among the greatest insults that man can offer to God, and, as being such, is naturally forbidden in the first table, which teaches us our duty to God. It is also destructive of civil society; and hence it is again forbidden in the second table (v. 16), which defines our duties to our neighbor."—Ellcott.
3. But it does not forbid what is called taking an oath in court; for that is a simple affirmation in the solemn presence of God to tell the truth, ending with a prayer for help to do it. The way these oaths are sometimes administered borders very closely on the breaking of this command.
4. It forbids all profanity, the careless, irreverent use of God's name and of holy things, because it tends to destroy the power of these things over men.
5. It enforces Christ's interpretation that all efforts to support our assertions of a fact beyond the simple "yes" or "no" repeated cometh of evil. It weakens the assertion itself.
6. All thoughtless worship comes under the ban of this commandment.
V. 8. "Remember the Sabbath day." Remember implies that the Sabbath already existed. "To keep it holy." Possibly we talk too much about what not to do on the Sabbath. Here is the great thing to do; worship; keep the day sacred for religious duties and inspiration, the culture of the soul of yourself and of others.
"In the Old Testament there are four covenants: that with Noah, of which the rainbow was the sign, promising safety from destruction to all mankind; that with Abraham, of which circumcision was the sign; that with Israel as a nation, of which the sign was the Passover; and that
of which the Sabbath was the sign for all mankind. The record of the Mosaic Law is called the book of the covenant" (Ex. 24:7). But the main covenants between God and man are two—the Mosaic and the Christian, the Law and the Gospel."—Farrar.
Smart Novelty Material Is Known as Bengalinette.
Great appreciation is being shown this spring for a novelty material known as bengalinette, a new edition of Bengaline—in other words, a silk fabric with a ribbed surface. The marquisette has been a la mode two years and continues in popularity. But courtiers are on the lookout for a material a trifle stiffer than these chiffon goods and bengalinette meets the requirements.
The new fabric is in evidence in all colors, but it is particularly seductive in pale green and old pink. Green was a big factor in the '60's of the last century and the second empire modes now being revived are an example of how much in vogue all styles of the last 50 years are and will be. The empire as brought forth a year and a half ago is seen no more except for evening wear in light transparent goods, and the drapery is particularly adaptable to that class of goods.
There is quite a change in the quality of goods used this spring from that in vogue for a very long time past. Now the makers and drapers are showing goods that have decided to to them. In other words, the chiffon no-character stuffs are passe.
The handwiring on the wall points to less coquettish modes, for certainly stiff materials will not take all the fullness in drapery and elaboration in handwork that frocks have received the past years.
HAIR TIPS.
Before dressing the hair rub a little brilliantine into the roots with the tips of the finger, and brush with a baby brush. This makes the hair beautifully glossy and keeps it approximately tidy.
Don't forget to have the hair thoroughly cut and singed every three months; it is not sufficient to have long hair clipped. Special attention should be paid to the weak new hairs that spring up all along the central parting.
Don't forget to brush the hair for ten minutes with a flexible brush. This may make the head a little tender at first, but tenderness soon wears off.
Don't wear pads or additional tails of hair and curls unless absolutely necessary. Anything that prevents light and air getting at the roots of the hair is extremely bad.
Don't attempt to restore gray or faded hair yourself; it is best to leave it entirely alone. If dyeing is desirable have it done by skilled hands. Don't use cheap hairpins or combs; they are so liable to drag and break the hair.
Adjusting the Veit.
The adjustment of the veil is quite other than formerly. Now that the weight of the hat is all toward the back and downward drooping it gives a contrary line if we continue to draw the tulle tightly under the chin and up over the back of the head to knot at the crown. Instead the veil must be drawn across the front of the hat and downward, knotting at the base of the brain. The lower edge of the veil in front comes just to the base of the chin and hangs straight from the hat and quite away from the profile, not shooting out, but not touching the face. This lifts easily and tucks over the hat brim when tea hour comes around.
The Rose Garden Hat
Roses of all colors and kinds are lavishly used upon the new little long, back brimmed hats that rejoice in the name of garden hats. These tilt down slightly over the face and are best of rough straw in natural or burnt color, although green is also coming to the fore as a favorite.
THE HAND MIRROR.
A shabby hand-mirror may be made quite beautiful, and fit for the daintiest toilet table with a little trouble. Scrub the woodwork thoroughly in soda and hot water, rinse, and let it get quite dry. Sand paper any little
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rough places, then paint over with cream enamel, let it dry, then give another coat, then dry again.
With oil colors paint the pretty apple blossom design on the handle, and a most charming effect will be obtained.
Mrs. Patsle K. Anderson Gone.
— Mrs. Patsy Kelley Anderson died July 10th, 1907 at Ashland, Vs.
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153 E. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, IL.
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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.
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
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And in fact everything that is needed in house furnishings,
Of every description; also the latest designs in ROCKERS and special CHAIRS.
Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low.
C. G. JURGEN'S SON,
ADAMS AND BROAD STREETS.
Daily to Baltimore.
On and after April 15, 1807, schedule ule via the popular York River Line will leave Richmond at 4:30 P. M. daily except Sunday, returning leave Baltimore at 5 P. M. daily except Sunday. Very low rates one way and round trip to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. It's the best way to reach Northern and Eastern points.
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If your 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.
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Excursions to Jamestown Exposition
Norfolk, Va. via Southern
Railway.
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-
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Refreshment Cars and Boat Privilege es Handled in Season.
Address all communications to
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SEABOARD
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DAILY.
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9:50 P. M.—Sleepers and coaches
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NEW YORK CITY.
W. H. Warrington, 71 W. 99th St.
W. H. White, 328 Cumbus Ave.
R. Plummer, 10 W. 134th St.
R. Lumber, 103 Cai, 131 W. 53d St
J. Wells, 334 W. 52d St.
Rev. A. L. McKee, 52 E. 132d St.
F. Green, 302 W. 40th St.
W. H. Jones, 249 W. 35th St.
W. B. Bee, 1 W. 134th St.
Clarence Bush, 515 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. 59th St.
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J. H. Gray, 1233 Pine St.
Bishop Robinson, 1224 Melon St.
E. P. Mackens, 1116 Pine St.
James E. Warwick, 52. S. 11th St.
Mrs. E. Homsher, 1040 Pine St.
William Parker, 631 Pine St.
Mrs. Lavinia Aldridge, 521 S. 12th.
Chas. A. George, 4062 Market St.
F. A. Stuart, 521 Federal St.
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F. H. Harrison, 1310 Wylie Ave.
Jos. Evans, care Jones and Laughlin.
B. K. Thumm, 1402 Wylie Ave.
opes, Note and Letter Paper, Bill-heads, Monthly Statements, Business Cards, Financial and Order Books, Circulars, Check-books, Pamphlets.
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B. Brannon, 657 Shawmut Ave.
J. W. White, 832 Trenton St.
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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, 3 Quincy M.
CHARLESTON, W. Va.
L. C. Farrar, 601 Brooks St.
Frank R. Wood, 144 Broadway,
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L. H. Singleton, 2028 and E Stn.
Southwestern Drug Co.,
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Daniel Braxton, Box 91.
NEWPORT NEWS, VA.
Freddie Smith, 1358-29th St.
M. J. Jefferson, 1211-30th St.,
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V. E. Heward.
WILMINGTON, N. C.
William H. Moere.
STAUNTON, VA.
Wm. C. Jehnston, 111 E. Main Bl.
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James Wingfield, 422-12th St.
Charles Morgan, 702 Taylor St.
HAMPTON, VA.
John M. Phillips.
DANVILLE, VA.
G. P. Ciark, 233 N. Union St.
PORTSMOUTH, VA.
H. S. Cooper, 1332 County St.
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John W. Anderson.
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Henry Albert, 203 Richmond St.
PASSAIC, N. J.
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Geo W. Moody, 1139 Springwood Ave
A. Haynes, 1103 Springwood Ave.
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SATURDAY.....JULY 13, 1907
TEMPERANCE
LESSON
Sunday School Lesson for June 30, 1907
Specially Prepared for This Paper
LESSON TEXT.—I Cor. 10:23-33. Memory verse, 31.
GOLDEN TEXT.—"It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stuainbeth."—Rom. 14:21.
TIME—Paul wrote this ephestis, from Ephesus, about A. D. 57.
PLACE—It was written to the church at Corinth, one of the most well-known bourgeois families. Paul had lived and prospered there for nearly two years (A. D. 52, 53), and knew the people well.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES.—Temperance and power. Corinth, 20:11. Pet. 10:23. Tit. 10:24. Honor and justice. Prov. 31:1. Tit. 32, 52. Tit. 12:4. 6. Temperance and wisdom: Prov. 20:11. Isa. 58:7. Dan. 13:21. Amos. 6:6. Temperance and the future: I Cor. 6:19. Matt. 24:48. Luke. 21:34. Gal. 5:21. I Theos. 56:1. Pet. 4.5.
Comment and Suggestive Thought.
The Problem—Before Paul and Before Us.—The new religion that Paul preached was, as was said of it, turning the world upside down. It introduced new tests of conduct and set up new and exacting standards of living. It banned as wrong, deeds that for centuries had been accepted as proper and even plaus. It is no wonder, therefore, that Paul, writing in those disturbed times, was often obliged to discuss questions of conduct that perplexed the Christians themselves. Some of these were the matter of a rest day, whether they should observe the Jewish Saturday-Sabbath or the Christian Sunday or both; the matter of divorce; the question whether the Gentile converts should be required to become Jews. But the most generally perplexing question, at least for Christians living in Gentile cities like Corinth, was whether they should eat meat that had been offered to idols.
On the one hand, they should refuse, partake of such meats, because (1) the practice had been forbidden by the decree of the council at Jerusalem seven years before (Acts 15:29). (2) Because the act was peculiarly offensive to their Jewish brethren. (3) To use the flesh which had once been offered to a heathen divinity, "even in ordinary circumstances, would be an encouragement of the practice of sacrifice; much more to parakee of the banquets which took place in the proclaves of the temple itself, and on the scene of those licentious orgies with which the heathen worship was so often accompanied."—Stanley. (See 1 Cor. 8:9-13.) (4) There was especial danger that the disciples themselves would be led not only into the ceremonial, but the moral pollutions connected with idolatry. (5) There was danger of leading into temptation those who were not strong in the faith, and of inducing them to act contrary to their consciences.
On the other hand, it seemed right to partake. (1) The decree at Jerusalem "given in Acts 15 was intended for special circumstances, and not for a universal rule. The letter containing it was addressed only to the churches of Antioch, Syria and Cilicia."—Cambridge Bible. (2) There was no essential wrong in eating such meat. "An idol is nothing in the world." "If they abstained, they seemed to say that an idol was a real being, and so they gave a sanction to superstition."—F. W. Robertson. (3) The prohibition interfered with the Christian liberty, and such liberty is of the utmost importance to all. (4) The prohibition would cause a great deal of difficulty in obtaining meats for food. (5) Any unnecessary burdens on disciples hindered others from becoming Christians. (6) It compelled the disciples to keep away from almost all social and civil assemblies, and prevented them from influencing their heathen neighbors toward the gospel. (7) Such emphasis on matters not wrong in themselves would call attention away from real sins and crimes. It is always dangerous to lay as much emphasis on incidental things, as on the great truths and principles.
The parallel with the modern liquor problem is very close in all this. The evil of strong drink ramifies everywhere. There is scarcely a tradesman but may be called upon to work in the interests of the saloon. Newspapers with their advertisements, politicians with their laws, citizens with their votes, artists with their pictures, poets with their songs, farmers with their corn and rye, pharmacists with their drugs, and even confectioners with their candies—almost every one is liable to become involved in the sin of the saloon. It touches, soon or late, every household. Here also, as in the matter of meat offered to idols, there is the fear of driving men from Christianity by appearing to be overstrict, censorious, and "cranky." How far shall a Christian go in conformity to the saloon, and to a society where strong drink is such a power? This is an important practical problem for every one.
Practical Points.
Eating and drinking are mentioned merely because Paul had been talking about them; the principle he lays down here applies to all life. "The modern idea of some acts being religious and some secular is neither here nor elsewhere recognized by St. Paul."-Ellicott.
This principle of doing everything to the glory of God, would put a speedy end to the sale and the use of intoxicants. Could any one run a saloon to the glory of God? Could any one get drunk to God's glory, or even, to God's glory, tipple a little?
POINTERS FOR THE WORKER.
Don't be afraid of fear.
Don't be afraid of overtaxing your strength. Work kills but few people.
Don't be afraid to relieve your boss of cares and worries when you can.
Don't be afraid of failures. They are often promises of future successes.
Don't be afraid to forget your work at times. Your work will be the better for it.
Don't be afraid to trust your boss. Confidence is a necessary part of success.
Don't be afraid to rest if your health demands it. A strong mind needs a healthy body.
Don't be afraid to work out your salvation. Every man must work out his own destiny.
Don't be afraid of rebuffs. This may be your employer's method of trying your grit.
Don't be afraid of utilizing an opportunity unless you receive orders. Waiting often results in failure.
Don't be afraid to give your fellow workman a boost where you can. Generosity shows a man's character.
Don't be afraid to watch the successes of your house. The fact that you are in its employ makes you a part owner.
FACES—WHAT THEY MEAN.
Every person's face is what he makes it.
The truly handsome face is made, not born.
Unlike clothes, we have to wear our faces all the time.
Good features and a healthy skin are nature's greatest endowments.
Life is the great face-maker and the mode of life determines the face.
Beauty is more than skin deep—it's blood deep, bone deep, heart deep, soul deep.
The person who goes through life with a face like a sour pickle is committing a sin.
Faces are designed by the Mighty Maker, but they can be moulded by their wearers.
To be stared at because of a handsome face is better than to be stared at because of a bulging pocketbook.
Life will not make a crooked nose straight but right life will make cheeks ruddy, eyes bright, lips smiling.
BRAIN LEAKS.
The time of year is near at hand when we find it difficult to see anything funny in the "jokes" about the iceman.
A lot of people never hear opportunity knocking because they are themselves too busy "knocking" other people.
When you want to take an accurate census of the working members of a congregation, attend a couple of prayer meetings.
The man who watches the clock most is usually the man who complains loudest about the size of his pay envelope.
A lot of men who have abounding faith in themselves never get energy enough to muster up the work that ought to go with it.
The man who defends profanity on the ground that it is a safety valve for his temper, usually finds himself at the blowing off point most of the time. —Will Maupin in The Commoner.
RECIPE FOR GOOD MANNERS.
Of usefulness, three drams.
Of the spirit of love, two ounces.
Of the tincture of good cheer, one ounce.
Of the essence of heart's ease, three drams.
Of the extract of the rose of Sharon, four ounces.
Of the oil of charity, three drams and no scruples.
Of the infusion of common sense and tact, one ounce.
The mixture, recommends Sabia A. Oliver, in the Gentlewoman, to be taken whenever there is the slightest symptom of selfishness, exclusiveness, meaness or I-am-better-than-youness.
GOOD THINGS TO KNOW.
Honey should be kept in the dark, or it will granulate.
Stoves will look nice for some time by rubbing them thoroughly with a newspapar every morning.
A glue which will resist the action of water is made by boiling one pound of common glue in two quarts of skimmed milk.
Every man stamps his own value on
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himself.—Schiller.
Never mind so much where your work may lie, do it.—Spurgeon.
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.—J. Mason.
You do not learn that you may live—you live that you may learn.—John Ruskin.
There is no trait of human character so potential for weal or woe as firmness.—Greatrix.
The time of life is short.
The virtue of a man is measured,
not by extraordinary exertions, but by
every day conduct.—Pascal.
Our grand business is not to see
what lies dimly at a distance, but to
do what clearly lies at hand.—Carlyle.
The world is a looking-glass. Laugh
at it and it laughs back; frown, and
your own gloom is recast.—George Elliot.
I have seldom known anyone who
deserted truth in trifles, that he could
be trusted in matters of importance.
—Paley.
The acquirement of knowledge is
the acquisition of power; the use of
knowledge is the exercise of power.—
Burton.
We cannot understand a character greater than our own until something congenial to it has grown up within ourselves.—Whipple.
INVENTED BY WOMEN.
Self-heating flatiron.
Musical skipping rope.
Machine to hang wallpaper.
Luggage carrier for bicycles
Never sticking window sash.
Egg cup adjustable to any size egg.
Refrigerator with revolving shelves.
Combination lantern and dinner pail.
Implement to hold green corn while eating.
Pocket curling tongs with heater and fuel.
Combined doorplate and card receiver.
Steel clamp to make finger ends taper shape.
Fireproof suit of clothes of woven asbestos cloth stitched with asbestos thread.
WOMEN YOU SELDOM MEET.
An unmarried woman who never had an offer.
A singer who never complains of a cold when asked to sing.
A woman who, when caught in her second-best dress, will make no apology for her dreadful appearance.
A woman, are immaterial, who does not experience a flush of pride upon being thought what she is not and may never hope to be.
A married woman who never sald, "No wonder the girls don't get married nowadays; they are altogether different from what they were when I was a girl."
A woman who remembers last Sunday's text, but is unable to speak understandingly of the trimmings on the bonnet of the lady in the pew next in front.—Chicago Journal.
BY THE WAY.
Unless fashion wills it, mankind is a poor paymaster for amusement.
No man's usefulness need cease until he has passed away, if he is not lazy.
The man who works for immediate results need never expect to grow too great for comfort.
The world is inclined to feel pleased over your troubles, if it pays any attention at all.—Uncle Dick in Madison Journal.
TRIO OF LITTLE TRAILERS
The woman who controls herself and one man could control an army.—Success.
After the Reward.
Lady—What is it, little boy?
Little Jim (carrying a cat)—I came to claim the reward you offered for the return of your canary.
Lady—But that is a cat.
Jim—Yes; but the canary is inside the cat.
Only to Pay the Bills
Husband — Another new dress!
Where do you suppose I shall get the money from to pay for it?
Wife—You must excuse me. I didn't marry you to give you financial advice.
Life as a Game
bachelor, "is like a game of cards."
"It's more like a game of chess from my point of view," rejoined the married man. "I invariably move once a year."—Chicago Dally News.
Knights of Pythias,
This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenominal. 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.
The Courts of Calanthe
The Courts of Calanthe
Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions.
THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have 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 PYTHIAKS
F.C.B.
only absolutely necessary regu-
apply at the main office.
The Court
Is the Female Department of the
thirty persons to organize a co-
Fidelity, exercise Harmony and
an endowment and burial bene-
dues. The only expense for m
a rosette, costing 25 cents for f
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
VERSE WORTH READING.
Her lovers adored her, they asked and implored her
And begging for notice the while.
They fetched and the carried, they
were gone.
When snubs for reward did she give;
They took it all meekly gave in to her
Just asking permission to live.
Their worship she scouted, their love
lightly flouted.
And treated them all with disdain;
She met vows with laughing, heart's
and mind's tears;
And took as just tribute their pain.
That they did adore her, the more
seemed to bore her,
She said they were idiots all,
So little did she them that she soon
despised them
For being the slaves of her thrall.
At last came a wooer who scorned to
nurse her;
reasons to kill.
They stared in amusement to see her
abasement.
For meekly she gave him his way.
Just followed the faster when he would
And promised-with joy-to "obey."
-Josh Wink.
A. Fallacy.
There once was a man who said, "Life would be great.
If didn't have nothin' to do,
I'd rhyme up in the morning away after eight
An' I'd loaf the whole blessed day through.
I'd be jez' as free as the birds in the air; I'd laugh with the river that's gleamin' so fair.
An' I'd keep making' friends as I went here and there.
If I didn't have nothin' to do."
He woke up one sunshiny morning to find
them.
That he didn't have nothin' to do.
And he said, "What a bafflicful relief to
him."
Such a glorious prospect to view!
In a leisurely way I will now venture
out
An' seek, as I'm carelessly strollin' in
Some pleasant companion—I'll find one,
no doubt,
Who hasn't got nothin' to do."
But all of his friends that he called on,
he found,
Had some恼地'partic'lar to do.
Though they said as they saw him jest'
loafin' around,
"By ginger! I wish I was you!"
And even the birds hadn't no time to
go.
An' the river was rushing along to the bay
A Child's Laughter.
One thing is the none
Hearing its cilium done
Knows not well the sweetest one
Heard of man beneath the sun,
Hoped in heaven hereafter;
Soft and strong and loud and light,
Weary from morning's rosette hight,
When the soul of all delight
Fills a child's clear laughter.
Golden bells of welcome rolled
Never forth such notes nor told
Hours so blithe in tones so bold
As the radiant mouth of gold
Here that rings forth heaven.
It is a nightingale,
Were a nightingale, why, then
Something seen and heard of men
Might be half as sweet as when
Laughs a child of seven.
Remembrance.
I am bringing you blossoms to-night,
dear,
Fragrant, the rainbow in hus;
May you find in their velvety petals
Balm for the sorrow and rue.
The lilies I'm bringing to-night, dear,
So frail, so tender and fair,
I bring for remembrance; the roses,
Blossoms, are to wear in your hair.
I am bringing you blossoms to-night,
dear.
gleaming,
Seemed glad for the loving of you.
The lilies bring us to-tnight, dear,
Hold in their pots a heart;
The lilies I bring are for men'sie;
Sacred—so place them apart.
-Milwaukee Sentinal.
Secrets.
Sweetheart, bend your pretty head,
Bend it low, bend it low,
I've a secret my heart said
You should know, you should know;
Lift your bonny eyes of blue.
N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A.
organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles ended 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 galla. For information concerning curts of Calanty at the Order. It requires a memorial court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.09 to $44 our neighborhood, orgrize one. Using the Children's Department ad
is the most powerful in the country and its
all. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris-
dent counties in this state. Thirty males
new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one
the principles are greater than anything
based on Charity and established on Be-
right people of the state will find it an order
import.
Burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It
is. The badge costing 75 cents each is the
tion concerning the organization of lodges
Men's Department also con-
tan to enter the little ones into this mystic
is all that could be expected. It pays from
from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian
organize one.
Department address,
Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M.
120 W. H.
merning special rates of
and courts, address
JOHN
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HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN
Secured by This New Union Order—Grows By Leaps and Bounds—Started Five Years Ago with Nothing But a "Principle"—Now Has Over 400 Subordinate Lodges and 36,000 Members.
Over 30,000 homes of our people have been filled with joy, because of the Protection of a great and powerful Union Order, which is using its strength and influence to secure better conditions for our people. This is the first and only great Union Order in this country, holding an International Union Charter from the Courts, which give a full Protection and Benefits to our race.
There is no color, race or sex discrimination in this Order. The negro has an equal standing with the white members, and can be elected to hold any office. Every effort is made to advance the condition of the members, by securing equal opportunities to work with other workmen, to learn the trades and to have steady work at high wages and Union hours.
The Grand Lodge donates $100.00 for the burial of each deceased member. At 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 payment per cent interest, guaranteed. A Lodge Dept. 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, Dayton, Ohio.
Hold your breath until I'm through.
Hend your secret- it is true-
love-you
It was a case of breach of promise. The defendant was allowed to say a word in his own behalf. "Yes," he said, "I kissed her almost continually every evening I called at her house." The counsel for the plaintiff was pleased. "Then you confess it?" he said. "Yes, I do confess it. But I had to do it." "You had to do it. What do you mean?" "That was the only way I could keep her from singing."
The jury gave a verdict for the defendant without leaving their seats.
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BHE.
Oh! the secret you have told,
Unto me, unto me,
Ever new, and yet so old,
You'll agree; you'll agree;
Is so sweet because it's true;
But—I have a secret, too,
And—oh, well, I will tell you
I will tell you
—The Bohemian.
He Was Justified.
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Said Uncle Jim, "When I was young
They had much different ways.
Such curious changes weren't rung
On some straightforward phrase.
They didn't talk of brainstorms then,
Nor of dementia queer;
Nor paranoid, which made men
In antics persevere.
"The egomaniac was unknown
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The aliens had not yet shown
The world with solemn looks
Just how the scientific tongue
Courteously express
They didn't know when
The things which passed when I was young
For plain durn-foolishness."
--Washington Star.
The Retort
Old Birch, who taught the village school,
Wedded a maid of homespun habit;
He was as stubborn as a mule,
And she as playful as a rabbit.
Poor Mrs. Browne became a wife,
Before her husband sought to make her
The pink of country polluted life,
And prim and formal as a Quaker.
One day the tutor went abroad,
And simple Kate sadly missed him.
When he returned, behind her lord
She shyly stole, and fondly kissed him,
The husband's anger rose, and red
And white his face alternate grew;
"Less freedom, ma'ma!" Kate sighed,
and said:
"O dear! I didn't know 'twas you!"
-George Pope Morris.
Too Clumay.
"No," said the customer in the phonograph emporium, "I don't like this style of horn."
"You don't?" replied the clerk in surprise. "Why, that style of horn breaks the record."
"That's just the trouble. It breaks the record every time I put it on."—Chicago Daily News.
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SATURDAY.....JULY 13, 1907
STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR AN OLD SOLDIER'S GRATITUDE
He Buys a Wonderful Hat for His Benefactress Who Aided Him in Getting a Pension.
Letters from Washington made it apparent—it was in the year 1891—that Heinrich Heinbach was going to receive a back pension, dating from 1865. Badly wounded during the civil war, he had applied for a pension, and then forgotten it. Now, applying under the disabilities act of 1890, his old claim had been revived.
From my observations of the claimant and the witnesses who accompanied him when he came to my office, I was sure that Heinrich would need some counsel and admonition when he should unexpectedly acquire two or three thousand dollars, says Ada C. Sweet in the Chicago Journal. So I wrote to him, asking him to call upon me, bringing with him his wife.
He came, with Mrs. Heinbach, a sensible, hard-working, kindly woman, the mother of four well grown children. I broke the news of their coming good fortune, and Heinrich promised to take his wife with him when he drew his first pension and to carry out her wishes as to how the money should be used.
The great day came around, a month or two after our talk, when I listened to the plans of the honest couple had made for the future. They were first to deposit the money, $3,050 and some cents, in a bank. Then they were to buy a little home in a small town near Chicago where there was a factory in which Heinrich and his oldest boy could work, and where the children could go to school and "grow
It Was Indeed a Triumph of Millinery Mind.
It Was Indeed a Triumph of Millinery Mind.
up to be somebody," as Mrs. Heinrich said.
"We'll be happy, in our own home, and away from the places where it is so easy to go wrong," she added, with a significant look toward her husband.
Heinrich made one meek appeal for $50 to have a good time, once," and this was conceded to him. And later in the day I saw the happy couple go out with their indorsed government check in the wife's pocket, and they were headed straight for the savings bank.
I thought I had seen the last of them, but within three hours they returned. Something great was evidently on the mind of the veteran. The wife had an apologetic and subdued look, but nothing of the kind appeared in Heinrich's mien. The new bank book showed their deposit of $3,000, and after felicitations over that, Heinrich arose and brought from the outer office, where he had left it on coming in, a big milliner's box.
He had bought for me, as a token of esteem, and in recognition of my efforts to save his money from his rather shady friends, a hat.
"She shall have the very best hat in Chicago, I told my wife," explained the old soldier, as he untitled the string from around the box.
"I told Heinrich he might not suit you," broke in the wife, "but he would have his way!"
"Just this once," said Heinrich. "Every woman likes best of all a fine hat. We went over on State street, and there I had made the hat for you."
Now came into the view, from its wrappings, the glorious hat. It was indeed a triumph of the millinery mind, aided by masculine determination. There was first a frame of some kind, and this was piled with ribbons and flowers and lace and buckles and beads, and topped by feathers. It was a large affair, with nothing stingy or contracted about it. As for color, as Heinrich pointed out to me, it could not possibly go wrong, no matter how unreasonable I, as a woman, might naturally be.
"I know how particular women are about the colors they wear," he said, "and so I looked out for that. There is every color on this," he continued, as he balanced the bat on his forefinger, and turned it round and round.
It was true—no color was wanting.
The price, too, was conspicuously displayed, in order that I might have no misgivings. The tears came to my eyes as I saw that the veteran had
paid $10 out of his $50, reserved for his "good time, once."
I put on the rainbow hat before the little mirror, and I told Heinrich, truthfully, that I had never had such a hat before—never dreamed of such a hat! My every-day hat of brown was contrasted with this new one, and Heinrich felt sorry for me that I could not wear his present every day, a manifest sacrilege, though, which he really could not recommend.
"I bet you'll hate to put on that little hat Mondays' after you have been wearing your new one," he said, and he openly glanced upon the contrast between my plain old hat and my new and striking headgear.
But there was a look of uncertainty on Mrs. Heinrich's face. She knew that hat was not "my style." But her woman's wit never allowed her for a moment to dampen the satisfaction of her husband in this supreme moment of his altruistic triumph. At last, after many handshakes, the man and his wife went away. As I was laying my treasure in its box Mrs. Heinrich reappeared, alone.
"Heinrich was gone down in the elevator," she said. "I told him to wait for me. I know that hat is not for you. It is big enough, but it has too much red, and yellow, and purple, and the pink ribbon is not to you becoming. So I said to the clerk, when Heinrich would have her put on the green feather. 'You must change this,' I said, 'when the lady brings it back.' And she promised it. You go over already and you trade for what you like.'
I thanked the good woman for her kindness, and she went away as pleased with herself as Heinrich had been with himself. And there never was, and never will be, another hat built and arraigned like unto that hat from kind old Heinrich Heinbach!
LARRY'S PROMOTION.
After His War Experience He Became a Veteran and the Pride of His Mother's Heart.
"Idle, is it 5t?" said Mrs. Flaherty, bridling. "If armybody had said that same but yerself, Mrs. O'Rourke, that's been the good friend to us all, and fished the bye himself out o' the oud cistern oncect wid yer blessed good grip on the little breeches of him—ah, well, you may call him lile if ye like. 'Tis but a careless way of spaking, and no raile discompliment.
"Tubbe sure, Larry's niver one to howd a job beyant the toime the job howdls his fancy. 'Tis Mike's the stiddy one—yis; if he wasn't, whatdiver'd become of him? 'Tis not himself could drop a job in the middle, and take his bit of a rist, and thin get another job any toime, annywhere, the minute he was ready for it. But Larry, that has the way wid him, and the shimle on him—There's a square thing about the bye's ears, 'twas his grandmother used to be saying. 'They niver bear No whin 'tis said to him the first-toime; and whin 'tis repated, 'tis Yis! And that's so.
'Ah, now, Mrs. O'Rourke, ye know betther! Partial? Me? Me that loves the pair of thim as asquil as me two eyes? Ah, thin, niver! But I know what I know.
"Whin ye say that Mike's a foe, stildy worker, and shares his wages wid his mother like the good son he is, saints forbid I shud deny it. But me youngest—me Larry—'twas him wint fightin' to Cuby, a picture in his soder choles and ready to be kilt like a hayro. And now he's promoted to be a veteran. Sure, 'twas years after the big war before Patrick was that; but here's Larry, silver shopping like his father to be a corporil and a sergeant on the way, but just making the one grand lape of it, and a veteran at twenty-sixin.
"Mike is a good bye; but me Larry, praise hivin! is the pride of his country, and an honor to the Flahertys, and the joy of me ould heart. 'Tis the impartial judgment of a mother."
Lindy's Select patronage.
It was during the time of the Spanish-American war. An officer of a Massachusetts regiment, carrying under his arm a bundle of soiled linee, called at the home of a colored women living on the outskirts of Jacksonville, who had made quite a reputation for good laundry work among the soldiers.
"Does yo' berlong t' de Eff' Mah'land?"
"No."
"To de Hund'ed-an'fifty:ff' Inde-any?"
"Wale, yo' all char outen here; Tee kep' private wash-lady by dose fo' regiments!"—Harper's Weekly.
Repulse of Balloons by Coast-Defense Batteries.
The German military authorities have been conducting a series of interesting experiments at the Heubude coast-defense battery, Danzig bay, with the object of determining the efficiency of modern ordinance in repelling captive and free balloons. The battery was equipped with 10-centimeter guns and mortars. Shrapnel was the ammunition used. Floating at a height that varied between 18,000 and 25,000 feet, balloons of 100 cubic meters' capacity were quite easily brought down. Only one balloon escaped inland.
Explorer's Widow Marries
Dorothy, Lady Stanley, the widow of the famous African explorer, was married a few days ago to Henry Curtis, of whom the world knows little save that he is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Since Sir Henry M. Stanley's death, three years ago, she has lived the life of a recluse at Furze Hill, the country place in Surrey, that Stanley bought, and where he is buried.
Height of Laziness.
Mifkins—So you consider Dawdles rather lazy, do you?
Bifkins—Lazy! Say, he's the limit.
Why, even when he has nothing to do he is too lazy to do it.—Chicago Daily News.
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DESIGN FOR COLLAR
DESIGN FOR COLLAR
OR IT IS EQUALLY AS SUITABLE FOR TIE ENDS.
Something New in Lace Work That Is Not Hard to Work—Directions for Making It.
Work 8 chain and join round, a double crochet into the ring just made, *. 5 chain, 2 more double crochets into the same ring, repeat from * until there are 8 loops.
2nd Round: 2 chain from loop to loop all round.
3rd Round: Under the nearest loop work 1 double crochet, 1 half treble, 1 treble, 1 double treble, 1 treble, 1 half treble, 1 double crochet; repeat this group of stitches under each of the other loops. This completes one center or star. Work as many of these centers as will be required for the work in hand.
2nd Long Row: A treble $n$ every stitch with 1 chain between each as far as the last treble before the join,
This design, although specially arranged for a collar, is equally suitable for tie-ends, or as a trimming.
a treble on the first treble of the next star, and continue, working all round the end and along the other side of the stars.
For the Heading—Work a row of chain, joining it to the scallops with longer or shorter stitches as required to make the work level (see illustration); for the stitch which connects the scallops put the cotton 4 times over the hook, catch to fine scallop, work off 2 loops, cotton twice over again, catch to the next scallop and work off all the loops in the usual way. Upon this chain work two rows of double trebles in every other stitch, with 1 chain between each.
As colored lace is much in favor as a trimming this season, this design worked with cotton to match world
make a very up-to-date finish for colored linen dresses; it would have the advantage of washing with the dress itself, and would, moreover, be very durable. Another practical use to which this lace may be put is an edging for toilet covers. A piece of rather coarse linen hem-stitched at the edge and finished with this pattern, makes an extremely nice cover.
Satin Duchesse.
Although much is heard of satin duchessine as a trimming that gives weight to thin skirts, this material appears this season in a suppleness unknown to fabrics of which our grand-mothers were so proud. It is also used for separate coats and entire costumes, sharing honors with chiffon taffetas, liberty satin, faille, etc. Naturally it is combined with quantities of lace and embroidery and the luster of the material makes it specially suitable to the fashionable shades of brown, blue, gray, green and lavender.
Shampoo.
Take one egg and beat light; add one pint and a half of lake warm water and then beat again until the foam reaches the top of a two quart bowl. Wash the hair with this and rinse with two waters, the first warm, and second quite cool, and the hair will be soft and silky, and the scalp as white as snow. Do not use on blonde heads
Scientifically Explained
Student—Doctor, why is the itch so much longer in running its course than are other diseases?
Doctor—Well, because it is so handicapped. You see, no matter how much of an advantage other discourses are given, itch always has to start from the scratch—Judge.
Hard Word to Spell, Too.
Senior Partner—That new lady shorthand clerk who types your letters spells ridiculously.
Junior Partner—Does she? Well, if she does, it's about the only word she can spell, so far as my observation goes.
What He Could.
Young Wife—Jack, dear, I wish you would break Brother George of the poker-playing habit.
Young Husband—Why, I did break him only last night—Chicago Daily News.
NOW FANCY THAT.
R.E. MORGAN
Gwendolyn—Tell me, dear, did Cholly kiss you very hard?
Geraldine—Not exactly. He hardly kissed me.—Chicago Daily News.
Advantages of Being Twins.
"To be twins," said the man, "must be
To see if your hat is on straight."
—Judge.
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Mrs. A.—What have you there, my dear?
Mrs. Z.—A list of summer fiction. I always start buying early so I will have plenty to read when I go away on vacation.
Mrs. A.—I never buy any summer fiction.
Mrs. Z.—You don't? Then where do you get it?
Mrs. A.—Oh, I read my husband's letters from town.—Chicago Daily News.
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Office hours: 9 A. M. to 9:30 P. M.
Sunday: 2:30 to 7:30 P. M.
N. B.—Our consultation Fee is 50 cents. Sittings, $1.00. All letters containing $1.00 will be answered in full.
MAIN OFFICE:
510 S. 8th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
—Now is the time. Send your advertisement to the PLANET and look pleasant.
Mechanics' Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA. 511 NORTH THIRD STREET.
Capital, $25,000. on deposit and interest paid on which remains 60 days and over. Satisfactory Security.
Money received on deposit and interest paid on amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over.
Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security.
Business Accounts Handled Promptly.
Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit.
This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public.
For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier.
Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 8 P. We close Saturday at 3 P.M. and open again at 5 P.M., remaining open until 3 P.M.Call by as you come from work.
OFFICERS:
JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President
THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL,
E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAVERS
J. O. FARLEY, JNO. C. TAYLOR.
Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit. This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vault, burlar-proof chest steel, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier.
Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the work
ing people as follows: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 8 P.M.
We close Saturday at 3 P.M. and open again at 5 P.M., remaining open until 9 P.M. Call by as you come from work.
OFFICERS:
JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President
THOS. H. WYATT, Cashier.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL,
E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAVERS
J. O. FARLEY, JNO. C. TAYLOR,
E. A. WASHINGTON, R. W. WHITING, WILLIAM OUSTALO, J. J. CARTER
JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Pres. THOMAS M. CRUMP, SEC'Y.
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[TRADE MARK REGISTERED.]
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Has proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunate, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it reassures us of its satisfactory results. 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 review 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 among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings.
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national patent rights on our hair preparation by
in turn responsible to the government for hon-
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express pack.
The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00.
Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order A charge of 10cts, extra is imposed on all out of city orders.
PRICE,
Embalmer and Liveryman.
short notice by telegraph or telephone.
and nice entertainments. Plenty of room
cees. Large plasic or band wagons for
nothing but first-class carriages, buggies,
and fine funeral supplies.
East Leigh Street.
Evidence Next Door.
NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night
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All orders promptly filled at shortnotice by telegraph or telephone. Hand rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with large plasic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral supplies.
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1820
1820
Richmond, Va
SEVEN
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
TRAINS LEAVE HONORED.
N B.—Following schedule figures published only on information, and are not guaranteed.
7 500 a.m. daily.
11 15 a.m. daily limited. Buffet Pullman to 11 15 a.m. daily. Warmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, Memphis. Through coach for Chase City, Oxford, Durham and Raleigh.
12 500 a.m. daily, Keysville Local.
12 500 a.m. daily. Pullman read at 3:00 p.m. for coach.
ORK RIVER LINE
4 30 p.m. Except Sunday, No. 16, to West Point or Baltimore Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday.
2 15 p.m. on Friday, Local to West Point Mondays, Wednesday and Friday.
4 45 p.m. Except Sunday, No. 74, to Local to West Point.
45 a. on Wednesdays and Fridays No. 9.
525 b. on West Point and point
5125 c. on local stations. Except Sunday.
C. W. WESTBREV. D. P. A.
202 E. Main St. N. Richmond, Va.
C. H. HACKET. 202 E. Main St. N. Richmond, Va.
C. V. P. & Gon. Mgr. P. HARDWICK
C. P. Tassel MGR. P. A.
Washington, D. C.
R. F. & P. Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potio-
11-4 o. m. Week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation.
10:00 noon, week days. Byrd st Through
Washington
accommodation
10:00 noon, week days. Byrd st
5:45 p.m. Sunday only. Elba. Washington accommodation.
m, week days. Elba. Amhland cocoon
m-days.
4:55 p. m, daily. Malth. st. Through.
6:45 p. m, daily. Malth. st. Through.
army, army, byrd at. Through
Trains an army, weekday. Through
week, weekday. Eiba Ashland accou
modation.
m. Daily, Byrd street, Through.
8:25 a.m. weekdays, Byrd St. Washington
accommodation.
10 25 a.m. Sunday only. Elba. Washington accommodation.
14:30 a.m. week days, Eiba Ashland accom
modation
12:30 p.m. m., daily Main st. Through.
2:45 p.m. m., Daily, Byrd street Through.
week days, Eiba Ashland accom
modation.
P. H., daily, Byrd St. Through.
9:00 p. m., daily, Byrd St. Through. Locals
stop.
10 p. m. daily, Main St. Through.
NOTE - Pullman Sleeping or Parlor Cars or
all above train except local accommodations.
Time of arrivals and departures and con-
nections not guaranteed.
C. W. CULP, W. P. TAYLOR
Gen'l Stup' s Traf. Mgr.
SCENIC ROUTE
TO THE WEST
ROUTE
CINCINNATI, INDIANAPOLIS, ST.
LOUIS CHICAGO, LOUISVILLE,
NASHVILLE, MEMPHIS, 2:15 p.
m. and 11:00 p. m. daily.
WESTBOUND LOCAL TRAINS.
7:30 a. m. daily and 5:15 p. m. week
days.
NEWPORT NEWS, NORFOLK AND
OLD POINT.
9 a. m. and 4 p. m. daily.
Local For Newport Newport
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*830 P. M, James Rivers A., M.,
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LEAMSHIP CO.
NIGHT LINE FOR NORFOLK
Leave Richmond at 7 P. M. hotel evening (foot
Ash Street) at route. Fare, $2.50 one way, $4.
round trip, in including stateroom berth, meals
$0. each. Store New York Wharf
FOR NEW YORK
In Night Line Steamers (except Saturday
in connection in Norfolk with Main Line
ship, in follow-up Norfolk and Norfolk
Western Ry. at 9 A. M. and 3 M.,
Western Ry. at 9 A. M. and 3 M.,
Maine Ohio Ry. at 9 A. M. and 4 P. M.
making the exception Sunday) at Norfolk
with Main Line Ship sailing at 7 P.
M. Tickets, SOS E. Main Ship.
BAY LINE.
Steamer Poorhousen station. We
meet and Friday at 7 a.m. for mornor
Portsaukee. Newport News, Cla
monde and James River landings, and connec
ng at Old Point for Washington, Baltimore
and the North. State rooms reserved for 5
night at modern rooms. State cars dire
to the wharf. Fare only $1.50 each.
Reight reserved for above named places on
all routes in East Georgia and North C
alifornia.
IRVIN WINELIN Genn'Mgr
E. A. Barber, JR., Secretary.
Norfolk and Western R. R.
LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BYRD
STREET STATION.
9:00 a.m. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at
Norfolk 11:20. Only stops at Petersburg,
Waverley and Suffolk.
A. M. M., CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Par
Lynchburg to Lynchburg and Roanok
Pullman Sleepers, Dumbus and
Bluesfield to Cincinnati, Also Roanok to
Knoxville and Knoxville to Chattanooga and Mem
par 12:10 P. M. Roanok Express for Fo-mville
Lynchburg and Roanok.
ocean Shore Limited Arrives
Norfolk 5:30 P.M. ships only at Petersburg
Waverley and Suffolk. Business with Steamer
to Boston, Providence, New York, Baltimore
and Mington.
6:30 P.M.
Norfolk and all stations east of Petersburg.
8:30 P. M. NEW ORLANS SHORT LINE. Pull-ineper Richmond to Lynchburg, Petersburg to New York; Lynchburg to Chattanooga, Memphis and New York; Timing Car Transits arrive from the west 7:35 p. m. and 5:50 p. m., from Norfolk 11:40 p. m.
40s. m
Office N9& W2 Main Street
BW Main Street BOSLYR
G9& Pen. Art ART
G9& Pen. Art
ATLANTIC COAST LINE
EFFECTIVE MAY 27TH.
Trains leave Richmond daily.
For Florida at south, 9.05 A. M. 7.35 and
for Michigan at north, 9.05 A. M. 7.35 and
6.50 P. M. and 8.25 P. M. and
N. & W. R. Wv. 13.9-14.
Except Sunday, *Sunday only.
C. S. CAMPBE' 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,
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EIGHT
THE PLANET
SATURDAY.....JULY 13. 1907
SCHMITZ IN PILLORY
Judge Dunne Publicly Denounces Ex-Mayor.
HIS BRAZEN EFFRONTERY IN COURT
Declares He Will Be Candidate For Mayoralty Next Term and Will Then Let the People Judge Him.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.—Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, convicted of extortion, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. When the sentence was pronounced there was a remarkable outburst of applause from the hundreds of persons who crowded Judge Dunne's courtroom.
Sentence followed the recent conviction of Schmitz for extorting $1,173 from French restaurant keepers of San Francisco.
Before passing sentence the Judge made Schmitz stand up before a crowded courtroom while he scathingly denounced him as a rascal. The audience loudly cheered the condemnation of Schmitz and threw hats and canes in the air.
Judge Dunne in sentencing Schmitz said:
"You were elected to position because of the confidence and great trust reposed in you by the mass of the people. You have by your willful crim-
MAYOR SCHMITZ.
final act, so a jury of your fellow citigens has declared, broken that confidence and betrayed that trust."
Here Schmitz protested against being "lectured." Judge Dunne took no notice.
"Therefore," the judge continued, "it may be said that the penalty which the law permits in this case is insufficient to meet the demands of justice. It may be suggested, however, that by your conviction you will lose the respect and esteem of all good citizens and men; that you will suffer the humiliation of knowing that your career of hypocrisy, duplicity and dishonor—"
"I stand here as an American citizen to demand my rights," interposed Schmitz. "I'm not asking any leniency at the hands of this court. I am prepared to receive sentence. I ask that your honor do your duty and pronounce it immediately and that I be not subjected to humiliation and degrading remarks which the papers are copying and will print. I say, if your honor has any self respect, you will proceed with the sentence."
"It is not unusual," was Judge Dunne's reply, "for courts to be brought into contact with such brazen acts of effrontery as yours in the present instance. It is the duty of the court in such cases to view the conduct of a convicted felon with patience and toleration, not to say ply. By your conviction you will lose the respect and esteem of all good men and citizens. You will suffer the humiliation of knowing, I say, that your career of hypocrisy, duplicity and dishonor has been exposed and that you stand before those who believed in and honored you morally naked, shamed and disgraced.
"It is the judgment of this court that you be confined in the state prison at San Quentin for a term of five years." Schmitz dictated the following statement in court: "I now repeat what I have stated already, that I will be a candidate for mayor of the city and county of San Francisco this fall, when the people of San Francisco will have an opportunity by their votes of demonstrating whether they believe me guilty or innocent. The people are always right. I am satisfied to leave my case with them." Judge Landis then announced that sentence will be passed on the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, which was convicted of using illegal railroad rates, on Aug. 8. The company is liable to a fine of more than $29,000,000 in the many counts in which it was convicted.
Chaplaib Hole Accused
WASHINGTON. July 8—Dr. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of the senate, is charged with bearing false witness against his neighbor in decrying in a speech at Boston certain districts of the city of Washington.
Prexter to Quit Army
PARIS, July 8.—Major Alfred Dreyfus, the former captain of artillery, who was sentenced on a charge of treason to imprisonment on Devil's island, is shortly to retire from the army, as sentencing a pension.
A BRAIN STORM PLEA.
Harry Kirkstein, Friend of Mrs. Laura Carter, Arrested.
NEW YORK, July 10—Chester B Runyan's defense will be insanity. In pleading not guilty to the theft of $54, 410 from the Windsor Trust company on June 20 Runyan's counsel declared that his client inherited a tendency to insanity and that the effect upon him in meeting Mrs. Laura M. Carter was to precipitate an attack.
Harry Kirkstein, who, the central office men say, is an intimate friend of Mrs. Carter, was arrested at his home, 262 West Twenty-fifth street, and taken to headquarters, charged with know
MRS. LAURA CARTER.
Ing something about $25,000 of the unaccounted for money that Runyan says he turned over to Mrs. Carter.
Kirkstein will be arraigned today in the Center street court. The detectives who saw Runyan and Mrs. Carter brought to court profess to recognize Kirkstein as the man to whom she signaled on Mulberry street outside of headquarters.
The wife blames Mrs. Carter, the woman in whom flat Runyan was found, who betrayed him to the police and whose allied influence over the absconding teller will be made the basis of his defense.
In order to secure more information as to the past history of Mrs. Carter the Finkerton men began an investigation of her, especially as to her career in Baltimore before coming here.
An official of the trust company said: "We figure it out that Runyan stole from the company prior to his final departure about $16,000, which he dropped in Wall street speculation. To Mrs. Carter he gave $16,000, about $600 of which was given to her a little while before he skipped out for the purpose of furnishing the flat. With $54,410 found in the flat we have accounted for $86,910. On the basis that he stole $96,810 from the company there is still about $10,000 unaccounted for, which we believe this woman stole from Runyan while he was living at her apartments."
EXTRA SESSION CONVENES
Sent to Both Houses Last Night.
ALBANY, N. Y., July 10. — Both houses of the legislature convened in extraordinary session last night, pursuant to the call of Governor Hughes. The governor in a special message, as was expected, proposed for the consideration of the legislature the subjects of apportionment of senate districts and direct nominating primaries, both of which failed of enactment at the regular session.
Practically no business was done in either house, and both took a recess until tomorrow at 11 a. m. It is hoped that during the interim the leaders can come to some agreement on the subject of apportionment, which will prevent a repetition of the protracted deadlock of the regular session.
Fairbanks Saves Girl's Life
Fairbanks Saves Girl's Life.
YELLOWSTONE LAKE, Wyo., July 10. Vice President Fairbanks rescued a woman from drowning here and when he left carried the best wishes of a host of persons to whom the incident had become known. Manager Gibbs of the Lake hotel and the vice president were seated on the hotel plaza talking when a shriek at the lake pier startled them. Both rose hastily and saw a woman struggling in the water. Springing from the plaza, closely followed by Mr. Gibbs, the vice president ran at breakneck speed toward the lake. The woman in the water had sunk a second time before he reached the pier and was going down a third time as he jumped into the lake and brought her ashore.
Standing of the Baseball Clubs.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
WY. L. P.C.
Chicago 66 17 744
Pittsburgh 43 17 599
New York 40 27 598
Philadelphia 38 31 658
Boston 30 38 441
Cincinnati 30 43 428
Brooklyn 29 43 408
St. Louis 18 57 240
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
WY. L. P.C.
Chicago 45 24 652
Cleveland 44 24 611
Detroit 38 28 608
Philadelphia 38 32 443
New York 38 34 439
St. Louis 26 43 408
Boston 26 43 377
Washington 22 43 348
Fall River Man's Body Found.
NEW YORK, July 8.--The body of Herbert Frank Brightman of Fall River, Mass., who fell from a catboy in Long Island sound last week, was recovered off North First street, Brooklyn, yesterday.
Six Drowned Near Bangor.
BANGOR, Me., July 10.-By the cap-sizing of a pleasure boat in Penobscot bay late last night six young men of Bangor were drowned.
No Relief In Sight
WASHINGTON, July 10.—The hot wave which has prevailed over most of the United States continued practically undiminished. The weather bureau announces that there had been little change in the generally high temperatures, and no relief from the heat is in sight. In this city the street thermometers registered $92\%$ degrees and the weather bureau $85\%$.
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MILLER'S HOTEL
W.M.MILLER.
PROPRIETOR.
WITHIN
ONE BLOCK OF
STREET CAR LINES
THAT TAKE YOU
TO ALL
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TERMS
REASONABLE
SECOND AND LEIGH STS.
RICHMOND, VA.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
REV. WILBUR P. THIRKIELD, D. D. ROBERT REYBURN, M. D. President. Dean.
The Fortieth Annual Session will begin October 1, 1907 and continue eight months.
FOUR YEAR'S GRADED COURSE IN MEDICINE.
THREE YEAR'S GRADED COURSE IN DENTAL SURGERY.
THREE YEAR'S GRADED COURSE IN PHARMACY.
AN OPTIONAL FIVE-YEAR COURSE IN MEDICINE IS OFFERED.
Full corps of forty-five instructors. Well equipped laboratories. The New Freedmen's Hospital just completed at a cost of $500,000 offers unexcelled clinical facilities.
The Second Session of the Post-Graduate School and Polyclinic will begin May 18, 1908 and continue six weeks for Medical Course and four weeks for Dental Course.
This School is connected with a Great University of seven Departments; one thousand students, and over one hundred professors.
For further information or catalogue, write
$1,750 Paid.
$1,750 Paid.
(Continued From First Page.)
received from John Mitchell, Jr.
Grand Chancellor of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pyth-
las, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A.
($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars in payment of the death-
claim of Thomas Trent, who was a
member of North Star Lodge, No.
52 of Richmond, Va.
Signed—Sarah Trent.
Beneficiary.
Witnesses:
James Chatman.
James Wilder.
$150.00 Engowment Paid.
Richmond Va., July 5, '07.
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.
Grand Chancellor of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythians, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars in payment of the death-
claim of Henry H. Reid, who was a
member of Old Dominion Lodge, No. 8 of Richmond, Va.
Signed—Louise W. Reid
Beneficary.
Witnesses:
Watson Briggs.
J. A. Moss.
$150.00 Endowment Paid.
Glasgow, Va. July 2, 1907
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.
Grand Chancellor of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-
claim of G. A. Bibbs, who was a mem-
ber of Blue Ridge Lodge, No. 120
of Glasgow, Va.
his
Signed—Isaac X Bibbs,
mark
Beneficary.
Witnesses:
L. R. Wooldridge, Jr.
Joseph Anderson
Alfred Franklin.
$150.00 Endowment Paid.
Method, N. C., July 4, 1907
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.
Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of John A. Cain, who was a member of Star of the East Lodge, No. 58, of Newport News, Va.
Signed—Ada Thomas,
Beneficiary.
Witnesses:
Bury O'Kelly,
W. B. S. Harris.
$100.00 Endowment Paid
Danville, Va., July 5, 1907.
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.,
Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Sir L. W. Holbrook, who was a member of Hermione Court, No. 127 of Danville, Va.
Signed—Sarah J. Holbrook,
Administratrix
Witnesses:
J. M. Clark.
L. W. Laney.
U. S. Cunningham.
$100.00 Endowment Paid.
Lexington, Va., July 5, 1907. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim
Washington, D. C.
of Louisa Lyle, who was a member
of Lexington Court, No. 107 of Lex-
ington, Va.
Signed—David H. Lyle,
Beneficiary.
Witnesses:
Kate R. Jones.
Emily J. Holloway.
Ollie J. Gooch.
$100.00 Endowment Paid
Newport News, Va. July 3, 1907.
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.,
Grand Worthy Counselor of the
Grand Court of Virginia, I. O. of Calantha ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Mamie Brooks, who was a member of Silver Key Court, No. 75 of Newport News, Va.
Signed—J. L. Willis,
Administrator
Witnesses:
M. E. Dixon, R. of A.
Lula P. Clarkson, R. of D.
A. C. Jeunings
Lillie L. Byrd, District Deputy
$100.00 Endowment Paid.
Newport News, Va., July 7, '07.
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.
Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court, of Virginia, I. O. of Calanthe, ($100,000). One Hundred Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Virginia P. Brown, who was a member of Calanthe Court, No. 102 of Newport News, Va.
Signed—Oliver Brown,
Beneficiary.
Witnesses:
J. E. Byrd, W. C.
Victoria L. Hobson.
Lillie O. Byrd, Deputy.
HELO GIRL GOT IT ALL DOWN
"Hello! Is this the Grand Hotel?" asked the man at the phone.
"It is," sweetly responded the young woman at the other end.
"Will you please ask Mr. Henry Perkins, who is stopping there, to ring me up this afteracron?"
"Yes, sir. Who shall I say he is to ring?"
"D. B. Feeley."
"B. D. Greeley?"
"No! No! D. B. Feeyol."
"P. Beef Healey?"
"No! Can't you get it? Listen—D. B. Feeyol. Understand?"
"Spell it, please."
"D—get that? A, B, C, D—get it? B—understand? A, B—all right? F, E, E, L, Y—Feeyol. Got it? All right. Just tell him to ring me up. He'll know what it means."
When Mr. Perkins returned to the hotel he received a memorandum saying. "Please call up Mr. A.B.C.D.A.B.E. E. Yelly."—Judge.
Old Lady—I see misfortune's laid her hand most cruelly on you, my poor man.
Poor Man—No mum, yer wrong there, it warnn't no miss as done it—it was my missus.
Poets Will Never Organize.
De Cash—Why don't you poets form a union?
Poet—Where would we get the money to pay our dues?—Judge.
KINK·NE
Great Hair Straightener and Grower
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. Roberts, a famous English chemist, who has made a study of the scalp of colored people for the past 30 years, and who, after much time and experience, has prepared this great tonic for the colored people.
This chemist says that his experience and study have taught him that the scalp of the colored people requires a special treatment and after laboring and testing these many years he has discovered the greatest REMEDY the WORLD has ever known for the HAIR of colored people.
KINK-INE will make the hair GROW from one to three inches per month, if the directions and instructions are carefully followed out. We have many cases on record where the above results have been obtained, and we do not hesitate when we make these claims.
KINK-INE is the only safe preparation in the world that is guaranteed to make the hair straight and make dry hair smooth and stop it from breaking off and falling out; takes out all the kinks and knots, cures dandruff, makes the hair soft and silky, and by nourishing the roots gives it new life and vigor, restoring it to natural color.
Read what Miss Elizabeth Jones of Chicago says of KINK-INE: "My hair was not more than three inches long when I commenced to use Kink-ine, six months ago. I have used it steadily since that date and it has grown on an average of two inches each month and it is now more than fifteen inches long. Besides, my hair has become almost straight and I fully believe by the end of the year I will have the most beautiful head of hair of any colored lady in the world."
SPECIAL OFFER.—To prove the quality and superiority of our goods over all others, we will sell one full-size bottle of Kink-ine, price 35 cents, one cake of Kink-ine Soap, the best Shampoo and Toilet Soap in the world, price 25 cents, both for only 50 cents, or six bottles and six cakes of soap for $3.00. Special offer good only at the following stores:
OWENS & MINOR DRUG CO., Ldt.—Distributors, 1007 E. Main St.
Furnished Rooms, 50c. up.
Meals, 50c. up.
THE M.T. CLEMENS HOTEL
AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE
AMERICAN AND
EUROPEAN PLAN.
Phone, 245.
Has opened its doors for
the accommodation of
that may come to Mt. Clemens in the future for their Health and Treatment
It is the only Hotel and Mineral Bath House owned and conducted by a colored man at any of the health resorts in the United States.
Write for Special Rates.
GEO. I. HUTCHINSON, FROP.
48 Welts St., -, Mt. Clemens, Mich.
Nelson's Hair Dressing can be
bought and Brown Drug
Stork, Pittsburgh, PA
A WOMAN'S WAY.
Her lovers adored her, they asked and implored her
To give them a look or a smile;
Like the dogs trotted to tasks she allotted.
And begging for notice the while.
They fetched and they carried, they dodged and they parried
When snubs for reward did she give;
They had it all meekly, gave in to her weakly.
Just asking permissions to live.
Their worship she scouted, their love lightly flouted.
And treated them all with disdain.
She met vows with laughing, hearts'
anguish with chaffing.
And took vows just tribute their pain.
That they did adore her, the more seemed
to bore her.
She said they were idols all.
So little she prized them that she soon
despised them
For being slaves to her thrall.
At last came a wooer who scorned to
pursue her;
He ordered her just at his will,
Asserting his power, said he would "allow" her
His need of affection to fill.
They stared in amazement to see her
abasement,
For meekly she gave him his way,
Just followed the faster when he would be.
And promised—with joy—to "obey." Baltimore American.
All Had Meanings
"So the proprietor of this hotel has a big phonograph that plays while you dine?"
"Yes, and some of the selections are very appropriate. For instance, if he thinks his guests are getting impatient he puts on such pieces as: 'Life is Too Short to Worry' and 'All Things Come to Him Who Waits.'"
"H'm! Pretty good idea."
"Yes, but the last selection beats them all. If he thinks you might overlook tipping the waiter he puts on Kippling's recessional: 'Lest We Forget!' Lest We Forget!!"—Chicago Daily News.
Sure to Kill.
When the celebrated physician, Sir Henry Holland, told Sydney Smith that he had failed to kill either one of a brace of pheasants that had risen within easy range near the latter's home, the witty divine asked: "Why did you not prescribe for them?"
WINSTONS HEADOUARTERS
For Ice-Cream & Refreshments
ICE-CREAM FURNISHED IN EVERY STYLE AND IN ANY QUANTITY. SPECIAL PRICES TO DEALERS AND THE RETAIL TRADE.
537 Brook Ave. 'Phone. 2253.
TO OWN YOUR HOME MEANS TO SOLVE THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
Coal! Coal! Coal!
All kinds of the very best Anthracite Coal in Stove, Egg and Nut Sizes. Splint Coal Lump and Hail Sizes. All of our product whether purchased by the Bushel or by the Ton carefully screened before leaving our yards.
SOLD AT THE LOWEST PREVAILING PRICES
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
'Phone us your orders, if you haven't the time to
send them. A call on Long Distance 'Phone 83
will receive prompt attention.
NOW IS THE TIME TO PLACE
Your Winter Orders
Crump & West Coal Co..
YARDS: 18th and Cary Streets
and 16th and Clay Sts., Richmond, Va.
Your Winter Orders Crump & West Coal Co. YARDS: 18th and Cary Streets and 16th and Clay Sts., Richmond, Va.
A REVELATION.
A REVELATION.
The Book of Seven Seals by Lucinda Young, who in the year of 1890 laid on her bed twenty-four days and saw dreams and visions, was commanded by God to write the wonders she saw into a book. This book tells also about a seven years
"Does your husband love you?" we asked.
"Madly, devotedly!" she answered.
"Are you quite sure?"
"Quite. How can I doubt? He has shut me up here in this little cage of a place, where he expects me to spend all my time, with nobody's company but his own. If he does not love me, why does he take so much trouble to make me miserable?"
And there shone in her fine eyes the beautiful strong light of unshaken confidence.—Puck.
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.
NEGRO ENTERPRISES AND RESI-
DENCES.
Send 27 cents in stamps to D. A. Ferguson and Company, 609 N. 2d, St.
Richmond, Va., and receive a copy of
"Souvenir Views" of Negro Enterprises and Residences in Richmond.
Friendship Baptist Church, 412 North Third Street. Services:
Sunday School, 9 o'clock a. m.
Services; 11 o'clock, a: m.
Night Services, 8:30 o'clock p. m.
Friends invited.