Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET Annuity for an Ex-Slave. Eldridge Cooper, a seventy-year-old ex-slab of the Cooper estate in Columbia County, Tenn., is to continue to receive the $100 a year that Judge Cooper allowed him until the Judge's mental faculties began to fall two years ago. And besides Eldridge is to get $225 arrears in a lump sum, although the hundred will reach him as before, in quarter installments. Eldridge lives in Louisville now since the old home place in Columbia County. The Negro will not be the only one to benefit by an order made in the Supreme Court yesterday by Justice Truax. Several of Judge Cooper's relatives, sisters, brothers and nephews and nieces are to get the same annual sums out of the judge's estate, which has been in the hands of the Trust Company of America as trustee of his property since the judge was pronounced mentally incompetent a couple of year's ago. Under Justice Truax's order Adison Cooper, a brother, and Miss Martha A. Cooper, Mrs. Eloise C. Stockwell and Mrs. Mary A. Sansom, sisters, are each to receive $1,000 a year and $2,250 arrears. William F. Millard and Rosamond Cooper, a nephew and niece of Judge Cooper, will divide between them $1,000 a year and $2,250 cash, and Christine Cooper, another niece, will receive $800 a year and $1,000 cash. Besides these payments out of the Judge's estate Michael J. Mulqueen, the referee, will receive $1,200 for his services. He asked for $2,500. John B. Stanchfield and John K. Berry, who appeared for the petitioning relatives, asked for $7,500, but under Justice Truax's order will divide $3,500 between them in full payment for all services rendered. Mr. Berry also gets back $769, which he advanced in disbursements. The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias and the Grand Court were in session at Norfolk, Va. this week. A large delegation left over the C. and O. route. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Keeper of Records and Seal Thomas M. Crump, Grand Master of Exchequer H. F. Jonathan and the entire Richmond delegation constituted the number. In addition to these were Eureka Co., No. 1; Planet Co., No. 8; Blooming Lily Co., No. 11 and Pythian Cudet Co., No. 1. The Uniform Rank was in camp at Norfolk. Major William A. Robinson opened headquarters last Monday and the men have been comfortably quartered there. The First Regiment was under command of Col Thomas M. Crump and the Second Regiment was under command of Major Archer Drew. The encampment was the first one ever held by any Order in this state among colored people. Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr., purchased tents in Ohio for this purpose and they were shipped to Norfolk. The interest manifested has been intense and much favorable comment has been voiced. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Lynchburg, Va., July 2, '07 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Court of O. of Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Mildred Merchant who was a member of Celestial Court No. 211 of Lynchburg, Va. W. J. Wells, D. Deputy. J. A. Watts, G. W. I. Annie M. Johnson, R. of D $150.00 Endowment Paid. Ashland, Va. July 11, .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 Jacob Mallory, who was a member of Scotland Ledge, No. 119 of Ashland, Va. Signed—C. M. Carter. Mary P. Steinlein. Willoughby Newton, Jr. LONDON, July 17. - A telephone message received in St. Petersburg from Moscow said that Count Tolstol had died at his country seat at Jasnays Pollana, in the government of Tula. The Reuter telegraph service denied the report later and said that Count Tolstol is enjoying his usual good health. AMERICAN MAGAZINE DOING GREAT SERVICE Mr. Ray Stannard Baker Continues His Narrative on the Color=Line. Soon after my arrival in Atlanta, and when I had begun to understand some of the more apparent ramifications of the color line (as I related last month), I asked several Southern men whose acquaintance I had made where I could best see the poorer or criminal class of Negroes. So much has been said of the danger arising from this element of Southern population and it plays such a part in every discussion of the race question that I was anxious to learn all I could about it. "Go down any morning to Judge Broylest court," they said to me, "and you'll see the lowest of the low." So I went down—the first of many visits I have made to police and Justice courts since I came down here. I chose a Monday morning that I might see to the best advantage the accumulation of the arrests of Saturday and Sunday. The police station stands in Decatur street, in the midst of the very worst section of the city, surrounded by low saloons, dives and pawn shops. The court occupies a great room upstairs, and it was crowded that morning to its capacity. Besides the police, lawyers, court officers and white witnesses, at least one hundred and fifty spectators filled the seats behind the rail, nearly all of them Negroes. The ordinary Negro loves nothing better than to sit and watch the proceedings of a court. Judge Broyles—"Briles," the Negroes call him—kindly invited me to a seat on the platform at his side where I could look into the faces of the prisoners and hear all that was said. IN A SOUTHERN POLICE COURT It was a profoundly interesting and significant spectacle. In the first place the very number of cases was staggering. The docket that morning carried over one hundred names—men, women and children, white and black; the court worked hard, but it was nearly two o'clock in the afternoon before the room was clear ed. Atlanta, as I showed in a former article, has the largest number of arrests, considering the population, of any important city in the United States. I found that 13,511 of the total of 21,702 persons arrested in 1906 were Negroes, or sixty-two percent, whereas the sixty-population of the city is only forty per cent of the total. A very large proportion of the arrests that Monday morning were Negroes, with a surprising proportion of women and of mere children. Last year 3,194 Negro women were arrested in Atlanta. It was altogether a pitiful and disheartening exhibition, a spectacle of sodden ignorance, reckless vice, dissipation. Most of the cases, raveled out, led back to the saloon. "Where's your home?" the judge would ask, and in a number of cases the answer was: "Ah come here fum de country." Over and over again it was the story of the country Negro or the Negro who had been working on the railroad, in the cotton fields or in the saw mills, who had entered upon the more complex life of the city. Most of the country districts of the South prohibit the sale of liquor; and Negroes, especially, have comparatively little temptation of this nature, nor are they subjected to the many other glittering pitfalls of city life. But of late years the opportunities of the city have attracted the black people, just as they have the whites, in large numbers. Atlanta has many saloons and other places of vice; and the results are to be seen in Judge Broyles' court any morning. And not only Negroes, but the "poor whites" who have come in from the mountains and the small farms to work in the mills; they, too, suffer fully as much as the Negroes. NEGRO COCAINE VICTIMS. Not a few of the cases both black and white showed evidences of cocaine or morphine poisoning—the bear eyes, the unsteady nerves. The sweets were sealed. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1907. PECULIAR CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH-LAND. the judge. "Coke." said the officer "One, sate the outcet." "Two, sate the sate the judge naming the proctest of the harming the amount of the line. They buy the "coke" in the form of a powder and snuff it up the nose; a certain potent catarrh medicine which is nearly all cocaine is sometimes used; ten cents will purchase enough to make a man wholly irresponsible for his acts, and capable of any crime. The cocaine habit, which seems to be spreading, for there are always druggists who will break the law, has been a curse to the Negro and has resulted, directly, as the police told me, in much crime. I was told of two cases in particular, of offenses against women, in which the Negro was a victim of the drug habit. So society, in pursuit of wealth, South and North preys upon the ignorant and weak—and then wonders why crime is prevalent! One has only to visit police courts in the South to see in how many curious ways the contact of the races generates fire. "What's the trouble here?" inquires the judge. The white complainant—a boy— says: "This nigger insulted me!" and he tells the epithet the Negro applied. "Did you call him that?" "No sah, I never called him no such name." "Three seventy-five—you mustn't insult white people." And here is the report of the case of a six-year-old Negro boy from The Georgian: "Because Robert Blee Buster, a six-year-old Negro boy, insulted Maggie McDermott, a little girl, who lives at 507 Simpson Street, Wednesday afternoon, he was given a whipping in the police station Thursday morning that will make him remember to be good. "The case was heard in the juvenile court before Judge Broyles. It was shown that the little Negro had made an insulting remark to the little girl." So it goes back and forth. STORY OF A NEGRO ARREST The very suspicion and fear that exist give rise to many difficulties. One illuminating case came up that morning. A strapping Negro man was brought before the judge. He showed no marks of dissipation and was respectably dressed. Confronting him were two plain-clothes policemen, one with his neck wrapped up, one with a bandage around his arm. Both said they had been stabbed by the Negro with a jack-knife. The Negro said he was a hotel porter and he had the white manager of the hotel in court to testify to his good character and sobriety and industry. It seems that he was going home from work at nine o'clock in the evening, and it was dark. He said he was afraid and had been afraid since the riot. At the same time the two policemen were looking for a burglar. They saw the Negro porter and ordered him to stop. Not being in uniform the Negro said he thought the officers were "jes' plain white men" who were going to attack him. When he started to run the officers tried to arrest him and he drew his jack-knife and began to fight. And here he was in court! The judge said: "You mustn't attack officers——" and bound him over to trial in the higher court. (To be Continued.) Bridegroom Held For Wife Murder. HARRIMAN ACCUSED Interstate Commissioners Arraign Railroad Magnate. HIS HAND PULLS ALL THE WIRES Controls All Lines In Pacific Coast From Portland on North to Mexican Border-No Recommendation to Prosecute. WASHINGTON, July 17.-A report was made public by the interstate commerce commission of its inquiry into the railroad operations of Edward H. Harriman and of the operations of the so called Harriman lines of railway, which has been in progress for several months. The report, which was written by Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, is the unanimous expression of the commission on the subject. Copies of the report have been transmitted to President Roosevelt and to the department of justice. The report is an exhaustive summary of the evidence adduced at the several hearings held by the commission in the course of its inquiry. It enters fully into a discussion of the policy pursued by Mr. Harriman in obtaining and maintaining control of the various lines of railway in the Harriman system and presents a fairly complete history of the operations of the various lines. The commission states that it heard testimony at New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles and found that the Union Pacific Railroad company and Edward H. Harriman were practically synonymous; that in all the great transactions of this company Mr. Harriman as chairman of the executive committee acted upon his own initiative, and his acts were subsequently ratified and approved by the executive committee. It further found that the Union Pacific has in the past six years so grown in power and influence that at this time it controls every line of railroad reaching the Pacific between Portland on the north and the Mexican border on the south, a distance as great as that from Maine to Florida, excepting alone the Santa Fe line, in which it has a large stock interest, and of his ability to "take" this road at any time the law will permit Mr. Harriman expresses no doubt. The commissioners point out a plain and direct method by which Edward H. Harriman can be placed in prison for merging the Union and Central Pacific railroads. The act of 1874 is quoted, and a decision of the United States supreme court is given as a precedent. There is no recommendation made that prosecution be instituted, as the department of justice is supposed to take action in such matters. On Trial For Killing Husband. ELIZABETH, N. J., July 17. — In twenty-two minutes a jury was found to try Mrs. Edna Rash, colored, accused of having murdered her white husband, Charles Rash, June 22. The prisoner is being defended by former Governor Foster W. Voorhees. BRYANT—Mr. David W. Bryant died in Charlestown, Mass., Wednesday, July 10th, 1997 at 7:25 o'clock p. m., after an illness of about five months. Mr. Bryant was formerly of this city, but had lived in Mass., for about twenty-five years. He was the son of the late Mr. Richard L. and Mrs. Rosa Bryant and brother of Mrs. Roberta Smith and Mrs. Agnes B. Reese, all of this city. In addition to these, his wife Mrs. Lizzie Bryant and five children survive him. The interment was in Charlestown, Saturday, July 13th, 1907. One by one our links are broken And we wonder why it is, But, t'is God who gives the token Yes, to-morrow, we must go. AFTER DIRE TURRET EXPLOSION Twenty-two Dead and Dying From Horrible Disaster. ADMIRAL GOODRICH'S SON KILLED. By a Terrible Accident on the Battleship Named For the Empire State of the South Our Navy Suffers Loss of Two Promising Young Officers, One Turret Captain and Five Enlisted Sailors—The Calamity Happened on the Cape Cod Practice Grounds, but the Cause of the Explosion Has Not Yet Been Fully Determined. BOSTON, July 17.—With eight of her officers and crew dead and thirteen others either dying or suffering from terrible burns received in an explosion of powder in the after superimposed turret, the battleship Georgia steamed slowly up Boston harbor from the target practice grounds in Cape Cod bay at a late hour and landed her human freight of dead and injured men at the Charlestown navy yard. With the arrival of the Georgia there became known the details of the most terrible naval catastrophe that has ever taken place along the coast of New England. The accident occurred shortly before noon while the Georgia's crew were at target practice off Barnstable, in Cape Cod bay. In some manner as yet unexplained two bags of powder became ignited, and in the terrific flash that followed the entire turret crew, consisting of three officers and eighteen men, were enveloped in fire and received horrible burns, one officer and five men dying before the ship reached port. The Georgia is one of the ships composing the second squadron of the Atlantic fleet, that squadron being in charge of Rear Admiral Charles Thomas. The dead are Midshipman Faulkner Goldthwaite, Kentucky; Chief Turret Captain William J. Thatcher, Wilmington, Del; Seaman William Joseph Burke, Quincy, Mass; Ordinary Seaman George G. Hamilton, South Framingham, Mass; Ordinary Seaman George E. Miller, Brooklyn; Seaman William M. Thomas, Newport, R. I., and Seaman William Pair, Brooklyn. Lieutenant Caspar Goodrich, appointed from Connecticut, died after the Georgia reached Boston. The seriously injured are Midshipman John T. Cruse, Nebraska, hands and face burned very seriously; Boatswain's Mate (second class) Frank Schapp, North Adams, Mass., back, chest, arms and face burned; Gunners' Mate (first class) Charles Hansell, New York, face and hands burned, and ten other enlisted seamen. The explosion occurred in the after turret, where the men, under command of Lieutenant Casper Goodrich, son of Rear Admiral Goodrich, commander of the New York navy yard, and Midshipmen Faulkner Goldthwaite and John T. Cruse, were operating the eight inch guns. The guns in the forward turrets had finished eight rounds of practice, and the guns of the after turret had fired one round. Two cases, as the big 100 pound bags of powder are called, had just been sent up through the amtraimiation hoist and were in the arms of the loader, whose name was withheld by the ship's officers. The loader stood at the breech of one of the eight inch guns all ready to insert the charge. At this instant the turret was seen to be smoky, and two men who stood near the loader saw a black spot on the bag, indicating that the charge had ignited and was smoother. The loader discovered the spot at the same instant and threw himself forward on his face, at the same time shouting a warning to his turret mates. The other men who had seen the spot were Elch and Hansell, and they also threw themselves on the floor of the turret. Before the other men in the turret could understand what caused the loader's cry of warning there was a blinding flash as the burning powder exploded. Flames, smoke and nauseous gases filled the little superstructure, in which more than a score of men were confined. Inasmuch as the powder was not confined there was no deafening report, nor did the vessel suffer any injury, but every nook and cranny of the turret was filled with flame. The loader, who was, of course, nearest the powder, was terribly burned, as was every other man in the turret, with the exception of Elch and Hansell, who, although scorched, escaped with injuries much less severe than the others. Blinded by the smoke and flame, choked by the acrid, penetrating gaseous fumes and maddened with pain, the men screamed in agony. Some staggered blindly up the ladder to the hatchway in the top of the turret, while others crept along the turret floor, begging piteously for assistance. Lieutenant Goodrich and Seaman Maleck became crazed, staggered up the iron ladder to the top of the turret and then threw themselves headlong into the sea in a despairing effort to choose a death by drowning in preference to death by slow fire. When the smoke of burning powder had cleared away the shipmates of the unfortunate men rushed to their assistance, and tenderly the suffering sailors were lifted out of the fire blackened turret and quickly conveyed to the ship's hospital, where their burns were dressed by the surgeons. In the meantime Lieutenant Goodrich and Seaman Maleck had been rescued by the launch that was returning from an inspection of the target. The surgical staff of the Georgia was soon re-enforced by the surgeons of the other vessels in the fleet, who had been informed of the accident and summoned to the scene by the combined use of wireless telegraphy, signal flags and the wigwag system. A message came from Midshipman Goldthwaite's parents in Kentucky asking if their son would live until they could reach him. The return message conveyed the information that he was dead. Several incidents were told of the coolness and heroism of some of the men just after the explosion. Chaplin Charlton was the first officer to reach the turret. The first man he found was Mildshipman Cruse, who was terribly injured. He would not allow the chaplain to do anything for him, but said: "Let me alone. I am all right. Look after those other fellows." In one or two other cases also he met with the same spirit of self sacrifice. Immediately upon learning the details of the accident Captain Henry McCrea, commander of the Georgia, notified Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas, commander of the squadron, of what had occurred. Rear Admiral Thomas ordered an investigating board to examine into the causes of the accident. Until this board makes its report the real cause of the explosion will be in doubt, and it is uncertain even that the board will be able to determine definitely what ignited the cases of powder. Two theories are entertained. One belief is that a spark from the discharge of the after turret guns floated back to the turret through a gun port and settled on to the powder cases. Another theory is that the spark that caused the trouble came from the smokestacks of the ship and floated through the gun ports. After landing her dead and injured the battleship Georgia, under orders from Washington, sailed back to the target grounds. Midshipman Foulkner Goldthwaite, who died as a result of his injuries and the second commissioned officer among the eight who died, was born in Calvert, Tex., on May 24, 1883, and entered the naval service as a midshipman from the state of Kentucky on June 8, 1903. After serving the full four year course at the Naval academy he was on March 1, 1907, ordered to the United States battleship Georgia, to which vessel he was attached at the time of his death. Midshipman J. T. Cruse, who was injured, is a son of Major Thomas Cruse, chief quartermaster, department of the Missouri, with headquarters at Omaha. Major Cruse, accompanied by his wife and son, Lleutenant Fred Cruse, has left for Boston to be with PRICE, FIVE CENTS the injured midshipman. Lieutenant Casper Goodrich was born in Italy and appointed to the navy from Connecticut in 1897. Rear Admiral Brownson, chief of the bureau of navigation, immediately wired Rear Admiral Goodrich in New York the sad news of his son's death. Two huge boxes arrived at the naval hospital, one marked for Midshipman Cruse and the other "for the sailors of the Georgia." They were from Admiral Yamamoto, and each one was filled with flowers. The hospital authorities, in behalf of the injured men, will express to the distinguished Japanese visitor appreciation of his thoughtfulness. Of the injured men Seamen Walsh and Thomas are clinging to life by a thread, and death seems but a question of hours. Midshipman Cruse is also in a critical condition. The other men's condition has not changed since they were brought to the hospital. Worcester Man. a Spike WORCESTER, Mass., July 17.—Albert G. Lliscomb, who, it is reported, committed suicide in New York yesterday, was a son of the late Nathaniel Lliscomb and was for many years a leading merchant in this city. Albert Lliscomb's wife is a member of a prominent Worcester family, and she has been visiting here recently. A telegram came to Mrs. Lliscomb announcing her husband's death, and she left at once for New York. Lliscomb's relatives here are unable to give any reason for his apparent suicide. London Buildings Collapses LONDON, Ont., July 17.—The building occupied by Reid's Crystal hall, Long's clothing store, McCallum's photograph store and Brewster's five and ten cent stores on Dundas street collapsed here, burging a number of people variously estimated from twenty to thirty in the ruins. Several are reported killed, but it is impossible at this time to state definitely. The buildings are completely wrecked. Dr. Taylor Erisco's New Mayor Dr. Taylor Prisca's New Mayor. SAN FRANCISCO, July 17.-Dr. Edward R. Taylor physician and lawyer, dean of the Hastings Law college and of the University of California, was elected mayor of San Francisco by the board of supervisors. By the open aweval of the bribery graft prosecution the so called "reign of the big stick" has come to an end. Police Get Brewer Bartells TORONTO, July 16—Herman Bartells, the Syracuse brewer, who escaped from custody here while argument was in progress on his appeal against extradition, was arrested last night in a house on William street. Not n. "Candold's by the Sea." NEWPORT, R. I., July 15. — Although the Rev. Walter Lowie denounced it as a "Canfield's-by-the Sea," the opening of the women's bridge club, called the Bennett club, was highly successful, 250 women attending. Stone Villa, owned by James Gordon Bennett, is given free of rent to the club, which is headed by Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont and Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs. Mrs. Belmont says it is not a bridge, but a social club. Torpedoed Blaring Steamer ORAN, Algeria, July 15. - Fire broke out with such violence aboard the British steamer Canada, lying in the harbor here, that a destroyer towed her out into the roadstead and torpedoed her as the only means of saving her from destruction. The Canada can be raised without difficulty, as she lies in shallow water. Eleven Hurt Near Jamestown, N. C. WASHINGTON, July 16.—As the result of the derailment of three cars of a northbound passenger train on the Southern railway at Jamestown, N. C., near Greensboro, eleven persons, mostly employees of the railroad, were injured. According to an official statement issued by the railroad here, it is said the derailment was due to "tracks buckling under the dining car." Among the injured are Francis H. Blewett, a passenger, Brooklyn, and E. Torrey, superintendent of telegraph, Mobile and Ohio railroad. Johnson Watterson's Dark Horse. WASHINGTON, July 16.—"Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota is the candidate to whom I referred as capable of carrying the Democrat party to victory next year," said Henry Watterson, according to Colonel Charles A. Edwards, secretary of the Democratic congressional committee, who has just returned from Louisville. Croker Decliner Nomination. Croker Bestines nomination DUBLIN, July 7. Croker has declined a Nationalist nomination for member of parliament for East Wakefield, to replace D. J. Cogan (Nationalist), resigned. It is believed that Arthur Chamberlain, brother of Joseph Chamberlain, will permit his name to be placed before the convention. De MYSTERY Two CHAPTER XXiIL ‘aetiee Genes Tt was still early in the evening and such was my anxiety to solve this problem without unnecessary delay ‘that, In spite of my expertences of the Gay, I resolved to return again to the manhole and see how it happened to have fallen shut and if anything new could de learned from @ auperficial tn- Spection of the place after dark. I stopped long enough In the hall- yray to dispatch @ servant to the rall- ‘way station with my letter to Mac Ardel so that It would catch the Inte mat] and then, leaving word that I was Boing out for a short stroll, f put on a ‘heavy coat and left the house. ‘There was an {cy chill tn the alr that betokened snow tn the near fu- ture, and I had heard one of the na. tives say the day before that we would yave @ storm and a “gol dummed big ‘one, too,” before the end of the week. Aa I started down the path to the ‘iver I could not doubt the accuracy of ‘the fellows prophecy. und I drew my oat collar well abont my neck and abtvered fitfully as the rigorous blasts ‘ft the coming winter reached through my garments and chilled my very bones. A sudden drop tn temperature, fol ‘lowed by heavy snow, in the early autumn was not uncommon tn this cll- mate, as 1 knew full well, and it was Usually a serious matter to the farm- @rs, whose fall crops were ruined and many of whose cattle perished; but this year was destined to see such a storm as had not been equaled {a many & decade. ‘The wind howled and whistled through the trees and over the hill- tops and then, when a lui! would come, At was emphasized by the dull, heavy moaning of the pines and hemlocks far away in the distance beyond the river. At times I even thought I could fect occasional fakes of snow striking ine tn the face as I strode on over the turf on my way to the tunnel en- trance, but I could not be sure, and ft might have been only the dust and Sipe , Perea, i Rese rey 4 ae gp AGF sage. other small bits of matter that were picked up in the gale and whirled Victously through the alr. When I reached the manhole I was not at all surprised to find that some one had been there before me and again covered it with leaves and bits of grass but, aa I tried to raise it once more, never doubting that I could make my escape across the lawn if { Were detected in this, my astonish ment was profound at discovering that it was securely fastened down from below. While I was kneeling down on the ground and tugging at the ld to make ‘Pure that it was locked, I thought I heard a step behind me and turned my head quickly to see if anyone was ap- proaching. It was, however, apparent- ly nothing more than the snapping of @ branch due to the fury of the wind, ‘and I again turned to the manhole, hoping vaguely that, even if I could Rot open it, I might perhaps hear some ‘conversation through the grating that would serve as & sort of a clew to the srewsome doings beneath. "As I laid my band on the tron work ‘again It touched a cold, heavy odject which had certainly not been there 8 moment before, and, picking it up and holding it between me and the sky, I ‘saw, to my amazement, that tt was my own revolver, to the handle of which ‘was tied a bit of folded paper. For an instant my heart seemed to stop and I remained rigid on my knees with my arms upraised ae I had held ‘out my pistol for tnepection, fearing to move through very terror of my own shadow. My breath caught in my ‘hroat and then came in short, heavy wasps, while the wind alternately fmoaned and roared about me and 00 easional thick damp snowflakes lightly touched my ashen face. ‘There certainly had been no sound or motion in front of me where I found the pistol, and I had convinced imyself that the crackling I had heard at my back, aud which was some dis Tance away at best, had been due to ‘nothing more than the wind. ‘At length, and with trembling fin- gers, I removed the paper from the stock of the weapon and stuffed it into my pocket, so that I could examine it Inter, and was about to rise nervously to my feet, when I again heant a slight Aisturbance ta the shrubbery to one ide of me and ae man a aoe ing stoalthily and ly on all STOCY-PRFKclS COLADBATION faised The Pst] and red at him point Dlank, but the cartridge failed to ex plode or else the chambers were ‘empty, and, with @ frantic shriek, I sprang to my feet and threw myself headlong upon him. He seemed entirely unprepared for this attack, but he made ao sound and strove manfuily to defend himself as 1 grappled at his throat and we rolled ‘over and over down the velvety lawn to the river. | 1 was considerably hanpered by my bvercoat and having no desire to go Anto the water with him, I relaxed my efforts somewhat, when, with almost superhuman strength and omitting a “ery that Indicated a desree of terror equal to my own, he tore himself from iy Kragp and sped away in the direc tion of the turnpike. | Feeling, now, that I was his master, I dashed madly after him, pulling off ty coat as I ran, and I was gaining Slowly upon him tn apte of the re doubled efforts that he made, whon, on ‘the sharp incline that let down to the road, he stumbled and foll and I was upon him again in a moment | My victory was short lived, however, for as he struggled flercely to free Rimself from my grasp and I, with equal fury, strove to choke or beat Rim into @ state of submission, we again rolled over and over in the grass until, as luck wonld hare tt. my leg caught in a strand of the barbed wire [fence that enclosed the property at ‘this outofthe-way potnt, and once more he succeeded in freeing himself and tore down the road in the direc- ‘tion of the village. | My clothing was tom and mud- stained, my hands ant face were bruised and bleeding, I ached tm every ‘Iimb and was well nigh ethausted with the furtous and protracted encounter, and I was hatiess and ecatiess into the Dargain, Dut I at least had one cause for congratulation. | In my second wrestle with my htth- erto unknown assailant I had beon ‘able to get a sufficiently good view of Ris face to identity him positively and, in spite of the remarkable protesta- tions of ignorance conceming the Car- ney-Croft mystery which I had heard him make to the widow only the night before, and which I waa now forced to delieve were but part of a little com- edy gotten up for my mecial delecta- cone ceeiete ee | than the long-euffering Jenks. _ CHAPTER Xxtv. Tne Decter Ennion 1. which I had found tle pint was brief and to the polat aud read ory ant Sokgek tide plated to. ii Ware's room. Be cautious, Got her I puzzled long and deeply over these hitherto unsuspected person into the case. Whom did the widow mean by ‘she? It could aot hae been Miss Weston, who was too iil to leave ber I was forced to believe, as the only posstble explanation, thit the pronoun referred to one of the servants in the house, This, to my mind, added ma- terially to the gravity of the affair, for if unknown members of the domestic staff were concerned In the matter there was no telling how far the con- 'spiracy might reach nor to what pur pose ft was carried on. Thad become so accustomed to mys terious happenings of this sort, and my head was so filled with visions of Miss Carney, and with the words I ‘was now determined (0 say to her, that no impression coud have been made on my mind by anything short of & most startling phenomenon. As I have said, the message was evidently intended for Jenks and was from the widow, who, it seemed equal- Vy clear, ether was or bad been in the subterranean passage holding com ‘Verse with its loathsome inhabitants, From my window I could see that ‘there were no lights in her cottage, and I was on the potot of venturing forth again and, from 4 safe distance, watching the pit until sho emerged and started for home, when a realize tion of my physical ethaustion took hold of me snd I pdojted the wiser plan of remaining in my room ‘The night was far from restful, and at the first gitmpse of daylight I dressed and returned to the manhole. ‘There was @ light fall of snow on the ground and I wus not surprised to see ‘that someone had climbed out of the shaft and gone across the lawn toward the Bruce house, but the lid of the Tmanhole was seourely fastened down as before. In my efforts to raise tt, or at least to assure myself that it was locked, ! found, at the sides, two openings tn ‘the grating larger than the others and, ‘sipping my revolver casily back and forth through one of these, I was no longer at a loss to understand how it had appeared so mysteriously the night before. It was quite evident that it had been passed up through the opening and turned until it lay fiat on the grating, the person below doubtless mistaking me for Jenks and misconstruing my efforts to raise the lit into a signal from the stage driver that he had ar rived and was awaiting orders. That 1 @id not understand this simple Rasneurer from the fret aad appre ciate the situation at a glance was WMitwmw: Ce ees ee be THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. | Beaty mee a IP: CL aes i 5 ‘PRR Qe : | gem aay =A ys Pe ii. = = _ | yy ie » ~ SI = Ki po, 4) Ne ‘ ' DS iter. Sure to arrive on time. De eee et ee eee ne “CARNEY.” This message was dated New York and, apparently, had been transmnitted thence from the cable over the local wire to CarmeyCroft. It must hare been tn response to my dispatch of the previous dey and served to set my mind at rest a to the where abouts and purposes of John Carney, which had beon troubling me tn an im definite way for some time past. The only thing now left for me to do scemed to be to remain virtually pas- sive until he arrived, keeping a sharp watch on things, but taking no post. tive steps in bis absence unless un- foreseen elreumstances arose to call for immediate netion. My chiet desire was ‘> sce Miss Carney and make clear tc her my feelings, but this seemed to be out of the question, as she remained consantly with Mise Weston and no longer camo to an meals or showed herself about. the The country was fast taking on the mantle of white under which it was to sleep for so many long weeks, and it was with a comfortable shiver that I entered the Hbrary, just before lunch oon, and strode up to the fire to war my hands and toast my shins and back succesal vely. I found Miss Weston's physictar simtlarly engaged and asked him so- Ucitously concerning his patient His face clouded and I even thought I naw a tear in the corner of his eyo, for, Ike all doctors with the right kind of stuff in them, familiarity with bu man suffertng bad only warmed bis heart und softened his natu T had hoped,” he continued, “that young Carney’s return would have a good effect on her, but when we told her of the message that came this aing she only drew the sheets over her face and broke down complotely Thers {s something more to this, 3f Ware, than the mere absonce of hor sweetheart, but what it is I cannot “Then you know nothing of the mys tery of Carney-Croft?” I asked cau tiously, closing the door and speaking “The ery of Carney-Crott!” he exclaimed tn bewtldered surprise and then his tace relaxed and he emtled pleasantly as be said: “Oh! you mean the ghost stories that were told about here after Mr. Carney died?” “Well,” I returned, “ghosts or some thing of the sort were really seen about the place, were they not?” His smile broadoued as he repled: “Oh, yes, some of the boys did rig themselves up tn sheeta and play spook for « time, until I took a hand in it myself and drove them out. I Was going to send you word about It but I found tt was only @ lot of boytsh pranks, and that they hada’ done any harm beyond getting tnto the old tun- nel by the river, and, of course, that didn’t amount to anything.” “The old tunnel!” I exclaimed tm well-felgned surprise. “Is there # tun nel by the river?” “You never heard of tt, of course,” he wont on, “and I fancy nearty evory- one has forgotten it by this tima When Mr. Carney began to butld here he located hts house some 200 yards farther down the hill toward the wa ter. He had a plan of running a little tunnel from the cellar to the river 90 that ashes and other refuse from the house could be taken out that way and Rot clutter up the lawns or be oren from the windows. “Just as this work was partially completed the okt dam, some two miles up the stream, was demolished ‘And @ new one bulit aboot s mile be low, This raised the water level un tl the far end of his Seseg_es com. pletely submerged and so he gave up the scheme entirely and began a new collar quite a distance back from the first. The partly finished tunnel and the excavation for the original collar ‘were covered over and had. practically been forgotten by everybody except the boys, who used to dive down and swim tnto the hole in the summer. “Then, as I say, they got the idea ot playing ghost and would rua down the ‘ii In the moonlight with nothing on Dut @ sheet or a piece af old fish net which waved ont far out behind them. ‘When they got to the edge of the bank they would emit some sort of a ghost ty yell and dive down ovt of sight ‘Finally, when all the young girls tn the neighborhood began to get hye tories, I discovered what was going on and put & stop to tt by gtiing two or ‘three of the ringleaders a sound thrashing and installing a family of Deavers in the tunnel who vigorously attacked all future intruders.” ‘The doctor laughed beartily as he fintsbed his ittle tale and concluded ‘by saying: “There have been occasional rumors of ghost sinco then, I know, but I ancy that 1s the biggest mystery Car Crott ever had.” | cg Doster {returned serion i ao eee ee with Miss Weston, and the Bruce ‘woman, who seems to be the head and front of the whole thing, has written Jetters to Miss Weston, and even to me, most of which contain vague ref- erences to Miss Carney and threats ‘that—" ° “The Brace woman written to you!” exclaimed the doctor. “Why, my dear ‘sir, it is impoes!bie! I have known the woman for « Cozen years and she cannot read a word or write a letter!” At that moment he was eummoned hurriedly to Miss Weston's room and I was hande¢ « telegram from Mao Ardel which reac “Keep away trom that hole and do nothing til! you set my letter. Your Mife may depend on tt Wire if you wish me to come.” The messenger was waiting and, with no thought of the letter to which he referred, but only to hasten the time when some one would be with me to whom | could talk, I replied with the single word, “Come” CHAPTER Xxv. A Drive in the Storm. A moment later the doctor returned hurriedly to the library for his medt- eine case and sald “I wish we could get consultation here in the country,” he continued, measuring out some powders with a critical alr and depositing them on dite of paper which he had cut for the Purpose. “Most of the deaths in this part of the world are from accident or Old ago, and « man with a large clty practice and ertcastve hospltal expe. Hence might possibly suggest some means of proionsing her life for time. We cannot hope to save her, Dut I wish wo could keop her till Car Bey comes.” “TI have telegraphed my friend Mac- Ardel to com: and help me solve the mystery of the place.” I ventured cau- tlously, not x to burt his pro- fessional pricy “You know he was with me here iast summer and we had & number of very peculiar experiences then, so he knows a good deal about tt already thought wo could work togeth« vantage, Perhaps he could be of service to you at the same time.” The very man!” exclalmed the doe- tor. “T kn well by reputation. When will he arrive? “It my wire \s delivered promptly he can got here cs the midnight train,” 1 replied. “I know he will start at once, for I sent for him at his own sugges: ion, In response to a letter from me telling Bim o! the tunnel aftate, and T think he ha: some very definite the- J “Sunt the thing!" erled the doctor, picking up the powders and hurrying reere tae Siete: kaise } minute he sets foot In the house. I shall be liere all night AS he left the room 1 strove to col- lect my scattered thoughts aad deter mine tho present aspect of the situa tlon. If the widow could not write, who, in heaven's name, did send the motes? It did mot appear probable that the doctor was wrong in what he had sald, and, moreover, the statement served to explain the merriment of Jenks when I had accused her directly | of being the author of the letters, StiN, she had assumed all responal bility for them, which was tantamount to writing them as far as thelr prac- tleal features were concerned, and I nally decided that if Gey were not her own work they must have been written at her dictation, which really amounted to the same thing T pent the afternoon in the Ibrary, hoping that I might see Miss Carney and at least offer her my sympathy 1a her present trouble, even if I said no moro at this time, but she did not come dowa stairs during the entire day, and at dinner abe sent me word by Mrs. Randolph that Dr. MacArdel would be very welcome, not only be- cause I had asked him to come, but for himseit as well, and in the hope that he might be of benefit to Miss Weston. The storm bad tncreased steadily all day but. in spite of its fury and the @rifte that were piling up and block ing the roads at every point, Y an- nounced my determination to go with ‘the sleich to meet MacArdel. “You'd better not try to bring three people back through the drifts,” satd the doctor, who bad just come in for & bite and @ cup of coffee. “You can’t drive two horses to advantage in this Weather, and if you insist upon going why don't you take my mare and cut- ter and go alene? She's been in the stable all day and she knows every inch of the road, so if you just give her her head she'll bring you through all right. You'd better take my storm coat and gloves, too, for you'll find the wind pretty cold after you've been in ita dit” — Although I had but two miles or thereabouts to travel from the house to the rallway station I made an early start and had the horse at the door before ten o'clock. The doctor came down to see me off and gave me s few parting words of advice As I opened the door it was almost blown out of my hand by the force of the wind and great sheets of snow and sleet came sailing tn, under the prote- cochere and half way down the hall. I bundled myself up in the doctor's As I opened the door it was almost blown out of my hand by the force of the wind and great sheets of snow and sleet came sailing in, under the prote- cochere and half way down the hall. T bundled myself up in the doctor's ‘great fur coat and surrounded myself with bis rugs and then, bowing my head to the fury of the gale, I did as I had been told, and let the mare take her own gait and pick her own ‘way to the train. ‘The train was 40 minutes late and, after putting my horse in the stable and bianketing her comfortably in ac- cordance with the doctor's instruc- tions, { returned to the station and Paced restlessly up and down the wait ing room, now and then peering anx. fously through the frostcoated win dows in a childlike way, as if my eyes could penetrate the blackness of the ae and see for miles down the : track. Sa a Finttiy, as the time arrival drew one of Pex tg Ser eee eee: mtly ob ‘Served dnd so incomprehensible © the ‘average individual, suddenly picked (“Up a lantern and strode out on the ‘platform. The heavy rumble of the oncoming locomotive and the faint ‘Squeal of {ts whistle struck my ears at the same instant and, looking out, I ‘Saw its single bleary eye gleaming dimly in the distance as it plowed on through the whirling sleet. 1 was about to go out on the plat- form myself when the station master called me to the telephone apd the doctor at Carney-Croft said hurriedly: “I suppose the train is late but get MacArdel here as soon as you can if you want him to see her alive. It won't be many hours now and it may be—" ‘There was a snap and a buzzing sound for an instant and I knew that the wire was down, In another moment MacArdel was by my side, and as soon as we could ket the lantern lighted and the mare out of the stable we started on our wild drive to Carney-Croft. CHAPTER Xxvi. ‘Sie Mie nne iat ean: I lashed the panting beast until “Rreat welts stood out on her sides and her hide was lathered with foam, while we dasked along in the blinding storm and finally galloped through the gate way and up the winding road toward the house. The snow was drifting heavily and MacArdel leaned over the aide of the sleigh and held the lantern close to the ground so that I could see such little traces of the road aa re mained or we would have been ditched ‘& dozen times in our mad race to the dying girl. Suddenly, as we neared the house, and at a place where the drifts were deeper and the exhausted horse strur- gled heavily in her effort to make her way on, a man sprang out of the sleet and, grasping the animal by the head, threw her backward with almost su. perhuman strength and brought us to & standstill, A ae oe a ee eek = bs Noi x) Beer > ETT, What do you mean!” I shouted, n't strike, Mr. Ware!" he gasped t's ri You remember Bot Let us pass, Bobbs!” 1 exclaimed angrily, losing my astonishment in ar to reach the house. “Tl you axatn, Bobs! It's the doctor here, for Miss Weston!” 1 know, sir.” he panted, “and it's the doctor I want! She's gone, sir, and I'm afrald he's xoing, too. Come with me, for God's sake!” “Do you mean the's dead, Robbs?” I cried, a @ great lump rose in my throat “Yes, oh, yes!” he almost screamed. ‘The doctor can't do her no good! She died some half hour ago, and he's dying, too, I tell you! Have you no heart, sir? Ob, bring the doctor to him, in God's name! “Can wo drive?” I asked, suddenly reullzing the fellow's meaning and ap- preciating the usclessness of our go. ing on to the house. "No," he replied, “but it’s only a step, sir. I'l show you the way. Oh, T thought you would never come, sir!” We sprang out and, giving Bobbs the lantera, followed him through the snow to the side of the house on which Miss Weston's windows opened “He doesn't know she's gone yet,” said Bobbs, as he trudged along, lent ing our way as beat he could. “But he knows it must be soon, and he’s been waiting out here in the storm for over six hours.” We came to a tree, partly sheltered by some shrubbery around it, and there, leaning against its trunk was poor John Carney, tottering feebly for Support and gazing fixedly at the win- dow behind which lay the body of his loved one, “It's Mr. Carney, sir,” explained Bobbs, choking down a sob. “You ‘might not know him, sir, he’s changed ‘eo in the year and it's a long bit since you saw him last.” MacArdel made no move to go neat him and we stood there, I in expecta tion and MacArdel with an air of pro fessional scrutiny. Carney spoke, bul without tarning his head.” “I know you, Ware,” he said slowly ‘and painfully, raising his voice feebly to make it heard above the fury of the storm. “You have been good to Flor ence and so to me—and—I thank you T can't say more than that, Ware, bu my thanks are heartfelt.” He paused and seemed to choke for an instant before he resumed: “You must pardon me, Ware, for al the trouble I've made you'and for th worry that Florence has bad to suffer but I was too sure of myself when | thought I could frighten you awa; ‘with the ghosts that Bobbs and I man ‘ufactured and the letters that I haé him write you. No one knew we wer here but Hobbs’ good mother, anc she’s been more than a mother to me Mare, (Tos simet seer iat ler: way for anything as long as she Iives. She ‘and Bobbs must be well pro ee a Pe aaa himself and went on, though mo? feebly and with greater effort than be- fore: “I know I was foolish to do this, Ware, but at first I fancied I could stay here and keep out of sight of the authorities and then, when I needed exercise, we thought of the ghosts as ‘& means of keeping people away and giving me more freedom.” He had not taken bis eyes from the window in all this tine and the snow was falling so heavily that we were covered thickly with tts soft, fleecy ‘mantle. Again be began to speak while we stood as men entranced, but his voice was even weaker than before and it was with diMcuity that we could make out al? that he said. “I'll be gone soon, Ware, and you must keep it all from the people and have me buried at once. You know there would be a panic if they knew, and yet there would be no danger in this climate. It's only when you live right in the midst of it, Ware, and have it on all sides of you all the time, as I did in Hawai, trying to help those poor souls in their sufferings. “There's no danger, Ware, to any. one and yet, if they'd found me rd have been penned up somewhere like & wild beast, and I couldn't bear {t. I know I was foolish over it, and that 1 probably could have bought my free- dom in a way, but once we got settled here 1 wanted to stay In peace. You know we never bothered you with the ne se r= es sie —S 2 ke SE OEE pe Za Eze Z ; SS 55, 5 <=ZZE ZZ GY ce A -- Za “ LIES ey LOZ Z LEE Age, re i ES EZ SEEN = z ee Leaning Against Its Trunk Was Poor Sahu Gaaae. ghosts after Florence came back, and I had Hobbs send you that one last Rote in a faint hope that you would fg away again. | “Bobs wrote to Annte for me, too, telling her to talk with Mrs. Bruce and try and persuade you to go, but she ‘only begged to see me and insisted on Keeping As near to me ax she could. Of course, I could not see her, Ware but she used to write me every day and leave the letters on the window wasn't able to answer them, Ware, for 1 am pertectly helpless now, you /know,” and he changed his position J enough to show us two arms swathed in bandages, “but God only knows what a comfort they were to me, and | Hobbs or his mother got a word to her from me whenever they could | He was panting nolsily from the et. fort of his long exertion, and Bobbs would have him atop, but Carney mo- | tioned him away and began once more in faint, disjointed words | “I mustn't stop now, Bobbs. I have /more to say and my time ls growing short | He Ieaned heavily against the tree ‘for support and paused as if summon. ing to his ald all his energy and all bis courage, and then xasped on: | “He good to Florence when she }comes to you, Ware, and—God's— 7 blessing—on you—both.” Suddenly, and with a mufed sob, | be lunged forward and ratsed his poor distorted arms toward the window, | which his gaze had never lett for an ‘instant. One of the nurses appeared and raised the sash to the top, letting the bitter wintry air rush in and fill the death chamber. “It’s the end,” moaned Carney, in a ‘scarcely audible tone. “It’s the end, and yet the beginning, too. Oh! my God, be kind—be good to me now. I cannot wait—my Annie—I—am—com- ing — I — Ware — by — her — side — Ware — by — her — side — Ware — don't — forget. I — cannot — harm — her — now — I — Annie — my — precious — Our — Father — who — art — Amen — my Annie.” As we sprang to support him the light of the lantern flashed across his cruelly disfigured face and MacArdel muttered in my ear: “Leprosy—poor devil, just as I thought, but what he sald was true, Ware. ‘There's no danger to anyone here.” | We lowered him gentty to the ground and the rapidly drifting snow “Fecetved him fn its soft enbrace and ‘covered him over like @ shroud. | Some hours tater, when the house was quiet for the night and MacArdel } had retired to his room, I called Bobbs into the dimly Hghted library and said: } ‘It’s late, I know, Bobs, and we are all worn out in mind and body, but | L want you to tell me the rest of this story before you go.” There's Uttle to tell now, sir,” said Bobbs, bravely keeping back his tears. “We lived either in my mother's house or in the old cellar with the tunnel that leads to the river.. Mrs. Bruce ts my mother, sir, and my name is Rob- ert Bruce, but in the old country they used to call me “Bobs,” sir, atter Lord Roberts, you know. 5 “Mother helped take care of Mr. Carney, str, and washed bis things and had to go to the cellar to stay as we when you ¢ ‘rearin as you | might seo us at the | Mr. Jenks eae eee ee when ed enough to eat stored away for 4 Se eee ee 5 G Er Soe eet wan ioe ones ube ae! aaa Jenks would take them. He di know we were here at all, str, | wants to marry mother, you k an $0 he'd do whatever she told | “Was it Jenks who told you when I cabled to Europe?” I asked. “You must have known of it very soon to have answered it so promptly.” “Yes, sir," replied Bobbs. “You see, air, he’s at the station every day, and ‘& message to England made such = sensation that they were ali talking of it, str. When I told Mr. Carney about it, sir, he satd I should answer it as I did, so I wrote at once to my ccusin in New York, who'd been attending to ‘the letters for us, sir, when they were sent on from London.” “How did you make the ghosts ap- bear so well, Bobbs?” I asked. “They ‘seemed to fairly float in the air.” | “Oh, that was this way, sir,” sald Bobbs. “When Mr. Carney got so that he couldn't walk, on account of his feet being so bad, sir, he got some of those cycle skates with the big rubber wheels and we used to exercise with “em at night, on the paths, cir. They'd ‘go right over the leaves and grass, ‘too, if tt was pretty sharp down hill— We always went to the river, air, when we were trying to get away, so that we could dive into the mouth of the old tunnel, if need be. We never had to do it but once. That was the time You and the other gentleman first saw. us, sir. Most generally the folks would be so frightened that they would run, and then we could drop behind a bush And take off the sheets, ike we did the night you had mother and Mr. Jenks down by the path, sir.” “But about the notes and the cigar ease, Bobbs? How did you manage that?” T asked. Bobbs teartully produce@ a small monkey, not much larger than a kit- ten, from one of his pockets and, stroking the little animal affectionate- ly, he said with emotion: “It was Chico, str. Mr, Carney brought him for a pet and he is almost human, sir, and will do anything you tell him: He's so aly, str, that he can pick your pocket tn broad daylight, sir, and you'll never find him out. 1 don't know about the clear case, air, but the day after you came lest summer he got away and must have been in the Ubrary, where you and the other gen- tleman were looking for something. After you'd gone to the village, sir, 1 found him under one of the big chairs, clinging to the bottom, and scared half out of his wits as he al- ways §s after he's been playing pranks. You see,” he explained, “I had a key to the Kitchen door and could get in and out asI pleased until you had the new locks put on.” “Dobbs,” I said, ralstng from my feat, “I want to ask you one more Question before you go. Do you re- member the first note that you seat me? The one Chico bronght when he climbed up the ivy {nto my window last summer?” “Yes, sir,” said Bobs, briety. Well. how did you happen to aay what you did in that note?” asked. “Mr. Carney told me to say it, of course, sir,” replied Bobbs. “Do you know why he did so? I continued “Yes, slr." sald Bobbs, “I was tm the house watching you the day you came, sir, and when you pleked up that glove of Miss Carney’s and kissed {t, sir, I told him of it. Then he’said t should write the note as I did, sir, and that you'd make a good husband for her and he hoped you would marry her, sir.” “That will do, Bobs,” I said. “Good night, my boy. I hope you'll get some sleep.” 1 sat down once more by the dimly burning lamp and, taking the glove from my pocket, I kissed it gently again and again. A slight sound cs J ot "a | | Mn caused me to raise my eyes and I saw Florence Carney standing, with out- stretched bands, in the shadow of one of the bookcases. I sprang toward her and, sobbing softly, she nestled in my arms, with hers entwined about my neck. The only guest at my bachelor din- ner, on the eve of my marriage, was MacArdel, and, as we were sipping our coffee, he exclaimed: “By the way, Ware, you owe me this dinner. You remember our little ‘wager last summer, don’t you?” “I remember it very well, indeed,” I replied with a smile, “but it hasn't Deen decided tn full. You don’t know tt, old man, but I haven’t proposed to her yet,” and we tossed a coin for the bin. ‘THE END. A Mean Teacher. Mrs. Gadd—Aare you goin’ to send Ute Jack to Mrs. Thorn’s school again? aig Mrs. Gabb—Indeed, 1 won't He went to her all last’ year, pala her $60 for it, and the mean, stingy thing didn't give him @ single prise, ot one, and they don't cost but & of + elther"—N. THE PLANET SATURDAY ... JULY 20, 1907 WIDOW WEARS FALSE TEETH OF HUSBAND WIDOW WEARS FALSE TEETH OF HUSBAND REMOVES PLATES JUST BEFORE FUNERAL AND HAD DENTIST REMOUNT THEM. Janesville, Wis.—Economy is a marked characteristic of Mrs. August Kramer, a thrifty little 60-year-old widow who lives near Fort Atkinson. Twenty years ago Dr. A. P. Burrus, of Janesville, made a set of false teeth for her husband, consisting of upper and lower plates. For 18 years these teeth served all purposes and would undoubtedly have lasted 50 years had not Mr. Kramer died two years ago. Just prior to placing the body in the casket Mrs. Kramer asked that her husband's false teeth be removed as A man is lying on a table and a woman is sitting behind him, both wearing formal attire. The man is holding the woman's hand, while the woman is leaning forward with her arms crossed. The background features a wall with a mirror and a window with floral patterns. The Teeth Were Removed for Future Use. she would soon be obliged to purchase some. Her request was complied with and Mrs. Kramer arrived in Janesville with the full set of plates. She called upon Dr. Burrus, informing him that she desired to have them remade to fit her and the request was granted. When she left the dental office she said that she hoped that the teeth would make her feel 30 years younger, as she intended to soon again enter the matrimonial class. PRODUCES CHICKEN THAT TALKS Californian Crosses Parrot and Guinea Hen with Strange Result. San Jose, Cal.—After ten years of experimenting, Clinton H. Willis, a rancher on the Monterey road, has produced a chicken that can talk. The fowl is the sixth generation of a cross between a parrot and guinea hen, but in every characteristic except the lower half of its bill and the arrangement of its toes, the bird is a chicken. The upper half of the bill is straight like that of the guinea, while the lower part is clearly a parrot beak. Its toes are arranged two and two, instead of three and one as in the barnyard fowl. At present the chicken's vocabulary is limited to "Mornin' Clint," "Chaw terbaker, Clint," and a three syllabled swear word. The existence of the strange bird was learned this afternoon by the visit to San Jose of J. H. Middleton, a dime museum proprietor of Cincinnati, who offered $200 for the fowl. Willis refused the offer, as he will try to improve the breed and wishes to be known as the Burbank of the bird tribe. Why Called Trams "Abroad this summer," said a tourist agent, "you must call street cars trams, and street railways you must call tramways. If you speak of trolleys over there you won't be understood. "The word tram must puzzle the average etymologist. It derives from a man's name—Outram—Thomas Outram. "Outram lived in Derbyshire, and in the beginning of the last century he invented a peculiar sort of track that diminished the friction between wheels and roadbeds. These tracks of Outram's, though nothing like a trolley track, were called first outramways, then tramways, and when street lines and street cars came into existence they were dubbed respectively tramways and trams." Twelve Girls Adopt Baby. Des Moines, Ia.—Twelve young girls, members of university social circles, have adopted a baby. Barely three years old, Emily Haven has had a hard time during her short life, but now will have a happy one. The little girl has left the Iowa Children's home for the heartthides of her 12 young "mothers." Emily is to live with one foster parent a month or six weeks, then pass on to the home of number two, and so on around the circle until she begins over again. Painter Dies a Living Torch Christiana.—A house painter has met a terrible death under singular circumstances. He had left his work and was walking along Carl Johnson street, when, in order to light his pipe, he struck a match on his trous. ers. But his clothes, which were saturated with salts, took fire, and in a few moments the man was a living torch. He ran along the street uttering terrible shrieks. The wind fanned the flames, and when help arrived he was literally carbonized. DYING STATEMENT OF WOUNDED OUTLAW GIVES LIBERTY TO OKLAHOMIAN. HAD BEEN SENTENCED FOR LIFE Thrown Into Prison for Murder He Did Not Commit—Strong Circumstantial Evidence Brought About a Conviction. Guthrie, Okla.—Complete exoneration for a prisoner, who had served several months of a life term for murdering his friend, has resulted in the release from the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing of Al Harpster, an Oklahomaian, who was convicted on the charge of murdering Martin Julian, near Ponca City. Harpster's freedom was secured through the dying statement of Byron Cole, an Oklahoma outlaw, who when shot down in a fight with officers, confessed to the killing of Julian. Convicted on purely circumstantial evidence, Harpster was given a life sentence by Judge Bayard T. Halner, in the district court at Newkirk. He was tried, convicted, and taken to the penitentiary to remain for life. Forty-four days later in a battle with deputy sheriffs of Woods and Garfield counties, Byron Cole was shot and fatally wounded. Knowing that he would die, Cole made a statement, completely exonerating Harpster. The convicted man was brought back to Newkirk and was admitted to ball in $7,000. A new trial was granted him and as a result the jury declared him not guilty of the Julian murder. "I didn't kill Julian," Harpster said when notified regarding Cole's confession. "He was a good friend and comrade of mine for the two months I knew him before he was killed. It was reported that we were jealous over Dell Lewis, the girl he was riding with the night he was killed, but it isn't so. "Julian and I spent a part of the afternoon together before the night A Cole Confessed to Killing Julian. he was killed. We procured buggles and he took Dell Lewis and I took Nellie Edwards riding. We drove south of town from Ponca City and came back and then drove north of town. I was driving ahead of Julian and returned to Ponca City and had my horse in the livery barn at ten o'clock. Julian was not killed until 10:20. He was shot while driving through a strip of timber. After he was shot, Dell Lewis took him to a farm house where he died within three-quarters of an hour. "Julian made no statement implicating me. I was arrested after the shooting and was convicted merely on the evidence of a farmer, who swore he saw me driving in the neighborhood shortly before Julian was shot, and because the shoes I wore fitted in size the footprints of the man who shot Julian. It was all circumstantial evidence. Nellie Edwards, with whom I was driving, and four men at the livery stable were put on the witness-stance, and all swore that I returned the buggy to the barn before ten o'clock. The jury was out 48 hours before returning a verdict against me." The fight with the officers, in which Bryon Cole, the outlaw, was fatally injured, occurred near Ringwood, in Woods county. He was trailed to that point by Deputy Sheriff Campbell of Garfield county and Deputy Sheriff Burwell of Woods county. The officers had been searching for him for several weeks, and he was finally located in a wheat field, where the battle with Winchester took place. Although he fired several shots none of the officers was injured. In his dying statement Cole admitted that he had killed Martin Julian. He said that he attempted to hold up Julian, who was driving near Ponca City with Miss Delia Lewis, but that Julian resisted and he killed him. Cole also confessed to killing a man unknown to him in Colorado, and said that he had participated in a bank robbery in Denver, and in several train robberies in Colorado and Kansas. Accounting for it. Doctor—This patient has water on the brain. Nurse—Very likely: he's a railroad canalist—Baltimore American. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1 IF YOU WILL BORS AND INTER WE WILL HELP YOU IN ORDER TO YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR AND INTEREST THEM IN THE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A F ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE WE WILL SEND YOU AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSO GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE REPUBLICAN JOURNALS STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR WE WILL SEND YOU THE COSMOPOLITAN MAG PER YEAR FOR BOTH. 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Yuu oun send money in this aaa ‘be Fe le for Toney sent we foe entrees sapere rsa Eater abeen oa eet See Spisgay other op you Saas B'S Soe cae Semarins, ee —3F vk a not want ‘tun saeco recente me Es Portal Gerd to disscnstaaeis: The sorte hey PO a teenies paper Seed ate ce seme feat he ctee tes Sea Heli fii tor le ayoeat ofthe saat Ein epine wines By cedar be pope Comvrsrearions Whee writing 40 otto see er poets a ecemente ome ECR therwise we cannot Srl your oameon <r Ganges Ge Astunss.Ds acter shinee atten Cameenecie ater ene Stammenweersisseatnshiece Reiece othe Fost One ot Richmond We. Seine eee ee SATURDAY ......8ULY 20, 1907 Dr. Booker T. Washington is tak Ang a rest, It ts said, but his opposer are working overtme. The War Department has made a “Dreyfus” of the colored soldiers of| the army. President Roosevelt is a great peace-maker. He should try his hand on this branch of the ser- vice. ‘The one fact is evident to al! ob- Servers and that ts great principles are eternal and temporary exped- fents are fleeting. Some people are endeavoring to reverse the order of the universe In order to pander to race prejudice. / If the government expects to build the Panama Canal, pay the over- drafts of the Philippines and buy up the railroads, it seems to us that we will be in about the position of a country that meets defeat after the prosecution wf a ten year war. ‘There is much talk about the “un- written law.” The colored peope fuave been the victims of the “un- written law” for an hundred years. It that policy is recognized and the colored folks actively subscribe to tt there will be many vacant chiairs in the homes of white people in the Southland. Oh, yes, the colred folks He the white folks of the Southland, just Uke a wife loves the husband who gives tier periodic beatings. She will pay his fine in the Police Court and let him go hoime again to give her another dose of the same “med- ieine.”” President Roosevelt is indeed streuuous. The most enthusiastic advocates of his policies are now dis- posed to call a halt and ask what will he propose next. The Wall Street Journal has been standing up for him through evil report as well as good, but it seems to be slowing down in its commendation of his pol- icles. The citizen that can follow President Roosevelt without a halt or & misgiving is thoroughly qualified for the position to follow anything this side of Heaven. Governor James K. Vardaman says bc aac septa agen e he spoke the truth. It would be sacrilegious to speak too plainly of our Saviour, but we would suggest that a fight and no quarter would be the proper method of deal- ing with the sinners of the Vardaman type. He can't trust him as a pris- oner of war. The best way is to Kill him on sight and let the Devil carry hm off and erect a monument to his memory. _ It is now reported that President Roosevelt has decided upon a modi- fied form of government ownership of railroads. He proposes that the pational goyernment shall go into the market and purchase controlling Interests in these lines or enough to give government officials represen- tation upon the directorate of the va- rious lines in this country. Jt is hinted thst by this method much information not now availa- bie under the usual modes of pro- cedure would be open to the govern- ment. This last position of the President has created a sensation second only to the open dectarations of Hon, W. J. Bryan of Nebraska. ‘The ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in the cases brought before it in behalf of colored plaintiff's has caused no end of em- harrassment in deciding some of these railroad cases. It has held et interstate passengers are sub- Ject to state laws and now the rail- toad companies doing an interstate business are businly engaged in us- Ing all of the persuasive eloquence a- vailable to upset this view of the sit- uation. | ‘The states have suddenly become hostile for the reason that the ship- pers have secured controliing inter- ests in the several legislatures. The railroads were denied the right to is Sue free passes and many of the beneficiaries of this mode of travel are of the opinion that the raflroads were directly responsible for this new phase of a most interesting sit- uatlon. Mr. 0. M. Steward thinks we should go to Africa, If we are to fudge by is reasoning. Tuere are some Negroes about here that Wo would Ike to see slipped to Af- rica or somewhere else. They injure us In the estimation of the white folks and handicap us in every le- gitimate endeavor to xo upward. Send them to Africa and the sooner the job is xecomplished the better It will be for those of us who remain pettnd. We would like to hear some yroposal made as to the best place to send Senator Tillman of South Carolina and Governor Vardaman of Mississippi. Hell was the last place proposed, Dut that would be rather crite! at this season of the year especially tn view of the fact that they and thet kind are going there anyway when ‘they stop breathing In this wotld. How would it do to send them to the North Polo or as near to It as they can get with Explorer Wellman and Perry? No one would have believed forty Years ago that influential journals would openty declare that the De- claration of Independence was faulty and that the self-evident trath an- nounced by Thomas Jefferson, that all men are created equal would be the subject of ridicule at the hands of some of the very people who have ppofited by the privileges accorded by this most wonderful instrament. Even so influential a journal as the Washington, D. C. Post, under the shadow of the National Capital of the nation and almost within a stone's throw of the White House ““pooh-poohs” the idea of creative e- quality. These people seem to for- get In giving voice to this doctrine, they are undermining the fundamen. tal principles of this republic. If Jefferson was wrong, then the prin. ciple on which the United States of America was established is wrong. ‘There is a teadency to ape English manners and customs and to sub scribe to the constitutional tenets o the Old World. These people want Ja class of serfs and they constantl revolt against the idea of havin; other men recognized as thelr equals ‘There is a concerted effort in this city to place this city in the controt of a municipal commission. It seems that the affairs here have gone from bad to worse and the property owner and business men are groan- ing under the evident mismanage- ment which has :esulted since the el evation of the white man's party to power. It will be remembered that the hewspapers of this city and a large Proportion of the influential white Jeaders advocated the elimination jof the Negro,—the practice of evil that good may come. The result has been disastrous. The men who took the places of the colored lead- jers have not measured up to the standard and they have given no end of trouble. ‘The white contingent now advo- cate a further ellmination and this time the white ran is to be the sub- THE RICHMONDSPLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. colored man is not there now to be amputated. We have regarded with amusement all of these efforts to se- cure purity from a field of impurity. ‘The basic principles of right and Justice must be recognized or the city will continue to wallow Im the mire of its own stupidity, the Sith of its own folly A WORD ABOUT SENATOR FORA- KER. aaa | ‘Our esteemed and able contempo- rary, the New York Age seems to. be ‘of tne opinion. that ete land his board of trustees politics into the commencement ex- erelses by inviting Senator Joseph B. Foraker to deliver the address. We fail to seo it in that light, As we understand it, Senator Foraker was tnvited to deliver the address and be chose his subject to sult himself, We have been unable to see that a iscussion of the facts in the Browns ville Investigation carrled with it any political significance. Senator Foraker took the time to Say that the colored troops had not been proven guilty. He spoke as the representative of the people of Ohio and because the “other fellow,” who wants to be President had taken the opposite course is no concern of the average citizen. It should ‘bot be forgotten that no public of- bees of the prominence of the distin- Bulshed Senator from Ohio could have been invited to speak on such an occasion without being charged with political bias. ote hate watatea| Saaaile bees ker's course and we confess that we ‘have seen no indications that he waa desirous of doing other than justice to the faithful black soldier of this country, Every right that we have ever en- Joved came to us through polities and every privilege that we have lost may be charged up to the same channel #0 we cannot see that Wilberforce has any cause to make apologies for its action, President Roosevelt has been making politica! speeches from the hustings, educational institutions colleges and if he ever gets the chance, he will do the same in the churches by way of an alleged ser- mon. Mr. Roosevelt fs not alone in this mode of procedure for Hon. William Jennings Bryan and even Senator Benjamin Tillman are noted for this Kind of political canvassing. We do not believe that Wilberforce will be tsar. It will be benefited. Son- ator Foraker spoke on a subject, watch attracted universal attention and one which every one wished to hear. Ho did the Arfo-Americans of Uils country a great service and We are satisfed that the key note sounded there will echo and re-echo over this broad land for many years tocome. ,, If these white fol want peace, let them restore our “Dreyfuses” to the army, END IN SIGHT. In Maywood Murder ‘Trial Roth Sides Ment. BOISE, Ida, July 17.—Startiing de- velopments came in the trial of Wi- linm Haywood for the murder of Frank Steunenberg when the state began its rebuttal evidence. One witness con- fessed to participation in a labor riot resulting In the death of two men. ‘The record of conviction for murder in the second degree of a witness for the defense was introduced, and the proof of another having been sent to the insane asylum on the information of his neighbors was offered. Its ad- missibility was argued, and the dect- sion of the court will be handed down shortly, A warrant for perjury was issued in @ magistrate’s court against Dr. 1 L. MeGee, a physician, of Wallace, Ida., who Was one of the witnesses for the defense. Sherif J. W. Bailey of Shoshone county, who swore to the in formation against McGee, left for Wal lace to arrest McGee. ‘The end of the trial of Haywood, charged with the murder of and con- spiracy to murder Frank Steunenberg, 1s now within measurable distance ‘The case will now enter its tent! ‘week of bearing. Both sides have rest ed, and the rebuttal has begun. HEARST WINS AGAIN. Fight For Recount of New York's Mayoralty Vote In 1908. NEW YORK, July 17—William R. Hearst won another battle in his fight for a recount of the votes cast In the mayoralty election of 1905 when the appellate division of the supreme court handed down a.decision denying the application for a writ of prohibl- tlon against the recounting of the bal lots. The court was divided on the ques. tion, Justices Gaynor, Hooker and Rich joining in « refusal to grant the application, while Justices Jenks and Miller dissented from the opinion of the majority, Justice Gaynor, who wrote the opin. fon for the majority, sald the matter was a judicial one ‘and that it was competent for the supreme court to Pass upon it It is now belleved that Mayor Mc Clelian, who was represented by Ev- gene Largh Richards, will tae. the matter to the court of appeals. DIED FROM EXHAUSTION. W. D. Wynes Not a Victim of Black Hand. MOUNT KISCO, N. ¥., July 17.—In- ‘vestigation into the death of William he retired oe See eee e in ueis here aud who was Hand conspirators. ts faced te oon has conyiuced et embers of the family that the old map. who was elghty years of age, wandere’ off int the woods and died from exhaustion: Mr. Wynes disappeared from the house of his so inlaw, Charles M. Hubbell, on July 2. and oa July 11 bis son, William 8. Wynes of 158 Butler street, Brooklyn, got a Black Hand letter demanding £5,000 ransom, with @ threat to Kill the octogenarian unless the money was paid, It is belteved that this letter come from some per- son who knew the old man was mist ing aud who theucht fo extort some money from the fomily. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closings’ Stock Quotations, Money on call 3 oer cent: time money and mereantiie pe;-! unchanged in Fates Clonine prices. Amai Copper... #% N.Y. Centeat,..117% Atchison.resssc. Ss Nort. & Weat... 7 Boa On! Penn, RR... Brookiyy HO. 8 Rending 00.0. dm 6.0.0.8 BEL.. © Rock. Island... 2 Ges 4 Onion. St. Pauls... 185% Chi, & Northw.1¢\ Southern’ Pao... att Di& Hoi Southern Ry... ste Bete... 2s South, Ry. pe... OM Gen. Biceitie. 12. Sagar ors nc 3R88 Ti. Contral.--i)) Texas Pacite... a Lackawanna,...4°s Union Pneifie.. 18% Louls. & Nasii..ts U. 8 Steele. 38 Manhattan. UB. Steet pe. .100% Int-Met West. 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Paltieres Nas Narrow Escape From Death In Parts . PARIS, July 17—An attempt was made to o-assinate President Fak Heres he Leon Maiite, a naval re. Serviat of Havre, ‘The president eseap- ed unburt President Fallleres was being se claimed by the thou who throng: ed the streets when Malle from the: curd fired two shots port blank at him, Afiraculously no one was hit, and the president's earrings was bur: ried along Maile was arrested, and the police bad difficulty in preventing the crowd from lynehing Lim. The natiooal fete was marred by this dastantiy attempt on the life of President Fallferes by Maille. Tt is believed he is suffering from the ma- nia of persecution. Maille fired two shots at the president, but did not hit him. He wss at once placed under ar- rest. Premier Clomencean and M. Lanes, the presiloct’s secretary, were with the president tm bis Iaudan, which was escorted by a squadron of culras- slers. The carriage had safely emerg. ed from the Bols de Bologne, where the antiniiitarists had stationed them- ‘selves with the intention of hooting the soldiers, and was descending the broad Champs-Elysees amid the acclamation of the crowds thronging the sidewalks, who were shouting “Vive Fallieres!” and “Vive rarmee!” when at the cor- ner of Lesueur street Maille from the curb fired point blank at the prest dent. Some of the witnesses of the shoot ing sald that Maille fired in the air It ts believed that the man_partfcl Pated io the recent seamen’s strike and that his mind had been unhinged by fancie! grievances. It is belfeved also that he aided in the revolution Ary agitation of the Goneral Federa tion of Lavor and the antimilitarists ‘There ts no reason to suspect a plot a8 Maile only arrived here from Rou on esterday, AT UNGLE 6AM’S GATE. Russian ict In Sailors Guise Tries to Get Through. NEW YORK, July 17.—Hand over band in true sailor fashion a diminu- tive form in male attire came over the side of the Russian steamer Saratov, @ocked here, and at the end of the spring line @ropped plump tnto the arms of an immigrant inspector. Tho bold front and stout heart that had brought their possessor through many Derlls fa\led wnder the searching ingut- aition of the officer, and presently in & Sood of tears. stood revealed Miss Paulina Fiaks, stowaway, eighteen years old, bound from Kovno, Russia, for America and freedom. She will be sent back to Libau, her sailing port. Back of the arrest of the Flaks gir! is a story of immigrant smuggling that has made the immigration authorities ‘expecially “recently. Some time ago a 1 that undesirable aliens were belug larided illegally from Russian steamers led special tnapect- om to hold vp a party of Kustans found In the Grand Central station and later to return the whole party to Ellis island while a story secured from them could be investigated. These Russians deciared that through an or- ganized trafic. the prime mover in which had headquarters at Libau, a baltic seaport, forelgners who wonld be refused legal adiwission were smug: sled into this country. Standing of the Masehnll abs. NATIONAL LEAGUE. ibpleaiea ons nsnnssss RE Oa Rewrterd ce 2 Bitinwee $8 Punelsinia $ 8 g ieee 3 2 % Becta 8 $ 3 Srcnee nf og Seas Gee AMERICAN LEAGUE. Ghee Goce MR es pees ee eee ee New Tork .cccccccccc | len eee fe Steer 8 Be nests maria tae? PHILADELPHIA, July 17.—The grand lodge of Benevolent and Protec- fe Gui ott sie tee mee business sessions adjourned without tone aor ar aemeer a ted real te eetoen Tae ally conceded, however, that John K. ear ot Coan ase tee Sel Saag ae ee Ser caer eae ercceeesee Se cat bilayers tees oes CONDENSED DISPATCHES. BE nS eR a eee er Chronteted. | The conrt at Paris has’ ordered that Leon Maille, the naval reservist wh fired two shots at President Fallieres [be examined as to bis sanity. ‘Th rambling statements made by Maille confirm the impression that he is in The American tennis players at the Wimbledon courts, near London, 16: thelr chance of challenging for the Davis eup, the Inter al trophy, by Wright, American, succeeded tn win ning his match against A, F. Wilding Australasian, thus making the points equal. But Norman E. Brookes, Aus tralasian, was too much for Karl H Behr, American, who was elearly out played Tuesday, July 16. The wedding of Senator Bevertdse of Indiana and Miss Catherine Eddy of Chieago will take place on Aug. 7 al the American embassy in Berlin President Roosevelt has put his hearty approval on public school itl practice. In a letter of congratulatio: to Ambrose Schartenberg of Brooklyn winner of the shooting trophy of the Public School Athletic lengue, he takes ‘occasion to encourage the system of ‘rifle practice Inaugurated by Genera George B. Wyngute The clubhouse and pert of the grand stand at the American league baseball park at Washington was dostroyed by fire last night, and a number of smal bulldings were damuged. The fire brok Jout in the Maryland House, atthe | baseball park besides the grand stand er portions of the park were dam | agest. ‘The lous 18 $20,000 | President Roosevelt spent the night }in the open on the sound shore at Lloyd's Nock. With him were his. sox . 1 three of thetr bey cousins, For he president has made tt a '? © to spend a night elther tn the | woods or on the shore with his boys, Fant the night plente, as it {s called | has crown to be for them a real climax | of delight tn the summer vacation. Monday, Jely 15. seal on his greatness by winning the leap of $25,000 at Brighton Beach. The sound steamboat Shinnecock ot the Montauk Steamboat company’s line and a steam yacht ran ashore at Hart Island In a dense fog. They were tloat ed without damage, Saturday, Joly 13. Twenty-three lumber merchants were sent to the workhouse for six months by Judge Lindley W. Morris ut To- Into, ©, and nine brickmakers were each fined $1,000, The men were for inerly in a trust and violated the Val entine antitrust law, Cartis Smith, one of the tmportant witnesses in the trial of James Hargis for the murder of Dr. B.D. Cox, was murdered at Elkatawa, Ky. He was enticed into a canl game, and soon a row was started. Sinith drew his re volver when he realized that he had been trapped, but it was too late, He was shot three times in the breast. Fridey, July 12. Seven mine workers, all Italians were killed in an abandoned slope of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal com: pany at Honeybrook, Pa., by deadly white damp. Three others are miss ing. | A Japanese has been arrested at Fort | Rosecrans, San Diego, Cal., while mak || ing drawings of the fort Major Get ‘| chell, in command, said that the Jap was drawing plans of the fort and that there is heavy puuishment for the of | fense, Thareday, Joly 11. King Edward and Queen Alexandrs paid @ visit of state to Dublin, bott wearing the national colors of Erin. Almost the first visitor received by '| Admiral Baron Gombey Yamamoto, Ja pan’s minister of marine during th '] Russo-Japanese war, on his arrival a |New York was Rear Admiral Robie; )] D. Evans. | Florence Wood, sister of Laura Car '} ter, the woman of the New York Ten "| derloin who caused the arrest of Ches ;|ter B. Runyan, paying teller of th \} Windsor Trust ‘company, and who { || suspected of having got $25,000 of th “| $96,000 the man stole, hts been arrest } | od in Chicago on the theory that som | Of the lost money te in ber possession, d ger San Diewo Spr. ; ‘July 15.—General Terauch! the minister of war, in an intorviev | here contradicting the reported arres of & es San Diego, Cal — Sees eaeary at |} officer or y to Soe snarl aga dade cai caine General Alikhanof Bown to Ptoces Alerandropol. * ALEXANDHOPOL, Kussia, July 17, —Geueral Alikhunof, former governor general of Tiflis: Mme. Gilebor. wite of General Gliebof, and the coa. aan who was driving their carringe vere blown to pieces by bomb« thrown at thelr conveyance In the main street here. ‘A son of General Alikhano® and a daughter of General Gliebom received serious injuries. The party were returning to the resl- deuce of General Altkhanot from his club and were passing throug Rebou- tof street when the bombs were hurl. ed. Goderal Aitkhinet yas nicknamed “the wild beast” by the Caveasien members of the lower bouse of par- HMament, who often referred to hls cris elties In the Kutsis district, where he led a number of punitive expeditions to stamp oft diaters. His rigorons methods fo this end brought down up on him the bitter enmity of the revo Tutioniste, Dincovera Rurled Clty. HEREFORD, ‘Tex, July 15.—Pro- fesor T. Te Bverly, un archacologist nd instructor in the Canadian college at this place, has discovered a burled city iu Ochiltree county. in the north- ern part of the Panhandle, tibute eee Ee NEW YORK, July 16.—The -hend- quarters of local 16 of the Commercial Telegraphers' union were thrown Into a state of white hot excitement by the statement by the officers of the union that W. E. Demarest, who had neted as a clerk for 8. J. Small, national prest dent, while the latter was at the Astor House, lind becn found to be a Pinker. ton detective. HORNET, BUMBLEBEE AND SPAR. ROW MEET AND FIGHT TO THE DEATH. TWO FORMER START BATTLE Bird Comes Along and Becomes Mixed Up in Fray—ie Swollen to Twice Its Normal Size, ‘Then Wsslees. New York.—"The flercest fight I ever saw took place in the alr. The combatants were a hornet, a bumble- bee and a sparrow. All the Hagues in history couldn't have stopped it.” There was nothing In the appear- ance or manner of the man who made the statement to indicate that he was otherwise than truthful. The gath- ering that had beon talking of cham- pions and knockouts and gate money stopped and stoned, “I was on the porch of my house, chinking up for the summer, when the hornet cue along,” continued the man, who saw that he was expected to make good his statement. “He was building a nest there and I watched hita on several trips carry- tng material, “A few minutes later a humblebee of unusual size and Urilliaat color took @ buzz about the premises, His buzz was deep toned and earnest. “I'm an out o'door man, and 1 have always noticed that headen collisions between aerial naviguiors are almost unknown. 1 wonder that humans haven't imttated these flyers more than they have fn this respect. “I was surprised, however, to see that in the case I am telling you about the horuet aad the bumblebee dodged each other several times. ‘That's what made me quit my own job and take notice. 1 soon discovered that the bumbfebee was intent upon invading the nast of the hornet, but only when the hornet was absent, “The bumbler was evidently on tho lookout, for as soon as the hornet showed up he flew in another direc. a eee” aa | ye ARE ay La? ym TS & Ey ay) aM A ‘on ee, | we se Wes Bar an ue i ea CP RET a Oe AE E> It Was a Desperate Battie. ton. No sooner did the hornet finish and fly away than the bumblebee sailed back with a biff from his lurk- ing place. He returned once too often, or, rather, he tarried too long on his last visit, As he quit the hornet’s nest tho hornet gave him a bat that sound- €d like the explosion of a percussion cap. It made my blood tingle. “They wore together quicker than a wink, up and down, butting, backing out and coming together again until both dropped to the floor of my porch. “While they were at it along comes an English sparrow. He had a bit of Fag or wisp of something, whose weight was te “ing his strength. It tratled in the wake of the bird and ‘the lower end of it came in contact | exer nino) ay | down- waré to recover the ‘The spar- ‘Tow {s a fool, but a fighter. This bird made a dip for the wisp and came between the fighters. For a second he fluttered as if be had been shot. In les than a second the plucky bird: recovered and made another attempt to get his property. “For an instant there was a fast, fractious and fierce commingling of ‘the three The Inst round had come. “The dumbledeo fell to the earth, pursued by the sparrow. They hit the dust together. At the same {n- stant the hornet went off tn a zigzag direction. 1 lost sight of him and went to the contest between the pee and the sparrow, “The bee was dead) He had been Mterally pecked to strings. The spar- row, swollen to twice his normal size, was helpless. He fluttered feebly and expired. He had been stung to death. “I returned to my porch and waited. Nearly an hour elapsed when I saw the hornet come back. He fell In his effort to fly. Finally he crawled across the floor, climbed up the side of the house feebly and reached his nest. “He never came out. When I thought it safe to do so I mounted my stepladder and carefully examined the nest through a magnifying glass. ‘The hornet was dead. So all three fighters Were accounted for.” PRESENCE OF MIND SAVES LIFE OF MICHIGAN MAN—OIL DID NOY TAKE FIRE. ‘Tipton, Mich.—It was only through @ most wonderfal exhibition of pres ence of mind and rare resourcefulness that the life of Rawson Hawiiffe, a tinner, of Gryton, was saved recently. Hawliffe was engaged in fitting a galvanized {ron cover on a large oll tank back of Compton & Blake's hard- ware store, and while he was working on the tank, which was seven feet deep and filled with ol at U#: time, James Claische, who, with his brother Bert, was making some repairs on the roof of the building, let fall a gallon of gasoline. The inflammable liquid drenched Hamliffe thoroughly, and in the same instant became ignited from (Coy ee N (Bagy oe > Aes = ep 2 e- a A, the pipe which he was smoking, send- ing the flames high above his head. The next ustant Hawilife sprang forward to the side of the oll tank and dived into it. The flames about bim, were, of course, instantly smothered out, but the burning gasoline remained floating ‘on the surface of the tank, Itaprison= ing Hawliffe in a vat of oll across the surface of which bright flames were dancing and playing. Groping about in the tank, with bis hands, Kawilife found a plece of gas pipe, ‘one end of which he forced above the surface and placing the other end in his mouth blew out the oll until the pipe was free, after which he was able to breath through It. Thus he was in a position to keep himself falive until help reached him. George Brucker, who had seen the whole affair, came on a run to the tank, and although he burned his hands severely in doing so, skimmed off the burning gasoline till the flames Were all gone and Hawilife could come up. Cbtvten, Gates tae mean Oskaloosa, la.—Richard Harding’s wife often complained that Richard snored “something dreadful,” but he outdid himself the other ‘afternoon and got killed for doing it. Richard had been sitting in the back room of a village drug store taking A few sips of something to cure his cold. When he left the place he stag- gered slightly. | He headed fer the country, and In @ Woods not far from town Jay himself peacefully down to slumber. Pretty soon the vibrations of his uvula Bhowed that Richard had forgotten the cares of this world. | Unfortunately a. party of hunters heard the snoriug get louder and Jouder, and not being as great natural- {ste as Mr, Roosevelt, or his friend Long, mistook it for the rosring of a wild animal. They discharged a vol ley into the hedge, Fich in Rain Storm. Independence, Mo.—During a down- pour of rain here two tons of small silver colored fish closely resembling mountain trout fell from the sky here. Although a few of the fish fell In all parts of the town, the fall was ‘heaviest over the public square, which ‘Was covered with a thin layer, and where catch basins carrying water to sewers were clogxed, and tho water backed up and covered the sidewalks. Hundreds of people came ont ‘through the pouring rain to see the ‘fish. Nearly everybody in Independence had fish for dinner that eveaing. Some ‘of the fish were alive and swam around briskly. THE PLANET ROAD AND FARM IMPROVEMENT MAKING BOARD DRAINS. They Are Economical and Will Last a Long Time. Drainage is a live subject with the farmers in many sections, and many would be glad to do a great deal more of it if they were in a financial condition to do so. While tile drains are considered the best, board drains will give very good service for a number of years and will enable the farmer to raise better crops and thus provide himself with the means for buying tile Standard Frame for Making Board Drains. later on. Board drains, especially where the ground is so wet that they are kept constantly saturated with water, will last for years. Farmers living in the districts where timber is cheap, will find that such drains will answer the purpose very well without much expense. Such drains have been known to last 20 or 25 years, at which time they seemed to be in just as good a state of preservation as on the day they were put in. To make wooden drains it usually requires two men, one to hold the Standard Attached to Fence. boards in place and the other to nail then together. This method of making board drains, suggests the Farmer, can be improved upon by the use of a "standard." This consists of an upright board, three feet high, having notches cut into it six inches apart, one inch wide and several inches deep to hold the boards firmly. The boards are laid into the notches when the top board can be quickly and evenly nailed on. Another method consists of two posts driven into the ground about three feet from the fence with notched boards nailed across from each post to the fence. With such a rig as this troughs can be quickly and easily made by one man alone. FARMERS' FRIENDS. Crow, Blackbird and Bluejay Seen in a New Light. Farmers who have been studying the use of various birds to their growing crops, feel much less animosity against the crow, blackbird and bluejay than formerly, for it has been proved that these birds aid the farmer more than they hurt him. The swallow, swift and nightingale are the guardians of the atmosphere, feeding on the wing and taking from the air those forms of insects that might endanger the fruit and trees. Woodpeckers, chickadees and creepers are the guardians of the trunks of trees, eating the grubs that injure the back of fruit or ornamental trees. Blackbirds, thrushes, crows and larks protect the soil, eating the worms and insects that injure the corn, wheat and oats. They scarcely partake of corn except in the autumn. The snipe and woodcock are the guardians of the subsoll, reaching far down into the earth after hatching larvae and insects that would soon attack the roots of the growing crops. The long-persecuted crow is really the farmers' friend, for he destroys more insects than the average bird and rarely pulls up the corn, as alleged. He has been known to eat 200 grasshoppers in a single hour, says Coleman's Rural World. The pretty quail, whose life has been spared by the hunter only because of the laws of several states, eats the weed seeds, which would otherwise scatter, and is also a good feeder on insect life. The grouse of the west as well as the east is a great eater of grubs and grasshoppers and all forms of insects. A Unique Plan. Pot a single sweet potato and see that it keeps warm, especially at night. Do it now. Then when it begins to vine, trim the vines on a trellis in the window. It will soon be a thing of beauty. Two weeks before you want to set out your plants, cut up the vines into cuttings of one leaf each and put them to root in a box of damp sand, in a warm, sunshine place. When you are ready, there are your plants with little trouble and no expense. Of course, this is just for a family patch. Spraying. Spraying is not expensive unless all fruit growers in the neighborhood cooperate. If one sprays and the rest neglect to do so, it will take a long time for the one to have an orchard free from pests and diseases. Form spraying clubs and invite all your neighbors to join. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ROUGH DIRT ROADS If farmers can once get clearly fixed in their minds that there is no good excuse for rough roads in any part of the corn belt during the summer season, we will get along much faster in the solution of the dirt road problem. The road drag can be used when the roads are wet, in some soils when they are quite muddy and in others when they are beginning to be dry and crumby. The intelligent use of the drag, where the roads have been properly drained and graded, will absolutely prevent all roughness. It will not prevent the wheels from sinking in while the road is soft, but they will not sink in nearly as far as if the drag was not used; and all that is necessary is simply to drag again when there is sufficient moisture in the ground to permit it. Where the roads are too dry to drag the harrow can be used, not quite as effectively, but still with very good effect. Where they are too dry to harrow then there is nothing better than a good sharp disk followed by the harrow. We have seen some very excellent roads made this year, says Wallace's Farmer, when there was not enough moisture to use the drag, but where the harrow was used with good effect. When the roads have become dry and rough the usual way is simply to drive horses and wagons over them and thus smooth down a place in the middle. If any man will think two minutes he will see that this is an exceedingly expensive way of smoothing the roads, which can all be avoided by the intelligent use of the drag, the harrow, or the disk, as circumstances require. Anyone can see that if the drag is used intelligently and at the right time the ruts will be filled up, the surface water will run off, and the wind will dry out the road in a short time; and instead of wearing down these lumps by driving over them you prevent their formation. It is not always possible to avoid rough roads in winter; but if each farmer had before his mind the definite idea of having a smooth road in front of his farm, and would drag at the right time late in the fall, he would have smooth roads. When driving along a road one day we complimented a farmer in the fine condition of the roads in his neighborhood. He said: "Yes, where they are dragged; otherwise not." We soon came to the end of the dragging and there was a road rough from one side to the other except a tolerably smooth place that had been worn down by passing teams. Of course some of our readers who do not know what can be done by these modern methods may shake their heads and believe this to be entirely theoretical. We will not argue the question; we never do. Simply follow our suggestions and be convinced. The whole battle is won when we get the farmer to determine that, so far as his farm is concerned, the drag shall have a fair trial. If we can get our readers in the various states to believe that there is no necessity for rough roads in summer and but little necessity for them in the winter season, we will have made great strides in solving the good roads problem, and save from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 a year. GIRL ENDS FIFTY-DAY TRANCE. Perry, Ia., Music Teacher Now Speaks New Language. Perry, Ia.—After having been in a state of trance for exactly 50 days Miss Prudence Van Glider, a 20-year-old music teacher emerged therefrom, but in a condition which to family, friends and medical and psychological experts, is as full of mystery as ever. Power to use the English language appears completely gone, but from the lips of the young woman another language, which no one here can interpret, drops from her tongue with a fluency and musical expression which is the marvel of all who listen. During the 50 days of trance Miss Van Gilder's jaws were rigidly set, and food could only be admitted by inserting a tube through a tooth especially removed for the purpose. At periods of consciousness Miss Van Gilder would not speak, but communicated with friends by deaf and dumb signs. Unable to speak a word of English, she motioned for her Bible, turned to the tenth verse of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Psalm, and by gestures asked her sister to read the following: "I believed, therefore have I spoken. I was greatly afflicted." While friends gazed awe-struck upon the scene, the mother suggested food, which was brought. But a strange thing happened. The girl pushed away the tray which her sister sought to place upon her lap, and not until she had doubled her knees under her after the fashion of orientals would she consent to eat a mouthful. Women Voters and Dog Tax. Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, has a peculiar municipal franchise. Every person who pays a two dollar dog tax is entitled to vote in elections for mayor and aldermen. The system has led to abuses. It has been discovered that six enterprising ladies voted on the strength of a single dog. 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But in those days there were too many things for the newspapers to talk about, and the incident was barely mentioned," said Judge Allen. "It was near Alexandria, La., in 1864. A lot of us fellows, all infantrymen, had been mounted on old nags we picked up up away down South there. We were advancing cautiously and sort of beating the confederates out of the bushes, when suddenly we came upon a battery in the road ahead of us. And there we stopped. "That night we mounted those old horses, 30 of us all told, with Captain Jake Smith in command, and made a long detour by which we were to come up to the rear of the battery. We were followed at a distance by a regiment of infantrymen on foot, and we had orders to surround any sentry we might meet and to hold him as a prisoner. So the 30 of us rode along in a row, ten feet apart. It was so dark that we could not see the horses next to us. "On we rode without encountering any one until we heard what sounded like a whole regiment of mounted men coming down the road ahead of us. We halted and waited. When they You Move and I'll Blow Your Brains Out. were close enough Jake called a halt. "Advance and give the counter-sign," he commanded. "Well, sir, it was the most foolish thing I ever heard of an officer doing, but the captain in charge of that squad of confederates obeyed that order. We learned afterward that the men in charge of the captain were on their way to an outside picket line. "As the captain approached he supposed, of course, that we were confederate soldiers. Jake got the magic word, then the confederate captain felt a revolver pressed close against his temple. "You move and I'll blow your brains out!" Jake said. "The man surrendered his command. We approached and surrounded his men. There were 30 of them—as many as there were of us. And they were the maddest lot of men you ever saw in your life. But the captain surrendered them. They called him a coward. I have often wondered since that time what ever became of him. "We ordered them to give up their arms, and for a little bit there seemed to be trouble ahead, for when the men reached for their carbines we heard the guns cocking. It was sleeting and raining, and I suppose none of the guns would have gone off if we had tried to do any shooting, though one of our men, a boy of 17, did level his gun at one of them who refused to surrender, and he pulled the trigger, but the gun failed to go off. But they finally dropped their guns in the mud or handed them over and six or eight of us marched the 30 back to the regiment. The regiment formed a sort of hollow square—the "bull pen," we called it—and we marched the 30 into the pen. Regiment Falls In. "Then all of us marched on into the camp. Jake had the countersign. Getting it was easy. And when we got into camp it was all too easy to be called war. We simply ordered the men to 'fall in' and they did. I shall never forget how one of those fellows acted. I told him to 'fall in' and he started to obey, but he insisted on leading a bony old horse with him. Finally I turned to him and said: "Fall in here! Hurry! Don't you know you are a prisoner?" "He looked at me like he had awakened from a dream. He had asked no questions. He supposed we were confederate officers and that the camp was to be moved, I suppose. All through that performance there was hardly a shot fired and there was so little noise that some of the confederates who had been left on picket duty didn't know that the regiment they belonged to had been captured. "We marched the whole regiment back to our regiment and put the men in the 'bull pen' along with the confederate captain and his 30 mounted picked men. "When we were through with these fellows we proceeded to capture the battery, and there we had some real fighting for a little bit, but it didn't last long. One or two of them had to be convinced with bayonets and there was some firing. But we got the battery, men, guns and all. "That firing at the battery awakened the officers who were sleeping in a big house a short distance away, and one of them, I think he was a colonel, came running out toward the battery. Some distance away he called: "What's all this shooting about?" "But he did not wait for a reply. He saw what had happened and he hurried back to the house. He has come out there in his night clothes, and I suppose that he must have grabbed his clothes as he went through the house again, but whether he got them or not he took to a dense woods on the other side of the house and we never saw him again. But we got the rest of the officers. "And when all the men were in the 'bull pen'—there must have been 500 or 600 of them all told—we marched them back across a little creek a short distance away and established a camp there so that we would have advantage of the bridge in defending our camp in case reinforcements happened to be on the way to this point. But we had no such trouble. We got away with those prisoners and it was all because that confederate captain advanced to give the countersign instead of ordering us to send a man to him, as he should have done. I really would like to know whatever became of that captain." HOWARD ON GRANT. Former General Gives Characteristics and Incidents in Life of the Great Commander. Gen. Charles H. Howard, in his talk at the Appomattox celebration of Columbia post, told of many traits and characteristics of Gen. Grant, with whom the speaker served in the army of the Tennessee. While testifying to the well-known reserve in speech of Gen. Grant, his former associate said that the great general was by no means an unsocial man. "Gen. Grant was thoughtful of the comfort and the feelings of the officers and men with whom he was in contact," said Gen. Howard. "He was not, of course, loquacious, nor was he silent and uncommunicative. He talked well and intelligently, and took his associates into his confidence as much as was desirable or wise, for one in his position. In battle he was a study in the cool and same conduct of the situation. "At the battle of Lookout mountain I was carrying orders between him and my division, and I was struck with the perfect appreciation he had of the real state of affairs in every part of the field, a field which stretched, remember, over miles of country. He never forgot, when I gave him news, just how the part of the movements I reported had stood an hour, or two hours, before. "The whole progress of the engagement was clearly in his mind, from its beginning to the moment, and you may be sure it was well outlined also as to the succeeding hours and events of the battle. "Grant was never profane in his speech. In all of my associating with him—and I was closely associated with him—I never heard him use an oath, or swear at all. His repugnance to vulgarity in language is well known. He would not endure it in his presence. His regard for others was strong, and he was a patient man, but there was a limit to his patience. That limit was reached, and he quickly showed it, when any one began wagging a loose or profane tongue in his presence. "Although Grant was of direct, simple speech and manners, careless in his dress and never a stickler for etiquette, he had a natural and quiet dignity which was felt by all with whom he came in contact. He never had to assert himself. What he was showed too well." As I listened, delighted, to the reminiscences of the gallant Howard, in his earnest, unassuming little talk, writes Ada C. Sweet, in Chicago Journal, I was reminded of a story of Grant, a happening after he had left the presidential chair. He was always the same man, wherever he was. At the time of which I speak, a dinner had been given in Grant's honor, and while the after-dinner cigars were smoked, story telling was going on. A story teller, toward the end of the session, with a beer around the room, said, as a preface to his contribution to the entertainment: "There are no ladies present, I believe, and so I may tell this little story." "But there are gentlemen here!" protested Grant, and the abashed story teller withdrew from the arena. To Europe Via Hudson Bay The Manitoba government is preparing to finance a railroad line from Winnipeg to a port on Hudson bay, making a short route to European markets. Some of the people of Manitoba assert that the line would mean a saving of several million dollars annually, the water route being a much cheaper way to ship to Europe than the long train haul across the continent. Reports from explorers who have spent much time in Hudson bay say there is open water for at least six months in the year. The railroad from Winnipeg would be 600 or 700 miles long, through a country difficult for railroad building, owing to many sloughs and rivers. Discriminating. She (gushingly)—Don't you love all the fresh, green young, things? He (judicially)—Yes, if they ain't human.—Baltimore American. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. DRESSES WOUNDS AT POINT OF GUN TOPEKA, KAN., DOCTOR TELLS OF SINGULAR EXPERIENCE WITH PAIR OF STRANGERS. MEN SUPPOSED TO BE BANDITS Physician Called to Lonely Spot to Attend Patient—Story Reads Like Chapter of "Wild West" Novel. Topeka, Kan.—Called to a deserted spot five miles south of Topeka the other night, Dr. H. H. Keith reported to the police upon his return a series of singular circumstances which read like a chapter from a novel of the blood and thunder order. After dressing the wounds of a man the doctor received his fee, and at the point of a revolver was ordered to depart. He returned to Topeka, where he told his story to the local officers. According to the story of Dr. Keith he received a call to come out on the Burlingame road and dress a wound at seven o'clock the other night. He asked how he was to know when the place was reached, and was told that he would be met by a man who would show him the way. Arriving at a lonely corner five miles out on the Burlingame road, Dr. Keith was met by a stranger, who waited in the middle of the road for him to stop. Climbing into the auto, the stranger directed Dr. Keith as to how to drive and the men rode a mile and a half in comparative silence. Once Dr. Keith asked the stranger of the wounds and was told that they were a gunshot. This was all the information which could be learned from the stranger. Finally arriving at a deserted spot fully a mile and a half from the Burlingame road, they came upon a campfire which was burning low, and saw a spring wagon and a single buggy, another man and three horses. The animals were foaming from the drive they had experienced, which J. Covered by a Gun He Dressed the Wound. must have been a hard one, considering the cool weather. "Here's your patient, doctor," said one of the men, walking to where the covered spring wagon stood. In a rudely constructed bed within the wagon lay a man, about 30 years of age, suffering from three wounds in his legs, two in the left and one in the right leg. Dr. Keith asked various questions, but was reminded that his business was to dress the wounds, and not to ask questions. Strapped to the body of the injured man was a cartridge belt and by his side hung a large revolver. Beside him were hung two Winchester rifles. Both the stranger who met Dr. Keith and his companion were revolvers in plain sight. After unwrapping the bandages which might or might not have been placed on the wounds by a physician, Dr. Keith dressed the wounds, which proved to be old, as their condition denoted that they had not been treated for some time. He urged the man to return with him to the hospital, but the stranger steadfastly declined to do so. He was told by Dr. Keith that he might live but a short time in case he did not return to a hospital, but still he declined to go to a hospital, declaring that he wanted none of it. Finally Dr. Keith finished dressing the wounds and packed his instruments preparatory to his departure. A ten-dollar bill was thrust into his hand. "Say nothing," said the man who had met him in the road as he drew a revolver from his belt, "say nothing and get." The revolver clicked, and Dr. Keith did not stop to argue the matter of fees. He reported the matter to the police on his arrival here. Sheriff Wilkerson telephoned all over the section east and south and west of here to hold the men, but nothing has been heard of them. Doing It Now. "See here, I want you to reform and lead a better life." "Sure, pop, can I lead a better life than at the races?"—Baltimore American. WHEN WOMEN MEET. "How do you like my new hat, Louise?" "I think it is beautiful, Lucy." "I am so glad you like it. You have such excellent taste." "Yes, but er—I think that pink bow would look more chic on the right side instead of the left." "Really, I—" "And a white bird would be much Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also con- stitutes 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 PYTHAS CIB. FCB. only absolutely necessary rega 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 re a rosette, costing 25 cents for f THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons co circle. The expense is nomina $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and de Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concerni For all information concern membership in the lodges and more becoming than a gray bird." "A white bird? How odd you talk! Why—" "And those beads! In my opinion—" "Never mind your opinion. I don't care to hear it. If I didn't know any more about millinery than you do, I would wear a sunbonnet. So there!" And now people wonder why Lucy and Louise don't speak when they meet.—Chicago Daily News. ```markdown ``` "Skinnum save me a check the other day, and it was returned to me by the bank marked 'no funds.'" "I always told you Skinnum was a no-account follow." — Philadelphia Press. Nothing Doing. There was a man in our town. Who was rather slow; His business kept going down— An advertiser? No. —Chicago daily News. Wagon Plant Destroyed. SENECA FALLS, N. Y., July 10.—Fire here destroyed the new plant of the Glen Wagon company, a large storehouse owned by the Goulds Manufacturing company, and several other buldings. The damage was $70,000. The fire gained great headway because of the inadequacy of the water service. The Three Stages. "Verlyl, but things do change." "Say on, say on." "Tompkins used to get just plain wages." "Yes." "Then it was salary." "And now?" "Income."—Milwaukee Sentinel. 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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 s 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 making them work to work with other workmen, to learn the trades and to have steady work at high wages and Union hours. The Grand Lodge donates $100,00 for the burial of each deceased member. A fine monthly Journal is published. Membership Book of the Order is recognized by all Lodges everywhere. Distressed members are assisted. Each member and Subordinate Lodge has the privilege of buying stock in the Order, on low monthly payments, said stock paying 5 per cent interest, guaranteed. A Leading Negro Deputy is wanted in each locality, AT ONCE, to form Lodges, sell Buttons, take Journal Subscriptions, sell Stock and act as DISSTRICT 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. "Is Miss De Style encouraging young Spendit seriously that she goes offender with him automobiling than with any of her other admirers?" 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The antiquarian of the future was inspecting some curious geological specimens just brought to the surface of the ground by workmen who were excavating for a new subway. It looked like a piece of ordinary granite, originally of a rectangular shape, and rough on the sides, ends, and bottoms, but smooth and rounded on the top. Unable to imagine any possible use for a stone of such shape, he took it to the venerable Fernando Jones and asked him if he ever had seen anything like it. "Yes," said Mr. Jones, falling into a reminiscent mood. "How that calls up old times! Two or three thousand years ago such stones as that were used in paving the streets." "But didn't they make horribly uneven pavements?" "They did, and horses used to slip on those rounded surfaces and fall and break their knees; but horses were comparatively cheap, and the people would stand anything in those days." "Were such stones ever used for anything else?" "Yes," answered the venerable patrarch and oldest inhabitant. "In the time of a strike or a riot it was customary to pry them up and use them as weapons." Then Mr. Jones dropped into a reverie from which it was impossible to arouse him, and the questioner went away and wrote another chapter for his forthcoming book on "Some Crudities of Twentieth Century Civilization."—Chicago Tribune. --- Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. ...PARLORS..... 108 E. Leigh St., - Richmond, 7 'Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Inter- views and Correspondence. The largest and most up-to-date Hair Dressing Parlors in Richmond. The very best preparations that can be made for the hair, scalp, face and skin. Graham's Superior Scalp Food for growing hair on bald heads and hare temples, 25cts. per jar. By mail, 35cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo. for developing and beauti- fying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mall 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a bea- tiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mall 35cts. 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Pictures Hilari- ed from Old negatives or Photographs. 3-ms THE ECONOMY, 303—5 North Third St. CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street. RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country centers are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on kindly. 'Phone, 2778. ```markdown ``` THE PLANET SATURDAY ... JULY 20, 1907 TO MAKE FOR BABY HAND EMBROIDERY MUCH USED ON INFANTS' GARMENTS. Some Dainty Models Which Can Be Easily Copied—All Done in "French Convent" Work. Although hand embroidery is so much a fad at present that it is lavished upon a great many garments, it has an especially important place in the making of infants' clothing, the embroidery used being of the finest, most delicate order. A great many women delight in doing such fine handwork, and for anyone fond of fine needlework the making of fine baby clothes has great fascination. All of the garments pictured in the drawing were made entirely by hand, the sketches showing some very dainty models which could be easily couped The embroidery is all done in what is known as "French convent" work, rather fine, soft cotton being used, the flower and leaf forms all being padded. Very little lace is used on BABY DRESS Handmade Things for Baby. the models pictured, but when lace is required as trimming, only the finest should be used. If the real valenciennes is too expensive, even for simple neck and wrist frills, select a good imitation valenciennes, but coarse lace should always be avoided. The little sack pictured was of fine white flannel, buttonholed and embroidered dainty by hand in pale pink silk. A new variation in baby caps is shown in the drawing, the little bonnet having turn-back flaps, edged and frilled about with lace. Where hand embroidery is too difficult or tedious for the average seamstress little handrun tucks, herringbone stitchery, rolled edges and seams set together by hand with entredoux, all help to give even the simplest little garment daintiness and distinction. No lace need be used in trimming or else merely a narrow frill about the neck and sleeves. For "the Cup That Cheers" Afternoon tea is now an established and welcome custom in most households, and there are many welcome additions to the cup that transforms it so that the visitor often asks, "What is it?" One hostess uses arrack, another green mint cherries with a bit of rock candy for sweetening, another places four whole cloves in each cup, rum and thin slices of pineapple is the embellishment given by another. Half claret and half tea is the favorite formula of a little southern woman renowned for mixtures. The dainty Japanese wafers to be found in the delicatessen shops are just the thing to serve and are the very latest caper. If the hostess possesses a set of gold medallion Canton, the teapot in its cozy basket, if she passes candied ginger on a quaint Imari plate and burns the best oriental incense in a bronze burner she is doing quite the most up-to-date thing, and her "teas" will be noted in her community. Just at present there is a copying of the ways and customs of our oriental neighbors; fashionable society, both men and women, are talking of scarabs, things Egyptian and things Chinese, but that is another story. Only ask a young miss what she most wishes, and if I mistake not, she will reply, "A Chinese mandarin's coat or a gorgeous silk embroidered kimona." MADRINE MERRIL Pretty Dressing Jacket. A cunning little dressing jacket made of Pompadour silk is cut with harrow fronts and filled in with many rows of soft lace. The lower edge is slashed and trimmed with triple frills of the same lace. A soft silk girdle matching in color the tone of the roses in the silk may or may not be worn in girdle form, as it is so arranged that a big bow can be made of it at the back, where it is permanently attached. A Rose Pink Hat. For wear with a pink ganze gown is a mushroom hat in rose pink Neapolitan, showing a cord of black velvet under the brim's edge. Black velvet ribbon is wound around the crown, and chaws the front in a perky bow, while ends of it show at the back under the brim. About the crown are clusters of shaded pink roses, half-opened, full blown, and in bud, with dull foliage in different shades of pink, purplish red and deep red. Chiffon Veils. Chiffon veils, as well as those of net, show the knife plaited ruffle about their edges. It should, however, be made of chiffon instead of lace, and is usually from two to three inches wide. Sometimes it is cored at the bottom. In the shape of a scallop and then plaited. In invariably the knife plaiting's done very fine. When bought in the shops these veils are costly luxuries for those who gown themselves on limited incomes. Any woman, however, with nimble fingers can make them satisfactorily. Lace which has already seen service can be turned to account and afterward transferred from one net to another as long as the fashion endures. FOR MARKING LINEN. Here is letter in cross-stitch, suitable for marking household linen and blankets. It may be worked with ingrain cotton, mercerised cotton or washing silk. Long Trains in Vogue Long trains on room gowns are again in evidence. For a time, like the street frock, the negligee, no matter how elegant it was, appeared with a clipped train which robbed it of the majestic influence over other robes of less importance. Graceful lines are obtained in graduated flouces that widen toward the back and form a fan-like train. As much elaboration in the way of lace frills, ruchings and the like as one desires may be introduced in the trimming of the long trained gown. Modesty multiplies merit. There is no sanctity without service. The thoughtless never are harmless. Large sorrows come from little sins. The heart is bankrupt when it has no love to spare. It takes a brave man to be willing to be called a coward. The weariest people are those who are running from duty. Lazy folks lose a lot of energy telling how busy they are. Conscience never makes cowards of us until we turn our backs on it. You never taste the wine of life until some of its fruits are crushed. It's a great pity that the people who invent troubles do not patent them. In the temple of a great and good life almost all the bricks are small. Many a man goes back by being too anxious about putting up a good front. It is better to have to regret many a loss than to earn the profit of remorse. The greatest sin is not the making of a mistake, but the being satisfied with it. The religion that lays emphasis on views often is remarkably short on vitality.—Chicago Tribune. HINDU EPIGRAMS. What a man desires and strives for, that he always obtains, unless in weariness he relaxes. Not to begin an undertaking is the first sign of wisdom, and the second is to complete what has been begun. To love those who love you not, to shun those who love you, to make an enemy of the strong—that is to be a fool. Under good fortune the heart of the great is as soft as a lotus bloom; under ill fortune, as hard as the mountain rock. Time wakes when others sleep; Time no one may escape; without rest and with even pace Time strides over all creatures. For five years a man shall treat his son as a prince, for ten years as a slave; but when a son reaches his sixteenth year, then shall a man treat him as a friend. He who sits after eating gets a pain; he who sleeps after eating gets comfort; he who walks after eating gets health; he who runs after eating runs to his death. Everywhere good fortune attends the man whose heart is content; is not the earth covered with leather for one whose foot is in a shoe?—Sunday Magazine. Every man gets mighty proud of his own vices when a clergyman goes wrong. Enthusiasm is shouting for something you don't understand because the crowd is. When a woman buys a bunch of THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Everthing! Everthing! IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. The People's Restaurant, 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. POLITE ATTENTION..... GIVE ME A CALL. Mme. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. nowers it's a sign she will let people think a man sent them to her. There is no use knowing so much that it makes other people's head ache for you to explain it to them. A woman lies about how smart her husband is at making money just the way he does about the wonderful things the children say.—New York Press. REFLECTIONS ON WOMEN Laughter is the test of beauty; women that it embellishes are of the divine race.—Rougon. A woman's face ought to be like an' April day—susceptible of change and variety.—Lord Byron. The symbol of woman in general is that of the Apocalypse, on the forehead of which is written "Mystery."—Diderot. There is an old saying that in England the wife is the queen, in France the companion, in Germany the house-keeper, in Italy the slave.—London Outlook. PROVERBS. Idleness is the key of beggary. A young cock crows as he heard the old one. They must hunger in frost who will not work in heat. Though the wolf may lose his teeth he never loses his inclinations. There is nothing more precious than time and nothing more prodigally wasted. The world is a great book of which they that never stir from home read only a page. SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. The trouble with the average watchdog is he sees entirely too much. Occasionally you meet a man so unpopular he might as well become dog catcher. A man has to be pretty sick to admit that a doctor knows more about it than himself. What has become of the old-fashioned man who could tell the time of day by looking at the sun? What has become of the old-fashioned man who insisted on kissing all the women who called at his house? Half the people don't get much done because they are looking around for some one to whom they can tell their troubles. Some men imagine they have executive ability because they had rather make some one else work than work themselves. When we were a boy we thought that if we could have all the doughnuts we wanted we would be happy. Now we don't like doughnuts. When a man picks up a pair of pantaloues he has not worn in a long time he always feels in the pockets to see if he has left any money in them.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. A railroad that's well trained ought to make money. There are lots of happy people in the silly sanitariums. When a man laughs at misfortune it's generally that of another. Chasing dirty linen up and down a washboard is hard on wedding rings. A man never realizes the joys of life until he marries and then it is too late. No, Alonzo, it isn't nice to allude to a 250-pound grass widow as a load of hay. Everthing! IN FURNITURE FLOOR C It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between a sympathetic person and a curious one. When you see a young man at church every Sunday night it doesn't take a puzzle expert to find the girl. When a woman says that her husband is perfection it's a safe bet that she hasn't been married three weeks. A girl imagines that she's in love with a man when she doesn't enjoy flirting with other men as much as she thought she would.—Chicago Daily News. LITTLE FACTS. Broad-headed horses are the cleverest. All cigar boxes are made of Spanish cedar. A Venezuelan beetle weighs half a pound. Afternoon newspapers in France are always dated a day ahead. The Japanese eat three million pounds of salted whale meat a year. Knitting keeps women's hands slender, supple and unwrinkled even to old age. In Iceland horses are shod with horn, while in Sudan they wear socks of camel-skin. Insurance against twins can be taken out at a 10 per cent rate—$10 a year for a $1,000 policy. LUCK OMENS. To sneeze on Friday presages misfortune. To see a shooting star means all sorts of good luck. Finding a piece of jewelry portends the bestowal of wealth. Finding an unopened letter means the reception of good news. To chase away a black cat means the throwing away of good luck. To pick up an opal augur the acceptance of some one's evil fortune. Bad luck will pursue you if you carry the handle of your umbrella down. To put on a stocking wrong side out and the left shoe first is very lucky. DYSPEPTIC PHILOSOPHY. There is no rest for the wicked—or the gas meter. The man who puts up a good front often does it to compensate for his lack of backing. One-half the world, suffering from the pangs of hunger, doesn't know how the other half suffers from indigestion. "The trouble with taking one drink is that it gets miserable in a man's stomach," says a bibulous friend of mine, "and you know how misery loves company." BETWEEN FRIENDS. "How did I look in my new ball dress last night?" "Oh, you were simply beautiful—no body recognized you at first.—Flie-gende Blaoetter. Everthing! NATURE AND OVERINGS uniting the separated and bring back the lost one. Traces lost or stolen goods. Unearths hidden treasures. 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In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkin's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do so, who have used our preparation and are to-dayess of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the aga miracle or anything unreasonable. Our prepapound, the ingredients of which we would not ill just here remind the public that the United national patent rights on our hair preparation by in turn responsible to the government for honour. Oure Scalp 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. It will positively remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. PRICES: -35 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.80 express prepaid. 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. It shortnotice by telegraph or telephone, and nice entertainments. Plenty of rooms. ences. Large pianic or band wagons for notbing but first-class carriages, buggies, and fine funeral supplies. 2 East Leigh Street. Residence Next Door. NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night A. D. PRICE. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of rooms with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. No. 212 East Leigh Street. Residence Next Door. OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night W. I. JOHNSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: Oftware by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Wedding, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. M. Strange, Wonderful True are the awe stricken teachings by The Great Austrianian Medium. PBOF. D. D. BRUCE, M. D. the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing more power than any four mediums combined. No card, trance or hand humbug. Greatest Hindoo Medium in the World. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you while in a Clairvoyant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. Come, all ye unbelievers, scoffers and jeers; bring all your skenticism with you—he will open your eyes to the private chamber mystery. Come all ye broken hearted wives, all with low spirits and let him lift the burden from your aching and jeubous heart. He challenges the World to compete with him in causing a speedy marriage with the one you love: F 9 1820 Richmond, Va SEVEN SOUTHERN RAILWAY B—Following schedule figures published only with information, and are not guaranteed. 7:30 a.m. Birmingham. 11:15 a.m. daily limited. Buffalo Palm to New Orleans, Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, Moorcock and all the South. Through coach for Chase City, Oxford, Durham and Raleigh. p.m. e. Sunday, Keysville Local. 11:30 a.m. Palm to Pullman read at 9:30 p.m. for all the South. FORE RIVER LINE 4:30 p.m. Keysville Sunday, No. 16, to West Point, connecting to Baltimore Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 2:15 p.m. o. 10, to Local to West Point Mondays, connected to Friday. 4:45 a.m. Except No. 74, Local to West Point. m. Wednesdays and Fridays No. 9. 5:15 p.m. in N. West Point and local stations. Excuse Sunday. C. W. WESTBURY, D. P. A. 920 E. Main St. Richmond, Va. C. H. ACKERT, 920 E. Main St. HARDWICK V. P. & Gen. Mgr. Pass. Mgr. MORT W. WILLIAMSON G. A. Washington, D. C. Trains Leave Richmond — Northward. 6:35 a.m. daily. Burd Street 11:40 a.m. Week days. Elba. Ashland accommodation. noon, week days. Byrd st. Through. 4:00, week days. Byrd st. Washington accommodation 4:00, Sunday only. Elba. Washington accommodation 5:00, week days. Elba. Ashland accommod 6:45 p. m. daily, Main St. Through. 8:20 p. m. daily, Byrd St. Through. Twelve arrives. Richmond. Southward. 6:30 a. m., week days, Elaia Ashland accom modation. 7:40 a. m., Daily, Byrd street. Through. 8:25 a. m. week days, Byrd St. Washington accommodation. 8:25 a. m. Sunday only, Elaia. Washington accommodation. 10:41 a. m., week days, Elaia Ashland accom modation. 10:41 a. m., daily Main St. Through. 2:45 p. m. Daily, Byrd street. Through. 3:45 p. m. week days, Elaia Ashland accom modation. 7:15 p. m., daily, Byrd St. Through. 9:00 p. m., daily, Byrd St. Through. Local stores. 6:45 p. m. daily, Main St. Through. NOTE----Pullman Sleeping or Parier Cars on al- lways alarms except local accommodations. Time of arrivals and departures and con nections not guaranteed. C. W. CULP, W. P. TAYLOR Gen'l Sup't Traf. Mgr. SCENIC ROUTE ROUTE TO THE WEST 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 News and 10:30 a. m. daily; 5:15 p. m. daily. Attend Main Line from West. 7:30 a. M. * 3:30 w. M. East. 7:00 a. M. East. 10:30 a. M. * 11:45 a. M. * 7:00 p. M. M. * 6:35 a. M. * D('Mally). * Ex. Sunday.) NIGHT LINE FOR NORFOLK. Leave Richmond every evening (food Ash Street) at 7 P. M., stopping at Newport Broadway at $2.50 one way, $4.50 round trip, in lindbergh statecar berth, meals 5c each, Street Cars Wharf FOR NEW YORK. Via Night Line Steamers (except Saturday making a connection in Norfolk with Main Line ship, following the Norfolk to Norfolk and Western Ry at 9 A. M. and 3 A. M. purchase Ohio Ry. at 9 A. M. and 4 P. purchase New York City. (except Sunday) at Norfolk with Main Line Shipping at 7 P. Mickets, 108 E. Main Street Steamer Pocahontas leaves Monday. We nataly and Friday at 7 a.m. for Norfolk Maryland and New York News, Cla mont and James River landing, and connec ng at Old Point for Washington, Baitter night at moderate prices. Heavy cars dri to the wharf. Fare only $1.50 a car. Receipt for above named places an alliance in Virginia and North Cali ona. IRVIN WESTERN Gen'l Mgr E. A. Barber, JR., Secretary. Norfolk and Western R. R. LEAVE RICHMOND (DAILY), BIRD STREET STATION. 9.00 A.M. NORFOLK LIMITED. Arrives at Storick Hill Railroad only at Petersburg Waverley and Suffolk. 9.00 A.M. CHICAGO EXPRESS Buffet Par lor. Storick Hill Railroad to Lynchburg and Roanok Pullman Sleeping Car to Knox and Bluede ford to Cincinnati, also Roanok to Knox ville and Knoville to Chattanooga and Mem pa. 12.10 P. M. Roanoke Express for Fawville Lynchburg and Roanoke. 6.20 P. M., for Norfolk and all stations east of Petersburg. M. NEW ORLEANS SHORT LINE. Fullman burg to Roanoke; Lynchburg, Kentucky. burg to Roanoke: Lynchburg, Kentucky. Memphis and New Orleans. Dining Cafe m., 2.05 m., 1.50 m., 1.00 m. p. m. and 5 p. m. on Norfolk 11 m. 1188 East Main Street. W. B. BEVILI Gen. Pass, Arg. Div. Pass Arg. For Florida and south, 9:35 A.M. M, 7:25 and For Notfelt, 9:30 A.M. M, 3:00 P.M. M and 6:20 P.M. For N. M & W. Ry. West, 12:10 and 9:30 P.M. For Petersonburg, 9:30 A.M. M, 12:10, 6:20 9:30 and 11:20 P.M. For Goldbabor and Fayetteville, 9:38 P.M. Trains arrive Richmond daily, 5:10, 8:38 **10:10 and 11:40 A.M.** M, 1:00, 6:30, 8:00 and 8:50 P.M. *Except Sunday, **Sunday only** C. S.C.AMPBÉ' D. P. A 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. WM. CUSTALO, - Prop. —Bring or send us your JOB WORK; we do it nicely. We do it quickly. EIGHT t a alae PEANUTS as UE GLY ; ; We RUS oa We es \ “EE es SATURDAY JULY 20, 1907 QUARTERLY REVIEW are ee ree, aes See Cen eee a they ahall not overdow thee.” —Isa. G2. Points of Each Lesson. Lesson 1. Persons—Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, Angels, Jehovah. Piaces—Beer- sheba, Bethel. Time—Jacob 57 years old. Teachings—God's presence and protection. Progress of Events—The covenant renewed. Lesson 2 Persons—Rachel, Leah, Leban, the angel, Esau. Places—Har- ap, Penuel, Hebron. Time—Twenty or 40 years in Haran. Teachings— How to get God's blessing. Progress of Bvente—Jacod becomes Israel. Lesson 3. Persons—Isaac, Jacob, Judah, Reuben, etc, Ishmaelites. Places—Hebron, Shechem, Dothan. Time—Joseph 17 years old.” Teachings —The evil of envy. Progress of events—Israclites in contact with Egypt. Lesson 4. Persons—Potiphar, Pot!- phar's wife, chief butler, chiet baker Piaces—Tanis or Heliopolis. Time— ‘Thirteen years. Teachings — The strength of purity and fidelity. Prox: ress of Events—Joceph on the way to {nfuence. Lesson 5. Persons—Pharaoh (Hyk- vos), chief butler, Asenath. Place— Tunis or Heliopolis. Time—Seven years of plenty, two years of famine. ‘Teachings — Wisdom brings power. Progress of Events—Joseph preserves Egypt. Lesson 6. Persons—Pharaoh, Jacob, the brothers. Places—Tanis or Hellop Usa, Land of Goshen. Time—Joseph 39 years old. Teachings—The joy of for giveness. Progress of Events—The Israelites go to Egypt. Lesson 7. Persons—Israclites, over seers, Rametes Il. Places—Gosben, Pithom, Raamses, Time—Two hundred and fifteen of 430 years. Teachings— Gains from affliction, Progress of Events—lIsraeclites increase to 2,000, 000. Lesson & Persons—Amram, Joche bed, Miriam, Pharaoh's daughter Place—Memphis of Tanis. Fime— Moses’ first 40 years, Teachings— Preservation, Patriotism, Patience Progress of Evente—The rise of a great leader Leseon 9. Persons—Jehovah, Jethro, Aaron, the elders, Menephtah. Places —Land of Midian, Mt Horeb. Time— Moses’ second 40 years, Teachings— ‘The call of duty. Progress of events —First steps in the exodus. Lesson 10, Persons—Jehovah, Aaron, Menephtah, magicians, Isractites. Places—Zoan or Memphis, all Egypt Time—Nine or ten months. Teach ings—Doom of evil; deliverance of God's people. Progress of Events— Israel obtains release from bondage. Lesson 11. Persons—Jehovah, Men ephtah, Israelites, Miriam. Places— Goshen, Etham, Red sea Time— About one week. Teachinge—Doon of evil; deliverance of God's people Progress of Events—Israel’s escape from Egypt. Review Methods. Map Review.—Use a may which in cludes Palestine, Egypt and Mesopo tamia. If you have none, copy one from a teacher's Bible, in rough out. Mne, on a large sheet of paper or a Diackboard. Provide circles of card. Ddoard marked “Ja,” “Jo,” and “Mo.” Get the class to pin these upon the places where Jacob, Joseph and Moses lived or visited. For Jacob these will pe successively Beersheba, Bethel, Haran, Penuel, Hebron; for Joseph, Hebron, Dothan, Tanis or Hellopolis; for Moses Memphis or Tanis, Heliopolis, ‘the land of Midian, Horeb, Memphis again, the land of Goshen, Etham, the Red sea, The scholars will take turns fastening on these circles, and as each 4s put in place something will be told about the event that occurred at that locality. When the class are able to place these circles correctly, removing them and replacing them several times, then take strings, a different color for each of the three characters and get the scholars to stretch them from one pin to another, to represent the journeys taken by each. ‘The Three Heroes Review.—Each scholar will be asked, a week in ad vance, to choose one of the three heroes of the quarter's lesson—Jacob Joseph or Moses—and prepare a five minute or three-minute essay upor him, to be read the next Sunday. The teacher, of course, will see to it that ack hero is treated in about the same number of essays. The Four Countries Review—Di vide the class into groups, each grout to study together for this review ‘There will be four groups each t¢ study one of the four countries whict our quarter's lessons have entered— Canaan, Mesopotamia, Egypt and th land of Midian. Each group will b prepared to tell what events of th quarter occurred in {ts country, and 0 how that country influenced the prog ress of the Hebrew history. ‘The Large Problems Review —Thi: form of review is best adapted to ad ait clasaea. Tt will consiat of a a ries of essays or talks on the following ‘topics: Steps in the development o ‘the Hebrews as a nation. Steps in the ‘ie ef God. ‘tie thees Taos pened nar siesta 0A soars fe xakes an sins of men. Proof of the ‘authenticity of these narratives. Les. sons of the quarter's study for mod. ern times. Chief lessons of the quar ter for the individual Christian. Some of these topics may best be treated by & general dinggpsion BY THE SAGES. _They can conquer who beliove they can—Virgil. Im this thing one man fs supertor to ‘snother, that he ts better able to bear Adveraity and prosperity.—Phtlemon Let a man overcome anger by love; let him overcome evil by good, the greedy by liberality, the lar by truth. —Buddba. He that has the energy and will to uproot a fault has also the energy, and onght to will to plant a virtue in its place.—Lacon_ ost ~-* We should do everything we can for others, if only to dissipate the thought of what they omit to do for us— Madame Swetchine. No great excellence tn any depart: ment of life ts achieved without effort and training; attainment comes not by accident —Bremner. The problem of life ts to make the {deal real and convert the divine at the summit of the mountain into the human at its base—Charles H. Park- burst. ‘There are many who are living far below their possibilities, because they are continually handing over. thei Individualities to others.—George Eliot, No man that fmparteth his joys to hie friend, but he joyeth the more; ‘and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less —Bacon. ALL ABOUT ROSES. Never plant a rose tree in a windy place. Roses that front north do not thrive. Rose bushes should be sprayed daily in May. Rose beds should not be prepared In wet weather. |_Never try to grow roses from need. It takes too Jong. Mix guano with the rose tree's water when it is in bloom. The budding of roses should be done tn the early morning or at sun- eet The dest soll for roses is two-thirds Joam and one-third manure. This sol should be at least 18 inches deep. Curled up leaves mban a maggot 49 at work. He should be caught and Kdlled at once, or he will Kill the tree A rose tree breathes through tts leaves. In dusty weather, therefore the plant should be kept cloan with frequent sprayings. HAIR-DRESSING. ‘The baker should wear a bun The bad boy needa a switeh. ‘The sallor needs a marcel wave ‘The Chinaman should wear rata, ‘The pugilist looks well in bangs. The billard-player needs a queue, The lar should wear a false plece ‘The feeman's hair should be frizzed ‘The divorcee’s hair should be parted ‘The hotalr orator's hair should be puffed The stlversmith’s hair should be plaited. ‘The high churchman should wear a pompadour—Judge. MERE OPINION. Modesty was never coupled with a little nature. Ignorance may be bilss, but the Yaugh of @ fool is not inspiring. If every boy were as g00d as his mother thinks he is there would be little wickedness fn the world, ‘The big fish are forever eating the Uttle ones, but the supply of little ones never rung out. The little fish are the poor people of the sea. | The man who goes to bed without realizing {t may be worth saving. The one who takes the sinful way de- Uberately 1s not worth the effort that ‘would be required to stop him. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. ‘There's 4 heap of misery in bunting for it all the time. A woman would about as lief lose her character as have her nose peel from sunbura. Parents are so braggy they man. ‘age to act proud over the way thelr child has the measles. It’s just human aature to get more fan out of losing ten dollars at gamb- ling than making ten by work. It takes a girl to know that a pho tograph that flatters her is a better likeness of her than the face sho sees im the looking glass. ODD FACTS. ee a oS OU es aos ke ‘The first horse railroad was built in 1826. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RicwMOND, VIRGINIA. ee Arena omeaeree ee | ]LL ZL in mien, | ae Sie WITHIN see ee AE a Vy ONE BLOCK OF rile: Sl eaaecs TW S| Gre Ue ae Fag a9 Fit Toa, ¥ |Most w il! = E+. PARTS OF THE jhair. M Win y= i = Pe cciry: |and stor =i ll Ede eeeet = TERMS. —== SET REASONABLE | | minx SECOND AND LEION STS, Woes e: RICHMOND, VWA.. |r Te che 1867 1907 Rev. Witsur P. THirkieto,D.D. Rosert Reysvrn, 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 RGERY. THREE YEAR'S GRADED COURSE IN PHARMACY AN OPTIONAL FIVE-YEAR COURSE IN MEDICINE IS OFFERED. Full corps of forty-five instructors. Well equipped laborato- ries. The New Freedmen's Hospital just completed at’ a cost of $500,000 offers unexcelled clinical faclilties. The Second Session of the Post-Graduate School i Poly- clint will begin May 18, 1908 and continue six weeks for Medical Course and four weeks for Dental Course This School s connected with a Great University of seven De- partments; one thousand students, and over one hundred professors. For further information or catalogue, write Te F. J. SHADD, M. D., Secty., 901 R. St, Washington, D. C. ‘The folding envelope was first usca fn 1839, Diitards were invented tn France tm 1471. The reloctpede was invented by rate to 1817. Steel needies were first made in England tm 1545, Coal olf was first used as an 11- Iuminant in 3526, _ Advertisements first appeared in Rewspapers in 1052. Shorthand writiug was the tnven- tion of Pitman in 1837. The first pipe organ was made by Archimedes in 220 B,C. ‘The first pair of spectacles was made by an Italian in 1299, The fame of backrammon was tn. vented by a Greek about 1224, The first dictionary was made by the Chinese scholars in 1109 B.C. ‘The dinner fork was introduced into Italy tm 1421 and into England tn 1608, Glass mirrors were known fn A. D 23, but the art of making them was Jost aud not recovered until 1300 in Venlo BY THE GENTLE CYNIC. Honeyed words often have a string to thelr tail Many @ true word has been spoken ungrammatically, Froth gets to the top and some men are a good bit lke froth. The hotheaded man is apt to hate the fellow who gets cold feet. Love must indeed be bling when a fellow falls in without looking. It’s all rights to toe the mark, un- Jess we happen to be the mark. 2 Es Rumor hath a thousand tongues, and most of them are going at once. The woman who marries a man to reform him shouldn't let him know it In making a thing go as far as pos- sible be careful not to stretch the truth. The picture of many a thirty-cent man reposes in a thirty-dollar gilt frame. A doting mother may clalin that her children are as good as ple, but lots of people don't like ple, We should all do unto others as we would have others do unto us, but we generally wait for them to do it first. | HERALD BLASTS. Little men are those who are base- ly content. A man's wallet is no measure of his churehmanship. | “In the will of God” is peace, and, if you mean it, power. It ts not a man’s religion, but his piety, that hurts or heals. Every day is receiving day in Heav- en. Our prayers are the invited guests, God does not sanction sin, though He may allow it and leave it until the harvest. The “good things” of God are not always pleasant to the eye or good for food. Faithfulness, and not genius; pa- tence, and pot strenuousness, are the Men and Girls Wanted. The Blackwell ani Brothers are engaged in practical house painting. ‘We employ five men and one girl in our office, why not help us to employ more? When we help ourselves we help others. Our motto is “To please the people.” ‘What others have done we can do. Let us Wo your painting: your job work, Rates are cheap. Terms easy. We want ten men and two girls help us to get them by giving us your large and small jobs. BLACKWELL & BROS. Cor. Price & Jackson Sts. a oe ee. Send fifty cents for the Northwest Negro Progress Nunber of The Seattle Republican and learn of the opportunities of the Necro in the far Northwest. THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN, ‘Seattic, Washington ee ee figns of a man. ‘The strait gate stil) stands, despite the erities, and on either side are the anchor-posts of revelation, — Home Herald. BY THE WAY. It ts the privile-c of age to predict Aisaster for eifuie..+ youth, The elty boy fs not half as good as he pretends, and ‘0 cotiatry one not near as tough as he imagines. While extravagance is not a felony Mt ts certainly first cousin to most of the petty crimes tha: pervade space. If girls were as nice as boys imagine ft would not take ong for the mil- Jennlum to get here—Uncle Dick im the Madison Journa’ CASUAL OBSERVATIONS. ‘What is one man's luxury ts anoth- er man’s necessity ‘The flower of the family may really de a blooming idiot It's all right to paddle your own ance ff you don't bappen to own a motor boat. ‘The man who boasts that every dot- Jar he has was mace honestly is gen- erally worth about 98 cents, Semen VE “Bliggins {s always talking about the bright things his baby says.” “Yes,” answered the unsympathetic person. “Every father regards his own son as the smartest boy on earth. He regards such a circumstance as a simple manifestation of the law of heredity."—Washington Star. Explained. “Say, paw.” “Well, son?” “What is a diplomat?” “Well, son, I'm « diplomat whenever I succeed in making your mother be- ’ Meve what I tell her.”"—Milwaukee ‘Sentinel. His Jar “What,” asked the man who fs al- ways preaching, “have you ever done to make this a brichter world?” “T've done a lot in that Hine, strang- er,” said the one with the large, rough hands. “i'm a barn painter by trade, and I generally paint ‘em red.” —Chicago Record Herald, Explained. “Quite poetical, that Mr. Kbrown. He always addresses me as ‘Pair jady."” “Oh, that's force of habit. He used ‘to be a street car conductor."—Cleve- Jand Leader. See i She—Mr. Nuritch impressed me as such @ mechanical sort of man. He—Perhaps it {s because in busi ness he is such a screw and in soclety such a bore.—Baltimore Atmerican. 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(MF Write for Special Rates. WH GEO. 1, HUTCHINSON, Fxor. 48 Welts St. - Mt, Clemens, Mich, ——Nelson.s Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. DIVINE FIRE. . Gentus ts that gift of the gods which makes a man eight fect tall in a crowd. If he wishes to shake hands, ng body can reach up to him. If he has a notion to kiss a pretty ‘girl, he has to stoop so enormously, and make such a spectacle of himself, that there's no fun in it. In short, he is denied about all the larger comforts. Nor ts he deserving of any credit. If anybody praises bim, he ts not tickled, knowing in his heart that he can't help being a genius. Prometheus was the first genius. He fs still getting his, they say. Most anybody would rather be the iceman. Lite. + Cruel. “Do you think Miss Antique is as old as she looks?” “How could she be? 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