Richmond Planet
Saturday, August 17, 1907
Richmond, Virginia
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THE RICHMOND PLANET
50 COLORED FAMILIES ORDERED TO LEAVE. Trouble at Onancock, Virginia.
TROOPS ON THE GROUND—GOVERNOR SWANSON THERE TOO—A DEPLORABLE CONDITION—COL- ORED PEOPLE'S PROPERTY DESTROYED—CITIZENS OF COLOR OUTLAWED.
VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 37.
50 COL
ORI
Trouble
TROOPS ON THE GROUND-
ORED PEOPLE'S
ONANCOCK, VA., August 11.
While to-night finds this town and
the Eastern Shore without actual
outbreak or recurrence of the riot-
ing of last night the situation here
is grave in the extreme.
The day has been one of suppressed excitement and high tension. Not only were the printing office of the colored editor and the store of the colored merchant burned but the Governor has been appealed to rush arms to the citizens here with which they may protect their homes.
It is understood now that he will come in person to advise with the leading citizens as to what is best to be done.
Just a few minutes ago (10:30 P. M.) fifty colored families were ordered by the whites to leave Onancock by or before 2 A. M. Monday or there would be serious trouble. A colored minister finding this notice on his door on returning from church immediately vacated. Pickets are on duty at every corner keeping the town well guarded.
The printing office of the paper which belonged to James Uzzel, the colored editor, who was one of the leaders of the mob, and the store-house of Samuel Burton, also a leader of the rioting last night, were burned to the ground by the whites early this morning.
Several colored people's dwellings were riddled with bullets, but no one was seriously injured, excepting one colored man, who was shot in the shoulder. The colored men Burton and Uzzel, were thought to be in hiding places in the store which was burned this morning. This caused the burning of the buildings, which was done in a very quick time, by throwing oil and gasoline in the building and setting the torch. The building was surrounded to make sure that if the two colored men were there they would have no chance to escape. Many of the whites, who toward midnight filled the streets of the town, had come from neighboring towns and country surroundings, lost no time in a search for the men who were especially wanted, being the ones that begun the shooting yesterday evening. But this search was in vain in every respect.
It is now supposed that both colored men made their escape from town, as the colored village was thoroughly searched this morning and no clue clued be found of them. The other colored people are very quiet without their leaders, but still threaten.
Call on Governor to Furnish Arms to Citizens.
A mass-meeting was held this afternoon by the Town Council for the purpose of taking the following action:
First, To request the Governor of Virginia to rush arms for the citizens of the town.
Second, To ask an injunction to prevent the colored people from holding their agricultural fair at Tasley, Va., on the ground that Uzzel and Burton are office-holders in the fair and both outlaws.
They have also appointed five extra policemen, who go on duty tonight. Conditions, although much more quiet to-night, it is feared will grow very exciting at any moment.
Trouble began over a bill which Constable Kellam tried to collect from a man by the name of Conquest, who was in Burton's store at the time. Conquest refused with hot words and cursed Kellam, then calling for assistance. At the same time Uzzel appeared on the scene, who fired a shot which missed its man and struck Garland Belote, a citizen of the town, in the hip on the opposite side of the street, but not seriously injuring him.
John Toppin, colored, is reported to be dying from a shot last night. Never before was Accomac county in such a state of excitement when the news circulated over the telephone and telegraph lines regarding the conduct of the colored men and the unprepared position of the Onan-cock citizens.
Burn Every Round of Ammunition in Town. Practically every round of ammu-
NO PUNISHMENT FOR HOUSE-BURNERS
nition hereabouts was burned last night and early to-day the white people of this community had subdued the violent colored element and sent the colored ringleaders away to parts unknown. No attempt, however was made to injure innocent colored people while the fusilade was under way, and before quiet was restored two thousand shots were fired. The burning of Burton's store and Uzzel's printing establishment between 2 and 3 o'clock this morning brought an end to the excitement for by that time nearly all of the colored people had disappeared. The real disturbance began last night when colored people hiding in a vacant lot close by a picket fence fired on the stage coach on its way to Tasley. None of the occupants were injured but the mailbags were riddled and there were numerous punctures in the baggage of the frightened passengers. The shooting was done by colored people, then under the impression that one of their race, charged with the row which took place earlier in the evening.
Immediately after the attack on the coach the colored people gathered in Burton's store, and the white's feared that they were preparing for another attack. The house was surrounded, and for an hour an armed mob of white citizens waited until the arrival of reinforcements before the actual opening of hostilities. From the surrounding country men were hurrying here by hand cars, on horse back, in buggies and afloat. When the crowd was regarded as sufficiently strong to deal with the seventy-five colored men hiding in the store, a signal was given and hundreds of bullets were fired into doors and windows of the structure. Then the whites waited again. No sound came from the building. The colored men had escaped, one at a time from a door in the rear.
Night Made Hideons.
Meanwhile the night was hideous with the constant rattle of musketry. From all sides came the roar of shot guns, scream now and then from terrified colored people in hovels, here there and yonder.
The whites patrolled the streets expecting the colored men to appear at any moment. Finally the store of Burton, colored, blazed suddenly from the rear, and in a short while it was a moss of ruins, the stock being estimated in value at $3,500.
In a few moments the printing shop of Uzzel was set on fire and was totally consumed.
Around the ruins one hundred white men, fully armed marched, expecting an attack from the colored men, reports having been started that they were preparing to retaliate. In the meantime, a notice had been posted on the door of a colored preacher telling him that he would not live to remember the consequences if he did not leave Onancock by 9 o'clock Monday morning. The preacher brazenly faced the armed guard, and, with the notice in his hands demanded the reason for putting it on his door.
"Can't you read?" shouted a citizen. "It means exactly what it says." The colored man trembled. He was disposed at first to stand on his rights, but he feared the consequences, and this afternoon he had left town.
ONANCOCK, VA., August 12.—Chief developments today in the situation here where race-rioting has occurred intermittently since Saturday, afternoon, were the action of the Town Council to expel bad Negroes and the presence and address of Governor Swanson to the people, urging them to be calm and promising to chase down the guilty, no matter what the cost and effort necessary.
The Onancock Council has been in session very nearly all day to decide what course to take in regard to the Negro rioters. At an early hour this morning an ordinance was passed by the Town Council to drive out of the neighborhood eight colored men who were supposed to be part of the riot leaders. Notices
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1907.
were served on them to vacate the town before 4 o'clock this afternoon, which they did as far as can be learned.
Drastic Ordinances.
The Council also passed an ordinance prohibiting any colored man, woman or child being in the white district after 8 o'clock, in the evening. One colored man by the name of Hall made a remark that he would die in his shoes before he would leave the town. He was seen at 3 o'clock on the Main Street and warned to leave immediately, which it is supposed that he did, as he started toward the steamboat wharf in order to reach there before the boat left.
A Colored Physician's Predicament.
The colored physician, Moone, who was supposed to have been one of the leaders with Uzzel and Burton, was also ordered to leave the town (Continued on Eighth Page.)
The Fifth Street Baptist Church Trouble
The services at the 5th St. Bapt. Church last Sunday were entirely sat isfactory and all evidences of the great struggle have apparently disappeared. The members are getting down to work and the outlook is "bright and brightening." The followers of Rev. A. E. Edwards have been holding meetings at the Samaritan's Hall and it is reported that over two hundred of them will ask for their letters at the next regular church-meeting. It is reported that they have secured an option on a very desirable site and will proceed to organize in an or early way another church of which the Rev. A. E. Edwards will undoubt edly be pastor. It may be well to state that there is an element that is of the opinion that all should remain in the church and make another effort to secure the advantage lost. Some of the most influential members of the Edwards faction will not follow him further, having decided to abide by the decision of the church. Much depends however, on the attitude of the dominant faction as the number of withdrawals.
Mr. Richard Carter Upset.
Last Saturday Mr. Richard Carter was on his way home in a "jumper" carrying in his hand a bucket of molasses, when the wheel on one side gave way and let him down in the street. In his sudden descent he emptied the bucket of molasses upon himself and he was an object of sweetness that was not appreciated either by himself or others. He presented a most amusing sight and it was some time before he was able to be in shape to see his friends. He was not injured.
TEACHERS WANTED!
We have a large number of applications for colored teachers for rural and graded schools. Six to nine months terms, salaries up to $75.00 per month. Also for private schools matrons, etc. Graduates from Petersburg and Hampton Normal Schools, and those holding First Grade Certificates preferred. Graduates from other schools and those holding Second and Third Grade Certificates will also be accepted. Our applications for teachers, from School Boards are coming in daily.Full particulars upon application. Enclose stamps for reply. Address. Va. Teachers' Co-operative Asso'n. 14 E. 13th St., Manchester, Va. Reference given and required.
—Read our inducements on the 3d Page and hustle for the prize you want.
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS.
—Mrs. Amelia Jones of 200 W. 21st St., Manchester, Va., who has been sick for the past ten days is convalescent.
—Dr. I. D. Burrell and his Madame are in Amelia for recreation. They will return to Roanoke shortly.
—Miss M. L. Chiles has been spending the week at Old Point recuperating.
Mrs. John Clinton, Jr. of Philadelphia has been spending a pleasant time in this city visit, g friends. She is looking well.
—Dr. W. C. Metz, Refractionist and Optician has opened offices at 619 N. Second St.
—Mr. William McNaughton of Cleveland, O. was in the city last week and called on us. He does a large catering business in Ohio and may locate in this State.
—Thelma and Mrs. Smallwood will spend the rest of the warm days in Farmville, Va. the guests of Mrs. Boulding.
—Miss Mary M. Scott of 1411 W. Leigh Street is visiting friends in Powhatan County. Her many friends wish her continued improvement.
—Mrs. Mary P. Smith of Petersburg, Va. and Mrs. Mary P. Smith of New York passed through the city enroute to the Blue Ridge Mountains. They will remain until the middle of September.
—Rev. S. D. Turner of Brockton, Mass. has been in the city for a week. He is interesting himself in colored enterprises and has been busily engaged in photographing the buildings in this locality. He is located at Miller's Hotel.
—Mrs. W. J. Harvey and Miss S. E. Harvey of Memphis, Tenn. and Miss R. A. Vassar, Lynchburg, Va. have been visiting Mrs. Rosa K. Jones. They left last Saturday for Jamestown Exposition.
—Miss Josie M. Barnett of Huntington, W. Va. has been the guest of Mrs. Eliza Norrell.
—Rev. W. L. Cash of Savannah, Ga. visited our office this week.
—Mrs. James McKenzie of Bridge port, Conn. is in the city the guest of her mother, Mrs. A. R. Carr, 612 N. 3rd St.
—Miss Helen B. Robinson of Hartford, Conn. returned to that city last Thursday after a pleasant stay of two weeks in Manchester, Va. visiting relatives and friends. While here she visited this office in company with Miss Florence Baker of Manchester, Va.
The Pythian Giants baseball team defeated the St. James Street Sluggers last Monday by the score of 9 to 6. It was a brilliant game full of sensational plays. Both teams showed up well, but the Pythian boys had the best of it from the start to the finish, batting out their victory, and making only four errors. This team is made up of members of the Pythian Cadet Co., No. 1
$150.00 Endowment Paid.
Richmond, Va., Aug. 13, '07.
This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr.,
Grand Chancellor of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, ($150.00) One
Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death-claim of Arml-
stead Williams, who was a member of Cavailor Lodge, No. 56 of Newport
News, Va.
Signed—Jerry W. Williams,
Administrator & Assignee
THE COLORED PEOPLE ARE PROGRESSIVE.
"FOLLOWING THE COLOR-LINE"—PECULIARITIES OF A REMARKABLE PEOPLE—HAPPY DESPITE ADVERSE CONDITIONS IN ATLANTA, GA.
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G. G. DEGREE MASTER, WILLIS WYATT
As I have already suggested, one of the things that impressed me strongly in visiting Judge Broyle's court—and others like it—was the astonishing number of children, especially Negroes, arrested. Some of them were very young and often exceedingly bright-looking. From the records I find that last year one boy six years old, seven of seven years, thirty-three of eight years, sixty-nine of nine years, 107 of ten years, 142 of eleven years, and 219 of twelve years were arrested and brought into court—in other words, 578 boys and girls, mostly Negroes, under twelve years of age!
"I should think," I said to a police officer, "you would have trouble in taking care of all these children in your reformatories."
"Reformatories!" he said, "there aren't any."
"What do you do with them?"
(Continued on Fourth Page.)
C. G. DEGREE MAST
G. G. Degree Department of the G. G. A. of B. and S. of L. and C. comprising United States of America and Republic of Liberia, Cuba, Bahama and Porto Rico.
G. G. Degree Master, Willis Wyatt,
1013 N. 3d St. Richmond, Va.
G. G. Deputy Degree Master, A. Moss
lev, 90 James St. Norfolk, Va.
APPOINTED OFFICERS.
G. W. Matron, Mary Morton, Washington, D. C.
G. W. Guide, Mrs. Fannie James, Richmond, Va.
G. W. Asst. Guide, Ellen Davis, Moss Point, Miss.
G. W. Chaplain Rev. W. H. White, Richmond, Va.
G. W. Rec. Secty., B. L. Cousin, Richmond, Va.
G. W. Financial Secty., Walter Cox, Longdale, Va.
G. W. Right Hand Conductors, Inc.
BLOODY RIOT AT A REVIVAL.
Petersville Baptist Church, Colored in Buckingham, Scene of the Affray—Several Men Cut, Stabbed, and Clubbed—Booze in "Dry" District.
One of the biggest revival meetings ever held in a negro church in Buckingham county broke up in a riot Friday evening, August 9th. Several men were cut, stabbed and beaten in insensibility just as the doxology was being sung in Petersville Baptist church.
Notwithstanding the fact that no liquor is allowed to be sold in the county, witnesses of the riot Friday say that whiskey was the cause of the trouble and many of the principals in the affair were more or less drunk. Trouble started just as the large number of converts were
ER, WILLIS WYATT.]
DISTRICT, NO. 2.
G. G. Deputy Degree Masters and Mistresses:
John H. Lee, 1641-P St., N. W., Wash
ington, D. C. and Tennallytown.
Mary A. Moore, Alexandria, Va.
Rev. Thomas Davis, Portsmouth, Va.
Capt. E. W. Gould, Norfolk, Va.
Fannie A. Douglas, Winchester, Berr
ville and Stephen City, Va.
John L. Hayes, Charloftesville, Va.
and vicinity.
George M. Banks, Longdale and Clifton
Forge, Va.
Solon Robinson, Gordonsville, Va.
John W. Watson, Glen Wilton, Va.
Edward Scott, Low Moor, Va.
John W. Gale, Wegeon, Md.
Louise T. Smith, Staunton, Va.
A. F. Lomans, Covington, Va.
W. A. Jones, Glen Echo, Md.
DISTRICT NO. 4.
J. R. Knowles, East and West Cuba and Bahama Islands.
W. H. Walker, Pass Christian, Miss.
DISTRICT NO. 5.
Lizzle H. Foster, Brookwood, Ala.
J. D. Jurden, Mobile, Ala.
Rosa Henderson, Gainsville, Ala.
T. C. Jones, Bliolox, Miss.
Rev. Ivan Fleuillaw, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
DISTRICT NO. 6.
Thomas A. Carr, New Orleans and Victinity.
Benjamin L. Jackson, Mt. Rose, St. Charles and Jefferson.
PEOPLE
RESSIVE.
Observations.
OF A REMARKABLE PEO-
S IN ATLANTA, GA.
being lined up in front of the pul-
pit for the parting admonitions of
the pastor. Suddenly some one
yelled "fight" and then there was
a scamper for the doors.
When the congregation poured
out of the church a bloody sight
met their eyes. Men were lying
on the ground with blood pouring
from long gaping wounds made by
razor and knife cuts and stabs. Others were lying unconscious from blows dealt by clubs and they, too,
were bleeding profusely.
C. Brown and Wm. Anderson proved to be the worst wounded of the lot. The former has a long gash from his collar bone down across his breast to a point below the heart. This gash was made, it is said, by a razor in the hands of either John or Lucien Rollins, both of whom have been held for the grand jury of the October term of court. Wm. Anderson was knocked unconscious by a blow from a heavy dogwood club in the hands of one of the two brothers. Several others were more or less injured, but they managed to get away and their names were not learned. Members of the church who were present when the trouble was on said that Dante Rollins, a brother of the two sent on to the grand jury, Wm. Lewis and Alphonzo Biddle were among those hurt in the fight. Friday evening Constable Childress arrested several of the rioters and took them before "Squire Shaw, at Arvonia, where he held the two alleged principals for the grand jury and refused ball, sending the case to Ball Commissioner Gayle, of Whitehall, where the hearing for ball will be held today.
A singular part of the proceedings Saturday afternoon was that later Squire Shaw had refused ball and turned the prisoners over to Mr. Childress, the constable of the district, both went home shortly afterward. The night was dark and rainy, the distance to the courthouse about eighteen miles, was to be covered over a muddy road. According to the two men, they were released on their own recognition to report at Whitehall this morning.
Rev. Willis Wines, Jr., Out Again
The regular church meeting, if reports are to be accepted, was a stormy affair when the regular routine business reached the point where the case of Rev. Willis Wines, Jr., was up for discussion. He was charged with stirring up discussion in the church and his book, discussing "Can a Sinner Pray?" is regarded as a reflection upon Rev. R. V. Peyton, D. D., who takes the negative side, so it is said on this question. It is alleged that Rev. Wines has said that Rev. Peyton has been preaching false doctrine.
There was quite a discussion last fall on the subject as to whether God would hear a sinner pray. Rev. Evans Payne, D. D., took the opposite position and preached a very exhaustive sermon on the subject. This was all right, but Rev. Wines is alleged to have insisted upon spreading his ideas and notions in the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, with the result that he is now on the outside and Rev. R. V. Peyton is in charge with a practically united membership behind him.
There are several ministers in the city who apparently approve of the doctrine enunciated by Rev. Wines, but who do not openly endorse his course, neither do they extend to him a helping hand in this his time of trouble. Some people say that Rev. Wines called Rev. Dr. Peyton a liar, but Rev. Wines does not admit that he did anything of the kind.
The ousting process took place Monday night, August 5th. It is denied that Deacon Quinn Shelton pitched Rev. Wines out of the church that night, although it was so reported. Rev. Wines does not say that he did anything of the kind, although it was so reported. Rev. Wines does not say that he did anything of the kind, although Deacon Shelton might stand six feet in his stockings. Rev. Wines may tip the scales at 200 pounds, and if such a feat was accomplished all of Richmond would like to see it repeated. Rev. Dr. Peyton is not doing any talking. His congregation is with him, and he does not make any effort to get his money when salary day comes around. It is there for him. His church is prospering.
THE HOUSE
OF A THOUSAND
CANDLES
BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON
AUTHOR OF THE MAIN SURFACE
two
CHAPTER IX.
Wind and rain rioted in the wood, and occasionally both fell upon the library windows with a howl and a splash. The tempest had waked me; it seemed that every chimney in the house held a screaming demon. We were now well launched upon December, and I was growing used to my surroundings. I had offered myself frequently as a target by land and water; I had sat on the wall and tempted fate; and I had roamed the house constantly expecting to surprise Bates in some act of treachery; but the days were passing monotonously. Twice I had seen the red tam-o-shanter far through the wood, and once I had passed my young acquaintance with another girl, a dark, laugh-*g* youngster, walking in the highway, and she had bowed to me indifferently. Even the ghost in the wall proved inconstant, but I had twice heard the steps without being able to account for them.
Memory kept plucking my sleeve with reminders of my grandfather. I was touched at finding constantly his marginal notes in the books he had collected with so much intelligence and loving care. It occurred to me that some memorial, a tablet attached to the outer wall, or perhaps, more properly placed in the chapel, would be fitting; and I experimented with designs for it, covering many sheets of drawing paper in an effort to set forth in a few words some hint of his character. On this gray morning I produced this:
1835
The life of John Marshall Glenarm was a testimony to the virtue of generosity, forbearance and gentleness
The beautiful things he loved were not nobler than his own days
His grandson (who served him all) writes this of him
I had sketched these words on a piece of cardboard and was studying them critically when Bates came in with wood.
"They're unmistakable snowflakes, sir," he remarked from the window. "We're in for winter now."
It was undeniably snow; great lazy flakes of it were crowding down upon the wood.
Bates had not mentioned Morgan or referred even remotely to the pistol shot of my first night, and he had certainly conducted himself as a model servant. The gardener at St. Agatha's, a Scotchman named Ferguson, had visited him several times, and I had surprised them once innocently enjoying their pipes and whisky and water in the kitchen.
"They are having trouble at the school, sir," observed Bates.
"The young ladies running a little wild, eh?"
"Sister Theresa's ill, sir. Ferguson told me last night. And Ferguson says that Miss Devereux's devotion to her aunt is quite touching."
I stood up straight and stared at Bates' back—he was trying to stop the rattle which the wind had set up in one of the windows.
"Miss Devereux!"
"That's the name, str.—rather odd, I should call it."
"Yes, it is rather odd." I said, composed again, but not referring to the name. My mind was busy with a certain paragraph in my grandfather's will:
"Should he fall at any time during said year to comply with this provision, said property shall at once revert to my general estate, and become, without reservation, and without necessity for any process of law, the property, absolutely, of Marian Devereux, of the county and state of New York."
"Your grandfather was very fond of her, sir. She and Sister Theresa were abroad at the time he died. It was my sorrowful duty to tell them the sad news in New York, sir, when they landed." "The devil it was!" It irritated me to remember that Bates knew exactly the nature of my grandfather's will. Sister Theresa and her niece were doubtless calmly awaiting my failure to remain at Glenarm House during the disciplinary year. I had given little thought to Sister Theresa since coming to Glenarm. She had derived her knowledge of me from my grandfather, and, such being the case, she would naturally look upon me as a blackgua-1 and a menace to the peace of the neighborhood. I had therefore kept rigidly to my own side of the stone wall. "Bates!"
He was moving toward the door with his characteristic slow step.
"If your friend Morgan, or any one else, should shoot me, or if I should tumble into the lake, or otherwise end my earthly career—Bates!"
His eyes had slipped from mine to the window and I spoke his name sharply.
"Yes, Mr. Glenarm."
"Then Sister Theresa's niece would get this property and everything else that belonged to Mr. Glenarm."
"That's my understanding of the matter, sir."
"Morgan, the caretaker, has tried to kill me twice since I came here. He fired at me through the window the night I came—Bates!"
I waited for his eyes to meet mine again. His hands opened and shut several times and alarm and fear convulsed his face.
"Bates, I'm trying my best to think well of you; but I want you to understand,"—I smote the table with my clenched hand,—"that if these women, or your employer, Mr. Pickerling, or that damned hound Morgan, or you—damn you, I don't know who or what
AUTHOR OF THE MAIN COURSE 'LEE DA DOWNEY'
COPYRIGHT 1905 BY DUBB'S MARSHALL CO.
I Smote the Table With My Clenched Hand.
you are—think you can scare me away from here, you've waked up the wrong man; and I'll tell you another thing—and you may repeat it to your school teachers and to Mr. Pickering, who pays you, and to Morgan, whom somebody has hired to kill me,—that I'm going to keep faith with my dead grandfather, and that when I've spent my year here and done what that old man wished me to do, I'll give them this house and every acre of ground and every damned dollar the estate carries with it. And now one other thing! I suppose there's a sheriff or some kind of a constable with jurisdiction over this place, and I could have the whole lot of you put into jail for conspiracy, but I'm going to stand out against you alone—do you understand me, you hypocrite, you stupid, silkling spy? Answer me, quick, before I throw you out of the room!
I had worked myself into a great passion and fairly roared my challenge, pounding the table in my rage.
"Yes, sir; I quite understand you, sir. But I'm afraid, sir—"
"Of course you're afraid!" I shouted, enraged anew by his halting speech. "You have every reason in the world to be afraid. You've probably heard that I'm a bad lot and a worthless adventurer; but you can tell Sister Thethera or Pickering or anybody you please that I'm ten times as bad as I've ever been painted. Now clear out of here!"
I knocked about the library all morning without easing my spirit, and after luncheon I went off for a tramp. Winter had indeed come and possessed the earth, and it had given me a new landscape. The snow continued to fall in great, heavy flakes, and the ground was whitening fast.
A rabbit's track caught my eye and
I followed it, hardly conscious that I
did so. Then the clear picture of two
small shoes mingled with the rabbit's
trail. A few moments later I picked
up an overshoe, probably lost in the
chase by one of Sister Theresa's girls,
I reflected. I remembered that while
at Tech I had collected a diversity of
memorabilia from school girl acquaintances,
and here I was beginning a new series with a string of beads and
an overshoe!
A rabbit is always an attractive
quarry. Fow things besides riches are
so elusive, and the little fellows have,
I am sure, a shrewd humor peculiar_to
themselfs. I rather envel the school
girl who had ventured forth for a walk
in the first snow storm of the season,
and recalled Aldrich's turn on Gautier's lines as I followed the double
trail:
"Howeer you tread, a tiny mould
Retrave that light foot all the same:
Open this blazing, snowy roof.
At every step it signs your name."
A pretty autograph, indeed! The snow fell steadily and I tramped on over the joint signature of the girl and the rabbit. Near the lake they parted company, the rabbit leading off at a tangent, on a line parallel with the lake, while hls pursuer's steps pointed toward the boat house.
There was, so far as I knew, only one student of adventurous blood at St. Agatha's, and I was not in the least surprised to see, on the little shelteted balcony of the boat house, the red tamo'o-shanter. She wore, too, the covert coat I remembered from the day I saw her first from the wall. Her back was toward me as I drew near; her hands were thrust into her pockets. She was evidently enjoying the soft mingling of the snow with the still, blue waters of the lake; and a girl and a snow storm are, if you ask my opinion, a pretty combination. The fact of a girl's facing a winter storm argues mightily in her favor,—testifies, if you will allow me, to a serene and dauntless spirit for one thing, and a sound constitution for another.
I ran up the steps, my cap in one hand, her overshoe in the other. She drew back a trifle, 'just enough to bring my conscience to its knees.
"I didn't mean to listen that day. I just happened to be on the wall, and it was a thoroughly underbred trick—my twitting you about it—and I should have told you before if I'd known how to see you—"
"May I trouble you for that shoe?" she said with tremendous dignity.
They taught that cold disdain of man, I suppose, as a required study at St. Agatha's.
"Oh, certainly! Won't you allow me?"
"Thank you, no!" She took the damp bitt of rubber—a wet overshoe, even if small and hallowed by associations, isn't pretty—as Venus might have received a softshell crab from the hand of a fresh young merman. I was between her and the steps to which her eyes turned longingly.
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND. VIRGINIA
"Of course, if you won't accept my apology I can't do anything about it; but I hope you understand that I'm sincere and humble, and anxious to be forgiven."
"You seem to be making a good deal of a small matter—"
"I wasn't referring to the overshoe!" I said.
She did not relent.
"If you'll only go away—"
She rested one hand against the corner of the boat house, while she affixed the overshoe to her foot. She wore, I noticed, brown gloves with cuffs.
"How can I go away! You children are always leaving things about for me to pick up. I'm perfectly worn out carrying some girl's beads about with me; and I spoiled a good glove on your overshoe."
"I'll relieve you of the beads, if you please."
She thrust her hands into the pockets of her coat and shook the tam- shanter slightly, to establish it in a more comfortable spot on her head. The beads had been in my corduroy coat since I found them. I drew them out and gave them to her.
"Thank you; thank you very much."
"Of course they are yours, Miss—"
She thrust them into her pocket.
"Of course they're mine," she said indignantly and turned to go.
"We'll waive proof of property and that sort of thing. I'm sorry not to establish a more neighborly feeling with St. Agatha's. The stone wall may seem formidable, but it's not of my building. I must open the gate. That wall's a trifle steep for climbing." I was amusing myself with the idea that my identity was a dark mystery to her. I had read English novels in which the young lord of the manor is always mistaken for the game-keeper's son by the pretty daughter of the curate who has come home from school to be the belles of the county. But my lady of the red tam-o-shanter was not a creature of illusions.
"It serves a very good purpose—the wall. I mean—Mr. Glenarm."
She was walking down the steps and I followed, pleased to hear my name from her lips. I am not a man to suffer a lost school girl to cross my lands unattended in a snow storm; and the plaza of a boat house is not, I submit, a pleasant loafing place on a winter day. She marched before me, her hands in her pockets—I liked her particularly that way—with an easy swing and a light and certain step. Her remark about the wall did not encourage further conversation and I fell back upon the poets.
"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage."
I quoted.
"I have heard that—before!" she said, half turned her face and laughed as she hastened on.
Her brilliant cheeks were a delight to the eye. The snow swirled about her, whitening the crown of her red cap and clung to her shoulders. Have you ever seen snow crystals gleam, break, dissolve in fair, soft storm-blown hay? Do you know how a man will pledge his soul that a particular flake will never fade, never coase to rest upon a certain flying strand over a grilish temple? And he loses—his heart and wager—in a breath! If you fail to understand these things, and are furthermore unfamiliar with the fact that the color in the cheeks of a girl who walks abroad in a driving snow storm marks the favor of heaven itself, then I waste time, and you will do well to rap at the door of another inn.
"I'd rather missed you," I said; "and really, I should have been over to apologize if I hadn't been afraid."
"Sister Theresa is rather fierce," she declared. "And we're not allowed to receive gentlemen callers—it says so in the catalogue."
"So I imagined. I trust Sister Theresa is improving."
"Yes, thank you."
"And Miss Devoreux—she is quite well, I hope."
She turned her head my way as though to listen more carefully, and her step slackened for a moment;
then she hurried blithely forward.
"Oh, she's always well, I believe."
"You know her, of course."
"Rather! She teaches music."
"So Miss Devereux is the music teacher, is she? Should you call her a popular teacher?"
"The girls call her"—she seemed moved to mirth by the recollection—"Miss Prim and Prosy."
"Ugh!" I exclaimed sympathetically.
"Tall and hungry looking, with long talons that pound the keys with grim delight. I know the sort."
"She's a sight!"—and my guide laughed approvingly. "But we have to take her; she's part of the treatment."
"You speak of St. Agatha's as though it were a sanatorium."
"Oh, it's not so bad; there are worse."
We approached the gate. Her indifference to the storm delighted me. Here, I thought in my admiration, is a real product of the Western owlid. I felt that we had made strides toward such a comradeship as it is proper should exist between a school girl in her teens and a male neighbor of 27. I was—going back to English fiction—the young squire walking home with the curate's pretty young daughter and conversing with fine condescension.
"We girls all wish we could come over and help hunt the lost treasure. It must be simply splendid to live in a house where there's a mystery—secret passages and chests of doubloons and all that sort of thing! My! Squire Glenarm, I suppose you spend all your nights exploring secret passages?
This free expression of opinion startled me, though she seemed wholly innocent of impertinence.
"Who says there's any secret about the house?" I demanded.
"Oh, Ferguson, the gardener, and all the girls!"
"I fear Ferguson is drawing on his imagination."
"Well, all the people in the village think so. I've heard the candy shop woman speak of it often."
"She'd better attend to her trily." I retorted.
"Oh, you mustn't be sensitive about it! All us girls think it ever so romantic, and we call you sometimes the lord of the realm, and when we see you walking through the darkling wood at everfall we say, 'My lord is brooding upon the treasure chests.'"
This, delivered in the stilted tone of one who was half quoting and half improvising, was irresistibly funny, and I laughed with good will.
"I hope you've forgiven me—" I kicked the gate to knock off the snow, and took the key from my pocket.
"But I haven't, Mr. Glennarm. Your assumption is, to say the least, unwarranted—I got that from a book!"
"It isn't fair for you to know my name and for me not to know yours."
I said leadingly.
"You are Mr. John Glanarm—the gardener told me—and I am just Olivia. They don't allow me to be called Miss yet. I'm very young, sirl!"
"You've only told me half"—and I kept my hand on the closed gate. The snow still fell steadily and the short afternoon was nearing its close. I did not like to lose her—the life, the youth, the morn for which she stood. Lights already gleamed in the school buildings straight before us, and the sight of them smote me with loneliness.
"Olivia Gladys Armstrong," she said, laughing, brushed past me through the gate and ran lightly over the snow toward St. Agatha's.
CHAPTER X
An Affair With the Caretaber.
I read in the library until late, hearing the howl of the wind outside with satisfaction in the warmth and comfort of the great room. Bates brought in some sandwiches and a bottle of ale at midnight.
"If there's nothing more, sir—"
"That is all. Bates." And he went off sedately to his own quarters.
I was restless and in no mood for
Her Brilliant Cheeks Were a Delight to the Eye.
Her Brilliant Cheeks Were a Delight to the Eye.
bed, and mourned the lack of variety in my grandfather's library. I moved about from shelf to shelf, taking down one book after another, and while thus engaged came upon a series of large volumes extra illustrated in water colors of unusual beauty. They occupied a lower shelf, and I sprawled on the floor like a boy with a new picture book in my absorption, piling the great volumes about me. They were on related subjects pertaining to the French chateaux.
In the last volume I found a sheet of white note paper no larger than my hand, a forgotten book mark. I assumed, and half crumpled it in my fingers before I noticed the lines of a pencil sketch on one side of it. I car
Ried it to the table and spread it out. It was not the bit of idle penciling it had appeared to be at first sight. A scale had evidently been followed and the lines drawn with a ruler. With such trifles my grandfather had no doubt amused himself. There was a long corridor indicated, but of this I could make nothing. I studied it for several minutes, thinking it might have been a tentative sketch of some part of the house. In turning it about under the candelabrum I saw that in several places the glaze had been rubbed from the paper by an eraser, and this plumed my curiosity. I brought a magnifying glass to bear upon the sketch. The drawing had been made with a hard pencil and the eraser had removed the lead, but a well defined imprint remained.
I was able to make out the letters, N. W. % to C.—a reference clearly enough to points of the compass and a distance. The word ravine was scrawled over a rough outline of a doorway or opening of some sort, and then the phrase: THE DOOR OF BEWILDMENT. Now I am rather an imaginative person; that is why engineering captured my fancy. It was his efforts to make an architect (a person who quarrels with women about their kitchen sinks!) of a boy who wanted to be an engineer that caused me to break with my grandfather. Fate was busy with my affairs that night, for, instead of lighting my pipe with the little sketch I was strangely impelled to study it seriously. I drew for myself rough outlines of the interior of Glenarm House as it had appeared to me, and then I tried to reconcile the little sketch with every part of it.
"The Door of Bewilderment" was the charm that held me. My curiosity was thoroughly aroused as to the hidden corners of the queer old house, round which the wind shrieked tormentingly. I went to my room, put on my corduroy coat, took a candle and went below. One o'clock in the morning is not the most cheering hour for exploring the dark recesses of a strange house, but I had resolved to have a look at the ravine opening and determine, if possible, whether it bore any relation to "The Door of Bewilderment."
All was quiet in the great cellar; only here and there an area window rattled dorously. I carried a tapeline with me and made measurements of the length and depth of the corridor and of the chambers that were set off from it. These figures I entered in my notebook for further use, and sat down on an empty nail to reflect
The place was certainly substantial; the candle at my feet burned steadily with no hint of a draft; but I saw no solution of my problem. I was losing sleep for nothing; my grandfather's sketch was meaningless, and I rose and picked up my candle, yawning. Then a curious thing happened. The candle, whose thin flame had risen unaversely, sputtered and went out as a sudden gust swept the corridor. I had left nothing open behind me, but some one had gained ingress to the collar by an opening of which I knew nothing. I faced the stairway that led up to the back hall of the house when, to my astonishment, steps sounded behind me, and, turning, I saw a man carrying a lantern coming toward me. I marked his careless step; he was undoubtedly on familiar ground. As I watched him he paused, lifted the lantern to a level with his eyes and began sounding the outer corridor wall with a hammer.
Here, undoubtedly, was my friend Morgan—again! There was the same periodicity in the beat on the wall that I had heard in my own rooms. He began at the top and went methodically to the floor. I leaned against the wall where I stood and watched the slow approach of the lantern. The small revolver with which I had first fired at his flying figure in the wood was in my pocket. It was just as well to have it out with the fellow now. My chances were as good as his, though I confess I did not rollish the thought of being found dead the next morning in the cellar of my own house. It pleased my humor to let him approach in this way, unconscious that he was watched, until I should thrust my pistol into his face.
His arms grew tired when he was about ten feet from me and he dropped the lantern and hammer to his side and swore under his breath impatiently.
Then he began again with greater zeal. As he came nearer I studied his face in the lantern's light with interest. His hat was thrust back, and I could see his jaw hard set under his blond beard.
He took a step nearer, ran his eyes over the wall and resumed his tapping, beginning close to the ceiling. In settling himself for the new series of strokes he swayed toward me slightly and I could hear his hard breathing. I was deliberating how best to throw myself upon him, but as I wavered he stopped back, swore at his ill luck and flung the hammer to the ground.
"Thanks!" I shouted, leaping forward and snatching the lantern.
"Stand just where you are."
With the revolver in my right hand and the lantern high in my left, I enjoyed his utter consternation, as my voiced roared in the corridor.
"It's too bad we meet under such strange circumstances, Morgan." I said. "I'd begun to miss you; but I suppose you've been sleeping in the daytime to gather strength for your night prowling."
"You're a fool," he growled. He was recovering from his fright—I know it by the gleam of his teeth in his yellow beard. His eyes, too, were moving restlessly about. He undoubtedly knew the house better than I did, and was considering the best means of escape. I did not know what to do with him now that I had him at the point of a pistol; and in my ignorance of his motives and my vague surmise as to the agency back of him, I was filled with uncertainty.
"You needn't hold that thing quite so near," he said, staring at me coolly. "I'm glad it annoys you, Morgan." I said. "I want you to tell me how you got in here."
"I came in by the kitchen window, if you must know. I got in before your solemn jack-of-all-trades locked it up, and I walked down to the end of the passage there"—he indicated the direction with a slight jerk of his head"—and slept until it was time to go to work."
"If you can't lie better than that you needn't try again. Face about, now, and march!"
I put new energy into my tone, and he turned and walked before me down the corridor in the direction from which he had come. We wore, I dare say, a pretty pair—he trampling doggedly before me, I following at his heels with his lantern and my pistol.
"Not so fast," I admonished sharply.
"Excuse me," he replied mockingly. He was no common rogue; I felt the quality in him with a certain admiration for his scoundrelly talents. I continued at his heels, poking the muzzle of the revolver against his back from time to time to keep him assured of my presence—a device that I was to regret a second later. When we were, I should judge, about ten yards from the end of the corridor, at that moment I prodded him with the point of the revolver, he fell backward against me, threw his arms over his head and grasped me about the neck, meanwhile turning himself lively until his fingers clasped my throat. The lantern fell from my hand and one or the other of us smashed it with our feet.
A wrestling match in that dark hole was not to my liking. I still held onto the revolver, waiting for a chance to use it, and meanwhile he tried to throw me, forcing me bask against one side and then another of the corridor.
With a quick rush he flung me away, and in the same second I fired.
The roar of the shot in the narrow corridor was deafening. I flung myself on the floor, expecting a return shot, and quickly enough a flash broke upon the darkness dead ahead, and I rose to my feet, fired again and leaped to the oposite side of the corridor and crouched there. We had adopted the same tactics, firing and dodging to avoid the target made by the flash of our pistols, and watching and listening after the roar of the explosions. It was a very pretty game, but not destined to last long. He was slowly retreating toward the end of the passage where there was, I remembered, a dead wall. His only chance was to crawl through an area window I know
I
He Flung Me Away and In the Same Second I Fired.
to be there, and this would. I felt sure, give him into my hands.
After five shots aplice there was a truce. The pungent smoke of the powder caused me to cough, and he laughed.
"Have you swallowed a bullet, Mr. Glenarm?" he called.
I could hear his feet scraping on the cement floor; he was moving away from me, doubtless intending to fire when he reached the area window and escape before I could reach him. I crept warily after him, ready to fire on the instant, but not wishing to throw away my last cartridge.
He was now very near the end of the corridor. I heard his feet strike some boards that I remembered lay on the floor there, and I was nerved for a shot and a hand-to-hand struggle, if it came to that.
I was sure that he sought the window; I heard his hands on the wall as he felt for it. Then a breath of cold air swept the passage, and I knew that he must be drawing himself up to the opening. I fired and dropped to the floor. With the roar of the explosion I heard him yell, but the expected return shot did not follow.
The pounding of my heart seemed to mark the passing of hours. I feared my foe was playing some trick, creeping toward me, perhaps, to fire at close range, or to grapple with me in the dark. The cold air whistled into the corridor, and I began to feel the chill of it. Being fired upon is disagreeable enough, but waiting in the dark for the shot is intolerable. I rose and walked toward the end of the passage.
Then his revolver fashed and roared directly ahead, the fame of it so near that it blinded me and the wad of the cartridge burned and stung my cheek. I fell forward dazed and blinded, but skeek myself together in a moment and got upon my feet. The draft of air no longer blew into the passage. Morgan had taken himself off through the window and closed it after him. I made sure of this by going to the window and feeling it with my hands. I went back and groped about for my candle, which found without difficulty and lighted. I then returned to the window to examine the catch. To my utter astonishment it was fastened with staples, driven deep into the sash in such a way that it could not possibly have been opened without an expenditure of time and labor. My eyes smarted from the smoke of the last shot, and my cheek stung where the wadding had struck my face. I was alive, but in my vexation and perplexity not, I fear, wholly grateful for my safety. It was, however, some consolation to feel sure I had winged the enemy.
I gathered up the fragments of Morgan's lantern and went back to the library. The lights in half the candlesticks had sputtered out. I extinguished the remainder and started to my room.
Then, in the great dark hall, I heard a muffled tread as of some one following me—not on the broad staircase, nor in any place I could identify—yet unmistakably on steps of some sort beneath or above me. My nerves were already keyed to a breaking pitch, and the ghost-like tread in the wall angered me. Morgan, or his ally, Bates, undoubtedly, O reflected, at some new trick. I ran into my room, found a heavy walking stick and set off for Bates' room on the third floor. It was always easy to attribute any sort of mischief to the fellow, and undoubtedly he was crawling through the house somewhere on an errand that boded no good to me.
It was now past two o'clock and he should have been asleep and out of the way long ago. I crept to his room and threw open the door without, I must say, the slightest idea of finding him there. But Bates, the enigma, Bates, the incomparable cook, the perfect servant, sat at a table, the light of several candles falling on a book over which he was bent with that maddening gravity he had never yet in my presence thrown off.
He rose at once, stood at attention, inclining his head slightly.
"Yes, Mr. Glenarm."
"Yes, the devil!" I roared at him, astonished at finding him—sorry, I must say, that he was there! The stick fell from my hands. I did not doubt he knew perfectly well that I had some purpose in breaking in upon him. I was baffled and in my rage fouledered for words to explain myself.
"I thought I heard some one in the house. I don't want you prowling about in the night, do you hear?" "Certainly not, sir," he replied in a grieved tone. I glanced at the book he had been reading. It was a volume of Shakespeare's comedies, open at the first scene of the last act of "Winter's Tale." "Quite a pretty bit of work that, I should say," he remarked. "It was one of my late master's favorites." "Go to the devil!" I bawled at him, and went down to my room and slammed the door in rage and chasin.
Going to bed at three o'clock on a winter morning in a house whose
ways are disquieting, after a duel in which you escaped whole only by sheer good luck, does not fit one for sleep. When I finally drew the covers over me it was to lie and speculate upon the orvents of the night in connection with the history of the few weeks I had spent at Glenarm. Larry had suggested in New York that Pickering was playing some deep games, and I, myself, could not accept Pickering's statement that my grandfather's large fortune had proved to be a myth. If Pickering had not stolen or dissipated it, where was it concealed? Morgan was undoubtedly looking for something of value or he would not risk his life in the business; and it was quite possible that he was employed by Pickering to search for hidden property. This idea took strong hold of me, the more readily, I fear, since I had always been axious to see evil in Pickering. There was, to be sure, the unknown alternative heir, but neither she nor Sister Theresa was, I imagined, a person capable of hiring an assassin to kill me.
On reflection I dismissed the idea of appealing to the county authorities, and I never regretted that resolution. The seat of Wabana county was 20 miles away, the processes of law were unfamiliar, and I wished to avoid publicity. Morgan might, of course, have been easily disposed of by an appeal to the Anmandale constable, but now that I suspected Pickering of treachery the caretaker's importance dwindled. I had wanted all my life for a chance at Arthur Pickering, and in this affair I hoped to draw him into the open and settle with him.
I slept presently but woke at my usual hour, and after a tub felt ready for another day. Bates served me, as usual, a breakfast that gave a fair aspect to the morning. I was alert for any sign of perturbation in him; but I had already decided that I might as well look for emotion in a stone wall as in this placid, colorless serving man. I had no reason to suspect him of complicity in the night's affair, but I had no faith in him, and merely waited until he should show his hand. By my plate next morning I found this note, written in a clear, bold, woman's hand:
"The Sisters of St. Agatha trust that the intrusion upon his grounds by Miss Armstrong, one of their students, has caused Mr. Glenarm no annoyance. The Sisters beg that this infraction of their discipline will be overlooked, and they assure Mr. Glenarm that it will not recur."
An unnecessary apology! The note paper was of the best quality. At the head of the paper "St. Agatha's, Annadale" was embossed in purple. One of the sisters I had seen beyond the wall undoubtedly wrote it—possibly Sister Theresa herself. A clever woman, that! Thoroughly capable of plucking money from guilleless old gentlemen! Poor Olivia! born for freedom, but doomed to a pent-up existence with a lot of nuns! I resolved to send her a box of candy sometime just to annoy her guardians. Then my own affairs claimed attention. "Bates," I asked, "do you know what Mr. Glenarm did with the plans for this house?" He started slightly. I should not have noticed it if I had not been so keen for his answer. "No, sir. I can't put my hand upon them, sir."
"That's all very well, Bates, but you didn't answer my question. Do you know where they are? I'll put my hand on them if you will kindly tell me where they're kept."
"I fear very much, Mr. Glenarm, that they have been destroyed. I tried to find them before you came, to tell you the whole truth, sir; but they must have been put out of the way."
"That's very interesting, Bates. Will you kindly tell me whom you suspect of destroying them? The toast again, please."
His hand shook as he passed the plate.
"I hardly like to say, sir, when it's only a suspicion."
"Of course I shouldn't ask you to iniminate yourself, but I'll have to instil on my question. It may have occurred to you, Bates, that in a sense—in a sense, mind you—I'm the master here."
"Well, I should say, if you press me—that I fear Mr. Glenairm, your grand-father, burned the plans when he left here the last time. I hope you will pardon me, sir, for seeming to reflect upon him."
"Reflect upon the devil! What was his idea, do you suppose?"
"I think, sir, if you will pardon—"
"Don't be so fussy!" I snapped. "Damn your pardon, and go on."
"He wanted you to study out the place for yourself, sir. It was dear to his heart, this house. He set his heart upon having you enjoy it—"
"I like the word—go ahead."
"And I suppose there are things about it that he wished you to learn for yourself."
"You know them, of course, and are watching me when I'm hot and cold, watching me to see when I'm hot and cold, like kids at a child's game."
The fellow turned and faced me across the table.
"Mr. Glenarm, as I hope God may be merciful to me in the last judgment, I don't know any more about it than you do."
"You were here with Mr. Glenarm all the time he was building the house, but you never saw walls built that weren't what they appeared to be, or doors made that didn't lead anywhere."
I summoned all my trony and contempt for this arralignment. He lifted his hand as though making oath.
"As God sees me, that is all true. I was here to care for the dead master's comfort and not to spy on him, sir."
"And Morgan, your friend, what about him?"
"I wish I knew, sir."
"I wish to the devil you did," and I flung out of the room and into the library.
At 11 o'clock I heard a pounding at the great front door and Bates came to announce a caller, who was now stamping the snow from his shoes audibly in the outer hall.
"The Reverend Paul Stoddard, sir."
"The chaplain of St. Agatha's was a
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big fellow, as I had remarked on the occasion of his interview with Olivia Gladys Armstrong by the wall. His light brown hair was close cut; his smooth shaven face was bright with the freshness of youth. Hore was a sturdy young apostle without frills, but with a vigorous grip that left my hand tingling. His voice was deep and musical—a voice that suggested glacierity and inspired confidence.
"I'm afraid I haven't been neighborly, Mr. Glenarm. I was called away from home a few days ago after I heard of your arrival, and I have just got back. I blew in yesterday with the snow storm."
He folded his arms easily and looked at me with cheerful directness, as though politely speculating as to what manner of man I might be.
"It was a fine storm; I got a great day, out of it," I said. "An Indiana snow storm is something I have never experienced before."
"This is my second winter. I came out here because I wished to do some reading and thought I'd rather do it alone in a university."
"Studious habits are rather forced on one out here, I should say. In my own case my course of reading is all cut out for me."
"The Glenarm collection is famous—the best in the country, easily. Mr. Glenarm, your grandfather was certainly an enthusiast. I met him several times, though he was a trifle hard to meet!"—and the clergyman smiled.
"My grandfather had his whitens; but he was a fine, generous-hearted old gentleman," I said.
"You haven't been on our side of the wall yet? Well, I promise not to molest your hidden treasure if you'll be neighborly," and he laughed merely.
"I fear there's a big joke involved in the hidden treasure," I replied. "I'm so busy staying at home to guard it that I have no time for social recreation."
He looked at me quickly to see whether I was joking. His eyes were steady and earnest. The Reverend Paul Stoddard impressed me more and more agreeably. There was a suggestion of quiet strength about him that drew me to him.
"I suppose every one about here thinks of nothing but that I'm at Glenarm to arm my inheritance. My residence here must look pretty sordid from the outside."
"Mr. Glenarm's will is a matter of record in the county, of course. But you are too hard on yourself. It's nobody's business if your grandfather wished to visit his whims on you. I should say, in my own case, that I don't consider it any of my business what you are here for. I didn't come over to annoy you or to pry into your affairs. I get lonely now and then and thought I'd like to establish neighborly relations."
"Thank you; I appreciate your coming very much," and my heart warmed under the manifest kindness of the man.
"And I hope"—he spoke for the first time with restraint—"I hope nothing will prevent your knowing Sister Theresa and Miss Devereux. They are interesting and charming—the only women about hero of your own social status."
My liking for him abated slightly. He might be a detective, representing the alternative heir, for all I knew and possibly Sister Theresa was a party to the conspiracy to drive me away.
"In time, no doubt, in time, I shall know them," I answered erasely.
"Oh, quite as you like!"—and he changed the subject. We talked of many things—of outdoor sports, with which he showed great familiarity, of universities, of travel and adventure. Columbia was his alma mater, but he had spent two years at Oxford.
"Well," he exclaimed, "this has been very pleasant, but I must run. I have just been over to see Morgan, the caretaker, at the resort village. The poor fellow accidentally shot himself yesterday cleaning his gun or something of that sort, and he has an ugly hole in his arm that will shut him up for a month or worse. He gave me an errand to do for him. He's a conscientious yellow and wished me to wire for him to Mr. Pickering that he'd been hurt, but was attending to his duties. Pickering owns a house at the farther end of the colony and Morgan has charge of it. You know Pickering, of course?"
I looked my clerical neighbor straight in the eye, a trifle coldly, perhaps. I was wondering why Morgan, with whom I had enjoyed a duel in my own cellar only a few hours before, should be reporting his injury to Arthur Pickering.
"I think I have seen Morgan about here," I said.
"Oh, yes! He's a woodsman and a hunter—our Nimrod of the lake."
"A good sort, very likely!"
"I dare say. He has sometimes brought me ducks during the season."
"To be sure! They shoot ducks at night—those Hoosier hunters—so I hear!"
He laughed as he shook himself into his greatcoat.
"That's possible, though unsportsmanlike. But we don't have to look a gift mallard in the eye."
We laughed together. It was easy to laugh with him.
"By the way, I forgot to get Pickering's address from Morgan. If you happen to have it—"
"With pleasure," I said. "Alexis Building, Broadway, New York."
"Good! That's easy to remember."
he said, smiling and turning up his coat collar. "Don't forget me; I'm quartered in a hermit's cell back of the chapel, and I believe we can find many matters of interest to talk about."
"I'm confident of it," I said, glad of the sympathy and cheer that seemed to emanate from his stalwart figure. I threw on my overcoat and walked to the gate with him and saw him hurry toward the village with long strides.
TO BE CONTINUED.
CREPT LIGHT DAYS ON DARREN LANDS
PROSPECTOR BUNN HAD TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE IN THE FAR FROZEN NORTH.
LIVED ON MOSS AND BERRIES
Finally Reached Deserted Indian Camp Where He Existed on Fish Until Natives Returned and Took Care of Him.
Edmonton, Alta.—The arrest of Charlie Bunn on a charge which the police say may be changed to murder, again brings into the limelight a man who for nine days was lost in the Land of the Midnight Sun. Several weeks ago at Athabasca landing he got in a mix-up with one Prudden, who is now in such a precarious condition it is feared he will die.
Charlie Bunn has lived the life of a nomad from his earliest days, spending several years as a jockey in the United States. On reaching manhood he came to Montana, where he spent some years as a cowboy, then as deputy sheriff and sub-Indian agent for the state. During the Klondike gold rush Bunn came to Edmonton on his way north, arriving here in the summer of 1898. Pushing on toward the Klondike he reached the Great Slave lake and was so impressed with the country he decided to remain. He stayed at the Great Slave about a year, but the spirit of adventure was strong within him and when the opportunity to join the Bell exploration party presented he gladly accepted and the sequel was one of the most interesting tales ever brought from the great north.
The Bell exploration party was sent out by the geological department of the Ottawa government to discover the source of the Copper Mine river away up near the mouth of the Mackenzie. Indian legends and traders' tales told of a mountain of almost pure copper from which the river had its source. The party, consisting of Bell, Bunn and two half-breed guldes, went down the Mackenzie, up the Bear river, across Great Bear lake, up the Copper Mine river as far as possible, and then started to portage across the country. But the supplies ran low, and it was evident the entire party would not be able to reach the point for which they had set out. They decided to divide the party.
Bell took one guide and all the supplies and pushed on in a last attempt to fulfill the mission, while Bunn and the other guide, named Trombley, intended to return to the last cache and there wait for Bell. On the way back in clambering over the rocks, Bunn slipped, dislocating his ankle. He called to the guide to wait, but Trombley made no response and went to the cache alone. Bunn hobbled after, but soon realized he was deserted and
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The Guide Deserted Him.
lost on the Barren lands of the north. He wandered in the direction of an Indian camp he had seen on the way, but soon lost all idea of direction, and for eight days and nights crawled over the frozen plains without fire, his only food being the moss and berries he could gather from the snow.
The agony of that time can never be painted in words, but toward the end he became delirious and in this condition reached a deserted Indian camp on the Great Bear. He put out some nets found in the deserted tents and secured some fish. The food gave him life until the Indians returned from a hunting trip. The Indians cared for him through the long, weary winter and in the spring, took him to Patton's trading post at the mouth of the Mackenzie, where he took passage with a party of traders and came to Edmonton.
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Twice Have Sacked Moscow.
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THE TROUBLE AT ONANCOCK.
We . of the
: t o v
be worked up Into a frenzy because
risings on the part of the property-
owning colored people of this com-
monwealth, they might as well bid
farewell to prosperity and prepare
for an era of disaster.
The idea of chartering trains and
the white people of the Eastern shore
in a battle with Negroes 1s an ab-
surdity and all parties to the affair
should he heartily ashamed of them-
selves. The temperate tone of the
editorial utterances which we re-
Produce in this Issue Is a significant
sign as to the feeling of the. best
class of white people of this com-
munity. Tke trouble is that the e-
limination of the Nogro as a pollt-
ical factor has elevated to office In-
competent white men, who have
neither the ability nor the capneity
to deat with momentous questions.
As a result, a dispute over # pal-
try bill has led to the burning of a-
bout five thousand dollars worth of
property belonging to colored people
and cost the state sums running in-
to thousands for the purchasing of
supplies and the pay of the state
militia in patrolling the town. The
“game ts not worth the candle” and
the white people of that section
should be ashamed of themselves.
Governor Swanson should be com-
mended for his promptness in plac-
ing troops in that vicinity and his
interest in going to the disturbed
district. We do not understand
though the tenor of his speech, if he
is correctly quoted, neither do we
appreciate the force of his offering
a reward of $150.00 for the appre-
hension of the colored men whose
property was destroyed and not a
penny for the apprehension of the
white men who were guilty of burna-
ing this same property. The white
men were guilty of arson for which
the Virginia statutes provide a death
penalty and the offense charged a-
gainst the colored men was that of
rioting for which the law provides
as a maximum punishment confine-
ment in the penitentiary.
‘The conservative, well-meaning|
colored people will not understand|
this kind of discrimination on the|
part of a Virginian of Governor
a bt
SAR OF WORK, RS Re om ce
humble as has |
fear from white p ‘of this char-
acter and as we read his address, we
were led to belleve that he had been
incorrectly quoted.
‘He guaranteed order in Onancock.
He must have known tlien that such
‘@ guarantee carried with it the pro-
tecting of every citizen In his rights
be he white or colored, rick or poor.
The Town Council could not legally
expel eight men from that locality
as it ts alleged it has done. Dr.
Moone, a colored physician ts al-
jeged to have been required to hum-
ble himself and beg for the privilege
of practicing his profession in this
state. The colored people of the
Eastern shore are ttrifty and law-a-
biding. They have not been guilty
of any crimes against the white peo-
ple. It is not charged that an out-
rage has been committed and yet it
is brazenly reported that fifty col-
ored families were notified to leave
that neighborhood.
Among the number was a minister
of the gospel who had spent the
best days of his life pointing his
people to “The Lamb of God, who
taketh away the sins of the world.”
He too must leave and because he
at first refused a taunting mob dar-
ed him to remain, intimating that
his life and bis property would be
the forfeit as a result of his refusal.
These are getting to be troublous
times and much of it is caused by
this senseless agitation against us
‘on the part of prejudiced white men
,Who envy our prosperity
The aspect is especially gloomy in
this case for the reason that it is not
the hoodium, tazy, thieving, good-for|
nothing Negro that is affected. The
men who are thus unceremoniously
notified to leave their homes and to
confiseate their property are law-a-|
biding, industrious citizens of color,
"of the latest type.
‘This action of the town council |
and the white people of Ouancock Is
the depriving of a citizen of his pro-
nega igor au
and Gov. Swanson is sworn to “take |
cure that the laws are faithfully.
executed.” He was there to carry’
out his part of the contract. but if
his speech fs to be accepted at its
face value, was he ready to do it
und did he see these two classes of
people in the light that the Iaw re-
quires him to regard them?
These men are citizens and they
are voters under our present con-
stitution and as such are entitled
to the protection accorded every oth
resorted to In Onancock. This was |
done with a brazen effrontery. Why |
destroying the property of these col-
ored men to justice? Why not In-|
stitute an investigation and give a
Jury of white mien in that county an
opportunity to declare that guilty’
men are net guilty? Certainly it
would place our Chief Executive in
a far more favorably light and he
would win and merit the approba-
tion of his God,
We confess that we have done all
in our power in recent yerrs to
bring forth the latent feeling of
friendship existing in the better class
of white and colored people. We be|
Heve that we have In a large mens-
ure succeeded and that with the
wafting away of the night of oppres-
sion will come the dawn of liberty
for our people. Race or caste pre-
Jadice has been unreasoning in all
ages. It must be skillfully and re-
lentlessly combated.
We are ready to undertake the
Job. Still it is discouraging to col-
ored men of means to realize that
the accumulations of a life-time may
be swept away in a few moments,
simply by the impoteney of our laws
and the recklessness of men who.
neither serve God, nor fear Mam-
‘mon. We have always advised and
‘always expect to caution our people
Jabout leaving localities where their
lives are threatened and where they
nave all the accumulations of a life-
time. In our judgment, death is
preferable to Isuominious fight.
firm stand will in the tong run bring
‘the better class of white People to
our support and a determined stand
with the proper nerve and ammu-
nition to back it up will win the re-
spect of even those who thave threat-
Jened to make our stay short on this:
part of the Master's vineyard.
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
day and the sun’s rays as they kiss
the hill-tops and clasp the mountains
tell us that “thee race is not given
to the swift or the battle to the
strong, but to him who holds out
and proves faithful to the end.”
“THE SOUTH AND THE ROADS.”
Face schon Ste Stade train ‘a: cake
by turning the State into a rallroad-
Jess Alabama. There are in this
country 250,000 miles of railroad,
operated by corporations that any
one of 56,000 politicians will tell
you hold all the $0,060,000 and odd
of us tn a condition of peonage. Al-
abama, and Arkansas, too, likewise
North Carolina, are weary of the
thing and have taken stepp to make
t unprofitable to operate railroads
within their Mmits. Thus the day
of jubilee ts but a little way ahead
and the yoke of the raflroads will
[be ittea.*
It continues:
| “The Post is not lawyer enough to
say whether a State has the right to
nullify any clause of section 2. Artl-
cle II, of the Constitution of the U-
nited "States by indirection, ‘The
Jlaw of Alabama requires a foreign
|corporation to abdicate its rights un
der the constitution before it can be
|licensed to operate a railroad in that
|State. This .s meat for the Supreme
Court, and the sooner that tribunal
sits down to tt the better for Alabama
and the railroads.
| We lope that every colored person
Jin the United States, who can read
|and digest these propositions will
ake note of this one. Here Is the
ivital Issue that has been embraced
lin every effort of our people to se
lcure their political rights under the
|provisions of the Fifteenth Amend-
ment to the Constitution of the Unit-
ed States. ‘The laws of every South
ern State that has enacted suffrage
legislation so as to affect the citizen
‘of color require the citizen to give
up his right to vote, in order for
tm to reside within its confines and
this is done by indirectfon and in
‘violation of that constiutional pro-
[vision which declares that no person
shall be denied the right to vote on
account of race, color or previous con
dition of servitude. The Post de-
[clares that “this Is meat for the Su-
reme Court, and the sooner that
tribunal sits down to it the better
for Alabama and the railroads.”
This has been our contention all of
these years.
| The issue places the United States
Supreme Court in a most embarrass
ing predicament for this ts the very
issue that it has avoided passing up-
Jon whenever the attorneys for the
citizens of color have presented it
or its consideration, It is now face
to face with a condition of affairs
[that it Ignored. ‘The suecess attend
ing the efforts of the Southern
States in thelr combat with Ne-
groes has led them to seek higher
jgsmme and employ similar tactics in
bringing it to earth,
1 The couticdtion ‘oF the: Nearoes’
rights has led to the confiscation of
\the white man's property. The pock
et nerve is extremely sensitive and
now the ablest attorneys in the U-
nited States will rally in clusters to
pee from the sphinxes at Washing
ton a decision upon this all-tmpor-
tant question. They will accomplish
in a few months what the Negroes
of the country have not been able
to bring about in forty years, The
principle, however, is the same and
our people must necessarily profit as
‘a result of this most remarkable le-
gal movement.
‘The Post, speaking for the north-
ern capitalist and financier and voic-
ing the hope of the Southern busi-
ness man and developer of the
South's resources, says:
| “If the railroad mileage of Alaba-
ma were double what it is, the
transporation facilities of that State
would not be equal to those enjoyed
by the people of Indiana. No State is
more abundantly endowed by nature
than Alabama. Soil and climate are
all that could be desired. Her moun
tains and fills are full of iron, coal,
and stone. Birmingham ts one of
the marvels of American energy and
the product of railroads. The north
ern part of the State should abound
in manufacturing cities, aggregating
millions of inhabitants, busy in the
hives of industry. All’ that is lack-
ing is for the corporations and the
people to practice justice in their
mutual Intercourse and be friends.
“And friends they would be If it
were as odious for politicians to
practice demagogy in Alabama as It!
now is for corporations to operate|
railroads in that State. No other
section is 80 sorely in need of more|
and better roads as the South. It is|
a blind, fatuous folly for tae South,
to discourage the railroad business,
but that is what the South is doing,
and at a time when that region was
hever so prosperous and its destiny
never so promising.”
This ts a plaintiff plea made to,
men, who are permeated with preju-
dice, ee ee ‘the: in
cane; Nat Rati: Che), Ai
jurrted inte the arena, ‘which
they may exereise the full effect of
‘this species of Insanity. BS
It wsed to be that the Southern
Negro’s ‘liberty wos at stake, but
now it fs © of the Northern
white man’s Money being in jeopar-
dy. The diplomatic Southerners at
Washington induced the capitalists
vf the North th jivest untold sums
in developing the resources of the
South, placing in‘uential southern
white men in charge as presidents
and so forth, giving them the direc-
terates while they held the stock in
the North, but believing that the leg-
islative bodies would be so controlled
and the state officials so elected as
to guarantee special favors and pro-
tection to the corporations so estab-
shed.
‘This hope has been realized for
years, until Hon. William J. Bryan
of Nebraska came slong with his con
fiscatory ideas and then followed
Hon. Theodore loosevelt with his
rough-rider policies, doing more
ae to moneyed Interests in six
years of practice than Mr. Bryan
[would ave bec able to do in Atty
‘years of theory
‘The result is ‘hat while the gov-
ernment fs cresting a feeling of
unrest and inviting a eondition of
panic, the sever! states are joining
in the hue ani cry and the Indus-
trial wheels of the country are slow-
ing down Ino way that will bring
hard times to the laboring elements
and disaster (o the small investors
in the secur: of the country.
Warnings like ‘hose volced by the
post are fallin n deaf ears. The
Negro will be t ast one to feel the
effect of all 0 ese financial blun-
ders. Hig polliical rights are wrap-
ped up in the involved and we
[think we see all the dawn of a
‘brighter day for him.
THE COLORED PEOPLE
ARE PROGRESSIVE.
(Continued ‘rom First Page.)
“Well, if they're bad we put ‘em
in the stockac: or the chain-gang,
otherwise the: re turned loose."
1 found, hov:ver, that a new state
Juvenile reforsstory was just being
opened at Mil-igeville—which may
accommodate s few Nexro boys, An
attempt Is abo bemg made in At-
Janta to get hold of some of the
children thigh a new probation
system, T talcd with the excellent
officer, Mr. Gloer who works in
conjunction wih Judge Brosles. He
Teaches a goo: many white boys, but
very few Negroes. Of 1,011. boys
and girls uMder sixteen, arrested In
1905, $19 were black, but of those
given the advantaze of the proba-
tion system 50 were white and only
7 colored. In other words, out of
$19 arrests of negro children only
7 enjoyed the benefit of the proba-
ton system. ©
Mr. Gloer has endeavored to se-
cure a colored assistant who would
help look after the swarming Negro
ghildren who are becoming criminals
The city rerosed to appropriate mon-
ey for tha: purpose, but some of the
leading colored citizens agreed last
Year to contribute one dollar a
month each. and a Negro woman was
employed to help with the colored
children brought dato court. Ex-
cellent work was done, but owing
to the fevling sines the riot the Ne-
RFo assistont has discontinued ber
work.
Care of Orphans.
| Witt y hundreds of Negro
orphan fs and foundlings, the
State does very little to help
Be m were not for the fact
that t roes, something like the
Jews, are wonderfully helpful to one
junothe opting orphan children
with t atest willingness, there
would uch suffering. Several
orphanaces in the State are con-
dueted © colored people them-
selves, ciibor through their church:
es. or rivate subscription. In
Atlant Carrie Steele orphanage,
which is managed by Negroes, has
received appropriation — yearly
from the city, and has taken chil-
dren sent by ‘the elty charities de-
partme ince the riot the appro-
briation was suddenly cut off with-
out explacation, but through the ae-
tivities of (he new Civic League It
has, I understand, been restored.
Without proper reformatories or
asylums, ith small advantage of the
Probation system, hundreds of Ne-
&ro children are on the streets of
Atlania ccery day—shooting craps,
Stealing, \carning to drink. A few,
shut up in the stockade, or in chain:
Kangs, without any attempt to re-
form them or teach them, take les-
sons in crime from older’ offenders,
and come out worse than they went
in. They spread abroad the law-
lessness they learn and finally com-
mit some frightful crime and get
back into the ehain-gang for life—
ieece they make a profit for the
State!
| Every chitd, white or colored, ts
getting an education somewhere. If
that education Is not in sehools, or
at home, or in cages of incorrigi-
bility, in proper reformatories, then
it is on the, streets or in chain-
gangs.
Why Negro Children Are Not in
School.
My curiosity, aroused by the very
large number of young prisoners,
led me next to inquire why these
children were not in school. 1 vis-
ie eee Se ocbools aad tale
with L. M. Landrum, the able as-
sistant superintendent. Compulsory
education is not practiced anywhere
inthe South, #0 that children may
rin treets unless their ts
insist upon sending them to school.
I found mor oe, oe nowever,|
iFerowing tie, both
forth, it has been di Ses
athe Neriay the, tsusmend“clawes
are often neglected, so in the
the lowest class—which Is the Ne-
gro—is neglected. Several new
schools have been built for white
children, but there has been no new
school for colored children in. fif-
teon or twenty years (though one
Negro private school has been ta-
ken over within the last few years
by the city). So crowded are the
colored schools that they have two
sessions a day, one squad of chil-
dren coming in the forenovn, anoth-
er in the afternoon, The ‘colored
teachers, therefore, do double work.
for which they receive about two.
thirds as much as the white teach-
ers.
Though many Southern cities
have instituted industrial training in
the public schools, Atlanta so far
has done nothing. ‘The president of
the Board of Education in his re-
port (1903) calls attention to this
fact, and says also:
“While on the subject of Negro
schools, permit me to call your at.
tention to thelr overcrowded condi.
tion. In every Negro school many
teachers teach two sets of pupils,
each set for one-haif of a school pay.
“The last bond election was car-
ried by a majority of only thirty-
three votes. To my personal know]-
edge more than thirty-three Ne-
groes voted for the bonds on the sol-
emn assurance that by the passage
of the bonds the Negro children
would receive more school accom-
modations.”
The eagerness of the colored peo-
ple for a chance to send their chil-
Yiren to school is something aston:
ishing and pathetic. They will sub-
mit to all sorts of inconveniences in
order that their children may get
an education. One day I visited the
mill neighborhood of Atlanta to see
how the poorer classes of white peo-
ple lived. I found one very com-
fortable home occupied by a fam
fly of mill employees. They hired
& negro woman to cook for them,
and while they sent their children
to the mill to work, the cook sent
bee Chlidren- tn nennth)
a SS BEOES EGucate Themselves.
Here is a curious and significant
thing I found in Atlanta. Because
there is not enough room for Ne-
sro children In public schools, the
colored people maintain many pri-
vate schools. The largest of these,
called Morris Brown College, has
nearly 1,000 pupils. Some of them
are boarders from the country, bat
the greater proportion are day pus
pils from seven years old up who
gome in from the neighborhood.
This “college.” in reality a gram-
mar school, ts managed and largely
Supported by tuition and contribu.
tions from Negroes, though some
subscriigtions are obtained in the
North. Besides this “college” there
are many small private schools con-
ducted by Negro women and sup-
ported wholly by the tuition paid—
the Negroes thus voluntarily taxing
themselves heavily for thelr_edues
tional opportunities. One afternoon
in Atlanta I passed a small, rather
dilapidated home. Just ax it reach
ed the gate I heard a great cackling
of voices and much laughter, Col
ored children began to. pour out
of the house. “What's this?” sald,
amd T turned in to see. T found @
Negro woman, the teacher, standing
in the doorway, She had just dts-
missed her papits for recess. She
was holding school in two little
rooms where some fifty children
must have been crowded to suffoca-
ton, Everything was very primi-
uve and inconvenient—but it was
& school! She collected, she told
me, a dollar a month tuition for each
child. Mollie MeCue’s school, per-
haps the best known private school
for Negroes In the cuy, has 256 pu-
pils.
Many children also find education-
al opportunities In the Negro col-
leges of the clty—Clark University,
Atlanta University and Spellman
Seminary, which are supported part-
ly by the Negroes themselves and
partly by Northern philanthropy.
Mr. Landrum gave me a copy of
the last statistical report of red
school board (1903), from which’
these facts appear: .
White—School population, 14
465; Namber of schools, 20; Teach-
ers, 200; Seats, 10,052; Without
seats, 4,412.
Colored—School population, 8,-
118; Number of schools, 5; Teach-
ers, 49; Seats, 2,445; Without seats,
5,673.
Even with a double daily session
for colored pupils nearly half of the
Negro children in Atlanta, even in
1993, were barred from the public
schools from lack of facilities, and
the number has increased largely in
the last four years. Some of these
jare accommodated in the private’
schools and colleges which I have:
mentioned, but there still remain
hundreds, even thousands, who are
getting ‘no schooling of ‘any ‘kind,
but who are nevertheless being edu-
cated—on the streets, and for crim-
inal lives,
ei
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YOUNGSTOWN, 0, Aug. 14-Fire
that originated in the plant of the Fre-
donia Carriage company threatened the
entire city for a time and caused a loss
of more than $100,000. Burning em-
bers were carried by the wind to all
parts of the city, and hundreds of roofs
Were ablaze at the same time.
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BOSTON, Aug. 12.—In the great des-
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David Todd of Amberst college and
his wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, are now
studying the canals on the planet Mars
‘with a powerful eighteen inch telescope
endeavoring to find eu: if the planet is
inhabited. ’
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800 guests in the hotel, but no one way
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CAID MACLEAN FREE.
Bandit Ratwult Gives Up Prisoner.
Casnblanea Hesteged.
TANGIER, Aug. 14.—Caid Sir Harry
MacLean was handed over by his cap-
tor, the bandit Ralsull, to the Elkmes
tribe, who in their turn have now set
him at liberty.
Caid Sir Harry MacLean is an Eng-
lishman, For many years past he has
been an adviser of the sultan of Mo-
Tocco, holding the post of, commander
of the sultan’s bodyguard. He was cap-
tured by the bandit Raisull early tn
July of this year for the purpose, as
Raisuli subsequently explained, of
foreing the sultan's government to
treat him with justice.
Fur thousand Moors attacked Casa-
blanca in the early morning, but were
repulsed.
‘The tribesmen displayed dauntless
courage, charging repeatedly almost to
the French guns, but a hail of shrap-
nel shells finally drove them back with
heavy losses in killed and wounded,
‘The fire of the warships in the road-
stead was terribly effective on the
Masses of native horsemen,
Casablanca is virtually destroyed,
and naturalized American citizens
there have lost everything.
General Drude, in command at Ca-
fablanca, bas asked for re-enforce-
ments to the number of 13,000, his
present force being inadequate for of-
fensive work.
TENNESSEE RAMS MYRONUS.
Schooner Sank by Neptune Line
Steamer Of Bridgeport.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Aug. 14.—
Four men were drowned as tho result
of a collision off here between the three
masted schooner Myronus, bound from
Portland, Me. and the Neptune line
steamboat Tennessee, from Fall River
to New York. The schooner went down
with four of the crew. The captain of
the sailing craft and one of the crew
Were rescued by the Tennessee.
‘The Tennessee was crowded with
passengers aud was making very near-
ly her schedule time when her bow
Struck the schooner amidships, tearing
@ great hole in the wooden planking.
The Myronus sank immediately.
Captain Belatty, ber commander, and
one of her crew, who were on deck,
Jumped overboard. ‘The sailor swam
to the Tennessee and was hauled on
board, but Captain Belatty was 2 poor
swimmer and shouted fa bey Joneh
Kennedy, a clerk of 220 away,
New York, and Michael J. Coffin, an
oller of the United States battleship
New Jersey, both passengers on the
Tennessee, jumped tnto the water and
brought him alongside the steamer and
supported him until a boat was launch-
ed. He was taken on board the Ten-
nessee.
ON DANGEROUS GROUND.
Fete ce rt Stent ee eee Ak a
Barly Dawn,
OYSTER BAY, N. ¥., Aug. 14.—A
bear to which no one claims ownership
has taken up his home in the woods
on Sagamore Hill, and in the early
foggy hours of the morning he paid a
Visit to the residence of President
Roosevelt,
‘The trampling of the mderbrush at
the edge of the cleared knoll on which
the president's summer home ts sit-
uated roused the secret service guard
to activity. While the sleuth went
into the woods the bear came boldly
into the clearing. When the guard re-
turned to his post after a vain search
for the cause of the noise, be was
given another start by bearing scrateh-
ing on the roof of a Jean-to at the rear
of the president's house. Up to the
roof went the guardsman, but what
he saw caused him to stop and pinch
himself and rub his eyes. As he was
doing this the bear made over the oth-
er side, jumped to the ground and
ambled off toward the woods again.
‘The secret service men hastily organ:
{zed the household dogs and stableman
into a hunting party. For three hours
the hunt lasted, from 3 until 6 o'clock,
but the bear had got away. His tracks
have been carefully guarded and pre-
sent the only real evidence to substan-
tiate the story,
There are several pet bearr near
Oyster Bay, and it is believed one of
them escaped and went to visit the
president.
Ge Band a Geeutes Eaten
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Navy cir-
cles are agitated over a report that the
British admiralty 1s about to build a
ship of 40,000 tous, much greater than
the Dreadnought. It is difficult to se-
cure information respecting the pians,
and st is said that the British govern:
ment is again proceeding, as in the
case of the Dreadnought, to build the
vousel bebind closed gates. Thus the
British navy fe kept at least two years
ahead of any other country.
Hughes to Visit Chautauqua.
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 13.—Governor
Flughes has cousented to speak at
Chautauqua the latter part of the
month. He will go to Gettysburg bat-
fefield with the New York state mon-
ument committee on Sept. 26 to be
present Seat or een of the statue
to Major George Sears Greene.
“Lora” Darrington Not to Die.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 14—When “Lora”
Barrington, who Is in jail at Clayton,
‘Was notified that the governor had com-
muted his sentence to life imprisonment
he recsived the information in sullen
silence. Barrington declined to make
any statement, Me will be taken to
‘the Jefferson City pesitentiasy.
THE PLANET
POINTED OUT VICTIM
Hunchakist Had Marked Tavshan-jian For Death.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—With the confession of Kissak Jellallian that he was an agent of Alexam Azroool, head of the Hunchakist society, and the further admission that he was an accomplice in the murder of Tavshan-jiap, the Armenian rug merchant, District Attorney Jerome believed the complete solution of the Hunchakist conspiracy was now only a matter of a short time.
Acting on information furnished by Jellallian, the police raided a cellar at 317 East Forty-fifth street, where they
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KISSAK JELLALIAN.
selzed a number of daggers, revolvers
and other articles useful in the busi-
ness of murder. These, Jellalian told
them, were the property and stock in
trade of the Hunchakists.
Jellalian, who was arrested Sunday
night, was examined by District
Attorney Jerome after he had been
charged with complicity in the Hun-
chakist conspiracy and held in $5,000
ball. He weakened immediately and
told the district attorney of having
gone to Union square with Bedros
Hampartzoonian and pointing out
Tavshanjanian as the man who was
marked for death by the Hunchakist
society and Arzoolian, its head. He
said Arzoolian had given explicit
instructions as to how the murder was
to be done.
GOOLD KILLED HER.
Marseilles Trunk Mystery Unveiled by Police.
MARSEILLES, Aug. 14. — Vere St. Leger Goold has confessed that he was the murderer of Emma Levin, a wealthy Swedish woman, whose dismembered body was found in the trunks of Mr. Goold and his wife upon their arrival here Aug. 6 from Monte Carlo.
This "trunk mystery" created much excitement, especially as it was soon learned that the Goodls, who are English, were of good family. Their explanations of how the corpse came to be in their baggage were in no sense convincing, and the confession of Goold does not come as a surprise.
He made his confession to the examining magistrate and related coolly all the details of the horrible crime. He alone had shin the woman, he declared, and it was he who cut up her body, although his wife had helped him pack it away in their baggage.
A late dispatch says that Vere St.
Leger Good has hanged himself in
prison.
Standing of the Baseball Clubs.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
W. L. P.C.
Chicago 56 28
New York 69 40
Pittsburg 58 41
Philadelphia 53 44
Brooklyn 48 55
Cincinnati 48 58
Boston 38 63
St. Louis 29 78
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
W. L. P.C.
Philadelphia 58 38
Detroit 58 39
Chicago 61 54
Cleveland 59 43
New York 45 54
Beoston 44 56
St. Louis 42 57
Washington 39 62
Traitors In Russian Guard Camp.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 14.-The annual army maneuvers opened at Krasnoe-Selo with a grand parade, which was witnessed by Emperor Nicholas and the foreign military attaches. A man attached to the engineer corps and two women were caught in the camp of the crusaders in the act of distributing proclamations calling upon the army to dethrone the reigning dynasty. The police believe these persons were emissaries of the Military league and trying to bring about a demonstration similar to that which occurred July 26, when the Seminovsky regiment refused to go on parade.
Body Found With Four Wounds.
PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y., Aug.
14.—The body of an unknown man
about fifty years old, whom the
authorities believe to have been murdered,
was found in the bay off this place.
There were bullet wounds in the chin,
head, neck and wrist. The body had
been in the water two weeks. On it
was a watch inscribed with the name
of M. Singers of New York, a card
with the name of Peter J. Doyle, a
hotel proprietor of Stamford, Conn.
and a notebook with the name of
Joseph Winters of Stamford.
Richard Hardlag Davis In Scrap.
ASBURY LINE, N. Y., Aug. 14.—
Richard Harding Davis, the writer, who came here to witness a presentation of his comedy, "The Yankee Tourist," at the Casino, had a short bout with Mr. Walter Rosenbery after a quarrel at the Casino.
HIS FATHER IS ALIVE
Frank Rockefeller Now Preparing a "Real History."
REPORTED TO HAVE HORRIBLE TALE
Brother Declares the United States Will Be Too Warm For Its Richest Citizen When All Facts Are Known.
NEW YORK, Aug.14.—The World asserts that John D. Rockefeller's father is alive. It states that for eighteen months it has hunted the country for him in vain and concludes he is hiding. When the article by Miss Ida Tarbell on John D.'s father appeared in McClure's Magazine a year and a half ago, Frank Rockefeller, according to the World, told a World reporter that the story was an outrageous libel and that he wanted the papers "to leave his father alone."
Mr. Rockefeller was assured that if he would consent to reveal the whereabouts of his father the story should be published in his own words.
"If I consent to give the facts to the World for publication when the right time comes, will the World agree to publish nothing until that time?" he asked.
The promise was given with an added provision that when the time should come to publish the facts the proof sheets of the article should be submitted to Mr. Rockefeller for final approval. These terms and conditions were reported to the World office that night and were at once ratified in a letter to Mr. Rockefeller. Now, the World alleges, Frank Rockefeller has broken the contract by denying the existence of it and by threatening if his interview was published to "brand it as a lie." Accordingly the World considers itself absolved from its promise to Mr. Rockefeller and publishes an interview obtained from him in Cleveland, it claims, eighteen months ago. The interview follows:
"My father is alive and well," said Mr. Rockefeller. "He is dependent upon no man. He would scorn the proffer of financial aid from John D. and would not take it from me. He has means of his own, ample for all his needs. But there is a reason why I cannot at this time tell you where he is. In a few weeks or months I will be ready to tell a story that will amaze and horrify the whole world. "No one yet knows that I am writing the story, the real history of John D.'s life. I finished it secretly here in my office several months ago, but there were imperfections in the work and I am doing it all over again. Best assured that it will be right this time. When I make John D.'s true life history public and explain the facts about father, this country will be too warm for its richest citizen.
"Go ask John D. where our father is; tell him that I sent you and that I dare him to answer. But the time will soon come when I can safely speak. Then it will not be safe for John D. to appear upon the streets of any American city. He would be stoned by the people. Nothing but flight from the country to some foreign land will save his life when the whole monstrous truth is known. Strange talk for a brother, isn't it?" asked Frank Rockefeller jawsing. "Terrible talk from one brother about another, but what I say is literally true. John D. is not a human being. He is a monster; merciless in his greed, pitiless in his cold, inhuman passions. "Behind his mask of plety and kindness he laughs at all humanity. He is literally a madman who believes that he is a god who cannot sin."
Mrs. Harold F. McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, in an interview here defended her father against the criticism of Frank Rockefeller, who charged that the president of the Standard Oil company had maliciously wrecked his business career.
"Jeanousy," said Mrs. McCormick, "brought about by my uncle's signal lack of business ability, is the cause of the vituperation he has heaped upon my father.
"My father holds no malice against him. It may not be consistent with the usual picture drawn of my father, but he holds malice against no man.
"My uncle's failure to profit by the fortune of my father and his repeated failures in business have been wormwood and gall to him. The bitterness has grown from year to year. It has taken for its objective point the brother who has prospered."
Mrs. McCormick declares it is true that her grandfather is alive.
BELFAST, Aug. 14.—The strike situation is held to have improved insomuch as steps are under way to arbitrate the differences between the laborers and their employers. Sir Antony Patrick MacDonnell, undersecretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, has been in conference with the local officials and the labor leaders with the view of arranging a settlement of the disputed points.
Edward and Kaiser Meet.
BERLIN, Aug. 14.—Today at Wilhelmshoe King Edward was welcomed to Germany by the kaiser. Members of the government look upon King Edward's second visit to the German emperor in the course of a year as a happy augury for the future relations of the two nations.
MANILA, Aug. 14.—Fire in Manila destroyed 120 native houses and made 600 people homeless. The damage is estimated at 65,000 pesos. The fire originated from an electric wire and swept over a space 1,000 yards square.
HOLDS CANADA CUP.
Senecn Defeats Challenger Yacht
Adele Three Straight.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 14--Three
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straight for the Seneca. The Herroshoff boat, built for the Rochester Yacht club to defend Canada's cup against the Adele of the Royal Canadian Yacht club, won the third and decisive race of the series, crossing the finish line at 2:31:50, official time, and more than a mile ahead of the challenger.
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 14. - With such force did Representative Irving P. Wanger of Norrlistown drive a golf ball that William H. Dixon of 2025 Ontario street, his partner in the game, is in the hospital suffering from a fractured leg. The accident occurred on the grounds of the Bala Golf club.
Canadians Want Two Cent Rate.
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MAKES
IT
GROW
LONG
AND
LUXURIOUS
LINCOLN
HAIR POMADE
The only cheek-colored hair and skin
the best for all hair types and skin tones
a using the new hair care line by Lincoln
THE LINCOLN POMADE CO.
BROOKFIELD, N.Y. 10, B.A.
SOFTENS
THE
HAIR
AND
KEEPS IT
FROM
BREAKING
KEEPS
SCALP
FRESH
CLEAN
AND
WHOLESOME
If your hair is short. If your head is full of dandruff. If your scalp is diseased, LINCOLN HAIR POMADE will make it grow, remove the dandruff and cure scalp diseases. LINCOLN HAIR POMADE is highly perfumed and is the finest toilet preparation on the market. All we ask is for you to give it a trial and we feel confident the result will be so satisfactory that you will recommend it to your friends. Be sure and get the genuine and refuse weak and inferior substitutes. For sale at all Drug Stores.
The Lincoln Pomade Company,
NORFOLK, VA., U. S. A.
If your dealer does not keep it, sen will send you a bottle by return mail. for particulars.
dealer does not keep it, send his name and
a bottle by return mail. Agents wi
s.
If your dealer does not keep it, send his name and 20 cents in silver and we will send you a bottle by return mail. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for particulars.
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Before making your purchase you would do well to call at the most reliable furniture house in the city and see the fine line of
REFRIGERATONS,
MATTINGS,
OIL-CLOTHS
And in fact everything that is needed in house furnishings.
RUGS AND
CARPETS
Of every description; also the latest designs in ROCKERS and special CHAIRS.
Our goods are the best for the price and the price is very low.
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WORK OF ALL
OUR AIM
is to please our patrons and to
give them the best service at
the lowest prices, consistent
with satisfactory work.
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om Embrace
NE WRITING—FLAT AND
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features, the most annoyance. FOR FURT
Jol
COLN POMADE
SOFTENS THE HAIR AND KEEPS IT FROM BREAKING KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLESOME
les or Mars Her Beauty.
Our head is full of dandruff. If COLN HAIR POMADE will dandruff and cure scalp diseases, it is highly perfumed and is at the market. All we ask is the feel confident the result will recommend it to your friends. And refuse weak and inferior drug Stores.
5 CENTS.
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pomade Company,
On and after April 1st, 1907, sched ule via the popular York River Line will leave Richmond at 4:30 P. M. daily except Sunday, returning leave Baltimore at 5 P. M. daily except Sunday. Very low rates one way and round trip to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. It's the best way to reach Northern and Eastern points.
Excursions to Jamestown Exposition
Commencing April 19th and continuing daily to November 30, 1907 Southern Railway will sell season sixty day, fifteen day and ten day excursion tickets to Norfolk, Va. and return at reduced rates account the above; and on Tuesday of each week coach excursion tickets, not good in parlor or pullman cars, will be sold at greatly reduced rates, limited seven days. Inquire of Southern Railway Agents.
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We furnish "cuts" when desi complete special work in our line, call and see us and
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braces a full
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OF WOOD
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John Mitchell, Jr.
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HEAR O ES
AE AG ASt eet
It Is not always the great things
men do that kesp thelr memory alive.
Frequently it is some small act of
Kindliness, some plensant speech or
inanly courtesy, which remains in the
minds of those who knew them. So
in Riinols there ts a young man who
thinks of Gen. Sherman not as “Old
Tecumseh,” the soldier, victor ts
strenuous campatsns, says the Youth's
Companion, bnt as a kindly, rough-
bearded old gentleman who | carried
him over miles of road on his lap in
order that at the end ke might really
see hia boyish hero, the soldier.
Ik was tn the early "S08. The county
in which the boy lived was to dedicate
@ soldiers’ monument on Memorial
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So on Memorial Day He Had to Pull
From where the boy lved it was
to 9 But worst o
all n ed all the da:
working ess guaran te
moral da; boy had ito get down
Only sn hour and six miles to go!
Ho knew it was useless. It. would
take him two hours, and when be got
no use fn mayihing anyway. Toars
rolled down his cheeks now and thea,
and he felt like a much abused boy
Every little while a buggy or oar
Hage passed him going tn hts atrec-
But at last, when he was certatn that
he could never xet there, a buggy
which came up froin behind did not
pasa, but stopped beside him.
Helio, bub!" said a kindly voice.
“Going far
The boy looked up through misty
eyes. Two gray and quiztical old
faces peered at him out of a muddy
buggy. Two pleasant old gentlemen
were on the seat
“Y-y-yes, sir—I'm trying to,” sald
the boy.
“Climb in then,” sald the man near
est him, and as the boy, not believing
his ears, put a foot on the step the
man reached out and lifted bim in and
seated him on his lap.
“Where are you going?” he asked.
“I was a-going to the monument,”
said the boy, “but I didn’t think I
would get there. Do you suppose I
will? In time to see Gen. Sherman?”
The old man who was driving
clucked to the horse, and the other,
stroking his beard, said:
“Why—yes, | guess you will. Yes,
I reckon he'll get there. Eh, Dick?”
“Why—why, yes, I reckon so,” sald
the other, ‘Then they both chuckied.
“Want to see the general, eh?” said
the old man who held him. “Don't
care about the governor, eh?”
“No, sir, not so much,” said the
boy, truthfully. “You see, he lives
right here in this state, and he didn't
march through Georgia, or have songs
about bim, or anything.”
“Why, no; so he didn’t! Did he,
Dick?” asked the boy's old gentleman
again. This seemed to amuse them
very much. They chuckled about It
awhile, and then the old gentleman
who held the boy began to tell bim
stories about the campaigns Gen. Sher-
man had fought in and about soldier
fe, stories some of which were in bis-
tory books, but most of them were
new to the boy. Then the other man
told some stories—about Mr. Lincoln.
“Did you know him?” demanded the
boy, and to his delight they both did
ix miles was a long way to walk,
dat tt was a pratt Be ride, and tt
seemed as if they hardly started
when the boy heard a tremes ;
ae cad. aioe ont ieee oe
eee tet ara rer ct eel
‘heering whom? He felt a motion
back of him and turned and saw his
old gentleman take off his hat and
smile and bow, and the other old
gentleman did the same.
They drove up to the square and
set him down and everyone stared
at him, and then he saw them mount
the platform with the committee.
He had, Indeed, arrived tn time to
“see the general,” for it was Gen.
Sherman and Gov. Oglesby who bad
Sroushe tafe.
| The Swiss army will be greatly
amtrengthened by the new military or
ganization. Infantry reeruits in fu-
ture will serve 65 instead of 45 days
yearly with the colors. There will be
no change in the Swiss navy.
THEY MUST BE LOOKED AFTER
CAREFULLY,
One of the Most Important Parts of
the Day's Routine Is the Toilet
of the Mouth and Its Pearly
Contents.
___A woman's smile has been counted
of great tmportance in the ways of
the world this many a long century.
Since there is not much sign to-day of
its power waning, a brief study of the
things that make this gentle charm
should ftuterest many women. It is
true a well-formed mouth with nor-
mally tinted lps and pearlitke, even
teeth Is sometimes the free gift of na-
ture. But she goes only so far; the
‘crowning glory of a woman's smile
can be achieved only through her own
effort. If nature's work is not then
taken up where she left it, it will de
terioriate. To reach perfection, a
‘Woman must mold her thought, ber
ally habits, into channels of perfect
strength and wnfailing care.
The actual form of the lips depends
almost entirely upon character. If na-
ture produces anything that {s at
least normal, the latter character
Dullding carves the shape and mars
or makes the charm. But aside from
‘all this is the dally care that exerts
such an Influence toward a beautiful
mouth. Sweetness, freshness, rows
of pearls. are not only attractive, but
are marks of a gentiewoman. Tho
tollet of the mouth and teeth should
be one of the most important features
of the day's routine. To speak of tho
matter in detail, the mouth should be
Drushed thoroughly with a pleasant
‘wash immediately upon rising. It ie
well then to drink a glass of cool
water, After breakfast the teeth
should be serahbed with a cleansing
powder: aain after Iuncheon: again
after dinner; ant arcain with the
Mouth wash sust before going to bed.
‘There ts scarcely a greater indignity
to the teeth than poking {adiserimk
pately ainons them with metal inatru-
tents, such as plas Objectionable
material should always be removed
with @ soft Muat plece of wood, or a
thread of dental fos, Should more
sitontivh tadane ever be: noceuary. (a
viet shoeld be pald to the dentist.
The expense of the monthly or bh |
monthly clean'ng with the dentint’s
emery wheel and various polishers,
can be saved by a woakly treatment
at home. ‘This. anyway, Is more prac:
teal In the end. Wet the end of an
orange stick in a strong solution of
dioxide. Put the former in a box of
powdered pnmice stone: and with this
paste carefully scrub the entire sur-
face of the tooth, being most particu.
Relc of Battles at Washington
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A Howitzer from Texas.
In wha he called the front
yard of tho war depactient building,
the sunken srrdon facing Pennsyl
vanla ave 8 an interesting col
lection of red trophies, ‘They
are guns which have come from va-
rious places, aud which have been
mounted as a means of preserving and
exhibiting the different classes of oré.
bance used in former years
One of these is a revolutionary gun
of about six-inch caller, a bronze how:
ftzer. It bears the monogram of
George Il, and was evidently built by
one Gilpin In 1760, ft is a fine spect.
men of bronze casting, and was sur
rend" by the Saratoga couvention
in October, 1777.
Near at hand fs a casttron how-
ftzer, which wzs presented to the re-
public of Texas by Gen, T. I. Cham-
bers. It bears the single star em-
biematic of the Lone Star republic.
Interesting objects in the colleo
tion are two bronze guns bearing the
title St. Matthew and St. Mark. They
were captured In Mexico, and be
Jonged to a battery of four guns, one
of which is pow jn Fremont, O., and
another at Governor's island, in New
York harbor.
Another variety of gun is a bronze
seacoast rifle of 6% inches caliber,
which was captured by the United
States at Santiago in 1898. It was
‘Gtelet) Mimehs.
lar to reach the Tamost crevice’. This
operation wil! keep away deposits of
tartar and preserve the whiteness of
the enamel. Dioxide, by the way, te
an excellent antiseptic. In concluding,
‘the intelligent reader necd hardly be
reminded of the wisdom of giving the
care of the teeth into the bands of a
dentist Immediately upon discovering
need of his professional services.
ie
| MAKES A NICE PRESENT.
Table-Center That Has Groundwork
of White Satin.
New {deas for dainty table-centers
are always welcome, since there are
few presents which can be made eas
Hy and quickly at home that are more
acceptable than one of these useful
accessories for the dinner table.
In the accompanying illustration
miny be seen something quite new in
the way of a table-center, carried out
in soft, white oriental satin or corded
silk, with a border cut out in scal-
lops all the way round, and sewn over
with buttonhole etitches in gold<cok
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ored thread. Forming a trellis.work
across the middie, there are straps of
gold ribbon, each strap finished at the
ond with @ little bow, while the de-
sign fs outilued by a similar arrange.
ment carried out also in gold ribbon.
Single sprays of roses embroidered Im
palo shades of yellow complete. the
decoration, which might be carried
cut, of course, in other calors, and
with other flowers if preferred.” Pale
pink ribbons, for instance, with an
embroidery of forget mencts, would
be very pretty, while pale green sib
bons might be used if prinroses or
daffodils were chosen for the em-
enemies
Often one bas a large fishbow! not
tn use, yet It can be transformed Into
& beautiful ornament. Fill the bot-
tom with pebbles, cover with leaf
maold and plant tm it Japancso ferns,
which grow only a few inches tall.
Pack moss around the plant and water
thoroughly. The bowl creates a
molsture {f covered, nourishing the
plants, and it will not be necessary to
water the planta more than once ey-
ery threo weeks Never place tn
strong sunlight and do uot always
keep Ushtly covered.
Foresight.
“I have a great {dea for a successful
problem play,” said the literary young
man,
“In that case,” answered Miss Cay-
enne, “propriety demands that we
abruptly change the conversation.”—
Washington Star.
Its Kind.
“It certainly is the fact that artist
you speak of has @ touch which never
fails to score.”
“That's true. I'm not easy, but he
got a tenner out of me."—Baltimore
dinerions.
evidently made in Seville, back tn
1779. It ts w fine example of bronze
casting, as tudeed are all of these old
Two relics of the revolution are
represented by sBip's guns of cast-
iron. They were made by Boven in
1760. They are without embellish-
went or record, but are notable for
thelr workmanshtp.
A gun which bears many emblems,
ae and insignia is a bronze
eannon which was taken at Santiago
in 1898. The records show that it was
made in France in 1748, and St is high.
ly prized as an example of design and
production in bronze. The outside of
the gun bears its name “Le Farouche”
(the Fierce), a Latin motto, the em-
blem of the house of Bourbon, the
French crown and coat of arms, the
motto of Louls XIV. and a biazing
sun. Altogether, it is an ornate struc
ture for a weapon bearing so formida-
die a title,
‘The collection is most eppropriately
lodged within the war department res-
ervation adjoiniag the White House.
It presents fino examples of types of
ordnance which have outlived their
days of efficiency. The trophies repre-
sent, of course, the American achteve-
ments in battle and are at once tn
structive as an exhibit and tnapiring
mseancaml. .
THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA.
An Odd Decoration.
Foresight.
its Kind.
Rnig p
nights of Pythias,
N. A.,S.A,E. A., A. AND A,
——————————
EID This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its
MA Progress has been phenominal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris
[xf = %\ diction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty male:
I ACY _¥} 2 required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitate om:
Ny Geo of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything
Noe By else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Be
Se) nevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order
~ Ss ¥ worthy of their heartiest support
Shey It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. I
—_ pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the
only absolutely essary regalla. For information e oacerning the orgauzaition of lodges
apply at the main office. ©
The Courts of Calanthe
Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of
thirty persoms 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, so cents and
arosette, 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 mystte
circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays tor
$1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death beaeGts of from $30.09 to $40.09. If you have'usPythian
Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrnize one.
| For all information concerning the Children's Department address,
Mrs. Anna Taytor, W. M.,
120 W. Hill St, Richmond, Va.
For all information concerning special raies of ~ JOHN MITCHELL, JR.,
membership iu the ledges and courts, address 311 N. ath St, Richmond, Va
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eokaeT winesin: | @®ARKY DOD ANAManarom 1
When the new boarder came fnte
dinner at the hirhiy select boarding
‘house in Bayswate: |: was rather late
‘Only one oF two were at the table be
‘sides the landlady le spoke to nc
one until the waitrr laid a plate of
meat before him, and then be burst
out:
“Great Scot! Do you call this a din.
ner fit for a eivilics! man? Why on
earth don't you r: some victuals fit
to eat? What do you call this carrion
here—*
He did not fnich his question, for
as his eye swept up to the head of
the table he causht the landlady’s
stern glanee, and she interrupted him
‘with anger in ber tones.
“What do you mean, sir, by such
questions? Td have you know that
Tm not accustomed! to hear such un
talled-for eriticiss: of my table, and I
won't have it. if you don't Uke the
food, and 1f you can't behave yourself
you can look for another boarding
place, and do It at ence.”
The cowplainer quailed under the
rebuke, and replied, submisetvely:
“I beg your pardon, ma'am, Indeed
Ido. Y forgot for the moment that I
was away from home, ant thought I
was talking to my wife. It sha‘n't o¢-
cur again.”
eam ees
The true wowan is never unfemt.
nine. It is the female who despises
sex and its !raftations, who hates
home and children, who ‘6 ever at
war with men, who envies them, un-
dersells ther, rates them, who has
neither beauty, charm, nor warm, nat
ural affections—she is the unsexed
woman, though she may never have
donned pantaloons or carried a gun,
or even murdered a harmless Little
Bird—London Graphic,
Locket Again in Favor.
The sentimestal girl, she who ts ad-
dicted to tying her letters with blue
ribbons and secreting locks of hair in
her top bureau drawer, will be glad to
hear of the renaissance of the old-fash-
foned locket. This pendant, in submis.
sion to the style of 20 years ago, is
either heart-:!)ped or oval and gener.
ally has a sms\! drop of gold attached,
which makes : look Uke our grand.
mothers’ earrings.
All the Comforts of Home.
A Rerlin landlord thus advertises an
eligible flat: “Nine large rooms, bath
and necessary offices, hot and cold
water, gas and electric light, electric
lifts, vacuum cleaning, fur coat de
posltory, safe deposit vaults, and in
every flat is installed @ carpet-clean.
ing machine, « large clock regulated
by electricity trom the Berlin Obser-
vatory and a mangling machine.”
Inventors, Attend!
Suppose that one could find an alloy
that would bear the same relation to
aluminuzn that steef does to carbon or
bronze to t says the Engineering
Record. The result would be a new
structural material of tmmense im-
portance in mechanical work. The
builders of light machinery are look-
ing for just this thing.
—
' Not Hie Dog. .
“T think a dog has @ good deal of tn-
telligence,” said the man with the
‘spaniel, “but 1 am not as bad as
‘Browne. He actually had the cheek
to tell me that he was thinking of
studying German,s¢o that he could talk
to his wife without the dog under-
standing every word he said.”
Effective.
“Come on, old man. It’s nothing but
® lot of coeds trying to play base-
ball.” .
“Don’t be in a burry. I'm admiring
that pretty pitcher's wonderful
‘curves.”"—Chicago Tribune.
Playing Safe.
“What s your idea in taking out an
accident policy?” queried the young
man. “Are you to travel?” *
I wee maria Jast week, you
was
know.”"—Chicago News.
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: - oy
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Offers a new Undergraduate Course of three years for training practical farmers in
modern methods. | Young mea without mouey can earn their way. All who have}
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PRINCIPAL, HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Hampton, Virginia,
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Established 1590, “Phone 4160.
HIGHER WAGES TO!"
NEGRO WORKMEN é |
a Dealer in General Line of
Secured by This New Union! FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES,
Order—Grows By Leaps and| NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, Cl. _
Bounds—Started Five Years} GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, .
Ago with Nothing But a “Prin-| WOOD, COAL, &.
ciple"—Now Has Over 400 11 8. «1H ST., RICHMOND, VA.
Subordinate Lodges and 36,000 .
Members. Saeay een ee |
Over 310,000 homies of our people have
been ‘filed with joy, because Of the Pro-
tection of a great and powerful Union
Order, which is using its strength und
iniluence to secure better conditions tor
our people. This is the first and only
great Union Order in this country, hold-
ing an International Union Charter
from the Courts, which giv s full Pro-
tection and Henefits to our race.
There is no color, race or sex dis-
crimination 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 ady
vance the condition of the members, by
securing equal opportunities to work
with other workmen, to learn the trades
and to have steady work at high wages
and Union hours.
|The Grand Lodge donates $100.00 for
‘the burial of each deceased member. A
fine monthly Journal is published. A
Membership Book of the Order is recog-
nized by all Lodges everywhere. Dis-
tressed “members are assisted. Each
ember and Subordinate Lodge has the
privilege of buying stock in the Order,
on low monthiy payments, said stock
paying 8 per cent interest, guaranteed.
| A Leading Negro Deputy is wanted
in each locality, AT ONCE, to form
Lodges, sell Buttons, take Journal Sub-
scriptions, sell Stock and act as DIS-
Trier DEPUTY ORGANIZER. This
work can i eee es but
many are devotir weir whole time and
attention to it. Big money is made by
good hustlers.
Write at ones. State name of this
wr, and enclose 10 cents for full in-
Sepetion and postage. Address
THE L. L. U. GRAND Lopce,
34 to 40 Canby Building, Dayton, Ohio.
Need Awakening.
Though men are accused of not
knowing their weakness, yet perhaps
& few know their own strength. It is
in men as fn soils, where sometimes
there is a vein of gold, which the
owner knows not of —Swift.
To Foretell Wet Months.
‘Place 12 onions in a row on Christmas
day, name each atter a month and put
salt on thelr tops. Those on which
the salt is melted inside of 12 days
will be wet months, according to Long
Island weather science.
liaetiaatint e te
Litde more than onehaif of the per.
sons arrested for crimes in New York
city were born outside of this coun:
try. According to numbers they stand:
Italy, Russia, Germany, Ireland, Aus
tria, England.
Sad Plight.
Bating fn restaurants has driven
many @ man into matrimony, declares
the Delineator, and living in boarding
houses and hotels ister has ¢rivea
many a man out of matrimony.
Established 1809. "Phone 4100.
JOHN FOXEL,
Dealer in General Line of
PANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES,
NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, Cl-
GARS, TOBACCO, ICE,
WOOD, COAL, &c.
11 8. 4TH sT., RICHMOND, VA.
setrese ol Seems
BOARDING & LODGING
Rates Reasonable. All the Comorts
7% ottiome @ @
Orders recetved by letter or telegraph
MKS. BOOKER LEPTWICH,
Peoraierazse
816 N. 2nd St, Richmond, Vs
H F Jonathan
FISH, OYSTZR3 AND
PRODUCE.
120 N. 17TH Bt. RICHMOND, va
‘ALL ORDERS WILL RRECNIVE
: PROMPT ATTENTION.
Long Distance Phone. 753,
pera
/ Faithtutners,
| ‘There te nothing posable toa
human greater thas steeple, fatthful
lvea—afalthle 1, Raboost
OK alt the clang’ exireanons. wits
Hwhich we are afflicted today, observes
the Rallroad Man'e Magazing, the we
that mean the most are, "Its up te
You" and “On the job.”
ae gree Sie)
Boston has a man who cannot yawn
without dislocating his jaw. He
should be thankful he doesn't ilve in
Philatelphia.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In Deadly Panama,
It ts said that there are more men
buried to the square foot along the
Une of the Panama canal than in any
other part of the world.
Strength from Resistance.
Every evil to which we do not snc
cumb fs a benefactor. We gain the
‘strength of the temptation we resist—
Emerson,
Proper Incubator Heat.
In hatching chickens artificially the
extreme heat used in the Incubator
should not exceed 104 degrees Fahren-
eit.
‘No Monopoly in Vanity. ~
‘There is just as much man vanity
'in the world as there is woman vanity,
only it hasn't been so well advertised.
MRS. JOSIE A. GRAHAM,
oes Most Success-
ful Hair Culturist.
108 E. Leigh St., = Richmond, ¢
"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
bare temples, 25ets, per jar. “By
mail, 35cte,
Graham's Superior Orange Flower
Skin Fo * for developing and beauti
fying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail
Sbets,
Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid
Powder for giving the face a beau-
uful fair color, 25 cents a bottle.
By mail gets.
Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the
dest on market giving a rich natural
color, $1.00 per bottle. By mail,
$1.25,
Mrs. Graham makes a specialty of
massaging and beautifying ladies’
faces for parties and public gather-
Ings, 36 cents.
Mrs. Graham siampoos the head
and puts it in a healthy condition,
25 cents,
All ladies who attend parties and
other social gatherings should have
their finger nafls manicure! and
made beautiful, 26 cents.
Mrs. Graham's preparations sell
at sieht. Ladies Hving in other cf-
tem and towns can make good mon-
ey by selling these preparations.
Write for terms to Mrs. J. A- Gra.
ham, No. 108 E. Leigh St., Rica-
mond, Va.
oe 2048 112 W. Leigh S
John H. Braxton
REAL ESTATE & LOANS
‘Private Banker and Broker,
‘Loans negotiated on Real Estate,
Literest allowed on Deposits,
Estaces managed,
Rent cvilected and Prompt returns
‘Special attention to repairs,
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Established 1892.
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Old Yacht Club,
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We have all grades of good Uquors,
Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see
us.
ISAAC STRAUS & CO.,
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DRALER IN
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CIGARS, &c.
B@-All Stock Sold as Guaranteed.-we
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PHOTOGRAPHER,
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eoueaote rearebrorenm in hnoteerapee
ta trom Old noxatives or Photegeepee eee
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THE ECONOMY,
303—5 North Third St.
SELIIN EY
TAILORING.
CLEANING, DYEING AND
REPAIRING
CHITMAN M. WHITE,
PROPRIETOR.
A. Ha yes
OFFICE AND WARE-RoOMS,
727 North Second Street.
RENDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St,
First-class Hacks and Caskets of all de
scriptions, “I have a spare room for bos
igs when the family have mot g sults
Place, ‘count ers
Special atention, Vout special steven
culled w the new style Oak Canis
see shall be wetted
Sriind s° me and yor shall be wen
"Phone, 2778.
THE STORY OF BUCK AND BRIDE
Sy oS
WG Ys
Ok foe?
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al POA
Se eh Vf
a = st
“Oh, say, grandpa,” said Dickie,
and his head was buried so deeply tn
@ big old trunk in the barn that only
@ pair of sprawly legs and two long
feet hanging on to a nail in the floor
‘Dy the toes, and a dusty trouser seat
could be seen.
“Oh, say, grandpa, here's two of
the dandiest pairs of cows’ horns with
Uttle brass balls on them. Only three
of them look as if they had been
broken off. Can I have ‘em, grandpa?
T asked first.”
“Can't I have one pair, grandpa?"
Degged a voice from another corner,
then a red-faced boy appeared.
“Let me see them,” said grandpa.
“Why, they are old Buck's and Bride's
horns! No, 1 guess I'll keep them a
Kittle while longer. Upon my word,
T'd forgotten about them.
“But, boys, I can tell you a real
00d story about them,” he added.
“When? when grandpa? Now; will
you?” And Dickie swept of a clean
place on a bench with the sleeve of
his coat.
“Well, suppose we wait until after
supper.” That'll be a good time and
I can think about it a little.”
So in the early evening—the time
for story-telling—grandpa sat down
before the fireplace, with a boy on
each side of bim. Each lad had a
stick and a jackknife, whittling.
“Well, to begin at the beginning,”
said grandpa, “when 1 was a little
boy we didn’t have as m&ny horses
in our part of the country as there
are now. But we used oxen, which
are just ax strong and sometimes as
swift as horses. Though usually they
are slow. I guess you have not seen
them very often. ‘They are fastened
together by a wooden yoke and driven
by rein sometimes, but oftener con-
trolled by a person merely speaking
and cracking u whip.
“Father gave me.a pair of young
ones, black and white, and said 1 was
to train them. I was much pleased
and made up my mind that they would
be the best team in the country. [
named them Buek and Bride. 1 was
always gentle and never abused them,
and soon they grew to love me and
would do anything I told them to,
“One day I took them to be shod.
An ox, you know, has a split hoof,
Uke a cow, and so each foot must
have two shoes, That makes eight
shoes to an ox, doesn't it? 1 must
tell you how they shoe oxen, as it
is very different from shoeing a horse.
The ox is first led into a frame about
three feet wide, which is built of
strong timber, with a floor in it. Two
heavy poles push up on each side of
the ox’s shoulders, holding him firm;
then two more just back of his horns,
to which ropes are attached, and
these hold his head and shoulders per-
fectly still. Two broad leather bands,
fastened loosely to poles as high as
the ox's back, are next passed under
his body, and hook on the other side
to another pole, These poles are
turned around, shortening the bands
until the ox is raised off his feet. The
feet are thell roped back, hoot up-
wards to other poles, and ted tightly
so they cannot move. The blacksmith
is then able to nail tho shoes on
quickly, without being bothered by the
animal's struggles.
“Buck and Bride could go so much
better after they had been shod, as
they did not slip in golng over the
rough roads. Ice and melting snow
made it very slippery, and one had to
drive with great care.
“One day, along in April, father
was chopping with a very sharp ax,
and it slipped and cut a gash in his
leg. The blood spurted hig and we
both knew that ho had cut an artery.
‘Together we managed to bind it up
above the avound and stop the blood
flowing, but father was dreadfully
weak.
“You must get me down to Dr.
Mead’s right away,” he said. Sot
managed to partly carry him to the
eleigh and wrap a blanket around
him. Ho held the stick with which
we had twisted the bandages around
his leg, and I drove. We started pret-
ty fast, but 1 had good control of the
oxen, so I didn't care. But just at
@ turning point in the road I heard &
noise and looked back. Father was
tying with his eyes shut and the
biood was bouring from his leg. 1
ropped the reins. 1 was so frightened
I did not know what 1 was doing and
cena © We Abe: Tn:n cabstote 1 bed
“fast now, and t were @
is Rot leave father a ee
Reed nt Bare Ox Cet by ht
saoree see manne ns nee tee: Wee
faster we few. The road was narrow
and very steep. I was terrified. The
oxen were beyond their own contra
now. We were near a turn in the
road. They switched to one side sud-
denly and struck a small tree. It
snapped off and on we went. Another
curve and so sharply did we turn that
the sled partly slipped over the side,
hut only for a second. On it went,
the oxen taking great leaps, unable to
help themselves a bit.
“I had all I could do to hang on and
hold father. We were approaching
the road and on the further side was
a rail, fence. On we flew, scarcely
touching the ground, swerving from
aide to side, tll at last we reached the
road and Jumped across it into the
fence. There was a quick stop, then
on again, but slower. 1 called loudly
to the oxen and they then slackened
up and stopped. oth were tired out
and could scarcely stand or breathe.
But I grabbed the reins and jumped
back into the sleigh. I then managed
to tura around and drive back to the
road by sometimes kneeling on the
reins and turning with one hand and
by calling to them. Father was still
in a faint. I drove right to the doc-
tor's and knocked on the door. The
doctor and I carried father in.
‘Just in time,’ said the doctor.
‘He's pretty far gone.”
“Well, we took him home and put
him to bed. I unharnessed the oxen
}and It wasn’t Ui! then that I saw both
‘of Buck’s horns and one ot Fride's
‘had been broken off. I went back to
the fence and found them. Good,
faitntut animals! They had done their
[best In coming down the hill without
any guiding and had lost thelr pretty
horns. 1 felt awfully bad because
they did not look near so fine. I gave
‘them a good supper and let them rest
for two or three days. The other one
i. Bride's horns we sawed off,
| “Father got well again in a few
| weeks and we were s00n hauling wood
again. But we could never get Buck
and Bride to climb that mountain as
Jong as they ltved. They would go any
piace ‘on level ground, but stopped and
would not Ko a step up a bill. Pather
did not try to make them do It, ashe
sald they had earned the right to do
as they wished about {t| We had
them for many years and finally they
died of old age.
“Those horns are the ones which
were broken off {n our wild ride down
the mountain. You may have them,
boys, but take good care of them for
the sake of my two good old oxen.”
Marlon A. Long, In Detroit Free
Press.
Queer Positions of Hearts,
There is one curfous fact that not
everybody notices about the common,
finger-long, green caterpillars of our
larger moths. ‘Their hearts, tnstead
of being in front, are at the back of
the body and extend along the entire
length of the animal, One can see
the heart distinctly through the thin
skin, says St. Nicholas, and can
watch its slow beat, which starts at
the tail and moves forward to the
head.
Hearts of this sort, reaching from
head to tail, are not at all uncommon
fo the simpler creatures. The earth-
worm has one, and so have most
worms, caterpillars and other crawl
ing things. Hearts in the middle of
the back are also quite as frequent
‘a those in what scems to us to be
the natural place. Many animals, the
lobster, for example, and the craw.
fish and the crab, which have short
hearts lke those of the beasts aad
birds, nevertheless have them placed
just under the sheil, in what, in our-
selves, would be the small of the
Bee
Different Now.
| The Parson—It must be some con-
solation to know that yousmade your
late husband happy.
Young = Widow—Oh, yes. Poor
George was in heaven till he diod.—
Chicago Dally News.
All Defocts Covered.
“That speechmaker is not a very
careful grammarian.”
“No,” answered the disinterested
observer, “but people don't mind that
so long as he is aa epigrammarian,”—
Washington Star.
As the Years Roll By.
“I love art for art's sake,” sald
young DeAuber.
“I was afticted the same way at
your age,” rejoined old Brushly, “but
now I love ft for the money‘s aake:"—
Chicago Daily News.
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
A HUMBLE HERO.
Story of the Man Who Did a Brave
Deed and Then Forgot it.
eg ee ae ee ae
knew,” said Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith
of Capt. Thomas A. Scott, whose death
occurred a few weeks ago, and whom
‘the author has made famous in some
of his storles and novels. But no act
attributed by the pen of fiction to this
submarine engineer and diver can
equal the real facts of his courage and
selfsacrifice, The New York Tribune
quotes from Mr. Smith the tale of one
Of Capt. Scott's deeds which lifts the
man into the ranks of true heroes.
‘The captain was in the employ of the
Off-Shore Wrecking company, when
‘one morning in January an accident
happened to a Hoboken ferry boat.
‘The ice in tho river was unusually
heavy, and the boat slowly crunched
her way through the floating floes un-
til the pack choked her paddies in
mid-river, The weather was bitterly
cold and a keen wind was blowing. It
was an early morning trip, and the
decks were crowded with | laboring
men, the driveways vere full of teams,
and women and children stood inside
the cabins, a solid mass up to the
‘swinging doors.
| While the boat struggled to gain
headway, an ocean tug crashed into
her side, cutting a great V-shaped
asa below her waterline. Shrieks
went up from a hundred throats. Men,
women and children were crazed with
fear, The disabled boat careened and
fell over on its beam. The water
poured in like a torrent. Sinking
Seemed only a question of seconds.
Capt. Scott, on the wreeking tug Re-
[Mance, saw the situation. Bringing
his boat alongside, ke sprang to the
deck of the ferry. Quickly he forced
the crowd to the starboard side, and
thus righted the boat, which regained
a nearly oven keel. With a threat to
throw any man overboard who stirred,
be dragxed mattresses, blankets,
clothes, anything. and crammed them
into the hole. It was useless; even the
oll rags had been used, and stiil the
water poured in.
Capt. Scott stood for a moment as
If undecided, then deliberately forced
his own body into the gap with his
arm outside, level with the floating
fee.
An hour later the disabled ferry:
boat, with every soul safe, was towed
into the Hoboken slip. When they lift-
ed the captain, he was unconscious
and barely allve. The water had
frozen his blood, and the tee had torn
much of the flesh from his arm from
shoulder to wrist. When he opened
his eyes, he said feebly to the doctor:
“Was any of them babies burt?”
| Weeks passed before he regained
his strength. Then he went back to
his work on the Reliance. In the
meantime the wrecking company had
‘presented a bill to the ferry company
for salvages, which had been refused.
“Captain, said the president of the
wrecking company to Scott the first
time the latter appeared gt the office,
“we're going to have some trouble
getting our pay for that ferry job.
Here's an aMdavit for you to swear
to.”
‘The captain took the paper, read it,
laid it down, and walked toward the
door.
“Did you sign it?”
“No, and 1 ain't going to.”
“why?”
“*Cause I ain't so mean as you be.
Look at this arm! Do you think I'd
have got into that hole If it hadn't
been for them women and babies?
And you want ‘em to pay for it!"
‘Then he walked straight to the
cashier, demanded his pay, resigned
his position and walked out.
Some time after some one asked the
captain to tell the story of how he
stopped the leak.
“Oh, there ain't nothing to tell,” re:
plied the captain. “She got foul of a
tug and listed some, and I sorter plug-
ged her up. Been so long I most for-
ak ak oe
New Zealand's White Population.
The white population of New Zea-
land is now 890,000, having increased
117,000 in the last five years.
MYSTERY OF THE BEANS.
Trick Box Which You Can Make and
Have Lots of Fun With.
Every boy lkes to do tricks, but
when he can easily make his own
trick his joy is doubled. Here is a
neat one and is made thus:
Get some thin pine strips and whit-
tle out two sides the shape of those
shown in an illustration, cutting
grooves for the covers at the top and
bottom, as the box has a cover above
and below. Next whittle out the end
Pieces, which are square, just like the
ends of any bor. Nail the sides and
ends together, and fit in the covers,
——
‘The Box and the Two Covers,
which slide in the grooves. One of
‘the covers has the center slightly hol-
lowed out, so that a small bean may
be glued in the hollow and slip over
the end, when the cover ts drawn off
without catching.
Now, explains the Philadelphia Led-
ger, put three beans loosely in the box
and shut the lds before displaying the
box to your friends.
Hold the box loosely in your hand,
So that either side may be turned up,
and ask one of your friends to guess
“Oda” or “Even.” If he says “even,”
turn the box so that the cover with
‘the bean giued to the under side is
‘uppermost, and slide it off, when three
peang will be seen ig the box. If the
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ox is turned the other side up, and
the cover slid off, four beans will be
seen ta the bottom, and thus you can
mystify your is by making the
beans odd or even at will,
THE MAGIC WAND,
Mt Can Be Made to Co a Puzzling
‘Trick.
A atick about a yerd long. two pins,
two pipes and another stick are laid
out on the table by the performer.
Then he requests two of the specta-
tors to stick the pins in either end of
oue stick, This done, he requests two
of the others to take up the pipes,
these being of clay, and naturally
very fragile. Then the stick with the
pins in the ends is to bo Iatd across
the pipes, the pins clone touching the
bowls. In this Position, while the
spectators are holding the pipes sup.
porting the stlek, the performer steps
Z sf
en
[Re 7 we]
g
Grestlall the Stick,
back and, with an extra stick, or
wand, strikes the first stick a hard
blow exactly In the center, breaking
it noatly in half without shattering
tho pipes, a surprisine feat, as every
one weil knows BoW casily clay pipes
break even in the gentle process of
bubble blowing. The explanation of
this seeming bit of masic, says Good
Literature, Hes fn the fact that the
blow is given so suddenly that the
force has not time to travel beyond
the point where It fell
Instinct, Perhaps.
Small and hungry Julia climbed to
her seat at the tea table the other
evening and exclaimed in eager, de-
lighted, caressing tones:
“Oh, Jelly!” We are going to have
Jelly—1 just love jelly—tut, mamma,
what makes it s0 nervous?"—Royai
Magazine.
A Great Favorite.
‘The German ambarsador, Speck von
Sternberg, has won the hearts of the
Roosevelt boys by teaching them
horseback riding and jumping. ‘The
baron was a private in the Franco
German war.
ns
“Their tale of love wus brief but
cempremensive
“What wan tt"
Siitest he weal t court and ened fx
her love.”
“What then?”
‘Bhe went to court and. sued for
damages."—Baltimore American
NOT THE LOVABLE KIND,
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Ba Pets.) ——kt--
Ges Ares
GHEY fice \
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Se Gio
CO Bey
Mamma—Don't you know the Bible
Says we should love our neighbors?
Lillfe—I know, ma, but this is an
Awful neighborhood.—Chicago Journal.
In After Years.
Anxious Mother.—Little Bobby cries
for the moon every night. I don't
know what to do about it.
‘Old Doctor.—Oh, he'll outgrow that
in time. When he grows up he will
forget the moon and want the earth.
—Chicago Daily >wvs.
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SATURDAY AUGUST 17, 1907
FIFTY COLORE FAMI
at 4 o'clock. Moone appeared this
morning before the Council and
made a plea in which he denied hav-
ing anjtning to do with the riot
whatever.
Two white physicians of the town,
who have both been in consultation
with Moone on various occasions,
spoke in his behalf, saying that they
had always found him a good man.
‘The Council decided to reconsider
his case in a few days. |
One Man In Jail. j
‘The authorities are holding a
colored man named Toppin in jail
who was shot Saturday night, and
have managed to obtain a great
many secrets regarding Burton and
Uzzel “heretofore unknown. ‘The
colored man says Burton and Uzzel
acted as kin8s over the colored peo-
ple. It ts sait that Burton would
not, If possible, let a colored man
work for any one in the neighbor-
food for less than a dollar and a
half per day, and that if employers
were willing to pay this in the near
future he would make the price
ue dollar and seventy-five cents per
day.
At 12.30 P. M. Governor Swanson
arrived at Onancock on the State
yatch Commodore Maury, Suding
Tie situation quiet. He ‘sald that
he had received the message from
the Onancock authorities asking for
State arms, but he was unable to
furnish them, as they were the
Property of the United States gov-
ernment, and that a military man
would have to accompany each rifle.
After being in consultation with
some of the councilmen, he express-
ed Mis regrets as to what had hap-
penef ahd said that he would send
one Stafe military company to pro-
tect Onancock and its surroundings
until things became more quiet. Gov-
ernor Swanson does not think there
will be any nrore excitement at all,
but believes it best to take this ac-
tion, not only for the protection for
Onancock people, but for the sure
rounding country, until all ill-feel-
Ings have died out,
To Protect the Mails.
In a telegram to-the ppstmaster
‘of Onancock this morning the pos-
tal authorities asked the authori-
Ues of Onancock to protect — thelr
mails. They may take some actior
in regard to shooting through the
hack Saturday night which conveyed
four passengers and the United
States mails.
About 1.30 P. M. today the white
People Legan to congregate on. the
Street corners, after it had been ro-
moréf tfiat the colored editor, Uz-
zel, was hiding near Onley, and a
posse, accompanied by Constable
Kellam, immediately started for that
place to make the arrest, but~ fe-
turned without the prisoner. Sev-
eral threats of lynching have been
made if Uzzel and Burton are found.
Governor Swanson made an ad:
Gress before an assembly of about
200 citizens of the town from Con-
Fad's Hotel porch this afternoon at
2 o'clock. In his speech he sald:
Made A Speech There.
“Gentlemen, no one loves Virginia
and her splendid people more than
1 do, and all should try, us citizens,
to respect and honor the good State.
Some people get mad in a moment.
roll their sleeves, spit In their fists,
and without a thonght allow their
angry passion to lead them to do
things of desperation. Gentlemen,
allow no one to say that old Vir-
ginia has that kind of people. 1
traveled all last night to get here
to see you citizens of Onancock, and
to ascertain how grave the situation
may be. I want to say to the cit-
izeus of Onancock to let the law take
its course. I am here for the good
of the citizens of this beautiful lit-
Ue town and our beloved State, and
what I want you to do is to let the
officers capture these outlaws and
turn them over to me and. they will
be punished by twelve good, honest
jurymen.”
Willing to Stay There.
He said that he would stay here
a week, a month, or even spend the
summer here if necessary, in order
to ‘keep pence. “Gentlemen,” con
tinued he, “if you will be consid-
erate, look at the right of this mat-
ter, letting the law take its course.
You will in a very short time realize
that you have done all right, and I
will ‘see that every man who Nas
done wrong be brought back to
Onancock for trial, if he is in the
United States, and if money can
find him. As Governor of the State
of Virginia, I will take this respon-
sibility, if necessary, upon*my own
shoulders.”
A Methodist Preacher.
The Governor's appeal seemed to
make a good impression on the citi-
zens.
At the end of the Governor's ap-
peal, Rey. W. C. Vaden, a Method-
ist Protestant preacher, made a brief
speech, asking the citizens to be
peaceful and loyal to their State,
and considerate of the Governor's
wishes, and let the law take its
course.
aarnere, BAe een, no troable a
re ‘no more expected
colored people whom the Town Coun-!
cil have served notice on to vacate
‘the town have obeyed. In all
ability these negroes have done -
a8 no trace of them could be found
‘this evening. The town fs kept well
‘guarded. A reward of one hundred
and fifty dollars is offered by the
Governor for the capture of Uzzel,
Burton and Conquest.
Norfolk Troops Ordered Out.
NORFOLK, VA., August 12.—Fif-
ty men of Companies A and B, Sev-
enty-First Regiment of Infantry,
Virginia Volunteers, were tonight
sent from here to Onancock, on ord-
ers from Governor Swanson, who
has been at the scene of trouble.|
Twenty additional men will be sent
tomorrow morning. These, tt is}
thought, will be suMicient to re-|
store and maintain order. Accom-|
panying the troops were Colonel|
Nottingham, Major Salomonsky and
Captain Gale. The troops do not
expect any trouble.
THE ONANCOCK RIOT.
| The Onancock riot is one of the
most regretable incidents in connec-
tion with race antagonism that have
ever occured In the State. If the
details of the affair are not exag-
gerated. or colored with sensation-
alism, ft is without parallel, if our
memory serves us correctly, in the
history of Virginia troubles between
whites and blacks from the days of
reconstruction to the present time.
Clashes and bloody clashes grow-
ing out of political excitement fre-
quently took place in Virginia, and
In every other Southern State during
the terrible era tn which Republican
malice and hatred aimed, in order
to the perpetuation of power, — to
put the whites under the heel of
their former slaves. Later than
this we had the Wilmington, N. C..
riot, a demonstration of the tact
of the necessity of the assertion of
white political supremacy, which was
MMustrated in the driving of certain
offensive colored political leaders
from the city.
Individual cases, in which negroes
have made themselves obnoxious by
Infamous violation of the law and
the most heinous of crimes, and
excited race prejudice to the highest
Pitch, thereby bringing upon them-
selves mob Yengeance, have been
Rumerous. But if we eliminate al
certain outbreak in a Texas town,
where it turned out that nine-
tenths of the population, that is,
the white population, was from the
Sorth, and it we aisregand the At-
Janta demonstration, which this
bewspaper and other newspapers
throughout the South condemned in
unsparing terms, the Onancock riot
ls an exceptional Southern incident
of expression of race feeling in a
matter of negro aggressiveness, re-
sulting as it did in an effort to maxel
the whole colored community suffer|
for the sins of the few.
It tias been somewhat of a South-
ern boast recently that it was left
for the Northern States, or, rather,
the central Northern States, to af:
ford evidences of en arousing of
Taco prejudice consequent upon
which the entire negro population,
‘on provocation given by one or two
of its members, was subjected to the
destruction uf its property and to,
being driven out or a town or a
village.
In the face of the Onancock nf-
fair we are forced to the humillat.
ing confession thar Virginia cannot
longer indulge in this boast. Unless
there are mitigating efroumstances
that Dave not come to the surface,
amd we cannot coneetve that. there
are, the riot is a disgrace to and
puts a blot upon the name of the
State.
The Governor is to be commended
for bis promptness “in repairing to
the scene of the disturbance and tor
determining to place the military
arm of the Commonwealth at the|
disposal of the civil powers in or.
Wer to the restoration of peace aud
tho protection of rhe Innocent, ald
the cltizens generally, and it ‘is t
be hoped that this will be followed
by most vigorous measures on" the
part of the authorittes of the law to
mete out even-handed Justice as be.
tween the races in this unfortunate
situation,
In Oil way, and in that w: ont
can Virginia vindicate her claim thot
she is an example to the nation ig
ciamict Of fostering and stimulating
Kindly relations and friendship Ine
ween white and colored. In’ that
ay, ind in that way only, can ahe
place herself in position to answer|
the charges of Northern eritics re-
sarding the attitude of the whites te.
wards the negro, and avold being}
a disadvantage in replying to the.
“Sw a i
oe feep re her own
(News-Leader, August 12, 1997.
mite, Times-Dispatch has great
sympathy with the people of Gast’
Cock. who have suffered go long tren
the bad Negro infliction. But usa
defender of the law of the land we
must protest against the revolution:
ary action of the Council in passing
jan ordinance expelling eight Nostne
from the town. ‘The ordinance ise
flagrant violation of the fourteenth
amendment of the Federal Consti,
tution, and would not stand a min-
jute in court. If such an ordinance
‘Were legal, the Council of any town
‘or city might designate any man or
set of men as ‘undesirable citizens,”
no matter what their race or stand-
ing might be, and legisiate them out
of the community.
te. wanten of the Onancock
Council were actuated by good mo-
tives, but they exceeded their au.
thority, and they should repeal the
junlawful ordinance at the first op
portunity,
The incident shows how necessary
it is to have organic and fundamen-
tal laws to protect the minority from
the tyranny of the majority. ‘The
people are not always to be trusted.
In time of popular excitement they
sometimes run riot and commit tres-
pass. When the mob gets its blood
up and goes on the rampage it may
destroy life and property and com-
mit all manner of terrible ota
before its anger is appeased.
mob spirit sometimes asserts itself
also in our legisiative halls. The
people become aroused and order the
the State Legislature
or Thre Federal Congress to enact rev|
lutionary laws, But the Constitu-
jon forbids, and if in spite of
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RICHMOND: Ya. |
1867 1907
Rey. Witeur P. Tuirkietp, D.D. — Rosert Reveurn, M. D.
President. Dean.
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(Constitution the lawmakers respond
ito popular clamor, the persons af-
fected by the unconstitutional en-
jactments appeal 10 the courts and
the courts give protection
How absurd, therefore, and how
dangerous 4s the principle of the tn.
WWative and referendum, Suppose
there were no organic laws, no pow
er to restrain the people; suppose
it were within the power of the peo-
ple to enact on impulse and enforce
jany law which the majority might
take a fancy to enact, without. re
sard to established principles, with-
jout restraint by a “bill of rights,’
suppose the people of ar. town. or
city in Virginia were free to confis-
leate property, or expel citizens, by
simple vote of the majority—what
eecurity would the minority have!
What man would be secure in his
liberty or in his title to hls own
home?
“Of course the people are su-
preme and their decree is law. - But
in all organized government there
must be agreement as to fundamen-
tals, There must be basic rules
which serve as a protection against
hysterical legislation and which may
not be changed except by a slow and
deliberative process. It ie practt
cally impossible to change the Con-
stitution of the United States, and
if a convention should be called ‘to
propose amendments’ the people at
large would be in a state of anxiety
bordering on panic. The people are
supreme, but they must have safe-
guards of law to save them from
themselves. Tear up the Constitu-
tion and substitute the initiative and
referendum and we should have
chaos.
“If the people of Onancock had
voted on the question of expelling
the undesirable Negro citizens, they
would doubtless have approved the
action of the Council. But if a
own Counell may banish Negro eit-
izens, it may also banish white cit-
izens. It is Just here that the or-
ganic law comes in and protects the
civil rights of the minority.”
—Times-Dispatch.
—— ee
Entered Into Rest,
The sweet tenor voice of Sidney
Mayo will be heard on this earth
never again—4t is hushed. He has
gone to join that choir above. The
funeral service took place at the Eb-
enezer Baptist Church Wednesday,
Angust 7, 1907 at 4 o'clock P. M.,
Rev. D. Webster Davis, D. D., off
clating. He delivered a beautiful
eulogy on thie Hfe and character of
the deceased.
The following organizations were
in attendance: Independent Benefi-
cial Club, Richmond Lodge, No. 665,
A. F. and A. M., Mocha Temple, No.
7, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Rich
mond Consistory sent resolutions of
condolence. A number of members
of the Commonwealth Club were in
attendance also.
Mr. A. D. Price, the funeral direc-
tor had charge of the funeral and
managed everything with supreme
tact. The casket was of fine brocad-
ed grey plush velvet with massive
handles and ornaments.
eq,
Knights of Pythias.
The Uniform Rank, Knights of
Pythias of this city has arranged to
observe its anniversary Sunday, Au-
gust 25th, in Petersburg, Va. Coach-
es have been secured over the Sea-
board Air Line Railway and_ the
Knights, their wives and their
friends are expected to be at the
Main Street Station at 8:30 o'clock
that morning. Returning the party
will reach the city at 7 Pu son
mon will be preached to the Knights
in Petersburg.
‘The Niagara Movement.
The Third Annual Mecting of the
Niagara Movement wil take place
in Boston, Mass., Monday to Wednes
day, Agust 26 to 251i,
The three day procram will in-
clude: one public demonstration, cue
Social reception, a series of private
conferences in’ comwittee groups,
pilgrimages to abodes of “the faith:
ful.” ‘There wil! also be a celebra-
ton of the 10th Anniversary of
the abolition of the slave trade.
Railroad rates a fare avd a third
round trip, certifeate plan
All levers of liberty and equal
rights are cordially tuvited.
W. BE. 5 DUBOIS,
General Secretary,
C. G. Morgan, State Secretary for
Massachusetts, Chairman Local Com
mittee of Arrancemonts, 29 Court
Street, Boston, Mavs.
July was the Banver Month for the
Bi. U;
Last month we reported to our
readers that the I. L. U. Grand
Lodge was makin: excellent’ pro-
gress and growin ery rapidly, but
this month the report is far more
Astonishing than crer, because all
previous records @ been broken
and now July, 1507 stands as the
banner month for I. L. U. Grand
Lodge of Dayton, Ohio,
During July 19 cow Lodges were
started amd a very lirge growth was
registered throug!o.t the entire Jur
isdiction of the Order. This is a
wonderful record, and it shows that
the I. L. U. is being received with
Joy and open ar by our people
wherever It is introduced.
$150.00 Endowment Pata.
Richmond, Va. Aug. 9, "07.
‘This is to certity that I have re-
ceived from John Mitchell, Jr.,
Grand Chancellor of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, ($150.00) One
Hundred and Fifty Dollars in pay.
ment of the death-claim of Isaiah
E. Jackson, who was a member of
Capital Lodge, No. <1 of Richmond,
Va.
Signed—Hearietta V. Jackson
Beneficiary.
Witnesses:
J. V. Grimn, c @.
©. H, Wells, KO of R. and 8.
Agents Wanted.
AGENTS WANTED everywhere to
sell Ruby Dressine, the greatest ten
cent preparation for the hair on tho
market. Sells Hke hot-cakes. Ey-
erybody buys. Bis money made.
Address,
ee SAMMe, Dostnatd 16 cents.
KIRKLEY SPECIALTY MFG. CO.,
213 W. Mauison Street,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Heroine Dies to save a Bor.
WENTWORTH, N. H., Aug. 14—
Miss Edith Gregor of North Attleboro
Mass. and Clyde Morrison, the eight
Year-old son of James Morrison of Fal:
mouth, Mass, were drowned in » smal
pond here after an herole effort by the
Young woman to save the boy. The lad,
With a companion, was playing on the
edge of the pond when both fell In
and young Morrison was unable to
Teach shore. Miss Gregor plunged in,
but before assistance could reach het
the young woman, with the boy tightly
clutched In her arms, sank for the last
time. Miss Morrison was about twen-
ty-five years old. '
Great Hair Straightener and Grower
Most Wonderful Discovery ever made for curly, kinky and knotty
hair. Makes hair grow long, straight, soft and silky; cures dandruff
and stops falling hair. Kink-ine acts like magic on the hair.
' SS SSASROLEIS 59 NO SEpPcriment. It was discovered by R. Roberta, a famous English chemist, who has made
@ study of the scalp of colored people for the past 30 years, and who, after much time aud experience, has prepared ‘this great
tonic for the colored people.
This chemist says that bis experience and study have taught him thtt the scalp of the colored people requires a special
treatment and after laboring and testing these many years he has discovered the greatest REMEDY the WORLD has ever
kuown for the HAIR of colored people,
| KINK-INE will make the hair GROW from one to three Inches per month, if the directions and instructions are care
: fally followed out. We have many cases on record where the above results have been obtained, and we do not hesitate when
_we make these claims.
J KINK-INB is the only safe preparation in the world that is guaranteed to make the hair straight and make dry
hair amooth and stop it from breaking off and falling out; takes out all the kinks and knots, cures dandruff, makes the hair
woft and silky, and by nourishing the roots gives it new life end vigor, restoring it to natural color.
7 Read what Miss Elizabeth Jones of Chicago says of KINK-INE: “My hair was not more than three inches long
when I commenced to use Kink-ine, six months ago. I have used it steadily since that date and it has grown on an aver
age of two inches each month and it is Bow more than fifteen inches long. Besides, my hair has become almost straight and I
fully believe by the end of the year I will have the most beautiful head of hair of any colored Indy in the world.”
SPECIAL OFFER —To prove the quality and superiority of our goods over all others, we will sell one full-size
bette of Kilakcinel price $8 conte, one cake of Kink-ine Soap, the bent Stamos Sod eter Seep Teg ene, eas
TLNig how for only G0 conta, oF nix bottlen end atx cakes of noey for Shon Mpectal otee geea” wets te Ten eats a
ae,
| OWENS & MINOR DRUG CO., Ldt.—Distributors, 1007 E. Main St.
Fumished Rooms, 50c. up.
Meals, SOc. up.
)THE MT. CLEMENS HOTEL
|AND MINERAL BATH HOUSE
B pees
AMERICAN AND
EUROPEAN PLAN
Phone, 245.
Has opened its doors for
the accommodation of
COLORED PEOPLE
that may come to Mt. Clem
ens in thé future for their
Healih and Treatment
on Rheomatism.
It is the only Hotel and
Mineral Bath House own-
ed and conducted by a
colored man at any of the
health resorts in the Un-
ited States.
MF Write for Special Rates. “WW
GEO. I, HUTCHINSON, Prov.
48 Welts St.,- Mt. Clemens, Mich.
——Nelson.s Hair Dressing can be
ought at Jennings and Brown Drug
Store, Pittsburg, Pa.
| EVADED CONCORD TAXES.
Chandier Claims Mere. Eddy tncom-
/ petent For Fallin to Pay.
CONCORD, N. H., Aug. 14.—At the
Eddy bearing Mr. Chandler addressed
the court on the incompeteney of Mrs.
Eddy, saying it was establishod by
the trust deed which she executed on
March 6 by which she transferred all
her property beyond her control. Her
Incompetency, he added, is further
shown by her evasion of taxes in the
city of Concord, an act which she
would never have committed or al.
lowed her agents to commit had she
been in her right mind.
Mr. Chandler then went into the sub-
Ject of Mrs. Eddy's alleged delusions.
He stated in closing that Mra. Eddy
was @ victim, not of a solitary delu-
slon, not of a notion, even tnwane no-
tion, but of a series of systematical
@elusions which influenced her whole
life and has resulted, or will result, in
senile dementia,
Seb De Rene Cebtietenins
BRUNSWICK, Me., Aug. 13.—For-
mer Secretary of the Navy John D.
Long, with his wife, left here for Buck-
feld, Me., his former home. Mr. Long
bas quite recovered from his recent ill
ness. a
TROOPS FIRE ON MOB. |
co eee,
BELFAST, Avg. 14.—Serious and fa-
tal disorders occurred here again Inst
night. The troops fired into the crowd,
and a woman and a man were shot
dead and a number of others were
seriously wounded.
‘The riot ‘act was read, but the mad-
dened mob refused to disperse and
kept up a@ terrific fustillade of stones,
broken bottles and brickbats against
the police and the military. Bayonet
and baton charges failed to rout the
frenzied rioters, and ultimately the or-
der to fire was given.
Rioting continued until nearly mid-
night. The rioters stretched chains
across the streets to impede the move-
ments of troops, who eharged the mob
no less than forty timer. Six volleys
Were fired into the mob, and official
Teports state that three were killed
and six seriously and hundreds slight.
ly wounded.
WINSTON’S HEADQUARTERS
For Ice-Cream & Refreshments
YWKS>ICE-CREAM FURNISHED IN EVERY STYLE
AND IN ANY QUANTITY. SPECIAL PRICES TO
DEALERS AND THE RETAIL TRADE.
é~ Picnics and Sunday Schools
VY Fumisned at short notice.
MF Ai! goods strictly in compliance with the pure food laws =
N. WINSTON,
587 Brook Ave. ’Phone, 2258.
_ A PROBLEM SOLVING INSTIIUTION.
| A PROBLEM SOLVING INSTITUTION.
: TO OWN YOUR HOME MEANS TO SOLVE THE NEGRO PROBLEM. |
; HEN BUYING, Prfte 3
: W HEN SELLING, or
HEN RENTING PROPERTY call on the
_ PEOPLE’S REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT Co
) EES REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT Co
REALTY IN ALL OF ITS BRANCHES.
_ 707 North Second Street, Richmond, Virginia.
Telephone, 4854. §
| J.J. CARTER, President” W, P. DENNY, Secretary. j
iP GNAAANRITUND aRn een TEE sree ocean mn rees em enen eee nee ees,
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Coal! Coal! Coal!
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| All kinds of the very best Anthracite Coal in Stove, |
} Eggand Nut Sizes. Splint Coal Lump and Hail ” |
{ Sizes. All of our product whether purchas- i
ed by the Bushel or by the Ton carefully
screened before leaving our yards.
i
Good Seasoned Wood |
) SOLD AT THE LOWEST PREVAILING PRICES
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. j
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| Wa Phone us your orders, if you haven't the time co |
| send them. A call on Long Distance ‘Phone 83
| will receive prompt attention.
NOW IS THE TIME TO PLACE
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| Your Winter Orders |
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| Crump & West Coal Co.,
YARDS: 18th and Cary Streets
: and 16th and Clay Sts., Richmond, Va.
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A REVELATION.
The Book of Seven Seals by Lu-/famine that is to come. It is sold at
cinda Young, who in the year of $1.00.
1890 laid on. her bed twenty-four Address all communications to
days and saw dreams and ions,
was commanded by God to write the| Se ee cure
wonders she saw into a book. Tats Lambertville, N. J.
book tells also about a seven years) Agents Wanted.
WANTED—Young man about 18
yours old to take charge of al ee
t-black parlor. Must be al
Bester wih experince. Good], 7 Mackall and Brothers are
money fo ine right party, Writel we employ va men and one girl i
JOHN A. CURTIS, lour office, why not help us to employ
9 N. Main Street., more? When we help ourselves we
Pittston, Peas. [tein others. Our motto is "T.
—We are sending out sample cop-
les. We shall be glad to have your
mame on our regular subscription
list.
— pe
—Subscribe to The PLANET.
Men and Girls Wanted.
The Blackwell and 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 Go.
Let us Wo your puinting; 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.