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THE RICHMOND PLANET A BIG SPLIT IN 5TH ST. BAPT. CHURCH. Nearly 300 Get Letters of Dismission. Quick to Act. NEW CHURCH ORGANIZED AT ONCE. TRUSTEES ELECTED-A PEACEFUL CONCLUSION-REV. DR. EDWARDS WILL BE PASTOR-EXPECT MANY MORE TO FOLLOW. VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 382 A BIG IN 5TH ST Nearly 300 Dismissio NEW CHURCH TRUSTEES ELECTED—A PEA BE PASTOR—I The regular monthly meeting of the Fifth Street Baptist Church was held last Monday night. There was a large attendance. It was peaceful throughout and no one who saw the quiet manner in which all members conducted themselves would have thought that but a few weeks ago, many of them were in open warfare. Brother Edward S. Brown, a supporter of Rev. Dr. A. E. Edwards moved that Deacon Edinboro Archer an opusor of Rev. Edwards take the chair and he did so by practically a unanimous vote. Church Clerk James H. Chiles went through the routine business and Rev. Dr. Edwards who was present asked for his letter. It was promptly granted to him. MANY LETTERS GRANTED Then followed a list of about 270 names, all of whom asked for their letters and these were promptly granted. It was the determination on the part of the successful faction to part in peace. It was early when the meeting adjourned with the ant Edward's people now absolutely in charge of the Fifth Street Baptist Church, its building and all of its machinery. The withdrawing elements were not slow to act. They re paired to the Samaritan's Hall, corner of Sixth and Duval Sts, and proceeded to organize a church. NEW CHURCH ORGANIZED Edward S. Brown, Daniel Henderson, Jesse Scruggs, Rev. J. R. Griffin and —— Roy were elected trustees and Attorney J. Henry Crutchfield was elected church-clerk. Thus began one of the most remarkable withdrawals ever known in this city. The meetings will be held regularly hereafter. Rev. A. E. Edwards, D. D. will undoubtedly be extended a call and that he will accept is now a foregone conclusion. This will end all questions of dispute at the Fifth St. Baptist Church. Rev. Edwards' opposers will now have a free hand. THE FUTURE OUTLOOK. It is difficult to get any information as to the future. Neither side is talking, but both seem now about to get down to work and it is evident that members on both sides who have indifferent will now put their shoulders to the wheel and rally as never before. The question of pastor will soon be the vital question. If a strong able divine is secured, all will be well. It is evident though that both sides now have a double load to carry and the good omen is that both seem to realize this fact. CLAIM OTHERS WILL FOLLOW The Edwards' faction "made good" so far as the number of persons that they alleged they would bring with them. They claim that they have 100 more who will follow. This remains to be seen. The Fifth Street Baptist Church is one of the best in the State. Many of its best members have gone, but many of its strong pillars yet remain. Richmond, Va., Aug. 19, '07. To All Whom it May Concern: This is to certify that two certificates of stock owned by me in the Mechanics' Savings Bank, by Nos. 234 and 103, have been lost, misplaced or destroyed in the city of Atlantic City and State of New Jersey, and that I will make application to the said Mechanics' Savings Bank for an issue of duplicate certificates in the place and stead of the former ones heretofore issued. SADIE V. FARLEY. By Counsel J. THOMAS HEWIN. THE FOOT WASHERS HERE. Great Excitement—Crowds Pack True Reformers' Hall—Boldly Attack Other Denominations—Charges Against Ministers—People Here Angry—Poise in Evidence. The colored people of this city have been much aroused and many of them sorely tired by the meetings of the delegates to the gathering of the Church of God and the Saints of Christ. The exercises began Monday, 12th inst. and it was not long before every man, woman and child, who like that kind of excitement found that there was indeed "something doing." Many of the prominent men of the city had been invited to attend the exercises and some of them were there. Feet washing is one of the ceremonial rites of the church. THE PROPHET PARALYZED Prophet William S. Crowder is the leader of the sect and he is paralyzed. Opinions differ as to whether he can walk unsupported and speak at will. His followers say that he speaks only when he is prompted to do so by the Holy Spirit. It was not long before the crowd ed house was given an opportunity to enjoy itself for a speaker attacked all churches, but their own, in general and the Baptists in particular. Efforts to get some of the divines to go to the stage were unsuccessful. They were finally invited to speak. REV. DR. GRAHAM SPOKE Rev. W. F. Graham spoke to an enthusiastic gathering and it was not long before it was seen that the visitors and sightseers were with him although the Church of God followers were much against all that he had to say. Rev. C. H. Phillips followed in forceful language and Rev Thomas H. Briggs stated his opinions in no uncertain language. This tilt created a sensation and the news of it spread from one end of the city to the other, increasing the crowd ten-fold. BITTER CHARGE It was then that the Prophet's followers were not satisfied. The speakers made vicious attacks upon the Baptist and Methodist going so far as to call certain prominent ministers by name. One of the Prophet's followers from Washington boldly attacked Rev. R. V. Peyton, D. D. of this city. To say that the members of the churches here were angry expresses it mildly. A squad of police kept order and as it was certain portions of the young population were excluded when to the extent that they were not permitted to enter the hall at all. CALLED "HOLY JUMPERS." The derisive name of "Holy Jumpers" has been studiously applied to the visitors and the name "Foot Washers" is almost forgotten. The singing by the choir of 100 was indeed the feature of the sessions here. Their melodies delighted the public and reverberated out on the sidewalk. Hundreds of people were unable to secure admission to the hall during the sessions and the excitement lasted until the close. The church of this new religious body is on Baker Street. They had two converts to the faith. The female was duly inducted into the mysteries of the denomination but Carrington Thomas, it is alleged weakened at he last moment and before the ceremonial washing of his feet had been completed is alleged to have left the hall. He resides on Fifth Street near Duval. (. Subscribe to The PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1907. PERSONALS AND BRIEFES —Rev. William J. Robinson of Ballsville, Va. called on us. —Mr. Eugene A. Floyd of the Eastern Shore has been the guest of Miss Annie Augustus. —Mr. R. H. Burns and Mr. W. L. Green, Mouroe, La., passed through the city enroute from the Jamestown Exposition. —Mrs. D. Whiting, Boston, Mass. is visiting Lawyer and Mrs. J. Thos. Hewin. —Mrs. L. B. Fouse and Mrs. Mary Burnsides, Lexington, Ky. are the guests of Mrs. W. M. Miller. —Mr. Robert D. Jones, New York N. Y. is attending the St. Lukes Session. —Capt. L. D. Phillips, Chemical Engine Co., No. 1, Pittsburg, Pa. called on us in company with Mrs. M. E. Holmes. —Mr. A. L. West, of Nandua, Va. was in the city this week. —A. A. Wyche, M. D., Charlotte, N. C. and W. W. Johnson, M. D., Covington, Va. called on us. —Mrs. Annie Watkins, Chicago, Ill. was called to the city this week on account of the serious illness of her aunt, Mrs. Ann Hamlett, 515 N. Adams St. —Mrs. W. R. Johnson, daughter of Mrs. Catherine Broadadus of 628 N. 9th St. has removed from Washington, D. C. to live with her mother since the death of her husband. —Rev. L. H. Cook, of New York N. Y. called on us. He has been visiting friends here. —Miss Mattie E. Bowen, Washing ton, D. C. will address Women and men Sunday, 3:30 P. M. at Ebenenze Baptist Church. Subject: "The Power of Influence." Mrs. Maggie L. Walker will introduce the speaker. Free for everybody. —Mrs. W. H. Brooks, wife of the able Washington divine is here at 1000 N. Fourth Street. —Mr. I. J. Miller, the well-known clothier last left Monday for New York to get his winter and fall supply if clothing. He promises to place before the public one of the best selections of stock shown anywhere in this city. Mr. H. R. Miller has charge during his absence. —The Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias will have their anniversary exercises in Petersburg at the Oak St. Z. M. E. Church, Sunday, August 25th, 1907. Train leaves at 9 o'clock via Seaboard Air Line R. R. All members of the Order are invited to accompany them. The party will return to Richmond at 7o'clock the same afternoon. Dr. George N. Stoney, Augusta, Ga., passed through the city enroute to the National Medical Convention which convenes in Baltimore, Aug. 27, 1907. He called on us in company with Rev. C. T. Walker, Augusta, Ga. and C. H. Phillips. —Dr. P. B. Ramsey has returned to the city after spending a pleasant time at Coleman Springs. WANTED- Two assistant male cooks for Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg Va. Wages good. Apply at once to H. B. HUCLES, Manager. The St. Lukes Here TROUBLE ABOUT A TAX PROMINENT OFFICIALS RETIRE. A Peaceful Beginning—The Order Progressing. The Right Worthy Grand Council I. O. of St. Luke began its session here last Tuesday morning at the St. Luke's Hall. Mr. James T. Walker of Washington, presided. Mrs. Maggle L. Walker is R. W. G. Secretary. The financial reports were encouraging and the progress of the organization satisfactory. The Washington delegation was considerably reduced in numbers. It seems that a special tax of $1.00 was at first levied on the members of each Council and this has caused no end of bitter feeling. The amount was subsequently reduced to 75 cents and it was presumed that this would be accepted. SOME REFUSED TO PAY IT. The body rattled it, many have refused to pay it although it has been made compulsory. The feature of last Tuesday's session was the denial of representation to all Councils that had not paid the amount. One of the Councils that had taken this action had in its membership Mr. A. Washington, who has always been revered as one of the founders of the Order. He was at one time President of the St. Luke Association and also is Past Chief. Another is Mr. R. H. Coots, who is the president of the St. Luke Association. Still another is Rev. Z. D. Lew is, D. D., who is one of the Directors of the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank. ASKED TO RETIRE When it was found that the Council to which these gentlemen belonged had refused to pay the compulsory tax, they were asked to retire or at least Messrs. Washington and Coots were asked to do so. This request was quietly complied with Rev. Z. D. Lewis and Mr. W. R. Coots it is said had made strenuous efforts to get their Council to pay the tax. The collection of this tax is reported to have amounted to $7,000. DR. WALKER SPEAKS A fine audience greeted Rev. C. T. Walker, D. D., LL. D., of Georgia at the Fifth Street Baptist Church last Wednesday night to listen to his admirable address on the race question, Dr. H. L. Harris presided. The humorous renditions that preceded the address were much appreciated by the audience. Rev. C. H. Phillips introduced Rev. Dr. Walker. The St. Luke choir was also a feature and the renditions were pleasing and satisfactory. It is evident that the present management has the organization well in hand and to the public at these meetings there is no evidence of the unrest and mutterings that have raged within. WILL FINE THE COUNCILS It has been decided to fine all Councils $5,00 that failed to pay the seventy-five cents head tax on the members and to require the said Councils to suspend all members who fail or refuse to pay it. On the basis of a membership of 20,000 and a collection of $1,000, there seems to be 11,000 members or therebouts who have not as yet paid the amount. Active steps will now be taken to collect the amount. The reports show that the Order is doing a grand and successful work. DIED—Mrs. Bettie Heath, Friday evening at half past seven o'clock. She was a patient sufferer and died in the faith. Her funeral services were held at the Third St. A. M. E. Church on Sunday, 18th inst. at 1:30. She leaves a sister, two brothers and a number of relatives and *flends to mourn their loss. "Gone but not forgotten." Philadelphia, Washington and Austin, Texas papers please copy. WANTED—Very old fashioned furniture even if it is torn or rickety. Write to MISS SARTOR, Stamford, Conn. ONANCOCK. The Outlook on the Eastern Shore. Soldiers Patrol the Town. Colored Families Complain SHOTS FIRED INTO THEIR HOUSES. THE COLORED EDITOR SURREDERS—NOW IN NORFOLK JAIL. AN EFFORT MADE TO STOP COLORED FAIR. ONANCOCK, Aug. 20.—J. D. Uz- zle, the editor of the Negro newspaper here, who has been in hiding since the outbreak the night of the 10th, was escorted to Onley depot, three miles away from here, this morning, guarded by forty soldiers. Uzzle is charged with being one of the men who fired into the mail wagon carrying the three white men and a white woman the night of the disturbance. Last Monday morning about four o'clock he walked into O- nanock and was held up by a squad of soldiers patrolling the street. Mr. Klaver's Opinion. "After a month spent in travelling over Ohio, I am convinced that Senator Foraker can carry the State against Secretary Tartt for any office he wants, whether it is the Presiden- cy or something else," declared Jacob Klaver of Youngstown, in the Riggs lobby last night. "I am not what you might call a Foraker man. I opposed him in favor of Hannu but I am for him in the present fac- tional fight, and I am sure that the A Birth Day Party. The third of August be- birthday, Mrs. Mary E. Me- sister of C. C. Johnson gave to her friends at her reside 908 Abigail Street. The parlors were neatly with flowers etc., and the was spent with music and after which a fine colation waded which consisted of all of fac- tions of the season. GAVE HIMSELF UP He promptly gave his name and said he was looking for the proper person to whom to surrender. He was put in jail immediately and his arrest was kept a profound secret, through abundance of caution. This town is entirely quiet, but there was some fear that white people from outside might make an attempt at lynching if it was known that Uzzle was in jail. Early this morning he was taken to Onley, put on a train and sent to Norfolk for safe keeping. A detachment of nine men in diamond formation acted as advance guard and Uzzle was surrounded by the main body of the troops. There was not the slightest sign of trouble. EXPECTING OTHERS It is not unlikely that the others implicated will slip in some night encouraged by Uzzle's experience, and surrender to the troops. The evidence against them is direct. It is entirely that of colored people who say they were present when the shooting was done. Both the white man who was shot by Uzzle in the street here and the colored man that was hit by a stray load of buckshot when the white man in the carriage was fired on, are recovering. Probably the troops will be kept here through next week, when the colored people's fair at Tasley is scheduled to be held. IN JAIL AT NORFOLK Protected by a detail of six men from the Seventy-first regiment at the head of which was Colonel T. J. Nottingham, J. D. Uzzel, the colored editor, accused of firing on the stage coach at Onancock ten days ago and causing the race troubles on the East ern Shore which necessitated the sending of troops to quell, arrived in Norfolk this morning and is now in the city jail. He is under a close guard and is not allowed to talk to anybody about the situation at Onancock and the part alleged he played in it. He ap pears calm and is seemingly glad that he is under the protection of the law, even if he is behind the bars. He has employed Harry K. Wolcott, Esq. to defend him and is preparing to make a big fight to clear himself when the case comes to trial. AVOIDED GROWDS To avoid the crowds, Colonel Nottingham selected his detail, got the man out of barracks early this morning, walked two and a half miles with him to Onley and there held up the express from Onancock at 3 o'clock, placing the prisoner aboard the train and landing him at Cape Charles, where the party boarded the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk steamer for Norfolk. As soon as Uzzle reached the city he sent for Mr. Wolcott and engaged him as counsel. Mr. Wolcott then warned him not to speak to anybody about the charge that has been made against hi mand Sergt. Lawler instructed the attendants at the jail to allow nobody to see or talk to the prisoner. (Continued on Eighth Page.) Mr. Klaver's Opinion. "After a month spent in travelling over Ohio, I am convinced that Senator Foraker can carry the State against Secretary Tatt for any office he wants, whether it is the Presidentcy or something else," declared Jacob Klaver of Youngstown, in the Riggs lobby last night. "I am not what you might call a Foraker man for I opposed him in favor of Hanna but I am for him in the present factional fight, and I am sure that the people of the State also are. I'll grant that politicians and office-holders are not enthusiastic Foraker men but the working men are, and so are the Negroes and old soldiers. I made it my business to make careful inquiry among the people—the voters—in counties and towns where Foraker is said to lack strength, and when I asked the disappointed politicians and office-holders how the people stood they declared emphatically that Foraker was ready for the undertaker, politically, but when I went to the laboring men—the masses—they unhesitatingly and almost unimously said they would support Foraker against the field. "Taft is exceedingly unpopular with the labor unions because of his decisions when he was on the bench. The member of the State Central Committee from the Eighteenth district who voted for Foraker at the recent meeting afterwards came out in a signed interview, in which he said that his vote reflected the sentiment of his district, and I know he was right, for I went there myself and found nearly everybody for the Senator. It has been customary for the Taft supporters to point out that professional and business men are opposed to Foraker, but I found hundreds of them who told me that they would back Foraker against any other candidate. All this pro-Taft talk comes from office-holders under the general government and disappointed politicians who are ready to take up any new leader in the hope that they will profit by supporting him. Don't believe anybody who tells you that Ohio is for Taft; it is still loyal to Foraker." Washington D. C. Post. What's in McClures. Drawing by W. Hatherell, R. I., Frontispiece. To accompany "The Weaver's Son." The Weaver's Son, Perceval Gibbon. Illustrations by W. Hatherell, R. I. Poison Foods, Woods Hutchinson, M. D. The Battle of Missionary Ridge, Carl Schurz. Illustrations from portraits. The Bray of the M. F. H., Kenneth Brown. Illustrations by Reginaid Birch, Reproduced in tint. The Confession and Autobiography of Harry Orchard. Third installment. Illustrations from photographs. The Actors and Victims in the Tragedies, George Kibbe Turner. Thad's Watchers, George Allan England. "Nothing but the Truth," Hugo Munsterberg. The Wiles of the Wooer, Myra Kelly. Illustrations by W. Glackens. The Fight for Reform in San Francisco, George Kennan. Illustrations from photographs. Mrs. Tremley, Mary Stewart Cutting. Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Georgine Milmine. The story of her life and the history of Christian Science. The Massachusetts Metaphysical College and Calvin Frye. Illustrations from photographs. Editorial announcement. THE S. M. McCLURE CO. 44 60 E. 23d St. N. Y. City PRICE, FIVE CENTS. OCK. Eastern Shore. e Town. Complain EIR HOUSES. IN NORFOLK JAIL. RED FAIR. A Birth Day Party The third of August being her birthday, Mrs. Mary E. Meade, the sister of C. C. Johnson gave a party to her friends at her residence, No. 908 Abigail Street. The parlors were neatly decorated with flowers etc., and the evening was spent with music and singing, after which a fine colation was served which consisted of all of the delicacies of the season. She was the recipient of many valuable presents and congratulations. Among those present were Mrs. Capt. W. H. Bannister, Mrs. Martha Carter, Mrs. Ellen Monroe, Mrs. Nan nieve Cobb, Mrs. Sarah Jackson, Mrs. Hannah Johnson, Mrs. Virginia Robinson, Mrs. Patsy Weaver, Mrs. Lucy Standard, Mrs. Stephen Branch, Miss Susan Merchant and Mrs. Sophia Clarke, of Lynchburg, Miss Martha B. Bannister, Miss Laura M. Cobb, Mrs. Robinson of Atlantic City, Mrs. Rachael Lewis of New Kent. A Grand Affair. Atlantic City Local No. 2 of The Head and Side Waiter's National Benefit Association of America, gave the grandest concert and ball of the season at Fitzgerald's Auditorium, Tuesday evening, August 13th. It was largely attended and all expressed themselves as having spent an evening of unexcelled pleasure. A noticeable feature of the event was the presentation of a handsome gold watch to Mr. H. C. Green, the president of the Association by the Waiters of the Royal Palace Hotel. Dr. Terry, formerly of Washington, D. C., but now a rising young physician of Atlantic City presented the watch. Notice! Having qualified administrator of the estate of Mrs. P. K. Anderson, deceased, I wish all parties having bills against the estate to present them within thirty days to me at 614 Harrison Street. JOS. S. ANDERSON, Admr. 41 The Richmond Medical Society met at the office of Dr. Benson last Friday at 8:30 P. M. Much business was transacted pertaining to the Society. The next meeting will be held the third Friday in September at the office of Dr. Q. W. Moon, Manchester, Va. DR. J. A. LEWIS, Pres. DR. O. B. H. BOWSER, Sec. $150.00 Endowment Paid Richmond, Va., Aug. 15, '07. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pyth- A. A. A. E. A. A. and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Frank Cosby, who was a member of Rose of Sharon Lodge. No. 63, Newport News, Va. WANTED—Young man about 18 years old to take charge of a boot-black parlor. Must be a hustler with experience. Good money to the right party. Write JOHN A. CURTIS, 9 N. Main Street., Pittston, Penn. THE HOUSE OF ATHOUSAND CANDLES By MEREDITH NICHOLSON AUTHOR OF THE MAIN CURSE: TELDA DANIELSON FIRE TWO "Bates!"—I found him busy replenishing the candiesticks in the library.—It seemed to me that he was always poking about with an armful of candles.—"there are a good many queer things in this world, but I guess you're one of the queerest. I don't mind telling you that there are times when I think you a thoroughly bad lot, and then again I question my judgment and don't give you credit for being much more than a doddering fool." He was standing under a ladder beneath the great crystal chandelier and looked down upon me with that patient inquiry that is so appealing in a dog—in, say, the eyes of an irish setter, when you accidentally stop on his tail. "Yes, Mr. Glenarm," he replied humbly. "Now, I want you to grasp this idea that I'm going to dig into this old shell top and bottom; I'm going to blow it up with dynamite, if I please; and if I catch you spying on me or reporting my doings to my enemies, or engaging in any questionable performances whatever, I'll hang you between the poets out there in the school wall—do you understand?"—so that the sweet Sisters of St. Agatha and the little school girls and the chaplain and all the rest will shudder through all their lives at the very thought of you." "Certainly, Mr. Glenarm."—and his tone was the same he would have used if I had asked him to pass me the matches, and under my breath I consigned him to the hardest tortures of the fiery pit. "Now, as to Morgan—" "Yes, slr." "What possible business do you suppose he has with Mr. Pickering?" I demanded. "Why, sir, that's clear enough. Mr. Pickering owns a house up the lake—he got it through your grandfather. Morgan has the care of it, sir." "Very plausible, indeed!"—and I sent him off to his work. After luncheon I went to the end of the corridor, and began to sound the walls. They were as solid as rock, and responded dully to the strokes of the hammer. I sounded them on both sides, retracing my steps to the stairway, becoming more and more impatient at my ill-luck or stupidity. There was every reason why I should know my own house, and yet a stranger and an outlaw ran through it with amazing daring. After an hour's idle search I returned to the end of the corridor, repeated all my previous soundings, and, I fear, indulged in language unbecoming a gentleman. Then, in my blind anger, I found what patient search had not disclosed. I threw the hammer from me in a fit of temper and it struck one of the square blocks in the cement floor which gave forth a hollow sound. I was on my knees in an instant, my fingers searching the cracks, and drawing down close I could feel a current of air, slight but unmistakable, against my face. The cement square, though exactly like the others in the cellar floor, was evidently only an imitation, with an opening beneath. The block was fitted into its place with a nioety that certified to the skill of the hand that had adjusted it. I broke a blade of my pocket-knife trying to pry it up, but, in a moment, I succeeded, and found it to be in reality a trap door, hinged to the substantial part of the floor. A current of cool, fresh air, the same that had surprised me in the night, struck my face as I lay flat and peered into the opening. The lower passage was as black as pitch, and I lighted a lantern I had brought with me, found that wooden steps gave safe conduct below and went down. I stood erect in the passage and had several inches to spare. It extended both ways, running back under the foundations of the house, and cut squarely under the park before the house and toward the school wall. The air grew steadily fresher, until, after I had gone about two hundred yards, I reached a point where the wind seemed to beat down on me from above. I put up my hands and found two openings about three yards apart, through which the air sucked steadily. I moved out of the current with a chuckle in my throat and a grin on my face. I had passed under the gate in the school wall, and I knew now why the pliers that held it had been built so high—they were hollow and were the means of sanding fresh air into the tunnel. When I had traveled about twenty yards I had felt a slight vibration accompanied by a muffled roar, and almost immediately came to a rough wooden stair that marked the end of the passage. I had no means of judging directions, but I assumed that I was well within the school park. I climbed the steps and in a moment stood blinking, my lantern in hand, in a small, floored room. Overhead the tumult and thunder of an organ explained the tremor and roar I had heard below. I was in the crypt of St. Agatha's chapel. The inside of the door by which I had entered was a part of the wainscoting of the room, and the opening was wholly covered with a map of the Holy Land. It was all very strange and interesting. I looked at my watch and found that it was five o'clock, but I resolved to go into the chapel before going home. The way up was clear enough, and I was soon in the vestibule. I opened the door, expecting to find a service in progress; but the little church was empty save where, at the right of the chancel, the organist was filling the church with the notes of an gruntant AUTHOR OF THE MAIN CHANCE ZELLA DROFFMAN ETC. COPYRIGHT BY DAVID MEDINA CO. march. Cap in hand I stole forward, and sank down in one of the pews. A lamp over the organ keyboard gave the only light in the chapel, and made an anureole about her head... about the uncovered head of Olivia Gladys Armstrong! I smiled as I rec- ognized her and smiled, too, as I re- membered her name. But the joy she brought to the music, the happiness in her face as she raised it in the minor harmonies, her isolation, marked by the little isle of light against the dark background of the choir—these things touched and moved me, and I bent for- ward, my arms upon the pew in front of me, watching and listening with a kind of awed wonder. There was no pause in the outpouring of the melody. She changed stops and manuals with swift fingers and passed from one composition to another; now it was an august hymn, now a theme from Wagner, and finally Mendelssohn's spring song won the cold, dark chapel to light and warmth with its exultant notes. She ceased suddenly with a little sigh and struck her handa together, for the place was cold. As she reached up to put out the lights I stepped forward to the chancel steps. "Please allow me to do that for you?" She turned toward me, gathering a cape about her. "Oh, it's you, is it?" she asked, looking about quickly. "I don't remember that you were invited." "I didn't know I was coming myself." I remarked truthfully, lifting my hand to the lamp. "That is my opinion of you,--that you're a rather unexpected person. But thank you, very much." She showed no disposition to prolong the interview, but hurried toward the door, and reached the vestibule before I came up with her. "You can't go any farther, Mr. Glennarm," she said, and waited as though to make sure I understood. Straight before us through the wood and beyond the school buildings the sunset faded suddenly. Night was following fast upon the gray twilight and already the bolder planets were afame in the sky. The path led straight ahead beneath the black boughs. "I might perhaps walk to the dormitory, or whatever you call it," I said. "Thank you, no! I'm late and haven't time to bother with you. It's against the rules, you know, for us to receive visitors." She stepped out upon the path. "But I'm not a caller; I'm just a neighbor! And I owe you several calls, anyhow." She laughed but did not pause and I followed a pace behind her. "I hope you don't think for a moment that I chased a rabbit on your side of the fence in the hope of meeting you, do you, Mr. Glenarm?" "Be it far from me! I'm glad I came, though, for I liked your music immensely. I'm in earnest; I think it quite wonderful, Miss Armstrong." She paid no heed to me. "And I hope I may promise myself the pleasure of hearing you often." "You are very kind about my poor music, Mr. Glenarm; but as I'm going away—" I felt my heart sink a trifle. She was the only amusing person I had met at Glenarm, and the thought of losing her gave a darker note to the bleak landscape. "That's really too bad! And just when we were getting acquainted! And I was coming to church Sunday to hear you play and to pray for snow, so you'd come over often to chase rabbits!" This, I thought, softened her heart. At any rate her tone changed. "I don't play for services; they're afraid to let me for fear I'd run comic opera tunes into the Te Deum!" "How shocking!" "Do you know, Mr. Glenarm,"—her tone became confidential and her pace slackened,—"we call you the squire, at St. Agatha's, and lord of the manor, and names like that! All the girls are perfectly crazy about you. They'd be wild if they thought I talked with you, clandestinely,—is that the way you pronounce it?" "Anything you say and any way you say it satisfies me," I replied. "That's ever so nice of you," she said, mockingly again. I felt foolish and guilty. She would probably get roundly scolded if the grave sisters learned of her talks with me, and very likely I should win their hearty contempt. But I did not turn back. "I hope the reason you're leaving isn't—" I hesitated. "I'll conduct? Oh, yes; I'm terribly "Oh Yes, I'm Terribly Wicked, Squire Glenarm." wicked, Squire Glenarm! They're sending me off." "But I suppose the Sisters are awfully strict." "They're hideous—perfectly hide." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ous." "Where is your home?" I demanded. "Chicago, Louisville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, perhaps." "Humph, you are dull! You ought to know from my accent that I'm not from Chicago. And I hope I haven't a Kentucky girl's air of waiting to be flattered to death. And no Indianapolis girl would talk to a strange man at the edge of a deep wood in the gray twilight of a winter day—that's from a book; and the Cincinnati girl is without my elan, esprit—whatever you please to call it. She has more Teutonic repose—more Gretchen of the Rhine valley about her. Don't you adore French, Squire Glennam?" she concluded, breathlessly, and with no pause in her quick step. "I adore yours, Miss Armstrong," I asserted, yielding myself further to the joy of idiocy, and delighting in the mockery and whimsical moods of her talk. I did not make her out; indeed, I preferred not to! I was not then—and I am not now, thank God!—of an analytical turn of mind. And as I grow older I prefer, even after many a blow, to take my fellow human beings as I find them. And as for women, old or young, I envy no man his gift of resolving them into elements. As well carry a spray of arbutus to the laboratory or subject the enchantment of moonlight upon running water to the flame and blow-pipe as try to analyze the heart of a girl,—particularly a girl who paddles a canoe with a sure stroke and puts up a good race with a rabbit. A lamp shone ahead of us at the entrance of one of the houses, and lights appeared in all the buildings. "If I knew your window I should certainly sing under it—except that you're going home!" You didn't tell me why they were deporting you." "I'm really ashamed to! You would never—" "Oh, yes, I would; I'm really an old friend!" I insisted, feeling more like an idiot every minute. "Well, don't tell! But they caught me flirting—with the grocery boy! Now aren't you disgusted!" "Thoroughly! I can't believe it! Why, you'd a lot better flirt with me," I suggested boldly. "Well, I'm to be sent away for good at Christmas. I may come back then if I can square myself. My! That's slang—isn't it adorable?" "The Sisters don't like slang, I suppose?" "They loathe it! Miss Devereux,—you know who she is! she spies on us and tells." "You don't say so; but I'm not surprised at her! I've heard about her!" I declared bitterly. We had reached the door, and I expected her to fly; but she lingered. "Oh, if you know her! Perhaps you're a spy, too! It's just as well we should never meet again, Mr. Glen-arm," she declared haughtily. "The memory of these few meetings will always linger with me, Miss Arm-strong." I returned in an imitation of her own tone. "I shall scorn to remember you!"—and she folded her arms under the cloak tragically. "Our meetings have been all to few, Miss Armstrong. Two, exactly, I believe!" "Then you prefer to ignore the first time I ever saw you," she said, her hand on the door. "Out there in your canoe? Never! And you've forgiven me for overhearing you and the chaplain on the wall—please!" She grasped the knob of the door and paused an instant as though pondering. "I make it three times, without that one, and not counting once in the road and other times when you didn't know, Squire Glenarm!" I'm a foolish little girl to have remembered the first. I see now how b-l-i-n-d I have been. Good-by!" She opened and closed the door softly, and I heard her running up the steps within. I ran back to the chapel, roundly abusing myself for having neglected my more serious affairs for a bit of silly talk with a school girl, fearful lost the openings I had left at both ends of the passage should have been discovered. Near the chapel I narrowly escaped running into Stoddard, but I slipped past him, found my lantern, pulled the hidden door into place, and, traversing the tunnel without incident, soon climbed through the hatchway and slammed the false block securely into the opening. CHAPTER XIII. When I came down after dressing for dinner, Bates called my attention to a belated mail. I pounced eagerly upon a letter in Laurance Donovan's well-known hand, bearing, to my surprise, an American stamp and postmarked New Orleans. It was dated, however, at Vera Cruz, Mexico, December 15, 1901, and gave a characteristically racy account of his efforts to dodge the British detective who was pursuing him. He hoped, he wrote, to cross the borders into Texas, but declared that he should keep clear of Indiana, as he was unacquainted with the Indian language. Bates gave me my coffee in the library, as I wished to settle down to an evening of reflection without delay. Larry's report of himself was not reassuring, despite its cheerful tone. I knew that if he had any idea of trying to reach me he would not mention it in a letter which might fall into the hands of the authorities, and the hope that he might join me grew. I was not, perhaps, entitled to a companion at Glenarm under the terms of my exile, but as a matter of protection in the existing condition of affairs there could be no legal or moral reason why I should not defend myself against my foes, and Larry was an ally worth having. My neighbor, the chaplain, had inadvertently given me a bit of important news; and my mind kept reverting to the fact that Morgan was reporting his injury to the executor of my grandfather's estate in New York. Everything else that had happened was tame and unimportant compared with this. Why had John Marshall Glenmarch made Arthur Pickering the executor of his estate? He knew that I detested him that Pickering's noble aims and high ambitions had been praised by my family until his very name sickened me; and yet my own grandfather had thought it wise to intrust his fortune and my future to the man of all men who was most repugnant to me. I rose and paced the floor in anger. My rage must fasten upon some one, and Bates was the nearest target for it. I went to the kitchen, where he usually spent his evenings, to vent my feelings upon him, only to find him gone. I climbed to his room and found it empty. Very likely he was off condoing with his friend and fellow conspirator, the caretaker, and I fumed with rage and disappointment. I was thoroughly tired,—as tired as on days when I had beaten my way through tropical jungles without food or water; but I wished, in my impotent anger against I knew not what agencies, to punish myself—to induce an utter weariness that would send me exhausted to bed. The snow in the highway was well beaten down and I swung off countryward past St. Agakha's. A gray mist hung over the fields in whirling clouds, breaking away occasionally and showing the throbbing winter stars. The walk and my interest in the alternation of star-lighted and mist-wrapped landscape won me to a better state of mind, and after tramping a couple of miles, I set out for home. Several times on my tramp I had caught myself whistling the air of a majestic old hymn, and smiled, remembering my young friend Olivia, and her playing in the chapel. She was an amusing child; the thought of her further lifted my spirit; and I turned into the school park when I reached the outer gate with a half-recognized wish to pass near the barracks where she spent her days. At the school gate the lamps of a carriage suddenly blurred in the mist. Carriages are not common in this region, and I was not surprised to find that this was the familiar village hack that met trains day and night at Annandale. Some parent. I conjectured, paying a visit to St. Agatha's; possibly—and the thought gave me pleasure—perhaps the father of Miss Olivia Gladys Armstrong had come to carry her home for a stricter discipline than Sister Theresa's school afforded. The driver sat asleep on his box, and I passed him and went on into the grounds. A whim selzed me to visit the crypt of the chapel and examine the opening to the tunnel. As I passed the little group of school buildings a man came hurriedly from one of them and turned toward the chapel. I first thought it was Stoddard, but I could not make him out in the mist and in my uncertainty waited for him to put 20 paces between us before I followed. He strode into the chapel porch with an air of assurance and I heard him address some one who had been waiting. He must was now so heavy that I could not see my hand before my face, and I stole forward until I heard the voices of two men distinctly. "Bates!" "Yes, sir." I heard feet scraping on the stone floor of the porch. "This is a devil of a place to talk in, but it's the best we can do. Did the young man know I sent for you?" "No, sir. I kept him quite busy with his books and papers." "Humph! We can never be sure of him." "I suppose that is correct, sir." "Well, you and Morgan are a fine pair, I must say! I thought he had some sense and that you'd see to it that he didn't make a mess of this whole thing. He's in bed now with a hole in his arm and you've got to go on alone." "I'll do my best, Mr. Pickering." "Don't call me by name, you idiot. We're not advertising our business from the housetops." "Certainly not," replied Bates humbly. The blood was roaring through my head, and my hands clenched as I stood there listening to this colloquy. Pickering's voice was—and is—unmistakable. There was always a purrring softness in it. He used to remind me at school of a sleek, complacent cat, and I hate cats with particular loathing. "Is Morgan lying or not when he says he shot himself accidentally?" demanded Pickering petulantly. "I only know what I heard from the gardener here at the school. You'll understand, I hope, that I can't be seen going to Morgan's house." "Of course not. But he says you haven't played fair with him, that you even attacked him a few days after Glenarm came." "Yes, and he hit me over the head with a club. It was his indiscretion, sir. He wanted to go through the library in broad daylight, and it wasn't any use, anyhow. There's nothing there." "But I don't like the looks of this shooting. Morgan's sick and out of his head. But a fellow like Morgan isn't likely to shoot himself accidentally, and now that it's done the work's stopped and the time is running on. What do you think Glenarm suspects?" "I can't tell, sir, but mighty little. I should say. The shot through the window the first night he was here seemed to shake him a trifle, but he's quite settled down now, I should say, sir. That shot of Morgan's was a great mistake. The young gentleman isn't to be frightened away as easily as that." "Morgan's a fool. But what is Glenarm doing? He probably doesn't spend much time on this side of the fence—doesn't haunt the chapel, I fancy?" "Lord, no! I hardly suspect the young gentleman of being a praying man." "You haven't seen him prowling about the house analyzing the architecture—" "Not a bit of it, sir! He hasn't. I should say, what his revered grandfather called the analytical mind." Pickering stamped his feet upon the paved porch floor in a way that I remembered of old. It marked a conclusion, and preluded serious mistakes. "Now, Bates," he said with a ring of authority and speaking in a louder key than he had yet used, "it's your duty under all circumstances to help discover the hidden assets of the estate. We've got to pluck the mystery from that architectural monster over there, and the time for doing it is short enough. Mr. Glenarm was a rich man. To my own knowledge he had a couple of millions, and he couldn't have spent it all on that house. He reduced his bank account to a few thousand dollars and swept out his safety deposit boxes with a broom before his last trip to Vermont. He didn't die with the stuff in his clothes, did he?" "Lord bless me, no, sir! There was little enough cash to bury him, with you out of the country and me alone with him." "He was a crank and I suppose he got a lot of satisfaction out of burying his money. But this hunt for it isn't funny. I supposed of course we'd dig it up before Glenarm got here or I shouldn't have been in such a hurry to send for him. But it's over there somewhere in the grounds. There must be a plan of the house that would help. I'll give you a thousand dollars the day you wire me you have found any sort of clue." "Thank you, sir." "I don't want thanks, I want the money or securities, or whatever it is. I've got to go back to my car now, and you'd better skip home. You needn't tell your young mastor that I've been here." I was trying hard to remember, as I stood there with clenched hands outside the chapel porch, that Arthur Pickering's name was written in the list of directors of one of the largest trust companies in America and that he belonged to the most exclusive clubs in New York. I had come out for my walk with only an inness over my dinner jacket, and I was thoroughly chilled by the cold mist. I was experiencing too, an inner cold as I reflected upon the greed and perility of man. "Keep an eye on Morgan," said Pickering. "Certainly, sir." "And be careful what you write or wire." "I'll mind those points, sir. But I'd suggest, if you please, sir—" "Well" demanded Pickering impatiently. "That you should call at the house. It would look rather strange to the young gentleman if you'd come to St. Agatha's and not see him." "I haven't the slightest errand with him. And besides I haven't time. If he learns that I've been here you may say that my business was with Slister Theresa and that I regretted very much not having the opportunity to call on him." The irony of this was not lost on Bates, who chuckled softly. He came out into the open and turned away toward the Glenarm gate. Pickering passed me, so near that I might have put out my hand and touched him, and in a moment I heard the carriage drive off rapidly toward the village. I heard Bates running home over the snow and listened to the clatter of the village hack as it bore Pickering back to Annandale. Then out of the depths of the chapel porch—out of the depths of time and space, it seemed, so dared I stood—some one came swiftly toward me, some one light of foot like a woman, ran down the walk a little way into the fog and paused. An exclamation broke from me. "Eavesdropping for two!"—it was the voice of Olivia. "I'd take pretty "I'd Take Pretty Good Care of Myself If I Were You, Squire Glenarm." good care of myself if I were you, Squire Glennar! Good night!" "Good-by!" I faltered, as she sped away in the mist toward St. Agatha's. CHAPTER XIV. My first thought was to find the crypt door and return through the tunnel before Bates could reach the house. The chapel was open, and by lighting matches I found my way to the map and panel. I slipped through and closed the opening; then ran through the passage with gratitude to the generous builder who had given it a clear floor and an ample roof. In my haste I miscalculated its length, pitching headlong into the steps under the trap beneath Glenarm House at a gait that sent me sprawling. In a moment more I had jammed the trap into place and was running up the cellar steps, breathless, with my cap smashed down over my eyes. I heard Bates entering at the rear and knew that I had won the race by a scratch. There was but a moment in which to throw my coat and cap under the divan in the library, slap the dust from my clothes and seat my self at the great table where the candles blazed tranquilly. Bates' step was as steady as ever—there was not the slightest hint of excitement in it—as he came and stood within the door. "Beg pardon, Mr. Glenarm, did you wish anything, str?" "Oh, no, thank you. Bates." "I had stepped down to the village, sir, to speak to the grocer. The eggs he sent this morning were not quite up to the mark. I warned him not to send any of the storage article to this Douse." "That's right, Bates." I folded my arms to hide my hands, which were black from contact with the passage, and faced my man servant. My respect for his rascally powers had increased immensely since he gave me my coffee. A contest with so clever a rogue was worth while. "I'm grateful for your care of me, Bates. I had expected to parish of discomfort out here, but you are treating me like a lord." "Thank you, Mr. Glenarm. I do what I can, sir." He brought fresh candles for the table candelabra, going about with his accustomed noiseless step. I felt a cold chill creep down my spine as he passed behind me on these edges. His transition from the role of conspirator to that of my flawless servant was almost too abrupt. I dismissed him as quickly as possible, and listened to his step through the halls as he went about locking the doors. The locking-up process had rather bored me before; to night I listened with interest for every sound. When I heard Bates climbing to his own quarters I quietly went the rounds of my own account and found everything as tight as a drum. I was tired enough to sleep when I went to my room, and after an eventless night woke to a clear day and keener air. "I'm going to take a little run into the village, Bates," I remarked at breakfast. "Very good, sir." "If any should call I'll be back in an hour or so." "Yes, sir." I really had an errand in the village. I wished to visit the hardware store and buy some cartridges, but Pickerling's presence in the community was a disturbing factor in my mind. I had resolved to get sight of him—to meet him, if possible, and see how a man whose schemes were so deep looked in the light of day. As I left the grounds and gained the highway Stoddard fell in with me. "Well, Mr. Glenarm, I'm glad to see you abroad so early. With that library of yours the temptation must be strong to stay within doors. But a man's got to subject himself to the sun and wind. Even a good wetting now and then is salutary." "I try to get out every day." I answered. "But I've chiefly limited myself to my own grounds." An ancient omnibus, filled with young women passed at a gallop, bound for the station, and we took off our hats. "Christmas holidays," explained the chaplain. "Practically all the students go home." "Lucky kids, to have homes with Christmas trees. I envy them." "I suppose, Mr. Pickering got away last night?" he observed, and my pulse quickened at the name. "I haven't seen him yet," I answered. "Then of course he hasn't gone!" and these words, uttered in the big clergyman's deep tones, seemed wholly plausible. There was, to be sure, nothing so unlikely as that Arthur Pickering, executor of my grandfather's estate, would come to Glenarm without seeing me. "Slater Theresa told me this morning he was there. He called on her and Miss Devereux last night. I haven't seen him myself. I thought possibly I might run into him in the village. His car's very likely on the station switch." "No doubt we shall find him there," I answered easily. The Annandale station presented an appearance of unusual gale when we reached the main street of the village. There, to be sure, lay the private car in the siding, and on the platform was a group of 20 or more girls, with several of the brown habited Sisters of St. Agatha. There was something a little foreign in the picture; the girls in their bright colors talking gaily, the Sisters in their somber garb hovering about, suggesting France or Italy rather than Indiana. We stepped upon the platform. The private car lay on the opposite side of the station, having been switched into a siding of the east and west road. Pickerling was certainly getting on. There is something wholly regal in a private car. Any one may boast a catboat and call it a yacht; but there is no known substitution for a private car. As I lounged across the platform with Stoddard, Pickerling came out into the vestibule of his car, followed by two ladies and an elderly gentleman. They all descended and began a promenade on the plank walk. Pickerling saw me an instant later and hurried up with outstretched hand. "This is indeed good fortune! We dropped off here last night rather unexpectedly to rest a hot box and should have been picked up by the early express for Chicago; but there was a miscarriage of orders somewhere and we now have to wait for the nine o'clock, and it's late. If I'd known how much behind it was I should have run out to see you. How are things going?" "As smooth as a whistle! It really isn't so bad when you face it. And the fact is I'm actually at work." "That's splendid. The year will go fast enough, never fear. I suppose you pine for a little human society now and then. A man can never strike the right medium in such things. In New York we are all rushed to death. I sometimes feel that I'd like a little rustication myself. I get nervous, and working for corporations is wearing. The old gentleman there is Taylor, president of the Mid-Western and Southern. The ladies are his wife and a friend of hers. I'd like to introduce you." He ran his eyes over my corduroys and leggings in amiable acceptance of my rusticity. He had not in years addressed me so pleasantly. Stoddard had left me to go to the other end of the platform to speak to some of the students. I followed Pickering rather reluctantly to where the companions of his travels were pacing to and fro in the crisp morning air. As soon as Pickering had got me well under way in conversation with Taylor, he excused himself hurriedly and went off, as I assumed, to be sure the station agent had received orders for attaching the private car to the Chicago express. Taylor proved to be a supercilious person—I believe they call him Chilly Billy at the Metropolitan club,—and our efforts to converse were pathetically unfruitful. The two ladies stood by, making no concealment of their impatience. Their eyes were upon the girls from St. Agatha's on the other platform, whom they could see beyond me. I had jumped the conversation from Indiana farm values to the recent disorders in Bulgaria, which interested me more, when Mrs. Taylor, ignoring me, spoke abruptly to her sister. "That's she—the one in the gray coat, talking to the clergyman. She came a moment ago in the carriage." "The one with the umbrella? I thought you said—" Mrs. Taylor glanced at her sister warningly, and they both looked at me. Then they detached themselves and moved away. There was some one on the farther platform whom they wished to see, and Taylor, not understanding their maneuver—he was really anxious, I think, not to be left alone with me—started down the platform after them, I following. Mrs. Taylor and her sister walked to the end of the platform and looked across, a biscuit tosse away, to where Stoddard stood talking to the girl I had already heard described as wearing a gray coat and carrying an umbrella. The girl in gray crossed the track quickly and addressed the two women cordially. Taylor's back was to her and he was growing eloquent in a mild well-bred way over the dullness of our statesmen in not seeing the advantages that would accrue to the United States in fostering our shipping industry. His wife, her sister and the girl in gray were so near that I could hear plainly what they were saying. They were referring apparently to the girl's refusal of an invitation to accompany them to California. "So you can't go—it's too bad! We had hoped that when you really saw us on the way you would relent," said Mrs. Taylor. "But there are many reasons; and above all Sister Theresa needs me." "But think of the rose gardens that are waiting for us out there!" said the other lady. They were showing her the deference that elderly women always have for pretty girls. "Alas, and again alas!" exclaimed Olivia. "Please don't make it harder for me than necessary. But I gave my promise a year ago to spend these holidays in Cincinnati." She ignored her wholly and after shaking hands with the ladies returned to the other platform. I wondered whether she was overlooking Taylor on purpose to cut me. Taylor was still at his lecture on the needs of our American merchant marine when Pickering passed hurriedly, crossed the track and began speaking earnestly to the girl in gray. "The American flag should command the seas. What we need is not more battleships but more freight carriers—" Taylor was saying. But I was watching Olivia Gladys Armstrong. In a long skirt, with her hair caught up under a gray toque that matched her coat perfectly, she was not my Olivia of the tam-o'shanter, who had pursued the rabbit; nor yet the unsophisticated school girl, who had suffered my idiotic babbie; nor, agam, the dreamy rapt organist of the chapel. She was a grown woman with at least 20 summers to her credit, and there was about her an air of knowing the world, and of not being at all a person one would make foolish speeches to. She spoke to Pickering gravely. Once she smiled dolefully and shook her head, and I vaguely strove to remember where I had seen that look in her eyes before. Her gold beads, which I had once carried in my pocket, were clasped tight about the close collar of her dress; and I was glad, very glad, that I had ever touched anything that belonged to her. Who was Olivia Gladys Armstrong and what was Arthur Plickering's business with her? And what was it she had said to me that evening when I had found her playing on the chapel organ? So much happened that day that I had almost forgotten, and, indeed, I had tried to forget that I made a fool of myself for the edification of an amusing little school girl. "Then you prefer to ignore the first time I ever saw you," she had said; but if I had thought of it at all it had been with righteous self-contempt. Or, I may have flattered my vanity with the reflection that she had eyed me—her hero, perhaps—with wistful admiration across the wall. Meanwhile the Chicago express roared into Annandale and the private car was attached. Taylor watched the trainmen with the cool interest of a man for whom the proceeding had no novelty, while he continued to dilate upon the nation's commercial opportunities. I turned perforce, and walked with him back toward the station, where Mrs. Taylor and her sister were talking to the conductor. Pickering came running across the platform with several telegrams in his hand. "I'm awfully sorry, Glenarm, that our stop's so short," and Pickering's face wore a worried look as he addressed me, his eyes on the conductor. "How far do you go?" I asked. "California. We have large interests out there and I have to attend some stockholders' meetings in Colorado in January." "Ah, you business men! You business men!" I said reproachfully. I wished to call him a blackguard then and there, and it was on my tongue to do so, but I concluded that to wait until he had shown his hand fully was the better game. The ladies entered the car and I shook hands with Taylor, who threatened to send me his pamphlet on The Needs of American Shipping when he got back to New York. "It's too bad she wouldn't go with us. Poor girl! this must be a dreary hole for her," he said to Pickorting, who helped him upon the platform of the car with what seemed to be un- THE PLANET necessary precipitation. "You little know as," I declared, for Pickering's benefit. "Life in Annandale is nothing if not exciting. The people here are indifferent marksmans or there'd be murders galore." "Mr. Glenarm is a good deal of a wag," explained Pickering, hastily swinging himself aboard as the train started. "Yes; it's my humor that keeps me alive," I responded, and taking off my hat I saluted Arthur Pickering with my broadest saaam. VERSE WORTH READING A Game for Two The Ear-Off Call If out beyond the city's farthest edge There were no roads that led through sleepy towns. No winds to blow through any thorny hedge. No always over hazel-tufted downs. I might not, when the day begins, be sad Because I toil among the money-mad. If out beyond the distant hill there lay No valley graced by any winding stream. And if no silm, white steeples far away Must mark the spots where drowy hamble-towns lie. I could, perhaps, at midday be content Where serving millions at their tasks are bent. If far away from noise and strife and care There were no buds to swell on waiting trees. No mating birds to spill upon the air. The liquid sweetness of their melodies. I might, at sunset be serene and proud. Because a few had seen me in the crowd. Fate. It had to be. We had to meet. It is too late. You can't retreat. You had to smile. I had to bow. It was not strange you must allow. You had to stop. I had to speak. No explanations need we seek— 'Twas fate! You had to blush. I had to talk. You had to nod. We had to walk. You had to hear. I had to tell. 'Tis thus the goddess weaves her spell And then, dawn—I shall to be. 'Tis very simple now to see— 'Twas fate! We had to love unto the end. A single path we had to wend. You must conform with the design. The scheme ordained you must obey; We must conform with the design. I must be yours. You must be mine 'Twas fate! Darwinian. Big fish eat the little fish Swimming in the sea. The hawk will chase the chicken And deveour it with great glee. Dogs pursues the rabbit, And says it's just in fun; All creation tries to get Some creature on the run. And man, despite his wisdom, Keeps following the plan Of his ancestral origin, And whips his fellow-man. Though peace that's universal Would be a joy profound; We'll have to evolve some more Before it gets around. Song. Last night I made a mimic grave Deep in the meadow grass, Believing in that calm retreat My spirit's storm would pass; My hearted vision sought content When I watched the sun, Night, with a mystic, woodwind theme Her sympathy begun. But oh, how dim are sun and stars Seen thru things in tears! How dull the happy sound of earth To sorrow-deafened ears! Love, at thy shrine three costly gifts I offer as we part. A withered hope, a trust betrayed, And last—a broken heart. —Mary Carrington, in Harper's Magazine. How It Happened. My Uncle Jim, he made a speech, Twas full of thoughts sublime. Its mighty echoes ought to reach The corridors of time. And make our foundations sure With its neverberand notes, And incidentally secure My Uncle Jim some votes. But when we stanch, determined men Heard what he had to teach, We found out also that the pen Is mightier than the speech. For, while we gazed with trusting pride And craned our royal necks. Them just outside, just outside, Was busy writing checks. Behind the Hill. O masters, say, where shall I find A healing for each ill— Nepenthe for the burdened mind?— "Just, just behind the hill!" Masters, where lies the Port of Dreams, Sacred and sweet and still, Guerdoned with glamours and with gleams?— "Just, just behind the hill!" Masters, the house of perfect peace, Where shall I touch its still, Hearing within joy's glad increase?— "Just, just behind the hill!" —Clinton Schollard in New York 'Sun. Nice to Have Money. It is nice to have money, but better, my honest. To have what no money can buy— The dimples that wimple upon the sweet river When spring rains the rose from the skin It is nice to have money, but nice, my honey. To have what no money can bring— The love and the glory of love's golden heart The lips of true love ever sing! It is nice to have money, but money's not all— For me the spring silver, the gold of the THE TWO CORKS PUZZLE. It Seems Simple But It Is Hard to Do. Take two corks and hold them as shown, viz., each laid transversely across the fork of the thumb. Now with the thumb and second finger of the right hand (one on each end) take hold of the cork in the left hand, and, at the same time, with the thumb and second finger of the left hand take hold of the cork in the right hand and draw them apart. The above sounds simple enough, but the novice will find that the corks are brought crosswise, as shown in the lower section of our illustration. 1. How the Corks Are Held The puzzle is to avoid this and enable them to part freely. Solution: The secret lies in the position of the hands as they are brought together. The uninitiated brings them together with the palms of both turned toward the body, with the consequence we have described. To solve the puzzle, turn the palm of the right hand inward, and that of the left hand outward, in the act of seizing the corks. They will then, says the Montreal Herald, not get in each other's way, but may be separated without the least difficulty. STEVENSON'S AUTOGRAPH How the Author Rewarded Thoughtfulness of a Collector. Robert Louis Stevenson, whose Treasure Island, Master of Ballantrae and other stories are dear to every boy's heart, had a great dislike for seeing his name misspelled in such forms as Stephenson, etc. Following is the letter he wrote to one of the numerous persons who asked the favor of his autograph: "Callaills, Uphola, Samoa. "You have sent me an address on; you have sent me an addressed envelope; you have sent it to me stated you have sent me your fore. You have spelled my name right, and some have done that. In one point you stand alone—you have sent me stamps for yours. What is asked with so much consideration I take a pleasure in having you have been at the pains to earn it by such unusual attentions—here is the signature of "ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. "For the one civil autograph collector, Don't you suspect that "C. R." must have been a stamp enthusiast as well as an autograph collector? For it would occur to few others than philatelists to inclose Samoan stamps for a reply from Vallima. The Ant. Dr. Flagg tells an interesting story of some ants he observed: "A pie was placed on a shelf in a cupboard, with a wide ring of molasses encircling it, and, wanting the pie for breakfast, they set out to get it. They first marched about the ring, leaving an ant here and there at places which were seen to be less wide than the rest of the ring. Then they carefully selected the narrowest place; and, going to an old nail hole in the wall, they formed an endless stream of porters, each bringing a grain of plaster. They built a causeway through the molasses of these bits of lime, and in three hours from the time of discovery, they were eating the pie. Not After That. Little Forest had just started to school, says the Chicago Tribune, His father was accosted on his way home one evening by a neighbor, who said: "So your little boy is a great fighter at school?" On arriving home the father summoned the boy at once. "Forest, is it so that you fight with the boys at school?" Oh, well, I fight everything up to the fourth grade!" Umbrella Without Handle The umbrella of a Vienna architect is a covering of silk or other material supported on the shoulders by means of two thin rods and a band across the chest. When not in use it folds into a very small space. The hands are left free, and the device is especially recommended for persons who sometimes work in rain, like architects, engineers and artists. Bigger Than He Looked "Dear me, Tom, you eat a good deal for a little fellow!" remarked Uncle John to his nephew. "I 'spect I aren't so little inside as I looks outside," was Tom's ingenious explanation. Gulls as Letter Carriers Gulls as Letter Carriers. Successful experiments have been made in Toulon to use gulls in place of carrier pigeons. They have this advantage—that, unlike pigeons, they are always ready to fly, even in the fiercest storm. Self-Made Men. Everybody likes and respects selfmade men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.—Oliver Wendell Holme. Sunny People. The world delights in sunny people. The old are hungering for love more than for bread—Drummond. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IT WILL PAY YOU ```markdown ``` IF YOU WILL BORS AND INTERM WE WILL HELP YOU IN ORDER TO YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR SEND INTEREST THEM IN THE HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A PRIOR ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASES WE WILL SEND YOU AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOUR GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF REPUBLICAN JOURNALS STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR WE WILL SEND YOU TO THE COSMOPOLITAN MAG PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU TO McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR FOR BOTH. FOR TWO YEARLY S OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, W TURES, ONE ONLY, OF THE DORE ROQSEVELT, DR. B INGTON, BATTLE OF SANT TLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR S 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH ORED CAVALRY IN SUPP DERS, SIZE 20X28 AND 20 BATTLE AND CHARGE OF ED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LA CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PAC CATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JUL SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND WE WILL SEND YOU ONE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE THE SAME TERMS. 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IN ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE OUR STEADILY GROWING CIRCULATION WE WILL OFF WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEMI-WEEKLY GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE OF THE LEADING REPUBLICAN JOURNALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU THE PLANET AND McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR $2.25 PER YEAR FOR BOTH. OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL SEND PICTURES, ONE ONLY, OF PRESIDENT THEODORE ROQSEVELT, DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, BATTLE OF SANTIAGO, LAND BATTLE OF QUASIMAS NEAR SANTIAGO, JUNE 24, 1898, SHOWING THE NINTH AND TENTH COLORED CAVALRY IN SUPPORT OF ROUGH RIDERS, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, LAND BATTLE AND CHARGE OF THE 24TH & 25TH COLORED INFANT RIDERS AT SAN JUAN 20X28 AND 20X24 IN GREAT NAVAL BANILA BAY, MAY BE DESTRUCTION OF SPANISH FLEET ONLY 3RD, 1898, SIZE TLE, CAPTURE OF FORTIFICATIONS O AND SECOND, 1898 INCHES. WE WILL OF THE FOLLOWING WAR ON THE SAM LIKE THE OTHER COLORS. THEY A TAIL AT ONE D FURNISH FRAMES CHROMOS FOR 2 DITIONAL. BATTLE OF SHILOH, B BATTLE OF ATI SPOTTSYLVANIA, BURG, MISS., BAT TAIN, TENN., BAT TOR AND THE MEP RUN, VA., BATTLE BATTLE OF THE CHARGE) STORM C. (COLORED TRO E OF NEW ORI DEATH OF SITTII DIAN CHIEFTAIN; FALL OF PETERSB CHESTER, VA., BA WE WILL SEND FA 28, WHICH CONT GRAPHS OF PARIS WE WILL SEND SO TIFICATE OF SERV MY.) COLORED INFANTRY IN RESCUE OF ROUGH RIDERS AT SAN JUAN HILL, JULY 2, 1898, SIZE 20X28 AND 20X24 INCHES, ADMIRAL DEWEY'S GREAT NAVAL BATTLE OFF CAVITE IN MANILA BAY, MAY 1ST, 1898, NAVAL BATTLE, DESTRUCTION OF ADMIRAL CERVERA'S SPANISH FLEET OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JULY 3RD, 1898, SIZE 22X28 INCHES; LAND BATTLE, CAPTURE OF EL CANEY, EL PASO AND FORTIFICATIONS OF SANTIAGO, JULY FIRST AND SECOND, 1898, SIZE 22X28 AND 22X27 INCHES. WE WILL SEND YOU ONE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR ON THE SAME TERMS. THE PICTURES LIKE THE OTHER BATTLES ARE FINISHED IN COLORS. 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FOR TEN NEW SUBSCRIBERS WE WILL SEND ONE CHIC PIECES; ONE NECKLACE PEARE, BYRON WORKS; PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 PRINTED AND DELIVERY ONE HALF CORD OF SAVE FOR TWENTY NET WE WILL GIVE ONE HALF WITH OPALS, RUBIES OF ELRY BOX FINISHED IN ONE SILK SHIRT WAIST DRESS, ONE GOLD WA RANTED FOR TEN YEAR CHAIR, ONE LOAD OF O SOAP, EITHER WASHING BARREL OF BEST FLOU ETS, ONE MANICURE SE WORK BOX, ONE PAIR S DIES. FOR FORTY YEAR OR EQUIVALENT, WE W ING MACHINE, ONE D GOLD WATCH, ONE PA RINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE READY MADE DRE TLEMEN'S CLOTHES, CANE, ONE GOLD-HEAD CHINA SET, ONE DON KNIVES AND FORKS, O SILK DRESS, ONE WEEK SHORE, RAILROAD FA PAID, FOR ANY RICHMO THESE OFFERS MAY TAGE OF BY SENDING SCRIBER'S NAMES AT KEEP A RECORD OF THE THE NUMBER IS OBTAINED, WE RD THE PRESENT INDICATED PERSON WHO TRIES TO GET BERS AND GETS TIRED M IS WISH AND WE WILL SE T FOR THE NUMBER HE OVER FIVE. 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FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBER, EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE GOL ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT N'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD- ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBREEL SET, ONE DOZEN SILVER AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RAIL PRESS, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO T RAILROAD FARE AND HOT OR ANY RICHMOND WORKER COME OFFERS MAY BE TAKEN OF BY SENDING ONE OR TW ER'S NAMES AT A TIME. WE RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON IS OBTAINED, WE WILL SENT INDICATED. DO TRIES TO GET FORTY GETS TIRED MAY INDIED WE WILL SEND THE NUMBER HE HAS SE- WILL BE FOR NOT LESS MORE THAN TEN AND NOT MORE THAN TWENTY THAN TWENTY NOR MORE DETERMINE THE PRIZE TO ER IS ENTITLED. IS DESIRED NOT SPECI- WRITE US ABOUT IT AND IN WHAT CLASS IT BE- WE WILL SEND ONE CHINA SET, THIRTY-ONE PIECES; ONE NECKLACE; DICKENS, SHAKESPEARE, BYRON WORKS; ONE UMBRELLA, ONE PLAIN GOLD RING, ONE PAIR LACE CURTAINS 1,000 ENVELOPES, 1,000 SHEETS OF PAPER PRINTED AND DELIVERED; ONE TOILET SET, ONE HALF CORD OF SAWED WOOD. FOR TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS WE WILL GIVE ONE HANDSOME GOLD RING WITH OPALS, RUBIES OR PEARLS; ONE JEWELRY BOX FINISHED IN GOLD OR SILVER; ONE SILK SHIRT WAIST; ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE GOLD WATCH, FILLED, WARRANTED FOR TEN YEARS, ONE ROCKING CHAIR, ONE LOAD OF COAL, ONE GROSS OF SOAP, EITHER WASHING OR TOILET; ONE BARREL OF BEST FLOUR, ONE PAIR BLANKETS, ONE MANICURE SET, ONE SEAMSTRESS' WORK BOX, ONE PAIR SHOES, GENTS OR LADIES. FOR FORTY YEARLY SUBSCRIBERS OR EQUIVALENT, WE WILL GIVE ONE SEWING MACHINE, ONE DIAMOND RING, ONE GOLD WATCH, ONE PAIR FINE GOLD EARRINGS, ONE MUSIC BOX, ONE PHONOGRAPH, ONE READY MADE DRESS, ONE SUIT OF GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES, ONE GOLD-HEADED CANE, ONE GOLD-HEADED UMBRELLA, ONE CHINA SET, ONE DOZEN SILVER-PLATED KNIVES AND FORKS, ONE HAT-RACK, ONE SILK DRESS, ONE WEEK'S TRIP TO THE SEASHORE, RAILROAD FARE AND HOTEL BILL PAID, FOR ANY RICHMOND WORKER. THESE OFFERS MAY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY SENDING ONE OR TWO SUBSCRIBER'S NAMES AT A TIME. WE WILL KEEP A RECORD OF THEM; AS SOON AS THE ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO MIN MITCHELL, 311 North Fourth Street, ND, THE PLANET CHELL, JR., Fourth Street, VIRGINIA. THREE NOT= THE COLORED WE WILL WITH THE RATED RATE ONE FOUNDIES RING, HALF DOZZLE ALARM ONE HALF POT, ONE MOVES, ONE BERS SHIRTY-ONE ISS, SHAKESPELLA, ONE CURTAINS OF PAPER BOILET SET. BERS GOLD RING ONE JEWELER SILVER; ADY MADE LED, WARROCKING GROSS OF BOILET; ONE BIR BLANKAMSTRESS' NTS OR LA BERS ONE SEWERING, ONE GOLD EARNOGRAPH, MIT OF GEN-D-HEADED SPELLA, ONE EER-PLATED RACK, ONE TO THE SEA-MOTEL BILL BER. EN ADVAN-TWO SUBS WE WILL DON AS THE ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` FOUR THE PLANET Published every Saturday by JOHN MITCHELL JR. at 311 North 4th Street, Richmond Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. - EDITOR. All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. TERMS IN ADVANCE There are FOUR ways by which money can be sent by mail at our risk.—In a Post Office Money Order, or an Express Money Order, and when none of those can be procured, in a Registered Letter. MONEY ORDERS.—You can buy a Money Order on Express Money Order, payable at the Bribbon Post Office, and we will be responsible for its safe arrival. MONEY ORDERS can be obtained at the United States Express Co., United States Post Office, and Go's Express Company. We will be required to give these companies the Express Money Order and a convenient way for forwarding money. REGISTERED LETTER.—If a money Order Post Office or an Express Office is not within your jurisdiction, you must send a Letter you wish to send on payment of ten cents. Then, if the letter is lost or stolen, you can send money in this manner at our risk. We cannot be responsible for money sent in letters in any other way than one of the four ways mentioned above. If you send your money in another way, you must do it at your risk. RENEWALS, ETC. If you do not want TWENTY DOLLARS counted for another year after your sales are made, you can send a Post Card to the courts who have decided that subscribers to newspaper, who do not order their paper discontinued at the expiration date, are held liable for the payments of the subscription to date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATIONS—When writing to us to receive your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscriber, we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered at the Post-Office at Richmond. Va. to second-class matter. SATURDAY.....AUGUST 24, '07. SET FOR ONE: CAUGHT ANOTHER The evident disregard for human life has been exemplified in a ghastly manner in Pearl River at the mouth of Haliday's Canal near New Orleans, Louisiana. A farmer, who had evidently suffered from the loss of watermelons decided to set a trap for treapassers and to that end placed a number of poisoned melons containing strychnine in the most inviting portion of the watermelon patch. The presumption is that he thought that Negroes had been robbing his patch. His surprise must have been great when on August 18, 1907 the body of a young white man apparently seventeen years of age was found dead in Pearl River. After eating the poisoned molon, he went to the river to quench his thirst and fell dead. No doubt the revengeful farmer will suffer much remorse as a result of his action. A life has been offered up for a water-melon. Some day perhaps his son may suffer a similar fate at the hands of some one else. One thing we know the effort to injure the Negro is proving a veritable boomerang to the white people practicing the performance. "TWISTING THE JIM CROW LAW." The "Jim Crow" Street-car Law is causing no end of embarrassment and an unlimited amount of trouble. The Richmond, Va. Evening Journal of the 20th inst. while declaring that it likes the "dish" makes a very wry face at each gulp of the nauseating mixture. Under the caption of "Twisting the Jim Crow Law," it says: "We approve the Jim Crow law as in the interest of peace and for the benefit of both races, but we insist that in its enforcement the car authorities should exhibit some common sense—else trouble will undoubtedly ensue. A serious row on Broad Street and Oakwood car threat ened a night or so ago in a controversy over a seat by a Negro, wherein as it seems to us, the passenger was entirely in the right. The Negro took the third seat from the rear, which is the foremost seat set apart for his race. All the forward seats were crowded with whites in the progress of the trip and at a point where other white people desired to get on, the conductor asked the Negro to move to the second rearmost seat to make room. He might have moved through courtesy. That is not the point. He could have stood upon his indisputable right to remain where he was. The conductor informed him that when he got on the car he took the proper seat, but that it became improper when enough white persons boarded it to make his seat necessary for their ac- commodation. It took three orders to get the man to move. If this is the construction placed upon the Jim Crow law by those having the street car system under management it is beyond either the letter or spirit of the statute; it is beyond common sense or fair dealing. It is grotesquely absurd." It continued "Let's put the shoe on the other foot and see if the pinch pleases. Suppose the last three seats are full of Negroes and in the next seat is a white man. Suppose more Negroes wish to get on. WHi the white man be ordered to move forward for their accommodation? If not, why not? It is promotive of all sorts of inconveniences and disputes and injustice for the character of seats to be changed en route. It is puerile for a seat to be for a black man between Fifth and Sixth Streets, but to change to a white man's seat between Eighth and Ninth Streets. The Jim Crow law is presumed, like all laws, to be executed by men with gray matter in their heads and not with skulls full of rubber. "The rules under which the conductors are required to act should be revised at once so as to square with the dictates of justice and reasonableness, or the suspicion may get a broad that somebody is trying to administer to an excellent law a solar plexus blow beneath the belt." This is the logical result of carry ing race prejudice to the platform of a street-car. This service was never intended to take on the convenience of the regular railway service, but is a cheap mode of transportation for the masses. Some people ride two blocks, some five, some ten blocks. It is utterly impossible then to satisfy either white or colored passengers and comply with the provisions of the law. The whole system as now practiced is at war with common sense and will result in no end of embarrassment and annoyance to the people whom it was expected to accommodate. The service on the passenger trains of the railroads of the Southland is not all that it should be and it has tended to anger and aggravate about as many white people as it has colored ones. The colored people are somewhat amused over the street-car situation in this city for the reason that it has set one white man warring against the other. Many colored people are using the nice brick side walks, while the cars go whizzing by with just enough colored people thereon to cause trouble and to keep white folks "cussing" each other as a result of their own folly. OUR RIGHTS IN VIRGINIA. We have read carefully all of the reports of the acts of lawlessness at Onancock, Va. and we have been unable to see where J. D. Uzale and S. L. Burton are the outlaws that they are purported to be. We have been unable to see any justification for the offer of reward for their capture that our distinguished Chief Executive has seen fit to offer. It is alleged that there was a dispute over a bill that a collector was endeavoring to collect. Words followed and a revolver was drawn. It was evidently not aimed at any one with the purpose of killing for it struck a white man who was alleged to be passing and who, according to the reports was not a party to the controversy. Hot-headed white men set out to lynch the colored man alleged to have fired the shot and then began the trouble. The colored people of the Eastern Shore were not going to permit a lynching and they took steps to prevent it. It was then that the members of the mob so veered around as to appear in the role of law-keepers instead of law-breakers. They kept up a fusilade during an entire night and it is said that two thousand shots were fired. These were fired into houses of colored people. Troops were hurried to Onancock, but before they arrived, the store of S. L. Burton and the printing office of J. D. Uzzle had been burned to the ground. Not satisfied with this, when Gov. Swanson arrived on the scene these people had the audacity to ask him to offer a reward of $150.00 for the arrest of the men, whose property had been destroyed and who at that time did not dare to come to Onancock for fear of their lives. The men who incited the riot are in Onancock. The men who committed arson for which crime the penalty is death are at liberty and the colored men of the new type of Negroes, the business, money-making kind are hunted like wolves in their own land. It is alleged that Burton's crime was that he advised Negroes not to work for less than $1.50 per day and to avoid service for white people. This presents a serious proposition for the thinking, conservative citizens of color. It would be well too to consider the laws of this state on this most interesting question. We do not rest our case upon our rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. We have of late learned that the provisions of that hoary document are obsolete in so far as the interests of the railroads and the Negroes are concerned. We would not take the trouble to carry a case up to the Supreme Court of the United States, so long as this tribunal 'is constituted as shown by its decisions on the Negro THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Suffrage and Insular Cases. We rest our cause upon the Bill of Rights of Virginia and the unconstitutional Constitution, which was adopted by an unconstitutional Constitutional Convention. But to the Bill of Rights. It says: "Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Is there anything better than that in the Declaration of Independence. All we want is the enforcement of these guarantees. The Town Council of Ouancock virtually suspended the law by ordering certain citizens to leave the limits of the town. This was in direct conflict with Section 7, of the Bill of Rights of Virginia. It reads: "That all power of suspending laws or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised." Section 11 of the same instrument reads: "That no person shall be deprived of his property without due process of law." These are the sections under which Gov. Swanson must operate. It gives to Uzzle and Burton all of the protection that they could desire, provided the letter and spirit of the statutes are observed. We cite these provisions in order that our people may see that it is not so much the law, but the enforcement of it that concerns the citizens of color. There is but one thing for us to do now and that is to demand our rights under the laws of Virginia and end with that 'till God in His own time removes the present judges of the United States Courts and permits others to succeed them who will base their opinions upon right. their rulings upon justice and their decisions upon law. FOR STATE TELEGRAPH Senator Smith thinks It Should Be Adjunct to Mails. GRAND RAPIDS. Mish. Aug. 19.—Senator William Alden Smith indores the stand taken by Senator Burrows on the question of government ownership of the telegraph lines of the United States and advocates their inclusion with the postal service. "The idea of government telegraph service is not a new one with me," said the senator. "I have favored it whenever the time seemed opportune for many years, believing it was a natural appurtenance to the postal service. I think that our citizens should be given a choice of mediums by the government in communicating with their friends and in a business way and that the telegraph service may appropriately be installed as a part of the postal system. We can then have the privilege of communicating by postal card, letter or wire at minimum cost. "Generally speaking, I am opposed to any attempt on the part of the government to invade the field of individual activity or legitimate enterprise. I think that our citizenship is improved and made more self reliant when it is permitted to initiate and carry out enterprises of importance." THREE DEAD IN AUTO Train Hits Motor Car at Great Burlington. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., Aug. 19.—A large automobile containing a party of five persons from Bristol, Conn., collided with the New York-Pittsfield express at Ashley Falls Crossing, six miles south of this village, with the result that three of the motoring party are dead and the other two are suffering from injuries which may prove fatal. The dead are Charles J. Root, forty years old, an automobile manufacturer of Bristol, instantly killed; Mrs. Root, his mother, who died from her injury while being removed to Pittsfield by train, and Miss Roberts, a sister of Mrs. Root, instantly killed. Miss Mary Root, daughter of Charles J. Root, was removed by train to the hospital at Pittsfield, where her condition was reported as very critical. Miss Katherine Root, aged fourteen, niece of Mrs. Root, was brought to Great Barrington in an unconscious condition, with severe bruises and cuts about her face and body and internal injuries of an uncertain nature. Connecticut's Steeplechase Burned. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Aug. 19.—Fire swept the amusement grounds at Steeplechase island, causing $00,000 damage and creating something of a panic upon the 20,000 visitors. No one was seriously injured. Six structures were burned, including the grand stand and bleachers on the baseball diamond, where 8,000 persons had gathered for the Chicago-Bridgeport game. The greater part of the loss falls upon George C. Tilton, proprietor of the amusement grounds. Criminals Outnumber Police The professional criminals of London outnumber the policemen in the proportion of three to two. Food Necessary for Strength. The average man requires 1,600 pounds of food in the course of the year to sustain him. Worthiness in Humble Guise. Massinger: Look on the poor with gentle eyes, for in such habits often anguish deists aline. KILLS TWO WOMEN Robber With an Ax Commits Double Murder. Barn Is Set on Fire to Distract Farmer's Attention - Wife and Servant Girl Dead When He Came Back CAMDEN, N. J., Aug 21—Mrs. Frances Horner, aged sixty-seven years, wife of Edward Horner, a farmer on the Browning road, near Merchantville, and Mrs. Victoria Napoli, a servant, who chopped to death in their home, it is charged by Charles Gibson, a negro who was formerly employed on the farm. The murder was one of the most brutal that has ever occurred in this part of New Jersey. The assassin first set set the Horner barn to attract the attention of the farmer's household and thus enable him to rob the place with freedom, but while Horner and Mrs. Napoli's husband were trying to rescue some of the horses from the barn Mrs. Horner and her servant came upon the negro in the act of robbing the house. The robber attacked the women with an ax and practically hacked them to pieces. Mrs. Horner's head was severed, and Mrs. Napoli's head was crushed in and her body covered with grashes. Horner and others who were at the fire returned to the house to find the body of Mrs. Horner lying in a pool of blood, and Mrs. Napoll still alive, was lying near by, covered with blood. She died without regaining consciousness shortly after being admitted to a hospital in this city. An investigation showed that two gold watches and a sum of money had been taken from the house, and the police located the watches in a pawnshop in Philadelphia, where they had been pledged by a negro. The pawnbroker, according to the police, identified Gibson as the negro who pawned the watches, and he was arrested. Tickets for the timepieces were found in his possession. Stephen Dorsely, another negro, who was with Gibson when it is alleged he pawned the watches, was also arrested, though the police do not believe he had anything to do with the murder. Violinist Reported Lost In the Alps NEW YORK, Aug. 21—Francis Ron MacMillen, the American violinist whose genius has attracted attention both in this country and abroad, is reported in cable advice to be lost in the Alps. The violinist is twenty-two years of age and a native of Marlotta, Ohio, where his father, S. M MacMillen, was once engaged in newspaper work. Francis made his American debut at Carnegie hall, this city, on Dec. 11 last with the New York Symphony orchestra. He has the distinction of being the first American to win the annual competition at the Royal Conservatory of Belgium for the highest honors in violin playing. At the time he was but sixteen years of age. Trouse Fight Anarchists **Troops Fight Anarchists.** ODESSA. Aug. 21. — An encounter has taken place at Kryvoloserna between a detachment of troops and a band of five anarchists. The anarchists barricaded themselves in a house and denied the soldiers to take them. They opened fire from the windows and held the troops at bay for eighteen hours. The chief of the local police and several cossacks were killed. Two of the anarchists lost their lives, but the remaining three managed to get clear of the building and escaped. Barbers Elect Officers TROY, N. Y., Aug. 21.—The convention of the New York state branch of the International Journeymen Barbers' association closed here. The following officers were elected: President, Thomas G. Welsh, Elmira; first vice president, E. H. Collmer, Utica; second vice president, J. A. Grattan; Troy; third vice president, F. B. Stimson, Lockport; secretary-treasurer, M. T. Muldoon, Troy. No radical changes in prices were adopted. The Jar of Machinery. Though many plans to lessen the tar of machinery have been tried, annoyance from steam hammers, etc., continues. A new French remedy is to place under the machine a two-inch elastic plate, consisting of two sheets of steel with an intervening layer of coach springs surrounded by felt. Sleeplessness. If it is from worry, try to think as little as possible after the light is turned out. Avoid late and heavy suppers and eat a plain, light meal of nourishing food. Never go to bed hungry, as people are kept awake quite as much from hunger as they are from worry. A. Necessary Change Husband (to wife who is on her way with a wreath to the tomb of her mother)—"What? Carry this wreath to my mother-in-law's tomb to-day, on Easter? Are you crazy. She was cremated, so you should carry it on Ash Wednesday." Some Crookedness The Mississippi river is so crooked in places, declares Judge Walter Malone, of Memphis, that a steamer going south has been known to meet itself coming north, give passing signals and narrowly escape a collision with itself. Sermons and Horses "Dar is too many of us," said Uncle Eben. "dat'll git sleep dury in de'bes' kin' of a sermon, an' keep both ears wide open whenever anybody begins to talk 'bout a hoss-race.'" Washington Star. Chance for an Old Joke A French countess who arrived in New York the other day dresses her dog like herself. This ought to revive the old joke showing the connection between the dog's breath and his attire. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicled. Three registered mail sacks containing $250,000 disappeared from a Burlington train between Denver and Oxford, Neb. John A. Benson and Dr. Edward B. Perrin were convicted in the United States court at San Francisco of conspiracy to defraud the government out of 12,000 acres of land in California. Sonoma Girl, the famous trotting mare that was sold to Lotta Crabtree of Boston for $30,000, was distanced in the first heat at the Blue Hill stake in the Grand Circuit meeting, the race going to Tempus Fugit. The tramp who assaulted Alna Whitehead, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Rev. J. M. Whitehead of Turnersville, Pa., on Saturday night was run down by bloodhounds from Warren, O., and captured in a swamp, It was again reported that Cald Sir Harry MacLean had escaped from Rushul, the Moroccan bandit. Rev. L. N. Booth, archdeacon of the Fairfield archdeacouny of the Episcopal church, died at Fairfield, Conn. James Chapman, a Union Pacific engineer, who was camping out near Evanston, Wyo., was clawed to death by a bear. Jilted by her fiance, Josephine Bennett, twenty-seven years old, was found hanging in a cell in the Oak street station in New York city. President Sylvester J. Small of the Commercial Telegraphers' union made his first direct appeal to organized labor for funds to carry on the operators' strike. Sunday, Aug. 18. A blow from a cow's tail caused the death of William A. Wells, a prominent resident of Newark Valley, N. Y. Daniel McKeon, twenty-two years old, died at Morristown, N. J., as the result of being hit with a batted ball in a baseball game. A gasoline tank in a motor boat in the Seaconnet river exploded at Tiverton, R. I., causing the death of two persons and injuries to five others. Cardinal Merry del Val, papal secretary of state, was hooted and jeered by a crowd of anarchists while he was driving in the village of Marino, a suburb of Rome. Miss Anna Whitehead, fourteen years old, daughter of a prominent Methodist Episcopal minister of Turnersville, Pa., was brutally assaulted by a tramp, who was captured and placed in jail at Meadville, Pa., to prevent a mob from lynching him. Saturday, Aug. 17. Fred Zwick, aged twenty, a plumber, confessed that he was responsible for the many incendiary fires which have occurred in Scranton, Pa., within the last month. The Burlington Railroad company was found guilty of violating the eight hour telegraphic law and was fined $200 by Justice Crall at Chillicothe, Mo. An appeal was taken. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday in retirement in the imperial summer villa at Ischl. Fetes, with pyrotechnic displays, were held throughout the empire in honor of the event. In the sight of his father and a crowd of 20,000 persons Theodore French, twenty years old, son of Robert French, chief of police in West Haven, Conn., was dashed to pieces by a fall of 1,200 feet from a balloon. His parachute failed to open. An informal demand was made upon Attorney General Jackson that he revoke the charter granted by the state to the Western Union Telegraph company on the ground that the corporation is not living up to its obligations to the public. The demand was made by Daniel L. Russell, the chairman of a committee appointed by the striking telegraphers. Two persons dead, five badly injured, approximately 100 buildings destroyed and 5,000 summer visitors shelterless is the net result of the most disastrous fire Old Orchard Beach, Me., has ever known. Seventeen summer hotels, sixty cottages and a score of buildings occupied as stores were destroyed. The total insurance on the burned property, it is understood, will not exceed $150,000, while the loss is over $8,000,006. Friday, Aug. 16. General William Birney, U. S. A., retired, died at his home in Washington. He served on the Union side throughout the civil war. General Birney was born in Alabama and was eighty-eight years old. At Greenwich, Conn., Don Marino Torionia of Rome, duke of Poli, duke of Guadagnola and prince of Civitella-Cessi, was married to Miss Mary Elsie Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Moore, at the Moore summer home, Belle Haven. The date set for the dedication of Buffalo's McKinley monument is Thursday, Sept. 5, in old home week. Governor Hughes is to deliver the principal address. Vice President Fairbanks, Speaker Cannon and others of national prominence are expected. At St. Petersburg the armored cruiser Bayan was successfully launched at the new naval dockyards. She is of 8,000 tons and is designed to have a speed of 21 knots. The new warship was named after the Russian armored cruiser Bayan, which was sunk at Port Arthur. Attorney General Bonaparte in an interview at Washington makes a reasonable statement regarding the government's policy toward corporations. He says the number of corporations and individuals to be prosecuted is small and points out that, while the effect will be felt by speculators, it will not operate to undermine the general prosperity of the country. Flowers from British Yukon The British Yukon, it is said, will exhibit 200 varieties of flowers at the Alaska-Yukon exposition, to be held in Seattle in 1909. 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"Indeed, my dear sfr, they are a puzzle to me. I cannot conceive why the general public would imagine that a man without independent means of his own, or visible means of support, would go into politics for his health." —Baltimore American. olly WOOL - Firm; domestic fleece, 13½£c. say HIH, state; common to choice, 18½£c, 18½£c, 18½£c say BUTTER-Prints 1c. higher; extra western creamery, 22½£c; extra nearby ion LIVE POULTRY - Weak; fowls, 14¾ 14½¢; old roosters, 16¢; spring chickens, 16¢; cows, 16¢, 16¢ be-DRESSED POULTRY - Firm; fowls higher; fresh killed fowls, choice, 16¢; do, fair to good, 14½¢; old roosters, nearby broilers, 18½¢; western, do, sak EVERYWHERE Pearl—Ethel has accepted Cholly Callowboy's proposal. Why, they say he showed a yellow streak. Ruby—And that is the very reason why she accepted him. Pearl—What? Accepted him because he showed a yellow streak? Ruby—Yes, he showed a long streak of yellow-back notes.—Chicago Daily News. The Problem. Golden Prize - The wettest place on earth is reputed to be Cherrapunjin, India, and a recent fall of $74\frac{1}{2}$ inches of rain in five consecutive days must discourage other competitors for the record. The rat may be all that the government declares it is, but, nevertheless, the maid with the scraggly front hair will continue to wear it.—Philadelphia Press. The Only Way. "Say, boy—boy!" exclaimed a hot-looking man with a heavy portmantean, "which is the quickest way to get to the station?" "Run!" yelled the boy. There are 100,000 ostrichs in the Oudtshoorn district, Cape Colony, the average annual value of the feathers yielded by each bird being $35. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. New York Stock Quotations. Money on call unquoted; prime mercantile paper, 660% per cent; exchange, $277,314,286; balances, $9,988,312; prices: Amal. Copper 69% N. Y. Central 104% Atchison 89 Norf. & West. 87% B. O. 89 Penn. R. R. 117 Brooklyn R. T. 43 Reading 89% C.C. C. & St. L. 58% Rock Island 18% Chee & Ohio 11% St. Paul 12% C. Northworth 151% Southarm Pac. 18% D. H. 151% Southernarm Pac. 18 Erie 21 South Ry. pt. 65 Gen. Electric 134% Sugar 113% Ill. Central. 132 Texas Pacific 113% Lackawanna. 440 Union Pacific 125% Manhattan 140 U. S. Steel. 151% Manhattan U. S. Steel. 151% Int.Met. 81 West. Union. 75% Missouri Pac. 81% New York Markets FLOUR-Quiet and unchanged: Minnesota patents, $4.90@8.30; winter patents, $4.25@8.15; weights, $4.45@2; winter extras, $10.98@3.70. RYE FLOUR-Dull; fair to good, $4.50@2; patents to fancy, $4.90@8.00. WHEESE: the most score in wheat that advanced prices over a half a cent; cables were also decidedly higher; later the market declined under realizing the high prices of northwest markets; September, $6.55@10.36; December, 88%@99%; C, May, $1.03@10.36%. BEANS-Steady: marrow $2; medium, $2; peas. $17.75; $1.80, red kidney, $12.75; $2.00 POTATOES - Steady; Jersey, prime, pes barrel, 12.500z, . do, gua, 75.00z Fashion Note Ostrich Yields: THE PLANET WHERE TAFT STANDS Secretary Gives His Views on National Iseues. MAKES SPEECH AT COLUMBUS, O. He Denounces Railroad Abuses and Wicked Trusts—Praises President Roosevelt and Favors Revision of Tariff In 1909. COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 20.—Secretary of War William H. Taft, speaking before the Buckeye Republican club, made the long awaited announcement of his views on the political issues now confronting the nation. This speech is regarded as the opening gun of Mr. Taft's campaign for the presidential nomination. Secretary Taft said in part: "The present is a period of the greatest prosperity, general comfort and even luxury. Throughout this country the demand for labor has increased wages to a higher point than ever known before. The compensation of skilled labor now frequently exceeds that of certain professions, like teaching and the ministry. Weslalth has accumulated enormously in the hands of individuals, and never before have rich men given so freely of their fortunes to educational and charitable objects. Such conditions are apt to dim and dull the eye and ear of the people to abuses and dishonesty in the body politic and social. It was such periods in the history of ancient republics when their foundations were sapped and their fall ultimately brought about. Prophets of evil have foretold the same fate for this republic. They have been refuted. In spite of the general comfort, there have been made manifest by signs not to be misunderstood a quickening of the public conscience and a demand for the remedy of abuses the outgrowth of this prosperity and for a higher standard of business integrity. Every lover of his country should have a feeling of pride and exaltation in this evidence that our society is still sound at the core." On the tariff Secretary Taft said: "The present business system of the country rests on the protective tariff, and any attempt to change it to a free trade basis will certainly lead only to disaster. "It is the duty of the Republican party, however, to see to it that the tariff on imported articles does not exceed substantially the reasonably permanent differenti) between the cost of production in the foreign countries and that in the United States, and therefore when changes take place in the conditions of production likely to produce a very large reduction in the cost of production in the United States it is time that schedules be re-examined and if excessive that they be reduced." "Whenever the tariff imposed is largely in excess of the differential between the cost of production in the two countries then there is formed at once a great temptation to monopolize the business of producing the particular product and to take advantage of profit in the excessive tariff. This deules to the people altogether the economies of production that competition under a protective tariff should develop. "I had occasion in a speech which I delivered at Bath, Mo., now about a year ago to express my individual opinion as in favor of an immediate revision of the tariff, but I there pointed out, and I only refer to it to repeat it and emphasize it, that the revision of a tariff involves so many different interests the country over as that it could not be undertaken successfully by the Republican party and therefore ought not to be undertaken at all until the party as a whole is in favor of it. I ventured to express the opinion that the sentiment in favor of a revision in the Republican party was crystallizing to such a point that in a short time we might expect to have action upon the subject. What has happened in the last year has only served to confirm the view I then expressed, and it now seems to me that even most of the extremists in the matter of the tariff are of opinion that it would be not only unwise, but unsafe, for the party to fail in its next national platform to pledge itself to a revision of the tariff as soon after the next presidential election as possible." Standing of the Baseball Clubs. NATIONAL LEAGUE Standing of the Baseball Clubs. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. P.C. Chicago 80 62 577 New York 62 43 590 Pittsburgh 62 43 580 Philadelphia 56 43 580 Brooklyn 51 58 430 Cincinnati 47 62 431 Boston 40 67 374 St. Louis 34 87 296 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. P.C. Philadelphia 63 42 600 Detroit 63 42 596 Chicago 62 46 589 Cleveland 62 47 589 New York 50 56 472 Boston 47 60 433 St. Louis 50 41 433 Washington 31 71 304 Mikado Honors Marquis Ito. TOKYO, Aug. 21.—Marquis Ito has been honored by the following imperial rescript: "We, being solicitous of the maintenance of peace in the far east, entrusted you with the management of Korean affairs and are satisfied with the convention which has been concluded by your earnest efforts." Another Death at Old Orchard. OLD ORCHARD, Aug. 21.—Rufus H. Jones, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, Saco, who was struck on the head by an exploding soda water tank at the fire here Thursday night, died. His death is the third due to the fire. REAFFIRMS POLICIES Roosevelt Stands Pat In Provincetown Speech. WILL PUNISH THE WICKED RICH. Declares Question In Whether Trusts or People Shall Run the Country, and He Is on the People's Side. PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Aug. 21. —The laying of the cornerstone of the Cape Cod Pilgrims' memorial monument here gave President Roosevelt his first opportunity of the summer to break silence upon public questions, and the forty minute speech which he delivered from a platform on top of Town Hill was one of vigor and directness upon matters of national importance. The feature of his address was his advocacy of a national incorporation law and his stand in relation to violators of the law, especially corporations. With great emphasis he declared that the administration would not waver in its determination "to punish certain malefactors of great wealth." "There will be no change in the policy we have steadily pursued," declared President Roosevelt, "no let up in the effort to secure the honest observance of the law, for I regard this contest as one to determine who shall rule this government—the people through their governmental agents or a few ruthless and determined men whose wealth makes them particularly formidable because they hide behind the breastwork of corporate organization." The president declared that the government would undertake no action of a vindictive type and, above all, no action which would inflict great or unmerited suffering upon innocent stockholders and upon the public as a whole. He said that the government's policy in its ultimate analysis meant "a healthy and prosperous expansion of the business activities of honest business men and honest corporations." At one point President Roosevelt departed for a moment from his address as originally prepared to remark: "All that I have said as to desirable and undesirable citizens remains true." The day was one of the most noteworthy in the history of Cape Cod. The monument, which will rise to the height of 250 feet, will commemorate the first landing of the pilgrims on American soil, their six weeks' exploration of Cape Cod bay in search of an abiding place and the signing of the famous compact on board the Mayflower as she lay at anchor in this harbor. Ten thousand people who crowded into the little town had every opportunity to see the president, and at least one-third of them heard his remarks. At the conclusion of the first part of the exercises on the hill, which included, besides President Roosevelt's speech, addresses by James Bryce, the British ambassador, by United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Congressman William C. Lovering, the Masonic ritual in connection with the laying of the cornerstone of the monument was carried out. J. Albert Blake of Boston, grand master of the Masons of Massachusetts, performed this ceremony, and William B. Lawrence of Medford, past grand warden, made a brief address in response on behalf of the grand commandery. Following these exercises a banquet was held in the town hall. President Roosevelt, however, remained in the hall only twenty minutes, sufficient time for him to appose his appetite and to say a few words of thanks to the town committee. From the hall, under the guidance of James B. Connolly, the author of sea stories, the president was conducted to Odd Follows' hall, where he was introduced to more than 200 Provincedtown and Gloucester fishermen. The president spoke to them for about ten minutes, commending their labors and the manful way in which they performed them. At the conclusion of his remarks President Roosevelt was driven to the wharf, where he boarded a launch, which conveyed him out to the converted yacht Mayflower, at anchor in the harbor. Then the Mayflower sailed out of the harbor on her way back to Oyster Bay. The president was in Provincedtown for a little more than six hours. When the Mayflower came into the harbor and when she went out she was saluted by the eight battleships of the North Atlantic squadron, under command of Rear Admiral Davis, which lay at anchor just outside the harbor. The Mayflower was accompanied by two torpedo boats. Throughout the day the presence of a large force of marines from the fleet, the gay music of the bands and the brilliant decorations on the houses in the village and the yachts in the harbor gave the little fishing town a lively appearance. It is expected that the monument will be completed in about two years, and it is possible that another president may be called upon to speak at its final dedication. The structure will be built of stones contributed by 125 towns of Massachusetts as well as a number from towns in England, together with many others contributed by patriotic societies. The total cost of the monument will be about $100,000. Toward this amount the government contributes $40,000, the state $25,000 and the town of Provincetown $5,000. When completed it will be one of the most prominent landmarks along the Atlantic coast. Robert A. Pinkerton Dead. NEW YORK. Aug. 19.—Word was received here that Robert A. Pinkerton, the great detective, had died on the steamer Bremen en route to Europe. He was fifty-nine years old. Connecticut Archdeacon Dead. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Aug. 20.— Rev. L. N. Booth, archdeacon of the Fairfield archdeacouny. Episcopal church, died here. 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Be sure and get the genuine and refuse weak and inferior substitutes. For sale at all Drug Stores. NORFOLK, VA., U. S. A. If your dealer does not keep it, send 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 w ers. If your dealer does not keep it, send his name and 20 cents in silver and we send a bottle by return mail. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for particular JURGEN'S SON 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. C. G. JURGEN'S SON, ADAMS AND BROAD STREETS. OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. EGANT I SHOW ANY ONE DESIRING from Embrace ONE WRITING—FLAT AND features, the most annoyance. FOR FURT COLN POMADE SOFTENS THE HAIR AND KEEPS IT FROM BREAKING KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLESOME or Mars Her Beauty. Our head is full of dandruff. If COLN HAIR POMADE will dandruff and cure scalp diseases. It is highly perfumed and is the market. All we ask is we feel confident the result will recommend it to your friends. and refuse weak and inferior drug Stores. 5 CENTS. FURTURED BY made Company. On and after April 1st, 1907, schedule ule via the popular York River Line will leave Richmond at 4:30 P. M. daily except Sunday, returning leave Baltimore at 5 P. M. daily except Sunday. Very low rates one way and round trip to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. It's the best way to reach Northern and Eastern pointa. 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 Argente. We print Wedding Invitations, and High Class Stationery for Balls, Parties, Picnics and all entertainments of a social nature. We print Church Envel. ALL DESCRIBE ins and to service at consistent work. We furnish "cuts" when desig complete special work in our life in our line, call and see us and T LINE OF S DESIRING TO SEE THEM. braces a full 2 CAT AND LINEN PAPER, ENVELOP WE HAVE ONE OF THE I OF WOOD Of Any Job Printing E NT AND QUICK-WORKING. OUR OFFICE WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. OR FURTHER INFORMATION, AP John Mitch 811 N. 4th St. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, APPLY TO John Mitchell, Jr. John Mitchell, Jr. 9:10 A. M.-Local to Norlina, Raleigh, Charlotte, Wilmington, 2:20 P. M.-Sleepers and coaches, Savannah, Jacksonville and Florida points. 9:50 P. M.-Sleepers and coaches Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, Savannah, Jacksonville and Southwest, NORTHBOUND TRAINS SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE RICHMOND DAILY. Daily to Baltimore. Railway. WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST ASSORTMENTS Of Any Job Printing Establishment in the city. 311 N. 4th St., Richmond Va. SEABOARD SOUTHOUBOUND TRAIN SCHED ULED TO DELETE RICHMOND DAU 6:45 A. M., 5:10 P. M., 5:45 P. M. H. S. LEARD, D. P. A JOSHUA BANKS & SONS EVERY FACILITY CONSISTENT WITH FINE CATERING. Special Attention Given to Balls, Suppers, Installations and Smok ers at the Shortest Notice. Your Patronage Solicited. Refreshment Cars and Boat Privileg es Handled in Season. Address all communications to LLAM L BANKS, 511 N. 3d St Residence: 1312 N. 26th St. BLACKWELL & BRO. ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Painters, Graining and General Contractors. .....ALL WORK GUARANTEED..... Cards, Letters or Orders. ...Give us a trial, you will never regret it. Address, Cor. Price and Jackson Sts. BIGHMOND, VA. PLANET DEPOTS W. H. Warrington, 71 W. 99th St. W. H. White, 323 Columbus Ave. R. Plummer, 100 W. 134th St. Standard News Co., 131 W. 53d St. J. Wells, 334 W. 52d St. Rev. A. L. McKee, 52 E. 132d St. F. Green, 302 W. 40th St. W. H. Jones, 249 W. 35th St. W. B. Bee, 1 W. 134th St. Clarence Bush, 851 Morris Ave., Bronx-Borough. J. H. Parker, 144 W. 26th St. Charles Devan, 1.1 W. 30th St. W. J. Buckner, 150 W. 33rd St. W. W. Johnson, 247 W. 47th St. E. H. Mitchell, 152 W. 27th St. Turner R. Robinson, 12-6th Ave. E. A. Williams, 200 W. 63rd St. Smith & Miles, 233 W. 41st St. M. B. Wineglass, 322 W. 59th St. PHILADELPHIA, PA. J. H. Gray, 1233 Pine St. Bishop Robinson, 1234 Melon St. E. P. Mackens, 1116 Pine St. James E. Warwick, 254 S. 11th St. Mrs. P. Homeher, 1040 Pine St. William Parker, 631 Pine St. Mrs. Lavinia Aidridge, 521 S. 12th. Chas. A. George, 4063 Market St. F. A. Stewart, 1730 Federal St. PITTSBURG, PA. F. H. Harrison, 1310 Wylie Ave. Jos. Evans, care Jones & Laughlin. E. K. Thumm, 1402 Wylie Ave. FIVE opes, Note and Letter Paper Bill-heads, Monthly Statements, Business Cards, Financial and Order Books Circulars, Check-books, Pamphlets. SCRIPTIONS sired and we will arrange to line. When in need of any work estimates will be furnished. SAMPLES Line PES, ETC. LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OD-TYPE Establishment in the city. PLY TO nell, Jr., Richmond, Va. BOSTON MASS I. D. Robbins, 155 Cambridge St. Sawmill Ave. John Debona, 610 Church St. T. E. W. Perry, 2 Jones Place. CHICAGO, ILL. E. H. Faulkner, 2104 State St. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Lee Ricks, 782 Fulton St. William A. Dabney, 3 Quincy CHARLESTON, W. VA. L. C. 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THE PLANET SATURDAY...AUGUST 24, '07 WOMAN PUT FELINE INTO BIG MAIL BOX IT RAISED SUCH A RUMPUS THAT POLICEMAN HAD TO SECURE ITS RELEASE. New York.—A tall woman sauntered up to the big package mail box at Forty-second street and Sixth avenue the other day and pushed something through the opening. It fell to the bottom, and the woman scurried away. In a few minutes the cabbies on the corner began to hear loud walls from the mail box. "Sure, it's a baby." quoth one. "Baby, yer ee," disdainfully interrupted another. "Did you ever hear a baby cry so loud and lingering like?" The wails finally became so loud that the cabbies called Policeman Hare. He listened a minute, and then, shifting his nighstick to the other hand, drew his trusty weapon. U.S. MAIL MEOW-DIV OW-WEDD PHIST MEOW-DIV A Great Crowd Gathered, and cautiously crept up on the mail box. There was no doubt the sounds came from there. One of the few things a policeman can't do is to open a mail box, so he stood perplexed until he happened to think of the sub-post office. He telephoned to Station H, on Madison avenue, and told them a baby or something that could make equally as much noise had taken possession of the big box on his beat, and he couldn't make an arrest until some one opened it. William L. Quintan, a clerk, was sent with a key and opened the box. Out jumped a wildly excited Maltese cat, which blinked and winked in the electric light, and then began rubbing against the policeman's leg. Attached to the cat's neck was a tag with the following: "My name is Dolly Gray. I am the mother of five kittens, and had a good home until hard times reduced me to poverty and caused me to desert my little ones. I will guarantee to keep a house clean from mice for a good home. Where do I stand? "DOLLY GRAY." The cat was taken to the station and will be adopted as a mascot unless some one claims it. The police think some hilarious theater party kidnapped it from a restaurant and dropped it in the box as a practical joke. NAKED BOYS SHOCK ST. LOUIS. Young Swimmers Flee in Nature's Garb from Park Policeman. St. Louis.—Fifteen naked boys scampering on front lawns and through back yards played havoc with the aristocratic dignity of Lindell boulevard, near Forest park recently. Cries of indignation arose from mammas behind windows and mingled with shrieks of dismay from daughters sitting on the front porches of the mansions which face the park. In full pursuit of the youngsters, all of whom were between 12 and 16 years of age, was Park Watchman Patrick Walsh, who had surprised them enjoying a swim in Murphy's lake, reserved by the government as a hatchery. Officer Walsh swooped down upon the hiding place of their discarded clothes and blew his whistle for reinforcements. Only by shouting fervent assurances of immunity did Officer Walsh finally succeed in inducing the lads to return and don their captured street costumes. Her Good Example Influential Member—I am glad to notice, doctor, that your wife never turns her head to see who comes into church late on Sunday morning. Rev. Dr. Goodman—No but she makes me tell her all about them after we go home.—Chicago Tribune. Nan-How well poor dear Lavinia hides her age! Fan-Indeed she does. She keeps the family Bible in the top attic.—Chi- cago Tribune. Wedderly- It never does after marriage. -Chicago Daily News. IDEAS IN ENTERTAINMENTS Two Good Suggestions for Fourth of July Parties--How to Get Up and Serve a Strawberry Luncheon--Dandelion Party That Was Voted a Great Success--For Golf Players. DESIGN NO. 1. DESIGN NO. 2. DESIGN NO. 3. DESIGN NO. 4. For the Fourth of July. There are lovely "Fourth of July" postal cards out; just the thing to use for invitations to affairs to be given on that day, also for place cards. To delight the children, invest in a few of the larger paper animals which are to be inflated and sent sailing skyward. With a little careful forethought an interesting contest may be arranged. Have them draw lots for the animals, and then give a prize of a bunch of "crackers" to the one whose animal sours the highest. All sorts of contests may be planned for the lawn—carrying lemons on a fork to a given point, a hopping race (on one foot), eating rice with chopped sticks, etc. Table Centerpiece for the "Fourth." Scarlet geraniums, white carnations and blur larkspur make a delightful combination for this great holiday table piece. Make the place cards of scarlet paper to resemble giant fire crackers, if it is too expensive to buy them at the favor counter. The snapping cracker motto caps come in red, white and blue; some of them have tiny metal cannon attached. A novel way to distribute these trifles is to put them in a tissue paper bag made from red, white and blue and suspend by tri-colored ribbon. Give each person a chance to break the bag by striking it with a cane; when the bag bursts there will be a shower of these gay papers and a merry scramble to get one. June is the season when these luscious berries are in their prime and a luncheon with them for the basis is a very pretty affair. Use a brown rustic basket for the centerpiece filled with large red berries, vines and leaves. If possible to obtain, get the real plants. At each place have a white candle with a shade of crushed strawberry color. Serve first five unhulled berries on a leaf-covered plate, with a neat pile of pulverized sugar in the center. Instead of plates small baskets are suitable for these berries, standing them on a service plate; the place card may be tied to the handle. Tomato soup comes next, then a salmon croquette, new potatoes and beet salad. The last course will be individual strawberry shortcakes. With these pass a bowl of whipped cream PRETTY RUSTIC DESIGN NO. 1. DESIGN NO. 2. For the decoration of a dinner-table, or for placing on small occasional tables, the little rustic form stands, of which we give a number of sketches, will be found both useful and ornamental. They are easily made, and can be constructed in a great variety of designs, and decorated in many ways; and it is well within the power of any nimble fingers to make them. The first sketch illustrates a stand made of thin twigs of wood in the shape of a five-barred wooden gate, and mounted on a square piece of wood at the base. On the left-hand side is a fern contained in a little brown jug, and this is decorated round the neck with bows of China silk ribbon. Fastened together with thin sharp nails, and left in quite a rough state, this little stand will look very well, or it can be made very bright by entirely covering it with gold paint. The second sketch illustrates a stand in the street, a tripped made of slender wood, bound to Takes Long Drop; Kept on Smoking- York, Pa.—F. B. Kling, of this city, a railroad bridge builder, spent the other day at his home, following his fall of 60 feet from a bridge at Bruce- ville, Md., where he landed in shallow water. Instead of being killed he was only shaken up, and kept on smoking his pipe as he walked out of the stream. He was smoking when he fell, and did not even lose his tobacco. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA for those who wish it, as it is a good rule never to serve any fruit with cream on it, as many people dislike milk of cream with a fruit acid. During the afternoon lemonade may be served with strawberries floating on top. A miniature links was the decorative scheme in the center of the table, golf bags and sticks were the personal souvenirs at each place, and the guests came directly from a morning game, so were hungry for the plain but appetizing menu. The maid served had her cap adorned with the colors of the club to which all belonged, and candy was made in round balls. Iced boulon was served first, followed by cold tongue and jellied chicken, hot rolls, shoesstring potatoes, asparagus salad, barley duc and cheese. Chocolate ice cream was served in ball moulds and the cakes were sponge drops rolled in grated cocoanut. Was there ever a child who did not love dandelions? This gorgeous little flower is first with us in the spring and even stray blossoms may be found late in the fall. A field fairly carpeted with these yellow stars gave the idea for this party. No sooner thought of than a dozen children had received notes written in white ink on round pieces of yellow paper asking them to assemble in Parson's field at two o'clock one June afternoon. Sewing tables were set under a couple of trees covered with white crepe paper table cloths. In the center of each was a mound of dandelions, bunches were at each place and there was a basket for each guest. When all had arrived there was a contest to see who could gather the most flowers in a half hour; after the spots were counted the boy and the girl having the most were crowned with dandelion wreaths. Then they made rings, chains and bracelets out of the stems and told fortunes by the full blown blossoms. At five o'clock this delicious spread was unpacked from a huge hamper and the children pronounced it the "best ever." Bread and butter sandwiches, egg salad, dainty custards in ramakhs, sunshine cake, oranges and bananas, and a bountiful supply of lemonade. MADAME MERRL DESIGN NO. 8. DESIGN NO. 4. gether where they cross. The pot containing the fern is supported by the upper portion of the stand, and the sticks are decorated with the leaves of a creeper, or vine leaves, twisted round and round them. The third sketch is of a stand made very much on the same principle, but in this case the pot containing the fern is suspended with fine wire or string in the center of the stand. A bunch of ribbons fasten the sticks together at the top, and pins with colored heads are inserted at the ends of the sticks to finish them off. Narrow ribbon can be twisted round and round the sticks to entirely cover them, or they may be decorated in the same manner as the stand previously described. The fourth stand is for enclosing a fern contained in an ordinary flowerpot and saucer. It is made of short sticks of wood in their rough state, and fastened together with thin pails. The space between the stand and the pot should be filled with moss. Merry Failures. Be a failure if you must, A ambition go to rust, Hold that fame's a foolish prude, Eat of husks for want of food; But remember this, my son, Do not be a diamal one! Be a merry failure! Let Troubles only mith beget. Take the edge from fortune's wrong. With the magic of a song. Folks will say, observing you, "Wish I were a failure, too!" —New Orleans Times-Democrat. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week sick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. THE BANDS OF CALANTHE or Children's Department also constitutes a feature and persons cannot do better than to enter the little ones into this mystic circle. The expense is nominal and the benefits all that could be expected. It pays from $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and death benefits of from $30.09 to $40.00. If you have no Pythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orguize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAST FCB only absolutely necessary regu- apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of the thirty persons to organize a co- Fidelity, exercise Harmony as an endowment and burial bene- dues. The only expense for a rosette, costing 25 cents for THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons circle. The expense is nomin- $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and d Lodge or Court or Band in you For all information concern For all information conce- membership in the lodges and Chicago Cats Tough Chicago.—In order to escape being killed by a pursuing Boston bull terrier, a cat, the pet of the Midday club, leaped out of the eighteenth story window of the First National bank building and landed on the skylight of the bank quarters on the third floor. The heavy wire screening above the glass was bent and twisted by the impact and a few pieces of glass fell to one of the clerks' cages on the floor below, but the cat escaped uninjured. Fifteen minutes after the fall the animal returned to its quarters on the eighteenth floor lunch room, a little bit dicky-legged, it is true, but otherwise all right. Average Age of Marriage Among persons of social standing generally the world throughout, the average age of marriage is at present, men 37 and women 28. Worth Remembering The man who will live above his circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time in much beneath them—Home Notes. Soft and Hard Many a person will cry like a baby over an affecting novel and spurn the poor widow and hungry orphan from the door. Keeping Up Appearances. The tall man in the suit of faded black went into the first class restaurant and seated himself at a table in a far corner. Lingering there a minute or two he rose stiffly and went to the cashier's desk. "If a gentleman can't be waited on promptly in this place," he said, with a frown, "there are plenty of other places." Then he strolled out, picking his teeth, and presently wended his way unobtrusively to the five cent lunch counter.-Chicago Tribune. Lots Like Him. "I suppose you'll send your wife to the shore again this summer?" "Nit. Can't afford it." "Why, she isn't extravagant, is she?" "Not at all. But last summer, all the time she was away, I spent a hundred a week." Leave Something "If you look over the hedge of that fine estate you can see the trust magnate who lives there taking the air" "Good heaven! I hope he will leave enough of it for the rest of us to breathe with!" Got Him There! "Got anything you want sharpened, gents?" inquired the aged peddler with the razor paste. "Yes," replied the smart youth at the desk near the door. "You can sharpen our wits if you want to, old man." "Got to have something to work on, gents," the old man said as he looked round the room, shook his head pityingly, and walked away.—Royal Magazine. Kitty Malone—Sure you're a man after me own heart, Terence. Terence—Darlint! Kitty Malone—But we won't get it! I bet you won't get it. N. A., S. A., E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand over all of the cities and counties in order to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles ended on Friendship, based on Charity the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of per week sick dues. The badge of galla. For information concerning curts of Calant of the Order. It requires a member court. Its members are pledged and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.09 to $40 your neighborhood, orgruize one. Using the Children's Department ad Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richm erning special rates of courts, address JOHN MITCHELL 311 N. 4th St., $150 PER MON SURE TO GOOD AGENTS, handling the greatest seller in America to-day. Nothing else like it. No does the work. Sells at almost every home over and over age on the dollar. Write to-day for full particulars, with real cha Address $150 PER MONTH SURE TO GOOD AGENTS, HAIR TONICS. Absolutely the greatest seller in America to day. Nothing else like it. No long talk. My plan does the work. Sells at almost every home over and over again. 87 clear profit on the dollar. Write to-day for full particulars, with real chance of a lifetime. Address J. F. CLARK, CONWAY, ARK. FARMING PAYS When the Farmer combines Scientific Methods with his Labor. The Sun and the Soil have no Race Prejudice. HAMPTON INSTITUTE Offers a new Undergraduate Course of three years for training practical farmers in modern methods. Young men without money can earn their way. All who have completed the Graduate Course have good positions. Write for circular to PRINCIPAL, HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Hampton, Virginia. Offers a new Undergraduate Course of three years for training practical farmers in modern methods. Young men without money can earn their way. All who have completed the Graduate Course have good positions. Write for circular to PRINCIPAL, HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Hauppton, Virginia. HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN Secured by This New Union Order—Grows By Leaps and Bounds—Started Five Years Ago with Nothing But a "Principle"—Now Has Over 400 Subordinate Lodges and 36,000 Members. Over 30,000 homes of our people have been filled with joy, because of the Protection of a great and powerful Union Order, which is using its strength and influence to secure better conditions for our people. This is the first and only great Union Order in this country, holding an International Union Charter from the Courts, which give a full Protection and Benefits to our race. There is no color, race or sex discrimination in this Order. The negro has an equal standing with the white members, and can be elected to hold any office. Every effort is made to advance the condition of the members, by securing 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 monthly Journal is published. A Membership Book of the Order is recognized by all Lodges everywhere. Distressed members are assisted. Each member and Subordinate Lodge has the privilege of buying stock in the Order, on low monthly payments, said stock paying 8 per cent interest guaranteed. A Leading Negro Deputy is wanted in each locality, AT ONCE, to form Lodges, sell Buttons, take Journal Subscriptions, sell Stock and act as DISTRICT DEPUTY ORGANIZER. This work can be done in spare hours, but many are devoting their whole time and attention to it. Big money is made by good hustlers. Write at once. State name of this paper, and enclose 10 cents for full information and postage. Address THE I. L. U. GRAND LODGE, 34 to 40 Canby Building, Dayton, Ohio. Village Swallowed Up Reports from Zavidovic, Austria state that a village near the River Krivag, consisting of 30 houses, began to sink quite suddenly one morning recently. By degrees the whole hill on which the village stood disappeared under the ground. At the first signs of the sinking the inhabitants fled. The catastrophe is no doubt due to volcanic action. It is possible to build a house today, and such houses have already been constructed, which shall be entirely of reinforced concrete, except for such minor items as doors and window frames. This, says the Cement Age, makes a house which is entirely unburnable from within and practically unburnable from without. Oh, Ask Something Easy. In this nation founded in love of liberty, made generous by the plethora of its wealth, lifted to grand heights by the freedom of individual thought and itself the highest concept of government yet born to earth, to stand time's ministering angel among world Concrete Houses the membership of it to exhibit er. It pays her week sick 50 cents and ment also con- ne little ones into this mystic d be expected. It pays from $40.00. If you have noPythian address. Hill St., Richmond, Va. N MITCHELL, JR., 111 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. R MONTH handling the world's greatest of NTS, HAIR TONICS. Absolutely the long else like it. No long talk. My plan one over and over again. $7 clear profit circulars, with real chance of a lifetime. AYS When the Farmer combines Scientific Methods with his soil have no Race Prejudice. INSTITUTE three years for training practical farmers in money can earn their way. All who have good positions. Write for circular to INSTITUTE, Hampton, Virginia. Established 1899. Phone 4160. JOHN FOXEL. Dealer in General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CI- GARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST. RICHMOND, TA BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH, PROPRIETRESS, 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance Phone. 752. powers. The big brother to the poor an dthe weak?—Denver Republican "Love Buttons" in Vogue. When you see a man wearing a photograph button in his coat lapel you may be pretty sure that he is either engaged or married to the lady whose portrait adorns him. Instead of wearing an engagement ring it has become the fashion among certain classes of men to wear "love buttons." Weighted Curtains "If you want to keep your little half curtains down," said the bachelor girl, "put shot in them. Either make little bags of it and put them in the bottom hem or put a lot of shot in loose. That's the way they keep the little curtains down in all the bathrooms of the big hotels these days." Elusive Financial Rogue Financial history has made it painfully clear that no imaginable laws will abolish the successful efforts of a clever rogue. More invested money is lost by incompetence inside the law than by rogery outside it.—Electrical Industries. Economical. Mrs. Hardapple—So our city niece Hattie is back from across the ocean? Mr. Hardapple—Yes, Maria, and she writes that she took in all the famous galleries in Yurrup. Mrs. Hardapple (in astonishment)—Galleries? Lands sakes! Couldn't the poor gal afford a seat downstairs?—Chicago Daily News. Virginia's Most Successful Hair Culturist. ...PARLORS.... 108 E. Leigh St., - Richmond, / Phone, 1034. Private Parlors, Confidential Interviews 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, 25cts. per jar. By mail, 35cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo. for developing and beautifying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 35cts. Graham's Superior Velvet Liquid Powder for giving the face a beautiful fair color, 25 cents a bottle. By mail 35cts. Graham's Vegetable Hair Dye the best on market giving a rich natural color, $1.00 per bottle. By mail, $1.25. Mrs. Graham makes a speciality of massaging and beautifying ladies' faces for parties and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham shampoos the head and puts it in a healthy condition, 25 cents. All ladies who attend parties and other social gatherings should have their finger nails manicured and made beautiful, 25 cents. Mrs. Graham's preparations sell at sight. Ladies living in other cities and towns can make good money by selling these preparations. Write for terms to Mrs. J. A. Graham, No. 108 E. Leigh St., Rica-mond, Va. 'Phone 2048 112 W. Leigh S John H. Braxton REAL ESTATE & LOANS Private Banker and Broker, Loans negotiated on Real Estate, Interest allowed on Deposits, Estates managed, Rent collected and prompt returns Special attention to repairs. Established 1892. SMITH'S BUSINESS COLLEG LYNCHBURG, VA. COURSES: Phonographic, Commercial, Penning English, Electric wiring, Civil Engineering. No Vacation. Instruction Thorough...Positions Secured. Correspondence Solicited. Send 2c for particulars. Address: T. P. SMITH, A. B. President STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the lover of the right kind of stimulant. Special prices. We have all grades of good liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Call and see us. Richmond, Virginia. S. W. ROBINSON. NO. 23 NORTH 18TH ST. FINE WINES, LIQUORS CIGARS, &c. All Stock Sold as Guaranteed. "PROMPT ATTENTION. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. Subscribe to the Richmond, Va. PLANET. $1.50 per year. GEORGE O. BROWN. 603 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class service. Latest Improvements in Photograph- ness. Most Updated. Seasonable Estimates and Prompt Service. Friendly. Seen from old Negatives or Photographs. $ms THE ECONOMY 303-5 North Third St. FINE CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING CHITMAN M. WHITE, PROPRIETOR. A. Hayes OFFICE AND WARE-ROOMS, 727 North Second Street RESIDENCE, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All country orders are given special attention. Your special attention is called to the new style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on kindly. 'Phone, 2778. Two Fashionable Gowns The gown on the standing figure is of champagne colored tussah silk. The skirt is slightly gathered at the top and finished at the bottom with a wide band of the material, above which are rows of light blue pane. The tabler is of filet guipure and appears to extend over the front of the corsage. The corsage is finished around the neck with a band of the blue pane, the ends crossed in front and ornamented with the passementerie motifs and tassels. The chemisette is of lace; and girdle is of the blue pane, fastened in front with a buckle. The skirt of the other costume is of striped mousseline voile made with groups of plafts in the middle of the front and back and finished at the bottom with a flounce set on in blocks in front. The bolero, something new and very complicated, is of cerise silk. It forms straps at the bottom which pass through slits cut in the material. The sleeves are cut with the bolero and form plafts in front underneath motifs of velvet and embroidery. They are slashed open on the outside, where they are bordered with little plaiting of lion on mousseline de sole. They are finished at the bottom with plafts and straps, the latter ornamented with tassels, as are those on the bolero. The double shawl collar is trimmed with a strap of the material which is ornamented with embroidery and edged with velvet. The chemisette is of lion or mousseline de sole tucked crosswise in the middle, the tucks opening out on each side. The girdle is of taffetta. FOR REDUCTION OF FLESH. Exercise That Will Bring About Desired Symmetry. Massage can be of great use in the reduction of the abdomen and hips. The exercise about to be described is highly recommended by one who has had much experience in giving and directing exercises for fleshy reduction and the improvement of bodily symmetry. When beginning it one should be careful to get used to it gradually, as it puts a great strain upon the muscles and is apt to make one quite lame, the same as the first horseback ride. One should be extended upon the floor supporting oneself by one hand, while the other is placed upon the hip. While holding this position raise the body gradually from the floor until the whole weight is supported by the hands and feet. It is easy to get the body from the floor as far as the knees, but to bring it up to the full extent just described is not easy at first. It should be tried first on one side and then on the other. A good exercise for the reduction of the abdomen is that of throwing the hands above the head with the palms outward, the arms extended, and the body thrown back as much as possible, and then, bending forward at the waist, keeping the knees straight and trying to touch the floor with the fingers. It is difficult to do without bending the knees. The following exercise is much easier and is effective. One lies extended full length upon the floor, with the feet together and the arms folded upon the breast. Raise, first one leg, stiffly extended, and then the other. This will strengthen the muscles of the lower extremities. The third movement, which is simple, is to bring the legs, kept closely together, into a position as nearly as possible at right angles with the body. It takes some time to describe these exercises, but after they have been learned it will not take long to do them; each should be repeated a certain number of times daily. The great point in order to attain beneficial results is to be faithful in keeping them up persistently. Word About New Belts The belts of the season! One pauses to contemplate, but to pause too long is to become bewildered by the variety and winsomeness of the designs and styles offered. A narrow belt of black patent leather clasped with a modest pearl or brass buckle is quite as modish as the wider and more expensive belt of seal equipped with gold buckle, or the wide steel studded belt of black elastic, the adoption of which by smart dressers promises to insure an elastic belt furore by the time summer arrives. Checks and Strings Although many fancy suitings are being used, there is no doubt whatever that plain colorings in the tailor-made gowns hold the lead. In fancy effects checks predominate, the gray and white and black and white stripes and checks being in the lead. WALKING SUITS OF LINEN. Made Very Attractive in All Kinds of Designs. Attractive walking suits are developed in striped linens, a novel effect being produced when the stripes run around. This is only permissible when the stripes are inconspicuous, preferably of two or three tones further than a mixture of colors. The skirt is then kilted; the narrow plaits are more effective and, if one wishes the latest thing, the coat, jacket or blouse will be of a plain color matching the shade most prominent in the plaid. An attractive plaid in a blue and green, in which the two colors shaded and melted into each other imperceptibly was the foundation of a recent importation. The plaits in the skirt all turned toward the front, which was formed of a box plait, very narrow at the top, and the coat was a jaunty little affair of dark blue and green changeable cloth—made in Eton form with epaulettes, revers and collar all cut in one and forming a narrow yoke piece, to which the blouse material was gathered. The Eton fastened down the front with cord and loops and buttons, and the bottom was finished with a shaped piece which, like the yoke and front piece, was piped with blue silk and machine-stitched. The girdle of blue silk to match the pipings was drawn through an oval-shaped buckle of dull gold. DRESS ACCESSORIES 1 New accessories of heavy lace and ribbon which will make a plain waist look dressy. The Tunic in Evidence. The tunic, or, in provincial terms, the overskirt, is in evidence in a good many of the new costumes. One of its latest phases is with a long point at the front and draped high at the back. This saves the figure from the effect of being cut in two, which results from a round double skirt. Fewer Children in Sunday School. There has been a marked falling off in the Sunday school attendance in New York city in the last five years. Gardening. No taste develops more quickly than the love of gardening, says Country Life. It spreads from the pot to the window box and from the window box to the earth itself. Life's Keyboard Our life is a keyboard. The Master's fingers will sweep over it, and a weary world will catch notes of melody as we pass along. The life that is in tune with God is keyed to the note of love.-J. R. Miller. Dignity of Labor. A woman's glory is her hair, we have been told. Man is made glorious by his work; without it all is gloomy darkness, rife with mischief and disquietude. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA EVILS OF BITTERNESS. Half the time when you take offense the cause lies in your own imagination If your misfortunes turn you crabbed and bitter, no one will feel one bit sorry for you. No matter how roughly life may treat you, fight desperately hard against allowing yourself to grow hard and bitter. A woman's sweetness and gentleness are her greatest charms and her strongest weapons. To be hard and bitter and cynical is to lose all lovableness. You may have the hardest kind of luck; everything may go wrong; but as long as you are brave and sweet over it you will at least have the sympathy of your friends. To be sweet tempered, to take things bravely and cheerfully, and not to take offense at every fancied slight should be the aim of every girl who destroys to make herself popular. A cynical woman turns all the milk of human kindness into vinegar. According to her creed there is nothing good and nothing true. She ascribes false motives to every kindness. I am not advising you to be poor spirited and to allow yourself to be imposed upon, but merely to use your common sense and look well into things before you fly off the handle and look upon yourself as insulted.—Chicago American. A lawsuit is the thief of time and money. A stitch in time may close the mouths of nine gossi's. Thrift and stinginess are as similar as they are different. If a man is incompetent he usually charges it to bad luck. Men with long heads are capable of using them on short notice. It is scarcity of their remarks that makes some women remarkable. Even if you gain but an inch you haven't put your best foot forward in vain. Theatrically speaking, the heroine's death scene is usually less realistic than her hair dyeing. It takes almost as many tailors to make a man as it takes collectors to induce him to pay for the job. One idea of a hypocrite is a man who really admires his mother-in-law, but is too contrary to admit the fact. A woman derives more pleasure from planning things that never come off than a man does from the actual happenings of things. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Nearly everybody is honest unless he gets caught. A gambler is the fellow who gets your money at it. A daughter's gain of a figure is her mother's loss. When a politician reforms it's a sign he's on his deathbed. It's awful bad manners for a man who snores to go to church. A woman could never like freckles unless they cost a fortune to have. A summer resort is a very convenient place to wish you were having a good time. The difference between a quaint trick and an ugly habit is whether your child or somebody else's does it. It's just human nature to get a strong affection for a suit of clothes your wife is ashamed to have you wear. When a man in a street car objects to a child rubbing its muddy feet all over his trousers every woman in the car knows he has a bad heart—New York Press. NUGGETS FROM "SUCCESS." The man of grit carries in his presence a power which spares him the necessity of resenting insults. It is said that if Napoleon had spent more time at his meals and Alexander the Great had spent less, the life of each could easily have been doubled. Worry and fret are fatal to the integrity of nerve and brain. Fear can sting like a scorpion and torment like a scourge. The man who works by proxy is apt to find himself in the position of Miles Standish, who sent his friend John Alden to propose marriage for him to Priscilla, and lost what he was after. It is said that cavalry horse, when their riders have been shot in battle, will often come together at the sound of the bugle call and go through their customary drill from the force of habit. AREN'T GIRLS RECKLESS? When a girl is in love she says: Not "He is worthy of me," but "Am I worthy of him?" Not "He will be good to me," but "I will be good to him." Not "He is perfect," but "I don't care" Everthing! Everthing! IN FURNITURE AND FLOOR COVERINGS SYDNOR & HUNDLEY, INC. Leaders. 709 711 713 EAST BROAD STREET. The People's Restaurant, 750 North 3rd St., Richmond, Va MEALS at All Hours—Hot or Cold. Board by Day, Week or Month. SOFT DRINKS. POLITE ATTENTION.....GIVE ME A CALL. Mme. SYLVIA L. MITCHELL, Proprietress. whether he is perfect or not." Not "I shall be happy with him," but "I shall not be happy without him." Not "I could live my life with him," but "I could not live my life without him." Not "I see much in him to admire," but "I see nothing in anyone else to admire." Not "I could endure poverty with him," but "I could endure nothing without him." Not "I believe him, because what he says is true," but "I believe him, because he says it." It may seem to you that you love him too much, but remember that you will need a big bank account of love to draw on for the exigencies of marriage. The most harrowing thought in the world, next to not being sure that the man you love loves you, is that perhaps you do not love the man who loves you. If you can pass this self examination and give yourself 100 you may be quite sure that you love him. WISDOM'S WHISPERS A woman considers it a small offense to appropriate the ideas of another individual. Women have peculiar ideas as to how far they should go in showing affection for a man. A man's idea of a rest is to do absolutely nothing; a woman takes up fancy work for her rest. After a woman has had her little outburst of temper she becomes as pleasant as a May morning. Some men demand all that is coming to them and part of that which should go to the other fellow. When a woman really is ill there is something pathetic in the patience with which she bears her trial. The man who takes a gloomy view of married life always declares there is nothing selfish in his disposition. Men fall into the habit of complaining about the way they are treated with the thought it will bring more to them. Women talk of ambition as if it were something to pick up and put aside to s*t the convenience.—Philadelphia Bulletin. IT IS SAID: Vegetarians never dream. German soldiers carry Bibles. More herring are eaten than any other kind of fish. The sun raises from the sea 164 cubic miles of water a day. Excessive beer drinking is undermining the German constitution. The death rate among prisoners is less than half the general death rate. The total brain weight of the world's 81,400,000,000 inhabitants is 1,922,712 tons. In the two seconds that it takes a man to light a cigar he is carried 36 miles around the sun. When Polishing Brass Since it is difficult to clean the brass round a keyhole without injuring the woodwork, take a piece of cardboard some four inches square, cut a hole in the middle and place it over the keyhole while polishing it. Unconvinced If they were convinced that the pathway to a better and happier life for the nation were to be found by the carrying out of Socialism, all Christians would be Socialists.—British Weekly. Everthing! IN FURN FLOOR C SCENIC ROUTE ROUTE TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND, MAIN STREET, STATION, EASTBOUND. 6:00 A. M. Fast daily trains to Newport 9:00 A. M. News, Old Point, Norfolk and 4:00 P. M. All trains to pullmous or Porter cars. 4:25 P. M. Daily Locals to Newport 7:00 A. M. Pullmous to Newport 6:00 P. M. News. WESTBOUND-MAIN LINE. 10:00 A. M.-Daily-Charleston, Columbus and Toledo. Pullman Sleeper to Toledo via Gaulley and Ohio Central 2:00 P. M. Daily. Louisville, Cincinnati, 11:00 P. M. Pullman Sleeper to St. Louis. Through 7:25 A. M.-Week Day-Clifton Forge. 5:15 P. M. Week Days-Local to Orange. JAMES RIVER LINE. 10:00 A. M.-Daily-Lynchburg, Lexington, Va., and Clifton Forge. 5:15 P. M.-Week-Lynchburg, Sleeper Natural Bridge and Clifton Forge. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. From the East -9:10 A. M. 9:20 A. M. 11:45 M. Main Line West -6:30 A. M. 10:30 P. M. Main Line West -6:30 A. M. 7:30 A. M. 8:30 A. M. 4:15 P. M. 7:45 P. M. James River West -8:40 A. M. 7:30 P. M. Sunday R. F. & P. Richmond, Freder Ricksburg, and Pots TRAINS LEAVE RICHLOND-NORTHWARD 6:35 A.M. M-Daily-Bryd Street. Through. 7:00 A.M. M-Daily-Main Street. Through. 7:20 A.M. M-Week Days-Elaa. Ashland Ac commodation. 8:40 A.M. M-Daily-Bryd St. Through. Loca 12:01 Noon—Week Days—Byrd St. Through. 12.30—Week Days. Elba, Ashland Accom- munation. 4:00 P. M. Week Days—Byrd Street. Wash- ington Accommunation. 5:45 P. M. Sunday only—Elba. Washington Accommunation. 6:00 P. M. Week Days—Elba. Ashland Accom- munation. 6:45 P. M. Daily—Main Street. Through. 6:20 P. M. Daily—Byrd Street. Through. TRAINS ARIVER RICHMOND—SOUTHWARD. 6:30 A. M. Week Days—Elba, Ashland Accom- munation. 10:40 A. M.—Week Dayw-klba. Ashland Ac Accommodation. 10:40 A. M—Week Days—Klba. Ashland Acc communication. 12:20 P. M Daily - Main Street. Through. NOTE - Pullman Street or Parlor Cars on all shave trains. Sleep local accommodations. All trains to and from Bird Street Station stop at Elba. Tues. of arrivals and departures and con- nections not guaranteed. C. W. CULP, Gen'l. Sept. W. P. TAYLOR, Traffic Mgr. N & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Leave Bird Street Station, Richmond. In effect July 14, 1907. FOR NORFOLK-7:25 P. M., daily; 6:00 A. 9:00 A. M. and 3:00 P. M. Except Sunday; 8:00 A. M. and 9:00 P. M. Sunday only. FOR LYNCHBURG: West AND NOR- WEST-9:00 A. M. Except Sunday; 12:10 P. M. and 9:00 P. M. daily. EXCEPT LYNCHBURG-From Nordron: 11:30 A. M. 6:00 A. M. and 10:40 P. M. Except Sunday; 11:15 A. M. and 9:45 P. M. Sunday. Pullman Parlor and Sleeping Cars. Cafe Ding- rug Cars. W. B. BEVILL, C. H. BOSLEY. ATLANTIC COASTLINE TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 1:35 A. M. 7:55 P. M. For Florida and South: 8:00 A. M. *2:00 P. M. P. M. and 6:00 P. M. For N. and W. Rw. West: **8:10** and *9:00 P. M. For N. and W. Rw. West: 8:10 and 9:00 P. M. For Parkland: 8:00 and 9:00 A. M. 12:10 , 8:20 P. M. 6:00, 8:00 P. M. 7:25 and 11:30 P. M. For Goldbamboo and Favilleville: 12:28 P. M. The area is Richmond daily: 6:25, 7:40 A. M. , 8:25 P. M. *12:17, 12:27* , 6:50, 8:00, 8:50 and 10:40 P. M. *Except Sunday.* **Sunday only. Time of arrival and departures and connect not guaranteed. C. 8. CAMPBELL, D. P. A. Custalo House 702 East Broad Street. Having remodeled my BAR, and having an up-to-date place, I am prepared to serve my friends and the public at the same old stand. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS FIRST CLASS POSTGRAD Everthing! NATURE AND OVERINGS uniting the separated and bring back the lost one. Traces lost or stolen goods. Unearths hidden treasures. Removes evil influences Crosses, Spells, Ill Luck, cures tricks and Conjurations, gives Luck and Success in all you undertake. Cures the Tobacco and Llquor Habits. Allows the Captive to be set Free. PROF. D. D. BRUCE. M. D. Strange, Wonderful True are the The Great Australian Medium the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing mere power than any four meditums combined. No card, trance or hand humbug Greatest Hindoo Medtum in the World. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you while in a Clairvoyant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. Come, all ye unbelievers, scoffers and jeers; bring all your skeptism with you—he will open your eyes to the private chamber mystery. Come all ye broken hearted wives, all with low spirits and let him lift the burden from your aching and jealous heart. He challenges the World to compete with him in causing a speedy marriage with the one you love: Mechanics' Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VA. 511 NORTH THIRD STREET on deposit and which remains Satisfactory S Handled Prod. up in the most i chest, electric light modulation of the pu ming Stocks, Depos arranged for the sp to 4 P. M. Saturn open again at 5 F work. on deposit and interest paid on a which remains 60 days and over. Satisfactory Security. Handled Promptly. bits and upwards received on deposit. up in the most improved style, having a large sheet, electric lights and every modern conven- tion of the public. ing Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the arranged for the special convenience of the work to 4 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 8 P. . We open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until 9 work. Money received on deposit and amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 Money Loaned on Satisfactory Se Business Accounts Handled Prom Amounts of ten cents and upward This establishment is fitted up in the most im- white vanit, burlar-proof steel chest, electric light- ience for safety and the accommodation of the pub For all information concerning Stocks, Deposit Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the spe- people as follows: 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturday close Saturday at 3 P. M. and open again at 5 P. P. M. Call by as you come from work. Money received on deposit and interest paid on amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Money Loaned on Satisfactory Security. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit. This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having a large white vault, burlar-proof steel chest, electric lights and every modern convenience for safety and the accommodation of the public. For all information concerning Stocks, Deposits, Loans, etc., apply to the Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the special convenience of the working people as follows: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturdays, 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. We close Saturday at 3 P.M. and open again at 5 P.M., remaining open until 9 P.M.Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. THOS, H. WYATT, Car BOARD OF DIRECTOR REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JEO. R. CHILD R. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, THOS J. O. FARLEY JEO. R. A. WASHINGTON, R. W. WHITING, WILLIE JOHN MITCHELL, JR., PRES. THE J. V. Hawkin's IDEAL, H. F. O'S, R. WYATT, C. ORD OF DIRECTOR , JEO. R. CH NATHAN, THE , JEO. WRITING, WILLIE TRES. THE hawkin's Indent. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. S. H. WYATT, Cashier. ORD OF DIRECTORS: J. JEO. R. CHILES, B. P. VANDERVALL, JONATHAN, THOMAS SMITH D. J. CHAVERS. J. JEO. C. TAYLOR, WHITING, WILL AM COSTALO, J. J. CARTER, RES. THOMAS M. CRUMP, SEC'Y. hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. THON, H. WYATT, Cashier. BOUNDARY STREET The J. V. Hawkin's HAIR GROWER & RESTORER [TRADE MARK REGISTERED.] Has proved to be a fortune to many of the unfortunates, who are to-day delighted with its wonderful results. The merits of this great hair preparation naturally places it in a sphere all of its own, and the glowing terms in which our patrons speak of it reassures us of its satisfactory results. We can well boost of a large patronage throughout this and other States and also enjoys the commendation of the very best white and colored people in this immediate community. In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkinson's Hair Grower and Restorer, we will from time to time produce in print the photographs of those giving us permission to do so, who have used our preparation. among the many bearing witness of its genuine qu correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anyw ration is a natural and pure compound, the ingredi hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind States Government has placed national patent right which it is protected and we are in turn responsi est methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Daundruff, Cure Soal of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temple or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. Prices:-35 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.8 express prepaid. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder en tirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sal prices: 25, 50cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order. A charge of 10cts extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Address all communications to MME. J. V. HAWKINS, 612 N. First Street, Richmond, Va ass of its genuine or magic a miracle or impound, the ingre- ture will just here remi- nant national patent rig- ture in turn responsibility. undruff, Oure Scan on Clean Temple are not dead. ux; eight boxes, $2. use of powder or easily harmless. So Office Money Orde a charge of 10cct city orders. tations to AWKINS, Richmond, W separation and are to-day less of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the miracle or anything unreasonable. Our prepound, the ingredients of which we would not ill just here remind the public that the United national patent rights on our hair preparation by us in turn responsible to the government for honors. undruff, Oure Scalp among the many bearing witness of its genuine qualities. We do not desire the correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anything unreasonable. Our preparation is a natural and pure compound, the ingredients of which we would not hesitate to put in print. We will just here remind the public that the United States Government has placed national patent rights on our hair preparation by which it is protected and we are in turn responsible to the government for honest methods and square dealings. It will positively remove Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all impurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. PRICES;—55 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.80 express prepaid. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder entirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. Money can be sent by Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order. A charge of 10cts, extra is imposed on all out of city orders. Phone, 577. A. D. PR Funeral Director, Embalmer All orders promptly filled at short notice by Halls rented for meetings and nice entertain- ment with all necessary conveniences. Large p hire at reasonable rates and nothing but etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral s No. 212 East Leigh Residence Next Door OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT.—M A. D. PR Funeral Director, Embalmer All orders promptly filled at shortnotices by Halls rented for meetings and nice entertain- with all necessary conveniences. Large p hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral st No. 212 East Leigh Residence Next Door OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT.—M . PRICE, Embalmer and Liveryman. at short notice by telegraph or telephone. and nice entertainments. Plenty of room enches. Large plasic or band wagons for nothing but first-class carriages, buggies, and fine funeral supplies. 2 East Leigh Street. Residence Next Door. NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night A. D. PRICE. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large plasic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. No. 212 East Leigh Street. Residence Next Door. OPEN ALL DAY & NIGHT.—Man on Duty All Night Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Corner Broad HACKS FOR HIRE: 5 PBOF. D. D. BRUCE. M. D. 1820 MARIA MAYORA 'Phone, 577. He is the only one that will give a Written Guarantee to complete your business or refund your money Are you sick? Do you know what the trouble is with you? Come and Consult Nature's Doctor. Rheumatism, Insomnia, Hysteria and all Diseases cured. Points given on Horse Racing and all Games of Chance. No matter what alls you, come and see this wonderful man. Reader have you noticed that some people have a hard time to get along, no matter how they toll, while others have success. Many wealthy men and women owe their success to this wonderful man. 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That separation can only be effected by one or the other leaving this country. Since the white population of the country is seventy millions against ten million colored, it will not require a Solomon to tell which race will leave. The first great war in the United States on account of the Negro which began in 1861 was between the two white sections,—the North and the South. The Negro was passive. The next great war in this country on account of the Negro (unless the Negro leaves before that time) will be between the Negro, himself, no longer passive and the Caucasian. Such a war could only result in one of two ways,—the extermination of the Negro race in this country or its forcible banishment. Thinking men see this Frank and honest men will acknowledge it. Which, therefore, is best, to go at your own discretion, having plenty of time to dispose of your effects to choose the manner and time of your going, being helped in your departure by white friends and leaving a friendly feeling behind you or be driven out at the point of the bayonet with no where to go and no time to go in? This is a black picture but not so black as it might truthfully be painted. Start of your own accord and go peaceably, and you may take a hundred years to finish your going and to dispose of your property. Wait until you are driven out and you will have to go at once and have your property confiscated. Go as friends and be permitted to return individually any time you please for a temporary sojourn. Go as enemies and be forbidden to return under penalty. The Negro of fifty years hence will be a very different man from the Negro of to-day. Does any sane man, black or white, suppose that the Negro of that day will be content to be treated as the Negro of the present is treated? Of course he will not. He will resent the oppressive and repressive policy of the white race, and then what? A war of extermination or banishment of the Negro race in this country will result. In my opinion, it is not designed by God that the two races should dwell peaceably together in this country. He has a better country for the Negro race and a better and nobler work for him than to be the vassal of the white man forever. To those Negroes who have the inborn spirit of the freemen nestling within his breast, these things are as plain as daylight, but to those void of that spirit, they are riddles. However, God, in His own good time will make it plain to all; and may that day be hastened. The Onancock incident, the Brownsville affair, the Atlanta, Wilmington and Danville massacres, all these are but the beginnings of the end. These things do not spring up out of the air. In the economy of God, they have their own design which in due time will be made manifest. Our teachers and leaders should keep constantly before the people the great discrepancy between the number, the culture and education, the wealth and resources of the two races. If they can make them realize that the white people are vastly and overwhelmingly ahead of them in all these respects, they will have rendered them an inestimable service. I verily believe that most of the trouble between the races result from the overbearing deportment of the whites toward the blacks and the general ignorance of the latter as to their insignificance in this country as compared to the whites. Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for the patience and forbearance you have exercised toward me, I wish to state that my next paper will close this series. In that paper I shall recapitulate and endeavor to point out a remedy for all the woes of which I have complained and a plan by which the remedy may be applied. While I advocate the emigration of our people to Africa, because it is our fatherland I am not unaware that that continent has been parceled out and squatted upon by nearly all of the most powerful nations of the earth and that the difficulties that lie in the way of successfully planting our people there as a nation are almost insurmountable. Nevertheless—"Where there is a will, there is a way." I believe there is a way in this case and shall try to point it out It is not my object to bring about an hegira of the Negro race, but to have them go willingly and intelligently to a place provided for them. Where the same energy among them which we see producing wealth in this country—building halls, churches es and palaces—may be employed in their own country not only to the same extent as in this country, but in the building of empires as well. For over two hundred and fifty years the unrequited labor of the Negro race has built up this country and caused it to blossom as the rose. I would have it do the same for its own country. Awake! O. Africa! dark continent. Where, in long gone years our fathers dwelt; The tramp of millions hear they come! thy sons. To claim their own and light thy fires again. O M. STEWARD. ONANCOCK. THE OUT LOOK ON THE EAST ERN SHORE. (Continued from First Page.) SLIGHTLY NERVOUS. Colonel Nottingham said to-day that Uzzel was slightly nervous and apparently agitated when he surrendered himself at the barracks yes daytoday morning and that he appeared glad when he knew he was under the protection of the militia. "He would not talk," said Col. Nottingham, "and let no word drop that would throw any light on the situation. He is quiet and calm now although he shows the strain of the ten days in which he has been in hiding from the crowds." Col. Nottingham said the situation at the Eastern Shore is quiet and that no further trouble is anticipated. GREATLY EXAGGERATED S. Wilkins Matthews, secretary of the state board of fisheries, who is in Norfolk to-day, said that the trouble at Onancock has been greatly exaggerated. "It was originally intended by the whites that they would not allow the Negroes to hold their fair which begins next week," said Mr. Matthews, "but the feeling has quieted down and they have agreed to allow the fair to proceed and the Negroes have been promised protection by the troops. We fear no further trouble. Uzzel is about five feet, six inches in height and is slender in build. He is apparently about 35 years old and is neat in his dress. Irresponsible Whites at Fault NORFOLK, Va., Aug 17.—Major C. L. Wright, assistant adjunct general on the staff of Brigadier-General Vaughan, to-day heard from the Norfolk militia under Col. Nottingham, at Onancock and Tasley, on the Eastern Shore, incident to the race troubles there. Major Wright was informed that continued trouble seems to be due more to the actions of the whites than to the Negroes, though he has not been officially advised as to the true state of the trouble. To-day's report said that three colored women had applied yesterday to Colonel Nottingham for protection against the firing into their houses by whites at night. A prominent Accomac county man has reported to Major Wright. Governor Swanson and General Vaughan that the trouble is being largely caused by the irresponsible whites who have in many instances sent "move out" orders to unoffending colored people. The Norfolk troops will remain on the scene until after the colored fair at Tasley, which begins Monday. They will likely be home the last of next week. Sergeant-Major Talbott Truxton, having been relieved has returned home, and reported at the Norfolk custom house as an assistant inspector of customs. Private Langerheim, of Company B, is the only other man who has returned. He has gone to Williamsburg with the others designated to represent the Seventy-first Virginia regiment at the State target shoot. The Black Movement to Africa Bonita, Arizona, U. S. A., August 16, 1907. Dear Editor: Please allow space to publish in your valuable paper for the information of Rev. J. J. Evans of the United Trust Company and all the colored people in the country. The United States Government sent Mr. C. D. Lowe, one of the detectives and mail inspectors to examine our books and papers pertaining to the organizing of the African Movement. Mr. Lowe got here on August 10th and took my aidfavid and he inspected my books and papers on August 11, 1997 and found them all to be official matter on organizing of the movement. The money, (I had only collected $63.95 since I commenced sounding the people on the movement, and nearly all of this money came from both white and black men of my county) was spent for the printing of petitions and circulars which have been throughout the country and foreign nations appealing to the Governors of all the states and territories and to the United States Government to urge Congress to prepare a home in Africa where the colored people shall have a free government of their own and appropriate money to carry the move ment into effect and separate the two races to a great extent, by sending all the colored people who want to go, those unemployed and doing no good here and all the colored convicts to Africa. Outside of donation all expenses will be charged to the homesteads of the colored people and their new colonial government. I have spent more than $250.00 of my own money in this work besides my own living and traveling expenses, and if I had a million dollars I would put every cent into the movement except enough to educate my children. I own 120 acres of good land here, but it is on the wrong side of the Atlantic Ocean. Look for me this fall to commence the general organizing and collecting of money and means. I would be pleased to meet Rev. J. J. Evans, provided his warning leads him in the above direction, and if not possibly we can induce him and Mr. Booker T. Washington who is also opposed to the movement to become a part of the rear guard to the movement. Very respectfully, D. R. THOMAS, Organizing Sec. and Treas. Champion Giant of Four States Dead BURLINGTON, N. J., Aug. 19. — Councilman Frederick Peter, the tallest man in four states, is dead here. 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