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THE RICHMOND PLANET RAILROADED TO THE GALLOWS. Governor Swanson Foils the Conspiracy. INNOCENT COLORED MAN THE VICTIM—SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES PROMISED—RINGING DECLARATIONS—ATTORNEY CLEMENTS DETERMINED. VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 39. RAILRO THE Governor Co INNOCENT COLORED MAN TH ISED—RINGING DECLARA (Richmond, Va. Evening Journal.) Governor Swanson today commu- ted the death sentence of Joseph Thoms, alias John Wright, to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Wright is the Negro who was convicted of criminal assault on Miss Mabel Risley in Alexandria county, while she was in company with her fiance, Forrest Gooding. The Negro first beat and disabled Gooding. After the assault Gooding and Miss Risley were married. The Governor has had the case in hand for about two weeks and during that time has given it extensive and profound consideration. His anouncement this morning will cause some surprise, inasmuch as no commutation was expected by the public at large. SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES PROMISED. The case as it now stands is not lacking in dramatic interest. That there will be certain sensational disclosures connected with evidence adduced in the trial of the Negro was announced this afternoon by Attorney James E. Clements, of Alexandria, who has been working hard in the behalf of the condemned man since his alleged identification. Thomas had been sentenced to hang next Friday. In order to ensure safe delivery of the official papers in the case, a special messenger will be delegated to bear them to the Alexandria county jail in order that the sheriff may receive the commutation notice before Friday. A DIABOLICAL SCHEME. "I shall prove a deliberate and well concocted scheme of conspiracy to bring the colored man, Thomas, to the gallows," declared Mr. Clements this afternoon immediately after he had emerged from the office of Governor Swanson, with whom he had been in consultation for several hours. "An attempt has been made to have an innocent man hanged, and I shall make it my duty to bring the guilty conspirators to justice. "The names of the men I suspect? No, I cannot tell you that; it would be premature. But I shall make the thing public at the proper time. And then it will be a case of righting the wrongs of the condemned colored man, vindicating his good name, and having sentence passed upon the conspirators. I have not the least doubt in the world but that long before four years have passed, Thomas will have pardoned. NO COLORED MEN SUSPECTED "Strange as it may appear, no colored men are suspected in this conspiracy. They are all white men. I shall prove all this in good time." The assault on Miss Risley, now Mrs. Gooding, of Washington, was committed last fall. Thomas was arrested and was tried in the Alexandria court, and on December 14th was sentenced to hang for his crime. His attorney, Mr. Clements, appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Appeals and in the early spring that body affirmed the decision of the lower court by a vote of three to two, the decision being affirmed by Judges Keith, Harrison and Buchanan. The dissenting opinion was signed by Judges Cardwell and Whittle. RESENTENCED TO HANG Soon thereafter Thomas was sentenced to hang May 31st. The matter was next brought to the attention of Governor Swanson, who respited the man until next Friday, August 30th. The assault was committed at what is called Luna Park, near Alexandria city. Miss Risley was there with her betrothed, Forest Gooding, a resident of Washington. A colored man afterwards identified as Thomas, attacked Gooding first, it is said, and felled him with a club. At the same time in his other hand he flourished a pistol. Gooding, on recovering (Continued on Eighth Page.) PERSONALS AND BRIEF'S. —Miss Essie Miller is still in Amelia County visiting friends. —Miss Gertrude Mills, Huntington, W. Va., is visiting her uncle Rev. W. W. Young in Coutts St. —Mrs. A. C. Skinner, Media, Pa. was called to the city on account of the death of her father, Mr. John Ellis. —Miss Amelia E. Bradford of Little Rock, Ark. is in the city. She is enroute to the Jamestown Exposition. —Mrs. J. Henry Stokes of Richmond, Va. has gone to spend two weeks with her sister, Mrs. Tealie M. Fleming of Powhatan County, Va. —Sir G. H. Young, Puritan Lodge No. 101, Portsmouth, Va. was in the city this week on business. —Miss Edyth Graves, Master Theodore Tyler of Frederick's Hall and Mrs. Fanuile Tyler of Phila., called on us. —Mrs. Sadie B. Jackson of Pittsburg, Pa. is spending several days in the city the guest of Mrs. S. L. Mitchell, 740 N. Third Street. —Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D., the distinguished pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church of Washington, D. C. was in the city last Thursday. He spent only a day and a half here. He called on us and reports his work as being in a most prosperous condition. —Rev. Dr. F. H. Cook, the Editor of the Natchez Weekly Herald at Natchez, Miss. and Pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church of the above city will attend the National Baptist Convention at Washington, D. C. September 11th and also the Jamestown Exposition and then to New York City. Dr. Cook is a very able divine and a young man, the acknowledged leader of the younger members of his race in the ministerial ranks. He will deliver several sermons while away from home. The Church Trouble. No one who attended services at the Fifth Street Baptist Church last Sunday would have thought that it had just passed through one of its most troubled times and was now rallying from the shock. It had lost nearly three hundred of its membership and yet it raised over one hundred dollars during the day's rally. It was an answer to the claims of the followers of Dr. Edwards and the faithful determined to show everybody that there was life in the land yet. Rev. Dr. King preached in the morning and Rev. W. A. Mitchell at night. THE OTHER FACTION To the surprise of most people, the withdrawing element opened services at the commodious St. Luke Hall and Rev. A. E. Edwards, D. D. preached the sermon. He had a good crowd to hear him. He explained that if there was any splitting, the people did it. He intended to preach the gospel. A collection of $107.23 was lifted. It is claimed that $216.31 was lifted at a meeting held the Wednesday night before. Services will be held regularly at St. Luke Hall until some permanent place has been secured. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. meets at Louisville, Kentucky, beginning Monday, September 2nd, 1907 and ending Saturday, September 7th, 1907. The Supreme Representatives from Virginia are Sir John Mitchell, Jr., Sir Thomas M. Crump, Sir E. R. Jefferson, M. D., and Sir H. F. Jonathan. The latter goes in place of Sir William M. Reft of Portsmouth, who was unable to make the trip on account of business engagements. Miss M. L. Chiles of this city is the Supreme Representative to the Supreme Court, that will be in session at the same time. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1907 Echo Meeting of the National Baptist Convention. Every delegate who will go to Washington will get help for the trip from a Church, Sunday School, B. Y. P. U. or Missionary Society. A due appreciation and indeed a sense of duty should make us who go eager to make a full report to those who stay at home. Let every delegate take notes while at the National Convention. First as to the attendance of the meeting; second, the spirituality of the meetings as compared with last year; third, what the Boards have done during the year; fourth, what the Home Missionaries say about the conditions of our home land; fifth what Dr. Proud says about the work of the Lord in the West Indies and South America, what Rev. L. N. Cheek reports after six years stay in Central Africa, Rev. D. E. Murff's story of fourteen years achievement of Baptist Missions in South Africa, learned from his six month's survey of the field; sixth, the outlook for future work at home and abroad. Advertise your Echo Meeting and your report will do much to make known the Lord's work, and will repay in a measure those who helped you go to the National Meeting. Have the Echo Meeting, when there is nothing else going on. If more than one delegate, let each report a special phase of the work. Let us educate the Baptist Army on all questions affecting our Denomination al and Racial life. We can hold as many Echo Meetings as there are delegates and if properly planned and wisely handled we can encourage, stimulate and fire our denomination from Maine to California and from the Lakes to Gulf. The Spirit of Truth will meet us in great power and the coming year's work will be all the grander because of the knowledge infused about Him and for His cause. Plan the great Echo Meeting. Meeting Yours in His name, L. G. JORDAN, Louisville, Ky Ten Day's Feast Christ's Mission Workers, Industrial Home and Nursery for Women and Children at their fourteen room building No. 516 N. 3rd Street will have their permanent opening beginning August 29th with ten days feast in the wilderness ending September 7th, 1907 at which time the Manager and Matron wish to shake the hands of every person in this city. Feeling that this work is needed not only in Richmond but in every city in America. We have dress-making, plain and fancy sewing and darning. Hand laundering done in first class order. Rough drying a specialty. Best home made bread and pastries. R. V. CRAWFORD, Mgr. NANCY LEWIS, Asst. Mgr. MINNIE JOHNSON, Matron. For further information address 516 North Third Street, Richmond, Va. Do You Know Them? Ellisville, Miss., Aug. 24, '07. I am seeking information about some of my relatives. I was born in Amelia County, Va., near Farmer's Bank. Don't know name of town. My age is about 56 years. I left home about 1858, a slave, belonging to Henry Anderson. Left with Ed. Stokes and came to Mississippi. My relatives left in Virginia were my mother, Rachael Banister. Afterward learned she married a man by the name of Cy. Stokes. Also left four brothers, Randall, Dave Billy and Stephen Banister and one sister named Sarah who married Barnett Pegram. I want to hear from some of them. If any one of them or anyone who knows anything about any of them, will write me, the information will be very gratifying to me. Address, BETTIE CLAYTON, Ellisville, Miss. MR. BAKER'S NARRATIVE. MR. BAKER'S NARRATIVE. Sketches from Life—The Loafing Negro—Conditions as They Are. [American Magazine] I made a good many inquiries to find out what was being done outside of the public schools by the white people toward training the Negro either morally, industrially or intellectually—and I was astonished to find that it was next to nothing. The Negro is, of course, not welcome at the white churches or Sunday schools, and the sentiment is so strong against teaching the Negro that it is a brave Southern man or woman, indeed, who dares attempt anything of the sort. I did find, however that the Central Presbyterian Church of Atlanta conducted a Negro Sunday school. Of this Dr. Theron H. Rice, the pastor, said: "The Sunday School conducted in Atlanta by my church is the outcome of the effort of some of the most earnest and thoughtful of our people to give careful religious training to the Negroes of this generation and thus to conserve the influence begun with the fathers and mothers and the grand fathers and grand-mothers of these colored children when they were taught personally by their devoted masters and mistresses. The work is small in point of the number-reached, but it has been productive of sturdy character and law abiding citizenship." A white man or woman, and especially a Northern white man or woman in Atlanta who teaches Negroes is rigorously ostracised by white society. I visited one of the Negro colleges where there are a number of white teachers from the North. We had quite a talk. When I came to leave one of the teachers said to me: "You don't know how good it seems to talk with some one from the outside world. We work here year in and year out without a white visitor, except those who have some necessary business with the institution." Explaining the attitude toward these Northern teachers (and we must understand just how the Southern people feel in this matter), a prominent clergyman said that a lady who made a special call upon a teacher in that institution would not feel secure against having social equality thrust upon her, and that when the call was returned a similar embarrassing situation might be created. APOGOGIZING FOR HELPING NE GROES. Just in this connection: I found a very remarkable and significant letter published in the Orangeburg, S. C. News, signed by a well-to-do white citizen who thus apologizes for a kind act to a Negro school: "I had left my place of business here on a business trip a few miles below; on returning I came by the above-mentioned school (the Prince Institute, colored), and was held up by the teacher and begged to make a few remarks to the children. Very reluctantly I did so, not thinking that publicity would be given to it or that I was doing anything that would offend anyone. I wish to say here and now that I am heartily sorry for what I did, and I hope after this humble confession and expression of regret that all whom I have offended will forgive me." The sentiment indicated by this letter, while widely prevalent, is by no means universal. I have seen Southern white men address Negro schools and Negro gatherers several times since I have been down here. Some of the foremost men in the South have accepted Booker T. Washington's invitations to speak at Tuskegee. And concerning the very letter that I reproduce above, the Charlotte Observer, a strong Southern newspaper, which copied it, said: "A man would better be dead than to thus abase himself. This man did right to address the pupils of a colored school, but has spoiled all by apologizing for it. Few people have conceived that race prejudice went so far, even in South Carolina, as is here indicated. Logically it is to be assumed that this jelly-fish was about to be put under the ban, and to secure exemption from this, published this object card. To it was appended a certificate from certain citizens, saying they are as anxious to see the colored race elevated as any people, but by all means let it be done inside the color line.' * * * The narrowness and malignity betrayed in this Orangeburg incident is exceedingly unworthy, and those (Continued on Eighth Page.) Senator Foraker Sounds Key=Note. Secretary Taft and the Tar= iff. The Speech Riddled. THE QUESTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS—THE NEW REBELLION—THE DIS-FRANCHISING LAWS IN THE SOUTHLAND. GEORGETOWN, OHIO, Aug. 21—In his first speech since the address of Secretary Taft, United States Senator Foraker before the Chautauqua assembly here to-day discussed his fellow-townsman's opinion, from which he differed in many particulars, and among other things called upon the secretary to explain his views as to the recent disfranchisement legislation in Georgia and the new rebellion that has broken out in North Carolina and Alabama. In the course of his speech Mr. Foraker said: "All the provisions of the Hepburn rate bill specifically mentioned by Secretary Taft in his commendation of that measure, except the rate-making provision, were incorporated into that bill by the Senate. Most of them, with my active assistance and some of them upon my own motion. UNIFORM RANK THERE. Grand Times in Petersburg—Anniversary Sermon—Rev. Dr. Howard Makes a Great Effort. The Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythics of this city observed its anniversary last Sunday in Petersburg, Va. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church where Rev. G. B. Howard, D. D. preached a most able and eloquent sermon. The companies went over by the Seaboard Air Line. Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr. arrived in the city at 5:30 o'clock Sunday morning but was ready to take the 9:35 train that morning with the men. He wore the regulation white fatigue suit and was accompanied by Col. D. A. Ferguson, Col. W. H. Stokes, Capt. Willis Wyatt, Capt. John G. Smith, Capt. W. Hen. Sister Margarette Young, Sister Martha Harris, Sister Fanny Pegram, Sister Willie Coleman, Sister Adline Wilson, Sister Susan Stokes, Sister Margarette Owens, Sister Emma Stith, Sister Mary Morton. Rev. E. Watts, D. D. the pastor delivered a short but most appropriate address. WANTED—Energetic young ladies to handle Hair Vim, the best hair grower. No money required. Write to-day, COLUMBIA CHEMICAL CO., Newport News, Va. Rev. C. H. Parish Elected. At the recent meeting of the Board AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSITION. "If the bill had been put through the Senate as it was put through the House, and the Senate committee under orders to allow no amendments whatever, it would have been without any redeeming features whatever, except such as the friends of that proposition may claim to find in the provision conferring the rate-making power on the Interstate Commerce Commission. "It was to that proposition I was unalterably opposed. The objection to conferring the rate-making power upon the Interstate Commerce Commission is not, in my opinion, answered by Secretary Taft. "He makes no answer to the suggestion that the three powers of government—the executive, the legislative and the judicial—are all conferred on the commission, and that this commingling of these powers is unprecedented and in violation of both the spirit and the letter of the Constitution." NO LOWER RANGE OF RATES "I have contended that so far as I have yet been informed, there has been no lower range of rates since the Hepburn rate was passed, whereby the shippers of Ohio have been benefited, except only such as would have been made in all probability if the Hepburn law had never been passed. On the contrary, since the Hepburn rate law was passed the majority of these rates have been advanced. A PECULIA INCONSISTENCY "Inasmuch as the secretary entertains the views he expresses as to the difficulty of convictions in such cases, and inasmuch as the Interstate Commerce Commissioners, for precisely the same reason given by the secretary recommended the abo- (Continued on Fourth Page.) A Great Day There was a great day at the Fifth Street Baptist Church last Sunday, Aug. 25th. All services were well attended. The Sunday School was called to order by Supt. B. H. Peyton at 9:45. The school was graced with the presence of Rev. Sydney Stanton of the Second Baptist Church After teaching the lesson he spoke very encouragingly to the school. All teachers and workers seem to be enthused. Judging from the attendance of last Sunday bids fair to say that the school will be second to none in the state. The school is expected to give its picnic on Tuesday, September 3rd at Magnolia Park. At 11:15 A.M. the church listened to an able sermon by Dr. C. H. King of Raleigh, N. C. At 3:30 P. M. communion. Rev. J. J. Woodson ably conducted the service. It was a rejoicing time in Zion. At 8 P. M. an able sermon was delivered by Rev W. A. Mitchell. The deacon asked for $100.00 for the day but when the last summary was made, it was found that $138.13 was raised. We feel that the Lord is hovering around Zion and that success and prosperity will attend the church. UNIFORM RANK THERE. Grand Times in Petersburg—Anniversary Sermon—Rev. Dr. Howard Makes a Great Effort. The Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias of this city observed its anniversary last Sunday in Petersburg, Va. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church where Rev. G. B. Howard, D. D. preached a most able and eloquent sermon. The companies went over by the Seaboard Air Line. Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr. arrived in the city at 5:30 o'clock Sunday morning but was ready to take the 9:35 train that morning with the men. He wore the regulation white fatigue suit and was accompanied by Col. D. A. Ferguson, Col. W. H. Stokes, Capt. Willis Wyatt, Capt. John G. Smith, Capt. W. Henry Jones. THE COMPANIES Eureka Co., No. I was out with the following officers: Capt, Isaac Moore First Lieutenant W. F. Weaver, Second Lieutenant F. C. Jones. Janet Co., No. 8: First Lieutenant Leroy Brown, Second Lieutenant A. W. Jackson. Blooming Lily Co., No. 11: Capt. V. M. Gwathmey, First Lieutenant W. H. Willis, Second Lieutenant Lincoln White. Pythian Cadet Co., No. 1, Captain Rosee C. Mitchell, First Lieutenant Archer Ferris. The Drum Corps was in charge of acting Drum Major Joseph N. Fauntleroy. The visitors were met at the station in Petersburg by Major D. B. Cornish, District Deputy Grand Chancellor Edward W. Wood and McKinley Co., No. 25, commanded by Capt. Madison Lowry, First Lieutenant F. A. Green and Second Lieutenant C. W. Washington, together with members from the subordinate lodges. The visitors marched to Wilkerson's Hall. DINNER SERVED Dinner was served at 1:30 at the Pythian Castle to all of the visitors both male and female free of charge. Never has there been a more generous welcome tendered the organization in this state. The committee in charge of Mrs. Martha Harris, District Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor was tireless in its efforts. Everything was furnished free of charge and the dinner was the very best. The menu was ham and cabbage, chicken both stewed and friend, tomatoes, pickles, potatoes, roast beef, corn and wheat bread, ice-cream and cake and refreshments in abundance. To add to the surprise there were enough to feed 300 people. The exercises at the Ebenesezer Baptist Church took place at 3 P. M. Major D. B. Cornish was Master of Ceremonies assisted by Deputy Grand Chancellor Edward W. Wood. The edifice was filled both in the galleries and on the main floor. THAT ABLE DISCOURSE Prayer was offered by Capt. Willis Wyatt. Rev. G. B. Howard's sermon was a gem. He stirred the audience to such an extent that it practically forgot itself and gave open manifestations of its approval. He is a magnificent pulpit orator and he won the hearts of all who were favored with his presence and able to listen to this sermon. Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr., asked for the collection and $21.44 was lifted. With the additional amount given the total collection was $26.44. The parade took place immediately afterwards and the com piliments tendered were appreciated. It was nearly 7 o'clock when the visitors boarded the train for the return to Richmond, carrying with them the best wishes of the citizens of Petersburg. The local committee was as follows: Sir Thomas Butler, Sir Moses Bates, Sir C. W. Washington, Sir C. C. Crawley, Sir Richard Lee, Sir C. W. Johnson, Sir W. T. Stokes, Sir John Maclin, Sir D. W. Harris, Sir Jesse Maclin, Sir Charlie Crawley. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. icker y=Note. d the Tar= Riddled. V REBELLION—THE DIS- UTHLAND. Sister Margarette Young, Sister Mar- tha Harris, Sister Fanny Pegram, Sis- ter Willie Coleman, Sister Adline Wil- son, Sister Susan Stokes, Sister Mar- grette Owens, Sister Emma Stith, Sister Mary Morton. Rev. E. Watts, D. D. the pastor delivered a short but most appropriate speech. WANTED—Energetic young ladies to handle Hair Vim, the best hair grower. No money required. Write to-day. COLUMBIA CHEMICAL CO., Newport News, Va. Rev. C. H. Parish Elected. At the recent meeting of the Board of Managers of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College at Lynchburg, Rev. C. H. Parish, D. D. of Kentucky was elected President. The meeting was harmonious. Mrs. Mary Rice Hayes was elected Secretary Treasurer of the Institution and will accordingly continue her connection with the school. Convention Meets. The Seventh Annual Session of the State Sunday School Convention of Virginia and B. Y. P. U. met at Lynchburg in the chapel of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, August 21, 22, 23 and 24, 1907. It was one of the largest gatherings the young people ever held in the state. The attendance of the Convention was augmented by the great desire to see the Seminary and College and again by the great interest manifested in the election of the President of the College. The Convention convened promptly at 9:30 o'clock on Wednesday morning, Prof. James S. Lee of Newport News, presiding. The welcome address was delivered by Prof. R. C. Scott of Lynchburg. It was indeed a master production and seemed to voice the sentiment of the Lynchburg people. This excellent address was responded to by $n$ number of the leaders of the Convention. All sections of the state were well represented and more than 150 school and associations were represented. The Convention floor was graced with such leading men as Dr. Holland Powell, W. F. Graham, R. H. Bowling, Charles Stewart, J. E. Howard of Washington, R. C. Woods, of Baltimore and Miss Davis representing the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention and others. All of the schools and Associations rallied well and when the final hymn was sung the Finance Committee reported from all sources on the table of the Convention, $733.92. The Convention was voted a grand success. The following officers were elected Prof. J. S. Lee, President; W. R. Ashburne, Cor. Sec.; A. L. Winslow, Rec. Sec.; Miss Maggie L. Millner, Statistical Secretary; W. R. Smith, Treasurer. Prof. B. H. Peyton and Miss Avies Horseley of Richmond were elected on the Executive Board. Mr. R. H. Fauntleroy was elected Recording Secretary of the B. Y. P. U. Convention, also Prof. B. H. Peyton, A. M. was elected Executive Board Member. The Convention adjourned to meet at the First Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va. next year. The work of the past year of the Convention was voted a grand success and enthusiasm ran high for more work and better accomplishments. The Board of Trustees of the Virginia Seminary meet at the Court St. Baptist Church and after deliberations of a day and a half, unanimously elected Rev. C. H. Parish, D. D. of Louisville, Ky. President of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College. This seemed to have been the thrilling cord that electrified each person attending the Convention, for it seemed that the spirit of satisfaction filled each breast. The young people of the state simply say go on, we will help fight the battle. THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES The south bound train was now due in ten minutes. A few students had boarded the Chicago train, but a greater number still waited on the farther platform. The girl in gray was surrounded by half a dozen students, all talking animatedly. As I walked toward them I could not justify my stupidity in mistaking a school girl of 15 or 16 for a grown woman; but it was the tam-o'-shanter, the short skirt, the youthful joy in the outdoor world that had disguised her as effectually as Rosalind to the eyes of Orlando. She was probably a teacher—quite likely the teacher of music, I argued, who had amused herself at my expense. It had seemed the easiest thing in the world to approach her with an apology or a farewell, but those few inches added to her skirt and that pretty gray toque substituted for the tamo-shanter set up a barrier that did not yield at all as I drew nearer. At the last moment, as I crossed the track and stopped upon the other platform, it occurred to me that while I might have some claim upon the attention of Olivia Gladys Armstrong, a wayward school girl of athletic tastes, I had none whatever upon a person whom it was proper to address as Miss Armstrong—who was, I felt sure, quite capable of snubbing me if snubbing fell in with her mood. She glanced toward me and bowed instantly, and her young companions withdrew to a conservative distance. I will say this for the students at St. Agatha's, Annandale: Their manners are beyond criticism, and an affable discretion is one of their most admirable traits. "I didn't know they ever grew up so fast—in a day and a night!" "It's the air, I suppose. It's praised by excellent critics," she laughed. "But you are going to an ampler ether, a diviner air. You have attained the beattic state and at once take flight. If they confer perfection like an academic degree at St. Agatha's, then—" I had never felt so stupidly helpless in my life. There were a thousand things I wished to say to her; there were countless questions I wished to ask; but her calmness and poise were disconcerting. Her eyes met mine easily; their azure depths puzzled me. She was almost, but not quite, some one I had seen before, and it was not my woodland Olivia. Her eyes, the sofe curve of her cheek, the light in her hair—but the memory of another time, another place, another girl, lured only to baffle me. She laughed—a little murmuring laugh. "I'll never tell if you won't," she said. "But I don't see how that helps me with you?" "It certainly does not! That is a much more serious matter, Mr. Glon-arm." "And the worst of it is that I haven't a single thing to say for myself. It wasn't the not knowing that was so utterly dull—" "Certainly not! It was talking that ridiculous twaddle. It was trying to flirt with a silly school girl. What will do for 15 is somewhat vacuous for—" She paused abruptly, colored and laughed. "I am 27!" "And I am just the usual age," she said. "Ages don't count, but time is important. There are many things I wish you would tell me—you who hold the key of the gate of mystery." "Then you'll have to pick the lock!" She laughed lightly. The somber Sisters patrolling the platform with their charges heeded us little. "I had no idea you knew Arthur Pickering—when you were just Olivia in the tam-o-shanter." "Maybe you think he wouldn't have cared for my acquaintance—as Olivia in the tam-o-shanter. Men are very queer!" "But Arthur Pickering is an old friend of mine." "So be told me." "We were neighbors in our youth." "I believe I have heard him mention it." "And we did our prep school together, and then parted!" "You tell exactly the same story, so it must be true. He went to college and you went to Tech." "And you knew him—" I began, my curiosity thoroughly aroused. "Not at college, any more than I knew you at Tech." "The train's coming," I said earnestly, and I wish you would tell me—when I shall see you again! "Before we part for ever?" There was a mischievous hint of the Olivia in short skirts in her tone. "Please don't suggest it! Our times have been strange and few. There was that first night, when you called to me from the lake." "How impertinent! How dare you remember that?" "And there was the snow storm and at the chapel porch last night. Neither you nor I had the slightest business there. But you spoke as though you understood what you must have heard, and you say you know Arthur Pickerling. It is important for me to know—I have a right to know just what you meant by that warning." Real distress showed in her face for an instant. The agent and his helpers rushed the last baggage down the platform as the rails hummed their warning of the approaching train. Her Eyes Met Mine Easily; Their Azure Depths Puzzled Me. "I was eavesdropping on my own account," she said hurriedly, and with a note of finality. "I was there by intention, and"—there was another hint of the tam-o-shanter in the mirth that seemed to bubble for a moment in her throat—"it's too bad you did not see me, for I had on my prettiest gown, and the fog wasn't good for it. But you know as much of what was said as I do. You are a man, and I have heard that you have had some experience in taking care of yourself, Mr. Glenarm." "To be sure; but there are times—" "Yes, there are times when the odd seem rather heavy. I have noticed that myself." She smiled, but for an instant a sad look came into her eyes—a look that vaguely but indistinctly suggested another time and place. "I want you to come back," I said boldly, for the train was very near and I felt that the eyes of the Sisters were upon us. "You can not go away where I shall not find you!" I did not know who this girl was, her home, or her relation to the school, but I knew that her life and mine had touched strangely; that her eyes were blue, and that her voice had called to me twice through the dark, in mockery once, and in warning another time, and that the sense of having seen her before, of having looked into her eyes haunted me. The youth in her was so luring; she was at once so frank and so guarded—breeding and the taste and training of an ampler world than that of Annandale were so evidenced in the witchery of her voice, in the grace and ease that marked her every motion, in the soft gray tone of hat, dress and gloves, that a new mood, a new hope and faith sang in my pulses. There, on that platform, I felt again the sweet heartache I had known as a boy, when spring first warmed the Vermont hillsides and the mountains sent the last anows singing in joy of their release down through the brook-beds and into the wakened heart of youth. She met my great friend. "If I thought there was the slightest chance of my ever seeing you again I shouldn't be talking to you here. But I thought—I thought It would be good fun to see how you really talked to a grown-up. So I am risking the displeasure of these good Sisters just to test your conversational powers, Mr. Glenarm. You see how perfectly frank I am." "But you forget that I can follow you; I don't intend to sit down in this hole and dream about you. You can't go anywhere but I shall follow and find you." "That is finely spoken, Squire Glenarm! But I imagine you are hardly likely to go far from Glenarm very soon. I don't hesitate to say that I feel perfectly safe from pursuit!"—and she laughed her little low laugh that was delicious in its mockery. I felt the blood mounting to my cheek. She knew, then, that I was virtually a prisoner at Glenarm, and for once in my life, at least, I was ashamed of my folly that had caused my grandfather to hold and check me from the grave, as he had never been able to control me in his life. The countryside knew why I was at Glenarm, and that did not matter, but my heart rebelled at the thought that this girl knew and mocked me with her knowledge. "I shall follow and find you," I repeated. "I shall see you Christmas eve," I said, "wherever you may be." "In three days? Then you will come to my Christmas eve party. I shall be delighted to see you," and flattered! Just think of throwing away a fortune to satisfy one's curiosity! I'm surprised at you, but gratified, on the whole, Mr. Glenarm!" "I will give more than a fortune; I will give the honor I have pledged to my grandfather's memory to hear your voice again." "That is a great deal,—for so small a voice; but money, fortune! A man will risk his honor readily enough, but his fortune is a more serious matter. I'm sorry we shall not meet again. It would be pleasant to discuss the subject further. It interests me particularly." "In three days I shall see you," I said. She was instantly grave. "No! Please do not try. It would be a very great mistake. And, anyhow, you can hardly come to my party without being invited." "That matter is closed. Wherever you are on Christmas eve I shall find you," I said, and felt my heart leap, knowing that I meant what I said. "Good-by," she said, turning away, "I'm sorry I shan't ever chase rabbits at Glennar any more." "Or paddle a canoe, or play wonder- ful celestial music on the organ." "Or be an eavesdropper, or hear THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA pleasant words from the master of Glenarm—" "But I don't know where you are going—you haven't told me anything—you are slipping out into the world—" She did not hear or would not answer. The train roared to the platform, and she was at once surrounded by a laughing throng of departing students. Two brown-robed Sisters stood like sentinels, one at either side, as she stepped into the car. I was conscious of a feeling that from the depths of their hoods they regarded me with un-Christian disdain. Through the windows I could see the students fluttering to seats, and the girl in gray seemed to be marshabbling them. The gray hat appeared at a window for an instant, and her smiling face gladdened, I am sure, the guardians of the peace at St. Agatha's. The last trunk crashed into the baggage car, every window framed a girl's face, and the train was gone. CHAPTER XVI It was from Stoddard that I learned the truth about Olivia, and I am not, I fear, greatly ashamed of living invited him to dinner merely to pump him as to the Armstrongs of Cincinnati and their daughter. Olivia's father, Stoddard informed me, was a retired physician of wealth, who lived at Walnut Hills. I can hear now the great roars of laughter that broke from him as I kept protesting that the girl in gray I had seen at the Anandale station was Olivia Gladys Armstrong. It was only when we settled down to a comparison of our impressions that the truth gradually dawned upon me—that the girl in gray was not Olivia Gladys Armstrong but Marrian Devereux. The whole thing was ridiculous—my density, my stupid acceptance of the ground on which Marrian Devereux had chosen to meet me; and I was not convinced until the big chaplain had given me a circumstantial description of the real Olivia—a child of 15, with a gypsy face and dark hair and eyes. Where has Miss Devoreve gone? "Why, to Cincinnati, with Olivia Gladys Armstrong," he answered. "They's great chums, you know." I opened and read: "I if convenient will Mr. Glenarm kindly look in at林. Agatha's some day this week at four o'clock. Sister Theresa wishes to see him." I whistled softly. My feelings toward Sister Theresa had been those of utter repugnance and antagonism. I had been avoiding her studiously and was not a little surprised that she should seek an interview with me. Quite possibly she wished to inquire how soon I expected to abandon Glenarm House; or perhaps she wished to admonish me as to the perils of my soul. In any event I liked the quality of her note and I was curious to know why she sent for me: moreover, Marlan Devereux was her niece and this knowledge had changed my attitude toward the institution beyond the wall. At four o'clock I passed into St. Agatha's territory and rang the bell at the door of the building where I had left Olivia the evening I found her in the chapel. A Sister admitted me, led the way to a small reception room where, I imagined, the visiting parent was received, and left me. I felt a good deal like a school boy who has been summoned before a severe master for discipline. I was idly beating my hat with my gloves when a quick step sounded in the hall and instantly a brown-clad figure appeared in the doorway. It was a deep, rich voice, a voice of assurance, a voice, let me say, of the world—the voice, too, I may add, of a woman who is likely to come to the point without ado. The white band at her forehead brought into relief two wonderful gray eyes that were alight with kindness. She surveyed me a moment, then her lips parted with a smile. "This room is rather forbidding; if you will come with me—" She turned with an air of authority that was a part of her undeniable distinction, and I was seated a moment later in a pretty sitting room whose windows gave a view of the dark winter wood and frozen lake beyond. "I'm afraid, Mr. Glenarm, that you are not disposed to be neighborly, and you must pardon me if I seem to be pursuing you." Her smile, her voice, her manner were charming. I had pictured her a sour old woman, who had hidden away from a world that had offered her no pleasure. "The apologies must all be on my side, Sister Theresa. I have been greatly occupied since coming here—distressed and perplexed, even." "Our young ladies treasure the illusion that there are ghosts in your house," she said, with a smile that disposed of the matter. She folded her slim white hands and spoke with simple directness. "Mr. Glenarm, there is something I wish to ask you, but I can say it only if we are to be friends. I have feared you might look upon us here as enemies." "That is a strong word," I replied evasively. "Let me say to you that I hope very much that nothing will prevent your inheriting all that Mr. Glenarm wished you to have from him." "Thank you; that is both kind and generous," I said with no little surprise. "Not in the least. I should be disloyal to your grandfather, who was my friend and the friend of my family if I did not feel kindly toward you and wish you well. And I must say for my niece—" "Miss Devereux." I found a certain pleasure in pronouncing her name. "Miss Devereux is very greatly disturbed over the good intentions of your grandfather in placing her name in his will. You can doubtless understand how uncomfortable a person of any sensibility would be under the circumstances. I'm sorry you have never met her. She is a very charming young lady whose happiness does not, I may say, depend on other people's money." She had never told, then! I smiled at the recollection of our interviews. "Now, I wish to speak to you about a matter of some delicacy. It is, I understand perfectly, no business of mine how much of a fortune Mr. Glenarm left. But this matter has been brought to my attention in a disagreeable way. Your grandfather established this school; he gave most of the money for these buildings. I had other friends who offered to contribute but he insisted on doing it all. But now Mr. Pickering takes the ground that the money—or part of it, at least—was only a loan." "Yes; I understand." "Mr. Pickering tells me that he has no alternative to the matter; that the law requires him to collect this money as a debt due the estate. "That is undoubtedly true, as a general proposition. He told me in New York that he had a claim against you for $50,000." "Yes, that is the amount I wish to say to you, Mr. Glennarm, that if it is necessary, I can pay that amount." "Pray do not trouble about it, Sister Theresa. There are a good many things about my grandfather's affairs that I don't understand, but I'm not going to see an old friend of his swindled. There's more in all this than appears. My grandfather seems to have mislaid or lost most of his assets before he died. And yet he had the reputation of being a pretty cautious business man." "The impression is abroad, as you must know, that your grandfather concealed his fortune before his death. The people here about believe so; and Mr. Pickering, the executor, has been unable to trace it." "Yes, I believe Mr. Pickering has not been able to solve the problem." I said and laughed. "But, of course you and he will cooperate in an effort to find the lost property." She bent forward slightly; her eyes, as they met mine, examined me with a keen interest. "Why shouldn't I be frank with you, Sister Theresa! I have every reason for believing Arthur Pickering a scoundrel. He does not care to cooperate with me in searching for this money. The fact is that he is very much wishes to eliminate me as a factor in the settlement of the estate. I speak carefully; I know exactly what I am saying." She bowed her head slightly and was silent for a moment. The silence was the more marked from the fact that the hood of her habit concealed her face. "What you say is very serious." "Yes, and his offense is equally serious. It may seem odd for me to be saying this to you when I am a stranger—when you may be pardoned for having no very high opinion of me." She turned her face to me—it was singularly gentle and refined—not a face to associate with an idea of self-seeking or duplicity. "I sent for you, Mr. Glenarm, because I had a very good opinion of you; because, for one reason, you are the grandson of your grandfather"—and the friendly light in her gray eyes drove away any lingering doubt I may have had as to her sincerity. "I wished to warn you to have a care for your own safety. I don't warn you against Arthur Pickering alone, but against the countryside. The idea of a hidden fortune is alluring; a mysterious house and a lost treasure makes a very enticing combination. I fancy Mr. Glenarm did not realize that he was creating dangers for the people he wished to help." She was silent again, her eyes bent meditatively upon me. Then she spoke abruptly. "Mr. Pickering wishes to marry my niece." "Ah, I have been waiting to hear that. I am exceedingly glad to know that he has so noble an ambition. But Miss Devereux isn't encouraging him, as near as I can make out. She refused to go to California with his party—I happen to know that." "That whole California episode would have been amusing if it had not been ridiculous. Marlan never had the slightest idea of going with him; but she is sometimes a little—shall I say perverse?—" "Please do! I like the word—and the quality!" "And Mr. Pickering's rather elaborate methods of wooing—" He's as heavy as lead!" I declared. "—Amuse Marlan up to a certain point; then they annoy her. He has implied potty strongly that the claim against me could be easily adjusted if Marlan marries him. But she will never marry him, whether she benefits by your grandfather's will or however that may be!" "I should say not," I declared with a warmth that caused Sister Theresa to sweep me with those wonderful gray eyes. "But first he expects to find this fortune and endow Miss Devereux with it. That is a part of the scheme. And my own interest in the estate must be eliminated before he can bring that condition about. But, Sister Theresa, I am not so easily got rid of as Arthur Pickering imagines. My staying qualities, which were always weak in the eyes of my family, have been braced up a trifle." "Yes." I thought pleasure and hope were expressed in the monosyllable, and my heart warmed to her. "Sister Theresa, you and I are understanding each other much better than I imagined we should"—and we both laughed, feeling a real sympathy growing between us." "Yes, I believe we are"—and the smile lighted her face again. "So I can tell you two things. The first is that Arthur Pickering will never find my grandfather's lost fortune, assuming that any exists. The second is that in no event will he marry your niece." "You speak with a good deal of confidence," she said and laughed a low, murmuring laugh. I thought there was relief in it. "But I didn't suppose Marian's affairs interested you." "They don't, Slister Theresa. Her affairs are not of the slightest importance—but she is!" "There was frank inquiry in her eyes now. "But you don't know her—you have missed your opportunity." "To be sure, I don't know her; but I know Olivia Gladia Armstrong. She's a particular friend of mine—we have chased rabbits together, and she told me a great deal. I have formed a very good opinion of Miss Devereux in that way. Oh, that note you wrote about Olivia's intrusions beyond the wall! I ought to thank you for it—but I really didn't mind." "A note? I never wrote you a note until to-day!" "Well, some one did!" I said, then she smiled. "Oh, that must have been Marlan! She was always Olivia's loyal friend and apologist." "I should say so." "But you shouldn't have known Olivia—it is unpardonable! If she played tricks upon you, you should not have taken advantage of them to make her acquaintance. That wasn't fair to me!" "I suppose not! But I protest against this deportation. The landscape hereabouts is only so much sky, snow and lumber without Olivia." "We miss her, too," replied Sister Theresa. "We have less to do!" I went home and studied the timetable. If you are one of those captions people who must verify by the calendar every new moon you read of in a book, and if you are palmed to discover the historian lifting anchor and spreading sail contrary to the reckonings of the nautical almanac, I beg to call your attention to these items from the timetable of the Mid-Western and Southern Railway for December, 1901: The southbound express passed Annandale at exactly 53 minutes after four p.m. It was scheduled to reach Cincinnati at 11 o'clock sharp. This, I trust, is sufficiently explicit. To the student of morals and motives I will say a further word. I had resolved to practice deception in running away from Glenarm House to keep my promise to Marlan Devereux By leaving I should forfeit my right to any part of my grandfather's estate; but of more immediate importance was my absence from Glenarm House at this juncture, when the attacks of Morgan and the strange ways of Bates made it clearly my duty to remain. Pickerling and I were engaged in a sharp contest, and I was beginning to enjoy it to the full, but I did not falter in my determination to visit Cincinnati, hoping to return without my absence being discovered; so the next afternoon I began preparing for my journey. "Bates, I fear that I'm taking a severe cold and I'm golug to dose myself with whisky and quinine and go to bed. I shan't want any dinner—nothing until you see me again." I yawned and stretched myself with a groan. "I'm very sorry, sir. Shan't I call a doctor?" "Not a bit of it. I'll sleep it off and be as lively as a cricket in the morning." At four o'clock I told him to carry some hot water and lemons to my rooms; bade him an emphatic good-night and locked the door as he left. Then I packed my evening clothes in a suit-case. I threw the bag and heavy ulster from a window, swung myself out upon the limb of a big maplen and let it bend me to its sharpest and then dropped lightly, to the ground. I passed the gate and struck off toward the village with a joyful sense of freedom. I reached the station without incident and waited in the freight shed to keep out of sight of the station loafers until my train drew up, then quietly jumped aboard. I bought a seat in the Washington sleeper and after supper in the dining car made myself comfortable and dozed and dreamed as the train plunged through the dark. The through passengers about me went to bed, and I was left sprawled out in my open section, lurking on the shadowy frontier between the known world and dreamland. "We're running into Cheinnatl ten minutes late," said the porter's voice, and in a moment I was in the vestibule and out, hurrying to a hotel. At the St. Botolph I ordered a carriage and broke all records changing my clothes. The time-table informed me that the Chicago express left at half-past one. There was no reason why I should not be safe at Glenarm House by my usual breakfast hour in the morning if all went well. To avoid loss of time in returning to the station I paid the hotel charge and carried my bag away with me. "Doctor Armstrong's residence? Yes, sir; I've already taken two loads there." The carriage was soon climbing what seemed to be a mountain to the heights above Cincinnati. To this day I associate Ohio's most interesting city with a lonely carriage ride that was as strange to me as a trackless jungle in the wilds of Africa. And my heart began to perform strange tattoos on my ribs. I was going to the house of a gentleman who did not know of my existence, to see a girl who was his guest, to whom I had never, as the conventions go, been presented. It did not seem half so easy, now that I was well launched upon the adventure. I stopped the cabman just as he was about to enter an iron gateway whose posts bore two great lamps. "That's all right, sir. I can drive right in." "But you needn't." I said, jumping out. "Walt right here." Doctor Armstrong's residence was brilliantly lighted, and the strains of a waltz stole across the lawn cheerily. I made a detour and studied the house, seeking a door by which I could enter without passing the unfriendly Gibraltar of a host and hostess on guard to welcome belated guests. A long conservatory filled with tropical plants gave me an opportunity. Promenaders were passing idly through it and cut into another part of the house by an exit I could not see. A handsome, spectacled gentleman opened a glass door within a yard of where I stood, sniffed the air and said to his companion as he turned back with a shrug into the conservatory: "There's no sign of snow. It isn't Christmas weather at all." He strolled away through the palms and I instantly threw off my ulcer and cap, cast them behind some bushes and boldly opened the door and entered. The ball room was on the third floor but the guests were straggling down to supper and I took my stand at the foot of the broad stairway and glanced up carelessly as though waiting for some one. It was a large and brilliant company and many a lovely face passed me as I stood waiting. The very size of the gathering gave me security, and I smoothed my gloves complacently. The spectacled gentleman whose interest in the weather had given me a valued hint of the open conservatory door, came now and stood beside me. He even put his hand on my arm with intimate friendliness. There was a sound of mirth and scampering feet in the hall above and 1 At the Top of the Stair, Her Height Accentuated by Her Gown of White, Stood Marian Devereux. then down the steps, between the line of guests arrested in their descent, came a dark laughing girl in the garb of Little Red Riding Hood, amid general applause and laughter. "It's Olivia! She won the wager!" exclaimed the spectacled gentleman, and the girl, whose dark curls were sheken about her face, ran up to us and threw her arms about him and kissed him. It was a charming picture—the figures on the stairway, the pretty, graceful child, the eager, happy faces all about. I was too interested in the scene to be uncomfortable. Then, at the top of the stair, her height accentuated by her gown of white, stood Marian Devereux, heat-tating an instant, as a bird pauses before taking wing, and then laughingly running between the lines to where Olivia faced in mock abjection. To the charm of the girl in the woodland was added now the dignity of beautiful womanhood, and my heart leaped at the thought that I had ever spoken to her, that I was there because she had taunted me with the risk of coming. Above, on the stair landing, a deep-toned clock began to strike midnight and every one cried "Merry Christmas!" and "Olivia's won!" and there was more hand clapping, in which I joined with good will. Some one behind me was explaining what had just occurred. Olivia, the youngest daughter of the house, had been denied a glimpse of the ball; Miss Devereux had made a wager with her host that Olivia would appear before midnight; and Olivia, defeating the plot against her, gained the main hall at the stroke of 12. "Good night! Good night!" called Olivia—the real Olivia—in derision to the company, and turned and ran back through the applauding, laughing throng. The spectacled gentleman was Olivia's father, and he mockingly rebuked Marian Devereux for having encouraged an infraction of parenti discipline, while she was twitting him upon the loss of his wager. Then her eyes rested upon me for the first time. She lifted her brows slightly, but continued talking placially to her host. The situation did not please me; I had not traveled so far and bargluriously entered Doctor Armstrong's house in quest of a girl with blue eyes merely to stand by while she talked with another man. I drew nearer, impatiently; and was conscious that four other young men in white waistcoats and gloves quite as irreproachable as my own stood ready to claim her the instant she was free. I did not propose to be thwarted by the beaux of Cincinnati and I addressed my host boldly. "I beg your pardon, Doctor—" I said with an assurance for which I blush to this hour. "All right, my boy; I, too, have been in Arcady!" he exclaimed in cheerful apology, and she put her hand on my arm and I led her away. "He called me 'my boy,' so I must be passing muster," I remarked, not daring to look at her. "He's afraid not to recognize you. His inability to remember faces is a town joke." We reached a quiet corner of the great hall and I found a seat for her. "You don't seem surprised to see me,—you knew I would come. I should have come across the world for this,—for just this." Her eyes were grave at once. "Why did you come? I did not think you were so foolish. This is all—so wretched. You didn't know that Mr. Pickler-Mer. Pickler-Mer." She was greatly distressed and this name came from her chokingly. "Yes; what of him?" I laughed. "He is well on the way to California—and without you!" "No—you don't know—you don't un- derstand—he's here! He abandoned his California trip at Chicago; he telegraphed me to expect him—here-to-night! You must go at once—at once!" "Ah, but you can't frighten me," I said, trying to realize just what a meeting with Pickerling in that house might mean. "No,"—she looked anxiously about,—"they were to arrive late, he and the Taylors; they know the Armstrongs quite well. They may come at any moment now. Please go!"" "But I have only a few minutes myself,—you wouldn't have me sit them out in the station down town? There are some things I have to come to, and Arthur Pickerling and I are not afraid of each other!" "But you must not meet him here. Think what that would mean to me! You are very foolhardy, Mr. Glenarm. I had no idea you would come—" "But you wished to try me,—you challenged me." "That wasn't me—it was Olivia," she laughed, more at ease, "I thought—" "Yes, what did you think—that I was tied hand and foot by a dead man's money—" "No, it wasn't that wretched fortune; but I enjoyed playing the child before you—I really love Olivia—and it seemed that the fairies were protecting me and that I could play being a child to the very end of the chapter without any real mischief coming of it. I wish I were Olivia!" she declared, her eyes away from me. "That's rather idle. I'm not really sure yet what your name is, and I don't care. Let's imagine that we haven't any names.—I'm sure my name isn't of any use, and I'll be glad to go nameless all my days if only—" "If only—" she repeated idly, opening and closing her fan. It was a frail blue trifle, painted in golden butter-files. "There are so many if onlies' that I hesitate to choose; but I will venture one. If only you will come back to St. Agatha's! Not to-morrow, or the next day, but, say, with the first bluebirds. I believe they are the harbingers up there." Her very ease was a balm to my spirits; she was now a veritable daughter of repose. One arm in its long, white sheath lay quiet in her lap; her right hand held the golden butterflies against the soft curve of her cheek. A collar of pearls clasped her throat and accented the clear girlish outlines of her profile. I felt the appeal of her youth and purity. It was like a cry in my heart, and the dreary house by the lake, and Pickering and the weeks within the stone walls of my prison were as though they had never been. "The friends who know me best never expect me to promise to be anywhere at a given time. I can't tell; perhaps I shall follow the bluebirds to Indiana; but why should I. when I can't play being Olivia any more?" "Why not? You have seen how dull I am; and that note of apology you wrote from the school really fooled me. But I have seen the real Olivia now. I don't want you to go too far—not where I can't follow—and this flight I shall hardly dare repeat." Her itps closed—like a rose that had gone back to be a bud again—and she pondered a moment, slowly freeing and imprisoning the golden butterflies. "You have risked a fortune, Mr. Glenarm, very, very foolishly—if you are found here. Why, Olivia must have recognized you! She had seen you often across the wall." "But I don't care—I'm not staying at that run up there for money. My grandfather meant more to me than that—" "Yes; I believe that is so. He was a dear old gentleman; and he liked me because I thought his jokes adorable. My father and he had known each other. But there was—no expectation—no wish to profit by his friendship. My name in his will is a great embarrassment, a source of real annoyance. The newspapers printed dreadful pictures of me in connection with the will. I say to you, quite frankly, that I wouldn't accept a cent of Mr. Glenarm's money if it were offered me; and that is why."—and her smile was a flash of spring.—I want you to obey the terms of the will and earn your fortune." She closed the fan sharply and lifted her eyes to mine. "But there isn't any fortune; it's all a myth, a joke." "Mr. Pickering doesn't seem to think so. He had every reason for believing that Mr. Glenarm was a very rich man." "But assuming that there's money buried there by the lake like a pirate's treasure, it isn't Pickering if he finds it. There are laws to protect even the dead from robbery!" I concluded hotly. "How difficult you are! Suppose you should fall from a boat, or be shot—accidentally—then I might have to take the fortune after all; and Mr. Pickering might think of an easier way of getting it than by—" "Stealing it! Yes; I know what you mean; but you wouldn't—" Half-past 12 struck on the stairway and I started to my feet. "You wouldn't—" I repeated. "I might, you know!" "I must go—but not with that, not with any hint of that,—please!" "If you let him defeat you, if you fail to spend your year there, we'll overlook this one lapse,"—she looked me steadily in the eyes, wholly guiltless of coquetry but infinitely kind—"then,—" She paused, opened the fan, held it up to the light and studied the golden butterflies. "Yes—" "Then—let me see—oh, I shall never chase another rabbit as long as I live! Now go—quickly—quickly!" "But you haven't told me when and where it was we met the first time. Please!" She laughed, but urged me away with her eyes. "I shan't do it! It isn't proper for me to remember. If your memory is so poor. I wonder how it would seem for us to meet just once—and be introduced! Good night! You really came. You are a gentleman of your word, Squire Glenarm!" She gave me the tips of her fingers without looking at me. A servant came in hurriedly. "Miss Devereux, Mr. and Mrs. Tax- THE PLANET SATURDAY.....AUGUST 31, 1907 lor and Mr. Pickering are in the drawing-room." "Yes; very well; I will come at once." Then to me: "They must not see you—there, that way!" and she stood in the door, facing me, her hands lightly touching the frame as though to secure my way. I turned for a last look and saw her waiting—her eyes bent gravely upon me, her arms still half-raised, barring the door; then she turned swiftly away and passed through the hall. Outside I found my hat and coat, and wakened my sleeping driver. He drove like mad into the city, and I swung myself upon the north-bound train just as it was drawing out of the station. TO BE CONTINUED. MAKE HALL PRETTY MISTAKE TO NEGLECT ENTRANCE TO HOME. Proper Decoration and Arrangement Gives Visitor Good Impression of House—Illustration Shows Appropriate Furnishings. Our first impression of the home we enter is often decided by the hall's appearance, and if this is badly arranged and decorated the other rooms are likely to be in keeping with it. Little can be done with the average hall in narrow city houses, but it may at least be kept from being dreary and forbidding. A well-chosen stair carpet, wall coverings of good rich color, and doorway draperies in tones to match go far to bring about this result. The less furniture the better. An um The Hall and Its Furnishings. brella stand, a chair, a chest and mirror with hooks, are all that is necessary. Pictures should be of a rather formal style, carefully chosen and sparingly used. In summer homes or suburban houses the widest latitude is allowed in the treatment of the hall. The illustration shows a simple and attractive way to furnish the ordinary hall. The first three feet of side wall was covered with brown cloth, which is very durable and fresh looking. This was topped by a molding, above which the wall space was hung with two-tone buff paper. This in turn had a strip of molding above it. The ceiling was covered with cream colored paper. The floor was of hard wood and was covered with rugs of harmonizing shades. The staircase was a simple colonial one, in a straight line design, and a mahogany hall table stood against the wall. Two oblong pictures were on the wall and a colonial mirror, hung over the table, on either side of the latter there was a double candlestick, made to fasten to the wall. In the hall or on the stairway a few pictures may be hung if the width of the passage permits, but there must not be the slightest chance of jostling against them. They should be of assorted sizes, some oblong or square, others round or oval. Fortunately, the picture molding is fast losing its original use. Nothing is more hideous than the triangular shaped space formed by the picture wire above a frame, particularly if the frame be small and the wires long. The screw-eyes should be about one inch from the top of the frame, and the wire should be so short that it does not show. Pictures should be hung flush with the wall, if they slant they will be out of harmony with the architectural lines of the room. For the formal drapery for the front door or the window, nothing equals the fillet lace panel. There are several ways of using this curtain; it may be stretched on a frame and set in the sash against the glass, or it may be attached to a small rod at the top of the pane and allowed to hang in folds to the bottom. The frame, however, has this advantage: when the curtain has been cleaned it may be stretched in the frame and dried in position. Otherwise the lace will tend to dry out of shape and look stringy and lacking in its pristine freshness. One of the best frames comes with a groove in each side in which is a cotton cord. To this cord the lace panel is sewn, and when the curtain is cleaned these stitches may readily be taken out, and after washing be readily replaced. BELTS FOR THE SUMMER. So Many Varieties That All Tastes May Be Suited. As long as the shirt waist survives, belts must remain in fashion, and every year the variety appears new and unlimited. Just now general attention is centered upon belts for linen and silk suits. In white kid there are many novelties, and all are more or less ornate, at least so far as the detail work is concerned, for the general effect is sufficiently plain to go with tailored suits. But the soft kid is tucked and shirred and treated in marvelous fashion, as though it were so much white satin ribbon. Sometimes when the pliable leather is quite wide it is drawn through a smaller buckle, within which the surplus fullness is drawn into the narrowest possible corded tucks. Again the leather is ornamented with a delicately tinted floral design in silk embroidered applique. In all these cases there are two buckles, one front and one back. These are usually not create for ornate suits. Chamois and undressed suede are also used for belting in natural colors with plain gold buckles, and in the elastic ribbons bead trimming is also used. Taffeta ribbon belts to match the tie are also perennial favorites, and are always in good taste with the linen suit. A woman requires several belts for summer if she wears tailored suits at all. She should have one to match the suit, and one elaborate jeweled or handsome silver cinture. For her white linen suits and ginghams she may add as many more as her fancy and her pocketbook dictate. The short-wisted frock has by no means done away with the need for a belt or girdle. Its position is shifted upward, but wide belts or girdles of satin ribbon with large buckles are a feature of many of the modified empire modes. FOR THE DRESSING TABLE Novel Toilet-Tidy Will Make a Pretty Ornament. The dainty little toilet-tidy shown in our sketch is made on something the same principle as an easel or a standing photo-frame, and would prove a pretty ornament for the dressing table. It is arranged with three long and slender pieces of wood, some seven or eight inches in length, and one shorter piece to go across the top. These pieces of wood are kept in position by firmly tied bows of pink satin ribbon, which are connected by twisted ends, and which serve to give a pretty finish to the tidy, while they are also very useful in keeping the sticks in place. useful in keeping the sticks in place. The tidy itself is of pale linen made in pocket form, and fairly deep, so that the combings will always be out of sight. It is bound at the edge with heavy white cord, and finished in front with a single pale pink rose with green foliage, embroidered in washing flax thread and in the natural tints of the flowers and the leaves. Linen is suggested rather than silk, as the tidy can then be washed and replaced, when occasion requires. Braided Coat Is Good Style The loose coat, sleeveless sometimes, three-quarter length, simple in outline, and eminently picturesque, is much worn by Parisiennes nowadays and is largely braided, not only with big motifs of soutache, but all over in a fashion now forgotten for a good many years, and very well it looks. Later on for autumn suits this style will prove effective worn with a plain skirt, and now in thick corded silk, with silken braid, over a filmy gown it is very successful. Bodices of gowns are sometimes treated in the same way, and little capes and coattees; but the long wrap is the smartest. The soutache matches in tint. Lace and Bibbon Sleeve There is a pretty sleeve, suggested by a picture of the Pompadour days, in which the sleeves of the long-walsted kind are formed, at the shoulder, of superposed frills of narrow lace; thus a glimpse of the arm is permitted, and then, at the elbow, comes a jarretiere of ribbon bows with a frill rising above them as well as one falling below—a pretty idea for a dinner gown, carried out, say, in nattier blue and pearl gray with Mechlin laces.—The Queen. Shrink Wash Goods This is a good rule to keep ging- hams fresh and bright: Always shrink your goods in the fold, viz. the yard folds as they come from the store; lay them smoothly in large tub, using tepid water and a handful of common salt. Let the goods remain over night, then remove without wringing and hang up by selvage edges until dry. Always use white soap to wash them and iron on wrong side. All wash goods treat in this way. Leud Effects. Stranger (happening along).—Boys, what are you burning these ghastly colored lights for? What do you mean by carrying those ugly banners and smearing paint on the sidewalk? Leader of the boys.—There's a deaf an' dumb couple been gittin' married in that house acrost the way. We're givin' 'em a shivaree, mister.—Chicago Tribune THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IT WILL PAY YOU ```markdown ``` IF YOU WILL T BORS AND INTERES WE WILL HELP YOU IN ORDER TO FU YOU WILL TALK WITH YOUR AND INTEREST THEM IN THE WILL HELP YOU TO OBTAIN A P ORDER TO FURTHER INCREASE WE WILL SEND YOU AND THE ST LOUIS, MISSO GLOBE DEMOCRAT, ONE REPUBLICAN JOURNALS STATES FOR $2.25 PER YEAR. WE WILL SEND YOU THE COSMOPOLITAN MA- PER YEAR FOR BOTH. WE WILL SEND YOU McCLURE'S MAGAZINE FOR FOR BOTH. FOR TWO YEARLY S OR THEIR EQUIVALENT, V TURES, ONE ONLY, OF DORE ROOSEVELT, DR. 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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. 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The course have decided that subscribers to newspaper, who do not order their paper discontinued at the excursion time, for which it has been paid, are hold liable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper communications.—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address in full otherwise we cannot find your name on 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. as second-class matter. SATURDAY . . . AUGUST 31, 1907 Director General James M. Barr, announces that the Jamestown Exposition is now completed. This will be good news to the people who had anticipated going there, when this condition of affairs prevailed. Mr. Barr's management has been of the highest order and his triumph will be received with satisfaction by all well-wishers of this most remarkable enterprise. The Negro Exhibit is also in excellent shape and the public is now invited to inspect all parts of this most remarkable aggregation of the progress of the Republic. We are authorized to state that the statements accredited to Dr. Booker T. Washington, to the effect that he is alleged to have said that the feeling of the colored people, in regard to the Brownsville incident was confined only to a few politicians is erroneous. He never made any such statement, but on the contrary has said that the feeling was deeper, more lasting and wider spread than was true of any other incident in recent history. THE GOVERNOR'S REASONS. The action of Gov. Claude Swanson in commuting the sentence of the colored man Joseph Thomas, alias John Wright, to imprisonment for life will be cordially approved by right thinking people, regardless of race or color everywhere. Wright was to have been hanged at Alexandria, Va. yesterday. The circumstances surrounding the case are such as to make it questionable as to whether the female in question was even assaulted by a Negro. That this colored amm was elsewhere at the time is generally conceded and that Wright will ultimately be released is well-nigh a foregone conclusion. Be that as it may, we certainly commend the language used by His Excellency, Gov. Swanson. He said: "The additional evidence, supplementing the original evidence produces in my mind such a strong doubt of the identification of the prisoner as the party who committed the assault that I feel I would be recreant to my duty as Governor if I should permit this poor, friendless Negro to be executed." This language has the true ring of the Virginian "to the manor born." We remember when Gov. Fitzhugh Lee performed a similar service for Simon Walker, charged with criminal assault and who has recently been discharged from the Virginia penitentiary after serving nearly all of a twenty year sentence. We remember when Gov. Charles T. O'Ferrall performed a similar duty in connection with the Lunenburg prisoners, going so far as to put the prisoners in the hands of the militia of this state. In none of these instances did the fact of their doing this become a political issue. We are free to say that Wright owes the saving of his life to the patriotic white men of Virginia and if he is ever released, it will be due to efforts made from the same source. It is indeed gratifying to note these scintillations of fair play and genuine justice. It makes a man, be he black or white feel that he has something for which to live and a commonwealth for which he is ready to offer up his best blood. SENATOR FORAKER'S DELIVERY ANCES. --- The speech of Senator J. B. Foraker, delivered at Georgetown, Ohio August 21st, 1907 was one of the best that he has made during this most remarkable discussion of vital issues. He is in a "life and death struggle" with men of his own political faith and that he is as good as he was twenty years ago in a combat of this kind must be admitted by the conservative elements of the country. We have read carefully his utterances as quoted in the newspapers and nowhere do we detect a false note or a retreat from those great principles that he has so successfully espoused. In this day of financial profit and side-stepping for a reward, it is indeed cheering to listen to a man of the George F. Hoar type. We must all admit that Senator Foraker is deeply in earnest and that he honestly believes all that he has the hardihood to say. His defense of the Elkins law was a master-piece and his dissection of the tariff revision issue a skilful presentation of an all important subject. We are with him in this contest and we feel confident that he will have a large element of his patriotic countrymen who will not be slow to express their appreciation of a man, whose fearlessness has become a marvel and whose fidelity to duty is preached even in strange lands. He is all right on the southern suffrage question and his declarations are in painful contrast to the weak, apologetic utterances of his fellow distinguished townsman who has virtually openly announced his candidacy for the position of President of the United States. Secretary Taft missed the opportunity of his life when he declined the position of Justice on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. True, he would not have been any better than those who are there, so far as we are concerned, but he would have been out of harm's way and would have had an opportunity to reflect, relative to some of the ridiculous attitudes he has assumed in his attempt to follow the strenuous leadership of that distinguished, but impetuous occupant of the White House. Theodore Roosevelt, who has had his day and who now lives in the sunlight of his most wonderful flight to the highest point of human fame and material prosperity. All of One Mold We should remember that man differs little from man, except that he turns out best who is trained in the sharpest school. - Thucydides. Britain's Imports of Food Food valued at $2,175 is brought into Great Britain every minute of the day and night. Not to Be Guarded Against Not to Be Guarded Against. A concealed spark is more to be feared than an open fire.—German proverb. A Tip on Puppies Why can't one's neighbors breed puppies that won't whine? Center for Dolls' Dresses. Paris derives a huge revenue from the sale of dolls' dresses. Blessings in Disguise. Misfortunes make us wiso.—Dutch proverb. Novelties In Silk Sheer silk gauzes with Chinese and Japanese borders attest the popularity of oriental effects in hand trimmings. They are made up effectively by the leading dressmaking establishments, and here, too, unpretentious lines are the correct thing. As a rule the skirts boast no trimming save the border of embroidery, unless it be a few tucks above, scattered their own distance apart, and possible panel effect down the front, with narrow inserts of lace insertion. The draped surplice bodices are filled in back and front with lace and net, while the sleeves are of the prevailing kimono type, finished with a replica of the border which appears upon the skirt. Little Girls' School Waists Make your old white shirt waistls into school waists for the little gorls. As they usually are open in the back it is but little trouble, and they can wear them with a woolen skirt, as it saves washing and ironing a whole dress and they look just as fresh and clean. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA lition of punishment by imprisonment as part of the Elkins law, the charge of the secretary, made by implication at least, that the Elkins law, especially in the matter of abolishing imprisonment, was a railroad measure, is without the slightest excuse or justification. Nobody has ever claimed that the Elkins law was perfect, but while he seeks to disparage the Elkins law, yet he admits that all prosecutions down until this time have been under it, because these were offenses committed prior to the Hepburn rate law, and he then says that criminal prosecutions will continue to be under the Elkins law but as amended by the new rate bill. NO AMENDMENT INVOKED "No amendment of the Elkins law by the provisions of the Hepburn rate bill has been invoked in any of these proceedings." Senator Foraker spoke of his recent public requests that Secretary Taft give a bill of particuliers as to his tariff revision views and declaring the Columbus speech not sufficiently "luminous on this point," continued: "One who was able a year ago to declare himself unqualifiedly in favor of an immediate revision at that time should be able now to give some specification as to what then prompted him to make such a declaration. But, instead, we are told that he merely assumes that the cost of production in this country has so far diminished since the Dingley law was passed that the duties now in force are higher than necessary to cover the difference in the cost of labor here and abroad. A COMPLETE REFUTATION "Assuming for the sake of argument that he is correct in his contention that the difference in labor, and that difference alone, should fix the duty, he seems to overlook the fact that the duties fixed by the Ding law were, in the judgment of the Congress that enacted that statute, no higher when they were fixed than was necessary to cover that differential and that the duties then fixed, if that rule is to govern, cannot be high enough now, for it is common knowledge that the cost of all kinds of labor has in the meanwhile advanced from twenty-five to fifty per cent. in this country without any corresponding advance in foreign countries. "What I contend for, is, that before any such revision is entered upon the people shall be heard on the subject and I have already suggested that such a step should not be taken until after we have a chance to consult them in the presidential campaign of next year." A QUESTION PROPOUNDED. Senator Foraker called on the Secretary to say what in his opinion the Chief Executive "should do about the defiant nullification of the war amendments to the Constitution involved in such statutes as that passed in Georgia only a few days ago. He is properly in favor of doing all in our power for the 8,000,000 of brown people in the Philippines, who were until recently entire strangers and open enemies. But how about the 10,000,000 black people in America, none of whom ever drew a disloyal breath, who are openly and defiantly being denied their constitutional rights of citizenship. Is there no power to prevent such an offense against human rights and such an overthrow to our organic law? THE NEW REBELLION "But I would know also what the views of an aspirant to the presidency may be about the new rebellion that has broken out in some of the South ern States, notably North Carolina and Alabama, in the form of open defiance of the United States Courts. Is this spirit to be checked and restrained, or is it to be allowed to feed upon itself and grow strong to the point of menacing our institutions?" KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS First Lodge There Great Activity Craigsville, Va., August 23, '07. After much delay the long expected visit has been paid this neighborhood by Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., who arrived here yesterday afternoon for the purpose of setting up a lodge of Knights of Pythias. He was accompanied by Sir E. R. Jefferson, Grand Medical Register and Sir S. S. Baker. The initiation took place at the hall here of the J. U. O. of Mechanics. It was a success and the newly made candidates are jubilant. The body will be known as Craigsville Lodge, No. 123. It will meet at Fordwick, just one mile from here. The officers are Chancellor Commander, Brown Hill; Vice Chancellor, John W. Woods; Master of Work, Wise Johnson; Keeper of Records and Seal, William Harris; Master of Finance, Samuel Spears; Master of Exchequer, Paul Cabell; Prelate, John D. Goodall; Master at Arms, Robert Wilson; Inner Guard, Newton Sheffey; Outer Guard, William Robinson; Trustees, Wise Johnson, John W. Woods, Willis H. Baker, Attendants, Andrew Johnson, Silas Saunders, Philip Lindsey, William Taylor. The delegation from Staunton was here to assist. District Deputy Grand Chancellor J. H. Allen, Sirs A. C. Mabrey, William Johnson, Jeff Bryan, William Perkins, Ed. Carter and Arthur Venable rendered good service. This lodge was the first ever organized here and it was through the efforts of Sir Thomas Dickerson. Grand Chancellor Mitchell complimented him highly. Sir Mitchell met Mr. Thomas Hebron, whose Mad ame was originally a Miss Merriman of Lynchburg. They are costly located ed here in the mountains. Their daughter Miss Virginia has rare talent for elocution and her renditions were of a high order. The visitors left this morning for The visitors left this morning for Staunton. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. First Court Organized There.—A Company Too. Harrisonburg, Va. Aug. 24, '07. Rockingham Court. No. 129 was organized here last night by Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. He was assisted by Miss M. L. Chiles, Grand Worthy Register of Deeds, Dr. E. R. Jefferson, Sir S. S. Baker and Mrs. Kate R. Jones of Lexington. They came yesterday afternoon on the same train and were met at the depot by District Deputy Grand Chancellor J. C. Holmes and a local committee. The ladies were conveyed to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Cochran. Sir Mitchell and his friends were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Holmes. The officers of the new court are as follows: Worthy Counselor, Mrs. Celia Johnson; Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Hattie L. Holmes; Worthy Inspectrix, Mrs. Hattie Hawkins; Orator, Mrs. Marla Henderson; Register of Deeds, Mrs. Jane Barber; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Cora Johnson; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Alice R. Cochran; Senior Directress, Miss Florence Harper; Junior Directress, Miss Rebecca Galice; Conductress, Miss Mary Hawkins; Herald, Mrs. Dorcas Sellers; Protector, H. V. Johnson; Trustees, J. C. Holmes, George Stratton, H. V. Johnson This court was organized through the efforts of Sir J. C. Holmes. At the conclusion Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. repaired to the John Wesley M. E. Church, where despite the heavy rain people had gathered to hear him speak. He delivered a short but pointed address on the race question from a financial stand-point. He was introduced by the popular pastor, Rev. Joseph Wheeler, who paid a glowing tribute to Mr. Mitchell, reviewing his work at length. At the conclusion refreshments were served in the basement. Though the hour was late, Sir Mitchell returned to the hall, where he organized Doudlass Company, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias with the following officers: Captain, J. Rolle Rice; First Lieutenant, H. V. Johnson; Second Lieutenant R. C. Mason; Recorder, G. A. Newman; Treasurer, J. C. Holmes; Guard, H. W. Frances; Sentinel, Curtis Black; Brigadier General Mitchell was assisted in this work by Col. E. R. E. Jefferson and Sir Knight S. S. Baker. The work here was accomplished by the efforts of District Deputy Grand Chancellor J. C. Holmes. The party left this morning at 7:25 for Lexington, Va. from which point they will go to Natural Bridge, Va. GHOULS DIG UP A CORPSE. Mutilate Little Girl's Body and Put It Back in Grave. BERNARDSVILLE, N. J., Aug. 26.—Through the exhumation of the body of Margaret Kniblewind, one of the victims of the fatal automobile wreck near Bernardsville, N. J., ten days ago, it became known yesterday that within a few hours after the interment a flend had desecrated the grave. The body of the child had been dug up and mutilated. When he had finished his ghoulish work the brute threw the body back into the coffin and cast it in the grave. But in replacing the dirt and flowers he did not arrange them as they had ben left, and this led to the exhuming of the body. The child was killed on Aug. 14 while riding in the automobile of Grant B. Schoy, the broker, Thomas Clark. Mr. Schoy's chauffeur, had picked up a party including the little girl to give them a ride. He ran into a telegraph pole and the child was thrown out with the others. Her death was instantiated. Clark was also killed instantly and Ralph Hazleton, another occupant of the car, died the next day in a hospital, while Miss Adelaide Pepper of Brooklyn and Miss Anna Kuhlewind, a sister of little Margaret, were seriously injured. ROOT'S BROTHER DEAD Professor Oren Root Was Educator and High Degree Mason. Rud High Degree Mason. UTICA, N. Y., Aug. 27.—Professor Oren Root of Hamilton college, brother of Secretary of State Root, died. Professor Root was born at Syracuse, N. Y., May 8, 1888, and was graduated from Hamilton college in 1856. He received the degrees of D. from Rutgers college in 1891 and of L. H. D. from Union college in 1895. He became a Presbyterian clergyman in 1874 and became pastor of the Dutch Reformed church at Utica in 1890, when he entered that denomination. He was a high degree Mason and a Knight Templar, professor of English at the State University of Missouri in 1896, president of Critchell college in Glasgow, Mo., 1873-1876, coeditor of the Columbian Speaker and was the author of a brief treatise on trigonometry. One of his sons, Oren Root, Jr., was appointed general manager of the Metropolitan Street Railway company in 1903. To Organize New York Central Clerks ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 28. At a meeting here of delegates representing the state lodge of Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks, the board of adjustment, the organizing branch of the association, was instructed to begin the work of organizing all the clerks along the line of the New York Central Railroad company. This board will meet in Syracuse Sept. 29. Clover Leaf Gets Alton Railroad. NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-The Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad company has acquired control of the Chicago and Alton, according to an announcement made here. The acquisition of the road is subject to certain conditions, which will not be finally determined for ten days or two weeks from the present time. Er Names of Dunkirk, P Ex-Mayor of Dunkirk Dead. DUNKIRK, N. Y., Aug. 26.—Richard Mulholland, former mayor of Dunkirk, dled. He was the first supreme president of the Catholic Mutual Benefit association and was prominent in the Knights of Columbus. ASSAILS ROOSEVELT Alton B. Parker Attacks President's Policies. HE IS OPPOSED TO CENTRALIZATION Declares Antirest Agitation Is Likely to Lead to Pandemonium—All Abuses Must Be Checked Constitutionally. PORTLAND, Me., Aug. 27.—The feature of the first day's session of the thirtieth annual meeting of the Ameri can Bar association was the address of Alton B. Parker, president of the association, who discussed at length the policies of President Roosevelt. He said in part: "The recent claims for federal intervention in directions heterofore unheard of are based upon the commerce and post road provisions of the constitution. As to the first the constitution says the congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the Indian tribes.' Is it within the spirit and purpose of that provision that congress may control the manufactures and all other productive interests of the states, whether controlled by individuals or corporations, the creations of the state? The answer of even a casual student of the constitution and the conditions surrounding its making must be in the negative. "It is not my purpose to discuss the merits of the various claims for an increase of the federal power at the expense of the states. In the end such of them as are favorably acted upon by congress will have to pass the test of constitutionality before that greatest of all courts, the supreme court of the United States, and such statutes will stand or fall as they show or fail to show idulity to the spirit and purpose of the constitution. "The attempts, however, on the part of the federal government to despoil the states of the powers and functions belonging to them will not tend to smoothness in the working of our dual scheme of government. Already it has had its effect. The indignation of the governing forces of many of the states is already aroused. It is shown in the legislation of the year. It had not a little to do, in my judgment, with the recent conflict of judicial authority in North Carolina. "The abuses lying at the foundation of the earnest but sometimes reckless groping for remedies must be checked. And if it were necessary in order to promote this result to pass through these processes, many of which will prove destructive of the rights and interests of a multitude of innocent and honest persons, still it would be well. For the property, the services and even the life of a citizen should be cheerfully sacrificed on the altar of the country's necessities. "So much of it, though, is unnecessary-aye, worse than that—so much of it is deliberately mischievous, prompted by the same spirit that cries out, 'Away with law and its restraints!' Lynch him!' Lynch him!" that every patriotic student of the times, while hoping for the best, fears that the consequences will be disastrous unless we again take up and press forward in all earnestness the shibboleth of the fathers, 'A government of law, not of men' When we do this we shall find a faithful adherence to the constitutional plan of the fathers today as nearly ideal as it seemed to them. "You cannot move legislators crazed with ambition, but the people can and will do so when they fully understand the situation. And we need never fear they will not understand it after a time. But the people should be informed now. Do not forget, however, that if you attempt it you will be denounced by the demagogue and cartooned by the yellow press, a fate which has come to the few who have appealed to reason and to justice. These tacities have enforced silence upon many whose hearts have prompted them to point out the danger of government by passion, but they cannot keep silent the earnest lawyers of this country for a minute after they have determined that duty calls them to speak out. God grant that the hour of that determination is at hand." Badly Bitten by a Cat SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug. 26—As Edward Everett accosted a strange cat near his home here the animal sprang at him and sank her teeth till they met in the back of his left leg. The animal could not be pulled off until choked to death. Everett had the wound cauterized. The cat showed no signs of rabies. It is thought she had a family of kittens near at hand and feared harm was intended them. Noel Will Be Mississippi Governor, MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 26—E. F. Noel of Holmes county was nominated for governor of Mississippi in the Democratic primary. Earl Brewer, his opponent, in an address to the people of Mississippi conceded the nomination of Noel and asked all Democrats to support him. The nomination is equivalent to an election. Short Apple Crop For Malaue OAKLAND, Me., Aug. 24.—Maine's apple crop has suffered to the extent of about one-third of last year's yield by injury to the trees and fruit caused by unfavorable weather conditions, according to a well informed apple raiser of this section. Strangled Herself With a Belt. TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 26.—Mrs. Louisa J. Norris, a private patient at the New Jersey State hospital, committed suicide by strangling herself in her room with a clothes belt. Her home was at Fair Haven, N. J. Mrs. Mizner Is Again Mrs. Yerkes. NEW YORK, Aug. 26. — Supreme Court Justice Guy signed the final decree of divorce in the suit brought by Mrs. Mary Adelaide Yerkes-Mizner for an absolute divorce from her husband, Wilson Mizner. By the decree Mrs. Mizner is authorized to resume the name of Yerkes, and she may marry again. Mizner is forbidden to marry during the lifetime of his former wife. With a year's subscription to the (Name of Your Paper) and The Philadelphia Press The razor is made from the best Sheffield Steel, hardened and tempered thermometrically and guaranteed. It's Particular Merit is its It's Particular Merit is its Shaving Quality $3.50 BUYS The Philadelphia ONE YEAR daily, regular Fremont Razor Your Favorite Home N Value ALL FOR $3.50 C Mailed immediately upon subscription Order To-day ONE YEAR daily, regular price $3.00 Fremont Razor $2.00 Your Favorite Home Newspaper $1.50 Mailed immediately upon receipt of your subscription. BOMB FOR CORTELYOU. Package Addressed to Him Explodes In Postoffice. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28.—The explosion of what appears to have been a large percussion cap in a package addressed to Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou created excitement in the Nicetown substation of the Philadelphia postoffice. The package, which was collected from a box in the northern section of the city, was received by Clerk Roberts, who says it was four inches long by two inches wide and three-quarters of an inch thick. When Roberts brought his steel cancellation die down upon the stamp the package exploded and was torn to pieces. Roberts was unhurt. The pieces of paper were put together and the package was found to have been addressed to Secretary Cortelyou, Washington, D. C., the address having been cut from a newspaper and pasted on the package. Chief Postal Inspector James B. Cortelyou, a brother of the secretary, is trying to solve the mystery surrounding the explosion, though most of the authorities think the package was mailed as a joke. There was not sufficient explosive matter in it to have done injury to any one. What was in the package aside from the explosive cap the officials will not say. IRISH TENANTS' BILL PASSED. But Not In the Form the Irishmen Wanted It. LONDON, Aug. 28.—The Irish evicted tenants' bill finally passed both houses of parliament in what Chief Secretary for Ireland Birrell called an emasculated form. The peers refused to budge on the main amendments, and in spite of the goods of the Nationalist members the government elected to accept the mutilated measure rather than abandon the bill entirely. The principal amendments inserted by the house of lords deprive the commissioners of the power of turning out the present holders of farms for the purpose of reinstating evicted tenants and give landlords the right to appeal to the law courts against the rulings of the estate commissioners regarding the value of land to be purchased. MANY IRISHMEN ARRESTED County Clare and Others In a State of Disturbance. DUBLIN, Aug. 28.-The arrest at Longford of James P. Farrell and forty other persons on the charge of taking part in an unlawful assembly likely to cause a riot and the ominous proclamation in the Official Gazette declaring that the counties of Clare, Kings, Galway, Leitrim, Longford and - is its Shaving Quality JYS Delphia Press regular price $3.00 $2.00 time Newspaper $1.50 value $6.50 FOR Cash upon receipt of your description. day—NOW! Roscommon are in a state of disturbance, a phrase far reaching in its effect on civil rights, is a fresh development in the government's action for the repression of the antigrazing movement. It is openly understood that Mr. Farrell organized several cattle drives in the grazing districts of County Longford and encouraged the movement with public speeches. Taft Spends In Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 26. Secretary of War William H. Taft in Convention hall advised 10,000 auditors and all citizens of Oklahoma and Indian Territory to reject the constitution recently adopted by the convention at Guthrie for the proposed new state of Oklahoma. He declared that the next session of congress would pass a new enabling act. Secretary Taft explained that he was not here as the representative of President Roosevelt and that the views expressed were entirely his own and in no sense should be regarded as inspired by the president. Secretary Taft discussed national issues along the same lines as in the Columbus (O.) speech. Boiler Explosion Kills Six Men. NEW YORK, Aug. 24 - Six men who were testing a boiler of a donkey engine in a small room in the hold of the coal barge Paterson were instantly killed by the explosion of the boiler. A seventh man was seriously injured. Mrs. Hopkins, the captain's wife, was at the forward end of the barge and escaped injury. Her fourteen-year-old son was nearly blown overboard, but escaped with severe bruises. The bodies were removed to an undertaker's in Hoboken. Independence League Convention. NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—The executive committee of the Independence league met at the Glisey House. The call for the state convention to be held in New York Sept. 24 was issued, which provides for a convention of approximately 700 delegates. The basis of representation is one delegate for every thousand votes cast for William R. Hearst last fall. The call also provides for local conventions. Niagara's $100,000,000 Beauty To an electrical engineer, remarks Popular Mechanics, the beauty of the fails is somewhat dimmed as he reflects that the 3,500,000 horse power is worth more than $100,000,000 a year. Provided Unique Tombstone Provided Unique Tombstone. A tombstone is to be erected in a Bath, England, cemetery to the memory of an engine driver—who was an ardent geologist—composed of the fossils he collected in his rambles. THE PLANET FIND TEACHER'S BODY Two Men Discover Missing Girl In Jersey Lake. Some Think That In Panie She Wandered Into the Water-Others Believe That She Took Her Own Life. LAKE HOPATCONG, N. J., Aug. 28. The body of Agnes Maguire, the Brooklyn schoolteacher, for whom hundreds of persons have been searching day and night, was found about 300 yards from the point where she disappeared under such mysterious circumstances during a storm last Saturday evening. When the dead girl's cousin, Charles Maguire, the last person who is known to have seen her alive, learned of the recovery of the corpse he collapsed and became hysterical. James Jameson and Will Snyder of Paterson, N. J., were rowing across to Nolan's point, near the foot of the lake, when they came upon the body floating. It had apparently just risen to the surface. The dead woman was clothed just as she had been when she started on the fatal buggy ride with her cousin last Saturday afternoon except that her hat and overskirt were missing and the hair was loose. There was blood upon the face. The blood had apparently flowed from the nose when the body first rose from the bottom, as sometimes happens in drownings, as any blood from a wound inflicted at the time of death would have been washed off the features. Constable Christie was only a short distance away from the spot where Jameson and Snyder found the body. He was at once notified and took charge of it, suffering no one to touch it until a coroner could arrive. The body was brought ashore directly in front of Camp Lookout at Nolan's point and not far from the railroad station of the Central of New Jersey road. While the finding of the body does not explain the mystery of the girl's disappearance, it gives more support to the theory that Miss Maguire either committed suicide or waded into the lake in a freazy of terror and was drowned. There are still persons at Lake Hopateong who cling to the belief that she was the victim of violence. The young woman was known to be greatly afraid of lightning, and there were several terrifying flashes just after Maguire left her. It is now thought by many that after her cousin left her she became terrified and that when she got out of the buggy she ran to the lake shore, not knowing where she was going, and fell into the water. However, as the lake is very shallow, with a gently shelving bank at the point where she probably entered the water, a more plausible supposition is that she deliberately drowned herself. Elbert Hubbard In Trouble Elbert Hubbard In Trouble. EAST AUORA, N. Y., Aug. 24.-E. H. Williamson, deputy state inspector of factories, made a visit to this place this week and caused trouble in the ranks of the Roycrofters. He did not find things to his liking in Elbert Hubbard's printery and hotel, and he demanded the immediate discharge of a dozen girls and boys who are under fourteen years of age and who had been employed by Hubbard in violation of the state labor laws. Hubbard's excuse was that he was giving these child laborers a chance to make a few dollars during the vacation. Miser Starves to Death NEW ROCHIELLE, Aug. 27.—George Gould, the wealthy miser of Highland Park, died in the New Rochelle hospital of starvation and exposure. Gould, who has lived behind barricaded doors and closed shutters for the last ten years, was a retired New York plumber, and since coming to New Rochelle had made $100,000 in real estate, he being the original owner of the Highland Park property. He has a wife and children living somewhere in New York. Standing of the Baseball Clubs. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago 84 21 733 Pittsburgh 96 67 133 New York 66 47 584 Philadelphia 62 49 559 Brooklyn 54 61 470 Cincinnati 49 67 123 Boston 42 71 824 St. Louis 35 84 294 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Detroit 67 44 604 Chicago 70 47 588 Philadelphia 69 45 588 Cleveland 66 49 574 New York 52 59 312 Boston 50 64 524 St. Louis 64 65 470 Washington 52 75 294 Mr. Cleveland Not Yet Well. PRINCETON, N. J., Aug. 27.—Former President Grover Cleveland has not yet left Princeton to join his family at their summer home, and the probabilities now are that he will not do so at all, but will await their return here. Mr. Cleveland is still suffering from his old attack of indigestion, but he is up and about the house and his condition is not regarded as serious. Dead Man Sayes a Life MIDDLETOOWN, N. Y., Aug. 27.—While walking on the Erie tracks here Orrin Fow of Trenton, N. J., was struck by a train and killed. His body struck his companion. Darwin Brown of Danbury, Conn., throwing the latter from the track and saving his life. Linen Collars For Dogs Is Latest. NEWPORT, Aug. 28.—Something new in dog dress was introduced here by Mrs. Aurel Batonyl and naturally attracted much attention. It was a linen collar of the white wing order, such as men wear, with a blue necktie encircling it. CONDENSED DISPATCHES Notable Events of the Week Briefly Chronicled. Burglaries entered the dry goods store of Noah Wolven's Son in Kingston, N. Y., and carried away silks to the estimated value of $1,000. Fire broke out in the flimsy native structures of Hakodate, Japan, and before it could be got under control nearly seventy per cent. of the city was in ashes. The explosion of a boiler in Robbins & Spencer's flour and feed mills in Scranton resulted in the serious injury of four persons and was responsible for an $80,000 fire. Cardinal Emilio Tallani died at Ascoli, Italy, from heart disease. He was born in Italy in 1838 and was created a cardinal in 1903. He formerly was papal nuncio at Vienna. "I'll have Elbu Root back at work, the strongest man in the cabinet, able to whip Roosevelt or any of his other advisers, in two weeks more," declared Billy Muldoon at his White Plains health resort. Miss Sallie Alnslie led the qualifying play in the Woman's Western Golf association championship tournament at Chicago. She broke the record for women on the links of the Midlothian club by covering the course in 95. Tuesday, Aug. 27. Loris Higgins, who murdered W. L. Coppie and wife, farmers, near Rosalia, Neb., May 12, was lynched at Bancroft, Neb. Forty Western Union boys walked out in Pittsburgh at dinner they were informed that the menu did not include pie. Hundreds of summer visitors, alided by sheeriff's deputies, were searching for Miss Agnes Maguire, a Brooklyn public school teacher, who strangely disappeared at Nolan's Point, N. J. Monday, Aug. 26. Ten persons were killed and twenty-five injured in a head-on collision between an express train and a freight train in France. Miss Mary P. Root died at Pittsfield, Mass., from the injuries received Aug 10 in the automobile accident at Ashley Falls, near Great Barrington, Mass. Supreme Court Justice Guy of New York signed the final decree of divorce in the suit brought by Mrs. Mary Adelaide Yerkes-Mizner for an absolute divorce from her husband, Wilson Mizner. The common council of Highmore, S. D., passed an ordinance which forbids spoony couples from flirting in public places and makes the penalty for each violation a fine or imprisonment. Sunday, Aug. 25. Raymond Lane, one year old, while in his father's dairy at Washington, Pa., fell head foremost into a full milk can, was wedged fast and drowned. Albert Nedeck, former police chief of Ithaca, N. Y., died at the age of seventy-four years. He served in the Seventy-fourth New York volunteers during the civil war and was wounded five times. The report that Johnny Reiff, the American jockey, has been engaged at a salary of 250,000 francs ($50,000) to ride for the stables of Herren Lang, Pucho, Schmieder and Felix Simon in Germany was confirmed in Berlin. De Witt C. Holland of Glens Falls, N. Y., aged fifty-one years and wealthy, committed suicide by lying down in front of a Delaware and Hudson railroad train. He placed his neck across the rail and his head was cut off. Saturday, Aug. 24. Some fifty prominent Tennessee Democrats held a conference in Nashville and started a boom for Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri for the Democratic nomination for president. The Moorish government troops, under the command of El Merani, the uncle of the sultan, were defeated by the Kmass tribesmen and Raisul, who is holding Cald Sir Harry MacLean prisoner. Pittsburgh had two spectacular fires, one of which entailed a loss of $1,000,000, while in the other one man rescued fourteen human beings and sixteen horses and then received probably mortal injuries himself by the unromantic incident of falling over a bucket. Friday, Aug. 23. A jealous farm hand, Lucas Klopinski, killed Miss Lydia Mallett at her home, near Trumbull, Conn. Suit was filed at Austin, Tex., to oust the harvester trust from Texas and to collect $1,100,150 in penalties. Two fires in Pittsburg, both resulting from gasoline explosions in clothes cleaning shops, did $1,000,000 damage. The directors of the Southern Railway company cut the semiannual dividend on preferred stock from $2½ to $1½ per cent. Thursday, Aug. 22. The big wholesale grocery firm of E. C. Hazard & Co. of 117 Hudson street, New York city, failed for $260,000. Peter Ambrose Welch, formerly prominent in banking and financial circles in New York, died at his home in Hackettstown, N. J., of pneumonia. He was seventy-six years old. While a number of boys were playing Indian in an unsettled district of Everett, Mass., Daniel Walburn, aged twelve, was shot and killed. Leslie Hanson, aged fourteen, is being detained by the police pending an investigation. Minster Sued For Divorce NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 26.—Suit for divorce was brought against the Rev. John H. Presby, who was for years pastor of the Webster Street Methodist church. His wife names as correspondent "Jane Doe," but says that the young woman is a prominent member of the church. Murderer Lynched In Nebraska. OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 27.—Loris Higgins, who murdered W. L. Copple and wife, farmers, near Rosalie, Neb., 04 May 12, was lynched at Bancroft. 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Congress will be requested at the next session to make appropriation to cover this deficiency. Colonel Goethals asked for authority to expend $8,000,000 more than the appropriation, saying it was in the interest of true economy and might save a year's time in completing the canal. Nongenarian Kills Aged Wife. TULSA, I. T., Aug. 26. — Dock Barnes, aged ninety-six years, killed his aged wife at their home near Tulsa. Three months ago Barnes attempted to kill Richard Lewis, who had been paying attentions to his daughter, but was discharged after a preliminary hearing. No attempt has yet been made to arrest the aged man for uxoricide. 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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 s. If your dealer does not keep it, send his name and 20 cents in silver and we will send you a bottle by return mail. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for particulars. 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. WORK OF ALL OUR AIM is to please our patrons and to give them the best service at the lowest prices, consistent with satisfactory work. ELEGANT I SHOW ANY ONE DESIRING om Embrace NE WRITING—FLAT AND JOYEES ARE COMPETENT AND QUALIFIED THE PUBLIC, BEING WITHIN FURTHER features, the most annoyance. FOR FURTHER JOY COLN POMADE SOFTENS THE HAIR AND KEEPS IT FROM BREAKING KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHOLESOME es or Mars Her Beauty. Or head is full of dandruff. If COLN HAIR POMADE will dandruff and cure scalp diseases, it is highly perfumed and is in the market. All we ask is we feel confident the result will recommend it to your friends, and refuse weak and inferior Drug Stores. 5 CENTS. PICTURED BY pomade 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 points. 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 Agenta. We print Wedding Invitations, and High Class Stationery for Balls, Parties, Picnics and all entertainments of a social nature. ALL DESCRIBE ons and to service at consistent work. We furnish "cuts" when desi complete special work in our line in our line, call and see us and T LINE OF S DESIRING TO SEE THEM. braces a full CLAT AND LINEN PAPER, ENVELOP WE HAVE ONE OF THE OF WOOD Of Any Job Printing E NT AND QUICK-WORKING. CUR OFFICE WITHIN FIFTY YARDS OF BROAD ST. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, AP John Mitch 311 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 SCHED- ULED TO ARRIVE RICHMOND DAILY. 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. A man sitting in a chair. Daily to Baltimore. Norfolk, Va. via Southern WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST ASSORTMENTS OF WOOD-TYPE Of Any Job Printing Establishment in the city. 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. SEABOARD SOUTHBOUND TRAIN. SCHED ULED TO LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. 6:45 A. M., 5:10 P. M., 5:45 P. M. H. S. LEARD, D. P. A. JOSHUA BANKS & SONS CATERERS EVERY FACILITY CONSISTENT WITH FINE CATERING. BLACKWELL & BRO. ONE OF THE LEADING PAINTERS Practical House and Sign Painters, Graining and General Contractors. .....ALL WORK GUARANTEED..... Cards, Letters or Orders. ...Give us a trial, you will never regret it..... Address, Cor. Price and Jackson Sts. RICHMOND, VA. PLANET DEPOTS NEW YORK CITY W. H. Warrington, 71 W. 99th St. W. H. White, 328 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. 53rd St. W. W. Johnson, 247 W. 47th St. E. H. Mitchell, 152 W. 27th St. Turner R. Robinson, 12-6th Ave. E. A. Williams, 200 W. 63rd St. Smith & Miles, 232 W. 41st St. M. B. Wineglass, 322 W. 59th St. 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. B. Homsher, 1040 Pine St. William Parker, 631 Pine St. Mrs. Lavinia Aldridge, 521 S. 12th. Chaz. 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. B. Washington, 61, Snowmilk Ave. I. W. White, 112 Brooklyn St. John Debona, 610 Church St. T. E. W. Perry, 2 Jones Place. CHICAGO, ILL. H. H. Faulkner, 510 State St. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Lee Ricks, 782 Fulton St. William A. Dabney, 3 Quinney St. CHARLESTON, W. VA. L. C. Parrar, 601 Brooks St. Frank R. Wood, 144 Broadway, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. L. H. Singleton, 20th and 10th Southwestern Drug Co.. 732-23 Street, W. Daniel Braxton, Box 91. NEWPORT NEWS, VA. Freddie Smith, 1358-29th St. E. J. Jefferson, 1211-30th St.. TARPORO, N. C. V. E. Heward. WILMINGTON, N. C. William H. Moore. STAUNTON, VA. LYNCHBURG, VA. James Wingfield, 422-12th St. Charles Morgan, 702 Taylor St. HAMPTON, VA. John M. Phillips. DANVILLE, VA. O. P. Clark, 233 N. Union St., John H. Johnson, 210 Bridge St. PROVIDENCE, R. I. Douglass A. A. P. Agency, DEMOPOLIS, ALA. John W. Anderson. BALTIMORE, MD. Henry Albert, 203 Richmond St. PASSAIC, N. J. Robt Lee Greenwood, 142 Myrtle Ave ASBURY PARK, N. J. Geo w. Moody, 1139 Springwood Ave A. Haynes, 1103 Springwood Ave. ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. W. A. Fleming. BURLINGTON, N. J. Joseph Anderson, 120 E Delaware ave WICHITA FALLS, TEX. F. L. Lindsey, Box 72. Standard? News Company. THE PLANET HORTICULTURE THE APPLE APHIS Approved Remedies for Spring and Summer Treatment. The presence of aphids is indicated by the curled, distorted condition of the more terminal leaves, and if a plant showing these symptoms be closely examined small oval or pear shaped soft bodied aphids, greenish or pink in color, according to species, will be found on the undersurface of the leaves along the tender stem or A. Aphis Mall. (Terminal shoot of apple infested with the apple aphis -Aphis mall-showing condition of leaves.) elsewhere, often practically covering these parts. See cut. A. L. Qualtance further says in regard to spring and summer treatment that effective work in controlling these insects may be done in the spring just after they have hatched from eggs and have collected on the expanding foliage. Trees seen to be badly infested at this time should be thoroughly spared, taking pains to wet as completely as possible all parts of the leaves, twigs and branches. However thoroughly the work may be done, some of the lice are almost sure to escape destruction owing to the difficulty of forcing the spray between the unfolding leaves, more or less covered with hairs, where some of the insects will have penetrated. A subsequent treatment in the course of a week should be made, especially if the first application is seen to have been unsatisfactory. After the foliage is well out and more or less distorted from the presence of the aphids effective spraying is quite difficult, since many of the insects on the lower surface of the curled leaves will not be hit by the spray. Repeated applications must be made, therefore, as necessary to keep the insects under control. It will often be found practicable to bend over and immerse the terminal shoots of badly infested young trees in a bucket of this spray solution, and this treatment will be very effective. For spraying after the trees are in foliage a strong tobacco decoction, 15 or 20 per cent, kerosene emulsion, 15 per cent, crude petroleum emulsion or whale oil soap at the rate of one pound for each four gallons of water are approved remedies. Since aphids secure their food by sucking up sap from within the plant, none of the arsenical poles would be effective. IMPORTANCE OF UNIFORMITY. Prof. L. C. Corbett, of Department of Agriculture, on Fruit Shipment. The fact that the eastern fruit growers and truck growers are not as well organized as are the western and more distant producers is very largely due to the fact that they have the advantage of lower express rates and that the merchants will handle their goods in small consignments. By this method of small individual shipments, the product upon the market is less uniform in character, both as regards grade and method and type of package, than is the case when the product is marketed through the exchange and in carload lots. In order to handle carload shipments successfully, vegetables must be uniform in character and size and the product well graded. These are advantages which have been learned by distant shippers and which have, in a great measure, been forced upon them by the necessity of shipping in carload lots. Use of Black Walnut Much has been said as to the vast possibilities of commercial black walnut culture, but the profits from such projects often have been prospective rather than real. The fact remains, however, that the black walnut is a most valuable tree, and possesses many characteristics which commend it for general planting. For roadside planting it is often a desirable tree, but its habit of capping into full leaf late and dropping its leaves early, and by the fact that in the east it is often disfigured by the fall web worm. As a forest tree in commercial plantations its use is to be encouraged wherever conditions of soil and site are adapted to its needs—United States Bureau of Forestry. FIGHTING PESTS A Word of Explanation About Fungi- cides and Insecticides. There are two general classes of in- secticides, says a communication from the Oklahoma station. The first class of mixtures contains some poisonous substance that kills the insects when it is eaten with the foliage or fruit on which it is lodged. Paris green, London purple, and white hellebore are the poisonous materials most commonly used in these mixtures. These mixtures are effectual in destroying only those insects that eat the foliage or fruit of the plants, and are harmless to the insects that suck the juice of the plant. The other class of insecticides kills the insect by coming in contact with the body. Kerosene emulsion, whale oil soap, and pyrethrum powder are the most common materials used in these mixtures. Mixtures of this class are used chiefly to destroy those insects that suck the juice of the plant and cannot be destroyed with poisons. The poisonous insecticides may be mixed with fungicides and applied all in one spraying, but other insecticides must be applied separately. The fungicides and insecticides, if properly prepared and applied, have no effect upon the plants. If the mixtures are not properly prepared and applied they do not form the desired protection to the plants and may damage the foliage and fruit. There is never enough poison on the well-sprayed fruits and plants to alter their value for food. Most fruits are pared before eating and all sediment of the spraying material removed. In the case of fruits that are not pared before eating, as grapes, a person would have to eat from 300 to 500 pounds to get a small dose of poison. It will always injure the sale of such fruits, however, if there are any signs of a spraying material on them when placed on the market. AN ORCHARDIST'S OPINION The Grass Method of Orcharding Good Under Some Conditions. A good deal of discussion is going on about the grass mulch method of orcharding. I believe it is all right under some conditions, but though it is successfully practiced on our farm, I do not like to advocate the method in public. Moat farmers have too much grass already with their trees for their own or their owner's good, writes George C. Hill, in Farmers' Review. The orchard is mowed or pastured; the trees are sod-bound, stunted, starved, drought slick, unproductive. I am acquainted with one productive orchard in Wisconsin that is in grass. It contains about 100 trees, many of them 20 years old. About one-third of the number are Fameuse. The orchard was in cultivation 12 or 15 years. The trees were headed low and cultivation became difficult. Then it was needed to clover. After some years June grass took possession of the ground. The grass mulch method would cut the grass and pile it under the trees to keep the soil moist and make fertility. Our practice is to take up one crop of grass and top dress liberally with stable manure. No pounding is allowed. The second crop of grass makes a cover crop for winter protection. Any small trees liable to be girdled are banked with earth or coal ashes. The low habit of the trees makes it too shady under the branches for grass to flourish. The touch sod is not found there. Fruit that falls to the ground meets a clean, comfortable reception. The trees have been longer lived than those planted on neighboring farms with different treatment. No trees were lost or apparently injured during the destructive winter of 1898 and 1899. SIMPLE TEST FOR SMALL SEEDS Gravity Method Which Will Give Very Satisfactory Results. The gravity method of seed separation here illustrated is the old-time practice of "brining" wheat, barley. A B Seed Separation. oats, etc., before sowing, but applied to seeds of much smaller size, such as tomato and eggplant seeds. As used at the New Jersey experiment station, the bottle at A in the cut contains pure water, upon which many seeds are seen as floating and a larger number at the bottom. These light, floating seeds are to be rejected. In the bottle at B is a 20 per cent. solution of common salt (a very thin thin slur would have done as well), in which eggplant seeds that sank in pure water were placed, with the result that many remain at the top and thereby may be easily separated and thrown away. The Explanation "How did Thompson get so bald? Well, half of his hair came out worrying about the girl he wanted to marry." "And the other half?" "Oh, she married him."—Judge. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA THE HEIGHT OF THE TREE. You Can Tell It Without the Aid of an instrument. To know how one may without instruments—and with approximate accuracy—obtain the height of trees, buildings, and similar lofty objects which are inaccessible to measurement "by hand," is a bit of simple knowledge that may sometimes be of great value—and is always sure to be amusing and instructive. For the purpose of illustration take any tall tree that stands upon fairly level ground. Make a rough guess at the height of the tree, and mark a point that distance away, and on as near a level with the foot of the tree as possible. Accuracy depends largely upon this. At the point selected set firmly upright a rod of known height—for convenience it call seven feet above the ground. The operator must now obtain, if he does not already know it, the height of his eyes above the ground. For a man of five feet ten and a half inches, let us say, this measurement is likely to be five feet six inches—that is, four and a half inches less than the height. But, says Youth's Companion, if a tape is conveniently at hand, it is better to make an individual and accurate measurement. Now let the "surveyor" lie flat on his back with his heels close against the bottom of the pole. By "sighting" over the top of it, he must bring the top of the tree in direct line. In order to do this, it may be necessary to make one or two experiments Diagram of the Method. by setting the pole forward or backward. Care must be taken, however, not to force the alignment by any stretching or "scrouching" in order to bring the eye into the desired plane. When the proper point is found, as indicated in the figure, the surveyor will see that he has furnished himself with the two similar triangles ABC and ADE. The length of the side AB is known to be in this case five feet and six inches; the side BC is seven feet; the side AD is quickly measured, and found to be, let us say, 60 feet. The geometry student will turn naturally to the proposition about similar triangles and their homologous sides when he reaches this point. But for the general convenience, the simple arithmetical process is given. Write out the proportion—or carry it in your head if you can—AB is to AD as BC is to DE. Putting this in figures: Five and a half is to 60 as seven is to be unknown quantity—the height of the tree. Multiply AD (60) by BC (7) and divide the result by AB (5½), and the result is approximately 76 feet four inches, the desired measure of the tree. With this formula firmly in mind the surveyor may secure the same result by a simpler method on the same principle. Drive the pole into the ground until the top is just at the level of the eyes; then lie down and "sight" as before. Since the lines AB and CB thus secured are equal, the lines AD and DE will also be equal, and it is only necessary to measure the line AD in order to obtain the height of the tree. If the surveyor knows the length of his step, he can pace the distance, and thus measure the tall tree pretty accurately without the use of foot-rule, tape or anything of the kind. POOR JOHN. A boy is holding the door handle. Of course, without a doubt, It's best to have it out; Then I'll never have a toothache any more. I've hit the very thing— The doorknob and a string; But I somehow kind o' hate to shut the door. —Philadelphia Ledger Brother, thou hast possibility in thee for much—the possibility of writing on the eternal skies the record of an heroic life.—Carlyle. He Is Wasting Time. Why should a man make a fool of himself when he can save so much time by getting a woman to do it for him? His Happy Term. "I would like," said the village alderman, "to have this paragraft imbedded in the resolution."—Judge. Japs Copy American Boats. The fishing boats of the Atlantic seaboard are to be copied by the Japanese. 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 noPythian Lodge or Court or Band in your neighborhood, orgrnize one. For all information concerning the Children's Department address For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAST F.C.B. only absolutely necessary reg apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of thirty persons to organize a c Fidelity, exercise Harmony a an endowment and burial benn dues. The only expense for a rosette, costing 25 cents for THE BANDS OF CALA stitutes a feature and persons a circle. The expense is nomin $1.00 to $1.50 sick dues and d Lodge or Court or Band in yo For all information concern For all information cone membership in the lodges and Government and Science Government and Science. There does not exist to-day a nation more hooligan in its attitude towards science than the British. With unequaled opportunities for advancing man's knowledge of nature and therefore combating the stealthy revenges which nature plots against him for his disregard of her conditions, the British government scarcely lifts a finger in any direction to help on the work of scientific research.—London Standard. Resting. One of the fundamental principles of proper rest is that one shall not be disturbed during the resting time. The telephone bell should be plugged. One expecting to be called, or even called unexpectedly does no, give up thoroughly. It must not be forgotten that rest, real, refreshing, youth-giving, health-restoring rest is of the nerves as well as the body. The Meals of Long Ago. "If you want striking illustration of the increase in the price of food stuffs in the last 10 or 15 years," said an old hotel man, "just get hold of an old table d'hote menu and see the list of things that hotel guests used to get a quarter of a century ago for 75 cents. It would break up any hotel to offer the same bill of fure at the same price to day." To Clean Kitchen When walls or ceiling are peeled with oil cloth or painted, put on washbottle of water and close doors and windows, and boil the water until walls and ceilings are wet with steam. Take a long-handled scrubbing brush or broom, tie a soft rag and wipe your walls. This will save lots of time and trouble. Wise, and Wiser He is a wise man who knows when to stop. That you have heard before, saye the Business Arena. He is a wiser man, though, who knows when not to stop—who pushes a good thing through until the vines hang heavily with the golden dollars that are his just reward for efforts hard, untiring. All Must Yield. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whose will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and, for most part, as the smallest of fractions even to "shall."—Carlyle. The Chugs. "Josiah," said Mrs. Chugwater, wiping her spectacles, "baseball must be an awful cruel game. This paper says a man named Smith was pounded all over the lot. And I guess it must have been true, for it says that in the next inning he died on second base." Norwegian Lenser Asyluma There are in Norway no fewer than 20 leper asylums, but each contains only ten to 15 beds. They are situated in country places, and the style of living followed in them is similar to that of an ordinary family in moderate circumstances. Population of Egypt Census returns show that the total population of Egypt, exclusive of nomad Bedouins, is 11,206,350, of whom 5,618,884 are males and 5,587,675 females. This is an increase of nearly 1,500,000 since 1897. South and North Together. In resources and in population—yea, and in fighting blood also—this country is perhaps the most powerful on earth, even as it is one of the most unready in defense—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Uncle Sam r Good Customer The United States' continues to take almost as much of the Amazon product as the whole of Europe and will undoubtedly continue indefinitely as the banner rubber customer of Brasil and Peru. N. A., S. A, E. A., A. AND A. organization is one of the most powerful has been phenomenal. The Grand Ducer all of the cities and counties in need to organize a new lodge. The longest features, but the principles ended on Friendship, based on Charity the respectable, upright people of their heartiest support. An endowment and burial benefit of per week sick dues. The badge of regalia. For information concerning courts of Calantia at the Order. It requires a member court. Its members are pledged to and prove Love one for the other. Benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per regalia is the cost of the badge, 500 funeral occasions. ANTHE or Children's Department cannot do better than to enter the final and the benefits all that could death benefits of from $30.09 to $40 our neighborhood, orgrize one. ing the Children's Department ad of the most powerful in the country and its real. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has juris- dent counties in this state. Thirty males new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of the principles are greater than anything so, based on Charity and established on Be- right people of the state will find it an order port. burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. In less. The badge costing 75 cents each is the ation concerning the organization of lodges. men's Department also con- tan to enter the little ones into this mystic all that could be expected. It pays from on $30.09 to $40.00. If you have noPythian organize one. Department address, Mrs. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M. S. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 120 W. Hill St., Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. $150 PER SURE TO GOOD AGENT greatest seller in America to-day. Nothing does the work. Sells at almost every home on the dollar. Write to-day for full particul Address O PER MONTH GOOD AGENTS handling the world's greatest of HAIR TONICS. Absolutely the ica to-day. Nothing else like it. No long talk. 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BUTTON INSTITUTE Private Course of three years for training practical farmers in men without money can earn their way. All who have Course have good positions. Write for circular to HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Hampton, Virginia. AGES TO Established 1899. 'Phone 41600. 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 circuit to PRINCIPAL, HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Rumpus, 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 in using its strength and influence to secure better conditions for our people. This is the first and only great Union Order in this country, holding an International Union Charter from the Courts, which gives a full Protection and Benefits to our race. There is no color, race or sex discrimination in this Order. The negro has an equal standing with the white members, and can be elected to hold any office. Every effort is made to advance the condition of the members, by securing equal opportunities to work with other workmen, to learn the trades and to have steady work at high wages and Union hours. The Grand Lodge donates $100,00 for the burial of each deceased member. A fine monthly Journal is published. A Membership Book of the Order is recognized by all Lodges everywhere. Distressed members are assisted. Each member and Subordinate Lodge has the privilege of buying stock in the Order, on low monthly payments, said stock paying 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 DISSTRICT DEPUTY ORGANIZER. This work can be done in spare hours, but many are devoting their whole time and attention to it. Big money is made by good hustlers. Write at once. State name of this paper, and enclose 10 cents for full information and postage. Address THE I. L. U. GRAND LODGE, 34 to 40 Canby Building, Dayton, Ohio. The young lady assistant-editor had received a proposal of marriage by letter, from her most ardent admirer. She promptly sat down by her typewriter and wrote the following: My Dear Mr. Dubb: I regret to say that he carefully reading your letter of the 4d in my cannot accept your proposal, which you have accepted, and 'same is returned herewith. The section of a suitor does not necessarily imply that he is lacking in merit. Anyone of a number of reasons may render him unavailable. He may have been best suited by similar material, or he may be too long in business or he may lack style. His financial resources may not be up to the required standard, or he may not move in high enough society, etc. The undersigned is always glad to examine proposals of this kind, but begs, however, to be excused from detailed criticism. All such proposals are accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope and are submitted at owners risk. Thanking you for your courteous in offering the inclosed, I am. Yours very truly, Mae Madge Montmorency.-Puck. Spraying for rust on the Kleffer pear should be continued to the latter part of July. FROM FORCE OF HABIT. JOHN FOXEL Dealer is General Line of FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES, NOTIONS, FRESH MEATS, CIGARS, TOBACCO, ICE, WOOD, COAL, &c. 11 S. 4TH ST., RICHMOND, VA BOARDING & LODGING Rates Reasonable. All the Comforts of Home Orders received by letter or telegraph MRS. BOOKER LEFTWICH. PROPRIETRESS, 816 N. 2nd St., Richmond. Va H F Jonathan FISH, OYSTERS AND PRODUCE. 120 N. 17TH St., RICHMOND, VA ALL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. Long Distance Phone, 758. A young lady having asked a surgeon why woman was made from the rib of a man in preference to another bone, he gave her the following gallant answer: "She was not taken from the head least she should rule over him, nor from his feet least he should trample upon her, but she was taken from his side that she might be his equal; from under his arm that he might protect her; from near his heart that he might cherish and love her." Long Record of Usefulness After 32 years of faithful and efficient service as president of the Young Men's Christian union, of Boston, William H. Baldwin has resigned the office on account of advanced age. Good Record for Roadmaking It is highly creditable to the townships of Ontario that they have spent over $10,000,000 on roads during the last ten years. It also shows that they have no fear of automobiles. Confederate Notes. A woman in Richmond possesses the only complete collection of confederate notes—national, state and wildcat bank bills—in existence. Good Enough For Them. "Oh, madam," said the French maid, "Fido weel not eat ze bon-bons." "Oh, madan," said the French malfd, "Fido weel not eat ze bon-bons." "The dear, intelligent little doggie!" exclaimed Mrs. Rich. "There must be something wrong with those bon-bons, Cloe. Give them to the children." MRS. JOSIE A. GRAHAM, 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, 25cts. Graham's Superior Orange Flower Skin Fo. ' for developing and beautifying the skin, 25cts a jar. By mail 25cts. 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 specialty of massaging and beautifying ladies' faces for parties and public gatherings, 35 cents. Mrs. Graham skampoos 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., Ricmond, 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. Notary With Seal. 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. ISAAC STRAUS & CO. 422 E. Broad St. 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. Fine Photographs. True to Life. High-class service. Latest Improvements in Photographs Out-door Work executed. Reasonable Reservation. Free Shipping. From old Negatives or Photographs. -mg 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. Value of the "Beauty Bath" Owl WHILE THE WATER IS RUNNING ADD A DOUBLE HANDFUL OF VERY FINELY POWDERED OATMEAL. THE FINGER-TIPS MAKE AN EXCELLENT SCRUBBING-BRUSH FOR THE FACE There is no doubt that the bath plays a very important part in the preservation of the health, and particularly in the preservation of the complexion. The beauty bath, as it is called, scents the body, makes the flesh smooth, and, if it is of the right sort, quietens the nerves and clears the complexion. But it must be of the right sort—not too hot nor too cold. The beauty bath, besides clearing the complexion and healing the nerves, does other things, and not the least of these is that it makes one comfortable. On a hot day it is the best tonic known. Then one must consider one's surroundings. The real beauty bath, the bath which actually clears the complexion and is good in every case, is the hot-water bath, the bath that is partly soapsuds and partly bran or meal, and which is taken for the express purpose of clearing the pores and skin and letting the impurities escape. One cup of finely powdered oatmeal, with a tablespoonful of powdered soap added to it, and with about ten drops of oil of jasmine mixed into the powder, will make a soap mixture to be remembered. This quantity ought to make three tiny bags, and each bag will do for a bath, making four beautifully scented and very soapy baths for a very small sum. But perhaps the best beauty bath is the one that is made of soap jelly. Take your pieces of good soap and powder them, using the toe of an old stocking, and a hammer for the purpose. Place the powder, of which there should be a heaped cupful, in a plint of water on the stove, and add about five drops of benzoin and a teaspoonful of borax. To this can be added a very little perfume, if desired. Let the soap dissolve, then pour it into a wide-mouthed jar with a cover, and keep it in the bathroom for the beauty bath, which should be of frequent occurrence. FROCK FOR LITTLE GIRL 1 Frock of gray-blue volle for little girl. Both blouse and skirt are accordion plaited. The blouse is encircled at the bottom, with narrow bands of lace insertion and has a little yoke of Irish lace. The bretelle and straps are of the material, ornamented with enamel buttons. The girdle, knotted at the side, is of liberty to match. The short sleeves are trimmed to correspond. The skirt is finished at the bottom with a ruffle of Irish lace, headed by three rows of the insertion. STYLES IN TUB FABRICS Materials Are Wrought in High Degree of Elegance. Mercerized tub fabrics have been developed to such a high degree of elegance that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish them from the face cloths, as far as appearance is concerned. They come in all the smart colors and dressmakers do not hesitate to trim them with any material that readily acquiesces to the vogue for combinations. The use of silk and satin covered buttons makes a tub frock of mercerized gingham much richer to look upon, while they, with the assistance of fibre braids, advance such fabrics a peg or two toward social fitness. A number of tennis costumes, or, rather, gowns worn at the smart tennis tournaments, are carried out in lustrous tub fabrics, and one can really make these quite as costly as a cloth model. Some of the washable materials, probably half of them, are in the striped effects so modish in more expensive fabrics, and all are well suited to the chic kimono coat and sleeve effects and plaited skirts that just touch the ground. One of the economical features of the silk ginghams, chambrays, etc., is that it is never necessary to trim them, unless one really years for the handsome decorations which the French dressmak ers know so well how to apply to fabrics of all kinds. Their color schemes are original, if not daring at times, and combinations of shades bitherto unheard of distinguish nearly all the designs of a prominent Rue de la Palx firm. Imagine a very pale rose pink silk gingham trimmed with sprays of wistaria blooms, a natural size, embroidered upon delicate mauve linen, then appliqued upon the skirt of the gown, making their reappearance upon the revers of a loose-fitting Japanese coat and again around the sleeves. HOSIERY OF THE SEASON. All Shades Provided for Matching Dress Accessories. Brown, of course, takes the lead, and every shade from cream to deep brown is represented, so that there can be no possible difficulty in matching gowns, hats or accessories whether only 49 cents is to be expended or five dollars for a pair. Fine lise thread come at the former price, and silk hose, elaborately embroidered, yet as delicate as a cobweb, may be bought for the latter sum. At the lesser price, stockings embroidered in silk dots to rugged looking fluff, so that in buying it will be well to avoid the more tempting embroidered hose and choose the plain, when any girl, even with unskilled fingers, could set in dots by hand, and so procure a more lasting effect. Brown stockings embroidered in self tones are preferred and certainly are in better taste, although tiny pink roses, forget-me-nots and similar small flowers adorn many pairs. Stripes have superseded the openwork effects, and come in all widths, the narrowest being just a dropped-stitch in lines less than an inch apart, the plain portions showing a row of dots. Others have open work stripes an inch wide, looking at first glance, not unlike a band of fancy braid. The greatest variety seems to be among the black stockings, and some of the embroideries on these are most elaborate, and the lace inseams are truly exquisite. Good Repartce. At a recent club dinner one of the guests in the course of his speech spoke of the value of repartee. He told of a handsome, well-dressed woman who got in a crowded street car. She had the attention of everyone and soon had a seat. Turning to the donor she said: "You're a jewel." "No," he replied, "I am a jeweler—I set the jewel."—London Tatler. Elliah No. Vegetarian Many vegetarians fall back on the bible for comfort, and it is even said that the great prophet Elijah was a vegetarian. How so? God commanded the crows to feed the old fellow, and we have it in I. Kings, xvii., 6—"the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening; and be drank of the brook"—New York Press THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMEN. Woman's honesty is proverbial. The exceptions are few and far between. Women sometimes lose sight of great things by their attention to insignificant details. A thrifty woman will make her home attractive, though it may be a hut in the wilderness. A wronged woman should be implacable, but rarely is. She is more likely to forgive and forget. It is supposed that the injunction to turn the other cheek if one is smitten was directed exclusively to women. Women are supposed to hide behind a smiling face all the sorrows of an aching heart. Many succeed in practicing the deception. Women never enter into conspiracles with each other. Men usually conceive them and induce women to join in their execution. There is no time in the life of a man when he can do without a woman. In infancy and old age he is dependent upon her tenderness and care; in middle life she is his helpmate and inspiration. ANCIENT DEFINITIONS In a time-yellowed copy of the National Journal, Peter Force, editor, which was published in Washington tri-weekly in 1825, are found the following definitions: - Originality—Undetected imitation. - Pedant—A man so absurdly ignorant as to be vain of his knowledge. - Rhyme—Often a substitute for poetry, and an antithesis to reason. - Scandal—The tattle of fools and malignants who judge of their neighbors by themselves. - Spinster—An unprotected female, and, of course, a fine subject for excerising the courage of cowards and the wit of the witness. Tinder—A thin rag, such, for instance, as the dresses of modern females, intended to catch the "sparks," raise a "flame" and light up a "match." Vanity—Another word for the whole fleeting pageant of human existence. Ugliness—An advantageous stimulus for the mind, that it may make up for the deficiencies of the body. CHURCH AND CLERGY. Rev. Edgar M. Thompson has been elected rector of the Church of the Intercession, Stevens Point, Wis. The Fifth Avenue Baptist church, New York, has for its new pastor Rev. Charles Aked of Liverpool, England. Rabbi S. M. Reich has been unanimously reelected for a further term by the Reform congregation of Port Gibson, Miss. The programme of the meetings at the Y. P. C. U. national convention in Boston next month will probably attract a great crowd of people. Rabbi J. Leonard Levy of Pittsburg was presented with a $2,000 check by his Pittsburg congregation to help defray his expenses on his European tour. Rev. William L. Forter, who for two years has been in charge of the Burr mission, has received and accepted a call from the Presbyterian church at Virden, Ill. DON'T FORGET— That you label your own work. That few succeed until they try. That work is only a means; character is the end. That sincerity is the foundation of all honest work. That every one is destined to do something worth while. That no one can hold you down if you are determined to succeed. That it is easier to do good work than poor work, if you once learn how. That a sensible employer is more anxious to push you ahead than to hold you down. BY THE WAY. Romance finds its richest fields in a man's estimate of his past. Most men, if given their choice, would rather be told to go than come. Conceit, if strong enough, is almost as useful as talent in the matter of pushing. A man's peculiarities need to be pronounced if he expects to have them add to his influence or wealth. -Unole Dick, in Madison Journal. IT IS SAID— Women usually spell better than men. The Cuban land crab can outstrip the horse. No Russian is allowed to marry over four times. S. K. Brewer, an Englishman, in- 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. vented the envelope in 1824. The Irish poet, with their potato diet, never have rheumatism. In Westhofen, in Germany, smoking in the streets is prohibited. Nowhere in Shakespeare is the dog spoken of with commendation. Syrian women wear on the forehead, to hold the veil out from the face, a horn 15 inches long. Americans write the best hand, English the second, French the third and Spanish the worst. Ellizabeth Cady Stanton once said that the worst mockers of woman suffrage had been women themselves. The British Life Guardsman must be at least six feet in height and at least 38 inches around the chest. SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. No man need feel hurt if people say he is not good looking. When a girl says a young man is mean she really thinks him rather nice. When a woman is making a fool of a man she makes him think how smart he is. Nearly everyone imagines he is getting more than his share of hard knocks. Brevity is to be commended, but it is hard to be civil with a plain "yes" or "no." People do not consider advertising immodest unless they are expected to pay for it. You can praise one man to another without offense, providing the one who is praised is dead. Tact is so much like prevarication; the clever woman always tells her fat friend she is looking thinner. No one seems to have as hard a time earning money as the woman who marries for it—Achison Globe. TERSE SAYINGS. To be unaware of your ability is to have none. High society is like the tropics—serpents are there. To keep your friends, keep your troubles to yourself. Actors who are "the glass of fashion" usually go broke. The critics make plays. The dramatist only writes them. The soubrette is often like a bottle of vinegar; mother is there. A clever actress is measured by the jewelry she does not wear. No matter how good a juggler you are, don't toss your nose up at people. When the soubrette sings off key the landlord puts her out of the flat. Women autoists are now suffering from a dread nightmare called "locomotor attacks-her." London's Poetry. London is full of poetry, full of pictures, full of rest. If people will only believe it. The true painters and poets see none of the sights and drawbacks which complaint is made by the prosaic, nor does the really busy worker, the enthusiast, hear the noise which drives the idler away from town.—Lady's Pictoral. Not Quite What He Meant. Fuddle.—You know Stocks, don't you? Doctor.—Yes, indeed. He's now a patient of mine. Fuddle.—Pretty wide-awake man, isn't he? Doctor.—I should say so. I'm treating him for insomnia.—Royal Magazine. Everthing! IN FURN FLOOR SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST 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. Exposition. All trains carry Pull- 4:25 P. M. mans or Parlor cars. 7:00 A. M. Daily Locals to Newport 5:00 P. M. News. WESTBOUND—MAIN LINE. 10:00 A. M—Daily-Charleston, Columbus and Toledo. Pullman Sleeper to To- bolo via Gauley and Ohio Central Line. 2:00 P. M. Daily, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. Through 2:25 A. M—Week Days—Clifton Forge. Daily—Cliftonville. 5:15 P. M—Week Days—Local to Orange. JAMES RIVER LINE. 10:20 A. M—Daily-Lynchburg, Lexington, Va. and Clifton Forge. 5:15 P. M—Week Days—To Lynchburg, Sleep- er, Natural Bridge and Clifton Forge. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND From the East -9:10 A. M.; 9:30 A. M.; 11:45 A. M.; 7:00 P. M.; 8:00 P. M.; 10:30 P. M.; 10:30 P. M. A. M.; 7:30 A. M.; 7:30 A. M.; 8:30 A. M.; 4:15 P. M.; 7:45 P. M. James River Line -8:10 A. M.; 7:30 P. M. R. F & P Richmond, Freder Icksburg, and Pote TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND-NORTHWARD 6:35 A.M. M-Daily-Bayd Street. Through. 7:00 A.M. M-Daily-Main Street. Through. 7:30 A.M. Week-Days-Eiba. Ashland Ac- ccommodation. 8:40 A.M. M-Daily-Bayd St. Through. Local stops. 12:00 Noon Days-Days-Bayd St. Through. 12:30—Week Days. Eiba, Ashland Ac- ccommodation. modulation 6:45 P. M. Daily-Main Street. Through. 8:20 P. M.-Daily-Byrd Street. Through. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND-SOUTHWARD. 6:30 A. M.-Week Days-Ela. Ashland Accor modation. 7:50 A. M. Daily-Byrd Street. Through. 10.40 A. M.-Week E. Elba, Ashland accommodation. 10:40 A. M. Week Days - Elaa. Ashland Ac- communication. 12:29 P. M. Daily - Byrli Street. Through. 2:45 P. M. Daily - Byrli Street. Through. 3:45 P. M. Week Days - Elaa. Ashland 3:45 Seek Days. Main Street through Exposition Special. 7:15 P. M.-Daily-Byrd St. Through 9:00 P. M.-Daily-Byrd St. Through. Local stops. 9:15 P. M.-Daily-Main Street. Through. NOTE-Duluth Sleeping or Pair Carons on all above trains, except local accommodations. All trains to and from Byrd Street Station stop at Elba. Time of arrivals and departures and connection C. W. CULP, W. P. TAYLOR, C. W. CULP N & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK, Leave Byd Street Station, Richmond, in effect July 14, 1907. FOR NORFOLK-7-25 P. M., daily; 6:00 A. M, 9:00 A. M. and 9:00 P. M. Sunday. 8:10 A. M. and 7:00 P. M. Sunday only. FOR LYNCHBURG, THE WEST AND SOUTH WEST, 9:00 A. M. Except Sunday; 8:10 A. M. Sunday, 8:10 A. M. and 9:00 P. M. Daily ARRIVE RICHMOND, Norfolk; 11:30 A. M, 6:30 P. M. and 10:40 P. M. Except Sunday; 11:15 A. M. and 9:45 P. M. Sunday only. Richmond Railway. Farmer Farlier and Sleeping Cars. Cafe Dining Cars. W. B. BEVILL, C. H. BOSSEY ATLANTIC COASTLINE Effective July 14, 1907. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 3:15 A.M. 7:15 P.M. For Florida and North: 3:15 A.M. 7:15 P.M. For Florida and North: 9:00 A.M. 3:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M. For N. and W. Rv. West: **8:10 and 9:00** A.M. 12:10 and 9:00 P.M. For Pittsburgh: **6:00 and 9:00** A.M. 12:10 2:00, 8:28 P.M. 6:00, 9:00 P.M. 7:25 and 11:30 P.M. For Goldabaroo and Fayetteville: **3:28 P.M. Trains arrive Richmond day:** 6:25, 7:40 A.M. Trains arrive Richmond day:** 12:27, 2:00 6:50, 8:00, 8:50 and 10:40 P.M. *Except Sunday.* **Sunday only.** Time of arrival and departures and con- nections not guaranteed! Custalo House. 702 East Broad Street. Having remodeled my BAR, and having an up-to-date place, I am prepared to serve my friends and the public at the same old stand. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT, MEALS AT ALL HOURS. New Phone 1261, WM. CUSTALO, - Prop. Everthing! TURE AND PROF. D. D. BRUCE. M. D. Strange, Wonderful but True are the awe stricken toes of ly The Great Austrianian Medium PROF. D. D. BRUCE. M. D. the only Living Apostle of Science of the Mysteries. $5000 in Gold to any one in the World to compete with him. Possessing mere power than any four mediums combined. No card, trance or hand humbug Greatest Hindoo Medium in the World. SO GREAT IS HIS POWER that we can tell you while in a Claivroyant state, all you wish to know with out a word being spoken. Come, all ye unbelievers, scoffers and jeerers; bring all your skepticism 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 Money received on deposit and amounts above $1.00 which remains 60% Money Loaned on Satisfactory Sec Business Accounts Handled Prom Amounts of ten cents and upward This establishment is fitted up in the most lim- white vanit, burlar-proof steel chest, electric light lence for safety and the accommodation of the pub For all information concerning Stocks, Deposit Cashier. Banking Hours have been arranged for the spe- ing 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. on deposit and which remains Satisfactory S Handled Pro puts and upward up in the most highest, electric light production of the pu- rning Stocks, Depos- arranged for the sp to 4 P. M. Satur- open again at 5 P work. on deposit and interest paid on a which remains 60 days and over. Satisfactory Security. Handled Promptly. Hats and upwards received on deposit. up in the most improved style, having a large heist, electric lights and every modern conven- tion of the public. Bring 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 7 work. Money received on deposit and interest paid on amounts above $1.00 which remains 60 days and over. Business Accounts Handled Promptly. Amounts of ten cents and upwards received on deposit. This establishment is fitted up in the most improved style, having: 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. Saturday, 9 A. M. to 3 P. We close Saturday at 3 P. M. and open again at 5 P. M., remaining open until 7 P. M. Call by as you come from work. OFFICERS JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President THOS. M. WYATT, Cashier. BOARD OF DIRECTORS JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. H. F. THOS. H. WYATT, CA BOARD OF DIRECTOR REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., JNO. R. CHIL E. R. JEFFERSON H. F. JONATHAN, THON J. C. FARLEY, JNO. Ident. H. F. S. H. H, WYATT, CORD OF DIRECT D. JNO. R. CHI ONATHAN, THO F. JNO Ident. H. F. JONATHAN, Vice-President. S. H. WYATT, Cashier. RD OF DIRECTORS: J. JNO. 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In order to convince the most skeptical readers of the merits and results of the J. V. Hawkins'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 need our preparation. among the many bearing witness of its genuine qu correspondence of those expecting a miracle or anyi ration is a natural and pure compound, the ingredi hostile 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 Dandruff, Cure Scalp of all imprurities, Restore Hair on Clean Temples or Bald Heads, where the roots are not dead. PRICES;— 53 cts. per box; eight boxes, $2.86 express prepaid. The Face Beautifier makes the use of powder en tirely unnecessary, and is perfectly harmless. Sale prices; 25, 50cts and $1.00. 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Send your advertisement to the PLANET and look pleasant. Capital, $25,000. WILI AM GUSTALO, J. J. CARTER THOMAS M. ORUMP, SECX. SEVEN [Picture of a woman's face] Richmond, Va EIGHT THE PLANET SATURDAY...AUGUST 31, 1907 guilty of it should be ashamed of themselves." The Rev. H. S. Bradley, for a long time one of the leading clergymen of Atlanta, now of St. Louis, said in a sermon published in the Atlanta Constitution: "We have not been wholly lacking in our effort to help. There are a few schools and churches supported by Southern whites for the Negroes. Here and there a man like George Williams Walker, of the aristocracy of South Carolina, and a woman like Miss Belle H. Bennett, of the blue blood of Kentucky, goes as teacher to the Negro youth, and seeks in a Christly spirit of fraternity to bring them to a higher plane of civil and moral manhood, but the number like them can almost be counted on fingers of both hands. "Our Southern churches have spent probably a hundred times as much money since the Civil War in an effort to evangelize the people of China, Japan, India, South America, Africa, Mexico and Cuba, as they have spent to give the gospel to the Negroes at our doors. It is often true that opportunity is overlooked because it lies at our feet." The Southern Baptist Church and other white church organizations I have found carry on missionary work to some extent among the Negroes, which I shall refer to again. CONCERNING THE VAGRANT NE GRO Before I get away from observations of the low-class Negro, I must speak of the subject of vagrancy. Many white men have told me with impatience of the great number of idle or partly idle Negroes—idle while every industry and most of the farming districts of Georgia are crying for more labor. And from my observation in Atlanta, I should say that there were a good many idle or partly idle Negroes—even since the riot, which served, I understand, to drive many of them away. Five days before the riot of last September, a committee of the city council visited some forty saloons one afternoon, and by actual count found 2,455 Negroes (and 152 white men) drinking at the bars or lounging around the doorways. In some of these saloons—conducted by white men and permitted to exist by the city authorities—pictures of nude white women were displayed as an added attraction. Has this anything to do with Negro crimes against white women? Since the riot these conditions in Atlanta have much improved. Increased Negro idleness is the result, in large measure, of the marvelous and rapid changes in Southern conditions. The South has been and is to-day dependent on a single labor supply—the Negro. Now Negroes, though recruited by a high birth rate, have not been increasing in any degree as rapidly as the demand for labor incident to the development of every sort of industry railroads, lumbering, mines, to say nothing of the increased farm area and the added requirements of growing cities. With this enormous increased demand for labor the Negro supply has, relatively, been decreasing. Many have gone North and West, many have bought farms of their own, thousands, by education, have become professional men, teachers, preachers, and even merchants and bankers—always draining away the best and most industrious men of the race and reducing by so much the available supply of common labor. In short, those Negroes who were capable have been going the same way as the unskilled Irishman and German in the North—upward through the door of education—but, unlike the North, there have been no other laborers coming in to take their places. What has been the result? Naturally, a fierce contest between agriculture and industry for the limited and dwindling supply of the only labor they had. So they bid against one another—it was as though the Negro had a monopoly on labor—and within the last few years day wages for Negro workers have jumped from fifty or sixty cents to $1.25 and $1.50, often more—a pure matter of competition. A similar advance has affected all sorts of servant labor—cooks, waiters, malds, porters. High wages, scarcity of labor, and the consequent loss of opportunity for taking advantage of the prevailing prosperity would, in any community, South or North, whether the labor was white or black, produce a spirit of impatience and annoyance on the part of employing class. I found it evident enough last summer in Kansas where the farmers were unable to get workers to save their crops; and the servant problem is not more provoking, certainly, in the South than in the North and West. Indeed, it is the labor problem more than any other one cause, that has held the South back and is holding it back to-day. But the South has an added cause of annoyance. Higher wages, instead of producing more and better labor, as they would naturally be expected to do, have actually served to reduce the supply. This may, at first, seem paradoxical; but it is easily explainable and it lies deep down beneath many of the perplexities which surround the race problem. Most Negroes, as I have said, were (and still are, of course) farm-dwellers, and farm-dwellers in the hitherto wasteful Southern way. Their living is easy to get and very simple: in that warm climate they need few clothes: a shack for a home. Their living standards are low; they have not learned to save: there has not been time since slavery for them to attain the sense of responsibility which would encourage them to get ahead. And moreover they have been and are to-day largely under the discipline of white land owners. What was the effect, then, of a rapid advance in wages? The poorer class of Negroes, naturally indolent and happy-go-lucky, found that they could make as much money in two or three days as they had formerly earned in a whole week. It was enough to live on as well as they had ever lived: why, then, work more than two days a week? It was the logic of a child, but it was the logic used. Everywhere I went in the South I heard the same story: high wages coupled with the difficulty of getting anything like continuous work from this class of colored On the other hand the better and more industrial Negroes, who would work continuously—and there are unnumbered thousands of them, as faithful as any workers—occasionally saved their surplus, bought little farms or businesses of their own and began to live on a better scale. One of the first things they did after getting their footing was to take their wives and daughters out of the white man's kitchen, and to send their children from the cottonfields (where the white man needed them) to the school-house where the tendency (exactly as with white children) was to educate them away from farm employment. With the development of ambition and a higher standard of living, the Negro follows the steps of the rising Irishman or Italian, he has a better home, he wants his wife to take care of it, and he insists upon the education of his children. In this way higher wages have tended to cut down the already limited supply of labor, producing annoyance, placing greater obstacles in the way of that material development of which the Southerner is so justly proud. And this, not at all naturally, has given rise on the one hand to complaints against the lazy Negro who will work only two days in the week that he may loaf the other five; and on the other hand it has found expression in blind and bitter hostility to the education which enables the better sort of Negro to rise above the unskilled employment and the domestic service of which the South is so keenly in need. It is human nature to blame men, not conditions. Here is unlimited work to do: here is the Negro who has been for centuries and is to-day depended upon to do it; it is not done: the natural result it to throw the blame wholly upon the Negro, and not upon the deep economic conditions and tendencies which have actually caused the scarcity of labor. IMMIGRANTS TAKE THE NE GROES' PLACES. But within the last year, thinking men in the South wave begun to see this particular root of the difficulty and a great new movement looking to the encouragement of immigration from foreign countries has been started. Last November the first shipload of immigrants ever brought from Europe directly to a South Carolina port were landed at Charleston with great ceremony and rejoicing. If a steady stream of immigrants can be secured and if they can be employed on satisfactory terms, with the Negro it will go far toward relieving race tension in the South. Of course idleness leads to time, and one of the present efforts in the South is toward a more rigid enforcement of laws against vagrancy. In this the white people have the sympathy of the leading Negroes. I was struck with one passage in the discussion at the last Workers' Conference at Tuskegee. William E. Holmes, president of a colored college at Macon Georgia, was speaking Some one interrupted him: "I would like to ask if you think the Negro is any more disposed to become a loafer or vagrant than any other people under the same conditions?" "Well," said Mr. Holmes, taking a deep breath, "we cannot afford to do what other races do. We haven't a single solitary man or woman among us we can afford to support as an idler. It may be that other races have made so much progress that they can afford to support loafers. But we are not yet in that condition. Some of us have the impression that the owes us a living. That is a misfortune. I must confess that I have become convinced that at the present time we furnish a larger number of loafers than any other race of people on this continent." continent. These frank remarks did not meet with the entire approval of the members of the conference, but the discussion seemed to indicate that there was a great deal more of truth in them than the leaders and teachers of the Negro are disposed to admit. THE WORTHLESS NEGRO I tried to see as much as I could of this "worthless Negro," who is about the lowest stratum of humanity, it seems to me, of any in our American life. He is usually densely ignorant, often a wanderer, working to-day with a railroad gang, toorrow on some city works, the next day pickling cotton. He has lost his white friends—his "white folks," as he calls them—and he has not attained the training or self-direction to stand alone. He works only when he is hungry, and he is as much a criminal as he dares to be. Many such Negroes are supported by their wives or by women with whom they live—for morality and the home virtues among this class are unknown. A woman who works as a cook in a white family will often take enough from the kitchen to feed a worthless vagabond of a man and keep him in idleness—or worse. A Negro song exactly expresses this state of beatitude: "I doan has to work so ha'd. 'Ise got a gal in a white man's ya'd; Ebery night 'bout half pas' eight I goes 'round to the white man's gate She brings me butter and she brings me la'd— I doan has to work so ha'd!" Nelson.s Hair Dressing can be bought at Jennings and Brown Drug Store, Pittsburg, Pa. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA MILLER'S HOTEL W.M.MILLER. PROPRIETOR WITHIN ONE BLOCK OF STREET CAR LINES THAT TAKE YOU TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY TERMS REASONABLE SECOND AND LEIGH STS. RICHMOND, VA. HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 1867 1907 REV. WILBUR P. THIRKIELD, D. D. ROBERT REYBURN, M. D. President. Dean. The Fortieth Annual Session will begin October 1, 1907 and continue eight months. EXAMINE COURSE IN MEDICINE IS OFFERED. Full corps of forty-five instructors. 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Tui- information, write or apply to Howard University FOUNDED 1862 OPPOSITE JUDICIAL REV. WILRUR P. THIRKIELD, D. D., LL. D. BENJAMI Regular Annual Session will begin October Years. School Open to all, without regard tion, $25.00. For further information, write BENJAMIN F. LEIGHTON, LL. D., Dean. Regular Annual Session will begin October 1st, 1907. Course Three Years. School Open to all, without regard to Race, Sex, or Creed. Tuition, $25.00. For further information, write or apply to JAMES F. BUNDY, Secretary, Office in Law School Building, 420 Fifth St., North-west, Washington, D. C. RAILROADED TO THE GALLOWS. (Continued From First Page.) from the effects of the blow, ran for help. In the meantime the man had assaulted the young woman. THE GOVERNOR'S REASONS. The Governor this morning gave out the following as his grounds for commuting the sentence to life imprisonment: "The prisoner, Joseph Thomas alias John Wright, is a poor, friendless Negro, without money and without influence. This fact has induced me to give this matter full and thorough examination. I respited him for three months in order to give every opportunity for additional evidence to be procured, if possible, in this case. I sent for the husband and the lady, upon the whom the assault was committed, to satisfy my mind and conscience fully in this matter. After questioning her and her husband, whose evidence alone procured a conviction; reading fully the evidence in the case; the opinion of the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and especially the additional evidence filed as to the guilt of the prisoner, and considering the fact that the assault was committed between 8 and 8:30 o'clock, when it was dark and difficult to clearly and definitely identify persons, it has established in my mind a serious doubt as to the identity and guilt of the prisoner. In addition the foreman of the jury, a person of unusual intelligence and fairness, and a great many of the influential citizens of Alexandria county requested that this commutation be granted on account of the doubt as to the identification of the prisoner. Hence I conceive it to be my duty to commute the death penalty in this case to imprisonment for life. "I have filed before me as new and additional evidence the affidavits of nine persons, whose evidence, if true, would show that the prisoner could not have been present when the assault was committed. The evidence of these nine witnesses establishes an alib which creates a serious doubt as to the identification of Joseph Thomas, alias John Wright, as the party who committed the assault. These nine witnesses all concur in testifying that they saw Joseph Thomas, alias John Wright, the prisoner, prior to 8 o'clock, and until about 9 o'clock, during which time the assault was committed. "The fact that the original evidence before the court and jury induced two members of the Court of Appeals to declare it was an insufficient identification of the J. $ _{2} $ M. COLSON. Supt. Dinwiddle. Va. prisoner creates in my mind, with the additional new evidence filed, a serious doubt, which cannot permit me to have the prisoner in this case executed. By commuting his sentence to life imprisonment an opportunity is given him to have this doubt and conflict of testimony between various witnesses at some time satisfactorily settled. If in the future developments should be such as to clearly remove the serious doubts in this case and the innocence of the prisoner should be established, all those concerned in the trial and execution of this prisoner would deplore their action in the matter "The additional evidence, supplementing the original evidence, produces in my mind such a strong doubt of the identification of the prisoner as the party who committed the assault that I feel I would be recruit to my duty as Governor if I should permit this poor, friendless Negro to be executed." KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. A Court at Natural Bridge. Natural Bridge, Va., Aug. 25, '07 The first Court of Calanthe in this neighborhood was organized here yesterday evening by Grand Worthy Counsellor John Mitchell, Jr. He arived here by roadway from Lexington, in a six seat carriage. With him were Col. E. R. Jefferson, M. D. Sir A. C. Mabrey of Staunton, and Sir S. S. Baker. Miss M. L. Chiles of Richmond and Mrs. Kate R. 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